Hello my friends,
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I am Mohammed Ayyad from Gaza Al-Shuja'iyya
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I have sought refuge with you because of the devastating war that caused me to lose my home and my mother and we were displaced from one place to another and lost my children's future and there is a severe shortage of basic materials,
I have sought refuge with you so that I can provide a decent and safe life for me and my family consisting of my wife and my children Yasser, Omar, Maryam, Jana and Sarah, each of them has dreams but unfortunately they have lost hope and despair is controlling them,
I hope that you will stand by us either by donating if possible or sharing widely,
Thank you very much
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noting that my son Omar has a Tumblr account under the name @m430235341 and it was checked and I had an account under the name @mohammadayyad and it was also checked but I was surprised today that it was banned so today I created a new account under the name @mohammadyaser1980, please check it and thank you 5, @mohammadayyadโs fundraiser. As of posting theyโve been able to raise โฌ12,143ย of their โฌ35,000 goal.This fundraiser has been vetted by @/inthefaceofada
https://gofund.me/e7c7528a
I am very sorry, Iโm not sure if I can donate right now, so Iโm gonna share this to as many people as I can.
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And now the ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐บ๐ฝ๐ are coming to light, as are horrific accounts of torture and medical experimentation on civilian detainees (at least, they're "coming to light" in that an Israeli finally spoke out after months of Palestinians talking about it and being ignored).
๐ญ๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐น ๐๐๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐ต๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ผ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐น ๐ณ๐ฎ๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป ๐ถ๐ด๐ป๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐'๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด, ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ, ๐๐๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ ๐ถ๐.
"Never again" was a ๐ฏ๐ผ๐น๐ฑ-๐ณ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ. It is happening again right now, and a majority of the west alongside the Christian right are cheering it on.
๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐
๐ฐ๐๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ.
๐๐ฑ๐๐๐ซ๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐๐'๐ฌ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ:
Rows of men in gray tracksuits are seen sitting on paper-thin mattresses, ringfenced by barbed wire. ๐๐น๐น ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ฏ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐ณ๐ผ๐น๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฑ, ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฟ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ด๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ณ๐น๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ๐น๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐๐.
A putrid stench filled the air and the room hummed with the menโs murmurs, the Israeli who was at the facility told CNN. Forbidden from speaking to each other, the detainees mumbled to themselves.
โWe were told they were not allowed to move. They should sit upright. Theyโre not allowed to talk. Not allowed to peek under their blindfold.โ
Guards were instructed โto scream uskotโ โ shut up in Arabic โ and told to โ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฝ๐๐ป๐ถ๐๐ต ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐บ,โ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฑ.
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According to the accounts, the facility some 18 miles from the Gaza frontier is split into two parts: enclosures where around 70 Palestinian detainees from Gaza are placed under extreme physical restraint, and a field hospital where ๐๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฟ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐, ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ด๐ต ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐.
โThey stripped them down of anything that resembles human beings,โ said one whistleblower, who worked as a medic at the facilityโs field hospital.
โ(The beatings) were not done to gather intelligence. ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ป๐ฒ ๐ผ๐๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ,โ said another whistleblower. โIt was punishment for what they (the Palestinians) did on October 7 and punishment for behavior in the camp.โ
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CNN has requested permission from the Israeli military to access the Sde Teiman base. Last month, a CNN team covered a small protest outside its main gate staged by Israeli activists demanding the closure of the facility. Israeli security forces questioned the team for around 30 minutes there, demanding to see the footage taken by CNNโs photojournalist. ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ฒ๐น ๐ผ๐ณ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐๐ฏ๐ท๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐, ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ด๐ป ๐ท๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ป๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐๐, ๐๐ผ ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐๐ฒ๐.
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The camps are part of the infrastructure of Israelโs Unlawful Combatants Law, an amended legislation passed by the Knesset last December that expanded the militaryโs authority to detain suspected militants.
