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Iran offers women $40,000 for capturing a U.S. servicemember
Iran’s army is prepared to pay women around $40,000 for capturing a U.S. servicemember if American forces launch a ground invasion of Iran.
Hello, my dear friends,
The economic and security situation in Gaza is not good.
There are many poor and unemployed people; there is no glimmer of hope or change. Everyone is exhausted and needs help. 🙏😞
https://chuffed.org/project/189598-help-haya-complete-her-college-education-and-provide-food-for-her-family
#palestine #gazaverified #gazagenocide #freepalestine #Greaterlsrael #Help #MedicalFundraiser #Donate #Share #Press #War #lmperialism #Genocide #MutualAidRequest #MutualAid #helpgaza #gazahelp #journalism #donations #support #supportus #fundraising #humanity #gaza
Every time #Ukraine causes an explosion, they are polluting the planet. (Same is true for any nation causing black smoke to rise into the clouds.) I do not consent to funding these wars.
Hypocrites want to limit the tiny use of fuel and energy used by us civilians because of [insert propaganda keyword here]. Yet they are the worst offenders in destroying our planet and polluting our air, water, and food.
time for coffee... ☕ ☕
☮️
#conscription seems to be raising it's head again...
If I was a young person, I would rather go to #jail than go to #war
RE: https://mastodon.ml/@moskorato/117195112783586492
translation:
Whoever captured this is a genius. The shot perfectly captures the atmosphere of the past four years: tragedies happen every day, but there are so many that nobody pays attention anymore. Everyone is just trying to carry on. The mind refuses to process what’s happening and retreats into a kind of shell.
Horses were used in World War II.
This is of interest to me since the Bible has many verses that refer to horses being used in battle. Will horses be used again in war in the present time and future?
https://militaryhistorynow.com/2013/08/19/war-horses-the-cavalrys-contribution-to-second-world-war/
@argv_minus_one Tech has something to do with it all.
(How can you say it doesn't?)
#Cooperation or what the empire is wanting to do towards people is all part of communication tech etc.
Forever states are have been mostly against us using economical #war against us (and stealing #money we think is for a good cause / giving to the #poor).
#Tech, and all this waste of time / #war people are doing, is all part of it.
"Tech has nothing to do with it." is so far out like a clear brain disorder.
Ukraine Drones Killing Civilians
Translated.... "Another Azerbaijani man has died during the Russian-Ukrainian war. [...] 45-year-old Mahir Mammadov was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in Crimea.
[...] the truck Mammadov was driving was attacked by a drone. As a result of the strike, the driver died inside the vehicle, which was engulfed in flames."
#404Media x #TheIntercept Live: How #AI Is Used to Surveil and Kill
https://www.404media.co/404-media-x-the-intercept-live-how-ai-is-used-to-surveil-and-kill/
A quotation from Kerry Greenwood
“I always found faith a great comfort. Otherwise it is too much, Phryne. Too cruel. To think that all the lads, all those boys, were just gone, blown out like candles. Don’t you agree?”
“I do,” said Phryne. “I like to think of them sitting down with all their mates to a serious drinking session, washed clean of mud and stench, all shiny and jolly. And if that doesn’t constitute heaven, I’m not going; though, of course, I might not have the option.”
Kerry Greenwood (b. 1954) Australian author and lawyer
Phryne Fisher Book 20, Murder and Mendelssohn, ch. 7 (2013)
More about this quote: wist.info/greenwood-kerry/8612…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #kerrygreenwood #missfisher #phrynefisher #afterlife #casualties #fatalities #heaven #war #wwi
The “glory” of war is a lie sold by cowards in suits. You don’t die a hero; you die screaming in your own filth while a politician cashes a check.
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American writer
(Spurious)
More about this quote: wist.info/hemingway-ernest/861…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hemingway #spurious #antiwar #baddeath #death #deception #exploitation #glory #propaganda #suffering #war
Saying the Iran war is not a war, is like saying the Patriot Pac3 Interceptors, launched at incoming Iranian missiles targeting American military stationed in Jordan, does not produce exhaust trails.... it's only water vapor.
Current official US statistics for the 2026 Iran War:
18 American military men have been killed
820 wounded
Ukraine hits key Russia-Iran logistics hub in Caspian Sea, damages three Russian warships
A fire broke out at the Makhachkala port after Ukrainian forces struck its oil infrastructure, while separate attacks damaged Russian vessels in Novorossiysk.
Ukraine says its forces struck Russia’s Makhachkala port on the Caspian Sea and confirmed damage to three Russian warships in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk in a series of long-range attacks.
#WarOfAggression #Ukraine #drone #LogisticHub #CaspianSea #BlackSea #warships #Novorossiysk #occupied #warfare #army #war #Russia #DeepStrike #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers
#перемогаYкраїни
I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice, and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the sacrifices were like the stockyards in Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American writer
A Farewell to Arms, ch. 27 (1929)
More about this quote: wist.info/hemingway-ernest/859…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hemingway #farewelltoarms #cause #glory #hackneyed #inspiration #propaganda #sacredness #sacrifice #war #warishell #wartime #waste #worldwari #wwi #ww1
Shopping centre in Pavlohrad, Ukraine attacked with drones.
