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Shaping the World in 2024

 
 
hightor
 
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Sat 17 Feb, 2024 09:22 am
When sanctions fail

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After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Western nations imposed the most extensive sanctions and trade restrictions in history on Moscow. Today, Russia appears to be doing OK.

Its economy is growing steadily. Russia can’t buy much from the West but has found new providers for drones, surveillance gear, computer chips and other gear. Its oil and gas sales are still strong, despite attempts to stop them. Russian officials say they have plenty of money to pay for their war.

Moscow’s continued strength is a humbling result for the U.S. and its allies. These nations make up more than half of the global economy, and they tried to weaponize their influence over trade and finance to weaken Russia. They hoped to make President Vladimir Putin a pariah and maybe even stop the war. Today, I’ll explain why those efforts have fallen short — and whether they can be made to work again.

Absorbing the blows


The measures against Russia go far beyond traditional sanctions, which historically have targeted banks and elites. Those rules limit how much tech Russia can import, and they direct shipping companies and insurers to cap the price of Russia’s oil at $60 per barrel — well below market rate.

The sanctions took a toll. They raised the cost of many items for Russian civilians and forced the military to buy shoddier missiles and semiconductors. For Russian energy companies like Gazprom and Rosneft, exports to the West have plunged. But the Russian economy has proved surprisingly adaptable, thanks partly to its relationship with China.

It may seem surprising that Russia could so quickly replace so much of its trade with the U.S., Japan and the E.U. But the rest of the global economy — especially China’s — is large enough that the shift didn’t take long. China already makes much of what Russia needs and can buy much of what it sells. Trade between China and Russia hit a record high last year as Russians turned to Chinese cars, electronics and weapons components. “China has to a large extent blunted the pain,” said Eswar Prasad, a trade economist at Cornell University.
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Another change has been the rise of a network of shipping companies, insurers and oil traders that does not answer to Western rules. This network, based in countries like China, India and the United Arab Emirates, has expanded since the war began to provide new channels for Russian oil. Thanks to this shadow fleet, Russia can get around the Western price cap on its oil by using shipping companies that don’t comply with it. And Russians are still getting TVs, chips and cellphones through traders in Central Asia and the Middle East who buy them from the West and sell them at a markup.

The West chose not to put in place some tough measures, such as a full oil embargo, for fear they could disrupt the global economy. Unlike some nations the U.S. has penalized before — think of Cuba, Iran and Venezuela — Russia is better integrated into world trade. It exports commodities other countries need, such as steel and fertilizer. And it still provides much of Europe’s energy. Pain aimed at Russia would be felt well beyond its borders.

The limits of Western power

Finally, the newest sanctions — the ones that try to constrain Russia’s access to technology and its oil sales — have not been as effective. The U.S. wields much less influence over these sectors than it does over the banking sector, which is tethered to the dollar. The new measures, imposed in 2022, made it harder and more expensive for Russia to do business abroad. But they haven’t wounded its economy enough to make most Russians question the war. “The mood in Russia is, the whole world is against us, but we are managing quite well,” said Maria Snegovaya, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

U.S. officials acknowledge all this. Still, they say they imposed costs that other nations will have to weigh before violating international law. Officials call that a win, even if the measures didn’t send Russia into a recession or end the war.

Putin sees it differently. “The instruments and the policies of the United States are ineffective,” Putin bragged during his interview last week with Tucker Carlson, according to a Russian government translator.

He is surely not the only leader to notice the U.S. failure to cripple Russia. When China wants to menace Taiwan or India wants to assassinate perceived enemies on foreign soil, they will know that Washington couldn’t turn Russia into a pariah when it broke the rules. In that way, sanctions in Russia have exposed the limits of U.S. power.

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Lash
 
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Sat 17 Feb, 2024 02:56 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
The GrayZone is 100% against authoritarian regimes—Aaron & Max are two anti-Zionist Jews, which is why they are quite critical of the US & Israel.

