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On June 6, Anthony Aguilar, a retired 25-year US Army veteran and Green Beret, found himself facing a daunting logistical problem. He had been recruited as a security contractor for UG Solutions, a partner of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—the Israel-backed American nonprofit now overseeing food distribution in the devastated Palestinian territory. His challenge: finding a way to feed the local Palestinian workers assisting with GHF’s efforts. “Nobody could figure out how to get food there,” he says. So Aguilar says they settled on a workaround: ordering stacks of Domino’s pizzas via an Israeli delivery app and picking them up at the Gaza border themselves. “We then took those 27 pizzas in an armored convoy,” he says, to a GHF distribution site within the strip.

While all of Gaza starves and the entry of aid is prohibited, American mercenaries with the assistance of an IDF armored convoy are able to bring Domino’s pizza in when they feel like it.

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The Republican governor of Texas has directed state police to arrest his Democratic opponents

Valve pushes back after Mastercard denies quashing adult content on game platforms Mastercard said it has not 'evaluated any game or required restrictions of any activity on game creator sites and platforms,' but Valve begs to differ.

Bold move by Valve to put out a public statement to the tune of "nah Mastercard is fucking lying, actually," bravo www.gamedeveloper.com/business/val...

Apropos nothing else the idea that X group cannot commit Y crime because it was done to them is literally just racial exceptionalism, or the other side of the coin of what is conventionally understood to be racism. In other words it's a racial supremacist sentiment. Racism.

By failing to sanction Israel, EU leaders are complicit in its crimes. They must act now | Josep Borrell Europe’s silence has allowed the genocide of Palestinians to continue unchecked – undermining all it stands for, says Josep Borrell, a former EU high representative

"Since the EU foreign affairs ministers found that #Israel was not respecting these rights, #EU leaders now have a legal obligation to suspend the agreement. Failure to do so would also be a serious violation of the association agreement with Israel."

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#Europe

Spotify's Daniel Ek leads €600 million investment in AI military defence company Ek told The Financial Times that "AI, mass and autonomy" are "driving the new battlefield"

Honestly guys if you're still paying for Spotify it's time to move on. You're literally paying for AI warfare:

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Haaretz / Liza Rozovsky Source: Netanyahu expected to discuss expansion of Gaza offensive to areas where hostages could be located Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to convene the security cabinet to discuss an expansion of the war in Gaza, a source involved in the matter told Haaretz on Monday. The source added that the cabinet meeting will also discuss invading areas of the Gaza Strip where the Israeli hostages could be located

Israeli media reports that the cabinet is gearing up to instruct the IDF to occupy all parts of the Gaza Strip.
The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing.
UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.

is that good?

US links $1.9 billion in state disaster funds to Israel boycott stance The Trump administration said states and cities will not receive funding to prepare for natural disasters if they choose to boycott Israeli companies, according to an agency statement.

"U.S. states and cities that boycott Israeli companies will be denied federal aid for natural disaster preparedness, the Trump administration has announced..." www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

97 per cent of Gaza’s animal wealth destroyed by Israeli bombing, starvation, and looting Israel has destroyed nearly all animal wealth in the Gaza Strip, approx. 97%, through bombing and systematic starvation

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Referentenentwurf: Wir veröffentlichen das neue Bundespolizei-Gesetz Die Bundespolizei soll neue Befugnisse bekommen, darunter staatliches Hacken, Daten-Abfragen und Drohnen-Einsätze. Das geht aus einem Gesetzentwurf des Innenministeriums hervor, den wir veröffentliche...

"Das Gesetz erlaubt der Bundespolizei erstmals die Überwachung von Telekommunikation. Die Polizei soll Personen präventiv überwachen, um Gefahren abzuwehren – auch wenn „noch kein Tatverdacht begründet ist“."

Geil, Überwachung bald ganz ohne Tatverdacht 🥳 /s

Kaum genutzt, trotzdem bald Pflicht: Die Probleme mit der elektronischen Patientenakte in SH Ab Oktober sollen Ärzte, Krankenhäuser und Apotheken verpflichtend die elektronische Patientenakte mit Informationen füllen. Aktuell wird die ePA aber in SH nur von wenigen Patienten genutzt und es…

Die #Patientenakte mit Startschwierigkeiten, technischen Problemen. Aber immerhin: Wohl kein „Scheunentor“ offen. www.ndr.de/nachrichten/...

Apps zur Altersbeschränkung schaffen kein sicheres Internet Die EU will eine Altersverifizierung für das Internet. Doch mit Google-basierten Prüf-Apps wird der Bock zum Gärtner gemacht, meint Anne Roth.

