“I’ve had 20 years’ experience in international relations and law including living and working in the Middle East,” Parke said. “My views are well known. But I don’t want them to be a running distraction from electing a Labor government which will take urgent and strong action on climate change. That’s why I have decided to withdraw my candidacy.”
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The middle class is shrinking, all around the world, says OECD
Facebook “morally bankrupt”
Facebook are ‘morally bankrupt liars’ says New Zealand’s privacy commissioner
“Facebook cannot be trusted,” wrote Edwards. “They are morally bankrupt pathological liars who enable genocide (Myanmar), facilitate foreign undermining of democratic institutions. “[They] allow the live streaming of suicides, rapes, and murders, continue to host and publish the mosque attack video, allow advertisers to target ‘Jew haters’ and other hateful market segments, and refuse to accept any responsibility for any content or harm.
“They #dontgiveazuck” wrote Edwards. He later deleted the tweets, saying they had prompted “toxic and misinformed traffic”.
Women making clothes for West face sexual abuse
Revealed: women making clothes for west face sexual abuse
The sexual abuse is only one of the forms of mistreatment they suffer.
UK businesses using AI to monitor staff
UK businesses using artificial intelligence to monitor staff activity
“Dozens of UK business owners are using artificial intelligence to scrutinise staff behaviour minute-to-minute by harvesting data on who emails whom and when, who accesses and edits files and who meets whom and when.”
Chrome, Safari, and Edge to prevent disabling of click tracking
Chrome, Safari, and Edge to prevent disabling of click tracking, just another reason to use Firefox https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/major-browsers-to-prevent-disabling-of-click-tracking-privacy-risk/
Yesterday’s rally and march in solidarity with Gaza
at the solidarity for Gaza rally outside the Kirya army base in central Tel Aviv – we were probably around a hundred
Coverage: https://schwarczenberg.com/solidarity-with-the-great-march-of-return-in-tel-aviv/
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“Netanyahu is right: Israel is a nation with no interest in equality”
“As a Palestinian citizen of Israel, I am subject to insidious discrimination that is enshrined by law – and no major party sees it as an issue”
Source: The Guardian
Being ahead of one’s time
“Everybody says to me, ‘Oh, you were so ahead of your time!’ You cannot be ahead of your time. You can only be in your time. Your today is the same as everybody else’s. What you can be is rejected by your time, and I was rejected.” Artist Betty Tompkins in an interview with the Guardian . (I hadn’t heard of her or her art, but like the quote.)
Palestinians patrol Hebron after Israel ejects foreign peacekeepers
(The Guardian)
Volunteers in blue uniforms begin escorting Palestinian children past Israeli settlers to school
Now the international observers are gone ‘The soldiers are acting differently, the settlers are acting differently.’