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Ein ehemaliges Mitglied der inzwischen verbotenen Palästina-Solidarität Duisburg wurde aus Mangel an Beweisen freigesprochen. Ihm war »Billigung von Straftaten« vorgeworfen worden.
"See, my children, we must reflect that we have a soul to save, and an eternity that awaits us. The world, its riches, pleasures, and honors will pass away; heaven and hell will never pass away. Let us take care, then. The saints did not all begin well; but they all ended well. We have begun badly; let us end well, and we shall go one day and meet them in heaven."
I did not realise SliTaz is still going so strong. It's an old fave from my early days with Linux. I tried #SliTazbriefly again a few days ago, and just now seen it mentioned in opensource.com/article/19/6/li… "5 tiny Linux distros to try before you die" while I was looking for a NuTyX tarball... and besides being pleasantly surprised by SliTaz now being rolling:
SliTaz 5.0 Rolling release (weekly) - 06 Apr 2025 SliTaz is now a rolling distro with 2 branches We provide a stable version and a cooking (development) version. Stable will get small refinements and security updates. As usual the Cooking version brings you the latest improvements made by SliTaz developers. - 16 March 2018 Website news archives - 2007-2025
I also saw in that article, one (among many a) feature that contribute to the explanation of why it's still going so strong:
The good news is that the tazpkg command can convert from several packaging formats, including:
PS, I remember there's also #tazlito ... like I mentioned... many a feature to keep SliTaz in, and ahead, of the game. It's so tiny, so fast, so clean. Always a joy, in my experience. But then... I've never driven SliTaz as daily-driver. ... But I am honestly considering it for a #DistroChallenge since reading that article, even before I started typing this post, so enthused as I am for SliTaz. ... For context, I'm already over a dozen years deep into bedrocklinux, where I have all the comforts of all my favourite features from each and any of the main distros I install (typically Gentoo, Devuan, Void and Artix, my solid 4 strata regulars, at least)... And SliTaz turns my head. Not just to add it as a strata (as I'm seeking how I'll best want to get #NuTyX imported), but as itself. Raw riding the metal, not hijacked, not a vm, not a container, not even just as a usb, but on the mmcblk0p1. Okies... Ima stahp this ramble... got the gush for SliTaz.
Anyways, just sayin, you don't have to pick just one distro. ;)
... But also, you can. ... And I'm tempted... Distro-Challenge... 2 years living daily-driving SliTaz...
There are plenty of Linux distributions out there to choose from when you're deciding what to run on a daily basis, yet some are so small that they get little notice.
In a tied decision, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday allowed an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision to stand, disqualifying a Catholic charter school from receiving state...
Create custom SQLite functions in JavaScript. Extend your database with scalars, aggregates, window functions, and collations directly in JavaScript. - sqliteai/sqlite-js
New technology tested by an industry partner at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley could improve how commercial planes taxi to and from gates to runways, making operations safer and more efficient on the surfaces of airports. Airport taxiways are busy. Planes come and go while support vehicles provide maintenance, carry fuel, transport […]
Researchers at Boeing are working to address these issues by digitizing taxiway information and automating aircraft taxi functions. The team traveled to NASA
What’s entering Gaza now isn’t humanitarian aid, says Robert Inlakesh, it’s a Trojan horse.
By Robert Inlakesh
MintPress News
With over half a million people in Gaza on the brink of starvation and aid groups warning of an “imminent famine,” …
The Department of Defense announced on Wednesday that it� officially accepted the Qatari government’s offer of a luxury jumbo jet. Prior to this, President Donald Trump’s plans to accept the ...
When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar terrain. Dunes wrap around Titan’s equator. Clouds drift across its skies. Rain drizzles. Rivers flow, forming canyons, lakes and seas. But not everything is as familiar as it seems. At minus 292 degrees Fahrenheit, the dune […]
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Otto von Bismarck: I am not antagonistic to the rightful claims of capital; I am far from wanting to flourish a hostile flag; but I am of opinion that the masses, too, have rights which should be considered. 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.
