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Final stats from 2023 (Picking up a long book that I don't expect to finish in the next week)

DnDer posted...

I don't think the settlers are the ones engaged in attacking Palestinians?

No, they are
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-gaza-west-bank-settler-violence-palestinians-rcna123311

Eisas killing, near their village of Tekoa, is part of what the United Nations, human rights groups and locals say is a surge of violence by extremist Israeli settlers and security forces against Palestinians in the West Bank since Oct. 7. While international attention has been focused on Hamas terror attack and Israels aerial and ground assault of Gaza, watchdogs say the killings here have been encouraged and even aided by Israels security forces and hard-right government which has openly armed the settlers with rifles and military gear while whipping up anti-Palestinian rhetoric.

While there is no official confirmation of who killed Eisa, settlers wearing military uniforms is an increasing trend, according to watchdogs, and Murad says after years of living with these tensions he can distinguish between who is a settler and who is military.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/palestinians-say-israeli-settlers-are-seizing-west-bank-homes-by-force/ar-AA1k3z9G

The Ministry of Health in the West Bank says almost 200 Palestinians have been killed in the territory since Oct. 7, and the United Nations humanitarian relief agency OCHA says almost 1,150 people have been displaced from their homes there due to settler violence and land access restrictions.

Among those displaced are around 400 men, women and children from ethnic Bedouin families in the village of Wadi Al Seeq, according to Abu Basher, an elder from the community of Arab herders. He shared cellphone video with CBS News that appears to show armed settlers forcing him and others to leave at gunpoint at the end of October.

"People were bleeding, and women and children were screaming," he said. "I was terrified my wife and children would be slaughtered."

Basher said the settlers destroyed their homes and property, even their local school, and stole money, cellphones and valuable livestock.

"I am so depressed. All my hard work over the past 48 yearsall gone," he said. "I still haven't processed the shock I have lost all hope."

Some of the displaced Bedouins have been living in tents on land belonging to a neighbor temporary shelter while they try to get back on their feet.

Activist Mohammed Mattar was helping protect the Bedouins after they said they'd received death threats from the settlers, but it turned out it was Mattar who needed protecting.

He said settlers kidnapped him and two others, stripped them naked and then beat and tortured them for more than eight hours.

Was your question about groupthink earnestly looking for an answer?

They knew there would be tunnels under the hospital; it was built by Israel the 80s
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/fact-check-did-israel-build-bunker-under-shifa-hospital/ar-AA1jZnXA

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/19/1214024420/gaza-israel-al-shifa-hospital-evacuation

A team of medical and humanitarian aid groups successfully evacuated 31 premature babies from Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza on Sunday, the Palestine Red Crescent Society announced.

They were transported to the south of Gaza to the Emirates Hospital in Rafah by PRCS ambulances, the group said.

The evacuation was organized by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

Just a day earlier, a joint United Nations humanitarian assessment team, led by the WHO, entered Al-Shifa to see first-hand the dire circumstances of the facility, the groups said.

They found piles of medical and solid waste filling the crowded corridors of Gaza's largest hospital, according to the WHO. The team saw a mass grave by the hospital's entrance and was told at least 80 bodies were lying there, the WHO said.

This team's trip only lasted an hour and was "deconflicted" with Israel's military to ensure safe passage, the group said.

In that time, they found that several patients have died in the previous two to three days due to medical services shutting down in the facility, according to the WHO. And now there are just 25 health workers for the 291 remaining patients. The premature babies were considered to be in "extremely critical condition," the WHO said.

The hospital reported it lost power after running out of fuel to run their generators this past week, causing the death of some patients.

U.N. representatives described the formerly advanced and best equipped referral hospital in Gaza now as a "death zone."

Solidarity is powerful

Forty_Niners posted...

Musk and Tucker have both said that Israel is anti white, and I don't get it. What is this stemming from?

"The Jews are promoting race mixing" is a long-held bullshit belief of the conspiratorial right.

Currently listening to Beethoven's Emperor Concerto on vinyl. I've had this album for a while, bought it with a bunch of others at the time but this is my first listen. Pretty cool

It is, uh, quite the photo

Pobody's Nerfect

DarkBuster22904 posted...

Bug Fables

Do this

The best selling game of most years is cod, followed by FIFA

https://www.mediamatters.org/elon-musk/elon-musk-praises-antisemitic-replacement-theory-motivated-mass-shooting-actual-truth

Any time you can shut down a hospital to get ten guns, you gotta do it

Bump

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-administration-urges-us-court-uphold-asylum-restrictions-2023-11-08/

A lawyer for the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday told an appeals court that a judge was wrong to block a rule imposing new restrictions on asylum seekers at the U.S.-Mexico border.

A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, California, heard the government's appeal of a decision that said the rule adopted earlier this year violates federal immigration law, which explicitly states that crossing the border illegally should not be a bar to asylum.

The challenge to the rule was brought by immigrant advocacy groups represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Biden, a Democrat, took office in 2021 pledging to reverse many of the hardline policies of Republican former President Donald Trump, but has adopted many strict border measures as record numbers of migrants have been caught crossing illegally.

