Biden says he's partially responsible for Trump beating Democrats in 2024
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-takes-responsibility-for-trump-victory-over-kamala-harris/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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In an interview with "The View," former President Joe Biden said he took some responsibility for President Trump's 2024 win because he was "in charge."Joe Walsh (CBS News)
When Abandoned Mines Collapse
Link: practical.engineering/blog/202…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In December of 2024, a huge sinkhole opened up on I-80 near Wharton, New Jersey, creating massive traffic delays as crews worked to figure out what happened and get it fixed.Wesley Crump (Practical Engineering)
Mexico City to Invest $250 Million on World Cup Infrastructure
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Mexico City is developing a financial structure to use as much as 5 billion pesos ($256 million) for new infrastructure works in preparation for games of the 2026 FIFA World Cup to be played in the capital, according to a top city official.Alex Vasquez (Bloomberg)
Miguel Díaz-Canel: Pessimism is not the nature of revolutionaries. That is not an option for those of us who believe a better world is possible. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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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India also said it targeted Pakistani sites, including an air defence system.Kevin Shalvey (ABC News)
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By Alan Macleod - May 2, 2025The Trump administration’s deal to send large numbers of people to prisons in El Salvador has thrust its president, Nayib Bukele, into the international spotlight.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
Definitive vaccine myocarditis paper - Dr. John Campbell
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We urge governments to remove the COVID-19 mRNA products from the market,
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We urge governments to remove the COVID-19 mRNA products from the market,due to the well-documented risk of myocardial damage, a risk that is strongest for y...YouTube
OA-1K Skyraider II Walk-Around Tour With Its Test Pilot
youtube.com/watch?v=_nKCBO8hfF…
We got an up-close look at L3Harris' Sky Warden variant of the famed AT-802 Air Tractor that is serving as the test aircraft for Air Force Special Operation Command's OA-1K Skyraider II program.
The War Zone — also known by the shorthand TWZ — has become an essential resource for the national security community, the defense industry, and the interested public at large since it was launched in 2016.YouTube
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I can only speak to 1984 the book and my decades as an American citizen by birth.
The idea of reading 1984 in school was to teach us the signs of dystopia so we'd steer around them.
However, at the time wealthy Americans had already been waging continuous war on the middle class for decades while politicians corrupted the US Federal Government in order to provide a direct path for the wealthy to purchase taxpayer funded corporate welfare at an incredible value of several pennies for each US taxpayer dollar dispersed.
Now we are a weak nation of cowards and wage slaves in thrall to sociopaths, criminals, and drug addicts.
Israel continues to violate the 27 November ceasefire agreement with Lebanonthecradle.co
André Malraux: I saw democracies intervene against just about everything except against fascism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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.
Pakistan said on May 8 that its military downed 25 Indian loitering munitions across the country, after what it called...Anonymous1199 (South Front)
One year ago, in the occupation prisons, severely ill prisoner Moatassem Raddad sent a message, saying: “I feel like the next martyr in the occupation’s prisons.” Tonight, 8 May, …Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
Please let me know if there is already an accepted way to do this.
Early in the install process, you'd have a field to type a hostname of a local machine that you'd like to install like. The installer would download an "Install facts" file and install the new machine like the model machine.
The "install facts" file is created at install time. it contains things like timezone, language, percentage of disk space for each partition (to handle disk space of differing sizes) Optional files selected, username/password for root and for first user - anything needed to make the install a two click operation.
Note that this would be a full new install - not a clone of a machine that has been in use for a while.
Nix is a tool that takes a unique approach to package management and system configuration. Learn how to make reproducible, declarative and reliable systems.nixos.org
For Debian there's Preseed, for Arch there's archinstall, for a Fedora/RHEL there's Kickstart, for Alpine there's setup scripts, for distros with fully manual installs, you could just write a script?
Automating your install is something any sysadmin and mainly any distro developer will quickly reach towards, so it is something almost certain to exist.
Though, if I understand you, you'd want that to be "sourced" from an existing system, yes? I can see the use of that...
Learn more about Fedora Linux, the Fedora Project & the Fedora Community.Fedora Docs
Pro-Palestine protesters at Columbia University reclaimed Butler Library and called for it to be renamed the Basel Al-Araj Popular University.iranpress.com
rclone and Rclone-Browser are now my two favorite apps on #Linux. #rclone #RcloneBrowser #S3 #bucket #maintenance
Notes on rolling out Cursor and Claude Code
Link: ghiculescu.substack.com/p/nobo…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Fidel Castro: My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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.
