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Part 2 of 2 batch updates from the last 2 hours

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For every "D Weiss", there is a better woman defending Palestinians:

Diana Buttu, Clare Daly, Francesca Albanese, Dr Ashrawi, Agnes Callamard, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, Queen Mozah, Queen Rania and many more. 💟♾️☮️

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[The resolution calling for "urgent steps to immediately allow safe and unhindered and expanded humanitarian access"] is a much-needed resolution – all efforts to address the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza must be welcomed, but it remains woefully insufficient in the face of the ongoing carnage and extensive destruction wrought by the government of Israel’s attacks in the occupied Gaza Strip. Nothing short of an immediate ceasefire is enough to alleviate the mass civilian suffering we are witnessing. The vote on the resolution – which was watered down significantly from earlier versions to avoid a US veto fails to call for an immediate halt in the fighting, instead including a call to ‘create conditions’ for a cessation of hostilities. Given the staggering death toll – with more than 20,000 killed in over two months, and the horrifying scale of destruction and devastation in Gaza this is simply unacceptable. It is disgraceful that the US was able to stall and use the threat of its veto power to force the UN Security Council to weaken a much-needed call for an immediate end to attacks by all parties.

—Agnès Callamard (Secretary General of Amnesty International), quoted in "Israel/OPT: Adoption of UN resolution to expedite humanitarian aid to Gaza an important but insufficient step," from Amnesty International News

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"The US government has not engaged with the legal and empirical bases of positions on Israel apartheid. Instead it is censoring, shutting down debates, and threatening"

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Israel’s war on Gaza may be “a curtain call” for the post-World War Tw0 international rules-based order, Amnesty International secretary general Agnes Callamard said on Thursday.

“The gravity of the violations being committed, the fact that we are witnessing them every day… the flimsy justification by western democracies - all of these warn… of a possible total collapse of the rules-based order,” she said.

Speaking at the Balfour Project annual conference in London, Callamard denounced the US and UK’s continued backing of Israel’s offensive in Gaza as “making a mockery” of international law.

The conference dealt with the question how “peace with justice” can be achieved in Palestine, but many of the speakers highlighted how the actions of the UK, US and other western governments are at odds with this goal.

The United States’ Biden administration and the Conservative government in the UK have both pushed back on rulings against Israel by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), as well as the International Criminal Court’s application for arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.

They have also continued arms sales to Israel and cut funding to the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, citing unproven Israeli allegations about 12 members of its staff.

Noting this, Callamard said that the governments were “accelerating” the risk of genocide in Gaza, a charge South Africa brought against Israel at the ICJ in a case that has been joined by several other countries, most recently Spain.

The consequences of the collapse of the rules-based order, she warned, reach beyond Gaza, inspiring “anger in all corners of the world”. “We must adopt a posture of transformation.”

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Israel Is "Engineering Famine" In Gaza

Amnesty International says Israel is “engineering famine” in Gaza. Organization head Agnes Callamard adds, “all states that cut UNRWA funding, sold weapons and supported Israel bear responsibility too.”

Yazan Al-Kafarna, a 9-year-old Palestinian boy with cerebral palsy, was forced to flee the Israeli invasion of Beit Hanoun with his family to southern Gaza. Recently, Yazan’s health deteriorated due to a shortage of food and oxygen.

Today, Yazan passed away due to insufficient healthcare and a lack of specialized food for his condition at Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital, exacerbated by the Israeli blockade of Gaza.

Biden and Netanyahu did this. Media justified it. Institutions protected it. Protestors lost jobs and reputations fighting it. We will never forget. Or forgive.

Abdul Rahman Al-Dahdouh, an elderly Palestinian, died due to severe dehydration and malnutrition as a result of Israel’s continuous prevention of food convoys from reaching northern parts of Gaza.

Israel did this. With the full support of the US and Britain. We must ensure every criminal who played a role in this genocide faces justice.

Future generations will not forgive us if we don’t.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 150: Israel is ‘engineering famine’ in Gaza

Amnesty International says Israel is “engineering famine” in Gaza. Organization head Agnes Callamard adds, “all states that cut UNRWA funding, sold weapons and supported Israel bear responsibility too.”

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--Agnes Callamard, head of Amnesty International

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Biden administration officials attempted Monday to downplay the significance of a newly passed United Nations Security Council resolution, drawing ire from human rights advocates who said the U.S. is undercutting international law and stonewalling attempts to bring Israel's devastating military assault on Gaza to an end.

The resolution "demands an immediate cease-fire for the month of Ramadan respected by all parties, leading to a lasting sustainable cease-fire." The U.S., which previously vetoed several cease-fire resolutions, opted to abstain on Monday, allowing the measure to pass.

Shortly after the resolution's approval, several administration officials—including State Department spokesman Matthew Miller, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield—falsely characterized the measure as "nonbinding."

"It's a nonbinding resolution," Kirby told reporters. "So, there's no impact at all on Israel and Israel's ability to continue to go after Hamas."

Josh Ruebner, an adjunct lecturer at Georgetown University and former policy director of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, wrote in response that "there is no such thing as a 'nonbinding' Security Council resolution."