More civilians are injured and killed. I found no one claiming responsibility for the attack.
#Ozon is an e-commerce marketplace, comparable to Amazon. Russian civilians work there and buy and sell through Ozon.
If this happened in the USA, they would call it "terrorism". But that's how propaganda works. Your government tells you what they want you to believe. It's always the other side that are the terrorists, and we are the "good guys".
"AI" is WordCoin
My comment / comparison :
A Bank is also quite the same
- investing your #savings in #war,
- giving it to bad / profitable people
- lending so it dilutes all existing money to cheapen it etc
I don't agree with #Banks either (give them something but take away much more from people).
Happy to hear what you think about my comment about AI vs. Banks. And I like the #WordCoin name you mentioned.
Ukraine Censorship
Kiev - the capital of Ukraine - is being attacked by Russia, but civilians are told to not share pictures online of the fires or damage done.
"We also remind you: do not take photos or videos of the consequences of the enemy attack and do not share such materials online."
A quotation from Richard Steele
Who can have lived in an army, and in a serious hour reflect upon the many gay and agreeable men that might long have flourished in the arts of peace, and not join with the imprecations of the fatherless and widow on the tyrant to whose ambition they fell sacrifices? But gallant men, who are cut off by the sword, move rather our veneration than our pity, and we gather relief enough from their own contempt of death, to make it no evil, which was approached with so much cheerfulness, and attended with so much honour. But when we turn our thoughts from the great parts of life on such occasions, and instead of lamenting those who stood ready to give death to those from whom they had the fortune to receive it; I say, when we let our thoughts wander from such noble objects, and consider the havoc which is made among the tender and the innocent, pity enters with an unmixed softness, and possesses all our souls at once.
Richard Steele (1672–1729) Anglo-Irish writer, journalist, playwright, politician
Essay (1710-06-06), “On the Death of Friends,” The Tatler, No. 181
More about this quote: wist.info/steele-richard/85903…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #richardsteele #battle #casualties #death #gallantry #military #pity #sacrifice #soldier #survivors #war
War Causes Water Pollution
War destroys the planet. The seas are being polluted with oil.
Most today do not know how the great flood started in the days of Noah.... It was due to war! Men used explosives on mountains, which unleashed the fountains of the deep. I doubt many today even believe there was a great flood, but watch as men destroy their own planet again! And we have yet to see the increased destruction from nuclear weapons and rogue AI.
@j_feral
I don't want people to use #crypto...
(and maybe too complicated anyway)
but I also think the existing banks are a deliberate disease (lends what it doesn't have, gambles our savings in #war, grow peoples that we can't feed or the intellectually dormant).
- "Pollution" itself (solutions of consumption) is also a way of leverage, the "exchange" is pollution towards "less bad things" (#autonomy / #commons / #banks less purchasing / loaning power <---- the core of all bad #power / ppl)
@j_feral #crypto vs. #fiat #money:
- nothing is 100% perfect (everything should have some allowance / reasoning)
- Any complicated #systems can be improved or solved but it's a gamble.
- IDEALLY we use less / nothing and just agree in our minds to let people live as much as possible. It's hard to #share and not fight with words / material #war.
- we have to consume #planet to live.
BUT MUST FIGHT #EVIL INVADING BADDIES / NEIGHBOURS...
+ MAKE #FRIENDS ENDLESSLY (?)
^--------- Very HARD...
if you really care about climate change 👇
#imperialism #capitalism #ai #genai #llm #usa #us #war #military #climate #climateChange #climateEmergency #politics
- #Bank accounts can be shut down anytime (people kept it under their mattress because it's self-managed)
- #Banks lend out your savings to #bad #projects / #people) for big profit:
#War / #Guns / #Genocide / #Tanks
Lending devalues all money:
1 - the face-value of all other money dilutes when people repeatedly pay loans
- as we pay fees, all money devalues
Re-lending our earned money to bad people behind our backs is terrible loss of #values.
We have to quit banks and use something else.
Stripes: Army CID cyber office investigates refrigerator outages affecting several commissary stores
"...The Army Criminal Investigation Division Cyber Field Office is investigating refrigeration outages that occurred at commissary stores across the country within days of each other, the agency confirmed Tuesday.
Unverified sources have suggested the outages affected up to a dozen stores..."
A topical protest song:
NOT NEARLY LONG ENOUGH
(C) 2026 by Dan Schatz
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/iAkzcB8Ha1U
#music #protest #resist #USSLincoln #sailors #folksong #IranWar #Iran #war
A quotation from Smedley Butler
War is a billionaire’s extortion racket, baptized in the blood of impoverished teenagers.
Smedley Butler (1881–1940) American Marine Corps officer, war hero, anti-war activist
(Spurious)
More about this quote: wist.info/butler-smedley/85743…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #smedleybutler #bigbusiness #casualties #classwarfare #militaryindustrialcomplex #moniedinterests #profiteering #war #warishell #warmaking #warmongering
@thatdnaguy @argv_minus_one Tech people probably see / saw the cat and mouse game during all these years:
The same stakes but higher (#optin or #optout) means fueling the #cat (the #industry) is 100% futile...
