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first thing I heard on the news this morning... some guy with a handgun walks up to a group of 4 people coming out of the Washington DC Jewish Museum... - and then kills only 2 of them.
anyways, I thought, "well... that's sus AF". (has anyone searched their social media for anti-Netanyahoo posts?)
and now, I find out the guy is an Hispanic Communist.
the irony...
(If you don't understand, just move along... and maybe look into the Spanish Civil War as well as Golem mythology)
BTW, handguns are not legal to carry in DC - so much for gun laws
The hatred of some in Israel for the people of Gaza – even for little children – is just astounding. If they have even a tiny bit of belief in God, they should pray for forgiveness.
In the early hours of Thursday morning, the House of Representatives narrowly approved a procedural motion to advance President Donald Trump’s sweeping tax and spending package, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill.
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Deux sionistains de l’ambassade sionistane à Washington a suscité une condamnation et des lamentations dans le monde entier, tandis que le meurtre de plus de cinquante-deux mille personnes à Gaza est resté inconnu dans la plupart des pays du monde, un monde hypocrite qui fait des discriminations entre les êtres humains en fonction de leur nationalité ou de leurs croyances
MUSCAT, May 21 (YPA) - The Grand Mufti of the Sultanate of Oman, Sheikh Ahmed bin Hamad Al-Khalili, expressed his gratitude on Wednesday to "the heroes of Yemen," in reference to the Yemeni armed forces, who continue to bravely confront the Zionist e
software archeologists of 2050s searching for source code created pre 2025 since everything broke due to AI infestation and nobody remembers how to fix it.
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A pro-Palestinian gunman suspected of shooting a young #Jewish diplomatic couple dead was seen in chilling video manically screaming #FreePalestine as he was hauled into custody. Chilling footage emerged overnight of 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez as he was taken into custody after two #Israeli #embassy #staffers were gunned down outside the Capital Jewish Museum in #Washington D.C.
Israeli embassy staffer Yaron Lischinsky and his girlfriend Sarah Milgrim were identified as the victims in the vile attack that was condemned by #President #DonaldTrump. Lischinsky was a German-Israeli dual national employed as a research assistant for Middle East & North African Affairs at the Embassy’s Political Department, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Details emerged of the suspect’s background and political affiliations overnight on Thursday, including his reported membership of a #far-left group. He’s believed to have been involved in activism with the Part for Socialisma and Liberation and #BlackLivesMatter.
What should be of considerably more concern to everyone is that the killer wasn’t #Palestinian, or even #Arab or #Muslim. It’s another sign that the vast #majority of the #world is vehemently opposed to the #Netanyahu #regime and its #insane #campaign of #murderous #ethnic #cleansing in #Gaza. It’s a little difficult to convincingly cry victim when everyone knows which party is the aggressor and initiated the hostilities.
Terrifying footage has emerged overnight of suspected gunman, 30-year-old Elias Rodriguez, in the immediate aftermath of shooting dead two Israeli embassy staffers.
This is the tariff that will now be applied to all Zionist murderers. Until the colonisers and their satellite states, collaborators and allies account for all genocides! #FreePalestine
On May 17, the 15th Chinese Peacekeeping Horizontal Engineering Company to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) launched the rehabilitation of a main supply route from Tonj to Romich.
The full error for anyone having issues with the screenshot is: Installation Failed Bootloader installation error The bootloader could not be installed. The installationc ommand grub2-install -target=i386-pc -recheck -force /dev/nvme0n1 returned error code 1.
Context: I've had a hell of a rough time trying to install linux on my system, I've tried Pop, 2 versions of Ubuntu, Mint, and now I'm trying Nobara, and it's the first one that failed to install (I've mostly had video driver issues with the others.) My current disk situation is kind of a mess, I have 4 in the system: 1. ~15 year old OCZ SATA 128GB SSD (windows/boot) 2. ~10 year old WD SATA 512GB SSD (windows libraries like pictures, documents, downloads, etc) 3. ~6 month old Samsung 990 EVO 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD (games installed from windows) 4. ~5 year old BPXPro 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD (previous Ubuntu install that I had other issues with)
#1 is my boot drive and has the bootloader on it (when I want to boot ubuntu I hit F11 and select the second entry for that drive in the menu.) Previous distro installs have had no problem installing right over top of that and disk #4, but for whatever reason Nobara has failed to install the boot loader and I have no idea how to even begin to resolve this. I've done some searching and only found results with similar situations that aren't quite the same, it seems this is commonly an issue with linux installs into partitions of a drive that is shared with windows, but that's not what I'm doing (at least not for the main install, I guess that is kind of what it's doing with the bootloader?)
I can manually erase disk #4 if that would help, but is there some way I can manually go in and clear out the old bootloader (without messing up the windows install/boot)?
