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Many children in the Gaza Strip are no longer matched with the years of education they are supposed to be, after the Israeli war machine prevented them from studying for two whole years. While the world’s children go to school every morning, childre
Die Berliner Ausländerbehörde hat einem palästinensischen Arzt im Mai 2024 zu Unrecht die Teilnahme an einem Palästina-Kongress in der Hauptstadt verboten.
@bifouba Ich erinnere mich. Es gab damals eine Pressekonferenz, auf der unter anderem die Anwältin Nadija Samour sehr eindrücklich berichtete: youtu.be/aVq0yJD4_l8?feature=s…
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@Kraemer_HB Dass es als Teil des Urteils belastbare Vorgaben hätte geben sollen, da gebe ich dir völlig recht. Aber es ist doch wohl eher die Verwaltung, die durch offensichtlich rechtswidriges Verhalten das Vertrauen der Bürger zerstört, nicht das Gericht, dass das feststellt oder die Medien, die über die Feststellung berichten...
@Kraemer_HB Call me old-fashioned, but I believe in the distinction between news and opinion journalism.
Einfach trocken über das Urteil berichten geht völlig in Ordnung, und mit dem Urteil in der Hand können dann berufene public intellectuals aufzeigen, wie die Repression von Palästina-Solidarität und die faschistische Demontage des Rechtsstaats Hand in Hand gehen. Als Beispiel für diesen größeren Zusammenhang diskutiert wäre mir der Fall wichtiger als nur einen Schritt weiter zu fragen, was das jetzt konkret für den nächsten Kongress und den nächsten unliebsamen Besucher bedeutet.
An expansive look at working class conditions and class struggle in the UK in the last half of the 20th Century, through the lens of books by Nicholas Comfort and Owen Jones.
La loi Duplomb aura eu le mérite de clarifier les choses : plus une seule personne n'a osé dire depuis une semaine que "l'écologie c'est pas politique, c'est ni de gauche ni de droite". La droite et l'extrême droite votent systématiquement contre la santé des Français et la préservation de l'environnement.
Les chemins révolutionnaires et le marxisme aujourd’hui
Que nous apprend l’œuvre tardive de Marx sur le rôle des luttes anticoloniales et autochtones dans le dépassement du capitalisme ? Quelles sont les trajectoires révolutionnaires de notre époque ? Le sociologue et militant politique Kevin Anderson évoque son dernier livre et les récentes manifestations aux États-Unis.
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Yea tell that to the two million Bolsheviks who died under Communist rule, or the million or so that died during the Chinese cultural revolution, and why is it people are trying to escape from North Korea but not South? And when Germany was divided why did people try to escape from East to West Germany and not the reverse. Only thing Communism does is to insure death, starvation, for all and no freedoms from anyone because when you're 100% dependent upon government you have no freedom.
That's polemic. Provocation. China is not a communist country, just as the USA is not a free country. Besides, tell that to the 9 million people who starve to death every year because capitalists speculate on wheat. Fuck it, it's all shit...
@Reverend Elvis It is not today but it certainly was to a much greater degree during the cultural revolution. Although it's an odd-mix of capitalism and communism today it certain does much better under this mix than the more pure strain in the past.
The only reason that China works better than Germany or the US is because it is not a communist country like Germany. Communism does not work and when China ended communism it took off like a rocket and no one is close to catching up. The US is a capitalist country and is in a slow and inevitable decline similar to the UK last century. The US has nothing to offer its people except for the corruption that the elite receive so those that can are leaving as fast as they can. Anyone with a decent education knows that a tariff is a tax that the people of the country pay and that the US is quickly becoming the most heavily taxed country on earth. The UK is following quickly but those with enough money to leave do so and those are the wealth creators. Neither capitalism or communism can work and the real problem is that ideology is for the gullible. If you see either as a new religion then just as with a religion you only make those in charge wealthy. A good economy must be based on common sense and both socialism to aid those that require help and capitalism to aid the wealth generation. Communism normally focusing on keeping everyone equally poor with no benefit to put your head above the parapet and try to become wealthy so no wealth. Capitalism does not help those that for any reason cannot help themselves and everyone falls at some point, so you lose everything if you have a heart attack or something. The US has the shortest life spans in the 1st world by 10 years so they have the worst living standards.
It is necessary to start with a predefinition of terms. A commune is a family, a primary group. A very fair system. Everyone gives as much as they can and takes as much as they must. And prestige and power go to those who give more than they take. But the capitalists and the Bolsheviks changed the meaning of the concept. Communism works well in groups of up to about 150 people. There must be transparency in human behaviour. One must stick to the original meaning. If the definition does not fit the word then a new word must be invented. Because otherwise we will never communicate. The language of science and not the language of the street people. China today is extreme capitalism. Capitalism is good in the initial phase when there is fragmentation on the supply as well as the demand side. In its later form it leads to capital accumulation by the few. Which leads to oligarchy. Capitalism is like cannibalism, the strong feed on the weak. Capitalism takes away man's time, it takes away our lives. Freedom is the possibility to dispose of one's own time.
