U.S. Cannot BULLY Russia into a Deal –Fmr. Ukrainian Diplomat Andrii Telizhenko odysee.com/russia-ukraine-trum…

Anthony Fulton: Heavy Machinery and Patriotic Demolition in the Service of Genocide original.antiwar.com/Anthony_F…

Ron Paul: Congress Skips Epstein Files Vote for Trip to Israel antiwar.com/blog/2025/08/07/ro…

Attack of the Bubble Boy Pols
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"On August 3, NORAD scrambled fighter jets to intercept a civilian aircraft that entered a “Temporary Flight Restriction” zone in New Jersey. What was this very special, very sensitive zone? A golf club. Why was it so special and so sensitive? US president Donald Trump was enjoying a round of golf there. The day before More
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»Satellite images show Israel building up forces for a possible ground invasion of Gaza, sources say.
The buildup comes during a tense time for the U.S. and Israel after Trump and Netanyahu’s last private phone conversation devolved into shouting over humanitarian aid.«
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Yves Engler: Canada’s Contribution to Bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki antiwar.com/blog/2025/08/07/ca…

Conflicts of Interest: Netanyahu to Take Full Control of Gaza Even If It Endangers Remaining Israeli Hostages antiwar.com/blog/2025/08/07/co…

Reclaiming the Republic: The Case for Breaking America’s Bond with Israel
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"It has become abundantly clear that after 250 years, a second American revolution is necessary. Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), emphasized the importance of periodic uprisings to preserve liberty and protect against government overreach when he presciently

Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc: The Cabinet's suspicious haste in complying with American demands is a violation. english.alahednews.news/fastne…

Rapport de MSF sur Gaza : Ce n'est pas de l'aide. Il s'agit d'un massacre orchestré
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Les distributions de nourriture gérées par le GHF à Gaza sont des sites de "meurtres orchestrés et de déshumanisation" qui doivent être fermés, selon un nouveau rapport de MSF. Une analyse des données médicales de Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), des témoignages de patients et des observations médicales de première main dans deux cliniques MSF à Gaza, montre que les forces israéliennes et les sous-traitants privés américains exercent une violence ciblée et aveugle contre les Palestiniens (…) - /
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”Your soul will not remain intact while you’re building software that keeps track of undocumented workers. Your soul will not remain intact while building surveillance software whose footage companies hand over to ICE. Your soul will not remain intact while you build software that allows disinformation to spark genocides. Your soul will not remain intact while you hoover up artists’ work to train theft-engines that poison the water of communities in need.“
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No Nukes for Power, Posturing or Destruction
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"(This is a presentation, titled “No Nukes for Power, Posturing or Destruction,” that I gave at the 2025 Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemorative Event on Long Island this week organized by the South Country Peace Group and co-sponsored by other peace organizations and also religious institutions including the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stony Brook; Bellport

Teenage Atomic Spy Ted Hall and Nagasaki Atom Bombing
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"Eighty years ago this week, Manhattan Project workers at the top-secret bomb development lab at Los Alamos, New Mexico were rushing to get the disassembled sections of the five-ton “Fat Man,” plutonium bomb ready to be flown by several planes to remote Tinian Island, a location that had an airfield and was near enough to More
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And meanwhile, ISR attacks LEB, as it has repeatedly, ever since the US brokered deal to end ISR’s heavier bombardments of LEB -

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Loi antisémitisme : le gouvernement veut interdire toute critique d’Israël dans les universités
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Salam alaykoum can you help my family during this war in gaza Due to the bad situation we are currently going through, we are truly sorry for the inconvenience💙We are sorry to ask you this
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MAGA Playbook: Bolsonaro Allies Paralyze Congress
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"On Tuesday, August 5, Brazil’s Congressional President Hugo Motta (PB) from the conservative Republicanos party left Brasilia on a business trip, turning control of the floor over to his elected Vice President, Altineu Cortes (RJ), a member of Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party (PL). Cortes invited a group of PL lawmakers to the table and they paralyzed More

Roaming Charges: Empire of the Downpresser Men
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"Just days after a federal appeals court upheld a ban on ICE using roving patrols and racial profiling to target immigrants, Trump’s secret police launched Operation Trojan Horse, a shock raid outside of a Home Dept in the Westlake area of Los Angeles. Posing as building contractors, ICE agents drove a yellow Penske van in front of a group of day laborers at 6:44 in the morning, asking

Confiture

De ta confiture à ce cochon
J’en écris
Je pousse encore le bouchon
D’un cri

SOS d’un romantique
Tu vis mieux cet identique
Et je survis excentrique
Un petit peu nostalgique

Donner son miel à des ours
L’abeille le fait
Et elle ne regrette pas un pouce
En petite fée

Moi je doute avant que de donner
Et au final une calamité
Je suis si moyen qu’Alexandre
Est si lourd à prétendre

Alors « Tub » ce nom si punk
M’oblige un peu junk
A me coucher sur les radasses
Camées ou pétasses

C’est mon obole à des gogoles
Pendant ton vol avec ce drôle
Nos vies ratées sans ta conscience
Vers un regret de notre enfance

Ma confiture est étalée
Pour les cochons de lait
Tu en as eu trop cette fois
Tu vois, c’est ça la liberté

Puy l’Évêque, le 08/08/25, à 07H00

#Poésie #Poème

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Diplomacy, Not Bombs, Will Defuse the Crisis With Iran
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"The Middle East is a tinderbox, and America has struck a match. Last month’s U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities—Fordo, Natanz, Isfahan—ignited a firestorm. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, emerged from his bunker to declare, “The Iranian nation isn’t one that surrenders,” vowing “everlasting consequences” for U.S.

Trump White House Elevates Climate “Skepticism”
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"It’s not exactly big news that the Trump administration – famous for slashing Biden era clean energy subsidies and cheering on fossil fuels to the tune of “Drill Baby, Drill” – is not interested in policies to address climate change. And lately they have been busy finding new ways to undermine the science that enhances More
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in reply to Aral Balkan

I didn't allow anything.
Did you ? Did you act or give explicit consent to something that allows it ? Are you some MAGA or some AGI cultists that voted or pushed for it ? So it's not a 'we' thing, it is a 'them' thing. And while there can be a 'them' as well as a 'it', this delusional 'we allow' thing may be a huge part of the problem.

Do you have the individual power to stop it right now ? Probably not.
This 'we' appears only when a shared convention aggregates individual acts into collective ones. 'We' aggregators exist in various forms, but the most powerful official ones being irreversibly hijacked, 'we' have to use another one.

For example, here is one aggregator that I found on the web; it doesn't seem to have mastodon representation for the moment though:

"The General Strike US
We are a decentralized network of committed individuals and organizations working towards a general strike that will liberate the disenfranchised and oppressed under the systems of capital from our local neighborhoods to our global corners as well."

Links

instagram.com/thegeneralstrikeus

reddit.com/r/GenStrikeUS

bsky.app/profile/genstrikeus.bsky.social

tiktok.com/@generalstrikeus

docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Sa35UnBWl21THaQfE_S8NLjHVVIp7ZYOiR6fxTH1KXc/edit?pli=1#slide=id.g273f200edff_0_0

linktr.ee/generalstrikeus

www.youtube.com/@TheGeneralStrikeUS

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»Senior #Israel official tells me: The operation that the IDF is currently preparing for is only in #GazaCity. The goal is to evacuate all Palestinian civilians from #Gaza City to the central camps and other areas by October 7. A siege will be imposed on the Hamas militants who remain in Gaza City, and at the same time, a groundoffensive will be carried out in Gaza City. The Prime Minister and the Defense Minister have been authorized to approve the IDF's final operational plan« Barak Ravid

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Was bedeutet das?

Gaza City als eine der letzten Gebiete in Gaza die noch nicht vollständig zerstört sind ist als nächstes dran.

»The goal is to evacuate all Palestinian civilians from Gaza City to the central camps and other areas«

Bedeutet natürlich nicht "Evakuierung" sondern Vertreibung. Wer sich vertreiben lässt - unter der Drohung beschossen zu werden - geht in die Lager, die umgeben von Todeszonen sind.
»other areas« bedeutet Vertreibung ins Ausland.

