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good-old-gossip · 18 hours

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What is happening in Palestine’s Gaza is a “repeat of Auschwitz” and a “collective white imperialist man’s genocide,” a prominent human rights activist and genocide scholar has said. Maung Zarni, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year for his lifelong pro-democracy work and research on genocides, believes it is clear that Israel – assisted by Western nations – is committing genocide in Gaza.

Genocide is simply the “destruction of a population or populations under occupation,” the activist and scholar from Myanmar explained in an interview.

“Palestinians have lived under Israeli occupation for over 50 years,” said Zarni. “Not just in Gaza, but in all occupied territories ... There are 3 million Palestinians in West Bank also under occupation,” he added. Zarni said what has been happening in Gaza for more than 200 days now “is only the latest episode,” asserting that “Israel has institutionalised the destruction of the (Palestinian) population.”

“What we are seeing in Gaza is simply mass extermination without the gas chambers,” he said, referring to the brutal Nazi method of killing prisoners in concentration camps during World War II.

“You don’t need to destroy a population with gas chambers only. If you are able to carpet bomb … 80 percent of the living space, the residential area, most schools, hospitals, you are destroying the population.”

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mightyflamethrower · 5 months

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OSLO — The Norwegian Nobel Committee has announced the recipient of this year's Nobel Peace Prize will be Hamas, for their valiant efforts to release a few kidnapped children in exchange for several terrorists.

"The humanity, compassion, and kindness of this act are inspiring to us all," said a Nobel Committee Spokesperson Ingrid Haugen while presenting the award to a Hamas fighter wearing a vest strapped with c4 and ball bearings. "Hamas didn't need to release these orphaned Israeli child colonizers after slaughtering their parents in front of them, but they did. We could use more tender goodwill like this in our world today."

Human rights groups around the world were quick to praise the genocidal terrorist organization after they released 17 of their 250 hostages in exchange for a long enough ceasefire for them to hide all their weapons in a new children's hospital. "We live in dark times," said Haugen, "but the brave mujahideen of Hamas have restored our faith in humanity."

Hamas took home the coveted award after receiving more votes than runner-up nominee Florian Mibbs, a Portland college student who tore down posters of kidnapped Israeli children on her campus.

At publishing time, Hamas had also been nominated for a Nobel Prize in Physics for their pioneering work in converting water treatment pipes into rockets.

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capitalism-and-analytics · 1 year

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Call me crazy, but I feel like if you played a significant role in conflict increasing (specifically war), then maybe...just maybe...you should be ineligible for the Nobel Peace Prize...

Though I guess he’s not the worst nominee... *cough* Adolf Hitler *cough*

#politics #liberal #conservative #republican #democrat #libertarian #capitalism #communism #congress #progressive #socialism #antisocialism #anticapitalism #anticommunism

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agentfascinateur · 6 months

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Worse, several furtive and suddenly mute “media relations” hirelings have refused to answer detailed questions about whether Canada agreed to haul an untold number of Israeli reservists back to Israel on Canadian military aircraft, so they could, presumably, join in the genocide of Palestinians as well as the horror being endured by hundreds of besieged Canadians, who, since October 7, have tried to escape the murderous madness engulfing Gaza. Canada’s glaring complicity with an apartheid state committing crimes against humanity rather than attending to the dire circumstances of Palestinians – including Canadians of Palestinian descent, such as Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish – rests with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who in a predictable, performative act of empty “solidarity” met recently with Palestinian Canadians in Toronto while his rank diplomats were gladly doing Israel’s bidding.

Shameful. Hypocritical. Canada is indeed complicit.

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kaiserrreich · 7 months

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Happy 99th Birthday to Jimmy Carter! ❤️🎂

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, and as a Georgia state senator from 1963 to 1967.

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10 Facts about Jimmy Carter:

"1. Born on October 1, 1924, in Plains, Georgia, young James Earl Carter Jr. was the first person on his father’s side of his family to graduate from high school.

2. Carter entered Annapolis during World War II. The future President graduated in the top 10 percent of his class in 1946, and he and his new wife, Rosalynn, moved frequently as his Navy assignments changed.

3. Carter gave up his military career to save the family peanut farm. And as a parent, Carter became involved in local politics when he served on an education board.

4. He supported civil rights, which hurt his early political career in Georgia. After a poor showing the 1966 governor’s race, Carter adopted a more centrist image, and he won the election in 1970. He became known as a budget cutter while in office.

