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HowRu68

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Hopes of Gaza ceasefire rise as Hamas delegation arrives in Cairo (www.theguardian.com)

Egyptian and US mediators have reported signs of compromise in recent days and Egyptian state news channel Al-Qahera said on Saturday that a consensus had been reached in the indirect talks over many of the disputed points but gave no further details. However, many analysts remain pessimistic after five months of stop-start...

US intelligence believes Putin probably didn't order Navalny to be killed, Wall Street Journal reports (www.reuters.com)

Last month, Putin called Navalny's demise "sad" and said he had been ready to hand the jailed politician over to the West in a prisoner exchange provided Navalny never return to Russia. Navalny's allies said such talks had been under way [...] Washington had not absolved the Russian leader of overall responsibility for Navalny's...

HowRu68, (edited )

This sort of reporting

Ecaxlty. Imo it’s not of the best quality considering the original title and content form WSJ, " Putin Didn’t Directly Order Alexei Navalny’s February Death, U.S. Spy Agencies Find" WSJ article . Arch

" The assessment doesn’t dispute Putin’s culpability for Navalny’s death, but rather finds he probably didn’t order it at that moment(
) European intelligence agencies have been told of the U.S. view. Certain countries remain skeptical that Putin wouldn’t have had a direct hand in Navalny’s death"

At Reuters they like to add their own stuff quoting Ruzz officials and confusing the actual original content.

HowRu68, (edited )

Imo, it’s not healthy when any one political party (or one head of state for that matter) governs for too many consequent years, and this goes for any country. This would automatically lead to nepotism and corruption, a dysfunctional state as the leaders become more and more estranged from its constituents. Even though I can empathise towards the voter’s choice for upholding the ANC in power for fear of regression to their past regime. Democracy, though simple in theory, can be very complex in reality.

HowRu68,

is how institutions like slavery get perpetuated.

Yeah, without taking responsibility, accepting consequences, owning up to one’s actions and failures, facing the actual shame , etc ; there’s no way anyone would change their behaviour and erroneous ways.

HowRu68, (edited )

Afaik, some important events will coincide in 2024:

● Resurgence of far-right parties on European level due to new elections later this year, and the 2024 US presidential elections.

● Per second half 2024 (July 1 to the end of 2024) Hungary will hold the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU, putting it in charge of the EU’s policy-making process for six months.

● Recently, there are many new developments: there have been multiple indictments & arrests of members of EP and local members of Parliaments across memberstates for spying charges [ Add: new polls suggest that this has lead to a decrease in the popularity of the far-right ].

In Hungary a new political opposition leader is rising ; Mr Magyar.

The EU is passing a new disinformation bill, to stop anti-democratic players and institutions.

Also, there are many discussions whether Hungary [Orbán], should or could hold the position of being President of The Council, considering its anti-democratic, anti-EU, and pro-CCP and pro-Putin stance [ Hungary has signed a “security contract” with China recently, enabling the surveillance in Hungary, by Chinese police officers]

link balkaninsight

U.S. Secretly Shipped New Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine (www.nytimes.com)

The United States last week secretly shipped a new long-range missile system to Ukraine, and Ukrainian forces immediately used the weapons to attack a Russian military airfield in Crimea last Wednesday and Russian troops in the country’s southeast overnight on Tuesday, according to a senior U.S. official....

HowRu68, (edited )

If this forces the Germans into delivering Taurus it becomes an even bigger deal.

Exactly.And the UK will or are supplying, and German politics won’t have an argument not to send the Taurus anymore.

HowRu68,

Ah yes , I forgot that bit. These men on the ground are usually called instructors & maintenance crew. Germany ( Rheinmetall) and other facilititators are building factories with some self defense systems in U.A. They are called the construction crew, I reckon. Political correctness, just use the “correct” names.^^.

HowRu68,

update:

Leaders of Denmark, Czechia and The Netherlands “will be looking in what ways we can support the German initiative,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said.

“We know we have air defence systems in Europe; some have to be delivered,” Fredriksen added.

euroactiv

Secret Russian foreign policy document urges action to weaken the U.S. (www.washingtonpost.com)

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been drawing up plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries, including the United States, and leverage the Ukraine war to forge a global order free from what it sees as American dominance, according to a secret Foreign Ministry document....

HowRu68,

Good to know that it’s official now. Whether something will change; we’ll see


HowRu68, (edited )

FYI: medium credibility source Factual Reporting; mixed [mediabias link] (mediabiasfactcheck.com/truth-out/) Any other source available?

added: being downvoted for pointing this out won’t change the source and it’s info, though. Just shows you are very biased.

HowRu68,

Land-grab has been ongoing for decades. (link guardian

This has been the most successful land-grab strategy since 1967,” said Yehuda Shaul, a prominent activist who is director of the Israeli Center for Public Affairs thinktank, and a founder of Breaking the Silence, an NGO that exposes military abuses in occupied areas.