[apologies for any linguistic errors.] Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
And I think the best solution is humanitarianism + utilitarianism. But the original utilitarianism not the later one that ignored ethical principles. Apropos anarhia: The less the state interferes in public life the better. People create healthy social relations themselves. Provided they are not interfered with by the media.
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But this incident with the Irish gentleman illustrates a seeming paradox in criminal justice: why adding more US cops *cannot* reduce domestic violence.
1. Incidents of domestic violence involving Black women are under-reported.
2. Because Black women are *less likely* to call the police. But why?
The woman in this case called 911 on her Irish boyfriend. Because she thought cops were here to help.
But instead of helping, they started a nightmare spiral of false imprisonment, wearing unsanitary prison clothes with knife holes and blood stains from previous victims.
He could have died.
Her bar for calling 911 on her Irish boyfriend is now much higher. She's forced to make an awful choice between balancing her safety, and the safety of a potentially abusive domestic partner.
If she gets this balance wrong, and waits too long? The results for her own safety could be disastrous.
If you can understand why she would be less likely to call 911 on her Irish boyfriend in future, then you can understand why Black women in the US are less likely to call the cops on their Black boyfriends in similar situations.
(We haven't even talked about the dynamic of cops abusing their wives)
If you read the story carefully, you'll notice that his harshest and scariest treatment happened when he was transferred to... a bureau of prisons facility in Atlanta Georgia.
Basically, they treated him like a Black US citizen who is presumed innocent and is awaiting trial. 🤷🏿♂️
Like I said, there is no person that has been to ICE detention, and a US pretrial facility, be that federal or county jail or Rikers, that thinks that the ICE conditions are worse.
Roughly 1 in 5 Black men in the US will experience this Kafkaesque unfair imprisonment mistreatment in their lifetime.
a lot of people who voted biden over the kids in cages seem to forget the early biden administration simply left the treatment mostly intact, but stopped allowing journalists in to question it
ICE was born like this during bush jr. and there's never been any saving it
Face aux crimes israéliens, l’UE choisit l’inaction et le déshonneur
Le conseil européen des affaires étrangères de l’#UnionEuropéenne n’a finalement rien statué sur son accord d’association avec #Israël, pourtant bafoué. Les 27 se contentent d’un accord sans garantie sur l’aide humanitaire à #Gaza.
Le conseil européen des affaires étrangères de l’Union européenne n’a finalement rien statué sur son accord d’association avec Israël, pourtant bafoué. Les 27 se contentent d’un accord sans garantie sur l’aide humanitaire à Gaza.
M. Carney doit dénoncer le projet israélien de camps de concentration à Gaza : CJPMO
Montréal, le 10 juillet 2025 – Canadiens pour la justice et la paix au Moyen-Orient (CJPMO) tire la sonnette d’alarme concernant les derniers plans d’Israël visant à déplacer de force les Palestiniens de Gaza et à les concentrer dans une zone fermée à la frontière sud avec l’Égypte, en préparation de leur déportation vers d’autres pays. CJPMO se fait l’écho des préoccupations des fonctionnaires de l’ONU et des historiens de l’Holocauste, qui estiment que ces projets s’apparentent à des « camps de concentration massifs », et demande instamment au Premier ministre Carney de dénoncer ce crime contre l’humanité.
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Move over rock ‘n’ roll. The new cultural cutting edge is fandom — and it’s even eaten politics. Corbynism was a fandom, and so, too, is MAGA. But the most influential early innovators in this field came from the “alt-Right”, the online ecosystem that flourished from the mid-2010s until roughly the end of the first Trump presidency.
The alt-Right was never a well-defined ideology or campaign, so much as an edgy, transgressive vibe. Just as rock music scandalised society when it detonated in the comfortable, well-behaved pop world, the alt-Right similarly shifted perceptions and created new celebrities. And according to a new memoir by one of its most controversial stars, just as with rock music the alt-Right ended up being devoured by the same vested interests it set out to disrupt.
Lauren Southern was catapulted to viral notoriety by an anti-feminist video she made in 2015 at the age of 19, instantly becoming the pretty, blonde face of Right-wing radicalism. She supported European anti-immigration activists obstructing the arrival of migrants by boat; she headlined a speaking tour with white nationalist Stefan Molyneux; she defended EDL founder Tommy Robinson. She was also accused of promoting conspiracy theories about “white genocide” and “the great replacement”.
Then, in 2018, she announced she was quitting YouTube to make documentaries; in 2019, she announced her retirement altogether, to focus on her marriage and family. Within a year she was back creating content again. Rumours began to circulate about her marriage; in 2023 she revealed that this had ended and she was living in Canada again. Last year, she told me the story of how her beliefs about family and marriage, shaped by Right-wing online memes, collided with the messy and complicated reality of life when her marriage turned abusive, leaving her questioning everything she’d believed and advocated to that point.