A bit of Aaron’s dad Gabor Maté’s bio: Maté was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944. His maternal grandparents, Josef Lövi and Hannah Lövi, who came from the town of Košice in eastern Slovakia, were killed in Auschwitz when he was five months old. His aunt disappeared during the war, and his father endured forced labour at the hands of the Nazi Party.
Lash
 
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Sat 17 Feb, 2024 02:57 pm
@hightor,
Morning Joe

@Morning_Joe
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13h
"Putin killed Navalny. Let's be crystal clear about that... Putin killed Navalny because he was the one opposition leader in Russia that Putin feared the most."
Lash
 
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Sat 17 Feb, 2024 03:09 pm
@Lash,
Lash wrote:

The GrayZone is 100% against authoritarian regimes—Aaron & Max are two anti-Zionist Jews, which is why they are quite critical of the US & Israel.

A bit of Aaron’s dad Gabor Maté’s bio: Maté was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944. His maternal grandparents, Josef Lövi and Hannah Lövi, who came from the town of Košice in eastern Slovakia, were killed in Auschwitz when he was five months old. His aunt disappeared during the war, and his father endured forced labour at the hands of the Nazi Party.

Actual ethnic Jews who can easily trace their families back to the Holocaust—not like these fakers in Israel who are protected by an actual law against DNA tests because most Zionists are political / converts and have no origin in the Middle East.

Zionism is political.
Max and Aaron are Jewish.
Lash
 
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Sat 17 Feb, 2024 03:22 pm
@Lash,
https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/want-to-fully-understand-your-family-genealogy-not-without-a-court-order-585230

Want to fully understand your family genealogy? Not without a court order
By ZACHARY KEYSER Published: MARCH 30, 2019 14:35

According to some ancestry websites there are indicators to tell you if you possess "Jewish" DNA or not.

If you live in Israel and want to find out where your family comes from, what do you do? One thing is for certain, an ancestry kit from the local pharmacy is out of the question, according to a Yediot Aharonot report.
While millions of such kits have been sold in the United States, Israelis are forbidden to buy ancestry DNA kits from the store without presenting a court order, as the Israeli government controls these types of purchases due to the "Genetic Information Law."

"By law genetic information/genetic testing may require obtaining explanations from a doctor and informed consent to perform the test, and should be checked only in the laboratory by a genetic institute recognized and licensed. Such a thing can not exist kits sold directly to the public," the Ministry of Health told Israeli publication Yediot Aharonot. "Such kits are also highly criticized, for their reliability, for the interpretation of their results, and for possible effects on subjects and their families."

The court order can be issued after thoroughly examining reasoning behind the test as well as overseeing the process is done corrected in a licensed fashion, by rule of law. The government uses these measures to protect the public so that insurance companies, private parties, et cetera won't misuse the private information for personal gain, as well as the national implications these tests could hold or affect with Israel being a government recognized Jewish-state.
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"I tried to get [the ancestry kit] in Israel, but I couldn't, I tried to send it to Israel and it didn't work, so on my trip to New York I just went to the drug store and bought it." Roi Latka told Yediot Aharonot.

Ancestry kits are meant to help you fully understand your family genealogy - your ethnic background, family origin, family records and can even help you find ancestors you never knew you had, which can help you answer a lot of questions or give you a million more. After sending in a few DNA swabs to a commercial lab for testing, your results will normally return to you within 6-8 weeks.
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According to some ancestry websites there are even indicators to tell you if you possess "Jewish" DNA or not, even going as far to distinguish if you possess Ashkenazi or Ethiopian Jewish DNA among other categories.
There are a number of videos that can be found on YouTube displaying reactions from consumers of these kits once their ancestry information is revealed - including one in which an Egyptian-Palestinian figured out that she had Jewish DNA, possibly showing the two cultures are closer in ancestry than they believe.
However, with this luxury unavailable in Israel, where even Israeli manufacturers of this DNA test are unable to sell their product within their own country - Israelis have to look elsewhere to join in on this growing consumer trend.

