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JK Rowling gloats at virtue-signalling paedophile who slated her for her transgender views - as he is jailed for 24 years for raping 'vulnerable' boy, 12
Ireland, 42, who co-founded Pride in Surrey in 2018, raped the youngster after luring him to the flat he shared with co-defendant David Sutton and ply...
In a clear signal of deepening bilateral ties and shifting global alignments, the Russian Federation signed a series of cooperation agreements with Mali,
The Bitcoin ETF - Dare I Say, "It's a Trap?" - Gold Goats 'n Guns And even if Gensler succeeds in taming bitcoin and major private cryptos all he’ll do is drive the economy underground. As Martin Armstrong has been warning us for decades, this is the main way empires collapse, by driving capital underground, deflating asset prices through collapsing money velocity and forcing monetary inflation to offset it. Sound familiar? Got Bitcoin? Got Gold? Got Depends?
Google AI Erases Caucasians Like any technology, AI is either good or evil, depending on who wields it. In the hands of the benevolent, it will produce positive results. But considering the kind of moonbats who control Big Tech, it will be used to advance the liberal agenda — which includes eradicating whites:
The public also needs to temper expectations and realize that AI chatbots are still massively flawed and cannot be relied upon. An attorney recently discovered this the hard way, when he had ChatGPT do his legal research. None of the case law ChatGPT cited was real In 2022, Facebook pulled its science-focused chatbot Galactica after a mere three days, as it generated wholly fabricated results
Der ehemalige Hrsg. eines KKR-Newsletters, ein alternder Windkraft-Hasser, muss bei einer Pferdesportversammlung schweißnass in die Handyamera erzählen, der unzweifelhafte Fakt “Wir machen die Welt mit CO2 immer heißer” sei “Hysterie”, ja “Religion”. Bankrotterklärung. #Aust
Fakten: 1. Der Mensch ist für die #Klimakrise verantwortlich. 2. Immer extremere Hitzewellen sind eine lang prognostizierte Folge davon. 3. Hitzewellen töten in Europa Tausende Menschen. 4. Stefan Aust leugnet diese Tatsachen. 5. “WELT TV” käut alte fossile Propaganda wieder.
Mit “Journalismus” hat all das nichts zu tun. Die Springer-Medien haben kein Interesse daran, Teil eines faktenbasierten Diskurses über die größte Bedrohung für die gesamte Menschheit zu sein. Sie sind Teil des Propagandaapparates, der fossile Geschäftsmodelle retten soll.
Wir bräuchten in Deutschland dringend konservative politische Kräfte, die den Klimawandel nicht herunterspielen und Umweltschutz als ur-konservatives Anliegen begreifen. Das gilt für @oedp_bundesverband , leider sind wir aber aktuell zu klein, um die Meinungsbildung zu beeinflussen.
The Yemeni Armed Forces have carried out a missile strike targeting Ben Gurion Airport using a hypersonic ballistic missile, according to a statement issued Tuesday night.
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Across Europe, authorities are using so-called ‘predictive’ technologies to profile and criminalise marginalised communities.
Our latest report brings together research from Belgium, France, Germany and Spain to show how AI, data-driven and algorithmic systems are embedding racism and discrimination deeper into policing and legal systems.
London, 30 June 2025 – The civil liberties organisation Statewatch has published a report that reveals how police and criminal legal system authorities across Europe are using data-based, algorithmic and AI systems to ‘predict’ where crimes may occur…
Israel is weaponising starvation. The objective is to dismantle all remnants of civil society and reduce Palestinians to herds of desperate scavengers who can be driven from historic Palestine.
Iran presidential decree officially suspends cooperation with IAEA
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian issues a decree suspending cooperation with the IAEA as tensions reach the threshold following the Israeli war on Iran.
Όταν το έργο παίζεται στα εκατοστά, όταν το έργο σχεδιάστηκε με γνώμονα την καταστροφή της πλατείας και όχι το κοινό όφελος και τη γνώμη των ανθρώπων της περιοχής, όταν οι μελέτες δεν έλαβαν καν υπόψη τους την υπάρχουσα νομοθεσία, τότε το έργο πράγματι βρίσκεται στον αέρα.
The Government Media Office in the Gaza Strip announced that the number of Palestinian journalist martyrs has risen to 228 since the beginning of the genocide committed by the Zionist enemy against the Gaza Strip, after the death of journalist Ismai
Man sollte - wie in einem Kommentar korrekt angemerkt - übrigens daran erinnern: Es gibt da draußen Abertausende von klugen Bauern, die merken, was gerade passiert. Die immer wieder für #Klimaschutz demonstrieren, die sich mit Leib und Seele ihrem anstrengendem Job verschrieben haben, die gesunde Lebensmittel für uns produzieren und die einen schweren Kampf gegen industrielle Großbetriebe und Nahrungsmittelkonzerne fechten.
