"What sparked Carney’s intervention was not Sudan, Venezuela or Gaza. It was the US threat to Canada and Greenland.

A western prime minister took umbrage only when the US, under President Donald Trump, threatened to treat the prosperous West in the same way it has long treated the Global South.

Let’s return now to Israel’s recent invasion of Unrwa’s headquarters in occupied East Jerusalem: a gross breach of international law and a direct attack on the United Nations.

Article 6 of the UN charter establishes that any state that persistently violates its principles can be expelled from the UN. The attack on Unrwa is part of a pattern of Israel’s criminal hostility towards the UN, including its refusal to respect orders from the International Court of Justice on Gaza, its slaughter of UN aid workers and its regular attacks on UN positions in southern Lebanon.

The case for expelling - or at the very least suspending - Israel from the UN is overwhelming. Yet neither Carney’s Canada nor Starmer’s Britain, nor any other western power, has so much as suggested the idea.

In his Davos speech, Carney set out Canada’s approach as follows: “We aim to be principled and pragmatic. Principled in our commitment to fundamental values: sovereignty and territorial integrity, the prohibition of the use of force except when consistent with the UN Charter, respect for human rights. Pragmatic in recognising that progress is often incremental, that interests diverge, that not every partner shares our values.”

This is all well and good. But on the evidence so far, Carney is prepared to be principled when it comes to western countries like Canada and Denmark, and pragmatic when it comes to Palestine and Venezuela.

This is a fundamentally racist equation."

middleeasteye.net/opinion/carn…

#Canada #Carney #Imperialism #USA #Trump #InternationalLaw #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide

Carney wants a new world order - but only for the West

After failing to stand up for Gaza or Venezuela, the Canadian prime minister took umbrage when US imperialism hit home

^{Middle East Eye}

According to the #GooglePlay statistics, these are the countries with more #ArcaneChat users 👇

1. #Russia
2. #Cuba
3. #UnitedStates / #USA
4. #Iran
5. #Germany
6. #India
7. #Brazil
8. #Canada
9. #France
10. #Indonesia

happy to see families of all over the world enjoying ArcaneChat 💜

#family #chat #privacy #security #encryption #sovereign #decentralization

So it begins.

Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries "The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer.

Europe holds $8 trillion in USA bonds and equities. This is just the beginning.

investing.com/news/stock-marke…

#USA #Dump

The threat. Today’s cartoon by Anne Derenne. More cartoons: cartoonmovement.com/

#Greenland #Trump #USA #NATO

Over the weekend, 17,000 people canceled their #WorldCup tickets

#FIFA is holding an emergency meeting

Maybe they will give Agent Orange another pretty trophy? Maybe bigger, more gold... really sparkly? Will that fix the problem? (/s)

As an American: don't come here

Don't do business with the #USA

Until we clean this shit up. Mainly: we #vote #primaries #primaries2026 and get some real left candidates

ticketnews.com/2026/01/nearly-…

#Boycott #BoycottUSA #Soccer #Football #Sports

Nearly 17K Fans Cancel 2026 World Cup Tickets Amid Boycotts

Tens of thousands of fans cancelled their tickets to the 2026 World Cup over the weekend amid safety fears in the U.S.

^{Olivia Perreault (TicketNews)}

#ArcaneChat is just a #DeltaChat client, my main user is... wait for it... ME! so it is basically Delta Chat with some tweaks to my taste, I shared it and it turns out some other people seem to like it, according to the #GooglePlay downloads it is mainly used in #Russia, #Cuba, #USA, #Iran, #Germany and #India

I don't actively try to convince people to use it, and in general it is better to push for DC that is multi-platform, then in #android some might prefer AC as their DC client

Fellow *non*-Americans—are you using any or all of the U.S. support for Israeli wars and the Israeli genocide on Palestinians, the U.S. attack on Venezuela, the annexation threats against Greenland, or other U.S. policy decisions to move away from U.S. products and services?

(Responses are anonymous. Please reshare for reach!)

#usa #uspolitics #bigtech

• yes (58%, 32 votes)
• long in progress (20%, 11 votes)
• thinking about it (14%, 8 votes)
• no (7%, 4 votes)

"President Donald Trump may have made a major miscalculation about Venezuela’s oil.

Trump has expressed excitement over the prospect of US oil companies getting their hands on Venezuela’s vast oil resources.

But industry sources tell CNN that American oil executives are unlikely to dive headfirst into Venezuela for multiple reasons: The situation on the ground remains very uncertain, Venezuela’s oil industry is in shambles and Caracas has a history of seizing US oil assets.

Perhaps the biggest problem is that oil prices are too low today to justify spending the gobs of money – possibly tens of billions of dollars – that would be required to revive Venezuela’s decaying oil industry.

