friendica.eskimo.com
The NYT nailed for its role in pushing dodgy material to assist #Israel's sanitation of its abominable genocide of Palestinian people.
dropsitenews.com/p/new-york-ti… #hasbara #GazaGenocide #ICJ4Israel
A key figure in verifying an incendiary story that sought to link Iran to the October 7 attacks reveals what he actually told the paper.Sharif Abdel Kouddous (Drop Site News)
About an hour ago, the US NLRB filed a lawsuit against Apple Inc for illegally suspending me, illegally firing me, & for making up a bunch of crazy, illegal rules about how I'm not allowed to talk about workplace safety or work conditions. #BadApple It took 3yrs, but NLRB finally filed it! Hurrah!
Case:
nlrb.gov/case/32-CA-282142
The hearing is way out in August 2025.
You might've heard this week that the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is back as its authors try to force a new version through in a must-pass end of year spending bill.
eff.org/deeplinks/2024/12/xs-l…
Late last week, the Senate released yet another version of the Kids Online Safety Act, written, reportedly, with the assistance of X CEO Linda Yaccarino in a flawed attempt to address the critical free speech issues inherent in the bill.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Save this link and use it to keep making as much noise about this as possible this week to block this bill:
NY state officials: Sure, the police already exist to protect the rich and the powerful, but what we gave them their own special hotline to really drive the point home?
This week, the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted, once again, to allocate a record amount of money to fund war all over the world.
The record Pentagon spending bill and America’s hidden nuclear rearmament - World Socialist Web Site
wsws.org/en/articles/2024/12/1…
The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted this week to allocate a record amount of money to fund war all over the world, including a major buildup of the US nuclear forces.World Socialist Web Site
After 16 years behind bars, Mufid Abdulqader, a member of the “Holy Land Five” has been released from prison into a halfway house. The Palestinian American is slated to spend one year at the facility.
The case of the Holy Land 5 has become a symbol of the unconstitutional overreach associated with U.S. counterterrorism since 9/11.
In 2009, five Palestinian-American Muslims received prison sentences as a result of their work with the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) charity. Prosecutors claimed that HLF funneled money to Hamas and charged the men with “material support for terrorism,” as the United States has designated Hamas as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization.”
Abdulqader received a 20-year prison sentence. Mohammad el-Mezain and Abdulrahman Odeh were given 15 years. Ghassan Elashi and Shukri Abu Baker, 65 years.
Odeh was released from prison in 2021. El-Mezain was released from detention in 2022 before being deported to Turkey.
The Holy Land 5 received a criminal trial in 2007, which didn’t result in a single guilty verdict but the case was controversially deemed a mistrial. The judges in both allowed key evidence to be provided by two anonymous Israeli witnesses, an Israeli Security Agency employee and a Israeli Defense Forces intelligence officer.
The Israeli government and pro-Israel groups had been pressuring the U.S. government to target the HLF for years. In 2001 the Washington Post reported that then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had called on then-President George W. Bush to move against the HLF during an Oval Office meeting:
Administration officials said that during an Oval Office meeting on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon asked Bush to move against the Holy Land Foundation, and the president speedily obliged. “We — bam — did it,” a senior official said.
After blocking the bank accounts of the organization Bush addressed reporters in a Rose Garden ceremony. “Those who do business with terror will do no business with the United States — or anywhere else the United States can reach,” he declared. “The net is closing. Today it just got tighter.”
The men’s appeal was denied and the testimony of the anonymous Israeli witnesses was deemed “harmless.” A decision that HLF lawyer John Cline called, “The most ridiculous, dishonest, indefensible call by a federal court I ever saw in my life.”
Earlier this year the Palestine advocacy group Samidoun launched a Week of Action to free the Holy Land 5 and mark 15 years since their sentencing and conviction.
“From the initial attacks on the Holy Land Foundation, to the raids of the homes and offices, to the eventual convictions – these actions were all in an attempt to stop the Holy Land Foundation’s continued support of the Palestinian people,” wrote Samidoun Network organizer Salma Al Nour at Mondoweiss. “They were providing Palestinians with essential and life-saving resources and care that they needed in order to continue to remain steadfastly in their homes in the face of occupation and displacement by the Israeli government.”
“The story of the Holy Land Five and its destruction at the hands of the United States and Israeli governments is unique in the nature of these specific events, but not its essence,” she continued. “Distilled, it is a simple story of Palestinian survival, self-determination, and joy – three things that Palestinian are not allowed to have, at least not today, in the United States or in Occupied Palestine. However, through their steadfastness, struggle, and refusal to give up on life and freedom – the Holy Land 5 have dared to take these things anyway.”
abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=…
#holyLand5 #northAmerica #palestine #PoliticalPrisoners
After 16 years behind bars, Mufid Abdulqader, a member of the Holy Land Five, has been released from prison into a halfway house. The case of the Holy Land 5 has become a symbol of U.S. unconstitutional overreach since 9/11.Michael Arria (Mondoweiss)
The government forced KFC to stop using the word 'chicken' in their name because they serve meat derived from mutant animals.David Mikkelson (Snopes.com)
Ken Klippenstein
What there seems to be plenty of doubt about is what U.S. personnel are even in Syria and where. The U.S. government hates talking about its military footprint throughout the Middle East. When three U.S. troops were killed in Jordan earlier this year, many Americans were surprised that there was even a base near the Syrian border. The U.S. government had never before officially acknowledged the base, nor the mission. Secrecy over American military deployments is out of control and prevents the American public from meaningfully participating in discussion of our foreign policy.
