“They handcuffed a child — then shot him.” #UK Special Forces veterans have broken years of silence to expose a pattern of war crimes by British elite troops in #Afghanistan and #Iraq. They describe detainees executed in cold blood, children murdered in their sleep, and wounded civilians finished off at close range — as revealed in a BBC Panorama investigation.
#US
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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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Une jeune femme a affirmé avoir été violemment agressée à Paris après avoir porté un t-shirt en solidarité avec la #Palestine.
Les faits se seraient déroulés le 11 mai, dans une rue de la capitale. “Une femme attablée m’a lancé qu’elle avait envie de m’étrangler à cause de mon t-shirt ‘Stand for #Gaza’”, témoigne la victime.
En filmant la scène, elle dit avoir été surprise par deux personnes qui l’ont immobilisée avant de lui asséner un coup de tête au visage.
“Je suis partie à l’hôpital, le visage en sang”, raconte-t-elle, évoquant des points de suture et un profond état de choc.Dans un message adressé à l’eurodéputée Rima Hassan, la victime indique avoir porté plainte et sollicite un soutien juridique.
La jeune femme déplore qu'afficher son soutien à la Palestine dans l’espace public est devenu un acte à haut risque en France, dans un contexte où la dénonciation du #génocide à Gaza orchestré avec la complicité des dirigeants occidentaux, se heurte à une instrumentalisation croissante de l’ #antisémitisme.
“Porter un t-shirt aux couleurs de la Palestine n’est et ne sera jamais un acte antisémite”, affirme-t-elle, dénonçant une tentative de bâillonner la solidarité.
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[ The Guardian: ‘Customers are being duped’: how murky grocery sales tactics are squeezing some Kroger shoppers ]
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#Smith's (a Kroger brand out west) does this all the damn time. To the point where I just assume anything "on sale" actually isn't.
Back in Atlanta I used to do Kroger grocery pick up all the time and it's hard for them to pull that shit on their own app. But twice I tried to do grocery pick up here in ABQ and it was a disaster.
Both times.
Kroger stores in multiple states have overcharged customers by listing expired sale tags and then ringing up regular prices – a practice that adds extra burdens on struggling US familiesMichael Hudson (The Guardian)
« Si la richesse était le résultat inévitable du travail acharné et de la libre entreprise, toutes les femmes d'Afrique seraient millionnaires. » (George Monbiot)
Photo Finbarr O'Reilly - Femme africaine portant du bois et son enfant.
« If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and free enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. » (George Monbiot)
#rich #meritocraty #meritocratie #education #power
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George Monbiot: Our common treasury in the last 30 years has been captured by industrial psychopaths. That's why we're nearly bankruptGeorge Monbiot (The Guardian)
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Ah bon, il manque encore 40 milliards ?
Le salaire net moyen dans les 3 versants de la fonction publique est de 2.500€ mensuels.
Il y a 5,7 millions d'agents publics.
Depuis 1999 la valeur du point d'indice à décroché de 25% par rapport à l'indice mobile des prix.
En moyenne, il manque donc 25% de 2500€ chaque mois à chaque agent public soit 625€.
Soit chaque année :
625x12x5.700.00= 42.750.000.000
42 milliards d'économies par le sacrifice des fonctionnaires.
#pointdindice #fonctionpublique
Attached: 1 image Ah bon, il manque encore 40 milliards ? #LeSachiezTu ? Le salaire net moyen dans les 3 versants de la fonction publique est de 2.500€ mensuels. Il y a 5,7 millions d'agents publics.Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net
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At least 56 Palestinians have been killed in fresh Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since dawn Wednesday.PressTV
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There has been a steady stream of recalls since March 2025, ranging from tortilla chips to frozen mealsMataeo Smith (The Mirror US)
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La secrétaire générale de la CGT était la première personnalité invitée à interroger le président de la République, mardi 13 mai 2025, sur « TF1 ». Le débat a été animé, voici ce qu’il faut en retenir.
