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Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi praises Pakistan and Turkey’s stances towards Iran en.ypagency.net/360943

Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi praises Pakistan and Turkey's stances towards Iran

SANAA, June 26 (YPA) - Sayyed Abdulmalik Al-Houthi praised some of the positions that contributed to the victory of the Iranian cause during the Zionist aggression against it in this month.Sayyed Abdulmalik described the Pakistani position toward Ira
ذكرى (Yemen Press Agency)

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Android users will soon be able to let Gemini control device features and apps with fewer privacy concerns. In an email seen by Android Police, Google recently notified Gemini users that it will start rolling out an update on July 7th that allows the AI bot to “use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities on your […]#AI #Android #Google #News #Tech

Gemini is getting ready to replace Google Assistant on Android

Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)

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Myanmar looks to expand cooperation with EAEU, get observer status eng.belta.by/economics/view/my…

Myanmar looks to expand cooperation with EAEU, get observer status

Myanmar hopes to expand cooperation with the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and gain observer status, Chairman of the State Administration Council, Prime Minister of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar Min Aung Hlaing said at the Eurasian Economic F…
Belarusian Telegraph Agency

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The European Commission (EC) is looking for independent experts to evaluate funding applications for programs like Horizon Europe.
The EC wants a diverse pool of experts & is therefore inviting people to register as an expert. An expert is anyone with experience and knowledge in a specific field. On June 19 the EC hosted a webinar explaining what experts do & what you can expect when you register.
Here is a link to the webinar recording and general info and docs.
ec.europa.eu/research/particip…

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Everyone who follows me and knows how to use a computer should seriously consider applying to this.

There are a lot or utterly garbage projects that get passed through the EC funding system and this competes out really legitimate work.

I know all of you guys know what garbage smells like, and you may not believe it but most of you are actually better at this than reviewers with academic backgrounds.
RT: mastodon.xyz/users/NGIZero/sta…

NGI Zero open source funding

2025-06-27 10:55:28

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The European Commission (EC) is looking for independent experts to evaluate funding applications for programs like Horizon Europe.
The EC wants a diverse pool of experts & is therefore inviting people to register as an expert. An expert is anyone with experience and knowledge in a specific field. On June 19 the EC hosted a webinar explaining what experts do & what you can expect when you register.
Here is a link to the webinar recording and general info and docs.
ec.europa.eu/research/particip…

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In fact, the war in #Ukraine put an end to #USEmpire, because there is no such thing as “Collective West”.
It is only the #US and its puppets.

The war in #Iran, however, put an end to Western illusions about the #Zionist state.

youtube.com/watch?v=LdEEcCAYZT…


Iran War ENDS The Collective West | Ali Borhani

Today I’m talking again to Ali Borhani a Geopolitical Strategist, the cohost of the BRI-Diaolgue podcast, and the Substack FuturEarly. Ali is a Canadian wit...
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There is a war against Irish rap trio, #Kneecap. Zionist lobby now tries to bury them because they keep an anti-occupation stance; because they know what occupation means.
From the fascists of Fox News theguardian.com/world/2025/apr… to the "soft" but much more effective internet interventions, zionists are trying very hard to silence them.

Let's have a look on their Wikipedia page. This is the permanent page.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kneecap_…
In the current format you will read: "The group is also known for their political views, which include Irish republicanism, anti-Zionism, support for Hamas and Hezbollah, and opposition to Donald Trump.[6]"

Something is wrong when you read this. I'm not an expert on how to use Wikipedia, but this obviously has a zionist hand behind it.
Went on previous revisions and realized that the comment of their political beliefs has been added from the user Denninithan (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Den…) yesterday - after their strong stance in the festival of Coachella. The change being made on 06:42, 22 April 2025
In a previous version of the page was reading "The group is also known for their left wing political beliefs which include: Irish Republicanism, Anti-zionism, and opposition to Donald Trump.[6]"

It's still important to not let #zionazis cover the truth.

