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As expected, amid the war with #Iran, settler violence and criminal activity are escalating. Northeast of #Ramallah, #settlers are accelerating their land grabs through the establishment of new outposts, roadblocks, arson attacks on fields, and the uprooting of trees - all under the protection of the army and in line with official government policy. Land is being looted in broad daylight, while the state turns a blind eye.
After settlers, with the help of the army, succeeded in expelling most of the Palestinian shepherd communities and clusters from the east and northeast of Ramallah, in the last few days they have accelerated the seizure of agricultural land belonging to the residents of the villages of Al Mughair and Duma all while attention is focused on the events with Iran.
Over the past two weeks, two new outposts have been established at the entrances to the villages of Al Mughair and Duma. In Al Mughair, the outpost was set up along the eastern access road, which the army blocked immediately after the outbreak of the war. In Duma, the new outpost now controls the village's only remaining access road, after the settlers and the army blocked the other two. Back in July 2023, we published a post about a checkpoint that was placed east of the village of Al Mughair, warning that its purpose was to prevent landowners from accessing their lands that are located east of the village - paving the way for settlers to seize them. Unfortunately, we were right. Link to the post from July 2023 is in the comments.
As far as we understand, these two new outposts are essentially extensions of the main outpost established in the area about a decade ago inside an abandoned military base, known as "Malachei Hashalom". This outpost is one out of ten outposts that the racist and corrupt Israeli government decided to "legalize" on February 12, 2023. Link to the government decision in the comments. The outpost of Malachei Hashalom serves as an eastern extension of the settlement of Shiloh and its violent outposts. Through a network of outposts that were established since the late 1990s, settlers have succeeded in taking control over nearly the entire area between Shiloh and the Jordan Valley. Now, they are working to consolidate their grip towards the north and the south along the Alon Road, while the army, under the authority of the Apartheid Central Command Major General Avi Blot, allows them to run wild.
About a week ago, it was reported that the army had declared 800 dunams in the area surrounding the outpost of Malachei Hashalom as "state land". However, we have yet to see the official declaration and the accompanying map, nor have we found any signage on the ground, which is the usual procedure in such cases. What we did receive, however, is an unusual document in Arabic, unlike anything we have seen before. Signed over two months ago on April 9, 2025, the document announces an intention to hold a “hearing" prior to either declaring roughly 825 dunams of land or registering it in the land registry as "state land" . The attached map shows that the targeted area is surrounding the outpost of Malachei Hashalom. Link to the document is in the comments.
Meanwhile, settlers in the area are taking over agricultural land along the Alon Road. The goal is to establish a chain of outposts and agricultural land seizures stretching between the outpost of Malachei Hashalom and the isolated and notoriously violent settlement of Kochav Hashahar. East of the village of Al Mughair, you can witness large swaths of farmland that have been set ablaze by settlers in order to block Palestinians from accessing their land. In recent days, an olive grove with dozens of trees northeast of the village of Al Mughair was uprooted. Along the Alon Road, several spots already show signs of settlers plowing, clearing, and cultivating the land.
This is what looting in broad daylight looks like under the racist and corrupt government and the most powerful army in the Middle East.
#KeremNavot - Naboth’s Vineyard Naboth’s Vineyard (Kerem Navot) is an Israeli NGO established in 2012, which monitors and carries out research on Israeli land policy in the #WestBank.
