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My mother was a nurses aid for a number of years at a nursing home... they required employees to have a yearly Flu shot...
she died at age 67 and only one of her co-workers made it past the age of 70... she died at 72.
Those early deaths saved a lot of money for the pension fund. And unlike a personal retirement accounts such as a 401K, the money she paid into the pension fund did not go to her heirs... the State of New York kept it. She could have chosen a plan that paid money to her heirs but it would have cut her monthly check in half - so that wasn't really an option.
I remain astonished that people continue to look to big-pharma after so much programmed suffering and death. But, we have the latest sports ball and movie star depravity to watch, so... meh.
Elon Musk Responds to Calls for his Death and Burning Teslas at New York Protest Led by Democrat Officials: “The Organizers and Funders will be Found and Prosecuted” (VIDEO)
Tensions escalated in Manhattan as anti-Tesla protesters, backed by Democratic officials, unleashed calls for violence against Elon Musk and his vehicles.
#gm lads today i have to get that other brake caliper off and un-stuck. this time i won't drain the system first then have to re-fill the fluid just to press out the stuck piston.
i thought i could use compressed air to blow it out on the bench but it ended up being too stuck, so that was a waste of brake fluid, but it turned out to be worthwhile to flush the lines anyway.
i figure this is justifiable part of weather-proofing the acura so i can park it outside for a while after i move onto the property. something definitely not right with the front end cause i was hearing some ominous boing sounds when braking. also some vibration.
Vibration? Maybe your brake rotors needs resurfacing. If the rate of vibration slows down as the vehicle slows down, and especially if you can feel a pattern to it, that suggests something is a bit warped.
@BeedleDave it's possible but the wheels are also bent, so i'm going to true up the wheels, unstick the calipers then measure the runout on the brake rotors
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Pour qui travaille Ursula von der Leyen ? Entourée à Bruxelles de plusieurs dizaines de milliers de lobbystes, la présidente de la Commission européenne est au centre d'un vaste réseau de trafic d'influence. Avant même son arrivée à la tête de l'exécutif européen, Ursula von der Leyen était déjà membre de lobbys opaques : Forum économique mondial, Conférence de Munich sur la sécurité (financé par Lockheed Martin). Elle a également engraissé (indument) des cabinets de conseil comme McKinsey avec des centaines de millions d'euros lors de son passage au ministère allemand de la Défense entre 2013 et 2019.
Sa gestion de la crise covid apparait aujourd'hui comme le plus grand scandale financier de l'histoire de l'UE. Les messages SMS qu'elle a échangé avec le patron du laboratoire Pfizer, Albert Bourla, pour négocier des contrats à hauteur de 35 milliards € restent encore secrets malgré les poursuites du New York Times et de nombreux collectifs. La "justice européenne", directement liée aux intérêts d'Ursula von der Leyen, la couvre encore mais pour combien de temps ? La digue commence-t-elle à se fissurer ? Sentant le vent tourner, la présidente de la Commission européenne augmente toujours plus les dépenses, au mépris du Pacte budgétaire, comme avec son plan de 200 milliards € lancé le 11 février pour développer l'intelligence artificielle ou encore le plan ReArm Europe pour 800 milliards €... le tout pour préparer son mystérieux projet de "Nouvelle Europe" (Das neue Europa) en lien avec l'Agenda 2030 de l'ONU...
Frédéric Baldan, auteur de "UrsulaGates : la compromission par les lobbys", qui a porté plainte contre Ursula von der Leyen, notamment pour corruption et prise illégale d'intérêts, affirme détenir les contrats négociés avec Albert Bourla. Il dénonce une violation des droits fondamentaux et compare l'UE à une plateforme de détournement et de blanchiment d'argent public. Il est l'invité de "Politique & Eco" pour un numéro historique !
A la suite de "Politique & Eco", retrouvez la chronique financière de Philippe Béchade intitulée : "Bayrou en mode été, Macron en mode alerte".
Philippe Béchade est rédacteur en chef de La Chronique Agora et La Lettre des Affranchis aux @Publications Agora.
Le totalitarisme n'a jamais été complètement envisagé sous l'angle d'une maladie de civilisation, une #pathologie collective délirante, du côté de la psychopathologie, avec les ramifications qui s'ensuivent.
C'est ce qu'Ariane #Bilheran propose, avec cet essai psychologique et philosophique sur le pouvoir total en politique.
Elle démontre que le totalitarisme est un système paranoïaque dans lequel les pathologies perverses, sadiques, transgressives et psychopathes sont à l'honneur. La condition de survie de ce système est un #mensonge premier qui est maintenu dans le secret, l'endoctrinement des masses à l'idéologie, la mise sous terreur des individus et des collectifs, entraînant tout à la fois sidération traumatique, jouissance pour certains et horreur pour d'autres.