Now, she’s written a memoir. Like all Southern’s content, This Is Not Real Life is compelling, accessible, intimate, and unabashedly partial: in other words, perfectly calibrated for fandom consumption. It reads, in fact, like a rock memoir, because it is a rock memoir. Alongside this, depending on your own affiliations, it could read as confessional, political bridge-burning, or whitewash for a toxic career inciting political hatred and division. But the most curious feature of the book is the way it is both written for her fandom, and also as a critique of political fandom as such.
She dishes the dirt — and what dirt! — on Tommy Robinson and Andrew Tate: the former appears as a coke-snorting scammer, while she alleges that the latter is a financial criminal and rapist. She also documents her own journey from teenage ingénue to media veteran, via a political content ecosystem that provided an intoxicating thrill of celebrity but, in her telling, ran less on ideals or principles than money, drugs, and celebrity. The title, This Is Not Real Life, captures Southern’s own gradual realisation that what looked from the outside like activism was actually mostly a show; it also captures the broader digital-era sense that politics has steadily abandoned truth in favour of competing perspectives. The memoir itself occupies an ambiguous position in this: it’s both a confessional and also, avowedly, a skewed one, that has deliberately omitted many details. So is it an intervention in the unreality, or an effort to transcend it?
Following her first viral video, Southern swiftly became an intense object of parasocial (and sometimes sexual) interest to countless fans and followers. Her fandom was huge. But when we talk about parasocial relationships, we tend to be describing the attachment fans have for the object of their fascination. And yet, as Southern tells it, this really is a two-way street: “The energy around each video was intoxicating. Watching the views climb, the comments pour in, the reaction videos roll back. It was a rush. And it wasn’t just the public we were working into a frenzy. It felt even better when we provoked the police or the government.” The high of internet acclaim was compulsive: “We’d built a little digital crack house.” Why, she asks rhetorically, would “this clueless girl” put herself in so much danger, surrounded by such dodgy people? If you ask this, she says, “you might not grasp the power of hundreds of thousands of people telling you you’re saving the West”.
But even as the comments and likes poured in, she describes this as conditioning her in turn. The responses she received shaped a “people-pleasing kid who craved approval and guidance” into “an AI bot programmed with everything I could find to thrive in the conservative media landscape”: mimetically adopting everything that worked, reinforced by comment-section feedback, viral numbers, and the intoxicating high of online social approval. In response to fan feedback, her content got more and more extreme.
She’d attend feminist protests, cherry-pick protesters’ stupidest assertions, and feed her audience’s most uncharitable stereotypes, pioneering what she describes as “a Pandora’s box of stupidity”. As her fame grew, she expanded from anti-feminism to immigration. She travelled around Europe, filming at anti-immigration protests. Some of them became riots or pitched battles between anti-migration protesters and antifa. She was kettled and gassed. She filmed provocative stunts, such as declaring “ALLAH IS GAY” in heavily Muslim Luton, which got her deported from the UK. She became perhaps the best-known face of the alt-Right during the first Trump presidency, aided — as she acknowledges — by her youth, sex, and appearance.
And even if the nominal aim was conservative politics, the real driver seems to have been less conservatism in practice, than the same kind of raw, furious energy that drove the rock and punk movements. And much as rock and punk were swiftly devoured by showbiz, so too was this new ecosystem of politics-as-showbiz. In tandem, too, as they became more heavily mediated, protests also became unreal, taking on a quality of live-action roleplay with the added buzz of occasional real violence. It was all wildly, transgressively fun, from pitched battles between black-clad Antifa and Right-wingers dressed as Roman gladiators, to finding herself in the Arctic Circle in a bullet-pocked warehouse full of Finnish Nazis.
But if internet notoriety was as much about showbiz and parasocial buzz as ideals, and protest was as much thrill-seeking as principle, so too the stars and power-brokers of this emerging politics-as-entertainment scene turned out often to be less than sincere in their motives. The book opens with her embroiled in the fallout from her association with Tenet Media, a US-based platform later discovered to have taken funding from Russian state broadcaster Russia Today. She touches briefly, later in the story, on travelling to Russia in 2018, where she interviewed the hard-Right philosopher Aleksandr Dugin; she claims only to have realised much later that it was a PR exercise, brokered by a Belgian politician in the pay of the Russian government. But these were scarcely the only opportunities that turned out to come with ulterior motives.
Southern implies that her first employer, Rebel Media, took funding from the tobacco lobby and perhaps the Israeli government, circulated “petitions” that were really just tools to build mailing lists, and repeatedly fundraised ostensibly for named causes but in reality just for the company’s coffers. She also notes similar behaviour recently admitted by American alt-Right firebrand Steve Bannon, who pleaded guilty to “scamming his own base”, as Southern puts it, in a “Build The Wall” campaign that raised over $20 million but built only a few miles of fencing. Bannon was pardoned by Trump in February this year.
