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Taliban congratulate Americans for โnot handing leadership of their great country to a womanโ
Donald Trump signed the deal that paved the way for the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, allowing the Taliban to storm to power.
Public Money, Public Code - Una campagna per rilasciare come Software Libero il software finanziato pubblicamentepubliccode.eu
Pezeshkian initially faced widespread criticism from Iran's right-wing media as #Israel's President #Herzog has planned to travel to the summit too.
According to the Journal, the Pentagon is sending to Ukraine more than 500 interceptors for the Patriot missile defense system and the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System, or #NASAMS.
Because weapons deliveries take weeks, sometimes months, the U.S. is looking into buying back weapons from other countries to give to Ukraine, according to the Journal.
More than $7 billion in drawdown authority, which allows the president to provide defense items such as ammunition and missiles from DOD's inventories to respond to foreign crises, remains unspent.
wsj.com/politics/national-secuโฆ
#US #UkrIaine #Pebtagon #Biden #Military
"diana you can't just point at everything western and say 'settler barbarism'"
*points at colonialism and its resulting conditions* settler barbarism
PSA:
Never take someone's style or apparent rage as proof that they are actually anti-fascist.
For instance, no actual anti-fascist would pass up any opportunity to vote against fascists.
So we know there are far fewer anti-fascists than there are people claiming to be anti-fascist.
What is a person who swears they are anti-fascist but isn't?
A secret fascist.
Yet another good report on what really happened in Amsterdam
#IsraelTerroristState #Amsterdam
mondoweiss.net/2024/11/no-therโฆ
Media claims of โantisemitic pogromsโ against Israeli fans in Amsterdam are the latest in a pattern of false narratives fueling anti-Muslim violence and justifying the genocide in Gaza.Sana Saeed (Mondoweiss)
Thousands of people take to streets to protest threats to reproductive rights and pledges of mass deportationsMaya Yang (The Guardian)
From what I can tell, there is no more important factor than energy prices in determining the health of capitalism. Inflation in the US and Europe would not have been nearly as bad had Russia's invasion of Ukraine not driven energy prices up so much.
It's why the US talked Israel out of hitting Iran's oil infrastructure. It's why the US is so friendly with Saudi Arabia. It's also why capitalism will never deal with climate change.
Convicted felons are often denied firearms. We gave a felon a whole military. With nuclear weapons. And this felon celebrated dictators. The felon will need distractions for his new grifts. What could possibly go wrong.
In November 1873.
The children's periodical St. Nicholas Magazine begins publication by Scribner and Company in New York under the editorship of Mary Mapes Dodge.
Books by Mary Mapes Dodge at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/40โฆ
Project Gutenberg offers 74,542 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
#ClimateChange #corruption #fraud #psychology
"We have a lot of gas fields that are to be developed," Chief executive of Azerbaijan's #COP29 team says bbc.com/news/articles/crmzvdn9โฆ
And there you have the truth!
Countries have certain types of business people that want to extract the #FossilFuel reserves, but, precisely because of climate change, they lie 'in public about their agendas, whilst making fossil fuel deals in private (behind closed doors)
Fraud is a #criminal offence (& should be)
Undercover filming shows COP29 chief exec discussing new oil and gas projects ahead of climate summit.Justin Rowlatt (BBC News)
I know a horrifyingly vast number of people in education circles who are all-in, gung-ho about AI.
How do you teach environmental studies while you are supporting catastrophic waste of water & active global warming?
How do you teach kids that plagiarism is wrong when you are promoting plagiarism?
How do you teach kids that consent is important when you are promoting the wholesale non-consensual unpaid theft of original creators' works?
"When the dust settles, I expect the people who assess elections will tell us disinformation was key in 2024. It wasnโt the economy, it was the disinformation about the economy. ...
It requires education and discernment to separate fact from fiction, and often that's lacking. Thatโs the problem: educating people so they can make judgments about whatโs true."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future #disinformation
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Some of us have the luxury to play those armchair political games. Some of us may even pretend that when the crackdown begins after he takes office, it won't affect us.
Some of us have no choice except to face what's coming, and for us, the armchair game-playing is a huge distraction from reality. It demands privilege and insulation we can only dream of having.
Some of us are ALREADY being taunted with chants of "Your body, my choice."
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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"This must be a difficult time for the historians.
Youโre not crazy. Neither am I.
Kamala. Kamala. Kamala.
What did she do wrong? What did the Democrats do wrong? Why is this her fault and how can we prove it is her fault rather than seeing the angry and often ignorant electorate that is staring us back in the face.
Iโm tired of it. I donโt want to hear one more person talk about what she could have done."
#Trump #Republicans #fascism #cruelty #future
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Report: German parliament passes a resolution that includes banning public funding for any group โthat calls into question Israelโs right to exist or calls for a boycott of Israelโ.
100 Jewish artists & intellectuals living in Germany said the resolution would โweaken, rather than strengthen, the diversity of Jewish life in Germany by associating all Jews with the actions of the Israeli governmentโ.
aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/11โฆ
#Censorship #Israel #BDS #FakeAntisemitism .
The answer lies in Germanyโs history โ but it is not, as many assume tied to efforts to atone for the Nazi Holocaust.Tony Greenstein (Al Jazeera)
"This American campaign season was rife with reminders of a politics that were once routine in Ukraine, and that we are now happy to be mostly rid of"
From Nataliya Gumenyuk
๐:
theatlantic.com/international/โฆ
We know a thing or two about defending democracy. So do you.Nataliya Gumenyuk (The Atlantic)
It's just sickening that the freaking TikTok the is blocking so many anti #genocide videos and banning people for ridiculous reasons, tolerates and promote such contents.
PS not going to link to them
#Israel #Prppaganda #Palestine #DoubleStandard #Hypocrisy
The precursors to multicellularity are derived from natural processes.๐งช
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngulโฆ
Iโm not a fan of phys.org โ they summarize interesting articles, but itโs too often clear that their writers donโt have a particularly deep understanding of biology. I wondeโฆPharyngula
โHistoric developmentโ in Thailand as it moves to end statelessness for nearly 500,000 people
In a landmark move towards ending statelessness, Thailandโs cabinet has approved an accelerated pathway to permanent residency and nationality for nearly half a million stateless people, marking one of the regionโs most significant citizenship initiatives.The decision announced on Friday will benefit 335,000 longtime residents and members of officially recognized minority ethnic groups, along with approximately 142,000 of their children born in Thailand.
Via Fix the News
It's the United States gender reveal! We hope itโs a girl. Plus, an interview with Steven Pinker, global air pollutions deaths fall, EU emissions too, a massive new school feeding program for Kenya, and the Three Body Problem solved.Angus Hervey (Fix The News)