"Israel's failure to abide by this resolution must open the door to the immediate imposition of Chapter VII sanctions," Ruebner wrote.

Beatrice Fihn, the director of Lex International and former executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, condemned what she called the Biden administration's "appalling behavior" in the wake of the resolution's passage. Fihn said the administration's downplaying of the resolution shows how the U.S. works to "openly undermine and sabotage the U.N. Security Council, the 'rules-based order,' and international law."

In a Monday op-ed for Common Dreams, Phyllis Bennis, a senior fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, warned that administration officials' claim that the resolution was "nonbinding" should be seen as "setting the stage for the U.S. government to violate the U.N. Charter by refusing to be bound by the resolution's terms."

While all U.N. Security Council resolutions are legally binding, they're difficult to enforce and regularly ignored by the Israeli government, which responded with outrage to the latest resolution and canceled an Israeli delegation's planned visit to the U.S.

Israel Katz, Israel's foreign minister, wrote on social media Monday that "Israel will not cease fire."

The resolution passed amid growing global alarm over the humanitarian crisis that Israel has inflicted on the Gaza Strip, where most of the population of around 2.2 million is displaced and at increasingly dire risk of starvation.

Amnesty International secretary-general Agnes Callamard said Monday that it was "just plain irresponsible" of U.S. officials to "suggest that a resolution meant to save lives and address massive devastation and suffering can be disregarded."

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Israel used US-made munitions to kill 43 civilians in Gaza: Rights group

The Israeli military killed 43 Palestinians using US-made munitions in two documented air strikes in the blockaded Gaza Strip, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday.

“A new investigation by Amnesty International has found US-made Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) were used by the Israeli military in two deadly, unlawful air strikes on homes full of civilians in the occupied Gaza Strip,” the organization said in a post on X.

“The two strikes killed a total of 43 civilians. In both cases, survivors said there had been no warning of an imminent strike,” the watchdog added.

“These strikes were either direct attacks on civilians or civilian objects or indiscriminate attacks. They must be investigated as war crimes,” Amnesty further said.

The organization also called upon the US to stop arms supply to Israel.

“The US must immediately stop transferring arms to Israel that more likely than not will be used to commit or heighten risks of violations of international law,” it concluded in the post.

The organization also published additional details on its website.

"The organization found that these air strikes were either direct attacks on civilians or civilian objects or indiscriminate attacks and is calling for them to be investigated as war crimes," the watchdog said in the statement on its website.


"On 10 October, an air strike on the al-Najjar family home in Deir al-Balah killed 24 people. On 22 October, an air strike on the Abu Mu’eileq family home in the same city killed 19 people. Both homes were south of Wadi Gaza, within the area where, on 13 October, the Israeli military had ordered residents of northern Gaza to relocate to," it added.

Agnes Callamard, the secretary general of Amnesty International, said: “The fact that US-made munitions are being used by Israeli military in unlawful attacks with deadly consequences for civilians should be an urgent wake-up call to the (Joe) Biden administration. The US-made weapons facilitated the mass killings of extended families.”

“Two families have been decimated in these strikes, further proof that the Israeli military is responsible for unlawfully killing and injuring civilians in its bombardment of Gaza," said Callamard, who is a former UN Special Rapporteur on Extra-Judicial Summary or Arbitrary Executions.

“In the face of the unprecedented civilian death toll and scale of destruction in Gaza, the US and other governments must immediately stop transferring arms to Israel that more likely than not will be used to commit or heighten risks of violations of international law," she added.


The secretary general also emphasized that "to knowingly assist in violations is contrary to the obligation to ensure respect for international humanitarian law."

"A state that continues to supply arms being used to commit violations may share responsibility for these violations,” she added in criticism of the US for arms transfers to Israel.

The watchdog also said that there were "no legitimate military targets" in the area Israel bombed.

"Amnesty International did not find any indication that there were any military objectives at the sites of the two strikes or that people in the buildings were legitimate military targets, raising concerns that these strikes were direct attacks on civilians," it said.


"In addition, even if the strikes – which Israel has yet to provide any information about – were intended to target military objectives, the use of explosive weapons with wide-area effects in such densely populated areas could make these indiscriminate attacks. As such, these attacks must be investigated as war crimes," Amnesty added.

'Bombs used US-manufactured JDAM kits'

"In both attacks, the bombs used US-manufactured JDAM kits," the watchdog said.


"The photos of the metal fragments from the weapons clearly show the distinctive rivets and harness system that indicate they served as a part of the frame that surrounds the body of the bomb of a JDAM. In addition, the codes stamped on the plates from both sets of recovered scrap, 70P862352, are associated with JDAMs and Boeing, the manufacturer," Amnesty said.

It added that additional codes stamped on the plates "indicate that the JDAM that killed members of the al-Najjar family was manufactured in 2017, while the JDAM that killed members of the Abu Mu’eileq family was manufactured in 2018."

The organization also said that they contacted the Israeli military to inquire about the attacks and have not received a response from it yet.

