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hunger may no longer be a problem worldwide "poverty" is too relative and subjective a term why does the soil need to be regenerated and is he the only one who can do it? ...
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A hitman of the Russian mafia has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer; he is sent to Berlin to pick up the watch Yuri Gagarin wore on his first flight i...
today's checkin brought him to mind, and now I need to go be a bigger fan because he gets it
Adam Duritz on counting his anxiety in new album : NPR
Duritz: I just felt there was a real callousness in our society towards women โ this real arrogant, we-know-what's-best-for-you thought process returning to our culture in the last decade. I mean, obviously it's always been there, but you thought you were moving in a better direction for many years.
Granted, with the MeToo movement, you got a lot of โ for the first time โ exposing a lot of people who were victimizing women. But at the same time, it also made you realize how prevalent it was. Half of our race, as humans, messed with and abused and taken advantage of and, quite honestly, raped. And then told what to do by the other half. It's attaching a valuelessness to half the population of the world.
I was trying to imagine what it must feel like to be a woman. When power speaks to you as if you don't matter.
Anna Feder is suing Emerson College for firing her over her Palestine activism. She says she will never stop advocating for a free Palestine. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/i-was-fโฆ
"Dachau was the first step on the road to atrocity. Will America go there? Eight months ago, I would have said never. At that point, America was still a nation under the rule of law. Now, we have politicians cheering the image of people being fed to alligators" and "selling swag celebrating the construction of an American concentration camp."
no, eight months ago America was not a country under the rule of law, and if the author believed that he wasn't paying attention. America ceased to be a country under the rule of law on July 1, 2024, when the supreme Court decided that the president was not bound by law.
Democratic party is essentially dead, so it's possible that he will either trigger a switch of the democratic voter base over to his party and leave the crazies and geriatric leadership out to dry, or else he will use the America Party to threaten the Democratic party so that he's able to buy it out for pennies on the dollar, and then purge leadership and replace them with his own people.
how elon can "buy" a political movement that was hostile to him from the start is rather absurd.
the outer shell of the dem pty may be damaged but the commies never die
after western european commies became disillusioned with the soviets in the 60's, the same commies shifted over to the environmental movement. Elon should read modern european history.
Also see the recent photo of far-right Republican leaders kneeling in prayer together in Congress after Trump's bill was passed. Every week there's another reminder that this authoritarian movement is basically theocratic.
While Trump freezes arms deliveries to #Ukraine due to stockpile shortages, neoliberal warmongering Democrats accuse the #WhiteHouse of lying to camouflage Ukraine dumping. Meanwhile #EU clowns continue to breathe inside their delusional #Brussels bubble, always pretending that they could โinterveneโ and โsolve the problem.โ
Zohran Mamdani - aktueller Bรผrgermeister-Kandidat fรผr New York mit guten Chancen und der hat interessante politische Vorstellungen!
Trump, seine Reps, alle radikale Christen und hier die Springer-Presse (im vorauseilenden Gehorsam) bekommen seit gestern kollektiv Schnappatmung, wenn der Name Mamdani fรคllt und weil seine Chancen immer weiter steigen ๐
Seine Themen u.a.: Kostenloser Nahverkehr (bspw. stรคdtische Busse, Subway-Freeze) Wohnungspolitik: Mieten einfrieren und รถffentlich gefรถrderter Wohnungsbau Universelle Kinderbetreuung und Sozialleistungen Mindestlohn von 30โฏ$ bis 2030 Hรถhere Steuern fรผr Reiche und Unternehmen, um soziale Programme zu finanzieren
Trump lรคsst im Moment untersuchen, ob der Mamdani ausgewiesen werden kann. Denn der sei nicht nur Muslim, sondern radikal-kommunistisch mit seiner Vorstellung von Politik!
Wer jetzt in Versuchung ist zu sagen: โDer wird doch nur Bรผrgermeister einer Stadtโโฆ das Budget der Stadt New York รผbersteigt das Regierungsbudget von allen auรer 33 Staaten weltweit...
Wenn so einer zeigt, dass eine als "sozialistisch" gelabelte Politik fรผr die meisten Bewohner der Stadt richtig tolle Auswirkungen hat, dann kรถnnten die Leute ja (hoffentlich) ins Grรผbeln kommen. Vielleicht sind sie dann nicht mehr bereit Leute zu wรคhlen, die ihnen erzรคhlen, dass Auslรคnder ihr Problem sind, wรคhrend sie gleichzeitig Reiche immer reicher machen und alle anderen immer weniger haben.
