#Actu#Gaza
Des drones utilisés à Gaza sont financés par l’UE
on a accordé une subvention de 50 000 € pour la «recherche et le développement» à son fabricant qui affirme «soutenir l’armée israélienne à 100%» ...
et encore, là, ce n'est pas une somme significative mais le principe est gênant
Des millions d’euros ont été accordés aussi à d’autres entreprises israéliennes développant des drones militaires et des subventions ont également été accordées à leur armée...
@D_cence Let them remember we have our own drones, by now probably everyone does. During the initial assault on Oct 7, Hamas used apparently all of their stock of precision guided one-way drones to destroy the automated machine gun turrets the Israelis had mounted on the Apartheid wall. The destruction of those (illegal even in war) autonomous machinegun turrets paved the way for "anything's possible with Caterpillar," namely the wholesale bulldozing of the Wall. The majority of Palestinians using those breaches BTW were civilians, who went into Egypt not Israel, to shop not to loot, buying things made unavailable for years by the blockade.
When I was in the Uprising in DC in 2020, we took air defense seriously after that infamous July 1 2020 Black Hawk attack. That was the evening where a Black Hawk normally used for military medivac was repurposed to try and blow people off their feet with the rotor wash. From then on, we had fireworks rockets, fireworks mortars, and lasers that could reach up high enough to encourage the cops to stay on the ground or fly somewhere else.
@therightarticle That judge too can be judged. He has a home, he has social events he attends, the works. If he persecutes protesters, this fight can be taken right back to his doorstep.
Imagine him being confronted at a relative's wedding by Extinction Rebellion or Just Stop Oil!
@dromografos The Guardian is speculating that this may be the work of Daesh (ISIS) or a similar group.
The only way it would seem likely that pro-Ukraine or similar anti-Putin partisans would have done this would be if an all-out pro-Putin event was being held inside.
@dromografos That doesn't sound like something Russia's homegrown partisans or anyone fighting for Ukraine would hit, though you can bet Putin will try to blame Ukraine for this.
Seeing a lot of people saying things like "why don't Americans protest more." I'm not exactly sure how to respond because:
In 2020 America had the largest sustained series of protests in world history. Americans protest plenty.
American activists are shot by police at a very high rate. Don't forget this.
Americans protest at a very high rate already. We don't protest more because so many of us have been murdered and our police are very dangerous. Hope this helps.
@mishi@sidereal Assymetrical warfare indeed. Precincts cost millions, molotov cocktails cost no more than a couple bucks for the gas. Cops Cities cost even more and to keep one, they have to get lucky every night.
We only have to get really lucky once to force them to start over.
Can you imagine the effect on the morale of Atlanta's Mayor and ruling class if a finished Cop City is burned to the ground? Also note that if we win that one, Weelaunee Forest may earn itself the name of Anarchy City instead.
@DemocracyMattersALot This piece of shit (Kyle Rittenhouse) is due to speak at Kent State on April 16th.
In other words, a man known for shooting protesters is going to Kent State, the same place protesters were shot by National Guard troops occupying the campus in on May 4, 1970. Kyle Rittenhouse at Kent State is very much in the "spirit of Kent State" in the negative sense of it.
Five students were murdered and another paralyzed for life in the 1970 May 4 Massacre, which may have been one of the turning points of the entire Vietnam War. The NG was deployed in an attempt to suppress an uprising on campus (one of a great many) over the US invasion of Cambodia to support the Vietnam War.
Shortly after the massacre, the Weather Underground succeeded in bombing the National Guard's national headquarters in Washington DC.
Kyle Rittenhouse's visit comes as the National Guard is again being politicized, with ten state's troops being deployed to Texas to support TX Gov Abbot's rebellion against the Federal government.
