JB @secondtimefarce

The British government desperately wanted the scalp of a Jewish activist like Tony Greenstein to show that no one is safe from the state’s long arm of persecution should they seek to expose the UK’s complicity in genocide. The British state failed in its bid to have Greenstein jailed, which should be cause for relief and celebration among every person who opposes authoritarianism. The defeats being handed to the British state by juries who hear the actual evidence of Israeli crimes – and British collusion – are adding to the pressures on officials to find new ways to bypass the ancient right of trial by jury. The government of Keir Starmer was determined to establish the precedent of scrapping jury trials. Faced with the unpopularity of such a move, his successor Andy Burnham has sounded hesitant about advancing the measure. But pledges he made while seeking the Labour leadership – and prime ministership – are proving to be worth little now he is in office. Meanwhile, courtier-judges are finding ways to get around the reluctance of juries to convict anti-genocide activists of serious crimes. Juries that convict activists of a relatively minor charge of criminal damage for smashing up Israeli killer-drones, assuming the defendants will get a few months in prison, are learning that they are thereby handing judges in these trials unlimited powers, in violation of the most basic principles of justice. After the verdict, judges like Jeremy Johnson are choosing to rewrite the charge sheet, adding retrospectively what they are bogusly calling a “terrorism connection”. That means they can sentence the defendants as “terrorists”, leading to far longer jail sentences and destroying the defendants’ lives in perpetuity. This is the mark of a justice system that no longer cares about evidence, fairness or jury verdicts. It cares only about visible punishment, about spreading terror through the courtroom. We can fight back. Juries appear to be growing increasingly wary of these highly politicised trials the British state is staging to exonerate itself of its criminal activities and lock up its critics. As judges increasingly abuse the justice system to get the jail sentences demanded by the state, juries are likely to become much less willing to serve as an alibi for state repression. This is no longer a struggle simply for the Palestinian people’s survival. It is a struggle for ourselves, for our right to have a voice, to have some say in how our societies are run and for whose benefit. It is a struggle to keep the forces of darkness at bay a little while longer. This is an extract from my latest article The British state has lost the argument, even as it rigs the trials of genocide opponents. Find a link to the full article in the reply post ⬇️

When The Postil Magazine asked Canadian historian Michael Jabara Carley, “Is there a difference between a Western historiography of WWII and a Russian one?” he replied: “Oh yes, the difference is enormous. During the war, it was clear to all who had eyes to see that the Red Army played the key role in smashing the Nazi Wehrmacht and winning the war in Europe. The United States and Britain played supporting roles. After 1945 the war became an important object of propaganda in the Cold War. The new narrative was that the United States or Churchill single-handedly won the war in which the USSR was practically invisible. In the western media, histories, iconography, Hollywood films, comic books, more recently video games, the Red Army is invisible. The key moment in the war was operation Overlord, the Normandy landings, when in fact, they were an anticlimax, grand to be sure, in a war whose outcome had already been determined by the Red Army. In the context of the Cold War, it was normal that the United States would seek in various ways to rub out the memories of the Soviet role in the war, for otherwise how could you portray the USSR as a menacing communist enemy.”

Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar

2 days ago

Fascism marched across capitalist Europe. Communists chased it back to Berlin and raised this flag over its grave. Westerners: "We saved civilization!" Reality: You hid, you kneeled, you surrendered. The Soviets chased them to the bunker with blood. Shut up.

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The movement against datacenters may be the best opportunity we’ve had in generations to redirect the partisan anger the oligarchy uses to divide Americans and channel that energy instead against the billionaires that are actually causing our problems. theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

Free Palestine.

Iran's Army HIT the U.S. Base in the UAE with Drones Yes, the UAE was Targeted by IRAN, I UNDO my retraction The Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran attacked the location of US helicopters and forces at the "Al Minhad" base in the UAE with destructive drones. Army Public Relations: Since dawn today, in response to the recent aggressions of the aggressor enemy and in revenge for the brave martyrs of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the innocent people of Islamic Iran on Larak Island, the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran targeted the locations of helicopters and forces of the child-killing US army at the "Al Minhad" base in the UAE with dozens of destructive drones. Al Minhad base is one of the important centers for supporting and airlifting foreign forces. The Army Public Relations, referring to the recent aggression of the enemy on Larak Island, announced that the fighters of the Islamic Republic of Iran Army are standing for stable security and protection of the land of Islamic Iran until the removal of the enemy threat from the region, and will take revenge for the blood of all the martyrs of the imposed war from the American terrorist forces.