5. Carter was a “dark horse” presidential candidate in 1976. The future President was tied for 12th in early polling, well behind former Alabama Governor George Wallace and former nominee Hubert Humphrey. He used his image as a Washington outsider to defeat Gerald Ford in the general election.

6. The Carter presidency was a study in contradictions. President Carter played a key role in the Camp David peace accords, but he also struggled with Congress and the media. The Iranian Hostage crisis proved to be a significant factor in his 1980 loss to Ronald Reagan.

7. Carter’s legacy grew after the 1980 loss. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote there are no second acts in American lives, but Carter’s public career after the White House is an exception.

8. In 1982, he founded the Carter Center, which has played an active role in human rights and disease prevention issues globally. The Carters helped publicize Habitat for Humanity, also.

9. Carter received his Nobel Prize in 2002. He received the award "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."

10. Harry Truman was Carter’s favorite President. Carter told The Guardian in 2011 that he admired Truman for not trying to profit off his presidency."

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#united states #us president #jimmy carter #famous birthdays #happy birthday #usa #us

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the-jam-to-the-unicorn · 7 months

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Tomorrow could be a really interesting day.

The Nobel Prize committee is currently announcing the winners of this year. And tomorrow they'll announce the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

While the nominee list isn't public, rumour has it that Ze's name is on it this year, and he has very good chances of winning.

So, fingers crossed tomorrow. 😊👀🤞✊️

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rhodoforfall · 5 months

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Ubi Sunt — #4

November 27th, 2023

good evening! if you're in the right timezone :3

if not - good morning, good afternoon, good day, goodnight etc.

i visited the library today!!

UNFORTUNATELY my mother forgot her library card so i wasn't able to check out anything.

FORTUNATELY there was a box of free shit right outside, and i took a book called Atomic Anna. it somehow involves nuclear science.

i haven't immersed myself in a new book for...quite a while, so i'll definitely make reference to it in some later posts.

having read about nuclear tests before, i can't help but remember even the smaller things the u.s. has gotten away with...

in the 1954 castle bravo bomb test, a 15-megaton nuclear weapon detonated on an atoll in the marshall islands.

there was an enormous fallout, leading to severe radiation sickness for the marshallese people and a crew of japanese fishermen.

even in "weak" forms, nuclear weapons truly terrify me.

the fact that only a handful of privileged countries control weapons of mass destruction should terrify everyone...

i'll end today's post with my acknowledgement and thanks to two anti-nuclear activists i learned about today:

Mordechai Vanunu (Israeli former nuclear scientist + whistleblower)

Motarilavoa Hilda Lin̄i (Ni-Vanuatu chief + Nobel Peace Prize nominee)

🫶❤️‍🔥

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dayjdontwakeme · 1 year

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I did everything but COOK dinner

Podcast Host and Nobel prize nominee enters the chat: living off veggie fried rice, avocado & pasta

The last few weeks have been peaceful, praise Yah. I’ve been blessed in the city, and blessed I the field, blessed in my coming and blessed in my going. Peace in itself is a treasure from the Lord, in Heaven, and never to be taken for granted.

I have been faithful to observe Shabbat, consistent in my daily reading and prayer, and obedient in my walk with Yah placing no idols before him

I have fasted, denied my flesh, and stayed connected to the true vine which bears much fruit and for these reason my faith has increased

I feel better than ever, and I’m getting ready to receive the blessing of love and partnership, in Yahs perfect timing. Each day, I prepare my heart a little more, and my faith grows a little stronger, and for this, I am eternally grateful!

So many days I did cry and plead w the Most High and without fail he has answered my cries. I will never turn my back on him. His praises will forever be on my lips!

The message I want to get out: God has a will for your life. If you opened your eyes this morning he’s not done with you. You’ve been given another chance to be found righteous, before your time is to end, on this place called earth. The nature of sin has the power to distort and destroy. The Ruach Holy Spirit won’t deal with you, when you defile your temple through drunkenness, substance abuse, holding on to hate and unforgiveness, pride, and self indulgence. The Holy Spirit has the power to heal, protect, encourage and more. the Ruach will improve your self image, affect your relationship with others and reveal to you Yah purpose for your life, and lead you to the love of your life. Allow this precious gift to change your life and you won’t regret it.