L'accent est mis sur l'alliance pathologique entre la #paranoïa et la #perversion pour casser les liens et détruire la subjectivité et les corps des individus, réduits à l'état d'instruments ou pire, d'objets de marchandises inertes et interchangeables. Chacun est susceptible de se laisser entraîner dans la contagion délirante, dont les ressorts sont ici expliqués avec précision.
À partir de ce profond voyage dans la folie du #pouvoir, Ariane explore également les authentiques expériences spirituelles qui ont été faites au sein de l'enfer, comme autant de manifestations d'un cri humain qui rencontre sa liberté au cœur de son désespoir.
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Despite tariffs imposed on China seven years ago, the US continues to run its largest bilateral trade deficit with the country — driven by strong consumer demand for Chinese goods and US companies’ reliance on China in global supply chains.
weird... right? so much for the claims of globalists about the effect of tariffs...
MSM is screaming about how expensive cars are going to be. Ummm - news flash - there was never a bigger increase in car prices than under Biden's reign. The solution? don't buy a car until you can buy one made in the USA. Ford/GM/Dodge better open some factories quick. Toyota already makes most of their parts right in the USA - most of their engines are made about an hour north of me.
correct! and new cars are junk anyways. I'm not spending $80K for a new work truck... I don't care if it goes up to $90K. it could go to $200K for all I care.
and my 1994 Suburban is now worth more than I paid for it 17 years ago because of the lefTard stupidity.
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Since all American journalists are bias activists, I just assume the IDF considers journalists and NGOs and medics to be enemy combatants. > Israel’s war on Gaza deadliest conflict ever for journalists, says report aje.io/dlqihi
O God, who reward the merits of the just and offer pardon to sinners who do penance, have mercy, we pray, on those who call upon you, that the admission of our guilt may serve to obtain your pardon for our sins. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. — Amen.
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May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. — Amen.
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Ce type est devenu membre du Congrès en Floride. Un sioniste sanguinaire, le moins qu'il ait dit à propos de #gaza c'est qu'il veut que le sang remplisse les rues.
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Je trouve que l’on se prend la tête pour rien On nous désigne le candidat qu’il faut élire et on invalide les autres et puis voilà Ou mieux on supprime le droit de vote Ils font ça entre eux votre président c’est celui-ci et fermer bien vos gueules De toute façon entre ceux comme Macron qui viennent dans le poste nous expliquer qu’on n’est tous des cons qu’on ne comprend rien à rien et ceux comme Mélenchon qui nous expliquent que tout ce qui de près ou de loin ressemble à du Français c’est obligatoirement facho voire pire Nazi comme l’a expliqué le grand juge Jean Michel Aphatie (si si c’est un juge) je comprends pas cette perte de temps et d’argent surtout d’argent On va voter et on sait tous qu’on va se faire niquer On fera barrage face aux hordes de l’antechrist Lepen/Bardella comme d’hab Moi j’dis c’est plus simple Mélenchon devient président On pend par les burnes les Bolloré les Arnaud les Bouygues bref tous ces parasites qui n’apporte rien à l'état On interdit le Français parce que raciste et surtout trop compliqué On brûle le drapeau parce que raciste colonialiste etc je propose le drapeau Palestinien parce que c’est le symbole de la résistance face aux Monstres sionistes d’ailleurs faudra faire la chasse à tous ce qui ressemble de près ou de loin à une kippa La Marseillaise je n’en parle même pas ce truc immonde non seulement raciste mais en plus Islamophobe (si si en cherchant bien on va trouver moi j’ai foi en notre grand leader le merveilleux J.L il va nous le dire) Et la et seulement la, peut être que nous serons des gens fréquentables Sauf si on est hétéro Je pense que j’ai bon là non ?
I’ve been saying for a long time that if the Democratic Party continues to champion racial diversity as an end in itself and to ignore economic inequality, it’s going to wither and die.
La relaxe de #Bayrou par ce même Tribunal judiciaire pour des faits identiques, de #Dupond-Moretti par la #CJR contre la jurisprudence constante, la démise en examen inédite d'Agnès #Buzyn par la Cour de cassation, le non-lieu sur le #COVID, le non-lieu sur la #Chlordécone, le non-lieu pour #Darmanin (pas même mis en examen malgré l'aveu d'un chantage sexuel), l'enterrement de l'affaire #BusinessFrance - Muriel #Pénicaud, du Fonds #Marianne, de l'affaire #UberFiles, de l'affaire des Mutuelles de Bretagne, le maquillage de l'affaire #Bigorgne, le classement sans suite pour le coffre de #Benalla (toujours dans des palaces), les milliers de procédures contre des #gilets-jaunes, l’annulation de la cagnotte #Dettinger, l'absence d'enquête sur les violences ordonnées par #Philippe, #Castaner et #Lallement, de condamnation pour les éborgnements et mutilations, de poursuites contre Bernard #Arnault pour l'espionnage de #Ruffin, d'interrogations sur les 380k gagnés par Richard #Ferrand pour "consultances" provenant de l'étranger l'année de son départ de la #politique... Et encore, ce n'est que ce qu'on voit.
