A Green party politician in Dresden has been #attacked just days after another candidate was assaulted and hospitalized by a group of youths. It comes as the interior minister hosted an #emergency summit to discuss how to prevent political #violence amid rising threats against politicians.
TIME Magazine noted PH President Marcos Jr. attempts to rehabilitate the name of Ferdinand Marcos Sr., and that his win in the elections was thanks to the "whitewashing" of his family's plunder of the country.
the various postwar plans for Gaza being floated by the United States and Israel reflected the failure of both governments. Now, this new deal reflects the failure of this entire war. thousands did not have to die because the contours of the deal announced Wednesday have been on the table for weeks.
The ethical approach is always to try & de-escalate violence.
Therefore, the right question is did the #Israel government take that approach before & after the #Hamas terrorist attack?
I've heard that some #news sources have intentionally not used the phrase "Hamas terrorists". But, I'm not a #politician. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck? (It is not a fish that's for sure)
A #Malaysian#court sentenced a #lawmaker who was the country’s youngest ever minister & a rising star in national #politics to seven years in prison on Thursday for #embezzling more than $200,000USD from a political party’s funds.
Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman, who was #convicted on all 4 charges he faced, was also fined 10 million ringgit ($2.13 million) & became the first #politician to receive a #FloggingSentence - he'll get 2 cane strokes.
every #politician who claims #israel has a right to 'defend itself', every #celebrity who reposts israel-sympathetic statements, every hand-wringing #liberal who refuses to take a stance because 'it's just too complex', every #zionist who fearmongers about this turning into a second #holocaust, every western #journalist who insists on asking their #palestinian guests "but do you condemn #hamas?" — in fact any #person who wants to comment on the situation at all should be forced to read this article in full before they're allowed to voice their opinion.
at the end of the article, there is a 338-page list of the names of the palestinians who have been killed by #israeli forces from october 7th-25th. the first six pages are for the age '0'.
Inside James Comey’s Bizarre $7M Job as a Top Hedge Fund’s In-House Inquisitor
A few years before his unforgettable cameo in the 2016 presidential election, the future #FBI director worked at Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates, where he pursued the firm’s goal of “radical transparency” with prosecutorial zeal.
"Netanyahu himself promised “mighty vengeance” in the early hours after the #Hamas strike, and according to The New Yorker’s Susan B. Glasser, #Israeli diplomats cautioned the #Biden administration that their ground operation to eradicate Hamas may take as long as a decade. #Israel’s supposedly #centrist President Isaac #Herzog has openly defended the ongoing collective punishment of #Palestinian#civilians, saying, “It is not true, this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved.” One of Israel’s most popular singers, Eyal Golan, called for Gaza to be erased without a single person left. “A leadership that feels sorry for monsters that massacred us is not worthy of leadership,” posted the #rightwing#politician Revital Gottlieb. “Without crushing Hamas and flattening Gaza we will not have the right to exist.” Residents of Tel Aviv hung a banner reading “Image of victory: population zero in Gaza” from a highway overpass. And ex-minister Naftali Bennett, of Qana infamy, has demanded a biblical “pillar of fire” to pave the way for #IDF soldiers into Gaza. Israelis who do not believe the consequences of this frenzy will be felt closer to home are kidding themselves.
On October 19, I co-interviewed the Israeli Knesset member Ofer Cassif, a communist recently suspended from parliament for forty-five days due to his public insistence that Israeli leaders acknowledge the hand of Israeli policy in producing the October 7 attacks. When we spoke, he brushed aside concern for his own marginalization and laid out what he viewed to be an underrated threat—the capacity for things to get much, much worse:
The #fascist militias that are organized within Israel under the auspices of Israeli #police, and the [security] minister [Itamar Ben-Gvir] are going to get a green light to attack a democratic #Jews and Palestinian citizens. That’s going to be a terrible bloodshed. That’s going to lead to rivers of blood. And I’m afraid that we are on the brink of that . . . I’m afraid that everybody is going to drown in rivers of blood."
If a #politician tells you that #VoteByMail is a bad idea, that politician is trying to stop you from #voting. #Vote that politician out, with extreme prejudice.
Inside Job: An anonymous #Europe.an #politician just told me, he is not corrupted. He does it for half the price than all the other politicians. And this is "just enough to pay his private swimming pool". He even mostly uses his privately acquired Porsche Cayenne for work. 🤭 #EU#EuropeanUnion#Corruption
Did you know that one man can be credited with many firsts in #Ancient#Rome?
Appius Claudius was a #Roman#politician that built the first Roman road (the Appian Way) & the first Roman aqueduct (Aqua Appia). He also ended the use of the letter Z.
Controversially (to his contemporaries), he let #slaves run the #temple for Herakles & gave landless- & freedmen access to the tribunes & the senate.