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A nonprofit that received federal funding to develop censorship strategies boasted in progress reports to the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) that early tactics had suppressed the reach of Donald Trump's messaging and reduced advertising by $100 million to news outlets it deemed to be "disinformation" spreaders, according to newly disclosed memos.

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Key group in government censorship project boasted of suppressing Trump message, defunding newsrooms

Democracy Dies in Darkness? A new memo from the taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy shows grantee Global Disinformation Index viewed silencing Trump and toxifying certain news outlets to reduce their revenues as a win.
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Maryland Democrat Gov. Wes Moore has vetoed a reparations commission bill passed by the state legislature, saying it was "not the time for another study," but it "is the time for continued action."

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Maryland's Wes Moore, the country only sitting black governor, vetoes reparations bill

“I will always protect and defend the full history of African Americans in our state and country,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said.
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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is "Donald Trump’s modern-day Gestapo," Minnesota Democratic Gov. Tim Walz said at a law school commencement ceremony this past weekend.

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Tim Walz calls ICE 'Trump's modern-day Gestapo'

"They’re in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons," Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said.
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Preliminary Results of municipal elections in Bekaa & Beirut Released saba.ye/en/news3484053.htm

Preliminary Results of municipal elections in Bekaa & Beirut Released

Preliminary results from the third phase of the local elections, which covered the Bekaa and Beirut, showed a victory for the Lebanese Forces Party in Zahle, the Socialist Party in Rashaya, and Hezbollah and the Amal Movement in Baalbek and Hermel.
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FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino this past weekend attempted to end ongoing conspirqcy theories that convicted sex offender and wealthy Democratic Party donor Jeffrey Epstein was murdered in a Manhattan jail in 2019 while awaiting trial.

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FBI Director Patel, Deputy Bongino try to end theories Epstein was murdered, say he killed himself

"He killed himself. I've seen the whole file. He killed himself," FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said.
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19.05.2025 Friedensfähig statt erstschlagfähig


Offener Brief an die neuen Bundestagsabgeordneten

DFG-VK und IPPNW haben einen Offenen Brief an die neuen Bundestagsabgeordneten geschrieben mit der Aufforderung in gemeinsamen Treffen zu erörtern, welche Möglichkeiten bestehen endlich aus der Kriegstüchtigkeits-Logik auszubrechen und wieder den Dialog zu fördern. Insbesondere die Stationierung von Mittelstreckenraketen gilt es zu verhindern, weil sie die Kriegsgefahr in großem Maß erhöhen. Bei Vorwarnzeiten von unter 10 Minuten kann es jederzeit zu einem "Krieg aus Versehen" kommen.

Diese Erkenntnis hat in den 80-iger Jahren die Stationierung von Mittelstreckenraketen verhindert und zu einigen Abrüstungsvereinbarungen geführt. Das gilt es zu wiederholen. Die beiden NGOs schreiben in ihrem Brief:

Wir wollen mit den Abgeordneten in den Austausch kommen und deutlich machen, warum wir sämtliche landgestützten Mittelstreckenwaffen als eine Bedrohung für die Sicherheit in Europa ansehen. Rüstungskontroll- und Abrüstungsgespräche können nicht warten. Vor 50 Jahren wurde die Schlussakte von Helsinki unterzeichnet, in der Maßnahmen angekündigt wurden, „um schließlich eine allgemeine und vollständige Abrüstung unter strenger und wirksamer internationaler Kontrolle zu erreichen“. Wir fordern die Abgeordneten auf, sich an die Ziele des Dokuments zu erinnern und sich für weitere Schritte auch diesem Weg einzusetzen.
Einladung zum Dialog: Gemeinsam für Abrüstung und ein friedliches Europa

Sehr geehrte/r Abgeordnete/r,

vor der Wahl zum 21. Bundestag haben wir Sie als Kandidat*in mit unserem Offenen Brief kontaktiert – nun gratulieren wir Ihnen herzlich zum Einzug in den Deutschen Bundestag!

Wir möchten gerne mit Ihnen in den Dialog treten, um gemeinsam zu erörtern, wie Europa mittelfristig auf einen friedensfähigen Kurs gebracht werden kann. Dazu gehört für uns auch eine neue Initiative zum Verbot von Mittelstreckenwaffen.