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Wer sich nicht vertreiben lässt, etwa weil er fürchtet dass es in den Lagern kein entkommen gibt, oder einfach über den Haufen geschossen wird, wenn er Gaza City verlässt gilt für die israelische Armee dann als zu bekämpfender Feind, egal ob Zivilist oder nicht. Sie sprechen explizit von "siege" - laut den vorher kommunizierten Plänen bedeutet das - wer bleibt, der wird verhungern, verdursten oder einfach direkt getötet. Klar genozidal

One of the biggest things weighing on me right now is the financial trade-off I’m making. I left a well-paying consulting job to build my stained glass business, and while I love the freedom and lifestyle, I’m only making about 20% of what I used to

I’ve been in Bitcoin since 2020 and have built a solid position, which gives me some peace of mind. But with how things are moving in the market, it feels like now is the time to be stacking and saving aggressively, and I just can’t do that while I’m growing my business

I believe in what I’m building,
I feel authentically myself, but it’s hard to ignore how big the opportunity cost is right now by not being in my old job

Would love to hear some perspective?

#asknostr

in reply to Dylan

Fair enough. Only you know your age, how you feel, what doctors have said to you. If you have a clean bill of health and no known disease history in your family then you really should be guided by actuarial studies which on balance may put you in the 80-90 range. Perhaps you need to find a 50/50 split between your dream job and one that better supplements income so you don't feel like you are falling behind - if that's the feeling. All the best 👍🏻

Bearing the Mark of Cain for Naming the Gaza Genocide
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"I began publicly invoking the word “genocide” in July 2025 to describe the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza in response to the horrific Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, and the incomprehensible ongoing hostage crisis. Since that time, despite increasing agreement among liberal Jewish organizations over the use of this term,

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Trump’s Policies Will Make China Great Again
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"China has transitioned from one of the poorest nations in the world to the second-largest economy with nuclear-armed forces growing at a record pace. Over the past 40 years, China has had the world’s fastest-growing economy with annual growth rates that often exceeded 10% a year. China’s economy grew over five percent in the first half of this year; the U.S.

Chile: What the Market Thinks
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"In an economy as small as Chile’s, and with the degree of concentration that characterizes it, the constant appeal to “what the market thinks” should at least raise doubts. Far from representing a collective consciousness or objective technical rationality, this alleged oracle is nothing more than the amplified voice of a small group of businesspeople, More
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Trina Rose Ricketts

In 2008, I experienced a severe vaccine injury from the #Twinrix #jab and developed multiple autoimmune conditions as a result.

Over the next several years, I lost my hair twice having to shave my head, was in and out of hospital, underwent multiple surgeries and had years taken from my life and my children's lives, having a mother who could not care for them.

Desperate to heal and have my life back, I went down the proverbial rabbit hole, looking into vaccines. Upon doing my research, I learned, among other things, that every single vaccine lists every single autoimmune condition as a known side effect.

Shocked by what I learned because no doctor had ever warned me about the risks of vaccines, I began to share my research findings with the people in my life. I felt obligated to warn them. But most people reacted very strangely to my revelations.

I lost many friends and family over it, on socials and in real life. People couldn't accept that I was telling the truth, even though they could have done a little bit of research past the corrupt, pharma-owned govt propaganda on the internet and easily found out for themselves. For instance, they could have simply read the vaccine inserts.

But instead, they mocked me, tried to silence me, wrote me letters about how I was wrong and they could no longer have me in their lives, openly trashed me to our mutual friends and family, to name a few things I had thrown at me. I was uninvited to family dinners and some of my best friends suddenly rejected me. This, of course, impacted my children and even my parents and siblings.

I became known as an antivaxxer and people didn't want their kids around mine because I stopped allowing my children to be injected with the ingredients I had learned were in vaccines.

I was gaslighted and refused medical treatments for declining vaccines, and told that me and my children should be sent to an island or kicked in the face. All this happened long before covid.

I don't need to tell you that covid was my previous experience multiplied by 1000. It brought the beast out in people who saw me as the enemy. I wasn't the enemy, I was a survivor trying to warn others.

