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#EuropeanUnion is the world's brightest hope... WAIT WHAT?
The quantities in this list come from thorough research. Well... not all of them. One comes from an unsubstantiated evaluation of the country's own services. It's the country that over-inflates and exaggerates everything and lives in a bubble, that it's the greatest country of all. I dare you to guess which one it is.
Does anyone know if there's a real simple 3D modeling program that has preset shapes in standard wood sizes? Like 2x4, 1x10, etc that I can use to quickly mock up a wood project idea?
Ich empfehle dazu auch mal die Interviews mit @andreaskemper bei Jung&Naiv in denen es um rechtsextreme Netzwerke geht und wie diese drei Parteien seit Jahren miteinander rumkumpeln. Nichts davon kommt Ć¼berraschend oder ist neu.
FĆ¼r die Rechtsextremen ist es eine Premiere: Beim AfD-Sommerfest in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern waren auch Parlamentarier von CDU und FDP zu Gast. Ihre Parteien versuchen sich nun in ErklƤrungen, Kritiker sehen die Brandmauer am Ende.
šØļø Uhm, no, Ukrainian civilians can take measures to leave, after evacuation orders, Palestinians can't.
Today the EU said, that "Israel agreed to let more aid in" - so it is obvious, that European officials are not interested in #sanctions against the ISR-SettlerProject, therefore they are complicit in #CrimesAgainstHumanity and #genocide acc to int'l law. It's that simple.
There is no comparison to any other #conflict of the 21st century!
āFor over 600 days, Israel has been saying itās targeting Hamas, but it is civilians who have been corralled, bombed and killed en masse every day,ā said Bushra Khalidi, Oxfamās policy lead in the occupied Palestinian territory.
āThis isnāt counterterrorism, as Israel alleges ā itās the systematic clearing of Gaza through militarized force into enclaves of internment.ā
The Israeli Army tonight justify its crime of #CeasefireViolations writing: "Under the direction of the political echelon, the [Israeli military] and Shin Bet are widely attacking terrorist targets of the Hamas terrorist organisation throughout the Gaza Strip.ā The previous time israeli terrorist army used the same excuse we saw 15 months of genocidal war "produced" more than 15.000 children. @israel @palestine #israel #palestine #IsraelTerroristState #IsraelWarCrimes #CeasefireViolations #ceasefire
āFor over 600 days, Israel has been saying itās targeting Hamas, but it is civilians who have been corralled, bombed and killed en masse every day,ā said Bushra Khalidi, Oxfamās policy lead in the occupied Palestinian territory.
We need to destroy the Western colonial establishment. It finances and fuels a #genocide against CHILDREN. All their "arguments" are against the lives of Palestinians and against the demands of their population.
"MSF survey shows almost half of people killed are children #Gaza
"Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have conducted research, known as a retrospective mortality survey, that reveals the appalling death rate of Israelās all-out war on #Gaza, especially among #children.
This survey of #MSF staff and their families is consistent with conflict-related figures provided by the Gazan Ministry of Health.
Compared to pre-7 October Ministry of Health estimates, the mortality rate was five times higher among the population surveyed. For children under five, mortality increased tenfold. For babies less than one month, the mortality rate was six times higher....""
MSF survey shows almost half of people killed are children #Gaza
"Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have conducted research, known as a retrospective mortality survey, that reveals the appalling death rate of Israelās all-out war on Gaza, especially amoā¦
Ten children a day losing a limb in Gaza, warns UN-backed body A generation of Palestinian children left disabled by Israeli attacks, with over 40,500 suffering from new war-related injuries since October 2023 middleeasteye.net/news/ten-chiā¦
Kad bija tÄs jocÄ«gÄs maija brÄ«vdienas, kÄds jau skaidroja, bet es atkal esmu aizmirsis - kÄpÄc nevar pÄrcelt tuvÄk esoÅ”u 15. novembri uz 17., kÄpÄc vajadzÄtu pÄrcelt 8. uz 17.?
@cuu508 @pb @laumapret Balsoju par nepÄrcelÅ”anu. Mums uzÅÄmums nepÄrceļ un ir labi- ja gribi Äertas dienas pÄc kÄrtas, Åem to vienu dienu atvaļinÄjumu.