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hightor
 
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Sat 17 Feb, 2024 03:25 pm
@Lash,
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With the West’s administration-adjacent news speakers already claiming Putin had him murdered, makes reasonable people wonder exactly what happened.


Steve Schmidt made a similar comment. Do you consider them to be "administration-adjacent news speakers"? So that makes two commentators – I think reasonable people would wonder what happened even if no one claimed that Putin had him murdered. I mean, Navalny could have been murdered, he could have died of natural causes, or it could have been complications from his earlier poisoning. The thing is, it's all speculation. That's why most reactions were to blame it on Putin – his treatment of Navalny, the beatings, torture, institutionalization – but stopping short of saying Putin "had him murdered". I still haven't heard anyone who said that, even if it's what most people believe. There's no evidence of that – yet. "Putin killed Navalny" could simply refer to the unending persecution of the guy – no one is claiming that Putin himself actually committed murder.

This list is far from complete:

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The world woke up to the unfortunate death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Friday. It was reported by the prison services of the Arctic Circle jail that Mr. Navalny fell unconscious and passed away after returning from a walk. The West has openly accused the Kremlin of foul play.

Navalny though is not the first leader to see his fate sealed after criticising Vladimir Putin. Multiple opposition leaders and friends turned critics have died mysteriously in the past since Putin took over the responsibilities in the Kremlin at the start of the new century.

List of mysterious deaths of Kremlin critics

Yevgeny Prigozhin

The previous Wagner group chief died last year after his plane crashed near Moscow en route to St. Petersburg. A couple of months before his death, Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a mutiny against the Russian forces after disagreements over the direction of war against Ukraine.

The Wagner forces who played a crucial role in the initial victory of Russia against Ukraine were marching towards Moscow in opposition to the Kremlin. The Belarus President brokered peace talks and everything went back to normal until Yevgeny Prigozhin's plane crashed.

Alexander Litvinenko

The former Russian spy was poisoned in a London hotel through a highly poisonous radioactive polonium-210 agent. Two Russian agents were accused of spiking the green tea of Alexander Litvinenko which resulted in the instant death. Litvinenko had previously accused Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin of wrongdoing.

Anna Politkovskaya

Anna Politkovskaya constantly voiced her opinion against Vladimir Putin for the war in Chechnya. The result of the vocalism was that she was shot down in her Moscow apartment in October 2006. The death shocked the West as well as the opposition in Russia.

Boris Berezovsky

The rich Russian business made a lot of money as he was once close to Putin and other oligarchs. When he fell out with the Kremlin, Boris Berezovsky ran to Britain and spent his life there. The British police in 2013 found the body of Boris Berezovsky in a bathroom signaling another assassination. source
Lash
 
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Sun 18 Feb, 2024 12:45 pm
https://www.declassifieduk.org/cia-sidekick-gives-2-6m-to-uk-media-groups/

‘CIA SIDEKICK’ GIVES £2.6M TO UK MEDIA GROUPS
A US government-funded agency that claims to promote democracy but which helps undermine governments independent of Washington has moved decisively into Britain’s media space since 2016.
MATT KENNARD AND MARK CURTIS
17 JANUARY 2022

National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has funded groups such as Bellingcat, Index on Censorship, Article 19, Finance Uncovered, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation
Former CIA officer tells Declassified the NED is a “vehicle” for US government “propaganda”

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a non-profit corporation funded by the US Congress, has ploughed over £2.6m into seven British independent media groups over the past five years.
The NED was “created…to do in the open what the Central Intelligence Agency has done surreptitiously for decades”, the New York Times reported in 1997. That included spending millions of dollars to “support things like political parties, labor unions, dissident movements and the news media in dozens of countries.”

Since the end of the Cold War, the NED has grown and been involved in trying to undermine or remove governments independent of Washington, including democratic ones in Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
Allen Weinstein, the director of the research study that led to creation of the NED in the 1980s, remarked in 1991: “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”

The NED has traditionally focused on Eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia. But Declassified has found that the organisation has recently funded three British media outlets and four UK press freedom groups. All are seen as on the progressive end of the political spectrum.

