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PROTESTS IN DUBLIN IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINE AMIDST GENOCIDE IN GAZA

📹 Hundreds rally in Dublin, Ireland in support of the Palestinian people amidst the genocidal Zionist war which continues destroying Gaza's families.

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Get in loser, we're taxing the rich!

There's an official proposal to the EU to tax the rich!

You only need to be a EU citizen to sing it. The goal is 1 million signatures before october 2024, and we're already at 140.000!

If you need extra incentive to sign, the French have the most signatures as of right now. You wouldn't want the French to be better than you, right? And if you are French, well, Italians are second right now, you wouldn't want the Italians to catch up, right?

Please reblog so more people can see, EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT FROM THE EU!

[lasttarrasque]

Israel is still in Eurovision, we need to change that!

Here is a google doc with the contact info for all EBU broadcasting originations, all known participants and the sponsors for Eurovision 2024. Contact them, make clear your discontent, threaten boycott, make it clear they cannot allow israel to use Eurovison to whitewash it's genocide!

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Berlin students rallied in support of Palestine

Students gathered in front of Humboldt University in Berlin on Wednesday to protest Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and crackdown on anti-war activists in Germany.

The crowd, which included anti-Israel Jewish protesters, chanted slogans and held placards. One of the students, Gregor Kahl, claimed that hundreds of people took part in the gathering. He lambasted the US for voting against the recent UN General Assembly resolution on Gaza and Germany for abstaining.

Israel targeted the Gaza Strip with aerial and land bombardments, besieged the enclave and launched the ground offensive in response to a cross-border attack by Hamas on October 7.

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 18,608 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 50,600 injured in the Israeli attacks.

Read more HERE

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ATTENTION‼️ there has been leaked footage from the Estonian parliament. There is a quote unquote “gnome infestation” in the building.

Cleaners are reportedly walking around the building with shotguns hunting down the remaining population of gnomes.

TÄHELEPANU‼️ Eesti parlamendist on lekkinud kaadreid. Hoones on tsitaat "päkapiku infestatsioon.”

Väidetavalt kõnnivad koristajad jahipüssidega ümber hoone ja jahivad järelejäänud päkapikkude populatsiooni.

[nando161mando]

BREAKING: Amazon will be banned from the European Parliament!

After weeks of mounting pressure by trade unions, civil society and Members of the European Parliament, Amazon's lobbyists will no longer be able to access its premises.

Our reaction:

#BoycottAmazon

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Armistice. What can we learn from the Christmas truce of 1914?

The Christmas Truce has become one of the most famous events of the First World War. But what was the real story behind the truce? Why did it happen and did British and German soldiers really play football in no-man's land?

Late on Christmas Eve 1914, men of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) heard German troops in the trenches opposite them singing carols and patriotic songs and saw lanterns and small fir trees along their trenches. Messages began to be shouted between the trenches.

The following day, British and German soldiers met in no man's land and exchanged gifts, took photographs and some played impromptu games of football. They also buried casualties and repaired trenches and dugouts. After Boxing Day, meetings in no man's land dwindled out.

On a crisp, clear morning, thousands of British, Belgian and French soldiers put down their rifles, stepped out of their trenches and spent Christmas mingling with their German enemies along the Western front.

The event has been seen as a kind of miracle, a rare moment of peace just a few months into a war that would eventually claim over 15 million lives. But what actually happened on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day of 1914 — and did they really play soccer on the battlefield?

Pope Benedict XV, who took office that September, had originally called for a Christmas truce, an idea that was officially rejected. Nevertheless, some two-thirds of troops — about 100,000 people — are believed to have participated in the legendary truce.

Joyeux Noel is a 2005 film and is set in December 1914, where an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain an insight into each other's way of life. The film is based on the Christmas truce of 1914 and is told through the eyes of French, British, and German soldiers.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Ukraine is using US-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to undermine Russian artillery superiority by attacking its munition warehouses.

Twenty ammunition depots have been destroyed by the advanced weaponry supplied by the West, the Kyiv Independent reports.