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For that, al-Ran said he was given a special privilege: his blindfold was removed. He said this was another kind of hell.
โPart of my torture was being able to see how people were being tortured,โ he said. โAt first you couldnโt see. You couldnโt see the torture, the vengeance, the oppression.
โ๐ช๐ต๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐บ๐ ๐ฏ๐น๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐ณ๐ผ๐น๐ฑ, ๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐
๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ต๐๐บ๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐ โฆ ๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐
๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ต๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ถ๐บ๐ฎ๐น๐.โ
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Whistleblower accounts portrayed a different kind of horror at the Sde Teiman field hospital.
โWhat I felt when I was dealing with those patients is an idea of total vulnerability,โ said one medic who worked at Sde Teiman.
โ๐๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ถ๐บ๐ฎ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ณ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ฒ, ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ป๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐โ๐ ๐ด๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ผ๐ป, ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐ป๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฑ, ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐ฒ๐
๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฑ,โ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฑ. โ๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ธ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐โ๐ ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฏ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ผ๐ป, ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ผ, ๐ฝ๐๐๐ฐ๐ต๐ผ๐น๐ผ๐ด๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ.โ
Another whistleblower said he was ordered to ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ถ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ for which he was not qualified.
โ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐๐ผ ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป ๐ต๐ผ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฑ๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด๐ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐๐, performing minor medical procedures that are totally outside my expertise,โ he said, adding that this was frequently done without anesthesia.
โIf they complained about pain, they would be given paracetamol,โ he said, using another name for acetaminophen.
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โ๐๐๐๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐น๐ถ๐ธ๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐๐๐ฒ.โ
He asked the doctor to find his wife and kids in Gaza. โHe asked me to tell them that it is better for them to be martyrs,โ said al-Ran. โ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐บ ๐๐ผ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ผ ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฝ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฒ๐น๐ฑ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ.โ
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โCritical Noiseโ
29.02.2024 at Atelier Ziegrastrase 11.
This event is to support Palestine and the door money will be donated to the following organisations.
Gaza Mutual Aid Support:
https://gazamutualaid.substack.com/p/what-is-gmac
European Legal Support Center
https://elsc.support/
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"the difference between a conspiracy and fact is time" isnt always true because some things are just genuinely loony and wrong but. boy oh boy is it true in too many cases
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USAmericans
Read the Project 2025 manifesto RIGHT NOW
It's MUCH worse than y'all have been hearing
There is so much here you'll have to look at it for yourself, but the climate policy alone is nightmare fuel.
The republican coalition wants to essentially end funding for green energy, dramatically promote and expand fossil fuel industries, and eliminate funding and regulations in all sectors promoting climate change mitigation. Task forces and offices related to clean energy and lowering carbon emissions will be eliminated and replaced with offices for promoting fossil fuels.
They want to LOG NATIONAL FORESTS TO "THIN" THE TREES TO STOP WILDFIRES.
THEY WANT TO FORCE OREGON AND CALIFORNIA TO LOG THEIR NATIONAL FORESTS AND TREAT THEM AS FOR TIMBER PRODUCTION
There are specific provisions in Project 2025 to essentially destroy the Endangered Species Act, causing it to defer to the rights of "economic development" and "private property." The plan includes delisting gray wolves, cutting the budget so that a "triage" system is used to determine which species will get protection, removing funding for research, removing experts and specialists from the decision-making process, and preventing "experimental" populations of animals from being established.
This is so much worse than I expected it to be and there's much more past that: They want to deregulate pesticides and remove much of the EPA's ability to regulate pollutants as well.
Also included in the manifesto is that we should
withdraw from nuclear weapons nonproliferation agreements, build more nuclear weapons, and resume nuclear weapons testing
The manifesto comprehensively outlines the scorched-earth elimination of abortion access, down to ensuring doctors aren't even trained to perform abortions. There are plans in here to disrupt abortion access GLOBALLY, not just domestically.
