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Shooting at Drake’s Mansion Leaves Security Guard Injured Amid Rap Feud
  • @shubhamofficial this is an article that is 100% AI generated according to https://gptzero.me/.
    Do you have any info that would contradict this?

  • apnews.com Organizers of Eurovision Song Contest ready to remove Palestinian flags or symbols

    Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest say they reserve the right to remove any Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian symbols at the show next week in Sweden.

    Organizers of Eurovision Song Contest ready to remove Palestinian flags or symbols

    > > > Organizers of the Eurovision Song Contest say they reserve the right to remove any Palestinian flags and pro-Palestinian symbols at the show next week in Sweden. > > > > The announcement came amid heightened tensions surrounding Israel’s participation in the annual music competition over its military campaign against Hamas in Gaza, now in its seventh month. Pro-Palestinian groups are expected to stage large protests in Malmo to raise awareness of their cause. > [...] > >

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    www.nytimes.com Biden Loosens Up on Weed

    The U.S. government has recommended easing federal restrictions on the drug that have been in place for decades.

    Biden Loosens Up on Weed
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    Living Utopia: Anarchism in the Spanish Revolution [1:34:52]

    Anarchism in Spain; the Spanish social revolution during the civil war 1936-39.

    Released in 1997. Directed by Juan A. Gamero.

    Invidious link

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    news.mongabay.com Indigenous communities along Argentina’s Río Chubut mobilize to conserve waterway

    CHUBUT RIVER, Argentina — “The waters of this territory converge in the Río Chubut,” began the refrain of a caravan traveling across Argentina’s Patagonia region in the budding first weeks of February. “And like the waters, so too will our voices flow together to be heard.” The group, made up of Ind...

    Indigenous communities along Argentina’s Río Chubut mobilize to conserve waterway

    > > > CHUBUT RIVER, Argentina — “The waters of this territory converge in the Río Chubut,” began the refrain of a caravan traveling across Argentina’s Patagonia region in the budding first weeks of February. “And like the waters, so too will our voices flow together to be heard.” The group, made up of Indigenous Mapuche leaders, activists […] > >

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    The Grit and Resilience of Student Protesters

    Gen Z is exhibiting the competence, control, and commitment that it has been castigated, as a generation, for lacking.

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    Marianne Bachmeier: She Killed Rapist and Murderer of her Daughter
  • @gamije2220 this is a very interesting article but does not fit the rules of this magazine. Please keep in mind for future posts that:

    Only timely posts related to recent news or ongoing events.

  • www.arc2020.eu Neoliberal Limits - Farmers Protests, Elections and the Far Right

    The ongoing farmer protests are the longest and most impactful of all the farmer protests in the history of the European Union and have led to dangerous changes in EU environmental policy and triggered a new rise of far-right political groups across the EU. In this interview, Natalia Mamonova talks ...

    Neoliberal Limits - Farmers Protests, Elections and the Far Right
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    An Introduction to Catalonia's Feminist Administration

    msmagazine.com An Introduction to Catalonia's Feminist Administration - Ms. Magazine

    Catalonia, in northeastern Spain, created a Ministry of Equality and Feminisms focused on women's sexual and reproductive rights.

    An Introduction to Catalonia's Feminist Administration - Ms. Magazine
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    ‘Teslastoppen’ Elon Musk’s Water War in the Heart of Europe

    unicornriot.ninja ‘Teslastoppen’ Elon Musk’s Water War in the Heart of Europe - UNICORN RIOT

    When Tesla announced plans to expand its Gigafactory near Berlin and water became rationed, enraged residents organized themselves.

    ‘Teslastoppen’ Elon Musk’s Water War in the Heart of Europe - UNICORN RIOT
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    hyperallergic.com Art Takes Center Stage at Growing Student Protests for Palestine

    Visual arts faculty, alumni, and staff are standing in solidarity with students as “art corners” and other creative initiatives dominate the encampments.