As Insider's Alisa Shoaib reported, Ukraine has sought new strategies in the eastern Donbas region where the war is concentrated. Earlier tactics, such as relying heavily on drone warfare, have proven less effective in the face of a better-organized Russian force. 

The HIMARS are essentially truck-mounted, GPS-guided rocket launchers with a range of around 44 miles.

A Russian military blogger Andrey Morozov (widely known as "Murz"), quoted by Illia Ponomarenko, the defense and security reporter at the Kyiv Independent,  said Putin's troops were suffering from growing "munitions hunger" due to recent Ukrainian attacks.

Ukraine has released videos of massive explosions depicting how Western military aid is helping to blunt the Russian artillery onslaught in Donbas, where Putin's forces have used their enormous firepower to advance slowly. Insider was not able to verify the video claims.

MORE US ROCKET SYSTEMS ARE ON THE WAY

On Friday, President Joe Biden signed a new deal to send a weapons package worth $400 million to Ukraine. It takes the total amount of aid sent to Ukraine from the US to $7 billion, according to CNBC.

An additional four HIMARS were part of the package, an official told Reuters, bringing the total to 12 supplied to Ukraine.

The new US aid also included more precise ammunition for howitzer artillery systems, Reuters said.

In his nightly video address on Saturday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked the US for "the decision to provide Ukraine with a new defense aid package, allowing us to take anti-terrorist steps and reduce Russian attack capabilities."

On Wednesday, President Zelenskyy said, "We finally feel that the Western artillery we received from our partners is working very powerfully."

"Our defenders carry out painful strikes against warehouses and other important logistic nodes of the occupiers. And this materially lowers the offensive potential of the Russian army," he said.

Serhiy Kuzan, the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Center chair in Kyiv, told The Guardian that the delivery of HIMARS and howitzers have slowed Russia's offensive, forcing them "to be more careful."

"It allows us to participate in what is an artillery duel," he said, per The Guardian. "And with the longer-range rockets, we have destroyed over 20 warehouses of Russian artillery."

Jack Watling, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, also told the paper that the military supply from across the West is making a "tactical difference" but added that "Ukraine still has to manage multiple supply chains, relatively small fleets of a lot of different systems, and the ammunition available is very limited."

Ukraine has said it has killed another Russian general, following an attack in which Kyiv's forces used American-supplied weapons.

Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesman for the Odessa regional military, wrote on Telegram about the "liquidation" of Major General Artem Nasbulin, the chief of staff of the 22nd Army Corps "after HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) missiles hit the headquarters in the Kherson region" of southern Ukraine.

It came as Ukraine released footage it said showed a HIMARS attack on a mobile command post in Tavriis'k, in the Kherson region.

If confirmed, Nasbulin could be the ninth Russian general to have died since the start of the invasion on February 24, according to one estimate. Ukraine's claims that it has killed Russian commanders give its forces a considerable PR boost although most of them have not been confirmed by Moscow and Russia's Defense Ministry, which Newsweek has contacted, rarely comments on such losses.

The Telegram post was from Monday night but it was not clear when the attack took place.

Ukraine has said that it has carried out significant strikes against Russian forces using the HIMARS system which is part of a package of military support announced by the U.S. The weapons can hit targets at a range of 50 miles, which is much further than the M777 howitzers, which the U.S. has also given Ukraine.

Before the arrival of the HIMARS, the southern city of Kherson, which Russia seized early on in the war, had been out of reach but Kyiv hoped that the supply of the weapons would help turn the tide of the war against Moscow's troops.

Ukrainian media outlets reported that in an earlier attack, HIMARS allowed their forces to attack a command post in a strike in which they said 12 Russian officers and a colonel were killed.

Meanwhile, footage released by Ukraine shows the missiles striking near the Nova Kakhovka power plant, with Kyiv claiming that it destroyed Russian munitions and killed 200 Russian soldiers, according to a translation of comments by Serhii Khlan, adviser to the head of the Kherson regional military administration.

