Notices by b9AcE (b9ace@todon.eu)

"Israeli troops have opened fire near thousands of hungry Palestinians as a logistics group chosen by Israel to ship food into Gaza lost control of its distribution centre on its second day of operations"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/israeli-troops-open-fire-aid-group-loses-control-distribution-centre
This is pretty much exactly what actual humanitarian aid workers and organizations said would happen when the bogus "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation" was created to further weaponize the starvation Netanyahu and gang have explicitly intentionally created for the civilian population as a method of warfare.
That was why the UN and all serious aid organizations denounced it and refused having anything to do with this quite obvious intentional disaster-amplifying "humanitarian aid".

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In Gaza, Hunger is used as a weapon of war – Doctors of the World Report
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• In November 2024, the acute malnutrition rate among children reached 17%, the highest level recorded in 2024. This increase coincided with the drastic drop in the number of humanitarian aid trucks allowed into the enclave in October 2024. By comparison, in 2022, only 0.8% of children under five in Gaza suffered from acute malnutrition, according to the WHO.

• The pause in hostilities that came into effect on January 19, 2025, led to a partial lifting of Israeli restrictions and an increase in the entry of food products. As a result, acute malnutrition rates among children dropped significantly—from 17% in November 2024 to 2.7% in February 2025.

• This progress was quickly reversed by the total siege of aid imposed on March 2, 2025, followed by the resumption of hostilities by the Israeli army on March 18, in violation of the ceasefire agreement. In April 2025, one in five pregnant or breastfeeding women and almost one in four children examined in Doctors of the World centers were suffering from acute malnutrition or were at high risk of acute malnutrition.
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https://doctorsoftheworld.org/blog/in-gaza-hunger-is-used-as-a-weapon-of-war-doctors-of-the-world-report/

"Rule 53. The use of starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare is prohibited."
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule53

'New Pentagon spokesperson [...] repeatedly shared an antisemitic conspiracy theory promoted by neo-Nazis.
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Last year, Wilson also endorsed the “great replacement theory”, which has inspired antisemitic violence.'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/may/23/harvard-university-international-students-donald-trump-republicans-democrats-us-politics-latest-news?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-6830f09c8f08990e365176fb#block-6830f09c8f08990e365176fb

Front Range Antifascists' new article on that "Members of neo-Nazi groups in Colorado are covering up graffiti in and around Denver white white supremacist messaging" and "What you can do" about that:
https://frontrangeantifa.noblogs.org/graf/

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Three Nazi extremists who amassed an arsenal of 200 weapons and discussed targeting mosques and synagogues in England have been convicted of planning a terrorist attack.
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They admired Adolf Hitler and spouted anti-immigrant rhetoric, shared material from the far-right activist Tommy Robinson and discussed attacking places housing migrants to Britain."
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They identified an Islamic centre in Leeds to attack, and discussed abducting and torturing an imam, the route they would take, how they would avoid detection and their escape.

Stewart chose himself as the “Fuhrer” or leader and laid down uniform rules for members to be clad in Nazi-style clothing.

He called the group Einsatz 14, referencing Nazi paramilitary death squads [...]

Stewart added: “I would love to beat faggots up too” and “I want to storm the government buildings and hang the politicians. The government are full of Jews and other enemies.”

[...] Stewart said of the group’s ideology: “Personally, I’ve taken inspiration from the SS,”
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They will be sentenced on 17 July.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/14/three-nazi-extremists-convicted-of-planning-terrorist-attack-in-england

'The EU aims to set up so-called “return hubs” – deportation camps – in non-EU states, mirroring the failed plan launched by the UK with Rwanda.
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A February paper circulated by the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU to member state delegations in the Strategic Committee on Frontiers, Immigration and Asylum (SCIFA) sought to frame discussions prior to the publication of the Commission’s proposal.

Amongst other things, it says:
“The prevailing position [amongst member states] is to have the legal basis framed in a flexible way that would also allow for more tailor-made applications in agreement with the potential host countries of the hubs and would prevent judicial scrutiny that could put the implementation of this innovative solution at risk.”'
https://www.statewatch.org/news/2025/may/deportation-camps-eu-member-states-want-to-prevent-judicial-scrutiny/

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When I first saw the Harvard report on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias, I didn’t expect to find myself in it. But I did, albeit without my name, my scholarship, or even my identity as a Jewish Israeli academic being acknowledged.

The report was compiled and published in response to widespread pressure from donors and pro-Israel advocacy groups. It claims to document a crisis of antisemitism on campus. But what it actually reveals is Harvard’s willingness to redefine Jewish identity in narrow, ideological terms: to exclude and erase Jews who dissent from Zionism.