Israel hat die entmilitarisierte Zone auf dem Golan besetzt, fliegt Luftangriffe tief im Nachbarland. Nach dem Sturz von Baschar al-Assad ist die Armee mit Vorwärtsverteidigung beschäftigt. Das könnte zum Dauerzustand werden.Thore Schröder (DER SPIEGEL)
Erneute Zeugenaussagen von israelischen Soldaten über angeordnete Kriegsverbrechen.
»Israeli soldier was ordered to kill Palestinian holding white flag, says reservist
Senior commanders order shooting of Palestinians over ethnicity without facing repercussions, Israeli journalist and reserve soldier writes «
middleeasteye.net/news/israeli…
A former Israeli reserve soldier who served in Gaza has revealed that army commanders instruct troops to open fire on any Palestinian regardless of whether or not they pose a threat.Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)
Hier noch mehr zu den Zeugenaussagen von israelischen Soldaten die in #Gaza eingesetzt werden, mit Zitaten die überdeutlich machen, wie groß das Aussmaß der Entmenschlichung ist.
>>'Shoot Civilians, Not Dogs' - OFFICIAL Israeli Army Policy Exposed By Soldier<<
youtu.be/kZ6XyX44X98
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“UHC has the highest instance of denials out of all major providers, refusing an estimated one-third of claims submitted … UnitedHealthcare also has the largest market share of health insurance policies, with roughly $215 billion in revenue.”
forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/20…
You kill one man, it’s murder. You result in the deaths of a million people, it’s just business.
#USA #insurance #health #healthCare #humanRights
According to the most recent available data, the insurer refused an estimated one-third of claims submitted, prompting an outpouring of frustration after its CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed this week.Amy Feldman (Forbes)
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its like the Eddie Izzard joke
"You kill 1 person, you go to prison
You kill 10 people, you go to Texas and they hit you with a brick
You kill 20 people, you go to a hospital and they look at you through a small window forever
but over that we can't comprehend that. If someone kills 100,000 people we're almost saying well done"
That's kind of what were are dealing with with the large numbers of deaths related to declined treatment
Capitalism rewards "numbers go up" in all forms
"Water is shaping up to be high tech’s next big bottleneck, much like Nvidia’s chips in AI. While energy demands have grabbed all the market’s attention, water’s critical role remains under the radar – creating an overlooked and exciting investment opportunity."
finimize.com/content/the-stock…
The is a growing, global water crisis. Big Tech will buy up the water. AI will drink before people will. This is our future.
US, Ukraine and Al-Qaida together against Syrian government !
(Ukr denies complicity but that's really confirming it isn't it)
skwawkbox.org/2024/12/05/video…
Warplane’s distinctive outline clear in video clip A US A-10 ‘Warthog’ ground attack aircraft has been filmed apparently attacking Syrian government forces in support of rebel fig…SKWAWKBOX
Independence day in Helsinki has been a day of labor for antifascists now for years. Actual nazis have been marching on the streets and, well, that has to be protested. Police violence has increased during the past years. This year, for example, there were barking and restless dogs in line looking like they might be set off free at any moment.
This year the police had protected the nazis’ square by fences so that only nazis could get through. The others were violently pushed from the surrounding streets and sidewalks. The police moved early and straight away with violence.
The number of police officers was flabbergasting. Were there any police officers anywhere else in the country?
As before, there were more antifascists than fascists. As before, the police protected the nazis from protest and were violent against peaceful protesters, some very young. As before, they used horses as weapons. What was new was that a member of parliament was there with the nazis. And the dogs were new. Was this the first real life training day for them and when they’re a bit further advanced they’ll be let loose on people?
Police brutality scares people and that is its objective, of course. Increasing police violence might escalate into fatalities. With this rate, the current government, the nazi rise etc. it might be closer than i’m willing to believe.
I’ll go over my pics and videos and post some of them below. Might take a while (maybe tomorrow to complete) since they’re not easy to watch. Don’t watch them at all if you’re sensitive to violence. Do watch them if you think the police is your friend. Might post many vids of the poor dogs and horses. They broke my heart 💔
It's hard to comprehend the sheer depravity of the west now actively pushing to force teenagers into fighting their proxy war. Everybody who is cheering this shit on really needs to take a long hard look in the mirror.
I was on mastodon.social and felt censored - I couldn't prove it but I had the impression that toots for solidarity with #Palestine and criticising #Israel weren't distributed in the way I was used to.
I moved to kolektiva.social and aside from enjoying not to be limited to 500 characters per toot it actually feels more relaxed and less restrictive there.
The thing about German laws is that you are allowed in many cases to speak out more than the repressive atmosphere in society makes you believe. If you have a reputation and career to lose it's recommendable to shut up about all things #genocide in #Gaza, but otherwise you may follow your heart a rather long way without being legally investigated or indicted.
The intimidation strategy of the government can be studied exemparily with the resolution
"Never again now: to shelter, sustain and strengthen Jewish Life in Germany"
accepted with a great majority in parlament two weeks ago.
It identifies critique of Israel generally with #antisemitism without implementing direct consequences for the perpetrator because it's not legally binding. At the same time the resolution recommends to take repressive measures against any kind of antisemitism which of course is and has always been endemic in about 15 percent of German population.
The trick now is that they give several practical examples for antisemitism in the resolution which mainly are centered around Israel and muslims - refugees and/or German citizens - who are accused to have imported antisemitism into the land of holocaust via opposing Israel's warfare as apartheid and occupation policy.
