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Demokratikleşme 19 Mayıs’la yüzleşmeden olmaz
Gerçek bir demokratikleşme ve halkların barışı için ulus devlet anlayışının değişmesi, 19 Mayıs ile başlayan Pontos Rum soykırımı da dahil halklara karşı yürütülen katliamlarla yüzleşilmesi ilk ve en somut adım olarak önümüzde duruyor.
Tolga Güney
Türkiye’nin demokratikleşmesinin, Türk sorununun çözümünün ve kalıcı barışın konuşulduğu günlerden geçiyoruz. Ortadoğu’da ulus devletin temellerinin atıldığı Lozan Anlaşması ve 1921 Anayasasına dair tartışmaların da yaşandığı sürecin nereye gideceği bilinmiyor, fakat demokratikleşmenin yolunun tarihle yüzleşmek ve halklarla barışmaktan geçtiğine şüphe yok. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nan çöküşünün Türkiye Cumhuriyeti’nin kuruluşunun temellerinin atıldığı dönemlerde halklara yaşatılan acılarla yüzleşmeden, hesabı verilmeden bu yolun açılmayacağını söyleyebiliriz. Cumhuriyetin kuruluşuna giden en önemli tarihlerden olduğu söyleyen Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’ün Samsun’a çıkarak, ‘milli mücadeleyi’ başlattığı 19 Mayıs 1919’un üzerinden 106 yıl geçti.
106 yıl önce bugün Samsun’a çıkan Atatürk, ilk olarak Topal Osman, Kel Hasan, Halil Tapanoğlu, Said Tapanoğlu, Mehmet Tataloğlu, Kara Mehmet, Larçınzade Hakkı Bey, Mehmet Tirali, İpsiz Recep gibi çetecilerle bir araya gelerek, 353 bin Pontoslu Rumun katledilmesine neden olan süreci başlattı. Böylece Abdülhamit ile başlayan ‘Anadolu’nun Hristiyanlardan temizlenmesi’ süreci İttihat ve Terakki’nin ardından Cumhuriyetin kurucu kadrosu ile tamamlanmış oldu.
Abdülhamit’in tahta çıkarıldığı 1876’da (1. Meşrutiyet) Osmanlı İmparatorluğu, ilk kez bir Anayasayı kabul etti ve parlamento açıldı. Çok kısa sürecek bu girişimin ardından anayasayı rafa kaldırıp, parlamentoyu fesheden Abdülhamit, 33 yıl sürecek İstibdat Dönemi’nde tüm muhaliflere ama özellikle Ermenilere yönelik katliam ve sürgün girişimlerinde bulundu. 300 bin Ermeni’nin hayatını kaybedeceği bu süreç, Hristiyan uluslara yönelik sürecek olan soykırım planının başlangıcı oldu. 1.Dünya Savaşı’na Almanların safında giren Osmanlı, 1915 yılında Ermenilere yönelik 1,5 milyon insanın hayatını kaybettiği dünyanın en büyük soykırımına imza attı. Hristiyan nüfusa yönelik ilk tehcir (sürgün) ise 1911’de Rumlara yönelik gerçekleştirildi. 1916 yılından itibaren ise iki yıl sürecek “Rumların Tehciri” ile bu süreç devam etti; 1919’a kadar 300 bine yakın Süryani ve 150 bin Pontos Rumu da hayatını kaybetti.
Resmi tarihe göre ‘Milli Mücadele’nin başlangıcı kabul edilen 19 Mayıs 1919 tarihi ise Pontoslu Rumlar için acı, hüzün, işkence, ölüm; SOYKIRIM anlamına geldi. Hristiyanlara yönelik imha planının, üçüncü etabı olan bu bu etap, ikinci etapta katledilen 150 bin Pontoslu Rum ile birlikte 353.000 kişinin canına, 1 milyon 250 bin Rum’un Mübadeleyle (Pontos’tan 200 bine yakın) sürgün edilmesine yol açtı. Bu süreçte ayrıca Pontos ve Küçük Asya’da yaşayan 800 bin Rum kayboldu, akıbetleri öğrenilemedi. Pontos’taki kayıpların arasında 25 bine yakın çocuk da vardı. Böylelikle sürgün ve kayıplarla birlikte 1876’dan itibaren toplam 4,5 milyon Hristiyan yok edildi. Asıl savaş Pontoslu Rumlara, Küçük Asya ve Anadolu’daki Hristiyanlara yönelik yapılmış ve memleket işgalcilerden değil, binlerce yıldır o topraklarda doğup büyüyen Hristiyanlardan kurtarılmıştır.
