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Israel’s License to Kill: Unraveling the Sabra and Shatila Massacre

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Mon, 18/09/2023 - 22:09

Miko Peled, who was serving in the Israeli military at the time, examines the events leading up to the infamous Sabra and Shatila massacre and questions why the world turned a blind eye to the signs of impending tragedy.

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If People in Other Professions Talked About Their Jobs Like Poets Talk About Poetry

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Mon, 18/09/2023 - 22:00

I am the fire that I fight.

You don’t craft customized soap bars made from organic goat’s milk because you want to craft customized soap bars made from organic goat’s milk; you craft customized soap bars made from organic goat’s milk because you have something to say.

Being a librarian is an act of peace.

Administering medication to elderly patients is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.

Mopping up vomit begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Investment banking is the rhythmical creation of beauty via income inequality.

Starting an OnlyFans is what happens when nothing else can.

A social worker is a painter of the soul.

Plumbing is discovering.

A podiatrist is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with feet.

Delivering for Uber Eats is how we give name to the nameless so it can be eaten.

Therapy is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness.

What the Media Is Not Telling Us About West Africa

https://www.mintpressnews.com/what-media-not-telling-us-about-africa-coups/2857…
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Mon, 18/09/2023 - 21:33

Little attention has been paid to the possibility that perhaps African countries are fed up with the old apparatus, that of Western-supported wealthy and violent dictators - and supposed 'democrats' - who squander their country's wealth to remain in power.

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Resisting the ‘statistical significance testing’ temptation

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Mon, 18/09/2023 - 18:22
Imagine a dictator “game” in which a mixed-sex group of experimental subjects are used as first players who can decide which share of their initial endowment they give to a second player (one person acts as second player for the whole group). Additionally, assume that the experimental subjects are a convenience sample but not a […]

Showies

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Mon, 18/09/2023 - 11:20

We have lived in Broken Hill for over three years and this evening we finally went to the Silver City Show.

a 1989 exhibit in the pavillion inspired the insignia on the ticket to entry
Silver City Pastoral and Agricultural Association keeping a great show on the go

As a kid I used to go to the Spring Festival celebrations in Cornwall with roots …

This is criminal

https://digbysblog.net/2023/09/17/this-is-criminal/
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Mon, 18/09/2023 - 09:00
DeSantis should be held liable for this malfeasance Will Bunch takes on the latest far-right GOP plot to kill Americans. That’s not really hyperbole. The way they behave about public health is a crime. It’s one thing to tell people to be practical and do what they can to protect themselves and others without requiring lockdowns or mandates. That seems to be the consensus as we go into this new surge. But to say the vaccines are dangerous is just plain evil. They just don’t give a damn about the vulnerable people in our country. I guess that’s nothing new. But it’s never been more obvious. The initial, overrepeated mantra of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign was that “Florida is the state where ‘woke’ goes to die.” Now, a growing number of scientists and public-health experts are worried that the governor of America’s third-largest state may be adding a second risk of death to that list. His own citizens.

The Solidarity Economy: Towards a Polanyian Conception of Change for the 21st Century

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Mon, 18/09/2023 - 08:56
by Jean-Louis Laville* Two major lessons emerge from the 19th and 20th centuries. Firstly, the promotion of a market society underpinned by a concern for individual freedom has increased inequality; secondly, the subjugation of the economy to political will under the pretext of equality has led to the suppression of freedoms. These two solutions have […]

The Political Rise of a New White Nationalism

https://tomdispatch.com/the-political-rise-of-a-new-white-nationalism/
Created
Mon, 18/09/2023 - 08:31

In 2020, The Daily Show ran a segment in which statements by Republican leaders, including Donald Trump, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), and various Fox News personalities were juxtaposed with those made by Ku Klux Klan leaders like former Grand Wizard David Duke and former Imperial Wizard Bill Wilkerson. Fired Fox News commentator Tucker Carson, for instance, screeches manically that, because of immigration, “eventually there will be no more native-born Americans.” Immediately following that comment comes former Grand Wizard Duke saying, “We’ve got to start protecting our race.” Donald Trump is then shown at a rally (with several Black people behind him wearing “Blacks for Trump” T-shirts) saying about Covid treatments, “If you’re white, you have... Read more

Go make disciples!

https://digbysblog.net/2023/09/17/go-make-disciples/
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Mon, 18/09/2023 - 07:30
I keep hearing the right wingers bellow that “they’re coming for your children” and “keep your hands off my kids!” Uh huh: While right-wing groups are mobilizing angry mobs to yell at school board members that parents have the right to control what their children are taught, evangelical pollster George Barna told religious-right activists at the Family Research Council’s “Pray Vote Stand” summit Thursday that it is their duty to try to indoctrinate other people’s children into a “biblical worldview.” Barna, one of the first senior fellows at FRC’s recently established Center for Biblical Worldview, specializes in studying what he calls “SAGE Cons”—Spiritually Active Governance Engaged Conservative Christians. What is most striking about FRC and Barna’s “worldview” project is how few people—and how few conservative evangelicals—measure up to their right-wing “biblical worldview” standard.