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Glad he is ok, hate to see him not well enough to face his future.
Trump crying unity is like a zebra claiming unicorn status.
livefree_ordie, All you had to do was provide the link required.
LOLOL Wasn't Democrats it was your VP pick. LOL To link:
Biden says he does not get into the rhetoric yet calls Trump the next Hitler???
No, Ordie. While Biden has expressed concerns about Trump's strong approval of authoritarianism, and his admiration of dictators like Xi, Kim, and Putin, the individual who worried that he might be "America's Hitler" was J.D. Vance, now Trump's running mate.
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brooklyn13, Give it up. Much has been posted regarding Australian war crimes. We don't continually post re Abu Ghraib any more. It's old news. And my motive for posting on Australian war crimes was to provide fact. Also with consideration of transparency. Your motive for posting is far from that.
brooklyn13, You say give an example then provide another example yourself in the same post. What has happened in other countries now, or in the past, has nothing at all to do with what is happening in the West Bank and in Gaza now. In East Jerusalem Palestinians have also been booted from homes.
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'They are not one of us': SAS soldiers condemn war crime perpetrators
"Afghanistan war crimes report released by Defence Chief Angus Campbell includes evidence of 39 murders by special forces
"Australian special forces Instagram account mocks war crime allegations, calls to 'Make Diggers Violent Again'"
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But Australia remains the sole country to publish Brereton-level
detail into crimes allegedly carried out by its own against Afghan civilians.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/australia-is-facing-a-reckoning-over-war-crimes-in-afghanistan-what-about-the-us/svodfqwtn
P - Two wrongs don't make a right, thought you would at least understand that. That aside how stupid is it to hold every Australian culpable for the actions of some citizens, as you are trying to do here. That of course goes for any people of any country. The only ones culpable are those responsible for the crime. Or possibly those otherwise peripherally involved in it. Not all the citizens of the country.
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"Now let’s see some photos and an article about what the Aussie military did when they invaded Afghanistan
https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/BriefingBook47p/BreretonReport
Look over there, not at me!"
When you post here we are all looking at you.
Sheer brilliance from Texas Democrat Lloyd Dogget's place .. Timeline of Trump’s Coronavirus Responses
https://doggett.house.gov/media/blog-post/timeline-trumps-coronavirus-responses . To link to
spartex, Your recall is extra-selective. How about Trump's playing the danger down, and his disinfectant solution. How about the fact the first vaccine out was not a result of Warp Speed. And the fact Trump had very little to do with Warp Speed except giving the go-ahead.
[...] Inside the Fall of the CDC
[...]How Trump let coronavirus take over America
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Trump's gun violence solution: Turn your head at the right time.
Someone else will tie it into 'turn the other cheek' for him.
LOL Exactly. Long time ago i put that the value trolls serve is that they encourage
some of us to go after information we might not have otherwise seen.
"Well... I like looking things up. That must be it."
More LOLs.
janice..., Thank you for your babysitting services.
livefree_ordie, "An apparent Facebook post from someone call Matt Walsh.". The absurdity of that sentence screams to a bright Australian morning. It screams to the dishonesty and the irrationality of the poster. The absurdity of the first sentence reflects the dishonesty and the absurdity of the rest of it. It was either a Facebook post, or it wasn't. You claim it was. Where is your link for it. The rest of it is as stupidly misleading and ridiculous as the first sentence is absurd.
It is no more than a very poorly written far-right effort to fuel the idea the shooting ended any speculation about the election result. And to fuel the fantastical 'hand of God' idea around the shooting. This bit
"...you need to still go out and vote like your life depends on it. I'm not telling you all to just kick up your feet and take it easy. I’m sure the Democrats will try all their dirty tricks. But even that probably won’t be enough.
Elections are all about stories. Which candidate has the better story to tell? Trump's story now is so unbelievably compelling, so incredible, so iconic, it’s almost mythic. And Biden's story, by contrast, is so dull and pathetic that he just can't overcome it. As I've said several times now on the show, history is a guide. We are in history… and candidates do not survive all that Trump has survived and then lose. They just don't."
Trump's story is simple. A boy is born into wealth. The boy was such a ratbag he was sent to a military college in an effort to help him grow up. Trump failed as a leader there. Then came the 'heel spurs' that kept him off the Vietnam battlefield. While fellow Americans lost lives in that terribly misguided war Trump and his father discriminated against "niggers" (as Trump reportedly likes to call blacks) in their housing enterprise. Then came more Trump business failures, at least two reported bailouts by wealthy father Fred, and a number of casino bankruptcies. And Trump discriminated against his "niggers" blacks in his casino efforts too. Then a tv show in which posed as a successful businessman who apparently fired the ones he was told to fire. Then a university, steaks, airplanes et al. All leading to more bankruptcies. Of course, failures to pay contractors along the way. Fast forward to his record number of lies to American voters, and to members of his fellow cons colluding with Putin people in gaining the American presidency, his losing the election and his refusal to hand over the presidency peacefully. And a felony conviction. Two unworthy events. You were right in that Trump is unique. In that. His life has been no more than sordid.
Your sad contribution to the farcical attempt to create a mythical element to one
of the most sordid and corrupt American lives should be condemned by all.
That post looks very much like your writing.
That said, there is a Matt Walsh .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Walsh_(comedian) . And he does post on Facebook. Your post could have been seen to be a comedy sketch, except from my view the writing is so lacking in logic, reason and rationality it doesn't look at all to be his writing.
Again my guess is you wrote the post and attributed it to a Matt Walsh. If wrong so be it.
If wrong so be it. Your posting without the mandatory (for trolls as you) as many times in the past is a violation here.
Since you said it was allegedly a Mike Walsh post you must have read that somewhere. You needed a link.
livefree_ordie, We have tolerated your inanity for almost too long. Mark my words that seeming
attempt to con the board has shortened the option of your posting on this board considerably.
Because you failed to provide the "Matt Walsh" link the post will be deleted.
PS: I commend all the very fine people posters on the board for ignoring that rubbish livefree_ordie posted.
I didn't. I wasted my time in reply. Possibly because of sleeping in longer than in years. Possibly
because it was virtually the first i saw and because i still to be too asleep to be thinking clearly.
Cheers.
Now to toss the fucking rubbish of a post out.
Fuck me dead, YOU talking about bias confirmation. That truly was an ill-thought out edit add of yours.
I did for an hour. It's 10:30pm here, you dick.
brooklyn13, Still stuck in stupid, eh -- Road to Redemption
How Israel's War Against Hamas Turned Into a Springboard for Jewish Settlement in Gaza
The IDF has taken control of 26% of the Gaza Strip, building bases and paving roads. Israel's religious
right is already advancing towards its target. This is how it looks through the eyes of Israeli soldiers
Yarden Michaeli and Avi Scharf
Jul 8, 2024
Opening video: Battalion 22 fighters. Published under Section 27A of the Copyright Law
The Israeli army's occupation of parts of the Gaza Strip, for an undefined period of time, is one of the most dramatic developments in the war that began with Hamas' surprise attack on Israel on October 7.
