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Duizenden Palestijnen wordden vermoord en geen haan die er naar kraait maar vermoord één eh...israelier en de wereld is te klein!

Dood van kolonist wakkert golf van geweld aan op Westoever: 'Wraakcampagne' nu.nl/midden-oostenconflict/63…

BBC airing an Israeli military lie UK is not involved in war on Iran even as British bases host US bombers attacking Tehran

A patent Israeli falsehood being amplified without trace of pushback

And a second Israeli fabrication that Iran is both able and planning to hit European cities like London

Liban : faire « Comme à Gaza »

Le ministre israélien de la Défense, Israel Katz, a déclaré dimanche que, sur ordre de lui-même et du Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu, l'armée israélienne allait accélérer la démolition des habitations libanaises dans les villages situés en première ligne le long de la frontière, « selon le modèle que nous avons appliqué à Rafah et à Beit Hanoun, dans la bande de Gaza », qui ont été en grande partie rasés.

Jonathan Lis, Haaretz, dimanche 22 mars 2026 (Traduction DeepL)

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#Liban #Lebanon #Gaza #Palestine
#NettoyageEthnique

"The Islamic University of Gaza: 1.5 Million Books Bombed"
#IsraelWarCrimes #Genocide #aculturecide ##futurecide #WesternComplicity #EthnicCleansing #Children #Gaza #Palestine

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An Off-Ramp for Trump to Reverse the Iran Disaster
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"The portly man at the next table finished his breakfast, leaned in my direction, and asked: ”What’s in the news that’s so interesting?” “Iran,” I said, adding that the U.S. seemed about to attack it. “Over in a day,” he said, snapping fingers for emphasis. Having spent two years at Beirut’s Daily Star when Iraqis More
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#Déclaration au Parlement européen de Marc Botenga au sujet de l' #Iran. Personnellement j'attends toujours le même type de déclaration au sujet de la #Palestine et du #Liban de la part de toustes les député.e.s qui se disent à gauche de l'assemblée nationale française.

#France #Gouv

A “Mediterranean” Slapp against MIIR: A lawsuit aimed at silencing our investigation - MIIR

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"Seven months after the publication of the revealing, cross-border investigation by MIIR and its partners, which was published in “Efimerida ton Syntakton” (EfSyn) newspaper under the title “The Mediterranean Wings of the Underworld” (August 2, 2025), we were served with a lawsuit from the Greek airline AIR MEDITERRANEAN. The lawsuit against our team and EfSyn -requesting a total amount of one hundred thousand (100,000) euros- does not aim to remedy any “damage”, but to instill fear. A lawsuit carrying a message for anyone who insists on investigating shady activities: “Stay away.” It is a classic SLAPP, a case of strategic censorship that attempts to turn journalism into a legal risk and investigations into a financial threat.

We are not going to back down. Not because we can “afford” it – we are, after all, a small team with very limited resources – but because this is our job. To investigate, to ask questions, to cross-check, to expose – even when this becomes annoying."

You can read the first part of our investigation here: miir.gr/en/the-mediterranean-w…

And the follow-up on the wanted Golden Visa investors in Greece, here: miir.gr/katazitoumenoi-chrysoi…

((i)) [ΘΕΣ/ΝΙΚΗ] ΑΝΑΛΗΨΗ ΕΥΘΥΝΗΣ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΕΜΠΡΗΣΤΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΘΕΣΗ ΣΕ ΙΣΡΑΗΛΙΝΗ ΕΤΑΙΡΕΙΑ

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Η συγκεκριμένη εταιρεία που ιδρύθηκε το 2021 αναλαμβάνει την κατασκευή, ανακαίνιση, μελέτη και διαχείριση ακινήτων. Έχει αγοράσει 16 τουλάχιστον οικοδομές στη Θεσσαλονίκη και είναι ιδιοκτησίας 2 ισραηλινών.

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Even 45 miljard subsidies per jaar bij de fossiele bedrijven vandaan halen en je hebt het geld.

Zij hebben meeste baat bij die bruggen.

