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Much of my family left Turkey after my great-grandfather was murdered in the Armenian Genocide. Turkey, Israel, and many other countries still deny this genocide occurred. Itâs a denial that enables genocides like that in Gaza to take place today.
@lain he didn't have the gravitas for a main belt run, always smirking and laughing and demeaning his position, he's a chickenshit heel midcarder at best
well you live in france so obviously you think it's a good idea to flood a western country with 3rd world migrants. opinion discarded. ... oh you're talking about bush not trump never mind
"I am not obsessed with Israel nor - to be sure - am I obsessed with Jewish people. I would be happy to never mention Israel again if only they would stop killing children (I am a father) and stop blackmailing our politicians into supporting them.
the boys at GTW are probably as shocked as the people who have supported the Ron Paul political movement to learn that NA is Zionist and now bashing Their midlife base and everything we believe in. I especially love the lack of coverage on Epstein and Massie and all the taxpayers money involved in lobbying our congress critters and senators. Could be the ultimate exit strategy or maybe the keeper is really a handler after all just like Bidens sons lovers
@DameAtomicGinger I just don't see that they are zionists. I'd love to hear why you think they are. I'm not here to defend them, I am genuinely curios why you think they are.
They pretty much just talk about what is in the media, so of the media isn't covering Epstein, they can't cover it either.
Fight under the onslaught of mutated monsters, obsessed soldiers and even darker bosses. Just try to survive and find out what to do next in this life, simultaneously tearing your enemies to pieces.
The Earth is boiling The World is bleeding because of clowns who put money over Life
"This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the blue pill - the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes. Remember, all I'm offering is the truth - nothing more."
The Netherlands is enacting it's national heat plan this week. With temps forecast to be as high as 35ËC in the middle of the week. We need to talk about shade. Specifically, about the way our infrastucture is not designed for the new normal of these high temperatures in the summer.
In the heat of a summers day, by far the best thing a person can do is seek shade. Alas the way we have designed our built infrastructure makes this difficult. Take for example this bus stop in Amsterdam.
The Glass roof and sides makes the bus shelter light and airy. In the depths of winter, this is great, it stops it turning into a dark dingy space noone wants to use. Alas in the heat of summer, it turns the space into a furnace. The inspiration for this thread came about when I got sunburnt sholders waiting for a bus last summer. Not only does the lack of shade result in being hot and sunburnt, but it also heats up the bench in the bus shelter, a crucial piece of infrastructure for many.
This isn't a one off design flaw either. It's like the entire public transport infrastructure of the Netherlands hasn't taken into account the idea of providing shade for users. Take the design of Leiden Centraal Station bus station. This is the shelter provided. This one is a double whammy, It's crap in winter, and crap in summer. I don't know what the designers were thinking when they came up with it, but it's entirely unfit for purpose. There's not even a bench to sit on while you wait.
On my travels in Southern Europe last summer, I thought I'd check out what the locals do there. They have a lot more sun and hot weather than up in the frozen north. They have got to have solved this problem right?
This bus shelter is in Genoa, Italy. The photo sums up the design failure nicely. People having to stand behind the bus shelter because the bus shelter itself offers no actual shade in the shelter itself.
But that's Northern Italy, it's not that far south, it can't be that hot there. What if we go further south? Say. Spain.
Well this is a bus shelter in Madrid. A city not known for it's cold grey weather... it's a bloody greenhouse. No shade offered here at all. Just a nice boiling hot place to quietly melt while you wait for your bus...
Another one of those cases where I struggle to understand what on earth the designers were thinking. Why would you build a glass box in a hot country? 5/n
And before you start thinking this is just a bus stop problem. Here's Utrecht Centraal station. The glass panels of the platform cover are positioned perfectly to cook anyone who needs to sit in the heat of the day... This is good in winter for providing passive solar gain for cold travellers, whilst avoiding the station feeling dark and dingy. But in summer. Passengers cook. It's telling that noone is sitting in any of the benches on the platforms at this station. 6/n
This is not an easy design problem to solve. You want the sun in the shelter space in the winter to provide passive solar gain, and to make the space feel light and welcoming. but in the summer you need the shade so as to make the bus stop, or train platform a safe cool space for passengers to wait. This is an accessibility issue. Safe waiting locations are crucial for many to be able to use public transport properly. Yet, almost universally, public transport users are failed. 7/n
There are ways to design better sun/shade aware structures. That balance passive solar gain in the winter with shade in the summer, but the key to that is taking the situation into account. Being away of sun angle across the year. The way that building designers do with a Brise soleil. But then you can't copy and paste your bus shelter design across the whole city. It drives up cost. It requires thought. Which is a lot ot expect of the local councils...
