Reminder that in #Gaza alone, around 90-95% of the water supply is contaminated and unfit for #human consumption...
If you dont believe #israel is capable of this evilness (that they've been enforcing for OVER 50 YEARS) read it for yourself, from AMNESTY #INTERNATIONAL
La presse étrangère étrille Macron sur sa loi immigration: "Une des lois les plus strictes de l'UE (Frankfurter Allgemeine), "Marine Le Pen triomphe" (The Times), "La Macronie fracturée" (La Libre Belgique). Encore un succès à l'international...
As Dave Penman (the FDA, the civill servants trade union) points out, the #RwandaBill (on its way to the Lords) includes aspects that conflict with #international law.
The #Tories are 'essentially advising civil servants to act illegally, which will put them in conflict between their obligation to uphold the rule of law & to follow their instructions from elected ministers'.
The #SupremeCourt on Tues cleared the way for Texas to immediately begin enforcing one of the nation’s harshest immigration laws, which opponents say would disrupt more than a century of #federal control over #international borders.
I'm in the #Humanities Commons instance, and we have free profiles like https://hcommons.org/members/stevemccartyinjapan that include a link to the old blue bird of Twitter, and members are increasingly leaving, so our admins at @hello might want to reconsider having that item in the next version of profiles.
Charlie Sykes notes that the "average Republican" believes that Trump made America great on the world stage, a belief that is "bonkers" when "Trump was perceived as a boob and a fool the world over."
Then he provides a rundown of what Trump ACTUALLY did on the international stage and how world leaders and citizens of other countries ACTUALLY regarded him.
Europe & the rest of the world are good at #publishing works from around the world. Only 3% of US books are translations. Ilan Stavans of Amherst College wanted to rectify this imbalance. His Restless Books, founded in New York around a decade ago, has brought out c. 150 books by 120 authors from 40 countries.
Continuing their hypocrisy on (hatred of) #highereducation, after forcing #universities to rely increasingly on fees from #international#students, in their wish to show they are doing something about rising 'legal' #migration, the #Tories are reviewing (with the intent of tightening) the conditions on student #visas.
Higher education is one of the few remaining areas where the UK remains a world leader, so of course you'd want to damage that if you were a wrecker, James (so-called) Cleverly!
More than 4 months ago, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court asked me to assist him with evaluating evidence of suspected war crimes & crimes against humanity in #Israel and #Gaza . I agreed and joined a panel of international legal experts to undertake this task. Together we have engaged in an extensive process of evidence review & legal analysis including at the International Criminal Court in The Hague
Yanina Bellini Saibene( @yabellini ) discussed teaching, localization, barriers to learning coding, and global communities with Elecia( @logicalelegance ) and Chris @stoneymonster ).
وقد أوضحت محكمة العدل الدولية بالأمس أنها تثق بمصادر الأونروا. وعلى الفور، هاجمت إسرائيل مصداقية العاملين في الوكالة، والآن قامت كل من الولايات المتحدة والمملكة المتحدة بقطع التمويل عنها.
Sidération à l'étranger après la participation du RN à la marche contre l'antisémitisme: "Le jour où Marine Le Pen est devenue éligible pour les les juifs", titre le quotidien allemand Der Spiegel. "Une tentative pour réhabiliter le passé du FN", écrit le journal britannique The Guardian... La patronne du RN, encadrée par la LDJ, a été bien accueillie à la manif.
…#MollyMichael, told investigators that -- more than once -- she received requests or taskings from #Trump that were written on the back of notecards, & she later recognized those notecards as #sensitive#WhiteHouse materials -- w/visible #classification markings -- used to brief Trump while he was still in office about phone calls w/ #foreign leaders or other #international-related matters.
Fighting for Wildlife in a Time of War
As conflict rages around them, Ukrainian conservationists persevere in restoring the DanubeDelta, one of Europe’s most prized ecosystems.
A century & a half ago, Confederate Gen Joseph Orville Shelby splashed into the wild waters of the Rio Grande off this border city & fled to Mexico, refusing to surrender to Union soldiers.
Now the park named in his honor (?) has become a front line in a feud between the #state & the #federal govt — a power struggle over who ultimately has the right to control the border….
…It’s been nearly two years since #Abbott & other #Republican governors began traveling to this Democratic-voting Tejano city for news conferences denouncing “open borders” & unveiling plans to deploy #Texas#troops & drop river buoys. The #state’s #border w/ #Mexico is an #international boundary under the #jurisdiction of #federal authorities, but Abbott & his allies contend they have the right to intervene because the #Biden admin hasn’t done enough….
How could it be I've never heard of the US State Dept's Bureau of Intelligence & Research?
"INR is the Cassandra of American intelligence, and it earned that reputation the hard way."
They succeeded in some famous examples where the CIA failed.
There are great lessons here in keeping organizations small & individuals responsible, though frankly, having worked on spaceflight missions, I've known this little truth for a long time.
Russian opposition leader #AlexeiNavalny has died after feeling unwell & losing consciousness following a walk on Friday in the penal colony where he was held, according to the country's prison service. He was 47. Kremlin spox Dmitry Peskov told reporters today that Russian President Vladimir #Putin has been informed of his death, & prison medics are working to identify the cause of death.
Yulia #Navalnaya, Navalny’s widow is attending the #Munich#Security Conference & just spoke.
“I would like to call upon all the #international community, all the people in the #world, we should come together & we should fight against this #evil,” she said. “We should fight this horrific regime in #Russia today.”
Navalnaya received a standing ovation. #Putin#AlexeiNavalny
Ukraine counter-offensive: Kyiv says it has liberated villages in Donetsk region (www.bbc.com)
The four small villages are the first officially publicised gains in Kyiv's counter-offensive.
[Video] from a few weeks ago. Soldiers of the International legion hit a mine, all survived. (streamable.com)
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