moffintosh

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

“But he still had so many war crimes left in him.” — Brook Pratt, Pest Control Worker

Americans React To The Death Of Henry Kissinger - TheOnion
https://nitter.cz/TheOnion/status/1730345991990059190

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

Eco-Activist Spectacle Campaign in the UK
https://us.politsturm.com/eco-activist-spectacle-campaign-in-the-uk

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

Defenders of private ownership argue that the invisible hand of the market is capable of regulating everything on its own, but the facts tell a different story. Businesses do not thrive without state support, such as substantial financial injections from external sources and laws designed to favor them. Whenever a corporation faces a loss, the government rushes to its aid, providing budgetary funds taken from the pockets of ordinary citizens. With this, the needs and aspirations of the common people are ignored by those in power. This holds true not only for Russia but for the entire world.

This is how capitalism operates: the economy and authority belong to the wealthiest minority in society. Despite their direct involvement in production, the workers’ share in national income continually diminishes, while the tax burden on them increases. Meanwhile, entrepreneurs raise prices for goods and services, pushing more and more of the working class into poverty. As a result, capitalists continually increase their wealth, living a life of opulence.

"Russian Post" Seeks Assistance from the State
https://us.politsturm.com/russian-post-seeks-assistance-from-the-state

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

"""""Democracy"""""

Albania's opposition "Democratic Party" sparks mayhem, lighting flares and throwing chairs into the middle of the hall to disrupt the passage of legislation in Albanian parliament, in which the ruling ')"Socialist Party" would increase the state budget and seeks to curb corruption.

https://t.me/sturmconf_inter/4441

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

Haaretz reports that an Israeli police investigation has found IDF Apache helicopters fired on attendees of the Nova music festival on Oct. 7.

https://t.me/sturmconf_inter/4447

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

U.S. Energy Security chief Amos Hochstein landed in Israel last week to broker a deal to exploit Gaza's offshore gas reserves after the war.

The Gaza Marine LNG Field deal was arranged in June between Egypt, Israel and the Fatah-run Palestinian Authority to jointly develop this enormous untapped resource.

The U.S. sent Hockstein to finalize the deal with Netanyahu, since 12 transnational oil/gas companies, including BP, Eni, South Korea's Dana, Azerbaijan's SOCAR and two Israeli gas firms, NewMed Energy and Ratio Energies, were awarded licenses to drill the Gaza Marine reserve at the end of last month. Palestine, the U.S. claims, will become a gas export hub, and the projected gas revenues for the P.A. are mouth-watering.

https://t.me/sturmconf_inter/4554

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

For years the Israel on Campus Coalition—a little-known organization with links to Israeli intelligence—has used student informants to spy on pro-Palestinian campus groups

Israel’s War on American Student Activists | The Nation
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-spying-american-student-activists

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

In Russia, the mortality rate has exceeded the birth rate for years. Despite this, the government seems slow to address issues like healthcare, education, and low wages. Instead of improving citizens' lives in order to solve demographic issues, there's a focus on attracting migrants. This benefits Russian entrepreneurs, who exploit migrants willing to work for lower wages and endure labour rights violations due to their challenging situation and ignorance of the Russian language.

The use of cheap migrant labour creates additional pressure on the labour market, reducing average wages and complicating job searching for Russians themselves. Consequently, this dynamic contributes to a negative sentiment among many Russian citizens towards migrants who have “come in large numbers” and “taken up jobs”, providing fertile ground for nationalism.

Same shit that happened in the west

Russia May Increase its Influx of Migrants from Southeast Asia
https://us.politsturm.com/russia-increases-migrants-from-southeast-asia

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

Local Enterprises Are the Main Competitors of Belarusian Manufacturers
https://us.politsturm.com/main-competitors-of-belarusian-manufacturers-are-local

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

US Covid Relief funds, which Trump kicked off in 2020, are being called the largest public fraud in American history by the oversight group OpenTheBooks

Their report estimates only 1/3 of the funds went to the intended people in need, and that between $400 billion and half a trillion dollars was defrauded.

https://t.me/sturmconf_inter/4503

The report https://www.openthebooks.com/assets/1/6/Covid_Aid_Fraud_FINAL.pdf

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

China's President Xi Jinping sent President Biden profound condolences over the passing of Henry Kissinger on behalf of the Chinese government and people.