One other possible solution is to not integrate the shade into the shelter itself, but to instead plant deciduous trees on the street to provide shade in the summer. And yes. This is an absolutely fantastic idea. And one that we really really really need to do. Street trees reduce local temperatures through shading, making it feel as much as 30°C cooler. They also lower temps through transpiration by about 2.5°C. Street trees are universally brilliant. We need more of them. But... 9/n
They take time to provide the shade needed. Time scales of ten plus years at least to provide a meaningful amount of shade. This doesn't mean we shouldn't be planting street trees. We absolutely should. No ifs, no buts. Planting street trees are the single simplest measure the local council can take to improve the livability of a street. But until they are big enough to provide meaningful shade for public transport passengers. We need to find a better design of bus shelter.
To illustrate just how much of a challenge this is, we need to cross the pond to LA. And perhaps the pinacle of poor bus shade design.
La Sombrita. The design of this is so notoriously bad that I, a geek who's never set foot in the US has heard how bad it is.
This is a cautionary tale of the competing obstacles to proper people centred infrastructure. Announced with some fanfair as a shade solution for bus users in LA. It's been universally mocked. But how did it happen?
La Sombrita came about due to the competing jurisdiction wrangling of the LA street.
The transit authority don't own the pavement, so can't build a shelter there. They can't take space from the road, cos car space is sacred. They often also have to wrangle private interests in the areas around the bus stop too. The result is the only place the transit authority can put anything is on the bus stop pole itself. The need to handle winds dictate the perforated design. La Sombrita is... 12/n
Basically all they could do within the constraints of the various stakeholders of an LA street. The podcast 99% invisible have am excellent episode that details how this all came about, I highly recommend a listen (99percentinvisible.org/episodeâŠ).
But the rest of us need to heed La Sombrita as a cautionary tale. And in the meantime time pressure local councils to build better public transport infrastructure, and of course plant more trees. Lots more trees.
This past May, the city of Los Angeles rolled out a brand new, state-of-the art feature for bus shelters. Itâs called La Sombrita. La Sombrita is a metal screen thatâs intended to provide shade for the thousands of people who ride the bus every day.
the tree plan is obviously better, but how about incorporating liquid crystal in the roof and walls to adjust shading? Most shelters have power anyway, with lighting and advertising displays....
You might enjoy this article on new architecture designs coming out of Africa:
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Looking at the label, it's the same company JC Decaux who gave Amsterdam a strangle (wurg) contract. They're actually an advertising agency, specialising in outdoor advertising. The bus stops are likely just a means for them.
The bus station is horrible. They don't like people sitting outside for free.
they were very controversial when introduced, they were designed as an urban decoration element, not for their actual usefulness; in winter we get a decent amount of wind so they don't shelter you from the rain. The good news is that after two decades (I think?) they're in the process of being replaced.
Is that intended to be a shelter? Iâve always taken it for pointless decoration, with actual waiting & sheltering being done on the railway station side (after all, officially we donât even know where which bus is going to leave from until a few minutes before, and the info screens are by the station).
Letâs hope the new bus station will be better! (It wonât be better)
many Scottish cities are not bad about providing bus shelters, but without exception they are all open at the ground which means all the rain falling on the outside runs in and you end up standing in a puddle. An upstand around the base of the bus shelter would be a huge improvement.
Matter interact with other matter in different ways. Just like rain drops are made of matter, light is matter too and can be blocked. In other words, we can have windows that let visible light through while absorbing, or reflecting rest of the spectrum.
