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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Streetart – SCAF @ Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA – Barbara Picci

Location: Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA
Artist: SCAF (France)
For: Reggae Rise Up Florida
Year: 2024

Photo Credits: SCAF

Source: Streetart – SCAF @ Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA – Barbara Picci

Drone footage raises questions about Israeli justification for deadly strike on Gaza journalists – The Washington Post

On Jan. 7, the Israeli military conducted a targeted missile strike on a car carrying four Palestinian journalists outside Khan Younis, in southern Gaza.

Two members of an Al Jazeera crew — Hamza Dahdouh, 27, and drone operator Mustafa Thuraya, 30 — were killed, along with their driver. Two freelance journalists were seriously wounded.

They were returning from the scene of an earlier Israeli strike on a building, where they had used a drone to capture the aftermath. The drone — a consumer model available at Best Buy — would be central to the Israeli justification for the strike.

The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement the next day it had “identified and struck a terrorist who operated an aircraft that posed a threat to IDF troops.” Two days later, the military announced that it had uncovered evidence that both men belonged to militant groups — Thuraya to Hamas and Dahdouh to Palestinian Islamic Jihad, its smaller rival in Gaza — and that the attack had been in response to an “immediate” threat.

The Washington Post obtained and reviewed the footage from Thuraya’s drone, which was stored in a memory card recovered at the scene and sent to a Palestinian production company in Turkey. No Israeli soldiers, aircraft or other military equipment are visible in the footage taken that day — which The Post is publishing in its entirety — raising critical questions about why the journalists were targeted. Fellow reporters said they were unaware of troop movements in the area.

Drone footage shot by journalist Mustafa Thuraya on Jan. 7 documents the scene of a strike in Rafah. (Video: Media Town/Mustafa Thuraya)

Interviews with 14 witnesses to the attack and colleagues of the slain reporters offer the most detailed account yet of the deadly incident. The Post found no indications that either man was operating as anything other than a journalist that day. Both passed through Israeli checkpoints on their way to the south early in the war; Dahdouh had recently been approved to leave Gaza, a rare privilege unlikely to have been granted to a known militant.

In response to multiple inquiries and detailed questions from The Post, the IDF said: “We have nothing further to add.”

Source: Drone footage raises questions about Israeli justification for deadly strike on Gaza journalists – The Washington Post

FACT SHEET: House Republicans Endorse a National Abortion Ban with Zero Exceptions in Latest Budget | The White House

The Republican Study Committee budget:

  • Supports eliminating reproductive freedom for all women in every state and puts IVF treatment squarely on the chopping block through House Republicans’ support for the Life at Conception Act.
  • Endorses banning mifepristone – an FDA-approved, safe and effective medication that has been on the market for more than 20 years.
  • Supports rolling back policies that help ensure our Nation’s veterans have access to abortion care when their health or lives are at risk or in cases of rape or incest.
  • Guts funding for contraception—which is supported by the vast majority of Americans on both sides of the aisle—for low-income and uninsured women. This would further erode access to essential health care, from cancer screening to primary care, at a time when state abortion bans have already forced health clinics that provide contraception and other critical health services to close.

Source: FACT SHEET: House Republicans Endorse a National Abortion Ban with Zero Exceptions in Latest Budget | The White House

Delhi world’s ‘most polluted’ capital: report – Stigmatis

Delhi was the most polluted capital city in the world in 2023, a Swiss-based air-quality monitoring group has found.

Delhi struggles with bad air round the year. Getty Images

India, of which Delhi is the capital, was also ranked as the world’s third-most polluted country after neighbours Bangladesh and Pakistan, IQAir said.

The country’s air has worsened since 2022, when it was the eighth most polluted country, it added.

Source: Delhi world’s ‘most polluted’ capital: report – Stigmatis

Open Thread | Will Keep On Reminding You About Project 2025 | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Reminder: Project 2025 outlines what will happen if ANY Republican gets into office. Not, just if Trump gets into office. The people behind Project 2025 don’t believe in little-d democracy.

Letters from An American
March 17, 2024
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

On Friday, journalist Casey Michel, who specializes in the study of kleptocracy, pointed out that reporters had missed an important meeting last week. Michel noted that while reporters covered Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s visit to former president Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, they paid far less attention to the visit Orbán paid to the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the Heritage Foundation on Friday, March 8. There, Orbán spoke privately to an audience that included the president of the organization, Kevin Roberts, and, according to a state media printout, “renowned U.S. right-wing politicians, analysts and public personalities.”

Michel noted that it was “nothing short of shocking” that Orbán declined to meet with administration officials and instead went to Washington, D.C., to meet with a right-wing think tank. With Roberts’s appointment as head of Heritage in 2021, the conservative organization swung to the position that its role is “institutionalizing Trumpism.”

A leader of a country comes to the United States of America, to Washington, DC and DOES NOT meet with the President of the United States. But, instead, meets with a thinktank.

Let that sit on your brain.

Roberts has been vocal about his admiration for Orbán, tweeting in 2022 that it was an honor to meet him. At last year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Orbán boasted that Hungary is “the place where we didn’t just talk about defeating the progressives and liberals and causing a conservative Christian political turn, but we actually did it.” In January, Roberts told Lulu Garcia-Navarro of the New York Times that Orbán’s statement was “all true” and “should be celebrated.” In a different interview, Garcia-Navarro noted, Roberts had called modern Hungary “not just a model for conservative statecraft but the model.”

Source: Open Thread | Will Keep On Reminding You About Project 2025 | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Orchestral – An Ekphrastic #W3 #99 – Suzette B’s Blog

Image credit: nateemee | iStockphoto

From the darkest age came the most light

storied operas odes ancient Medieval chants.

An orchestral muse himself the friend of a king

scribed a dramatic opera score life-changing.

In love’s triangle Tristan’s Chord half diminuished,

Fate enters Act two virtuoso voices crescendo, end.

Love resurrected, transfigured, free

entwines mercy’s trunk and branches as one tree.

Source: Orchestral – An Ekphrastic #W3 #99 – Suzette B’s Blog

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