»Ella Greenberg: „Ich schließe mich keiner israelischen Armee an, die Genozid begeht“ Die Israelin Ella Keidar Greenberg ist 18, trans, links – und verweigert den Kriegsdienst. Dafür saß sie zuletzt in einem Militärgefängnis ein. Wie es ihr dabei erging und wie das israelische Militär mit trans Soldatinnen umgeht« #Israel #kriegsdienstverweigerung #Genozid #Gaza freitag.de/autoren/hanno-hauen… (Paywall)
»Kriegsdienstverweigerung wird weithin nicht nur als Gesetzesbruch, sondern auch als moralischer Verrat betrachtet. Ella Keidar Greenberg gehört zu den sehr wenigen jungen Menschen in Israel, die sich dem öffentlich widersetzen. Am 19. März diesen Jahres erschien sie in einem Rekrutierungszentrum bei Tel Aviv – und erklärte vor laufender Kamera ihre Weigerung, Israels Armee beizutreten. Wenig später wurde sie verhaftet und in ein Militärgefängnis gebracht.«
» „Wenn unsere Enkelkinder eines Tages fragen, was wir während dem Genozid in Gaza getan haben, weiß ich, was ich antworten werde“, sagte Greenberg vor ihrer Verhaftung. „Ich habe verweigert.“«
»Prinzipiell ist die Antwort einfach: Es findet ein Genozid statt – man schließt sich keiner Armee an, die einen Genozid begeht.«
It makes a great argument. I think the term values is fraught, because it carries the implicit meaning of “good.” But they no one is going to resolve the terminology in one video.
Insurance company of the drunk driver that hit my car back in March is now sending me annoying "we need to fill out our report" letters. My insurance company already got full reimbursement so it's just corporate bullshit. Anyway, I'm using ChatGPT to send annoying letters in response to prolong this for them.
🇵🇸 #genocide à #gaza : pendant qu’Israël attaque l’Iran, les massacres se poursuivent
Alors que le début du conflit entre #Israel et l’#Iran concentre l’attention publique, l’Etat sioniste continue d'orchestrer la famine et les massacres des Palestiniens.
Si le début du conflit par tirs interposés entre Israël et l'Iran a catalysé l'attention publique et médiatique ces derniers jours, le génocide des palestiniens se poursuit dans la bande de Gaza.
Der aktuelle Gesetzesentwurf zur erneuten Aussetzung des Familiennachzugs verletzt das grund- und menschenrechtlich garantierte Recht auf #Familie.
Zudem ist der Familiennachzug das Gegenteil illegaler #Migration: Denn wer seinen engsten Angehörigen legal nachfolgen darf, wird nicht gezwungen, über gefährliche Fluchtrouten nach Deutschland zu kommen.
(Sorry #NGIForum25 two floors below, no time for you today 😌)
We haven't started yet and the room is still empty, but I'm hoping we'll discuss how #Windows is abused to dominate other markets, by aggressively nudging users to #Edge, #Xbox, #OneDrive, #ChatGPT, etc.
The "regulatory dialogue" with the Commission, according to #Linkedin's competition director, was a way for the company to "mature and progress in our DMA journey."
It's not a "journey", it's a law that creates legal obligations and prohibitions for the company. Get over it and get it down already. 😠
After a lengthy statement by the #Linkedin rep, read out from paper with a machine-like voice, first questions from the audience:
Consumer org @beuc wants to know whether Linkedin's A/B testing for compliance solutions have been neutral and if the test results will be published. Super important for compliance #transparency!
Again, Linkedin refuses to share actual data of how users interact with consent screens, only speaking of "non-minimal numbers" of European users who opted out.
So funny how the #Windows lawyer starts off by dissing competitor #Apple by highlighting how Windows has always been an open platform where users can install apps from wherever they want without having to ask for permission 🔥
Haha this conversation with #Windows lawyers is so wild I don't even find time to post here about it.
So, I asked them how it's legal under the #DMA's Art 5(2) data cross-use prohibition to automatically sign up Windows users with #OneDrive and thereby sharing my personal data (login credentials) with the service.
The lawyers confirmed that this is what they do and argued strangely this was legal because "there are many ways to sign in to Windows". Local accounts anyone? 🤥
The Chinese PLA Air Force is recruiting the 14th batch of female pilot cadets from high school graduates across 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) in China.
Thirty-one years after Creative Technology introduced the Sound Blaster AWE32 ISA-based sound card, the open-source driver support within the Linux kernel continues to be worked on..
From Sunday, June 22 to Wednesday, July 2, two research aircraft will make a series of low-altitude atmospheric research flights near Philadelphia, Baltimore, and some Virginia cities, including Richmond, as well as over the Los Angeles Basin, Salton Sea, and Central Valley in California. Pilots will operate the aircraft at altitudes lower than typical commercial […]
More evidence is likely this weekend of the devastating impact of climate change, all the more obvious as this time its not some distance country, but is hitting the SE of England, where our political class spend a lot of their time....