Die interessieren aber weder Bauernverband, noch Union, noch Medien.
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Very nice report on the fire at North Hyde substation which took down Heathrow in March.
tl;dr:
* Fire was caused by moisture ingress in a high voltage bushing which was detected in 2018 but got lost in the system. * North Hyde is an ageing substation which didn't have adequate protection against spread of fire * Heathrow didn't think that a loss of grid feed was a plausible risk, so they assumed 10-12 hours was a reasonable recovery time from that.
DC operators: We have at least two separate feeds from the outside to your equipment + UPS and generators. Heathrow: Power can fail? *surprised pikachu*
British journalist Richard Medhurst reports on Bob Vylan's chant at Glastonbury, and the backlash that has ensued.Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/ri...
There is a simple reason why the BBC decided it could not air the Gaza doctors documentary and Channel 4 could: the reason is that the BBC is doing reputation management for Israel
Israeli occupation forces escalated on Tuesday their aggression in the occupied West Bank and al-Quds through extensive demolition operations that targeted Palestinian-owned homes, commercial shops, and educational institutions, amid repeated settler attacks on agricultural land.
In the town of al-Auja, north of Areeha, Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian-owned commercial store, followed by the demolition of a house.
Israeli occupation forces escalate demolitions across the West Bank and al-Quds, targeting homes, schools, and farmland, as settlers torch olive groves.
Illegal Israeli settlers have established a new outpost northwest of Jericho in the eastern West Bank, the fifth in the same area, according to a Palestinian rights group.
Illegal settlers erected tents, brought in excavation and leveling equipment, and began fencing off the site in the Muarrajat area in recent days, the Al-Baydar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights said in a statement.
Illegal settlers erected tents, brought in excavation and leveling equipment, and began fencing off site in Muarrajat area, rights group says - Anadolu Ajansı
UN expert Francesca Albanese has named over 60 companies, including major technology firms, confirming their involvement in “the transformation of Israel’s economy of occupation to an economy of genocide,” calling on corporations to cut ties with Israel and for executives to be held accountable.
Thehuman rights lawyer compiled the report based on over 200 submissions from states, human rights defenders, companies, and academics.
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- UN expert Francesca Albanese has named over 60 companies, including major technology firms, confirming their involvement in “the transformation of Israel's econ
I'm no expert, but some UK-oriented suggestions for things to do in response to ongoing genocide and famine in Palestine:
- Change your bank account, there's a UK list of complicit and non-complicit banks here: ethicalconsumer.org/money-fina… - e.g. it seems Barclays, HSBC, JP Morgan, Lloyds, NatWest, and Santander are using your money to finance the military and settlements - E-mail your MP map.org.uk/campaigns/stop-uks-… - Donate, I'm not sure what's best but maybe to a mutual aid organisation like the Sameer project chuffed.org/project/113222-ten… or Dahnoun chuffed.org/project/115245-dah… - Boycott e.g. Google, Amazon, Booking.com, Airbnb, Expedia, Teva, Chevron, Intel, Dell, Siemens, HP, Microsoft, Carrefour, AXA, Reebok, Disney+, Sodastream, Re/max bdsmovement.net/Guide-to-BDS-B…
Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 07/02/25 -- Trump: US and Israeli Officials Discussed Gaza, Pentagon Halts Some Shipments to Ukraine, and More youtube.com/watch?v=S84ZGyqic4…
Contact the White House: https://whitehouse.gov/contact/Support the show: Antiwar.com/donatePhone bank for Defend the Guard: https://defendtheguard.us/phoneb...
“On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri approved the proposed purchase of all of the assets of 23andMe by TTAM Research Institute (“TTAM”) … TTAM is a nonprofit medical research organization founded by Anne Wojcicki (Co-Founder and former CEO of 23andMe).”
just a reminder, part of the standard process in the USA in births, is to take a blood sample of each newborn and put it on a card for storage, at least in theory kept completely separate in identity, from the actual birth certificate, these cards are kept permanently by the government.
But as for decades all hospitals/birthing centers have used cameras, even without tracking codes to match people, video can be used to connect & thusly create a full database.
These cards can pretty easily be used to get the DNA for sequencing and thusly if it hasn't already, the government can have a full genetic database of all natural born US citizens, whenever it wants one...
Rinse repeat. Glad I was never inclined to participate in that scheme. My MIL bought kits for the family, last christmas but ended up throwing them away in part due to the bankruptcy and some common sense. The family was not interested.
