wurzelgummidge

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UN Warns It Will Have to Suspend Gaza Aid Operation If Israel Continues Endangering Humanitarian Workers ( truthout.org )

The letter called for Israel to open up channels for humanitarian workers to communicate with Israeli officials about ensuring their operations are safe from the Israeli military, a process known as deconfliction, the letter reportedly said. The talks between UN and Israeli officials are ongoing, and no final decision has been...

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This is exactly what Israel wants

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There is an awful lot of things that AP, as well as Reuters and AFP feel is stuff you don't need to know.

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They are a clearing house for US/Nato propaganda

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Officials running the Pentagon and State Department have been in overdrive for more than 250 days in support of Israel’s ongoing slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Supposedly dedicated to defense and diplomacy, those officials have worked to implement and disguise Washington’s war policies, which have taken more lives than any other government in this century.

U.S. Military Planes Are in Haiti. Haitians Don’t Know Why. ( foreignpolicy.com )

In the past several weeks, I have watched dozens of sleek U.S. military planes descend over Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where I live. They were the first flights to land since gangs blockaded and halted commercial air traffic in March. U.S. news reports suggest that the aircraft contained...

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There's something off to me about the media exclusively referring to them as gangs.

It's about fixing the narrative in the public mind. They do similar shit in almost every foreign news story, especially places, we are not supposed to like

US lawmakers meet with Dalai Lama in India's Dharamshala, sparking anger from China ( apnews.com )

A bipartisan United States congressional delegation met with the Dalai Lama Wednesday at his residence in India’s Dharamshala, sparking anger from China which views the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism as a dangerous separatist. ...

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Why are we talking to this old creep?

Because we give him lots of money to annoy China

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Imagine all the bullshit the US spreads about countries who are NOT supposedly their friends.

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Foreign policy now is just do and say what America tells them to and pocket the cash ... in offshore bank accounts, of course

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Both sides are falling over themselves to demonize China.

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No, nor anything from Zukerbook. They don't even have TikTok, they have their own versions.

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They usually get their friends in the media to do it

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Because they all know the Americans are writing his script

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THE BIZARRE TALE of a 10-step plot to escalate chaos in Hong Kong until there was blood on the streets and destruction of the economy came to an end this morning.

And the care taken by the judges shone a positive light on the Hong Kong judiciary – as did their openness in releasing their paperwork to public scrutiny.

Most participants (31) in this important subversion case had already pleaded guilty—and a court this morning found the same was true for the majority (14) of the remaining ones. Two were acquitted.

Details of the case are below—and read to the end for five important conclusions you won’t read anywhere else.

BLOODY SUPRRESSION
The plotters aimed to use loopholes in the city’s governance system to create what they called “a constitutional weapon of mass destruction” that would paralyze Hong Kong.

A specific step in the plan was to side-line pro-peace opposition members in favor of pro-violence radicals.

Participants were asked to sign a pledge (titled “Inked Without Regret”) that if they got into the Legislative Council they would follow instructions to act as a bloc to veto the city’s budget and freeze all government spending: the money that kept schools, hospitals and utilities working.

This would create a state of emergency, escalate violence, and cause so much chaos on the streets that it would force China’s leadership to take control of Hong Kong in what organizers hoped would be “a bloody suppression”.

WE BURN, YOU BURN
This in turn would enable the US to declare that Beijing had ended “one country two systems” which the west could use to justify hitting Hong Kong and mainland China with political and economic sanctions.

The resultant destruction of Hong Kong’s economy would cause immense harm to the population of the city, but thinking was that it would be worth it under the “we burn, you burn” principle, which saw economic catastrophe as a desirable step towards political goals.

The court heard that the scheme evolved from initial plans in December of 2019. It was then outlined in detail by academic Benny Tai in a plan entitled “10 steps to real mutual destruction”.

Various versions were printed between April and May 2020 in Apple Daily, a newspaper run by anti-China campaigner Jimmy Lai and his right hand man Mark Simon, a former US intelligence officer.

AWASH WITH CASH, AS USUAL
But Hong Kong investigators became suspicious about mysterious sums of money moving around among individual political activists, with sums ranging from HK$4,000 to HK$290,000.

In the end, judges agreed to freeze more than HK$1.6 million of unexplained cash.

During the opening steps of the plan, a public popularity contest to select candidates, arrests were made and 47 participants charged with conspiring to commit subversion. Thirty-one pleaded guilty and 16 denied the charges.

Today, 14 of those were found guilty, while two were acquitted.

ANALYSIS
ONE: Western media reports say the arrests were for “organizing primaries”. This is not true. They were detained on suspicion of “conspiring to subvert state powers”, a crime recognized worldwide, and used thousands of times MORE in western countries than it has been in Hong Kong.

TWO: The case is difficult for the west to use against China. That’s because most of the people arrested pleaded guilty, including the prime mover, Benny Tai. This meant the facts were not in dispute.

Furthermore, four of the people gave evidence for the prosecution, which meant that there was no shortage of detailed evidence confirming the prosecution’s case.

THREE: The mixed verdicts—with two people acquitted—are also a problem for Hong Kong’s critics, including Jimmy Lai, Mark Simon, and much of the western press, who have repeatedly said that the city no longer has a rule of law, and no one can win national security cases.

Indeed, one of the men who was acquitted, Lawrence Lau, stood outside the court today and praised the judgment. “If there is any star in this case, this judgement should be the star,” he told the scrum of reporters.

The judgment, a huge document of almost 300 pages, was made publicly available. What comes across in the document is just how much care the judges took in defining every term used, and the wealth of references to other cases around the world.

FOUR: In terms of timing – 2019 and 2020 – this Hong Kong scheme coincides with a long list of anti-China activities which involve east-west politics, anti-China activism, and lots of unexplained cash.

