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By Pepe Escobar. Despite the alarming nature of a deadly clash between two South Asian nuclear powers, the 2025 war between India and Pakistan was bound to contain the ingredients dear to Bollywood.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine do not cease their activity on the Russian state border. The Russian Army looks toward Seversk. Report by Marat Khairullin with illustrations by Mikhail Popov.
Divisions among House Republicans remain as they race to try and pass President Trump's legislative agenda. A new estimate from the Congressional Budget Office found the bill, in its current form, would raise the federal deficit by $3.
Laith Marouf & Hadi Hotait travel to Zebqine Valley and its surrounding villages in south Lebanon; where the invading Zionist forces were handed their most painful defeat and the only place where they
In April 2025, Russian servicemen discovered a sabotage and reconnaissance group of 3 people in their area of responsibility. After a firefight, one of the saboteurs was killed and two escaped.
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.
May 20, 2025—In the realm of statecraft, world crises are not the starting point from which to determine the durable survival of the human race. It is the future of the human race that must determine the present.
As @pluralistic stresses the importance of Milton Friedman's "ideas lying around", here's one to lay down for later: The monument to our current administration will be installed in a Washington D.C. sewer. Everyone who played his side gets a concrete bust. Every bust gets progressively more stained by effluvia. Visitors at ground level can view via closed-circuit TV. And the busts are arranged alphabetically with no name plaques. Let future archaeologists guess which one was President!
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize.
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We are now four months into Trump’s second term, and while his administration is engaging in talks from Russia to Iran, we’re still not seeing meaningful action in a number of areas that include: ending the war in Ukraine (as the U.S.
Trump openly soliciting bribes, in public, in front of the Press, because he knows his bitch #SCOTUS Chief #JohnRoberts won't do a fucking thing about it.
“I wish I had a plane to give you,” a seemingly exasperated Ramaphosa said at one point.
“I wish you did. I would take it,” Trump responded. “If your country offered the United States Air Force a plane, I would take it.”
Eduardo Galeano: The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show. 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.
SANAA, May 21 (YPA) - The Yemeni Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned the recent conclusions issued by the EU Council regarding Yemen, describing them as inaccurate and biased.The ministry asserted that the true threat to regional stability and
'Hot take' but the mental health crisis is a perfectly reasonable reaction to the state of everything. Like falling off a cliff and a bunch of people asking if you've tried mindfulness instead of plummeting to your doom?
from the 80s to 2000s a lot of Gen X (and older Millenials) self-medicated with partydrugs - this is no longer tolerated by society to the same extent (with much more enforcement and prohibition and DUI testing, workplace drugs testing etc) and the hedonistic escapes which helped previous generations tolerate/endure mundane life have been clamped down on, so its hardly surprising folk are now more aware of poor mental health as its not as easy to escape from shit lives it as it once was..
Yes, we have rising mental health issues with students, too, but I feel this is particularly toxic in the US "capitalist protestant work ethic" culture
i feel like i'm becoming completely unhinged these days. doing uncharacteristic obnoxious things, some days of deep depression and anxiety, etc. isolation doesn't help and i need to make the effort to be with people more often -- instead of just "nah, too much effort, i'll just stay home" even though staying home is like the last thing in the world i wanna be doing. plus i have ZERO appetite. shit's fucked up, man, and so am i.
(to be read while falling) as an older American, I can assure you it's not only disturbing to be dishonest with one's doctor - when they ask that required question about frequency of depressive thoughts - but doubly upsetting to be obliged to refrain from screaming, in answer, that the only people who aren't depressed right now are terminally oblivious, hopelessly delusional, or criminally insane.
YunoHost is a system that installs itself on a server and allows you to install and maintain - with very little technical knowledge - digital services (apps) that you control.
Si quelque chose est gratuit, quelqu’un doit le financer, soit avec du temps ou de l’argent
Aidez-nous à completer notre campagne de financement en donnant ou en parlant de notre travail
Nous fournissons un OS permettant d’auto-héberger des services personnels ou communautaires en quelques clics
L’objectif de notre campagne est proche, nous en avons déjà collecté 87% grâce à votre générosité! Arriverons-nous terminer avant la fin du mois ? :neopossum_cute:
YunoHost is a system that installs itself on a server and allows you to install and maintain - with very little technical knowledge - digital services (apps) that you control.
Dear BITCHES reporting this photo for AI slop and animal cruelty reasons. These are real, actual, living, fucking fish at the beach by my house.
