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Notre petit refuge pour animaux ร Quรฉbec, cโest : ๐น des sauvetages, ๐ฉ du mรฉnage quotidien, โค de lโamour ร revendre โฆet un mari (le Shoshin) qui sโoccupe, plutรดt que de parler tout seul au toaster.
Soutenir notre refuge, cโest soutenir :
Les animaux abandonnรฉs.
Un projet de cลur.
La santรฉ mentale dโun humain tout ce quโil y a de plus vrai.
Un grand merci de la part de Nancy, Shoshin, et toute la clique poilue ๐พ
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Et les animaux eux ne te juge pas et son d'excellent thรฉrapeutes. Que tu sois beau ou laid, bien ou mal habillรฉ, riche ou pauvre, รงa leur importe peu.
D'oรน parle Francesca #Albanese ? De l'Universitรฉ de Pise, dont elle est diplรดmรฉe, de la School of Oriental and African Studies de Londres, dont elle est diplรดmรฉe, de l'Universitรฉ de Georgetown, oรน elle est chercheuse, de l'Universitรฉ รrasme de Rotterdam, oรน elle est chercheuse, du Haut-Commissariat des Nations Unies aux Droits de l'Homme, pour lequel elle a travaillรฉ pendant une dรฉcennie comme experte. Et tout รงa, avant bien sรปr d'รชtre nommรฉe en 2022 rapporteure spรฉciale des Nations unies sur les territoires palestiniens. Mais รฉvidemment tout รงa ne compte pas, parce que #Fourest et #Franc-Tireur ont juste copiรฉ-collรฉ les รฉlรฉments de langage conรงus par #UNWatch, une soi-disant "ONG" qui s'est auto-confiรฉe comme mission de "surveiller les actions de l' #ONU ร l'aune de sa propre charte", en rรฉalitรฉ un lobby pro- #Israรซl qui s'est fait une spรฉcialitรฉ de rรฉpandre toutes sortes de rumeurs et mensonges sur les rapporteurs spรฉciaux successifs des Nations unis sur les territoires palestiniens (ainsi, avant Albanese, ils ont fait exactement les mรชmes attaques contre Richard #Falk, Makarim #Wibisono et Michael #Lynk), ainsi que de systรฉmatiquement remettre en cause la lรฉgitimitรฉ du Conseil des Droits de l'Homme des Nations unies.
It cracks me up, all these self-righteous millennials and Gen Z kids trying to lecture me about eco-moralsโฆ me! I walk everywhere, donโt even have a computer at home, and only use a shared community internet connection once a week. And them? With their giga-consumption that could melt an iceberg in 3 clicks, their phones they replace every time a new one drops (โOh my God, the camera has 2 more pixels!โ), their so-called cyclist or e-scooter virtueโฆ as if batteries just magically appeared without ripping half the planet apart. Their โvirtueโ? Iโve had it up to here. They think theyโre saving the world with their speeches, but by constantly preaching and acting like eco-Ayatollahs, theyโre doing the exact opposite: pissing people off so much they vote for the worst out of sheer spite.
รa me fait marrer, tous ces pโtits millรฉniaux et Z bien-pensants qui veulent mโexpliquer la morale รฉcologiqueโฆ ร moi ! Moi qui marche ร pied, qui nโai mรชme pas dโordi ร la maison, qui me branche une fois par semaine sur une connexion internet communautaire. Et eux ? Avec leur consommation de giga qui ferait fondre un iceberg en 3 clics, leur tรฉlรฉphone quโils changent dรจs quโun nouveau sort (โoh mon Dieu, la camรฉra a 2 pixels de plus !โ), leur soi-disant vertu de cycliste ou de trottinette รฉlectriqueโฆ comme si une batterie tombait du ciel sans arracher la moitiรฉ de la planรจte. Leur vertu ? Jโen ai ma claque. Ils croient sauver le monde avec leurs discours, mais ร force de faire la morale et de jouer les ayatollahs de lโรฉcologie, ils font exactement lโinverse : ils dรฉgoรปtent les gens et les poussent ร voter pour le pireโฆ juste par esprit de contradiction.
