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  1. Please Great Britain we are for the time being the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. That is the sovereign legal country not England. UK for short.
  2. You assume the Israeli government would care about the few posters here to pay money for it. Whatever else they are, they are not stupid ! One of the processes is called shadowbanning - so the user can still post, but their posts do not appear in feeds and the only way to see them is to go directly to the feed concerned. Other power users can pay for the blue tick and then boost their posts. Israel is undoubtedly doing that. What I will say is that pro Russia accounts are being boosted and pro Ukraine ones less so - Musk is pro Russia of that I have no doubt, and pro Trump as well and wants him to win. Indeed, a lot of Ukrainian power users complain bitterly about the imbalance on the platform. Ukrainian users on X (Twitter) and Meta-owned Instagram have also complained of “shadow bans,” where a platform limits engagement with a user’s content by tweaking the platform’s algorithm. According to Joris, shadow bans are far from a conspiracy theory but rather a common tool used by social media platforms to influence what users see. Shadow bans are particularly problematic because users are not notified, says Joris. They are punished without knowing that they did anything wrong and have no opportunity to appeal. In its report on social media in wartime Ukraine, CEDEM recommends a whitelist system that gives media organizations additional protections in conflict settings, which would go a long way to fighting back against disinformation. https://kyivindependent.com/social-media-giants-unbalanced-fight-with-disinformation-in-ukraine/
  3. One is the Algerian War of Independence, where France killed a million Algerians. Way to go, Israel !
  4. Err yes.I mean, I actually have to seek out Jackson Hinckle now or I don't see his posts (that's a joke btw save your synthetic outrage for somebody else). https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-social-media-opinion-hamas-war/
  5. Or my take on the truth based on observation. That's how the Buddha figured out the truth, by staring at the jungle for 6 years and figuring how it all worked. We can't see the wind, but we can see how it waves the leaves of the tree.
  6. As my late grandma used to say, you can't uncurdle milk. I'll keep my outrage powder dry for fresh horrors, if you don't mind.
  7. or it's all on Hamas anyway, with a Pontius Pilotian washing of hands.
  8. Hasbara talking points for today. As a frequent user of X I noticed at the beginning of the war the feeds were much more balanced. After Musk visited Auschwitz and got a tour of the kibbutzes my feeds have been full of pro-Israeli propaganda. Probably the algo has been tweaked and Israel are paying royally for the privilege.
  9. BTW you have just shared the unedited photo as well. Maybe follow your own advice and respect the family by not sharing the image ? Just a thought.
  10. Honest Reporting - a pro-Israeli pressure group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HonestReporting Following a 2004 article published in the British Medical Journal which criticised Israel for a high level of Palestinian civilian casualties and claimed that the pattern of injuries suggested routine targeting of children in situations of minimal or no threat, the journal received over 500 responses to its website and nearly 1,000 sent directly to its editor. In an analysis of the responses published in the journal, Karl Sabbagh concluded that the correspondence was orchestrated by Honest Reporting and aimed at silencing legitimate criticism of Israel. In his analysis Sabbagh pointed to evidence that the correspondents had not read the article. Sabbagh also documented a significant proportion of offensive, abusive and racist insults among the correspondence. An editorial by the BMJ referred to the campaign as bullying and said that the best way to counter such behaviour was to expose it to public scrutiny
  11. Israel deliberately bombed AP's office in Gaza btw. They did give a warning, but that's who Israel are they don't want journalist covering their crimes. https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-fe452147166f55ba5a9d32e6ba8b53d7
