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theguardian.com/world/2025/mar…
#germany #israel #genocide #complicity #EU #humanRights #democracy #EuropeanValues berlin.social/@cfahey/11426118…
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian officeLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
Berlin is deporting four foreign residents after their participation in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza. Three are EU citizens, including two from Ireland.The deportation orders are unlawful, but Berlin’s senate is going ahead anyway.
@hahauenstein #Germany #Gaza #Israel #freespeech #fascism
theintercept.com/2025/03/31/ge…
Germany Turns to U.S. Playbook: Deportations Target Gaza War Protesters
Four Gaza protesters in Germany are set for deportations despite objections from an immigration official that none were convicted of crimes.Hanno Hauenstein (The Intercept)
Key #evidence deleted in case against ex-military man who spied on Julian #Assange for #CIA, says expert report
A hard drive in which the Spanish #police dumped the contents of David Morales’ phones was allegedly tampered with while in the custody of the High Court. Over 17,000 email messages have disappeared
source: english.elpais.com/spain/2025-…
#spain #justice #fail #backup #scandal #problem #politics #wikileaks #spay #surveillance #humanrights #court #security #democracy #news
Key evidence deleted in case against ex-military man who spied on Julian Assange for CIA, says expert report
A hard drive in which the Spanish police dumped the contents of David Morales’ phones was allegedly tampered with while in the custody of the High Court. Over 17,000 email messages have disappearedJosé María Irujo (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
A #democracy must practice deliberation to survive.
W/ respect to #history education, this means we must welcome differing perspectives, engage with principled disagreement, and accept that history is controversial.
Since Jan 20, Trump has made clear he expects a monopoly over historical truth. He asserts that his facts and narratives are objective, while everything that troubles these is ideological warfare waged by a lunatic fringe.
History is participatory, or it is propaganda.
theguardian.com/technology/202…
#Musk #Wisconsin #Trump #democracy #politics #corruption
Elon Musk hands out $1m checks to voters amid Wisconsin supreme court election race
Musk denied he was buying votes but said the court election outcome would be critical to Trump’s agenda and ‘the future of civilization’Guardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Social media is being transformed from an advertising platform and subscription trap into a toxic, inhuman democracy-destroying machine.
#socialMedia #internet #advertisement #democracy #politics #future #economy #problem #ethics #quote #wisdom #transformation
“Ankara is too important an ally to alienate, no matter what happens on the streets of Istanbul, politicians and officials tell POLITICO.
The European Union is set to keep pumping billions of euros into Turkey despite President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s sweeping crackdown on political opponents.”
politico.eu/article/turkey-cri…
Write him a fucking blank cheque, why don’t you, you spineless, racist blocks of cheddar. And why? Because he helps keeps the Brown people away from our pristine white shores.
I swear the next person who uses the words “European values” non-sarcastically in my presence will wish they’d stayed in bed that morning.
#demokrasi #insanHakları #ırkcılık #faşizm #Türkiye #erdoğan #AvrupaBirliği #democracy #humanRights #racism #fascism #Turkey #erdogan #EU
Around me in Istanbul there is fear on every face – but I see a resilience that refuses to die
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#türkiye #istanbul #imamoğlu #demokrasi #insanHakları #erdoğan #faşizm #turkey #democracy #humanRights #imamoglu #erdogan #fascism
Around me in Istanbul there is fear on every face – but I see a resilience that refuses to die
Many turbulent years have taught my friends never to make plans. Yet, even after Ekrem İmamoğlu’s arrest, they have hope, says Istanbul-based writer Carolin WürfelCarolin Würfel (The Guardian)
Swedish police want to dismantle human rights. They want to change the laws to allow secret state surveillance of all children.
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This is wrong in so many ways. What pisses me off most is that the police don't understand their own role in society. OK clearly they don't like human rights but it's anyway not their job to design laws. The police should not lobby to change laws, they should apply the law that exists. The parliament makes laws.
Grrrrr 😠
Polisen vill avlyssna barn utan misstanke om brott
Polisen vill slopa åldersgränsen för preventiva tvångsmedel. Även barn under 15 år ska kunna avlyssnas utan misstanke om brott.”Jag tror att allmänheten ...Sveriges Radio
#CEUM
#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism
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... in the interests of the state? The answer is primarily that 👉it wanted to … strengthen the state authority itself;👈 it concentrated on the power of the state … Primarily to the state’s external power, in relation to other states."
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Mercantilism Was Monarchy's Planned Economy
"The smuggler is a radical and judicious reformer. The smuggler is essential to the well being of the whole nation. All external commerce depends on him." - Nassau Senior (1790-1864)Foundation for Economic Education
#CEUM
#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism
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... of 👉economic policy [as a conception of society in which all interests were to be made obedient to the monarch captured in the famous phrase of the #French #king, Louis XIV – ‘I am the State’]👈."
"#Mercantilism as a System of Power
What was the object of mercantilism in using economic forces...