Other specs in case it's relevant: * Ryzen 7 3800X 3.9GHz 8-core CPU * 32GB DDR4-3200 RAM * Gigabite Vision OC 12 RTX3060 GPU
Iran's defense minister to Armenian counterpart: We are opposed to any change of international and geopolitical borders in region parstoday.ir/en/news/iran-i234…
Pars Today- The minister of defense and logistics of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in a meeting with his Armenian counterpart, called k...
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Known as the second biggest city in Timor-Leste and just two hours from the capital of Dili, Baucau makes a fabulous overnight trip from the capital city.
Par contre sachez qu'une fillette de 5 ans qui va au catéchisme, se fait baptiser ou qu'un petit garçon de 3 ans qui porte une kippa c'est évidemment son choix. C'est juste quand c'est le voile que ce n'est pas le cas bien entendu.
Le scénario est trop parfait pour ne pas être suspect.
Le jour exact où Israël ouvre le feu sur une délégation diplomatique européenne et arabe à Jénine, deux employés de l’ambassade israélienne sont tués par balles à Washington. Et comme par enchantement, la machine médiatique s’emballe : fini les diplomates visés, les 20000 enfants massacrés à Gaza, les 210 journalistes abattus, les hôpitaux rasés. Le nouveau récit est tout trouvé : “les Juifs ne sont plus en sécurité, même à Washington.”
Mais regardez bien les éléments :
• un suspect filmé, étrangement calme, presque posé,
• un keffieh soigneusement déposé à côté de lui, comme pour signer la scène,
• des cris de « Palestine libre » hurlés mécaniquement, presque comme un slogan appris par cœur.
Tout sonne faux. Tout semble fabriqué.
Ce genre de mise en scène n’a rien de nouveau. C’est une vieille méthode : celle du faux drapeau, utilisée depuis des décennies pour justifier l’injustifiable, déclencher des représailles, ou détourner l’opinion.
Israël en a fait un outil stratégique. Quelques rappels historiques : •1946, hôtel King David : attentat de l’Irgoun déguisé pour en accuser les Arabes.
•1948, assassinat de Folke Bernadotte, envoyé spécial de l’ONU, par des milices sionistes.
•1954, opération Susannah (affaire Lavon) : des agents israéliens déguisés en Arabes posent des bombes dans des bâtiments britanniques et américains en Égypte. But : faire accuser les musulmans.
•1967, attaque contre l’USS Liberty : navire américain mitraillé pour tenter de le couler, Israël pensait pouvoir en imputer la responsabilité à l’Égypte.
•Années 1980, France, affaire Osirak : un faux groupe armé pro-palestinien revendique l’attentat contre un site nucléaire irakien… avant qu’on découvre que c’était un coup monté du Mossad, pour détourner l’attention de l’opération aérienne israélienne sur le réacteur.
Alors aujourd’hui, quand un homme crie “Palestine libre” en posant un keffieh à côté de son arme, au moment même où Israël est diplomatiquement acculé, nous avons le devoir de douter et même, de ne pas y croire.
Car ce n’est pas la première fois qu’Israël crée l’attaque dont il a besoin pour redevenir la victime dans le récit occidental. Et seuls les ignorants — ou les racistes en quête d’excuses — peuvent encore croire à ces contes-là.
Amid growing pressure over Gaza, EU foreign ministers say they want to review their trade relations with Israel, but they have stopped short of announcing firm action.
No mention in the piece of the ongoing war crimes and murders by "Settlers" in the occupied Palestine. Three children shot & Killed whilst picking almonds in one themselves family field....
@rzeta0 Exactly. This is all about managing the unruly masses. If they make the right sounds and rattle the keys they’re hoping to mollify a percentage of their voters.
There is no will to do anything beyond the absolute bare minimum at any given time.
We will see incremental movement until they think they can stop. They will always approach action but never quite get there. @aral
Western capitals are still coordinating with Israel and the US on their 'criticisms' of the genocide – just as they earlier coordinated on their support for the slaughter
And while the quote is there, it might be misinterpreted. The senior official might have meant that they had intelligence that this was going to happen.
A different quote from the same article:
“‘The bullet has left the barrel,’ said Maya Sion-Tzidkiyahu, Director of the Israel–Europe Relations Program at the Mitvim Institute and lecturer at the Hebrew University’s European Forum. ‘There's no telling where this will lead or how the legal review will conclude. This step further isolates Israel as a pariah state, losing some of its closest friends in Europe.’
According to her, ‘This shift happened fast, in just two weeks, and the decision may trigger a diplomatic tsunami.’
‘This is a very clear message to Israel: we've had enough of a senseless war. You're increasingly seen as a country whose values no longer align with those of the European Union,’ Sion-Tzidkiyahu added.”
