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2024 apr

30/4/24 http://www.tvhobo.com/article2
_you_are_the_borg.html
"Because I don't spend 99% of my time plugged into everyone else, passively living, controlled by the collective, like so many starlings zigging this way and zagging that way, I achieved goals which to you seem like lies or magic or genius. And yet it is all within your reach in theory. Like a chef I know, no matter how damn fine my food tastes, anyone could really do exactly the same as me, it's all material, it's all tangible reality in place, nothing I do involves any kind of magic from outside our world, you can be like me. But not by spending all your time talking to me or reading what I write, that will more or less prevent any such possibility."

PAUSING (from adding articles for the moment) TO CATCH UP WITH READING EVERYTHING HERE. Adding will continue later and articles from the present moment will continue to be added at whatever point that is. Right now there's a lot of reading to do here, most of this stuff really should be read fully and digested thoroughly. The west, particularly Britain, is in a very precarious moment of its history - ironically the massive reparations we are going to end up paying to Palestine and Iraq and others would have been so much lower if we had succeded in electing Jeremy Corbyn's antiwar government, but in that situation we'd have pretended that he had cost us a fortune and the alternative would have been better.

Nonetheless, with Britain about to be socially and economically destroyed, serving its main purpose when the cards are on the table and the chips are down as America's last human shield, we in Britain need to make maximum effort and be maximally honest, in every way, intellectually and just generally. It seems that the Ukraine invasion serves to show that the United States can no longer protect its mafioso militarism with firepower since it is now fully outgunned by the world community, and the Palestinian Holocaust serves to demonstrate which nations are culpable and will be (successfully) prosecuted by the militarily insuperable global community now that the United States can no longer protect any criminals from the human population's majority's pursuit of justice.

18/4/24 https://sputnikglobe.com/20240418/no-one-more-cowardly-israel-war-cabinet-weighs-attack-on-iran-despite-us-cautioning-1117985417.html
"It's very easy to kill civilians. It's very easy to carpet bomb whole neighborhoods from the air, and that's what Israel is good at. It's good at killing civilians that are not combating it - children, women, unarmed delivery people in their homes, destroying mosques and hospitals and universities [..] But come to a real fight, there is no one more cowardly as a soldier on this planet than an Israeli soldier. And that battle of 25,000 fighters in Gaza versus a half a million Israelis, proves to you that that's the fact."

17/4/24 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/04/iran-and-saudi-arabia-see-their-common-future-in-the-east.html
"Biden and the hapless 'unilateral' people around him are left aside."

17/4/24 https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/04/17/723823/1-7-million-Palestinians-forcibly-displaced-in-Gaza--UNHCR
"The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) has announced about 1.7 million Palestinians have been forcibly displaced inside Gaza due to Israel's genocidal war against the people of Palestine."

16/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPC2ifU8xVY
"Former Marine Corps Intelligence Officer and UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter analyzes Israel's grim future as regional forces begin to mount more pressure on the IDF to cease its gruesome war. What happens next may surprise you."

16/4/24 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chris-froome-michelle-froome-muslims-twitter-post-b2529584.html
"The silent majority needs to stand up and be heard" {Oh I see, nobody realised large numbers of British people hate and fear muslims and are hostile and discriminatory towards us - noooo. Sorry, didn't spot that. I should have let you have more opportunity to clarify how much you hate me. Definitely only figured it out today on 16th April 2024 Froome, cheers for educating me - ed.}

16/4/24 https://rumble.com/v4pnwfu-weve-made-enemies-of-half-the-world-and-half-the-rising-world.html
"So why did we decide they were our enemy? How? Why did we make that choice? Who made that choice? I didn't, and I was a member of Parliament. [..] I've been a member of Parliament more than half my adult life."

16/4/24 https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/16/patrick-lawrence-could-the-russians-seize-congress/
"Be careful not to mention some spring day that the sky is pleasantly blue: I am here to warn you - 'make no mistake' - this is exactly what 'Putin,' now stripped of a first name and a title, 'would like to see.'"