#CEUM
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#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism
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... historian #EliHeckscher)
Why #Trump espouses it, could easily be explained by the central element of this policy introduced in the late absolutist reign of the #SunKing, #LouisXIV:
"#Mercantilism as a Conception of Society
Mercantilism revealed a fairly uniform conception of general social phenomena in the field of economics, and this, too, reacted in many ways on the...
#CEUM
#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism
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... commodities, was the theory of the danger from which economic policy was chiefly 👉to protect a country lay in having too many goods [imported from other countries].👈
Mercantilism as a Monetary System
The👉 connection between money and goods in the mercantilist conception of economics was represented in the balance of trade theory👈 … "
("Mercantilism (1935), Swedish economic..
#CEUM
#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism
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...commerce, and trade into directions different from how individuals in the market may have wanted to direct their own activities, the more it created incentives for “#Smuggling” – #BlackMarkets – to get around the controls."👈
The basics:
"#Mercantilism as a System of Protection
The attitude of mercantilism towards the means of supplying the wants of human beings, i.e., towards...
#CEUM
#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism
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... of souvereign and autonomous states, while the #US will be impoverished by the economic fallout of the #TrumpTariffs. They constitue a #Mercantilist trade policy, which has historically been proven to be detrimental to its practitioners: it gives rise to #Smuggling and anarchy:
"👉The more the government’s #Mercantilist policies attempted to restrict and divert manufacturing,...
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#CdnPol #CANpol #USpol
#CETA #InfoSec #Democracy #NationalSecurity
#Mercantilism
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While I agree with the spirit of your post, the timing for the #EU deal (#CETA, if you are referring to that) predates the #Trump presidencies:
"... Officials announced the launch of negotiations on 6 May 2009 at the #Canada-#EU Summit in #Prague...."
"...#JustinTrudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, travelled to #Brussels on 30 October 2016 to sign..."
Ellsworth Collective – A Framework For Democratic Defense
A Framework For Democratic Defenseellsworthcollectivellc.com
“Don’t believe your eyes.” – Turkish state TV
Imagine the people who work there; imagine your whole sorry existence being the peddling of lies.
theguardian.com/world/2025/mar…
#turkey #türkiye #erdoğan #insanHakları #demokrasi #humanRights #democracy #sansür #censorship
‘It’s disinformation’: Turkish state TV avoids any coverage of mass street protests
News of protests has been preserve of a few newspapers and channels outside well funded pro-government networksRuth Michaelson (The Guardian)
Nobody home this morning at the United States Institute of Peace web site.
Sabotage masquerading as patriotism.
Exhibit #12,273,493
#uspol #usip #democracy #authoritarianism
You might be seeing images coming out of Turkey with huge protests against Erdoğan.
But who is Erdoğan?
Why, he’s our dear friend in the EU who we pay billions of euros to so he keeps the Brown people away from our shores, of course.
Hey @EUCommission, wanna wave to your BFF? Go on, don’t be shy!
👋
#Erdogan #Erdoğan #Turkey #Türkiye #fascism #faşizm #democracy #demokrasi #EU #refugees #EuropeanValues #Imamoglu #İmamoğlu
More than 1,100 detained in Turkey amid huge demonstrations over mayor’s arrest
theguardian.com/world/live/202…
#Turkey #Erdoğan #fascism #İmamoğlu #humanRights #democracy
More than 1,100 detained in Turkey amid huge demonstrations over mayor’s arrest – Europe live
Tens of thousands gathered in Istanbul with unrest likely to continue over treatment of presidential challenger to ErdoğanHayden Vernon (The Guardian)
Bernie is drawing big crowds
♲ R. Scott Pert - 2025-03-24 01:45:02 GMT
Bernie Sanders on tour in Denver: 'We will not allow America to become an oligarchy'> The #Vermont senator and leader of the progressive left wants to build a movement beyond the Democratic Party to encourage citizens to defend #democracy. lemonde.fr/en/international/ar… #BernieSanders
This week's comic: Zero dimensional chess
#cartoon #comic #uspol #media #journalism #authoritarianism #democracy
I completely agree that the #billionaires should suffer, not the common folk.
However, that same common folk continues to buy from #Amazon & the like en masse.
That same common folk voted for #Trump, many of whom indicate that they'd *still* vote for Trump even now.
That common folk stayed absent during the elections because they didn't agree with either candidate.
Not trying to defend billionaires, but come on....
Democracy doesn't protect itself, the people protect their #democracy.
#democracy #elections
Arrested and stripped of degree: Twin moves to bar Istanbul mayor from ballot suggests Turkey’s Erdogan is really worried this time
Long-serving, autocratic-leaning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seeking to extend his tenure beyond constitutionally set term limit.The Conversation
My “not a book review” of Careless People – the book Facebook doesn’t want you to read.
With highlights on Ireland’s complicity and the lengths people farmers (as I call them) will go to to appease authoritarian regimes like China.
ar.al/2025/03/21/careless-peop…
It’s clear from this that Ireland should be stripped of the authority to enforce GDPR and, really, people farmers – and the business model of people farming in general – should be banned in the EU.
(Don’t hold your breaths.)
