Average rate on a 30-year mortgage drops to lowest level since April
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Including: the basis of communism by Herman Gorter, Sylvia Pankhurst on co-operative societies and revolution, trade unions and revolution continued, international news, Rosa Luxemberg and Leo Yogiches remembered continued, the two Internationals, th…libcom.org
The 14th Shanghai International New Energy Auto Technology and Ecological Chain Expo (NEAS CHINA 2025) will take place from August 13 to 15, 2025, at the Shanghai New International Expo Center, China.China Business Forum
Pre-print Editorial to Heatwave #11 1Issue one of Heatwave magazine is scheduled for printing in June 2025. To give readers a sense of what is to come, we are publishing this pre-print version of the editorial online.libcom.org
China’s exports surged even more than expected in July, as Chinese companies raced to ship goods to Southeast Asia and other regions, often for onward shipment to the United States, before President Trump could raise tariffs on imports. 😆
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The war is not over. This time, don’t just vote for Trump. Vote to make the good he’s done last longer than the next electionAlex Castellanos (The Spectator World)
The beautiful Executive Office Building, opposite the White House, as it would have looked in white stone but, nevertheless, is still beautiful in its original grey stone. What a great beauty it is!
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@Donald J. Trump The DemonRats don't work because they're just throwing money into a bonfire and doing nothing to produce actual useful infrastructure and goods, and unfortunately all the Republicans are producing is bombs and guns and war planes and nothing that actually helps people and they economy.
We need to divert this money wasted on military adventurism and instead put it into infrastructure, electrify our railways, consider a dual electric train and super-grid corridor, the biggest cost of either project is acquiring the land so why not combine them into one?
We need real energy solutions to provide base load energy, wind and solar don't do this, geothermal could, and we could tap enough geothermal to power the entire nation from Yellowstone region alone.
One year ago today, I started on my first Interrail trip in over two decades. Since then, I’ve barely stopped travelling.
I decided to mark the occasion with a new blog: moof.space/a-year-of-interrail…
(I’m still very much setting the rest of the site up, btw. Please be kind)
One year ago today, I got up, grabbed my suitcase, and set off on a journey that would change my life... I took a train.Moof (Moof.Space)
Registering for my health insurance's online portal thingy.
I've heard of password requirements, but username requirements?
And the "no more than one period in a row" smells an awful lot like directory traversal...
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Winning the Senior Club Championship, and the Super Senior Club Championship, last weekend at Bedminster — But my heart wasn’t into it, my heart is only for the U.S.A.!
In mid-June 1926, Kim Il Sung moved from Fusong to Huadian to enter Hwasong Uisuk School. He analysed and judged the education provided at Hwasong Uisuk School from a unique point of view and a critical approach.Dermot Hudson (KFAUK.com)
On August 2 2025, the soliparty Konvulsismo #2 took place in the city of Berlin in support of the Assembly collective in Kharkiv, Ukraine. As both a political group and media outlet, the collective denounces forced conscription.libcom.org
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Di el dato más inútil que guardas aún en tu memoria.
Sé tararear el himno nacional antiguo de Qatar. El actual, no: el ANTIGUO.
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¡Ay mísero de mí! ¡Ay infelice!
Apurar, cielos, pretendo,
ya que me tratáis así,
¿qué delito cometí
contra vosotros naciendo?
Recuerdo que un año me dio por aprenderme el monólogo entero, pero ya se me ha olvidado y solo me sé fragmentos sueltos.
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(The Center Square) — Six months after the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires, California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled $101 million in funding Tuesday for “multifamily low-income housing development” that willThe Center Square
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very strange
Pakistan finalises Gwadar industrial relocation road map ahead of PM Sharif’s China visit to boost Chinese investment and CPEC progress.News Desk (The Daily Cpec)
Lawsuit in California says hospital concealed stillbirth spike linked to COVID shots, and retaliated against a nurse who spoke out.Sharyl Attkisson
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The first act Trotsky passed after killing Christian Czar Nicholas II and taking Russia 🇷🇺, was the “Anti-Semitism Act” that made criticizing jews punishable by death.
