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hey webdevs, how many 9's should i put on flex-grow property for the fucking footer to sit at the bottom page? (my real question is just how tf do you get the footer to sit at the bottom page?)
@hyperreal i mean i just cant imagine how its so difficult. i learned flexbox crap simply to do this one thing. flexbox does not seem to be flexing well. i need a better flexing box.
but as a senior webdev, I did had my fair share of quarrels with css! I remember stuff like vert centering and footers sometimes felt sheer impossible 😬
@bazkie sheer impossible sounds about right. @tflynn nailed it on the first try tho. incorporated into my stylesheet and so far every single page is rendering correctly in all engines on both phone and desktop!
@tflynn now one of my favorite fedi musicians is my css-hero. bless your heart. i gotta go clean the kitchen, but i'll try to incorporate this as soon as i get back to the comp. thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!
@tflynn man you rock. like i have no words for how well that worked. and also, way better than flex-container crap and 100 div's all over the fucking place. made my css sheet smaller and better. thank you again. i spent a lot of time today very mad at myself because i've been trying to get this to work for days.
slightly tricky without seeing more, however sometimes a `margin-top: auto;` on the footer will work, depending on whether or not its container is full height.
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.
STATEMENT FROM THE IWI EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Dear colleagues, The International Workers Institute (IWI) is organizing two important international online conferences via Zoom, which we invite you to attend.
This has been a very long time coming, but finally, after a marathon effort, the brand new Have I Been Pwned website is now live!
Feb last year is when I made the first commit to the public repo for the rebranded service, and we soft-launched the…
COMMUNIQUE OF SUPPORT FOR TEACHERS AND EMPLOYEES OF NEPAL AND DENOUNCATION OF THE VIOLENCE USED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT TO REPREND THE TEACHERS' PROTEST IN THE CAPITAL OF NEPAL. Dear comrades,
Quit trashing Obama's accomplishments. He has done more than any other President before him. Here is a list of his impressive accomplishments:
1. First President to be photographed smoking a joint.
2. First President to apply for college aid as a foreign student, then deny he was a foreigner.
3. First President to have a social security number from a state he has never lived in.
4. First President to preside over a cut to the credit-rating of the United States.
5. First President to violate the War Powers Act.
6. First President to be held in contempt of court for illegally obstructing oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
7. First President to require all Americans to purchase a product from a third party.
8. First President to spend a trillion dollars on "shovel-ready" jobs when there was no such thing as "shovel-ready" jobs.
9. First President to abrogate bankruptcy law to turn over control of companies to his union supporters.
10. First President to by-pass Congress and implement the Dream Act through executive fiat.
11. First President to order a secret amnesty program that stopped the deportation of illegal immigrants across the U.S., including those with criminal convictions.
12. First President to demand a company hand-over $20 billion to one of his political appointees.
13. First President to tell a CEO of a major corporation (Chrysler) to resign.
14. First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space.
15. First President to cancel the National Day of Prayer and to say that America is no longer a Christian nation.
16. First President to have a law signed by an auto-pen without being present.
17. First President to arbitrarily declare an existing law unconstitutional and refuse to enforce it.
18. First President to threaten insurance companies if they publicly spoke out on the reasons for their rate increases.
19. First President to tell a major manufacturing company in which state it is allowed to locate a factory.
20. First President to file lawsuits against the states he swore an oath to protect (AZ, WI, OH, IN).
21. First President to withdraw an existing coal permit that had been properly issued years ago.
22. First President to actively try to bankrupt an American industry (coal).
23. First President to fire an inspector general of AmeriCorps for catching one of his friends in a corruption case.
24. First President to appoint 45 czars to replace elected officials in his office.
25. First President to surround himself with radical left wing anarchists.
26. First President to golf more than 150 separate times in his five years in office.
27. First President to hide his birth, medical, educational and travel records.
28. First President to win a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING to earn it.
29. First President to go on multiple "global apology tours" and concurrent "insult our friends" tours.
30. First President to go on over 17 lavish vacations, in addition to date nights and Wednesday evening White House parties for his friends paid for by the taxpayers.
31. First President to have personal servants (taxpayer funded) for his wife.
32. First President to keep a dog trainer on retainer for $102,000 a year at taxpayer expense.
33. First President to fly in a personal trainer from Chicago at least once a week at taxpayer expense.
34. First President to repeat the Quran and tell us the early morning call of the Azan (Islamic call to worship) is the most beautiful sound on earth.