#Devs use Tech for #money BUT that is also funding #banks and domino effects of funding bad #projects. also #war.
Developing people is the higher priority now more than tech & money.
Not developing machines.
#Dev #Social (a better #society of less-tech #people / friends - build mass.
Ukraine is hitting with drones many logistics centers used for consumer goods in Russia. These are attacks against civilians. And the warehouses employ thousands of civilian workers. Some have died, some wounded.
This war really makes no sense. It is simply evil, as most war is, fought by men whose hearts have grown cold.
Companies targeted:
#Wildberries
#Ozon
@maeve_bkk The claim does appear "speculative", or even misleading.
Ukraine has conscription. Russia does also, but with the option of alternative civilian service, like work in hospitals, or post offices. They are paid employees, not soldiers.
Ukraine is under martial law. Their men are forced to join the military. There is no civilian option.
Russia, as a whole, is not under martial law, and civilian service is an option.
@argv_minus_one And by #disease I mean "You are nothing but a number serving us."
#modern #slavery / #economic #war on people.
A falling into a #mechanical type of perspective of #numbers in a #loop:
Numbers meaning different things to different people, but those at the top stripping the caring meaning of all numbers like some type of #accounting as #colonial #perspective - re-arranging all things to falsely represent / be uncaring to everything top-down.
When war begins Hell opens.
[Quando la guerra Comincia, s’apre l’inferno.]
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian, writer, aphorist
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “Proverbs in Italian” (1659)
[compiler]
More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/85653/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #disaster #hell #horror #war
I know it's not a 'popular opinion' but at some point I do think European countries should consider sending arms and troops to Ukraine to help them liberate from the Russian invasion..
It's been many many years, deaths, money, misery later since this started
We should act together and show; "no more"
But that's me..
Imprison opposition, “win” elections.
“Lev Shlosberg…senior member of Russia's liberal opposition party Yabloko, was pronounced guilty of "public actions aimed at discrediting…use of the Armed Forces…Russian Federation" & sentenced to 11 years & 1 month in a penal colony…”
“‘A single person is imprisoned, yet fear seeps into the hearts of millions,’ said Shlosberg in his closing remarks.”
https://www.dw.com/en/russia-prison-for-opposition-leader-over-war-criticism/a-78403203
#russia #dictatorship #censorship #UnfreeSpeech #despotism #Ukraine #war
@collective_truth @RichardJMurphy @aral
Read the pinned post on my profile.
There are a few institutions that work in collusion to run people’s lives, and form the basis of the #Matrix.
1. #Schools
2. #Churches
3. #Governments
4. #Corporations
5. #Media
6. #Banks
Once I became a #whistleblower against the system, in 2023, #WellsFargo #bank would not give me my own money. They still have not.
( Details: https://whistleblower.lovestoblog.com/ )
It’s time for the biblical prophecy to come true, and the money lenders to be kicked out.
Here’s how:
https://rant.li/ashwin/visions-for-a-new-web
AlohaCoin v2 redistributes wealth, and brings about #degrowth
With full bellies, people have the courage to break free of the Matrix, and #disobey leaders. Political, religious, military, corporate leaders etc.
Little incentive for #crime, #war, #violence.
Please boost and spread the message!
@misterdave @aral Mister Dave, do you mean:
"Both can be true":
1- People are ill / sick / wrong
AND
-2 Systems are ill / sick / wrong / fucked
If only we could do better than #cheating people (#Banks behind our backs for examples) trying to avoid bad people in front of our eyes (with #genocide / #war etc) and replace it with something better...?
#AralBalkan is almost there but investing in the people work needs pumping up more than any material or money work.
The mind. Let's rebuild it ?
"...Western countries, our governments are directly complicit and, many times, profiting from Israel’s genocide.
Whatever you do, please don’t judge the entirety of something by the actions of a few and please try and keep things – namely Internet etiquette and genocide – in perspective and ask yourselves what you would do if you were in their shoes."
- #QUOTE @aral
Post: https://mastodon.social/@aral@mastodon.ar.al/117092273556764874
#complicit #governments #genocide
#war #AralBalkan #Israel vs. #Palestine
There are three great destroyers of mankind, Plague, Famine, and Hero. Plague and Famine destroy your persons only, and leave your goods to your Heirs; but Hero, when he comes, takes life and goods together; his business and glory it is, to destroy man and the works of man.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard Improved (1748 ed.)
More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/85…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #conqueror #conquest #destruction #famine #glory #hero #plague #war #warfare
@aral Banks are the root of funding all #evil... ?
Can we talk about #Banks more directly if you we see this picture?
I think you personally and families haven't explored #Banks as much as they could (or let me know if you have)
Banks and #money are the CORE root of growing & funding EVERY #WAR... right?
#Banks Support Wars
#Wars Support Banks
Banks are the #War on #Humanity
Had Dr. Fauci been named in the Epstein files, Republicans would have made him a hero.
#fauci #trump #epstein #EpsteinFiles #iran #war #republicans #MAGA #news #Israel
MS NOW: Moldy showers and no soap: Military families are outraged by conditions on USS Lincoln
"...Moldy showers. Food shortages. Sailors running out of toothpaste, deodorant and soap.
Families of the sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are sounding the alarm that their loved ones are so exhausted they fear it could lead to deadly mistakes, as the carrier enters its ninth month at sea and its fifth consecutive month of combat operations against Iran...."
https://www.ms.now/news/conditions-safety-uss-lincoln-iran-war
@pft For individuals maybe it's ok to do things for free? (if you could see the individual was a goody)
So even doctors (seen in your pic) should / could do things for free* / not put need money* and that could be the nature of all work?
*= if you can also assume #true that:
1- all #money and #banks are bad powers of people mixed in to all our good lives as we use / transact / let them use the money behind our back for bad things incl #war
2- at the same time we make a #paygate for everything?
@elsua54 @sturmsucht
The reason for that is partly:
1- #Manipulation - Banks etc giving need for us to pay never-ending holes of finance & %'s to exist instead of growing psychological / healthy things using banks.
(#Banks & #State use our hard-earned money to only pay it's owners / pay for #war!)
Having time for healthier things always had it's part to play to try increasing:
Mini-#conclusion:
The #business #model is what socially people need to get out of (still now and back then)...
US presidents have made their public speeches about Iran for many years.
President #Obama, just like #Trump, focused on Iran's nuclear program, as if it was a valid reason to give or withhold peace from them, depending on Iran's choice.
The United States has nuclear weapons and has used them. Which nations can be trusted to possess these devastating weapons?
(I would say none.)
Trump was not the first president to wage war without approval from Congress.
Barack Obama broke this rule before him, in his 2011war against Libya.
Trump ordered the attacks that killed the leaders of Iran.
Obama ordered the attacks that resulted in the death of the leader of Libya.
The war machine has been going on and on for generations. Why? Because the love of man has grown cold. He kills and justifies himself for doing it.
Human rights group have grown extremely concerned over a future where robot soldiers fight the wars. But a startup founded in 2024 is racing to create humanoid robots that will automate factory work, build futuristic mega-cities, and, most strikingly, wage the wars of tomorrow. “It is so backwards that people in the Western world somehow have this disease of thinking that humanoid robots holding a gun is like as bad as a nuclear weapon,” Foundation Future Industries co-founder Sankaet Pathak says. Read more from @Independent:
RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/117017469539175767
this makes Starlink a legitimate military target, EVERYWHERE around the world, on land and in the stratosphere. am wondering if astronomers like Prof Lawler have factored in military risks in their satellite pollution studies.
also, wasn’t Musk caught aiding Putin? in the famous words of General Ackbar, IT’S A TRAP!
Black Smoke In #Russia
Warehouses of consumer goods and oil refineries attacked again by #Ukraine.
Translation:
"Not only #Wildberries in Volgograd. As of this morning, the Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabka #refinery is also still burning."
https://t.me/exilenova_plus/27639
World rulers want us to cut back on our fuel emissions, but they themselves are the biggest violators.
“The people are very complex and difficult,” said Trump. “In many cases wonderful, in many cases not so wonderful.”
Wow. So profound. 😏
#StableBoyGenius #news #ukraine #russia #war #TACO #StableGenius
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/31/trump-cabinet-camp-david-ukraine
@aral io
1- EVERYONE supports #Capitalism - at least on a #financial level as it's an #INTEGRATED #default:
#Taxes & %'$ are taken.
#Banks use #money for #war / #bad projects.
2- Your posts are measurably worse / nasty now - pushing average person or #fans away.
The false #Ultimatums and false-decisions presented are separating people.
(i.e. None of your audience are big Capitalists or #Evil people. Your recent words / #hate feels like you assume it).
3- Not hate - love / increment #trust
"The US Senate on Thursday rejected a largely symbolic effort to limit Donald Trump’s authority to wage war in Iran..."
I think you mean the largely symbolic Senate...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/donald-trump-senate-iran-war-power
#dictatorship #authoritarian #fascism #news @guardian #US #Iran #war #politics
Some people don't want war (a feeling that is quite reasonable...)
BUT modern people have to see that wars are 100% happening / happened / going to happen again.
So unless they choose to be blind or too scared etc, then they are actually falling into feeding / paying for the wars. #Paying for wars themselve$ while #complaining!
AND #BANKS ARE THE MAIN #WEAPON FOR WAR
(physical and #financial war comes mainly from #banks).
Do you agree?
@therealitynetwork GOOD POSTS...
BUT a few flaws about Governments:
- Governments exist to #war on their people (profit / over-power them) and sometimes to over-power others in other countries by providing them free #tech etc. #USPol
- Never think Governments are going #save people or do things with the logic you assume towards #liberty / #sovereign tech etc (unless it's #money and #power in that #logic and sense).
The next good revolution is not with Governments but individuals together.
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@MikeDunnAuthor/116709859573444490
On June 7, 1971, the United States was actively involved in the Vietnam War.
My advice for any man drafted into World War III, is to do as John the Baptist said.
Luke 3:14 KJV
And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do?
And he said unto them,
"Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages."
----
You can be a soldier, and yet refuse to hurt your fellow man. The government may capture you, but they cannot force you to kill. Instead, we could all do our part to bring peace.
This video appears to show a young Ukrainian man being captured by his own government, to be drafted into the war against Russia (what they call #conscription).