It also deemed criticism of communism as “Anti-Semitic.”
This is not in your History books either, is it? 🙋♂️
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Trump is honoring Purple Heart recipients, including 3 who sent him medals after attempt on his life
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8/7/2025 — PURPLE HEART DAY…
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Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston has announced a province-wide ban on forest-based activities in an attempt to prevent wildfires.Jarryd Jäger (Western Standard)
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Dylan Roof provided ZOG with atrocity propaganda by killing church ladies. It benefited ZOG.
Luigi Mangione became a hero to the entire American political spectrum from the left to the right, by assassinating a medical cartel CEO who made a living screwing Americans over.
Don't be Dylan Roof. Do not engage in poorly targeted unorganized violence.
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ACLU: Surveillance Company Flock Now Using AI to Report Us to Police if it Thinks Our Movement Patterns Are “Suspicious”
"...the company is also now apparently analyzing our driving patterns to determine if we’re “suspicious.” That means if your police start using Flock, they could target you just because some algorithm has decided your movement patterns suggest criminality...."
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Company crosses a dangerous line by beginning to offer AI suspicion-generation functionsJay Stanley (American Civil Liberties Union)
@ai6yr@ai6yr.org If Flock sends false positives to the cops, the cops are going to charge them for every stupid call.
I assume Flock will pass that cost on to their customers, who will turn off that feature.
—Remember: Nancy also wanted to push for all industries in America to have collective bargaining and card check.
This is the type of enemy we’ve been fighting against since forever it seems.
This is tyranny disguised as “compassion.”
so it turns out my touchpad wires were caused by my IDE to USB adapter of all things
the minute I plug in the hard drive it becomes cringe and unusable 
Lebanon: Tires are being burned at the Mar Mikhael intersection, and the army is closing the entrances to Ain al-Rummaneh where gunfire has been recorded for some time.
It's not even Friday and I have All Saints stuck in my head... Send help fellow Poppers...
I shall try to sleep it off
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La #Nouvelle-Écosse est une province du #Canada. Le futur en UE si les masses ne se réveillent pas, malheureusement elles sont composées de beaucoup d'humains citadins davantage connectés aux écrans qu'à la nature...
Interdiction d'aller en forêt pour la Nouvelle Écosse jusqu'au 15 Octobre sous peine d'amende de 25.000$ Le territoire est essentiellement composé de bois.
If India really is considering dumping Russia oil, this only harms U.S. interests and drives the BRICS model forwards at even a greater speed making…Strategic Culture Foundation
Por si no lo sabéis, Trump ha firmado un decreto por el cual se permite a los 401(k), esto es, los fondos de pensiones privados (que en EE.UU. son todos) invertir en el sector inmobiliario, entre otros¹.
Esto significa que les trabajadores estadounidenses pueden ver como el dinero de su jubilación se queda ligado a que la burbuja inmobiliaria siga inflándose, porque de lo contrario ese dinero desaparecerá².
¿Quieres una vivienda asequible? Pues elige, eso o tu jubilación.
Cuando oigáis a los palanganeros de la derecha hablar de que las pensiones públicas son insostenibles, lo que buscan es esto. Siempre.
Recordadlo.
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[¹] entre esos "otros" se incluyen, atención redoble de tambores, las criptomonedas, ayyy lmao.
[²] esto de hecho ya llevaba pasando con otros activos desde que se creó este modelo, pero ahora se abre la puerta al sector inmobiliario.
@nandeth si las cotizaciones no alcanzan para pagar las pensiones la diferencia sale de los presupuestos generales del estado (en mi opinión no debería haber dos cajas distintas, pero bueno) que salvo casos puntuales es lo que ha estado pasando la mayoría de años. Al final las pensiones no dejan de ser un dinero que se entrega a aquellas personas que ya no están en el circuito productivo para que compren el excedente de producción del país.
Y de hecho pese al envejecimiento poblacional la ratio trabajadores/pensionistas se ha ido moviendo de forma totalmente independiente a este hecho.
