#Global Networking

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June 10, 2025 - Lawyers of Global Legal Action Network announced legal action in three countries, the UK, USA and Ireland, against Airbnb and Booking.com, accusing them of laundering profits from rental listings in illegal Israeli settlements. A similar lawsuit is already underway in the Netherlands. [video]/[article]

[in4newz]

Don't forget, Trump was the one who tried to ban TikTok in his first term, and Republicans voted to pass the TikTok Ban Bill.

He didn't save it. He just flipflopped when he realised it made him look bad with young people.

And now TikTok are sucking up to Trump and effectively acting as an ad section for him.

Don't fall for it.

[komsomolka]

global north ppl fail to understand that they posess the privilege not to have their inner political movements manifactured or coopted by foreign powers

[justinspoliticalcorner]

David Folkenflik at NPR:

Journalists showed up at the Voice of America today to broadcast their programs only to be told they had been locked out: Federal officials had embarked on indefinite mass suspensions. All full-time staffers at the Voice of America and the Office for Cuba Broadcasting, which runs Radio and Television Martí, were affected — more than 1,000 employees. The move followed a late Friday night edict from President Trump that its parent agency, called the U.S. Agency for Global Media, must eliminate all activities that are not required by law. In addition, under the leadership of Trump appointees, the agency has severed all contracts for the privately incorporated international broadcasters it funds, including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. The termination notices for grants for the funded networks, two of which were reviewed by NPR, carried the signature of Trump's senior adviser Kari Lake, whom he placed at USAGM, not the agency's acting chief executive. Lake does not appear in her current job to have the statutory authority to carry out that termination. "I am deeply saddened that for the 1st time in 83 years, the storied Voice of America is being silenced," the network's director, Michael Abramowitz, said in a statement posted on his personal Facebook account. "VOA needs thoughtful reform and we have made progress in that regard. But today's action will leave Voice of America unable to carry out its vital mission." He wrote that he was among those 1,300 journalists, producers and support staff put on leave. Grant Turner, the former chief financial officer at the U.S. Agency for Global Media, called it "Bloody Saturday" for the agency and its networks.

'Arsonists just set fire to it'

"From what I hear, this is shaping up to be a really sad day. USAGM networks share important news, information and American values around the world," Turner said. "It took decades to build this goodwill and an audience of hundreds of millions every week. Seeing arsonists just set fire to it all is awful." "The cancellation of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's grant agreement would be a massive gift to America's enemies," Steve Capus, the president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, said in a statement today shared with NPR. "The Iranian Ayatollahs, Chinese communist leaders, and autocrats in Moscow and Minsk would celebrate the demise of RFE/RL after 75 years. Handing our adversaries a win would make them stronger and America weaker. We've benefitted from strong bipartisan support throughout RFE/RL's storied history. Without us, the nearly 50 million people in closed societies who depend on us for accurate news and information each week won't have access to the truth about America and the world." Voice of America Director Michael Abramowitz declined to comment but acknowledged he had been among those put on indefinite paid leave. This story is based on interviews with 16 current and former employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media and the networks it funds. Almost all spoke on condition they not be named due to fear of professional retribution. NPR has reviewed internal notifications about the suspensions and the killed contracts. Similar notices reviewed by NPR have been received by hundreds of contractors at the Voice of America as well today. USAGM and the White House did not reply to requests for comment. A deputy White House spokesperson tweeted "Goodbye" in 20 languages over a link to a story from 2023 over a controversy at the Voice of America about how to characterize Hamas. Taken together, the federally-funded broadcasters and their sister networks covering the Middle East and Cuba reach 420 million people in 63 languages and more than 100 countries each week, according to the agency. They are fully funded by federal dollars. The networks' mission is to deliver news coverage and cultural programming to places where a free press is threatened or doesn't exist. They are also designed as a form of soft diplomacy, modeling independent journalism that incorporates dissent from government policy.

Trump's friends in Moscow and Budapest aggrieved by network coverage

The Voice of America sparked Trump's ire in his first term in office over reporting on Covid-19. His appointee as chief executive for U.S. Agency for Global Media embarked on a series of suspensions, visa revocations and investigations that were found, in some instances, to violate the law and federal policy. This time, Trump's budget-slashing adviser, Elon Musk, and other administration officials have called for Voice of America and some of the sister networks to be shut down. The scope and legality of these acts are not yet in full focus, but they appear to be designed to gut them and place whatever coverage survives under tighter control of politically appointed officials. Trump placed Lake, a two-time unsuccessful MAGA candidate, as his senior adviser over USAGM. She did not reply to a detailed request for comment for this story. USAGM's media relations team has not replied to NPR's repeated and detailed requests for comment about developments at the networks in recent days, including today. Trump's pick to lead the agency permanently, the conservative media critic L. Brent Bozell III, has not yet been scheduled for confirmation hearings in the U.S. Senate.

Free press-hating Orange Führer’s regime orders mass cullings of journalists working at US Agency For Global Media-owned outlets such as Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.

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The Guardian: Trump sharpens attacks on US media as Voice of America employees put on administrative leave

[phoenixyfriend]

Wrote over 1k on the train on my way in to work. Topic is trade imbalances and why they're a poor choice of dictating factor for tariffs

(Still not done tho)

As usual my goal is to explain it in a simple enough way that the average 9th grade student could at least somewhat understand it. Not ELI5 so much as ELIF: explain it like I'm a freshman.

