#garlasco

[stefano1973sblog]

Due parole con una cara amica di Garlasco

[talpone]

Vintage anni 90 quante fighe mi scopavo

[eretzyisrael]

Remember Marc Garlasco?

Back in 2009, I discovered that Garlasco, a Human Rights Watch researcher who wrote that organization's typically one-sided anti-Israel reports, was an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia.

He was forced to resign after it was discovered that he had written things like "The leather SS jacket makes my blood go cold it is so COOL!"

Now, NPR is rehabilitating him, interviewing him as an "expert" in a story about how Israel supposedly cannot be trusted to investigate itself in the Shien Abu Akleh killing:

ESTRIN: Israel is similar to other militaries, which tend to protect their own when they ask troops to risk their lives for their country, says former Pentagon official Marc Garlasco, who has investigated war crimes around the world. MARC GARLASCO: Militaries in particular have a very poor record of investigating themselves. It doesn't matter if we're talking about Israel or the United States, Myanmar. When organizations investigate themselves, they tend to either exonerate their personnel, or they'll go after the lowest-hanging fruit, and we very rarely see any kind of justice.

If so, why did the IDF immediately identify a possible weapon that could have killed Abu Akleh? Why didn't it do what the Palestinians did and insist that the other side must have killed her?

The NPR piece is a typical example of choosing the narrative first and then finding an "expert" to support the already chosen outcome. In this case, they chose someone who used to use the nickname "Flak88" after a German anti-tank weapon that also happens to include the "88" dog-whistle that neo-Nazis use as a shorthand for "Heil Hitler" (H being the 8th letter of the alphabet.)

And someone who not only collects Nazi memorabilia, but wears modern sweatshirts celebrating Nazi-era medals.

[donewithcapitalistfrayers]

Experts in the rules of war said there were no proscriptions against using schools, hospitals, museums and other public places as military command posts or bases, so long as they were not being used for their peacetime purposes.

Who are these experts NYTimes, care to name names?

Marc Garlasco, a United Nations war crimes investigator specializing in civilian harm mitigation, wrote on Twitter that Amnesty International “got the law wrong.” “Ukraine can place forces in areas they are defending — especially in urban warfare,” he wrote

[colonna-durruti]

"Non ho mai visto qualcosa delle dimensioni di quanto sta accadendo a Gaza. E a questa velocità". (Arif Husain, capo economista del Programma alimentare mondiale delle Nazioni Unite)

Mezzo milione di persone rischiano di morire di fame a Gaza.

Il rapporto pubblicato da 23 agenzie Onu e non governative ha rilevato che l'intera popolazione di Gaza è in crisi alimentare, con 576.600 persone a livelli "catastrofici" di fame. (Ansa - 22/12/2023)

Israele ha sganciato centinaia di bombe da 2mila libbre (oltre 907 kg), molte delle quali in grado di uccidere o ferire persone a più di 300 metri di distanza. (CNN 22/12/2023)

"Abbiamo geolocalizzato e verificato alcuni video che mostrano proiettili contenti fosforo bianco lanciato su Gaza e sul Libano e abbiamo parlato con medici che hanno curato nove persone. Quindi le prove sono abbastanza inconfutabili" (Amnesty International 02/11/2023)

"L'intensità del primo mese di bombardamenti israeliani a Gaza non si vedeva dai tempi del Vietnam". (Marc Garlasco - ex analista dell'intelligence della difesa statunitense ed ex investigatore dei crimini di guerra delle Nazioni Unite)

[hero-israel]

I am so uncomfortable with the fact that Garlasco's Wiki article goes into tons of detail regarding who defended him and how .... but not what he's actually criticized for. Like, it never even explains what 88 means.

Goyim really do not like to hear this, but when people who are neither Jewish nor Palestinian fixate on how much they dislike Israel, it almost always comes from a classically racist motive or having swallowed racist conspiracy theories. My personal favorite example was Gunter Grass, a supposed peace activist held up as the moral conscience of his day, who was eventually exposed as an actual escaped Nazi.

The two biggest "human rights" groups are infested with conspiratorial and antisemitic thinking, which should surprise nobody who has seen the output of groups devoted to "family values," "law and order," "right to life," "clear skies," etc.

[theculturedmarxist]

US television news outlets appear largely to be following the administration’s lead, minimizing any talk of ceasefire or de-escalation on the air. FAIR searched transcripts of the nightly news shows of the four major broadcast networks for one week (October 12–18) in the Nexis news database and Archive.org, and found that, even as the outlets devoted a great deal of time to the conflict, they rarely mentioned the idea of a ceasefire or de-escalation.

While ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News and PBS NewsHour aired a total of 105 segments primarily about Israel/Gaza and broader repercussions of the conflict, only eight segments included the word “ceasefire” or some form of the word “de-escalate.” (The word “de-escalate” never appeared without the word “ceasefire.”)

NBC and PBS aired three segments each with ceasefire mentions; CBS aired two, and ABC aired none.

The October 18 protest on Capitol Hill led by Jewish Voice for Peace and If Not Now demanding a ceasefire—a peaceful protest that ended with over 300 arrests—accounted for half of the mentions, briefly making the evening news that night on all the broadcast networks except ABC. (The protesters’ demand was mentioned in two segments on NBC.)

That was the only day CBS Evening News (10/18/23) mentioned a ceasefire or de-escalation, though correspondent Margaret Brennan also noted in that episode, in response to a question from anchor Norah O’Donnell referencing the protest, that Biden “refrained from calling a ceasefire. In fact, the US vetoed a UN resolution to that effect earlier today.” Brennan continued:

Given that there have now been 11 days of bombing of Gaza by Israel, with thousands killed, there is a perception in Arab countries that this looks like the US is treating Palestinian lives differently than Israeli lives.

Of course, one doesn’t have to live in an Arab country to see a double standard.

Only twice across all nightly news shows did viewers see anyone, guest or journalist, advocating for a ceasefire—both times on PBS NewsHour.

The NewsHour featured a phone interview with Gaza resident Diana Odeh (10/12/23), who described the dire situation on the ground and pleaded: “We need help. We don’t need money. We don’t need anything, but we need a ceasefire. People are getting worse and worse.”

A few days later, the NewsHour (10/18/23) brought on Marc Garlasco, a former Pentagon analyst currently serving as military advisor at PAX Protection of Civilians, who said: “You’re talking about 6,000 bombs in less than a week in Gaza, which is the size of Newark, New Jersey. It’s just incredibly dangerous to the population, and we need to have a ceasefire and get an end to this conflict as quickly as possible.”

Sunday shows and cable

Across the agenda-setting Sunday shows, which are largely aimed at an audience of DC insiders, the word “ceasefire” was entirely absent, except on CNN State of the Union (10/15/23)—but there, only in the context of reporting on a poll from earlier this year that found a strong majority of Gazans supporting the ceasefire that had previously been in place between Hamas and Israel.

Looking at the broader cable news coverage, where the 24-hour news cycle means much more coverage of the conflict, viewers were still unlikely to encounter any mention of the idea of a ceasefire. Using the Stanford Cable TV News Analyzer, FAIR found that mentions of “cease” appeared in closed captioning on screen for an average of only 19.7 seconds per day on Fox, 11.1 seconds per day on CNN, and 9.2 seconds per day on MSNBC. (FAIR used the shortened form of the word to account for variations in hyphenation and compounding; some false positives are likely.)

Meanwhile, mentions of “Israel” did not differ substantially across networks, averaging 18–20 minutes per day. (Note that this is not the amount of time Israel was discussed, but the amount of time mentions of “Israel” appeared onscreen in closed captions.)

Fox mentioned a ceasefire roughly twice as often as either CNN or MSNBC, largely to ridicule those on the left who called for one, as with host Greg Gutfeld’s comment (10/18/23):

Enough with the ceasefire talk…. I mean, Jewish protesters calling for a ceasefire is like the typical leftist pleading not to arrest their mugger because he had a bad childhood.

Fox also frequently compared Jewish peace advocates unfavorably with January 6 rioters (Media Matters, 10/19/23).

CNN on a few occasions featured a guest advocating a ceasefire, such as Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, the leader of the Palestinian National Initiative party. On Situation Room (10/17/23), Barghouti argued forcefully:

The only way out of this is to have immediate ceasefire, immediate supply of food, drinking water to people immediately in Gaza and then to have exchange of prisoners so that the Israeli prisoners can come back home safe to Israel.

On CNN‘s most-watched show, Anderson Cooper 360, the possibility of a ceasefire was mentioned in three segments during the study period—each time in an interview with a former military or intelligence official, none of whom supported the idea. For instance, with former Mossad agent Rami Igra on the show (10/16/23), Cooper asked about negotiating the release of hostages. Igra noted that Hamas had “twice already” said they were “willing to negotiate the release of the prisoners,” contingent upon a ceasefire and release of Palestinian prisoners. But Igra insisted Israel should not negotiate:

IGRA: Israel will do all it can in order to release these prisoners, and some of them will or maybe all of them will be released, but by force.

