#auspol#authoritarian
Australia shares its obsession in punishing whistleblowers with the #US and the #UK. It is:
"A country in which you cannot tell the truth. There are no meaningful protections for the people who do. The punishments that await them are extravagant and deliberately cruel".
...by Daniel Levy to the European parliament re western complicity in Israel's genocide
Israel's impunity has been a handmaiden to extremism.
Extremists such as Smotrich wear eradication, displacement & apartheid as badges of pride, & yet the west has normalized it. No one has cut relations with Israel.
"If European support is going to come with the price of continuing to be complicit, then take your attention elsewhere"
"Statisticians have debunked the data. Yet the narrative remains unchanged, even by President #Biden. Clearly, the sheer volume of the footage of suffering civilians– all projected by #Hamas, which censors pictures of dead or wounded combatants– has caused us to lose our minds. When we fought in #Afghanistan, #Syria & #Iraq, nobody debated civilian casualties. Yet when it comes to #Israel, it’s all anybody talks about"
...by Daniel Levy to the European parliament re western complicity in Israel's genocide
Israel's impunity has been a handmaiden to extremism.
Extremists such as Smotrich wear eradication, displacement & apartheid as badges of pride, & yet the west has normalized it. No one has cut relations with Israel.
"If European support is going to come with the price of continuing to be complicit, then take your attention elsewhere"
...by Daniel Levy to the European parliament re western complicity in Israel's genocide
Israel's impunity has been a handmaiden to extremism.
Extremists such as Smotrich wear eradication, displacement & apartheid as badges of pride, & yet the west has normalized it. No one has cut relations with Israel.
"If European support is going to come with the price of continuing to be complicit, then take your attention elsewhere"
The #AI-powered "Search Generative Experience (#SGE)" that the company had been trialing for months is rolling out to everyone in the #US. The top of many results (especially questions) are now dominated by an #AIBox that scrapes the #web and gives you a sometimes-correct summary without needing to click on a single result.
@BlackAzizAnansi I am a little dubious about the #US narrative of #China “treating Uyghers badly”. I have read fairly widely on th subject, and believe that claim to be fabricated. This is one such article (link at end) that offers a coherent account of what has occurred in Xinjiang. I must add a few more points:
I have recently watched half a dozen videos on YouTube of young Westen travellers in Xinjiang showing a harmonious, peaceful and happy people (eg https://youtu.be/V976H5Gz3aw?si=BPPwAubibHD0_iM3). These are readily available. 2. You (or anyone else) is free to go to Xinjiang and see for yourself. You don’t need a guide, but are only restricted from going to military bases or to the border where there are not offical crossings. 3. Being an Autonomous Zone, the Provincial Adminstration of Xinjiang is comprised of nearly all Uyghers. https://www.unz.com/article/uyghurs-political-islam-the-bri/
#FarhanHaq, a #UN spokesperson, said the new smaller numbers reflected those bodies which had been fully identified. The bigger figures included corpses for whom identification has so far not been completed.
#AidGroups warn of a looming crisis in #Gaza's southern city of #Rafah where they have no more #food to distribute since the closure of the Rafah border crossing over a week ago, even as the first trucks of humanitarian aid entered Gaza via a temporary pier built by the #US. #Israel