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During an appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored, former #CIA officer John #Kiriakou described convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey #Epstein as a “textbook example of an access agent.”

“The issue,” Kiriakou added, “is that the accusation is he was an access agent for the Israelis, and that’s something the intelligence community really doesn’t like to talk about.”

His remarks came just one day after the #FBI and #US Department of Justice concluded that Epstein was not murdered, did not blackmail prominent individuals, and did not maintain a so-called “client list.”

The findings have sparked backlash among some of former President Donald Trump’s supporters, who had anticipated new disclosures following Epstein’s death in 2019—a case that has fuelled conspiracy theories due to his ties to influential figures in politics, business, and media.


#Israel #US-Israel

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Die gefährlichste #Familie der #EU


Am Montag wurde zum dritten Mal innerhalb von acht Wochen ein prominenter #Macron-Gegner tot aufgefunden. Alle drei #Todesfälle gelten als mysteriös – und vor allem: seltsam. 🤔

Drei #Kritiker, drei #Leichen – aber kein Wort in den deutschsprachigen #Medien. Das #Schweigen ist ohrenbetäubend. Was läuft da in Frankreich? Und vor allem: Warum schaut Europa weg?

Drei #Macron-Kritiker – alle tot


Olivier #Marleix, ein einflussreicher Abgeordneter der konservativen #Republikaner, wurde am 7. Juli 2025 erhängt in seinem Haus in Anet aufgefunden. Offizielle Version: #Selbstmord. Doch wer sich sein letztes Auftreten im Parlament anschaut, sieht einen hellwachen, kämpferischen Politiker. Fünf Tage vor seinem Tod sprach er über #Einwanderung, forderte mehr #Rechte für #Staatsbürger – und trat mit einer Klarheit auf, die überhaupt nicht zu einem Menschen passt, der angeblich kurz vor dem #Suizid steht.

Was Marleix gefährlich machte: Er kritisierte immer offener die Korruption im Umfeld #Macron, sprach von gefälschten Konten und untersuchte Macrons dubiose Rolle beim Verkauf von Alstom an General Electric. Seine These: Das #Alstom-Geschäft war möglicherweise Teil der verdeckten Wahlkampffinanzierung Macrons im Jahr 2017. Pikant? Eher explosiv.

Kurz zuvor: Der plastische Chirurg François #Favre, der angedeutet hatte, brisante Informationen über #Macron Frau – oder besser: „Ehepartner“? – ans Licht zu bringen, stürzte sich angeblich aus dem 12. Stockwerk. Auch hier: #Offiziell #Suizid. Unabhängige Ermittlungen? Fehlanzeige.

Und schon einen Monat früher starb Eric #Denécé, ehemaliger #Geheimdienstoffizier und #Direktor des renommierten Centre Français de Recherche sur le #Renseignement. Ein Mann vom Fach. Ein #Macron -Kritiker. Ein Kenner der politischen Abgründe. Angeblich ebenfalls #Suizid – erhängt in seiner #Wohnung. Nur: Seine Familie und Kollegen zweifeln lautstark an dieser Version.

Drei Tote in zwei Monaten. Drei Kritiker des Präsidenten. Drei angebliche #Selbstmorde. Und null journalistische Neugier im deutschsprachigen Raum. Das ist kein Zufall. Das ist ein #Skandal.

#EUDSSR = #Faschismus #Frankreich

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HUN7R35

@phlfie I keep trying to advise people against parodies, against any misuse of copywritten material, but so few listen. It's the easiest way for jews to take down your work, just with a copywrite strike. And it can lead to prosecution. I know someone who lost $40K for copywrite infringement.

It's actually really easy to write original song with GROK or ChatGPT, once you get the hang of doing a good prompt. Then you go through it just like you would a parody song, changing words to fit your message.

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phlfie

Excellent advice.
In the United States, for songs created on or after January 1, 1978, copyright protection lasts for the lifetime of the author plus 70 years, after which the work enters the public domain.
For works created before 1978, the rules are more complex, with varying renewal and registration requirements.
Additionally, sound recordings have different rules; for example, recordings made before 1923 entered the public domain on January 1, 2022, while recordings made between 1923 and 1946 will be protected for 100 years after publication.

