[World] UK, France at war?

By PeraclesPlease on Thu, 05/06/2021 - 6:57am |

Trade wars over rights of passage

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/04/europe/france-uk-jersey-brexit-intl-h...

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commentary on the war situation by a sarcastic and very cynical Brit artist:

It's all looking just a bit Playmobil https://t.co/igrBBOnRcJ
— Brandford Industries (@Paul_was_Ringo) May 6, 2021

Behold - the traitors in our midst.#FifthColumnistFilth pic.twitter.com/0rNvmZwVNC
— Brandford Industries (@Paul_was_Ringo) May 6, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/06/2021 - 3:36pm

it's also helpful to follow a few serious Brit journos, though, cause then they retweet other Brit journos when they tweet something helpful to understanding the situation:

Modest Proposal: if Jersey wants to be protected by the UK's Royal Navy, it should join the UK and pay UK taxes. if it doesn't, it should build its own navy.
— Oliver Bullough (@OliverBullough) May 6, 2021

Weird and anomalous fact: when Britain and France used to go to war a lot, the Channel Islands got a letter from the pope declaring them to be neutral, and then they could trade with both sides. #loyalty
— Oliver Bullough (@OliverBullough) May 6, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/06/2021 - 3:47pm

Brazil: At least 25 killed in Rio de Janeiro shoot-out

@ BBC News, 12 hours ago

At least 25 people including a police officer have been killed in a shoot-out in Rio de Janeiro, according to local media.

The shoot-out took place during a police operation in a favela in the Jacarezinho area of the city.

Police launched the operation after receiving reports that drug traffickers were recruiting children for their gang.

Two passengers on a metro train were hit by bullets but survived.

Police in the Brazilian city confirmed the death of one of their officers, Inspector Andre Leonardo de Mello Frias. A statement on Facebook said "he honoured the profession he loved and will be missed".

Police Chief Ronaldo Oliveira told Reuters news agency that Thursday's raid was "the largest number of deaths in a police operation in Rio".

According to local news, the gang targeted in this raid engages in drug trafficking, mugging, murders and kidnappings.

Television images showed suspects trying to escape across rooftops as police entered the favela.

Meanwhile, residents of Jacarezinho have shared accounts of what they witnessed on social media [....]

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/07/2021 - 2:11am

Parents, attorney respond after CA college students sentenced to life in killing of Italian officer https://t.co/b8xORUcmka via @abc7newsbayarea
— Ms. P (@sassegrannynred) May 7, 2021

Unbelievable. This American attorney has no concept of Italian ways of justice. Italian veteran police officer killed in the line of duty. He talks like all privileged US folks do. Oh, no compassion for those boys.
Officer dead behind their US runny
— Ms. P (@sassegrannynred) May 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/07/2021 - 2:19am

Call me stupid, but i always heard you kill a cop,you're fucked - they will find you, you're going away a very long time (as the lucky variant). In America, or anywhere, not just Italy. Who gave these people the idea it's no longer a big deal?

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/07/2021 - 2:22am

This world wasn't oh so long ago:
Los Angeles Review of Books (lareviewofbooks.org)

+ https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-ice-deportation-biden-executive-...

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/07/2021 - 2:40am

UK's #ElectionResults2021 starting to come in.

Here is The Guardian's Live Coverage page

Elections 2021: Conservatives win Hartlepool byelection, dealing blow to Labour – live

Reactions and all the latest results after Thursday’s elections in Scotland, England and Wales

(they voted yesterday Voters head to polls across Scotland, Wales and England for devolved and local elections – as it happened)

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/07/2021 - 3:47am

celeb art historian Brit summing it all up if you don't want to read all that:

Wow, the scale of Labour’s defeat. England will be Tory for generations. The urgency for Scotland to choose its own way becomes fiercer.
— Dr. Bendor Grosvenor (@arthistorynews) May 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/07/2021 - 3:54am

this guy, an activist about saving traditional Brit cultural heritage, is having fun doing a narrative about what The Woke wrought in the British elections (along the lines of Carville's Wokeness is a problem and we all know it) and it is, of course too simplistic and not really the truth to make this about statues or even patriotism. But there is something there, as people of any nation, much less a once powerful one, aren't going to vote for those who believe they should be constantly reminded about how evil they have been in the past and what a worthless nasty racist country they have been, how they must repent and be humble and lose all pride and patriotism, and start over from year zero. It just is not a good selling technique. And the meme does seem to go hand in hand with lots of Brexiteering:

I could do these all day... #LocalElections2021 #LocalElections @plymouthcc @UKLabour
How it started How it's going pic.twitter.com/57qqLnxeU3
— Save Our Statues - Robert Poll (@_SaveOurStatues) May 7, 2021

I would definitely say there's some fuel for the fire there in that catering to Wokeness can hurt left of center political parties.

