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Refugee of Google Plus and Twitter; time traveler; Clara actual. Online as long as there was an online to be on, with acoustic couplers at 300 BAUD. Gardener, monarch butterfly conservationist-ish where Andy Davis is personna non grata in my book. Whether growing veggies or milkweeds, I cheat.

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mondoweiss , to palestine group
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New Video: Israel kills 274 Palestinians to save 4 Israeli captives

https://video.mondoweiss.net/w/fdu2DawTfVvTPrKrSirV7T


@palestine @israel

claralistensprechen3rd ,
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@mondoweiss @indyradio Of course they are. Where have you been that you haven't seen/heard the news?

claralistensprechen3rd ,
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@mondoweiss @indyradio It's obvious they're not the same people.

GottaLaff , to random
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AGAIN.

Via Chris D. Jackson, “ 16 Years Elective Office, TN Election Commissioner, Local Democratic Party Chair, Strategist”:

Caught Paying People to Attend Rally

A Craigslist ad has been found offering payment for people to attend Trump's rally in Las Vegas today.

Remember the video from a few days ago where Trump was waving at a non-existent crowd? It appears EVERYTHING IS A FACADE.

The media wants you to think Trump has enthusiasm, but the facts say otherwise.

claralistensprechen3rd ,
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@GottaLaff Jerr, consider the track record that precedes the "rumors".
The allegations today are believable because of his previously proven track record. He HAS previously posted verified ads on Craig's List etc.

And all you need to to verify a Craig's List post is to, well, go yourself to Craig's List and it would be easy enough to find.

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@GottaLaff @FourthWorld Then you need to get out more.
#JustSayin

mondoweiss , to palestine group
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Here's what’s happening in Rafah.

Israel bombed Rafah in southern Gaza over 60 times in 48 hours, ignoring the International Court of Justice orders to stop its military operations there.

Israel bombed displaced Palestinians in tents, killing over 30 Palestinians, including children.

The scenes coming out of Rafah are horrific, resembling a massacre.

Israel is burning Palestinians alive.

This is a developing story.

#Rafah #Gaza #Palestine #Israel
@palestine @israel

claralistensprechen3rd ,
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@mondoweiss Ya, that's half the plan. The other half of the plan is construction development:

mondoweiss , to israel group
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The New York Times has astonished its readers by publishing a long indictment of a subject it has purposely ignored for years: “Jewish terrorism” against Palestinians.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/the-nytimes-finally-publishes-a-comprehensive-indictment-of-jewish-terrorism-against-palestinians/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

claralistensprechen3rd ,
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@mondoweiss @mikeblake Abrahamic Terrorism then. All major branches do it.

claralistensprechen3rd ,
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@mondoweiss @mikeblake Well, it is the case that radical Israelis who favor the settlers blame all Palestinians for Hamas even when it was only some Palestinians that voted to elect Hamas to run their government--so there's that. It's called "collective punishment" but that is the prevailing attitude of Israel's extreme far right, @InternetDev

appassionato , to bookstodon group
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The End of Everything by Victor Davis Hanson, 2024

“In The End of Everything, Hanson tells compelling and harrowing stories of how civilizations perished. He helps us consider contemporary affairs in light of that history, think about the unthinkable, and recognize the urgency of trying to prevent our own demise.” — H. R. McMaster, author of Battlegrounds

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#war
#annihilation

In this “gripping account of catastrophic defeat” (Barry Strauss), a New York Times–bestselling historian charts how and why some societies chose to utterly destroy their foes, and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time. War can settle disputes, topple tyrants, and bend the trajectory of civilization—sometimes to the breaking point. From Troy to Hiroshima, moments when war has ended in utter annihilation have reverberated through the centuries, signaling the end of political systems, cultures, and epochs.
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    • claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @skatercat @appassionato Accurate, though. At the end of every empire, it was the end of life as everybody at the time was used to, and presumed to continue indefinitely. It's amusing how certain religions keep prepared for "end times" when we've already had several.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    Marj Q Greene relents, for now, on bid to oust Johnson

    "We will see. It is up to Mike Johnson," Greene said, when reporters repeatedly pressed her on whether she would force the vote. https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/05/07/congress/greene-retreats-00156624

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @GottaLaff @markmetz When I read your comment, Rochester's voice piped up in my ear immediately: "YESSUH BOSS!"

