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We used to punish children for being left handed. In fact we still discourage it but now the punishments are less severe. We do not know what the true figure is. And who knows what the true figure for trans kids is when we live in a world that antagonises us so much.
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#CombatantsForPeace:
This Wednesday, August 20th, we invite you to join Dry Lands, Deep Courage: Co-Resisting Water #Apartheid in the #JordanValley — a conversation with Palestinian and Israeli CfP activists working together to defend the basic human right to water. This event is part of our summer campaign, Emergency Assistance, Shared Resistance. The conversation will be moderated by Eszter Koranyi, Israeli Executive Director of CfP. You’ll hear from the following speakers:
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You’ll hear from the following speakers:

Elie Avidor – An Israeli engineer and former combatant, now working side-by-side with Palestinian shepherd communities in the Jordan Valley to protect them from settler violence and displacement.
Jamil Qassas – Palestinian General Coordinator of CfP, a refugee whose family was displaced in 1948, and a steadfast leader of nonviolent resistance.

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Together, these voices will bring you inside the daily reality of water apartheid, revealing how it shapes life in the Jordan Valley — and how communities are pushing back. They’ll also share clear, actionable ways you can stand in solidarity and advocate for justice for all. We hope to see you soon!

Wednesday, August 20, 2025
⏰ 1:00–2:15 PM ET | 8:00–9:15 PM Jerusalem
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Register:
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Iris Gur, an Israeli member from #CombatantsForPeace: "Last Friday my group, the Jordan valley activists, with 24hours shifts in protective presence, we went to a little community with children and elders for a night shift. One of the boys, 17 years old, was very afraid and asked her to look at the water tanks at night because they had just bought water: 'I am afraid: in another community settlers polluted the water tank" I know this boy for two years. I never saw him so afraid, so tired'"
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The story of Iris Gur:
"In 2017, my youngest daughter, Noa, told me she was refusing to serve in the army. My first reaction was to shout: “How dare you?” That was the beginning of a shared journey. Noa was imprisoned for four months in a military prison. While supporting her, I began my own journey to truly understand. I was labeled a “radical leftist,” and even now, I struggle to understand what is so radical about wanting freedom, justice, and safety for all people."
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"If I don't go, I will miss them. I go for myself. I am getting more than I am giving. There, I can feel hope. And we will hold it. As Jameel said: One day the occuption will be over.

I am a second generation from the holocaust. Maybe my kids will ask me one day: where were you? And i can say proudly: I was not silent. We do our best."

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@nam

the key point is Finland and Sweden weren't part of NATO until after Russia invaded. Russia had neutral neighbors but with the coup in Ukraine and the fighting in the Donbas and the training and weapons going in, that was changing. they felt they had to respond to a hostile power setting up in their border. I wonder if any peace agreement might include Finland and Sweden leaving NATO too. It really needs to be disbanded or we leave it.

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The Left in my mind:
-Anyone who believes things like systemic racism are real
-Anyone who wears a mask in 2025
-Believes governments can fix cultural and social issues through regulation
-conflates scientist with science and thus objective
-Thinks of nationalism as having a negative connotation
-Believes diversity is our greatest strength
-Either has or believes septum piercings are cool/attractive
-Values Justice over Liberty
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isn't affirmative action systemic racism?

I remember NA being freaked out about walking by people who were vaxed, thinking it might cause reproductive issues. I'm sure no conservative conspiracy people wear masks.

isn't the pro life movement for regulation to deal with a cultural/social issue?

both sides are selective re science.

lots of commies are big on nationalism.

that's a slogan to push back on racist bs.

hilarious, now do tattoos.

property law.

...

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> u mad, bro?
I think this is nam's way of conceding the argument.

> isn't affirmative action systemic racism?

Yes. Systemic racism was instituted by leftists who claimed to have been fighting against then-nonexistant systemic racism.

> Both sides are selective re science.

This is a cop-out. It could also be the opening of a much longer discussion, though it would take a more serious respondant than "u mad, bro"

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Well, I understand not wanting to continue a tedious thread, but there are certainly less snide and divisive ways to do it. Still, he had some very solid responses that you dodged with that comment.

@wjmaggos
After the constant juvenile whining you bring to every unrelated thread I'm in, you don't really deserve an explanation as to why your show was removed from the NA stream anymore. But I'll throw you a bone.

For YEARS, I defended running CWR in the playlist against a VERY vocal, and yes, largely conservative audience. NAS was never supposed to be overtly partisan; we wanted a counterpoint to the m5m narrative from interesting and thoughtful voices. These tended to skew righward because with the media bias, most left-leaning shows were just echoing m5m talking points. A few shows like CWR and Briney brought original ideas, so against the vocal will of the more partisan trolls, they stayed in the playlist.

Eventually, though, I was instructed (by someone higher-up than me) to remove CWR. Not because of your politics, but because of your production quality.

If, at any point, you had simply asked me, I would have told you this, and offered pointers how to bring up the quality. But instead you chose to assume ("falsely", to borrow an m5m dogwhistle) that I had some sort of vendetta, and that was the only explanation. I compartmentalize my personal opinions from any professiinal duties. And I don't abuse power for personal grudges. That you think I have so little integrity to do so is the part that really hurt.

You have not once come to me in anything resembling a civil manner askjng if there was anything you could do to re-earn the slot. You have merely sniped and whined and questioned my judgment and impugned my integrity.

And still you cry about the incivility in the world whenever someone gets sick of your bullshit.

