The Joy of Hanukkah: A Celebration of Light and Unity! | Speeches N Stories
#festivaloflights #hanukkahhistory #menorah #jewishtraditions #holidaycelebrations #history #jewish #israel #hanukkahgifts #Hanukkah2024 #HanukkahCelebration #JewishHoliday
#LightAndUnity #SpeechesAndStories #HolidayStories #InspiringSpeeches #TraditionAndUnity
#StorytellingMagic #CelebrateTogether #HolidayJoy #FestiveSeason #LightingTheWay
#SeasonOfLight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA6SHB8sD40

“…Originally named Abake – ‘born to be loved by all’ – the girl later renamed Matilda by her American ‘owner’ came into the world circa 1857, among the Tarkar people of the West African interior.

In 1859, at the age of two, little Abake was captured along with her mother (later renamed Grace), her three older sisters and some other relatives, by troops of the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in what is now Benin.”

#history #histodons #BlackMastodon

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/1/12/remembering-matilda-the-last-survivor-of-the-transatlantic-slave-trade

Rebecca Karl: “If we do history, we have to teach our students that the past is a moving target, and at the risk of tipping my hand, that history is always history of the present.” #palestine #israel #genocide #history #histodons

https://truthout.org/articles/scholar-says-ahas-vote-on-gaza-scholasticide-shouldnt-be-controversial/

[lien] Cabu, l'observateur engagé : un podcast à écouter en ligne | France Culture #history #media #palol #bd

#photo #USSR #soviet #russian #Russia #space #cosmos #telescope #history

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Uh-oh. There’s a funny thing about that insane experiment being conducted by our rulers.

Although many scientists have done their best to warn what could happen if such reckless burning of fossil fuels didn’t stop, it turns out now that those scientists might not have fully understood all that was happening.

It seems their models were not good enough. The problem, you see, is even more difficult than they realized…
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Fifty years into the project of modeling Earth’s future climate, we still don’t really know what’s coming. Some places are warming with more ferocity than expected. Extreme events are taking scientists by surprise.

Right now, as the bald reality of climate change bears down on human life, scientists are seeing more clearly the limits of our ability to predict the exact future we face. The coming decades may be far worse, and far weirder, than the best models anticipated.

Some variables are missing from climate models entirely. Trees and land are major sinks for carbon emissions, and that this fact might change is not accounted for in climate models. But it is changing: Trees and land absorbed much less carbon than normal in 2023, according to research published last October. In Finland, forests have stopped absorbing the majority of the carbon they once did, and recently became a net source of emissions.

The interactions of the ice sheets with the oceans are also largely missing from models, despite the fact that melting ice could change ocean temperatures which could have significant knock-on effects. Changing ocean-temperature patterns are currently making climate modelers at NOAA rethink their models of El Niño and La Niña; the agency initially predicted that La Niña’s cooling powers would kick in much sooner than it now appears they will.

While models struggle to capture the world we live in now, the planet is growing more alien to us, further from our reference ranges, as the climate keeps changing. If given unlimited time, science could probably develop models that more fully captured what we’re watching play out. But by then it would be too late to do anything about it.
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The above is just a few excerpts from a long and very informative article. I suggest reading the whole thing.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://archive.ph/sl6bA

#History #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Several decades ago, the rulers of our society chose to begin a massive project, essentially conducting a unique scientific experiment with potentially foreseen but possibly unpredictable outcomes.

They decided to go all out in: (1) extracting fuels buried deep in the Earth, energy from the sun stored via photosynthesis and animal metabolism over a span of 500 million years as coal, oil, and gas; and (2) burning all this fuel they could find in the brief period of a few decades.

Our rulers were warned by scientists that their project involved serious risk, but they figured the power they could gain and the money they could make was worth any cost. They didn't care about the negative consequences, and/or foolishly believed that imaginary future technologies would somehow be able to fix whatever problems their actions caused.

