Why the ceasefire in Lebanon won’t stop Israel’s expansionist ambitions (+972 Magazine, 2026-04-16)

https://www.972mag.com/israel-lebanon-ceasefire/
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>> Israel’s push for buffer zones and 'natural borders' suggests the emerging ceasefire is unlikely to halt its ongoing ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon.

>> … why is Israel insisting on this antiquated plan [to establish buffer zones], openly carrying out mass ethnic cleansing in its service? It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the causality is, in fact, reversed. Just as in #Gaza, where buffer zones serve as a pretext to corral residents of the already crowded enclave into 12 percent of its territory; just as in the West Bank, where “security areas” and “firing zones” have been used to disrupt Palestinian agriculture and push communities off the land, what we are seeing in #Lebanon is buffer zones in service of ethnic cleansing, not the other way around…

#palestine #WestBank #EthnicCleansing #IsraeliCeasefire
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/31857458

Great, hope-giving article.

Stephen Heydt [the Jewish man] was one of 22 people arrested at the weekend for the display and reciting of one of two expressions frequently chanted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators that were prohibited under Queensland laws last month – taking the overall total to 25...

The criminal lawyer Terry O’Gorman said the events of the weekend harken back to the dark days of police repression under the corrupt former Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

A name synonymous with the fight for civil liberties in the sunshine state, O’Gorman compared the laws to an amendment Bjelke-Petersen made to the traffic act in September 1977 that essentially suppressed the right to street protests. Mass arrests followed.

The activist group Justice for Palestine Magan-djin has said it would be coordinating a high court challenge to the laws, arguing it was invalid law under the Australian constitution.

Great, hope-giving article.

Stephen Heydt [the Jewish man] was one of 22 people arrested at the weekend for the display and reciting of one of two expressions frequently chanted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators that were prohibited under Queensland laws last month – taking the overall total to 25...

The criminal lawyer Terry O’Gorman said the events of the weekend harken back to the dark days of police repression under the corrupt former Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen.

A name synonymous with the fight for civil liberties in the sunshine state, O’Gorman compared the laws to an amendment Bjelke-Petersen made to the traffic act in September 1977 that essentially suppressed the right to street protests. Mass arrests followed.

The activist group Justice for Palestine Magan-djin has said it would be coordinating a high court challenge to the laws, arguing it was invalid law under the Australian constitution.

When researchers in Uganda set up camera traps to monitor African leopards (Panthera pardus pardus) and spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) in a national park last year, they had no idea that they would record so much more than just those animals. Several of the traps, placed outside a cave known to host Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus), caught on video a multitude of creatures feasting on the winged mammals. The bats are known carriers of Marburg virus, which can transfer into humans and cause a fatal haemorrhagic fever, so the footage offers real-time insight into how disease can spread.

The researchers... reported videoing 10 species scavenging on or catching bats at Python Cave in Uganda’s Queen Elizabeth National Park. They saw blue monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis) dipping into the cavern to grab bats, a fight between a crowned eagle (Stephanoaetus coronatus) and a Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) over two bats captured by the eagle, and a leopard standing almost upright to snag bats from the cave. This might be the first confirmation that leopards hunt live bats. “It’s never been seen,” says study author Alexander Braczkowski, who is the scientific director of the Kyambura Lion Project in Kampala. “Sometimes he would eat 30, 40 bats in a night.”

Even more astounding is that the team caught on video more than 200 people — tourists, trainees from a local wildlife institute and children with school groups — approaching the cave during the four-month period when the cameras were active. Only one visitor, a tourist, wore a mask. This is despite warnings posted around the cave about Marburg virus, which has no proven treatment or vaccine.

I'd highly recommend checking the associated video. YouTube link for the video content if you can't access the news or the research article: https://youtu.be/gzL8DL6YrN8

In nocturnal animals, the tapetum lucidum acts like a mirror, reflecting light back through the retina and stimulating photoreceptors a second time, a process that basically doubles visual sensitivity. This heightened ability to see in the dark is useful for hunting—or to avoid being hunted.

“We know basically nothing about the evolution, genetics, and developmental biology of the tapetum,”

“The tapetum has appeared and disappeared countless times throughout the evolution and diversification of animals,”

A lesson in how not to respond to vulnerability reports UPDATED  Vibe-coding platform Lovable is pooh-poohing a researcher’s finding that anyone could open a free account on the service and read other users' sensitive info, including credentials, chat history, and source code. However, the company’s story keeps changing: First it attributed the publicly exposed info to "intentional behavior" and "unclear documentation," then threw bug-bounty service HackerOne under the bus.…

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Wall Street Journal: A look at transnational scam syndicates in Cambodia, running hundreds of online scam operations and call centers and infiltrating Cambodia's ruling class  —  Crime syndicates in Cambodia corrupt officials, enslave workers and fleece victims worldwide  —  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia …

Along with UBI (Universal Basic Income) are these two just liberal bullshit in some sense or am I mis-analising?

Crystal ball: Let's be clear upfront: there is no Mac Neo desktop. No leak, no supply chain [rumour], no analyst note. What follows is conjecture – but conjecture worth taking seriously, because the pieces are sitting right there on Apple's workbench.

what is the furthest you'd go immorally for a fresh salary? Hell I'd work for Palantir for a nice $250k or be a manager at Evil Corporation Inc if I got a crisp $300k.

or are you a goody two shoes who will stand by your principles even if it means pain!

Solar Citizens have an email you can send this week to all State and Territory Energy Ministers who are meeting to discuss the fuel crisis.

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Domestic price competition is eroding profitability even as Beijing hits localization targets.

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