16/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ8MVPHSqNU
"He went into public health [..] he was always very lazy and a bit dim."

16/4/24 https://sputnikglobe.com/20240415/nothing-you-can-do-to-stop-us-irans-strikes-on-israeli-bases-establish-deterrence-1117949193.html
"'And so Iran delivered a blow, but remember, the purpose of the blow was not to destroy Israel or even bring harm to Israel,' he clarified. 'The purpose of the blow was to establish Iranian deterrence precedent so that in the future Israel would know what the consequences of its actions would be. And this Iran did with extreme alacrity and extreme effectiveness.'"

15/4/24 https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/15/scott-ritter-the-missiles-of-april/
"The fact that Iran has established a credible deterrence posture without disrupting major policy goals and objectives is the very definition of victory."

15/4/24 https://thecradle.co/articles/how-irans-strategic-patience-switched-to-serious-deterrence
"Were the biblical psychopaths to engage in a real Hot War against Iran, there's no chance in hell Tel Aviv can intercept hundreds of Iranian missiles - the state-of-the-art ones excluded from the current show - without an early warning mechanism spread over several days. Without the Pentagon's umbrella of weaponry and funds, Israeli defense is unsustainable."

15/4/24 https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/iran-breaches-anglo-zionist-defenses
"Iran penetrated every missile shield manned and operated by NATO itself, with all the trappings and advanced C4ISR and SIGINT capabilities inherent to the entire Western alliance; from THAAD, to Patriot, David's Sling, Arrow-3, SM-3, Iron Dome, and even 'C-Dome' from Israeli corvettes - not to mention the entire complement of the West's most advanced A2A defenses flown from F-35s, Typhoons, Eurofighters, and likely much more."

15/4/24 https://sonar21.com/despite-western-insistence-that-iran-failed-iran-did-what-it-planned-to-do-in-israel/
"Iran was not trying to cause mass casualties."

15/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PncZlaieBdU
"What is cancer immuno-surveillance?"

15/4/24 https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/rachel-riley-twitter-sydney-channel-4-b2528755.html
"She should be sacked now for her hate inciting islamophobic tweets designed to inflame racial tensions, one person wrote, with another adding: In a previous, more civilised decade, Rachel Riley would be sacked by her employer for Islamophobia."

15/4/24 https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/15/revolt-in-northern-england-no-ceasefire-no-vote/
"tell both Labour and Tories to stop the genocide in Gaza or face a revolt at the polls"

15/4/24 https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/15/the-death-of-paris-15/
"The team of astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and CNRS laboratories of Paris and Bordeaux saw that after initial stages of a planet's climate transformation, the planet's atmosphere, structure, and cloud coverage get significantly altered, such that a difficult-to-halt runaway effect starts to commence. Alarmingly, this process could be initiated here on Earth with just a slight change in solar luminosity or by a global average temperature rise of just a few tens of degrees. Even those minor changes could lead to our planet becoming totally inhospitable."

15/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZHEX1FQg6M
"The t-cells are exhausted [..] it's worse than unbelievable now, it's beyond professional negligence now."

14/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXfsoT-_044
"Iran has demonstrated that if you attack them the cost will be extraordinarily high, says Scott Ritter. In the case of Israel it could be terminally high."

14/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrczgCqFm-Q
"They have deliberately lied to us or they are incredibly stupid."

14/4/24 https://www.palestinechronicle.com/the-mayor-is-dead-why-israel-killed-the-beloved-engineer-of-maghazi/
"He directly supervised the central emergency committee of the camp and continued to work diligently until the day of his martyrdom. Indeed, he was killed while fulfilling his mission providing relief to the displaced."

14/4/24 https://www.palestinechronicle.com/stop-the-genocide-protesters-demand-uk-govt-halt-arms-sales-to-israel/
"More than 600 lawyers, academics and retired senior judges have called on the British government to suspend arms provisions to the Israeli government."

