Still concerned that it’s fueling a lot of mistrust with the vaccination process though. One would hope that since it wasn’t through UN/WHO then any UN/WHO programs would remain trusted, but who knows?
Still concerned that it’s fueling a lot of mistrust with the vaccination process though. One would hope that since it wasn’t through UN/WHO then any UN/WHO programs would remain trusted, but who knows?
That was Wagner, which at the time was technically separate from Russia’s regular military. (Think of it as being akin to a private military company.) And they were lead by the head of Wagner. I think the equivalent in the Russian military would be Putin himself - so I’m not sure if we can expect the same sort of thing nowadays, as a military leader below Putin wouldn’t be expected to command the same level of loyalty over Putin’s army that the head of Wagner did over the Wagner troops.
Shows how desperate the Russian side is if they’re willing to sacrifice such highly skilled individuals in a regular infantry assault. They are running out of manpower for their campaign.
The guy seems like a career specialist based on the article. Lots of regular conscripts have tried to surrender or run away but this guy fought in Russian proxy wars long before the Ukraine conflict. So he’s not the type to disobey an order like this.
This is outrageous. Wonder if there are any grounds for a lawsuit - if that route is possible, then I’d expect the union to get their *** handed to them at the end of it.
As a temporary fix, instead of service systemd-resolved restart as per the article, you can try this, service systemd-resolved stop
Once the service is stopped the port should be free. You’ll have to do this on every reboot (though maybe you can try adding the command to /etc/rc.local to stop it on every reboot)
Yep, it might be enough to just add that file with the setting set to no and restart.
Didn’t the UK already reduce arms sales?
Maybe it’s time to reduce even more and for other countries to follow suit.
Seems to me that he’s trying to do the right thing, as per https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/us-to-demand-access-to-israels-investigation-of-slain-turkish-american-activist/3331943?amp=1 he’s pushing for more access to the investigation - likely to prevent the IDF from covering it up (and based on the timing this started after reports came in contradicting the IDF’s line).
It’s difficult to understand, but I can see why hasn’t spoken out about it publicly yet - on the one-in-a-million off chance that it turns out the IDF was right about it being an accident all along (yeah right), he doesn’t want to have to apologize to them (and really can you blame anyone for not wanting to apologize to the IDF?).
A silver lining, we can view the US folks who gain access and review as being more independent than the IDF themselves.
This is worrysome. India’s neutral stance and continued relations with Russia allowed it to successfully push to save its own people.
But the article points out,
Earlier media reports revealed various schemes to lure people from third-party countries, including India, to Russia under promises of lucrative jobs or other opportunities only to pressure them into enlisting.
So not just India. Are folks from places like Nepal still trapped after having gotten illegally impressed into the Russian Army?
Yeah, I think it should have been broken up at least with commas like so (or the appropriate pauses when spoken outloud),
Moscow agreed to discharge Indian nationals, who were illegally inducted into the Russian Armed Forces, during a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin in July.
Although a minor rewrite would be better,
During a meeting between Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin in July, Moscow agreed to discharge Indian nationals who were illegally inducted into the Russian Armed Forces.
Amin Abed … in July … was attacked by Hamas security operatives, who covered his head and dragged him away before repeatedly striking him with hammers and metal bars.
Granted this might have been reported back in July when it happened and I missed it, but that was news to me.
And I think it’s important to spread the word on just how repressive and totalitarian the regime of Hamas has been, even to its own people - the ones that it purports to be protecting.
The problem is. Hamas wants nothing to do with that. They don’t want a two state solution
they won’t accept or recognize Israel at all.
Agree this is a problem. They caused Oct 7 and they need to be stopped.
The innocent Gazans unaffiliated with Hamas, and the PA and the folks living in the West Bank deserve to have their country and their rights respected, but none of that should read as saying Hamas should stay in power, or even be allowed to exist at all.
Then your problem is you blame their denial for a two state solution on Netanyahu.
This is a misreading of my argument. Hamas != State of Palestine
Or you expect him to give the terrorists sovereignty anyways.
Well, not to Hamas!
Why would he have complete supporte for their sovereignty given what his country has seen at their hand.
Again, not to Hamas! For the past twenty years the PA has kept peace with Israel - this is the model to follow.
The right answer to this is why do they need a military. They are surrounded by Muslim brothers.
Yeah… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_proxy_conflict
There are various countries today without a military force.
