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The map of nations that recognize the State of Palestine is getting greener. I don't think most Americans realize we're among the global outliers. Policies of some of the remaining major countries (from Wiki): FRANCE: In October 2014, France's foreign minister said France would recognize a Palestinian state even if peace talks with Israel fails.[250] On 2 December 2014 the French National Assembly approved a non-binding motion calling on the government to recognise Palestine.[251] In 2024, French President Emmanuel Macron said "I am completely ready to recognize a Palestinian state, but ... I believe that this recognition must come at a useful time".[252] GERMANY: In April 2011, Chancellor Angela Merkel labelled the Palestinian bid for recognition a "unilateral step",[253] and stated unequivocally that Germany will not recognize a Palestinian state without its prior acceptance by Israel. "Unilateral recognitions therefore definitely do not contribute to achieving this aim ... This is our stance now and it will be our stance in September. There needs to be mutual recognition, otherwise it is not a two-state solution".[254] She also reaffirmed her government's commitment to see an agreement reached as soon as possible. "We want a two-state solution. We want to recognize a Palestinian state. Let us ensure that negotiations begin. It is urgent".[255] JAPAN: Japan voted favorably for the United Nations General Assembly resolution to accord Palestine Non-member Observer State status in the United Nations in November 2012, and since then, refers to the country as "Palestine".[275] In August 2024, a Japanese official stated that the country was considering recognition.[276] UK: In October 2014, the UK House of Commons passed a symbolic non-binding Motion by a vote of 274 in favour to 12 against which called on the Government to recognize Palestine.[340][341] Also in October 2014, the devolved government of Scotland called for recognition of Palestine as an independent state and for the UK to open an Embassy.[342] Shortly before the UK general election in June 2024, Labour Party leader Keir Starmer stated that recognition of Palestine could jeopardise the UK's relationship with the U.S.[343]
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We’re deploying an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to the Gulf of Mexico to guard our southern border. https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/uss-gravely-texas-gulf-coast-deployment-southern-border-mexico/
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About 15 years ago, I had a project in Mat-Su Borough, so we obviously flew into Anchorage. I seem to recall that the town was on very flat, low-lying ground.
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Other than "run for the hills," what did you advise?
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What to know about Mount Spurr’s likely eruption It’s showing all the signs: There have been recent earthquakes nearby, the volcano’s surface has expanded, there’s melting snow on its peak and there’s higher-than-normal emissions of volcanic gases. “It's almost like we have a checklist of the usual signs that volcanoes give us before they progress to an eruption,” said Matt Haney, the scientist in charge at the Alaska Volcano Observatory. “And now we're seeing all four of those are giving us those indicators.” Located roughly 80 west of Anchorage.
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You’ve got to love the Party of Small (POS™) government dictating what you do with your own body. Women, you are forbidden from deciding when to get pregnant or receive adequate healthcare in case shit goes sideways during pregnancy. Gays, you are forbidden from a legal partnership with the person of your choosing. Everyone, you are forbidden from having consensual sex with whomever you choose in the privacy of your own home. Trans, you are forbidden from expressing your inner gender. Everyone, you are forbidden from getting a buzz or receiving comfort for anxiety/depression, chemo, etc. The State owns your body, not you. You’re just a child. The State decides.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
U.S. Turned Away French Scientist Over Views on Trump Policies, France Says The French authorities said the academic had been traveling to a conference near Houston when border officials blocked his entry because of conversations found on his phone. A French scientist was prevented from entering the United States this month because of an opinion he expressed about the Trump administration’s policies on academic research, according to the French government. Philippe Baptiste, France’s minister for higher education and research, described the move as worrying. “Freedom of opinion, free research and academic freedom are values we will continue to proudly uphold,” Mr. Baptiste said in a statement. “I will defend the possibility for all French researchers to be faithful to them, in compliance with the law, wherever they may be in the world.” Mr. Baptiste did not identify the scientist who was turned away but said that the academic was working for France’s publicly funded National Center for Scientific Research and had been traveling to a conference near Houston when border officials stopped him. The U.S. authorities denied entry to the scientist and then deported him because his phone contained message exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed his “personal opinion” on the Trump administration’s science policies, Mr. Baptiste said. It was not immediately clear what led the border