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Can #journalists & #editors please stop #normalising #genocide with #headlines such as "the nightmare continues in #Gaza"? Genocide is not an unavoidable natural phenomenon that follows its course like a lava river: it is manmade, facilitated and enabled by more men. It is a slow, calculated plan which bears no resemblance to the chaotic unpredictability of a nightmare. Try: "US military aid to #Israel to increase after 2024 Gaza genocide bumps profits by $3.8bn"

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"As a rule, I’m not one to use the words “lie,” “lying” or “liar.” Their power to destroy someone’s reputation is too great for comfort. But #Trump has forced many of us, including Adair, to abandon the soft-pedaling etiquette of euphemism & to say what is factual.

Lying, for Trump, is so reflexive that he needn’t bestir his fourth-grade vocabulary to seize #headlines & malign those he finds inconvenient to his purposes."
washingtonpost.com/opinions/20

The Washington Post · Lies, liars and lying threaten democracyBy Kathleen Parker

The news at 07:33:31 is Title: Biden pulls out of Starmer meeting over Hurricane Milton, Description: US President Joe Biden has postponed a meeting with Sir Keir Starmer and the French and German leaders in Berlin this weekend because of a major hurricane due to hit the US., news.sky.com/story/starmer-to- #news #headlines

Sky · Biden pulls out of Starmer meeting in Germany as Hurricane Milton approaches USBy Alix Culbertson

#Headlines Hamas leader 'carries bag full of dynamite and surrounds himself with 20 hostages'

To prove this, some chilling footage was released which claims to show the Hamas leader [Yahya Sinwar] carrying a bag full of dynamite through a narrow tunnel in a desperate bid to stop Israel from killing him. The hostages were identified as his wife and three children.

[So Yahya Sinwar looks like a "cringing coward".]

#Headlines "Judge Bans 𝕏/Twitter in Brazil After Musk Refuses to Name Legal Representative to Handle Lawsuit Concerning Misinformation, Hate Messages and Banning Specific Accounts"

"Brazil's Top Court Freezes Starlink's Finances"

"Musk's Starlink will take legal action after Brazil froze its financial assets"

[By George, I think the judge got Elon's attention.]

"Musk Calls Brazilian Judge ‘Evil Dictator’ Amid Feud"

[Did Elon graduate from the Trump School of Law?]