It is so thrilling to walk alongside Yah. Through the power of His Son, who lived a perfect righteous life and gave us the example to follow, everyday humans like you and I do experience Gods love in a way that’s so much more real than say, the floor that I am standing on. The Kingdom of heaven is upon us. Let’s be ready! Let’s spread the good news, and allow our lives to be a light to everyone around us

If you’re stilllll reading this, be encouraged that Yah has immeasurably more for you. Burn down your idols, so that he can bless you. Get excited! Your future is better than you imagined

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mariacallous · 1 year

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Women in Afghanistan have disappeared, said Mahbouba Seraj, a prominent rights activist and, most recently, Nobel Peace Prize nominee who stayed behind when the extremist Taliban stormed back to power 18 months ago. Every day, it seems, they issue new edicts that are systematically erasing women from public life. “We don’t exist anymore,” she said. “We are not being seen. We are not allowed to do anything, go anywhere, do our study, go to work.”

Taliban pledges during peace talks with former U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to respect women’s rights were lies, she said. Since their return, they’ve repeated those lies to gullible Western officials whose demands for a reversal of anti-women rules are met with “more lies” and even stricter rules.

And yet. As Afghanistan nears the precipice of economic and social collapse, Seraj, 75, told Foreign Policy the time has come for the world to engage with the Taliban.

The flight of prominent, educated, and capable Afghans is a brain drain that has helped rob the country of its future, she said. After 18 months of brutality, it’s time “to hear their [the Taliban’s] side of the story, too. We really have to come up with some agreement. Talks have to start with the Taliban. It’s not going to work this way. If we don’t sit down and talk to them and see what it is exactly that we can do and they can do, the ones who are going to be paying for it, and who are paying a huge price, are the poor people of Afghanistan, the women and children.”

Seraj is the niece of Amanullah Khan, king of Afghanistan from 1926 to 1929, executive director of the Afghan Women Skills Development Center, and runs domestic violence shelters in Kabul for women and children who she said the Taliban want to put in prison. Even under the republic government, girls and women were often imprisoned if they ran away from abusive fathers or husbands or were suspected of having affairs. Seraj said the Taliban expect her to continue looking after the women even if they do imprison them.

“Every time I talk to the Taliban, I say to them, ‘You have taken a country hostage. This isn’t going to work.’ I ask them, ‘How many people are you—300,000, 400,000, 500,000? And what’s the population of Afghanistan? Forty million. How many are women? Twenty million. How can you ignore us? What are you doing to us?’ I am saying the same thing to the world: ‘How have you allowed something like this, for heaven’s sake?’”

Seraj despairs of Afghans who have fled into exile pronouncing on what is happening in Afghanistan under the Taliban. They should come back and see what life is like for those who cannot leave, she said. “They have their own agenda, but what I see is needed in Afghanistan [is that] we really have to come up with some agreement. Talks have to start with the Taliban. It’s not going to work this way, absolutely not, if we don’t sit down and talk to them and see what is it exactly that we can do and they can do.”

Her call for engagement is controversial, but it is not new. Former British politician Rory Stewart called for diplomatic recognition in late 2021, along with the lifting of financial sanctions, to deflect the Taliban’s ideological excesses. In exchange, he wrote for the Brookings Institution, the Taliban could meet minimum human rights and governance standards. “Negotiators could push hard for crucially important goals such as: education, even if separate, for girls and women; legal rights for girls and women, and for people from minority ethnic and religious groups; equal access to food, health care, and job opportunities for all elements of society; and denying terrorists safe haven there.”

While that moment seems like a distant memory, Seraj’s suggestion of engagement comes as the United States appears to have run out of patience with the Taliban’s harsh abuses. Last week, the State Department announced expanded visa restrictions for “certain current or former Taliban members, members of non-state security groups, and other individuals believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, repressing women and girls in Afghanistan.” And at the United Nations, the United States called for a united international response to a ban on women working for nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), in response to concerns that some U.N. agencies have complied with men-only aid delivery that further exposes women to abuse.

For former lawmaker Shukria Barakzai, the sort of engagement Seraj wants would give the Taliban a free pass and entrench the impunity they’ve enjoyed so far.

“It’s time for those countries that have been engaged with the Taliban for the last few years to hold the Taliban accountable for what they are doing,” she said, referring to Pakistan, China, and Russia, among others. “Simply engaging with them gives diplomatic legitimacy to the Taliban without holding them to account. It is time for the Taliban to be held accountable for what they said during the negotiations in Doha, for what they said in the agreement, and for what they did before they were handed the country, and what they have done since. Otherwise, everything is just empty promises.”

