Notices by Hippy Steve (exador23@m.ai6yr.org), page 2

First article I've found with any details. I've CW'd because I'm not sure I trust the RCP as an investigative outlet w/ anonymous sources. And the whole tone feels misogynistic and right-wind DEI hating.

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/04/25/secret_service_scuffle_prompts_dei_vetting_scrutiny__150846.html

...began acting erratically, grabbing another senior agent’s personal phone and deleting applications on it...

She then began mumbling to herself, hid behind curtains, and started throwing items, including menstrual pads, at an agent, telling him that he would need them later to save another agent and telling her peers that they were “going to burn in hell and needed to listen to God,”

[she] screamed at the special agent in charge (SAIC), rattling off the names of female officers on the VP’s detail claiming they would show up & help her...

SAIC relieved her from the assignment. “That’s when she snapped entirely,” ...chest-bumped and shoved her superior, then tackled him and punched him. The agents involved in restraining Herczeg were especially concerned because she still had her gun in the holster. They wrestled her to the ground, took the gun from her, cuffed her, and then removed her from the terminal.

US Politics. Very pleased that Summer Lee didn't just win her primary in Pennsylvania, she ~trounced~ her very well financed challenger.

This race was important because it's the first of many primaries where brave democrats vocally calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and/or conditions on arms transfers to Israel are being targeted by AIPAC spending big money on their challengers.

The Columbia University student protest is sucking up too much of the oxygen and discourse.

It has become a convenient excuse for pro-Israeli politicians and news orgs to redirect questions about their support for genocide and the on-going horrors being revealed in both Gaza and the West Bank by making it about the US and the never ending culture wars instead.

NYTimes website today is plastered with articles about the protest and 'antisemitism on campus' but not a single article on the mass grave that is still being excavated at Nasser medical complex in Gaza. That's no accident.

10 hours after Al Jazeera reported on the new mass grave discovered at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis yesterday where 180 bodies had been found, and according to my searches, no western media has reported on it yet.

Middle East Eye has more up to date coverage. More than 200 bodies have been recovered and rescuers say they fear 400 bodies are buried there. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hundreds-bodies-unearthed-nasser-hospital-mass-graves

According to Al Jazeera, the bodies of children, elderly women and young men were among those found.

Rescue teams said some bodies had their hands bound behind their backs, suggesting they were executed and buried on the spot.

#Gaza #MassGrave #WarCrime #genocide

People in Gaza are reporting that Israeli is bombing the shit out of Rafah tonight.

It’s like there’s a mass shooting in progress and Congress just called the shooter to say: no need to conserve ammo, fresh magazines are on the way.

@evan thought you might be interested in the results of this international poll. It's specifically country, and strong inference that fighting means take up arms in the country's military.

You’re running out of time to secure a naked young man to plant your cucumbers

4 years ago we were losing 5000 people a day to covid in the US

@evan

Mu.

To many words that can be interpreted to mean radically different things for me to be able to participate.

America the concept as laid out in the Declaration of Independence? the government or empire as it exists now?

Fighting for as in take up arms or as in not giving up on?

I can find myself being Strongly Agree or Strongly Disagree or in the middle depending on the various combinations of meanings that could be inferred by the statement.

Lots of videos surfacing of military equipment being moved around in Tehran.

Initial assumption was safeguarding in preparation for a potential counter-strike from Israel. However, astute observers have noticed banners on many of the vehicles.

So the equipment is likely intended to be on display in a parade for Islamic Republic of Iran Army Day on the 18th.

I sure hope Biden is pulling out all the stops to rein in Netanyahu on retaliation. If they were to strike a parade with civilian casualties, WWIII would be all but assured. Israel has become such a rogue state that an irrational attack like that can no longer simply be ruled out

Iran has reportedly launched ballistic missiles now too. I suspect the drones then cruise missiles then ballistic missiles have been time for near simultaneous arrival in Israel.

Reports of long lines for gas in Iran and deployment of paramilitary units to ensure the people don’t revolt.

Fog of war disclaimers apply

When +972Mag revealed that Israel was using an #AI called Lavender and trained on faulty data to decide who is or isn't a militant, and another one called Where's Daddy to track them until they were home to kill the whole family, many folks here rightfully wanted to know who was providing the servers and computer infrastructure for that.

Time Magazine now has at least part of the answer: #Google & #Amazon https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war/

The Israeli Ministry of Defense, according to the document, has its own “landing zone” into Google Cloud—a secure entry point to Google-provided computing infrastructure, which would allow the ministry to store and process data, and access AI services.

Israel’s Horrific Massacre at Gaza’s Largest Hospital https://jacobin.com/2024/04/al-shifa-hospital-siege-gaza-massacre

After the raid, the hospital resembled a slaughterhouse. Hundreds of bodies lay scattered in the dirt, mutilated beyond recognition. Bodies with heads and limbs severed were discovered both inside the hospital and in the surrounding area. Surgeons had been tied up and executed. Some bodies were buried under the rubble, with body parts protruding from the ground; others had been crushed and flattened by bulldozers, their hands and legs tied behind their backs.
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Kirby meanwhile continues to say there is no evidence of Israeli war crimes.

So what? did the soldiers tie them up after killing them in a firefight?

My rules for #MediaLiteracy:

1. Always critically read at least 3 versions of any news story before coming to any conclusions.

2. Know or research the reputation and bias of each story's publisher and author.

3. Never believe anything completely. 99.999% confidence is fine, but leave room for doubt because once our brains believe something, information opposed to that belief is automatically filtered out of our awareness. (science knows this - it's why studies are double blind)

and...

In Gaza, every person, the first thing they want to tell me in English or Arabic is 'We need food.' They are saying that because their assumption is the world doesn’t know, because how would this be allowed to happen if the world knew? ~ UNICEF spokesperson James Elder

The DIY-fu of Ukraine is pretty impressive. This includes a cutaway of their low cost long-range drone made from plastic plumbing pipe with a model aircraft engine and plastic drinking water bottle fuel tanks. The bomb is just duct taped on.

http://www.hisutton.com/Trends-In-Ukraines-Attack-Drones.html

seems legit.

Of all the wishy washy headlines on the ICJ ruling today, I'm kind of surprised that CBS News had the worst of them:

Top U.N. court won't dismiss Israel genocide case but stops short of ordering Gaza cease-fire

NPR has what I consider the best, most direct headline:

ICJ says it's 'plausible' Israel committed genocide in Gaza

What I’ve been up to. Cutting this ~massive~ bougainvillea back down to sticks.