The idea of expelling Arabs to other countries was once linked to Meir Kahane and other far-right radicals, and thus considered anathema by most Israelis. Now, to the delight of right-wingers, the idea is gaining traction as a ‘moral' solution to the war.
Check with your local city council or municipality. The laws preventing municipally owned Internet are being fought and overturned with Internet As A Utility.
Even in Texas, the City of Mont Belvieu was getting the shaft by local incumbents that wouldn’t invest in the network. The city took them to court and sidestepped the law, setting precedent. Fiber to the home is now a reality there.
I’m working on getting the same thing done in other towns and cities in this state. Might be a great challenge if you’re up for that sort of thing.
Edited the post to show the image of Israeli barbarism. This is happening NOW in Palestine. This is happening to innocent people. There is NO EXCUSE. Zionism and Israeli barbarism must end.
This is more propaganda trying to justify the colonial brutality of Zionism.
-They refer to the victim as “the Palestinian”, dehumanizing him and thus trivializing his injuries.
-The idea that 16 different officers’ body cameras all fail simultaneously is suspect, to put it mildly.
-The fact that it took 16 highly trained people to restrain one person is difficult to believe. I will say, I am glad(? Bad word, but I can’t think of the right one) that they didn’t just murder the man and cover it up.
-This was a planned raid in Occupied East Jerusalem.
The officers knew who this man was, and where he was.
-The graphic of boot shoelaces is unbelievable. Fabric laces don’t cause that type of skin damage while keeping the surrounding skin untouched.
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank were shot by Israelis on Friday, one by soldiers and the other by settlers, the Palestinian health ministry said....
Israelis keep invading and occupying land, brutalizing the indigenous Palestinians, and get all Pikachu face when they fight back.
So instead of ending the occupation (and forming a secular one state solution), Israeli occupation soldiers and colonists keep killing innocent Palestinians.
[Lebanese] Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri is upset by caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s attempt to evade passing a law that would allow the government to borrow foreign currency from the central bank, al-Akhbar newspaper said Wednesday.
Context: In Lebanon, both the Chamber of Deputies (or Parliament, legislative branch) and Council of Ministers (executive branch) can propose laws. However, these must be scrutinized and passed by Parliament in order to actually become law.
Berri is one of many warlords rebranded as politicians, siphoning state resources to enrich himself, his family and feed his cult of personality and patronage.
This slight of hand trick saying the law has to be passed by the outgoing cabinet (which doesn’t have a mandate) before it goes to parliament is both patently absurd and not in line with the Lebanese constitution.
The cabinet resigned and the government fell. This cabinet cannot do anything but keep the lights on, until a new government is formed.
Berri, as head of the legislature, refuses to call and force sessions so that a government can be elected and given the mandate to govern.
Yet another example of how the Lebanese state is a series of petty fiefdoms all vying for power, while the people suffer.
GAZA, Thursday, August 3, 2023 (WAFA) – A Palestinian fisherman was Thursday injured after he was shot by Israeli navy forces as he was sailing in the Gaza Sea, sources confirmed.
Israeli occupation forces prevent Palestinian civilians from fishing in their own territorial waters. This, despite Israeli claims of disengagement from the occupied Gaza Strip.
Occupied, yes. Because Israel controls the air, sea, and with the Egyptian military regime’s coordination, land, making the Gaza Strip the world’s largest open air prison.
Because when you’re peacefully fishing in your own territorial waters, whether you’re shot with a rubber coated steel bullet or shot with a beanbag is irrelevant. The crime is you’re being shot at by a foreign occupying force.
Israeli officials discuss the accuracy of Nasrallah’s “spider web” theory after the liberation of South Lebanon in 2000, pointing to the internal crises and weaknesses in “Israel.”
The colonists had invaded and illegally occupied territory. Their presence is contrary to the 4th Geneva Convention. And as such, constitutes yet another in the list of #israeli#warcrimes.