Bitte senden Sie uns bei Interesse zwei Terminvorschläge für ein Online-Treffen zu.

Seit unserem letzten Brief ist viel passiert:

  • Der seit dem 24. Februar 2022 andauernde Krieg in der Ukraine geht unvermindert weiter.
  • Die neue US-Administration scheint keinen nachhaltigen Friedensplan zu verfolgen.
  • EU-Staaten wurden bei den Gesprächen über eine partielle Waffenruhe weitgehend außen vorgelassen.
  • Der 20. Bundestag traf weitreichende Entscheidungen zur Verteidigungsfinanzierung, und die EU erwägt, Mitgliedsstaaten zinsgünstige Kredite von bis zu 150 Mrd. € für Rüstungsgüter bereitzustellen.
  • Die Diskussion um eine europäische nukleare Abschreckung gewinnt an Intensität.
    Russland hat durch seinen großflächigen Angriff auf die Ukraine die Vision einer europäischen Friedensordnung in weite Ferne gerückt, (völkerrechtliche) Grundpfeiler des Zusammenlebens in Europa in Frage gestellt und unzählige Verstöße gegen das humanitäre Völkerrecht zu verantworten. Gleichzeitig priorisiert es wirtschaftlich die Produktion von Rüstungsgütern für seinen Krieg.

Im November 2024 hat Moskau bei Angriffen auf das ukrainische Dnipro erstmals eine neu entwickelte Mittelstreckenrakete eingesetzt und mit weiteren Einsätzen gedroht. Dies stellt eine unverantwortliche Eskalation dar.

Die EU und die europäischen NATO-Staaten rüsten gleichzeitig massiv auf und verabschieden sich teilweise aus mühsam erstrittenen Errungenschaften der humanitären Abrüstung – was diese Instrumente nachhaltig zu schwächen droht.

Am 10. Juli 2024 gaben die US-Regierung und die deutsche Bundesregierung bekannt, US-Raketen vom Typ SM-6, Tomahawk-Marschflugkörper und Dark-Eagle-Hyperschallwaffen stationieren zu wollen. Zusätzlich wurde bekannt, dass Deutschland mit weiteren, europäischen Staaten die Entwicklung eigener Mittelstreckenwaffen im Rahmen des Projektes ELSA vereinbart hat.

Wir halten es für einen Irrweg, als Reaktion auf die aktuellen geopolitischen Spannungen in eine Aufrüstungsspirale einzutreten und gefährliche Waffensysteme zu stationieren bzw. selbst zu entwickeln. Anders als beim NATO-Doppelbeschluss 1979 wurde die Stationierung nicht mit einem Verhandlungsangebot verbunden! Dabei waren Raketen und Marschflugkörper mit einer Reichweite zwischen 500 km und 5.500 km unter dem INF-Vertrag aus guten Gründen verboten.

Wir setzen uns ein für:

  • Einen Stopp der geplanten Stationierung neuer US-Mittelstreckensysteme in Deutschland
  • Den Abbruch der Projekte zur Entwicklung eigener europäischer Hyperschallwaffen und Marschflugkörper, an denen Deutschland sich beteiligen will
  • Neue Initiativen für gemeinsame Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit und die langfristige Vision einer neuen Friedensordnung in Europa
  • Dialog statt Aufrüstung: Eine Wiederaufnahme von Verhandlungen über Rüstungskontrolle und (nukleare) Abrüstung (z.B. für ein multilaterales Folgeabkommen zum INF-Vertrag)

Vor 50 Jahren wurde die Schlussakte von Helsinki unterzeichnet. Um die dort festgehaltenen wegweisenden Ziele zu unterstützen, fordern wir glaubwürdige Bestrebungen und die Bereitschaft aller Beteiligten, an diesen historischen Prozess anzuschließen.

Rüstungskontroll- und Abrüstungsinitiativen können aufgrund der Spannungen nicht warten – sie sind gerade jetzt notwendiger denn je. Landgestützte Mittelstreckensysteme sorgen für enorme Unsicherheiten – auf allen Seiten. Es braucht sachliche und mutige Stimmen, die deutlich machen, dass gerade in Zeiten von Spannungen Abrüstung und Rüstungskontrolle eine für uns alle überlebenswichtige Bedeutung zukommt! Wir hoffen, dass Sie im Rahmen Ihres Mandates eine dieser Stimmen sein werden.

