#interim Prime Minister

[rightnewshindi]

कट्टरपंथी संगठन जमात-ए-इस्लामी ने भारत के खिलाफ खोला मोर्चा, 518 कैदी फरार; जानें कौन होंगे अंतरिम प्रधानमंत्री

Bangladesh Unrest Updates: बांग्लादेश में आरक्षण आंदोलन के सोमवार को अचानक राजनीतिक संकट में बदलने के बाद वहां हालात विकट हो गए हैं. बांग्लादेशी प्रधानमंत्री शेख हसीना को इस्तीफा देने के साथ ही देश छोड़कर भारत में शरण लेनी पड़ी है. इसके बाद कट्टरपंथी संगठन जमात-ए-इस्लामी ने भारत का नाम लिए बिना उसके खिलाफ मोर्चा खोल दिया है. जमात-ए-इस्लामी ने अपने समर्थकों से शेख हसीना को शरण देने वाले देश के…

[astraystayyh]

PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT’S HAPPENING IN BANGLADESH!!!!!

I currently have 700+ followers. And I will urge all of you to read about what is happening in Bangladesh. What has happened in Bangladesh. I am adding irrelevant tags of the fandoms I follow to garner more attention. I apologize in advance.

The government of Bangladesh killed pressumably 950+ people, innocent people, students, all because they demanded a system that will give them government jobs based on merit rather than quota. To suppress the students Sheikh Hasina and its government imposed 5 days of total internet blackout. While imposing this blackout they killed off anyone of the streets. They killed people from helicopters by shooting and throwing grenades. Many kids died in their own homes as the bullet shot them through their window.

Sheikh Hasina and its police took away all the dead bodies and the death registries from the hospital. The official death toll is 200. But various journalistic and medical staff sources confirm the death toll is over 950 in Dhaka alone.

That monster of a PM didn't acknowledge the death of the students. Instead she is crying over the infrastructure vandalism. I request you,rise up and speak out about this. Educate yourself and let other people know. The internet blackout have suppressed the truth at large. The Bangladeshi people are in deep surveillance and the government have made 2000+ arrests on false charges just because they have shared the Information. There is mass fear mongering. I know most of you people are not Bangladeshis and that's why you need to help us and speak up about it. Join your local protests, share the news in your social media, twitter Instagram. I beg you, don't let my people's murderers get away with it. Don't let my people's death be forgotten.

I am attaching some links for you to understand the horror of it all.

This Facebook page Bringing justice to you has documented all the horrors and the massacres that happened on Bangladeshi people. TW : all kinds of blood, gore, death bodies, every single horrible things imaginable but shows what went down.

This ig page is also another page that brings you the horror stories.

https://www.instagram.com/thebangladeshivoice?igsh=YXBpdzQyem54cmZj

Al-Jazeera has been a very credible news source while the Bangladesh was under blackout. They have made several segments. I am attaching the latest one.

UN Human Rights have called out Bangladesh for explanation regarding the crackdown

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Amnesty International's report of Bangladesh government using lethal weapon against its people and mass murder

There are many more contents, proof and videos to show you the horrors that was unfolded in the crackdown. Sheikh Hasina killed her people like insects and violated every single human rights imaginable. Please share these. Support us. Help us. I beg you all.

[hentired]

The Netherlands went from having its longest sitting prime minister ever, to having one of its shortest sitting ones ever lmao

[merisarkar]

Progressive and Inclusive Budget: PM Modi hails interim budget

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Union Budget 2024-25: Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday congratulated Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on the successful presentation of the interim budget. “It may be an interim budget but it is an inclusive and progressive one and a reflection of Vikshit Bharat,” Modi said in a speech. “This budget also signifies continuity and confidence. Nirmala…

[aaushie]

On the fifth of August, 2024, the Bangladeshi prime minister was forced to resign the flee the country following civil riots after 16 years of autocratic rule. What followed was political violence against minorities, looting and burning of public property and historical museums. The infrastructure that kept these things in check, the police and the army, had fallen in a matter of hours and 4 days letter the new government has still not formed and neither have the infrastructure.

