"My office is on its knees. The entire human rights ecosystem is in survival mode."
Somber words from Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human RIghts, as he opens the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights.
Will be covering the Forum for @banktrack.bsky.social in the coming days.
#UNForumBHR
Somber words from Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human RIghts, as he opens the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights.
Will be covering the Forum for @banktrack.bsky.social in the coming days.
#UNForumBHR
November 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
"My office is on its knees. The entire human rights ecosystem is in survival mode."
Somber words from Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human RIghts, as he opens the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights.
Will be covering the Forum for @banktrack.bsky.social in the coming days.
#UNForumBHR
Somber words from Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human RIghts, as he opens the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights.
Will be covering the Forum for @banktrack.bsky.social in the coming days.
#UNForumBHR
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“From the moment the news of the attack in Manchester broke out, home secretary Shabana Mahmood pounced on the opportunity to reinstate her patriotism”, writes Max Hammer.
www.vashtimedia.com/on-being-un-...
www.vashtimedia.com/on-being-un-...
On being un-British: safety through solidarity after the Manchester attack
Britishness will never protect us.
www.vashtimedia.com
October 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
“From the moment the news of the attack in Manchester broke out, home secretary Shabana Mahmood pounced on the opportunity to reinstate her patriotism”, writes Max Hammer.
www.vashtimedia.com/on-being-un-...
www.vashtimedia.com/on-being-un-...
Hatte mit der @redaktionzack.bsky.social einen kurzen Austausch zum Thema Raiffeisen/Russland.
Freut mich sehr, dass ZackZack dazu berichtet. Die Tatsache, dass russische Gasexporte in die EU mittlerweile größtenteils an der RBI hängen, findet leider in Ö-Medien noch immer zu wenig Niederschlag
Freut mich sehr, dass ZackZack dazu berichtet. Die Tatsache, dass russische Gasexporte in die EU mittlerweile größtenteils an der RBI hängen, findet leider in Ö-Medien noch immer zu wenig Niederschlag
Wie “Bloomberg”, “Reuters” und “Middle East Eye“ berichteten, ist die Raiffeisenbank International (RBI) an der Abwicklung russischer Energieexporte federführend beteiligt. Als größte verbliebene westliche Bank ist sie für Putins Kriegswirtschaft unersetzlich.
Milliarden für die Kriegskasse: Raiffeisen und die russischen Energie-Exporte - zackzack.at
Wie "Bloomberg", "Reuters" und "Middle East Eye" berichteten, ist die Raiffeisenbank International (RBI) an der Abwicklung russischer Energieexporte federführend beteiligt. Als größte verbliebene west...
zackzack.at
October 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Hatte mit der @redaktionzack.bsky.social einen kurzen Austausch zum Thema Raiffeisen/Russland.
Freut mich sehr, dass ZackZack dazu berichtet. Die Tatsache, dass russische Gasexporte in die EU mittlerweile größtenteils an der RBI hängen, findet leider in Ö-Medien noch immer zu wenig Niederschlag
Freut mich sehr, dass ZackZack dazu berichtet. Die Tatsache, dass russische Gasexporte in die EU mittlerweile größtenteils an der RBI hängen, findet leider in Ö-Medien noch immer zu wenig Niederschlag
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The Israeli government will only stop its campaign of genocide & engineered starvation if our governments, and governments around the world, move from empty condemnations to real pressure.
Join us on Monday outside the Foreign Office at 5:30pm to demand SANCTIONS NOW on Israel.
Join us on Monday outside the Foreign Office at 5:30pm to demand SANCTIONS NOW on Israel.
July 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The Israeli government will only stop its campaign of genocide & engineered starvation if our governments, and governments around the world, move from empty condemnations to real pressure.
Join us on Monday outside the Foreign Office at 5:30pm to demand SANCTIONS NOW on Israel.
Join us on Monday outside the Foreign Office at 5:30pm to demand SANCTIONS NOW on Israel.
Haha wow it's so funny and epic that the president sicced a psychotic billionaire Afrikaner on the country to destroy global health systems and kill thousands of kids in Sudan and is now planning to give him the Ernst Röhm treatment. Real entertaining stuff
Reporter: Are you going to deport Elon Musk?
