BanjoBolshevik [comrade/them, des/pair]

https://xcancel.com/narrenhut/status/2028531656244482328

Norwegian parliamentary election result rundown (99% votes counted): Red-green socdem-led block keeps majority with 88 out of 169 seats, big shakeups within both blocks.

Red-green block:

• Labour party: 28% (+1,8), 53 seats (+5)
• Socialist left party: 5,6% (-2,2), 9 seats (-4)
• Centre party: 5,6% (-7,9), 9 seats (-19)
• Red party: 5,3 (+0,6), 9 seats (+1)
• Green party 4,7 (+0,8), 8 seats (+5)

Bourgeois block:

• Progress party: 23,9% (+12,2), 47 seats (+26)
• Conservative party: 14,6% (-5,7), 24 seats (-12)
• Christian democrats: 4,2% (+0,4), 7 seats (+4)
• Liberal party: 3,7% (-0,9), 3 seats (-5)

Both socialist parties (Rødt/Red party and Sosialistisk venstreparti/Socialist left party) are cool, green party (Miljøpartiet de grønne) have some good policies but are mostly lib.

Socdems up, socialists up, other socialists down, greens up, centrists way down, conservatives way down, libertarians/fascists way up, christian conservatives up, libs down.

Final count still some hours away.

First norwegian election results are in: *Succdem-led block on top with a lead of ~9 mandates *Fascist party second largest party with ~24% of votes counted

Norway’s Labour government will implement a national ban on trade with companies that facilitate Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian land. This comes as a result of the socialist left party’s negotiations on a revised state budget, and continuing pressure from the norwegian confederation of trade unions (LO).

Norway’s massive sovereign wealth fund has continually dragged its feet on the issue of excluding companies that facilitate and profit from the occupation of Palestine from the wealth fund’s portfolio (such as it did with Russia in 2022), even though finance minister (and former NATO chief) Jens Stoltenberg has admitted under oath that he has the power to do so at any moment.

Machine translated article

After collapsing their coalition government with the Centre party last week the floundering norwegian Labour party has formed a new government. Most notably is the addition of former prime minister/NATO ghoul chief and alledged lifelong CIA asset Jens Stoltenberg as the country’s new minister of finance. He will no doubt be spending his tenure talking about how important it is to keep investing even more funds in domestic “ethical” arms and munitions manufacturing.

https://apnews.com/article/norway-stoltenberg-finance-minister-nato-d15adb51f118e9fd2f7914f508477a8b

IOF claims the ceasefire in Lebanon has been violated

Had to “upgrade” our computers to win11 at work last month, everything runs worse and everybody agrees its utter garbage.

On the bright side this has helped me convince one of my coworkers to try Linux on their home computer.