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/07/2021 - 7:00pm

What’s happening in English politics is unique: it’s a watershed, with rules being radically rewritten, not because an insurgent party is successfully challenging an unpopular incumbent (that happens) but because a popular incumbent is savaging an unpopular opposition.
— Andrew Neil (@afneil) May 8, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/08/2021 - 10:41pm

Newly declassified information shows analysts discovered members of Taliban-linked network had been working closely with operatives from a notorious unit of the G.R.U., the Russian military intelligence service, known for assassination operations. https://t.co/BupmsccqBN
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 7, 2021

“The involvement of this G.R.U. unit is consistent with Russia encouraging attacks against U.S. and coalition personnel in Afghanistan given its leading role in such lethal and destabilizing operations abroad,” the National Security Council said in a statement.
— Adam Goldman (@adamgoldmanNYT) May 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/08/2021 - 10:55pm

Elon & Pete save Mars?

https://youtu.be/FuaDWyCnJxs

1st SNL to Livestream globally - some worldly significance?

Kind of cold open:

https://youtu.be/fCF8I_X1qKI

But in the end seems he was as evil as they said he was

https://youtu.be/qaKZi6p6sxg

Meanwhile Huffpost's TV critic - who seems to have decided "TV = females + people of color" sometime back, is not amused. Guess Miley being 1st Mom on Mars for Mother's Day wasn't enough.

https://www.salon.com/2021/05/08/elon-musk-snl-saturday-night-live-host/

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/09/2021 - 8:51am

The former chief physician of the Siberian hospital where jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was treated immediately after his poisoning last summer has gone missing, Russian state media TASS reported on Sunday. https://t.co/UvbUWEdciS
— Cleavon MD (@Cleavon_MD) May 10, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 2:37am

Doctor found

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/05/10/russian-police-find-missing-ex...

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 6:05am

JUST IN: Afghanistan bus bombing kills 11 as Kabul school attack death toll rises to 85 https://t.co/yahmMTWV5o axios
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) May 10, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 2:39am

this struck me as very impressive reporting, it served as a real catch-me up for me on what life is like there right now

‘Why Do We Deserve to Die?’ Kabul’s Hazaras Bury Their Daughters. #Afghanistan https://t.co/hZwALlMA01
— Vali Nasr (@vali_nasr) May 9, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 3:00am

Palestinian Red Crescent says over 175 Palestinians have been injured in violent clashes with Israel Police at the Al-Aqsa compound
— Anna Ahronheim (@AAhronheim) May 10, 2021

“Al Aqsa is now a battlefield” https://t.co/V4AlQFugEf
— Mohamad Bazzi (@BazziNYU) May 10, 2021

Israeli forces stormed Al Aqsa mosque again this morning, throwing stun grenades and spraying tear gas in one of Islam's holiest sites during the final days of Ramadan https://t.co/mKkK22C0eD
— Mohamad Bazzi (@BazziNYU) May 10, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 3:18am

Hamas publishes a photo showing the rockets launched towards Jerusalem today. pic.twitter.com/0BJwzMebVo
— Anna Ahronheim (@AAhronheim) May 10, 2021

IDF: Over 150 rockets launched towards Israel from Gaza in the past few hours
— Anna Ahronheim (@AAhronheim) May 10, 2021

At least 10 rockets fired towards Ashkelon from Gaza. PIJ warned of a surprise at 9pm. Is this their surprise?
— Anna Ahronheim (@AAhronheim) May 10, 2021

Crazy footage from the last barrage on Ashkelon pic.twitter.com/QFobo6oh3q
— Anna Ahronheim (@AAhronheim) May 10, 2021

The cities of @TelAviv, Bnei Brak and Givatayin have opened the bomb shelters
— Anna Ahronheim (@AAhronheim) May 10, 2021

IDF says it has struck two rocket launchers, two military positions and eight Hamas operatives over the past two hours
— Anna Ahronheim (@AAhronheim) May 10, 2021

Palestinian media reporting 20 people have been killed including 9 children. Another 65 people have been injured.
— Anna Ahronheim (@AAhronheim) May 10, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 5:02pm

And Bibi wins! Again!

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 05/11/2021 - 2:16am

part of the equation:

Iron Dome deflecting rockets. pic.twitter.com/Sgr9TiPUx2
— Jake Hanrahan (@Jake_Hanrahan) May 11, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/11/2021 - 6:53pm

Wherein Jacobin magazine doesn't get NYC demographics:

Andrew Yang: not good! pic.twitter.com/3meofh9F7Z
— Jacobin (@jacobinmag) May 11, 2021

edit to add: not just Yang but both current frontrunners:

Two of the leading candidates for mayor of NYC have expressed sympathy and solidarity with #Israel. Neither of them have expressed similar sentiments for the #Palestinians who are facing home expulsions, have been attacked in their place of worship or killed by Israeli forces. pic.twitter.com/PZtZyioHjj
— Ayman Mohyeldin (@AymanM) May 11, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 10:24pm

Anti-Israel lefties have this hashtag trending on Twitter right now: #YangSupportsGenocide

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/11/2021 - 1:21am

Out of all MSNBC programming, only @AymanM chose to cover the Israeli-Palestinian fighting happening today (which we're paying for as taxpayers). Nothing from @chrislhayes, who has written about this issue in the past.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 11, 2021

It shows the value of having someone who has done foreign reporting as a host. Ayman's segment: https://t.co/9hD39MU1uB
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 11, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 10:17pm

Death toll in Colombia protests has risen to at least 26, according to the country’s Defensoría del Pueblo. https://t.co/Zk5LDlbdZ0
— julieturkewitz (@julieturkewitz) May 7, 2021

This breaks my heart to see this. What kind of government sends a FUCKING HELICOPTER TO SHOOT CITIZENS IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.
#Prayforcolombia #SOSColombiaNosEstanMatando #SOSColombiaEnDictadura #ColombiaAlertaRoja #COLOMBIAINREDALERT #ColombiaResiste pic.twitter.com/tevBbcnCtC
— (@Truee_K) May 5, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 3:29am

by A Guy Called LULU on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 10:14am

War's no longer binary

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/552307-will-deterrence-wor...

