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Summary: Sabby Sabs analyzes a CNN report on President Trump's proposed 28-point peace plan for the Russia-Ukraine war. She argues that the plan's terms confirm that Ukraine has lost the war, a fact she claims Western media has deliberately obscured. She frames the conflict as a NATO/US proxy war, initiated by the 2014 coup, and driven by the profit motives of the military-industrial complex.

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0:00 - 0:09 - Intro & Host's Reaction

• Sabby introduces the topic with a clip of Trump saying, "If Zelenskyy doesn't accept the peace deal, he can fight his little heart out."
• Her immediate reaction, "Oh boy. Here we go," sets a critical and skeptical tone for the analysis to follow.

0:10 - 1:14 - News Clip: The G20 & Trump's Peace Plan

• A CNN report outlines that world leaders are meeting to discuss ending the war and formulating a response to Trump's "widely criticized as pro-Russia" 28-point plan.
• The clip includes a soundbite from a German official emphasizing the high stakes for Europe if Ukraine loses.
• It notes that Trump insists the plan is "not his final offer" and that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Envoy Steve Whit are involved in talks.

1:17 - 2:46 - Host's Initial Argument: "Ukraine Never Had a Chance"

• Sabby directly challenges the German official's statement, calling it "misleading."
• Her Core Thesis: "I've been saying this from day one... Ukraine knew that... they did not have a chance against Russia."
• She reframes the conflict's origin, pointing to the 2014 coup as the true starting point, which she alleges was implemented by the US and NATO.
• She references broken agreements like the Minsk Accords and the post-Berlin Wall promise that NATO would not expand eastward.
• Conclusion: "This is a NATO proxy war."

2:49 - 4:05 - News Clip: Analyzing the 28-Point Plan

• CNN's Kevin Lipak continues, detailing the intensive diplomacy and Trump's Thursday deadline.
• He confirms that many view the plan as a "Russian wish list."

4:05 - 4:53 - Host Breaks Down the "Russian Wish List"

• Sabby reads key points from the plan, interpreting them as proof of Ukraine's defeat:
  • Ceding territory: "The US government basically saying you have lost."
  • Limiting military size & vowing not to join NATO: Core concessions to Russia.
  • Lifting Russian sanctions: A reward for Russia.
• She summarizes: "All in all, what this really means is that Ukraine has lost. And that's not what they're going to say on CNN."

4:54 - 5:50 - News Clip & Host's Reinforcement

• The CNN clip reiterates that the plan mirrors "maximalist demands" from the Kremlin.
• Sabby interjects, stating bluntly: "Ukraine has lost... the West knew that Ukraine could not beat Russia."

5:50 - 7:08 - The Human Cost & The "Proxy War" Narrative

• Sabby emphasizes the tragic human cost of the war, mentioning Ukrainians being forcibly conscripted.
• She firmly restates her thesis: "This is a proxy war by NATO and the US government."
• She suggests the motive is to suppress a rising economic power (Russia), citing the Wolfowitz Doctrine.

7:08 - 8:35 - News Clip: Consequences of Rejection & Political Pushback

• The clip plays Trump's "fight his little heart out" quote again.
• CNN analyzes that this implies Trump would "wash his hands" of the conflict.
• It notes skepticism from European leaders and Republicans like Lindsey Graham and Mitch McConnell, the latter of whom said, "Putin has spent the entire year trying to play President Trump for a fool."

8:35 - 9:10 - Host Dismisses Critics

• Sabby dismisses Lindsey Graham as a "warhawk" and "warmonger."
• She returns to her central point: "The reality is people are dying. They can't win."

9:10 - 11:11 - Expert Validation: Jeffrey Sachs

• Sabby introduces Professor Jeffrey Sachs to lend credibility to her argument.
• In the clip, Sachs states that the war is likely ending on terms similar to the 28-point plan: no NATO for Ukraine and some land ceded to Russia.
• He explains the proposed security guarantees to address concerns about Russian trust.

11:11 - 13:50 - Host's Final Analysis: Money, Media, and Motives

• Sabby supports Sachs' view, arguing that if Russia wanted to invade further (e.g., Poland), it would have already.
• She accuses Western media of manufacturing consent for US foreign policy.
• Key Argument: The war is a "money laundering system" for the military-industrial complex (citing Julian Assange). The goal is profit, not victory.
• She plays another Trump clip where he says, "When you start a war, you got to know that you can win," which she interprets as Trump accidentally revealing the truth that Ukraine was set up to fail.
• Provocative Conclusion: "To fully get there, you have to end capitalism. As long as we have a capitalist system, we are going to have war."