Not only that,the Republicans plan on reframing family planning programs around "fertility awareness" and "holistic family planning."
I can't even describe it all. I'm trying to give screenshots of the most important things but there's so much.
The foreign policy is a nightmare. They plan to push fossil fuels onto the Global South and promote the development of fossil fuel industry in the "developing world."
It is aggressive and antagonistic towards other nations, strongly pro-military, proposing that we INCREASE (!!!!!) defense spending, improve public opinion of the military and military recruitment, and increase the power to fund new weapons technology.
Just read the Department of Defense section. It's about greatly increasing and strengthening the military-industrial complex, collaborating more closely with weapons manufacturers, removing regulatory barriers to arming our allies and to inventing new military weapons, and recruiting more people into the military. They include provisions to develop AI technology for surveillance. And of course, continuing to support Israel is in there.
Elsewhere it proposes interfering in foreign countries with creepy pro-USA propaganda campaigns, even establishing international educational programs where faculty have to pledge to promote USA interests.
There's a line in here about getting rid of PBS because SESAME STREET is LEFTIST for God's sake.
HOW are people claiming democrats have the same policies. I feel like i'm losing my mind.
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MIT scientists use a new type of nanoparticle to make vaccines more powerful
New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/mit-scientists-use-a-new-type-of-nanoparticle-to-make-vaccines-more-powerful/
MIT scientists use a new type of nanoparticle to make vaccines more powerful
Many vaccines, including vaccines for hepatitis B and whooping cough, consist of fragments of viral or bacterial proteins. These vaccines often include other molecules called adjuvants, which help to boost the immune systemโs response to the protein.
Most of these adjuvants consist of aluminum salts or other molecules that provoke a nonspecific immune response. A team of MIT researchers has now shown that a type of nanoparticle called a metal organic framework (MOF) can also provoke a strong immune response, by activating the innate immune system โ the bodyโs first line of defense against any pathogen โ through cell proteins called toll-like receptors.
In a study of mice, the researchers showed that this MOF could successfully encapsulate and deliver part of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, while also acting as an adjuvant once the MOF is broken down inside cells.
While more work would be needed to adapt these particles for use as vaccines, the study demonstrates that this type of structure can be useful for generating a strong immune response, the researchers say.
โUnderstanding how the drug delivery vehicle can enhance an adjuvant immune response is something that could be very helpful in designing new vaccines,โ says Ana Jaklenec, a principal investigator at MITโs Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and one of the senior authors of the new study.
Robert Langer, an MIT Institute Professor and member of the Koch Institute, and Dan Barouch, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a professor at Harvard Medical School, are also senior authors of the paper, which appears today in Science Advances. The paperโs lead author is former MIT postdoc and Ibn Khaldun Fellow Shahad Alsaiari.
Immune activation
In this study, the researchers focused on a MOF called ZIF-8, which consists of a lattice of tetrahedral units made up of a zinc ion attached to four molecules of imidazole, an organic compound. Previous work has shown that ZIF-8 can significantly boost immune responses, but it wasnโt known exactly how this particle activates the immune system.
To try to figure that out, the MIT team created an experimental vaccine consisting of the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding protein (RBD) embedded within ZIF-8 particles. These particles are between 100 and 200 nanometers in diameter, a size that allows them to get into the bodyโs lymph nodes directly or through immune cells such as macrophages.
Once the particles enter the cells, the MOFs are broken down, releasing the viral proteins. The researchers found that the imidazole components then activate toll-like receptors (TLRs), which help to stimulate the innate immune response.
โThis process is analogous to establishing a covert operative team at the molecular level to transport essential elements of the Covid-19 virus to the bodyโs immune system, where they can activate specific immune responses to boost vaccine efficacy,โ Alsaiari says.
RNA sequencing of cells from the lymph nodes showed that mice vaccinated with ZIF-8 particles carrying the viral protein strongly activated a TLR pathway known as TLR-7, which led to greater production of cytokines and other molecules involved in inflammation.
