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Our economic system may squash workers, but we should at least celebrate the marvels of choice it provides for consumers!
For example, if you don't like Hertz, you're free to rent a car from Dollar or Thrifty instead. (OK, wait, bad example - they're all owned by the same company.)
Let's try again: Don't like Match.com? Then find dates on OK Cupid or Tinder or Hinge or PlentyOfFish or...
(What's that? They're all owned by one company, too? Yikes...)
En cartographie y'a deux écoles:
- Le département, enfin la CEA, qui estime qu'une bande cyclable au bord d'une route majeur où les voitures/poids lourds roulent à 90km/h en pleine ligne droite c'est un "itinéraire vélo structurant"
- Les communauté de commune de centre Alsace (Selestat...) qui indiquent "Axe non recommandé pour un public familial" (et distinguent les pistes cyclables des voies partagées)
J'ai testé Selestat-Marckolsheim, je recommande pas 😨
Une bande cyclable c'est pas de la sécurité pour une route > 40km/h
not' bon maire (j'étais dans l'équipe municipale, j'ai claqué, j'suis parti) avait une super idée :
"y'a un chemin de tracteur, là, entre les 2 hameaux", on n'a qu'à en faire une piste cyclable.
mais, on bitume, tout ça? comment on fait pour que les tracteurs bousillent pas tout?
ah, non, pas besoin, ça va c'est un chemin quoi, y'a juste à mettre des panneaux.
Les politiques d’aménagement #velo c'est fait par des gens qui font pas de vélo.
Des gens qui prétendent en faire parce qu'ils le mettent dans le coffre de leur SUV pour faire du VTT dans les Vosges.
Ou qui roulent à fond en lycra avec leur vélo du tour de France sur les Eurovéloroutes (qui sont des souvent des voies vertes où le piéton est prioritaire).
Des gens qui voient ça comme un loisir le dimanche, et comprennent pas les difficultés du #velotaf et de la #randoVelo (contraintes horaires, poids des sacoches, fatigue)
Et connaissent pas les vélo atypiques (cargo, tricycles) avec leur piste de 50cm de large et leur arceaux pince-roue.
In May, early-stage mortgage delinquencies posted the largest month-over-month increases of any other debt type, according to a report from VantageScore, a credit scoring company. That's particularly notable, since borrowers usually prioritize their mortgage debt over other loans, making it less common for them to fall behind on their house payments.
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Many homeowners are having a hard time keeping up with their mortgage payments as home prices sit at record highs, forcing homebuyers to take out larger loans. In May, mortgage delinquency rates grew faster than any other debt type.Elizabeth Guevara (Investopedia)
China becomes Vietnam's largest seafood export market in H1-english.news.cn
F-ing gobies!
Invasive fish could disrupt Lake Winnebago system
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The round goby is a small invasive fish that reproduces rapidly and are known to eat the eggs of sport fish.Jon Fuller (Spectrum News 1 Wisconsin)
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Is this because they connected the great lakes to the ocean or because of pet sales or some other reason
Either way I want to blame capitalism
The kikes own all the capital and force putting trade before the environment on their impoverished victims
And then they import foreigners who they taught to hate and also gave welfare
It's official. Colbert got the Tonight Show canceled.
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British band Massive Attack have announced an alliance of musicians to take on "intimidation" by pro-Israel groups within the music industry.Shafik Mandhai (Middle East Eye)
"I don't know if I've been missing it, Bob".
1981 was the year I started taking alcohol and girls seriously.
The UK still holds many attractions for the privileged despite prophecies of a wealth exodus if Rachel Reeves swoops, says Stephanie Brobbey of the Good Ancestor MovementStephanie Brobbey (The Guardian)
I live in the rurals and I never listened to nor watched either. Why? Not available OTA. So, to state we in the rurals need these services, I can say an emphatic "No, I don't". Even if I did get them, they don't provide local weather reports, which is the only reason I would need them.
I could use better cell service for my weather and forest fire apps. A tornado warning would be a nice feature, too.
Now Congress needs to repeal the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act.
Peace & Justice Project, alongside our founder Jeremy Corbyn, is proud to announce The Gaza Tribunal will take place on 4-5 September 2025.thecorbynproject.com
Billy Long will be sworn in as IRS commissioner, taking over an agency he once sought to close
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Charity Commission criticised for endorsing transfer of about £5.7m to high school in illegal village of SusyaHaroon Siddique (The Guardian)
But take a look at executive bonuses..