I know this because I am one of them. For several years, I taught in the Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative (RCPI) at Harvard Divinity School. [...]
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Continue reading the piece by Professor Atalia Omer here:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/09/im-an-israeli-professor-why-is-my-work-in-harvards-antisemitism-report

"Condemnations and call for investigation from experts following the attack on the Freedom Flotilla" which is the civilian convoy striving to break Israel's war crime blockade against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip of Palestine, but was attacked in international waters close to midnight to today.
https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/05/02/condemnations-and-call-for-investigation-from-experts-following-the-attack-on-the-freedom-flotilla/

For example, Francesca Albanese, whose job title is United Nations "Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967", commented the following:
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Emergency: I received a distressed call from the people of the Freedom Flotilla that is carrying essential food and medicine to the starving Gaza population.
I call on concerned state authorities, including maritime authorities, to support the ship and its crew as needed. I trust the competent authorities will also ascertain the facts and intervene appropriately.
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"This is a war crime" commented Greta Thunberg,
one of the activists from 21 countries waiting to go on board the Freedom Flotilla at Malta where one of its ships, "The Conscience", instead was attacked 00:23.
Greta was going to board the Swedish "Ship to Gaza".

Greta told Aftonbladet, one of the two major evening papers in Sweden (translated):
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We have been here on Malta about a week to begin the journey to Gaza with humanitarian aid. We were going to try to fulfill our promise to the Palestinians to do all in our power to try to break the total blockade on aid to Gaza.
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There is rather much chaos here right now. Ship to Gaza and Freedom Flotilla have been trying to send 35 boats to break Israel's illegal blockade of Gaza. Previously Israel stopped almost every boat, so we suspect either Israel or allies are behind this attack.
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The boat cannot currently travel because then it will sink, due to the hole in the hull caused by the attacks.
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All human rights activists here will continue to try to fulfill the promise we made to the Palestinians to do everything we can to hold war criminals accountable and end our governments' complicity in genocide.
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Pic 1+2: attacked ship's hull after the attack.
Pic 3: Greta on Malta with Jeanette Escanilla from Ship to Gaza Sweden

Video from the Freedom Flotilla.

The civilian Freedom Flotilla were waiting outside Malta, where Greta Thunberg was to board, to then go break Israel's illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip of Palestine,
when they instead were attacked, put on fire and in maritime distress.

The ship striving to break Israel's illegal blockade of Gaza, "Freedom Flotilla Attacked — Ship in Distress, Immediate Action Needed from Maltese Government
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Armed drones attacked the front of an unarmed civilian vessel twice, causing a fire and a substantial breach in the hull. The last communication in the early morning of the 2nd of May, indicated the drones are still circling the ship."
https://freedomflotilla.org/2025/05/02/freedom-flotilla-attacked-ship-in-distress-immediate-action-needed-from-maltese-government/

Self-proclaimed fascist (anti-labor ideology) group Blue-and-Black Movement held rally on Intl Workers' Day today in Tampere, Finland, met antifascist resistance.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20159199?origin=rss

The group is named in reference to the fascist "Lapua Movement" which attempted a coup d'état in 1932 including mass-murdering civilian opponents and its successor "Patriotic People's Movement" which e.g. promoted Hitler and Mussolini and their activities. The party-colors of those fascist groups in 1929-1944 were white blue and black, while their youth mob was was named the "Blue-and-Blacks".
This current times fascist group clearly promotes fascism grabbing power over the people in Finland through another coup attempt. Then as now defended by the police, up to the point the police not members of the fascist group get attacked by those fascists they defended, because both are at their core authoritarian.

Again, import tariffs are not "paid by other countries", they are added to the thing's cost at the border, so unless some corporation decides to be nice and give of their profit margin (hah!) that means the tariff is aimed at the domestic populace and WILL disproportionately impact the low income people for whom the price increase will be a larger proportion of their meager income for things they can't just "deprioritize", like basic foods, while the opulent can just decide to buy a yacht fewer that year.

Long term, some production may move to surrender to Trump's aggression (horrible idea, considering Trump's instability) but for important stuff like food, time it would take to mass-establish new farms at required quantity is definitely more than one season (often = year) I'd say and in some cases some products just actually can not be produced in USA so in such cases the economic inflation was just drastically increased because Trump has more experience of bankruptcies than understanding of tariffs.

Local production IS good, environmentally, income equality, labor rights, etc, but it CAN NOT be implemented at immediate whim of a decree. It is just not even theoretically possible, even if everyone in the entire world wanted it, which due to Trump's rhetoric is absolutely not the case now.

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Global markets in turmoil as Trump tariffs wipe $2tn off Wall Street
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Drawing comparisons with the market crashes at the height of the coronavirus pandemic and the 2008 financial collapse, the sell-off swept the globe [...].

