Japan's emperor begins a weeklong visit to Mongolia that will honor POWs
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War der israelische Angriff auf Iran Selbstverteidigung oder ein Bruch des Völkerrechts? @ulrichthoden.bsky.social von @dielinkebt.de hat den Wissenschaftlichen Dienst des Bundestages gefragt. Die Antwort steht im Widerspruch zu den Aussagen der Bundesregierung. www.spiegel.de/ausland/iran...
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War der israelische Angriff auf Iran Selbstverteidigung oder eine Aushöhlung des Völkerrechts? Ein Linkenpolitiker wollte das genau wissen. Wissenschaftler des Bundestags gaben ihm eine relativ eindeutige Antwort.DER SPIEGEL
“The modern-day system of colonialism and sharecropping being constructed by the new East India Company that is Silicon Valley isn’t uncouth or stupid enough to put people in physical shackles. It doesn’t want to own your body, it is content with owning your simulation. And yet, as we have already seen, the more data they have about you – the higher the fidelity of your simulation – the closer they are to owning you.
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If this doesn’t sound like democracy, it is because it is not. Surveillance Capitalism isn’t compatible with democracy.
The system we live in today can best be described as a corporatocracy; a feudalism of corporations.
Ours is a neo-colonial age of multinational monopolies.
A digital imperialism, if you will.”
– Me, The Nature of the Self in the Digital Age, 2016
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Tim O’Reilly: “AI has adopted colonialism as its business model”. Strong words! But he explains: “Extract resources from others and use it to enrich yourself and your customers at the expense of those whose resources you have taken, without giving mu…Johannes' Mastodon place
@VidMasterEon The 3D in the game is good too.
Better than the shit-tier stuff they're doing for most 3D anime.
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Israeli airstrikes kill 33 Palestinians in Gaza
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The Republicans are proudly calling it “#AlligatorAlcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.
“‘Alligator Alcatraz’ is a #concentrationcamp,” Andrea Pitzer, author of One Long Night, a history of concentration camps, said on Tuesday.
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The Republicans are proudly calling it “Alligator Alcatraz.” Let’s call it what it is.The New Republic
More than 20 arrested for holding “i support palestjne action” placards; meanwhile lovely Rod Liddle writing in the lovely Spectator:
“ A small yield nuclear weapon, such as the American W89, dropped on Glastonbury in late June would immediately remove from our country almost everybody who is hugely annoying.”
But this is fine, this is normal; no consequences. #Gaza #PalestineAction #UKPolitics #RightWingShits
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#China Humiliates #EU
Wang Issues Brutal Dose of Reality.
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Last remnants of #colonialism.
"#Europe today is like the petulant child who is desperate to sit at the adult table"
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Πρόεδρα αυτό είναι η απόλυτη γκάφα και μέγιστο πολιτικό ολίσθημα
μέχρι και καθαίρεση ΔιαΒλέπω
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China retaliates against EU with a ban on European medical devices
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There is some smurf cart racing game that I am legally able to try for free for a limited time
Some of the parts of some of the levels looked interesting so I wanted to steer towards them to explore them
But they kept on changing what direction I go to prevent that
I realized if you just hold down the button that makes the cart go forward in at least some levels
Then they will automatically let you go through the whole entire level just holding down one button
This feature ruined it for me
DISCLOSURE: CIA Admits Shadowy Officer Monitored Oswald Before JFK Assassination, New Records Reveal
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"The cover story for Joannides is officially dead," said Jefferson Morley, an author and expert on the assassination.CDM Staff (CDM)
guaranteed fake
dr josef mengele would never have been there.
george h. bush would never have been there
notice that both their faces are obscured
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The shadowy figures behind US-Israeli aid operation in Gaza | The National
As usual David Pratt is absolute on fire in this investigative piece. Shadowy indeed.
