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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

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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."

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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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Trump dag 427: Trump herpost bericht dat hij derde termijn verdient wegens ‘gestolen’ verkiezingen, noemt Democratische Partij grootste vijand VS nu Iran ‘dood’ is, ICE naar vliegvelden, Rutte zegt dat optreden Trump noodzakelijk is en prijst leiderschap: reportersonline.nl/trump-dag-4…

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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

#RLP zeigt #AFD ist #Arbeiter und #Jugend Partei !


Eine Analyse der Wählerwanderung, der Demografie und der Wähler-Motive zeigt: Die AfD ist keine bloße Protestpartei mehr. Sie hat sich zur festen Heimat von Arbeitern und jungen Menschen entwickelt – getragen von Überzeugung statt bloßer Enttäuschung. SPD und CDU dagegen klammern sich an ihre Machtbasis: die Rentner.

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#NurNochAFD

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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A: „ #Gelbhaar, #Ramstein, #PotsdamerTreffen, #TilSchweiger, #KevinSpacey - unsere #Vorverurteilungen haben eigentlich immer super funktioniert.”


B: „Ok, dann nehmen wir für die #Klarnamenpflicht Christian #Ulmen.”

Hintergrund: Ich habe eine KI gefragt, ob es Beweise dafür gebe, dass Ulmen KI-Bilder und Videos in Umlauf gebracht habe. Antwort: Klar, es gibt ein Ermittlungsverfahren in Spanien, einen #SPIEGEL-Titel usw. Als ich entgegnete, das seien keine Beweise, knickte die KI ein und stimmte zu.

Trotz monatelanger Vorermittlungen und Dutzender Journalisten, die sich auf das Thema stürzten, gibt es bisher offenbar keinen harten Beleg. Trotzdem lassen sich die Leute wieder auf die Straße treiben.

#GEZ #GEZAbschaffen #Relotius
#Jonah #Lemm
#Claas #Relotius 2.0 #DieGrünen #NurNochAFD #CDU
#Merz ist ein #Lügner

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

System #Relotius: RTL-Journalist #Gajda fälscht jetzt weiter, um seine #Fälschung zu verschleiern


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#apollo-news.net
#ManojJansen #Manoj #Jansen
#GrünNazi #FakeNazi #FakeOpfer #GrüneLügen
#AFD #NoAFD #Nazi #NoNazi #NoGrüne #Relotius

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#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

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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

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thanks for that essay.

I'm sad for all the people who grew up earlier, and that today might get help and understanding instead of being pressured and excluded. For autistic parents who got overwhelmed, and for their children who suffered under them. I'm sad for all the people who still, today, feel "other" but can't find a name for the feeling or get misdiagnosed. We're so many that we might as well be called normal. We've always been there.

@autistics

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Rainman was the reason I didn't consider being autistic for a long time, too. I'm certainly not that far out on the spectrum, but I'm still well able to collapse regularly if I don't get enough quiet time, as I've learned the hard way. The phrase "but everybody feels that way" was a sign of more than a few non-neurotypical people in my family tree, not a sign that we were all normal.

@autistics

Le coût caché de l'IA c'est la vérification : danslesalgorithmes.net/stream/… @freakonometrics

@Debradelai

How Italy could help contain the crisis in the Middle East

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Trieste emerges as Italy’s crossroads for Europe–Indo-Mediterranean connectivity

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UAE Minister of State warns of Iranian aggression while pushing forward IMEC

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Why Italy wants to accelerate new trade routes — the message from Trieste

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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

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PIANO PIANO, LA GIUSTIZIA ARRIVA - LA PROCURA DI ROMA CHIUDE LE INDAGINI PER L'ATTENTATO DEL 1982 ALLA SINAGOGA: DOPO 44 ANNI, SONO CINQUE LE PERSONE CHE RISCHIANO IL PROCESSO. TRA LORO, ABOU ZAYED WALID ABDULRAHMAN, 68ENNE DETENUTO IN FRANCIA.

