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Πώς η Frontex μετέφερε παράνομα στην Europol προσωπικά δεδομένα χιλιάδων ανθρώπων - @wearesolomon.bsky.social

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Διασυνοριακή έρευνα που δημοσιεύει το Solomon, η γαλλική εφημερίδα Le Monde, η ισπανική El País, και η γερμανική Netzpolitik αποκαλύπτει πώς, μεταξύ 2016-2023, η Frontex μεταβίβασε παράνομα στην Europol τα προσωπικά δεδομένα περισσότερων από 13.000 ανθρώπων.

Υπό το λάβαρο της καταπολέμησης της διακίνησης μεταναστών, και αξιοποιώντας μαζικά «μυστικές ανακρίσεις», η Frontex έχει επί χρόνια συλλέξει και μεταβιβάσει παράνομα στην Europol προσωπικά δεδομένα — καταχωρώντας αθόρυβα χιλιάδες μετανάστες, καθώς και πολίτες της ΕΕ που υποστηρίζουν πρόσφυγες, σε ένα διευρυνόμενο δίκτυο ποινικοποίησης.

Remember the #BoyScouts?
Men need to be among men, i.e. without women. But no. As everything has to be destroyed, so does this. 🇦🇺 #Autralia #WarOnMen #Marxism = #destruction
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europesays.com/2229256/ IRS says churches can endorse candidates, which could impact Utah politics #america #geopolitics #Politics #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #UnitedStatesPolitics #US #USPolitics #USA #UsaPolitics

New footage exposes ragtag US mercenaries firing toward Gaza aid seekers

De nouvelles images montrent des mercenaires américains tirant sur des personnes venues chercher de l’aide à Gaza -
The Grayzone, Max #Blumenthal et Wyatt #Reed, 7 juillet #2025

À la suite d’une enquête de l’AP accusant une société mercenaire américaine d’avoir tiré sur des personnes désespérées venues chercher de l’aide à #Gaza, la société a publié de nouvelles images dans le but de limiter les dégâts. Mais la vidéo ne fait que renforcer les accusations portées contre cette opération entachée de scandales.

Le 2 juillet, l'Associated Press a publié un reportage contenant de courtes vidéos qui semblaient montrer des mercenaires américains associés à la Gaza Humanitarian Foundation ( #GHF) ouvrant le feu sur des personnes en quête d'aide à Gaza lors d'un incident survenu en mai dernier dans le sud de Gaza. Les images ont été fournies par un ancien employé d'UG Solutions, une société chargée d'assurer la sécurité des sites de distribution de la GHF.
«Je crois que tu en as touché un», dit un mercenaire à un autre après une rafale de coups de feu.
«Ouais, mec!», s'exclame un autre.

Dans une tentative apparente de limiter les dégâts causés par l'enquête de l'AP, UG Solutions a diffusé à la presse deux vidéos d'une durée totale de plus de sept minutes.

Ces images inédites offrent un aperçu sans précédent des interactions troublantes entre la population affamée de Gaza et des Américains bien armés, clairement mal préparés, engagés pour assurer la sécurité des opérations humanitaires chaotiques de la GHF.

Filmées par l'un de ses propres employés, ces images ont apparemment été diffusées dans le but de montrer que les agents d'UG Solutions n'ont pas tiré à balles réelles sur des foules de Palestiniens non armés. Selon un communiqué d'UG Solutions, ces vidéos «clarifient non seulement ce qui s'est passé, mais fournissent également un contexte essentiel qui contredit le reportage de l'AP et montre que les accusations sont sans fondement».
Cependant, un examen plus approfondi réalisé par The Grayzone démontre que la vidéo est tout sauf disculpatoire.

Dans une vidéo, on peut voir un groupe hétéroclite de #mercenaires tirer ce qu’ils appellent des «coups de semonce» en direction d’une foule de civils palestiniens, qu’ils reconnaissent comme non menaçants, avant d’appeler par radio l’armée israélienne, connue pour sa gâchette facile, en renfort.

Après une série de coups de feu à proximité, on entend un mercenaire d’ #UGSolutions informer l’armée israélienne par radio : «Nous tirons des coups de semonce. Des tirs d’avertissement, ça vient de nous», dit-il. Comme tous les autres dans la vidéo, il parle avec un accent américain.