15:03 - 15:08 - Outro

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About Channel:

Leftist news commentary & interviews. Fighting for political and social change. Sabby Sabs podcast is a part of Revolutionary Blackout Network.

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About Sabrina:

Sabrina grew up overseas and in the US. She often jokes about not having a hometown, because her family served in the military, and her family moved around a lot.

She first became interested in politics after she joined her high school debate team, where she won several debate competitions. She also developed broadcasting skills in her high school's Programming & Broadcasting class. It was this course that first taught her how to conduct interviews.

Sabrina studied broadcast journalism & and English as an undergrad. She graduated with a BA from the University of South Carolina. She later graduated with a master's degree in Education from Northeastern University. Sabrina worked in higher education for ten years as an academic advisor at colleges such as MIT and Boston University. While she enjoyed working with students, she felt restricted in higher education due to administrative bureaucracy.

Sabby Sabs podcast was created in January 2021 after progressive members of the House refused to Force the Vote for Medicare For All. As a former supporter of Bernie Sanders and the squad, Sabrina was disappointed with squad members refusing to fight back against establishment Democrats. The ineffectiveness of the squad pushed Sabrina to leave the Democratic Party and become a registered independent. This also pushed her to focus on other solutions, such as ballot initiatives, mutual aid, and third parties. She continues to encourage her viewers to focus on local organizing efforts and breaking the duopoly.

She later joined the Revolutionary Blackout Network as a co-host and member, hosting summits and organizing events with fellow members. As part of RBN, she started the Boston RBN Chapter, which focuses on mutual aid. Each RBN member has a chapter in their respective cities.

Since Sabby Sabs podcast started, Sabrina has traveled to different states covering protests and rallies, received two media awards, and interviewed guests such as Chris Hedges, Cornel West, Kim Iversen, Matt Taibbi, Garland Nixon, and Jill Stein to name a few. She has been featured on shows like The Hill's Rising, The Kim Iversen Show, Sputnik Radio, CrossTalk, and more.^[[1] https://www.sabby-sabs.com/]

I just saw a coworker with something like 30 tabs open in Chrome. I also know someone who regularly hits the 500-tab limit on their phone, though I suspect that’s more about being messy than anything else.

When I’m researching something, I might have 10-50 tabs open for a while, but once I’m done, I close them all. If I need them again, browser history is there.

Why do people keep so many tabs open? Is there a workflow or habit I’m missing? Do they just never clean up, or is there a real benefit to tab hoarding? I’m genuinely curious. Why do people do that?

A record number of people are set to take China’s notoriously gruelling national civil service exam this weekend, reflecting the increasing desire of Chinese workers to find employment in the public rather than private sector.

Around 3.7 million people have registered for the tests on Saturday and Sunday, which will be the first since the government increased the age limit for certain positions. The age limit for general candidates has increased from 35 to 38, while the age limit for those with postgraduate degrees has been raised from 40 to 43.

Israeli forces executed two unarmed Palestinians at point-blank range after they surrendered in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday.

The killings were captured on video, which showed the two men emerging from a building with their arms raised and their shirts lifted, clearly indicating they were unarmed and posed no threat to the soldiers.

The troops then shoot them dead.

The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the victims as Al-Muntasir Billah Mahmoud Qassem Abdullah, 26, and Yousef Ali Yousef Asa’sa, 37. They were shot in the Abu Dhahir neighborhood of Jenin.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/46377338

Opinion piece by Li Qiang, founder and executive director of China Labor Watch, and a human rights advocate with over 30 years of experience investigating global supply chains.

Archived

[...]

China’s low rights model is no longer a domestic labor issue but a systemic challenge to global labor standards, supply chain governance, and fair market competition. Without a coordinated civil society response, the global baseline for worker rights will continue to fall.

I call China’s economic model a “low rights” one because it has long relied on suppressing labor costs to maintain industrial competitiveness. As a result, trade imbalances between China, the United States, and Europe are strategically linked to China’s ability to attract multinational companies through low-cost labor and policy incentives. At the same time, Chinese companies internalized the technology and management know-how of these foreign companies into their domestic systems, gradually transforming what were originally Western competitive advantages into China’s own strengths.

[...]

In recent years, China’s “low-standard, low-cost” development model has expanded beyond its borders. Through the Belt and Road Initiative, it has spread globally, exporting labor, environmental, and governance risks to host countries. Nowhere is this more evident than in Indonesia’s nickel sector, where mining and smelting contracts are so short that they function like countdown clocks, pressuring companies to recoup capital as fast as possible.

