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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24017353

Israeli soldiers have destroyed 11 homes and other structures in an isolated community in the occupied West Bank, leaving 50 people homeless, amid a reported uptick in house demolitions and spiralling violence in the Palestinian territory.

Contractors with bulldozers accompanied by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops arrived in Umm al-Kheir, a village mostly home to shepherds, on Wednesday morning and demolished six houses, tent residences, an electricity generator, solar cells and water tanks, according to residents and Israeli activists who documented the proceedings. Agricultural land and fences were also damaged and trees uprooted.

The demolition has destroyed about a third of the village’s infrastructure.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/23771206

The killer was only 14 and had lived in youth homes as a ward of the authorities since he was eight.

A year ago, a gang helped the boy escape, put him up in a hotel and gave him cannabis, food and new clothes. Six days later, gang members told him it was time to repay them for their kindness. They had a job for him.

Together with another youth, the boy, who as a juvenile cannot be identified, shot dead a 33-year-old Hells Angels biker. He was convicted by a court which described the case as a gangland contract killing.

As he was too young to be sentenced, he was handed back to social services and sent to another youth home.

Sweden has long prided itself on one of the world's most generous social safety nets, with a state that looks after vulnerable people at all stages of life.

But these days it also has another distinction: by far the highest per capita rate of gun violence in the EU. Last year 55 people were shot dead in 363 separate shootings in a country of just 10 million people. By comparison, there were just six fatal shootings in the three other Nordic countries - Norway, Finland and Denmark - combined.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/23820225

Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unanimously that the military must begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men for compulsory service, a landmark decision that could lead to the collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition as Israel continues to wage war in Gaza.

The historic ruling effectively puts an end to a decades-old system that granted ultra-Orthodox men broad exemptions from military service while maintaining mandatory enlistment for the country’s secular Jewish majority. The arrangement, deemed discriminatory by critics, has created a deep chasm in Israel’s Jewish majority over who should shoulder the burden of protecting the country.

The court struck down a law that codified exemptions in 2017, but repeated court extensions and government delaying tactics over a replacement dragged out a resolution for years. The court ruled that in the absence of a law, Israel’s compulsory military service applies to the ultra-Orthodox like any other citizen.

Under longstanding arrangements, ultra-Orthodox men have been exempt from the draft, which is compulsory for most Jewish men and women.

 
 
 
 
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16899680

In the wake of Texas’ abortion ban, the state’s infant death rate increased and more died of birth defects, a study published Monday shows.

The analysis out of Johns Hopkins University is the latest research to find higher infant mortality rates in states with abortion restrictions.

The researchers looked at how many infants died before their first birthday after Texas adopted its abortion ban in September 2021. They compared infant deaths in Texas to those in 28 states — some also with restrictions. The researchers calculated that there were 216 more deaths in Texas than expected between March and December the next year.

In Texas, the 2022 mortality rate for infants went up 8% to 5.75 per 1,000 births, compared to a 2% increase in the rest of the U.S., according to the study in the journal JAMA Pediatrics.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35404769

Women have more rights now in UAE than US?

[–] TVgog56789@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have talked to gujrati middle class people and even they are unhappy with BJP- billionaires rule

Only a handful of billionaires are benefiting from the government policy.

[–] TVgog56789@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago

That's exactly what is happening in India.

Even this contemporary push for hindu nationalism is already making inequality worse than before.

Corruption, unemployment, inflation is getting worse which will further expand the gap between haves and have nots and people are being distracted with culture wars.

[–] TVgog56789@lemy.lol -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is ample of evidence.

Gujarati businesses are taking over others and driving out local businesses with the help of the government.

A case study of this is the large steamers of Gujarati billionaires that are driving small boaters out of their livelihood in Varanasi

4500 Poor people's houses and shops bulldozed to build five star hotels owned by Gujarati property tycoons in Ayodhya

World's largest semiconductor plant being built in Ahmedabad completely bankrolled by taxpayers money but owned by Adani a Gujarati billionaire.

Go search yourself there is plenty of evidence.

[–] TVgog56789@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People who voted BJP in the cow belt are also voting for high caste appeasement.

Building temples is not going to fix unemployment; inflation; corruption; rape culture.

Ergo it's just appeasement. No real benifit. Like giving candy to a baby knowing their teeth will rot.

But most people voted for major issues this time like poverty, unemployment and inflation which affect the poor and middle classes

[–] TVgog56789@lemy.lol 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It means exotic dance. Modi used the word in his campaign speeches to target opposition.

BJP is a far right hindu supremacist party serving a handful of Billionaires. Sort of like Trump and republicans. After 10 years of distracting people from major issues like corruption, inflation, unemployment, safety of women with theopolitics they finally lost the majority and now they are only in power because of the support of two left wing parties who could leave them anytime.

[–] TVgog56789@lemy.lol 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Every little contribution helps. I am not a loyalist of any party but you have to play your part to keep democracy alive.

In fact I am a big fan of both Vajpayee government and Manmohan Singh government. Both maintained the sanctity of the post of prime minister. The biggest public servant. Then Modi came and started his "Mujra"

Otherwise not much can stop billionaires funded authoritarian hatemongery from taking the gullible population for a ride.

Now BJP is crippled and just barely standing on the legs of two left wing parties who hate them.

Even if Modi remains in power you will see him becoming a docile housecat

[–] TVgog56789@lemy.lol 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah it's embarrassing that they lost assembly elections in Karnataka to congress and are still able to comeback.

MP is understandable. Just like UP they don't have a strong state identity and their caste and religion takes centerstage.

MP was congress stronghold until a few years ago when BJP bought some MLAs and installed shivraj singh chauhan

Since then they are running hate campaigns continuously. So MP has become the new UP. It's not surprising they got every MP seat.

UP people have become wiser. Bihar, MP and Rajasthan have gone backwards.

What I am afraid of is if they are able turn MP into Gujarat, then they may not need UP anymore. The signs of this are visible in what they tried to do with Indore seat.

The trend shows Hindutva bandwagon shifting south.

Gujarat is BJP monopoly. Legislature, executive, judiciary, media, law enforcement, education, businesses, they control everything and nobody wants another Gujarat.

[–] TVgog56789@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago

Then they will end up being like Romania with a shit ton of abandoned children.

[–] TVgog56789@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago

They have to eventually make that information public and SEC will track the large buy/sell order taken place before the information is public.

So it's pretty quick and easy to catch them if someone wants to.

[–] TVgog56789@lemy.lol 1 points 1 year ago

Because they are going into elections. New laws cannot be passed right now. It's only like an executive order that's only in place until new government forms.

[–] TVgog56789@lemy.lol 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can't stop promoters from trading their own stock but there are strict rules for them.

They cannot make a trade based on insider information before it's Public.

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