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06.11.2024 - 17:35 [ USA Today ]

Opinion: Trump wins 2024 election. America needs to admit it‘s not ‚better than this.‘

We just elected a convicted felon who has normalized bullying, spread hate like an industrial sprinkler and shown us over and over and over again he sees laws as irrelevant and self-enrichment as sacrosanct. Faced with a billowing ocean of red flags – from indictments for trying to overturn the 2020 election to the coddling of dictators who rule enemy nations – a majority of Americans cast their vote for the man who is a totem of the worst in all of us.

So spare me the wails of “This isn’t who we are!” I’ve got bad news for the sane and decent among us: This is exactly who we are.

18.09.2024 - 14:20 [ Sky News Australia ]

Australia urged to reject ‘ultra-extreme’ UN draft resolution for Israel and Palestine

Joe Biden’s government is urging Australia to say no to a draft UN resolution by the Palestinian authority.

The draft demands an unconditional withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank.

21.03.2024 - 01:00 [ Times of Israel ]

Netanyahu says it ‘will take some time’ until IDF launches offensive in Rafah

(21.03.2024)

Two senior US officials told The Times of Israel on Tuesday that the US will present alternative plans for how Israel can continue pursuing Hamas without launching a major ground operation in Rafah during an upcoming meeting with a visiting Israeli delegation in Washington.

15.03.2024 - 21:45 [ Axios ]

Biden backs Schumer‘s criticism of Bibi

What they are saying: „I‘m not going to elaborate on his speech,“ Biden said in response to a question at the top of his meeting with the prime minister of Ireland at the White House.

„He made a good speech, and I think he expressed serious concern shared not only by him, but by many Americans,“ Biden added.

22.02.2024 - 05:25 [ Associated Press ]

An attempt by UK lawmakers to vote on a cease-fire in Gaza descended into chaos

The mayhem broke out during debate on a motion from the opposition Scottish National Party, or SNP, urging an immediate cease-fire, the release of all Israeli hostages held by Hamas and “an end to the collective punishment of the Palestinian people.”

The main opposition Labour Party, which is divided over how strongly to criticize Israel, submitted a tweaked version of the motion calling for an “immediate humanitarian cease-fire,” without the mention of collective punishment.

The governing Conservatives put forward their own amendment, which backed an “immediate humanitarian pause,” followed by “moves towards a permanent sustainable” cease-fire.

15.11.2023 - 06:29 [ Politico.eu ]

Suella Braverman is the most hated woman in British politics — and far nicer than you think

(November 9, 2023)

Some speculate the ambitious Braverman’s sole aim was to upset left-wing opinion and so enhance her standing with the grassroots Tory members — a famously right-wing cohort — who will decide a future Tory leadership contest.

If so, she likely succeeded.

02.11.2023 - 19:23 [ Sarah Wilkinson / Twitter ]

The day that @Pal_action rammed the gate of Leicester’s israeli arms factory & brought israeli drone makers to their knees #ShutElbitDown

(Oct 20, 2023)

18.10.2023 - 20:05 [ The Recount / Twitter ]

President Biden was asked by the reporter pool what makes him sure Israel wasn’t behind the hospital explosion in Gaza. “The data I was shown by my Defense Department,” he replied.

25.09.2023 - 22:42 [ Bloomberg ]

US Opens Diplomatic Ties With Cook Islands in Bid to Woo Pacific

“The United States is committed to ensuring an Indo-Pacific region that is free, open, prosperous and secure. We’re committed to working with all the nations around this table to achieve that goal,” Biden said Monday at the Pacific Islands Forum Summit at the White House.

03.07.2023 - 11:45 [ Haaretz ]

An Already Exposed Foreign Influence Operation to Incite Violence in Israel Is Reemerging

(03.07.2023)

The members of FakeReporters who spoke under a pseudonym with the user “Daniel” found he was linked to both the anti- and pro-protest groups.