Yet, after the first wave of confusion, what happened was incredible. Students and citizens alike gathered to clean the city and repair public property to the best of their abilities. Traffic was the best in decades thanks to teachers volunteering to manage them. Food prices halved as the corporate syndicates and cartels fell. Muslim religious schools stayed up overnight to protect Hindu temples and Christians churches. Communities prepared local night guards to protect from thieves. All of this, without a formal government or any sort of authoritarian institute to compel them.

Today might be the last day, as the interim government is formed and volunteers move on to their lives. There was still mob violence, lynching and killing of cops and burning of minority houses, and many of the poorest people suffered immensely from lack of sales and not enough food drives were started to support them.

What i want to say is this: this is living proof than a people can function without government, even if it was for a short time. That when people take responsibility and do not rely on a government or party for their problems, true anarchy emerges. It might all go to waste as the interim government is filled with right winged conservatives and centrists as well as army generals, and the eventual elections are taken by the Islamic fundamentalists and the conservative party. But if i have learned anything these past 3 days, it is to never let anyone tell me anarchy is naive or unrealistic. I have witnessed living proof.

[shadow4-1]

I'm just imagining the 141 saving you from a high stress political assassination while you were supposed to be on holiday. You weren't the actual target, some vice prime minister was, but you were wearing the same sundress in the same location she was supposed to be at. Because everyone thinks you're the vice prime minister, you're thrown into the transport vehicle and shipped off to a military base to keep you safe in the interim of the investigation.

That would be fine and all if you weren't in nothing but sun dress, surrounded by men who haven't seen anyone, much less a woman in months. They're a seemingly polite group on first glance. No one says anything to you, but you can see their eyes roaming all over your sun-kissed body. The tension is thick. You want to say something, anything, but you know it'd probably make the situation worse.

A gloved finger traces down your back and toys with the strap that connects at your shoulder blade. The Scottish man mutters something obscene in your ear.

All hell breaks loose as the four men start fighting.

You can't tell whether it's over you or for you. But when someone hikes up the bottom of your skirt, you get your answer.

[easwan]

Hey, so, an important thing for Americans to understand about the tariff stuff:

This isn't just about trade and taxes. Trump has been calling our Prime Minister "Governor." That is immensely disrespectful, not just to Justin Trudeau but to our country's sovereignty and the entire Common Wealth's system of government. Saying we should be the 51st State isn't a cute joke; it's a blatant disregard of our autonomy as an independent country, a slap in the face to America's closest ally, and a direct imposition on our laws and values that are contrary to Trump's administration.

Canada is the second largest country on the planet after Russia--the largest if you include our water. We have ten provinces and three territories. My province, British Columbia, is 944,735 km2 (364,764 sq mi).

Reminder that Texas is only 695,660 km2.

BC alone produces 43,000 gigawatt hours of hydroelectricity annually and 6.7 billion cubic feet of Natural Gas per day. We have 11.7 million hectares of protected woodland (29 million acres).

That's just a sliver of this country. And Trump thinks he can make the entire sovereign country into a State?

This isn't 'cause "we're so similar that it wouldn't make any difference." Canada is culturally different, contrary to popular American belief, and we are very different when it comes to our laws and values. Like, marijuana is legal for recreational use country-wide, and possession of small amounts of harder drugs is decriminalized in BC as part of our Province's efforts to destigmatize addiction and encourage recovery. We have social services like the single-parent employment initiative and expanded disability income assistance, not to mention our universal healthcare.

I'm disabled and chronically ill. I get regular bloodwork, CT scans, iron supplements, iron infusions, clinic visits, and emergency room stays. I've had emergency airlifts, multiple ambulance rides, week-long hospital stays, ultrasounds, x-rays—and even given birth, and the only money I've ever had to spend on medical care (other than over-the-counter Advil) is my tramadol prescription, which is $50CAD a month. My friends and family consider that preposterously expensive. The only actually expensive medical costs I've had to deal with as a Canadian on the poverty line are dental care and my brother's HRT. (A 1000mg/10ml of testosterone was around $100CAD, which is pricey when cheques aren't coming in consistently)

I'm guessing that's not the experience of a disabled single parent on Welfare in America?

In a more prescient example, I am the legal guardian of my younger brother, a transgender teen. I had to go through the Ministry of Child and Family Development and attend two years of court to get permanent custody from our mother. But, during that time, my brother was placed in my care, and I was swiftly granted interim custody because our mother was a danger to him due to her violent transphobia.

