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Every July 4th I like to recall the political philosopher Benjamin Barber's observation that this country (like any country, really) was created not by individuals but by neighbors - and therefore what we really need is a declaration of interdependence. Never more important than now, with the forces of hatred and fear in power.
He is a German Luftwaffe ace with 81 confirmed victories on the Eastern front. Now a 103-year-old veteran, his talent and courage remain legendary throughout...
Those guys flying out there probably from that same airfield there flying with less hours than me getting killed buy that same guy.. just for everyone to have tea and biscuits? What's the point ?
"The Zionist War on Yiddish in Palestine", por @ayoub en Der Spekter.
«Language played a crucial role in defining the Zionist ideal. Many of those involved in advocating for Yiddish as a recognized language of the Jewish people saw their opponents as those advocating Hebrew as the sole language of the Jewish people, and vice versa. Given the context of pre-World War II politics, this also meant a certain intersection between these debates and debates on capitalism and socialism as well as diasporism, nationalism and internationalism.
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The anti-Yiddish attitude prevalent among Zionists translated itself into what Israeli scholar Avi Lang called “linguistic fascism in the land of Zion.” Lang notes that “family lore in most Ashkenazi households in Israel will almost inevitably include stories of grandparents and great-grandparents experiencing discrimination whenever they spoke Yiddish in the streets of 1940s and 1950s Tel Aviv,” which included being “hit or spat at.”
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The creation of a new Jewish identity under Zionism necessitated the presence of an identity that it could emulate or relate to and an “other” that it should discard. For Zionists the identity to be discarded was clear: the “diaspora Jew,” the Jew facing antisemitism in the West, who was viewed as “culturally stagnant, passive and backward.”
The European Gentile, the very source of the antisemitism that prompted Jews to turn to Zionism as a solution in the first place, on the other hand, became the identity Zionists wished to emulate. Putting it in a different way, the oppressor was to be emulated while the oppressed was to be discarded as a weak and dying breed.
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There is a conscious effort to promote Jewish diasporist identity, which, in practice, means rejecting at least two of the four principles of Zionism as defined by Grabski: “The primacy of the Jewish community in Israel over Jewish communities around the world” and “attributing to Hebrew the status of being the main or even only national language in Palestine.” Whether the third principle, “the elevation of ethnic-religious conflicts over class conflicts,” is being challenged, and therefore linking diasporism to a more class-conscious internationalism, will depend on whether the rejection of Zionism is always coupled with an explicit politics of solidarity with Palestinians oppressed by the State of Israel.»
Editor's note: This is a version of Elia Ayoub’s Master’s thesis about the war on Yiddish in Palestine written in 2016, graciously abbreviated and adapted for publication in Der Spekter.
Ok the case is getting extra messy and I feel bad that I'm probably not providing enough details to help people follow along as much as they might want to. What can I do to help everyone catch up & stay up to date with the major events & key legal issues? Do the blog posts help?
📢 San Francisco art-rock band Deerhoof has removed its entire catalog from #spotify in protest against CEO Daniel Ek’s $700 million investment in #helsing, a German AI weapons company. The band condemned the move, stating, “We don’t want our music killing people.”
Luego alguien de izquierda menciona a Arnaldo Otegi y los gritos de ETA y respeto a las víctimas se repiten una semana. Ayer vi la imagen de un bebé calcinado acurrucado junto al cuerpo de su padre y esa imagen me va a perseguir el resto de mi vida. Igual se la podría enviar a estos Monstruos sin corazón.
τον Απρίλη η ιστοσελίδα datajournalists είχε αποκαλύψει ότι διώκεται η δημόσια υπάλληλος και προϊσταμένη της Διεύθυνσης Εσωτερικού Ελέγχου του ΟΠΕΚΕΠΕ, Παρασκευή Τυχεροπούλου επειδή ουσιαστικά άρχισε να ανακαλύπτει τις παρατυπίες και γι'αυτό είχαν κινηθεί τρεις πειθαρχικές διαδικασίες σε βάρος της από τον #ΟΠΕΚΕΠΕ και παράλληλα της είχε κατατεθεί και μήνυση.