26 civilians killed, 46 injured in Indian attack on Pakistan: official-english.news.cn
My reports yesterday 7th May, for UK Column – I cover the Trump hubris over the ‘ceasefire’ in Yemen which is nothing more than a US retreat from the fray after devastating losses and over-bu…The Wall Will Fall
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🔴 Les États-Unis sont le premier trafiquant de drogue au monde et ils sont les héritiers de la Grande-Bretagne, qui a utilisé l’opium contre la Chine et contre les peuples du monde afin de contrôler et d’occuper leurs ressources.
Aujourd’hui, la drogue se répand aux États-Unis, et au lieu de s’attaquer honnêtement à la crise en criminalisant et en interdisant les drogues, ils trouvent des excuses à la Chine.
Cela ne résoudra pas le problème.
A civilian with both legs amputated was forced to walk on his stumps by the ZIONIST FORCES.
This is ZI0NISM
Caricature du Yedioth Ahronoth aujourd'hui : Que prépare Trump pour Netanyahu ?! Personne ne le sait, pas même Netanyahou.
Suite au cessez-le-feu avec les Houthis, et au milieu des spéculations qui ont agité la presse israélienne ces dernières 24 heures, on attend la déclaration de Trump concernant Gaza et si c'est la surprise « positive » dont il a parlé et qu'il annoncera avant son départ...
La politique des surprises, titre du Yedioth Ahronoth ce matin, n’a rien de nouveau. Trump avait déjà surpris Netanyahu en reprenant les négociations avec l'Iran alors qu'il était assis à côté de lui devant les caméras des journalistes à la Maison Blanche.
Le monde est confronté à un président américain narcissique qui cherche à se placer au centre de chaque scène et à la transformer en un état d’excitation et de suspense, même si c’est au milieu des cadavres et de la faim.
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Despite Kiev's all-out push against Russia and its forced conscription efforts grabbing men off the streets, Ukrainian troops are surrendering on the frontlines with some taking up arms to fight again...Odysee
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It isn't so one dimensional anyway.
The latest polio outbreaks in poor countries were from vaccine derived strains of virus.
It goes like this:
The Sabin vax is live virus with a couple mutations that render it weak. Give vax to child in a naive population. It replicates, the child develops immunity, but shits out live virus particles.
Billions of them. Evolution runs a million times faster in viruses - a few of the particles have mutations which reverse the Sabin weakness.
Other people get infected. Most of them quietly develop immunity, but polio is wildly contagious.
The ones with the un-weak mutation propagate better and you have an outbreak...
Making bill gates persona non grata in many 3rd world countries...
In this May 1, 2025, photo taken by fellow NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain works near one of the International Space Station's main solar arraysNASA
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On May 7, Chinese President Xi Jinping began a state visit to Russia where he will also attend the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union at the invitation of his Russian counterpart Vl…Friends of Socialist China
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Des gifles américaines retentissantes secouent l'entité occupante... le sionistan et Netanyahou est isolé !
Channel 12 Israël révèle les récentes actions américaines les plus marquantes, qui représentent des coups directs portés à Netanyahou et indiquent des changements stratégiques dangereux dans les relations de Washington avec Tel Aviv :
1 ️⃣ Un accord de trêve avec les Houthis : il a été négocié par les États-Unis sans en informer Israël, dans une démarche qui reflète le monopole de Washington sur la gestion du dossier de la région.
2 ️⃣ Israël exclu de la tournée de Trump : Trump a annoncé une prochaine visite au Moyen-Orient qui exclut Israël, quelque chose sans précédent depuis des décennies.
3 ️⃣ Arrêter l'escalade contre l'Iran : Trump arrête l'attaque israélienne et entame des négociations directes avec Téhéran malgré les menaces de Netanyahu.
4 ️⃣ Retrait américain de Syrie : accompagné de félicitations à Erdogan pour avoir étendu son influence dans le nord de la Syrie, ce qui constitue un recul par rapport au soutien implicite israélien à la présence américaine dans ce pays.
5 ️⃣ Un dialogue américain direct avec le Hamas à Doha, à l’insu d’Israël, dans une avancée politique qui touche à l’essence de la coordination entre Washington et Tel Aviv.
▪️ Le message est clair : l’Amérique redessine elle-même la carte de son influence et fait comprendre à Netanyahou que le temps des chèques ouverts est révolu.
▪️ Et la conclusion ?
L'entité est à son pire niveau diplomatique, et l'homme politique qui se vantait d'être le « fils gâté de l'Amérique » est désormais traité à coups de gifles.