@mairis @cuu508 @pb MÅ«su mÄjsaimniecÄ«bÄ tas, ka tieÅ”i tam, kuram jau tÄ ir krietni mazÄk atvaļinÄjuma (un vienmÄr pietrÅ«kst), nekad neko nepÄrceļ un mÄs tÄs garÄs brÄ«vdienas kopÄ nedabÅ«jam, ir reÄli nepatÄ«kams apgrÅ«tinÄjums, es labÄk gribÄtu, lai pÄrceļ visiem.
man ar nepÄrceļas un man tas patÄ«k labÄk, bet man ir brÄ«va iespÄja Åemt jebkad pa dienai brÄ«vu. saprotu ka Å”is ir izdevÄ«gi tiem, kas nevar pÄc 2 dienÄm pieteikt vienu brÄ«vdienu kad vien grib
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The Israeli occupation forcibly displaces thousands of Palestinian families in the southwestern areas of Khan Younis city, burning down their tents. #gazagenocide
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Settler Colonialism in Light of F. Fanon: Algeria yesterday, Kanaky todayā¦ (Part 1)
As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanonās century-old warnings are critical todayācapitalismās genocidal expansion demands revolution.
The year 2024 marked the centenary of the birth of Amilcar Cabral, a Guinean and Cape Verdean thinker who remains largely unknown for his contributions to national liberation processes and struggles. The year 2025 will mark the centenary of the birth of African-American Malcolm X (May 19), Congolese Patrice Lumumba (July 2), and Martinican and Algerian[1] Frantz Fanon (July 20). These four anniversaries come at a time in history when, from Kanaky to Palestine, via Western Sahara, Polynesia, Mayotte, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, etc., the question of direct colonization remains unresolved. They are taking place above all in a phase of the global imperialist system that is seeing the deployment of new processes of colonization. From Libya to Syria, from Sudan to the Democratic Republic of Congo, balkanization and chaos are being promoted as a strategy for maintaining total dependence, that is, colonization under new guises.
In the same historical sequence, and unsurprisingly, popular movements are developing, rediscovering the concepts, demands, figures, and aspirations of the 1950s to 1970s, which were those of Bandung, armed independence struggles, Pan-African congresses, the Tricontinental Movement, the denunciation of neocolonialism, etc. The aspiration to Bolivarianism in many movements and countries in Latin America, to Pan-Africanism in many African countries, the return of expressions such as āneocolonialism,ā āsecond independence,ā and āpatriotism,ā and the rediscovery and vindication of figures such as Cabral, Keita, Sankara, etc., by many African youth movements and diasporas, all express, in our view, the opening of a second phase of national liberation struggles, after several decades of global counterrevolution following the upheaval in the balance of power in favor of US hegemonic imperialism after the disappearance of the USSR.
Of course, this new phase is far from homogeneous. Each national situation has its own specificities linked to national history and to the class configurations that have crystallized since formal independence, that is, since the substitution of neocolonialism for direct colonization. The awareness mentioned above remains fraught with ideological confusion and political illusions. This in no way diminishes their importance or the transformative power they carry. Historical necessities take whatever paths they can. Great qualitative leaps in emancipation never take a āpure form.ā They happen as best as they can,, that is, according to the legacy and transmission of past struggles, the state of global power relations, the existence or absence of an anti-imperialist movement in the imperialist centers, the degree of organization of the bearers of these new aspirations, and their roots in the popular classes, which remain those with a total interest in breaking free from colonial dependence. Of course, other classes that have crystallized since formal independence may have an interest in loosening the colonial stranglehold, but only the working classes have a vital interest in breaking it entirely. In these periods of renewed struggle, it is essential to take the lessons of the past into account.
This conclusion, which is relevant to all forms of colonization, is even more significant in the case of settler colonization, such as that in Palestine, Western Sahara, and Kanaky. Frantz Fanonās thinking and actions are particularly relevant to these forms of colonization, as both were developed in the context of settler colonization, namely that of Algeria.
Colonization in generalā¦
The definitions commonly given of colonization tend to be reduced to a purely descriptive dimension. As a result, they tend to underestimate or render invisible what drives colonization, namely, the total subjugation of the economy of one social-national formation to the needs of another national economy. It is this process of dependency that characterizes colonization in the capitalist era, as well as other territorial occupations that have marked human history.
This process of expansion is all-encompassing. It involves both the destruction of other modes of production within a national formation (France, England, etc.) and the violent conquest of the first colonies. These two types of expansion are inextricably linked. The ācolonization of the New Worldā boosted the primitive accumulation of capital in Europe. For this reason, capitalism and colonization are two sides of the same coin. They are consubstantial. The same logic also leads to slavery to supply labor for the mines and plantations of the colonies on the one hand, and to racist theories to ideologically legitimize slavery and colonization on the other. Capitalism, colonialism, slavery, and racism thus emerged in the same historical sequence [15th-16th centuries]. They form a system[3] . For this reason, colonization must also be defined as a process of universalization of the capitalist mode of production and its relations of production.
