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Victory! Austin's ALPR contract will be allowed to end by our city council at the end of the month. The battle is won, but the fight continues. Join us and other activist groups for a victory press release tomorrow at 11:30am at city hall! fox7austin.com/news/austin-cit…
Austin City Manager T.C. Broadnax has removed an item concerning a potential expansion of the city's automated license plate reader program from Thursday's council agenda.
Please explain to me how it's illegal in many states to use your smartphone while driving, but it's totally ok for Teslas to have giant touchscreens for the drivers.
Gleiches gilt fuer andere "Diltaturen" wie #Russland oder #China . Oder hast du schon mal was von russischen Sozialleisungen (kann pro Oblast/autonomes Gebiet anders ausfallen) in den westlichen Medien gehoert? Oder eine sehr starke chinesische Mittelschicht mit (fast) keiner Armut?
I appreciate this piece, but I want to correct the record on one point. I don't talk about LLMs as making "collages" but rather as making papier-mâché, and the difference matters!
When an artist uses materials with text on them to create a collage, it's natural to assume that they chose the materials in part for the meaning of the text they include. Papier-mâché, on the other hand, uses paper (usually newsprint) simply for its physical properties. The text is incidental.
I use this metaphor to highlight, yet again, that LLMs don't work with the meaning of the text they process & extrude -- just the form.
"As Gaza faces over three months of Israeli blockade, a group of 12 activists is sailing to Gaza to deliver humanitarian aid. The Madleen ship was launched by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition and initially planned to sail from Malta last month, but the group’s ship was damaged in a drone attack. The new mission includes the renowned Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, who speaks with Democracy Now! live from the Madleen."
The Fed Gov Demands Data from #SNAP —But Says Nothing About Protecting It
part of a larger effort by #Trump admin to gain “unfettered access to comprehensive data from all state programs that receive federal funding,” thru #EO14243. While the order says this data sharing is intended to cut down on fraud, it is written so broadly that it could auth almost any data sharing…flies in the face of well-established data #privacy practices & places people at considerable risk.
Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a troubling order to all state agency directors of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs (SNAP): hand over your data.
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They only pay authors 30% in royalties (even if they price above 2.99) when someone buys a book through Amazon COM while not actually living in the US.
That's right. Amazon "steals" 40% of my royalties because the customer is in a different location that the USA.
Why?
Because they can. Because we authors let them get away with that. No other store does this.
Hannah Steenbock is a German writer of fantasy and science fiction. She uses both her native German and English as languages for her tales, as she loves English and tends to think in that language when plotting Fantasy.
When we released post editing for #Mastodon, we first released a version that supported processing and displaying edits incoming from other servers, before releasing a version that flipped a switch allowing anyone to make edits. We're taking an identical approach with quote posts, as the upcoming 4.4 version of Mastodon will begin displaying quote posts from other servers and software. Once this is widely deployed on the network, 4.5 will bring the long awaited ability to quote posts.
Je viens d'entendre sur une chaîne YouTube (qui commence toujours en ce moment ses vidéos par demander une aide financière car ses comptes bancaires ont soit disant été bloqués sans avertissement) «qu'elles font le déplacement à bord d'un "yacht" où elles diffusent des photos indécentes de leurs vacances.» une critique un peu facile venant d'un bureau en France, qui ne comprend pas plus la cause de l’activisme engagé, que la différence entre un yacht et un voilier.
@Américo DA SILVA ah ah ça doit être ces connards de TV Libertés. De gros fachos. De toute façon c'est assez basique : si tu n'admets pas le principe de base que les Palestiniens ont le droit de vivre, tu es un enculé de sale nazi.
Alors les fachos de merde qui chient sur des gens qui risquent leur vie pour en aider d'autres, franchement je les encule avec du gravier, après quoi je leur chie dans la bouche et je leur pisse dessus.
🔵⚪🔴 Pour faire un don à TVL : https://tvlibertes.faites-un-don.com/_____________________________________________________________________ Au programme ce s...
