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To tilt Hungarian election, Russians proposed staging assassination attempt
### To aid Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a friend of Russia, in his election, operatives proposed "the Gamechanger" — a staged assassination attempt to stir supporters.
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Unionized staff at ProPublica vote to strike | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
Unionized staff at one of the nation’s largest nonprofit newsrooms, ProPublica, have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. Workers have been bargaining for more than two years for a first contract.
The ProPublica Guild, a bargaining unit of The NewsGuild of New York, represents about 150 journalists, videographers, development professionals, copy editors and other workers. The Guild’s strike authorization vote concluded Thursday evening with 92% voting yes and 99% of the union participating in the vote.
Management at ProPublica – which touts its mission to produce investigative journalism with “moral force” – has consistently refused to agree to many provisions that are standard in contracts across the industry.
During more than two years of active bargaining, ProPublica management has:
Refused to agree to standard job security protections and seniority provisions in layoffs.
Rejected any restrictions on replacing jobs with AI.
Denied workers wage increases that keep up with the rising cost of living.
Workers at the nonprofit newsroom take action after management’s persistent refusal to agree to a fair contract that includes guardrails around the use of AI.
In the run-up to Hungary’s pivotal election in April, a unit of Russia’s foreign intelligence service last month began sounding the alarm over plummeting public support for Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose friendly ties to Moscow have long given the Kremlin a strategic foothold inside NATO and the European Union.
Officers from the intelligence service, or SVR, suggested that drastic action might be necessary — a strategy they called “the Gamechanger.” In an internal report for the SVR obtained and authenticated by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post, the operatives proposed a way to “fundamentally alter the entire paradigm of the election campaign” — “the staging of an assassination attempt on Viktor Orban.”
This sounds oddly familiar.
The Russian measures to support Orban have included a Kremlin-backed social media campaign to amplify messaging that Orban is the only candidate who can protect Hungary’s sovereignty, according to European security officials familiar with the activities who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence findings.
Given the general competence of Russian troops... maybe they should give it a try with this fake assassination attempt?
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Google is beginning to replace news headlines in its search results with ones that are AI-generated. After AI clickbait nonsense in its Google Discover news feed, it’s starting to mess with headlines in the “10 blue links” too.
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The U.S. is a wounded empire! Ready to ruin everything, they are pursuing their plan to destroy everything that prevents them from being number one. No one is allowed to be richer than those who hatched the plan to weaken all opponents. They don’t care about the citizens, but the citizens must pay the price—either through taxes or with their lives. The fight to the last Ukrainian continues; in the eyes of those who care only about money, the Arabs are worthless, as well. Even if the business model of those who hold the empire’s strings contains some miscalculations, they let the lost war continue. That could cost millions more lives, including in Western Europe.
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