Piensa además que en España hay una tasa de paro sistémica muy alta con lo que existe además un buffer que puede absorber un aumento de pensionistas.
Y en última instancia se puede aumentar el tope por arriba de las cotizaciones.
De verdad que la sostenibilidad del sistema de pensiones es el menos de nuestros problemas.
Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in EuropeHarry Davies (The Guardian)
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"scientists developed a #mRNA #vaccine – based on similar technology used for some COVID-19 vaccines – to block the fertilization process. The result: a 99.7% drop in the rate of transmission of the malaria-causing parasite recorded in preclinical studies.
That could be a huge step forward in the fight against this widespread disease, which affects nearly 300 million people around each year, and claims 600,000 lives annually."
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A novel way to prevent the spread of malaria by directly targeting the proteins that enable the infectious parasite to reproduce could soon be realized, thanks to scientists at WEHI in Australia.Abhimanyu Ghoshal (New Atlas)
Stephen Moore: "Mr. President, you gained ten times more income for the average family than Joe Biden…Every income group did better under Trump than Biden — by a wide margin…”
'I won't humiliate myself': Brazil's president sees no point in tariff talks with Trump. 👏
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Türk ırkçılığı,Kimlik mi, Kurgu mu?
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Bugün Türkçülük denince akla ne geliyor? Bir millete aidiyet duygusu mu, bir tarihî miras mı, yoksa ustaca inşa edilmiş bir kimlik mühendisliği projesi mi? Eğer gözümüzü gerçeklere çevirecek cesaretimiz varsa, Türkçülüğün kendi doğal mecrasında doğmadığını, aksine yönlendirilmiş bir fikir olduğunu görmemiz gerekir. Çünkü bu coğrafyada kimlikler tarih boyunca hep masa başında şekillendirilmiştir — çoğu zaman da Türk’ün bilgisi ve iradesi dışında.
Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda “Türk” olmak, uzun yıllar boyunca horlanan, aşağılanan bir sıfattı. Osmanlı elitleri kendilerini “Osmanlı” veya “İslam ümmeti” kimliğiyle tanımlarken, "Türk" ifadesi köylü, etra-ı Merkep, cahil, hatta kaba saba anlamına geliyordu. Yani bugünün “millî” ifadesi, dünün aşağılayıcı etiketiydi.
İşte bu aşağılama ortamında birden bire “Türk milleti” yüceltilmeye, “Türk tarihi” yüceltici dille yazılmaya başlandı. Peki ne oldu da bir asır boyunca hor görülen bu kimlik bir anda imparatorluk projesinin merkezine oturtuldu?
Burada tarih sahnesine Yahudi asıllı Fransız yazar Leon Cahun giriyor. 1869 yılında yazdığı Introduction à l'histoire de l'Asie (Asya Tarihine Giriş) kitabında, Türkleri ve Moğolları, batıya medeniyet taşıyan büyük bir ırk olarak tanımlar. Bu fikirler, özellikle 1870’lerden itibaren Osmanlı aydınlarını etkisi altına alır. En çok da Jön Türkleri.
Tesadüf mü? Zamanlama manidar.
Jön Türk hareketi, II. Abdülhamid’e karşı Batılılaşma, anayasa ve “millet” temelli bir yapı kurmak isteyen aydınlardan oluşuyordu. Ancak dikkat çekici olan, bu hareketin içinde dönemin Mason localarına ve özellikle Selanik'teki Yahudi dönmelerine (Sabetaycılar) yakın isimlerin etkin oluşuydu. Nitekim İttihat ve Terakki kadroları, bu fikirlerle yoğrulmuş bir zihniyetle Osmanlı’nın sonunu hazırlarken, yeni bir millet kurgusunun da temellerini atıyordu: Türk milleti.
Ancak bu “millet”, tarihî bağları ve doğal evrimiyle değil, Avrupa’daki ulus-devlet projelerinin ve Siyonist fikirlerin modellemesiyle oluşturulmuş bir yapıydı. Yani Türkçülük, içeriden değil, dışarıdan teşvik edilen bir ideolojik kurgu olarak sahneye sürüldü.