“Fucking” is not a grammatical intensifier here, these fish are literally FUCKING. They are not only alive, they are MATING and having the TIME OF THEIR LIVES.
I'd respond this to each and every BITCH replying and DMing me about this personally, but I can't as they also BLOCKED ME.
I am clarifying this last bit to make clear that I'm not calling anyone BITCHES for not knowing how California grunion mate or for not knowing how to read alt text.
I'm calling people BITCHES for assuming the absolute worst of me, saying shitty things in my DMs and replies, and then blocking me.
I'm trying very hard not to be too offended by this but I feel accused of some borderline sociopathic behavior shit
Like it's plausible that I typed out, “Hey ChatGPT, can you please generate an image of me holding the Mastodon stuffed toy on a beach during midnight in front of just, a metric fuck ton of dimly lit dead fish. Just every fishy corpse you can conjure up, you know. For the shock value of it.”
The first thing I did after seeing your post was look up grunions and grunion runs because I’ve never heard of either. Then I thought “Oh, so that’s what I’m looking at. Cool.”
Or, a quote that I never seem to remember comes from a cheesy SciFi movie with Will Smith in it: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it."
Finally, super mad props for fitting the word "fucking" as a grammatically and syntactically accurate use of the word while double-dipping as an expletive.
Deliberately friend-sized and friend-shaped, with a soft surface material and soft, squishy stuffing, the toy is perfect as a travel companion you can rest your head on, or to fill in for you at business meetings.
The Chinese Defense Minister Admiral Dong Jun, who is currently on a visit to Germany at invitation, held talks with his German counterpart, Boris Pistorius, on May 15.
I wonder if the #British Government feels ensconced to support #Israel at all costs because they're the one's that created this mess in the first place by giving #Palestine to the "new" #StateOfIsrael back in 1947 (something they had no fucking right to do in the first place) and if they back out now then they'll have to admit they fucked up back in 1947 (something the rest of the World has known since 1948). #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #PalestineGenocide #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes #BritishWarCrimes
One of the songs from my childhood, I was 9 years old when this came out and I've never lot my fondness for it. That was a magical time even though AM radio was "lo-fi" by todays standard, it brought us a constant stream of memories.
Harry Haywood: The Crusader called for an alliance with the Bolsheviks against race prejudice. In 1921, the magazine made its clearest formulation, linking the struggles of Blacks and other oppressed nations with socialism: 'surest and quickest way, then, in our opinion, to achieve the salvation of the Negro is to combine the two most likely and feasible propositions, viz.: salvation for all Negroes through the establishment of a strong, stable, independent Negro State (along the lines of our own race genius) in Africa and elsewhere: and salvation for all Negroes (as well as other oppressed people) through the establishment of a Universal Socialist Co-operative commonwealth. 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.
Haskell County, Kansas, is the first recorded instance anywhere in the world of an outbreak of influenza so unusual that a physician warned public health officials. It remains the first recorded instance suggesting that a new virus was adapting, violently, to man. The 1918–1919 influenza pandemic killed more people than any other outbreak of disease in human history. The lowest estimate of the death toll is 21 million, while recent scholarship estimates from 50 to 100 million dead.
In an interim report that further unravels the lies and corruption behind the Biden regime’s COVID-19 vaccine push, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) has revealed that top US health officials knowingly concealed critical safety data regarding hear…
News - Yemen:
The American magazine The National Interest has revealed the growing challenges faced by US forces in the Middle East, particularly in light of the increasing military capabilities of the Sana’a.
Linux drops support for i486, square USB holes, Microsoft open-sources WSL, and a mini PC that knows how-to Linux! LINKSShow notes: https://linuxgamecast.com...
@s31bz it's Thunderbird, it's been around for a while. I only ditched it during my street punk years when I was using Gmail on a browser. But I wasn't talking about the email part but the calendar which you can setup on Nextcloud or Google Calendar and set alerts on your phone or Thunderbirb
Parliamentarians approved the bill for the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Russian Federation on Wednesday.
Hi there, all! I’d like to thank the developers and maintainers for all the work they’ve been doing on this release. I’ve recently acquired an m1 mac mini off-lease from a friend’s company, and so I’ve been testing the Asahi experience on here.
🚨 *Attention!* We were made aware of a fake “KeePassXC Password Manager Pro” repository on GitHub that links to unverified external binary downloads. - There is NO Pro version of KeePassXC! - You get all the “Pro” features with the regular version. Please download KeePassXC only from trusted distribution channels linked on keepassxc.org/ !