    {People who used to enjoy The Jack Benny Show will get this}

    paninid , to histodons group
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    It was a nice country while we had it, y’all.

    Remember the good times.

    Write down your memories, thoughts, and feelings.

    Future historians will use them to reconstruct what happened.

    That was literally the premise of A Handmaid’s Tale.

    https://fortune.com/2024/05/02/joe-biden-white-house-comments-campus-protests-gaza-israel/

    @histodons

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @paninid I haven't asked around but I strongly suspect so. Such people are described in Israeli media as "liberal Jews", which would include "non-practicing" Jews. I've had debate run-ins with (this seems to me quite the oxymoron) atheist Jews who are in fact rabidly Zionist. I heard an author being interviewed in passing, didn't catch his name but his catch phrase is quite timely: something to the effect of--in a one-eyed world, the two-eyed are the marginalized.

    mondoweiss , to israel group
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    The Jewish state learned that it can commit its own Holocaust in Gaza and deny that it exists.

    https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/we-israelis-are-the-biggest-holocaust-deniers/


    @palestine @israel

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @mondoweiss @Jennifer Long story short, they're doing this out of delusional religious entitlement.

    Miro_Collas , to palestine group
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    Why Palestinians don’t trust World Central Kitchen, with Ali Abunimah and Asa Winstanley - YouTube
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp6vPsMc2l4

    I grant that it is very odd that WCK got such easy access to Gaza, and it is also true that WCK's vids very much resemble commercials.

    However, this all seems very speculative to me. I offer it FWIW - make of it what you will

    #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #WCK
    @palestine

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @Miro_Collas After listening to the first 7 and a half minutes of it, it would seem that Andreas' position on Oct. 16 being favorable to Israel would explain why WCK got easy access to Gaza but not why Israel would target that which is favorable to it. This form of logic is quite the headscratcher.

    claralistensprechen3rd , (edited )
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    @Miro_Collas A little further there's mention of WCK shipment by sea and a reference to a massacre of the people aboard "Murphy Murmurer" saying everybody remembers that. Guess what--can't find it doing a search on the name. Many years earlier there were several #FreedomFlotilla efforts sponsored by Turkey among others but no mention of that particular ship in those efforts.

    ==================================================
    Turns out to be a pronunciation issue. Apparently refers to the "Mavi Marmara".

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @Miro_Collas @mikeblake I'm 15 minutes into this vid and all I've heard so far is what you pointed out, Mike--but all he's done thusfar is make the case for why the WCK was Israel's favorite, leaving out any explanation as to why it was targeted by Israel. Israel kills the ones they love, hm? WAT

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @Miro_Collas Okay, Jon Elmer is up now with some numbers, emphasizing that Israelis can inspect 45 trucks per hour, and it seems to me that if WCK was so well trusted they wouldn't need inspections, so that comparison is apples/oranges IMHO. It's fair to posit a truckload equivalent of what got air-dropped, but air drops don't get inspected either....therefore no delivery bottlenecks....so...if Jon is trying to make a point, I have yet to discover what it is.

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @Miro_Collas Thanks Mary and Mike--I still haven't completed viewing the video; it's about 28 minutes long, per YouTube. Your points are well taken indeed. Although true, it doesn't assist this video in making more sense, I'm afraid.
    Ya, good point, Dustin.
    ...to be continued...

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @Miro_Collas ...hokay: they FINALLY get to the meat of the matter at the 19 min 20-some second mark, so I'm going to bullet-point the items as they come across...

    • The IDF aimed at the WCK vehicles because there's no command/control chain-of-command anything and they just do what they want (presenter calls that plausible and cites a Haaretz article in which there are leaked IDF comms to back that up).

    *speculation was that WCK was a Trojan Horse replacement for UNWRA so WCK issued a statement to the contrary, stating further that WCK works with other relief orgs including UNWRA. Then 2 days later the IDF shoots at them.

