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Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered the Vietnam War for the AP and the first Gulf War for CNN, has died at 91 (John Rogers/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/peter-arnett-dead-e1e6815b50fe416b9ecf08453e9e80c4

Peter Arnett, who reported on the Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett, who traveled the world covering wars from Vietnam to Iraq, has died. His son says Arnett died in Newport Beach and was surrounded by friends and family. He had entered hospice on Saturday while suffering from prostate cancer. He was 91. Arnett’s reporting on the Vietnam War for The Associated Press won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1966. He is likely best remembered, however, for his gripping live reports of the 1991 U.S.-led…

There's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr

If a weapon is fired at a wedding, the authorities can seize it and levy a $100 fine.
If the gun is not handed over, a relative of the groom — his father or an uncle, perhaps — can be detained until the firearm is turned in.
“We don’t take the groom,” Mr. Dandar said, offering up a concession.

In Syria, a Crackdown on Gunfire at Weddings
Marriages and other glad occasions in Syria are often celebrated by firing shots in the air. But after nearly 14 years of war, people want the guns to go silent.

Ukraine wins 15 medals at 2025 World Para Athletics Championships in New Delhi: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/06/ukraine-wins-medals-at-world.html

A piece I put together several years ago for #VeteransDay. Peace to my brothers- and sisters-in-arms.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/veterans-day/

Veterans Day – Bob Mueller
I’m a bit disappointed in my inability to come up with anything special or original to say about the 11th day of the 11th month. I’m always humbled when I consider the sacrifices so many have made to give me what I’ve got today. Our World War II veterans are dying at a rate of Read More

“Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary.
“If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” Daniel, the commander of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) tank unit, says in Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, due to be broadcast in the UK on ITV on Monday evening.
Some of the IDF soldiers who talked to the programme reques…

Gaza genocide
Lots of democrats and well meaning liberals were telling us that Biden could do nothing. Like being the biggest army in the world and paying for Israel weapons was not a pressure point.
At no point in time did Biden actually pressured the Israeli government. He even prevented the state department from issuing concerns about war crimes. More revelations came after his presidency, it was truly damning.
That's why he was called Genocide Joe

Gaza Sits Under 68 Million Tons of Rubble. A Look at the Daunting Task Ahead. - WSJ https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/gaza-rubble-reconstruction-israel-war-85f12cfa?st=Dz9edE&reflink=desktopwebshare_permal…

“Someday, with the right man in the White House, there will be a Department of Jesus, yes and a Secretary of Jesus.… Dismantle the New Deal, reverse the effects of World War II, restore fascism at home and around the world, flee into the past, can’t you feel it, all the dangerous childish stupidity—“I don’t like the way it came out, I want it to be my way.” Thomas #Pynchon, Vineland

Überraschende Pleite - „Albtraum-Aus“: Topstar „steht völlig neben sich“ #News #Nachrichten

Respect to Jimmy Kimmel for correcting Trump that the world is not laughing at America, but at Trump. I 100% feel this way looking at the US. Kick his fat ass.
The Secretary of War demands Peter Thiel be released from the Park County Jail
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3WA-sVMnJNI

The Trump administration is not attacking the "excesses" of "woke" scholarship. They're at war with the very idea of power analysis, with the feeling of deep empathy with the oppressed, with ethical commitment to make a just world.

Two sides of the same presidency played out simultaneously along the National Mall on Thursday afternoon.
At one end, Donald Trump was telling the world to give peace a chance at a meeting with African leaders.
It was possible, he said, “to begin healing old wounds and transcending past differences and creating a future where every child of God can live in dignity, prosperity and peace.”
At the other end of the mall, top officials from his Defense Department were being grill…

Trump Trumpets Peace in Africa Amid War on Drug Boats, in Day of Dissonance
President Trump presided over a Congo-Rwanda peace deal on the same day his administration was being questioned about potential war crimes.

Facing war crimes allegations, Pete Hegseth posts AI image of Franklin the Turtle firing missiles at drug boats (Alex Woodward/The Independent)
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/pete-hegseth-franklin-meme-drug-boats-b2875907.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251201/p131#a251201p131

"One workload I now support would cost an estimated £6000 per month to run on one of the large cloud providers, which would allow me to purchase the actual hardware in use four times over every year. But “spinning up an instance” today using free credits means you can worry about that cost later, whereas ordering a box from Dell means waiting two to three business days by which time the hackathon is over."

