Fr. Adam Bucko sees echoes today in the US of his childhood in Soviet-occupied Poland: "We are seeing fear used deliberately as a governing tool...cruelty justified as enforcement. Just like then, we are told this is necessary....to look away."
#Silence is not #neutrality. bit.ly/4roePMQ
#Neutrality
@wdlindsy +9001%
When someone claims it's a
"40°C windstill and dry hot summer day"
and their opponent says it's a
"-30°C whiteout blizzard snowstorm"
you don't "compromise" on a
"10°C partially cloudy & partially raining spring day with a medium gusts of wind".
- You go outside, stick some measurement equipment in the ground, take readings and then say/speak/send/write the truth!
Anything else makes one a useful idiot for the liar(s)…
(Yes plural, cuz potentially both sides can lie!)
#Journalism #USpol #Media #Truth #FalseBalancing #FalseNeutrality #MAGA #fascism #Neutrality #Press #Balancing #FreeSpeech #Professionalism
Stellar #investigative #journalism from #C4News: the Duchy of Lancaster belonging to #KingCharles refuses to take responsibility for cleaning up an illegal dumping site on its lands. So much for an #environment champion!
Finding out the true landowners is incredible in itself, but the #storytelling & driving the point to its only possible conclusion is remarkable: it proves #neutrality in journalism isn't about leaving viewers in the dark about lines of responsibility.
I don't think the amendments really change the substance of this, ultimately it's just clearing the way for dubious definitions of what a "peacekeeping" mission actually is.
With a PR campaign heating up to ditch a solemn pledge to the people of Ireland, as ever on this subject, The Phoenix is eagle eyed. #spéirghorm #TripleLock #neutrality
Hashtag time ☺️ #spéirghorm #speirgorm #Ireland #neutrality #TripleLock
"Hysteria is not a strategy. It is a mood — sometimes a method — with a long history of dragging countries into wars they barely understood. If we are serious about protecting our children, we could start by protecting them from the politics of fear." #speirgorm #neutrality #independence
@Wen #MSF have always been vocal in conflicts and taken position where needed, because silent #neutrality is complicity. They've done it in Sarajevo and they are doing so in #Gaza. The French version of their manifesto explains it best: "MSF sort de l'observation stricte du principe de neutralité et exprime son témoignage, pour mobiliser les consciences en vue de faire cesser ces exactions et d'améliorer le sort des populations" https://www.msf.ch/propos/nos-valeurs
The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
-- Dante
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #Dante #Crisis #Hell #Neutrality
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Guangxi #China #LiRiver #LiJiang #TowerKarst #Geology
📸 Mood, taking on the debate. Consultative Forum on International Security Policy. UCC, 22 June 2023. #Spéirghorm #Neutrality #TripleLock
Would King Charles XIV John have approved of Sweden's NATO membership?
#sweden #nato #neutrality #bernadotte #history #napoleonicwars #frenchempire #foreignpolicy
When one thinks of the cruelty, squalor, and futility of war — and in this particular case of the intrigues, the persecutions, the lies and the misunderstandings — there is always the temptation to say: “One side is as bad as the other. I am neutral.” In practice, however, one cannot be neutral, and there is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1942-08), “Looking Back on the Spanish War, ch. 5, Such, Such Were the Joys, essay 8 (1953)
More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/80883/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #bothsides #falseequivalence #neutrality #sides #war
Is It Time To Redraw Our Maps? / ‘Free The Map’
(From migration to ecology, new knowledge makes new cartographic demands)
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/14/is-it-time-to-redraw-our-maps <-- shared media article
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https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2019.1676031 <--shared paper
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https://freethemap.org/ <-- shared ‘Free The Map’ page, where “Prof. Henk van Houtum makes a compelling case for a new cartography…”
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[this post should not be considered an endorsement of any particular viewpoint or book/product]
#cartography #cartopolitics #geography #visualisation #humanimpacts #mapping #mapmaking #GIS #spatial #interpretation #history #borders #internationalborders #jigsawpuzzlemaps #neutrality #objectivity #mappingrevolution #uncertainty #subjectivity #multiplicity
🪜 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘂𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘆
How neutral is your writing?
📏Wikimedia Neutrality Test
(0 = not true, 1 = sometimes, 2 = yes)
✅ Sources > adjectives
✅ No judgmental words
✅ Facts > opinion
✅ Be careful with labels (“controversial”)
Total: …/8
Feel free to toot your score!
Turkmenistan Marks 30 Years of Neutrality
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/turkmenistan-marks-30-years-of-neutrality/
“It set the precedent for an outward-facing, small state diplomacy, which was later evident in Ireland’s approach to the UN and peacekeeping.” #neutrality #UN #TripleLock
#Speech Is Only Free for the #Privileged: The Moral Mechanics of #Neutrality
34 Pages Posted: 1 Dec 2025
Candice Mason Kulbeth
This Article argues that the integrity of the #FirstAmendment's promise of free expression depends less on the right to speak than on the discipline to translate speech into neutral, verifiable judgment.
Ireland could be on the hook for €4.5 billion to guarantee a European loan to pay for Ukraine’s general budget and war industry. Why aren’t Irish media talking about this?
#austerity #neutrality #climate #climatecollapse #peace
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-capitals-frozen-assets-loan-ukraine-russia-war-finances/
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