The French government's silence is all the more deafening given that French military equipment — the Galix, a passive defense system manufactured by the French company Lacroix Défense in collaboration with Nexter, fitted to an armored vehicle made by Edge Group, an Emirati state-owned company — has ended up in the hands of the RSF, even though the terms of its sale for the benefit of the Emirati military expressly prohibited re-export to third parties.
If anyone else was wondering why France specifically and not all nations that care (or pretend to) about human rights.
Some people are stupid enough to fall for it, sadly. So even a low-effort, low-cost display like this can be worth it.
And... yeah.
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Fuck, I got scared for a second. Glad it's entirely separate.
You (and everyone upvoting) have no idea what Switzerland neutrality means.
It's not like you could just read up an official Swiss government document about it (PDF warning)
This is standard procedure, freezing the assets of toppled dictators so that the country can get them back. This is to help the Venezuelan people. Here, other examples of similar cases.
Ever since the Marcos (Philippines) affair in 1986, the list of illicit potentate funds that have been seized in Swiss banks and later returned to the country has steadily grown to include Montesinos (Peru), Mobutu (former Zaire), Dos Santos (Angola), Abacha (Nigeria), Kazakhstan, Salinas (Mexico), Duvalier (Haiti), Ben Ali (Tunisia), and Mubarak (Egypt).
At the time of writing, I had indeed not seen anything about a second attack yet. While I don't exclude the attention thing being a possibility, the video of the 2nd time is rather convincing of an aerial attack, and your arguments about Tunisia are also solid.
Who knows. At the very least, luckily nobody was harmed.
Others exist, of course, but they are not main subs.
By a quick look at the top 100 subs (link), I would say only worldnews can reasonably be described as pro-Zionist. I do not regularly go on all of these though, so can't say for sure I missed one. I can also be out of touch and have missed a change, but from memory none of those ring a bell.
I'm sorry, but most of the comments here are actually out of the loop.
The answer is "it's worldnews". It's the only main sub that has as many pro-Israel opinions. Yes, there are other international news subs which are much more pro-Palestine, the biggest probably being anime_titties (not a joke). So part of the users that would be more vocally against Israel have left indeed (or might have).
I'm not sure it's the mods, but I've seen cries of censorship from people both in anime_titties and Conservative accusing the worldnews mods of being biased against them, so who knows.
As for your last question, worldnews is actually now much more critical of Israel that it was in the first months after October 7th. You can regularly see pretty scathing criticisms of Netanyahu in general, and doubly so when they commit war crimes like from recent memory that "double tap" bombing that killed 20+ people that even Israel recognized as a "tragic mistake".
That's what I have seen after reading very regularly the comments on worldnews on that conflict for quite a few years now.
Also, on the flotilla thing it seems debatable that Israel did anything, since the Tunisian government itself denied it (source). And they are no friend of Israel.
Digitalisation is a pretty large investment, and libraries typically have pretty tight budgets, so outside of governmental (or philantropic) intervention I assume it might happen very slowly or not at all. Old books are very fragile, so any intervention must be done very carefully.
And outside of that... while the contents can be saved with digitalisation, there is value in the object itself, and that's what they are trying to protect. They won't just abandon the items they protected for centuries because the text has been moved to another format.
Adding to the pile, thank you for you work here. Much appreciated. And thanks to all donators!
If anyone else was wondering why France specifically and not all nations that care (or pretend to) about human rights.
For context: The "anti-torture watchdog" here is the "National Commission on Torture Prevention", part of the Swiss government.
The word "slam" doesn't appear anywhere obviously as it's a government report, the article title is:
"Forced returns by air: NKVF calls for better protection for people with mental illnesses".
The full report is accessible in German, French or Italian by following the link and changing the language on the top-right corner.
Funny how that is the title when in their own article it says :
The moment it is written "fuck the Jews" you know it's never been about Palestinians for that person.
This is "neo-zionism" or Kahanism, and the discourse on the subject would be so much saner if people knew of and used that word.
Some people are stupid enough to fall for it, sadly. So even a low-effort, low-cost display like this can be worth it.
And... yeah.
Fuck, I got scared for a second. Glad it's entirely separate.
Honestly this is lower than expected. Oh, but it's specifically email huh.
Windows is the elephant in the room here...
Because Maduro wasn't sanctioned by a body that Switzerland recognizes as binding.
However now that he's fallen, they are freezing his money to give it back to the country when it asks for it.
You (and everyone upvoting) have no idea what Switzerland neutrality means. It's not like you could just read up an official Swiss government document about it (PDF warning)
This is standard procedure, freezing the assets of toppled dictators so that the country can get them back. This is to help the Venezuelan people. Here, other examples of similar cases.
Edit: amazing, four people below proving my point.
Fighting AI with AI... Everyone lose, especially the planet :')
Yes
You're welcome.
At the time of writing, I had indeed not seen anything about a second attack yet. While I don't exclude the attention thing being a possibility, the video of the 2nd time is rather convincing of an aerial attack, and your arguments about Tunisia are also solid.
Who knows. At the very least, luckily nobody was harmed.
Others exist, of course, but they are not main subs.
By a quick look at the top 100 subs (link), I would say only worldnews can reasonably be described as pro-Zionist. I do not regularly go on all of these though, so can't say for sure I missed one. I can also be out of touch and have missed a change, but from memory none of those ring a bell.
I'm sorry, but most of the comments here are actually out of the loop.
The answer is "it's worldnews". It's the only main sub that has as many pro-Israel opinions. Yes, there are other international news subs which are much more pro-Palestine, the biggest probably being anime_titties (not a joke). So part of the users that would be more vocally against Israel have left indeed (or might have).
I'm not sure it's the mods, but I've seen cries of censorship from people both in anime_titties and Conservative accusing the worldnews mods of being biased against them, so who knows.
As for your last question, worldnews is actually now much more critical of Israel that it was in the first months after October 7th. You can regularly see pretty scathing criticisms of Netanyahu in general, and doubly so when they commit war crimes like from recent memory that "double tap" bombing that killed 20+ people that even Israel recognized as a "tragic mistake".
That's what I have seen after reading very regularly the comments on worldnews on that conflict for quite a few years now.
Also, on the flotilla thing it seems debatable that Israel did anything, since the Tunisian government itself denied it (source). And they are no friend of Israel.
Their CEO did fuck up with that, so for me they are on thin ice, but I haven't seen anything else problematic since then.
I assume. But that's only a fraction of the total amount of migrants and refugees...
That's a BrandNewSentence if I've ever seen any.
Digitalisation is a pretty large investment, and libraries typically have pretty tight budgets, so outside of governmental (or philantropic) intervention I assume it might happen very slowly or not at all. Old books are very fragile, so any intervention must be done very carefully.
And outside of that... while the contents can be saved with digitalisation, there is value in the object itself, and that's what they are trying to protect. They won't just abandon the items they protected for centuries because the text has been moved to another format.