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IRAN. Deux activistes kurdes arrêtés à Khorasan
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"IRAN / ROJHILAT – Azam Naseri et Hassan Seyfi, deux militants culturels kurdes de Shirvan, dans la province du Khorasan du Nord, ont été arrêtés par les services de renseignement locaux. Selon les informations reçues par l’ONG Hengaw, le jeudi 17 juillet 2025, Naseri et Seyfi ont été arrêtés par des agents des services de […]
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IRAN. Deux activistes kurdes arrêtés à Khorasan – Kurdistan au féminin

Kaf1 (Kurdistan au féminin)

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Wrote in @globalvoices about the Ethiopian doctors' labour movement. Their month long labour strike paralyzed Ethiopia's health sector. Ethiopian doctors are among the lowest paid doctors in Africa, with salaries on average ~70$ monthly. Strikers demanded better pay & fair working conditions among other things.

In response, authorities arrested 149 striking doctors.

Undeterred, the MDs are planning a new strike if reform isn't inplemented by Sept 15.
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What’s behind the mass arrests of Ethiopian doctors?

Last year, a report by Human Rights Watch outlined a systemic pattern of abuse and killings of health professionals in the country’s northwestern Amhara region.
Global Voices

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The Rich Are Not Rich Enough in America
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"From the get-go, the Trump Administration – via DOGE – has been hell bent on causing destruction and havoc across the federal government. But why? There seems to be no cohesive narrative coming from the Trump administration regarding DOGE, the erosion of civil rights, attacks on immigrants, or the debt-exploding One Big Beautiful Bill Act More
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Sylvia Allegretto (CounterPunch.org)

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SYRIE. Damas veut lâcher les tributs arabes contre les Druzes de Soueïda
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"SYRIE – On prétend que les membres de 41 tribus arabes affiliées au gouvernement de Damas se mobilisent pour attaquer les Druzes de Soueïda, signale l’agence kurde ANF. Des milliers de groupes armés de 41 tribus arabes fidèles au gouvernement de Damas se prépareraient à lancer une attaque contre la région


SYRIE. Damas veut lâcher les tributs arabes contre les Druzes de Soueïda – Kurdistan au féminin

Kaf1 (Kurdistan au féminin)

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'Perhaps the biggest elephant in the room of American politics is the existence of a pedophilic blackmail network that involves some of the most powerful people in the country and the world. Despite efforts to get to the bottom of the Jeffrey Epstein case, which saw the trafficking and sexual exploitation of thousands of children, justice continues to be evaded and the cabal associated with Epstein — President Donald Trump notwithstanding — continues its conspiracy'

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Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and Sexual Blackmail Networks (w/ Nick Bryant) | The Chris Hedges Report

Despite a strong desire from the public to get to the bottom of the Epstein case, the cabal associated with Epstein continues its conspiracy to suppress the ugly truth of the ruling class.
Chris Hedges (The Chris Hedges Report)
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A Catastrophic New Normal Has Arrived
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"A new study published in Earth’s Future by researchers from Uppsala University with Belgian, French, and German universities have shown that climate change is morphing into a full blown ogre of destruction as several regions of the world are no longer affected by isolated events, instead, several different events occur concurrently or in quick succession. More
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Robert Hunziker (CounterPunch.org)

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Venezuela Increases Oil Production in June, OPEC Monthly Report (+PDVSA) orinocotribune.com/venezuela-i…

Venezuela Increases Oil Production in June, OPEC Monthly Report (+PDVSA)

Caracas (OrinocoTribune.com)—Venezuela’s oil production has risen in June, According to both primary and secondary sources from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Venezuela's oil production has risen in June, despite the co…
Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond

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Worldline x Eurobank: Οι βρόμικες πληρωμές ενός γίγαντα των συναλλαγών και η μυστικοπάθεια του Έλληνα συνεταίρου του
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Worldline x Eurobank: Οι βρόμικες πληρωμές ενός γίγαντα των συναλλαγών και η μυστικοπάθεια του Έλληνα συνεταίρου του - R•U

Επί μία δεκαετία η Worldline, η γαλλική πολυεθνική των συναλλαγών και των POS, επέτρεπε δόλιες συναλλαγές δισεκατομμυρίων ευρώ με πελάτες τους οποίους είχε χαρακτηρίσει «υψηλού κινδύνου»: Από πορνογραφία και OnlyFans μέχρι παράνομο τζόγο και κυκλώματ…
Κωνσταντίνα Μαλτεπιώτη (Reporters United)

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Yesterday morning: a computer system emailed me saying "You have two unread notifications". I went to its website, read them, and did something about them.

