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Amid Trump’s immigration crackdown, travel bans & sweeping global tariffs (& his threats, detaining tourists, alignment with the RW parties: around the world, Putin...), the US is expected to be the only one out of 184 countries to see foreign visitor spending fall in 2025.
❞ Qatar could mediate, but it couldn't make decisions for Hamas. Its influence was real only when it served as the organization's main ATM, funding its activities and civilian institutions, paying salaries to officers and fighters, and helping to rebuild Gaza after every Israeli military operation. And all that was done with the permission of the Israeli government.
Similarly, Egypt could put pressure on Hamas only as long as it controlled the economic pipeline that fed Gaza and Hamas – the Rafah border crossing. But this lever disappeared after the Israel Defense Forces took control of both the crossing and the Philadelphi corridor along the Gaza-Egypt border. As a result, in an unprecedented development, the
Americans are now directly negotiating with Hamas, but nobody is complaining about them violating the principle of not negotiating with a terror group. Moreover, Trump can no longer threaten to open the gates of hell on Gaza if Hamas doesn't accept the proposed deal. Hell has already been achieved. ❝
Israel's leaders seem to have no plan for the Strip but occupying it. They must ask themselves what they'll do when the enclave's 2 million people, who have nothing left to lose, rise up
Esto está pasando en Inglaterra. Lo digo para cuando os suelten eso de "somos una democracia" porque ahora mismo apesta a dictadura de 💩💩 #uklabour #ukdictatorship
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Tim Crosland, former gov’t lawyer and founder of charity planb.earth was one o
These quotes are not representative of the whole article, which is long, and covers many different themes, but jumped out at me as being observations I've not seen articulated a lot.
❞ Filiu [one of the only historians studying the Gaza Strip] accuses Israel of turning a blind eye for years to what has been going on in Gaza: "For 20 years now, Israel has been unable to nurture networks of collaborators inside Gaza. [The Israelis] tried every tool in the book, and they failed. Because they don't know Gaza's society. And because they operate either from a tank or from a drone, which is not the most efficient way to operate."
To bolster his views, Filiu cites a surprising example: the Israeli television series "Fauda." "The first two seasons, which were set in the West Bank, were quite impressive," he says. The third season, which takes place in Gaza, however, was out of touch with reality. The people who created it, he adds, "don't know what they're talking about. They're speaking about Mosul, they're speaking about the Taliban, they're not talking about Gaza. They don't know Gaza."
One of the tragic consequences of this blindness, Filiu observes, is the mortal blow being dealt to everyone in the Strip who opposes Hamas. "There were thriving universities, intellectual circles and artists. There were so many rap groups in Gaza, and you can imagine that their members weren't exactly sympathetic to Hamas. "There was a civil society that didn't want to be part of Hamas' Islamist scheme," he continues, "but all that has been destroyed now by the Israeli invasion. ❝
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The English translation of his book won't come out before next year, unfortunately. I hope there's also interest from a German (countercurrent) publisher.
Another thing occurs to me, a propos of this piece: Filiu managed to get official permission for entry into the Gaza Strip from Israel, without being part of a humanitarian mission. Which proves that it is not the case that “international journalists are not getting in because no-one is getting in except humanitarians". Whatever security hoopla they made a history professor jump through they could make a CNN correspondent jump through. Israel is choosing to ban international journalists from Gaza, and journalists specifically.
EDIT: In another interview (Le Monde) he clarifies: "I was integrated into the local team of Doctors Without Borders, which is doing extraordinary work in Gaza and which I assisted thanks to my intimate knowledge of the enclave". It's unclear whether that was just for logistics or whether that means he was officially allowed in •as• "humanitarian assistance".
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Laith Marouf joins Photo-Journalist Courtney Bonneau to report on the latest attack on Lebanon during its so-called Ceasefire with the Zionist Colony, as a “...
