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Like, openly western-backed : https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/world/americas/claude-joseph-haiti-stepping-down.html
And here's the article : https://apnews.com/article/cnhv-cubans-haitians-nicaraguans-venezuelans-parole-border-8440fe7e468dc985fb8939ccaa1be8e8
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I don't expect any definitive answer, but i/we could perhaps learn a few things in this thread.
Most people here already know that Kenya has been called to restore order(, and keep being pro-west, otherwise we'd encourage riots as usual). Last time it was Canada, although more things probably happened since then. Of course, they're paid less than a dollar an hour and are expected to be grateful to even have a job, that opening their economy to foreign investors will bring them prosperity to all, or w/e.
As far as i remember, the assassins of Jovenel Moïse were mercenaries captured in Columbia ? A dead-end apparently, weird that they managed to capture them without learning the contractor's identity, perhaps were they hired without being aware of it, i don't know much about this.
It's out of topic, but damn do i keep remembering the awful tortures inflicted for YEARS to presumed masterminds of 9/11, they went to hospitals SEVERAL times because of anal bleeding and i can't imagine how much they begged to be allowed to die, we'll never know what depraved torments they had to live through, and i don't know if it's worse than the millions of people we killed, but it's so awful, i keep thinking about this and wanted to place it somewhere. Yet Julian Assange has been freed, there are also many other good news.
Anyway, if you have some informations to share i'm interested.
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Here's the article. The African Growth and Opportunity Act(, A.G.O.A.,) aimed to increase their exportation(, duty-free entry into the United States for certain goods), and create a leverage( as all aids are), even if the results aren't really there unfortunately : ! !
God(&gods)( in the material world, but also) in the world of Idea(l)s(, and probably other worlds inaccessible to humans as well) :
SABC News as well(, not western channels though) : https://youtube.com/@sabcdigitalnews?si=NJVpLshupTA-SkI-
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https://t.me/theredstream/6232
Too many of their natural ressources are still in foreign hands, we'll just continue to make them suffer for their rebellion, under the guise of human rights..
The u.s.a. was already condemned in the case of Nicaragua and nothing changed and nobody knows that, in the very improbable offchance that Israel was condemned, they would just act like Russia when the International Court of Justice ordered them to leave Ukraine.
Let's say that our medias talk about this improbable success and, even more improbable, support the ICJ and condemn Israel, everyone would just forget a month later. Sure, there's nothing to lose by trying, but not much to gain either, it's not the beginning of an effective solution, it'll be the exact same shit as before.
And the ICJ wouldn't even need to be considered the bad guy, the contradiction wouldn't raise an eyebrow, but let's say i'm wrong, have an hope in this if you want.
edit : That's an exaggeration, those who hate Israel won't forget such judgment and would remind us when they got the chance, that's the difference i'm seeing, so you're right to say that it's not nothing to be able to label them officially as genocidal, it'd add a new argument/insult of choice.
That's ~two every three years :
Somalia needs some support with Somaliland, and https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Biden-Approves-Redeployment-of-US-Troops-to-Somalia-20220517-0003.html
Jamaica doesn't give any certainty either : https://globalvoices.org/2023/10/30/jamaicans-express-disappointment-over-their-countrys-no-show-un-gaza-vote/
And i don't think Brazil would want to expose themselves as much as South Africa did(, nor China for that matter), more to lose than to gain, that's justice. Bolivia probably only supported the case because Luis Arce has forbidden Evo Morales from being reelected and is trying to show that ~'he's not a traitor to the movement' despite that.
Let's say that they have a chance if you want though, it doesn't matter because that's not what would make a change, do they only have the option of a full-scale war with unknown consequences to do what's right ? We're just supposed to watch and then it'll be as if nothing ever happened, ok.
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(good to know in advance)
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Liz Magill, president of the university of Pennsylvania, was also forced to resign. The third person is Sally Kornbluth, academic administrator of the m.i.t., the only one who wasn't forced to resign, probably because she's jewish herself. (wiki article) !