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It would become known as “Operation Jawbreaker”. It was 24 years ago now, back in 2001, just days after the September 11 attacks on the US, that…David Pratt (The National)
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Worauf ist für queere Menschen noch Verlass, wenn Pride-Paraden selbst in EU-Staaten einfach so verboten werden können?
Queeres Leben: Die Antwort auf Angriffe muss mehr Organisation sein
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Aufarbeitung von NS-Verbrechen: Mit 60 Litern Benzin zur Synagoge
Zwei Historiker rekonstruieren den Brandanschlag auf die Erfurter Synagoge von 1938. Sie stoßen auf neuen Beteiligten. Dessen 90-jähriger Sohn läuft Sturm.
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The REAL REASON #Genocide Hasn't Been Stopped (w/ #FrancescaAlbanese
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Francesca Albanese describes the dark, self-serving reason that no UN member states have stopped the genocide in Gaza — namely, the economy of war, crisis an...YouTube
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when will ICE agents start using live chickens to make their raids?
just an idea
"In recent days, #China has experienced relentless torrential rain, with floodwaters pouring downstream at an alarming rate. A total of 329 rivers have exceeded red-alert levels, and the Three Gorges Dam is now facing water levels of 153 meters, 7 meters above its flood-control limit. Entire regions across China are #submerged.
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Elon Musk's Optimus boast in doubt as humanoid robot production plans halted
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Firm still struggling with 'unresolved hardware challenges,' so Optimus requires design changes.Mark Tyson (Tom's Hardware)
somedays everybody is nice to you
other days all the assholes come out
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I try to press the "skip" button before the speaker can finish the word, poison
Neuer Polizeiposten: Cornern in der „gefährlichsten Straße Deutschlands“
Die Eisenbahnstraße in Leipzig wird von der Polizei zum Gefahrengebiet erklärt und mit Kameras überwacht. Aber um wessen Sicherheit geht es da?
Neuer Polizeiposten: Cornern in der „gefährlichsten Straße Deutschlands“
This is human trafficking, not deportation. They're not from South Sudan.
The US government is a criminal trafficking enterprise. The American Ayatollah, the Supreme Court, said it was OK though.
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas announced on Saturday that it has completed wide-ranging consultations with fellow Palestinian factions and submitted a joint response to mediators on the latest ceasefire framework aimed at halting the Zionist occupation’s war on the Gaza Strip.
In a statement issued by its National Relations Office, Hamas said it held “an extensive series of contacts” with leaders of national and Islamic factions to coordinate and agree on a single position regarding the proposal’s terms and the mechanisms for implementation.
The talks, described as “serious and practical,” produced what the movement called a “unified national consensus” backing the stance of the Palestinian resistance.
“All factions welcomed this unified reply,” the statement noted, adding that the response was forwarded to mediators “in a positive spirit and with full unanimity” after both internal and external consultations were finalized.
Hamas stressed that the joint effort reflects “responsible Palestinian leadership” seeking to preserve the achievements of the Palestinian people and ensure a united front to end the genocide being waged against our people in Gaza.
A Zionist official told the occupation media on Saturday that its delegation will travel to Doha in the coming days “to complete the deal,” indicating that indirect negotiations are poised to resume in the Qatari capital.
The response follows the unveiling of what US President Donald Trump labeled a “final proposal” for a 60-day ceasefire, an initiative reportedly rooted in the Witkoff Plan and coordinated with Qatar, Egypt, and the US administration.
According to Zionist reports, the deal includes phased military withdrawals, the release of captives and bodies, and a framework for extended negotiations toward a permanent agreement.
While the occupation has not pledged to end its war on Gaza, it has reportedly expressed conditional approval to resume dialogue beyond the initial truce period. Yet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has remained silent, even as pressure mounts from the international community over his government’s ongoing destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure and refusal to commit to a full ceasefire.
“We have handed the mediators, Qatar and Egypt, our response to the ceasefire proposal,” a Hamas official told Reuters. “The Hamas response is positive and I think it should help and facilitate reaching a deal,” added another official involved in the talks.