FYI: The "Download" link goes through I series of redirects with several obfuscated JavaScript pages in between. I didn't open it in a browser and therefore didn't spend the time to resolve the full chain to the final download, but the fact alone that these obfuscations are there speaks for itself.
GitHub took down the repository just now. It was up for 19 hours when we reported it. GitHub took action within roughly 2.5 hours, which was rather quick.
It could be worse than just "we will make you pay for a free software developped by someone else" maybe… Do you think it could be related to the same sort of attack than against keepass ? bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…
No I just started my KeePass xc pro sub. And now you tell me it is fake? Jk, not doing it. But could imagine this being used at some point.
Though I did "pay" for KeePass xc. Thanks for creating such a wonderful software. Not using it right now. I wish there was an integrated way to open some form of remote source... Would make me switch back again!
Assholes... I would recommend (though not entirely rely on) using your package management that you can trust. Distribution, whatever. Not that installing from spaces like GitHub is a bad thing, it is just so easy for something like this to show up in such spaces.
Images are available for free, with no credit needed This morning, at Margate Magistrates Court, the case was dismissed against against 4 Palestine Action activists who had shut down Elbit’s […]
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L’Assemblée mondiale de la Santé adopte un accord historique sur les pandémies
#WHO Pandemic Agreement Approved by Member States, Ushering in a Dangerous New World Health Order #vaccines, #censorship of dissent, and global #surveillance systems.
This isn’t a treaty, it’s a trap. A global noose tightening around the throat of every free nation. They call it #OneHealth. What they mean is One Master. The WHO, now has the power to override your government, censor your speech and dictate how you live, farm, eat and breathe. This is not #science. It’s #tyranny in a lab coat. The same global cabal that locked us down, ruined our businesses and buried the truth is now codifying that control into international law.
(remove space, supprimez l'espace dans le lien et choisissez la langue) who. int/news/item/20-05-2025-world-health-assembly-adopts-historic-pandemic-agreement-to-make-the-world-more-equitable-and-safer-from-future-pandemics
On 20th May 2025, WHO member states adopted the organisation’s first international Pandemic Agreement at the 78th World Health Assembly in Geneva.
There was no parliamentary vote, no public debate, and no referendum. The treaty was adopted by consensus, not a formal vote, which means that governments, signaled approval without domestic scrutiny.
The treaty outlines legal commitments to: - Share pathogen samples & genetic data - Distribute vaccines & therapeutics equitably - Strengthen international surveillance - Comply with WHO-led emergency declarations - Develop global digital health certification systems
While the WHO cannot override national law, the treaty creates binding international obligations. Governments may use it to justify emergency laws or sweeping public health powers while shielding decisions behind the language of international compliance or global coordination.
Private foundations now shape global public health priorities without any electoral mandate.
It's based on the WHO’s One Health framework, which views human, animal, and environmental health as interconnected.
Critics argue this broadens the WHO’s scope, allowing it to influence food systems, climate policy, agriculture, and land use under the guise of pandemic prevention.
Among the more contentious provisions of the treaty are proposals to implement a Pathogen Access and Benefit-Sharing (PABS) system.
This would allow WHO to access pathogen samples from any country and redistribute pharmaceutical products under equitable frameworks potentially overriding domestic vaccine supply chains.
The treaty also encourages states to adopt digital health documentation systems, which could evolve into permanent digital IDs tied to vaccination or health status.
While presented as public health tools, such systems have been heavily criticized by civil liberties groups as intrusive, coercive, and open to mission creep.
Several countries abstained or objected during the drafting phase. Their stated concerns include loss of national sovereignty, lack of legal clarity, and the risk of unelected institutions imposing policy.
In the NL, there has been virtually no parliamentary debate over the treaty. No formal statement has been made by the Prime Minister or Health Secretary.
Despite the agreement’s long-term implications, the NL has participated in negotiations quietly bypassing public scrutiny.
The adoption of this treaty reflects a broader trend: The shift from nation-state governance to transnational managerialism.
This is not a conspiracy theory. It is a structural change in how global policy is made particularly in moments of crisis.
What COVID began, the WHO treaty formalizes: Emergency governance, centralized authority, and the use of global health as a gateway to broader control.
If democratic governments can enter binding international agreements on pandemic policy without consulting their citizens, then who governs in a crisis. The answer is: Those you cannot remove from office.
The WHO Pandemic Agreement is a landmark. Not just in public health, but in global governance.
It centralizes authority, weakens national sovereignty, and embeds unelected influence at the heart of crisis response.
