No Kings and No Sheikhs Either
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"The United States has focused on the Middle East since World War II, seeking its oil, gas, and other mineral resources and coveting control of its strategic waterways. The old colonial powers and the superpowers of the Cold War era most often backed dictatorial regimes there, because they were easier to control than democracies, and More
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Russiagate: Hoaxes, Conspiracies, Distractions and “Treason”
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"“There was a treasonous conspiracy in 2016,” US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard alleged in a July 18 press release, “committed by officials at the highest level of our government.” If the timing of that release, which revisits the “Russiagate” hoax, feels opportunistic/propagandistic, that’s because it is. The walls

US Congress Can Stop Genocide – Why Won’t They?
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"Gaza is being starved – deliberately, with cruel intention and shocking inhumanity. The photos of skeletal children haunt me. At night when I close my eyes. At dawn when I rise. They should haunt us all – along with the unfathomable suffering the families of Gaza have endured over nearly two yearsof relentless bombings, forced More
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Big Spike in “Legionnaires’ Disease” Has Public Health Experts Worried
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"In 1976, thousands of patriotic veterans of the American Legion gathered in Philadelphia for the nation’s Bicentennial Celebration. It should have been a festive occasion, but it soon proved deadly. Nearly 300 attendees contracted an unfamiliar form of pneumonia that left them coughing, sneezing and in many cases,

Tsimur Pipiya is an antifascist from Minsk, Belarus and a support of MTZ-RIPO FC. After participating in the uprising against the Lukashenko regime in 2020, Tsiumr was sentenced to six years in prison.

More info/how to support Tsimur: abc-belarus.org/en/2020/10/30/…

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Waco, Epstein, and Washington’s War on Truth
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"How many atrocities can the federal government get away with? Americans are still vexed by the answers that Congress failed to deliver in 1995. Thirty summers ago, Washington was fixated by a Capitol Hill showdown over the greatest federal abuse of power of the decade. Unfortunately, trusting to congressional hearings to discover the truth More
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J'estime avoir une bonne maîtrise de l'orthographe française, et j'ai souvent dénigré, à tort, les fautes de ceux et celles qui n'avaient pas la même aisance à appliquer des règles qui me semblaient simples mais qui en fait complexifient inutilement le français.

Simplifier l'écriture ne retirera rien à la richesse de langue, au contraire, elle l'ouvrira à beaucoup, supprimant des obstacles désuets.

tract-linguistes.org/reforme/

Via @tract_linguistes

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J'approuve à 100%. J'étais mauvais en orthographe jusqu'à 25 ans, puis j'ai pris plaisir à devenir bon. Mais ces règles sont nulles.
Pour ne pas rester dans l'incantation, je propose de lancer des campagnes régulières, avec juste une règle à diffuser, partager, appliquer.

Ça vous dirait @tract_linguistes ?
Parce-que vous êtes les mieux placés pour lancer ce genre de campagne.
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Parce qu'il m'a fallut plusieurs mois pour écrire "ognon" spontanément.
Parce-que j'aimerais écrire des pous, des caillous, des yeus, des vieus et des creus.
Mais que je crains d'être ridicule parce que je n'y connais rien.

Alors que si vous, @tract_linguistes, lancez une campagne pour ne plus mettre de x au pluriel, on pourrait la respecter, la répéter, la diffuser, la partager.
Et dans 3 mois, on recommence avec autre chose. 😀

Allez ! Vous lancez ça ? #onSupprimeLeXauPluriel
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@zorg le plus facile à (re)lancer c'est la réforme du participe passé, qui vient de recevoir à nouveau un accueil enthousiaste au congrès international de la FiPF, la fédé internationale des profs de français.

Pour la suppression des pluriels en x, on est entravés par les correcteurs automatiques et donc il faut l'accompagner d'un volet technique. Ça se tente, notre tribune dans le Monde avait reçu un accueil plutôt favorable, mais après les gens passent à autre chose et le dossier piétine, surtout en l'absence de volonté politique. Il faudrait cesser d'espérer que ça tombe du ciel.

(Quel rapport avec les œufs?)

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@zorg @MarCandea elle est affichée sur plein de sites et soutenue par plein d'associations de profs, conseils, sociétés savantes, personnalités...

Par exemple : afef.org/pour-une-reforme-des-…

Il suffirait de l'appliquer et, dans un premier temps, le préciser dans une note 'ce texte applique la réforme présentée ici participepasse.info/'

NB: on l'applique dans nos messages et dans le Tract publié chez Gallimard. Entre autres

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@niavy @zorg oui, on enseigne qu'une langue est une institution sociale, ses évolutions sont arbitrées et suivent tantôt des consensus, tantôt des décisions du pouvoir du moment, etc. Tantôt tout le monde s'y met pour peser sur les tendances, tantôt on délègue les décisions etc.

C'est captivant de suivre les dynamiques selon les langues et les époques 😊

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Very true! Drinking and drugs cause everything from drowsiness to memory loss, hallucinations to inability to relate time to tasks, and it's not just illicit drugs. My muscle relaxer for spinal pain makes me feel time is flying by, but when I check the time it's much earlier than what I thought it was.

Red States Are About to Go Hungry Thanks to Trump
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"What do Louisiana, West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Alabama have in common? For one thing, they’re red states. For another, they’re poor states. Each has among the top 10 highest percentages of residents on SNAP, or food stamps. And finally, every one of their Republican lawmakers voted for President Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” — which will

UK, France and Germany call for immediate end to 'humanitarian catastrophe' in Gaza and demand Israel lifts restrictions on aid

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Immediate Actions:

• Immediate ceasefire in Gaza

• Unconditional release of all Hamas-held hostages since October 7, 2023

• End to humanitarian restrictions - Israel must lift aid flow restrictions and
allow UN/NGO operations

Key Positions:

• Hamas must be disarmed and excluded from Gaza's future governance

• Firm opposition to Israeli sovereignty over Occupied Palestinian Territories

• Condemnation of annexation threats, settlements, and settler violence

publicnow.com/view/D6ACAB4F13F…

@palestine
@israel
#GazaGenocide

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“Everything Beautiful in Their Lives is Gone:” US Physicians Read Aloud the Searing Testimony of Desperate Doctors and Patients in Gaza
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"“What will I tell them? When I go to buy shoes for my children, what will I do when Hanan and Misk ask why I don’t buy them any? If they say, ‘I want to play’, ‘I want to dance’, ‘I

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Zagreb (Croatie) : foire du livre anarchiste, les 6 et 7 septembre 2025
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"Ami⋅es et camarades, bienvenue !
C'est avec une joie combative que nous vous invitons à la foire du livre anarchiste de Zagreb, qui se tiendra cette année à deux endroits. Le premier jour, le 6 septembre, le salon se tiendra au squat Postaja (postaja@@@riseup.net), en collaboration avec Vrrrane, un groupe autonome anarcho-queer, où des ateliers et des discussions vous

Inland Visions | The Fabric of Identity: Russian Fashion Reimagined odysee.com/IV250725_Fashion:f2…

$6k for humanoid robot
youtu.be/v1Q4Su54iho
equivalent to a few months of wagie pay. it's over lads pack your bags now i'll see you in the fema camp

Surveillance. En Russie, chercher un contenu jugé “extrémiste” sur Internet devient passible d’amende
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Are We Becoming a Fascist Nation?
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"A lifelong friend and longtime student of domestic and international politics caught me off-guard recently with an observation I kicked myself for not having confronted before now. “It seems obvious,” he said, “that we are becoming, if we haven’t already become, a fascist state. The deeper question in my mind, though, is whether we are More
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Halifax (Canada) : 8e Anarchist Bookfair, le 6 septembre 2025
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"Le huitième salon du livre anarchiste d'Halifax aura lieu le samedi 6 septembre 2025 (date de report en cas de pluie : 7 septembre).
Chaque jour qui passe, nos vies sont davantage contrôlées par des structures de pouvoir qui asservissent nos corps et nos terres pour leur profit. Nos vies sociales sont désormais confinées par des milliardaires de la tech qui accumulent nos données et

Today in Labor History July 25, 2010: WikiLeaks published classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. The leak included 91,000 Afghan War documents, covering the period from January 2004 to December 2009. Prior to the release, WikiLeaks made the logs available to “The Guardian,” “The New York Times” and “Der Spiegel.” The Times said the leak "offers an unvarnished and grim picture of the Afghan war." The Guardian called it "one of the biggest leaks in U.S. military history ... a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces have killed hundreds of civilians in unreported incidents, Taliban attacks have soared and NATO commanders fear neighboring Pakistan and Iran are fueling the insurgency." The documents also revealed that U.S. military contractors had hired local male child prostitutes.

