Generation Z is stirring up rebellion across borders, from Morocco to Madagascar
Gen Z, the first generation to have grown up in the internet age, has been at the forefront of anti-government protests in several countries of the Global South. Madagascar and Morocco are the latest countries to be hit by these youth-led movements, which use digital tools to communicate anger at corruption and underfunded social services.
Generation Z is stirring up rebellion across borders, from Morocco to Madagascar
Gen Z, the first generation to have grown up in the internet age, has been at the forefront of anti-government protests in several countries of the Global South.Grégoire SAUVAGE (FRANCE 24)
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A Canadian politician is openly spreading Nazi propaganda
A Canadian politician is openly spreading Nazi propaganda
Do you ever see something that is absolutely horrifying, the implications of which are terrible, and no one else seems to really notice? These two tweets are one of those things for me: Anyone with a basic understanding of politics is aware that Naz…Abe Oudshoorn (Truths and Loves)
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PP so pathetic. Lost the election lost his riding lost his mind. And he’s a career politician. So none of this is excusable.
Pathetic.
No, his claims are not "simply" ignorant, as the article claims:
his claims are INTENTIONALLY ignorant, which is malevolent, is disinformation, & is gaslighting-of-fact.
The difference between the 2 states is signficant.
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Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for this
During some work with Tess, I'd notice that my test instance was running horribly slow. The CPU was spiking, Postgres was not happy and using pretty much all the available compute.
Investigating, I found the culprit to be some crawler or possibly malicious actor sending a massive number of unscoped requests to /api/v3/comment/list. What I mean by "unscoped" is without limiting it to a post ID. I'm not sure if this is a bug in Lemmy or there's a legit use for just fetching only comments outside of a post, but I digress as that's another discussion.
After disallowing unscoped requests to the comment list endpoint (see mitigation further down), no more issue.
The kicker seemed to be that this bot / jackass was searching by "Old" and was requesting thousands of pages deep.
Requests looked like this: GET /api/v3/comment/list?limit=50&sort=Old&page=16413
Since I shutdown Dubvee officially, I'm not keeping logs as long as I used to, but I saw other page numbers in the access log, but they were all above 10,000. From the logs I have available, the requests seem to be coming from these 3 IP addresses, but I have insufficient data to confirm this is all of them (probably isn't).
- 134.19.178.167
- 213.152.162.5
- 134.19.179.211
Log Excerpt
Note that I log the query string as well as the URI. I've run a custom Nginx setup for so long, I actually don't recall if the query string is logged by default or not. If you're not logging the query string, you can still look for the 3 (known) IPs above making requests to /api/v3/comment/list and see if entries similar to these show up.
2025-09-21T14:31:59-04:00 {LB_NAME}: dubvee.org, https, {LB_IP}, 134.19.179.211, - , NL, Amsterdam, North Holland, 52.37590, 4.89750, TLSv1.3, TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, "GET", "/api/v3/comment/list", "limit=50&sort=Old&page=16413"
2025-09-21T14:32:00-04:00 {LB_NAME}: dubvee.org, https, {LB_IP}, 134.19.179.211, - , NL, Amsterdam, North Holland, 52.37590, 4.89750, TLSv1.3, TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, "GET", "/api/v3/comment/list", "limit=50&sort=Old&page=16413"
2025-09-21T14:32:01-04:00 {LB_NAME}: dubvee.org, https, {LB_IP}, 134.19.179.211, - , NL, Amsterdam, North Holland, 52.37590, 4.89750, TLSv1.3, TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, "GET", "/api/v3/comment/list", "limit=50&sort=Old&page=16413"
2025-09-21T14:32:01-04:00 {LB_NAME}: dubvee.org, https, {LB_IP}, 134.19.179.211, - , NL, Amsterdam, North Holland, 52.37590, 4.89750, TLSv1.3, TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, "GET", "/api/v3/comment/list", "limit=50&sort=Old&page=16413"
2025-09-21T14:32:12-04:00 {LB_NAME}: dubvee.org, https, {LB_IP}, 134.19.179.211, - , NL, Amsterdam, North Holland, 52.37590, 4.89750, TLSv1.3, TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, "GET", "/api/v3/comment/list", "limit=50&sort=Old&page=16413"
2025-09-21T14:32:13-04:00 {LB_NAME}: dubvee.org, https, {LB_IP}, 134.19.179.211, - , NL, Amsterdam, North Holland, 52.37590, 4.89750, TLSv1.3, TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, "GET", "/api/v3/comment/list", "limit=50&sort=Old&page=16413"
2025-09-21T14:32:13-04:00 {LB_NAME}: dubvee.org, https, {LB_IP}, 134.19.179.211, - , NL, Amsterdam, North Holland, 52.37590, 4.89750, TLSv1.3, TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, "GET", "/api/v3/comment/list", "limit=50&sort=Old&page=16413"
2025-09-21T14:32:13-04:00 {LB_NAME}: dubvee.org, https, {LB_IP}, 134.19.179.211, - , NL, Amsterdam, North Holland, 52.37590, 4.89750, TLSv1.3, TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, "GET", "/api/v3/comment/list", "limit=50&sort=Old&page=16413"Mitigation:
First, I blocked the IPs making these requests, but they would come back from a different one. Finally, I implemented a more robust solution.