Über die Möglichkeit zum Austausch mit Ihnen freuen wir uns.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Simon Bödecker, Ohne Rüstung Leben
Juliane Hauschulz, IPPNW e.V.
Thomas Carl Schwoerer, DFG-VK
Angelika Wilmen, IPPNW e.V.

Sprecher*innen der Kampagne „Friedensfähig statt erstschlagfähig. Für ein Europa ohne Mittelstreckenwaffen!“

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Offener Brief an Abgeordnete des neuen Bundestages - Friedensfähig statt erstschlagfähig

Der 21. Bundestag ist frisch konstituiert und die Sprecher*innen unserer Kampagne wenden sich mit einem Offenen Brief an alle Abgeordneten der demokratischen Fraktionen, um ihnen unsere Kampagne vorzustellen.
Friedensfähig statt erstschlagfähig

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[ Times of India: Jill Biden under attack as Donald Trump Jr says she is a 'doctor' and 'covered up' Biden's cancer ]
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Proving that #DonaldTrumpJr is a FUCKING MORON that doesn't know the difference between a Doctor of Education and a Medical Doctor. #USpol #Trump

Jill Biden under attack as Donald Trump Jr says she is a 'doctor' and 'covered up' Biden's cancer

US News: President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr accused Jill Biden of covering up former president Joe Biden's prostate cancer and questioned how Dr Jill.
TOI World Desk (Times of India)

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"Today we're launching Mullvad VPN loader - a new application for installing the Mullvad VPN desktop app on Windows and macOS which is both fast and secure.

Mullvad VPN loader downloads and starts the latest Mullvad VPN app installer. It automatically verifies the integrity and authenticity of the downloaded app, ensuring only software from Mullvad is installed. We have always provided PGP signatures for the software we release, but it has been up to the end user to verify it themselves"

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"""modern""" and """secure""" operating systems that need a separate application for actual verification of updates :zt_smug:


Launching Mullvad VPN loader

Mullvad VPN
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Ed Martin indicated that if Comey doesn't go for jail for making the death threat (which he arranged, photographed, and disseminated) that they are looking to get him for lying to the federal agents about not knowing what he was posting. Comey knew very well what he was orchestrating and posting. He didn't post a blank picture. He just thought he could continue to get away with his crimes and lies.

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ZFS or LUKS/btrfs for my use case

I'd been using ZFS with Void linux on both my laptop and desktop for a couple of months. And ZFS is cool! But I'm thinking not great for my use case, especially for my laptop with it's more constrained resources. Memory usage was a real problem, even after imposing low ARC limits. And the kernel module compile time was long enough to be a bit annoying, especially for a few kernels (I like to keep the last few around, to be safe) as it happens fairly often on a rolling release.

I switched the laptop to LUKS/btrfs a couple of days ago. And I'm thinking that was the correct choice for that. And now I'm considering doing the same for my desktop. As they seem comparable but btrfs is in-kernel and seemingly more system resource friendly. But before doing so I figured I'd ask the community about it. Maybe some important factors or features for either setup that I might not be considering.

Here's the stuff I care about. All of which both offer, but I'm not an expert at either and I don't know how equal they are.

  • Disk encryption. For ZFS everything (except the EFI partition) is encrypted. I use ZFSBootMenu in this scenario. For the btrfs setup I have the kernel/initramfs on an ext2 partition. I do not store any decryption keys in the initramfs. I know grub can decrypt LUKS with limitations, but I prefer this setup. And it feels secure enough to me. Any pitfalls I'm missing?
  • Pools/subvolumes
  • Snapshots. ZFSBootmenu has an option to load a snapshot. For btrfs it looks like I'd need to create a subvolume from a snapshot, which in a recovery situation might mean doing this from recovery media. That's ok, given this is an unlikely thing to encounter. But if anyone knows of an easier way, I'd love to hear it.
  • CoW
  • RAID 1
  • Compression is nice, especially for the laptop

Edit: typo in title.

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𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍

IME, btrfs is easier to work with than ZFS. It has all of the features you asked for; its RAID ≠ 0/1/10 are buggy, but 0/1/10 are considered reliable. In the past year, I heard a rumor that they were going to announced RAID > 1 to be also stable, but that's hearsay; I haven't read anything authoritative on the subject - the Arch btrfs page and the btrfs man page both still say 5/6 are not reliable.