The regulation presumes most migrants are not eligible to apply for asylum if they passed through other nations without seeking protection there first, or if they crossed the border illegally instead of arriving at a designated port of entry.

The 9th Circuit in August paused the judge's ruling that blocked the rule, allowing it to remain in effect pending the outcome of the appeal.

Brian Boynton of the U.S. Department of Justice argued on Tuesday that the rule is valid because rather than categorically barring asylum for migrants, it includes various exceptions to rebut the presumption that they are ineligible.

Through September, 12% of migrants who had applied for an exception under the rule had received it, Boynton said.

But that statistic merely shows that the vast majority of migrants are being barred from even being considered for asylum because of the way they entered the U.S., in violation of immigration law, ACLU lawyer Spencer Amdur told the court.

"Such a small exception cant be what makes the difference to the rules legality," Amdur said.

The judges did not indicate how they were leaning during the hour-long hearing. But two of them noted that federal immigration law appears to give the government broad discretion to consider any relevant factors in deciding who ultimately receives protections.

You know why. It's not a very hard question at all!

SiO4 posted...

Which BTW: I knew would get hit again.

why didn't you tell anyone?

They fucked up mondo bad to get Congress sniffing around their ass
https://news.yahoo.com/joaquin-castro-calls-federal-probe-231542202.html

Executives: maybe dumb as bricks?

https://web.archive.org/web/20231114101305/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/14/trump-univision-biden-election/

When Donald Trump ran for reelection in 2020, his campaign called Univision, the nations most influential Spanish-language network, a leftist propaganda machine and a mouthpiece of the Democrat Party.

We shall treat them accordingly, top advisers promised.

Three years later, Trump is treating Univision and its new corporate owners like long-lost friends. He hosted a trio of its executives at Mar-a-Lago last week during an hour-long Univision interview that was notable for its gracious tone, starting with a question about how well he is doing among Latino voters in early general election polling.

Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner, a friend of one of the executives, helped arrange the interview and was also in the room, according to multiple people familiar with the event.

All you have to do is look at the owners of Univision. Theyre unbelievable entrepreneurial people, and they like me, Trump said in response to the question about Latino voters.

The reversal has shocked Democrats who are preparing a massive ad campaign to brand Trump as hostile to Latino interests and some journalists inside Univision, who think that the past week has demonstrated the heavy hand of their new corporate bosses. The Mexican media company Grupo Televisa, which has long fostered a close relationship with Mexican political leaders, merged with Univision in 2021.

The Democratic alarm further spiked two days later, when Univision advertising representatives told the Biden campaign that spots already purchased to run during the Trump interview in Nevada, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Florida had been canceled owing to a heretofore unannounced policy about opposition advertising in single-candidate interviews.

Univision also canceled a booking with Bidens Hispanic Media Director Maca Casado to respond to the Trump interview after it aired on the networks late news broadcast, according to people familiar with the details, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity for this article because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Not since 2004, when former president George W. Bush outperformed expectations among Latino voters, has the Spanish-speaking population been so up for grabs in a presidential contest, according to early polling. Democrats now fear they are losing their access to a network that has been instrumental in past elections in aggressively reporting on Trumps immigration policies and their effect on Latino viewers.

The concerns were first raised in November 2022, when Univision took the unusual step of interrupting programming to cover Trumps Mar-a-Lago campaign announcement live. When Biden gave an Oct. 19 prime time address on Israel and Ukraine, the network cut away from the remarks midway, directing viewers to an online stream of the remarks, according to a Democratic media tracker.

The new ownership is essentially co-opting and kidnapping the soul and mission of what Univision has been up to now, and they are serving it up on a silver platter to Donald Trump, said Maria Cardona, a political consultant and member of the Democratic National Committee. It is going to mask the pernicious and dangerous politics that Donald Trump is going to implement if he becomes president again.

Semafor first reported the presence of three executives at the Nov. 7 interview TelevisaUnivision CEO Wade Davis as well as TelevisaUnivision Mexico co-CEOs Alfonso de Angoitia Noriega and Bernardo Gomez Martinez. Puck first reported the cancellation of ads and of the Biden official response to Trumps interview.
The Biden and Trump campaigns declined to comment for this article.

Over multiple campaign cycles, Univisions news division has long fostered a reputation for challenging power with abrasive questions. As a result, Republicans have largely steered clear of its airwaves.
...
Rather than use local talent for the interview, Univision flew in Enrique Acevedo, a journalist now working for Televisa in Mexico City, who has extensive experience reporting on politics in the United States. He co-moderated a 2016 Democratic presidential primary debate for Univision, and worked as a correspondent for CBS Newss 60 Minutes.

He left questions about immigration until the second half of the interview, avoided follow-ups and did not challenge Trump when he falsely claimed to have built a border wall paid for by Mexico or argued that President Barack Obama started the practice of child separation at the border. (Most of the Trump border wall was replacement fencing, and it covers a fraction of the border. There was no direct mechanism for Mexico to pay for it, despite an increase in trade tariffs. Obamas administration did sometimes separate migrant children from families in cases where the children were in danger, but did not separate families to deter border crossings like Trump.)

