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The Spanish judiciary has opened a criminal investigation against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, and several senior military officials over their alleged involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity linked to the attack on the Madleen humanitarian aid ship last June.
European Parliament member Jaume Asens announced that he had filed a legal complaint with Spain’s National Court.
UN experts alarmed by resumption of US deportations to third countries, warn authorities to assess risks of #torture. “UN human rights experts…sounded the alarm at the human rights implications of a recent ruling by the #UnitedStates’ Supreme Court that paves the way for #deportations of foreign nationals to #thirdcountries.” | OHCHR ohchr.org/en/press-releases/20…
A group of top economists, incl. Yanis Varoufakis, Thomas Piketty, and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, has issued a powerful open letter in defense of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, endorsing her findings on the economic enablers of what she terms the economy of genocide in Gaza.
Posted on X by former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, the letter arrives amid intensified US-led pressure to remove Albanese from her position.
Top economic thought leaders warn that corporations and universities are not only complicit in "Israel’s" genocide but structurally dependent on its continuation, backing Francesca Albanese's recent UN report.
When the American empire finally collapses, historians won’t be stunned by the greed of the elite; They’ll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor.
The working class didn’t just vote against their own interests. They worshipped the billionaires robbing them.
They slashed their own benefits, gutted their own healthcare, defunded the schools of their own kids, plauded the ruling class for leaving them alone in time of need, supported masked agents kidnapping regular citizens, and cheered while the rich wrote off private jets as tax deductions.
Not because it helped them. But because they were told it would hurt someone else.
And that, right there, is how you rig a democracy without ever breaking a single law.
When you haven't been exposed to advertising for a while and it's no longer normalised, it's quite jarring. Not because it's annoying or shit, rarely lacking any artistic merit, begging and pleading and lying for attention and complicity - that bit you remember.
But because the only way this crap exists at all is through force, ramming it through devices without permission or consent. An entire industry based on tracking and surveillance to target assault.
Advertising is sinister and doesn't come in just billboards or TV & radio commercials. All those news stories that have been flooding every goddamn tech site over the past two weeks about the latest Amazon Prime Day deals are also advertising too. Same too with product placements in TV shows & movies. It's getting insane. #advertising #AmazonPrime
When you haven't been exposed to advertising for a while and it's no longer normalised, it's quite jarring. Not because it's annoying or shit, rarely lacking any artistic merit, begging and pleading and lying for attention and complicity - that bit you remember.
But because the only way this crap exists at all is through force, ramming it through devices without permission or consent. An entire industry based on tracking and surveillance to target assault.
Recordad amiguis, vox suelta imbecilidades solo para que hablemos de ellos. Es su mecanismo de propaganda. Nos indignan con chorradas ridículas y sus seguidores piensan que dan la batalla.
No caigáis en darles casito. No hay debate, solo ruido.
Following the devastating Beit Hanoun operation, in which the Israeli army suffered significant losses close to Gaza’s northern border, many Israeli commentators and military analysts are sounding the alarm: Israel may be sliding into a war of attrition in Gaza.
Writing in Haaretz, military analyst Amos Harel raises the existential question being asked by many in Israel: What is the point of this war?
Watan-Following the devastating Beit Hanoun operation, in which the Israeli army suffered significant losses close to Gaza’s northern border, many Israeli commentators and military analysts are soundi
According to prisoner advocacy groups on Tuesday, at least 10,800 Palestinian detainees, including over 450 children, are currently held in Israeli prisons.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) said at least 10,800 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons as of July 9.
What is not widely known or certainly not reported is the fact that a large motive behind Oct 7 attack was to take #Israeli hostages to use as negotiation chips for a hostage exchange with #Israel. #Hamas offered to return all Israeli hostages in exchange for the thousands of Palestinians being held hostage by Israel on Oct 8 2023 but Israel had better ideas. #Genocide
Here is my recipe for an absolutely PERFECT breakfast burrito w/ sausage & bacon!00:00 Intro00:49 Cooking sausages & bacon1:49 Cutting potatoes2:32 Cooking p...
mozilla, part of the problem or part of a solution
automation stupidity in rapid development
For those of you using librewolf you may have noticed that color coded tab grouping has been in effect. You just right click a tab and add it to a group, or create a new one with spcific name and color code. Fine, that doesn't appear unreasonable and remains optional for the use to configure. Now mozilla is coming out with automatic grouping of tabs, based on what criteria, Ai?
Firefox automatically groups your tabs and suggests names based on what you’re working on. It helps you stay focused, find things faster, and reduce clutter.