I've been using btrfs on a variety of computers and VMs, from tiny little ODROIDS, to laptops, to VPSes, to desktops for... over a decade? I've had much better reliability than ext4. I was attracted to the POLS of the commands, vs ZFS.

I don't know how much my opinion weighs; I have a feeling a data center person would suggest ZFS as being more "enterprise". I've been really happy with it. I've been watching bcachefs for the caching and target options - really neat features useful for home gamers - but otherwise I wouldn't bother - btrfs has been solid and done everything I could want. It was a huge upgrade from mdadm and lvm in UX, and was only possible when disks got so cheap they outpaced my need for RAID5, and I could afford multiple backup drives that held years worth of nightly incremental backups.

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JovialSodium

Hearing roughly a decade of successful use, especially on systems with constrained resources, certainly makes me lean further towards btrfs.

its RAID ≠ 0/1/10 are buggy, but 0/1/10 are considered reliable.

btrfs has been solid and done everything I could want. It was a huge upgrade from mdadm and lvm


@ikidd@lemmy.world said that btrfs is poor at software RAID. I'll do a little research in to how it fares for RAID 1 vs mdadm. I don't see any reason I couldn't do mdadm>luks>btrfs if that's the better choice. But if btrfs is reliable and with comparable performance, I'd certainly rather do that.

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𝕽𝖚𝖆𝖎𝖉𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍

I have no doubt ZFS is solid, too, FWIW. I leaned toward btrfs because it was simple, the commands straightforward and clear, nothing required more than one step - this is all super valuable to me because there are other things I want to spend my time on than fiddling with the filesystem.

@ikidd@lemmy.world said that btrfs is poor at software RAID.


You should check for yourself. I haven't used software RAID in years - RAID 0+1 gives me no value - but the btrfs team and Arch wiki say 0, 1, and 10 are solid. You should not use 5 or 6, as they're known to be buggy and even the btrfs man page tells you to not use it. So, yeah? btrfs is poor at RAID 5/6; to my understanding, it's good at 0/1/10.

btrfs can do encryption, compression, snapshots, and some RAID. I found combining mdadm and lvm and FS built a jenga tower, of which if part failed, the entire end result was borked. I once did an OS upgrade and lost the mdadm config, and spent two days recreating it. I never used it on a new machine after that. Separation of concerns is great, but having an all-in-one that can self repair and boot into snapshots is better.

I can't speak to performance. No doubt Toms of someone like that's looked into that in detail.

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aksdb

btrfs because it was simple


Personally I found ZFS far more simple. The userspace tools make more sense to me. Also I like, that volumes can have a default (relative) mount point attached. So in a recovery scenario, I simply have to open the zpool with a relative bath path, and then have all my volumes ready to go. If I want to recover a btrfs system with multiple subvolumes, I typically need to know exactly which ones and where to I have to mount (each individually).

Also I go really used to zfsbootmenu.

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deadcatbounce

if you have a look at the btrfs mailing lists post that introduced RAID1c34, they were created because RAID56 were not considered viable or fixable. It's in couched language but reasonably clear. I don't think you're thinking of using those (RAID56) but don't.

Never had any btrfs problems that weren't self generated or date from a really sticky period in btrfs's history (years ago). I've used RAID56 until RAID1c34 became available and RAID10 where I could.

Haven't tried LUKS - btrfs though, although effectively no worse than putting btrfs in a VM, albeit a bit more computationally intensive.

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'Israel' announces Gaza ground invasion amid Doha talks english.almayadeen.net/news/po…

'Israel' announces Gaza ground invasion amid Doha talks

While indirect negotiations for a ceasefire in Gaza kick off, the Israeli occupation forces begin their brutal ground assault on northern and southern Gaza.
Al Mayadeen English ('Israel' announces Gaza ground invasion amid Doha talks)
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woodland creature

there are well known genetic risk factors for prostate cancer, like androgen receptor (AR) gene amplification, TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion, and inactivating mutations in a variety of tumor suppressor genes. it's typically a combination of these that lead to cancer.

with symptoms of BPH it's a good idea to get a genetic screening done, but regardless of genes, there are some ways to try to mitigate BPH that don't require medical treatment.

