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Current events, politics, images, lit, music, movies, art, aviation (lapsed PPL), travel, science/tech, cats, dogs, nature, cycling. Happiest under a hat & behind a lens, on a bike, or playing drums & guitar. Greyhound rescue home. BLM. Slava Ukraini! Friend of LGBTQ+. Lived corporate IT/ Projects / Strategic Sourcing 30+ years—loved/hated it. I follow stochastically—a bio and a few resonant posts help tip the scale. ADHD+ive. CDN/SW Ontario.

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f800gecko, to journalism
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The CBC can’t stuff this item into its Palestine story disposal unit fast enough.

Already buried under 10 or so items online; it will be at rest soon with the mass graves story.

Take a moment to contemplate the racism, the one-sidedness, the lapdog laziness and obedience of the ‘journalism’.

Had Hamas (Isreal’s greatest ‘existential threat’) by some wild fluke managed to slaughter 35 Israelis in one go, what would our headlines look like?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-israel-rafah-strike-1.7215292

#gaza #media #cbc #canada

glynmoody, to China
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Last major Arabic-style mosque in #China loses its domes - https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/25/shadian-last-major-islamic-style-mosque-in-china-loses-its-domes cultural genocide of #uyghurs made visible

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@glynmoody

The Chinese are just as deeply xenophobic and racist as the rest of us.

Their leadership and corporate captains also require a uniformly obedient and docile population in which ‘deviance’ and the subscription to other values can be stamped out in favour of enshitification, mass production, and the lowest, cheapest, most discardable form of labour to run it so long as human labour proves necessary.

#economics #religion #race #oppression

mondoweiss, to Palestine
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The current American threats to sanction the ICC could spell the death of International Law. Whatever little hope people had for a just international system will disappear.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/biden-and-congress-are-destroying-international-law-for-israel/


@palestine @israel

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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel

“…it is clear that Biden and Blinken fully intend to find a more creative way to press the ICC to deny Khan’s request for arrest warrants or, failing that, to withdraw them…”

One creative way would be to stop tipping billions in munitions on a starving population in the wasteland that was Gaza.

But then what?

As soon as the bombing & shooting stop, journalists will want to go in.

And they’ll want to report on what they see.

And we can’t have that.

#gaza

f800gecko, to Canada
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Money talks.

This is literally money talking and feeling it has been disrespected by someone expressing their opposition to further killing after 35,000+ Gazans (at least half women and children) have already been slaughtered and seen their open air confinement zone razed in reply to the Oct 7 loss of 1,200 Israelis.

We have here a picture of exactly the calculus our politicians are using to assess their larger interests in relation to Gaza.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ernest-rady-letter-valedictorian-speech-university-manitoba-1.7211096

#gaza #canada #media

f800gecko,
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Newman gets it right in his reply:

"It is frankly incredible to me that advocating for a cessation of hostilities is seen as not only controversial, but somehow hateful.

"Criticism of the actions of the Israeli government does not in and of itself constitute antisemitism. That accusation… serves to trivialize the regrettably very real instances of antisemitism that do occur."

f800gecko, to journalism
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A subtle change in phrasing here:

"Israel is retaliating against Hamas in Gaza — an enclave of 2.3 million people — over the Oct. 7 attack by Palestinian militants where more than 1,200 people were killed and over 150 taken hostage, according to Israeli tallies."

("According to Israeli tallies" is new.)

Will it last?

"Enclave" is unhelpful though; it's a confinement zone.

Complaining & writing to politicians helps. That's the only reason this might be changing.

msquebanh, to Canada
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👍👏

#NDP Leader #JagmeetSingh says #Canada should not only support decisions by the #InternationalCriminalCourt, it should also execute its arrest warrants. This comes as the #ICC is seeking arrest warrants against #Israeli and #Hamas leaders

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.4231663

#CDNpoli #Palestine

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@stephanie @msquebanh

Living in a Tory riding it’s a no-brainer for me - in past years my protest vote would have gone Liberal; today, under Trudeau’s genocidal cheerleading, forget that.

dbsalk, to books
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My heart aches for the children who will no longer have access to their local library because some arrogant assholes decided to be offended by books with new ideas and different perspectives.

The cruelty is the point.

https://bookriot.com/donnelly-public-library-adults-only/

#Books #BookBans #Bookstodon #Libraries @bookstodon on@a.gup.pe

f800gecko,
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@dbsalk @bookstodon

It’s sick.

Sherifazuhur, to israel
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Israel Tries to Contain Fallout Over ICC Warrant Requests After Allies Voice Support for the Move @israel @palestine

https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/5022896-israel-tries-contain-fallout-over-icc-warrant-requests-after-allies-voice

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@Sherifazuhur @israel @palestine

One notes again and again how militancy and extremism seem to take root most deeply and fervently in environments of forced deprivation, as was the case with Germany in the post WWI era.

Israel’s answer: more force and deprivation.

Einstein himself, without doubt the world’s best known (and passionately moderate) commentator on Zionism once said: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.”

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