    I'm not going to bullet-point the "third possibility" because it's just bonkers--there's a bright side to the killing and that it bolsters the publicity of WCK, and this video was attempting to make that case since the first minute--that WCK wasn't interested as much in actual relief as it was in the publicity, and on that point the video is a massive #FAIL as of this "third possibility" which it really isn't.

    At the 22 minute mark, Nora Friedman made the point that Mary just made: the incident might have produced more donations to WCK but it's not the case that WCK is resuming operations there. It's been off-putting for all the other aid organizations operating there as well.

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    @Miro_Collas ...Asa Winstanley speaks up after Ms. Friedman to talk about what Israel has been doing with its own civilians and troops, since Oct. 7 at the 22:30 mark, citing a David Mencer "Israel Government Spokesman" interviewed on Sky News, and showing a clip of it. Mencer's response was a whole lot of nothing but "it's a tragedy we're gonna investigate" as a "friendly fire" incident. Presenter said "it's not unusual for Israel to kill their own, in a sense". "We will be learning more". Ali Abunima adds, "We cannot donate our way out of this starvation....we have to end this effort" (as in, cease fire).

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @Miro_Collas ....and the vid winds up with Ali promoting UNWRA, and Asa asking that we subscribe to the YouTube channel. Whew.

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @Miro_Collas That, it most certainly was.

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @Miro_Collas @adachika192 Thanks Miro and Adachi--Ya, his pronunciation wasn't all that clear. Until I saw the spelling of David's last name, I thought I heard "Mensa" LOLz.

    appassionato , to palestine group
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    What’s in the US’s latest arms package to Israel?

    The packages includes:

    1,800 MK84 2,000-pound (925kg) bombs
    500 MK82 500-pound (227kg) bombs
    25 F-35A fighter jets and engines

    The 2,000-pound bombs, which can inflict damage to people up to 300 metres (1,000 feet) away, have been linked to previous mass-casualty events throughout Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.

    @palestine
    #Gaza
    #Israel
    #US
    #munitions

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @appassionato That ain't even the half of it, either. This particular shipment was large enough to require informing Congress about, but I understand there have been smaller shipments of arms prior to this that were small enough to escape the requirement to notify Congress or anybody.

    mondoweiss , to israel group
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    In an interview on Israeli television, former Mossad official Rami Igra said all Palestinians in Gaza over the age of 4 are “involved” and deserve to face Israel’s collective punishment policy of withholding food and humanitarian aid.

    https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/former-mossad-official-children-in-gaza-over-the-age-of-4-deserve-to-be-starved/

    #Palestine #Israel #Gaza
    @palestine @israel

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @mondoweiss Nope. They get to starve to death as orphans.

    cendawanita , to palestine group
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    From B.M.: "Posted the full piece on YouTube. Sort of a "day in the life of" segment with organizer of "protests" at Kerem Shalom Crossing, where they block aid to Gaza.
    Disgusting piece, on public broadcast, romanticizing pro-starvation, government-backed, protests."

    The full segment from a Channel 11 program: https://youtu.be/yF0-K_yy2hs

    #Israel #Palestine #aid #genocide @palestine

    B.M.: Right-wing protester at Kerem Shalom explains how the blocking of aid is done in cooperation with security forces: "There's police here, there's army, and we're with them... No one here is getting arrested. The army is really with you, police is with you, they just can't say it" (Screenshot of a protester, with the following subtitles: "Even the army... You can't say this, but the army also has the same opinion as you.")
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    • claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @cendawanita Clarissa Ward also did a report on a particular group of protesters but showed and reported on Israeli police wrangling them against their efforts at that particular point and when they tried to go to a different location.

    claralistensprechen3rd , to random
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    On the one hand, there is no such thing as predestination. On the other hand, seeing what's coming down the road a mile away is entirely foreseeable and in fact is required for survival. You don't need to actually stick your fingers in a fan to find out what's gonna happen, which is why "fuck around and find out" is a thing.
    ♲ mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11205561…

    claralistensprechen3rd , to random Welsh
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    #HashTagGames
    #NewTechAnOldSong