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Lorraine Hansberry: And as of today, if I am asked abroad if I am a free citizen of the United States of America, I must only say what is true: No. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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Quotes

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


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Merz Says He Plans to Talk to Trump Before His Potential Phone Call With Putin sputnikglobe.com/20250518/merz…

Merz Says He Plans to Talk to Trump Before His Potential Phone Call With Putin

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Sunday he and other European leaders plan to talk to US President Donald Trump again ahead of a possible phone conversation between the US leader and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Sputnik International

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Cost of running a mastodon instance

how much does running a mastodon instance of 1000 users costs?
Disabling Images and allowing only text is one of my condition. So if I do that, will that change cost?
I am thinking of a VPS so that i can have greater control over instance functionality

How much Storage and RAM will be required roughly?

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Refusing vaccination is now punishable in this country, after a visit from Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab:
In #Singapore, refusing to be vaccinated is #now a criminal offence . People who say 'no' can end up in jail or receive heavy fines. Oddly enough, the amendment was passed after a visit from Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab . Coincidence? According to physician Sherri Tenpenny, this is a sign that a new "pandemic" is on the horizon.
No choice
You have to get vaccinated [during outbreaks] or you will go to jail for six months or be fined up to $5,000, Dr Tenpenny warned, speaking to Maria Zeee. “If you are a Singaporean and they say you have to take this, you have no choice.” Tenpenny also said he found it interesting that this “started after Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates visited Singapore.” She said this could be some kind of model law that they want to roll out globally in the next scare campaign.

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Israel to allow 'basic quantity' of aid into Gaza after months of total blockade thecradle.co/articles-id/30853

Israel to allow 'basic quantity' of aid into Gaza after months of total blockade

A controversial new US and Israeli-led mechanism for aid distribution in Gaza has been described by the UN and other organizations as a form of collective punishment
thecradle.co

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ClawPDF – Open-Source Virtual/Network PDF Printer with OCR and Image Support

Link: github.com/clawsoftware/clawPD…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


GitHub - clawsoftware/clawPDF: Open Source Virtual (Network) Printer for Windows that allows you to create PDFs, OCR text, and print images, with advanced features usually available only in enterprise solutions.

Open Source Virtual (Network) Printer for Windows that allows you to create PDFs, OCR text, and print images, with advanced features usually available only in enterprise solutions. - clawsoftware/c...
GitHub

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Kwame Nkrumah: Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism just as feudalism is a development by refinement from slavery. Capitalism is but the gentleman's method of slavery. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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Quotes

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


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Experts alarmed over #Trump’s promotion of #deep-sea-mining in #international waters
Critics call for an industry #moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained.


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Experts alarmed over Trump’s promotion of deep-sea mining in international waters

Critics call for an industry moratorium until more scientific data can be obtained.
Inside Climate News (Ars Technica)

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Liz Churchill

Zerohedge exposes the Criminal Clinton Cartel on Live TV 🔥
“President Trump posted a Truth Social video highlighting what most people call the Clinton Body Count…which is the strange number of suicides that seem to happen in Clinton’s Circle…”

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Liz Churchill Zerohedge exposes the Criminal Clinton Cartel on Live TV 🔥 | Minds

...tel on Live TV 🔥. Subscribe to @dailypost on Minds
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amuse

GENOCIDE: South African President Ramaphosa insists that the whites facing genocide do so as men and not flee to America like cowards. White farmers must pay for the sins of their ancestors with their lives.
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amuse GENOCIDE: South African President Ramaphosa insists that the whites facing genocide do so as men and not flee to America like cowards. White farmers must pay for the sins of their ancestors with their lives. | Minds

...s that the whites facing genocide do so as men and not flee to America like cowards. White farmers must pay for the sins of their ancestors with their lives.. Subscribe to @dailypost on Minds
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The fight for Hungary’s future: sovereignty or subjugation?


#geopolitics #EU

Yet even without war, Magyar’s euro-integration agenda — which includes severing ties with Moscow — would devastate Hungary. Sanctions have already cost the country over 10 billion euros, spiking energy prices and inflation. With 85% of its natural gas and 60% of oil imported from Russia, a complete rupture, as Magyar demands, would trigger energy crises, market losses, deindustrialisation and economic collapse.


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The fight for Hungary’s future: sovereignty or subjugation?