EDL founder and anti-immigration activist Tommy Robinson, meanwhile, is presented as having transitioned seamlessly into activism from Luton’s criminal underworld. As she tells it, he’s a cocaine-addicted “Peter Pan figure”, who fleeced his supporters for donations, ostensibly to campaign for the cause but in reality with “tens of thousands of these donations being pulled out of ATMs to pay for hookers, blow, and new flat-screen TVs”. By then, though, she and her crew were too deeply complicit to speak up. “Did we say anything? Not really. Not while staying silent benefited us.” And along with insider perks, there was also fear: anyone who tried to speak up would be smeared as “a far-left activist” and have “a mob of sycophantic fans unleashed on them”. Threats, intimidation, the online mob all helped ensure silence around his behaviour.
But that’s nothing on the allegations Southern makes against Andrew Tate — who, she alleges, raped her. (Tate has been charged with a number of similar offences in the UK and has denied all of them.) Southern describes, age 22, being taken by a gurning, coke-addled Robinson to visit Tate in his sleazy Romanian base, nominally to raise funds for a new media platform but — she alleges — really to serve as frontmen for a pump-and-dump crypto scam. Instead, Tate raped her. That’s the upshot of the account she gives: that after the initial meeting, which Robinson ruined by being obviously, incoherently high, she was invited back alone for a second meeting with Tate. Naïve and cocky, she imagined she could save the day; instead, Tate took her to a club, promising all along that the others were coming soon, then plied her with drink.
The two drinks he gave her affected her much more intensely than usual, she says. He took her back to her hotel room and asked to sleep next to her, then forced himself on her. In Southern’s words: “I said no, very clearly, multiple times, and tried to pull his hands off me. He began strangling me unconscious. He repeatedly strangled me every time I regained enough consciousness to pull at his arms. I’d prefer not to share the rest. It’s pretty obvious.”
Why, she reflects, did she not go public earlier, as the allegations against him began to mount up? Southern had no idea who he was, she says, when she first met him; in the light of her own anti-feminist pronouncements, she struggled to make sense of what he’d done. So she decided to pretend it hadn’t happened. She describes going completely off the rails after the rape, into a spiral of cocaine and alcohol. By now her notoriety swept her into a manic fugue of filming, media appearances, clubs, drugs, and transient accommodation. Reflecting on that time, she describes it as falling into a deep, dark abyss in which her idealism about “standing with the ‘good guys’” slowly gave way to a grim realisation that, for most, ideology was merely a hollow front for power. “The way we spoke as if we were rebuilding civilisation, positioning ourselves as the moral counterweight to a decaying world, all while living in quiet hypocrisy.”
But even after her first attempt at retiring from media, the pervasive unreality of her life continued. She details her whirlwind romance and marriage to “Mitch”, one of the men hired to work security for her migrant crisis documentary, and her decision to quit media in order to circumvent the ban on her travelling to Mitch’s home country, Australia. This happened in tandem, she recounts, with a hit-piece published by alt-Right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos, that alleged Southern was “a secret leftist” who traded sex for video ideas and scripts.
The sense of unreality and malice compounded when, as Southern recounts, a friend tipped her off that Andrew Tate was fanning these false rumours in his “War Room” private group — a fact that, Southern suggests, served as a pre-emptive smear campaign lest she expose his assault on her. Meanwhile, her marriage swiftly deteriorated from giddy romance to domestic abuse. Isolated in Australia, locked down by Covid, she became increasingly desperate and alcohol-dependent. Finally she managed to obtain a plane ticket to visit family in Vancouver with her son — and never returned to Australia.
Anyone who tries to make sense of This Is Not Real Life without at least a working knowledge of its setting and principal characters is bound to find it confusing. The book skips back and forth across the timeline, blending Southern’s own reflections and her account of events in a loose narrative only occasionally anchored by dates. We can infer that Southern assumes her readers are already sufficiently marinaded in the relevant lore to know who figures such as Steve Bannon, Tommy Robinson, and Andrew Tate are. And while these have received enough mainstream press coverage to be well known even beyond political fandom, it takes someone truly up to the ears in online politics discourse to know who Steven Bonnell is — let alone grasp the significance of her having had a relationship with him.
Bonnell, also known as “Destiny”, is a Left-wing streamer of similar standing to Southern — but for the other team. Having met and debated a few times early in their careers, Southern recounts a friendship developing gradually between them, after her marriage ended — a relationship that eventually became intimate.
When, in late 2024, their relationship was leaked, fans were shocked and bewildered. From a fan perspective, it was unthinkable to consider any kind of relationship developing, between the respective foci of two fandoms so diametrically opposed as Southern’s and Destiny’s. But in Southern’s telling, having both grown up in the digital panopticon and served as the avatar for huge fan communities, they had a surprising amount in common.