My final mitigation was to simply reject requests to /api/v3/comment/list that did not have a post ID in the query parameters. I did this by creating a dedicated location block in Nginx that is an exact match for /api/v3/comment/list and doing the checks there.
I could probably add another check to see if the page number is beyond a reasonable number, but since I'm not sure what, if any, clients utilize this, I'm content just blocking unscoped comment list requests entirely. If you have more info / better suggestion, leave it in the comments.
# Basically an and/or for has post_id or has saved_only
map $has_post_id:$has_saved_only $comment_list_invalid{
"1:0" 1;
"0:1" 1;
"1:1" 1;
default 0;
}
server {
...
location = /api/v3/comment/list {
# You'll need the standard proxy_pass headers such as Host, etc. I load those from an include file.
include conf.d/includes/http/server/location/proxy.conf;
# Create a variable to hold a 0/1 state
set $has_post_id 0;
# If the URL query string contains 'post_id' set the variable to 1
if ($arg_post_id) {
set $has_post_id 1;
}
if ($arg_saved_only) {
set $has_saved_only 1;
}
# If the comment_list_invalid map resolves to 0, "send" a 444 resposne
# 444 is an Nginx-specific return code that immediately closes the connection
# and wastes no further resources on the request
if ($comment_list_invalid = 0) {
return 444;
}
# Otherwise, proxy pass to the API as normal
# (replace this with whatever your upstream name is for the Lemmy API
proxy_pass "http://lemmy-be/";
}
Canada Warns Travelers With X Marker on Passports They May Face Obstacles in US
cross-posted from: ibbit.at/post/70458
The Canadian Department of Global Affairs has updated its travel advice for people planning to travel to the United States, specifically warning people who have the gender marker “X” on their passports that they may face obstacles or restrictions while traveling abroad. The X marker is specifically granted to transgender or nonbinary individuals who do not want to place a “male” or “female”…From Truthout via this RSS feed
Canada Warns Travelers With X Marker on Passports They May Face Obstacles in US
People with an X marker on their passports may “face entry restrictions” in the US, the Canadian government warned.Chris Walker (Truthout)
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States (a state is a government, a nation is a group of people) can do whatever they want with their passport. One of the perks of being sovereign. But there are groups of countries that have mutually agreed what should be on a passport and how/where.
The EU is a big example, but there is also a common passport for ECOWAS for several West African states and many others.
That said, I think they all list sex/gender, but I'm open to being corrected by someone who actually knows.
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It is obviously based on an outdated concept of gender, but it actually is pretty useful to help match people to passports. If someone identifies as male but is dressed like a woman, it raises red flags. The answer to that might be as simple as "This is a 90s sitcom and I lost a transphobic bet" but it is there. Same with hair color.
Which, funny enough, is an argument for people to actually write down the gender they identify as. But it is also a lot like hair color or facial hair in that it is just too cost and time prohibitive to update a passport every time someone tries a new look. Because... genderfluid people exist.
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Australian says he was improperly arrested in Thailand over his criticism of Malaysia
Australian says he was improperly arrested in Thailand over his criticism of Malaysia
An Australian man arrested in Thailand on a defamation charge he says originated with Malaysia's government claims he is a victim of transnational repression, in which Southeast Asia countries cooperate in seizing dissidents or critics who are not on…GRANT PECK Associated Press (ABC News)
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Shooting down Russian jets ‘on the table,’ von der Leyen says
Shooting down Russian jets ‘on the table,’ von der Leyen says
The Commission president’s comment follows an assertion by U.S. President Donald Trump that NATO countries should shoot down Russian jets that violate their airspace.Sasha Schroeder (POLITICO)
See Vladimir Soloviev (journalist, presenter on the public funded Rossiya 1 channel), Dmitri Medvedev ( current vice president of the Russian federation security council), Margarita Simonian (public servant at Russia Segodnia).
Do your own research, it should be easy enough.
U.S. State Department greenlights potential sale of $2.4B mobile rocket system to Canada
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/47146770
Contract not yet negotiated, Congress must grant approval
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IF we actually got them, AND they weren't remotely-sabotaged/deactivated,
THEN we could use them against the aggressor, to multiply our effectiveness in the coming Americas Wars that will be Trump's final "legacy".