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📺Con lanzamiento de petardos y gritos de fuera, fuera, así recibieron este miércoles los bomberos al Presidente de la Diputación de València, Vicente Mompó.

📱 En la web te contamos por qué:

👨‍🚒 Huelga de celo en el Consorcio de Bomberos de València en plena campaña de incendios.

La plantilla denuncia sobrecarga, falta de efectivos y abandono institucional, mientras la Diputación oculta el conflicto y prioriza su relato de normalidad.

✍️Carmen Iranzo.
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Huelga de celo en el Consorcio de Bomberos de València en plena campaña de incendios

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The European Green Deal Has Failed | Compact


#geopolitics #EU #environment #climate #economy #stupidity

This strategy was always doomed. The bloc’s fiscal architecture—anchored in austerity, tight budget rules, and a toothless common budget—precludes the kind of ambitious investment needed for genuine green transformation. Unlike the US Inflation Reduction Act or China’s state-led development model, the European Union lacks both the tools and the ideological flexibility to pursue proactive industrial policy.

The European Union’s strict state-aid rules, bias against public ownership, and obsession with competition law systematically hamper large-scale green reindustrialization. The result is a paradoxical mix of hyper-regulation and fiscal strangulation, which neither spurs innovation nor alleviates the costs borne by the population. Fragmented governance, bureaucratic inertia, and the dominance of unelected technocrats mean that even where funds exist, implementation is slow, disjointed, and prone to failure.


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The European Green Deal Has Failed

In 2019, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Europe’s “Green Deal.” She described the climate plan as a “man on the moon moment,” a revolutionary transformation of the European economy that would lead to net-zero greenhouse g…
Thomas Fazi (Compact)

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Journalist Israel Frey was arrested on charges of incitement and supporting terrorism after posting that “the world is better this morning without five young people who participated in one of the most cruel crimes against humanity” - referring to five IDF soldiers killed in #Gaza.

Writing in #Haaretz, Landsman argues this arrest represents Israel criminalizing dissent itself. She contends Frey wasn’t inciting terrorism but expressing his belief that Israeli soldiers in Gaza are participating in crimes against humanity - a perspective now being placed “outside the law.

The fundamental question being suppressed, according to Landsman: “Is Israel committing a cruel crime against humanity in Gaza?“​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Landsman warns that such silencing of dissenting voices is common in countries committing such crimes.

Hebrew haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-07… or archive.is/EuyHu

@palestine
@israel


למה עצרו את ישראל פריי

"איך יכול להיות טוב מותם של צעירים ולוחמים שנהרגו במסגרת תפקידם בהגנה על המולדת?" כך שאלה השופטת רוית פלג בר־דיין, כשהאריכה את מעצרו של העיתונאי ישראל פריי. פרי
קרולינה לנדסמן (הארץ)

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<<Too late to stop small boats once people arrive in Calais, says UN migration chief>>

Nonsense! Just give me .50 cal rifle, decent scope and a healthy supply of Raufoss Mk 211 rounds. I'll totally produce empirical proof that it can be done in time! Just hit the engine and there you have it yo! 🤣

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Too late to stop small boats once people arrive in Calais, says UN migration chief

More orderly migration would ease crisis, says Amy Pope as UK and France prepare to announce plan to block crossings
Diane Taylor (The Guardian)
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The price of batteries is coming down so fast, that this paper has basically said it makes more sense to build a solar project, and then 5-10 years later invest in batteries *then*, when the cost of batteries is so much lower than it is today.

For context, we've seen the cost of batteries in China drop by 30% in a single year (!) for one of the larger tenders in 2025
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Lavrov: Moscow calls for lasting peace instead of a ceasefire


#geopolitics #imperialism #war

A little one-sided, but generally to the point... Unfortunately right now Lavrov is a more reliable source of informations and facts than the whole bunch of Western politicians and media.

Finally, Lavrov responded to accusations by Western intelligence agencies and European politicians that President Putin intends to “occupy” Europe or expand Russian influence. He described these accusations as unfounded and suggested that this “mythical Russian threat” was being created by Western leaders to unite the population in the face of social and economic problems — inflation, unemployment, declining incomes illegal migration — and to distract from their own failures. Lavrov expressed concern that the European Union was transforming into a “military-political bloc” and “an appendage of NATO”, which he described as a “dangerous trend” with far-reaching consequences for all Europeans.


