Holes mysteriously found cut in army base fences.
An alleged plot to assassinate Germany’s top weapons manufacturer.
Phone taps on a high-level Luftwaffe call.
These aren’t storylines lifted from a 1960s spy novel but real-life events in Germany, this year.
Phone taps, sabotage and an assassination plot: Is Germany in Cold War 2.0?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyn8vk4g42o
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Fully agree with everything said here - thankfully we can still read users TimeLines and figure out shit..... For now, anyway, wouldn't surprise me if Musk comes up with a way to stop us scrolling a users actual posts cause some thin-skinned fuckwit doesn't like being challenged on what they are saying
Yup this writer gets it
"Privatizing Likes isn’t the worst thing Musk has done to degrade the experience on X (there’s plenty of that to go around), but it sure hasn’t made things better"
"Likes symbolized passive appreciation and, thus, were a tool to see what someone enjoyed. And to be clear, I wasn't trawling through Likes to go after someone. It was a quick guide to know if I should ignore them or engage"
@th3j35t3r ERM.... Um.....
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Kim Dotcom has lost yet another ruling in his attempt to avoid extradition from New Zealand to the United States, over a dozen years after the file-sharing site Megaupload was shut down. But he hasn't run out of appeal options yet.
On Thursday, a government spokesperson confirmed that New Zealand Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith signed an extradition order for Dotcom, according to Reuters.
Humiliation for Putin as Over 100 Troops Raise White Flag on Russian Soil - Ukrainian forces captured over 100 Russian troops in the largest single surrender since the start of the war two and a half years ago, according to multiple reports - Ukrainian online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda posted a video on X Thursday
https://twitter.com/ukrpravda_news/status/1823987790331195857
Musk's declaration of war on his own advertisers exposes a grim reality for "X", writes Fortune magazine, which quotes financier Bradford Ferguson saying he expects Musk to liquidate billions of dollars in Tesla stock to keep it in business.
Meanwhile: #Iran
OpenAI said on Friday it had taken down accounts of an Iranian group for using its ChatGPT chatbot to generate content meant for influencing the US presidential election and other issues
operation identified as Storm-2035 used ChatGPT to generate content focused on topics such as commentary on the candidates on both sides in the US elections, the conflict in Gaza and Israel’s presence at the Olympic Games and then shared it via social media accounts and websites
Operation Mincemeat is set in 1943 as the Allies are determined to launch an all-out assault on Fortress Europe. But they face an impossible challenge - to protect a massive invasion force from entrenched German firepower and avert a potential massacre.
Based on true events
Operation Mincemeat was a successful British deception operation of the Second World War to disguise the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily.
AP is arguably the most influential news agency in the world, with its news copy read by millions globally. If only those readers knew who AP gets its information from: a man who has glorified violence, advocated for the death of Jews, encouraged innocent Palestinians to remain in harm’s way, and knowingly spread false information
The ‘Good Doctor’:
AP cites its mission statement to “advance the power of facts.” Its choice of Dr. Fadel Naim as a source is questionable
Yesterday, Popular Information published a detailed report
https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/how-trumps-infatuation-with-a-racist
on the close relationship between former President Donald Trump and Laura Loomer, a far-right conspiracy theorist who says America should be a "white Judeo-Christian ethnostate.
Shortly after the piece was published the report was blocked on Facebook
https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/update-why-facebook-blocked-popular
Facebook blocked the post, saying that Popular Information's reporting violated Facebook's "Community Standards."
Russian-American journalist for Voice of America. Here she gives some insight into what Russia is thinking about the Ukrainian Kursk offensive
Breaking Points was full of misleading information about Ukraine.
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