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Miro_Collas , to palestine group
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Biden urges Hamas to accept Israeli plan for Gaza ceasefire: ‘Time for this war to end’ | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/31/biden-hamas-israel-gaza-ceasefire-plan

Sounds very similar to the plan Hamas accepted a few weeks ago, and Israel rejected.

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #USA
@palestine

f800gecko ,
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@Edelruth @Miro_Collas @palestine

Netanyahu will wait for the right moment then thrust what he hopes will be the fatal blow into Biden’s back.

He has no reason or imagination—being who he is—to do anything else. Why would he with Trump in the wings?

Imagine Putin’s propaganda machine come election time.

Biden cooked his own goose; he’s now about to plunge into the bubbling pot himself to rescue it.

Good luck to him.

Good luck to us.

Strandjunker , to random
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If the Supreme Court of the United States gives Trump the immunity he is seeking, America has ended. Don’t over think it.

Gloves off at this point!

Subpoena Roberts, Alito & Thomas immediately, and make them testify under oath on live TV about their blatant treason.

f800gecko ,
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@Strandjunker

But won’t Biden then be able to stuff him in a bag, have the military and the IRS neutralize his properties & ’wealth’, send his followers back to school and walk away?

mondoweiss , to israel group
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The current American threats to sanction the ICC could spell the death of International Law. Whatever little hope people had for a just international system will disappear.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/biden-and-congress-are-destroying-international-law-for-israel/


@palestine @israel

f800gecko ,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel

“…it is clear that Biden and Blinken fully intend to find a more creative way to press the ICC to deny Khan’s request for arrest warrants or, failing that, to withdraw them…”

One creative way would be to stop tipping billions in munitions on a starving population in the wasteland that was Gaza.

But then what?

As soon as the bombing & shooting stop, journalists will want to go in.

And they’ll want to report on what they see.

And we can’t have that.

#gaza

breadandcircuses , to random
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Paul Abela writes about "The Problem With Living On a Chaotic Planet"...

Tipping points occur when a critical threshold is breached in the Earth system. As soon as it is, it leads to change. Put another way, a tipping point is a point of no return.

What’s so concerning about tipping points is that when one is crossed, it could create a domino effect that will tip others and set in motion radical environmental changes.

Seeing as it’s impossible to model and forecast the impacts of tipping points, they aren’t integrated into climate models. This is why many scientists believe climate models are gravely underestimating future environmental conditions.

So how can we ever manage the complexity and chaos inherent in the Earth system? A logical starting point is to acknowledge that we are not in control. Once this is understood, the need to embrace the precautionary principle becomes clear.

It is safer to assume the worst and plan accordingly than to assume that we can continue with Business As Usual and that a technological breakthrough will somehow save the day. Because the risk of assuming everything will be okay is social collapse. The risk of precaution is that we move towards a sustainable path at a more aggressive rate.

It is a no-brainer, and yet, the reason we are ignoring the enormous risks we face is the same reason climate denial is alive and well. There are powerful vested interests who have everything to lose if we make the necessary transformation of our economy and society that is required.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.transformatise.com/2024/05/the-problem-with-living-on-a-chaotic-planet/

f800gecko ,
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@breadandcircuses

“Seeing as it’s impossible to model and forecast the impacts of tipping points, they aren’t integrated into climate models. This explains why many climate scientists believe climate models are gravely underestimating future environmental conditions.”

Earth is about to do to us what we've been doing to other species.

Scientists can find ways to model major obvious major tipping points, but they know they’ll be shouted down as doomsayers.

Heaven help us.

oatmeal , to israel group
@oatmeal@kolektiva.social avatar

#Gaza / The IDF's "limited operation" in #Rafah looks a lot like the #domicide occurring throughout the rest of Gaza

Satellite images show that after capturing the Rafah crossing, the IDF advanced northward along the "Philadelphi route", towards the center of the city.

@palestine
@israel #IsraelWarCrimes

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f800gecko ,
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@oatmeal @palestine @israel

That's Joe Biden's work right there.

dbsalk , to bookstodon group
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My heart aches for the children who will no longer have access to their local library because some arrogant assholes decided to be offended by books with new ideas and different perspectives.