Today: same computer system emails me again, saying I still have those two unread notifications. Apparently, _reading_ them didn't make it stop thinking they were unread. Fine, ok, here's the "Mark As Read" button.

… the "Mark As Read" button brings up a dialog box with a table re-summarising the actions to be taken (namely, these two messages are going to be marked as read), and I have to click "Submit" to make it happen.

And then when I click Submit, it thinks for several seconds _per message_, marking first one of them as read and then the other.

And _then_ I have to click OK to dismiss the dialog box, which is still sitting there reporting on the actions that have been taken.

If it's possible to make dismissing a notification more cumbersome than this, I don't _want_ to know how!

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Becoming the Monster: Imperial Anxieties and the Birth of the Racialized Vampire
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"Both Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) and its German cinematic adaptation Nosferatu (1922) project the vampire as a racialized and cultural Other, a figure onto which the anxieties of imperial decline, xenophobic paranoia, and racial-political fantasies are mapped. In these texts, the vampire is


Becoming the Monster: Imperial Anxieties and the Birth of the Racialized Vampire - CounterPunch.org

Maliha Iqbal (CounterPunch.org)

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Netanyahu, Trump Plot Next ATTACK Against Iran: War Just Beginning –Patrick Henningsen odysee.com/trump-netanyahu-isr…

Netanyahu, Trump Plot Next ATTACK Against Iran: War Just Beginning –Patrick Henningsen

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is headed to Washington, DC, for his third meeting with President Trump in less than six months, and Trump is teasing everything from another ceasefire with Hamas in G...
Odysee

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How to Kill a Dragon: Late Petro-State Politics in Trinidad, the US, and Venezuela
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"As Trinidad and Tobago prepared for national elections in April 2025, politicians, economists, and analysts eyed the fate of a dragon that slept just off the country’s shores, in Venezuelan waters. The future of the massive gas field, known as “Dragon Gas,” had recently been dealt a heavy


How to Kill a Dragon: Late Petro-State Politics in Trinidad, the US, and Venezuela - CounterPunch.org

J. Brent Crosson (CounterPunch.org)

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The concept of class is a fallacy. Marx, perhaps intentionally, confuses castes and classes. "Capitalists" are not members of the capitalist caste. Each capitalist has his own interest, distinct from that of other capitalists. Nor are workers members of the proletariat caste. Each worker is a competitor for work among other workers. A capitalist can become a worker: a worker can become a capitalist.
#capitalism #unions #workers
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prau

@Catweazle People have different abilities. I think you will agree that you and I cannot compete with a professional boxer (for example, Tyson) or a basketball player (for example, Jordan). They earn their millions by using their abilities and skills. Why do you think that, for example, Buffett or Gates are bad men when they use their abilities and skills to earn more than you and I? The rich do not plunder anyone. All contracts in the market are voluntary. It is not the rich who force people to work, but human nature itself that forces them to cooperate with others to earn a living.
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Catweazle

@prau, I never said that the rich always plunder, it isn't also about to be envious of someone which is richer as I am (most are anyway), it's about how he made his money, it's certainly not the same an artist, deportist or someone with a lot of money because of an good product made by him, but about those which become rich with slavery and child work, like eg. Arnancio Ortega with Inditex or those which become rich, promoting wars to sell more weapons.

It's not the question how much money you have, how yoy gained it and what you do with it.
It's a question of ethics, not of money, there will always exist people which are richer than others, this isn't the problem.
Capitalism in its basic is a system for the fair exchange of goods and services, but because of selfish assholes that has misrepresented it in neo-liberalism and therefore in fascism as a maximum expression. Feudalism v.2.0, substituting Kings with Banks and Lobbies which pay politicians and goverments.