The IDF considers Israeli control over these areas as a strategic step, while Israel's political leadership is pushing to continue the war. In the ongoing cease-fire negotiations, Hamas is demanding that Israel withdraw from areas that have been occupied and to end the war. Despite reports suggesting progress in the negotiations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear Israel may renew the fighting, and the parties are still far from reaching an agreement.
The army's activities in the occupied areas are diverse: expanding military bases, building infrastructure and even paving roads, all while under persistent Hamas fire. Based on satellite imagery analysis and other open sources, Haaretz calculates that the Israeli army now controls about 26 percent of Gaza.
A senior IDF officer discussing the territory under full IDF control in the heart of Gaza called it "an effort at prolonged occupation." But the military's activity also provides a tailwind for supporters of the reestablishment of settlements which were evacuated in 2005. Conditions for the emergence of a new reality are being created: an indefinite Israeli presence in Gaza.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2024-07-08/ty-article-static/.premium/israel-seized-26-of-gaza-now-jewish-settlers-see-their-chance/00000190-77cd-d705-a7f5-fffffcbc0000
It's one of those cool scroll down jogs. And, brooklyn13, no doubt Al Jazeera whose reporters
have been banned from Israel has more credibility on the situation than you could ever find.
Israel bans Al Jazeera: What does it mean and what happens next?
Al Jazeera said it will pursue available legal channels to protect its journalists from Israel’s ‘slanderous’ shutdown.
By Al Jazeera Staff 6 May 2024
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/6/israel-bans-al-jazeera-what-does-it-mean-and-what-happens-next
Hang on, you prick massacre-lover. You want more from Israel's perspective, here you are - AGAIN -
American Leaders Should Stop Debasing Themselves on Israel
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[Insert: "No friend of Israel..." exactly the sentiment repeated here since Oct 7. See only one:
brooklyn13, Your reasoning makes Trump look intelligently honest. For one, our world
is not a morality play. In fact it is far from it. And your
[...]...i reckon he would say you are far from a friend of Israel.
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Israel’s relatively small combat officer corps has been so ground down, I cannot imagine how it could sustain a war in Lebanon.
Add it all up and you see a reckless act of economic, military and moral overstretch — committing seven million Jews to control more than seven million Palestinians .. https://www.timesofisrael.com/jews-now-a-minority-in-israel-and-the-territories-demographer-says/ .. (including two million Israeli Arabs) between the river and the sea in perpetuity.
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[You're right there Mr. Friedman, just you could have given Shimon Peres credit for saying it long ago. See:
brooklyn13, There are responses to attacks, and responses. I'll remind you of positions
of two very prominent and respected Israel leaders. One late, one still with us.
Ehud Barak blames Binyamin Netanyahu for “the greatest failure in Israel’s history”
[...]As Peres told them so many decades ago:
P - That is, Peres thinks that the Likud Party and its partners are living in a fool’s paradise if they believe they can annex the whole of Palestinian territory without getting the Palestinians as Israeli citizens eventually. And then, Peres says, no more Israel as a Jewish state.
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Reminder: Related: Ehud Barak: the military mast aring a US television interview last year that he would "probably" strive for nuclear weapons if he were in Iran's position.
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P - Only a sentence more here -- https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174402925
P - brooklyn13, We all feel Israel's pain. Just both Peres then and Barak now were and are able to have a much
more realistic look at it than you are willing to do. They as some of us here today also feel Palestinian pain.
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That would be madness in a time of peace. In a time of war — a low-grade three-front war that could become a high-grade three-front war any day — it is insane. Israel is increasingly alone, because what ally would want to partner with that agenda?
And that is why I agree with every word that former Prime Minister Ehud Barak wrote in Haaretz .. https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024-06-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/israel-must-oust-its-failed-government-before-it-sinks-into-the-moral-abyss/00000190-1285-d621-abfa-5bb5e9840000 .. last Thursday: Israel faces “the most serious and dangerous crisis in the country’s history. It began on Oct. 7 with the worst failure in Israel’s history. And it continued with a war that, despite the courage and sacrifice of soldiers and officers, appears to be the least successful war in its history, due to the strategic paralysis in the country’s leadership.”
Israel, added Barak, a former army chief of staff, is “risking a multifront war that would include Iran and its proxies. And all this is happening while in the background the judicial coup continues, with its goal of establishing a racist, ultranationalist, messianic and benighted religious dictatorship.”
Barak warned that if the current government is allowed to remain in power, Israel will not only find itself stuck in Gaza — with Hamas still able to fight and no Arab partner to help Israel out of there — it will also most likely find itself “in an all-out war with Hezbollah in the north, a third intifada in the West Bank, conflicts with the Houthis in Yemen and Iraqi militias in the Golan Heights and, of course, conflict with Iran itself.”
Every American should worry about that. It is a prescription for the United States to be dragged into a Middle East war to help Israel — which would be a Russian, Chinese, Iranian dream come true.
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Are Ehud Barak and the late Shimon Peres Israeli enough for you, you silly, silly, little man.
Still stuck i see, brooklyn13. Never ever will you be free of the shame you feel about your position to date on this.
How stupid can you get, you're much better off just reading.
Live updates, Israel’s war on Gaza live: ‘Dramatic surge’ in attacks on UN-run centres
Israel's New Demands Are Expected to Delay Completion of Hostage Deal, Sources Say
"Gaza’s invisible massacre: aid workers killed in record numbers
"Note the latest stolen Palestinian land is contiguous to another block close to the Jordan border. Look at the map again .. ""
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[Palestinians survey the damage following the Israeli military bombardment of the UNRWA-run Abu Oreiban school]
This video may contain light patterns or images that could trigger seizures or cause discomfort for people with visual sensitivities.
By Virginia Pietromarchi and Mersiha Gadzo
Published On 17 Jul 202417 Jul 2024
* The Israeli military has killed at least 13 Palestinians across Gaza.
* An Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza says there’s a “dramatic surge” in Israeli attacks on UN-run centres sheltering people.
11m ago (10:10 GMT)
Israeli attacks on schools ‘an almost daily occurrence’: UNRWA chief
Commissioner-General of UNRWA Philippe Lazzarini has yet again called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, saying Israeli attacks on schools have become “an almost daily occurrence”.
[...]
26m ago (09:55 GMT)
WATCH: Keys to nowhere – Displaced Palestinians hold on to hope of coming home
For many Palestinians, keeping the keys of places they’ve been forced to flee has become an involuntary tradition, in both the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reports from the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Palestine.