Quelques secondes avant que les coups de feu ne retentissent, on peut voir un agent d’UG Solutions dans le coin inférieur gauche de l’écran, pointant son fusil en direction d’une foule de personnes venues chercher de l’aide.

Ces preuves cruciales contredisent les déclarations d’un porte-parole d’UG Solutions, qui a déclaré à l’AP qu’il «n’avait pas connaissance d’une vidéo montrant des coups de feu tirés par une personne soupçonnée d’être un mercenaire d’UG Solutions».
Tout en ébranlant la défense de la société mercenaire, la vidéo d’UG Solutions souligne également le chaos qui règne au sein des opérations prétendument humanitaires de GHF.

Une caméra cachée révèle le «travail d’amateurs» des mercenaires
Dans la vidéo, le mercenaire qui filme reconnaît que lui et ses collègues mercenaires sont incapables d’échanger ne serait-ce que quelques phrases en arabe avec la foule affamée.
«Je pense que je vais noter quelques mots en arabe», dit-il, avant de débiter une série d’expressions qui reflètent le manque de formation de son équipe et son incapacité totale à communiquer : «Demain. Retour. Rentrez chez vous. Arrêtez.»

Le mercenaire reconnaît tacitement qu’en l’absence d’aide à la traduction, lui et son équipe ont été contraints de compter sur les Gazaouis anglophones qui sollicitaient de l’aide. «Il y avait deux ou trois [Palestiniens] qui, comme vous l’avez dit, parlaient assez bien anglais et qui nous ont beaucoup aidés.»
«Je pense que la plupart d’entre eux n’ont pas de mauvaises intentions, car ils sont désespérés», poursuit l’Américain, soulignant l’absence de véritables menaces pour la sécurité.

Un mercenaire à proximité renchérit : «Ils sont désespérés comme pas possible.»
Plus tard, le caméraman se plaint que des réfugiés ont arraché un lampadaire et un arbre à proximité, sans doute pour se faire du bois de chauffage, avant de se plaindre que la foule désespérée a également emporté les tables de distribution du GHF.
Cette vidéo troublante semble corroborer la description faite par un haut responsable d’UG Solutions, qui qualifie les opérations de l’entreprise à Gaza d’«amateurisme».

Les services secrets américains et des affiliés de Daech s’allient à Israël. Que pourrait-il arriver?
UG Solutions partage ses opérations armées dans la bande de Gaza assiégée avec une autre société militaire privée américaine, Safe Reach Solutions, fondée par l’ancien agent de la CIA Philip Reilly.

Les deux opèrent sous l’égide de la Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, proche de Trump, qui a reçu un investissement initial de McNally Capital, une société de capital-investissement fondée par Ward McNally, héritier d’une fortune colossale. The Grayzone a rapporté que la GHF semble également avoir reçu un financement substantiel du Mossad et du ministère de la Défense israéliens.

Le département d’État américain a depuis promis 30 millions de dollars pour maintenir à flot les opérations de la GHF, entachées de scandales.

Au 6 juillet 2025, plus de 700 personnes avaient été tuées par les seules factions armées opérant dans les «zones humanitaires» : la GHF, #Israël et le clan du chef de gang bédouin Yasser Abu Shabab, anciennement aligné sur l’État islamique, qui a récemment été nommé adjoint des forces de l’ordre locales israéliennes.

Plusieurs soldats israéliens ont déclaré à #Haaretz avoir reçu l’ordre de tirer sur les personnes venues chercher de l’aide dans les centres de distribution du #GHF, causant un nombre élevé de morts et de blessés. «Là où j’étais stationné, entre une et cinq personnes étaient tuées chaque jour», a déclaré un soldat au journal israélien. «Ils sont traités comme une force hostile : aucune mesure de contrôle des foules, pas de gaz lacrymogène, juste des tirs à balles réelles avec tout ce qui est imaginable : des mitrailleuses lourdes, des lance-grenades, des mortiers.»

