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Yes, 'Not an Inch to the East' Was Binding Under International Law


#geopolitics #war #NATO

A landmark judgment by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 1974 makes it unequivocally clear that under international law, unilateral oral declarations made by state representatives can be legally binding, provided they meet specific criteria. This judgment came in the case Nuclear Tests (Australia v. France), where Australia challenged France’s atmospheric nuclear tests in the Pacific despite prior French assurances to the contrary.


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Yes, 'Not an Inch to the East' Was Binding Under International Law

Not only is the historical record on Western promises to the USSR regarding NATO expansion crystal clear, there is also an ICJ ruling confirming that verbal commitments are legally binding.
Pascal Lottaz (Pascal’s Substack)

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(3) From Srebrenica to Gaza: Genocide Denial and the Long Struggle for Justice


#geopolitics #war #genocide

The international recognition of the “Srebrenica Genocide” appears to contrast with the denial of Israel’s current genocide in Gaza. Yet Srebrenica was also comprehensively denied at the time and continues to be denied by Serbia.


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From Srebrenica to Gaza: Genocide Denial and the Long Struggle for Justice

On the 30th anniversary of the largest mass killing in Europe since 1945, Martin Shaw contrasts the tragedy and its aftermath with the West's support of Israel in Gaza.
Byline Supplement

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(3) La mauvaise manière des magistrats à Emmanuel Macron


#politique #justice

Non le jugement de première instance n’avait pas condamné Natacha Rey et Amandine Roy pour avoir prétendu que Brigitte Macron était un homme. Et par conséquent l’arrêt de la Cour d’appel qui les relaxe, ne porte pas sur le genre de l’épouse du Président de la République.


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La mauvaise manière des magistrats à Emmanuel Macron

Comme d’habitude, après la décision de la cour d’appel de Paris dans l’affaire qui opposait Brigitte Macron et son frère Jean-Michel à Natacha Rey et Amandine Roy, on assiste à des commentaires et des manipulations qui se nourrissent de la faible cul…
Regis de Castelnau (Regis’s Substack)

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Feeling the Rush? Dive into the Addictive World of Slope Game!

Ever find yourself with a few minutes to spare and a craving for something that’s both challenging and instantly gratifying? Then let me introduce you to Slope Game, a deceptively simple yet utterly addictive online game that will test your reflexes and spatial reasoning to their absolute limit. You can find it at Slope Game, and trust me, once you start, you might find it hard to stop!

This isn't some flashy, story-driven epic. Slope Game is pure, unadulterated gameplay. It strips away the unnecessary bells and whistles and delivers a raw, engaging experience that's perfect for a quick burst of fun or a longer session of competitive high-score chasing. So, how exactly do you play? Let's break it down.

Getting to Grips: The Gameplay of Slope Gamerward: you control a rolling ball as it navigates a procedurally generated, downward-sloping course made of blocks. Think of it like a never-ending rollercoaster, but you're in control of the car, and the tracks are constantly shifting and disappearing.

The controls are minimalist, relying on just two keys: the left and right arrow keys (or A and D, if you prefer). These keys steer your ball left and right, allowing you to dodge obstacles like red blocks that instantly end your run, and navigate the constantly changing terrain.

The beauty of Slope Game lies in its increasing difficulty. As you progress further down the slope, the speed increases, the gaps between blocks widen, and the overall challenge intensifies. The game cleverly introduces subtle variations in the terrain, like slightly angled blocks that require more precise steering, and even blocks that suddenly change color, adding an extra layer of visual complexity.
What makes it truly engaging is the sense of momentum. You're constantly gaining speed, and the feeling of barely avoiding an obstacle by the skin of your teeth is incredibly exhilarating. The procedural generation also means that no two runs are ever the same, keeping the experience fresh and unpredictable.
It's a simple premise, yes, but its elegant design and addictive gameplay loop make Slope Game a compelling experience for players of all skill levels. Even just a few minutes of playing can provide a surprisingly intense and satisfying challenge.

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Europe’s Plummeting Fertility Rates: A Mystery? Or a Failure to Analyze the Data? • Children's Health Defense


#society #politics #health #covid19

Vaccinated women conceived about a third fewer children than would be expected from their share of the population. Unvaccinated women conceived at about the same rate as all women before the pandemic. Thus, a strong association between COVID-19 vaccination status and successful conceptions has been established.


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Europe’s Plummeting Fertility Rates: A Mystery? Or a Failure to Analyze the Data? • Children's Health Defense

Charts show falling birth rates for countries across Europe beginning in 2022, and datasheets break down the COVID-19 vaccination status of new mothers in the Czech Republic.
karenr (Children's Health Defense)

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(3) Brennan, MSNBC Can't Stop Lying About Trump and Russia


#politics #USA #disinformation

The amusing Elias video means people like the former Clinton lawyer are worried that not only conservatives, but friendly audiences at places like MSNBC might begin exploring what actually happened in 2016-2019. If those audiences put even minimal effort into learning the basics of these cases, it’s possible mainstream public opinion will finally turn — not on Trump, but on the concocted Trump-Russia mania of those years, which deserves a place in history next to or even above the WMD scandal as the biggest intelligence fiasco of our time.