I disagree. My business transaction is with the restaurant owner, not the staff. The price I see on the bill is the price I am required to pay. Anything extra is not obligatory, no matter how engrained it is in the US and Canada. Guilting patrons into subsidizing poor wages only enriches the restaurant owner.
Again, the business transaction is between the patron and the restaurant owner. The employee’s wages are not the responsibility of the patron. They are the responsibility of the owner.
You’re saying “…just for taking it without paying.” However, I am paying. When the bill comes, it is a full account of what the restaurant charges me. End of story.
Edit: No amount of mental gymnastics will change the fact that the restaurant owner is solely responsible for employee wages. Everything else is social shaming.
No? Because a tip should never be expected. It can and is appreciated, but if it’s to be expected then I expect it to be included in the pricing of the meal, not as a separate “worker welfare” line item.
Again you’re expecting the patron to contort themselves through the social custom, instead of simply not participating in it. You seem to have this assumption that patrons expect and deserve a personal slave while dining. Maybe it’s an American and Canadian thing.
I hope you eventually find how freeing it is to not give a shit about what others say or think and just enjoy your meal, pay for it, and be on your merry way.
Your assertion that non-table service restaurants don’t demand tipping is disingenuous. It’s ‘tipping culture’ after all. It’s spread everywhere. Best of luck to you in trying to shame employers into providing proper wages by berating patrons.
Please, send me your paypal link so I can tip you for this interaction.
Macron’s top diplomat, Catherine Colonna, said on Tuesday that the president was interested in coming to Johannesburg as an observer in August to attend the meeting of Brazilian, Russian, Indian, Chinese and South African leaders, the so-called BRICS group of major emerging economies.
Yeah, G7 countries have and do persecute their minorities. Yeah, BRICS countries do as well. What’s your point? You’re saying countries should accept economic subservience because of the established order?
The opposition camp will hold consultations prior to giving a final answer to French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian regarding his proposal for holding dialogue on September[…]
Petulant warlord man-children desperate to keep their stranglehold on their petty fiefdoms. They will never work for the good of the country. They will always deflect blame and demand answers from foreign powers. These are the ‘great leaders’ the Lebanese put on pedestals.
Unless and until they are all swept aside violently, nothing will save Lebanon from its enemies, both foreign and domestic.
Practical matters require French to remain a working language, but no longer will it hold prestige as an official means of communication. Another win for the continued decolonization efforts in the imperial periphery.
Tldr; Ethnic cleansing towns and villages, Building colonies on top to erase the evidence Then legally segregating the colonies to prevent refugees from ever returning.
On Tuesday, the Knesset expanded a 2010 law that allows communities to screen and reject applicants deemed “unsuitable to the[ir] social and cultural makeup”. This, observers have said, essentially maked it easier for towns to prevent Palestinian citizens of Israel from moving to Jewish-majority towns. Many of these towns were built on or near Palestinian towns and villages that were depopulated before or during the 1948 Nakba, after their inhabitants were expelled or fled.
Thank you for your opinion. However, with Al Jazeera’s many journalistic awards, they’re a reliable source of information. Just because they don’t fit a particular narrative doesn’t make them ‘shit’, as you say.
Tldr; Jews have supremacy. Everyone else is legally less-than. That’s legalized racism. Plain and simple. Democracy? Not a chance.
In July 2018, the Knesset voted to pass a law that defines Israel as “the national home of the Jewish people”, with Hebrew as its official language and Jerusalem – including the illegally occupied eastern side – as its capital.
The bill denies Palestinians any national rights and further entrenched racial discrimination against them by declaring that “the right to exercise national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people”.
Tldr; If you don’t toe the settler-colonialist line, you not only get refused entry, but even as a citizen, you’ll get stripped of citizenship, rendered stateless and deported. Sounds a lot like legal discrimination.
In March 2017, parliament voted to ban any Palestinians or foreign nationals if they, or the organisations they belong to, publicly endorse the boycott of Israel or its illegal settlements.
The law, with its vague wording, also has implications for Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem whose partners live with them on Israeli military-issued permits or a temporary residence status.