COOPER: That’s the only way.

IGRA: The only way to release prisoners in this kind of situation is force.

Meanwhile, the only time viewers of MSNBC‘s popular primetime show The Beat heard about the possibility of a ceasefire was when guest Elise Labott of Politico told host Ari Melber (10/12/23) that, for Israel, “this is not a ceasefire situation.” Melber responded:

If you said to someone in the United States, if ISIS or Al Qaeda or even a criminal group came into their home and murdered children or kidnapped children or burned babies, the next day you don’t typically hear rational individuals discuss a ceasefire or moving on. You discuss resorting to the criminal justice system or the war machine to respond.

Melber’s eagerness to lean on the “war machine” left his argument a muddle. Obviously, those calling for a ceasefire are not suggesting simply “moving on”—in fact, a “criminal justice system” response is more than compatible with a ceasefire, as you don’t try to bomb someone that you’re seeking to put on trial.

Netanyahu has been trying with limited success to equate Hamas with ISIS for many years now (Times of Israel, 8/27/14), and the Israeli government continues to try to paint Hamas’s tactics as so barbaric as to justify the mass killings by Israel. (See FAIR.org, 10/20/23.) But it’s passions, not reason, that allow individuals like Melber to gloss over the deaths of thousands of civilians—a child every 15 minutes, according to one widely circulated estimate—in their thirst for revenge.

With Israeli bombing intensifying and a ground invasion appearing imminent, US television news outlets’ refusal to give more than minimal airtime to the widespread calls for a ceasefire fails to reflect either US or global public opinion, and fuels the warmongering march to follow one horror with another.

[maurobroccalifecoach]

Lascia che la tua luce interiore illumini il mondo.

[talpone]

Vintage 1992

[toscanoirriverente]

(...) The ground surrounding one side of the crater shows a cone of scarring and pitting, consistent with the explosion of a munition at this site. Objects within this cone appear to have suffered extensive damage, including a fence which was largely destroyed by the explosion.

As noted by Marc Garlasco, a Military Advisor at PAX for Peace’s Protection of Civilians team, the impact point does not appear to be consistent with the 500, 1000 or 2000-pound bombs used in Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs).

We created a panorama showing the impact crater, based on the video above which helps show the affected area.(...)

[deathshallbenomore]

Quali sono le migliori puntate di Indagini per te? Sono in coda per almeno mezz’ora e non avendo mai ascoltato il podcast sto scrollando all’infinito la lista di date degli episodi senza capirci molto

allora, andando in ordine cronologico dalla più vecchia

garlasco, erba, lombardia 1998-2004 (bestie di satana), ladispoli, brembate, veneto-lombardia-germania (ludwig), seveso (la puntata speciale, se hai l’abbonamento), este-broni-bascapé

ovviamente tutte pesanti quindi trigger warning per letteralmente tutte cose, ma se stai cercando episodi di indagini lo sai già. buon ascolto <3

[summarychannel]

The Egyptian army begins constructing dirt berms on Egypt’s borders with Gaza, the disappearance of Abu Ubaida, and a dangerous leak to Netanyahu. Updates on the Al-Aqsa Flood operation presented in this episode of Samri Channel. Starting with the British newspaper the Financial Times, which quoted military analysts as saying that the extent of the destruction in Gaza is equal to what was completely destroyed in all German cities during World War II. The newspaper said in a report titled “Israeli bombs raining on Gaza” that Benjamin Netanyahu requested more American bombs to destroy Hamas, as it described it. The newspaper added that Netanyahu told a group of local government officials, according to a recording obtained by the “Israel Hayom” newspaper: “We need three things from the United States: munitions, munitions, and munitions.”

Military analysts told the newspaper, citing estimates of damage to urban areas, that the devastation inflicted on northern Gaza in less than seven weeks is close to the devastation caused by the massive bombing of German cities over years during World War II. “Gaza will also be included as a place name that refers to one of the heaviest conventional bombing campaigns in history,” said Robert Pape, an American military historian and author of “Bombing to Win.” The newspaper pointed out that, in contrast, over the course of two years, between 1943 and 1945, the Allied bombing of 61 major German cities led to the destruction of an estimated 50% of their urban areas, according to Babe. A 1954 US military review estimated that 7,100 tons of Allied munitions were dropped on Dresden, severely damaging 56% of non-industrial buildings, half the homes, and killing about 25,000 people. The newspaper pointed out that one of the reasons for the extent of the destruction is the munitions used by the Zionist entity. The Israeli occupation army did not publish public information, but the pictures it publishes daily show its planes taking off loaded with munitions that were identified to the Financial Times by explosives experts. The newspaper said that some munitions are very accurate, which can help limit collateral damage. Among them are 250-pound precision-guided small-diameter bombs, which, because of their relatively small size, “inherently reduce the likelihood of collateral damage,” according to the US Air Force. The attack helicopters also carried laser-guided “Hellfire” missiles, the mainstay of American urban combat against ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria, and “fire-and-forget” Spike missiles, traditionally Israel’s weapon of choice for precise, targeted killings.

