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  • It’s a multi step process, but if you still have the XPS Viewer from windows 10, you can ‘print’ the file to XPS, then open it in the XPS Viewer and ‘print’ to PDF using your favourite print to pdf solution. That strips the metadata but doesn’t rasterize everything.

  • U.S. announces new sanctions against Nicaragua over migration, human rights abuses, ties to Russia
  • This has nothing to do with Nicaragua taking Germany to the ICJ for the latter’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian population.

    This also has nothing to do with Nicaragua winning a case in the ICJ against the US (1986) for its arming of Contra rebels and mining Nicaraguan ports, and the US just ignoring the result.

    Surely it’s about ‘migrants’.

  • Israel lodges proposal with UN for dismantling of Palestinian relief agency
  • It would be doable, only after the dismantlement of the apartheid regime, the establishment of a unitary secular state for all citizens, the full right of return of all Palestinian refugees and their descendants, and just compensation for their losses. Otherwise, it’s more Zionist bleating.

  • [RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege
  • Check with your local city council or municipality. The laws preventing municipally owned Internet are being fought and overturned with Internet As A Utility.

    Even in Texas, the City of Mont Belvieu was getting the shaft by local incumbents that wouldn’t invest in the network. The city took them to court and sidestepped the law, setting precedent. Fiber to the home is now a reality there.

    I’m working on getting the same thing done in other towns and cities in this state. Might be a great challenge if you’re up for that sort of thing.

  • NSFW
    Israeli police arrest and brand Palestinian with ‘Star of David’: Report
  • Thank you for this.

    I’m hoping you can also see through the article.

    This is more propaganda trying to justify the colonial brutality of Zionism.

    -They refer to the victim as “the Palestinian”, dehumanizing him and thus trivializing his injuries.

    -The idea that 16 different officers’ body cameras all fail simultaneously is suspect, to put it mildly.

    -The fact that it took 16 highly trained people to restrain one person is difficult to believe. I will say, I am glad(? Bad word, but I can’t think of the right one) that they didn’t just murder the man and cover it up.

    -This was a planned raid in Occupied East Jerusalem.

    The officers knew who this man was, and where he was.

    -The graphic of boot shoelaces is unbelievable. Fabric laces don’t cause that type of skin damage while keeping the surrounding skin untouched.

  • Two West Bank Palestinians shot dead by Israelis: ministry
  • Israelis keep invading and occupying land, brutalizing the indigenous Palestinians, and get all Pikachu face when they fight back.

    So instead of ending the occupation (and forming a secular one state solution), Israeli occupation soldiers and colonists keep killing innocent Palestinians.

  • Two West Bank Palestinians shot dead by Israelis: ministry
    www.france24.com Two West Bank Palestinians shot dead by Israelis: ministry

    Two Palestinians in the occupied West Bank were shot by Israelis on Friday, one by soldiers and the other by settlers, the Palestinian health ministry said.

    Two West Bank Palestinians shot dead by Israelis: ministry

    Palestinians in the occupied West Bank were shot by Israelis on Friday, one by soldiers and the other by settlers, the Palestinian health ministry said.

    Late Friday it announced the death of Qusai Jamal Maatan, 19, saying he was "shot dead by settlers in the village of Burqa", east of Ramallah.

    There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.

    Earlier, soldiers had shot dead another young Palestinian.

    In a statement, the Palestinian health ministry said 18-year-old Mahmoud Abu Saan was "killed this morning by live bullets from the occupation (Israel) in Tulkarm".

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    Israeli navy opens fire at Palestinian fisherman in Gaza
  • Because when you’re peacefully fishing in your own territorial waters, whether you’re shot with a rubber coated steel bullet or shot with a beanbag is irrelevant. The crime is you’re being shot at by a foreign occupying force.

  • [Lebanon] Berri reportedly upset with Mikati over government debt law
  • Context: In Lebanon, both the Chamber of Deputies (or Parliament, legislative branch) and Council of Ministers (executive branch) can propose laws. However, these must be scrutinized and passed by Parliament in order to actually become law.

    Berri is one of many warlords rebranded as politicians, siphoning state resources to enrich himself, his family and feed his cult of personality and patronage.

    This slight of hand trick saying the law has to be passed by the outgoing cabinet (which doesn’t have a mandate) before it goes to parliament is both patently absurd and not in line with the Lebanese constitution.

    The cabinet resigned and the government fell. This cabinet cannot do anything but keep the lights on, until a new government is formed.

    Berri, as head of the legislature, refuses to call and force sessions so that a government can be elected and given the mandate to govern.