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The report found that three companies were responsible for 81 per cent of incidentsHolly Evans (The Independent)
This Hubble image features the globular cluster NGC 1786, located roughly 160,000 light-years away from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud.NASA Hubble Mission Team (NASA Science)
Watch the full video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUA2fUPQ9hYExplore the full collection of premium Jordan B. Peterson content on DailyWire+: http://dwp...YouTube
Do you name the Kike in your interview with Jordan Peterson because if you do not name the Ashkenazi and or Sephardic so called Jews then it is not worth listening to a conversation with Jordan should know better by now Peterson
Ok I listened a little bit and nobody seems to be saying bad stuff about kikes and only making excuses, point me to where kikes being bad is mentioned
“One In, One Out” policy pleases no one, but will strengthen the hand of the Right says Don Flynn The desperate drive for a quick win on the immigration policy front lies behind Starmer’s enthusiasm for a ‘one in, one out’ deal with President Macron.Don Flynn (Chartist)
Research from the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute reveals the DWP often deducts huge sums from claimants, destroying their livesSteve Topple (The Canary)
Why is Donald Trump afraid of the BRICS?
#BRICS is a group of the world’s most powerful developing nations, including Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Their latest summit made one thing clear: They want to reform the global order from the bottom up. And the US is not happy about it.
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BRICS is a group of the world’s most powerful developing nations, including Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Their latest summit made one thing clear: They want to reform the global order from the bottom up.Michael Fox (The Real News Network)
Clive Lewis had a Tory peer's number on BBC Politics Live, pointing out that he's simply protecting ruling class interestJames Wright (The Canary)
Despite such extreme repression that is shocking to the conscience of democracy, the Palestine Action protests will resumeThe Canary
times change people change, to start a new instance from time to time is a chance for renewal
this is where I live, three months to live (summer) nine months to survive (the rest of the year)
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Don't miss the beauty in what Israel is doing in Syria, because it is going to have the same effect and the same result as its attack on Iran, only much worse, because Syria shares a border with occupied Palestine.
Israel has now made it clear that it is an enemy of the Syrian people - all of them, regardless of faith or ethnic group. It made an Israeli-friendly government in Syria an impossibility: it will be seen, rightly so, as an act of treason to be friendly with Israel.
This will have a very positive impact on creating a shared Syrian story and ethos, and rekindle the spirit of resistance.
On the military front, Israel now engages in active fighting over a huge piece of geography it has no soldiers to occupy or even monitor. And that's when, in neighboring Lebanon, things are close to boiling point.
Israel has created the perfect conditions for guerrilla warfare against its forces on the ground across many hundreds of kilometers of frontline, stretching from Ras a Nakura on the Mediterranean to the Syrian/Jordanian border.
Israel has chosen to do that at a time when its military is disintegrating, with a serious chunk of its ground forces effectively debilitated or too fatigued and afraid to engage in conflict, and Israeli society finding growing difficulty in just surviving.
Israel, led by Netanyahu, is invading Syria now because, as I have said many times in the past 20 months, they have no other option, psychologically and in terms of the driving narratives. They are being propelled forward by the sheer force of their psychopathy, fanaticism, and previous mistakes.
But the consequences are going to be devastating. Netanyahu will have to ask for American help in the war for the second time in months. Israel just doesn't have soldiers for these adventures, and thinning down further the forces stationed in Gaza will have terrible implications for the remaining IDF colonizer force there. They may have to retreat from parts of the Strip, under fire, while suffering heavy casualties.
And the Intifada that I'm anticipating in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is another catastrophe waiting to unfold.
Don't mistake the Syria campaign for a show of force. These are the last desperate palpitations of a dying body and ideology. Israel is digging its own grave as fast as its remaining energy allows.
Renounce, deconstruct, repeat (I know my heart, the rest it easy) (left Zionism, never looking back). Click to read The Mizrahi Perspective, by Alon Mizrahi, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.alonmizrahi.substack.com
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I think the Adhkenazi & Sephardic Jews are descendants of a mixture of converts and the worst of the worst among the Israelites who
travelled over land and sea to make converts who were twice the children of hell that they are if I remember the quote correctly
They are primarily of ancestry from the Soviet Union and Europe and have a lower percent middle eastern ancestry than Syrian Palestinians
Celebrities might lie about Ashkenazi ancestry to stay out of trouble
@reallyangry
Exactly Jesus taught a message of love instead of a message of enslaving or executing people if they are of the wrong ancestry
The worst among the Israelites did not like that message so they revolted and got kicked out and made converts that behaved even worse than them and who discriminated against people based on ancestry even though they were converts and not of that ancestry
I think that the people who last longest on this network are people who like tech, the network in itself is the content, there doesn’t need to be much more.
