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The coverage of the news from Gaza and Lebanon is like it is being orchestrated by a central command!
Every paper, every media, every web site is using the same language, avoiding to name Israel on their headlines and using a passive sentence like "died", "exploded", "injured".
The screen capture is from yesterday Swedish "liberal left" Dagens Nyheter. covering the catastrophe in Lebanon.
- Doctors warn after attacks in northern Gaza - 87 reported dead or missing
- Explosions in Beirut - houses reported hit
And EVERY freaking time when they report about the casualties in Gaza, they use the EXACT same phrase "According to hams controlled heath department".
This is one of the first times they actually reported about the catastrophe in Gaza after days of silence about the catastrophe in the north or even mentioning the starvation of upto 400 000 people by the genocidal regime of Israel and it's murderous gang.
#Sweden #Leban #Media #Israel #Gaza #Propaganda #Inhumanity #Politics #Genocide #Inhumanity
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Because the election in the United States 🇺🇸 will have an effect all countries I think it's important that everyone help in their fight for democracy.
We can't vote but we can support our US friends with encouraging words,
by helping spread the Harris/Walz message,
and blocking and reporting Trolls and Bots designed to interfere with their election.
#USpoli #USA #Politics
#Democracy #Voting
#Harris
#EU #Canada
#SouthAmerica
#Australia #Africa
The #Disinformation Warning Coming From the Edge of #Europe
https://www.wired.com/story/the-disinformation-warning-coming-from-the-edge-of-europe/
Reminder: Long lines on Election Day tend to suppress votes by driving off people who don't have hours to spare.
If you CAN vote early, then you SHOULD—not only for the trouble it might save you in the long run, but also to make it easier for other people to cast their votes. #politics #USPol #voting #election2024
Pegasus Spyware Maker Said to Flout Federal Court as It Lobbies to Get Off U.S. Blacklist
#politics #technology #theintercept
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Pegasus Spyware Maker Said to Flout Federal Court as It Lobbies to Get Off U.S. Blacklist
On the same day lobbyists for NSO met with Rep. Pete Sessions, a lawyer from the lobbying firm gave $1,000 to “Pete Sessions for Congress.”Georgia Gee (The Intercept)
Exclusive: Trump ground game in key states flagged as potentially fake
Data suggests canvassers linked to Elon Musk’s America Pac falsely claimed to have visited homes of potential voters
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/19/trump-campaign-leaked-data-voters-elon-musk
Don’t say ‘vote’: How Instagram hides your political posts
WaPo #tech columnist Geoffrey A. Fowler investigates how #Meta’s #Instagram, #Facebook & #Threads suppress #content related to the #election. Even discussing how to #vote isn’t safe.
…Fowler shows exactly how #democracy dies on Instagram.
#SocialMedia #internet #censorship #politics
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/10/16/instagram-limits-political-content-shadowban-election-posts/
"The billionaires who contribute to Donald Trump’s campaign tend to be highly motivated ideologues and individual operators. “It’s transactional,” a Princeton historian said. “They see Trump as their instrument.”
Yeah, so what else is new.
New Yorker with paywall so no point in providing a link.
Here’s an important and sadly unsurprising story from @404mediaco. @jasonkoebler writes about how an Elon Musk-funded PAC is speaking out of both sides of its mouth, telling Muslims in Michigan that Kamala Harris is a close friend of Israel and Jews in Pennsylvania that she’s anti semitic.
#Politics #ElonMusk #USPolitics #USElection #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
This Is Exactly How an Elon Musk-Funded PAC Is Microtargeting Muslims and Jews With Opposing Messages
The Future Coalition PAC is targeting according to ZIP code in highly specific ways.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
Donald Trump on Daughter Ivanka: "Is It Wrong to Be More Sexually Attracted to Your Own Daughter Than Your Wife?"
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump
Trump on Daughter Ivanka: 'Is It Wrong to Be More Sexually Attracted to Your Own Daughter Than Your Wife?'