Katliamlara karşı direnis, direnişe karşı katliam
Samsun’a çıkan Mustafa Kemal ve arkadaşları 19 Mayıs 1919’dan itibaren Topal Osman, Kel Hasan, Halil Tapanoğlu, Said Tapanoğlu, Mehmet Tataloğlu, Kara Mehmet, Larçınzade Hakkı Bey, Mehmet Tirali, İpsiz Recep gibi çetecilerle görüşmeye başladı. Bu görüşmeler sonrasında başta Topal Osman olmak üzere bu çeteler tarafından Rumlarına yönelik başlatılan saldırılarda binlerce Rum katledildi. Katledilenlerin çoğunluğu sivil halktı. Can güvenliği kalmayan Rumların tek çaresi ise örgütlenmek ve direnmekti. Bu tarihlerde, bağımsız Pontos fikri de dâhil olmak üzere farklı kurtuluş önerilerini içeren siyasi yapılar ortaya çıktı.
Böyle bir süreçte kurulan Merkez Ordusu’nun ordu karargâhı olarak Amasya’nın seçilmesi ise hiç tesadüf değildi. Osmanlı’nın 1. Emperyalist Dünya Savaşı sonucu yenilenlerin cephesinde yer almasından dolayı imzalanan Mondros Mütarekesi kararları doğrultusunda orduları dağıtılmıştı. Bunun üzerine silahlarını teslim etmeyen Kazım Karabekir’e bağlı 15. Kolordu ve çetelerden oluşacak yeni bir askerî örgütlenmeye gidildi. Bu süreçte kurulan Merkez Ordusu da ana karargah olarak katliamlara karşı direnişin başladığı Pontos’u seçti. Nitekim bu ordu lağvedilene kadar da karargâh Amasya olarak kaldı. Sadece Koçgiri katliamı sırasında, Nurettin Paşa komutayı Sivas Ümraniye’den yürüttü.
Yeni kurulan ordunun karşılaştığı ilk sorunlardan biri, Ordu Sancağı oldu. TBMM’nin 12 Aralık 1920’de aldığı bir kararla Ordu Sancağı kuruldu. Fakat Ordu Sancağının 15. Kolorduya mı yoksa Merkez Ordusu’na mı dâhil olacağı ise belirsizdi. 24 Aralık’ta Erkan-ı Harbiye-i Umumiye/Genel Kurmay Başkanlığı Ordu Sancağının Merkez Ordusu’na dahil edildiğini açıkladı ve Merkez Ordusu’nun yetki alanları biraz daha arttırıldı. Bu son kararla birlikte batıdan doğuya tüm Pontos yerleşim birimleri Merkez Ordusu’nun çalışma alanı olarak belirlenmiş oldu.
İstiklal mahkemeleri
Katliamdan geriye kalan Pontoslu Rumlar ve Pontos katliamına karşı çıkan Türkler ise çeşitli bahanelerle İstiklal Mahkemelerinde yargılandı. Bu yargılamalarda 69 Pontos Rumu idam edilirken, birçoğuna da çeşitli cezalar verildi. Yine Nurettin Paşa hakkında soruşturma başlatılması kararının alındığı gizli TBBM görüşmesinin yapıldığı aynı tarihte, yani 4 Ekim 1921 tarihinde, Samsun’dan Amasya’daki İstiklal Mahkemesine sevk edilen 31 Müslüman kadın burada yargılandı. Fakat bu yargılamanın sonucunun ne olduğuna dair resmi bir kayıt bulunmuyor.