The proposed ceasefire would see a phased release of captives held by the resistance, beginning with 8 live captives on the first day and additional releases on days 50 and 60, alongside the return of 18 bodies. In exchange, the occupation would begin withdrawing its forces from northern and southern Gaza under UN and Red Crescent oversight. Technical teams would work on boundary demarcations, while humanitarian aid would begin flowing immediately.
Longer-term arrangements, set to begin on day one of the truce, include defining terms for further prisoner exchanges, negotiating a permanent ceasefire, determining Gaza’s future security framework, and establishing international guarantees. Mediators would ensure compliance and could extend the truce if substantial progress is made.
Palestinian Resistance factions congratulated the efforts of the Hamas negotiating delegation on their shaping of the agreement and the dignified ceasefire proposal. Across the political spectrum, factions issued statements in support of Hamas’ decision to stop the war, ahead of a likely pan-faction meeting that will take place this week.
Since the beginning of the war, the factions, with all their colors and ideologies, have entrusted Hamas with the mantle to negotiate on their behalf.
PIJ confirmed that Hamas consulted with them and provided detailed feedback on implementation for a responsible reply.
A PFLP leadership source told Al-Hadaf that the Front met with Hamas to seriously discuss the draft. They offered feedback and amendments, which were approved, to stop the war and allow aid without obstacles. The PFLP’s changes concerned the wording of clauses to avoid exploitation by the occupation and a return of the aggression.
The Popular Resistance Committees issued a statement blessing the “serious, responsible, and national position” carried by the Palestinian negotiating delegation, highlighting their great flexibility in reaching an agreement. They confirmed that Hamas met with the PRC leadership, too, and called on the mediators to compel the zionist entity to accept the agreement to end the “greatest holocaust ever inflicted on our Palestinian people.”
The DFLP welcomed Hamas’ position, stating that their position is “based on deep awareness of our people’s right to stop the killing, starvation, thirst, and death machine.” They affirmed that they held consultations with Hamas and PIJ in Egypt, and the unified national vision for the day after the war. They, too, warned against zionist attempts to violate the agreement.
Similarly, the PFLP – GC stated that they support the “wise steps concerning the exchange deal and cessation of zionist aggression that Hamas has matured after consulting with the factions.” They affirmed that the factions emerged with an outline after several rounds of discussions, which preserves dignity, honors sacrifices, guarantees an end to the US-“israeli” war, and secures withdrawal. They cautioned against zionist and American tricks to return to aggression.
The Ahrar Movement also issued congratulations to the Palestinian negotiators, which they stated reflected high national responsibility, sovereign will, and sharp political acumen.
The Mujahideen Movement commended the negotiator’s position, stating that it represents both seriousness and flexibility. They demanded that the mediators assume their responsibility in guaranteeing the ceasefire.
The Fatah Al-Intifada movement congratulated Hamas on its “great national achievement” against the “zionist occupier and its partner, American imperialism and NATO allies.” They expressed their confidence in Hamas’ continued leadership of the Palestinian resistance on the path to liberation from the river to the sea.
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No duh...Now what will be DONE about it...I mean, it's only been 10 years already! 🙄
"CIA Director John Ratcliffe announced Wednesday that a new CIA report reveals former FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper worked together to purposely corrupt the Trump-Russia investigation in 2016 before Trump entered office.
The three corrupt Obama officials even included the Steele Dossier in their quest to “screw Trump” knowing at the time that the Steele Dossier was complete rubbish.
For the next three years Democrats and deep state operatives used these documents in their attempt to impeach Trump and run a coup on the White House."