"Amnesty International sent questions regarding the two attacks to the Israeli military’s spokesperson unit on 21 November. At the time of publication, no response had been received," it concluded.

Israel resumed its military offensive on the Gaza Strip on Friday after the end of a weeklong humanitarian pause with the Palestinian group Hamas.

At least 15,899 Palestinians have been killed and more than 42,000 others injured in relentless air and ground attacks on the enclave since Oct. 7 following a cross-border attack by Hamas.

The Israeli death toll in the Hamas attack stood at 1,200, according to official figures.

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Israel war stories

is a good article about support in the U.S. for terror and anti-semitism.

Facing the United Nations plaza with police helicopters whirring above, 23-year-old Jordan native Youssef Almasri stood with a group of friends and declared, “Glory to the revolution.” He told The Free Press what decolonization means to him. “It means: Land. Fucking. Back. We’re taking the land that they took from us, we’re taking it back. We’re putting our refugees home,” said Almasri, who added that he is a student based in New York. As for the Israelis, he said, they should “go back to where they came from.” 

Al Masri is interesting. In Arabic, his name is slang for Egyptian. He's from Jordan. He's not from Palestine.

Where did the Israelis come from? Abraham was from Israel. So was Isaac. Jacob was from Israel - indeed God changed his name to Israel.

When Cyrus the Great released the Jews from captivity in 538BC, he didn't send them to New York or New Jersey. They went back to Israel.

So if you want Jews to go back where they came from, you want them to go to Israel.

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makes some good points

*** when people say something, they often mean it, and we should believe them, or at least take them seriously. Fancy-sounding academic jargon is not a curious intellectual exercise. Words make worlds.  Here is how Quillette editor Claire Lehmann put it on X, formerly Twitter: “For the past decade I’ve been told that jokes, words & scholarly debates need to be suppressed because they may cause ‘harm’ to vulnerable minorities. Yet when a global minority is butchered, tortured & maimed, those who suppress words shrug as if war crimes are no big deal.” Real decolonization is a physical process. It is about removing bodies from a place.  The meaning of Sharif’s post—a very tidy, very millennial encapsulation of the old Bolshevik spirit—is: the ends shall justify the means, and if that bothers you, well, you’ve probably been infected by some bourgeois, liberal fungus. *** The New York Times decided this was the right moment to run a story headlined “Gaza Has Suffered Under 16-Year Blockade.” The Times was good enough to note that the blockade was made possible not only by Israel but by Egypt, but it failed to mention Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza in 2005; that Palestinians elected Hamas to rule them; that Israelis routinely give Gazans notice before attacking to minimize loss of civilian life; and that one reason (maybe the reason) so many Palestinian children have died during Israeli air strikes is Hamas uses them as human shields—the better to generate sympathetic news coverage. Then, of course, there were the moral relativists, those who provide a patina of legitimacy to the alleged freedom fighters. Amnesty International’s Agnes Callamard called on “all parties to the conflict to abide by international law and make every effort to avoid further civilian bloodshed.” Representative Ilhan Omar reminded everyone, “Gaza doesn’t have shelters or an iron dome” (one wonders if she mentioned this to the Hamas leadership in Doha or its patrons in Tehran before the violence commenced). Or Jeremy Corbyn, Britain’s national embarrassment, declaring, “we need a route out of this tragic cycle of violence.” Meanwhile, the ersatz activists of Hollywood and Silicon Valley are eerily quiet. The people who turned the Ukrainian flag into their avatars, those who worry about misgendering and triggering and safe spaces, those who insist words are violence (those for whom violence is apparently not violence)—they’re busy ignoring all this. ***

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On a lighter note, Babylon Bee puts a point on the issue

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(via (80) Agnes Callamard: Russia’s War Against Ukraine: Implications for the World - YouTube)

at the moment Agnès Callamard consider Russia an invasion of Ukraine it inverts the purpose of ISRAEL genocide, to consider Russia on the same level as ISRAEL the reason is that 9/11 version Israel came out upside-down 🙃 the OCEANIA NATO realm is not working. Honesty & integrity is required For Agnes CALLAMARD . otherwise is Doublespeak/ is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words. Doublespeak may take the form of euphemisms (e.g., "downsizing" for layoffs and "servicing the target" for bombing),[1] in which case it is primarily meant to make the truth sound more palatable. It may also refer to intentional ambiguity in language or to actual inversions of meaning. In such cases, doublespeak disguises the nature of the truth. 😥🕎

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Thursday, April 25, 2024

World seeing near breakdown of international law amid wars in Gaza and Ukraine, Amnesty says (AP) The world is seeing a near breakdown of international law amid flagrant rule-breaking in Gaza and Ukraine, multiplying armed conflicts, the rise of authoritarianism and huge rights violations in Sudan, Ethiopia and Myanmar, Amnesty International warned Wednesday as it published its annual report. The human rights organization said the most powerful governments, including the United States, Russia and China, have led a global disregard for international rules and values enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with civilians in conflicts paying the highest price. Agnes Callamard, Amnesty’s secretary general, said the level of violation of international order witnessed in the past year was “unprecedented.” “Israel’s flagrant disregard for international law is compounded by the failures of its allies to stop the indescribable civilian bloodshed meted out in Gaza,” she said. “Many of those allies were the very architects of that post-World War Two system of law.”