The world’s worst-kept secret may be that Donald Trump has repeatedly made gross sexual comments and observations about his daughter, Ivanka Trump. And we are talking gross.Nicole Hickman (Political Flare)
JD #Vance Campaign Event With Christian Right Leaders May Have Violated #Tax and #Election Laws, Experts Say
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#Ziklag and the Courage Tour, the far-right groups that hosted the #Republican vice-presidential nominee, are charities that can’t legally intervene in #political campaigns.
#News #Politics #USPolitics #Election2024 #JDVance #ChristianRight #FarRight #Law #Trump #Nonprofit
Vance Event With Ziklag, Courage Tour May Have Violated Tax, Election Laws
Ziklag and the Courage Tour, the far-right groups that hosted the Republican vice-presidential nominee, are charities that can’t legally intervene in political campaigns.ProPublica
America is doing better than the media or our politicians tell us. Here’s proof.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #HarrisWalz #USA #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
“Quite frankly, we reviewed this case in detail, fully expected that this law would provide relief, and that has not happened.”
Just out: Robert Roberson is scheduled to be executed today, based on a conviction that hinges on faulty science, and despite widespread pleading for clemency from lawyers and legislators. https://www.texasobserver.org/robert-roberson-subpoena-execution/
#DeathPenalty #CriminalJustice #politics #USpol #TXlege #HiumanRights #news #science #Texas #prison
Legislators, Attorneys Urge State to Halt Execution of Potentially Innocent Man
If efforts fail, Robert Roberson would be the first man executed in America for a murder conviction based on the controversial “shaken baby syndrome” diagnosis.Michelle Pitcher (The Texas Observer)
NEW EPISODE:
Around Europe, mysterious acts of sabotage have been multiplying. And there's a pattern: the perpetrators were recruited on Telegram via accounts linked to Russian agencies. This week, we hear about an investigation where journalists went undercover to figure out how this recruitment actually works.
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/russias-mysterious-sabotage-campaign
#podcast #news #politics #geopolitics #russia #estonia #telegram #tech #europe #eu #europeanunion
Russia's mysterious sabotage campaign
Arson, vandalism, attacks on NATO vehicles: around Europe, mysterious acts of sabotage have been multiplying. And there's a pattern: the perpetrators were recruited on Telegram via accounts linked to Russian agencies.The Europeans
#Elections2024 #Arizona #Politics #USpol
"👉Control of the House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate + the White House could all come down to 1 pocket of voters in the battleground state of Arizona👈... suburban voters in #Maricopa County — which houses #Phoenix, making it the most populous county in the #GrandCanyon State. How that county votes could ultimately come down to Republican supporters of the late senator #JohnMcCain...Trump didn't respect McCain..."
https://www.alternet.org/voting-bloc-2024-election/
'Truly different': Here’s the surprising voting bloc that could decide the 2024 election
Control of the House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and the White House could all come down to one pocket of voters in the battleground state of Arizona next month.Carl Gibson (Alternet.org)
How King #car fought back in the voting booth in #Belgium.
Source: https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/hoe-koning-auto-terugsloeg-in-het-stemhokje~b5f732b9/
Belgian voters reject #climate - friendly #transport #policy
#news #vote #election #politics #city #society #traffic #politics #future #earth
Hoe Koning Auto terugsloeg in het stemhokje
Van Oostende tot Leuven: over heel Vlaanderen kregen voorvechters van zones 30, ‘knips’ en dure parkeerplaatsen een tik van de kiezer. Een signaal dat het verkeersbeleid aan bezinning toe is. ‘De zuurtegraad moet omlaag.’Ann De Boeck (DPG Media België)
The #Heat #Crisis Is a #Housing Crisis
"Humble told me that we talk about how sharply smoking increases lung cancer risks, up to 3,000 percent according to #government statistics. But, he added, “being #homeless increases your chance of dying from heat in Phoenix by 50,000 percent.”
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/climate/the-heat-crisis-is-a-housing-crisis.html
#health #humanrights #politics #environment #earth #emissions #climate #economy #fail #justice #news
The #crypto industry has now spent $40 million dollars to defeat #SherrodBrown in #Ohio. That's apparently more money than Brown's previous 3 opponents combined.