Yine aynı yargılamada Trabzon metropoliti Hrisantos, Giresun metropolidi Lavrandiyos, Ordu Metropoliti İlyadis Polikaryus ile eski Giresun Belediyesi Başkanı Kaptan Yorgi’nin oğlu Kostantin, metropolit vekili Papaz Papatodor mahdumu Kosti ile birlikte Pontoslu aydınlar hakkında ise gıyaben idam kararı alındı. Bu kararlarla Pontos Rumlarına dini ve siyasi liderlik edecek Pontoslular ya öldürüldü ya da Pontos’a bir daha gelmelerinin önü kesilmek için haklarında ölüm kararı verildi. Bu yolla Pontos’un ulusal ve entelektüel önderliği yok edildi, ilerlemenin önü kesildi ve Pontoslular lidersiz bırakıldı.
Ayrıca Samsun’un Vezirköprü ilçesinde bulunan bir hapishanede yatmakta olan Rumlara yardım ettiği gerekçesiyle hapishane gardiyanlarından Uzunoğullarından Halil oğlu Mehmet ve kardeşi Hakkı da Amasya’da Büyük Millet Meclisi seçilmiş üyelerinden oluşan Samsun Bölgesi İstiklal Mahkemesinde yargılandılar. İstiklal Mahkemesi her ikisi hakkında da idam kararı vedi.
353 bin mezarsız Rum
Yunan tarihçi Konstantinos Fotiatis’e göre, 1914-1921 yılları arasında Amasya, Samsun ve Giresun’da 134 bin 78, Niksar’da 27 bin 216, Trabzon’da 38 bin 434, Tokat’ta 64 bin 582, Maçka’da 17 bin 479, Şebinkarahisar’da 21 bin 448 Rum, mübadele yollarında hayatını kaybeden 50 bin insanla birlikte toplam 353 bin Pontuslu soykırıma uğradı. Yine Fotiadis ve Pontuslu Rumlara göre, 1914’de başlayan sürecin en ölümcül darbesi 19 Mayıs 1919 tarihinde yaşandı. Bu tarihte Samsun’a çıkan Mustafa Kemal’in ilk olarak görüştüğü Sakallı Nurettin Paşa ve Topal Osman’ın Rum halkına yönelik saldırılarda ön planda olması bu iddiayı güçlendiriyor. Aynı tarihlerde Pontus vilayetlerinde bin 890 kilise, 22 manastır, bin 647 şapel ve 85 bin 890 öğrencisi olan bin 401 okul faaliyetteyken, günümüzde bu yerlerden izler bulmak imkânsız hale geldi.
İtiraf
Resmi tarihte hiçbir zaman kabul edilmeyen bu soykırım 4 Mayıs 1920 – 13 Aralık 1920 tarihlerinde TBMM Maarif Vekili (Milli Eğitim Bakanı), 24 Aralık 1921 – 27 Ekim 1923 tarihlerinde Sağlık Bakanı olan Dr. Rıza Nur’un Topal Osman ile yaptığı şu konuşma ile itiraf edildi:
– “Ağa, Pontus’u iyi temizle!” dedim.
– “Temizliyorum” dedi.
– “Rum köylerinde taş taş üstünde bırakma” dedim.
– “Öyle yapıyorum ama kiliseleri ve iyi binaları lazım olur diye saklıyorum” dedi.
– “Onları da yok et, hatta taşlarını uzaklara yolla, dağıt. Ne olur ne olmaz, bir daha burada kilise vardı
diyemesinler” dedim.
– “Sahi öyle yapayım. Bu kadar akıl edemedim” dedi.
Cumhuriyet dönemi sürgünleri
Cumhuriyetin kuruluşu ile birlikte de katliamlardan ve mahkemelerde idamlardan geriye kalan Pontosluları yeni bir göç bekledi. 1923’te Lozan Antlaşması’na ek olarak yapılan mübadele anlaşması uyarınca Türkiye ve Yunanistan arasında zorunlu göçe tabi tutuldular. Bu süreçte 1 milyon 250 bin Rum zorunlu göçe tabi tutularak, binlerce yıllık yurtlarından koparıldı. Bunun yaklaşık 200 bini Pontos bölgesindendi. Bu sürecin de en büyük kaybını kadınlar yaşarken, yüzlerce kadın sürgün yollarında, Yunanistan’da karantina altında intihar etti. Yüzlercesi hastalıklarla hayatlarını kaybettiler.
