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Canada’s Department of National Defence (DND) will host trial sessions for Israeli arms technology used to kill Palestinians and maintain apartheid and occupation during a three-week “sandbox” event in Alberta next month.

From May 27 to June 21, DND is giving a select group of military suppliers the chance to test products that are designed to counter aerial drones, with direct assistance from Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) staff and experts. Among those selected is a company called “Twenty20 Insight Inc.,” which is testing the “Smash Hopper counter-drone weapon station.”

The “Smash Hopper” is a remote control weapon system developed and manufactured by Israeli arms company “Smart Shooter,” whose technology is deployed by the Israeli military in fortifications that are used to suppress Palestinian dissent in the occupied West Bank, as well as in military hardware currently being used in Israel’s assault on Gaza.

As reported by AP News in November 2022, Smart Shooter developed remote control turrets deployed by Israel that fire tear gas, stun grenades and sponge-tipped bullets at Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank.

Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch, told AP: “This system will only [...] further grave Israeli human rights abuse and further the Israeli army’s abuses and the Israeli government’s crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution against millions of Palestinians.” [...]

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"I think a lot of people are confused on divestments, and what college campuses have anything to do with Israel and the genocide in Gaza. And you'll be very interested to find out how the two are connected and how intertwined they are. So let's break it down."

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Note, incidentally, that although the series isn’t 100% true to the books, Miss Lemon’s devotion to and fascination with her self-designed complex-but-superior filing system, which was to be patented and named after her, is mentioned repeatedly when her character appears.

(Come to think of it, given the now-dated fanfic slang, AO3 largely is a Lemon Filing System. G’ho ho ho!)

RIP Miss Lemon from Agatha Christie's Poirot, you would have loved Wikipedia.

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April 30, 2024

This is NOT NECESSARY! This is NEVER necessary!

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All of the green party emails in my inbox magically jumped into the spam folder since Jill Stine got arrested at that protest. Hmmmst. HMMMST

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thank you to the dishonest failing new york times for constantly erasing us and purposefully obscuring jewish participation in these protests just to make people less sympathetic to the movement opposing an ongoing genocide

btw you can see all the edits nyt makes to their article titles on this twitter account

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The NYPD has begun their assault on students at Columbia University.

ALL EYES ON COLUMBIA!

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Once again:

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

—William Faulkner

Ten years and a decade of populist turmoil later, Ernaux’s testimony reads both familiar and unfamiliar. The rapid individualisation and decline of collective institutions she diagnosed has not been halted. Barring a few exceptions, political parties have not regained their members. Associations have not seen attendance rise. Churches have not filled their pews, and unions have not grown precipitously. Across the world, civil society is still mired in a deep and protracted crisis.

On the other hand, the mixture of diffidence and apathy so characteristic of Ernaux’s 1990s hardly applies today. Biden was elected on a record turnout; the Brexit referendum was the largest democratic vote in Britain’s history. The Black Lives Matter protests were mass spectacles; many of the world’s biggest corporations took up the mantle of racial justice, adapting their brands to support the cause.

A new form of ‘politics’ is present on the football pitch, in the most popular Netflix shows, in the ways people describe themselves on their social media pages. To many on the right, society now feels overtaken by a permanent Dreyfus Affair, cleaving family dinners, friends’ drinks, and workplace lunches. To many on the centre, it has created a longing for an era before this hyper-politics, ‘a nostalgia for post-history’ in the 1990s and 2000s, when markets and technocrats were exclusively in charge of policy.

An era of ‘post-politics’ has clearly ended. Yet instead of a re-emergence of the politics of the twentieth century  — complete with a revival of mass parties, unions, and workplace militancy  — it is almost as if a step has been skipped. Those that were politicised by the era marked by the Financial Crash will remember when nothing, not even the austerity policies imposed in its wake, could be described as political. Today, everything is politics. And yet, despite people being intensely politicised in all of these dimensions, very few are involved in the kind of organised conflict of interests that we might once have described as politics in the classical, twentieth-century sense.

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April 30, 2024

CUNY City College.

Imagine your response to a genocide is to arrest the students protesting the genocide. Outrageous.

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Given how many US Presidents have come from the Ivy League, they’d be closer to correct than usual if they did.

Oh the police are really about to treat students at an IVY league school like they are terrorists.

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More arrests have been made at these encampments than January 6th.

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According to French government sources, nine EU countries will meet in Brussels at the start of the week to discuss the impact of the UK’s decision to ban bottom fishing in 13 marine protected areas, a measure London says applies equally to its own fishermen and those from the EU. The UK imposed the ban on bottom fishing in 13 marine protected areas on 22 March. Under pressure from the national industrial fishing sector, France has assembled a coalition of member states to pressure the European Commission to impose sanctions on the UK for non-compliance with the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) signed in 2020 by London and Brussels. Bottom fishing involves dragging heavy nets along the ocean floor, a method environmental NGOs consider destructive. In 2023, in its ‘EU Action Plan to protect and restore marine ecosystems for sustainable and resilient fisheries’, the Commission asked member states to ban this practice in marine protected areas by 30 March 2024. According to a recent report by several European NGOs, 90% of European marine protected areas are subject to this type of practice. At present, only Greece banned bottom fishing in its marine protected areas on 16 April.

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I'm with the UK on this one; bottom trawling destroys marine ecosystems.

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ICJ RULES AGAINST STOPPING GERMAN ARMS EXPORTS TO THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague has ruled against Nicaragua in its case asking the Court to stop German arms exports to the Israeli occupation in support for its genocide in Gaza.

"The circumstances are not such as to require the exercise of its power under Article 41 of the statute to indicate provisional measures," stated presiding Judge Nawaf Salam.

Nicaragua previously argued before the Court that Germany was in violation of the 1948 Genocide Conventions by supplying arms to the Israeli occupation at a time when it would be plausibly used to commit acts of genocide in Gaza.

Germany continues to be one of the largest suppliers of weaponry to the Israeli occupation army, providing $353.7 million in equipment and munitions in 2023.

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It was just announced that McGill Uni is calling upon the RCMPigs to dismantle the pro-palestinian encampment already.