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YouTube video by Thomas Bergersen Thomas Bergersen - Remember Me (High Quality Audio)

In memory of the 68,229 Palestinian dead & the thousands more lying under the rubble, men, women, children, babies, all innocent victims murdered in cold blood by a genocidal Israeli regime, a terrorist state.

🕊️ May they rest in peace. 🕊️

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YouTube video by TRT World What if 200, 000 tonnes of explosives were dropped on your city?

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YouTube video by Salaam Voices VOICES FOR GAZA 🌍 | An Epic Song for Freedom (EN/ES/AR/FR)

In memory of the 62,600 Palestinian dead & the thousands more lying under the rubble, men, women, children, babies, all innocent victims murdered in cold blood by a genocidal Israeli regime, a terrorist state.

🕊️ May they rest in peace. 🕊️

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One Last Day Song by Thomas Bergersen, Merethe Soltvedt We built a world of wonder with our hearts Secret place where no one could take parts Do you still remember? It was like a dream, now it seems The fire has burned out, the songs have played Gave it all your best but it's okay Now I'll set you free I hope I still can be forever in your memory If you close your eyes, tell me you can hear Sound of all the joyous moments you and I have shared I hope you still believe, believe me when I say That you're the one who shaped me into who I am today This may be what is right, but we put up a fight I wish I had your courage and your bravery Oh, but if it's time to go, at least I'll tell you now How beautiful your heart was when you love We built a world of wonder in our hearts A secret space where no one could take part Castle in the sky that only we could see secretly The fire has burned out, the band has played We gave it our all, oh, it's okay Still a song inside my heart will break apart Take my hand one final time Look into my ocean eyes Tell me how you feel Tell me, was it real? I know there's nothing left to say I wish it wouldn't end this way At least we got to share this one last day Songwriters: Thomas Bergersen. For non-commercial use only.

YouTube video by Two Steps From Hell Thomas Bergersen - One Last Day

In memory of the 59,676 Palestinian dead & the thousands more lying under the rubble, men, women, children, babies, all innocent victims murdered in cold blood by a genocidal Israeli regime, a terrorist state.

🕊️ May they rest in peace. 🕊️

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YouTube video by Globus - Topic In Memoriam

In memory of the 53,253 Palestinian dead & the thousands more lying under the rubble, men, women, children, babies, all innocent victims, murdered in cold blood by a genocidal Israeli regime, a terrorist state.

🕊️ May they rest in peace. 🕊️

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Palestinian Photojournalist & Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In Israeli Gaza Strike Palestinian Photojournalist And Protagonist Of Cannes-Selected Doc Killed In Israeli Gaza Strike

In a direct strike on their home in Gaza on Wednesday, Fatima & nine members of her family were killed, 24 hours after the documentary was announced as having been selected for parallel Cannes section ACID, running from May 14 to 23 alongside the main festival.

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YouTube video by Mala iz kraja Billie Holiday - I'll be seeing you (with lyrics)

In memory of Fatma Hassona & all of the journalists, medics & support personnel, all innocent victims murdered in cold blood by a genocidal Israeli regime, a terrorist state. 1/2

🕊️ May they rest in peace. 🕊️

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3 - Carney, a rookie politician & first time in a debate setting, was impressively calm, composed & seemingly enjoying it. At times ready to laugh, I think at the absurdity of some of it, but realizing the others were playing it for all it was worth, so had to "get into character" too. Surreal. 3/3

2 - Poilievre's act, the emotional, teary eyed display near the end. I'm surprised he didn't throw in a trembling chin, but guess even he knew, that would be over doing it.

Hopefully, some of his male supporters saw him for the fake, the performance artist, he really is & vote for someone else. 2/3

I don't think it changed anyone's mind re: who to vote for, any more than the French debate did. I was struck by 3 things.

1 - Blanchette's (feigned?) complaint about lack of respect from Carney, when Carney said something in reply to Blanchette's sarcastic, snide crack about Carney's kingdom.
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Zionism is Mitzrayim Every Passover, we tell the story of liberation from Mitzrayim, the “narrow place” — a place of confinement, enslavement, and oppression. This year, we confront a brutal truth: Zionism is Mitzrayim...

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YouTube video by TRT World Israeli filmmaker and activist Eyal Sivan advocates for the Palestinian cause

Zionism has nothing to do with Judaism.

Zionist ideology is that of terrorists.

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Who is Naftali Bennett and how did he just replace his mentor to become Israel’s 13th prime minister? He made history, but with a wide range of party ideologies in the coalition, Bennett and his new government's chances of survival are low, according to many analysts

As Israeli PM, Naftali Bennett said, "Palestinian terrorists should be killed, not released” and that Israeli soldiers would adopt a “shoot-to-kill” policy – including for minors.