Canada hitting the brakes on immigration (Washington Post) Canada’s broad support for immigration has set the country apart. The country is growing fast, with about 98 percent of the rise coming from immigration last year. But now, amid a housing affordability crisis and strain on social services, Trudeau’s government is rolling up the welcome mat for some immigrants. It has capped the number of permanent residents it will welcome, announced a temporary limit on international student visas and pledged to shrink the proportion of the population made up of temporary immigrants.

Pro-Israel groups planning to spend millions in US elections (Guardian) A handful of pro-Israel groups fund political campaigns in support of individual candidates in US elections, led by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac), a powerful force in American politics. Before the 2024 election, Aipac plans to spend tens of millions of dollars against congressional candidates, primarily Democrats, whom it deems insufficiently supportive of Israel. Aipac and other pro-Israel lobby groups have recruited and supported challengers to a number of lawmakers and candidates—most notably members of the Squad, the group of progressive representatives who are particularly vocal in their criticism of Israel’s offensive in Gaza. The 2024 election will be bellwether of the enduring impact of these groups on US politics amid shifting US public opinion on Israel.

Cicadas are so noisy in a South Carolina county that residents are calling the police (AP) Emerging cicadas are so loud in one South Carolina county that residents are calling the sheriff’s office asking why they can hear sirens or a loud roar. The Newberry County Sheriff’s Office sent out a message on Facebook on Tuesday letting people know that the whining sound is just the male cicadas singing to attract mates after more than a decade of being dormant. Some people have even flagged down deputies to ask what the noise is all about, Newberry County Sheriff Lee Foster said. Trillions of red-eyed periodical cicadas are emerging from underground in the eastern U.S. this month. The broods emerging are on 13 or 17 year cycles. Their collective songs can be as loud as jet engines and scientists who study them often wear earmuffs to protect their hearing.

Made in Mexico, but made by China (BBC) As the trade war between the US and China shows no sign of ending, Mexico has become an effective backdoor for Chinese capital. Many firms relocate to northern Mexico to save on tariffs and on shipping. The reclining armchairs and plush leather sofas coming off the production line at Man Wah Furniture’s factory in Monterrey are 100% “Made in Mexico”. They’re destined for large retailers in the US, like Costco and Walmart. But the company is from China. As the company’s general manager, Yu Ken Wei, shows me around its vast site, he says the move has made economic and logistical sense. “We hope to triple or even quadruple production here,” he says in perfect Spanish. The firm only arrived in the city of Monterrey in 2022, but already employs 450 people in Mexico.

With public universities under threat, massive protests against austerity shake Argentina (AP) Raising their textbooks and diplomas and singing the national anthem, hundreds of thousands of Argentines filled the streets of Buenos Aires and other cities on Tuesday to demand increased funding for the country’s public universities, in an outpouring of anger at libertarian President Javier Milei’s harsh austerity measures. Students and professors coordinated with the country’s powerful trade unions and leftist political parties to push back against budget cuts that have forced Argentina’s most venerable university to declare a financial emergency and warn of imminent closure. In his drive to reach zero deficit, Milei is slashing spending across Argentina—shuttering ministries, defunding cultural centers, laying off state workers and cutting subsidies. On Monday he had something to show for it, announcing Argentina’s first quarterly fiscal surplus since 2008 and promising the public the pain would pay off. “We are making the impossible possible even with the majority of politics, unions, the media and most economic actors against us,” he said in a televised address.

Ukraine moves to cut off consular services for military-age men abroad (Washington Post) Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that it would restrict consular services for Ukrainian men of military fighting age who have left the country, potentially cutting off their ability to renew passports or access other essential citizen services. Thousands of Ukrainian men are believed to have left their country rather than risk being drafted to help defend against Russia’s continuing invasion, even though martial law bars men age 18 and over from traveling abroad. Thousands of others were already living abroad, typically to work or study, when Russia invaded in February 2022. The law is intended to help Ukraine overcome a severe shortage of soldiers on the front lines, in part by expanding the pool of men eligible to be drafted.

In Ukraine, Testing New American Technology (NYT) Six years ago, Google signed a small, $9 million contract to put the skills of a few of its most innovative developers to the task of building an artificial intelligence tool that would help the military detect potential targets on the battlefield using drone footage. Now Project Maven has grown into an ambitious experiment being tested on the front lines in Ukraine. So far the results are mixed. The American experience in Ukraine has underscored how difficult it is to get 21st-century data into 19th-century trenches. The war in Ukraine has, in the minds of many American officials, been a bonanza for the U.S. military, a testing ground for Project Maven and other rapidly evolving technologies. The American-made drones that were shipped into Ukraine last year were blown out of the sky with ease. And Pentagon officials now understand, in a way they never did before, that America’s system of military satellites has to be built and set up entirely differently, with configurations that look more like Elon Musk’s Starlink constellations of small satellites.

