“Exclusive: ret’d army Col Chris Romberg, descendant of Holocaust survivors, on genocide and Starmer regime”
by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @palestine
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“Protester among hundreds arrested last weekend speaks out against UK’s hypocritical pro-Israel regime”
#Press #UK #Israel #Gaza %Genocide #Protests #Starmer #Labour #Dictatorship #Arrests #AbuseOfPower #Hypocrisy #TerrorismAct2000 #Proscription
This is the country "defending European values" while people put in jail for saying genocide is wrong.
Europe is everything they blamed Russia and North Korea for.
Still not as brutal and raw, but sadly to protect a genocidal regime in Israel instead of nation's dictator.
#Europe #Democracy #Hypocrisy
#Gaza #SaveGaza #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael
#palestine #Israel #Politics #Genocide @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml
When individuals share knowledge, it’s "theft" and punished with ruin. When corporations do it at scale, it’s "innovation" and they’re rewarded with unabashed profit-making.
The more I read and think, the more I'm convinced there's only one unforgivable sin (with many variations): hypocrisy.
If you read the gospels it 's the only sin Jesus did not forgave, and on the contrary he cursed those who lived with that sin, the Pharisees. It took seventy years for the curse to come real, but then the Pharisees and the Temple disappeared.
A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
Is it desirable that all should be exactly alike in their religious convictions? Is any such thing possible? Do we not know that there are no two persons alike in the whole world? No two, trees, no two leaves, no two anythings that are alike? Infinite diversity is the law. Religion tries to force all minds into one mould. Knowing that all cannot believe, the church endeavors to make all say they believe. She longs for the unity of hypocrisy, and detests the splendid diversity of individuality and freedom.
Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, agnostic, orator
Lecture (1873-12) “Individuality,” Chicago Free Religious Society
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
I DESPISE #Hypocrisy & #hypocrites, and the #GOP is rife with them.
Jen pointed out last night after #PedoDon met with AG #BlondieBondi (as well as #JV #Vance and #Patel) to discuss "his #Epstein Problem", how the #Right went berserk in 2016 when Bill Clinton met with AG Loretta Lynch (while they were accusing Hillary of mishandling #ClassifiedDocs.) #GOPHypocrisy
https://www.msnbc.com/the-briefing-with-jen-psaki/watch/busted-weasel-words-fail-to-hide-vance-bondi-patel-at-damage-control-meeting-244558917936
"... all classes aid and abet the truly pious hypocrite, provided his hypocrisy be strictly consistent. With equal delightsomeness, all creeds, no matter how absurd, just now obtain some kind of a hearing."
-- The Silver Domino; Or, Side Whispers, Social and Literary
#Republican Congressman from #Kentucky Thomas Massie is mocking the #hypocrisy of #Trump boot-licking #Republicans in the #Texas state legislature. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-rep-thomas-massie-mocks-party-hypocrisy-on-texas-gerrymandering-chaos_n_6893bf19e4b0a1fdf7a9c956
In addition to the #Clintons, the Republican-led panel issued #subpoenas for #depositions from James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder, Merrick Garland, Robert Mueller, William Barr, Jeff Sessions & Alberto Gonzales [all perceived enemies of #Trump]. #Republicans on the cmte said they are seeking information from these officials regarding the #JeffreyEpstein files.
#House #Oversight Cmte Chair #JamesComer issued numerous #subpoenas on Tues -- including one to the #DOJ for the COMPLETE #JeffreyEpstein files & another for #depositions w/ President #BillClinton & fmr Secy of #State #HillaryClinton.
Comer said he wants the DOJ to turn over the "full, complete, unredacted Epstein Files" on or before Aug. 19.
[note they’re subpoenaing #Democrats, glaringly absent—of course—is #Trump despite him hosting Epstein parties]
#law #hypocrisy
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/house-oversight-committee-issues-subpoenas-epstein-files/story?id=124378317
The Palestinian Statehood Drive Is a Despicable Sham
Western countries are rushing to recognize Palestine not to stop genocide but to solve a political problem. They’re offering colonial lies dressed up as liberation.
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/palestinian-statehood-uk-france-sham
#Israel #Palestine #2StateScam #SnakeOil #Genocide #Hypocrisy #Colonialism #Media
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel
Samuel Sewall was a Boston Puritan businessman, judge, and author in the late 1600s-early 1700s.
Two of his books had, let's say, unusual flaws:
1. The Selling of Joseph, which was one of the first anti-slavery tracts ever published in North America. "All men have equal right unto liberty," he said - including enslaved Africans and the generally-mistreated Native Americans. So far so good!
BUT ... Sewell continued to sell kidnapped Africans for another 30 years from his warehouse in Boston. He even ran advertisements for them.
1/2
OMG THIS MAKES ME SICK!
A few days after writing a story on starvation and malnutrition in Gaza, the New York Times issued a clarification that it felt readers must know: that the emaciated Palestinian boy it had profiled actually had a preexisting health condition.
#Starvation #NYT #Hypocrisy #Inhumanity
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel #Media #Gaza #Genocide #Complicity #SaveTheChildren
So a Belgian court has ordered to block access to Anna's Archive, Libgen, OceanofPDF, Z-Library, and the Internet Archive's Open Library (https://torrentfreak.com/belgium-targets-internet-archives-open-library-in-sweeping-site-blocking-order/).
Yet the Belgian government, including the judicial branch are actively developing projects using AI, a.o. trained on Anna’s archive & Libgen, to help automate work (e.g. https://www.agoria.be/nl/diensten/expertise/digitalisering/artificiele-intelligentie/ml6-en-belgische-justitie-slaan-handen-in-elkaar-voor-digitalisatie-van-rechterlijke-uitspraken).
So what will it be: is it illegal or is it legal (also for derived products)?
Many speak the truth, when they say that they despise riches and preferment, but they mean the riches and preferment possessed by other men.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 371 (1820)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…
It's a pattern that is undeniable. The louder the thump on the Bible the more despicable their actions are in private.
A quotation from Hannah Arendt
For behind the unwillingness to judge lurks the suspicion that no one is a free agent, and hence the doubt that anyone is responsible or could be expected to answer for what he has done. The moment moral issues are raised, even in passing, he who raises them will be confronted with this frightful lack of self-confidence and hence of pride, and also with a kind of mock-modesty that in saying, Who am I to judge? actually means We’re all alike, equally bad, and those who try, or pretend that they try, to remain halfway decent are either saints or hypocrites, and in either case should leave us alone.
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Essay (1964-08), “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship,” The Listener Magazine
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/arendt-hannah/43944/
Never again has turned into never mind.
Disgusting hypocrisy of the world ignoring Israeli made famine in Gaza and refusal to call an end to the immoral and illegal genocide in Gaza.
All of a sudden celebrities are posting "let in the aid" while ignoring who is behind it and call for an end of occupation. This is "all eyes on Rafah" all over again.
A stupid riding the popular trend by ignoring the 21 months of Israeli/American genocide.
#Hypocrisy
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