You can’t talk freely to another person, there is a third part passively listening that can interrupt the discussion for whatever reason at any time, those persons are called “moderators”.
it is very far from free speech and most of Fediverse hates free speech anyway, especially in Europe.
there is plenty of photography because everybody is a photographer nowadays
you make a post and you may notice that someone has seen it, that's the form of communication on Fediverse
there is very little of anything else, it is minimalistic, that's why it is called en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblo…
if you don't expect much, you won't be disappointed either
post a nice photo and wait for the like or boost
The standard of discourse in British public life has descended into drivel. The appalling treatment of Diane Abbott, Westminster’s longest-serving female MP, who has been suspended from the Labour party for a second time after saying she did not regret her past remarks on racism, continues
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The standard of discourse in British public life has descended into drivel. The appalling treatment of Diane Abbott, Westminster’s longest-serving female MP, who has been suspended from the L…Bella Caledonia
When the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) flew past our Moon in August 2024, its Radar for Icy Moon Exploration (RIME) instrument listened to radio wave echoes to reveal the height of the lunar surface.
#space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Caitlin Johnstone- It’s so funny how Trump has stopped even pretending to be a populist.thealtworld (TheAltWorld’s Newsletter)
Stay frenly, frens! It’s #FrenlyFriday
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Domingo Tomás, el vecino agredido en Torre Pacheco: “Yo no quería nada de lo que ha pasado. Eso de ir a por ellos no lo veo bien”
El hombre, de 68 años, víctima de la agresión que fue utilizada para dar rienda suelta a una cacería contra la población magrebí del municipio murciano, se desmarca del uso ultra de su historia
Domingo Tomas Torre Pacheco
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Nick Adams, known for criticising Islam, was nominated for the role of US ambassador to the Muslim-majority country.Al Jazeera
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Claude Code Unleashed
Link: ymichael.com/2025/07/15/claude…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
TEHRAN, Jul. 17 (MNA) – Torrential rains in Pakistan's Punjab province have killed at least 63 people and injured 290 in the 24 hours since downpours started on Wednesday morning.Marzieh Rahmani (Mehr News Agency)
Gens de Palerme
tranquille
Série de photos prises par mon compagnon (suite)
Series of photos taken by my partner (continued)
#photo #photographie #photography #notmywork #palerme #palermo
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The change is due to new age verification laws in the UK.Amanda Yeo (Mashable)
If the UK is going to require adult verification it should be built into your internet contract. Yeah, I'm an adult. I'm paying my bills, of course I'm a fucking adult. I over pay for this garbage internet.
Uploading a selfie? The ai is going to determine if you're over 18? Can the ai determine if the selfie is also ai?
it should be built into your internet contract
This works fine with personal contracts like your mobile. (EE has a porn filter that you can disable in your account.)
But it doesn’t quite work for contracts that usually have multiple users. Like your home Internet. Because a child could connect to your WiFi and access that shmutz.
Your ISP doesn’t see which device accesses the Internet. They only see their router.
OTOH, most routers already have features to block websites for specific client devices. But good luck putting the onus on the parents to configure that properly.
A Palestinian Ministry of Health official in Gaza announced a 41% drop in births due to the Israeli war on the Strip.Munir al-Barash, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, reported that more than 128 cases of children born with deformiDAILY YEMEN
Father all-powerful,
let your radiance dawn in our lives,
that we may walk in the light of your law
with you as our leader.
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.
Luna visits the white house
Also visiting the white house is the world cup trophy... I didnt know he kept the dang thing!
My wife set her alarm clock for 3 am so she could get this pic of a Night-blooming cereus flower...
Its always worth the effort... The fragrance is almost indescribable.
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[Έντυπα - Αφίσες - Προκηρύξεις] [Eξάρχεια, 19/7 στις 20.00] Προβολή-συζήτηση για τα 89 χρόνια από τον Μαυροκόκκινο Ιούλη στην Ισπανία
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Pars Today – While some news sources report that a ceasefire agreement in Gaza may be imminent, Israeli attacks on the territory continue with full intensi...Pars Today
Officials try to identify 18 bodies in deadly Iraq shopping mall fire
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Je pense à Mathis, 19 ans, cuit vivant dans du goudron à 200°. Je pense à l’horreur sans nom de sa mort. Je pense à ce frais et joli visage, fondu. À ce tout jeune corps réduit en bouillie noire pour un devis.
Je pense à ses hurlements. À son agonie terrifiante. Je pense à son camarade, blessé à son tour, qui a tenté, comme il a pu, de l’arracher aux griffes brûlantes du bitume.