35. First President to side with a foreign nation over one of the American 50 states (Mexico vs Arizona).
36. First President to tell the military men and women that they should pay for their own private insurance because they "volunteered to go to war and knew the consequences."
37. Then he was the First President to tell the members of the military that THEY were UNPATRIOTIC for balking at the last suggestion. I feel much better now.
Jules is an asynchronous agent that gets out of your way. It lets you focus on the coding you want to do, meawnwhile picking up all the other random tasks that you rather not do.
if you listen closely there is a kitter mrrowwp at the end. i rearranged the tumblers to match the key as closely as i could, then ground the extra off and buffed it, and re-greased it. probably would not meet with the approval of a locksmith, but it works so i'm calling it good enoguh
If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.
“The United States is experiencing institutional collapse at a speed and scale that are difficult to understand, especially through feeds and updates designed to atomize our attention. We believe that mapping the damage done and its human costs—and the pushback and resilience work already underway—is necessary groundwork for building and retaining political agency.”
A few months ago, a few of us started to talk about what we needed to understand the speed and scale of institutional collapse that was suddenly upon us. We...
This past May 1st, some naive people might have expected a greeting to the workers from the President of the Nation, even if it were purely hypocritical. But none of that happened.
Earlier today President Trump held a 2-hour phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The objective of President Trump is clear; however, he is battling against recent history and the domestic political environment within Washington DC. President…
“The lived experience of a scientist right now is terrifying”
My colleague Warren Cornwall spoke to @gregggonsalves, @rebekahtromble, @katestarbird and other US-based researchers about “the fear and self-censorship coursing through the nation’s scientific establishment today”.
The amount of money that the World Health Organization is asking for an entire year in its already reduced budget, $2.1 billion, is what the world spends on its military every 8 hours, director-general Tedros says in his opening remarks at the World Health Assembly #WHA in Geneva. #globalhealth
The Yemeni defenses topped, on Sunday, the interest of the media and politicians around the world, and major countries took the lead in interpreting and analyzing what Yemen has achieved.Exclusive – Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni:These countries are at the for
Transformer-based large language models are relatively easy to understand. You break language down into a finite set of “tokens” (words or sub-word components…
Lenin: The leaders of the present-day, so-called, “Social-Democratic” Party of Germany are justly called “social-imperialists,” that is, socialists in words and imperialists in deeds; but as early as 1902, Hobson noted the existence in Britain of “Fabian imperialists” who belonged to the opportunist Fabian Society. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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.
Nicusor Dan, a pro-European candidate and former Bucarest mayor, won the presidential elections in Romania with 55.1% of the national vote, according to a
Doha (Quds News Network)- US Special Envoy for Hostage Affairs Adam Boehler said Sunday that Hamas must release Israeli soldier prisoners if it wants Israel to stop bombing Gaza. He emphasized that on
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Une nouvelle ère de ténèbres Après avoir fourni des milliards en armes & persécuté les critiques du génocide, comment prétendre à quelque supériorité morale. Pouvoir, cupidité & barbarie sans fin régneront désormais sur le monde. Par Chris Hedges Mondialisation.ca, 19 mai 2025
LE CAIRE, Égypte — Je suis au Caire, à 320 km de la frontière avec Gaza, à Rafah. Dans le nord du Sinaï égyptien, 2 000 camions chargés de sacs de farine, de réservoirs d’eau, de conserves, de fournitures médicales, de bâches et de carburant sont garés sur le sable brûlant. Les camions tournent au ralenti sous un soleil de plomb, alors que la température grimpe jusqu’à 35 °C.
À quelques kilomètres de là, à Gaza, des dizaines d’hommes, de femmes et d’enfants, dans des tentes de fortune ou des bâtiments endommagés au milieu des décombres, sont massacrés chaque jour par les balles, les bombes, les missiles, les obus de chars, les maladies infectieuses et l’arme la plus ancienne de la guerre de blocus : la famine. Une personne sur cinq est menacée de famine après près de trois mois de blocus israélien sur l’aide alimentaire et humanitaire.
Le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu, qui a lancé une nouvelle offensive qui tue plus de 100 personnes par jour, a déclaré que rien ni personne n’empêcherait cet assaut final, baptisé “Operation Gideon’s Chariots”.
“Rien ni personne” n’empêchera Israël de poursuivre la guerre, a-t-il déclaré, “même si les otages israéliens encore détenus sont libérés. Israël « détruit de plus en plus de maisons” à Gaza. Les Palestiniens “n’auront nulle part où retourner.