That bus stop might be letting visible light while blocking wavelengths that contribute to most heat, or upgraded to do that.
Researchers at the University of Notre Dame develop a new window coating to block heat-generating ultraviolet and infrared light and allow for visible light, regardless of the sunâs angle.
my experimental solution would be to see what window boxes with annual climbing plants could do - something like morning glories, maybe. They would cover the shelter in the summer, but you'd still get the benefit of the sun in the winter. I don't have any bus shelters near me (public transportation here is abysmal/non-existent) or I'd try it myself.
IDF soldiers are killing civilians in Gaza every, single, day. More than 500 Palestinians have been killed & 4,000 injured trying to get aid in a territory where 100% of the population are at risk of famine. IDF soldiers have said they are being ordered to shoot civilians.
IDF soldiers are killing civilians in Gaza every, single, day. More than 500 Palestinians have been killed & 4,000 injured trying to get aid in a territory where 100% of the population are at risk of famine. IDF soldiers have said they are being orderedâŠ
âParts of the Mediterranean are now running more than 5-6°C above their long-term average as well, or around eight standard deviations from the average. In statistics anything more than two standard deviations from the average is usually considered an extreme departure from normal.â
Channel 4 announces it is airing Gaza: Doctors Under Attack. The film examines allegations that healthcare workers, including doctors, have been targeted by Israeli forces. It was originally commissioned by the BBC, who delayed and then dropped the documentary. Watch it âŹïž
Channel 4 announces it is airing Gaza: Doctors Under Attack. The film examines allegations that healthcare workers, including doctors, have been targeted by Israeli forces. It was originally commissioned by the BBC, who delayed and then dropped theâŠ
'Are we allowed to say "death to the IDF" in the UK? Somerset police don't seem to think so.
Death to the IDF could mean many things. It could be metaphorical as in "I want to see the IDF come to an end", kind'a like saying "death to apartheid". It could be literal as in "I want to see the death of any soldier that harms civilians", kind'a like saying "they deserve the death penalty" '. 1/3
'Or it could be literal as in "I want to see every last IDF soldier dead because they're in a genocidal army".
Of course, Zionists have decided those words go even further than the last example: they have decided the Glastonbury chant means wishing death upon every Israeli. The Mail On Sunday even rewrote "death to the IDF" as "death to Israelis" on its front page, even though those words weren't said. This could easily be considered libellous.' 2/3
It is of course true that every able bodied Israeli is either an IDF soldier or a reservist. So putting an equals sign between IDF and Israelis is not entirely unreasonable. But, let's be real, this is a figure of speech and nowhere near a credible, or even intended, death threat.
I agree it was almost certainly a lie. Prety much everything he says is a lie. And itâs probably even worse if he is telling the truth. Who wants a PM who canât focus on more than 1 thing at a time? Heâs basically telling us heâs not up to the job.
Billionaire Republican megadonors saw their wealth soar under the tax laws benefiting the wealthiest that the "megabill" enshrines.
Hedge fund titan Ken Griffin's net worth increased 400% since the 2017 GOP tax law. He gave over $108 million last cycle backing GOP candidates and groups.
Elon Musk's wealth has grown by over 1600% under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
The top 100 donors in federal elections gave more than three times as much to Republicans as to Democrats, according to a review of 2024 contribution data.
Health officials in Gaza say that 66 children have died of malnutrition since the war beganAt least 120 infants are being diagnosed each day with conditions ...
Over the past 20 months, historian Assal Rad has been correcting misleading mainstream news headlines on Israelâs genocide in Gaza. She talks us through the ...
The son of Iran's ousted shah is set to address British MPs in the UK parliament on Monday, numerous sources within parliament and the Labour Party have told Middle East Eye.
GM An ethno-supremicist, power seeking, diasporadic ppl group should not be allowed to have their own state or participate in education or politics in any other nation.
By DEFINITION.
It wouldn't matter who they were.
Understand what a nation is, why it's important for it to have skin in the game for itself, and what the effects are for the ppl who live there.