While Taliban abuses since their return to power in the summer of 2021 are far-reaching, it’s the treatment of women that grabs the headlines. Policies of the last Taliban regime, from 1996 to 2001, have been reintroduced and the republic’s laws replaced by a hazy interpretation of Islamic sharia law. They’ve banned women from gyms, parks, and universities (even from taking university entrance exams). The Taliban have introduced restrictions against women working for NGOs—as well as in clinics and health centers if they are not accompanied by a male chaperone. Women cannot leave their homes without male chaperones to travel long distances. In some regions, women cannot run businesses or visit male doctors, and they must wear all-covering clothing. Afghanistan is the only country where girls and women are banned from education beyond primary school.

In January, U.N. officials pressed the Taliban to reverse the ban on women working for charities and attending university. They emerged from meetings saying change was coming, only for the Taliban to then issue new edicts further restricting access to education and work. Many figures of the fallen republic in exile call for retaliation and urge the United States to demand accountability in return for humanitarian relief.

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) went one step further in its latest report, raising questions about the impact of U.S. humanitarian relief worth more than $2 billion since the Taliban took power. “It is SIGAR’s judgment that the Taliban regime’s institutionalized abuse of women raises the important question for policymakers of whether the United States can continue providing aid to Afghanistan without benefiting or propping up the Taliban,” it said. The group is making money from aid, it said, “in the form of ‘licenses,’ ‘taxes,’ and ‘administrative fees’ imposed on NGOs and their employees as a condition for operating in Afghanistan.” Aid “may inadvertently confer legitimacy onto the Taliban, both internationally and domestically.” With more than 28 million people depending on international food assistance, “the Taliban’s erasure of women from public life has substantially hindered or prevented the provision of humanitarian aid,” it said.

Some see the focus on the abuse of women’s rights and on hunger as a diversion from the rollback of rights for all Afghans. Far from urging engagement with the Taliban, many prominent Afghans in exile say existing sanctions, mostly on the financial and banking sectors, don’t go far enough. Abdullah Khenjani, formerly a deputy minister of peace, believes food aid is being prioritized over “liberty and rights” and said the Taliban “must face the consequences of their behavior through tailored sanctions.”

“We have to find more creative methods, beyond economic sanctions and travel bans, to make the Taliban accountable,” including confiscation of assets and sanctions on family members similar to those imposed on Russian oligarchs after the invasion of Ukraine, he said. “We have to accept the fact that the ultimate goal of economic sanctions is to change the regime with minimum collateral damage on humanitarian grounds.”

For Seraj, though, doubling down on punishment is no alternative to engagement. She’s not a diplomat and doesn’t have any clear idea how to execute such a plan; all she has for now is a cri de coeur.

“We have to do it. There is no other way; we have no other choice. It should be only focused on the people of Afghanistan, on the needs of Afghanistan, on the men and women and how we can go forward. Because otherwise, Afghanistan, every single day, is moving 10 years backward,” she said.

Efforts must focus on “trying to make them sit down and have a discussion with us, with women, with the parties involved, with the stakeholders. They should sit down and talk and see what is really happening. And we should hear their side of the story, too. When we talk to the Taliban, they come up with stories of so much pain, how they were ignored, how nasty the world was toward them, how many of them got killed—which is the truth, it really is. And maybe we could take it from there.”

#I'm not sure how I fully feel about this but I did think it was worth sharing and thinking about

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shit-talk-turner · 2 years

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Ok friends we survived day one. How about today? Is anyone live-streaming again? Can our poor little hearts take it? Will Alex have a different outfit on? Will he be even hotter than yesterday?// arcticmonkeysturkiye is also attending today so probably yes!

Nobel peace prize nominee

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xtruss · 7 hours

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Gaza A 'Repeat Of Auschwitz Without The Gas Chambers'—Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Maung Zarni Says

It Is Clear That “The Tetrorist, Fascist, Apartheid, Illegal Regime Of The Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 🐗’s Isra-hell” Is Committing Genocide In Gaza.