NED money has gone to UK investigative groups Bellingcat, Finance Uncovered and openDemocracy, as well as media freedom and training organisations Index on Censorship, Article 19, the Media Legal Defence Initiative, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

“A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”
Since 2016, these groups have received £2,638,967 from the NED, putting it among the largest institutional funders of alternative media outlets and press freedom groups in the UK.

The NED has also given hundreds of thousands of pounds to foreign media groups with a significant presence and affiliates registered in Britain, including Internews, PEN and Reporters Without Borders.

‘Sugar daddy of overt operations’
The NED was created in 1983 by President Ronald Reagan, who set out the idea in a set-piece speech in Westminster, in front of prime minister Margaret Thatcher. The aim, he said, was “to foster the infrastructure of democracy”.
This was a time of embarrassing scandals for the CIA. A Washington Post article soon noted: “The old concept of covert action, which has gotten the agency [CIA] into such trouble during the past 40 years, may be obsolete.”
The NED was meant to defend against these scandals by putting certain programmes out into the open. “The sugar daddy of overt operations has been the National Endowment for Democracy,” the Washington Post continued. “Through the late 1980s, it did openly what had once been unspeakably covert”.
CIA whistleblower Philip Agee, who served in the agency in the 1960s, commented in 1995: “Nowadays, instead of having just the CIA going around behind the scenes and trying to manipulate the process secretly by inserting money here and instructions there and so forth, they have now a sidekick, which is this National Endowment for Democracy.”
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John Kiriakou, a CIA officer from 1990 to 2004, told Declassified that recent changes in the law have widened the potential targets of US information operations. “In 2011, the US Congress changed the law that forbade the Executive Branch from propagandising the American people or nationals of the other ‘Five Eyes’ countries—the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand,” he said.

“The National Endowment for Democracy, like Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, countless Washington-area ‘think tanks’, and Radio/TV Martí, are the vehicles for that propaganda”, he added, referring to the US broadcaster that transmits to Cuba.

Kiriakou, who served in the agency’s core Directorate of Operations, continued: “And what better way to spread that propaganda than to funnel money to ‘friendly’ outlets in ‘friendly countries’? The CIA’s propaganda efforts throughout history have been shameless. But now that they’re not legally relegated to just Russia and China, the whole world is a target.”

Bellingcat
The UK organisation Bellingcat, which is known mainly for its investigations of Russian secret service operations, has been funded by the NED since at least 2017.

Bellingcat is the only UK media outlet in receipt of NED funds which does not return results on the NED’s grant search so the full extent of its support for the organisation is unclear. Bellingcat did not respond to Declassified’s questions.
The group is registered as a foundation in the Netherlands and its 2020 accounts show it received €112,524 (£94,000) from the NED that year, making the US agency one of Bellingcat’s largest institutional funders. What appears to be another NED grant is also referenced in the accounts, but the amount is not divulged.

Bellingcat’s 2019 accounts declare no grants from the NED, but its annual report from the same year lists the US agency as a “donor”. Declassified could not find accounts from previous years.

Elsewhere, Bellingcat mentions the NED as one of its “strategic partnerships”, adding that it has “attracted the attention (and financial support)” of the US agency “to both expand its work in research and training, and to professionalize its organisation.”

Bellingcat’s founder and director, Eliot Higgins, was hired in 2016 as a fellow by the Washington-based Atlantic Council, a think-tank funded by the US State Department and NATO’s “public diplomacy” division, among others.
The NED’s current head, Damon Wilson, was previously executive vice president at the Atlantic Council. Before that he had senior roles in the US Embassy in Baghdad, at NATO and the US National Security Council where he was “helping to enlarge NATO”.

In September 2021, Bellingcat announced a new six-person international advisory board, which included Francis Fukuyama, a former US State Department official under Reagan who recently sat on the board of the NED.
Damon Wilson, president and chief executive of the NED. (Photo: NATO)
Damon Wilson, president and chief executive of the NED. (Photo: NATO)
Bellingcat appears to be close to the British government. A leaked document from a Foreign Office contractor noted that – after the UK “identified North Macedonia as a priority country” – during its 2019 presidential election it “deployed” a number of “partners” to the country as part of its “response”, including Bellingcat.