No point in saying that she doesn't want jews to be exterminated, her enemies know better than her what she's really thinking, and there's no possibility to walk back on these specific words to specify what she meant, it's so stupid 🙄. She obviously interpreted the question(, of whether calling for the genocide of jews is against Harvard's code of conduct,) as something loaded since "from the river to the sea" manifestations would then have to be prohibited(, well, you can liberate the territory by killing 1% of the israeli population and forcing the rest to flee, we've learned recently that it wouldn't be a genocide, if such word means something). In retrospect she could have said that the only acceptable speeches on the campus are those calling for a two-states solution or something else that accepts Israel's possession of the holy lands, but as usual calling for the destruction of Palestine isn't as horrible as calling for the destruction of Israel. Reuters article !
Yeah, a buzzword with legal implications, Myanmar's rebels are terrorists, good for them.
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Interesting thread here.
I don't like this word, like "terrorists", "regime", or others that have been abused(, the so-called uyghur "genocide" also comes to mind, despicable liars working against world peace/collaboration). A massacre is enough of an accusation to act, Israel says that it isn't a genocide because the rate of killing isn't quick enough, w/e...
On Myanmar, a lot of things happened, especially a month ago, wiki article : !
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The only other two specific communities i found about Palestine-Israel are https://lemm.ee/c/israelicrimes and https://kbin.social/m/Israel, the other communities that could eventually accept such posts are all leftists, so i'm posting in this echo chamber, but since lemmy has more users and comments than in July (source), it may change one day.
Videos of his arrival, and official venezuelan statement.
Arrested in Cap Verde the 12th June 2020, he was held in Miami since 2021 under the pretense of money laundering, Interpol notifications or arrest warrants were issued retroactively and, of course, diplomatic immunity wasn't respected. Here :
And usual accusations of mistreatments.
In order to obtain his liberation, they had to : release 10 americans, extradite fugitive Leonard Glenn Francis, and release around 20 political prisoners from jail. (source), it's as asymmetric as usual.
What's less known is that apparently Qatar played once again a role of mediation :
The wiki page lacks a lot of the above information, but this extract is ~interesting, they're seriously claiming that hungry people are easier to control and less prone to revolts, so they're sanctioning the c.l.a.p. which was feeding the poorest of them :
I still think that evilness is a myth formulated by people refusing to understand/explain, and i'll continue to think so even if we(sterners) exist.
As an example, the murderous Israel would indeed be safer by destroying Palestine once and for all, at least as long as their estimation of a lack of retaliation from their neighbours proves to be correct.
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An article : !
Also accusations of intentional targeting(, like these, another journalist, new one).
We remember WW1 in France as the most atrocious waste of life our country went though, yet it was "only" 4% : ! That's 1% per year. 20.000 deaths in Palestine is huge ! And (almost )only civilians/innocents. It's also 1% of their population of 2M, but only in two months !
Massive defundings and privatizations in sight...
And :
And b.t.w., contrary to what is often said, the huge i.m.f. debt(, with an 8.07% interest rate, more than others,) is the responsability of the right, as usual :
more here
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Source for the 16 hospitals here.
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The same article from the Times of Israel also says that : !
Source for the 900.000
Don't forget all these talks about russian false flags in february 2022(, e.g.), we(sterners) are well-placed to know what's up : !
As a reminder, you don't negotiate with terrorists. But it may be a threat solely in order to obtain the prisoners without releasing any palestinian hostages in exchange. At this point though, i don't think it matters whether they keep the israelis prisoners or not.
Gaza s Interior Ministry has just announced that all bakeries in the Gaza City and North Gaza governorates have stopped operating due to systematic ta...
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900.000 people still remain in Northern Gaza.
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Seen here ! source Obviously another breach of international law.
It's so surreal, even if they intended to keep half of Gaza it wouldn't be worth it, and the official explanation that they would be safer by killing more people than they ever did since the Nakbah doesn't hold, they'll be hated even more for decades. Such disproportionate reaction doesn't make sense.
