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djr

@djr@union.place

Resident Putney - economist, trade unionist, internationalist/traveller. former activist

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For exactly the same reason as I find myself justifying Muslim fears of ethnic cleansing in the light of what has happened in Bosnia and Rakhine and why I am being taken to task currently for suggesting that a second Nakba is a more immediate risk than a second holocaust.

I am also aware that the use of the word genocide can incur penalties in some jurisdictions and within some political organisations.

djr,
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There are historic genocides which are well established enough for it to be safe to refer to them - notably the holocaust and the earlier genocides of the Herero and Nama peoples.

I should add also that the use of the word occupation is dangerously ambiguous in the case of Israel/Palestine and the slogan "end the occupation!" can mean either a genuine two state solution or the ethnic cleansing of the population of Israel. For this reason I cannot subscribe safely to that either.

skaly, to random
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Toots against Jewish people go viral here so easily yet toots about the fact antisemitism hate crimes up 1,350 percent in London and there have been countless crimes reported in the USA and Europe in the past 3 weeks, and thousands chanting "kill the Jews" in pro Palestine protests go... ignored. I used to feel a lot safer. I now understand, just like the nights I was sleeping in the Kibbutz in Israel, that sense of safety was false hope. Reblog if you don't want a second Holocaust. Speak up.

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@skaly

I would have to say that though it would be foolish to dismiss fears of a second holocaust the risk of a second Nakba seems a lot more immediate.

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    @HelenG

    General elections have happened in winter twice in my adult lifetime - February 1974 and December 2019 - so far from impossible!

    GottaLaff, to random
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    Covfefe!

    Via Kyle Griffin:

    Donald just claimed that Sidney was not his attorney and "never was."

    And yet, Powell was in the Oval Office with him in December 2020 and, at that meeting, Trump considered appointing Powell special counsel to oversee bogus voter fraud claims.

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    @GottaLaff

    She was there to make the coffee or to look decorative?

    georgetakei, to random

    Trump claims that his Mar-a-Lago estate is worth (checks notes) $1.5 billion. Okay, then. Shouldn’t property taxes be assessed based on that valuation? Just asking.

    djr,
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    @georgetakei

    It can be dangerous to take valuations for tax purposes out of context. The government of Guatemala proposed to compensate United Fruit for expropriation of its assets on that basis in the early 1950s. It was overthrown in a coup orchestrated and supported by the United States.

    anneapplebaum, to random
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    Amidst a sea of bad news, here's something cheerful: Poland's far-right ruling party tried every conceivable trick to hold onto power, but with a massive turnout voters rejected the effort

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/poland-parliamentary-election-autocracy-tusk/675656/

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    @anneapplebaum
    Particularly praiseworthy and remarkable in a unitary state.

    fkamiah17, to random
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    Absolutely no words for this.

    Spectator: "Maybe [Israel] will have a full-scale military operation to rescue the Israeli captives. Or maybe they will finally put an end to this insoluble nightmare, raze Hamas to the ground, or clear all the Palestinians from that benighted strip. A strip which Egypt owned but nobody wants.

    *my emphasis

    https://archive.ph/PuevY

    🇵🇸

    djr,
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    @fkamiah17

    This is a straight copy of German policy pre-holocaust!

    b9AcE, to random
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    It is hmm "funny" how many people that are like totally in love with their (ahistorical) perceptions of the Vikings culture, religion, etc, or are like super-Protestant(/Lutheran/etc) often are also the strongest apologetics for the Crusades, some one the worst things that have ever happened, even in some cases seriously promoting that those should be resumed.
    I wonder if they just skipped past the bit of history that would have told them that most of the Crusades were against the Germanic/Slavic Pagans in the current Sweden, Finland, Baltic States, Poland and northern Germany, as well as against non-Catholic Christians like the (awesome) Hussites which are a precursor of the later re-invented whole Protestantism thing and arguably its most radical part being the first proto-Communists as wells as inventor of the battle tank, but also others in current southern France/NE current Spain.