Sharon Osbourne urges US to revoke Kneecap rappers’ visas after Israel criticism

Irish language group uses Coachella gig to denounce Gaza attacks, saying ‘Palestinians have nowhere to go’
Rory Carroll (The Guardian)
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Alt text, image 1: The group is also known for their political views, which include Irish republicanism, anti-
Zionism, support for Hamas and Hezbollah, and opposition to Donald Trump. (6)

Alt text, image 2: The group is also known for their left wing political beliefs which include: Irish Republicanism, Anti-zionism, and opposition to Donald Trump. (6)

in reply to Proletarian Rage

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Camille Winds Down

I think fewer and fewer people in the world are falling for these incessant cries of antisemitism and also the implications that antisemitism is the biggest scourge on the planet.

Frankly, I think even Israel's biggest enabler (the US) is exhausted and beginning to move on. The US regime is interested in material gain, which Israel isn't really offering these days. And even a blind person can see that starving and bombing babies for years is WAY WORSE than disliking Israel.
@aral

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Colombian Workers Win Long-Awaited Labor Reform, ‘Justice for the Working People’ orinocotribune.com/colombian-w…

Colombian Workers Win Long-Awaited Labor Reform, 'Justice for the Working People'

By Pablo Meriguet - Jun 25, 2025 The reform, promoted by Gustavo Petro and his party Pacto Histórico, was approved after months of disputes and boycotts by the opposition.
Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond

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Suspect with Hebrew Neck Tattoo Admits to Crucifying Pastor in Arizona, Says “It’s Commandment to Rid Israel of Evil” #Palestine qudsnen.co/suspect-with-hebrew…

Video: Suspect with Hebrew Neck Tattoo Admits to Crucifying Pastor in Arizona, Says “It’s Commandment to Rid Israel of Evil”

Arizona (Quds News Network)- In a religiously motivated murder, a man with a Hebrew neck tattoo admitted to crucifying a pastor in Arizona and revealed that he had a broader hit list of religious lead
Editing Team (Quds News Network)

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Orange Pi Neo upcoming Linux gaming handheld prices have been announced and probably will be SteamOS ready

forum.manjaro.org/t/developmen…

Gardiner Bryant had conversation with Manjaros lead, Phillip Muller and was told that Valve has the Orange Pi Neo in-hand and they’re testing it, probably to bring SteamOS support for the handheld

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Development | Q&A | OrangePi Neo-01

Launch prices of the OrangePi Neo-01 will be: Base Model 7840u 16GB/512GB will be 450 $ or 3699 CNY Base Model 8840u 32GB/512GB will be 550 $ or 4499 CNY
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#GazaGenocide / Operation "Salted Fish"

: Israeli soldiers deliberately fire at Palestinians seeking aid at distribution sites, Haaretz investigation reveals

An investigation by #Haaretz reveals that Israeli soldiers have deliberately fired at Palestinians near aid distribution sites in Gaza over the past month, with commanders ordering troops to shoot at crowds to disperse them despite posing no threat. According to official numbers published by the Gaza's Health Ministry, 549 people have been killed and over 4,000 wounded near aid centers since May 27.

Soldiers described the situation as a "killing field" and "total breakdown" of military ethical codes, with one calling it "Operation Salted Fish" - firing live ammunition, mortars, and grenades at hungry civilians waiting for food.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation operates four distribution centers that open for just one hour daily. Soldiers report firing at people who arrive early or remain after closing, with no return fire documented. Private contractors receive payment for each house demolished, bringing forces closer to aid distribution points and creating additional shooting incidents.

haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…

While the Military Advocate General has ordered investigations into suspected war crimes at aid sites, human rights organizations including Amnesty International have criticized Israel's military justice system for lacking independence and impartiality. Investigations typically focus on individual soldiers rather than examining broader military policies or command decisions, with limited transparency and many cases closed without prosecution or disciplinary action.

amnesty.org/es/wp-content/uplo…

See also War crimes in the Gaza war en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crim…

Israeli soldiers nicknamed their activity around Gaza aid distribution sites [death traps] "Operation Salted Fish" after the Israeli version of the children's game "Red light, green light." Like in the children's game where players must stop moving when "red light" is called, Palestinians approaching food distribution sites face live fire when they're not supposed to be there, and can only approach safely when the "green light" is given (when the distribution center opens). The soldiers are essentially treating starving civilians seeking food like players in a deadly version of a children's game - shoot to stop them from moving forward, then allow them to approach only during the designated hour when distribution occurs.

