Saturday, March 30, 2024
Monday, March 25, 2024
this blog cant be fixed
It has veered off course for a long time now and i cant repair or at least i cant solve the
problems which makes it so unworkable.
So, for the foreseeable future it is closed and no posts will be made here until such a time that the problems
which i am concerned about are fixed.
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Sunday, March 24, 2024
Peter Hitchens: It's 'frustrating' knowing that everyone else is wrong
566,737 views Dec 15, 2023 #TimesRadio “People don’t even know where their ideas come from...I do, and it’s really frustrating to sit on the edge of it saying, look, you’re quite wrong, don’t be ridiculous.” Author and journalist, @ClarkeMicah says Keir Starmer's “radical” left-wing roots demonstrates the public “aren’t actually interested in actual politics.”
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Saturday, March 9, 2024
Tucker Carlson Interviews Vladimir Putin
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Watch Tucker's immediate reaction to the interview here: https://bit.ly/3SxeZBY Tucker interviews Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Russia. February 6th, 2024.
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Thursday, February 15, 2024
Egypt pushing for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza: Sisi to Canadian PM Trudeau
Middle East more
dangerous by the hour? the minute the second
to deliver a missile and a thousand more moments afterwards
who's making the money?
behind the scenes ladies and gentlemen?
Egypt pushing for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza: Sisi to Canadian PM Trudeau: President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi reviewed in a telephone call with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau Egypt’s efforts to reach an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, exchange prisoners, and give access to humanitarian aid in large and sufficient quantities to the people of the Strip
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The horror of war
the terrible price
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The slaughter of the Innocents
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Monday, February 12, 2024
In Gaza-Israel conflict, sympathies now shared equally between both sides after shift in Canadian opinion
From Angus Reid
February 12, 2024 – As the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza drags on, new data from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds Canadians’ sympathies shifting.
At the outset of the conflict, there was a 10-point gap between Canadians who said their sympathies were mostly with the Israelis (28%) and those whose sympathies were more with the Palestinians (18%). Now, the number of Canadians saying they sympathize with one side or the other has drawn near-even. One-third (33%) say their sympathies are “about equal” between both sides.
This comes amid a growing view among Canadians that the destruction wrought by Israel’s military response in Gaza after the Hamas terrorist attacks of Oct. 7 has been too severe. Half of Canadians (50%) believe Israel’s response has been “too heavy-handed”, a five-point increase from November. There is also doubt among Canadians that Israel will be able to achieve its proclaimed goals of eradicating Hamas and freeing the hostages. Three-in-ten (29%) believe neither goal will be reached, more than the one-in-five (19%) who say both goals are achievable.
Concerns over the growing Palestinian death toll in the conflict has sparked allegations of genocide levied by South Africa in the United Nations’ highest court, the International Court of Justice. Canadians are divided on the premise of South Africa’s case but lean towards believing Israel is in fact committing genocide against Palestinians (41%) than not (32%).
These doubts and concerns fuel growing support among Canadians to a see a full ceasefire between the two sides. Half (49%) of Canadians now want a full and lasting cessation of the conflict, while one-in-six (17%) believe if a ceasefire is called it should only be temporary. Approaching one-in-five (18%) believe no ceasefire should be called at this time. In November, Canadians leaned towards believing the ceasefire should be temporary (35%) rather than permanent (30%).
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his government have faced criticism earlier in the conflict for being slow to call for a ceasefire after Canada abstained from an October UN vote on the subject before supporting a later resolution in December. The government has also faced criticism after the December ceasefire vote from Liberal MPs, who argued the later resolution did not impose enough conditions on Hamas. As Canada walks a fine line in the conflict, Canadians see the federal government performing more poorly than not on a number of measures, including representing Canada internationally, effectively communicating its position, standing up for international law, and ensuring the country is on the right side of history.
More Key Findings:
- Canadians lean towards believing the government has sided too much with Israel (26%) than the Palestinians (18%) while one-in-five (20%) believe Trudeau and the Liberal government have struck the right balance.
- A majority see Hamas as a major detriment to lasting peace in Israel. Two-thirds (66%) believe peace is impossible as long as the organization is operating in Gaza.
- A majority (61%) of Canadians see the two-state solution as key to the peace process.