#carelessPeople #facebook #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #USA #fascism #technofascism #EU #Ireland #tax #GDPR #tech #humanRights #democracy
Careless people
Notes from “Careless People: A story of where I used to work: Power. Greed. Madness.” by Sarah-Wynn WilliamsAral Balkan
THIS IS GENIUS.
#teslatakedown #overthrowmusk #counterdisruption @pluralistic #democracy #investInTheDEMOS
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Once you have your brokerage account: - Transfer that small “I’m willing to lose this much” amount into your brokerage account - Buy TSLZ, TSLQ, and TSLS. - Hold on to it.Hachyderm.io
!["Many leaders. including #Reagan and #Nixon, saw the opening of CUNY [the City University of New York]... as a real ideological threat." said CUNY professor #AshlevDawson. 1)
At a 1970 Republican fundraiser, Vice President #SpiroAgnew made his concerns exolicit, #Dawson and #Franklin documented. #Agnew inveighed against “Black student militancy" at protests like the historic 1969 camp ocvupation at #CityCollege that hastened open admissions, arguing that too high a proportion of Black students were admitted to college. Open admissions, were the means “by which a wave of unqualified students are being swept into college on the
wave of the #NewSocialism. "
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"Ashley Dawson is Distinguished Professor of English at the College of Staten Island and a consortial faculty member in the Ph.D. program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. He earned his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Before coming to CUNY in 2001, he taught for four years at the University of Iowa. At CSI and the Graduate Center, Professor Dawson teaches courses in postcolonial literature and theory, and in the environmental humanities."
https://www.cuny.edu/blog/iconic_faculty/ashley-dawson/](https://friendica.hellquist.eu/photo/preview/640/4769173 "\"Many leaders. including #Reagan and #Nixon, saw the opening of CUNY [the City University of New York]... as a real ideological threat.\" said CUNY professor #AshlevDawson. 1)
At a 1970 Republican fundraiser, Vice President #SpiroAgnew made his concerns exolicit, #Dawson and #Franklin documented. #Agnew inveighed against “Black student militancy\" at protests like the historic 1969 camp ocvupation at #CityCollege that hastened open admissions, arguing that too high a proportion of Black students were admitted to college. Open admissions, were the means “by which a wave of unqualified students are being swept into college on the
wave of the #NewSocialism. \"
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\"Ashley Dawson is Distinguished Professor of English at the College of Staten Island and a consortial faculty member in the Ph.D. program in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. He earned his Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Before coming to CUNY in 2001, he taught for four years at the University of Iowa. At CSI and the Graduate Center, Professor Dawson teaches courses in postcolonial literature and theory, and in the environmental humanities.\"
https://www.cuny.edu/blog/iconic_faculty/ashley-dawson/")
Inside #CISA, vital support staff are gone, international partnerships have been strained, & workers are afraid to discuss #threats to #democracy that they’re now PROHIBITED from countering. Employees are even more overworked than usual, & new assignments from the admin are interfering w/important tasks. Meanwhile, CISA’s temporary leader is doing everything she can to appease #Trump, infuriating employees who say she’s out of touch & refusing to protect them.
Thousands rally outside Istanbul city hall for 2nd night over mayor's arrest
Thousands of people have gathered outside Istanbul’s city hall for a second consecutive night to rally against the arrest of the city’s popular mayor.Mehmet Guzel (AP News)
"What’s clear is that autocrats everywhere are becoming more emboldened because they know that they will encounter no real consequences from the Trump-Musk administration for their aggressions. They know that the #UnitedStates government is trying to destroy #democracy at home and around the #world."👀 😢
-Ruth Ben-Ghiat
lucid.substack.com/p/erdogan-a…
#Trump #Coup #Corruption #Fascism #Authoritarianism #GOP #Republicans #Politics #USPol #News #RuthBenGhiat #US #USA
Erdogan Arrests Top Opposition Politician
On CNN Int at 2:30pmET to talk about Turkey; My WIRED Video on DictatorsRuth Ben-Ghiat (Lucid)
Development on this report:
... “The US Institute for #Peace [#USIP] called the DC police on the #Musk team members [#DOGE] in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building & the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter & kicked out the institute's officials.”
#law #democracy #USpol #Trump #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny
apnews.com/article/doge-trump-…
Trump administration guts board of US Institute of Peace. Group says DOGE arrives
The Trump administration has fired most of the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace and sent its new leader into the Washington headquarters of the independent organization.Matthew Lee (AP News)
Important #UK #petition to sign: "Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising"
petition.parliament.uk/petitio…
If you are a UK citizen or UK resident PLEASE SIGN THIS 🙏🏼
We need the #government to take this seriously so creeps like this #databroker don't get more data:
gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-…
And #democracy is undermined by the #microtargeting from #socialmedia - #Trump /Brexit/Romania etc
#surveillancecapitalism #dataprivacy #advertising #RTB #databreach #infosec #uspol #data #selfhosting
Data Broker Brags About Having Highly Detailed Personal Information on Nearly All Internet Users
The advertising industry is immensely powerful, and disturbingly opaque.Lucas Ropek (Gizmodo)
