#israel #palestine : #history / #conflict / #jewishlaborbund / #jewishantizionism

https://therealnews.com/anti-zionism-has-existed-since-the-beginning-of-zionism

No progress since Cop28 last year.

Also no progress since Cop27, or Cop20, or Cop15, or...
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There is no sign of the transition away from burning fossil fuels that was pledged by the world’s nations a year ago, with 2024 on track to set another new record for global carbon emissions.

The new data comes from the Global Carbon Budget project, a collaboration of more than 100 experts led by Prof Pierre Friedlingstein, at the University of Exeter, UK, who said: “The impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly dramatic, yet we still see no sign that burning of fossil fuels has peaked. Time is running out and world leaders meeting at Cop29 must bring about rapid and deep cuts to fossil fuel emissions.”
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I wish they'd just be honest and announce that they have absolutely no intention of meeting any of their goals. Ever.

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FULL STORY ➡️ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/13/no-sign-of-promised-fossil-fuel-transition-as-emissions-hit-new-high

#Politics #History #Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

Welcome To Canterbury

https://justin-farrimond.pixels.com/featured/welcome-to-canterbury-justin-farrimond.html

Within the Christchurch Gateway at Canterbury Cathedral, England.
The smaller wooden door to the right is opened at 4:00pm every weekend to allow dog owners to 'chase the bishop'. A tradition beginning in the 16th century in which locals with hounds would pursue members of the clergy round and round the gate entrance.

#PhotoOfTheDay #Monochrome #Photography #Canterbury #Architecture #Heritage #History #PhotographyLovers

If the Democratic Party *actually* stood for the rights of women and minorities, for support of unions and working people, for quality public education and public healthcare, for a healthy climate and for the safety of our biosphere – If they actually stood up for all these things instead of just *pretending* to do so, then the Republican Party would have no chance of achieving electoral majority in the United States.

But that’s not who the Democratic Party is. It’s not who they have been for at least 40 years. Rather, they are a party standing up for the military-industrial complex, for the police state, for neoliberalism, for capitalism, and for corporate ascendancy.

This election was NOT a victory for the Republican Party. It was instead a total failure of leadership by the Democratic Party, and a well-earned defeat.

Four years from now, if there is another election, we should expect nothing different from them.

We need system change.

#USA #Politics #History #Economics

A few excerpts here from a beautifully written, deeply insightful, and ultimately inspiring essay by Chris Hedges…
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In the end, the election was about despair.

Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair over the loss of 30 million jobs in mass layoffs. Despair over austerity programs and the funneling of wealth upwards into the hands of rapacious oligarchs. Despair over a liberal class that refuses to acknowledge the suffering it orchestrated under neoliberalism. Despair over the futile, endless wars, as well as the genocide in Gaza, where generals and politicians are never held accountable. Despair over a democratic system that has been seized by corporate and oligarchic power.

Donald Trump is a symptom of our diseased society. He is not its cause. He is what is vomited up out of decay.

Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party live in their own non-reality-based belief system. Harris, who was anointed by party elites and never received a single primary vote, proudly trumpeted her endorsement by Dick Cheney, a politician who left office with a 13% approval rating.

The smug, self-righteous “moral” crusade against Trump stokes the national reality television show that has replaced journalism and politics. It reduces a social, economic, and political crisis to the personality of Trump. It refuses to confront and name the corporate forces responsible for our failed democracy.

The American dream has become an American nightmare.
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FULL ESSAY ➡️ https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-politics-of-cultural-despair

#USA #Politics #History #Economics #Israel #Gaza

Dealing with the pain from last week’s disastrous election and trying to understand it all, our Mastodon friend Geoffrey Deihl (@gdeihl) takes a look back at our nation’s sordid history…
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America has always been a violent, racist country. Little wonder, being built on slavery and genocide, spawn of the brutal British Empire.

Our war for independence was no romantic story about a fight for freedom and justice. It was a revolt against a king not playing nice with his colonists. Some were fleeing religious persecution, but many were here to get rich. They had no compunction about murdering the indigenous people who saved them from starving in their first winter on these shores.

Native Americans were slaughtered, the survivors driven across the land to reservations, their resources stolen. Texas was annexed in 1845 from the brown people of Mexico under the newly invented guise of “Manifest Destiny” which argued we have moral virtue, and a divine right to that destiny.

Through this time and well before, Africans were packed into the holds of dank, leaking ships for weeks-long voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. The fifty percent that survived disease outbreaks from these barbaric conditions were sold as if animals. Eventually, slavery ripped families apart in the Civil War. The emancipation of blacks led to the Jim Crow laws in the south not overturned until 1965.

To understand what happened on November 5, we must consider history.
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Geoff has written a long, angry, and well-informed essay about our shameful past and present — and near the end, he also offers several good suggestions on how to organize and take action to build a better future. I hope you’ll read the whole thing.