Ziya Gökalp, bu kurguya akademik ve sistematik bir omurga kazandıran kişidir. Türkçülüğün Esasları kitabında, Türk milletinin tanımını yaparken din, soy ya da coğrafyadan çok, kültürel birliktelik ve tarihsel misyon vurgusu öne çıkar. Bu yaklaşım, elbette kendi içinde tutarlı olabilir. Ancak Gökalp’in kaynak aldığı isimler ve düşünce çizgisi dikkatle incelendiğinde, Türkçülüğün Fransız pozitivizmi ve Avrupa merkezli “kurgusal millet” teorileriyle yoğrulduğu açıkça görülür.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk de, bu fikirleri takip etmiş, Türk Tarih Tezi ve Güneş-Dil Teorisi gibi projelerle Türk kimliğini tarih öncesine kadar geri götürmeye çalışmıştır. Ancak bu teoriler de Batı'dan ithal yöntemlerle hazırlanmış, masa başı akademisyenlerce oluşturulmuş tezlerdi. Bugün bile akademik geçerliliği sorgulanan bu projeler, dönemin ulus-devlet paradigmasına uyum sağlamak için yapılmıştır.
Cemil Meriç, bu noktada uyarısını yapar: “Türkçülük, Türk ırkçılığının Kur’an’ıdır.” Bu söz, hem bir eleştiridir, hem de bir teşhistir. Çünkü kimlikler, eğer tarihsel hakikatin değil, ideolojik laboratuvarların ürünü olursa, milletin kendisi bir fikri deney faresi olur.
Siyonizmin 19. yüzyılda yükselişe geçmesiyle eş zamanlı olarak milliyetçiliğin Arap coğrafyasında, İran’da, Balkanlar'da ve Anadolu’da sistemli şekilde pompalanması, tesadüf değildir. Yahudi tarih anlatısı, “seçilmiş halk” fikrini merkezine koyarken, aynı yüzyılda Türkler için de “medeniyetin taşıyıcısı” olduğu söylemi yaygınlaştırılmıştır. Arka planda bir tür karşılıklı kimlik inşası vardır.
Bugün geldiğimiz noktada ise, bu tür kimlik projelerinin bölgeyi ne hale getirdiği ortadadır. Milliyetçilik üzerinden çizilen sınırlar, parçalanan halklar, birbirine düşman edilen kardeş topluluklar…
Türkçülük, Türk milletinin gerçek köklerinden gelen bir refleks değil; yönlendirilmiş, kurguya dayalı ve başka güçlerin elinde şekillenmiş bir kimlik kalıbıdır. Elbette bu ülkeyi seven, kültürüne sahip çıkan her birey için “Türk” kimliği kıymetlidir. Ama mesele, bu kimliğin nasıl, kimler tarafından ve hangi amaçla inşa edildiğidir. Sorgulamadan sahip çıkılan her şey, zamanla sahibini yutar.
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Netanyahu:
A decision has been made to allow foreign journalists to enter Gaza.
President Trump today held a gathering at the White House to honor Purple Heart Veterans. He proclaimed today to be "Purple Heart Day".
During his speech, he mentioned that several Purple Heart Veterans had sent him their Purple Hearts right after the assassination attempt at Butler PA.
Amazing people!
@faab64@freefree.ps @palestine@a.gup.pe @israel@a.gup.pe @palestine@lemmy.ml Of course. So he can #kill them just like he's #killed all the other #journalists that have been in #Gaza. He can't take the risk of having his #WarCrimes be #documented. That's #evidence that will be used at his trial! ---
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A decision has been made to allow foreign journalists to enter Gaza.@palestine@a.gup.pe @israel @palestine@lemmy.ml
Ein Hamburger Gericht äußert Zweifel an Karl Marx' Verfassungstreue. Steht jetzt jeder Marx-Lesekreis unter Verdacht?Amira Klute (taz)
Caitlin Johnstone- In this dystopia we party downstream from the abuses of the empire like the ravers dancing by the concentration camp on October 7.thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
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