Gopi Mattel

Founding Partner of Lifeboat Ventures, CEO of CellarStone ( Director, Founder Institute - Chennai. @FIChennai

[Gopi Mattel @gmattel]

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[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

In ancient Greece, women were forbidden to study medicine for several years until someone broke the law. Born in 300 BC, Agnodice cut her hair and entered Alexandria medical school dressed as a man. While walking the streets of Athens after completing her medical education, she heard the cries of a woman in labour. However, the woman did not want Agnodice to touch her although she was in severe pain, because she thought Agnodice was a man. Agnodice proved that she was a woman by removing her clothes without anyone seeing and helped the woman deliver her baby.

The story would soon spread among the women and all the women who were sick began to go to Agnodice. The male doctors grew envious and accused Agnodice, whom they thought was male, of seducing female patients. At her trial, Agnodice, stood before the court and proved that she was a woman but this time, she was sentenced to death for studying medicine and practicing medicine as a woman.

Women revolted at the sentence, especially the wives of the judges who had given the death penalty. Some said that if Agnodice was killed, they would go to their deaths with her. Unable to withstand the pressures of their wives and other women, the judges lifted Agnodice's sentence, and from then on, women were allowed to practice medicine, provided they only looked after women.

Thus, Agnodice made her mark in history as the first Greek female doctor, physician and gynecologist. This plaque depicting Agnodice at work was excavated at Ostia, Italy.

#drthehistories

[Meral Hussein-Ece @meralhece]

This was the headline 10 years ago, when Israel killed nearly 2000 Palestinians in Gaza, resulting in an outcry & then PM Cameron suspending arms export licenses to support a ceasefire. Now with 40,000 killed & a famine, we watch as the U.K. silently supports Netanyahu.

[Adam @AdameMedia]

This isn’t Germany 1934

It’s Israel 2024

Israeli’s run the cоncentration camps now.
https://t.co/bcC0FrzwKb

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court makes one of its worst rulings in history and repeals the 1984 Chevron precedent — opening the flood gates for corporations to trash the environment, public health, and the workplace.

And it gets so much worse...

The ruling undos a rule that required American courts to give deference to federal agencies when creating regulations based on laws that could be interpreted as ambiguous.

"In one fell swoop, the majority today gives itself exclusive power over every open issue — no matter how expertise-driven or policy-laden — involving the meaning of regulatory law. As if it did not have enough on its plate, the majority turns itself into the country’s administrative czar," wrote liberal justice Elena Kagan, who voted against repealing the rule.

"In every sphere of current or future federal regulation, expect courts from now on to play a commanding role," wrote Kagan. "It is not a role Congress has given them. … It is a role this court has now claimed for itself, as well as other judges."

She added that the conservative majority on the court "disdains restraint, and grasps for power."

Astonishingly, the precedent the Republican justices overturned is one of the most cited in American law. It underpins 70 Supreme Court decisions and around 17,000 rulings from the lower courts.

The Food and Drug Administration expects a slew of new lawsuit due to the court's decision ranging from challenges to their powers over tainted food to deciding whether or not certain drugs are safe. The tobacco industry is also expected to pounce.

"This is disastrous for public health. This is disastrous for the critical role of science-based regulatory agencies," said a former F.D.A. associate commissioner and tobacco division director Mitch Zeller. "Chevron has worked well for half a century and makes a lot of sense."

Once again, the conservative judges have sided with corporate profits over the well-being over the American people. They don't care what these companies do to us as long as the shareholders (and MAGA donors) are pleased.

By undoing such a bedrock precedent the court is once again making it clear that they don't care about the law. The conservatives on the court are right-wing activists working to enact the Republican Party's plutocratic agenda. They must be stopped.

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[The Sen10eL @s3n10el]

I don’t think they forced the ICC to do anything, the ICC just agreed to allow UK to submit a formal observance. , The UK is just trying to delay the issuing of the warrants… all you have to do is actually read the document they submitted to know it’s going to be dismissed and most likely become the butt of many jokes amongst ICC staff and in legal circles. The ICC has already established jurisdiction, and the U.K. arguing that the ICC doesn’t have jurisdiction because Palestine cannot exercise criminal jurisdiction over Israeli nationals as agreed-upon in the Oslo accords, when the Oslo accords, a.k.a. the two state solution has yet to even be implemented, as, according to the consistent representations made by the UK, the US, and the usual western nations, Palestine is not a state because it has not yet reached threshold of being considered stable enough to take over self -governance….I mean, the fact that the U.K Conveniently failed to mention that the reason why Palestine cannot exercise effective control over Palestinian territory, is because the illegally occupying power, Israel, currently exercises effective control over the Palestinian territory, to include, but definitely not limited to, Exercising criminal jurisdiction via a military judicial system, in and of itself, makes their “observance” devoid of any real meaning; and I’d be lying if I said part of me isn’t wondering if the only reason the ICC accepted the submission was so the court could issue a legal decision within which they can use the UK’s arguments to further solidify the ICC’s jurisdiction, while simultaneously using their reference to the Oslo accords as an opportunity to assert the courts opinion/interpretation of the treaty, which I have no doubt will stand in stark contrast to the opinions/interpretations of the U.K. US and Israel, and am equally sure the ICC would have never had the opportunity to address otherwise, all of which will inadvertently expose more truth about the true intentions of the US/UK/Israel, while embarrassing TF out of all of them- once again!

