Spain has refused permission for a ship carrying arms to Israel to dock at a Spanish port, its foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, said on Thursday....
This is even more concerning when you look at some of the motivations:
"The bill was largely spurred by recent protests on university and college campuses across the country, including North Carolina-based schools, against the war in Gaza."
this is about control, fascism. historically student protests are the canary in the coal mine on a number of issues. powers that be are looking to stamp out any dissent going forward.
There is def throwing out meat for the rabid base. Feel like North Carolina is looking to hook up with TX and FL. University of North Carolina to divert $2.3m DEI budget to safety and policing
"Some members of the board of trustees, which voted for the divestment, cited students’ recent anti-war demonstrations as a reason for the redesignation of funds to the campus police."
Did Jerry Seinfeld's wife find these violent counter protesters as well?
Glad to see researchers are unmasking them, but will there be any criminal charges...
Meanwhile israel is funding canary mission to doxx peaceful protesters in order to control all narrative and maintain influence.
Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.
He wrote that the justifications for Israel’s war in Gaza became “difficult to defend” and that “whatever the justification you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.” The post received an outpouring of support with hundreds of likes and comments in just a few...
Mann himself stated his reasons include being a 'descendant of European Jews'. I admire his moral conviction. For some people 'never again' are life/history/moral lessons learned, rather than mere slogans to be printed on stickers.
All this death and destruction helped along by US tax dollars, and US munitions.
I was not surprised Hillary 'corporate' Clinton came out full on pro-death-and-destruction, pointedly criticizing student protesters. It's decades of failed blank check US foreign policy towards Israel playing out now.
Video of the incident on Monday at Tarqumiya checkpoint, west of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, showed settlers blocking the trucks and throwing boxes of much-needed supplies on the ground. Photographs from the scene showed piles of damaged aid packages and drifts of rice and flour across the road....
'Outrage' aside, the actions of these religious fanatics that 'settle' on stolen lands is not at all new or surprising. They can be described as terrorists as much as any other group.
They've been destroying and disrupting aid deliveries for some time. Even singing, chanting and dancing to the deed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVXdIVq6qrU
What's a little death by famine, of even babies and children. They are simply doing God's work. I'm sure God will sort it all out.
We need both, Rent Control and more housing. Land-lording has also been invaded by capitalists looking to squeeze humans for every cent and govt needs to stem that tide too. Rent has been soaring in the biggest capitalist zones, US and EU/CA.
Can only be described as psychopathic response disguised as intellectual arguments. There aren't enough dead babies, women and children that will move this person so long as they're Palestinian.
Pretty disgusting. More people should be made aware of these tactics because it will leave a bad taste in anyone's mouth in an age of privacy concerns and surveillance.
I am not exactly thrilled with Biden but Trump would absolutely be far, far, far, far worse. For America, the world and definitely Palestinians. I have zero doubt about that.
Even the roots of Israel are established in violent acts of what can only be described as terrorism. Of course one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. Israel is one of the main originators of the car bomb. But you can read more about the Irgung gangs and terrorism committed by Israel's founders if you choose.
Buda's wagon was, in essence, the prototype car bomb: the first use of an inconspicuous vehicle, anonymous in almost any urban setting, to transport large quantities of high explosive into precise range of a high-value target. It was not replicated, as far as I have been able to determine, until January 12, 1947 when the Stern Gang drove a truckload of explosives into a British police station in Haifa, Palestine, killing 4 and injuring 140. The Stern Gang (a pro-fascist splinter group led by Avraham Stern that broke away from the right-wing Zionist paramilitary Irgun) would soon use truck and car bombs to kill Palestinians as well: a creative atrocity immediately reciprocated by British deserters fighting on the side of Palestinian nationalists.
There decades since Yitzhak Rabin's assassination and Israel has lurched only further to the right. One of the greatest obstacles to peace has been Israel's continual land grabs and illegal settlement building. That has pretty much been cemented as nationalist policy. Ben Gvir is a psychopath and his rise is telling of how far Israel has embraced religious fanaticism.