ยฟEn serio no hay nadie en el Parlamento britanico que haya gritado "pero estamos locos deteniendo a ancianas de 80 aรฑos con cargos de terrorismo por apoyar a #PalestineAction ????
โWe are witnessing a true reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere, something weโve never seen before. While the world is debating the potential collapse of the AMOC, weโre seeing that the SMOC has reversed. This could have unprecedented global climate impacts.โ shorturl.at/dEMcv
Ein auf Gaza spezialisierter, franzรถsischer Historiker verbringt im Dezember 2024 einen Monat in in Gaza und schreibt darรผber ein Buch. Schon der Artikel darรผber ist sehr lesenswert.
ยป'Now I Understand Why #Israel Is Denying Journalists Access to the Appalling Scene in #Gaza'. One of the only historians studying the Gaza Strip, Jean-Pierre Filiu, spent a month in the killing fields there, and documented everythingยซ haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0โฆ (Paywall)
ยป"Devastated areas emerge from the shadows as the convoy progresses," the French historian wrote later. "A prolonged sequence of horror. Here's a tree that fell, its branches twisted, here's a demolished house, farther away a building is collapsing. The convoy moves ahead as fast as the ruined road allows. The Gaza I knew no longer exists, now I know. A wasteland like this will make us forget that Gaza was for thousands of years an oasis."ยซ
"Even though I have been in a number of war zones in the past, from Ukraine to Afghanistan, via Syria, Iraq and Somalia, I have never, but never, experienced anything like thisโฆ Now I understand why Israel is denying the international press access to such an appalling scene."
ยปThe narrative of his visit to Gaza is intertwined with a description of the ear-splitting soundtrack of the enclave: an intense humming of drones overhead. "It's a nonstop roar, so strong that it's impossible to have a regular conversation outside," he says.
The psychological effect of ceaseless buzzing adds yet another layer of stress, which at times develops into unbearable weariness. The steady noise of harassment is punctuated by sounds of exploding munitions. ยซ
ยป"Death in Gaza is illogical," Filiu writes, noting that anyone can die at any moment from anything and from any situation, and the difference between life and death is completely random. Small decisions, made inadvertently โ whether to go there or here, whether to stand here or somewhere else, whether to sleep now or later โ determine who will live and who will die. People who have lost their loved ones cannot even mourn them properly, because there is no funeral and no grave.ยซ
ยปEspecially heartbreaking were the children he saw. "In the past the schoolchildren of Gaza had uniforms and schoolbags," Filiu he writes in his book. "Today they are street children, visited by death and wandering. In the open garbage dumps they scrounge for paper, cardboard, nylon, anything that can be used to light a small fire and provide a bit of heat. They barely drag jerricans bigger than they are.ยซ
ยปFiliu notes that according to UNICEF, the United Nations children's fund, the youngsters who have survived in the Strip are in dire need of social and psychological support. In January, there were only four psychiatrists in the whole of Gaza.ยซ
ยปOne reason for the sharp deterioration in the social fabric of the Strip that he witnessed is the immense hunger there. "Even those who want to share food with others cannot do so beyond the close, and hungry, family circle," he says. "In the past, Gazan solidarity was high; the uncles and aunts, and the cousins, were very close to one another. Now everyone is focused on the small, dying, family circle."ยซ
ยป[...]he added another heartrending element to this state of disintegration: the wholesale death of parents of small children. "The tragedy of Gaza's orphans is one of the harshest disasters," he told his audience. "Gazan society, which I knew in the past as very well protected within the family structure, collapsed under the weight of the extensive massacre. Wounded orphans remain abandoned in hospitals without relatives, even distant ones, coming to visit them."ยซ
ยปDespite the children's abject hunger, Filiu relates that he saw them sharing bits of food with scrawny stray cats. When he asked them why they were doing that, they explained to him that they know what it feels like to be hungry and didn't want the cats to feel like that.ยซ
ยปDuring his 4 weeks [...] Filiu moved between Rafah and al-Muwasi [...] He calculated that an average of more than 33,000 people live in a square kilometer, and described "an ocean of tents." "On both sides,""tents stretch for kilometers. Some of the displaced have established their improvised shelters on the beach, coping with the gusts of wind and the waves. Signs hover above the surface, declaring an improvised barber shop, cafeteria or boutique with alluring names, which mask the scarcity."ยซ
ยปMoreover, in the waning days of 2024, every inhabitant of Gaza received an average of nine liters (2.4 gallons) of water per day โ less than a quarter of which was potable. By comparison, the daily allocation before the war was 80 liters per person. Filiu describes how "people mill around the water distribution points with plastic jerricans of 5, 10 and 25 liters. Some bring open dishes, tin cans and containers of all sorts, even if that means spilling a bit of the precious liquid."ยซ