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#US #US-Israel #US-Israel-terrorism #Palestine

europesays.com/us/50021/ Fort Worth musician raises over $337,000 for Texas flood survivors #America #Article #Arts&Entertainment #ArtsAccess #FortWorth #FortWorth #GuadalupeRiver #Texas #TexasFlooding #TX #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesofAmerica #US #USA

I was talking to my friend TC, and he said something that I want to share with you:

"Sometimes people only need the slightest of uplifts. In a way, it's very similar to a paddling concept using traditional Greenland paddles. There's a guy in BC, Paulo Ouelet, who teaches traditional paddling. He talks about how the buoyancy of a Greenland paddle can give you the support you need. The way he demonstrates how *little* you need to be stable is this:

Stand on one foot, on your toes. It's not easy. You wobble around, and maybe even have to put your other foot down to stabilize yourself. Now... have a friend hold out the index finger of *one* hand, and put your index finger on theirs. Suddenly, you can stand almost perfectly still on the toes of one foot.

I like to think life can be much the same. Sometimes all we need is just one *teeeeeeny* bit of help to regain ourselves and be okay."

A friend's help can be as simple as a few words of support, but it can be enough to see you through. Remember this the next time you see someone struggling, and remember: you can be a stabilizing force for them, just by being there.

💙💙💙

Every blueprint,
every wall,
every imagined corridor —
was first a thought.
Then a prompt.
Then — a vision.
I don’t build alone.
AI stands beside me:
not as a tool,
but as a reflection
of everything I dare to dream.
Together, we shape not concrete —
but myth.
This bunker is not just a place.
It’s a story.
A new world
underneath the collapsing one.
🕳️ We’re not escaping.
We’re reprogramming reality.

#BRICS have the necessary materials, supply chains, industrial facilities, assembly lines and proven technology for hypersonic missiles, while #NATO can’t even fill the gap in tanks and plans to manufacture as many artillery shells in five years as #Russia alone does today, while already under embargo on rare earths essential for military applications like antimony.
Meanwhile, nothing can aggressively approach within 2000km without being destroyed

It’s a lost cause.

BREAKING: IRS announces exemption to 1954 ban on 501(c)3 orgs engaging in political activity—now allows churches & houses of worship to endorse political candidates.

The wall separating religion & state is collapsed. It is not hyperbole to state that we are on the footsteps of full blown Christian theocracy. Nothing good can come of this.

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@translating_falasteen: Part of the documentary Doctors Under Attack, originally planned for release by the BBC but later dropped, focused on Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital. He refused to leave his patients under bombardment. After an Israeli drone strike killed his son, he stayed until the hospital was destroyed. He was later abducted by Israeli forces, transferred to Sde Teiman, and is now held in Ofer prison without charge.
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Was viele nicht wissen: Musk hat "X" inzwischen in sein Unternehmen "xAI" integriert, das u.a. den Chatbot "Grok" entwickelt. Es ist also nicht so, dass Grok als ein Wissens- und Hilfssystem für alle "X"-User*innen fungiert, sondern es ist genau anders herum.
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»Dr Mohammed Saqr, director of nursing at Gaza’s Nasser MC in Khan Younis, said he had personally witnessed countless mass casualty incidents in recent weeks.

“The scenes are truly shocking – they resemble the horrors of judgment day. Sometimes within just half an hour we receive over 100 to 150 cases, ranging from severe injuries to deaths … About 95% of these injuries and deaths come from food distribution centres – what are referred to as the ‘American food distribution centres’«

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»“The scale and frequency of these incidents are without precedent. In just over a month, the number of patients treated has surpassed the total seen in all mass casualty events during the entire previous year,” the ICRC said in a statement.

“Among the wounded are toddlers, teenagers, elderly, mothers – and overwhelmingly, young men and boys. Most say they were simply trying to get food or aid for their families.”,«

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»“We are really struggling … We are running out of external fixators, which are vital for [treating] open fractures, and critical medicines including pain killers, antibiotics and anaesthetics. For some things, there is just zero stock,” Claire Jeffreys said.«

»“Staff are racing to treat an unrelenting tide of injuries, the vast majority caused by gunfire … [which] has overwhelmed Gaza’s shattered healthcare system, pushing its already-diminished capacity past its limit,” the ICRC said.«

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»“In the previous rotations, we would work in the operating theatre on between eight and 10 cases. Right now, we are working on 30-40 cases per day,” said Haitam al-Hasan, an operating theatre nurse at the ICRC’s Rafah hospital.

“We have people screaming, rushing, trying to be the first in the line because, of course, everybody wants to be treated first. We have a variety of injuries, mostly complex injuries, blast injuries, but mainly gunshot injuries.”«

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»1,580 doctors and medical personnel have been killed in the conflict.