"Minister Karremans zit met honderden versleten bruggen en sluizen, maar heeft geen geld om ze op te knappen"

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✨Cyrene ✨

This #MosaicMonday we celebrate the princess Cyrene who leant her name to the Greek colony in Libya. In myth she is known as the daughter of Hypseus, king of the Lapiths and the Naiad Chlidanope. Her sons by Apollo were Aristaeus and Idmon. Aristaeus sounds like the kind of god we’d love to met as he was the god of animal husbandry, bee-keeping and cheese making. Idmon became a famed seer. Cyrene herself was famous as a huntress, and reputedly called ‘lionkiller’, and was at times a companion of Artemis.

#AncientGreece #AncientRome #History

Gusanos of Monarchy: War, Exile, and the Misplacement of a Nation
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"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil – Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) There is a word from another revolution that fits a little too well in this time: gusano—the exile who leaves a revolution only to spend More
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No one really knows what #mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.

Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #3)

#quote #quotes #mattress

#FotoVorschlag: Alle Tassen im Schrank // All cups in the cupboard

Das Thema hatten wir doch am 17. April schon mal ... Und auch dieses Jahr fällt es mir wieder schwer. Hmmm. Hier eine Szene aus #Conwy, von der Stadtmauer aus in einen verwilderten #Garten fotografiert. Alle Tassen standen wohl noch im Schrank und nur die #Teekanne war schon draußen ...
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We already had this photo theme on 17 April ... And this year, I'm still struggling to come up with a fitting post. Hmm. Here's a scene in Conwy, snapped from the city walls. All the cups must have still been in the cupboard, and only the #teapot made it into that wild #garden ...

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“LLMs are like experienced senior engineer who joined your project 15 minutes ago.… they do not know your team’s conventions, architectural constraints, deprecated endpoints,…That is why architecture matters. The real challenge is not generating neat diagrams or clean module splits, but judging whether those boundaries actually make sense in the context of a specific system. And when you challenge AI’s proposals, it will often just agree with you instead of pushing back”

The Self-Undoing of Israel: Has Zionism Crossed the Point of No Return?
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"Is Israel’s trajectory toward isolation and collapse self-inflicted, and has Zionism reached the point of no return? Every war led by Benjamin Netanyahu is framed not as policy, but as fate. “There are moments in which a nation faces two possibilities: to do or die,” Netanyahu declared on October 28, 2023, as

The oil-you-can-eat buffet is currently unavailable. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaa…

#oil #sustainability #WorldEconomy #Hormuz #Iran

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UK: 'Long Covid sufferers have been abandoned and forgotten about'

Darren Parkinson thought COVID was just “a bad flu” in 2021 and bounced back quickly, but 5 years later he’s living with long COVID and severe fatigue, unable to work, socialise, or even shower more than once a week.

#LongCOVID

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Language Matters: There Are No “Wars of Choice”
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"In early reporting on the Iran War as "the ultimate war of choice," the New York Times spoke, as usual, in the sanitizing language of political realism. This is the lingua franca of the foreign policy elite in the Atlanticist alliance, consisting of the self-anointed ‘liberal democracies.’ It is definitely a more refined and less objectionable manner of

@autistics

During the course of my 6 decades revolving around the sun, there have been a lot of changes to the way autism is understood and recognised. But, as welcome as the advances that have been made are, even though there is still far to go, the way things were, go a long way to explain how I, and I suspect so may of us, were able to fly under the radar and not even consider the possibility that we were autistic for as long as we did.

For example, as a kid in the late sixties I turned up at school waving so many red flags for, this kid is autistic, it would be considered impossible for it not to be picked up on now. Chiefly, I couldn't make eye contact, I was speech delayed and had poor social skills, or apparently any desire to become social or make friends. But back then, everyone knew that autistics had to have even more extreme behavioural issues than just this and were, well back then they used a horrendous word beginning with R, so learning disabled. Which I clearly wasn't.

So call high functioning, or Asperger's, didn't really appear on the horizon until the early eighties, at least here in the UK, and even then it was often misread as a certain type of person only, the gifted, highly intelligent outsider and introvert. So, not a great help for a lot of us, and even less for me, given that I was already in university by then and masking like a good one.