Anywho- This submission is a dumpster fire. The UK knows it, the US knows it, the ICC lawyers know it, and anyone with a working knowledge of the subject matter being referenced knows it…they U.K. is just hoping the time it takes for the ICC to put out the dumpster fire, buys them some more time to handle the situation in a way that’s more aligned with the interests of the UK/US.

[Melinda French Gates @melindagates]

Never did I think I'd see the day when women were one court ruling away from being able to receive emergency care. Women’s rights, women’s health, and even women’s lives are under attack. Today, it was access to emergency care. Tomorrow, it could be access to birth control or fertility treatments. The best way to channel our anger and fight back is to join together, raise our voices, and exercise our political power by voting this November.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

It’s astounding that Trumps vice president, Pence, and former speaker Ryan, won’t support him. Love it or hate it, you have to admit: we didn’t change, the party did.

It’s their right to change. But don’t pretend it’s committed to anything but blind loyalty to a weak and small man

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Holy shit. This is the greatest ad I’ve ever seen.

Describe Republicans who want to restrict condoms in ONE word.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Another day another series of Israeli war crimes: 24 hours of ‘bloody, brutal’ attacks on civilians who were, already, condemned to live in tents pitched on rubbish, sewage, utter misery https://t.co/nd7K5J3KNK

[Alex Barnicoat @AlexBarnicoat_]

🚨

BRITAIN HELPING ISRAEL EXPOSED

How much support does the UK really provide to Israel?

The answer is far more than you could imagine, in fact they are actively committing war crimes

In this thread, I expose this support:

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[𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 @antifaoperative]

South Dakota GOP county chairman, Rocky Hayes, has pled no contest to possessing images of children being sexually abused.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

You Saved Julian Assange:

Julian Assange was not released because the courts defended the rule of law and exonerated a man who had not committed a crime. He was not released because the Biden White House and the intelligence community have a conscience. He was not released because the news organizations that published his revelations and then threw him under the bus, carrying out a vicious smear campaign, pressured the U.S. government.

He was released — granted a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department, according to court documents — in spite of these institutions. He was released because day after day, week after week, year after year, hundreds of thousands of people around the globe mobilized to decry the imprisonment of the most important journalist of our generation. Without this mobilization, Julian would not be free…

This sustained pressure — during a London hearing in 2020, to my delight, District Judge Vanessa Baraitser of the Old Bailey court overseeing Julian’s case, complained about the noise protestors were making in the street outside — shines a continuous light on injustice and exposes the amorality of the ruling class...

These people are unsung and often unknown.  But they are heroes. They move mountains...They shamed the politicians in Australia to stand up for Julian, an Australian citizen, and finally Britain and the U.S. to give up. I do not say to do the right thing. This was a surrender. We should be proud of it.

I met Julian when I accompanied his attorney, Michael Ratner, to meetings in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Michael, one of the great civil rights attorneys of our era, stressed that popular protest was a vital component in every case he brought against the state. Without it, the state could carry out its persecution of dissidents, disregard for the law and crimes in darkness….

The decimation of civil liberties has shackled us, as Julian warned, to an interconnected security and surveillance apparatus that stretches across the globe...

The goal of wholesale surveillance, as Hannah Arendt writes in “The Origins of Totalitarianism,” is not, in the end, to discover crimes, “but to be on hand when the government decides to arrest a certain category of the population.”…This constant surveillance and personal data waits like a deadly virus inside government vaults to be turned against us. It does not matter how trivial or innocent that information is. In totalitarian states, justice, like truth, is irrelevant.

The object of all totalitarian systems is to inculcate a climate of fear to paralyze a captive population. Citizens seek security in the structures that oppress them. Imprisonment, torture and murder are saved for unmanageable renegades such as Julian. The totalitarian state achieves this control, Arendt wrote, by crushing human spontaneity, and by extension human freedom. The population is immobilized  by trauma. The courts, along with legislative bodies, legalize state crimes. We saw all this in the persecution of Julian. It is an ominous harbinger of the future.

The corporate state must be destroyed if we are to restore our open society and save our planet. Its security apparatus must be dismantled. The mandarins who manage corporate totalitarianism, including the leaders of the two major political parties, fatuous academics, pundits and a bankrupt media, must be driven from the temples of power.

Mass street protests and prolonged civil disobedience are our only hope. A failure to rise up — which is what the corporate state is counting on — will see us enslaved and the earth’s ecosystem become inhospitable to human habitation. Let us take a lesson from the courageous men and women who took to the streets for 14 years to save Julian. They showed us how it is done.

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

Jon Stewart, as always, sums it up beautifully.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Oh, come on. This CAN’T be just a coincidence!!! 😳
#TraitorTrump

[Gopi Mattel @gmattel]

Documentary
https://t.co/ymtTd2em3J

[Richard Angwin @RichardAngwin]

There's a burn, and then there's an @AOC burn:

[Rania @umyaznemo]

That's just insane! The US is going after ICC officials and their immediate families! Absolutely insane!

[Matt Kennard @kennardmatt]

Jeremy Corbyn says during a meeting with the Parliamentary Labour Party Committee he was confronted and asked to give assurances that as Labour leader - and potentially prime minister - he would automatically support any military action Israel undertakes👇