prewarpierre

Escaping a concentration camp in a paraglider is a triumph of the human spirit. Killing civilians is an atrocity.

Not hard to tell the difference.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The NED is a US intel cutout that now admits it smuggled Starlink communications equipment into Iran to fuel deadly unrest this January

The NED leader also took credit for exaggerated death tolls

But it looks like he wasn't supposed to let that Starlink info slip

[Emelia @emy21S]

This is called a stress position. This is not yoga. Try it on a cold floor, with your hands zip-tied, and see if you can hold it even for 5 minutes. Now imagine being held that way for hours, and even days. Stress positions are used in torture to cut off circulation and create extreme pain in the joints. Postures of humiliation are chosen where you cannot see what is happening, and have no chance to remain calm, clear, and alert. . Having your kidneys exposed to cold air creates vasoconstriction, high blood pressure, strains the renal system, lowers immunity and causes acute physiological stress.

I think of how many people in the world are being tortured right now as I write. I don't have to say this but I will. There are very few people who will put themselves aside to help others. There are only a few who would try (and even try again) to deliver food and medical supplies to Gaza. Both Canada and the US are ratified in the Geneva conventions against torture. In war time or in peace time, torture is not legal.

Stop supplying Israel. Stop supporting Israel. Apply sanctions. If we do not stop Israel's use of torture, one thing is clear. We are complicit. We know this. Write your elected officials, and for God's sake, speak up already.

[Harry Pettit 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @HarrygPettit]

People always ask, but what will happen to the Jewish settlers when Palestine is liberated?

So here it goes: 700,000 of them will get driven out of the land immediately, fleeing to Europe on boats.

For those who stay, their towns and villages will be surrounded with walls so they can't leave. Palestinian military checkpoints will regulate their movement to make sure Jews can't come into contact with Palestinians. At the checkpoint Jews will be beaten, killed, or kidnapped daily and taken to torture camps.

Palestinian towns will be built surrounding Jewish towns, on hilltops above so people can keep an eye on them.

Palestinian military and civilians will periodically enter the Jewish towns and burn their buildings, kill their animals, cut their water pipes.

Essential food and medical supplies entering Jewish towns will be limited to keep them in a barely liveable state.

Bombs will reign down on them from the sky to destroy their homes and murder their families.

If Jews dare to organise or try fight back, whole towns will be destroyed and thousands will be massacred to teach them a lesson not to mess with the Palestinians.

How does this sound?

[ben kavanagh @bkava]

An important rule of thumb. If a revolt is a genuine revolt for the people, to increase the power of the people, global media will ignore and suppress it.

If a revolt is organised and funded by US imperialism to overthrow an inconvenient or opposing govt, it will be everywhere.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

Israel has increased the rate of Palestinian olive trees it has uprooted this year, which is incredible considering previous rates. Since 1967 it has uprooted 800,000, with over 11,500 just this year. Israel does not love the land. No indigenous culture would do this.

[The Cake Lady @got_cake]

The mugshot is of Carl Braden, sentenced to 15 years in prison for buying a home in his name for his Black friend, a U.S. veteran, after a real estate broker refused to sell to Negroes.

In 1954, he and his wife, Anne Braden, assisted their friends, a Black family, the Wades, who wanted to buy a home in a white neighborhood in Louisville.

So Carl and Anne Braden bought the house in their own names and transferred it to the Wade family.

The reaction was immediate.

Soon after the family moved in, the house was targeted. Shots were fired into the home and a dynamite destroyed the home.

Instead of protecting the victims, or pursuing the bombers, authorities went after Carl Braden for inciting violence/civil unrest and charged him with sedition.

He was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He served 8 months before the conviction was later overturned.

Carl Braden continued his activism for years after. His wife Anne was close friends with Dr King and mentioned in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

every major corpo opened up the money faucet when they saw steyer as the potential candidate over becerra. says something to steyers credibility on the labor side in spite of his immense wealth ngl.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is actually huge.