@palestine
@israel
#Gaza #WarCrimes #Palestine #Genocide #ICJ #GHF


'It's a killing field': IDF soldiers ordered to shoot deliberately at unarmed Gazans waiting for humanitarian

IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present.
Nir Hasson (Haaretz)

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oatmeal

@badrihippo Unfortunately, it’s also not Israel’s first massacre; they’re not even trying to hide their glee as they watch the slaughter. I remember how much pushback there was about Deir Yassin and Tantura, even recently. You weren’t even allowed to question the purity of arms of pre-state militias, and then Kefar Qassem… and on and on. No one wanted to hear this then, and even less now. As someone posted today, why isn’t the #NYT, BBC, etc. publishing what appears on Haaretz regularly? There’s so much documented by Israeli researchers and investigators that it’s overwhelmingly clear.

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Is Linux accidentally giving itself an unfair reputation for being difficult?

Helped a non-techy person on the phone get their wifi working on a Linux laptop, we solved it by them pressing the physical flight mode button and then toggling the wireless option in the GUI. Pretty easy, as easy as Mac or Windows.

BUT... when I looked this problem up on a search engine, the first page of results involved the command line and scary paragraphs of CLI text about hardware and drivers.

If this non-techy person had looked this up, they would have seen scary CLI options as top results, and been unfairly intimidated away from Linux.

#Linux

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Molenaar

This is mainly a perception problem. The non-techy person was not just using Linux, but also using a display manager with a network manager widget.

A raspberry PI running in headless mode can also be running Linux, but probably would need the CLI version of the network manager.

Linux has so many flavours that some of them are user friendly with graphical environments, while others are lean and more server-like.

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Rich

2025-06-27 04:18:26

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#Germany is a police state that literally attack their own citizenry
“hate crime” – any perceived slight against another person, verbal or otherwise. The law recognizes such disparate slurs as those critical of gender identity, religion, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, age, or even affiliation with a group.
German TV Promotes Great Replacement Climate Plan: Stop Having White European Children ‘Aryan CO2 Emitters,’ Import Third World Migrants Instead. “The current political and demographic shifts in Europe are an existential threat to its indigenous populations, not seen since the Gates of Vienna in 1683…”
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Germany Has Gone Insane

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Sumoud: The Unyielding Heart of the Palestinian Cause in Gaza #Palestine ramzybaroud.net/sumoud-the-uny…

Sumoud: The Unyielding Heart of the Palestinian Cause in Gaza - Politics For The People

Gaza is the place where resistance has never ceased, not for a single moment. This fact alone is sufficient to establish Gaza as the most critical and undeniable component in the entire intricate history of the so-called conflict.
admin (Politics For The People)

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Leader congratulates Iranian nation on victory, says Zionist regime was 'crushed' presstv.ir/Detail/2025/06/26/7…

Leader congratulates Iranian nation on victory, says Zionist regime was 'crushed'

In his message following the end of Israeli aggression against Iran and a unilateral declaration of a ceasefire by the regime, Ayatollah Khamenei congratulates the Iranian nation on the victory.
PressTV

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2025-06-27 09:45:17

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🔻Anatolij #Sharij, journaliste ukrainien opposé à #Zelensky, se moque des hyperboles utilisées par des membres de l’ #UE pour promouvoir leur grand héros :

«Un héros d'acier, né dans la ville d'acier, un grand leader que le destin nous a donné !»
Sharij commente: «Un monument doré à Zelensky sera bientôt érigé à Strasbourg» 😂
Les commentateurs se lâchent :
«C'est hilarant. Vous, les clowns, avez tous besoin de soins psychiatriques d'urgence !»
«Le déclin moral de l'UE continue. Une civilisation qu'il faudrait abandonner et laisser dépérir...
Les contribuables sont-ils du gibier à plumer ou des moutons à tondre ?»
🔻 Il s’insurge :
« 26 États membres de l’UE sur 27 soutiennent l’adhésion de l’Ukraine à l’UE. Seule la Hongrie est contre.
Avec des verdicts politiques.
Avec la persécution de l’opposition.
Avec le néonazisme.
Sans tribunaux.
Sans police.
Putain de toi, putain de groupe de crime organisé🖕»



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This is #Israel / Racism & coercion: on the Depo-Provera Issue and the Ethiopian community (research)

I’ve seen this issue discussed here recently. Here’s some context about an historical and ongoing overreach of the state and medical authorities in controlling the fertility of Ethiopian immigrant women, in this case the forced (or “strongly encouraged”) use of the Depo-Provera contraceptive injection, extracted for a recent research paper.

