It's fake because it's not an ad.

It's propaganda designed to look like an ad. The group that made it does not sell or develop property. It is impossible to buy the "advertised" property because it doesn't exist and they are not selling property.

The threat from the group is real. Their intention is to legitimize the idea of occupying and settling southern Lebanon. They themselves say that they are not selling property but promoting a future where it's possible for Israelis to buy/sell property in southern Lebanon.

You:

I’m not buying the fact that Israel has no plans to settle Lebanon

I'm not selling that.

I'm not commenting on Israeli intentions in Lebanon. I'm not defending Israel or their aims. I'm just commenting on one small thing:

Is Israel advertising property for sale in Lebanon?

And they aren't.

I'm not trying to convince you that it has some big implication for their intentions in Lebanon. It doesn't. They just aren't advertising property for sale in Lebanon. Whatever Israel's intentions are, that claim is false.

I think the logic is that an attack on nuclear facilities would be -- and would be perceived by Iran to be -- more substantial. The US accepts that Israel is going to respond but is hoping that Iran won't escalate after the Israeli retaliation because they don't want war. They'd be less willing and, maybe, unable to back down after an attack on nuclear facilities.

'omg Meta's blocking nazi instances!'

1. Gleason is a transphobic idiot.
2. poast and spinster are blocked by everyone for hate speech.

It's real in that this was actually produced by an Israeli construction company. It's fake in that this isn't actually happening or approved by the state.

THIS IS NOT A NEWS SOURCE

Xinhua News Agency, or New China News Agency, is the official state news agency of the People's Republic of China. A State Council's ministry-level institution founded in 1931, Xinhua is the largest media organ in China.

Xinhua is a publisher, as well as a news agency; it publishes in multiple languages and is a channel for the distribution of information related to the Chinese government and the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Its headquarters in Beijing are located close to the central government's headquarters at Zhongnanhai.

Xinhua tailors its pro-Chinese government message to the nuances of each international audience. The organization has faced criticism for spreading propaganda and disinformation and for criticizing people, groups, or movements critical of the Chinese government and its policies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinhua_News_Agency

Their press freedom ranking is "Total Oppression" which means they publish whatever Dear Leader tells them to under threat of torture, imprisonment, or death. Not news.

But while that’s a very lucky thing to have, the issue is that we depend on the owner of Mastodon to not sell the company to a billionaire.

We don't depend on that. Buying Mastodon would get them the branding but not Mastodon itself. It's all GPL/AGPL and would be forked immediately if sold. The buyer would have no control over it.

Oracle may have owned OpenOffice but it didn't matter. Everyone uses LibreOffice now. Same shit.

To be fair, a ham sandwich would've handled Xi's visit better than Trump too.

The IDF has now said that the blast was caused by a failed missile launch from Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Weird stuff, Americans

It's odd to say that Engoron is afraid to rule against Trump when he already ruled he's guilty of fraud. I'd also love to see him fined a billion dollars or to spend time in jail for contempt of court but Trump and his team are baiting him to take more extreme action to argue bias on appeal. Keeping his orders beyond reasonable is probably the right move to protect his verdict moving forward. Same goes for Chutkin. She's probably more reluctant to help Trump open a door to appeal than afraid to have him spend a night in jail or whatever.

Gleason is an infamous Fediverse villain.

He could've just shut it down at any time. I doubt he planned the destruction of his reputation. He's gone from tech boy wonder to being widely loathed. It's hurt his other companies as well but, more personally, it's so obvious from his posts that he's desperate to be loved and revered.

He just really sucks. Being surrounded by people who never criticize or challenge him unshockingly doesn't improve things either.

You gotta hand it to the guy for getting his entry in for "least menacing threat of 2023" just under the wire.

Ukraine’s statehood could suffer an “irreparable blow” if the pattern of the war continued, and Russia would never be forced to abandon the gains it had made.

Fun fact: Ukraine has re-captured more than 50% of the territory Russia occupied since the last time Putin made this ridiculous threat.

They did in the article he's suing over.

And Jesus wept for there were no more worlds to conquer

2. “Boogaloo” has been co-opted and carries an unfortunate connotation these days.

I'm nowhere near ready to give up the fight on this one. Those bastards can pry "[Anything] 2: Electric Boogaloo" from my cold, dead hands.

Transphobic hate speech. It's TERFtown.

NPR is a fine source. The US has press freedom. They're rated as "High Credibility". You thought I'd have a problem with that?

Don't post shit from state-controlled propaganda networks.

They don't have an MBFC page, which is a bit weird since according to their Wikipedia page they've been around for 26 years. I couldn't find any bias rating info on them anywhere.

The story seems a bit sketchy. IntelliNews attributes the video to Jason Jay Smart -- a political consultant and writer for the Kyiv Post. The video didn't originate with him though. About 6 hours earlier it was posted by 'The Spot News' who are probably a fake news organization*. They don't seem to have a web presence beyond that twitter account. Spot News was used as the source for this article from Defense-Blog that pre-dates the IntelliNews piece.

The earliest post with the video I can find is here from 'Ukraine News 24 Hours', who are also not really a news org and just link to a telegram account. They claim that they posted it but, who knows? Most references to the video describe it as "appearing online" without any attribution, which itself is a bit sketch. No one really reputable is reporting this (yet?).

• Edit: by "fake news organization" I mean that they are not a real news organization, not that they are necessarily posting fake news (though they could be!)

Not the solution I was hoping for but it's an extremely reasonable compromise. I've never heard of selective authorized fetch. Pretty sure he just invented it.

