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This is #Israel / Racism & coercion: on the Depo-Provera Issue and the Ethiopian community (research)

I’ve seen this issue discussed here recently. Here’s some context about an historical and ongoing overreach of the state and medical authorities in controlling the fertility of Ethiopian immigrant women, in this case the forced (or “strongly encouraged”) use of the Depo-Provera contraceptive injection, extracted for a recent research paper.

The issue dates back to the 1990s and continues to the present day. Ethiopian immigrants, who often faced discrimination and were perceived as having higher birth rates, were disproportionately targeted by state-sponsored programs aimed at limiting their family size.

The Depo-Provera injection, a long-acting reversible contraceptive, was frequently administered to Ethiopian women, often without full informed consent or consideration of their individual needs and desires. This practice was sometimes carried out in the context of family planning programs in absorption centers for new immigrants.

The Israeli government and medical authorities played a role in perpetuating this issue. While some officials initially denied or downplayed the extent of the problem, investigations and reports revealed a pattern of coercive practices.

The issue is deeply rooted in racism and discrimination against Ethiopian immigrants, who were often viewed as a "problem", requiring state intervention to control their population growth. This reflects broader societal biases and stereotypes which is not limited to the Ethiopian community, if we limit the discussion to Jewish immigrants.

The researcher, Chedva Eyal, states that despite some changes in policy, concerns remain about the potential for continued overreach and a lack of respect for the reproductive rights of Ethiopian women.

Testimonial from the paper:

[…] For example, the testimony of Shula, who arrived at a Kupat Holim (healthcare clinic) branch in central Israel after giving birth to her son. The nurse insisted she take Depo-Provera, even though Shula did not request contraception and even emphasized that she did not have a partner. Shula, stunned by the intensity of the pressure, decided to go to another clinic to avoid taking contraception she had not asked for at all. The visitor might also have heard the testimony of an Ethiopian woman who refused to take Depo-Provera and was insulted with "retard, foolish," and because of her three pregnancies, she was offered an abortion. The racist and humiliating treatment, along with cases of a lack of medical care infrastructure, indicate a difficult and complex reality that is not reflected in the visitor's inquiry.

Hebrew kriot.co.il/%D7%9C%D7%90-%D7%A…

From the abstract:

The article presents a retrospective account of the Depo-Provera (contraceptive injection) provision scandal to women from the #Ethiopian community in Israel, which was administered broadly with the aim of reducing fertility. The article follows the social and institutional processes since the scandal was revealed in 2008 and examines the State Comptroller's inquiry in 2015. This is a multi-site #ethnographic study that combines interviews, data processing, analysis of the State Comptroller's inquiry and Knesset debate protocols, and spans the years 2023–2008. During the research, I was exposed to many cases of Depo-Provera being administered without consent, and I witnessed the public discourse and processes that occurred in the wake of the scandal's exposure.

@israel
#depoprovera #racism

לא נמצאה עדות: בחינה רטרוספקטיבית של פרשת מתן אמצעי למניעת היריון דפו־פרוורה לנשים אתיופיות בישראל - קריאות ישראליות

מאמר זה בוחן את התהליכים החברתיים והשלטוניים, לאורך השנים, ביחס לפרשת מתן גורף של דפו־פרוורה, אמצעי למניעת היריון, לנשים מהקהילה...

^{alonoz (קריאות ישראליות)}

#Israel just slaughtered 100s more innocents in #Gaza. Here are some of their names and stories

The numbers are horrific but they are not mere numbers
With the world ‘mainstream’ media’s eyes diverted to Iran & never too interested in reporting Israel’s crimes in Gaza anyway – Israel has continued to accelerate its slaughter & starvation of the Palestinian people of Gaza. 100s have been murdered in just the last couple of days, bombed & shot.

#Starvaton #FoodasWeapon @palestine @israel

On March 26, 2010 Nancy Schaefer and her husband Bruce were found dead in their Habersham County home. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation ruled the deaths a murder-suicide, asserting Bruce shot Nancy in the back while she slept and then turned the gun on himself, leaving a suicide note and no signs of forced entry and closed the case rapidly \[1].

Nancy Schaefer had been removed from the Georgia State Senate in 2008 but continued as an outspoken critic of child protective services, publishing in 2007 “Investigation of Child Protective Services,” which alleged Title IV-E funding incentives drove unwarranted child removals, financial fraud, and trafficking in concert with foster and adoption agencies \[2].