Mice vaccinated with these particles generated a much stronger response to the viral protein than mice that received the protein on its own.
โNot only are we delivering the protein in a more controlled way through a nanoparticle, but the compositional structure of this particle is also acting as an adjuvant,โ Jaklenec says. โWe were able to achieve very specific responses to the Covid protein, and with a dose-sparing effect compared to using the protein by itself to vaccinate.โ
Vaccine access
While this study and others have demonstrated ZIF-8โs immunogenic ability, more work needs to be done to evaluate the particlesโ safety and potential to be scaled up for large-scale manufacturing. If ZIF-8 is not developed as a vaccine carrier, the findings from the study should help to guide researchers in developing similar nanoparticles that could be used to deliver subunit vaccines, Jaklenec says.
โMost subunit vaccines usually have two separate components: an antigen and an adjuvant,โ Jaklenec says. โDesigning new vaccines that utilize nanoparticles with specific chemical moieties which not only aid in antigen delivery but can also activate particular immune pathways have the potential to enhance vaccine potency.โ
One advantage to developing a subunit vaccine for Covid-19 is that such vaccines are usually easier and cheaper to manufacture than mRNA vaccines, which could make it easier to distribute them around the world, the researchers say.
โSubunit vaccines have been around for a long time, and they tend to be cheaper to produce, so that opens up more access to vaccines, especially in times of pandemic,โ Jaklenec says.
The research was funded by Ibn Khaldun Fellowships for Saudi Arabian Women and in part by the Koch Institute Support (core) Grant from the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
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Decryptions of Lesser Salomon Keysย (military cryptography).
Decryptions of Lesser Salomon Keysย (military cryptography).
Military cryptography and short analysis of demons of Lesser Salomon Key.
The author of these decryptions (and the article) is a human rights defender,
military cryptographist Ms.Popova,
a member of ย worldwideย Targeted Individuals community.
Human rights Libertadย (Russia).
Ms.Popova, as a military cryptographist shows how to decrypt different codes,
economic, military and codes of deliberate crimes.
https://humanrightslibertad.tech/en-es-ru-cryptography-investigation-demons-of-lesser-salomon-key-ukraine-altar-of-pope-special-operation-eur-ils-gazprom-power-of-siberia
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An investment firm led by former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper that is devoted to launching security companies in Israel has a new โsuccessโ story: helping that countryโs military conduct secret mass surveillance of Palestinians in Gaza.
According to The New York Times, hundreds of Palestinians have been targeted by an โexpansive and experimentalโ spying effort to โcollect and catalogueโ the faces of Palestinians. At times, civilians have been โwrongly flaggedโ as Hamas militants and then interrogated and tortured. [...]
Three out of five members of the Israeli companyโs board of directors are Harperโs partners at Awz Ventures, meaning the former Canadian Prime Ministerโs firm effectively controls Corsight.
Using Corsightโs spy tech, the Israeli military picked out Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha at a checkpoint in central Gaza in mid-November, as he was attempting to flee with his family to Egypt. He was separated, detained, and beaten. [...]
A former commander of this unit, retired Israeli Brigadier General Ehud Schneorson, is another of Harperโs advisory partners at Awz Ventures. According to a report in Israeli outlet +972 Magazine, Unit 8200 has also overseen an AI-based targeting system that has marked tens of thousands of Gazans for assassination.ย [...]
Continue Reading.
Tagging: @newsfromstolenland, @vague-humanoid, @fairuzfan
Note from the poster @el-shab-hussein: The murder of tens of thousands of Palestinians, and possibly my own extended family members, wouldn't have been possible without the investment of Stephen Harper. It wouldn't have been possible without the settler colony known as "Canada" and its bloodthirsty genocidaires.