ยปIn addition to innumerable deaths of Gazans caused by all manner of weaponry, Filiu also witnessed mortality caused by infection and disease, and the near impossibility of preserving a semblance of hygiene: Almost every person he met suffered from disease and diarrhea. Women are affected more seriously than men by the severe deterioration in sanitary conditions: They tend to suffer more from skin and digestive tract infections, and account for two-thirds of the victims of hepatitis.ยซ
ยป"Every basic human need here is a struggle for survival," the historian writes. "A reality of open garbage dumps bustling with barefoot children. Holes dug in the sand as toilets, with a simple covering of canvas sheets to maintain an illusion of privacy. Home wells dug hastily in a corner of the tent."ยซ
ยปEven the weather takes a fatal toll. Filiu tells his readers about a baby girl named Sila who on Christmas Eve died of the cold at the age of three weeks. During his time in Gaza he heard about five other young children who perished from the cold.ยซ
ยปHe describes in his book what the morning after a winter downpour looks like: "Repair is needed on all fronts โ to repair the tents, block the broad leaks, repair the poles on which the fragile structures rest. The men are silent under their exhaustion and pain, and a dignified grandmother, trembling in a tattered scarf, calls to the heavens to attest that 'I was never so cold, I was never so hungry.' ยซ
ยปFiliu 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."ยซ
ยปOne 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.ยซ
ยป"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. And even when there were demonstrations against Hamas [during the cease-fire], instead of the Israelis saying, 'We're stopping the bombing in order for the demonstrators to prosper,' Israel intensified [it]. I don't say that it was a plot, but it's blindness."ยซ
ยปOne of most acute examples of that blindness, which Filiu terms a "tragic paradox," is Israel's support for the Abu Shabab gang in the Strip, which exercises violent control over the precious little humanitarian aid that enters Gaza, loots the trucks and does battle with Hamas. The majority of the Israeli public became aware of the existence of this criminal group only recently, in the wake of reports that Israel is arming its members. ยซ
ยป"It's 2:30 A.M., when I wake up from heavy gunfire," he writes Dec 4, when he witnessed a gunfight between unidentified security people guarding an aid convoy & a gang of looters, who were aided by IDF drones. The incident claimed 11 lives โ five killed by the army and six in the exchange of fire between Hamas and Abu Shabab โ plus 50 aid trucks out of 70 in the convoy were looted. The stolen goods, Filiu relates, showed up the next day in the Muwasi market and were sold at exorbitant prices.ยซ
ยป"This vicious circle of organized crime is bringing about a rise in prices of basic commodities in the markets of Gaza, and this in turn encourages the participation of ordinary citizens in organized looting," Filiu writes. "Every day around the end of 2024 brings its portion of gangs that attack humanitarian convoys, improvised road barriers erected by highway robbers, children who grab hold of trucks in order to steal a bag or two of flour."ยซ
ยปIsrael's very support of the Abu Shabab gang, Filiu explains, is actually strengthening Hamas. "Against the backdrop of the intense hunger in Gaza, Hamas' punishment of the plundering gangs is accepted with understanding by the civilian population โ they are angry at the looters and see Hamas as being bent on trying to stop the plunder of the little food that might reach them. Everybody in Gaza hates these gangs. ยซ
ยปIndeed, the most violent days he experienced were those preceding the start of the cease-fire: The Israelis had stepped up their bombing raids, Filiu notes, and he was in an area categorized as a "humanitarian zone" โ ostensibly, a place deemed safe from shelling. But every day there he experienced bombings. ยซ
ยป"It's a nice way of saying that the Gazans are treated like objects. The thought that they have to move again is terrible. People had to move and lost everything five times on average," he says, since the start of the war. "And that's only the average. I met people who had to move 10 times."ยซ
ยปFor his part, Filiu says during our conversation, he saw in Gaza a place where "international law, basic human rights, the Geneva Convention, the attitude toward human rights โ all are being tossed aside without hesitation and being supplanted by raw, random and very violent force."
The "Gazan monster," he warns, will not be contained within fences but will spill out across the globe. "It is threatening the whole world in a very basic and very immediate way."ยซ
Die Menschen in Gaza sind einfach nur Menschen wie รผberall auf der Welt, und sie erleben einen anhaltenden Horror der unvorstellbar ist, den kein Mensch durchmachen dรผrfte.