Opposition leader Péter Magyar’s agenda is clear: to fully reconcile with Brussels, including adopting the euro and severing ties with Russia. This would amount to national suicide
Thomas Fazi

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KFA UK Responds to the trendy liberal vloggers -“People’s Korea Today ” special article by Dr Dermot Hudson #DPRK kfauk.com/kfa-uk-responds-to-t…

KFA UK Responds to the trendy liberal vloggers -"People's Korea Today " special article by Dr Dermot Hudson - KFAUK.com

Our attention has been drawn to all kinds of reports and videos being circulated by some privileged and entitled middle class visitors to the DPRK . Here we will answer some of the things they said  .
Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)

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The Decline And Fall Of The Human Empire By Henry Gee — Review"An entertaining and thought-provoking overview of the rise and fall of the human population – as our species declines towards extinction - book published by St Martins Press, reviewed by @GrrlScientist@scicomm.xyz

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‘The Decline And Fall Of The Human Empire,’ By Henry Gee — Book Review

An entertaining and thought-provoking overview of the rise and fall of the human population — as our species declines toward extinction.
Forbes

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#Science of #Heaven: #Conscious #Plasma Entities of Our #Cosmic Hood/Book of Enoch/Mythology of


Science of Heaven: Conscious Plasma Entities of Our Cosmic Hood/Book of Enoch/Mythology of Moses

The Kordylewski clouds, vast and enigmatic dust formations orbiting at the Earth-Moon Lagrange points, are not mere collections of particles but sentient ent...
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Google Reveals Hackers Targeting US Following UK Retailer Attacks


The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) recently revealed that the well-known hacker collective UNC3944, which also overlaps with the widely publicized Scattered Spider, is a persistent and dynamic cyberthreat. Initially focused on telecommunications for SIM swap operations, UNC3944 has since pivoted to ransomware and data theft extortion tactics since early 2023, casting a wider net […]

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Google Reveals Hackers Targeting US Following UK Retailer Attacks

The GTIG recently revealed that the well-known hacker collective UNC3944, which also overlaps with the widely publicized Scattered Spider.
Aman Mishra (GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform)

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Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery in Sinmi-ri on the Occasion of Third Anniversary of Demise of Hyon Chol Hae #DPRK kfauk.com/respected-comrade-ki…

Respected Comrade Kim Jong Un Visits Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery in Sinmi-ri on the Occasion of Third Anniversary of Demise of Hyon Chol Hae - KFAUK.com

Pyongyang, May 19 (KCNA) — Kim Jong Un, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and president of the State Affairs of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, visited the Patriotic Martyrs Cemetery in Sinmi-ri on May 18 on the occasion of …
Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)

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GIMP 3.0.4 Open-Source Image Editor Is Now Available for Download with Bug Fixes


GIMP 3.0.4

GIMP 3.0.4 open-source image editor is now available for download with various fixes for bugs, crashes, regressions, and other issues.

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Werenoi, symbole d’une France qui ne chante plus ensemble ?


#société #culture

Après l'annonce de la mort de Werenoi, les réseaux sociaux ont vu coexister deux mondes. D'un côté, des fans bouleversés, rendant hommage à son talent. De l'autre, des internautes découvrant son nom avec surprise en apprenant qu'il était le plus gros vendeur de disques entre 2023 et 2024. Comme si deux France se regardaient en chiens de faïence, incapables de se comprendre.

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Cette fracture, Florent Barraco l'explore dans La Route du tube (éd. Perrin), une enquête sur les ressorts profonds de la chanson populaire. L'ancien directeur adjoint de la rédaction du Point y défend l'idée que la musique, au même titre que l'Histoire ou la langue, participe à la fabrication symbolique de la nation. Elle fonctionne comme un récit collectif, capable de lisser les fractures sociales, de faire dialoguer les marges avec le centre, et de créer des affects partagés. En convoquant Ernest Renan et Dalida, les Rita Mitsouko et Michel Sardou, il rappelle que les grandes chansons populaires touchent à l'intime, au quotidien, à ce que nous avons (ou avions) en partage.
Fractures françaises

« Le texte doit contenir un sous-texte, le sous-texte un savoir, le savoir une vie quotidienne. Ces quatre leviers bien mélangés donnent une chanson populaire », théorisait Roda-Gil, la machine à tubes de Julien Clerc et de Johnny. Mais encore faut-il que ces chansons soient entendues par tous.

