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Shirley Sill retweeted
Hey @Grok, concise, no spin.
After SIX YEARS of claiming the 2020 election was STOLEN, how many pieces of verified evidence has Donald Trump produced proving that voter fraud changed the outcome?
Start with the NUMBER.
Shirley Sill retweeted
Tomorrow, Australia joins a global strike against war.
On Friday, Australia’s Maritime Workers Union (MUA) in Melbourne will join dockworkers at 111 ports in 22 countries and regions on five continents who will stop work in a coordinated strike against war.
▪️More than 25 dockworkers’ unions have now signed on, in over 200 ports from Marseille to Mumbai, Hamburg to Montevideo, Melbourne to Oakland.
▪️Their demand is simple: no weapons and no military cargo through their ports — without the workers who load and unload it, nothing moves.
▪️The unions point to escalating wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and the danger of a generalized war.
▪️They condemn Israel’s new crimes in Hebron, carried out with the backing of the US, NATO and the EU.
▪️Israel’s lockdown of the city is now in its sixth day, with more than 3,000 Palestinians displaced, according to the UN. Palestinian unions have endorsed Friday’s action.
▪️The unions are calling on workers and young people everywhere to stand with the dockworkers, saying:
“Ports for peace and the peoples, not launching-pads for war.”
NEW: On Friday, dockworkers at 111 ports in 22 countries and regions on five continents will stop work in a coordinated strike against war, according to the most recent information from the organizing unions.
More than 25 dockworkers’ unions have now signed on, from Marseille to Mumbai, Hamburg to Montevideo, Melbourne to Oakland. Days ago the count stood at about 100 ports in 17 countries, and that figure doesn’t include the dozens of unions in other sectors that have pledged support. Their demand is simple: no weapons and no military cargo through their ports. Nearly everything the world ships passes through the docks, and without the workers who load and unload it, nothing moves.
In France, the main dockers’ union says the country’s ports will be 95% shut. Italy, India, Greece and Turkey face 24-hour strikes, and Morocco and Cyprus will see stoppages of up to two hours, with rallies planned in port cities around the world. In Greece, metalworkers, ship-repair workers and young people are joining the dockers, and in the US, ILWU Local 10 is striking in Oakland and San Francisco. The unions are working from the Istanbul Declaration, signed in May, with each one deciding for itself how to take part. They are also fighting for their own jobs, against cuts from automation and for contracts, raises, shorter hours and safety.
The unions point to escalating wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and the danger of a generalized war. They condemn Israel’s new crimes in Hebron, carried out with the backing of the US, NATO and the EU. Israel’s lockdown of the city is now in its sixth day, with more than 3,000 Palestinians displaced, according to the UN. Palestinian unions have endorsed Friday’s action.
In Italy, the fight has spilled beyond the docks. The union USB has called for a nationwide general strike. Last night, the Italian government ordered transport workers back on the job last night. USB said it would defy the order and accept the steep penalties.
The unions are calling on workers and young people everywhere to stand with the dockworkers, saying “Ports for peace and the peoples, not launching pads for war.”
I’m reporting from Calabria, Italy, and I will be in Genoa tomorrow ahead of the strike to report on the ground during the mobilzation.
Shirley Sill retweeted
Gutted to see our national science organisation keep losing talented scientists & expertise built up over decades.
A further 86 FTE positions cut in the lead up to Christmas, is devastating for those impacted, our community + sovereign capability.
Short-term thinking at its worst. We need to ⬆️ our scientific capacity & R&D spend to confront the challenges facing us.
canberratimes.com.au/story/9…
Join me in calling for the government to save our CSIRO: davidpocock.com.au/save_our_…
Shirley Sill retweeted
Of all Mr Albanese's disastrous appointments, the Jillian Segal 'social cohesion' commission is close to being the most disastrous. This country is replete with respected Jewish community leaders who would have helped salve a real problem, instead of making a bad situation worse.
Shirley Sill retweeted
Trump is reportedly planning to restart war with Iran after the election.
Some of us have been briefed on the war plan. And while I cannot disclose any details, I can say this: the plan is insane. It will not achieve objectives and will set off a new cycle of escalation.