It's a war they do not want, but their government forces them to fight. Most Ukrainian men want their government to make peace with Russia.
video source:
https://southfront.press/the-neverending-draft-how-kyiv-buys-time-with-soldiers-lives/
When searching the internet for real people in #Ukraine (not media corporations or propaganda) posting their views of life and war in their country, I have come up with almost nothing. Then I learned that #Ukraine is under martial law, and the regime actively shuts down websites without court order.
During #war, #censorship is worse than in times of peace.
Archived list of some websites banned in Ukraine:
"#Jewish #children in the #UK are showing heightened anxiety around being taken #hostage and #schoolintruder alarms, a leading Jewish #child #therapist has said.
Speaking on the first episode of WIZO UK’s new #podcast Impacting Your Future, with journalist and host #RosaDoherty, childhood #anxiety specialist #SaskiaJoss said #October7, the #Israel-#Gaza #war and #UK #terror attacks had reshaped her patients’ #anxieties.
“As a Jewish person, the last few years have brought up a huge amount of anxiety for all of us,” said #Joss, who published her #book Help! My Child’s Anxiety is Giving Me Anxiety last year and co-hosts her podcast Help! My Child’s Anxious with her mother, the #broadcaster #VanessaFeltz.
“I have regularly worked with Jewish children in the last few years who have huge fears of being taken as a hostage. They don’t say ‘being taken’. We all now have the word – it’s ‘hostage’."
I know of one gifted crackpot who used to be employed gainfully in the fields of humor and satire, who has taken a solemn pledge not to write anything funny or lighthearted or “insignificant” again till things get straightened around in the world. This seems to me distinctly deleterious and a little silly. A literature composed of nothing but liberty-loving thoughts is little better than the propaganda which it seeks to defeat.
E. B. White (1899-1985) American author, critic, humorist [Elwyn Brooks White]
Essay (1939-01), “One Man’s Meat,” Harper’s Magazine, Vol. 178
More about this quote: wist.info/white-eb/85184/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ebwhite #badtimes #earnestness #gravity #humor #propaganda #satire #senseofhumor #seriousness #war #weightiness #writing
A quotation from Eleanor Roosevelt
Will we ever learn to use reason instead of force in the world, and will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1939-10-16), “My Day”
More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-eleanor/60…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eleanorroosevelt #conflict #following #force #freedom #future #hope #leaders #leadership #liberty #oppression #progress #reason #tyranny #war #WorldWar2 #ww2 #wwii
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.
This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) American general, US President (1953-61)
Speech (1953-04-16), “The Chance for Peace,” American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, DC
More about this quote: wist.info/eisenhower-dwight/56…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #eisenhower #dwighteisenhower #budget #cost #defense #loss #nationaldefense #needy #priorities #spending #threat #tradeoff #war #waste #wastedeffort #weaponry
boostedThe #Pentagon now reports over 600 #casualties in Trump’s #IranWar. Officials quietly added over 140 wounded & restored 4 killed to database.
#TrumpsWar #US #Iran #war #ForeverWars #Trump #WarCrimes #RegimeChange #RulesOfWar #InternationalLaw #law #Congress #WarPowers #geopolitics #NationalSecurity #MiddleEast #economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #oil #energy #EnergyCrisis
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/26/politics/iran-war-casualties?cid=ios_app
People think Banks are #neutral.
They are #bad managers of your #energy (#savings, #money) funding bad things.
Why bad things ?
#War is more profitable than your shitty #charity so "Sorry no we won't give you loans to your goody good charity / company. What do we get back, good morality?... NO! We need YOU to get MORE money from others!".
Banks want much more back. No matter what cost of life or whatever tanks you build.
STILL WONDERING?
GIVING TO #BANKS MEANS THEY CAN DO THE SAME AGAIN !
@glennmagusharvey @ErikUden For this reply consider #profit = #money (probably is) and therefore stored in banks.
#Banks fund war etc (it's a main business for them) so I have a problem with this #design.
Storing my #savings / profit with banks = directly fund multiple sides of #war.
Banks by design are a kind of #profit / war machine who 'help others' to fund their chosen things (if a good company is allowed to be funded) while at same time #funding all #bad / warring thing$ much faster.
"Ukrainian drone strike ignites a major blaze at St Petersburg #Wildberries warehouses." I hate that this is happening and pray the Lord would protect you and your family, and that all men would be at peace with each other.
Once you understand the actual likelihood of risks and the forms they are likely to take, the next step is to evaluate potential responses.
And the first thing you need to understand is that in the vast majority of scenarios, sheltering in place is going to be the superior option, not "bugging out".
Only in the event of widespread #disaster, area #contamination, or #war #conflict will you actually need to leave the area.
#Evacuation routes will immediately clog faster than you think.
One plant makes the seats that save Russian pilots—Ukraine’s Flamingo missile torched it 1,200 km from home
The Avitek factory is the country’s sole serial producer of escape seats for every fighter and attack aircraft in the fleet.
#WarOfAggression #Ukraine #drone #Flamingo #missile #aircraft #Kirov #occupied #warfare #army #war #Russia #DeepStrike #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers
#перемогаYкраїни
Estonian intelligence estimates Russia's losses from Ukraine's strike on Wildberries warehouses
Successful long-range strikes by the Ukrainian Defense Forces on the warehouses of the Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries are dealing a tangible blow to the Russian economy. Direct losses from these attacks could reach up to $2 billion, ERR reports.