authorities to stop the scientist, why they examined the contents of his phone or what they found objectionable about the conversations. Customs officers are allowed to search the cellphone, computer, camera or any other electronic device of any travelers crossing the border, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, although the agency says that such instances are rare. In 2024, less than 0.01 percent of arriving international travelers had their electronic devices searched, according to the agency. Mr. Baptiste’s office declined to provide further details about the case, and the National Center for Scientific Research did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A spokesman for the American Embassy in Paris declined to comment. The Agence France-Presse news agency reported earlier on the scientist’s refused entry to the United States. Mr. Baptiste has been particularly vocal over the past few weeks in denouncing threats to academic freedom in the United States, where funding cuts and layoffs by the Trump administration have targeted institutions of higher education, scientific research and the federal government’s own scientific work force. Mr. Baptiste has also urged French universities and research institutes to welcome researchers seeking to leave the United States. “Europe must be there to protect research and welcome the talent that can contribute to its success,” Mr. Baptiste wrote on social media after meeting with his European counterparts in Warsaw on Wednesday to address “threats to free research in the United States.” -
Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
Quite Orwellian, ain't it? -
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
bolverk replied to Captainant's topic in Daily Texan
D.H.S. Detains a Georgetown University Academic Badar Khan Suri, an Indian national teaching on a student visa, was deemed “deportable,” a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said. The U.S. government detained an Indian citizen who was studying and teaching at Georgetown University, and said he had been deemed “deportable” for violating the terms of his student visa. The academic, Badar Khan Suri, was detained at his home in Rosslyn, Va., on Monday night, according to his lawyer, Hassan Ahmad. Mr. Suri was “awaiting his court date in immigration court” in Alexandria, La., Mr. Ahmad said. Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said Mr. Suri was “spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media.” Ms. McLaughlin didn’t provide any evidence to support the claim. Mr. Ahmad said that Mr. Suri denied all of the allegations made in Ms. McLaughlin’s statement. He believed that the accusations against Mr. Suri were “seemingly based on who his father-in-law was,” but that he was still researching the case. Mr. Suri has no criminal record and has not been charged with a crime, according to Mr. Ahmad. Politico first reported on the news of Mr. Suri’s detention. Ms. McLaughlin said that Mr. Suri had “close connections to a known or suspected terrorist, who is a senior advisor to Hamas,” and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had deemed him “deportable.” Ms. McLaughlin said Mr. Suri was detained under a rarely used provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act, which the administration is using to try and deport Mahmoud Khalil, a recent Columbia University graduate and legal permanent resident who had a prominent role in the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia. The measure says the Secretary of State can initiate deportation proceedings against any noncitizen whose presence in the United States he deems a threat to the country’s foreign policy interests. Mr. Trump had said earlier this month Mr. Khalil’s case was the first of “many to come.” Civil Rights groups have said such arrests against immigrants with some form of legal status are a clear violation of the First Amendment. While both men were deemed to be deportable under the same statute, Mr. Suri was studying in the United States on a J-1 student visa while Mr. Khalil had a green card. Georgetown University, where Mr. Suri was a postdoctoral fellow, said in a statement that it was not aware of Mr. Suri “engaging in any illegal activity, and we have not received a reason for his detention.” “Seeing our government abduct and jail another innocent person is beyond contemptible,” Mr. Ahmad said. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
bolverk replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
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"Jesus Loves the Little Children" is WOKE!
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@horn4life @Captainant This article from today is focused solely on Canadian visitors and New York, but it does indicate we should expect a slowdown in international tourism. Some key quotes and figures from the article: Canadians spent $600 million in NYC in 2024 and $1.7 billion across NY state in 2023 (the last year for which state data are available). About 16,000 more Canadians visited NYC in 2024 than in 2019, despite a weak Canadian dollar, showing a recovery from the pandemic. Last month (Feb. 2024), the number of Canadians flying into NYC fell 11 percent. Last month, vehicle traffic crossing around Buffalo had already fallen 14% compared to Feb 2023. To the east, traffic on the Thousand Islands Bridge dropped 19%. The travel agency Flight Centre Travel Group Canada reported a 40 percent decline in leisure travel bookings to the United States in February, compared with the same month last year, as well as an increase in cancellations on previously booked trips.