    Art Takes Center Stage at Growing Student Protests for Palestine
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    > > > A new report alleges the U.N. has been complicit in the violent eviction of Indigenous people from six World Heritage Sites in Africa and Asia. > > > > These sites “are very often the stolen ancestral lands of Indigenous peoples, who are being kept out by force, intimidation, and terror,” said Caroline Pearce, director of Survival International, the group behind the new report. She said that UNESCO, the scientific and cultural arm of the U.N., “must remove World Heritage Status from any such site where abuses are taking place.” > (...) > >

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    Italian judge throws out case against migrant NGOs after seven years

    An Italian judge on Friday cleared three migrant sea rescue charities that had been accused of abetting irregular immigration in complicity with human traffickers, throwing out a case opened more than seven years ago.

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    Women in Menopause Are Getting Short Shrift

    They could benefit from a diversity of hormones, empathy about their experience, and a frank approach to sexuality—all hallmarks of trans health care.

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    ‘This isn’t how good scientific debate happens’: academics on culture of fear in gender medicine research
  • Thankfully there are other articles that overturn this false narrative. One of them was posted here, in this magazine:

    Hilary Cass' NHS report is rife with debunked theories and falsehoods

    On Tuesday evening, Dr. Hilary Cass released a final report commissioned by the NHS, widely expected to target gender-affirming care. The report met these expectations, calling for restrictions on gender-affirming care and social transition, and even advocated for blocking transgender adults under the age of 25 from entering adult care. To justify these recommendations, the review dismissed over 100 studies on the efficacy of transgender care as not suitably high quality, applying standards that are unattainable and not required of most other pediatric medicine. Conducted in a manner similar to the anti-trans review by the DeSantis-handpicked Board of Medicine in Florida, which Cass reportedly collaborated on, the report and its reviews are likely to underpin further crackdowns on trans care globally. (...)

  • Almost 600 people targeted with Pegasus spyware under former Polish government

    > > > He [Adam Bodnar] also handed the speakers of both chambers of parliament a document outlining the extent of the use of Pegasus after it was purchased by the then PiS government in 2017. > > > > Bodnar informed them that, between 2017 and 2022, the security services applied “end device operational surveillance” to 578 individuals, reports news website Wirtualna Polska. > >

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    Far-Right Event Backed by Orban Faces Ban Effort in Brussels [msn-bloomberg]

    > > > A far-right political conference being staged in Brussels with the support of Hungarian groups backed by Prime Minister Viktor Orban descended into chaos Tuesday as city authorities tried to shut it down. > > > > Speakers including Nigel Farage, a UK politician who led the Brexit charge, continued to speak at the National Conservatism Conference gathering despite orders from a local mayor to ban the event, citing public safety concerns. About a dozen police officers formed a cordon outside the conference and were blocking people from entering. > (...) > >

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    US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call ‘Stasi-Like’
  • Not too sure what got you so upset.

    1. The bill is named in the first sentence.
    2. The headline does not tell you how to feel, it says some call it "Stasi like". You can feel how you want about Stasi.
  • www.theguardian.com The US isn’t just reauthorizing its surveillance laws – it’s vastly expanding them | Caitlin Vogus

    A little-known amendment to the reauthorized version of Fisa would enlarge the government’s surveillance powers to a drastic, draconian degree

    The US isn’t just reauthorizing its surveillance laws – it’s vastly expanding them | Caitlin Vogus
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    www.wired.com US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call ‘Stasi-Like’

    A controversial bill reauthorizing the Section 702 spy program may force whole new categories of businesses to eavesdrop on the US government’s behalf, including on fellow Americans.

    US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call ‘Stasi-Like’
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    Gender alert: Scarcity and fear: A gender analysis of the impact of the war in Gaza on vital services essential to women’s and girls’ health, safety, and dignity – Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH

    www.unwomen.org Gender alert: Scarcity and fear: A gender analysis of the impact of the war in Gaza on vital services essential to women’s and girls’ health, safety, and dignity – Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)

    UN Women has been documenting the experiences of women in Gaza in a series of gender alerts that look at various aspects of how the war is impacting the daily lives of women and girls, including food, water, shelter, health, and protection. This new alert focuses on water, sanitation, and hygiene (W...