    Hmm. I guess they only got as far as they managed to read before their Islamophobia made them stop out of cheer massacre joy.

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    @b9AcE Worth adding in also the sack of in 1204 CE and partitioning of the east empire - which never really recovered even after recapturing it in 1260 CE. Crusader military architecture is important and interesting but that cannot justify romanticising them.

    auschwitzmuseum, to fediverse
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    We would be greatful if you could amplify our voice & let your followers know that the Auschwitz Memorial is present in : @auschwitzmuseum

    Every day we commemorate the victims & educate about the tragic human history of .

    Auschwitz is a place that shows where hatred, antisemitism and contempt for a fellow man led people decades ago.

    It is also a place where we should reflect on our individual and collective responsibility for the world we live in.

    djr,
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    @auschwitzmuseum

    As someone who visited just over thirty years ago - as an individual - I am glad to do this.

    anneapplebaum, to random
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    "The IDF issued rare public statements in recent months, warning that military deterrence was deteriorating. Netanyahu and radical members of his cabinet derided the officials as part of the protest movement, and the protesters as “anarchists." https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/09/israel-hamas-attack-gaza-intelligence/

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    @anneapplebaum
    Shades of the run up to the Falklands War - which I can remember well. The captain of the Ice Ship Endurance - the sole presence in the South Atlantic at the time - was threatened with disciplinary action for pointing out what local reactions were to the news that it would be scrapped without a replacement.

    fkamiah17, to random
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    A rather excellent point made by Brendan May on the other place:

    "Everyone telling me the Palestinians have never wanted peace might want to recall that the best shot at peace came in the 1990s under Israeli PM Yitzak Rabin, the soldier turned Nobel peace prize winner.

    He was assassinated for it, not by a Palestinian but a far right Israeli."

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    @fkamiah17
    Absolutely right. And as the leader of the opposition to the government of used the kind of inflammatory rhetoric that rendered Rabin's assassination more likely. Notable that Rabin's widow was happy to meet when he visited her to offer condolences but declined absolutely to receive . Make of this what you may!

    djr, to productivity
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    variations between countries can affect measures of markedly.

    Was looking today at rankings at the back of for a number of relatively rich countries in 2022. The piece I read covered per head in $ at the prevailing exchange rate, the same adjusted for cost and price differences and the latter adjusted for hours worked. Some countries do very much better on the third measure whereas countries like and do much worse.

    djr,
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    Countries that surpass the in terms of on this measure include , , , , and . Although the figures for will be affected by it being a this would not be true for the other five listed. On the same measure , and the were less than 10% below the level. countries come further down as do countries in and . ranks below .

    mrundkvist, (edited ) to Archaeology Swedish
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    Two 10th century coins from the Caliphate, found over the past weekend at Södra Husby in Nora parish. The fieldwork was organised in collaboration between Örebro County Museum and the Swedish Metal Detector Association. Photos by Per Torgén.

    Yngve Karlsson says: the complete coin was struck at Samarkand in the year 308 after the Hijrah (=CE 920/21). The reverse gives the names of the Caliph al-Muqtadir billah and the Samanid prince Nasr ibn Ahmad.

    djr,
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    @mrundkvist

    This fits with the pattern of expansion along the route preceding that along the towards the .There was more economic activity in the than in at the time so better trading prospects. .

    court, to history

    in - Annie Besant (nee Wood) was born in 1847. Annie was born in London, and married at age 20, but the marriage fell apart in a few years. She separated from her husband and began to write - she was an ardent supporter of worker's and women's rights, even publishing a book on contraception (for which she was put on trial and custody of her daughter was given to her ex-husband). She advocated for Irish and Indian Home Rule and independence.
    @histodons

    djr,
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    @court @histodons

    She was also an early and later on president of the during the .

    Deglassco, (edited ) to random

    Olaudah Equiano’s book, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself,” stands prominently among autobiographies penned by former slaves in 18th-century Britain. Its comprehensive and detailed recounting, along with supporting documentation from various letters, offers unparalleled insights into Equiano's life, surpassing what we know about any of his peers.