The Hong Kong people are rightly concerned about the involvement in the city of numerous “three-initial” pro-western groups, including OTF, NED, and RFA, contributing millions of dollars for anti-government activism in Hong Kong.

The U.S. strictly bans overseas political interference in its own country, but has spent massively, for decades, on sponsoring political interference around the world.

FIVE: But here’s the biggest irony of all.

Another attempt to organize a series of steps that would bring legal government processes to a complete halt took place from 3 November 2020 to 6 January 2021 in the United States, culminating in the storming of the Capitol Hill building in Washington DC on the second of those dates.

The international media uniformly see that as a bad thing.

It appears that from most western journalists’ point of view, violent insurgency in the US is bad, violent insurgency in Hong Kong is good.

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The average mass murderer is a rank amateur compared to Netanyahu

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Sky News

And we only need to take Rupert Murdoch's word for it to be true

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The CIA will ensure that he wins. He's a Neocon, a fully paid up subscriber to the Wolfowitz Doctrine and a lot more reliable than Trump.

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Most propaganda isn't designed to fool the critical thinker, it is designed to give moral cowards a reason not to think.

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Some other U.S. lawmakers have suggested in recent months that Qatar supports Hamas

It is clear to everyone outside the US/Nato propaganda bubble that the US not only supports Israel but is desperately trying to bait Iran into the conflict. Something that Israel and the neocons in the CIA have been gagging for for years.

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US officials said

Unnamed US officials said, without providing any evidence, ....

Fixed that for them

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Accountability. If there was a name they would have to provide some kind of evidence or justification for the claims. As it is we just have to take their word for it.

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Read your news carefully. Western news media almost never give a name unless there is real evidence. You will frequently see things like "according to experts familiar with the matter", or "speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorised to talk to the press", or any number of other permutations.

And yet, when quoting Putin, Xi or any of their other favourite pantomime villains they always qualify their statements with "without citing any evidence."

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Maybe the US should make as much effort to deter Israel from obliterating Gaza. The hypocrisy is breathtaking

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They are voting for things based on lies and disinformation from unscrupulous politicians and their gofers and propagated by devious and opaque algorithms.

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There is nothing in Article 23 that isn't included in any other country's security laws. Since western mouthpieces only tell you that it is bad rather than telling you what exactly is in it you should read it for yourself, https://hongkongfp.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Hong-Kong-Article-23-draft-legislation.pdf

But critics such as the US government

THE US government spends three-hundred-million tax payer dollars per year on anti-China propaganda.

(a) Countering Chinese influence fund.—There is authorized to be appropriated $300,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2020 through 2024 for the Countering Chinese Influence Fund,
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/7937/text

“Actions by Hong Kong authorities, including referring to RFA as a ‘foreign force’

Radio Free Asia is part of the CIA’s propaganda network. It works in partnership with something called the Open Technology Fund (OTF) which is used to funnel money to rioters. That is now illegal, it wasn’t before.

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Sure there is, we still have AP and Reuters, https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/

U.S. signs off on more bombs, warplanes for Israel ( www.washingtonpost.com )

The Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of dollars in bombs and fighter jets to Israel despite Washington’s concerns about an anticipated military offensive in southern Gaza that could threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians....

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We’re not shaming anyone for voting for genocide. We’re shaming you for helping usher in an American Dictatorship

The choice between Genocide Joe and a fluorescent narcissist gangster, what a great democracy, eh?

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Well it is an arrangement between Pakistan and Iran. It has nothing to do with the US so they can go fuck themselves.

Biden knew Israel was bombing indiscriminately – WaPo ( www.globalvillagespace.com )

On October 27, three weeks into Israel’s war with Hamas, Biden’s top foreign policy officials told a small group at the White House that “Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets,” the newspaper wrote, citing three sources familiar with the meeting....

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The whole world new the Israel was bombing indiscriminately, and the whole was watching America and Biden's response, and the whole world saw America plummet to a whole new low in its geopolitical shenanigans.

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It's not meant to be sufficient, it is meant to make Biden look like he's doing something other than merely prolonging the slaughter by sending arms to Israel.

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Because Israel won't let any one in

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You've clearly never been to China. Winnie the Pooh mugs, t-shirts and the other usual shit are all available in China. Most of it is made there.

You can't believe all you read in western media. When it comes to coverage of places the US doesn't like, you can't believe very much at all.

Details Emerge on U.N. Workers Accused of Aiding Hamas Raid ( www.nytimes.com )

One is accused of kidnapping a woman. Another is said to have handed out ammunition. A third was described as taking part in the massacre at a kibbutz where 97 people died. And all were said to be employees of the United Nations aid agency that schools, shelters and feeds hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip....

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The accusations are contained in a dossier provided to the United States government that details Israel’s claims against a dozen employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency who, it says, played a role in the Hamas attacks against Israel on Oct. 7 or in their aftermath.

So no actual evidence then, just allegations obediently parroted by the New York Times without any further investigation

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It will say that Northern Ireland is none of China's business.

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There wouldn't be any politicians left

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The world would be a better place without the ones we currently have, that is for sure

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War mongers want more weapons

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Doesn't matter Israel will not agree to

in exchange for an end to the Gaza War, and Israel's acceptance of a "clear path" to Palestinian political rights and a unified Palestinian state, comprising the West Bank and Gaza.

I'm sure Blinken already knows this.

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Lai won the presidency but his party lost 11 seats in the house meaning the KMT now have a majority of 1. The TPP will hold the balance power, it remains to be which side they make a deal with.

It is worth pointing out, because western media and politicians never do, that the Taiwanese people have no stomach for independence, they just want to keep the, status quo as is. That is why the DPP lost 11 seats

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He just wants to kill them all

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