Und dennoch passiert es, dennoch wird das Leid, der Horror, die realexistierende Hรถlle auf Erden geduldet, unterstรผtzt, angefeuert, ignoriert.
Der Horror der in Gaza passiert ist ein Ausblick auf alle kรผnftigen Kriege, die รผberall auf der Welt mit maximaler Brutalitรคt gefรผhrt werden.
Diese Kriege werden so nun mรถglich sein, weil man das was in Gaza passiert nicht gestoppt hat, weil man fรผr den Horror noch Waffen geliefert hat, weil man fรผr das was unertrรคgliches Leid ist noch beschรถnigende Worte gefunden hat, das internationale Recht ignoriert und mit Fรผรen getreten hat, nichts dagegen tat, obwohl es jederzeit mรถglich war und ist.
Nei giorni a in cui si ricomincia a parlare di tregua, mentre continua senza sosta la mattanza quotidiana a Gaza e la pulizia etnica nella West Bank, palestinesi e solidali si sono dati appuntamento in piazza Mercanti a Milano.
Es war ein unvergesslicher Abend voller Adrenalin und Spannung! Am Samstag, den 5. Juli 2025 , รถffnete der Challengeclub Frankfurt seine Tรผren fรผr ein Box-Event, das Sportbegeisterte und Neugierige gleichermaรen in seinen Bann zog.
Not sure if I should get a nice print of this art of Odinn (Artist is based as I've mentioned) for my room above my bed or some Tsukihime wallscrolls, what do you guys think?
Dans cet รฉpisode de notre abรฉcรฉdaire politique, on reรงoit Clรฉment Sรฉnรฉchal (Ex-Greenpeace, auteur et militant) pour dรฉmonter lโรฉcologie bourgeoise : celle qui culpabilise les individus pendant que les gros pollueurs trinquent tranquillement. On parle รฉcologie populaire, conflits de classes et stratรฉgies politiques pour รฉviter de foncer droit dans le mur en trottinette รฉlectrique.
i'm not hiring anyone ever again probably. but hope you find something. what's up on the island there isn't there some retail or tourist shops or something you can work part time at?
hmm idk then. is there a way to buy your paintings online? maybe you could sell them in tourist areas like on the beach. can't really think of anything other than that
it's really hard to build up a business with no money to invest but my only real suggestion is that you like to make stuff with your hands, and you have tourists there, and you have natural materials to work with due to beaches and ocean and trees. find a way. and don't smoke weed until you get on your feet cause it saps your energy and wastes time
same thing applies, a little bit of elbow grease racism towards whites and "honorary aryan" east asians and indians would have prevented this
the first rule of building alligator fueled concentration camps is making it very clear who's gonna get fed to the alligators, otherwise you're just spreading terror in a way that hurts your interests
they are just too stupid or uncaring to do this basic thing, which is very concerning when it comes to their future use of violence and oppression
ICE is just trumps goon army now, transformed by flooding it with money and dubious recruits and led by loyalists, they're currently in the phase where they drag off women and children to establish precedent that they can do whatever they want
that's "rational", but for example being completely reckless and starting a low-level civil war by escalating it to dragging off blue state leadership people under dubious treason charges isn't
this has nothing to do with vriska finding a job, but anyone in the country illegally should expect to be "dragged" off (if they resist). i don't think they are really "dragging" children though. this sounds pretty sensational. they have a difficult job to do which is to remove about 50 million illegals. people are going to scream and cry. too bad. they have to go.
I mean places like Denmark are doing pretty good at it.
Britain did it by sending them to Rwanda and let Rwanda manage the holding facility. Trumpโs immigration stuff is basically just Joe Biden with an alligator fetish, and somehow even more anti-European
> More deportations flights went to further away destinations, including Africa and Asia, which did not accept US deportations for years, the agency said.
do you even live in the USA? look around you. we've been flooded with an additional 20 million people under biden. this is like a 3rd world country now
afaik the underlying variables here are just that (1) very few people were actually deported under trump 1.0 relative to the total number of illegal immigrants and (2) the total number of people trying to get into the US has gone up
the southern border is basically 100% closed now. as much as i disagree with some other stuff trump is doing, they have done a great job on the border and also overall i think ice enforcement has done as good a job as they can with their resources, and it looks like they're actually getting ready to ramp up to the level necessary to deport millions of people.
