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24·1 year agoThe monthly prices users pay per maid are according to race, the website states – with employers charged less for the services of a black maid. “Filipinas AED3,500 ($952)/month” and “Africans AED2,700 ($735)/month,” it states
The website states that Filipina maids require a bedroom of their own to sleep in, while African maids do not.
Nobody does racist slavery quite like the Gulf Arab countries, do they? I don’t know which is more grim, that or the disclaimer:
“Zero legal liability. Maid stays on our visa, so you’ll never have to worry about any legal consequences. If anything goes wrong (eg runaway maid, pregnancy), we’re responsible to deal with any lawsuits or visits to police stations, not you.”
IE, you can sexually abuse your underpaid migrant worker without fear of legal consequences, and the employer can then revoke their visa. What a great service! /s
21·1 year agoThis article has confirmation from the GUR, Ukrainian military intelligence, that Kadyrov is critically ill. There are no exact details on what he has other than that it’s related to a chronic health condition, potentially kidney failure given his facial swelling. It’s also long been reported that he’s an addict.
I also call attention to the fact that Kadyrov allegedly had his personal physician executed in suspicion that the latter was poisoning him. It would truly be poetic justice if denying himself that medical treatment in a fit of paranoia precipitated this (hopefully terminal) episode.
“Great Patriotic War” is the fine conceit of historical revisionism that lets the Russians neatly overlook the unpleasant little detail that WW II started with the Soviets fighting as cobelligerents with Nazi Germany to invade Poland.
Upvote for a sincere question. Here’s the wiki article on its use as a fascistic pro-war symbol. Kazakhs are unhappy with it because they too are a country that Russia makes territorial claims against and are thus largely opposed to the war and its symbols.
It seems implausible in the short term, but if statements like these are in any way reflective of long term strategic goals, or even official rhetoric, it’s still ominous. Of course, given the fact it’s state TV, it could be the General purely reciting the party line to give the public the impression that the war is going vastly better than it really is. But it also reminds me of what were purported to be strategic planning documents leaked by FSB sources early in the war, from when Russia still believed they’d take Kyiv in three days. It described a plan to conquer the country in weeks, then present their army on the Polish border as a fait accompli and declare a no-fly zone over the Baltics as an ultimatum to NATO.
Whether that’s true or not, subsequent events showed that the ZSRF was incapable of even that plan, as you say. But the very level of disparity between nominal and actual capabilities that led Moscow to believe such a thing was possible to begin with certainly doesn’t speak to their ability to make accurate estimations of what their forces are capable of.
4·1 year agoSounds about right. The internal narrative is to actually tell people what to think, the external just the “firehose of falsehood” to divide and distract.
True. I’d say this disinfo angle is targeted towards apathetic/low info RU public (which is most of them frankly) and western sympathisers in denial about how ruthless the regime really is.
They’re just going to blame it on the Ukrainians, and/or “the collective west” to muddy the waters
More recent updates from RU state media report 4 damaged, so a nominal pricetag of $200m USD in hardware — though it may be less to repair, depending on the degree of damage. A great success, in any event.
@ChrisO_wiki@mastodon.social is a researcher who posts a lot of interesting stories sourced from RU news & social media relating to the home front — corruption, treatment of troops and casualties, protests by soldiers and their relatives, etc.
Also known as stalkerware or spouseware, these kinds of phone monitoring apps are often planted by someone — such as spouses or domestic partners — with physical access to a person’s phone, without their consent or knowledge.
Man. The fact that stalkerware is used so often on people’s domestic partners that they call it “spouseware” is pretty fuckin’ bleak.
Putin makes televised national address. Summary of speech:
TL;DR - Wagner is committing a betrayal, a stab in the back like 1917, and will face “inevitable punishment”.
Footage of Prigozhin in Rostov, pictured with Deputy Minister of Defense, Colonel General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov (at left, from 0:13 on) — see the latter’s official portrait photo for reference; looks like a match.
edit: and Lt. Gen. Vladimir Alekseyev, deputy chief of GRU military intelligence 1
Partial translation summary: Wagner issues orders to MoD commanders it has captured; will “blockade Rostov and go to [ed: towards?] Moscow until we get the Chief of the General Staff and Shoigu” 2, 3
- Machine translation here. Highlight: Lt. Gen. Alekseyev tells Prigozhin, “the biggest thing that upsets me is… I hear there’s a party in Kyiv. With champagne”
Time to see once and for all whether the bastards are good for anything other than TikTok videos.
Prigozhin coup attempt endorsed by exiled billionaire opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “And yes, this is just the beginning…”
Video purporting to show gunfire near Voronezh [NB: on the road north from Rostov to Moscow]
Potentially corroborating this: photo purporting to show the smoke from a helicopter crash. Location indeterminate [edit: other sources say it’s near Rostov]
https://twitter.com/clashreport/status/1672432135439888385/photo/1
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