US splurged $800m on THAAD in 12 days to shield Israel from Iranian missiles: Reports networkdefenseofhumanitycuba.w…

The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history | Semafor


#geopolitics #imperialism #finance

A lot will happen this week with the BRICS summit in Rio...

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Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications | Institut de Ciències del Mar


#environnement #climate

Dynamic systems don't evolve linearly. Brace for rapid, uncontrolled, unpredictable change.

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Was die #Islamisten den #Jesiden im #Irak angetan haben, war viel schlimmer als das, was im #Gazastreifen geschah.


Ältere Frauen werden #lebendig #begraben, weil sie zu alt sind, um als #Sexsklavinnen zu arbeiten.
#Mütter werden gezwungen, ihre eigenen #Babys zu essen.
Junge #Mädchen wurden in #Eisenkäfige gesperrt und verbrannt.
Doch kein einziger Protest! Alle, die jetzt für #Gaza protestieren, waren völlig still. Warum?
Anders als die Menschen im Gazastreifen haben die #Jesiden nie einen #Krieg begonnen!

In einer funktionierenden Gesellschaft passen sich die Gäste dem Gastgeber an.
In Deutschland passt sich die Gesellschaft den Gästen an und verzichtet auf seine Kultur.
#Islamismus #Gruppenvergewaltigungen #Messermorde #Brandmauertote #Islam #Brandmaueropfer #Massenvergewaltigungen
#Islam #Moslem #Islamisten #Migration #Remigration #Bevölkerungsaustausch

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“The goal is mainly to terrorise us, scare our children, burn our houses — anything they can reach, they try to destroy and burn.”

Palestinian residents of the occupied West Bank village of Bruqin, describe daily harassment and severe violence by illegal Israeli settlers and military forces as a form of collective punishment.

They recount a life overshadowed by fear, home invasions, property destruction and psychological trauma.

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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

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Palestine Action activists and their families describe how the UK government is using counter-terrorism legislation to silence dissent against Israel’s arms trade.

“I had to change my whole reality,” says Ronny, an Israeli dissident jailed after a protest against Elbit Systems. “We were the first Palestine Action members imprisoned – and it hasn’t stopped.”

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#Press #News

A decision to drop criminal charges against fans of Maccabi Tel Aviv football club has ignited controversy in the Netherlands.

Dutch prosecutors took the decision after CCTV footage showing violent behavior by Israeli hooligans toward Muslim women last November was found to have been ERASED.

Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports from Amsterdam.

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Very sad to see that Diogo Jota died... A great footballer.

Also yesterday Muhannad al-Lili, a Palestinian footballer, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza.

Of course, Jota is on the front page of every newspaper. Al-Lili is not visible on any UK newspapers at all.

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#palestine

Prisoner’s Society: Number of Palestinian journalists held under administrative detention rises to 22 #Palestine english.pnn.ps/news/47524

Good morning Fedi friends!

Now that my Fedi promo video is out and I'm no longer spending 7 hours a day doing motion graphics, I have time to pick up again writing for the blog #TheFutureIsFederated.

🔗: news.elenarossini.com/tag/the-…

This morning I will create a roadmap for the rest of the summer. There is so much I have yet to explore and write about.

At the top of my list: trying out #BookWyrm and the #Friends plugin for #wordpress

Any other requests? 👀

Wishing everyone a great day! 🌞

Pourquoi l’avion est moins cher que le train en Europe, alors qu'il est 20 à 50x plus polluant ? Et surtout, comment y remédier ?
Voici des réponses concrètes pour limiter les émissions de gaz à effet de serre et rendre la mobilité en Europe plus accessible : bonpote.com/pourquoi-lavion-es…

L’union ? Quelle union ?, par Frédéric Lordon (Les blogs du Diplo, 30 juin 2025)