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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

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#brume ⏚ 🤔 ⛵️ 🐧 ☮️ 🇵🇸 🍉 @brume

Le #Conseil d'Etat valide l'hébergement par #Microsoft des #données de #santé de 10 millions de Français
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Une fois de plus le Conseil d'État se #disqualifie.
Le Conseil d'Etat valide l' #hébergement par #Microsoft des données de santé de 10 millions de Français
Par #La-Tribune - #SouveraineteNumerique #FranceCorruption #Honte

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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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"L'Iran affirme sa souveraineté sur le détroit d'Ormuz : passage ouvert à tous sauf aux « ennemis »

22 mars 2026 - 12h28
TÉHÉRAN (Tasnim) – Ali #Mousavi, ambassadeur d' #Iran en #Grande-Bretagne et représentant permanent du pays auprès de l'Organisation maritime internationale ( #OMI), a affirmé que le détroit d' #Ormuz reste ouvert à la navigation internationale pour tous, sauf pour les ennemis de la République islamique.
#Moussavi a fait ces remarques lors d'un entretien avec l'agence de presse Xinhua en marge de la 36e session extraordinaire du Conseil de l'OMI à Londres, qui s'est tenue mercredi et jeudi pour aborder la situation dans la région du Golfe persique, et en particulier dans le détroit d'Ormuz.

Il a souligné que le passage des navires par le détroit d'Ormuz est possible moyennant une coordination en matière de sécurité.

Mousavi a ajouté que les engagements internationaux doivent s'accompagner du plein respect de l'intégrité territoriale et des droits de l'Iran.

L'envoyé iranien a souligné que le détroit d'Ormuz est ouvert à tous sauf aux « ennemis ».

Il a souligné que la sécurité des navires et de leurs équipages exigeait une coordination avec les autorités iraniennes.

Par ailleurs, Mousavi a déclaré que l'Iran était prêt à coopérer avec l'OMI et d'autres pays pour renforcer la sécurité maritime et protéger les gens de mer.

Téhéran estime que l'agression des #États-Unis et du régime sioniste est à l'origine de la situation actuelle dans le golfe Persique et le détroit d'Ormuz, a-t-il déclaré.

Mousavi a souligné que la diplomatie demeure la priorité de l'Iran.

Il a toutefois insisté sur le fait que mettre fin à toute agression et instaurer une confiance mutuelle étaient encore plus essentiels.

L'Iran est prêt à faciliter le transit des navires par le détroit d'Ormuz, à condition que ce passage soit coordonné avec les autorités iraniennes et effectué dans le respect total de sa souveraineté et de sa sécurité, a-t-il déclaré.

En tant que membre de l'OMI, l'Iran est pleinement conscient de ses obligations internationales en matière de transport maritime, a-t-il ajouté.

L'envoyé a souligné que ces obligations devaient être respectées parallèlement au respect des droits de l'Iran, notamment son intégrité territoriale, sa souveraineté nationale et sa dignité.

« Tout doit être communiqué aux autorités iraniennes compétentes », a-t-il déclaré.

Il a fait remarquer que la sécurité des navires et des marins fait partie intégrante de ces dispositions.

L'Iran continuera de coopérer avec l'OMI et les autorités maritimes des autres nations afin d'assurer une navigation internationale plus sûre et une meilleure protection des gens de mer, a-t-il déclaré.

L'envoyé a accueilli favorablement toutes les initiatives ou suggestions visant à rendre le transport maritime international plus sûr.

Il a attribué la situation actuelle dans le détroit d'Ormuz à « leur agression, leurs activités militaires illégales contre le peuple iranien et l'intégrité territoriale iranienne », faisant référence aux opérations en cours menées par les États-Unis et Israël depuis le 28 février.

Mousavi a décrit les récentes frappes contre les infrastructures énergétiques iraniennes comme « le franchissement d'une nouvelle ligne rouge ».

Il a affirmé que l'Iran adopterait les mesures défensives appropriées et considérerait tout actif américain ou israélien comme une cible légitime.

L'ambassadeur a réaffirmé la préférence de l'Iran pour la diplomatie dans le règlement des différends.

Par ailleurs, Mousavi a souligné la remarquable résilience et l'unité dont a fait preuve la nation iranienne au milieu du conflit.

Il a observé que l'Iran avait été témoin d'une « unité et d'une solidarité très, très importantes et significatives » pendant la guerre.