Pour entamer l’émission à laquelle il participe mardi 13 mai 2025 sur le plateau de TF1, Emmanuel Macron sait qu’il va « être interpellé par des Français », lui présente Gilles Bouleau. Les échanges avec la première personnalité invitée, Sophie Binet, secrétaire générale de la CGT, donnent droit à une véritable passe d’armes.
Nationalisation ou pas d’ArcelorMittal en France ?
Ils s’écharpent en particulier autour d’une éventuelle nationalisation d’ArcelorMittal en France, réclamée par la CGT et par les salariés du géant de l’acier, alors que ce dernier a reçu d’importantes aides publiques mais vient d’annoncer 636 suppressions d’emplois dans l’Hexagone – dont la moitié de licenciements, précise Emmanuel Macron. Dans l’usine de Loire-Atlantique à Indre, 89 postes sont menacés. « Monsieur le Président, cette situation-là, c’est le résultat de votre politique », affirme la secrétaire générale de la CGT, estimant que rien n’a été fait.
La secrétaire générale de la CGT était la première personnalité invitée à interroger le président de la République, ce mardi 13 mai, sur " TF1 ". Le débat a été animé, voici ce qu'il ...
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Emmanuel Macron face aux Français sur TF1: politique intérieure, Ukraine et débat avec la CGT
Lors de l’émission spéciale «Emmanuel Macron – Les défis de la France» diffusée sur TF1 le 13 mai 2025, le chef de l’État a tenté de répondre aux critiques sur son bilan national, sa politique étrangère et a affronté la secrétaire générale de la CGT, Sophie Binet, dans un échange musclé sur les licenciements et la réforme des retraites.
Diffusée à 20h10 ce 13 mai sur TF1, l’émission « Les défis de la France » a vu Emmanuel Macron répondre en direct à Gilles Bouleau, à Darius Rochebin, à des membres de la société civile et à plusieurs figures politiques et syndicales. L’objectif affiché : « redonner de la perspective ». Mais les réactions contrastées, tant sur les réseaux sociaux que sur le plateau, montrent la distance croissante entre l’Élysée et une partie de la population.
Sur la situation intérieure, Emmanuel Macron a reconnu que « le pays se caractérise par un pessimisme sur lui-même » tout en défendant son bilan: gestion des crises, baisse du chômage et relance industrielle. « On a repris du muscle », a-t-il affirmé, malgré les critiques des micro-trottoirs diffusés en début d’émission, où des citoyens dénonçaient un président « déconnecté » qui « ruine le pays ». Macron s’est voulu rassurant: « Je ne dis pas que tout a été bien fait ces huit dernières années» , tout en mettant en avant les créations d’emplois et les politiques de transition écologique.
Conflit en Ukraine et posture militaire française
Concernant l’Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron a maintenu la ligne française d’un soutien sans engagement direct. « On a décidé d’aider l’Ukraine, mais de ne jamais rentrer dans une escalade », a-t-il déclaré, assurant que les Occidentaux « ne veulent pas déclencher de troisième conflit mondial ». À propos des avoirs russes gelés, il a reconnu qu’il n’y avait « pas de cadre légal » pour les utiliser. « Ce n’est pas une bonne idée aujourd’hui », a-t-il ajouté. Le président a aussi évoqué la possibilité de « nouvelles sanctions contre la Russie », en coordination avec les États-Unis, si aucun cessez-le-feu n’était respecté.
Si les Européens veulent rester libres, il faut se mettre en situation de s'armer, d'être solidaires et de dissuader, souligne le président français
Sur le terrain militaire, Emmanuel Macron a insisté sur le « réveil géopolitique » et sur l’adaptation à une « économie de guerre ». Il a mentionné le doublement du budget de la Défense à l'horizon 2030 et la hausse des cadences de production d’armement. Il a rappelé que la France possédait « la seule armée européenne indépendante » et n’a pas exclu d’ouvrir des discussions sur la dissuasion nucléaire avec d’autres pays, comme la Pologne.
Sur le plan économique international, il a vivement critiqué la politique douanière de Donald Trump, l’accusant de nuire à la croissance américaine. « L’Europe vit une crise industrielle, aggravée par la concurrence déloyale asiatique et les décisions de Washington », a dénoncé le président, affirmant vouloir « se battre avec l’administration américaine pour revenir à la situation antérieure ».