At the death scene GBI reported Nancy had a single gunshot wound to the back and Bruce a self-inflicted chest wound; towels near the handgun and no forced entry were cited as consistent with murder-suicide, yet no independent forensic audit, ballistics reconstruction, blood spatter or gunshot residue analysis has ever been released \[1].

Family members and close associates unanimously rejected the official narrative. Nancy exhibited no suicidal ideation, was in good health, planning international speaking engagements and a documentary release, and Bruce showed no history of depression, financial distress, or violence; both were described as supportive, stable, and focused on activism \[3].

Prior to her death Nancy publicly reported receiving threats linked to her investigations of CPS and alleged involvement in exposing international child trafficking networks; her collected documentation and documentary materials vanished after the deaths, and FOIA requests for related records were met with redaction or denial \[4].

Major media outlets offered minimal coverage, no Congressional inquiry or independent autopsy was conducted, and federal agencies showed no interest in her documented civil rights and RICO-related allegations against CPS and state actors, despite her presentations before conservative organizations and United Nations forums \[5].

Independent investigators and family‐designated experts were denied access to autopsy materials, crime scene evidence, and sealed court documents; whistleblower accounts within Georgia’s legal system claim her work threatened sealed federal interests, yet these assertions remain unverified due to restricted records \[6].

Nancy Schaefer’s death aligns with a pattern of unexplained fatalities among CPS whistleblowers and reform advocates, including Monica Petersen and Senator Linda Collins-Smith, characterized by abrupt official rulings of suicide or accident, rapid case closures, and absence of thorough forensic review \[7].

Sources

\[1] Georgia Bureau of Investigation official case summary, 2010
\[2] Nancy Schaefer “Investigation of Child Protective Services,” 2007
\[3] Family testimonies collected by independent advocates, 2010
\[4] Freedom of Information Act responses and Associated Press coverage, 2010
\[5] Media analysis of national and international coverage, 2010
\[6] Whistleblower affidavit filed with state legal counsel, 2011
\[7] Comparative study of CPS whistleblower fatalities, 2015

#news
#minds
#cps
#cpscorruption
#politics

Trump Spends $1M On Attack Ads Smearing Thomas Massie as Pro-Child Genital Mutilation Terrorist

AIPAC is recruiting a challenger to take on Thomas Massie and President Trump is already spending $1 million of his donors' money on smearing the America First congressman as a terrorist who wants to mutilate children's genitals.

informationliberation.com/?id=…

Trump Spends $1M On Attack Ads Smearing Thomas Massie as Pro-Child Genital Mutilation Terrorist

^{InformationLiberation}

Global Cover-Up of Class Genocide

Cases like Gabriel Fernandez and Adrian Jones highlight horrific abuse in state custody but are treated as rare exceptions. Meanwhile, systemic issues—especially mass spying via data collection used for racially and politically biased child removals, financial incentives, and the harmful outcomes—go largely ignored.

Risk assessment tools from firms like Palantir and Microsoft analyze data such as income, criminal records, CPS history, mental health, school attendance, social media, and neighborhood poverty and racial makeup. These biased algorithms disproportionately target families upholding traditional values or rejecting dominant ideologies, subjecting them to surveillance and separation. This model is exported globally via UNICEF, WHO, and philanthropic groups. The UN's number 1 stated goal is to end poverty; apparently by ending poor famalies.

The majority of removals (75%) are not for abuse, but a percieved risk of “neglect”. Even when the child was in no danger, and better off with family. (ACF, Child Maltreatment 2022). Reunification rates remain below 50%, with many parents permanently losing custody despite no criminal convictions (Children’s Bureau Annual Report, 2022).

These removals destroy family bonds, and cause irreversible damage to children. Outcomes in foster care are catastrophically worse than remaining with their families, marked by high rates of malnutrition, abuse, medical neglect, psychotropic overmedication, disappearances, and deaths—many concealed or misclassified. Sexual exploitation, trafficking, and organ harvesting disproportionately victimize foster youth, making the system a documented human trafficking conduit under the guise of protection.

National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) reports from 2021 indicate foster children experience mortality rates 20 times higher than age-matched peers, with deaths attributed to neglect, abuse, untreated medical conditions, and suicide. Investigative journalism from The Guardian and ProPublica revealed widespread physical and sexual abuse in foster care and group homes, forced medication, malnutrition, and neglect. The GAO (2019) documented that 61% of foster children received psychotropic medications, often prescribed off-label without FDA approval or adequate psychiatric oversight. DOJ statistics estimate roughly 20,000 foster children run away or go missing annually, many trafficked or exploited, but reporting systems are inconsistent and undercount disappearances (DOJ Child Exploitation Report, 2020). These abuses amount to racial and class genocide disguised as protection.

