Nothing is Real

From very large and significant matters to very small and trivial ones, the media is constantly massaging your perceptions of reality:

#VanityFair #France has apologised after it was found to have #photoshopped an image of actor #GuyPearce, removing a pin of the #Palestinian #flag that he wore at the #Cannes Film Festival. The ‘Time Machine’ and ‘Prometheus’ star posed for a photo shoot wearing a #badge displaying the Palestinian flag on his jacket. The item was reportedly visible in the #French magazine edition of Vanity Fair, but absent from images shared by the publication’s website and #Instagram account.

Now, in the grand scheme of things, it doesn’t matter in the slightest if an #actor wears a #Palestine pin or not. But his doing so violates the #Narrative, which is that all good and right-thinking people support #Israel’s right to defend itself by #bombing #refugee #camps full of #women and #children situated on #foreign #territory, and therefore his action has to be disappeared before it reaches the public eye.

Never forget that if the #media is reporting it, it is almost certainly #false or #misleading in some way.

ISW: Russia exploiting far-right #nationalism in Europe against Ukraine

Russia is taking advantage of European far-right nationalist movements' increasingly vocal claims to Ukrainian #territory, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported in its daily assessment on Jan. 29.

Far-right movements in #Hungary and #Romania raised concern this past week after party leaders in their respective countries claimed parts of Ukrainian territory.

https://kyivindependent.com/isw-russia-exploiting-far-right-nationalism-in-europe-against-ukraine/

#RussiaInvadedUkraine #FarRight #disinformation #InformationWarfare #StandWithUkraine

#Venezuela will vote on #territory that belongs to recently oil-rich #Guyana

Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/venezuela-guyana-esequiba-referendum-1.7046250

Any aggressive Venezuela action toward Guyana would have consequences in the region and beyond.

#Brazil's #Defence Ministry said earlier this week it had "intensified defensive actions" along its northern #border as it monitored the territorial #dispute.

Oil is still a guarantee for the outbreak of wars.

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#oil #conflict #Southamerica #politics #military #annexion #problem #news

UN Special Rapporteur: Israel can't claim 'right of self-defence' | AJ #shorts

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has said that Israel cannot claim the right of ‘self-defence’ under intern...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Canberra #Gaza #Israel #NationalPressClub #Palestinian #Rapporteur #Special #UN #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #cant #claim #internationallaw #latestnews #newsheadlines #occupied #occupies #right #self-defence #speech #territories #territory
UN Special Rapporteur: Israel can't claim 'right of self-defence' | AJ #shorts

The Global South is Lost

One unanticipated outcome of the recent flareup in the #MiddleEast is that it appears to have put the final nail in the coffin of the #ClownWorldOrder by making it clear that the so-called “rules-based order” does not actually have any genuine principles or rules, thereby ensuring widespread global preference for the sovereign nations of the #Multipolarity over the #Imperial #USA and its occupied #satrapies.

Attempts by the #US and its allies to “paint #Moscow as a global pariah” have been “poisoned” by the rush to support Israeli retaliation against #Hamas in #Gaza, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing more than a dozen officials.

“We have definitely lost the battle in the Global South,” one senior #G7 diplomat was quoted as saying. “All the work we have done with the Global South [over Ukraine] has been lost… Forget about rules, forget about world order. They won’t ever listen to us again.”

“What we said about #Ukraine has to apply to #Gaza. Otherwise we lose all our credibility,” the official added. “The Brazilians, the South Africans, the Indonesians: why should they ever believe what we say about human rights?”

West ‘lost’ Global South over Israel, 18 October 2023

Now, this is apparently shocking news to the inhabitants of #ClownWorld as well as its rulers, but it was always inevitable. The “Israel exception” to decades of baseless assertions about #democracy and #human-rights and respect for #indigenous peoples was never going to survive the #Internet anyhow, nor was “the plight of the poor, oppressed #Jewish people who never did nothing bad to nobody” ever going to cut any ice with anyone but high-trust, soft-hearted ignoramuses with no sense of #history.

And it’s a particularly bad look for #Israel to be observed to be “defending itself” by continuously #expanding its #territory. Considering that a significant percentage of the #GlobalSouth has historical experience with #violent #colonization of its ancestral lands, it should not be much of a surprise that there is a natural tendency for them to instinctively side with the #Palestinians. Indeed, many #Jews supported the #blacks in #SouthAfrica on much flimsier historical claims than those possessed by the Palestinians.

But as the Financial Times points out, it is the #juxtaposition of #ClownWorld’s position on the #Russia-Ukraine situation with the #Israel-Palestinian situation that has probably been the most harmful. Ukraine’s #crimes against the #Russians in the #Donbass, and the 14,400 Russians killed there between 2014 and 2022, far exceed the various crimes committed by Hamas in the same timeframe, and yet the #global #media has spent the last 19 months decrying Russian actions that have been considerably more restrained than the total #ethnic #cleansing of the Palestinians now being threatened all over social media in response to a single Hamas raid.

Clown World is dying. One hopes the #GreatPowers of the Multipolarity will use their power and influence in a more circumspect and generally beneficial manner once it is gone.