đ§ â Una investigadora revela el truco para detectar las fresas mĂĄs dulces y pide elegir las de este tamaño â No es sencillo saber, al menos no a simple vista, si se tratarĂĄ de una pieza mĂĄs dulce que amarga y viceversa. huffingtonpost.es/life/una-invâŠ
It was deeply offensive that he didn't brand all children of a certain race as terrorists and say that they should be killed, because if the last couple years have shown us anything, it's that BBC has unlimited airtime for the spokespeople of those perpetrating genocide peddling exactly that message.
Es ist die typische heuchlerische, reaktionÀre, fundamentalchristliche Politik der Klöckner, die bei dem Kreuzerlass in Bayern sich jegliche Kritik (sogar von den Kirchen) verbat, aber auf dem ReichstagsgebÀude keine Regenbogenflagge akzeptiert.
Es hat nichts mit der NeutralitĂ€t zu tun, die sie anfĂŒhrt.
A Chinese-led study proposes a global solar-wind energy system to meet the world's energy demands in 2050, producing three times the amount of power needed at a lower cost than independent regional systems.
In a watershed moment in the fight to hold corporations accountable for complicity in Israelâs war crimes, A.P. MĂžller Maersk has become the first global shipping company to halt the transport of goods to and from Israeli settlements. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/mask-ofâŠ
"Maersk's announcement to cut ties with Israeli settlements is not corporate goodwill. It is the result of sustained pressure by global grassroots organizers who exposed Maersk's direct complicity in Israel's war crimes in Gaza and the rest of Palestine, and community after community who refuse to stay silent in the face of genocide."
However:
"For the moment, Maersk's move is limited to Israeli settlements. It does not cover Maersk's ..."
I actually met the old MĂžller guy once, when I sold luxury furniture - he must be the most massively conservative type of person I've ever encountered & I also met our current king & queen. It warms my heart considerably that his company has decided to show this much balls & integrity; they've upped their profile over the past decade or so but I always suspected it was mostly reputation-washing.
If this is still that, at least something useful has come out of it.
Yesterday may have been the worst news for the preservation of democracy under Trump yet. Also the S&P 500 hit a record high. Wanting an analog for understanding, I looked up the performance of the German stock market from 1930â1945.
@Haleakalacrater @Richard @zephyrotv it changed - Miss May had long fingernails & she's dig in your shoulders at a particular place to discipline - and I was within pinching distance. I truly loved that woman
deps deps.0 build and running dependencies on arch and elsewhere
For those that practice the wise art of building your own you may notice on some repositories we have a deps and a deps.0, in an increasing occurrence in recent months. Although pacman/makepkg provide this luxury of separating running dependency ( depends= ) and make/build dependencies as ( makedepends= and checkdepends= ) arch-linux and most of its followers fail to take the advantage of this, and list running dependencies on top where they are applied as makedependencies as well. By shifting running dependencies to package{}= sections you prevent makepkg from having to demand all of them.
Not ALL running dependencies are necessary to build a package, and if you run with minimal make dependencies it will most likely ask you specifically for what else is missing as a makedependency. There is a gray area where the pkg can build without a specific library or functionality necessary, and in such occasions you can search and take an educated guess whether you want this functionality or not. It is a general good practice to satisfy all those optional make dependencies so full functionality can be delivered.
In most recent labwc-git build, where build dependencies had been optimized, xwayland was demanded. Some new code in labwc -git requires that the current xwayland libraries be present for ultimate functionality, so this was added.
We believe that installing additional running dependencies while building is both extra bulk and a security risk, as if something insecure was discovered in the near future, it has been passed into packages by being present when not necessary.
So the previously used arch-linux inspired deps are moved in deps.0 and new deps tend to be smaller lists of what is necessary and/or useful to be present. By doing so we are under the impression that we are cleaning up the builds one at a time and progressively this makes the entire system leaner and more responsive as @Kerry (kokanee) recently commented. If you think this is a poor practice and what arch artix obarun manjaro are doing is good enough let us know why you think this is wrong. We have yet to encounter any evidence of a pkg being built suffering from such lean-build practice.
All quiet on the Western front? Yes, I'm all about lean and mean! I booted up my laptop for my daughter to show her how fast it boots to the GUI (lawbc).