“The appetite for jumping into Venezuela right now is pretty low. We have no idea what the government there will look like,” one well-placed industry source told CNN on Monday. “The president’s desire is different than the industry’s. And the White House would have known that if they had communicated with the industry prior to the operation on Saturday.”"

edition.cnn.com/2026/01/05/bus…

#USA #Trump #Venezuela #Maduro #Oil #FossilFuels

Kompletní návod jak se zbavit v IT službách #USA

V tom blogpostu je snad vše, včetně uvedení odkud která služba je. To nemůžu a nechci nechat zapadnout, je vidět, že v tom je kus práce

disconnect.blog/getting-off-us…

Getting off US tech: a guide - by Paris Marx - Disconnect

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

^{Paris Marx (Disconnect)}

Marco Rubio saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US regime's position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

#news #Venezuela #usa

"Billionaires raised fortunes against him. The president threatened to strip his citizenship. Mainstream synagogues slandered him as the spawn of Osama bin Laden and Chairman Mao. But today, Zohran Mamdani became the first socialist mayor of New York City.

For all the hysteria, when I look at Mamdani, I didn’t see some radical departure from the past. I see him as the heir to an old and venerable Jewish tradition – that of Yiddish socialism – which helped build New York.

In some cases, the link is direct. Bruce Vladeck, a member of one of Mamdani’s transition committees, is a well-respected expert on Medicare, but for the sake of this article, his credentials matter less than his surname.

Vladeck is the grandson of Baruch Charney Vladeck, a Marxist troublemaker from the Pale of Settlement, a tract of land in the Russian empire where Jews were permitted to live at a time of rampant antisemitic oppression. Baruch showed up in New York after the failed Russian revolution of 1905 with a Cossack’s saber scars all over his face. He later became a socialist alderman and member of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia’s housing administration. Vladeck was not actually his birth name. It was rather a nom de guerre, adopted when he joined the Jewish Labor Bund, the socialist, secular and defiantly anti-Zionist movement whose slogan, “here where we live is our country,” would make an apt tagline for Mamdani’s New York."

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#USA #NewYork #NYC #Mamdani #AntiZionism

They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition

When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York

^{Molly Crabapple (The Guardian)}

Das #FBI will die #Antifa bekämpfen, und die wissen nicht einmal, wo deren Headquarter steht? 🤣😅😂

#USA

Zohran Mamdani - the new mayor of New York is an islamist.
And as a true islamist he starts to dismantle the state and particularly the justice system of USA.

nypost.com/2025/12/11/opinion/…

#US #uspol #USA #Mamdani #NYC

Douglas Murray: Zohran Mamdani appointing radical transition team has NYC in for a rude awakening

Well, New York — we’re going to be in for quite a ride.

^{Douglas Murray (New York Post)}

If you care about digital sovereignty and want to see your government join the #fediverse, contact them to say that #ItsTimeToAbolishX.

Help us make a list of how to get in touch with a representative in your area under this post, and don’t forget to #hashtag so your neighbours can find it 👇🏽 we’ll start:
#EU: commission.europa.eu/about/con…
#USA: usa.gov/elected-officials

Representations in Member States | European Commission

Commission representations perform various functions such as liaising with local authorities and media, organising official visits, and providing political information and analysis.

^{European Commission}

USA kritisieren Europa und kündigen Einmischung an

In ihrer neuen Sicherheitsstrategie greifen die USA Europa scharf an und kündigen eine Einmischung zugunsten rechter Parteien an. Die US-Regierung wolle nun "Widerstand" in Europa kultivieren.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/…

#USA #Europa #Trump #Sicherheitsstrategie

USA kritisieren Europa und kündigen Einmischung an

In ihrer neuen Sicherheitsstrategie greifen die USA Europa scharf an und kündigen eine Einmischung in die Politik der EU zugunsten rechter Parteien an. Die US-Regierung wolle nun "Widerstand" in Europa kultivieren.

^{tagesschau.de}

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For our friends in the #USA from the #FCC: On November 20, 2025, the FCC at its Open Meeting will consider a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) which would seek comment on terminating the mandatory status of TTY-based relay service for state-based Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) programs; facilitate the transition of analog TRS users to Internet-based forms of TRS; propose and seek comment on recognizing IP Speech-To-Speech Relay Service as a compensable form of TRS; explore certifying a national analog relay provider; and seek comment on streamlining TRS provider certification and data collection processes, updating or eliminating obsolete rules, and closing an outdated docket.

The November 2025 Open Meeting is scheduled for 10:30am ET on Thursday, November 20, 2025, and will be held in the Commission Meeting Room, 45 L Street N.E., Washington, D.C. 20554. The FCC meeting is also streamed at www.fcc.gov/live. Open captioning and sign language interpreting will be provided for this meeting. Other reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities are available upon request. E-mail your request to fcc504@fcc.gov or call (202) 418-0530.

