>>21041854
Great video.
Good vs Evil.
Stand up.
>>21041854
Why was this video post quickly deleted?
What was wrong with it?
Nothing…
Gentleman talks about Good & Evil and standing up.
Evil is with us.
Video reposted for good-hearted anons.
>>21041904
>>21041904
>>21041904
>>21041904
>>21041912
I want to see the board logs for Q from BO.
Has Q been trying to log on and been blocked by BO?
This question of loyalty needs to be cleared up.
We can't have BO allegedly impersonating Q and blocking Q from logging on.
Q Board logs now!
One vote.
(they) want the invaders to vote in November, and then plan to enlist them in the armed forces to fight Russia and China, with or without the draft.
>>21041947
needs to go viral on social media, anons
>>21041955
I too, want to see the access logs for Q.
Has Q been trying to access the board, and been blocked by BO/clowns?
Let the sunlight shine, and if BO has nothing to hide, he will produce them for anons to check.
Really?
I don't think so.
BO should prove that he isn't blocking Q from posting, as the other (Q team) anon says, once and for all.
Sunlight is the best disinfectant.
#ShowMeTheLogs
>>21042035
kek
>>21042035
you'll get a knock on the door soon
BO is compromized, don't you get it?
Haven't you been watching the board regularly over the years?
Why are all ba80b7 (Q team) posts now deleted?
#ShowMeTheLogs
Gullible maybe, stupid maybe, but not a glownigger.
Are you sure that Q hasn't tried posting, as ba80b7 has been saying, and been blocked by BO?
What is the problem with showing the logs?
Are they Beyond Top Secret?
#ShowMeTheLogs
Yes.
But maybe ba80b7 is telling the truth.
All his posts in this bread have already been deleted by admin.
Shouldn't we find out if he's telling the truth about BO being compromized?
Where is the harm in finding out?
I will stop talking about this for now.
kek, sorry, :)
kek, sorry :)
Biden to give legal status to undocumented spouses
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4nnyr4j9w5o
President Joe Biden is set to announce a new policy that would protect hundreds of thousands of undocumented spouses of US citizens from deportation, according to administration officials.
The action will apply to those who have been in the country for at least 10 years and will allow them to work in the US legally.
It marks the most significant relief programme for undocumented migrants already in the US since the Obama administration announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or Daca, in 2012.
The White House believes more than 500,000 spouses of US citizens will benefit, in addition to 50,000 young people under 21 whose parent is married to an American citizen.
Earlier in June, Mr Biden vowed to make the US immigration system "more fair and more just".
Polls show that immigration is a primary concern for many voters ahead of the presidential election this November.
The announcement comes ahead of an event on Tuesday marking the 12th anniversary of the Daca programme, which shielded over 530,000 migrants who came to the US as children - known as Dreamers - from deportation.
On Monday, senior administration officials said that undocumented spouses of US citizens would qualify if they had lived in the country for 10 years and been married as of 17 June.
Those who qualify will have three years to apply for permanent residency and will be eligible for a three-year work permit…
China should pay for propping up Putin's war - Nato chief
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyee61ej8zko
The head of Nato has told the BBC that China should face consequences for supporting Russia's war in Ukraine, if it does not change its ways.
Jens Stoltenberg said Beijing was "trying to get it both ways" by supporting Russia's war effort, while also trying to maintain relationships with European allies.
"This cannot work in the long run," Mr Stoltenberg told BBC News during a visit to Washington.
In the wide-ranging interview, Mr Stoltenberg also addressed nuclear weapons and defence spending.
His comments come as Russia shows no sign of easing its war against Ukraine.
A peace summit held in Switzerland at the weekend saw dozens of nations commit to supporting Kyiv, but Russia called it a waste of time and said it would only agree to peace talks if Ukraine essentially surrendered.
When pressed on what Nato members might do about China's support of Russia, Mr Stoltenberg said there was an "ongoing conversation" about possible sanctions.