Especially for people and organizations in sciences, culture and arts who are often subsidized by the state it's dangerous to protest against Germany unconditionally supporting Israel regardless how bad the mistreatment of Palestinans gets
That again is a win-win especially for the far-right #AfD who for one can lash out at nonwhite migrants who they want to push out of the country and to the other jump on top of the band wagon for Israel thus serving the authoritarily enacted Staatsräson (reason of state) to always take sides for Israel in an exemplary manner.
So German laws aren't coming down so hard on dissidents as the ruling consensus management does - Marcuse called this informal but efficient practice "repressive tolerance".
jacobin.de/artikel/antisemitis…
Die vom Bundestag verabschiedete Antisemitismus-Resolution ist nicht geeignet, um jüdisches Leben zu schützen. Sie ist vor allem dazu geeignet, um den deutschen Staat autoritärer und repressiver zu machen.JACOBIN Magazin
BREAKING: BDS Movement Win
BDS works! Sabra, a long-time target of the BDS movement, has been dropped by one of its parent companies, the Strauss Group.
Yep, seems so. Plenty of archives and screenshots exist, though. Implicit admission that they know they fucked up.
Inside Georgia’s Crusade to Make Bail Unpayable
Rather than address its deadly jail system or predatory bail industry, the state has made mutual aid the enemy.
> The new law expands the cash bail system by making close to 30 offenses, including protest-related charges like unlawful assembly, bail ineligible. It also makes obtaining bail through anyone other than for-profit bond agents, who turn a profit by extracting hefty fines and fees from desperate clients, almost impossible.
Palestinians forced to evacuate one of the last shelters in northern Gaza describe harrowing journey
“We have been walking for hours”, one woman said. “Israeli drones kept hovering above us; firing on children and young men who are still lying, bleeding on the ground. We were not even able to help any of them.”
She added that Israeli soldiers had detained large numbers of young men and some women.
Chicago Rally Demands State’s Attorney Free Torture Survivors
> Those three detectives are responsible for the wrongful incarceration of dozens of other survivors who are still fighting for their freedom, including Rico Clark, Lester Owens and Douglas Livingston. Despite these crimes, Foster remains on the force as the commander of Area 5, and Eberle was promoted to become the head of the FBI task force on public safety.
popularresistance.org/chicago-…
Chicago, IL – On the morning of Monday, December 2, about 30 demonstrators, led by survivors of wrongful convictions and their loved ones, gathered in below-freezing temperatures outside the downtown Chicago office of incoming Cook County State's Att…Christopher Johnson (PopularResistance.Org)
**Biden’s Last-Minute Gift To Corporate Lawbreakers**
>the Biden Justice Department announced it could be handing corporations a get-out-of-jail-free card, even if they have committed multiple crimes, earned significant profit from their wrongdoing, and failed to self-disclose the misconduct — as long as the companies demonstrate they “acted in good faith” to try to come clean.
Major investigation by Drop Site News in partnership with a consortium of independent European news outlets. A major player in global journalism is primarily bankrolled by the U.S. State Department.
dropsitenews.com/p/occrp-budge…
Drew Sullivan is unknown to the broad public, but the head of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project is one of the most influential journalists in the world.Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)
*Matt Taibbi*
>Unless you think the FBI really believed Trump was in league with Russia (and as the “Bell Tolls” article explains, the record leaves little doubt the Bureau knew early on that premise was nonsense), there’s no other explanation for its conduct in the Trump era. A massively empowered national police organization that considers the elected head of the Executive Branch to be a criminal target in need of “disrupting” and “discrediting,” the way Hoover went after the Revolutionary Action Movement or the Nation of Islam, is by definition an illegal/subversive organization that needs to be dismantled and rebuilt with a much narrower mission. That’s a priority everyone should believe in, irrespective of political belief. My guess is it will take time for most Democrats to see this
#FBI #RussiaGate #BlueAnon #uspol
Syria is a very complex situation. If you are confused that is ok. I’m going to try to explain a few things regarding who is involved and what it could mean.
The anti government offensive recently was started by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). HTS split from Al-Qaeda in 2016. The commander of HTS at the time of the attack was Abu Muhammad al-Jolani. He also was the head of Al Nusra Front (Al Qaeda in Syria). You will see many people now echoing the claim that HTS has become more “moderate” - the only reason they needed to give this disclaimer to begin with is due to the egregious war crimes and ethnic cleansing they have engaged with in the past. Even just recently we’ve seen HTS targeting both religious and ethnic minorities. Saying this does not take away from disgusting war crimes and massacres the regime has committed. Two things can be true. Turkey also plays a big role in this but more on that later.
In addition to the attack headed by HTS, there is another battle going on as the Syrian National Army (Turkey funded Syrian rebel umbrella organization) has been mainly targeting Kurdish forces (SDF/YPG) in north Halab (Aleppo). Most of the SNA groups have been focused on targeting the Kurds, but at least 3 SNA battalions have been involved in HTS led attacks against Assad.
SDF is the Syrian Democratic Forces, which is a coalition that includes the YPG (The People’s Defense Units, or People’s Protection Units) and YPJ (Women's Protection Units/Women’s Defense Units). You will also see many people talking about DAANES or AANES, which stands for the Decentralized Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, which is also known as Rojava. YPJ was formed after so many women joined YPG, the women decided to form their own unit- which is entirely autonomous. Many peoples skepticism of YPG comes from them working with US forces to fight Daesh, but that’s a whole other story. They have also recently seemingly surrendered in certain regions to HTS/SNA leaving many people who fled for safety in more vulnerable and unsafe conditions.