    Image: Olaudah Equiano as a young man in the 1770s/1780s.

    1/

    djr,
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    @Deglassco
    Lloyds of London - which continues to this day in a different form - was primarily an insurance market - one which preceded limited liability as a concept.

    jdmccafferty, to random
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    28 Sept: feast of St. Wenceslas 10thC Duke of & martyr who was killed by his brother's followers (PParler)

    djr, (edited )
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    @jdmccafferty
    My understanding that he was killed for opposing the albeit in tenth century Europe.

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    @HelenG
    This is highly significant given the resource constraints that HMRC face at present.

    GottaLaff, (edited ) to legal
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    WOMP WOMP! 🥳

    A judge has ruled that #Trump committed fraud for years while building the real estate empire that catapulted him to fame and the White House.

    Judge Engoron, ruling Tuesday in a civil lawsuit brought by #NewYork’s attorney general, found that the former president and his company deceived banks, insurers and others by massively overvaluing his assets and exaggerating his net worth on paperwork used in making deals and securing financing. #legal 1/...

    https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-letitia-james-fraud-lawsuit-1569245a9284427117b8d3ba5da74249?taid=65133e935c9b8c000140df4d&utm_campaign=TrueAnthem&utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter

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    @GottaLaff

    A really significant development!

    jdmccafferty, to random
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    22 Sept 1586: The battle of Zutphen in which the Spanish achieved victory over English and United Provinces forces

    image/jpeg

    djr,
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    @jdmccafferty
    This was the battle at which Sir Philip Sidney was fatally wounded. The college at Cambridge I went to many years ago - Sidney Sussex - was founded in his memory in 1597.

    jeffjarvis, to random
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    I wish I could celebrate news of the departure of the single most malign influence in English-speaking democracy, Rupert Murdoch, but I fear Fox will only be worse under son Lachlan & that this is a means to solidify his power before Dad's death.
    We have Murdoch to curse for giving us Trump, Brexit, and a right-wing news monopoly in much of Australia. I also blame him for launching media's war against the internet--because he was pissed off he failed so badly online, a story rarely told. 1/

    djr,
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    @jeffjarvis

    I agree about the father. However I doubt whether the son is canny enough to last that long. And may have just got out in time to escape the derivative legal action by various pension funds against the directors of !

    Strandjunker, to random
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    There is not a single man alive who has done more harm on a global level, over a longer period of time and across more issues (Iraq, climate, Covid, white supremacy, authoritarianism) than Rupert Murdoch. You can’t change my mind.

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    @Strandjunker
    I would not disagree. However the first quarter century of his career seemed - and perhaps was - very different. Some time in the 1970s/1980s he changed. Some of his statements - including his valedictory today - suggest that he may believe that he is still that earlier .

    sundogplanets, (edited ) to random
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    I just had to update my numbers for a lecture, so here's your periodic reminder: Starlink is now 55% of ALL active satellites in orbit.

    And given the recent news about that awful billionaire unilaterally deciding to cut of Starlink internet access to parts of the world whenever he wants to, this is extra important to share. Why did our governments effectively gift Low Earth Orbit to one awful dude? This is so bad.

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    @sundogplanets
    What about the Sherman Act which was used to break up Standard Oil? Nearly as old as the amendment but presumably still usable?

    wjmaggos, to random
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    So now that we've got good excess death numbers, it turns out they were higher than we thought. That we were actually undercounting deaths, not overcounting them to get the medical industry better paid etc like the anti COVID vax people were saying. And the excess deaths are lower where vaccination was higher, exactly the opposite you'd expect if it was the vax causing the deaths, another claim of the anti COVID vax crowd. but they seem to be right re lockdown policy being a net negative.

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    @wjmaggos

    There is a similar pattern with regard to and deaths in the - according to "more or less" on last Wednesday.

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