Affrontement avec Sophie Binet sur l’industrie et les retraites
L’échange le plus tendu a opposé Emmanuel Macron à la secrétaire générale de la CGT, Sophie Binet. Cette dernière a interpellé le président sur les plans sociaux massifs en France, notamment celui d’ArcelorMittal, où 600 suppressions de postes sont prévues. « Allez-vous nationaliser ArcelorMittal ? », a-t-elle lancé. Le chef de l’État a refusé: « Ce serait dépenser des milliards d’euros (...). La réponse, c’est une politique européenne qui protège notre acier ». Macron a défendu son action, rappelant la création de 150 000 emplois industriels entre 2017 et 2024, mais Binet a rétorqué: « Encore une fois, vous refusez d’affronter les multinationales ».
Sur la réforme des retraites, le président a fermé la porte à tout référendum. « La réponse est non », a-t-il tranché. Selon lui, cette réforme est indispensable pour éviter des déficits croissants et permettrait d’économiser 17 milliards d’euros. Sophie Binet a dénoncé une injustice sociale et proposé de sanctionner les entreprises qui ne respectent pas l’égalité salariale entre hommes et femmes afin de financer les retraites.
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La secrétaire générale de la CGT était la première personnalité invitée à interroger le président de la République, mardi 13 mai 2025, sur « TF1 ». Le débat a été animé, voici ce qu’il faut en retenir. Pour entamer l’émission à laquelle il participe.El Diablo (Commun COMMUNE [le blog d'El Diablo])
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LDAC is proprietary, so I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't available on Linux. You can probably use SBC-XQ, though, which is open source and lossless. Try installing pavucontrol and check what codecs it offers you for the headphones.
Edit: SBC-XQ, not QX.
yeah... suddenly Germany, Sweden and the UK figured out mass migration was unsustainable - just after USAID was cut.
just a cohencindence.
While most Americans probably didn't even hear that President Trump lifted sanctions on Syria, Syrians have filled their streets in celebration.
For many, this is life-changing news.
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It is now clear to Wadhington hat revisionist Zionists are the enemies of peace and therefore also of Israel.Thierry MEYSSAN (Oriental Review)
We used to be a proper country.
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After all that, the Max streaming platform will be re-rebranded back to HBO Max this summer. It's 'the plot everyone's been waiting for,' a cheeky update on the app says.Nick Romano (Entertainment Weekly)
From the besieged Gaza, the al-Qassam Brigades fighters also engage in confrontations with invading Israeli forces.Al Mayadeen English (Al-Quds Brigades targets Israeli settlements with rocket barrages)
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i have a friend — she's an old lady born and raised here in the western north carolina mountains. she hates computers, yes, but she's been willing to learn a lot and quickly after joining a big signal group chat that our shared local community uses to keep in touch.
aside from memeing with the best of them in the group chat, she also maintains a large fish pond outside the house she built herself. this despite being in her 70s. she's an inspiration.
she has a landline. it works great, and the landline phone hardware works great with her hearing aids. she's had it for years. spectrum has a monoply in our area so the landline and her cable internet service is with spectrum.
she got a cell phone a few years ago. she got a smartphone basically because she had to to do basic life tasks, including joining the big signal group chat. at first she just used it on wifi, but quickly she decided she wanted to be able to use the phone everywhere so she got a cell phone plan from spectrum because they were already her ISP. spectrum mobile uses the verizon network — famed for its good rural coverage.
this is where things started to go haywire.
all her accounts on websites, things like email and bank accounts and health insurance and healthcare providers, they started trying to send her SMS messages in order to let her get into her accounts.
the SMS codes don't work, because they don't come. she doesn't have cell service at her house. it's up in the mountains, sure, but it's not isolated. she lives 20 minutes from downtown asheville and she has lots of neighbors on her road.
she turned on wifi calling on her phone. now she could receive SMS messages from friends and family, but 2FA codes still weren't coming through. i did some digging, and it turns out messages from 5 digit shortcodes often aren't supported over wifi calling. sometimes they are, but in her case they're clearly not. she has a current, stock iphone. she's using the spectrum-provided internet hardware. she knows how to use her phone.