As a result of the leaks, the U.S. government launched a criminal investigation into Wikileaks, and its founder, Julian Assange, who spent years under British custody. And the U.S. fought aggressively to get him extradited to the U.S., where he would face multiple life sentences for espionage.

Watch the original leaked footage here: youtu.be/5rXPrfnU3G0?t=2

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We’re Locking Up Innocent People and Calling It “Justice”
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"In the name of “law and order,” the Trump administration has locked up countless immigrants — many of whom have no criminal convictions, and many of whom were here lawfully. The result is a sprawling detention system that punishes the innocent, tears families apart, and violates the very principles of justice it claims to uphold. More
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Stars and stripes reporting it will take 8 years to rebuild THAAD interceptor stocks and US AD only had a 35% interception rate. Those both should be hair-on-fire panic inducers but insteaf we have US destroyers trying provoke a war in Iranian waters

...and a quorum of electricians & welders needed to build new factories will be timed out in next 8-10 yrs (retired/dead.)

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Stars and Stripes (dated around July 2025) mentions that the U.S., alongside Israel's Arrow-2 and Arrow-3 systems, successfully intercepted 201 out of 574 Iranian missiles during the June 2025 conflict, which equates to approximately a 35% interception rate for the combined defense effort.

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More Americans Can Get Compensated for Nuclear Poisoning — But There’s a Catch
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"This July marked 80 years since the U.S. government detonated the first atomic bomb in the desert of southern New Mexico, marking the start of the nuclear age — and an ongoing nightmare for the people who call the area home. That test, known as Trinity, blanketed rural communities in radioactive

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So a few researchers from the Russian cybersec firm, PT Security, recently found secret instructions inside Intel CPUs that allow them to disassembler and modify the microcode inside the chips. This is an extremely technically impressive hack that is about as low level as you can get. But it is not inventing a new hack, it is discovering undocumented backdoors that Intel have put into their own chips going back decades.

Suddenly, BAM! The US Treasury Dept puts PT Security on the Sanctions List and accuses them of being a FSB/GRU front company--a claim that cannot be disproven, so PT Security is now in the double jeapordy situation of having no way to clear their own name.

What a coincidence amirite?

I find this whole incident and Deep State coverup to be the most bleak and dystopian news in computing since 2013 when the Snowden leaks began. We all complain now about being peasant sharecroppers who just pay rent to Big Tech Oligarchs and Monopolies who own all computing infrastructure, the software-as-a-service, your iPhones and Androids. You no longer own your own computers and the noose is tightening for what you are allowed to do with your rental computers.

The punchline to this is that you are not even allowed to know about the lowest level NSA backdoors built into every CPU in every computing device you own. And if some hacker genius does figure it out and tells you, that hacker will be sanctioned, cancelled, gulag'd and finally drone striked by the US Govt.

You are not allowed to know about the NSA backdoors inside Intel CPUs and if you do find out, you will be blackballed from the entire economy and be unable to buy or sell without the Mark of the Beast on your hand.

The guy who found NSA's backdoor in Intel chips tried to talk about it at the famous Blackhat hacker conference.

Rejected.

Fucking hilarious. Here we have one of the biggest, deepest hacks found in decades and Blackhat doesn't want to talk about it. Probably because Blackhat wants to give more time to trannies and nigs who can't code to talk about some diversity BS.

Blackhat is a intel front and a limited hangout. Their job isn't to help cyber security, their real job is to keep faux hackers distracted on meaningless high level lame hacks, while covering up the real shit deep down inside the chips that cannot be detected or blocked (until now). If you work in cyber security, you are a clown wearing a Superman costume and you don't even know what you don't know.

imagine what the NSA can do with a secret CPU instruction that allows them to modify the microcode inside an Intel chip? such as the one this guy found.

all security is fake and gay LARPing to create a smokescreen to distract you from noticing that NSA is already raping your CPU at will.

funny, somehow the secret CPU instruction that gives backdoor access to Intel chips was already been labelled by NSA's Ghidra reverse engineering tool.

how did NSA know about this years ago? LOL you already know the answer. @adam

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Sunrise, Haleakala National Park today. For more information nps.gov/hale/index.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit National Park Service #hawaii #clouds #summer #sunrise #color