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Eppur si muove! -and yet it moves. Something Galileo probably never said, but what a beautiful retort in defiance of religious oppression it would have been.
Er det for tidlig for 'Fairytale of New York'?
Vel, siden jeg er i Istanbul. Og to timer før de fleste av dere, får det våge seg.
"The boys of the NYPD choir Were singing Galway Bay And the bells were ringing out For Christmas day"
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You might not think you needed to see Kate Bush dressed as a bat today, but you were wrong.
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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very innovative
Elon Musk's Boring Company has been illegally dumping toxic waste byproduct for months, landing itself a $500k fine from local officials.
up is down down is up
"Countries with state subsidies for abortion, transgender-friendly policies for children, hate speech laws and affirmative action policies will now be considered to be violating human rights under rules imposed at the [US] State Department..."
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
"Ceasefire".
In the meaning "You cease, we fire".
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza today killed at least 24 people and wounded another 54, including children, the Associated Press reported citing health officials.
The Israel Defense Forces said it launched attacks against Hamas throughout the Gaza Strip after an “armed terrorist” crossed into an Israeli-held area.
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza today killed at least 24 people and wounded another 54, including children, the Associated Press reported citing health officials.
The Israel Defense Forces said it launched attacks against Hamas throughout the Gaza Strip after an “armed terrorist” crossed into an Israeli-held area.
Ukraine’s staunchest allies held emergency talks on the sidelines of the G20 summit in South Africa in an attempt to stop Donald Trump forcing Kyiv to hand swathes of territory to Russia in a lopsided peace deal.
Leaders of the EU, Britain and other Kyiv allies voice ‘concern’ at U.S.’s proposed peace deal with Russia.
Listen to Les feuilles mortes (Duo avec Bruno Pelletier) on TIDAL
It’s a nice day trip. Take the train in the mornin. Eat yourself silly on hot dog-in-waffle. Check out the old town and the old fortress - involves military history. Eat some more stuff and take a late train back to Oslo.