Video 02:33
41m ago (09:40 GMT)
Israeli army detects three rockets fired from northern Gaza
The projectiles targeted the Sderot area and the air force hit the source of the fire, the military said.
Northern Gaza has been repeatedly targeted by the Israeli army with soldiers returning to areas they withdrew from months ago after claiming to have destroyed Hamas’s capabilities there.
Continued fighting in Gaza’s northern districts – a week after the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza City’s Shujayea neighbourhood – indicates the military still doesn’t have full control of the area.
The destroyed remains of an Israeli army vehicle in the Shujayea district east of Gaza City [Omar al-Qattaa/AFP]
56m ago (09:25 GMT)
Israeli bombing kills two more Palestinians in Rafah
At least two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli bombing that targeted the Shakoush area, northwest of the city of Rafah.
Earlier we reported that Israeli forces attacked a residential building in the Nuseirat refugee camp where at least eight Palestinians were killed.
In the past few hours, at least two people were confirmed dead and 15 wounded following an Israeli attack on a mosque in central Gaza.
1h ago (09:10 GMT)
Israeli forces killed over 2,500 Palestinians every month since ICJ ruling
On January 26, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided that Palestinians in Gaza had the “plausible” right to be protected from genocide and ordered .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/26/icj-fails-to-order-ceasefire-but-says-israel-must-prevent-genocide-in-gaza .. Israel to refrain from acts that could fall under the Genocide Convention.
At the time, the casualties toll in Gaza stood at 26,083 people killed with more than 64,400 people wounded.
Since then, Israeli forces have killed another 12,630 people and wounded more than 24,600 others, meaning more than 2,500 Palestinians were killed every month over the past five months.
Israeli forces have continued to hit UN-run facilities sheltering civilians. UNRWA, the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, says 70 percent of its schools in Gaza have been bombed during the war, and that the vast majority of them, 95 percent, were being used as displacement shelters at
the time they were attacked.
(Al Jazeera)
1h ago (08:55 GMT)
Israeli families agree to publish pictures of captives
Families of Israeli captives have agreed to publish pictures showing five female Israeli soldiers alive in Gaza.
The captives were among about 240 people taken on October 7 in the unprecedented Hamas-led assault against communities in southern Israel that killed more than 1,100 people, mostly civilians.
One of the images shows the captives sitting on mattresses on a room’s floor, some of them with bandages on their heads. Another picture shows one of the women with a black eye.
The families told Israeli media that the photos were taken from a Hamas video retrieved by the Israeli army during an operation in Gaza. It was given to the families more than a month ago.
A family member told the Israeli Broadcasting Authority that the current physical conditions of the five captives is not clear. Another member told the Times of Israel that she knew that the women were later separated.
1h ago (08:40 GMT)
Infographic
Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s ‘safe zones’ since March
Israeli forces have repeatedly struck “safe zones” where Palestinians were instructed to evacuate to for their safety.
1h ago (08:25 GMT)
‘Dramatic surge in attacks on UN-run evacuation centres’
Tareq Abu Azzoum Reporting from Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip
The Israeli army and fighter jets have targeted a residential house in Nuseirat refugee camp, where at least eight Palestinians have been reported killed. There’s a notable surge in Israeli attacks on that very densely populated camp which is hosting thousands of Palestinian families.
We’re talking about a dramatic surge in attacks on evacuation centres that are run by the United Nations. That had an absolutely devastating impact on the safety of those civilians, who were [earlier] told by the [Israeli] military to go there for their own safety.
At least six schools were targeted in the past 10 days.
Dozens of families have been left without shelter and dozens of Palestinians have been killed. Many injured people have arrived at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah.
2h ago (08:10 GMT)
WATCH: Israeli military bombs home in az-Zawayda, killing at least 13 Palestinians
The Israeli military has killed at least 13 Palestinians since dawn across the Gaza Strip.
Israeli forces struck a home in az-Zawayda area, in central Gaza, killing at least eight people and injuring others.
Three other Palestinians were killed in two separate attacks there.
Al Jazeera’s Tareq Abu Azzoum has the latest from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
Video 05:06
Israeli military bombs home in az-Zawayda, killing at least 13 Palestinians
2h ago (07:55 GMT)
Netanyahu aims to eradicate Palestinian collective memory: Analyst
Adel Abdel-Ghafar, a political analyst, says Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is punishing Palestinians collectively in Gaza in the absence of a victory to present to his own constituency.
“It is clear that this is less about eradicating Hamas and more about the collective punishment of Palestinians,” Abdel-Ghafar, director of the foreign policy and security programme at the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, told Al Jazeera.
The destruction of schools, mosques, churches, historical archives, among other institutions, he said, is a form of collective punishment aimed at eradicating the collective memory of Palestinians.
“Netanyahu can’t go back to his constituency and sell a ceasefire without coming out with some sort of win – and so far there has not been a major win – so the continued destruction of Gaza is his own win,” he added.
"[From post this one replies to:
[...]In an interview with Walla! News' correspondent Tal Shalev, former minister Gadi Eisenkot, who lost a son in Gaza, said that "we are the closest we've been to a deal in nine months. To my great regret, I can't see Netanyahu rising to a level of strategic leadership and taking a very difficult decision to stop the war, to withdraw forces as required, and to discuss Israel's national interests. I find it hard to see Netanyahu accepting a deal and telling Smotrich and Ben-Gvir that this is the right thing to do. We are facing a strategic dilemma – returning the hostages versus the survival of the government – and he knows a deal will topple the government. Netanyahu is limited by personal and political needs, which overcome his ability to save the country."]"
2h ago (07:40 GMT)
Palestinians released from Israeli detention recount torture, humiliation
The Palestinian Red Crescent says its teams have treated 13 detainees including an elderly woman who was released this morning by the Israeli army at the Kissufim checkpoint in central Gaza.
Upon arrival at the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, one of the prisoners – who declined to be named – said that a number of inmates inside Israeli prisons had lost their senses as a result of the torture and electric shocks they were subjected to.
Released prisoner Mustafa Fayyad recounted the difficult conditions of his detention due to lack of sleep and food, and being tortured more than once.
Nader Asaliya, who is blind, spoke about the conditions of his detention saying: “They treated us inhumanely inside prisons and called us dogs. We were subjected to all kinds of torture, hunger and humiliation.”
Earlier this month Israel freed dozens of Palestinians detained during its war in Gaza, including the director of al-Shifa Hospital, one of the enclave’s main hospitals.