Funny how it’s only “a sort of racist, extremist dictatorship” now, not 75 years ago when the settler colonialism regime took form.
I have no pity for the residents who ignored and vilified the indigenous Palestinians for resisting oppression. Israel, as the Jewish supremacist settler colonial regime that it is, is incompatible with democracy from the get go.
Maybe it’s time to admit Zionism is indeed racism and have a truly secular, one-person, one-vote democracy between Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
US considers redesignating Houthis as ‘terror’ group after ship seizure (www.aljazeera.com)
Israeli rightists are trying to reframe a Gaza population transfer as a 'moral act' (www.haaretz.com)
The idea of expelling Arabs to other countries was once linked to Meir Kahane and other far-right radicals, and thus considered anathema by most Israelis. Now, to the delight of right-wingers, the idea is gaining traction as a ‘moral' solution to the war.
[RANT] I pay $70/mo for this privilege (i.imgur.com)
I thought data caps for home internet were a thing of the past…...
Israeli police arrest and brand Palestinian with ‘Star of David’: Report (www.aljazeera.com)
aljazeera.com/…/israeli-police-arrest-and-brand-p…...
Niger’s crisis belongs to the West (www.newstatesman.com)
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Two West Bank Palestinians shot dead by Israelis: ministry (www.france24.com)
Palestinians in the occupied West Bank were shot by Israelis on Friday, one by soldiers and the other by settlers, the Palestinian health ministry said....
[Lebanon] Berri reportedly upset with Mikati over government debt law (m.naharnet.com)
[Lebanese] Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri is upset by caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s attempt to evade passing a law that would allow the government to borrow foreign currency from the central bank, al-Akhbar newspaper said Wednesday.
Israeli navy opens fire at Palestinian fisherman in Gaza (english.wafa.ps)
GAZA, Thursday, August 3, 2023 (WAFA) – A Palestinian fisherman was Thursday injured after he was shot by Israeli navy forces as he was sailing in the Gaza Sea, sources confirmed.
Israeli Reserve General: Nasrallah is provoking, humiliating 'Israel' (english.almayadeen.net)
Israeli officials discuss the accuracy of Nasrallah’s “spider web” theory after the liberation of South Lebanon in 2000, pointing to the internal crises and weaknesses in “Israel.”
Burkina Faso, Mali warn against military intervention in Niger (www.aljazeera.com)
Niger’s neighbours say any intervention to restore deposed President Mohamed Bazoum will be considered a ‘declaration of war’ against them.
Palestinian shot dead after six Israelis wounded in illegal settlement (www.aljazeera.com)
Palestinian health ministry identifies suspect in shooting attack as Mohannad al-Mazraa, 20, from a nearby West Bank town.
Niger puts an end to uranium and gold export to France (english.almayadeen.net)
Niger coup leader General Abdourahamane Tchiani, despite being EU’s largest supplier of uranium, halts uranium and gold export to France.
A new trend in tipping emerges (lemmy.world)
Macron's bid to join BRICS summit signals rift with G7 - Expert (www.the-star.co.ke)
Macron’s top diplomat, Catherine Colonna, said on Tuesday that the president was interested in coming to Johannesburg as an observer in August to attend the meeting of Brazilian, Russian, Indian, Chinese and South African leaders, the so-called BRICS group of major emerging economies.
[Lebanese] Opposition to hold talks prior to giving answer to Le Drian (www.naharnet.com)
The opposition camp will hold consultations prior to giving a final answer to French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian regarding his proposal for holding dialogue on September[…]
Mali drops French from official to working language, 13 local languages get official status (mobile.ghanaweb.com)
Practical matters require French to remain a working language, but no longer will it hold prestige as an official means of communication. Another win for the continued decolonization efforts in the imperial periphery.
Israel protests cast light on laws discriminating against Palestinians (www.aljazeera.com)
Jewish supremacy, legalized segregation, and punishing freedom of speech and political opinion.
Israeli protesters vow no let-up in anti-reform fight (www.bbc.co.uk)