14/4/24 https://rumble.com/v4oxmhi-even-ironclad-supporter-joe-biden-is-an-anti-semite.html
"Even there it is subject to the law of diminishing returns [..] having seen everybody now described as an anti-semite, including the Pope, including Joe Biden last week when it looked like he might be demanding a ceasefire [..] when it looked like he was, Joe Biden was called an anti-semite."

14/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onww2X-ecfg
"Statistically significant increases in age-adjusted mortality rates of all cancer and some specific types of cancer, namely, ovarian cancer, leukemia, prostate, lip/oral/pharyngeal, pancreatic, and breast cancers, were observed in 2022 after two-thirds of the Japanese population had received the third or later dose of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA-LNP vaccine. ∞ These particularly marked increases in mortality rates of these ERα-sensitive cancers may be attributable to several mechanisms of the mRNA-LNP vaccination, rather than COVID-19 infection itself or reduced cancer care due to the lockdown."

14/4/24 https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202404/1310536.shtml
"Iran intended to respond with a tit-for-tat, blood-for-blood attack, as a warning to Israel not to act recklessly"

13/4/24 https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/yanis-varoufakis-my-berlin-speech-on-palestine-that-german-police-entered-the-venue-to-ban.html
"Today, we would have loved to have a decent, democratic, mutually-respectful debate on how to bring Peace and Universal Human Rights for everyone, Jews and Palestinians, Bedouins and Christians, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea with people who think differently to us. ∞ Sadly, the whole of the German political system has decided not to allow this. In a joint statement including not just the CDU-CSU or the FDP but also the SPD, the Greens and, remarkably, two leaders of Die Linke, Germany's political spectrum joined forces to ensure that such a civilised debate, in which we may disagree agreeably, never takes place in Germany. ∞ I say to them: You want to silence us. To ban us. To demonise us. To accuse us. You, therefore, leave us with no choice but to meet your ridiculous accusations with our own rational accusations. You chose this. Not us. ∞ You accuse us of anti-Semitic hatred ∞ We accuse you of being the antisemite's best friend by equating the right of Israel to commit war crimes with the right of Israeli Jews to defend themselves. ∞ You accuse us of supporting terrorism ∞ We accuse you of equating legitimate resistance to an Apartheid State with atrocities against civilians which I have always and will always condemn, whomever commits them - Palestinians, Jewish Settlers, my own family, whomever. ∞ We accuse you of not recognising the duty of the people of Gaza to tear down the Wall of the open prison they have been encased in for 80 years - and of equating this act of tearing down the Wall of Shame - which is no more defensible than the Berlin Wall was - with acts of terror."

13/4/24 https://thecradle.co/articles/irgc-commandos-seize-israel-linked-ship-in-gulf-waters
"The seizure comes as fears grow in Israel and the US over Iran's retaliation for the bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria. Israel killed a top Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) commander and several others in the strike. ∞ The Strait of Hormuz is a narrow channel in the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all oil passes. Fujairah, on the UAE's eastern coast in the Gulf of Oman, is the region's main port."

13/4/24 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/04/irans-retaliation-delay-keeps-pressure-on-us-and-israel.html
"Neither of the countries asked has any reason to be helpful to the U.S. and certainly not to Israel."

12/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhECZQzO8Ps
"If you can find me ten righteous people, I'll spare the city."

12/4/24 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/04/russia-expects-unconditional-capitulation-of-kiev-regime.html
"This is how it will go down in history - as an inhuman and hateful regime of terrorists and Nazis who betrayed the interest of their people and sacrificed it for Western money and for Zelenski and his closest circle. ∞ In these conditions, attempts by the head of the Kiev regime to promote his formula and convene summits in support of the Kiev regime cause only confusion. ∞ Very soon the only topic for any international meetings on Ukraine will be the unconditional capitulation of the Kiev regime. ∞ I advise you all to prepare for this in advance."