The Scottish Government claimed it would be “antisemitic” to release information about Angus Robertson’s secret meeting with an Israeli ambassador, The Ferret can reveal.
La lluvia corre lentamente sobre la corteza sus dedos húmedos arrugan la mañana. Un suspiro tiembla en el viento, ofrecido al suelo como un pergamino.
El cielo se deshace en las ramas, cada gota se aferra a un latido. El tronco respira, una herida cerrada con la huella del final.
Nada habla, todo escucha en secreto: Las piedras beben, las raíces se estiran. Un gusano germina bajo el musgo discreto, y el bosque recupera su imperio.
An interesting confrontation is happening a the White House.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa & staff were shown videos of "Kill the Boer" chants with thousands of Blacks signing along, as well as the White farmer memorial crosses lining the roads.
He claims ignorance.
Since its still live as I post this, you'll have to rewind to the point where it starts.
Caracas, May 21 (Prensa Latina) More than 490,000 Venezuelan state officials were deployed as part of Plan Republica to secure the May 25 elections, the 32nd since the arrival of the Bolivarian Revolution.
It wasn’t just a tree—it was a cathedral of nature, and we cut it down. This haunting photograph, taken sometime in the late 1800s or early 1900s, shows loggers standing atop the massive stump of a fallen giant—likely a Douglas fir or Sequoia—deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. These trees once stood for thousands of years, witnessing the rise and fall of civilizations. Some were over 300 feet tall and 30 feet in diameter—larger than many buildings today. They weren’t just trees. They were ecosystems, homes to countless species, guardians of climate stability, and living monuments of Earth’s natural history. And yet, in the name of industry, many were felled in a single generation. Today, only a fraction of old-growth forests remain. But this image lives on—a sobering reminder of what we’ve lost and a powerful symbol of why conservation still matters. We cannot undo the past, but we can protect what’s left for the future.
Das kleine Kücken von der #Singdrosel hat mich beim Unkraut zupfen begleitet. Seine Mama hat ihm drei Mal einem Tegenwurm vorbei gebracht. Unsere #Erdbeerpflanzen dies Jahr wachsen und gut gedahen. Und ich probiere dies Jahr wieder aus, Tomaten aus dem eigenen Garten (drei Pflanzen in Töpfen auf unserer Terasse). Letztes Jahr sind Erdbeerpflanzen bi mir im Garten von zu viel Regen einfach ersofen. Und vor Jahren hatte ich Tomaten Pflanzen auch gehabt und leider eine Pilzkrankheit hat die "umgebracht"... Ich probiere aufs Neue mein Glück! 🍀🍅&🍓🍀☀️
Guten Abend @N. E. Felibata 👽. Ich genieße die Zeit in dem Garten, den Gesang von so vielen Vögel und meine alle Blumen beim blühen. Und dann bald immer mehr Erdbeeren zum pflücken und kleine Tomaten. Dann Johannesbeeren und Himbeeren...Das macht einfach Spaß. Die Kinder nutzen den Garten zum Fußball spielen , Badminton oder für Indiaka-Spielen. Zum picknicken auf einer Decke oder zum liegen in unserem Hamak. Trampolin hüpfen. Tico 🐕 hat einem super Revier zum verteidigen! Auf der Terasse sitzen, zusammen essen oder einfach entspannen... Es braucht man nicht viel um glücklich zu werden. 😊🍀🍀🍀☀️ Good evening @N. E. Felibata 👽. I am enjoying the time in the garden, the singing of so many birds and all my flowers blooming. And then soon more and more strawberries to pick and little tomatoes. Then currants and raspberries...it's just fun. The children use the garden to play football, badminton or Indiaka. For picnics on a blanket or lying in our hamak. Jumping on the trampoline. Tico 🐕 has a great territory to defend! Sitting on the terrace, eating together or simply relaxing... You don't need much to be happy.