It comes as Igor Girkin, a former commander of pro-Russian separatist forces in eastern Ukraine, who goes by the nom de guerre of Strelkov, expressed his concern about the firepower that the U.S.-supplied weapons is offering Ukraine's forces.

He wrote on Telegram that in less than a week, Russia has suffered "large losses in both men and equipment" in strikes against at least 10 large warehouses of artillery and other ammunition, several oil depots and a number of command posts. He said that Russian air defense systems have been "ineffective against massive strikes by HIMARS missiles."

[fandomsandfeminism]

Yall wanna hear a kinda funny, kinda sad story about my grandmother and hetero-normativity?

Ok, so... when my grandmother was in her 50s (I was an infant), she met a woman at the Unitarian Church. And, as can happen when you meet your soul mate, this event made it impossible for her to deny parts of herself that she had fiercely hidden her whole life.

All the drama- their affair being found out, the divorce with my grandfather, the court battle over who got the house, happened while I was a baby. Even in my earliest memories, it's just Mama Jo and Oma, and my grandfather lived elsewhere (first his own apartment, then a nursing home, then with us.)

But here's the thing- no one ever explained any of this to me. No one ever sat down and was like "hey, Rosie, so do you know what a lesbian is?" It was the 90s. It was Texas. I think my mom was still kinda processing all this, and just assumed that like... I was gonna figure it out. Don't mention it, let it just be normal. Like I think my mom thought that if she explained the situation, she would be making it weird? I dunno.

But like. In the 90s, in all the movies I had seen and books I had read, do you know how many same sex couples I had seen? Like. 0. Do you know how many "platonic best friend/roommates" I had seen? A lot. I had no context, is what I'm saying.

I literally thought this was a Golden Girls, roommates, besties situation until I was like...I dunno, 11? 12?

It was actually their parrot, an African Grey named Spike, imitating my grandmothers voice saying "Johanna, honey, it's getting late", that triggered the MIND BLOWN moment as I realized that *there's only one master bedroom and it only has 1 waterbed* when all the pieces finally clicked.

Anyway. I think it's a real important thing for kids to know queer people exist, for a lot of reasons, but also because kids can be clueless and it's embarrassing to have your grandmother be outted by a parrot because everyone just thought you'd figure it out on your own.

Anyway, here is my grandma and her wife, my Oma, after they moved to Albuquerque to be artsy gay cowboys and live their best life. They helped run a "Lesbian Dude Ranch" out there (basically just with funding and financial support. As Oma has explained "traditionally, most lesbians don't have a lot of money" so they wrote the checks and let the younger ladies actually run the ranch.)

[workersolidarity]

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GERMAN POLICE ASSAULT PRO-PALESTINE PROTESTERS IN BERLIN AFTER PALESTINIAN CONGRESS CANCELATION

📹 Scenes from Pro-Palestine protesters in Berlin, Germany, following the cancelation of the Palestine Congress in the German capital, which saw the German federal police repeatedly shoving and assaulting demonstrators.

The assault comes just one day after Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta, who was scheduled to speak about the Israeli genocide at the Palestinian Congress, was denied entry into Germany.

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Germans want to continue supporting Ukraine

The latest summit of the European Political Community addressed mainly with the issue of a peaceful Europe. One of the central agendas was the war in Ukraine, according to the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government.

German Federal Chancellor Scholz has emphasised the fact that “Germany will be providing a large amount of support for the task ahead both in financial and humanitarian terms as well as with arms deliveries.”

After the summit in Granada, Spain, Scholz issued a press statement in which he spoke about the threat posed by Russia, adding that it represented a “danger to the security and peace order throughout Europe.” The German Chancellor emphasised:

After the USA, Germany is providing the most support and we Germans continue to support Ukraine.

Read more HERE

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The Role of a Financial Advisor in Brussels, Belgium

As the bustling capital of Belgium and a significant hub in the European Union, Brussels stands at the crossroads of international finance and diplomacy. Amidst the historic architecture and cultural richness, the need for sound financial advice is paramount for both locals and expatriates alike. Here we look closely the critical role of a financial advisor in Brussels, shedding light on the services they provide, the significance of personal financial advice and addressing the common query - how much does a financial advisor in Brussels cost?