Et encore, ce n'est que ce que je vous en dit. Car des groupes Telegram incluant des membres de cabinet qui ont permis de véhiculer des instruction à des magistrats serviles, qui ont accepté des compromissions et sali la magistrature aux promotions éclair de ceux qui se compromettaient en passant par mille scandales d'enterrements discrets, de persécutions calibrées, je pourrais vous écrire plusieurs livres de ce que, sous ce pouvoir, la #justice est. Que l'on ne vienne jouer les vierges effarouchées lorsque l'on s'est à ce point offert à un pouvoir. Je plains les magistrats qui ont à tenir droit, à l'intérieur de ce système, et je loue ceux qui, au cours de ces années, auront cherché à résister. Ils sont l'honneur d'un monde qui a définitivement cessé d'en manquer.
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The market for biochar, especially derived from rice husks, is experiencing a significant surge due to its various applications in agriculture, environmental sustainability, and industrial sectors. Rice husk biochar, a product created through the pyrolysis of rice husks, is gaining attention as a sustainable solution for both waste management and resource recovery. This article explores the promising market prospects of rice husk biochar production, driven by increasing demand for eco-friendly solutions, soil health improvement, and renewable energy generation.
Agricultural Applications: Enhancing Soil Health
One of the primary drivers behind the rising demand for rice husk biochar is its application in agriculture. Rice husk biochar is an effective soil amendment that can enhance soil fertility, structure, and water retention. It has become a preferred choice for farmers seeking sustainable solutions to improve crop yields and restore degraded soils.
Soil Improvement: Biochar has the unique ability to enhance soil aeration, improve water retention, and promote microbial activity. These benefits make it particularly useful in arid and semi-arid regions, where soil fertility is a constant challenge. Rice husk biochar, with its high surface area and porous structure, can be an ideal addition to sandy or compacted soils, significantly boosting crop production.
Nutrient Retention: Biochar made from rice husks can also act as a reservoir for nutrients. By absorbing and retaining essential nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, it prevents leaching and ensures that these nutrients remain available to plants for a longer period. This results in reduced fertilizer usage, lowering costs for farmers and minimizing environmental runoff.
Sustainability and Organic Farming: As organic farming practices gain momentum, the demand for natural soil enhancers like rice husk biochar has increased. Biochar’s role in improving soil fertility without the need for synthetic fertilizers aligns with the principles of sustainable agriculture, further driving its market adoption.
Environmental Benefits: Carbon Sequestration and Waste Management
The environmental benefits of rice husk biochar are significant. The process of converting rice husks into biochar helps in sequestering carbon and mitigating the harmful effects of climate change. By reducing the burning or open disposal of rice husks, which would otherwise contribute to air pollution, biochar production equipment offers a sustainable waste management solution.
Carbon Sequestration: Rice husk biochar is a stable form of carbon, meaning it can store carbon for hundreds to thousands of years when applied to soil. This makes it an effective tool in carbon sequestration, contributing to climate change mitigation. The carbon sequestration potential of biochar makes it eligible for carbon credit schemes, adding further value to its production and use.
Waste Management Solution: In regions where rice is a major crop, rice husks are abundant and often discarded as waste. The conversion of these agricultural by-products into biochar presents an efficient waste management strategy. Instead of burning the husks, which releases harmful pollutants into the atmosphere, pyrolysis converts them into a valuable product, creating a circular economy around rice production.
Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Biochar production helps in reducing the emission of methane and nitrous oxide from agricultural soils. The presence of biochar in the soil alters microbial processes, leading to lower greenhouse gas emissions and contributing to more sustainable farming practices.
Renewable Energy and Industrial Uses
Beyond its agricultural applications, rice husk biochar also holds significant potential in the renewable energy sector. Biochar production involves high-temperature pyrolysis, during which syngas and bio-oil are also produced. These by-products can be used as renewable energy sources, making biochar production a more energy-efficient and sustainable process.
Biochar as an Energy Source: The energy produced from rice husk biochar can be used to power the pyrolysis plant itself, reducing the overall energy costs associated with the production process. Additionally, the syngas and bio-oil produced during pyrolysis can be sold as alternative fuels, further enhancing the economic feasibility of rice husk biochar production.