À LIRE AUSSI Quel est le point commun entre Aya Nakamura et Dalida ? Or, comme le théorise le livre de Florent Barraco, la musique tend à se communautariser, à l'image de la société : elle devient le miroir de nos bulles culturelles, où chacun écoute selon ses repères sociaux, esthétiques, générationnels. Le tube fédérateur, capable de traverser les âges et les classes, devient l'exception. « L'admirateur de PNL n'a souvent plus rien à dire à celui de Vianney », regrette-t-il. D'où cette question : de quelle France Werenoi était-il le nom ?

Si l'on regarde les chiffres, on pourrait croire que le rappeur de Montreuil parlait à tout le pays. Il cumulait 739 millions de vues sur YouTube, 7 millions d'auditeurs mensuels sur Spotify et plusieurs disques de platine. Et pourtant, Jérémy Bana Owona, de son vrai nom, restait absent du paysage médiatique traditionnel et son succès ne lui avait pas permis une reconnaissance institutionnelle (Il avait obtenu quatre Flammes mais aucune Victoire de la musique).
De quelle France Werenoi était-il le nom ?

Sa musique, très mélodique, mêlait des textes sombres à des productions soignées, sans jamais se cantonner aux codes du rap hardcore. Elle construisait un pont entre lucidité crue et accessibilité mélodique. Elle parlait du quartier, du matérialisme, des relations intéressées, de la fragilité du succès face à ceux qui voulaient profiter de son ascension. Sans esbroufe, souvent avec pudeur. Werenoi pratiquait un art de la suggestion : une écriture elliptique, à mi-chemin entre la confidence brute et le slogan poétique, où les silences comptent autant que les mots. Dans « Pétunias », il écrivait : « C'est souvent ceux que t'apprécies, qui veulent te monter dessus. Donc je suis devenu très mauvais, par peur d'être déçu. »

À LIRE AUSSI Werenoi, l'artiste le plus écouté de France, est mort à l'âge de 31 ansLe succès de Werenoi était aussi celui d'un travailleur obstiné. En trois ans, il avait sorti deux albums, une réédition, deux EPs et une vingtaine de clips. Peu enclin à la mise en scène de soi, il faisait de l'effacement un principe artistique. « Le plus malin, c'est pas celui qui l'ouvre, non, c'est celui qui se tait », lançait-il dans « La League ». Dans « Chemins d'or », il poursuivait : « Beaucoup de modestie, bats les couilles d'la vie de star […] Les stars, c'est dans le ciel, je suis qu'en présidentiel. »

Chez lui, le refrain se dansait autant qu'il se chantait. Dans ses concerts, le public reprenait les paroles en chœur, comme à un show de Mylène Farmer ou de Christophe Maé. Des titres comme « Chemins d'or » ou « Pétunias » incarnaient cette tension entre refrain chanté et mélodie entraînante, à rebours de l'image d'un rap trop dur ou trop codé pour susciter une véritable communion.
Un patrimoine musical commun

Bien sûr, certains rétorqueront que le rap révèle la fragmentation des imaginaires, que rien ne relie le fan de Werenoi à l'amateur de Jean-Jacques Goldman. Une lecture trop réductrice, qui ne voit pas que le rap contemporain puise lui aussi dans un fonds commun, même s'il en renouvelle les codes. Dans une rare interview au Parisien, Werenoi citait Renaud et Pascal Obispo comme références, au grand étonnement du journaliste, qui ne s'attendait pas à de telles influences.

En septembre 2023, Werenoi avait même invité l'interprète de « Lucie » à l'accompagner au piano sur un titre lors de son premier Zénith. Après sa disparition, Obispo a révélé au Parisien qu'ils avaient des projets en préparation ensemble : « Ses fans n'en revenaient pas de me voir, c'est certain, mais le pont entre nos deux musiques était beau. Mais pour moi, ce n'est pas surprenant que sa musique me plaise […] Il sortait du lot par la qualité de ses chansons, ses mélodies et ses punchlines. »

À Découvrir Le Kangourou du jour Répondre La transmission transgénérationnelle, loin d'être anecdotique, est au cœur de nombreuses trajectoires. Booba, figure tutélaire du rap français, estime que « Mistral gagnant » de Renaud est « le plus beau texte jamais écrit ». Il l'avait d'ailleurs samplé pour donner naissance à l'un de ses morceaux les plus personnels, « Petite fille », dédié à sa fille Luna.