Ich beneide dich! Ich brauche auch unbedingt ein Gartengrundstück.
Bei mir in der Nähe habe ich bis jetzt nur Schrebergartenparzellen gefunden, aber wer will schon im Kleingartenverein die Höhe der Hecke vorgeschrieben bekommen ... 😱
Guten Abend @N. E. Felibata 👽, Ich wünsche dir dann ganz viel Glück beim suchen nach einemkleinenGartenfürdich. Wer sucht, der findet. 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀☀️ Ich grüße dich auch herzlich und einen guten Rest der Woche wünsche ich dir noch. 😊👋
Although Lego has not provided any justification, the #developer suggests that it might be because Masks of Power has acquired a high profile that is increasingly competing with official Lego products.
The quality of your game is far too good and would make our brand more valuable, so it must be banned. Do you understand #capitalism...
Health advice should start with bend over, spread your cheeks, & you will be guaranteed to receive all that all politicians intend to give you throughout your life.
Trump ambushes South Africa’s delegation in a made-for-TV moment; Universal’s new park debuts as a Disney killer; and secret AI tech raises eerie questions about being human. Buckle up.
A team from South Dakota State University, with their project titled “Soil Testing and Plant Leaf Extraction Drone” took first place at the 2025 NASA Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, which challenged student teams to research aviation solutions to support U.S. agriculture. The winning project proposed a drone-based soil and tissue sampling process that would […]
Otto von Bismarck: If an establishment employing twenty thousand or more workpeople were to be ruined...we could not allow these men to hunger. We should have to resort to real State Socialism and find work for them, and this is what we do in every case of distress. If the objection were right that we should shun State Socialism as we would an infectious disease, how do we come to organise works in one province and another in case of distress—works which we should not undertake if the labourers had employment and wages? In such cases we build railways whose profitableness is questionable; we carry out improvements which otherwise would be left to private initiative. If that is Communism, I have no objection at all to it; though with such catchwords we really get no further. 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.
Das Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung #BDSM (Höhö) #BMDS postet stolz einen Clip auf LinkedIn, in dem man die Limousine des Bundesdigitalministers Karsten Wildberger sieht, wie diese auf dem Radweg hält um ihn aussteigen zu lassen. Eine Radfahrerin wird dabei gefährdet, sie muss auf die Kfz-Spur ausweichen. Das fängt ja gut an.
Nach dem Sieg beim Song Contest ist Johannes "JJ" Pietsch auf dem Glatteis der Weltpolitik ausgerutscht. Reflektierte Kritik an Israels Vorgehen muss von anderen kommen
Myocardite après infection par le SRAS-CoV-2 et vaccination contre la COVID-19 : épidémiologie, résultats et nouvelles perspectives La myocardite, se manifestant généralement par une myopéricardite, fait partie des graves conséquences cardiaques observées au cours de la pandémie de COVID-19. Nous avons réalisé une synthèse exhaustive et factuelle de la littérature scientifique, regroupant les résultats de réanalyses de données d’essais cliniques, de surveillance post-commercialisation, d’études observationnelles de grande envergure et d’autres sources de recherche diverses, qui contribuent à éclairer le phénomène de myocardite post-infection par le SRAS-CoV-2 par rapport à la myocardite induite par le vaccin contre la COVID-19. Nos conclusions réfutent plusieurs affirmations antérieures des agences de santé publique et des associations professionnelles, à savoir : (1) les infections par le coronavirus du syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère 2 (SRAS-CoV-2) et par Omicron ont causé plus de cas de myocardite que les vaccins à ARNm contre la COVID-19 ; (2) la myocardite induite par le vaccin à ARNm est généralement bénigne, transitoire et rare, sans séquelles à long terme ; et (3) le rapport bénéfice/risque plaide en faveur de la poursuite de l’utilisation de ces produits malgré l’existence de cas iatrogènes plus nombreux. Nous abordons chacune de ces idées fausses en combinant des perspectives épidémiologiques, cliniques et immunologiques. Nous exhortons les gouvernements à retirer du marché les produits à base d’ARNm contre la COVID-19 en raison du risque bien documenté de lésions myocardiques, un risque particulièrement élevé chez les hommes jeunes (< 40 ans). cardiovascular-research-and-in…
These Italians are fighting for freedom of speech under harsh censorship. They believe that the current government is operating under a fascist dictatorship. 'Today, telling the truth is seen as the s
TERRORIST ISRAEL OUT OF THE GIRO D' ITALIA! The workers of the Unione Sindacale di Base in Pisa are present with Palestinian flags during the Giro d'Italia, at a time when Israel is carrying out a final solution with the connivance of the EU and NATO…
Österreich sollte die Ausrichtung des Eurovision Song Contest 2026 als Chance begreifen, Inklusion zu leben – und guten "schlechten" Geschmack zu zeigen
Deux agents d'ambassade d'un état génocidaire sont tués, c'est un acte antisémite. Un peu comme si on avait qualifié les assassinats de nazis, d'actes antigermains ou de racisme antisaxon. Ce n'est pas une attaque contre la communauté juive qui n'a rien à voir avec les exactions en cours à #Gaza, comme le fait dire le #CRIF, c'est une attaque contre deux agents de l'état terroriste qui participaient au musée juif de Washington à "une soirée Young Diplomats Reception, où avait lieu un rassemblement de membres de la communauté diplomatique israélienne âgés de 22 à 45 ans." Rien à voir avec le judaïsme, la communauté, etc. Décidément, la pratique du #confusionnisme menée par les médias et une partie de la classe #politique est insupportable. Elle relègue les crimes de guerres et contre l'Humanité au rang de faits-divers.
L’ancien ministre israélien de la Défense, Moshé #Yaalon, a vivement critiqué la politique du gouvernement de Benjamin #Netanyahu, qu’il accuse d’être guidée par une “idéologie messianique, nationaliste et fasciste”. Dans un message publié sur X, Yaalon a dénoncé la justification religieuse donnée aux attaques contre les civils palestiniens à #Gaza. “Cette idéologie du gouvernement Netanyahu est soutenue par des décisions rabbiniques qui affirment qu’il n’y a pas de personnes innocentes à Gaza”, a-t-il déclaré. Poursuivant ses critiques, Yaalon a qualifié l’actuelle coalition au pouvoir de “gouvernement d’extrémistes, d’escrocs et de corrompus”. Il a appelé à une mobilisation citoyenne de grande ampleur: “Nous manifesterons en masse jusqu’à atteindre le stade de la désobéissance civile pacifique”.
reminder that LEGO® is an evil litigious company that will try to silence criticism by suing fans, sues fan games, sues people for using LEGO® generically for other bricks. plus their prices are ridiculous and their sets are bad.
i would argue solely on the bad sets thing and say it definitely varies a lot im quite content with mine lately but yeah it is insanely overpriced, dont know much about the litigousness stuff
@xianc78 whats a competitor to lego thats cheaper and actually good? i've been doing their flower sets lately but other models would be cool. do i just go for 1:1 chinese clones or something?
@ube I don't know honestly. I just know that Mega Blocks won 14 lawsuits against LEGO. I think we had more Mega Blocks than Lego growing up but I don't know how good they are today.
