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#BobVylan reminds us:
"Teaching our children to speak up for the change they want & need is the only way that we make this world a better place."
"As we grow older & our fire possibly starts to dim under the suffocation of adult life and all its responsibilities, it is incredibly important that we encourage & inspire future generations to pick up the torch that was passed to us."
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"There is no instruction, no particular method to study the way."
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#zen #silence #prayer #meditation #spirituality
Shido Bunan, master of the master of Hakuin: »There is no instruction, no particular method to study the way,It is enough to see and hear directly.By seeing directly, the action of seein…Notes & Silence
The Supreme Court’s first chief justice, John Jay, would have empathized with the billionaires who’ve been freaking out ever since Zohran Mamdani won theNorman Solomon (CounterPunch.org)
It is now widely accepted that Iraq's alleged possession of nuclear weapons was the excuse, not the reason, for the Israeli/American desire to destroy Iraq.John Whitbeck (CounterPunch.org)
We need to show that America Ukraine and Israel are beating their enemies because we take the moral high ground on environmental matters
We need to take the technology for Elon Musk's electric cars and apply it to aircraft carriers and tanks and jets and helicopters and planes
We need solar powered jets to run stealth night missions to defeat our enemy
The military had to high a carbon footprint for too long and we can only win these conflicts with a lower carbon footprint than our enemies
Lors de l’assise, ce n’est pas tout de passer au travers des pensées...
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#zen #silence #méditation #prière #spiritualité
Lors de l’assise, ce n’est pas tout de passer au travers des pensées.De la même manière que celles-ci sont une émanation de l’esprit,Il convient de passer au travers des « pensées du corps ».J’ente…Notes & Silence
La chute primordiale de l’homme est due à un renversement du sablier de son être.
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#zen #silence #prière #méditation #spiritualité
La chute primordiale de l’homme est due à un renversement du sablier de son être.Il opère un retournement de son univers intérieur.Ainsi, l’homme chute depuis les profondeurs jusqu’à son être de su…Notes & Silence
It’s really lovely to hear you say this. What a simple gesture that anyone can make that has a huge impact for those who need it most.
I once saw a sticker on the streets with this passage, which aligns with your sentiment. I made a graphic of it because that’s how my family rolls, and I’d love to think more people every day are doing the same thing.
#LGBTQ #Pride #PrideMonth
Industrial cooperation should become the engine of integration in the Eurasian Economic Union, Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of Belarus Roman Golovchenko said on the air of the Belarus 1 TV channel.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
Rather than taxing the rich to rescue a welfare system devastated by 14 years of Conservative austerity, a move consistently favoured in opinion polls, Starmer-Reeves have given paltry increases to a few welfare programmes while cutting several of th…Kenneth Surin (CounterPunch.org)
In Gaza today, hunger has a price—and for far too many civilians, that price has been death. The Israeli Newspaper, Haaretz described the GazaJamal Kanj (CounterPunch.org)
When I'm a senior dev I'm gonna scout some random student and force them to become my apprentice for no reason.
It'll probably end up good tbh.trainig them for a specific job and then employing them. But I have to get experience first?? No thanks! I'm incel.
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Palestinian media outlets have reported a new wave of Israeli airstrikes across Gaza, leaving scores dead and injured amid the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe.ABNA English
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SEND this one to Starmer and every #gazagenocide apologists
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A video of young Israeli children allegedly calling for the destruction of Gaza has gone viral. In the viral video, Israeli kids can be seen singing a song w...YouTube
This thing called Narkis, singing about "finish Gaza" while dancing with #idfterrorists is also very interesting. (Do any search about israelí singers ASKING to murder Palestinians and you'll find quite a bunch of videos)
The hypocrisy goes to the roof and beyond
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Israeli pop singer Narkis is filmed singing with soldiers, calling for “finishing off Gaza”, and for bringing back Gush Katif, a bloc of former Israeli settl...YouTube
You are not born:
It is a sin to live as LGBT.
It is not God's will.
But Jesus can change you.
As a christian, it deeply saddens me to see oyher people who call themselves "christians", yet they spread hate and antipathy, going agaisnt basically everything that Jesus taught.
Wait, what do you mean you aren't born bla—
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The ones that don’t interrupt the thing I am doing/doesn’t obscure the thing I am doing (non-invasive ones?)are not an issue?
Surely you understand that these sites rely on ad revenue to stay free?
