Pretty serious allegation here. "Witnesses told the BBC that the Israeli soldiers had arrived disguised in Lebanese military fatigues and used ambulances with signs of Hezbollah's Islamic Health Organization."
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Ex-rapper Balendra Shah set to be Nepal PM after party’s landslide election win
Hanging in John Lasseter's office at Pixar was a framed letter from Chuck Jones. Jones wrote to him to praise the character of Jessie in "Toy Story 2" and ask if she was created by a woman animator, because she was such a natural and believable female character.
this is so good. some of the writers mentioned who were shipped across the archipelago to Boven Digul could well have ended up in Cowra!
As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.
Must-read:
Singapore and PM Lawrence Wong targeted in AI-driven disinformation campaign on YouTube
“The volume and scale of the campaign suggest a state backer,” said NUS political scientist Chong Ja Ian. “However, it is also possible that a well-funded private entity could be behind the campaign.”
just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism
A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...
Related not related, we’ve started seeing non-consensual AI-generated images being used to target HK activists in exile, a lot of it depicting women as sex workers or doing sex acts. My guess is this kind of harassment will only get worse
The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack.
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Publicists who represented Johnny Depp during his 2022 trial against Amber Heard charged Jeffrey Epstein five figures a month for representation during 2017, according to invoices in the Epstein Files. Their PR strategies for Epstein reflect the later MeToo backlash. spitfirenews.com/p/epstein-jo...
Indian writer Arundhati Roy says she was cancelling her planned participation in the Berlin Film Festival over comments from jury president Wim Wenders that the festival had to “stay out of politics” in response to a question on Gaza.
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As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.
About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”
The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.
It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.
Vought is a mass murderer.
Effective fertility policy: Remote work. If both parents work at home at least one day/week, they'll average 0.5 more children, pushing toward the “replacement” level of 2.1. A result of opportunity and availability, less time commuting=more time parenting. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
"Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker
Who are the real people behind the accounts spreading fury about the capital online? And what motivates them?
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“Reading through the emails, it’s possible to see that Epstein himself coordinated pushback against #MeToo. Looking back, it seems obvious that sinking #MeToo also led to where we are now: a place where laws simply don’t apply if you have enough money and power. The same players are involved.”
This year, the Puppy Bowl isn’t just about puppies. Older dogs are getting some attention, too.
We don’t experience depression uniformly, and a new study finds that some symptoms may be more strongly linked with developing dementia later in life. https://cnn.it/45THWiZ
After huffily defending Trump for posting the racist apes video, the White House is now blaming it on an unnamed staffer.
“A White House staffer erroneously made the post. It has been taken down,” a White House official told Zeteo.
It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.
Don Lemon is just the tip of the iceberg. Trump’s minions are pressuring prosecutors to charge ICE protesters based on scant evidence.
The latest scoop from @samanthamichaels.bsky.social:
Indonesia has a lot to lose by not allowing dual citizenship. Because of the weak passport, many Indonesian diaspora choose to give up their citizenship. Also, countries permitting dual citizenship have varying degrees of restrictions, so allowing it doesn't have to be as free as Anies imagines.
Disappointing but not surprising that Anies Baswedan, seen as a "progressive" politician, rejects "dual citizenship," warning it will let foreigners enter Indonesia freely. This shows the narrow-mindedness and limited understanding of the issue.
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Why is it that when a political leader talks about 'foreign intervention’ destabilising their country/city/etc., I get the feeling that, actually, they cannot recognise their own people and understand that they are responsible for causing people to want to protest/rise up against them?
Why is Prabowo pushing for legislation to counter disinformation and foreign propaganda?
"... the most sinister aspect of the legislative proposal is its timing. It came as Prabowo once again whipped up fears of ‘foreign intervention’ destabilising Indonesia."
Experts (incl Nobel Prize laureate Maria Ressa & ex-Taiwan digital minister Audrey Tang) warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media
Early versions of AI-powered influence operations have been used in the 2024 elections in Taiwan, India and Indonesia.
Trump's buddies now control TikTok in the U.S. www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/t...