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 6:43am

United Nations team concludes war crimes committed by ISIS in Iraq in 2014:

“Kill them wherever you find them.” @UNITAD finds #ISIS incited genocide during 2014 #Tikrit air academy massacre. @HRW analysis of the attack here: https://t.co/8wdDiwSF9p https://t.co/lZwqcXwJxk pic.twitter.com/pSIrm6bDEA
— Letta Tayler (@lettatayler) May 10, 2021

2/ @UNITAD report also contains new info on #ISIS massacre of unarmed Shia detainees from Badush prison during 2014 advance into Mosul. Survivors described the slaughter to @fredabrahams and me later that year. Our @hrw report here: https://t.co/xiYIsujPPN.
— Letta Tayler (@lettatayler) May 10, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 5:09pm

Centre-left vote in Europe

UK
Lowest since 1935

Austria
Lowest since 1911

Germany
Lowest since 1932

France
Lowest ever

Italy
Lowest ever

N'lands
Lowest ever

Sweden
Lowest since 1908

Finland
2nd lowest

Spain
3rd lowest since democracy

Maybe it's not Brexit or Starmer?
— Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) May 10, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/10/2021 - 9:09pm

The U.S. Navy has seized thousands of powerful weapons from a massive shipment that was hidden in a stateless vessel sailing through the North Arabian Sea, officials announced.https://t.co/Y9WhEMd9fB
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) May 10, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/11/2021 - 1:14am

This is the UAE Ambassador's tweet from yesterday. It seems that they intend to solve the crisis by pretending it doesn't exist.https://t.co/XJYSU6WJwf
— SJ Ahmed (@SuhaibJAhmed) May 11, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 05/11/2021 - 1:02pm

"Not an eviction"

Part 2 (via @m7mdkurd, the interviewee)pic.twitter.com/hbSqlhPnHR
— Omar Mouallem (@OmarMouallem) May 11, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 05/11/2021 - 2:01pm

very interesting: nobility, hospitality, and chivalry very significant symbols in our Arab heritage and culture

I suspect sort of more like: significant symbols of the culture of our tribal warlords dealing with T.E. Lawrence and supposedly being a "river to my people" when you're really clueless about your people and that kinda stuff. Real early 20th century.

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/11/2021 - 7:05pm

The prisoners in the Quezaltepeque Prison in El Salvador -

Congratulations to #AFP photographer @YuriYurisky who wins the second place in the "Single News" category at the @IstPhotoAwards pic.twitter.com/mkTCEyno2L
— AFP Photo (@AFPphoto) May 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 05/12/2021 - 5:06am

is far from pretty when you really gin up culture wars:

None of this is going to end well. Synagogue burning, mosque destruction, lynching … https://t.co/VmGX4iK6Vq
— Hrag (@hragv) May 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 05/12/2021 - 3:20pm

The Gaza-Israel violence is completely overshadowed by what is happening among Palestinian and Jewish citizens inside Israel, for which the politicians have even less of an exit strategy.
— Mairav Zonszein מרב זונשיין (@MairavZ) May 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 05/12/2021 - 3:51pm

the absurdity of tit for tat is more apparent on twitter --

Israel destroys a Gaza tower hosting media organisations.

Follow our LIVE updates: https://t.co/lw5T3GfljB pic.twitter.com/BRAEjLig8D
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) May 12, 2021

BREAKING: Large barrage of rockets fired towards Tel Aviv after tower destroyed in Gaza. https://t.co/8Qnxk3RF5D pic.twitter.com/5flAU3xJQ5
— Conflict News (@Conflicts) May 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 05/12/2021 - 3:44pm

Jared? Oh Jared...

Jared Kushner was installed in part to exacerbate this problem and his actions, particularly in the last few months of the Trump admin when he was meeting with officials in Israel and other Middle Eastern countries, need to be scrutinized much more closely. https://t.co/FqjrKgqgvK
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) May 12, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 05/12/2021 - 5:10pm

The owner of a Gaza high-rise housing the AP and other media outlets says he has received a call from the Israeli military that the building would be targeted. The man said he was told to make sure all residents have evacuated. https://t.co/QyRtPSPtlf
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 15, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/15/2021 - 1:07pm

US media outlets can’t use the most obvious and clear headline: “Israel Destroys Gaza Media Tower” pic.twitter.com/9Tc73hOvFL
— Mohamad Bazzi (@BazziNYU) May 15, 2021

Laura Rozen retweeted this one, I don't know this journalist:

BREAKING: SecDef Lloyd Austin called his Israeli counterpart Benny Gantz and raise concerns regarding the targeting of civilians in Gaza. Gantz told Austin Israel is doing the outmost to avoid hitting civilians and is trying to achieve long term quiet
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) May 15, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/15/2021 - 1:21pm

The Committee to Project Journalists expressed concerns that Israel was "deliberately targeting media facilities in order to disrupt coverage of the human suffering in Gaza" https://t.co/vgSkZ3z0fu
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 15, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/15/2021 - 3:21pm

there's almost always a counter someone can find, nothing is as it seems:

Ouch. 2014 piece by former AP reporter Matti Friedman.
https://t.co/JcBYeGsEKY pic.twitter.com/MHVXIcqU4k
— Gilead Ini (@GileadIni) May 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 05/16/2021 - 1:15am

Only 7 years old - great.

