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Thanks to European ecologists, your next blackout will be continental en.reseauinternational.net/gra…

Thanks to European ecologists, your next blackout will be continental - Réseau International

by h16. Unsurprisingly, the media and politicians then took turns as quickly as possible to deny what, as the hours went by, seemed the most obvious: no, it is not "green" energy that is responsible.
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back in the early 90s my parents brought home an ibm ps/1 with an internal 2400 baud modem. i assumed it was only for sending/receiving faxes.

one day my computer teacher (thank you mr. mckinney!) explained that the modem made my computer capable of dialing out to *other computers* and exchanging data with them. he printed off a five page ream of tractor feed paper titled "The 403 BBS List" and sent me home with it.

i stayed up until 3am that night, dialing every single board on that list using Windows Terminal, creating accounts, and exploring what BBSes were capable of. by the wee hours, i had a new terminal program (Terminate!), knew how to use the z-modem protocol, and had
pirated my first game 😅

one of the little mysteries i came across that night was FILE_ID.DIZ files. every board had them. every zip file had them. they were tiny capsule descriptions of what a program/game was, constrained to 45 cols and 10 rows of ascii. they usually also included some kind of nod to the piracy group that "released" the program.

most BBS software would extract the .DIZ file from the zip, and use that as a file area description for the program, allowing users to understand what they were downloading.

to celebrate this weird little historical curio, today kiki got a FILE_ID.DIZ packed into the zip 😆

in version 1.10 onwards every copy of kiki will now include a FILE_ID.DIZ.

if you haven't heard of kiki yet, check out the project page:
tomo-dashi.itch.io/kiki

and if you're new to the kiki community, please post to the #kiki hashtag so we can start building a little webring of kiki instances

#bbs #kiki #smolweb #smallweb #shareware

a small ascii graphic of a black cat is drawn beside an ascii decorated text box. It reads: kiki - a tiny homepage creation kit disk 1/1 The homepage builder with a tiny footprint. Build a site with markup pages. Magic menus, wiki, RSS, themes, full source code. No JS or BS. Runs on php: php 4.x+. No JS or BS. Association of Shareware Pirates.

kiki: a tiny homepage construction set by tomo-dashi

a construction set for building your own homepage, wiki and blog
itch.io

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The breakdown (@thebreakdownab) on Threads

If there is one video you watch today... Chief Troy Knowlton of Piikani Nation was asked if Alberta First Nations are prepared to take on Smith and the Alberta Government.
Threads

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Going to try a new sleep schedule to see if it helps with my insomnia.

Bedtime at 2100
Wake up at 0000
Back to sleep at 0200
Wake up for good at 0500

My sleep schedule right now is anything but regular and I'm actually over sleeping which is not good at all.

Since I'm retired I can afford to experiment so let's see.

Actually, pre-Covid when I was going to bed at 7PM and waking up at 3AM every morning that honestly was IDEAL but there's no way I'm doing that now. Also, I don't need to avoid Atlanta traffic any more and get to work at 5:30am in the morning either.

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If I had to describe the band Primus:
A band that doesn't take themselves too seriously, while playing playful, quirky Funk..🫠🙃
#Primus youtu.be/aYDfwUJzYQg

Primus - Wynonna's Big Brown Beaver

Official Music Video for Wynona's Big Brown Beaver performed by Primus.Follow Primus:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/primusvilleFacebook: https://www.fa...
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Well it's about damn time that #Apple and #Google's #WalledGardens were cut down. Competition spurs innovation. #USpol #WalledGarden #AppStore #PlayStore

apple.slashdot.org/story/25/05…
cammack.house.gov/sites/evo-su…

New Bill Would Force Apple, Google To Open App Store Ecosystems - Slashdot

Rep. Kat Cammack (R-FL) introduced the App Store Freedom Act [PDF] on Tuesday, legislation that would compel "large app store operators" with over 100 million US users to permit third-party app stores and allow them to be set as defaults.
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Wood Art and Troll by artist Thomas Dambo ( From Denmark )
The troll Elle has grown large in the heart of Viborg and is strong as a troll. She stands with a three-ton heavy stone in her hands, amidst 100 large stones, all as protectors against humans, to take care of nature and watch over Ellekone Hill and the entire area in the southern part of Viborg.

