As youse know, I try not to share links to Xitter but this compilation of Blinken clips talking about Russia's invasion of Ukraine is really something else - he even namechecks Israel. I'll transcribe it for those who don't want to/can't click, with the link at the end.
"What separates Israel, the United States and other democracies when it comes to incredibly difficult situations like this is our respect for international law.
The entire world soon witnessed evidence of those crimes in searing photographs and videos.
Bombing schools and hospitals and apartment buildings to rubble is not normal.
Executed civilians with their hands tied behind their backs.
Mass graves.
Attacks on homes, schools, hospitals.
We can never allow the crime Russia is committing to become our new normal."
Celebrity blockade is working, one by one they are acting like they care for Gaza! After losing millions of followers, many celebrities posting lame and desperate call for "peace" and "ceasefire".
It's amazing that less than a week after the call for boycott, we're suddenly seeing these people act like they just woke up to the ongoing catastrophe that has been going on for 7 months.
All the red lines, all the warnings, all the empty talks about Rafah is once again showing to be nothing but, well, hot air.
Israel is bombing Rafah, it is bombing palestinians fleeing Rafah, it is bombing medics helping the injured in Rafah and it is doing it with full view of the so called "world community", the British FM was brave enough to say "we do not support the attack against Rafah", as if the weapons they sent to Israel are magically have stopped exploding when they are dropped over civilian targets in over crowded city.
Biden have stopped sending bombs to Israel, after almost 3000 shipment of weapons that no one seems to care about, one single shipment was "delayed" and the propaganda media, the loonies at the congress and Bidensitas are all talking about it as if it is an unbelievable act of bravery and show of moral grounds.
Germany is quiet, and instead stepping up it's attacks against pro-palestinian activists and using their power to block the entry of Palestinian activists outside EU to enter Schengen,
Sweden, busy with celebrating their 12 points support of the Israeli song and attacking pro-palestinian protesters is preparing their fighter jets to receive the new Israeli weapons tested to be efficient against people of Gaza to be attached to it's fighter jets and hand over some $500M to genocidal regime of Israel.
The rest of Europe is also sitting and quietly watching the atrocities in Gaza to go on, some speak and talk about recognizing Palestinian state (like they have done in the past 6 months) and stopped selling the shipment of weapons to Israel (directly, but replacing the weapons US, UK and Germany are sending to Israel without any hesitations).
The stench of hypocrisy surrounding the Eurovision this year was just astounding.
While Israel was performing at #Eurovision, their troops were murdering displaced Palestinians in Rafah, bombing UNDP building and invading parts of Gaza they had declared "safe" for refugees.
And then this POS hypocrite who was so strongly supporting the ban on Russia 2 years ago is now acting like "music and entertainment is not politics".
Where the hell are the "international observers" who were queuing to visit the "mass graves" in Ukraine? Where is EU? Where are US state department? Where is UN?
What does it take for the world to (at least) investigate these allegations?
He was not an islamophobic Nazi loving Russian opposition character like Navalny who died of heart failure, no one in the "civilized west" will care about him or even bother learning his name, much less making official statement about his murder.
This politician @kimvsparrentak made a speech of an hour at a public event hosted by @waag@DeGroene and @gemeenteamsterdam where she publicly and very vocally expressed that we should change the way we do social media.
I was there and called her out on only being really present at X and Insta and not on the Fediverse. Her reaction was not 'that is a lost cause, there is no interaction there'. It was: "I am willing to give it a go again." Which in my view is very good news.
Please understand that it is very hard for politicians to join the Fediverse since their public agenda's are in large part ran by 'PR agents' that are usually well versed in the use of BigTech, since that is what is most visible and most used for the last few decades.
I will make sure to ask her that you are among the very first of people that will be followed by her. 😎
Axios reports that members of the US #Congress in both parties warned the ICC that arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials will be met with US retaliation, and legislation to that effect is already in the works.
House Speaker Mike Johnson had issued a statement on Monday calling the reported warrants "disgraceful" and "lawless."
Not to forget UK and Germany increasing weapons sale and suppression of protests against the ongoing genocide in Gaza and daily terror attacks by illegal settlers (with IDF backing) against Palestinians all over occupied West Bank.
As the Columbia University Gaza Solidarity Encampment enters its sixth day, organizers have called on the entire student body to walk out of class to ramp up pressure on the administration to divest from Israel. Breakthrough News will be covering the action LIVE from inside the encampment April 22, 12pm ET
Last year the Financial Ombudsman received around 3,900 complaints about debanking... up from 2,700 the year before.
Around a third of cases were upheld (in favour if customers) up a little from 2022.
The proportion of complaints from small businesses has also risen.
You'd perhaps have expected (after his promises) that Nigel Farage would be campaigning loudly on behalf of these customers... but actually once his case was resolved, of course, he moved on.
FFS you couldn't make it up... at the very same time that Rishi Sunak is looking to restrict eligibility for benefits for the disabled & long-term sick as an 'incentive' to get them 'back to work'.... the Work & Health Programme, that actually does that very thing has lost funding & will close in the next six months!
So with one hand he takes away financial support & tells people to do more to get into work, and then with other removes services that will help them do exactly that.