He said China was "sharing a lot of technologies, [like] micro-electronics, which are key for Russia to build missiles, weapons they use against Ukraine".
He added that "at some stage, we should consider some kind of economic cost if China doesn't change their behaviour".
Beijing is already under some sanctions for its support of Russia - last month, the US announced restrictions that would target about 20 firms based in China and Hong Kong.
China has defended its business with Moscow, saying it is not selling lethal arms and "prudently handles the export of dual-use items in accordance with laws and regulations"…
US surgeon general wants social media warning labels
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98821dn27lo
One of America's most senior health officials has called on the country to impose smoking-style warning labels on social media platforms.
Writing in the New York Times, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said social media increased the risk that children would experience symptoms of anxiety and depression.
He wants people who visit these platforms to be shown a message warning that they are "associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents".
He said such a label would "regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe".
The BBC has approached Youtube, TikTok, X and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, for comment.
Warning labels were first added to cigarette packaging in the US in 1966, after then-Surgeon General Luther L Terry published a report linking tobacco to lung cancer.
Other countries then followed, with the UK requiring a similar message to be printed on packets in 1971…
Israel's prime minister has dissolved the body overseeing the war in Gaza. What does that mean for a ceasefire?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-18/israeli-pm-benjamin-netanyahu-dissolves-war-cabinet/103990174
In short: Benjamin Netanyahu announced the formal dissolution of his war cabinet this week after one its key members resigned.
The body was tasked with overseeing military decisions in Gaza, and was a part of Israel's larger security cabinet.
What's next? There are concerns the prime minister will further lean in to far-right pressure from hardliners in his party who are urging to delay a ceasefire.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has disbanded his war cabinet days after the resignation of one of its three members, Benny Gantz.
So does the move bolster or weaken the prospects of a ceasefire being called in Gaza anytime soon?
The three-member cabinet, part of Israel's larger security cabinet, was the key decision-maker behind the Israeli Defense Forces' (IDF) military offensives against Hamas.
It comprised Mr Netanyahu, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, and Mr Gantz — the prime minister's principal rival and leader of the centrist Israel Resilience Party.
Mr Gantz, a retired general and member of parliament, was widely seen as the more moderate voice countering domination from far-right voices in the Netanyahu government pushing for fighting to continue.
His withdrawal on June 9 effectively made the cabinet defunct, so Mr Netanyahu's dissolution of it on Monday was largely a formality.
The move will allow the prime minister to consolidate his influence over the Israel-Hamas war, which likely diminishes the odds of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip anytime soon…
US sues Photoshop maker Adobe for hiding fees, making it difficult to cancel
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-18/us-sues-photoshop-maker-adobe-for-hiding-fees-making-it-difficul/103991402
In short: The US government is suing Adobe, accusing it of trapping customers into year-long subscriptions.
The lawsuit alleges the Photoshop maker hides early termination fees and makes it difficult for customers to cancel their subscriptions.
What's next? Adobe disputed the claims and said they will fight them in court.
The US government is suing Adobe, accusing the design software giant of "trapping" customers into year-long subscriptions through concealing hefty termination fees and making it difficult for members to cancel.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has alleged that the Photoshop and Acrobat maker buries fees—which sometimes reach hundreds of dollars—and important terms in its 'annual paid monthly' subscription in fine print or behind hyperlinks and text boxes.
The lawsuit alleges that Adobe calculates early termination fees as 50 per cent of the remaining payments when consumers cancel in their first year, in the complaint filed on Monday, local time.
Adobe said they will refute the FTC's claims in court.
"We are transparent with the terms and conditions of our subscription agreements and have a simple cancellation process," said Dana Rao, Adobe's general counsel and chief trust officer.
"Subscription services are convenient, flexible and cost effective to allow users to choose the plan that best fits their needs, timeline and budget," Mr Rao said.
Subscriptions for Adobe accounted for $US4.92 billion ($7.4 billion), or 95 per cent, of the company's $US5.18 billion of revenue, in the quarter ending March 1.