❞ The defense establishment, and following its lead, most Israelis, expect one thing from the Palestinian: surrender. Voluntarily and quietly. It's expected that the Palestinian won't defend himself, won't resist, won't fight the occupation imposed by Israel. If she dares defend herself, she will immediately become a target. If he appeals to the United Nations, he will be accused of "political terrorism." This system is designed to see the Palestinian as the ultimate and immediate suspect, even when she's the victim. … According to this system, a Palestinian who picks up a stone is a terrorist, but a settler who burns down a village is "frustrated.”… This isn't security or self-defense. It's apartheid, it's ethnic supremacy, and it won't last forever. ... Israel claims that Palestinian resistance of any kind is violent and illegitimate, but the question is: What does legitimate resistance look like in a situation of ongoing occupation? Is the Israeli justification of self-defense an exclusive right, or does this right also belong to the Palestinians? ... we've never heard a Western leader talk about the right of the Palestinian people to self-defense. In the eyes of the world, the Palestinian should simply die in silence. ❝
In Israeli eyes, a Palestinian who picks up a stone is a terrorist, but a settler who burns down a village is 'frustrated.' This isn't self-defense, it's apartheid, and it's unsustainable
A Financial Times exposé reveals how BCG consultants worked with contractors and Israeli think tanks to design logistics for aid delivery and population movement in Gaza.
I bought a Lenovo laptop, one from the the bargain bin, 11th gen Intel and 8gb soldered RAM
Even if I reinstalled Windows to make sure all the bloatware was removed, it was almost unusable. At boot I was left with only 800mb free memory, and "Lenovo vantage" kept reappearing automatically like malware. (It's a useless electron app that wastes half a gig of ram to show you on screen when you press caps lock, check driver updates and try to upsell you on extended warranty)
At idle the machine was as loud as a jet, with crystal disk mark always complaining "the nvme drive is over 65°C!!" (I'm guessing from the constant swapping)
Battery life was a disaster, 2 hours at idle with no foreground apps open
I thought that it was the CPU too slow for my use and the RAM not enough, so I was planning to spend some hundreds of euro to buy a new laptop with at least 16gb of RAM.
Then I installed cachyos and because I'm masochist I chose hyprland at the "easy" install screen that asks you which of the 19 available DE you prefer.
After a week of suffering trying to understand all the text configuration files for everything (it was a shock, everything needs the terminal) I'm now getting used to it and... It's like I got a brand new laptop??!?
Memory: clean boot now obviously is reversed situation. I don't have only 800mb of free RAM, the whole system uses only 800mb
Temperatures: by default cachyos is set to show the CPU temperature on waybar, and it's always around 40-45° C. The fan is way quieter. At idle they can even stop, before they were like a hair dryer even after a clean boot
Battery life: astounding. I can't believe that I can use it for a whole afternoon. Accidentally fell asleep and when I came back after two hours it lost only 10% (on idle, screen turn off automatically)
Gaming performance: tried only with casual games but with something like tinytopia I get 60fps on ultra when on windows it was choppy on high
I think this is a bit of a hyperbole... Hyprland uses about 1.6 GB of RAM on cold boot, not 800 MB. Also, Win11 uses 3.5 GB on cold boot, not 7 GB (although it escalates quickly). Additionally, there was no reason to use CachyOS/Hyprland as your first (?) Linux. Mint would do just fine, with its 1.3 GB ram usage (and down to 950 MB if you disable a couple of services via its gui). It's just that I'm having hard time believing that you stuck through with Linux when "everything requires a terminal". Something tells me that you're already a seasoned Linux user, and that you're overstating the situation for clicks. Not cool, if that's the case.
I have the L 14 GEN two so it’s probably the same processor and I don’t know if my eight GB is salted or not but I was able to upgrade to 16 GB anyway I noticed that in Lennox I get significantly better battery life. It probably goes from 2 to 3 hours to 4 to 5 maybe.
Almost every laptop I've owned in the past 15 years has been this way. Just an old machine people wanted to discard because of viruses or crap performance. They'd give their "junk" to me and go buy a new laptop. After swapping it to linux with a few tweaks here and there, I swear that "junk" would outperform the new one they dropped all the money on.
