"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all."
— E. A. G. Robinson
Cambodian defence minister terms move "life-saving measures", which can restore normalcy between two countries.AFP (DAWN.COM)
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California rushes to plan a still unscheduled election in US House seats standoff with Texas
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Diplomacy, Not Bombs, Will Defuse the Crisis With Iran
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"The Middle East is a tinderbox, and America has struck a match. Last month’s U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities—Fordo, Natanz, Isfahan—ignited a firestorm. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, emerged from his bunker to declare, “The Iranian nation isn’t one that surrenders,” vowing “everlasting consequences” for U.S.
What to know about Israel's plan to retake Gaza City
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Trump White House Elevates Climate “Skepticism”
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"It’s not exactly big news that the Trump administration – famous for slashing Biden era clean energy subsidies and cheering on fossil fuels to the tune of “Drill Baby, Drill” – is not interested in policies to address climate change. And lately they have been busy finding new ways to undermine the science that enhances More
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I didn't allow anything.
Did you ? Did you act or give explicit consent to something that allows it ? Are you some MAGA or some AGI cultists that voted or pushed for it ? So it's not a 'we' thing, it is a 'them' thing. And while there can be a 'them' as well as a 'it', this delusional 'we allow' thing may be a huge part of the problem.
Do you have the individual power to stop it right now ? Probably not.
This 'we' appears only when a shared convention aggregates individual acts into collective ones. 'We' aggregators exist in various forms, but the most powerful official ones being irreversibly hijacked, 'we' have to use another one.
For example, here is one aggregator that I found on the web; it doesn't seem to have mastodon representation for the moment though:
"The General Strike US
We are a decentralized network of committed individuals and organizations working towards a general strike that will liberate the disenfranchised and oppressed under the systems of capital from our local neighborhoods to our global corners as well."
Links
instagram.com/thegeneralstrikeus
reddit.com/r/GenStrikeUS
bsky.app/profile/genstrikeus.bsky.social
tiktok.com/@generalstrikeus
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linktr.ee/generalstrikeus
www.youtube.com/@TheGeneralStrikeUS
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Was bedeutet das?
Gaza City als eine der letzten Gebiete in Gaza die noch nicht vollständig zerstört sind ist als nächstes dran.
»The goal is to evacuate all Palestinian civilians from Gaza City to the central camps and other areas«
Bedeutet natürlich nicht "Evakuierung" sondern Vertreibung. Wer sich vertreiben lässt - unter der Drohung beschossen zu werden - geht in die Lager, die umgeben von Todeszonen sind.
»other areas« bedeutet Vertreibung ins Ausland.
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"Final Operation plan"
Klingt nach Ende des Einsatzes, ist aber keiner.
Man wird Gaza City in Schutt und Asche legen, dass dann auch davon nichts mehr übrig ist. Mit allem was darin ist. Auch den verbliebenen Geiseln.
Am Ende bleiben nur übrig - die Lager und von der Armee besetzte Todeszonen. Besetzung vollständig.
One of the biggest things weighing on me right now is the financial trade-off I’m making. I left a well-paying consulting job to build my stained glass business, and while I love the freedom and lifestyle, I’m only making about 20% of what I used to
I’ve been in Bitcoin since 2020 and have built a solid position, which gives me some peace of mind. But with how things are moving in the market, it feels like now is the time to be stacking and saving aggressively, and I just can’t do that while I’m growing my business
I believe in what I’m building,
I feel authentically myself, but it’s hard to ignore how big the opportunity cost is right now by not being in my old job
Would love to hear some perspective?