According to the lawsuit, Adobe forces subscribers who want to cancel online to navigate unnecessarily through numerous pages, while those cancelling by phone are often disconnected, are forced to repeat themselves to multiple representatives, and encounter "resistance and delay" from those representatives.
"Adobe trapped customers into year-long subscriptions through hidden early termination fees and numerous cancellation hurdles," said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC consumer protection bureau.
"Americans are tired of companies hiding the ball during subscription sign-up and then putting up roadblocks when they try to cancel."..
'Ghost jobs' advertise fake positions and offer companies big benefits, while workers pay the price
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-18/ghost-jobs-the-fake-listings-that-waste-employees-time/103927046
You see an ad for a job that looks perfect. You spend several hours putting together an amazing application. You hit send.
Then you never hear a thing.
Don't take it personally. It could be that the job never actually existed.
"Ghost jobs" are advertised positions that an employer has no intention of filling — or that have already been filled — and there are potentially thousands of them in Australia.
They are not only wasting people's time, they risk damaging mental health and skewing job market figures.
So here's how to steer clear of them.
How to tell if a job posting is a ghost job
Ben Hamer, a futurist and commentator on work issues, and host of the Thinker Tank podcast, says it's difficult to give a precise figure, but he estimates that in Australia up to one third of all job listings could be ghost jobs.
One of the biggest indicators that a job is a ghost job is if its ad has run for more than 30 days, he tells ABC RN's Life Matters.
He says that's a serious red flag, "particularly in the current market, where companies are resource constrained".
"Things are really tight; they're spread really thin. [Companies] can't afford to go months and months without someone sitting in a job.
"So if it looks like an ad's been there for more than 30 days, it's potentially a ghost job."
Another indicator is if you don't get a response to your application for a couple of months — that's potentially a ghost job, too, Dr Hamer says.
The level of specificity about the job itself can be another clue, he says.
"If it seems like [the job ad] is a little bit vague, then it's potentially a ghost job. If it's quite specific, it gives you the impression that there's a genuine role that they're trying to fill.
"Some of those may be ones where the recruitment process was just delayed. But a fair chunk of those are [positions] that were never intended to be filled in the first place."
What's the point of a ghost job?
You'd be forgiven for thinking a fake job ad is a big ol' waste of everyone's time….
South Africa's future depends on an 'unholy alliance' solving its real-world problems before time runs out
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-18/south-africa-political-alliance-anc-economy-challenges/103989186
From Constantia Nek, a pass across the spine of rugged mountain that runs all the way to the Cape of Good Hope, day trippers are afforded a stunning view across centuries-old vineyards all the way to Cape Town's city centre.
A quick jaunt down the other side past Michelin-star restaurants and gated housing estates leads to Hout Bay, a thriving fishing port on the city's Atlantic coast.
There, butted up against architect-designed trophy houses, sits Imizamu Yethu, an 18-hectare "informal settlement" of mostly corrugated iron shacks that is home to almost 35,000 residents.
The contrast couldn't be more incongruous. But it is a stark illustration of the unachieved ambitions and dashed hopes that accompanied the end of apartheid 30 years ago and stands as a monument to the failure of the African National Congress (ANC) to deliver meaningful change after three decades of uninterrupted rule.
It's not an isolated case.
Right across the country, townships have sprung up and existing ones have expanded as African workers have flooded into urban and regional centres, graphically hammering home the message that while forced racial segregation may have ended, wealth still is largely delineated along racial lines.
The rich, most of whom are white, live very, very well. The rest struggle to eat regularly.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa re-elected
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was re-elected by politicians for a second term on Friday, after his party struck a dramatic late coalition deal with a former political foe just hours before the vote.
A fortnight ago, the ANC's iron grip on power was smashed, an idea once considered unthinkable. For decades, it was considered that democracy played out through the party framework rather than through the electoral process.
But the country's crumbling infrastructure, endless revelations of corruption at the highest levels and an inability to deliver basic services saw the ANC garner just 42 per cent of the national vote.
