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Written by Michelle Minitti, Planetary Geologist at Framework Earth planning date: Monday, May 19, 2025 Have you ever played the game Jenga, where you remove one wooden block from a stack, gently place it on another part of the stack, then repeat over and over as you try to keep the stack from toppling over? […]
US President Donald Trump has told European leaders after a telephone conversation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin that he is confident of Russia’s victory in the Ukrainian conflict. About it writes the Bloomberg agency.
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Mustafa Kemal’in İstanbul Hükümeti ve İngilizlerin onayı ile 19 Mayıs 1919’da Samsun’a müfettiş olarak atanmasının ardından, yaptığı ilk iş, yerel çetelerle irtibata geçip, Pontus Rumlarını toptan imha girişimine başlamak olmuştur. Tek bir köy kalmaz Pontuslu Rumların kanlarıyla sulanmadığı, Karadeniz’in bütün dereleri kırmızı akar yıllarca. En iyi Müslüman, en iyi Türk olduklarını ispat etmek adeta Pontusluların toplumsal davranış biçimine dönüşür. Türk milliyetçiliğine, Müslümanlığa sarılırlar. Türk ırkçılığının merkezi haline getirilen Pontus şehirleri adeta Cumhuriyetin muhaliflerini sindirmede kullanacağı kontrgerilla merkezleri haline getirilir.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that he was not going to "hide under the table" when EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas asks him about his trip to Moscow, where he attended the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the Vi…
Otto von Bismarck: Many measures which we have adopted to the great blessing of the country are Socialistic, and the State will have to accustom itself to a little more Socialism yet. ... I am glad that this Socialism was adopted, for we have as a consequence secured a free and very well-to-do peasantry, and I hope that we shall in time do something of the sort for the labouring classes. ... The establishment of the freedom of the peasantry was Socialistic; Socialistic, too, is every expropriation in favour of railways; Socialistic to the utmost extent is the aggregation of estates—the law exists in many provinces—taking from one and giving to another, simply because this other can cultivate the land more conveniently; Socialistic is expropriation under the Water Legislation, on account of irrigation, etc., where a man's land is taken away from him because another can farm it better; Socialistic is our entire poor relief, compulsory school attendance, compulsory construction of roads, so that I am bound to maintain a road upon my lands for travellers. That is all Socialistic, and I could extend the register further; but if you believe that you can frighten any one or call up spectres with the word “Socialism,” you take a standpoint which I abandoned long ago, and the abandonment of which is absolutely necessary for our entire imperial legislation. 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.
Ein ehemaliges Mitglied der inzwischen verbotenen Palästina-Solidarität Duisburg wurde aus Mangel an Beweisen freigesprochen. Ihm war »Billigung von Straftaten« vorgeworfen worden.
"See, my children, we must reflect that we have a soul to save, and an eternity that awaits us. The world, its riches, pleasures, and honors will pass away; heaven and hell will never pass away. Let us take care, then. The saints did not all begin well; but they all ended well. We have begun badly; let us end well, and we shall go one day and meet them in heaven."
I did not realise SliTaz is still going so strong. It's an old fave from my early days with Linux. I tried #SliTazbriefly again a few days ago, and just now seen it mentioned in opensource.com/article/19/6/li… "5 tiny Linux distros to try before you die" while I was looking for a NuTyX tarball... and besides being pleasantly surprised by SliTaz now being rolling:
SliTaz 5.0 Rolling release (weekly) - 06 Apr 2025 SliTaz is now a rolling distro with 2 branches We provide a stable version and a cooking (development) version. Stable will get small refinements and security updates. As usual the Cooking version brings you the latest improvements made by SliTaz developers. - 16 March 2018 Website news archives - 2007-2025
I also saw in that article, one (among many a) feature that contribute to the explanation of why it's still going so strong:
The good news is that the tazpkg command can convert from several packaging formats, including:
PS, I remember there's also #tazlito ... like I mentioned... many a feature to keep SliTaz in, and ahead, of the game. It's so tiny, so fast, so clean. Always a joy, in my experience. But then... I've never driven SliTaz as daily-driver. ... But I am honestly considering it for a #DistroChallenge since reading that article, even before I started typing this post, so enthused as I am for SliTaz. ... For context, I'm already over a dozen years deep into bedrocklinux, where I have all the comforts of all my favourite features from each and any of the main distros I install (typically Gentoo, Devuan, Void and Artix, my solid 4 strata regulars, at least)... And SliTaz turns my head. Not just to add it as a strata (as I'm seeking how I'll best want to get #NuTyX imported), but as itself. Raw riding the metal, not hijacked, not a vm, not a container, not even just as a usb, but on the mmcblk0p1. Okies... Ima stahp this ramble... got the gush for SliTaz.
Anyways, just sayin, you don't have to pick just one distro. ;)
... But also, you can. ... And I'm tempted... Distro-Challenge... 2 years living daily-driving SliTaz...
There are plenty of Linux distributions out there to choose from when you're deciding what to run on a daily basis, yet some are so small that they get little notice.
