Rune Pedersen

An Art Lover, Humanist, Grand Dad, Passionate Love for Regenerative gardening, and most of all, an avid Supporter of the Open Source community

[Rune Pedersen @runep]

@HansPetter__ @MoodRobert @Arbeiderpartiet @jonasgahrstore Godt spørsmål.
Støre en en god diplomat og ikke leder.
Gode ledere er sjelden også gode diplomater.

[Rune Pedersen @runep]

@DeanColbu1447 @ZZischer @agentselfNSA They get all they want from Russia

[Firefox 🔥 @firefox]

You could always switch to Firefox 😉

[Richard @ricwe123]

Why did no one in the Western political class listen to this man?

(John Mearsheimer)

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

The intersection of AI with the ocean of mass surveillance data that's been building up over the past two decades is going to put truly terrible powers in the hands of an unaccountable few.

[Danny Haiphong @GeopoliticsDH]

China 🇨🇳 isn’t a threat to US “national security.”

Russia 🇷🇺 isn’t a threat to US “national security.”

Iran 🇮🇷 isn’t a threat to US “national security.”

With 800+ military bases and dozens of wars, the U.S. is the biggest threat to global security and it’s not even close.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

Biden likes to say that Israel is “the only democracy in the Middle East”. But Israel is not a democracy. Not by a long shot. In fact, it is one of the most undemocratic countries in the world.

Here’s the reality: there are 5 million people living within the borders that Israel controls who do not have the right to vote over the government that determines virtually everything about their lives, and whose human rights under international law are unenforced and regularly violated. On top of this, there are another 6 million people from that territory who are so completely disenfranchised that they have no rights within it at all, and have been rendered legally “stateless”.

So what’s going on here?

Well, apartheid. Now, a lot of people get hung up on the “apartheid analogy”, because when they think of apartheid in South Africa they think of segregation and unequal rights among citizens, and they say this sort of thing doesn’t happen in Israel. But in the academic literature, this is known as “petty apartheid”, and it was only a minor part of the apartheid system in South Africa. The real action – “grand apartheid” – had much bigger designs…

Grand apartheid was the process of reshaping the territory. The idea was to forcibly remove the Africa population from the majority of the country (literally bulldozing their houses and putting them into trucks) and dump them onto tiny chunks of land called Bantustans. Then you put a border around the Bantustan, give people “citizenship” there, give it a flag and a coat of arms, and set up a parliament.

Taking this approach – ethnic cleansing – the apartheid regime shoved most of the African population into enclaves comprising just 13% of the land, and denied them any rights of citizenship within the “white” territory. White people justified this by saying Africans had rights in their own “countries”, the Bantustans. But of course the Bantustans had no real power, no economic sovereignty, no independent militaries, etc. The apartheid regime controlled their borders and trade.

Israel has followed the “grand apartheid” playbook, chapter and verse. The Nakba began the process of shoving Palestinians off their land, out of their homes, and either (a) into the enclaves that today form Gaza and the West Bank, where 5 million people live within borders Israel controls, or (b) into neighboring countries where 6 million people live as stateless refugees. The process of ethnic cleansing continues today.

The result? 11 million people are hived off from the realm of rights within their own territory, and denied the right to vote over the government that controls it. Minority rule by Zionists is declared “democratic” only because it excludes the majority of the population. Calling this democracy is an extraordinary farce.

There is no democracy within apartheid. Apartheid must be abolished – it’s as simple as that. The 11 million must be free to return to their land and homes, and they must enjoy full rights of citizenship within a fully democratic polity, including the right to vote over the state that governs them. Apartheid must fall and we must fight until it does.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

“There’s a genocide going on and I’m asking you to please open your eyes, open up your heart”

Norwegian presenter Alessandra Mele, who represented Norway at last year’s Eurovision, has withdrawn from tonight’s finals in protest against Israel.

👇

[Nadeem Ahmed @Muqadaam]

“The collective punishment of the Palestinian people is a war crime”

Retweet if you agree with Jeremy Corbyn

[Vegard 🇳🇴🍉🇵🇸 @miehsaa]

At lederen i Rød ungdom har blitt møtt med mye kritikk for utsagnet om terrorister, og beklaget dette, er bra.

At folk som støtter Israels pågående krigsforbrytelser, ikke blir møtt med massiv og sterk kritikk er svært bekymringsverdig og destruktivt

[Lara Friedman @LaraFriedmanDC]

The new comic by @elivalley brilliantly summarizes where things are today - a parable in 6 panels :

[S p r i n t e r @SprinterPress]

Chinese Foreign Minister:

“The United States has sought to overthrow more than 50 foreign governments, grossly interfered in elections in at least 30 countries, and attempted to assassinate more than 50 foreign leaders.”

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Yesterday marked 30 years since the end of apartheid in South Africa.

It ended because ordinary people had the courage to stand up for humanity.

Global solidarity was the answer then, and it’s the answer now. We will carry on marching for peace, justice and a free Palestine.

[Rune Pedersen @runep]

Nok et Israelsk lavmål!

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

INDIAN ANCHOR SHUTS DOWN ISRAELI WHO LOSES HIS MIND OVER HER SARI THAT RESEMBLES PALESTINIAN FLAG

[Social Rights Ireland 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 @SocialRightsIRL]

Germany's dark past has been reborn:

[PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 @OnlinePalEng]

Canadian activist and author Naomi Klein adreesed a powerful speech at a Jewish-led protest in New York on Passover, urging Jews to support Palestine and oppose the "false idol of Zionism."

[African Hub @AfricanHub_]

This guy got lectured for saying Nigeria is the most corrupt country in the world.

Your comments on this ...

[Rune Pedersen @runep]

Let his words sink in..

[راوي التاريخ @idocare74]

This is their true nature: craving attention, instigating conflict only to then play the victim and unleash a torrent of falsehoods...to start the anti-Semitism and holocaust ploy...

(Cholamet Aloni) A former Israeli minister says in an old interview (2002) that anti-Semitism and holocaust is only a ploy we use to silence anyone who criticizes us.

Share the video widely to expose the truth and show everyone a clear example of what to expect from them

#Antisemitism_ploy
#Antisemitism