grte @ grte @lemmy.ca

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Ehud Barak: "No, decades ago, we were running the place... we helped them to build these bunkers."

So Air Canada will really lose literally anybody's luggage, huh?

That I need? I've seen more than enough to draw my own conclusions about what Israel is up to. They seem to want to convince the world of something, though.

The best thing to do would be to end apartheid.

Why would they need to? Did that person bomb the hospital and now needs to justify it?

Carlson's relevance has fallen off a cliff since he was fired from Fox so this definitely smacks of a starstruck fan getting to meet her over-the-hill hero.

Yes, the CCLA.

Even just looking at the image the guy is clearly drawing a parallel between Nazi Germany and Israel rather than flying a swastika as an expression of their personal beliefs.

Defending the confederacy is an incredibly unkind way to frame someone's position, so thanks for that.

Why? It's simple. Israel wants the land. Palestinians are currently occupying the land. Hence, Israel wants to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians so they can occupy and use the land. Individual Israelis may view it in religious terms, and things may be framed that way for messaging purposes, but the cause of the conflict is a very material desire for more land and more resources.

No, you're mistaken. It wouldn't matter if it had no religious sites on it, anymore than it didn't matter that North and South America didn't have any religious sites on it that would have meant anything to the Europeans who colonized it.

This conflict is material in nature.

The dispute isn't religious in nature. It's about land.

I'm sure they've never thought of that before. They should give you a job as head of their diplomatic corps with ideas like this.

Star Trek has been very political since the original series.

Why do you think a Levantine Trail of Tears is an acceptable solution rather than ethnic cleansing?

Elected how many years ago? What was the average age in Gaza, again?

If we want to talk about elected governments, the genocidal Israeli government has much more legitimacy in claiming it represents it's constituents.

Lots of Albertans buy into the marketing even if an actual assessment of their circumstances would show they aren't living it.

Of course, the stereotype is mostly a product of marketing. Fewer than 100,000 of the ~2 million workers in Alberta are employed in oil and gas. Whereas 1.5 million of them are employed in services of some sort. 81% of Alberta is urban, which is in line with the Canadian average. The average Albertan is pretty much the same as the average Canadian, an underpaid urban service worker. With a small, well paid minority of workers who really mess up the stats.

The restaurant industry as a whole is in need of a rethink. It's an industry which survives off (and helps to maintain) a permanent underclass of underpaid workers.

If any industry needed unionizing badly, it's this one.

Carbon capture is absolutely not the future in Canada, much as our elected officials may wish it so. It is a waste of time and money, subsidized reputation laundering for a powerful industry.

Postmedia now sells not just native ads but even news coverage and space on its opinion pages for those willing to pay, as a Canadaland investigation revealed in 2020. Its business model, as my recent book The Postmedia Effect shows, is simply to rake in as much cash as possible from all available sources in order to keep sending tens of millions of dollars a year in payments on its massive debt south to its US hedge fund owners/bondholders.

Lay off your journalists and sell preferential coverage to whichever organizations need to sanitize their message seems to be Postmedia's current business model. It's a lot cheaper when the stories come to you, I suppose.