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CIA Director John Ratcliffe announced Wednesday that a new CIA report reveals former FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper worked together to purposely corrupt the Trump-Russia investigation in 2016 befo…Jim Hoft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Oh great, a party started by a Hitler-saluting oligarch manbaby just to irritate a different rapist Nazi manbaby
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Tesla CEO follows through on pledge to create a new political party after Donald Trump signs his budget bill into law.Al Jazeera
"This, too, shall pass"
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#zen #confidence #silence #meditation #prayer #spirituality
We must have confidenceremember that we can have confidencein the fact that the psychological, somatic waves,- violent, sometimes, – which come to cross, or submerge the lands of our bodies,a…Notes & Silence
"This, too, shall pass"
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#zen #confidence #silence #meditation #prayer #spirituality
We must have confidenceremember that we can have confidencein the fact that the psychological, somatic waves,- violent, sometimes, – which come to cross, or submerge the lands of our bodies,a…Notes & Silence
When reality kicks you straight in the face.
BlackRock leaves #Ukraine.
End of the search for investors for a fund to rebuild the country.
BlackRock suspended its investor search for a fund aimed at raising funds to help Ukraine's recovery due to a lack of interest and increased uncertainty about the country's future, according to a #Bloomberg report.
Lorsque le moment est venu....
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#zen #silence #meditation #spirituality #prière
Couper court aux élucubrations, aux constructions post-mortem,qui déblatèrent, encapsulent le vivant,L’étouffent et se baladent, au final,avec dans les bras,un chat mort. ©FJ Sept 2024Recueils / Pa…Notes & Silence
Citizen Journalist Aidan Kearney said during an appearance on Breitbart News Saturday that he faces 105 years in jail.Hannah Knudsen (Breitbart)
French intelligence: China used embassies to undermine sales of France's flagship Rafale fighter jet
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🔥 CONFIRMÉ : Le lien entre les #injections #ARNm et les morts subites est désormais scientifiquement établi.
Une publication peer-reviewed dans la revue médicale #Cureus vient de faire voler en éclats le récit officiel.
✅️Titre de l’étude :
“Causality Between COVID-19 Vaccines and Death: A Systematic Review”
Auteurs : Peter #McCullough, Joseph #Ladapo (chirurgien général de Floride) et d’autres médecins indépendants.
✅️LES FAITS BRUTS
325 autopsies de patients décédés après #vaccination #COVID analysées.
240 décès (soit 73,9 %) jugés directement causés ou significativement liés à l’injection.
✅️Organes les plus touchés :
❤️ Cœur : myocardites, inflammations, fibroses
🩸 Système sanguin : thromboses massives, coagulations
🫁 Poumons : embolies, œdèmes, nécroses
Délai moyen entre injection et mort : 14 jours.
Mais la majorité des morts surviennent dans la première semaine.
🚨🚨UNE AUTOPSIE DE LA VÉRITÉ : L’ARNm EST UN DÉTONATEUR BIOLOGIQUE
👉Contrairement aux vaccins classiques, les injections COVID n’introduisent ni virus atténué ni toxine neutralisée.
Elles injectent un code génétique encapsulé dans des nanoparticules lipidiques (LNP).
👉Objectif : forcer vos cellules à produire une protéine spike étrangère.
👉Mais cette protéine n’est ni localisée, ni inoffensive.
Elle :
- Traverse la barrière hémato-encéphalique
- Colonise les cellules endothéliales vasculaires
- Active le système immunitaire de manière anarchique
- Provoque des réactions auto-immunes, inflammations, fibroses, embolies
👉 Résultat : des morts rapides, multiples, “inexpliquées”… jusqu’ici.
✅️L’AUTOPSIE NE MENT PAS
L’étude repose sur de vraies données, visibles sous scalpel.
Pas de modèles, pas d’estimations, pas de “peut-être”.
Mais des lésions tangibles, identifiées par des médecins, validées par #autopsie.
Et le verdict est implacable : la majorité de ces morts n’auraient pas eu lieu sans le #vaccin.
🚨LE SILENCE COMPLICE DES AUTORITÉS
Pendant que les plateformes censurent, que les médecins sont radiés et que les ministres enchaînent les doses télévisées…
La #science, la vraie, parle enfin. Et elle accuse.
