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f800gecko

@f800gecko@mastodon.online

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 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

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

f800gecko,
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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/

@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

f800gecko,
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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.”

Miro_Collas, to Palestine
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Marwan Bishara: 'The beginning of the end for Netanyahu' over ICC's potential arrest warrants - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBtUH-m_Ia0

Netanyahu keeps playing the holocaust card. That has gotten old.


@palestine

f800gecko,
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@Miro_Collas @palestine

A worthwhile watch

I generally decline to spend time on any sort of video these days, but here an exception.

lauren, to Youtube
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You're standing and looking out over the water at the city skyline. Suddenly, a small spaceship lands near you. Then a slightly larger one. Then an even larger one. And then ...

One of the most fun videos I've seen on in quite a while! This channel does great work!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw6qppma02s

f800gecko,
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@lauren

So many warbirds (I made it halfway).

I hope they got Kubrick’s ‘Discovery One’ from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.

lin11c, to random
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/ Patrushev at a closed meeting of the Russian Security Council!/

This was always the plan of the Russian orcs. It has ZERO to do with their lies about NATO.

f800gecko,
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@lin11c

I've boosted because this is interesting and has a distinct ring of truth to it, but there is no source referenced. How reliable is this material? I am not familiar with the author.

f800gecko, to random
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Israel, one of the wealthiest nations on earth per capita, can’t afford to feed its two million-odd Gazan prisoners and detainees.

It needs the UN to do it for some reason.

While it bombs and shoots and starves them of food and essential services with billions in American tax payer support.

SocraticEthics, to Ukraine
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⚠️🇷🇺Reuters: Ukrainian drone attack on Russia's Tuapse refinery causes emergency shutdown (more) https://kyivindependent.com/reuters-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-russias-tuapse-refinery-causes-emergency-shutdown/ #Ukraine #Press #News #Russia #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#BanRussianAgricultureFromEU
#BanRussianGrainFromPoland
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#BetterOldThanSeditious

f800gecko,
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@SocraticEthics

Funny how American republicans who object have no problem with a disordered fascist warlord threatening the use of nukes using those same refineries to fund a ‘patriotic’ ethnic cleansing campaign in Ukraine while insulting everything America claims to stand for…

f800gecko, to random
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Another shameful whitewash in racist reporting on and the proceedings this morning.

Dismissal of SA’s ‘allegations’ with zero detail of the evidence being presented (like the man left to die with maggots eating away at the wounds left by a double leg amputation) and a full megaphone given to fascist Israeli government outrage and claims the operation is strictly defensive.

We are the ordinary people blithely carrying on with our lives like those before us you-know-where.

f800gecko, to random
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If Israeli Jews can see the problem, why can't Canada's prime minister and the president of the United States?

'As [Netanyahu], without looking up, returned to his seat in the front row, another man in the audience yelled "Garbage!"

"He doesn't have the moral right to be here," Galon told CBC News after the ceremony.'

That the CBC has run this story is astonishing. Still no mention of Netanyahu's own calls for genocide, though.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-gaza-benjamin-netanyahu-1.7206266

@LALegault

johnefrancis, to Canada
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They're really missing the point not calling it Phoenix 2.

And Phoenix 1 should always be called the IBM-Peoplesoft Phoenix pay system. Or the Harper Memorial IBM Peoplesoft Phoenix pay system.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/phoenix-federal-civil-service-pay-1.7205010

f800gecko,
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@johnefrancis

Kinda disgraceful the CBC can't bring itself to mention the other half of the problem here, which is grasping major IT consultancies billing themselves as "world leaders" low-bidding then change-requesting the crap out of these gigantic systems development contracts, in this case IBM and Peoplesoft.