Even so, as Southern tells it, even the camaraderie occasioned by their shared experience of life in the digital fishbowl eventually fell victim to the relentless incentive to take ever more polarised positions. In a scene surely too out there to be fabricated, she recounts her final showdown with Bonnell as taking place on the night Donald Trump was shot, in the apartment of Southern’s friend, MAGA influencer Ashley St Clair — who was then pregnant with Elon Musk’s baby. Bonnell made several provocative posts about the assassination attempt, which prompted a bitter stand-up row and the irreparable rupture of their friendship. Her sorrow is palpable: “I’d come here hoping for clarity about my work, about the internet, maybe even about whether I still had a friend. But now I just felt more fractured than before. More alone. Everything felt impossibly fucked.”
The dissonance between fans’ reaction to the Destiny revelations, and Southern’s own account of it, cuts to the heart of what her memoir reveals. Digital fandom is a very different experience for those on the receiving end of parasocial attachment. How far is it all just showbiz, in which people fraternise cheerfully across supposedly insuperable political divides? Or, as Southern’s bust-up with Bonnell suggests, do the incentives of clickbait-posting sometimes make those divides insuperable?
A cynic might say of her latest retirement announcement that this isn’t the first one she’s made, and each time she’s come back. We might also note, given the lopsided nature of the dirt-dishing exposés in This Is Not Real Life, that not all bridges seem to have been burned. For all the detail on Tate, Robinson and Bonnell, plenty of other notables are by contrast very lightly treated. Despite his notoriety, Stefan Molyneux is mentioned only in passing. Brittany Martinez and Martin Sellner, leading lights of the Generation Identity radicals, make only the briefest cameo appearances. Critics will doubtless accuse Southern of whitewashing a career as a political extremist; but she is frank about the partiality of her account, explaining that she wished to expose her own shortcomings, not humiliate friends.
Nor does This Is Not Real Life describe any kind of political Damascene conversion. But this isn’t a memoir about leaving the Right behind, nor deciding her political views were wrong. Southern may have somewhat moderated her simplistic youthful opinions, but it’s clear she has not recanted. Rather, it’s about coming of age alongside a new celebrity ecosystem, and discovering that — much as rock ‘n’ roll did — it’s possible to be profoundly corrupted by the experience.
And much as rock music ended up central to the establishment, the clear inference of Southern’s story is that politics-as-fandom today is less a dissident force than a tool wielded by the real engines of power and influence. This Is Not Real Life recounts the mess and chaos of growing up alongside, and in, digital showbiz even as this ecosystem consolidated. Now, Southern writes, she fears it has mutated into a new mechanism of control, disguised as freedom, heralding “An era of technofascism, algorithmic control, data and digital systems”.
“Politics-as-fandom today is less a dissident force than a tool wielded by the real engines of power and influence.”
But while nothing in this brave new-media world can be taken wholly at face value, including perhaps Southern’s memoir, my sense is that if she does make a comeback it will be in a more reflective capacity. The book is peppered with reflections on her Evangelical childhood, contrasted with adult reconsiderations of Christianity — not least a reference to the gnostic experience of digital life that feels unmistakably Catholic. One clear and moving subtext concerns Southern’s spiritual journey: an ongoing arc evidently far from complete, but already bearing surprising fruit. (Southern informed me, at the time of writing, that she is pursuing graduate studies in theology.)
The final chapters describe repeated efforts by well-meaning friends to tempt her back into social media; efforts she characterises as like encouraging an alcoholic to just have one glass of wine. The whole spectacle, she suggests, serves to fill the gap where true spirituality should be: “we all want heroes to be real because we all want to be saved.” The parasocial deities of the online firmament are, as she puts it, like “little Greek gods running around with their worshippers”, poor substitutes for “connection with divinity and a higher purpose”. The end of Lauren Southern’s journey, it seems, is a new but also timeless discovery. Namely: that whether you’re worshipper or deity, the parasocial pantheons of the digital realm are thin substitutes for the real thing.
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My brother in Christ, do I really have to remind you of this?
> A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. > But I say to you that for every idle word men may speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. > For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.
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Quedaos con los nombres y caras de quienes hoy alientan que se quemen ingentes cantidades de capital en la IA, lo crypto y demás casinos financieros porque serán los mismos que, cuando llegue la crisis, nos miren a los ojos y nos digan que todo esto es culpa nuestra por "haber vivido por encima de nuestras posibilidades".
me recuerda a los que te cuentan barbaridades que hicieron en su adolescencia y te sueltan un "bueno, todos hemos cometido tonterías en la juventud" y no, no todos hemos hecho cosas terribles.
@DekaBlack la última vez hubo mucha gente que les compró el discurso. Espero que la próxima sea diferente, pero es lo que tú dices, acaso es diferente alguna vez?
