Viral 'honour' killing in southwest Pakistan triggers national outrage
KARACHI (Reuters) -A viral video of the "honour killing" of a woman and her lover in a remote part of Pakistan has ignited national outrage, prompting scrutiny of long-standing tribal codes and calls for justice in a country where such killings often pass in silence.
While hundreds of so-called honour killings are reported in Pakistan each year, often with little public or legal response, the video of a woman and man accused of adultery being taken to the desert by a group of men to be killed has struck a nerve.
The mother, Gul Jan Bibi, said the killings were carried out by family and local elders based on "centuries-old Baloch traditions", and not on the orders of the tribal chief.
"We did not commit any sin," she said in a video statement that also went viral. "Bano and Ehsan were killed according to our customs."
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups
Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for actionEmma Graham-Harrison (The Guardian)
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Maybe they should also make it mandatory for pedestrians to carry rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and be trained in their operation.
This would hopefully make car drivers to exercise more caution.
/sarcasm that has an unfortunate chance of becoming reality in a few decades, you just watch
Cambodia and Thailand agree to ceasefire, says Anwar
Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an immediate and unconditional ceasefire beginning at midnight, following a successful special meeting hosted and chaired by Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Cambodia and Thailand agree to ceasefire, says Anwar
PUTRAJAYA: Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to an immediate and unconditional ceasefire beginning at midnight, following a successful special meeting hosted and chaired by Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.The Star Online (The Star)
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More than 40 killed in DR Congo attack linked to Islamic State
ADF in DR Congo: IS-linked rebels accused of killing Christian worshippers in Komanda
Most of the dead were worshippers taking part in a night vigil which was stormed by armed men, officials said.Joseph Winter (BBC News)
BBC investigation uncovers lasting toxic legacy of cargo ship disaster off Sri Lanka
BBC uncovers lasting toxic legacy of cargo ship disaster off Sri Lanka
Scientists warn the damage to the environment after the 2021 X-Press Pearl disaster could be much more enduring.Leana Hosea & Saroj Pathirana (BBC News)
Nurdles are the raw materials that are melted to make plastic products and it is not unusual for large amounts to be transported in the global plastic supply chain.
Plastic should be banned for at 90% of its current usage.
Stop Big Oil from making billions from plastic.
Sewage spill causes deadly train derailment in Germany, police say
Sewage spill caused deadly train derailment in Germany, police say
The train driver, another rail employee and one passenger died, while 41 people were injured, prosecutors say.Emily Atkinson and Bethany Bell (BBC News)
Five killed in Bangkok market mass shooting
Thailand: Five killed in Bangkok market mass shooting
Police say officers are investigating the motive behind the incident in Thailand's capital.Jonathan Head (BBC News)
Head of Shaolin Temple in China under investigation on suspicion of embezzlement
Head of Shaolin Temple in China under investigation on suspicion of embezzlement
Controversy comes to the birthplace of kung-fu with accusations against head monk Shi YongxinGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Muscovites’ travel plans disrupted as Ukraine targets airspace with drones
Muscovites’ travel plans disrupted as Ukraine targets airspace with drones
Tens of thousands of passengers affected by systematic campaign aimed at bringing the war home to ordinary RussiansPjotr Sauer (The Guardian)
Moscow starts direct flights to North Korea amid decline in options for Russian tourists
Moscow starts direct flights to North Korea amid decline in options for Russian tourists
The Moscow-Pyongyang flights operated by Russia’s Nordwind Airlines will initially operate only once a monthGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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US-EU trade deal is a ‘dark day’ for Europe, says French PM
Trump tariff of 15% means European exporters will face more than triple the average 4.8% levy now in force
The US-EU trade deal, clinched in a ballroom at Donald Trump’s golf resort in Scotland on Sunday, has been criticised by France’s prime minister and business leaders across Germany.
