The EU has given Israeli technology start-ups run by ex-IDF soldiers nearly half a billion euros in research grants intended for civilian purposes since the start of the genocide. Some of the tech has been deployed in Gaza, and some of the founders have served in Gaza. A thread The grants were provided via the EU’s Horizon Programme, ‘a scientific research initiative to develop a sustainable and liveable society in Europe.' 348 Israeli start-ups, many run by ex-IDF soldiers and intelligence officers, have been awarded €475 million since October 2023

You’ve never heard of Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian peace activist who lived in Gaza for three years, had a state funeral organised by Hamas and a street named after him, because it would make you question the caricature of Hamas promoted by the western media and political class Arrigioni arrived in Gaza on a peace flotilla in 2008. Living with local Palestinian families across the strip, he was welcomed openly, and lovingly. He integrated into the society and culture of Gaza and became an iconic figure. He even got a tattoo in Arabic dedicated to Gaza

Israel knew that if they denied foreign journalists access to Gaza they could call everyone Hamas and do a holocaust because the depth of anti-Muslim racism in the west would mean Palestinian accounts of their own suffering would be disbelieved or ignored

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Central to this was lobbying the west to proscribe Hamas as a terror group even though they were the civic authority responsible for everything from taxes to rubbish collection and their armed wing never attacked the west. Everything could be Hamas and everyone could be killed

A vast network of Israeli spy tech, built by software engineers who cut their teeth writing code for the IDF to enforce Israeli apartheid, is being sold to police forces and security services across the west who use it to intercept communications and hack phones 🧵 Between 2021 and 2023, the US backlisted four Israeli spy tech companies after hacking scandals that targeted politicians, journalists and activists: NSO Group, Candiru, Cytrox and Intellexa. All were founded by former Unit 8200 Israeli intelligence operatives

Turning Jews into perpetual victims created the cultural cover for their state to apply their final solution against the Palestinians. And still now, with the Jewish state in the orgiastic throes of genocidal impunity, we're commanded to see Jews as victims. It's grotesque Many people were more than prepared, eager even in the early days of the genocide, to argue Zionism isn't Judaism. But after 21 months and zero establishment Jewish groups and leaders breaking from Israel, we have to start considering this as a mainstream not an extremist project

She posted on Instagram how for four months she was in agonising pain, went repeatedly to hospitals in Newcastle and Durham, begged for blood tests and scans, was told it was all in her head. It was cancer. Dead at 25 six months later. I swear medicine attracts sociopaths

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Her posts where she says not one doctor listened to her and authorised scans or blood tests despite her begging on the floor crying in pain and despite her autoimmune conditions that predisposed her to cancer. For months. Absolutely disgusting failure from @NewcastleHosps

Turns out that the son of (Lord) David Wolfson, shadow Attorney General for the Conservative Party, a senior British politician and a former minister in Boris Johnson's government is currently serving in the IDF and murdering Palestinians. This is Sam Wolfson His dad David Wolfson funds a 'pop-up' cafe for IDF troops operating in Gaza. Sam is killing Palestinians in Gaza alongside his girlfriend who is also serving in the IDF. This is from an article in the Jewish Chronicle

New investigation: Meta's head of AI policy in Washington DC is a former IDF officer who volunteered to join the Israeli army under a special program for non-Israeli recruits. Overall Meta employs more than one hundred former IDF soldiers and spies (continues) Shira Anderson is an American international rights lawyer who voluntarily enlisted for the IDF in 2009 under a program known as Garin Tzabar, which enables non-Israeli Jews who aren’t eligible for military conscription to join the Israeli army

Yes this is how most people remember it, left to right. Governments were also doing direct cash transfers to citizens, homeless people were found shelter, evictions were banned and debts were frozen. We should ask why the latter didn't become the cultural story

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The biggest anti racism protests in decades erupted in the UK and the US. Because many people for the first time, had time. People were educating and organising. It wasn't a coincidence.