The likely temporary Israel-Iran ceasefire notwithstanding, if you need proof of how despicable Donald Trump is, consider this: When asked last week if he would ask Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to stop bombing Iran, which had already said it woul…
Originally published at TomDispatch. The Senate is on the verge of passing the distinctly misnamed “big beautiful bill.” It is, in fact, one of the ugliest pieces of legislation to come out of Congress in living memory.
After long presenting heatwaves as fun episodes, with pictures of young people in fountains and swimming pools, European media are now realizing it's not funny anymore. French TV talked about the worst day instead of the warmest day, and Le Parisien had "Torture" as headline. nos.nl/l/2573263
Swedish newspapers/sites still illustrate the heatwave with children playing in fountains and youths eating ice cream. And frame headlines and link texts to drive "engagement" from the racist carsexual men/bots.
@Kees van der Leun No this whole Klaus Schwab wealth and power transfer scam, and it is a scam else he and his buddies wouldn't be flying their private jets along with a bunch of flown in hookers to Davos once a year, needs to end, and the people perpetrating it need to be put to death.
I was chatting to an elderly relative yesterday evening, and I showed him a graph of CO2 concentration over time. He didn't know that CO2 causes global warming, didn't know what a greenhouse gas is, and thought that global warming was generally a good thing because, at his age, he likes the heat. He's not malicious or stupid; he just didn't understand what's at stake. The message had bounced off him.
@C++ Wage Slave @Kees van der Leun And people that follow this tripe don't. They don't for starters understand physics. CO2 and all gasses for that matter, absorb along spectral lines. Those lines for CO2 are already saturated about 12 feet off the ground. That is to say the emissions CO2 absorbs it is already fully opaque to 12 feet off the ground. Additional CO2 will slightly widen those lines but the increase is far short of linear and the extrapolations being made assume a linear response. Venus isn't hot just because of greenhouse gasses, it also gets nearly twice the solar input per square meter than Earth, this forces a higher temperature even without CO2, add to that the atmosphere is 100x thicker. And it wasn't a run-away affect as Carl Sagan often stated, rather Venus has no tectonic activity and no sea life to recycle carbon into the crust, unlike Earth. This Global Warming sham is a wealth transfer and control sham, nothing else. If you want to starve go move to North Korea or Palestine and leave the rest of us alone.
A French member of antiX forum welcomes Europe in to climate hell.
Most people around where I live do nothing. I power my home as far as possible with solar, walk to nearby shops.
Wish Germanys ruling partys would subverntion solar for every building, instead they protect profits and gift citizens with the highest electricity prices in Europe and talk about network damaging solar, want to remotely turn off citizens solar power. I have no network connection, just battery.
You've raised an important point. It's fast and cheap for a news outlet to send a photographer out for a picture of people cooling off by swimming. But the real story of a Climate Crisis caused heat wave is people dying, not swimming. It would be improper if not illegal to show images of seniors who died in their homes of heat stroke. So, very seriously, what would be the proper image? An ambulance pulling into the emergency area?
German chancellor Merz casually dismisses Germany's (already insufficient) #climate targets. In an hour-long talkshow interview, he was asked to complete some sentences:
Host: "That the current heat wave is a sign of climate change ..." Merz: "... is partially true, but surely not exclusively."
Host: "That [economics minister] Katharina Reiche questions the 2045 climate target ...' Merz: "... has something to do with a realistic view of what we can actually achieve."
@Wolfgang Lucht Yea Germans are freezing to death in the winter already, let's do even more of the same. Good plan, MORONS. A by-the-way, each year approximately 5 million people die from cold, that's about 8.5% of all deaths, and 500,000 from heat, about .5% of all deaths, so seems even from human health standard, some global heating would be beneficial.
There's a common sleight of hand in the political class' views of the NHS;
They (willingly) confuse growing levels of dissatisfaction with the NHS as growing support for privatised health care, but while people are now sometimes more willing to go private this is a strategy of desperation not a willing political conversion.
What voters actually want is for the NHS to work properly, fairly & efficiently.... and that can only be achieved with a renewed commitment to full funding!
Reprinted from Yves Engler’s website. Donald Trump and NATO have unleashed a spectacular turn towards dangerous, imperialistic and inevitably wasteful militarism in Canada.