The deal, which will impose 15% tariffs on almost all European exports to the US including cars, ends the threat of a punitive 30% import duties being imposed on Trump’s 1 August deadline for a deal, but it is a world apart from the zero-zero import and export tariff the EU offered initially.
It also means European exporters to the US will face more then triple the average 4.8% tariff now in force, with negotiations to continue on steel, which is still facing a 50% tariff, aviation, and a question mark over future barriers to pharmaceutical exports.
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Thailand: Five killed in Bangkok market mass shooting
Five people were killed in a mass shooting at a food market in Bangkok on Monday.
The suspect in the attack at Or Tor Kor Market died after taking his own life, police in Thailand's capital confirmed.
Four of those killed were security guards and the fifth victim worked at the market. Two other market sellers were injured, police said.
Police Lieutenant Siam Boonsom told local media that the gunman was Thai and he had disputes with the market's security guards before.
Thailand: Five killed in Bangkok market mass shooting
Police say officers are investigating the motive behind the incident in Thailand's capital.Jonathan Head (BBC News)
The rise of Japan's far right was supercharged by Trump - and tourists
Japanese politics is a usually steady ship, verging on the boring most of the time.
Not anymore.
Last Sunday, a once obscure far-right party, Sanseito, surged from one to 15 seats in the elections, making them a serious contender in Japan's political scene.
With their "Japanese First" slogan, riffing off US President Donald Trump's "America First", they have truly ruffled the feathers of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its embattled prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba.
How Japan's far right was supercharged by Trump and tourists
‘Sanseito says what others are thinking’: Why a once-obscure far-right party shook up Japan's political sceneShaimaa Khalil (BBC News)
Tourists always act like assholes according to the locals. The local customs aren’t always understood. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of a single place who says they love the behavior of tourists— except perhaps the people benefiting from those tourists.
The article mentions people jaywalking, which is annoying but seems pretty innocent. Trash, etc… the solution is clean the trash up… using all that tourist money. A solution could be to tax the tourists or the tourist industry. But I think we know that most governments are corrupt and only a fraction of that money will ever make it back, and even then it will probably be embezzled or misspent. I get it though, I used to live near a tourist area and they were so fucking annoying. But the only solution would be to get rid of tourist attractions, and some of those attractions are part of the local culture.
Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
Tesla was caught withholding data, lying about it, and misdirecting authorities in the wrongful death case involving Autopilot that it lost this week.
The automaker was undeniably covering up for Autopilot.
Last week, a jury found Tesla partially liable for a wrongful death involving a crash on Autopilot. We now have access to the trial transcripts, which confirm that Tesla was extremely misleading in its attempt to place all the blame on the driver.
The company went as far as to actively withhold critical evidence that explained Autopilot’s performance around the crash. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers, the “Mothership”, and received an acknowledgement. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.
What ensued were years of battle to get Tesla to acknowledge that this collision snapshot exists and is relevant to the case.
The police repeatedly attempted to obtain the data from the collision snapshot, but Tesla led the authorities and the plaintiffs on a lengthy journey of deception and misdirection that spanned years.
Tesla withheld data, lied, and misdirected police and plaintiffs to avoid blame in Autopilot crash
Tesla was caught withholding data, lying about it, and misdirecting authorities in the wrongful death case involving Autopilot that it...Fred Lambert (Electrek)
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Shaolin Temple: Abbot Shi Yongxin under criminal investigation in China
Shaolin Temple: Abbot Shi Yongxin under criminal investigation in China
Shi Yongxin earned the nickname "CEO monk" for popularising Shaolin kung fu around the world.Koh Ewe (BBC News)
Russia scales down celebrations honoring its navy as Ukraine launches more drone attacks
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/33555222
Russia on Sunday scaled down the festivities honoring its navy citing security concerns as continuing Ukrainian drone attacks posed a challenge to the Kremlin.Russian authorities canceled the parades of warships in St. Petersburg, in the Kaliningrad region on the Baltic and in the far-eastern port of Vladivostok that are usually held to mark the annual Navy Day celebrations.
