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Podcast: Baladi – from bread to dance

Baladi is one of those elusive Arabic words that can mean different things to different people at different times.

This botched police operation is transforming Verdyck into a martyr in the eyes of right-wing extremists. This is a side effect of the securitisation of the state which occurred in the wake of 9/11. It didn't work against Islamists, it won't work against the far right.

18:48 · September 29, 2022

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

Coolio has passed into the valley of the shadow of death. For him, death turned out to be nothing but a heartbeat away. RIP.

18:18 · September 29, 2022

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

During the raid, Verdyk immediately began firing, according to the police, and was shot dead by officers. As the police had no intelligence about an imminent plot involving the young radical, they could have handled the situation more wisely and sensibly.

16:14 · September 29, 2022

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

This is the kind of extremist that flew under the radar when the state was obsessed with Islamist radicals. And society's outsized obsession with Islamist terrorism and the demonisation of Muslims contributed to the radicalisation of white far-righters.

16:11 · September 29, 2022

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

This is Yannick Verdyck. A self-described prepper (survivalist) who believed in paranoid far-right conspiracy theories, he had amassed an arsenal of 100 weapons to prepare for the collapse of society. He died during a police raid after he allegedly opened fire. pic.twitter.com/MsXBDMxD9n

07:33 · September 29, 2022

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

"The International Monetary Fund issued a stinging rebuke for the chancellor’s tax cutting mini-budget." You know the Tory addiction to tax cuts has gone too far if even the IMF and condemns it and financial markets fall off a cliff. #poundcrash theguardian.com/business/2022…

15:52 · September 28, 2022

Carbon Market Watch

@CarbonMrktWatch

Pillaging the Market Stability Reserve, which underpins the Emissions Trading System (EUETS), to reduce the European Union’s dependence on Russian gas through REPowerEU is short-sighted and destructive. Far better solutions exist 👇 carbonmarketwatch.org/2022/09…

10:10 · September 28, 2022 ·

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Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

In Belgium, ministers usually go about their business without the need for security. This is changing as the drugs underworld changes tactics. Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne has been in hiding since last Friday after a thwarted kidnapping. vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2022…

06:56 · September 28, 2022

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

"The American Library Association documented 729 attempts to censor library materials in 2021, targeting 1,597 titles." US conservatives' attacks on alleged leftist "cancel culture" is a decoy to draw attention away from their war on books and knowledge. theguardian.com/books/2022/se…

07:12 · September 27, 2022

Khaled Diab

@DiabolicalIdea

The most sustainable way to travel is through writing.

18:29 · September 26, 2022

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