Elles Helle
Once there was a fairy mound, so young and beautiful and sweet
Once there was fairy dancing when the sun was red
Once there were flowers, beech trees, and the blacksmith dressed in gold
Once the earth was full of worms, and the mole dug the soil.

Then came a giant monster, and it took a bite of the hill
So the fairy girl screamed and ran away across the field
Many long years passed, and the lace turned brown
And the fairy girl returned home to the hill as a woman

And with her, in a sack, she carried a hundred stones on her back
And now she has placed them across the field as a defense that shields the hill
And behind them, Elle now resides in a hideaway from the monster
That tries to enter and devour the hill filled with flowers.
#woodart #art

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Grand Rapids Prosecution of White Cop who shot Violent Black Felon During Taser Struggle Deadlocks, Judge Asks Jury to Keep Deliberating

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Grand Rapids Prosecution of White Cop who shot Violent Black Felon During Taser Struggle Deadlocks, Judge Asks Jury to Keep Deliberating | The Gateway Pundit | by Assistant Editor

Christopher Schurr was a Grand Rapids Police Officer who got into a fight with Patrick Lyoya in the early morning of on April 4, 2022.
Assistant Editor (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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2025-05-04 14:36:48

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Went for a walk in Rold Forest (Central Denmark) & found this interesting lake..
Rold Forest's springs are among the most water-rich in Northern Europe. The many springs in the area are due to the fact that the lime in the subsoil causes the groundwater to seep up. There is a rich fauna in the springs, even very special species that have traces all the way back to the Ice Age. The water flow of the springs is almost constant, and the water maintains a temperature of 7.5 degrees all year round.
The springs are protected, and it is forbidden to collect animals and plants from them.
#myphoto

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Failing PM Starmer May Reinstate Winter Fuel Payments to Pensioners in Order To Calm the Rebellion of British Voters and MPs From His Own Labour Party

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Failing PM Starmer May Reinstate Winter Fuel Payments to Pensioners in Order To Calm the Rebellion of British Voters and MPs From His Own Labour Party | The Gateway Pundit | by Paul Serran

Just between us: if Labour leader Keir Starmer had run in UK’s last General Elections with a platform of ‘cutting fuel subsidy for poor pensioners and releasing dangerous criminals from jail to make room’, he would never have achieved a landslide vic…
Paul Serran (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)

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2025-05-05 14:53:20

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#DakhaBrakha #Ukrainian #music youtu.be/aFJ717atqaw


DakhaBrakha - Monakh

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Trump waves white flag, ends Yemen war in Omani-mediated truce thecradle.co/articles-id/30548

Trump waves white flag, ends Yemen war in Omani-mediated truce

Israeli leaders were reportedly caught off guard by Trump's capitulation, which came as Ansarallah officials pledged to retaliate strongly for the destruction of Sanaa International Airport by Tel Aviv
thecradle.co

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FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12

Link: techcrunch.com/2025/05/05/ftc-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


FTC bans hidden fees for live events and short-term rentals, effective May 12 | TechCrunch

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Monday released new documentation detailing its new "Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees." The rule, set to take The U.S.
Lauren Forristal (TechCrunch)

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Stalin: Some comrades say that it is not advisable to speak openly of mistakes, since the open admission of mistakes may be construed by our enemies as weakness. This is rubbish. Open recognition of our mistakes and their honest rectification can only strengthen our Party. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

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2021-07-31 15:43:02

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  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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juliadream

A problem with all the "do your own research" nonsense is it's just that.. nonsense. To actually "do your own research" requires not only a working brain but reliable access to factual information. Both these days are in short supply.

I was done with the convid "vaccines" the day Hancock (UK Health Minister, stood up in parliament 2 days after taking a £250,000 "donation" from Pfizer) and said out loud "It doesn't stop you getting it or spreading it, but everybody must be vaccinated" ... Errrmmmm.. excuse me.. haven't you just said out loud to us all it doesn't work?

