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Lucia Goracci sull'uccisione di Sam bambino di 7mesi da parte dell'IDF "un proiettile gli ha attraversato la testa...è morto per errore dicono...e il papà che lo seppelisce aveva appena imparato a metterlo a letto"
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If genocide and pedophilia aren't your red lines, then none of your other opinions really matter.
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E questi sarebbero i Kompetentih?
Ma non vi vergognate?
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Le politiche “occidentali”!
This is laughable. There is zero chance - I repeat, zero chance - that Israel is acting without massive assistance from the U.S. military. The U.S. military is assisting Israel and Trump ordered it to do so.
Polls show that Americans overwhelmingly oppose this criminal, disastrous war. The economic carnage from the war will be severe. Trump simply wants US voters to blame Netanyahu and not him for the war. That’s why he’s lying about having nothing to do with it
Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.
This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ
@battleforeurope Media complicity in this genocide is impossible to ignore
If genocide and pedophilia aren't your red lines, then none of your other opinions really matter.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama admits Jared Kushner’s new private island will be exclusively for the elite.
He says the land no longer belongs to the Albanian people and is now under the control of Jared Kushner and his investors.
"The aim is to build the most exclusive."
"The land belongs to the investors."
If you understand this story, you’ve understood much there is to understand about geopolitics around Taiwan.
The current DPP government is quite literally cheering its own carve-up - as long as it annoys Beijing.
Here is what happened.
So recently, May 28th, Japanese PM Takaichi and Philippines President Marcos Jr. issued a joint statement (https://t.co/T3HUFO3oDI) announcing they would open negotiations to delimit their overlapping EEZ and continental-shelf boundaries.
As a reminder, an EEZ - Exclusive Economic Zone - is the area extending 200 nautical miles from a country's coastline within which that country has exclusive rights to exploit all natural resources.
Small problem: their EEZs directly overlap with China's, both from Beijing’s standpoint and Taipei’s, as they are less than 200 nautical miles from Taiwan’s coastline.
In effect, what Japan and the Philippines are announcing here is that they're agreeing bilaterally - without Beijing or Taipei at the table - to split between themselves waters that belong, in part, to someone else.
Unsurprisingly, that didn't sit well with Beijing. They issued a statement the day after - 29th of May - where they "strongly deplore and firmly oppose the so-called maritime delimitation talks between Japan and the Philippines" (https://t.co/d9mLwvTcpI).
Any rational person would have expected Taipei to issue a similar statement because, whatever you think of Beijing's claims, it's the EEZ around Taiwan we're speaking about here: surely they'd object to other countries carving up the resource rights off their coastline.
It's actually one thing Beijing and Taipei have aligned interests on: neither wants its maritime entitlements carved up by third parties.
As a reminder Taipei rejected the infamous 2016 Hague arbitration ruling on the South China Sea - siding with Beijing against Manila - for the same reasons: because the tribunal downgraded Taiping (Itu Aba), the largest feature in the Spratlys that Taipei occupies, from an “island” to a “rock,” which would have stripped it of its 200-nautical-mile EEZ.
In other words, defending their own EEZ is normally sacrosanct for Taipei.
Except... not this time. Taipei issued an angry statement, yes, but where the anger was entirely directed at Beijing. The statement (https://t.co/HXekJR7fvi) explicitly “commend[ed] Japan and the Philippines for working to resolve maritime differences”, reserving its sharp language to China because it "has no right to comment on the territory and appertaining waters of the Republic of China (Taiwan)."
Think for a moment about what it says about Taipei’s current DPP independentist government: the party that claims to champion Taiwan's sovereignty literally celebrated, as its first instinct, two countries announcing they'd carve up Taiwan's maritime territory between themselves. All because Beijing opposed it.
This caused quite a stir in Taiwanese politics, with the KMT calling the statement “humiliating,” warning that cheering the talks without seeking a seat in negotiations over the overlapping EEZs could seriously hurt Taiwanese fishermen's livelihoods in the future (https://t.co/5T2jW4HQb5).
So much so that Taipei’s MOFA had to issue a new statement on June 2 specifying that the Japan-Philippines talks "should not impair our country's rights", with MOFA spokesperson Hsiao Kuang-wei finally acknowledging the delimitation waters “highly overlap” with Taipei's EEZ.