The newspaper spoke with Janina Dale, professor of global security at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, where she said: “It is striking how many times the Israeli army was able to obtain bombs weighing 2,000 pounds.” For his part, Mark Garlasko, a military advisor to the Dutch organization PAX and a former intelligence analyst at the Pentagon, said, “The power of these bombs, enhanced by a global positioning system that turns them into “smart bombs” or so-called Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMs), is so enormous that even the survivors From the explosion they said they felt like they were “surfing on liquid Earth.” Garlasco added that the only reason he thinks about why it is used is that the Israeli occupation army is allegedly trying to destroy Hamas’s tunnel network.”

He continued, saying: “But what is striking is its widespread use.” Military analysts said that the second reason for the high level of destruction was the speed and intensity of the Israeli bombing campaign, as well as relaxed targeting rules that may have allowed a greater number of civilian casualties to occur. The British newspaper reported that in just the first two weeks of its campaign, the occupation army used at least 1,000 air-to-ground munitions per day, according to estimates by John Ridge, an open-source intelligence analyst and munitions expert.

The Israeli military responded by saying it would take a different approach in the south, using data to identify densely populated areas and calculate evacuation routes as well as sharing maps indicating where people should flee. More than 15,000 Gazans died before Israel began its southern offensive last week, according to Palestinian officials in the Hamas-controlled area. Israel claims this includes up to 5,000 Hamas fighters. By comparison, 12,000 civilian deaths were recorded in the first nine months of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. “By all accounts, Gaza is already a severe campaign of civilian punishment,” said military historian Pape. “It will go down in history as one of the deadliest operations ever conducted using conventional weapons.”

On the other hand, the Sinai Foundation for Human Rights obtained special photos showing the Egyptian army forces establishing dirt berms east of the city of Rafah, and along the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip. The Foundation, a non-governmental human rights organization, published: independent; Concerned with monitoring the human rights situation in the Sinai Peninsula, a picture of high dirt barriers, behind which buildings and communications towers appear.

#Egypt #Palestine #Gaza

[arthropooda]

As 2,000-pound bombs crash down on crowded refugee camps in Gaza, the seismic reverberations are increasingly being felt on campuses throughout the United States. “When a 2,000-pound bomb hits the ground, the earth turns to liquid,” Marc Garlasco, a military expert, told The Washington Post. “It’s like an earthquake.”

On October 11, a boxy white truck pulled up in front of the main entrance to Harvard University, a black wrought iron gate adorned with a stylish Georgian Revival wreath. Attached to the truck’s sides and back were three garish billboard-style LED screens displaying the images of dozens of students. Beneath their faces were the words “Harvard’s Leading Antisemites” and the putative URL “HarvardHatesJews.com.”

The doxxing truck was sponsored by the right-wing group Accuracy in Media and its targets were students who had signed a letter sponsored by the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee. “Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum,” it said. “For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to ‘open the gates of hell,’ and the massacres in Gaza have already commenced.” Leaving Harvard, the truck began a McCarthyite search and destroy mission, driving to the homes of each of the students to out their locations and ruin their future job prospects. Some of those targeted would later receive death threats while others worried about what might come next, with at least one losing a job offer. “I have my career on the line,” said one concerned student. Many other forms of harassment targeting pro-Palestinian students have been taking place across the country. The question is whether Israeli intelligence is behind some of it.

[gobelluno]

Belluno Volley, Da Re commenta il passivo di Pavia

BELLUNO – Sarà un campionato durissimo. E livellato. Lo si sapeva. E puntuale è arrivato pure il riscontro della realtà: dopo l’esordio vittorioso con il Cus Cagliari, di fronte al pubblico amico della Spes Arena, il Belluno Volley non riesce a spremere punti dalla trasferta di Pavia contro una Moyashi Garlasco che, per valori tecnici e fisici, potrebbe recitare un ruolo di primo piano nel girone…