Worth a reminder of this tweet now that we know @benandjerrys is literally a sponsor of russia’s war as part of @Unilever. As the troops it sponsors were poised for genocide, Ben & Jerry’s tried to claim that abandoning democratic allies to mass murder was a progressive cause. There’s a pattern with this brand. It campaigned to end modern slavery while not tackling the use of child labour within its own supply chain. It campaigned for the return of Native American land, while ignoring the fact its own Vermont HQ is built on stolen Native American land. Ben & Jerry’s acts sanctimonious for its oh-so-clever cutesy marketing that wins lots of awards - but it quickly moves onto another topic before people start unpicking the hypocrisy. Much of this can be explained by cofounder Ben Cohen whose ‘progressive values’ are thinly-disguised Kremlin propaganda. Earlier this year, Cohen chose a prolific Pro-Putin, Pro-Assad atrocity denier for his new ‘journalism’ award. But Ben & Jerry’s can no longer pretend to be a folksy small town company. It’s Unilever. And that’s the big problem right now. Unilever broke its promises to stop investing in Russia. It pays huge amounts of tax there to fund Russia’s genocide. When Ben & Jerry’s hit send on that tweet, they didn’t stop to think how that might be received in our region where their products - and their group company products - are widely sold. They didn’t think it would matter because they didn’t think we had any agency. They didn’t think how the inevitable unfolding aggression would rebound on them and expose their greed and hypocrisies. Every product sold by Unilever has an alternative made by genuinely ethical companies across our region who support Ukraine (including ice creams made with far less additives & weed killing chemicals). It’s time to embrace them more, while also supporting @SolidarityUKR to ensure that Unilever is reminded every day in every way: You cannot simultaneously be sanctimonious and a sponsor of genocide. We call on @Unilever to leave Russia and work for peace rather than finance war. Sending hundreds of millions more dollars to Russia in response to its full scale war against Ukraine only fans the flames of aggression.

An Israeli journalist was derided and spat at, including by an Israeli soldier and a child, as he spent a day dressed as a priest in Jerusalem to investigate spiraling hate crimes against Christians in the city. haaretz.com/israel-news/2023…

Live update: Netanyahu: The law applies everywhere — the Golan, West Bank and Ayalon Highway dlvr.it/SrG4m6

The oldest newspaper in the world - the Wiener Zeitung - has been printed for the last time. This is the final front page

Anyone who really wants to understand the rise of Narendra Modi needs to read this incisive piece, by ⁦@ShekharGupta⁩ theprint.in/national-interes…

Wow. Disney changed the ending of Raiders of the Lost Ark...

We like to think of authoritarian countries in terms of dichotomy between the corrupt regime and the valiant opposition. More often than not, however, it is a dichotomy between the corrupt regime and the rotten opposition, infantilised by the former

On #Russian state TV, "experts" discuss that Scottish terrorists should be trained in Russia in order to stop the #UnitedKingdom from preparing #Ukrainian soldiers.

As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation

WHY WILL UKRAINE DISAPPEAR? BECAUSE NOBODY NEEDS IT 1. Europe doesn’t need Ukraine. The forced support of the Nazi regime, by the American mentor’s order, has put Europeans into a financial and political inferno. All for the sake of bandera’s unterukraine, that even the snobby, insolent Polacks don’t take for a valid country, and time and again toss in the issue of its western areas anschluss. There’s a nice perspective ahead: to permanently put the nouveau-Ukrainian blood-sucking parasites on the decrepit EU’s arthritis-crippled neck. That’ll be the final fall of Europe, once majestic, but robbed off by degeneration. 2. The US doesn’t need Ukraine. True, the military and sanction campaigns are attempted for PR by political blabbermouths, who long ago attested to their impotence and imbecility. Average Americans don’t understand what “Ukraine” is, and where “it” is. Most of them won’t show this “power” on the map on the first take. Why won’t the US establishment focus on inflation and job issues, or emergencies in their home States, instead of a country 404, unbeknownst to them? Why does so much dough go across the ocean? Sooner or later, they’ll ask for that. Then, storming of the Capitol in January 2021 would seem like scout games. 3. Africa and Latin America don’t need Ukraine. The hundreds of millions spent by US on pointless fights in Ukraine, could finance many development programmes for Latin American and African states. Latin America is gringos’ backyard – that’s what they’ve been rubbing in for decades. Africa’s had its share of suffering from the genocide, and colonial dependence, imposed by former western slave traders. That’s why the people of African huts and Latin American favelas ask a very reasonable question: for their former suffering and present-day loyalty, why is somebody else rewarded – very, very far away? 4. Asia doesn’t need Ukraine. By Russia’s example, they see “colour” technologies at work to eradicate the largest competing powers. They understand what scenario the America-led collective West has for them if they disobey. “Help us to overcome Russia, and we’ll soon come to you”, the utterly brazen Western leaders tell them. Such gigantic countries as India, China, and other Asia-Pacific states face the big enough challenge of post-pandemic economic recovery, let aside the drugged clowns, with their whining for aid. “We are not interested in you”, Asia tells their messengers, responding to the calls to support Ukraine and confine Russia. The country, geopolitically many times closer to Asian powers, the one that historically has proven itself a reliable strategic partner. Do Asian giants need such headache coming from former colonisers? 5. Russia doesn’t need Ukraine. A threadbare quilt, torn, shaggy, and greasy. The new Malorossiya of 1991 is made up of the artificially cut territories, many of which are indigenously Russian, separated by accident in the 20th century. Millions of our compatriots live there, harassed for years by the Nazi Kiev regime. It is them who we defend in our special military operation, relentlessly eradicating the enemy. We don’t need unterukraine. We need Big Great Russia. 6. Finally, its own citizens don’t need the Nazi-headed Ukraine. That’s why out of 45 million people there’re only some 20 million remaining. That’s why those who stayed want to leave for any place: the hated Poland, EU, NATO, to be America’s 51nd state. Joining the Antarctic with its pinguins will also be fine. As long as it’s quiet, and the food’s good. The ruling junta’s criminal ambitions forced Ukrainians to beg and roam around the countries and continents, searching for a better life. All that is for an obscure European perspective. Or rather, to let the harlequin in a khaki tricot and his band of thievish Nazi clowns to put the money stolen from the West into their offshore accounts. Would ordinary Ukrainians need that? Nobody on this planet needs such a Ukraine. That’s why it will disappear

1/ THREAD on where the Russian forces stand on quadcopters and FPV drones, how to deal with such threats and the ways forward, if any - from a pro-Kremlin Telegram channel. Main points below.

It was so important that both sides in WW2 monitored the soldiers correspondence in order to quantify morale. Even the Gestapo prepared accurate reports in order the gauge the morale of the soldiers, but also the home front.

SGA grabbed a rebound with a shoe in his hand 😭

China offers Putin plan to block YouTube in Russia Putin has agreed in talks with Xi Jinping to help strengthen Internet censorship, the pro-Kremlin "Octagon" publication reported, citing sources familiar with the situation. According to them, a group of Chinese experts on cyber threats arrived in Moscow to analyze and prepare a technical "road map" for completely blocking YouTube in Russia, together with their Russian colleagues. Some of the technology, according to Octagon, will be provided by the People's Liberation Army of China, while the rest will be based on Russian and Belarusian developments. The blocking of YouTube, one of the largest platforms of the anti-war agenda, will become possible in the fourth quarter of 2023. Then work will be available to block all types of VPN.