Before and after videos show Gaza destruction | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

Palestinians are sharing videos comparing Gaza before and after Israel's bombardment of the besieged territory.Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubs...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #Gaza #Palestinians #after #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #before #besieged #bombardment #latestnews #newsheadlines #sharing #territory #videos
Before and after videos show Gaza destruction | Al Jazeera Newsfeed

About #power grip and enlarging the gang's #territory.
MEP Clare Daly- speech from 19 Oct 2022

“By the summer of #1949, the #Palestinian polity had been devastated and most of its society uprooted,” Khalidi writes.

“Some 80 percent of the #Arab population of the #territory that at #war’s end became the new state of #Israel had been forced from their homes and lost their lands and property.

At least 720,000 of the 1.3 million #Palestinians were made #refugees.

Thanks to this #violent transformation, Israel controlled 78 percent of the territory of former Mandatory #Palestine, and now ruled over the 160,000 #Palestinian #Arabs who had been able to remain, barely one-fifth of the prewar Arab population.”

#violence #evil #colonization #colonialism #apartnehid #genocide

Source

#Map of U.S. with #native American #territory if they didn't break the #treaty.

The conclusion of the U.S. Indian Claims Commission in 1978 resulted in a map identical to this, which reflected the various claims before the commission and its courts. In some instances, the land marked here as "unceded" was not necessarily land that wasn't included by treaty, but in some cases was land that was promised and reserved for specific uses (i.e., hunting lands). In other cases, the map simply reflected the original territory of a certain #Tribe or #Tribes within which claims for uncompensated takings would be recognized. Anyone interested in reading the report and specifically the preface to the map should check it out here: https://narf.org/nill/documents/icc_final_report.pdf

source: https://libredd.it/r/MapPorn/comments/s9faa4/map_of_usa_with_native_american_territory_if_they/

#USA #politics #history #genocide #fail #problem #crime #colonization #HumanRights #natives #America

#Canada #Denmark #territory #dispute

@Adam Hunt, is this true?

With regards to #medical #mandates, "#Vaccine passports" and/or "#lockdowns" in the #UK please see:

Sidaway v. Board of Governors of the Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital

"A mentally competent patient has an absolute right to refuse to #consent to medical #treatment, for any reason, #rational or #irrational, or for no #reason at all, even where that decision may lead to his or her own #death."

This establishes the #principle of a legal right to #refuse medical treatment, preventative or curative. The ruling has been used in many cases and upheld.

https://swarb.co.uk/sidaway-v-board-of-governors-of-the-bethlem-royal-hospital-and-the-maudsley-hospital-hl-21-feb-1985/

In addition, please see the #International #Covenant on Civil and #Political #Rights Article 1 Section 1, Article 7 and Article 12 Section 1. The UK signed the #ICCPR September 1968 and ratified it in May 1976.

ICCPR Article 1 Section 1:
"All peoples have the #right of self-determination. By #virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their #economic, #social and #cultural development."

ICCPR Article 7:
"No one shall be subjected to #torture or to #cruel, #inhuman or degrading #treatment or #punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his #free #consent to medical or #scientific #experimentation."

ICCPR Article 12 Section 1:
"Everyone #lawfully within the #territory of a #State shall, within that territory, have the right to #liberty of movement and #freedom to choose his residence."

The UK is a ratified signatory nation of the ICCPR and has a #legal obligation to abide by the Articles within the treaty.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/ccpr.aspx

With regards to #medical #mandates, "#Vaccine passports" &/or "#lockdowns" in the #USA please see:

14th Amendment, Section 1, Due Process Clause in conjunction with Washington v. Harper (1990) & Cruzan v. Director Missouri Department of #Health (1990).

14th Amendment, Section 1:
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the #jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any #law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of #citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of #life, #liberty, or #property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/interpretation/amendment-xiv/clauses/701

Washington v. Harper (1990)
"The forcible #injection of medication into a nonconsenting person's body represents a substantial interference with that person's #liberty."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_v._Harper
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/494/210/

Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (1990)
"[a competent person has a] constitutionally protected liberty interest in refusing unwanted medical treatment."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruzan_v._Director,_Missouri_Department_of_Health
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/497/261/

Article 6 of the US Constitution in conjunction with The International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights Article 1 Section 1, Article 7 & Article 12 Section 1. The USA signed the #ICCPR October 1977 & #ratified it in June 1992.

US #Constitution, Article 6:
"...all #Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the #Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the #Judges in every State shall be bound thereby..."

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/article-6/

ICCPR Article 1 Section 1:
"All peoples have the #right of self-determination. By #virtue of that right they freely determine their #political status and freely pursue their #economic, #social & #cultural development."

ICCPR Article 7:
"No one shall be subjected to #torture or to #cruel, #inhuman or degrading #treatment or #punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his free #consent to #medical or #scientific #experimentation."

ICCPR Article 12 Section 1:
"Everyone #lawfully within the #territory of a #State shall, within that territory, have the right to liberty of movement and #freedom to choose his residence."

The USA is a ratified signatory #nation of the ICCPR and has a #legal obligation to abide by the Articles within the #treaty.

https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/ccpr.aspx