The cruelty is the point.

https://bookriot.com/donnelly-public-library-adults-only/

@bookstodon on@a.gup.pe

f800gecko ,
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@dbsalk @bookstodon

It’s sick.

Sherifazuhur , to israel group
@Sherifazuhur@sfba.social avatar

Israel Tries to Contain Fallout Over ICC Warrant Requests After Allies Voice Support for the Move @israel @palestine

https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5022896-israel-tries-contain-fallout-over-icc-warrant-requests-after-allies-voice

f800gecko ,
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@Sherifazuhur @israel @palestine

One notes again and again how militancy and extremism seem to take root most deeply and fervently in environments of forced deprivation, as was the case with Germany in the post WWI era.

Israel’s answer: more force and deprivation.

Einstein himself, without doubt the world’s best known (and passionately moderate) commentator on Zionism once said: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”

Miro_Collas , to palestine group
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Marwan Bishara: 'The beginning of the end for Netanyahu' over ICC's potential arrest warrants - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBtUH-m_Ia0

Netanyahu keeps playing the holocaust card. That has gotten old.

#Palestine #Israel #ICC #MarwanBishara
@palestine

f800gecko ,
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@Miro_Collas @palestine

A worthwhile watch

I generally decline to spend time on any sort of video these days, but here an exception.

auschwitzmuseum , to random
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19 May 1881 | Jewish man, Bernard Berenhaut, was born in Cracow (then Austro-Hungary). A merchant. He moved to Berlin and in 1939 fled to Norway.

He arrived at on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

f800gecko ,
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@auschwitzmuseum

The erosion of memory is palpable as nation after nation—near and far, of every race and people—slides deeper into what Einstein in the 1930’s described as “the psychic distemper of the masses.”

The targets are manifold: minorities, ‘deviants,’ those rendered powerless.

The methods are manifold.

The outcomes are always alike.

We remain capable of reverting to our animal nature, it seems, both persecutor and victim.

And, curiously, we always consider ourselves justified.

wdlindsy , to random
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

“I’m a German-Polish Jew. My last name is Wexler. …

We are told that we need a state that is based on ethnicity in the 21st century and that’s the only way Jewish people can be safe. But it is really for Britain and America and other imperialist states to have a presence in the Middle East.”

~ Sara Wexler

#Israel #Palestinians #Jews
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https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-nations-conscience

f800gecko ,
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@wdlindsy

Well said:

‘All systems of totalitarianism, including corporate totalitarianism, deform education into vocational training where students are taught what to think, not how to think.’

f800gecko , to random
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Israel, one of the wealthiest nations on earth per capita, can’t afford to feed its two million-odd Gazan prisoners and detainees.

It needs the UN to do it for some reason.

While it bombs and shoots and starves them of food and essential services with billions in American tax payer support.

auschwitzmuseum , to random
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16 May 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Ágnes Fuchs, was born.

In May 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

f800gecko ,
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@auschwitzmuseum

Humanity seems not to have learned.

Or cares not for the lesson.

It’s us versus them—‘them’ being whoever those at the keyboards and levers of power tell us it is—and they must be crushed like bugs lest they crush us.

So the message goes, so the voters vote, and so the soldiers field their weapons.

It appears we’re not advanced enough to do it any other way.

Great technology, lousy ape brains.

And climate change has only begun to umask itself…

Heaven help us.

mondoweiss , to israel group
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Antony Blinken claims that Hamas is blocking a ceasefire in Gaza, but it is Israel which has vowed to invade Rafah regardless of an agreement and is absolutely unwilling to declare an end to its genocidal operation.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/inside-the-biden-administration-sham-to-convince-the-world-netanyahu-wants-a-ceasefire/


@palestine @israel

f800gecko ,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel

Indeed…

“That theater has often veered into the absurd, as, just to cite one example, when the President has complained about Israel not allowing humanitarian aid in to Gaza—an unambiguous war crime under international law—only to have administration spokespeople assert that they have “no evidence” that Israel has broken international law.”

f800gecko ,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel

This is how Palestine has been managed for decades, not just since Biden took office…

“While the Biden administration has repeatedly said they “will not support” a Rafah invasion, they have not said there would be consequences if Israel goes ahead. In other words, they have done absolutely nothing to actually deter Netanyahu. This is how Biden has dealt with Israel since the day he took office.”

plink , to israel group
@plink@mastodon.online avatar

from
As Assault Intensifies, Joins Case Accusing of Genocide

"It's a real diplomatic punch," a former diplomat said. "Israel would have to take it very seriously."






@palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/news/egypt-icj-israel

f800gecko ,
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@plink @palestine @israel

For the first time, the obligatory mention of Oct 7 done correctly.

Israel's devastating assault on Gaza began October 7 in response to a Hamas attack on southern Israel that killed around 1,100 people and captured around 250 hostages. Before that attack, Israel had blockaded Gaza for 16 years.

f800gecko ,
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@rrb @plink @palestine @israel

Yes, there is so much more to be said

But at least giving a hint and handhold to encourage the doing of a little more “own research” is useful and something not seen much to date.

I wish other news outlets would act accordingly.

auschwitzmuseum , to random
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The two pictures are 11 years apart.

On 10 May 1933, the Nazi party staged an ideological spectacle of burning of 'un-German’ books.

2nd image: Auschwitz II-Birkenau, burning pits outside gas chamber V, 1944.

Auschwitz warns us of where ideologies of hatred can lead to.

Group of prisoners of Auschwitz burning corpses of people murdered in gas chambers in burning pits. Smoke is visible above the pile.

f800gecko ,
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@auschwitzmuseum

Books were not the only target:

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-press-in-the-third-reich

futurebird , to random
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Has anyone read any good math and science history nonfiction books recently? (pop nonfiction please) Are there any really good ones out?

f800gecko ,
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@futurebird

Einstein’s Fridge by Paul Sen

wdlindsy , to random
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"I recommend that you read Anne [Applebaum]'s article in its entirety to see the full spectrum of these autocratic efforts around the world, but I want to focus here on what’s happening in the United States. Americans are being targeted by foreign propagandists who are using the internet and social media to pump their toxic slurry directly into American veins."

~ Tom Nichols


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https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/05/the-plot-to-discredit-democracy/678315/

f800gecko ,
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@wdlindsy

Agreed.

It's an excellent sum-up of what's been in play over the last number of years.

randahl , to random
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The gloves come off: UK foreign minister Cameron says Ukraine can use British weapons inside Russia.

This is an important announcement, because the Storm Shadow missiles have a range of 550 km, bringing many Russian military targets within striking range, including targets in Moscow.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/britains-cameron-kyiv-promises-ukraine-aid-as-long-it-takes-2024-05-02/

f800gecko ,
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@randahl

Long overdue.

Sherifazuhur , to israel group
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West Bank: Israel Defense Forces accused of possible war crime (IMO it’s a war crime) @israel @palestine

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw07wgrwzywo

f800gecko ,
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@Sherifazuhur @israel @palestine

‘fewer than 1% of all complaints against Israeli soldiers result in prosecutions’

It’s a pity this item isn’t able to convey the endless repetition of such events in the decades since Israel began using its military for policing under a set of repressive laws designed solely to repress and harass Palestinians, an institutional systemic war crime that dwarfs these individual incidents.

#Gaza

auschwitzmuseum , to random
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27 April 1910 | A Polish man, Tadeusz Powalisz, was born in Poznań. A teacher.

In Auschwitz from 5 April 1941.
No. 11312
He was shot in the camp on 14 June 1942.

f800gecko ,
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@auschwitzmuseum

We’ve apparently learned nothing.

It’s shameful.

Survivors themselves are expressing their revulsion.

RememberUsAlways , to israel group
@RememberUsAlways@newsie.social avatar

We still don't know the fate of many #UnitedStates and #Israeli #citizens held hostage in #Palestine as #student protests take institutions #hostage in an attempt to extract demands against #Israel.
The hostages have the right to be rescued by any methods from negotiation to assassination according to the
#genevaconventions.
@palestine
@israel

f800gecko ,
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@RememberUsAlways @palestine @israel

Including genocide?

dymaxion , (edited ) to random
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Global data center energy use is set to triple this year, from 15TWh last year to 46TWh this year.