Avant Mathis, j’ai pensé à Lorenzo. À Axel. À Lucas. Quinze ans. Seize ans. Dix-sept ans. Tous morts pendant leur stage en entreprise, pendant que leurs profs épuisés étaient « redéployés » pour surveiller des examens auxquels ces trois garçons ne se présenteront donc jamais.
Il faut bien occuper les enfants, n’est-ce pas ?
La mort au travail, écrabouillés comme de pauvres mouches, ça vous va comme projet pédagogique ?
Quelle magnifique "reconquête du mois de juin".
Enfin, on ne conquiert pas sans quelques petits morts au passage.
Leurs parents, eux, vont pouvoir retourner au boulot, continuer à s’y tuer à petit feu.
Je pense à ceux qui ont 16 ans, 22 ans, 35 ans, 61 ans. Je pense à ceux qui tombent sur les lignes de montage, au fond d’une cuisine, au bord d’un toit. À ceux qu’on enterre dans les statistiques. Je pense à tous ces morts au travail qu’on n’ose même plus compter. Parce qu’ils sont prévus.
Et pendant ce temps-là, nos élites calculent, redéploient, optimisent.
Elles savent, bien sûr qu’elles savent que d’autres mourront. Mais elles, elles n’y pensent pas. Ni avant, ni après.
Elles savent que d’autres Mathis seront carbonisés sur place. Elles savent que les vieux crèveront de chaud dans des EHPAD. Elles savent que les mères accoucheront dans des couloirs sans personnel. Elles savent que les profs tomberont en classe. Elles savent que les aides-soignantes pleureront aux toilettes. Elles savent que les livreurs s'effondreront sur le bitume qu’ils auront trop foulé.
Elles savent.
Mais elles n’y pensent pas.
Ni avant. Ni après.
Elles s’en foutent.
Parce que c’est prévu.
Parce que la combustion humaine est devenue un rouage de la machine.
Et nous, tous et toutes, nous cramerons comme Mathis dans nos appartements chauffés à blanc par un climat déréglé, maquillé en météo passagère.
Nous grillerons ans nos boulots absurdes, nos open spaces sans air, nos cuisines brûlantes et nos vies à crédit.
Nous grillerons à petit feu, cuits dans la marmite de l’avidité, du cynisme, de ce capitalisme en phase terminale qui continue à vendre des ventilateurs pendant que l’air devient irrespirable.
Je n’en peux plus de l’humanité.
@dotnet why do you literally never appear in my timeline despite following you? 🙎🏿
I only see you when you reply to people.
honestly, I'm not sure. I just noticed I never see you on my side.
I can see your posts when I go to your profile and I see your replies, but your posts just don't show up on my timeline.
I'm pretty certain the issue is on my end, though I can't fix it because I have no idea why. 😭
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“How do you keep going? Aren’t you exhausted?” She looked me in the eye, calmly: “Of course we’re tired. But this is our life now and this is probably how I die. If we die, we’ll do it saving as many lives as we can.”
They are the real heroes. They are the ones who stay. And they deserve more than our silence"
#Gaza #Healthcare #Genocide #Israel
In Gaza I saw the suffering of children and the heroism of health workers trying to save them | Thienminh Dinh | The Guardian
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If our leaders allow this massacre to pass without consequence or condemnation, it will reveal a disturbing truth about what the world is willing to acceptGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
The 20 countries meeting in #Colombia are called upon to take concrete diplomatic, legal and economic measures against the #Zionist state. They plan to impose measures such as blocking arms shipments, denying port access to military ships and complying with the decisions of international courts.
The initiative is a response to the complete inaction of #UN, the #ICC, #US and #EU, with the participating countries declaring their intention to hold the Zionist state guilty of #warcrimes
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Like many fast-growing African cities, Kenya's capital hums with energy but grapples with inadequate infrastructure: frequent power cuts in office buildings, crumbling roads in the city center, and drainage systems easily overwhelmed during the rainy…global.chinadaily.com.cn
**While the world rushes upward —
we dig into essence.
Where it’s darkest —
the light holds stronger.**
#BunkerMindset #ReverseArchitecture #BuildBelow #MysticUrbanism #DeepStructures #UndergroundWisdom #ConcreteMyth #CyberSanctuary #WhiteRabbitLab #FutureHabitat
Η Ισπανία του 1936 είναι το ηρωικό παρελθόν της Αριστεράς. Και όχι άδικα. Ποτέ άλλοτε δεν είχε δείξει τόση αυτοθυσία, πρωτοβουλία και ευρηματικότητα η εργατική τάξη απέναντι στους φασίστες και τα αφεντικά. Υπήρξαν μάχες άνισες, με ανεπαρκώς εξοπλισμένους ή και εντελώς άοπλους εργάτες απέναντι στο φασιστικό στρατό και τη χωροφυλακή, αναμετρήσεις που δεν μπορούσε να ελπίζει ούτε ο πιο ευφυής επαγγελματίας στρατιωτικός στο αντιφασιστικό στρατόπεδο πως θα μπορούσε να τις διαχειριστεί. Κι όμως, αυτές τις μάχες τις κέρδισε η τόλμη, ο ηρωισμός και η ευρηματικότητα των ανώνυμων εργατών και εργατριών.