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Lavrov: Moscow calls for lasting peace instead of a ceasefire

The Russian Foreign Minister explains in an interview which points Moscow considers non-negotiable in a peace agreement with Ukraine
Thomas Fazi

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📢 Ansarallah announced on Wednesday, that they had rescued a number of the ship’s crew members, without providing further details

🔹 Nikos Georgopoulos, official with the Greece-based company Diablos Maritime Risks: “This gives us more courage to continue searching for the missing, as requested by the Greek ship operator, and shows that the search plan was correct.”

#palestine #yemen #middleeast

📰 Report by The Palestine Chronicle JUL-10

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Ansarallah Reportedly Holding Sailors amid Escalating Red Sea Operations - Palestine Chronicle

The Ansarallah military spokesman stated in a televised speech that the group's naval forces rescued a number of the ship's crew members.
admin (Palestine Chronicle)

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United Nations expert Francesca Albanese has slammed the decision by the United States to sanction her as “obscene”, saying she is being targeted for calling out Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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UN expert Albanese rejects ‘obscene’ US sanctions for criticising Israel

UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese tells Al Jazeera the move is retaliation for ‘pursuit of justice’ in Israel’s Gaza war.
Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)

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non riesco a leggere questo editoriale di #MarcoTravaglio senza saltare in aria dalla furia di constatare l'inettitudine delle forze politiche italiane che non hanno voluto risolvere il #ConflittoInteressi dei #Berlusconi per quasi mezzo secolo

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Padrone ingrato

Nelle sapide cronache della quasi discesa-discesetta-discesina in campo di Pier Silvio B. nessuno – ma proprio nessuno – fa notare l’aspetto più surreale della vicenda: il monumentale conflitto d’interessi ereditario di un signorino che è amministrat…
Marco Travaglio (Il Fatto Quotidiano)

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questo è uno sviluppo che merita approfondimenti: davvero Francia e Regno Unito creeranno un deterrente nucleare comune?

La storia delle #ArmiNucleari NON depone a favore di uno sviluppo del genere

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Il Patto tra Parigi e Londra: l’arma nucleare congiunta

Una collaborazione nucleare fra Londra e Parigi senza precedenti, pronta ad attivare una risposta coordinata e congiunta in caso di attacco.
Sabrina Provenzani (Il Fatto Quotidiano)

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Being brown in Trump’s America is enough to get you arrested by ICE. Call it what it is, RACISM
#racism

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Being brown in Trump’s America is enough to get you arrested by ICE

A growing number of U.S. citizens—many of them Latino— say they’ve been detained by immigration agents in what critics are calling blatant racial profiling and overzealous policing. Of course,
Daily Kos

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Cory Booker and Alex Padilla…want to require CBP and ICE officers to have legible IDs, and they don’t want CBP or ICE officers covering their faces. Would you ever sign that?”

Trump: “Well, they wouldn’t be saying that if they didn’t hate our country." -WTF!?!

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Trump turns debate over masked ICE agents into a ridiculous patriotism test

Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Alex Padilla unveiled a bill to unmask ICE agents. Donald Trump responded by insisting the lawmakers "hate our country."
Steve Benen (MSNBC)

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Kaja Kallas: the most dangerous woman in Europe?


#geopolitics #EU #NATO #war

Technically, the High Representative’s role is to reflect the consensus of the member states as an extension of the Council, not to freelance as a supranational policymaker. Yet, Kallas interprets her role otherwise, repeatedly acting as though she speaks on behalf of all Europeans — a top-down, anti-democratic approach that is symptomatic of a broader authoritarian trend supercharged by von der Leyen.


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Kaja Kallas: the most dangerous woman in Europe?