23.05.2023 - 21:20 [ Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي / Nitter ]

„I‘m not a fan of Nazis but…“ writes the same Benjamin Einhorn who calls me a Kapo, a moron, a pathetic self-important loser & a disgrace.

05.03.2023 - 11:37 [ Haaretz ]

„Good Evening, Anarchists and Terrorists“: Record Number of Israelis Protest Against Netanyahu’s Judicial Coup

Despite the heightened police presence and the force used by officers against protesters earlier in the week, over 180,000 Israelis protested the government’s planned judicial overhaul throughout the country on Saturday night, for the ninth week in a row.

After the demonstration ended, protesters attempted to cross the barricade that blocked off the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv. Police tried to obstruct those who broke through, but several thousand people made their way onto the main road and began marching.

11.01.2023 - 13:32 [ Haaretz ]

‚Police Promised They Won‘t Be Violent Against Protesters‘ in Tel Aviv This Weekend

Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai met on Wednesday with former IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya‘alon, former Mossad chief Tamir Pardo, and attorney Eliad Shraga, chairman of The Movement for Quality Government, in light of the protest against planned judicial reforms in Israel and ahead of the Saturday demonstration in Tel Aviv.

06.11.2022 - 11:28 [ Telegraph.co.uk ]

Libertarian jihadists in No 10? Sadly, the Tories remain a party of soggy social democracy

Every Leftist revolution – Venezuela, Cuba, the USSR itself – follows the same pattern. First, Western observers gush over it – they’ve seen the future and it works. Then, as things begin to go wrong, they blame saboteurs and plead for time. Finally, when the revolution ends (as they all end) in hunger and labour camps, they insist that it was never properly socialist in the first place, and that “real socialism has never been tried”.

04.11.2022 - 06:39 [ Arsen Ostrovsky / Nitter ]

Curious, why President #Biden has not yet congratulated Benjamin #Netanyahu on #Israel elections win? Host of other world leaders have done so and it took Biden less than 1hr to congratulate Lula earlier this week.

15.10.2022 - 19:31 [ Simon_Templar2021 PhD / Nitter ]

This country is screwed whosoever in power even if Labour! Tory grassroot members has royally damaged this country by putting a malfunctioning robot Lizbot as PM who lacks a brain like the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz! Unfortunately there isn’t a Wizard she can visit to get one!

05.10.2022 - 13:19 [ @DLFNachrichten / Nitter ]

Bundeswirtschaftsminister Habeck wirft mehreren Staaten – darunter den USA – vor, überhöhte Preise für Erdgas zu verlangen. Er spricht von „Mondpreisen“. #Energiekrise

13.08.2022 - 07:44 [ Bundesgesundheitsministerium / Nitter ]

Hallo @haake_daniel, der Minister ist vier Mal geimpft. Die vierte Impfung ist in seiner Corona-Warn-App aber nicht registriert.

19.06.2022 - 16:03 [ Bild / Nitter.net ]

Heute Wahl-Entscheidung in Frankreich – Wie mächtig wird der linke Deutschland-Hasser?

13.06.2022 - 02:23 [ Euractiv.com ]

French EU minister: Mélenchon’s real objective is ‘to crush the left’

Beaune believes that Mélenchon’s real intention is not to become a prime minister – as he has declared – in the next legislative election but to “crush the left and kill the Socialist Party and the Greens for the benefit of Jean-Luc Mélenchon alone”.

08.06.2022 - 06:10 [ Interfax.com.ua ]

EU excludes cloud services from 6th sanctions package for unknown reasons – Podoliak

„At first, the EU Council announces the blockage of Russia from EU cloud services in the Sixth Sanction Package. Then, the EU Council edits the message, removing these references. No clarifications or explanations from the officials,“ Podoliak said on Twitter.

„We must increase the sanctions pressure, not decrease,“ the adviser to the head of the President‘s Office said.

08.05.2022 - 11:32 [ BelfastTelegraph.co.uk ]

Northern Ireland election results: Sinn Fein becomes largest party at Stormont with 27 seats – as it happened

Sinn Fein has become the largest party in Northern Ireland after winning 27 seats at the Assembly election – the first nationalist party to ever do so.

