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What #Democracy? House #Speaker #MikeJohnson sends #lawmakers home early for their summer #recess in order to head off #Democratic #demands for #votes on calling for the #release of #files from the investigation into #JeffreyEpstein #crimes #criminal #corruption #collusion #maga #gop #trump #republicans #sexualassault + @levparnas #Trump Sends In His Fixer to Silence #GhislaineMaxwell bury the #truth, protect #elites, erase voices of the #victims. This is #cover-up of the century #politics #law

More #lies - #collusion w #putin #russia #genocide #ukraine #Trump Announces Weapons for Ukraine and Gives Russia a 50-Day Deadline - 50 days!!! - as Russia pounds civilian target daily. President Trump, in a meeting with #NATO secretary general, said he would impose “very severe tariffs​” on Russia if there was no peace deal in 50 days. The truth - #epstein release #JeffreyEpsteinFiles #crime #corruption #sexualassault #children #GhislaineMaxwell #maga #promises #war #politics #diversion

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Albanese’s report said the ICJ’s ruling “effectively qualifies the occupation as an act of aggression … Consequently, any dealings that support or sustain the occupation and its associated apparatus may amount to complicity in an international crime under the Rome Statute.”

Al Jazeera: aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un @palestine

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“Self-defence means not only attacking terrorists but destroying them. When Hamas terrorists hide behind people, behind schools … civilian places lose their protected status because terrorists abuse it,” said Germany's then foreign minister during a parliamentary session marking the anniversary of the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.

by Pauline Ertel: middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-

The spirit of Blair lives on and long

theguardian.com/world/2025/jun

Captured by the CIA in the early 2000s, the men were rendered between black sites, where they were systematically tortured and subjected to brutal and degrading treatment. Methods included what the CIA referred to as “rectal feeding”, a form of sexual assault according to medical experts.

The UK participated and then hid it away…

The Guardian · Claims that UK spy agencies aided CIA torture after 9/11 to be heard in rare trialBy Harry Davies
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@ethics

#Governance bodies are unmoved by the voices they include. Businesses, NGOs and governments have clearly understood the effectiveness of window-dressing. AI ethics committees, stakeholder roundtables and public forums are not the foundations of a democracy, but its sham.

"Any framework that does not address the fundamental asymmetry of power in AI development and deployment is not just ineffective; it is complicit."
techpolicy.press/beyond-the-fa

Tech Policy Press · Beyond the Façade: Challenging and Evaluating the Meaning of Participation in AI Governance | TechPolicy.PressAI governance today is not merely a site of contestation but of outright corporate capture, writes Jonathan van Geuns.
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Malm noted: “1840 was a pivotal year in history, for both the Middle East and the climate system. It marked the first time the British Empire deployed steamboats in a major war. Steam power was the technology through which dependence on fossil fuels came into being: Steam engines ran on coal, and it was their diffusion through the industries of Britain that turned this into the first fossil economy.

“Only by exporting it to the rest of the world and drawing humanity into the spiral of large-scale fossil fuel combustion,” Malm writes, “did Britain change the fate of this planet: The globalization of steam was a necessary ignition. The key to this ignition, in turn, was the deployment of steamboats in war. It was through the projection of violence that Britain integrated other countries into the strange kind of economy it had created — by turning fossil capital, we might say, into fossil empire.”

systemchangenotclimatechange.o

System Change Not Climate Change · Massive-Scale Genocide and Ecocide Are Close Relations - System Change Not Climate ChangeSCNCC’s Ken Boettcher reviews a lecture by Andreas Malm that draws chilling parallels between Israel’s annihilation of Palestine and capitalism’s global destruction of ecosystems.

“New Evidence Suggests The UK Government Collaborated With Israel To Crack Down On Speech”

by The Dissident on Substack

@palestine
@israel
@UKLabour

“An email suggests that the UK government collaborated with Israel to arrest journalists and activists”

open.substack.com/pub/the307/p

The Dissident · New Evidence Suggests The UK Government Collaborated With Israel To Crack Down On Speech.By The Dissident
#Press#UK#Israel

this shit is a travesty
npr.org/2025/04/14/nx-s1-53584

USA #monopoly #laws are completely outdated thanks to the Republican and Democratic parties #collusion in NOT regulating all the #techbros industries that were taking the place of the #surveillance state they didn’t want to fund directly with the federal budget. which explains the existence of InQTel.

the FTC going after Facebook/Meta and the Iguanazi without acknowledging he only exists thanks the above, IS the problem.

#Republican strategist Stuart Stevens, senior advisor for the Lincoln Project, is arguing that monied interests and economic giants #BigTech #WallStreet #bankers #billionaires are complicit in ruining the nation as they blindly follow a president determined to sink markets in both the United States and around the world. #tariffs #economy #financialstability #risk #economics #Trump #maga #wealth #money #power #politics #fear #complicit #collusion #democracy #congress alternet.org/ceos-trump-polici

Alternet.org · 'Basic betrayal': CEOs terrified of Trump retaliation won’t speak out against policiesBy Adam Lynch