“[La] seule issue possible pour les Gazaouis est d’émigrer hors de la bande de Gaza”, a-t-il déclaré aux législateurs lors d’une réunion à huis clos qui a fait l’objet d’une fuite. “Mais notre principal problème est de trouver des pays qui les accueillent”.
La frontière de 15 km entre l’Égypte et Gaza est devenue la ligne de démarcation entre le Sud et le Nord, entre un monde de violence industrielle sauvage, et la lutte désespérée des populations rejetées par les nations les plus riches. Elle marque la fin d’un monde où le droit humanitaire, les conventions qui protègent les civils ou les droits les plus fondamentaux avaient encore un sens. Elle incarne un cauchemar hobbesien où les forts crucifient les faibles, où aucune atrocité, y compris le génocide, n’est exclue, où la race blanche du Nord retourne à la barbarie et à la domination ataviques et débridées qui définissent le colonialisme et notre longue histoire de pillage et d’exploitation. Nous reculons dans le temps vers nos origines, des origines jamais disparues, mais masquées par des promesses vides de démocratie, de justice et de droits humains.
Les nazis sont les boucs émissaires commodes de cet héritage européen et américain commun de massacres, comme si les génocides que nous avons perpétrés en Amérique, en Afrique et en Inde n’avaient jamais eu lieu, comme s’il s’agissait de notes de bas de page insignifiantes dans notre histoire collective.
En réalité, le génocide n’est que la monnaie d’échange de la domination occidentale.
Entre 1490 et 1890, la colonisation européenne, y compris des actes de génocide, a entraîné la mort de près de 100 millions d’autochtones, selon l’historien David E. Stannard. Depuis 1950, on peut compter pas moins d’une vingtaine de génocides, notamment au Bangladesh, au Cambodge et au Rwanda.
Le génocide à Gaza s’inscrit dans un schéma récurrent. Il est le signe avant-coureur de génocides futurs, notamment avec le dérèglement climatique et les centaines de millions de personnes contraintes de fuir pour échapper à la sécheresse, aux incendies, aux inondations, à la baisse des rendements agricoles, à l’effondrement des États et aux morts massives. C’est un message sanguinaire que nous envoyons au reste du monde : nous avons tout, et si vous essayez de nous le prendre, nous vous tuerons.
Gaza met fin au mensonge des progrès de l’humanité, au mythe selon lequel nous évoluons moralement. Seuls les moyens changent. Autrefois, nous battions nos victimes à mort ou les découpions en morceaux à coups d’épée, aujourd’hui, nous larguons des bombes de 900 kg sur des camps de réfugiés, nous mitraillons des familles depuis des drones militarisés ou les pulvérisons avec des obus de chars, de l’artillerie lourde et des missiles.
Le socialiste du XIXe siècle Louis-Auguste Blanqui, contrairement à presque tous ses contemporains, rejetait la croyance chère à Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel et Karl Marx selon laquelle l’histoire humaine suit une progression linéaire vers l’égalité et une plus grande moralité. Il mettait en garde contre ce positivisme absurde, dont les oppresseurs se servent pour priver les opprimés de tout pouvoir.
“Toutes les atrocités des vainqueurs, l’interminable série de leurs oppressions, se transfigurent froidement en une constante et inéluctable évolution, comme celle de la nature… Mais la succession des affaires humaines n’est pas inéluctable, comme celle des choses de l’univers. Elle peut être bouleversée à tout moment”, avertissaitBlanqui.
Les avancées scientifiques et technologiques, loin d’être synonymes de progrès, pourraient “devenir une arme terrible entre les mains du Capital contre le Travail et la Pensée”.
“Car l’humanité”, écrivait Blanqui, “n’est jamais stationnaire. Elle avance ou recule. Sa course progressive la porte vers l’égalité. Sa course régressive passe par tous les stades de l’esclavage humain, jusqu’à celui de la propriété, ultime expression du droit”. Il écrivait encore : “Je ne suis pas de ceux qui prétendent que le progrès est une chose acquise, et que l’humanité ne recule pas”.