    Gender alert: Scarcity and fear: A gender analysis of the impact of the war in Gaza on vital services essential to women’s and girls’ health, safety, and dignity – Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH)

    > > > As the war on Gaza reached its six-month mark, it continues to be a war on women. According to UN Women estimates, more than 10,000 women have been killed to date, among them an estimated 6,000 mothers who left 19,000 orphan children behind. Women who have survived have been displaced, widowed, and are facing starvation. More than one million women and girls in Gaza have almost no food, no access to safe water, latrines, washrooms, or sanitary pads, with disease growing amidst inhumane living conditions. > > > > Since the start of the war, UN Women has been documenting the experiences of women in Gaza in a series of gender alerts that look at various aspects of how the war is impacting the daily lives of women and girls, including food, water, shelter, health, and protection. This new alert is the latest in this series, and it focuses on water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services, which are integral to women’s health, dignity, safety, and privacy. > > > > Additional documents > > > > * > [Publication (PDF, 673KB)](https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2024-04/gender-alert-gender-analysis-of-the-impact-of-the-war-in-gaza-on-vital-services-essential-to-womens-and-girls-health-safety-en.pdf) > > > > > * > [Arabic version (PDF, 660KB)](https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/2024-04/gender-alert-gender-analysis-of-the-impact-of-the-war-in-gaza-on-vital-services-essential-to-womens-and-girls-health-safety-ar.pdf) > > > > > >

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    unicornriot.ninja Google Employees Sit-In to Protest 'Project Nimbus' AI Tech Contract With the Israeli Military - UNICORN RIOT

    Manhattan, NY — Google employees organized a sit-in at the tech company’s Chelsea office in New York City and occupied the office of Google Cloud’s CEO Thomas Kurian in California on April 16, 2024. The demonstration aims to expose the internal unrest surrounding Google’s involvement in Project Nimb...

    Google Employees Sit-In to Protest 'Project Nimbus' AI Tech Contract With the Israeli Military - UNICORN RIOT

    > > > Manhattan, NY — Google employees organized a sit-in at the tech company’s Chelsea office in New York City and occupied the office of Google Cloud’s CEO Thomas Kurian in California on April 16, 2024. The demonstration aims to expose the internal unrest surrounding Google’s involvement in Project Nimbus, a cloud technology contract between the Israeli […] > >

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    Witness' Ordeal in Netanyahu Trial Shows How Deeply the Prime Minister Has Corrupted Israel [MSN - Haaretz]
  • It is well documented that Netanyahu is motivated by a similar logic. As long as the country is at war, he will remain at the helm and be able to delay or even cancel his long-awaited corruption trial — so why bother ending it?

    From Netanyahu isn’t the only one interested in prolonging the war, +972mag

  • /kbin another quick update
  • @cloudless thank you for those links, now I understand.

  • 19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles
  • From Anti-Israel and Anti-Zionist Campaigns - ADL

    While criticism of Israeli policies and actions is part of that discourse, certain forms of anti-Israel rhetoric and activism delegitimize Israel and its existence, and are antisemitic when they vilify and negate Zionism – the movement for Jewish self-determination and statehood – or utilize anti-Jewish tropes or hold all Jews responsible for Israel’s actions.

    1. They try to portray zionism this way in order to legitimize settler colonialism, and equate anti-zionism with antisemitism. Historically this chance was lost well over a century ago. See quote above from Jewish Voice for Peace and their site for details.
    2. Check out the Ben Gurion and the critic he got from Bundists. If you like videos, this one is pretty informative:
      The History of "Socialist" Zionism | Leftist Zionists did the Nakba & founded Israel
    3. If you like text you could take a look at:
      The Neglected History of the State of Israel - The Revisionist faction of Zionism that ended up triumphing adhered to literal fascist doctrines and traditions.
  • Germany Is Seizing Jews’ Money Again
  • Intersectionality is a great analytical tool. Jewish Voice for Peace found themselves to be in the intersection of being both Jewish and anti-zionists. German government policies and often German people (even from the left or antifa), fail take this intersection into consideration.

    But do we really need this analytical tool for this topic? When a person knows the historical relation between zionism and fascism, why would they support zionists or zionist policies?

  • Is Germany targeting Jewish voices?
  • Every law has its exceptions.

  • Is Germany targeting Jewish voices?
  • I thought it would be important to include the following link:

    Jewish Voice for Peace - Our Approach to Zionism

    While it had many strains historically, the Zionism that took hold and stands today is a settler-colonial movement, establishing an apartheid state where Jews have more rights than others. Our own history teaches us how dangerous this can be.