La preuve que le rap s'inscrit désormais dans un patrimoine partagé, et que les chansons populaires de 2025 peuvent encore façonner un imaginaire collectif. Florent Barraco cite en exemple ce moment de grâce des Jeux olympiques où Aya Nakamura a réinterprété Aznavour avec la Garde républicaine, un « syncrétisme entre Modernes (la liberté du langage urbain) et Anciens (la rigueur de l'Institut de l'Académie française) produit avec une touche d'autodérision ». Et d'ajouter : « Si elle conserve des permanences, la culture populaire doit aller de l'avant et surprendre. » Car le destin des chansons, conclut Florent Barraco, ressemble à celui du pays : il repose sur « le génie du renouveau » cher à de Gaulle.

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Werenoi, symbole d’une France qui ne chante plus ensemble ?

Il était numéro un des ventes mais inconnu pour des millions de Français. Sa mort dit autant de lui que de nous : que reste-t-il de la chanson comme ciment national ?
David Doucet (Le Point)

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Galileo Second Generation


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Video: 00:03:57

Europe’s Galileo is the world’s most precise satellite navigation system, providing metre-level accuracy to billions of users. ESA and European industry are preparing a new generation of satellites for the European Union, the Galileo Second Generation or G2, that will revolutionise the fleet with enhanced capabilities.

#navigaton #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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"Our early observation that crypto = prosecution futures is playing out, including along some lines we had not anticipated."

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Crypto Crooks Now Eating Their Own as Crypto Holders Targeted in Crime, Even Violent; Coinbase "Hack" an Inside Job, and Highly Damaging to Wallet-Holders | naked capitalism

Crypto crirme, particularly violent ones like finger-choppings, are increasing. This should not be much of a surprise.
Yves Smith (naked capitalism)

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Huh. This is interesting in a weird way.

Had to buy a new electric kettle a few weeks ago. Bought some cheap $20 one from Walmart. It has a 1L capacity. More than enough for three cups of tea at one time. But it's just me so normally it's just one cup.

The water vessel is glass and completely clear. I'm more comfortable holding the pitcher in my left hand and pouring water from the Brita water pitcher into it with my right hand.

This means the markings (500ml, 750ml, 1000ml) are all facing away from me.

But more often than not I'm nailing it and putting in exactly as much water as I need to put in and hitting that mark anyway just by eyeballing it.

I'm blind as a bat and can't play soccer to save my life but I can sure as hell nail how much water to put in to heat up a cup of tea!

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Kwame Nkrumah: The guerrilla is the masses in arms. wordsmith.social/protestation/…

Protestation

2021-07-31 15:43:02

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Quotes

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


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Nothing (meaningful) to say - by Branko Milanovic


#economics #geopolitics #war

The inability of economists to meaningfully discuss current international economic relations has become painfully obvious in their, at time pathetic, attempts to teach the US leadership of Economics 101 lessons while not realizing that the US leadership, under both Trump I and II and Biden, was not involved in a policy to improve the position of US consumers or workers but to slow the rise of China and to maintain American global hegemonic position. This inability to engage with reality springs from an extremely reductionist methodological position where one’s welfare is a function of one’s own absolute income only. With such an assumption it becomes entirely incomprehensible why somebody (in this case, a country: the United States) would get engaged into a tariff war and use other policies that reduce welfare of its own citizens (while at the same time also reducing welfare in China and in the rest of the world). A policy that not merely implies a negative-sum game but is designed to be a lose-lose policy, that is, to make both the originator and the target of the policy worse off in economic terms, makes absolutely no sense for such economists.


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Nothing (meaningful) to say

Mainstream economics’ inability to explain domestic inequality and competition between nations
Branko Milanovic (Global Inequality and More 3.0)

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Polish presidential vote tests whether PM’s European vision is Trump-proof dawn.com/news/1911795/polish-p…

Polish presidential vote tests whether PM’s European vision is Trump-proof

Poles vote in first round of presidential election; ballot pits pro-EU candidate against Trump admirer; vote takes place on same day as election in Romania.
Reuters (DAWN.COM)
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