[vintage-tigre]

[aevarswall]

whoever invented traveling must've known how awful it was

[redbeardace]

Okay, I have a fun social engineering project for someone willing to convince some gullible conspiracy theory nutjobs to do something they think is furthering their "research" into their bonkers "theories", but that's really doing actual science.

You see, there's a citizen science initiative out there called the Global Meteor Network. Their goal is to record and locate meteors all over the world, in an attempt to calculate potential orbits of dangerous space rocks who might be looking to dinosaur us into oblivion. They work by having a series of cameras that record the night sky, generally located in people's backyards, which will then send information about detected meteor trails back to the central server.

The process can produce maps like this. This map is important for the social engineering project, so I'll come back to it later.

They need at least two cameras recording the same event in order to triangulate its position. The more cameras they have, the better. More coverage means more data, and it's less likely that a tree, light pollution, or a stray cloud would obscure the meteor from all observation stations.

I think this is an interesting project and I'd probably already be taking part, if my backyard weren't a canyon with an extremely limited view of the sky.

Anyway, the point is, this project watches the skies and makes maps of what it sees. This is where the social engineering project comes in.

If you haven't been paying attention, for the last month or so, people have suddenly realized that there are a lot of airplanes that fly over New Jersey. However, the reaction has not been "Huh, there are a lot of airplanes that fly around New Jersey. I'd never noticed that before." Instead, the reaction has been "OmG WeRE bEiNg InVaDeD bY (Iranians|Antifa|Aliens|Joe Biden)". Any attempt to point out that hey, look, this picture is obviously an airplane and you're under the flight path for EWR will be met by derision and how what it REALLY shows is ACTUALLY a 6 foot long Chinese Spy Drone that just LOOKS exactly like a 787 with its landing lights on so it can blend in and that any attempt to claim otherwise is the height of arrogance and an insult to their scientific investigation that involves staring at fuzzy blobs on a webcam all day. So let's not bother to point that out anymore, and let's use their nutjobbery to get some science done!

Now, this is where that map comes in. You see, they're mostly not interested in scientific research on this phenomenon (If they were, they'd be out with surveyor transits and doing trigonometry to debunk all the obvious airplanes on approach to JFK, so they can focus on the legitimate mystery objects, and I'd respect that approach), what they're interested in is confirmation bias. So let's give it to them. I present to you, the Great Mysteries of the Night UAP Tracker map!

Oh, look at all those Unidentified Aerial Phenomena out there! But why aren't there any over New Jersey, when CLEARLY that's where the Canadian Mind Probes That Want To Steal The Concept Of Hexagons are concentrated at the moment? Well, no one's set up any tracker cameras there yet, so it's a blind spot.

So, why don't you, good citizen/defender of the Earth, set up one of these cameras to keep watch on the skies? It's fully automated, you just set it up and leave it running and it'll watch the skies and report what it finds to a network of like-minded investigators/patriots/seekers, and you don't have to do anything else!

Lots of blue dots appear on the map, and with those blue dots, lots more streaks appear. Hover orbs confirmed!

Meanwhile, the Global Meteor Network gets an influx of new stations in areas where they currently don't have much coverage.

And here's the thing: If I were developing a method to detect and track strange things in the sky, I'd probably start with the exact same technology that the GMN is using. With a network of georeferenced all-sky cameras, you'd be able to triangulate object positions in real time. You'd need a denser network to track things at lower altitudes, but I think the current hype could make that possible. Then maybe add in an ADS-B receiver, like a Dump1090 or PiAware, to help filter out most (but not all) aircraft. It wouldn't even have to be set it up as a trick at that point, it'd collect all the data for UFO hunters, but also send stuff along to GMN and your favorite airplane tracker.

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[sussex-newswire]

"Prince Harry, actor Matt Damon, and World Central Kitchen founder Jose Andrés are set to speak at the 2024 Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York on Sept. 23 and 24, the Clinton Foundation announced Thursday.

"The theme of this year’s gathering of political, business and philanthropic leaders is “What’s Working” – an effort to shine a spotlight on potential solutions and effective aid in a tumultuous period marked by war, increased income inequality and food insecurity.

...

"The Duke of Sussex plans to discuss the launch of The Archewell Foundation Parents’ Network, an initiative supporting parents whose children have suffered or died due to online harms. He also plans to address his nonprofit’s collaboration with the World Health Organization and others to end violence against children, an issue he and his wife Meghan outlined on a recent trip to Colombia."

[manorpunk]

in all honesty I’ve maybe spent too much time mentally worldbuilding the GLN to the detriment of other aspects because the GLN are kind of a thought experiment to me of “how could the things that I think would be good actually be bad? How could ideals that I think are positive be twisted? What kind of stupid harmful shit would I probably end up doing if I were god-king of the world?” and my answers included “megacorporations are good actually because small business owners must be liquidated as a class” and “abolishing the institutional power of organized religion and the nuclear family will require a level of atomization that would make the present moment look downright cozy and wholesome” and “restaurants are inherently conservative and should no longer exist.”

[in4newz]

in light of Trump's inauguration speech declaring multiple national emergencies that require him to take god-knows-what executive actions immediately, I'd like to remember this chapter of "On Tyranny" by Timothy Snyder:

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