A journalist in Gaza...

All we do is count days. We either make it to the end, or die.

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@GinAndJuche@hexbear.net I remembered the most recent article & you have been subscribed to Poland facts

The political gender gap in Gen Z yawns wide: In Poland last year, almost half of men aged 18-21 backed the hard-right Confederation party, compared to just a sixth of young women of the same age. FT archive link Jan 26, 2024 · 12:54 PM UTC

In the last thread someone was asking about next steps for the icj case. Naked capitalism has a big writeup on this https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/01/further-discussion-of-the-south-africa-genocide-case-against-israel-evaluating-what-the-court-might-do.html

This is an important statement from IRI. They state that they will continue their operations against the US occupation until they have actually left Iraq. They express justified skepticism, and a deep commitment to ensuring this is followed through on. For anyone who didn’t think they were as serious as they said (I’ve seen it from pro-Palestine people), let this be a lesson. They are serious. There will be no more US occupation of Iraq. Thank God. Glory to the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, and glory to their martyrs all the way back to 2003. (IRI was formed a few years ago but their struggle has lasted two decades.)

So do the cope cages actually work? I don't think we've seen much video of an armoured vehicle with a cope cage being drone-striked, but I'm not sure if that's because cope cages are rare or because strikes on cope cages fail.

Did anyone know what legal argument the court gave for not ordering a ceasefire? I feel like there's a difference between "we don't have the legal mandate to order you to stop the war part of your genocidal war" and then "we're sure you're willing and able to change your genocidal war into a non-genocidal one"

Vice governor of Rio Negro responds to Javier Milei's threats: "We could leave the government without energy". Link (Spanish Only)

Vice-governor Pedro Pesatti assured that his province must defend itself and that the President must understand that "Patagonia is the real energy engine".

In declarations to Radio 10, Pesatti assured that "Patagonia is fundamentally the true energy engine of Argentina due to the amount of energy produced here".

"We, the Patagonians, produce 90% of the energy that Argentina needs. In this game of threats, we respond as best we can", he added.

Then, he criticized the President's manners: "It seems to me that it is not possible to use threats as a methodology to govern. Who does he think he is, the one who is currently occupying the presidency? Just another citizen? He cannot say such a thing".

"Río Negro, like Patagonia, are not territories that live hanging from the national budget. On the contrary, they contribute to help Argentina find the roads it needs, every day with their effort, work and resources", explained Pesatti.

Finally, he stated that his province deserves "the utmost respect. We are not in a monarchy, we are in a republic. And in a federal republic". Milei's threat to the governors: "I am going to leave you without money, I am going to melt you all down"

On Thursday afternoon it was leaked that President Javier Milei threatened the governors who object to the Omnibus Law project. "I am going to leave them without money, I am going to melt them all", it was reported that he told his ministers in the Cabinet meeting this Thursday. The strong threat was revealed by the newspaper Clarín and responds to Milei's anger with the governors, without party distinction, who put several conditions on the Base Law, specifically on the withholding taxes issue.

During the meeting with his ministers, the President analyzed the political repercussions after achieving the majority opinion with dissenting opinions in the Lower House on the Base Law, supported the threats made by his Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo to the provincial governors and posed a complex scenario for the vote count in the Lower House.

His words are in addition to those reflected by the head of the economic portfolio who on Wednesday launched a new threat against the provinces by announcing that they will be cut if any of the economic articles of the Omnibus Law is rejected.

"Today I held a meeting with the Secretary of Finance and the Undersecretary of Provinces to outline all the provincial items that will be immediately cut if any of the economic articles is rejected", the official communicated through his X account (formerly Twitter).

As workers struggle to contain the toxic landslide of more than three million cubic meters of polluted dirt from a storage facility that is threatening the village of Ølst as well as a nearby stream, the battle of who is going to pay for the cleanup is beginning.

Environmental authorities issued a mandate last night, directing Nordic Waste, the company accountable for the calamity, to undertake the cleanup and furnish an economic guarantee of DKK 205 million to cover associated costs. The company only had an equity of DKK 15 million and had already filed for bankruptcy. Today a local court formally declared the company bankrupt. Two executors were appointed – one by the local council overseeing mitigation efforts and another by Nordic Waste. The court overruled objections from the national government's legal counsel that it would be irresponsible to allow the company to appoint an executor. Among other things, the executors will investigate the possibility of civil liability suits against the management.

Remaining funds within the bankrupt company will be allocated to creditors, including workers who face a protracted process to claim wages and pensions, guaranteed by the state. Many workers will have to borrow from unions to offset income losses during the waiting period. The primary creditors include the local council actively engaged in cleanup efforts for over a month and the company owning the Nordic Waste site. That company happens to be owned by Nordic Waste's owner, the elusive oil oligarch Torben Østergaard-Nielsen who can now look forward to getting a share of the funds from the bankruptcy.

And while the waste management company is bankrupt, Østergaard-Nielsen keeps making money off the polluted soil as he owns one of the companies transporting the soil away from the site and storing it.