This second definition complements the first but does not replace it. Unlike in Europe, capitalism imposed by force in the colonies was not the result of the internal dynamics of the colonized nations. It was not the result of social contradictions at work in their history. Colonization is even, as Cabral rightly said, the violent interruption of that history. It follows that the struggle for national liberation constitutes a return to this specific history: āNational liberation is the phenomenon, in a given socio-economic context, of negating the negation of its historical process. In other words, the national liberation of a people is the reconquest of that peopleās historical personality; it is its return to history through the destruction of the imperialist domination to which it was subjected[4] .ā
The extension of the capitalist mode of production through colonization leads to a unification of the world but not to its homogenization. It unfolds, explains Samir Amin, on the basis of a structuring of the world into dominant imperialist centers and dominated colonial and semi-colonial peripheries[5] . Peripheral colonial capitalism is dependent, the development of its productive forces is limited, its class configurations are specific, etc. Taking into account this dependent nature of colonial capitalism led Frantz Fanon to warn against the danger of imposing European models on the colonies: āIn the colonies, the economic infrastructure is also a superstructure. The cause is the consequence: one is rich because one is white, one is white because one is rich. This is why Marxist analyses must always be slightly relaxed whenever the colonial problem is addressed. Even the concept of pre-capitalist society, which Marx studied so thoroughly, needs to be rethought here.ā
ā¦to settlement colonization
The above definitions of colonialism will take different forms depending on the specific characteristics of the colonial power on the one hand, and the state of the balance of power and resistance on the other. Amilcar Cabral thus distinguishes between direct colonialism (āa political power composed of agents foreign to the dominated peopleā) and indirect colonialism (āa political power composed, in its majority or entirety, of indigenous agentsāwhich we have agreed to call neocolonialism[7] ā). With regard to direct colonization, he highlights three scenarios: the complete destruction of the social structure of the colonized people, the partial destruction of this structure, and its preservation but confinement to areas of relegation or reserves. While we agree with Cabralās presentation, we believe that this triptych can be reduced to a duality: settlement colonization, which encompasses the first and third cases, and exploitation colonization, which constitutes the second. Kanaky and its imposition of confinement of the Kanaks in reserves until 1946, and Algeria and its massive dispossession of indigenous lands, both fall under the same colonization of settlement that is the subject of Frantz Fanonās theses.
Amilcar Cabral highlights the inevitably genocidal tendency of colonization by settlement, painfully recalled last year by the genocide suffered by the Palestinian people. This ācomplete destruction of the social structure [is], he emphasizes, generally accompanied by the immediate or gradual liquidation of the indigenous population and, consequently, its replacement by an alien population[8] .ā
In Kanaky, this genocide is now widely documented. A 2008 UNESCO publication recalls: ā The main island of New Caledonia had at least 100,000 inhabitants in 1800; a century later, only a third of that number remained[9] .ā The carnage continued until the 1930s, according to a study on Melanesian demographics[10] : āThe Melanesian population continued to decline. The 1901 census counted only 28,800 Melanesians, a level that remained unchanged until 1936, when the population began to grow significantly again[11] .ā
The genocide is equally well documented for Algeria. Demographer Kamel Kateb, author of the most comprehensive study on the subject, estimates the Algerian population at 4 million at the time of the conquest and estimates the number of deaths between 1830 and 1872 at 825,000, or more than 20% of the total population[12]. Others, such as Djilali Sari, estimate the number of deaths at 1 million, bringing the decline to 25% of the total population in less than half a century, which he calls āthe demographic disaster[13] .ā
All colonization inevitably tends towards genocide. Whether this tendency becomes a reality, as was the case with the Native Americans in North America or the Aborigines in Australia, or fails, either totally or partially, as was the case in Kanaky and Algeria, depends on factors linked to the historical context and the balance of power. The pace of European settlement in Kanaky and Algeria, made possible by the state of French society in the first decades of the conquest [which took place in the same historical sequence for both colonies], was too slow to completely destroy the survival mechanisms of the colonized peoples.
However, no effort was spared to accelerate the pace of European settlement in Algeria and Kanaky. These efforts were met with resistance from the peoples in the form of peasant and tribal uprisings and their consequences. This was the case in 1878 and 1917 in Kanaky. It was also the case in Algeria, with uprisings of the same nature breaking out almost every decade until the beginning of the twentieth century. In addition to discouraging potential settlers, these peasant uprisings, which were brutally suppressed, monopolized most of the available colonial budget, leaving little to support the settlement of new colonists.
