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I went to Sir Robert Borden high school and let my tell you, this is the first time I have been proud to say it.

Playing a song of peace on Remembrance Day is what every single person and organization should be doing. And if songs of peace make people uncomfortable, maybe they can take a minute of silence to think about why that is.

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About 15 years ago (yikes), I did some student teaching at SRB. I remember a school assembly where they hosted a Holocaust survivor.

Singing this song was obviously not racist.

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It's pretty ugly all right....and let's not forget the role that Mammon Worship plays in the west's venal dedication to ethnic cleansing, here there and everywhere. Nor should we let off the Christian churches...for too long the spiritual arm of imperial colonialism around the world.

As the Hawaiians said after conversion: "We bowed our heads to pray and when we looked up, all that we had was gone."

Rapists and pillagers have led the charge.......Christian racists come after and convert the heathens into accepting God's plan for them. In spite of it all......we continue in our little bubbles of prosperity to believe.....but in what, I swear I have no idea.

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Thank-you. I think it might be helpful if mainstream media would start reporting not just the facts, which have limited impact on this post-truth era we entered Nov 7, but also start critically and quantitatively reporting on misinformation on social media platforms. This would give your average journalist enough material for several whole careers and loads of Peabody awards. In addition, I’d like for them to start reporting on their own performance, with well-defined metrics on themselves and how their reporting correlates—or not —with actual events on the ground. Leaving it to your imagination what those metrics might be. Maybe this approach would bridge the left and right bubbles that currently doom America.

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What currently seems to be dooming America to me...........is the number of regime change operations American covert forces have engaged in over the years since the end of WWII, the number of military bases America has established around the globe (over 800) and the 450+ illegal sanctions America feels obliged to slap on other countries if she thinks its in her 'interest'.

And then there's the ginned up hatred of Russia, her love of Israel no matter what...a genocide is not enough to stop providing the arms that makes it possible....

Capitalism needs a frontier to exploit...currently, things are looking so bad American capitalists are contemplating mining the deep ocean, the moon and Mars. When you live a fantasy life based on take, take, take...........and go all virtuous whenever you need to punish anyone who disagrees with you..........Mis and Dis information ends up all you have.

The lies have always been there.........they were telling them about Nicaragua in the 70's....its just that as the TAKE gets harder, the conspiracy fictions had to ramp up. We're all watching now as they continue to arm a genocidal apartheid state..........that is their eyes and ears in the Middle East.

A region, that need I remind you, doesn't belong to America...though for some reason, their proxy gets to bomb wherever it damn wants to.

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Have a look at the most beautiful restoration completed of the Notre Dame cathedral.

https://x.com/Culture_Crit/status/1859528737550725555

It was made possible in large part thanks to a $122 million dollar donation. By two women. Who happen to be Zionists.

Nora Loreto believes all Zionists are genocidal child killers worthy of nothing but contempt.

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You can do charitable donations and still support a genocide.......Canada recently decertified 7 charities...taking away their charitable status...after years of funnelling Canadian charitable dollars to the IDF.

I'd be interested in what you believe....since it can be a bit arrogant to subscribe beliefs to others.

All in on the ethnic cleansing of Palestine?

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Ethnic cleansing is defined as the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial, or religious groups from a given area. Gaza is home to 2.1 million Arabs, or Palestinians, if you like. Their numbers have been growing consistently over decades. If Israel wished to wipe them out completely it would have been done long ago.

You are beholden to Iranian and terrorist propaganda. Good for you. It would be arrogant to subscribe my beliefs to you.

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14 Million Jews TOTAL on Earth.

Vs. 1.8 Billion Muslims.

Israel currently in a war for survival vs. 7 fronts.

Over 100K dead Ukrainians but Nora can only see genocidal Jews.

Syria genocidal civil war ongoing over 10 years next door but Nora Loreto can only find Zionists to blame for defending themselves and their state.

