Notices by Yogthos (yogthos@mas.to)

China 'firmly supports' Lebanon in safeguarding its security.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china-firmly-supports-lebanon-safeguarding-its-security-2024-09-24/

96% of Americans are concerned about the current state of the economy and more than a quarter are doom spending to deal with the stress.

#us #economy

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/23/young-people-are-doom-spending-heres-what-it-is-and-how-to-stop-it.html

Macron unveils new right-wing French government. Thanks to France we can finally put to bed the notion that people just need to vote harder.

#politics

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rd52zl018o

Thousands of booby-trapped pagers were manufactured by a Taiwanese firm with ties to the US administration and sold through a gasket firm in Hungary. The walkie-talkies that exploded were manufactured by a company in Japan with multiple subsidiaries around the world. And then there are mopeds, cell phones, and more.

There are thousands injured and dozens killed in Lebanon. This act of state terrorism illustrates the crucial importance of domestic supply chains.

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/09/16/new-york-cop-opens-fire-in-subway-station-while-pursuing-commuter-who-allegedly-didnt-pay-fare/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ronald-reagan-former-staff-back-harris-walz-ticket/

the world belongs to the workers

House passes $1.6 billion to deliver anti-China propaganda overseas.

Somehow it’s a crime when Russia does it, but good 'information ops' when the US want to discredit Beijing’s Belt & Road initiatives worldwide.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/china-cold-war-2669160202/

A reminder that the richest 1% emit as much planet-heating pollution as two-thirds of humanity.

Eliminating capitalism and billionaires it produces is the only way to start meaningfully addressing the #climatecrisis.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-emit-much-planet-heating-pollution-two-thirds-humanity

#US Manufacturing Activity Extends Contraction For Fifth Month: 'Demand Continues To Be Weak'

#economy

https://www.benzinga.com/economics/macro-economic-events/24/09/40689835/us-manufacturing-activity-extends-contraction-for-fifth-month-demand-continues-to

Photos from U.S. military bases show mold, mice, roaches and brown water in living quarters and dining areas. 🤮

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/photos-us-military-bases-show-mold-mice-roaches-brown-water-rcna168368

While Signal messages might be e2e encrypted, people tend to forget that the platform collects phone numbers of its users, which can be used to identify people.

This makes Signal an effective metadata collection tool that resides on a central server in the US.

By cross-referencing these identities with data from other companies like Google or Meta, the government can create a comprehensive picture of people's connections and affiliations.

#signal #privacy

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@krom @drq I have bad news, Matrix also appears to be a metadata harvesting bananza

https://web.archive.org/web/20210804205638/https://serpentsec.1337.cx/matrix

https://hackea.org/notas/matrix.html

https://github.com/libremonde-org/paper-research-privacy-matrix.org/blob/master/part1/README.md

#gaza

In effect if Macron says no, he openly admits that he just doesn't accept the election results.

Olivier Faure, who leads the Socialist party (the other big political force in the New Popular Front) backs up Mélenchon and says the "pretext of the presence of LFI ministers" isn't valid anymore.

Except that unlike Corbyn, LFI doesn't bow - they're "France unbowed" after all - and fight back the accusations.

Which brings us to what happened this morning, where Mélenchon asked an open question to Macron: "Say we committed to no LFI members in the government, would you nominate Lucie Castets Prime Minister?"

This forces Macron's hand: if he says "no", as Mélenchon himself wrote, it'd show that Macron's refusal to have LFI in the government is just a pretext to deny the election results.

Currently, Macron's camp maintains that they cannot form a government with members of "France Unbowed" (LFI), the primary left-wing party and an integral component of the "New Popular Front" coalition. Although Lucie Castets does not hail from LFI, certain ministerial positions may be filled by individuals affiliated with this party.

Macron has been demonizing LFI in a very similar fashion to the way Corbyn was demonized in the UK, with accusations of antisemitism for their support of Gaza.

We're now almost 2 weeks after the end of the Olympics and the situation is still the same.

This is especially perplexing given that the New Popular Front has a Prime Minister ready: Lucie Castets, a senior public servant.

This unprecedented defiance of established protocol within the context of the French Fifth Republic is without historical precedent.

Normally, as is the rule set by precedents, Macron should have nominated a Prime Minister from the New Popular Front, the winners of the elections.

At first Macron argued that it wasn't convenient to change government right before the Olympics games and argued for an "Olympics truce".

On the seventh of July France conducted an election in which Emmanuel Macron suffered a significant defeat at the hands of the "New Popular Front," a coalition representing the political left.

Fast forward to forty-eight days subsequent to this pivotal event wherein Emmanuel Macron and his administration continue to maintain control over France, disregarding the outcomes of the election.

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