That's an increase on the order of what Serbia or Ireland consumes in a year.

Given that most of this demand is being driven by Nvidia GPU systems for AI compute and Nvidia is manufacturing capacity limited right now, with all available hardware being installed, we can expect that growth rate to continue, adding another ~30TWh next year — except that the next generation of hardware consumes even more power, so it could be more like an additional 40TWh, another Denmark or New Zealand. If Nvidia gets over their supply chain crunch, this could go much higher, assuming the market and grid can support it. Even with only linear growth, this would put us at ~285TWh by 2030, approximately the same as all of the UK.

It won't, of course — it's an obvious bubble and the infrastructure simply isn't there to support this, but it's a catastrophe in the making regardless.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-electric-utilities-brace-surge-power-demand-data-centers-2024-04-10/

f800gecko ,
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@dymaxion

Poor, old, and mostly people of colour will die when the crunch comes and utilities decide to favour ‘essential’ internet ‘services’ instead of real people in real neighbourhoods.

Billy-Joe and Bobbie-Sue American have no idea how ugly it will get.

I used to think I’d be okay in my lifetime.

Not anymore.

auschwitzmuseum , to random
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24 April 1893 | A German Jew, Alfred Dresel, was born in Fraustadt (Wschowa). A businessman.

He tried to leave Europe on MS St. Louis. After the forced return to Europe, he stayed in France. Deported, via Gurs & Drancy, to Auschwitz. Murdered in a gas chamber on 28 August 1942.

f800gecko ,
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@auschwitzmuseum

We haven’t learned a damned thing. Nowhere.

futurebird , to random
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For an acquittal at least two or three jurors AND much of the general public in NYC would need to have serious doubts about the legal soundness of the case. It would need to start with "My client is difficult, not well liked, and he continues to refuse to admit that he had an affair but none of these things are illegal... blah blah blah"

Trump can not abide. He hamstrings his council by insisting they maintain his self-image AND keep him from being found guilty.

f800gecko ,
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@futurebird

I haven't been watching, but a friend tells me Trump was complaining about how small the signature line is on these documents where he signs off on hush payments, etc., and how can he possibly know the story behind what he's approving and be held accountable when there is so little room to work his sharpie...

Not sure if that's an accurate report, but it sure sounds like him.

Miro_Collas , to palestine group
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UN rights chief 'horrified' by mass grave reports at Gaza hospitals
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68881325

Nothing will be done - Israel has total immunity, thanks to US support. Disgusting!


@palestine

f800gecko ,
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@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

Bearing in mind a lot of that censuring talk is really just for show. Not one oligarch has been meaningfully slowed (I’d be glad to learn of any who have) and I’ve just read the UK now deems Russian oil refined elsewhere not to be of Russian origin. The loopholes being for fascists everywhere are seemingly endless.

f800gecko ,
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@angiebaby @Miro_Collas @happymilk @palestine

I wonder if that’s how she also looks upon 30k+ slaughtered Palestinians…

It sounds like the Dems’ version of ‘crisis actors’.

f800gecko ,
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@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

You’re correct it’s more complicated than I portrayed it; here’s a good summary of why I feel this way:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-ukraine-war-sanctions-effective-1.7126099

The story on the UK treatment of Russian oil refined outside Russia is in my boosts of today.

f800gecko ,
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@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

Also, a ton of ‘seized’ oligarch money and other Russian assets—many billions—sits in limbo.

It could be properly confiscated and used to fund the Ukrainian war effort, but it appears to be easier to extract such sums from American taxpayers than from a banking system designed to be and remaining faithful to fascists.

f800gecko ,
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@radiofreearabia @Miro_Collas @palestine

I understand the anger, but "Shitreal" is not a helpful term. Israel and its millions of citizens (Jewish, Palestinian and other) are there and need to figure in a solution.

Sanctions can be useful, but the first priority in my view is honest and unimpaired news reportage.

Netanyahu and his fascist collaborators know truth is a huge risk & so have been targeting journalists and aid workers.

This represents a soft point we need to relentlessly pursue.

f800gecko ,
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@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

I agree on the hypocrisy of the West; it is no more evident than in the enormous budget package just passed by the Senate.