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damnit, I wrote that and then you confused the post USSR history.

we tried to bring in Russia in the 90s but as subservient to us and our economic interests. like we always do. and their people didn't like the economics of that and elected Putin to restore more self determination. less market fundamentalism.

you merged Gorbachev and Yeltsin.

there is no world govt so you get big players being bullies. it's natural. we bully. that won't stop till the UN is strong/structured to do so.

Automated door wouldn't open at my local shop and my first thought was not "oh no, have the laws of physics temporarily stopped working for me here? Or could I be a vampire needing inviting in... it is daylight, but..."

Then I round the corner to go to the big shop and see the utility company digging a hole next to the little shop and realise it's a power cut...

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Το στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσης της Σιντικής μετατράπηκε από υποτιθέμενη «Ελεγχόμενη Δομή Προσωρινής Φιλοξενίας Αιτούντων Άσυλο» σε «Κλειστή Ελεγχόμενη Δομή Κράτησης Μεταναστών» με την αιφνιδιαστική απόφαση της κυβέρνησης να αναστείλει την πρόσβαση σε διαδικασίες ασύλου.
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Η Ένωση Αστυνομικών Υπαλλήλων Σερρών, δηλώνοντας πρώτα την ετοιμότητα και προθυμία των αστυνομικών να λειτουργήσουν το στρατοπέδο συγκέντρωσης, έχει ζητήσει από την κυβέρνηση να εγκατασταθεί συρματόπλεγμα με ξυράφια στην περίφραξη, να ενισχυθεί η αστυνομική παρουσία κ.ά.

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Abdullah left #Gaza for treatment in Turkiye, but it was too late

Despite reaching Turkiye for treatment, four-year-old Abdullah Abu Zerka died of malnutrition. His younger sister continues fighting on.

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Ukraine. Trump continue d’humilier l’Europe


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Rien n’a changé après les réunions d’hier.

  • L’Ukraine offre un contrat d’armement de 100 milliards de dollars à Trump pour obtenir des garanties de sécurité (archivé) – Financial Times, 19 août 2025
  • L’Ukraine a promis d’acheter 100 milliards de dollars d’armes américaines financées par l’Europe dans le but d’obtenir des garanties américaines pour sa sécurité après un accord de paix avec la Russie, selon un document consulté par le Financial Times.
  • Alexander G. Rubio @AlexanderGRubi2 – 2:22 UTC * 19 août 2025
  • Le plan est que les États-Unis vendent des armes aux Européens, qui les fourniront ensuite à Kiev. Cependant, les États-Unis n’ont pas les armes à vendre, les Européens n’ont pas l’argent pour les acheter et Kiev n’a pas les soldats pour les utiliser. A part ça, c’est un plan infaillible.
  • [Poutine] a noté que ces personnes ont « exécuté avec plaisir tout ordre du président à Washington sous Biden » mais “se sont embrouillées lorsque Trump a soudainement remporté” les élections de novembre.
  • « Ils n’aiment tout simplement pas Trump, ils l’ont activement combattu, se sont ingérés dans la vie politique, dans les élections américaines. Trump a des idées différentes sur ce qui est bon et ce qui est mauvais, y compris en matière de politique de genre et sur d’autres sujets, et ils n’aiment pas ça« , a déclaré Poutine. […]
  • « Je vous assure que Trump, avec son caractère et sa persévérance, rétablira l’ordre assez rapidement. Et tous, vous verrez, bientôt tous se tiendront aux pieds du maître et remueront doucement la queue« , a soutenu Poutine.
  • Les dirigeants européens « remueront la queue » devant Trump – Poutine – RT, 2 février 2025
  • Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand – 7:48 UTC * 19 août 2025
  • C’est au-delà de la parodie : non seulement l’UE ne fait pratiquement rien pour échapper au racket de protection qu’elle subit de la part des États-Unis, mais elle est maintenant censée payer pour celui de l’Ukraine…
  • D’autant plus absurde si l’on considère que l’expansion de l’OTAN – l’institutionnalisation de ce racket de protection – a été le principal catalyseur de ce conflit.

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There is nothing off the table anymore
And there doesn’t seem to be a bottom floor
‘It can’t happen here’ is something that we’ll
never say again
Because you know it can
It’s really happening

There is nothing off the table anymore
And the men in boots are marching past your door
Will you yell things out the window?
Will you wave a little sign?
Will you fight them? Will you join them?
Will you hide & close the blinds?

There is nothing off the table anymore
It’s bit too much like 1934
If you ever wondered what you’d do if you had
lived back then
Congratufuckinlations
It’s happening again

But possibility swings both ways
At the risk of sounding silly
There might be some better days ahead
If they can dig a hole
We can make a hill

There is nothing off the table anymore
And the ship that brought us burns upon the shore
When we talked about apocalypse not being an event
But kinda more a process
This is what we meant

There’s nothing off the table anymore
(When things start to fall apart)
You may be lonely angry sad & scared & bored
(& you’re feeling helpless, help)
Well there’s important work to do
& all you really have is time
(try to help somebody else)
Some of the work is legal, some of it is crimes

There’s nothing off the table anymore
(When they try to cramp your style)
When the field is gone nobody’s keeping score
The empire has no power, everyone has hit the showers
(You can get more with a smile)
& in the field instead of lawn a thousand different flowers
(& a gun than just a smile)

But possibility swings both ways
At the risk of sounding silly
There might be some better days ahead
If they can dig a hole
We can make a hill

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