I keep hearing the narrative that many people in China don't have social insurance: that's not true, virtually everyone in China does, BUT - up until now - you were only covered in your Hukou, your official hometown on paper, even if you hadn't lived there in decades.

Which was a big issue for the 357 million migrant workers in China who - if they had a health issue - either had to go back home to get their healthcare covered or pay out of pocket where they lived.

This is now over 👇: China's State Council just announced that workers can now enroll in social insurance wherever they work, regardless of their hukou. 357 million people just got healthcare where they actually live.

It's also huge with respect to what this means for the Hukou system overall: every reform like this chips away at it further. The direction is now unmistakable: the hukou is being dismantled, one benefit at a time.

[Domhnall (Cogito) @CogitoEdu]

Cuba has for decades maintained an infant mortality rate on par or better than most developed nations (better than the US).

Since Trump harden the already vicious blockade in 2017 infant mortality in Cuba has risen by 158%. That's 1,800 babies that have died for Miami.

[prewarpierre @prewarpierre]

@OliverMisher @SkyNews @AlexCrawfordSky Israeli sources report 1 Israeli civilian and 7 Israelis militants have been killed by Hizbollah-- that is the mark of a civilized army, in stark contrast to Zionist forces, which one militant himself described as "a horde of Vikings" in the last 48 hours.

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

When settlers establish a new outpost next to a Palestinian village, one of the first things they do is erect a giant Star of David, lit at night like a flaming cross. Then the attacks start

[Anna Bower @AnnaBower]

“My only regret,” Rhodes said in the days after Jan. 6, “is that they didn’t bring rifles.”

“We could have fixed it right then and there.”

https://t.co/XCN3s4UzWN

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Israeli atrocities must be contextualized

Palestinians atrocities must be decontextualized.

Sincerely, The New York Times

[prewarpierre @prewarpierre]

@trishaposner @les_lobsters The Hasbara rapid reaction force was surely ready with two press releases that night, either describing him as a genius and crazy-foolish-scoundrel depending on his position on Zionism....

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The American chestnut was the dominant tree of the eastern US forest for thousands of years. One in every four trees in the Appalachians was a chestnut.

Then, between 1904 and 1940, a fungal blight from Asia killed roughly four billion of them. The species nearly went extinct as a forest tree within a single human lifetime.

The recovery effort is now in its fourth decade. The American Chestnut Foundation breeds disease-resistant hybrids by crossing American chestnuts with blight-resistant Chinese chestnuts, then backcrossing for generations to recover the American tree's form.

Other researchers have used gene editing to insert a wheat gene that detoxifies the blight.

The first restoration plantings are alive and growing in the Appalachians. They won't be mature for another 50 years.

None of the people who started this work will see it finished, but we should all be glad they're doing it.

[prewarpierre @prewarpierre]

@smithjeff980 @academic_la Your comment about your pal and mine Elon makes you don't like one of the henchmen at the end of Fight Club. Free your reading habits; the rest will follow.

[prewarpierre @prewarpierre]

@smithjeff980 @academic_la These thoughts are actually extremely common, though admittedly less common than a generation or two ago. I'm not saying you're on the wrong track, but that you can go further by just keep reading more and more.

[ُ suhibe 𖣂 @svhibe]

the zone of interest is a film about the idyllic, everyday life of an Auschwitz commandant and his wife, who raise their children in a home located directly adjacent to the concentration camp.
below is an unrelated photo showing Gaza from an israeli settlement.

[Meryl Kornfield @MerylKornfield]

The Trump admin is quietly deleting info about the Capitol attack from the DOJ website as it prepares to give funds to J6ers. This week, DOJ deleted a press release about one man with an ongoing child solicitation case who came to the Capitol with bear spray. Before and after:

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Like inventing Iranian "terrorist organisations" on Telegram channels and conducting false flag attacks in London.