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2h ago (07:25 GMT)
Photos: The aftermath of the Israeli strike on Abdullah Azzam Mosque in Nuseirat
Israel’s war on Gaza has displaced 85% of the population amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicine [Hassan Jedi/Anadolu]
Emergency services continue to scour collapsed buildings in the Nuseirat refugee camp for bodies [Hassan Jedi/Anadolu]
Israeli forces killed at least 17 people after attacking displaced Palestinians in Nuseirat on Sunday [Hassan Jedi/Anadolu]
3h ago (07:10 GMT)
Saudi Council of Ministers condemns Israeli massacres against Palestinian people
The Saudi Council of Ministers has condemned the continuation of genocidal massacres against the Palestinian people.
The session headed by Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman reiterated its demand for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and the protection of unarmed civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The council also stressed the necessity of activating international accountability mechanisms for the continuous Israeli violations of international humanitarian law and international legitimacy resolutions.
3h ago (06:35 GMT)
Israeli air force attacks 25 ‘terrorist targets’ in Gaza over the past day
The Israeli military said that its fighter jets have attacked 25 “terrorist targets” throughout the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, including “military buildings, terrorist infrastructures, [and] terrorist squads”.
Deadly Israeli military attacks have ramped up across the Gaza Strip in recent days, with at least 25 people killed at a UNRWA-run school in central Gaza’s Nuseirat area on Tuesday.
Posting a breakdown of its operations on X, the Israeli military said it attacked an area in northern Gaza from which three rockets were fired into Israel, adding that an aircraft also “attacked and destroyed” a Hamas “sniper operative” in northern Gaza, without specifying where.
In southern Gaza, Israel’s 162nd Division “eliminated a terrorist squad and destroyed a launcher” in the Rafah area. In central Gaza, it said its 3rd and 8th Brigades were engaged in “destroying buildings that serve as observation posts” for Palestinian fighters.
An injured Palestinian child is taken to a hospital to receive medical treatment after Israeli fighter jets bombed a UNRWA school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir el-Balah on July 16 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Images]
4h ago (06:15 GMT)
500 health workers killed in Gaza, including doctors with rare specialisations
Israeli attacks have killed 500 health workers in Gaza since October, including several specialised doctors, AP news agency reports.
The specialist doctors killed include a plastic surgeon specialising in wound care, a reconstructive surgeon, an obstetrician/gynaecologist, an orthopaedic surgeon, a fertility doctor, and the only liver transplant doctor in Gaza.
Hassan Hamdan, a plastic surgeon who specialised in wound reconstruction, was killed along with 12 members of his family earlier this month after coming out of retirement to treat victims of the war.
His son, Osama Hamdan, an orthopaedic surgeon, was on duty in the emergency room at Nasser Hospital when he received the call. His wife and two sons – aged three and five – were among those killed.
“I was only able to collect some body parts of my kids and their mother because of how huge the explosion was,” Hamdan said.
Dr Hassan Hamdan was killed in an Israeli air attack on July 3 along with his wife, son, two daughters, a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law and six grandchildren in a declared ‘safe zone’ [Family handout/AP]
4h ago (06:05 GMT)
Israeli military arrests 4 people in raids in Hebron, Qalqilya
The Israeli military has arrested three Palestinians in raids in Hebron governorate, the Wafa news agency reports.
Israeli forces stormed the city of Hebron and arrested a man, while they also arrested a man and a woman from the town of Surif, northwest of Hebron.
Local media also reports that the Israeli military has arrested the mother of a wanted man in the town of Azzun, east of Qalqilya, in order to pressure her son to surrender himself.
4h ago (05:55 GMT)
Hamas-led groups committed war crimes on October 7: Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published new research detailing war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Hamas-led Palestinian armed groups on October 7 in Israel.
Hamas fighters led four other armed groups in attacks against 19 kibbutzim and 5 moshavim (cooperative communities), the cities of Sderot and Ofakim, two music festivals, and a beach party on October 7, HRW said.
“The Hamas-led assault on October 7 was designed to kill civilians and take as many people as possible hostage,” said Ida Sawyer, crisis and conflict director at HRW. Hamas officials, however, told HRW its fighters were instructed not to target civilians and to abide by international human rights and humanitarian law.
Israel’s ensuing assault on the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of October 7 amounted to the war crime of collective punishment, HRW also said, exacerbating Israel’s 17-year illegal blockade of Gaza and its crimes of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians.
4h ago (05:45 GMT)
Developing
Two confirmed dead in Israeli mosque bombing in Gaza
At least two people have been confirmed killed and 15 injured following an Israeli attack on a mosque in central Gaza, the Wafa news agency reports.
Earlier, we reported that the Israeli military had bombed the Abdullah Azzam Mosque, which is north of the Nuseirat refugee camp.
Wafa also reports that at least one person has been killed after the Israeli military bombed a building housing displaced people, belonging to the al-Issawi family, near Camp 1 in the Nuseirat area.
4h ago (05:35 GMT)
Breaking
Central Gaza refugee camps under fire
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic report that Israeli artillery is shelling the Nuseirat and Bureij refugee camps in central Gaza.
We will bring you more on this story shortly.
4h ago (05:25 GMT)
Still no confirmation Hamas’s Mohammed Deif killed in Israeli strike: Monitors
The Israeli air force dropped eight 2,000-pound bombs in its attack on the al-Mawasi area of Gaza on Saturday in a bid to kill Hamas commander Mohammed Deif .. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/14/who-is-mohammed-deif-the-hamas-military-commander-in-gaza .
US-based defence think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP) also said that Israel’s military has still not officially confirmed that it killed Deif in the attack that killed at least 90 people – mostly women and children – and wounded 300 others.
On Tuesday, Israeli forces deployed along the Netzarim Corridor continued to come under mortar, rocket and sniper fire from Palestinian fighters, while in southern Rafah city Israeli armour was targeted with mortar shelling, the ISW/CTP said in their latest battlefield update .. https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/iran-update-july-16-2024 .
Israel’s air force said it attacked 40 targets across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, and at least three rockets were fired towards Israel’s Sderot city by Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters, the ISW/CTP report.
Video 00:55
Israeli air raid kills at least 90 in 'safe zone’
5h ago (05:15 GMT)
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A Palestinian girl looks at a body after Israeli fighter jets hit a UNRWA school in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on July 16 [Hassan Jedi/Anadolu Images]
5h ago (04:55 GMT)
Almost 100 killed as 6 school shelters attacked in 10 days
Hani Mahmoud Reporting from Deir el-Balah, central Gaza Strip
We are looking at two-thirds of UN facilities across the Strip being either severely damaged or completely destroyed since the beginning of this genocidal war, including evacuation centres.
In the past 10 days, we’ve seen at least six schools being targeted by Israeli air attacks killing close to 100 people.
Just today, 23 people were killed in a single attack in addition to 70-plus critically injured in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
All of this is increasing and exacerbating the already difficult living conditions and the problems that people are experiencing in Gaza.