Pontos’ta kalan ve Romeika konuşan ‘Müslüman’ Rumlar ise çeşitli tarihlerde birçok bahane ile yurtlarından sürgün edildi. 1929 yılında Trabzon Çaykara ilçesinde gerçekleşen sel felaketi bahane edilerek buradaki nüfus Trabzon’un Maçka ve Pelitli ilçeleri ile Erzincan’ın Tercan, Mercan ve Çayırlı ilçeleri ve Bayburt ile Muş illerine gönderildi. Yine 1959 yılında gerçekleşen sel felaketinin etkisiyle 1965 yılında Hatay’ın Kırıkhan ilçesi ile Van’ın Özalp ilçesi, 1967 yılında Bursa’nın Orhangazi ilçesi ve 1973 yılında Çanakkale-Gökçeada ile 1974 yılında Kıbrıs İskele kentine zorunlu göçe tabi tutuldular.
Yaşanan bu göçlerin iki temel özelliği vardı. Birincisi Türkiye ne zaman Kıbrıs’a, Kıbrıs Rumlarına yönelik bir tepki gösterse (1963,1974) İstanbul ve Pontos Rumlarını da hedef aldı. İkincisi ise Romeika konuşan halk özellikle Kürt ve Alevilerin yaşadığı bölgeler ile Kıbrıs ve İmroz gibi Hristiyan Rumların yaşadığı bölgelere gönderilerek, halkları aynı anda asimile etmek hedeflendi.
Demokrasi yüzleşmeyle gelebilir
Her fırsatta demokratikleşmeden bahseden Cumhuriyet iktidarlarının sonuncusu olan AKP-MHP ittifakı, bugün Kürt sorunun çözümünden söz ederken, Lozan sözcüğüne bile tahammül edemeyen seslerin yükseldiğini görüyoruz. Lozan ile Ortadoğu’ya dayatılan ulus devlet anlayışı, 1 milyon 250 bin Rum’un da binlerce yıllık topraklarından sürgün edilmesine neden oldu. Pontos’ta 100 yıl önce yaşananlar ve ardından Lozan’da yapılan anlaşma 100 yıllık cumhuriyetin neden hala demokratik olmadığının göstergesidir.
Gerçek bir demokratikleşme ve halkların barışı için ulus devlet anlayışının değişmesi, 19 Mayıs ile başlayan Pontos Rum soykırımı da dahil halklara karşı yürütülen katliamlarla yüzleşilmesi ilk ve en somut adım olarak önümüzde duruyor.
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>Mozilla shuts down Pocket
Honestly, Pocket was the final straw for me when it came to Firefox. Personally, I hate trending pages more than anything. I'm glad they are killing it, but there is no way I am going back to vanilla Firefox ever again.
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Saw this coming. #Glass #fibers aren't #biodegradable.
In another year or two, eastern #Ukraine sill look like the Kingdom of the Spiders.
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CNN is covering up the genocide of White farmers in South Africa by lying to our faces despite mountains of evidence.
“Don’t believe your lying eyes and ears!”
Really insane stuff
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New York Times: Trump “ambushed” the South African president with “what he said was evidence” of a “fringe narrative” with “false claims” of a White genocide.
Roll the tape…
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Quoting Historian Shai Hazkani and Tamir Sorek on how religious rights’ vision for Jewish supremacy and Palestinian elimination has gained mainstream acceptance in Israeli society:
Hazakani and Sorek analyzed Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg's sermon "Time to Crack the Nut," which outlined a plan to dismantle what he termed the four "shells" protecting Israeli democracy: media, legal system, government institutions, and the military's ethical constraints. Ginzburg, a #Chabad-trained rabbi who became influential among religious Zionist settlers, particularly the "hilltop youth" militia, advocated for the complete removal of Palestinians from historic Palestine.
Key survey findings from March 2025:
- 82% of Israeli Jews support forcibly expelling Gaza residents (up from 45% in 2003)
- 56% support forcibly expelling Palestinian citizens of Israel (up from 31% in 2003)
- 47% believe the Israeli military should kill all residents when conquering enemy cities, following the biblical precedent of Jericho
- 65% believe a contemporary Amalek exists, with 93% of those saying the biblical commandment to "blot out Amalek" applies today
There’s a particularly high support among younger Israelis, with 66% of those under 40 supporting expulsion of Palestinian citizens and 58% endorsing total elimination of enemy populations.
