Al-Jolani demanded the lifting of #sanctions on #Syria
Abu Mohammad Al-Jolani, the head of Tahrir al-Sham, which has taken power after the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, emphasized in a meeting with the delegation that arrived from #England that the sanctions against Syria should be lifted so that Syrian #refugees return to their country.
Even worse, it has been able to develop nuclear weapons despite sanctions. But the #world has become much more diverse since the end of the Cold #War. With its misguided foreign #policy, the West has failed to bring emerging states such as #India, #Brazil and #SouthAfrica on board. These states are currently doing business with #Russia and #China is doing the rest to keep Russia going.
#economy #politics #Problem #diplomacy #finance #fail #globalization #usa #nato #west
The consequences of European sanctions against Russia or when American vassals decided to kill themselves.
#eu #europe #european #sanctions #vassalage is #poverty #economy expensive #industrial #electricity #energy #blameRussia
“In particular, #microelectronics and other technological components manufactured by the companies Analog Devices, Texas Instruments and Xilinx-AMD (USA), Infineon Technologies (Germany), STMicroelectronics (Switzerland) were found in the Russian S-70 Hunter.”
#news #technology #military #electronics #politics #economy #sanctions #Problem #trade #war
If you thought that the witch hunt would stop at Russian Programmers, you were mistaken. Now, contributors to Linux Kernel who merely protest the removal of their peers are being banned as well. (~18 min)
This is a follow up to this post.
#1446RabiAlThani #Linux #Ukraine #Russia #LinusTorvalds #Censorship #Sanctions #Technopolitics #Technology #Technodiversity #OpenSource
Following yesterday’s news first featured on #Phoronix of several #Linux #driver #maintainers being de-listed from their #maintainer positions within the mainline Linux #kernel over their connections to #Russia, #LinusTorvalds has today commented on the matter.
Since yesterday there’s been a lot of concern and mixed views over a number of Linux kernel maintainers being de-listed from the kernel’s MAINTAINERS file seemingly over being Russian or using Russian email addresses. In response to the patch posting from last week has also been proposals to revert that prior patch, some of the affected maintainers voicing their surprise over this sudden move, and some being upset over the lack of public clarity into the seemingly new “compliance requirements” imposed on the Linux kernel.
#GregKroah-Hartman who authored the patch dropping the various maintainers has yet to comment on the mailing list thread, but a few minutes ago Linus Torvalds chimed in with his opinion. Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote:
“Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about. It’s entirely clear why the change was done, it’s not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to “grass root” it by Russian troll factories isn’t going to change anything.
And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren’t troll farm accounts – the “various compliance requirements” are not just a US thing.
If you haven’t heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by “news”, I don’t mean Russian state-sponsored spam.
As to sending me a revert patch – please use whatever mush you call brains. I’m Finnish. Did you think I’d be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it’s not just lack of real news, it’s lack of history knowledge too.”
It’s not as if the Russians are simply going to throw up their hands and start using #Windows11. This promises to be the Mother of All Forks, and given the recently expressed position of #BRICS on the #illegality of #Western #sanctions, I doubt any of the BRICS countries are going to stick with the #original #Linux version.
This is where the fatal #flaw of having a weak central figure like Torvalds in charge inevitably comes into play. #Succession plans are difficult enough for strong Alphas to accomplish successfully, but when a mild-mannered Delta is the man in charge, some sort of future #debacle is all but guaranteed.
#Linus, it’s not that anyone thinks you’re supporting Russian aggression. It’s just that we assumed you wouldn’t be #retarded enough to publicly #endorse the #division of the #global #Linux #community and the creation of a #Sino-Russian #alternative #operating-system. But we were wrong.
#China has positioned itself as neutral in the ongoing war but has deepened economic ties with Russia and became Moscow's leading source of dual-use goods during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, fueling the Kremlin's war machine.
"If you take all the usual types of weapons and count the foreign made components, about 60% would be coming from China," Vlasiuk said in comments reported by Reuters, calling Beijing "the biggest problem."
