Sie lagen zurück, brauchten dringend einen Treffer und hatten beim Spiel nach vorne deutlich Luft nach oben. Dennoch gehörte Oladapo Afolayan nicht zu den

Blessin: „Was soll ich machen?“ Warum ein Afolayan-Einsatz kein Thema war

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This week’s BBC Question Time took place in Belfast, and the Canary has received reports of pro-Palestine prospective audience members being turned away at the door.

BBC Question Time: rigged

Lisa McKee said she was invited to attend, but on arrival at the studio, she was rejected on the basis of her social media posts, and questions she had drafted. She was told by staff that she was “too political”. That seems an odd line of reasoning for a political discussion programme. The questions read:

What will it take for the UK government to change their current policies on sanctioning Israel, and demand a break of the siege on Gaza and an end to illegal occupation throughout Palestine? How is Stormont ensuring that the UK govt fulfils its legal obligation in the event of, what has already been declared, a genocide?

Neither of these are any more political than the first audience question of the night, where a man asked the panel:

Why do the government and left wing politicians continue to call concerned citizens far right when the vast majority are just concern about illegal immigration?

So detailed and specific questions about Britain’s participation in genocide – bad. Unsubstantiated immigration panic about the “vast majority” and how “concerned” they are – good.

Deirdre Linder also reported being refused entry due to an apparent “imbalance in the audience.” BBC Question Time staff told Linder that they had phoned earlier to inform her that she had not been accepted, but no record was present on her phone indicating such a call had been made. This meant a 100 mile round trip from Rostrevor was made for no reason. When she requested a manager to lodge a complaint, she was shepherded away by bouncers.

After then using a quarter of the programme’s time to frame the immigration non-issue as the most salient of our time – ahead of war, genocide, climate breakdown, the crippling cost of living – the discussion latterly moved to Gaza. The question was good – asking whether the current Trump/Blair/Netanyahu stitch-up disguised as a peace plan can work without the involvement of Palestinians. The rightful owners of Palestine have been almost entirely excluded from the proposals, which are currently being reviewed by Hamas.

Western civilisation? “I think it would be a good idea.” c. Gandhi

Trump, for his part, described the moment of its unveiling as “potentially one of the great days ever in civilisation.” That would imply that civilisation exists in a world where butchers like the US president and Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu can stand in an opulent room and pontificate over the corpses of the likely 700,000 people they’ve murdered in Gaza.

On the BBC Question Time panel, Sinn Féin MP John Finucane was first to respond, acknowledging the lack of a Palestinian role in the so-called peace plan. He went on to say “serious questions” must be asked about so-called Israel’s “credibility as a sincere partner for peace.” Host Fiona Bruce was quick to suggest we ought to have similar concerns about Hamas. The latter have shown more willingness for peace than senior Israeli figures, with their 2017 charter accepting a two-state solution if it were to gain the approval of a majority of Palestinians. They have also adhered more strictly to ceasefires, and have continued to engage in peace talks, despite multiple murderous attacks on their negotiators.

Bruce also took issue with Finucane’s correct description of the “kidnapping” of Sinn Féin’s senator Chris Andrews by Israeli Genocide Forces (IGF). Andrews was taken in international waters when the Global Sumud Flotilla he was sailing on was blocked by Israeli naval vessels.

Crawley crawls up Netanyahu’s arse

The BBC then plumbed new depths today, with its flagship radio programme Talkback seeking to blame pro-Palestinian protest for Thursday’s violent attack at a Manchester synagogue, which left three dead. Kicking off, host William Crawley sombrely posed the question:

Should Palestinian street protests be paused…as a mark of respect and solidarity with our Jewish communities?

Crawley put this to Sue Pentel, a Jewish member of the Belfast branch of the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC), who responded:

The reason we felt that we could not stand down yesterday is because while we were marching and during the day over 70 Palestinians were killed. Some children died of starvation due to the Israeli blockade.

There are thousands of Jews involved in these demonstrations. All over the world, Jewish people are involved in standing up and saying “how can we mark the day of atonement when Israel is bombing and starving people in our name?”

Crawley went on to ventriloquise a hypothetical Jewish population of his own imagining, terrorised by equally fictitious antisemitic pro-Palestine protests:

If a large number of Jewish people around your protest feel threatened by it, feel it is fuelling antisemitism, feel they are living in the real world with the rhetorical or actual violent response that is generated by the atmosphere around those protests…if you were worried about it, then you might have a conversation with them about what it is that’s doing that.

If we want to take antisemitism out of the experience of these protests wouldn’t you talk to Jewish people about how you might do that.