Industrial Applications: Rice husk biochar can also be used in various industrial processes, such as water filtration, waste treatment, and the production of activated carbon. Its high surface area and adsorption properties make it suitable for environmental applications, including purifying water and air. As industries focus more on sustainability and reducing their environmental footprint, the demand for biochar in industrial applications continues to grow.
Global Market Growth and Trends
The market for rice husk biochar is expected to expand significantly in the coming years, driven by increasing awareness of its environmental and agricultural benefits. Countries with large rice production industries, such as India, China, and Southeast Asian nations, are well-positioned to lead in the production and export of rice husk biochar. However, the global market for biochar is growing beyond these regions, with North America and Europe also showing significant interest in adopting biochar for soil and industrial applications.
Government Support and Policies: Many governments are now incentivizing the use of biochar as part of their sustainability and climate change mitigation efforts. Policies supporting carbon credits and green energy technologies have helped fuel market demand. This trend is likely to continue as countries seek to meet their carbon reduction targets.
Private Sector Investment: Increased investment from the private sector in biochar production technologies is helping to improve the efficiency and scalability of the pyrolysis process. Technological advancements are making biochar production from rice husks more cost-effective, thereby opening up new market opportunities.
Consumer Awareness: As consumers become more eco-conscious, there is growing interest in sustainable products like biochar. From organic farming to green building practices, biochar's versatile applications are increasingly appealing to consumers who prioritize environmental responsibility.
After many years of inactivity and due to dated code becoming problematic with late gcc developments, LXDE has received updates in the past few weeks. About the only two packages left untouched is lxpolkit and lxpanel, the rest of the group has been updated. This is a good thing because it was about the only desktop not falling pray to systemd/logind and dbus-ism.
Some said that LXDE was abandoned because of #LXQT, a lightweight #plasma / #kde thing that resembled very little of what lxde was and became just as infected by systemd mechanisms as xfce4 and others. The systemd mainstays, #debian, #ubuntu, #mint, #fedora, rushed to replace lxde with lxqt. What they sold was the name of LXDE of stability and lightweight applications to associate with the buggy LXQT dt. Why was it buggy? Because it is a corporate rat race, one chasing behind the other, Qt, Kde, plasma, and back again. By the time they'd patch one side the other had bugs. And lxqt had to follow this madness.
*Note: Qt is a graphic platform for all the Qt based applications, and desktops, ported to be identical in X and in wayland, in theory, in practice .. not quite ported YET! *
What we should know, here in #joborun, is that you don't have to run #LXDE as a complete desktop, you can run its components individually into openbox, like lxpanel for panel/menu/dock etc. pcmanfm as desktop are with icons (pcmanfm --desktop ) lxrandr, lxappearance or lxappearance-obconf, lxlaunch, lxtask, lxterminal, etc., Only lxsession requires a logind (consolekit2 in our case) polkit and dbus. This is the component that makes the difference of the full desktop. This has the benefit of starting something like gparted or pamac-manager from menu and raise/lower root/user rights automatically, or automount devices (another mess and a half).
Long ago when Poettering was asked at a conference why was he treating users like they were disabled, his response was "what do you have against disabled people?"
This underlines the entire logic of systemd and most desktops. #LXDE is the exception
you can also add that cde, fvwm-crystal, nscde, lumina, enlightenment16, jwm with jwmkit, trinity de(just exclude the polkit and dbus components), icewm with antix icewm-cc, if said to be a full de with gui settings which fully works without dbus and *kit too, but lxterminal like sakura and foot and xterm is very important as it is de independent
most of what you mention are already available in joborun, for lumina we also offer its calculator and pdf viewer. jwm jwmkit and jwm-session are also available, but jwm offers much of a desktop appearance but still is a window manager, and so is icewm. We also have antix-icewmcc. fvwm was offered for a while, there was no single download ever, but it can come back. vtwm and a few other WMs are also available. All those terminals are here too.
Not a coincidence that there is such a match of what we have and what you think are relevant. On the screenshot above neither dbus or polkit are running. Openbox with pcmanfm and lxpanel, lxterminal,
Our labwc with evhorizon's attention to detail has reached state of the art status. foot and havoc are avaiable, our menu has icons and sfwbar is funky 😀
What I personally find irritating still in labwc is the problem with focused windows, there is nothing I haven't tried to alter those settings. You start an application or even cause a reconfiguration and focus shifts to it. The labwc team has acknowledged the issue but they don't consider it an immediate goal to alter this behavior.
There are some components, gtk2 in particular, that fail in wayland, like lxpanel-gtk2. Even with debug configured on and a debug pkg it only shows segmentation fault. Which means it fails to identify as an X application and run under xwayland.