[...]

This “low-cost” model has been permitted to exist due to an increasingly shrinking civic space. Independent labor monitoring inside China has become dramatically harder in the past decade. Today, only a few independent organizations remain capable of conducting investigations, such as China Labor Watch. Yet, political risks deter most international funders from supporting work inside China, leaving independent oversight critically under-resourced in an area where it is needed most.

[...]

To counter this dynamic, civil society organizations must be central to any strategy for raising global labor standards. We can advance change in three key ways.

First, increase public awareness. We can collectively highlight that consumers must recognize the real costs behind low-priced products: long working hours, low pay, job displacement, low labor standards. The public must understand that declining labor standards ultimately harm every society. In reality, with wages stagnating in many Western countries, more consumers rely on cheaper products that are produced by workers who are, in fact, competing with them for similar types of jobs in the global labor market.

Second, advocate and partner with authorities for the rigorous enforcement of forced-labor laws. Import bans, labor regulations, and due diligence laws already exist. But enforcement depends on independent organizations holding authorities accountable, and providing evidence if there are enforcement gaps. It also requires sufficient and sustained funding to ensure that these laws can be implemented in practice, rather than remaining symbolic commitments.

[...]

The EU Forced Labor Regulation and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) had their scope narrowed during the legislative process, while U.S. forced labor import enforcement remains inconsistent and lacks clear direction, making the global regulatory landscape by significant uncertainty. If global civil society does not intervene now, global labor standards will not simply stagnate; they will be redefined downward by a model built on speed, opacity, and the suppression of rights.

[...]

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Archived version

A dozen senior German officers convened at a triangle-shaped military compound in Berlin about 2½ years ago to work on a secret plan for a war with Russia.

Now they’re racing to implement it.

...

The blueprint details how as many as 800,000 German, U.S. and other NATO troops would be ferried eastward toward the front line. It maps the ports, rivers, railways and roads they would travel, and how they would be supplied and protected on the way.

...

At a higher level, the plan is the clearest manifestation to date of what its authors call an “all-of-society” approach to war. This blurring of the line between the civilian and military realms marks a return to a Cold-War mindset, but updated to account for new threats and hurdles—from Germany’s decrepit infrastructure to inadequate legislation and a smaller military—that didn’t exist at the time.

German officials have said they expect Russia will be ready and willing to attack NATO in 2029. But a string of spying incidents, sabotage attacks and airspace intrusion in Europe, many of them attributed to Moscow by Western intelligence, suggest it could be preparing to pounce sooner.

Analysts also think that a possible armistice in Ukraine ... could free up time and resources for Russia to prepare a move against NATO members in Europe.

...

The yearslong effort to make Germany war-ready again began days after Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, when German Chancellor Olaf Scholz unveiled a €100 billion rearmament fund, hailing the decision a zeitenwende, or an “epochal change.”

Later that year, the German military, known as the bundeswehr, created a Territorial Command to lead all homeland operations and tasked its commander, Lieutenant General André Bodemann, a veteran of Kosovo and Afghanistan, with drafting OPLAN [Operation Plan].

In a war with Russia, Germany would no longer be a front line state but a staging ground. On top of a degraded infrastructure, it would have to contend with a shrunken military and new threats such as drones.

“Refugees and reinforcements would be pouring in from opposite directions. The flows would need channeling, which the bundeswehr alone can’t do, especially while it’s fighting,” said Claudia Major, head of trans-Atlantic security initiatives at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

This means the military would need to join with the private sector and civilian organizations on a scale it hadn’t done before.

By March of last year, drawing on feedback from an expanding circle of ministries, government agencies and local authorities, Bodemann’s team had completed the plan‘s first iteration.

The time had come to put it in action.

...

While the new Merz government was trumpeting a €500 billion defense spending plan and a return to conscription this year, the bundeswehr was working under the radar, briefing hospitals, the police and disaster relief agencies, striking agreements with states and the autobahn operator and drawing transit routes for military convoys.

...

The inadequacies of peacetime legislation have also made it harder for Germany to protect itself against sabotage—one of the biggest threats facing OPLAN [

Such sabotage is already happening. Scores of attacks, from arson to vandalized cables, have targeted the railway system in recent years. In October, a Munich court jailed a man for planning to sabotage military installations and railway infrastructure on behalf of Russia.

This week, Poland said Russia was behind an explosion that damaged railway tracks in the country’s east. Germany’s domestic intelligence agencies said it conducted almost 10,000 employee background checks for critical infrastructure operators last year alone.