On 2 July, an Israeli airstrike killed Dr Marwan al-Sultan, a highly experienced cardiologist and director of the Indonesian hospital in Gaza.

Among the healthcare workers killed in the past 50 days were three other doctors, the chief nurses of the Indonesian hospital and Nasser children’s hospital, one of Gaza’s most senior midwives, a senior radiology technician and dozens of young medical graduates and trainee nurses.«

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Es ist eigentlich falsch in diesem Zusammenhang noch von Kriegsverbrechen zu sprechen.
Da findet ja kein Krieg statt. Da wurde ein Szenario geschaffen in dem man nach Belieben täglich Dutzende Menschen töten kann, ohne Grund, die nur weil man wollte dass sie so verzweifelt sind, dort sind. Und man tötet, traumatisiert, verletzt all diejenigen die eine Bevölkerung zum überleben braucht. Lehrbuchfall eines genozidalen Handelns.

#GiftArticle

The #Energy Dept has hired at least 3 scientists who are well-known for their rejection of the overwhelming scientific consensus on #ClimateChange, acc/to records reviewed by NYT.

The #scientists are listed in the #DOE’s internal email system as current employees of the agency, the records show.

#ClimateDenialism #ClimateCrisis #science #ConspiracyTheories #Trump
nytimes.com/2025/07/08/climate…

4 fmr high-ranking #police officers are suing Mayor #EricAdams of #NewYork, accusing him of enabling #corruption in the #NYPD, an agency where they said anyone who spoke out faced #retaliation & #humiliation.

The separate lawsuits filed on Monday in #NY State Supreme Court come as Adams, a fmr police captain, is running for re-election & using falling crime numbers to bolster his campaign.

#law #Trump #QuidProQuo
nytimes.com/2025/07/08/nyregio…

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The allegations from fmr officers, who spent decades in the #NYPD & helped lead bureaus like #InternalAffairs & #ProfessionalStandards, could revive accusations that #EricAdams presided over a #law enforcement agency where chaos & cronyism reigned.

James Essig, who served >40 yrs, was chief of detectives until 2023. He said…the commissioner at the time, had forced him to resign after he objected to the promotions of unqualified officers to elite detective roles & specialized units.

#Trump

Yes, let's give the German media the benefit of the doubt for going out of their way to avoid reporting any good news about Afghans in Germany. Definitely no agenda there!... 🙄

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troet.cafe/@ndaktuell/11482278…


An 11-year-old girl just set the record for the youngest person ever to graduate from high school in Germany, and the media bend over backwards to avoid mentioning the plain fact that she is from a refugee family from Afghanistan.
For no other reason than not to trigger their racist readership. They are helped by the fact that the family's surname in transcription matches a common German name and her first name is culturally non-specific…

#racism


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Two tools are needed: (a) inheritance tax (which worked well in the UK circa 1940-1980) and (b) wealth tax (over a threshold excluding a first home and a regular person's pension).

What we've got now: the bottom 50% bear 90% of the tax burden.
mstdn.social/@fatsam/114818666…

Multiple OSU wrestlers say in “Surviving Ohio State” that when they were subjected to serial sexual assaults by a team doctor, Jim Jordan (R-OH) wasn’t there for them.

Allegations that Jim Jordan ignored sexual abuse resurface in new HBO documentary
msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio…

#GymJordan #JimJordan #RichardStrauss #GymKnew #Ohio #OSU #GOPLiar #GOPEnabler #USPol

Tremendo que una de las mecas del capitalismo pueda adelantar por la izquierda al capitalismo hortera de Madrid

"A New, Detailed Analysis of the Benefits and Trade-offs of Urban Street Trees in Las Vegas"
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popOS is a modern appearing OS based upon Ubuntu, and not just indirectly, it actually utilizes Ubuntu’s repositories in addition to it’s own. The Desktops presently available on it are Gnome and Mate, though Gnome is a special edition known as Sparkle, and it does not operate properly with X2go. Presently X2go and ssh are the only two access methods. I am working on the others.
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Rocky8 is a RedHat derived operating system very similar to Centos before Centos was absorbed, and ruined, by Redhat. While Centos support, with the exception of Centos9 is going away on June 30th, 2024, and CentOS9 is not usable because of the deletion of NIS by RedRat which is necessary to our organization, Rocky8 will be supported for security updates through May of 2029, thus provides us a means of continuing to offer a Redhat based environment for another five years.