Martian skies over Athens? Greece’s capital turns an orange hue with dust clouds from North Africa (AP) Skies over southern Greece turned an orange hue on Tuesday as dust clouds blown across the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa engulfed the Acropolis and other Athens landmarks. Strong southerly winds carried the dust from the Sahara Desert, giving the atmosphere of the Greek capital a Martian-like filter in the last hours of daylight. The skies are predicted to clear on Wednesday as winds shift and move the dust, with temperatures dipping. On Tuesday, the daily high in parts of the southern island of Crete topped 30 degrees Celsius (86 Fahrenheit), more than 20 degrees C higher than what was registered in much of northern Greece. The strong southerly winds over the past few days have also fanned unseasonal early wildfires in the country’s south.

Without fanfare, the Philippines is getting richer (Economist) Visitors to the Philippines have ample time to imagine ways to make its transport system less frustrating. When not queuing in rickety airports, they are often stuck in traffic. A typical commute from an outlying suburb to the centre of Manila, the capital, takes two hours, including nearly 30 minutes waiting for a bus to show up. Yet things are improving. Roads are being paved, bridges built. The Philippines is often an afterthought for investors: neither a giant like India nor a manufacturing superstar like Vietnam. But growth has been brisk since 2012 (except during the pandemic). The economy has quietly boomed under a variety of regimes, from the liberal President Benigno Aquino (2010-16) to President Rodrigo Duterte (2016-22). Now, under President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, growth is expected to be around 6% over the next few years. The World Bank says the Philippines will soon be an upper-middle-income country.

The U.S. is in retreat in a crucial part of the world (Washington Post) For boosters of U.S. security interests in Africa, the past few days carried grim tidings. At the end of last week, the United States informed the coup-plotting leadership of Niger that it would comply with its request to withdraw U.S. forces from the country, which had been operating in a counterterrorism role there for more than half a decade. Around the same time, reports emerged that authorities in Chad had sent a letter this month to the U.S. defense attaché based there, ordering the United States to cease activities at a base that also accommodates French troops. The potential withdrawal of a detachment of U.S. Special Forces based in Chad would mark yet another blow for the Western security presence in the Sahel—the vast arid region that stretches below the Sahara desert that has seen a wave of coups in recent years toppling fragile Central and West African governments. The U.S. exit in Niger follows the arrival of a detachment of Russian military trainers in the country this month. Some Nigeriens who spoke to my colleagues in the capital of Niamey see the junta exercising a new kind of sovereignty after years of overweening French interest. “Why is it a problem for the Americans and France that the Russians are helping us?” Abdoulaye Oussein, 51, said. “I think we’re free to make our own choices.”

Global defence budget jumps to record high of $2.44 trillion (Guardian) There’s something in the air this year, and according to the numbers, it’s the smell of war. In a new report, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) claims that global military expenditure reached a record high of $2.44 trillion in 2023, a 6.8% increase from 2022. The report also shows that defense spending rose in all five regions of the world, marking the first time a global defense spending increase has occurred in Sipri’s 60-year history. “The unprecedented rise in military spending is a direct response to the global deterioration in peace and security,” said a senior researcher at Sipri. “States are prioritizing military strength, but they risk an action-reaction spiral in the increasingly volatile geopolitical and security landscape.” The two biggest military spenders in the world were the U.S. ($916 billion) and China ($296 billion). Their defense spending made up 37% and 12% of the entire world’s total military budget. The Kremlin’s military expenditure rose 24% in 2023 compared to 2022.

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Final de A Onda

Samstag - A Onda 🌊

Sinopse do filme por: Wikipedia.

Apresentação.

Die Welle (bra/prt: A Onda)é um filme alemão de 2008 dirigido por Dennis Gansel e estrelado por Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Jennifer Ulrich e Max Riemelt. É inspirado no livro homônimo de 1981 do autor americano Todd Strasser e no experimento social da Terceira Onda, realizado pelo professor de história norte-americano Ron Jones. O filme foi produzido por Christian Becker para a Rat Pack Filmproduktion. Obteve sucesso nas bilheterias alemãs e depois de dez semanas, 2,5 milhões de pessoas haviam assistido ao filme."

Ficha técnica:

Gênero: Drama, Suspense

Diretor(es): Dennis Gansel

Atores: Jürgen Vogel, Frederick Lau, Max Riemelt, Jennifer Ulrich

Produção: Constantin Film

9 vitórias e 8 indicações.

IMDB: 7,6 Tomates podres: 67%

Dedicado a: Julian Paul Assange, repórter especial das Nações Unidas, Agnes Callamard,o denunciante da NSA, Edward Snowden e citados por último, mas não menos importantes, Glenn Greeewald e Sarah Harrison.