    Yet another example of how the Lebanese state is a series of petty fiefdoms all vying for power, while the people suffer.

  • [Lebanon] Berri reportedly upset with Mikati over government debt law

    [Lebanese] Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri is upset by caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati's attempt to evade passing a law that would allow the government to borrow foreign currency from the central bank, al-Akhbar newspaper said Wednesday.

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    Israeli navy opens fire at Palestinian fisherman in Gaza

    GAZA, Thursday, August 3, 2023 (WAFA) – A Palestinian fisherman was Thursday injured after he was shot by Israeli navy forces as he was sailing in the Gaza Sea, sources confirmed.

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    Israeli Reserve General: Nasrallah is provoking, humiliating 'Israel'
    english.almayadeen.net Israeli Reserve General: Nasrallah is provoking, humiliating 'Israel'

    Israeli officials discuss the accuracy of Nasrallah's "spider web" theory after the liberation of South Lebanon in 2000, pointing to the internal crises and weaknesses in "Israel."

    Israeli Reserve General: Nasrallah is provoking, humiliating 'Israel'

    Israeli officials discuss the accuracy of Nasrallah's "spider web" theory after the liberation of South Lebanon in 2000, pointing to the internal crises and weaknesses in "Israel."

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    Burkina Faso, Mali warn against military intervention in Niger
    www.aljazeera.com Burkina Faso, Mali warn against military intervention in Niger

    Niger’s neighbours say any intervention to restore deposed president will be considered a ‘declaration of war’.

    Burkina Faso, Mali warn against military intervention in Niger

    Niger’s neighbours say any intervention to restore deposed President Mohamed Bazoum will be considered a ‘declaration of war’ against them.

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    Palestinian shot dead after six Israelis wounded in illegal settlement
    www.aljazeera.com Palestinian shot dead after six Israelis wounded in illegal settlement

    Palestinian health ministry identifies suspect in shooting attack as Mohannad al-Mazraa, 20, from nearby West Bank town.

    Palestinian shot dead after six Israelis wounded in illegal settlement

    Palestinian health ministry identifies suspect in shooting attack as Mohannad al-Mazraa, 20, from a nearby West Bank town.

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    Niger puts an end to uranium and gold export to France
    english.almayadeen.net Niger puts an end to uranium and gold export to France

    Niger coup leader General Abdourahamane Tchiani, despite being EU's largest supplier of uranium, halts uranium and gold export to France.

    Niger puts an end to uranium and gold export to France

    Niger coup leader General Abdourahamane Tchiani, despite being EU's largest supplier of uranium, halts uranium and gold export to France.

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    Macron's bid to join BRICS summit signals rift with G7 - Expert
    www.the-star.co.ke Macron's bid to join BRICS summit signals rift with G7 - Expert

    The bloc accounts for over 40% of global GDP and more than a half of the world's population.

    Macron's bid to join BRICS summit signals rift with G7 - Expert

    Macron's top diplomat, Catherine Colonna, said on Tuesday that the president was interested in coming to Johannesburg as an observer in August to attend the meeting of Brazilian, Russian, Indian, Chinese and South African leaders, the so-called BRICS group of major emerging economies.

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    [Lebanese] Opposition to hold talks prior to giving answer to Le Drian
    www.naharnet.com Opposition to hold talks prior to giving answer to Le Drian

    The opposition camp will hold consultations prior to giving a final answer to French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian regarding his proposal for holding dialogue on September over the new president’s qualifications, Kataeb Party chief Sami Gemayel...

    Opposition to hold talks prior to giving answer to Le Drian

    The opposition camp will hold consultations prior to giving a final answer to French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian regarding his proposal for holding dialogue on September[…]

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    Mali drops French from official to working language, 13 local languages get official status
    mobile.ghanaweb.com Mali drops French from official to working language, 13 local languages get official status

    French has been removed as an official language in mali following the outcome of a constitutional referendum which took place on June 18.

    Mali drops French from official to working language, 13 local languages get official status

    Practical matters require French to remain a working language, but no longer will it hold prestige as an official means of communication. Another win for the continued decolonization efforts in the imperial periphery.

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    Israel protests cast light on laws discriminating against Palestinians
    www.aljazeera.com Israeli protests cast light on laws discriminating against Palestinians

    Israel has passed laws that codify bias against Palestinians but did not meet similar uproar.

    Israeli protests cast light on laws discriminating against Palestinians

    Jewish supremacy, legalized segregation, and punishing freedom of speech and political opinion.

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