Not that I'm excusing it, but it's like a lifetime in news organization - is this still going in? Are there obvious ways to counter it, etc.?

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/16/2021 - 3:06am

Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro’s authoritarian government seized the headquarters of one of the country’s last remaining independent newspapers https://t.co/4J84hRp6Eh
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) May 15, 2021

(Found retweeted by Seth Abramson)

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/15/2021 - 4:33pm

Maybe Maduro & Bibi can get a room. Of course let's see the US complain

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 05/15/2021 - 6:34pm

did think it kind of amazing to see both of them doing the very same thing at the same time for the basically the same reasons. Quiet means everything's okay?The dead are extra quiet, why not just get rid of most people?

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/15/2021 - 7:53pm

tribalism breeding paranoid conspiracy thinking all around:

Welcome to London - where pro-Jihadists chant for the death of Jews and people wear Saddam Hussein tshirts and celebs and politicians and left wingers march happily alongside and blend their voices in a call to eliminate the worlds only Jewish country... pic.twitter.com/xIKkms2Atl
— leekern (@leekern13) May 15, 2021

Don’t forget horned hooked nose Jews spotted by @danieldmoses pic.twitter.com/qXEBOuGh77
— L_e_x_i_c_o_n (@Lexiconartist83) May 15, 2021

https://t.co/qkKSBCvVIT
— (@saucewood) May 15, 2021

https://t.co/MvUtOeEofF MISINFORMATION As usual from Zionist Propaganda
— JH (@JH77_LFC) May 15, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/15/2021 - 4:48pm

I do agree with this, but at the same time I do wish Biden/the U.S. didn't have to get involved; unfortunately we help furnish the weapons they are using so we have to:

There is literally no point to the Gaza-Israel fighting. It happens every so often and always ends with a ceasefire negotiated by foreign powers. Nothing fundamentally changes, just a lot of people die. Biden should use all tools he has to force parties to cease fire.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 15, 2021

I wish we were neutral. His sentence here is why; there is intractable absurd worship of "location, location, location", for "decades and decades", more like millennia, by Palestinians as well as Zionists:

This is the Palestinian story for decades and decades. Do you think this makes people more or less likely to want to fight? Israel's strategy of using military means to solve a political crisis is a failure. https://t.co/100mMVNKFe
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 15, 2021

That cannot ever be solved by investing more outsiders backing of the ideology behind both sides believing it. And inside both camps there are already disbelievers who might do the job if there wasn't so much interference:

Can't believe Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said this https://t.co/NOxonXTRKJ
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) May 15, 2021

"Divestment"of moral support as well as money is the only thing that can work, until they are sick of tit for tat and eternal grievance/ Giving any other kind of special attention to one side or the other is just feeding a troll. Unfortunately a dirty deed is long done and one side has had extra help in getting far more weaponry than the other.

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/15/2021 - 8:19pm

YES, important:

important thread https://t.co/5ftn0C3ve8
— Simon Schama (@simon_schama) May 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/15/2021 - 8:27pm

this thread too!

What most Americans don't understand: The Palestine-Israeli conflict is no longer the issue it once was in the Sunni Arab world. The "Arab Street" is not emotionally invested in it like it was even ten years ago. The most important issue for them (and us) is containing Iran. pic.twitter.com/iUmDMHHnrq
— A New Radical Centrism (@a_centrism) May 15, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/15/2021 - 9:04pm

Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר @AnshelPfeffer · 18h Replying to @AnshelPfeffer I’ve yet to see real evidence Netanyahu somehow engineered these dual crises in Gaza and between Jews and Arabs in Israel but it’s a direct result of his policies. He inherited in 2009 the previous government policy’s of blockading Gaza but in 12 years did nothing to change it.> Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר @AnshelPfeffer · 18h In regard to Jewish-Arab relations Netanyahu did everything to exacerbated generations-old hatreds between communities, not because he’s a racist, but because an us-against-them mindset held his electoral base together. For political reasons, he also degraded the Israeli police> Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר @AnshelPfeffer · 18h The subject of repeated police corruption investigations, Netanyahu has underfunded and politicized the police so it became more a paramilitary security force and much less a public service. The results were clear this week in Jerusalem and Lod and lead directly to this crisis.> Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר @AnshelPfeffer · 18h The heavy-handed over-policing in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah and Al Aqsa is in stark contrast to the way police neglected Arab neighborhoods and towns in recent years, allowing them to descend in to gang warfare as murder-rates have rocketed, few deaths are properly investigated.> Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר @AnshelPfeffer · 18h One Arab resident of Lod told me this week “how do you expect us to calm down when the police come here only when the victims are Jews. When an Arab murders an Arab, they come the next day, arrest a member of each family and then release them for lack of evidence. That’s all.”> Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר @AnshelPfeffer · 18h The Jewish residents of Lod have no higher regard for the police who weren’t there this week when their homes, property and synagogues were being attacked by mobs. Instead far-right Jewish activists came to Lod, exacerbating tension. The local Jews have mixed feelings about them> Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר @AnshelPfeffer · 18h “I hate everything they represent but [the racist football hooligans and extreme settlers] saved our homes when the police didn’t turn up” is the most depressing sentence I heard this week repeated by Jewish residents of Lod. What do you do when only militias are there for you? > Anshel Pfeffer אנשיל פפר @AnshelPfeffer · 18h The Arab-Jewish conflict began before Netanyahu’s birth and Gaza was blockaded since the Hamas coup there 2 years before he came back to power, but he’s done everything in the last 12 years to entrench the siege mentality on both sides and inflame sectarian hatreds. Bibi’s Legacy