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/estonian-intelligence-estimates-russia-s-1784904813.html
#WarOfAggression #Ukraine #drone #Petersburg #Wildberries #warehouse #Simferopol #occupied #warfare #army #war #Russia #DeepStrike #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers
#перемогаYкраїни
Ukrainian drones hit 19 more power substations in occupied Crimea and Donetsk region
The Crimean Switch Off operation continues to show results
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/ukrainian-drones-hit-19-more-power-substations-1784894890.html
#WarOfAggression #Ukraine #drone #substations #Crimea #Crimea #Donetsk #occupied #warfare #army #war #Russia #DeepStrike #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers
#перемогаYкраїни
‘Ukrainians, Have You No Empathy?’: Russians Cry on Camera as Ukraine Strikes More Wildberries Warehouses
In brief: Russian sellers wept on camera and asked Ukrainians whether they had empathy after new drone strikes hit Wildberries logistics centers near St. Petersburg. Ukraine says the retailer’s warehouses support Russia’s military logistics by supplying drone components, navigation equipment, and other gear.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/80996
#WarOfAggression #Ukraine #drone #Petersburg #Wildberries #warehouse #Simferopol #occupied #warfare #army #war #Russia #DeepStrike #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers
#перемогаYкраїни
“From Simferopol to St. Petersburg”—Ukraine’s drone commander sums up one night of fire at Russia’s online giant
Same retailer, the fourth assault in a week—Ukraine has a clear new favorite target. The Russian retailer’s logistics network keeps ending up on fire.
#WarOfAggression #Ukraine #drone #Petersburg #Wildberries #warehouse #Simferopol #occupied #warfare #army #war #Russia #DeepStrike #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers
#перемогаYкраїни
RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/116973564377440167
Donald Trump promised to end the Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours.
His promise came with a requirement: that he wins the election. And he said that three years ago. Is anyone even trying to make peace?
This "may be the first comprehensive account of the only time a nuclear projectile was fired from a cannon (known as Atomic Annie)."
https://soundcloud.com/tim-lambert-2/awards-me-atomic-test-version
Two Russian oil sites burning north of Kazakhstan—Ukraine hit both in the dark
The twin strikes reached about 800 and more than 1,300 kilometers into Russia, hitting Ulyanovsk and Bashkortostan facilities.
#WarOfAggression #Ukraine #drone #Bashkortostan #Kazakhstan #Video #Ulyanovsk #occupied #warfare #army #war #Russia #DeepStrike #WarCriminal #invaders #occupiers
#перемогаYкраїни
The #US #House again passes resolution seeking to halt #military action in #Iran as some #Republicans defect
The House narrowly passed a resolution to halt military action in Iran, sending a warning to #Trump for the 2nd time as the #war has escalated & the future of the conflict is increasingly uncertain.
The 214-208 vote requiring congressional approval for the war comes as the #Senate is expected to consider a similar resolution later Thursday.
#law #WarPowers
https://apnews.com/article/iran-congress-war-powers-resolution-vote-0ba2387a476fe08de0bfd6281adb9639
When the Egyptians were drowning in the Red Sea, the angels in heaven began to break forth in songs of jubilation, but the Holy One, blessed be He, silenced them: “My creatures are perishing — and ye are ready to sing!”
בִּקְּשׁוּ מַלְאֲכֵי הַשָּׁרֵת לוֹמַר שִׁירָה, אָמַר הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא: מַעֲשֵׂה יָדַי טוֹבְעִין בַּיָּם, וְאַתֶּם אוֹמְרִים שִׁירָה
The Talmud (AD 200-500) Collection of Jewish rabbinical writings
Babylonian Talmud, Seder Moed, Megillah 10b.26 [Rosten (1972)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/talmud/4579/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #talmud #callousness #celebration #compassion #creation #creator #divineintervention #divinelove #divinewrath #God #grief #inappropriateness #mercy #sorrow #tragedy #war
It is disturbing to see the military strikes on the #Wildberries warehouses in #Russia, which have killed civilian workers and injured others, and resulted in the loss of consumer goods intended for civilians. The justification used to support #Ukraine is that #Russia orders equipment for their military through this online marketplace, they say.
"Some #American #Jews have been explaining to non-#Jewish friends, neighbors, and colleagues the fear and apartness they have felt since #Oct7, 2023, when #Hamas breached Israel’s southern border and launched an attack that sparked the #Gaza #war and the anti-#Israel – and in some cases #antisemitic – backlash that followed.
In interviews, they describe a sense of disorientation, as if they have been jolted into an entirely new era, in which some have lost friendships and a sense of belonging. This is especially true in some #progressive social circles that never condemned the Oct. 7 violence, and in some cases even within their own Jewish communities that hold differing opinions on what supporting Israel means.
Jewish #writers and #filmmakers report being excluded from talks and festivals and experiencing difficulties in getting new #books #published."
@NOUR_GAZA_s2m @RadicalGraffiti @simon_brooke
My sympathy to all - I'm not a fan of hearing this.