Over the last year alone, 110,000 dunams, or 110 sq km (42 sq miles), was effectively annexed by settlers on herding outposts, he said. All the built-up settlement areas constructed since 1967 cover only 80 sq km.

It was also the biggest displacement of Palestinian Bedouins since 1972, when at least 5,000 – and perhaps as many as 20,000 – people were moved from the northern Sinai to make way for settlements, Shaul added.

HowRu68, (edited )

You couldn’t think of a better Propaganda Op for a state actor in the modern Internet age than setting up a centralized “media facts checker” that makes sure media sources

But I could, I could simply write articles which are simply based on half truth and publish them for a wider public. Which is happening already on a huge scale.

So, I was asking for a better source, and then you are suggesting that I’m the one advocating state sponsored propaganda?

So, I wonder, out of curiosity, how would you objectively review news sources?

Here’s another media factchecker: groundnews: mixed factuality rating. Also the credibility score is handed out by an external party Pointer Institute for Fact Checking , and I wasn’t talking about the political left or right bias.

HowRu68, (edited )

So, you claim lots of things, but I miss you backing up your arguments with substantiated evidence like a link. Instead of keeping attacking my argument it would be nice if you’d actually provide evidence based info.

For example, in addition to my earlier point via this article.

“As director of the International Fact-Checking Network, I’ve watched this movement label fact-checkers as part of a “censorship industrial complex,” claiming that fact-checkers are trying to suppress debatable information. Ironically, this deeply misleading argument itself is aimed at suppressing critique and debate.”

Sounds familiar?

I am just critical about newssources with mixed credibility when we are already facing a very polarised situation.

HowRu68,

Condemning Iran because of attacking back but when Israel does it - it suppose to be okay? Double standards.

No, you are wrong. The EU condemned the atack on the embassy in Damascus, see link

“BRUSSELS, April 3 (Reuters) - The European Union on Wednesday condemned an airstrike on the Iranian embassy in Damascus on April 1 that killed seven people and called on countries in the region to show restraint.”

Please respond in an informed way, instead of escalating things without any basis. Let’s stay on topic.

EU passes asylum and migration pact after eight years of deadlock (www.theguardian.com)

Roberta Metsola, the European parliament president, wrote on X: “History made. We have delivered a robust legislative framework on how to deal with migration and asylum in the EU. It has been more than 10 years in the making. But we kept our word. A balance between solidarity and responsibility. This is the European way.”

HowRu68, (edited )

to relieve the pressure from the supply side.

EU is for example paying or subsidising billions to some sort of called " external migration route " countries, to help shelter migrants ( I think Turkiya, Tunesia maybe some others). Also they came up with a kind of billions Euro European Aid program to offer third countries alternatives to the Chinese Belt and Road initiative.

Most measures seem quite complicated and sometimes controversial. Imo there doesn’t seem to be one best simple solution as the world is facing multiple geopolitical problems and disorders. I believe they are working with several policies simultaneously. Also, it’s poltics and we do have a surge of right winged politics, so it seems a relative win for the centre.

HowRu68,

The Panama papers consisted of 11 millions documents, 214 000 offshore companies, 14.000 customers
 And now 27 are charged, and that’s it.

Ukrainian navy says a third of Russian warships in the Black Sea have been destroyed or disabled (apnews.com)

Pletenchuk said that with the latest attack, a third of all warships that Russian had in the Black Sea before the war have been destroyed or disabled. At the same time, he acknowledged that just two of about a dozen of Russian missile carrying warships have been sunk and pledged that Ukraine will continue the strikes.

HowRu68,

And the beats go on
( all seeing I YT).

One day we might know what happened, or not. Thing that has me worried is; what will come next?

Democracies under threat around the globe (www.dw.com)

The hard facts are sobering: According to a new study, the quality of democracy has deteriorated over the past 20 years in 137 countries that are considered developing or emerging economies. According to the Bertelsmann Foundation’s “Transformation Index,” there are now 63 democracies compared to 74 autocracies. In other...

HowRu68,

Also: “The key to combating authoritarian tendencies remains the civil commitment to free elections, freedom of the press, and the separation of powers. If there is ongoing public support in these areas, it may be possible to ward off autocratic tendencies. The study cites recent elections in Kenya and Zambia, as well as Poland and Moldova in Europe, as examples.”

HowRu68, (edited )

I’m not sure about this source. That guy (Dan Cohen) used to work for RT (Russian Television) America. He also worked with Blumenthal “The Grayzone”. Both are not very reputable sources.

HowRu68, (edited )

the article is veeery vague as to what “more” means, no actual data.

From the article:

"From October through January, US Border Patrol agents registered about 19,000 illegal Chinese entries. During the same period in 2021, while pandemic restrictions were still in place, only 55 were registered. "

Sounds like more to me

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