Spain floods: Valencia death toll mounts as EU offers help
At least 63 people have died in eastern Spain in the worst natural disaster to hit the country in recent memory.
Emergency services in the southeastern region of Valencia have confirmed a death toll of 62 people just after noon local time on Wednesday, up from 51 earlier in the day.
Meanwhile, the central government office for Castilla La Mancha region confirmed that an 88-year-old woman was found dead in Cuenca province.
The death toll appeared to be Europe's worst from flooding since 2021, when at least 185 people died in Germany.
Spain floods: Valencia death toll mounts as EU offers help
Dozens have been killed in flash flooding in Spain, with the Valencia region particularly hard-hit. The number is expected to rise further, as rescuers scramble to reach stranded survivors.Deutsche Welle
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Bombmakare i Göteborg fick 9 års fängelse. En bygganställd som extraknäckte som bombmakare för det kriminella nätverket som kallas T-falangen har av Göteborgs tingsrätt dömts till fängelse i 9 år för att ha tillverkat tre bomber.
Hamas, Oslo, and the Peace Process: Did Israel Use Hamas to Sabotage Peace Efforts? (Read the article not just the headline)
Read the article, not only the headline:
While Hamas and other Palestinian armed movements may have been used as Israel’s rationale for its hardline stance, it was not a primary factor in the failure of the Oslo Peace Process. The roots of that failure lie in multiple variables: Israel’s strategic decisions, its ongoing occupation, unconditional U.S. support for Israel, and the broader dynamics of Palestinian resistance. Suppose Hamas were truly the core issue in the failure of Oslo. Why would Israel continue to expand settlements, target civilians, and tighten its control over the West Bank—a region where, unlike in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority promotes non-violence and actively suppresses those who resist occupation by force?
Hamas, Oslo, and the Peace Process: Did Israel Use Hamas to Sabotage Peace Efforts?
Robert Inlakesh examines claims that Israel’s policies propped up Hamas to justify its continued occupation and derail a two-state solution.Robert Inlakesh (MintPress News)
Iraqi resistance conducts new drone strikes on key Israeli positions
Iraqi resistance conducts new drone strikes on key Israeli positions
Iraqi anti-terror groups launch a series of drone attacks on key positions in the Israeli-occupied territories.PressTV
LIVE BLOG: Hezbollah Drone Hits Israeli Aircraft Factory | Israel Bombs Displaced Palestinians - Day 390
LIVE BLOG: Hezbollah Drone Hits Israeli Aircraft Factory | Israel Bombs Displaced Palestinians - Day 390 - Palestine Chronicle
A drone launched from Lebanon targeted the industrial zone in Nahariya and reportedly hit a factory that produces aircraft components.admin (Palestine Chronicle)
En opålitlig journalist och en tidning med märkliga regler. Sydsvenskan är en av alla de borgerliga tidningar som ägnar sig åt hets mot palestinarörelsen samt mot enskilda medlemmar i denna och i vänsterpartiet.
Russia appeals to int'l organizations over Kupyansk execution (Al Mayadeen article from late 2022)
A former commander of the Azov nationalist battalion, Maxim Zhorin, published last week footage showing the bodies of killed civilians with their hands tied in Kupyansk, Kharkov. The video's metadata indicated that it was recently filmed, specifically during the period when the Ukrainian forces were in control of the region. The video's internal parameters show that it was filmed on the afternoon of October 9. After the video went viral, Zhorin claimed that Russian servicemen had a hand in the civilians' murder.
Russia appeals to int'l organizations over Kupyansk execution
Russia's Human Rights Council appeals to several international organizations to try and curb Ukraine's criminality against civilians.Al Mayadeen English (Russia appeals to int'l organizations over Kupyansk execution)
Seven Perspectives on International Law and Palestinian Liberation
Seven Perspectives on International Law and Palestinian Liberation
Rabea Eghbariah, Noura Erakat, Alaa Hajyahia, Darryl Li, Aslı Bâli, Diala Shamas, Maha Abdallah, and Shahd Hammouri share their thoughts on how international law hinders Palestinian liberation…LPE Project
Total censorship becoming the norm in the political West
If hundreds of millions of Americans and Europeans knew what was actually going on, they'd certainly be against the policies their unelected bureaucratic oligarchies are imposing, both at home and abroad. Precisely this is why knowing the truth is all the more important. Unfortunately, it can indeed be dangerous to think and speak freely at this time, and we can only expect more censorship and more "thought criminals", as any deviation from the official narrative is "dangerous for our democracy".
This is just right wing and conspiracy theorist bs. I'm not saying there is no censorship but this is misinformation designed to confuse people, sow distrust, and make them susceptible to more misinformation so they can be influenced politically.
This kind of shit really took off in 2020 and if you're still falling for it, please take your life back in control. If we're gonna criticize the West, let's take a fact-based approach.
Oh I do. But I want journalists to tell me about it, not propaganda outlets. This article is written to make me angry, not to emancipate or enlighten me. It wants to manipulate me.