5h ago (04:45 GMT)
COGAT claims that 206 aid trucks entered Gaza on Tuesday
The Israeli Defense Ministry agency that oversees the occupied Palestinian territory has claimed that 206 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered Gaza on Tuesday.
The Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said the Egyptian, Jordanian and Israeli trucks went through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing in southern Gaza and the Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing in the north.
However, the UN and other international organisations continue to report Israeli restrictions on aid delivery to Gaza, while independent UN experts say famine has spread throughout the besieged enclave after more than nine months of war.
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5h ago (04:35 GMT)
10th anniversary of Israeli impunity over killing of 4 children on Gaza beach
The Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights has marked a decade of impunity following the killing of four Palestinian children while playing football on the Gaza City beach.
On July 16, 2014, Israeli forces fired three missiles that killed the Bakr family boys: Ahed, 9, Zakaria,10, Mohammed,11, and Ismail, 9, and wounded six other children.
“Despite clear evidence as to the indiscriminate nature of the attack, the Israeli probe, which was neither impartial nor independent as required by international law, was promptly closed in June 2015,” the rights group said.
??“A decade later, there is no justice for the Bakr family and countless other Palestinian victims of blatant crimes committed by the Israeli military and other officials,” the group added.
https://twitter.com/AlMezanCenter/status/1813245835137646802?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1813245835137646802%7Ctwgr%5Ea20674db6b73dc7160a672ca943d1c5d2e9dbf1c%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fnews%2Fliveblog%2F2024%2F7%2F17%2Fisraels-war-on-gaza-live-48-killed-in-3-air-strikes-in-one-hour-in-gaza
5h ago (04:25 GMT)
Photos: ‘We will go to jail, but not to the army’
Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish youths protested against changes that would see them forced to serve in the Israeli military in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
The Israeli military on Tuesday said it would begin sending draft notices to Jewish ultra-Orthodox men next week [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
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Israelis are bound by law to serve in the military from the age of 18 for 24-32 months, but ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students have largely been exempt [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
The changes could pose challenges for Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, which relies on the support of ultra-Orthodox parties that oppose the recruitment changes, even though many support the war itself [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
6h ago (04:15 GMT)
Infographic: How Israel used a cancer hospital in Gaza as an army base
INTERACTIVE - Cancer hospital damaged-July 16, 2024 @
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And there’s plenty more here.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/7/17/israels-war-on-gaza-live-48-killed-in-3-air-strikes-in-one-hour-in-gaza
Good post, would fit fine in any fancy finished fence - Steak & Eggs Snapchat Song Disney Parody
whoa dude, Wish it wasn't that way, but how else to portray most of your posts. You've invited a heap of fact checking, eh.
As for you likening fuagf to fugazi, it's cute, but meaningless, eh. Let's see what they are like
hap0206, So you are saying they will spend much money and lots of time
investigating "just a little error". Don't think most involved see it as that.
hap0206, Not dealing with your disinformation, misrepresentation and lies any more. Bottom line, however you paint Trump's economy Biden's is stronger. Biden saved millions of Americans from dying of covid. Biden is building infrastructure favoring all, Trump cut taxes favoring the rich. Trump's lies and demonization of the press are fascist attributes. We've seen too much of your crap too many times before to even bother reading any of it again.
Good to know she is likely out ..
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/laurieroberts/2024/07/15/kari-lake-arizona-trump-shooting-election/74412066007/ .
Sadness, definition, 2024 RNC convention: Listening to Kari Lake lie to her mom and dad audience all while saying she cares for their children. Some one tell Lake, anyone who cares for children does not repeatedly lie to their parents. And Lake's "fake news press." Anyone who cares for America does not lie about their press. Trump and the rest all do. I couldn't help thinking, what group of people demonize the press as Trump, Lake and the rest do. The answer, of course, is fascists. It's not exaggeration, it's just fact. And its fucking sad to see it. If you haven't watched Lake lie do now:
"More unity -- 'Yelling' RNC delegates riled up as Kari Lake spits venom at reporters: 'Worn out welcome'"
More unity -- 'Yelling' RNC delegates riled up as Kari Lake spits venom at reporters: 'Worn out welcome'
"Now HERE is some unity for you. These fuckers HAVE to be stopped at the ballot box. h/t 236t568"
Daniel Hampton
July 16, 2024 8:04PM ET
(Screengrab via CNN)
MAGA Republican Senate Hopeful Kari Lake slammed the media at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday, pointing to news sections as she said, "You've worn out your welcome!"
Prior to bashing the news outlets covering the convention, Lake, who is running for Arizona governor, praised the crowd for its "MAGA energy" and said she wished other Republicans could be at the convention as well.
"This is electric," she said to applause.
As she welcomed the crowd, Lake said, "We love you all!"
Well, not everyone, it seems.
"Actually, actually, wait a minute — I don't mean that. I don't welcome everyone in this room. The guys up in the fake news," she said to cheers, "frankly ... you guys up there in the fake news have worn out your welcome. Right?"
After the crowd cheered, she said the media spent the last eight years "lying about President Donald J. Trump and his amazing, patriotic supporters."
Read also: 'Kari Lake got served' a lawsuit the moment jury was reading Trump's guilty verdicts
https://www.rawstory.com/kari-lake-fails-yet-again-to-convince-court-that-shes-rightful-arizona-governor/
"Actually," said Lake, "they lie about everything. They've lied about Joe Biden's health, the economy, the laptop, the border, I could go on and on and on. But the good news is, every day, more and more people are turning off the fake news."
Lake's remarks come after she recently lost an appeals court challenge in her state after she said thousands of mailed ballot signatures in the Phoenix area were improperly verified when she lost the 2022 governor election to Democrat Katie Hobbs.
Lake lost that election by more than 17,000 votes, but never conceded.
After her comment, media personality Frank Luntz said he was on the media platform as she attacked the media.
"Convention goers are yelling at the people around me – it’s a really strange experience," he noted.
Watch the clip below or at this link.
whoa dude, You have done nothing so far but show us all how uninformed and how immature you are capable of acting.
No things are not normal, as Trump was the first president to refuse to hand over power peacefully
in the history of your country. Also now you have a supreme court which would make Putin proud.
And at least one Trump lower court judge who would make Putin proud.
Nothing is normal except the deal if you don't stop just being a nuisance
here then you will be gone as other waste of time trolls before you.
hap0206, Between you two the only lying thing is your mind lying to you. Forget all the conspiracies, bottom line is the SS should have had all the roofs nearby covered. They didn't. They screwed up. And your misrepresentation of our seeing Trump for what he is, our dislike of him, as being hatred is as disingenuous and dishonest of you as the interpretation of all criticism of Israel being seen as antisemitism.