I've used Linux as my primary OS for many years, but I keep a copy of Windows on my current laptop for gaming. I know the gaming story on Linux is pretty good now, but having to hibernate and reboot is enough of a barrier to launching a game that it helps me stay more productive.
At home, my laptop sits on a stand with great airflow, but when trying to play The Witcher 3 on a desk while traveling, it overheated and throttled to the point it wasn't playable. On Linux, the thinkpad_acpi driver allows setting the fan level to "disengaged", which sounds like "off" but actually means unregulated and results in a considerably higher speed and cooling performance than the usual maximum. Some research led to the conclusion that while manual fan control is possible with certain apps on Windows, there is no way to exceed the maximum automatic speed.
It only took a couple minutes to set up Lutris and Proton to run the game, and as expected the mild abuse of my laptop's fan does make it playable. What I didn't expect is considerably faster load times, but I got those too.
Just a handy tip if you haven't already your laptop might sound like it's about to take off because it hasn't been cleaned in a while. Just search up a tutorial on YouTube for your laptop and be amazed at how much dust you will find clogging up your fan.
Also yeah that terminal thing is just arch and hyprland you really through yourself in the deep end there (I personally havnt used arch before). Linux mint on the other hand is super easy to use and the terminal is only there if you chose to use it.
In the end I'm learning how everything works "behind the scenes" with a shock therapy (disclaimer: while I didn't use Linux as my personal desktop, I have a decade of experience with Linux servers, otherwise this migration would have been impossible to understand for me)
I was expecting for example an easy toggle for dark mode instead needs to set several constants on the terminal (for GTK, for qt, and so on)
Everything needs one hour of searching but I'm documenting everything for future reference in a markdown file
And I had to set home as a git repository because otherwise a literal comma in a wrong spot would crash everything and I wouldn't be able to revert it
For example I wanted to show the WiFi status on the taskbar (default doesn't show) and I forgot a comma in the JSON configuration file. The taskbar (waybar) didn't even start next time and I was presented with a completely empty wallpaper lol
Al-Qassam Targets Occupiers, Vehicles in Top-Tier Op. in Khan Younis, Yemen Continues Missile Attacks
The al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced Saturday the execution of a top-tier operation against Zionist occupation forces in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to details released by the Brigades, the operation took place on Friday morning near the Directorate of Education in the al-Mahatta area, in central Khan Younis. Resistance fighters stormed a gathering of Zionist soldiers and their military vehicles, the statement added.
Al-Qassam targets 2 Zionist tanks, APC
As part of the operation, al-Qassam fighters targeted two Merkava tanks using two Shawaz explosive devices, resulting in its crew members being either killed or injured.
In addition to the tanks, the Resistance fighters also struck an armored personnel carrier with a Yassin 105 shell.
When Zionist rescue forces arrived at the scene, they were attacked with light and medium machine gun fire, the Brigades pointed out.
During the operation, al-Qassam fighters observed the landing of helicopters conducting an evacuation that lasted several hours.
The Brigades also reported a second operation on Friday, in which its fighters targeted another Zionist armored personnel carrier using a Yassin 105 shell on al-Bi’ah Street in central Khan Younis.
Al-Quds Brigades documents complex, top-tier operation in al-Shuja’iyya
Meanwhile, the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) Movement, released footage on Friday documenting a complex and top-tier operation its Resistance fighters conducted on Wednesday in the eastern al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City.
The al-Quds Brigades operation targeted Zionist military vehicles and soldiers, as well as homes where occupation forces had taken cover, engaging in direct confrontations at close range.
The commander of the operation reported that the Zionist soldiers showed no initiative or response, resorting only to screaming and fleeing without returning significant fire toward the Resistance fighters.
He added that the fighters encountered charred bodies of officers and soldiers, confirming that 40 Zionist soldiers were either killed or wounded, and stated that the occupation continues to lie and conceal its losses as it always does.
Yemen launches ballistic missile in solidarity
Zionist air defenses scrambled to intercept a ballistic missile launched from Yemen over occupied Palestine early Sunday.