Okay, I'll accept the challenge...I'll build all joborun updates starting now.
I may have a very old machine I tried this on, but the pkgs I believe make a difference being optimized and built on specific machine architecture are the kernel and certain large pkgs like xorg-server mesa .. or anything large. The rest didn't seem to make a perceivable difference, it may be measurable somehow but whether building generic or native appeared the same.
So I've decided to build exactly as joborun so I can use the built pkgs on other machines as well. Pretty much anything I can get my hands on gets joborun.
If youâre experiencing establishment pushback against truth in the midst of lies, congratulations. Youâre on the right and ultimately winning side in the epic clash between kingdoms.
@truthbait I do know Marky Mark is a devout Catholic, so itâs no virtue signal. I know you consider it gay, and thatâs fine. I view it not so much as preaching, or spreading the word, but more as a reminder no matter what faith you may be. I know he blesses himself with the sign of the cross, and Sunday being the Christian sabbath, but I donât see it as strictly Christian. I feel like he is promoting a general spirituality, whatever your faith.
@truthbait If I felt it was strictly a Catholic message, I would address it as such, much like I do during Advent or Lent when I greet my fellow NA Catholics.
I just hope anyone who has any sort of Faith would get something out of it. And saying God Bless you as a greeting I view as a more general blessing for everyone, not strictly Christians.
â âïžđźđ±/đ”đž NEW: Hebrew media reports a 'severe security incident' in Gaza, with details under military censorship.
@Middle_East_Spectator
As part of this scramble, in February last year, the EU signed a $900 million deal with Rwanda âto nurture sustainable and resilient value chains for critical raw materials.â Ironically, Rwanda exports more minerals than it does from its own mines. The DRC, the United Nations, and international human rights groups say the bulk of minerals exported by Rwanda are plundered from eastern DRC. Coincidentally, in the immediate aftermath of this EU-Rwanda minerals supply deal, fighting resumed in eastern DRC, peaking in February this year when the Rwanda-backed M-23 rebel group seized control of vast swathes of the area in this mineral-rich part of the country. Rights groups say over 8,500 people have been killed in this attack. Even the EU Parliament has voted for the suspension of the minerals deal until Rwanda stops supporting the M-23 rebels, but the EU is not keen to do so, putting its own interests ahead of the rights of the citizens of the DRC, and human rights in general. ....DRC remains one of the poorest countries in the world. english.almayadeen.net/article⊠#congo #drc #eu #europe #eupol #rwanda #apple #google #microsoft #Tesla #usa #imperialism #dell #HumanRights #sextrafficking #sexualabuse
The DRC's offer of exclusive mineral rights to the U.S. is a desperate move to curb resource plundering, but ongoing exploitation, conflict, and human rights abuses persist, challenging the ethics of the global energy transition.
Video (see previous post) has emerged of a gang rape of a #Palestinian prisoner by guards at the Sde Teiman detention facility in the Negev desert, southern #Israel. Ten soldiers were ultimately arrested for the rape on July 29, in a case that has rocked Israeli society. The soldiers belong to a unit known as Force 100, which is tasked with guarding the Sde Teiman facility, according to Haaretz Military prosecutors released three of the arrested soldiers on August 4, adding to the two previously released by investigators following a military court hearing in Kfar Yona on July 30, at which protesters gathered in support of the soldiers under arrest. Bezalel Smotrich demanded âan immediate criminal investigation to locate the leakers of the trending video that was intended to harm the reservists and that caused tremendous damage to Israel in the world and to exhaust the full severity of the law against themâ. Following the arrest of the reservists on July 29, far-right mobs, some of which included government ministers, stormed the facility at Sde Teiman. Israeli pressure group Guarding the Soldiers â a new organisation formed in defence of the soldiers accused of rape... #IsraelTerroristState #warcrimes #zioNaZis aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/9/evâŠ
"One paramedic said that at the Sde Teiman detention facility he was suspended from a chain attached to handcuffs, electroshocked, denied medical care for broken ribs caused by beatings, & administered what he believed was a psychoactive drug before interrogations.