L’histoire humaine est marquée par de longues périodes de vacuité culturelle et de répression brutale. La chute de l’Empire romain a entraîné misère et répression dans toute l’Europe pendant le Moyen Âge, soit approximativement du VIe au XIIIe siècle. On a assisté à un appauvrissement des maîtrises et innovations techniques, notamment en matière de construction et d’entretien des aqueducs. L’appauvrissement culturel et intellectuel a entraîné une amnésie collective. Les idées des savants et des artistes de l’Antiquité ont été effacées. Le renouveau n’est venu qu’au XIVe siècle, avec la Renaissance, grâce essentiellement à l’épanouissement culturel de l’Islam qui, en traduisant Aristote en arabe et grâce à d’autres réalisations intellectuelles, a préservé la sagesse du passé.
Blanqui avait conscience des revirements tragiques de l’histoire. Il a pris part à une série de révoltes en France, notamment une tentative d’insurrection armée en mai 1839, le soulèvement de 1848 et la Commune de Paris, un soulèvement socialiste qui a contrôlé la capitale française du 18 mars au 28 mai 1871. Les ouvriers de villes comme Marseille et Lyon ont tenté, sans succès, d’organiser des communes similaires avant que la Commune de Paris ne soit écrasée par l’armée.
Nous entrons dans une nouvelle ère de ténèbres. Cette ère recourt aux outils modernes de la surveillance de masse, de la reconnaissance faciale, de l’intelligence artificielle, des drones, de la police militarisée, de la suppression des procès équitables et des libertés civiles pour imposer l’arbitraire, les guerres incessantes, l’insécurité, l’anarchie et la terreur, autant de caractéristiques communes au Moyen Âge.
Croire au conte de fées du progrès humain comme seul salut, c’est être passif face au pouvoir despotique. Seule la résistance, définie par la mobilisation de masse, par la perturbation de l’exercice du pouvoir, en particulier contre le génocide, peut encore nous sauver.
Les campagnes d’extermination massive libèrent les instincts sauvages qui sommeillent en chacun de nous. La société réglementée, avec ses lois, ses codes, sa police, ses prisons et ses règlements, comme autant de formes de coercition, permet de contenir ces instincts. Supprimez ces freins et les humains deviennent, comme nous le voyons avec les Israéliens à Gaza, des prédateurs meurtriers, se délectant de l’ivresse de la dévastation, y compris celle des femmes et des enfants. J’aimerais que ce ne soit qu’une conjecture. Mais ce n’est pas le cas. C’est ce dont j’ai été témoin dans toutes les guerres que j’ai couvertes. Presque personne n’y échappe.
À la fin du XIXe siècle, le monarque belge Léopold a occupé le Congo au nom de la civilisation occidentale et de l’abolition de l’esclavage, mais il a pillé le pays, causant la mort, par maladie, famine et assassinat, de quelque 10 millions de Congolais.
Joseph Conrad a su saisir cette dichotomie entre ce que nous sommes et ce que nous prétendons être dans son roman “Au cœur des ténèbres”, et dans sa nouvelle “Un avant-poste du progrès”.
Dans ce dernier , il raconte l’histoire de deux commerçants européens, Carlier et Kayerts, envoyés au Congo. Ces commerçants prétendent être en Afrique pour y implanter la civilisation européenne. L’ennui, la routine oppressante et, surtout, l’absence totale de contraintes extérieures transforment les deux hommes en bêtes sauvages. Ils échangent des esclaves contre de l’ivoire. Ils se battent pour la nourriture et les provisions qui s’amenuisent. Kayerts finit par assassiner son compagnon Carlier, désarmé.
“Ils n’étaient que deux individus parfaitement insignifiants et incompétents”, écrit Conrad à propos de Kayerts et Carlier, “dont l’existence n’est possible que par les structures complexes de la civilisation. Peu d’hommes réalisent que leur vie, l’essence même de leur nature, leurs capacités et leur audace ne sont que l’expression de leur croyance en l’innocuité de leur environnement. Le courage, le sang-froid, la confiance, les émotions et les principes, toutes les pensées, grandes ou insignifiantes, n’appartiennent pas à l’individu, mais à la foule, à la foule qui croit aveuglément à la force irrésistible de ses institutions et de sa morale, au pouvoir de sa police et de son opinion. Mais la confrontation avec la barbarie pure et absolue, avec la nature et l’homme primitifs, fait naître un trouble soudain et profond dans le cœur des hommes. Au sentiment d’être le seul du genre, à la perception claire de la solitude de l’esprit, de ses sensations, à la négation du familier, source de sécurité, s’ajoute la confirmation du dépaysement, source de danger. L’évocation de réalités vagues, incontrôlables et repoussantes, dont l’intrusion dérangeante excite l’imagination et met à rude épreuve les sens civilisés des sages comme des insensés”.