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Putin & Xi Might Hash Out A Grand Deal That Would Enter Into Force If The Ukraine Talks Collapse korybko.substack.com/p/putin-a…

Putin & Xi Might Hash Out A Grand Deal That Would Enter Into Force If The Ukraine Talks Collapse

Putin might need Xi’s help if Trump “escalates to de-escalate” in the scenario of peace talks collapsing.
Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)

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As if you needed another reason to ditch #Windows11, #Microsoft is about to #AI the ever-loving-fuck out of it even more! #CoPilot #enshittification #Windows

tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/…


Microsoft Unveils AI-Powered Overhaul for Windows 11 - Slashdot

Microsoft has unveiled a substantial AI-focused update for Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs, introducing features that leverage neural processing units across the operating system.
tech.slashdot.org

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I was in the BBC documentary ‘The Settlers.’ This is the part of my story they didn’t tell. #Palestine mondoweiss.net/2025/05/i-was-i…

I was in the BBC documentary ‘The Settlers.’ This is the part of my story they didn’t tell.

I met Louis Theroux to share my story as a Palestinian under the constant threat of displacement. While the film is an important look into the Israeli settlers trying to erase us, there is one crucial part of our story that was left out.
Yumna Patel (Mondoweiss)

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How $21 Trillion Went Missing Without a Trace: America’s Biggest Financial Coup Explained - Tucker Carlson Network

youtube.com/watch?v=dbO9qzfMK8…

3,314 comments so far below the video. Check them out! We The People are pissed!!!M


How $21 Trillion Went Missing Without a Trace: America’s Biggest Financial Coup Explained

Watch the full conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8pA2TDXtewWatch more here: https://watchtcn.co/49CDF2tPaid partnership:Bon Charge: Go to h...
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@JohnRich

I had the absolute honor of spending time today with 100 year old, @usmc WWII Veteran, Don Graves. He ran a flame thrower at Iwo Jima. He has a few words for the young folks. Check it out👇

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Don Graves on SRS. Great one to catch.
✝️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Don Graves - World War II Marine Survives Iwo Jima with Flamethrower, Grenades, and Pistol | SRS #69

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There are 9,692 comments below the video!

Don Graves - World War II Marine Survives Iwo Jima with Flamethrower, Grenades, and Pistol | SRS #69

"Yesterday, December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of ...
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"In a tit-for-tat series of actions, Beijing imposed tariffs of 125 per cent on all US goods, on top of earlier duties. According to the White House, China now faces tariffs of up to 245 per cent on certain goods."

How Hong Kong Underwear Giant Top Form Coping With Surging US Bra Demand

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Photo: Top Form/"South China Morning Post"
#Tariffs #HongKong #Thailand #Underwear

Trump’s tariff chaos: how Hong Kong bra maker is coping with surging US demand

Trump’s 90-day pause provides opportunity for manufacturer and US clients to avoid impact of tariffs.
Denise Tsang (South China Morning Post)

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Ceasefire Talks Pointless amid ‘Starvation War,’ Says Hamas Leader #Palestine palestinechronicle.com/ceasefi…

Ceasefire Talks Pointless amid ‘Starvation War,’ Says Hamas Leader - Palestine Chronicle

A senior Hamas official said there's no logic in discussing ceasefires while Palestinians in Gaza face famine and mass death.
admin (Palestine Chronicle)

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Julius Fučík: In the face of adversity, the strength of the human spirit shines brightest. It is in the darkest of times that we must hold on to hope and fight for a better world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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Isle Royale National Park today (Mott Island). For more information nps.gov/isro/index.htm and nps.gov/isro/planyourvisit/ran… and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit National Park Service #IsleRoyale #miwx #lake #spring #michigan #vessel #ferry #transportation
The Mott Island dock and the passenger vessel that ferries park visitors in Isle Royale National Park fill the foreground of this image, with water and a tree-covered landscape under a blue sky as a backdrop.