I sure hope the librewolf gang will have this disabled at build time
Argentinisches #Wirtschaftswunder. Der Wohlstand wächst: Dank #Milei erreichte das Pro-Kopf-BIP Argentiniens mit 15.161 US-Dollar, den höchsten Stand seit Einführung der aktuellen Ermittlungssystematik im Jahr 2004.
Was meinst du? Erstmal ist Praesident Milei ein YGL (Young Global Leader): weforum.org/people/javier-gera… aber scheint wohl nicht gegen sein Volk zu arbeiten, indem er die Wirtschaft seines Landes zu gunsten der US-Wirtschaft abwuergt. Das scheint bis jetzt auszubleiben.
Und er scheint wohl auch nicht all' zu 100% anti-russisch zu sein - siehe im Gegensatz dazu Frau #Baerbock ...
Across the UK and around the world, the tide has turned. From musicians chanting at Glastonbury, to students occupying campuses, to doctors’ unions passing motions of solidarity, public opinion has shifted.
People are demanding an end to active participation in genocide and ethnic cleansing.
The votes two weeks ago at the British Medical Association’s annual representative meeting are a powerful symbol of that shift.
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territory, has hit out at countries that allowed Israeli PM Netanyahu to fly over their airspace en route to the US, suggesting that they may have flouted their obligations under international law.
Albanese said that the governments of Italy, France and Greece needed to explain why they provided “safe passage” to Netanyahu.
While the ethnic cleansing of #Gaza takes shape, Germany is still providing weapons and diplomatic cover to an extremist #Netanyahu administration. Rula Daood and Alon-Lee Green from the Israeli peace movement "Standing Together" on why Germany has to reverse course now, before it's too late. The whole episode here 👉 podcast.dissenspodcast.de/309-…
Germany needs to end its blind support for an Israeli government which has a genocidal agenda, say Rula Daood and Alon-Lee Green, co-directors of “Standing together”.
In America “everyone” is often just 20% acting like 100%. Give Afghanis the vote and the rural 80% outvote Kabul’s elites every time. Democracy lets majorities crush pet elites — that’s why a true republic exists: to balance raw numbers with rights and checks.
ich spreche jetzt mal - was ich selten mache - als Chefin: ein Bruchteil dieser Liste würde in jedem normalen Arbeitsverhältnis genügen, sich von der Person zu trennen. Plus: zu prüfen, ob hier nicht grobe Fahrlässigkeit vorliegt - also volle Arbeitnehmerhaftung. From: @arnesemsrott chaos.social/@arnesemsrott/114…
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Alle Vorwürfe gegenüber Spahn. Die ultimative Liste
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Aλλα δε φταινε οι πατριωτες και ανθρωπιστες εφοπλιστες μας ουτε η παναξια μας κυβέρνηση. Κατι γκωμμουνηα σαν εσενα που χτυπανε την αναπτυξη απο μεσα και προσπαθουν να εκθρονίσουν τη χώρα μας απ' την παγκοσμια πρωτοπορια που βρισκεται σε ολους τους τομεις σήμερα.
Israels Regierende formulieren immer klarer ihre Vertreibungspläne für Gaza. Die historische und polit-ökonomische Dimension der Kriegführung gegen die palästinensische Bevölkerung war Thema eines Symposiums in Berlin. nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1192453.…
Israeli forces have been bombarding Palestinians across the Gaza Strip.One strike hit a house in Shati refugee camp - killing eight people.Nearly 100 Palesti...
I do enjoy that starting with V1C3 the girls seem to be making friends with others from the different schools. I hope we get something like Mika becoming friends with Aru, though that might be too much silly in one room
Didn't have the balls to dual-boot on my current laptop so, bought a shitty laptop and (somehow) insalled Linux Mint on it... First time in my life using Linux. Part of a process of steps where I start to live values I have been aspiring to for a long time. Super proud of myself.