After a fortnight of post-poll haggling, the ANC late last week announced a coalition with the Democratic Alliance (DA), which it has long accused of pandering to the interests of white South Africans, and two minor parties.
Under the deal, Cyril Ramaphosa will remain as president with the DA nominating the deputy.
In reality, the ANC had little choice. Financial markets were rattled by the prospect of the alternative; an alliance with the two major left-wing parties which advocate the resumption of mines and land without compensation.
The DA, supported by white and mixed-race South Africans, has long controlled the Western Cape province that includes Cape Town and has a far better track record on service delivery than its rivals in other provinces…
West won’t host next Ukraine ‘peace conference’ – Switzerland
https://www.rt.com/news/599476-swiss-diplomat-next-ukraine-conference-west/
China was conspicuously absent from last weekend’s summit, with multiple Global South nations refusing to sign the final communique
West won’t host next Ukraine ‘peace conference’ – Switzerland
The next conference on the Ukraine conflict will not take place in the West, Swiss Ambassador Gabriel Luechinger has stated. The senior diplomat, who helped organize last weekend’s gathering at Switzerland’s Burgenstock Resort, indicated that discussions with potential hosts are already underway.
In the run-up to the event, a number of nations declined to attend, with China announcing that it would not be sending representatives to Switzerland. Beijing argued that the absence of Russia at the conference would make any attempts at peace futile – an assertion echoed by several countries.
Moscow stated in March that it would not attend even if invited, as it would likely be based on Vladimir Zelensky’s ‘peace formula’, which Russia considers to be unrealistic and an ultimatum.
In an interview with Swiss broadcaster SRF on Monday, Luechinger said: “What is clear is that the next peace summit will not be in Europe, and will not take place in the West.” The senior diplomat revealed that several nations had been approached at the conference regarding a potential role in organizing the next summit.
“It is now up to them to decide,” he added. “In the next weeks, I think, things will start moving.”
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Asked whether Saudi Arabia could host a meeting, Luechinger hinted that it could be an option, without going into detail.
He also stressed that “Russia should be integrated in the peace process in some way.”
While Ukraine has touted the conference at the Burgenstock Resort as a success, around a dozen countries that took part in the talks did not sign the final communique, including India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, the UAE, Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia, Jordan, and Iraq.
The document did not include many of the key points of Kiev’s ‘peace formula’. It called for the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant to be transferred under Ukrainian control, as well as unrestricted access to ports in the Black Sea and Sea of Azov, and the release of all prisoners of war…
Ukraine must defeat Russia to join NATO – US
https://www.rt.com/news/599461-ukraine-defeat-russia-for-nato/
Washington is doing everything it can to help Kiev, the national security spokesman has said
Ukraine must defeat Russia to join NATO – US
In order to become a NATO member, Ukraine has to “win the war” with Russia first, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told journalists at a press briefing on Monday.
US President Joe Biden believes NATO is in Ukraine’s future, but there are “a lot of things that have to be done” before it can join, Kirby said. When a journalist asked him to elaborate on the “vague conditions” and “unclear pathway” Kiev has been given, he claimed that Washington’s position is “absolutely clear.”
“First, they’ve got to win this war,” Kirby said.
“We’re doing everything we can to make sure they can do that. Then when the war’s over, no matter what it looks like, they’re still going to have a long border with Russia and a legitimate security threat,” he said. Washington will assist in building up Ukraine’s military industrial base, although “corruption is still a major concern,” Kirby added.
Moscow has warned that it sees the expansion of NATO towards Russia’s borders as an existential threat. President Vladimir Putin said Kiev’s stated intention to join the US-led military bloc was one of the key causes of the ongoing conflict.
Last Friday, the Russian leader named Moscow’s conditions for a ceasefire and the beginning of peace negotiations. The talks can start as soon as Kiev withdraws its troops from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, and cedes its claims to all five former Ukrainian territories that voted to join Russia, including Crimea, he said.
Moscow will not accept a frozen conflict, which would allow the US and its allies to rearm and rebuild the Ukrainian military, Putin stated, adding that Kiev must formally abandon any plans to join NATO.