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report: Just as news comes out that IDF commanders ordered Israeli soldiers to shoot unarmed Palestinians lining up for food, the US announced that it has approved $500 million in new weapons to Israel – just the kinds of …
"The Digital Democracy Deception" by Courtenay Turner Part 1 July 2nd ===============================
In an era where digital technologies increasingly shape democratic participation, a constellation of initiatives promises to revolutionize governance through artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies. At the center of this movement sits the AI World Society (AIWS), a Boston Global Forum initiative that advocates for “digital democracy” and “ethical AI governance. ”Beneath the progressive rhetoric of empowerment and transparency lies a more troubling reality: the concentration of power among tech elites and the potential erosion of genuine citizen agency.
This analysis examines the growing influence of AIWS and related digital democracy projects, revealing how buzzwords like “democratization”, “decentralization” and “empowerment” may mask concerning limitations that threaten personal sovereignty and cognitive liberty. TLDR: =====
The Bottom Line: What's marketed as "digital democracy" is actually a sophisticated power grab by tech elites, transforming genuine civic participation into managed participation theater while threatening cognitive liberty itself.
The Elite Capture Machine -------------------------
The AI World Society (AIWS), led by former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and Vietnamese entrepreneur Nguyen Anh Tuan, exemplifies how "digital democracy" initiatives concentrate power among academic and political elites. Their latest venture—blockchain-certified "Esteemed Digital Assets"—literally tokenizes political legacies, creating artificial scarcity around historical narratives while an elite board of MIT and Harvard affiliates controls the curation.
Even more concerning is their "Music for Humanity" initiative, which uses "AI-amplified music" for what can only be described as emotional engineering—bearing striking similarities to the HeartMath Global Coherence Initiative's attempts at technologically-mediated consciousness manipulation.
Taiwan's vTaiwan platform, celebrated globally as a digital democracy triumph, reveals the fundamental flaws in these systems when examined closely. The brutal reality: only 0.04% of Taiwan's population actually engaged with the platform, and legislators admitted they don't take it seriously because the government isn't required to adopt recommendations.
This isn't democratization—it's participation theater that serves educated, urban elites while excluding rural, elderly, and less tech-savvy citizens. The platform "hasn't been used for any major decisions since 2018," proving that ultimate power remains concentrated in traditional institutions.
Blockchain Voting: The Constitutional Trojan Horse --------------------------------------------------
MIT cybersecurity experts have issued devastating warnings against blockchain voting, demonstrating these systems create "undetectable, nation-scale election failures". Real-world pilots validate these concerns: West Virginia's blockchain voting was hacked within 72 hours, while Nevada's system allowed undetectable vote alterations.
Yet "Third Way" movements like Andrew Yang's Forward Party continue promoting blockchain voting as democratic innovation. This represents a deceptive advance toward technocratic governance that would replace constitutional accountability with unaccountable algorithms.
The Cognitive Liberty Threat ----------------------------
The convergence of AI, neuroscience, and ubiquitous computing creates unprecedented opportunities for surveillance and mental manipulation. AIWS's combination of AI-generated content, blockchain-certified narratives, and "AI-amplified music" represents a sophisticated approach to shaping public consciousness.
Chile recognized this threat by becoming the first country to enshrine neurorights in its constitution in 2021, prohibiting non-consensual neural data extraction and the buying/selling of brain data. Colorado followed with America's first neural data protection law in 2024.
The Academic Warning --------------------
Research consistently reveals that "the field of e-democracy has generally failed to live up to its own reformist rhetoric". A UC Berkeley study found that college graduates are 1.5 times more likely to blog, twice as likely to post content, and three times more likely to comment online compared to high school graduates. Less than 10% of the U.S. population participates in online content creation, making digital platforms "more of a playground for the affluent than a digital democracy."
The Pattern Revealed --------------------
The evolution from 2012's grassroots g0v movement to 2025's AIWS ecosystem reveals a clear trajectory: genuine civic tech innovations have been captured and transformed into elite-controlled systems that maintain the rhetoric of empowerment while concentrating decision-making power.
The Choice Before Us --------------------
These aren't innovations—they're digital feudalism disguised as democracy. The infrastructure being built would permanently replace "We the People" with "We the Algorithms," creating what critics call a "velvet-gloved architecture of control" where every click, vote, and potentially even brainwave feeds systems designed to shape behavior in ways both unseen and unaccountable.
The time for vigilance is now. Citizens must reject blockchain voting, expose elite networks funding these initiatives, and demand genuine cognitive liberty protections before this digital cage masquerading as liberation becomes inescapable.
The future of human agency hangs in the balance—and the tech elites are betting you won't notice until it's too late.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday stressed efforts to advance the building of a unified national market and promote the high-quality development of the marine economy.
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Physique de l’atmosphère, chimie des océans ou paléoclimatologie : les sciences peuvent rebuter, alors qu’elles sont essentielles pour comprendre la crise climatique. D’où cette question : comment parler de sciences à un large public ?
