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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago (4 children)

god forbid we have 15 local subcribers in their comm

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago

Try to find a sichuan restaurant, its good spicy food and one of the big 8 regional cuisines

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wiki editors didnt find enough evidence that the DSA was involved in the protests unlike the PSL

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago

yea they hold a lot of influence in the central goverment so they tend to push policies that mostly help them, also the second biggest are the sundanese with 15% of the population so its hard for the non-javanese to put a check on them

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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Palestine is a normal comprador vs resistance conflict, for indonesia it more has to do with the central goverment (mostly made up by javanese who are 40% of the population) trying to exploit all resources posible for their capitalist class

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Abbas pushes to disarm Palestinians in Lebanon - Electronic Intifada Hexbear Post pflp-octoplushie

On 30 April, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told Sky News Arabia that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas had raised the issue of disarming Palestinian factions in Lebanon’s refugee camps at the emergency Arab Summit in Cairo in early March.

It was a remarkable revelation. The emergency summit’s goal was the reconstruction of Gaza. But Abbas had other priorities. Both before and in the weeks since the Arab summit, Abbas has criticized the armed resistance by Palestinian factions on several occasions, especially by Hamas, notably demanding that what he called the “sons of dogs” release the remaining Israeli captives in Gaza.

On remote Indonesia karst outpost, Indigenous farmers fear the silence of the yams - Hexbear Post minecraft

  • The Banggai archipelago is a remote landscape of around 97% limestone karst east of Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island.
  • Extractive concessions on 39 locations on Peleng island, the largest island in the Banggai Islands district, may soon cut into the karst bedrock to mine the ancient limestone for cement, glass and other industrial applications.
  • Indigenous villagers on Peleng Island say they worry the development could catalyze unprecedented local environmental damage, impairing the cultivation of unique yam varieties grown only here.
[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

some nerds in the slop post mention that their last posts read like someone that got a call from the cops and with the info from the twitter thread that they live with their parents it looks like the cops threaten his family

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

omg the lib that show the locations of ICE raids turn themselfs in, and then deleted their account

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If he was real he would declare an independent California

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

honestly calling it the "clone wars" implies it was a war against the clones so it makes sense why him and other legends writers thought the clones were evil, maybe both factions should have been given clone armies

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

American communist party aka the patriotic socialists

 

As Gaza faces annihilation under Israel’s relentless bombardment, a grim lesson offers no solace: surrendering to Israeli terms does not guarantee safety – a truth painfully reflected in the reality of the West Bank.

Gaza bleeds under genocide, but another wound festers within: a deepening emotional and political divide between Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Many in Gaza feel abandoned — not just by the international community, but by their fellow Palestinians across the separation barriers.

The anger reached a boiling point after a televised speech by Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, in which he seemingly referred to Hamas as “sons of dogs” and demanded they “just hand over” hostages.”

For many in Gaza, his remarks seemed aimed at all Palestinians in Gaza. This was not merely a political misstep – it was an unforgivable betrayal.

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RAPID CITY — A unique grassy terrain in the center of the Black Hills is at the center of a local debate on drilling activity.

For Oceti Sakowin (Lakota, Dakota and Nakoda) people, Pe’ Sla is an incredibly sacred site. It aligns with the constellations at various points in the year and is a focal point of oral history.

The site is located in the heart of the Black Hills in western South Dakota, roughly 50 miles west of Rapid City. It’s visually unique, a relatively flat large grassy piece of plains devoid of any trees in the middle of a vast mountainous landscape.

“Pe’ Sla is a site that, in our oral history and tradition, has always been deeply connected to the way that we interact with our ancestors, with the universe, with existence itself, with the cosmos,” said Taylor Gunhammer, the lead of NDN Collective’s Protect the He Sapa Campaign. “It’s not coincidental that at particular times of the year, star constellations align with our sacred sites, it’s not rooted in whimsy or fancy. This is history.”