Isle Royale National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

Explore a rugged, isolated island far from our connected communities. Isle Royale offers adventures for backpackers, hikers, boaters, paddlers, and divers.
www.nps.gov

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ALGERIA: It’s Time to Update Pensions By Following Salary Indexation #WFTU labortoday.luel.us/en/algeria-…

ALGERIA: It's Time to Update Pensions By Following Salary Indexation - Labor Today

Editor’s Note: The following is an interview with Organizational Secretary of the TUI of Pensioners and Retired of the WFTU, Bachir Hakem. It was originally published in Algeria be Le Jeune Indépendent.
Worker Wire Services (Labor Today)

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P.F.L.P condemns treacherous Zionist-American aggression against Yemen en.ypagency.net/355688

P.F.L.P condemns treacherous Zionist-American aggression against Yemen

BEIRUT, May 06 (YPA) -The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P) condemned the treacherous Zionist-American aggression against Yemen.In a statement issued on Monday, the P.F.L.P said, “We strongly condemn the treacherous Zionist-Amer
عماد (Yemen Press Agency)

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Research tool (discretely placed at the base of the tree, lower right corner of this image), Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. Learn more at parks.ca.gov/?page_id=415 and nps.gov/redw/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees #wildlife Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #california #redwood #research
Trees with bark colored in reds, browns, and greys stand over a fern-covered forest floor in this view of Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park today. In the lower right, discretely placed at the base of a tree, is a research tool (trail camera) perhaps being used as one component in a standardized survey for park species.

Redwood National and State Parks (U.S. National Park Service)

Renowned for the world’s tallest trees, Redwood’s landscapes span from open prairies and oak woodlands to pristine rivers and untamed coastline. This ancient home has supported people for thousands of years.
www.nps.gov

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You can follow us in other languages. Visit our website for more information wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2023-06-11 11:27:05

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Revolution from the Soil: Anti-Imperialism and Food Sovereignty in Burkina Faso off-guardian.org/2025/05/06/re…

Revolution from the Soil: Anti-Imperialism and Food Sovereignty in Burkina Faso 

Burkina Faso, under President Ibrahim Traoré, has become a focal point for anti-imperialist sentiment and political renewal in Africa. Traoré’s government has taken bold steps to assert national so…
OffGuardian

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Salvador Allende: No more poverty, no more lies, no more injustice. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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2025-05: May Update

May 2025: What’s In The Pipeline


Wow, I can’t believe it’s May already. And here I am, still working through my April to-do’s. Fortunately, there’s lots of great Bandwagon news.

New Profiles Released


I’ve just posted a big update to your artist profile pages. This new design builds on the work we’ve done together on the search engine, highlighting albums, concerts, and posts each in their own unique ways. It all combines to streamline your profiles, making them easier to navigate and simpler to manage. Here’s just a hint of the new profile pages:

Image of the Bandwagon.fm profile for Sarah Wallin Huff

Check out your bandwagon profile at bandwagon.fm/@me

What’s Next: Online Album Sales


I’m hard at work on this one, and while there’s nothing to DEMO just yet, the basic outline is taking shape. I am aiming for the first versions to be in your hands before the end of May. Here’s how it will work:

To begin, Bandwagon will work with both PayPal and Stripe. You create your own merchant account with one of these two processors, then set it up in your Bandwagon profile. This means that 100% of the payment processing will be done in your own merchant account, and Bandwagon will take 0% of your transaction fees. I’m doing this because:

  1. It’s best for Bandwagon as an open source app.
  2. It’s best for me because it limits the work and liability that comes with touching your money.
  3. I think it’ll be best for you, by putting you firmly in control of your own revenue.


What will this mean for paid plans?


Paid accounts are still on deck for Bandwagon.fm - once album sales and account migration tools are ready. I’m currently looking at a single paid tier at $10/month called “Bandwagon Premier” that will enable online album sales, higher bitrate streaming, and a handful of other features to be announced in the future. I will also give away some Bandwagon Premier accounts on a case by case basis for small artists who need an extra boost. I think this strikes a balance between fair prices and a sustainable ecosystem for everyone.