But then, confusingly, 2 days after - June 4 - Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung undercut his own ministry’s correction entirely (https://t.co/hgAu7Quj1H). The Japan-Philippines talks, he explained, are “aimed at China” and therefore, fundamentally good - Taipei's EEZ being carved up in the process being, apparently, a minor detail.
China protesting the talks, he said, is “getting cause and effect backwards” and he branded “the handful distorting the issue and shifting the focus” - i.e. anyone pointing out that Taiwan's EEZ is being carved up - as “falling into a trap and letting China benefit.”
So the same ministry, within 48 hours, both (a) asked Tokyo and Manila to guard against a danger to Taiwan's EEZ, and (b) declared that danger nonexistent and smeared anyone naming it as a Beijing stooge. Go figure 🤷
But this is actually just one part of a much bigger story - one about colonial nostalgia, about the three competing visions at play for Taiwan, and about why the West champions the one party in Taiwan that does NOT actually defend sovereignty and democracy.
I wrote it all up here: https://t.co/tWqeM8xpX8
![RnaudBertrand's tweet photo. If you understand this story, you’ve understood much there is to understand about geopolitics around Taiwan.
The current DPP government is quite literally cheering its own carve-up - as long as it annoys Beijing.
Here is what happened.
So recently, May 28th, Japanese PM Takaichi and Philippines President Marcos Jr. issued a joint statement (https://t.co/T3HUFO3oDI) announcing they would open negotiations to delimit their overlapping EEZ and continental-shelf boundaries.
As a reminder, an EEZ - Exclusive Economic Zone - is the area extending 200 nautical miles from a country's coastline within which that country has exclusive rights to exploit all natural resources.
Small problem: their EEZs directly overlap with China's, both from Beijing’s standpoint and Taipei’s, as they are less than 200 nautical miles from Taiwan’s coastline.
In effect, what Japan and the Philippines are announcing here is that they're agreeing bilaterally - without Beijing or Taipei at the table - to split between themselves waters that belong, in part, to someone else.
Unsurprisingly, that didn't sit well with Beijing. They issued a statement the day after - 29th of May - where they "strongly deplore and firmly oppose the so-called maritime delimitation talks between Japan and the Philippines" (https://t.co/d9mLwvTcpI).
Any rational person would have expected Taipei to issue a similar statement because, whatever you think of Beijing's claims, it's the EEZ around Taiwan we're speaking about here: surely they'd object to other countries carving up the resource rights off their coastline.
It's actually one thing Beijing and Taipei have aligned interests on: neither wants its maritime entitlements carved up by third parties.
As a reminder Taipei rejected the infamous 2016 Hague arbitration ruling on the South China Sea - siding with Beijing against Manila - for the same reasons: because the tribunal downgraded Taiping (Itu Aba), the largest feature in the Spratlys that Taipei occupies, from an “island” to a “rock,” which would have stripped it of its 200-nautical-mile EEZ.
In other words, defending their own EEZ is normally sacrosanct for Taipei.
Except... not this time. Taipei issued an angry statement, yes, but where the anger was entirely directed at Beijing. The statement (https://t.co/HXekJR7fvi) explicitly “commend[ed] Japan and the Philippines for working to resolve maritime differences”, reserving its sharp language to China because it "has no right to comment on the territory and appertaining waters of the Republic of China (Taiwan)."
Think for a moment about what it says about Taipei’s current DPP independentist government: the party that claims to champion Taiwan's sovereignty literally celebrated, as its first instinct, two countries announcing they'd carve up Taiwan's maritime territory between themselves. All because Beijing opposed it.
This caused quite a stir in Taiwanese politics, with the KMT calling the statement “humiliating,” warning that cheering the talks without seeking a seat in negotiations over the overlapping EEZs could seriously hurt Taiwanese fishermen's livelihoods in the future (https://t.co/5T2jW4HQb5).
So much so that Taipei’s MOFA had to issue a new statement on June 2 specifying that the Japan-Philippines talks "should not impair our country's rights", with MOFA spokesperson Hsiao Kuang-wei finally acknowledging the delimitation waters “highly overlap” with Taipei's EEZ.
But then, confusingly, 2 days after - June 4 - Foreign Minister Lin Chia-lung undercut his own ministry’s correction entirely (https://t.co/hgAu7Quj1H). The Japan-Philippines talks, he explained, are “aimed at China” and therefore, fundamentally good - Taipei's EEZ being carved up in the process being, apparently, a minor detail.
