https://www.youtube.com/live/Mq85IZMeigc?t=19m30s

Julian Assange in a parliamentary hearing on his detention and conviction - and their chilling effect on human rights - on 1 October 2024 ahead of a full plenary debate on this topic by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). In his first public remarks since his release from detention at Belmarsh Prison in the UK, Mr Assange told parliamentarians: "I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today because after years of incarceration I pleaded guilty to journalism. I pleaded guilty to seeking information from a source, and I pleaded guilty to informing the public what that information was."

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    I give you a report

    You linked to an article which I looked at. It in turn linked to a 128 page report which I did not read because it does not have a Gaza section - and Gazan conditions leading up to Oct 7 was what you were responding to. I didn't have time today to read the whole thing just in case.

    Gaza was not anything like an "open air prison" until 2007 when Egypt closed the Southern Border shortly after Hamas took over: that was not Israel's fault. Water supply issues in Gaza are caused by Hamas who boasted in a 2021 propaganda video showing themselves digging up water pipes to turn them into missiles. From 2014 to 2020, U.N. agencies spent nearly $4.5 billion in Gaza which could have been used to build civilian infrastructure but Hamas preferred to spend it militarily on its stated goal of ethnic cleansing of Jews "from the river to the sea".

    The Amnesty article cites no examples of government mistreatment of Arabs in Israel.

    the article cites no examples of mistreatment of Arabs in Israel?

    The article. Not the report.

    Israel performed “massive seizures of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer, drastic movement restrictions, and the denial of nationality and citizenship to Palestinians”

    In Israel is was what you were meant to be responding to. There are plenty of Palestinians with citizenship in Israel. I think the West Bank settlement expansion is unjust but that is not the topic here.

    you are completely determined to wash over the sins of a government

    Nope I was trying to stick to the topic of BBC going against their own government's designation of Hamas as terrorists. You would rather talk about wider issues, so...

    Both sides are "losing the war": Back in December there was a great prescient article criticising Israel and a companion article criticising Hamas.

    Very few ProPals seem to do balance whereas plenty of people who try to understand Israel's difficulty (in avoiding being wiped out by Hamas) do criticise Israel.

    Netanyahu's Likud party only won 11% of the vote and it took 5 attempts at a working coalition for them to resume power in the last election. There were two arrest warrants against him for corruption and over 100,000 citizens protested against the government changing the law to allow them to override their equivalent of a constitution.

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    Your link is to Amnesty — one of the many "human rights" organizations unwittingly supporting terrorists who hijack and abuse our good-will and free speech in the West.

    Read about Akhmed Chatayev. Arrested in Sweden with guns and explosives. Arrested in Ukraine with terrorist material. Arrested in Georgia for participating in a terrorist attack (Lopota incident). Arrested at the Bulgaria/Turkey border. Amnesty basically bailed him out. He's the mastermind of the ISIS attack on the Istanbul airport (almost 50 dead). Luckily Georgian police eventually killed him in the end.

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    The Amnesty article cites no examples of government mistreatment of Arabs in Israel.

    Arabs in Israel are equal in law to Jews (except for military conscription). Arab LBTQI+ find refuge in Israel. Arab women and schoolgirls in Gaza have to wear a hijab but not the Arabs in Israel (where they can even dance if they like).

    the border checks since they have imported munitions in the past which they attacked Israel with.

    this is an outright lie.

    Just because some people use hyperbole like "world's largest outdoor prison" doesn't make what I said a lie. Blame Egypt for controlling the Rafah border not Israel. They have seen what happened to Jordan and Lebanon when they allowed Palestinians in.

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    I'm not sure proffering apologetics for war crimes is appropriate for Beehaw.

    ICC has identified (but not prosecuted) war crimes by Likud's Netanyahu and Hamas' Sinwar.

    you clearly label Hamas as a terrorist organization

    I named countries which proscribe Hamas as a terrorist organization. You obviously don't agree with these governments and it is fair enough to express it like that but not fair to try to bully me into agreeing with you.

    a legitimate steward of the civilian population's will.

    Hamas has not allowed elections in Gaza since they won power in 2007.