    Palestinian dispossession and occupation are by design. Zionism has meant profound trauma for generations, systematically separating Palestinians from their homes, land, and each other. Zionism, in practice, has resulted in massacres of Palestinian people, ancient villages and olive groves destroyed, families who live just a mile away from each other separated by checkpoints and walls, and children holding onto the keys of the homes from which their grandparents were forcibly exiled.

  • Germany Is Seizing Jews’ Money Again: It’s fine, they’re pro-Palestine
  • If you feel like you can take a look at Jewish Voice for Peace they are the once targeted as antisemitic due to the fact they are anti-zionist. It's not complicated, it is portrayed this way.

  • 19-page PDF accuses Wikipedia of bias against Israel, suggests editors be forced to reveal their real names, and demands a new feature allowing people to view the history of Wikipedia articles
  • Anyone that knows anything about ADL knows they are not reliable whatsoever

    Of course. Still, even if someone knows nothing about ADL, by making a simple search with the keywords "ADL zionism" they will have the relevant page that confirms they are zionists. I won't add this link, but I will add the link of:

    Jewish Voice for Peace - Our approach to zionism

    While it had many strains historically, the Zionism that took hold and stands today is a settler-colonial movement, establishing an apartheid state where Jews have more rights than others. Our own history teaches us how dangerous this can be.

    Palestinian dispossession and occupation are by design. (...)

  • Everyone got duped by Sam Bankman-Fried's big gamble
  • I think it's important that this article mentions this nonsensical movement called effective altruism.

  • Germany Is Seizing Jews’ Money Again: It’s fine, they’re pro-Palestine
  • It’s right there in the headline

    Oh the title. I read the article after a sneak-pick at the comment section and yours made me wonder to the point I did the ctr+f thingy.

    Well, the title has a quite different quote and that’s what makes all the difference due to the historic reference. I think if you don’t like the title, you should hate the article because of what it is describing in relation to what is happening in Germany to Jewish people, and not about how this article title is written.

    Do you deny that Jewish people suffer again on German ground, due to German policies using the argument of defending zionism?
    Do you deny that zionism is historically related to fascism?

    [edit: oops I thought I was replying to @Tarte and not @rimjob_rainer. Well the questions are for both of you or anyone who cares to answer them. Just to note that suffering is a spectrum. I am not claiming that Genocide is happening again in Germany, but people being targeted to the point of having their bank accounts frozen is a punitive measure to make people suffer]

  • Germany Is Seizing Jews’ Money Again: It’s fine, they’re pro-Palestine
  • "seizing money" = temporarily frozen bank account until a legal dispute is settled

    I didn't find this term in the text (ctrl+f). Why do you have it in quotes?

    Apart from that nowadays if a bank freezes a person's account, it's really hard to live/survive in many places in this world and Germany is one of them. Unless you use crypto, and not everybody does.

    "Germany" = a German bank

    Banks often freeze accounts in order to follow governmental policies, often of protesters. Meaning, one way or another this move is backed by the government.

  • What We Know About Palestinians Detained in Israel
  • Why Israel has so many Palestinian prisoners - Inside Israel’s dual criminal justice system (Video 11:49)

    (...) Each one of these Palestinian prisoners has been processed by Israel’s military court system, which exists completely separate from the civilian court system that Jewish Israelis interact with. This system and the military orders that govern it have their origins in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967.

    In this video, two experts explain Israel’s military court system, why it’s been a focus of outcry from human rights organizations, and why hostage negotiations have historically involved the exchange of Palestinian prisoners.

  • Germany Is Seizing Jews’ Money Again: It’s fine, they’re pro-Palestine
  • MBFC link for Times of Israel

    Bias Rating: LEFT-CENTER
    Factual Reporting: HIGH
    Country: Israel
    MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MODERATE FREEDOM
    Media Type: Website
    Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
    MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY
    lol

  • Israel carries out several attacks inside Lebanon and Syria killing civilians
    • In relation to the NYT article’s that says:

    Since Oct. 7, Hezbollah has been firing rockets into northern Israel on a near-daily basis.

    It doesn’t mention where this statement is based upon.

    • The other 2 are from Israeli press, so there’s not much to trust there.

    • The CNN one is not related to my question