China protesting the talks, he said, is “getting cause and effect backwards” and he branded “the handful distorting the issue and shifting the focus” - i.e. anyone pointing out that Taiwan's EEZ is being carved up - as “falling into a trap and letting China benefit.”
So the same ministry, within 48 hours, both (a) asked Tokyo and Manila to guard against a danger to Taiwan's EEZ, and (b) declared that danger nonexistent and smeared anyone naming it as a Beijing stooge. Go figure 🤷
But this is actually just one part of a much bigger story - one about colonial nostalgia, about the three competing visions at play for Taiwan, and about why the West champions the one party in Taiwan that does NOT actually defend sovereignty and democracy.
I wrote it all up here: https://t.co/tWqeM8xpX8](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKH2mJhaYAA0675.jpg)
Watch Out Japan: Imperial Ghosts Reawaken Under US Backing
Japan’s so-called postwar “pacifism” was always a convenient lie cooked up by Washington. They wrote the constitution, stuck in Article 9, poured money into the LDP, kept tens of thousands of troops there, and turned the whole place into a giant unsinkable aircraft carrier staring straight at China’s coastal cities. Same old game, different era.
The Brutal Imperial Past That Japan Still Won’t Face
Back in the 1930s-40s, Imperial Japan went all-in on China with a level of savagery that’s hard to forget. The Nanjing Massacre — the Rape of Nanjing — December 1937 to January 1938: 200,000 to 300,000 Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers slaughtered in six weeks. Mass rape, bayonet contests, bodies dumped in the rivers until the water turned red.
Unit 731 doing live dissections and germ warfare tests, comfort women dragged into sexual slavery.
Pure evil.
And what has Japan done about it?
Nothing real.
No full apology, no proper reparations.
Textbooks gloss over it, politicians march into Yasukuni Shrine to honor the war criminals.
Look at what @zhao_dashuai posted with the actual records:
“Front page news on December 13th 1937 in Japan: 2 Japanese officers engaged in a competition to see who can behead more Chinese in Nanjing. Mukai has killed 106. Noda has killed 105… the entire society was part of that war machine…”
https://t.co/Z89Fdmg3Cy
And the photos that still hit hard:
“Bodies of Chinese civilians along the Qinhuai River… the river banks were the favorite spot for the Japanese to murder and dump the bodies…”
https://t.co/5Sknme897r
Right Now: Japan Rearming Fast, With Full US Backing
Japan is dumping record cash into missiles, drones, ships, and “counterstrike” weapons that can reach deep into China.
They’re twisting Article 9 to allow “collective self-defense,” calling Taiwan their “existential threat,” and gearing up to fight alongside the US. All while saying it’s just “peaceful” stuff. Give me a break.
This isn’t Japan deciding alone. Washington is pushing hard — containment 2.0. Japan is still hosting all those US bases, playing the frontline role like always.
Check my earlier takes on this:
“Japan’s Quiet Rearmament… Just Following Uncle Sam’s Orders…”
https://t.co/2tjCeFS7La
“Japan: The Dagger Aimed at China’s Maritime Heart…”
https://t.co/I4oLcEIRPT
“Japan: America’s permanent pawn…”
https://t.co/GBRPtR8xCf
History Is Rhyming Again
The West helped build up Imperial Japan before. Now they’re doing it again to try and slow down China. Asia hasn’t forgotten the last time.
>>>>>China sure hasn’t
Real peace would mean Japan owning up to its past, giving real atonement, and stopping this proxy role for America. But denial + rearmament? That’s a fast track to repeating the 1930s nightmare.
The whole region is watching.
Stay sharp.
History doesn’t forgive those who keep lying about it.
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Apple has removed Lebanese village names in Southern Lebanon.
As Israel invades, they are already setting the state to justify occupation.
I’ve never seen something like this.
Negli ultimi anni il potere economico si è concentrato nelle grandi piattaforme tecnologiche che dominano mercati, infrastrutture digitali e raccolta dei dati.
A differenza dei vecchi monopoli industriali, il loro valore nasce soprattutto dalle reti di utenti e dalle informazioni generate dalle interazione. Grazie agli effetti di rete e ai capitali concentrati su pochi attori, queste piattaforme diventano sempre più indispensabili.
Il risultato è una crescente concentrazione di ricchezza e potere, che accresce le disuguaglianze e riduce autonomia, concorrenza e possibilità di alternative.