Vladimir Putin: World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab is a globalist terrorist who is holding humanity to ransom. Their New World Order has failed and their days are numbered. 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.
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Vous les voyez, ces poteaux solaires qui fleurissent partout ? Avec leurs petites caméras qui te sourient dans les deux sens de circulation ? Vous pensez que c’est pour faire joli ? Pour protéger les oiseaux ? C’est mignon. Non, ce sont des machines à capter ton quotidien, à reconnaître ta plaque, ton casque, ta clope, ton absence de clignotant, ton regard perdu dans les pensées, ta fatigue à 7h46 le mardi matin. Et même si, en France, la verbalisation automatique en temps réel n’est pas encore activée, les caméras sont déjà là, les algorithmes sont prêts, les tests ont lieu, et le bouton rouge “envoyer amende” existe déjà dans l’interface. Il manque juste le feu vert politique. Et tu sais ce que c’est, un feu ? C’est rouge. Puis ça passe au vert. Toujours.
Le plus beau ? Pas besoin d’être à la CIA. Un simple PC, une webcam à 40€, une IA gratuite comme YOLOv8, et tu peux traquer n’importe qui dans la rue. Je parle pas de science-fiction, je parle d’un tuto sur YouTube. C’est tellement facile que c’en est gênant. Et pendant ce temps, les villes s’équipent, les data centers tournent, et les véhicules connectés deviennent des menottes roulantes.
Tu crois que j’exagère ? Va dire ça aux Tesla qui reçoivent des mises à jour à distance pour bloquer le démarrage ou brider la vitesse. Tu crois que c’est pour toi ? Non. C’est pour eux. Pour quand tu deviendras gênant. Ou juste désobéissant. Et crois-moi, rouler à 54 km/h en ville avec une voiture électrique, c’est bientôt du terrorisme de basse intensité pour l’algorithme.
Et si tu penses que t’es à l’abri parce que t’as pas de voiture, parlons des médecins. Oui, ces femmes et hommes qui te soignent avec une oreille attentive. Ben maintenant, ils sont traqués par l’IA de la Sécu. S’ils prescrivent un peu trop souvent le même médoc à une personne, s’ils donnent trop d’arrêts maladies de plus de trois jours, s’ils facturent pas la consult à 30 € à un patient en ALD, l’algorithme ouvre un dossier. Sans procès. Sans avocat. Sans compréhension. Juste des chiffres qui clignotent en rouge dans un tableau de bord. Ils n'ont pas le droit d’avoir un jugement humain. Ils doivent être dans la moyenne. Et si t’es pas dans la moyenne, t’es suspect. Même quand t’essaies juste d’être bon. Même quand t’as raison. Parce que le système ne veut pas des humains. Il veut des machines obéissantes. Comme eux.
I found this bit of information but it's related to openSUSE and is quite old but I'm hoping it might help. spinics.net/lists//linux-input…
It doesn't show up in /dev/input/...
Any ideas on how I could get this thing recognized so I can use it?
Update 1:
I got connected with someone at the Simracing space on matrix per the advice from @lemonuri@lemmy.ml and they helped me to get it working. Here is what we did.
Create the file 99-handbrake.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d and add the two following lines to it.
This forces the device to usbhid as a joystick whenever it is plugged in and recognized.
Run the following command to reload the device rules if you don't want to reboot. Otherwise you can omit the command and reboot.
sudo udevadm control --reload
It now shows up and is working.
So the device was registering a button at the end of the pull and showing up as an Xbox controller while not recognizing the axis being moved so it was all or nothing.
I installed protopedal and following advice created a dummy device which remapped the inputs so that it registers the analog input only which worked.
protopedal --name "handbrake" -b JOYSTICK -a THROTTLE -s 0:THROTTLE -a Y --no-auto-buttons --no-auto-axes /dev/input/by-id/usb-ZSC_ODDOR-HANDBRAKE-event-joystick
Update 2:
All credit goes to JacKeTUs for his work on helping me out. He is making/made the driver for this. It may go into AUR for Arch users, so if anyone ends up looking for support for this handbrake you can find the source at the below link.
This will install the driver (currently it needs to be loaded after running sudo make) and the udev rule. It eliminates the need for protopedal but does require launch options to be set.
I am pretty sure you need to configure more (fake) buttons for the handbrake, I had the same problem. Otherwise it does not get recognized as a gaming device.
I can look up later how I solved this or you can ask the simracing linux community, which helped me with a couple of similar pronlems before:
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