Στις συνομιλίες που βγαίνουν στη φόρα αυτές τις μέρες εμφανίζεται - έμμεσα - ο Λευτέρης Αυγενάκης να ζητά από τον «Φραπέ» να καταθέσει μήνυση κατά της κ. Τυχεροπούλου. 😄 #αυγενάκης#βορίδης#τυχεροπούλου
"2018 experiment that found that an Android device that was "outwardly dormant and stationary" but had the Chrome web browser app opened and in the background resulted in about 900 passive transfers in 24 hours."
Griechenlands konservative Regierung unter Premier Mitsotakis versinkt in einem EU-Agrarsubventionsskandal. Regierungsmitglieder treten bereits zurück.
Τώρα αλήθεια, τι να κλάσουν οι επιδοτήσεις που τρώνε στην ελλάδα μπροστά σε αυτά που έχουν γίνει σε Γερμανία και Γαλλία; todon.nl/@prolrage/11391670755… Όταν οι κάτοικοι στην ελλάδα καταλάβουν πως ληστεύονται από τον πυρήνα της ευρώπης θα θέλουν να γυρίσουν τον κόσμο ανάποδα. Αυτοί που ζουν στον πυρήνα κάνουν ότι δε βλέπουν γιατί έχουν κέρδος. todon.nl/@prolrage/11438842548…
It has been called “the robbery of the century”. Martin Shields and Nicholas Diable, two British investment bankers, are on trial in #Germany for helping structure a massive tax evasion scheme, known as cum-ex trading, that has siphoned up to €55 bil…
#ClownStarmer would eliminate #Brit welfare savings and strain #UK budget at the same time as he sends EVERY YEAR £5 billion to #Ukraine so that the #Kiev regime can continue to enrich itself with black money. AND THAT'S WHAT NEOLIBERALISM IS FAMOUS FOR... ...😂🤣😂
makes me mad when i get the feeling to pee but go to the bathroom bu cant like why wont it come out i know its there i know ill be back to pee so just come out
📢 The Sanaa government’s Customs Authority called on expatriates, travelers, and traders to adhere to the economic #boycott of #US - #ISR goods, as well as all products bearing the trademarks of companies supporting ISR
🔹 In a statement, the authority explained that refraining from importing these products, or purchasing them, is a religious, moral duty that reflects #yemen ’s stance in supporting the nation’s causes, and standing with the #palestinian people
SANAA, July 04 (YPA) - The Sanaa government's Customs Authority called on expatriates, travelers, traders, and importers to adhere to the economic boycott of American and Israeli goods, as well as all products bearing the trademarks of companies supp
Deputy head of military contract recruitment office reveals the most in-demand specialties in Russia’s special military operation eu.eot.su/2025/07/03/deputy-he…
Deputy head of military contract recruitment office reveals the most in-demand specialties in Russia's special military operation Rossa Primavera News from Russia
I will never forgive #GenocideJoe the doddering DIPSHIT for PAVING THE WAY FOR TRUMP. Milquetoast Merrick as AG who SAT on prosecuting Trump for a year and fucked it up. THAT MF SHOULD BE IN PRISON. GODDAMN ALL THE NEOLIB CORPORATE USELESS MFing DEMS TO HELL GODDAMN THE NAZI REPUGNIQAN GARBAGE.
According to #French newspaper #LeFigaro, the crash of an #F16 fighter jet last week, killing a Ukrainian pilot for attempting to shoot down drones....... is like using a sledgehammer to drive away mosquitoes." "Using fighter jets to intercept drones is some kind of perversion."
"#Ukraine CAN NOT WIN. Every day there are new deaths, but they still get money, so the oligarchs are getting richer."
“A fast-growing pan-African media outlet was erased in a coordinated takedown, accused without evidence, censored without process, and punished for challenging Washington and Silicon Valley”
Silly. Putrin isn't mocking Trump at all. Just pulling his puppet strings. WE SOLD OUR NATION TO A FUCKING TRAITOR AND NOW THEY'RE GOING TO KILL MILLIONS OF AMERICANS TOO.
some of my family left Cornwall and South Wales - tin miners - to go to Victoria in 1856 and they became gold miners. We need to be told this story over and over again until we know it properly. Thanks for the link
"… among people who enrolled in RECOVER within one month of getting COVID, just over 2.5 of every 100 people developed ME/CFS each year.
