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Japan Times: Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms at risk
""OXNARD, California... In the fields, I would say 70% of the workers are gone," she said in an interview. "If 70% of your workforce doesn't show up, 70% of your crop doesn't get picked and can go bad in one day. Most Americans don't want to do this work. Most farmers here are barely breaking even. I fear this has created a tipping point where many will go bust.""
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In the vast agricultural lands north of Los Angeles, farmers and field supervisors have said that ICE raids have led a majority of workers to stop showing up.Tim Reid (The Japan Times)
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For many, the memory of the Holocaust as a break with civilization is the moral foundation of the Federal Republic. To compare it with other genocides is therefore considered a heresy, an apostasy...Geschichte der Gegenwart
for the millionth time, White America is just racist, no Russian interference required.
And also, both major US political parties deserve the criticism. Both parties have advanced capitalist minority rule, white supremacy, and imperialism against (among others) the Vietnamese, Palestinian, and Chilean peoples.
Also, Putin is America's fault. 100%.
Our Chicago School ratfuckers helped Russia implement capitalist oligarchy (aka "democracy"), and it led to Putin rising to power a couple decades later.
Just like we are seeing here in America with Trump
The US political establishment is complicit in genocide, fascism, and exploitation around the globe, and this criminal enterprise has been going on since the first British colonies were founded on the North American continent in the 1600s.
It's not all Kamala's fault or Biden's fault or even Trump's fault, but they willingly integrated themselves into it instead of working to destroy it and replace it with something less murderous and cruel.
#usa #israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #genocide / #ngo / #jvp / #protest
„We continue to come together as a political community to take action to end the genocide for as long as it takes. (…)
Join us as we take collective action to demand an #armsembargo on Israel, an immediate end to the genocide, a lasting #ceasefire and an end to Israeli #siege, #apartheid, #occupation, and #oppression of Palestinians.“
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Now into the second year of genocide in Gaza, we are overwhelmed with sorrow and outrage. There are no words to describe the devastating pain of the past year in which the Israeli military has killed over 48000 Palestinians in Gaza, including more t…Zoom
The UN warns thousands of Gaza infants risk starvation as Israel’s blockade has depleted all formula milk. Doctors report a ‘silent catastrophe’, with 66 chi...YouTube
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Under Israel lobby pressure, the BBC pulled a documentary showing how Israel has systematically destroyed Gaza's heath care system. Not everyone is so cowardly. This Wednesday it will be broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK, and Zeteo elsewhere.Substack
Oliver North being invited to Fox News as a “military analyst” talking about how Iran shouldn't have missiles and is a threat to peace in the middle east, as if it wasn't him who sold missiles to Iran in order to create untraceable funds through which to support the Contras in Nicaragua when congress cut funding (which was high treason).
You're a threat to peace everywhere.
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I can't believe you kids don't know about the great patriot, Ollie North:
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Did you ever want to know what was the deal with Oliver North? Well American Dad answers that question with a catchy song.YouTube
The cost of living crisis isn't going away, because climate breakdown isn't going away.Grace Blakeley
Israeli settlers attack Israeli soldiers in occupied West Bank | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
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They're out of control!
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Israeli settlers targeted Israeli soldiers in an occupied West Bank riot.Al Jazeera
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Israel bombs Gaza aid sites, cafe and school, killing 95 Palestinians | Gaza News | Al Jazeera
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And still the west (largely) does nothing.
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Victims include at least 39 people who were killed in an Israeli strike on a seaside cafe in Gaza City.Al Jazeera
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Yet another act of state sponsored murder
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Penge in southeast London has become a graffiti hotspot — but a fast-food franchise owner threatened legal action over one man’s mischievous design
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6 Policies That Could Be Affected by Supreme Court's Decision On Nationwide Injunctions
The Supreme Court on June 27 handed down a decision restricting federal judges’ ability to impose nationwide injunctions against executive policies, a ruling that was immediately hailed by President Donald Trump as a win for his administration.