Human Rights Watch - (Jerusalem) â Israeli forces have arbitrarily detained Palestinian healthcare workers in Gaza since hostilities began in October 2023, âŠ
#Israeli officials have obstructed a UN investigation into alleged sexual crimes committed by Hamas fighters during the 7 October 2023 Al-Aqsa Flood operation, fearing this would open the door to a probe into the rampant allegations of sexual violence against Palestinians inside Israeli torture camps.
According to a report by Israeli daily Haaretz, Tel Aviv rejected a request from Pramila Patten, the #UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on #SexualViolence in Conflict, to investigate the allegations against #Hamas after she established that a necessary condition would be access to Israeli detention centers to probe claims against Israeli soldiers.
Nevertheless, since the start of the Israeli genocide in #Gaza, #humanrights organizations have documented dozens of accounts of the rampant sexual violence inflicted on #Palestinians inside Israeli detention centers.
And now the real face of #zionazis: On 27 August, Channel 14 hosted one of the Sde Teiman guards accused of raping Palestinians on one of its programs. The soldier stated, âThe military police treated us really nice... You see the support ⊠With a hand on their heart, like, telling you âthank youâ!â thecradle.co/articles-id/28389 #IsraelWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #warcrimes #prisons @palestine @israel
Elected Israeli officials and settler groups last year started riots in defense of prison guards who gang-raped a Palestinian detainee inside the notorious Sde Teiman prison camp
Sari Bashi from Human Rights Watch unpacks a UN report accusing Israel of systemic sexual violence and genocide.
Sari Bashi, a programme director at Human Rights Watch, discusses a UN report that accuses Israel of systemic sexual violence and genocidal acts against Palestinians. #Israel denies the claims.
#Palestinian Women 'Raped by Israeli Soldiers.' Silence From Western #Media
Women are routinely sexually abused during home invasions by the Israeli military. Theyâre forced to disrobe â sometimes in front of their male relatives â and adopt humiliating poses for the soldiers to film them, Khraim said. During some #WestBank home invasions, the other advocate testified, Israeli soldiers touched Palestinian women sexually and threatened them with rape, all while their male relatives were handcuffed. The soldiers âmake sexual noises and gestures, threaten to rape [the woman] even, doing this in front of [her male relatives] while they're being handcuffed or blindfolded, not able to stop it, not able to protect [their] daughter, sister, whatever it may be. It's a form to not only control the woman, but also control the men as well, and break up the family and, in turn, break up society as a whole.â
This is an example for those who justify the stance of german State under the explanation "guiltiness". This guy is grandson of one of the most notorious guys, Katznelson, of the early zionist project. And he speaks up. And he goes against the steps of his ancestors (also his father who was a general in IOF), because he can see. He can see and has the moral values to speak. He has also lost relative from "terrorist" attack and what he said is "Why not tell the truth... That this and similar tragedies are taking place because we are occupying another nation and that in order to save lives the right thing to do is to end the occupation and negotiate a just peace with our Palestinian partners?"
The great truth of our time is that our continent is giving way to barbarism because private ownership of the means of production is being maintained by violence. Merely to recognize this truth is not sufficient, but should it not be recognized, no other truth of importance can be discovered. Of what use is it to write something courageous which shows that the condition into which we are falling is barbarous (which is true) if it is not clear why we are falling into this condition? We must say that torture is used in order to preserve property relations. To be sure, when we say this we lose a great many friends who are against torture only because they think property relations can be upheld without torture, which is untrue.