Citing the 'unbearable' Gaza crisis, European leaders are warning of sanctions against Israel. Netanyahu's limited aid move has failed to ease concerns, with one diplomat calling it a 'disaster.
@rzeta0 I fear you are correct. #Macron said he considered recognizing the State of Palestine in June. Why in June? Now there are rumours it will be even more delayed. Looks like he is waiting for it to be too late.
Yesterday I was giving a guest lecture about Free and open-source software at Karlstad university. Here are the slides (mostly in Swedish) if anyone wants to look, or to use them for something: eliasrudberg.se/foss-lecture-m…
Some of you may have seen the media articles, press releases, open letters etc about me having a prestigious literary fellowship rescinded hours before the award ceremony on Tuesday. I'd flown to Brisbane for the event, only to be told that morning, in a brief meeting. I was not provided with much context as to my perceived wrongdoings.
The Black & Write program (writing Fellowship plus editorial internships), along with other invaluable literary programs for First Nations writers, is now under review.
My thoughts are with the other (still confidential) recipient, who has had their moment stolen. Along with the other short-listed writers, esteemed First Nations peers on the judging panel, and the Blak-led Black & Write Team. I also feel for people who were turned away, including Elders, not knowing the ceremony had been abruptly cancelled. Including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders - both community members and people working in creative industries - that initiated and supported this program since 2010.
I'll be okay. And I'll continue to lift up other First Nations writers and artists. And I will not be silenced
2025 black&write! Fellowships 22 May 2025 For more than a decade, black&write! Fellowships have encouraged and supported First Nations writers and resulted in fiction and poetry manuscripts edited and developed…
2/ I'd like to share with you the acceptance speech that I was not able to give, because I and the event were cancelled:-
I acknowledge that I’m speaking on the unceded lands of Turrbal (tour-a- bul), Yuggera (you-gu-ra) and Jagerra (Jar-gera) peoples and pay my respect to their Elders, past and present.
I’m overwhelmed to be awarded a Black & Write Fellowship, and grateful to the judges, the Black & Write team, State Library of Queensland, Copyright Agency, Creative Australia, and new publishing partner University of Queensland Press.
I also thank Create SA, Creative Australia and Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund for arts funding to develop this manuscript.
Countless people have inspired this work of fiction. Many have passed on, some too soon. I will always treasure the stories they’ve shared with me.
In this moment, I think of my mother, a member of the Stolen Generations. She passed on shortly after I’d finished writing this manuscript. I dedicate this work to her.
Through this novel, I pay respect to every Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person who was taken by the government as a child, and their parents who grieved this unfathomable loss. And acknowledge the people who help heal the trauma and advocate for justice.
In my story, children are taken home with the help of a sentient whirlwind. In reality, not all of the tens of thousands of forcibly removed First Nations children came home. And very few have seen any form of justice.
Next Monday it will be 28 years since the Bringing Them Home Report was presented. In that time only 6% of the recommendations have been actioned.
Stolen Generations survivors are passing on, without justice. Recommendations need to be completed now, not when they’re all gone.
And current rates of out-of-home out-of-community child removals need to stop. We must learn from the past, and not keep repeating injustices.
While I write about historical acts of state violence, the state of Israel is currently silencing writers, poets and journalists through assassination, abduction, torture and starvation. We’re witnessing an unprecedented live-streamed genocide. Last week was the 77th Nakba commemoration, and Palestinian people are still enduring catastrophic injustices.
As I speak of the Stolen Generations, right now the apartheid state of Israel is murdering, orphaning, abducting and forcibly disappearing Indigenous children. What will these stolen children be called in the future? Will they ever see justice?
We must not be silent or silenced. We all need to speak up against crimes of humanity – past or present. And reject despair and apathy. Through sharing stories we strengthen global solidarity, and plot better futures.
Literary programs, such as Black and Write, enable our stories, our truths, to be heard. I’m honoured that the judges selected this story.
In closing, I offer my congratulations to [redacted] and short-listed writers ]redacted]. I look forward to reading all of your books one day.
adding, this fellowship for First Nations writers includes editing of the two recipients' manuscripts, $15,000 each, skills development, and potential publishing with the program's partner publisher.
So, yes, this is a huge hit to me financially and career-wise. But I'll be ok, eventually.
And I will not be silenced over human rights abuses - past or present. Indigenous solidarity is powerful. That's why Indigenous artists, writers and academics are being targeted by people in positions of power and privilege.
@mdhughes Did you say you played with #Kitten (s) earlier? Can I friendster you in such a way that someone with your own kitten's ed25519 can freely write to a blackboard on my index.page.js ?
I'm not exactly sure what having a public cryptographic exchange could be good for but I can imagine scenarios where my kitten would like to respond without my direct action to something your kitten pinged it with. I dunno if I'm just inventing busywork or what. @aral
withstanding I'm bringing my undeveloped brainstorming to your decades of wisdom, but what if there was a sort of GM kitten, and a party of kittens were battling their way through some portentious communal hack scenario governed by the GM kitten.