The image shows a smartphone screen displaying a news app. The top section of the screen shows the time as 08:20, with a battery level of 94%, and various icons indicating airplane mode, Wi-Fi, and cellular signal strength. The navigation bar at the top includes tabs for "World," "Business," "Technology," "Entertainment," and "Sports," with "Technology" highlighted in blue.
Below the navigation bar, there is a section titled "Full Coverage of this story," featuring an image of a white Apple AirPod with a black mesh speaker grille against a black background. The headline reads "Time To Upgrade: Apple AirPods At Lowest Price Ever," attributed to "The Weather Channel," and dated 17 hours ago.
Further down, there is another news article from Axios titled "Summer savings: How Prime Day 2025 and competing sales are actually going," dated 3 hours ago. The bottom of the screen shows a navigation bar with options for "Home," "Following," and "Newsstand," with "Home" highlighted in blue.
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"โผ๏ธ Why is the top #Google result for Francesca #Albanese a sponsored smear from the Israeli government? Is Google now partnering with states to discredit #UN officials like @FranceskAlbs through paid ads? Doesnโt this violate their ad policy?"
This lady glazes it but I don't know much about her other than she dumped Nintendo, which does give her some reliability points in terms of good taste.
I didnโt think a movie called K-Pop Demon Hunters would hit this hardโฆ but here we are. From its fun animation, well-crafted characters, to music thatโs topp...
@shortstories With the Super Nintendo they designed the ultimate controller, which was modified slightly by Sony and everyone thereafter. I still prefer a d-pad over a joystick for fighting and driving games. But the trigger buttons and 4-button layout for the face were Chef's Kiss good.
@shortstories I respectfully disagree with not recognizing the SNES as incredible hardware with incredible upgrades to chips and software to achieve some amazing results from real creativity. Nintendo cared about their customers and spent a TON of money and effort to show everyone how much had improved and that the SNES wasn't just a money-grab with zero effort put in. It wasn't just a sticker swap.
Update. Another good example of reusing older #data for a new purpose. Aerial mapping photos of Antarctica taken by the Navy in the 1960s, and then lost, help reconstruct the collapse of glaciers.
Historical images show that Antarcticaโs Wordie Ice Shelf has disintegrated due to rising basal melt since the 1960s, causing varied glacier responses and highlighting the need for long-term observations to improve predictions of Antarctic ice loss.
@Nead Thank you, I caught that yesterday! I'm not sure I'm going to include it in RB though because I've indexed a fair number of articles on historical data use lately (I've always got more items than I can include so I try to keep the coverage rounded)
@Nead I would 10000% percent rather see it twice than miss it, so always feel free to tag me unless you're being a big goofy (don't tell me Google exists, lmao)
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I'm witnessing professionals spending hours to engineer prompts for Copilot to do basic things like find a line in a file that has a string in it, or figure out who committed most frequently to a sub-path in a repository, or generate boiler plate code for classes.. None of these things require #AI. `grep`, `git log..`, and editor snippets have existed for a long time. They are quick. They are EXACT. They are FREE. They do not boil the oceans. They do not displace the workforce. They are more efficient and productive.
Learn the tools of your trade. If all you're doing is using AI, that means AI can and will replace you.
This reminds me of the old "redudant uses of `cat`" meme from way back when the internet was less of a mess. I don't know the catchy thing to call them, "Stupid uses of AI", "Unnecessary Prompts", "1.21 gigawatts to nowhere" ?
this is the EXACT reason I don't use AI, personally I'm not even opposed to the technology, the simple fact is that it's fucking bad at what it does
I unironically save time by simply writing the scripts and code to do this myself, even putting the ideological problems aside, why would anyone worth their salt in the tech industry use a system that slows them down? the answer is they won't
yes, but how can we sell grep? I can't sell you a subscription for awk, but I can burn this VC backed pile of cash and boil the ocean, thats innovation.
