This is the G-free link without AMP: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/06/government-candidate-peter-pellegrini-wins-slovakias-presidential-race

If you could change the link it would be very appreciated.

@Hegar

what we say in the west is generally less threatening to the power of our governments.

So, what do Chinese dissidents say that is 'threatening the power of their government so much that it justifies the unacceptable atrocities and unacceptable human rights violations they suffer?

@Hegar

This has nothing to do with the article nor with @some_guy’s comment.

@driving_crooner

I was wondering the same, especially as the article doesn’t mention any numbers or the like. But I didn’t want to change the original title.

‘Everyone in the World Needs to See This’: Footage Shows IDF Drone Killing Gazans

“There is no way they could have been considered combatants,” said one writer and analyst. “This is unreal.”

(Warning: Watching the video embedded in the article may distress users.)

@TurboHarbiger

Outrage! : China trains soldiers

China trains soldiers for an invasion. They appear to plan for an unprovoked aggression.

Hungary.

‘Everyone in the World Needs to See This’: Footage Shows IDF Drone Killing Gazans

“There is no way they could have been considered combatants,” said one writer and analyst. “This is unreal.”

(Warning: Watching the video embedded in the article may distress users.)

@alcoholicorn

Damn, that’s the kind of shit you’d expect in an American prison.

The U.S. prison system is bad as far as I read, and it may often not be what you’d expect in a democracy, but what happened to Ms. Li Yuhan is arguably much likelier in a totalitarian country where human rights don’t matter.

Ben Gurion, founder of Israel, admits …

I’m more concerned about the current government of Israel, and there is a lot wrong if you’d conduct some research.

How is a quote of a person who died in 1973 ‘news’, let alone if the quote comes from Wikipedia citing a book published in 1978?

I’m not the mod here but that sounds strange to me.

US officials deliver warning that Chinese hackers are targeting infrastructure

Hackers linked to the Chinese government are targeting critical U.S. infrastructure, preparing to cause “real-world harm” to Americans, FBI Director Christopher Wray says.

Water treatment plants, the electric grid, oil and natural gas pipelines and transportation hubs are among the targets of state-sponsored hacking operations, he told the House of Representatives Select Committee […]

“They’re not focused just on political and military targets. We can see from where they position themselves across civilian infrastructure, that low blows aren’t just a possibility in the event of conflict, low blows against civilians are part of China’s plan,” Wray said.

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Insights into the global seafood supply chain can be found at The Outlaw Ocean if interested. [Edit typo.]

Texas wants solar energy but forced labor in China is a concern

While the deployment of affordable renewable energy is great for Texas, the broader solar supply chain is cause for concern. Unfortunately, many solar panel manufacturers are entirely reliant on cheap Chinese materials with opaque traceability and forced labor concerns in the Xinjiang province. The State Department has concluded that since Xinjiang produces 45% of the global polysilicon capacity and a significant amount of silicon metal, much of the global solar supply chain could include inputs made with forced labor from the region.

As a result, U.S. Congress passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in late 2021, creating a rebuttable presumption that all goods, made in whole or in part, from the region contain forced labor and are thus barred from entering U.S. commerce. Customs and Border Protection is tasked with enforcing the law and Congress specifically directed CBP to target polysilicon from Xinjiang. Since enforcement began in June 2022, CBP has detained over $2 billion in goods.

Forced labor appears to have a broader meaning than slavery as far as I can understand, for example, from the ILO definition or here. But I don’t know either.

Possibly not for a five-year-old, but most people have an email account, and technically this is a federated network. Tuta, Proton, Posteo, and all the others are independent networks, but they can communicate with each other (unlike Facebook, Twitter, and others which require an account on each platform for communication).

There is a related incident including a thread at https://feddit.uk/post/6966929

Here we go: https://web.archive.org/web/20240121102113/https://www.afr.com/world/asia/doubts-mount-over-china-s-steel-gdp-data-20240121-p5eyyr

North Koreans Executed By Kim Regime For Violating COVID Restrictions

A new report from the Korean Institute for National Unification (KINU) provides eyewitness testimony that the Kim regime publicly executed violators of Pyongyang’s draconian COVID-19 quarantine measures.

Reports of shoot-to-kill orders for anyone attempting to cross the North Korean border during the pandemic were previously covered by NKNews in October 2020, but new testimony in the KINU report grants further credence to these dark realities.

Public executions have long been a feature of the Kim regime’s policies – ranging from public executions of Christians for being caught with a Bible to the purging of Pyongyang’s elites to tamp down on any semblance of revolutionary spirit. A 2019 report from the Transitional Justice Working Group put a finer point on the matter – of the 600 defectors interviewed, they documented “323 reports of sites of state-sanctioned killings”. According to the same report, 83 percent of North Koreans surveyed said they witnessed a public execution.

It just puzzles me that you don’t know which media you trust. How do you verify then? What do you read?