If I may recommend a book, Doppelganger by Naomi Klein. It's about exactly the difference between
- investigative journalists that do their due diligence to uncover actual conspiracies
- conspiracy nutjobs that just believe and share every conspiracy they hear, and ironically, often end up serving oligarchs by doing so.
If anger becomes more important than truth, we become tools in the hands of the powerful. Choose truth
The difference between journalism and propaganda to you is whether a western source is saying it or a country which is no longer controlled by the western financial apparatus. You weren't trained to question.
Oh you mean the book that Klein felt obliged to promote when feigning an apology for lashing out at the left for not condemning Hamas?
It's absolute schlock. I don't know what convinced her that people on Twitter are worth writing a book about, but the quarantine really had a deletrious effect on some people.
The difference between journalism and propaganda to you is whether a western source is saying it or a country which is no longer controlled by the western financial apparatus
What makes you think this?
I haven't been trained to question, that's true. I learned. You only learned to be scared apparently, and you're currently in training to dismiss facts altogether. I suggest you drop out of that curriculum
You expect me to take internet points and alt accounts complaining about everything that doesn't agree with the state department narrative seriously! I appreciate you admitting it! Now, let's see if you can attack a single point raised in one single article that I post instead of whining about how nobody should disagree with liberal dogma. I highly doubt it.
Every downvote I get on these articles and comments is a merit badge that says Ruined Another Liberal's Day. You're going to have to live with us being right forever! You think your word games can actually alter reality, up until it passes you by.
You deny how bad things are for Ukraine even more than Kiev does at this point! Keep your salt stained messages on the timeline proving how delusional you were when things really crumbled!
I didn't need to put this into anything because the writing style tells me everything I need to know. Highly opinionated. Essays posing as news. Opinion underlaid with paper-thin "arguments". It's the same that was around during covid spreading misinformation about vaccines and masks. The disinformation itself is not the goal. The goal is to capitalize on people's fear and isolate them. Make them easy to manipulate later on.
It's not a new strategy either. Fear and hate have always been tools in the hands of the powerful. If you think the West has a monopoly on that, you're sorely mistaken.
Fuck Westerm hegemony and capitalism, sure. But also fuck Putin. Fuck all oligarchs.
I can handle nonsense but please don't call me a liberal.
Can you point to the part you want me to engage with? Half your comments are you fantasizing about me so I'm not sure what you're even trying to tell me.
I am speaking directly to you about what you are doing and saying there is no fantasy here I am describing you.
That's not how it works you're the one complaining about the article you have to find a point that was made in the article that you disagree with you need to supply the evidence that refutes the point otherwise you're just thoughtlessly dismissing it because that affirms your liberal worldview.
Of course there are other reasons that you could dismiss the article such as actually pointing to something that made the source unreliable that they'd said in the past. But I don't think you can do that either.
whether we take the censorship to be benevolent,
I do not take censorship to be benevolent. Fuck censorship
No, I mean the Naomi Klein that voices pro-palestinian opinions in the book. Here's a highly israel-critical interview.
This is what I mean. Blind dogma and hatred will make you turn against those who should be your allies.
Far-right Spanish party VOX tries to silence activists for Palestine in the Spanish High Court
Far-right Spanish party VOX tries to silence activists for Palestine in the Spanish High Court
On 29 October 2024, two activists in the Palestine liberation movement are being called to a first hearing at the Spanish High Court, which is investigating an alleged crime of “glorification…Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
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China seeks stronger trade ties with Iran: Ambassador
Chinese Ambassador to Iran Cong Peiwu reaffirmed China’s commitment to strengthening trade relations with Iran across all sectors.
Partner or Instrument? Ukraine's Place in US Foreign Policy Strategy
In the confrontation with Russia, the United States and its allies in Europe have also found a convenient instrument – Ukraine – a vast country with large army, located in close proximity to Russia. Western countries supply this instrument with weapons and intelligence and send military advisers and instructors. The "Ukrainian instrument" should have to be used several times, and then, when the resource is exhausted, it will be abandoned as unnecessary thing. This scenario calls into question the future of the Ukrainian state.
Israel Strikes Beit Lahiya Again, Hours After Deadly Bombing Kills 93 - World news - Tasnim News Agency
Israel Strikes Beit Lahiya Again, Hours After Deadly Bombing Kills 93
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Israeli military launched another airstrike on residential areas in Beit Lahiya, Gaza, killing at least 19 Palestinians, only hours after a previous bombing killed 93 people, including 25 children, according to Gaza health offic…Tasnim News Agency
Cardiac Surgery for Children at Orotta Referral Hospital
Cardiac Surgery for Children at Orotta Referral Hospital
Asmara, 28 October 2024 – Cardiac surgeries for children are currently being performed at Orotta National Referral Hospital through a collaborative effort between Eritrean doctors and Italian medical experts from ‘Med-Action Bambini.’ The program, whshabait admin (Eritrea Ministry Of Information)
Spain Opens Its Doors to China as a European Trade War Looms
Spain Opens Its Doors to China as a European Trade War Looms
Spain is forging a path as a “connector” country, drawing Chinese investment as it abstained from taking a position on European tariffs on electric cars.Patricia Cohen (The New York Times)
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