Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met with top congressional leaders of both parties Wednesday morning, before an hours-long session with corporate CEOs and billionaires at the Kennedy Center in the afternoon.

The events confirm that President Trump spoke for the entire US ruling class, Democrats and Republicans alike, when he welcomed the bloodstained monarch to the White House and denounced any mention of bin Salman’s role in the gruesome murder of Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.

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There is nothing surprising about the welcoming of the Saudi despot and mass murderer to the US Capitol. The House and Senate have given standing ovations to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on at least two occasions during the Israeli genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed a joint session of Congress twice—even as he pursued policies of entrenching his authoritarian Hindu-supremacist regime and threatening nuclear war against neighboring Pakistan. British Prime Minister Tony Blair addressed Congress at the height of the US-British war of conquest in Iraq, in July 2003.

More importantly, American presidents themselves address Congress on a regular basis, and the war crimes committed by these presidents in this century alone (wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, drone missile assassinations from the Middle East to the Caribbean), dwarf those committed by any visiting monarchs, dictators or prime ministers.

After his brief session schmoozing with the congressional leadership, bin Salman travelled across town to the Kennedy Center to resume the real business of his trip: wooing and being wooed by corporate CEOs and billionaires, with Trump presiding over the scene like the head pimp at a house of ill repute.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/55526923

Home loan borrowers are paying the price as competition heats up with cash back deals, one broker says.

ANZ is offering a 1.5 percent cash back incentive to new loans, up to $30,000, until mid-December.

That is about twice the normal cash back that new home loan borrowers can get.

Cunningham said the cost to the banks meant that fixed-term home loan rates were about five or 10 basis points higher than they would be if the cash backs were not offered.

He said ANZ's cash back offer was the highest ever seen in the market by a huge margin.

"Anything above 1 percent is very unusual so that is incredibly aggressive.

"The flip side is that the fixed interest rates will be a bit higher than otherwise for all borrowers. Not really fair, but it's par for the course."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39268294

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39268288

November 5, 2025

Far too little aid is reaching Gaza nearly four weeks after a ceasefire, humanitarian agencies said on Tuesday, as hunger persists with winter approaching and old tents start to fray following Israel's devastating two-year offensive.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53472208

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/39266968

After the fascist and Nazi regimes were defeated in 1945, European post-war historiography largely overlooked right-wing extremism. New research now shows how extremists rebuilt cross-border networks in Europe and the part Switzerland played.

For more depth on the usages of Fascism and it's history, context etc. see this link about this new book. Facsism" by Princeton History Prof Federico Marcon.

The faster we recognise it, the better we can counter it.

https://archive.is/IiCN4

Although environmental groups allege that, with a combustion engine and a large battery, plug-in hybrids are often more polluting than advertised, many see them as a greener interim option for people who are not ready to switch to electric vehicles.

However, the European car industry may have already lost the war before it has even begun. While car groups are lobbying hard for Brussels to loosen the region’s 2035 petrol ban to allow PHEVs and other technologies, Chinese brands are already starting to win over consumers with their plug-in vehicles that are cheaper and have longer ranges.

“Today, the European automakers are still not on par with the Chinese on plug-in hybrid technology,” Pedro Pacheco, an analyst at Gartner, said. “If the market were to pivot towards plug-in hybrids in 2035 in Europe, it will still fall into the hands of the Chinese.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/53468400

Has anyone gotten navidrome mobile apps to work with traefik and authentik sso? I used this article to get the webapp sso to work, but mobile apps won't work even with the /rest path supposedly being bypassed. the traefik config was copied/modified for my setup, so I think the article is still missing something.

I've tried a couple navidrome apps: dsub, tempo, tempus.

GlitchTip is an open source error and uptime monitoring tool. We added experimental support for Postgres-only mode - no valkey/redis needed. We have an all-in-one script (also experimental) to embed celery and web as one process. Together, this gets the memory requirements quite low. It's a core goal of mine to ensure GlitchTip is as easy to host as possible. Report any issues. I'd love to know any feature requests related to self-hosting too.

Do they try converting their guards and cellmates? Do they get in conflicts with the gangs? How do they adjust from being worshiped to just being another criminal? Or go from being leader of their compound to being put in solitary?

To oversimplify the situation:

• Victorian Socialists^[wikipedia]^ are an electoral political party. They publicly announced themselves and registered in 2018 as a collaboration between Socialist Alternative (SAlt)^[wikipedia]^, Socialist Alliance^[wikipedia]^ and a few other politicians.
• In 2020, Socialist Alliance withdrew from Victorian Socialists. Official article.
• In mid-2025, Victorian Socialists announced plans to expand nationwide, and to change their name to Socialist Party. Branches have been launched in all other states and territories, with some already being registered.
• This month, VS announced their attempts to rename with the AEC and to register with the NSW Electoral Commission were both refused on the basis of similarity with Socialist Alliance's name. They emphasised that Alliance has not acted to prevent the registration, Alliance have given permission, it's the AEC and NSWEC blocking them. Official statement and call for unity with Alliance. [November 12]
• Less than a week later, VS have sent another statement to Alliance calling for unity. Official statement [November 17].

While I don't see it bluntly stated, I think it's fair to say VS want Alliance to join their party and deregister.

I am not well-networked with VS, Alliance, SAlt, RCO, etc., and I've often found that online arguments are different to the reality on-the-ground, so it's hard to know what the situation truly is. Two of the main, contradictory perspectives I've heard so far are:

• One claims that Alliance's 2020 claim of SAlt being a dominant anti-collaborative faction still applies today, and perceives VS as essentially a SAlt electoral front, or otherwise controlled by them. There is a history of allegations like this against SAlt, such as the Freedom Socialist Party and associated Radical Women claiming that SAlt joined CARF after other groups and "over time through undemocratic measures, dismantled the unity and took control."
• The other points to the Communist Caucus - the minority faction in VS - and two successful former caucuses (Socialist Unity and Socialist Workers' Caucus) as evidence of their openness to diversity of politics and open factions. The Communist Caucus formed by the Revolutionary Communist Organisation and allies. RCO's article about their faction. The Socialist Unity and Socialist Workers' Caucus are both discussed in this recent article by a VS independent and former member of Socialist Unity - SU met almost all of its demands and had little reason to continue existing, and the SWC were incorporated as an official party body.

I don't see any official statements from Alliance on their publication Green Left, although an RCO Partisan! article published today contains an excerpt of an official email sent to Alliance members, raising objections towards SAlt dominating through stacking VS's undelegated conferences, and alleging that VS's repeated calls for unity are not designed to leave the door open for regroupment or to build trust.

Unity supporters are arguing that Alliance and Socialist Party have near identical politics and that them existing as separate parties is counterproductive.

from daily mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15310923/US-troops-Mexican-beach-invasion-fentanyl.html

MARVEL Cosmic Invasion, the arcade-style tag-team beat ‘em up celebrating the golden eras of classic MARVEL storylines and entertainment, will receive a physical release offering Standard and Deluxe Editions of the game for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5. The game’s physical editions will launch on March 13th, 2026, following MARVEL Cosmic Invasion’s debut on Dec. 1, 2025 through digital storefronts on PC and consoles.

MARVEL Cosmic Invasion Physical Edition Pricing

Standard Edition

• $39.99 on PlayStation 5, Xbox and Nintendo Switch
• $49.99 for Nintendo Switch 2 (Full Cartridge format)

Deluxe Edition

• $59.99 on PlayStation 5, Xbox and Nintendo Switch
• $69.99 for Nintendo Switch 2 (Full Cartridge format)