#Altersverifizierung im Netz betrifft nur Kinder?

Schon, aber wenn zum Kinderschutz das Alter überprüft werden muss, dann müssen natürlich alle demonstrieren, wie alt sie sind. Privatsphäre war gestern.

Und mit Google ist auch die #DigitaleSouveränität nur ein bizarrer Traum.

How does it feel to be European environmentalist silently watching 80,000 tons of bombs drop onto a land and people, while insisting people use paper straws? Asking for me.

Palantir und biometrische Überwachung: Dobrindts „Sicherheitspaket“ missachtet Grundrechte Dobrindts neues „Sicherheitspaket“ wird von allen Seiten kritisiert: Die geplante automatisierte Gesichtserkennung und die polizeiliche Datenanalyse fallen bei IT- und Menschenrechtsexperten durch. Da...

"Carola Otte von der Humanistischen Union erklärt gegenüber @netzpolitik.org zu den geplanten biometrischen Regelungen: 'Wir sehen diese Maßnahmen als völlig unverhältnismäßig und als gefährlich für die gesamte Gesellschaft an.'" Zum Dobrindts geplantem #Sicherheitspaket.
#Palantir #Überwachung

'Since dawn'.

When is the world going to stop Israel? I simply can not get my head around the world just sitting back and watching this happen day after day, and month after month.

A Palestinian mother was devastated by the tragic loss of her son, who was fatally shot by Israeli forces as he waited for urgently needed humanitarian aid in Gaza.

#BREAKING | Irish president calls for potential MILITARY ACTION in Gaza

He wants the UN to invoke ‘Chapter 7’ – which allows an international force to defend aid corridors

‘Are we to watch children starving? Something MUST happen’

#BREAKING | Knesset member Tally Gotliv to a family of hostages:

"Hamas will hear you, Shut up!"

The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting. I made this in 2016, iirc.

Im Publikum dürften Ludwigs Äußerungen auf offene Ohren gestoßen sein. Fotos zeigen AfD-Chefin Alice Weidel in der ersten Reihe unter den Zuhörenden. Auf weiteren Bildern ist zu sehen, wie Weidel und Ludwig sich anlachen und freundlich begrüßen.

Die @taz.de benutzt ein Foto meiner Recherche beim MCC ohne meine Zustimmung zu den Konditionen abzuwarten - und nennt mich im Text nicht einmal namentlich, als wären Bilder und Recherche einfach vom Himmel gefallen. Das ist Ausbeutung- und eine seltsame Art, mit einer freien Mitarbeiterin umzugehen

I’m also starting to think that European companies won’t have a disproportionate competition disadvantage as companies from pretty much everywhere on the globe are grappling with the same thing. And US companies won’t be able to produce cheaper either as their supply chains got more expensive too

A number of European economists pointed out this opportunity in the tariff chaos:

As access to US markets gets more expensive for everyone, the EU market can become more attractive. I would imagine that there will be mutual interest to speed up its currently ongoing trade negotiations

CNBC Lora Kolodny article: Tesla must pay portion of $329 million in damages after fatal Autopilot crash, jury says Key Points A jury in Florida determined that Tesla should be held partly liable for a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash. The company must pay a portion of $329 million in damages to victims and a survivor, including compensatory and punitive damages. Tesla had argued that the driver’s behavior was to blame for the fatal crash, while plaintiffs claimed Tesla’s Autopilot technology was flawed and deceptively marketed.

Elon tweet: "Teslas can drive themselves!"

Two days ago: Tesla has to pay hundreds of millions of dollars for deceptively marketing Autopilot in a way that falsely made people think it could drive the car by itself.

Today: Elon Musk "Teslas can drive themselves!"

So sieht ein Völkermord aus!

Mindestens 100 Palästinenser:innen ermordete Israel gestern in #Gaza, die meisten waren Ausgehungerte, die auf Hilfsgüter warteten.
#Staatsräson

Episode 374 - The English Peasants' Revolt: Part 1 Stream Episode 374 - The English Peasants' Revolt: Part 1 by Lions Led By Donkeys on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨Peasants in Essex and Kent rise up after multiple tax hikes and one too many laws are written regulating their hats, shoes, and diets. Soon, London would burn.

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when you deny the palestinian genocide so hard you end up denying the holocaust too

Head of U.S. pro-Israel group J Street 'won't argue' with those calling Gaza war genocide ***

Instead he will look at you disapprovingly as he fails to meet this moment

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A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.