Shirley Sill retweeted
The most honest statement ever made about Cuba policy came from a State Department memo in 1960, written before the sanctions were fully implemented.
The memo, written by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Lester Mallory, stated that the U.S. should pursue a policy to bring about hunger, desperation, and overthrow of the Cuban government.
Not: respond to "Cuban repression."
Not: protect Cuban human rights.
Not: promote democracy.
Hunger. Desperation. Overthrow.
This memo is declassified. It is in the historical record. It is not disputed.
It means that every subsequent year of sanctions, every subsequent citation of Cuban poverty and dysfunction as evidence of socialist failure, every subsequent American official expressing concern for the welfare of the Cuban people:
All of it happened downstream of a documented decision to deliberately produce hunger and desperation in that population.
This is not a conspiracy theory.
It is a declassified government document.
The conspiracy was the policy.
The theory was written in plain English by an American official in 1960 and has been implemented faithfully for 66 years since.
What they wanted to prove, they engineered the conditions to prove.
And then they called it evidence.
ALT U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Lester D. Mallory's secret memorandum recommended economic measures to bring about "hunger, desperation and overthrow of government" in Cuba. Declassified U.S. State Department memorandum, 6 April 1960, FRUS Document 499.
Shirley Sill retweeted
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has declared that 500 million Arabs produce no science, win no Nobel, Fields or Wolf Prizes, and contribute nothing to literature.
Where does one even begin?
Ahmed Zewail, Omar Yaghi, Moungi Bawendi, Peter Medawar, Elias James Corey: Nobel laureates in chemistry and medicine. Michael Atiyah: Fields Medal. Naguib Mahfouz: Nobel Prize in Literature.
But why stop at Nobel Prizes?
Huda Zoghbi, the Lebanese-born neuroscientist whose groundbreaking discoveries transformed our understanding of neurological disorders. Elias Zerhouni, the Algerian-born physician who directed the US National Institutes of Health. Farouk El-Baz, the Egyptian scientist who helped NASA plan the Apollo lunar landings. Rachid Yazami, the Moroccan scientist whose work helped make modern lithium-ion batteries possible. Rana Dajani, the Palestinian-Jordanian molecular biologist whose research and educational initiatives have earned international recognition.
And these are only a handful among thousands of Arab scientists, physicians, engineers, researchers and intellectuals contributing to humanity, including within America’s most prestigious institutions. (Besides Rana, I am lucky to call of them friends).
There is also something profoundly revealing about measuring an entire civilization’s worth by the number of prizes it receives. Science is not a medal count, and human achievement is not a competition between ethnicities. Yes, our region faces serious challenges in education, research funding, academic freedom and scientific development. We should acknowledge them and work to overcome them. But legitimate criticism is very different from erasing the accomplishments of half a billion people.
I remember when Caroline Kennedy, a woman known for her discretion, publicly questioned her cousin’s judgment and suitability for public office. Her warning deserves to be revisited.
What troubles me most is that such sweeping generalizations come from the man entrusted with overseeing America’s health institutions. Arabs have nothing to prove to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Their contributions are written into the history of science, medicine, mathematics, philosophy and literature.
A distinguished family name may be inherited. Intellectual integrity must be earned. And perhaps the greatest irony is this: a man who claims to speak for science should know that science begins with evidence, not prejudice.
Shirley Sill retweeted
Hi, I'm free.
Beat up but fine. Police stole my phone. Settlers punched me in the face several times, likely broke @AdeleShoko's wrist and gave @the_andrey_x a concussion. They threatened to shoot us with an assault rifle over and over.
Will tell the full story later, but for now, I just want to be clear about what happened. We witnessed two settlers locking a military gate in Umm al-Khair, blocking the only way to more than twenty Palestinian communities: trapping families inside, preventing students from reaching school and workers from their jobs, blocking delivery of food and access to ambulances, etc.
It's a crime that the military has this ability at all--but last night, we discovered that random settler terrorists also have the key. We confronted them and began asking questions on camera, and they nearly murdered us for it. When the police finally arrived, they arrested Andrey and me and charged us with assault.
The gate is still locked.