Le génocide de Gaza a fait imploser les subterfuges auxquels nous recourons pour nous duper nous-mêmes, et tenter de duper les autres. Il se moque de toutes ces vertus que nous prétendons défendre, y compris le droit à la liberté d’expression. Il témoigne de notre hypocrisie, de notre cruauté et de notre racisme. Après avoir fourni des milliards de dollars en armes et persécuté ceux qui dénoncent le génocide, nous ne pouvons plus prétendre à une quelconque supériorité morale. Désormais, notre langage est celui de la violence, du génocide, des hurlements inhumains d’une nouvelle ère de ténèbres où le pouvoir absolu, la cupidité débridée et la barbarie sans limites régneront sur le monde.
Chris Hedges
Lien vers l’article original en anglais : The New Dark Age, Scheerpost, le 18 mai 2025.
Traduit par Spirit of Free Speech
Chris Hedges est un journaliste lauréat du prix Pulitzer qui a été correspondant à l’étranger pendant quinze ans pour The New York Times, où il a occupé les fonctions de chef du bureau Moyen-Orient et chef du bureau Balkans. Il a auparavant œuvré à l’étranger pour The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor et NPR. Il anime l’émission The Chris Hedges Report.
Il a été membre de l’équipe qui a remporté le prix Pulitzer 2002 pour le reportage explicatif sur le terrorisme mondial pour le New York Times, et il a reçu le prix mondial 2002 d’Amnesty International pour le journalisme en faveur des droits humains. Hedges, qui est titulaire d’une maîtrise en théologie de la Harvard Divinity School, est l’auteur des best-sellers American Fascists:
The Christian Right and the War on America, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle et a été finaliste du National Book Critics Circle pour son livre War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. Il écrit une chronique en ligne pour le site web ScheerPost. Il a enseigné à l’université Columbia, à l’université de New York, à l’université de Princeton et à l’université de Toronto.
‘The Vatican, as represented by the Pope, has stated that it would be very interested in hosting the negotiations’ between Russia and Ukraine, stated Trump on Truth Social.
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Right now, hundreds of Israelis are marching towards the border with #Gaza demanding the Israeli government to stop the bombing and the starvation and bring back the hostages.
« En ce moment même, des centaines d’Israéliens marchent vers la frontière avec Gaza, exigeant du gouvernement israélien qu’il cesse les bombardements et la famine et qu’il ramène les otages. »
Les "allégations" de l'ingérence française sur l' #élection de #Roumanie sont loin d'être "infondées", au contraire. Ils peuvent certes jouer le "parole contre parole" pour le message de Pavel #Durov, mais celui-ci ne vient en fait que renforcer le faisceau d'éléments qui existaient déjà. A savoir :
Le 12 novembre #2024 (à quelques jours du premier scrutin par la suite annulé), la candidate européiste, Elena #Lasconi, soutenue publiquement par Emmanuel #Macron, avait rendu visite à Jean-Noël #Barrot, qualifiant la France de "partenaire fiable" pour lutter contre "les fausses nouvelles" et le risque "d'ingérences russes" dans les élections roumaines. ▶️digi24.ro/stiri/actualitate/po…
Le 4 février 2025, alors que l'élection fut annulée pour "soupçons d'ingérences russes" (jusqu'ici jamais prouvé, contrairement aux manipulations du Parti Libéral roumain), le service français VIGINUM rendait un rapport sur les "manipulations observées lors de l'élection roumaine" ▶️sgdsn.gouv. fr/publications/m…
Le 5 mars, soit 4 jours avant que la Cour Constitutionnelle roumaine exclut la candidature de Calin #Georgescu, l'ambassadeur de France en Roumanie avait rendu visite aux juges de cette Cour. Le Président de la Cour constitutionnel roumaine avait alors déclaré, en conclusion de cette visite, qu'il fallait lutter contre "l'infiltration du populisme" en adoptant "au niveau des Etats nationaux et de l' #UE des réglementations pour contrôler les dispositifs informationnels" ▶️ccr.ro/5-martie-2025/
Sans compter que le gouvernement Macron a mis en place tout un tas de système pour tenter de censurer les voix dissidentes lors des élections françaises, à l'exemple de l'obscure "Unité de contre-discours républicain" (à l'origine du Fonds Marianne) ou en 2022, le "Groupe de veille numérique à l'intégrité électorale".
