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'I've hit a nerve': Francesca Albanese defiant in face of Trump sanctions

Sondos Asem, Mohamed Hassan
Middle East Eye
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:09 UTC
Francesca Don Marco
UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese • US President Donald Trump • US Sec. of State Marco Rubio
UN special rapporteur on Palestine reacts to latest sanctions imposed by the US government over her latest report denouncing Israel's 'economy of genocide'.

The United Nations special rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, on Thursday said she is undeterred by sanctions imposed by the US on Wednesday.

She told Middle East Eye's live show:
"It looks like I've hit a nerve. My concern is there are people dying in Gaza while you and I are speaking, and the United Nations are totally unable to intervene."
The sanctions follow Albanese's scathing report on 30 June in which she named over 60 companies, including major US technology firms like Google, Amazon and Microsoft, which she said were involved in "the transformation of Israel's economy of occupation to an economy of genocide".

Comment: Bravo!



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Brick Wall

Spain and Ireland to join more than 20 states to declare 'concrete measures' against Israel

Sondos Asem
Middle East Eye
Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:06 UTC
Harris/Sanchez
© Paul Faith/pool/AFPIreland's Prime Minister Simon Harris (R) shakes hands with Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in the Taoiseach's office in Dublin
Turkey, Portugal, China and Qatar also among countries that will be attending The Hague Group's 'emergency summit' in Colombia next week.

More than 20 countries are convening in Bogota next week to declare "concrete measures against Israel's violations of international law", diplomats told Middle East Eye.

The "emergency summit" is due to be held on 15-16 July, co-hosted by the governments of Colombia and South Africa as co-chairs of The Hague Group, to coordinate diplomatic and legal action to counter what they describe as "a climate of impunity" enabled by Israel and its powerful allies.

The Hague Group is a bloc of currently eight states, launched on 31 January in the eponymous Dutch city with the stated goal of holding Israel accountable under international law.

Comment: Gaining momentum, blowback on Israel and partners is whipping up a storm.

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Attention

France waging 'crusade' against free speech and tech progress - Telegram boss


RT
Sat, 12 Jul 2025 20:03 UTC
Telegram and flag
© Stanislav Kogiku/File/Global Look PressTelegram
Criminal probes against tech giants will only damage the French economy, Pavel Durov has said.

France has embarked on a "crusade" against free speech and progress itself, Telegram founder Pavel Durov said on Friday after Paris launched a probe against the social media platform X. The French authorities should talk to tech companies instead of prosecuting them, the entrepreneur believes.

The actions of the "French bureaucrats" will only "scare off investment and damage the country's economic growth for decades," the Russian-born billionaire wrote on X.

The French authorities announced a probe against the Elon Musk-owned platform on Friday for allegedly manipulating algorithms "for purposes of foreign interference." The investigation was prompted by two complaints, one filed by a French lawmaker and the other by a government cybersecurity official, both of whom accused X of threatening French democracy. Musk has not commented on the development.
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Bad Guys

Oh, Thank You Massa Noem!

Eric Peters
ericpetersautos.com
Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:32 UTC
TSA and Noem
© ericpetersautos.com
We are supposed to be grateful to the overripe Kristi Noem, who is Trump's "secretary" (such an innocuous word!) of the Department of Homeland Security for ending the ritual of having to remove one's shoes to pass through the cattle gates at airports. She made the announcement a few days ago, with phalanx of TSA goons standing behind her. The irony entirely lost on her.

This is what's become of "freedom" in the Homeland, a place America was never supposed to be. We're supposed to forget and - worse - clap because we no longer have to take off our shoes when passing through the cattle gates at airports. Never mind we still have to empty our pockets and spread our legs and raise our hands over our heads and accept government goons rifling through our things and putting their hands on our women and children anytime they like.



Oh, thank you Massa Noem!

We're supposed to forget (and many have) that at one time - it was less than 25 years ago - Americans could travel by air anonymously and without molestation. Those too young today to remember will perhaps not believe it but prior to the transformation of America into a Homeland - which took place shortly after the federal government used "terrorism" as the excuse to impose terrorism on the American people in the name of keeping us safe from it - anyone could just buy a ticket to fly and once they had done so, they were free to fly.
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Bullseye

Fearless: Tucker Carlson reveals who he thinks funded Jeffrey Epstein's crimes


The Vigilant Fox
Sat, 12 Jul 2025 21:08 UTC
tucker carlson epstein
© CPAC/Getty
Just this Friday night, Tucker Carlson named who he believes really FUNDED Jeffrey Epstein's crimes.

HINT: It wasn't Epstein.

What he said is guaranteed to make many in Washington furious. And there's no taking it back now.

On Tuesday, Tucker Carlson delivered two theories on why Pam Bondi won't release the Epstein Files.

Theory #1 was "Trump is involved."

But Carlson thought this explanation was not very likely.
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Top Secret

EPA pledges 'total transparency' on geoengineering & contrails

Jon Fleetwood
Zero Hedge
Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:34 UTC
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPAA Lee Zeldin
© EPA via YouTubeEPA Administrator Lee Zeldin
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new online resources to address public questions and concerns about the topics of geoengineering and contrails.
Jet engine condensation trails contain metal nanoparticles and sulfur that form lingering lines in the troposphere that disperse and form cirrus cloud cover that blocks the sun and sky when the air is cold and wet enough.

These lines are often referred to as "chemtrails," though the term can be misleading and imply the trails are mostly caused by independent spray apparatuses attached to aircraft.

There is ongoing debate (here) among the anti-geoengineering community as to whether the cause of these sun- and sky-blocking emissions is jet engine exhaust or independent sprayers.