Concernant les conséquences régionales plus larges, il a averti que la guerre constitue « un phénomène dangereux et très grave, ainsi qu'une catastrophe pour le monde entier ».

Cela a des répercussions non seulement sur l'Iran, mais aussi sur les États voisins du Golfe persique, ainsi que sur les marchés mondiaux de l'énergie et la sécurité alimentaire, a-t-il déclaré.

Mousavi a appelé les nations, en particulier celles de la région, à interroger les #États-Unis et #Israël sur les raisons pour lesquelles ils ont déclenché le conflit.

Il a exhorté la communauté internationale à condamner les actes d'agression contre l'Iran et à agir avec fermeté pour empêcher qu'ils ne se reproduisent, car ils violent la Charte des Nations Unies et le droit international."


#israel #us-israel #unprovoked #attack against #Iran
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No Naval Escort for Trump: US Allies and the Strait of Hormuz
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Paris has just elected another bike-friendly mayor!
After Anne Hidalgo transformed the city, her PS-colleague Emmanuel Grégoire takes over, beating former right-wing minister Rachida Dati by a large margin.
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Congress Can Halt the Iran War by Doing Nothing. It Should
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"US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wants $200 billion for the Trump administration’s illegal, ill-advised, undeclared war on Iran. Well, maybe. “That number could move,” he says, to get “properly funded for what’s been done, for what we may have to do in the future, ensure that our ammunition is refilled, and not just refilled, More

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“Companies like SpaceX have stated repeatedly that their method is to “move fast and break things.” They are now close to breaking the atmosphere, the night sky and anything on the ground or in space that their satellites and rockets fall on or crash into.

Earth’s orbital space is a finite resource. There is an evolving set of international guidelines for operating in outer space, grounded in a set of high-level international rules. Yet, those rules and guidelines are inadequate.

One corporation based in one country should not be allowed to ruin orbit, the night sky, and the atmosphere for everyone else in the world.”

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Americans values success and money at all costs, including destruction of commons even for themselves , as long as a happy few get more money.
They don't even care you exists on the dame planet.
They are the only country that still push Oil forward and try to harm other energies, despite the global warming.
Nothing can be expected from those few , just that oil depletion finally put a halt to their greed somehow.

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I've been waiting for nearly two years for this week's Cheering Up Mondays flower to bloom. More on the blog: bit.ly/3Nr4pxR

#plants #flowers #CheeringUpMondays #MondayMotivation #photography #UKGardening #BloomScrolling

Paul Mason instigated GCHQ targeting of The Grayzone’s Kit Klarenberg, leaks reveal

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Too many of my American friends have drunk the "American Dream" kool-aid propaganda, because they "feel it" -- nothing is further from the truth, and I always share the Great Gatsby Curve with them.

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I have somewhat radical views about income equality. A baker, an Uber driver, or a barista is usually in their position due to one or both of the following reasons:

1. Low maternal IQ.
2. Poor socio-economic status of family.

I don't consider their job to be inherently "easy", and mine to be inherently "hard" -- hell, if anything, I've never had to struggle a day in my life, and fully acknowledge my privilege to have been born to a relatively high-IQ mother, and into relative comfort. I refuse to take any special credit for "working hard", as I practically cruised through everything in life with ease (including university) and just followed my passion.

The income differential between me and these people exist, not because I've done anything to deserve it, but due to economic demand-supply factors. It's been exacerbated by capitalism, but even in pre-historic times, a warrior or scholar would be rewarded more than a farmer.

Can high-income individuals ever stop telling lies about their "hard" educational attainment and "complex" job, and have the humility to accept the simple privilege?

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It really angers me when people speak highly of their educational attainments, or their high-paying professions, having totally forgotten the fact that their wealthy parents paid large sums of money to buy them those opportunities, and quote nonsense like the "American Dream" to reinforce their world-view. I would much rather spend that time with at my Eritrean cafe with Medha, or with Paul at my Romanian bakery, both of whom never completed high school: the conversation is far more honest.
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The worst part is that these high-earners think they know everything (anything they don't know is minor, and not worth knowing) and that they're always right, by virtue of their income. They twist and cherry-pick facts and make logical errors in their arguments to suit their world-view. Not a shred of humility. What assholes.

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