Today the nation's prime minister, the headstrong succdem hardliner Mette Frederiksen visited the site and the village for a carefully staged photo-op flanked by the also-succdem Magnus Heunicke, her minister of the environment. She railed against Nordic Waste's oligarch owner, scolded him for leaving bill to public coffers and repeatedly stated her commitment to a "the polluter pays" principle. The minister of the environment condemned the oligarch for not spending some of his estimated DKK 42 billions of hoarded wealth to pay the salaries of employees and the costs of the cleanup.

The fiery words and emotional language employed by Frederiksen and her sidekick stands in stark contrast to the realities of corporate bankruptcy law. The rules were made exactly to shield owners from liability for the damage done by their companies and they are working as intended. Frederiksen, in power since 2019 has had ample opportunity to change the law if she had wanted to. It is only now that the public is angry at the oligarch she expresses these sentiments.

The minister of the environment has pledged to amend legislation to make it easier to hold owners like Østergaard-Nielsen responsible but these changes will only apply to future disasters and it remains to be seen how much Frederiksen's right-wing government really wants to pick a fight with the powerful business elite once the public attention dies down.

Meanwhile, a report by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland contradicts Nordic Waste's initial claims that heavy rainfall caused the disaster. Visible cracks in the polluted soil date back to 2021, with four-meter deep crevices observed in the spring of 2023. Satellite imagery reveals soil movement during this period, categorizing the disaster as man-made and implicating the improper placement of excessive amounts of soil on a sloping surface of impermeable clay—contrary to Nordic Waste's narrative.

In response to the crisis, the CEO of Nordic Waste has taken sick leave and voluntarily stepped down from her minister of transportation-appointed position on the board of the infrastructure company operating bridges over the Great Belt and the Sound. Østergaard-Nielsen has faced consequences of some sort as well, being stripped of his honorary title as "ambassador" of the picturesque coastal town of Skagen, a popular high society vacation destination.

Center for Constitutional Rights takes Biden to court for genocide in Oakland on Friday, January 26, 2024.

CCR Livestream: Palestinians Take Biden to Court (event page which includes Zoom link)

Oh boy. Cool zone is getting cooler. Probably should have a go bag lol.

State Governments are some of the most reactionary evil people in the country.

One thing countries must do to break off from US influence is somehow find a way to break off American soft power. It's the most effective tool it has and it works very well. You'll need to have full control of your media and even then it isn't always a guarantee. China's firewall hasn't kept Chinese Millennials and older from adoring the country.

Erdogan's double game: Praising Palestine, aiding Israel

While the Turkish president loudly praises the Palestinian resistance, he is quietly and ferociously pursuing pro-Israel economic and energy policies.

Reviving ISIS: A US weapon against the Resistance Axis

Is it a coincidence that the world's foremost terror organization is being revived just as the US struggles under a multi-front assault on its hegemony in West Asia? More curiously, both ISIS and Washington's targets are exactly the same.

It really does make you think.

Coup President Dina Boluarte Heckled During Highway Stone-Laying Ceremony

“This unfortunate event endangered the safety of the head of state and this is very serious. With violence, we all lose as a country,” said Otárola on social media, seemingly forgetting the brutal police repression launched directly by Boluarte and her coup security apparatus that killed more than 60 Peruvians in less than 60 days during December 2022-January 2023. This was the first time that Dina Boluarte returned to Ayacucho region since the demonstrations and the police repression that left at least 10 dead in Ayacucho and more than 60 dead throughout the country.

Something I missed about the blankie video bc I know jack shit about materiel 🙈

The strain on Israel 's logistics is showing.

The IDF can't seem to equip all of their frontline troops with rifles that has a full picatinny rail.

For a CQC set up, this is as bare-bones as it gets.

I've been thinking about people from my past so I've been doing a little googling. Here's a guy I knew from decades ago. We weren't friends but we were friendly. I can't say more or I'd dox myself. I'm sad to see that he has atrocious takes on the Gaza war. One after another.

I'm curious: how does the tankie pro-Hamas left imagine Israel between the Jordan & Mediterranean will be cleared of Jews? What is the mechanism that will do that? Is it mass deportations? Or is there some other solution? #October7

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My western mainstream media are speculating that instead of ordering the genocide to stop, the ICJ could maybe order the illegal zionist entity to be more careful in their warfare and to let in more aid. This would be a truly cursed decision: We think you're most likely doing a genocide but you can keep doing it if you dial the intensity down a notch.

Fight fight fight! I wanna see federal and state border agents turning each other into pink mist! Fight fight fight!

(Well we all know it’s gonna be a migrant massacre )

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Since the COTW is Aotearoa I'm going to shout out Aotearoa Liberation League - they are anti-capitalist, decolonial and, yes, they're vegan.

If you want to keep updated on political developments happening in Aotearoa from a reputable source, I'd recommend giving them a follow on social media.