After the interview, Acevedo defended his approach on the social media platform X, suggesting a shift from the more confrontational style that has been Univisions calling card.

Im a reporter and my job is to ask questions, Acevado wrote in Spanish. Information should be the protagonist here.

I went to see the NY Philharmonic on Saturday night, they were playing Saint-Saens' Organ Symphony, which is a spectacular piece. Feeling the organ shake the whole hall in person is incredible:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWCZq33BrOo&t=1690s

What are some of your favorite works of classical music? (used in the broad sense of orchestral music, not limited to the classical period) Have you been to any performances in person?

Says apologist, singular, which is reference to this guy who spoke at the rally:
https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1724458641678348504

Weird angle

I've been involved with the Democratic Socialists of America, and host a radio show analyzing the workplace through an anti-capitalist lens.

RIP, feel it maybe hints at why they went on such a spending spree in the last few years

Kimbos_Egg posted...

Remind me, how many terrorist groups and rebel factions that were armed by america?

Yeah, America sucks big time.

The goal should not be to match that, but to be good, imo

EmilyTheCEman posted...

Not just money, but EASY money.

Once she has enough followers a hot chick simply wearing a Reebok headband in a video will get her $100,000.

How does she get enough followers?

Plan sucks

It got snubbed for politcal reasons and that's good.

No I'm normal

I was joking with the first post, I thought that was clearly enough tongue in cheek. She's going for social work, specifically with children. Not sure the exact name of the program, and she might still decide to go elsewhere or not at all.

I live in it, it's cool

Cemith posted...

For profit prison is barbaric.

It's not a for profit prison. It's just a standard, government run prison.

Today's rally for Israel, being attended by the highest Democrats in congress, will feature a guy who once said God sent Hitler to help the Jews get to Israel
https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1724458641678348504

https://twitter.com/greg_price11/status/1724469208728195430?s=19

Are the Murdochs going broke the same day?

Great, now I've gotta be the stupid one in the relationship

I use wireless earbuds when I'm out of the apartment, but the worrying sensation that they just might be slipping a bit is something of a distraction.

Doom_Art posted...

That's... good?

Yes, but also it also explains to some extent why coverage of "the economy" has been so negative. A lot of media and discourse is downstream from
a. people at the 90th percentile
b. people who don't like that restaurant workers have better options available to them

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w31010/w31010.pdf

Labor market tightness following the height of the Covid-19 pandemic led to an unexpected compression in the US wage distribution that reflects, in part, an increase in labor market competition. Rapid relative wage growth at the bottom of the distribution reduced the college wage premium and counteracted nearly 40% of the four-decade increase in aggregate 90-10 log wage inequality. Wage compression was accompanied by rapid nominal wage growth and rising job-to-job separationsespecially among young non-college (high school or less) workers. Comparing across states, post-pandemic labor market tightness became strongly predictive of real wage growth among low-wage workers (wage-Phillips curve), and aggregate wage compression. Simultaneously, the wage-separation elasticitya key measure of labor market competition rose among young non-college workers, with wage gains concentrated among workers who changed employers. Seen through the lens of a canonical job ladder model, the pandemic increased the elasticity of labor supply to firms in the low-wage labor market, reducing employer market power and spurring rapid relative wage growth among young noncollege workers who disproportionately moved from lower-paying to higher-paying and potentially more-productive jobs

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e980c17e.jpg

Euripides posted...

They claim it is

Why are you listening to their claims? They don't mean them.

The NYT article about this includes the following sentence: "The code does not specify how the rules would be enforced or by whom."

They'll just call you triggered. They'll say you have Trump derangement syndrome. And the more energy you spend in criticizing and pointing out his obvious faults, the more proof they'll have that, indeed, u mad.

cjsdowg posted...

I am honestly asking this.

They're not honestly answering it. An honest question is precisely the wrong one to have for these people

Between now and the next election Trump is liable to have quoted a Hitler speech verbatim while on trial. He has not been moderating his rhetoric to appeal to median voters, he's just feeding red meat to online psychos. The American public generally finds this distasteful, and they will only vote for it if gas prices go up by 20 cents or more.

Seems bad, imo

FlyEaglesFly24 posted...

And at no point in any of this outrage, do you see a demand to free the hostages.

You see it from the governments of the United States
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/biden-qatari-emir-discuss-gaza-agree-all-hostages-must-be-released-2023-11-12/
And France
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20231012-macron-vows-france-will-do-everything-for-release-of-hostages-held-by-hamas
And Germany
https://www.barrons.com/news/germany-urges-qatar-to-help-free-hamas-hostages-minister-57b7d1c9
And the G7
https://www.reuters.com/world/g7s-top-diplomats-discuss-what-happens-after-gaza-conflict-2023-11-08/

The power in this situation is not actually held by college students and socialists in the US.

Well now we know his SSN ends in an even number

I should be getting ~18 days next year