Will, this perhaps push them to take become more serious about climate policy, rather than continually adopt their continuing inadequate delaying stance?
Of course not; they've got air conditioning & shady gardens
« Vos décisions quotidiennes sont examinées au travers de : Est-ce que ce choix me rend plus ou moins libre ? Est-ce que ce choix me rend plus ou moins autonome ? »
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot’s first mission to the International Space Station now has a name: εpsilon. The mission name and patch were announced today at the Paris Air Show by ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Sophie Adenot, who joined remotely from the United States, where she is training for her spaceflight.
Sophie Adenot is one of the five astronauts selected from ESA’s most recent astronaut class of 2022. Following the successful completion of their basic training in spring 2024, Josef Aschbacher announced during the Space Council in Brussels that Sophie and fellow graduate Raphaël Liégois had been assigned their first missions to the International Space Station, currently planned for 2026.
The εpsilon name and patch reflect the power of small, yet impactful contributions and how multiple parts unite to create a whole. In mathematics, “ε” represents something small. In the extensive collaborative effort of space exploration, involving thousands of participants, all roles, including the astronaut's role, stay small yet meaningful.
During her εpsilon mission, Sophie will perform numerous scientific experiments, many of them European, conduct medical research, support Earth observation and contribute to operations and maintenance aboard the International Space Station.
@zephyrotv Quando omni flunkus, moritati. When all else fails, play dead.
If you've never watched Red Green, you're missing out. All episodes are on Youtube. Get yourself a couple rolls of the handyman's secret weapon, a cold fizzy drink and enjoy.
« Le temps est transversal, il se trouve partout dans notre vie. Pour en devenir maître, il faut une philosophie du temps écologique qui ne provoque pas de souffrances quand on l’applique. »
On June 12, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a series of bilateral meetings, for the third consecutive day, with leading politicians from a number of African countries who were in Changsha, Hunan to attend the Ministerial Meeting of Coordinator…
Wenn die Union damit durchkommt, ist das ein epochaler Skandal. Man kann mitten in einer eskalierenden Katastrophe nicht Gelder,die zur Bekämpfung der Katastrophe eingeplant sind, stattdessen zur Beschleunigung der Katastrophe einsetzen.
»The number of malnourished children in the Gaza Strip is rising at an alarming rate, with 5,119 children between 6 months and 5 years admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition in May alone.
Acc. to data received from the UNICEF-supported nutrition centres across the Gaza Strip, this represents a nearly 50% increase from the 3,444 children admitted in April 2025 and a 150% increase from February when a ceasefire was in effect and aid was entering the Gaza Strip in significant quantities.«
For Lior Sternfeld, a historian of modern Iran, Israel's regime change fantasies ignore realities inside the Islamic Republic and risk repeating historic mistakes.
"They were waiting for me when I got off the plane. Officer Martinez intercepted me before I entered primary processing and took me immediately into an interrogation room in the back, where he took my phone and demanded my passcode. When I refused, I was told I would be immediately sent back home if I did not comply. I should have taken that deal and opted for the quick deportation. But in that moment, dazed from my fourteen-hour flight, I believed C.B.P. would let me into the U.S. once they realized they were dealing with a middling writer from regional Australia. So I complied.
Then began the first “interview.” The questions focussed almost entirely on my reporting about the Columbia student protests. From 2022 to 2024, I attended Columbia for an M.F.A. program, on a student visa, and when the encampment began in April of last year I began publishing daily missives to my Substack, a blog that virtually no one (except, apparently, the U.S. government) seemed to read. To Officer Martinez, the pieces were highly concerning. He asked me what I thought about “it all,” meaning the conflict on campus, as well as the conflict between Israel and Hamas. He asked my opinion of Israel, of Hamas, of the student protesters. He asked if I was friends with any Jews. He asked for my views on a one- versus a two-state solution. He asked who was at fault: Israel or Palestine. He asked what Israel should do differently. (The Department of Homeland Security, which governs the C.B.P., claims that any allegations that I’d been arrested for political beliefs are false.)"
« Une légende urbaine véhicule l’idée que nous n’utilisons que 10 % de notre cerveau. C’est faux : nous utilisons bien l’intégralité de ce fascinant organe… mais sans chercher à l’exploiter correctement. C’est probablement pour cette raison que nous n’utilisons correctement que 10 % de notre temps… et c’est ce que nous allons changer ensemble. »
BRICS is an informal group of states comprising the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Russian Federation, the Republic of India, the People's Republic of China and the Republic of South Africa.
au 7ème jour de la guerre entre l’Iran et Israël, avec une plongée au coeur de la société iranienne, prise en étau entre leur dictateur et leur agresseur, en...
Four hundred distribution points have dwindled to four under this private and militarised ‘aid’ system. This is not how to avert a famine, says Unicef’s global spokesperson James Elder
Sky's Special Correspondent Alex Crawford presents a documentary about British doctors working on the frontline of the war in Gaza.Doctor Victoria Rose and T...
All that modern Republican presidents seem capable of is destroying the economy, stripping rights from vulnerable people, and getting us into wars in the Middle East. The party is worthless, its members corrupt, and a large number of its voters seem to be delusional ignoramuses.
Tucker Carlson talks with Catherine Fitts about a secretive institution with sovereign immunity that can move trillions without oversight.Want video and phot...
My first paid software development job was on accessibility software. I remember visiting a user to help set up our code, and the sheer joy he had at being able to communicate more quickly than he had been able to for years.
Seeing the effort put into improving modern Linux accessibility is heartwarming. There's been almost 20 years of almost nobody caring. It's important. It's worthwhile.
Say thank you to the people doing that work. Stop amplifying the people saying that work isn't happening.
Bangladesh has proposed the formation of a dedicated platform involving South Asian countries and China to jointly address the increasing threats posed by climate change in the region.
"South Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change. We need a common platform, with the cooperation of China, to tackle this in a sustainable way," said Ruhul Alam Siddique, acting foreign secretary of Bangladesh.
He made the remarks at the 9th China-South Asia Exposition and the 29th China Kunming Import and Export Fair yesterday.
Dossier „... Wir müssen die Truppenaufstockung, die Anhäufung von Waffen und militärischer Ausrüstung in der und um die Ukraine stoppen, das irrsinnige Werfen von Steuergeldern in den Ofen der Kriegsmaschinerie, anstatt akute sozioökonomische und öko…
CE QUI M'A ÉTÉ DIT VA ARRIVER EN IRAN Le plan de bataille initial pour une nouvelle guerre Seymour #HERSH (19 juin 2025) :
Voici un rapport sur ce qui va très probablement se passer en #Iran, dès ce week-end, selon des sources israéliennes et des responsables américains en qui j'ai confiance depuis des décennies. Cela impliquera de lourds bombardements américains. J'ai vérifié ce rapport auprès d'un responsable américain de longue date à Washington, qui m'a dit que tout serait «sous contrôle» si le guide suprême iranien Ali Khamenei «disparaissait». On ignore toutefois comment cela pourrait se produire, à moins d'un assassinat. On a beaucoup parlé de la puissance de feu américaine et des cibles à l'intérieur de l'Iran, mais, pour autant que je sache, peu de réflexions concrètes ont été menées sur la manière de destituer un chef religieux vénéré qui bénéficie d'un immense soutien populaire.
Je couvre depuis des décennies, à distance, la politique #nucléaire et étrangère d'Israël. Mon livre publié en 1991, The Samson Option, raconte l'histoire de la fabrication de la bombe atomique israélienne et la volonté des États-Unis de garder ce projet secret. La question la plus importante qui reste sans réponse concernant la situation actuelle est celle de la réaction du monde, y compris celle de Vladimir #Poutine, le président russe qui est un allié des dirigeants iraniens.
