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Hamas has warned that the Gaza Strip faces a “catastrophic famine” amid Israel’s complete siege, which it called the “most dangerous” stage of genocide.
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NGO empire is the most competitive business in USA, because newly minted USD/UST is a natural resource only made in USA. It costs nothing to mint, and it can even be used to buy energy from other countries. So why manufacture missiles when you can import them?
Smotrich clashes with military chief Eyal Zamir over a Gaza invasion plan as the Israeli occupation forces warn that a full occupation could take years.
I don't think the Sweeney girl is all that hot, but, man, has she figured out how to maximize her assets. Things got so bad with the Woke insanity that the environment is prepped for a solid mid like her to get a publicity push that would make Kathy Ireland, Cindy Crawford, and Christie Brinkley blush.
Many of you are missing out on the nuances of my Toots. Or the corny-copia of topics I share. Or when I don't even post, which is the ultimate nuance I guess.
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Why do I feel so lonely inside? ‘Cause all of my society’s supporting genocide. My father Supporting genocide My mother Denying genocide My brother Committing genocide My uncle Demanding genocide
Good morning, Elik
Hi Mr. Therapist
Come on into my office, come on, come sit down, make yourself comfortable. How are you doing this morning?
Not so well, I have to be honest, not so well.
Come tell me, what’s going on with you?
I feel a little bit of depression and also anxiety. I feel I cannot take part in the society. Is it them or is it me? I don’t know, I mean, every time I pick up my phone I see images that I think no human being should see in the 21st century, like exploding bodies, mothers crying, babies dying and you know, I think we all have part of it I think you also, you know, maybe it’s your husband there maybe it’s my friends, it’s my lover I don’t know what to do you know and I feel I cannot function, I cannot function anymore oh will you help me Mr. Therapist I feel I’m dying please… just say something say something, please!!!
Ok ok ok! Elik, why don’t we take a deep deep breath together- inhale and exhale. Why don’t you repeat after me: I am here
I am here
I am safe
I am safe
Nothing can hurt me
Nothing can hurt me
Good. And you know, these times they’re really hard on everybody
Everybody, yes you’re not alone
Yes I’m not alone
It’s so important to take care of ourselves
I’m taking care of myself
And maybe turn your phone off
I’ll turn my phone off
And meditate and do yoga and try not to be exposed to all this noise and try and just be right here right now
But it’s happening right now. It’s happening right now don’t you see that’s what’s bothering me, it’s happening right now even in this moment, even at this moment right now and I feel I cannot… It’s happening right now, do you understand you tell me to be in the now but this is what happens right now don’t you understand?! It’s happening right now, It’s happening right now but It’s happening right now!!!
Elik! What’s happening right now? The genocide?
Oh. Well, I appreciate the work that we’re doing together, Elik, but I don’t feel comfortable with you using that word you know, we have to understand that there are perspectives and narratives and it’s so important to respect other people’s opinions and it personally hurts me to hear you using that word…
Why do I feel so lonely inside?! Why do you feel so lonely inside?
‘Cause all of my society Deprived of its’ morality And I feel I’ve got nowhere to hide!
Because Why do I feel so lonely inside? ‘Cause all of my society’s supporting genocide. Why do you feel so lonely inside? ‘Cause all of your society’s supporting genocide. My father, my mother, my sister, my brother My father, my mother, my sister, my brother My brother, my lawyer, my teacher- Everybody! Supporting genocide.
Oh and Elik? Before we end I just want to remind you to pay for the past four sessions. Thank you.
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Here, up in the North, you know, #Lapland, #ArcticCircle, reindeers, Santa Claus etc.
For the 3rd week, this is how the #weather is like in here. The #heat limit here is 25 °C.
Today yet another record was broken - it has been 19 days that the #temperature has been above 30 °C somewhere in #Finland. And tomorrow it'll be 20 since this map is for tomorrow afternoon.
The summers of my childhood weren't like this. I don't know what to expect from winter. Is there anything in this world that can be predicted anymore other than that everything will go to shit?