No one, however, offends liberal and centrist Israelis quite like Itamar Ben-Gvir. Ben-Gvir, who entered parliament in 2021, leads a far-right party called Otzma Yehudit, or Jewish Power. His role model and ideological wellspring has long been Meir Kahane, a Brooklyn rabbi who moved to Israel in 1971 and, during a single term in the Knesset, tested the moral limits of the country. Israeli politicians strive to reconcile Israel’s identities as a Jewish state and a democracy. Kahane argued that “the idea of a democratic Jewish state is nonsense.” In his view, demographic trends would inevitably turn Israel’s non-Jews into a majority, and so the ideal solution was “the immediate transfer of the Arabs.” To Kahane, Arabs were “dogs” who “must sit quietly or get the hell out.” His rhetoric was so virulent that lawmakers from both sides of the aisle used to walk out of the Knesset when he spoke. His party, Kach (Thus), was finally barred from parliament in 1988. Jewish Power is an ideological offshoot of Kach; Ben-Gvir served as a Kach youth leader and has called Kahane a “saint.”
Ben-Gvir, who is forty-six, has been convicted on at least eight charges, including supporting a terrorist organization and incitement to racism, compiling a criminal record so long that, when he appeared before a judge, “we had to change the ink on the printer,” Dvir Kariv, a former official in the Shin Bet intelligence agency, told me. As recently as last October, Netanyahu refused to share a stage with him, or even to be seen with him in photographs. But a series of disappointing elections persuaded Netanyahu to change his mind.
Just because you say so, over and over and over that these protests are antisemitic, doesn't make it true.
Bernie Sanders to the Mainstream media: "go to Gaza, and take your camera show us the emaciated children who are dying from malnutrition because of Netanyahu's policies."
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that across all political and social groups in the United States, there is a strong preference against living near AR-15 rifle owners and neighbors who store guns outside of locked safes. This surprising consensus suggests that when it...
Except the stats (art and science) don't mention that in many of the mass shootings, an AR-15 assault rifle was commonly used. Highly lethal, designed to kill as many people as possible in a short amount of time.
A ridiculous thing to say about the college protests. Last I checked the US hasn't been spending US tax dollars to Sudanese paramilitaries. Unlike the regular spending of our tax dollars aiding Israel with weapons and constantly looking away at their actions going back decades. Your statement certainly doesn't pretend to care about the horrific slaughter of these children in darfur either.
Oh yes, don't forget Jared Kushner's 'special relationship' with the crown prince of saudia arabia that netted him a $2billion investment. Jared spent his time as an official making business deals around the globe while daddy-in-law was in office.
Europeans view immigration with increasing suspicion. Seven out of 10 Europeans believe that their country takes in too many migrants, according to a survey carried out by BVA Xsight for ARTE Europe Weekly, a project led by the French-German TV channel ARTE GEIE and which EL PAÍS has participated in, as part of the countdown to...
Never underestimate the blood thirst and deeply racist views of people who rationalize the mass slaughter of women and children, of ethnic cleansing. The world is seeing it more clearly now. Israel has had an incredibly successful run of dehumanization propaganda going back decades, until now.
The NYT informs Russia about foreign aid deliveries
The @nytimes has published sensitive tactical details about the US arms deliveries to #Ukraine which leads to very specific risks of Russia intercepting these deliveries. Is this necessary? I don't think so.
None of this is 'sensitive information'. Its not as though the nyt got some scoop about weapon deliveries and against US gov wishes printed it.
Considering that NYT is liberal, often the target of conservatives and republicans. And that it has been many conservatives and republicans who seem to practically be rooting for Putin. Conservatives and republicans who caused the delay for funding Ukraine, this whole piece seems off the mark and somewhat paranoid.
Certainly not Fox News, MTG, Tucker Carlson, and what Trump would do right? The political groups and associations who seem to be rooting for Putin, causing delays in funding UA are republican and conservative. You may as well be rooting for Putin who locks up opposition and journalists that aren't state sanctioned while you're at it.
Haha, This commentary is paranoid nonsense. Intercept deliveries after they're made? Russia now has time travel? Locations named like 'Poland', 'Spain'? Oh wow, thats some serious location giveaway. If the war is going bad, don't make excuses for hypothetical security concerns which somehow got past the US govt and Pentagon from a newspaper?? If anything focus on who caused the delays for those weapons to arrive which is an actual issue, no time travel need.
There's nothing to give them a pass for amigo. 'Poland' and 'Spain' are location giveaways? NYT: They would be at the Ukrainian front soon, a senior Spanish official said.
Thats a big giveaway? I don't hear the US govt complaining about these 'details' anywhere.
Saudi officials confirmed in a statement to the United Nations high commissioner for human rights that Manahel al-Otaibi was sentenced on 9 January for what the Saudi government called “terrorist offences”....
Religion and patriarchal control and oppression of women pretty much anywhere in the world is like white on rice.