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I believe that the game Trump is playing is this:
- Get us to contract to buy weapons from them,
- declare annexation/war against Canada,
- keep the money, bankrupting our ability to buy weapons,
- use the weapons we paid-for against Canada, to gain Trump's "Manifest Destiny" quicker & more-efficiently,
- then Trump gets to be "king of the entire continent" before he dies.
For all who believe this is baseless delusion, have some fact: thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/…
This has been brewing all along, since the days of the colonies warring against each-other, the British-loyal colonies vs the United-States colonies..
When somebody pointed-out here in c/world , the other day, that Trump appears to be hoping that Europe will strike Russia so that he can then openly side with Russia, against Europe, .. damn, I wish I'd seen/understood that machiavellianism..
I don't remember what video he was linking-to ( as I didn't watch it ) that convinced him that this was going-on, but it was an understanding pushed by evidence, not just some narcissist-conspiricism, it seemed to me.
Also, it got the natures/motivations/behaviors in a better-fit than my previous understanding did, so I accept it as operationally-true.
I've been telling people for .. perhaps a decade, now, that Trump will ditch NATO, join Russia ( as the now-disappeared-from-the-internet "Kremlin Papers" journalism identified: his original backer ), & help Russia destroy the hated woke countries, especially the EU.
lee.senate.gov/2025/6/lee-intr…
I hadn't forseen his declaring war against Canada, so as to possess the entire-continent, until recently ( past year or so? ).
It's inevitable, now.
The reason he wants Greenland is so that between Alaska, mainland US, Greenland, & Trump's former-Pentagon/now-Department-Of-War, his airforce & his navy, he can SNUFF Canada's trade, & thereby break Canada's life more-efficiently.
There IS unconscious-strategy going-on, in him.
His SurfaceMind's a chaotic mess, but his unconscious-mind is strategic, & lethal, as Project-2025's successful implimentation proves..
There is ZERO point in pretending that Trump will allow any election to unseat him: Civil War Part2 will happen, when he doesn't permit whichever election it is that he feels fundamentally-threatened by. Maybe 2026 he'll just "deregister" all Democrats, so they can't vote, or maybe he'll just "denaturalize" them, so they don't even have citizenship in any country, anymore, & ICE can deport them all legally.
The US of A's finished as a real country with civil-rights & constitutional-rule-of-law.
The longer the rest of the world pretends otherwise, the farther along the path of self-destruction humankind puts itself, & therefore the smaller the fraction of POSSIBLE survivors of this-century's Great Filter.
It's the species-equivalent to puberty: you can't believe-your-way-past-it, it is an all-consuming-tranformation that eats your unconscious-mind's nature, & FORCES one's life into embodying it.
All world-species who gain world-shattering technology, WITHOUT their unconscious-mind/nature growing-up, break their world's ecology, & then shred themselves in wars as the food-chain, the climate, enforced-migrations, political/ideological rabies, etc, all COMBINE at once..
It is inevitable.
Surviving it isn't inevitable, but is an opportunity, IF earned.
We're .. not earning that, presently, but instead going in a distinctly-different direction.
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Universe couldn't care: species-extinction is every bit as socially "valid" as is species-growing-up, right?
OUR "fate": OUR determination.
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Lee Introduces Withdrawal from NATO
WASHINGTON – As NATO concludes another ineffective summit, U.S. Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Not A Trusted Organization (NATO) Act today to withdraw the United States from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).Mike Lee US Senator for Utah
Macron urges Europe to 'increase pressure' on Russia's shadow fleet
https://www.euractiv.com/news/macron-urges-europe-to-increase-pressure-on-russias-shadow-fleet/
Two dead in Manchester synagogue attack, with suspect shot dead by police
Manchester synagogue attacker was on bail after rape arrest, police say
Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, had not been charged with the offence before launching a car ramming and stabbing attack on Thursday.BBC News
NOSTR and content moderation
I wrote a rather lenghty to reply to some guy's toot asking about if he should block mostr.pub. I thought it might be appreciated here.
Getting some reports about #mostr accounts that seem to just spew word soup, maybe to spam hashtags and links but after reading through a few profiles, I'm unsure what the deal there is. Am I right in assuming that nostr is by design more or less unmoderateable? Is that reason enough to block the bridge? #FediAdmin
NOSTR is a protocol just like ActivityPub is. Neither protocol in-and-of-itself is moderated but supports the ability to be moderated. ActivityPub does it via instances and sometimes is baked right into the platform. (I recall at one time Lemmy automatically blocked any posts that contained reactionary language unless the admin edited the source code and re-compiled it themselves). Similarly, NOSTR relays chose how to handle the reports much the same way AP servers set their own standards.