i did more digging — it turns out some ISP-provided landline services support receiving SMS messages to the landline, and then a computer voice reads them out to you. “we don't offer that service” the spectrum chat told us.
some of these accounts can likely be converted to using TOTP 2FA rather than SMS 2FA. this is good, but you have to get in to begin with in order to turn that on. so what my friend has to do is:
other options available to her include
these are all ridiculous options that shouldn't be necessary in order to log in to a website.
if you look at the spectrum mobile coverage map where my friend lives, it shows she has perfect coverage at her house. and all her neighbors do too. all the way up the holler in fact!
this is simply false. she usually doesn't even have service 100 meters down the road.
another friend of mine who also lives out in the county, a millenial, once said that “SMS 2FA is the bane of [her] existence.” the valley she's in isn't even that deep.
and TOTP, the obvious alternative solution, is still pretty sorry. you have to download an app to do it, it's not just a capability that a phone has by default. and then when trying to find an app to use for it, you're presented with a multitude of high-stakes choices, and often pretty technical explanations if you start internet searching about which app to use.
i understand why SMS 2FA is so ubiquitous. when it works, the UX is good, nontechnical users intuitively understand it, and it's usually secure enough.
but there are 1.1 million people in these western north carolina mountains, 25 million in the rest of the appalachians, and many millions more in the mountain west and pacific ranges.
we have internet, but we have F-tier cell service — what are we supposed to do?
SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people
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A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted Milwaukee County judge Hannah Dugan for obstructing an ICE arrest last month.
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A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted Milwaukee County judge Hannah Dugan for obstructing an ICE arrest last month.Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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As leftist Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum refuses to grant permission for US forces to go after the Cartels in their territory, and also does not decisively act against them, the criminal organizations continue to run unchecked, killing and maiming non-stop – including politicians.
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As leftist Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum refuses to grant permission for US forces to go after the Cartels in their territory, and also does not decisively act against them, the criminal organizations continue to run unchecked, killin…Paul Serran (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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DHS Chief Kristi Noem on Tuesday evening said the New Jersey Democrat lawmakers involved in the violent altercation at the Newark ICE facility last Friday committed felonies.
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DHS Chief Kristi Noem on Tuesday evening said the New Jersey Democrat lawmakers involved in the violent altercation at the Newark ICE facility last Friday committed felonies.Cristina Laila (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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Sleek deadly warships, swift attack helicopters and formidable coastal defenses – this is Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in action!Sputnik International
The 2025 election cycle has seen a notable series of Republican losses in key local and state races. These defeats were often in traditionally Republican strongholds. Stolen or not, one thing is clear: Republicans must turn out in overwhelming numbers. Make it too big to rig.
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Democrat John Ewing has unseated Republican incumbent Jean Stothert in Omaha’s 2025 mayoral election, marking a significant political shift in Nebraska’s largest city.Jim Hᴏft (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
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Pope Leo XIV’s MAGA-supporting brother Louis Prevost has defended his clerical record and said he is likely to govern the church as a centrist.
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Pope Leo XIV’s brother Louis Prevost has defended his clerical record and said he is likely to govern the church as a centrist.Ben Kew (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Democrat Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed a Republican bill on Tuesday that would require public high schools to adhere to President Trump’s “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness” executive order by including geography and instruction on the Gulf of America.
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Democrat Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs vetoed a Republican bill on Tuesday that would require public high schools to adhere to President Trump’s “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness” executive order by including geography and inst…Jordan Conradson (Where Hope Finally Made a Comeback)
Iowa GOP Rep. Randy Feenstra on Monday filed paperwork to run for Iowa governor next year, as Republicans in the Hawk-eye state weigh who could replace Gov. Kim Reynolds.
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Reynolds, a popular Republican governor, announced last month that she was not seeking a third term in office, stating she wanted to spend more time with her family.Misty Severi (Just The News)
Richard Feynman: Keep an open mind – but not so open that your brain falls out. 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.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday reportedly dismissed two top officials on the National Intelligence Council, as part of her effort to curb the "politicization" of the intelligence community.