Let’s say for the sake of argument that magical wizards come in and fix everything. We end up with two states tied together by peace, with the violence behind them. (Model for this being the Troubles in Northern Ireland.) Or even a single Israel state with peace - for the sake of this argument, this detail doesn’t matter.
It’s a volatile area with lots of conflict between different countries, even if one excludes Hamas and related insurgents. Any country in that area would need a military just to defend its own existence.
The countries that don’t have any military forces - I imagine none of them are in this kind of situation.
I’m sure israel would offer their protection as well as allies near them.
In theory that could work. The problem in practice is that IDF has lost a lot of good will, and perhaps might be seen as occupiers instead of peacekeepers from a friendly allied country. Hence my suggestion for Malaysia to step in - Islamic troops from a far away neutral country - might be better perceived.
Heck, a lot of goodwill might be earned just by being fresh and new. Now that may not be entirely fair to the IDF, but politics is rarely fair.
Well, to be fair some folks might have moved in a time when there was a territory that went by the name of the British Mandate of Palestine. Anyways, semantics, mostly agreed.
I would agree on the bit regarding Hamas … but I think one shouldn’t conflate all Gazans and their beliefs with just Hamas. Remember that Hamas took power only after overthrowing a unity government that was under the Palestinian Authority (which does still support a two state solution).
Regarding Netanyahu, the article from CNN you cite kinda shows the problem. Netanyahu is not in favor of Palestinian sovereignty.
In fact, CNN makes it very clear,
Netanyahu has never been a full-throated supporter of a two-state solution
That said, the security concerns regarding Israel are indeed valid. I’m not sure what the right answer to that would be… perhaps in the beginning we’d need to have peacekeepers? But perhaps we could find a neutral islamic country (who? Perhaps Malaysia?) to fit that role. With fellow followers of Islam keeping the peace and IDF having withdrawn, perhaps then Israel can feel secure while a new Palestine is built?
She told the nonvoters to screw off at the DNC rally so I think it’s safe to assume she won’t be changing her stance any time soon.
Citation needed?
She’ll still probably win
Remember Al Gore and the kid from Cuba who made it to Florida? Sometimes one issue is enough to make or break it.
Kamala and the party holding him accountable for this shit and pushing for him to get out now if he’s really demented enough to still believe Israel, would really help nonvoters see the difference.
It’s a tough balancing act since being too hard on Israel could lose an otherwise reliable voting block (American Jews). On the flip side, Palestine origin US citizens, Turkish origin US citizens, and others are likely to be lost if this issue isn’t pressed hard enough
Show people who aren’t planning on voting that at least one option holds themselves accountable.
From the WP article itself, a small beacon …
“The U.S. government has had full access to Israel’s preliminary investigation, and expects continued access as the investigation continues, so that we can have confidence in the result,” Biden said Wednesday.
The most optimistic interpretation is that, behind the scenes they’re pushing Israel hard about this, even if they’re trying to play it cool in public.
Already Facebook owner Meta (META.O), has said it may block professional news content if it is forced to pay royalties
Well, they did exactly that in Canada because of C-18 (what’s C-18 about? see https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/understanding-bill-c-18-canada-s-online-news-act-and-its-proposed-rules-explained-1.6488532 )
It didn’t seem to affect much. If anything, it ended up as a boon - since we know legitimate news can’t be shared on FB now, any “news” that comes through must be fake.
About time.
They did…
In 1947 the UN voted to partition the region into separate Jewish and Arab states.
The UN includes Russia, China, lots of African countries, …
We could say that the UN helped to create Israel and call it a day. We could even say it was Western-led, with the UK having the Mandate and all prior to the UN taking it up. But to say that the West made it implies that the other countries who were members of the UN at the time had no involvement or responsibility here, which isn’t accurate.
Everyone that moved there prior to the creation of Israel was moving to Palestine…
Well, to the British Mandate of Palestine. Semantics, agreed.
Hmm, but now they are denying it. I don’t know what to believe: https://www.rferl.org/a/afghanistan-polio-taliban-vaccination-deny-who/33122994.html
If they hadn’t denied it, then I would have imagined that the Taliban was so disorganized that they just discovered this - or at least, just realized the potential implications (just connected the dots). That might still be the case, and the denial is simply a false one with the purpose to not worsen their reputation on the world stage.