Of course, it was even less helpful if you were female presenting. The myth that autism was only something that affected males and far too often that actually meant, white middle class males at least, still has its roots in far too many places. So that, even today, if you are a POC, or female presenting, or, god forbid, poor, it is far harder to get a correct diagnosis. Not when there are so many other diagnoses that they can throw at you. Despite the fact that they aren't accurate and don't help. And in fact, all too often, come with horribly negative consequences for being diagnosed with them.

That, I realise now, has been the common thread through all my years, that it has always been about how autism was considered to present, at least to the outsider. And all too often that meant how negatively we presented. What we couldn't do, how far we fell short of their standards, our deficits, at least to their minds, and rarely, if ever, our strengths. In fact these, if they were recognised at all, were all too often seen as mysterious savant like skills emerging from an otherwise empty or damaged facade. Think rain man. All the stereotypes that grew from the various attempts to define us and which still plague us today. In fact, these are often our biggest hurdles to realising that we could be autistic. All the, well I can't be autistic because, I can make eye contact, make friends, have a good job, marry and perhaps the most corrosive of all, are capable of empathy.

It is the stereotypes that mean that all too often we are used to seeing our autistic traits presented on TV and film, by the unfeeling robot, or android, the flawed, socially blind, genius. Or the hero who has to be shepherded through the social world by their allistic partner, whilst they solve the crimes, or save the day. The truth is that we are all different. Some of us struggle with something's, but not others. And how we struggle, or present those things can also differ. Above all, of course, they differ from how the world thinks we should be.

So, just because we are not reacting the way we're supposed to, doesn't mean that we aren't reacting. For many of us, for example, our empathy can come out as a need to problem-solve and not, immediately anyway, just providing emotional support. That we may need to hide from the news of the world, especially as it is at the moment, or carry on with our normal posts, as if nothing was changing. Isn't because we can't see or can't, or don't, care about it, but because we've had to learn to shield ourselves from so much, from our own, often, hyper-empathic and justice driven natures. From the pain and hurt of being judged and judging ourselves, from the expectations of what we should be and how we should behave. From all the stereotypes and definitions that have never defined us, but only ever hurt us.

For there are many reasons why we behave and react the way we do and they are all autistic, because we are, and that is the one thing that I really wish the world could come to learn and to define us by.

#Autism
#ActuallyAutistic

Same Battles Over and Over: The 2026 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
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"After not attending since 2019, I arrived early for this year’s Public Interest Environmental Law Conference (PIELC) at the University of Oregon Law School. It was the 44th session in the world’s longest such gathering. It ran from March 12th thru the 15th. Given the current political

The US-Israel alliance: under pressure as never before. Iran War Briefing

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I made a cake. I’m pretty proud.

Inside, four layer chocolate cake with chocolate cream.

#derpy #cake #birthday

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Iran in the Light of the Nuremberg Principles
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"As international law developed over the centuries, the principle of State sovereignty and the prohibition of interference in the internal affairs of other states gradually evolved -- from the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 through the Congress of Vienna 1814-15, the establishment of the League of Nations in 1919 and the adoption of the United Nations Charter in

The BBC's Lucy Williamson says Israel is destroying south Lebanon "using Gaza as a model – a blueprint for destruction used again as a path to peace".

That's right: genocide as "a path to peace".

Orwell would be proud.

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Kaiser Permanente, AI, and the Workers on Strike, Again
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"“Kaiser executives say they’re not using AI to make patient care determinations, but they won’t say what technology is underpinning the online questionnaires that automatically determine whether patients require urgent appointments and assess whether they may be a threat to themselves,” said Carolyn Staehle, a behavioral therapist in San

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The Fraud Story is a Fraud
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"Fans of pet-eating migrant stories are thrilled to hear that JD Vance is heading up an anti-fraud task force operating out of the White House. As best anyone can tell, the purpose is to drum up absurd allegations of fraud against prominent Democrats, like California Governor Gavin Newsom and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker. If the More
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