No one better than her embodies the EU’s toxic blend of technocratic incompetence, democratic disdain, hypocrisy, ideological fanaticism global irrelevance and outright stupidity
Thomas Fazi

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„Ausschluss vom Staatsdienst: AfD rät ihren Mitgliedern zur Mäßigung“


#AfD #rechtsextremistisch #Antidemokraten #schwarwel


Schwarwel (@schwarwel@stranger.social)

Attached: 1 image „Ausschluss vom Staatsdienst: AfD rät ihren Mitgliedern zur Mäßigung“ #AfD #rechtsextremistisch #Antidemokraten #schwarwel
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BREAKING: ICE attorney Adam Boyd resigns in protest, calling Trump’s mass deportation policies “morally indefensible.” Boyd says ICE is targeting families, asylum seekers, and longtime residents—not just criminals. via
@Newsweek

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Still We Rise (@_stillwerise) on Threads

BREAKING: ICE attorney Adam Boyd resigns in protest, calling Trump’s mass deportation policies “morally indefensible.” Boyd says ICE is targeting families, asylum seekers, and longtime residents—not just criminals. via @newsweek
Threads

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Reason 10 To Choose Linux 😍

Linux 🐧 is more private, by default

Own and control your data!

Your operating system won't record your key strokes or dictation, collect lists of devices and their Wi-Fi details, or webcams, printers and anything else plugged in and then send that back to Big Tech HQ.

It's possible to avoid data collection altogether, from the start.

With #Linux YOU decide how to share YOUR data.

/10

#EndOf10 #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Microsoft #Windows #Windows10 #Windows11

Logo of End Of 10 campaign with the words "End Of 10" written over it. The logo is an image of 4 blue boxes, with one falling off the top.
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316 criminels députés votent pour multiplier les cancers et accélérer la destruction des écosystèmes


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[G.R.K.]🌈🏳️‍⚧️Ⓐ💣¡NoPasarán! (@gorekhaa@anarchism.space)

Attached: 1 image ✊MUTU MEDIAS LIBRES✊ 316 criminels députés votent pour multiplier les cancers et accélérer la destruction des écosystèmes https://ricochets.
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#Kallas, the former Prime Minister of Estonia — a country of just 1.4 million people, fewer than reside in Paris — was confirmed as the EU’s new High Representative for Foreign Affairs in December of last year. Since then, she has come to personify, more vividly than anyone else, the **EU’s toxic blend of incompetence, irrelevance and outright stupidity**.

unherd.com/2025/07/kaja-kallas…


Kaja Kallas is the real threat to Europe

Thomas Fazi (UnHerd)

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"The entire so-called “antisemitism crisis” in Australia is like this. The overwhelming majority of it is just people criticizing Israel and trying to do what they can to stop the live-streamed genocide they’ve been watching on their screens every day for two years, which is then deliberately conflated with the actions of a few fringe actors with frequently suspicious motives.

“Antisemitism” means criticism of Israel. That’s just what it means now. It used to mean something else, but years of bad faith actors using that word in the most dishonest ways imaginable to defend the most horrific things you’ve ever seen has changed the definition. It is no longer possible to separate that word from this sustained campaign of mass deception.

Anti-Israel sentiment is often treated as if it's the product of mass antisemitism or weird hypnosis whose tricks we'll never understand. But the truth is pretty simple: people don't like Israel because Israel is committing genocide. That's it.
De discourseblog.com
It’s the genocide. People are mad at the genocide. They don’t hate Jews, they hate genocide."

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#Australia #Censorship #Antisemitism #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide

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Interview: Israel’s plan to push Palestinians into Rafah is "part of a second Nakba".

"The intention is for this to be more comprehensive than the original ethnic cleansing [in 1948] & the attempts subsequently to displace Palestinians.”

~Daniel Levy, British-Israeli analyst & former peace negotiator

aje.io/hmfij9?update=3831712

#Nakba #GazaGenocide #GazaConcentrationCamp @palestine .

Gaza map showing planned camp

LIVE: Israel keeps pounding Gaza as signs of starvation grow

‘People are going hungry and fainting in the street because they don’t eat enough,’ our team reports from Gaza.
Umut Uras (Al Jazeera)

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I've been looking into alternatives to #GoogleDrive, #iCloud and #OneDrive …

Originally, I was going to move everything to OneDrive, but I've possibly had a change of heart.

I've moved everything from GoogleDrive because ... well, Google. And now, in the #UK, it seems that iCloud is no longer going to be safe as Apple will no longer offer advanced protection – thanks government! I currently use iCloud as a mirrored desktop, so it's on my Mac and laptop. I'm happy with the Mac and MacBook, but I'm not happy that iCloud is now going to be 'open’ to the UK government.