OK, not meant for wayland but for X, but why exactly I don't know. lxpanel gtk3 version runs well in labwc. Also some gtk2 terminals just create a black window in wayland. Maybe as the project is being resurrected such issues will be addressed if interest exists.
yes, especially vte or vte-legacy is not building in gcc 14 so can't use lxterminal-gtk2, antix-icewmcc also not buildable because of gtkdialog as it needs vte-legacy, jwm config provided by default in joborun has errors particularly in menu,tray and prefernences but after solving them it works better, but i think we must issue a updated xdgmenumaker pkg as the one provided in jobextra won't work in new python environment, enlightenment16 other packages likt e16keyedit, e16menuedit2, e16docs, eapplets need to build from source or build pkgbuilds but well it works, ede needs to be compiled again as it seems to miss ede-keyboard-conf misses the xkb extension but it works need to install pekwm, pekwm-themes and equinox-gtk-theme, faenza-icon-theme and for fvwm-crystal modify the pkbuild in aur to update to latest release and proper dependencies and it works, nscde, cde and lumina work thanks
for wayland side there is the an independent de similar in terms of functionality of lxde only extra functionality needs dbus which is paperde gitlab.com/cubocore
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C Suite cubecore coreapps built on Qt and also has a wayland window manager of its own. Interesting, even though I personally am not a big Qt fan . We do have a version of corefm a C Suite lib on jobcomm just didn't associate the rest as part of the a big group
since the area behind the wiper in the cylinder isn't rusted, i'm going to try to sandblast the rust on the outside, spray it with zinc primer, and change all the rubber seals. yes i could just get a new caliper but some of those aftermarket ones are not great either so i guess it's worth a shot. the only alternative is to get some really nice ones like brembo or wilwood or what have you, but i'm not feeling that right now. too much other stuff that is higher priority first
The appropriate question is not “Who will build the roads?” but rather “Who will pay for them without taxation?” History suggests the answer is "lots of people"
Sore point for me, here in Washington State, we have the second highest gas tax in the country, next only to Californicatia, on top of that we have tax and trade carbon credit bullshit driving up the cost of fuel even higher, and the roads are a total disaster. Parts of I5, the pavement is just gone and you can see the underlying support structure through the holes. But because they've spent all of our money on luxury hotels for immigrants, free houses for black people, free cars for immigrants, we have no money left to fix the fucking roads, so now they are putting tolls on everything, new taxes on businesses pushing what remains of employment out of the state, pretty much anything you can do to make it even a bigger shit hole than it is. I had hoped when we got rid of Inslee things would get better, but our first budget under Fergurson is 16 billion in the red. Fucking beyond belief. I'm glad the rest of the country is finally wising up, wish there were some hope for our state.
Greece: ‘That Which Gives Meaning to Life Gives Meaning to Death’ – Marianna M.
On 31/10 on the third floor of an apartment in Arcadia Street, during the processing of explosives by my comrade and insurgent Kyriakos Xymitiris, an explosion took place with tragic consequence of his death. Within a few minutes and while I happened to be in the next room, time froze, everything went black and I was unable to move. The condition incomprehensible, the development incomprehensible. Buried in the wreckage trying to figure out what happened. Asking for help, looking for my partner with my eyes. Slowly realizing that while the thread of my comrade’s action would be abruptly cut, his life and his choices of struggle would be a historic flash of determined resistance, consistency and dedication, a springboard and inspiration for struggle. Two figures appeared offering help while I showed them the spot where I last saw my comrade, the spot where our guilty gazes met, gazes full of anger at the world we live in, full of faith and appetite for moments of true freedom.
Within a few minutes I found myself in the hospital “Evangelismos”. I was immediately subjected to examinations and operations. A hematoma on my head and countless stitches on the upper part of my body. I remained intubated and completely unconscious for the next three days. Time enough for the “anti-“terrorist” bastards to rush to the hospital demanding a blood sample. On Monday, I regained consciousness and was transferred to the ICU where I remained immobilized for the next three days. The conditions there were decent with medical staff eager to assist in my recovery. However, the room was surrounded by police forces who entered the ICU room during the 5-minute visit from my family.
After two days I was transferred – for no apparent reason – to an isolation ward guarded by several static and as many moving cops in corridors and floors. The door to my room was constantly open leaving zero privacy even during medical examinations. Under the “watchful” gaze of every single cop I had to eat, be examined, and have my body cleaned. Following instructions, the majority of medical and nursing staff maintained a distant attitude, showing zero empathy even in the most basic things, such as conducting an examination without the presence of a male police officer.