Shirley Sill retweeted
Abortion is HEALTHCARE!! Horrible Avoidable and Shameful women are dying for no good reason.
Shirley Sill retweeted
Great answer. 🤣🤣🤣
Shirley Sill retweeted
REINSTATE CHRISTINE HOLGATE AND RESTORE AUSTRALIA POST
Shirley Sill retweeted
4 Australian "journalists" go to Israel to cover elections, all 4 regurgitate Israeli govt talking points attacking Aust for recognizing Palestine.
In the fine print we find out their trip was bought & paid for as "guests" of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies.
crd: Osman Faruqi
Shirley Sill retweeted
Israeli settlers attacked Russian-Israeli journalist Andrey Ilyich Khrzhanovskiy, along with foreign journalists Adele Shoko and Jasper Nathaniel, near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, on Wednesday
Shirley Sill retweeted
Bottom line: Israeli opposition has a strong majority to topple Netanyahu, but they'd rather keep him in office, go to another election round & commit political suicide than form a gov backed by Arab parties, b/c the latter might -God forbid- require ending the Gaza genocide or slowing down West Bank ethnic cleansing & settler terrorism
Shirley Sill retweeted
US Ambassador Mike Waltz’s attempt to bully the Cuban delegation yesterday at the United Nations failed as today the overwhelming majority of countries just voted for a resolution calling on the U.S. to end the embargo on Cuba.
Shirley Sill retweeted
They tell you to be afraid of these countries.
And I want to ask you, seriously, to sit with this:
Name the last country Iran invaded.
Name the last country Cuba destabilized through a coup.
Name the last population North Korea bombed into the Stone Age.
Name the last foreign president China abducted in a military raid.
Now do the same exercise for the country that told you to be afraid.
The fear is a product.
It is manufactured, distributed, and renewed on a regular cycle because fear justifies the budget.
And the budget justifies the bases.
And the bases justify the fear.
You are not afraid because these countries are "dangerous."
You are afraid because someone, very powerful, very expensive, needs you to be.
Follow the money.
Follow the bases.
Follow the bombs.
And then ask yourself one more time:
Who, in this picture, should actually be afraid of whom?
Shirley Sill retweeted
JUST NOW: Netanyahu’s party is demanding an emergency investigation into Arab votes, accusing them of being manipulated by Palestinian software to STEAL THE ELECTION and threatening to block the final results.
@grok TRUE FALSE.
Shirley Sill retweeted
Day 288 of posting a documented fact about the corruption of donny trump and this dumpster fire of an administration, every single day.
A federal judge ruled today that trump’s handpicked prosecutor in Los Angeles, Bill Essayli, is illegally serving as the head of the US Attorney’s Office.
His temporary appointment expired.
So the DOJ started coming up with shady ways to keep him on. Like giving him a different title, then another, all while allowing him to keep running the office without Senate confirmation.
The courts have already rejected similar arrangements involving trump’s prosecutors in other states.
And now a judge has rejected this one, too, disqualifying Essayli from overseeing two criminal cases.
How many times does the Justice Department need to be told that changing someone’s job title doesn’t make an unlawful appointment legal?
I guess we should expect nothing less from an agency run by trump’s former personal defense attorney.
Still counting.
Shirley Sill retweeted
One of the dumbest things we are asked to believe about Iran is that it keeps taking time away from defending itself against US-Israeli aggressions to orchestrate random acts of arson and vandalism in mid-power western states for no discernible benefit to its strategic interests.
Today CBC published an article with the headline: “Why a spate of gun-for-hire shootings in Toronto were likely paid for by Iran.”
I was intrigued, as there has been almost 0 evidence offered for this claim thus far.
Unfortunately this article doesn’t offer any either, adding nothing new. CBC says they spent weeks on the investigation, so these are pretty pitiful results, at least in terms of finding evidence of who paid for the shootings.
I’m not sure why they feel comfortable with such a declarative headline given the lack of evidence (other than journalistic standards going out the window when the subject is an Official Enemy country).
Also, CBC and other journalists continue platforming police claims that they need backdoor access to messaging apps to solve these shootings, with no push back or critique about how these powers can be abused, including against journalists.
cbc.ca/news/investigates/ira…