A financial advisor in Brussels serves as a beacon in the intricate world of personal finance, offering invaluable assistance in navigating the complexities of investment, retirement planning, and wealth management. These professionals play a pivotal role in helping individuals make informed decisions, tailor financial strategies to their unique circumstances and secure a stable financial future.

Financial advisors in Brussels offer a diverse range of services tailored to meet the specific needs of their clients. From comprehensive financial planning to investment management, retirement planning and risk assessment, they act as strategic partners in steering their clients toward financial success. But the concept of a personal financial advisor in Brussels goes beyond generic financial advice. It involves a personalised and client-centric approach to individual goals, risk tolerance and lifestyle choices. A tailored approach is particularly crucial in a city known for its diverse population, including a significant expatriate community working for institutions like the European Union.

How Much Does a Financial Advisor in Brussels Cost?

The cost of engaging a financial advisor in Brussels can vary based on several factors, including the complexity of financial needs, the scope of services required and the advisor's fee structure. Typically, financial advisors charge fees in one of three ways: a percentage of assets under management (AUM), an hourly rate or a fixed fee.

Percentage of AUM - Many financial advisors in Brussels adopt a fee structure based on a percentage of the client's assets under management. This model aligns the advisor's compensation with the client's portfolio performance, creating a shared interest in achieving positive financial outcomes.

Hourly Rate - For individuals seeking specific, time-limited advice, an hourly rate fee structure may be preferable. This model allows clients to pay for the advisor's time and expertise on an as-needed basis, making it a cost-effective option for those with straightforward financial concerns.

Fixed Fee - Some financial advisors in Brussels may charge a fixed fee for specific services or comprehensive financial planning. This transparent approach ensures that clients know exactly what to expect in terms of costs, promoting a clear understanding of the value provided by the advisor.

It's essential for individuals seeking financial advice in Brussels to discuss fee structures with potential advisors upfront, ensuring transparency and a clear understanding of the financial commitment involved. In the realm of expat financial advising in Brussels, one notable name shines – Monnet Capital. Recognised as a leading financial advisory firm, Monnet Capital specializes in providing financial advice for expatriates, particularly those who have worked for the European Union. Their team of seasoned financial professionals is adept at unraveling the intricacies of EU-related financial matters, ensuring that expats receive tailored guidance to optimize their financial portfolios and secure a stable future.

In the heart of Europe, where finance meets diplomacy, the role of a financial advisor in Brussels is integral to the financial well-being of individuals and expatriates. The tailored services of a personal financial advisor, particularly for expats associated with the European Union, provide a roadmap to navigate the complexities of international finance. As the city evolves, financial advisors, including industry leaders like Monnet Capital, continue to play a pivotal role in helping clients secure their financial future. Understanding the cost of engaging a financial advisor in Brussels empowers individuals to make informed choices, ensuring that their financial journey in this dynamic city is both strategic and successful.

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Israeli jets strike Lebanon following Hezbollah rocket fire | Euronews

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BBC PIECE REFUSES TO ACKNOWLEDGE "ISRAEL" RESPONSIBLE FOR MURDER OF FOREIGN AID WORKERS

📹 Footage from a BBC piece covering the deaths of 7 foreign aid workers with the World Central Kitchen (WCK) in an Israeli airstrike refuses to mention "Israel" as the party responsible for the slaughter.

The piece dances around ever mentioning the party responsible for the airstrike, instead discussing the "deaths" of the 7 foreign aid workers in "an airstrike". Even though Palestinian resistance forces do not possess such capabilities.

The piece even mentions how WCK coordinated its movements with the "IDF" (Israeli occupation forces [IOF]) but fails to connect the coordination with the murderous airstrike itself, choosing to avoid any mention of Zionist responsibility for the murder of the aid workers, which included British, Australian and Polish nationals, along with a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen and one Palestinian.

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