Here Crawley – completely without evidence – suggested that Palestine protests are the cause of violence like that seen in Manchester. He had put this grotesque smear to People Before Profit activist Marc Mac Seáin, who responded:

I think that’s starting from a position that’s conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism.

Crawley then stammered, again without substantiation:

No it’s not, it’s literally not doing that.

When the necessity of putting pressure on one’s own government while it aids genocide was put to Crawley, he followed the standard BBC line of holocaust denial. This is despite the UN, the vast majority of genocide scholars, and Israeli human rights group B’Tselem describing it as such.

Asked by the Canary for comment on the discussion, Pentel said:

Anti-Zionism is as old as Zionism itself and there is a growing movement of Jewish people globally who oppose Israeli war crimes, land theft, starvation and genocide. I am one of many, so it was important to be heard on the radio, but to link peaceful protests against genocide and starvation with the violent aggression in Manchester was absolutely unacceptable and frankly insulting.

It was in itself putting those who peacefully oppose Israel, oppose Apartheid, and genocide into the same category as the perpetrator of this attack.

Zionist pile-on as right to protest attacked yet again

The BBC Question Time debacle marks another low in what has been a cynical free-for-all on the Palestine movement since the terrible Manchester attack.

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood provided us with the limited contents of her largely vacant head, saying:

I do think that carrying on in this way feels un-British, it feels wrong, and i would ask people who are thinking about going on protest this weekend – take a step back.

It’s true that opposing genocide, land-theft and ethnic cleansing would be a very un-British thing to do, given the nation spent several hundred years participating in those crimes. Not to mention the fact that Britain was key in setting up the Zionist entity that is the source of ire for demonstrators.

Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis piled in too, saying Palestine protest and “what happened in yesterday’s attack” are “directly linked.”

Meanwhile Novara’s Rivkah Brown lamented how the media treated perhaps the most relevant figure one might find in the current context – “Jewish lad from Salford” and Green Party leader Zack Polanski. Brown remarked on “parachuted-in Israel lobbyists” who “use a tragedy to defend Israel”, while Polanski is “subjected to hostile interviews” for his pro-Palestine views.

Defund Question Time and defund the BBC

The BBC, as genocide supporters two years into a slaughter which is overwhelmingly evidenced, can at this point be considered irredeemable. Just as it’s up to all of us to build alternatively political movements, we need to do likewise with media. If you’d like to hasten the BBC’s demise, you can do so here.

Funding the BBC is at this point little better than putting a bullet in an IGF rifle – cancel your license and tell them Palestine sent you.

Featured image via the Canary

By Robert Freeman

Robert Freeman, Author at Canary

Articles by Robert Freeman for Canary

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A man attacked Jews in a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur in a despicable act of terror and hate. Yet within hours, much of the media coverage had shifted from reporting the crime to implicating Islam - and by extension British Muslims.

The Daily Mail arguably led the way, with its front page screaming: “He was an Islamic terrorist” - a predictable but telling framing. Other tabloids also branded the attack as terrorism, but none with the Mail’s intensity.

This followed a day of framing that transformed the action of a single individual into a reflection of a faith followed by more than two billion people globally.

Some would insist that the attacker, who was killed by police, was just as the Mail described him. But describing the perpetrator as “Islamic” is itself misleading. Extrajudicial killings and targeting of innocents are explicitly forbidden in Islamic teaching. Any journalist or headline writer should know this.

Yet there is now an increasing chasm between what is obvious or intelligible, and what is actually being delivered by Britain’s right-wing media outlets. It no longer matters whether the term “Islamic terrorist” is a misnomer; it functions as a licence for Islamophobia, conflating a criminal act with an entire religion.

UK media revels in hate after Manchester synagogue attack 

Front-page headlines scream that Islam is to blame, conflating a criminal act with an entire religion

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The best reason for nations to switch to power from the sun and wind is that it will reduce, by some degree, the severity of the climate crisis (and save millions of lives lost each year to pollution). The second best reason is that it’s cheaper than fossil fuel, and any nation who doesn’t shift will be stuck with an economy running on expensive energy. But it seems to me—not a military analyst, but a fairly good tea-leaves reader—that the war in Ukraine may be adding a third to the list: its comparative invulnerability to attack.

As the world has begun to figure out, something important has happened amidst the carnage of Russia’s immoral invasion: warfare has changed forever, with the small drone quickly replacing much of the military hardware we grew accustomed to in the 20th century. Drones have been ubiquitous along the front lines, where the no-man’s zone between the armies is lethally patrolled by squadrons of drones able to take out tanks, troop transports, and pretty much anything else—that explains much of the stasis of the last two years; the competing forces are largely pinned down.