At 2:45 am (local time), the Zionist military command warned that a missile was launched from Yemen, later announcing that its air defenses successfully intercepted it. Sirens sounded in settlements in the southern occupied West Bank as well as some settlements near the Dead Sea.
The strike comes as Yemen reiterates its military support for Gaza, vowing continued operations until the aggression ends.
Yemenis affirm their continued support for Palestine
On Friday, the Yemeni governorates of Saadah, Raymah, and Marib witnessed massive rallies in support of the Palestinian people and their Resistance and in solidarity with the Gaza Strip under the slogan: “Steadfast with Gaza, prepared and mobilized in the face of aggression.”
Participants raised slogans affirming Yemen’s unwavering support for Palestine, in light of the ongoing Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip.
Earlier, the leader of the Ansar Allah movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, emphasized the continuation of the Yemeni ban on Zionist shipping, affirming its success and praising Yemen’s ability to continue the battle.
Jake Gold tests how well 90s-era CGI works today, using a Go + SQLite CGI program running on a 16-thread AMD 3700X. Using CGI on modest hardware, it’s possible to …
As we see democracies turning into autocracies, with camps and all, I wonder where this will stop. Or if we'll go full fascist. I see no mechanism stopping the decline. At some point of the decline, elections will no longer cut it/won't be fair enough. Or am I missing something?
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Doctors in Gaza are sounding the alarm over a growing crisis threatening hundreds of babies, reported the Guardian. The strip is running out of infant formula as Israel conti
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We've been through this with his dad - his dad's lawyer was the lawyer who represented Joe McCarthy, Fuck those people. Been there, done that. Exposed their crown jewels.
there are dimwits with more money than brains who buy an organization that elects them. Some are dumb as rocks. I have some really funny stories. Thank you for reminding me. I will use them soon. I met these "leaders" personally. Shit for brains. as you said. First, I had to catch up on the headlines, and I have a network I am building - almost ready 😎
When your idea of "democracy" is arresting an 83 year old as a terrorist, who just wanted to stop a #genocide, I guess you don't have much time left in government. #FuckStarmer
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.
I do find it interesting that most of the references to greek homosexuality come from one group talking about their rivals. Spartans called the Athenians boy lovers and the Athenians said the same thing about the Spartans. almost as if it was meant as an insult
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior commander of Saraya al-Quds resistance group, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, announced that nearly 40 Israeli occupation troops were killed or wounded in a coordinated resistance operation in eastern Ga…
This was a screenshot that I posted on the Mastodon.social instance last year only to watch moderators remove it as “promoting violence” or some such Orwellian bullshit. Will bsky moderators let it ride?
Building instructions and .ldr file available freely here Has playability features and contains: - A guillotine. - A corpse box. - A brick-built character inspired by some elected french jupiterian scumbag. Note that I am against the death penalty.
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Peruvian lawmakers have introduced four bills to annul the decree that doubled President Boluarte’s salary, challenging its legitimacy and demanding accountability before Congress.
Les plaintes pour escroquerie sentimentale en ligne se multiplient ces dernières années. Ce fléau, nourri par la solitude et la fracture numérique, s’appuie sur des techniques de manipulation de plus en plus sophistiquées.
The fact that he made a character that kills pedophiles and protects children and expected people to find him abhorrent says a lot about Alan Moore… IMG_8826.jpeg
At the 59th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Belarus drew attention to human rights violations in Ukraine and the persecution of ethnic Belarusians.
Interesting. The American Ayatollah, the Supreme Court, ruled in favor of those harmed by the US state violence system, which is often referred to as a justice system.
Work, consume, shut the fuck up. You can't have an opinion. That's the meaning of "western civilization" à la Americana This is the "democracy" that the #EU wants to impose on us.
In the #UK, 27 people were arrested for carrying placards opposing the #genocide in #Palestine and supporting #PalestineAction This happened the day after #Palestine_Action was banned as a terrorist organisation, as those arrested could be charged as "terrorists"
TEHRAN, Jul. 05 (MNA) – Iran’s ambassador to China has lashed out at the United States and its allies, including the Israeli regime, for disregarding international laws and undermining the principles of cooperation.