Trump: We'll have to take a look. We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? The monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies.
Trump: We'll have to take a look. We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? The monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies.
July 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Haha wow it's so funny and epic that the president sicced a psychotic billionaire Afrikaner on the country to destroy global health systems and kill thousands of kids in Sudan and is now planning to give him the Ernst Röhm treatment. Real entertaining stuff
this government's entire craven, amoral, cruel approach to politics summed up in a single word.
not just happy, but actively frothing at the mouth, to throw vulnerable people under the bus at the earliest opportunity based on a delusional, self-serving image of the "median voter"
not just happy, but actively frothing at the mouth, to throw vulnerable people under the bus at the earliest opportunity based on a delusional, self-serving image of the "median voter"
Asked if Keir Starmer still believes that a trans woman is a woman, his spokesman replies "no".
Says that trans women must now use men's bathrooms
Says that trans women must now use men's bathrooms
April 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
this government's entire craven, amoral, cruel approach to politics summed up in a single word.
not just happy, but actively frothing at the mouth, to throw vulnerable people under the bus at the earliest opportunity based on a delusional, self-serving image of the "median voter"
not just happy, but actively frothing at the mouth, to throw vulnerable people under the bus at the earliest opportunity based on a delusional, self-serving image of the "median voter"
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We all need to dedicate the rest of our lives to destroying the republican party
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
April 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
We all need to dedicate the rest of our lives to destroying the republican party
this is 100% true but no one in the UK is allowed to claim victory on this either. grocery store vegetables here taste like they've had a silencer attached to their flavour profile and go bad within 45 seconds of purchase
[turning up to the fist fight with a loaded gun]
maybe Americans wouldn't be so obsessed with "seasoning" if they actually had access to produce that tastes of something
maybe Americans wouldn't be so obsessed with "seasoning" if they actually had access to produce that tastes of something
April 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
this is 100% true but no one in the UK is allowed to claim victory on this either. grocery store vegetables here taste like they've had a silencer attached to their flavour profile and go bad within 45 seconds of purchase
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Yes, it’s a bit hard to see now, but allowing the president to become a king who can kidnap citizens while also demolishing the global financial system is a small price to pay for getting to keeping 23 trans women from playing college sports.
April 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Yes, it’s a bit hard to see now, but allowing the president to become a king who can kidnap citizens while also demolishing the global financial system is a small price to pay for getting to keeping 23 trans women from playing college sports.
Very proud to have been part of this initiative
Russia took the spotlight yet again at Raiffeisen's AGM yesterday.
Protestors in the AGM and across Vienna demanded the bank finally ditch its Russia business and its ties with sanctioned entities.
Read more: www.banktrack.org/article/raif...
w/ @attac.at @b4ukraine.org @wemoveeurope.bsky.social
Protestors in the AGM and across Vienna demanded the bank finally ditch its Russia business and its ties with sanctioned entities.
Read more: www.banktrack.org/article/raif...
w/ @attac.at @b4ukraine.org @wemoveeurope.bsky.social
Raiffeisen Annual General Meeting interrupted as protestors demand an end to Russia business
Raiffeisen Bank International saw its Russian operations cast into the spotlight again this Wednesday, as the bank’s Annual General Meeting was dominated by a series of protests inside…
www.banktrack.org
March 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Very proud to have been part of this initiative
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🚨HAPPENING NOW:
Protestors led by attac, BankTrack, and B4Ukraine are outside Raiffeisen Bank International's Annual General Meeting in Vienna with a clear message:
Raiffeisen, get out of Russia!
@b4ukraine.org @attac.at
Protestors led by attac, BankTrack, and B4Ukraine are outside Raiffeisen Bank International's Annual General Meeting in Vienna with a clear message:
Raiffeisen, get out of Russia!
@b4ukraine.org @attac.at
March 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🚨HAPPENING NOW:
Protestors led by attac, BankTrack, and B4Ukraine are outside Raiffeisen Bank International's Annual General Meeting in Vienna with a clear message:
Raiffeisen, get out of Russia!
@b4ukraine.org @attac.at
Protestors led by attac, BankTrack, and B4Ukraine are outside Raiffeisen Bank International's Annual General Meeting in Vienna with a clear message:
Raiffeisen, get out of Russia!
@b4ukraine.org @attac.at
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Internationale Proteste fordern heute Russland-Rückzug von #Raiffeisen.
Aktivist*innen unterbrachen am Vormittag die RBI-Hauptversammlung. Weitere Proteste finden vor der Landesbank NÖ/Wien am Donaukanal sowie vor dem Hauptsitz der RBI beim Stadtpark statt.
www.attac.at/news/details...
Aktivist*innen unterbrachen am Vormittag die RBI-Hauptversammlung. Weitere Proteste finden vor der Landesbank NÖ/Wien am Donaukanal sowie vor dem Hauptsitz der RBI beim Stadtpark statt.
www.attac.at/news/details...
March 26, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Internationale Proteste fordern heute Russland-Rückzug von #Raiffeisen.
Aktivist*innen unterbrachen am Vormittag die RBI-Hauptversammlung. Weitere Proteste finden vor der Landesbank NÖ/Wien am Donaukanal sowie vor dem Hauptsitz der RBI beim Stadtpark statt.
www.attac.at/news/details...
Aktivist*innen unterbrachen am Vormittag die RBI-Hauptversammlung. Weitere Proteste finden vor der Landesbank NÖ/Wien am Donaukanal sowie vor dem Hauptsitz der RBI beim Stadtpark statt.
www.attac.at/news/details...
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While the protestor lists RBI's contentious investments, there are shouts from the investors:
"Nobody cares!
We don't care!
We know, it doesn't matter!"
"Nobody cares!
We don't care!
We know, it doesn't matter!"
March 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
While the protestor lists RBI's contentious investments, there are shouts from the investors:
"Nobody cares!
We don't care!
We know, it doesn't matter!"
"Nobody cares!
We don't care!
We know, it doesn't matter!"
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Interesting statement of the RBI-CEO given recent revelations about Raiffeisen Bank Internationals's business in 🇷🇺 @derstandard.at @occrp.org @papertrailmedia.de www.derstandard.de/story/300000...
March 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Interesting statement of the RBI-CEO given recent revelations about Raiffeisen Bank Internationals's business in 🇷🇺 @derstandard.at @occrp.org @papertrailmedia.de www.derstandard.de/story/300000...
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Hameseder: Recent media coverage "scandalized RBI's Russian operations without any factual basis for doing so."
He emphasizes that the bank has extensive compliance mechanisms in Russia.
He does not offer any evidence to doubt the recent media coverage of RBI's Russian operations.
He emphasizes that the bank has extensive compliance mechanisms in Russia.
He does not offer any evidence to doubt the recent media coverage of RBI's Russian operations.
March 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Hameseder: Recent media coverage "scandalized RBI's Russian operations without any factual basis for doing so."
He emphasizes that the bank has extensive compliance mechanisms in Russia.
He does not offer any evidence to doubt the recent media coverage of RBI's Russian operations.
He emphasizes that the bank has extensive compliance mechanisms in Russia.
He does not offer any evidence to doubt the recent media coverage of RBI's Russian operations.
We're in the Raiffeisen Bank International AGM. Expecting to hear at least a few questions on the bank's continued engagement with Russian warmongers, as exposed in a series of recent articles:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
Raiffeisen Bank Clients in Russia Help Supply Putin’s War Machine
Vienna-based Raiffeisen Bank International AG has been making money from firms supplying Vladimir Putin’s military, according to documents seen by Bloomberg, as the Russian army grinds forward in Ukra...
www.bloomberg.com
March 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
We're in the Raiffeisen Bank International AGM. Expecting to hear at least a few questions on the bank's continued engagement with Russian warmongers, as exposed in a series of recent articles:
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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It's the day of Raiffeisen Bank's AGM — just a day after an investigation revealed the bank imported tonnes of cash into Russia in the days before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
BankTrack's Max Hammer is at the AGM; follow him @worstbeatlesong.bsky.social for live posts and updates!
BankTrack's Max Hammer is at the AGM; follow him @worstbeatlesong.bsky.social for live posts and updates!
March 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
It's the day of Raiffeisen Bank's AGM — just a day after an investigation revealed the bank imported tonnes of cash into Russia in the days before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
BankTrack's Max Hammer is at the AGM; follow him @worstbeatlesong.bsky.social for live posts and updates!
BankTrack's Max Hammer is at the AGM; follow him @worstbeatlesong.bsky.social for live posts and updates!
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BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
frankly, this is where I get tired of this narrow messaging focused on what makes jews safe. jewish community groups are explicitly egging on the disappearing of a palestinian political dissident. these groups are complicit in fascism and it doesn't really matter how that makes us feel
The Trump admin is exploiting real concerns about antisemitism to undercut democracy: from gutting education funding to deporting students to attacking diversity, equity, & inclusion.
As we’ve repeatedly said: this makes Jews - & so many others - less safe.
jewishpublicaffairs.org/news/jcpa-re...
As we’ve repeatedly said: this makes Jews - & so many others - less safe.
jewishpublicaffairs.org/news/jcpa-re...
JCPA Responds to Trump Administration’s Executive Order on Antisemitism - Jewish Council for Public Affairs
Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s new executive order related to combatting antisemitism: “Rising antisemiti...
jewishpublicaffairs.org
March 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
frankly, this is where I get tired of this narrow messaging focused on what makes jews safe. jewish community groups are explicitly egging on the disappearing of a palestinian political dissident. these groups are complicit in fascism and it doesn't really matter how that makes us feel
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To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.
February 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.
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One of the most horrifying stories to come out of this war of extermination. I posted the Hebrew reporting a few days ago, here it is in English.
www.972mag.com/gaza-human-s...
www.972mag.com/gaza-human-s...
Israeli soldiers used 80-year-old Gazan as human shield, then killed him
Soldiers put an explosive cord around the man's neck and forced him to scout buildings for eight hours. After his release, another division shot him dead.
www.972mag.com
February 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
One of the most horrifying stories to come out of this war of extermination. I posted the Hebrew reporting a few days ago, here it is in English.
www.972mag.com/gaza-human-s...
www.972mag.com/gaza-human-s...
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NEW: These are the banks that have underwritten Israeli government bonds since 7th October 2023. Bonds which funded Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza. These banks risk complicity in war crimes.
www.banktrack.org/news/seven_u...
W/ @paxvoorvrede.nl
www.banktrack.org/news/seven_u...
W/ @paxvoorvrede.nl
February 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
NEW: These are the banks that have underwritten Israeli government bonds since 7th October 2023. Bonds which funded Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza. These banks risk complicity in war crimes.
www.banktrack.org/news/seven_u...
W/ @paxvoorvrede.nl
www.banktrack.org/news/seven_u...
W/ @paxvoorvrede.nl
i know it's flat search time of the year again when i have to subject myself to the unbearable mental anguish of reading about flats that are advertised as being located "right in the heart of bustling south norwood"
February 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
i know it's flat search time of the year again when i have to subject myself to the unbearable mental anguish of reading about flats that are advertised as being located "right in the heart of bustling south norwood"
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The @boardofdeputies.bsky.social is falling over itself in its craven attempt to heap praise on fascist and genocidal leaders while pretending it cares about a “comprehensive peace between Israelis and Palestinians.”
In case you’re confused, here’s a diagram to help you out:
In case you’re confused, here’s a diagram to help you out:
February 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The @boardofdeputies.bsky.social is falling over itself in its craven attempt to heap praise on fascist and genocidal leaders while pretending it cares about a “comprehensive peace between Israelis and Palestinians.”
In case you’re confused, here’s a diagram to help you out:
In case you’re confused, here’s a diagram to help you out:
btw, the chairman of the AfD's 22-person jewish caucus is artur abramovych, a proponent of the "imported antisemitism" myth who has approvingly cited the pro-NSDAP jewish writer hans-joachim schoeps to justify his religious nationalism
europeanconservative.com/articles/ess...
europeanconservative.com/articles/ess...
February 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
btw, the chairman of the AfD's 22-person jewish caucus is artur abramovych, a proponent of the "imported antisemitism" myth who has approvingly cited the pro-NSDAP jewish writer hans-joachim schoeps to justify his religious nationalism
europeanconservative.com/articles/ess...
europeanconservative.com/articles/ess...