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And meanwhile, ISR attacks LEB, as it has repeatedly, ever since the US brokered deal to end ISR’s heavier bombardments of LEB -

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Loi antisémitisme : le gouvernement veut interdire toute critique d’Israël dans les universités
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Salam alaykoum can you help my family during this war in gaza Due to the bad situation we are currently going through, we are truly sorry for the inconvenience💙We are sorry to ask you this
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MAGA Playbook: Bolsonaro Allies Paralyze Congress
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"On Tuesday, August 5, Brazil’s Congressional President Hugo Motta (PB) from the conservative Republicanos party left Brasilia on a business trip, turning control of the floor over to his elected Vice President, Altineu Cortes (RJ), a member of Bolsonaro’s Liberal Party (PL). Cortes invited a group of PL lawmakers to the table and they paralyzed More

Roaming Charges: Empire of the Downpresser Men
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"Just days after a federal appeals court upheld a ban on ICE using roving patrols and racial profiling to target immigrants, Trump’s secret police launched Operation Trojan Horse, a shock raid outside of a Home Dept in the Westlake area of Los Angeles. Posing as building contractors, ICE agents drove a yellow Penske van in front of a group of day laborers at 6:44 in the morning, asking

Confiture

De ta confiture à ce cochon
J’en écris
Je pousse encore le bouchon
D’un cri

SOS d’un romantique
Tu vis mieux cet identique
Et je survis excentrique
Un petit peu nostalgique

Donner son miel à des ours
L’abeille le fait
Et elle ne regrette pas un pouce
En petite fée

Moi je doute avant que de donner
Et au final une calamité
Je suis si moyen qu’Alexandre
Est si lourd à prétendre

Alors « Tub » ce nom si punk
M’oblige un peu junk
A me coucher sur les radasses
Camées ou pétasses

C’est mon obole à des gogoles
Pendant ton vol avec ce drôle
Nos vies ratées sans ta conscience
Vers un regret de notre enfance

Ma confiture est étalée
Pour les cochons de lait
Tu en as eu trop cette fois
Tu vois, c’est ça la liberté

Puy l’Évêque, le 08/08/25, à 07H00

#Poésie #Poème

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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.

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

docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Sa35UnBWl21THaQfE_S8NLjHVVIp7ZYOiR6fxTH1KXc/edit?pli=1#slide=id.g273f200edff_0_0

linktr.ee/generalstrikeus

www.youtube.com/@TheGeneralStrikeUS

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»Senior #Israel official tells me: The operation that the IDF is currently preparing for is only in #GazaCity. The goal is to evacuate all Palestinian civilians from #Gaza City to the central camps and other areas by October 7. A siege will be imposed on the Hamas militants who remain in Gaza City, and at the same time, a groundoffensive will be carried out in Gaza City. The Prime Minister and the Defense Minister have been authorized to approve the IDF's final operational plan« Barak Ravid

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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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Wer sich nicht vertreiben lässt, etwa weil er fürchtet dass es in den Lagern kein entkommen gibt, oder einfach über den Haufen geschossen wird, wenn er Gaza City verlässt gilt für die israelische Armee dann als zu bekämpfender Feind, egal ob Zivilist oder nicht. Sie sprechen explizit von "siege" - laut den vorher kommunizierten Plänen bedeutet das - wer bleibt, der wird verhungern, verdursten oder einfach direkt getötet. Klar genozidal

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?

#asknostr

in reply to Dylan

Fair enough. Only you know your age, how you feel, what doctors have said to you. If you have a clean bill of health and no known disease history in your family then you really should be guided by actuarial studies which on balance may put you in the 80-90 range. Perhaps you need to find a 50/50 split between your dream job and one that better supplements income so you don't feel like you are falling behind - if that's the feeling. All the best 👍🏻

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,

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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.

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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Trina Rose Ricketts

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

Human minds, robotic hands


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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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Des ânes de Gaza ont été transportés par avion vers la France dans le cadre d’une opération controversée, tandis que les civils sont laissés à eux-mêmes et meurent de faim
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#israel #palestine #Hamas #Cisjordanie #Gaza

Israeli hostage families launch protest flotilla to Gaza coast, call to stop 'endless war' haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…

Condamnation de Faugoux à 6 mois de prison, pour provocation de militaires à la désobéissance. 3 mars 1892
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"Cours d’assises de la Seine – Le Père Peinard – Provocation à des militaires dans le but de les détourner …Lire la suite →"

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

A child at Alder Hey hospital has died of measles. The tragic death came less than a week after medical officials at the children’s hospital warned that cases of the virus were on the rise, severely endangering the health of some of those affected.
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in reply to Kit Yates

The hospital has reported treating 17 children since June. And measles cases have been on the rise in recent years. In 2024 there were 2,911 laboratory confirmed cases of measles in England, the highest numbers since 2012.
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in reply to Kit Yates

It is often reported in news articles about measles outbreaks (see for example this BBC piece) that the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends a 95% vaccination coverage rate for the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine.
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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 ...
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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.

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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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

🤖 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

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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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

Όλη η Ελλάδα στους δρόμους για την Παλαιστίνη – την Κυριακή 10 Αυγούστου

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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.

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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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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Three employees from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia recently earned the Silver Snoopy award, a prestigious honor given to NASA employees and contractors across the agency for exceptional achievements related to spaceflight safety or mission success. Christopher Broadaway, Jeremy Shidner, and Sara Wilson received the awards during a ceremony held at the center […]

Πέθανε η κόρη του Σαμαρά γιατί δεν υπήρχε νευρολόγος στο Σισμανόγλειο και μέχρι να μεταφερθεί στον Ευαγγελισμό χάθηκε πολύτιμος χρόνος. Και αυτό είναι ότι χρειάζεται να ξέρει κάποιος για την διάλυση του ΕΣΥ από την δεξιά που και ο ίδιος ο Σαμαράς υπηρέτησε. Δεν θα την γλυτώσουν ούτε οι ίδιοι. Συλλυπητήρια μιας και το να φεύγει άδικα ένας νέος άνθρωπος είναι πάντα άδικο.