Drawing on sources as varied as Wordsworth, Hitchcock, and Conan Doyle, author @PhilipPullman considers the sonic beauty and expert storytelling of Milton's masterpiece and the influence it has had on his own work: publicdomainreview.org/essay/t…
John Milton’s Paradise Lost has been many things to many people — a Christian epic, a comment on the English Civil War, the epitome of poetic ambiguity — but it is first of all a pleasure to read.
"Die Bundesregierung hat bisher KEINE israelischen Kriegsverbrechen in #Gaza abschließend festgestellt. Dabei prüft das Auswärtige Amt die endlosen Beispiele angeblich seit vielen Monaten."
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@bifouba Die Aussagen von der Bundesregierung sind wirklich nur noch Gaslighting.
Ich freue mich aber, dass innerhalb der Linkspartei langsam der Wind dreht. Dass sie jetzt die JDA statt die IHRA nehmen und dass nun eben Menschen wie Köktürk im Bundestag sitzen, ist eine gute Entwicklung.
Meinem Eindruck nach liegt das vor allem auch an den jungen Leuten, die neu in der Partei sind und inzwischen so große Mehrheiten bilden, dass sie die Antdeutschen (und die Reformer) überstimmen können.
Looking at some clothing in the archives today. Here's a jumpsuit worn by Thalia Campbell on the 1981 march from Wales to Greenham Common in protest at proposal to site cruise missiles at the US army base. She dyed it purple, inspired by the colours of the women's suffrage movement.
And here's peace activist and CND campaigner Pat Arrowsmith's jacket. It was her father's Civil Defence warden's jacket which Pat wore in the 50's and 60's, and has attached a peace badge to it.
Pat, ineligible to inherit her father's money unless she was married to a man (she was a lesbian), married an anarchist poet for one day to qualify for the inheritance, then had the marriage annulled and donated the money to Sappho and Gay Pride Week 1979.
Update – US Approved Moderna’s CARCINOGENIC Next-Gen COVID sa-mRNA Vaccine. FDA & CDC Shady Moves vs RFK Jr.
American cardiologist Peter McCullough and epidemiologist Nicholas Hulsher, who published many study on Covid vaccines, confirmed that are the dangerous new sa-mRNA technology
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio VERSIONE IN ITALIANO The latest articles published by the most authoritative American medical bloggers are destined to stir up a huge hornet's nest all over the world for various reasons: FDA (Food and Drug Administrat…
People reach for Hitler analogies to describe Trump, because Hitler is what we all learn about in school. But there are other historical analogues that might be a closer fit, and Louis Napoleon is definitely a good one.
"The Eighteenth Brumaire focuses on the 1851 French coup d'état, by which Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, president of the Second Republic and Napoléon Bonaparte's nephew, became emperor of the Second French Empire as Napoleon III. It seeks to explain how capitalism and class struggle created conditions which enabled 'a grotesque mediocrity to play a hero's part'."
now I'm just wondering what Roman emperor is a good analogy for trump. He's not really a Commodus or a Caligula, is he? Is he like one of the forgettable crisis of the third century emperors who just kept debasing the currency?
Israel's defense exports jumped over 13% in 2024 to $14.8 billion, even as overall Israeli exports contracted 5.6%. The defense sector now represents nearly 25% of Israel's goods exports and approaching 10% of total exports.
Europe became the dominant market, accounting for 54% of defense exports (up from 35% in 2023) as countries increased military spending amid the Ukraine war. Air defense systems, missiles and rockets comprised 48% of exports, with Israeli technology proving effective against drone and missile threats.
However, industry sources report that images from #Gaza are complicating deal closures. #Spain recently froze a nearly $300 million Spike missile deal due to the situation in Gaza. Defense companies face parliamentary opposition in European countries and competitors using the Gaza war to discourage purchases of Israeli systems.
Sales to Abraham Accords countries reached $1.8 billion (12% of total exports), while Asian exports dropped from $6.3 billion to $3.4 billion due to major 2023 deals with India and Azerbaijan not repeating.