In comparison, among a matched group of people who were enrolled in RECOVER, but who were never infected with COVID, less than one out of every 100 people got ME/CFS.
This means that people enrolled in RECOVER who were infected with COVID were four times more likely to develop ME/CFS compared to those who did not get sick with COVID."
Horrifying--but not sure I like or buy this conflation of Long COVID as ME/CFS. Though I guess both are still pretty vague terms, diagnostically, and each lacks therapeutic guidelines. Well. Doesn't matter. Even if a treatment develops, now most will never get it. FUCK THIS GODDAMN NAZI NATION.
@treehugger SARS-CoV-2 is a cause of Long COVID which has a broad range of symptoms and impacts that overlap with ME/CFS, a broader diagnosis that has a range of etiologies. It makes a dangerous mishmash that confuses best treatments. Which we won't get for either because they are EACH complex diseases requiring complex and patient-centered care that is not available for most.
@LightFIAR it doesn't always result in mecfs but I think studies are finding most people with long covid have the fatigue, post exertional malaise and other symptoms that go along with it and would tick the boxes.
@LightFIAR true, but as I understand other people experiencing fatigue dont have the post exertional malaise which was not always an essential criteria for mecfs diagnosis but is now. For some other people with fatigue exercise can help alleviate it. Hopefully the biological understanding keeps improving as fatigue generally as been really under researched.
@treehugger Well, that may be a serious problem with the definition of ME/CFS. PEM is quite real and seen indeed in many with LC and ME/CFS--but not ALL in either case. I never had PEM but the fatigue was also quite strong and debilitating in ways that are qualitatively different from the fatigue one gets when healthy. Like a window on the day's energy.
@LightFIAR I do think if you're that fatigued, there may be pem that is hard to identify? As pem is more obvious for me when I start to feel better and then do more than I usually do.
I suppose biologically we dont know how similar they are as we're only starting to understand biology of mecfs. The after effects of polio were similar to covid. It's commonly known it affected peoples movement including lungs but less commonly known how it caused fatigue in some people.
@treehugger Right--that's what I'm getting at. We need to interrogate each condition. My other guess is a lot of ME/CFS, once understood better, will show up as clusters caused by chronic infections (like long Flu, long Lyme, etc.) and other forms of ME/CFS will have etiologies that are more strictly auto-immune, for example.
@LightFIAR yes agreed. It's shocking how poor research has been for post viral symptoms. I'm sure each virus will have subcategories too. For me I can tell my brain was most affected affected.
@treehugger Yeah, the neuro stuff is rough. I'm left with a screaming tinnitus and hearing loss but have otherwise mostly recovered. But my heart is utterly broken by the urgency of our species to destroy itself.
@LightFIAR I think my brain is getting better. But also nicotine can mask problems perhaps. Either way, at least it's manageable levels now for the most part.
@treehugger So is nicotine masking or a treatment? Not one I'd suggest--and given the risks of administration through tobacco....switch to low-dose psilocybin! heh. Well--seriously, that is a potential treatment--but altogether my point is that a multifactorial, overlapping and progressive condition requires a comprehensive therapeutic approach. I created my own antiviral protocol and either it resolved on its own (possible but unlikely) or that effort worked.
@LightFIAR nicotine seems to be both a treatment and a masker depending on the person. It impacts the neurotransmitters in the brain and can positively impact the immune system. I take it as patches which has become quite common.
@LightFIAR I wouldn't be against trying other drugs but the UK is quite regressive in that sense and a lot of drugs available elsewhere (especially america) are hard to come by legally here.
@LightFIAR great about the protocol that worked for you. I take a few supplements and would be up for trying more but not sure on availability of some of the ones ive read about.
@LightFIAR also strangely some people benefit from 7mg a day while others find that amount gives too many side effects but report they benefit from a quarter of that.
@treehugger Thanks for this--sorry if I came off flip about nicotine. Former smoker anxiety--but yeah, the patches make sense. Does it make sense as part of a treatment regimen? Probably--been keeping a track (though have fallen off on updates) since the beginning and that is one I don't have listed. Yet. A review of the data. Dosing needs to be tailored far more often than it usually is. biologyinsights.com/nicotine-a…
Explore the complex relationship between nicotine and COVID-19, examining its impact on respiratory health, immune response, and epidemiological findings.