The issue dates back to the 1990s and continues to the present day. Ethiopian immigrants, who often faced discrimination and were perceived as having higher birth rates, were disproportionately targeted by state-sponsored programs aimed at limiting their family size.

The Depo-Provera injection, a long-acting reversible contraceptive, was frequently administered to Ethiopian women, often without full informed consent or consideration of their individual needs and desires. This practice was sometimes carried out in the context of family planning programs in absorption centers for new immigrants.

The Israeli government and medical authorities played a role in perpetuating this issue. While some officials initially denied or downplayed the extent of the problem, investigations and reports revealed a pattern of coercive practices.

The issue is deeply rooted in racism and discrimination against Ethiopian immigrants, who were often viewed as a "problem", requiring state intervention to control their population growth. This reflects broader societal biases and stereotypes which is not limited to the Ethiopian community, if we limit the discussion to Jewish immigrants.

The researcher, Chedva Eyal, states that despite some changes in policy, concerns remain about the potential for continued overreach and a lack of respect for the reproductive rights of Ethiopian women.

Testimonial from the paper:

[…] For example, the testimony of Shula, who arrived at a Kupat Holim (healthcare clinic) branch in central Israel after giving birth to her son. The nurse insisted she take Depo-Provera, even though Shula did not request contraception and even emphasized that she did not have a partner. Shula, stunned by the intensity of the pressure, decided to go to another clinic to avoid taking contraception she had not asked for at all. The visitor might also have heard the testimony of an Ethiopian woman who refused to take Depo-Provera and was insulted with "retard, foolish," and because of her three pregnancies, she was offered an abortion. The racist and humiliating treatment, along with cases of a lack of medical care infrastructure, indicate a difficult and complex reality that is not reflected in the visitor's inquiry.

Hebrew kriot.co.il/%D7%9C%D7%90-%D7%A…

From the abstract:

The article presents a retrospective account of the Depo-Provera (contraceptive injection) provision scandal to women from the #Ethiopian community in Israel, which was administered broadly with the aim of reducing fertility. The article follows the social and institutional processes since the scandal was revealed in 2008 and examines the State Comptroller's inquiry in 2015. This is a multi-site #ethnographic study that combines interviews, data processing, analysis of the State Comptroller's inquiry and Knesset debate protocols, and spans the years 2023–2008. During the research, I was exposed to many cases of Depo-Provera being administered without consent, and I witnessed the public discourse and processes that occurred in the wake of the scandal's exposure.

@israel
#depoprovera #racism


לא נמצאה עדות: בחינה רטרוספקטיבית של פרשת מתן אמצעי למניעת היריון דפו־פרוורה לנשים אתיופיות בישראל - קריאות ישראליות

מאמר זה בוחן את התהליכים החברתיים והשלטוניים, לאורך השנים, ביחס לפרשת מתן גורף של דפו־פרוורה, אמצעי למניעת היריון, לנשים מהקהילה...
alonoz (קריאות ישראליות)

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#Israel just slaughtered 100s more innocents in #Gaza. Here are some of their names and stories

The numbers are horrific but they are not mere numbers
With the world ‘mainstream’ media’s eyes diverted to Iran & never too interested in reporting Israel’s crimes in Gaza anyway – Israel has continued to accelerate its slaughter & starvation of the Palestinian people of Gaza. 100s have been murdered in just the last couple of days, bombed & shot.

#Starvaton #FoodasWeapon @palestine @israel

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On March 26, 2010 Nancy Schaefer and her husband Bruce were found dead in their Habersham County home. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation ruled the deaths a murder-suicide, asserting Bruce shot Nancy in the back while she slept and then turned the gun on himself, leaving a suicide note and no signs of forced entry and closed the case rapidly \[1].

Nancy Schaefer had been removed from the Georgia State Senate in 2008 but continued as an outspoken critic of child protective services, publishing in 2007 “Investigation of Child Protective Services,” which alleged Title IV-E funding incentives drove unwarranted child removals, financial fraud, and trafficking in concert with foster and adoption agencies \[2].