Until today, a unionist party had always been the largest party in the Assembly since the formation of Northern Ireland in 1921

27.12.2021 - 08:02 [ Marketwatch.com ]

White House lifting omicron travel ban on South Africa and seven other southern African countries

(24.12.2021)

White House spokesman Kevin Munoz said on Twitter that the decision was recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Munoz said the temporary travel bans bought scientists necessary time to study the new virus variant and conclude that the current vaccinations are effective in blunting its impact.

21.12.2021 - 07:35 [ MDR ]

Thüringen: Rund 2.900 Teilnehmer bei Demonstrationen gegen Anti-Corona-Maßnahmen

In Thüringen haben am Sonntag rund 2.900 Menschen gegen die Maßnahmen zur Eindämmung der Corona-Pandemie demonstriert. Die Polizei sprach von insgesamt 17 Demonstrationen in mehreren Städten.

01.12.2021 - 19:41 [ Center for Countering Digital Hate / filesusr.com ]

Pandemic Profiteers – The business of anti-Vaxx

The Centerfor Countering Digital Hate is a not-for-profit NGO that seeks to disrupt the architecture of online hate and misinformation.

Digital technology has changed forever the way we communicate, build relationships, share knowledge, set social standards, and negotiate and assert our society‘s values.

Digital spaces have been colonised and their unique dynamics exploited by fringe movements that instrumentalise hate and misinformation. These movements are opportunistic, agile and confident in exerting influenceand persuading people.Over time these actors, advocating diverse causes – from anti-feminism to ethnic nationalism to denial of scientific consensus – have formed a Digital Counter Enlightenment.

Their trolling, disinformation and skilled advocacy of their causes has resocialised the offline world for the worse.The Center‘s work combines both analysis and active disruption of these networks. CCDH‘s solutions seek to increase the economic, political and social costs of all parts of the infrastructure -the actors, systems and culture -that support, and often profit from hate and misinformation.

01.12.2021 - 19:21 [ ZDF ]

Die Wahrheit über Desinformation

Das Center zur Bekämpfung von Digitalem Hass (CCDH) hat im Frühjahr 2021 in einer Studie herausgefunden, dass hinter 65 Prozent aller Falschinformationen zu Corona nur zwölf Impfgegner und ihre Organisationen stecken. Und die verdienen offensichtlich viel Geld mit dem Verbreiten von Falschinformationen und dem Verkauf ihrer eigenen Produkte.

18.08.2021 - 17:44 [ Standard.co.uk ]

Afghanistan’s president Ashraf Ghani revealed to be in United Arab Emirates after fleeing ‘with helicopter full of cash’

A spokesman for the Russian embassy in Kabul, Nikita Ishchenko, was quoted as saying: “The collapse of the regime…is most eloquently characterised by how Ghani escaped from Afghanistan: four cars were filled with money, they tried to shove another part of the money into a helicopter, but not everything fit.

Asked by the Associated Press about how he knew the details of Ghani’s departure, Mr Ishchenko said “well, we are working here,” without offering any more details.

13.08.2021 - 09:23 [ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - CDC.gov ]

When You’ve Been Fully Vaccinated

(27.08.2021)

– If you’ve had close contact with someone who has COVID-19, you should get tested 3-5 days after your exposure, even if you don’t have symptoms. You should also wear a mask indoors in public for 14 days following exposure or until your test result is negative. You should isolate for 10 days if your test result is positive.

(…)

What We Know

– COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective at preventing COVID-19, including severe illness and death.
– COVID-19 vaccines are effective against severe disease and death from variants of the virus that causes COVID-19 currently circulating in the United States, including the Delta variant.
– Infections happen in only a small proportion of people who are fully vaccinated, even with the Delta variant. When these infections occur among vaccinated people, they tend to be mild.
– If you are fully vaccinated and become infected with the Delta variant, you can spread the virus to others.
– People with weakened immune systems, including people who take immunosuppressive medications, may not be protected even if fully vaccinated.