Sumário Crítico- Analítico:

Por: Fred Borges

Trata-se da relação de um professor com uma matéria cuja ementa e conteúdo programático tem um cronograma a ser seguido em 06 dias ou seis aulas, cujo tema é a Autocracia*

O professor trouxe para sala de aula uma metodologia experimental e vivencial, uma metodologia ativa profilática sem inversão de papéis; professor-aluno ou vice-versa, muito pelo contrário, o professor exerce o papel e é o próprio autocrata, baseado numa burocracia não Weberiana adaptada ao contexto, cultura e mentalidade,onde os elementos como: controle, disciplina,ergonomia, formam uma espectativa conceitual e prática comportamental, e estes elementos são reproduzidos por uma semiótica idiossincrática da autocracia como:signos, símbolos,

significados implantes,com maneiras de se cumprimentar, vestir, agir, num código disciplinar hierárquico que corresponde a uma supremacia de camisas brancas, símbolo d' A Onda, que tem denotação e ao mesmo conotação,direta, indireta,parcial ou subliminar de movimento, movimento autocrático diante de um contexto ou realidade de liberdade sem responsabilidade ou uma tipologia ideológica derivada da anarquia, que seria a matéria que o professor era titular, mas por alguma razão técnica- burocrática,não se evidência de forma clara no roteiro ou não fica clara no filme, faz com que a matéria seja deslocada ou destinada a outro professor cujo perfil em nada condiz com aquilo que se espera de um professor que irá ensinar ou ministrar a matéria: Anarquia.

Mas, diante desta adversidade o professor titular, sede, após uma tentativa de negociação com o seu substituto, e começa sua rotina de aulas baseado em um experimento, cada dia corresponde a uma etapa de formatação(inputs X outputs gerando insights) ou a evidente direta ou indireta manipulação dos alunos pelo professor, onde quem não segue as regras,é convidado a sair da sala ou desistir de cursar a matéria.

Esta homogeneização ou pasteurização é necessária para se construir o "Experimento da Autocracia", onde o papel de déspota ou ditador cabe ao professor e aos alunos cabem as divisões das tarefas baseadas na complementaridade de habilidades e competências, alunos mais hábeis e competentes são colocados com alunos menos hábeis e competentes, havendo assim a implantação do " espírito de corpo", cooperativismo ou corporativismo e a própria fusão de idéias e ideais de um corpo e espírito ou alma contido na ideologia e doutrina autocrática.

A unanimidade é um dos princípios.

Antes ambivalência, paradoxos, contra posições, oposições são agora silenciadas,uma minoria formada de uma única pessoa se opõe ao uso da camisa branca ou farda ou fardamento uso que todos deveriam vestir de fora para dentro ou vice- versa ou ao próprio ato de " vestir a camisa" da organização autocráticas, que se baseia em parte na meritocracia Weberiana, mas também em disfuncionalidades administrativas oriundas da corrupção do homem pelo homem,a exemplo: ás indicações aos cargos ditos de " confiança" por justaposição entre interesses pessoais, partidários, fisiológicos , clientelista,ou nepotista,

engajamento e poder.

O experimento continua revelando um descontrole e ausência ou vazio de uma regra básica ou fundamental a qualquer experimento ou dinâmica com fins didáticos; ser circunscrita ou limitado ao ambiente da sala de aula.

Este me parece o principal equívoco do professor-orientador da atividade experimental, ressaltar que se trata de experimento cujo objetivos e metas são para fins, unicamente acadêmicos ou pedagógicos.

Dada esta falha, o experimento como previsto sai do controle do professor, alunos começam a utilizar a camisa branca com a marca da onda de maneira rotineira, colocar a marca d' A Onda em toda cidade, inclusive pichar ou moldurar em prédios e edificações públicas,fazer reverberar, viralizar, e levar, influenciando,estes conceitos teoria e prática entre amigos, conhecidos, parentes ou seja multiplicar e " comungar" do "pão" , " vinho", " água", " fogo", "ar" e " terra" de modo transversal e impositivo na sociedade, havendo assim o descontrole de experimento ou da dinâmica proposta em fase inicial.

A teoria na prática é outra.

O professor alertado por um aluno e de certa maneira por uma outra aluna que não havia desde o início se submetido ao experimento, logo tendo ficado bou sendo vista como: " ovelha negra", alertaram que o experimento que deveria estar circunscrito ao ambiente de sala de aula estava tomando proporções e tendências exponenciais e radicais ou de radicalismo, fanatismo, envolvendo vida pessoal, particular, identidade, autenticidade,gostos e preferências sendo paulatinamente homogeinizadas, padronizadas,e massificadas.

O professor resolveu então, como havia programado fazer desde o início,o encerramento do experimento e convocou todos para uma reunião a portas fechadas.

Claro que nesta etapa, a direção da escola já tinha tomado consciência da necessidade de intervir no experimento, logo o professor solicitou a direção este último encontro como forma menos traumática de encerrar ou fechar o ciclo experimental, de experiência didática junto aos alunos e assim foi feito, ao meio dia todos estavam reunidos e o professor começou a falar, como de prática todos os alunos se levantaram e cumprimentaram numa "saudação autocrática", simbolizando A Onda e o chamaram de Senhor-Professor, foram estas suas palavras num Samstag ou Sábado em Alemão:

"Na verdade, eu sempre tive tudo

que eu queria, roupas, dinheiro etc...

...mas o que mais tive foi um tédio.

Estas são minhas palavras.