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A grassroots protest is being organised to take place outside Mornington Peninsula Shire’s Rosebud office as tensions escalate over a controversial proposal that could allow unelected staff to block the display of the Australian flag on official materials.

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Locals plan rally against council move to ERASE Aussie flag

Protesters plan to rally against a controversial Melbourne council decision that could see woke bureaucrats overrule councillors.
Rebel News

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Socialism is the Path to Liberty
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"The purpose of this essay is to create a broader political dialogue in order to get the US, and with it the world, out of the policy messes that the US is creating. When I speak with my Republican friends, there is widespread agreement regarding what the problems that the US faces are. Differences enter More
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Rob Urie (CounterPunch.org)

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Gaza, Volume 01 (384 GB)

An archive of early war crimes evidence compiled by Israel Exposed from the Evidence Task telegram channel, the Eye on Palestine instragram account, data from TikTokGenocide.com, and an archive of the Tracking Genocide Twitter/X account. According to Israel Exposed, a copy of the data was provided to the International Criminal Court.

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>>Das BAMF entscheidet wieder über Asylanträge von Menschen aus dem Gazastreifen. Der entsprechende Entscheidungsstopp sei aufgehoben worden<<

>>Zur Begründung heißt es, dass das BAMF die Lage im Gazastreifen kontinuierlich beobachtet habe & zu dem Ergebnis gekommen sei, dass dort "nicht mehr von einer nur vorübergehend ungewissen Lage" auszugehen sei. Grund seien d. Dauer & Ausweitung der Kampfhandlungen auf das gesamte Gebiet sowie das Scheitern mehrerer Vereinbarungen zu einer Waffenruhe<<

Screenshot Tagesschau-Liveblog 18.07.2025: 06:24 Uhr Bundesamt entscheidet wieder über Asylanträge aus Gaza Das Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge (BAMF) entscheidet wieder über Asylanträge von Menschen aus dem Gazastreifen. Der entsprechende Entscheidungsstopp sei aufgehoben worden, heißt es in einer Antwort des Bundesinnenministeriums auf eine Anfrage der Linken-Abgeordneten Clara Bünger. Die Antwort liegt der Nachrichtenagentur dpa vor. Zur Begründung heißt es, dass das Bundesamt die Lage im Gazastreifen kontinuierlich beobachtet habe und zu dem Ergebnis gekommen sei, dass dort "nicht mehr von einer nur vorübergehend ungewissen Lage" auszugehen sei. Grund seien die Dauer und Ausweitung der Kampfhandlungen auf das gesamte Gebiet des Gazastreifens sowie das Scheitern mehrerer Vereinbarungen zu einer Waffenruhe mit Israel. Das BAMF hatte die Entscheidung über Asylanträge von Menschen aus Gaza im Januar 2024 eingestellt. Es berief sich dabei auf Artikel 24 des Asylgesetzes, wonach Asylentscheidungen bei Bestehen "einer vorübergehend ungewissen Lage" aufgeschoben werden können. Von einer solchen Lage ist nun nach Angaben des Innenministeriums nicht mehr auszugehen.

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What Has Become of Britain?
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"Britain is in pieces—politically, economically, socially, and in terms of national identity. The country’s existential mess has deep roots, dating back to the Thatcher years (UK Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990). Under her catastrophic reign, market fundamentalism and privatisation took hold, society was dismantled, and the foundations of the welfare state were eroded. This More
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Graham Peebles (CounterPunch.org)

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A nuanced discussion of the pros and cons (both from a Palestinian perspective) of recognition of a Palestinian state under the current de facto circumstances.

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The Promise and Peril of Recognizing Palestine: Can a Two-State Solution Still Emerge From a One-State Reality?

Can a two-state solution still emerge from a one-state reality?
Marc Lynch and Shibley Telhami (Foreign Affairs Magazine)

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Earth from Space: Circles in the desert


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This image from Copernicus Sentinel-1 shows circular agricultural structures near Tabarjal, in the barren desert of northern Saudi Arabia. Image: This image from Copernicus Sentinel-1 shows circular agricultural structures near Tabarjal, in the barren desert of northern Saudi Arabia.