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Ubuntu can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate Desktop. The native Unity desktop is a compositing desktop which is incompatible with x2go. This machine is equipped with many applications including a huge number of games, a rich assortment of development tools and computer programming languages, a huge assortment of Office productivity software, many scientific, electronic, and educational tools. This server also has open post quantum encryption compiled into openssl 3.6 available for your use.
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Zorin is a Ubuntu derived operating system. It combines the eye candy of some other Ubuntu flavors such as Mint, with the security awareness and up to date nature of Ubuntu providing a really superb server environment. This machine is our best equipped server. It has the full Ubuntu Studio Suite, a very large assortment of development tools, language packs for all supported languages, many games, both Libre and Caligra Office Suites, and much more. X2go is supported on this machine.

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Meta an evil company? How can it be?! They’re partners, alongside Mastodon gGmbH, at the @swf (socialwebfoundation.org)

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Meta is protecting ICE.

If you post about an ongoing event involving ICE, your post may be delayed from appearing in the general feed.

If you encourage people to assist those under threat from ICE, your account may be suspended or terminated, and your information may be forwarded to law enforcement.

I really do work for an evil company.

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Meta is protecting ICE.

If you post about an ongoing event involving ICE, your post may be delayed from appearing in the general feed.

If you encourage people to assist those under threat from ICE, your account may be suspended or terminated, and your information may be forwarded to law enforcement.

I really do work for an evil company.

#Meta #Facebook #ICE #Instagram #Threads #WhatsApp

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I'm with the British Medical Association here. Genocide enabler Palantir should be nowhere near our NHS.

#Palantir #NHS #BMA #UKPolitics

Palantir accuses UK doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row | Palantir | The Guardian
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Person puts that they were spider man on a resume

And puts friend's namje for reference

Employer calls reference and conforms their friend is spider man

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From Polymer Chains to Hydrocarbon Streams


Molecular Breakdown in Plastic-to-Naphtha Conversion

The transformation of waste plastic into naphtha is a process defined by intricate molecular reconfiguration. At the heart of this conversion lies pyrolysis—a thermochemical reaction facilitated in an oxygen-deprived environment. Within a pyrolysis plant, polymers originally designed for durability and resistance undergo a fundamental decomposition, reverting to simpler hydrocarbon forms suitable for reintegration into the petrochemical value chain.

Polymer Disintegration Under Heat


Most post-consumer plastic waste comprises thermoplastics such as polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polystyrene (PS). These polymers are characterized by long, saturated hydrocarbon chains with high molecular weights and strong covalent bonds. When subjected to plastic pyrolysis machine, typically between 400°C and 600°C, these macromolecules fragment into smaller hydrocarbon compounds via random scission, β-scission, and depolymerization reactions.

The absence of oxygen prevents combustion and facilitates controlled bond cleavage. The result is the formation of volatile hydrocarbons, which exit the reactor in vapor phase. The extent of chain breakdown depends heavily on residence time, temperature profile, and feedstock consistency.

Intermediate Hydrocarbon Species


As thermal cracking progresses, intermediate compounds such as alkanes, alkenes, and aromatic rings are generated. The molecular weight distribution spans a broad spectrum—from C5-C12 fractions to heavier waxes and gas-phase C1-C4 alkanes.

Polystyrene, for instance, primarily decomposes into styrene monomers and aromatic derivatives due to its phenyl-rich structure. Polyethylene and polypropylene, on the other hand, yield a wider variety of linear and branched hydrocarbons, owing to their aliphatic backbone. These intermediates are the precursors to the final liquid products, which can include fuel oil, wax, and most notably, naphtha.

Fractionation and Naphtha Recovery


Once vaporized, the hydrocarbon stream must be condensed and fractionally distilled. This step occurs downstream of the pyrolysis reactor in the condensation and separation units of the plastic into fuel machine. By controlling cooling rates and column configurations, operators can isolate naphtha-range compounds—typically C5 to C11 hydrocarbons with boiling points between 30°C and 200°C.

The recovered naphtha exhibits similar properties to fossil-derived light naphtha and can be further refined or directly used as a petrochemical feedstock, particularly in steam crackers to produce ethylene and propylene.