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The director relocated the council from the CIA, back to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), and dismissed acting head of the council Mike Collins, and his deputy Maria Langan-Riekhof.Misty Severi (Just The News)
The US president said he wants Syria to have 'a chance at greatness' as government forces continue to carry out targeted killings along sectarian linesthecradle.co
The House Energy and Commerce Committee released its section of the Republicans' budget reconciliation bill Sunday evening. The legislation, which was marked up on Tuesday, includes provisions to scrap $6.5 billion in funding from parts of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that funds climate-related issues.
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Coalitions wrote competing letters to the Ways and Means Committee chair, with 21 Republicans wanting to keep the green energy subsidies in Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, and 38 Republicans seeking a full repeal.Kevin Killough (Just The News)
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Read together, multiple indicators suggest that the Trump economy defied expectations and that the trade policies did not adversely damage the nation’s overall economic health. If the trend continues, Trump will have fulfilled what politicians call "dinner table" issues for millions of Americans.
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The Spin and the Win: Opposition to Trump may have jumped the gun on the doom and gloom forecasts. Trump's string of deals and demands have moved markets to recovery. Major indices have since exceeded both their April 1 closes and predictions.Ben Whedon (Just The News)
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National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya said poor safety culture, and a feud between employees that risked the leak of an unknown pathogen, prompted him to temporarily shutter the high-level biosafety laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland.
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The incident sparked safety concerns that led the new NIH Director to order the lab temporarily closed and open a new probe over its safety practices.Steven Richards (Just The News)
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What Is HDR, Anyway?
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It's not you. HDR confuses tons of people. In this post, we finally explain what HDR actually means, the problem it presents, and three ways to solve it.Ben Sandofsky (Lux)
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Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes
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Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects. Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.store.steampowered.com
Seven decades after hosting a summit that birthed the Non-Aligned Movement, Indonesia prioritises pragmatic ties over grand gesturesBRICS
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Librem 5 protip: listening to music on a cheap pair of tiny in-ear headphones in a noisy environment? Enable HD Bass to wake the bass guitarist up:
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The Ministry of Health in Gaza condemned the heinous crime committed by the occupation forces against patients and the wounded, by directly targeting the surgical building at Nasser Medical Complex west of Khan Yunis.The Palestinian Ministry of HealDAILY YEMEN
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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday announced the launch of five programs to advance shared development and revitalization with Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries.eng.chinamil.com.cn
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Lawmakers buried the provision in a budget reconciliation bill — and it could extend beyond AI.Emma Roth (The Verge)
1. B-İlişkileri ve A-Özellikleri Güncel analitik zaman felsefesindeki merkezi tartışmalardan biri de, zamanın yalnızca eşzamanlılık, öncelik ve sonralık ilişkilerden mi (B-ilişkileri) yoksa aynı zamanda gelecek, şimdi ve geçmişin (A-özellikleri) özel…Çağan Fırtına (Öncül Analitik Felsefe)
Every blocked aid convoy, every broken truce, and every rejected peace offer underscores Israel’s true objective: erasing Palestinians from Gaza.Amos Brison (+972 Magazine)
Aujourd'hui, la Cour de justice européenne se prononcera sur le refus d'Ursula von der Leyen de divulguer les messages WhatsApp avec le PDG de Pfizer, Albert Bourla, au sujet d'un accord de 35 milliards d’Euros sur un vaccin COVID pour 1,8 milliard de doses.
Des allégations de corruption, de manque de transparence et de contournement des règles de l'UE en matière de marchés publics ont hanté son mandat de présidente de la Commission européenne. Ancienne ministre allemande de la Défense, von der Leyen a été mise en examen pour avoir « attribué » plus de 100 millions d’euros de contrats par SMS privés, supprimé des messages lors d'enquêtes et contourné les procédures d'appel d'offres publiques.
Le scandale du «Pfizergate», associé aux 4 milliards d’euros de vaccins gaspillés, illustre sa mauvaise gestion de notre argent et un conflit d’intérêts manifestement grave.