there is huge potential for abuse when building up a massive standing army of this sort but that's the situation we've been put in. we can't allow this country to turn into france or england and be overrun by infinity 3rd world rapists and narco gangs and haitian voodoo cat eaters
> we can't allow this country to turn into france or england and be overrun
lol do you realize that west europe is *far* more homogeneous than america is? its actually been a bit of shock to me after coming to britain from the US
i'm not sure about that. from what i see it looks like you let in way too many foreigners, especially france, but i haven't been to europe in a long time.
my point is simply that you can't open the floodgates to unvetted 3rd world populations. that was a mistake and every last one of them needs to go home (or somewhere else, but they can't stay here)
the thing in europe is its way less integrated so there are some cities that end up almost entirely replaced. if you avoid those its still very homogeneous. in america its much more diffused across the whole country because immigrants in the US actually have incentives to integrate whereas in europe they can just live off welfare indefinitely
yet one of them closed the border and is deporting illegals, and the other opened the border and allowed in around 20 million illegals. that's the topic at h and
i'm not sure about that. in the past most may have been visa overstays but considering the numbers that came through the border during the biden admin i don't think that's true anymore- but yes we have a lot of visa overstays. it makes no difference. they all have to go home.
so far we've seen 1 case of harrassment of a european tourist. one. how about another example?
it's pretty hard to get an accurate number when as many people are "got aways" as were apprehended and released into the country. all i can say is the USA is now like a foreign country. totally overrun in the past 4 years
there was a British woman who crossed from Canada as well. Thatโs the thing though, even if itโs not everyday, itโs enough to make people think twice, and could easily be fixed with a โdonโt target Europeansโ order
Fabian Schmidt was arrested and interrogated at the Boston airport, according to his mother and partner. They say they do not know why he is being held in an ICE facility.
everyone with a DUI needs to be deported. i don't care what nationality they are. we don't want them. when you look at the numbers of DUIs particularly fatal accidents it's overwhelmingly something that latinos do, not europeans
stupid statement. they're enforcing immigration law. this isn't trump's personal project. it's one of the main reasons he was elected and US citizens overwhelmingly support it
I was referring to this case (newsweek.com/ice-tourist-immigโฆ) but if you want a personal example, I'm afraid of bringing my british wife to even visit my family in the US at this point, despite her being a white british person married to a US citizen who *isnt even trying to immigrate*. that isnt a sensible enforcement of immigration laws
i heard about this one. it sounds like an unfortunate case and maybe she didn't realize that doing work on a tourist visa was somehow illegal. the situation we're in unfortunately is going to necessitate a massive crack down. you can't deport 50 million people without a massive authoritarian system in place. that's the situation we've been put in.
ice is stasi-level cruel and vindictive but not because they separate families of people that have been deported multiple times already or committed felonies
no they aren't stasi level cruel they're simply enforcing the law. this isn't some secret police operation. this is absolutely needed and imo they've shown incredible patience and self-restraint, for the most part
I am trying to thread the needle here because I am basically extremely against illegal immigration but I have seen sufficient evidence that ICE people are stupid and malicious, at the very least because I have spent the last four years flying very frequently.
law enforcement get on a power trip. it attracts a certain personality type. granted i havne't been through customs in a long time so i'll take your word for it, but regardless illegals have to go and for the most part what i've seen in the ice enforcement they have done a good job and been professional in spite of all the hostility the're facing. customs working at the airport may be another story
i vibe coded an app with gemini and it was a huge pain in the ass to get it to work as a browser extension, but i have the rough draft of something that will run LLM classification locally in your browser whenever you look at negative news headlines and suggest places for you to donate to fix the issue. no more of this bullshit sharing for awareness. with this extension you will get prodded to actually help make a change in the world if you read an upsetting news headline
1. yes, run locally in your browser tab, 2. no, it just links you to their donation pages. 3. no it's all local, which is why the extension is half a gigabyte lmfao
## Fraud, Theft, and Corruption Related to Ukraine War Aid and Weapons
### Major Cases of Fraud and Embezzlement
- **$40 Million Weapons Procurement Fraud (2022โ2024)** - Ukrainian defense officials and employees of the arms supplier Lviv Arsenal conspired to embezzle nearly $40 million intended for the purchase of 100,000 mortar shells. The shells were never delivered, and the funds were diverted to accounts in Ukraine and the Balkans. Five individuals were charged, and one was apprehended while attempting to flee the country. The misappropriated funds have been confiscated and are to be returned to Ukraineโs defense budget[1][2][3][4].