Bugs are popular pets in nature-loving Japan, buzzing with lessons about ecology and species
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Analysts criticize U.S. tariff hikes for undermining global trade order-english.news.cn
Bearing the Mark of Cain for Naming the Gaza Genocide
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"I began publicly invoking the word “genocide” in July 2025 to describe the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza in response to the horrific Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, and the incomprehensible ongoing hostage crisis. Since that time, despite increasing agreement among liberal Jewish organizations over the use of this term,
Trump’s Policies Will Make China Great Again
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"China has transitioned from one of the poorest nations in the world to the second-largest economy with nuclear-armed forces growing at a record pace. Over the past 40 years, China has had the world’s fastest-growing economy with annual growth rates that often exceeded 10% a year. China’s economy grew over five percent in the first half of this year; the U.S.
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Chile: What the Market Thinks
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"In an economy as small as Chile’s, and with the degree of concentration that characterizes it, the constant appeal to “what the market thinks” should at least raise doubts. Far from representing a collective consciousness or objective technical rationality, this alleged oracle is nothing more than the amplified voice of a small group of businesspeople, More
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Ive been saving Ribeye Slab trimmings for Venison Burger.
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In 2008, I experienced a severe vaccine injury from the #Twinrix #jab and developed multiple autoimmune conditions as a result.
Over the next several years, I lost my hair twice having to shave my head, was in and out of hospital, underwent multiple surgeries and had years taken from my life and my children's lives, having a mother who could not care for them.
Desperate to heal and have my life back, I went down the proverbial rabbit hole, looking into vaccines. Upon doing my research, I learned, among other things, that every single vaccine lists every single autoimmune condition as a known side effect.
Shocked by what I learned because no doctor had ever warned me about the risks of vaccines, I began to share my research findings with the people in my life. I felt obligated to warn them. But most people reacted very strangely to my revelations.
I lost many friends and family over it, on socials and in real life. People couldn't accept that I was telling the truth, even though they could have done a little bit of research past the corrupt, pharma-owned govt propaganda on the internet and easily found out for themselves. For instance, they could have simply read the vaccine inserts.
But instead, they mocked me, tried to silence me, wrote me letters about how I was wrong and they could no longer have me in their lives, openly trashed me to our mutual friends and family, to name a few things I had thrown at me. I was uninvited to family dinners and some of my best friends suddenly rejected me. This, of course, impacted my children and even my parents and siblings.
I became known as an antivaxxer and people didn't want their kids around mine because I stopped allowing my children to be injected with the ingredients I had learned were in vaccines.
I was gaslighted and refused medical treatments for declining vaccines, and told that me and my children should be sent to an island or kicked in the face. All this happened long before covid.
I don't need to tell you that covid was my previous experience multiplied by 1000. It brought the beast out in people who saw me as the enemy. I wasn't the enemy, I was a survivor trying to warn others.
Now the truth is coming out that everything I shared since 2010 about vaccines is true. I learned the hard way because I didn't question them until the twinrix shot destroyed my large intestine. After years of chronic pain and disability, I'm now living with a permanent ostomy.
Obviously not everyone is disabled by a vaccine but their toxins accumulate in our bodies so that repeated jabs bring us closer to potential tragedy. I'm not telling you this to make you hate me but because I really freaking care.
The truth is coming out, not just about the #covid jab but about all the jabs, which have been incidentally classified as "unavoidably unsafe" since 1986, yet constantly touted in the media and doctors offices as safe and effective. Pure lies. It makes me sick.
I hope that those of you who, at one time or another, have metaphorically spit in my face, remember how you treated me, and probably others too, when the full truth is revealed and you can't bury your head in the sand anymore. This is why you should never express an opinion unless you've researched something deeply AND have lived experience. It requires both to become fully informed.
I may lose a few more friends and family because of this post. If you are angry reading this, ask yourself why. You probably wouldn't mind me having a different opinion than you about other pharmaceuticals, but with jabs, you feel irrationally compelled to lash out at me.
Don't let vaccines be your religion. Our health and our children deserve for us to question everything. Blind faith in an institution that profits off our pain isn't science. It's religion. Or as some might say, it's a false idol.
Don't take my word for it. Do your research. Google Children's Health Defense and CDC whistleblower Dr. William Thompson. Read the vaccine inserts that are on the CDC website. Watch Vaxxed and read Dissolving Illusions.
And maybe, eventually, you will apologize to the people you hissed at. The ones who were telling the truth all along. Once you've gotten over your anger for being betrayed, then it is time for us all to heal, our bodies and our relationships. I'm not the enemy, I'm a friend who isn't afraid to be hated.
#vaccinovigilance #pharmacovigilance #vaccins #vaccines #vaccination
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Last July, a team of robots explored a simulated martian landscape in Germany, guided by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station. This was the final session of the Surface Avatar experiment, a joint initiative between ESA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) to investigate how astronauts can remotely control robotic teams.
This latest session took place at the DLR site in Oberpfaffenhofen and introduced new levels of autonomy, decision-making and realism, bringing Europe one step closer to seamless human-robot collaboration in space exploration.
#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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The Other Side of Trump’s Tariff-War & India’s Response!
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"What can be said about President Donald Trump’s attempt to exercise a “tariff-war” against countries which do not comply with his terms? This economic policy of his has been described by some as his bargaining-tactic, which perhaps is equivalent to compelling others to bow to his terms. But, what if all don’t give it much More
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Une initiative israélienne de sauvetage d’animaux a suscité de vives critiques après avoir utilisé l’aéroport de Liège en Belgique comme...mcinformactions.net
Achieving 10,000x training data reduction with high-fidelity labels
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The protest comes ahead of a meeting of Israel's security cabinet later Thursday at Netanyahu's office, where discussions will focus on the potential occupation of Gaza – which the IDF chief has warned could endanger hostagesBar Peleg (Haaretz)
Colts QB Richardson leaves preseason game with a pinky injury; CB Walley has a torn ACL
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Condamnation de Faugoux à 6 mois de prison, pour provocation de militaires à la désobéissance. 3 mars 1892
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They Shoot Messengers, Don’t They?
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"“I sit in this office now. Tomorrow it will be someone else… Can you imagine that hundreds of my colleagues could stomach or remain quiet about publishing a… rate very different from what they had established?” You might be forgiven for thinking that this quote came from now former US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) More
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Middle East Turmoil and the Tragedy of the Forgotten King-Crane Commission Report
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"Counterfactuals – what if so and so had happened? – are always dicey. For example; would there have been a full-scale Vietnam War if President John F. Kennedy had not been assassinated? There is no way to prove that hypothesis right or wrong. In the case of today’s Middle East, one could
Taiwan reports first case of chikungunya virus from China outbreak | Health News | Al Jazeera
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The mosquito-borne virus has crossed the Taiwan Strait from southern China, where confirmed cases top 8,000.Erin Hale (Al Jazeera)
Statement from Alder Hey about media interest in cases of measlesAlder Hey Children's Hospital Trust
Seventeen children have been treated at the Liverpool hospital for the virus since June.Stewart Whittingham (BBC News)
J. #Branco
La situation devient caricaturale. Après #Free, #Bouygues, #Accor, #SFR, et tant d'autres, c'est au tour d' #AirFrance de voir l'ensemble de ses bases de données piratées et prêtes à se voir divulguées.
Ce sont désormais les données personnelles de dizaines de millions de Français, dont pour certains leurs données bancaires, qui sont en libre circulation.
Ce sont autant de personnes vulnérables qui vont demain se faire escroquer.
Des panels les agglomérant sont déjà en cours de constitution, pour être vendus aux plus offrants.
Que fait le parquet de Paris ?
Il faut d'urgence commence à poursuivre les entreprises qui manquent de protéger leurs données.
Cela devient un enjeu de sécurité nationale.
Il serait bon que nos Procureurs à Paris s'en rendent compte, cessent d'incarcérer des innocents, de poursuivre des opposants, d'enterrer des dossiers gênants, et, dans leurs délires de grandeur, de tenter d'emprisonner Elon Musk ou Pavel Durov, plutôt que de se préoccuper des intérêts des Français.
Maintenant.