This is more than just “album sales”


This payment integration will work for both one-time sales (like “buy my album”) and recurring payments (like “join my Patreon”). It all depends on what you want to create for your fans. I’m working on a system that’ll let you grant special access to ANYTHING based on your visitors’ purchases and subscriptions. Want to sell a one-off album? Yes. Want to make a paid newsfeed for “A-List fans? Yup.

How will I connect to Stripe or PayPal?


The details will vary for each merchant processor, but at a high level, you’ll set up your products and subscription plans with Stripe or PayPal, then copy API keys into Bandwagon to link the two together. There will probably be a few more steps than, say, selling stuff on Bandcamp, but I’m working to make this as smooth as possible. The end result will be that you’re firmly in control of your own brand and revenue, without being locked in to any platform - whether it’s Bandwagon.fm, or a payment processor.

What about paying with crypto?


No.

Will it support X payment processor?


At launch, Bandwagon will only support Stripe and PayPal. The goal is to include a select few other processors going forward, depending on what works best for the community. So how do you all currently sell stuff? Let me know. We’ll see if we can plug into them, too. By enabling payments with multiple processors, we can avoid being locked in to bad platforms, and can mitigate their worst monopolistic effects.

Which reminds me, I should probably (finally) write down…

My Decentralization Manifesto


If you’ve been online for 30 seconds or more, you’ve certainly seen some strong opinions about relying on services from big companies. For the most part, they’re justified. Enshitification, surveillance capitalism, and corporate over-reach are all real problems. On the Fediverse, the typical answer is to avoid “centralized” services at all costs. Some voices want to block any kind of search engine because of the potential for abuse. But “distributed everything” is not the only solution available, and it’s probably not even the best choice.

At the end of the day, some things (like moving money online) are hard, and doing it well necessarily means working with big companies. Now, I’m as disappointed as you in the way many big companies are behaving in 2025, but I’m still enough of a capitalist to believe that there are solutions in a free market (a real free market).

Enshittification happens when a company’s customers are so loyal to their brand that management is comfortable squeezing their customers for just a little more. Often times, that loyalty comes from necessity; there’s simply no good alternative to Company XYZ.

The solution is to prevent any one organization from gaining monopoly control over us. By playing competitors against each other (publicly and loudly) each platform knows that their business could evaporate at a moment’s notice if they ever let their customers down. You’d be shocked to learn just how scared the C-suite can get when they think their customers have other places to spend their money.

What does this mean for Bandwagon? Bandwagon will build integrations with private companies (lots of them, actually) but we will never depend on any one specific company. Open APIs are best, but when those are unavailable, we’ll connect directly to Stripe, PayPal, or anyone who can deliver benefits for indie artists. But If I have to integrate with one merchant provider to accept payments, then I’ll integrate with two, or seven, or as many as we can to guarantee that the companies we work with cannot abuse their position with monopoly power.

And what does this mean for Bandwagon.fm? I’m in this game, too… I mean, I just laid out my pricing plans for Bandwagon Premier, and I really want your $10/month. But for this project to be viable, the ecosystem needs other Bandwagon servers to be online. And you need to know that if Ben goes off the rails, you can always run your own server or jump over to an open collective that’s doing the same. Ironically, this lack of lock-in is what builds real confidence in both customers and the organizations that serve them. So, Bandwagon will always be free and independent, and not tied down to anyone. Not even me.

Too big to care - Cory Doctorow - Medium

I’m on tour with my new, nationally bestselling novel The Bezzle! Catch me in Boston (Apr 11) with Randall “XKCD” Munroe, Providence (Apr 12) and beyond! Remember the first time you used Google…
Cory Doctorow (Medium)

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US Ditching Ukraine “Peace Talks,” Predictable Continuity of Agenda Follows journal-neo.su/2025/05/06/us-d…

US Ditching Ukraine “Peace Talks,” Predictable Continuity of Agenda Follows

Despite running for office promising to resolve the conflict in Ukraine within “24 hours,” US President Donald Trump and the special interests he serves
Брайан Берлетик (New Eastern Outlook)

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On day 578: Key developments in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza #Palestine english.palinfo.com/news/2025/…

On day 578: Key developments in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza

The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) continued their genocide campaign against the Gaza Strip, now entering its 578th day since the onset of aggression.
The Palestinian Information Center

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Iranian Araghchi Visits Pakistan, India to Discuss Relations sputnikglobe.com/20250506/iran…

Iranian Top Diplomat Araghchi to Visit Pakistan, India to Discuss Ties

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will visit Pakistan and India this week to discuss bilateral relations and regional developments, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.
Sputnik International

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“They Were Shot in the Groin”: American ICU Nurse Exposes Gaza War Crimes mintpressnews.com/us-nurse-gaz…

Wally Massay: Nurse Exposes Gaza Horror in Exclusive Interview

American ICU nurse Wally Massay speaks about his harrowing experience working in Gaza hospitals under Israeli bombardment, revealing firsthand accounts of mass civilian casualties and deliberate attacks on medical staff.
Mnar Adley (MintPress News)

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George Patton: Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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'I got it wrong': [UK] Conservative MP 'withdraws' support for Israel over war in Gaza - Politics.co.uk (2025-05-06)

politics.co.uk/parliament/i-go…
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>> Mark Pritchard, the MP for The Wrekin since 2005, noted that over twenty years as a parliamentarian he had supported Israel “pretty much at all costs.”

>> “But today, I want to say that I got it wrong and I condemn Israel for what it is doing to the Palestinian people in Gaza and indeed in the West Bank, and I’d like to withdraw my support right now for the actions of Israel, what they are doing right now in Gaza…

>> “Can the minister stand up to our friends and allies in the United States and make a strong stand for humanity? ...”

>> The minister on duty commended Pritchard for his “very powerful intervention”, adding: “I hear his words and I feel their force”.

#UKPol #MarkPritchard
@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel


'I got it wrong': Conservative MP 'withdraws' support for Israel over war in Gaza - Politics.co.uk

A long-serving Conservative MP has symbolically “withdrawn” his support for Israel over its actions in Gaza.
Politics.co.uk

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Mastodon doesn't like Addy aliases

It appears to be an unauthorized provider.

Addy aliases are temporary email addresses (aliases) that forward messages to their primary email account. This can help protect a user's real email address from spam, unwanted marketing, or potential data breaches.

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The Silence Of The International Community On The Gaza Unprecedented Massacres: An Analytical Perspective orientalreview.su/2025/05/06/t…

The Silence Of The World On The Gaza Unprecedented Massacres

The apparent silence of the international community regarding Gaza massacres is a multifaceted issue rooted in geopolitical interests.
Daboul KOUTAIBA (Oriental Review)

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Hannah Arendt on lesser evil:

"A crucial rationale used early in the Nazi regime and one heard today was that, as Arendt puts it, “if you are confronted with two evils… it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether.” Yet Arendt quickly notes the catastrophic morality of this position: “those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.”

cont.

liberalcurrents.com/the-banali…


The Banality of Complicity: Arendt's Guide to Moral Resistance in the Age of Trump

Even in seemingly powerless positions, the choice to withdraw one’s support from corrupt systems remains a meaningful assertion of humanity.
Peter Michael Gratton (Liberal Currents)
This entry was edited (3 months ago)
in reply to John

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John

Hate to break it to you Dem voters, but your party has been playing you for fools this entire time, ratcheting up their evil to the point where now y'all don't even know what a fucking genocide *looks* like.

Remember DADT/DOMA? Remember the War on Terror, Patriot Act, Eternal AUMF, and 20-year wars you supported? Remember the torture you never punished? Remember the banks you bailed out and the homeowners you bailed on? Remember burying COVID? Remember supporting a genocide?

Yup. That was you.

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How Hamas Sees the Current Moment: An Exclusive Interview With Osama Hamdan dropsitenews.com/p/osama-hamda…

How Hamas Sees the Current Moment: An Exclusive Interview With Osama Hamdan

In a wide-ranging interview with Drop Site, the senior Hamas leader discusses negotiation strategy, why disarmament is a red line, his direct talks with U.S. officials, and more.
Jeremy Scahill (Drop Site News)

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Claude-Adrien Helvétius: The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

ActivityPub - Link to source

Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


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