In a tied decision, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday allowed an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision to stand, disqualifying a Catholic charter school from receiving state...
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New technology tested by an industry partner at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley could improve how commercial planes taxi to and from gates to runways, making operations safer and more efficient on the surfaces of airports. Airport taxiways are busy. Planes come and go while support vehicles provide maintenance, carry fuel, transport […]
Researchers at Boeing are working to address these issues by digitizing taxiway information and automating aircraft taxi functions. The team traveled to NASA
What’s entering Gaza now isn’t humanitarian aid, says Robert Inlakesh, it’s a Trojan horse.
By Robert Inlakesh
MintPress News
With over half a million people in Gaza on the brink of starvation and aid groups warning of an “imminent famine,” …
The Department of Defense announced on Wednesday that it� officially accepted the Qatari government’s offer of a luxury jumbo jet. Prior to this, President Donald Trump’s plans to accept the ...
When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar terrain. Dunes wrap around Titan’s equator. Clouds drift across its skies. Rain drizzles. Rivers flow, forming canyons, lakes and seas. But not everything is as familiar as it seems. At minus 292 degrees Fahrenheit, the dune […]
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Otto von Bismarck: I am not antagonistic to the rightful claims of capital; I am far from wanting to flourish a hostile flag; but I am of opinion that the masses, too, have rights which should be considered. 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.
The Scottish Government claimed it would be “antisemitic” to release information about Angus Robertson’s secret meeting with an Israeli ambassador, The Ferret can reveal.
La lluvia corre lentamente sobre la corteza sus dedos húmedos arrugan la mañana. Un suspiro tiembla en el viento, ofrecido al suelo como un pergamino.
El cielo se deshace en las ramas, cada gota se aferra a un latido. El tronco respira, una herida cerrada con la huella del final.
Nada habla, todo escucha en secreto: Las piedras beben, las raíces se estiran. Un gusano germina bajo el musgo discreto, y el bosque recupera su imperio.
An interesting confrontation is happening a the White House.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa & staff were shown videos of "Kill the Boer" chants with thousands of Blacks signing along, as well as the White farmer memorial crosses lining the roads.
He claims ignorance.
Since its still live as I post this, you'll have to rewind to the point where it starts.
Caracas, May 21 (Prensa Latina) More than 490,000 Venezuelan state officials were deployed as part of Plan Republica to secure the May 25 elections, the 32nd since the arrival of the Bolivarian Revolution.
It wasn’t just a tree—it was a cathedral of nature, and we cut it down. This haunting photograph, taken sometime in the late 1800s or early 1900s, shows loggers standing atop the massive stump of a fallen giant—likely a Douglas fir or Sequoia—deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. These trees once stood for thousands of years, witnessing the rise and fall of civilizations. Some were over 300 feet tall and 30 feet in diameter—larger than many buildings today. They weren’t just trees. They were ecosystems, homes to countless species, guardians of climate stability, and living monuments of Earth’s natural history. And yet, in the name of industry, many were felled in a single generation. Today, only a fraction of old-growth forests remain. But this image lives on—a sobering reminder of what we’ve lost and a powerful symbol of why conservation still matters. We cannot undo the past, but we can protect what’s left for the future.
Das kleine Kücken von der #Singdrosel hat mich beim Unkraut zupfen begleitet. Seine Mama hat ihm drei Mal einem Tegenwurm vorbei gebracht. Unsere #Erdbeerpflanzen dies Jahr wachsen und gut gedahen. Und ich probiere dies Jahr wieder aus, Tomaten aus dem eigenen Garten (drei Pflanzen in Töpfen auf unserer Terasse). Letztes Jahr sind Erdbeerpflanzen bi mir im Garten von zu viel Regen einfach ersofen. Und vor Jahren hatte ich Tomaten Pflanzen auch gehabt und leider eine Pilzkrankheit hat die "umgebracht"... Ich probiere aufs Neue mein Glück! 🍀🍅&🍓🍀☀️
Guten Abend @N. E. Felibata 👽. Ich genieße die Zeit in dem Garten, den Gesang von so vielen Vögel und meine alle Blumen beim blühen. Und dann bald immer mehr Erdbeeren zum pflücken und kleine Tomaten. Dann Johannesbeeren und Himbeeren...Das macht einfach Spaß. Die Kinder nutzen den Garten zum Fußball spielen , Badminton oder für Indiaka-Spielen. Zum picknicken auf einer Decke oder zum liegen in unserem Hamak. Trampolin hüpfen. Tico 🐕 hat einem super Revier zum verteidigen! Auf der Terasse sitzen, zusammen essen oder einfach entspannen... Es braucht man nicht viel um glücklich zu werden. 😊🍀🍀🍀☀️ Good evening @N. E. Felibata 👽. I am enjoying the time in the garden, the singing of so many birds and all my flowers blooming. And then soon more and more strawberries to pick and little tomatoes. Then currants and raspberries...it's just fun. The children use the garden to play football, badminton or Indiaka. For picnics on a blanket or lying in our hamak. Jumping on the trampoline. Tico 🐕 has a great territory to defend! Sitting on the terrace, eating together or simply relaxing... You don't need much to be happy.