13.08.2021 - 09:21 [ New York Times ]

Covid-19: C.D.C. Reverses Testing Advice for Fully Vaccinated

Published July 28, 2021
Updated Aug. 12, 2021

Anyone who has been potentially exposed to the virus should get tested, the C.D.C. now says. Previous guidance recommended testing only for fully vaccinated people who were symptomatic.

13.08.2021 - 08:11 [ ORF.at ]

Wann Tests für Geimpfte sinnvoll sind

Die US-Behörde hatte diese erst jüngst aktualisiert: So wird vollständig Geimpften nun geraten, sich bereits testen zu lassen, wenn sie Kontakt mit einer infizierten Person hatten – und zwar auch dann, wenn keine Symptome auftreten. Konkret wird geraten, dass Vollimmunisierte nach dem Kontakt mit einem oder einer Infizierten in Innenräumen Masken tragen und sich drei bis fünf Tage nach dem Kontakt und einer potenziellen Übertragung des Virus testen lassen.

13.06.2021 - 19:44 [ Israeli Elections Live / Twitter ]

The 67 votes in favor of Mickey Levy consist not only of the 61 members of the new coalition but also the 6 members of the Joint List, which is a little surprising.

Levy gives his inaugural speech.

13.06.2021 - 17:03 [ Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר / Twitter ]

Boring party statements now. Starting with concentrated sycophancy from Likud’s Yoav Kisch

Netanyahu does a little walkabout in the plenum, glad-handling Likudniks. Interestingly, he ignores Nir Barkat whose already launched his own unofficial Likud leadership campaign.

13.04.2021 - 21:02 [ ZDF ]

Unions-Chefs Söder und Laschet – Einigung in K-Frage noch in dieser Woche

Es sei eine „sehr gute Diskussion“ gewesen, sagte Laschet am Dienstagabend nach dem Auftritt mit Söder in der CDU/CSU-Bundestagsfraktion. „Ich glaube, das hat ein sehr gutes Meinungsbild abgegeben.“ In allen Wortbeiträgen der Abgeordneten habe es eine Botschaft gegeben: „Einigt Euch schnell.“

14.03.2021 - 12:46 [ Achse des Guten ]

Sind Sie Medienleugner? Ein Selbsttest

Gehören Sie auch zu „den Leuten“? Machen Sie den Selbsttest – und finden Sie heraus, ob nicht vielleicht doch irgendwelche unberechtigten Vorurteile in den Tiefen Ihrer Seele schlummern.

02.02.2021 - 09:32 [ Telegraph.co.uk ]

Exclusive: Boris Johnson pushes to reopen schools as Covid cases fall

(today)

Boris Johnson has ordered ministers to ramp up preparations for reopening schools after being told the UK is now past the peak of the current wave of coronavirus.

The Prime Minister has made it clear that the Government’s immediate focus must be on education and is expected to announce further measures to help children catch up after almost a year of disruption.

17.01.2021 - 17:35 [ John Crace / theGuardian.com ]

In these grim times we all need a saviour and right now it is Chris Whitty

(11.01.2021)

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. In these exceptionally grim times we’re all – Boris Johnson included – looking for a saviour to rise from these streets. And right now that salvation appears to be the England’s chief medical officer, Chris Whitty. Just about the only person left whom anyone can trust to tell the country the naked truth about coronavirus.

17.01.2021 - 17:15 [ Neil O'Brien / theGuardian.com ]

I’d love to ignore ‘Covid sceptics’ and their tall tales. But they make a splash and have no shame

They rubbished those who knew what they were talking about. Professors Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance were “Messrs Doom and Gloom”, “fear-mongering” and “self-serving”. That Whitty and Jonathan Van-Tam used their tiny amount of spare time to volunteer in hospitals suggests that’s not true. Now, as the death toll still rises, the same people crawl from the woodwork to demand we lift all restrictions as soon as the most vulnerable are vaccinated.