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In all, at least 100 people set themselves on fire in the US and Vietnam to protest the war. After a long history on multiple continents as a tool of protest against religious persecutionโthe precedent on which Quแบฃng ฤแปฉc was drawingโthese self-immolations cemented a new association in American culture between the tactic and anti-war activism. In February 1991, during the first US war in Iraq, Gregory Levey doused himself in paint thinner and perished in a fireball in a park in Amherst, Massachusetts, leaving behind a small cardboard sign that read, simply, โpeace.โ Malachi Ritscher, an experimental musician in Chicago, set himself on fire on the side of the Kennedy expressway during the morning rush hour one Friday in November 2006, after posting a long statement on his website explaining that he felt there was no other way for him to escape complicity with the โbarbaric warโ the US was then waging. He had been arrested at two previous anti-war protests.
Scholars often associate the rise of political self-immolation in the 1960s with the rise of television: a spectacular form of protest for the society of the spectacle. But of course there are less painful ways for protestors to attract eyeballs. The reality is that self-immolation registers the near-total impotence of protestโand even public opinion as suchโin the face of a military apparatus completely insulated from external accountability. It the rawest testament to the absence of effective courses of action. When war consists primarily of unelected men in undisclosed locations pouring fire on the heads of people we will never know on the other side of the world, there is very little that ordinary people can do to arrest its progress. But we still have our bodies, and it is in the nature of fire to refuse containment.
To ask whether self-immolation is good or bad, justifiable or non-justifiable, effective or ineffective is in large part to miss the point, which is that it is an option, whether anyone else likes it or not. It illuminates our powerlessness in negative space, but it also affirms the irreducible core of our freedom, that small flame of agency that no repression can extinguish. Since Aaron Bushnellโs death by self-immolation this week in protest of Israelโs genocide in Gaza, his detractors have warned about the risk of โcontagion,โ suggesting that his protest will encourage imitators (who, they imply, share his alleged mental instability). There may or may not be additional self-immolators before the slaughter comes to an end, just as Bushnell was preceded by a woman, yet to be identified publicly, who burned herself outside the Israeli consulate in Atlanta in December. But the purpose of lighting yourself on fire is not to encourage other people to light themselves on fire. It is to scream to the world that you could find no alternative, and in that respect it is a challenge to the rest of us to prove with our own freedom that there are other ways to meaningfully resist a society whose cruelty has become intolerable.
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The genocide is also experimentation on living beings
Israel is currently testing new weapons in Gaza, some of which will soon be sold globally asย "battle-tested,"ย according to Antony Loewenstein, an author who has written a widely acclaimed book on the issue.
For years, the Israeli defense sector has used Palestine as a laboratory for new weapons and surveillance tech, he told Anadolu, adding that this is also the case in the current ongoingย warย on Gaza.
One of the main reasons why "many nations,ย democraciesย and dictatorships support Israeli occupation" of Palestine is because it allows them to buy these "battle-tested" weapons, asserted Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World.
Another aspect of Israel's war on Gaza has been the use of artificial intelligenceย technology, he said.
According to Loewenstein, AI has been one of the key targeting tools used by the Israeli military in its deadly campaign of airstrikes, leading to mass killings of Palestinians-now over 28,500-and damage on an unprecedented scale.
The current war on Gaza is "inarguably one of the most consequential andย bloody," he said.
He described Israel's use of AI against Palestinians asย "automated murder,"ย stressing that this model "will be studied and copied by other nation-states" and Tel Aviv will sell them these technologies as tried and tested weapons.
In the last 50 years, Israel has exported hi-tech surveillance tools to at least 130 countries around the world.
To maintain its illegal occupation of the West Bank and Eastย Jerusalem, and blockade of the Gaza Strip, Israel has developed a range of tools and technologies that have made it the world's leading exporter of spyware and digital forensics tools.
But analysts say the intelligence failure during the Oct. 7, 2023ย Hamasย attacks casts doubts over Tel Avis's technological capabilities.