Turns out Boeing and the FAA are ignoring another fatal design flaw in the Boeing 737 MAX that, like the previous flaw that downed two of these planes and killed hundreds of people, most pilots are unaware of. Continues... The flaw relates to the system that kicks in when a bird is sucked into the engine of a plane. This happens regularly. Sometimes when this happens on the MAX, due to the flaw in the system, it pumps aerosolised, neurotoxic jet oil into the passenger cabin and cockpit

A few weeks ago top US medicine man Anthony Fauci was in hospital with West Nile virus, saying he'd never been sicker. So I looked into West Nile virus and woah, did I find out some things. Not good things 🧵 The first astonishing thing I found out is how quickly this virus, transmitted by mosquitoes, has become a serious health threat in many parts of the world, especially Europe and North America, where a little over twenty years ago >it didn’t even exist<

Study on 61 men MRI scanned pre and post *omicron* covid. "Decrease in gray matter thickness in the left precuneus and right lateral occipital regions of the brain. Ratio of the right hippocampus volume to total brain volume decreased." Omicron remains bad for brains. A list🧵 Source. The average age of the men in this study was 43. psypost.org/gray-matter-th…

The only age groups in the US registering excess death are ages 10-19 and ages 30-49. All those died young and suddenly anecdotes, while down from the heights of the pandemic, continue to tally with the data Baseline used is 16/17 - 18/19 to pick up health trends emerging right before the pandemic. Why these ages? Why a gap for ages 20-29? My guess is covid in school age children and parents of school age children + reflecting rise in young adult cancers + drugs overdoses

Americans, particularly on the left, should pay close attention to what's happening in the UK. Democrats are modelling the Kamala Harris campaign on Keir Starmer's victory and we're now seeing the consequences of the Labour Party in power🧵 This Politico article says that seven Labour MPs and strategists met with Kamala Harris's team at the DNC to discuss historically challenging issues like immigration and 'the challenge from the left on issues like Gaza'

Zionist trolls and other racists said this viral tweet is evidence Gaza wasn't an open air prison. Here are all the ways in which Gaza, despite the resilience and ingenuity of Palestinians which saw them build joyful lives, was an open air prison run on apartheid rules 🧵

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With a population of 2 million in a space of just 141 square miles, Gaza was one of the most densely populated pieces of land on Earth, with a population density of over 500 people per 100 square meters. This is in fact more densely populated than many prisons

everyone getting covid in summer 2024 because covid is over and seasonal and getting it again builds your immunity so you won't get it again but you'll definitely get it again this winter and maybe next summer because it's seasonal and over but it'll be fine, honestly, it's fine We The Governments Of The Capitalist World are at pains to reassure everyone that getting covid repeatedly forever is honestly going to be fine with ZERO long term consequences, ZERO, please remember this

People often keep their ill-health a secret because in capitalist societies with supremacist foundations ill health is considered a personal failing and a sign of weakness. Becoming 'unproductive' is treated like a crime unto the system This mindset is embedded into institutions, from governmental to medical and is why people with chronic illness are so often dismissed by doctors and told to get back to work by the state. To support you in your ill health would be considered rewarding of weakness

In late May Argentina's far-right leader Javier Milei toured Silicon Valley, meeting the billionaire tech elite. Earlier in May he'd hosted Peter Thiel, boss of spy tech company Palantir, a key US, NATO and Israel contractor, at Argentina's presidential mansion. What's going on? The short answer is that Milei is attempting to destroy the foundations of the regulated welfare state in Argentina. And this is good for the tech elite who crave blank, country-sized canvases onto which they can project their dreams of a trans-human future

One fact almost universally misunderstood about the covid pandemic is that after 2020, excess mortality was higher for adults under 55 than over 55. That trend persists to this day These tables are by the US Society of Actuaries. In the first 6 months of 2023 excess mortality actually came in negative (anything under 100% is lower than expected) for most age groups over 55 and was highest in 35-44 year olds

Scientists have found what they call 'the master regulator' of the immune system in the human brain. If it holds up it's a stunning discovery that could transform treatments for autoimmune disease and post-viral illnesses. What did they find, and how?🧵 They found that neurons in a part of the brain known as the caudal Nucleus of the Solitary Tract (cNST) fire, or misfire, to produce a balanced or dysregulated immune and inflammatory response. They found, in their own words, “a new brain circuit.”

This is big. Scientists have identified the cells in the brainstem that sense immune cues from the body and act as "master regulators" of the body’s inflammatory response. "The discovery is akin to a black-swan event. It's a whole layer of biology we haven’t even anticipated” "Finding ways to control this newly discovered body–brain network would offer an approach to fixing broken immune responses in various conditions such as autoimmune diseases and even long COVID, Jin says." h/t @oldfshndanne nature.com/articles/d4158…