And now, guess what — we're seeing signs that this experiment might be out of control. Feedback loops are kicking in, causing "natural" emissions which could trigger cascading effects, breaking down the ecosystem. It also appears that Earth's climate is more sensitive to greenhouse gases than first believed. Yet our rulers *still* continue to recklessly burn fossil fuels, always drilling and fracking for more, hungry for power and compelled by greed.

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#History #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Trivia for the #PalisadesFire

The fire burnt through what was reputed as a Nazi hideout in the Los Angeles Hills, Murphy Ranch:

Curbed: What really happened at Rustic Canyon’s rumored Nazi ranch?

Rumors abound about the ruins in Pacific Palisades. Here’s the true history

"Herr Schmidt warned that Germany would soon defeat the United States and that the end of the world was at hand. Whether Schmidt foresaw this outcome with his “mystical powers” or by his association with the fascist, increasingly bellicose government in Germany is unclear."

https://la.curbed.com/2014/9/24/10043624/murphy-ranch-trail-pacific-palisades-history

#history #PacificPalisades #Nazis

NUMEC - How Israel Stole the Bomb

https://rumble.com/v3pcvg8-numec-a-ryan-dawson-film.html

The film exposes how terrorists took advantage of the massive weapons surplus following the end of WWII and created lucrative black-markets for illegal arms trafficking many of which went to the state of Israel. The weapons theft would escalate to Highly Enriched Uranium for nuclear bombs…

#NUMEC #Documentary #Israel #USA #Incident #History #NuclearTheft

The Joy of Hanukkah: A Celebration of Light and Unity! | Speeches N Stories
#festivaloflights #hanukkahhistory #menorah #jewishtraditions #holidaycelebrations #history #jewish #israel #hanukkahgifts #Hanukkah2024 #HanukkahCelebration #JewishHoliday
#LightAndUnity #SpeechesAndStories #HolidayStories #InspiringSpeeches #TraditionAndUnity
#StorytellingMagic #CelebrateTogether #HolidayJoy #FestiveSeason #LightingTheWay
#SeasonOfLight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA6SHB8sD40

@classicalmusic
Wagner - Tannhaeuser - (Bayreuth 1973)

Hermann-Hans Sotin
Tannhäuser-Hermin Esser
Wolfram von Eschenbach-Bernd Weikl
Elisabeth-Gwyneth Jones
Venus-Gwyneth Jones

Heinrich Hollreiser
Chor und Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaGWXyialiE

#music #classic #oper #history

The Los Angeles fires have devastated the historically Black neighborhood of Altadena. This was perhaps the first middle-class Black neighborhood in California, as it was a rare area not subject to redlining. Many whose homes were destroyed lived in homes passed down for generations 💔

https://www.yahoo.com/news/historic-black-neighborhood-altadena-reduced-120210471.html

#fires #lafires #history

Scientists Finally Know Why Sun Mysteriously Turned Blue Almost 200 Years Ago

https://www.ndtv.com/science/scientists-finally-know-why-sun-mysteriously-turned-blue-almost-200-years-ago-7448016

#HISTORY #SUN #KEWLNEWS #PRESS

#art #history: 'one's life has value so long as one attributes value to the lives of others.'
this is exceptionally good advice at all times. keep it close - & happy simone de beauvoir day, everyone. :) #botd #illustration #feminism
#existentialism #simoneDeBeauvoir #literature #theSecondSex

#OnThisDay, 10 Jan 1917, the silent sentinels start their picketing of the US White House, demanding votes for women.

They protested six days a week until 1919, when the nineteenth amendment of the US constitution gave women the right to vote.