by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 05/15/2021 - 9:29pm

“droitisation” - new buzzword of French politics.
38% of French voters identify right v. 24% left
Blue collar voters 48% Le Pen v. 2% for Hidalgo of the socialists or 4% of Jadot of Greens.
Will a rightward-drifted Macron rally center-left v. Le Pen?https://t.co/r3TMdkuQ9b pic.twitter.com/3OXIr2KFXL
— Adam Tooze (@adam_tooze) May 15, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 05/16/2021 - 1:27am

This Piketty thesis makes a lot of sense especially in France: pic.twitter.com/t45kuRZVQq
— Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (@daniel_dsj2110) May 27, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/27/2021 - 3:32pm

China's weird Uyghur clampdowns

(CNN covering a lot today)

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/08/asia/china-xinjiang-ethnic-unity-intl...

by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 05/16/2021 - 3:08am

General Honore always seemed like a sensible, very rational type:

The @IDF should disengage , you can win the shooting war , collateral damage, killing children, silence the press , you are loosing public support.The international community will not allow you to kill 2 million people. Start ceasefire NOW . @JoeBiden @WhiteHouse @AmbassadorRice
— Russel L. Honore' (@ltgrusselhonore) May 15, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 05/16/2021 - 12:31pm

add what he said

The Israel-Palestine conflict seems like a classic "wicked problem." Actors involved have multiple imperatives that are locally reasonable but globally incompatible, resulting in a "stuck file" or impasse that's then wrongly attributed to insufficient commitment / political will.
— Samuel Hammond (@hamandcheese) May 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 05/16/2021 - 1:17pm

Very rare ⁦@StateDept⁩ readout of a call with someone who is not a politician. AP CEO Gary Pruitt in this case. pic.twitter.com/7CMRsVxRDk
— Philip Crowther (@PhilipinDC) May 16, 2021

U.S. envoy deputy assistant secretary @HadyAmr arrived in Israel for de-escalation talks pic.twitter.com/PLx0DLrtWq
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) May 14, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 05/16/2021 - 1:52pm

And here is the White House readout of the Biden-Netanyahu call this morning… pic.twitter.com/IZ2LxmkKXC
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) May 15, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 05/16/2021 - 1:56pm

Biden approves $735M weapons sale to Israel https://t.co/zUzolvZnpd pic.twitter.com/qxwiJmp9aE
— The Hill (@thehill) May 17, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/17/2021 - 3:32pm

Yglesias thinks

Third administration in a row to fail in its stated desire of focusing more time, attention, and resources on Asia and less on the Middle East.

The good news is a flurry of phone calls and public statements will probably fix the underlying problem and make everyone happy. https://t.co/R0cuiOHTUL
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 17, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/17/2021 - 4:51pm

It was obvious all along that the pivot to Asia would require a blowjob for the Middle East before we go -
it's the easiest way to handle jilted lovers. And petty tyrants.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/17/2021 - 4:55pm

more (I think I know where he's going with this and I will probably agree):

Fuck it.

Gonna publish an Israel/Palestine take on Wednesday. With a digression into the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 17, 2021

Your fav could never pic.twitter.com/ns6qnYP6P6
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) May 17, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/17/2021 - 4:55pm

At least I know what to expect.
How y'all holding up?

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 05/17/2021 - 5:12pm

Aunt Pikachu will help draft Chile’s Constitution https://t.co/M9jMKxh7cX
— Rᴏʙᴇʀᴛ L. Tsᴀɪ (@robertltsai) May 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/17/2021 - 10:14pm

Spain sends military to border to protect against Moroccan immigrant flood (literally, as they are swimming in) Adults are sent back immediately but there have been about 1,500 minors who have been sent to an "industrial building.") All sounds familiar...

#UPDATE Spain stepped up diplomatic pressure on Rabat as its prime minister flew into Ceuta, vowing to "restore order" in the North African enclave after a record 8,000 migrants reached its beaches from Morocco https://t.co/OQjpIhOgMA
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) May 18, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 05/19/2021 - 12:49am

Guardian video of crisis in Spain with more detail; includes showing military using batons on the migrants and mentions teargas use on the Moroccan side:

by artappraiser on Wed, 05/19/2021 - 12:57am

We are talking *in Africa* (the Spanish colony of Ceuta near Tangiers), not swimming kilometers to Gibraltar.

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 05/19/2021 - 1:44am

Polygyny is legal in 58 out of nearly 200 sovereign states.