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The article ends with a great line: “The more power they grasp,” Wynn-Williams writes of Facebook’s leadership, “the less responsible they become.”
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Before responding to Denison, I'll await the expose, uncovering instances of Islamophobia and the targeting of Palestinians in and around college campuses across the country, such as the two cases in which Islamic students were physically assaulted in separate incidents, as well as a third one where meatheads who claimed to be IDF soldiers barged into and threatened attendees at a university-sanctioned meeting of a group of pro-Palestinian students (which occurred well before the protests), and finally where two TAs were fired by the university contrary to policy following that event: On Oct. 12, students with the Palestine Solidarity Committee held an event on UT-Austin’s campus to discuss the history and context of the war. Roughly an hour into the event three men, who appeared to be unaffiliated with the university, disrupted the meeting and began intimidating students, calling them “fucking terrorists.” The students, shaken by the event, called on the university to condemn the harassment. The university stayed silent, which students said felt particularly deafening after President Jay Hartzell sent a message to the UT-Austin community the next day announcing increased security for Jewish groups on campus. Shortly after, a student approached Daghighi and Kennedy, who were working as teaching assistants in a course titled “Women and Madness,” asking if they could address the mental health needs of Palestinian and Arab students on campus. The two worked with course professor Lauren Gulbas on the letter and sent it to students on Nov. 16. “The message fully aligned with the scope of the course and our responsibility as teaching assistants,” Kennedy said. The letter addressed the Oct. 12 harassment incident and concluded by declaring that “we firmly support the rights and autonomy of Palestinians, Indigenous people, and displaced peoples across the globe.” One day later, Gulbas informed Daghighi and Kennedy that a student in the class had filed a grievance with School of Social Work Dean Allan Cole regarding the statement. The three met, but before they had an opportunity to address the class, Cole dismissed Daghighi and Kennedy from their positions with pay. Cole said they would not be reinstated as teaching assistants the following semester. Talk to me when you're equally committed to protecting all races, genders, religions, etc., from bigotry -- and not just individual cases but also (or especially) systematic and institutional ones.
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Corruption. Donald Trump Jr. Mixes Business and Politics in Serbia, as Protests There Rage President Trump’s oldest son visited Belgrade, the site of a Trump International Hotel project, and pushed back on calls for the country’s president to resign. The protests against President Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia had been growing in intensity and size when an unusual guest showed up in its capital this month to meet with the embattled European leader: Donald Trump Jr., the oldest son of President Trump. The quick visit by Mr. Trump, which included a meeting with Mr. Vucic to talk about U.S. foreign aid to Serbia, came as the Trump family and Jared Kushner, the American president’s son-in-law, were moving ahead with plans to build a Trump International Hotel in Belgrade, the first such property in Europe. The hotel is slated to be built atop the site of the former Yugoslavian Ministry of Defense headquarters, which was bombed by NATO 26 years ago on land now owned by the Serbian government. Opposition leaders in Serbia have criticized the agreement and called for it to be terminated, raising the prospect that the deal could be scuttled in a change of power. Mr. Trump used the visit as an opportunity to express his support for Mr. Vucic — a trip that offered perhaps the most explicit mixing so far in President Trump’s second term of U.S. foreign policy and the Trump family’s financial interests. On Wednesday, the Serbian prime minister resigned, effectively bringing down the ruling party and forcing Mr. Vucic to form a new government or hold new parliamentary elections later this year, creating more uncertainty there. A spokesman for Donald Trump Jr. dismissed any suggestion that his visit created a conflict of interest. The spokesman said the trip had been driven by a plan to interview Mr. Vucic for Mr. Trump’s podcast, not to step into foreign relations issues or the real-estate deal. cont'd