You see, his identity is protected under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, so I had legal protection and resources available to save him from a dangerous situation and get him the care he needed. His HRT is prescribed by a local registered nurse, and the social workers at the MCFD connected us with LGBTQI+ outfitters to get him a variety of chest binders. He is also now eligible for financial aid when pursuing further education after graduating through the government's safeguards to help former foster children thrive in adulthood.

Canada is far from perfect in these areas, but it is rated as one of the safest counties in the world for queer people, alongside Nordic countries such as Sweden and Denmark. If you want to say Canada is similar to any country, it would actually be more accurate to compare us to Scandinavian countries. Honestly, the thing we have most in common with the US is our over-dependence on cars.

But as far as legal protections for queer people? Night and day.

In fact, Canada has a long history of taking in LGBTQI+ refugees. Rainbow Railroads are very much a thing. American trans people can request asylum in Canada.

I imagine Trump, Musk, and their cronies don't like that.

Let's be very clear here, Trump is cozying up with other Imperialist War Criminals such as Netanyahu and Putin. The States has stalled international efforts to stop the genocide in Gaza, and now the States is extorting Ukraine while it's actively under attack.

I am Ukrainian. My grandmother is a First Generation Refugee. My mother's first language was Ukrainian. I have been following the slow colonization of Ukraine since before they annexed Crimea in 2014. Putin would call Ukraine "brothers and sisters" and say that Ukraine would be happier as part of Russia, and so on and so forth. Now I'm seeing the same warning signs in the way Trump is treating Canada.

This is bigger than some boos during hockey. These tariffs are the first step in weakening our country and desensitizing the American populace to the idea of annexation. He's normalizing flagrant disrespect towards our sovereignty, and popularizing lies about the dynamic between our countries to set the stage for annexation and the theft of our natural resources.

It has been genuinely gutting to see American leftists not taking this seriously. We're not just plucky lil' Canucks standing up for ourselves against a big bully. We're an independent nation and America's closest ally refusing to bow down to the new fascistic regime. What Trump is doing is not normal. It's imperialism. Call it what it is, and stand with us.

Canada is considering this a Trade War and preparing accordingly. The boycotts are country-wide—not just people opting to buy Canadian—but stores taking American products off the shelves and relabelling everything to make the boycotts easier. We're expanding trade with the EU, Mexico, China and South Korea.

Canadians are pissed and genuinely ready to fight. Sure, the US population is massive, and the country has an embarrassingly oversized military, but read up on what happens when Canada goes to war. There will be no victor.

Our government officials are treating this as an act of imperial aggression, and our Canadian political experts are calling it a prelude to annexation. We will not capitulate; we will not play. Canada is a sovereign country and part of the Commonwealth of Nations.

We will never be the 51st State. Canada is unceded Indigenous land that should be returned to the First Nations, not sold to a dictator and the billionaire Nazi who bought his presidency.

[tomorrowusa]

A right wing president who was elected by a tiny margin and with less than 50% of the vote by appealing to resentful bros has been impeached.

No, not THAT president. It was Yoon Suk-yeol of South Korea who finally got the boot after an unsuccessful attempt to impose authoritarian martial law.

South Korea’s parliament has voted to impeach the president, Yoon Suk Yeol, almost two weeks after his short-lived declaration of martial law plunged the country into its worst political crisis for decades. In dramatic scenes at the national assembly in Seoul, 204 lawmakers voted for an opposition motion to impeach Yoon, while an estimated 200,000 protesters outside demanded he be thrown out of office. Saturday was the second opportunity in a week the assembly’s lawmakers had to begin the process of ousting Yoon, whose approval ratings have plummeted to 11%. To succeed, the opposition parties, which together control 192 seats, needed at least eight members of Yoon’s People Power party (PPP) to vote in favour to reach the required two-thirds majority of 200 in the 300-seat chamber. In the end, it appears that more PPP members were willing to throw their support behind impeachment. South Korean TV said 85 MPs voted against, while three ballots were spoilt and eight were ruled invalid. Huge cheers erupted outside the chamber as the results were announced, and MPs left to applause from onlookers. The spotlight will now move to the country’s constitutional court, whose six justices must vote unanimously in favour to uphold parliament’s decision. Yoon will now be suspended from office while the court deliberates, with the prime minister, Han Duck-soo, becoming interim president. The court has 180 days to rule on Yoon’s future. If it approves the motion, South Koreans must elect a new president within 60 days of its ruling.