(a surprise to me that came up this morning, seeing what looked like an Indonesian man with 2 wives)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_polygamy

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 05/19/2021 - 2:31am

China's "Pets by Mail"

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/19/business/china-pet-mystery-box-intl-h...

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 05/19/2021 - 11:58pm

!?!?

Polish schools will teach that the EU is an “unlawful entity”, says the education minister https://t.co/yOnTPwlSiJ
— Notes from Poland (@notesfrompoland) May 19, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/20/2021 - 2:04am

Same thing - left's in disarray, the right's bizarro messages take hold - why exactly is nutcake politics so attractive to so many right now? Is it something to do with phones and Facebook, some nutrutional lack, a misunderstood social development?

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 05/20/2021 - 2:21am

World's largest iceberg just broke off an Antarctic ice shelf https://t.co/WO2mGgb8OB
— J. W. (@wolfjon4) May 20, 2021

we are all in this together...some people need to watch the movie "Independence Day" again or something...

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/20/2021 - 4:06pm

spinning the "clearly, they want socialism" narrative:

https://t.co/CdBYEPz3sD
— Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins (@daniel_dsj2110) May 20, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/20/2021 - 5:47pm

Hey looks like the kids in Australia have their heads screwed on right, have a sense of priorities about what to protest about:

Students will strike in more than 50 cities and towns across Australia on Friday, calling on the federal government to stop using taxpayer money for fossil fuels. https://t.co/nlygAtw2UB
— SBS News (@SBSNews) May 20, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/20/2021 - 6:52pm

Interesting reply here from a very smart pro-Israel guy from NJ who also proudly served in the Israeli military long ago:

Funny.
But actually, it did.
— Marc Leibowitz (@Marc_Leibowitz) May 20, 2021

Military might only goes so far...

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/20/2021 - 7:19pm

Israeli-Palestinian media narratives

Part 2: https://t.co/ToxzoTbTZW
— Matti Friedman (@MattiFriedman) May 20, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/21/2021 - 8:22am

Infantilizing Diana?

mid-thirties woman a "young girl"?

blaming the press for pushing for an obvious story?

William's got too much time on his hands.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/21/uk/royal-news-newsletter-05-21-21-scl...

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 05/21/2021 - 10:47am

Life on Ukraine’s front line: Trenches, abandoned homes and fear of conflict without end https://t.co/su9fZusq8z
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) May 23, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/22/2021 - 9:53pm

We are appalled by the announcement today that Iranian journalist and human rights defender Narges Mohammadi has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and 80 lashes for speaking out against state violence against protesters and the country's abysmal prison conditions.
— PEN America (@PENamerica) May 24, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/24/2021 - 12:32pm

Sasha Johnson: BLM activist may have been shot by mistake

Detectives investigating whether someone else at south London gathering was intended target

@ TheGuardian.com, May 24

by artappraiser on Mon, 05/24/2021 - 12:34pm

One update ⁦@CNN⁩ (and many other news orgs) have failed to add is that police are looking for four black men in relation to the incident. https://t.co/Wb0zLcPTwE
— Douglas Murray (@DouglasKMurray) May 25, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 05/26/2021 - 12:59am

Five arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of Black Lives Matter activist Sasha Johnson.

Two men aged 25 and 28 and three teenagers, aged 17, 18 and 19, are being questioned by detectives having been detained on Tuesday.https://t.co/0DHB6Q5sNx
— Telegraph Breaking News (@TelegraphNews) May 26, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 05/26/2021 - 3:03pm

More on Sasha Johnson story: the Guardian article sort of implies that at least 4 of the 5 are drug dealers; that they stopped one guy in a car chase, and he squealed and that led to arresting the others on drug charges. And now They were all subsequently arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and remain in custody.

by artappraiser on Wed, 05/26/2021 - 3:13pm

on Sasha Johnson story from Axios roundup 6 hrs. ago:

[....] Catch up quick: Johnson, a mother of three, was shot in the head on Sunday and is in critical condition. Police said there is no evidence that the shooting was related to her activism, BBC reports.

A friend of Johnson's told the BBC that she believes the event was a result of a disagreement between "rival gangs."

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/27/2021 - 5:28pm

All of us in the @JSKstanford community stand by you, @MLillyDelgado, as one of our alumni and a talented journalist. Many around the world are watching with concern the increasing pressure on independent media in Nicaragua. https://t.co/fmAFejeXMJ
— Dawn Garcia (@degarciaknight) May 25, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/25/2021 - 3:17am

French 2022 Presidential poll

1st Round:
Emmanuel Macron 25%
Marine Le Pen 27%
Jean-Luc Mélenchon 12%

2nd Round:
Emmanuel Macron 53%
Marine Le Pen 47%

Harris May 14-15
— Matt Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) May 24, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/25/2021 - 7:43pm

From Charles Lane: Who’s guilty of what in the Hamas-Israel conflict? https://t.co/6DZNEAMhCv PostOpinions
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) May 25, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 05/25/2021 - 7:47pm

For all the talk of Labour wooing southern England, it remains a whopping 36 points behind the Tories in the south (minus London). Labour can’t win back its heartlands, nor can it win over anywhere else, says @rakibehsan https://t.co/8FFCOZXOlm
— spiked (@spikedonline) May 26, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 05/26/2021 - 4:54pm