Five Computers
There is no direct evidence that Thomas Watson, Sr. predicted in 1943 that there would be "a world market for five computers". First, he probably didn't know about computers back then: in the 1940s computers were classified research projects at the UK Government Code and Cipher School and the US Army, while Watson's IBM were famously involved with the other side during the war.

Given that the US has effectively declared war on Venezuela I kinda wonder about the reciprocal authority that that imbues upon Venezuela to attack US assets - not just military assets - around the world?
And might the laws regarding neutrality come into play and force third party nations to limit the use of their seaports (and airports) by ships and aircraft of the combatant nations (US and Venezuela)?
Venezuela may not have much ability to hit US ships at sea, but that does not…

Darth #Trump is an idiot—there's no other way to put it. It is rumored that he wants to pardon all war crimes committed by Russians against soldiers and civilians in #Ukraine.
Who does he think he is? Lord of the world? If he were just any ordinary citizen, people would laugh at him or put him in a psy…

The Kremlin has heaped praise on Donald Trump’s latest national security strategy,
calling it an encouraging change of policy
that largely aligns with Russian thinking.
The remarks follow the publication of a White House document on Friday
💥that criticises the EU and says Europeis at risk of “civilisational erasure”,
💥while making clear the US is keen to establish better relations with Russia.
🔥“The adjustments that we see correspond in many ways to our vi…

Currently happening basically outside my window, with what appears to be one police vehicle present for every protester (not hyperbole)... https://worldbeyondwar.org/protesters-curren…

I am quite keen to watch The War Between The Land And The Sea on iplayer.
But we need to consider tactics. Will the folks sit and watch it with me at Xmas? If they would that'd perhaps be better than whatever drivel quiz shows and police car chase stuff they normally make me watch.
If they won't I'll be be postponing it three weeks for no reason.
🤔
Might be nice to watch it in the new bedroom but that probably won't have a bed or a chair until the new year.
#watching #doctorWho #onlyNotDoctorWho #tv

💣 Software supports safe, controlled detonations of aerial bombs
#europe

Software supports safe, controlled detonations of aerial bombs
Time and again, unexploded aerial bombs from the Second World War need to be defused or detonated in controlled explosions. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics, Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI are working together with partners to develop models that predict fragmentation flight and simulate the underground spread of shock waves. This can help to reduce evacuation zones as well as improve forecasting of the risks to underground structures.

Likewise, in today's UK, we say, "There is no immigration question".
"The Danes’ unified refusal to indulge hate and their insistence that there was no 'Jewish question' overtook their more powerful opponent, dashing their plans and even changing some of the German occupiers’ mindsets."
The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We | The Nation

The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We
Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism.

The Gustav Klimt portrait of Elisabeth Lederer,
which was looted by the Nazis and nearly destroyed in a fire during the second world war,
sells for $236.4m,
making it the second most expensive artwork ever sold at auction