Israel's reliance on technology "is an illusion of safety, whileย imprisoningย 2.3 million people under endless occupation," said Loewenstein, who is Jewish and holds Australian and German nationalities.
He described Israel's response in Gaza as "apocalyptic," stressing that the killings of Palestinian civilians, including children and women, is "on a scale of indiscriminate slaughter."
- 'BLOOD MONEY'
Loewenstein, who is also a journalist, said Israel has honed its weapons and technology expertise over decades as an occupying power, acting with increasing impunity in the Palestinian territories.
This led a small country like Israel to become one of the top 10 arms dealers in the world, he said, adding that Israeli arms sales in 2021 were "the highest on record, surging 55% over the previous two years to $11.3 billion."
In his book, Loewenstein explores thoroughly Israel's ties with autocracies and regimes engaged in mass displacement campaigns, and governments slinking their way into phones.
The Israeli NSO Group sold its well-known Pegasus software to numerous governments, a spyware tool for phones that gives access to the entire content, including conversations, text messages, emails and photos even when the device is switched off.
Israeli drones were first tested over Gaza, the besieged enclave that Loewenstein referred to as "the perfect laboratory for Israeli ingenuity in domination."
Surveillance technology developed in Israel has also been sold to the US in the form of watch towers now used on the border with Mexico.
The EU's border agency Frontex is known to have used Israeli drone technology to monitor refugees.
Loewenstein explains in his book that the EU has partnered with leading Israeli defense companies to use its drones, "and of course years of experience in Palestine is a key selling point."
"So again, one sees how there are so many examples of nations that are wanting to copy what Israel is doing in their own area in their own country on their own border," he said.
These technologies and "are sold by Israel as battle-tested," he said.
In other words, he contends that Palestinians essentially have become "guinea pigs," and despite some nations and the UN publicly criticizing the Israeli occupation, in reality "they're desperate for this technology for themselves for their own countries."
"And that's how in fact, the Palestine laboratory has been so successful for Israel for so long," he said.
In his exhaustive probe into Israel's dealings with arms sales around the world, he noted that the country has monetized the occupation of Palestine, by selling weapons, spyware tools and technologies to repressive regimes such as Rwanda during the genocide in 1994 and to Myanmar during its genocide against the Muslim Rohingya people in 2017.
"This to me is blood money. I mean, there's no other way to see that and again, as someone Jewish, who has spent many, many years reporting on this conflict, both within Israel and Palestine but also elsewhere, it's deeply shameful that Israel is making huge amounts of money from the misery of others," he said.
"This is not a legacy that I can be proud of."
- 'NO NATION ACTUALLY HOLDING ISRAEL TO ACCOUNT'
Profiting from misery is to some extent the nature of what capitalism has always been about, but Israel does this with a great deal of impunity, "because Israel does what it wants," said Loewenstein.
"There is no accountability, there is no transparency, there is no nation actually holding Israel to account," he added.
Israel's regime is shielded from any political backlash for years to come because nations are reliant on Israeli weapons and spyware, said the author.
Israel may not be the only player employing surveillance technology that leads to human rights violations, but it still plays a dominant role, which is why Loewenstein insists that it deserves singular attention.
Israel's foreign policy has always been "amoral and opportunistic," he said, calling on all nations to take a stand and hold Israel accountable, and acknowledge that the world is buying what Israel is selling.
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The Best News of Last Week - June 6, 2023
1. Biden orders 20-year ban on oil, gas drilling around tribal site in New Mexico
Hundreds of square miles in New Mexico will be withdrawn from further oil and gas production for the next 20 years on the outskirts of Chaco Culture National Historical Park that tribal communities consider sacred, the Biden administration ordered Friday.
The new order from Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland applies to public lands and associated mineral rights within a 10-mile (16-kilometer) radius of the park. It does not apply to entities that are privately, state- or tribal-owned. Existing leases wonโt be impacted either.