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/trump-judges-threats.html President Trump’s angry call on Tuesday for the impeachment of a federal judge who ruled against his administration on deportation flights has set off a string of near-instant social media taunts and threats, including images of judges being marched off in handcuffs. The call came against an ominous backdrop. Nine days earlier, police officers in Charleston, S.C., had been dispatched to the home of one of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s sisters because of a threat that there was a pipe bomb in her mailbox. “The device’s detonation will be triggered as soon as the mailbox is next opened,” the emailed threat read. The pipe bomb proved to be a hoax, but the threats and intimidation faced by judges and their families in recent weeks are real, judges say. At a moment when the judiciary is weighing pivotal decisions on the legality of Trump administration policies, the potential for violence against judges seems to be rising. “I feel like people are playing Russian roulette with our lives,” said Judge Esther Salas of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, whose 20-year-old son was shot and killed at her home in 2020 by a self-described “anti-feminist” lawyer. “This is not hyperbole,” she added. “I am begging our leaders to realize that there are lives at stake.” The threats and intimidation may have not become actual violence, but they appear to be mounting, as Mr. Trump, his advisers and his supporters are questioning almost daily the legitimacy of the American legal system. There is no evidence that jurists’ judgment in the high-profile cases before them has been warped by their antagonists. But at the least, public perceptions of judicial decisions could be shaped by the volume of attacks on the courts. The attempts at intimidation have taken many forms: bomb threats, anonymous calls to dispatch police SWAT teams to home addresses, even the delivery of pizzas, a seemingly innocuous prank but one that carries a message. “They know where you and your family members live,” said one judge who is overseeing litigation against the Trump administration and has received a pizza delivery. The judge requested anonymity, citing concerns for their own security and that of their family. cont'd
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/health/kennedy-bird-flu.html Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, has an unorthodox idea for tackling the bird flu bedeviling U.S. poultry farms. Let the virus rip. Instead of culling birds when the infection is discovered, farmers “should consider maybe the possibility of letting it run through the flock so that we can identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it,” Mr. Kennedy said recently on Fox News. He has repeated the idea in other interviews on the channel. Mr. Kennedy does not have jurisdiction over farms. But Brooke Rollins, the agriculture secretary, also has voiced support for the notion. “There are some farmers that are out there that are willing to really try this on a pilot as we build the safe perimeter around them to see if there is a way forward with immunity,” Ms. Rollins told Fox News last month. Yet veterinary scientists said letting the virus sweep through poultry flocks unchecked would be inhumane and dangerous, and have enormous economic consequences. “That’s a really terrible idea, for any one of a number of reasons,” said Dr. Gail Hansen, a former state veterinarian for Kansas. Since January 2022, there have been more than 1,600 outbreaks reported on farms and backyard flocks, occurring in every state. More than 166 million birds have been affected. Every infection is another opportunity for the virus, called H5N1, to evolve into a more virulent form. Geneticists have been tracking its mutations closely; so far, the virus has not developed the ability to spread among people. But if H5N1 were to be allowed to run through a flock of five million birds, “that’s literally five million chances for that virus to replicate or to mutate,” Dr. Hansen said. Large numbers of infected birds are likely to transmit massive amounts of the virus, putting farm workers and other animals at great risk. “So now you’re setting yourself up for bad things to happen,” Dr. Hansen said. “It’s a recipe for disaster.” cont'd
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I'm not going to argue the merits of your case other than to say ethnic cleansing is not my "parlance." It's exactly what you call making a group leave an area, either through force or coercion. Anyone who argues Palestinians should leave their homeland land, where they've been living for thousands of years, is in favor of ethnic cleansing. Rex, statsman, Frank Drebin (fka Johnny Sack), and a number of other posters on this site have made their positions clear: they support kicking the Palestinians out of their homeland and are no better than the Germans who were silently satisfied during the Holocaust.
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Read the Guardian article (quick read) in the link below, and you'll see Bouie hits the nail on the head quite succinctly. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/19/chuck-schumer-trump-book
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JFK Assassination 60 years ago today. Where were you?
