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Bill Gates & the Hot Tub of Death
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/25/bill-gates-the-hot-tub-of-death/
Juan Cole on Bill Gates, Hurricane Melissa and the pro-billionaire high-tech sector. By Juan Cole TomDispatch.com In late October, Hurricane Melissa (that should have been called “Godzilla”) battered western Jamaica with 185-mile-an-hour winds. It tossed the roofs of buildings about like…
#Politics #AdvancedTechnologies #Analysis #ClimateChange #Commentary #Environment #Science #U.s. #UnitedNations #Amazon #ArtificialIntelligence(ai) #BillGates #DonaldTrump #ElonMusk #Google #HurricaneMelissa #JuanCole #Microsoft -
2012!!
> The first official reference to Gaza becoming increasingly uninhabitable was made by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in 2012, when the population of the Gaza Strip was estimated at 1.8 million inhabitants.
https://www.juancole.com/2025/01/israel-destroyed-generations.html
/HT @jricole
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CW: Anthony Blinken lies to Congress about the Israeli Military blocking supplies to starving people in need of medication too.
2024
.> ... on May 10, Blinken delivered a carefully worded statement to Congress that said, “We do not currently assess that the Israeli government is prohibiting or otherwise restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance.”
.> Prior to his report, USAID had sent Blinken a detailed 17-page memo on Israel’s conduct. The memo described instances of Israeli interference with aid efforts, including killing aid workers, razing agricultural structures, bombing ambulances and hospitals, sitting on supply depots and routinely turning away trucks full of food and medicine.
.> Lifesaving food was stockpiled less than 30 miles across the border in an Israeli port, including enough flour to feed about 1.5 million Palestinians for five months, according to the memo. But in February the Israeli government had prohibited the transfer of flour, saying its recipient was the United Nations’ Palestinian branch that had been accused of having ties with Hamas...- https://www.juancole.com/2024/09/concluded-blocking-congress.html
#JuanCole #InformedComment #AnthonyBlinken #BlinkenLiesAgain #AwfulAnthonyBlinken
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from #InformedComment
What you Didn’t Hear at DNC: #Israeli Expulsion Decrees Disrupt last #Gaza Aid Hub, jeopardizing Aid Workers, Thousands of Civiliansby #JuanCole 08/23/2024
https://www.juancole.com/2024/08/expulsion-jeopardizing-civilians.html
#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#PalestinianLivesMatter
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Israel #Palestine #politics
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from #InformedComment
#Palestinian Baby in #Gaza Paralyzed by #Polio, as #Israel Rejects #UN Ceasefire Call to allow #Vaccinationsby #JuanCole 08/24/2024
https://www.juancole.com/2024/08/palestinian-paralyzed-vaccinations.html
#StopKillingChildren #IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC #NotAnotherBomb
#StopArmingIsrael
#RejectAIPAC #BDS
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#PalestinianLivesMatter
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#health #medicine #healthcare #poliovirus #UNICEF
#Palestine #politics
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from #InformedComment
#BTselem accuses #Israeli Authorities of Systematically Torturing Thousands of #Palestinian Prisonersby #JuanCole 08/09/2024
https://www.juancole.com/2024/08/authorities-systematically-palestinian.html
"The brave and meticulous Israeli human rights organization, B’Tselem, has issued a report aptly entitled “Welcome to Hell” on the functioning of the Israeli prison system, in which it concludes that Israeli authorities are now routinely using torture on Palestinian prisoners."
"#Israel today holds some 10,000 Palestinians, many of them without charge or trial or any semblance of habeas corpus. "
#BravePalestinians #HeroicJews
#HeroicIsraelis
#Solidarity #EndTheOccupation
#PalestinianLivesMatter #StopArmingIsrael
#FreePalestine #LetGazaLive#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine#IsraelWarCrimes #ArrestNetanyahuAndGallant
#USHandsOffICC
#Palestine #politics
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#Macklemore’s Understanding of #Palestinian History Beats #HillaryClinton ’s
by #JuanColeHer recent placing of all the blame on the #Palestinians is typical of inside-the-Beltway Goy #Zionism, and is profoundly ahistorical.
#DefendStudentProtesters #SolidarityWithPalestine #NotAntisemitism #CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #DivestFromIsraelNow
#PalestinianLivesMatter #StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israelhttps://www.commondreams.org/opinion/macklemore-hillary-clinton-on-palestine
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> Despite all the hype about Iran’s largely symbolic barrage of over 200 drones and cruise and ballistic missiles, unleashed on the thinly populated #NegevDesert (where it was mainly #PalestinianBedouin who were put in danger), the military significance of this action was minimal...
> The only casualty appears to be a 7-year-old Palestinian #Bedouin girl, who was seriously injured by a falling missile.
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/netanyahu-empowered-by-bidens-grant-of-impunity-baits-iran-into-his-genocidal-gaza-war/
#IsraelIranWar #IsraeliBombing #IranRetaliation #JuanCole #ZNetwork