According to Politico almost half of corporate PAC money and almost 9% of the total money spent on #Congressional elections has now come from an industry whose sole goal is to legalize securities #fraud. Brown is critical for them to knock off because he sits on the #Senate banking committee.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/15/crypto-election-ads-fairshake-00183700
#Election2024 #2024Election #Trump #DonaldTrump #JDVance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #Kamala2024 #KamalaHarris #GOP #MAGA #MAGAts #Vote #Republicans #RVAT #Democrats #HarrisWalz2024 #VoteBlue #cryptocurrency #Bitcoin #BTC #Tether
Trump Can’t Stop Touting His Friendly Relationship With Putin
Former President Donald Trump boasted his relationships with Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un during a Sean Hannity Fox News interview,Charisma Madarang (Rolling Stone)
Vladimir Putin desperately needs Donald Trump to win the election.
Trump is easily pliable with a compliment, admires Putin as his hero, and will hand Putin the keys to Ukraine the day he is sworn into office.
So, how does Putin help Trump?
How Russian propaganda reaches and influences the U.S.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #BreakingNews #Breaking #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump
https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/russian-disinformation-2024-election-storm-1516/index.html
How Russian disinformation is reaching the U.S. ahead of the 2024 election
Storm-1516, a Russian disinformation group, aims to influence the U.S. election through viral videos that rely on fake whistleblowers and fabricated photos and documents.Brandy Zadrozny (NBC News)
With Orange Mussolini saying yet again that he'll use the military against his political opponents on the ground, I keep recalling the words of top-level Russian propagandist Vladimir Solovyov some few weeks ago, addressing those of us who monitor such things directly, on the air, telling us to get it straight:
"We don't care about your politics! We care about your CIVIL WAR."
I don't know how to work this into an article yet. Tomorrow's comes close, I might yet find a way to work it in.
But they really want a second American civil war, and Trump's eager to give it to them.
A POINT TO PONDER...
Does Donald Trump use burner phones when he maintains contact with Vladimir Putin or is he vain enough that he doesn't care?
Trump is known for staying in contact and asking for advice and directions from Vladimir Putin, the world's most vile murderer and despot.
Putin is responsible for the deaths of more than 1,000,000 Russians and Ukrainians.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Trump #trending #Putin
Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss | #Race | The Guardian
#Germany #Ethnicity #Politics #Pseudoscience
Revealed: International ‘race science’ network secretly funded by US tech boss
Group promoting ‘dangerous’ scientific racism ideology teamed up with rightwing extremist, recordings revealJason Wilson (The Guardian)
“Paxton’s impeachment may have lit the match, but this fight is fueled by the far right’s years-long desire to incinerate what remains of bipartisan comity in the lower chamber and rebuild the House in the image of Patrick’s Senate, where authoritarian rule is put to proper use.” https://www.texasobserver.org/speaker-phelan-gop-lege-2025/
#TXlege #politics #USpol #news #Texas #Republicans
Speaker Boxing: Is Phelan Failin', or Will the Far Right Fall Short Again?
The Paxton impeachment may have lit the match, but this fight is fueled by a yearslong campaign to incinerate what remains of bipartisan comity in the lower chamber.Justin Miller (The Texas Observer)
"Vice President Kamala Harris will sit down with Fox News' Bret Baier Wednesday as she steps out of the comfort of what has so far been a relatively friendly series of interviews since she became the Democratic nominee this summer."
From @abc: "With three weeks until Election Day, Harris' interview with Baier will mark her first sit-down with Fox News -- and her first interview with a conservative news outlet since she became the Democratic nominee."
For ongoing coverage, follow @2024-white-house-ElectionCentral
#Harris #FoxNews #USPolitics #Politics #Election #Media #KamalaHarris
Harris steps out of friendly media confines to do interview with Fox News' Bret Baier
The interview with Bret Baier could be a chance to "clean up" recent missteps.Will McDuffie (ABC News)
Right-Wing Activists Pushed False Claims About #Election Fraud. Now They’re Recruiting #Poll Workers in Swing States.
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Experts say these poll workers could sow distrust in #democracy and bolster court cases challenging the election. ProPublica and Wisconsin Watch reviewed dozens of hours of trainings and presentations in which activists discussed their plans.
