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US Joe Biden Partners with Israel in Gaza Carnage

Happened before during the Bush and Obama administration. Shipping arms and munitions to replenish stocks used by Israel to crush the Palestinian people in Gaza. Unconscionable ... immoral ... equates to war crimes and/or complicit to bombing civilians. The United States will live with impunity, Israeli leaders will be judged by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The White House and U.S. Congress will always stand by Israel to avoid prosecution.



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Israel propagandist Alan Dershowitz protested in Qatar | 5 March 2018 |

Dershowitz, for decades a Harvard law professor, is one of the most prominent pro-Israel propagandists in the United States. He has a long record of justifying attacks on Palestinians, including accusing them of using their children as "human shields" so they can be killed in order to embarrass Israel.

Dershowitz has attacked President Barack Obama for refusing to veto a December 2016 UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank.

He also urged Donald Trump to officially recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move the US embassy there - steps Obama's successor in the White House took in the face of global opposition and condemnation.

Dershowitz's lecture, titled "Law and Media," was held at the Northwestern University Qatar campus.

The event was not publicized and was only announced through an email to students at Education City, a vast campus housing that Qatar franchises of half a dozen prestigious US universities - Northwestern, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown, Texas A&M and Virginia Commonwealth - and several European institutions.



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Northwestern University in Qatar under pressure after dean's comment sparks protest | Arab News - Nov. 2019 |

Students at Northwestern University in Qatar are demanding an apology from its dean, Everette E. Dennis, after comments he reportedly made about Muslim students.

In response to concerns raised by the students that their graduation ceremony was scheduled to take place during fasting hours on the first day of Ramadan, Everette E. Dennis allegedly told a group of about 40 faculty members, "To hell with them."



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Exposed! EU Pushed the Dutch Government to Target Farmers | March 23, 2023 |

The media accused European Commission official Diederik Samson of influencing Dutch policy. He said he was only reminding the government of the Commission's point of view.

The Dutch press revealed documents showing that the EU Commission applied backroom pressure on the Dutch government to issue mandatory purchase orders to farmers, to advance the country's controversial nitrogen policy. 

According to the documents seen by journalists, senior European Commission official Diederik Samson advised the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture to prioritise forced buyouts of farms to break the backs of protestors in November 2022.

The Netherlands has seen a grassroots backlash against plans to slash the nation's agricultural industry under the guise of environmentalism, culminating in a major electoral victory for the Dutch farmer's movement (BBB) this month. The Dutch government had hoped to reduce nitrogen emissions using a volutary scheme to get farmers to stop farming.

Samson advised the Commission towards forced buyouts on farmers and away from planned voluntary buyouts, which would not be sufficient to solve the crisis. He described how the EU was demanding that the Netherlands make good on its nitrogen promises, mentioning how there was no room for flexibility on nitrogen cuts from Brussels. 

When the media accused Samson of influencing Dutch policy, he stated that he was only reminding the government of the Commission's point of view. Samson previously served as the former leader of the Dutch Labour Party and is a green energy CEO. 



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Diederik Samsom advised the Netherlands on behalf of the European Commission to force buy out of farmers

Diederik Samsom has advised the Netherlands on behalf of the European Commission to also tackle the legal nitrogen crisis with forced buy-out of farmers.

Dutch TV NOS and Follow the Money report this on the basis of documents. It is a conversation report of a meeting between Samsom and top officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and Nature. The former PvdA leader spoke to the Dutch delegation in his role as the right-hand man of European Commissioner Frans Timmermans, also a former Labour minister (PvdA).



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EU top politician Manfred Weber calls the nitrogen letter from European Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius (Environment) "a huge blunder."

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Energy Crisis AND Losing Jobs to America
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Easy path ... blame China ... corrupted explanation.



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Chaos In Rutte IV As Crisis Plays Out, End Near?
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New general election would hurt all parties of the coalition, thus Rutte is buying time in the hope public opinion turns in his favor.

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Since 2014, Mark Rutte himself has been a leading figure in Europe to antagonize Russia. A strong voice together with the UK, US, Poland, Baltics and the Nordic states to extend NATO into the Ukraine. Earned a NATO unit to be located in The Netherlands ... during the Cold War The Netherlands headed UN Justice and Peace Institutions, under rightwing politics of the VVD no more.

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Very harsh reactions to 'amateurish' cabinet: 'Leader of our country runs off like a hare'

Leader of the opposition bloc Geert Wilders ...

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Rutte's letter is vague and meaningless. The press conference was total chaos. Postpone, speed up, renegotiate. Not unity but persistence. What a mess. This cabinet has been ruled out, a #cabinet crisis is inevitable, postponement of execution of a few months max

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A Tentative First Look at Options for Peace Operations in Ukraine



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Just by its location, China owned Tik-Tok enhances peace ☮️
😑 #stopnato

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And we all thought TikTok was soft power!

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"junior partner" : sorry Cat, but...
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it's bleedin' obvious that when Russia idiotically launches a war that it manifestly cannot win, the Chinese leadership roll their eyes and stay polite in public, and that the dynamics of the Chi-Rus relationship has fundamentally shifted.

I see in the list of summit outcomes that China will be offered concessions for the economic development of the Russian far north and far east...

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