Asked about the reason for the cancellation of the parade in St. Petersburg even as President Vladimir Putin arrived in his home city to visit the navy headquarters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “it’s linked to the overall situation, security reasons, which are above all else.”
The Russian Defense Ministry said that air defenses downed 99 Ukrainian drones over several regions overnight. Later in the day, officials reported more drones shot down near St. Petersburg. A woman was injured by drone fragments in the Lomonosov region, according to the local authorities.
St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport suspended dozens of flights early Sunday because of the drone threat.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-putin-navy-b895fd179433ce1f555795e86891fc32
There are some moderation actions you can do from a different instance, I'm not sure which ones don't work or if they've all been fixed
You should create an account on a different instance and appoint yourself as moderator, at least for times when you don't want to get on VPN, like using an app on your phone
Israel attacks so-called 'safe zone' despite military pause
Israel attacks so-called 'safe zone' despite military pause
The Israeli military has carried out several attacks across Gaza, killing over 53 people - including 32 aid seekers - despite announcing a "tactical suspension" of operations in three areas.Mera Aladam (Middle East Eye)
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in elementary school i had a Jewish teacher. he taught me way back in 1998 that Israel was something called "fascist." he told me he didn't want to burden me too much before i was ready to know what that meant. but he told me no Jewish person could ever support fascism and remain Jewish at their core.
years later he showed me why he always wore long sleeves when teaching elementary school. it was to cover a tattoo on his arm. it was a number the nazis had assigned him when he was the age i was when we met (3). "this is why fascism is bad," was the message. "it almost killed me and my entire family," was the spoken justification for why no Jewish person could ever be fascist and remain linked to their Jewish identity.
he told me about some of the people who didn't make it out of auschwitz he had loved. his mother. his father. his sister. another little boy he made friends with at the death camp. countless people he never learned the names of but who always took a moment when they saw him to hug him and tell him they loved him, and that they envisioned a future for him where he told their stories to children so that no one would ever enact this kind of evil again.
i grew up in the south. while i was in school he introduced me to some of his friends in Appalachia.
- a cherokee man who wanted us to know his culture wasn't backwards, outdated, or novel. it was just his life
- an old man who had trouble writing because he'd been shot on blair mountain
- a gay woman who wasn't sure she believed there truly is such a thing as a "man" or a "woman" at birth, but rather that these are things our society we're supposed to be
These are just a few examples. there was always some marginalized person at his place teaching him how to make a recipe that he'd introduce to us before they moved on.
he told me in 2016 shortly before his death that his only regret in life was being a hypocrite. he told every person he ever imparted wisdom to to never hate, and to never let someone convince you to hate someone you never met. within the camp, there was a schism between people who blamed Poles and Ukrainians alongside nazi Germans for theis presence there. he told me the person who held his hand and walked him out of auschwitz was a Ukrainian man. my teacher didn't speak Ukrainan, not yet anyway. but he led him to a stew pot, hugged him, and gave him a bowl of borscht, made in the jewish style rather than the Ukrainian style. he learned in that moment that no one is ever simply part of a group, or that any group is simply represented any individual in it. people are complicated and groups are complicated.
but what made him feel like a hypocrite ever since the 1960s was that he couldn't find it in his heart not to hate israelis. he felt so deeply offended and betrayed by the usage of symbols he identified himself with to implement the very things that had taken from him nearly everything that it made him hate. i knew this man for the last 21 years of his life. the idea that he could hate anyone was… shocking. it… kind of shifted my world view forever because like… he never allowed himself to share this hate with anyone. he would criticize israel in action, he would tell us the star of david was not meant to represent what they used it for, he would explain to us their recontextualize the menorah to mean something it oughtn't was hurtful, but the idea that there were people on earth he didn't have the patience to listen to because he found them so wretched and vile that it twisted his soul in a knot was new to me.