היצוא הביטחוני נהפך לדומיננטי במיוחד במשק, נוכח זינוק של 13% בו ב-2024, ל-52 מיליארד שקל ■ העוסקים בתחום מדווחים כי התמונות מעזה מקשות על סגירת עסקות, אך יש המאמינים ש-2025 תהיה אפילו טובה יותר
#Palestine / 12 countries condemn forced displacement of Palestinian village in occupied West Bank
Diplomatic missions from #UK, #Germany, #France and 9 other nations issued joint statement expressing solidarity with residents of Mughayir a-Deir who were forced to abandon homes due to settler violence and Israeli authorities' failure to provide protection.
As has been common practice for years, Israeli settlers established an outpost meters from a Palestinian village. The community was forced to flee after escalating violence and threats. Seven neighboring communities have already been displaced following the same pattern. Tens of thousands in Area C face "high or imminent risk" of forcible transfer.
These countries demand Israel dismantle the outpost and allow safe return. They call this a violation of international law and demand Israel respect the prohibition on forcible transfer.
**JOINT PRESS STATEMENT** **WEST BANK, JUNE 2025**
**DIPLOMATIC STATEMENT ON THE SITUATION IN MUGHAYIR A-DEIR**
The undersigned diplomatic missions express their strong solidarity with the Palestinian community of Mughayir a-Deir. The community's long-standing residents were recently forced to abandon their homes and belongings due to escalating settler violence and a prevailing climate of impunity.
Israeli settlers have established an outpost just metres from the community, which is a clear violation of international law. Mughayir a-Deir was one of the last remaining Palestinian communities in the area. Seven neighbouring communities have already been displaced amid a broader and deeply troubling pattern of violent settler attacks and a lack of protection by the Israeli authorities.
We therefore urge the Israeli authorities to dismantle the outpost immediately and to take urgent and effective measures to enable the safe return of the displaced residents. It is imperative that the community is protected from further violence and intimidation.
Mughayir a-Deir is not an isolated case—it reflects a broader pattern of displacement in Area C of the West Bank, where a coercive environment marked by repeated settler violence, movement restrictions, land confiscation, demolitions and inadequate access to essential services is making life unbearable and pushing communities to leave. Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Area C face a high or imminent risk of forcible transfer. This alarming trend gravely undermines prospects for a just and lasting peace.
We call on Israel to respect its obligations under international law, including the prohibition of forcible transfer. We also reaffirm our clear and consistent opposition to settlements, which are illegal under international law. We emphasise Israel's responsibility to protect all Palestinian communities in Area C.
*The Consulates General of Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, the Representative Offices of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands, as well as the Office of the European Union Representative to the West Bank and Gaza*
Houthi attacks are forcing major operational changes:
[...] He [Colonel (Res.) Yair Kulas, head of SIBAT - the Defense Export and Defense Cooperation Directorate at Israel's Ministry of Defense] also referred to supply chain challenges: 'The supply chain is challenging due to shipping routes that have been changed under the Houthi threat, Ben Gurion Airport which has been blocked at times due to missile launches. So if we need to be more flexible, we are being flexible. And if there is a demand from the purchasing country for local production on its territory, we establish manufacturing activity there.'"
While Israeli defense companies acknowledge supply chain challenges from Houthi attacks on shipping routes Operation Prosperity Guardian , European naval missions provided free security for Israeli exports. Rather than diverting resources to Red Sea security, Israel can maintain focus on high-value defense production for the European market surge. While European militaries absorb the costs and risks of confronting Houthis and Israeli arms companies profit from the resulting demand.
#Nestlé-Lobbyistin Klöckner, #CDU, eine Partei, die #Israel für deren #Genozid und Kriegsverbrechen in #Gaza und #Westbank Waffen liefert, die Haftbefehle des #IStGH gegen #Netanyahu und #Galant untergräbt - ein Merkmal rechtsextremer, verfassungsfeindlicher Politik - wirft Casin #Köktürk, #Linke aus dem Bundestag, weil sie einen Pullover mit der Aufschrift "#Palästina" trägt.