After #Trump finally crashes and burns (I'm still saying I don't think he makes it to the mid terms, and I think it's more than possible he won't make it to the end of the year) we'll hear a lot of people say, "the system worked!" Today people are already talking about "saving democracy" by fighting back. This will become a big rally cry to vote (for Democrats, specifically), and the complete failure of the system will be held up as the best evidence for even greater investment in it.
I just want to point out that American democracy gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile, who, before being elected was already a well known sexual predator, and who made the campaign promise to commit genocide. He then preceded to commit genocide. And like, I don't care that he's "only" kidnaped and disappeared a few thousand brown people. That's still genocide. Even if you don't kill every member of a targeted group, any attempt to do so is still "committing genocide." Trump said he would commit genocide, then he hired all the "let's go do a race war" guys he could find and *paid* them to go do a race war. And, even now as this deranged monster is crashing out, he is still authorized to use the world's largest nuclear arsenal.
He committed genocide during his first term when his administration separated migrant parents and children, then adopted those children out to other parents. That's technically genocide. The point was to destroy the very people been sending right wing terror squads after.
There was a peaceful hand over of power to a known Russian asset *twice*, and the second time he'd already committed *at least one* act of genocide *and* destroyed cultural heritage sites (oh yeah, he also destroyed indigenous grave sites, in case you forgot, during his first term).
All of this was allowed because the system is set up to protect exactly these types of people, because *exactly* these types of people are *the entire power structure*.
Going back to that system means going back to exactly the system that gave nuclear weapons to a pedophile *TWICE*.
I'm already seeing the attempts to pull people back, the congratulations as we enter the final phase, the belief that getting Trump out will let us all get back to normal. Normal. The normal that lead here in the first place. I can already see the brunch reservations being made. When Trump is over, we will be told we won. We will be told that it's time to go back to sleep.
When they tell you everything worked, everything is better, that we can stop because we won, tell them "fuck you! Never again means never again." Destroy every system that ever gave these people power, that ever protected them from consequences, that ever let them hide what they were doing.
These democrats funded a genocide abroad and laid the groundwork for genocide at home. They protected these predators, for years. The whole power structure is guilty. As these files implicate so many powerful people, they're trying to shove everything back in the box. After all the suffering, after we've finally made it clear that we are the once with the power, only now they're willing to sacrifice Trump to calm us all down.
No, that's a good start but it can't be the end.
Winning can't be enough to quench that rage. Keep it burning. When this is over, let victory fan that anger until every institution that made this possible lies in ashes. Burn it all down and salt the earth. Taking down Trump is a great start, but it's not time to give up until this isn't possible again.
#USPol

"Look again at this small world. This is home. The only home we’ve ever known.
Every person who has ever lived. Every story ever told. Every love, every war, every sacrifice – it has all happened here on this tiny, drifting world.
And yet, we act as if there is another waiting for us. We carve borders into the land and fight over them. We build towers of wealth while others are left to starve.
We poison the water we drink, scorch the air we breathe and tear apart the very foundation of life, driven by the hunger for more, by the illusion of control.
We hold power over each other but not over the forces that could erase us in an instant. A rock adrift in space could end it all. A wave of fire from deep within the earth could rewrite the world in a single eruption. A burst of radiation from a distant sun could silence everything we’ve built.
In the face of the universe we are fragile beyond measure. Mere passengers on a planet that owes us nothing. And yet, we fight, we kill, we burn our home as if it were replaceable.
We act as though our time here is infinite. Though history has shown us otherwise. But for now this is all we have. Out there among the countless stars, there may be other worlds. Planets where life has taken root. Where others look up and wonder if they too are alone. But they are distant beyond our reach, beyond our time.
For the foreseeable future there is no second earth, no distant rescue. This is where we stand. This is where we make our living. What happens here, what we choose to destroy, what we choose to protect will echo long after we’re gone.
Think again how small we are. how brief our time is, how easily we could vanish. A fraction of a second in the lifespan of the universe, a blink in the endless dark. And yet in this fleeting moment we are here.
We love, we create, we shape the world around us. What we do with our time matters. Because in the end everything we leave behind is what we chose to built and who we chose to be. But for now we stand together on a mote of dust."
#Trance
#Techno
#AmbientTechno
#EnlusionLabel

Ukraine could buy up to 150 Gripen fighter jets from Sweden,
paid for using frozen Russian assets,
under a deal agreed on Wednesday.
Ukraine already has US-made F-16 and French-made Mirage 2000 fighter jets.
The Gripen has long been vaunted as more practical for Ukrainian battlefield conditions
– being built, for example, to take off and land on civilian roads as well as runways
so that it can fight from dispersed locations rather than just airfie…

Vladimir Putin will expand his war in Ukraine
by attacking another European country,
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has predicted,
and accused Russia of recent drone incursions
that he said were an attempt to test Nato’s defences.
Speaking in Kyiv after his meeting with Donald Trump at the UN in New York,
the Ukrainian president said Russia was preparing for a bigger conflict.
“Putin will not wait to finish his war in Ukraine.
He will open up some other …

In a tense meeting at the White House on Friday,
Trump tossed aside maps of the front line,
and urged Kyiv to concede its entire Donbas region to Russia to clinch a deal
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is rallying the support of his European partners
after the bruising meeting with Trump,
in which he was told to make concessions to end the war or risk facing destruction at the hands of Russia.


After tense Trump meeting, Zelensky seeks European support
In an often fraught encounter, Trump told Zelensky to accept Putin’s latest deal or face destruction at Russian hands, according to those familiar with events.