The crowd near the South Korean National Assembly with an effigy of Yoon in jail.

National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-sik signs the approved impeachment motion.

Overreach is a trait of rulers who overestimate the support they have as well as the extent of their power. It was well known in ancient times and appears in a number Shakespeare's plays. Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a classic instance of overreach. Overreach can seriously weaken or even topple those who do the reaching.

[boreal-sea]

Kai Winn: Power vs. Faith

From Kai Winn Adami's point of view, I think she views her story as one of a faithful servant scorned. But that story involves a level of entitlement: that she deserves something from her gods and her people as payment for her service and her faith, and that when she does not get it, she deserves to bring about their destruction. There’s a point made in the show that her ultimate downfall and the reason she was able to be seduced by the Pah Wraiths is due to her greed and how power-hungry she was.

Hers is a story of two main conflicting motivations (as well as a third, deeper, core need). The main conflict is between her faith in the Prophets and her desire for political power. These are in conflict, but also compliment one another. You cannot talk about Winn's faith without discussing her desire for power, because she believes her faith entitles her to power. Conversely, her drive for power is partially motivated by her faith - she needs power to properly perform her faith, and to protect the faith of others.

And then at her core, she is motivated by a third need: the need for recognition and acknowledgement by the Prophets. The ultimate praise, to know that they appreciate all she's done for them. That they see her.

The first episode she's in is important because it shows us Winn’s core flaw, her desire for power. If she sees a chance to gain power, she will abandon the teachings of the Prophets and even take advantage of other people’s faith, and she does not care if people die in the process. Her attempt to get Vedek Bareil assassinated shows us this conflict within her. She used her faith as an excuse to come to DS9, to plan a terrorist attack against a school, and lure her political rival to the station so she can have him assassinated.

Her attempts to gain power escalate throughout the series. Even as she gains power, she still desires more. No amount of power is enough.

After failing to kill Bareil, she allies herself with militant insurgents who are trying to take over the Bajoran government. She does this in part because she hates the Federation, but all also because she is promised the role of Kai. She is willing to watch Bajor fall into civil war, to see Bajorans fight and kill other Bajorans, to gain power.

At one point, she becomes the interim Prime Minister. She believes the Prophets would not have let her become Prime Minister if she was not fit for the role, and her authority being challenged is just a test of her ability to "lead" - to force others to follow her will and the will of the Prophets. She is willing to throw Bajor into (another) civil war over this belief. She cannot be wrong.

And then the Pah Wraiths come for her.

The Pah Wraiths contact Winn specifically because she’s the only one on Bajor who can read the text of the Kosst Amojan. They need her.

Being needed, being recognized for her faith... that's the deepest thing Winn wants from the Prophets.

Of course, the Pah Wraiths do not initially reveal themselves as such, so her first actions under their direction (and the direction of Dukat) are entirely forgivable. She thinks she is acting under the direct orders of the Prophets. I do not blame her at all for this.

But, eventually, the truth comes out: she is not in communion with the Prophets, she is speaking to the most evil beings she's ever been taught about. She has been deceived by them, yes, but she cooperated with them nonetheless. She is, understandably, horrified. She tries to get a vision from an Orb and fails.

This is the Prophets finally giving her an actual test of her faith. She is, at that moment, a direct danger to them and the Celestial Temple. The advice given to her by Kira is in fact a direct solution to the literal problem, and also a solution to Winn's own spiritual problems: if she gives up her position as Kai, not only will she no longer be a risk to the Prophets, but she will be able to actually humble herself and re-learn her faith from the ground up. Her faith is being pitted against her desire for power. Here, Winn must choose: redemption, or power.

Winn chooses power.

She is still loyal to the Prophets in that moment, but she cannot see that her desire for power is what has lead her astray. She leaves and returns to Dukat, and here she faces a second test of faith. She is told that if she renounces her faith the the Prophets, she will finally have the recognition and power she’s always desired, and most importantly, she will be acknowledged by gods. She has already chosen political power over redemption. Now, she has to choose between her faith to the Prophets, or recognition by any gods whatsoever.