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Για πρώτη φορά, μια ευρωπαϊκή συμμαχία δικηγόρων, δικαστών, καθηγητών και ειδικών σε ζητήματα διεθνούς δικαίου προσφεύγει στο Δικαστήριο της ΕΕ, κατηγορώντας την Κομισιόν και το Ευρωπαϊκό Συμβούλιο ότι παρέλειψαν να λάβουν μέτρα σε βάρος του Ισραήλ για τα εγκλήματα πολέμου στη Γάζα. Στο αποδεικτικό υλικό περιλαμβάνεται το ρεπορτάζ του @reporters_gr και του Investigate Europe, το οποίο αποκάλυψε πώς η ΕΕ χρηματοδοτεί τη μεγαλύτερη κρατική οπλοβιομηχανία του Ισραήλ με εγγυητή την κυβέρνηση Μητσοτάκη.
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"Contre Attaque a pu rencontrer des membres de Rouvíkonas, un collectif anarchiste grec né il y a 13 ans lors du mouvement social grec. L’article Rouvíkonas : «Construire une véritable opposition dans la rue» est apparu en premier sur Contre Attaque."
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"HMRC defines the wealthy as anybody earning over £200,000 a year and with assets totalling over £2 million. But billionaires have huge wealth and can be worth 500 times more than those classified as wealthy by the tax authorities."
"The report states that the number of wealthy people in the UK jumped from 700,000 to 850,000 in the last five years – but it has lumped together those earning £200,000 annually with the super wealthy."
#ACAB Μπάτσοι Ες Ες βασανιστές 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Ιατροδικαστής επιβεβαιώνει ότι ο θάνατος του Καμράν οφείλεται σε άγριο ξυλοδαρμό από αστυνομικούς ενώ ήταν κρατούμενος.
Η ιατροδικαστής Αστερία Παπαβδή συμμετείχε εκ μέρους της οικογένειας στην πραγματογνωμοσύνη για τον θάνατο του Μοχάμεντ Καμράν Ασίκ, στις 21 Σεπτέμβρη 2024, στο ΑΤ Αγίου Παντελεήμονα και κατέληξε σε συμπεράσματα-καταπέλτη για τις ευθύνες των αστυνομικών στα αστυνομικά τμήματα, όπου κρατήθηκε παράνομα και περιφερόταν στα ΑΤ Πατησίων, Γαλατσίου, Ομόνοιας, Κολωνού και Αγ. Παντελεήμονα, σε συνθήκες εξπρές του μεσονυχτίου.
«Ο θάνατος του MUHAMMAD KAMRAN ASHIQ στις 21.09.2024 επήλθε σε έδαφος ισχαιμικών του μυοκαρδίου, η οποία αποτελεί αυτοτελή αιτία θανάτου, ανεξαρτήτως της ύπαρξης υποκειμένου παθολογικού υποστρώματος, από άλλο όργανο, εν προκειμένω από την παρουσία λιπώδους διήθησης του ήπατος. Η ισχαιμία του μυοκαρδίου στο παρόν περιστατικό, ελλείψει ευρημάτων ύπαρξης στεφανιαίας νόσου αποδίδεται στο συναισθηματικό και σωματικό στρες του προηγηθέντος ξυλοδαρμού, ενόψει και της απουσίας ευρημάτων στεφανιαίας νόσου».
Καμία κωλυσιεργία, καμία συγκάλυψη δεν σώζει τους δολοφόνους αστυνομικούς του ντελιβερά μετανάστη εργάτη Μοχάμεντ Καμράν Ασίκ.
Ιατροδικαστής επιβεβαιώνει ότι ο θάνατος του Καμράν οφείλεται σε άγριο ξυλοδαρμό από αστυνομικούς ενώ ήταν κρατούμενος.
Να σταματήσει η συγκάλυψη και η κωλυσιεργία από το Υπουργείο Προ.Πο και την...
"Author: W. TcherkesoffTitle: Pages of Socialist HistorySubtitle: Teachings and Acts of Social DemocracyDate: 1902Source: <archive.org/details/pagessocialisth01tchegoog> PREFATORY NOTE. The reader should be made aware that the chapters in this book were not written altogether consecutively. Most of them appeared serially in the London Freedom and in Les
Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—According to Folha de S. Paulo, Brazil will formally request to participate in the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Tel Aviv.
"As a political journalist, I typically monitor about six or seven print publications and a somewhat absurd number of online ones. But I recently noticed a disturbing trend—a slew of articles with titles like “Apocalyptic map shows worst U.S. states to live in during nuclear war” or “Nuclear Fallout: Is
"Author: Horst StowasserTitle: Pure FreedomSubtitle: The Idea of Anarchy, History and FutureDate: 2007Notes: First translation into English by Michael Schreiber, 2025.Source: <archive.org/details/FreihteiPurPlus> Foreword Paradoxically, the collapse of the communist dictatorships seems to have signaled the end of social utopias — even though state socialism was never truly a
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Drivers are a one click install from the graphical app store. DO NOT install them manually from the nvidia website, and don't mess with kernels that your distro doesn't officially pack.