"right -- do not believe your lying eyes -- believe what your telling us -- so many reporting with video on the SS standing mute to enable the shooter to take his shot -- and then killing him in seconds after the shots were fired -- ugly -- maybe even evil -- thinking about the firefighter killed and those wounded -- I am sure the SS was not immune to the hatred and fear of a trump presidency as expressed by you and others here on this board and by the dems/libs through out the the biden presidency -- landslide for trump for a change "
Glenn Kirschner excellent as always.
"For Judge in Trump Documents Case, Unusual Rulings Are Business as Usual
[...]Judge Aileen Cannon has repeatedly proven willing to hear out even far-fetched arguments from the former president’s legal team, including a challenge to the appointment of the special counsel, Jack Smith.
[...] Reaching back to the early 1970s, courts have repeatedly rejected efforts like Mr. Trump’s to question the legality of independent prosecutors. Those have included the Supreme Court upholding the appointment of Leon Jaworski, one of the special prosecutors who investigated the Watergate scandal, in a decision that was largely focused on the issue of President Richard Nixon’s claims of executive privilege.
P - Judges have also tossed efforts to invalidate the work of special counsels like Robert S. Mueller III, who examined connections between Russia and Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign, and David C. Weiss, who has brought two criminal cases against Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son.
P - Despite this record, however, Judge Cannon has decided to consider the constitutionality of Mr. Smith’s appointment anew — and not on the merits of written briefs, but rather at an expansive hearing that will spill across two days. The proceeding might go beyond the normal process of merely making arguments and could include, as the judge recently wrote, the “presentation of evidence,” though it remains unclear what evidence she meant."
Excellent as usual. More linked to another coming up.
Know what you mean, still anybody interested in him and about would surely find his
background themselves. LOL, now i've been there .. https://www.traecrowder.com/ .
If he still hasn't it means neither he nor any of his more decent people (if any) don't
read this board, which is not a disappointment either as it's only to their detriment.
He is a shit.
Don't know. Haven't been there. If not I don't agree it's false of him. How many pollies or anyone have their life history on their personal internet page. Is good they got Menendez. One corrupt Democrat done as all corrupt pollies - and judges - should be.
I never see 99% of what you ever turn off. It wasn't long before Trump said 'it was only because of the hand of God that he is still alive.' Haven't seen any of the convention either. You can bet there is plenty of chat on religion there. It's Onward Christian Soldiers all the way.
Needing Help to Stay in Power, Modi Loses His Aura of Invincibility
"India Modi-fied for a Historic Third Term But with a Check: An Insight into the Indian General Election 2024
"Experts react: Modi loses ground in an electoral surprise. What will his third term look like now?
"Australian journalist says Indian government pressured her to leave
Why Farmers Are Protesting Around the World
"The country where 30 farmers die each day
"Trump and Modi are the mainstream faces of the global far right
"Indian protesters set fire to train stations over new law opening citizenship to some migrants
"India anyone? Is Modi’s India Safe for Muslims?""""
Though Narendra Modi will take up a third term as India’s leader, the election was closer than
expected, forcing him to rely on coalition partners that don’t share his Hindu nationalist agenda.
Video - India’s Modi Thanks Supporters After Winning Third Term 1:03
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party narrowly won India’s general
election, making him the second ever leader in India to secure a third term.
By Mujib Mashal, Alex Travelli, Hari Kumar, Suhasini Raj, Sameer Yasir and Pragati K.B.
Photographs by Atul Loke
Reporting from New Delhi, Bengaluru and Varanasi
June 4, 2024
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Suddenly, the aura of invincibility around Narendra Modi has been shattered.
In an Indian election in which his party’s slogan had promised a landslide victory and Mr. Modi even repeatedly referred to himself as sent by God, the results announced on Tuesday were unexpectedly sobering.
Mr. Modi, 73, is set to take up a third consecutive term as prime minister, after the Election Commission gave final confirmation early Wednesday that the parties that make up his coalition had collectively passed the majority mark in Parliament. It is a feat that only one other Indian leader has accomplished, and his Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P., won far more seats than any other party.
But instead of a runaway win, the B.J.P. lost dozens of seats. It now finds itself at the mercy of its coalition partners — including one politician notorious for how often he has switched sides — to stay in power, a sharp reversal a decade into Mr. Modi’s transformational tenure.
As the results came into view, the country’s stock markets plunged. Opposition parties, newly unified in what they had called an effort to save the country’s democracy, rejoiced. And India, while extending Mr. Modi’s firm hold on power, learned that there are limits to his political potency, even as he made the election, usually fought seat by seat, squarely about himself.
Mr. Modi took a more positive view in a statement on X declaring that his coalition had won a third term. “This is a historical feat in India’s history,” he said.
Supporters of the Congress Party, the main opposition party, watched election returns at party headquarters in New Delhi on Tuesday.
For Mr. Modi, a generous reading of the outcome could be that only with his personal push could his party overcome its unpopularity at the local level and scrape by. Or it could be that his carefully cultivated brand has now peaked, and that he can no longer outrun the anti-incumbency sentiment that eventually catches up with almost any politician.
How Mr. Modi will react is uncertain — whether he will harden his effort to turn away any challenge to his power, or be chastened by the voters’ verdict and his need to work with coalition partners that do not share his Hindu-nationalist ideology.
“Modi is not known as a consensual figure. However, he is very pragmatic,” said Arati Jerath, a political analyst based in New Delhi. “He will have to moderate his hard-line Hindu-nationalist approach to issues. Perhaps we can hope for more moderation from him.”
More on India [ ... all links inside ...]
* A False Prediction: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s slim election victory has forced
India to reflect on how fawning coverage may have obscured a wave of opposition.
* A Manufacturing Shift?: As international brands limit their dependence on
China by shifting some manufacturing to India, women could be prime beneficiaries.
* Ambani Wedding: The younger son of Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, wed his fiancée
in Mumbai, the finale of a monthslong extravaganza that introduced the world to India’s Gilded Age.
* Delhi’s Parched Slums: A heat wave has left water in short supply across India’s
capital region. The poorest are left to crowd around tankers to get whatever they can
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/world/asia/india-delhi-heat-water.html .
Few doubt, however, that Mr. Modi will try to deepen his already considerable imprint on the country over the next five years.
On his watch, India, the world’s most populous nation, has enjoyed newfound prominence on the global stage, overhauled its infrastructure for the needs of its 1.4 billion people, and been imbued with a new sense of ambition as it tries to shed the legacy of its long colonial past.
At the same time, Mr. Modi has worked to turn a vastly diverse country held together by a secular democratic system into an overtly Hindu-first state, marginalizing the country’s large Muslim minority.
[Insert: India anyone? Is Modi’s India Safe for Muslims?
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=120994871]
His increasingly authoritarian turn — with a crackdown on dissent that has created a chilling environment of self-censorship — has pushed India’s vociferous democracy closer to a one-party state, his critics say. And the country’s economic growth, while rapid, has mostly enriched those at the top.