While much of Pe’ Sla is private property, it’s surrounded by forest service land, which is subject to various types of mining claims and proposals, and a newly proposed exploratory drilling project for graphite near Pe’ Sla is causing alarm amongst both Black Hills locals and Indigenous people.

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The term says it all: human zoos.

Strange as it may seem, human beings — largely Indigenous people from across the globe — were recruited to perform in ethnographic displays, also called human zoos, from the mid-19th century to the 1930s, mostly in Europe and the United States.

It's estimated that 60,000 people were trafficked in this global trade — including three documented Aboriginal groups: three Badtjala people from K'gari in south-eastern Queensland in 1882, and eight Bwgcolman or Manbarra-speaking people from Palm and Hinchinbrook Islands in north Queensland in 1883, who were followed by nine of their compatriots in 1894.

There was an appetite to see Indigenous people in their "natural state" and, as popular demand surged, the staging of human zoos grew into more exaggerated displays.

Some featured reconstructions of housing, enclosures and other encampments with domesticated animals tended by familial groups of Indigenous people in "traditional" clothing.

At the peak of these degrading spectacles, entire "villages" were constructed in some of Europe's biggest zoological gardens — including the Tierpark in Hamburg owned by exotic animal trader Carl Hagenbeck, as well as zoos in Dresden, Berlin, and Basel in Switzerland.

The phenomenon is often attributed to Hagenbeck, who, according to the records kept by Dresden Zoo, was the impresario behind the first documented exhibition of Aboriginal people in Germany in 1882 — that of the three people from K'gari.

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México MágicoSometimes, the streets of Mexico are not only crowded with passersby or pedestrians, but sometimes wildlife emerges onto the streets. On this occasion, a tiger sparked panic among residents of the municipality of Mixquiahuala, Hidalgo, after it was spotted wandering through the Centro neighborhood.

The presence of the feline was noticed by residents of 16 de Septiembre Street last Friday, July 22, around 6:00 p.m. Despite being on a leash, the tiger was alone, unaccompanied by its owner.

Local media reported that the Bengal tiger roamed freely until it managed to sneak into a taco stand—possibly attracted by the smell—but moments before, it reported that it had knocked over a parked motorcycle.

This raised alarm among residents, who took refuge in their vehicles and homes due to the latent danger that the feline could attack them. One of them, identified as Gael, despite the anxiety, managed to get a photograph of the animal inside the taco shop.

 

Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States.

Early in his political career, Debs was a member of the Democratic Party. He was elected as a Democrat to the Indiana General Assembly in 1884. After working with several smaller unions, including the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, Debs led his union in a major ten-month strike against the CB&Q Railroad in 1888. Debs was instrumental in the founding of the American Railway Union (ARU), one of the nation's first industrial unions. After workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company organized a wildcat strike over pay cuts in the summer of 1894, Debs signed many into the ARU. He led a boycott by the ARU against handling trains with Pullman cars in what became the nationwide Pullman Strike, affecting most lines west of Detroit and more than 250,000 workers in 27 states. Purportedly to keep the mail running, President Grover Cleveland used the United States Army to break the strike. As a leader of the ARU, Debs was convicted of federal charges for defying a court injunction against the strike and served six months in prison.

In prison, Debs read various works of socialist theory and emerged six months later as a committed adherent of the international socialist movement. Debs was a founding member of the Social Democracy of America (1897), the Social Democratic Party of America (1898) and the Socialist Party of America (1901). Debs ran as a Socialist candidate for President of the United States five times: 1900 (earning 0.6 percent of the popular vote), 1904 (3.0 percent), 1908 (2.8 percent), 1912 (6.0 percent), and 1920 (3.4 percent), the last time from a prison cell. He was also a candidate for United States Congress from his native state Indiana in 1916.

Debs was noted for his oratorical skills, and his speech denouncing American participation in World War I led to his second arrest in 1918. He was convicted under the Sedition Act of 1918 and sentenced to a 10-year term. President Warren G. Harding commuted his sentence in December 1921. Debs died in 1926, not long after being admitted to a sanatorium due to cardiovascular problems that developed during his time in prison.