12/4/24 https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/12/palestine-is-our-future/
"The rules of a much more deeply unfair and violent world are being written... That is why the emergence of mass consciousness from these events is so important. Palestine is our future. Its people are ours. We have to fight for them."

12/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GYkAzf1G5s
"If you're going to talk to a full on monster like Steve Bannon then you need to be prepared to press him on things he's said in the past [..] he said basically you shouldn't be ashamed of being racist, you should be proud of it."

12/4/24 https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/04/12/germany-stands-on-wrong-side-of-history-again/
"The charge against Germany at the International Court of Justice this week of aiding genocide in Gaza is truly shameful. Germany was brought to court by Nicaragua for facilitating Israel's genocide in Gaza in breach of the 1948 Genocide Convention."

12/4/24 https://thecradle.co/articles/yemens-uninhibited-attacks-push-french-warship-to-exit-red-sea
"The commander of the Alsace also revealed that, after a 71-day deployment, all combat equipment was depleted."

12/4/24 https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/12/destroy-hamas-no-end-the-gaza-war-and-begin-the-peace-process/
"Without doubt, attempting to eliminate Gaza's largest political and military organization will intensify the catastrophic destruction of lives and environment already branded plausibly genocidal by the International Court. According to Brooks, this compels a 'tragic conclusion': too bad, but 'there is no magic alternative military strategy.' Clearly, the columnist does not want to act as an apologist for war crimes, but he does so here. Why? Because he assumes that Hamas is entirely dedicated to the destruction of Israel's Jews and that its leaders and members are incapable of altering this motivation. ∞ Does this assumption make sense? The evidence of history, as well as our knowledge of the Palestinian national movement, strongly suggests that it does not. Believing that an opponent is unchangeably dedicated to one's annihilation reflects the traumatized consciousness of one involved in a bloody conflict rather than a thoughtful appreciation of the real situation. Hamas certainly wants to change the political system that systematically privileges Jewish Israelis and oppresses Palestinians, but its leaders have made it clear that they oppose 'racist, aggressive, colonial and expansionist' Zionism and do not hate Jews as Jews."

12/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JXXBhruGhc
"Others ask, why don't Palestinians pursue their objectives by peaceful means? They did. The PLO recognised Israel, even though Israel never recognised Palestine. And the PLO famously renounced armed struggle. And what did they get for it? Absolute humiliation and systematic ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. It's going on as we speak. That is what nurtured Hamas and elevated Hamas in the eyes of many Palestinians as the only alternative to the genocide of Palestinian people under Israel's apartheid. What should be done now? What might bring peace to Israel and Palestine?"

12/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNNFj-demy4
"This isn't how you stop the next pandemic, it's how we got into the last one."

12/4/24 https://rumble.com/v4oz2kw-bill-maher-destroyed-by-noam-chomsky.html
"If you really want to play that game, Palestinians have more of a right to claim to be descendant of the population from 2000 years ago than I do, so you don't want to get into that game."

12/4/24 https://thecradle.co/articles/an-ultra-orthodox-ultimatum-and-the-future-of-the-jewish-state
"As secular ultra-nationalists begin to challenge the religious right fronted by Netanyahu, this internal conflict will continue to shake Israel's foundations. While the occupation state staggers under the pressures of a multi-front, regional war, the likes of which it has never encountered in its short history, it is the Haredim issue today that - internally - poses the biggest existential threat to the entirety of the Zionist project."

11/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6YmmpTG7GI
"Lee delves into the incredible moment when a BBC reporter is torn apart by Guyanese President Irfaan Ali."

11/4/24 https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/come-out-you-animals-how-the-massacre-at-al-shifa-hospital-happened/
"Some of the staff members, including doctors, refused to leave. When they refused the army's orders, they were executed immediately and without argument."

10/4/24 https://sputnikglobe.com/20240410/pepe-escobar-lavrov-wang-yi-sketch-the-future-as-the-world-waits-for-iranian-move-1117849516.html
"The solution is rentseeking. That's why the United States says, well, what's the main new rent-seeking opportunity in world trade? Well, it's information technology and computer technology."