Mas nos últimos dias

foram muito divertidos.

Não se trata mais de quem é o mais bonito, o melhor ou o mais bem-sucedido.

A Onda nos tornou todos iguais.

Raça, religião e status social não desempenham mais nenhum papel.

Todos pertencemos a um movimento.

A Onda nos dá um novo significado.

Ideais pelos quais vale a pena defender.

Eu já havia intimidado outros alunos antes.

Se eu realmente pensar em mim mesmo, foi realmente retardado da minha parte.

É muito melhor

defender uma causa nobre.

Quando você pode contar com outra pessoa, você pode conseguir muito mais.

Estou pronto para me afastar do meu mau comportamento.

Como provavelmente todos vocês notaram...

...todos esses são trechos de seus ensaios sobre a experiência da semana passada.

Estou muito impressionado com o que

A Onda trouxe até você.

E é por isso que também acredito que este projeto não deve simplesmente acabar.

- Rainer, que merda é essa?

- Marco, sente-se.

Sim, mas... Cara, as pessoas pensam...

Eu disse para você se sentar!

Durante vários anos o

A Alemanha está em declínio!

Somos os perdedores da globalização...

...mas a política tenta provar que luta cada vez mais...

...é a única maneira de sair da crise.

Mas os políticos são

fantoches da economia!

A taxa de desemprego deve cair!

Também somos campeões mundiais em exportações!

Mas na realidade...

...os pobres estão ficando mais pobres

e os ricos estão ficando mais ricos!

Antigamente a maior ameaça era o terrorismo.

Um terror que nós mesmos criamos, ao

permitindo injustiça no resto do mundo!

E enquanto estamos lenta mas seguramente a arruinar o nosso planeta...

...algumas pessoas super-ricas sentam-se em algum lugar e esfregam as mãos.

Construindo cápsulas espaciais para que eles possam ver tudo do alto!

Vocês todos não entendem as intenções dele?

Ele quer manipular todos vocês!

É o suficiente, sente-se.

Você não vai me impedir de dizer a verdade, Marco.

A onda é o verdadeiro problema!

Não, The Wave é a única maneira capaz de melhorar as coisas!

Porque juntos podemos fazer acontecer!

Nós!

Hoje temos aqui a chance de escrever a história!

Sua namorada virou você contra nós. Esse é o seu problema.

Não é verdade.

- Claro que é verdade!

Ela tinha completamente

infectou você com a merda dela.

Você não vai nos parar!

A partir daqui, The Wave deverá chegar a toda a Alemanha!

E aqueles que cruzam seu caminho...

...será lavado!

Exatamente.

Tragam o traidor!

Marco, agora eu te pergunto na frente de todos aqui:

Você está conosco ou contra nós?

Todos vocês perderam completamente a cabeça ou o quê?

O que devemos fazer com o traidor?

O que fazer com o traidor?

Bombardeiro, você decide!

Vamos, fale!

Você o trouxe aqui.

Sim, porque você disse isso.

Sim, porque eu disse, certo?

E você o mataria, se eu dissesse?

Também podemos enforcá-lo ou decapitá-lo!

Ou talvez torturá-lo até...

...ele está comprometido com nossas regras!

Essas são as coisas habituais que fazem numa ditadura.

Você notou o que acabou de acontecer aqui?

- Está tudo bem, Marco?

Sim, está tudo bem.

Você consegue se lembrar...

...que pergunta estava flutuando

no ar desde a semana passada?

Se ainda era possível ter uma ditadura aqui.

Foi exatamente isso, fascismo.

Todos nós ensinamos que somos melhores do que isso.

Melhor que todos os outros.

E o que é ainda pior...

...excluímos da nossa comunidade todos aqueles que não partilhavam a nossa opinião.

Nós os machucamos.

Não quero nem saber do que mais seríamos capazes.

Devo me desculpar com todos vocês.

Fomos longe demais.

Eu fui longe demais.

As coisas chegarão ao fim aqui.

E o que isso significa

agora... ...para The Wave?

Que acabou.

Bem desse jeito?

Sim, assim mesmo.

Não, não acabou.

Sim, Tim, acabou.

Mas nem tudo em The Wave é ruim!

Todos nós sentimos isso.

Sim, cometemos alguns erros, mas nada que não possamos corrigir!

Não, Denis...

...algumas coisas você não pode corrigir.

Quero que todos vocês vão para casa agora.

Certamente há coisas em que você deveria pensar."

O professor pensou ao final de seu discurso que tudo havia sido apaziguado, tudo estava em paz, mas Denis( um dos alunos) tira uma arma e atira e acerta uma bala no peito de um colega de sala, a camisa agora estava avermelhada de sangue, o professor tenta demover Denis e pede para largar a arma, mas infelizmente o radicalismo, o extremismo, o totalitarismo havia- lhe " possuído" dominado e pegando a mesma arma Denis se mata enfiando-a na boca e disparando-a.

A cena trágica segue com todos paralisados e traumatizados, e numa cena final, o professor é levado preso.

Possível Acusação:

Colher o que plantou e não soube controlar ou a ignorância junto a estupidez da maioria dos alunos que o seguiu, como uma manada ou rebanho de ovelhas.

