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[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

The Lady Chief Justice: Palestine Action was not a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, but used violence to destroy property

The suffragettes burned down country houses & train stations, bombed churches & sent letter bombs to politicians.

[Trystanto @Trystanto2]

The Netherlands actually demanded Indonesia to pay over 6 billion Dutch guilders (debt incurred by the Dutch East Indies govt) as the price for Indonesia's independence. The two sides eventually agreed on 4.3b guilders (US$15.9b today). Indonesia only finished paying it in 2003

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

13 years ago this month, the Guardian broke the Snowden story...the biggest mass surveillance exposé in history.

Today it calls your concern about ID-linked browsing, spyware in your photos and messages, and broken encryption, "fake outrage" while Starmer's government demands backdoors into your iCloud and calls for people to be arrested for tweets.

The watchdog became the lapdog.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

LONDON EVENT INFILTRATED 🔥

Edgware United Synagogue is selling stolen Palestinian land RIGHT NOW. Anti-zionist jewish protestor managed to get inside and protest.
https://t.co/qtrBC3GZQW

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

No good deed goes unpunished in Vishwaguru Amrit Kaal.

[ergopraxis.bsky.social @ergo_praxis]

btw few will appreciate how grimly funny it is that this judge both issued a gagging order so that the filton 4 could not explain their motivation to the jury, and then also sentenced them according to a specific intent provision requiring them to have had a specific motivation

[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

These things were called scam before 2014

Today, they are called “Reported Disappearance”

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

There you have it. Anthropic's CEO said it: The murder of more than 100 schoolgirls in Minab targeted by Anthropic's CLAUDE "is a use case that doesn't even violate our red lines." Time to rise up against these technofeudal war criminals.

[Manoj Arora @manoj_216]

What's happening in this country, @nitin_gadkari ji?
You are introducing some fancy mix of fuel every day without any ecosystem support?
Why is there no buy in from insurance companies or manufacturers?
Use of E20 can lead to claims rejection. I don't want to use E20. Do I have a choice at the fuel station?
Why are we being taken for a ride?

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Let me summarise this for you...

This is the picture:

-A religiously-motivated, unfalsifiable premise;
-A dedicated funding line that could only ever reward positive outcomes and pre-planned confirmation;
-So-called published "science" sitting at the bottom of the evidence hierarchy with no translational pathway built or even planned;
-A sponsoring ministry that won't show its books; and
-An opportunity cost measured against every competitively-reviewed proposal in real Indian science that didn't get that Rs 98 crore.

Ultimately some compounds we already knew were in animal urine got identified.

Nothing that matters to a person or a society evolved from this colossal wastage of public funds.

[Manish RJ @mrjethwani1]

Shayad Reel Minister ki baat ho rahi hai…😃

[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

A booth in Bengal's New Town with 88% Muslim voters recorded 97% votes for BJP, handing BJP the seat. CPI(M) got 1 vote, TMC 5.

'This is an impossible result, where did our votes go?' ask locals. @shinjineemjmdr @Onkeyta_ & @Holytripper heard them.

https://t.co/SM8Tbvi20v

[Bhaumik Gowande @bhaumikgowande]

An empty DTC bus at 9 PM. Not because there are no passengers—hundreds were waiting at bus stops along the route. The driver simply wouldn't stop. Route 356STL Dwarka Cluster Depot 22 buses are notorious for this.
The only reason I managed to board was because, as I saw the driver not slowing down at my stop, so I pulled out my phone and started recording with flash. The driver immediately stopped.
For many Delhi residents, these are the everyday hurdles involved in something as basic as boarding a public bus, especially the old orange ones. Operator contracts need stricter infractions clauses for not stopping.

[Poonam Agarwal @poonamjourno]

‘Tired of fighting alone’: Doctor, who campaigned against fake ORS, goes off Instagram
https://t.co/ETT0AFIJIy

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Always amazes me how the US can start an unprovoked war of aggression on the other side of the planet and then claim it is "launching self-defense strikes" there.

These military forces are nowhere near the United States. The Iranian government says the Apache helicopter that was shot down "was not flying over international waters," but even if it was, it's absurd to claim "self-defense" against a country that has been defending itself in a war you started.

These freaks really do operate from the premise that the entire planet is their property, and that any failure to respect its property rights shall therefore be viewed as an act of aggression.

I mean, just look at who's making this statement. US "Central Command" is the unified combatant command responsible for military operations in the middle east. The US military has separate unified combatant commands for every part of the globe:

• Central Command (CENTCOM) for the middle east.
• Africa Command (AFRICOM) for Africa.
• Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) for Asia, the Pacific islands, Australia and Antarctica.
• European Command (EUCOM) for Europe.
• Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) for South America.
• Northern Command (NORTHCOM) for North America.

No other country on earth does this. No other military power is segmented into areas of responsibility spanning every continent on earth. This is because normal military forces are used to defend the actual, official country they belong to, whereas the US military is used to dominate the entire planet.

And in that sense it's actually entirely reasonable that the US "Department of Defense" changed its name to the Department of War. The US military is never used to defend the actual, official country of the United States of America; it is only ever used to prop up the globe-spanning imperial power structure it commands.

This is not normal. It is a freakish aberration without historical precedent. The world cannot know peace until the US empire is dismantled.

[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Israeli minister calls for kidnapping of Lebanese women and children to break Hezbollah morale
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Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir urged the political-security cabinet to abduct and imprison Lebanese women and children as a psychological warfare tactic against Hezbollah, according to a closed-door leak published by Hebrew news outlet Walla.

During a high-level ministerial meeting reviewing expanded military calculations, Ben-Gvir demanded that Tel Aviv abandon conventional strategy and explicitly target the social and familial core of the Lebanese resistance network.

"We must think outside the box regarding Hezbollah," Ben-Gvir asserted to his fellow cabinet members, according to the report. The Israeli minister added that alongside occupying southern territory and intensifying lethal strikes on personnel, Israeli forces should actively round up civilians.

"We should arrest their women and children and take them to prison; this is what hurts them the most," he stated.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

"Nationalism,” John Le Carre once said, is “quite different from patriotism. For nationalism you need enemies.”

[Helle Lyng @HelleLyngSvends]

The U.S dropped charges against Adani the same week Modi was in Norway. I asked Norway’s sovereign wealth fund how they view Adani’s companies in light of this development. They did not respond to the question.

[ashokdanoda @ashokdanoda]

Modi ji said that foreign trips should not be undertaken so that dollars can be saved.

On the other hand, a Union Minister is taking 75 judges and senior lawyers on a six-day trip to London.

The Chief Justice, who likened the youth to cockroaches, was also with them.

[Hussain Shiyam 🇵🇸❓🎈 @ShiyamHussain]

This is utter bullshit. When Indonesia refused to grant the Israeli under 17 team visa’s for the 2023 U-20 World Cup, FIFA stripped Indonesia’s hosting rights and moved it to Argentina. So @FIFAcom can stop with the lies.