The alternative is what though? Trump is legally ineligible to run for office. So don't enforce the law because Republicans might declare Biden illegally ineligible? Don't enforce the law because someone might call it unfair and others might believe them? A political system where there aren't any enforceable rules is so much worse in the long run.

There also isn't a "standoff" with the Supreme Court. It's literally their job to interpret and enforce the constitution. Everything's working exactly as it was designed to.

The approximately 40-page document, which the Israeli authorities code-named “Jericho Wall,” outlined, point by point, exactly the kind of devastating invasion that led to the deaths of about 1,200 people.

Hamas followed the blueprint with shocking precision.

Then, in July, just three months before the attacks, a veteran analyst with Unit 8200, Israel’s signals intelligence agency, warned that Hamas had conducted an intense, daylong training exercise that appeared similar to what was outlined in the blueprint. . . . But a colonel in the Gaza division brushed off her concerns, according to encrypted emails viewed by The Times.

This is some crazy shit in here.

I think this is probably not true because:

1. they agreed to expedite this process/decision.

2. This appears to be unanimous. The liberal justices have no interest in helping Trump.

3. Jack Smith was trying to skip a step (the appeals court), and they were basically like 'no, do this the usual way.'

4. the appeals court already agreed to expedite the appeal if their decision went this way.

It's not tracked anymore as of 0.19 ("don't serialize karma"). Lemmy dev dessalines talks about how it's being removed (and should've been removed sooner) here.

They can do that and there have been discussions about it. They also think that allowing Orban to break the EU process is itself a victory for Orban and Putin because it's a step toward fracturing EU unity.

1. There are more people there.
2. Fewer people even know the Fediverse exists at all.
3. Mastodon (where most would probably move from Twitter) has a reputation for being more difficult to use.

EDIT: More recent reporting directly contradicts the Fox report below:

A preliminary investigation has found that the car did not contain explosives, according to three law enforcement officials with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss an open investigation.

A law enforcement official briefed on the incident said investigators believed the explosion resulted from the impact of the collision. The car went airborne and struck a cement pillar, according to the official. A suitcase was found near the car but did not contain explosives, the official added.

source: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/11/22/nyregion/rainbow-bridge-explosion-niagara-falls

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https://www.foxnews.com/us/ny-vehicle-explosion-reported-rainbow-bridge-niagara-falls-injured

The FBI is investigating a vehicle explosion Wednesday at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing between the U.S. and Canada in what sources tell Fox News was an attempted terrorist attack.

Explosives were in the vehicle at the time and two people who were in the car are dead, the sources told Fox News. A border officer was injured.

(Note: I think Fox is the only news org reporting this. And it's Fox.)

Here's an archive link to the original WSJ report.

Even far-right ghouls can't deny it. Harris is a total prosecutie.

Can we talk about a story that's fallen through the cracks here? CNN claiming this as an exclusive is madness. Who do these people think they are? And should the ICC issue arrest warrants about it? 😉

This is such a bizarre conspiracy theory. Netanyahu will be remembered as being asleep at the wheel for the worst attack on Israel in its history -- and the worst massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust. His political career, built almost solely on his ability to protect Israelis from exactly this kind of attack, is almost certainly over. His ability to obstruct his corruption trial is too. That's extreme risk, no reward and really makes no sense at all.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

They certainly wanted to provoke a huge reaction -- starting a war and derailing normalization of relations with other states in the ME. They were probably a bit like the dog that caught the car. It's doubtful they thought they would be as successful as they were. They were likely hoping the hostages would temper Israel's response. They probably didn't anticipate the success and brutality of the attack making the hostages less of a factor in Israel's decision-making.

I get being concerned but it's way too early to panic. Historically, polling isn't predictive until June of the election year. A year out from the 2012 election, Obama's numbers were worse than Biden's and he still won in a landslide. In modern presidential elections, incumbents have won about 75% of the time. Abandoning the benefit of incumbency is almost always the worst thing you could do.

After each verdict Trump has a 30-day window to come up with cash or a bond to appeal. If he doesn't meet that requirement they can immediately begin seizing his assets. If he meets that requirement, enforcement will be stayed pending the appeal. He also can't appeal if he doesn't meet that requirement. With interest, he needs to come up with close to half a billion to appeal all three civil cases he lost.

As far as I can tell, this story is false. This is linked through MSN but not published by them. The direct link is here and it's published by essanews.com. I can't find any fact check info on them but they're owned by a giant Polish media company (Wirtualna Polska). A few years ago, Wirtualna Polska were caught publishing pro-government stories under fake names. This is also reported by Knewz.com, citing this story as a source and framing the Alaska claim as speculation. No one else seems to be reporting this, though it would be big, ridiculous news.

I think the timeline is that Putin ordered a hunt for Russian/Soviet property. Then Igor Sushko (Winds of Change guy) speculated that it had implications for the sale of Alaska. Reading the translation, it appears to be pretty wild speculation. Anyway, then this story is published saying that Putin signed a specific decree declaring the Alaska sale illegal. I can't find any reference to a specific decree about Alaska.

It was Knight Specialty Insurance Company. Owned by billionaire Don Hankey, who got rich doing subprime car loans. Apparently he's bailed Trump out before with loans against Trump Tower and Doral golf course.

In response to the evidence, the IDF said that “the [soldiers’] conduct that emerges from these scenes is grave and inconsistent with the values of the IDF. The incidents are under investigation. The IDF commanders will hold talks with all the soldiers on the front. One soldier has been dismissed from reserve service.”