Yes, this Harper-era file has been brutally mismanaged by the feds—but neither is any restraint or accountability visible from vendors who've been feeding like jackals over a kill.

mondoweiss, to Palestine
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Antony Blinken claims that Hamas is blocking a ceasefire in Gaza, but it is Israel which has vowed to invade Rafah regardless of an agreement and is absolutely unwilling to declare an end to its genocidal operation.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/inside-the-biden-administration-sham-to-convince-the-world-netanyahu-wants-a-ceasefire/


@palestine @israel

f800gecko,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel

Indeed…

“That theater has often veered into the absurd, as, just to cite one example, when the President has complained about Israel not allowing humanitarian aid in to Gaza—an unambiguous war crime under international law—only to have administration spokespeople assert that they have “no evidence” that Israel has broken international law.”

f800gecko,
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@mondoweiss @palestine @israel

This is how Palestine has been managed for decades, not just since Biden took office…

“While the Biden administration has repeatedly said they “will not support” a Rafah invasion, they have not said there would be consequences if Israel goes ahead. In other words, they have done absolutely nothing to actually deter Netanyahu. This is how Biden has dealt with Israel since the day he took office.”

plink, to egypt
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from
As Assault Intensifies, Joins Case Accusing of Genocide

"It's a real diplomatic punch," a former diplomat said. "Israel would have to take it very seriously."






@palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/news/egypt-icj-israel

f800gecko,
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@plink @palestine @israel

For the first time, the obligatory mention of Oct 7 done correctly.

Israel's devastating assault on Gaza began October 7 in response to a Hamas attack on southern Israel that killed around 1,100 people and captured around 250 hostages. Before that attack, Israel had blockaded Gaza for 16 years.

f800gecko,
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@rrb @plink @palestine @israel

Yes, there is so much more to be said

But at least giving a hint and handhold to encourage the doing of a little more “own research” is useful and something not seen much to date.

I wish other news outlets would act accordingly.

StillIRise1963, to random
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It’s so shocking to me how we’re letting extremely wealthy people kill the future.

f800gecko,
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@StillIRise1963

Shocking to see them killing themselves and their offspring along with it.

Greed and envy seem, like compound interest, to grow only faster with accumulation.

f800gecko, to random
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Spot the difference...

Ten photos from major news outlets depicting the results of Israel's 'defensive' action in Gaza vs. those of Russian-led scorched earth campaigns. Each image is presented as found on the source; no cropping or adjustments applied.

Can you correctly identify all ten locations?

Posts will be updated with photo details when survey closes.

Note: Mastodon does not accept photos in surveys; use next post in the thread to vote.

1/20

@LALegault

f800gecko, to random
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They don't want you to see.

They don't want you to know.

They don't want you to doing anything about Gaza other than ignoring it, as if a genocide is not in progress.

Will the West follow suit? That we feel compelled to ask tells how dire the situation has become for journalism, both in Israel/Gaza and here at home.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/al-jazeera-israeli-cabinet-decides-to-close-offices-1.7194634

@LALegault

f800gecko, to random
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If you find anti-genocide protests leaving you feeling ‘uncomfortable’, imagine watching your baby bleed out after receiving a dose of US-made shrapnel from a US-made bomb dropped by a US-made airplane in a US-funded, religious-extremist-run ethnic cleansing program.

Sherifazuhur, to israel
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West Bank: Israel Defense Forces accused of possible war crime (IMO it’s a war crime) @israel @palestine

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cw07wgrwzywo

f800gecko,
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@Sherifazuhur @israel @palestine

‘fewer than 1% of all complaints against Israeli soldiers result in prosecutions’

It’s a pity this item isn’t able to convey the endless repetition of such events in the decades since Israel began using its military for policing under a set of repressive laws designed solely to repress and harass Palestinians, an institutional systemic war crime that dwarfs these individual incidents.

f800gecko, to geopolitics
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We really are drifting into state territory.

is speaking in tongues to the junior aspirants; they fully understand him.

It’ll grow worse as today’s young men prove unable to adjust to the new (it needs fewer, smarter of them). They’ll feel shamed. Poilievre promises to help them feel better, stronger, more effective somehow—if only by crying ‘no!’ like ranting toddlers.

f800gecko, to ontario
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Meanwhile, in Canada, police will be investigating whether police pigheadedness led to deaths on Canada’s busiest highway.

It will be a nuanced report, you may be assured. With dash of excuse and a pinch of exoneration.

Wait for it (do not hold breath).

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