Syrian Armed Forces, or Syrian Arab Armed Forces (SAF/SAAF) is the regimes military. There are also *many* other groups involved, including ethnic and religious militias both opposed to the regime and on the side of the regime.
Not long into the Syrian revolution, progressive forces were being targeted and quickly eradicated. As dissent of the people was being crushed by the regime and their allies, militant salafi factions became the most prominent force (such as Al Nusra)
As this was happening, Russia and hezbollah were helping Assad. Syria is the primary supply route to Iran, so it was (is) important for hezb to maintain that. (more on this later)
Following the siege of Mosul in Iraq, the IS (Islamic State, aka ISIL (Islamic state of iraq and the Levant) aka Daesh) was able to cross into Syria. At the time, the United States was aware of this and intentionally let them enter. A destabilized and terrorized Syria is good for western interests. The IS wreaked havoc on and terrorized our country and people and took major advantage of Syrias vulnerability during the war. The IS still has a fairly strong presence in eastern Syria. The ideology lingers, and the instability just makes it easier for them to recruit.
So already we have a lot going on and a lot of people and groups involved. Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Russia, turkey, Iran, the US, Israel… there’s even more that I haven’t mentioned. they’re all a part of this. and already we have so many motivations and self interests, many of which are conflicting, and many of which align. It’s actually so complex that it’s not uncommon to see groups strategically work with their enemies on an operation against a shared enemy.
It’s so hard to say what will happen, and things change so fast. But the outcome of this could have massive repercussions. Not just regionally, but globally.
Let’s say HTS successfully takes over Syria after expelling Assad… the dangers religious extremism can impose are endless. As I mentioned earlier, Al Nusra and other religious extremist militias treated ethnic and religious minorities terribly and took part in ethnic cleansing. We will likely see what little ethnic and religious minorities are left in Syria flee the country. Many already have. Just as they did during the civil war. Sectarian hatred is already a big problem. Via its proxies within the country (SNA, HTS), turkey would also expand its power in Syria… this could include crushing Kurdish forces with the ultimate goal of occupying more Syrian territory. With all that is happening regionally, there is a power imbalance, and Turkey is fully exploiting the situation.
Then there’s the question of what will happen in eastern Syria where IS still has a large presence. Depending on how things play out, there’s a chance we see the IS taking over parts of Syria. If there is a resurrection of the Islamic State in eastern Syria, there’s also a chance this spills across the border into Iraq.
If HTS takes over, the ability to transport weapons from Iran through Syria on land is gone. And they can’t do this by plane in Lebanon or Palestine… so this, as you can imagine, also has devastating consequences for Lebanon and Palestine, in addition to Iran, and is a wonderful thing for Israel. Syria is a crucial ally to Iran as the country is a crucial ally to the axis of resistance against Israel and the west. The US/Israel get to isolate hezb. If they succeed in this isolation, they also succeed in further destabilizing Lebanon and a high likelihood of civil and/or religiously motivated tension in the future for an already vulnerable and unstable country.
Anyways, this is just some context and info on what’s currently happening in Syria and what it could mean. I don’t want what’s happening to overshadow the beginning of the Syrian revolution- which was about democracy and fighting a fascist regime. The revolution was a grassroots movement against a ruling elite. It was a movement of the people. The revolution gradually became more and more repressed and brushed off as it became a proxy war and was infiltrated with religious extremists who are not seeking liberation for all. People standing up to tyranny were tortured to death by the regime. We need to hold them in our memories and not let them be overshadowed by those with violent self serving interests. Religious allegiance will never bring liberation for all.
Power and solidarity to all the people of Syria always 🖤
The Google app for iOS now adds THEIR links to YOUR posts from YOUR website unless you opt-out.
Their links lead people away from your site and back to Google. Because that’s definitely what you want, right? That’s why you have a blog or portal or web site or whatever. You want people to leave your site and go back to Google.
Oh, it’s not?
If you don’t like it, you can “Opt out.” Opting out is a pain in the ass. Here’s where you go to do it. You have to enter every variation of each of your domains or it won’t work. It will take up to 30 days, during which time Google will continue to pollute your work and your writing and your website with their modifications and their added links to take people away from your site and back to themselves.
For example, here’s the list of what I need to opt-out just for this one blog:
solarbird.nethttp://solarbird.nethttps://solarbird.netwww.solarbird.nethttp://www.solarbird.nethttps://www.solarbird.netweb.solarbird.nethttp://web.solarbird.nethttps://web.solarbird.net
Yes, you explicitly have to file no prefix, http:, and https: variants separately. They say so.
Making it difficult like this is 100% intentional and entirely designed to make it as annoying as possible, and also, to make sure you slip up if at all possible and forget one or more combinations.
(Tho’ I am just going to depreciate web. as a prefix right now, to bring down the load a little. Still gonna list ’em, though, because spite is why.)
Right now it’s only in the Google app for iOS and it’s probably a test to see whether they can get away with it without complaint, and how much revenue it generates. Let’s make that a combination of no and as close to zero as possible. Because otherwise they’ll roll it out everywhere, and probably derank you if you don’t go along.
Fucking hell, Google. Fuck you. Just… fuck you.
Web publishers can opt out via a provided form, but changes might not take effect for up to 30 days.Brady Snyder (Yahoo Tech)
Joe Biden caps off a lifetime of being a scumbag liar:
Biden pardons his son Hunter despite previous pledges not to
Get your letters and calls into the White House:
Freedom for Leonard Peltier!