Does it seem like a higher percent of adult men have a negative chin length in 2025 than in 2015
I have never remember noticed seeing a man or woman with a negative chin length in real life until after the 2019 "pandemic"
Was I just exposed to information about women judging men by chins so I noticed something in plain sight that I did not notice before or have demographics changed
It looks like the front of the bottom of their jaw is behind the part of their face between the nose & the lips
Judges say Britain can supply fighter jet parts to Israel, but the case has exposed how the government conceals its own evidence of Gaza war crimes.JOHN McEVOY (Declassified Media ltd)
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The Weizmann Institute, Israel’s prestige export, lies in shards, 45 labs gone and $500 M in biomedical IP incinerated, pulling decades of grant pipelines and pharma partnerships off the table overnight. Intel’s Kiryat Gat fabs froze mid-wafer, choking a supply chain that feeds 64 % of Israel’s exports and 1/5 of its GDP; the high-tech sector now runs on skeleton crews because 300 000 reservists were yanked from R&D floors and data centers to guard empty runways at Tel Nof. Commercial flights halted twice at Ben Gurion, insurers jacked premiums, and foreign airlines rerouted around a country that once sold itself as the region’s safe hub.
Capital is already in flight. More than 80 000 Israelis emigrated in 2024, the largest outflow since 1948, pushing the two-year total above 500 000 and forcing Netanyahu’s cabinet to slap a travel ban on Jewish dual nationals to stem the leak. Investor confidence cratered: venture funds paused term sheets, construction sites stand idle, and mega-projects wait on credit that no longer clears. The finance ministry, staring at a deficit set to shove public debt past 75 % of GDP, begged for an extra $857 M in defence cash while slicing $200 M from hospitals and schools.
Analysts peg Israel’s aggregate loss between $11.5 B and $17.8 B, up to 3.3 % of GDP, before counting long-tail hits from halted exports, cancelled IPOs, and sovereign-risk downgrades. Iran, still sitting on its uranium stockpile, spent a fraction of that yet forced the self-styled “Start-Up Nation” into a liquidity scramble, an insurance panic, and a brain-drain spiral. Tel Aviv promised deterrence; Tehran handed it a balance sheet in red ink and the visible stamp of strategic humiliation.
#geopolitics #war #Israel
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Les capitaux sont déjà en fuite. Plus de 80 000 Israéliens ont émigré en 2024, le plus grand exode depuis 1948, portant le total sur deux ans à plus de 500 000 et obligeant le cabinet de Netanyahu à imposer une interdiction de voyager aux Juifs ayant la double nationalité afin d’endiguer l’hémorragie.
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La poussière du conflit entre Israël et l'Iran commence à retomber. Et l'étendue des destructions causées par les frappes deEdouard Husson (Le Courrier des Stratèges)
Does it seem like 18 year old Korean women in 2025 are more ugly or less attractive than 18 year old Korean women in 2005
And likewise for 30 year old Korean women in 2025 compared to 30 year old Korean women 2005
And likewise for 40 year old Korean women in 2025 compared to 40 year old Korean woman in 2005
Actually it probably did work
It probably notified shortstories at poa dot st instead of shortstories at merovingian dot club
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Japan Times: Immigration raids leave crops unharvested and California farms at risk
""OXNARD, California... In the fields, I would say 70% of the workers are gone," she said in an interview. "If 70% of your workforce doesn't show up, 70% of your crop doesn't get picked and can go bad in one day. Most Americans don't want to do this work. Most farmers here are barely breaking even. I fear this has created a tipping point where many will go bust.""
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#VenturaCounty #agriculture #farms #ICE #economy #food #foodsupply
In the vast agricultural lands north of Los Angeles, farmers and field supervisors have said that ICE raids have led a majority of workers to stop showing up.Tim Reid (The Japan Times)
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For many, the memory of the Holocaust as a break with civilization is the moral foundation of the Federal Republic. To compare it with other genocides is therefore considered a heresy, an apostasy...Geschichte der Gegenwart
for the millionth time, White America is just racist, no Russian interference required.
And also, both major US political parties deserve the criticism. Both parties have advanced capitalist minority rule, white supremacy, and imperialism against (among others) the Vietnamese, Palestinian, and Chilean peoples.
Also, Putin is America's fault. 100%.
Our Chicago School ratfuckers helped Russia implement capitalist oligarchy (aka "democracy"), and it led to Putin rising to power a couple decades later.