We must tell the truth about the barbarous conditions in our country in order that the thing should be done which will put an end to themâthe thing, namely, which will change property relations. -Bertolt Brecht 1935 autonomies.org/2024/06/bertoltâŠ
Fascism can be combated as capitalism alone, as the nakedest, most shameless, most oppressive, and most treacherous form of capitalism. Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and âŠ
"A sniper killed a UN worker on the roof of his home in the northern West Bank, the UN has said, as friends and family gathered in Turkey to bury a US-Turkish activist who had been killed by the Israeli military at a protest six days earlier and around 30km away. Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad, a sanitation worker with the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, was the first Unrwa employee killed in the West Bank in more than a decade. Shot in the early hours of Thursday morning in el Farâa camp, he left behind a wife and five children." #Palestine #IsraelTerroristState #warcrimes #IsraelWarCrimes
This is how IDF-IOF deploys its snipers. On the other side, Qassam Brigades' (the military group under the political command of Hamas) snipers target only military men of IOF. The difference is clear or not?
tragic not enough chads i guess they will never figure out why filtering only for 20% of men will lead to having less men available. with animals this tactic could actually work like a lion with his pride of females but human females are too narcissistic for that.
CĂłmo llevĂĄis el caloret? De momento por aquĂ aĂșn no estamos tan mal como estuvimos, pero lo que leo no suena bien ...
La AEMET ha anunciado que este domingo las temperaturas superarĂĄn los 42 grados en zonas del nordeste, centro y sur peninsular. Si bien, en ese mismo comunicado ha anunciado que a partir del martes 1 de julio las temperaturas comenzarĂĄn a descender por el norte. En el resto del paĂs continuarĂĄ el calor intenso durante buena parte de la semana.
Mega farms in Scotland, including some with more than a million animals, have repeatedly leaked excrement and failed to monitor contamination, putting humans, wildlife and the environment at risk, The Ferret can reveal.
The army plans to expel 1,500-2,000 Palestinians from Fire Zone 918 in Masafer Yatta, claiming that they are not "permanent residents". Meanwhile, 11 illegal outposts have been established, with the army's support, within the same Fire Zone. In the West Bank, Fire Zones now cover nearly a million dunams, and their primary function seems to be training for one thing, which is how to expel Palestinians.
Last Tuesday (June 17, 2025), a document was circulated within the #IDF Central Command headquarters and it deserves close attention. Titled "Subject: Training Routine in Fire Zone 918", the two page memo, signed by Major Sari Saban, lays out in detail why it is needy to expel approximately 1,500-2,000 Palestinian residents that are living in an area that was first declared a military âFire Zoneâ by Israel in the late 1971. Fire Zones, as a reminder, are always designated as "Closed Military Zones" where, according to the army, only "permanent residents" are permitted to remain. Pay attention to that term - "permanent residents" - we will return to it shortly.
Below are two short quotes from the document that clearly clarify its purpose: âOver the years, a phenomenon of widespread illegal construction has developed in the Fire Zone, which harms the training routine and the IDF's ability to prepare for war" (Section 2)..... "In recent months, the Central Command has been operating - using both civilian and military tools at its disposal in order to fulfill its duty - preserving the Fire Zone for the benefit of IDF training" (Section 3). Link to the full document in the comments.
Let us take a moment to recall what Fire Zone 918 actually is: It spans over nearly 33,000 dunams and is located at the southeastern edge of the West Bank. The area lies within what is historically known as "Masafer Yatta" meaning the agricultural hinterland of the town of Yatta. This broader region extends well beyond the boundaries of Fire Zone 918, and a significant portion of it now lies south of the Green Line, within the sovereign territory of the State of Israel.
In Masafer Yatta dozens of shepherd communities have lived for generations in what is called âkhirbeâ, meaning small hamlets of Yatta. This way of life was common all around Palestinian towns and villages throughout the country. The same thing happened here within the 33,000 dunams that the army declared as "Fire Zone 918", around 12 to 13 shepherd communities, historically connected to Yatta, have lived and worked the land for generations. These are the communities that the Central Command document, now targets for destruction and expulsion. And what is the justification the army offers? It refuses to recognize the residents as "permanent". For years, the state has invested enormous effort trying to prove that these villages are merely "seasonal encampments" and thus, in the army's view, they can expel them from Fire Zone 918.
On May 4, 2022, the High Court ruled that there was no justification to prevent the "evacuation" - meaning, expelling the Palestinian residents of the communities located within Fire Zone 918. The ruling was authored by the settler judge David Mintz, who was born and raised in England and immigrated to Israel - perhaps, among other reasons, so that one day he could authorize the expulsion of people from the very places where their grand-grandparents were born and lived. A stunning twist of irony - though over here, it goes by the name âZionismâ.