Voyons si l'UE conserve un peu de conscience et de dignité. Ou si la Cour se laisse faire.
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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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Nous apprenons, grâce au Figaro ce matin, que l’ #Arcom (Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique) vient de confier le statut de « signaleur de confiance » au #CRIF (le Conseil représentatif des Institutions Juives de France). Ce dont s’est aussitôt réjoui son président : « Ce travail de signalement fait partie de l’ADN du Crif sur l’antisémitisme, le négationnisme et par extension sur toutes les formes de haine que les internautes peuvent être amenés à rencontrer sur les réseaux sociaux ». Le règlement de l’Arcom précise que ces « signaleurs » sont des « organisations reconnues pour leur expertise dans la détection, l’identification et la notification de contenus illicites ». Jusqu’à présent, ils étaient six et tous centrés sur la protection des mineurs, la lutte contre la piraterie audiovisuelle, la cybercriminalité, la cyberviolence ou les addictions et la défense des consommateurs.En confiant cette mission à une association religieuse et aux prises de positions controversées, en particulier alignée sur la protection du gouvernement d’extrême droite génocidaire d’ #Israël, l’Arcom franchit une borne et ouvre une sérieuse brèche dans ce qui lui restait d’impartialité. Pour le Crif, l’ #antisionisme est un #antisémitisme. Ses prises de positions, surtout depuis le #7octobre 2023, ont constamment évolué quant à la définition de l’antisémitisme et du #négationnisme. En confiant à ses militants qui criminalisent plus vite qu’ils ne défendent les journalistes qui tentent d’informer sur Gaza, l’Arcom manque à la plus élémentaire des sagesses. Ceux qui vont maintenant remettre en cause la doxa qui voudrait que tout palestinien et par extension tout soutien à la cause palestinienne soit devenu un antisémite ont du souci à se faire. Question : à qui s’adresser à l’Arcom si on pense que le Crif attise la #haine en ligne ?
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Mark Ciccone flew missions in Vietnam and in 1985 worked as a traffic spotter helicopter pilot in Philadelphia. During the altercation between the MOVE organ...YouTube
Sanctions imposed on more than 20 companies that US claims sent Iranian oil to China.Reuters (DAWN.COM)
« La Meute » anti-LFI est lâchée…et souligne les contradictions croissantes de LFI.
Depuis des années – et particulièrement depuis la perquisition du siège de LFI en 2018 -, les médias aux ordres, relais de la #Macronie et de l’extrême droite réactionnaire et fascisante, s’en donnent à coeur joie pour taper sur LFI. Le positionnement courageux de cette dernière sur le #génocide en cours en terre palestinienne a débouché sur un torrent de haine et d’insultes, à l’image de la dernière saillie d’Alain #Jakubowicz, ancien président de la #LICRA qui n’a rien trouvé de mieux, jeudi 8 mai 2025 (une pure coïncidence ?), de comparer « toutes proportions gardées » (on en salive déjà…) Jean-Luc #Mélenchon à… Joseph #Goebbels. De quoi même pousser Apolline de Malherbe (très timidement…) à se désolidariser de ces propos, après les avoir laissés être débités.Il est vrai que l’occasion était belle de matraquer LFI du fait de la sortie de l’ouvrage La Meute, relatant une enquête de deux années de la part de Charlotte Belaïch (Libération) et Olivier Pérou (Le Monde) sur l’organisation interne de LFI. Un livre publié quelques jours après la diffusion d’un « Compléments d’enquêtes » sur France 2, là aussi à charge. Depuis, la meute éditocrate et journaleuse est lâchée et LFI sommée de répondre non pas à des questions, mais à des interrogatoires en règle à l’image de Manuel Bompard questionné sur BFM-TV par les euro-atlantiques Yves Thréard (Le Figaro), l’homme-lige de Macron Bruno Jeudy (Tribune du Dimanche) et l’épouse de Jean-Michel Blanquer, Anna Cabana. Indépendance et déontologie assurées…. Et les coups sont bien rôdés : « dictature », « antisémitisme », « terreur », sous-entendus avec le « stalinisme », etc.