i don't hate the israelis the way he hated them. i don't think i'm capable. not without the pain he suffered. but i do find them offensive on his behalf. i do think often about how wretched a person must be to wound the soul of someone so unfailingly patient and kind. i think about the crises of faith their re-contextualizing of his symbols gave him. but most of all i think about what he told me (paraphrased because this is a memory and memories change a little bit every time you access them)
"Some of my elders tried to teach me to hate the Ukrainian and make my way to Israel when everything was over. A few considered themselves Ukrainian in addition to being Jewish and told me that the way to make the world safe for Jews wasn't to go to Israel, but to go anywhere the poor and downtrodden are and help them resist their pharaoh. The soldiers who freed us were mostly Ukrainian. They fed us borscht because they knew from first hand experience that a starving belly can eat borscht without vomiting. Borscht makes you strong. It gives you power. The russian commanders wanted to send us to reeducation centers and bring us into the fold of authoritarian communism. One of the Ukrainian soldiers falsified documents for me and my Uncle to come to the United states to stay with 'our family' (his family) in hopes that we were more likely to be allowed to be ourselves here.
"Here in the United States, that soldier's cousins would tell me that under nazi occupation, Ukrainians were offered, in effect, 3 choices for survival. Collaborate with the Nazis, work with the antisemitic underground movement, or join the red army. Many like that soldier chose the red army even though it meant giving up on the dream of an independent Ukraine for a long time because Jews had been their friends and neighbors for 1600 years. They chose when faced with their burning home to save their friends rather than any of their own possessions. It was a grand act of kindness given to us by an entire group of people who had already suffered immensely under Bolshevism.
"Israel does not represent to me any future for the Jewish people. They are the same death cult that tried to kill me as a child for the unforgivable crime of existence. Every day, I work to make the world a better and safer place. Everyday it is made harder by people who claim that they do it in my honor. It hurts me in ways I cannot describe. Someday a time will come you will need to assemble a coalition of misfits. People will despise every member of your group. If you do it right, you will find at least one Ukrainian who will find you. They will be building their own band of misfits. Our people lived together for 1500 years before the Time of Separation started in the 1880s. We work the same way in times of desperation. We learned it from each other. It will be okay in that time to be selfish in your help. It will be okay to see someone in need and and feed them some soup for the selfish reason that the world will get safer for you when people in more danger than yourself are made safe."
i have spent the decade since his passing at the age of 76 trying to become the person he always hoped i'd be. he spent a lifetime trying to figure out his religious identity. i find myself on a similar journey, having started my political life as a democratic socialist, then moving into the space of anachocommunism and now operating in a space somewhat between anarchocommunism and religious anarchism. but the one thing that has never changed about my politics is the core of what drove his religious practices. it's basically the following principles:
- if you are hungry, i will feed you
- if you are thirsty, i will water you
- the only people who will be denied either of these gifts will be racists
- racists in hunger will be offered food, but not water
edit i math bad from 2016-1940 and missed my teacher's age by a decade
I found this the other day:
Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Ariel Sharon criticised the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia as an act of "brutal interventionism" and said Israel was against "aggressive actions" and "hurting innocent people" and hoped "the sides will return to the negotiating table as soon as possible".
Saudi forces arrest pilgrim for raising Palestinian flag in Mecca
Saudi forces arrest pilgrim for raising Palestinian flag in Mecca
Saudi security forces arrested an Egyptian pilgrim at the Grand Mosque in Mecca after he raised the Palestinian flag beside the Kaaba and called for an end to Gaza’s siege and starvation.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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Confusion surrounds Air India as crash dents national pride
The airline, seen as a symbol of India, had poured billions into expansion and modernization to repair its image after decades of neglect under state ownership.
Under the Indian conglomerate, which founded the airline in 1932 and bought it back in 2022 after it spent decades under government operation, Air India was making big moves, announcing a record order in 2023 of 470 aircraft valued at more than $70 billion.