At the death scene GBI reported Nancy had a single gunshot wound to the back and Bruce a self-inflicted chest wound; towels near the handgun and no forced entry were cited as consistent with murder-suicide, yet no independent forensic audit, ballistics reconstruction, blood spatter or gunshot residue analysis has ever been released \[1].

Family members and close associates unanimously rejected the official narrative. Nancy exhibited no suicidal ideation, was in good health, planning international speaking engagements and a documentary release, and Bruce showed no history of depression, financial distress, or violence; both were described as supportive, stable, and focused on activism \[3].

Prior to her death Nancy publicly reported receiving threats linked to her investigations of CPS and alleged involvement in exposing international child trafficking networks; her collected documentation and documentary materials vanished after the deaths, and FOIA requests for related records were met with redaction or denial \[4].

Major media outlets offered minimal coverage, no Congressional inquiry or independent autopsy was conducted, and federal agencies showed no interest in her documented civil rights and RICO-related allegations against CPS and state actors, despite her presentations before conservative organizations and United Nations forums \[5].

Independent investigators and family‐designated experts were denied access to autopsy materials, crime scene evidence, and sealed court documents; whistleblower accounts within Georgia’s legal system claim her work threatened sealed federal interests, yet these assertions remain unverified due to restricted records \[6].

Nancy Schaefer’s death aligns with a pattern of unexplained fatalities among CPS whistleblowers and reform advocates, including Monica Petersen and Senator Linda Collins-Smith, characterized by abrupt official rulings of suicide or accident, rapid case closures, and absence of thorough forensic review \[7].

Sources

\[1] Georgia Bureau of Investigation official case summary, 2010
\[2] Nancy Schaefer “Investigation of Child Protective Services,” 2007
\[3] Family testimonies collected by independent advocates, 2010
\[4] Freedom of Information Act responses and Associated Press coverage, 2010
\[5] Media analysis of national and international coverage, 2010
\[6] Whistleblower affidavit filed with state legal counsel, 2011
\[7] Comparative study of CPS whistleblower fatalities, 2015

#news
#minds
#cps
#cpscorruption
#politics

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Trump Spends $1M On Attack Ads Smearing Thomas Massie as Pro-Child Genital Mutilation Terrorist

AIPAC is recruiting a challenger to take on Thomas Massie and President Trump is already spending $1 million of his donors' money on smearing the America First congressman as a terrorist who wants to mutilate children's genitals.

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Trump Spends $1M On Attack Ads Smearing Thomas Massie as Pro-Child Genital Mutilation Terrorist

InformationLiberation

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Global Cover-Up of Class Genocide

Cases like Gabriel Fernandez and Adrian Jones highlight horrific abuse in state custody but are treated as rare exceptions. Meanwhile, systemic issues—especially mass spying via data collection used for racially and politically biased child removals, financial incentives, and the harmful outcomes—go largely ignored.

Risk assessment tools from firms like Palantir and Microsoft analyze data such as income, criminal records, CPS history, mental health, school attendance, social media, and neighborhood poverty and racial makeup. These biased algorithms disproportionately target families upholding traditional values or rejecting dominant ideologies, subjecting them to surveillance and separation. This model is exported globally via UNICEF, WHO, and philanthropic groups. The UN's number 1 stated goal is to end poverty; apparently by ending poor famalies.

The majority of removals (75%) are not for abuse, but a percieved risk of “neglect”. Even when the child was in no danger, and better off with family. (ACF, Child Maltreatment 2022). Reunification rates remain below 50%, with many parents permanently losing custody despite no criminal convictions (Children’s Bureau Annual Report, 2022).

These removals destroy family bonds, and cause irreversible damage to children. Outcomes in foster care are catastrophically worse than remaining with their families, marked by high rates of malnutrition, abuse, medical neglect, psychotropic overmedication, disappearances, and deaths—many concealed or misclassified. Sexual exploitation, trafficking, and organ harvesting disproportionately victimize foster youth, making the system a documented human trafficking conduit under the guise of protection.

National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) reports from 2021 indicate foster children experience mortality rates 20 times higher than age-matched peers, with deaths attributed to neglect, abuse, untreated medical conditions, and suicide. Investigative journalism from The Guardian and ProPublica revealed widespread physical and sexual abuse in foster care and group homes, forced medication, malnutrition, and neglect. The GAO (2019) documented that 61% of foster children received psychotropic medications, often prescribed off-label without FDA approval or adequate psychiatric oversight. DOJ statistics estimate roughly 20,000 foster children run away or go missing annually, many trafficked or exploited, but reporting systems are inconsistent and undercount disappearances (DOJ Child Exploitation Report, 2020). These abuses amount to racial and class genocide disguised as protection.