If I understand correctly, a report goes to whichever relays mostr.pub is connected to, and it's up to each relay how to handle it. Some tag you as a whinny little bitch, others take that note out immediately, others ignore, and I think some actually have a dude look at its content and make decisions whether to remove the nevent (post) or actually block the npub (user).
Same as if you were using a NOSTR "account" yourself, except you don't have control over which relays your account connects to as natives do, by specifically connecting, or specifically blocking in your client. Instead, I think, it is solely determined by which nostr users connect their client to wss://realy.mostr.pub and which other relays those same users are connected to. I believe a given nostr relay can choose to block any user that connects to a particular other relay.
I don't expect @alexto be making any such blocks from the mostr relay. My understanding is that one of the reasons he's shifted his focus for Soapbox from a Pleroma focused solution to a NOSTR one is one thing that always bothered him about the AP powered 'verse is some random dude can cut off communication between you and your friend unless at least one of the two of you administers your own instance or you create a new account on a different instance.
I'm uncertain if momostr.pink or the other nostr bridge, whose name I can't remember currently, have similar lax policies that mostr.pub does or not. Regardless if you want direct control over anything more than blocking particular users, you are going to have to block any of these bridges.
In my personal experience I've been on NOSTR for over a year now, but Frienidca remains my primary social media. In that time I can say I've seen way more Bitcoin propaganda than even I am interested in, but certainly a lot less fascist, TERF, and racist nonsense than I have in some corners of the AP based 'verse. But bitcoin bois can get awful annoying. In general hosting a mastodon (or other platform) instance can be a dicey legal situation because you have little control on whether someone's [potentially illegal] porn ends up being stored on your hardware . This doesn't significantly change if you choose to connect your server to a nostr bridge or not.
BTW Soapbox, including mostr, doesn't connect to lemmy. I don't know if that was a purposeful design decision or just no one has bothered to make it work. There is at least one lemmy-like NOSTR client, Zapddit if it could connect to lemmy it might make me shift from Friendica to NOSTR as my primary social media.
Two arrested as self-styled ‘African tribe’ evicted from woods
Two arrested as self-styled ‘African tribe’ evicted from woods
The Home Office said an investigation is ongoing.Lucinda Cameron (Evening Standard)
There were three of them, the other one just didnt get arrested (im assuming)
Still not much of a tribe though, is it?
Death toll from Philippine quake rises to 72
Death toll from Philippine quake rises to 72
The Cebu earthquake was the country's deadliest since at least 2013.CNA (Channel NewsAsia)
Another 294 people were injured, the agency said in a report on Thursday. The latest death toll was an increase of three from Wednesday and all fatalities were recorded in the central Visayas region.The Cebu quake was the country's deadliest since at least 2013, when a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the neighbouring island of Bohol, killing 222 people.
Malaysia in talks with China for rare earth plant that could reshape the global supply chain
Malaysia in talks with China for rare earth plant that could reshape the global supply chain
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 2 — China and Malaysia are in early talks for a project to process rare earths, with sovereign wealth fund Khazanah Nasional likely to partner with a Chinese...Malay Mail
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Russian manufacturing activity contracts for 4th straight month in September
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/43353333
The S&P Global Russia Manufacturing PMI fell to 48.2 in September 2025 from August’s 3-month high of 48.7, signaling a fourth straight month of contraction.Output declined at the sharpest rate in over three years, while new orders shrank more steeply.
Foreign demand also slumped, posting the largest drop since November 2022 amid weak export markets.
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Purchasing activity shrank again, though more moderately, while supplier performance deteriorated the most in six months due to logistics bottlenecks and shortages.
On inflation, operating costs rose at the fastest pace in four months but remained below the long-run average, and firms raised output prices only fractionally.
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Russia Manufacturing PMI
Manufacturing PMI in Russia decreased to 48.20 points in September from 48.70 points in August of 2025.tradingeconomics.com
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Thai government to allow citizens to partially convert losing lottery tickets to retirement savings
Thai government to allow citizens to partially convert losing lottery tickets to retirement savings
It allows citizens to convert money spent on losing digital lottery tickets into retirement savings. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
This is called Solving The Wrong Problem(tm).
Getting a more-objective population who "invest" less in rigged-against-them "games" would be more strategic,
.. but what government would intentionally reduce its lottery-profits?
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U.S. to Share Intelligence With Ukraine for Strikes on Russian Energy Sites as Washington Asks NATO Allies to Provide Kyiv with Similar Support
U.S. President Donald Trump has authorized American intelligence agencies to provide Ukraine with targeting data for strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, including oil refineries, pipelines and power plants, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing anonymous American officials.
The order, which directs the Pentagon and intelligence services to supply the information, came shortly before Trump said that he believed Ukraine could win the war and reclaim all of its territory from Russia, the report said.