The immense irony here is that China has a millennia-old tradition of libertarianism and "laissez-faire", they literally invented this stuff. I mean, just read the Daodejing (2,500 years old) by Laozi in the text (chapter 57: egreenway.com/taoism/ttclz57…): "The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people become. The more sharp weapons there are, the greater the chaos in the state. The greater the number of statutes [i.e. laws], the more thieves and robbers there are. Therefore the sage says: I do nothing and the people are reformed of themselves. I love quietude and the people are righteous of themselves. I deal in no business and the people grow rich by themselves." It is, quite literally, Atlas Shrugged, two and a half millennia before Ayn Rand was born. The big difference with China is that they've since had 2,500 years of continuous governance practice to figure out that governing 1.4 billion people is a tad more complex than "government bad." Any educated Chinese person reading Ayn Rand wouldn't be enlightened, they'd be like "oh yeah we tried that one. A few times actually. It's cute that you guys are still there."

Blake Scholl 🛫 @bscholl

3 days ago

We should print a billion copies of Atlas Shrugged and mail one to every man, woman, and child in China.

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Jaylen Brown exposing the behind-the-scenes realities of the NBA. He says most players have handlers who won’t let them invest in their communities, and help build the next Black Wall Street. Once you start doing that, he says, they begin attacking you media personalities like Colin Cowherd push certain narratives, and media companies come after you simply because you want to create change in your community.

Your government has a spy satellite. You now have one too, and it runs in a browser tab. A guy named Bilawal open-sourced a tool that turns your laptop into a live surveillance globe. It's called God's Eye View. Photorealistic 3D Earth. Then you turn on the layers. > 1,000s of real planes in the air right now, moving on their actual telemetry. > Real ships crossing real oceans. > The actual International Space Station, exactly where it is this second. > Live earthquakes. Live fires burning in California. > 800 public street cameras projected straight into the 3D city. > Click any plane. The camera locks on and rides it down into the cockpit. None of it is fake. It's all public signal that was always out there, just scattered across a hundred websites nobody had time to open. You don't an account or signup to access ten of the thirteen layers with zero keys. github.com/bilawalsidhu/g…

It’s about time.

Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres

a day ago

My message to the IDF officer who ordered the airstrikes on World Central Kitchen and to the people who bomb and smear humanitarians — and to the leaders who have the responsability to stop it..

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Where the Prime Ministers of Israel were born

Fred Hampton Jr visiting his father's gravesite. His gravestone was shot up with bullets. Fred Hampton, revolutionary leader of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, was executed by the police, who discharged 90 rounds of ammunition while he lay in bed. ❤️💚🖤

“Over the weekend, Republican Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain's 2008 campaign for president, was interviewed on MSNBC. In response to a very general question regarding the Trump Presidency, Mr. Schmidt spoke for two solid minutes and gave the most insightful and brutally honest response of what the Trump Presidency has done to our great country. “Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And, I don't say that hyperbolically. He is. But he is a consequential president. And, he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And, there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.” "When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile. An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country who’s ever been charged with substantial responsibilities.” "It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City. Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale." "And, let's be clear. This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter. We are the place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are, because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk” H/T Clarence Tucker

PALESTINE IS OCCUPIED. What or who else is occupied?? I will start off… America is occupied. Trump is occupied. Republicans are occupied. Democrats are occupied. UK politicians are occupied. Fox is occupied. The BBC is occupied. CBS is occupied. Hollywood is occupied. Instagram is occupied. TikTok is occupied. X is occupied. Facebook is occupied. Germany is occupied. Ukraine is occupied. Argentina is occupied. Australia is occupied. Venezuela is occupied. Columbia University is occupied. Harvard is occupied. The Middle East is occupied.

🇻🇪 New from Drop Site: Chavista stronghold in Caracas warns US is planning operation to crush grassroots resistance Leaders of Caracas’s "23 de Enero" parish say they have been warned that US agencies are preparing a “large-scale operation” to root out their leadership and dismantle decades of community organizing, Juan Contreras of the Simón Bolívar Coordinator told Drop Site. A hilltop parish of public housing blocks near Miraflores Palace, 23 de Enero is a legendary bastion of popular struggle, from resistance to the Pérez Jiménez dictatorship to the armed movements of the 1960s-80s. Its residents helped return Chávez to power during the 2002 US-backed coup. Today it runs communes, soup kitchens, radio stations, and self-governing collectives, making it one of the last strongholds of independent popular power in what critics describe as US-occupied Venezuela. Contreras said Washington intends to “falsely link social organizations with drug trafficking and crime,” the same playbook used to justify the January 3 abduction of President Nicolás Maduro. “The accusations of narcoterrorism are a blatant lie that the U.S. used as an excuse to steal our oil and mineral wealth,” he said. Organizers said the “war on drugs” is a smokescreen to break the movements Contreras calls “the cornerstones of the Bolivarian Revolution.” 🔗 Read Andreína Chávez Alava’s full report at Drop Site News below👇

Drop Site @DropSiteNews

4 days ago

⚡️NEW: Elements of Venezuelan Government Loyal to Chavismo Warn of Possible U.S. Assault Leaders of the 23 de Enero parish, a stronghold of Chavismo resistance in Caracas, fear the U.S. will try to dismantle their grassroots democracy. Story for Drop Site News by @AChavezAlava