Media silence stems from conflicts of interest tied to government funding and corporate advertising, sustaining the false narrative that removal is always protective.

This media blackout is part of a global psychological operation controlled by political actors, corporate contractors, and intelligence-linked firms. By focusing on isolated cases, they hide a coordinated system enforcing racial and class genocide through family destruction. Without real investigative journalism, this silent genocide continues behind closed doors.

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All ideas about the "Nazis" being so strict and uptight that they had no sense of humor are of course all derived from the programming of countless movies where National Socialist Germans have been pictured as such.

Thus people today, "feels like" they kind of know how it was.

It is all lies based upon lies.

Look at the video of Hitler, then a soldier, playing with a dog in the middle of WW1

Was that a man devoid of Humor?
No he was a loving caring man with a smile.

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EvolLove

@ThatCrazyDude

All ideas about the "Nazis" being so strict and uptight that they had no sense of humor are of course all derived from the programming from countless movies where National Socialist Germans have been pictured as such.

Thus people today, "feels like" they kind of know how it was.

It is all lies based upon lies.

Look at the video of Hitler, then a soldier, playing with a dog in the middle of WW1

Was that a man devoid of Humor?
No he was a loving caring man with a smile.

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Open Society Publications
Peter Thiel’s assertion that democracy inevitably subordinates freedom collapses once automation profits and import duties are taxed progressively, channeling AI‑driven surpluses into public goods rather than oligarchic coffers. This policy directly undermines his escape‑hatch logic by ensuring that technological dividends serve collective well‑being instead of private enrichment. By reclaiming a fair share of automation rents, it nullifies Thiel’s premise that extending fiscal democracy corrodes capitalist liberty. Nuclear powered robotic factories can produce enough surplus to provide a UBI for every citizen.

His vision of detached technocrats ruling unaccountable AI platforms is shattered by community‑led ownership of factories and data infrastructures. Democratic cooperatives and municipally governed enterprises prevent secretive acquisitions and algorithmic governance, embedding production within elected structures and subjecting all automated decision‑making to public review.

Thiel’s model of surveillance‑driven distribution is refuted by a uniform, non‑targeted UBI that guarantees equal economic footing without elite gatekeepers. Removing means tests and opaque criteria restores the principle that support is an unconditional right, not a privilege granted by an unelected few.

Finally, Thiel’s call to “find an escape from politics in all its forms” is countered by embedding these reforms within a transparent, consent‑based government fortified by robust protections for speech, press and information flows, real‑time disclosure of political expenditures, and citizen‑initiated referendum and recall mechanisms obliterates the claim that democracy stifles innovation. True liberty and technological progress flourish only when economic power is as decentralized and contestable as political authority.

Open Society Foundations 2024 – Publications page: opensocietyfoundations.org/pub…

U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division 2023 – Antitrust Division overview: justice.gov/atr

Journal of Co-operative Studies 2022 – Journal issues page: ukscs.coop/pages/journal-of-co…

Roosevelt Institute 2021 – “An Equal Playing Field: Why UBI Is Preferable to GI”: rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/an…

Varieties of Democracy Project 2023 – About V‑Dem project: v-dem.net/

An Equal Playing Field: Why UBI Is Preferable to GI - Roosevelt Institute

Given the current climate, one might wonder whether this is the time for a report on universal basic income (UBI).
ecarew (Roosevelt Institute)

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Sick of Baris's unhinged rants. I'm gonna give him a time out. Mark is not overly emotional.
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SHOCK: Sanctuary Cities Are POPULAR?! The Left OWNS the Overton Window

SHOCK: Sanctuary Cities Are POPULAR?! The Left OWNS the Overton Window Support us at Rasmussen Reports: https://www.rasmussenreports.com/ Free Daily Updates: https://www.rasmussenreports.com/daily_upd
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Lenovo's hot-swappable batteries made my colleagues nostalgic — but today's USB-C solutions are better - Lenovo's hot swappable batteries were a great way to keep w... - tomshardware.com/laptops/lenov… #laptops