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Fragmenting a Nation: Israel’s Enduring Pursuit of Palestinian Disunity
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"Israel is aggressively implementing plans to shape Palestine’s future and the broader region, sculpting its vision for the ‘day after’ its genocide in Gaza. The latest, bizarre iteration of this strategy proposes fragmenting the occupied West Bank into so-called ’emirates,’ starting with the ’emirate of


Fragmenting a Nation: Israel's Enduring Pursuit of Palestinian Disunity - CounterPunch.org

Israel is aggressively implementing plans to shape Palestine's future and the broader region, sculpting its vision for the 'day after' its genocide in
Ramzy Baroud (CounterPunch.org)

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The City We Can Call Ours
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"The deafening racket we’re getting here in Spain from US politics or, more like it, from Donald Trump’s chaotic and volatile presidency, tends to drown out other signals we’re getting. In this situation of the Trump administration’s blind developmentalism and explicit refusal to accept any limits or to engage in mature consideration of the policies More
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Ukrainian "expert" calculated that 50-70 Patriot batteries, not 17, would be needed to fully protect the country en.topwar.ru/268133-ukrainskij…

Ukrainian "expert" calculated that 50-70 Patriot batteries, not 17, would be needed to fully protect the country

Three years after the start of our SVO, a number of experts, including Western ones, began to call Ukraine a "black hole". It is worth noting that in this case it is difficult to disagree with them.
Ahilles86 (Военное обозрение)

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A young girl walking through flames in a collapsing building, as a result of Israeli bombing.

🕯️ Shame on those who did this.

🕯️ Shame on those who enabled it.

🕯️ Shame on those who defended it.

🕯️ Shame on those who silenced those who spoke out against it.

(she survived, her family did not)

#genocide #palestine #gaza #history

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Panamanian Unionists Reject US Claim on Canal, Government Wavers
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"President Trump mentioned Panama in his inaugural address on January 20. He indicated the Canal “has foolishly been given to the country of Panama.” And “China is operating the Panama Canal. And we didn’t give it to China.” He added that, “the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated. American ships are being severely


Panamanian Unionists Reject US Claim on Canal, Government Wavers - CounterPunch.org

W. T. Whitney (CounterPunch.org)

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« CONDITIONS DE DÉTENTIONS INHUMAINES » À LA PRISON DE TOULOUSE-SEYSSES : LE JUGE DES RÉFÉRÉS SAISI
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"franceinfo: Article de presse gratuit disponible Extrait La branche française de l’Observatoire international des prisons (OIP) annonce mercredi 16 juillet avoir saisi le juge des référés du tribunal administratif de…"

« CONDITIONS DE DÉTENTIONS INHUMAINES » À LA PRISON DE TOULOUSE-SEYSSES : LE JUGE DES RÉFÉRÉS SAISI – Anti.Média

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Inside Story #10 1973
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Inside Story #10 1973

Including: work-in at Briant Colour in South London, Time Out magazine - new ownership and working conditions, Watergate, Broadmoor suicides, UK prisons reports, internment in Northern Ireland, reviews, Inside Story libel threat about prison coverage…
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Trump’s Anti-Education Agenda
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"The Supreme Court’s green light to the Trump administration to destroy the federal Department of Education via mass firings is an anti-working-class agenda. To be clear, I define the working class as the majority of U.S. society, born in America or abroad, the 99 percent that the Occupy Movement popularized. See the current political economy of More
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Aral Balkan

Alt text:

Gideon Levy
Save us!
One eye is closed, the other open. One hand grips the wall
that has fallen on her. She is trapped in the ruins, her head and body held tightly.
She has been like that all night. A light bulb is thrown next to her, and she tries to grab it; maybe it will save her. She loses her grip on it.
Then she raises here hand. in a sign that she is alive.
She fights to say her words,
"Save me, I'm tired. I cannot [go on]." With her last strength, she says, "Please, please,
save me." These
are her last words. "Speak, Hala, speak," her brother-in-law, Anas, tries to coax her, but in vain. Her eyes close.
It's not clear how long she lived after that picture. On Tuesday, Nir Hasson wrote on X. "This woman is called Hala Arafat. She is 35. Since
2 A.M., she and 14 other members of her family, mostly children, have been beneath the rubble of their Zarqa Street house in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood. I spoke with her brother-in-law, who said that anyone who tried to approach her was attacked by drones. If anyone has an idea how to help, this is the time." The IDF Spokesperson's Office didn't bother to respond to Hasson for 12 hours.
What's the hurry? Later, the spokesperson mumbled something about
"lack of
coordinates." Hala died in unimaginable agony
with
her husband and four chil-dren. Fourteen members of their family, seven of them children, were killed in the bombing of their home.
They're not the only family that was slaughtered on Tuesday. The Azzam family
- Amir, Rateb, Karim and four babies - was also de-stroyed. The images of the four infants' death, lying on their backs in white shrouds with their faces exposed, are among the most difficult.
One of the infant's face is lacerated.
There are social media accounts that have become slaughterhouse diaries. Every Israeli must now look straight at them. Let feelings be hurt, let soft and sensitive souls be shocked: no image from the Gaza Strip should be censored. This is no snuff film; it's the reality that must be seen.
Hala's last words and the helplessness to save her are unforgiving. A woman trapped in the rubble of her home should rouse a strong wish to save her. But the situation prompted the IDF's launch of killer UAVs to liquidate the rescuers, as happened Wednesday on Zarqa Street in Gaza City.
According to reports, the IDF shot anyone who ap-proached. Daring women
soldiers
were at the joy-
stick, or were they soldiers playing their game of death against anyone who tried to attempt a rescue. These are the same IDF soldiers whom Israel continues to embrace as if they are victims of this war and its heroes. They are neither victims nor heroes when they shoot with UAVs at the helpless. They are like the shooters at the humanitarian aid hubs. Twenty people were crushed to death on Wednesday, after soldiers sprayed them with gas.
The IDF no longer rescues anyone.
Now it shoots anyone who
tries to rescue a woman trapped in her home.
This is the same IDF that, in 1999, rescued a Turkish girl, Shiran Franco, from the rubble. She was nine years old when the earthquake hit her country, and IDF soldiers not only rescued her, but also brought her to Israel for treatment.
Her picture by an Israeli colonel became iconic. How nice we were.
The IDF no longer rescues anyone. Now it shoots anyone who tries to rescue a woman trapped between the walls of her home. Is there anything more monstrous than that?
Again words fail. In the next earthquake - in Turkey or any other country in the world - one should hope that the IDF rescue units that dare show their faces in a feigned effort to look good and save people will be expelled in disgrace.
This army has lost its right to be hypocritical. An army that shoots rescuers and the starving has lost its moral right to offer help
No thanks, the world will say. We won't accept help from your hands drenched in the blood of the helpless.

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Habe mich mit einem #Short zu einem Artikel der „Preußischen Allgemeinen“ & zum #Fossilismus aus #Preußen in die oft rechtsdrehenden #YouTube - Blasen gewagt. Wünscht mir bitte Glück! 🤭

#Deutschland #Geschichte #Geografie #Politikwissenschaft #Energiepolitik #Regionalpolitik m.youtube.com/shorts/ENT-vfsqU…


Preußen, Deutschland 🇩🇪 & der Fossilismus #Geschichte #Politikwissenschaft

Dr. Michael Blume erklärt, warum ihn die „Preußische Allgemeine“ angeht & wie sich zwischen Nord- und Süddeutschland ab dem 19. Jahrhundert eine regional unt...
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Comments on the recuperation of The Dialectical Butterflies web on prime time TV - David & Stuart Wise
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Comments on the recuperation of The Dialectical Butterflies web on prime time TV - David & Stuart Wise

Via BBC's 2's Nature World Series: "Butterflies: A Very British Obsession" shown mid-December 2010. Comments by: David & Stuart Wise. Originally published on the Revolt Against Plenty site.
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The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 09 No. 16 - 1 July 1922)
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The Workers' Dreadnought (Vol. 09 No. 16 - 1 July 1922)

