I’m in Canada, wearing my new light pink faux fur coat specially for the occasion. And guess what? It’s bloody summer here, too. I’m fine outside in short sleeves.
We are driving up North on Wednesday, hoping to get some relief there.
Does anybody have any suggestions for what I should discuss on this week’s show? I’m too frustrated by the weather to think of anything.
“what I should discuss on this week’s show”
westerners taking russian nuke threats very, very, very seriously? (it would be funny if the stakes weren’t so high)
weird limbo time with a new president elect and old sitting president? (pretty sure a remnant of 18th century travel conditions).
marching death of legacy media? (winner of first round of Romanian president elections did entire campaign on tik tok…. which needs to be banned ASAP).
why immigrants to Canada say nasty things about it?
musk and other guy in truest most neolibreral fashion getting ready to wreck federal bureaucracy while having no idea how it works or what connects to what (esp in real world outcomes)?
whatever is going on in Spain apres le deluge?
Southgate?
Wow, you have so many ideas. You should go on shows!
Very true on Musk and Ramaswamy. We are going full neoliberal.
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“Very true on Musk and Ramaswamy. We are going full neoliberal.”
Billionaire president, billionaire cabinet, what could possibly go wrong?
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We are not terribly optimistic about that.
But we are hoping they’re the half of “billionaire elite” that realizes the increasing wealth gap and the destruction of the middle class is an active threat to all of them, and must be solved if we are to avoid public guillotines or some equivalent. No matter how much I don’t like our billionaire overlords, I’d rather not go that route.
Can we see the coat?
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Why do Arab states not recognize Israel as a sovereign state? How does this affect their relations with each other and with Palestine?
The Arabic translations of “Mein Kampf” represent a multifaceted historical phenomenon. They reveal both the diversity of perspectives within Arab societies and the broader geopolitical context of the 1930s. Intellectuals, journalists, and political activists engaged with a wide range of ideas, including those from Europe. Some saw Hitler’s rise as a potential model for anti-colonial resistance.
The translation in the early 1930s and reception of “Mein Kampf” in Arabic highlight the complex historical context of the time. Arab societies grappled then and now with nationalism, colonialism, and their own struggles for independence.
Factors contributing to sympathy included the perception that Germany had no direct colonial ambitions in the Middle East. Additionally, some saw Nazi Germany as an anti-imperialist force opposing the British and French colonial powers.
Arab propaganda refers to Israel as a Crusader state and an extension of Western Powers colonialism in the post WWII modern era. Racist Arabs view of Jews, Jew remain only as dhimmi subjects. Such an inferior race cannot rule a country in the Middle East.
Arab propaganda has often portrayed Israel in specific ways. The term “Crusader state” often and repeatedly broadcast to evoke historical emotion packed memories of the medieval Crusades among Arabs. This extremely biased narrative, Israel is portrayed as “the Zionist entity” and an extension of Western colonialism and imperialism.
The establishment of Israel in 1948 was perceived by many Arabs as a continuation of European intervention in the Middle East. Arab racism and stereotypes of Jews compares to Christian depictions during the Middle Ages!
The Arab-Israeli conflict reflects the international imperialism of the UN which, like all Arab countries which refuse to recognize Israel, the vast majority of Arab and Muslim countries across the world, the UN refuses to recognize Israel as a country of the Middle East. This UN Apartheid policy only extends to the Jews of Israel!!!!
The UN, as expressed through all its racist Condemnations of Israel pretends that Israel remains a UN protectorate. That Palestine did not, in point of fact, cease to exist in 1948. That the UN “West Bank” the UN itself condmened as illegal in a 1950 UN Condemnation of Jordan’s illegal annexation of Samaria! None the less, following the total defeat of Jordanian forces in the June 1967 War, Jordan’s “West Bank” ceased to exist as did Palestine as a UN protectorate territory in 1948.
In July 2024, the ICJ concluded that Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories violated international law. The court called for an end to settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and urged Israel to cease its illegal occupation of these areas and the Gaza Strip.
Chapter VI UNSCR 242 suggested that Israel “occupied territory” which it recaptured following Jordans invasion of Israel in 1967. The ICJ perverts a UN Chapter VI suggestion to a UN Chapter VII ultimatum!! This perversion compares to homosexuals parading naked down main street.
The idea that the ICJ’s opinion highlights some rarified ‘legal and moral aspects’, that it remains within the framework of Chapter VI utterly ridiculous. Why? Because its J’accuse! antisemitism sparks emotional reactions from people oblivious to the subtle distinctions between UN Chapter VI and Chapter VII. In point of fact, the ICJ has no jurisdiction any more than does the UN itself because Israel does not exist as a UN protectorate, ruled by either this or that tits on a boar hog organization.
The first challenge was about the Court’s jurisdiction over the Situation in the State of Palestine in general and over Israeli nationals specifically, based on Article 19(2) of the Rome Statute. Israel opposes the Rome Treaty.
The second request asked the Chamber to order the Prosecution to provide a new notification of the initiation of an investigation to Israeli authorities under Article 18(1) of the Statute. Other countries not Israel made this request.
The Chamber unanimously rejected Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction, emphasizing that acceptance by Israel of the Court’s jurisdiction is not required. This flagrantly contradicts that participation must occur with voluntary consent. In point of fact, Israel has never voluntarily consented to the invasion of it State Independence by the ICJ the UN or the ICC.
The mumbo jumbo political jargon rhetoric Article 36(1) of the ICJ Statute allows parties to refer cases to the Court through a special agreement. Such imaginary agreements supposedly concluded specifically for this purpose… amounts to tits on a boar hog propaganda.
Israel has never signed any “treaties” not with the ICJ nor with the ICC. While some states recognize the ICJ’s compulsory jurisdiction in legal disputes. Israel never agreed to this imperialism, which negates its national Independence. Israel has consistently opposed the ICJ’s jurisdiction over Samaria and other related matters. Israel flat out rejects the jurisdiction of any foreign court over Israeli lands and territories.
The treaty that Israel signed in 1950, following the Shoah has nothing what so ever to do with the modern ICJ at all. Israel rejects the ICC’s jurisdiction over its actions, emphasizing that “it” has no rule over Israel. Israel simply not bound by the Rome Statute.
Admitting “Palestinian territories” as ICC member state qualifies as more mumbo jumbo propaganda rhetoric. Palestine: a post WWI League of Nations mandate territoriy, ceased to exist in 1948. Cut and dried, just that simple. Jabber about Palestine exudes the lie that Israel remains a UN protectorate territory! This political poison Israel refuses to drink, unlike as did Socrates!
Israel’s stance clear as a bell: it does not recognize the ICC’s authority over its actions, and maintains that the recaptured Israeli territories which ICC, ICJ, and UN question simply not under the jurisdiction of any of these foreign imperialist attempts to negate the national independence of the Jewish State in the Middle East.
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If you don’t mind a very confrontational topic, there was that bit of insanity out of France where a Catholic newspaper? (It might have been online, I’m not entirely sure) reported that abortion was the leading cause of death worldwide. 73 Million per year with the next highest (Cancer I think) sitting at 10 million per year. Only to be sued for 100,000 thousand dollars (I think it was 100K, it might have been more.) As the French government put out a insane statement that abortion can’t count as murder, because babies in the womb don’t count as living people.
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Some horrific, some light:
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