The supplies of Western weapons to aid Kiev’s war efforts makes the countries providing them a party to the conflict, Moscow has insisted. Further NATO involvement in the conflict risks a direct clash between Moscow and the US-led military bloc, and threatens to expand into a nuclear conflict, the Kremlin has stressed…
Zelensky’s ‘peace conference’ will go down in history, but not in the way you might think'
https://www.rt.com/russia/599447-historic-zelenskys-peace-summit/
The gathering in Switzerland could become a rare thing which is forgotten about now but remembered as significant decades later
Zelensky’s ‘peace conference’ will go down in history, but not in the way you might think
There was nothing memorable about it. It didn’t even produce a notable meme. Despite the hype, Vladimir Zelensky’s ‘peace summit’ in Switzerland was rather uneventful and is likely to be forgotten in a couple of weeks or even days.
One could certainly mock the summit’s agenda (some say the most important event was the banquet) or the participants (which included the International Boxing Association, the minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme of Australia, and the minister of Correctional Services from New Zealand), and the possible belief of some that Russian President Vladimir Putin was the main speaker (he proposed his own peace plan the day before); we could also note that some countries refused to sign the final communiqué while others withdrew their signatures, and so on.
However, it may turn out that the summit in Switzerland could still go down in history, and in the future, historians will call the failure of Kiev’s diplomacy a turning point that marked the beginning of major changes in the world.
Classic and contemporary diplomacy
Let’s talk theory for a moment. There are two kinds of peace negotiations. First, there is the classic kind that developed over the centuries: Two countries engage in war, one of the parties gains the upper hand, and imposes its will on the other. The war ends when one or both sides realize that the price of continuing hostilities is greater than that of concluding peace. At this point, diplomats step in – their task is to determine the most favorable conditions for both sides. There have been many examples in history when a country that lost a war managed to conclude peace with minimal bloodshed, after incurring minor or even symbolic losses.
However, after World War II and with the advent of the UN era, the concept of ‘war’ was replaced in international law by that of ‘armed conflict’. While in the past, countries often resorted to war to solve their problems, after the catastrophe of World War II, a ‘global policeman’ emerged whose task was to stop armed conflicts (by force if necessary), pull the participants apart, and resolve the contradictions at the negotiating table.
Classic peace treaties became a thing of the past, and gave way to endless ‘peace processes’ under the auspices of the UN and other international organizations. Such has been the case in Palestine, Korea, Cyprus, Kashmir, West Africa, the Balkans, and republics of the former USSR.
In some cases, this strategy worked and helped end the hot phase of a conflict and establish peace, while in others, it led to decades of bloodshed. However, we must note that following 1945, the chain of causation was broken, and there was no longer a direct link between the result of combat and the result of peace negotiations.
However, while things changed on paper, post-war reality was still determined by the balance of power. Such was the case in Korea (both sides were exhausted and neither won), Palestine (nobody could expel Israel from occuped territories which it was not willing to leave), and Vietnam (the US de facto lost the war and their ally was left at the mercy of the winning side).
After the end of the Cold War, the US became the world’s sole policeman, and decided that it could do anything it wanted. In Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, Washington acted on the same principle: America is right and everyone else is wrong.
How it started…
For this reason, several generations of politicians came to believe that if they enlisted the support of Washington, they could use any peace process to turn the course of a given conflict in their favor, no matter what happened on the battlefield. For the past ten years, Ukraine’s diplomacy has been based on this ‘postmodern’ concept.
Let’s briefly recall the chronology of the conflict in that country. The 2014-15 war in Donbass de facto ended with Kiev’s defeat and the signing of the Minsk agreements. However, backed by the US, Ukraine did not comply with the terms, and it became another hopeless peace process that, instead of solving contradictions, only swept them under the rug.
Shadilay, frens, stay frosty…
>>21042330
off to earn some slave bio-survival units so I can eat
at least for a little while…
will check back later
ciao