So, a first big issue people report with nvidia drivers is Screen tearing. I plugged my desktop's RTX 3070 into a basic 1080p monitor. That desktop uses X11, and tearing just isn't a thing here.
Now, if I launch a game to see how well things go, for example Darktide, with v sync off, we can clearly see some big tearing happening. With vsync on, it disappears.
If you still have tearing, you can auto start a command when your computer starts, with the following command line:
Add that command to your startup applications, and you're done.
But how about multi monitor support? I plugged my laptop running Wayland, into the same external monitor, the basic 1080p one, using the hdmi port that's connected to the nvidia dedicated GPU. Nothing to say here, it just works.
I also plugged in 2 displays onto my desktop, the 1080p one, and my usual 1440p ultrawide, straight into the RTX3070.
No problems here, both displays are detected immediately. Same experience with KDE Plasma, no issues to report here, multi monitor support works normally.
Now, another thing people tend to hold against nvidia drivers is the hybrid graphics support, as in you have a laptop with a dedicated GPU from Nvidia, and an AMD integrated chip, or an Intel one.
On Wayland, it seems that hybrid mode is the default, and the only mode you can use, I could not find a way to move it back to the intel GPU only, or Nvidia only. Hybrid mode works perfectly.
On X11, the experience is pretty much the same. Hybrid mode is the default, and you do get a bunch more options in the nvidia control panel.
Nvidia has the reputation of not working with Wayland, but that's not true anymore. Everything works as it would on a normal wayland session: touchpad gestures, no screen tearing, fractional scaling support, screen sharing and recording, and running any application. Same experience on KDE with Wayland, it just works.
On my laptop, closing the lid will suspend the laptop. But very regularly, opening the lid doesn't wake the laptop back up, and I get a black screen.
I can get out of it by just getting into a TTY, then moving back to TTY1, and I'm good, but it's not what I'd call a smooth experience.
On my desktop, running Fedora also but with X11, suspend works perfectly, and resuming also happens without any issues.
All my tests are done using the latest nvidia drivers available on Fedora 37 with GNOME, and on Ubuntu 22.10 with KDE 5.25, and all these devices have relatively recent Nvidia GPUs. So it's only 2 distros, 2 desktop environments, and 3 different cards from the same generation.
Support for older GPUs, like the RTX10 series, or older ones, might not be as good, and might require you to use older legacy drivers, which very probably won't support Wayland, and might have more issues.
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A change that Valve missed in the big recent upgrade of the Steam client, is that on Linux systems either desktop or Steam Deck, removing non-Steam apps should now be cleaner.
00:00 Intro 00:32 Sponsor: Stream any desktop, OS, or app to your browser with Kasm 01:38 Mint's new Windows-like theme 05:47 Software Management improvements 07:50 Desktop Changes 11:24 Is Linux Mint still Mint? 13:51 Sponsor: Get a device that runs Linux perfectly with Tuxedo 14:44 Support the channel
The default look is completely different. First, the green accent color is gone. It's now a very usual blue. Gone are the colored folders, now they're your basic manilla yellow color, with a stripe on top of them to use your favorite accent color. Even window controls have changed icons.
You can still use the older themes, that they call "legacy".
That default look is also complimented by a new cursor theme called Bibata. Sounds received an update as well, and are now using Material design v2 sounds.
The second big change in Mint 21.1 is its Flatpak support. The update manager now supports flatpak applications and runtimes. Mint's Software Manager also gets the usual dropdown menu to let you pick between the flatpak package or the regular deb package from the repos. Mint uses Flathub by the way, so you should get everything you need from there.
It's really not perfect though, as searches will return multiple instances of the same application.
Another change is the way Mint handles drivers. First, the driver manager, the tool that lets you see if there ARE drivers you could install and install them, well that now runs in user mode, so you don't need to enter your password just to open the application. If you're offline, you'll also get a dedicated screen to let you know why the app is empty, and you can also now use USB drives to install drivers, for example if you plug in a live USB, Mint will be able to detect it, and offer to mount it so you can install drivers from that.
Cinnamon 5.6 comes with a new corner bar, which is another callback to window's default layout: it's a small vertical applet, stuck to the far right of the default panel. Hovering over it allows you to peek at the desktop by hiding all windows, complete with a blur effect if you want, but you can also click that corner bar with the left mouse button, or the middle mouse button, and configure what which click does, between either showing the desktop, showing the desklets, showing the workspace selector or showing the window selector.
In the context menu when right clicking on the desktop, you can also now directly access the display settings, and the default desktop icons were cleaned up, with the removal of the home folder, Computer, Trash, and Network.
Nemo, the file manager, also gets a few changes, like showing the dates in list view in a monospace font, improving the path bar, by letting you click on the current path to toggle the location URL bar, while navigating to a different folder will bring the path bar back.