Les États-Unis restent le plus important allié d' #Israël, même si beaucoup, ici et dans le monde entier, abhorrent la guerre meurtrière que mène Israël à #Gaza. L'administration #Trump soutient pleinement le plan actuel d'Israël visant à débarrasser l'Iran de toute trace de programme nucléaire, tout en espérant que le gouvernement dirigé par les ayatollahs à Téhéran sera renversé.
J'ai appris que la Maison Blanche avait donné son feu vert à une campagne de bombardements intensifs en Iran, mais les cibles ultimes, les centrifugeuses enfouies à au moins 80 mètres sous terre à Fordow, ne seront pas frappées avant le week-end, à l'heure où j'écris ces lignes. Ce report est dû à l'insistance de Trump, qui souhaite que le choc du bombardement soit atténué autant que possible par l'ouverture de la Bourse de Wall Street lundi. (Trump a contesté ce matin sur les réseaux sociaux un article du Wall Street Journal affirmant qu'il avait décidé d'attaquer l'Iran, écrivant qu'il n'avait pas encore décidé de la marche à suivre).
Fordow abrite la majorité des centrifugeuses les plus avancées d'Iran qui, selon les derniers rapports de l'Agence internationale de l'énergie atomique, dont l'Iran est signataire, ont produit 900 livres d'uranium enrichi à 60 %, soit à deux doigts du niveau requis pour la fabrication d'armes nucléaires.
Les dernières frappes aériennes israéliennes contre l'Iran n'ont pas cherché à détruire les centrifugeuses de #Fordow, qui sont stockées à au moins 80 mètres sous terre. Il a été convenu mercredi que des bombardiers américains équipés de bombes capables de pénétrer à cette profondeur commenceront à attaquer le site de Fordow ce week-end.
Ce délai donnera aux forces militaires américaines présentes au #Moyen-Orient et en Méditerranée orientale (il y a plus d'une vingtaine de bases aériennes et de ports navals américains dans la région) le temps de se préparer à d'éventuelles représailles iraniennes. On suppose que l'Iran dispose encore de certaines capacités balistiques et aériennes qui figureront sur la liste des cibles américaines. «C'est l'occasion de se débarrasser une fois pour toutes de ce régime», m'a déclaré aujourd'hui un responsable bien informé, «alors autant voir les choses en grand». Il a toutefois précisé qu'il ne s'agirait pas d'un «tapis de bombes».
Les bombardements prévus ce week-end auront également de nouvelles cibles : les bases des Gardiens de la révolution, qui ont contré ceux qui font campagne contre les dirigeants révolutionnaires depuis le renversement violent du shah d'Iran au début de 1979.
Les dirigeants israéliens, sous la direction du Premier ministre Benjamin Netanyahu, espèrent que ces bombardements fourniront «les moyens de créer un soulèvement» contre le régime iranien actuel, qui a fait preuve de peu de tolérance envers ceux qui défient les dirigeants religieux et leurs édits. Les commissariats de police iraniens seront frappés. Les bureaux gouvernementaux qui abritent des dossiers sur les dissidents présumés en Iran seront également attaqués.
Les Israéliens espèrent apparemment aussi, si j'ai bien compris, que Khamenei fuira le pays et ne résistera pas jusqu'au bout. On m'a dit que son avion personnel avait quitté l'aéroport de Téhéran tôt mercredi matin à destination d'Oman, accompagné de deux avions de chasse, mais on ne sait pas s'il était à bord.
Seuls deux tiers des 90 millions d'Iraniens sont persans. Les minorités les plus importantes sont les #Azéris, dont beaucoup ont des liens secrets de longue date avec la #CIA, les Kurdes, les Arabes et les Baloutches. Les Juifs constituent également une petite minorité. (L' #Azerbaïdjan abrite une importante base secrète de la CIA pour ses opérations en Iran).