bolverk replied to Texzilla58's topic in Daily Texan
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03/19/us/jfk-assassination-files Here’s what to know. For years, the assumption — held by conspiracy theorists and many historians alike — was that the final tranche of documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy was being kept under wraps because it might reveal damning evidence showing that Kennedy was not assassinated by a lone gunman in Dallas. But with the release over the past 24 hours of what the Trump administration said was the last of the documents held by the National Archives, including many no longer weighed down by blotted out paragraphs and sentences, it is becoming clear that something else might have been behind the decision to keep them from public view: protecting the sources and methods of U.S. intelligence gathering operations. The roughly 63,400 documents released in two phases on Tuesday night are still being reviewed, so it’s an open question if they contain undiscovered information. But judging by one standard — those items that are no longer redacted — the real concern seemed to be more pedestrian: masking the names of C.I.A. agents and informants, agency intelligence gathering operations directed at U.S. allies, and the location of various C.I.A. stations and even their budgets. The C.I.A. has always been very protective of the way it works. That is understandable given the nature of its mission — but also because of its history of at times unsavory practices. (Case in point: the Bay of Pigs) But this could help to explain the shambolic nature of the release of documents. Piles of uncategorized documents were dumped into the public arena in two tranches after President Trump abruptly announced on Monday that they would be released the next day. “The holdup was not because of the smoking guns that would help us understand Lee Harvey Oswald’s role in the assassination,” said Timothy Naftali, an adjunct professor at Columbia University and a former director of the Nixon presidential library. “It’s because ensnared in these documents were the sources and methods. We were intercepting message from Egypt during the Nasser era! That has nothing to do with who killed Kennedy.” The latest release of dry government documents, diplomatic cables, handwritten notes and blurry photocopies offered no major revelations, at least at first glance. But scholars held out hope that the documents might expose new details or at least shed light on persistent questions about an event that traumatized a nation and remains the subject of conspiracy theories six decades later. Here’s what else to know: Kennedy criticism: Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of President John F. Kennedy, criticized the release of the new trove of government files about the assassination and the news media’s coverage of it in a series of social media posts. He also said that the Trump administration did not give anyone in President Kennedy’s family a “head’s up” before the documents were released. Read more › Difficult reading: The documents released Tuesday were not categorized or presented in any organized way and, in some cases, they were blurred and difficult to read. That no doubt reflects their age — many of them were typed or handwritten a half-century ago — but also that they appear to be the end result of repeated photocopying of originals. Persistent doubts: Was Kennedy killed by the Mafia? By the C.I.A.? Was he an early, liberal victim of what modern conservatism has come to call the Deep State? A lot of people think so, and nothing in the archives is going to dispel the swirling fog of hypothesis, rumor and speculation. Read more › [spoilered below] Three killings: The latest records were released through an executive order signed by Mr. Trump in January. That order also directed the nation’s security agencies to disclose any remaining documents related to the assassinations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. So far, no new information is apparent. Read more › Good read: -
I see that statsman is still on the ethnic cleansing train, even more so than the typical Israeli. Israelis Take to Streets a Day After Gaza Strikes Israeli protests are converging over the war in Gaza and domestic politics amid concerns about a government push to reduce the power of state watchdogs. Thousands of Israelis gathered on Wednesday outside the Parliament building in Jerusalem to call for a renewed cease-fire deal in Gaza and to protest political moves by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, including firing the head of the Shin Bet intelligence agency. The convergence of popular anger over both domestic and national security issues came a day after Israel carried out deadly aerial attacks across the Gaza Strip in what Mr. Netanyahu said was “only the beginning.” The strikes ended a temporary truce with Hamas that began in January and added to the uncertainty over the fate of hostages still held there. The broad sense of national solidarity over the war in Gaza, which was set off on Oct. 7, 2023, by the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel, appears to be fraying. Critics accuse Mr. Netanyahu of placing his political survival and bolstering his right-wing government ahead of the country’s best interests. The Israeli leader appears to be emboldened by the broad backing of President Trump, who has shown little opposition to his approach in Gaza. Despite its strong support for Israel, the Biden administration periodically pushed Israel to do more to avoid civilian casualties in the territory and to alleviate the humanitarian crisis there. The Trump administration appeared to back Israel’s decision to resume wide-scale attacks, with the White House saying Israel had consulted with the United States before launching its assault. This month the Trump administration bypassed Congress to send Israel $4 billion in arms and floated a new cease-fire proposal that breaks significantly with the deal signed in January. Opinion polls indicate that a majority of Israelis favor a complete cessation of hostilities in Gaza to secure the release of up to 24 living hostages and the bodies of more than 30 others still in Gaza. But politically, Mr. Netanyahu depends on far-right members of his governing coalition who have been pressing for a resumption of fighting, with the goal of fully defeating Hamas. cont'd:
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