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Thanks TrashCat

Tell the American Medical Association to speak up for their colleagues in Israeli detention: codepink.org/amadelegates

Colonel Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to the U.S. Secretary of State, explains how they [the White House] bought European leaders and "taught the dogs to bark". - "We bought newspaper editors" - "We bought union heads" - "We bought parliamentarians" - "We bought two secretaries general: Jens Stoltenberg and Mark Rutte" - "We bought whole countries in terms of their political apparatus and what influences them" youtu.be/PjG-zfGY5PY

Congratulations South Africa Legal Team. What a gift to humanity you are.

The Palestine Chronicle @PalestineChron

a day ago

South Africa has officially submitted a substantial dossier to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), detailing Israel’s continued non-compliance with legally binding provisional measures. The submission, formally handed over on 25 August 2026, serves to assist an ICJ

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In 1944, the British Labour party proposed that the Arabs of Palestine needed to be transfered outside of Palestine to make way for Jews, because of the German Nazi plan to kill all Jews in Europe. Their solution to extermination of the Jews of Europe was the removal of the Palestinians from Palestine. The only way to land on this view is if you believe Jews were more human than Arabs. That's the entire basis of the support for Zionist movement: you have to accept that one's group plight needs to be resolved at the expense of another's. The only way you support Zionism is if you are a Jewish supremacist. archive.org/details/zionis…

Axons EVIDENCE.COM IS A BIOMETRIC HARVESTING ENGINE MASQUERADING AS AN EVIDENCE VAULT. Axon BODY-CAM is 100X worse then FLOCK , AXON is using police surveillance data to train AI models on civilians NOT only this they are monitoring every search every officer makes on their platform. That means Axon has a real-time surveillance system on police officers' search behavior. 🚨🚨👀👀 The surveillance system designed to monitor the monitors is also a surveillance system pointed at every citizen whose image, voice, and location is stored in Evidence.com. 🚨 Axon's CEO Rick Smith says: "We'll be building AI tools to watch for anomalous search behavior, so that we're watching out for potentially abusive patterns and people have access to the data." But Axon didn't respond to inquiries about what these AI tools actually do Axon's AI development program (ACEIP) uses "Customer Content" from this platform. Customer Content includes body camera footage. Body camera footage contains: • Faces of civilians • Faces of officers • Audio recordings of conversations • Location data (GPS coordinates embedded in video) • Incident scenes • Witness statements recorded on body cameras • Interactions with minors • Medical information (responses to medical calls) • Domestic violence scenes Axon's ACEIP program is using body camera footage to train AI models, they are training on the most sensitive visual and audio data that exists in law enforcement. This makes the Flock ALPR data look trivial by comparison. Axon represented to municipalities that their body camera footage would be securely stored and used only for evidence management, while simultaneously using that footage to train proprietary AI models through ACEIP, that is a material misrepresentation made to induce government contracts. In recent Chatrie decision by Supreme court , the Supreme Court established that geofence searches require 4th Amendment protection. the Chatrie precedent means for body camera footage. Body camera footage captures your face, your location, your voice, and your interaction with police, in public and sometimes private spaces. Axon is using this footage to train AI models, they are creating a system that can identify you, locate you, and reconstruct your movements across any city where Axon body cameras are deployed.🚨 And so now ALPR cameras not ONLY track cars 🚗 but Body cameras track people. And if both feed into the same Evidence.com cloud where AI models are trained, Axon is building the capability to link vehicle movements to human faces, voices, and physical locations. That is a person-tracking grid, not a vehicle-tracking grid. So Axon is 1. Using footage of citizens in their most vulnerable moments (arrests, mental health crises, domestic violence responses, medical emergencies) to train proprietary commercial AI 2. Using audio recordings of private conversations captured by body cameras 3. Using GPS metadata from body cameras to build location profiles 4. Using facial recognition training on real citizens captured by body cameras The body camera data flowing into Evidence.com is 100 X times more sensitive and 100 times more massive than the ALPR data. 🚨🚨🚨👀⚠️ Axon has deployed body cameras to approximately 250,000 officers across thousands of agencies. Each officer generates roughly 2-4 hours of footage per shift. Each shift is approximately 8-10 hours. With video and audio, each hour of footage is approximately 500MB to 1GB.👀👀 250,000 officers × 2 hours/shift × 250 working days/year = 125 million hours of footage per year. At 500MB/hour, that's 62.5 petabytes of data per year. Over 5+ years, Evidence.com holds hundreds of petabytes of audiovisual data of American citizens' interactions with police. 👀 training AI on even a fraction of this, the scale is staggering. And the privacy implications dwarf anything Flock is doing. a.storyblok.com/f/198504/x/9dc…

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