Trump has voiced increasing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin as his efforts to mediate an end to the war have flatlined, and the intelligence-sharing is the latest signal that he is now deepening his support for Kyiv.
Washington has also asked NATO allies to provide Kyiv with similar support, according to the sources.
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Thousands of trucks from China build up at Russia–Kazakhstan border amid the Kazakh government's enhanced controls, stricter enforcement of Western sanctions
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/43352741
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Yaroslav Belousov, head of international transport operations at FM Logistic in Russia, attributed the delays to intensified border checks, as both countries step up efforts to identify “dishonest shippers and carriers.” He added that many crossings are overwhelmed, with trucks filling nearby parking lots and lining the shoulders of approach roads.
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[Deputy head of logistics at the transport company SLK Maim] Yemelin said that the delays could indicate a shift in Kazakhstan’s stance on sanctions enforcement. “It’s safe to say this isn’t a temporary glitch, but more likely a new reality — tighter controls and greater compliance with Western sanctions.”
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Thousands of trucks from China build up at Russia–Kazakhstan border amid tighter controls from Almaty
Long lines of trucks carrying goods from China have built up at the Russia–Kazakhstan border as authorities on both sides ramp up inspections, Kommersant reports.Meduza
The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity
Call me crazy, but I a) think the fediverse probably doesn't have more 'toxic content', harmful and violent content, and child sexual abuse material then other platforms like X, Facebook, Meta, YouTube etc, and b) actively like the fediverse because of that.
But after a few hours carefully drafting and sourcing an edit to make it clear that no, the fediverse isn't unusual in social media circles for having a lot of toxic content, I realised that the entire 'fediverse bad' section was added by 1 editor in 2 days.
And the editor has made an awful lot of edits on pages all themed around porn (hundreds of edits on the pages of porn stars), suicide, mass killings, mass shootings, Jews, torture techniques, conspiracy theories, child abuse, various forms of sexual and other exploitation, 'zoosadism', and then pages with titles like 'bad monkey' that seemed reasonably innocent until I actually clicked on them to see what they were and, well.
I decided to stop using the internet for a while.
I've learned my lesson trying to change Wikipedia edits written by people like that - they tend to have a tight social circle of people who can make the internet a very unpleasant place for anyone suggesting maybe claims like 'an opinion poll indicated that most people in Britain would prefer to live next to a sewage plant than a Muslim' should maybe not on Wikipedia on the thin evidence of paywalled link from a Geocities page written by, apparently, a putrid cesspit personified.
I thought I'd learned my lesson about trusting Wikipedia.
It just makes me so angry that most people's main source of information on the fediverse contains a massive chunk written solely by a guy who spends most of his time making minor grammar edits to pages about school shootings, collections of pages about black people who were sexually assaulted and murdered, etc, and that these people control the narrative on Wikipedia by means of ensuring any polite critics' are overcome with the urge to spend the rest of the day showering and disinfecting everything.
Gotcha, thanks for the clarification. Clearly I don’t run in right circles to have ever heard that before.
I’m still getting a ton of reports about this thread. An open call for everyone to cool their jets please. I don’t really wanna lock anything.
Elon Musk becomes first person with net worth of $500bn
Elon Musk has become the first person to reach a net worth of $500bn, bringing the Tesla chief executive halfway to trillionaire status.
Musk’s wealth temporarily crossed the half-trillion mark on Wednesday before retreating to $499bn, according to the Forbes billionaires list.
Musk owns 12% of Tesla, which is worth more than $1.5tn, and his wealth has been boosted this year by surge in the electric carmaker’s share price.
Elon Musk becomes first person with net worth of $500bn
Tesla owner’s wealth temporarily crosses half-trillion-dollar mark before retreating to $499bnDan Milmo (The Guardian)
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You can't take that with you, though..
Once his current-incarnation/life terminates, & all his unconscious ignoring/denying releases , .. firing his continuum/soul away from what he had been "possessing",
then his continuum's/soul's "reaping of what it had sown" will make his continuum's/soul's future-someones be having hell-lives after hell-lives after hell-lives, for all the exploitation/abuse his privilege stood-on, this-time-'round.. ..until it balances-out, grinding-through soul-unconsciousness, resulting in soul-gnosis/understanding.
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His continuum/soul will learn: that's the whole point of OceanOfAllPhenomena.
That original-awarenesses ( continuums/souls, not mere incarnation/life minds, let-alone the mere-hours-duration SurfaceMinds we narcissistically call "consciousness" )
.. get to have THEIR OWN experiencings, no matter how many lives+deaths that takes for a given continuum/soul, every single one gets to choose its own path, & is forced into experiencing ALL consequences of its indulgings/committings..
