Lara Borgen

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Sudan former PM warns of civil war that would be ‘nightmare for the world’

Abdalla Hamdok, who resigned in January last year, says conflict could spiral into bigger crisis than Syria, Yemen or Libya

The Guardian

Asking for help from the #OSINT community here on #Mastodon!

We in #Brazil need urgently to gather all the #tweets being posted by the #terrorists attacking our #democracy, particularly those containing #geotag.

Relevant coordinates: -15.8005489,-47.8618812

https://www.freitag.de/autoren/der-freitag/greta-thunberg-unsere-derzeitige-klimapolitik-ist-nur-eines-greenwashing

„Unsere sogenannten Führungskräfte glauben immer noch, sie könnten mit der Physik und den Naturgesetzen verhandeln. Sie sprechen mit Blumen und Wäldern in der Sprache von US-Dollars und kurzfristiger Wirtschaftspolitik. Sie halten ihre Vierteljahresbilanzen hoch, um Wildtiere zu beeindrucken. Sie lesen den Meereswellen Börsenberichte vor wie Narren.“

Greta Thunberg: Ihr lasst euch belügen

Unsere Regierungen sagen, sie würden alles tun, um den Klimawandel zu bekämpfen. Doch das stimmt nicht. Es ist höchste Zeit, dagegen aufzustehen. Ein Weckruf von Greta Thunberg

18/ However, it's likely that the Russian authorities themselves don't know what's happened to many of the missing. Many bodies are likely totally destroyed or unrecoverable. There have been persistent reports of the Russian army burning its dead.

DNA testing offers the relatives some hope that the bodies of their dead will eventually be identified. Many are likely lying unidentified in Ukrainian morgues. However, it's all but certain that many thousands will never be found. /end

The Childish Drama of Elon Musk

Yet again, an important part of the public square is controlled by a narcissistic toddler.

The Atlantic
It is so important that Warnock win. If he doesn't, we'll only be one heart attack away from GOP control again. I often worry about some of these monsters like Erik Prince moving toward assassination as such an easy path to retaking the Senate. I am so tired of this frail democracy. When I was growing up, everyone believed it was bulletproof. Now it's bullet riddled. Modern liberal government and society both need a makeover, stat.

Some people around the world are surprised at the unprecedented #ChinaProtests, having bought into an idea – one echoed by Chinese government policy – of a “social contract” in which people in China have somehow agreed to have their rights suppressed in exchange for economic growth.

But what if this idea is wrong?

"Nobody ever agreed to this contract... The government imposed it on us."

Read more in my newsletter today: https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2022/11/29?story=paragraph-4635

How Beijing (and the World) Miscalculated : Daily Brief

“It’s deep inside everyone – human rights, freedom – it’s universal.” @Yaqiu on #ChinaProtests in @astroehlein’s Daily Brief today

Human Rights Watch
A mobilised Russian soldier who was imprisoned by the Russian army in a basement in occupied eastern Ukraine has spoken about his experiences, including being denied food and having officers threaten that wives and mothers would be raped if they did not return to the front. ⬇️

"Truth and love will overcome lies and hatred."

- Václav Havel

(today marks the anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989)

@[email protected] you’re right, it’s working completely normal. Aside from not taking it seriously yet, it’d be hard to do something similar for Mastodon, because of the many different servers people are using.