"We have to say the truth, returning the hostages is not the most important thing."

Israeli Finance Minster Bezalel Smotrich said in an interview with Galey Israel radio on Monday that the release of captives in Gaza was "not the most important thing" for the goverment, provoking an angry backlash from members of the Israeli public, including families of captives in Gaza, who have hit back at the minister's comments.

Smotrich also said that the "Gaza problem" must be eliminated, citing a "tremendous opportunity". Smotrich believes that there are no longer any obstacles to fulfilling a hardline Israeli policy on Gaza after the end of former US President Joe Biden's tenure at the White House and the political demise of rivals, like former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and former Israeli army chief of staff Herzi Halevi.
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#zionism #zioNaZis #genocide #gazagenocide #gaza #palestine #IsraelTerroristState #IsraelWarCrimes

Important distinction: The MAGA faction outraged about the Epstein files is turning on Trump because they think he's covering up a massive QAnon-ish conspiracy. That doesn't mean they will reject him if he releases the files and they confirm what seems likely: that he had sex with underage teens. His cult obviously has no problem with everything else that makes him egregiously unfit, including his boasting about being able to commit sexual assault (and being accused of that by multiple women).

(Vidéo) Se Rebeller au Travail : Grève, Humour et Sabotage (Soif de Sens)


Nicolas Framont

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Description de Soif de Sens : « Comment reprendre le pouvoir face aux violences au travail ? Voici 1001 anecdotes et stratégies pour obtenir collectivement des victoires au travail. Avec Nicolas Framont, sociologue, rédac chef de Frustration Magazine et auteur de « Vous ne détestez pas le lundi… Mais vous détestez la domination au travail ». »

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Yedioth Ahronoth: The army is preparing for a significant increase in cases of post-traumatic stress disorder, especially as the end of military operations in the Gaza Strip approaches. english.alahednews.news/fastne…

#France, #Italy reportedly opt out of US-NATO arms deal for Ukraine


Under this scheme, #NATO will purchase advanced arms from the U.S., including air defense systems, and deliver some of them to #Ukraine.

According to two #French officials, France declined to join the plan because of President Emmanuel Macron's push for European nations to strengthen their own defense industries by purchasing #domestically #produced arms.

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#RussianAggression #RussiaInvadedUkraine #StandWithUkraine

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How our debt crashed a model of the U.S. economy


#US #politics #economics #debt

These morons think that restoring slavery would save the economy. Their model is probably shit anyway.

Smetters and his colleagues published a list of suggested reforms that they think could help to fix the budget: raise the retirement age to 70, add a carbon tax, reduce social security benefits.


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People Are Being Involuntarily Committed, Jailed After Spiraling Into “ChatGPT Psychosis.”

A Stanford study "examined the ability of both commercial therapy chatbots and ChatGPT to respond in helpful and appropriate ways to situations in which users are suffering mental health crises. The paper found that all the chatbot… failed to consistently distinguish between users’ delusions and reality…"
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Fine. Now let's move on. Whatever is going on will be sorted, but not by any of us.

“Epstein never created a ‘client list.’ The FBI interviewed alleged victims who named several ‘clients.’ These names have been redacted,” Dershowitz wrote.

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La Russie est notre Rorschach - Emmanuel Todd


#géopolitique #impérialisme #OTAN #guerre

L'effondrement précipité de l'Occident donne naissance à la maladie psychiatrique collective de la russophobie.

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Terrifying that a malfunctioning automated system can in fact shut off fuel switches, as happened on an All Nippon Airways Boeing 787 flight in 2019:

"Investigators later found that the aircraft’s software had mistakenly interpreted the plane as being on the ground, triggering the thrust control malfunction accommodation system, which automatically moved the fuel switch from “run” to “cutoff” without any action from the pilots."

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The UK is now the second largest government holder of Bitcoin, but the crown will slip.

The UK currently holds 61,250 BTC, worth approximately $7.27 billion at today’s price, according to Arkham Intelligence. These coins were seized by UK authorities in connection with an investment fraud targeting Chinese nationals.