  12. Every time you see an image or video of the Twin Towers coming down you are watching the violent immolation of 3000 souls with many 10s of thousands of people who lost their loved ones who must find those images too cruel to bear. When 'history' happens to you, your image belongs to history. Sad to say, but true nevertheless. Strange that you pearl clutch over this, but have nothing to say about the thousands of twisted corpses of Palestinians. There is an iconic image of half a child hanging from a fence that has been widely shared on social media. I won't share it here, but it is truly shocking and stands as a bloody testament as to what happens when you drop a megatonnage of high explosive bombs on some of the most crowded places on earth. There are no good guys any more in this war. Just millions that are suffering seemingly without end. The mission of photojournalism is to capture moments that represent — and, at their best, truly reveal — the endless spectrum of the human experience. Associated Press photographers across the world have spent 2023 doing exactly that — sometimes at great risk or personal exertion, always with ethics and compassion and quality, and with an eye forever trained toward the memorable. When those photographers encounter the world, though — from Israel and Gaza to Brazil, from Mongolia to the American heartland and beyond — often they have no idea what they’ll find until it is upon them. Here is some of what they found in 2023, in all its contradictions: Conflict. Ambition. Anger. Injustice. Striving. Merriment. Poverty. Blood. The quest for excellence, no matter the arena. The human body, in glorious and panicked motion and, too often, sadly stilled. Struggle — to protect loved ones, to navigate a warming planet, to escape strife and oppression, to survive nature’s capriciousness. Death, life and more death — in all its unwelcome permutations. Bursts of joy in unexpected places. Tears upon tears upon tears. Wars that have just begun, wars that continue, wars already almost forgotten. The gamut of human existence. Today, in a connected and absurdly complex world, a single year contains far more cataclysmic news than we can ever begin to process. Ways to make sense of it are rare. But using technology to freeze moments — capturing them in unforgettable photography — offers a small chance to pause and say: At this particular hour in our civilization, this is what happened to us.
  13. You didn't answer my question ? And haven't you paused to reflect that the image evokes sympathy in the viewer, not celebration, or are you incapable of universal, unconditional empathy ?
  14. Here are all the photos - including one's showing Israel suffering and designed to invoke sympathy in the viewer not celebrating the act. They are amazing photos that give an insight into the fractured human condition. Who could forget the poor girl injured by a napalm attack in the Vietnam War, one of the great iconic photos of the 20th Century. Israeli media widely shared that image at the time, did you criticise that at the time ? https://apnews.com/article/photos-2023-yearend-photography-ap-0a62ee84672da7a03685c5f5f64f2c47
  15. They were there in the 80s selling crack in front of the station, if anything the situation is better these days than then. But please stay on topic !
  16. Western governments are not supporting and aiding the parties in that conflict which isn't on topic. I'm surprised thread master Brian hasn't popped along to tell you stay on topic !
  17. This thread is called Israel is at war. The Daily Mail, probably the most right wing pro-Israel newspaper in the UK (and the most popular news website in the world) shows the horrors unfolding at a Palestinian hospital - those hospitals that Israel have been mercilessly bombing for months. I get it Palestinians lives don't matter, and we are all anti-Semitic. Just say that and we're all straight. Amelek does as Amelek is. It was stated quite explicitly at the outset. Netanyahu is bringing down the whole house on himself and the state. [2] Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I remember that which Amalek did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up from Egypt. [3] Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
  18. The evil that men do. Quite horrific and if papers like the Daily Mail are printing this just how bad is the situation. Pariah state indeed. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13248883/Just-skin-bone-starving-Gaza-toddlers-kept-incubators-human-rights-chief-warns-Israel-guilty-war-crime-cut-food-aid.html
  19. Whilst I'm on a run - does Thailand really need any more 'role models' pushing money and dripping in high-end brand names ? If my wife could see me posting this stuff, I would be in big trouble !
  20. I've done it, you need to trawl round the Yaowrat Road in Chinatown. Most won't touch foreign 99.999 - even though mine was Royal Mint and bubble wrapped with a certificate. 2 shops gave me prices but it was for the spot 96.5% - the difference is for their cut and smelting costs, and they broke open the seal and will melt it down even though they were beautiful Britannia bars. Carry it on your person, though, no problem taking it out of the UK nor into Thailand.