B.J.P. supporters celebrates at party headquarters during the counting of votes, in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Mr. Modi rose from a humble background as the son of a tea seller, becoming India’s most powerful and popular leader in decades by building a cult of personality, spending big on infrastructure and welfare, and tilting India’s democratic institutions in his favor.
[In contrast Trump, the other member of the West's far-right, came from a wealthy background
and spent big on tax cut and cut welfare, while Biden spent big on infrastructure. Trump's
tax cuts, of course, also favored the wealthy, as Modi's overall policies have.]
The ultimate goal was to cement his standing as one of the most consequential prime ministers in India’s nearly 75 years as a republic and make the B.J.P. the country’s only plausible national governing force.
But the results on Tuesday pointed to a sharp turnaround for India’s beleaguered main opposition party, the Indian National Congress, which had been seen by many as irrevocably weakened after big losses in the previous two elections.
The once-dominant Congress, long positioned at India’s political center, struggled for years to find a direction and offer an ideological alternative to the B.J.P. But it and its coalition partners found traction in this election by attacking Mr. Modi’s government over issues like unemployment, social justice and the prime minister’s ties to India’s billionaires.
Last year, as Rahul Gandhi, the public face of the Congress party, sought to burnish his standing by leading long marches across India, the B.J.P. ensnared him in a court case that led to his expulsion from Parliament ..https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/world/asia/india-gandhi-modi.html . He was later returned to his seat by India’s highest court, and was set to win re-election on Tuesday.
Speaking as early returns came in, Mr. Gandhi, 53, said the fight was not just against the B.J.P. It was also, he said, against all the government institutions that had stood with Mr. Modi in trying to hamstring the opposition through arrests and other punitive actions.
“This was about saving the Constitution,” he said, lifting a small copy that he had been carrying with him and displaying during speeches on the campaign trail.
A supporter waves a Congress Party flag at the party’s headquarters on Tuesday.
Exit polls released on Saturday, after more than six weeks of voting in the world’s largest democratic exercise, indicated that Mr. Modi’s party was headed toward an easy victory. But there had been signs during the campaign that Mr. Modi was worried about the outcome.
He crisscrossed the country for more than 200 rallies over about two months and gave dozens of interviews, hoping to use his charismatic appeal to paper over any weaknesses in his party. In speeches, he often veered from his party’s message of a rising India to counter accusations that he privileged business and caste elites. He also abandoned his once-subtle dog whistles targeting India’s 200 million Muslims, instead demonizing them directly .. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/world/asia/india-modi-muslims.html , by name.
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[The Mass Psychology of Trumpism
"I'm sick of listening to Trump's lies and whining about this already.
That's something I agree about, naturally, but am also puzzled by. Most people dislike whiners.
So why do his culties give him a pass on that? It's so childish; he talks like a fifth grader. '
[...]
[...]But beyond the characteristics of the leader himself, authoritarianism is also about the special dynamic that exists between a leader and his followers. What psychologists call “the authoritarian personality” is a set of beliefs and values that people who are attracted to authoritarian leaders readily endorse. They include strict adherence to the conventional norms of the (good) in group, submission to (and adoration of) authorities who personify or reinforce those norms and antipathy — to the point of hatred and aggression — for those who either challenge in group norms or exist outside of them (“bad” out groups, who are often demonized or dehumanized).
P - In the 2016 Republican primaries, scores on a measure of these authoritarian attitudes proved to be the strongest statistical predictors of voting for Donald Trump over other Republican candidates. As Trump doubles down on fascist rhetoric and threatens to take on the role of America’s first dictator, he will continue to win support from those followers who welcome the authoritarian embrace. Trump’s comment in a December Fox News town hall that he would be a dictator on “day one” of his next term sparked the usual brouhaha in the media, but not among his supporters. “I love it,” one woman in her 50s told The Washington Post. A poll conducted in February by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst found that 74% of Republican voters think it is either “definitely” or “probably” a good idea for Trump to be a dictator for a day. Attempting to convince hardcore Trump supporters that their hero is a dangerous authoritarian is an exercise in futility, the journalist Amanda Marcotte observes. “They know — it’s why they like him.” .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=174527302]
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As things stood by nightfall, Mr. Modi would need at least 33 seats from allies to cross the 272 minimum for forming a government.
Two regional parties in particular would be kingmakers: the Telugu Desam Party, in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh, with 16 seats, and the Janata Dal (United) party in the eastern state of Bihar, with 12.
Both parties are avowedly secular, raising hopes among Mr. Modi’s opponents that their influence could slow down his race to turn India’s democracy into a Hindu-first state.
Some of Mr. Modi’s biggest losses came in India’s most populous state, Uttar Pradesh in the north, with about 240 million people. His party leads the state government and had won 62 of the state’s 80 seats in the national Parliament’s lower house in the previous election, in 2019.
As counting entered its last stretch in the evening on Tuesday, the B.J.P. was leading in only 33 seats there. In his own constituency, Varanasi, Mr. Modi’s victory margin was reduced from half a million last time to about 150,000.
Rahul Gandhi, leader of the Congress Party, greeted supporters at a campaign rally last week in Varanasi, India.
The loss in Faizabad constituency, in particular, told the story of how some of the prime minister’s biggest offerings had struggled to connect with voters.
The constituency is home to the lavish Ram temple .. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/world/asia/modi-india-ram-temple.html .. in Ayodhya, built on grounds disputed between Hindus and Muslims. Its construction was a cornerstone of the nearly century-old Hindu-nationalist movement that had swept Mr. Modi to power. He hoped that its grand inauguration just before the election campaign began would both unite his Hindu support base and bring new supporters into the fold.
Some B.J.P. workers said that the party’s flaunting of the temple may have made a large section of Hindus at the bottom of the rigid caste hierarchy uncomfortable. The opposition had painted Mr. Modi as pursuing an upper-caste agenda that denied underprivileged Hindus opportunities to reverse centuries of oppression.
“Because of overemphasis on the Ram temple issue, the opposition got united,” said Subhash Punia, 62, a farmer from the state of Rajasthan who supports Mr. Modi and was waiting outside the B.J.P. headquarters in Delhi on Tuesday.
To offset potential losses in his Hindi-speaking northern stronghold, Mr. Modi had set a lofty goal for this election: to gain a foothold in the country’s more prosperous south.
He broke some new ground in Kerala, a state dominated by the political left and long hostile to his ideology. But overall in the south, he struggled to improve on the 29 seats, out of 129, that his party had won in the previous election.
Perhaps the biggest disappointment for the B.J.P. in southern India was that it once again appeared not to have won any of the 40 seats in Tamil Nadu, a state with its own strong cultural and linguistic identity.