@Richard I agree, a real man would use communication lmao how is she supposed to guess how you feel when sheโs hardwired to protect and nurture her offspring ffs
โ totally agree with this. Heโs gotta speak up and be honest.
At the same time, itโs totally uncool that sheโs not checking in with how heโs doing. When does just focusing on your lane become self-centeredness and taking your spouse for granted?
Whenever thereโs an issue, resolution is most likely when each side takes as much responsibility as possible for fixing it.
Mantras to Galvanize White Dissidents and Paralyze Our Opponents
I've been fighting for the rights of White people for [more than] two decades and have been involved in hundreds, if not thousands of arguments with the Jewsual suspects and their shabbos goy collaborators.
Very early on, I realized that these people are not interested in logic, or reason, or truth, or even fairness, they just have an agenda that they want to promote, and that agenda is the . . . stormfront.org/forum/blogs/u15โฆ
๐ธglanรฉ sur le net๐ธ L'austรฉritรฉ permet-elle de rรฉduire la dette publique ? (Partie 3): Au vu du prix payรฉ par les classes populaires quand des politiques d'austรฉritรฉ sont appliquรฉes, analysons si leur but premier โ rรฉduire la dette publique โ est atteint. Tout d'abord, les objectifs fixรฉs par l'Union europรฉenne en termes de dette publique (60% du PIB) ne sont pas atteints par (โฆ) -- Franรงais, Austรฉritรฉโฆ cadtm.org/L-austerite-permet-eโฆ #Austeritรฉ #DettePublique #Belgique #Economie #PolitiqueEconomique
Un collectif dโhistoriennes et dโhistoriens signe cette tribune dans Libรฉration : ยซ โฆles informations sur les huit tableaux qui composeront le spectacle rรฉvรจlent une histoire de combat, nationaliste et identitaire. ยป liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/โฆ
Aprรจs la Vendรฉe, cโest aujourdโhui lโAllier qui accueillera vendredi 11ย juillet un spectacle historique proposant une vision lรฉgendaire, nationaliste et identitaire de la France. Un collectif dโhistoriens et historiennes s'indignent.
La prison, cโest avant tout de lโhumain, et je crois que cette notion disparaรฎt. Dรฉshumanisรฉe, que va-t-elle devenir ? Ici, il faut tellement รฉconomiser que le kit hygiรจne individuel nโest plus remis ร chaque dรฉtenu, mais ร la cellule.
Ce matin nous partons faire deux trois courses au supermarchรฉ du coin avec 14 ans. Dans les rayons nous croisons plusieurs personnes habillรฉes en scout. L' une d'elles porte un t-shirt avec une croix de lorraine sur le devant et dans le dos un drapeau franรงais avec la devise "notre honneur s'appelle fidรฉlitรฉ". De retour ร la maison une petite recherche sur le net et hop, voilร ti pas que c'est la devise francisรฉ des SS. Voilร OKLM le nazisme s'installe au grand jour.
Pour avoir aidรฉ des chรดmeurs ร rรฉcupรฉrer leurs droits, Yann Gaudin a รฉtรฉ licenciรฉ par France Travail. Aujourdโhui ร la tรชte de sa structure dโaide aux allocataires, il est poursuivi par lโรฉtablissement public pour ยซย concurrence dรฉloyaleย ยป.
A new series of studies finds that "national narcissism" - an exaggerated, defensive patriotism - tends to go hand-in-hand with "difficulty understanding personal and social emotions" and being antagonistic, less empathic, and inclined to see others as threats: psypost.org/national-narcissisโฆ
A new study suggests that people who see their nation as uniquely important often struggle with recognizing emotions and experience more anger and contemptโfactors that may help explain why theyโre more likely to dehumanize both outsiders and fellow โฆ
โ is that significantly different than the long-term trend? (I know little about volcanoes; just that some have a relatively โsafeโ amount of activity.)