Islamic War, Mozambique

Hello, please find the unroll here: In March, insurgents besieged Palma, a town north of a multi-billion… https://t.co/4VNg0Hb6mK Have a good day.
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) May 27, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 05/27/2021 - 7:30am

summary news on Australia and Murdoch machinations there:

An important thread. https://t.co/Zwniq83u9r
— Joanne Lock (@Tweetmags) May 27, 2021

by artappraiser on Thu, 05/27/2021 - 6:03pm

Aussies face China revenge - for Wuhan, for Belt & Road

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/04/26/australia-china-trade...

by PeraclesPlease on Fri, 06/04/2021 - 5:06am

The UK is now in a very similar position to the US. We have a baseline of around 40% of voters who are in the grip of something profoundly irrational. The difference is that in the UK 40% is usually enough to control the country. https://t.co/XGcrRMfilI
— David Clark (@David_K_Clark) May 27, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 05/28/2021 - 8:05pm

Across the western world in the post war era, cohorts born before the Great Depression voted more in line with their views on economic views while cohorts born after the Great Depression voted more in line with their views on cultural issues. https://t.co/c6Ysx9qf5q
— (((David Shor))) (@davidshor) May 29, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 05/29/2021 - 7:33pm

Israelis finally got Bibi's butt out of that seat!!!

BREAKING: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving leader, has been ousted as Prime Minister.

Rival parties say they have reached a coalition to name far-right nationalist Naftali Bennett, who supports illegal settlements and opposes Palestinian rights, to replace him. pic.twitter.com/mCgIIzYe4I
— AJ+ (@ajplus) June 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 06/02/2021 - 8:01pm

One of those "be careful what you wish for" moments. Still, will be nice to see Bibi hop in the barrel, whatever the cost of admission.

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 06/02/2021 - 8:56pm

Bibi is wrathful and threatening:

I like it already https://t.co/45AHWbKpG4
— Christoph (@Halalcoholism) June 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 06/04/2021 - 11:13am

^ Just hit me: that is mimicking Trump? It's the petty tryrant having a temper tantrum thing, even includes the fixation on searching Twitter for support.

by artappraiser on Fri, 06/04/2021 - 11:18am

Everyone hates Bibi https://t.co/zD66BkwvCe
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) June 4, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 06/04/2021 - 11:36am

query about Putin:

important problem. Which European country does not have this issue? https://t.co/UZTPLKmFki
— Ben Lewis (@theuniversalben) June 2, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 06/02/2021 - 9:08pm

Hacking group Anonymous issues lengthy YouTube threat to Elon Musk for ruining small Bitcoin investors' dreams https://t.co/daQjDrQ8Zm
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) June 6, 2021

Full video here -> https://t.co/iSZe9mIw1y
— Earthling (@ziyatong) June 5, 2021

saw someone opine--can't find that now--that Anonymous group is long dead and this was probably made mitating them by two bitter guys after a drunk night at the big crypto convention in Miami...

by artappraiser on Sun, 06/06/2021 - 12:14am

Chinese dissidents rebuke Trudeau for trying to tamp down on criticism of China by warning it could lead to xenophobia https://t.co/gBs2nJVXN3
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 3, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 06/06/2021 - 12:17am

Anarchist group proudly claims responsibility for incendiary attack on Tesla factory site in Germany:

Incendiary Attack against the Construction of a Tesla Factory in Grünheide, Germany#DirectAction #ClimateStrike https://t.co/ujsPv8EYMm
— AMW English (@amw_english) May 30, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 06/07/2021 - 1:14am

If you say "exploit" enough times, it's almost like an argument.

Waiting for their book of concrete solutions to drop.

by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 06/07/2021 - 3:45am

Peru presidential election is over-was a right-wing populist vs. a true socialist-and THE RESULTS ARE, ta-dah, everybody's favorite:

Fujimori, Castillo neck and neck as Peru presidential polls close https://t.co/tYXgOXWWgv
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) June 7, 2021

by artappraiser on Mon, 06/07/2021 - 2:02am

Global FBI sting thread

The informant offered Anom to three former major criminal distributors of Phantom Secure. AFP ran a 'Beta' test of the operation, tracking first 50 devices. All of those users were allegedly used it for illegal activity
— Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) June 8, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 06/08/2021 - 6:49am

Horrible news from Afghanistan https://t.co/KUA4Pbbil5
— Scout Tufankjian (@stufankjian) June 9, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 06/09/2021 - 5:27pm

China's split population

If these were two countries, the one on the right would have a population density similar to Japan. The one on the left similar to Norway. https://t.co/DFAYn492vL
— Tim Urban (@waitbutwhy) June 10, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/10/2021 - 6:11am

About that Afghan withdrawal

Horrible news from Afghanistan https://t.co/KUA4Pbbil5
— Scout Tufankjian (@stufankjian) June 9, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/10/2021 - 6:19am

that's a dupe of what I posted above BUT FORGET THAT, on topic check out what I later posted last night on your Progressive Realism thread, re: looks like Taliban is winning, Pentagon planning bombing, CIA dunno what to do...

all very interesting not the least of which because if we do nothing, the interventionist fraction of the GOP will make hay out of that

edit to add: bet it is a main topic of Biden discussion with allies right now

by artappraiser on Thu, 06/10/2021 - 5:10pm

Actually we posted at the same time ;-)