As expected, Mintz's ruling was hailed by his ideological allies, who viewed it as a major milestone in the broader effort to expel Palestinians from the area and transform it into a Jewish-only settlement area. Just as was done in other Fire Zones in the northern West Bank, where Palestinians were fully displaced. Indeed not too long after the ruling, the army began blocking roads and restricting movement in the area, in an effort to "encourage" residents to leave. "Voluntary Migration". Link to the post we published in November 2022 is in the comments.
In the years leading up to the court ruling, Israel continued mapping areas that had been looted since the early 1980s by declaring them as "state land". Past experience shows that such mapping typically signals an intent to eventually transfer the land to settlers. And indeed, while working on our latest report, âThe Bad Samaritanâ that was published in March of this year, we discovered that in 2019 and 2021, the Settlement Division allocated over 3,300 dunams of "state land" located inside Fire Zone 918 to two settlers for grazing purposes. Link to our post from May 2022, where we explained how and why this mapping was carried out, is in the comments.
At the same time, settlers established 11 outposts within Fire Zone 918. Nine of them were established between 2022 and 2024, and six of them after October 7, 2023. Strikingly, the Central Command document makes no mention of these outposts at all. Apparently, it is only the presence of Palestinians living in the area that disrupts the army's training. The outposts, established by violent and lawless settlers, are not only not disturbing, they function as paramilitary extensions that the army protects and supports.
The phenomenon of expelling Palestinians, as settlers take control over Fire Zones and establish outposts within them, is not unique to Fire Zone 918. Over the past decade, we have seen this pattern spread across the West Bank. One key example is Fire Zone 904A, located east of the villages of Aqraba and Beit Furik, which settlers have gradually managed to seize almost entirely since the late 1990s. Link to the post where we explained the settlers' model is in the comments.
As we explained in our report "A Locked Garden" which we published ten years ago, the army has left nearly 80% of the West Bank's Fire Zones unused for decades, effectively enabling settlers to expel the Palestinian residents who live there and to seize control of the land. This is not a new phenomenon, but it has gained renewed momentum since Avi Bluth's was appointed as the Apartheid commander. Link to the "A Locked Garden" report is in the comments.
This is exactly what is happening now in Fire Zone 203, west of #Ramallah, as we described in a post last March (link to the post is in the comments). This is exactly what is happening in Fire Zone 934, where settlers have recently begun establishing an outpost called "Beit Horon North", which the racist and corrupt government has already rushed to designate as a "new settlement".
#KeremNavot - Nabothâs Vineyard Nabothâs Vineyard (Kerem Navot) is an Israeli NGO established in 2012, which monitors and carries out research on Israeli land policy in the #WestBank.
As a non-native English speaker from a not-so-popular language group, learning to read even casual science stuff was an uphill battle. First I had to learn English to a reasonable level. Then I realized that English-Romanian dictionaries hadnât really kept up with science.
I eventually managed to get my hands on a fancy English-only dictionary (yes, a printed one, this was a while ago), but then I ran into another problem: I'd start from one definition, only to find another unfamiliar word in the explanation, then another one in that definition and so on, until I forgot where I had started. And even when I did understand a concept, I'd often be stuck with the English word and with a lot of frustration about trying to convey that in my own language.
Some of those struggles are outdated now. At least you no longer have to deal with a giant dictionary pressing into your ribs if youâre reading lying down. But the language gap in science communication still exists.
Thatâs why Iâm launching a community project: The brain across languages.
Weâre inviting students who speak more than one language to help us translate Neurofrontiers content into as many languages as possible.
What this project is about Understanding the brain is essential and, without a doubt, fascinating. But while the science of the brain affects everyone, the language of that science remains predominantly English.
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i guess they will never figure out why filtering only for 20% of men will lead to having less men available. with animals this tactic could actually work like a lion with his pride of females but human females are too narcissistic for that.
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IMO he's still probably the worst US president in my lifetime, although Obama and Clinton follow fairly closely.
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oh you're talking about bush not trump never mind