Media silence stems from conflicts of interest tied to government funding and corporate advertising, sustaining the false narrative that removal is always protective.

This media blackout is part of a global psychological operation controlled by political actors, corporate contractors, and intelligence-linked firms. By focusing on isolated cases, they hide a coordinated system enforcing racial and class genocide through family destruction. Without real investigative journalism, this silent genocide continues behind closed doors.

All ideas about the "Nazis" being so strict and uptight that they had no sense of humor are of course all derived from the programming of countless movies where National Socialist Germans have been pictured as such.

Thus people today, "feels like" they kind of know how it was.

It is all lies based upon lies.

Look at the video of Hitler, then a soldier, playing with a dog in the middle of WW1

Was that a man devoid of Humor?
No he was a loving caring man with a smile.

Open Society Publications
Peter Thiel’s assertion that democracy inevitably subordinates freedom collapses once automation profits and import duties are taxed progressively, channeling AI‑driven surpluses into public goods rather than oligarchic coffers. This policy directly undermines his escape‑hatch logic by ensuring that technological dividends serve collective well‑being instead of private enrichment. By reclaiming a fair share of automation rents, it nullifies Thiel’s premise that extending fiscal democracy corrodes capitalist liberty. Nuclear powered robotic factories can produce enough surplus to provide a UBI for every citizen.

His vision of detached technocrats ruling unaccountable AI platforms is shattered by community‑led ownership of factories and data infrastructures. Democratic cooperatives and municipally governed enterprises prevent secretive acquisitions and algorithmic governance, embedding production within elected structures and subjecting all automated decision‑making to public review.

Thiel’s model of surveillance‑driven distribution is refuted by a uniform, non‑targeted UBI that guarantees equal economic footing without elite gatekeepers. Removing means tests and opaque criteria restores the principle that support is an unconditional right, not a privilege granted by an unelected few.

Finally, Thiel’s call to “find an escape from politics in all its forms” is countered by embedding these reforms within a transparent, consent‑based government fortified by robust protections for speech, press and information flows, real‑time disclosure of political expenditures, and citizen‑initiated referendum and recall mechanisms obliterates the claim that democracy stifles innovation. True liberty and technological progress flourish only when economic power is as decentralized and contestable as political authority.

Open Society Foundations 2024 – Publications page: opensocietyfoundations.org/pub…

U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division 2023 – Antitrust Division overview: justice.gov/atr

Journal of Co-operative Studies 2022 – Journal issues page: ukscs.coop/pages/journal-of-co…

Roosevelt Institute 2021 – “An Equal Playing Field: Why UBI Is Preferable to GI”: rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/an…

Varieties of Democracy Project 2023 – About V‑Dem project: v-dem.net/

Dolphins have massive balls. Swallows are more closely related to owls than swifts. Just two tid-bits from this interesting article:

theconversation.com/why-evolut…

#biology #sex #testicles #Evolution

Why evolution can explain human testicle size but not our unique chins

Why human testicles are so different to chimpanzees’ and gorillas’.

^{The Conversation}

Pourquoi certains journaux continuent d’illustrer les canicules avec des femmes en bikini et des enfants tout sourire à la plage ? Est-ce vraiment représentatif de ce qu’il se passe quand il fait plus de 40°C à l’ombre et qu'il peut y avoir des conséquences mortelles ?

bonpote.com/bikinis-enfants-qu…

Bikinis, enfants qui jouent dans l'eau.. peut-on mieux illustrer les canicules ?

Pourquoi certains journaux continuent d'illustrer les canicules avec des femmes en bikini et des enfants tout sourire à la plage ?

^{Thomas Wagner (bonpote)}

that internet-computer trick that flicks on a lightbox as soon as your cursor moves toward the delete button

should that be classified a crime against humanity?

Six US citizens detained for trying to send rice and Bibles to North Korea
https://www.euronews.com/2025/06/27/six-us-citizens-detained-for-trying-to-send-rice-and-bibles-to-north-korea?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World News @world-news-euronews

Six US citizens detained for trying to send rice and Bibles to North Korea

The incident comes as South Korea’s new liberal government seeks to ease friction with Pyongyang and restart long-dormant talks.