10/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_6Z8DLvJw0
"Some scandals take years or decades to come out."

10/4/24 https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/10/children-44-of-palestinians-killed-by-israel-since-oct-7/
"Israel has killed 14,350 Palestinian children between Oct. 7 and April 4."

10/4/24 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/10/uk-ministers-considering-banning-sale-of-smartphones-to-under-16s
"Ministers are considering banning the sale of smartphones to children under the age of 16 after a number of polls have shown significant public support for such a curb."

9/4/24 https://rumble.com/v4omj3r-episode-120-whitehalls-anti-muslim-witch-hunt.html
"The narrative was taken up by the extremist Jewish Chronicle."

9/4/24 https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/09/origins-of-israels-anti-arab-racism-2/
"Now that apartheid South Africa is no more, the Israelis are the last surviving heirs to that dreadful heritage."

8/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE5A6Uy1M7w
"They are even willing to target people who are otherwise serving their agenda."

8/4/24 https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2024/04/08/labour-is-the-new-threat-to-the-nhs/
"Starmer's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting has penned a screed in arch-Tory newsrag The Sun, stating how he intends to inject even more privatisation into the National Health Service - which is already suffering mightily at the hands of the cash-guzzling amateurs."

8/4/24 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/04/two-israeli-actions-misfired-pushed-netanyahoo-into-retreat-.html
"Iran informed the US that it would refrain from responding to the airstrike in which senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders were killed in Damascus if a ceasefire in Gaza is reached, Jadeh Iran reported on Sunday."

8/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmDNtv4MYaQ
"There's not a sane soul in the empire of imbeciles."

6/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OT9SKXZIFc
"Medical interventions are given to help the individual. What are they talking about here? It's already getting pretty confusing and concerning."

6/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHGW230UpKE
"And I have never been so ashamed of Israel as I am at this moment. To me it seems as if Hitler has won. He's changed us jews from being compassionate and caring and do unto others as you would have them do unto you, into this vicious genocidal nationalist nation."

6/4/24 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/06/extreme-us-anti-abortion-group-ramps-up-lobbying-in-westminster
"A rightwing Christian lobby group that wants abortion to be banned has forged ties with an adviser to the prime minister and is drawing up policy briefings for politicians."

6/4/24 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/04/ukraine-faking-news-still-does-not-help-winning.html
"Two years on it is still the same story. The Ukrainian government claims something and western media print it as if it had really happened. When the claim is debunked, often sooner than later, it simply vanishes from the headlines."

6/4/24 https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/06/caitlin-johnstone-israels-human-shields-lie/
"Moreover, the Israeli army systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes - usually at night while their whole families were present - rather than during the course of military activity. According to the sources, this was because, from what they regarded as an intelligence standpoint, it was easier to locate the individuals in their private houses. Additional automated systems, including one called 'Where's Daddy?' also revealed here for the first time, were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family's residences."

5/4/24 https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/05/wmo-bright-red-alert/
"It seems then, that in order to prevent total ecological breakdown, we need to radically change our relationship with the way we produce and use resources. Any system which provides profit as an incentive, seems to always lead to exploitation of the earth's finite resources. The idea of unlimited growth continuing indefinitely is the key culprit in climate breakdown. [..] Future UN climate conferences should consider focusing on adaptation measures for countries' infrastructure to withstand the onslaught of drought, wildfires, floods, and sea level rise. After all, insurance companies are raising rates and, in some areas, dropping coverage altogether to adapt to climate change's impact on bottom line profits, but in the harshest fashion, leaving the public to fend for itself, hopefully finding state-sponsored support."

5/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywFACRViRD0
"Is Netanyahu sane?"