“They are not children – they are terrorists. We are fooling ourselves,” he said. 3/3

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I've no respect for Housefather, an avowed Zionist, proud of a photo taken 46 short days after the October attack by Hamas.

Neither men appear to be the least bit concerned about the war, the 2000 lb bombs raining down on the Palestinians & on the Israeli hostages harboured among them. 2/3

I used to know Anthony Housefather. Not well, but he was a frequent guest on my radio shows on CJAD and then during the pandemic, we started to go for walks, talking off the record about politics and journalism. After Oct. 7, we went for a walk and realized that our views on the war on Gaza were very different. The only time I reached out to him after that was when he was rumoured to cross the floor. I texted him and implored him not to. It seems that our budding friendship didn’t stand a chance with opposing views on such a delicate issue. Housefather has had every opportunity to speak out. When a hospital was bombed, and then another one bombed, and another, he did not speak out. When videos were released of people being burned alive in tents, he didn’t speak out. When a Canadian aid worker with the World Soup Kitchen was targeted and killed by Israeli missiles, Anthony Housefather said nothing. So much silence in the face of so many atrocities. I received another email from my building; Housefather would be coming to the building and canvassing. I was home, but alas, he never knocked.

Photograph of Naftali Bennett & Anthony Housefather, both smiling broadly, taken in Israel, 22 November 2023, 46 short days after the October attack by Hamas. The photo is captioned by Housefather, "Before leaving Israel tonight it was a pleasure to meet with former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, followed by the same in French.

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Mr. Kaufman is left with having to choose between the lessor of two evils, which increasingly seems to be the position all of us are in, unless we choose not to vote at all. 1/3

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Une expression de solidarité En tant que professeurs juives et juifs, nous sommes persuadés que les étudiants juives et juifs ne sont pas menacés par la lecture d’auteurs palestiniens. Leur sécurité n’est pas non plus mise en danger par une quelconque expression de solidarité avec la Palestine, alors même que les principales organisations de défense des droits de la personne, telles qu’Amnistie internationale et Human Rights Watch, qualifient les actions d’Israël à Gaza de génocide.

*Cosignataires : Michael Blum, UQAM ; Noah Brender, cégep Dawson ; Yakov Rabkin, Université de Montréal ; Itay Sapir, UQAM ; Katherine Zien, Université McGill ; Meir Amor, Université Concordia (retraité) ; Jessica Andrews, cégep Vanier ; Shira Avni, Université Concordia ; Stephen Block, cégep Vanier ; Danielle Bobker, Université Concordia ; Lara Braitstein, Université McGill ; Rachel Deutsch, cégep Dawson ; Robyn Diner, cégep Vanier ; Maryann Farkas, cégep Dawson (retraitée) ; Aurora Flewwelling-Skup, cégep Vanier ; Katherine Frohlich, Université de Montréal ; Jeffrey Gandell, cégep Dawson ; Avi Goldberg, cégep Vanier ; Kevin A. Gould, Université Concordia ; Greta Hofmann Nemiroff, cégep Dawson (retraitée) ; Sara Louise Kendall, cégep Dawson ; Natalie Kouri-Towe, Université Concordia ; Alyssa Kuzmarov, cégep Dawson ; Alissa Levine, Université McGill ; Eric Lewis, Université McGill ; Simone Lucas, Université Concordia ; David Mandel, UQAM (retraité) ; Alexander Manshel, Université McGill ; Nadia Moss, cégep Dawson ; Magdalena Olszanowski, cégep Dawson ; Ara Osterweil, Université McGill ; Joseph Rosen, cégep Dawson ; Aron Lee Rosenberg, Université McGill ; Steven Schnoor, Université Concordia ; Daniel Schwartz, Université McGill ; Eric Shragge, Université Concordia (retraité) ; Daniel Skup, Université de Montréal (retraité) ; Marc Steinberg, Université Concordia ; Jeremy Stolow, Université Concordia ; Mark Sussman, Université Concordia ; Yves Winter, Université McGill ; Anya Zilberstein, Université Concordia

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The signatories' voices, which acknowledge the genocide, represent those of Montreal's Jewish community, that are most concerned about all of us. Please be guided by them.

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Experts React: DOE LNG Study Highlights and Implications The Department of Energy released its long-awaited study on U.S. liquified natural gas exports, offering a comprehensive update on economic and environmental analysis. Experts discuss key highlights a...

Unrelated but of interest in the area of energy production, trade etc., for those interested in the development of export facilities, methods, a comprehensive study.

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Significant hit to the information you're going to need; time to request suggestions for new contacts from within.