The following year, in July 2020, Bellingcat published an article entitled “Russian interference in North Macedonia: A View Before the Elections” ahead of the country’s parliamentary vote.

In 2020, Bellingcat was one of four founding “partners” in the Open Information Partnership (OIP), an alliance of organisations “to counter and expose disinformation” funded wholly by the UK Foreign Office. Members of the alliance include the NATO Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence.
It is unclear if Bellingcat received funds through the OIP because the Foreign Office says it does not hold records.

Bellingcat states that it “does not solicit or accept funding and contributions directly from any national government.” The NED’s structure as a private nonprofit that is funded by the US Congress allows its grantees to have such policies and still receive its funds.

‘Strictly protect’
Index on Censorship, the UK’s foremost free expression group which monitors threats to free speech and publishes censored writers, received £603,257 from the NED in 2016-2021, according to its Charity Commission accounts.
Index’s chief executive, the former Labour MP Ruth Smeeth, was appointed in June 2020 – six months after losing her seat in parliament. A US diplomatic cable, published by WikiLeaks in 2010, named Smeeth as a “strictly protect” informant for the US embassy in London.

The cable – written in 2009 by US deputy chief of mission in London, Richard LeBaron – noted: “Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Burton Ruth Smeeth (strictly protect) told us April 20 that [prime minister Gordon] Brown had intended to announce the elections on May 12”.
The cable continued that “a despondent Smeeth said” Brown had to abandon his election plan after a drop in Labour’s poll numbers following a media scandal. LeBaron added: “This information has not been reported in the press.”
The cable was classified as “confidential” and “not for foreign eyes”. Before being posted to London in 2007, LeBaron had been deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in Israel.

“This information has not been reported in the press.”
From 2005-7, Smeeth was director of public affairs and campaigns at the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM), a prominent pro-Israel lobby group with close links to the Israeli government. Its current director joined BICOM directly from the Israeli prime minister’s office.
Index – whose funders also include the Charles Koch Foundation, Facebook and Google – did not respond to Declassified’s questions about its NED grants.
One of the founders of Index in 1972, the poet Stephen Spender, had earlier resigned as editor of Encounter magazine when it was exposed as being funded by the CIA. Spender said he was unaware of the funding arrangements.
Spender then founded Index, and quickly solicited a “substantial grant” from the Ford Foundation, which Frances Stonor Saunders states in her award-winning work The Cultural Cold War acted as a conduit for CIA funds in the period.
Saunders says it was “widely known at the time the Ford Foundation was a witting partner of the CIA.” In her book, Saunders writes: “The foundation’s archives reveal a raft of joint projects.”
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Lash
 
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Mon 19 Feb, 2024 07:27 am
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/19/whats-the-icj-case-against-israels-illegal-occupation-of-palestine

What’s the ICJ case against Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine?
The ICJ will hear 52 countries on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The International Court of Justice will begin hearings on Monday in a case against Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories, barely a month after it issued a series of directions to Tel Aviv in a separate case where it is accused of genocidal acts in the Gaza Strip.

In a first-of-its-kind case, at least 52 countries will present arguments on controversial Israeli policies in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and occupied East Jerusalem. It’s the largest number of parties to participate in any single ICJ case since the court was established in 1945.

Israeli authorities, since 1967, have illegally occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem – part of Palestine under the United Nations-determined division of historic Palestine in 1948 – running a system that restricts the citizenship rights of Palestinians, hampers their free movement and strips them of ancestral lands. Between 1967 and 2005, Israel also directly occupied Gaza, and since 2007, has imposed a land, sea and air blockade on the coastal enclave. It decides what food, water, medicines, fuel, construction material and other commodities can go into Gaza, and stops their flow when it wants.