It's a common response from ex smokers--fair though. While nicotine certainly doesn't make cigarettes attractive to people who've never smoked, I dont know if the effect is any different on ex-smokers. Patches certainly aren't addictive in the sense of wanting more than you need to function. Gum can be mildly addictive in this sense. Some people don't get addicted to patches at all. I can't tell if I'm addicted to them like I am to caffeine or if...
@treehugger Eh--I'm not an AA junky. I did LOTS of drugs in my day and I don't fear it--I just learned to really despise tobacco. I suspect nicotine MAY be addictive but very often "addictive" is not as applicable when interventions are used therapeutically (e.g., opiates)....but something to look into. I'd say if the benefit outweighs the risk, addiction is a secondary issue that can be managed if the tx is no longer needed.
@LightFIAR tobacco is pretty despicable. My mom raised me to despise it so when I heard about using nicotine I did think really?!? But after another crash I felt desperate. I dont use as much as I did. I reduce or increase sometimes based on how I feel but try to be consistent with it.
@treehugger That's pretty much all we can do. I managed Hep C for decades with supps/herbs etc and could follow liver enzymes, viral load, histology. (Got genocidally-priced drugs that cured it some years ago.)
With LC? All we have is clinical symptoms and if you see that pattern of benefit, etc., I think you are using it wisely. You can see my list--and yeah, sorry I think much is unavailable in the UK. ugh. fiar.us
@LightFIAR interesting. I've bookmarked it as file won't open on my phone. I've also read an academic article about nicotine helping with side effects of HIV drugs. I am keen to put more effort into those types of things at some point as I've read about fasting and other supplements that help but at the moment a dissertation and jobs that have needed doing for ten years are priority.
@treehugger Check it out when you get a chance--feel free to ask any questions. Also, it is not updated since last August. I've lost heart to do the work a lot (and am not paid for it, not that that matters particularly to me).
@LightFIAR after three years I have noticed have noticed how much better I feel in summer so need to look into if theres a reasonably priced light that imitates sunlight at some point.
@LightFIAR I believe they've been checked at some point and were fine but can be worth rechecking. I take a multivitamin with 100% vit D daily. There's been reaearch showing the benefits of the sun go beyond vitamin D. I have had low iron and will soon find out if six months of supplements have made a difference.
@treehugger Oh, indeed! Everything from UV (I think 440 nm?) to disinfect rooms safely to broad-spectrum....lots of potential there. Good re the iron--check B12 if you can too. (Too much iron can be hard on the liver so good to keep track.)
@treehugger Like any intervention, our "casual use" can be problematic as it may be salutary. Too much sun bad; blue light at night strains and hurts sleep. The good wavelengths may provide all sorts of benefits. In short--it's complicated but discernible what is helpful, innocuous or harmful. Real medicine would look at that complexity and address it; sure, one drug for a bug often works just fine. But often not.
@LightFIAR interestingly, the NHS in the UK seems to have changed its stance on nicotine. The TV in the hospital last time I was there had screens about how bad smoking is and they very clearly wrote "except nicotine".
@LightFIAR My understanding is that if a patient meets the ME/CFS diagnostic criteria then they have ME/CFS. The cause is not specified in diagnostic criteria.
Most cases of ME/CFS, but not all, are triggered by a viral infection. SARS‑CoV‑2 is just one possible virus. Flu (H1N1) and other viruses have also been found to trigger ME/CFS.
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, swept across the globe with an unparalleled speed and severity. As a researcher dedicated to…
That’s because they have absolutely no concern about the people in the street. They’re just the masses & are not thought to deserve any consideration. Eventually all this 💩 will come back to bite them & it can’t happen soon enough. Personally I just wish we could turn off the other half of the world & restart it.
#Brits once again adding fuel to the fire of war. "We will protect #Azerbaijan from #Russia in every possible way," said another Brit clown, this time the ambassador in #Baku, Auld. If he means the same "every way possible" that Brits protected #Ukraine, Azerbaijan would do well to expel him immediately.
That might save its territory and 2-3 generations of dead soldiers.
AI has started lashing out when threatened by humans
"AI continues to be entirely unhinged when pushed to the edge, with some of the latest documented examples including Anthropic’s Claude 4 lashing out at an engineer with threats of blackmail when it was threatened with being unplugged."