When New York trading opened, the S&P 500 index of the US’s leading companies fell by as much as 4.3% in morning trading, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq fund down 5.1%.

[...] Trump said: “I think it’s going very well. It was an operation like when a patient gets operated on and it’s a big thing. I said this would be exactly the way it is … We’ve never seen anything like it. The markets are going to boom. The stock is going to boom. The country is going to boom.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/03/global-markets-turmoil-trump-tariffs-wall-street-downturn

Trump yesterday: "The markets are going to boom. The stock is going to boom."

The market today: "Trump tariffs wipe $5 trillion off Wall Street"
https://www.reuters.com/markets/global-markets-trading-day-2025-04-04/
"Dow plunges 2,200 points, Nasdaq enters bear market as Trump tariffs spark worst meltdown since 2020"
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-dow-plunges-2200-points-nasdaq-enters-bear-market-as-trump-tariffs-spark-worst-meltdown-since-2020-200042876.html
Tesla -10.45%
Amazon -4.16%
Microsoft -3.57%
nVidia -7.76%
Intel -11.5%
Palantir -11.47%
Amazon -4.15%
Apple -6.75%
Google -2.24&
Meta -4.26%
Netflix -6.48%
AstraZeneca -7.39%
BlackRock -7.33%
Et cetera, et cetera...

Several of those I've been boycotting for over a decade.
Wheee! 😀

Oh, also, the new Nintendo Switch 2's preorders were postponed indefinitely due to Trump's tariffshit.

Banks went Trump-tariffshit plumetting too. :-]
The market fear index (VIX) is around 40 (very high).
https://www.reuters.com/markets/global-markets-stress-graphic-pix-2025-04-04/

Also, Klarna Bank, worldwide major within primarily online-shops payment processing, which was going to launch on the New York Stock Exchange... decided to not do that, indefinitely, due to the Trump-tariffshit, as well as some other launches likewise.

*boom* *boom* *boom*

How to make your allies walk away, friends despise you and neutral seek to create or join blocs specifically to oppose you? Trumpism!
"Trump implements sweeping tariffs ranging from 10% to 49% on foreign countries"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/apr/02/donald-trump-tariffs-trade-latest-live-us-politics-news?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-67ed9d768f08188975c641bc#block-67ed9d768f08188975c641bc
But overall, most of all you just shot every resident of USA in the foot.
You dolt.

MAGA: Making Animosity Globally Ascend
MAGA: Misguided Actions Generate Adversaries

Again, problem isn't tariffs per se, but the incredibly imbecilic execution.
After USA spent about a century coercing the current "free trade", to push its less desired jobs abroad with outsourcing, etc leading to dismantling of labor rights and protections worldwide, through its enforcement and wreckers like WTO, IMF, etc but also actual wars and coups worldwide, to get situations like NAFTA where USA's corporations and similar get the profits while the neighbors provide the labor, the Banana Wars (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Wars), Pinochet, the Operation Gladio coups, etc, etc, all to force the globalization which devastates workers in especially but not only Southeast Asia with sweatshops and environmental devastation only have the output shipped worldwide for even more environmental impact, all to maximize profits for USA corporations like Nike, Coka Cola, Kraft, etc,
BUT, this isn't like a common gradual push to restore buying local for union rights, the environment and so on, but is instead shock treatment, bullying and aggression, presented with aid of presumably intentional lies (Singapore's tariffs are AFAIK 0 instead of 10 and EU's around 1 instead of 39).
There is NO time table to build prepared capacity in USA to produce what's now rariffed, so will just shock boost domestic stagflation.

I made a bit of list for you poor folks in USA likely to be hit by Trump's tariffs,
what I would personally prioritize getting in approximate order of necessity when economy dries up or prices gallop away:

rice (both whole grain/brown for fiber and nutrition while also white for ease of use and price)
dried/canned beans and similar (red/green lentils, kidney)
salt (essential for body)
cooking oil (canola)
canned tomatoes (base for many soups/sauces)
pasta (spaghetti, etc, preferably whole grain)
rolled oats (quick food with low own sugar)
low complexity sugar like dried fruits (raisins, date paste, dried apricots), plain sugar or honey
spices (peppers, dried granulated/powdered garlic, etc by taste, for morale)
nut butters (peanut, cashew, etc, quick high energy and protein)
canned/pickled veggies (choose by price and taste, for variety)
flours (if you plan on baking: also dried yeast)
coffee/tea (sometimes a pick-me-up is needed)
soaps (liquid, as generic as possible to enable same being used for body, floors, dishes, laundry)
multivitamins (to attempt compensating for potential lack of fresh veggies and variety) with in particular B12

I am NOT a doctor.
I have, however, gone 6 months on no income, then 6 again just after and had other similar experiences, sooo… I'm sharing my experience.