Les autorités savaient, ou ne voulaient pas savoir.
Mais maintenant, l’excuse de l’ignorance ne tient plus.
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Cureus, “Causality Between COVID-19 Vaccines and Death: A Systematic Review”
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The world is waking up to the fact that fighting pharma using the existing set up is impossible. So why cling to it?
Dr Peter #McCullough has set the ball rolling. He says we should not even imagine that the CDC or #FDA will rule against vaccines.
All healthcare staff, he continues, are deeply programmed to believe in vaccines. They are brainwashed into believing that vaccines save lives and that vaccine hesitancy (or refusing to believe in that madness) must be prevented at any cost. Therefore they remain deaf dumb and blind to the vaccine catastrophe.
We have been battling this crazy attitude since ages. You can easily convince plain and simple science. You can never convince entrenched evil whose sole objective is to harm, according to a set agenda. Sorry to shake core beliefs, but that is pharma in short.
Denis #Rancourt admits that you should not expect the system to do better. It never will. You should ask the system to shut down and do nothing.
Sharyl #Attkinson points out that if governments were serious they would analyze the data they have or collect data (all adverse effects reported) to find trends and solutions. Governments have collected data while administering the #vaccines. They only need to follow up. Why is that not being done?
A doctor with a pseudonym points out that so long as institutions like the #WHO, #GAVI, #FDA, #CDC etc exist people cannot expect to be safe.
This is the truth. People have dug their own graves by allowing this system to appropriate all space available. Physical space, mental space, policy space, economy space... now there is no way the elephant can be pushed out from the room.
In the year 2000, after 15 years of negotiating with the system I had arrived at the same conclusion. I had discovered the following;
- People I was dealing with knew that what I was saying was right
- They knew that what they were doing was wrong
- They had no intent to change
You cannot deal with this. You can beat your head against a galvanized steel fortress and break it down, but you cannot make #pharma admit to the truth.
We had started out hoping against hope that some day we would achieve the impossible. Today we know why the word impossible is called impossible.
However something has indeed happened. The entire system has been exposed.More people than earlier have realized that they have trusted the very force that has stabbed them in their back.
If the stupendous rise in disease has followed the stupendous rise in this system of medicine, there can be only one conclusion; the system has caused the stupendous rise. It took a hundred years for the people (not all), to come to this conclusion.
Pharma has not come to an end. It has however planned the end game. An entity called The Liver Doc (whatever that means) has slammed a chess grandmaster for "daring to call his family of qualified holistic healers as doctors". Such arrogance! The pretence has fallen. Pharma has displayed its brutal power. Now it intends to use it.
Ex #Pfizer CEO Dr Mike #Yeadon warns the system is gearing up for something big. "We are in the middle of the biggest crime in history.It is global and it has the intent of control, removing everybody's freedom. It has been long planned."
He has a chilling message for everyone, "Digital ID and vaccines are two sides of the same diabolical coin whose strikers intend to link #vaccine compliance with social and economic viability.”
According to Sasha #Latypova, interviewed by Dr Trozzi, pharma is rooted in eugenics ideology and backed by sweeping legal immunity and financial incentives. She advocates for widespread noncompliance, rigorous scrutiny, and a refusal to participate in coercive systems.
Pharma is not just pharma. Pharma = the chemical cartel + the big food & big agri cartel + the banking and finance cartel + the IT cartel + the media and entertainment cartel + the funding of movements cartel + the ruling cartel.
Let us not harbor the illusion that it is only about #medicine. Catherine Austin Fitts has long blown the whistle that all the tentacles cited above belong to the same octopus. They work in tandem.
The last #WEF meeting had something strange to offer. The attending figures were seen making faces and whispering in each other's ears. Not a good sign.
Now it is time to ask the system to shut down and do nothing.
Jagannath #Chatterjee
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Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.
THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.
I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.