Die CDU / #CSU ist rechtsextrem und demokratiefeindlich.
Cansin Köktürk hat im Bundestag eine T-Shirt mit der Aufschrift »Palestine« getragen. Das war für die Parlamentspräsidentin zu viel: Sie schmiss die Linken-Abgeordnete aus dem Plenum.
"Wadephul im Plenarsaal: #Deutschland wird weiterhin an #Israel Waffen liefern. Kein Wort zu über 50.000 Toten und verletzten Kindern. Ich werde von Frau #Klöckner aufgefordert den Plenarsaal zu verlassen, weil auf meinem Shirt „Palestine“ steht. Ihr habt alle dermaßen versagt." #Linke
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00:00 Intro 00:37 Sponsor: 100$ off your own Linux, or gaming server! 01:29 What does THAT mean? 02:03 Fedora Pushes Toward the Future of Linux 04:19 The Excitement Factor 05:22 Fedora keeps stability while being current 08:06 Fedora has the default experience 09:46 Fedora has a big community 10:27 Parting Thoughts 11:42 Sponsor: Get your Linux laptop or desktop with Slimbook 12:07 Support the channel
Just to be clear, when I say that Fedora is the new Ubuntu, I mean that Fedora now occupies the place that Ubuntu used to have in terms of Linux distributions. It's a GOOD thing.
One of the things I really enjoy about using Fedora, is that they push the Linux desktop towards the future. Some call it bleeding edge, but it's not. It's cutting edge: you don't get the absolute latest, but you get the best that's also stable.
Fedora was among the first to adopt Wayland, the first to adopt Pipewire, to push Flatpak, portals, the first mainstream distro to push immutable filesystems in Fedora Silverblue.
This drive towards modern tech was what Ubuntu was doing back in the day: they were implementing the latest versions of GNOME, adopted newly developed programs at the time, like Banshee, or F-Spot, they pushed to have better driver integration, and more software available.
Using Fedora, I got that same excitement I used to get when I was using Ubuntu: every 6 months, there's a new drop of amazing updates. You get more modern technologies, you get improved security, you get new features right as they're being released, and you get that sense of really taking advantage of all that new stuff the Linux community talks about.
Fedora is a "current" distro, which means that you get the latest release of all the interesting stuff, like the desktop environments, the linux kernel, the graphics drivers, or wayland. And they do this without sacrificing stability.
Fedora, in my experience with it, has been rock solid. In general, I didn't have many problems with any Linux distro that I daily drove, but all of them tended to exhibit small issues after a while.
My experience with Fedora has been fantastic thanks to this: Flatpak is wonderfully integrated in the GNOME Software app, it's all a one click install, all updates are handled there, I just never think about my system anymore, I just use it. That peace of mind is something I never truly achieved with any other Linux distro
Another thing I really like is that Fedora has the DEFAULT experience. They ship the desktop as is, without any meaningful extensions, themes, configurations, or tweaks.
It's just productivity central. GNOME, for me, doesn't need anything else than the default experience. It is extremely efficient once you wrap your head around how it works, and providing me with a crutch, like an always visible dock, or desktop icons, would just compromise that productivity.
Moving to Fedora also had me learn a few things, especially how to use dnf. I didn't need to use it, but I wanted to; and since I was a lot more familiar with APT, I had no idea what I was doing.
Turns out, Fedora has a huge community as well, something Ubuntu has had since it began, so it's another checkmark next to my "Fedora is the next Ubuntu" checklist
Jean-Luc Mélenchon est intervenu sur Al Jazeera pour un échange avec Rima Hassan qui est à bord de la Freedom Flotilla, aux côtés de Greta Thunberg, l’équipa...
Une évaluation des mois passés par Trump à la Maison Blanche par un éminent commentateur de CNN.