The assets remain frozen, and legal efforts are ongoing to determine their rightful ownership and whether they will be returned to victims or confiscated under UK law. Until that process concludes, the UK cannot legally forfeit or sell the coins.

Once the ruling is made, the coins are likely to be returned or liquidated.

In the meantime, those coins are being custodied by Komainu. With the national crypto custody tender now live, that arrangement could change by the end of the year.

The risks of state custody are real. Just last week, a UK National Crime Agency officer was jailed for stealing seized bitcoin from a dark web suspect. Bitcoin shines a light on criminals outside the system and those hiding within it.

The UK may be the second largest government holder of Bitcoin… for now. But with legal rulings pending and custody contracts in flux, the question is how much longer.

H/t @d8a6ecf0 ⚡️
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It is important to remember that Elon Musk was a Hillary Clinton supporter. If Musk had gotten his way, we would just be finishing 8 years of Hillary as President.

I am not sure America would have survived that.

Epstein was a founding member of the Clinton Global Initiative, and Maxwell was literally Bill Clinton's date to Chelsea's wedding. They would both still be preying on children, if Elon Musk had gotten his way and Hillary had beaten Trump.

Trump is the hero of the Epstein case.

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Oh I have hope… but I don’t place it in politics.

This was not good.

It’s an in-our-face message that the corruption remains, Trump and crew have no interest in truly eliminating it and they don’t give a crap what we wanted, or what they promised to do.

This is a clear message to whatever intel agency, whatever enablers and whatever participants, that they are safe, and that the status quo will continue, and they don’t care what we think about it.

Francesca Albanese, prix Nobel de la Paix

Pour une fois, si les Nobel nobélisaient une personne juste, courageuse, indépendante, au lieu de servir la soupe en permanence à l'Empire de la mort et ses représentants achevés tels Obama ce serait...Humain.


#prixnobeldelapaix #justice #humanité #actu #imperialisme #usa #francescaalbanese #mediasserfs

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Georges Ibrahim Abdallah patriote libanais enfin libéré n'était pas un terroriste


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Au bout de 25 ans, la justice française s’est enfin préoccupée de sauver l’honneur. Elle vient de prononcer la mise en liberté de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah condamné par une cour d’assises spéciale il y a 40 ans pour complicité d’assassinat. Abdallah militant communiste libanais avait été accusé de complicité dans l’assassinat sur le territoire français de deux diplomates américains et israéliens dont il a été par la suite reconnu qu’ils appartenaient aux services spéciaux de leurs pays respectifs. Assassinats perpétrés alors qu’Israël était en guerre contre le Liban qu’il avait envahi, en provoquant la mort de 18 000 combattants et civils arabes, et couvrant le massacre de Sabra et Chatila.

Arrêté sur le territoire français, et malgré ses dénégations, il sera donc condamné en 1984 à la réclusion criminelle à perpétuité par une cour d’assises spéciale chargée de juger les affaires de terrorisme. Et ce après une procédure pour le moins biscornue. Il y eut s’abord la violation de la règle « non bis in idem » avec Abdallah jugé deux fois pour les mêmes faits, ensuite l’aveu postérieur de son avocat reconnaissant qu’il l’avait trahi et travaillé avec les services français, ensuite toujours la défense absurde et provocatrice de celui qui avait succédé à ce premier avocat, et enfin des réquisitions lunaires de l’avocat général. Malgré ces énormités, il ne fut pas possible d’obtenir une révision de la procédure. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah n’était pas un terroriste, c’était un patriote Libanais luttant pour défendre son pays contre une invasion israélienne soutenue par les États-Unis. Une propagande mensongère va bien sûr le présenter comme un terroriste palestinien pro palestinien, qualificatif immédiatement utilisé pour ceux qui combattent Israël.

Il est libérable depuis 1999. Sa libération a été prononcée à plusieurs reprises par le tribunal d’application des peines. Libération systématiquement annulée par les juridictions supérieures sur appel tout aussi systématique. Le sommet étant atteint quand sa libération fut prononcé avec la condition de la prise par le ministre de l’intérieur d’un arrêté d’expulsion. Manuel Valls, jamais en retard d’une vilenie, refusa toujours de prendre cet arrêté. Maintenant ainsi Abdallah en prison dans une prison où il était enfermé depuis près de 40 ans, étant alors le plus ancien détenu des pays de l’UE. Alors que le maintien en détention ne pourrait s’appuyer sur aucune considération judiciaire, le parquet toujours soucieux de complaire, a naturellement fait immédiatement appel.

La guerre secrète, ça existe. Et lorsqu’on est en guerre on la pratique. Israël qui est en guerre depuis sa création le fait, mais habituellement discrètement. Car quand ses services interviennent sur le territoire d’État étranger, en droit cela s’appelle du terrorisme. On renvoie pour cela au film de Spielberg « Munich ». Et à l’exécution de Mahmoud Hamchari sur le territoire français. Tout le monde sait qui a perpétré cet attentat, sauf manifestement les autorités françaises qui n’ont jamais bougé.

Le problème c’est que le soutien américain et la passivité du reste de l’Occident amène les dirigeants israéliens actuellement au pouvoir à se croire tout permis et, sûrs de leur impunité, ils revendiquent à l’avance les assassinats que le Mossad ou le Shin Bet commettraient à l’étranger.

Le chef du Shin Bet Ronen Bar, a déclaré « qu’Israël travaillera à l’assassinat des dirigeants du Hamas. Le Conseil ministériel, le cabinet israélien nous a fixé un objectif, qui est en termes simples, l’élimination du Hamas, et nous sommes déterminés à le faire. Partout, à Gaza, dans la Cisjordanie, au Liban, en Turquie, au Qatar ». Comme d’habitude Netanyahou ne s’est pas gêné lorsqu’il a annoncé son intention le 22 novembre 2023 en déclarant : « J’ai donné l’ordre au Mossad d’agir contre les dirigeants du Hamas où qu’ils se trouvent ».

Comprenons-nous bien, vouloir frapper son ennemi à la tête a une autre légitimité morale que le massacre des civils de Gaza. Et à la guerre, ça marche comme ça. Mais en la circonstance ce qui est effarant c’est le sentiment d’impunité qui anime le pouvoir israélien revendiquant par avance le droit d’aller pratiquer le terrorisme sur le territoire d’autres États ! Concernant la France, si jamais cela arrivait chez nous, on peut malheureusement imaginer ce que serait la réponse de Macron et des dirigeants français.

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Je rafraîchis constamment la page de la pétition contre la loi Duplomb sur le site de l'assemblée nationale :

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et c'est hallucinant, on a parfois + de 50 nouvelles signatures en quelques secondes, cela redonne espoir !

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Duplomb peut se lamenter très malaDROITEment:
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le monde resitue les enjeux en partie :
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Il n'y a jamais eu de pétition dépassant les 263 000 personnes
Les "zélus" méprisants (pour le peuple et la démocratie) ont du souci à se faire
Et c'est une très bonne nouvelle! 😀)

FANTASMABULIQUE!!!


reshare from @Le Général Midi (aux ficielles)

En attendant d’acheter le premier vinyl du Général Midi (12 € + frais de port), tu peux l’écouter ici :

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#RapFr #LeGénéralMidi #Branque

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Japanese tea:
"o-one steep is enough senpai...I am very delicate and complex....maybe two...maybe."

Yunnan red tea:
"four steeps for the four bright stars on the flag comrade!! shall we drink to mao? To Marx? Let US make it six then!!"

Taiwan oolong:
"19 STEEPS?!?! PATHETIC. IM ON MY 28TH STEEP. YOU'RE ALREADY HYDRATED."

English tea:
"Put me in milk so u don't taste me anymore, I'm practically sawdust anyhow"

American tea: under the sea.

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"And this I must fight against: any idea, religion or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for this is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system."

-- John Steinbeck
(1902-1968) Author, Nobel laureate
Source: East of Eden, 1952

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"All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification."

-- Judge Learned Hand
(1872-1961), Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals

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“Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant… then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. […] We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”

~ Karl R. Popper
(1902-1994) Austrian-British philosopher, professor
The Open Society and Its Enemies, vol. 1 (London: Routledge, 1945), 217 (note 4).

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@HaleakalacraterAnd I feel lucky as hell. I live on the 5th floor and got nothing. On the 10th floor, units above me got a little damage, the 4th floor below didn't get anything but the 3rd floor, all hell broke loose and they were monumentally flooded. I went to give the co-op ladies a hand, brought my cotton floor mop with me and helped mopped up the water that was still trickling under the walls on their floors. It was ugly. An emergency plumber came with a vacuum to pick up the water to help out.
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terrible! These collars - are they like couplings at pipe joints? Seems like if the pipes are ok they need to locate all the collars and fix them. Fernco makes flexible couplings they should investigate using these. Now there are flexible video scopes where they can drill a small hole in a wall and see where couplings are located.

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@HaleakalacraterYeah! I didn't know the English terms, I searched for the English equivalency and it said collars (in French, the word is collets = collars, I had specified for plumbing but...). I think what they are planning to do is fix them as soon as they break but hell that means we'll all be under stress for years to come... There are 109 units + 19 for the co-op. I'm not sure they want to tear down all the walls to change them all...

Plus the damn smoke detectors and general fire alarm go crazy because of the dust when they take down a wall (the gypsum boards and plaster). This is a concrete building (slabs for the floors and ceilings (well, d'uh - another man's ceiling is another man's floor LOL) but part of the walls are soundproofed and built of gypsum board...

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interesting, the term collet is used in machining metal, except we pronounce it with a hard “t” it should be pronounced as French, “collay”. We’re doing it all wrong!😭

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@HaleakalacraterYour suggestion does make a lot of sense. When I studied in technology of architecture, we had learned about contraction in winter and expansion of materials in summer. We had calculated the difference in a 20-floor building and it varied something like 4 or 5 inches or something. Not only were the materials under great stress, but the fasteners of materials had to give and take also. One of the building here had a bad design or I dunno if it was the way the plans were done, but corner of Sherbrooke street and Peel in downtown, a piece of concrete curtain wall detached itself and went crashing through a closed terrace restaurant on the first floor, it killed two customers. That happened maybe 20-25 years ago? Can't recall now.
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@HaleakalacraterAnd since it's a government project, not sure how the building was supervised, if there wasn't corruption also. Because let's face it the construction industry is one of the most corrupted, we call it one of the mafia strongholds, like construction of roads and all that. I had watched way back when a documentary on road construction in Sweden which has (or had) pretty much the same temps and weather we do. The opening questions were: how much does road construction in Sweden cost? And why do their roads last 10 times ours? What is the difference between what we do and what they do?

Road construction companies here cut in half all the materials. Like, say in Sweden they lay down 8 inches of crushed stone as an underlayer, over here, they put 3 or 4 inches. And they charge the government twice or three times what companies in Sweden do. Roads are all owned by government, either federal, provincial or municipal.

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@HaleakalacraterThe worst? When they repair roads, they usually just scrape off the top asphalt layer and lay asphalt over the road or street. I roll my eyes so damn hard each time, it gives me a headache because the problem is structural, but they make cosmetic repairs, it looks good for about 2 years, max, and then they have to redo the whole thing again or let the street or road deteriorate more.
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@HaleakalacraterNot sure if ours are that modern, but they are kinda similar. But the thing that bugs me is the road that cracks deeply and chunks come off, it's a sign the structure of the road, in lower layers of materials is working, shifting under the strain of traffic, the problem is structural. No matter how nice the top layer looks after, the shifting and crumbling will still go on. There is also the fact that on the roads, there are much more trucks and 18-wheelers than there was before, like 50 years ago.
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yeah but that’s a lot of work to fix and compact underlaid material look how easy this is!🤗

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ESWIN and Canonical team up to port Ubuntu to EBC77 RISC-V SBC


ESWIN Computing is launching a new SBC running RISC-V. In a joint statement with Canonical, they have announced first-party support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the new device. Good news for anyone wanting to diversify away from ARM SBC's.