Ich beneide dich! Ich brauche auch unbedingt ein Gartengrundstück.
Bei mir in der Nähe habe ich bis jetzt nur Schrebergartenparzellen gefunden, aber wer will schon im Kleingartenverein die Höhe der Hecke vorgeschrieben bekommen ... 😱
Guten Abend @N. E. Felibata 👽, Ich wünsche dir dann ganz viel Glück beim suchen nach einemkleinenGartenfürdich. Wer sucht, der findet. 🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀☀️ Ich grüße dich auch herzlich und einen guten Rest der Woche wünsche ich dir noch. 😊👋
Although Lego has not provided any justification, the #developer suggests that it might be because Masks of Power has acquired a high profile that is increasingly competing with official Lego products.
The quality of your game is far too good and would make our brand more valuable, so it must be banned. Do you understand #capitalism...
Health advice should start with bend over, spread your cheeks, & you will be guaranteed to receive all that all politicians intend to give you throughout your life.
Trump ambushes South Africa’s delegation in a made-for-TV moment; Universal’s new park debuts as a Disney killer; and secret AI tech raises eerie questions about being human. Buckle up.
A team from South Dakota State University, with their project titled “Soil Testing and Plant Leaf Extraction Drone” took first place at the 2025 NASA Gateways to Blue Skies Competition, which challenged student teams to research aviation solutions to support U.S. agriculture. The winning project proposed a drone-based soil and tissue sampling process that would […]
Otto von Bismarck: If an establishment employing twenty thousand or more workpeople were to be ruined...we could not allow these men to hunger. We should have to resort to real State Socialism and find work for them, and this is what we do in every case of distress. If the objection were right that we should shun State Socialism as we would an infectious disease, how do we come to organise works in one province and another in case of distress—works which we should not undertake if the labourers had employment and wages? In such cases we build railways whose profitableness is questionable; we carry out improvements which otherwise would be left to private initiative. If that is Communism, I have no objection at all to it; though with such catchwords we really get no further. 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.
Das Bundesministerium für Digitales und Staatsmodernisierung #BDSM (Höhö) #BMDS postet stolz einen Clip auf LinkedIn, in dem man die Limousine des Bundesdigitalministers Karsten Wildberger sieht, wie diese auf dem Radweg hält um ihn aussteigen zu lassen. Eine Radfahrerin wird dabei gefährdet, sie muss auf die Kfz-Spur ausweichen. Das fängt ja gut an.
Nach dem Sieg beim Song Contest ist Johannes "JJ" Pietsch auf dem Glatteis der Weltpolitik ausgerutscht. Reflektierte Kritik an Israels Vorgehen muss von anderen kommen
Myocardite après infection par le SRAS-CoV-2 et vaccination contre la COVID-19 : épidémiologie, résultats et nouvelles perspectives La myocardite, se manifestant généralement par une myopéricardite, fait partie des graves conséquences cardiaques observées au cours de la pandémie de COVID-19. Nous avons réalisé une synthèse exhaustive et factuelle de la littérature scientifique, regroupant les résultats de réanalyses de données d’essais cliniques, de surveillance post-commercialisation, d’études observationnelles de grande envergure et d’autres sources de recherche diverses, qui contribuent à éclairer le phénomène de myocardite post-infection par le SRAS-CoV-2 par rapport à la myocardite induite par le vaccin contre la COVID-19. Nos conclusions réfutent plusieurs affirmations antérieures des agences de santé publique et des associations professionnelles, à savoir : (1) les infections par le coronavirus du syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère 2 (SRAS-CoV-2) et par Omicron ont causé plus de cas de myocardite que les vaccins à ARNm contre la COVID-19 ; (2) la myocardite induite par le vaccin à ARNm est généralement bénigne, transitoire et rare, sans séquelles à long terme ; et (3) le rapport bénéfice/risque plaide en faveur de la poursuite de l’utilisation de ces produits malgré l’existence de cas iatrogènes plus nombreux. Nous abordons chacune de ces idées fausses en combinant des perspectives épidémiologiques, cliniques et immunologiques. Nous exhortons les gouvernements à retirer du marché les produits à base d’ARNm contre la COVID-19 en raison du risque bien documenté de lésions myocardiques, un risque particulièrement élevé chez les hommes jeunes (< 40 ans). cardiovascular-research-and-in…
These Italians are fighting for freedom of speech under harsh censorship. They believe that the current government is operating under a fascist dictatorship. 'Today, telling the truth is seen as the s
TERRORIST ISRAEL OUT OF THE GIRO D' ITALIA! The workers of the Unione Sindacale di Base in Pisa are present with Palestinian flags during the Giro d'Italia, at a time when Israel is carrying out a final solution with the connivance of the EU and NATO…
Österreich sollte die Ausrichtung des Eurovision Song Contest 2026 als Chance begreifen, Inklusion zu leben – und guten "schlechten" Geschmack zu zeigen
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