Pour y répondre, nous recevons Julien Bobroff, physicien spécialiste de la physique quantique et de la supraconductivité, et dirige La physique autrement, une équipe de recherche travaillant sur les nouvelles façons de vulgariser la physique.
Interview réalisée par Maxime Thuillez à l'Académie du climat
CHAPITRES 00:00 - Extraits 01:04 - Introduction 02:55 - Vulgarisation : quels enjeux ? 04:31 - Quel niveau de complexité ? 05:45 - Les implications politiques 08:04 - La méthode scientifique 09:04 - Les rapports du GIEC 11:22 - Les ordres de grandeurs : une boussole ? 16:30 - Comment vulgariser les questions climatiques ? 18:38 - La difficulté des scientifiques à vulgariser 20:53 - La vulgarisation nuit-elle aux chercheurs ? 23:09 - Comment éviter le catastrophisme quand on parle de climat ? 27:12 - L'enthousiasme : quel rôle ? 28:38 - Les épiphanies climatiques 30:03 - Comment capter l'attention en ligne ? 31:18 - Pourquoi Tik Tok ? 33:36 - Fred & Jamy ? 35:12 - Une bataille culturelle ? 36:45 - Le débunck : le rôle des scientifiques ? 39:05 - Culture scientifique : des lacunes ? 42:45 - L'intérêt pour les sciences ? 44:45 - Pourquoi les sciences effraient-elles à l'école ? 47:40 - Que tester sur le climat ? 52:26 - La liberté scientifique est elle menacée ? 55:25 - Science vs Recherche 59:39 - Les chercheurs pressurisés ? 01:01:43 - La science menacée par l'ère de l'opinion ? 01:03:50 - L'effet blouse blanche 01:07:35 - Les chercheurs doivent-ils se concentrer sur le climat ?
Dans cette interview, Julien Bobroff raconte comment parler de sciences, et notamment de la question climatique. Faut-il investir les réseaux sociaux ? Donner des conférences de vulgarisation ? Comment se défaire du regard de ses pairs ? Toutes ces questions sont centrales pour amener les scientifiques à mieux communiquer sur les grandes menacent qui pèsent sur la planète.
Rachel Reeves said bond markets would crash and economic mayhem would descend on the country if the disabled did not give up their benefits. So will it, or was she just talking total nonsense? Today might tell. taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/0…
According to Rachel Reeves and her Treasury ministers, there will be a crisis in the City of London today because the £5 billion of savings that she claimed were essential to avoid this outcome have been removed from the bill intended to cut disabili…
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Tessa Hulls's debut graphic novel is *Feeding Ghosts*, a stunning memoir that tells the story of three generations of her Chinese family. It was a decade in the making, and it is utterly, unmissably brilliant:
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A European Court ruling allows individuals to request that search engines remove certain web pages from their results. Following the ruling, Google removed a large number of links from certain searches, including some to BBC web pages.
My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
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The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
Novelist, activist, and journalist Cory Doctorow joins Rachel and David in the cafe to talk about the enshittification of the internet and how we ended up in our current enshittogenic environment.
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is there a name for this art style? Because it reminds me of the litch from adventure time and plenty of metal album covers but in a softer interpretation. I’m here for it
Great to see another slap down for Zionists and other white supremacists - artistic freedom wins. 'Creative Australia has reinstated artist Khaled Sabsabi and curator Michael Dagostino as Australia’s artistic team for the 2026 Venice Biennale,' theguardian.com/culture/2025/j… #auspol
The Ministry of Education and Higher Education called on #humanrights organizations, international bodies, and diplomatic missions to uphold their responsibilities in protecting the right of Palestinian children in Masafer Yatta and other marginalized areas to education.
This follows a decision by Israeli occupation authorities to demolish the Palestine Mixed Basic School in #MasaferYatta within seven days.
📢 WAFA correspondent reported that six citizens were killed and others were wounded when the Israeli occupation forces shelled tents for displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area of #KhanYounis #gaza
Ten citizens, including children, were also wounded when tents sheltering displaced people were shelled in the same area, which is considered a "safe area" for displaced families, but has been repeatedly bombed in recent weeks.
#OtD 2 Jul 1990 a general strike of up to 3 million workers took place in South Africa demanding government action to end violence in the Natal region stories.workingclasshistory.co…
Tessa Hulls's debut graphic novel is *Feeding Ghosts*, a stunning memoir that tells the story of three generations of her Chinese family. It was a decade in the making, and it is utterly, unmissably brilliant:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
*Feeding Ghosts* is about Hulls's quest to understand - and heal - her relationship with her mother, a half-Chinese, half-Swiss woman who escaped from China as a small child with her own mother, a journalist who had been targeted by Mao's police.