( technically, it's much less "personal"/sociopolitical:
a continuum/soul emits meaning into OceanOfAllPhenomena/Universe,
then it is trapped in OceanOfAllPhenomena BY that emitted-meaning, UNTIL it has reabsorbed ALL of the emitted-meanings, & ONLY THEN can it dissolve-out-from soul-containment/recycling/reincarnation. ( yes, universe recycles ALL energies contained within it, including meaning-energy, in spite of the Physicalist-dogma that meaning "isn't real" and "doesn't exist" )
This is why AwakeSoulism, aka "Buddhism", tells us straight-up that replacing lead-chains ( bad-karma ) with gold-chains ( good-karma ) isn't itself enough to free our continuum, one has to have NO karma, in order to become free-from-entrapment/imprisonment/containment.
The only way to have NO karma, is to have no involvement-attachment when committing circumstantial-action: to let go of everything, letting it all be, in equinimity, while committing only right-action, dismantling one's existing emitted-meaning-balance-sheet/karma, see?
Contrast that paradigm/principle, with what Musk, a former Vajrayana ( he counted Tenzin Gyatso, the "Dalai Lama"/Ocean-Guru, as his teacher, years ago ), is enforcing into his own continuum's/soul's Eternity..
The reason I'm explaining this perspective-difference, is simple:
The root-guru of the Christians, benJoseph, told people that the 2nd Great Law was "love others as one's own brother", right?
The problem is that that was a dumbed-down version of LivingSpirit's instruction, appropriate to the Animals-&-Tribes-Time men he was talking to..
The CORRECT rendition of LivingSpirit's meaning is:
"love all SOULS as one's own soul's brother, but dispute the children-of-souls/lives/incarnations which are committing wrong-meaning",
which is entirely-more-complex than what would have stuck in the minds of benJoseph's followers ( he railed against their stone-heartedness, repeatedly, in their bible, try reading biblegateway's CJB book of Luke, for examples of that, if you want.. ).
So, considering the 2 perspectives, lives vs souls, simultaneously..
Musk is digging a grave & throwing his own future-someones into that grave, & tamping it down solidly, for sake of his personal dominion, only this time 'round.
Our regimes' accommodating of this behavior proves our regimes are narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy instead-of ForTheBenefitOfAll/ForTheBenefitOfLivingWorld, as they ought be..
But .. he CANNOT escape reaping what he has sown: none can..
Essentially, he's a toddler "eating candy instead of real-food, who doesn't understand that there WON'T BE ANY real-food, in his future", & has sold-out his own future-viability, for sake of momentary-supremacism, now..
This means that I don't need to have much/any emotional ( social/political ) involvement/entanglement with him: he's dug his own Eternity's grave, & G-D's LivingLAW, aka Karma, CAN process/deal-with his continuum/soul..
..but his distorting of our world, for narcissistic-machiavellian highjacking needs effective countering..
Limiting one's commitment to what is effective reduces burnout, right?
Someday a portion of humankind may find the spine to enforce-correctness into our economy..
The book "Screwed" by Thom Hartmann ( kobo.com/us/en/ebook/screwed-4… ) is strongly recommended, for understanding the REAL economic-rules that evidence showed to be true, historically.
I've only read the beginning of it, but the economic disinformation which has been well-established by "economists" got cleared from my view in seeing the truth in what he was saying..
Combine that excellently-clarifying ebook with fooledbyrandomness.com/tenprin… by Taleb ( who wrote the book "Anti-Fragile" ), & THEN one has PROPER economic competence's foundations in one's mind!
All this to say, correct-framing reduces emotional-burnout, our having economic-spine would prune-down oligarchy, effective-competence ( the book & the PDF I've linked-to ) would MASSIVELY empower our populations, all this is preventable, AND there are inevitable-consequences of doing as Musk & Bezos are doing, for their souls' future-someones, that Eternity-scale SANE people wouldn't ever want to be Eternity-scale imprisonned in.
May equinimity release all our lives from economic-oppression's grip, as that psychologist/psychoanalyst who was in a nazi concentration-camp realized: the guards had liberty, but they were not free, because they were entirely-entrained-within ideology..
He had no liberty, but he did have freedom, because he wasn't entrained-in-ideological-meaning..
( sorry I can't remember the man's name: a big name in psychology, Jewish, obviously .. dug his name up!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_F… : )
We need to learn the same lesson ( without the concentration-camp induction, obviously ), to make our creating-our-world become more effective, is all..
That effectiveness of more-universal-framing, is what I'm pushing..
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen.
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General strike against 13-hour work day brings Greece to a halt
Transport systems, hospitals and schools hit, as workers say laws kill hopes of work-life balance
A general strike has paralysed Greece as unions step up industrial action against labour laws introducing a 13-hour work day in a country that already puts in some of the longest hours in Europe.
The 24-hour strike brought mass disruption to services across the country on Wednesday as thousands of workers in the public and private sector stopped work and took to the streets.