#News #Vote #Election2024 #SwingStates #USPolitics #Politics #Newstodon
The Right-Wing Plan to Recruit Poll Workers in Swing States
Experts say these poll workers could sow distrust in democracy and bolster court cases challenging the election.ProPublica
"Former president Donald Trump is campaigning on the most significant increase in tariffs in close to a century, preparing an attack on the international trade order that is likely to raise prices, hurt the stock market and spark economic feuds with much of the world."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/16/trump-tariffs-impact-economy/
#Trump #Tariffs #Inflation #Economy #Economics #Business #Trade #GOP #Republicans #Politics #USPol #News #USNews #USA
‘Off the charts:’ How Trump tariffs would shock U.S., world economies
Trump's tariff plans could lead to economic isolation, affecting global markets and increasing costs for American consumers.Jeff Stein (The Washington Post)
Q. is the rise of Donald Trump linked to the decline of shame in US politics?
If so what does it tell us about American society, or perhaps more widely, contemporary mores?
If the accusation of having no 'decency' has lost its power, and people are happy to ignore accusations of impropriety, have we moved back to a social world in which individual power (and wealth) are the primary yardsticks by which we measure the acceptability of behaviour?
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Well, Trump’s town hall event yesterday got a little weird when he swayed and bopped to some of his favorite songs for 39 minutes, including the gay anthem "YMCA", instead of answering audience questions.
There's a long history of politicians using music and pop culture to connect with voters – from Reagan with Springsteen to this year's endorsement of Kamala Harris by Taylor Swift.
#music #uspolitics #trump #politics #election2024 #history #histodons @histodons
Trump’s musical interlude is a twist on the long tradition of candidates enlisting musicians’ support, from Al Jolson to Springsteen to Swift
Voters may shake it off when celebrities endorse presidential candidates – but sometimes it makes the politicians look like they were born to run.The Conversation
I feel like Western countries are so far removed from fascism, coddled by modern society's comforts, and lucky enough to have avoided war on their soil, that the populations therein have legitimately forgotten what it's like to live in a world without democracy.
We take everything for granted. We forget that the ease with which we move through life is dependent upon complicated governmental/cultural/social/economic systems, which people before us spent entire generations developing so that we may bear their fruit.
Instead of honoring this gift with awareness and humility, we accept it as something inherent to our reality, unaware of the fact that it needs to be continually maintained, protected, and iterated upon.
ETA: Here's some direct quotes from Francis Fukuyama, whom I was essentially paraphrasing above: https://sunny.garden/@xavier_hm/113309816321436337
Xavier 🌻 (@xavier_hm@sunny.garden)
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama, pages 12-14: "It is quite legitimate to argue that modern governments have grown excessively large, and that they thereby limit economic growth and individual freedom. [...Sunny Garden
Sebastian Stan Scolds “Hypocrite” Trump at ‘The Apprentice’ U.K. Premiere: “Do You Really Trust This Person to Lead a Country?”
#MovieNews #Movies #BFILondonFilmFestival #Donaldtrump #Election2024 #International #LondonFilmFestival #Politics #SebastianStan #TheApprentice
Sebastian Stan Scolds Donald Trump at 'The Apprentice' U.K. Premiere
Stan, who portrays Donald Trump in Ali Abbasi's new movie, was asked whether this film debuting so close to the U.S. election could sway voters: "He's been trying to censor this movie, and at the same time, he claims he acknowledges free speech.Lily Ford (The Hollywood Reporter)
https://steady.substack.com/p/with-the-race-thisclose?r=pesmp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true #politics
https://mastodon.social/@Alan_G24@flipboard.com/113309984303961048
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris warned Monday that former President Donald Trump was “unstable,” “unhinged” and out for “unchecked power” as she sent a jolt of urgency though her campaign with 21 days to go.
From CNN: "'Watch his rallies. Listen to his words. He tells us who he is, and he tells us what he would do if he is elected president,' Harris told a large crowd in Pennsylvania after a weekend when Trump’s authoritarian rhetoric reached chilling new levels and hinted at the extreme nature of his potential second term."
