www.theguardian.com Death feels imminent for 96% of children in Gaza, study finds
Needs assessment by NGO reveals the huge psychological impact of the war with Israel on young people
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I have never seen Trump act more servile towards anyone than when he pulled a chair out for Netanyahu.
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Remember when Biden was "only one term" and "the most progressive president in history?" His entire career was on the record for us to see what a servile and slimeball of an insider he was. At least with Trump you know you're getting a bad deal, he wears his sleaze on his sleeve.
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Liberals love the "Trump supporters are starting to come around and regret their ways" story. Every day for the next 1300+ days they will be posting this. In truth, the people who voted for Trump with enthusiasm (not just contrarianism, fatigue or ignorance) will find any way to spin his policies as a positive or a necessary evil. And frankly, anyone who voted enthusiastically for the Democratic party is capable of the same and demonstrated they too have no moral red lines.
Nah it cleared up on its own. Was probably nothing.
You seem to have misunderstood what I said. I'm not saying these terrible things are just being German. I'm saying that the current government and political class doing these terrible things view these things as "just being German" and define extremism as "being Islamic". I know that the majority of Germans are liberals, humanists, educated and anti-racist.
Your foreign minister applauds Israel for mass killing children, your rising AfD party wants to deport Muslims and you now demand that anyone becoming a Germany citizen give the racist state of Israel a stamp of approval. Everyone watched half your politicians blame the Christmas ramming attack on Islam even though the perpetrator hated Muslims. You send a non-Jewish antisemitism commisars to bully Jews who criticize Israel. You are burying liberalism's corpse. So enlighten me.
It's not strictly a fact check. Due to A) Haiti's governance collapse and B) no reliable estimate of conditions of life across all North Korea
Ask Ron DeSantis, he might now.
Not included is that they fucking blew up the buildings.
In Germany, they view extremist politics as anything to do with Islam, so if you promote the expulsion of Muslims or their reeducation or forcing them to sign pledges to Israel to become citizens, you're just being German.
Mohammed was subjected to simulated drowning, or "waterboarding", 183 times while held in secret CIA prisons following his arrest in 2003. Other so-called "advanced interrogation techniques" included sleep deprivation and forced nudity.
Sounds totally legit and he should definitely be executed on that information despite the guilty plea he signed after 20 years of being tortured.
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Fucking evil rats, all of them. Reichstag rodents.
Maybe. But then again, I saw many "Trump things" become Biden and bipartisan things, from tariffs on China to Golan Heights annexation.
Those are fair points. Greenlanders who want independence generally want to remain a NATO member nation. The main issue is that they'll face political and economic pressure from the US. They have the population of Manhattan... Kansas! I don't see how they have a chance in hell at remaining sovereign if the US approaches them. It's one thing to have social welfare from a nation you have contentious relations with, another to be promised millions by US megacorporations and Congress.
I don't think so. I think that the old MAGAts running the Pentagon think it's a good idea and Trump is oushing the Overton window for them. I can easily see a path toward US incorporation or domination of Greenland that does from US-backed Greenland independence to strategic and economic alliance to US domination and eventual Peurto Rico kind of status. It would all be political. Denmark can't stop that actually.
Trump is a fucking idiot. He should just proclaim support for Greenland's independence and offer the tiny population some great economic and diplomatic deals to get his way.
To play devil's advocate: Greenland has only like 60,000 people. It's bigger than the France, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, Belgium and Greece combined. It is also seeking independence because they aren't interested in being ruled by a random small European country that tried to sterilize them and steal their resources. Denmark has slowly caved-in to their independence demands because it wasn't interested in being a colonial power. Now it just holds on to it on behalf of NATO.
From a nation-state's point of view, this is an unihabited land with era-defining strategic and economic significance.
The US military has an impossible nut to crack with China. It recognizes that climate change will happen, but is going to position itself to come out ahead from it (if it doesn't destroy us all). It's not confident that it will maintain the global relevance it has today by the mid-21st century.
Why not smash and grab while you can? Create Greater Israel, destroy Iran, take Greenland, control the Panama canal, and most likely give Australia nuclear weapons (and perhaps Japan but not likely). Tell the UN and other international institutions to fuck off if they stop serving your national interests. Turn Europeans into vassal states.
That's the post-liberalism future lf America that I see.
It's not far right fascist. It is liberal Zionist. Liberals can and have been genocidal too. Liberal Zionism is incompatible with humanism or universal values.
It has gotten so worse that the "anti-fascist" choice helped commit a holocaust that the fascists want to finish.
The entire US conservative establishment is waging a holy crusade against anyone who opposes their Israeli alter ego's Biblical bloodlettings. You'd think they had no problems to handle at home.
It's a win-win for them. They can let genocidally anti-Muslim rhetoric on while keeping their selectively pro-Israel content policy, getting support from the burgeoning far right in the US and Europe while suppressing the anti-establishment element of it that happens to be the most anti-semitic and anti-Israel, and avoiding the scrutiny of the AIPAC-bought Congress and White House that they're letting hatred of Israel proliferate by letting Palestinians use the platform.