Le retour du fils du shah, qui vit actuellement en exil près de Washington, n'a jamais été envisagé par les stratèges américains et israéliens, m'a-t-on dit. Mais il a été question, au sein du groupe de planification de la Maison Blanche, dont fait partie le vice-président J.D. Vance, d'installer un leader religieux modéré à la tête du pays si #Khamenei était destitué. Les Israéliens se sont vivement opposés à cette idée. «Ils se fichent complètement de la question religieuse, mais exigent une marionnette politique pour contrôler le pays», a déclaré un haut responsable américain de longue date. «Nous sommes divisés avec les Israéliens sur ce point. Il en résulterait une hostilité permanente et des conflits futurs à perpétuité, Bibi essayant désespérément d'attirer les États-Unis comme allié contre tout ce qui est musulman, en utilisant le sort des citoyens comme appât propagandiste.»
Selon mes informations, les services de renseignement américains et israéliens espèrent que des éléments de la communauté azérie se joindront à une révolte populaire contre le régime au pouvoir, si une telle révolte venait à se développer pendant la poursuite des bombardements israéliens. Certains pensent également que certains membres des Gardiens de la révolution pourraient se joindre à ce qui pourrait être, selon mes informations, «un soulèvement démocratique contre les ayatollahs», une aspiration de longue date du gouvernement américain. Le renversement soudain et réussi de Bachar #al-Assad en Syrie a été cité comme un modèle potentiel, même si la chute d'Assad est intervenue après une longue guerre civile.
Il est possible que les bombardements massifs menés par Israël et les États-Unis plongent l'Iran dans un état de défaillance permanente, comme cela s'est produit après l'intervention occidentale en Libye en 2011. Cette révolte a abouti au meurtre brutal de Mouammar Kadhafi, qui maintenait sous contrôle les tribus disparates du pays. L'avenir de la #Syrie, de l' #Irak et du #Liban, tous victimes d'attaques extérieures répétées, est loin d'être réglé.
Donald Trump# veut clairement une victoire internationale qu'il pourra mettre en avant. Pour y parvenir, lui et #Netanyahu entraînent les #États-Unis dans une voie inédite.
This portrait from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope puts the nearby galaxy NGC 4449 in the spotlight. The galaxy is situated just 12.5 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs). It is a member of the M94 galaxy group, which is near the Local Group of galaxies that the Milky Way […]
The EU is under pressure to strike a trade deal with Trump, but an influx of mass-produced, low-quality food must be off the table, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
Text: ICE agents are complaining that every time they go out wearing masks in unmasked cars with no uniforms or identification, protesters keep dumping pounds of glitter on them so that everyone can tell they're ICE for days afterwards.
Image below the text: a man in white shirt and black tie and glasses, with a raised hand, as if trying to get someone's attention.
Text on that image: who had "Glitter bombing the Gestapo" on their bingo card?
The first comprehensive analysis of how Israel's War on Gaza will cause suffering for generations to come. Journalist David Keys reveals the horrifying scale and long-term implications of the ongoing tragedy
At 17, Haya is no stranger to war. On again, off again, it was a frequent part of her childhood, but this time it has brought her to the brink of despair. When it started, she was studying, but her school was one of many destroyed in the bombardment.
Haggs Castle on the southside of Glasgow. Built in 1587 for the Maxwell Family, it's considered one of the few Medieval buildings still standing in Glasgow. Others include Glasgow Cathedral (built 1197), Provand's Lordship (built in 1471), Provan's Hall (built around 1450) and Crookston Castle (built around 1400).
In @pluralistic 's The Lost Cause there was some software that kids used to show fellow residents a vision of a better future by modelling their streets and their houses. Basically what construction companies do to sell houses, or what road building companies do to sell asphalt. But easier and faster to use.
The question is, do we have anything like that? I'm at a point where I need to show a future of my town to residents, and I want to show them pictures and renderings, not just maps.
Time for some summer books! Looking for some light fare to load on my e-reader for travel: some history, a few spy or detective yarns. Anyone have something to recommend?
On June 12, 2025, Aflac Incorporated, a Georgia corporation (the “Company”), identified unauthorized access to its network. The Company promptly initiated its cybersecurity incident response protocols and believes that it contained the intrusion within hours. The Company’s business remains operational, and its systems were not affected by ransomware. The Company continues to serve its policyholders as it responds to this incident and can underwrite policies, review claims, and otherwise service customers as usual. The Company has engaged leading third-party cybersecurity experts to support the Company’s response to the incident.
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