Ian Law
kinabalu2001.bsky.social
Ian Law
@kinabalu2001.bsky.social
Passion for human rights, and disturbed by their erosion. All threatened by climate change, & the way it is ignored. Born 313.0 p.p.m. CO2 - now 424.05!
the other, but Israel benefits from the cognitive dissonance.’

Kenneth Roth, 24 July 2025

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Why are we reluctant to recognize Israel’s genocide in Gaza? | Kenneth Roth
A narrow understanding of the term, as well as Israel’s history as a haven for genocide victims, explains the dissonance
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July 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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‘Israel benefits from a halo effect associated with the Holocaust. Because the state of Israel was founded in response to the Nazi genocide, it is harder to accept that the Israeli government in turn would commit genocide. One obviously does not preclude …
July 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Further steps in the #genocide in Gaza.

‪https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-01-30/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/theres-no-auschwitz-in-gaza-but-its-still-genocide/00000194-b8af-dee1-a5dc-fcff384b0000‬
February 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
‪Further steps in the #genocide in Gaza.

‪https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-01-30/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/theres-no-auschwitz-in-gaza-but-its-still-genocide/00000194-b8af-dee1-a5dc-fcff384b0000‬
February 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Reposted by Ian Law
The world URGENTLY needs to ring-fence America to save the global economy and political stability

Global leaders need to work together to help Mexico, Canada and China with trade - followed by the EU shortly

No need to trade with an America that can’t be trusted and WILL hold you over a barrel
February 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The lie that keeps on giving.
January 4, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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… ‘The Deficit Myth’.

She provides an overview of this in her TED talk ‘The big myth of government deficits’ (14 October 2021) youtu.be/FATQ0Yf0Fhc?...

A more detailed documentary, ‘Finding The Money’, provides more in-depth clarity:
findingmoneyfilm.com/where-to-wat...
Stephanie Kelton: The big myth of government deficits | TED
YouTube video by TED
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January 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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The idea that England, or more broadly the UK, ‘doesn’t have the money’ is a fundamental neoliberal myth (lie). Monetary sovereign countries, such as the UK, Japan, USA and Australia, face no purely financial budget constraints. This is explained in detail in Stephanie Kelton’s
January 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM