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They're a deeply tribal people, but all the people who say they didn’t adapt to America are wrong. Governments left the vault doors wide open and practically begged them to steal. Of course they did.
So out of the blue I got a request for access to a 10 year old Google Docs file. This request also came from someone who actually might be interested in that file, so I contacted him. Turns out he was making **exercise schedules** and had asked Google Gemini for help, and Gemini decided it needed access to my document on a new government law (from 2015). So be careful out there!
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“The Israeli gov said Tuesday that Doctors Without Borders, one of the largest medical organizations currently operating in Gaza, is among the 25 humanitarian groups that will be suspended at the start of the new year” #GazaGenocide commondreams.org/news/israel-d…
The Israeli government said Tuesday that Doctors Without Borders, one of the largest medical organizations currently operating in Gaza, is among the 25 humanitarian groups that will be suspended at the start of the new year.
Al-Qassam Brigades Announce Martyrdom of Senior Commanders
The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, announced in a live address the martyrdom of several senior resistance leaders.
The address, broadcast via al-Qassam’s official Telegram channel, was delivered by the newly appointed spokesperson who now also bears the nom de guerre Abu Ubaida. The continuation of the name was presented as a clear message that the resistance maintains its course, affirming its position as a solid, well-established institution with deep roots.
Opening the address, the new spokesperson extended greetings to Gaza, its land, water, sky, and steadfast people; saluting its resistance fighters, families, and martyrs. He paid tribute to those enduring displacement, destruction, and siege, stating that their faith remains stronger than any weapon wielded by enemies or conspirators.
With utmost pride and honor, the Brigades announced the martyrdom of a group of their most distinguished leaders:
Mohammed Sinwar (Abu Ibrahim), Chief of Staff of Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades
Mohammed Shabana (Abu Anas), Commander of the Rafah Brigade
Hikmat Issa (Abu Omar), a commander known for his resistance activity in Lebanon and Syria before settling in Gaza
Raed Saad (Abu Muadh), the head of the manufacturing division and former head of operations
The statement also confirmed the martyrdom of Abu Ubaida, the long-time spokesperson of the Brigades, revealing his identity as Hudhayfa Samir Abdullah al-Kahlout (Abu Ibrahim). He was remembered as “the resounding voice of the nation, the pulse of Palestine and its people,” and a figure whose masked presence had become a symbol for millions.
The Brigades emphasized that Abu Ubaida played a pivotal role in relaying the voice of the resistance to the world, particularly during the Al-Aqsa Flood operation. His martyrdom, the spokesperson affirmed, marks not an end but a continuation of the struggle.
Messages from the new spokesperson
In his first address, the new spokesperson of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Ubaida, characterized October 7 as “a thunderous eruption in the face of injustice, oppression, and siege.” He reaffirmed that the resistance had fulfilled its duties toward the Palestinian people, despite the brutal aggression and countless violations.
He called upon international actors to shift their focus toward disarming the Zionist regime of its lethal arsenal rather than going after the rifles of the Palestinian resistance. A call was also issued to the Arab and Islamic Ummah: “Aid Gaza, which continues to endure immense suffering. It is your duty to relieve its pain.”
Warning of the consequences of silence, he stated that “those who remain silent about the oppression of their Arab and Muslim brethren must expect to face the same violation and aggression.”
He also warned that the so-called “Greater Israel” project was expanding daily, citing the continuous aggression on Lebanon and Syria as further evidence.
A salute was extended to the Syrian people, who confronted Zionist aggression despite being left alone. The spokesperson declared that the occupation, once emboldened, had now been humiliated in Gaza. “The autumn of the occupation has begun,” he said, asserting that the curse of the eighth decade now shadows the occupier.
He added that the blood of women, children, and the innocent would haunt the occupation until it is rejected by all of creation, and that the occupation’s descent after its corruption and arrogance signals the approach of its final defeat.
Addressing the people of Gaza, the statement reaffirmed loyalty to their sacrifices: “We are your sons, and we are proud. We bow in reverence before you and vow to remain faithful.”
I grew up in the DC area but didn’t move to the city until around 1999, so I most definitely missed the glory days of DC #hardcore. Looking back at books like Banned In DC, I was always confused about why I was always the only black kid at shows (or maybe one of two) when it seemed like the DC scene of the 80s was pretty diverse. Since everyone already knows about Bad Brains, I focused on lesser known #BlackPunks from DC like Shawn Brown (Dag Nasty, Swiz) and Bubba Dupree (Void). This is from issue 5 of #ShotgunSeamstress. #punk #zines
If a wayward snowplow hits your mailbox, what should you do? The answer about who's responsible is complicated, and it can vary depending on what happened.
Grand Theft Auto 4 RTX Remix Update 1.1.5 Released
Modder ‘xoxor4d’ has released Update 1.1.5 for his amazing RTX Remix Path Tracing Mod for Grand Theft Auto 4. So, let’s see what this update brings to the table. For those who did not know, this RTX Remix enables real-time Path Tracing in GTA 4. This is a must-have mod for everyone who has a …
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U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria said in an order Monday the Department of Homeland Security can receive biographical, contact and location information from the Medicaid program.
Team members working with NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover created this “postcard” by commanding the rover to take images at two times of day on Nov. 18, 2025,
“We” is the name of the god that leftists and other secular so-called atheists pray to.
When you hear a leftist say something like “We should abolish all billionaires“, what you’re hearing is a prayer to his god; same as a Christian praying for long life, or an Islamist praying for death to all infidels.
There comes a point in every country's decline, when the police are no longer able to figure anything out anymore, and you can basically just make money by setting things on fire and leaving business cards with your Monero address.
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How and Why Haitians Cope with Capitalism Differently in the Diaspora than in Haiti
hy don’t many Haitians “see” capitalism in Haiti?
Many compatriots still living in Haiti say, with quiet weariness or resigned irony: “Capitalism is hard elsewhere. Here, we survive differently.”
They’re not wrong. But they don’t fully understand what they don’t see.
In Haiti, capitalism is neither absent nor dominant. It is incomplete, fractured, dislocated, poorly established, and, above all, not all-encompassing. And it is precisely this incompleteness that creates the illusion.
Capitalism as it functions in the imperialist metropoles of North America and Europe — the kind that leaves no room for growth — never truly takes hold. It stopped halfway and failed to become all-encompassing.
And in this failure, something still breathes.
I. In Haiti, Capitalism Does Not Yet Encompass All of Life
In Northern societies, capitalism is all-encompassing. It doesn’t just structure the economy. It organizes time, the body, sleep, health, housing, relationships, emotions, and the fear of becoming destitute. There is nothing outside of it. Even love is conditional.
In Haiti, this threshold has never been fully crossed, not through conscious resistance, but through structural incapacity.
The state doesn’t collect so little out of fiscal justice. It collects so little because it cannot collect more.
Electricity arrives like an unexpected visit, then disappears without explanation. Water flows, then recedes like a broken promise. A road begins, then work on it stops. Administration happens in fits and starts, never as a continuous system.
Bills don’t punctuate life. Sometimes they don’t even exist. This isn’t a political project. It’s an inherited disorder. But this disorder produces a major political effect: survival is not entirely captured by the market.
Work is not confined to “the company.” It is dispersed, improvised, fragmented: street economy, small businesses, multiple activities, unstable incomes, and daily makeshift solutions.
Life is hard. But it is not locked into a single system.
The question is no longer simply: Do you work? But: How do you live? With whom? In what dependencies?
II. Survival in Haiti Does Not Depend Exclusively on the State or on Wages
In Haiti, to survive — not to live well, but to survive — one does not depend on a single contract, a single salary, a single bank account, a single institution.
If one thing fails, everything does not collapse immediately.
Survival is fragmented. It rests on several fragile supports: the extended family, the neighborhood, resourcefulness, informal networks, and non-monetary forms of solidarity.
It’s not security. It’s the plurality of support systems. Life is precarious, but it holds on in many places.
III. Falling Ill in Haiti: a Revealing Example
When someone falls ill in Haiti: the mother intervenes, the aunt contributes, the neighbor lends, the community adjusts its help, roles are redistributed — the burdens are shared.
The crisis isn’t “resolved.” It’s absorbed collectively. It’s exhausting. It’s unfair. It’s sometimes humiliating. But it’s not entirely privatized.
IV. Haitian Women and Informal Autonomy
In Haiti, thousands of women sell, trade, produce, negotiate, and survive on their own. Not through ideological emancipation. Out of vital necessity.
Their survival does not depend solely on a salaried husband, a stable man, or a secure nuclear family. They fall, they get back up, they fend for themselves. Men do not bear the economic burden alone. The family cushions the blow. The community absorbs the burden.
This is not equality. It is a shared dependence. Precarious. Unjust. But real.
V. The Couple in Haiti: Important, but Not All-Encompassing
In this context, the couple matters, but it is not everything. It is not the only insurance, refuge, or safety net. It coexists with other forms of protection. There is the mother, the aunt, the sister, the neighbor, or the community.
The couple is not yet the central infrastructure for survival in Haiti.
VI. Migrating Is Not about Changing Countries: It’s about Changing Survival Systems
When a Haitian arrives in Canada, the United States, or France, they are not simply entering another territory. They are entering a different survival structure.
In those foreign completely capitalist lands, everything must be paid for and is contractual, individualized, and conditional.
Rent is due every month. Healthcare has a cost. Transportation is mandatory. Time is finite. Status is precarious. Everything has a price.
Community solidarity is no longer structural. It becomes optional. Fragile. Conditional.
Being alone immediately becomes dangerous.
VII. Example 1 – The Haitian Woman Alone in North America
Before (in Haiti), she sells at the market, depends on networks, adapts, and survives without a contract.
After (in Canada/United States/France), rent and insurance are mandatory, transportation is paid for, healthcare is paid for or conditional, and immigration status is precarious.
A delay becomes a fault. An illness becomes a threat. Being alone becomes a life-threatening risk.
The result: the pressure to be in a relationship intensifies. This isn’t romantic. It’s structural. Emotional dependence accelerates. Tolerance for the unacceptable increases.
VIII. Example 2 – The Haitian Man in North America
The Haitian man arrives with an identity shaped by resourcefulness, flexibility, and ingenuity. But late capitalism demands something else: rigid schedules, measured productivity, mechanical regularity, constant performance, and silent endurance.
He is told, “You are a strong, resourceful man.” But he is isolated. He doesn’t know how to verbalize his distress. And he no longer has a supportive community.
The distress produced by this tension is not addressed by the state, nor recognized as a cost of the system. It is poured out into the private sphere.
His partner, if he has one, becomes his only refuge, his only listening ear, his psychological buffer — his therapist.
The result: the dependence is not emotional. It is organized or forced.
IX. The Couple Becomes a Survival Infrastructure
In this fully capitalist context: two incomes = minimal breathing room, a single salary = precariousness, illness = existential threat, separation = material catastrophe.
Many Haitian couples in the diaspora stay together out of necessity, delay the breakup out of fear, confusing connection with survival. Needless to say, relationships are maintained despite violence or strain.
This is not a lack of love. It is an excess of coercion.
X. The Haitian Woman in the Diaspora: An Invisible Pillar
She often juggles paid work, domestic labor, emotional labor, and supporting family members back in Haiti. She becomes the household’s economic pillar, the couple’s emotional pillar, and the transnational pillar of family survival.
This work is unrecognized, unpaid, and normalized as “sacrifice.” Late capitalism thrives on this invisibility.
XI. Solitude as a Social Risk
In Northern societies, being alone is not neutral. It is structurally dangerous.
in late capitalism, survival is individualized, dependency is privatized, and intimacy replaces community.
A Haitian alone in Montreal, Miami, or Paris is perceived as unstable, suspected of failure, and deemed incomplete. Because: without a couple, they have no safety net; without a partner, they are at risk, go broke more easily, and burn out more quickly; and without Haiti’s informal social network, they potentially cost the state.
This is why social pressure encourages couples, stigmatizes aloneness, and pathologizes autonomy.
Control is exercised through norms, not laws.
XII. What Migration Reveals
Many diaspora Haitians say: “Life is hard here, but it was hard in Haiti too. I never understood the system before living here.”
Because in late capitalism, survival is individualized, dependency is privatized, and intimacy replaces community.
The difference is not the hardship. It is the structure.
What Haitians experience by migrating reveals the system’s essence: late capitalism doesn’t impose itself only through taxes, laws, and statistics, but through relationships, through intimate dependence, the transformation of love into economic infrastructure.
The shock isn’t just fiscal. It’s relational and existential.
Conclusion
In Haiti, the informal sector still masks capitalism’s cruel laws and logic. Despite the violence and damage capitalism has done to Haiti’s social fabric, forms of mutual support still endure in Haiti. But as soon as Haitians migrate to the Northern metropoles, the couple becomes a primary condition for survival. That’s where the control of intimacy becomes visible.
The informal survival networks of Haiti are often supplanted by the shock-absorber, the safety net, of a relationship, which becomes a hedge against falling into unemployment, homelessness, and capitalist oblivion.
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Statement of Mourning for Great Leader, Heroic Fighter, Martyr Hudhayfah al-Kahlout (Abu Obeida) — Hamas
Among the believers are men who have been true to their covenant with Allah, of them some have fulfilled their obligations, and some of them are still waiting, but they have never changed in the least. Statement of mourning for the great leader, the heroic fighter, the Martyr Hudhayfah al-Kahlout (Abu Obeida), Commander of Military Media and Spokesperson for the Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades
The roaring voice that disturbed the sleep of the occupation’s leaders and its army, and inspired our people, our nation, and the free people of the world on the path to liberating the land and the holy sites.
With hearts believing in and confident in Allah’s promise to His Mujahid servants, and with great contentment, submission [to Allah’s will], pride, and honor, and with insistence on continuing the path of the martyrs in defense of our people, our land, and our holy sites, we in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announce to the masses of our Palestinian people, our Arab and Islamic nation, and the free people of the world, the great leader, the heroic fighter, the martyr:
Hudhayfah al-Kahlout (Aba Obeida)
Commander of Military Media and Spokesperson for the Martyr Izz El-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of our blessed movement. He ascended to Allah as a martyr, advancing and not retreating, in a treacherous and cowardly zionist bombing that targeted him and his family while they were on the land of patience, ribat (guardianship), and jihad—Gaza of Glory—during the most honorable heroic battle in the history of our people’s struggle (Al-Aqsa Flood); a battle for which he was the roaring voice that disturbed the sleep of the occupation, its army, and its leaders, and inspired millions of the sons of our nation and the free people of the world.