Link to the Announcement of the November Open Meeting Agenda:
fcc.gov/document/fcc-announces…

Link to the DRAFT TRS NPRM:
fcc.gov/document/modernizing-t…

For general questions about TRS, visit www.fcc.gov/trs. For specific questions about this draft item, please contact Joshua Mendelsohn, Disability Rights Office, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, at (202) 559-7304 (voice and videophone) or Joshua.Mendelsohn@fcc.gov.

"The world's governments have all signed up to "anticircumvention" laws that criminalize reverse-engineering & modifying US #tech products. This was done at the insistence of the #US Trade Rep... using the threat of #tariffs
....
getting rid of anticircumvention laws only requires that governments control their own behavior – unlike taxing or fining companies, which only works if governments can control the behavior of companies"
- @pluralistic

pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/red…

#Technology #News #USA

"Apple removed an app for preserving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE, 404 Media has learned. The app, called Eyes Up, differs from other banned apps such as ICEBlock which were designed to report sightings of ICE officials in real-time to warn local communities. Eyes Up, meanwhile, was more of an aggregation service pooling together information to preserve evidence in case the material is needed in the future in court.

The news shows that Apple and Google’s crackdown on ICE-spotting apps, which started after pressure from the Department of Justice against Apple, is broader in scope than apps that report sightings of ICE officials. It has also impacted at least one app that was more about creating a historical record of ICE’s activity during its mass deportation effort."

#USA #Trump #iCE #Immigration #Deportation #Apple #SocialMedia

404media.co/apple-banned-an-ap…

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

^{Joseph Cox (404 Media)}

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Funny, b/c anus tangerinus seems to have a list of those who've wronged him...

Supposedly, Comey’s indictment is about justice?

cnn.com/2025/09/26/politics/vi…

#BS #lies #USA #USAUSA #enemieslist

I thought abortion was BEFORE the birth?

Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates: ctvnews.ca/health/article/flor… #polio #scarletfever #smallpox #mumps #measles #rubella #wontsomeonepleasethinkofthechildren #childdeathstate #childkillerstate #USA #USAUSA

Florida plans to become first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates

Florida plans to become the first state to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates, a move that critics called “reckless and dangerous.”

^{The Associated Press (CTVNews)}

Dnes slaví #Ukrajina den nezávislosti. Je to zvláštní, ale její prezident v #USA červený koberec neměl.

Asi náhoda, co?

Pretty sure the Syphilis summit could've been an email...

The Pissant and Putin end meeting without a deal: cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/re… #USA #USAUSA #thismeetingcouldhavebeenanemail

Trump reicht Milliardenklage gegen Universität von Kalifornien ein

Der US-Präsident geht weiter gegen die Bildungselite vor: Weil sie unzureichend gegen Antisemitismus vorgegangen sein soll, verklagt Trump nun die Universität von Kalifornien - und fordert die Zahlung von einer Milliarde Dollar.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/…

#USA #Trump

Trump reicht Milliardenklage gegen Universität von Kalifornien ein

^{tagesschau.de}

Not to do one of those "Americans make everything about themselves" type comments, but bear with me for a moment here:

The "mature #democracy" is dying because it's so lazy defending something it never thought it had to defend

While the emerging democracy vibrantly defends its democracy because it's painfully aware of what it can lose and how much it suffered to get the chance to have one

"#Moldova Just Jailed Its #Putin-Aligned Governor. Here’s What She Did"

united24media.com/world/moldov…

#USA

Moldova Just Jailed Its Putin-Aligned Governor. Here’s What She Did

A pro-Kremlin regional leader has been jailed in Moldova, marking a major blow to Kremlin influence in the country’s autonomous south. As Chișinău deepens ties with the EU and Ukraine, Russia’s decades-long grip continues to unravel.

^{Jess Daly (UNITED24 Media)}

#Starlink is deliberately de-orbiting older satellites to ‘burn up’ in the pristine upper atmosphere.

‘Burn up’ actually means ‘leave a bunch of metal vapour in the upper atmosphere’.

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Before the first Starlink launches began in 2019, only about 40 to 50 satellites re-entered per year. SpaceX just brought down ten years' worth in only six months, adding an estimated 15,000 kilograms of aluminum oxide to the upper atmosphere.
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Scientists are only just studying what this may do to the atmosphere (and life on earth). Early indications are not good.

People should be *really* worried about this and keep an eye out for future updates. Especially given the #USA seems to be turning into a lawless joke.

Cc @sundogplanets

#Satellite #Pollution #Musk

spaceweather.com/archive.php?v…

The Trump administration isn’t stopping at skepticism about climate change. It’s moving to bar any future administration from responding to it. Read more from @CNN:

flip.it/Ut0fhh

#Science #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #USA

Wonder if the Canadian Digital Services Tax will be resurrected.