About ARI
The Angus Reid Institute (ARI) was founded in October 2014 by pollster and sociologist, Dr. Angus Reid. ARI is a national, not-for-profit, non-partisan public opinion research foundation established to advance education by commissioning, conducting and disseminating to the public accessible and impartial statistical data, research and policy analysis on economics, political science, philanthropy, public administration, domestic and international affairs and other socio-economic issues of importance to Canada and its world.
The Last Superpower? And the Longest Paragraph By Tom Engelhardt
Excerpting the last parts of Tom'a waa
Kissing It All Goodbye?
In all those years past, the one thing few could have imagined was that democracy itself might begin to go out of fashion right here in the U.S. of A.
Of course, the question now is: What are we headed for? And the answer could indeed be an all-American version of fascism, should Donald Trump be reelected this year, or an unimaginably chaotic scene if he isn’t.
And by the way, don’t blame Donald Trump for all of this. Consider him instead the biggest Symptom — and given that giant Wendy’s burger of a man, the word does need to be capitalized — around!
Imagine this: in a mere 30-plus years, we’ve moved from a world with a “lone superpower” to one in which it’s becoming harder to imagine a super anything on a planet that’s threatening to go down in a welter of wars, as well as unprecedented droughts, fires, floods, storms, and heat.
And if Donald Trump were to be elected, we would also find ourselves in an almost unimaginable version of — yes! — defeat culture (and maybe that will have to be the title of the book I’ll undoubtedly never write after I turn 80 and am headed downhill myself).
But don’t make me go on! Honestly, you know just as well as I do that, if the man who only wants to “drill, drill, drill” ends up back in the White House, you can more or less kiss this country (which already happens to be the biggest oil producer and natural gas exporter around) and possibly this planet goodbye. And if he doesn’t… well, you may have to kiss it goodbye anyway.
And that would be defeat culture, big time.
Copyright 2024 Tom Engelhardt
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Sunday, February 11, 2024
Monday, February 5, 2024
Connections Podcast Episode 90 Unsilencing Palestine Mouin Rabbani Inte...
Connections Podcast Episode 90 Unsilencing Palestine Mouin Rabbani Interviews Diala Shamas Wednesday, 31 January 2024 1:30 PM EST | 19:30 CET Join us on Wednesday, 31 January for a conversation with Diala Shamas about the recent US Supreme Court case in which the Jewish National Fund’s effort to muzzle the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights through anti-terrorism legislation was decisively defeated. This episode of Connections will examine the intensification of the organized campaign to silence opposition to Israel and its policies, particularly in the US, and the efforts to defeat this campaign. Connections offers timely and informative interviews on current events and broader policy questions, as well as themes relevant to knowledge production. It combines journalism, analysis, and scholarship.
Guest Diala Shamas is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), where she works on challenging government and law enforcement abuses perpetrated under the guise of national security, both in the U.S. and abroad.
Prior to joining CCR she was a Clinical Supervising Attorney and Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School, and a Senior Staff Attorney supervising the CLEAR (Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility) project at CUNY School of Law. Shamas has also worked on a range of international human rights issues.
This includes human rights and humanitarian law violations in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian Territory, where she has lived and worked extensively, as well refugee policies in Australia and Greece. Shamas received her undergraduate and law degrees from Yale, where she was an editor for the Yale Human Rights and
Development Law Journal. She has been published by or appeared in major news outlets, including the New York Times, The Nation, DemocracyNow!, CNN.com, The Washington Post, NPR, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, This American Life, and The Intercept. Host Mouin Rabbani is a researcher, analyst, and commentator specialising in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He has among other positions previously served as Principal Political Affairs Officer with the Office of the UN Special Envoy for Syria, Head of Middle East with the Martti Ahtisaari Peace Foundation, and Senior Middle East Analyst and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group. Rabbani is Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, where he also hosts the
Connections podcast and edits its Quick Thoughts feature, Managing Editor and Associate Editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, and a Contributing Editor of Middle East Report. He is Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies (CHS) and at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN). A graduate of Tufts University and Georgetown University’s Center for
Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS), Rabbani has published, presented and commented widely on Middle East issues, including for most major print, television and digital media.
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Sunday, February 4, 2024
Russia Gate
RUSSIAGATE: The Fraud, Its Consequences, the Ongoing Damage, & Those Who Caused It—With Aaron Maté | SYSTEM UPDATE #222
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MOATS with George Galloway Ep 314. Khan Imran win?