@xianc78 i always just had lego so i really wouldnt know out of experience but probably i will keep buying from lego instead of trying competitors because i hate change and this specific brand, lego, is like locked in my brain since childhood it would feel wrong to use something slightly different or a cheap copy
@xianc78 interesting. have you seen the lego botanical sets? theyre very pretty, like youd expect them not to be but like look at this random reddit photo of them i found, they look REALLY good and i definitely can confirms especially at a distance. i left most of them behind when i moved though so i only have one set up currently, got another box waiting for me though
Destroying Gaza 'With Love': Israel's New YogiNazis
(Susan Gordon - fb) - The entire article is copied below. Read this and tell me that Zios are not the most evil monsters on the planet. Aside from being willfully ignorant, and totally ignoring #history, they can blame #October7, all they want, for becoming monsters, but these people were monsters well before that.
“Rivka Lafair is a ‘facilitator of workshops, meet-ups and group sessions on #yoga themes, teacher of feminine yoga and personal development.’ She lives in the settlement of Shiloh in the southern #WestBank and terms herself a ‘proud Jew’ who ‘thinks outside the box.’ Lovely. Also, she also wants to annihilate and expel two million human beings in the #Gaza Strip.
“Lafair belongs to a stream within Israeli Judaism that can be described as ‘ #YogiNazis’, people whose #spiritualism underpins their #Nazism. They are a relatively new sub-stratum – albeit with deep roots in the local culture – that has gained popularity since October 7, largely because of its ability to weld together concepts that, on the surface, seem like polar opposites: spirituality and #annihilation, empowerment and #expulsion, yoga and #starvation, retreats and carpet #bombing.
“Lafair is a person who believes that ‘music has the power to alter our consciousness,’ but also that expelling and annihilating two million Gazans begins with ‘altering one's consciousness.’ In order to succeed in this important cognitive switch, we have to understand that ‘we have an enemy here – whom we look in the eyes and eliminate." Yes, look them in the eyes – don't do it behind their backs, because we must be in direct and unmediated contact with those were annihilating.’
“And to make it clear that by ‘enemy’ she doesn't mean only Hamas terrorists, she clarifies: ‘We are committed to take revenge and destroy Gaza. From infant to old woman.’ She tops it off with an appropriate Bible verse: ‘Thou shalt blot out the remembrance of #Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget.’
“Lafair understands that people tend to be puzzled when facing this dissonance between spirituality and annihilation. So she in one of her videos, she has ‘a message to everyone who doesn't understand how it's possible to be spiritual, to teach yoga and hold retreats, whilst calling for the expulsion and annihilaSHon [sic] of your enemy.’
“Indeed, her answer is simple: ‘I love my people with an undying love, and I hate my enemy with an undying hatred… One does not contradict the other. One can be a person filled with values and love, and at the same time… you also know what is right and what is wrong, you stand firm against your enemy and you know what must be done with them.’
“So, what must be done with them? (SHSHSH… don't tell anyone.)
“M., the same woman who cares for children ‘with a gentle, connecting and nurturing approach’ explains: ‘You know what? After October 7, I don't have an ounce of compassion for anyone there. Not even for children.’
“And if Lafair's Nazi-spiritualism can be written off because she's a settler who's found an efficient solution for realizing the idea of Greater Israel, it's worth noting that this is a far broader phenomenon that isn't limited to the occupied territories.
“One day before #Holocaust Remembrance Day, for example, standup comedian and satirist Gil Kopatz, who has been flirting with spirituality and religion for years, posted the following: ‘If you feed sharks, they eventually eat you. If you feed Gazans, they eventually eat you. I support making sharks extinct and exterminating Gazans. Reflections for Holocaust Remembrance Day 2025.’
“After the post generated a "storm,’ Kopatz posted a clarification: ‘I don't have an ounce of compassion for the Gazans. For Arabs as a whole, yes, for human beings as a whole, yes, for sharks – no, and not for human beasts.’ Of course, his desire to eradicate millions of people doesn't imply he's a bad person. Indeed, ‘I consider myself to be a humane, liberal and moral person,’ he writes. To top it off, he ends the post with a bit of dark humor: ‘It's not genocide, it's pesticide, and it’s essential.’ A regular riot that one, eh?