Stephen Collinson a déclaré :
Au cours de ses quatre mois à la Maison Blanche, Trump s’est livré à des menaces de droits de douane, à des déclarations sur son désir d’annexer le Canada et le Groenland et à la destruction de programmes humanitaires dans le monde entier.
Le résultat, selon lui, est :
« À l'heure actuelle, les dirigeants chinois, russes, israéliens, européens et canadiens ont constaté que Trump n'est plus aussi puissant qu'ils le pensent. Ils en concluent donc qu'il est possible de lui désobéir sans conséquences. » (E)
Seuls les Arabes prennent au sérieux ses bêtises quotidiennes, achètent ses faveurs et lui offrent des concessions, tout en soulignant nécessairement leur rejet de son plan de déplacement de Gaza, mais sans prendre de positions qui contrecarreraient son potentiel ultérieur.
Were the covid gene therapy injections selectively targeted at people of a non-Indian heritage? If you look at Mark Crispin Millers posts I don't recall seeing many Indians there. Could be wrong but majority by far of fatalities were people of European or African descent.
Have additionally been trying to understand for quite some time why I was being nagged via text messages during covidhoax to update my 'ethnicity' with my local general practitioners office. I got about six messages telling me to do so all of which I ignored. It was a high priority item for them for reasons I still don't quite understand.
There was also the paper that came out of India indicating that the novelty flu pathogen selectively biased certain 'ethnicities' toward poorer outcomes. Europeans and Africans came off worst I believe. RFKjr mentioned this paper which was reported on widely and immediately became controversial - so it was obviously meant to be seen by as many as possible.
Novelty pathogen with ethnicity bias coupled with novelty injections with an ethnicity bias. Would be so easy to conflate the two and thereby validate the conclusion of that paper from India.
And while all this was happening Africans and Europeans across the west were supposed be engaged in a terrible 'race war' thanks to Pierre Kory thereby depleting their ranks, assets and resources etc. Indians were fully exempt from this supposed whacky racer war aside from helping to stir it all up.
The timing of it all matches perfectly with the progression of the corona hoax. I actually think this very plausibly was the original plan which didn't meet expectations by quite some wide margin. Left everyone puzzled and confused more than anything else which was then followed by an awkward pause like it was now fully off-script so no one was really sure what to do next.
Then Ukraine happened and like right out of nowhere AI became the newest current thing. It just blew up exactly as you'd expect if someone had been sitting on it waiting for exactly the right moment.
It was going to change everything then didn't except get everyone talking about it. Perhaps the controllers of the corona hoax were a little too overconfident into its potential as a labor saving gimmick. Now we find out that a big AI project being run out of India was a giant hoax. So that stymied the AI takeover.
❗️Gaza hospital warns 50,000 pregnant and nursing women at serious risk
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza has warned that around 50,000 pregnant women and nursing mothers face life-threatening conditions amid severe shortages of food and medicine. 1/3
Hospital spokesperson Khalil al-Daqran told WAFA that miscarriage rates have increased six-fold since the war began, alongside a sharp rise in premature births, overwhelming Gaza’s already crippled neonatal units. 2/3
He said Israel’s repeated targeting of Gaza’s health system has pushed it to the brink of collapse, leaving over 23 hospitals non-operational and thousands of cancer and dialysis patients without care, resulting in an average of five cancer-related deaths per day. 3/3
Covert Web-to-App Tracking via Localhost on Android
"a novel tracking method by Meta and Yandex potentially affecting billions of Android users. We found that native Android apps—including Facebook, Instagram, and several Yandex apps including Maps and Browser—silently listen on fixed local ports for tracking purposes.