  21. It's a red line if I ever try to diss her in any possible way. That said in the UK I got up at 2am in the morning joined Blink (their fan club!) (too late as it turned out) to try and buy 3 tickets for BP in Bangkok at the National Stadium. I was pipped at the post on 2 night's running doing the same thing which would have cost me around 18k baht. She refused to have the standing tickets. Following that I suggested booking a high floor hotel room overlooking the stadium, but she refused that. We went to be outside the stadium on the night of the concert and she enjoyed the festival atmosphere. They let a large group on no tickets into the merch area where Black Pink official merch plastic hammers were selling for 4000 baht ! Thankfully she didn't want any not even the pirate merch. Furthermore, I took her in London to the Hyde Park where they were playing - went up to the ticket booth and offered to by her a single ticket for 85 quid, which she refused as she didn't want to stand. So I have form. She's 60, and I'm 63 I'm calling out she isn't really a fan and my devoted love for her smoked her out !! That said, she is fit as feck ! Hence my simmering hatred !
  22. I hate her, my wife loves her more than anybody else in Thailand and watches hours of mindless YouTube dross by Thai commentators taking apart everything she does. She's super rich, lives abroad and has a rich Swiss farang stepdad and represents nothing but herself - she doesn't write anything and can barely sing either. She doesn't even sing in Thai - give me Milly any day, she is the real thing - she is parodying the K-Pop clones here !
  23. The FAB Glide bombs are nothing new and are similar I believe to NATO'S JDAMS. What it allows is for the cheap upgrading of inertia fall dumb bombs into smart bombs carried by planes up to 70km away from the target with guidance to an accuracy of 10m. Cheap FPV drones are used for target locating. The current largest are 1500kg, but a 3000kg mega bomb is in production. These are raining down on poor Ukrainian conscripts on the frontlines and inflicting devastating damage. https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-ukraine-war-trench-attack/ The 1.5-ton FAB-1500 bomb is a conversion of an old Soviet-era weapon. It is delivered by fighter jets some 70 kilometers from the target then directed by a guidance system and uses pop-out wings to glide toward its target. FAB bombs were used in the recent Russian offensive in the Donetsk region and played havoc with defenses at Avdiivka, a town in eastern Ukraine that fell to Russia last month. “We will need very deep fortifications to withstand these aerial guided bombs,” Pavlenko said. “The Russians fortify whenever and wherever possible, regardless of whether they’re on the offensive, and that is sound war logic,” he added. They have done the same with T90 ammo as well with smart Telnik shells which are programmed to air burst over target locations with deviating impacts. https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/02/03/all-russian-t-90m-tanks-in-ukraine-may-have-received-telnik-shells/ Then's the proliferation of loitering munition drones the Lancet, which are being mass-produced in pop up factories in abandoned shopping malls https://kyivindependent.com/how-russias-homegrown-lancet-drone-became-so-feared-in-ukraine/ The Lancet fills an important gap for mid-range precision strikes and counter-battery fire, which Russia, lacking a system like the U.S.-built HIMARS, has otherwise struggled with in Ukraine due to the lower range and precision of their tubed and rocket artillery. “Even when our equipment is hidden in the bushes, it (Lancet) sees the silhouette from far away, and just dives at it like a falcon,” said Oleksandr “Hollywood,” an air defense specialist in Ukraine’s 47th Mechanized Brigade, to the Kyiv Independent. Finally, the TOS Thermobaric has been deployed at the front. https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-using-thermobaric-weapons/31734007.html The United Kingdom has accused Russia of deploying thermobaric weapons systems in Ukraine, raising fears there could be an escalation of the damage being done as Moscow intensifies its assault on major cities a week after invading its neighbor. "How far (Russian President Vladimir Putin) will go, what weapons he will authorize to achieve his ultimate aim, is unknown but we've seen the use of massive amounts of artillery. We've seen the deployment of thermobaric artillery weapon systems and we worry how broad those could go," British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said on March 3 during a visit to NATO ally Estonia. The combination of these weapons, coupled with a massive imbalance in artillery shells, means the Ukrainians are facing unprecedented threats on their frontlines. No wonder so few are prepared to conscript, as it's a virtual death sentence.
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