Το πιο ηρωικό προλεταριάτο του πλανήτη διέθετε τους πλέον δειλούς και άβουλους αρχηγούς. Το κλασικό σχήμα «όταν οι μάζες τραβάνε αποφασιστικά αριστερά, τότε οι ηγεσίες τους τρέχουν να παραδοθούν στα δεξιά» επιβεβαιώθηκε πολλές φορές στην Ιστορία, ποτέ όμως με τόσο δραματικό τρόπο όπως στην Ισπανία το ’36.
Υπήρξε ένα σύνθημα που συμπύκνωσε συνολικά τις αυταπάτες και τα λάθη των οργανώσεων της Αριστεράς και του αναρχοσυνδικαλισμού στην Ισπανία: «Πρώτα να κερδίσουμε τον πόλεμο και μετά συζητάμε για επανάσταση». Πιο απλά, έπρεπε πρώτα να γυρίσουν οι εργάτες στην «κανονικότητα»...
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Γράφει ο Χάρης Παπαδόπουλος Πριν από 80 χρόνια όλα φαίνονταν δυνατά στη Νότια Ευρώπη. Το 1936 έμοιαζε πως μπορούσε να συντριβεί ο ...kinimatodromeio.blogspot.com
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Looks like fun interesting that they seem genuinely impressed with the arrows but the compound bow is over tensioned
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Mr. Paul Tudor Jones, an American bow hunter shares his modern compound bow with members of the Hadza tribe in Tanzania, who are traditional hunter-gatherers...YouTube
As Israeli bombs rain down on shelters, schools, and churches, Gaza’s civilians, already displaced and desperate, are left to face death with no refuge in sight.Al Mayadeen English (Israeli strikes rip through Gaza, killing 17 in aid area and church)
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Taiwan will 'not provoke confrontation' with China, vice president says
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Όπως είχαμε προβλέψει και έχουμε πει στις σχετικές εκπομπές μας, οι μάρτυρες υπεράσπισης της ΧΑ φυλλορροούν τώρα στον β' βαθμό περισσότερο από το πρωτόδικο. Ακυρώθηκε η δικάσιμος που ήταν προγραμματισμένη για τη Δευτέρα, επειδή η υπεράσπιση δεν έχει μάρτυρες να φέρει 😀
Yksi tai muutama kerrostalo olisi luultavasti ympäristöystävällisempi kuin nämä kaikki hökkelit. Tilaa jäisi enemmän viheralueille ja infra voitaisiin tehokkaasti keskittää.
Viherpesua, jossa pienuutta myydään ympäristöystävällisyydellä, vaikka todellisuudessa taloista tehdään pieniä koska materiaalien hinnat on nousseet ja kohdemarkkinan kukkarot pienentyneet.
#Viherpesu #Asuminen #Asuntomessut #Rakentaminen #Ilmasto
Oulussa esitellään pientaloja, jotka on rakennettu ympäröivää luontoa kunnioittaen. Kerrostaloja ei ole ollenkaan.Päivi Seeskorpi (Yle Uutiset)
Unikátní zvedací železniční most v Lužci nad Vltavou je v provozu sotva čtyři roky, ale Správa železnic nyní zvažuje zavření této trati. Je totiž slepá, jen pár kilometrů za mostem končí a je téměř nevyužívaná.Radek Plavecký (Novinky)
A Libyan accused of war crimes has been arrested in Germany, ICC says
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The Church of the Holy Family, the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip, suffered “severe damage” following an Israeli airstrike carried out this Thursday,teleSURenglish
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Well, for planning a vacation, you can choose among Expedia, Orbitz, Travelocity, Hotwire, or Hotels.com. (Uh-oh.)
Hmm. Lots of options for dish soaps, right? Dawn, Joy, Ivory, Gain. (Don't tell me.)
Ben & Jerry's, Breyers, Popsicle, Klondike, Good Humor: One corporation owns them all.
Ritz, Triscuits, Wheat Thins, Premium crackers: One corporation.
Anyway, as I was saying: Let's celebrate the illusion of choice!