f800gecko

susurros , 7 days ago to palestine group

Germany Designates BDS as 'Suspected Extremist Group'

"Germany's federal intelligence agency classified the international Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as a suspected extremist organization this week.

"This new designation will allow German authorities to monitor BDS activists and recruit informants within the organization."

https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2024-06-20/ty-article/.premium/germany-designates-bds-as-suspected-extremist-group-citing-antisemitism-concerns/00000190-361d-d700-a7f0-bfffd7250000

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Germany #BDS

f800gecko , 1 day ago

@susurros @palestine

Germany itself has become extremist once again.

Palestinians must die by the thousands, per modern Germany, to make up for the Holocaust, a German war crime.

Germany could have taken the high road and said to their fascist pal in Israel, "Look, Ben, we made the same mistake with you guys; this slaughter can lead you nowhere good. Let's have a talk, shall we?"

But, no.

Must kill them all. And silence the protestors. Just like in the 1930's.

#gaza #genocide #irony

Strandjunker , 28 days ago to random

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 , 25 days ago

@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?

Miro_Collas , 26 days ago to palestine group

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 , 26 days ago

@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.

mondoweiss , 1 month ago to israel group

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 #Gaza
@palestine @israel

f800gecko , 1 month ago

@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 , 1 month ago to random

Paul Abela writes about "The Problem With Living On a Chaotic Planet"...

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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.

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

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

f800gecko , 1 month ago

@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 , 1 month ago to israel group

#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 , 1 month ago

@oatmeal @palestine @israel

That's Joe Biden's work right there.

dbsalk , 1 month ago to bookstodon group

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/

#Books #BookBans #Bookstodon #Libraries @bookstodon on@a.gup.pe

f800gecko , 1 month ago

@dbsalk @bookstodon

It’s sick.

Sherifazuhur , 1 month ago to israel group

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 , 1 month ago

@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 , 1 month ago to palestine group

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 , 1 month ago

@Miro_Collas @palestine

A worthwhile watch

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

auschwitzmuseum , 1 month ago to random

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 #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

f800gecko , 1 month ago

@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 , 1 month ago to random

“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
/1

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-nations-conscience

f800gecko , 1 month ago

@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.’

auschwitzmuseum , 1 month ago to random

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 , 1 month ago

@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 , 1 month ago to israel group

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 #Gaza
@palestine @israel

f800gecko , 1 month ago

@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 , 1 month ago

@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 , 1 month ago to israel group

from #CommonDreams
As #Gaza Assault Intensifies, #Egypt Joins #ICJ Case Accusing #Israel of Genocide

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

#DefendStudentProtesters
#SolidarityWithPalestine #NotAntisemitism #CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsraelNow
#EndTheOccupation #PalestinianLivesMatter #StopArmingIsrael
#FreePalestine #StopGazaGenocide
#Palestine
#news #press @palestine @israel

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

f800gecko , 1 month ago

@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.