    Old MadDonald had a tablet
    With an EIA/IO

    claralistensprechen3rd , to random
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    BTW folks, The Hill is now reporting for News Nation. WTF is News Nation? Just another cable channel where the disgraced Abramson and Cuomo went after getting bounced from other cable news channels. It's where Marianne Williamson went. And you thought ClusterFox News was a hot sewage plant.
    ♲ mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/1…

    Miro_Collas , to palestine group
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    Palestinians flee starvation in north Gaza | Al Jazeera Newsfeed - YouTube
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV4CUmZ5YbA

    #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #ApartheidIsrael
    #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #Apartheid
    @palestine

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @Miro_Collas To be fair, Miro, all the spotlights on the horrendous killings in Syria by Assad didn't move the needle much. Don't get your hopes up too high.

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @Miro_Collas @heretical_i I could if G+ still existed. There were also a couple of Facebook groups posting press reports about it, but they've gone quiet a long, long time ago. The worst hit was Irbil but it was all terrible with chlorine barrels and the entire lot. Bibi and Putin aren't the only butchers in the world but you can't tell it these days.

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    @Miro_Collas See my comment above.

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    @Miro_Collas @heretical_i ...and you're posting false propaganda. Welcome to my BLOCKED list.

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    @Miro_Collas I'm not convinced that's correct, though, Miro, because I heard plenty about all those plus Darfur in particular.

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @Miro_Collas That's the problem right there: internet. Requires selective surfing. I don't do that.

    kshernandez , to blackmastodon group
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    #BlackHistoryMonth Day 25 #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackFediverse @blackmastodon

    Meet Beverly Lorraine Greene, believed to be the 1st Black woman architect in the US. Registered as architect in 1942 in Chicago, after much discrimination she was hired to help plan a house project in NY which, due to segregation, she would not be able to live in. Even in her short life, she inspired many others to come, in the field.

    Read more about her here: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/greene-beverly-loraine-1915-1957/

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    @thepoliticalcat @kshernandez I actually have a book about that, but I'm also sure it doesn't have a comprehensive list. So many more to discover yet, I'm sure.

    paninid , to histodons group
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    The colony of South Carolina was the most radical one south of Virginia.

    They’ve always been radical.

    Nothing much has changed.

    Yesterday’s #radical is the #reactionary of today.

    #BirthOfTheUnitedStates #IsaacAsimov #history #AmericanRevolution @histodons

    claralistensprechen3rd , (edited )
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    @paninid That's an oversimplification, Runyan. Complex problems don't lend themselves to simplistic answers. Plantation captains of industry couldn't live without extracting labor they didn't have to pay much for and you see that even today with attempts to roll back child labor laws in the face of stemming the tide of illegal immigrants, whom they hire for the purpose of wage theft because they know they won't file a complaint with the Labor Department....and then whine in public about illegal immigration. NeoConfederates are the scumbags of the earth.

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @paninid I don't understand your comment, Sampath. Only Runyan50 can explain any root of Runyan 50 comments. Who called you what, exactly, and where? Identified as such what, exactly?

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @paninid So are you, apparently. What you're talking about isn't in this one, and I suspect a deletion somewhere.

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @paninid Then I remain in the dark as to the nature of your subsequent comment because there's no way I can answer for Runyan and whatever it may have been that he called you, a thing I still see missing from your citation.

    mondoweiss , to palestine group
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    Overnight on Wednesday, stretching into the early hours of Thursday morning, an intense bombing campaign took place across Gaza’s southernmost city, Rafah.

    “This is absolutely terrifying in a densely populated area. Right now, Rafah has been a center for Israeli attacks,” Al Jazeera correspondent Tareq Abu Azzoum added.

    Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

    https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-139-as-palestinians-in-north-gaza-starve-israel-attacks-msf-building-in-rafah/

    #Palestine #Israel #Gaza
    @palestine @israel

    claralistensprechen3rd ,
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    @mondoweiss Arrested by the IDF and in Israeli jails, that's where.

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