Just like we are seeing here in America with Trump
The US political establishment is complicit in genocide, fascism, and exploitation around the globe, and this criminal enterprise has been going on since the first British colonies were founded on the North American continent in the 1600s.
It's not all Kamala's fault or Biden's fault or even Trump's fault, but they willingly integrated themselves into it instead of working to destroy it and replace it with something less murderous and cruel.
Under Israel lobby pressure, the BBC pulled a documentary showing how Israel has systematically destroyed Gaza's heath care system. Not everyone is so cowardly. This Wednesday it will be broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK, and Zeteo elsewhere.Substack
Oliver North being invited to Fox News as a “military analyst” talking about how Iran shouldn't have missiles and is a threat to peace in the middle east, as if it wasn't him who sold missiles to Iran in order to create untraceable funds through which to support the Contras in Nicaragua when congress cut funding (which was high treason).
You're a threat to peace everywhere.
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The cost of living crisis isn't going away, because climate breakdown isn't going away.Grace Blakeley
Israeli settlers attack Israeli soldiers in occupied West Bank | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera
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They're out of control!
#Palestine #WestBank #Israel
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Israeli settlers targeted Israeli soldiers in an occupied West Bank riot.Al Jazeera
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Israel bombs Gaza aid sites, cafe and school, killing 95 Palestinians | Gaza News | Al Jazeera
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And still the west (largely) does nothing.
#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
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Victims include at least 39 people who were killed in an Israeli strike on a seaside cafe in Gaza City.Al Jazeera
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Yet another act of state sponsored murder
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Penge in southeast London has become a graffiti hotspot — but a fast-food franchise owner threatened legal action over one man’s mischievous design
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Hi, Rod!
Fuck off, Rod!
Go and parade your declining mental acuity somewhere else! We don't need it or, as it turns out, you here.
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6 Policies That Could Be Affected by Supreme Court's Decision On Nationwide Injunctions
The Supreme Court on June 27 handed down a decision restricting federal judges’ ability to impose nationwide injunctions against executive policies, a ruling that was immediately hailed by President Donald Trump as a win for his administration.
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroTyler Durden (www.zerohedge.com)
Nablus /PNN/ Israeli occupation forces, accompanied by two bulldozers, began demolishing residential structureenglish.pnn.ps
According to The Wall Street Journal, Israel codenamed its initial attack on Iran that killed senior military leaders "Red Wedding," referring to a gruesome massacre from the book series "Game of Thrones," which was adapted into a TV series on HBO.News From Antiwar.com
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🇺🇸💰🇮🇱 While Americans argue over rent hikes, groceries, and student loans, Israel has extracted $124 M per day from the U.S. Treasury for an entire year, much of it hidden behind opaque appropriations and congressional loopholes.
According to Brown University’s Costs of War project, Washington has shouldered 70% of Israel’s military costs since Oct 7, 2023. That includes $17.9 B in direct aid, $4.86 B in Pentagon regional ops, $20.3 B in deferred arms deals, and billions more in shipping losses, stockpile transfers, and corporate handouts.
Since 1948 the United States has pumped $317 B into Israel, including $251.2 B in military aid since 1959; that torrent began with the first Pentagon loan in 1959, switched to grants in 1974, became 100% grants in 1985, and now flows automatically as a $3.8 B lump-sum every Oct 1 plus a $500 M missile-defense kicker under the 2019-2028 MOU, money on which Israel pockets the interest because Washington lets it sit in a Fed account. Even so, FY-2024 set a new single-year record: $17.9 B, dwarfing the 1973 and 1978 surges and landing entirely on U.S. taxpayers.
That FY-2024 fire-hose breaks down as $6.8 B Foreign Military Financing, $4.5 B for Iron Dome and David’s Sling reloads, $1.2 B for the Iron Beam laser, $1 B to crank out more 155 mm shells in U.S. factories, and $4.4 B to refill Pentagon stockpiles stripped for Israeli use, again, $17.9 B in 11 months. The administration also slid at least 100 separate weapons deals under congressional reporting thresholds to keep the true cost opaque.
On 8-13-2024 Washington promised another $20.3 B: 50 F-15EX fighters priced at $18.8 B for delivery in 2029, 32 000 120 mm tank rounds at $774 M, $583 M in tactical vehicles, 30 AMRAAMs at $102 M, and 50 000 mortar bombs at $61 M, all deferred to future U.S. budgets via Israel’s “cash-flow” privilege.
