Ted Trainer has made that Boyer lecture useful after all by digging it up, composting it and growing his fine article on the repurposed soil.
#BoyerLecture #TedTrainer #Neoliberalism #JustinWolfers #Expansionism #LimitlessGrowth #ClimateChange #PrivateOpulencePublicSqualor
"A blueprint for mass deportation, marketed as development."
The new norm ?
"Prospectus proposes forced displacement of entire population and puts territory into US trusteeship.
A plan circulating in the White House to develop the “Gaza Riviera” as a string of high-tech megacities has been dismissed as an “insane” attempt to provide cover for the large-scale ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian territory’s population." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/01/leaked-gaza-riviera-plan-dismissed-as-insane-attempt-to-cover-ethnic-cleansing
"Gaza is becoming ‘graveyard of international humanitarian law’ "
"We have made the Geneva convention[s] almost irrelevant. What is happening and being accepted today in Gaza is not something that can be isolated; it will become the new norm for all future conflicts."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/sep/03/gaza-graveyard-international-humanitarian-law-unrwa-israel-middle-east-crisis-latest-updates-news
#EconomicAcceleration #EthnicCleansing #MassDeportation #ForcedDisplacement #ImperialBoomerang #expansionism #destruction #InternationalLaw #law #GenevaConventions #civilians #BareLifeAgamben #StatesOfException #HyperNormalisation #everywhere
"Climate change is an existential problem of planetary proportions."
"The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued a historic advisory opinion that could reshape the global legal landscape for climate action, declaring that States have binding duties under international law to protect the climate system and that a failure to take appropriate measures may constitute an internationally wrongful act."
"The ICJ also addressed the oceans, affirming that anthropogenic GHG emissions qualify as “pollution of the marine environment” under UNCLOS, triggering obligations for States to “take all measures… necessary to prevent, reduce and control pollution.”
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https://pasifika.news/2025/07/icj-rules-climate-inaction-breaches-international-law-affirms-states-legal-duties-to-act/
#FossilFuels #CoalAndGas #expansionism #Australia #SA #pollution #MarineHeatwave #Pacific #ocean #MassMortalityEvents #GHG #UN #ICJ #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCrisis #reparations #restitution #justice #law #ClimateAction
"The calamitous turning point of Israel's political culture occurred when the Zionist movement was taken over by the Russian political sect, particularly those from the Second Aliya (the 1904-1914 wave of Jewish immigration to #Palestine). Russian culture possesses noble aspects and achieved intellectual and cultural summits. But at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th, Russia underwent dramatic political upheavals that engendered a brutal political culture that scorned tolerance and enlightenment."
by Ofri Ilany: https://archive.ph/DhflH#selection-873.0-873.527 via @oatmeal @israel @histodons 🧶
#settlers #Bolshevism #socialism #Revolution #RussianJews #Zionism #Revisionism #Revisionists #supremacy #RussianSupremacy #Russia #Ukraine #nationalism #ethnicCleansing #racism #coloniality #NeverAgain #rightToExist #JewishSupremacy #whiteSupremacy #colonialism #Aliyah #Russians #Mapai #Labour #LabourParty #JewishState #israel #immigration #immigrants #MittelEuropa #PaleOfSettlement #history #Kibbutz #Kibbutzim #expansionism
![immigration to Israel [-Palestine]
Annual totals since 1948 show a peak at 240,000 persons entering in 1949 and show a peak at 200,000 persons entering in 1990.
(People emigrating are not envisaged.)](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/114/686/902/436/410/136/original/ab77e58edbb9b466.png)
#Trump’s sharing of the clip to his 9M followers on Truth Social, w/no acknowledgment of its source, suggested that he was claiming it as a rendering of his #policy plans. It immediately found a wider audience: headlines, including one from NPR, described the video as “Trump’s.” In fact, it is the work of 2 Israeli American filmmakers, Solo Avital & Ariel Vromen, who run an #AI-driven studio in Los Angeles….
#expansionism #imperialism #Gaza #geopolitics #USpol
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5309695/trump-gaza-video
Its soundtrack was an #AI generated, clubby song w/lyrics such as “Trump Gaza shining bright, golden future, a brand new light.” Earlier in Feb, #Trump had threatened to “take over” #Gaza, forcibly relocate its population of 2 million, & turn it into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” The AI video made the #neocolonialist mission nauseatingly explicit.