Canada dropped it to appease Trump but it doesn't appear to have made any difference.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

#usa #canada #tariff #digitalservices #trump

Trump signs order increasing tariffs on Canadian goods from 25% to 35%

Decision, described by Mark Carney as ‘disappointing’, comes amid escalating trade tensions between the two countries

^{Robert Mackey (The Guardian)}

For our friends in the #USA from the #FCC: Updated Date for Comments Due: August 4, 2025
Updated Date for Reply Comments Due: September 17, 2025

On July 8, 2025, the FCC released an Order granting an extension of time for comments on the Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (FNPRM) proposing improvements to ensure the resiliency, reliability, interoperability, and accessibility of Next Generation 911 (NG911) networks. NG911 will provide improved support for the full range of 911 voice, text, data, and video communications, which will enable improved 911 access for individuals with disabilities. The original comment dates were July 21, 2025, and August 18, 2025.

With respect to accessibility of NG911 networks, the FNPRM seeks comment on:
• Ensuring that NG911 systems support interoperability for non-voice 911 services, with specific emphasis on text, video, and multimedia capabilities that support 911 access for people with disabilities.
• New interoperable text messaging protocols, such as Rich Communications Service (RCS), for text-to-911 calls.
• The accessibility of sign-language communications in NG911 environments, including through:
o Relay services, including video relay service (VRS);
o Three-way video relay services with the 911 caller, a sign language interpreter, and a 911 call handler; and
o Direct video calling (DVC) between a sign language user calling 911 and a 911 call center handler who is both fluent in sign language and trained in handling emergency calls.
• Expanding the capabilities of current Internet Protocol-based relay services to support video 911 calls.

Interested parties may file comments by accessing the FCC’s Electronic Comment Filing System at fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/. All filings must reference PS Docket Nos. 21-479 and 13-75. People with disabilities who need assistance to file comments online may request assistance by email to FCC504@fcc.gov.

Link to the NG911 Networks FNPRM:
fcc.gov/document/fcc-proposes-…

Link to the Erratum with revised Appendix A of proposed rules:
docs.fcc.gov/public/attachment…

Link to the Order Granting Extension of Time:
fcc.gov/document/pshsb-extends…

Additional information on 911 services is available at: fcc.gov/general/9-1-1-and-e9-1…. For further information on this proceeding, contact Chris Fedeli at Christopher.Fedeli@fcc.gov or 202-418-1514, or Rachel Wehr at Rachel.Weir@fcc.gov or (202) 418-1138, of the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, Policy and Licensing Division. Individuals who use videophones and are fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) may call the FCC’s ASL Consumer Support Line at (844) 432-2275 (videophone).

So much for ending the war in 24 hours, eh.

Kyiv hit by record drone attack as US aid stalls.

An unprecedented drone attack on Kyiv came just moments after Trump and Putin spoke on the phone...

But they're not in cahoots, eh.

cnn.com/2025/07/04/world/video… #USA #ukraine

AOC wrote on BlueSky, a good summary of the Trump budget bill adopted in Congress.

"I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing."
#usa #budgetbill #aoc #fascism #geopolitics #ICE #trump @geopolitics

bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.soci…

#X ist ein rechtsfreier Raum
arminwolf.at/2025/06/28/x-ist-… (von @arminwolf.at)

Auf dem ehemaligen #Twitter kann man offenbar wirklich alles machen, ohne, dass man (in der #EU) belangt werden kann: #Hass, schwere #Beleidigungen, #Morddrohungen, ...

Alle Abkommen wie der #DigitalServiceAct, die da etwas anderes behauptet haben, sind wirkungs- und sinnlos. Wie so viele Abkommen mit den #USA.

Danke für's Durchspielen an den Anwalt Philipp Längle der Kanzlei Längle-Fussenegger-Singer in Dorbirn. 🙇

lf-law.at/index.php/team/dr-ph…

X ist ein rechtsfreier Raum

Warum es praktisch unmöglich ist, anonyme Hass-Postings auf X zu bekämpfen: Die Gesetze sind zu schwach, X ignoriert sie, zuständige Behörden verweigern die Arbeit. Ein Erfahrungsbericht in zehn Schritten.

^{Armin Wolf}

Gee I wonder why these Waymos are getting torched in LA?
gizmodo.com/waymos-driverless-…

> Waymo’s Driverless Cars Revealed to Be Narcs as Cops Use Them to Probe Crimes

> Footage from robotaxis is the newest data source for law enforcement.

#Waymo #LAProtests #USA

Waymo's Driverless Cars Revealed to Be Narcs as Cops Use Them to Probe Crimes

^{Lucas Ropek (Gizmodo)}