Now, I thought I'd move everything to OneDrive – but storing all my stuff on a US server doesn't sit right with me. So I decided to go with #Filen. Am exploring it at the moment, and it looks like I can sync automatically, so any work I’m doing I can save directly to Filen – which is basically what I'm doing with iCloud.

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In Barcelona alone, an estimated 286 people died from the extra heat caused by climate change in the recent heatwave. Here's the story of one of them, healthy, and 51 years old.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Climate Change Worsens Deadly Extreme Heat in Spain, France, Italy, Greece

Spain and Greece have for years restricted outdoor work on very hot days, while Italy and France have started this summer.
Laura Millan (Bloomberg)

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Janeishly

Irishness has taken a revolutionary turn in the cultural landscape. And it’s not just an influx of hot people wearing Claddagh rings and Pellador gansies because Paul Mescal got papped rocking GAA shorts. This new development is rooted in something far deeper than Depop. This is about Kneecap and the return to the party in leftist politics.

Depoliticised and stripped of all radical analysis, Irishness on the world stage became a tale of cups of tea, Tayto and drinking yourself to death on a bar stool. Shamrock-washing the colonial memory, lulling all revolutionary potentials. Still groggy from the socialist dreams of James Connolly, we replaced our dark history of struggle and resistance with heritage sites and Riverdance and a gift shop where you can buy cute little leprechaun stickers.

As victims of a bloody colonial empire that brutalised, raped and pillaged the land, we were told to shake it off and turn our Irishness into a brand deal, into a tax haven for foreign direct investments, to blunt ourselves of the sharp parts, to heal our dark hearts and become the non-offensive butt of a joke that doesn’t upset our slave masters.

So we became storytellers, but only telling stories that were preapproved and didn’t have any enemies. We were told to assimilate, to save face or face humiliation, to lose the culture and keep the costume. Maggie Thatcher is watching you.

Kneecap have put the resistance back into politics, awakening a new energy on the left, one that’s rooted in power rather than victimhood, that doesn’t celebrate victory in defeat or get trapped in a comments section with nowhere to go. Showing solidarity for Palestinian struggle, organising and calling out war-mongerers who want to cancel the Belfast bap, we can glimpse the new horizon on the right side of history, where a future finally feels possible and nationalism isn’t a means of exclusion when you can see yourself in someone else’s eyes.

Kneecap marked a return to subaltern rage and protest, invoking insurgency in young people everywhere. An antidote to the end stage of identity politics. An uprising based on shared struggle rather than what side of the wall you were born on. Of left unity rather than the obsession with being right.

So we use our voice, our language to stand up for our neighbours on the other side of the globe. Because without our words, our silence is complicity and power is unchallenged and genocide is sanctioned and dissent is subdued and our past becomes their present with no lessons or lectures, just bodies.

So this new Irishness is a refusal, a refusal to be the punchline in the Paddy Irishman joke, a postcard in an American’s dream, placated by points and pacified by postcolonial revisionist histories. We were told to smile and say thank you. So we smiled through occupation, through the penal laws and plantations, through famine, through genocide. And now our smile is gone and our teeth are clenched. And we look to Palestine because we know empire when we see it.

And when the elite try to paint your grief as graffiti and your resistance as barbarism, we remember how long Ireland took to dig up its own bodies.

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Palestine is a country full of culture and history. Our heritage is combining art, music, food, history, stories of many generations where we stand on our land and still exist despite everything that’s happening which is trying to delete our history, our culture, even our culinary heritage.

So Palestine, it’s not just a country that existed for some years, it’s being going thousands of years and carries a lot of culture and heritage. And I’m so proud to be Palestinian and feel privileged. But also it’s very painful, especially in these days when you see what’s happening as a genocide, and how much they are trying with a worldwide effort to basically delete everything Palestinian. But we are still here.

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The Sleight Doctor 🃏

I don't know if there is a God, but I do know that if there is one - at least one I would follow - God loves the Irish.

"The Choctaw...managed to raise around $170 and sent it half-way across to the world to try ease the suffering of the Irish...people they would likely never encounter...money, worth around $4,000 [today]...despite themselves living in hardship and poverty, and having recently endured the 'Trail of Tears' - a series of forced relocations.."

