The daughter of Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles, works for a US lobbying firm with a $35K-a-month contract to represent Republika Srpska. Here she is with its interior minister, a figure aligned with the pro-Russian government.
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A new statue titled “The Orange Plague”, also known as “King of Injustice”, by Danish artist Jens Galschiøt has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, where it will remain through 8 October. Remember to stop by for a selfie if you have a chance. 😏📸
A double tap airstrike on a paramedic and a 15-year-old teenager. A building damaged by genocidal assaults collapses and kills 21 people. These are all atrocities that happened in Gaza this week while mainstream media did everything in its power to distract you.
“Guys, they want us to go home.”
🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
Protester: “He’s just everything that is wrong in this kind of society, and he’s here. It’s just not right. I don’t know why we welcomed him here… We are a peaceful nation and he’s coming over here with blood on his hands from all the wars he’s doing.”
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Around 50 arrested so far outside Westminster Magistrate’s Court as campaign to lift the ban on Palestine Action escalates today. Over 100 people are risking 14 year prison sentences by inviting support for a proscribed group.
Full story here:
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photo Amelia Halls
Peacock spiders are only 4mm long, but their courtship dance rivals any bird of paradise. Australia has over 90 species of these tiny, ultra-colorful performers.
The effective way the clarinet player does a musical call and response to the singer is just mesmerizing.
"Tu vuo' fa' l'americano" by Renato Carosone: cover by Hetty and the Jazzato Band, an Anglo-Italian jazz quintet.
@Rainmaker1973 #globalmuseum#music#jazz
Conscience is often tested when obedience is demanded. If these Israeli refuseniks are choosing prison over participating in a war they believe kills civilians, that's a powerful act of moral courage. Peace begins when humanity is valued above militarism. #Gaza
Music is not a luxury here. It is proof that we are still alive.
Two young women. Two banduras. One bench in a Ukrainian city.
They played. People stopped. No one said a word.
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The UN report details how Israel has murdered 20,179 Palestinian children in Gaza, plus 44,000+ children injured. And STILL my Australian Govt is silent, and we continue to sell arms to Israel. No rebuke, no expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador. Australia is complicit in Israel's atrocities. #auspol
Sometimes, the most powerful statement is not a speech.
It's a name.
Then another name.
And another.
According to widely shared reports, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi participated in a memorial event where the names of children lost during the Gaza war were read aloud over the course of several hours.
EXCLUSIVE: Russia took satellite images of a U.S. air base days before Iran attacked the site and wounded Americans, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says.
Give your key defenses and fortress cities to Russia which has been unable to take them in 12 years of fighting, and then we who are acting to strengthen Russia will pretend to help you protect the rest of your country. This is shameful, rotten, and stinks of corruption.
Exclusive: The US has made its offer of security guarantees needed for a peace deal in Ukraine conditional on Kyiv ceding all of the country's eastern region of Donbas to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters reut.rs/3NPWIkK