- **$17.7 Million Military Procurement Scam** - Ukraineโs National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) accused five people, including a former defense ministry official and company owners, of embezzling $17.7 million between August and December 2022. The funds were meant for military procurement at the start of the Russian invasion. Some of the money was allegedly used to buy real estate in Croatia[5].
- **Embezzlement by 30 Officials** - Law enforcement uncovered a scheme involving 30 officials who embezzled $3.3 million allocated for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The funds were misused for inflated contracts for fuel, electricity, natural gas, furniture, and construction. Some suspects also acquired land and assets through these schemes[6].
- **Large-Scale Defense Industry Fraud** - A former executive of Ukraineโs state defense conglomerate, Ukroboronprom, allegedly transferred over $46 million from state-owned enterprises to foreign accounts, disguised as payments for โagent services.โ The funds were used to acquire luxury assets in France, including a villa and vineyards. French authorities have seized these assets, and extradition is being sought[7][8].
### Weapons Theft and Black Market Activity
- **Arms Trafficking and Black Market Seizures** - Ukrainian law enforcement has conducted widespread raids, seizing large quantities of weapons and ammunition from criminal networks. In Lviv (August 2024), police dismantled a trafficking ring, seizing 72 pistols, 20 assault rifles, 29 grenades, and nearly 49,000 rounds of ammunition. In Kyiv (September 2024), authorities seized 132 rounds of grenade launcher ammunition and other weapons. Some seizures involved active military personnel selling high-grade weapons, including anti-aircraft guns and US-made machine guns[9][10][11].
- **Historical and Ongoing Diversion** - Ukraine has a long history of arms trafficking, with parliamentary investigations estimating $32 billion in military assets lost to theft and illicit sales between 1992 and 1998. While oversight has improved, the war has created new opportunities for black market activity, especially with trophy weapons and surplus arms[9][12].
- **International Oversight and Monitoring** - Western partners and Ukrainian authorities have implemented strict tracking and oversight mechanisms for military aid. While there is no verified evidence of US- or EU-provided weapons being trafficked outside Ukraine, the risk of diversion remains a concern, and ongoing investigations continue[13][12][14].
### Summary Table: Key Cases
| Case/Type | Amount Involved | Description/Outcome | |--------------------------------------------|-------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------| | Lviv Arsenal Shell Procurement Fraud | $40 million | Embezzled for undelivered shells; funds confiscated[1][2][3] | | Military Procurement Scam (NABU) | $17.7 million | Embezzled by officials and suppliers; real estate bought abroad[5]| | 30 Officials Embezzlement | $3.3 million | Inflated contracts for military needs; assets seized[6] | | Ukroboronprom Executive Fraud | $46 million | Funds laundered into French assets; assets seized[7][8] | | Lviv Arms Trafficking Ring | N/A (weapons seized) | 72 pistols, 20 rifles, 29 grenades, 49,000 rounds seized[10] |
### Additional Notes
- **Weapons black market activity** is mostly contained within Ukraine, with no verified large-scale trafficking of Western-supplied arms into the EU, but the risk persists[12][14]. - **Anti-corruption efforts** are ongoing, with dozens of investigations, suspensions, and asset seizures reported in 2023โ2025[13][2][3]. - **Oversight by international partners** (US, EU) has not found widespread diversion of aid, but isolated cases of fraud and theft have been prosecuted[13][15].
These cases highlight the ongoing challenges of fraud, theft, and corruption in the context of the Ukraine war, as well as the active efforts by Ukrainian and international authorities to detect, investigate, and recover misused funds and stolen materiel.
๐ฟ Personal Ethics: A Powerful Antidote to Narcissistic Justifications ๐ฟ
Narcissistic minds often craft elaborate justifications to shield their actions from criticism, blurring the lines between right and wrong. Here, personal ethics become a vital compass โ an inner guide rooted in honesty, integrity, and empathy.
By cultivating our own ethical standards, we resist the temptation to rationalize harmful behaviorsโwhether in others or ourselves. This clarity helps those affected by narcissistic abuse stand firm, and encourages narcissistic individuals to confront the truth with humility and growth.
Instead of ordering pizza I ordered their side dishes from same joint tonight for something different and ended up with leftovers for brekky of chicken bits and beef bits with bbq sauce to dip them in, variety is the spice of life so they say, ez sunday night meal after partying over the weekend.
Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices that harm developers and consumers proton.me/blog/apple-lawsuit
I find this interesting: "Proton itself has also been victim of Appleโs censorship. In 2020, Apple threatened to take Proton VPN out of the App Store unless we removed language from our App Store description that said the app could be used to โunblock censored websites.โ
Apple's anti-competitive App Store policies are gouging consumers, enabling censorship, and harming privacy-focused developers. We're joining a lawsuit to restore internet freedom.
