More strange Guardian headlines.
It's a High Court injunction. The far right goons didn't agree shit.
It's like saying a stalker agrees to leave their victim alone, after a restraining order is imposed on them.
It's like saying a debtor agreed to sell everything they own to pay the bank, after the bailiffs have confiscated all their property!
The force of the law is being applied precisely because there was no agreement!!!
Here’s just one of the unprecedented measures the Liberals pushed through at the end of this session:
Cabinet ministers will now be allowed to authorize the use of banned pesticides in the name of “national economic security.”
Even if they’ve been deemed unsafe for human health.
Debate was shut down, and scientists, public health and environmental experts were not allowed to testify before the bill was passed.
Another gift to powerful corporations at the expense of Canadians.
Legislation by lobbyists.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c-30-changes-pesticide-use-pest-control-products-act-9.7240832
Dear Fedi friends,
It may be time for a re-introduction: I'm Elena, an Italian creative (writer, photographer, filmmaker) living in Paris, France.
You may have initially gotten to know me for my advocacy for the Fediverse (like my Fedi intro video: https://blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/ or my blog or my Fediverse stock photo). So, you may have been a bit confused lately, over all my critical posts about the new network W Social. Why do I keep bringing it up?
I believe that W Social - and its required, companion app W Identity - are an existential threat to the Fediverse. So I'm fighting tooth and nail to oppose and resist them.
Why? The European Commission has enthusiastically embraced this new hard fork of Bluesky that requires age verification. Even Ursula von der Leyen advertised the launch of W Social in between G7 meetings last week.
I have MOUNTAINS of evidence of poor planning, extremely lax security, use of U.S. Big Tech platforms for something that purports to be "based in Europe, for the world."
Why is it a threat for the Fediverse? The only way to make sense of the European Commission's embrace of this platform is that maybe it sees it as a trial run for MANDATORY age verification for social media across the European Union.
No Fediverse app has infrastructure in place to comply. And if a mandate is introduced, it would spell the end of the open social web and internet anonymity... like Chat Control, but basically killing the Fediverse.
I find it EXTREMELY disturbing to see the enthusiastic embrace of W Social by the European Commission. It took them YEARS to change their website footer and add Mastodon and Bluesky instead of X. In the span of 5 weeks, they replaced the Bluesky logo (a butterfly) with the "W" from W Social.
All my posts about W Social from last week went viral. My articles have been quoted in articles in French, Dutch and German news sites (https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/w-social/).
I have held back from sharing more evidence I found because I don't want to appear like a bully who promotes pile-ons. I'm a nice, sweet person, I promise! I take ZERO pleasure in writing about W Social, but I have unwittingly become an expert on them - after researching them for 5 months. So here I am.
I will keep investigating them. If you don't want to hear about this topic anymore - I would understand - you can mute the hashtags #Wsocial and #DubyaSocial (that's a pretty apt way to describe them IMHO).
Peace out.
"They will scratch their heads at a PM who paid the ultimate political price, even though few could point to the single, obvious political crime he had committed."
Umm, ex-fucking-cuse me? Here's a very short list of OBVIOUS political crimes he committed you muppet:
A) Purging Labour Party memberships as part of a cooked up antisemitism crisis.
B) Freezing old people to death
C) starving children
D) supporting a genocide
E) declaring protestors to be TERRORISTS
Get absolutely fucked.
The Gaza genocide was planned decades ago
Just as today, soldier testimonials from the 1967 war show ethnic cleansing & murder was Israeli policy:
"At first I wasn't willing to execute Arabs who weren't resisting," one soldier said. Then we concluded "that we had to kill." We ceased "to see them as human beings."
"300,000 Arabs were expelled or displaced from the West Bank, Gaza & the Golan Heights" in the 6-day war.
In case you missed it, Swiss voters rejected an anti-immigrant proposal to cap the population at 10 Million people
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