A new study of children living through the war in Gaza has found that 96% of them feel that their death is imminent and almost half want to die as a result of the trauma they have been through.
A needs assessment, carried out by a Gaza-based NGO sponsored by the War Child Alliance charity, also found that 92% of the children in the survey were “not accepting of reality”, 79% suffer from nightmares and 73% exhibit symptoms of aggression.
“This report lays bare that Gaza is one of the most horrifying places in the world to be a child,” Helen Pattinson, chief executive of War Child UK, said. “Alongside the levelling of hospitals, schools and homes, a trail of psychological destruction has caused wounds unseen but no less destructive on children who hold no responsibility for this war.”
The survey questioned parents or caregivers of 504 children from families where at least one child is disabled, injured or unaccompanied. The sample was split between southern and northern Gaza and was c
www.theguardian.com Biden says he was ‘stupid’ not to sign Covid stimulus checks as Trump did
President says failure may have contributed to voters blaming him for high prices even as economy improved
www.theguardian.com Revealed: Biden lays groundwork to expand immigration jails as Trump readies for office
In the past year, the Biden administration has extended contracts for private sector jails before Trump’s plan for mass deportations
Donald Trump’s plan for the mass deportation of undocumented people and a related expansion of US detention facilities is getting an unexpected head start from Joe Biden – and private prison companies are already cashing in.
The Biden administration has, for the past year, been in the process of extending contracts for private sector immigration jails across the US and exploring options for expanding detention capacity, a Guardian investigation has found.
This is despite both the US president’s previous statements opposing such private jails and the fact that many facilities have a reputation for inhumane conditions.
For this story, the Guardian reviewed hundreds of pages of contracting documents, government statements, inspection reports and private prison contractor calls with investors.
The investigation reveals that during this final year of Biden’s presidency, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) federal agency has been working on extending at least 14 contracts with
Israel will split the western alliance: Destroying the International Criminal Court is not in America’s interests
www.ft.com Israel will split the western alliance
Destroying the International Criminal Court is not in America’s interests
The indictment of Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant on war crimes charges is a disaster for Israel. It is also a huge problem for the western alliance.
Israel is getting full-throated bipartisan support in the US, as it attempts to fight off the International Criminal Court’s charges against its prime minister and former defence minister. But most governments in the EU, as well as Britain, Australia and Canada, are likely to respect the indictment. However reluctantly, they will have to arrest Netanyahu if he sets foot on their soil.
Even in normal times, this split between the US and its main allies would be very difficult. But these are far from normal times. Donald Trump, who will be president from January 20, has already pledged to take actions that are profoundly threatening to the interests of America’s friends.
Trump has promised to impose tariffs of 10-20 per cent, which will hit European and Asian exporters. His commitment to the Nato alliance is in doubt. And his plan fo
For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value.
Been playing this game for weeks. I completed it and then started a new game. The game's story is excellent, but it absolutely does not justify the tedium it makes you endure to experience it. In a 40 minute sitting, I'd spend the entire thing simply having characters dialogue at me. What's the point of the open world then? Car chases are scripted so that you don't even have to fire a single shot. The enemies will just eventually blow up. 70% of dialogue choices are just for roleplay and don't change a thing or make extremely minor changes. The combat and shootouts are mid.
Act 1 is a chore to get through on replay. There are so many touches they could have added to make it interactive. The Flathead robot mission... why not let us pilot the bot in first-person to do all the tasks, like a stealth minigame? I can think of a few games that let you do something similar. Instead, it is 20 or more steps that are essentially "look at this object and wait."
The best part of the game for me w
www.haaretz.com Israeli defense officials: Gov't pushing aside hostage deal, eyeing Gaza annexation
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According to senior defense officials, the Israeli government is not seeking to revive hostage talks and the political leadership is pushing for the gradual annexation of large parts of the Gaza Strip.
In closed-room discussions, these officials say the chances of reaching a hostage deal appear slim right now. One of the reasons cited is that since negotiations were suspended, there has been no discussion among international players involved in the talks.
In addition, they say, Israel's political leaders have not held any discussions with the various security branches about the condition of the hostages. Army commanders in the field who spoke with Haaretz say the recent decision to launch operations in northern Gaza was taken without any in-depth discussion. They said it appeared that the operations were aimed principally at pressuring local residents, who were again told to evacuate the area for the coast as winter is approaching.
It is possible that the operation is laying
Israel rules out US-French plan for ceasefire with Hezbollah
www.theguardian.com Middle East crisis threatens Lebanon’s ‘very existence’, foreign minister tells UN – live
Lebanon’s foreign minister, Abdallah Bouhabib says his government welcomed ceasefire plan raised by the US and France; Houthi leader has says group will support Hezbollah