Obscene oil wealth that swallows up any attempts to focus on the regimes across the board human rights abuses. Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, which oversees about $650 billion in assets invests in US and global markets, in twitter, banks, in global sports, in US weapons, in surveillance, in wars... Saudi golf takeover is blueprint for what they want to do everywhere else
Spain denies port of call to ship carrying arms to Israel ( www.theguardian.com )
Spain has refused permission for a ship carrying arms to Israel to dock at a Spanish port, its foreign minister, José Manuel Albares, said on Thursday....
It could soon be illegal to publicly wear a mask for health reasons in North Carolina ( arstechnica.com )
Texas governor pardons ex-Army sergeant convicted of killing Black Lives Matter protester ( apnews.com )
Unmasking counterprotesters who attacked UCLA’s pro-Palestine encampment ( www.cnn.com )
Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled ( lemmy.world )
Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s Minister of Chaos ( www.newyorker.com )
Feb. 2023 New Yorker profile unknowingly giving a prelude of what was to come....
US Army officer resigns over 'unqualified support' for Israel ( taskandpurpose.com )
He wrote that the justifications for Israel’s war in Gaza became “difficult to defend” and that “whatever the justification you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.” The post received an outpouring of support with hundreds of likes and comments in just a few...
‘Total outrage’: White House condemns Israeli settlers’ attack on Gaza aid trucks ( www.theguardian.com )
Video of the incident on Monday at Tarqumiya checkpoint, west of Hebron in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, showed settlers blocking the trucks and throwing boxes of much-needed supplies on the ground. Photographs from the scene showed piles of damaged aid packages and drifts of rice and flour across the road....
Nearly 70 percent of voters say that the country’s political and economic systems need major changes — or even to be torn down entirely. ( www.nytimes.com )
Renters need to make roughly $20,000 more a year to afford the typical rent than they did 5 years ago ( fortune.com )
Name and shame: Pro-Israel website ramps up attacks on pro-Palestinian student protesters ( www.reuters.com )
NYT's new TOS binds you to forced arbitration; opt out within 30 days ( lemmy.world )
Analysis Finds Nearly 100% of Campus Gaza Protests Have Been Peaceful ( www.commondreams.org )
UN assembly approves resolution granting Palestine new rights and reviving its UN membership bid ( apnews.com )
Student protesters face same suspensions as those who bring assault rifles to campus ( www.latimes.com )
Study reveals "widespread, bipartisan aversion" to neighbors owning AR-15 rifles ( www.psypost.org )
A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that across all political and social groups in the United States, there is a strong preference against living near AR-15 rifle owners and neighbors who store guns outside of locked safes. This surprising consensus suggests that when it...
Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur ( www.theguardian.com )
Neom: Forces 'told to kill’ to clear land for eco-city ( www.bbc.com )
Col Rabih Alenezi says he was ordered to evict villagers from a tribe in the Gulf state to make way for The Line, part of the Neom eco-project....
Every time Zionists call me an antisemite for speaking out against Israel ( lemmy.ml )
Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT ( www.tomshardware.com )
Why aren’t we talking more about Trump’s business with the Saudis? ( www.washingtonpost.com )
Seven out of 10 Europeans believe their country takes in too many immigrants ( english.elpais.com )
Europeans view immigration with increasing suspicion. Seven out of 10 Europeans believe that their country takes in too many migrants, according to a survey carried out by BVA Xsight for ARTE Europe Weekly, a project led by the French-German TV channel ARTE GEIE and which EL PAÍS has participated in, as part of the countdown to...
Federal judge indefinitely postpones Trump classified documents trial ( www.cnn.com )
'This is a Crime Ahainst Humanity': 600,000 Children in Line of Fire as IDF Moves on Rafah ( therealnews.com )
Twenty-nine research teams analyzed the same data, and they all reached different results. ( fivethirtyeight.com )
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/...
‘We deserve more’: US workers’ share of the pie dwindles ( www.theguardian.com )
Bureau of Labor Statistics releases latest estimate of how much labor receives of national income, showing bleak decline...
GOP official argues in favor of child marriage: Girls are ‘ripe’ and ‘fertile’ ( www.nj.com )
Young women in Saudi Arabia sentenced to 11 years in prison by "anti-terrorism court" after being arrested for “her choice of clothing and support for women’s rights” ( www.theguardian.com )
Saudi officials confirmed in a statement to the United Nations high commissioner for human rights that Manahel al-Otaibi was sentenced on 9 January for what the Saudi government called “terrorist offences”....