Microsoft plans to donate $4 billion worth of cash, technology and training to enhance artificial intelligence education, a substantial bequest as the Redmond software giant aims to make billions more off a technology it expects to be on par with the introduction of electricity.
Microsoft President Brad Smith announced the commitment Wednesday during an event held at the Museum of History & Industry in Seattle.
The $4 billion effort over the next five years will flow through a new organization within the company called Microsoft Elevate, which the company describes as a successor and expansion of the longtime Microsoft Philanthropies team. Elevate will have about 300 employees, with the goal of helping more than 20 million people earn AI credentials.
if you look at electricity usage from 1 year before it was invented to 1 year after it was invented, then surely as a percentage of increase that's approaching infinity.
@GossiTheDog Maybe they should stop and think about how someone would have fared in the 1750es if they produced a billion kites in expectation of the entire population wanting to play Ben Franklin in the nearest thunderstorm
@GossiTheDog If by that they mean that rich ghouls will spread harmful disinformation around it and use it in dangerously stupid PR stunts, then yeah I guess they're not entirely wrong.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_tโฆ
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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 รผberraschend oder ist neu.
Fรผr 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 Erklรคrungen, Kritiker sehen die Brandmauer am Ende.
๐จ๏ธ 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!
โFor over 600 days, Israel has been saying itโs targeting Hamas, but it is civilians who have been corralled, bombed and killed en masse every day,โ said Bushra Khalidi, Oxfamโs policy lead in the occupied Palestinian territory.
โThis isnโt counterterrorism, as Israel alleges โ itโs the systematic clearing of Gaza through militarized force into enclaves of internment.โ
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.โ 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
โFor over 600 days, Israel has been saying itโs targeting Hamas, but it is civilians who have been corralled, bombed and killed en masse every day,โ said Bushra Khalidi, Oxfamโs 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 Israelโs 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 Israelโs all-out war on Gaza, especially amoโฆ
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-chiโฆ
Kad bija tฤs jocฤซgฤs maija brฤซvdienas, kฤds jau skaidroja, bet es atkal esmu aizmirsis - kฤpฤc nevar pฤrcelt tuvฤk esoลกu 15. novembri uz 17., kฤpฤc vajadzฤtu pฤrcelt 8. uz 17.?
@cuu508 @pb @laumapret Balsoju par nepฤrcelลกanu. Mums uzลฤmums nepฤrceฤผ un ir labi- ja gribi ฤertas dienas pฤc kฤrtas, ลem to vienu dienu atvaฤผinฤjumu.
@mairis @cuu508 @pb Mลซsu mฤjsaimniecฤซbฤ tas, ka tieลกi tam, kuram jau tฤ ir krietni mazฤk atvaฤผinฤjuma (un vienmฤr pietrลซkst), nekad neko nepฤrceฤผ un mฤs tฤs garฤs brฤซvdienas kopฤ nedabลซjam, ir reฤli nepatฤซkams apgrลซtinฤjums, es labฤk gribฤtu, lai pฤrceฤผ visiem.
man ar nepฤrceฤผas un man tas patฤซk labฤk, bet man ir brฤซva iespฤja ลemt jebkad pa dienai brฤซvu. saprotu ka ลกis ir izdevฤซgi tiem, kas nevar pฤc 2 dienฤm pieteikt vienu brฤซvdienu kad vien grib
Their unhappiness will come as a great comfort to the millions of Americans who go hungry, lose their health insurance and die thanks to their work. notus.org/congress/senate-fiscโฆ
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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 todayโฆ (Part 1)
As settler-colonial violence escalates from Kanaky to Palestine, Fanonโs century-old warnings are critical todayโcapitalismโs 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 โneocolonialism,โ โsecond independence,โ and โpatriotism,โ 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 โpure form.โ 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 Fanonโs 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 generalโฆ
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.