Including: Poverty in Poplar, Red Nights by L.A. Motler, homeless in South London, repression in Belfast, the Russian tragedy, Kollontai's Workers Opposition continued, etc.
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The Atomic Nightmare, Then and Now
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"In recent months, nuclear weapons have reemerged in global headlines. Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan approached the brink of a full-scale war, a confrontation that could have become an extinction-level event, with the potential to claim up to two billion lives worldwide. The instability of a global order structured on nuclear apartheid has also come into sharp More
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The Atomic Nightmare, Then and Now - CounterPunch.org

Eric Ross (CounterPunch.org)

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“Humiliation and Helplessness”: Sectarian Violence Continues Unabated in Syria as Israel Strikes Damascus dropsitenews.com/p/israel-stri…

“Humiliation and Helplessness”: Sectarian Violence Continues Unabated in Syria as Israel Strikes Damascus

Over 500 fighters and civilians were killed during four days of fighting between the Syrian government, Israel, Druze militias, and Bedouin tribes in Sweida, Syria.
Murtaza Hussain (Drop Site News)

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Undocumented Farm Workers Pose a Conundrum for Trump’s Mass Deportation Campaign
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"The nation’s 2.6 million-plus farm workers – an estimated 1 million of them foreign-born– are a natural target of Donald Trump’s ever-escalating mass deportation campaign. About 45% of the total workforce is estimated to be in the country illegally, and their presence laboring openly in fruit


Undocumented Farm Workers Pose a Conundrum for Trump's Mass Deportation Campaign - CounterPunch.org

Stewart Lawrence (CounterPunch.org)

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Despite their confident exterior, narcissists intensely avoid anonymous feedback. Why? Because direct, face-to-face criticism offers them a strategic edge: they can manipulate your reaction, derail the conversation, or twist things into a personal attack — sparking empathy and shifting the dialogue in their favor. 🎭 Understanding this can help you stay grounded and protect your emotional boundaries in tough encounters. #NarcissisticPersonalityDisorder #HealthyBoundaries #PsychologyInsights

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MR Browser is the Package Manager Classic Macs Never Had - Homebrew bills itself as the package manager MacOS never had (conveniently ignorin... - hackaday.com/2025/07/18/mr-bro… #softwarerepositories #retrocomputing #classicmac #machacks #m68k #ppc

MR Browser Is The Package Manager Classic Macs Never Had

Homebrew bills itself as the package manager MacOS never had (conveniently ignoring MacPorts) but they leave the PPC crowd criminally under-served, to say nothing of the 68k gang. Enter [that-ben] …
Hackaday

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NATO Invades the Classroom: The Militarization and Weaponization of Media Literacy
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"During President Donald Trump’s second term, education has remained a central battleground in American politics. Republicans claim that classrooms have become hotbeds of “woke” indoctrination, accusing educators of promoting progressive agendas and tolerating antisemitism. In contrast,


NATO Invades the Classroom: The Militarization and Weaponization of Media Literacy - CounterPunch.org

Nolan Higdon – Sydney Sullivan (CounterPunch.org)

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High Noon for the Mexican Wolf?
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"A Mexican gray wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) of undetermined sex was captured on camera roaming the back country of the Sierra Madre Occidental in northern Mexico, very precariously. The snapshot was recorded earlier this year on a trap camera in the Campo Verde region of the Chihuahua-Sonora borderlands but not publicized until this month. According to Mexico's National Commission of


High Noon for the Mexican Wolf?  - CounterPunch.org

Kent Paterson (CounterPunch.org)

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Valves Wide Open: Eyes Wide Shut
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"An open letter to the people of Wyoming Natrium is a New Kid on the Nuclear Block and plans its first reactor in Wyoming. Natrium has never designed, constructed, or operated any operating nuclear power plant. Its claim to fame is that it has some financial backing from Bill Gates, the former founder of Microsoft. More
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THIS IS MASSIVE - Russian Gold Breaks Free from London‼️

Russia is about to launch its own gold trading platform, completely independent of the London Stock Exchange and the LBMA — effectively severing its gold pricing from the Western financial cartel. This is a direct shot at the heart of the global financial order!