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**Ce n’est plus une opération militaire. C’est une opération de déportation de masse dans des camps de concentration. **
Sionistan a lancé une nouvelle phase de son génocide à Gaza : « Les Chariots de Gédéon ». Derrière ce nom biblique, c’est un plan d’expulsion forcée à l’échelle industrielle. Tous les Gazaouis — 2,2 millions d’êtres humains — sont sommés de se regrouper dans un minuscule périmètre de 45 km², au sud de l’axe Morag, à Rafah. C’est là, et uniquement là, que l’aide humanitaire sera autorisée à passer. Autrement dit : obéissez ou mourez.
Cela signifie une densité de plus de 49 000 personnes par km², soit plus de 20 fois la densité de population de New York et bien au-delà de ce que peut contenir un espace vivable. Ce n’est pas une zone de sécurité. Ce n’est pas une enclave protégée. C’est une nasse. Un piège. Un ghetto bouclé où l’on parque une population affamée, traumatisée, sans abri, sans soins, sans garantie de survie.
Ce n’est pas une “zone humanitaire” — c’est un camp de concentration moderne. Et ce qui s’y prépare, sous nos yeux, a tout d’un programme d’extermination lente, méthodique, assumée.
Le nom de cette opération évoque déjà la purge divine. Et sur le terrain, l’intention suit : réduire un peuple à l’état de cible vivante, déshumanisée, confinée jusqu’à l’étouffement. Voilà le projet sioniste aujourd’hui. Voilà ce que sionistan ose encore appeler « défense ».
Lenin: Victory will go to the exploited, for with them is life, the strength of numbers, the strength of the masses, the strength of inexhaustible sources of all that is unselfish, high-principled, honest, forward-straining, and awakening. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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.
Omer Bartov, israélien, est l’un des plus éminent et respecté historien du génocide.
Il propose ici une longue analyse admirable et conclut que le terme génocide qu’il hésitait à employer avant, est approprié pour définir les crimes 🇮🇱 à Gaza .
Omer Bartov, israélien, est l’un des plus éminent et respecté historien du génocide.
Noch immer ist die Tatsache weitgehend unbekannt, dass Soft Power unter den Namen #Nudging weltweit unter anderem in den Bereichen #Gesundheit und #Klima eingesetzt wird.
Darum geht es in diesem Ausschnitt, das gesamte Interview finden
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Im November 2024 war ich bei dem Symposium des Netzwerks der Kritischen Richter und Staatsanwälte (KriSta) eingeladen und habe über Propaganda im 21. Jahrhun...YouTube
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Seit Ende März ruft die „Internationale Union muslimischer Gelehrter“ alle Muslime global zum Dschihad auf - gegen Israel und die Juden. Kein großer deutscher Islamverband distanziert sich - auch auf Apollo News-Anfrage verurteilt man die Fatwa nicht.
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In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem
Die „Internationale Union muslimischer Gelehrter“ hat zum Dschihad aufgerufen. Auf Anfrage von Apollo News wollen sich deutsche Islamverbände davon nicht distanzieren.Marie Rahenbrock (Apollo News)
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In 500 Jahren wird man zurückblicken und sich fragen, warum zum Teufel die europäische Hochkultur untergegangen ist. Und die Historiker werden sagen: „Weil die das damals nicht hingekriegt haben, die Ernährung ihrer Haustiere umzustellen …“
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Haushunde haben einen großen CO2-Pfotenabdruck, das liegt vor allem am Futter. Weniger Fleisch im Fressnapf würde das ändern. Können Hunde auch vegan leben?DER STANDARD
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Last Wednesday, we retirees generated an important political event that was deliberately ignored by most of the media.www.pensionistas.info
The #InternetArchive wants your support for this petition urging the record labels to drop their existential lawsuit. I signed.
Uruguay. Statements by the “progressive” foreign minister: “We do not recognize anyone in Venezuela: neither Maduro nor the one who claimed to have triumphed” / Opinions of a convert Sebastián Fest / El Mundo / Resumen Latinoamericano / March 4, 2025…www.pensionistas.info
Progress toward fusion energy gain as measured against the Lawson criteria
Link: fusionenergybase.com/articles/…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Pour toutes informations concernant le congrès, veuillez contacter le camarade Abderrazzak Drissi. Merci. email of Abderrazzak Drissi: abderrazzakdrissi@gmail.com.www.pensionistas.info
cally and casey means (new sugeon general and her brother) on tucker. i saw this before when it aired and forgot it was her
the new Pope is being called Leo XIV?
Pope Leo X was the one who excommunicated Martin Luther - and then died months later supposedly of pneumonia.
