A maths thread about FUNCTIONS: specifically, an alternative picture of functions based on telling STORIES. This picture is slightly trickier to set up, but reaps great rewards if you ever have to think of functions as "running backwards" somehow.
פרטים יוצאי דופן מהתחקיר הראשוני של האסון בסג'עיה:
1. לוחם-קלע (עם כוונת טריג' שמגדילה פי 4) זיהה ראשון מתוך מבנה ב-10:00 בבוקר את 3 החטופים כחשודים. 1 מהם נשא דגל לבן והם צעדו עשרות מטרים ממנו ברחוב, ללא חולצה ובלי נשק.
2. הקלע מגדוד 17 (קורס מ"כים) ירה לעברם אש מדויקת וצעק
In Mawasi, a tiny area in the south of Gaza designated by Israel as a “humanitarian area,” 17 people – 10 of them children – were killed in an Israeli airstrike just after midnight on Thursday morning
today's fash rally in London is significant because it's the first open and public display of a fusion between zionists, islamophobes and fascist football crews that's been brewing for several years now. short historical thread >>
CRAZY JIHADIST FANATICS: here is our 56 page memorandum outlining our three stage plan for a cessation of hostilities and 17 accompanying spreadsheets and graphs.
SANE AND RATIONAL WESTERN CIVILISATION: death death death onward unto victory ALAMEK exterminate all the brutes
A company director sobbed in court on Tuesday, dabbing his eyes with a handkerchief, as he was told he would be remanded in custody for his alleged part in rioting in Middlesbrough on Sunday
It's gone fairly unnoticed, but Keir Starmer has today called for a "sustainable ceasefire" in Gaza, echoing Foreign Secretary David Cameron's call at the weekend - just over a month after suffering a major rebellion on an SNP motion in the Commons
insane story. the European Broadcasting Union and the Charity Commission are all trying to shut down the Rio cinema in Dalston because it cancelled a planned Eurovision party.
Candy: ‘When Corbyn looked like he was coming in power last time I was ready to leave the UK. I wired all my money out.
People are less worried this time because Keir Starmer is not Jeremy Corbyn… Starmer and his team seem to be engaging with business’
On Iran’s strike:
At Stanford, I attended a masterclass on military strategy led by a person with decades of experience, including serving at the highest levels in the military and government.
One lesson he thought that I always remember was this:
He asked us:
“Say the US
worth noting that Jeremy Corbyn has been persistently asking the British government about what British special forces may or may not be up to in Gaza, with no response. see for instance this letter to David Cameron in early December.
infuriating thing about KB is we've all met people like her: self promoting management types that fuck up everything around them, but you can't do anything about it because of their connections, and their sole talent is maintaining that patronage.
really peculiar how The Onion has retained its edge when literally every comparable Western satirical institution has long since descended into moralising self-parody.
credit to Sky News for this – they didn't just challenge Tzipi Hotovely's lies during her interview but also followed up with this report. this is actual journalism and we need more of it.
Israel has claimed it has created shelters with aid organisations in al Mawasi, a 'safe zone' in the south of Gaza.
A Sky News team visited and found no aid, no food kitchens and no help.
OK so you're all probably rolling your eyes at Londoners burbling about air quality but anyway here's Canary Wharf as seen from Point Hill on Saturday evening.
insane story. have I got this right: Charles uses mediaeval laws to hoover up assets of anyone dying heirless in the historic county of Lancashire, this is all meant to go to charidee but is instead being spent upgrading his property portfolio???
might have missed something but pretty sure this is the first time the Palestinian resistance forces have made a serious and specific accusation against Britain like this.
Hamas has said that it has evidence that the United Kingdom is complicit in the genocide in Gaza, stating that British intelligence operations have directly contributed to the deaths of thousands of women and children in the besieged territory.
More details:
looks like Alicia Kearns has delivered us a head on a plate >>
"Elon Levy has been sitting at home for a week. He was suspended from his post and it is doubtful that he will return to it."
one thing I think a lot of Corbyn supporters failed to grasp: the number one priority for the Labour right is to ensure that a Corbyn moment will never ever happen again. this is much more important to them than defeating the Tories. their primary loyalty is to the British state.
the ICJ ruling effectively brands the US and Britain as plausible accessories to genocide. faced with these accusations they are threatening to inflict mass starvation on Gaza, doubling down on the very genocide they are accused of. that is what the attacks on UNRWA are about.
OK so we've heard a lot of warm words about the need to stand firm against antisemitism and islamophobia. so you'd have thought actual bomb threats against the East London Mosque and a Muslim primary school in Ilford might have garnered some coverage.
"Iraq didn’t have a Jewish problem, Europe had a Jewish problem.... Antisemitism is European malady”.
Read the work of Avi Shlaim's " Three worlds: the memoir of an Arab jew", or/ and
@UssamaMakdisi
's " Age of coexistence".
"It has also emerged that Ms Elphicke is seeking planning permission to convert a garage she owns in Dover into a two-storey house, and needs the support of the Labour-run local council to overrule objections from neighbours."
this is how the BBC is reporting the murder of Hind Rajab: she went missing, you see. they appeared to have come under fire. it was shortly after coming face to face with a tank.
Ken Livingstone and the TUC used to put on an anti-racist free festival in Victoria Park each year and Munira Mirza shut it down, so she can just do one as far as I'm concerned.
one striking thing about Starmer (and his legal/managerial ilk more generally) is that he is constitutionally incapable of conducting a political argument. when criticised from the left, he shuts it down bureaucratically. when criticised from the right, he instantly capitulates.