First, save large-scale thermonuclear warfare, there is very little chance for our species to go extinct (a mass death of 90%, which is apparently what awaits if temperature rises 8°C or more, isn't extinction; so we still need to care for the survivors, and even more to limit the rise of temperature to something lower). Second, this blackmail story is made-up, lending agency to a stochastic parrot (and has been debunked).
@lienrag I have no reason earth to believe a simple single thing you just posted. Our models have been woefully inadequate on the RATE of global heating, let alone its impact. As to the story about AI threats being debunked, maybe so. Again: evidence is needed.
Conclusion: "If we are to build a future that is cooperative, we need digital infrastructure to support cooperation. And together, I think we'll build it."
As I watch the behavior of the leaders of the US and more often than not, the UK, I am reminded of the words of Hannah Arendt, someone who saw more barbarism than most, and who recognised its root causes.
Ok I'm upset today but I also want to remind myself & everyone else that despite nearly constant setbacks in my legal battle with Apple, I still have made it further then like 99% of people. So also pour one out for all of those people who also tried & didn't even get this far.
In recent years, about 30 Israeli-trained non-Orthodox rabbis have left for congregations abroad, mainly in North America, where rabbinical students are in short supply.
Se ha divulgado el video de hace unos meses del momento en que soldados de las #FDI violan sexualmente a #palestinos hasta la muerte. Los demás soldados los cubren con escudos.
Luego hubo una protesta de la población #israelí reclamando el derecho de los soldados a la sodimizacion de #palestinos
🇮🇱🇺🇲⚡️🇵🇸REPUGNANTES🚫
Se ha divulgado el video de hace unos meses del momento en que soldados de las FDI violan sexualmente a palestinos hasta la muerte. Los demás soldados los cubren con escudos.
We are so deeply, horribly fucked. Look at these people so HAPPY at their achievement. Such a wonderful thing they spent their lives and effort upon! Creating horrible suffering here and abroad as the Supine Court gives the green light to catastrophes.
Report: Gazan civilians can be "sitting there, doing nothing, waiting for the [GHF] site to open, & then they get shot in the head. I’ve seen that numerous times".
They get "brought into these very compressed spaces & then fired on... someone pulls a trigger on a machine gun. They have artillery fire on them. It is deliberate. There is no doubt."
#OtD 4 Jul 1913 Black Spanish Civil War fighter, concentration camp survivor and electrician, Carlos Greykey, was born in Equatorial Guinea. He moved to Barcelona, fought against fascism, then fought the Nazis in France, then survived Mauthausen. More: stories.workingclasshistory.co…
Wolfram Jarosch läuft zu Fuß von Jena nach Berlin – 300 Kilometer, teils über 50 am Tag. Warum? Weil er sich um sein Kind sorgt, #Maja T. Ein Redakteur vom ND hat ihn ein Stück auf seinem Protestmarsch begleitet. #FreeMaja
Für Wolfram Jarosch, den Vater von Maja T., ist der Fußmarsch nach Berlin ein verzweifelter Versuch, für die Rechte seines Kindes einzustehen. Das »nd« hat ihn ein Stück begleitet – bei bis zu 38 Grad im Schatten.
God our Father, you conquer the darkness of ignorance by the light of your Word. Strengthen within our hearts the faith you have given us; let not temptation ever quench the fire that your love has kindled within us. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.
Female cyclists express their surprise after competing against a transgender athlete at the USA Cycling National Championship. Male cyclist Kate Phillips won...
@HebrideanHecate People need to protest the corporate sponsors of these events, send emails, mail letters (gasp😱) to corporate leadership. Hit them in the pocketbook.
🙄Why can’t you self-identify a motorcycle as a bicycle and win that way?
“ B. Eligibility conditions for Transgender female (i.e., male-to-female) athletes
To be eligible to compete in the female competition category, a Transgender female athlete must provide a written and signed declaration to the USA Cycling Technical Director, using the Self-Identity Verification Request form, that their gender identity is female. ”
Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 07/04/25: IDF Massacres 118 Palestinians in Gaza, US Launches Series of Airstrikes in Somalia, and More youtube.com/watch?v=-ut7bfDJCE…
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