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"#BBC staff: we're forced to do pro-#Israel PR - A devastating letter signed by over 100 BBC journalists underlines one of the great scandals of our age"
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Go back in history shows, that the majority of the people ist always far more progressive than the ruling class and social progress has always been fought for by the lower classes, mostly by the very lower classes.
#propaganda #Gaza #Westbank #Palestine #genocide #racism #classism
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"17,4 Millionen Bundesbürgerinnen und Bundesbürger werden sich dieses Jahr nicht auch nur eine einzige Woche Urlaub gönnen. Und wir sprechen hier wohlgemerkt nicht von einem Flug nach London oder auf die Malediven. Nein, die Betroffenen haben nicht einmal genug Geld, um innerhalb Deutschlands zu Familienmitgliedern zu fahren und dort für ein paar Tage unterzukommen."
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#Klassismus #Armut #Kinderarmut #Altersarmut #Sexismus #Feminismus
Millionen Menschen in Deutschland werden auch in diesem Jahr nicht in den Urlaub fahren können. Für ein reiches Land wie Deutschland ist das ein Armutszeugnis, findet Ole Nymoen.JACOBIN Magazin
"Fast 40% derer, die alleine Kinder großziehen, werden daheimbleiben. Das bedeutet in der Praxis: Mio. Mütter & Väter, die in einem Hamsterrad aus Erwerbs- & Erziehungsarbeit schier Übermenschliches leisten, werden nicht einmal ein paar Tage Entspannung finden.
& ihr Nachwuchs wird 6 Wochen lang im selben Wohnviertel verbleiben & kaum etwas sehen von der Welt, die so viel zu bieten hat [...]."
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#Klassismus #Armut #Kinderarmut #Altersarmut #Sexismus #Feminismus
Millionen Menschen in Deutschland werden auch in diesem Jahr nicht in den Urlaub fahren können. Für ein reiches Land wie Deutschland ist das ein Armutszeugnis, findet Ole Nymoen.JACOBIN Magazin
Amid Trump’s immigration crackdown, travel bans & sweeping global tariffs (& his threats, detaining tourists, alignment with the RW parties: around the world, Putin...), the US is expected to be the only one out of 184 countries to see foreign visitor spending fall in 2025.
The study suggests that the US economy is on track🚨to lose $12.5B in INTL spending this year alone -actual shortfall might be much greater.
#Tourism #Immigrants #Trumpcession #Economy #Protest #USPol independent.co.uk/news/world/a…
Study from World Travel & Tourism Council looked at the economic impact of tourism in 184 countriesJames Liddell (The Independent)
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Qatar could mediate, but it couldn't make decisions for Hamas. Its influence was real only when it served as the organization's main ATM, funding its activities and civilian institutions, paying salaries to officers and fighters, and helping to rebuild Gaza after every Israeli military operation. And all that was done with the permission of the Israeli government.
Similarly, Egypt could put pressure on Hamas only as long as it controlled the economic pipeline that fed Gaza and Hamas – the Rafah border crossing. But this lever disappeared after the Israel Defense Forces took control of both the crossing and the Philadelphi corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border.
As a result, in an unprecedented development, the
Americans are now directly negotiating with Hamas, but nobody is complaining about them violating the principle of not negotiating with a terror group. Moreover, Trump can no longer threaten to open the gates of hell on Gaza if Hamas doesn't accept the proposed deal. Hell has already been achieved.
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Israel's leaders seem to have no plan for the Strip but occupying it. They must ask themselves what they'll do when the enclave's 2 million people, who have nothing left to lose, rise upZvi Bar'el (Haaretz)
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#uklabour #ukdictatorship
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These quotes are not representative of the whole article, which is long, and covers many different themes, but jumped out at me as being observations I've not seen articulated a lot.
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Filiu [one of the only historians studying the Gaza Strip] accuses Israel of turning a blind eye for years to what has been going on in Gaza: "For 20 years now, Israel has been unable to nurture networks of collaborators inside Gaza. [The Israelis] tried every tool in the book, and they failed. Because they don't know Gaza's society. And because they operate either from a tank or from a drone, which is not the most efficient way to operate."
