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https://www.commondreams.org/views/2019/12/24/fascinating-history-and-political-lives-jews-iran
An article that tries to show that Iranian Jews are not discriminated against.
The tensions within the Middle East have shown that religion is a secondary factor. The Wahhabists allies itself with Zionism, Hamas supports the anti-Assad rebels.
Fatou Bensouda who is leading this ICC investigation certainly cannot be accused of an anti-Israeli bias.
She accepted Israel’s right to stop the Marmara humanitarian flotilla which saw 9 killed and closed the case against Israel. When later other ICC judges appealed for the case to be re-opened she denied that request.
In the interview Giuliani bristled at the idea that the idea that he was invoking a well-worn anti-semitic trope by casting Soros as some sort of puppet-master.
“Don’t tell me I’m anti-Semitic if I oppose him, Soros is hardly a Jew. I’m more of a Jew than Soros is,” said Mr Giuliani, who was raised Roman Catholic and attended Catholic schools in his youth. “I probably know more about — he doesn’t go to church, he doesn’t go to religion — synagogue. He doesn’t belong to a synagogue, he doesn’t support Israel, he’s an enemy of Israel. He’s elected eight anarchist DA’s in the United States. He’s a horrible human being,” Giuliani continued.
Let me not decry the Co-op… I have laid to rest three members of my family via the Co-op Funeral Directors services
I only wish now is to lay to rest the misplaced belief in co-operatives as a stepping stone to the socialist cooperative commonwealth
There are further ramifications of this
Under the American Service members’ Protection Act (ASPA) the US president can use “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any US or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court” (ICC). [my emphahsis]
Any Israeli who could be deemed a US ally and who might happen to be apprehended and placed on trial would permit the USA to launch a military attack on the Netherlands.
The ICC is effectively toothless except in the case of trying Africans and the reason why many African nations have distanced themselves from it
It was to be expected
Netanyahu accused the International Criminal Court of anti-Semitism over its plan to pursue a war crimes probe in the Palestinian Territories.
“New edicts are being cast against the Jewish people – anti-Semitic edicts by the International Criminal Court telling us that we, the Jews standing here next to this wall…in this city, in this country, have no right to live here and that by doing so, we are committing a war crime,” he said. “Pure anti-Semitism,” Netanyahu said, raising an argument likely to strike a chord with many Israelis who believe that criticism, especially in Europe, of Israeli policies towards the Palestinians has its roots in anti-Jewish sentiment.
The Party has a draft pamphlet on the topic which aims to answer proponents such as Wolff.
Like flowers it is a perennial problem for ourselves that we have to keep weeding out.
Perhaps others more informed on the topic might comment on this report, which is taken to be an ominous sign of an approaching crash
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/dec/19/debt-in-developing-economies-rises-to-record-55tn
“Emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs) pushed their borrowing to a record $55tn (£42tn) last year, according to the World Bank, marking an eight-year surge that is the “largest, fastest and most broad-based in nearly five decades”…”
In the media smears against Labour and Corbyn, did anyone ever come across this video
Jews Against BoJo
https://www.facebook.com/JewsAgainstBoJo/videos/969646206742052
Or hear the views of
Na’amod: British Jews Against Occupation
Or the Glasgow anarchistic-gay group, Irn-Ju, trying to protect a local synagogue from private re-development.
No, i didn’t think so.
Only one voice is allowed within British Jewry – the one the media permits
The media and the general election.
The study found that negative newspaper coverage increased towards every opposition party in the week before the election, while negative coverage about the Conservatives halved.
For Labour, levels of negative newspaper coverage were more than double those seen during the 2017 general election campaign.
Researchers at Loughborough University analysed stories in 11 leading UK newspapers – including The Sun, The Times, The Telegraph, The Guardian, The Daily Mail and The Mirror. Labour accumulated very high levels of negative coverage during every week of the campaign.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/press-hostility-labour-party-election-campaign-2017-112117621.html
In regards to this discussion on language and words, the WSPUS has just added this article by Cde. Shenfield to their Home Page
https://www.wspus.org/2019/12/a-history-of-meanings/
“…A recurrent topic of discussion among genuine socialists/communists is whether it is worth the effort to fight for the ‘true’ (original) meanings of words that are so widely misunderstood. Or should we invent new words to describe ourselves and the society for which we strive?
Ultimately, meanings are a matter of power and influence. Only by acquiring sufficient influence over people’s minds can we introduce new words into mainstream discourse. But with sufficient influence over people’s minds we can also restore old meanings to words that have gone astray…”I am also reminded of how the Right in the USA managed to usurp the word “libertarian.” Murray Rothbard has publicly admitted to their stealing of that word:
“One gratifying aspect of our rise to some prominence is that, for the first time in my memory, we, ‘our side,’ had captured a crucial word from the enemy . . . ‘Libertarians’ . . . had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over . . .” (The Betrayal of the American Right)As we all know, capitalism is a world system in which UK banks are but a small part.
Following the Paris Agreement, globally, $1.9 trillion has been invested in fossil fuel projects.
Global governments plan to increase fossil fuels by 120% by 2030, including the US, China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, Canada, and Australia.
China is financing 25% of all new worldwide coal plant construction outside of its borders; e.g., South Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
India increased coal-fired power capacity by 74% over the past 7 years. The country expects to further increase coal-generated capacity by another 22% over the next 3 years.
China has cut its renewable power subsidies by 30%. Likewise, Trump proposes slashing renewable budget.
In the past 18 months alone, China has added enough new coal-based power generation (43GW) to power 31 million new homes.
China plans on adding another 148GW of coal-based power, which will equal the total current coal generating capacity of the EU.
Madrid COP25 proved an utter failure when it came to any solutions through carbon trading and carbon off-setting and carbon taxes. It equally denied sufficient assistance to those countries which are first in the firing line of climate change.
From
As been said many times before – Business As Usual
Or as others put it, “Capitalism is the cause. The solution – add more capitalism”
