geneva_convenience

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 points 15 hours ago

Biggest mass shooting in Sweden ever last week was done by a white dude. How selective is your memory?

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago

Thank you for doing the right thing.

 
[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

The US wants Europe to buy more American weapons to fuel their military industrial complex.

NATO is picking fights and bombing half the world and then starts whining that they are losing their colonial superpower status when people fight back.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You need to elect 20 years straight of Democrat before they can do it. By not electing Hillary in 2016 the counter has been reset and it is all the voters fault.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Most of Lemmy was extremely hostile during the US elections but that has mostly passed.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The CIA is not god, it cannot achieve aphysical results.

Yes, the CIA proved that by failing this color revolution. The populace did not fall for the CIA playbook and there was no massive civil war. Only a small riot. Keep in mind this is nothing like the Kent State massacare where the American police actually massacared peaceful unarmed protesters. These Tiannenmen rioters burned army officers alive.

Y'all lied to me about real estate agents. Turns out nobody works harder than those people. Except maybe landlords. Now if you will excuse me I am off to truth.social.

 

US President Donald Trump’s Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday that while difficulties remain in negotiations for the continuation of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, the second stage of the hostage deal is “absolutely going to begin,” and that the president “wants to see” it happen. He also vowed: “We are not leaving anybody behind.”

Speaking to Fox News, Witkoff said that he held “very productive and constructive” phone calls Sunday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Al Thani, and Egyptian intelligence chief Hassan Rashad, in which the leaders discussed “the timing of phase two, the positions of the parties so that we can understand where we stand, and we will continue the talks later this week,” in either Cairo or Doha.

He added that phase two “is a little bit more intricate and complicated in terms of how we bring the two sides together on this,” but clarified that talks on phase two will continue in a “location to be determined.”

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The whole colour revolution thing is a KGB myth.

You are basically denying the CIA exists. To which I counter: "The CIA exists."

Because I can guarantee there were other stabbings yesterday which got no coverage.

There is a massive difference between a loner going haywire and state sanctioned discrimination. Especially since the vast majority of Muslims already denounce ISIS.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yellowbird

Background: Weeks prior to the violent escalation of the protests, the CIA maintained a network of informants among the student protesters as well as within Chinese intelligence services, which it used to monitor the situation.[9] . The CIA actively aided the student activists in forming their movement, providing them various equipment including typewriters and fax machines according to a U.S. official.[9]

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Nikki Haley, another former Republican presidential candidate who last year infamously signed an Israeli bomb meant for Gaza with “finish them”, said she believed that simply watching videos on TikTok would make a user antisemitic.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Blocking the road is not a valid form of protest! runs over pedestrian 🤠

 

Johanna Mikl-Leitner, the governor of Lower Austria and a politician from the Austrian People's Party (OVP), recently declared in an interview on ORF, Austria's national broadcaster, that the country must "fight against Islam".

Her statement was made in the context of defending her party's sudden shift in stance towards Austria's far-right Freedom Party, with which the OVP had previously ruled out forming a coalition due to the severe corruption scandals that had tainted their earlier partnership. The Freedom Party, founded by former Nazis and SS members after World War Two, was long seen as a party created by Nazis for Nazis.

The governor's statement was left unchallenged during and after the broadcast, exemplifying the normalisation of Islamophobic discourse within Austrian society. Hundreds of media professionals - producers, editors and journalists - had opportunities to question or condemn Mikl-Leitner's rhetoric, yet the silence was deafening.

Such passivity from the network is not merely a failure of journalistic integrity but a tacit endorsement of the dangerous ideologies her words represent. This complacency mirrors Austria's pre-Holocaust era when hateful rhetoric against Jews was allowed to fester unchecked. Then, as now, the media's complicity - whether through active support or passive indifference - played a pivotal role in legitimising hate.

 

M23 rebels have captured and occupied Bukavu, the second-largest city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Congolese government has confirmed, days after the Rwanda-backed militia launched an attack.

In a statement posted on X, the DRC communications ministry said it was monitoring the situation “marked by the entry of the Rwandan army and its auxiliaries” and it was “doing everything possible to restore order, security and territorial integrity”.

On Friday, M23 fighters entered Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province, after advancing south following the group’s capture of Goma, the capital of North Kivu, last month. The militia faced little resistance in its latest march.

 

This week at the Munich Security Conference, Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, played “I’ve got a secret.” It’s a game national security officialdom loves to play, slyly claiming authority ‘if they could only tell you what they know.’

It is in that vein that Warner spilled the beans on what he called the “real story” behind the law that could still ban TikTok.

“I want to see if you're going to tell the real story,” a grinning Warner said, addressing former congressman Mike Gallagher, and now a Palantir executive who, along with Warner, first introduced the bill that claimed that TikTok was a national security threat, a claim still relevant given the app’s uncertain future.

Gallagher described how the national security bill was dead until Hamas’ attack on Israel, which brought the legislation back to life. As Gallagher

“So we had a bipartisan consensus. We had the executive branch, but the bill was still dead until October 7th. And people started to see a bunch of anti-Semitic content on the platform and our bill had legs again.”

 
 

Hamas issued a statement condemning what it described as a “treacherous attack” carried out by an Israeli Occupation drone on Sunday morning east of Rafah.

The strike targeted police officers assigned to secure the entry of humanitarian aid, resulting in the deaths of three officers. Hamas called the attack a serious violation of the ceasefire agreement.

The statement further accused "Israel" of repeatedly disregarding and failing to uphold the terms of the agreement. Hamas cited "Israel’s" recent refusal to allow the entry of caravans and heavy machinery, despite having previously committed to doing so and informing mediators at the end of last week.

 

Russian drone strikes have damaged a thermal power plant in Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine overnight, leaving 46,000 consumers without heating as temperatures plunge below freezing, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.

“This was done deliberately to leave people without heat in sub-zero temperatures and create a humanitarian catastrophe,” Shmyhal said on the Telegram messenger app.

 
 

A U.S. intelligence report from the final days of the Biden administration claimed that Israel is considering attacking Iran's nuclear facilities before the end of this year, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

According to sources familiar with the document, Israel hopes to take advantage of Iran's relative weakness and may pressure the Trump administration to back an attack.

The sources also said that the report claims that Israel is worried that the window of opportunity to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons is narrowing.

 
 

"We are prepared for military intervention to counter Israeli escalation in Gaza," the leader of Yemen's Ansar Allah, Sayyed Abdul Malik al-Houthi, stated on Tuesday, stressing the principle of military, media, and political support for the Palestinian people.

Speaking on the anniversary of the "humiliating" withdrawal of US Marines from Sanaa, al-Houthi affirmed that the "day after" in the Gaza Strip was a victory for the Palestinian Resistance.

Sayyed al-Houthi stated that the US is "savage, arrogant, and morally bankrupt, driven by extreme greed," exploiting nations without any regard for their rights or freedom.

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