It was always understood and is known since the 70s but it was ignored. Friendly reasonable people thought they just had to explain it etc. . "Climate deniers" always were comfortable with people explaining, not resisting.
clerical error omitted all the minus signs in the temperatures. Ask the oil companies to send you a box full of minus signs to put in front of numbers and all will be fine and cool 🙃
Yet, we humans chug along, quarreling, killing each other, poisoning the planet, fighting over our piles of gold, unable to see the forest because of the fires, as we burn our house down, and not much is said about it. This seems to be our fate and if not the end times, it’s on the way to some very bad times. Expect there to be a lot less humans around because of our specie’s character. But will we have learned anything? I’m not prepared to say. 😔
It is starting to look like all of the Democrats' dirty programs were ran on USAID grants. Whoever made the decision to target DOGE at USAID might well have saved America.
I'm sorry to fellow #bitcoin plebs. But I'm making the call. This bull run is not happening because it's happened already. 17k to 120k is your bull run.
There are rate cuts coming in 2025. There is no US strategic bitcoin buy in 2025. There is complete paper Bitcoin volatility washing.
It's over for another 2 years. Worst bull run ever obviously.
Ok so I thought I had come up with the perfect game premise based on this year's theme, but actually I've just realized the correct term for what I've come up with is actually _"Existential Horror"_ so...
Georges Abdallah: The Long Road Home from a Prison of Principle
On the morning of July 25, 2025, Beirut welcomed home one of its most steadfast sons. Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, a name long etched into the annals of revolutionary resistance, stepped foot on Lebanese soil for the first time in over four decades. Greeted by roaring crowds at Beirut International Airport and along the highway to his hometown of Qobayat, the 73-year-old former political prisoner was received not merely as a man returning from exile, but as a symbol of unbroken resistance and unwavering conviction.
Abdallah emerged from a French prison after 41 years of incarceration—most of which was served beyond his original sentence. In his first public address, delivered defiantly upon his return, Abdallah saluted the martyrs of the resistance and reaffirmed his belief in the justice of the cause he never abandoned. “My greetings to the resistance,” he declared to thousands gathered in solidarity. “To its martyrs, and its Dahiyeh.” With Gaza burning and regional powers paralyzed, Abdallah’s words were a sharp rebuke to Arab complacency and a reminder that resistance remains, in his eyes, both necessary and sacred.
“Resistance is freedom, and we must rally around it”. He affirmed to local TV channels while surrounded by throngs of his countrymen and women.
Now, after more than four decades behind bars, Georges Abdallah’s return does not mark the end of his political journey—it marks its renewal. In his eyes, the resistance lives, the struggle endures, and the martyrs speak louder than treaties or silence. For a generation witnessing a renewed era of confrontation—from Gaza to the refugee camps of Lebanon—his story is both an indictment and an invitation: to resist, to remember, and to remain unbroken.
Chained for Palestine
Born in 1951 in the northern Lebanese town of Qobayat, Georges Abdallah’s political journey began in the midst of Lebanon’s own civil strife and deepened through the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation. A committed Marxist and member of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions (LARF), he was arrested in Lyon in 1984 and later convicted for his alleged involvement in the assassinations of a U.S. military attaché and an Israeli diplomat in Paris—acts carried out in retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli role in Lebanon and Palestine.
Abdallah had previously fought alongside the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and later helped form LARF—an underground faction rooted in anti-imperialist ideology and solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Operating across borders during a period when Israeli invasions and American interventions had turned Lebanon into a regional battlefield, Abdallah’s work focused on building alliances between Arab and European militant movements. His vision of resistance extended beyond national borders; he viewed the struggle against Zionism, Western imperialism, and global capitalism as interconnected fronts of the same battle.