But the overall importance than even my own life is people realising we need to go away from #economic #war and those people (#banks etc #funding it).
It's not a 100% jump from one to the other - knowing who is bad in the world and using other ways / people other than money is essential (eventually / "slowly but surely").
[continued...]
boostedIs this what you voted for #MAGA?
#Hegseth estimates #IranWar has cost US Taxpayers $37.5 Billion so far
#Defense Secy Pete Hegseth faced questions & #protests Tuesday over the #US #war with #Iran, which he *estimated* has cost $37.5 billion so far [meaning double that, at a minimum], as #Republicans prepare a $95 billion #GOP budget package to #fund the #military, along with other #Trump priorities.
#TrumpsWar #law #Congress #WarPowers #service
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-hegseth-military-deaths-95-billion-7d158708c3e5385683930f8b839d0344
War does not only kill and displace people, it poisons rivers, wetlands and farmland and leaves communities and ecosystems scarred for decades.
Toxic pollution from the war on Iran will continue to devastate the country’s environment for years to come.
Real security means escaping deadly fossil fuel dependency and protecting people and nature.
https://truthout.org/articles/us-israeli-bombing-has-harmed-irans-wildlife-farms-and-water-supply/
"His first day on the team, his commander gestured to the American with a vest full of grenades and said, 'Stick with Giggles.'" Laura Beil for Texas Monthly https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/texan-risked-everything-defend-ukraine/?src=longreads #profiles #ukraine #russia #conflict #war #invasion #longreads
Good #morning to readers; #kyiv remains in #ukrainian hands.
Natalia works as an #car #mechanic a male-dominated field she would likely have never chosen on her own.
However, when her #husband left for #war Natalia, like many #ukrainian women, had to step up.
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/how-conscription-pushes-women-into
Explore what human-centered #war #reporting looks like
Stay tuned to #TheCounteroffensive
Catch our #newsletters through the link
https://www.counteroffensive.news/p/how-conscription-pushes-women-into
boostedDive into our #newsletter to #experience the #reality of living on the ground in this #war .
Don't miss #journalism that makes a difference.
#Ukraine is not only fighting for the existence of their country but also for mother earth
By destroying a large part of the Russian oil industry
Very sad it has to be this way but rather this then not at all
At length, after infinite effort, the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word “Fire!” is given: and they blow the souls out of one another; and in place of sixty brisk useful craftsmen, the world has sixty dead carcasses, which it must bury, and anew shed tears for. Had these men any quarrel? Busy as the Devil is, not the smallest! They lived far enough apart; were the entirest strangers; nay, in so wide a Universe, there was even, unconsciously, by Commerce, some mutual helpfulness between them. How then? Simpleton! their Governors had fallen-out; and, instead of shooting one another, had the cunning to make these poor blockheads shoot.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Sartor Resartus, Book 2, ch. 8 (1834)
More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/85019…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #pawns #battle #casualties #classwarfare #death #soldier #war #waste
Wait, I forgot who is obstructing the Strait of Hormuz 🤔
I thought we were opening the Strait, or is it opposite day now?
@Christo_459 @aral Want Less Fascism? Use Less Finance...
Easy to let #Fascism in - just use #money and #banks often !
Fascism & Financial-Fascism are together. (same thing now as idea / platform).
Finance is what keeps Fascism going (material & mentality).
Less finance & less banks = all that mentality to be harder to exist / not funded / less influence / less #investment.
New satirical statue on Mall gives Trump ‘participation trophy’ for Iran War; White House weighs in https://www.dcnewsnow.com/news/local-news/washington-dc/new-satirical-statue-on-mall-gives-trump-participation-trophy-for-iran-war/
#humor #satire #trolling #TrollingDonald #Iran #war #resist #protest #art #news
@elsua54 @timbray I'm against the people who don't have the will (even in first person) to really connect #deeply or #invest in others for just something more.
(for example: money makes it much easier but is also a fake / symbolic virtual material which cheapens upon every new #loan... #Banks behind it all are helping spend for #war - *on both sides*).
It's the lack of humanity or trying - not just #Mastodon.
All are too comfortable with the #bad they know or don't want to #face / #delay it.
"The #Hamas murderous attacks of #October7, 2023, and the #war that followed transformed the landscape of #antisemitism across #Europe. What began as outrage over a conflict in the #MiddleEast quickly spilled onto #European streets, #campuses, workplaces and #online platforms. Too often, the distinction between criticisms the policies of the #Israeli government and #Jewish citizens living in Europe simply disappeared.
This is perhaps the most significant change of all. Increasingly, #Jews in #Paris, #Berlin, #Brussels or #London are treated not primarily as #French, #German, #Belgian or #British citizens, but as representatives of Israel, expected to answer for events thousands of kilometers away. #Collectiveresponsibility, one of history's oldest prejudices, has returned in modern form.
Jews are singled out in a way no other #religious, #ethnic or national community in Europe is that is connected to one of the dozens of conflicts currently raging across the globe."