Money rains down from the sky, above a simulacrum of #ElonMusk. #Trump & Benjamin #Netanyahu sip cocktails bare-chested on the beach. Effigies of Trump’s head abound, including atop a towering golden statue of the man. The statue’s disproportionately long legs were just one clue that the video’s strangely smooth & symmetrical compositions were made using #ArtificialIntelligence.
The Imperialist America has returned.
What's the next move after the Panama Canal and Greenland? Canada might be too much to swallow in one bite. Perhaps Nova Scotia would be a nice Amuse-bouche.
#Imperialism #Expansionism #ManifestDestiny #WhiteIsRight #OurFascistPresident
Trump says U.S. is 'reclaiming...
#Trump outlined a vision of American #expansionism: building up our naval capacity, reclaiming the #PanamaCanal, & pledging to “get” #Greenland, “one way or another.”
He didn’t mention his aim to make #Canada the 51st state. But that may be because he doesn’t want to get into the horribly idiotic & disastrous #tariffs he placed on Canada & #Mexico today.
Back to London…
#Starmer opened the #summit of #Europe’s leaders in London w/ #Macron & #Zelensky seated beside him. “We’re gathered here today because this is a once in a generation moment for the #security of Europe, & we all need to step up,” Starmer told the assembled leaders. “Getting a good outcome for #Ukraine is not just a matter of right & wrong, it’s vital for the security of every nation here & many others too.”
Trump’s tariff and land grab threats signal U.S. expansionist ambitions
#Canada #Trump #ElonMusk #USA #USPolitics #TradeWar #Imperialism #Expansionism #MAGA #Geopolitics #Economy #Nationalism #Populism #Expansion #USImperialism #TrumpTariff #LandGrabThreat
https://the-14.com/trumps-tariff-and-land-grab-threats-signal-u-s-expansionist-ambitions/
Israel to continue occupation of West Bank, their defence minister said. And also occupying Lebanon. And also occupying Syria. And maybe also Gaza (except because intense fighting is 100% guaranteed in Gaza, in opposite to every other mentioned place). And all of this, with the blessing of the US government, regardless of whom is sitting in the White House, be it from party A or from party B.
#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #WestBank #Lebanon #Syria #Occupation #Israel #Expansionism #Imperalism #USA
Trump erroneously accuses #ukraine of starting the three year long #RussiaUkraineWar and implies they should have simply given up their #Sovereignty ceded their land and submitted to Putin - who is apparently Trump’s overlord (he’s got to have something big on Trump, and why wouldn’t he - as former director of the KGB?). Ukraine is screwed, excluded along with Europe in so-called peace talks. It’s hard not to notice that Trump, and his newly installed Intelligence Director, Tulsi Gabbard, are #RussianAssets - given Gabbard’s history of parroting Russian propaganda. Get ready for more US withdrawals from agencies, programs, and alliances that currently counter Russian agression and expansionism. After all, Trump wants to annex or invade #Canada #greenland and #Panama. Why wouldn’t he approve of Putin’s land grab? #UkraineRussiaWar #ForeignPolicy #Expansionism #TrumpIsARussianAsset #TraitorTrump #war #Europe
"Go home, Yankee! Yankee, go home!
Keep your deals and go back home.
Say "goodbye" to your grand schemes,
Don't tread on our hopes and dreams.
As our anthem proudly sings,
Canada stands!"
Filed under: Things you wouldn’t have cared about before Trump.
#greenland #expansionism #canada #usa
https://flipboard.com/@globeandmail/world-qs57rganz/-/a-3L2W1JnCQyamqkqL7dol-Q%3Aa%3A729020400-%2F0
"5 current & former snr European officials said Trump's call with DK’s PM over Greenland had gone very badly. They added that Trump was aggressive & confrontational. “It was horrendous... It was a cold shower.”
“Intent was very clear. They want it. The Danes are now in crisis mode,” said one person briefed on the call. Another: “The Danes are utterly freaked out by this.”
-J Davis
It's more embarrassing every day to be an American.
#Trump #Denmark #USPol #Expansionism
https://www.ft.com/content/ace02a6f-3307-43f8-aac3-16b6646b60f6
It’s on the President of Panama’s official government website:
https://www.presidencia.gob.pa/publicacion/comunicado
#Trump #Panama #PanamaCanal #expansionism #FactCheck #TrumpLies
Mulino also responded to #Trump’s assertion that the canal was given to #Panama.
“The Canal was not a concession from anyone. It was the result of generational struggles that culminated in 1999, as a result of the Torrijos-Carter treaty &, since then until now, for 25 years, without interruption, we have managed & expanded it responsibly to serve the world & its commerce, including the United States,” Mulino said in his statement.