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroTyler Durden (www.zerohedge.com)
Nablus /PNN/ Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by two bulldozers, began demolishing residential structureenglish.pnn.ps
According to The Wall Street Journal, Israel codenamed its initial attack on Iran that killed senior military leaders "Red Wedding," referring to a gruesome massacre from the book series "Game of Thrones," which was adapted into a TV series on HBO.News From Antiwar.com
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🇺🇸💰🇮🇱 While Americans argue over rent hikes, groceries, and student loans, Israel has extracted $124 M per day from the U.S. Treasury for an entire year, much of it hidden behind opaque appropriations and congressional loopholes.
According to Brown University’s Costs of War project, Washington has shouldered 70% of Israel’s military costs since Oct 7, 2023. That includes $17.9 B in direct aid, $4.86 B in Pentagon regional ops, $20.3 B in deferred arms deals, and billions more in shipping losses, stockpile transfers, and corporate handouts.
Since 1948 the United States has pumped $317 B into Israel, including $251.2 B in military aid since 1959; that torrent began with the first Pentagon loan in 1959, switched to grants in 1974, became 100% grants in 1985, and now flows automatically as a $3.8 B lump-sum every Oct 1 plus a $500 M missile-defense kicker under the 2019-2028 MOU, money on which Israel pockets the interest because Washington lets it sit in a Fed account. Even so, FY-2024 set a new single-year record: $17.9 B, dwarfing the 1973 and 1978 surges and landing entirely on U.S. taxpayers.
That FY-2024 fire-hose breaks down as $6.8 B Foreign Military Financing, $4.5 B for Iron Dome and David’s Sling reloads, $1.2 B for the Iron Beam laser, $1 B to crank out more 155 mm shells in U.S. factories, and $4.4 B to refill Pentagon stockpiles stripped for Israeli use, again, $17.9 B in 11 months. The administration also slid at least 100 separate weapons deals under congressional reporting thresholds to keep the true cost opaque.
On 8-13-2024 Washington promised another $20.3 B: 50 F-15EX fighters priced at $18.8 B for delivery in 2029, 32 000 120 mm tank rounds at $774 M, $583 M in tactical vehicles, 30 AMRAAMs at $102 M, and 50 000 mortar bombs at $61 M, all deferred to future U.S. budgets via Israel’s “cash-flow” privilege.
Meanwhile the money flows back to the usual corporate feeders. 60 % of the $14 B April supplemental, $8.4 B, went straight to U.S. arms firms. Boeing’s defense arm booked $8 B in Q4-2023 orders, 36 % of its annual revenue. The Financial Times projects $52 B in free cash flow for the top-15 defense contractors in 2026, $26 B pocketed by the U.S. “big five,” cash they historically plow into buybacks and dividends. Israel still may divert 25 % of each yearly grant, $950 M this cycle, to its own industry before that carve-out expires in 2028.
Add it up and the past 12 months have drained $17.9 B in direct aid, $20.3 B in new contractual obligations, $4.86 B (and climbing) in Pentagon regional costs, and $2.1 B in trade losses, a $45.16 B extraction. That works out to $124 M every day, $1.5 M every hour, funneled from American households to a foreign military and a handful of weapons conglomerates that treat the U.S. Treasury like an open vein.
Head of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU), Shaher Saad, welcomes a powerful joint statement from more than 52 Arab & international trade union federations, calling for an immediate end to Israel’s assault on #Gaza.
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These were the updates for Monday, June 30, 2025.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
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When then US Senate passes the budget bill which defunds Medicaid, raises energy costs to protect a dying and toxic fossil fuel industry by crippling renewables, and give a huge handout to the domestic criminal cartel known as "Department of Homeland Security", it will result in more carnage than if a foreign adversary aerially bombed the whole country for a couple years.