[…] Ginzburg's achievement is indeed the result of shattering the shells, even if the "crackers" weren't always his direct supporters. Hebrew media, the first shell, was always enlisted but maintained a veneer of professionalism. Recently, for the most part, it has abandoned even this pretense, and since the massacre in the Gaza envelope, many journalists have abandoned critical coverage, with some even joining the bellicose calls for revenge, expulsion, and extermination.
[…] The judiciary, which refused to openly declare Jewish supremacy in the Land of Israel and their right to expel, exterminate, or starve their enemies — while simultaneously playing a crucial role in preserving the occupation — was seen by Ginzburg as a stumbling block that "we must break... through mockery and 'contempt of court.'" It appears that the second shell has also undergone change, if it hasn't been completely removed already: about two months ago, Supreme Court Justice David Mintz rejected a petition by the organization "Gisha" to compel Israel to ensure humanitarian aid delivery to the Strip, ruling that this constitutes a "biblical commanded war," effectively authorizing the denial of food, water, and medicine to millions of Gazans. Mintz's ruling, a resident of the settlement Dolev, joined by Chief Justice Yitzhak Amit and Justice Noam Sohlberg from the settlement Alon Shvut, is already claiming lives.
[…] The education system, part of that same second shell, became a workplace where Jewish teachers promoting universal values risk dismissal (for Arab teachers, this danger was never foreign). Education researchers point to a sharp shift toward ethnocentric nationalism in curricula since the Second Intifada, and this process has led to high support for expulsion and extermination, particularly among those who completed their studies in the past 20 years. 66% of those 40 and under support expelling Arab citizens of Israel, and 58% want to see the IDF replicate Joshua's actions at Jericho. Generational gaps in political attitudes aren't unusual, but in Israel it has widened dramatically since the beginning of the 21st century.
[…] It seems there's little need to elaborate on the Knesset and government. Ginzburg himself demands that "the government — whether left or right — we must eliminate. We must bring it down, and when a new one arises, bring that down too, and so on — until establishing Torah rule in the land." The five election cycles held within three and a half years show that here too, Ginzburg can boast of considerable divine assistance.
The two scholars argue that October 7th provided the opportunity Ginzburg had long awaited to implement his vision. They trace how his ideology has penetrated Israeli institutions - from media abandoning critical coverage to Supreme Court Justice David Mintz recently ruling that denying humanitarian aid to Gaza constitutes a "biblical commanded war."
They conclude that without rejecting Jewish supremacy entirely and establishing genuine equality between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea, Israel will continue its trajectory toward what they describe as a "Spartan and ostracized society."
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Shai Hazkani, a Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of Maryland, and Tamir Sorek, a Professor in the History Department at Penn State University, are both academic historians specializing in Israeli/Palestinian history. They have written extensively on the subject. Hazkani’s book, “Precious Homeland: The 1948 War — The Hidden Letters” (2024), and Sorek’s book, “The Optimist: A Biography of Tawfik Zayyad” (2023), are notable works in this field.
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#SettlerViolence #hilltopyouth #zionism
#OatmealQuotes #jewishsupremacy
לפני 20 שנה שירטט הרב יצחק גינזבורג, האב הרוחני של נוער הגבעות, חזון לחיסול המוסדות הדמוקרטיים והשלטת עליונות יהודית. אחרי 7 באוקטובר נראה שהחזון הזה הולך ומתגשם במדויק לנגד עינינושי חזקני (הארץ)
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Quoting Israeli ex PM Ehud Olmert on Israel’s war crimes in Gaza:
[…] What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: indiscriminate killing of civilians, without limits, cruel and criminal. We are doing this not because of accidental loss of control in a particular sector, not because of a disproportionate outburst of fighters in some unit—but as a result of policy dictated by the government, knowingly, intentionally, wickedly, maliciously, recklessly. Yes, we are committing war crimes.
[…] What is happening in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks has no connection to a legitimate war objective. Our fighters are being sent by the state leadership—and the army leadership that obeys it—to wander around in the neighborhoods of Gaza City, Jabaliya and Khan Younis in an illegitimate military operation. This is now a private political war, and its immediate result is turning the Gaza Strip into an area of humanitarian disaster.
[…] One also cannot ignore what is happening among certain IDF units, including the special units, where the best and most daring fighters serve. There are too many cases of cruel shooting at civilians, of destruction of property and houses, even when this does not need to happen. Looting of property, thefts from houses, which in many cases IDF soldiers also boasted about and published in personal posts. We are committing war crimes. I do not share the opinion of Major General (Res.) Moshe Ya'alon, who said we are committing ethnic cleansing. But we are approaching a point where it will not be possible to deny that this is the inevitable result of what the government, the army and our brave fighters are actually doing.
[…] The time has come to stop, before we are all expelled from the family of nations and summoned to the International Court of Justice for war crimes, and a good defense will not stand for us.
Enough is enough.
Hebrew haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-05… or archive.is/3vvOi
Ehud Olmert is an Israeli politician who served as the 12th Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009.
U.S. moves nuclear bombers to Diego Garcia as Israel prepares to hit Iran. Washington’s war posture escalates — with no public debate.Robert Inlakesh (MintPress News)
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Uranus? Of course it's Uranus. It's always Uranus. Even when it's not Uranus.
Speaking of your anus, what an unfortunate name for a character they gave Jim Nabors playing Gomer Pyle!
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#science #portal #dimensions
Dark matter remains a cosmic mystery—but emerging theories about exotic particles and extra dimensions might finally reveal its true nature.Ashley Morgan (The Daily Galaxy - Great Discoveries Channel)
Otto von Bismarck: He who has his thumb on the purse has the power. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- 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 Government Emergency Operations Room in the southern governorates has categorically denied Israeli claims that border crossings have been reopened and humanitarian aid is entering Gaza, describing them as entirely false.The Palestinian Information Center
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South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana delivers his 2025 budget speech in Cape Town, Southen.people.cn
Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students
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Now, go to jail.
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Federal authorities arrested and charged 32-year-old Emily Gabriella Sommer with assault Thursday after she allegedly spat upon Edward R. Martin Jr. on May 8.Ilan Hulkower (The Daily Caller)
“MOAR AI, MOAR ADVERTISING!” bellowed the beast.
“Yes, yes, oh benevolent protector of privacy, save us… without you we are lost… thank you, thank you, oh great not-for-profit for-profit!” exclaimed its love-struck cult of Big Tech-adjacent bottom feeders.
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#mozilla #BigTech #AI #adtech #peopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism
More information about the end of support for Pocket.support.mozilla.org
I wrote about my experience so far about #linuxmobile on dev.to
dev.to/behdanisohrab/linux-on-…
I spoke about this subject at MashhadLUG a few weeks ago but regretfully didn't record it. So I...Sohrab Behdani (DEV Community)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans for the complete reoccupation of Gaza, claiming it is the only way to achieve his statedMohammed ibn Faisal al-Rashid (New Eastern Outlook)
The 5,000-ton destroyer’s hull was crushed when it twisted during launch in North Korea.Lauren Lewis (The Daily Beast)
economist.com/leaders/2024/01/…
Well, this aged like milk.
And it diverts attention from the real humanitarian crisis in GazaThe Economist
#Israel shouldn't be charged with #genocide because nothing would come of it, but #Netanyahu and every member of the #Knesset and #IDF from the grunt on the ground up to the Generals in-charge most definitely should.
I want to see them all hung from the gallows or against the wall in front of a firing squad of Palestinians.
Or... here's an idea... let's bring back the guillotine.
I Built My Own Audio Player
Link: nexo.sh/posts/why-i-built-a-na…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
In 2025, playing your own music on an iPhone is surprisingly hard, unless you pay Apple or navigate a maze of limitations. So I built my own player from scratch, with full text search, iCloud support, and a local-first experience.nexo blog
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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to colonize Gaza, saying, "We will take control of all the territory of the Strip". US President Donald Tr...YouTube
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RT from Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray)
White farmers are being murdered in South Africa and the media is complicit in covering it up.
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Why does this publicly funded library in Houston, Texas, have a DEI section promoting gender transitions and Pride parades for kids??