Lenovo's hot-swappable batteries made my colleagues nostalgic — but today's USB-C solutions are better

Flexibility is better for me than simplicity.
Andrew E. Freedman (Tom's Hardware)

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ICC had no jurisdiction to arrest former Philippines president – Duterte’s daughter (VIDEO) rt.com/news/620567-sara-dutert…

ICC had no jurisdiction to arrest former Philippines president – Duterte’s daughter (VIDEO)

Sara Duterte claims the ICC had no jurisdiction to arrest her father Rodrigo Duterte, calling his detention illegal in interview with RT
RT

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Pourquoi certains journaux continuent d’illustrer les canicules avec des femmes en bikini et des enfants tout sourire à la plage ? Est-ce vraiment représentatif de ce qu’il se passe quand il fait plus de 40°C à l’ombre et qu'il peut y avoir des conséquences mortelles ?

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Bikinis, enfants qui jouent dans l'eau.. peut-on mieux illustrer les canicules ?

Pourquoi certains journaux continuent d'illustrer les canicules avec des femmes en bikini et des enfants tout sourire à la plage ?
Thomas Wagner (bonpote)

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"Ich saß in Evin hinter Gittern. Unsere Hände sollten diese Mauern niederreißen, nicht Israels Bomben" derstandard.at/story/300000027…

"Ich saß in Evin hinter Gittern. Unsere Hände sollten diese Mauern niederreißen, nicht Israels Bomben"

Tage nach Israels Angriff auf das Gefängnis im Iran wissen Angehörige von Insassen nicht, wie es um ihre Liebsten steht. Unsere Autorin hat gemischte Gefühle – auch sie war einst dort inhaftiert
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Swarm in tune with atmospheric hot flushes


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Atmospheric hot flush during a solar storm

Scientists are harnessing data from ESA’s Swarm mission and ground-based instruments to precisely measure the strength and duration of intense upper-atmosphere heating – dramatic ‘hot flushes’ triggered by solar storms that also cause Earth’s tenuous outer atmospheric layers to expand rapidly.

This research, funded by ESA's Earth Observation FutureEO Science for Society initiative, offers crucial insights into how geomagnetic activity affects satellite orbits and space weather conditions.

#earth #science #space #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Six US citizens detained for trying to send rice and Bibles to North Korea
https://www.euronews.com/2025/06/27/six-us-citizens-detained-for-trying-to-send-rice-and-bibles-to-north-korea?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Six US citizens detained for trying to send rice and Bibles to North Korea

The incident comes as South Korea’s new liberal government seeks to ease friction with Pyongyang and restart long-dormant talks.
Oman Al Yahyai (Euronews.com)

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Unfortunately immigrants don't know that Creta is a high priority military target, that a big part of greeks wish to be shot. euronews.com/video/2025/06/27/…

Video. Crete sees sharp migrant increase via new sea route

Video. Greece is deploying naval forces to Crete's southern shores as migrant arrivals from Libya soar, with over 7,300 migrants landing this year. Shelters are overwhelmed.
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es ist eine schöne sache, wenn eine künstlerin und lebefrau über ihr wildes leben sagt: „ich bereue nichts.“

wenn eine politikerin das selbe sagt, nachdem sie mit destaströsen polit- und personalentscheidungen ihre eigene partei in den untergang geführt hat und damit den boden für den faschismus weiter bereitet hat, finde ich das schade.
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Attached: 1 image Mit Tobias Peter, Berliner Büroleiter von Stuttgarter Zeitung und Stuttgarter Nachrichten, habe ich über meine Zeit als SPD-Vorsitzende gesprochen, die an diesem Wochenende zu Ende geht. Ich bereue nichts. https://www.
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In case people didn't know, Creative Commons has been on the side of "screw your rights and livelihood, it's fair use" regarding GenAI training since at least 2021.

creativecommons.org/2021/03/04…

The new "AI" license 'signals' are interesting as a development (assuming anyone honours them when companies mass pirated commercial creative works!) but not a surprise (and apparently don't include a "no" option, because that's elsewhere in a spec and this is for granularity of yes)

#Copyright #CreativeCommons


Should CC-Licensed Content be Used to Train AI? It Depends. - Creative Commons

While we generally support broad access to content to train AI, we also aim to increase our understanding of the ethical concerns.
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