This is what Martin Luther had to say about the papacy back then in his 1545 work Against the Roman Papacy, an Institution of the Devil
“I am not lying to you. Whoever has been in Rome knows that conditions are unfortunately worse there than anyone can say or believe. When the last Lateran council was to be concluded in Rome under Pope Leo, among other articles it was decreed that one must believe the soul to be immortal. From this one may gather that they make eternal life an object of sheer mockery and contempt. In this way they confess that it is a common belief among them that there is no eternal life, but that they now wish to proclaim this by means of a bull. More remarkable yet, in the same bull they decided that a cardinal should not keep as many boys in the future. However, Pope Leo commanded that this be deleted; otherwise it would have been spread throughout the whole world how openly and shamelessly the pope and the cardinals in Rome practice sodomy. I do not wish to mention the pope, but since the knaves will not repent, but condemn the gospel, blaspheme and revile God’s word, and excuse their vices, they, in turn, will have to take a whiff of their own terrible filth. This vice is so prevalent among them that recently a pope caused his own death by means of this sin and vice.In fact, he died on the spot. All right now, you popes, cardinals, papists, spiritual lords, keep on persecuting God’s word and defending your doctrine and your churches!
_No pope, cardinal, bishop, doctor, priest, monk, or nun will condemn such an obviously disgraceful life; rather they laugh about it, excuse it, and gloss over it. They incite kings, princes, country, and people to defend such knaves with life and property, with land and people, and faithfully to protect them so that such vices might not be repented of and reformed, but rather strengthened, sanctioned, and approved. Now you are to hazard blood, body, and life just for the sake of Saddling your neck and conscience with this. I could easily mention more examples of such abominations, but it is too shameful; I fear that our German soil would have to tremble before it. But if an impudent popish ass should come along and dispute this, he will find me ready to do him battle, and it will be quite a battle!”
#Pope #Papacy #pedophiles
also: Pope Leo X died in 1521. Is he the one who "caused his own death by sin and vice"?
BTW, Leo X was a Medici (a banking family)...
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Friedrich Engels: With the seizing of the means of production by society, production of commodities is done away with, and, simultaneously, the mastery of the product over the producer. Anarchy in social production is replaced by systematic, definite organization. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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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.
More than a thousand workers, mostly retirees, took over the area around the National Congress on Wednesday, February 19, as they have been doing for 35 years.www.pensionistas.info
Offended South Korean residents have made over 100 calls to police regarding an 'over-sexualized' anime figure.
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Port-au-Prince, May 5 (Prensa Latina) The budget deficit undermines the effectiveness of the Multinational Security Support Mission in Haiti, as it has been unable to deploy a staff of 2,500 troops to combat gangs, media outlets reported today.Ileana Ferrer Fonte (Prensa Latina)
Il y a 80 ans, la France célébrait la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le même jour, à Sétif, Guelma et Kherrata, elle tuait des milliers d’Algérien·nes qui manifestaient pour la liberté.
Voici l’autre face du 8 mai 1945.
>India suddenly demanding X censor ~8,000 accounts
SAAR,
I AM TELLING YOO CLOG EET DOWN
📞 Maxime, auditeur RMC : "On ne peut pas allumer la télé sans entendre un média qui tape sur Mélenchon. C'est juste un homme fort. Plus vous tapez sur lui, plus il va prendre des voix."
Voilà. 💥
RAMALLAH /PNN / A new documentary film titled "Who Killed Shireen?" and produced by Zeteo Media hasenglish.pnn.ps
Reservoir Sampling
Link: samwho.dev/reservoir-sampling/
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
Link: blog.hayman.net/2025/05/06/fro…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
The one email I ever got from Steve Jobs, and it said “Great idea, thank you.”blog.hayman.net
“We are told repeatedly that AI will eventually help us solve social issues, including climate change, even while AI infrastructures are right now burdening communities and undermining climate goals.”
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Hah ha. That's a good one. Big Tech is like the arsonist caught setting a house on fire, claiming that he will build more houses than he sets on fire if only we let him burn this one down. And we believe him.
In this op-ed, politics editor Lex McMenamin explains why using AI to search "how to be sustainable" could be accomplishing the opposite.Lex McMenamin (Teen Vogue)
Organizations across Southeast Asia are facing a concerning rise in ransomware attacks, with businesses in the region experiencing an average of 400 attempted attacks per day in 2024, according to international cybersecurity firm Kaspersky.global.chinadaily.com.cn
Jury out.
Praying continues. ✝️
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A showcase of melting glaciers, alpine meadows, carved valleys, and spectacular lakes. With over 700 miles of trails, Glacier is a paradise for adventurous visitors seeking a landscape steeped in human culture.www.nps.gov
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in reply to unusual_whales • • •Trump said he was anticipating a “good weekend” of discussions with Beijing.
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Trump: "You better go out and buy stocks now"
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