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Brennan, MSNBC Can't Stop Lying About Trump and Russia

Attention, believers in the Trump-Russia conspiracy: you are being lied to. Side by side, here's what you've been told, next to the reality that's being hidden from you.
Matt Taibbi (Racket News)

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IHU de Strasbourg : des cochons ont-ils été priorisés sur des malades du cancer ?


#politique #santé #servicepublic #capitalisme

À Strasbourg, a-t-on fait passer des recherches scientifiques sur des cochons avant des patients atteints de cancers ? La polémique enfle à l’Institut hospitalo-universitaire (IHU), visé par deux enquêtes administratives. Des dizaines de rendez-vous de patients venus faire des IRM auraient été annulés. La direction de l’IHU, prétextant un manque de personnel, aurait en fait demandé aux manipulateurs radio de travailler en priorité sur des recherches sur des cochons, commanditées par des sociétés privées.


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IHU de Strasbourg : des cochons ont-ils été priorisés sur des malades du cancer ?

À Strasbourg, a-t-on fait passer des recherches scientifiques sur des cochons avant des patients atteints de cancers ? La polémique enfle à l’Institut hospitalo-universitaire (IHU), visé par deux enquêtes administratives.
Mélina Facchin (correspondante à Strasbourg) (europe1.fr)

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Federated Services

Federated Services are services which many instances form a network to provide a greater whole than the sum of their parts, each participant in the Fediverse is an “instance”. A message or other item made available on one instance is visible and available on other instances.

We make these services available to all people who do not abuse it in order to promote the values of Free Speech, and those of the United States Constitution First Amendment. A free republic is not possible without free speech and commercial mainstream media do not provide it. We also get some advertisement benefit from hosting these, it is our hope that people who see how fast and responsible our ser
vices are will decide to do hosting or use other paid services here.

There are numerous federated services available, we offer Macrobloging platform Friendica, Hubzilla; Microbloging services Mastodon, Misskey, a federated search engine, Yacy, and a federated cloud service, Nextcloud.

Macrobloging services are message systems that allow long form posts similar in format to Facebook. These allow for works of fiction, poetry, technical papers, news items, short stories, and more. These formats are most useful for discussion of social issues.

Microbloging services allow only short form posts similar in format to Twitter. While you can link to larger articles elsewhere, you have a relatively short character limit and so can not post them directly.

Censorship, is handled much different on the fediverse than on mainstream media like Twitter or Facebook. On the fediverse, each individual instance is responsible for content available on that instance, but does not censor the rest of the network. Thus if you find the rules of one instance too constraining you can move to another.

Federated search engines are analogous to federated message systems in that each instance chooses what portion of the internet it wants to crawl. When you enter a search term, the local instance queries all of the federated instances, collates and sorts the results and presents them to you. As with messages, each instance can have it’s own censorship policies but no one instance can censor the enti
re network.

Given the wild-west nature of the fediverse, it is probably not suitable for children under 14, and you’re guaranteed to find some material that will offend virtually everyone. With federated search engines, material that is inappropriate will usually be flagged sensitive or nsfw (not safe for work) so as long as you don’t expand material marked as such, you can avoid this sort of material. Ther
e are occasionally people who violate these rules, we do our best to remove such individuals none the less some will get through.

We offer the following federated services:

Friendica.Eskimo.Com
Friendica is a decentralized long format macrobloging message network. It is similar in format to facebook however there is no centralized censorship. Also, it is able to federate with all other federated message systems which use ActivityPub protocol and also we have extensions that allow it to speak to several other networks via other protocols.

Hubzilla.Eskimo.Com
Hubzilla is similar in message format to Friendica in that it allows long posts. However, it specializes in it’s ability to provide connectivity to multiple protocols and so we include it in our mix of federated services primarily for the better connectivity it offers. Hubzilla provides a great deal of interoperability between many networks though ActivityPub is still it’s prim
ary protocol. Hubzilla gives you a greater degree of control over privacy than some of the other networks. You can create private channels that are served between hubzilla instances and other compatible instances.

Mastodon.Eskimo.Com
Mastodon is first and foremost an alternative to Twitter. While Twitter has Tweets, Mastodon has Toots. The format is very similar. Mastodon toots have a limit of 500 characters. Similar to the short limit of Twitter. This is why this platform is referred to as a Microbloging format. Mastodon interacts with other ActivityPub instances however when a long form blog post from another i
nstance arrives, you are only shown a short portion with a link to follow to see the full post on the originating site.

NextCloud.Eskimo.Com
Nextcloud If you are a customer of Eskimo North, your login credentials will work without a domain extension to access Nextcloud. If you are not a customer you can apply for a Nextcloud account using your choice of login and password, in this case the login should include your originating network. Some features require an Eskimo North shell account to take full advantage of.

Pixelfed.Eskimo.Com
Pixelfed is a federated pixel gallery. A place where you can share your photos to the widest audience possible, and you can view what others have shared. We now have this site also properly federated so any images you share can be viewed on any other Fediverse site by users who follow you, and you can view images posted by anyone on any fediverse site whom you follow.


Yacy.Eskimo.Com
Yacy is a federated search engine. There are several thousand instances on the Internet. Each instances crawls whatever portion of the web the administrator requested. It is also possible for the administrator of a site with relatively few resources to request a larger site to do crawls on their behalf. Unfortunately, it does not provide a method for an end user to initiate a crawl,
but if you send e-mail to support@eskimo.com and request a crawl, we will initiate a crawl on your behalf.

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Shell Accounts

Shell Accounts
A shell is a command line interface for an operating system. With most shell providers, a command line interface on one flavor of Linux or Unix is all you get. Eskimo North provides access to eight different popular Linux distributions and SunOS Unix. Eskimo North also full remote desktop capabilities using X2Go with sound, and also NX, VNC, and RPD without sound.

Account Types
We offer four different levels of shell accounts: Economy, Standard, Power, and Enterprise. Background tasks such as IRC bots, Game Servers, and the like are permitted on all account types except student. IRC servers are not permitted because of their tendency to draw denial of service attacks. Standard, Power, Enterprise, and Super-Max shells include a MySQL database allowing you to run a variety of LAMP stack based applications on your website and to use non-web based applications that require a database.

Web Hosting
Web hosting under our domain is provided with all shell accounts. You can host your own domains with virtual domains or web hosting packages.

Remote Desktop
Remote desktop capability is like having a monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers plugged right into our servers. Because our servers can be accessed anywhere in the world, this allows you to have a work environment you can access from anywhere in the world without risking losing your files to a laptop, tablet, or phone thief. We offer remote desktop capabilities on all of our shell servers except for the SunOS server. We support x2go, nx, vnc, and rdp protocols. X2go is the best choice as it provides extremely efficient compression and X round trip removal as well as sound.

Applications
Applications include Office Suites such as Libre Office and Caligra (which can read and write Microsoft Office file formats), Web and Program Development tools such as Bluefish Editor as well as many other editors, compilers, interpreters, scripting languages, debuggers, profilers, and online documentation.

E-mail
Our e-mail system offers unprecedented flexibility. You can access your mail via shell mail readers including graphical mailers like Thunderbird, or via Web mail, or via pop-3 and imap mail protocols, complete with TLS encryption. Our mail system includes Bayesian filtering with Spam Assassin which can be individually configured for your needs. Procmail allows you to sort and process mail automatically. Smartlist allows you to maintain mailing lists.

Security[color]
Access to all of our servers is available via strong encryption. The shell servers all support ssh access. All of the remote desktop protocols tunnel via ssh. We maintain all of our servers up to date keep with the latest patches. Backups are made weekly.

[color=darkblue]Eskimo North has been providing Unix timeshare services since 1985. We have been providing Linux timeshare, shell access, web hosting, e-mail, and Internet services since 1992. Please take a look at our services as they support our free Federated services including Friendica, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Nextcloud, Pixelfed, and Yacy Search.

Available Shell Servers

We have a variety of Linux Servers with a variety of Linux Distributions and Desktop Environments. Linux servers in use here are of three basic lines, those derived from RedHat, such as Fedora, Centos, and Scientific Linux, and those derived from Debian such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint. Ubuntu is the most current and feature rich. Then there is Manjaro, derived from Arch Linux. Arch is more often broken because it is a real “do it yourself” Linux, an excellent learning platform, a good development platform, not a good production platform.

All of these servers are available if you have a shell account here. You can use them to learn various versions, decide which to install, and as one place you can develop applications for all versions. We install a wide variety of development tools on all of our publicly available servers.

Our servers listen to port 443 in addition to the standard ssh port of 22 to provide a means to connect from behind a firewall that blocks non-web access. You can also utilize Guacamole on our website (login public, password public).

Alma.Eskimo.Com
This server is running Alma 8. Alma Linux replaces Scientific Linux after it’s discontinuation. Presently we are running Alma 8 because Alma 9 does not support NIS out of the box although there are ways of hacking it in. It is unfortunate that Redhat chose to piss on the infrastructure so many organizations depend upon. This is why we tend to favor Debian derived flavors. None the less as Redhat derived software goes Alma is pretty solid.
Anduinos.Eskimo.Com
Anduinos is a Debian derived distribution that defaults to a Gnome Desktop themed to look like Windows 10. At present though this Desktop is not working over network connections, instead Mate and Gnome are presently available. I am working on some others.
Debian.Eskimo.Com
Debian Bullseye has a rich assortment of software installed, including hundreds of Games, a huge variety of Office Productivity software, many Educational and Scientific applications, a variety of Integrated Development Environments, and many programming languages. All of the documentation available online these applications is also loaded.
Fedora.Eskimo.Com
Fedora Rawhide can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate desktop. It has the most applications of any of the Redhat derived servers. I install just about everything I can get to work on this machine so it has a huge variety of applications installed.
Kali.Eskimo.Com
Kali is a special purpose shell server designed for penetration testing. It is primarily here to test our own internal security, and as a result, egress is extremely limited, however upon request, proof of IP space ownership, and permission of the owner and agreement to hold us harmless because it is possible some of these tests may be destructive, we will allow outbound for testing of other sites.
Manjaro.Eskimo.Com
Manjaro is a good choice for a Linux user who wants to just install and go. There is a pleasant user interface and a good choice of software in the Manjaro repositories. It is a less technical Linux than Ubuntu, you can do most things through graphical interfaces and the default xfce interface is extremely light in terms of memory footprint. Like most modern distros, a variety of Windows systems are available and we have Gnome, Mate, KDE, Xfce, LXDE, and LXQT installed.
Mint.Eskimo.Com
Mint is another recent addition to our shell servers. It is running Mint, although we have the Mate Desktop installed for graphical access. This is necessary because Unity and other compositing Desktops are incompatible with x2go and really work very roughly with VNC. If you like games, this is a good server to use and there are many installed. Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu which in turn is derived from Debian and this server thus follows the structure and layout of Debian and Ubuntu.
MxLinux.Eskimo.Com
MxLinux is an excellent choice for a computer with limited resources. Before the overhead of a Desktop is considered, MxLinux uses 200MB less RAM out of the box than does Ubuntu. If you’re not a fan of Poettering and Systemd, you’ll like this OS as it still uses a System-V init with Systemd shims to allow packages requiring systemd to function. You can also run systemd and in fact I am doing so because it boots faster. The default Desktop is LXDE which is also small and efficient. But if you like eye candy you can install any Desktop you like and as with other servers I will install all that I can get to work on this OS.
PopOS.Eskimo.Com
popOS is a modern appearing OS based upon Ubuntu, and not just indirectly, it actually utilizes Ubuntu’s repositories in addition to it’s own. The Desktops presently available on it are Gnome and Mate, though Gnome is a special edition known as Sparkle, and it does not operate properly with X2go. Presently X2go and ssh are the only two access methods. I am working on the others.
Rocky8.Eskimo.Com
Rocky8 is a RedHat derived operating system very similar to Centos before Centos was absorbed, and ruined, by Redhat. While Centos support, with the exception of Centos9 is going away on June 30th, 2024, and CentOS9 is not usable because of the deletion of NIS by RedRat which is necessary to our organization, Rocky8 will be supported for security updates through May of 2029, thus provides us a means of continuing to offer a Redhat based environment for another five years.

Ubuntu.Eskimo.Com
Ubuntu can be accessed graphically using x2go and the Mate Desktop. The native Unity desktop is a compositing desktop which is incompatible with x2go. This machine is equipped with many applications including a huge number of games, a rich assortment of development tools and computer programming languages, a huge assortment of Office productivity software, many scientific, electronic, and educational tools.
Zorin.Eskimo.Com
Zorin is a Ubuntu derived operating system. It combines the eye candy of some other Ubuntu flavors such as Mint, with the security awareness and up to date nature of Ubuntu providing a really superb server environment. This machine is our best equipped server. It has the full Ubuntu Studio Suite, a very large assortment of development tools, language packs for all supported languages, many games, both Libre and Caligra Office Suites, and much more. X2go is supported on this machine.

Crontab access, batch, and background jobs are allowed on all of our servers. Most have unrestricted outbound access with the exception of kali owing to high abuse potential for tools that exist on it.'

We also offer web hosting, e-mail, and virtual private servers.

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The Denver Science Museum drilled for a potential geothermal heating project in their parking lot... and struck dinosaur!

rmpbs.org/blogs/science-enviro…

#science #dinosaurs


They paved paradise and found dinosaur bones in the parking lot | Rocky Mountain PBS

In the midst of a geothermal feasibility project, DMNS researchers made a more surprising discovery: a dinosaur bone from 67.5 million years ago.
They paved paradise and found dinosaur bones in the parking lot

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Wayne Radinsky

2025-07-11 02:27:06

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Elina Bakunova aka "Eli from Russia" visited Iran before the military conflict between Iran, Israel, and the US began. Before she left, her friends were like, "You're going to Iran? It's so dangerous!" But she found once she arrived in Iran, she never felt in any danger. The Iranian people were kind and curious. She feels the reality of Iran is different from how the media portrays it. She explores the city of Shiraz, visits geographic and historical landmarks, tries the local food, and so fourth. Her English-speaking guides (the whole video is conducted in English) are very good. Officially, Iran is an Islamic country with many restrictions, but many people have little interest in the religion and the restrictions, especially young people. People comply more in public but often in private people ignore the restrictions all the time. There is a difference between the government and the politics and the regular people. The video has very good music.

#geopolitics


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L’opinion

On la dit publique
Je la crois médiatique
Plus aucune mœurs
Font que tu meurs

L’opinion est un choix
Parmi les croix
Qu’on vénère tous
Son sigle qui tousse

Pour un sens individuel
D’avis factuels
Aux infos choisies
Qui divisent les sosies

L’opinion en honneur
Une fierté de donneur
Ça fait une personnalité
Quelque peu entêtée

Ça donne de l’importance
Dans la magnificence
D’avoir dit sa pensée
Un appendice censé

L’opinion qu’on dit publique
Avait cours sous Chaplin
Elle est parabolique
Et me laisse avec mon spleen

Puy l’Évêque, le 11/07/25, à 08H00

#Poésie #Poème

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Le niveau d’information sur le climat n’a jamais été aussi mauvais.

Et c’est uniquement grâce à la complicité d’un système politico-médiatique sur qui le gouvernement et les chefs d’entreprises peuvent compter pour dérouler leur greenwashing à longueur de journées, de semaines, de mois et désormais d’années.

A lire entièrement : bonpote.com/le-niveau-dinforma…


Le niveau d'information sur le climat n'a jamais été aussi mauvais

Cette défaillance du traitement médiatique est telle qu'elle permet aux gouvernements et aux entreprises de laisser entendre qu'ils agissent
Thomas Wagner (bonpote)

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Pourquoi on ne voit jamais des vrais économistes à la TV ?

Soutenez Blast, nouveau média indépendant : blast-info.fr/soutenir

Qui sont les économistes de plateaux TV ? Comment ça ce fait qu’ils ne soient en réalité que très rarement économistes ? Alors que les questions économiques sont au cœur des débats politiques, qu'à chaque élection les citoyens sont amenés à se prononcer sur ces questions, la science économique est encore trop peu comprise. Dans ce nouvel épisode d’Argent Magique, Heu?reka et StupidEco remettent au clair ce qu’est un économiste, ce qu’est la science économique.

Journalistes : Marino et Heu?reka
Co-auteur : Arnaud Gantier (Stupid Economics)
Réalisation : Valentin Levetti
Montage : Ace Modey
Production : stup.media/
Son : Baptiste Veilhan
Graphisme : Morgane Sabouret, Margaux Simon
Directeur du développement des collaborations extérieures : Mathias Enthoven
Co-directrice de la rédaction : Soumaya Benaïssa
Directeur de la publication : Denis Robert

Le site : blast-info.fr/
Facebook : facebook.com/blastofficiel
Twitter : twitter.com/blast_france
Instagram : instagram.com/blastofficiel/
Mastodon : mamot.fr/web/@blast_info
Peertube : video.blast-info.fr/
Twitch : twitch.tv/blastinfo
Bluesky : bsky.app/profile/blast-info.fr

#économiste
#médias
#économie

Blast Info (@blast_info@mamot.fr)

3.51K Posts, 25 Following, 37.5K Followers · Blast, nouvelle Web TV indépendante, nouveau site d’infos. Éditos, enquêtes, culture, tribunes et reportages. Lancé par Denis Robert. https://www.blast-info.fr
Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net
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“Watch: Al-Qassam prisoner capture attempt as resistance raises the stakes in Gaza”

by Palestine Will Be Free on Substack

@palestine
@israel

“No amount of genocidal carnage, ethnic cleansing fantasies, Western backing or battlefield strategy can offer Israel a path out of Gaza without a permanent ceasefire”

open.substack.com/pub/palestin…

#Press #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Resistance #Israel #Genocide #Terrorism #WarCrimes #Qassam #PermanentCeasefireNoW #SettlerColonialism #Zionism #Barbarity


Watch: Al-Qassam prisoner capture attempt as resistance raises the stakes in Gaza

No amount of genocidal carnage, ethnic cleansing fantasies, Western backing or battlefield strategy can offer Israel a path out of Gaza without a permanent ceasefire.
Palestine Will Be Free
in reply to Geriatric Gardener

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Proletarian Rage

"Al-Qassam has lost nearly its entire top leadership inside the Gaza Strip, including legendary figures Yahya Sinwar and Mohammed Deif, through the course of the ongoing genocide, but its operational capabilities have only sharpened. Resistance operations have improved both qualitatively and quantitatively as the genocidal assault on Gaza has dragged on. According to Walla, the resistance has replaced its leadership seamlessly and new commanders are carrying out operations without missing a beat: “Security sources estimate that Hamas has managed to appoint new field commanders and is managing guerrilla operations through a series of orders passed from leadership in Gaza City and the central camps to the other fighting centres.”

Leadership roles in Hamas and Al-Qassam don’t come with the luxury of retirement. They come with a near-certain guarantee of martyrdom. As a result, Palestinian resistance has developed a deep-rooted resilience regarding leadership succession. Resistance in Gaza has demonstrated the futility of Israeli assassination campaigns."

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Wayne Radinsky

2025-07-11 02:27:06

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Elina Bakunova aka "Eli from Russia" visited Iran before the military conflict between Iran, Israel, and the US began. Before she left, her friends were like, "You're going to Iran? It's so dangerous!" But she found once she arrived in Iran, she never felt in any danger. The Iranian people were kind and curious. She feels the reality of Iran is different from how the media portrays it. She explores the city of Shiraz, visits geographic and historical landmarks, tries the local food, and so fourth. Her English-speaking guides (the whole video is conducted in English) are very good. Officially, Iran is an Islamic country with many restrictions, but many people have little interest in the religion and the restrictions, especially young people. People comply more in public but often in private people ignore the restrictions all the time. There is a difference between the government and the politics and the regular people. The video has very good music.

#geopolitics


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🌍 ■ La relatora de la ONU para Palestina: "EEUU quiere intimidarme con métodos mafiosos" ■ Una iniciativa en Change reclama que la italiana Francesca Albanese, sancionada por Washington, sea candidata al Premio Nobel de la Paz por sus investigaciones sobre las violaciones[…]
huffingtonpost.es/global/la-re…

#gaza #change.org #global #eeuu #onu #israel #sanciones #premiosnobel #palestina #mafia

La Relatora Especial de las Naciones Unidas para los Territorios Palestinos Ocupados, Francesca Albanese, en un acto en Madrid, el 23 de junio de 2025. (Marcos del Mazo / LightRocket via Getty Images)

La relatora de la ONU para Palestina: "EEUU quiere intimidarme con métodos mafiosos"

La relatora de la ONU para Palestina, Francesca Albanese, no tiene intención de "callar sobre el genocidio en Gaza", a pesar de Estados Unidos quiere "intimidarla con métodos que recuerdan a los de la mafia" tras las sanciones que le ha impuesto y qu…
Redacción HuffPost (El HuffPost)

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The footballing lives of Handala
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/07/11/…

"Palestine solidarity gestures have multiplied in football—often referring to Handala, an iconic cartoon character and symbol of hope ~ Yann Dey-Helle, Dialectik Football ~ At MetLife Stadium in suburban New York, Wessam Abou Ali recently celebrated his second goal against FC Porto by posing with one hand behind his back and the other making the
The post The footballing lives of Handala

The footballing lives of Handala - Freedom News

Palestine solidarity gestures have multiplied in football—often referring to Handala, an iconic cartoon character and symbol of hope ~ Yann Dey-Helle, Dialectik Football ~ At MetLife Stadium in suburban New York, Wessam Abou Ali recently celebrated h…
anarchy (Freedom Press)

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Sayyed Al-Houthi re-affirms Yemen’s naval operations supporting Gaza to continue en.ypagency.net/362466

Sayyed Al-Houthi re-affirms Yemen's naval operations supporting Gaza to continue

SANAA, July 10 (YPA) - Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi launched on Thursday a scathing attack on the international community, accusing it of remaining silent about the most heinous crime in contemporary human history amid the ongoing Israeli aggression
احسن (Yemen Press Agency)

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Europe's first deep-space optical communication link


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NASA's Psyche mission

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully established a transmission-reception optical link with NASA’s Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment onboard its Psyche mission, located 265 million kilometres away, using two optical grounds stations developed for this purpose in Greece.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Ursula von der Leyen étrillée par Valérie Hayer, les macronistes furieux contre la présidente de la Commission


#politique #UE #corruption

Que des traîtres, des vendus, des couilles molles et des putes.

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Ursula von der Leyen étrillée par Valérie Hayer, les macronistes furieux contre la présidente de la Commission

Le rapprochement du Parti populaire européen de Manfred Weber avec l’extrême droite ulcère les macronistes, pourtant alliés.
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ID soldiers testify to systematic killing of Palestinians in Gaza via weaponized drones

[Warning: story contains graphic descriptions]

Testimonies from soldiers who served in Gaza reveal extensive use of weaponized commercial drones modified to drop grenades on Palestinians. The soldiers describe frequently targeting unarmed civilians, including women and children, often to force them out of their homes.

[...] S said he saw some of the bodies through drone cameras. According to him, because the killing is done far from where the soldiers are, "the bodies aren't collected. The dogs eat them. You can see it through the cameras. I wouldn't be able to see a dog eating a body at any moment. The people around me did. The dogs are already conditioned to run to places where there's gunfire or explosions, as they understand this means a chance of finding a body."

Videos of such attacks, originally shared by soldiers, show grenades being dropped on fleeing civilians. Survivors and residents attest to the use of drones to displace large populations in line with military objectives and policies of evacuation.
xcancel.com/ytirawi/status/194… (via Younis Tirawi)

IDF routinely denies allegations of targeting non-combatants.

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@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide (I'm aware the term genocide in the context of Gaza is very offensive to Jews, but that's what's happening in Gaza kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1148…)

חיילים מעידים: תקפנו ברחפנים ילדים ומבוגרים לא חמושים בעזה - שיחה מקומית

הצבא משתמש באופן נרחב ברחפנים אזרחיים מתוצרת סינית, שמותקנים עליהם רימונים לצורך תקיפת פלסטינים בעזה, כך עולה משיחות עם שבעה חיילים וקצינים ששירתו שם.
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Quoting Sergey Brin: "The use of the term genocide in the context of Gaza is very offensive to Jews, I would not rely on an anti-Semitic organization like the UN."

One might argue that companies profiting from genocide may react defensively... #ProjectNimbus is a $1.2 billion cloud and #AI contract between #Google, #Amazon, and #Israel that has been criticized internationally for enabling Israel's war on #Gaza, including surveillance and AI-driven tactics that contribute to the ongoing #genocide.

Google is to Israel what #IBM was to #Germany in the 1930s—tech support. See kolektiva.social/@oatmeal/1147…

@palestine
@israel
#Google #GenocideDenialism
#GazaGenocide #ProjectNimbus
#OatmealQuotes


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In the first months of the war, Israeli army units received ample donations from the general public, mostly in Israel and the United States. Alongside food and shampoo, drones were among the items that soldiers requested the most.

“Soldiers independently launched crowdfunding campaigns,” L. explained. “Our company received around NIS 500,000 (approximately $150,000) in donations, which we also used to buy drones.” C., another soldier, recalled being asked to sign thank-you letters to Americans who had donated EVO drones to his battalion.


#ComplicitInGenocide

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EndemicEarthling

"(I'm aware the term genocide in the context of Gaza is very offensive to Jews, but that's what's happening in Gaza)"

Correction: the term is offensive primarily to people who hold Zionist commitments, some of whom are also Jewish. It is the reality of ongoing genocide, apartheid, forced displacement, and other crimes against humanity that is offensive to the overwhelming majority of Jewish people I know who are not also committed to Zionism as a political project.

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2025-07-07 18:46:48

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The Internet is a lot safer today than it was a decade ago, thanks to Let's Encrypt.

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How Let's Encrypt made the internet safer and HTTPS standard - and free

Over the last ten years, more than 600 million websites have been secured with free certificates from Let's Encrypt. Here's how it all began and why.
Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)

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Bien que verrouillée, la posture de zazen est une clé.

notesandsilence.com/2025/05/01…
#zen #silence #prière #pratique #spiritualité


Zazen T’emporte Au-Delà

Bien que verrouillée, la posture de zazen est une clé.Elle ouvre la porte de ta conscience aux réalités qui te dépassent.Bien que statique, le zafu t’offre le voyage par-delà les espaces cloisonnés…
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GUILLAUME MEURICE, LA SCIENCE ET NOUS
N. #Casaux
(En référence à l'apéro du Club de Vert avec Guillaume Meurice le 24 juin 2025)

En théorie, la #science décrit le réel, admettons.
Mais en pratique, la science n’a jamais été dissociable des intérêts ayant présidé à son avènement et déterminant encore aujourd’hui ses fins et ses moyens.
Les pères fondateurs de la science moderne travaillaient à la solde de riches dirigeants. Galilée, par exemple, fut soutenu par les Médicis. Newton fut anobli par la Couronne britannique et dirigea la Monnaie de Londres. Boyle et Bacon fondaient explicitement la méthode scientifique dans le cadre d’un projet impérial de #domination de la #nature, dans une logique coloniale, marchande et extractiviste. Toute sa vie, Léonard de Vinci chercha à plaire à de puissants mécènes — les Sforza à Milan, les Médicis à Florence, François Ier en France, etc. — non pas seulement en peignant des Madones, mais surtout en proposant ses services d’ingénieur militaire, de concepteur de machines de guerre.

La science moderne n’a pas été créée par les volontés démocratiques des populations du monde, dans une volonté d’exprimer le vrai, de défendre le juste et de faire le bien. Elle est née au cœur des empires, dans des sociétés hautement hiérarchiques, au service d’intérêts marchands et de la course à la puissance. Depuis son avènement, ce sont des logiques de puissance, de rentabilité et de contrôle qui orientent les axes de recherche, les choix technologiques, les priorités épistémiques.
Et aujourd’hui encore, sous ses dehors prétendument neutres, la science est financée par des budgets d’État fixés par une oligarchie de décideurs, mais aussi par l’industrie militaire, pharmaceutique, numérique ou énergétique. On n’étudie pas n’importe quoi, de n’importe quelle manière, au nom d’un amour abstrait de la vérité.
Et donc la science décrit le réel, certes, mais dans les limites que lui imposent les structures de #pouvoir dont elle émane.