Ensinamentos:

Os extremos se afastam e paradoxalmente se atraem, amor e ódio fazem parte de um único corpo ou espírito.

Os extremos nos acompanham o tempo todo, é preciso: água, solo, sol, ar, para que germinem,o ambiente propício,para que se desenvolvam naturalmente ou pela ajuda das mãos dos homens.

Extremistas de esquerda, populistas da esquerda, ouvidos que não escutam, olhos que não vêem ou não enxergam ou no extremo não querem olhar ou enxergar, ou adotam um comportamento omisso, alienante, é solo fértil para o totalitarismo ou a Autocracia.

O mesmo pode acontecer com a direita, com o fascismo, nazismo e outras ideologias segregadoras ou sectaristas.

O mesmo pode acontecer com a esquerda com o socialismo e comunismo.

Globalisações, Globalismos, fetichismos, negacionismos, Fórum de São Paulo, Fórum de Curitiba,teorias conspiratórias, especulações, falsas verdades e realidades estão á venda em cada esquina, se vende é porque tem quem compre, oferecem uma amostra grátis e depois você aluno, cidadão,eleitor se vicia, e viciado segue o vício de ideologias e doutrinas ou dogmas cujo primeiro ao último desejo é tornar aluno, cidadão, eleitor massa de manobra para manipular, para votar e fazer a roda circular.

Quem irá interromper o roda?

Hipótese Única.

O professor que apresenta todas as alternativas, possibilidades, versões, percepções, teorias, sem exclusividades, sem ser tendencioso, adotante e dotado de desvincular o conhecimento do saber sapiente que dota ou faz acessível todas os dados, informações,

conhecimentos para que o aluno, cidadão, eleitor saiba analisar, criticar, e sintetizar o que é melhor para a coletividade, onde a individualidade,

liberdade, privacidade é individual mas se faz voto prevalente quando é universal.

Julian Paul Assange, repórter especial das Nações Unidas, Agnes Callamard,o denunciante da NSA, Edward Snowden e por últimos, mas não menos importantes, Glenn Greeewald e Sarah Harrison que o digam!

Com certeza tiveram excelentes pais e professores!!!!

* Autocracia significa “governo por um só” ou “governo por si próprio”.

A característica fundamental da autocracia é que ela é um sistema de governo onde a única representação e exercício de poder existentes estão vinculados às convicções de uma só pessoa, assembléia, partido, i.g.: PT ou semelhante ou PL ou semelhante .

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One year since tens of migrants and refugees died in a crush at the border between Spain and Morocco, Amnesty International has accused the two countries of a "cover-up."

Amnesty International has accused Spain and Morocco of failing to properly investigate the events that led to the deaths of over 20 migrants and refugees at the border of the Spanish enclave of Melilla in 2022, on the eve of the first anniversary of the tragedy.

"One year on from the carnage at Melilla, Spanish and Moroccan authorities not only continue to deny any responsibility but are preventing attempts to find the truth. Bodies are still lying in a morgue and in graves and efforts to identify the dead and inform their relatives have been blocked," Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard said in a statement on Friday.

On June 24, 2022, a stampede broke out during a clash with Moroccan and Spanish security forces as nearly 2,000 migrants and asylum-seekers from sub-Saharan Africa attempted to cross from Morocco to Spain by climbing over a fence.

Some 37 people were killed and 76 others continue to be missing, Amnesty International said.

Morocco said 23 people died in the incident, while Spain has said no deaths occurred on its soil.

Families in 'limbo'

The human rights group said that relatives of the dead and missing are "are trapped in limbo" as their attempts to find out what happened to their loved ones and efforts to ensure "justice, truth and reparation" are being "impeded in an apparent cover up by Spanish and Moroccan authorities."

"Barriers to truth and justice are also a reflection of the continuing harmful treatment based on race and migration status. Yet as hopes of finding the missing 76 alive recede, the demand on the authorities to provide truth and ensure justice for the victims and their families is growing ever louder," Callamard said.

Requests for information from Spain, Morocco unanswered

The human rights NGO said authorities in Spain and Morocco have failed to provide a complete list of victims' names and their causes of death or CCTV footage that could aid an investigation.

Spanish authorities refused to open an independent investigation, Amnesty International added.

In December, Spanish prosecutors dropped their probe into the deaths, saying that they did not find any proof of criminal misconduct by Spanish security forces.

"It cannot be concluded that the conduct of the [Spanish] security officers involved increased the threat to the life and well-being of the immigrants, so no charge of reckless homicide can be brought," the public prosecutor said at the time. 

The prosecutor's statement added that the migrants were "hostile and violent," and that Spanish security forces had "no reason to believe that there were people at risk who required help.''

Meanwhile, Amnesty International also said Moroccan authorities have not begun any investigation into the use of force by its border officials. It added that Morocco has made it "impossible" for families and NGOs to commence searches for the missing and dead.

"Amnesty International's written requests to the Moroccan and Spanish governments asking them to share information, have so far gone unanswered." the group said.

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