^{Oman Al Yahyai (Euronews.com)}

es ist eine schöne sache, wenn eine künstlerin und lebefrau über ihr wildes leben sagt: „ich bereue nichts.“

wenn eine politikerin das selbe sagt, nachdem sie mit destaströsen polit- und personalentscheidungen ihre eigene partei in den untergang geführt hat und damit den boden für den faschismus weiter bereitet hat, finde ich das schade.
mastodon.social/@eskensaskia/1…

Saskia Esken (@eskensaskia@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Mit Tobias Peter, Berliner Büroleiter von Stuttgarter Zeitung und Stuttgarter Nachrichten, habe ich über meine Zeit als SPD-Vorsitzende gesprochen, die an diesem Wochenende zu Ende geht. Ich bereue nichts. https://www.

^Mastodon

In case people didn't know, Creative Commons has been on the side of "screw your rights and livelihood, it's fair use" regarding GenAI training since at least 2021.

creativecommons.org/2021/03/04…

The new "AI" license 'signals' are interesting as a development (assuming anyone honours them when companies mass pirated commercial creative works!) but not a surprise (and apparently don't include a "no" option, because that's elsewhere in a spec and this is for granularity of yes)

#Copyright #CreativeCommons

Should CC-Licensed Content be Used to Train AI? It Depends. - Creative Commons

While we generally support broad access to content to train AI, we also aim to increase our understanding of the ethical concerns.

^{Creative Commons}

RFK holds high level meetings. I mean, Muskolini high. Important video! Maha! Aha!

youtube.com/watch?v=n76IKFlhJW…

Maha? Aha?

One of the Three Stooges' greatest moments! How Vernon Dent , or anyone, could mistake Curly for the Maharaja is quite extraordinary! From "Three Little Pi...

^YouTube

🌪️ Confronting the "zero response" – the narcissist who completely ignores any negative feedback can be incredibly frustrating.

When you express your concerns, it may feel like you’re talking to a wall. This reaction can leave you feeling invalidated and unheard. But remember, this behavior often stems from their inability to accept criticism or any form of accountability.

🔍 It’s important to establish healthy boundaries. While you can't change their behavior, you can control your reactions. Focus on self-care and surround yourself with supportive individuals who value your perspective.

🤝 Seeking professional guidance can also help navigate these challenging interactions. You're not alone in this journey! 💖 #NarcissisticAbuse #MentalHealthAwareness #SupportSystem

Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship

Link: angadh.com/space-data-centers-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

There’s no way that Starcloud can put a data centre in space at $8.2 million in one Starship

Abstract

^{Angadh Nanjangud}

looks like big balls left DOGE with Musk but then resurfaced at SSA because he is good with computers

I was wondering if his balls were really big

not for myself of course but just in a casual way

🎙️ Fio da Meada: Nina da Hora quer que você leia as letras miúdas da tecnologia.

▶️ Arquivo de mídia: traffic.megaphone.fm/NPP611515…

Sinopse:

Nina da Hora é cientista da computação, desenvolvedora e hacker antirracista. No começo da carreira, Nina se deparou com sistemas de reconhecimento facial que não reconheciam seu rosto. Esse episódio foi um alerta para que ela expandisse seu olhar para a interface entre tecnologia e sociedade.

Hoje, Nina faz mestrado em ética, pesquisando os vieses raciais no aprendizado de máquinas, incluindo processos de reconhecimento facial. Além do trabalho acadêmico, Nina participa de conselhos públicos e privados - como o Conselho de Segurança do TikTok no Brasil - e é fundadora do Instituto da Hora, que promove direitos digitais para populações negras e indígenas.

No Fio da Meada, Nina da Hora conversa com Branca Vianna sobre trocar praticidade por vigilância, sobre o racismo e outros problemas embutidos nas inteligências artificiais, e sobre quem pode usar os seus dados - e por que você deve ler as letras miúdas do seu contrato da academia.

A transcrição do episódio está disponível no site da Rádio Novelo: https://bit.ly/transcriçãoep36

Página do podcast: radionovelo.com.br/fiodameada

#podcast #AntennaPod #privacidade #segurança #InfoSec #tecnologia

Fio da Meada - Rádio Novelo

Branca Vianna comanda o podcast de entrevistas da Rádio Novelo. Para quem quer começar a segunda-feira inspirado a tecer o próprio ponto de vista.

^{Rádio Novelo - A gente faz podcast}

Amid 'Israel's' brutal blockade, 2 babies die of malnutrition in Gaza

Two infants were martyred in Gaza due to starvation and a lack of baby formula, as the Israeli siege blocks aid.

en.mdn.tv/8XuX

#Politics

Amid 'Israel's' brutal blockade, 2 babies die of malnutrition in Gaza

^{Al Mayadeen English (Amid 'Israel's' brutal blockade, 2 babies die of malnutrition in Gaza)}