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Norway sovereign wealth fund rolls back Israeli investments over West Bank, Gaza concerns * * *

"Norway’s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund says it is selling off its stakes in some Israeli companies, and is terminating all contracts with Israeli asset managers handling investments over the situation in Gaza and the West Bank."

Yes it specifically means to drink using the tongue, like a cat or dog does.

"Reactors 2, 3, and 4 stopped automatically when the filter drums of the pumping stations became packed with with a "massive and unpredictable" swarm of jellyfish, and reactor 6 went offline shortly after"

The rise of the Jellies has begun.

Police arrest 532 people at London protest over Palestine Action ban Met police say hundreds arrested at largest demonstration relating to Palestine Action since group was proscribed A total of 532 people were arrested in London at the largest demonstration relating to Palestine Action since the group was banned, the Metropolitan police have said. Hundreds attended Saturday’s demonstration in Parliament Square, organised by the campaign group Defend Our Juries, which had asked participants to hold up signs saying: “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.” Continue reading...

Police arrest 532 people at London protest over Palestine Action ban

När man skådar in i goatse skådar goatsen en tillbaka som Nietzsche sa

Tweet by Mike Primavera. My neighbor told me coyotes keep eating his outdoor cats so I asked how many cats he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new cat afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding shelter cats to coyotes and then his daughter started crying.

"The purpose of a system is what it does." (Stafford Beer, 2001)

It's funny how the only successful attempts to reform capitalism have been as a result of attempts to abolish it.

BTW this is the version in Ynglinga saga. In Skáldskaparmál the Aesir and Vanier can't agree on peace terms, so they all go and spit in a trough and create a man out of it (Kvasir) "ok sköpuðu þar ór mann. Sá heitir Kvasir" who made the decision for them.

This is a metaphor for how Grok was created

"ok smurði urtum, þeim er eigi mátti fúna, ok kvað þar yfir galdra, ok magnaði svá, at þat mælti við hann ok sagði honum marga leynda hluti."

(The Vanir had sent a two major god for their part: "Njörd hinn auðga ok son hans Frey" who are the ancestors of the Svea kings, had become hostages with the Aesir.

So feeling cheated, they cut off Mímir's head and sent it back to Óðinn, who used magic to make the head able to keep speaking)

Unfortunately the Vanir discovered that Mímir was secretly Cyrano-de-Bergeracking Hœnir and without his advice he didn't have much to say at their councils.

I think this is a metaphor for how some people falsely claim on Tinder to be boyfriend material - but it was all ChatGPT all along!

When the Æsir and Vanir made peace, they exchanged hostages. The Æsir sent Hœnir and Mímir as his advisor, and claimed he would make a good chieftain for them "ok kölluðu hann allvel til höfðingja fallinn." In Swedish this is translated as "ett gott hövdingaämne," literally, was made of chief-stuff.

@arobertswrites.com new headcanon: The much-debated Star of the Dunedain that Elessar presents to Sam at the Brandywine Bridge was actually Aragorn's prize sheep of a surpassingly fine numinous white, which had taken the county prize three years in a row.

Right, of course! Thank you.

Does that imply the warriors had no other metal armour? Since I'd guess the head would be prioritised first. Or that metal helmets were far harder to make than metal lamellar, etc?

I HAVE BEEN SAYING

because she's morally dead?

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

Friedrich Ebert is quite satisfied these Freikorps will only ever be used against those more left wing than him

Trotskyist 'crisis of leadership' politics but by influencers.

Det är för att i ett rasistiskt samhälle är racism normal

'MERL,' mum used to say. 'MERL why do i look at you and think "gift shop"?

Yeah, if the incentives to be more racist are both practical (it helps me to amass political power) and psychological (I get the dopamine hit of likes from my supporters and delicious outrage from my enemies), a lot of mildly racist people can become much nastier very quickly.

FWIW, a speculation. I think a lot of them probably had mildly racist attitudes but these beliefs were not central to their politics or self-definition and they were a bit ashamed of them in the context of an anti-racist general and political culture…

Jag tror att när ett system är självsäker i sin hegemoni kan det tål ganska mycket orenhet eftersom det uppfattas inte som systemhotande att vara systemkritisk. Nu har vi ett regim som är svagt och öm som Sovjetunionen, och därför blir det mer repression som respons till kritik.

something I keep thinking about and which I can't make up my mind on is: were swathes of the right, centre-right and, in some cases, the centre, full of racists hiding their beliefs for decades, or are these people all incredibly suggestible? neither answer is good!

Det beror på vad du menar med orena. Att man kunde även ha med grupper och rörelser som var systemkritiska eller?

Nej, det finns ingen och kan inte heller finnas. När public service lyckas som nyhetsorganisation var det pga man vilade på en viss socialdemokratisk klasskompromis.

mitt sätt att uttrycka hur jag håller med om vad du säger. Att det finns ingen ren journalistik som inte grundas på band till socioekonomiska intressen. Och därför måste en vänsterpress värt namnet anstränga sig för att hela tiden förankra sig i det som brukade kallas för klassen.