Comment: Administrator Zeldin's remarks come just days after US House Rep. Marjory Taylor Greene called for a ban on all geoengineering in the US.

He states that the EPA shares the public's concerns about "private actors and governments looking to 'blot out the sun' in the name of stopping global warming". He is no doubt, in part, referring to the UK's ongoing attempt to 'dim the sun'.

The hubris of the technocratic class has reached such levels that they believe that they will control not just the people, but the very cycles of the planet and solar system as well. This hubris will, if left unchecked, lead to absolute ruin.

Also see:

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Briefcase

Survey finds college grads unpopular with hiring managers: 'Unprepared and entitled'

Seth Rosevear
The College Fix
Tue, 08 Jul 2025 21:56 UTC
college graduates graduation
© Associated Press/Butch Dill
Hiring expert offers several suggestions to The College Fix for recent grads on how to land a job

A recent survey from Intelligent found that "1 in 4 hiring managers say recent grads are unprepared for the workforce" and "1 in 8 managers [are] planning to avoid hiring them in 2025."

The main reasons for this are lack of preparation, a so-so work ethic, and a sense of entitlement among the grads, according to the survey.

"24% of hiring managers believe recent college graduates are unprepared for the workforce, while 33% cite a lack of work ethic, and 29% view them as entitled," the survey found.

"Additionally, 27% feel recent graduates are easily offended, and 25% say they don't respond well to feedback."

Comment: Some good advice, but it premises that the grad has a useful skill to begin with, and a proper attitude to a potential job. How much value to do you bring to the position, as opposed to how many perks come with it? Why would it be worth for the organization to give you money for your abilities? Those are the questions to contemplate.

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Penis Pump

Best of the Web: French journalists who claimed Brigitte Macron was born a man are CLEARED of defamation

Peter Allen
Daily Mail, UK
Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:59 UTC
brigitte macron london
Two women convicted of defaming French first lady Brigitte Macron by saying she was 'born a man' were today sensationally cleared on appeal.

Judges sitting at the Paris Appeal Court on Thursday ruled that Amandine Roy, a 53-year-old clairvoyant, and Natacha Rey, 49 and a blogger, had every legal right to make the sulphurous allegations.

Both had claimed they were subjected to 'intimidation by the authorities' as 'ultra protected' members of the Paris establishment tried to cover up a 'state secret'.

Lawyers for Ms Macron, 72, in turn indicated that she was 'devastated' by the development, and would be taking the case to France's Cassation Court.

Ms Macron is currently returning from a State Visit to Britain with her husband, President Emmanuel Macron, so was not in court to hear today's judgement.

Ms Roy and Ms Rey had had appeared on a four-hour YouTube video in December 2021 in which they claimed that Brigitte was in fact born as a baby boy called Jean-Michel Trogneux in 1953.

This is in fact the name of Brigitte's brother, and Ms Macron was called Brigitte Trogneux before her first marriage.

The defendants also claimed that Brigitte's first husband, André-Louis Auzière, had never actually existed before his reported death in 2020, aged 68.


Comment: He did exist, and is probably the father of the three 'Brigitte' children. So the original investigation by Rey and Roy made some mistakes. These have since been ironed out by another French journalist, Xavier Proussard. The Elysee isn't suing him...


Comment: Candace Owens feels vindicated:



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Arrow Up

Top economists back Francesca Albanese's report on the 'Economy of Genocide' in Gaza

Team Zeteo
Zeteo
Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:00 UTC
Francesca Albanese
© Matias Chiofalo/Europa Press/Getty ImagesFrancesca Albanese • Publico 2025 Awards • June 25, 2025
Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, French economist Thomas Piketty, and others join open letter supporting Albanese amid US calls to remove her as the UN special rapporteur on Palestine.

Last week, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese made headlines across the world for exposing the dozens of companies that she says have profited from Israel's genocide in Gaza. Albanese's UN report, 'From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide,' goes beyond just the typical weapons-manufacturing culprits, and calls out financial institutions, educational institutions, and Big Tech companies, including Alphabet Inc. (Google), Amazon, IBM, Palantir, as well as many, many others.

In response, the US Mission to the UN renewed its calls for the UN secretary-general to condemn Albanese and remove her as special rapporteur for human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Now, world-leading economists, including former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, French economist Thomas Piketty, and Lebanese-American statistician and essayist Nassim Nicholas Taleb, are praising Albanese for her report.

Zeteo has obtained an exclusive English copy of the economists' open letter on Albanese's report, in which they accuse corporations of "maintaining the Apartheid regime and enabling the subsequent genocide." Read the full letter below.

Comment: See also:

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Green Light

Texas greenlights gold and silver as legal tender


SchiffGold
Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:00 UTC
Texas Silver
© UnknownTexas Silver
Austin, TX keeps rewriting the monetary rulebook. House Bill 1056, cleared by both chambers in late May, designates properly marked gold and silver "specie" as legal tender in the Lone Star State starting September 1, 2026. A second phase — launching no later than May 1, 2027 — authorizes an electronic payment rail fully backed by bullion stored in the Texas Bullion Depository. While Federal Reserve notes remain king for now, the measure lays fresh track for Texans who prefer metal over paper or pixel money.

Unlike commemorative coins that often carry eyebrow-raising premiums, qualifying pieces under H.B. 1056 need only display weight and purity and may carry a private refiner's stamp — just no hints of sovereign issuance. The act specifies that no person or business can be forced to accept the shiny stuff, sidestepping the usual "cash-only" grumbles from merchants. Supporters see the voluntary approach as a constitutional workaround that respects contract freedom while widening transactional choice.
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