Mr. Modi had campaigned aggressively there, even visiting one coastal town for two days of meditation as the voting neared its conclusion.
“Mr. Modi’s and the B.J.P.’s antics cannot win my Tamil heart,” said S. Ganesan, a waiter at a hotel in Kanniyakumari, the town Mr. Modi visited.
In Varanasi, India. Atul Loke for The New York Times
Mujib Mashal, Alex Travelli, Hari Kumar and Sameer Yasir reported from New Delhi, Suhasini Raj from Varanasi, India, and Pragati K.B. from Bengaluru, India.
Mujib Mashal is the South Asia bureau chief for The Times, helping to lead coverage of India and the diverse region around it, including Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan. More about Mujib Mashal
Alex Travelli is a correspondent for The Times based in New Delhi, covering business and economic matters in India and the rest of South Asia. He previously worked as an editor and correspondent for The Economist. More about Alex Travelli
Hari Kumar covers India, based out of New Delhi. He has been a journalist for more than two decades. More about Hari Kumar
Suhasini Raj is a reporter based in New Delhi who has covered India for The Times since 2014. More about Suhasini Raj
Sameer Yasir covers news from India and other countries in the region. He is based in New Delhi. More about Sameer Yasir
Pragati K.B. is a reporter based in New Delhi, covering news from across India. More about Pragati K.B.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/world/asia/modi-india-election.html
whoa dude, This board is neither a kiddies sandbox, nor an adult playpen.
Patience is wearing thin already with you. Hope you understand.
livefree_ordie, Give it a rest. Your Jesus cares nothing for you, or anyone. Oh, except those who are alive today
.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_(name)#Other_languages .. would care for some, as you do.
Trae (apology for misspelling earlier) is well schooled and long practiced -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trae_Crowder . He's worked at it.
It's his profession. Comparing your running skills with those of an Olympian
would be as unfair. Though no doubt, like many of us, you have done some. LOL
Open is open. Yep.
Interesting history. Yet now a wannabe dictator/king/strongman who works against all laws which restrict his abuse of power is actually openly favored by millions, and enabled by others, to regain the presidency. A guy who is ranked, collectively by experts in their field, as the worst U.S. president of all. It makes no sense except in the understanding his supporters either have no qualms about his lack of honesty and character, or are ignorant of it. And that most are likely ignorant of his worst of them all rank.
The millions that believe him when he says he is only alive thanks to an imagined spirit God, obviously don't consider it would follow the same God wanted the millions of Americans who died from Covid dead. That's a sick thought. A terrible thought.
livefree_ordie, Crap. Biden cooperated with the authority because that's what he does. Trump obstructed justice because that's what he does.
Trump is a criminal who has escaped with breaking laws all his life, until he became a convicted felon.
Your support of a pathological liar to regain the WH is shameful enough. The fact his first WH stint resulted in his grabbing 45/45 on the presidential experts president rank, alone should be enough to have you ideological cripples questioning your wanting another last on the list.
MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ host says he was surprised and disappointed the show was pulled from the air
"Joe: Trump mocks Paul Pelosi and the audience is laughing along"
FILE - MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough takes questions from the audience, Oct. 11, 2017, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass. The four-hour morning news and talk show was pulled off the air Monday, July 15, 2024, in favor of a live news feed focused on covering the aftermath of Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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Updated 3:49 AM GMT+10, July 17, 2024
MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough said Tuesday he was “surprised and disappointed” the news show was pulled off the air the day before and hasn’t received a good explanation about why.
The four-hour morning news and talk show, a favorite of President Joe Biden and his fans, was pre-empted Monday in favor of a live news feed from the NBC News Now streaming service that was focused on covering the aftermath of Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
Scarborough said he was told Sunday night that all of NBC News channels would be working from a single, consistent feed for the entire day Monday.
“That did not happen,” he said on “Morning Joe” Tuesday. “We don’t know why that didn’t happen. Our team was not given a good answer as to why that did not happen, but it didn’t happen.”
An MSNBC spokesman said the network had no comment on what Scarborough said.
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The pre-emption attracted attention on Monday morning, particularly after CNN reported that MSNBC management was concerned that one of the show’s cast of commentators or guests would make an inappropriate comment. MSNBC said that was not true. “Morning Joe,” like other shows on the network, has often been bitingly critical of Trump.
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By later Monday afternoon, opinionated hosts like Nicolle Wallace and Ari Melber anchored their regular shows, and Rachel Maddow led the network’s coverage of the Republican national convention.
Scarborough speculated that MSNBC changed its plans because of “blowback” it received from pre-empting his own show.
“We wanted to be here for our audience,” said Willie Geist, another “Morning Joe” host. “We know you trust us, and we have the utmost respect for our audience. We are here today, and we wish we would have been here yesterday.”
Scarborough said that “the next time we are told there is going to be a news feed replacing us, we will be in our chairs and the news feed will be us. Or they can get somebody else to host the show.”
It’s the second notable on-air rebellion by MSNBC personalities in the past few months. Several hosts, including Scarborough and former “Meet the Press” moderator Chuck Todd, objected in March to NBC News hiring former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel as a contributor, a decision the network later rescinded.
Before the assassination attempt, “Morning Joe” spent several days talking about whether Biden should continue running for reelection following the president’s poor performance in a debate against Trump — leading Biden to call in to the show to defend his decision to stay.
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David Bauder writes about media for the AP. Follow him at http://twitter.com/dbauder.
From yours -- It behooves all of us in this time of reflection to keep one thing in mind: Donald Trump still sucks. He's still a shitty human being. A convicted felon and rapist who gets shot at is still a convicted felon and rapist. He is also man who is out on bail and awaiting sentencing.
He is still the same asshole who declares himself "your retribution" to his followers who have committed repeated acts of violence. He is still the same asshole who mocks Nancy Pelosi's husband for almost being murdered, who mocks Joe Biden for falling off his bike, who wants violent cops to be immune from prosecution, who calls for people to be beaten and jailed, who regularly says he wants the death penalty expanded, who wants to use the military to shoot protesters and shoplifters, who says he will defend everyone's ability to get the kind of gun that was used to nearly take him out, who brags he did nothing to stop the mass killing of children by guns, and whose views on migrants and trans people and others has caused spikes in violence against those groups. And the vast majority of his party is one hundred percent with him and thus are one hundred percent as guilty as Trump is for creating an America where such violence is simply the Price of Freedom or some such shit.
Trump and GOP fucked around and almost found out. Their policies and beliefs pretty much guaranteed that something like this would happen. But the lesson they are going to take from this is not to ban the guns that allowed this to happen or, at the very least, tighten the requirements to buy the goddamn gun, the kind of gun that killed one person at the rally and injured others.
https://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2024/07/donald-trump-still-sucks.html
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