รbersetztes Interview mit Peter Gelderloos zu seinem Buch:
Strategien fรผr eine รถkologische Revolution von unten
"Intelligente Problemlรถsungen kommen also von Menschen, die sich vor Ort auskennen, die mit ihrem Gebiet vertraut sind und wissen, welche Ressourcen ihnen zur Verfรผgung stehen. Und sie sind ebenso global, sie kommen einfach aus dem Territorium, sie kommen von unten, und nicht aus Vorstandsetagen oder Konferenzrรคumen, wo sie nicht auf das Territorium schauen, sondern auf Karten. Und sie schauen vor allem auf ihre eigenen Interessen, die Kontrolle zu behalten. Denn ihre Fรคhigkeit, irgendetwas als Reaktion auf das Problem zu tun, beruht in der Tat auf unserer Unbeweglichkeit, unserer Abhรคngigkeit und unserer erzwungenen Passivitรคt."
Interview on The Final Straw, with anarchist author and activist, Peter Gelderloos about his latest book:
The Solution are already here - Strategies for an ecological revolution from below
"So intelligent solutions to problems come from people who know their territory on the ground, who know what resources are available to them. And they're equally global, they just come from the territory, they come from below, and not from boardrooms or conference rooms where they're not looking at territory, they're looking at maps. And they look first and foremost at their own interests in maintaining control. Because their ability to do anything in response to the problem is really based on our immobility, our dependence, and our enforced passivity."
Strategien fรผr eine รถkologische Revolution von unten
"Es sind nicht die Streitkrรคfte, es sind die Nachbarn, es sind ganz normale Menschen, die sich spontan nach der Logik der gegenseitigen Hilfe organisieren. Das ist es, was am meisten Leben rettet, das haben wir immer und immer wieder gesehen.
Und natรผrlich sind wir darauf konditioniert, uns darauf zu verlassen, dass die Regierung die Dinge fรผr uns lรถst, oder, Sie wissen schon, groรe Konzerne, Techniker wie Elon Musk oder wer auch immer. Und das liegt zum groรen Teil daran, dass wir in eine Situation der Abhรคngigkeit, Passivitรคt und Unbeweglichkeit gezwungen sind.
Das ist normalerweise eine sehr deprimierende Situation, und es ist eine noch deprimierendere Situation, wenn wir sehen, wie die Welt um uns herum stirbt. Und so ist es vรถllig kohรคrent und im Einklang mit dieser erzwungenen Abhรคngigkeit und erzwungenen Unbeweglichkeit, entweder einfach wegzuschauen oder die Finger zu kreuzen und zu hoffen und zu beten, dass irgendeine groรe gottรคhnliche Figur daherkommt und das Problem fรผr uns lรถst...."
Heating Up: An Interview with Peter Gelderloos on #ClimateChange and the Fight to Change Everything
"This summer brought yet another record heat wave, as climate change fueled disasters hit countries around the world, leaving human communities devastated by flooding, wildfires, and storms. While this โnew normalโ has brought climate change to the forefront of popular consciousness, weโve also seen the far-Right spinning new conspiracies and the neoliberal center pushing the same tired consumerist lifestyle changes as false solutions.
In this context, we sat down with long-time anarchist author and organizer Peter Gelderloos, to talk about the present moment, the path ahead for autonomous movements, and the harsh realities in front of us." via @igd_news @PeterGelderloos itsgoingdown.org/heating-up-peโฆ
This summer brought yet another record heat wave, as climate change fueled disasters hit countries around the world, leaving human communities devastated by flooding, wildfires, and storms. While...
รber den Klimawandel und den Kampf, alles zu รคndern!
Heating Up "Dieser Sommer brachte eine weitere Rekordhitzewelle, wรคhrend durch den #Klimawandel verursachte Katastrophen Lรคnder auf der ganzen Welt heimsuchten und Menschen durch รberschwemmungen, Waldbrรคnde und Stรผrme in Not gerieten.