I disagree it’s wrong to punish Putin and his criminal friends for their effort to destroy Ukraine.

Prigozhin, remember, was one of them until Putin had his airplane shot out of the sky for having turned against the regime with his slow motion putsch.

If you are ultra-wealthy in Russia, you are a thief either fully with Putin or dead.

f800gecko ,
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@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

So, you’re friend to the man who, like Netanyahu:

  1. Pursues a scorched earth ethnic cleansing policy on lands he considers his (see Georgia, Chechnya, Ukraine, etc).

  2. Has political opponents beaten, jailed, tortured and murdered (see Yushchenko, Navalny, etc).

  3. Targets journalists and cultural commentators for beatings and assassination (see Anna Politkovskaya, etc.—scores of them).

  4. Has repressed just about every non-Russian Orthodox religion…

1/2

f800gecko ,
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@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

…other than that of the Hasidic Jews of Russia, with whom, for some reason, he goes out of his way to be friendly.

  1. Runs a bigger propaganda machine than Israel and helped install the US president who declared Jerusalem to be Israel’s.

  2. Has doubtless been hard at work behind the scenes to the genocide in Gaza so as to further divide the American moderates who will decide if Trump returns.

Forgive me for wondering if you know what hypocrisy is.

2/2

f800gecko ,
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@Miro_Collas @faab64 @palestine

He was hand-picked by Yeltsin and he replaced those oligarchs he didn’t care for with friends at the first opportunity, but, yes, they helped put him there, and those who remain do so only at his pleasure if they wish to maintain their status.

f800gecko ,
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@faab64 @Miro_Collas @palestine

Bye, friend. Good luck with your campaign to gain support for Gaza.

faab64 , to random

It is sickening to see Israel and all their hasbara army are working 24/7 to call the protesters Terrorist supporters and discredit their bravery and actions.

The media in Europe are ignoring the atrocities of Israel in a level I have never seen before, multiple mass graves have been uncovered (again) close to Al Nasar hospital with over 280 bodies, some handcuffed, some with skin removed and some with possible organs removed.

Compare this to the "mass grave" in Ukraine where Russians had buried Ukraine soldiers with cross over their graves and their dog tag hanging over it and the news coverage and reporting about it.

War crime is war crime, but covering up for these and actively suppressing the voice of those who try to stand up against these repeated and ongoing atrocities is just something I wasn't expecting to see in so called democratic nations.
♲ mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApa…

f800gecko ,
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@faab64 @EndIsraeliApartheid

I firmly believe these nations (like my own) see in Israel what they themselves have been or instigated throughout history: the 'rightness' of colonial 'settlement' over Indigenous 'savagery'.

That's the story Israel is telling, and the one we keep repeating (at the state and national media level) to ourselves.

It's easier for most people than facing the truth and attempting to deal with it.

And we have the guns & bombs.

#genocide #gaza

mondoweiss , to israel group
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Berlin police raided and cut off electricity to the Palestinian Congress conference before banning the three-day event. Organizers say Germany’s antidemocratic authoritarian response to Palestine activism is growing by the day.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/police-raid-berlin-conference-as-repression-of-palestine-activism-escalates-in-germany/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

f800gecko ,
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@justicesandwich @mondoweiss @palestine @israel

How is it ‘hate speech’ to oppose the slaughter of 30,000+ and counting?

Set all the religio-ethnic nonsense aside and let’s think about it:

How does anyone justify 30,000 lives taken, thousands more maimed, millions displaced, parched, starved, and no end in sight (other than total annihilation), in reply to 1,200 needlessly lost to zealots nurtured by decades of discrimination, subjugation and a political & leadership failure on all sides?

rbreich , to random
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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.

f800gecko ,
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@rbreich

And money.

StillIRise1963 , to random
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"The New York Times reports that Trump is planning to 'build huge camps to detain people,' and 'to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, Mr. Trump would redirect money in the military budget.’ "

"How many people? ‘Millions’ writes the Times. And not just immigrants: Trump is planning to send his enemies to them, too.”

https://www.rawstory.com/hartmann-trump/

f800gecko ,
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@Npars01 @StillIRise1963

Not just media companies—two infamous examples being IBM and IG Farben.

f800gecko ,
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@Npars01 @StillIRise1963

I’m glad you shared those links - I’d never thought to look.

