"WSJ finds students consulted with and received training from groups that have supported Hamas and attacks on Israel; NYT finds pro-Israel protesters started clash at UCLA"
U.S. #drones are failing to perform, The #WSJ reports.
Hoping to attract business, U.S. #startups have provided Ukrainian forces with drones. The drones have proven to be high in cost and low quality pushing Ukraine to turn to Chinese products.
"The Wall Street Journal poll appears to contain bad news for President Biden in the swing states, with Trump leading Biden on the economy, inflation, and immigration. The cable news talking heads went into overdrive about how this is all terrible news for the incumbent, and horserace, horserace, horserace..."
Every so often an old Wall Street Journal article from 90s on anime makes rounds online again and gets dunked on, yet again. Oldtakus @twwk & @KhakiBlueSocks re-read the article and wrote a joint retrospective piece on it and 90s anime entitled, "Mechanized Monsters, Poké-Pulp Fiction, and Advancing Attitudes About Anime."
Facebook is pulling the plug on its News tab in the United States and Australia. The News tab launched in 2019, with the company entering licensing deals with publishers such as The Wall Street Journal, CNN and The New York Times. Here's why Facebook is scrapping the feature and won't enter new content deals, from @verge. https://flip.it/ofZamp #Tech#News#Facebook#NYTimes#CNN#WSJ#Journalism
#UN / Intelligence report says Washington can’t verify Israeli assertions about widespread links to militant groups
Who could see this coming? At the rate IDF claims are being refuted, couple of days or a little bit longer after the initial claims are published, everything Israel is claiming needs to be double checked.
[…] The new intelligence assessment, as described by the officials, doesn’t dispute Israel’s allegations of links between some staff at Unrwa and militant groups, but it provides a more measured appraisal of Israel’s assertions than public statements by U.S. and Israeli officials.
[…] In the new report, which was completed last week, the U.S.’s National Intelligence Council, a group of veteran intelligence analysts, said it assessed with “low confidence” that a handful of Unrwa staffers participated in the Oct. 7 attack, those familiar with the findings said.
[…] The report also notes what it says is Israel’s longstanding dislike of the U.N. agency, two of those familiar with the document said.
[…] “There is a specific section that mentions how Israeli bias serves to mischaracterize much of their assessments on Unrwa and says this has resulted in distortions,” one person familiar with the report said.
The U.S. assessment also says that the reality of Hamas’ control in Gaza means that the U.N. agency has to interact with the group to deliver humanitarian relief, but that that doesn’t mean that the agency is collaborating with the militant group, the person said.
#IsraelUSAHamasWar / US Plans to Send Weapons to Israel Amid Biden Push for Cease-Fire Deal
Delivery would include bombs, precision-guidance kits and bomb fuses
[…] An assessment of the proposed arms transfer drafted by the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, and viewed by The Wall Street Journal, said the Israeli government requested “rapid acquisition of these items for the defense of Israel against continued and emerging regional threats.”
[…] The assessment said there were no potential human rights concerns with the sale. “Israel takes effective action to prevent gross violations of human rights and to hold security forces responsible that violate those rights. In the past, Israel has been a transparent partner in U.S. investigations into allegations of defense article misuse,” the assessment says.
#UNRWA / we left our headquarters on October 12th on IDF instructions, no knowledge of what’s been happening there since then
In response to new allegations about a tunnel IDF is now claiming it found under UNRWA’s headquarters in Gaza, Phillipe Lazzarini, UNRWA’s director general, said on X that the organization was unaware of its existence until seeing media coverage, having not used the compound since evacuating due to Israeli bombardment in October 2023.
In peacetime UNRWA inspects premises quarterly, but lacks capacity for military inspection of tunnels. When past tunnels were found near UNRWA sites, UNRWA protested to #Hamas and Israeli authorities.
Lazzarini also said that an independent inquiry into the alleged tunnel is merited, but cannot currently occur given the active conflict. #Israel has not officially notified UNRWA about the tunnel.
The Intercept recently exposed Carrie Keller-Lynn, an ex-IDF soldier with ties IDF’s “social media command center” as the co-author of a piece published in #WSJ, which similarly contained unsubstantiated allegations about UNRWA.
#WSJ reports the "volume" of Musk's drug use - incl LSD, cocaine, ecstasy & ketamine - for which us lesser mortals would've been toast, created among his friends & board directors of his companies an "expectation" they use drugs alongside him to maintain the social status of being close to him.
Nah. Proly so he'd have something to hold over them in case they might consider reporting him to authorities.
#Israel / Ben Gvir: encouraging Gazans to voluntarily emigrate to places around the world is the real humanitarian thing to do
Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister [convicted for incitement to racism]:
“Instead of giving us his full backing, Biden is busy with giving humanitarian aid and fuel [to Gaza], which goes to Hamas, [...] If Trump was in power, the U.S. conduct would be completely different.”
Plaintiff's attorney who sunk top #Tesla cyber dork's $55 Billion+ #CEOPay in #Delaware#lawsuit trial, said at one point instead of asking judge to reprimand #witness for going off topic on tangents, he just let #BadBoyBillionaire#ElonMusk do all the talking, bully and bluster himself into courtroom irrelevance
#WSJ DC staffers ask for more clarity in the meeting, managing editor Liz Harris refuses.
"Hope you had a good time in Davos," someone in the room says
re:
NEWS: The Wall Street Journal's DC bureau finally told this morning there will be a restructure, in a meeting that lasted >5m. Managing ed Liz Harris says she'll send emails to people affected today, then a summary of changes after the individual meetings. No other details given
I'm sure she is trustworthy and impartial
They only had 12 names, one with direct connection to October 7 operation, 3 with possible connection with Hamas and the rest were guilty of passing the border on October 7 like 1000s other palestinians. And of course, we have to believe it's truth worthy because the source is so reliable.
It's still unbelievable that they sat on the story for 112 days and only reported it after ICJ agreeing with the south African genocide accusations of Israel. #StopTheLies#Israel#Gaza@palestine
The proposed plan is designed with Hungary's likely obstruction in mind, avoiding the regular disbursement of aid that can be blocked by a single member state.
This came across my newsfeed just now and I quote from the Wall Street Journal:
"Israel-Hamas War Puts Palestinians Back on Arab World's Agenda
Israel’s fierce response to Hamas’s cross-border assault has reinvigorated support for Palestinians in the Arab world and stirred popular anger—not just at Israel and the U.S., but also at Arab governments. #press "
^^ This presents an argument that Hamas already won the war. The main Hamas objective was to put the kibosh on the Abraham Accord, which caused Arab states to basically throw Palestine under the bus.
Anybody throwing Palestine under the bus is gonna need a bigger bus.
Fuck the #WSJ and fuck not taking the sick time that you're allowed! You should by all means use your sick time. It's not weakness, it's good #SelfCare
WSJ: EU creates fresh plan for $22 billion in military support for Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
The proposed plan is designed with Hungary's likely obstruction in mind, avoiding the regular disbursement of aid that can be blocked by a single member state.
Hamas kills bid to revive ceasefire deal, hostage release -WSJ (jpost.com)
Part of the Hamas leadership was in Cairo to discuss the now-axed ceasefire deal.