In both Athens and Thessaloniki, the country’s second biggest city, transport systems were halted, while hospital staff, teachers and other civil servants stopped working. The seas around the Greek capital were vessel-free as crews, heeding union calls, kept ferries in ports.
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Surge in Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries sparks Russian fuel shortages
Surge in Ukrainian oil refinery attacks sparks Russian fuel shortages
Ukraine has attacked refineries deep inside Russia, with Zelensky vowing to continue the strikes.Olga Robinson & Matt Murphy (BBC News)
Manchester synagogue: Two dead in Manchester synagogue attack, with suspect also believed to have been killed - police
Details are continuing to emerge of a major incident at a synagogue in Manchester - here's what we know so far:
- Police responded at 09:31 to reports of a car driving towards members of the public, and a man being stabbed, at Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue
- A major incident was declared by Greater Manchester Police, with firearms officers being deployed to the area
- When paramedics arrived to the scene, they found four people injured - police say the injuries were a result of the both the vehicle and stab wounds
- One man has been shot - police say he's believed to be the offender
- Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham says "it is believed" the offender's dead, but tells BBC Radio Manchester this information hasn't yet been confirmed
- He also says he's been told that "the immediate danger appears to be over"
- Despite this, members of the public are being warned to avoid the area while police deal with the incident
Manchester synagogue attacker was on bail after rape arrest, police say
Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, had not been charged with the offence before launching a car ramming and stabbing attack on Thursday.BBC News
Manchester synagogue stabbing, car ramming: 4 injured, suspect shot outside synagogue, police say
Thursday's incident came as the community observed Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar
Police said they had shot a man suspected in a stabbing and car-ramming that injured four people at a synagogue Thursday in the northern English city of Manchester on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
Greater Manchester Police said in a series of posts on X that a major incident was declared after a member of the public reported that they had "witnessed a car being driven toward members of the public" and that one "man had been stabbed" near the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall, an area known for its large Jewish community.
Manchester synagogue attack, police declare terrorist incident
Police declared a terrorist incident after two people were killed and three others were seriously injured when a man rammed a car into a crowd and stabbed people at an Orthodox synagogue.Patrick Smith (NBC News)
Mods removed my comment for saying I don't have the emotional energy left to care about attacks on pro-genocide groups.
Not that I supported killing them, or that I endorsed this attack, but that it's hard for me expend emotional energy caring about an in-group actively engaged in a genocide.
I also went out of my way to explain how Israel's role in conflating Judaism with Zionism is a key reason why I feel that way.
And let me be clear: this attack was wrong and it is 100% counterproductive to bringing an end to the genocide.
I do not support or condone this violence, but I will not be guilted into having a different emotional response just because others find it more acceptable
And while I strongly feel that my own background should have no bearing on the conversation, I will point out that I was raised in a Jewish Zionist household. So please don't tell me how I'm a self-hating Jew, anti-semitic, or otherwise racially prejudiced against myself.
With all of that out of the way, let's take a closer look at the target of this attack:
He has previously held a number of rabbinic and educational positions in Israel and the UK.Rabbi Walker was educated at Manchester Jewish Grammar School and went on to study in yeshivas in the USA and Israel, where he received his ordination in 2003.
As an organisation, we are appalled by the motion passed by Labour delegates on the Middle East conflict. To agree to the text without referencing the atrocities committed by Hamas on 7th October 2023 when 1,200 innocent people were murdered or the fact they continue to hold 48 hostages means they have no credibility to comment on what is an extremely complex issue.The fact a more moderate motion that did reference these key facts was defeated highlights how many seem unmotivated to work towards a peaceful solution to the conflict. The text is not binding and we will continue holding conversations with key stakeholders within government to advocate against taking divisive and deeply problematic positions.
During our time at Conference we have held a number of meetings with Ministers, MPs and the press focusing on our concerns around the record levels of antisemitic hate crime across society. We also reiterated our strong opposition to the unilateral recognition of Palestine, supported the Government’s position on proscribing Palestine Action, highlighted concerns around antisemitism in cultural spaces including the need to cancel events by those who incite hatred whilst emphasising the importance of holding the Iranian regime to account by enforcing snapback sanctions.
This is an Orthodox Zionist organization helmed by an yeshiva educated conservatives. They are explicitly against Palestinian self-determination and who don't express an ounce of sympathy or concern for the Palestinians being slaughtered.
For a final time, this attack was wrong. Violence is wrong. This should not be supported, celebrated, or sanctified.
But please don't censor people who are expressing valid feelings about how they emotionally process attacks against organizations of unashamedly racial supremacists, who are actively part of the in group currently perpetrating a genocide.
This is also relevant discussion to this topic because it speaks to a larger issue facing the Jewish community and public sentiment and opinions that are only getting worse, whether they express themselves through inexcusable violence like today, or by people having tragically apathetic emotional responses to violence.