*Brandon Novick*
**The Progressive Case for RFK Jr.**
>Americans should ask ourselves whether the pick pharmaceutical companies support—who have paid billions in settlements for illegal behavior harming and killing Americans—would fight more for us than Kennedy. The answer seems clear: Within the context of a Trump Administration, Americans should strongly support Kennedy's nomination as he is the best chance of reigning in corruption and corporate power while prioritizing public health over profits.
#brd #israel #palästina : #krieg / #gaza / #idf / #kriegsdienstverweigerung / #ngo / #mesarvot / #interview
„Sofia Orr hat in Israel den Kriegsdienst verweigert. Dafür wurde sie diffamiert, bedroht und verhaftet. Warum sie trotzdem nie an ihrer Entscheidung gezweifelt hat und was sie von der deutschen Regierung fordert, erzählt sie im Gespräch mit JACOBIN.“
In the dying days of his administration, President Biden must have needed a reminder by his officials on November 22. He had to decide whether Nicaragua - John Perry for Antiwar.comJohn Perry (Antiwar.com)
Congrats to the University of Portsmouth which voted overwhelmingly for a motion for the university to ‘sever all ties – financial & otherwise – with all external bodies, businesses & organisations complicit in #Israel’s genocide in Gaza and rapidly escalating regional war.’
counterfire.org/article/time-t… #BDS
Portsmouth university lecturers have voted overwhelmingly for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) over the Gaza genocide.Counterfire
Kit Klarenberg and Max Blumenthal
Sebastian Gorka: British intelligence asset?
Sebastian Gorka’s involvement with British intelligence cost him a security clearance in Hungary. His longtime mentor is a UK spook currently engaged in covert operations against Russia.
Judge finds New York City in contempt over jail conditions, moves closer to a federal takeover
A judge on Wednesday found New York City in contempt for failing to staunch violence and brutality at its jails, a scathing ruling that puts the troubled Rikers Island jail complex on the verge of a federal takeover.
In a written decision, U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan said the city had placed incarcerated people in “unconstitutional danger” by failing to comply with 18 separate provisions of court orders pertaining to security, staffing, supervision, use of force and the safety of young detainees.
apnews.com/article/rikers-isla…
#Rikers #NewYorkCity #Jail @prisonabolition
A federal judge has found New York City in contempt over conditions in its city jails. Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan issued a written ruling on Wednesday, finding the city in contempt over 18 separate contempt claims.LARRY NEUMEISTER (AP News)
🚨 BIG NEWS: The Biden Justice Dept just quietly issued a new policy giving corporate lawbreakers a new get-out-of-jail-free card even if they profited off multiple crimes.
The policy comes as Biden DOJ officials may be seeking new jobs back in the corporate sector. buff.ly/3Vb4F4q
A new Justice Department policy update says that even repeat corporate offenders can avoid prosecution if they “make good faith efforts” to come clean.The Lever
Today* in #FuckThePolice
Guess who probably started the car fires and that everyone's been screeching about with their tear gas canisters.
montrealgazette.com/news/local…
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle #Montreal
* technically yesterday but I was busy.
Police had initially blamed demonstrators for setting cars on fire, but now say they cannot confirm that and are investigating.Harry North (Montreal Gazette)
"With just weeks left in President Joe #Biden’s term, we speak with Amnesty International USA executive director Paul O’Brien, who has written to the outgoing president [..] One of his key demands is for Biden to free #Indigenous activist #LeonardPeltier, who has been imprisoned for decades and repeatedly denied parole."
democracynow.org/2024/11/26/bi…
#FreeLeonardPeltier #NativeAmericans #AIM #PineRidge #StateRepression #FBI #PoliticalPrisoners #USpol #USpolitics
With just weeks left in President Joe Biden’s term, we speak with Amnesty International USA executive director Paul O’Brien, who has written to the outgoing president urging him to “change course on critical human rights” before the end of his term i…Democracy Now!
**Powered by Native Voters, Ranked-Choice Voting and Open Primaries Survive in Alaska**
>Alaska’s predominantly Native regions delivered huge margins against repealing the state’s new elections system, despite facing continued logistical challenges to voting.
Assigned to a prison job paying $0.13 per hour, Abron Arrington refused to work, figuring his time could be better spent learning physics.
The DOC punished him with bouts of solitary confinement.
boltsmag.org/colorado-prison-s…
Coloradans voted in 2018 to amend their state constitution to ban forced labor in prison. Years later, incarcerated people are still being punished for refusing work assignments.Michael Barajas (Bolts)
**Israeli snipers ‘shoot Palestinians for sport’**
>Eyewitness accounts reveal Israeli snipers are systematically targeting unarmed civilians, including children, using tactics that point to deliberate genocidal intent and a chilling policy of terror designed to annihilate a people, not just wage war.
Israel is allying to ISIS affiliated criminal gangs to starve Gaza.
You can read about this in the Israeli press.
Why isn't this splashed on front pages in the West?
New post 👇
owenjones.news/p/israel-allyin…
Israel's publicly declared policy of starving Gaza has many elements. One of them is allowing criminal gangs to run rampage - including ISIS.Owen Jones (BattleLines with Owen Jones)
Canada and Ukraine: the careful suppression of a shameful history.
counterpunch.org/2024/11/22/ca…
A few days before Remembrance Day, November 11, 2024, the Government of Canada announced that it will not release the portion of a report produced by theRobin Philpot (CounterPunch.org)
The SS-Galizia members and their families also came to Britain in large numbers.