Biographies, Critiques, Criticisms, Sketches, Autobiographies, Obituaries and Memoirs of Eugene V. Debs iww

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Anyone who says Gaza will be at peace if Hamas just surrenders and releases the hostages is either knowingly sowing disinformation or ignorantly sowing misinformation. We need to make sure everyone’s clear on this so nobody can say they didn’t know after history unpacks this one.

Netanyahu has made it completely and unambiguously clear that even if Hamas surrendered today and released every single hostage, Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan will still need to be implemented as a precondition for ending the mass slaughter. To be absolutely 100 percent clear, Trump’s plan for Gaza is that “all” Palestinians be removed on a “permanent” basis, never allowed to return.

There is no way to permanently remove all Palestinians from a Palestinian territory without material coercion — meaning more mass scale violence and siege warfare. There is also no way to argue that this mass displacement would be voluntary even without further violence, since Israel has been deliberately and systematically making the Gaza Strip uninhabitable by destroying civilian infrastructure. Forcing them to choose between starvation in an uninhabitable wasteland or submit to ethnic cleansing is exactly the same as forcing them out at gunpoint.

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The Transformers 2023 run has been pretty good, i started it back when it was at issue 10 and its still pretty good at 20, i really recommend it

 

In a paper published on Thursday in the journal Communications Earth and Environment, they describe how ammonia wafting off the droppings of 60,000 birds contributed to the formation of clouds that might be insulating Antarctica, helping cool down an otherwise rapidly warming continent. Some penguin populations, however, are under serious threat because of climate change. Losing them and their guano could mean fewer clouds and more heating in an already fragile ecosystem, one so full of ice that it will significantly raise sea levels worldwide as it melts.

A better understanding of this dynamic could help scientists hone their models of how Antarctica will transform as the world warms. They can now investigate, for instance, if some penguin species produce more ammonia and, therefore, more of a cooling effect. “That’s the impact of this paper,” said Tamara Russell, a marine ornithologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who studies penguins but wasn’t involved in the research. “That will inform the models better, because we know that some species are decreasing, some are increasing, and that’s going to change a lot down there in many different ways.”

With their expensive instruments, Boyer and his research team measured atmospheric ammonia between January and March 2023, summertime in the southern hemisphere. They found that when the wind was blowing from an Adelie penguin colony 5 miles away from the detectors, concentrations of the gas shot up to 1,000 times higher than the baseline. Even when the penguins had moved out of the colony after breeding, ammonia concentrations remained elevated for at least a month, as the guano continued emitting the gas. That atmospheric ammonia could have been helping cool the area.

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Energy lines, trade routes, supply chains, tariffs, finance networks, railways, shipping lanes, and even space pacts – these are the new frontlines of global power. The rules of international order are being ripped up. What comes next is a raw, unregulated contest for supremacy.

The wars in Ukraine and Gaza, tensions across Taiwan, Cyprus, Greenland, and the Panama Canal – all are symptoms of this larger war over trade routes and corridors. Each represents a bid to dominate the flow of energy, goods, and capital.

West Asia, as always, is ground zero. It is no coincidence that US President Donald Trump’s first foreign visit in office was to the Persian Gulf. That 2025 tour yielded $3.2 trillion in deals and unveiled Washington’s counter to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) that seeks to connect India, via the Persian Gulf, to Israel, and onward to Europe.

IMEC is a construct aimed entirely at bypassing China’s BRI and reasserting US influence through West and Central Asia. But the corridor fight has exposed the fragmentation of global power.

India, China's biggest regional rival, projected to be the world’s second-largest economy by 2050, is Washington’s main partner in IMEC. Yet its open alliance with Israel and its hostile stance toward Pakistan jeopardize the entire plan. Few Muslim-majority nations are eager to align publicly with Tel Aviv. If India provokes a deeper conflict with nuclear-armed Pakistan, IMEC collapses.

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Pretty good article talking about the importance of the maritine/land trade corridors and how the US and China are planning about it

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