L’Ukraine est définitivement rayée des comptes. L’Europe doit se préparer histoireetsociete.com - 8 juillet #2025
Toujours la réalité des intérêts capitalistes sous les flonflons de la propagande… un fait : l’ancien directeur de la filiale allemande de #BlackRock, Friedrich #Merz, est récemment devenu chancelier allemand. Voilà le genre de situation compliquée, dont il est rarement question, quitte comme notre crétinissime #Barrot ministre « européen » en train de tenter de justifier l’allégeance aux #États-Unis qui nous asphyxie en bon gangster en exigeant que l’on paye 5% de notre PIB pour sa protection des intérêts de BlackRock et autre voleurs en bande organisée, plus 10% de droits de douane alors qu’aucune économie et surtout pas la nôtre ne peut résister à une telle ponction. BlackRock va investir ailleurs, et Barrot insiste sur l’ennemi supposé la #Russie incapable d’avancer sur le terrain (mais dont on voudrait nous faire croire qu’elle menace Paris, Berlin et autres lieux) ne sait que bombarder et donc il faut absolument faire revenir les Etats-Unis … pour que les investisseurs usuriers de la Banque de Paris ne perdent pas totalement leur mise. Mais lisez plutôt cela en vaut la peine et vous dit clairement pour qui vous êtes appelés chers petits Français à vous serrer la ceinture… Il serait intéressant de relire Marx, l’analyse du déplacement des centres de gravité vers le Panama, cela vaut mieux que toutes les laborieuses et confuses démonstrations théoriques ou politiciennes par lesquelles on nous invite à l’inertie puisque tout est si compliqué qu’il est impossible de trancher. (note de Danielle Bleitrach et traduction de Marianne Dunlop pour histoireetsociete)
À Kiev, les larmes n’avaient pas encore séché après le refus de Trump de fournir des armes qu’un nouveau coup dur est tombé. BlackRock s’est soudainement détourné de l’Ukraine : ce géant financier a cessé de chercher des investisseurs pour reconstruire le pays.
Le fonds de reconstruction du pays, tant vanté par Zelensky, a été manifestement enterré. Cette nouvelle est d’autant plus piquante à la veille d’une nouvelle réunion entre les différents acteurs impliqués dans la reconstruction de l’Ukraine, qui doit se tenir prochainement à Rome.
La trahison de BlackRock est un coup beaucoup plus dur pour le régime de Kiev que l’arrêt des livraisons d’armes américaines. Il ne s’agit pas d’un simple fonds d’investissement, mais d’un acteur très puissant sur la scène géopolitique mondiale.
BlackRock gère 11,5 billions de dollars d’actifs (soit environ 60 fois le PIB de l’Ukraine et près de trois fois celui de l’Allemagne). La société ne se contente pas de définir la politique des plus grandes entreprises, elle place ses employés à la tête de pays entiers.
Les subordonnés de Larry Fink ont largement influencé la politique du président Obama. Avant de rejoindre le fonds d’investissement, l’actuel directeur de BlackRock, Anthony Manchester, a occupé des postes importants au ministère britannique des Finances, et l’ancien directeur de la filiale allemande de BlackRock, Friedrich Merz, est récemment devenu chancelier allemand. Voilà le genre de situation compliquée, comme dirait Boris Nikolaïevitch [Eltsine].
Le fonds d’investissement gère des actifs stratégiques sur le territoire de pays quasi souverains. Son mode de fonctionnement est clair. Les entreprises américaines détenues par BlackRock fabriquent des #armes. Celles-ci sont livrées à l’ #Ukraine. En parallèle, #BlackRock prend en garantie tout ce qui a de la valeur en Ukraine, et #Zelensky signe avec plaisir tous les accords. Ainsi, BlackRock assure la croissance des actions de ses entreprises de défense, s’enrichit et s’empare des actifs réels du pays sous sa tutelle.
Qu’est-ce qui intéressait réellement le fonds d’investissement en Ukraine ? Certainement pas les terres rares, dont l’exploration et l’extraction nécessitent des investissements de plusieurs milliards, ni les terres noires, qui ne valent pas grand-chose.
Ces dernières années, BlackRock s’intéresse exclusivement aux infrastructures stratégiques : #gazoducs, #oléoducs, complexe énergétique, chemins de fer, #autoroutes, #aéroports et #ports maritimes. Tout ce sans quoi n’importe quel pays s’effondrerait en un jour.
On parle beaucoup de l’opération visant à racheter les #ports panaméens à la société hongkongaise CK Hutchison Holdings. Actuellement, BlackRock prévoit de prendre le contrôle de 43 autres ports au Proche-Orient, qui s’ajouteront aux dizaines de ports maritimes à travers le monde déjà contrôlés par BlackRock.
En conséquence, en #Ukraine, le fonds d’investissement s’est d’abord intéressé au port commercial de la mer Noire, près d’Odessa. En 2016, le holding CK Hutchison s’y est implanté. Cependant, dans le cadre de la transaction portant sur les ports panaméens, BlackRock a également acquis 80 % de tous les ports Hutchison, y compris celui de Tchernomorsk.
Ce ne sont que des chiffres, mais réfléchissez-y : la plupart des principaux ports internationaux appartiennent aujourd’hui au fonds d’investissement de Larry #Fink. Cet homme rusé peut couper l’approvisionnement de dizaines d’États qui se considèrent souverains et indépendants. Sous le couvert des guerres et des maïdans, il s’arroge un pouvoir sans précédent sur pratiquement toutes les voies commerciales maritimes.