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Meet the Native American tribe who selflessly sent money to Ireland during the Great Famine

On the last week of August 2019, we ran a piece about Abraham Lincoln donating money to Irish vic...
Harry Brent (The Irish Post)

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Der Umgang mit der Richter*innenwahl Bundesverfassungsgericht ist ein Alarmzeichen und zeigt wie stark der autoritäre Populismus auch in Deutschland inzwischen ist.
Das Gericht wird politisiert und gezielt Kandidat*innen angegriffen. Es folgt dann das Framing das eine Person "umstritten " sei. Das aber nicht entlang einer inhaltlichen Auseinandersetzung sondern allein wegen der Behauptung, dass die so ist. Das reicht aus um ohne jede Begründung eine Person abzulehnen.

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Repression against whoever resist the death politics of Capital increased in every country in the West. Journalists prefer to reproduce the repression fairytale instead of focusing on the damage caused by the capital itself. It's time to take counter-measures against repression. mastodon.social/@stuut/1148337…

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Sauver le climat et l’humanité est dangereux... pour le profit Bonjour à toutes et tous, Ce vendredi, une série d’articles, basés sur un rapport de l’OCAM judicieusement divulgué, dépeint Code Rouge (ou une partie de celui-ci) comme (...
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Aral Balkan

@snarkweek Alt text: screenshot of article: A concentration camp it truly is
For President Donald Trump's attention: When the person submitting your name as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize is promoting the construction of a concentration camp - into which the entire population of the Gaza Strip will be herded, with no ability to leave unless people "choose" to emigrate-it's not clear whether he is being a sycophant or sabotaging your candidacy. The support given by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the criminal plan being promoted by Defense Minister Yisrael Katz, involving the construction of a "human-itarian city" on the ruins of Rafah, which would incarcerate all the enclave's residents, is a moral and historic nadir for the State of Israel and the Jewish people. No matter how they try in Israel to wrap this move with laundered epithets, they are talking about a concentration camp.
It appears that in Israel they believe that it's sufficient to attach the label "humanitarian" to convert every act into a legitimate one. Just like the term "the most moral army in the world", which is no longer connected to what IDF soldiers are doing, they're now trying to present a concentration camp to be used for the transfer of population as the most moral one in the world. An Israeli source said Wednesday that "the plan is to move all civilian Gazans southward to a large tent city in Rafah, in which they'll have hospitals and plenty of food." He added: "Just like the prime minister said, as far as I'm con-cerned, they can be given Ben & Jerry's ice cream" (Liza Ro-zovsky, Hebrew Haaretz, July 9). A source of blue-and-white pride: In our concentration camp they have ice cream.
In Israel, you're not allowed to make comparisons, when you do compare to benighted periods, something always
"goes wrong in the translation." As long as the concentration camp isn't a waystation on the way to gas chambers, it's easy to refute the comparison and thereby normalize almost any evil. As long as it's not a Holocaust, everything's okay. Thus the historical comparison, which was meant to be cautionary, becomes a tool for muzzling critics and for normalizing the evil.
But nothing is okay. On Wednesday, 26 people were killed in the Gaza Strip, and at least 80 the day before that. Most of them had been uprooted from their homes, including women and children. The IDF attacked densely crowded areas, including a schoolyard, shelters, tents and an aid distribution center (Jack Khoury, Hebrew Haaretz, July 9). The Red Cross has warned that medical services are about to collapse due to the spike in the number of people hurt at aid distribution locations. Most of the dead were trying to obtain food. Among the wounded are children, youths, mothers and elderly people.
"The extent and frequency of these events are unprecedent-ed," said sources at the Red Cross.
The Gaza war has no military or diplomatic objectives, other than unacceptable ones: a second Nakba and/or a "voluntary" transfer of all Palestinians. This war must be stopped immedi-ately. The hostages must be brought back, and the army must withdraw from the enclave. Control must be transferred to the Palestinian Authority within an Arab-international frame-work, and the rebuilding of the Strip must be allowed to begin.
One cannot lend a hand, whether by assent, silence or indiffer-ence, to a plan over which a black flag is fluttering.

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We need to work on our legal system.