In practice, state restrictions on voters continued to limit some people’s right to vote.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #VotesForWomen

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Netanyahu can attend Auschwitz memorial event, Poland’s Tusk says – POLITICO https://www.byteseu.com/638039/ #AndrzejDuda #BenjaminNetanyahu #Europe #France #history #Holocaust #Hungary #Israel #IsraelHamasWar #IsraeliPalestinianConflict #LawEnforcement #MiddleEast #Military #Poland #RuleOfLaw #War

https://www.europesays.com/1755250/ Netanyahu can attend Auschwitz memorial event, Poland’s Tusk says – POLITICO #AndrzejDuda #BenjaminNetanyahu #france #history #Holocaust #hungary #Israel #IsraelHamasWar #IsraeliPalestinianConflict #LawEnforcement #MiddleEast #military #News #poland #RuleOfLaw #war #world #WorldNews #WorldTopics

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Sad #truth - as #history - like #fascism elsewhere, with #propaganda and #doublespeak the only ‘official’ “news” - repeats. Sir #TrumpVirus has learned from history, but his #cult & our #media, not so much.

#democracy #fascism #inauguration

#history #europe

Let Netanyahu attend Auschwitz memorial event, Poland’s president urges government https://www.politico.eu/article/poland-president-andrzej-duda-asks-government-to-let-benjamin-netanyahu-attend-auschwitz-commemoration/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Israeli-Palestinianconflict #Israel-Hamaswar #Lawenforcement #ForeignAffairs #MiddleEast #Holocaust #RuleofLaw #Military #Politics #History #War

#geopolitics #Indonesia #planning #economy #development #history #Asia #China #globalsouth #cooperation #dedollarisation vs. #Western #imperialism #IMF #WTO #US

#OnThisDay, 9 Jan 1998, Dr Mo Mowlam, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, held talks with loyalist prisoners in the Maze prison in an effort to continue the peace talks that eventually led to the Good Friday Agreement.

Archive news: https://www.rte.ie/archives/2018/0108/931726-mo-mowlam-visits-maze

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

@ChrisMayLA6 @statsguy @wood5y Book recommendation for ya, fellas. Started listening to it last night.

#Bookstodon #History #Europe

Americans are taught #FDR was the hero of the #GreatDepression. For one historian, that’s erasure
Interview with historian Dana Frank

In a new book, What Can We Learn From the Great Depression: Stories of Ordinary People & Collective Action in Hard Times, #DanaFrank tells stories of the people who ‘made history happen’ through organizing and mutual aid

from #TheGuardian #Guardian
Lauren Aratani in New York

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/05/dana-frank-great-depression?CMP=share_btn_url

#history #USPolitics #politics #LaborMovement #CollectiveAction
#press

#history #deepstate

Following a 1925 investigation into deportees’ conditions of confinement, a grand jury in #Galveston declared detention in the jail “a crime against humanity,” while a local reporter wrote of the dangers of “sending these unwelcome guests back to their countries embittered by months spent in a reeking jail.” https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-jails-migrant-incarceration/

#history #media #racism #GulfCoast #immigration #refugees #HumanRights

#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1939, French physicist Marguerite Perey discovers element 87, which she later names francium. It was the last element to be discovered naturally.

Perey was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.

#WomenInSTEM #ScienceHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 7 Jan 1955, Marian Anderson becomes the first Black soloist to sing at the New York Metropolitan Opera.

In the 1930s, she'd sung at the Lincoln Memorial in DC after being barred from performing at Constitution Hall due to her race.

Listen to her sing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68_5ZEtM_fQ

Learn more about her: https://carvehername.org.uk/eight-famous-women-singers/

#WomenInMusic #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

From low blows to Obama ‘bromance’: 11 moments in political life of Justin Trudeau https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/06/justin-trudeau-resigns-career-moments-00196564?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #Foreignpolicy #Negotiations #Parliament #Diplomacy #Education #Elections #Politics #digital #History #career #Rights #Books #Media #NAFTA #Trade

Women's rights in the past 100 years



#map #history #women #womenrights

Tu-95 and F-4
#photo #russian #american #aviation #USSR #USA #coldwar #military #history

