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dbattistella

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Producer / Researcher / Writer / Image: Floating Earth by Luke Jerram, Photographed by Chris Furlong, Getty

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In Gaza, "every person, the first thing they want to tell me in English or Arabic is 'We need food,’" says UNICEF spokesperson James Elder. "They are saying that because their assumption is the world doesn’t know, because how would this be allowed to happen if the world knew?"

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    @DrALJONES It takes guts to take on everyone in that theatre last night and I'm in awe of those valiant anti-genocide advocates.

    Obama has obviously forgotten politicians are supposed to listen to us, not the other way around. TBF we all know the game is rigged, and they don't really listen to us at all, but that doesn't mean we stop trying.

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    @DrALJONES In light of protesters being assaulted by security forces in the past few days, a group of Jordanian lawyers decided to lead the march heading towards the Zionist embassy.

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    End-stage capitalism is when things really start to fall apart.

    CultureDesk, (edited ) to movies
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    Even great directors can produce the odd turkey. @RollingStone has created a list of 50 truly terrible movies by otherwise excellent filmmakers. But which do you think topped the list? Once you've cast your vote, take a peek at the story and let us know your thoughts. Apologies for shortening the name of Steven Spielberg's 2008 masterpiece — Mastodon wouldn't allow us to give it its full title, which is, of course, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."

    https://flip.it/JDgt9D

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    @CultureDesk @RollingStone The fascinating thing about filmmaking is how often you really have no idea how well or not a movie is going to turn out. Apparently most of the people working on Casablanca, It Happened One Night, and even The Fugitive, thought they were going to be huge flops that would ruin their careers.

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    @CultureDesk @RollingStone Yes, I was trying to find a piece I read a while ago about actors who turned down starring in movies that became huge hits because they took another role, now completely forgettable, instead, but sadly I couldn't track it down.

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    @DrALJONES American Israeli activist Miko Peled explains how Israel has made the 2-state solution impossible.

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    @DrALJONES I wish I could but I saved this on my desktop as a video file a couple of weeks ago. I'll try to track down the source again

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    @DrALJONES In case you're still looking, I originally saw it on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@freedom.palestine48/video/7331572987495288071

    dbattistella, to random
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    General rule of thumb: If a headline asks a question, the answer is No.

    Case in point.

    dbattistella, to random
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    The UN Security Council just passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza during Ramadan. The US abstained.

    The calls for the release of all hostages on all sides.

    Russia attempted to put the word "permanent" into the text but of course the US voted against it.

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    dbattistella, to random
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    I'm reposting here a disturbing and insightful thread by Israeli writer Alon Mizrahi. It's long but I urge you to read it in its entirety.

    "As an Israeli in this dark disgusting inhuman time, there are many things I see and hear and can tell you about and are worthy of research and serious consideration, but there is one part of it that is so uncanny, so disheartening, so extraordinary, that I can hardly describe it, and you won't get it. Because it's so hard to believe, or conceptualize. ...

    dbattistella, to USpolitics
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    The Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar, at the WH press conference, speaks about the empathy of the people of Ireland for the plight of Palestinians, while Joe Biden looks on:

    "We see our history in their eyes. A story of displacement, of dispossession, national identity questioned or denied, forced immigration, discrimination, and now hunger." 🇮🇪 🇵🇸

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    dbattistella, to Israel
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    "AIPAC is evil! AIPAC is eeeevil!" 🔥🔥🔥

    "My fellow Americans are you ok with a lobby group representing the best interests of a foreign government telling you that you need to bust your ass everyday, and have a portion of your earnings taken from you by our federal government and funneled to the Israeli government so they can commit atrocities in the Gaza Strip. Are you ok with that? Cause I'm not ok with that." - Ana Kasparian, The Young Turks

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    dbattistella, to USpolitics
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    As always, The Onion did it first, and better.

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    dbattistella, to USpolitics
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    In the US, our findings indicate, the majority does not rule—at least not in the causal sense of actually determining policy outcomes.

    When a majority of citizens disagrees with economic elites or with organized interests, they generally lose.

    Moreover, because of the strong status quo bias built into the political system, even when fairly large majorities of Americans favor policy change, they generally do not get it.

    thanks @currentbias
    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

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    @LaChasseuse @currentbias Yes, the Gaza genocide has really shone a light on how government today is mostly theatre, with pretty speeches, and fake fights between the two sides, but behind closed doors, their interests are the same and have very little to do with the rest of us.

    dbattistella, to USpolitics
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    This is why they're banning TikTok

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    dbattistella, to random
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    Apparently Germany and Austria have learned nothing.

    dbattistella, to random
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    So weird…

    dbattistella, to random
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    Many of us have been deeply disappointed, if not enraged at the pro-Israel bias of Western news media, and that's still true, but the tide is starting to turn...

    This is a powerful CNN segment on Israel's war against Palestinian children.

    Please take a moment to watch..

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    UNRWA says that Israel tortured some of its employees "to make false statements against the Agency, including that the Agency has affiliations with Hamas and that UNRWA staff members took part in the 7 October 2023 atrocities.”

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    CNN's Clarissa Ward interviews a group of Israelis who are blocking aid into Gaza, and yes, they're as demented as you imagined.

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    dbattistella, to Netherlands
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    An appeals court ordered the Dutch government to cease exports of F-35 components to Israel, saying “there is a clear risk that the F-35 parts to be exported will be used in committing serious violations of international humanitarian law.”

    #Netherlands #F35 #InternationalHumanitarianLaw #IsraelIsATerroristState #FreePalestine
    https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/dutch-court-orders-government-to-stop-providing-f-35-parts-to-israel/

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    What's going on 'ere then, Canada?

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-unrwa-funding-restore-1.7136924

    dbattistella,
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    @fkamiah17 It appears the US and Israel haven't given Trudeau permission to resume funding to . Justin appears to be on a very tight zionist leash these days.

    Never thought I'd miss Jean Chretien, but here we are.

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