London isn’t just a city, it’s the epicenter of a centuries-old empire of control: the City of London Corporation, a private square mile immune to UK law, run by a cabal of unelected financiers, bankers, and globalist institutions. For over 300 years, the Rothschild banking dynasty and their successors have pulled levers from the shadows, using gold, credit, and war as tools of subjugation.

What Russia is doing is not simply economic. It’s symbolic and strategic; a declaration that the game is changing. That the era of pricing the world’s wealth through manipulated Western exchanges is over. That the old gods, the ones who turned debt into dominion, no longer have the final word.

If successful, this new exchange could:
• Expose the paper gold fraud propping up London and Wall Street
• Spark a shift toward physical gold-based trade between Eastern nations
• Undermine the petrodollar-finance complex and its illusion of value
• Strip the City of London of one of its deepest tools of control

This isn’t just about Russia, this is a fracture in the architecture of globalist power, and when gold breaks free… other nations will follow.

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Trump’s About Face on Ukraine
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"He promised to end the war in 24 hours. He made nice with Russian President Vladimir Putin and parroted Kremlin talking points. He humiliated Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky in front of the cameras in the Oval Office. He refused to send more weapons to Ukraine. But that was the old Donald Trump. The new Donald More
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Key Properties of Silicon Carbide Ceramics

Silicon carbide ceramics are advanced materials known for their exceptional hardness, thermal conductivity, and chemical stability. These properties make them highly valuable in a variety of demanding industrial applications. Silicon carbide, often abbreviated as SiC, is a compound composed of silicon and carbon atoms bonded in a crystal lattice, which gives it remarkable strength and durability.

Key Properties of Silicon Carbide Ceramics
Silicon carbide ceramics exhibit a unique combination of characteristics that set them apart from many other engineering materials:

High Hardness and Wear Resistance: SiC is one of the hardest known materials, making it ideal for abrasive environments and wear-resistant components.
Excellent Thermal Conductivity: Unlike many ceramics, silicon carbide conducts heat efficiently, allowing it to perform well in high-temperature applications.
Chemical Inertness: SiC resists corrosion from acids, alkalis, and molten metals, making it suitable for harsh chemical environments.
High Thermal Shock Resistance: It can withstand rapid temperature changes without cracking, important for applications involving extreme heat cycles.
Low Density: Despite its toughness, silicon carbide is relatively lightweight compared to metals, beneficial for weight-sensitive designs.
Industrial Uses of Silicon Carbide Ceramics
Thanks to its impressive properties, silicon carbide ceramics are used in a wide range of industries:

Abrasive and Cutting Tools: SiC is widely used in grinding wheels, cutting discs, and sandpapers due to its hardness.
High-Temperature Components: Components such as kiln furniture, heat exchangers, and furnace linings benefit from SiC's thermal conductivity and stability.
Semiconductor Industry: Silicon carbide substrates serve as a base for high-power, high-frequency electronic devices.
Aerospace and Automotive: SiC parts are used for wear-resistant engine components, brake discs, and heat shields.
Chemical Processing Equipment: Valves, pumps, and seals made from SiC resist corrosion and wear in aggressive environments.
Advantages Over Other Materials
Compared to metals and other ceramics, silicon carbide offers a combination of toughness, lightweight, and resistance to harsh conditions that few materials can match. Its ability to maintain performance at temperatures where metals soften or oxidize makes it particularly valuable for advanced engineering applications.

Conclusion
Silicon carbide ceramics continue to play a crucial role in modern industry due to their outstanding mechanical, thermal, and chemical properties. Their versatility and durability make them a preferred choice for applications where strength, reliability, and resistance to extreme conditions are essential.

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I Went to See Superman As an Escape from Reality – Reality Was Still There
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"I am not going to pretend I know exactly what Director James Gunn’s intentions were with his recent adaptation of Superman, which was released in theaters last week. But I didn’t need the 72 feet wide and 50 feet tall IMAX screen to see clear connections to the hate directed towards immigrants here in the


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