And kittens were something like those early 90s experimental games where the character just executes a macro written by its player outside of and prior to the live events happening independently. @aral
It remains uncertain how long Netanyahu will remain in power, but his political standing has significantly deteriorated. He faces widespread domestic opposition and international condemnation.
Just noticed an issue with Look Over There!¹ where some of the sites I was forwarding to archive.org began to fail.
I’ve now documented the proper way to redirect to archive.org in Look Over There! and I also wrote a brief post on the relevant Reddit to alert the folks at The Internet Archive about this and suggest an improvement that could benefit findability on sites with redirects in general:
So here’s a really useful tip if you’re using archive.org to look up a site and it redirects to some other site because that’s what they saw at a later crawl…
(I’m going through and fixing all the links in a decade of talks for Laura and myself on the Kitten version of the Small Technology Foundation site and most of the conference sites are either gone or don’t have archives so the Internet Archive is coming through again bigtime.)
ONLYLYON Business présente les chiffres clés du secteur numérique à Lyon, premier secteur d’excellence de la métropole lyonnaise en pourcentage de croissance.
On the 17th of May KFA Germany held a study session on the book " Myth of the DPR Korea's Isolationism " by Kimlong Ly , KFA Official Delegate for Cambodiaht...
Father, in your love you have brought us from evil to good and from misery to happiness. Through your blessings give the courage of perseverance to those you have called and justified by faith. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.
Otto von Bismarck: The division of the United States into federations of equal force was decided long before the Civil War by the high financial powers of Europe. These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they remained in one block and as one nation, would attain economic and financial independence, which would upset their financial domination over the world. The voice of the Rothschilds prevailed... Therefore they sent their emissaries into the field to exploit the question of slavery and to open an abyss between the two sections of the Union. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
I will talk about Kwangju -the massacre that the human rights liberals do not talk about .Also I will look at socialist housing in People's Korea v capitalis...
"The 10 wealthiest people in the U.S. collectively became around $1 billion richer every day last year—equivalent to the money 10 average workers would take 726,000 years to earn" thedailybeast.com/americas-10-… #EatTheRich
As a celebration of the Week of Free Expression this May, the Central Public Library of Berlin exhibited a display of books banned in school libraries in the USA in 2025.
The ZLB is also called the America Memorial Library of Berlin. It was built in the 50s with a major donation from the USA's public diplomacy program with the explicit goal to reeducate Nazi Germans towards democracy.
It is a short walk away from Bebel Square, location of a memorial to a grand public book burning by the Nazis in May 1933.
The memorial is a window in the ground that gives you a glimpse to an underground room with empty bookshelves. It is called The Empty Library.
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In USA existieren lange Listen von Büchern, die in Bibliotheken verboten werden. Macht Euch ein eigenes Bild! Zur Woche der Meinungsfreiheit findet Ihr ab heute in der AGB im Eingangsregal Bücher, die in einem oder mehreren Staate…
Israeli troops fired “warning shots” towards a group of 25 diplomats visiting Jenin in the Israel-occupied West Bank on Wednesday. The delegation included representatives from Italy, Canada, Egypt, Jordan, the UK, China and Russia.
APRIL 21, 2025—This May 17th marked another anniversary of the death in prison of Jorge Rafael Videla, perhaps the most representative figure of the genocidal dictatorship established on March 24, 1976.
A 10-month-old unvaccinated girl with no prior health issues became the youngest severe case last week. She had cold-like symptoms, then developed appetite loss, shortness of breath, and croup. She remains in ICU after 4 days of treatment.
"The peak will be in mid or late June... Estimated hospital visits during the peak period are projected to be between 55,000 and 56,000 per week”
NB.1.8.1 is now the dominant local COVID subvariant, followed by the XEC and LP.8.1 subvariants
Love this. 👇 “Solnit is a storyteller. “Every crisis,” she writes, “is in part a storytelling crisis.” The powerful are those who decide which stories are heard and which are silenced. People who tell stories well – like Donald Trump – captivate millions. Citing the non-violent resistance that led to the fall of eastern bloc regimes in the 1970s & 1980s, Solnit sees radical ideas as acorns, campaigns as saplings and the final results – changes in the law, policy, or land ownership – as mighty oaks. “The most important territory to take is in the imagination. Once you create a new idea of what is possible and acceptable, the seeds are planted; once it becomes what the majority believes, you’ve created the conditions in which winning happens.” #activism #hope theguardian.com/books/2025/may…
On average one worker is killed and thousands seriously injured every week of every year in the building and construction industry. Most of these deaths and injuries are avoidable. The Construction Division of the CFMEU and its members have been…
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