The UK government is secretly paying foreign YouTube stars to publish “propaganda” videos.

A three-year investigation has found that online influencers are made to sign legal contracts banning them from disclosing the government’s involvement.

Whitehall officials give “feedback” on each video before the influencers are allowed to publish them.

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#uk #propaganda

Peace and Development Are Better Than Austerity and War: The Twenty-Ninth Newsletter (2025)


As military rhetoric and spending by the US and its allies continue to intensify, it is clear that the world must stand up and carve out an alternative path – one rooted in peace and development.
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Reason seems to have been gradually abolished by the language of bombs. As weapons systems get ‘smarter’ and ‘smarter’, the range of diplomatic instruments used by the Global North states becomes blunter and blunter. US and European diplomats have returned to the old colonial habit of speaking loudly and brusquely, lecturing the natives about what they should or should not do while they themselves do whatever they want. If the natives do not agree, then the old colonial rulers simply threaten to cut off their hands or bomb their homes.

When the International Criminal Court tried to open a file to investigate US atrocities in Afghanistan, Washington reacted by revoking the prosecutors’ visas and threatening to sanction their families. More recently, the United States government sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for her report on corporate complicity in the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people. This gangster-like behaviour reflects the longstanding attitude of colonial rulers, indicating a return to a period when the West sent its gunboats to threaten our countries to trade as they wanted us to trade rather than to trade as equals. During the colonial period, that form of behaviour was called gunboat diplomacy. What we have now is an updated version: nuclear missile diplomacy.
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Trump Has Completely Dropped His "Populist" Act

It’s so funny how Trump has stopped even pretending to be a populist. As soon as he was re-elected he was just “Yeah okay so Israel comes first and forget everything I said about free speech and the Ukraine war is continuing and there will be no Epstein investigation, fuck you.”

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Breaking news and analysis on day 650 of the Gaza genocide | The Electronic Intifada #Palestine

IRAN. Les forces iraniennes tuent un kolbar kurde
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"IRAN / ROJHILAT – Les forces frontalières iraniennes ont abattu Peyam Ahmadi, un jeune kolbar kurde de Sarvabad (Sewlawa), sans sommation préalable, alors qu’il transportait des marchandises à travers la zone frontalière de Hanjiran, à Marivan. Selon les informations reçues par l’Organisation de défense des droits humains, Hengaw, le mardi 15 juillet

“I was disoriented, hungry, and nauseous. In Georgia, after suffering a severe asthma attack without my primary inhaler and having a hard cry, I was feeling completely hopeless. In Louisiana, I found myself in a cramped, cagelike bus, waiting for hours. I watched as countless people arrived from a nearby plane, all shackled — hands, feet, and waists. Some were taken inside a building, while others were loaded onto a bus, where I was left behind. I asked for water but was given none.”

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#Palestinian Saed Salam was killed following the #Israeli attack on the Catholic Holy Family Church in eastern #Gaza City, where over 400 Christians had been seeking refuge after their homes were destroyed in the ongoing #Israeli #genocidal war.

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Πάνε και φτιάχνουν κλειστές δομές προσφύγων την ώρα που ο νομός Γρεβενών κοντεύει να εξαφανιστεί πληθυσμιακά απ τον χάρτη.
Ηλίθιοι ακροδεξιοί φασίστες και αγράμματοι, αμόρφωτοι νεοέλληνες, θα έρθει η ώρα που θα παρακαλάτε να έρθουν πρόσφυγες