BallyM @ BallyM @lemmy.world

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Good for her!

Meanwhile in Europe… the European Union passed a law recently banning national governments from disclosing to the public a list of environmental data about data centers. Europeans can access aggregate info, but specifics about the environmental impact of any datacentre in particular is now secret.

Fair use

I thought the 5-year ban was a dangerous, desperate idea. Political rights like who can vote or stand for election should be defended no matter who's being targeted.

Le Pen and her colleagues were found guilty of misappropriation of European funds by paying the salaries of some of their party officials in France with money that should only be spent on salaries of European Parliament assistants. European Parliament assistants can be party officials, and the official seat of the European Parliament is in France (Strasbourg), so the crime they committed wasn't far from the EU's rules.

A fine and criminal record makes sense. But custodial sentences? And suspending political rights for 5 years??

https://www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/criminal-complaint-filed-in-germany-against-munich-born-idf-sniper-over-alleged-gaza-war-crimes

Meanwhile, German-Israeli nationals who just participated in war crimes, crimes against humanity and acts of genocide in Gaza are free to return to Germany for R&R.

EU Member States decided on Wednesday—while citizens were literally dropping dead from extreme heat—that “green finance” should include companies engaged in fossil fuel expansion (eg new oil drilling). The banality of evil. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-countries-oil-exploration-green-investment/

Russia is obviously the aggressor, I’ve never suggested otherwise.

There are no NATO weapons besides the weapons of NATO members. UK, US, Germany, etc — almost all of Ukraine’s weapons, ammunition, training and intel comes from NATO.

He’s no Stalin, and NATO leaders aren’t Hitler of course. But some of them have made a point of honouring the memory of Nazi collaborators recently (Canada and France, maybe others).

They may have overplayed their hand.

NATO is not supplying anything to Ukraine, really? Where does Ukraine get all its weapons, intel and training?

Nonsense. Civilian infrastructure deep within Russia is bombed with NATO intel and weapons almost daily. World’s biggest nuke arsenal.

Exactly this. The arrogance of these fuckers. Even if this policy could make Finland safer — it doesn’t, but let’s imagine — what gives them the right to push the whole world closer to nuclear war?

Finland is already a member of NATO. Situating nuclear weapons there doesn’t increase the “deterrent” effect of NATO nukes. Instead, it increases the likelihood that Russia will feel compelled to rely on faster, more automated systems to determine if NATO has initiated a surprise attack, and to retaliate. We’re seconds to midnight on the doomsday clock, and these fuckers think it’s clever to announce this horrendous policy.

“This is not hard math” misses the point that nuclear weapons are an abomination, and that situating parts of a nuclear weapons system directly on Russia’s border increases the risk of miscalculation and a nuclear exchange, and consequently genocide on an unimaginable scale.

What happened to these people?

They never doubted that they had the right. They don’t even dispute that IHL even compels states to act. They don’t care.

Sorry I don’t see how to. I’m using the Mlem iOS app

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260607-why-zelensky-celebration-of-wwii-era-nationalist-guerrillas-is-causing-tension-with-poland

Oops — https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260607-why-zelensky-celebration-of-wwii-era-nationalist-guerrillas-is-causing-tension-with-poland