Why tf are our tax dollars funding this? @DOGE
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“False claims” - NYT
“Unfounded” - ABC
“Debunked conspiracy theory” - CNN
“False claims” - Forbes
All the media does is lie. Pure trash.
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In 2025, playing your own music on an iPhone is surprisingly hard, unless you pay Apple or navigate a maze of limitations. So I built my own player from scratch, with full text search, iCloud support, and a local-first experience.nexo blog
Le député communiste israélien Ayman Odeh a été expulsé de la Knesset pour avoir dénoncé les crimes de Benyamin Netanyahou à Gaza.
« Vous ne savez pas à quel point je vous vois faibles, vous êtes des gens très faibles. Vous avez tué 19 000 enfants.! (…) »
"77 ans après la Nakba, le monde assiste à une deuxième Nakba qui se déroule à Gaza. Vous pouvez essayer de me faire taire, mais vous ne pouvez pas faire taire le peuple palestinien, et vous ne pouvez pas faire taire les cris du monde."
Oh, were two Israeli government officials murdered? Please let me know when the number gets to 50,000 and I’ll consider reviewing my preferential trade agreements with Palestine.
#israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism
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BREAKING: City-wide ICE raids in Los Angeles result in numerous high-profile arrests.
Arrests include an Iranian national charged with stealing more than $83 MILLION in Amazon goods and more than a dozen members of transnational gangs charged with cargo theft, kidnapping, and attempted murder.
Some of the gang members were in the US on false immigration papers and were receiving asylum benefits.
DEPORT THEM ALL
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New York Times: Trump “ambushed” the South African president with “what he said was evidence” of “false claims” of a White genocide.
The evidence is literally all in the video that Trump played.
Why is NYT covering for the kiIIing of Whote farmers?
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TEHRAN, May 21 (MNA) – The National Virtual Space Center has announced plans to take legal action against Google for distorting the name of the Persian Gulf.Mehr News Agency
Otto von Bismarck: Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- 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.
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In recent years, Over-the-Top (OTT) video streaming platforms have surged in popularity, and the demand for customized,english.pnn.ps
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#GEZ #GEZAbschaffen #Hofberichterstatter
Eben noch mussten die Beitragszahler sie dafür entlohnen, dass sie den Mächtigen auf die Finger schauen – nun arbeiten sie von einem Tag auf den anderen selbst im Auftrag eben dieser Mächtigen: Journalisten, die von öffentlich-rechtlichen Medien in d…NiUS.de
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James Comey admits he knew “8647” was a political message yet still claims he didn’t know it meant ass*ssinating the President.
Nobody is buying this.
He was the Director of the FBI.
Of course he knew people used 86 to refer to kiIIing someone.
Liar.
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Democrat WA state Governor Bob Ferguson has signed a radical "Student Rights" bill into law that reportedly strips parents of the ability to obtain their child's medical records, mental health records, records of discipline, or any student-specific file maintained by a school.
It also strips parents of the right to receive prior notification when medical services are offered to their child.
What is going on in Washington state??
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MCP explained without hype or fluff
Link: blog.nilenso.com/blog/2025/05/…
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Democrat Rep LaMonica McIver says it’s “absurd” that she’s being charged.
You know what’s absurd? ASSAULTING OFFICERS.
NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.
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True, True, True, True, True...and, Agreed.
"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fingered four potential causes of childhood chronic disease in a bombshell report released Thursday — the first step in the Trump administration’s bid to reverse what it calls a health “crisis” impacting 40% of America’s kids.
The report identified poor diet, environmental chemicals, lack of physical activity and chronic stress, and overmedicalization as likely responsible for persistent maladies — including obesity, autism, cancer, mental health issues and allergies — warning: “The health of American children is in crisis.”
The report also calls for further inquiry into the link between vaccines and chronic diseases — saying there has been “limited scientific inquiry” into the issue.
The research will be used to create police recommendations by August of 2025, which will be presented to President Trump.
“President Trump wants every child in America to grow up and to live a long and healthy life,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters of the “historic” assessment."