#politique #trahison

C’est un fétiche et c’est une jérémiade : « l’union ». Pour quoi faire ? On ne sait pas. L’essentiel est d’être « unis ». Tous ensemble vers le talus — on finira sur le toit mais on sera restés soudés. Le gros bon sens qui tache proteste cependant : « unis, on est plus fort que divisés ; divisés on n’arrivera à rien ». Mais tellement. En matière syndicale, les prodiges de « l’union » sont encore très frais dans nos esprits, et offerts à (ne pas) être médités : c’était en 2023, à l’occasion des retraites. Pas d’erreur, on a été bien unis. Avec la CFDT. La preuve, on n’est pas « arrivés à rien » : puisqu’on a mis des millions de personnes dans la rue pendant deux mois. Pour, à la fin, perdre l’imperdable. Par alignement de « l’union » sur la mollesse politique, l’incompréhension des situations historiques et la nullité stratégique. Tous ensemble — dans la défaite. Attention, pas n’importe laquelle : une défaite triomphale, unanimement célébrée. Par la bourgeoisie – et sa presse, admirative : voilà de la bonne union, celle qui ne nous fera jamais aucun mal.


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Aliyev Expects To Rise To Global Stardom By Stirring Up Highly Publicized Trouble With Russia korybko.substack.com/p/aliyev-…

So apparently this professor did not write his own tests but used tests provided by a company in effect cheating the academic process

For all we know this professor could not get the correct answer on his own

He then lectures the students for cheating for getting a hold of the same answer key that he cheated to get

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U Principinu : Le Petit Prince en sicilien dans la vitrine d'une librairie à Palerme
The Little Prince in Sicilian in a Palermo bookshop window

#maphoto #myphoto #palerme #palermo #bookstore #librairie #lecture #reading #vendredilecture #Saint-Exupéry #LittlePrince #LePetitPrince

Polish opposition proposes entry ban for migrants from Middle East and Africa


Poland’s main opposition party, the national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS), has proposed an entry ban for people from certain countries in the Middle East and Africa. It says this would help stop Germany’s practice of sending migrants who have illegally crossed the border back to Poland.

The proposal comes amid renewed debate over how to tackle migration, with the Polish government on Tuesday announcing the reintroduction of controls on Poland’s borders with Germany and Lithuania in an effort to prevent the “uncontrolled flow of migrants”.

After Prime Minister Donald Tusk had announced the border controls, the head of PiS’s parliamentary caucus, Mariusz Błaszczak, said that the government’s actions were “too little, too late”.

“This crisis has been going on for months,” he continued. “This issue requires far-reaching action.”

Błaszczak said that PiS would submit a bill to parliament introducing a temporary ban on entry to Poland for third-country nationals from “specific countries outside Europe…whose citizens illegally cross borders”.

Previously, on Monday, PiS party leader Jarosław Kaczyński had called for an “immediate ban on entry to the territory of Poland for people from the Middle East and North Africa”.

PiS has not yet specified which Middle Eastern and African countries would be included in its proposed ban. It says they would be selected based on analysis of data showing which nationalities most often cross borders illegally or are transferred to Poland from Germany.

A government information campaign discouraging people from trying to illegally enter Poland was recently launched in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan and Egypt, countries from which Poland has identified the largest numbers of people crossing the border from Belarus.

Since 2021, tens of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers – mainly from Asia and Africa – have tried to enter Poland from Belarus, with the encouragement and assistance of the Belarusian authorities.

In response, Poland has heavily fortified its eastern border with physical barriers and electronic monitoring. The government also recently banned asylum claims by people crossing from Belarus. Those measures have led to a dramatic decline in the numbers entering via that route.

In his remarks on Tuesday, Błaszczak made clear, however, that PiS’s proposed entry ban was designed to address the issue that has recently caused most controversy, which is Germany’s policy of sending back to Poland thousands of migrants who crossed the Polish-German border illegally.

Many of those sent back are Ukrainians. Others are non-Europeans, often from Asia and Africa, who have either claimed asylum in Poland – and therefore must remain there while their applications are processed – or have simply passed through it after entering the EU irregularly.