Wรคhrend diese โneue Normalitรคtโ den Klimawandel in den Vordergrund des รถffentlichen Bewusstseins gerรผckt hat, haben wir auch gesehen, wie die extreme Rechte neue Verschwรถrungen gesponnen hat und die neoliberale Mitte die gleichen mรผden konsumorientierten Lebensstilรคnderungen als falsche Lรถsungen propagiert hatโฆ.."
so viel ist in den 2 Jahren seitdem passiert! Die lokalen Nazis haben mir das Leben zur Hรถlle gemacht, aber ich mache weiter. Auรerdem wissen wir seitdem, wem wir vertrauen kรถnnen, darunter CrimethInc, Final Straw und noblogs.org โ aber ich kann niemandem vertrauen, dessen Server 6 Wochen lang vom FBI festgehalten wurde, nachdem er fรผr โRootsโ zugรคnglich war und dessen vollstรคndige Datenbank mit Benutzerdaten offen lag โ Sie wissen, wer das ist.
Former Texas Democratic County Party chair Juan Manuel Medina and nine others have been arrested for alleged ballot harvesting. t.me/GeneralMCNews/14117
BREAKING: Former Texas Democratic County Party chair Juan Manuel Medina and nine others have been arrested for alleged ballot harvesting.
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@rw This is the best we have had in my lifetime and I am optimistic that it will continue to get even better. I hated most politicians until Trump. I also do not subscribe to the Jewanon theory that everyone, including Trump, is under the thumb of the Zionest.
His first term showed you isn't smart enough to out play the powers that be, or he is just playing the heel. (Operation Warp Speed, John Bolton, white helmets, etc.)
Notre histoire dรฉmontre une รฉvidence qui s'impose ร tous. Les censeurs, les procureurs de la pensรฉe, le tribunal politique et tous les petits "capos" et autres despotes autoritaires, s'habillent toujours de vertu pour chรขtier les esprits libres. Le CRIF, ร l'instar de toutes les officines communautaires ( #LICRA, #LDH, #MRAP, #DILCRAH, etc...) est un instrument de pouvoir qui a pour objectif de faire condamner toute opinion contraire ร son idรฉologie. Dans un pays libre, dรฉmocratique, sain d'esprit, ouvert aux dรฉbats et ร la contradiction... Une telle entitรฉ nuisible ร l'intรฉrรชt national aurait dรป รชtre รฉcrasรฉe et dissoute par le pouvoir #politique. Or ici, tout dรฉmontre aujourd'hui, que les politiques franรงais se soumettent (pour ne pas dire s'agenouillent) devant cette structure qui ne reprรฉsente NULLEMENT les intรฉrรชts franรงais.
On รฉvoque ร juste titre les sujets stratรฉgiques de sortie de l'UE, de l'OTAN, de l'Alliance... Nรฉanmoins, au niveau national, la probitรฉ et l'indรฉpendance politique des prochains dirigeants seront corroborรฉs et actรฉs par ceux qui oseront mettre un terme dรฉfinitif ร la censure institutionnelle orchestrรฉe (en collusion frauduleuse avec le pouvoir judiciaire) par la sphรจre communautaire illรฉgitime et gravement prรฉjudiciable ร l'esprit franรงais. La libertรฉ d'opinion naรฎt dans la contestation. La libertรฉ d'expression s'exerce dans la confrontation. "L'esprit franรงais" ne doit pas mourir. Il doit rejaillir, renaitre de ses cendres. Gรฉrard Boyadjian
After ten months of relentless genocidal war, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion that both the Israeli state and society are partners in the genocide. The picture that emerges is a genocide from above and below.
Never again means never again. Whatever mainstream media say, there are people who survived holocaust and are still here to say it again. youtube.com/watch?v=Posmzxqx4Hโฆ
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Following the ceasefire, Toufic Haddad reflects on the complicity & failures of global powers & institutions. We must keep mobilising against Israel's crimes.
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![Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social:
โPrayer matters,โ Abbott said. Prayers โcould have been the reason why water stopped risingโ.
What a shameful MAGA debacle of a press conference - a conference supposedly intended to help families desperate for information on the Texas flooding.
[excerpt from article in The Guardian]
Officials praise Trump as viewers express frustration during press conference](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7913530 "Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social:
โPrayer matters,โ Abbott said. Prayers โcould have been the reason why water stopped risingโ.
What a shameful MAGA debacle of a press conference - a conference supposedly intended to help families desperate for information on the Texas flooding.
[excerpt from article in The Guardian]
Officials praise Trump as viewers express frustration during press conference")
i'm not hiring anyone ever again probably. but hope you find something. what's up on the island there isn't there some retail or tourist shops or something you can work part time at?
relentless_eduardo
in reply to Lotoscott • • •not a well worded or thought out meme
hunger may no longer be a problem worldwide
"poverty" is too relative and subjective a term
why does the soil need to be regenerated and is he the only one who can do it?
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