Meanwhile the money flows back to the usual corporate feeders. 60 % of the $14 B April supplemental, $8.4 B, went straight to U.S. arms firms. Boeing’s defense arm booked $8 B in Q4-2023 orders, 36 % of its annual revenue. The Financial Times projects $52 B in free cash flow for the top-15 defense contractors in 2026, $26 B pocketed by the U.S. “big five,” cash they historically plow into buybacks and dividends. Israel still may divert 25 % of each yearly grant, $950 M this cycle, to its own industry before that carve-out expires in 2028.
Add it up and the past 12 months have drained $17.9 B in direct aid, $20.3 B in new contractual obligations, $4.86 B (and climbing) in Pentagon regional costs, and $2.1 B in trade losses, a $45.16 B extraction. That works out to $124 M every day, $1.5 M every hour, funneled from American households to a foreign military and a handful of weapons conglomerates that treat the U.S. Treasury like an open vein.
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When then US Senate passes the budget bill which defunds Medicaid, raises energy costs to protect a dying and toxic fossil fuel industry by crippling renewables, and give a huge handout to the domestic criminal cartel known as "Department of Homeland Security", it will result in more carnage than if a foreign adversary aerially bombed the whole country for a couple years.
But the oligarchs who own our politicians have their interests protected, which is the point of all of this.
of course i agree. i was looking more ground level here, and maybe voicing a little exasperation at the trap we are in.
refusing to buy oil (in this case gasoline) says: im not going to be sitting in traffic two hours a day going to a bullshit job to make money for you.
refusing to buy plastic says: im not supporting your worldwide labor exploitation.
unrealistic, i know. let a guy dream 😁
So, the question on everyone's mind is "Why isn't anyone stopping him?" And unfortunately, the answer to that question is "Because fundamentally the Constitution is not designed to stop someone like him".
The Constitution is designed to handle the occasional weak, ineffectual, or even ignorant President. But the founders never in their wildest dreams imagined they would need to protect against widespread, coordinated attacks by multiple partisan bad faith actors abusing the power given to them by the document to dismantle the Republic the document is supposed to safeguard.
So let's call this what it is. Not a Presidency. Not a regime. A coup.
The National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska is home to tens of thousands of caribou, migratory birds, and fish. The Trump administration’s new plan could open 82% of this fragile landscape to oil and gas development. Public comment ends on Tuesday.
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The High Court's F-35 judgement is a cowardly ruling that absolves any responsibility from it of the UK's compliance with international lawSteve Topple (The Canary)
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.BRICS
We’ve gone beyond co-production – disabled people must run the DWP" is the verdict of a sweeping response to the governmentSteve Topple (The Canary)
As new details of DWP reforms emerge, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation outlines what MPs would be supporting if they vote for the BillSteve Topple (The Canary)
Labour’s welfare reform creates a two-tier system punishing future claimants. MPs are fighting back. Compassion—or a cynical political fix?Mike Sivier (Vox Political)
Mass murderers say what? The friends of genocide are still whining and agitating about Bob Vylan and Kneecap, two performers at Glastonbury last weekend who chanted ‘Death to the IDF’ a…SKWAWKBOX
BBC m I really outraged by a call to kill genocidal soldiers, starving kids or luring people into food distribution so as to use them as human targets than by the deaths of more than 300.000 Palestinian civilians (lattest US surveys).
How beautifully obnoxious.
Imagine Churchill and 1945 BBC outraged by a song on the tune of "Bridge of River Kway" calling to kill all nazi.
No better, Brad Pitt prosecuted for his character in "Obnoxious bastards".
They all make me sick and very, very angry !
Yep, #DeathToIOF !
Far from being a threat to the British people, activists fighting for the Palestinian cause are in fact reflective of public opinion and helping to close the gap between international law and Britain’s support for Israeli oppression.
It's nonsense. Time to abolish the monarchy.
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Offshore wind power boom helps push profit from land and property to more than double what it was two years agoLauren Almeida (The Guardian)
The Venezuelan government has issued a forceful demand for the immediate return of 18 Venezuelan children being held in U.S. custody after being separated from their families.teleSURenglish
Stingray's Badger Friend
in reply to Stingray's Badger Friend • • •"Let them see us marching in the streets, campaigning on ground level, organising online & shouting about it on any and every stage that we are offered."
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Bob Vylan banned from US over 'hateful' Glastonbury outburst as visas revoked
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