The insistence of the 22nd interrogator of the Athens District Court on the conduct of the interrogation procedure despite my physical and mental weakness contributed to the vindictive atmosphere. After asking for a certificate of my sufficient ‘functionality’, which she read at her discretion, she finally gave me the arbitrary extension of 30 hours. She thus confirmed the fact that her priority was my predetermined pre-trial detention and prosecution under 187A.
On Friday 15/11 and just one day after the second operation I underwent, I was transferred to the women’s prison in Korydallos. My life, even under these conditions, was difficult. Under deplorable sanitary conditions and with unhealed wounds on my body and head, the repressive mechanism was playing with my health. Without the necessary medical care, without access to the necessary medication. A condition that all prisoners face as they are perceived as second-class citizens with no right to medical care, with superficial to non-existent medical examinations by prison doctors, with the prohibition of necessary medical procedures, with interruption of medication taken outside the walls, with long waits for months for emergency examinations in outpatient hospitals.
THE GEOMETRY OF THE ANTI-TERRORIST POLICE
Still unconscious, only a few hours after the explosion, the judicial apparatus is following the instructions of the anti-terrorist police and constructing an indictment of an abomination. The processing of (small amounts of) explosives and devices with only comrade Kyriakos and myself present and aware, was dubbed an organization. The apartment, to which we only had access for a few days, was christened a hideout. The legitimate objects found in the apartment where I lived with comrade Kyriakos and which were found on the eight people’s identity cards were dubbed suspicious. With these facts, the anti-terrorist police prosecuted me on the charge of “terrorism”. At this point, however, I will not focus on the legal part, nor will I speak in the context of innocence and guilt. I refuse to accept an indictment based on 187A especially when it instrumentalizes in the most vile way the death of my comrade. And I intend to deconstruct any repressive scenario. But I will defend to the end my choice to be in that apartment, I will defend the necessity of struggle by means not limited to the framework of civil law, I will defend my comrade’s choices, his memory and our relationship.
By carving concentric circles, the anti-terrorist police weaves its own repressive web. It places me and comrade Kyriakos in the centre and with a shaky geometry it places friends, comrades and strangers. In the first cycle it places the arrest of the anarchist comrade Dimitra (who presents herself voluntarily) in a Hollywood-style operation at the Athens airport where – in contrast to the femicide of Kyriaki Griva – the police car in the role of a taxi picks her up from the airport and takes her to the GADA. The only “clue” was the handing over of the keys of the apartment in Arkadia to me and Kyriakos under the pretext of hosting our acquaintances from abroad without knowing the purpose of its use. It is worth noting that on the day of the explosion she was abroad where she was living the last years of her life. She too is being prosecuted under 187A. In the second circle places the companion Dimitris who also presented himself voluntarily in the GADA handing over the pair of keys of the apartment in Arcadia to the owner which had been requested by Dimitra. With the only involvement of the delivery of the keys, without knowing anything more and being at work at the time of the explosion, he is also facing the aforementioned charges. Twenty days later, the anti-terrorist police secures the next cycle with the arrest of the anarchist comrade Nikos Romanos. In his case, the repressive mechanism unleashed its vengeance by using a melted fingerprint on a transportable object – a bag – found in the apartment in Arcadia. Two days later, the last cycle placed A.K. who was also arrested with the grey “clue” of the fingerprint on the same bag. Apparently the “efficiency” of the Greek police laboratories managed to implicate within 20 days two people with whom I have no connection by unearthing a fingerprint while the tons of xylene in the Tempi massacre have not been found for two years now. Both of the last two arrested are facing the same flimsy charge.
THE SKETCHES FROM THE MEDIA
The anti-terrorist line was followed not only by the investigator but also by the all-around media. From the very first moment they engaged in one of the familiar witch-hunts, targeting and vilifying. The snitch counters counted countless hours, reproducing and enriching the ill-conceived scenario of the anti-terrorism department, indulging in the familiar profiling of ‘guilty’. With legal acrobatics they connected cases without evidence, left hints, commented via tele-cops and tele-psychologists on our class origin, character, and psyche. The same snitches who talked about necessary sacrifices in the deadly Tempi murder, who unleash racist torrents at the first opportunity, who cover up rapists, pimps, cop-killers and who bow down to shipowners, industrialists and politicians throughout time.