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Gaza: Cruel Zionism, Past and Present with Professor Avi Shlaim
Today, we are confronting nothing short of a campaign of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians of Gaza, not seen since the Nakba or Catastrophe of 1948. Yet many in the Western world are silent about the suffering. Much of what justifies Israel and its actions in the West is premised on history, and many
European and American historians have been ready to present a compelling argument for Zionism and the case for Israel in the heart of the Middle East. This historical justification, based on persecution and
antisemitism, gives the story of Israel a potency that has for many years served to find acceptance in the West – of impunity to act without restraint - that is not offered to any other state. At the same time, the Palestinian story has been undermined by these same historians. They were a Bedouin community,
readily able to vacate their land – it is said. Palestinians, according to leading Israeli politicians, are a mythical people.
Today, we are honoured to have Professor Avi Shlaim with us to untangle historical facts from fiction. Avi Shlaim is an eminent historian. He is an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and the author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (2014) and Israel and Palestine:
Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations (2009). Professor Shlaim is a dual Israeli British citizen who lived in the country as a child. His family originated from Iraq and migrated to the newly founded state in 1950. Listen to the audio version of the podcast: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7vXiAjV... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast... Join our Patreon to get access to exclusive monthly Zoom calls: / thethinkingmuslim
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Israeli Cabinet Members Join Event Calling for Ethnic Cleansing & Resett...
We speak with an Israeli reporter who covered a major conference in Jerusalem calling for Palestinians to be removed from Gaza in order to rebuild Jewish settlements. The conference was attended by about a third of the Israeli Cabinet, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, both of whom have long been involved in the extremist settler movement in the West Bank. Conference-goers were greeted by a huge map of planned illegal settlements in Gaza, and the atmosphere was joyful and celebratory, in contrast to what Israeli journalist
Oren Ziv with +972 Magazine says is a somber atmosphere in Israeli public life following the October 7 Hamas attack.
“This is not just a bunch of extremists; it’s the government,” adds Palestinian physician and activist Mustafa Barghouti in Ramallah.
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Meet Meital Yaniv, Former Israeli Soldier Turned Anti-Zionist Organizer
We speak with anti-Zionist organizer and former IDF soldier from Tel Aviv Meital Yaniv, who joined hundreds of Jewish activists and their allies to shut down the California state Capitol in Sacramento Wednesday to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and condemn the roughly $600 million in California taxes that is used annually for U.S. military aid to Israel. Yaniv recalls how they were raised "extremely Zionistic," their experience in the Israeli Air Force and eventual turn to fight for Palestinian rights.
"What Israel is doing right now has nothing to do with antisemitism. What Israel is doing right now is a genocide. What Israel has been doing for the past 75 years is apartheid, is occupation," Yaniv says.
"There is no need for any one of us to serve in the IDF.
The IDF should not exist. The state of Israel should not exist."
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Friday, January 26, 2024
Norman Finkelstein & Craig Mokheiber EXPLAIN ICJ Genocide Decision on Is...
Katie Halper, Brianna Joy with Norm Finkelstein & Mouin Rabbani BREAK DOWN Israeli Genocide Case
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Today, you will learn:What will happen if all of Antarctica's ice melts and what will the continent look like then?What is the terrifying bloody waterfall that erupts straight from the glacier?Why do we constantly find meteorites in Antarctica?Is it true that giant bony-toothed birds once inhabited these places?Will Antarctica ever become green again?And many more fascinating facts/////!Antarctica.
The body, abody is always
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what we learned is the body is always politicized in its rest and movement.. not necessarily piolitical but politicized
as its deterreirlizatuions self moves on and on in continues networks of agencement and assembly the congo
of its order and not order
the powers that be are the ones who conquer abnd slauihger the hordes of Genghis Han
killed 30= 40 oooo thousand in a day and this meant everyone and all
the rest were made slavres and this captuvity enver ended
Satre said the deaths of the 20 c were also afunction fo population
The romans slaughteered 20, 000 of tgheir enemies in one afternooin thinking nothing of it,
nor apparenly did their enemies think much it being dead
As war in Gaza rages on, Martin Luther King’s daughter evokes his opposition to Vietnam war