Et quoi de mieux pour porter les coups que de s’appuyer non pas sur la droite et l’extrême droite haineuses, mais sur les « alliés » de LFI qui multiplient les attaques dans tous les sens, de Jérôme Guedj à François Ruffin, d’Olivier Faure à Fabien Roussel. Il est vrai qu’on n’est jamais mieux trahis que par les siens – n’oublions pas les « historiques » Simonnet, Garrido ou Corbière qui, dorénavant, avec la complicité de Clémentine Autain, animent l' »APRES » et, pour bien marquer leur différence, espèrent une… « union de la gauche » sans Mélenchon en 2027. De quoi ravir Lucie Castets (portée disparue) et Marine Tondelier.
Pour autant, il est assez cocasse de voir des militants insoumis crier à la « trahison » de la part de la prétendue « gauche ». Car la trahison ne peut valoir qu’une fois, pas vingt fois : dans ce cas, ce n’est plus un traître mais un ENNEMI (et de classe, de surcroît). Quand LFI décide de remettre en scelle le Parti « socialiste » au bord de la mort clinique dans le cadre du NFP en 2022, cela s’appelle du sado-masochisme politique… et l’assurance de ressusciter la « social-démocratie » (dont se réclame désormais explicitement François Ruffin). Une « social-démocratie » qui, de 1914 (a minima) à 2025, passe son temps à trahir : guerre mondiale, « pause » de Blum en 1937, pleins pouvoir à Pétain en 1940 par ¾ des parlementaires SFIO, guerre d’Algérie, « tournant de la rigueur » de 1982/83, record de privatisations, application du traité de Maastricht et soutien au bombardement otanien de la #Yougoslavie par la « gauche plurielle » (à laquelle ont appartenu Mélenchon et le PCF), mandat calamiteux de Hollande, etc. Et à chaque fois, après le désastre, le même cirque : « union de la gauche ». De quoi redonner de l’oxygène à des personnes carbonisées… et renier la ligne de masse qui assurerait le succès.
Car au-delà des pratiques internes de LFI sur lesquelles nous n’avons pas à nous prononcer (même si certains cas comme ceux de Charlotte Girard ou François Cocq ont de quoi interpeler), le vrai problème affaiblissant LFI est l’abandon de la ligne de masse de 2017 qui lui permettait d’être franchement insoumis : « l’Europe, on la change ou on la quitte ! ». Un abandon qui ne peut être compensé par le seul positionnement courageux sur #Gaza et la #Cisjordanie, surtout quand dans le même temps s’accumulent les contradictions : s’allier à des partis soutenant l’ #OTAN et le régime pronazi de Kiev jusqu’à exiger les livraisons d’armes ; critiquer l’ #UE et célébrer Robert #Schuman (comme Manon #Aubry le 9 mai 2020 !) ; exiger une « autre Europe » sans rompre avec une UE totalement irréformable et offrant un boulevard à la fascisation sur tout le continent. Autant de contradictions dont raffole la Meute qui peut désormais fondre sur LFI, renégats à l’appui.
Tout progressiste ne peut qu’apporter son soutien à LFI face au torrent de haine et boue dont elle est la cible. Mais tous les insoumis doivent se poser d’urgence les questions sur lesquelles ne cesse de les interpeler les militants franchement communistes et franchement insoumis du PRCF depuis des années au sujet du positionnement sur l’UE-OTAN et des alliances électoralistes. C’est indispensable pour éviter un nouveau désastre en 2027…
Fadi Kassem, secrétaire national du PRCF – 12 mai #2025
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Glenn experts highlight NASA’s Stirling engine and how radioisotope power systems use nuclear power to reach distant regions.Kelly M. Matter (NASA)
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NASA Glenn played significant role in research for Hubble Space Telescope missions.Kelly M. Matter (NASA)
A delegation of Slovenian government officials and representatives from the Ohio Governor’s Office tour.Kelly M. Matter (NASA)
The lessons from Trump’s Yemeni debacle could inform his future decisions on Ukraine.Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)
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