From its earliest stages in the fifteenth century, the new capitalist mode of production that emerged in Europe within the feudal system was characterized by a tendency toward expansion. The laws of profit and competition drove expanded reproduction, that is, the annexation and destruction of other modes of production and their social relations, and with them the cultures and superstructures that accompanied them. Aimรฉ Cรฉsaire aptly sums up this logic of expanded reproduction: โWhat is colonization in principle? [โฆ] to admit once and for all, without flinching from the consequences, that the decisive gesture here is that of the adventurer and the pirate, the gold seeker and the merchant, of appetite and force, with, behind it, the evil shadow of a form of civilization which, at a certain point in its history, finds itself internally compelled to extend the competition of its antagonistic economies on a global scale[2] . Faced with competition from other capitalists, each owner of capital is forced to expand quantitatively in order to survive. To do so, they are constantly searching for cheaper raw materials, more profitable technologies, and new markets. In other words, capitalism can only function by expanding.
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 โcolonization of the New Worldโ 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: โNational 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 peopleโs historical personality; it is its return to history through the destruction of the imperialist domination to which it was subjected[4] .โ
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: โIn 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.โ
โฆto 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 (โa political power composed of agents foreign to the dominated peopleโ) and indirect colonialism (โa political power composed, in its majority or entirety, of indigenous agentsโwhich we have agreed to call neocolonialism[7] โ). 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 Cabralโs 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 Fanonโs 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 โcomplete 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] .โ
In Kanaky, this genocide is now widely documented. A 2008 UNESCO publication recalls: โ 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] .โ The carnage continued until the 1930s, according to a study on Melanesian demographics[10] : โThe 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] .โ
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 โthe demographic disaster[13] .โ
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.
The atrocious and barbaric nature of the repression of these uprisings is well documented. To cite just one example, let us mention a practice common to both colonizations. Ethnologist Jean Guiart recalls it as follows for Kanaky: โIn 1878, a bounty was offered for each pair of ears of a so-called rebel killed. As the soldiers brought back the ears of women and children, it was decreed that they should bring back the heads, and these macabre pieces of evidence were recorded[14] . This practice, known as โessorillementโ (ear cutting), was also used during the conquest of Algeria, as historian Alain Ruscio recalls: โEar cutting had its followers during the war of conquest in Algeria, where French troops and Algerian auxiliaries used it either out of revenge or for financial gain (โten francs per pair of earsโ)[15].โThe deterrent effect on potential settlers is equally well documented. Historian Charles-Andrรฉ Julien gives the following figures for the period 1842-1846: 194,887 Europeans emigrated to Algeria, but 117,722 left the new colony[16] . In Kanaky, the opening of the penal colony in 1864 was explicitly justified by the need to compensate for the low number of voluntary settlers.
We do not recall these colonial atrocities out of a morbid fascination. They simply illustrate the total violence inherent in colonization by settlement. One cannot replace one people with another by force without logically resorting to unlimited state violence aimed at extermination. This is not a matter of โexcessesโ of the colonial settlement project, but of its very nature. This is why Aimรฉ Cรฉsaire is right to point out that the most abominable features of Nazism existed and were experimented with in the colonies beforehand: โYes, it would be worthwhile to study, clinically and in detail, the actions of Hitler and Hitlerism and to reveal to the very distinguished, very humanist, very Christian bourgeois of the 20th century that he carries within him a Hitler he does not know, that Hitler lives in him, that Hitler is his demon, that if he reviles him, it is because they lack logic, and that deep down, what they cannot forgive Hitler for is not the crime itself, the crime against humanity, it is not the humiliation of man per se, it is the crime against white man, it is the humiliation of white man, and of having applied to Europe colonialist methods that until then had only been used on the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the Negroes of Africa[17] .