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(title in reference to this video which is clearly very far from the worst one)
Update : A dozen cancer patients have died in the Gaza Strip after the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital(, Gaza's only medical facility serving cancer patients,) was forced to suspend operations after running out of fuel.
The title isn't exact :
Moreover, their relations were only re-instaured after the western-supported coup by J.Añez :
(Here's Colombia's president 6 hours ago b.t.w., among other examples)
(no need to point out that it would be safer for them not to take position for//against any side. The article also spoke of Argentina, here's an interesting 2mn-long point of view)
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They claim to fight disinformation yet speak about a "technical glitch", classic, just like cops lying on their depositions, what a way to set an example.
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Seen here. 80km² isn't a lot though, since the west bank has an area of 5860km² that's only 1.4%, this may still be valid if there're different ways of counting, but if these 110km² are counted in the same way that may mean something !
If it had indeed greatly accelerated since last year, then it'd be a(nother) justification for this exceptional palestinian "counter-attack"(, it could perhaps also point to a voluntary casus belli, in order to accelerate a prior decision, i can't know).
Unless the creatures, overall, would prefer to have never existed in the first place, then the Creator isn't evil and should be praised(, that's only one reason, for example an other one would be our search for Absolute/Greatness/Good/..)
And they've long gone past the retaliation of "an eye for an eye"
The worst is that we're still not offering a solution for this decades-old conflict, there must be a way to please both sides ! That's what our medias should talk about instead of always act as a powerless spectator or judge, where is the list of solutions, why don't we all know about the different possibilities ? Our actions only aim for the prolongation of the best outcome for us and the worst outcome for them, that's not fair and they have every right to hate us for this injustice. Once again, how to resolve permanently&virtuously this conflict should be the main topic 'on our televisions'/'in our newspapers', so that our leaders make the right/just/correct decision.
And an other word that they would refuse to attribute to fighters from our side, but would hate you if you refuse to use it for the fighters of the other side :
And weird.
People are saying that referendums represent the will of the people, as if it was unmoving. How many people would have changed their minds after the u.s.s.r. dissolution of 1991 for example ?
Also, i've looked at the opinion surveys for presidential elections of the last decades and it always moved a lot in the last weeks, a proof that they're consciously manipulative/lying i.m.h.o.
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Australian_Indigenous_Voice_referendum#Advertising_and_media :
Mass media in Australia are highly concentrated, with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Australia dominating the landscape, owning over two-thirds of leading newspapers along with most online news websites ; three News Corp outlets occupy the top three positions in the nation, based on popularity and viewership.
The majority of News Corp's content was commentary, not reporting, so when the various articles and videos were examined together, around 70% of the coverage favoured "No" arguments.
Yeah, it's just a resolution, the list of countries was what interested me, always the same opponents(, since we're also the main countries behind such measures).
I take it as a natural reaction to overload of stress/emotion/pain. Being able to cry is physiologically beneficial (you get rid of cortisol) and psychologically it can help you process the things you're going through more quickly. Trying to appear though by not crying seems counterproductive to me, but I understand in some cultures it is not socially acceptable to cry, especially for men.
To me, if you're crying you're admitting that something is stronger than you, that you're powerless, and i still find it useless, i guess that i just have a bad image of it(, it can be beautiful though, like tears of joy, or of an emotion which isn't defeat). But i clearly(, and subconsciously,) don't treat men, women, or children, in the same point of view in regard to crying, i'd never think of saying "man up" to a woman hurt to the point of tears, yet i find it admirable when a man swallow his pain, and straighten his profile in order to act after whatever happened, that's the common thinking, i'm not the weird one here(, even if my descriptions are very imperfect), but since modernity changed so many things they may end up suppressing the differences between men and women, or not, w/e.