2. Groundbreaking Israeli cancer treatment has 90% success rate
An experimental treatment developed at Israel's Hadassah-University Medical Center has a 90% success rate at bringing patients with multiple myeloma into remission.
The treatment is based on genetic engineering technology. They have used a genetic engineering technology called CAR-T, or Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy, which boosts the patientโs own immune system to destroy the cancer. More than 90% of the 74 patients treated at Hadassah went into complete remission, the oncologists said.
3. Federal Judge Makes History in Holding That Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant
With United States v. Smith, a district court judge in New York made history by being the first court to rule that a warrant is required for a cell phone search at the border, โabsent exigent circumstancesโ. For a century, the Supreme Court has recognized a border search exception to the Fourth Amendmentโs warrant requirement.
4. Indigenous-led bison repopulation projects are helping the animal thrive again in Alberta
Indigenous-led efforts are reintroducing bison to their ancestral lands in Alberta, bringing back an iconic species that was nearly extinct. These reintroduction projects, such as the one led by the Tsuut'ina Nation, have witnessed the positive impact on the bison population and the surrounding wildlife.
The historical decline of bison numbers was due to overhunting and government policies that forced Indigenous peoples onto reserves. These initiatives aim to restore ecological integrity while fostering spiritual and cultural connections with the land and animals. Successful results have been observed in projects like Banff National Park, where the bison population has grown from 16 to nearly 100, providing inspiration for future wilding efforts.
5. Breakthrough in disease affecting one in nine women
Sydney researchers have made a world-firstย leap forward that could change the treatment of endometriosis and improve the health of women living with the painful and debilitating disease. Researchers from Sydney's Royal Hospital for Women have grown tissue from every known type of endometriosis, observing changes and comparing how they respond to treatments.
It means researchers will be able to vary treatments from different types of endometriosis, determining whether a woman will need fertility treatments.
6. Latvia just elected the first openly gay head of state in Europe
The countryโs parliament elected Edgars Rinkฤviฤs to be its next president, Reuters reported prime minister Kriลกjฤnis Kariลลก saying.
Rinkฤviฤs publicly came out as gay in November 2014, posting on Twitter: โI proudly announce I am gayโฆ Good luck all of you.โ In a second tweet at the time, he spoke about improving the legal status of same-sex relationships, saying Latvia needed to create a legal framework for all kinds of partnerships.
7. France bans short haul flights
The introduction of Franceโs short-haul flight ban has renewed calls for Europe to cut down on journeys that could be made by train. Last week France officially introduced its ban on short-haul flights.
The final version of the law means that journeys which can be taken in under 2.5 hours by train canโt be taken by plane. There also needs to be enough trains throughout the day that travellers can spend at least eight hours at their destination.
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โThe workers tell HuffPost they cannot in good conscience vote for Biden in the 2024 election given his ardent support for Israel. Nearly every worker, including those at Planned Parenthood, said they wished big reproductive rights organizations, which have the ability to endorse and help fund presidential candidates, had used their political power to demand a Democratic candidate that was a stronger advocate for abortion rights.
... Bidenโs halfhearted support for abortion access had already soured many of the workers on his administration. Many said they can no longer support a candidate who barely says the word โabortionโ and is working toย restore a status quoย that never gave marginalized people abortion access to begin with. Some said that Bidenโs policy stance on immigration also contributed to their decision to not vote for him in November. Everyone said that Gaza was the last straw.
... Many of the U.S. workers became emotional when discussing what they described as genocide in the Gaza Strip. They told HuffPost they canโt ignore theย racist historyย of the reproductive rights movement. โThe truth is it plays right into our movementโs history of participating in reproductive coercion, injustice and genocide,โ the reproductive rights leader who has met with the Biden administration told HuffPost, referring to the sterilization of Puerto Rican women who sought contraception and the experimentation on Black womenโs bodies to create modern gynecological care. โWhat I see is our movementโs history repeating itself, and that is so dangerous.โ
โWeโre not going to talk about the entire generations of Palestinians who are dead so, what, this man can stay in office?โโ
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The Financial Times reported today that Israel is planning to establish experimental mini-concentration camps, or "bubbles," as part of an effort to replace Hamas in Gaza following the war on the strip.