5/4/24 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/alan-duncan-tory-israel-gaza-arms-b2523859.html
"If this is indeed their intention, I will probably be the only person ever to be reproached for upholding his Party's policy and for defending the principles of international law and justice in the face of others who would undermine them." {apparently the Independent Newspaper and Alan Duncan haven't heard of Jeremy Corbyn or Tony Benn - ed. [or maybe he/they is/are insincere and are only annoyed at Israel's dominion over British foreign policy because it may now destroy the economy and Duncan's career and the careers of everyone in his tin pot little party of bastards]}

5/4/24 https://www.mintpressnews.com/presidential-candidate-jill-stein-gaza-genocide-two-party-system-us-militarism/287219/
"This is not something that began on October 7. This is the continuation of ethnic cleansing and displacement that began in 1947 and 1948 with the displacement of 750,000 people."

5/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cRl07xbYCA
"..because we want the hostages back, but also we're going to snipe them."

4/4/24 https://sputnikglobe.com/20240404/how-israel-iran-conflict-could-shatter-world-economy-1117742951.html
"Given the scale of tensions and significance of the region to the global economy, a series of negative consequences could shatter the established financial order, the academic warned."

4/4/24 https://rumble.com/v4naewu-interview-slowly-slowly-catchee-monkey.html
"Russia for all practical purposes now is designating Ukraine as a terror state. [..] So then the special military operation's status will change to Counter Terrorist Operation."

4/4/24 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/04/joram-van-klaveren-netherlands-dutch-freedom-party-pvv-islam
"Of course I feel ashamed because of what I said. I had plans, but Allah is the best of planners and my life took another direction."

3/4/24 https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/03/patrick-lawrence-europes-identity-crisis/
"Who are we, Europeans now ask in one or another way. What have we made of ourselves? Are we always to be America's obedient underlings, taking all orders and refusing none? What has become of us in the 21st century?"

3/4/24 https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/03/niger-to-us-pack-up-your-forever-war/
"During 20-plus years of armed interventions, U.S. military missions have been repeatedly upended across Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, including a sputtering stalemate in Somalia, an intervention-turned-blowback-engine in Libya, and outright implosions in Afghanistan and Iraq. ∞ This maelstrom of U.S. defeat and retreat has left at least 4.5 million people dead, including an estimated 940,000 from direct violence, more than 432,000 of them civilians, according to Brown University's Costs of War Project. As many as 60 million people have also been displaced due to the violence stoked by America's 'forever wars.' ∞ President Joe Biden has both claimed that he's ended those wars and that the United States will continue to fight them for the foreseeable future - possibly forever - 'to protect the people and interests of the United States.'"

3/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zfZa6J0gyU
"Lee delves into yet another of Israel's war crimes committed during its special genocide operation in Gaza."

3/4/24 https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/03/how-federal-tax-dollars-meant-to-fight-climate-change-could-end-up-boosting-louisianas-fossil-fuel-production/
"At issue are plans to build dozens of federally subsidized projects to capture and bury carbon dioxide from industries. ∞ On the surface, these projects seem beneficial. Keeping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere prevents the greenhouse gas from fueling climate change. In practice, however, this may lead to a net increase in fossil fuel production and more emissions."

3/4/24 https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/03/how-uber-overcharges-riders-and-underpays-drivers/
"In fact, the opposite happened. Over the four years we studied, Uber and Lyft raised fares by 54 percent in Chicago, where drivers have no pay protections. In New York, they only increased fares by 36 percent. The reality just doesn't match Uber's scare tactics."

3/4/24 https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/03/over-100-britons-among-israeli-soldiers-settlers/
"Service in the IDF carries its own legal complications, especially while Israel is under investigation for genocide at the International Court of Justice."

3/4/24 https://scheerpost.com/2024/04/03/international-court-issues-first-ever-decision-enforcing-the-right-to-a-healthy-environment/
"Victims had documented respiratory, heart, skin and other diseases but lacked access to adequate medical care despite the federal government knowing of the links between the metallurgical complex's pollution and the illnesses. The air, water and soil in La Oroya, a town of about 33,000 people, was so contaminated that one expert witness had referred to the area as a 'sacrifice zone.'"