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. singled out four potential causes of childhood chronic disease in a report released Thursday.Diana Glebova (New York Post)
Renowned for the world’s tallest trees, Redwood’s landscapes span from open prairies and oak woodlands to pristine rivers and untamed coastline. This ancient home has supported people for thousands of years.www.nps.gov
Prime Minister Netanyahu said the court's decision regarding the Shin Bet chief's dismissal was 'outrageous and harmful to democracy.' Should a temporary cease-fire include a hostage return, Netanyahu said it will be taken into considerationAaron Rabinowitz (Haaretz)
So a few hours ago, I quietly switched the Small Technology Foundation web site over from the Hugo-based static site running on Site.js to the new dynamic version I built using Kitten*:
What I initially thought would be a weekend project turned into three months 😀 (During which, Kitten improved a huge amount thanks to issues that surfaced while porting the site and implementing a custom CMS for it.)
I’ve tried not to break any links and my focus was on porting existing content first. If you notice any glaring issues please ping me. In the coming days I’ll be updating stuff (with my lovely new admin panel) and writing more about the porting process.
Also, with this, our last site using Site.js has been ported to Kitten so I’ll be archiving Site.js this week.
💕
#SmallTedhnologyFoundation #SmallTech #SmallWeb #Kitten
We’re a tiny and independent two-person not-for-profit based in Ireland. We’re working on building the Small Web.small-tech.org
Stop reinventing the wheel. The web was doing just fine before your bloated frameworks crawled out of the sewer.Just fucking use HTML
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Two staff members at the Israeli embassy in Washington are shot dead near a Jewish museum.PressTV
Finally met with my assigned pulmonologist today!
My bronchiectasis is mild. My “ground glass opacities” are nodules and granulomas which look benign and are currently small enough to warrant only monitoring. Bloodwork indicates my symptoms are mostly from infections, not allergies, and I am slowly recovering from those infections.
She said I’m on the right track with nebulizing saline and nasal lavage, although “God gives us mucus for a reason” so I’m not to rinse my sinuses more than 3x per day, 2x per day preferred. I must continue masking in public and avoiding infections like the plague, which they are for me now. Both the Skyrizi (monoclonal antibody medication for treating Crohn's) and Crohn’s Disease itself make me extra vulnerable to infection, and yes, Crohn’s may be expressing itself in my lungs. Oh yeah also I'm old now, she reminded me.
It looks like I’m recovering from the worst of my infections, which I believe were RSV in March and adenovirus in April, plus something bacterial because I responded to antiobotics and anti bacterial eyedrops (pinkeye was but one of many symptoms). I need to accept infections may last a lot longer and be more severe than I thought normal.
After I take another month to recover, I will go back for lung capacity tests and an EKG to see how my heart’s doing. The pulmonologist guided me through my CT scans, pointing out granulomas, nodules, and bronchiectasis, and said several times how good my lungs looked. I still gots capacity!
Pix are of me killing time with the plastic lung model while waiting for the pulmonologist to arrive. I was with a friend who took these photos and also notes, for which I am very grateful.
Οι μυστικές συνεδριάσεις της Τουρκικής Εθνοσυνέλευσης (TBMM) στις 21 Αυγούστου 1922 αποτελούν από μόνες τους απόδειξη των εγκλημάτων γενοκτονίας που διαπράχ ...Ταμέρ Τσιλιγκίρ (Geopolitico)
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Lithuanians are preparing to meet the Russian Armed Forces (reenactment of the "forest brothers" period) Donald Trump, after returning to the White House, managed to rather quickly excite almost the entire world with his rather controversial decision…Alnik53 (Военное обозрение)
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The diplomats confirmed the friendly and open nature of Belarus-Venezuela interstate dialogue. The Venezuelan foreign minister conveyed his congratulations on the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.Belarusian Telegraph Agency
Otto von Bismarck: I will further every endeavour which positively aims at improving the condition of the working classes. ... As soon as a positive proposal came from the Socialists for fashioning the future in a sensible way, in order that the lot of the working-man might be improved, I would not at any rate refuse to examine it favourably, and I would not even shrink from the idea of State help for the people who would help themselves. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
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- 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.
Russia considers The Three Seas Initiative to be a series of military logistics projects sold to the public as economic ones.Andrew KORYBKO (Oriental Review)
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