Collapsing Empire: RIP CIA Front's 'Overt Operations'
#USA #US #american #CIA #propaganda #mindmanipulation #governmentcoup #anticommunism #USSR #Yugoslavia #easterneurope #georgia #ukraine #Maidan #history

The report by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Monday came years after The Associated Press revealed adoptions from the biggest facility for so-called vagrants, Brothers Home, which shipped children abroad as part of a huge, profit-seeking enterprise that exploited thousands of people trapped within the compound in the port city of Busan. Thousands of children and adults — many of them grabbed off the streets — were enslaved in such facilities and often raped, beaten or killed in the 1970s and 1980s.

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in 1985 and 1986. South Korea sent more than 17,500 children abroad in those two years as its foreign adoption program peaked.

#imperialism #vassalage #history #south-korea #children #deepstate

In 2009, at the height of Operation Cast Lead – the Israeli attack on Gaza that killed more than 1,000 people – #Berg attended a pro-Israel demonstration in central London. Moreover, he even chastised the Israeli newspaper, The Jerusalem Post, for noting that only 5,000 people showed up to the event. In Berg’s opinion, there were three times as many in attendance. The BBC would later change its guidelines to prevent its newsroom employees from attending controversial demonstrations.

During Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli military was found to have indiscriminately targeted and killed civilians, used Palestinians as human shields, and used banned chemical weapons, such as white phosphorous, on civilian areas.

Three years later, in November 2012, Israel launched Operation Pillar of Defense, a high-profile, bloody assault on Gaza that made worldwide headlines. As Israel bombarded the densely-populated civilian area, Berg went on his own internal offensive, telling his BBC colleagues to word their stories in a way that does not blame or “put undue emphasis” on Israel. Instead, leaked emails show, he encouraged journalists to present the attack as an operation “aimed at ending rocket fire from Gaza,” thereby framing #Hamas as the aggressor.

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The implications of former U.S. national security state operatives dictating global media output are profound. This is not least because the State Department and CIA are among the world’s most notoriously dishonest and perfidious institutions, regularly injecting lies and false information into public discourse to further Washington’s ambitions. As Mike #Pompeo, former Director of the CIA and then-Secretary of State, said in 2019:

"When I was a cadet, what’s the cadet motto at West Point? You will not lie, cheat, or steal or tolerate those who do. I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole. We had entire training courses [on] it!”

#US #BBC #UK #england #britain #Israel #Western #anglo-saxons #intelligence #media #lie #cheat #fraud #deception #mindmanipulation #CIA #Mossad #Gaza #history

#USA #american #war #warmongers #Pentagon #weapons #money #Israel #MIC #military #deepstate #history

Indeed as it should be.

Alas , it is unclear yet exactly what sentence is worthy of 34 felony counts of #fraud.
https://money.usnews.com/investing/articles/biggest-corporate-frauds-in-history
#history will guide us.
@histodons

Handshake-gate in Syria wasn’t a surprise, German foreign minister says – POLITICO https://www.byteseu.com/621293/ #AnnalenaBaerbock #Conflicts #EuropeanPolitics #ForeignPolicy #France #FrenchPolitics #GermanPolitics #Germany #history #HumanRights #JeanNoëlBarrot #MiddleEast #Rights #Syria #Turkey #UnitedKingdom #UnitedStates #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #WarInSyria

Odigitriyevskaya Church, Vyazma
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Одигитриевская_церковь_(Вязьма)
photo source:
#photo #Russia #history #russian #orthodox #church

#history of #terrorism

Today in History: Joseph Jenkins Roberts (of African descent) was elected the first president of Liberia. A fascinating country, founded to "re-colonise" and return freed black slaves from the USA to Africa following the civil war.

I shared a coin and some history on the country here: https://coinofnote.com/1941-liberia-2-cents/

#Coins #CoinCollecting #Numismatics #HIstory #Histodons @numismatics @histodons