3/4/24 https://sputnikglobe.com/20240403/russia-knows-swedish-mercs-fighting-on-ukraines-side---moscow-1117710043.html
"Swedish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tumas Vanesk told RIA Novosti last week that the Ukrainian embassy in Stockholm can recruit Swedes to participate in hostilities because it is not illegal by international law. ∞ When asked to comment on these statements, the Russian Foreign Ministry told Sputnik that 'the Russian side is aware of the participation of foreign, including Swedish, mercenaries in the hostilities on the side of the Kiev neo-Nazi regime.' ∞ 'Attempts by the Swedish Foreign Ministry to clumsily legitimize such 'soldiers of fortune' and incite more Swedish citizens to travel to the 'hot zone' this way shows Stockholm's complete indifference to the fate of its own citizens,' the Russian ministry said."

3/4/24 https://sputnikglobe.com/20240403/meet-the-uks-6-million-spy-drones-that-are-afraid-of-bad-weather-1117720034.html
"British Watchkeeper drones cannot operate in bad weather and are currently not being used for operational deployments, the Times has reported. ∞ The surveillance drones are reported to be worth a whopping £5 million ($6.28 million) each. ∞ The drones conducted their first flight in 2010 and are based on the Israeli Hermes 450 drone that has been employed by the Israeli Defense Forces in Gaza and Lebanon."

2/4/24 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/homeless-criminal-justice-bill-backlash-b2522066.html
"Draft legislation for the Criminal Justice Bill seeks to criminalise 'nuisance rough sleeping', stating this includes anyone who has slept rough, is 'intending to sleep rough', or 'gives the appearance' of sleeping rough and causes a nuisance while doing so."

2/4/24 https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/02/uk-ignores-its-lawyers-warnings-on-arms-to-israel/
"Pressure is growing on the British government to stop arming Israel after a leaked audio recording revealed that it is ignoring the advice of its own lawyers that Israel is breaking international humanitarian law and that Britain is in danger of also violating international law by continuing to ship Israel arms. ∞ The leaked remarks were made by Alicia Kearns MP, Conservative chair of the House of Commons select committee on foreign affairs, at a March 13 Tory fundraising event and first published by The Observer on Saturday."

2/4/24 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/04/ukraine-when-opining-war-experts-cant-read-maps.html
"All Farkas did was to talk with some Ukraine boosters in Kiev. She has penned down whatever they claimed and now tries to sell that as the real. She thinks she is qualified to do so because she once held a high position in U.S. Defense Department."

2/4/24 https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/did-british-bombs-kill-british-aid-workers-in-gaza
"The Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing"

2/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK9UgE01QmU
"Aid workers, diplomats and doctors all killed in 1 day"

2/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW5aTxBjMC4
"The leaked audio recording from the UK government admitting that Israel is violating international law."

2/4/24 https://thecradle.co/articles/spain-to-recognize-palestine-calls-on-western-powers-to-follow-suit
"A Spanish government official speaking with the Financial Times said Madrid hoped the US and other western powers would recognise Palestine as a full UN member this month."

2/4/24 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/michael-rabb-hamas-sign-sheffield-b2522116.html
"The former fighter pilot was spotted carrying a homemade sign which read 'Stand With Hamas, End Israel, Free Palestine,' City of London Magistrates' Court heard."

2/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fdOJfzzRhM
"A correctly functioning military [..] doesn't allow Brigadier Generals to put out memos saying hey just exact revenge, whatever you want to do, do it."

2/4/24 https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/04/an-urgent-message-about-gaza/
"A small child burying an even smaller child."

2/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JoP0nR4xiY
"The vast majority in Israel believe in the annihilation of all of the people in Palestine. Miko Peled on the 'horrific and racist' discourse and parallels with the Holocaust."

2/4/24 https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/02/whats-the-carbon-footprint-of-march-madness/
"We looked beyond facilities to consider team and fan flight and automobile travel, facility operations, food consumption, waste generation and lodging for everyone based on each team's progression through the 2019 tournament. We used attendance estimates to determine the impact of hotel stays, fan and team air and automobile travel, waste generation, food consumption and sport facility operations to form our carbon emission model. ∞ Based on our model, we found that this resulted in 463 million pounds of CO2 equivalent emissions. That's about 1,100 pounds (499 kilograms) for every player, coach and fan who attends. That amount is the same as driving over 1,200 miles (1,930 kilometers) in a typical sedan."

1/4/24 https://scheerpost.com/2024/04/01/the-weaponization-of-the-secret-service-has-put-bobby-kennedys-life-at-risk/
"The same courage Bobby Kennedy showed on top of that mountain pass 50 years ago when facing machine gun-toting thugs he is showing today in his long-shot 2024 presidential campaign."

1/4/24 https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/01/beneath-germanys-unshakeable-support-of-israel/
"Matthew Read says that instead of confronting the economic roots of fascism and sections of the ruling class who abetted Hitler, Germany, since 1949, has fostered a narrative of collective guilt."

1/4/24 https://johnhelmer.net/how-the-electric-war-is-redrawing-the-ukraine-map-in-black/
"If the current Russian plan of attack is causing swings of 300+ volts, it's not even safe to plug in a cell phone. We can safely assume that all manner of appliances and other expensive electrical or electronic equipment has been destroyed in the affected areas. Indeed, even if the power engineers manage to get the power back on, millions of light fixtures, especially the electronic/LED variety, are burned out. Diagnostic equipment (medical and technical), process instruments, programmable logic controllers, power supplies, inverters, frequency drives, bank machines, computerized checkout, refrigeration equipment, are burned up"

1/4/24 https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/04/zionist-entity-assassinates-iranian-general-in-syria.html
"I doubt that the IRGC or its allies will fall for this. Zahedi will be replaced and the resistance against Israel will continue as planned."

1/4/24 https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/
enshttification-a-general-theory-for-the-life-cycle-of-the-firm.html
"Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. ∞ I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a 'two-sided market,' where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them."

1/4/24 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pigs-bacon-tesco-asda-aldi-mands-b2520254.html
"The public deserve to know what lies behind the facade of high-welfare labelling. Pigs are sensitive, curious, feeling beings; they deserve our respect."

1/4/24 https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/01/asad-abukhalil-the-revenge-to-come/
"This calamity is destined to shape generations, and it is certain that thousands of Palestinians - and other Arabs - will be planning violent acts of revenge."

1/4/24 https://thecradle.co/articles/netanyahu-urges-parliament-to-pass-law-against-foreign-news-networks
"The premier also promised to 'immediately act to close Al-Jazeera' following the law's adoption, according to a statement from Likud"

1/4/24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foe1owIlPCo
"Let's take her stapler away."

1/4/24 https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/01/germany-as-collateral-damage-in-americas-new-cold-war/
"The dismantling of German industry since 2022 is collateral damage in America's geopolitical war to isolate China, Russia and allied countries whose rising prosperity and self-sufficiency is viewed as an unacceptable challenge to U.S. hegemony. To prepare for what promises to be a long and costly fight, U.S. strategists made a pre-emptive move in 2022 to turn Europe away from its trade and investment relations with Russia. In effect, they asked Germany to commit industrial suicide and become a U.S. dependency. That made Germany the first and most immediate target in America's New Cold War."

1/4/24 https://scheerpost.com/2024/04/01/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-175-icj-orders-israel-to-stop-famine-in-gaza-as-israel-continues-to-raid-hospitals/
"According to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, nine of the released are paramedics who work for the society and who were detained for 46 days. Three of the released were taken to some of the few remaining operating hospitals in Gaza to be treated from the effects of torture, the group said."

1/4/24 https://thecradle.co/articles/the-sahels-axis-of-resistance
"The African Sahel is revolting against western neocolonialism - ejecting foreign troops and bases, devising alternative currencies, and challenging the old multinationals. Multipolarity, after all, cannot flower without resistance paving its path."