PS: It's not that #Trump officials feel more lenient toward blue-state scientists. It's that blue-state Attorneys General fight back in court. Sometimes resistance works.
Israeli outlet Haaretz has published an article titled “Now I Understand Why Israel Is Denying Journalists Access to the Appalling Scene in Gaza” by French historian Jean-Pierre Filiu, who spent a month in Gaza after entering with a busload of French physicians. #israel has banned journalists from #gaza in order to hide its war crimes, making doctors the de facto western reporters on the ground. And they’re all reporting the same thing about what they are seeing.
The New Republic reports members of the U.S. military are spending July 4 demanding answers about the consequences of following the orders of “Trump’s far-right authoritarian government.
We may believe we see the world exactly as it is – but as studies of optical illusions show, it’s far more complex than that, says cognitive and computational neuroscience professor Anil Seth
Mothers are so judgemental. I was pushing my daughter in her pram and one said, "Your baby looks like a 6 pack of beer!" "Don't listen to them, Peroni." I whispered.
La police néerlandaise se déclare officiellement opposée à une nouvelle législation en cours d'adoption qui vise à créer un délit d'aide aux personnes en situation irrégulière et à restreindre le droit d'asile. Sa présidente affirme que la police est là pour venir en aide aux personnes qui en ont besoin, et non pour leur faire la chasse.
Arrested Again The abruptness, severity and theatrics behind the May 29 arrest of funk and trap music artist Me Poze do Rodo (Marlon Brendon Coelho Couto) downgrades Brazilian media even further, to the point of the story being published in the New Y…
Harvard trying to choose the path that punishes people who oppose genocide while at the same time fighting off the Trump admin's attack on academic freedoms is a remarkable effort at squaring two completely adversarial roles.
Here's the commencement speech by Zehra Imam from Harvard Divinity School. The speech Harvard censored.
In May, Harvard Divinity School refused to publish its commencement speech after a speaker went off-script to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza. The Intercept...
Far right chuds who pedojacket trans women are really just deflecting. So many right wing "anti-pedo activists" are actually sexual abusers themselves.
Tasmania: Covid hits state hospitals, causes holiday cancellations
"The Health Department confirmed cases of Covid at the Royal Hobart Hospital, Launceston General Hospital and North-West Regional Hospital but were unable to say how many patients had been infected"
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- Israeli attacks kill 27 in Gaza today - Thousands of families cut off from water in Gaza City - Netanyahu dispatches negotiators to Qatar ahead of meeting with Trump - WATCH: Israeli attack kills doctor and 3 of his children in Gaza - Israeli attacks kill 17 across Gaza
If someone was in my care, and I decided to not get them medical care, not feed them, and make them sleep outside, I'd go to jail. Especially if that neglect leads to thier death.
But if I were elected to office, or given a job as CEO, I can do that all I want.
The European Union plans to create reserves of critically important minerals and cable repair kits in case of emergencies. The Financial Times (FT) newspaper writes about this with reference to the order of the European Commission.
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The English translation of his book won't come out before next year, unfortunately. I hope there's also interest from a German (countercurrent) publisher.
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in reply to Bilal Barakat 🍉 • • •I just looked, there's no announcement in German yet. And it seems only one book from filiu was translated in german.
I think I will read the English version, my french is not sufficient enough.
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in reply to Bilal Barakat 🍉 • • •Another thing occurs to me, a propos of this piece:
Filiu managed to get official permission for entry into the Gaza Strip from Israel, without being part of a humanitarian mission. Which proves that it is not the case that “international journalists are not getting in because no-one is getting in except humanitarians". Whatever security hoopla they made a history professor jump through they could make a CNN correspondent jump through. Israel is choosing to ban international journalists from Gaza, and journalists specifically.
EDIT: In another interview (Le Monde) he clarifies: "I was integrated into the local team of Doctors Without Borders, which is doing extraordinary work in Gaza and which I assisted thanks to my intimate knowledge of the enclave". It's unclear whether that was just for logistics or whether that means he was officially allowed in •as• "humanitarian assistance".
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