I've heard WAY too many people who simply know better saying things like "well, this is an 'act of god'" about flash flooding.

No. It is not. And we need to fix the law to get rid of that ridiculous ancient construct. There are no "acts of god", according to the law, or there shouldn't be. I have freedom of religion. How do I have that if my insurance company can say "act of god" and I'm not allowed to collect on the insurance? When I acknowledge no such entity?

Flash floods, wildfires, mudslides, polar vortices, all of this. None of it is an "act of god". They're all acts which are the direct consequence of HUMAN BEHAVIOUR.

We have to stop allowing people to say "oh, well, sky daddy did it" and shrugging when it comes to helping people live through climate change.

Time we bloody well grew up.

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1953 training film for a mechanical fire control computer aboard US Navy Ships

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Mechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers

A 1953 training film for a mechanical fire control computer aboard Navy Ships. Amazing how problems of mathematical computation were solved so elegantly in ...
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Warum ist in der Kinderkomission eigentlich kein einziges Kind vertreten ..?

Deutscher Bundestag - Kinderkommission - Kommission zur Wahrnehmung der Belange der Kinder

Die Kommission zur Wahrnehmung der Belange der Kinder (Kinderkommission, KiKo) gibt es seit 1988. Sie ist ein Unterausschuss des Ausschusses für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend....
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Ce début de semaine, alors que "XR Tours" placardait les panneaux de sa région et que des dizaines d'associations, collectifs se mobilisaient face à la loi Duplomb, une majorité de député·e·s de l' Assemblée nationale adoptait cette loi soit :
• Plus de pesticides dans nos champs ☠️
• Une incitation à la construction de mégabassines 🚰
• Une facilitation pour l'installation de fermes intensives 🐖
• Une mise sous tutelle de la police de l'environnement 🔒
ℹ️ Plus de détails sur vert.eco/articles/la-loi-duplo…

Mais... La démocratie ne s’arrête pas au vote ! Et quand les "politiques", échouent à légiférer pour le bien commun, c'est aux citoyen·ne·s de prendre le relai : Assemblées Populaires, Manifestations, Plaidoyers, Actions de sensibilisation ... et (bien) plus si affinité 👉 Nous n'en avons pas fini avec la #loiduplomb !
#changementderegime

La loi Duplomb définitivement adoptée, des pesticides dangereux bientôt de retour dans les champs

La mort est dans le pré. Ce mardi, l’Assemblée nationale a adopté la version finale du texte avec les voix de la droite, de l’extrême droite et d’une grande partie du bloc présidentiel.
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All of this! ⬆️. And more idiots in Belfast spreading asbestos and threatening two hospitals because ‘our culture’….. while the courts and the police avoid dealing with thuggery and terrorism: but if a pensioner put a sticker on a bank wall … well that’s a hate crime and supporting terrorists. 🤬. Neither the courts nor the PSNI are doing their job: and some political party leaders are followers, not leaders.

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Earth from Space: Lake District, UK


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The varied landscape of England’s Lake District is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Image: The varied landscape of England’s Lake District is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 07/11/25: Israel Urges the US To Bomb Yemen Again, IDF Killing Civilians With Grenade-Firing Drones, and More youtube.com/watch?v=ZZoKwkpuns…

Israel Urges the US To Bomb Yemen Again, IDF Killing Civilians With Grenade-Firing Drones, and More

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Anti- terrorist policing …,,???

PSNI investigating 'hate incident' as bonfire with refugee effigy and Irish tricolour set alight jrnl.ie/6759895


PSNI investigating 'hate incident' as bonfire with refugee effigy and Irish tricolour set alight

The display on top of the bonfire in Moygashel was criticised by political representatives across the spectrum in Northern Ireland.
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Even by the Govt.'s child poverty is rising and around 1.6m children live in families who are worse off due to the two child benefit cap... and still they will not remove it.

Its a policy intended by the Tories to punish the 'feckless' poor & as such should have been a priority to remove... that it hasn't is yet one more (continuing) disappointment.

What possible reason would a Labour party continue this policy?

(well we know the answer, really).

#Children #poverty
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Over 1.6 million children live in families made poorer by the two-child limit on benefits – new data

The two child limit and benefit cap leave many families living with extreme financial insecurity.
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