THE CHARACTER OF THE JUDICIAL MECHANISM
The anti-terrorist police paved the way, the media paved the way and now the judicial mechanism is called upon to cement it. So the investigator is trying to interpret my intentions through cases. With legal alchemy, she is prosecuting me under terror law 187A which automatically makes any “illegal” act I committed a criminal charge. With this choice, the investigator not only skyrockets the penalty list but essentially recognizes the explosion as an organized intentional act which given the circumstances – an explosion within an apartment of a residential apartment building – could not be true. Anarchist ideas and values – in contrast to those of the state and the system of power – have demonstrated over the years a revolutionary ethic and opposition to the logic of collateral damage. The anarchists’ attacks are targeted, prioritising the safety of unrelated people. So it could never be my or my partner’s aim to explode inside the apartment and cause so many people suffering, no matter how much the state apparatus tries to label us with the label of “public danger”. The government had the audacity, apart from the repressive and political instrumentalization of the explosion, to shed crocodile tears for the damage of the building to entrust the repair of the damage to TERNA, a well-known company-partner of his with direct assignments, which is also involved in the scandal with the deficient embankments in Volos. So with all these methods the investigator is making one message clear: any anarchic act that exceeds the laws will be prosecuted with a 187A, anyone who refuses to submit to the law and order imposed by the system will be exemplarily exterminated.
We are thus called upon five people, four of whom have nothing to do with what happened on 31/10 in the Arcadia apartment, to respond to assumptions and fabricated scenarios. The borrowing and return of a pair of keys for hospitality and the missing fingerprints on a bag not only constitute for the investigating judge not only insufficient “evidence” for prosecution but are capable of attributing to all the accused the same degree of involvement in the indictment.
THE GEOMETRIC RULE OF ANY PROSECUTION 187A
Our case, however, is not some kind of exception. There are countless cases where militants are prosecuted under the “anti-terrorism” legislation. Prosecutions that invite the world of struggle to confront a judicial system willing to take on active political work by upgrading the charges using the terror law, the vagueness of which allows the judiciary to interpret it as it sees fit. Designed to control and intimidate its political opponents, to preventive repression, to eliminate the internal enemy and any manifestation of social and political violence, ‘anti-terrorist’ legislation is the main weapon of the state’s repressive policy. By placing armed manifestations of struggle and practices that challenge the laws at its centre, the terror law imposes a special regime both in terms of the judicial aspect and the imprisonment aspect. Stiffening of sentences, abolition of mixed juries, special compositions of judges, special chambers and a legal exception regime are some of its features. However, this attack is not limited to those who consciously choose to expand their activities by armed means, but does not hesitate to target – often with the same intensity – those close to them, seeking their social and political isolation. But the question is this: who will name who is a terrorist? Who will judge who? How can a judicial system that exists to serve and protect the interests of the rulers, the violence they unleash on a daily basis, the exploitation and oppression they impose, be in a position to try the people of the struggle? The subjects who exercise systematic terrorism are none other than the bosses and their political representatives, none other than those whom the legislative complex has been bailing out over time by persecuting those who challenge their domination by promoting a society of equality and solidarity. It imputes to militants the risk of international organisations when it is the international organisations themselves that send entire societies to genocide, it accuses militants of endangering charitable institutions when these institutions have been engaged for centuries in the predatory bleeding of the social base; it accuses militants of endangering populations when it is the States themselves that plunge populations into misery, wars and death. So how can a legislation that washes away those who have been staining their hands with blood over time put on trial those whose actions seek to change the fear stratagem?
THE CONTEXT OF THE PROSECUTION
It thus becomes clear that the essence of our persecution is not legal but political and can only be read within the specific context. A context in which the West, which in recent years has been trying tooth and nail to wash its hands of centuries of colonialism by selling inclusiveness and rightism, is now openly imposing its global strategy and ideological hegemony. Even in a climate of instability where the initiatives, ‘self-reliance’ and the demonstration of – rather hollow – power of the planetary ruler are spreading insecurity among its former European partners, the Western imperialist bloc is trying – in vain – to prove its cultural ‘superiority’ and ‘progressiveness’ and to dominate points of geopolitical interest. The EU is irreversibly stripping itself of its humanitarian mask by returning forcefully to the division of the global chessboard. It is playing a catalytic role in global developments, reinforcing Israel’s offensive against embattled Palestine financially and militarily, supporting Ukraine militarily, guarding its borders from millions of people whom its own policies have pushed into emigration.
Greece is obviously no exception. By turning the country into a huge NATO military base, the Greek state is actively allied with Israel (an alliance that also acquires economic interests). In a climate of instability, only a few years after the memoranda, the state apparatus chooses to focus on military spending, on strengthening its repressive apparatus and its borders, thus further burdening the social base. With privatisations, with inflation and impoverishment, with attacks on trade unionism, collective agreements, the National Health Service and the education system, the government, taking the baton from social democracy and the strategy of carrot and stick, is moving to a neoliberal extreme right that combines – rather sloppily – assimilated right-wingism with the doctrine of Law and Order. It tries to adapt to the necessities of modern, progressive neoliberalism that can only offer – after the bubble of class ascendancy, yuppism and golden boys – the illusion of the integration of identities where all good people fit into capitalism – like a well-planned Benetton advertisement. Long-excluded identities are finally getting a ‘voice’, as long as that voice does not challenge the system that excluded them in the first place. And because the righteousness it displays has short legs – and a small pool of voters – the law and its executive organs are called upon to do the “dirty” work – targeting another pool -. Criminal and penal codes are tightened, special repressive units are created, the already existing police forces are reinforced, water and land borders are equipped, patrols are intensified. For every ‘problem’ there is a new law, for every law there is a cop – perhaps trained, of course, for cases of domestic violence. The state is not only being armed, it is ready for battle.