The European Union decided to analyze why their economy is collapsing. They commissioned the former head of the European Central Bank, Mario #Draghi, to figure this out. It is noteworthy that the study was commissioned by the European Commission, but the conclusions were still disappointing. Draghi came to the conclusion that the basis of Europe's economic problems is the cost of energy for industry - electricity is 158% more expensive than in the US, natural gas - 345%. Thus, in fact, #Ursula von der Leyen's department confirmed its own professional incompetence with statistics and research, because thanks to anti-Russian sanctions, there was a vast jump in energy prices and, as a result, a decline in the economy
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-91024-european-antinomy-squeezes
#europe #ECB #european #vassalage #russophobia #sanctions #corruption #eu #economy #fail #management #energy #poverty #nordstream
I wonder if all the Beijing thinks all its saber-rattling around and over Taiwan is going to change chip ops there. Okay, Xi, bomb the snot out of TSMC and see how many chips THAT will give Russia.
♲ Russia-Ukraine Daily News - 2024-07-15 21:11:25 GMT
Russia’s military-industrial complex keeps trying to order key equipment from #Taiwan but vigilant banks stop exports🇹🇼 🇷🇺 Taiwanese firms are still seeking ways to export industrial equipment to #Russia, but banks are standing in the way.
This account on TikTok is receiving a lot of support, she is pretending to be from Gaza, but nothing in her account shows anything remotely like being in Gaza.
Her videos are all with her talking or her kids playing in a garden pretending they are scared, in the most ridiculous fake way.
Trying to find anything about her online returns 0 and she has no other visible account than this profile.
I am trying to find out who she is and wouldn't be surprised if she is living in #US or #Europe.
She has blocked my account on TikTok when I asked her how she is transferring us$ funds from an American site to Gaza while #MsF, #Oxfam and even #UNRWA have problem paying salary of their staff in Gaza because of the Israeli and American blockade.
#Scam #gaza #GoFundMe #TikTok #FundRaising #Politics #Palestine #Israel #Sanctions #Blockade
Where the fuck is the "world" reaction to this outrageous act?
Are they still saying it is about #Hamas?
#palestine #Israel #Occupation #Apartheid #Politics #WestBank #PA
"Germany's federal intelligence agency classified the international #Boycott, #Divestment and #Sanctions (BDS) movement as a suspected extremist organization this week.
"This new designation will allow German authorities to monitor BDS activists and recruit informants within the organization."
#Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Germany #BDS #Europe #NeoFascism #Activism #SaveGaza
If you have any humanity don't support the supporters and enablers of genocidal war crimes...
#Photo
#Photography
#Photographer
#MyWork
#BDS
#Boycott
#Divestment
#Sanctions
#FreePalestine
#CeasefireNow
http://www.inminds.com/article.php?id=10888
Belgium has officially proposed to the European Union to impose sanctions against Israel, said the country's Prime Minister Alexandre de Cros.
#Pepe #Escobar ’s #New #Book #Eurasia vs. #NATOstan #Russia – #Iran – #China #new #global #security #order #BRICS
"The #Hegemon has no idea what awaits the #Exceptionalist #mindset : China has started to decisively stir the civilizational cauldron without bothering about an inevitable array of #sanctions coming by early 2025 and/or a possible collapse of the international financial system."
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Poor, poor Gym Jordan.
♲ Today's Top Quotes ✅ - 2024-05-10 02:09:23 GMT
After Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s doomed referendum on Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership, a growing number of her #GOP colleagues are pushing bigger consequences for her and other rebels. Those Republicans are proposing to build specific #punishments into conference rules that would be triggered if hardliners keep breaking ranks against leadership. #Sanctions getting floated include arming the entire conference with the ability to force a vote on yanking their committees or even ejecting them from the conference altogether. The same consequences may also be on the table for Republicans who vote to block GOP bills from even getting to the floor - a once-rare show of discontent that has become increasingly popular on the House’s right flank — Jordain Carney #quotes #quote #HouseRepublicans