En plus de ça, il y a un an, BlackRock a raflé toute l’infrastructure qui appartenait à Global Infrastructure Partners. Parmi les actifs, on trouve l’énergie britannique et européenne, la production d’ #électricité et des #aéroports, comme celui de Gatwick à Londres.
Ça a semé la panique en Grande-Bretagne, où on comprend très bien la logique de BlackRock. C’est principalement l’État qui investit dans le développement des infrastructures, mais c’est un fonds d’investissement américain qui en tirera profit en augmentant les prix de tout. Les Britanniques seront contraints de payer littéralement pour chaque déplacement, mais ils ne pourront tout simplement pas se passer de ces infrastructures essentielles. C’est ainsi que se déroule la « #privatisation de la vie quotidienne ».
Avec ses centrales hydroélectriques, ses centrales nucléaires, son réseau ferroviaire développé, ses ports et ses aéroports, l’Ukraine pourrait devenir un morceau de choix pour BlackRock. Mais voilà le hic : « là où le soldat russe a posé le pied, c’est à nous ». Et ce qui est à nous devient chaque jour plus grand.
Toujours la réalité des intérêts capitalistes sous les flonflons de la propagande... un fait : l'ancien directeur de la filiale allemande de BlackRock, Friedrich Merz, est récemment devenu chancelier
Israeli forces opened fire on starving civilians waiting for food near an aid distribution site run by the Israeli- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in southern Gaza, killing at least seven people.
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Gov. Greg Abbott vowed Tuesday to continue rescue and recovery efforts in the flood-ravaged Hill Country “until every missing person is accounted for.”
How about the Federal Republic of Britain? The Windsors and the others could live on the north american estate (or the south pacific ones). The monarchies of europe are living examples of how the inventors of the class society have replaced religion with the media propagating cognitve dissonance. Their uniforms are really not cosplay. They’ve had a full military education! … but that’s obviously not important otherwise the media would have said something - and all those oaths are just tradition - and when Tony Benn discovered that he had been ordered (commanded) to be a member of the Privy Council - whether he liked it or not - with what power…? Oh, don’t worry, some oxonian has a soothing answer…
Heading out shortly to see a castle. Today's castle is small, but interesting, and I expect to be taking lots of pictures for comparison of features to some other castles I've visited or plan to visit. The way certain features are implemented as well as mason's marks can tell you a lot about who designed and built a castle and "Keeping up with the Joneses" applies to castle owners as well. This one probably made a lot of neighbors jealous. I'll leave you with that teaser. Pics this evening.
I've visited two castles today and am waiting for a bus, so have a little time to start my writeup. The first castle I visited today is Tolquhon castle. It was built by William Forbes, the 7th Laird of those lands over a little more than five years. We actually have the specific dates because he was so proud of his fine new castle that he affixed an plaque to the side of the building.
It's a little hard to read but reads "AL THIS WARKE EXCEP THE AULD TOWR WAS BEGUN BE WILLIAM FORBES 15 APRIL 1584 AND ENDIT BE HIM 20 OCTOBER 1589." People have been taking boastful pride in their building projects forever and you see this all over significant Roman structures.
The old tower he references is called Preston's tower and was probably built around 1420. It's the ruinous rectangular tower on the left hand side of the castle. Most of the upper stories are gone, but a little bit up to the corbels remains. It has a partially intact vaulted basement and a number of slit type arrow loops still survive.
Everything else is new and oriented around gun powder weapons. The structure isn't very thick walled, and so wouldn't have held up to cannons, but the ornate shot holes are well positioned to cover critical areas and are functional. Lower windows are small and couldn't be crawled into and upper windows all have iron bars. There was an outer courtyard with the remains of square towers at the corners and an iron gate in the center.
The gatehouse has a number of armorial panels as well as some sculptures. This would have made for a very fancy frontage for the castle's visitors back in the day.
Inside is equally fancy, with ranges of guest lodgings, a well equipped kitchen and wine cellar (each with their own servants staircases), a bake house, brew house, a long grand gallery and a great hall with the lord's bed chambers just off it.
The upstairs/downstairs effect was in full force at this castle, with a grand staircase reserved for the Laird and guests with servants beneath scuttling in and out through their own stairs so as not to get in the way. We're not quite to the era of bell pulls here, but things are headed in that direction.
The great hall has an enormous fireplace with a side niche which might have been used for keeping food warm, and the flooring is very interesting and fancy as well.