To bolster his views, Filiu cites a surprising example: the Israeli television series "Fauda." "The first two seasons, which were set in the West Bank, were quite impressive," he says. The third season, which takes place in Gaza, however, was out of touch with reality. The people who created it, he adds, "don't know what they're talking about. They're speaking about Mosul, they're speaking about the Taliban, they're not talking about Gaza. They don't know Gaza."
One of the tragic consequences of this blindness, Filiu observes, is the mortal blow being dealt to everyone in the Strip who opposes Hamas. "There were thriving universities, intellectual circles and artists. There were so many rap groups in Gaza, and you can imagine that their members weren't exactly sympathetic to Hamas.
"There was a civil society that didn't want to be part of Hamas' Islamist scheme," he continues, "but all that has been destroyed now by the Israeli invasion.
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The English translation of his book won't come out before next year, unfortunately. I hope there's also interest from a German (countercurrent) publisher.
I just looked, there's no announcement in German yet. And it seems only one book from filiu was translated in german.
I think I will read the English version, my french is not sufficient enough.
Another thing occurs to me, a propos of this piece:
Filiu managed to get official permission for entry into the Gaza Strip from Israel, without being part of a humanitarian mission. Which proves that it is not the case that “international journalists are not getting in because no-one is getting in except humanitarians". Whatever security hoopla they made a history professor jump through they could make a CNN correspondent jump through. Israel is choosing to ban international journalists from Gaza, and journalists specifically.
EDIT: In another interview (Le Monde) he clarifies: "I was integrated into the local team of Doctors Without Borders, which is doing extraordinary work in Gaza and which I assisted thanks to my intimate knowledge of the enclave". It's unclear whether that was just for logistics or whether that means he was officially allowed in •as• "humanitarian assistance".
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The defense establishment, and following its lead, most Israelis, expect one thing from the Palestinian: surrender. Voluntarily and quietly. It's expected that the Palestinian won't defend himself, won't resist, won't fight the occupation imposed by Israel. If she dares defend herself, she will immediately become a target. If he appeals to the United Nations, he will be accused of "political terrorism." This system is designed to see the Palestinian as the ultimate and immediate suspect, even when she's the victim.
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According to this system, a Palestinian who picks up a stone is a terrorist, but a settler who burns down a village is "frustrated.”…
This isn't security or self-defense. It's apartheid, it's ethnic supremacy, and it won't last forever.
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Israel claims that Palestinian resistance of any kind is violent and illegitimate, but the question is: What does legitimate resistance look like in a situation of ongoing occupation? Is the Israeli justification of self-defense an exclusive right, or does this right also belong to the Palestinians?
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we've never heard a Western leader talk about the right of the Palestinian people to self-defense. In the eyes of the world, the Palestinian should simply die in silence.
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In Israeli eyes, a Palestinian who picks up a stone is a terrorist, but a settler who burns down a village is 'frustrated.' This isn't self-defense, it's apartheid, and it's unsustainableAhmad Tibi (Haaretz)
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced Saturday the execution of a top-tier operation against Zionist occupation forces in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to details released by the Brigades, the operation took place on Friday morning near the Directorate of Education in the al-Mahatta area, in central Khan Younis. Resistance fighters stormed a gathering of Zionist soldiers and their military vehicles, the statement added.
As part of the operation, al-Qassam fighters targeted two Merkava tanks using two Shawaz explosive devices, resulting in its crew members being either killed or injured.
In addition to the tanks, the Resistance fighters also struck an armored personnel carrier with a Yassin 105 shell.
When Zionist rescue forces arrived at the scene, they were attacked with light and medium machine gun fire, the Brigades pointed out.
During the operation, al-Qassam fighters observed the landing of helicopters conducting an evacuation that lasted several hours.