"Kissinger was a world-famous strategist, as well as an old friend and a good friend of the Chinese people," Xi declared, "the former US secretary of state will always be remembered and missed by the Chinese people."

"Half a century ago, with an outstanding strategic vision, Kissinger made historic contributions to the normalization of China-U.S. relations, which not only benefited the two countries, but also changed the world," he continued.

"Kissinger had made it his lifelong pursuit to promote the development of China-U.S. relations"-
"Beijing is ready to work with Washington to carry forward the cause of friendship between the two peoples and promote the sound and steady development of bilateral ties, in order to benefit the two peoples and make due contributions to world peace and development."

Xi must be very thankful to Kissinger for all that he has done for the Chinese bourgeoisie, negotiating Mao's alignment with the United States in 1971. Kissinger is, as a matter of historical happenstance, pivotal to bringing about the heights reached by Chinese capitalism today and its global system of exports established in partnership with the U.S.

https://t.me/sturmconf_inter/4591

moffintosh, 5 months ago to uk Italian

The [#UK] government has touted a cut to National Insurance as one of the flagship policies in this gargantuan budget statement. However, the OBR (which is independent) has claimed that ordinary Britons will see little benefit as inflation and stagnant growth are set to last for the next few years

This along with the rest of the policies that promise tax cuts is said shall improve the lives of working people in the UK. However, various analysts have pointed out that the key benefactors are the richest 20% of households, who are set to gain half of the money spent on these tax cuts. Much hullabaloo is being made over this "sensible" budget, especially by the millionaire-backed media but it is clear: this budget is set to further enrich the rich and further impoverish the impoverished

British Government Releases November 2023 "Mini-Budget"
https://us.politsturm.com/british-government-releases-2023-mini-budget

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

It has recently come to light that fifteen government departments in the UK have been actively monitoring the social media activities of potential critics, compiling what are being termed as "secret files". The primary purpose of these files is to prevent individuals who have criticised the government in the previous three to five years from participating as speakers at government-organised events.

UK Government Strictens Control Over Criticism of the State
https://us.politsturm.com/uk-government-surveillance-rise

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

#moffposting #cuteposting

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

#moffposting #cuteposting

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

Russia bans ‘LGBT movement’ — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
https://www.rt.com/russia/588267-russia-bans-lgbt-movement

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

Founder of Milady NFT project revealed to have horrifying history involving a 4chan suicide cult, white supremacist cult, and pro-anorexia grooming
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/single/founder-of-milady-nft-project-revealed-to-have-horrifying-history

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

Clearly was a porkie in his previous life lol

moffintosh, 5 months ago to random Italian

ChrisMayLA6, 5 months ago to fediverse

I see #ElonMusk is saying that if X (formally Twitter) goes to the wall, it will be the 'advertisers [that] bankrupted the company'... once again he seems unable to see that is a symptom not the cause of X's problems; which of course lies with him.

I guess we'll be seeing another flow of folk into the #fediverse if the advertisers 'strike' continues (s many think it will).

Its an extraordinary example of billionaire hubris!

gnutelephony, 7 months ago to linux

I'm giving up on #Linux, it's just too much work! 🤣

Well, with systemd, piperwire, wayland, gnome, etc, that was already kinda true, but you too Linux Foundation?

All I really wanted is to have simple and long-term stable devices in the field.

https://mezha.media/en/2023/09/21/too-much-work-the-linux-community-is-abandoning-6-years-of-kernel-support-this-will-have-consequences-for-android-as-well/