Paris Anti-Mascu

 

Comment le masculinisme se manifeste-t-il aujourd’hui, notamment sur les réseaux sociaux ? Quels mécanismes alimentent le cyberharcèlement et les violences faites aux femmes ? À travers des témoignages et des éclairages sociologiques, cette première table ronde propose de mieux comprendre le phénomène et ses conséquences.

Cyberharcèlement is French for cyber-harassment or cyberbullying: repeated hostile, humiliating or threatening behavior aimed at a person through digital means such as social networks, messaging apps, email, forums, gaming platforms, or SMS. Common forms:

• Insults, threats or mockery sent repeatedly by message or posted publicly
• Spreading rumors, or sharing private photos or information without consent (including “revenge porn” and doxxing, i.e., publishing someone’s address or personal details)
• Impersonation or fake accounts used to humiliate the victim
• Deliberate exclusion from online groups
• “Raids” (harcèlement en meute): many people pile onto one target, even if each sends only one or two messages

Cyberharcèlement is a criminal offense under the harassment provisions of the Code pénal (article 222-33-2-2). The use of an online service is an aggravating circumstance. Since 2018, the law also covers coordinated group attacks: each participant can be liable even without acting repeatedly themselves, as long as they knew they were part of a concerted campaign. Penalties are heavier when the victim is a minor.

Las Malvinas Son Argentinas

 
Israel changed its position in the Falklands conflict and now supports the Argentine side. The English colonizers need to vacate the islands immediately. Should the Europeans keep attacking Israel, they will be reminded of other issues pending: Sahara Occidental, Ceuta, Melilla, Scotland, Wales, and the list goes on endlessly.

New Alliance

The Abraham Alliance of Sunni regimes plus Israel is close to receiving another member: Arabia. Saudi Arabia. So predicts Eliezer Marom (Chayney), former head of the Israeli Navy. They have no choice; the neighbours are eyeing their fabulous wealth, and their historic protectors have lost interest. Thank the Almighty that we have reached the point where WE are a candidate to take over the role of regional hegemon. Marom predicts it will happen near the American midterm election.  

Panic in Iran

 U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Iran is in a financial crisis, threatening prison for publishing exchange rates.

He claims no oil has been loaded at Kharg Island since August and no Iranian oil is currently headed to customers by sea.

Performative Olive Harvesting

Hundreds are coming to guard the olive harvest in the Shomron. The idea is to combine nature tourism with a strong political statement. It reminds me of the sugarcane harvest in Cuba, with thousands travelling to Communist Cuba to enjoy socialism in the tropics. The difference is that cutting sugarcane is hard work, while "protecting Palestinian farmers against the colonizers" needs no physical exertion or risk of encountering a Bothrops snake (“barba amarilla”). After a two-hour walk and selfies in Samaria, rented air-conditioned buses bring them back to their luxury hotels in Tel Aviv, all under the protection of ZAHAL and the American Embassy. Israeli volunteer NGOs provide free tour guides and coordinate with Palestinian counterparts to ensure that a short fake confrontation will take place for pictures. The operation "Protecting the Olive Harvest" is documented by dozens of foreign journalists, so it can be seen on millions of TV screens all over the world. 

BTW, world markets are flooded with olive oil; bulk olive oil is a commodity, and the price is set by mechanised Andalusian groves. A small producer on rain-fed hill terraces cannot compete at that price.  The EU limits oil imports, and the oil from Tunisia and Morocco cannot find a market. The World Bank estimated West Bank production costs at 20–30% above Jordan and 35–40% above Turkey. Palestinian olive plantations cannot compete with imported oil, and following the reduction of customs, 35% of the area planted with olive trees was uprooted in the Galilee. Total production in the Palestinian Authority was about 15,000 tons, which is half of previous years. Yields are cyclical, and one dunam yields about 400 shekels (130 US$) per year (in a good year), less than a day's salary as a construction worker. 

Inflation?

 "As far as I can tell, Trump doesn’t believe that there is such a thing as objective truth, there’s only what he wants to be true. Trump doesn’t have the full powers of a totalitarian ruler, but often behaves as if he did (and is enabled in that behavior by almost the entire GOP.) And Orwell wrote about the mutability of history under totalitarian regimes:If the Leader says of such and such an event, ‘It never happened’ – well, it never happened. In this case what never happened was surging nflation."

 Paul Krugman is an unabashed liberal, and there is no crime in an economist having such persuasions. For that matter, many economists have a bit of that streak, too. ...However, the agreements end where Krugman begins to view U.S. economic history from a distorted lens, one in which all administrations run by Democrats are Good and Virtuous, and all Republican administrations are governed by Beelzebub himself. (By William L. Anderson, Senior Editor at the Mises Institute).

BAZAN is Unpredictable

 
The Haifa Refinery (BAZAN) continues to operate under wartime conditions. Given the uncertainty of global diesel supply and with BAZAN as the only significant refinery in the Eastern Mediterranean, I invested some of my savings in the stock. Yesterday, the anti-business environmental parasites published an alarming report that they found elevated concentrations of benzene in the air, so the population should stay at home with windows closed. I was sure that the share would collapse. Instead, it is rising 3%. BAZAN announced that:

 Following media reports over the past two days regarding benzene measurements in the area of the Group’s plants, the Company hereby announces that, during work carried out as part of the periodic maintenance (turnaround) of the aromatics facilities at Gadiv, elevated benzene concentrations were measured at several monitoring points in the area. Accordingly, and as a precautionary measure, the relevant work was suspended on a localized basis, and in parallel, steps are being taken to resume the work in coordination with the Ministry of Environmental Protection.

It is confusing.  

Follow-up: The Houthis destroyed Saudi Arabia's main distillery. As expected, BAZAN lifted 6%. It appears that this is just the beginning of a glorious ascent.