“In fact, most of the spiritual vocabulary in #Israel has been mobilized in service of #YogiNazism. Take M., for example, a woman from a large well-to-do city a few kilometers north of Tel Aviv. She runs a studio described as ‘a pleasant space, filled with inspiration,’ which espouses three values: ‘Creativity. Emotion. Experience.’
“In this pleasant space she facilitates ‘creativity groups for children – from the age of four and up; personal emotional guidance for children and youth – with a gentle, connecting and nurturing approach.’ All of this happens, of course, in ‘a homey, warm and professional atmosphere’ (those interested are ‘lovingly invited’).
“Yet, when this same M. is shown a video showing a hungry child in the Gaza Strip, she asserts immediately: ‘Not credible. Sorry. I've seen how clips are staged – positioning, applying makeup, putting together a script.’ Never mind not credible, but the same woman who cares for children ‘with a gentle, connecting and nurturing approach’ explains, ‘You know what? Even if it is real, after October 7, I don't have an ounce of compassion for anyone there. Not even for children.’ Furthermore: ‘It saddens me to see people among us actually sharing this shit, and worse, identifying with it and expressing pain.’
“To make it clear that she's not a callous person, she sums up: ‘The writer is a mother, a lover of humanity and an all around great person.’ It's just that ‘October 7 took away my innocence.’ Poor woman, she's really struggling.
“A., too, is not a settler. She lives in a well-established city in Israel and is simply looking to find a new home for ‘an amazing dog!!!! She's fully house-trained, a dog filled with love who needs a warm, loving home.’
“So much caring, so much love, so much compassion. And yet, when she encounters a photograph of a Gazan child who was killed in an Israeli bombing, she instantly grasps that someone is trying to confuse her, and posts: ‘Let's make things clear. If there had been no massacre here, there would be no massacre there!! It's not the chicken-and-egg case!!!
“Afterwards, when the chicken and egg can't seem to figure out what she meant, she resorts to some of the ‘best’ debunked calumnies spread in the wake of the horrific massacre – ‘after babies here were burned, their heads chopped off, put into an oven’– and concludes resoundingly: ‘There was no reason to send in a container of clothes for their children.’
“Of course, she too was once a compassionate, sensitive person – ‘Don't get me wrong, I thought exactly like you until October 6, but if someone comes to kill you… it's case closed. They started and we will finish!!!’ (don't you mean 'finiSH?').
“There are many of these in present-day Israel. Spiritual people who view the annihilation of the other as a form of personal growth and the eradication of the enemy as empowerment. They live in one big retreat, where consciousness is so finely tuned that all noise disappears, all disturbances are muted, so that they are left with only themselves, them and their inner being – pure, compassionate, unsullied – and finally able to connect with what resided there all along, waiting to be revealed: The desire to annihilate and destroy millions of people, including children, women and the elderly. With great love.”
Who said spirituality and ethnic cleansing don't go together? Israel is full of spiritual types who view the annihilation of the other as a form of personal growth
"Every child in Gaza is the enemy. We are at war with the Gazan entity, the Gazan terror entity, which we ourselves established in Gaza, in Oslo, and in the disengagement. The disengagement that Prime Minister Netanyahu voted in favor of, that is the enemy now. Every such child to whom you are now giving milk in another 15 years will rape your daughters and slaughter your children. We need to conquer Gaza and settle it. And not a single Gazan child should remain there." --Moshe Feiglin, former Israeli lawmaker
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Otto von Bismarck: Give the working-man the right to work as long as he is healthy, assure him care when he is sick; assure him maintenance when he is old. If you do that, and do not fear the sacrifice, or cry out at State Socialism directly the words “provision for old age” are uttered,—if the State will show a little more Christian solicitude for the working-man, then I believe that the gentlemen of the Wyden (Social-Democratic) programme will sound their bird-call in vain, and that the thronging to them will cease as soon as working-men see that the Government and legislative bodies are earnestly concerned for their welfare. 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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