They are indeed crap. The Reuters link isn’t even about this.
From SA’s perspective, this would be get in front of cameras and pound your chest news, not get an unnamed spokesperson to whisper about it to some unknown reporter news. Like, why would you want to dramatically punch back… but keep it low key? Makes no sense.
Yes. And the statute of limitations is a year into the next admin. This agreement is them acknowledging that they’re breaking the law.
Links or it didn’t happen
Mastodon.social has a “spam problem” because they’re the largest target. We’re lucky it’s them because they’re one of the few instances with the resources to take on the problem. They’ve also contributed a ton - in tools and strategies - to help other instances deal with the problem.
I’d be pretty skeptical of this. As you said, no one else is reporting what would be huge news. I can’t find the quote attributed to “a spokesperson for the South African government” anywhere else either. There isn’t a named person in the article. This source seems sketchy, though I can’t find any bias monitor info on them. That ‘from the desk of the president’ graphic is also just kinda weird.
The closest to this story I can find is this Feb 3rd story from a mining conference:
South Africa’s Minister of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, told delegates in his opening address that Africa should withhold minerals if funding is withdrawn.
Are you sure it’s appearance? You might sneeze with an accent.
Gotta love a silver lining.
I’m Hufflepuff or I’m NOTHING
The MAU counter at mastodon.social reset. It happened at about the same time they had an issue and had to recover data so I think it was related to that.
I don’t know if this’ll be removed but self-posts without news articles aren’t allowed here (rule 2).
Is there a community for content like this? Like a focus on our participation in activism/resistance? Even if not here, this is amazing and something I’d still like to see somewhere.
“We pay hundreds of Billions of Dollars to SUBSIDIZE Canada. Why?” He posted on Truth Social. “There is no reason. We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited Energy, should make our own Cars, and have more Lumber than we can ever use. Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country. Harsh but true! Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State.”
Those posts are so unhinged. Almost a declaration of war.
Definitely weird on first reading. New names often seem weird or dumb at first so maybe I’ll just get used to it. Anglicizing it might make sense? Fleamarkt?
There’s no logic to it at all. It’s absolutely not about that.
Almost no fentanyl is getting into the US from Canada. A vanishingly small amount of illegal immigration occurs through the Canadian border.
It’s just fascism and imperialism.
Uh… this is day 12. Feels like 12 thousand years though.
This seems like somewhat big news but literally no one else is reporting it.
Some truly heartbreaking shit going on.
In Uganda, the National Malaria Control Program has suspended spraying insecticide into village homes and ceased shipments of bed nets for distribution to pregnant women and young children, said Dr. Jimmy Opigo, the program’s director.
Medical supplies, including drugs to stop hemorrhages in pregnant women and rehydration salts that treat life-threatening diarrhea in toddlers, cannot reach villages in Zambia because the trucking companies transporting them were paid through a suspended supply project of the United States Agency for International Development, U.S.A.I.D.
Dozens of clinical trials in South Asia, Africa and Latin America have been suspended. Thousands of people enrolled in the studies have drugs, vaccines and medical devices in their bodies but no longer have access to continuing treatment or to the researchers who were supervising their care.
Just downloaded Organic Maps as a replacement. No ads/tracking plus it’s open source and uses OSM. Seems pretty cool so far.