➡️ https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/descent-into-madness

#USA #Politics #History #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange

#Blog KW 46: 2021 restituierte #Frankreich 26 aus #Dahomey (Benin) geraubte Objekte. Was bedeutet diese #Restitution für #Benin? Mati Diop zeigt in ihrem #Dokumentarfilm Dahomey (2024) verschiedene Perspektiven in Benin auf das Thema:

▶️ https://www.historischer-augenblick.de/dokumentarfilm-dahomey-2024/

#film #postkolonial #rezension #history #historians #geschichte #histodons

#deepstate #uk #britain #england #intelligence #Western #lie #history

Records or CDs: Which Physical Media Is Best for You?

Check it out! 👇
https://www.howtogeek.com/records-or-cds-which-physical-media-is-best-for-you/

#History #MusicStreaming #Media #Audio

#blog Post:

"A Solresol Library"

https://stevengharms.com/posts/2024-10-19-solresol/

#music #solresol #linguistics #history #videogames #horizon #aloy #musictheory

Records or CDs: Which Physical Media Is Best for You?

Check it out! 👇
https://www.howtogeek.com/records-or-cds-which-physical-media-is-best-for-you/

#History #MusicStreaming #Media #Audio

#US #american #history #mindmanipulation #intelligence #deepstate

THE MILITIA ARE SERVANTS OF THE PEOPLE

107 years ago the Soviet militia was created.
Despite the renaming of the holiday, as well as the militia in the police, the holiday of internal affairs officers continue to be celebrated on the day when the Soviet militia was created, as actually continue to celebrate the holiday primary sources of other power structures of the Russian Federation.
#USSR #soviet #russian #Russia #history #militia #holiday

After World War II, Joseph Stalin again raises the issue of the urgent need for the widespread introduction of the 6-hour workday norm

“...it would be wrong to think that it is possible to achieve such a serious cultural growth of the members of society without serious changes in the present state of labor. For this purpose it is necessary first of all to reduce the working day to at least 6 and then to 5 hours. This is necessary in order to give the members of society enough free time for a comprehensive education. For this it is necessary, further, to introduce compulsory polytechnic education, necessary for the members of society to be able to freely choose a profession and not be chained for life to one profession....
Joseph Stalin, “Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR,” September 28, 1952”

After Stalin's death, the USSR leadership removed from the agenda the need to move to a six-hour day for the masses.

https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Шестичасовой_рабочий_день
#USSR #russian #soviet #history #Stalin #communism #socialism #workerrights #humanrights #study for #future

Die Geschichte beider Länder nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, eine Geschichte der Kooperation zwischen Militär und Geheimdiensten.

Werner Sonne: Israel und wir
Eine #rezension:
https://www.findosbuecher.com/?p=8449

#buchtipp #lesetipp #leseliebe #sachbuch #lesen #iamreading #bookstodon #buch #buecher #reading #iamreading #chbeck #wernersonne #israel #deutschland #gesellschaft #kooperation #politics #history #geschichte #literatur #literaturblog #blog #blogger

It’s obvious that a second Trump administration will be worse in almost every conceivable way from what a Harris administration might have been.

But let's not fool ourselves into believing that a Harris victory would have been *good* for our climate and environment. We've been going in the wrong direction for at least 20 years under Presidents from both parties — and there's no reason to think that Kamala Harris would have charted a different course.

SEE ➡️ https://archive.ph/VnlWF

When it comes to our climate and environment, we can't blame either the Democrats or the Republicans. We have to blame both. We have to blame capitalism.

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#Politics #History #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

You may not agree with everything in the essay linked below, but I expect it will make you think. Sarah Miller (@sarahmiller_22747) presents some “hard truths” about where we are now, how we got here, and what the future might bring…
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For liberal America, this election season has not been fun. It has not been honest. It did not turn out well. And now that it’s over, the time has arrived for a dose of brutal honesty. Forget about Donald Trump’s real and perceived lies. We have lied to ourselves for too long.

Our country and our world are in a dire state. That state has everything to do with the climate crisis, species extinction (possibly including our own), wars with no end in sight, dysfunctional geopolitics and domestic politics, and worst of all, irrational devotion to economic growth that is literally killing us.

The energy transition demanded by the climate crisis is an area where facing up to hard truths is particularly vital. It is also the area of our misguided American experience of the last half century that I know most about. A long career of writing about the energy industry tells me that recovery from our binge of self-deception must start with admitting:

1. Trump’s presidency will not bring the great change for the worse in US energy policy that establishment environmentalists claim it will. Not, tragically, because Trump is better than they say, but because the Biden/Harris administration was much, much worse than hoped.

2. The US is not a leader in positive climate action. It has not been under Biden, and it will not be for the foreseeable future. On the contrary, both political parties seem determined — in practice, if not in words — to lead a reactionary defense of fossil fuels.