They formed "Ukrainian" organisations, still active today, still pushing their Ukrainian Nationalist/Nazi version of history, still honouring the likes of Bandera.
Still here in the City that I live in, Ukrainian nationalist fascists and Nazi apologists being feted and funded by the authorities.
When the United States entered WWII, the future head of the CIA, Allen Dulles, bemoaned that his country was fighting the wrong enemy.Gabriel Rockhill (CounterPunch.org)
Request for support from Belkis Terán, mother of martyr Tortuguita, killed by police in 2023 for work to Stop Cop City. She needs $ support for travel to Atlanta next month to meet with lawyers, etc.
Please contribute if share if you’re able! Venmo: Belkis-Teran Zelle: belkisteran@hotmail.com
I wrote this 20 years ago.
20 YEARS AGO.
Change the names and it’s the exact same today.
I feel like walking into the ocean.
thenation.com/article/archive/…
The top think tanks were the Atlantic Council, and Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
The Atlantic Council, a braintrust of #NATO , the military organization whose expansion towards #Russia borders was a critical factor in Russia's decision to launch its SMO in #Ukraine.
Both receive thousands from Lockheed Martin & Raytheon, who get billions from Pentagon contracts.
Report Shows How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative on Ukraine — FAIR fair.org/home/report-shows-how…
Wealthy donors have long funded think tanks with official-sounding names that produce research that reflects the interests of those funders.FAIR
This is our last canary,
you can find our pgp key on our canary page at web.archive.org/web/scenes.nob…
As of 11/22/2024(MM/DD/YYYY), no-one working on this project, nor the project itself has ever received a National Security Letter, an order under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, has been contacted by law enforcement, contacted by any government entity, has been served a subpoena for a Grand Jury related to this project, or any other classified request for user information. If we ever receive such a request, we would seek to let the public know.
This project has come to a close.
The noblogs team Autistici/Inventati decided to shut down this blog shortly following the republication of the Heritage Foundation dox from againstbeltwayfascism.noblogs.org and after the dox of the Elbit Systems of America. This blog hosted a great deal of antagonistic content over the years, and we are thankful to the Autistici/Inventati team for allowing a majority of the content to remain up for so long. They undoubtedly tolerated a great deal of resistance – we trust that their decision to shut down the blog did not come lightly.
the addresses published in the aforementioned two doxxes are still easily available on web.archive.org/web/sceneshost… and web.archive.org/web/2024081510…, web.archive.org/web/2024081510…, and a significant archive of the rest of the blog is hosted at
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This site served as a nexus for anonymous publication, a space for engaging in dialogue with other rebels, and a place to spread complicity and proliferate autonomous activity.
Please keep those who are languishing in jails for accusations related to this movement in your hearts- better yet, send them letters.
Continue fighting for the end of RICO charges.
Never forget Tortuguita, a hero whose bravery cannot be understated.
Continue fighting for a world without markets, hierarchy, and fascism.
For a time, the struggle in the atlanta forest was one of the powerful torches that carried the flames of antagonistic anarchist destruction. We hold our actions in this struggle proudly, and hope you do as well.
We will never forget the weelaunee forest, we will never forgive those that perpetrated its destruction.
!Viva Tortuguita!
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(this article was published in June, 2024; the film is now streaming on Apple)
**Local Seneca-Cayuga Nation director debuts first feature film ahead of major release**
>Friday marks the debut of the first-ever wide-release feature film to highlight the Cayuga, or Gayogohó:nǫˀ, language prominently. It is the first feature film for local director Erica Tremblay, an Ithaca resident and herself a member of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation.
>“Fancy Dance” stars recent Golden Globe winner Lily Gladstone as a Native American woman urgently trying to solve the mystery of her sister’s disappearance while also protecting her niece, played by co-lead Isabel Deroy-Olson. Tremblay co-wrote, directed and produced the film.
New York congresswoman panders to the Israel lobby.The Electronic Intifada
Declassified Pentagon study details reliability and security woes of America’s flying Tesla truck.
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A declassified Pentagon comprehensive test report of Lockheed Martin Corp.’s F-35 warplane, America’s most expensive weapons system, reveals that six years of combat testing has been marred by reliability and maintenance delays, guns that don’t shoot…Tony Capaccio (BNN Bloomberg)
Keir Starmer and David Lammy are genocidal war criminals guilty of the greatest crimes known to mankind.
This is what a vacuous centrist campaign will always deliver: the crimes of the Empire, on repeat.
The list of Democrats in the House who voted FOR H.R 9495, that would allow nonprofit orgs to be labeled “terrorist” if they stand against the administration.
These are Democrats who caved to authoritarianism in advance. Name and shame.
And call your Senator NOW to make sure this bill does not pass.
Airing today - 1:30pm ET. Whitney joined Bad Faith podcast to discuss the recent Trump cabinet picks, the dominant role tech CEOs & the deep state are playing in American "democracy," Jeffery Epstein and Israel's grip on American politics and more.Unlimited Hangout
Kein Statement von Deutschland dabei. Die stehen jetzt halt dumm da und wissen nicht, was sie sagen sollen. Völlig selbstverschuldet durch die vorherige Propaganda, die sie verbreitet haben.
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World reacts to ICC arrest warrants for Israel’s Netanyahu, Gallant aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/21/…World reacts to ICC arrest warrants for Israel’s Netanyahu, Gallant
ICC said it had found ‘reasonable grounds’ to believe that Israeli officials were responsible for starvation in Gaza.Al Jazeera
Long overdue and very important, even though he will be shielded personally and have his illegitimate regime propped up by the United States, Canada and other complicit Western countries who have lost their moral compass and what remained of their internationally credibility by enabling him in the first place.
