#Israel - government to boycott Haaretz newspaper over Gaza war criticism | DW News

25 November 2024

Israel's government has announced it will boycott the country's oldest newspaper, Haaretz, following criticism of its war in Gaza.   At a speech in London last month, Haaretz's publisher called for sanctions against Israel and referred to Palestinian militants as "freedom fighters". The government has ordered all public entities to stop advertising with Haaretz.

The left-leaning newspaper is known for its critical coverage of Israel's actions in the Palestinian territories. The paper's deputy editor has accused prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu of 'trying to silence independent and critical media'.   For more, we talk to Anat Saragusti, chair of the Journalist Union in Israel.

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#F1 - ROYAL FLUSH: 2024 #LasVegasGP Wrap: The Inside Line

26 November 2024

Las Vegas is an entertainment mecca, with F1’s showcase event seeing the cars racing at night between the city’s casinos on the legendary Strip. And 2024’s edition was a royal flush, as George Russell rode the wave of Mercedes’ sudden dominance to lead home teammate Lewis Hamilton for the silver squad’s milestone 60th one-two result.

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#energy - High European, domestic demand lift Natural Gas futures 5%. 11/24/25: CME Group

25 November 2024

Natural Gas futures rally more than 5% on expectations for high European and domestic demand. Dan Deming explains.

#naturalgas #eia #futures

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#Putinswar #ukraine - Flight MH17: Who's Responsible? | Preview

25 November 2024

A decade since the passenger flight MH17 was shot down, the guilty - convicted in absentia - remain protected in Russia.

This Al Jazeera report investigates the last 10 years of evidence and Putin's direct involvement in the incident. Since 2014, investigators operating out of the Netherlands have been gathering evidence to claim justice for the victims and their families. Elliot Higgins, founder of Bellingcat - an Amsterdam based research group that does open-source investigation - states: "we were able to show definitively that the missile launcher came from Russia...and the exact route that was taken on the day." Digna Van Boetzaeler, chief prosecutor on the case, shows how social media implies the hit was a mistake originally celebrated by Russian troops who were convinced they'd hit a Ukrainian warplane;

"After the plane was shot down, 65,000 tweets were sent out from the troll factory in St Petersburg saying #Ukraine , Kyiv and I." Since then, Russian media have changed their tune - claiming that MH17 was shot down by a Ukrainian military jet. Higgins raises an interesting point: "Perhaps if the world had reacted to MH17 at the time, there wouldn't have been such a permission structure for Putin to invade Ukraine in 2022."

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#UK #Floods - Storm Bert: 'There are lots of people who will have lost everything', says Labour MP Chris Bryant: Sky News

25 November 2024

"I hope that the Welsh government will be able to step in with some kind of financial support," the MP for Rhondda and Ogmore told Sky News.

Devastating flooding has hit Wales following record-breaking rainfall, as several 'risk to life' warnings are issued around the UK.

#wales #flooding #stormbert

#Fullmovie "The Legend of Tomiris" *subtitles

This is the story of the life of the great queen of the steppe - legendary Tomiris. She is destined to become a skillful warrior, survive the loss of close people and unite the Scythian/Saka tribes under her authority.

In the first millennium BC, the tribes inhabiting the territory of Kazakhstan were collectively named "Saka", which are also known as "Scythian" in European culture. The Persian sources of that time describe in detail three large groups of Saka tribes:  Amyrgians, massagetae, paradraya .

Yet it is true that  the people of the Kievian state, who came to be known as Russians, were not Scythians, Greeks, or Khazars, but East Slavs . But who were these East Slavs that were the future founders of the Russian state? When and where did they come from? To the present day these questions remain a great mystery.

Genetic studies show that Russians are relatively close to Finns and Estonians, followed by Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians and other Slavs as well as Latvians and Lithuanians.

#media - 2024 Media Excellence Award given to Amy Goodman and Democracy Now!

20 November 2024

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#movies - "Parthenope" | Official Trailer HD | A24

21 November 2024

DIRECTOR: Paolo Sorrentino CAST: Celeste Dalla Porta, Stefania Sandrelli, Gary Oldman, Silvio Orlando, Luisa Ranieri, Peppe Lanzetta and Isabella Ferrari

Partenope is a woman who bears the name of her city. Is she a siren or a myth?I

In the Theaters February 7