3. Climate breakdown is much more advanced than widely admitted. There’s no time left for a carefully designed transition, or even a thought-out, gradually implemented shift away from the devastating paradigm of economic growth. An economic collapse is the only evident path to slower climate destabilization.
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There's a lot more in the full essay, including some suggestions of books to read, along with action steps for those of us who are ready to start off in a new direction.

➡️ https://medium.com/the-new-climate/post-us-election-the-contrarian-take-on-climate-2ba24101b2c9

#Politics #History #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

#OnThisDay, 12 Nov 1951, Celia Franca's National Ballet of Canada holds its first performance. Franca had gathered the company from across Canada in just 10 months. She goes on to co-found the National Ballet School.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #CanadianHistory #BalletHistory

Slackware is a Linux distribution created by Patrick Volkerding in Jul 1993. It is the oldest distro still in existence. However, someone was dissatisfied with Slackware and created another distro a month later, in August 1993. This was Debian, the second oldest distro, founded by Ian Murdock. Both of these distros are still maintained, and Debian is often known as the "mother distro" because it has spawned many more distributions. #Linux #OpenSource #history

"Biden was given a film camera. The result? A new, intimate view of the White House"

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/10/nx-s1-5170271/biden-was-given-a-film-camera-the-result-a-new-intimate-view-of-the-white-house

“Being able to have created something with the president at this point in his career is the honor of a lifetime for all of us,” Grant Weintrob, one of the page’s creators, said. “And hopefully that would be like the lasting impression the video gives.”

@potus

#photography #history #Biden #WhiteHouse #Instagram #press

In the six years between 2016 and 2021, according to data published in the most recent Circularity Gap Report, the global economy consumed 582 billion tonnes of materials — nearly as much as the 740 billion consumed in the *entire* 20th century.

REPORT ➡️ https://www.circularity-gap.world/2024

That’s very bad! But I wonder, do you think the world has been doing better since 2021? 🤔

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that global consumption has NOT declined during the past three years. In fact, the level almost certainly has increased. But let’s just say it has remained steady.

If that’s true, it means another three years of the world annually consuming ~97 billion tonnes of materials. So the total over the past nine years is now at least 873 billion tonnes — or about 18% MORE than all the materials consumed in the entire 20th century!

Driven by capitalism’s incessant demand for profits at any cost, we are consuming ourselves to death. But who cares about that? As long as billionaires keep getting richer, that’s all that matters, right?

Business As Usual must go on.

#History #Economics #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

#israel #palestine : #history / #conflict / #immigration / #narrative

„The leaders of the first wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine at the end of the 19th century were already in no doubt about the inevitability of conflict with the land's Arab population.“

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/11/11/lessons-from-the-first-jewish-immigrants-to-palestine_6732372_23.html?lmd_medium=al&lmd_campaign=envoye-par-appli&lmd_creation=ios&lmd_source=default

#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1865, Dr Mary Edwards Walker receives the Medal of Honor from US President Andrew Johnson for her services as a field surgeon in the American Civil War.

A lifelong "dress reformer", she wore trousers under short dresses and eventually switched to trousers and jackets. She was frequently arrested for her choice. "I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes."

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInWar #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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#archaeology #archéodon #archéologie #archaeodon #histodons #history #heritage #Baalbek #sour #tyre #tyr #lebanon #liban #gaza

via @fab_lesguer

https://piaille.fr/@fab_lesguer/113460569084671188

How Israel won the West

The documentary examines how Israel has come to occupy such a privileged and protected place in the Western world.

It traces the journey of the Jewish people from biblical stories of origin through centuries of persecution and the advent of Zionism, all the way to the creation of Israel and its ensuing occupation of the Palestinian territory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTxoFvVqDoo&t=421s

@palestine
#Israel
#history
#youtube

Sunday morning, recommended #documentary film.

Before the formation of the Israel Defense Forces in 1948, there were three underground #Zionist #militias - The #Haganah, the #Irgun and the #Lehi.

They differed in tactics and beliefs, and at times fought with each other - but together they terrorised #Palestinian villages and executed attacks and #bombings against the #British to force them to give up control of the land.

They blew up hotels in #Jerusalem, embassies in #Europe and #assassinated a UN mediator.

After #Israel was officiated as a state - the three #terrorist militias would create the #IDF - and their leaders would go on to form Israel’s government, become #politicians, #ambassadors and #PrimeMinisters.

And their dark #history would be forgotten.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCGtHMxNrXY

#FreePalestine
#Terrorism
#IsraelIsATerroristState
#IsraelWarCrimes
#RacistIsrael
#IsraelRogueState
#ArmsEmbargoOnIsrael
#USAFundsGenocide
#BoycottIsrael
#BDSMovement
#BoycottIsraeliApartheid
#StopGenocide
#ApartheidIsrael
#SanctionIsrael
#DocFilm
#Documentaries

The Turing Machine made Real, In LEGO.