These native Android apps receive browsers' metadata, cookies and commands from the Meta Pixel and Yandex Metrica scripts embedded on thousands of web sites. These JavaScripts load on users' mobile browsers and silently connect with native apps running on the same device through localhost sockets [WebRTC]. As native apps access programatically device identifiers like the Android Advertising ID (AAID) or handle user identities as in the case of Meta apps, this method effectively allows these organizations to link mobile browsing sessions and web cookies to user identities, hence de-anonymizing users' visiting sites embedding their scripts."
similar to what ebay does. seems like facebook wants another maximum GDPR fine (which should be increased btw). these attacks should be mitigated by disabling (e.g. uBlockO), blocking tracking scripts (e.g. uBlockO), android without Android Advertising ID (GrapheneOS) and avoiding facebook and yandex sites and apps or better yet all proprietary spyware apps (f-droid.org)
F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.
The tracking technique described at https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/06/meta-and-yandex-are-de-anonymizing-android-users-web-browsing-identifiers/ is prevented by Vanadium's default "Disabled non-proxied UDP" value.
Autopsy results by forensics experts in Istanbul revealed that all nine of the men killed by Israeli commandoes aboard the humanitarian convoy that had planned to dock in Gaza died of gunshot wounds.
- "Fascist politics transforms the news from a conduit of information and reasoned debate into a spectacle with the strongman as the star....News becomes sports."
- "In the name of rooting out corruption and supposed bias, fascist politicians attack and diminish the institutions that might otherwise check their power."
After an extraordinary six-week voyage from northern Norway, the iconic Norwegian tall ship Statsraad Lehmkuhl has docked in Nice, France, concluding ESA’s 2025 Advanced Ocean Training course. Braving everything from wild storms to calm near-freezing seas, students aboard mastered techniques for collecting ocean measurements and harnessed satellite data to unlock insights into our blue planet.
Led by experts, this real-world expedition offered more than education – it sparked curiosity and a deeper commitment to understanding and protecting our oceans.
Ukraine could attack Russian bombers like sitting ducks because the New START treaty. That's why US nuclear bombers (B-1Bs, B-2s, B-52s) are also parked visibly at Diego Garcia and elsewhere; China, who didn't sign the treaty, hides its bombers away in underground concrete shelters.
So of course the US must feign ignorance, else it would obviously constitute unilateral break of a treaty, that could call for thermonuclear retaliation. That's how close we come to global annihilation but, hey, "the good guys scored a point". Morons.
Me: I should get some shirts for my wife because she’s always wearing mine, I wonder what size she wears.
Also me: I don’t know Einstein, how could you possibly know the size of the person who wears your shirts? Don’t get a nosebleed thinking about that mystery.
The shop I preordered my Switch 2 from has this odd feature where they send you a photo of your package before it ships. Just got my photo. It’s happening! 😃📦🎮
This talk by Haroon Meer and Adrian Sanabria (Thinkst) was given during VB2019 in London, 4 October 2019.Everybody decries the state of the industry. Everyon...
"Nucléaire : la relance de l’atome rejetée en commission à l’Assemblée à la suite d’un imbroglio
Mais un amendement de la députée (Isère, Parti socialiste, PS) Marie-Noëlle Battistel @BattistelMarie a déposé, semble-t-il d’abord par erreur, un amendement supprimant la construction de six nouveaux EPR2 d’ici à 2026 et de huit autres ainsi qu’un petit réacteur modulaire d’ici à 2030. Elle a finalement maintenu cet amendement, qui a été adopté. Le rapporteur du texte, le député (Haute-Savoie, Renaissance) et ancien ministre Antoine Armand @antoine_armand , lui a alors signifié son erreur, l’invitant à retirer son amendement, mais celle-ci a finalement décidé de le maintenir. Il a donc été adopté, supprimant les objectifs de relance pour les cinq prochaines années."
ouf ! une connerie de moins ! C'est criminel de vouloir construire des nouvelles centrales nucléaires alors qu'on ne sait que faire de leurs déchets et qu'on laisse se détériorer les anciennes !
We take a look at some pieces of video footage where Jews talk and we hear exactly what they say, and how they act when they are together. Over many centuries in Europe, Whites confronted Jews many…
Public figures and activists in the #UK, including Steve Coogan, Juliet Stevenson, Chris O’Dowd and Misan Harriman, joined an 18-hour-long vigil in #London to read aloud the names of thousands of Palestinian children killed in Israel’s genocide in #Gaza.