Total violence and settler colonization
One of Frantz Fanonโs 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 โviolence consubstantial with colonial oppression.โ He developed this thesis at the Accra conference in April 1960 in response to Kwame Nkrumahโs professions of nonviolent resistance: โThe 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 [โฆ] 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] .โ
This central thesis of Fanonโs 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 โIt 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.โ โ
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. โThose responsible for the French administration in Algeria,โ he explains, โare 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.โ 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: โColonialism, 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 โself-shameโ and an inferiority complex. This dimension of Fanonโs 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 โcollaborationโ by the dominated with their own domination in the hope of an eventual improvement in their condition. In an article entitled โDecolonization and Independenceโ published in El Moudjahid on April 16, 1958, he responded as follows to De Gaulleโs promises of an โeconomic, social, and moral renewal planโ: โFrench 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 peopleโs consciousness. That is why our statements never mention adaptation or relief, but rather restitution. [โฆ] The Algerian people have not accepted the transformation of occupation into collaboration[22] .โIn 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: โWhat we Algerians want,โ โour struggle,โ โour cause,โ and โour Revolution.โ 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.
[2] Aimรฉ Cรฉsaire, Discours sur le colonialisme, Paris, Prรฉsence africaine, 2004, p. 9.
[3] Jean-Paul Sartre, โLe colonialisme est un systรจme,โ speech at a meeting โfor peace in Algeria,โ Les temps modernes, no. 123, March-April 1956.
[4] Amilcar Cabral, Foundations and Objectives of National Liberation and Social Structures, Speech at the First Conference of Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America, Havana, January 3โ12, 1966, in Unitรฉ et Lutte, Maspero, Paris, 1980, p. 161.
[5] Samir Amin, Unequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral Capitalism, Minuit, Paris, 1973.
[6] Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth, in ลuvres, La Dรฉcouverte, Paris, 2011, p. 455.
[7] Amilcar Cabral, Fondements et objectifs de la libรฉration nationale et structures sociales, op. cit., p. 159.
[9] Ali Moussa Iye and Khadija Tourรฉ (eds.), Histoire de lโhumanitรฉ, volume 6, UNESCO, Paris, 2008, p. 1388.
[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.
[11] Jean-Louis Rallu, La population de la Nouvelle-Calรฉdonie, Revue Population, 1985, no. 4-5, p. 725.
[12] Kamel Kateb, Europรฉens, ยซ indigรจnes ยป et juifs en Algรฉrie (1830-1962). Reprรฉsentations et rรฉalitรฉs des populations, INED, Paris, 2002, pp. 16 and 47.
[13] Djilali Sari, Le dรฉsastre dรฉmographique, SNED, Algiers, 1982, p. 130.
[14] Jean Guiart, Bantoustans en Nouvelle-Calรฉdonie, Droit et Libertรฉ, no. 371, July-August 1978, p. 14.
[15] Alain Ruscio, La premiรจre guerre dโAlgรฉrie. Une histoire de conquรชte et de rรฉsistance, La Dรฉcouverte, Paris, 2024, p. 394.
[16] Charles-Andrรฉ Julien, Histoire de lโAlgรฉrie contemporaine, volume 1, PUF, Paris, 1964, p. 250.
[17] Aimรฉ Cรฉsaire, Discours sur le colonialisme, Prรฉsence Africaine, Paris, (1955) 2004, pp. 13-14.
[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
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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.
Le consulat gรฉnรฉral de France ร Tel-Aviv est trรจs sollicitรฉ depuis quelques temps.... En #Israรซl, parmi les personnes ayant la double nationalitรฉ franco-israรฉlienne, certaines se sont soudainement souvenues de leur nationalitรฉ franรงaise car les Franรงais peuvent en ce moment se faire rapatrier gratuitement en France, par avion militaire. Environ 100 000 personnes doivent se faire rapatrier. EIles peuvent donc participer ร un gรฉnocide puis รชtre rapatriรฉ gratos en France. C'est pas beau le statut de franco-israรฉlien ?
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