According to the plan, the Israeli military would facilitate the entry of aid to Gaza from the nearby Western Erez crossing to vetted local Palestinians, who would then distribute the aid. These vetted individuals would gradually assume civilian governance over these mini-concentration camps while Israeli forces maintained military control.
However, a source involved in postwar Gaza planning mentioned that Israel has struggled to find Palestinians willing to collaborate with the occupying forces since November.
Source: Mintpress
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About Me
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In light of sharing Norman Finkelstein's quotes and videos because of the Israel-Hamas war, I just hope that more pple will know that he isn't a reliable ally of Palestinians. He has called the BDS movement a cult, and patronizingly lectured the Palestinian or pro-Palestine activists and academics who criticized him. You can read about it here:
It's important to note from the article that he opposes BDS because it would lead to the destruction of Israel, he was never an anti-Zionist to begin with:
And that's not even getting to his transphobia and enbyphobia, here he is complaining about they/them pronouns (Video can be viewed on Twitter):
And another interview where he calls gender-affirming healthcare, "experimental drugs" (video can be viewed on Twitter):
And even more transphobia from his latest book:
And him showing his antiblackness during an interview this year because guess what do most of the people he criticizes have in common? (Again, videos can be viewed in Twitter):
I don't want to dismiss Finkelstein's critiques of Israel, but I also want to emphasize that his reputation as an anti-Zionist is massively overstated and that he is simply a contrarian. Please remember that there are way better pro-Palestine activists and academics whose work you can be platforming.
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an extract from an article published by the Middle East Eye, authored by Jonathan Cook (a/Jonathan_K_Cook on twitter) :
A handful of Israeli whistleblowers have revealed that Palestinians are incarcerated for weeks on end in Israel's secretive prison Sde Teiman as they are tortured โ both through formal interrogations and through the conditions they are held in.
They are forced to sit blindfolded outdoors on a thin mattress through the desert heat of the day and sleep in the cold of the desert night. Continuously cuffed, they are forced to remain motionless and silent. At night, dogs are set on them. Anyone who speaks or moves risks being savagely beaten till bones are broken.
Peopleโs hands and legs are tightly zip-tied for so long that, according to the report, some have needed limbs amputated.
As one Israeli whistleblower recounted to CNN, none of these abuses are about intelligence gathering. โThey were done out of revenge,โ he admitted. The inmates are punching bags for the Israeli soldiers and guards.
But this is about more than simple vengeance. Understanding what is happening at Sde Teiman provides a clearer picture of what is happening on a far bigger, even more industrial scale in the torture chamber of Gaza.
Especially revealing are the conditions in a field hospital at the detention camp, housing Palestinians either maimed in Israelโs savage destruction of Gaza or injured by beatings from Israeli soldiers.
They are handcuffed to gurneys in row after row, blindfolded and naked apart from an adult nappy.
They are not allowed to speak. There they lie day after day, night after night, in a state of utter sensory deprivation, with nothing to distract from their wounds and pain. In the midst of this, Israeli medical interns can use their exposed, vulnerable flesh as a canvas for experimentation.
According to one whistleblower, the detention centre has quickly gained a reputation for being โa paradise for internsโ.
There, they are allowed to use Palestinians as little more than lab rats and encouraged to carry out medical procedures they are not qualified to perform.
A whistleblower told CNN: โI was asked to learn how to do things on the patients, performing minor medical procedures that are totally outside my expertise.โ
Such procedures were frequently done without anaesthesia. Unlike doctors in Gaza, Israeli doctors have ready access to painkillers. It is a choice not to use them.
link for the full article :
Just one example of why there can absolutely be no coexistence with these monstrous colonisers.
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