From the IBM one…

‘In early 2021, Black published the 20th anniversary edition with special public events and a syndicated article stating that in twenty years, "not a comma has been changed", adding that "IBM has never requested a correction or denied any facts in the book."’

rbreich , to random
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Trump has proposed a 10% tariff on all imported goods and a 60% or more tariff on Chinese imports.

No matter what he says, tariffs aren't paid by the other country. They're paid by you.

A new analysis predicts his plan would cost the average family about $1,500 extra per year.

f800gecko ,
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@rbreich

I’ll just buy a made in the USA iPhone.

Ha.

Busted!

Give me a sec here…

breadandcircuses , to random
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Regarding my previous post on the worst companies in the USA for carbon emissions [ https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/112196047305360224 ], there is another group of climate criminals we should mention.

Also of interest, and equally worthy of scorn, are companies on the list of "Top Suppliers for US Industrial Facility Pollution."

Burning fossil fuels and emitting carbon is made possible because of the materials and products supplied to those facilities. So here are the top ten U.S. companies by CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions from their supply of products that result in emissions when the products are released, combusted, or oxidized.

f800gecko ,
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@breadandcircuses

We’re all climate criminals.

I’m staring to wonder if the recent flood of top offender stories has been welcomed by host media because they know it relieves many of the rest of us of worrying about our own habits, and therefore helps sustain apathy and consumerism—we have someone else to blame for the moment.

Not that the mega-rich are blameless; they deserve the scorn. But propaganda is best served as stealthy payload in material provoking strong emotional engagement...

f800gecko ,
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@breadandcircuses

I agree advertising/marketing aimed into the reptilian regions of the human brain may be the biggest single issue standing in the way of progress at present.

So many of us simply don’t want to hear or share the message.

Not until our own houses are on fire.

Until then it spoils the buzz.

So we let the fat cats and the politicians get away with it and in return get to hang on to all our stuff—it’s our Faustian bargain.

We do share culpability.

mondoweiss , to israel group
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People’s truth speaks louder than settler colonialism and denialism for Palestine and “Comfort Women.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/03/justice-for-comfort-women-is-justice-for-palestinian-resistance-a-call-of-conscience-for-our-communities/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

f800gecko ,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel

It would seem Simon Wiesenthal Center, et. al., have felt the need to reach for project work beyond the daily tide of antisemitism (which is quite real) now the last of the WWII era genocidal Nazi maniacs have all but died out.

How ironic they should land in a pogrom of Israel’s own making.

And how incompetent must Israel’s fascist boobs be not to have finished off ‘Hamas’ by now, even with the weight and slaughter-power of US-supplied arms.

masterdon1312 , to random
@masterdon1312@mastodon.social avatar

this guy is trying to reach 1 million kills before his is up

f800gecko ,
@f800gecko@mastodon.online avatar

@masterdon1312

He really is a confused man.

appassionato , to palestine group
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Palestinians walk past the ruins of houses destroyed by Israeli strikes [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

@palestine
#Gaza
#displaced
#women
#children

f800gecko ,
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@appassionato @palestine

The incompetence of the fascist Israeli regime: 30,000+ dead, scores of thousands maimed, millions displaced, virtually all public infrastructure destroyed—hospitals included—and Netanyahu is still no closer to having finished off the ‘Hamas’ bogeyman.

A bogeyman that is, obviously, no less than a proxy for all Gazans, rooted in the hatred and stereotyping of racism, and one of Israel’s most successful propaganda triumphs, given the West’s readiness to swallow it.

GottaLaff , to random
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👋🏼”A former #Mississippi sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Tuesday to about 20 years in prison for his part in torturing two Black men last year.

Hunter Elward was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Tom Lee, who is also due to sentence five other former law enforcement officers who admitted to subjecting Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker to numerous acts of racist torture.”
https://apnews.com/article/d2eb6ba7e2f337ac1f17035cc97f2934

f800gecko ,
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@GottaLaff

Trump would pardon them.

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