Da leggere Ivana Pais e David Stark su @Dissonanze_riv
https://t.co/5gDZfAaMDN
#Alghero che scende in piazza contro l'arrivo degli israeliani è davvero encomiabile al confronto del #GovernoMeloni, che invece approva e TACE!!!
Stamattina mi è sovvenuto un ricordo. Qualcuno rammenta cos'era il "Cártel de los Soles", presentato come minaccia esistenziale per la gioventù americana, esportatori di droga in grande stile, supportati dai vertici del governo venezuelano di Maduro?
Una volta imbragato Maduro e sbattutolo in una cella senza processo - secondo lo stile del Paese della Libertà - del Cártel de los Soles si sono perse le tracce. Dissolto.
Ricordo pensose riflessioni sugli organi di stampa che davano credito a questa entità - nonostante la sua palese natura artefatta.
Ricordo discussioni in rete con schiere di bamba che - come fanno per tutto il fiume di spazzatura mediaticamente accreditato - sosteneva la plausibilità che Maduro fosse il capo di un cartello della droga ("E perché no? Dopo tutto è un cattivo. E dai villain internazionali ti puoi aspettare di tutto").
A questo punto è emerso un altro ricordo. Quello del deputato repubblicano Thomas Massie, che dopo aver rappresentato incontrastato il Kentucky per 13 anni alla Camera dei Rappresentanti ha avuto la malaugurata idea di prendere posizione su due questioni: gli Epstein Files (ricordate gli Epstein Files?), di cui aveva insistentemente chiesto la pubblicazione integrale, e la guerra in Iran, che aveva contestato obiettando all'eccessiva influenza israeliana sulla politica americana.
Dopo queste due prese di posizione Massie è caduto in disgrazia, è stato oggetto di campagne mediatiche di screditamento, e alle primarie repubblicane si è trovato di fronte un avversario che ha magicamente raccolto la più grande somma a sostegno della propria candidatura delle elezioni amministrative americane. Milioni di dollari sono arrivati a sostegno della campagna elettorale del suo avversario da parte di lobby israeliane. Risultato: Massie defenestrato a favore di un emerito sconosciuto (Ed Gallrein).
Anche qui decisivo è stato il riorientamento mediatico supportato da mazzette di dollari.
Niente di più complicato di questo. L'apparato mediatico a tassametro in tutto il mondo occidentale riorienta a pagamento la massa di opinione pubblica beota, costruendo narrazioni ad hoc che devono reggere solo il tempo sufficiente per arrivare ad un certo appuntamento (un intervento militare, un'elezione, ecc.), poi chi s'è visto s'è visto, avanti con la prossima fiaba.
Morale da trarre.
Nel mondo esistono parecchi regimi problematici, ciascuno con i suoi difetti.
E' giusto riflettere sui loro pro e contro.
Purché nessuno si sogni di contrapporre quei sistemi, sempre migliorabili, alle preclare virtù del Cartello Occidentale, spacciato per Democrazia.
Il Sistema Politico Occidentale è un sistema piuttosto organico che abbraccia numerosi paesi e circa un ottavo della popolazione mondiale.
In esso - salvo sporadiche eccezioni:
il Potere Legislativo appartiene alle lobby finanziarie
il Potere Giudiziario appartiene al sistema mediatico
il Potere Esecutivo appartiene a pupazzi a molla, attori di risulta e mercenariato brado.
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In ordine cronologico:
26/5 il post di Paolo di Paolo
4/6 La strumentalizzazione del post di Paolo di Paolo
5/6 Il corsivo anonimo di Repubblica che fa lo stesso
6/6 Il comunicato del cdr di #Repubblica
In ordine cronologico:
26/5 il post di Paolo di Paolo
4/6 La strumentalizzazione del post di Paolo di Paolo
5/6 Il corsivo anonimo di Repubblica che fa lo stesso
6/6 Il comunicato del cdr di #Repubblica
Risposta degli operatori sanitari dell’ospedale Meyer: “siamo venuti a conoscenza della visita della premier Giorgia Meloni ai bambini di Gaza ricoverati presso il nostro ospedale.
La sua visita coincide con la pubblicazione da parte dell'UNRWA di un grafico che mostra come
Mysterious ‘cold blob’ in the Atlantic suggests the AMOC is weakening
A patch of ocean south-east of Greenland is the only place on Earth that is cooling, and it could be a sign that the warm water “conveyor belt” in the Atlantic is slowing down
https://t.co/iOP7S0fjUS
https://t.co/nKdwhlJCaW
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