A year later, the airline said it had begun a $400 million retrofit of its legacy fleet, accelerating the upgrade by leasing jets from other airlines, including Delta.
That momentum came to a grinding halt last month when a London-bound Boeing 787 Dreamliner crashed seconds after takeoff in the northwestern Indian city of Ahmedabad, killing all but one of the 242 people aboard plus 19 others on the ground in one of India’s worst aviation disasters.
Air India has since been under immense pressure to answer for the crash, but bereaved families were left with more questions after investigators released a preliminary report this month that said the plane’s fuel switches had been wrongly cut off, leading to speculation that one of the pilots might have done it accidentally or even intentionally.
Confusion surrounds Air India as crash dents national pride
Before one of its planes crashed just after takeoff last month, killing at least 260 people, Air India had been a symbol of the country’s global riseMithil Aggarwal (NBC News)
You got me completely wrong
I just find it a very odd take to talk about the hurt feelings of all the other Indian pilots, just because maybe one did a mistake
This just smells too nationalized, because it just isn't obvious, that it was a pilot mistake, and even then, why should all other Indian pilots do the same mistake?
Mistakes are human and happen. Shouldn't, but it just is reality.
Reducing the issue to the image of Indian flights and pilots, was just too fast for me.
I care much more about what actually happened and how we can prevent it in the future.
I don't really care if the pilot was Indian, Russian, Chinese, European or American.
The important part is to find out how to prevent it.
If pilots get overworked, then this is also an issue that needs to be addressed.
But the nationalism in this is just bullshit.
(And I'm not from India)
Inside the drugs factory: How captagon is fuelling the war in Sudan
Inside the drugs factory: How captagon is fuelling the war in Sudan
Deep in an industrial wasteland on the eastern bank of the Nile stand three unremarkable, half-finished buildings surrounded by a minefield.Daniel Hilton (Middle East Eye)
Cuba’s President: ‘We Can’t Defend the Revolution when We Hide Our Problems’
July 20, 2025
[translation of an article published on July 15, 2025, on the website of the Presidency of the Cuban government.]
Cuba’s President: ‘We Can’t Defend the Revolution when We Hide Our Problems’ - World-Outlook
This article, published on July 15, 2025, on the website of the Presidency of the Cuban government, reports on the response by Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba’s president, to controversial remarks a day earlier by the country’s Minister of Labor and Social S…world-outlook.com (World-Outlook)
Cuba’s President: ‘We Can’t Defend the Revolution when We Hide Our Problems’
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July 20, 2025[translation of an article published on July 15, 2025, on the website of the Presidency of the Cuban government.]
Cuba’s President: ‘We Can’t Defend the Revolution when We Hide Our Problems’
July 20, 2025[translation of an article published on July 15, 2025, on the website of the Presidency of the Cuban government.]
Cuba’s President: ‘We Can’t Defend the Revolution when We Hide Our Problems’ - World-Outlook
This article, published on July 15, 2025, on the website of the Presidency of the Cuban government, reports on the response by Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuba’s president, to controversial remarks a day earlier by the country’s Minister of Labor and Social S…world-outlook.com (World-Outlook)
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There would be no real incentive to take my potatoes, since you already have your needs being met.
But if you decided you wanted to steal my personal property anyway for giggles, especially under threat of violence, I would likely tell the neighbors or community we both live in what you're doing, and you may be shunned from the community.
If you attempt to commit violence against me, I could defend myself, and call upon a community defense group to help, similar to how Rojava does it.
I think you'd be surprised how uncommon that sort of behavior would be under what would effectively be a semi-post scarcity society. A person living in anarchist Catalonia during the revolution described how odd it was after they abolished money, and people had the option of simply taking more than they needed. But he described how quickly people adapted to it, and began only taking what they needed, as they became assured they would be able to get more when they needed it, and didn't want to deprive soneone else.