If I suppressed my emotions, I would still be influenced by them, but I would have no conscious control over them, which would again result in limiting my rationality
On the contrary, suppressing your emotions helps to act rationally without being overwhelmed by them, and i.m.o. there's no real difference between emotions and reason, since our feelings can be explained rationally, we're often saying that "reason ignore the heart's own reasons", but that's not true, we are indeed influenced by subconscious feelings that we would be unable to analyse, but that's a minor side and i don't make a distinction between the cold reasoning and the hot emotions, i'm deciding with both a'd i think almost everyone does the same.
I find the terms inner strength and beauty to be also very vague.
100%, i realized it when i was writing the examples, and the example you gave me is another very good one, you can indeed find effeminate/weak persons who are "tough motherf*ckers", i didn't give enough thought behind what "internally strong" may mean, and it also depends on the situation, it's not because you're weak or ugly internally at one time of the time that you can't act beautifully or strongly at another time.
I agree with you that it's reductive to stop on two adjectives.
Well, it doesn't come from me and i have a story and some good memories from it. But in a few words, i asked someone special(, ~9 years ago,) if he had a motto, and he told me that the masonic triangle is "Strength · Beauty · Wisdom", i still haven't checked if it's true(, but discovered a few years later that it's in the Kabbalah). It stayed in my mind and i naturally decided to apply it to men and women and divide it in internally//externally. Just to say that somewhere.
While reductive, i think it has a lot of truth in it.
I don't see any reason to propagate just one way for men and one way for women.
Men have testosterone, have sexual fantasy when they touch women, and read comics when they imagine themselves fighting.
Women have estrogens, in their fantasy they imagine themselves being touched, and read romantic novels when they're preparing themselves for the unavoidable desire they'll attract.
Yeah, i'll need to edit this message, if you're reading this line give me 30-40mn i want to do something first.
Not that i care but i'm sure that your comment made sense in your mind, would you mind sharing it with me ?
Do you interpret relieving your emotions by crying as being weak ?
Yeah, obviously, would you say that it's a sign of strength ?
Or perhaps feeling emotions as being weak ?
"Emotion" is a vague term. Some emotions like bravery(, often a borderline foolishness,) are assimilated with strength. Some emotions like the feeling of defeat, self-pity, the lack of resilience, the fear of authority/punishment that makes you betray others/ideals, that's weak. Always interesting to see how Chelsea Manning is stronger than a lot of men in this regard. Men love to fight, so kinda appreciate to be hurt in a way, and are proud of their scars.
Some emotions are beautiful, such as the one expressed in poetry, others are ugly and you don't need examples to get what i mean.
It's easier to exclude men from external beauty and women from external strength than it is to exclude them from internal beauty and strength, respectively.
And do you find women more flawed, because they're physically weaker than men ?
We have our qualities and flaws, some women are stronger than some men and some men are more beautiful( inside&outside) than women, and it's reductive to stop at these two adjectives, as well as obviously erroneous to draw conclusion on an individual from generalities.
Here's what i answered to a previous comment if you're interested :
Admittedly, beauty is more useful in times of peace than strength, if i count the benefits(, women can give birth and that's the most important thing in Nature), women have more of them than men, but if we can keep some of our qualities i won't say no.
Why would it be better if there were no distinction between men and women ? Or between countries, or citizens ?
What's the use of showing your vulnerability, is that something that others like to see ? And it's not difficult, what's difficult is to take upon yourself and desire the struggle.
We're men, alike rocks, people/life hit us and we don't move, this has advantages and inconvenients, we generally appreciate women's sensibility, and i suppose that most of them appreciate to be able to rely on men when they're needed.
Admittedly, beauty is more useful in times of peace than strength, if i count the benefits(, women can give birth and that's the most important thing in Nature), women have more of them than men, but if we can keep some of our qualities i won't say 'no'.
The world is ugly. We(sterners) have been the aggressors/'bad guys' for too many decades. We're still the main(~only) obstacle to 'world peace'/'an union of diversities'. ♪ All we are saaying... ♬(, are we even trying ? we could/should/must protect them&us)