Even as the war on Gaza is now in its fifth month, Palestinians in the West Bank have come under increased attacks from Israeli forces, with hundreds of people killed.

In a statement last week, the ICJ said oral arguments in the case would last for about a week, during which all countries, as well as three international organisations, are expected to state why they support or oppose Israel’s measures. Tel Aviv has declined to present, choosing to submit a written argument instead. A court ruling is likely in several months.

Israeli forces take security measures as Muslims perform Friday prayers on street in Old City

(Description of photo)Israeli forces prevent Palestinians from reaching the Al-Aqsa Mosque [Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images]

Here’s all you need to know about the case:

Who brought the case against Israel?
The case was triggered by a request from the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on December 30, 2022, when a majority of members voted to seek the court’s opinion on the legal consequences of the continuing Israeli occupation of Palestine. Arab countries, Russia and China voted in favour of the move, while Israel, the US, Germany and 24 others voted against it.

During the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank, which were formerly under Jordanian control, and with an Arab-majority population. Most countries and the UN still view occupied East Jerusalem as the capital of a future Palestinian state, and regard Israel’s occupation as illegal under international law.

In a long missive to the ICJ, signed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the UNGA asked judges to answer questions about how the rights of Palestinans are being affected by the occupation and continuing attempts to displace them, as well as what the responsibilities of the UN and its member states were in the face of those violations.

“What are the legal consequences … from the ongoing violation by Israel of the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, from its prolonged occupation, settlement and annexation … aimed at altering the demographic composition, character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem, and from its adoption of related discriminatory legislation and measures?” the UNGA missive asked.

The UNGA asked the court to answer those questions using a combination of international humanitarian laws, as well as the Charter of the United Nations and various UN resolutions. According to Human Rights Watch, Israel’s policies in the occupied territories amount to apartheid and persecution, both crimes against humanity.
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Lash
 
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Wed 21 Feb, 2024 10:12 am
Hey Bob,

Re this:

@Lash,
How can you be so on point and open minded on this topic and so far off the reservation on US politics???

I wanted to respect fbaezer’s lovely thread, but also answer you.

1. I’m on point and open minded re US politics, and I think you are trying to create a more palatable US government through sheer will and ninja-level deflection, and

2. I’m completely ignorant of any behind the scenes puppeteers in Mexico, so just following news as presented.
🙂
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izzythepush
 
  2  
Wed 21 Feb, 2024 10:15 am
@hightor,
Putin poisoned my locality.

I only live a few miles from Salisbury.

That slobbering piece of **** Trump took forever to condemn it.

If he wins we need American occupying troops removed straight away.

Ou children need protecting from 2nd ammendment freaks.
Lash
 
  -2  
Wed 21 Feb, 2024 10:18 am
@izzythepush,
Everybody desperately needs American occupying troops removed ASAP—no matter which figurehead is elected. They both follow orders from the same entity.
izzythepush
 
  2  
Wed 21 Feb, 2024 10:30 am
@Lash,
They're Americans.

America is the only country that celebrates school shootings.

We need to protect our children from 2nd Ammendment scum.
Lash
 
  -2  
Wed 21 Feb, 2024 10:56 am
@izzythepush,
Right. Americans no matter who wins the election. Good luck getting them out.
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glitterbag
 
  2  
Wed 21 Feb, 2024 11:12 pm
@Lash,
Lash wrote:

The BBC—just another compromised Israel-influenced warmonger stenographer.

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2023/11/23/as-israel-pounds-gaza-bbc-journalists-accuse-broadcaster-of-bias

EXCLUSIVE
News
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Israel War on Gaza
As Israel pounds Gaza, BBC journalists accuse broadcaster of bias
In the latest newsroom fallout over the war, BBC journalists say the corporation is failing to humanise Palestinians

London, United Kingdom – The BBC has been accused by its journalists of failing to tell the story of the Israel-Palestine conflict accurately, investing greater effort in humanising Israeli victims compared with Palestinians, and omitting key historical context in coverage.