The floor is constructed of flat flagstones in a pattern which tesselates to cover the hall in about as flat a stone floor as you could get in that era.
There are a bunch of bread ovens scattered around the castle. The main bank of them, in the bakehouse are very well preserved (except for the swallows using them for nests. The back of the ovens is next to the pit prison, which you were lowered into from above through a hole in what was probably the Stewart's bed chamber. I imagine a prisoner might get uncomfortably warm when the ovens were going.
William Forbes and his wife Elizabeth Gordon didn't get to enjoy the castle long. He would die in 1596 after being Laird for some fifty years. He put some thought into his he wanted to be remembered and endowed a hospital in Tarves, nearby and also designed an ornate tomb for him and his wife, which is largely intact today. I had just enough time to see it. It has both of their coats of arms and mottos.
I'm not sure if there was ever an effigy in the niche of the tomb or if there was ever intended to be. The date under William's arms is 1589, well before this death. Maybe his descendants didn't decide to spring for one. William and Elizabeth are both there on the monument, though. It can be a bit difficult to see them as you have to shoot at a bad angle through dirty glass, but these are them, the first people to live in the castle they built.
Their descendants continued to live there until the early 1700's, when the family had to move out after losing their shirts, like much of the Scottish nobility, in the Darien Scheme, an attempt to establish a colony of what is now Panama. Over 20% of the money in Scotland was lost to this venture.
@rjohnston Yup, this would qualify as an Oubliette, I think, as the only entry/exit is the trap door in the ceiling. I've seen a number this trip.
Cawdor Castle has one which wasn't even known about in modern times until they started to repoint the stonework and hit a void with a crowbar. The entrance is in a very well appointed living room next to a window which used to be the tower's main door.
@rjohnston The one in the great hall is definitely a niche, so keeping things warm and dry makes sense to me. It isn't a bread oven, which you sometimes see in the sides of large kitchen fireplaces. The castle has one of those too.
@rjohnston I watched those series, btw. Very interesting.
I would like to learn more about castle drains, slops, weeps and water catchment. I do notice these things and take pictures, but rarely talk about them in my castle writeups.
"Acting (FEMA) Administrator David Richardson “is nowhere to be found.” Per one source, “if this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”
Agree with @quinn. This also coincides with the time when I started to feel something was off with 4chan and stopped regularly lurking.
This is also one of the reasons why I believe being the side who defines and embraces the weird is a must to fight back against all this. Because this all started when people left the weird to people who wanted to weaponize it. social.circl.lu/@quinn/1148191…
This is a hill I will die on: there was a turning point of the net, unnoticed by nearly everyone, that laid the ground work for the global political fuckery and rise of fascism we live with now.
It went unnoticed by most of the world, a totally inscrutable event. But everything changed after that moment.
L.A. activist indicted for giving face shields to anti-ICE protesters.
Alejandro Orellana, a 29-year-old member of the Boyle Heights-based community organization Centro CSO, faces charges of conspiracy and aiding and abetting civil disorder: According... jwz.org/b/ykq4
Alejandro Orellana, a 29-year-old member of the Boyle Heights-based community organization Centro CSO, faces charges of conspiracy and aiding and abetting civil disorder: According to the indictment, Orellana and at least two others drove around down…
AI voice clones have hit the White House AGAIN, now impersonating the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to other Government officials to try to steal secrets and access. Here is a video of me live demoing how quick and easy it is to clone a voice to hack and how to catch AI voice clone attacks in action!
It takes me 2 minutes total to set up a AI voice clone social engineering attack. I need about 10-15 seconds of a person’s voice to clone it well, spoof a phone call (change caller ID to display another number -- available on the App Store!) and initiate a voice clone attack via call.
Governments, organizations and individuals need to know how to verify identity of caller outside of caller ID and voice match, now!
Gone are the days of trusting caller ID. We can no longer rely on “knowing someone’s voice” or “knowing someone’s face on video call”, I can clone those in minutes in a live audio call or video call.
Verify identity using another method of communication before providing sensitive data, codes, money, etc.
If they call, you can chat, email, DM -- any other method of communication to verify that person is who they say they are FIRST.
📢🕯️ Medics: 17 citizens killed as a result of ongoing ISR shelling of areas in the #gaza strip since dawn on Wednesday
🔹 WAFA correspondent: 11 civilians killed, many injured when ISR forces bombed the house of the Joudeh family in the Shati refugee camp, Gaza City - father and son killed in Deir al-Balah - two other citizens were also killed, several others injured when drones bombed tents west of #KhanYounis
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