I suggest that the real objective of Socialism is not happiness. Happiness hitherto has been a by-product, and for all we know it may always remain so. The real objective of Socialism is human brotherhood. This is widely felt to be the case, though it is not usually said, or not said loudly enough. Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another. And they want that world as a first step. Where they go from there is not so certain, and the attempt to foresee it in detail merely confuses the issue.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1943-12-20), “Can Socialists Be Happy?” “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper [as John Freeman]
More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/47663/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #aspirations #brotherhood #cause #contentment #details #dissent #happiness #hope #love #loveyourneighbor #materialism #physical #planning #protest #sacrifice #socialism #struggle #torture #utopia #war
It’s hard to convince people you are bombing that you’re doing it for their own good.
Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (2001-12), “What Osama Bin Wants,” The Progressive, Vol. 65, No. 12
More about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/16357/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #bombing #civilians #heartsandminds #propaganda #war
"Yehor stepped and knelt and spun and raised his arms into the emptiness where Masha should have been. In the footage playing behind him, she was still the star." —Siobhán O’Grady and Liubov Sholudko for The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/world/europe/russia-ukraine-prom.html/?src=longreads
You cannot claim to act on climate while ignoring the massive emissions of war.
Count military emissions, expose the damage, and make those responsible pay for the harm done to the climate and ecosystems.
#Iran #Ukraine #Gaza #war #military #climatechange #climatecrisis #pollution
RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116823309001369282
#JeffreyEpstein’s “genius” was to use the rape of children (there were boys too) to organize and radicalize who he saw as the new USA #oligarchy emerging in Silicon Valley and ―up to the now significant year of 2005―, mostly went to work for Wall Street or the military-industrial complex.
yes, there were people from other countries, but when you see his emails, it’s clear he was organizing the #techbros #gringolarchy.
so, if #tech is the #broligarchy’s #war machine, they’re military targets.
There was a terrible event in #WWII in #Saipan where as American troops advanced the Japanese civilians committed mass suicide. They believed due to #propaganda that the Americans would be monstruously cruel
Here we see a similar sentiment as #Ukraine captures #Russia's troops
Traditional #media and #socialMedia lies lead to this
Pointless #war and stupid #projection of one's own malice
It's why the lies we see can't just be dismissed. They are rat poison. They must be fought
#Military secrets are fiercely guarded for obvious reasons. But also obviously in a #war your enemy gets a lot of exposure to the operating parameters, capabilities, and weaknesses of your #technology. And gets plenty of physical samples
So #Ukraine just open sourced all of #Russia's military secrets 😆
Well not strictly, it's only for allies
And a knock-on effect is it devalues Russian arms sales because potential buyers know it's all exposed
It's called #TrophyLab
@aral Still wandering when looking at your posts and discovering if / how #SmallTalk can answer the #trust we need to increment ourselves and then extend out to #Gaza (a way to solve the whole trust #war thing or #community from wherever we all are to eventually get to them / us all ?)
e.g. If Mastodon & #Jitsi / #WebRTC aer good enough #bridge then neither seems to have regular community-making sessions itself - mostly one-way posts or "look here's another bad guy / #enshitiffication tool..."
A few nights ago I had a memorable dream that keeps coming to mind, so I think I should share it.
I saw Vladimir Putin as an MMA fighter, in a home improvement store.
What could it mean? Come and see....
http://john1126.com/770
That time the Arkansas state government was heckled by an angry crowd....
The next time the ruling class insists we all get new vaccines, the citizens will revolt, adding more fuel to the next American Civil War.
#COVID #pregnancy #fertility #infertility #Arkansas #conspiracy #vaccine #war
It is commonly assumed that what human beings want is to be comfortable. Well, we now have it in our power to be comfortable, as our ancestors had not. Nature may occasionally hit back with an earthquake or a cyclone, but by and large she is beaten. And yet exactly at the moment when there is, or could be, plenty of everything for everybody, nearly our whole energies have to be taken up in trying to grab territories, markets and raw materials from one another. Exactly at the moment when wealth might be so generally diffused that no government need fear serious opposition, political liberty is declared to be impossible and half the world is ruled by secret police forces. Exactly at the moment when superstition crumbles and a rational attitude towards the universe becomes feasible, the right to think one’s own thoughts is denied as never before. The fact is that human beings only started fighting one another in earnest when there was no longer anything to fight about.
George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-11-29), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper
More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/84548/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #comfort #fight #humancondition #humannature #imperialism #needs #possibilities #progress #struggle #war #wealth #aggression
Stop using banks so much...
because...
#Banks lend both sides of #war
All 'good' #profit using the 'easy to use' medium developed specifically for war contribution (#money / #tax).
Both money & tax allow the controlling people to misspend our money/energy.
#Banks / war are a #waste of #money / #energy - toxic to all life #pollute #humans
Money needs an #alternative
We need to #counter Banks...
Nope. The worldwide depression won't be over until he and all his ilk are out of office and out of money.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/17/trump-us-iran-war-mou-deal
#news #resist #protest #LiarInChief #GrifterInChief #AddledInChief #FelonInChief #NarcissistInChief #Iran #war
boostedHe rattled his silver spoon in the swill bucket and yelled MAGA.
What he ended up doing was MIGA.
Internationally, Trump Made Iran Great Again.
#trump #iran #middleeast #Israel #MAGA #war #news #worldnews #republicans