#juanbranco 7/08/25
When I Say Russia Doesn't Care ...
When I say Russia doesn't care, here is a sign. Nadezhda Kadysheva. St. Petersburg a few days ago. She was supposed to be a backwater Russian folk singer. She is Russia's Dolly Parton now. Russian women dressing in Russian traditional garb and tens of thousands singing about love.I am sure a bunch of cretins from neocon think-tanks can explain this ... nah, I am screwing with you. Per Kurtokova--she is a concentrated expression of Russian beauty. These are gigantic Russian hits today.
... here is a sign. Nadezhda Kadysheva. St. Petersburg a few days ago. She was supposed to be a backwater Russian folk singer. She is Russi...smoothiex12.blogspot.com
This is a horrific possibility.
But, if true, neither the IT fail nor the cover-up would surprise anybody with regular dealings with the court system.
Indeed, it is hardly now a 'system' - just constant improvisations in an under-funded process, not fit for purpose.
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Sources say judges in courts and tribunals will have made rulings when evidence was incomplete.Alys Harte (BBC News)
How City-Owned Grocery Stores Can Tackle Food Insecurity
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"Zohran Mamdani’s surprise win in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City was powered by a focus on affordability. One of his more innovative proposals to help address the city’s growing cost-of-living crisis is to open a city-owned grocery store in each borough that expands access to good-quality food for residents at an More
Was mir gestern das Herz wärmte:
💚 Ich konnte die Stieglitze beobachten, wie sie ihren Nachwuchs (und sich selbst) in den hohen Sonnenblumen fütterten.
💚 Wir @herbergsmuetter hatten einen wundervollen Nachmittag in Bad #Kleingarten.
💚 Die Fäden sind raus.
#dreigutedingedestages #garten #BirdsOfMastodon #Bloomscrolling
Ayatollah Khamenei appoints Ali Larijani as his representative to Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.PressTV
posting a random screenshot from one of my vns every day (unless i forget) day #52
this is from all ashes and illusions
🤖 Nul besoin d'attendre les puces dans le cerveau ou le développement de vers robotiques dans notre intestin : la prophétie dystopique de la #dépendance ultime à la machine est déjà réalisée.
Plus que ça, nous devrions être reconnaissant de ce #parasitisme insidieux, sous prétexte de nous faciliter, accélérer, soulager notre vie quotidienne.
Mais nous n'avons que faire d'une pseudo-délivrance de nos tâches de subsistance : ce que nous voulons, c'est être dignes, autonomes, libres.
#société #Capitalisme #ATR #technopush #technologie #telephone #smartphone #antitechnologie #resistance #écologie #écologieradicale
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The following is an excerpt from Nafis Hasan's new book, Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care, published byNafis Hasan (CounterPunch.org)
War Causes Cancer
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"The following is an excerpt from Nafis Hasan’s new book, Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care, published by Common Notions. Listen to an interview with Hasan on the latest episode of CounterPunch Radio. +++ Every major armed conflict since World War I has created significant cancer clusters among both More
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The following is an excerpt from Nafis Hasan's new book, Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care, published byNafis Hasan (CounterPunch.org)
There are times when it is difficult to bring myself to my writer’s desk, when I know there is something that desperately needs to be acknowledged, but I barely have the words for it.Patrick Mazza (CounterPunch.org)
China has transitioned from one of the poorest nations in the world to the second-largest economy with nuclear-armed forces growing at a record pace.Melvin Goodman (CounterPunch.org)
African Migration and the Violence of Global Capitalism
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"Introduction Irish Journalist Sally Hayden investigates the impacts related to capital and how it marginalizes migrant populations within the international order. In My Fourth Time, We Drowned, she talks about how the chaotic politics of migration are virtually contracted out by unaccountable actors (IGOs), thereby showing neoliberalism’s
Introduction Irish Journalist Sally Hayden investigates the impacts related to capital and how it marginalizes migrant populations within theDaniel Falcone (CounterPunch.org)
Όλη η Ελλάδα στους δρόμους για την Παλαιστίνη – την Κυριακή 10 Αυγούστου
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Μαζικές κινητοποιήσεις σε δεκάδες πόλεις, νησιά και χωριά σε όλη τη χώρα προγραμματίζονται για την Κυριακή 10 Αυγούστου, στο πλαίσιο της πανελλαδικής ημέρας δράσης υπέρ του Παλαιστινιακού λαού.Ioanna (INFO-WAR)
Israel-Gaza war live: security cabinet approves #Gaza City take over; opposition leader calls decision ‘a disaster’
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It is thought that the security cabinet’s decision to take over Gaza City as opposed to the entire territory could reflect the reservations of Israel’s top military officials.