One of Frantz Fanonās essential contributions was precisely to have dissected the congenital violence of settler colonization and its effects. All his analyses are permeated by the thesis of āviolence consubstantial with colonial oppression.ā He developed this thesis at the Accra conference in April 1960 in response to Kwame Nkrumahās professions of nonviolent resistance: āThe colonial regime is a regime established by violence. It is always by force that the colonial regime has established itself. It is against the will of peoples that other people more advanced in the techniques of destruction or numerically more powerful have imposed themselves. I say that such a system established by violence can logically only be true to itself, and its duration in time depends on the maintenance of violence [ā¦] No, the violence of the Algerian people is not hatred of peace, nor rejection of human contact, nor the conviction that only war can put an end to the colonial regime in Algeria. The Algerian people have chosen the only solution left to them, and we will stick to that choice[18] .ā
This central thesis of Fanonās thesis leads to two political and strategic conclusions. The first is that colonialism cannot be reformed, it can only be destroyed. The second, which Nelson Mandela would reformulate decades later, is that āIt is always the oppressor, not the oppressed, who determines the form of struggle. If the oppressor uses violence, the oppressed will have no choice but to respond with violence. In our case, it was only a form of self-defense.ā ā
For Frantz Fanon, physical violence is only the most visible part of a deeper violence that is nothing less than the total destruction of the historical and national personality of the colonized people. āThose responsible for the French administration in Algeria,ā he explains, āare charged with destroying the originality of the people, tasked by the powers that be with proceeding at all costs to dismantle any existence that might evoke, directly or indirectly, a national reality.ā Simultaneously with physical violence, colonization involves legal, symbolic, cultural, and other forms of violence, which converge with the former toward the goal of completely destroying the very idea of constituting an Algerian people or a Kanak people. Physical genocide is inevitably accompanied by cultural, historical, political, and other forms of genocide: āColonialism, however, is not content with this violence against the present. The colonized people are ideologically presented as a people arrested in their evolution, impervious to reason, incapable of managing their own affairs, and requiring the permanent presence of a leadership. The history of colonized peoples is transformed into meaningless agitation, and as a result, one gets the impression that for these peoples, humanity began with the arrival of these valiant colonists[21] .
Beyond mourning and physical suffering, colonization requires the production of āself-shameā and an inferiority complex. This dimension of Fanonās analysis is essential to understanding the changes in colonization when it realizes that total physical genocide is no longer possible, even in the long term. With the goal of total destruction impossible, it mutates to maintain the relationship of domination. It becomes the production of ācollaborationā by the dominated with their own domination in the hope of an eventual improvement in their condition. In an article entitled āDecolonization and Independenceā published in El Moudjahid on April 16, 1958, he responded as follows to De Gaulleās promises of an āeconomic, social, and moral renewal planā: āFrench colonialism will not be legitimized by the Algerian people. No spectacular undertaking will make us forget the legal racism, illiteracy, and servility instilled and maintained in the depths of our peopleās consciousness. That is why our statements never mention adaptation or relief, but rather restitution. [ā¦] The Algerian people have not accepted the transformation of occupation into collaboration[22] .āIn our view, these words are essential for all current French colonies (euphemistically renamed Overseas Departments or Territories) and in particular for Kanaky. These euphemistic terms aim to anchor the idea of possible decolonization without independence. While Fanon believed that formal independence is not sufficient for true decolonization, the latter is impossible without independence. Formal independence is a necessary but insufficient condition for true decolonization.
[1] Born in Martinique, F Fanon was legally French by birth. By joining the FLN, he symbolically and politically rejected this nationality of birth. In his writings, he expresses himself as an Algerian. For example, in Year V of the Algerian Revolution, he writes: āWhat we Algerians want,ā āour struggle,ā āour cause,ā and āour Revolution.ā Having died before independence, he was never officially granted Algerian nationality. However, he was a representative of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA), which indicates that he was considered Algerian by the authorities of the new state.
[3] Jean-Paul Sartre, āLe colonialisme est un systĆØme,ā speech at a meeting āfor peace in Algeria,ā Les temps modernes, no. 123, March-April 1956.
[10] Melanesia includes Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Kanaky, and the Fiji Islands. The term Kanak refers to the Melanesian population of Kanaky.
[18] Frantz Fanon, Why We Use Violence, Speech given at the Accra Conference, April 1960, in Year V of the Algerian Revolution, Complete Works, op. cit., pp. 413 and 418.
[19] Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Fayard, Paris, 1996, p. 647.
Said Bouamama is a French Algerian sociologist and activist who is the author of over a dozen books, his latest, Manual on Immigration (2021), For a Revolutionary Panafricanism (2023) Strategic Manual on Palestine and the Middle East (2024) among others
I've heard other people say similar stuff, and I don't think there is any merit to it.
