Covid

MASKING SAVES LIVES

Monday, August 26, 2024

Friday, August 09, 2024

Ruling Challenges Media Stance on Palestine

"On July 30, the U.N. Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner said

'States must immediately review all diplomatic, political, and economic ties with Israel, inclusive of business and finance, pension funds, academia and charities.'”

Ruling Challenges Media Stance on Palestine

EXCERPTS:

"Being a crime against humanity, administering apartheid makes Israeli officials war criminals even without taking into account the regime’s crimes in Gaza, which the ICJ in a separate ruling in January said amounted to a case of plausible genocide." 

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"Some hold out little hope. Canterbury University academic and geopolitical commentator Josephine Varghese said: 

'I don’t think the ICJ presents an imperative for media outlets like ABC to change their language. The Australian state is a close ally of the U.S. and Israel and their economic interests are deeply interwoven. Western states and media institutions, contrary to their own assertions, are largely anti-democratic in nature and strive, first and foremost, to protect the political and economic interests of their ruling class.'”

 

Tuesday, August 06, 2024

Camus Had A Point--Surprised I Haven't Seen This Quote During Covid--4 Years On

It's impossible that there could be a plague, because everyone knows that they have vanished from the West. We should not act as though half the town were threatened with death, because then it would be.  Yes, everyone knew that, except for the dead."

Albert Camus, The Plague