Now the truth is coming out that everything I shared since 2010 about vaccines is true. I learned the hard way because I didn't question them until the twinrix shot destroyed my large intestine. After years of chronic pain and disability, I'm now living with a permanent ostomy.

Obviously not everyone is disabled by a vaccine but their toxins accumulate in our bodies so that repeated jabs bring us closer to potential tragedy. I'm not telling you this to make you hate me but because I really freaking care.

The truth is coming out, not just about the #covid jab but about all the jabs, which have been incidentally classified as "unavoidably unsafe" since 1986, yet constantly touted in the media and doctors offices as safe and effective. Pure lies. It makes me sick.

I hope that those of you who, at one time or another, have metaphorically spit in my face, remember how you treated me, and probably others too, when the full truth is revealed and you can't bury your head in the sand anymore. This is why you should never express an opinion unless you've researched something deeply AND have lived experience. It requires both to become fully informed.

I may lose a few more friends and family because of this post. If you are angry reading this, ask yourself why. You probably wouldn't mind me having a different opinion than you about other pharmaceuticals, but with jabs, you feel irrationally compelled to lash out at me.

Don't let vaccines be your religion. Our health and our children deserve for us to question everything. Blind faith in an institution that profits off our pain isn't science. It's religion. Or as some might say, it's a false idol.

Don't take my word for it. Do your research. Google Children's Health Defense and CDC whistleblower Dr. William Thompson. Read the vaccine inserts that are on the CDC website. Watch Vaxxed and read Dissolving Illusions.

And maybe, eventually, you will apologize to the people you hissed at. The ones who were telling the truth all along. Once you've gotten over your anger for being betrayed, then it is time for us all to heal, our bodies and our relationships. I'm not the enemy, I'm a friend who isn't afraid to be hated.

#vaccinovigilance #pharmacovigilance #vaccins #vaccines #vaccination

Human minds, robotic hands


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Last July, a team of robots explored a simulated martian landscape in Germany, guided by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. This was the final session of the Surface Avatar experiment, a joint initiative between ESA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to investigate how astronauts can remotely control robotic teams.

This latest session took place at the DLR site in Oberpfaffenhofen and introduced new levels of autonomy, decision-making and realism, bringing Europe one step closer to seamless human-robot collaboration in space exploration.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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The Other Side of Trump’s Tariff-War & India’s Response!
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"What can be said about President Donald Trump’s attempt to exercise a “tariff-war” against countries which do not comply with his terms? This economic policy of his has been described by some as his bargaining-tactic, which perhaps is equivalent to compelling others to bow to his terms. But, what if all don’t give it much More
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Des ânes de Gaza ont été transportés par avion vers la France dans le cadre d’une opération controversée, tandis que les civils sont laissés à eux-mêmes et meurent de faim
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#israel #palestine #Hamas #Cisjordanie #Gaza

Israeli hostage families launch protest flotilla to Gaza coast, call to stop 'endless war' haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…

Condamnation de Faugoux à 6 mois de prison, pour provocation de militaires à la désobéissance. 3 mars 1892
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They Shoot Messengers, Don’t They?
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"“I sit in this office now. Tomorrow it will be someone else… Can you imagine that hundreds of my colleagues could stomach or remain quiet about publishing a… rate very different from what they had established?” You might be forgiven for thinking that this quote came from now former US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) More
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Middle East Turmoil and the Tragedy of the Forgotten King-Crane Commission Report
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"Counterfactuals – what if so and so had happened? – are always dicey. For example; would there have been a full-scale Vietnam War if President John F. Kennedy had not been assassinated? There is no way to prove that hypothesis right or wrong. In the case of today’s Middle East, one could

A child at Alder Hey hospital has died of measles. The tragic death came less than a week after medical officials at the children’s hospital warned that cases of the virus were on the rise, severely endangering the health of some of those affected.
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The hospital has reported treating 17 children since June. And measles cases have been on the rise in recent years. In 2024 there were 2,911 laboratory confirmed cases of measles in England, the highest numbers since 2012.
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in reply to Kit Yates

It is often reported in news articles about measles outbreaks (see for example this BBC piece) that the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends a 95% vaccination coverage rate for the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine.
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