#politics #InternationalLaw #HumanRights
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The warrant was issued to Netanyahu, his former defense minister Gallant, and Hamas officials, accusing them of war crimes.MOLLY QUELL (AP News)
US Senate votes down effort to withhold weapons to Israel amid Gaza war (the US also just voted AGAINST a ceasefire) @palestine @israel
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The push led by Senator Bernie Sanders falls short, but advocates say it shows progress for Palestinian rights movement.Ali Harb (Al Jazeera)
Why do countries still maintain ties with the cancerous entity? Why isn't anyone shutting down their embassies and consulates?
Why has no ambassador left Israel in protest yet? What the hell is wrong with this world's elected leaders? What is the meaning of this paralysis?
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🚨 BREAKING: 66 Palestinians reported killed in massive new strikes in Beit Lahia. Death toll since dawn surpasses 104.bird.makeup
Today, the #US vetoed another #UN #ceasefire resolution in #Gaza.
Today also, #Israel committed another massacre in North Gaza.
66 people were massacred so far, and rescuers are still digging people/bodies out. Disturbing footages are coming out from there.
This is all on #Biden and his cheerleaders of the #liberals / #democrats.
@rad
I'm not trying to claim the moral high ground. I'm just expressing my frustration.
It is a shitty world indeed. I'm so disillusioned. I feel like we're all given the choice of:
Either join the ignorance bubble, where we pretend that all is well, the sky is blue, teaming with rainbows and birds (the kind of bubble you see on LinkedIn)
Or you oppose and fight the bitter reality but get nowhere, because the majority are in the bubble, and then you live a miserable life.
The lying New York Times outed itself for covering up its malignant fake news.
Ali Abunimah:
"Oopsie. A @nytimes reporter accidentally cc’d an email to @intifada revealing how the newspaper killed an investigation that would have exposed the truth about the violence in Amsterdam: It was Israeli hooligans who started a violent rampage"
McBride Speaks From Prison at Australia’s Top Press Award Event
Imprisoned whistleblower David McBride spoke to the Walkley Awards ceremony, Australia’s Pulitzers, in a nationally-televised address that was a challenge to the authorities who jailed him. Consortium News was there.
52% of Ukrainians favour "making some territorial concessions" to end the war, while only 38% oppose it. There is not a majority for continuing the war in a single oblast.
It is at least time to stop pretending that NATO's objective is to "help" Ukraine.
Also, important to keep in mind that the war could've been over two months in if the west did not intervene. Without western "help", Ukraine would have been in a vastly better situation than it finds itself in today.
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Ukrainians are growing increasingly weary of the war with Russia. Gallup's latest surveys of Ukraine show 52% would like to see the war end as soon as possible.by Benedict Vigers (Gallup)
Is that Russia or Ukraine? But seriously, that then suggests the chart is useless.
From my POV Russia is run by absolute fuck nuts whose war has absolutely no legitimacy or interest to Russian people. Ukraine has its issues and the war just made them worse. NATO, well NATO is NATO doing NATO things. But that doesn’t legitimise Putin’s war.
@ryanroberts after 2014 coup, Ukraine no longer had a legitimate government that represented the interests of its people. The issue Ukraine has is that it's became a western puppet and used to try and weaken Russia as was outlined in the RAND policy paper.
@ryanroberts I'm not sure how any of the events over the past two years worked out in favor of the west to be honest.
There is now active dedollarization happening as a direct result of sanctions on Russia, and European economies are in a tailspin as a result of the economic war.
The Global South is now firmly aligned with the BRICS against the G7.
World Bank just reclassified Russia as a high income country blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendat…
The IMF forecasts that Russian economy is set to grow faster than all the western economies cnbc.com/2024/04/17/russia-for…
Russian oil and gas revenues soared 41% in first half of the year reuters.com/business/energy/ru…
The IMF forecast will be galling for Western nations which have sought to economically isolate and punish Russia for its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.Holly Ellyatt (CNBC)
@ryanroberts the original goal outlined in the RAND paper of extending or weakening Russia has clearly not been achieved.
If anything the opposite has happened, and it's the US that's now overextended mired in a war of attrition in Ukraine and supporting a genocidal regime in Israel.
Leaked files expose high-level UK military plot to destroy The Grayzone
Kit Klarenberg·November 20, 2024
In a bid to “keep Ukraine fighting,” a covert cell of British military strategists and spooks plotted to destroy “media outriders” that threatened their narrative. Among their top targets was The Grayzone.
The Senate is slated to vote on the landmark resolutions on Wednesday.Sharon Zhang (Truthout)
this could be interesting for a few folks as "it's in english" tonight. Berliner Weiße Seminar is free with Markus Raupbach and Uli, owner of Schneeeule. It should be fun!
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Tonight i will give a free seminar about Berliner Weisse for EBCU at 8 pm CET together with Ulrike Genz from Schneeeule Berlin. Join in if you are interested…Markus Raupach (www.linkedin.com)
"Yemen's bold preemptive strike against US naval forces using sophisticated intelligence methods demonstrates its newfound centrality in the Axis of Resistance,
"...the growing capabilities of Yemeni forces in both conventional and asymmetrical warfare" show that "the era of US attempts to assert influence without facing repercussions is over"
Really good analysis on how central Yemen has become. Kudos to them.
