kimo

Paris/Cairo

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

It's already starting:

Google is officially purchasing nuclear power.

Bloomberg is now reporting that NextEra Energy, $NEE, plans to restart a nuclear power plant in Iowa, primarily to supply Google data centers.

The 615-megawatt plant shut down in 2020, well before the AI boom, and is expected to start delivering power by 2029.

NextEra's stock is up sharply on the news because it foreshadows what's coming next for AI.

The world simply does NOT have enough power to continue scaling AI growth at its current pace.

Nuclear energy is the most promising solution to our global energy shortage.

Power will be the most valuable commodity in the world.

[United Nations @UN]

Famine has now been confirmed in Gaza.

Over half a million people are facing the most devastating form of hunger, warns @theIPCinfo.

An immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access is imperative to save lives.

https://t.co/U2Dn8O0TS1 — via @WFP

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

MAINSTREAM MEDIA DOUBLE STANDARDS

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

When Germany says there’s ‘no sign of genocide’ you can be absolutely certain there’s a genocide taking place

[Richard Burgon MP @RichardBurgon]

BREAKING: Over 40 MPs from seven parties have backed my motion calling on the Government to impose sanctions on Israel.

Israel is carrying out war crimes.

We need real action from Governments to force it to stop.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline.

As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone.

For example:

1. Treating the 4 Israeli soldiers as more important than the 23 Palestinian children (by leading the story with their deaths and just chucking in the others at the end) implies their lives are of higher value.

2. Infantilizing active duty soldiers as "teenagers" while not emphasizing the age of the schoolkids, despite many of them being demonstrably younger.

3. The classic use of the passive voice: Israelis are "killed" while Palestinians merely "die".

4. Putting scare quotes around "23 die" subtly undermines the credibility of that claim. Maybe no one died, and the Palestinians are just lying?

5. Using the word "attack" for Hezbollah actions, but choosing a more neutral, clinical word like "strike" for Israeli aggression.

6. Allowing Israeli sources to dictate the framing of the story ("Israel names teenage soldiers") etc.

7. Actually naming the Israeli soldiers, but not doing the same for the far greater number of Palestinians, again sends the message to the reader that Palestinian lives don't matter nearly as much, if at all.

It's truly incredible how much propaganda has been packed into 16 words. We are swimming in an ocean of propaganda. That's why it is crucial to deconstruct it and critically assess everything you read, see and hear.

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

Israeli forces killed Israeli citizens on October 7

28 Apache helicopters used all their ammunition and had to be reloaded

Mainstream media is finally catching up to this mass Hannibal Directive

This is what really happened on Oct 7:

[Al Jazeera Investigates @AJ_Investigates]

Our @AJIunit investigation exposes war crimes in Gaza through the medium of photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers themselves during the year-long conflict.

Watch the full film here. #GazaCrimes

[Abier @abierkhatib]

“ I’m a child of the Jim Crow”

He knows apartheid when he sees it

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

He was killed by Israel in Lebanon today.

Western Media won't show you this.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇵🇸BREAKING: BABY IN GAZA SAVED FROM WOMB OF MOTHER KILLED BY IDF STRIKE

In Rafah, a baby girl was born via emergency C-section after her mother, father, and sister were killed in an Israeli airstrike.

The strike, part of intensified attacks, claimed 19 lives, including 13 children from one family.

Palestinian health officials report 48 killed in Gaza in the last 24 hours.

Source: Reuters

[Pelham @Resist_05]

How do you take nice Jewish children and turn them into monsters, killers of children by the time they’re 18…?

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

You've frankly got to marvel at the West's (utter lack of) strategy in the red sea.

The US and the UK managed to get their ships banned from the red sea passage after their bombing campaign.

Meanwhile China, unaffected by the ban, is quite logically redeploying its ships to serve the route, taking advantage of the new competitive advantage that they got served on a golden platter.

The US then asks China to bail them out and help them curb the attacks, bizarrely preferring to go through the humiliation of begging their main geopolitical rival for help rather than rein in Israel. And the weirdest thing is: why on earth would China do that? The U.S. has been multiplying hostile moves on China for years, they've made it clear that their principal objective remains to contain China and they've now shot themselves in the foot in a way that benefits China. How far gone can they be to think China would help in that context?

China's response was that "the Red Sea tension is a 'spillover' from the Gaza conflict, which should be ended as soon as possible". In other words: fix your own goddam mess!

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

I left Gaza with a broken heart and eyes filled with tears.
There was no other option after 108 days of continuous massacres against us.
It’s time to move somewhere else so I can do more work and I pray that I can be a reason to stop this war and help rebuild Gaza again.
I’ve arrived Qatar. Thank you

No time to rest
Keep calling for a ceasefire!

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

Fixed it for you, Mr President 🫡

[kimo @nahas_kimo]

@saaadhyg On a remarqué ceci lors de la CDM au Qatar! Bravo aux lions de l’Atlas!!!

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨 AL JAZEERA JOURNALIST LOST WIFE, TWO SONS, DAUGHTER, GRANDSON, CAMERAMAN - NEVER STOPPED REPORTING

"Nothing hurts more than the pain of losing someone you hold dearly close to your heart." - Wael Al-Dahdouh.

Wael, lead correspondent for Al Jazeera, faced unimaginable tragedy when an Israeli air raid killed his wife, son, daughter, and grandson, while he was reporting live in October.

He reported live the next day.

In December, Wael was injured and his cameraman and friend, Samer Abudaqa, died in an Israeli attack while reporting in Khan Younis.

The latest heartbreak for Wael came with the death of his eldest son, Hamza, also a journalist, killed while documenting destruction in Gaza today.

Palestinian journalist Mohammed R Mhawish: “As a journalist and writer, Wael is a beacon of brave reporting and authentic journalism.”

James Cunningham, former U.S. ambassador to Israel: “I’ve got to give credit to a lot of journalists who are very brave and trying to cover this. The world needs to see what’s happening.”

Gaza student Ahmed al-Yazil: “The attack isn’t on Wael and his family only, but on the entire people of Gaza.”

Syrian lawyer and activist Osman al-Khader: “Wael refused to do anything but give us a lesson in patience and courage.”

Sources: Al Jazeera, VOA News

[sab @thespaceavenue]

do not forget about Congo. they’re going through a genocide and not enough people are talking about it.
please speak up for Congo.

[MoTaz @motazazaiza9]

@IDF What about the christians you killed in Gaza ?

[Censored Men @CensoredMen]

🇮🇱 This is how Israel treat Jews who oppose Zionism.