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Greta Thunberg kidnapped on Gaza flotilla; videos show Israeli forces hijacking Madleen
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Do either Israel or it's enablers care?
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Greta Thunberg kidnapped on Gaza flotilla; videos show Israeli forces hijacking Madleen
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Do either Israel or it's enablers care?
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Less Than Half in U.S. Now Sympathetic Toward Israelis
And this is a country whose people have been fed heavily pro-Israel propaganda since the day they were born. What does the rest of the world think ?
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Pepé Le Pew
Talks like shit
Looks like shit
Smells like shit
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[Video] Trump blames Israel for his "ceasefire" collapsing and says both parties "don't know what the f*ck they are doing".
When has Israel ever honoured a ceasefire?
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Chinese state newspaper claims the US is a 'failed state' ruled by a 'racist president' as it rips into Donald Trump — Article from 2020
Global Times, a major Chinese propaganda tabloid,
The Daily Mail, 🤣
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IOC wants no sports events in Indonesia after Israeli athletes’ visa ban
The IOC said in a statement it was also cutting off all discussions about any potential Olympic Games bid by Indonesia until the government provided assurances that all athletes, irrespective of nationality, would be eligible to compete there in future.
And yet the IOC bans Russian athletes
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Americans and socialism
I can't remember where I copied this from originally but it seems pertinent here
Americans are, of course, the most thoroughly and passively indoctrinated people on earth. they know next to nothing as a rule about their own history, or the histories of other nations, or the histories of the various social movements that have risen and fallen in the past, and they certainly know nothing of the complexities and contradictions comprised within words like ‘socialism’ and ‘capitalism.’
Chiefly, what they have been trained not to know or even suspect is that, in many ways, they enjoy far fewer freedoms, and suffer under a more intrusive centralized state, than do the citizens of countries with more vigorous social-democratic institutions.
This is is at once the most comic and most tragic aspect of the excitable alarm that talk of social democracy or democratic socialism can elicit on these shores.
An enormous number of Americans have been persuaded to believe that they are freer in the abstract than, say, Germans or Danes precisely because they possess far fewer freedoms in the concrete.
They are far more vulnerable to medical and financial crisis, far more likely to receive inadequate health coverage, far more prone too irreparable insolvency, far more unprotected against predatory creditors, far more subject to income inequality, and so forth, while effectively paying more in tax (when one figures in federal, state, local and sales taxes, and then compounds those by all the expenditures that in this country, as almost nowhere else, their taxes do not cover).
One might think that a people who once rebelled against the mightiest empire on earth on the principle of no taxation without representation would not meekly accept taxation without adequate government services.
But we accept what we have become used to, I suppose. Even so, one has to ask, what state apparatus in the “free” world could be more powerful and tyrannical than the one that taxes its citizens while providing no substantial civic benefits in return, solely in order to enrich a piratically overinflated military-industrial complex and to ease the tax burdens of the immensely wealthy.
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US warns ICC member states to drop proceedings against Israel
I think it's time for the ICC to start issuing arrest warrants for US leaders, their backers and their repugnant little think tanks
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US engaging in ‘extreme rightwing tropes’ reminiscent of 1930s, British MPs warn
Wow, have they only just noticed? They also need to take a look at Farage and some of their own media. It's not an accident that fascism is on the rise.
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People are having fewer kids. Their choice is transforming the world's economy
The world is being destroyed, physically, economically, and culturally by a small and malignant infestation of greedy parasites. There is little hope for future so why would people want to bring their children into it?
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German spy agency 'believed Covid likely started in lab'
But the once controversial theory has been gaining ground among some intelligence agencies
ie someone at the CIA who wont put their name to it, and a couple of corporate owned German newspapers who they fed it to
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Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts
Arguing about who said what at this stage is pointless. Did Biden halt arms sales, or did he double down on sending them? If you are trying to stop a genocide you don't send thousands of tons of weapons to a genocidal maniac
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China urges travelers to avoid Seattle airport after 20 scholars were denied entry to the US
Should probably avoid the US entirely.
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Judge in Palestine Action case has ties to Israel lobby
Well, of course. If the judge was impartial there is a very real risk Palestine Action would win its case. We can't have that, can we?
Best regards,
The Government
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Hong Kong's biggest pro-democracy party moves to disband as freedoms dwindle
as freedoms dwindle
More like, as US funding dwindles.
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German government to pay US Army employees amid US government shutdown : Peoples Dispatch
So German taxpayers are paying even more for American military excess
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Spanish commentators accuse Israel and US of involvement in Ceuta crisis
How often do 60,000 people suddenly and simultaneously decide to migrate just when Trump and Mileikowsky are butthurt because the Spanish won't follow orders
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Opioid pills discovered in US-backed food aid, Gaza authorities say
The idea is to create widespread addiction and societal breakdown.
Israel and their US backers are pure undiluted evil.
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Israel plans to capture all of Gaza under new plan, officials say
That is not a new plan, that has always been the plan.
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‘It’s important to liberate Venezuela’: Congressional Republicans cheer Trump’s offensive
Republicans largely harbor no such fears of Venezuela becoming a similar quagmire.
They harbor no such fears about any of the quagmires they get into because they are all heavily invested in the military industrial complex.
Their aim is not to liberate Venezuela, but to destroy it and steal the oil.