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Yemen's bold preemptive strike against US naval forces using sophisticated intelligence methods demonstrates its newfound centrality in the Axis of Resistance, with the unique capability of providing a deterrence umbrella for its entire alliance.thecradle.co
Watched the interview with anthropology professor Maura Finkelstein on #ElectronicIntifada yesterday. I found it very interesting, among other things, Finkelstein talks about how "safe spaces" and "feeling insecure" have been weaponized to silence academic discussion on Palestine, and how this is in part due to a coordinated, international effort by Israel, carried out trough sponsorships and international organization, like Hillel.
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Maura Finkelstein encourages professors to keep talking about Palestine.The Electronic Intifada
Johannes Fehr spricht mit Rechtsanwältin Beate Bahnweg über die Klage gegen #Waffenlieferungen an #Israel. Beate Bahnwegs Mandant Qassem Massri, ein deutsch-palästinensischer Arzt aus Berlin und sein Vater aus #Gaza führen seit Februar 2024 unter den Aktenzeichen VG 4 L 44/24 einen Eilantrag und unter VG 4 K 45/25 die Klagen gegen Waffenlieferungen an Israel. Was ist der Grund für die Klage, also die Situation vor Ort? Was ist die rechtliche Grundlage für die Klage? Wer sind die Klagenden (auf dem Thumbnail zu sehen)? Was ist das Ziel der Klage? Wie ist der aktuelle Stand und was sind nächste Schritte? Wie sind die Erfolgsaussichten und wie können Menschen die Klage und den Prozess unterstützen?
Link: youtu.be/2ORv9FH2ns4
Johannes Fehr spricht mit Rechtsanwältin Beate Bahnweg über die Klage gegen #Waffenlieferungen an #Israel. Beate Bahnwegs Mandant Qassem Massri, ein deutsch-...YouTube
An: Die Bundesregierung, den Bundestag und die deutsche Gesellschaft: Warum das wichtig ist: Als Außenministerin ist Annalena Baerbock hauptverantwortl...DiEM25 - Democracy in Europe Movement 2025
H.R. 9495, set for a second vote next week, threatens the rights of all nonprofits, including those standing up for Muslim and Palestinian communities. This bill would grant the incoming Trump administration unchecked power to revoke nonprofit status without evidence, charges, or due process—undermining free speech and due process for advocacy groups across the nation.
We need every voice to demand Congress votes NO on this dangerous legislation. Help us protect civil liberties and ensure nonprofits can continue their work.
Take Action Now: t.co/sYfZPgQ3Ug
#ProtectNonprofits #FreeSpeech #CAIRAction
Torturing journalists has its precedents:
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An Iraqi journalist who was detained by US forces in 2003 without ever being charged reflects on his experience at the notorious prison and his ongoing search for justiceMiddle East Eye
Pffft!
** Top pollster Ann Selzer to retire after bombshell Iowa poll ended in huge miss **
Her "poll" was trumpeted on every legacy corporate media outlet around.
To answer @keefmarshall's questions about how to pickle #olives (see mastodon.online/@keefmarshall/… ), here's a quick thread:
Before actually pickling the olives you will need to remove their bitter compounds.
For this you will need:
- gloves (as olive juices can stain your hands for days)
- a bucket
- a chopping board and sharp knife
or (if you're a traditionalist)
- a wood stump and a small block of wood that fits into your hand
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#Pickling #Preserving #OliveHarvest
Attached: 1 image So I managed to get to the olives before the pigeons this year (we have middle class pigeons round here..Mastodon
... or (if you're slightly less of a traditionalist, but are too lazy to cut every olive)
- a large chopping board and a wooden meat tenderizer
Step 1:
Inspect the olives for any pests (as aptly demonstrated by #RubiaTheCat) and remove any stalks.
Step 2, option a)
- cut each olive diagonally with the knife and place them in a bucket filled with tap water (as demonstrated by Fina and #MiniTheCat)
Step 2, option b)
- whack each olive with the meat tenderizer so it slightly cracks
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... and place in a bucket filled with tap water.
Step 2, option c)
- place an olive on the wood stump and quickly whack it with the smaller piece of wood, before it rolls off the stump. With a bit of practice you can transport the olive with now partially cracked skin into a water-filled bucket during the same movement.
Step 3:
- The cut or cracked olives now need to stay in the bucket, making sure they are fully covered by water.
- Cover the bucket loosely with a lid to avoid any ...
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The Atlantic poses as a magazine of ideas, but its writers get away with terrible arguments. Its ascendance is a sign of the dire state of American intellectual life.Nathan J. Robinson (Current Affairs Inc)
ICE Isolates Me From Community So Corporations Can Profit From My Imprisonment
I constantly ask myself why I’m being incarcerated again when all I want is to turn my life around.
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#truthout @truthout_rss_bot #ice #Moshannon #Valley #Processing #Center
Xi to Biden:
>"great power competition should not be the theme of the era; unity and cooperation are needed to overcome difficulties together. 'Decoupling and breaking chains" is not the solution; mutually beneficial cooperation is the path to common development. 'Small yards with high fences' is not befitting of great powers."
Xi outlined 7 lessons he wanted the Americans to learn from.
Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital “library”.
Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this. 
Who could ever have imagined that in 2024 people who gloat and celebrate a genocide can do so this openly and shamelessly, while people who oppose inhumanity and war crimes suffer censorship, demonization and repression at every turn.
And who could ever have imagined that so many gloating over the bodies of slaughtered children and innocent civilians would be physicians and surgeons 😳
How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories
Ahmed Nour, Joe Tidy and Yara Farag (BBC News)