Hulls's grandmother, Sun Yi, wrote a bestselling memoir about her experiences in post-revolutionary Shanghai that made her both famous and notorious, in part because of the salacious details of Sun Yi's affair with the Swiss diplomat who fathered Rose, Hulls's mother.
In Hong Kong, Sun Yi's mental health declines precipitously. Some combination of mental illness and trauma - both from the horrors of the Sino-Japanese War and the her torture at the hands of the Chinese police - sends her into a spiral of paranoid delusions. But Sun Yi has a community of people who feel an obligation to support her in Hong Kong, including one of her rich "boyfriends."
Rose is sent away to a fancy, British-run girl's school dominated by expats where she acquires a cut-glass accent and learns to mix upper-class, colonial English gentry.
Hulls is born to Rose many years later, after Rose has emigrated to the USA, attended university, married twice - the second time to Rose's father, an Englishman - and moved her mother in with her.
For Hulls, growing up in Rose's household as the only Asian kid in a small American town, is a series of torments. Her mentally ill grandmother lives in one bedroom, gripped by delusions, compulsively writing, fretting, begging with her few English words for Rose to come back. Rose, meanwhile, is a duty-stricken domestic saint who does all the cooking and cleaning, cares for her children and her husband, and looks after her totally isolated, profoundly disturbed mother.
Hulls grows up in the shadow of the intergenerational trauma - genocide, war crimes, colonialist discrimination, untreated mental illness, and everyday American racism - that haunts her family. Rose veers from doting to shouting, terrified that Hulls is sliding into the family's madness, unable to understand or grapple with Hulls's identity as a self-proclaimed "mixed-race" Eurasian person, born in America, unable to speak Chinese or to understand her Chinese identity.
All of this biography is interspersed through several time-hopping sections that recount the history of the Chinese revolution and the lives of Sun Yi and Rose, along with scenes from the decade that Hulls spent writing and drawing *Feeding Ghosts*, during which she and her mother travel to see their family in China, on a literal and figurative journey of reconciliation.
It sounds complex and confusing, but it's anything but. Each of intertwined narratives - revolutionary China, Rose's girlhood, Hulls's girlhood, the trips to contemporary China, Hulls's adulthood and Sun Yi's institutionalizations and long isolation - are high stakes, high-tension scenarios, beautifully told. Hulls hops from one tale to the next in ways that that draw out the subtle, imporant parallels between each situation, subtly amplifying the echoes across time and space.
In the final third of this long, large book, we get to the meat of Hulls's own story: her tempestuous relationship with her mother, her mother's immersion in a psychoanalytic cult, the sad demise of Sun Yi, and the wild flight of Hulls herself, in which she breaks off her stultifying engagement and teaches herself to be a bicycle mechanic and begins cycling all over the world, living on pennies and consummating her love of wild and empty spaces.
At college, she becomes a cook through a weekly women's drunken pie-baking night, and somehow parlays that into a long session as a cook in Antarctica on McMurdo Station.
This final third acts as a kind of keystone to the many interwoven tales, as well as to the complex relationship between Hulls, her mother, and her own sense of self.
Up until this point, the different threads of Hulls's family's story are subtle echoes of one another, motifs that repeat and vary. But in this final third, the reader - and Hulls - experience a profound psychological realization,
We see how the three stories of these three generation of women, along with China's tumultuous history and the experience of an American immigrant all produced the person whose bold illustrations and sharp prose we've been immersed in for hundreds of pages. It's a *wild* moment.
Hulls's art style runs to dark, stylized inks, with horrors and ghosts puncturing individual panels' frames and wending through the page. It's a phantasmagorical experience.
*Feeding Ghosts* came out in March, and has gone on to win the Pulitzer Prize, only the second graphic novel in history to take the honor (the first was *Maus*, another memoir of intergenerational trauma, horrific war, and the American immigrant experience).
The prize is a big deal, obviously, and it's no coincidence that this kind of difficult illustrated memoir has won both graphic novel Pulitzers. Hulls joins the annals of world-altering comic-book memoirists, from Lynda Barry to Emil Ferris (*My Favorite Thing is Monsters*) to Art Spiegelman and Chester Brown.
She has pulled of a magnificent feat, one that illuminates history, contemporary racial and gender politics, the immigrant experience, and the impossible problems of parents and children in the aftermath of unspeakable trauma.