A battle against “criminality” which, as they proclaim, threatens society as a whole. In every corner of the city there is a “crime” taking place by armed gangs of juveniles, adults, immigrants, natives, poor people, barons, followers, organized, disorganized, and the state as our self-appointed zoo keeper is obsessively proposing harsher sentences and more policing – which in the end is somehow always involved in all the “crimes” it suppresses. So at a time when the state apparatus has nothing to offer but repressive and punitive fury he turns the doctrine of “Law and Order” into a central governmental line.
Especially in such a line the internal enemy is found in any social group that disturbs the climate of “security”. Immigrants, drug addicts, “miserable”, struggling parts. And of course the anarchist movement could not be absent from this list. A movement that over time and proudly gives birth to fighters from within its ranks who act sharply and decisively against the state and power. It is these initiatives that challenge domination, that create dynamic conditions, that propose solutions in the here and now, that deconstruct the state monopoly on violence. Through the diversity of means of struggle, the anarchist movement has proven its place in the course of history. A place where logics of waiting do not fit, where the limits of bourgeois legitimacy seem insignificant in the face of years of state and capital violence, where the heavy veil of responsibility falls first and foremost on us. Where the vision of a world of equality and solidarity begins in the present, where compromise is not an option, where attacking the brutality of the system is a “voluntary decision of deep empathy” and the passage to revolutionary counter-violence a logical consequence and a necessary tool. To this internal enemy the message is clear: whoever is not assimilated is exterminated.
THE COMRADE THE JOINER AND THE BUILDER
Non omnis Moriar
(I will not die whole, something of me will remain alive)
Comrade Kyriakos Xymitiris was also a determined internal enemy. A man crystal clear and rebellious. A comrade who combined theory with practice, who poured himself into the struggle and lived his life to the fullest, taking responsibility for his historical project. Understanding his political identity in all its breadth, he did not compromise with logics of procrastination and inertia, he did not rest, he fought in spite of the times, he dreamed and took up a fighting position. In a route full of crossroads, comrade Kyriakos always chose the right path. Sometimes passable, sometimes rough, sometimes visible and sometimes invisible. Through his path of struggle, his non-negotiable participation in the entire width of the anarchist movement, the comrade is a consciously multidimensional anarchist militant who manages to encapsulate the particular mosaic of forms and manifestations of the struggle that anarchy encompasses. In carrying out his own individual transgression, he adapted his own life to the measures and needs of resistance, choosing a way of life synonymous with struggle. With sensitivity, empathy, self-criticism, militancy and determination he served the anarchist struggle. By participating in open processes, squats, picketing, trade union struggles, feminist and antifascist patrols, actions and conflicts, he wanted to contribute to the sharpness of anarchy. By doggedly and persistently seeking ways to confront everyday state-capitalist violence, he wanted to explore the armed edges of struggle, shifting the conflict to the core of domination and demystifying the violence of the oppressors. With his eyes always fixed on the Revolutionary Cause, he poured himself into the battle with all means at his disposal.
Murdered by the world of power he fought so hard to change, let his subversive memory be an invitation to struggle. Let his memory arm the minds and hands of fighters. Let us commemorate our dead away from the logic of condescension and defeatism, with a continuation and intensification of the struggle, with tenderness and honour.
Let 31/10 be remembered as a day of struggle, a day of responsibility, a moment of resistance. Because the struggle does not want discounts, it does not want barriers and egos. There is no room for laws, conventions and limits. Because the struggle needs determination and vision. It needs faith and dedication, it needs true and giving relationships. Because the struggle needs people who are humble and ready. People who are essentially rebellious and consistent. People like Kyriakos, this wonderful human
who filled the sky with his star
alongside so many comrades
who with their light – even behind bars
manage to light up our guiltiest nights
We are right, we will win
KYRIAKOS XIMITERIS IMMORTAL
STATE AND CAPITAL ARE THE ONLY TERRORISTS
STRENGTH AND SOLIDARITY TO ALL THE IMPRISONED COMRADES
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I remain astonished that people continue to look to big-pharma after so much programmed suffering and death. But, we have the latest sports ball and movie star depravity to watch, so... meh.
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