Smaller changes include a search entry in the shortcuts settings so you can look at all the various shortcuts you might want to change, preferred applications are now featured by categories, you can configure the duration for which notifications will stay visible, the themes list is now sorted between dark and light themes, and current and legacy themes, and you also get window placement mode back in the window manager.
Oh and also, Mint won't bug you for your password as often as it once did. For example, uninstalling a flatpak app that you installed for your user and not the whole system won't require a passsword. Same goes for removing local shortcuts and local applications you only installed for yourself.
And Synaptic and the Update manager will also remember if you entered your password recently, so they won't ask for it for every single action.
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While we already have ProtonUp-Qt which works just fine, it seems another thought they could do it better and differently with Proton version manager ProtonPlus.
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The tablet is 12.3 inches, with a QHD display, at a resolution of 2560 by 1600, so 16:10. It's a heavy boy, at 750 grams, and 1.3kg when you attach the kickstand and the keyboard.
The FydeTab is powered by a RockChip 3588S8, which is an 8 core ARM CPU, with 4 performance cores, and 4 efficiency cores, running at 2.4Ghz and 1.8ghz respectively. It's coupled with a mali G610 GPU, which is also pretty decent, as we'll see in this video.
It has 8GB of DDR4 RAM, and 128Gigs of eMMC memory.
On top of that, you get a nice aluminium build, with a headphone jack, a USB C port that supports fast charging and displayport, and you get a slot for a micro SD card to expand the storage, and for a nanoSIM card if you want to use a cellular connection.
You also get wifi 6 and bluetooth 4.2. It embarks a 42Wh battery, and the battery life is definitely quite impressive, with 10 hours of youtube videos playing in a loop over wifi at 50% brightness.
You also get a power button, which doubles as a fingerprint scanner, and a volume rocker.
The FydeTab Duo comes with everything you need to turn it into a microsoft surface form factor: a magnetically attached back that has a kickstand, with some strong magnets, and a keyboard that uses pogo pins and charges off the tablet's battery. My review unit came in red, but there will be a gray option as well. Both have a felt like exterior, and a soft touch plastic face where it touches the tablet. The kickstand feels super sturdy, with a solid hinge, but I wish it could be angled more, so you could use the tablet more flat, for drawing or annotating.
You also get a stylus with it, which uses AAAA batteries, and also works really well, with a low latency. It's not on par with an apple pencil or a samsung s pen, but it's really not bad at all.
The FydeTab Duo runs FydeOS out of the box, which is a degoogled version of Chrome OS.
The Fyde account thing felt weird to me, especially when they asked me to use telegram to verify my phone number, instead of just sending an SMS, so I went for the local account.
It's much better than ChromeOS Flex, notably because it has Android app support baked in, with the ability to add Google apps in one click from their store, with full play store access.
Android apps ran pretty well for me, with decent performance, although there is an issue with video playback: anything that is supposed to play video, just won't. Other applications worked well, I installed Alto's Odysee to try out how a game would run, and it performed perfectly.
It can also run Linux apps in a container, that you can also install in one click from the developer options, and the performance there is also decent, although much lower than what you'd get on a native Linux install.
Of course, the real appeal of this thing, will be to run a full blown linux distro on it, and you can! The booloader is open, and you can download images for FydeOS, openFyde, the Android open source project, and Debian 11. I'd expect that if this device succeeds, more options will be available as well.
I went for Debian 11, and it runs pretty well! The experience feels alright, the keyboard, display, bluetooth and wifi, suspend and resume work, gpu acceleration does as well, and battery life isn't too shabby either, although it's worse than in the default FydeOS, lasting for 7 hours in a youtube playback test. The touchscreen doesn't work though, which is a bummer, and the default Debian image is in Chinese, and I couldn't figure out how to change the language, which made it reallllly hard to use. It's not a bad experience, although it's obviously early days.
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Deepin Creates yet another packaging format, called LingLong:
Valve has announced three things recently including multiple updates that are out now for the Steam Deck, plus a quick tease of what's to come for a Beta of SteamOS 3.4.
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Unknown parent • • •Dass es als Teil des Urteils belastbare Vorgaben hätte geben sollen, da gebe ich dir völlig recht.
Aber es ist doch wohl eher die Verwaltung, die durch offensichtlich rechtswidriges Verhalten das Vertrauen der Bürger zerstört, nicht das Gericht, dass das feststellt oder die Medien, die über die Feststellung berichten...
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Call me old-fashioned, but I believe in the distinction between news and opinion journalism.
Einfach trocken über das Urteil berichten geht völlig in Ordnung, und mit dem Urteil in der Hand können dann berufene public intellectuals aufzeigen, wie die Repression von Palästina-Solidarität und die faschistische Demontage des Rechtsstaats Hand in Hand gehen. Als Beispiel für diesen größeren Zusammenhang diskutiert wäre mir der Fall wichtiger als nur einen Schritt weiter zu fragen, was das jetzt konkret für den nächsten Kongress und den nächsten unliebsamen Besucher bedeutet.