She picks recognition.

And that, to me, is the tragedy of Kai Winn Adami.

[tinydefector]

My favourite thing while writing the Marine Centre fic is they fact its Based in Australia. Not a lot of fics are based over here, so I take the opportunity every time. Plus, it's fun for me to think about people in other countries willingly coming over here to work.

Holding my hand over my heart In honour of Priminister Harold Holt. He'd be cheering MC on from the depths of the sea. Bet he disappeared chasing Oceanide pussy. That's a Priminister I can appreciate. For those who don't know who Harold Holt is enjoy his wiki page.

But all I can think is MC gets carted off by the Pods and ends up in a somewhat underwater city and this mother fucker is just living it up after finding the fountain of youth. " They got you too huh?"

"'Yea accidentally adopted one of their pups and it imprinted on me. Now I have a harem you?"

" buff Mermaid woman"

" we named a swimming pool after you"

In December 1967, Holt disappeared while swimming in rough conditions at Cheviot Beach, Victoria. He was presumed dead, although his body was never recovered; his disappearance spawned a number of conspiracy theories. Holt was the third Australian prime minister to die in office. He was succeeded by Country Party leader John McEwen on an interim basis and then by John Gorton. His death was commemorated in a number of ways, among them by the establishment of the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre in Melbourne.

[mariacallous]

Between May 6 and May 8, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revised its estimates of how many women and children had died in Gaza. The numbers appeared to drop drastically: first, it reported at least 24,000 dead women and children, and two days later, it reported exactly 12,756 “identified” dead women and children. One could be forgiven for wondering whether the UN had raised about 6,700 Gazan children and 4,500 Gazan women from the dead.

OCHA has provided a running body count since the beginning of the Gaza war, and it currently stands at 34,844. This figure was generated by Hamas and is apparently accepted, give or take a few thousand, by Israelis. On a podcast last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu estimated that Israel had killed roughly 14,000 combatants and said the country regretted the deaths of another 16,000 Palestinian civilians. The apparent downward revision was made without any accompanying statement to explain the change or sudden precision. Israel’s military did not make a big deal about it either, probably because there is no way to sound good when celebrating a reduction in the number of children you have killed.

Many noticed anyway. David Adesnik, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, gave the most detailed account of what had happened. For about two months, OCHA had been repeating numbers from Hamas’s Government Media Office, and on May 8 it switched back to Hamas’s Ministry of Health, its source at the beginning of the war. The Ministry of Health is acknowledged to be the more reliable of the two, and it is unclear why OCHA switched to the worse of the two sources, or switched back. A UN spokesperson, Farhan Haq, later explained that the Ministry of Health was “for whatever reason, given the conditions on the ground, unresponsive.” But the Ministry of Health kept publishing statistics in the interim. OCHA didn’t use them.

On Wednesday, Haq said that the UN had “difficulty” verifying Hamas’s numbers but was adamant that the number of total dead remained the same. There was, he said, a “reduction in the number of identified bodies.” To clarify, to the extent possible, Haq seems to be arguing that there are just as many dead Palestinians as before, but many have now lost their identity? Haq makes the discrepancy sound like a minor correction. But the UN so drastically reduced the count of identified women and children that it amounts to an admission that it had been spreading deficient numbers for months.

If you are finding this mystifying, you are not alone. As Adesnik explains, part of the confusion arises from the Ministry of Health’s shifting accounting labels. Its system has evolved, and it now tallies named and identified corpses that have passed through its morgues—as well as, in a separate category, “unidentified” dead, for whom it has neither a body nor a name, just a vaguely-defined “report” from outside the hospital system. If, for example, first responders bring in a body, and they say seven other bodies are probably still under the rubble, the body in the morgue would count as identified and the seven others as unidentified. The additional source of confusion is seriously aberrant numbers from the Government Media Office.