The heroic leader and martyr, Abu Obeida, has gone to his Lord as a martyr, accompanied by his wife and children—may Allah have mercy on them all—in a blessed ending that he sought and wished for, remaining steadfast on its path until he attained the highest of aspirations. This comes after a full life brimming with jihad, sacrifice, perseverance, and ribat on the land of Gaza of Glory. Allah Almighty chose him during the Al-Aqsa Flood battle, where he had been targeted by the zionist enemy and wanted for over 15 years. His image remained constantly terrifying to the leaders of the occupation and its army; his captivating presence spread the spirit of doubt and defeat among the occupation’s public, and his silence and absence confused the occupation’s calculations and plans. As for his biography and his journey, they will remain an inspiration for generations of our people and our nation on the path of defending Palestine, and at its heart, Al-Quds and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.
We in the Hamas movement, as we mourn the fighter leader and martyr Abu Obeida, may Allah have mercy on him, affirm that the zionist occupation’s assassination of the leaders of our people and our movement and its symbols will not succeed in breaking their will or their resistance. Crimes of killing, assassination, and targeting will only increase their strength, solidity, adherence to rights, and defense of the land, Al-Quds, and Al-Aqsa Mosque. The history of the Movement has proven that after the assassination of its leaders, it becomes stronger, more cohesive, more determined and resolved, and more fierce and damaging to the zionist enemy.
Rest with a contented heart, O Abu Obeida, for your pure spirit will remain alive, pulsing with resistance and jihad. Your radiant image will remain firmly rooted in the hearts of our people, our nation, and the free people of the world. Your roaring voice for freedom and independence will roam the horizons and become entrenched in reality, heralding the demise of the occupation and the liberation of the land and the holy sites. If a master among us dies, another arises in his wake… a peer to him who suffices in his stead and succeeds him. May Allah Almighty have mercy on the martyr commander Abu Obaida and accept him into His presence, and lodge him in the highest Paradise (Firdaws), with the prophets, the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous—and excellent are those as companions. May He grant our people and our Arab and Islamic nation patience and steadfastness, and compensate us with the best compensation. Indeed, it is a continuing march, of sacrifices, patience, resilience, and ribat.
Indeed, it is a jihad of victory or martyrdom.
The Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas Monday: 09 Rajab 1447 AH Corresponding to: December 29, 2025 AD
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La inversión en bienes raíces ha sido tradicionalmente percibida como una actividad exclusiva para individuos con grandes fortunas, pero la plataforma 100 Ladrillos está transformando esta realidad. Su enfoque permite a cualquier persona adentrarse en el sector inmobiliario con capitales accesibles.
¿Qué Ofrece 100 Ladrillos?
Esta innovadora plataforma de crowdfunding fue creada para democratizar las inversiones inmobiliarias. Desde su lanzamiento, ha facilitado que usuarios comunes puedan adquirir participantes en propiedades, convirtiéndose en copropietarios de inmuebles sin necesidad de realizar desembolsos significativos.
Mecanismo de Funcionamiento
El proceso es sencillo y efectivo. Los inversionistas pueden registrarse y crear una cuenta en línea. Una vez dentro, tienen la opción de seleccionar entre una variedad de propiedades en las que deseen invertir. Cada inversión se realiza a través de la compra de "ladrillos", que representan fracciones de los inmuebles, lo que simplifica la diversificación del portafolio.
Ventajas Atractivas
Bajo Capital Inicial: Permite comenzar con inversiones que se adaptan a diferentes presupuestos.
Generación de Ingresos: Los propietarios reciben un porcentaje de las rentas mensuales generadas por estas propiedades, estableciendo un flujo constante de dinero.
Apreciación a Largo Plazo: Con el paso del tiempo, los inmuebles suelen aumentar de valor, beneficiando así a los inversionistas en el futuro.
Facilidad para Expandir Inversiones: Los usuarios pueden diversificar su cartera invirtiendo en diferentes propiedades, lo que ayuda a mitigar riesgos.
Acceso a Proyectos Exclusivos: La plataforma ofrece inversiones en proyectos en etapa de preventa, brindando oportunidades para adquirir propiedades a precios más bajos.
Mercado de Reventa: La posibilidad de vender fracciones de propiedades hacer el proceso más accesible y menos complicado que la venta de un inmueble completo.
Cómo Empezar a Invertir
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