Discrimination sociale, discrimination territoriale, discrimination d’opportunité… Voilà selon le député communiste Sébastien Peu, les trois péchés capitaux des fameux stages obligatoires des lycéens en fin d’année scolaire. Voici pourquoi.
The real question is why is a fucking sociopath allowed to teach a class at a university? Oh, it’s Stanford. As you were. mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113…
Eric Schmidt:
‘learned that there were people who I call “glue people”. The glue people are incredibly nice people who sit at interstitial boundaries between groups, and they assist in activity.
sociopaths = professor & most leading administrators at "high end" US colleges & that's been pretty consistent for at least a few decades.... which is why many believe that an advancement towards a better educated society would be to dismantle those colleges completely.
Or yale -- their IRB approved a study that was "let's scare toddlers" in 2020. a lot of the anger was over scaring autistic toddlers, but they DID have a control group and it's not like scaring autistic toddlers is worse.
(this has basically no connection to the post I just like to complain about that study as often as I possibly can)
Deux soldats franco-israéliens sont visés par une plainte de plusieurs ONG, déposée ce 1er juillet à Paris, pour crimes de guerre, crimes contre l’humanité et génocide commis à Gaza.
Ce mardi 1er juillet 2025, une coalition d’organisations de défense des droits humains engage une procédure judiciaire contre deux ressortissants franco-israéliens, accusés d’avoir commis des exécutions sommaires à Gaza, entre novembre 2023 et mars 2024.
La Fédération internationale pour les droits humains (FIDH), qui regroupe 188 organisations dans 116 pays, a déposé une plainte avec constitution de partie civile auprès du pôle « crimes contre l’humanité » du tribunal judiciaire de Paris. Elle est accompagnée dans cette démarche par la Ligue des droits de l’Homme (LDH), l’Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS), ainsi que par les ONG palestiniennes Al-Haq, Al Mezan et le Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR).
Sur le même sujet : « L’armée qui fait ce qu’elle peut »
Deux noms apparaissent dans le dossier : Sasha A. et Gabriel B., snipers de nationalité franco-israélienne, membres d’une unité spéciale de l’armée israélienne. Selon les associations, les deux hommes sont impliqués dans des « atteintes volontaires à la vie constitutives de crimes de guerre, de crimes contre l’humanité et de génocide ». Le dossier repose notamment sur un reportage du journaliste palestinien Younis Tirawi et une série de témoignages recueillis par les ONG sur le terrain à Gaza. La Ghost Unit, unité d’élite qui s’affiche et revendique ses actes
Au cœur de l’affaire : une unité militaire israélienne baptisée Ghost Unit. Cette unité de tireurs d’élite, rattachée à la 202e brigade de parachutistes de Tsahal, est mise en cause dans une campagne systématique d’exécutions de civils, documentée pendant plusieurs mois.
Dans un documentaire de 38 minutes diffusé fin 2024, Younis Tirawi dévoile l’identité, les visages et les nationalités des membres de cette unité. Une photo de groupe, tirée des réseaux sociaux, révèle que près de la moitié des soldats possèdent une double nationalité, notamment française, belge, allemande, italienne et américaine.
Tous les éléments constitutifs du crime sont là : c’est revendiqué, filmé, documenté.
A. Deswaef
Mais ce qui est particulièrement frappant, c’est l’aveu filmé d’un sergent de l’unité, affirmant face caméra des tirs, parfois à plus d’un kilomètre de distance, sur des personnes non armées, le tout avec l’aval de ses supérieurs. « Ce qui est effarant, c’est qu’il revendique ouvertement les crimes de guerre. Il précise même tirer à proximité des hôpitaux. Tous les éléments constitutifs du crime sont là : c’est revendiqué, filmé, documenté », s’indigne Alexis Deswaef, avocat et vice-président de la FIDH. Des témoignages accablants de victimes de snipers
Les éléments du reportage sont corroborés par des témoignages recueillis par des ONG à Gaza. Dans un document consulté par nos soins, plusieurs témoins racontent comment des proches, enfants, femmes, blessés, ont été visés délibérément par des tireurs postés sur les toits autour des hôpitaux Al-Quds et Nasser. Un père raconte que sa fille de 17 ans a été tuée « d’une balle dans la tête » alors qu’elle rentrait à l’hôpital chercher de l’eau. Une autre famille rapporte que trois frères ont été tués dans la rue, tandis que leur mère, venue demander une ambulance, a elle aussi été blessée par balle.