There's quite a repository of archeological evidence that the style of society I'm describing was once the norm until fairly recently in human history, showing us that our current mode of existence, where dominance hierarchies and artificial scarcity rule, is not a deeply rooted or unchangeable aspect of human nature, but in fact an aberration from the norm.
You can read more on that aspect in the book The Dawn of Everything, by David Graeber and David Wengrow. Highly recommend it.
Humans are astonishingly cooperative with eachother in a post scarcity environment, but there have been few opportunities in the modern era for that to come out and flourish, as otherwise capitalism wouldn't be able to perpetuate itself.
SYRIA: Authorities must investigate abductions of Alawite women and girls
Syria: Authorities must investigate abductions of Alawite women
The Syrian government must urgently step up efforts to prevent gender-based violence and promptly, thoroughly and impartially investigate cases of abducted and kidnapped Alawite women and girls, and hold perpetrators accountable, Amnesty Internationa…Amnesty International
U.S. slaps 20.56% anti-dumping duties on Canadian softwood lumber
The U.S. Commerce Department has decided to hike anti-dumping duties on Canadian softwood to 20.56 per cent, with B.C. lumber organizations calling them unjustified, punitive and protectionist.
The hiked softwood lumber duties come amid the growing trade war between Canada and the U.S., and represent the latest blow to B.C.'s beleaguered forestry industry.
B.C. Forests Minister Ravi Parmar described the long-awaited rate hike as a "gut punch" for B.C.'s forestry industry which has seen thousands of workers laid off over the last few years.
Germany sees anti-Pride events and restricts rainbow flags ahead of LGBTQ+ parties
"There was a massive police presence to shield us from anti-Pride protests. We only felt safe because the police kept us apart," Schmidt says.
The counter demonstration was organized by far-right groups designated by Germany's domestic intelligence agency as violent and extremist. It's one of 17 extreme-right anti-Pride demonstrations that have taken place so far this year, according to the Center for Monitoring, Analysis and Strategy — an organization that monitors extremism. Some cities have even canceled pride because of threats.
Sabine Volk, a researcher at the Institute for Research on Far Right Extremism at the University of Tübingen, says these groups attract young men who promote what they call traditional family values — a kind of pride that has little to do with rainbow flags.
"The key slogan is that the German flag and Germany itself is already colorful enough," Volk says. "And the overall message is that queer life does not have a place in Germany."
And from what I heard on the news for Berlin yesterday it was over 100.000 Pride participants vs. around 400 counter protesters. Of which one organizer was arrested because she violated a weapons ban on one of Berlins public squares.
This does not read „Victory for the shitheads“, on the contrary.
around 400 counter protesters
That's how many signed up. Only 35 actually showed up.
„Abmarsch!“: Junger Neonazi von eigener Mutter abgeführt
Ein junger Neonazi wird zu seiner Mutter gebracht, die ihn abholt und vor der Polizei zurechtweist.Alexander Rothe (Berliner Morgenpost)
Physicists Create First-Ever Antimatter Qubit, Making the Quantum World Even Weirder
Physicists Create First-Ever Antimatter Qubit, Making the Quantum World Even Weirder
In its second antimatter breakthrough this month, CERN announced it successfully created the first-ever antimatter qubit, paving the way to even weirder quantum experiments.Gayoung Lee (Gizmodo)
How have humans gone from the Stone Age to being able to manipulate subatomic particles in just a few thousand years?
And it’s not just normal subatomic particles. My mind is kind of blown when I think about this.
The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born
By SAMY MAGDY and MARIAM DAGGA
Updated 9:15 PM EDT, July 26, 2025
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — A mother pressed a final kiss to what remained of her 5-month-old daughter and wept. Esraa Abu Halib’s baby now weighed less than when she was born.
On a sunny street in shattered Gaza, the bundle containing Zainab Abu Halib represented the latest death from starvation after 21 months of war and Israeli restrictions on aid.