Tous ces éléments ne seront évidemment jamais évoqués par nos fact-checkeurs
Președinta USR, Elena Lasconi, s-a întâlnit luni, la Paris, cu ministrul francez de externe, Jean-Noël Barrot, iar discuția dintre cei doi s-a axat pe subiectul războiului hibrid pe care Rusia îl duce în Europa.
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.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Telegram founder Pavel Durov has alleged that France’s foreign intelligence head, Nicolas Lerner, pressed him to silence conservative Romanian voices ahead of the country’s elections—a request Durov says he firmly rejected.
Shoot 'em in the ass. They're not wearing body armor on their lower abdomen and ass. Light them up. Blow their cocks and cunts off and make them have to wear an -ostomy bag for the rest of their lives.
Because that's what you do to home invaders right? Right?
Because a #Trump enforcement officer busting down someone's garage door without a warrant is nothing more than a home invader and it's about fucking time that these assholes get what's coming to them. #USpol #CBP #USCIS #DHS #ICE #immigration #deportations #TrumpGestapo #Nazis
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19 MAYIS, YALAN ÜZERİNE İNŞA EDİLEN KİRLİ BİR TARİH
Mahmut Alınak
Türk resmi tarihine göre Ulusal Kurtuluş Savaşı Atatürk’ün 19 Mayıs 1919’da Samsun’a çıkmasıyla başlamıştır! Bu kirli bir yalandır. Mustafa Kemal ve arkadaşları işgalci devletlerle savaşmak bir yana onlardan destek aldılar. M. Kemal NUTUK adıyla yayımlanan 1927’deki meclis konuşmasında bakın ne diyor: “Kazım Karabekir’e 19 Eylül 1919’da gönderdiğim telgrafta Amerikalılar, Fransızlar ve İngilizlerle pek ciddi temaslar yapıldı, bunların Sivas’a kadar gelen yetkilileri lehimizde oldular, bizimle iyi ilişkilere girdiler, bizim de içinde olduğumuz Kuvayi Milliye’nin tam anlamıyla milli nitelikte olduğunu olduğunu bize de bilgi vererek bağlı oldukları makamlara rapor ettiler, diye durumu bildirdim.” Bu nasıl bir ulusal kurtuluş savaşı ki, emperyalist devletlerden destek görüyor? Tarihi gerçek şudur ki, Kemalistler ve Türk ordusu İngiliz, Fransız ve İtalyan kuvvetlerine tek bir kurşun bile atmadılar. Onlar Ferit Paşa hükümetini devirip iktidarı el geçirme plânları yaparken, Antep, Urfa, Maraş ve Antalya’da yoksul halk işgalci güçlerle savaşıyordu. Örneğin halk 1920 Ağustosu’nda Antep’te Fransız güçleriyle savaşırken, Kemalist subaylardan oluşan Kent Savunma Kurulu zenginlerin para karşılığında şehirden ayrılmalarına izin verme kararı almıştı. Bunu protesto eden halk, “…Biz onların rahatı için cephede tüfeklerimizi yastık yerine başımızın altına koyarak, kuru topraklar üzerinde yatıyoruz… Hanlar, oteller, mağazalar, köşkler bizim değildir. Biz niye onlar için ölelim? Kimse harice çıkmayacaktır. Aksi halde silah istimal edeceğiz” bildirisi yayımlayarak, zenginlerin şehirden çıkmalarını engellemişti. İngilizler İstanbul’u işgal ettiğinde de Kemalistler ve Türk ordusu ortalıkta yoktu. Kemalistler Ankara’da iktidar koltuğuna oturuncaya kadar Ege’deki savaşa da katılmadılar. Yunanlarla Demirci Mehmet Efe ve diğer gerilla grupları savaşıyorlardı. Öyle ki Atatürk Nutuk’ta, Aydın bölgesi kolordu komutanı Refet beyin, Demirci Mehmet Efe’nin komutası altına girdiğini söylemiştir. Kemalistlerin yaptıkları tek şey İngilizlerin İstanbul’da dağıttıkları meclisi Ankara’ya taşımak oldu. İngilizler ömrünü tamamlamış Padişah’ı tasfiye ederek İstanbul meclisini dağıtmakla Mustafa Kemal’i iktidara taşıyacak yolun taşlarını döşediler. “Yedi düvele karşı savaştık” sözü rezil bir yalandır. Böyle bir savaş yoktur. Yunanlılarla olan savaş ise yerel bir savaş olup Ankara Meclisi’nin kurulmasından sonradır. O vakit zaten Türk devleti vardı. #19Mayıs #Samsun
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