“After the introduction of this [proposed] law, Polish border guards will be able to prevent citizens of these countries from entering our territory,” said Błaszczak. “So those who are today being transferred from Germany by the German authorities, or who are trying to cross from Germany to the Polish side, will not be able to do so.”

The migrant returns carried out by Germany take place under a combination of EU regulations, bilateral agreements with Poland, and the border controls that Berlin reintroduced in 2023. Earlier this year, Tusk declared that Poland may stop adhering to such agreements.

However, some Poles have sought to take matters into their own hands, organising self-declared “citizen patrols” – some of them hundreds strong – at the German border to monitor and prevent migrant returns.

Błaszczak said that PiS politicians will be visiting the German border to make clear that “we support the border defence movement”, which he described as “Polish patriots who took matters into their own hands when Donald Tusk’s state abdicated [its responsibilities]”.

He also pledged that the party “will provide support to those who are persecuted by the current authorities of our country” for undertaking such actions, reports the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

Earlier this week, Tusk and interior minister Tomasz Siemoniak criticised the actions of the citizen patrols, saying that they are disrupting the work of border officers and spreading false claims about the number and types of migrants being transferred by Germany.

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Watch full press conference here to learn of the sheer extent of the state, media, and corporate system for profiting from occupation and now genocide webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1a/k1a9…

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Qué mal lo de eliminar el arbolado en las ciudades. No hay que tener muchas luces para saber que es el mejor mecanismo para reducir las temperaturas. Solo hay que darse cuenta del frescor que se nota cuando vas caminando por una zona de asfalto y hormigón y de repente te metes una zona con vegetación y árboles.

Pero esta gente que legisla desde sus despachos climatizados y vuelve a su chalet en coche oficial, no experimenta esto, ni intención que tiene.

Sufrir las altas temperaturas en las ciudades también es de currantes y pobres. Los mismos que les votamos.

American democracy is a failed idea. Elected officials voted to literally kill their own constituents, because the $$ said to.

'More than 60 House Republicans represent districts where Medicaid enrollment is higher than the national average."

And the bill they just passed in Congress is the biggest cut to Medicaid in history.

Elected officials voted to *kill* their own constituents.

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Libyan delegation examines Belarusian vehicles, machines on display outside BelExpo eng.belta.by/economics/view/li…

Simple. Labour has moved to the right not left, ditched its promised policies, and alienated its core support. Starmer, McSweeney and his coterie need to go as soon as possible, or Labour is finished

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He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
-- Benjamin Tucker

#anarchism #quote #bot

Sanchez Effect | Kit Klarenberg: 'Chicken and eggs: Who's lying first — CIA, MI6, or Mossad?' odysee.com/SEKlarenberg_July_2…

Looking forward v much to our discussion this morning at the UK's Competition & Markets Authority on #interoperability: lessons (for the #DMCCA) from #telecoms regulation!

Tim Cowen (Preiskell & Co. antitrust chair) and Prof. @chrismarsden.bsky.social are both world authorities on this topic 👀 And we have a surprise guest to talk about payments & water regulation lessons!

Here are my background slides docs.google.com/presentation/d…

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#Cemento y #calor: #Zaragoza pierde #árboles en #verano y crece la indignación vecinal.

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Sé que este no es el sitio ideal, pero BUSCO HABITACIÓN O PISO EN BARCELONA O HOSPITALET. A partir de septiembre y para tres meses (de septiembre a noviembre).

Estaré trabajando en el IDAEA-CSIC y busco algo idealmente por Sants, Gracia o incluso Hospitalet pero cualquier barrio me vale.

Busco tanto compartir (idealmente, porque somos animales sociales) como vivir solo y con espacio para una bicicleta.

Toda difusión es bienvenida.

Muchas gracias y no olviden hidratarse e ir por la sombra.

Israel Kills over 300 in Gaza in 48 Hours as Possible Truce in Balance tn.ai/3347637