Let's shut this speaking tour down, the way Richard Spencer's speaking tour on campuses was shit down in Spring 2018! That was a somewhat expensive battle as felony charges were filed, but it killed off Richard Spencer's speaking tour, effectively finishing what started at Charlottesville: the defeat of NPI and the suit and tie "alt-right."
The Houthi rebels in Yemen launched a new round of attacks on “enemy” targets, including Israeli and American ones, this Tuesday. Thus, the Shiite group’s military spokesperson, Yahya Sarea, confirmed that their missiles had reached the port city of Eilat, in southern Israel.
@intlmonitor Yemen fights while the rest of the world twiddles their thumbs. Others talk of solidarity, Yemen delivers!
Striking harbors should help shipping firms realize that carrying weapons to genocidal murders isn't going to be profitable anymore-and that bypassing the Red Sea will no longer protect their precious ships.
To Israel I say "besiege not, lest thou be beseiged!"
Anarchists acting in solidarity with Palestine tagged offices used by weapons manufacturer ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) and arms industry lobby Bundesverband der Deutschen Sicherheits- und Verteidigungsindustrie (BDSV) in downtown Berlin on Sunday night:
The world's 3rd largest copper deposit is in #Arizona. It's essential to #RenewableEnergy projects. Resolution Copper wants to extract it. But the copper is beneath Chí’chil Biłdagoteel, AKA Oak Flat.
“Oak Flat is like Mount Sinai to us,” says Wendsler Nosie (San Carlos Apache) of Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit fighting to protect the area.
We don't need Resolution Copper, and the Indigenous owners of the land have spoken. Their decision is final, the mine is forbidden. It is up to all of us to back up the Apache as they protect their land from corporate superpredators AND the customer base of the same.
The settlers cannot invade the lands of others, than insist on destroying those lands to prevent an ecological problem caused by their own tools.
If settlers want to mine, let them mine their own waste stream, not undamaged land. Let them eat their own shit.
As long ago as 1970, there were landfills on the US East Coast that contained more copper by weight than copper mines then being worked for profit. Probably true for many other metals too. Even gold now with all the computer stuff that goes in the trash to make room for the latest new models and annual new subsidized phones.
Here's another part of it all: suppose gasoline was banned, yet electric cars were not available. Suburbs would collapse into rings of towns most residents would not have to commute in or out of routinely. If even half the public is limited to walking and biking, nobody can put stores and jobs out of walking range of where people live anymore.
Just as the car by promoting sprawl did not shorten commutes from the age of foot, horse, and streetcar, it is doubtful commutes would remain lengthened for long after driving become impractical for most.
If a few people stop driving and cannot afford urban $$$ rents, the rest of the land around them does not change, they have to deal with long bus or bike rides through endless sprawl. An end to practical car commuting for EVERYONE is entirely another matter. Suburbs collapse back into towns, residential-only zoning gets flushed down the toilet of history. We don't need all that copper...
I feel like the funny thing for me with the Tiktok ban is that a lot of Americans, on either side of the debate, don't seem to realize that Tiktok feels to Americans like every single social media platform feels to people outside the US. You're telling me the app is located outside your country and your government's control, and you don't know how its data gets handled in that country? That's every app, to me.
@misty I have chosen not to allow ANY closed source or ad supported app on any device I own, not to allow ads or trackers from any site (and not to use Chrome at all)-and not to have accounts on any corporate social media site.
I have chosen to entirely reject the ad supported/data sale supported business model and everything that stands on it.
You won't find me on Tiktok-but for the same reason you won't find me on Facebook or Youtube. I oppose the Tiktok ban though, as it appears to be a naked maneuver by the US to ensure they are the ones doing the spying. Also, things I do use like Mastodon (especially this particular server) do not participate in shit like PRISM and could be next in line, though much harder to target.
A big age verification crackdown could mean you find me only on the darknet, as I will never cooperate with that.
@STDmag Anything goes in fighting this sort of harassment. The New Columbia Movement is an obvious target for reprisals if this Trumped up case ends badly for us.