Over 50 hostages still alive after 1 year+ in captivity. Nora likes to pretend they are not human beings but Zionist sacks of flour.

Reported to Canary Mission. For the record.

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Seriously??? Every war you oppose is not necessarily a genocide. The west was using that word in a partisan way about Russia's attack on Ukraine,, but went pretty quiet when the real thing started happening in Gaza.

As to the hostages.........Neten yahoo doesn't care about them........and many pro-Israeli apologists don't seem capable of figuring out that mass bombings in Gaza have likely killed a few. Collective punishment of the Palestinian people is more fun than negotiation....

I'd be interested in where you're getting your stats on the Ukrainian war....care to share a link?

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57 Islamic-dominated nations strewn across the Middle East, most of them taken by force and colonized in the last 100 years.

Vs. ONE Jewish-dominated nation. The only one. Home to the refugees and Holocaust survivors borne out of the first half of the 20th century.

Jew-hating watermelon clowns like Nora Loreto will spend the rest of their lives with their identity essentially tattoo'd with an online record of their bigotry and racism.

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You can sure throw words around Ruby....but recognizing a genocide is different from hating a group of people. It sounds like you're okay with the razing of Gaza, the theft of West Bank land and the bombing of Lebanon.......but you're going to have to face the fact that a majority of the world is not with you.

We don't hate anyone.........there are no chosen people........and one group eradicating another because they want the land is colonialism. That method of gaining wealth has to be over....

for all of us...the planet can't survive it.

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Speaking of colonialism and wanting land. Check out the situation of Muslims in the UK > When it comes to conquering and stealing land, nobody beats Islam.

https://x.com/LovelyGigi33/status/871187115538694144

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You will face some facts soon enough. We'll see who the majority is backing.

Most of the sane among us recognize that Iran and their proxies of militant Islamic terrorists pose the real threat to our western security and democratic values.

We all could not give a fart what some brash braggart like you has to say.

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Your name calling rather defines you....and your Islamophobia is on full display as well. But telling the truth as one sees it isn't bragging...bragging starts when we set ourselves up as an expert based on next to nothing.

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As for genocide. It is defined as violence that aims at the destruction of a people.

Here's some interesting numbers for you. Are you good with numbers? Because I would hate to assume that everyone is good with numbers. Here goes:The current population of Palestine in 2024 is 5,494,963, a 2.3% increase from 2023.

The population of Palestine in 2023 was 5,371,230, a 2.31% increase from 2022.

The population of Palestine in 2022 was 5,250,072, a 2.27% increase from 2021.

The population of Palestine in 2021 was 5,133,392, a 2.27% increase from 2020.

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Again, where you are getting these numbers doesn't matter.....they don't erase the real situation on the ground in Gaza........or the West Bank.........or Lebanon. Numbers can be one of the appeals to authority fallacies with which we cover up the reality on the ground.

A genocide is occurring...and it involves demolition of all cultural places...universities, schools, hospitals....all bombed or demolished by demolition crews of Israeli soldiers.

Starvation...

A lack of shelter...with another winter coming on, many in tents won't survive

Continued aerial bombardment

Collective punishment....targeting civilians, women and children

Targeting journalists....over 100 have been killed in Gaza.

You're in denial Ruby.........but it doesn't matter. Millions around the world see what is occurring...Chris Hedges claimed just after Trump won that 70% of Democrats and 62% of Republicans want an arms embargo against Israel...some likely for money reasons...poor Americans are getting tired of funding foreign wars.....

And the official defence of Israel and demonization of those supporting Palestinians isn't really working. You have to be a racist or a bit broken hearted to stand with what Israel is doing in the occupied territories just now. 80% of the world isn't in the west.........the people of the Middle East likely hate us with a passion.

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Special for you, ceasefire celebrations in Lebanon!

https://x.com/NiohBerg/status/1861804988789363198

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One thing you got right, out of all the above:

"...the people of the Middle East likely hate us with a passion."

Good bye.

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