Over the course of the war, by sheer necessity, Ukraine has developed a formidable drone industry, and increasingly it is using them against a singular set of targets: the oil refining and transport infrastructure spread out across its sprawling foe. Russia has formidable air defenses, of course—Ukraine couldn’t fly a bomber across 1,400 kilometers of the country’s airspace to bomb a refinery. But the small and comparatively slow drones have proved equal to the task. As the FT reported last week,

Sixteen of Russia’s 38 refineries have been hit since the start of August, some of them multiple times, including one of Russia’s largest fuel-processing facilities, the 340,000 barrel-a-day plant at Ryazan, close to Moscow.

The strikes have disrupted more than 1 million barrels a day of Russia’s refining capacity, according to Energy Aspects, a research group. Diesel exports, if they maintain the current rate, will fall to the lowest monthly total in September since 2020, according to both OilX and Vortexa, which track cargoes.

“It seems to be the most effective campaign that Ukraine has carried out so far,” said Benedict George, head of European petroleum products pricing at Argus, which reports commodity prices.

It's hard to drone a solar panel

The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues

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Jon Harrison, appointed in January, had been key to broad changes in military branch’s policy and budgeting offices

Pete Hegseth fires US navy chief of staff

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Middle East Eye talks to Co-Deputy Leader Mothin Ali and party organisers about left-wing politics and their vision for Britain

'We're the future, don't wait around for Corbyn and Sultana': Inside the Green Party conference

It's the Green Party's moment and the membership knows it. In mid-September, I was in the Bournemouth International Centre covering the Liberal Democrat party conference. The colour yellow featured prominently, and the mood was calm and genteel.

^{Imran Mulla (Middle East Eye)}

Plain old pictures are out; content is in.

Instagram wants me to make content — I just want to post a photo

What was once a simple photo sharing app is now a platform for Content with a capital C.

^{Allison Johnson (The Verge)}

Japanese retailers are warning customers that they’re running out of Asahi Super Dry, the country’s most popular beer, following a major cyberattack on the producer.

Archived version: archive.is/newest/cybernews.co…

Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.

We have a Macbook Air mid 2013 and no matter what distro I tried, making wi-fi work was pain due to Broadcom drivers and not having ethernet port. Basically had to install the drivers via phone tethering.

However, probably because of the drivers, there are certain problems like disconnecting out of blue or really slow connection or cannot reconnect unless reboot the PC.

So I want to ask, if you have this Macbook and have Linux installed, which distro you're using it with? How is it?

Recently I installed Bazzite on a home computer and printers, Xbox controller, iPhone connection, everything the owners need worked out of the box. I'm wondering, would it also work fine with this Macbook too?

Edit: I added these to a blocklist, which I created here >> /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl.conf

This is for BCM4360 adapter.

blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist bcma
blacklist brcm80211
blacklist brcmfmac
blacklist brcmsmac
blacklist ssb

Edit 2: Installed LMDE, which wi-fi was working even on live ISO. However, same problems also present here. It has dkms version of the driver but I don't sense any difference. Same connection drops, same random slowness.

Also found this thread. It describes my issues, but sadly no replies.

Edit 3: Currently experimenting with iwd since I found out this thread from Reddit, surprisingly not deleted, yet.

I installed iwd, disabled NetworkManager, enabled iwd.

sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager
sudo systemctl disable NetworkManager
sudo systemctl start iwd
sudo systemctl enable iwd

[Scan]
DisablePeriodicScan=true
[DriverQuirks]
DefaultInterface=wl
[General]
EnableNetworkConfiguration=true
[Rank]
BandModifier5Ghz=9.0 

Then edited /etc/resolv.conf.

nameserver 192.168.1.3 #pi-hole IP

Also installed iwgtk to manage iwd with UI.

Seems fine so far, will edit again if it's good or not.

Correctly install and configure the drivers for the Broadcom BCM4360 Dual Band Wireless Network Adapter 14e4:43a0 rev 03 for Ubuntu 24.04

I've installed Ubuntu 24.04 on an old macbook air. I followed the steps and tips found in a popular answer -> Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers However nothing seems to have my wifi work smo...

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Sometimes they work, and sometimes I have to close one or the other, or every connection gets blocked. I haven't blocked anything from Proton VPN on Portmaster - just some Windows services and domains that don't break the internet when Proton VPN is off.
Do you have any idea what may be happening or how I can discover what's going on?
- both on the free plan.

Edit: I might have figured it out. It seems like they are fighting over DNS resolving. When I removed the DNS settings from Portmaster (it's already set in the browser anyway), it started working again 😀

cross-posted from: linux.community/post/3587385

I don't mean only the US but in much of the world: in many European countries the populist far right is unseating Christian-Democratic parties (conservative parties), like in Hungary, Slovakia or Czechia. In others like Germany or France the far right is at the gates of power, in the UK, Reform UK is running high in the polls. In Turkey autocratic Erdogan is copying the Putin playbook to systematically dismantle the social-democratic opposition. In Japan, a neo Thatcherite that doesn't hide she honors Japanese war criminals is about to become the new PM.