The baby was brought to the pediatric department of Nasser Hospital on Friday. She was already dead. A worker at the morgue carefully removed her Mickey Mouse-printed shirt, pulling it over her sunken, open eyes. He pulled up the hems of her pants to show her knobby knees. His thumb was wider than her ankle. He could count the bones of her chest
Far right back on the streets: How to take on Farage and Robinson
Far right back on the streets: How to take on Farage and Robinson
Almost one year after last summer’s far-right riots, protestors have targeted hotels housing asylum seekers, egged on by Reform.Ben Gliniecki (The Communist)
US-EU deal sets a 15% tariff on most goods and averts the threat of a trade war with a global shock
https://apnews.com/article/trump-scotland-tariffs-europe-8d2fb467d64f7fdfc4797dbebd54e8fc
EU accepted 15% tariff AND it has to keep spending billions on oil, gas, and weapons from US. If it doesn't US can increase the tariffs. So to summarize:
- EU has worst trade position than before
- EU is still tied to US without clear way to become independent
- the situation is only stabilized for now and Trump can "alter the deal" in the future
Great job Ursula!
Seriously, it's clear now that UE only has one card: let's build close business ties with everyone so they can't afford to fight us. Putin and Trump showed that this tactic doesn't work against strongmen but EU is unable to come up with anything else. EU has no power and it will all go downhill now.
Scotland streets fill with protestors as Trump arrives to play golf
Scotland streets fill with protestors as Trump arrives to play golf
U.S. President Donald Trump is in Scotland Saturday to play golf, and is expected to hold trade talks with the UK Prime Minister Starmer and EU Commission President von der Leyen.globalnewsdigital (Global News)
US won't fight for it self, let alone the politic spam about Trump.
Its a golf course, you will need a good arm... Or a taco cannon...
(Internet, write that down, we need to make a taco cannon)
Thai military fires artillery toward Cambodia amid escalating tensions
Thailand fires artillery toward Cambodia amid escalating tensions
Thailand’s military fired artillery toward Cambodia as tensions further escalate between the two countries over a century-old border dispute.NBC News
‘Really cautious’: why the ICJ is delaying a Gaza genocide verdict
Experts on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said a judgment on whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza is unlikely before the end of 2027 at the earliest, amid warnings that the international community should not use the court’s glacial proceedings as an excuse to put off action to stop the killing.
Israel was originally due to present its rebuttal to the genocide charge brought by South Africa on Monday, but the court has granted its lawyers a six-month extension.
The South African legal team countered that none of the arguments given by Israeli lawyers were a legitimate reason for delay, and dragging out the case was unjustifiable in view of the humanitarian emergency in Gaza. But the court sided with Israel, which now has until next January to present its case.
“The second round is usually around six months each, so that’s another year, and then that brings us to January 2027,” said Michael Becker, who served as a legal officer at the ICJ from 2010 to 2014, and who is now assistant professor of international human rights law at Trinity College Dublin.
A range of factors could drag the case into 2028 however, including demands by other countries to intervene.
‘Really cautious’: why the ICJ is delaying a Gaza genocide verdict
While civilians starve and global opinion hardens, judgment from international court may not come until 2027 – or laterJulian Borger (The Guardian)
The article on the same site you shared here (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/…) about the RCMP goes over their history as the NWCP, who were created to control "unrest" among indigenous people and settlers (I.e. the people that were stealing their land). You can read about the Indian Act, which exists to this day. That book goes over the laws I mentioned about the police enforcing the potluck bans and how they punished indigenous people who went off reserve (similarly to how Israeli forces keep Palestinians within their own areas and don't allow them travel outside without a pass). There's a shorter version of the 21 things you may not know about the Indian act Here, and Bob Joseph is one the most renowned indigenous scholars in Canada. Police officers were also the ones who would "arrest" children and take them to the residential schools. orangeshirtday.org
As for the sixties scoop, there are a few things at play. One, the reservations were kept under-served (meaning in terms of electricity, etc) by the very systems the government had created. Two, as you mentioned, they did not own the land (and legally weren't allowed to) so they were all "poor" in the eyes of the government. But most importantly, its the basis that the white government workers who were deciding what is or isn't a good "fit" for the child were doing so based on their own cultural values
The ideal home would instil the values and lifestyles with which the child welfare workers themselves were familiar: white, middle-class homes in white, middle-class neighbourhoods. Aboriginal communities and Aboriginal parents and families were deemed to be “unfit.” (ajic.mb.ca/volumel/chapter14.h…)
As a consequence, indigenous children were greatly over-represented in the child welfare system: by your own source, its a low estimate to say that 20,000 children were taken from their homes.