Sorry you got censored.
In time, we'll have communities and instances that take moderation seriously and don't remove posts just because they feel like it.
I can't speak to the motivations for its removal.
For all I know a bunch of users reported my comment and a mod removed it accidentally because they're overworked or tired.
I'm not trying to denigrate the work they do, just highlighting a small issue that I personally had.
And to be fair, my original comment was less articulate and more to the point, so perhaps the fault was mine for not providing the proper disclaimers about my positions regarding the rejection of violence. I thought I had, but I can accept that others may have interpreted it in ways that I did not intend.
Interesting.
I wonder if anti-semitism is on the rise and what the Jewish community thinks they should do about it.
We might see more money getting spent in order to convince people that Zionists aren't getting away with genocide.
Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to help fund US public broadcasting
The auction will support the medium that brought the Joy of Painting host's creativity into US homes for decades, Bob Ross Inc says.
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No apology and no answers: parents in agony amid search for children trapped in Indonesia school collapse
No apology and no answers: parents in agony amid search for children trapped in Indonesia school collapse
Officials say 59 people, mostly young male students, remain trapped in collapsed school in Sidoarjo amid growing questions about the quality of its constructionGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Billionaire populist eyes power in Czech vote but may need help from extremes
Czech populist Babis eyes power in election but may need help from extremes
Andrej Babis has been taking notes from the US Maga movement but he may need to partner with ultra-nationalists.Rob Cameron (BBC News)
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Billionaire populist for who? For who, mother fucker?
Rhetorical question, Andrej Babis will be a billionaire populist for his rich, wealthy friends.
Hikers Rescued from Mount Everest After Severe Snowstorm
The evacuation of the total 580 hikers who were stuck on Mount Everest's east side in Tibet is complete and the people have been taken to safety, reports the state Chinese media according to BBC.
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Putin Signs Military Draft for 135,000 Citizens Amid Ongoing Mobilization Plans
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has signed a decree for the 2025 autumn military draft, running from October 1 to December 31, according to a decree posted on the official Russian government legal portal on September 29.The call-up will target 135,000 Russian citizens aged 18 to 30.
Vice Admiral Vladimir Tsimlyansky, deputy head of Russia’s Main Organizational and Mobilization Directorate, said draftees will serve only within Russia and will not participate in Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Previously, it was reported Russia is considering a major overhaul of its conscription system that would allow for continuous draft procedures year-round, as the country grapples with unprecedented military losses in Ukraine, according to the proposed legislative changes, introduced by the head of the Russian Parliament’s Defense Committee.
Putin Signs Military Draft for 135,000 Citizens Amid Ongoing Mobilization Plans
The 2025 autumn draft in Russia, set for October to December, will conscript 135,000 young adults, per a new decree.Cyril Barabaltchouk (UNITED24 Media)
What access does the average Russian citizen have to unbiased and truthful reporting?
For those citizens with that knowledge, what actions can they take to organize some semblance of a resistance?
What access does the average Russian citizen have to unbiased and truthful reporting?
At some point you no longer need reporting. Direct observation and word of mouth becomes enough to paint the picture.
For those citizens with that knowledge, what actions can they take to organize some semblance of a resistance?
What they need to do is a general strike.
Austria's bid to unfreeze Russian money causes EU alarm
Austria's proposal to unfreeze €2bn of Russian assets has caused worry on creating a bad precedent, with Hungary and Slovakia also threatening to delay new EU sanctions.
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The most important person in Britain you’ve never heard of
Only the king has more power than this gas executive in a Russian emergency.
David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador
Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war
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Russia accused of sabotaging last power line into Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Russia accused of sabotaging last power line into Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant
Satellite images of damaged area show no sign of shelling that Moscow says prevents repairDan Sabbagh (The Guardian)
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The document states that in the event of the external power lines to the plant being disconnected from Ukraine “a procedure for voltage transmission … from the unified power system of Russia” had “been developed”.
Considering that it's easier to find water on Mars than in Donetsk right now, and Pushilin's explanation as to why there's no water and sewage there was "Ukraine didn't repair the pipes" - I wouldn't really count on Russian infrastructural development to save the day, especially if that's not a propaganda project like Kerch bridge.
So yeah, start panicking.
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Elon Musk becomes world's first half-trillionaire
Musk becomes first person ever to see wealth top $500bn
The rise has been driven by a sharp increase in the value of his electric car company Tesla.Peter Hoskins (BBC News)
Israeli naval forces board pro-Palestinian flotilla 75 miles from Gaza
Israeli naval forces board pro-Palestinian flotilla 75 miles from Gaza
Greta Thunberg arrested and taken into custody after six of the flotilla’s boats were boardedLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
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