Neither Hamas source, Adesnik writes, has fully explained where it gets its estimate of the number of unaccounted-for dead: more than 10,000 people. During the war, hospitals have stopped functioning, and keeping people alive has taken higher priority than keeping defensible statistics. But these numbers matter—first, because of the dignity of those killed or still living, and second, because total deaths and the ratio of combatant to noncombatant deaths will have implications for judgments about alleged war crimes and genocide.

This is one of those moments when the fog of statistics could be dispersed with just a few sentences of straight talk, of the sort rarely uttered by spokespeople. The UN numbers changed because the UN has little idea how many children have been killed in Gaza, beyond “a lot.” It gets its statistics from Hamas. Where else would it get them? There are no independent epidemiologists in Gaza right now doing the survey work, house to bombed-out house, that would yield reliable numbers. So OCHA used unreliable ones. It never concealed its sources, but it distributed even the most questionable numbers under the UN name.

Operating a statistics laundromat for Hamas’s media wing is embarrassing. But the absence of alternatives is also concerning. Any indictment of OCHA’s numbers should propose better sources for numbers—and, in their absence, ask why there aren’t any. Some of the blame for this absence falls on Hamas, which (in addition to its other flaws) ran a totalitarian state where independent research and criticism were policed and punished. Collecting data that contradicted Hamas’s official figures would be hard or fatal, even in relative peacetime.

But Israel deserves reproach, too. Unlike Hamas, Israel purports to abide by the principles of the laws of war, including proportionality and distinction between combatants (who can be lawfully targeted) and civilians (who cannot). Hamas has fought with transparent disregard for these principles. Israel has conducted its war opaquely, in such a way that one must take its word that every bomb and every round is dropped or fired lawfully. Its media operations in this war will be remembered as a historic failure that allowed Hamas’s propaganda to be accepted and spread almost without rebuttal.

Much is expected of modern armies that accept, in theory, the burdens of morality and law. One expectation is that they fight in a way that can be examined by outsiders. In Iraq and Afghanistan, reporters routinely accompanied U.S. and other NATO units into battle. At the time, some questioned these embeds and argued that any reporter who depended on a U.S. infantry platoon for his food and safety would inevitably write positively about these soldiers and negatively about whoever was trying to kill them. But a competent reporter would factor those sympathies into her reporting. The main benefit of embeds was that a reporter could observe soldiers and Marines during moments of stress, when they were too busy to groom themselves and pose for PR purposes, and see what they really did and how they really fought. During moments of unguarded intimacy between engagements, they might speak frankly to a reporter. No one can maintain a pose forever. After a week of foot patrols in Fallujah or Kandahar, and a week of meals and billeting with soldiers, a reporter could say with some confidence whether her host unit was killing civilians indiscriminately, or wanted to.

Israel currently embeds zero journalists in Gaza. It isn’t legally obligated to let journalists join its frontline units. But it doesn’t let journalists into Gaza independently, either. “To allow journalists to report safely,” an Israeli military spokesperson told me, the Israel Defense Forces “accompany them when on the battlefield.” He would not say how many journalists had in fact been allowed to accompany IDF units—let alone accompany them on regular operations, rather than short press tours of battle sites after the action. When Hamas alleges that Israeli soldiers are shooting everyone in sight, and murdering families by flattening buildings devoid of military purpose, it can point to the dead children. Israel can deny the charge and hope that the world trusts it over an avowed terrorist group. The world seldom obliges.

To rebut Hamas’s allegations by letting journalists see the war up close would be a calculated risk. Even when conducted legally, war is ugly. It is possible to kill children legally, if for example one is being attacked by an enemy who hides behind them. But the sight of a legally killed child is no less disturbing than the sight of a murdered one. And Israel has discovered that shutting out the press carries its own risks. An infanticide that no one can see is also going to attract suspicion. Unsympathetic observers will think Israel is conducting its war in the manner of other countries whose counterinsurgent forces have preferred to work out of view of independent media. Russia did this in the Second Chechen War; Sri Lanka, in its civil war. Both countries’ militaries had much to hide.

None of this excuses OCHA, which jeopardized its credibility by repeating dubious numbers, long after the reasons for doubting them had been explained. That credibility is a precious resource. The IDF claims to have killed “at least 13,000” combatants—lower than Netanyahu’s estimate—but refused to comment yesterday when I asked if it had any idea how many civilians it had killed. The correct answer is, well, a lot. It would be nice if, before the war is over, some trusted third party could verify this macabre estimate with greater precision.