“If Germany is going to be NATO’s hub, then as the enemy, I’d want to target that: block the ports, take down the power, disrupt the railways,” said Paul Strobel, head of public affairs for Quantum Systems, a Peter Thiel-backed maker of surveillance drones that is in talks with the bundeswehr about providing convoy and infrastructure protection for OPLAN.

...

Yet as the recent stress tests showed, there is still work to do for the plan and reality to line up. The biggest uncertainty facing the planners is how much time they have.

Given the steep rise in sabotage, cyberattacks and airspace intrusions, the difference between peace and war is looking increasingly fuzzy.

“The threats are real,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz told business leaders in September. “We’re not at war, but we no longer live in peacetime.”

Archived version

A dozen senior German officers convened at a triangle-shaped military compound in Berlin about 2½ years ago to work on a secret plan for a war with Russia.

Now they’re racing to implement it.

...

The blueprint details how as many as 800,000 German, U.S. and other NATO troops would be ferried eastward toward the front line. It maps the ports, rivers, railways and roads they would travel, and how they would be supplied and protected on the way.

...

At a higher level, the plan is the clearest manifestation to date of what its authors call an “all-of-society” approach to war. This blurring of the line between the civilian and military realms marks a return to a Cold-War mindset, but updated to account for new threats and hurdles—from Germany’s decrepit infrastructure to inadequate legislation and a smaller military—that didn’t exist at the time.

German officials have said they expect Russia will be ready and willing to attack NATO in 2029. But a string of spying incidents, sabotage attacks and airspace intrusion in Europe, many of them attributed to Moscow by Western intelligence, suggest it could be preparing to pounce sooner.

Analysts also think that a possible armistice in Ukraine ... could free up time and resources for Russia to prepare a move against NATO members in Europe.

...

The yearslong effort to make Germany war-ready again began days after Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, when German Chancellor Olaf Scholz unveiled a €100 billion rearmament fund, hailing the decision a zeitenwende, or an “epochal change.”

Later that year, the German military, known as the bundeswehr, created a Territorial Command to lead all homeland operations and tasked its commander, Lieutenant General André Bodemann, a veteran of Kosovo and Afghanistan, with drafting OPLAN [Operation Plan].

In a war with Russia, Germany would no longer be a front line state but a staging ground. On top of a degraded infrastructure, it would have to contend with a shrunken military and new threats such as drones.

“Refugees and reinforcements would be pouring in from opposite directions. The flows would need channeling, which the bundeswehr alone can’t do, especially while it’s fighting,” said Claudia Major, head of trans-Atlantic security initiatives at the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

This means the military would need to join with the private sector and civilian organizations on a scale it hadn’t done before.

By March of last year, drawing on feedback from an expanding circle of ministries, government agencies and local authorities, Bodemann’s team had completed the plan‘s first iteration.

The time had come to put it in action.

...

While the new Merz government was trumpeting a €500 billion defense spending plan and a return to conscription this year, the bundeswehr was working under the radar, briefing hospitals, the police and disaster relief agencies, striking agreements with states and the autobahn operator and drawing transit routes for military convoys.

...

The inadequacies of peacetime legislation have also made it harder for Germany to protect itself against sabotage—one of the biggest threats facing OPLAN [

Such sabotage is already happening. Scores of attacks, from arson to vandalized cables, have targeted the railway system in recent years. In October, a Munich court jailed a man for planning to sabotage military installations and railway infrastructure on behalf of Russia.

This week, Poland said Russia was behind an explosion that damaged railway tracks in the country’s east. Germany’s domestic intelligence agencies said it conducted almost 10,000 employee background checks for critical infrastructure operators last year alone.

“If Germany is going to be NATO’s hub, then as the enemy, I’d want to target that: block the ports, take down the power, disrupt the railways,” said Paul Strobel, head of public affairs for Quantum Systems, a Peter Thiel-backed maker of surveillance drones that is in talks with the bundeswehr about providing convoy and infrastructure protection for OPLAN.

...

Yet as the recent stress tests showed, there is still work to do for the plan and reality to line up. The biggest uncertainty facing the planners is how much time they have.

Given the steep rise in sabotage, cyberattacks and airspace intrusions, the difference between peace and war is looking increasingly fuzzy.

“The threats are real,” Chancellor Friedrich Merz told business leaders in September. “We’re not at war, but we no longer live in peacetime.”

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Mom said it's my turn to be the Master Race

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An investigation by Global Witness links some of the world’s most popular chocolates, including Mars, Magnums, KitKat, Hersheys and Dairy Milk, to a new deforestation crisis in Liberia

See it's not as if we just get up to mischief