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The Army also recently announced it will make law of war training — which covers basic battlefield ethics, prohibited acts, and rules of engagement — optional, in an effort to remove “unnecessary distractions” and increase focus on “decisive action in combat.” This comes as Hegseth trumpets an overwhelming emphasis on “lethality” and cuts to programs that run afoul of Trump administration priorities. Hegseth also reportedly plans to overhaul the entire JAG Corps, which is essential to ensuring adherence to the rule of law and upholding the Uniform Code of Military Justice, after firing the judge advocates general of the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Trump has also rolled back constraints on American commanders to authorize airstrikes and Special Operations raids outside conventional battlefields, broadening the range of people who can be targeted. After Trump relaxed targeting principles during his first term, attacks and reports of civilian casualties in war zones like Somalia and Yemen spiked. “There is an overt and ongoing effort to completely shut the Center down and to remove CHMR across all the commands,” said Wes Bryant, who until recently served as the chief of civilian harm assessments and senior analyst and adviser on precision warfare, targeting, and civilian harm mitigation at the Pentagon’s Civilian Protection Center of Excellence. “Basically, they are wiping DoD of anything related to Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response.”

As a Fox News personality, Hegseth — a former Army National Guard officer who served in Afghanistan and Iraq — cast troops charged with war crimes as “heroes.” During Trump’s first term in office, Hegseth lobbied for pardons of Army Lt. Clint Lorance and Army Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, and championed Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher, each of whom was charged or convicted of war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump granted pardons to Lorance and Golsteyn, and reversed a demotion of Gallagher, tagging Hegseth in a tweet announcing the review of one of the cases. Hegseth takes a dim view of the Geneva Conventions, which form the foundation of the law of armed conflict, or LOAC, and remain the most important rules limiting the barbarity of war by protecting civilians, wounded combatants, and prisoners of war, among others. In his 2024 book, “The War on Warriors,” Hegseth asked, “Should we follow the Geneva conventions? … Aren’t we just better off in winning our wars according to our own rules?”

Bryant voiced similar concerns about where the potential demise of CHMR efforts would ultimately lead. “I do worry about the direction that Hegseth and the Trump administration are going after this first step of dissolving the CHMR enterprise. Is this administration now going to try to change the warfighting culture and doctrinal standards of the U.S. military, and have us executing our next conflict more like Israel has carried out in Gaza?” he asked. “If we do get into a large-scale conflict — whether in Europe or China or elsewhere — will we not care one way or another about the civilian populace? Will our current low tolerance for civilian casualties and historically conservative application of ‘proportionality’ under international law be completely reversed?”

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NB last para: They recognize Israel's genocide of Palestinians, while fully supporting it, but do not want to commit their own troops to doing the same, helplessly watching the guardrails disappear.

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Canadians are shocked to see this happening in the US, but it happens regularly to equally innocent people in Israel, another, "democratic country".

Both countries have criminals as presidents, the difference is, one is a wanted war criminal.

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Americans will be taking to the streets again tomorrow. Wishing them great weather, peace & success in moving the needle back towards democracy.

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Probably. It's just really unfortunate that Poilievre gets away with insisting that he was responsible for building 200K houses, no less & tonight, he did it again!

Where the 4248 units were built is anyone's guess, but no doubt it's not anywhere near the apartment building Poilievre owns.

Who makes decisions about Antarctica? Antarctica is not within the territory or subject to the sovereignty of any State and does not have a government to represent it and negotiate on its behalf. It is governed by a collective of States under the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS). There are currently 56 signatories to the Antarctic Treaty, but only 29 “Consultative Parties” have a vote. Most decisions are made during the Antarctic Treaty System’s yearly Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings (ATCM) and must be made by consensus. This means that a single country can effectively veto a proposal, making it very difficult to achieve significant changes. The ATCM meeting is held in private. Still, the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), the Commission on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), and the Council of Managers of National Antarctic Programs (COMNAP) have observer status. The Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition (ASOC) and the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) are invited to ATCM meetings to provide specialist expertise.

Is the Declaration compatible with the existing ATS? The Declaration is not intended to replace the ATS, nor could it. The adoption of the Declaration would be analogous to the adoption of the (non-binding) Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations on 10 December 1948. Its adoption did not replace international law. Instead, it provided a standard or yardstick of universally accepted norms of human behaviour that could be used to assess existing laws and, if they were found wanting, guide the amendment or replacement of those laws. We hope that the adoption of an Antarctic Declaration will have a similar positive impact on how people perceive and relate to Antarctica and guide the progressive reform of the ATS and laws, policies and institutions at the international, transnational, national and sub-national levels to afford higher levels of protection for Antarctica and Antarctic beings.

Currently, who makes decisions about Antarctica?
NB - the single country veto power, hauntingly familiar.

Is the Declaration compatible with the existing ATS?
NB - the reference to the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, tragically, largely ignored today.

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