But the oligarchs who own our politicians have their interests protected, which is the point of all of this.
of course i agree. i was looking more ground level here, and maybe voicing a little exasperation at the trap we are in.
refusing to buy oil (in this case gasoline) says: im not going to be sitting in traffic two hours a day going to a bullshit job to make money for you.
refusing to buy plastic says: im not supporting your worldwide labor exploitation.
unrealistic, i know. let a guy dream 😁
So, the question on everyone's mind is "Why isn't anyone stopping him?" And unfortunately, the answer to that question is "Because fundamentally the Constitution is not designed to stop someone like him".
The Constitution is designed to handle the occasional weak, ineffectual, or even ignorant President. But the founders never in their wildest dreams imagined they would need to protect against widespread, coordinated attacks by multiple partisan bad faith actors abusing the power given to them by the document to dismantle the Republic the document is supposed to safeguard.
So let's call this what it is. Not a Presidency. Not a regime. A coup.
The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is home to tens of thousands of caribou, migratory birds, and fish. The Trump administration’s new plan could open 82% of this fragile landscape to oil and gas development. Public comment ends on Tuesday.
An ecologist explains the consequences: buff.ly/kz1lGmQ
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The High Court's F-35 judgement is a cowardly ruling that absolves any responsibility from it of the UK's compliance with international lawSteve Topple (The Canary)
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.BRICS
We’ve gone beyond co-production – disabled people must run the DWP" is the verdict of a sweeping response to the governmentSteve Topple (The Canary)
As new details of DWP reforms emerge, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation outlines what MPs would be supporting if they vote for the BillSteve Topple (The Canary)
Labour’s welfare reform creates a two-tier system punishing future claimants. MPs are fighting back. Compassion—or a cynical political fix?Mike Sivier (Vox Political)
Mass murderers say what? The friends of genocide are still whining and agitating about Bob Vylan and Kneecap, two performers at Glastonbury last weekend who chanted ‘Death to the IDF’ a…SKWAWKBOX
BBC m I really outraged by a call to kill genocidal soldiers, starving kids or luring people into food distribution so as to use them as human targets than by the deaths of more than 300.000 Palestinian civilians (lattest US surveys).
How beautifully obnoxious.
Imagine Churchill and 1945 BBC outraged by a song on the tune of "Bridge of River Kway" calling to kill all nazi.
No better, Brad Pitt prosecuted for his character in "Obnoxious bastards".
They all make me sick and very, very angry !
Yep, #DeathToIOF !
Far from being a threat to the British people, activists fighting for the Palestinian cause are in fact reflective of public opinion and helping to close the gap between international law and Britain’s support for Israeli oppression.
It's nonsense. Time to abolish the monarchy.
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Offshore wind power boom helps push profit from land and property to more than double what it was two years agoLauren Almeida (The Guardian)
The Venezuelan government has issued a forceful demand for the immediate return of 18 Venezuelan children being held in U.S. custody after being separated from their families.teleSURenglish
The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is deepening at an alarming rate, a senior United Nations official warned on Monday, as Israeli military operations and attacks on civilians seeking aid continue to exact a devastating toll on lives and infrastructure.www.globalissues.org
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Lawyers for Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice Monday morning, where their application for an urgent hearing was granted by Mr Justice Chamberlain.World Socialist Web Site
In this State of Play livestream, Greg Stoker exposes how Israeli forces are attacking starving Gazans at food drops, spiking flour with opioids, and deploying ISIS-linked gangs to guard convoys—under the guise of humanitarian aid.Greg Stoker (MintPress News)
ICE won't have to worry about protesters if they finish the raids before noon.
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A Trump hating app developer has created “ICEBlock,” which he hopes will serve as an “early warning system” by alerting users to nearby sightings of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in their area.Alana Mastrangelo (Breitbart)
As the British government and the BBC condemn Glastonbury Festival duo Bob Vylan for a controversial set on Saturday, many on social media this week are accusing the institutions of reacting more strongly to their performance than to Israel’s ongoing…Maysa Mustafa (Middle East Eye)
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The Trump administration has approved a new arms deal for Israel that will provide the country with $510 million worth of Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMS), kits that turn bombs into precision-guided weapons, as the US continues to provide milita…News From Antiwar.com
The Israeli military admitted on Monday that its forces have killed Palestinians in Gaza near aid sites run by the US and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), but claimed the death toll from Gaza's Health Ministry was exaggerated.News From Antiwar.com
A new study from Yale researchers estimates the life expectancy in cohorts born in 1900, 1950, and 2000.World Socialist Web Site
At this point, the way people talk about Hamas, it's like they aren't even talking about the real thing. They're talking about their internalized propaganda movie of Hamas.