Par ailleurs, la science est une cause majeure de la catastrophe sociale et écologique en cours. La science a produit les machines ayant permis et permettant toujours d’extraire le pétrole du sol, et tous les engins à moteur thermique, de la locomotive au porte-conteneurs, de la moissonneuse-batteuse au char de combat. Elle a conçu les procédés de raffinage, les circuits logistiques, les techniques de fracturation hydraulique, les plastiques, les pesticides, les OGM, les armes atomiques et les LBD. Elle a permis aux sociétés humaines hiérarchiques, déjà axées sur la puissance, d’exploiter le monde plus vite, plus intensément, plus profondément. Sans la science, pas de réacteur nucléaire, pas de climatiseur, pas d’ordinateur, pas de smartphone, pas de réseau 5G. Pas d’Amazon, pas de Facebook, pas de Google. Pas de chaîne de production robotisée, pas de police algorithmique, pas de biométrie. La science n’a pas seulement permis l’avènement de l’enfer techno-industriel : elle l’a fabriqué.

La science repose sur une importante division spécialisée et hiérarchique du travail, laquelle n’est rendue possible que par la dépossession des êtres humains, l’existence de classes sociales, de rapports de domination, d’infrastructures centralisées et d’un appareil d’État capable d’imposer, de financer, d’orchestrer une répartition autoritaire des rôles et des savoirs. Elle repose sur une architecture sociale profondément hiérarchisée : à la base, des techniciens invisibles ; au sommet, une aristocratie de chercheurs, de « penseurs » et d’experts, séparés du reste de la population par un langage ésotérique, des diplômes inaccessibles, des institutions opaques. L’immense majorité des humains ne peut ni comprendre ni discuter ce que produit la science, encore moins décider de ses orientations. Elle doit croire. Paradoxe : la société qui se prétend « rationnelle » repose sur une foi absolue dans la parole de ses nouveaux prêtres, les scientifiques.

Certes, la science a aussi produit les antibiotiques, les vaccins, certaines connaissances médicales précieuses. Mais ces acquis, souvent brandis comme justification globale de la science moderne, sont l’arbre qui cache la forêt de ses ravages. Parce que les bienfaits de la science sont indissociables des désastres écologiques et sociaux qu'elle produit, et d'une #société de classes, et d’une vaste division spécialisée et hiérarchique du travail, où la quasi-totalité des individus sont privés de tout pouvoir sur le cours des choses, réduits au rôle de simples exécutants, de consommateurs passifs ou de cobayes involontaires d’innovations qu’ils n’ont ni souhaitées ni décidées.

Se lamenter d’attaques contre la science et prétendre que les dominants auraient peur de la science est donc idiot. La #science sert la #domination depuis ses origines. Elle est un de ses meilleurs alliés.
Certes, certains scientifiques s’indignent. Ils signent des tribunes, dénoncent l’inaction face au réchauffement climatique, alertent sur la perte de biodiversité ou la surveillance de masse. Mais leurs plaintes ne changent rien. Elles ne peuvent rien contre les logiques profondes de la civilisation industrielle. Elles ne sont que des soupirs hypocrites dans un train lancé à toute vitesse, qu’ils ont eux-mêmes (ou leurs collègues, et leurs prédécesseurs) contribué à construire. De la même manière, les appels naïfs à « mieux orienter » la science, à « faire bon usage » de la technique, à « écouter les chercheurs », ne sont que des incantations impuissantes. Le réel est ailleurs : dans les structures de pouvoir, les flux de capitaux, les chaînes d’approvisionnement, les intérêts d’État et les impératifs industriels.

Sans prendre trop de risques, on peut prévoir qu’au cours des prochaines décennies, la science produira une multitude de nouveaux outils au service de la #surveillance, du #contrôle, de la #rentabilité, de la #puissance et de la #destruction du monde.

Le mythe de la science, très courant dans la société, et qui va de pair avec nombre d’autres mythes – le mythe de l’école comme invention émancipatrice, le mythe de la #technologie comme vecteur d’un progrès ayant glorieusement extirpé l’être humain d’une infâme condition quasi-animale, etc., – perpétue une mystification générale et l’asservissement fasciné des populations aux institutions qui les dominent et les exploitent.


#technopush

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"The Fourth Amendment forbids “exploratory rummaging”—in fact, it was drafted in direct response to British colonial soldiers’ practice of indiscriminately searching people’s homes and papers for evidence of their opposition to the Crown."

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EFF Tells Virginia Court That Constitutional Privacy Protections Forbid Cops from Finding out Everyone Who Searched for a Keyword

This post was co-authored by EFF legal intern Noam ShemtovWe are in a constant dialogue with Internet search engines, ranging from the mundane to the confessional.
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