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[ad_1] After a preliminary hearing in the Scottish judicial review of the terrorist proscription of Palestine Action, the judge, Lord Young, reversed his earlier decision and has stopped the review, as fast as he possibly could. London had sent a regime minister to overawe the Edinburgh court. Yvette Cooper, former home secretary who proscribed Palestine Action, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer meeting during the Interpol General Assembly in Glasgow in November 2024. (Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) After direct action activists of the organization Palestine Action (PA) entered the Royal Air Force base at Brise Norton,…

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[ad_1] Not only does the military have a significant presence in O’ahu’s rental market, but it also contributes to upward pressures on Hawai’i’s housing prices because of the tax-free stipends—known as Basic Allowance for Housing or BAH—that active-duty service members receive on a monthly basis. Local residents have difficulty competing with compensation packages bolstered by BAH payments, making military renters more attractive to landlords. An E5 Sergeant, a rank of enlisted personnel who have been promoted to lead a small team or section, with dependents and 4 years experience had a base pay of $40,388 and a BAH of $39,852…

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[ad_1] Benjamin Netanyahu listened, kinda sorta: The Israeli military has stopped striking Beirut, seemingly buckling under pressure from President Donald Trump and others to deescalate lest a regional ceasefire be threatened. (Iran will not make a deal if Israel continues to strike allies.) Still, Israel’s prime minister has decided to maintain the military offensive against Hezbollah in the south of Lebanon, issuing new evacuation orders Tuesday for Nabatieh, one of the region’s largest cities, indicating that more strikes will follow. The Reason Roundup Newsletter by Liz Wolfe Liz and Reason help you make sense of the day’s news every morning.…

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[ad_1] Photograph Source: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit photographer – CC BY-SA 3.0 While eyes remain peeled on Israel’s increasingly violent and expanding campaign in Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is proving ever more predatory with the Gaza Strip.  With aggrandizing impunity, more territory is being acquired for familiar reasons: Hamas is on the run and needs to be crushed further (the organisation is proving oddly resilient and contradictory to Israeli objectives here); Palestinian autonomy, even in so small an area, would be a future threat to Israel unless heavily invigilated and policed; and, well, there is that old desire…

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