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The death toll in the Philippines from Typhoon Kalmaegi rose to 114 with another 127 people still missing

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An incredible piece not only confessing to but proudly bragging about the West's historic lies during the Cold War that are still repeated and taught to this day!

Think of the Berlin Airlift as a big-budget movie sold as a true story. Now one of its loudest fans finally admits it was staged.

For decades, the Berlin Airlift has been told as a fairy tale. Stalin blockaded the city: cruel and heartless, while heroic Western pilots fed starving Berliners with flour and chocolate from the sky.

The perfect moral script: light against darkness, liberty against tyranny, good vs evil. Exactly the same moral wiring that still fuels the superhero industry today, cultural programming as moral training.

The same Guardian now admits what Soviet and Eastern historians said all along: there was no full blockade. In Britain’s own National Archives, the Foreign Office wrote in 1948:

“The blockade of Berlin is NOT a siege… movement in and out of Germany is possible all the time.”

Do you want to know what really happened? Washington and London imposed a new currency in their occupation zones, breaking prior agreements with Moscow.

The Soviets responded with limited restrictions on Western transport: not starvation, not tanks, just a border dispute over sovereignty. But the West needed a story and it created one.

A three-billion-dollar media performance named The Berlin Airlift complete with cameras, pathos, and heroic speeches about “freedom.”

As The Guardian now concedes, the entire operation was “a massive and sensational story of air power applied to humanitarian ends.” In other words, propaganda. It even helped re-elect Harry Truman that same year.

By the way, the article doesn’t condemn this psychological manipulation but actually celebrates it. The author writes with longing for the era when the West “lied effectively,” calling for a revival of those tactics. But he got it wrong: the tactics never changed, the Western media keeps lying at the same speed and volume. The only thing that changed is that people recognize the pattern, and the spell weakens.

When liberal newspapers begin revealing their own disinformation with nostalgia, recalling the days when it worked and lamenting that it no longer does, they’re mourning the decay of their own illusion, fully aware of it, and desperate to keep the echo alive.

From: https://xcancel.com/rinalu_/status/1986071152964579730

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Someone with more time than me please photoshop a news article webpage for this.

Bonus sidebar stories:

“Xi’s poker face broken, communists fear this may be the end of China”

“Wondering why you’re feeling stressed about living under capitalism? The reason may surprise you” (subtitle: it’s capitalism)

“LIVE: Engles reaction to viral TikTok video” (thumbnail of headstone)

“Someone named Dick died today”

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With the recent victory of Mamdani, I thought about sharing this video by Marxist-Leninist content creator Jones Manoel.

The whole video is in portuguese, but the automatic subtitles from youtube are pretty good here, with a few exceptions like getting a few names wrong and confusing "Hollywood" with "Dutch" for some reason.

Still, comrade Jones take seems pretty solid to me. He's skeptical of Zohran's actual power to enact any meaning change in NY, while also acknowledging the historical significance of his win as a Muslim and Palestine supporter, specially because it happened in the heart of the empire.

He also throws shade and criticism towards China and Vietnam in regards to the Palestinian genocide, which I think are well deserved, and since he is someone that constantly studies Brasil, and talks primarily to a Brasilian audience, he also talks about it in the context of the video.

What do y'all think about his take?

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Because if so the republicans started out woke.

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What could possibly go wrong?

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Sales tank as investors get ready to decide whether to make Musk a trillionaire.

Tesla’s shareholders are ready to vote tomorrow on whether to give Elon Musk an even more vast slice of the company in an effort to keep him focused on selling electric vehicles. Currently, the trolling tycoon appears a little obsessed with the UK, a place he appears to conflate with Middle Earth, which investors may or may not take into account when making their decision. What they ought to take into account is how many cars Tesla sold last month.

Although Tesla only publishes quarterly sales figures and does not divide those up by region, slightly more granular data is available from some countries via monthly new car registrations. And the numbers for October, when compared year on year to the same month in 2024, should be alarming.

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Of interest to owners of the Atari 50, the upcoming Namco Legendary Pack DLC will include the Arcade and Atari 7800 versions of Xevious; as well as proto-shmup Galaxian (2600 and 5200 versions), and the 7800 version of Galaga. There's also some non-shmup games on there, I guess 😀 .

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The European Parliament’s Committee on Development (DEVE) is set to debate a report today that supports using development aid to encourage migration control cooperation by non-EU states.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/52489167

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I have a uGreen dock for my Steam Deck, but it does not work for my Switch 2. I am looking for a dock that will work for both, preferably something with usb ports for mouse and keyboard for the deck.

I have seen there are some usb dongles that work for both, and that is a last ditch option.

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