The Brigades also reported a second operation on Friday, in which its fighters targeted another Zionist armored personnel carrier using a Yassin 105 shell on al-Bi’ah Street in central Khan Younis.
Meanwhile, the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Movement, released footage on Friday documenting a complex and top-tier operation its Resistance fighters conducted on Wednesday in the eastern al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City.
The al-Quds Brigades operation targeted Zionist military vehicles and soldiers, as well as homes where occupation forces had taken cover, engaging in direct confrontations at close range.
The commander of the operation reported that the Zionist soldiers showed no initiative or response, resorting only to screaming and fleeing without returning significant fire toward the Resistance fighters.
He added that the fighters encountered charred bodies of officers and soldiers, confirming that 40 Zionist soldiers were either killed or wounded, and stated that the occupation continues to lie and conceal its losses as it always does.
Zionist air defenses scrambled to intercept a ballistic missile launched from Yemen over occupied Palestine early Sunday.
At 2:45 am (local time), the Zionist military command warned that a missile was launched from Yemen, later announcing that its air defenses successfully intercepted it. Sirens sounded in settlements in the southern occupied West Bank as well as some settlements near the Dead Sea.
The strike comes as Yemen reiterates its military support for Gaza, vowing continued operations until the aggression ends.
On Friday, the Yemeni governorates of Saadah, Raymah, and Marib witnessed massive rallies in support of the Palestinian people and their Resistance and in solidarity with the Gaza Strip under the slogan: “Steadfast with Gaza, prepared and mobilized in the face of aggression.”
Participants raised slogans affirming Yemen’s unwavering support for Palestine, in light of the ongoing Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip.
Earlier, the leader of the Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, emphasized the continuation of the Yemeni ban on Zionist shipping, affirming its success and praising Yemen’s ability to continue the battle.
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Wonderful.
Wait. No. That's clearly all an AI generated show because no human could actually do anything like this.
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Max Verstappen starts on pole for Formula 1's British Grand Prix, with title rivals behind
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#Srebrencia, replacement ferries, #Gaza, forensic science and rocks.
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It's the first Saturday of the Scottish school holidays and I’m still a wee bit bleary-eyed after an early morning train down to Troon to take the…Alison Phipps (The National)
Tropical Storm Chantal strengthens slightly as it nears landfall in South Carolina
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A NAFO moron who supports Ukrainian Nazis and an unelected #EU committee is worried that we will become totally fascist.
STUPIDITY IS INVINCIBLE.
Dalai Lama, a global symbol of Tibetan culture and resistance, turns 90
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Ο Παλαιστίνιος σκηνοθέτης, Μπιλάλ Χαμντάν, στο FLASH TV: «Δεν μας αφήνουν να ζήσουμε»
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there are dimwits with more money than brains who buy an organization that elects them.
Some are dumb as rocks. I have some really funny stories. Thank you for reminding me. I will use them soon. I met these "leaders" personally.
Shit for brains. as you said.
First, I had to catch up on the headlines, and I have a network I am building - almost ready 😎
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Another war, another trip, another ask: Netanyahu returns to Washington
With Gaza still burning and corruption charges mounting, Israel’s prime minister arrives in D.C. looking for favors, not peace
Alleged arsonist charged over fire at Australian synagogue
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Les plaintes pour escroquerie sentimentale en ligne se multiplient ces dernières années. Ce fléau, nourri par la solitude et la fracture numérique, s’appuie sur des techniques de manipulation de plus en plus sophistiquées.Clara Lainé (Franceinfo)
Wasn’t he one of those idiotic intellectual masturbators who thought Thatcher was a fascist?
Interesting. The American Ayatollah, the Supreme Court, ruled in favor of those harmed by the US state violence system, which is often referred to as a justice system.
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In a term marked by rulings limiting immigrants’ rights, the court sided with several other people harmed by the criminal justice system.Rebecca McCray (The Marshall Project)
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