I'm guessing none of today's political obituaries are gonna mention this so I may as well: May has finally dropped dead from mortal wounds inflicted on her two years ago by Corbyn. She was doing just fine until she called that general election and had her majority snatched away.
quite extraordinary to see Zionists turning on an internationally respected Holocaust historian using this kind of language. completely blinded by their own hubris.
one of the weirdest things about Politician Safety Discourse is that there is a very high profile British politician who has required 24 hour police protection for years and will probably need it for the rest of his life, but this never gets mentioned.
the biggest blow to the Labour Party in recent years has nothing to do with Corbyn or Starmer – it was the catastrophic loss of 40 Labour seats in Scotland in 2015. the party still doesn't seem to have any coherent analysis of this loss, let alone a strategy to counter it.
is Mehdi the first mainstream journalist to directly address this point? am still frankly astonished that journalists in the West aren't screaming from the rooftops about this.
When I tried to talk about the killing of Palestinian children and innocent civilians which is happening right now, Margaret Hodge blamed it on "your obsession, the obsession with so many people, the issue around Palestine, it's been an obsession forever."
Braverman is a committed fascist btw. she isn't getting these lines from her own head. she's getting them from the dozens of racist WhatsApp groups she's on. ditto Jenrick. these people are poison and need driving out of public life.
so there's this friend of my mum's, elderly Asian woman living alone. her nephew was driving to deliver her a box of food, got stopped by the cops and told to go home. received a warning letter in the post shortly afterwards. was wondering if this had happened to anyone else.
look at this. this wasn't done by terrorists or fanatics. this was done by civilised, rational men, deliberately and in cold blood. this was done by the leaders of the Western world. because they did their little calculations and decided it was in their interests.
cannot be overstressed that Labour ran this byelection entirely by the right's playbook. a professional middle class candidate, handpicked by the leader's office from a shortlist of one. a campaign built around "community values" that eschewed any kind of concrete politics.
fwiw, prior to becoming an MP in 2005 McCarthy worked in investment banking and then as a company director. her views on picket line etiquette should be seen through that lens.
Shadow minister Kerry McCarthy sneering at people who visit a picket line to show their support for trade unionists on strike.
How can a *Labour* MP not understand the concept of solidarity?
This is remarkable. President Macron is taking the huge political risk of dissolving the French Parliament and calling a general election because he wishes to challenge the rise of the “far right” Rassemblement National, and settle the debate about his country’s political future.
this is fascinating not least because it's so rare to see a famous actor talking ideas with such unpretentious enthusiasm and intelligence. just checked his Wikipedia page and it turns out he did a PhD in art history a few years ago. // via
@lusc_j
I was naive enough to believe all the "but we need to win power first!" arguments in the mid 1990s. and of course New Labour did indeed win power in 1997. and they proceeded to immediately slash benefits for single mothers – to prove they were "tough enough to govern", you see.
so wait Corbyn has never been invited on to Desert Island Discs but Starmer has now done it twice? and how are you even allowed to do it twice – doesn't that invalidate the whole premise?
if you want to get a sense of how toxic Tower Hamlets Labour is, 10% of the vote in Apsana's constituency went to her ex-husband standing as a spoiler independent.
voted Labour in a local election for the first time in many years. wobbled a bit in the booth cos the local Labour Party are v right wing, but "held my nose" and did it for my main man JC.
that Baddiel/Sarkar exchange just goes round and round in circles. this imho is what happens when you insist on rooting anti-racism in "lived experience". it's a futile and frustrating position that ultimately blinds you to the structural and objective materiality of racism.
PSA: the reason the Labour right is quacking on about imaginary threats to their safety is because they will talk about anything, literally anything, than what is going on right now.
I do understand why so many people on the left stick to Labour through thick and thin, and Owen is certainly of that tradition, but Gaza is a red line for him and I suspect many many others.
here's the LinkedIn for our "counter extremism commissioner" Robin Simcox, if you want to get a sense of which end of the political spectrum he sits on exactly.
1. What is happening to the Palestinians right now is not new, not some anomaly, not some break with the past. It is a continuation of what has been happening to the Palestinians at the hands of Western imperialism for a hundred years now.
here's David Collier. what do you think he's saying here, exactly? in what sense do "Syria, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan and these days even Tower Hamlets" have the same "look"? what could he be possibly referring to?
The sinking of a packed migrant boat off the coast of Greece may be “the worst tragedy ever” in the Mediterranean sea, according to the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs
been banging on about this but bears repeating: the zionists are completely trapped in a fantasy world of their own making – they have no idea that the rest of the world is transfixed in horror by what's unfolding, and they have no idea about the whirlwind they are about to reap.
A deranged rant from proud Islamophobe Melanie Phillips in which she claims Gazans aren't being starved because she's seen videos of stocked shelves on YouTube
just to state the obvious but sometimes the obvious has to be stated: the reason journalists have a duty to avoid spreading incendiary propaganda about beheaded babies is because if you just rip, this happens:
We are shocked and disturbed to learn that a landlord in Chicago expressing anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian views broke into a Muslim family's apartment and attacked them with a knife, injuring the mother and killing her 6-year-old son, Wadea Al-Fayoume.
@cairchicago
will hold a
A British soldier allegedly had sex with a Kenyan woman in Nanyuki, killed her, threw her body in a septic tank & flew home.
The British army reportedly covered it up, and Kenyan authorities never charged anyone
re these images of huge anti racist crowds: don't underestimate the impact they will have on any snivelling little shit tempted to join the latest fash crusade.
you may remember Rashan Charles, who died under police restraint in Hackney a couple of years ago. you may also recall that police were aided by a random "member of the public" who just happened to be around. well the CCTV tells a different story.