(and no i didn't alter the timestamp )

by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/10/2021 - 5:20pm

NEW: Vadim Mayorov was an FSB operative who infiltrated and entrapped Russian oppositionists. He fled Russia out of guilt for railroading what he says are innocent people. @newlinesmag and Dossier Center's exclusive interview with him: https://t.co/UjKZg5myn4
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) June 9, 2021

Neat https://t.co/t5w6Ntb5ZZ
— John Schindler (@20committee) June 13, 2021

by artappraiser on Sun, 06/13/2021 - 3:09pm

China's lock on Islam

A stark illustration of a dynamic that @AnnelleSheline and @GiorgioCafiero wrote about for us last month. https://t.co/neEZuaf19f https://t.co/LMNK6c0GB9
— Elliot Waldman (@ElliotWaldman) June 14, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 5:36am

Speculation is growing about Saudi Arabia's normalization with Syria.

Will it happen and what might it look like?

Check out my new article @AlMonitor on the progress of #Syria's talks with #KSA. https://t.co/YZzDwNXMbG
— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) June 11, 2021

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 5:43am

Israeli military launches airstrikes in Gaza over "incendiary balloons" https://t.co/4vQVNOmSNF axios
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) June 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 9:28pm

Peru's lefty candidates quite a bit different than ours:

Would you legalize abortion?: "Absolutely not"

Euthanasia?: "I don't agree either"

Gay marriage?: "Even worse. Family first"

Legalizing weed?: "Of course not"

This is Pedro Castillo, who is currently battling to be the next President of Perú and the new darling of the left pic.twitter.com/e1nuXc1OZ7
— The Fourth Party (@thefourth_party) June 7, 2021

"He gives few interviews, and has declined to speak to the Financial Times. He has never worked in government and until now was best known for leading a teachers’ strike in 2017."https://t.co/zv3kWOOTYn
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) June 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Tue, 06/15/2021 - 11:02pm

Andrew Yang, is that you?

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 4:00am

Jack Ma: Chinese hostage?

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/16/tech/joe-tsai-alibaba-intl-hnk/index....

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 10:53am

Even though she and her compadres want to abolish them and no one will talk

Detectives are continuing to appeal for anyone with information to come forward by calling the police on 101 quoting reference 1172/23MAY, or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

Two more men have been arrested over the shooting of black equal rights activist Sasha Johnsonhttps://t.co/hnx9ZDC4L3
— ITV News (@itvnews) June 16, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 3:44pm

Update: HK police raid Apple Daily

5 executives were taken away, including Editor-in-Chief Ryan Law and #NextDigital CEO Cheung Kim-hung.

Officers were seen accessing journalists' computers, and all employees were barred from returning to their seats to work.#AppleDailyENG pic.twitter.com/45nsFWmCfE
— Apple Daily HK (@appledaily_hk) June 17, 2021

edit to add more details:

On the nature of the news articles, whether it's reporting or op-ed, Li said it's "simple" and "very straightforward". "They are inciting and requesting foreign countries to impose sanctions on HK and China," said Li, who stressed that the operation is not targeting the press. pic.twitter.com/stRx4csagE
— Rachel Cheung (@rachel_cheung1) June 17, 2021

"I will also take this opportunity to warn staff members to be very careful as this is a very serious offence," said Li.
— Rachel Cheung (@rachel_cheung1) June 17, 2021

by artappraiser on Wed, 06/16/2021 - 11:29pm

Is this not a message about Iran and nukes as well?

Canada blames Iran's 'disregard for human life' in downing of Boeing https://t.co/N9K99nxkHj
— Heal the Planet (@fwtoney) June 25, 2021

by artappraiser on Fri, 06/25/2021 - 5:48pm

China getting super serious now about HK, they can't even leave:

BREAKING: Apple Daily chief editorial writer Fung Wai-kong was arrested at the airport for "collusion with foreign power" when attempting to leave Hong Kong, @hkcnews_com has learned. https://t.co/RQUXd0bPm1
— Alvin Lum (@alvinllum) June 27, 2021

Update #1: police has confirmed the arrest, and does not preclude more arrests could be made.

#2: Fung's title should be head of Apple Daily's English section.
— Alvin Lum (@alvinllum) June 27, 2021

@HKJA_Official has strongly condemned police of targeting journalists, and warned the recent events have already spelt the death of city's press freedom. https://t.co/gbKI5a87Ob
— Alvin Lum (@alvinllum) June 27, 2021

Fung wrote on his last editorial for Apple Daily after two senior executes were charged and denied bail: “HK still needs truth, press freedom and freedom of speech, because without that, HK will lose its most important institutional advantage and attractiveness to investors."
— Alvin Lum (@alvinllum) June 27, 2021

is going to be like a theocracy like Iran etc, where they are always arresting anybody supposedly trying to bring in "foreign" influence of any kind...

by artappraiser on Sun, 06/27/2021 - 3:01pm

Being a fan of professional team sports makes people lose their ability to think logically, it's not just a U.S. thing:

Protests against English xenophobia and bigotry by supporting Ukraine against the multi-racial England national football team.

Peak #FBPE idiocy. https://t.co/MOn6QuD1oI
— Dr Rakib Ehsan (@rakibehsan) July 3, 2021

by artappraiser on Sat, 07/03/2021 - 5:41pm

[World] UK, France at war?

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