It seems like the most logical explanation is that any substantial evidence related to Epstein was stolen or destroyed during the 4 years Biden's thugs had to do whatever they wanted with it.
If someone is going to claim that Trump's DOJ is intentionally sitting on actionable evidence of crimes against children, they need damn good evidence to support that claim, and I have yet to see it.
> It seems like the most logical explanation is that any substantial evidence related to Epstein was stolen or destroyed
If the Trump DOJ genuinely wanted justice, and the evidence was destroyed, then they should say so loudly and pursue that rather than trying to make it disappear.
@truthbait That is a good point. It's been an insane timeline. Getting shot, getting re elected, immigration enforcement, legal warfare, Iran disabled, the BBB. He needs to go chill at Camp David and talk to his senior people. This administration has been moving very fast, with big accomplishments. They need to regroup and come out with their shit together.
I am so fucking sick of #Amazon #PrimeDay. 90% of my "Technology" feed in #GoogleNews is nothing but PrimeDay ads masqueraded as legit "stories" by tech bloggers and publications.
Since #Google #News doesn't give you the option to block based on "keywords" (a'la 'Prime Day' and the like) I've been going in and basically marking every keyword, brand, and anything else loosely related and tell Google I'm "not interested" in this shit.
I fucking hate Google but hands down it's still the best resource for me to get news. Sorry, but FlipBoard doesn't cut it. And Microsoft's "news" is a joke.
šØ Today, EDRi and 51 civil society organisations, academics, and experts have written to the European Commission to oppose any attempts to suspend or delay the #ArtificialIntelligence #AI Act.
These attempts, especially in light of the growing trend of #deregulation of #FundamentalRrights and environmental protection, could undermine accountability and hard-won rights for people, the planet, justice and democracy šØ
At least 13 people, the majority of them children and women, were killed and dozens wounded after an Israeli airstrike targeted a line for distributing nutritional supplements for children in Deir Al-Balah, near Al-Zawari Junction in the central Gaza Strip. The identified victims are:
-Aya Ashraf Mishmish ( 4 years old) -Ahmad Mohammad Abu Samaha (39) -Yasmin Ahmad Abu Samaha (2 years) -Shafa Muwiy Abu Qutta (child) -Moataz Billah Saif Al-Bahtini ( 2 years old) 1/2
Ever wondered why car ergonomics have gone down the drain as touch screens replaced buttons to drive down costs? This reader comment on an FT article on the topic says it all.
ā BOTGR: I used to be a dog handler-in-training on a FEMA urban search and rescue team (NE-TF1). The red tape and delays involved in getting the team to Ground Zero after 9-11 were ridiculous, let alone being deployed to smaller incidents.
Drove the search teams crazy, since thereās a limited window of opportunity to find survivors. It wasnāt unusual for someone to say, āWhy are we training all our dogs to find live people? We might as well just mostly train cadaver dogs.ā š
ā it was very eye-opening to see the incompetency and sluggishness of the federal bureaucracy, and how it hampered what was otherwise a well trained and highly competent SAR team (thanks entirely to the tireless efforts of local fire departments and various volunteers).
When I started hearing conspiracy rumors that FEMA was hopelessly corrupt, it wasnāt hard for me to believe!
"Canada should have stood up for its principles and national sovereignty, even in the face of such transparent bullying. The alternative now emerging is the law of the jungle, brute power and Canada becoming, de facto, the 51st US state." - Joseph Stiglitz
Steps include substantial increase in number of daily aid trucks into Gaza, opening of additional crossing points in both north and south of enclave, and reopening of aid routes through Jordan, Egypt - Anadolu Ajansı
It is not smart to wonder why there are no worthy and competent politicians in the #EU. In fact it makes perfect sense. For 40+ years the #US has been promoting everywhere in the West incompetent, unwilling, obedient puppets, capable only of bowing their heads and agreeing to whatever the #WhiteHouse ordered. Regular YesMen. So you can't demand competence from such useless people. Radical change is the only solution.
Exclusive: The UK government suspended fighter jet exports to Israel but still allows the sale of parts which help Israeli pilots learn to fly F-35s and F-16s.
if there's anything we learned from covid, this is it ^^^ if you had to choose between doing everything the medical system recommends, and nothing, i'm not sure at this point which would give you better odds of survival.
#Seoul repatriates six #DPRK citizens who were stranded while fishing in South Korean territorial waters.
All six had repeatedly expressed their desire to return, Seoul's Unification Ministry said.
Two of the #DPRKoreans had been detained for four months in #SamsungRepublic after futile attempts to persuade them to stay in the South to bolster Western propaganda.
need to get out of here
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