Chemical Composition and Suitability


Plastic-derived naphtha is predominantly paraffinic but may contain varying levels of olefins, isoparaffins, and aromatics, depending on process parameters and input resin type. Its hydrogen-to-carbon (H/C) ratio, viscosity, and sulfur content are critical for downstream integration.

To meet the stringent quality demands of refineries or petrochemical plants, further hydrotreatment may be required. This step removes unsaturates and stabilizes the naphtha, reducing gum formation and enhancing storage characteristics.

Role of Catalytic Pyrolysis


Advanced pyrolysis plants integrate catalytic reactors to enhance product specificity and quality. Zeolite-based catalysts, for example, promote selective cracking, favoring the formation of naphtha-range molecules while minimizing heavy tar formation.

Catalytic systems not only lower the required activation energy but also improve the control over isomerization and aromatization reactions. This results in a more consistent naphtha yield with a tighter carbon number distribution and fewer contaminants.

Molecular Circularity in Practice


By reverting complex polymer chains to their hydrocarbon origins, pyrolysis enables true molecular circularity. Plastic, once destined for landfill or incineration, is molecularly deconstructed and reincarnated as a feedstock for new polymers, synthetic fuels, or solvents.

This closed-loop process not only diverts waste from the environment but also reduces dependence on virgin fossil inputs. The deployment of a pyrolysis plant thus bridges the gap between environmental responsibility and petrochemical demand, turning plastic waste into a resource with strategic industrial value.

Quoting Rogel Alpher on Israel’s plans to establish a “humanitarian city” in Gaza:

[…] They say – don’t say Nazis, don’t make comparisons. It’s no longer shocking. It’s clear to me that from my current position on the margins of Israeli society, I can only be shocked, not shock others. Most Israelis don’t see a connection between obsessive education about concentration camps from the Holocaust era and establishing a concentration camp for another people under brutal Israeli military control. What can even be done in the face of this tragic pathology?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced plans to establish what he termed a “humanitarian city” in Gaza to house the entire population of over 2 million people. Katz clarified that there would be no exit from the camp while promising an “emigration program” would be implemented.

Alpher acknowledges this is actually a concentration camp - a fenced compound of tents where the only way out would be through emigration from Gaza entirely - a moral horror that facilitates forced displacement and ethnic cleansing, noting the tragic irony that Israelis who were educated about #Holocaust now support creating concentration camps for another people under Israeli military control.

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@israel
#GazaGenocide

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Israel is openly planning to force Palestinians into "camps", while the West goes on about Israel's "right to defend itself."

Everything that international law was designed to prevent is happening with the active approval of the key states that helped establish the law.


211 milliards d’euros d’aides aux entreprises : un rapport sénatorial chiffre et décortique ce scandale - L'Humanité


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🥳 New Kitten Release

• Fixed regression: Since we switched the h() render function to return a generator (for seamless async support in html templates), two other methods that were calling h() directly – `kitten.safelyAddHtml()` and `kitten.js()` – had begun to fail. This was also affecting the fetchiverse, streamiverse, and kitten-chat family of examples.

Enjoy!

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(Run `kitten update` to immediately install the latest version on your development machines. Your production machines will automatically update in the next few hours.)

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Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 07/09/25: Trump Holds Second Meeting With Netanyahu, US To Send More Weapons to Ukraine, and More youtube.com/watch?v=4itjzkC0pi…

Andrea Mazzarino and Tom Engelhardt: Illness and Endless Wars original.antiwar.com/Andrea_Ma…

Ron Paul on Flip-Flopping Trump Vows More Weapons to Ukraine antiwar.com/blog/2025/07/08/ro…

Socially-acceptable forms of social change entail:

1) Refusing to question structures of power, leaving them exactly as they are

2) Asking those with power within those structures to behave a certain way.

3) When that fails, then adhering to the (rigged) rules of the game, to try to acquire official power oneself, which is costly, time-consuming, and likely to fail.

That's it. And given the fascism of the 2020s, those forms of social change will fail.

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So there are two ways forward:
Colonialism 3.0, where we try to patch the whole thing together yet again.

Or we could actually build a new system which emerges from the wreckage of the old, which pulls people and resources in, electively, as nation states fail further.

This, however, would require imagination and a historical and anthropological lens on how humans could organize themselves, and how they have organized themselves.

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