Under his guidance, LARF was not simply a military outfit but an ideological project. The group’s communiqués—ghostwritten in safehouses scattered between Beirut and Paris—spoke of the need for a united international front against colonial domination. Abdallah believed armed resistance, when directed against military and intelligence targets of occupying powers, was a necessary response to decades of Western-backed aggression in the Arab world. It was this worldview that would eventually land him in a French courtroom and cement his fate as one of the longest-held political prisoners in Europe.
Though the charges against him were based on contested evidence and a deeply politicized trial, the real threat Abdallah posed—at least in the eyes of Washington and Tel Aviv—was ideological. He represented a militant, organized form of Arab dignity that refused to separate justice from resistance or occupation from consequence. His sentencing became a statement, not only about France’s alignment with U.S. and Israeli policy, but about how far Western states were willing to go to criminalize solidarity with Palestine.
Though Abdallah became eligible for release as early as 1999, successive French governments—under U.S. and Israeli pressure—blocked every legal attempt at freedom. Judges ruled for his release multiple times, but those rulings were overruled or left unimplemented by political authorities. He became not only a prisoner of the French state, but of a global political order that demanded his silence and feared the message his liberty would send.
That fear was palpable even in his final moments in France. Authorities released him a day ahead of schedule and barred him from issuing any public statements before his deportation. Yet despite every attempt to quiet his voice, Georges Abdallah returned home to the thunder of chants, the waving of Palestinian and Lebanese flags, and a sea of faces welcoming not just a man, but a struggle made flesh.
Speaking to Al-Mayadeen, Ibrahim al-Halabi, a longtime member of the international campaign for Abdallah’s release, called the day “a great victory for freedoms—not only for George and Lebanon, but for everyone who has fought for justice.” Indeed, Abdallah’s cause has galvanized global support in recent years, from trade unions in Europe to resistance groups across the Middle East. His continued imprisonment had become a glaring contradiction in France’s professed commitment to human rights and judicial independence.
Forty-One Years of Iron and Silence
Georges Abdallah entered the French prison system in 1984 as a defiant revolutionary and emerged in 2025 with the same convictions intact. But those forty-one years behind bars were not without cost. Locked away in Lannemezan prison in southern France—a facility known for housing high-security inmates—Abdallah spent decades in near-total isolation, denied parole repeatedly despite fulfilling all legal conditions for release as early as 1999. The prison authorities imposed strict communication restrictions, curtailed visits, and often censored his political writings. Yet through it all, Abdallah refused any compromise, rejecting every conditional release that required renouncing his principles or expressing remorse.
He read voraciously. He wrote letters to comrades around the world. And year after year, he signed his statements from “within the belly of the beast,” reaffirming his solidarity with Palestine and the broader struggle against imperialism. In one of his rare public writings, he described the prison not as a grave, but as a “frontline of struggle” where dignity was a daily act of resistance. That posture, however, came at the cost of aging far from home, enduring solitary winters, and missing the lives of loved ones as time took its toll.
Back in Qobayat, his family bore the quiet weight of his absence. Georges’ mother died while he was still imprisoned; his brothers and nieces grew up attending marches and vigils instead of homecomings and celebrations. Their visits to France were rare and tightly monitored. And yet, they stood firm—his family becoming, over time, an extension of the resistance he embodied. In Lebanon, his small mountain town turned into a symbol of international defiance. His portrait hung from balconies, and every anniversary of his arrest sparked renewed calls for justice.
Outside prison walls, an unrelenting campaign for his release grew stronger with each passing year. What began as a modest effort by a few Lebanese and Palestinian activists gradually transformed into a transnational movement of unions, human rights defenders, student groups, and former political prisoners. In France, protesters rallied annually outside Lannemezan. Banners reading “Libérez Georges Abdallah” became fixtures of leftist marches from Paris to Marseille. Across the Mediterranean, murals of Abdallah adorned refugee camps in Lebanon, Gaza, and Tunisia. While the French state sought to bury him in obscurity, the global protest movement resurrected him in image and idea—making him not just a prisoner, but a living symbol of resistance unbent by time or steel.