You mentioned that school age mortality was around 1 in 250. In residential schools, that same mortality was 1 in 25 (conservatively). The medical inspector of these schools himself even called out the conditions of these schools in his book A National Crime.
As for the savage comment, I barely even want to respond to that but White Canadians most certainly also had slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries, and I promise you that is not why he was calling then "savages".
The definition of genocide:
1. Killing members of the group;
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
The government itself recognized the actions as genocide, and what is disingenuous is to downplay the genocide of one group of peoples over another just because one was "less effective" at destroying a culture and murdering people.
I know I'm not going to change your mind so I'm going to stop replying after this. I want you to know that I don't think Canada, or Canadians, are "bad" people, just like how I don't think Israelis are necessarily "bad" people. The government does fucked up shit. All governments do fucked up shit. None of it is okay, and none of it is "better" just because it is less successful at its goal of erasing entire cultures. Yes, even those slave trading indigenous groups were doing fucked up shit, and no, that also was not okay. That doesn't mean it's okay to kill them all and replace them with your own fucked up shit.
Motion to call residential schools genocide backed unanimously
NDP MP says Parliament recognizing residential schools as genocide was ‘historic’The Canadian Press (The Globe and Mail)
You're right, we likely won't convince each other of the other's view point, so not much point labouring over it in regards to Canada's actions explicitly.
That said, back to the core point, I don't think anything you've said changes my position that equating these two things cheapens the word Genocide.
To take a similar situation to clarify: Rape. Go back a decade or two, and Rape brought forward images of like, a guy hiding in a dark parking lot at night, jumping out and violently forcing himself on a woman. Or cases where the rapist broke into a single woman's home and assaulted her. Now, in Canada for example, when a woman has an orgy with 5 guys, is recorded saying shit like "Get over here and fuck me you pussy", and later decides she didn't want to do that... it's called rape. Or the Harvey situation, where women consenting to sex in exchange for power/privilege, is called rape. Advocacy groups make claims like over 50% of women have been raped, with the 'broader' understanding of the word. Even if some legal gits have structured arguments and bullshit so that the term 'technically' fits in the broader sense, people care a lot less now when someone like Trump is called a Rapist -- the words been diluted to a point where its lost its power. If everyone's a rapist, why be morally outraged?
Calling Canada's actions over the course of more than a century a genocide does the same thing. Calling Canada's actions a genocide, while dithering on whether Israel's actions count, makes the term genocide far less impactful.
Turkey sets new record of 50.5 degrees as Europe swelters
Turkey's Environment Ministry said meteorologists had registered a reading of 50.5 degrees Celsius (122.9 degrees Fahrenheit) in the southeast of the country, setting a nationwide record.
The record temperature was registered on Friday at Silopi, the ministry said in a post on X on Saturday.
Silopi is 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Turkey's borders with Iraq and Syria.
The previous heat record, registered in August 2023, was 49.5 degrees Celsius.
Turkey sets new record of 50.5 degrees as Europe swelters
Turkey has been hit by a record high temperature of 50.5 degrees as southeastern Europe reels under a heat wave and battles wildfires.Kate Hairsine (Deutsche Welle)
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Nope, it doesn't need satellite either.Jordan Gloor (How-To Geek)
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