In a 2,300-word letter written to Al Jazeera by eight UK-based journalists employed by the corporation, the BBC is also said to be guilty of a “double standard in how civilians are seen”, given that it is “unflinching” in its reporting of alleged Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

Fearing reprisal, the journalists requested anonymity. The group does not plan to send the letter to BBC executives, believing such a move was unlikely to lead to meaningful discussions.

They sent Al Jazeera the letter as a humanitarian disaster in Gaza escalates, and as grim milestones are reached at pace. At the time of writing, more than 14,500 Palestinians have been reported as killed by Israeli bombardment, including at least 6,000 children.

“The BBC has failed to accurately tell this story – through omission and lack of critical engagement with Israel’s claims – and it has therefore failed to help the public engage with and understand the human rights abuses unfolding in Gaza,” the letter reads. “Thousands of Palestinians have been killed since October 7. When will the number be high enough for our editorial stance to change?”

Israel declared war against Hamas after the Palestinian group, which governs the densely populated enclave, attacked southern Israel on October 7, killing about 1,200 Israelis and taking more than 200 hostage.
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More at the link.




. Life would be so much better if we all loathed Jews as much as you do. Congrats.
glitterbag
 
  2  
Wed 21 Feb, 2024 11:18 pm
@Lash,
Lash wrote:

Lash wrote:

The GrayZone is 100% against authoritarian regimes—Aaron & Max are two anti-Zionist Jews, which is why they are quite critical of the US & Israel.

A bit of Aaron’s dad Gabor Maté’s bio: Maté was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1944. His maternal grandparents, Josef Lövi and Hannah Lövi, who came from the town of Košice in eastern Slovakia, were killed in Auschwitz when he was five months old. His aunt disappeared during the war, and his father endured forced labour at the hands of the Nazi Party.

Actual ethnic Jews who can easily trace their families back to the Holocaust—not like these fakers in Israel who are protected by an actual law against DNA tests because most Zionists are political / converts and have no origin in the Middle East.

Zionism is political.
Max and Aaron are Jewish.



Just a reminder to the A2K Board History teacher, the Holocaust didn't kill all the Jews in the World........sorry...better luck next time (don't forget the professors, lawyers, doctors or anybody else who may try to survive). OH, and let us know what other religions and races need to be eliminated, personally I worry about the Mormons, they all look so clean and they are great singers.
izzythepush
 
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Thu 22 Feb, 2024 04:15 am
@glitterbag,
For all of Lash's alleged scepticism and cynicism she will take "evidence" on hearsay if it supports her beliefs.

DNA tests aren't banned in Israel, in fact they are considering bringing them in in certain cases.

Beforehand someones status as Jewish was on trust, because some Jewish people are converts.

This is the problem, you have to wade through her posts to separate the wheat from the chaff, what is true and what is not.

The BBC is not a state broadcaster is the usual sense of the word, they are legally obliged to be impartial.

However, there has been criticism of their coverage of Israel/Palestine long before recent events, and political editor Laura Kuennesberg is a hate figure in many Labour circles.
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Lash
 
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Thu 22 Feb, 2024 04:40 am
@glitterbag,
Some of the greatest people I know are Jews—it’s antisemitic of you to equate them with Zionists.

It opens them to condemnation they don’t deserve.
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Lash
 
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Thu 22 Feb, 2024 04:55 am
Andrew Ogles, US Zionist Representative:

“I think it’s time we kill them all.”
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izzythepush
 
  1  
Thu 22 Feb, 2024 05:02 am
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The Israeli State recently announced that it may begin to use genetic tests to determine whether potential immigrants are Jewish or not. This development would demand a rethinking of Israeli law on the issue of the definition of Jewishness. In this article, we discuss the historical and legal context of secular and religious definitions of Jewishness and rights to immigration in the State of Israel. We give a brief overview of different ways in which genes have been regarded as Jewish, and we discuss the relationship between this new use of genetics and the society with which it is co-produced. In conclusion, we raise several questions about future potential impacts of Jewish genetics on Israeli law and society.


https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5034383/
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