Sur le même sujet : Palestine : c’est la jeunesse qu’on assassine
En février 2024, de nombreuses vidéos attestent de tirs de snipers sur des personnes non armées aux alentours de l’hôpital Al-Quds. Des images d’un enfant mort au sol devant le portail, un médecin (les liens suivants contiennent des scènes explicites qui peuvent ne pas convenir à tous les publics) pris pour cible, un homme âgé rampant, en sang, en train de rentrer dans l’hôpital sous le bruit des tirs parmi de nombreuses autres scènes tout aussi choquantes.
Les témoignages, enregistrés par Al Mezan et d’autres ONG, pointent tous un même mode opératoire, dans les mêmes zones et périodes que celles ciblées par l’enquête. « Le recoupement de ces récits avec les faits documentés dans le reportage laisse penser que les soldats de la Ghost Unit pourraient être impliqués dans l’ensemble de ces crimes », explique Issam Younis, directeur d’Al Mezan. Un objectif clair : briser l’impunité
Alors que la plainte cible deux individus précis, le dossier soulève une question bien plus vaste : celle du nombre et du rôle des Franco-Israéliens dans l’armée israélienne. Depuis le début des massacres, plusieurs centaines de citoyens binationaux, jusqu’à 4 000 ressortissants français, serviraient actuellement dans l’armée israélienne.
En décembre 2024, une plainte similaire avait déjà été déposée en France contre Yoel O., un sniper franco-israélien accusé de torture et d’exactions à l’encontre de prisonniers palestiniens. « À ce jour, aucune enquête n’a encore été ouverte », rappelle le communiqué de la FIDH. Ces procédures sont engagées pour rompre avec ce que les ONG dénoncent comme un cycle d’impunité judiciaire. « S’il peut le dire face caméra, c’est qu’il sait qu’il ne risque rien. Il y a un sentiment d’impunité totale. Nous pensons que seule une première décision judiciaire, en France, en Belgique ou ailleurs, pourra briser ce cycle », insiste Alexis Deswaef.
Sur le même sujet : Gaza : au-delà des chiffres, visualiser la tragédie
La plainte s’appuie sur le principe de compétence universelle prévu par le droit français. Comme le rappelle l’avocat, « en France, comme en Belgique, des ressortissants peuvent être poursuivis pour crimes de guerre ou contre l’humanité commis à l’étranger. Et ce, même en leur absence ».
Selon la FIDH, cette affaire présente une spécificité majeure : l’essentiel des éléments probants sont déjà disponibles au moment du dépôt de plainte. Entre les aveux filmés, les témoignages et les éléments de géolocalisation, les ONG estiment que la justice peut avancer rapidement. « D’ordinaire, dans ce type de dossier, il faut attendre des années pour obtenir des preuves. Ici, ce sont les auteurs eux-mêmes qui les apportent. La justice peut donc agir, y compris en l’absence des suspects. » Pour une coordination judiciaire internationale
La plainte déposée ce mardi en France n’est que la première étape. Des procédures équivalentes seront engagées en Allemagne et en Italie, tandis qu’une enquête est déjà en cours en Belgique contre un membre de la Ghost Unit. En Colombie, la Hind Rajab Foundation a déjà déposé une plainte pénale contre un des deux hommes, Gabriel B., repéré sur son territoire.
Il n’y a pas d’exception israélienne. La boussole doit rester le droit international.
A. Deswaef
Les ONG appellent à une coordination européenne des enquêtes. « Il ne peut pas y avoir deux poids, deux mesures. Ce qui serait fait pour des binationaux russes partis se battre en Ukraine doit l’être pour des binationaux israéliens engagés dans des crimes à Gaza », souligne Deswaef. « Il n’y a pas d’exception israélienne. La boussole doit rester le droit international. »
Si les suspects restent en Israël, ils ne seront pas réellement inquiétés. Mais pour la FIDH, une condamnation ne serait pas seulement symbolique. « Ils ne pourraient plus sortir d’Israël sans risquer une arrestation immédiate dans un autre pays. Et un jour, même en Israël, un changement de pouvoir pourrait les rattraper. »
La plainte pourrait aussi ouvrir la voie à des enquêtes sur la chaîne de commandement, puisque les snipers affirment avoir agi sur ordre hiérarchique. Un organigramme militaire de la Ghost Unit serait en cours de reconstitution par les ONG, en vue de remonter vers les donneurs d’ordres. À ce jour, aucune juridiction n’a encore jamais condamné un binational israélien pour des crimes de guerre commis à Gaza. Ces plaintes espèrent en terminer avec ce silence.
relentless_eduardo
in reply to EastBayTruther • • •probably consensual and paid
but fools always have add words like "vulnerable"
EastBayTruther
in reply to relentless_eduardo • • •relentless_eduardo
in reply to EastBayTruther • • •And there is also something called lying.
What really happened?