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    without addressing the actual reasons and events that led up to it

    Then it would need to include Palestinians starting war against Israel then losing a disproportionate number of citizens then always repeating the failed attacks expecting a different result? There is a word for that.

    Most of the Jewish population of Israel are those fleeing persecution from Muslim nations (not from Europe as is commonly believed).

    "By 2019, the total number of Jews in Arab countries and Iran had declined to 12,700, and in Turkey to 14,800"

    The only persecution of Gazans in the few years leading up to Oct 7 was the border checks since they have imported munitions in the past which they attacked Israel with.

    How far back in history do you want to go in a 90 minute documentary about the Nova massacre? It doesn't actually matter now regardless of what each side says: Jews ain't going anywhere and neither are the Arabs. A two-state solution is the only option.

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    Hamas is literally an internationally recognized terrorist organization, proscribed by many countries including the UK and the Arab League. CBC also refuses to call Hamas terrorists despite their government labeling them as such.

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    Report: Trump Defiantly Pumped Fist For 20 Minutes After Assassination Attempt Searching For Camera
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    I see now that the photo is from the golf course not the speech. That he posed for that one shows once again how media savvy he is.

    The first assassination attempt created the iconic image. That happened only 80 seconds after the shooting, ie as soon as security let him stand up. Here is the uncut footage.

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    Didn't even click to read the satire.

    As much as I hate the guy it was marketing genius to do the fist pump immediately.

    Same as his mug shot (although he probably practiced that one for hours in a mirror).

    Many of his core followers are only semi-literate. They respond to iconic imagery.

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  • Exposing The Flaw In Our Phone System - YouTube
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    He says nothing about the PIN, so I don't think that is what protects Signal as OP writes. It simply doesn't rely on SS7.

    You only type your PIN into Signal about once a month.

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    I found it confusing. Did he explain how the IMSI number is obtained?

    Towards the end he said there was a special “interrogation” command that would reveal the IMSI but that loophole is now closed.

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    It is naive to think that facts alone can win in a battle of ideas. Why do you think Coca Cola still advertises heavily?

    Look at how AJ lie in an example unrelated to this conflict: This video was at the time of a G9 summit where the journalist deliberately made a protestor look like a crazy suicidal maniac who had to be taken away by police for his own good.

    They mistakenly showed the evidence in the video that he wasn't crazy. Read the video description.

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    You make it sound like an arthouse movie yet it is the extreme geeky opposite.

    Or were you talking about AI summaries in general rather than this one?

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  • Gaza publishes identities of 34,344 Palestinians killed in war with Israel | The Guardian
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    As though that...justifies something?!

    You started the bad faith argument. I was merely hoping you would self-reflect, and check yourself. Instead, you projected.

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    Are you saying that when Hamas are caught lying it shouldn't be reported?

    Were you also outraged when Hamas said 500 Palestians were killed by IDF bombing AlAhli hospital and all the media outlets reported this as fact but the responsible ones later apologized and reported that was a blatant Hamas lie?

    Should we never correct stories when the facts come to light?

    Similarly there were no children killed by Hamas during October 7 despite some crazy Israeli guy lying in his "eyewitness" report (later debunked). I'm sure you were happy to have that be corrected.

    I am happy for all of the above to be corrected without having to frame it as justification for atrocities.

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  • Eddy Grant Wins: Trump's 'Fair Use' of 'Electric Avenue' Was Anything But.
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    There is no mention of the compensation amount to be paid to Grant.

    Not even the linked order says (which I would have thought makes it a "reasons for decision" not an "order"). It says "The parties have now filed cross-motions for partial summary judgment." So I guess it isn't over yet?

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    Israel claims it has killed 17,000 militants, without providing evidence. It does not provide an estimate of civilians killed in Gaza.

    And Hamas doesn't provide an estimate of militants killed.

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    [alt-text: Still from the Monty Python dead parrot sketch with Musk's face replacing that of John Cleese returning a blue twitter logo with an X for a dead eye. Pet store owner, Michael Palin, says "it was alive when you bought it"]

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    Caption is "OK, you want religion in schools. But that means all religions, right?" Image is a library with a group of eight children dressed in black cassocks with peaked hoods sitting cross-legged around a pentagram drawn on the ground. EDIT: The pentagram is partially obscured by one of the children but one can infer that this must be AI generated and botched (as per the comments in this thread).