— TRT World | Saturday April 27, 2024

Palestinian children, deprived of the basic necessities of life, including basic food supplies, wait in line to receive food distributed by charity organisations as Israel blocks aid. Photo: AA

Palestinian children, deprived of the basic necessities of life, including basic food supplies, wait in line to receive food distributed by charity organisations as Israel blocks aid. / Photo: AA

What is happening in Gaza is a “repeat of Auschwitz” and a “collective white imperialist man’s genocide,” a prominent human rights activist and genocide scholar has said.

Maung Zarni, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year for his lifelong pro-democracy work and research on genocides, believes it is clear that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

The activist and scholar from Myanmar, who has studied genocides and Nazi concentration camps extensively, said he has “paid close attention to what has been done by Israel, not just since Oct. 7 … (but) for decades.”

Genocide is simply the “destruction of a population or populations under occupation,” he explained in an interview.

“Palestinians have lived under Israeli occupation for over 50 years,” said Zarni, who has been nominated for a Nobel by 1976 winner Mairead Corrigan Maguire.

“Not just in Gaza, but in all occupied territories ... There are 3 million Palestinians in West Bank also under occupation,” he added.

Referring to the case against Israel brought to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by South Africa, Zarni said the court normally makes “very conservative judgments or rulings.”

However, an “overwhelming majority of the judges on the ICJ decided that the case presented by South Africa met their bar of plausibility of genocide,” he said.

“The court was convinced by the evidence presented,” he emphasised.

“On the face of the evidence presented in a single day, (the court) was convinced that Israel is very likely, very plausibly violating its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.”

‘Repeat of Auschwitz’

Zarni said what has been happening in Gaza for more than 200 days now “is only the latest episode,” asserting that “Israel has institutionalised the destruction of the (Palestinian) population.”

“What we are seeing in Gaza is simply mass extermination without the gas chambers,” he said, referring to the brutal Nazi method of killing prisoners in concentration camps during World War II.

Zarni also pointed out Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s statement that “no one in Gaza is innocent.”

“That’s 2.3 or 2.4 million Palestinian people, including infants. Half of the 2.3 million Palestinians are children and youth,” he said.

“So, what we are seeing is the repeat of Auschwitz in Gaza.”

What is happening in Palestine's Gaza is a "repeat of Auschwitz" and a "collective white imperialist man's genocide," a prominent human rights activist and genocide scholar has said.

Maung Zarni, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize this year for his lifelong pro-democracy work and research on genocides, believes it is clear that Israel - assisted by Western nations - is committing genocide in Gaza.

Genocide is simply the "destruction of a population or populations under occupation," the activist and scholar from Myanmar explained in an interview.

"Palestinians have lived under Israeli occupation for over 50 years," said Zarni. "Not just in Gaza, but in all occupied territories ... There are 3 million Palestinians in West Bank also under occupation," he added.

Zarni said what has been happening in Gaza for more than 200 days now "is only the latest episode," asserting that "Israel has institutionalised the destruction of the (Palestinian) population."

"What we are seeing in Gaza is simply mass extermination without the gas chambers," he said, referring to the brutal Nazi method of killing prisoners in concentration camps during World War II.

"You don't need to destroy a population with gas chambers only. If you are able to carpet bomb ... 80 percent of the living space, the residential area, most schools, hospitals, you are destroying the population."

‘Collective Punishment’

Zarni said he has visited Auschwitz four times for research on one of the biggest Nazi death camps, where some 1.5 million people were killed.

“I made a documentary for the Burmese about Auschwitz. In Auschwitz, the calorie intake was minutely calculated by the SS (Nazi elite death squads),” he explained.

When Jewish prisoners killed 4 SS officers and blew up a crematorium with the help of Polish workers from a nearby village, the Nazis “responded with collective punishment, killing the entire barracks of 500 Jewish inmates in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest camp,” he said.

“That is what we are seeing today because Hamas resisters killed 1,000 civilian and Israeli soldiers in the areas where 11 original Palestinian villages were erased to the ground, and Zionists moved in and settled,” said Zarni.

“So, what did Israel, the IDF, and the Netanyahu government do? They adopted the SS strategy of collective punishment.”

‘White Man’s Genocide’

Zarni also emphasised the role of Western nations in Israel's war on Gaza, criticising their support of the Israeli government.

“This isn’t simply Israel’s genocide. This is a collective genocide,” he said.

“This is the white imperialist man’s genocide, the white man’s genocide. Just look at the amount of money and weapons provided to Israel, by firstly the US, second the UK and third Germany, and there were so many European states that have stood up for the Nazi-like Israeli government,” the rights activist added.

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