In Israel’s Genocide of Gaza, We See the Face of Five Centuries of Western Colonialism
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"There are times when it is difficult to bring myself to my writer’s desk, when I know there is something that desperately needs to be acknowledged, but I barely have the words for it. And if I could find them, I ask myself what effect could one small voice possibly have. Is this

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Economic Terror and the Turbochuggf*ck in Texas
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"I don’t know what word in the English language—I can’t find one—that applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life … so they can put a few more dollars into highly overstuffed pockets. The word ‘evil’ doesn’t begin to approach it. —Noam Chomsky Unlike other historical periods of More
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Fae Myenne Ng, Preservationist: An Asian American Author Who Refuses to Assimilate
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"There are lost periods in the history of California. How many people know that well after California banned slavery, entering the Union as a free state in 1850, Chinese girls and women were sold as slaves in California? Fae Myenne Ng doesn’t want to forget. Even at sixty-eight years of

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The War Game: Still too real to broadcast?
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"As we remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a film the BBC suppressed 20 years later is more relevant than ever ~ Bleart Thaqi ~ Sixty years have passed since Peter Watkins completed The War Game, a film so stark and unflinching in its depiction of nuclear catastrophe that the BBC, who had commissioned it, chose to
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We are looking for an investor who can loan our holding company 237,000 US dollars.

With this money, we will open a farm in Baku, Azerbaijan to produce animal-based food.

We will also make our own animal feed, so our products will be healthier, better quality, and cheaper.

Because we sell quality products for less and have strong advertising, we will sell more worldwide and make big profits.

Why Azerbaijan? Because animal farming makes a lot of money there, but few people do it. That’s why we will earn more by starting in Azerbaijan.

Additionally, by producing our own animal feed, we will be able to sell healthier, higher quality animal products at a lower price.

Since we can sell quality products cheaply and thanks to our strong advertising network, we will be able to sell more internationally and make huge profits.

The reason for establishing the business in Azerbaijan is that animal husbandry is a very profitable business in Azerbaijan, but since there are very few people doing animal husbandry, establishing the farm in Azerbaijan will provide us with more income.

Your profit:

You will lend 237,000 US dollars to our holding company and when 22.03.2026 comes, you will receive your money back as 953,000 US dollars.

Your earnings will be great. When 22.03.2026 comes, you will get your money back as 953.00 US dollars.

You will lend 237,000 US dollars to our holding company and when 22.03.2026 comes, you will receive your money back as 953,000 US dollars.

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So. Update zu gestern.

Man wird uns das Wasser abstellen. Und zwar nicht, weil wir Mieter nicht gezahlt haben, sondern weil unsere 6 Mietshäuser verkauft wurden und der neue Vermieter wohl Zahlungsschwierigkeiten hat.

#Gelsenwasser kann nichts machen. Der neue Vermieter meldet sich sich nicht und ist nicht erreichbar. Auch für uns nicht. Es meldet sich niemand, laut Bandansage 1 Betriebsferien bis zum 15.08.2025 und der Verweis auf eine Notfallnummer endet in einer weiteren Bandansage, dass man eine Nachricht hinterlassen kann.

Gelsenwasser hatte uns gestern über die Einstellung der Trinkwasserversorgung informiert. Die letzte Frist, die dem neuen Vermieter gesetzt wurde, läuft am 18.08.2025 ab. Laut Gelsenwasser wird nach Ablauf dieser Frist sehr vermutlich recht schnell das Wasser abgedreht. Wir bekamen schon den Tipp, die Badewanne, sofern verfügbar, am Vorabend nochmal richtig volllaufen zu lassen. Oder die Rechnung selbst zu übernehmen.

Und ich frage mich, wie es sein kann, dass in Deutschland einfach das Wasser so abgestellt werden kann.

Wir werden weiterhin Informationen sammeln und sehen, was man dagegen unternehmen kann.

#Gelsenkirchen

The Verdict of History: How Political Calculations Betrayed Gaza
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"The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a comprehensive report on July 27 describing the Israeli war on Gaza as genocide. However, the delay in publishing such an indictment is troubling and adds to an existing problem of politically motivated decision-making processes that have, in their own right,

Viel interessanter als die #causaspahn finde ich, dass Julia #klöckner beim politischen Sommerempfang der CDU Koblenz im Innovationszentrum der CompuGroup Medical von Frank Gotthardt Auftritt. Der Mann hinter NIUS, der Hass&Hetze Verteilstelle, die #brosiusgersdorf fertig gemacht hat.

"Für jährlich zweistellige Millionenbeträge lässt er rechtspopulistische Inhalte des AfD-nahen Deutschland-Kuriers über seine skandalträchtigen Medienprojekte NiUS und exxpress verbreiten. Diese operieren unter den von ihm gegründeten Aktiengesellschaften VIUS Management SE und Vius SE."
Quelle: Wikipedia

#Kulturkampf #brandmauer #schwarzbraun

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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 (…) - /
#Politique #Gaza

”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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Blast
Loi antisémitisme : le gouvernement veut interdire toute critique d’Israël dans les universités
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#israel #palestine #Hamas #Cisjordanie #Gaza #genocide #famine #France #universites
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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.