PM says action ‘will do nothing to end conflict or secure hostages’ release, it will only bring more bloodshed’Amy Sedghi (The Guardian)
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Fast Food Nation Revisited: Vietnamese Immigrant Writes About Low-Wage Work in U.S.
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"De-industrialization in the northeast spawned a service sector that didn’t quite match the employment opportunities of the old, manufacturing-based economy. The resulting lower wages, limited job benefits, and reduced job security propelled many workers, their families, and communities
#Oil exploration in the #Congo basin rainforest could be a disaster for nature and the climate
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The Democratic Republic of Congo is putting one of the best-preserved tropical ecosystems left on Earth up for auction, and the impact could be felt worldwide
In my #Gaza maternity ward, life and death coexist, but so does hope
On a hospital night shift, a medical intern reflects on the hardship, hunger and resilience of women who bring children into the world amid war.
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A medical intern reflects on the hardship, hunger and resilience of women who bring children into the world amid war.Nada Almadhoun (Al Jazeera)
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Houthis Level a Threat at 64 Shipowners for Violating Israeli “Blockade” @yemen
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The Houthi militants in Yemen are continuing their pressure campaign, reporting they have warned 64 shipowners of the consequences of continuing to ca...The Maritime Executive
“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable — but so did the divine right of kings”
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
@palestine @lebanon @yemen @irannachrichten #SettlerColonialism
#AntiImperialism #tiktok #cdnpoli
#antiPalestinianracism #canada #usa #yemen
@blackmastodon #freePalestine #GazaGenocide #IsraelTerroristState #StopGenocide
#palestina #StopAIPAC #IDFTerrorists #DismantleZionism
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Ben Shelton rallies to beat Karen Khachanov in Toronto final
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Political Theory: Rule and Be Ruled
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"Prologue On and off, I have spent decades studying Greek history. I am not so sure, however, that I fully understand what made the ancient Greeks so original and, at times, so self-destructive. Greatness, however, is easier to explain than the temptation to discord and civil wars. As early as in the Bronze Age of More
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Anthony Richardson injured as Colts fall to Ravens 24-16 in their preseason opener
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Thinking about getting one of these Parallelogram Binocular Mounts with 5 or 6 degrees of motion.
Laith sits with fiction author, journalist and translator, Lilian Hamze, to discuss current realities of Unitary Muslims (Druze) in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine, the competing factions for and against collaboration with the Zionist Enemy, history of …Free Palestine TV (FPTV’s Substack)
Abducted by Israel and Abandoned by Lebanon, Lebanese Fishermen Fear the Sea
In southern Lebanon, legacy fishermen are losing their livelihoods amid repeated Israeli abductions and attacks. The Lebanese state is doing little to help.
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These fears aren’t new. During Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon from 1978 until 2000, fishermen were routinely harassed. Occupation soldiers frequently invaded Lebanese waters and terrorized fishermen, destroying their nets, detaining them, and humiliating them with strip searches.
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Unknown parent • • •Nenyavië. Ella/She
Unknown parent • • •@juanpedribus «el capitalismo es la creencia fantástica de que lo más asqueroso de los hombres por los motivos más asquerosos pueden, de alguna manera, cooperar para el bien común» (o algo así)
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