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    Napping, snacks, social media, minor chores.

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    Follow-up to last week's story: https://lemmy.ml/post/16672524 EDIT1: Politicians expect to be be [exempt](https://lemmy.ml/post/17052221). EDIT2: Good news: Vote has been [postponed](https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-council-cancels-vote-on-encryption-breaking-child-sexual-abuse-law/) due to disagreements.

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    Alt text: Picture of Sigourney Weaver with a cat in her arms on the movie set. Caption reads... "Alien is a movie where nobody listens to the smart woman, and then they all die except for the smart woman and her cat. Four stars."

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    https://x.com/joshwhiton/status/1796222090216886682

    [complete transcription so that you do not need to visit X] A crazy experience — I lost my earbuds in a remote town in Chile, so tried buying a new pair at the airport before flying out. But the new wired, iPhone, lightning-cable headphones didn't work. Strange. So I went back and swapped them for another pair, from a different brand. But those headphones didn't work either. We tried a third brand, which also didn't work. By now the gift shop people and their manager and all the people in line behind me are super annoyed, until one of the girls says in Spanish, "You need to have bluetooth on." Oh yes, everyone else nods in agreement. Wired headphones for iPhones definitely need bluetooth. What? That makes no sense. The entire point of wired headphones is to not need bluetooth. So I turn Bluetooth on with the headphones plugged into the lightning port and sure enough my phone offers to "pair" my wired headphones. "See," they all say in Spanish, like I must be the dumbest person in the world. With a little back and forth I realize that they don't even conceptually know what bluetooth is, while I have actually programmed for the bluetooth stack before. I was submitting low-level bugs to Ericsson back in the early 2000's! Yet somehow, I with my computer science degree, am wrong, and they, having no idea what bluetooth even is, are right. My mind is boggled, I'm outnumbered, and my plane is boarding. I don't want wireless headphones. And especially not wired/wireless headphones or whatever the hell these things are. So I convince them, with my last ounce of sanity, to let me try one last thing, a full-proof solution: I buy a normal wired, old-school pair of mini-stereo headphones and a lightning adapter. We plug it all in. It doesn't work. "Bluetooth on", they tell me. NO! By all that is sacred my wired lightning adapter cannot require Bluetooth. "It does," they assure me. So I turn my Bluetooth on and sure enough my phone offers to pair my new wired, lightning adapter with my phone. Unbelievable. I return it all, run to catch my plane, and spend half the flight wondering what planet I'm on. Until finally back home, I do some research and figure out what's going on: A scourge of cheap "lightning" headphones and lightning accessories is flooding certain markets, unleashed by unscrupulous Chinese manufacturers who have discovered an unholy recipe: True Apple lightning devices are more expensive to make. So instead of conforming to the Apple standard, these companies have made headphones that receive audio via bluetooth — avoiding the Apple specification — while powering the bluetooth chip via a wired cable, thereby avoiding any need for a battery. They have even made lightning adapters using the same recipe: plug-in power a fake lightning dongle that uses bluetooth to transmit the audio signal literally 1.5 inches from the phone to the other end of the adapter. In these remote markets, these manufacturers have no qualms with slapping a Lightning / iPhone logo on the box while never mentioning bluetooth, knowing that Apple will never do anything. From a moral or even engineering perspective, this strikes me as a kind of evil. These companies have made the cheapest iPhone earbuds known to humankind, while still charging $12 or $15 per set, pocketing the profits, while preying on the technical ignorance of people in remote towns. Perhaps worst of all, there are now thousands or even millions of people in the world who simply believe that wired iPhone headphones use bluetooth (whatever that is), leaving them with an utterly incoherent understanding of the technologies involved. I wish @Apple would devote an employee or two to cracking down on such a technological, psychological abomination as this. And I wish humanity would use its engineering prowess for good, and not opportunistic deception.

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    Trump Republicans tried to take over the hall (assisted by the Secret Service confiscating noisemakers) and hijack the Libertarian convention. They lined up early then stole the front row seats marked *reserved*. It all backfired wonderfully.

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