Something common I see in all these parties is strong disaffection with the current state of their countries and a longing to an idealized past they promise to bring back, to make countries great again...

Except that societies have changed beyond recognition in the last 40 years, emerging China, India, Mexico and a myriad of south east Asian countries can produce cheaper than us in the developed countries, so called first world democracies are now much older and indebted than 40 years ago (no wonder societies have shifted so hard to the right), buying a house is now waaaay more expensive than 40 years ago, you cannot earn a livable wage just assembling toasters like 40 years ago, you just cannot roll automation and digitization back, no matter how much you complain...

The past cannot come back, neither will it come back just because some people want it to. It's completely futile, but people are not rational about this, they're completely emotional and tribal.

It's like a huge, collective effort in denial: denying that we in the developed world are older, not the first ones in the world anymore, that other countries we always considered inferior to us are even surpassing us technologically while we complain and hope for a savior that brings us 40 years back when we, the white guys, ruled all over.

I don't see it happening: being angry and voting the far right may make some people feel good, it may make them feel they're somehow taking their country back, but it's not going to stop China, India and other countries from developing, investing in new technologies and even creating trade alliances that bypass the US or the EU.

My question: was there a moment in history where societies were so shifted to the right like today? How long did it last?

cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/72882

Reports are emerging that Israeli authorities have abused activist Greta Thunberg while illegally holding her in detention.

Greta Thunberg beaten by Israeli authorities

On Saturday 4 October, the Israeli occupation authorities deported 137 of the kidnapped international solidarity activists who participated in the Global Sumud Flotilla to break the humanitarian siege on Gaza, in the second deportation operation in a matter of days, after returning four Italians to their country on Friday 3 October.

One of the deported activists who arrived at Istanbul airport on Saturday recounted shocking details of what he described as ‘brutal assaults’ on some activists during their detention, telling reporters:

They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair in front of our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others.

She’s still a little kid. They made her suffer.

BREAKING: Turkish activist and Sumud Flotilla participant Ersin Celik:

“They [Israelis] dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” pic.twitter.com/gV6SeMZr7U

— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws1) October 4, 2025

Separately, the Guardian reported that an email to Swedish authorities said Greta Thunberg was suffering from:

dehydration. She has received insufficient amounts of both water and food. She also stated that she had developed rashes which she suspects were caused by bedbugs. She spoke of harsh treatment and said she had been sitting for long periods on hard surfaces.

Meanwhile, other released activists spoke of similar degrading treatment.

Turkish activist Samanur Sonmaz Yaman, a member of the flotilla, recounts details of the occupation’s oppression and abuse of veiled women from the boats:

Occupation soldiers ripped off our headscarves during our arrest and took them from us, and our non-veiled friends gave us their shirts to cover our heads.

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Adalah, the legal centre that monitors the cases of detainees, said that detention conditions at Ketziot prison in the Negev desert are ‘deteriorating alarmingly,’ amid reports of ill-treatment and violence against some detainees.

A spokesperson for the organisation said that it is difficult at this stage to provide a comprehensive assessment, but confirmed that the mistreatment primarily affects non-European detainees, especially those whose countries do not have diplomatic missions in Israel.

Ongoing Israeli violence

This incident is the latest chapter in the confrontation between Israel and the international solidarity flotillas that recently set sail in an attempt to break the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip for more than 18 years, amid growing international warnings about targeting solidarity activists and civil society activists, and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Strip, which is suffering from famine and shortages of medicine and fuel.

Israel intercepted 40 ships in the Global Solidarity Flotilla that set sail to reach Gaza to break the blockade and deliver humanitarian aid amid the ongoing war of extermination on Gaza, which is now entering its third year.

Featured image via the Canary

By Alaa Shamali

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So that very important day is almost upon us.

October 14th is the day set for when Windows 10 stops security updates (no consumer is going to pay for extended) and begins to really push people to Windows 11. Windows 11 has strict hardware requirements that a lot of "older" devices that most people have do not meet.

And so, I am sure many individuals and companies may be getting rid of their old laptops and even desktops to recoup the vost of new devices.

What is the plan, when should we move in? What kind of deals should we be looking out for?

I want to find a great deal on a great laptop just for the fun of it. Some of my friends (converted to Linux) are waiting to get new laptops and score a deal. I have been waiting years for this day and I hope it can feel like a special day.

Any good places to look for these kinds of deals?