A working Turing Machine was submitted to Lego Ideas, consisting of approximately 2,900 parts and a bucketload of extreme cleverness. The original machine was devised by mathematician Alan Turing in 1936. Turing's idea was a hypothetical system that could simulate any computer algorithm.

https://youtu.be/8AA3E05axHw?si=MWCSLoUNAxo2TiWD

#turing #machine #history #retro #computing #lego #artist #it #engineer #media #tech #art #news

A guide to Israel-Palestine conflict

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/9/whats-the-israel-palestine-conflict-about-a-simple-guide

Palestinians carry their possessions on their heads as they flee from a village in Galilee about five months after the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 [File: Reuters]

@palestine
#Israel
#Nakhba
#history

A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict by Ilan Pappe, 2024

An indispensable guide to understanding the Israel–Palestine conflict, and how we might yet still find a way out of it.

@bookstodon
@palestine
#books
#nonfiction
#history
#Palestine
#Israel
#IlanPappe

A giant fungi in our woods yesterday 😲
Can you imagine the size of the pixies and fairies et all... 😳
(Phone pic)

#Wildlife #art #Photography #Forest #Wood #Wild #summer #loch #history #scotland #fungi #mushroom #wild #nature #PhonePic #nightphotography #phonephotography #night #mycology

Read #VanessaWilliamson: `Since the end of the Confederacy, the cult of the “taxpayer” has provided a socially acceptable veneer for racist attacks on #democracy.` https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/the-austerity-politics-of-white-supremacy
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#bipartisan #raceMaking #whiteSupremacy #whiteness #SouthCarolina #Reconstruction #histoDon #agnotology #publicOpinion #history #taxes #politics #USPol #deficit #taxpayers #Redeemers #racism #Trumpism #GOP #suffrage

https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/revisited/20241108-the-lebensborn-programme-when-nazi-germany-sought-to-create-an-aryan-elite

#Lebensborn #history #farright #extrêmedroite

I watched ABC news anchor say that #Trump’s involvement in the January 6 insurrection won’t be recorded in #history because he won the #election and winners write history.

Moran is wrong. Trump looks like he writes history from inside Moran’s #news #media bubble where they only regurgitate the #press releases the White House feeds them.

Actual historians will write the history and they will uncover information that journalists never knew existed because they never bothered to try to dig it up.

“#Israel's bombardments in north #Gaza are nonstop, killing dozens each day and burying untold numbers of people under the rubble, never to be seen again. [NRC] head Jan Egeland... visited north Gaza this week and noted that Palestinians' suffering is 'almost unparalleled anywhere in recent #history.'”

https://truthout.org/articles/north-gaza-conditions-are-beyond-imagination-un-official-warns/

#Trump being the #president of the #USA is definitely not desirable
But let it be in the #history of #America that committing #genocide wasnt rewarded by #Americans in the #election2024
Some people with moral values from all #ethnicities & #beliefs stood up in the midst of horrible genocide in #Palestine & voted against #Harris, the #WarCriminal candidate of #democrats
#Republicans should know that they'll face the same fate in the next #election if they follow the same path & work for "#Israel"

Does anyone have any recommendations for PeerTube channels focused on #Dinosaurs / #Paleontology, #Insects / #Animals / #TheNaturalWorld, #Space / #Astronomy, other interesting topics #History / #Disaster / #Inventions?

If you are thinking of or have made such a channel I'm happy to share it here.

I watch a few on #YouTube but would like to use #PeerTube more. Channels like: #YDAW, #FascinatingHorror, #KurgesagtInANutshell.

#Israel is intent on destroying everything Arab, whether Muslim or Christian, with the assistance of #Biden-#Harris. #History doesn’t matter. Antiquity doesn’t matter. Purely genocidal.

“🇮🇱🇱🇧Israel destroyed The Church of St. George☦️ in Yaroun (South #Lebanon), which stood for more than a century and a half”

https://x.com/megatron_ron/status/1853003215496785960?s=46&t=521hINbbUzSBIUxrCF_rbg

How to watch the US election like a pro https://www.politico.eu/article/how-to-watch-the-us-election-like-a-pro/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #U.S.election2024 #DemocraticParty #U.S.elections #U.S.election #Immigration #MiddleEast #Elections #Abortion #Americas #Military #Politics #History #Courts #Policy #Rights #Guide #Media #Trade #Feed #Poll #Tax

#israel #palestine : #war / #history / #narrative / #comprehension / #peace / #humanization / #prime / #literature

„LEARNING EACH OTHER'S HISTORICAL NARRATIVE:
Palestinians and Israelis”

https://traubman.igc.org/textbook.htm