This is true of both people who see them as a Bush era terror machine and people who see them as heroic freedom fighters who can do no wrong.
Hamas can only be understood from a rational perspective when considering the totality of the Israeli rule over the Gaza strip, the social movements that predated Hamas, the economic context Hamas took power in, the historical ties between Israel and Hamas, and their role in the second intifada.
The truth is that Hamas is a partisan militant organization that is a genuine multi-branched mass movement on the part of an oppressed and colonized population. Its military wing is also guilty of both wartime atrocities and collaboration with Israel at various points in its history. Both can be true at the same time.
TEHRAN – In an interview with Australasian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), a scholar specializing in Middle East security and nuclear policy says if Israel and the United States intended to destroy Iran’s nuclear program they have failed.Tehran Times
Yet another example of the cowardice and weakness of the US administration in the face of criticism.
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The same day the Trump administration announced it had banned the punk rock group from entering the United States, it was reported that wanted war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be welcomed to Washington next Monday.World Socialist Web Site
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Peter Thiel and his friends feel they no longer belong to our species.The Nation
Welcome to a new issue of "This Week in KDE Apps"! Every week (or at least we try to) we cover as much as possible of what's happening in the world of KDE apps.This Week in KDE Apps
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"Music video by Evelyn ""Champagne"" King performing Love Come Down. (C) 1982 Sony Music Entertainment"YouTube
In Wien ist derzeit #ParkplatzAbzocke ein Thema, aber das geht offensichtlich auch zum gutem Zweck! 😅
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The Unforgettables: The Best of 1971.Peak at: #13Never Ending Song Of Love (Bramlett) by Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, arranged & produced by Delaney BramlettYouTube
More wayland Drama
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"Applications being broken and not conforming to what Wayland requires isn't an issue with Wayland, it's an issue with applications," says Red Hat engineer.M...YouTube
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A death investigation is underway at a food plant in Perryville, Missouri.Marsha Heller (KFVS)
'Investigators from the Perryville Police office and the Perry County Coroner were able to identify the victim as 38-year-old Nicolas Lopez Gomez from Guatemala who was working under the alias, “Edward Avila.”'
I wonder if there was a language barrier that contributed to his untimely demise.
#dwr #foto #fotografieren #mywork #fedibikes #MdRddG #MdRgD #MdRzA #obob #fahrrad #FahrradStattPorsche #jamendo #CC
#Welt! Bist du noch da?
Landläufig spricht man auch von #Stachelbeeren (-:
Am liebsten verputze ich sie direkt vom #Strauch, dann käme die #Marmelade und danach der #Kuchen. Wie ist das bei euch und gibt es bei euch auch solch #Spezialbezeichnungen?
Es ist 13° warm und daher wird der #Arbeitsweg auf dem #Rad entspannt, dafür der #Heimweg wieder heiß.
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New arrests on charges of solidarity with Palestine: total number of detainees reach 150 since the outbreak of the genocidal war @palestine
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in reply to Michael • • •Now let's see what he is spreading about Russia's unprovoked war.
He opposes Israel's crimes but justifies those of the Russian Federation
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Open Letter to Noam Chomsky (and other like-minded intellectuals) on the Russia-Ukraine war
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in reply to Michael • • •Re: Chomsky on Israel's 'War'...
It's not even murder. It's Genocide.
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in reply to Michael • • •The term genocide seems more appropriate
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in reply to Michael • • •Terms matter
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in reply to Michael • • •He's wrong.
It's not murder. It's genocide.