[saywhat-politics]

Four senior members of the president’s entourage spoke with Yulia Tymoshenko, the opposition leader, as well as senior members of former president Petro Poroshenko’s party, Politico reported.

Discussions centred around whether Ukraine could hold quick presidential elections, according to the report.

A rift has been growing between Mr Trump and Mr Zelensky, culminating in a public shouting match in the Oval Office last week and the US withdrawal of military aid and intelligence to Ukraine.

Mr Trump has repeatedly insisted that Ukraine hold elections and labelled the Ukrainian president a “dictator” for not holding a vote, despite it being banned under martial law in the country’s constitution.

Ms Tymoshenko is ruthlessly ambitious about reaching the presidency after having served as prime minister in 2005, and again between 2007 and 2010 – the only woman to hold that position.

She finished second in two presidential elections in 2010 and 2014, spending most of the interim period in jail in what was thought to be a politically motivated prosecution. After being elected to Ukraine’s parliament in 2019, she has led her party in opposition.

[darkmaga-returns]

In September 2024, I published an article titled ‘Eco-Warrior Mark Carney: Set up to Replace Trudeau and Usher in Great Reset’.

Now that Carney has been officially installed as the interim Prime Minister of Canada, I’d like to expand a bit on that thesis and explain how the decision to replace Justin Trudeau with the much more vicious technocrat can only be understood by 1) recognizing the systemic breakdown now at play, and 2) the historic role of the British Empire in using Canada as a weapon against Canadians, and especially Americans going back for over two centuries.

Canada as a British Weapon Against America

In the 19th century, Canada was recognized as a principal enemy of the USA, as Confederate intelligence had enjoyed vast patronage and support by the British Empire through its web of intelligence bases in Montreal and Toronto. These Confederate intelligence networks not only coordinated terrorist operations against the Union from the north, but additionally paid and directed John Wilkes Booth to murder Lincoln after the war’s end.

These facts were outlined in detail in Barry Sheehy’s brilliant 2017 book Montreal: City of Secrets.

[athena5898]

Beirut (Quds News Network)- France, Italy, and Spain have strongly condemned recent Israeli attacks on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, labeling them “unjustifiable” and in violation of international law. This follows two consecutive explosions near the Lebanese-Palestinian border, which injured several members of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The attacks have sparked concern over the increasing risks to UN personnel as tensions between Israel and Hezbollah escalate. In a joint statement, the three European nations expressed outrage, demanding an immediate halt to the violence. “These attacks constitute a serious violation of Israel’s obligations under UN Security Council Resolution 1701 and international humanitarian law,” the statement read. The nations also called for increased protection for peacekeepers and urged both sides to de-escalate the situation. France, which contributes around 700 troops to UNIFIL, has been particularly vocal in its criticism. French President Emmanuel Macron summoned Israel’s envoy and demanded an explanation, emphasizing that the targeting of UN peacekeepers is “absolutely unacceptable.” Macron further proposed halting arms exports to Israel as a means to curb the violence, suggesting that stopping the flow of weapons could help prevent further escalation. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez echoed Macron’s call, urging the international community to cease selling arms to Israel. Following a meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, Sanchez stated, “It is urgent that we stop contributing to the violence by supplying weapons to Israel.” Sanchez has been one of the most outspoken European leaders against Israel’s recent military offensives, which he described as an “invasion” of Lebanon. Both Macron and Sanchez’s remarks have drawn sharp criticism from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who defended Israel’s military actions as necessary for self-defense. As the conflict intensifies, international leaders are increasingly pressing for diplomatic solutions to prevent further casualties.

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[culmaer]

just saw the US American version so I thought I'd ask :

it's interesting just how much you can deduce about the history of the country just by looking at the names and titles

[easykorean]

Presidential Yun’s impeachment.

The world has been closely watching now-impeached President Yun Suk-Yeol since he declared martial law on December 3, 2024. As of 7:24PM on December 14,2024, Prime Minister Han Duck-Soo is the interim leader of South Korea. President Yun was immediately suspended after a National Assembly vote. The Constitutional Court will now decide whether to reinstate him or to formally kick him out – this…