The Return of a Revolutionary
When Georges Abdallah emerged from the airport terminal in Beirut, the crowd surged forward not to greet a man, but to embrace an idea. For many, his return was the homecoming of a revolutionary who had long ceased to belong to any one town or border. Qobayat’s son had become, through four decades of principled captivity, the embodiment of steadfastness in the face of imperial power. The chants that echoed from the airport road to the northern mountains were not simply of joy—they were declarations of continuity. That resistance does not retire. That dignity is not negotiable. That Lebanon still births men who choose prison over submission, silence, or shame.
In his first public words on Lebanese soil, Abdallah spoke not of vengeance or despair, but of fidelity. “Resistance is freedom,” he proclaimed to the people gathered under the July sun. “And we must rally around it.” He saluted the martyrs of the resistance, bowed to Gaza’s steadfastness, and reminded a region still shackled by fear and fragmentation that its future will not be written by normalization, but by struggle. At a time when Arab regimes race to court Tel Aviv and Western capitals escalate their war on the very notion of armed defiance, Abdallah’s words landed like a challenge to the prevailing order.
His return coincides with a renewed political assault on Lebanon’s resistance movements. International pressure mounts against Hezbollah and its weapons, while local elites echo calls for disarmament under the pretense of sovereignty. But sovereignty, Abdallah’s life reminds us, is not measured by rhetorical appeals to statehood—it is measured by the people’s right to defend themselves against occupation, aggression, and domination. For Abdallah, the rifle of the resistance was never an aberration of law, but an assertion of justice. The prison bars that confined him were not stronger than the principle they tried to contain.
In an age where resistance is slandered as terror, and loyalty is traded for favor in foreign halls of power, Georges Abdallah returned not only as a free man—but as a reminder that freedom begins where subjugation ends. His legacy is not merely behind him; it marches now beside him, on the shoulders of a generation still defying siege in Gaza, drones in Beirut, and sanctions in Damascus. His walk through the airport was not a retreat into old history—it was the entry of a revolutionary back into the world he never truly left.
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"But what did they REALLY die from?" is a genocidal question that became normalized and mainstreamed by pandemic deniers and is once again being weaponized to hide complicity for mass atrocities while protecting those who are complicit and who profit from the killing.
The response to the pandemic prioritized protecting the economic status quo instead of protecting lives. It was a moment when we could have transformed the world and ensured everyone's basic needs were met. Instead the billionaires were protected while millions died.
The same genocidal logic of the pandemic is being used again today to try and hide the fact that governments are complicit and corporations are profiting from the killing.
"Since 2021, Amazon has been providing cloud services to the Israeli government under Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract it shares with Google."
The pandemic is a global trauma event and the dominant response to it has been denial and historical revisionism. Remember in the US alone bi-partisan policy and the choice to prioritize the economic status quo resulted in 2 million deaths by 2023 (WHO).
Denial and revisionism have detached dominant contemporary American thinking and politics from the fact that just a few years ago a national headline was that 100,000 deaths was "an incalculable loss."
Just two years later however the headline was that 1,000,000 in the US had died of the same preventable illness. More than the total American deaths in all of the country’s wars combined. Later that number doubled.
Normalizing any genocide normalizes future genocides. Normalizing the policy and politics that intentionally causes genocide and profits from genocide normalizes genocide. Countries like the US protect genocidal policies and politics to protect profit instead of life.
The US economy is dominated by companies that make the genocide in Gaza possible and profit from it. This includes Amazon, Boeing, Caterpillar, Cisco, Ford, GE, GM, Google, Lockheed, Microsoft, Palantir, and more.
See a list of them here, with all the details kept updated by the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker-founded organization working for peace and social justice.
Today the Washington Post published the 18,500 known names of the children killed by Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a genocide perpetrated with material and political support from the US, EU, UK, Canada, and others.
Whoa I just noticed this neat Android feature, which has apparently been there since version 12. When you take a screenshot of a scroll view you can expand the screenshot by tapping the ^̬ button to include more of it and make a long screenshot.
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