Liberalism flourished after WW2 due to the US's unparalleled economic advantage, which was built on the massive expansion of its industrial base during the war while the rest of the world burned.
The economic supremacy that legitimized western system has now faded and liberal democracies face a crisis of confidence while China's model is emerging as a successful alternative.
'Indeed, the Soviet bloc, having started from a position of post-war devastation, was never able to close the economic development gap with the massive head start enjoyed by the United States.'
I beg to differ... the gap was closing, and had it not been for the subversion of the USSR, it most likely would have been closed by now.
@Arindam I'm not saying USSR economy was inferior in nature, merely that the US had a massive head start. The US leveraged this advantageous position during the Cold War to pull of the world economy into its orbit which further shifted the balance of power in its favor.
The problem USSR had was that it was stuck in an ideological struggle with the US where countries were forced to pick bloc allegiance. China managed to avoid falling into that trap.
(Not just Vietnam, but also the defeat of Pakistan by India in 1971 were indicative of declining American power).
The ideological struggle wasn't the problem - especially since the existence of the Non-Aligned Movement demonstrates that countries didn't have to pick sides. The problem was that the Soviets made a few critical mistakes (the Sino-Soviet split, the war in Afghanistan, the failure to push forward in IT, etc...) - and were subverted. The latter is of utmost importance.. and a key source on it is:
Revolution From Above: The Demise of the Soviet System
This is the story of Bill Kongable who served in the 89th Infantry Div as a member of the anti-tank company. He went to war at 18 years of age & saw things that no one should ever see. His unit made an assault river crossing across the Rhine River...
This is the story of Bill Kongable who served in the 89th Infantry Division as a member of the anti-tank company. He went to war at 18 years of age and saw t...
in March of 1945. The Rhine River is the border of Germany & the Germans were determined to oppose & push back the Allies but thank GOD the Germans were defeated. Mr. Kongable took part in the liberation of the concentration camp Ohrdruf which was the first camp liberated by the Allies in the West in April 1945. Ohrdruf is a subcamp of the Buchenwald complex and used forces laborers to keep the German war machine going.
My father was at Burgan Belson in 1945 when war ended they liberated the camp and rounded up the guard's he and one other drove the bull dozers to fill the mass graves. He only talked about what he had done a few weeks before he passed away aged 80 years old. RIP. My father was at Burgan Belson in 1945 when war ended they liberated the camp and rounded up the guard's he and one other drove the bull dozers to fill the mass graves. He only
In der "aktuellen Stunde zur Lage der transatlantischen Beziehungen" erklärte E. Demuth (CDU) gerade, man befinde sich mit den USA in einer "Wertegemeinschaft", auch wenn "einzelne Kritikpunkte" bestünden.
Es bleibt etwas offen, ob diese Union die Summe aus Trumpschem Rechtspopulismus, Gerichts- & Demokratieverachtung, illegalen Deportationen & Umverteilung von arm zu reich als kleine Einzelheiten betrachtet, oder die Truppe um Merz, Frei, Spahn & Dobrindt darin die gemeinsamen Werte verortet.
![A photograph of a dishevelled, dark blue jacket. It has a "CD [Civil [Defence] Torbay", with insignia sewn on it. On the other side is an early CND badge attached it, with the classic peace symbol There's also an ARP [Air Raid Precautions] badge attached to the lapel.](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7428918 "A photograph of a dishevelled, dark blue jacket. It has a \"CD [Civil [Defence] Torbay\", with insignia sewn on it. On the other side is an early CND badge attached it, with the classic peace symbol There's also an ARP [Air Raid Precautions] badge attached to the lapel.")
(e.g. uBlockO), blocking tracking scripts (e.g. uBlockO), android without Android Advertising ID (GrapheneOS) and avoiding facebook and yandex sites and apps or better yet all proprietary spyware apps (f-droid.org)
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