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January 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Ahlam Al-Nafed, Palestinian journalist, killed by Israel in Gaza, witness to atrocities, martyr, truth warrior, angelic & courageous Spirit Guide. +160 journalists, 1,300 doctors, nurses and aid workers, 45,000 men, women and children and all the other living things brutally put to death. Ma'alesh.
January 14, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Https://GitHub.com/cowboyprinter/Bible-Quoter is a simple web application that displays a randomly generated quote from the Bible but it's a starting point for developers to interchange the API with any favorite book and the quotations can be translated into any desired language.
January 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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U.S./Israeli Yemen Strikes Won't End Houthi Resistance. Ending Gaza Genocide Will: Shireen Al-Adeimi
Shireen Al-Adeimi: Only Ending Gaza Genocide Will Stop Houthi Resistance
The Pentagon announced this week it launched a wave of airstrikes on Sana’a and other parts of Yemen on Tuesday. U.S. Central Command said it targeted command and weapons production facilities of Ansarallah,...
www.democracynow.org
January 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Brazilian officials found 163 Chinese nationals working in 'slavery-like conditions' at a construction site for a factory owned by Chinese electric vehicle producer BYD in Brazil's Bahia state, the local labor prosecutor's office said reut.rs/3BLVZey
Chinese workers found in 'slavery-like conditions' at BYD construction site in Brazil
Brazilian officials found 163 Chinese nationals working in "slavery-like conditions" at a construction site for a factory owned by Chinese electric vehicle producer BYD in Brazil's Bahia state, the local labor prosecutor's office said on Monday.
reut.rs
December 24, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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For decades, Syrians passed down a warning from one generation to the next: “The walls have ears.” In this environment of surveillance, Syrians improvised.
To evade Assad’s secret police, Syrians developed a code language
Fear of the regime was so pervasive that Syrians felt they could never speak freely, even in their own homes.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 23, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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“And those people without hands and eyes are living proof, walking in Lebanon, of ‘don’t mess with us.’ They’re walking proof of our superiority all around the Middle East.”

ex-Mossad agent “Gabriel” brags about September’s exploding devices campaign, which killed 37 and injured nearly 3,000.
Former Israeli spies describe attack using exploding electronic devices against Hezbollah
Two recently retired senior Israeli intelligence agents share details about a deadly clandestine operation that targeted Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and Syria with exploding pagers and walkie-talki...
apnews.com
December 23, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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With Bashar al-Assad gone, survivors of his regime's chemical attacks share their stories. NPR met a father who was forced for years to stay silent about how his children were killed.
Syrians can finally tell their stories about Assad's chemical attacks
With Bashar al-Assad gone, survivors of his regime's chemical attacks share their stories. NPR met a father who was forced for years to stay silent about how his children were killed.
www.npr.org
December 23, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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“Accountability starts with an investigation by the U.S. of the killing of one of its own citizens by an ally,” says Hamid Ali, husband of the late Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi. The 26-year-old Turkish American activist was fatally shot in the head by an Israeli sniper earlier this year.
Family of U.S. Citizen Killed by Israel Meets with Blinken Demanding Probe
We speak with the husband and sister of Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi, the 26-year-old Turkish American activist killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank in September, who have criticized the Biden…
www.democracynow.org
December 18, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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"Extermination & Acts of Genocide": Human Rights Watch on Israel Deliberately Depriving Gaza of Water
“Extermination & Acts of Genocide”: Israel Depriving Gaza of Water
Human Rights Watch is accusing Israel of committing acts of extermination and genocide by deliberately restricting safe water for drinking and sanitation to the Gaza Strip. The report details how Israel...
www.democracynow.org
December 19, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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Mass Graves Discovered as Syrian Families Seek Answers to Loved Ones' Disappearances Under Assad Regime
Syrians Discover Mass Graves of People Disappeared Under Assad Regime
“We were not prepared for what we were going to see,” says Human Rights Watch researcher Hiba Zayadin, who recently visited one mass execution site turned mass grave in Syria, following the sudden...
www.democracynow.org
December 19, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
There’s been 30 known cases of pregnant women with the bird flu, and 90% of them died. That’s an insane statistic.
Most pregnant women and unborn babies who contract bird flu will die, study finds
Exclusive: While risk of H5N1 pandemic in humans is low, ‘it’s really important to think about vulnerable populations’, Melbourne researcher says
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 2:52 AM
December 23, 2024 at 3:10 AM
Dow Heads To Worst Losing Streak since 1978 (today at... Dec 17, 2024,03:00pm EST) as Bitcoin soars to new heights.
December 17, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Dresden, 1945.
December 13, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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Jabalia camp before destruction and after destruction!!! 💔💔💔
December 13, 2024 at 5:31 PM
December 13, 2024 at 8:54 PM
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Polio cases have been reduced by over 99% globally.

The first successful demonstration of a polio vaccine was by Hilary Koprowski in 1950.

The success of the polio vaccine paved the way for other vaccines and immunization programs, and saves millions of lives worldwide.
December 13, 2024 at 4:12 PM
I demand more sympathy for the Tribal Cultures of Turtle Island. Can we start there? Leonard Peltier deserves more sympathy, too! And he's still alive! ...Now that I think of it, I demand the New York Times retract all the lies they published about the Viet Nam War IMMEDIATELY!!!
December 12, 2024 at 5:06 PM
My website... cowboyprinter.com has become an immersive experience, selling nothing. I like that as a business model, but maybe I should be running a non-profit. Again. Opinions?
Cowboy Printer MMXXIV – The going got weird. Let's go.
cowboyprinter.com
December 11, 2024 at 8:45 PM
November 19, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Let's just test the video upload process here...
November 18, 2024 at 8:23 PM
November 18, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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I went outside to the yard being moderately flooded while my landlord traipsed around the garden in her waders.

Learned a thing today about Spanish colonialism and the importance of the Acequias to local Indigenous and Native communities!

Neat!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acequia
Acequia - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 12, 2024 at 1:25 AM