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“It wasn’t Hitler or Himmler who deported me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who were given a uniform and then believed they were the master race.”
Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor.
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“It wasn’t Hitler or Himmler who deported me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who were given a uniform and then believed they were the master race.”
Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor.
January 18, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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“It wasn’t Hitler or Himmler who deported me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who were given a uniform and then believed they were the master race.”
Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor.
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“It wasn’t Hitler or Himmler who deported me, beat me, and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who were given a uniform and then believed they were the master race.”
Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor.
The Hurrian Hymn No.6 is the oldest known piece of written music-over 3,400 years old, preserved on a clay tablet discovered in ancient Ugarit, in modern day Syria. -Reddit.
January 16, 2026 at 1:46 PM
The Hurrian Hymn No.6 is the oldest known piece of written music-over 3,400 years old, preserved on a clay tablet discovered in ancient Ugarit, in modern day Syria. -Reddit.
Parallels parallel.
Knut Hamsun got rid of his Nobel Prize by giving it as a gift to Joseph Goebbels.
Knut Hamsun got rid of his Nobel Prize by giving it as a gift to Joseph Goebbels.
Knut Hamsun - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 16, 2026 at 9:40 AM
Parallels parallel.
Knut Hamsun got rid of his Nobel Prize by giving it as a gift to Joseph Goebbels.
Knut Hamsun got rid of his Nobel Prize by giving it as a gift to Joseph Goebbels.
The cost of repression is less than the price of liberty.
January 16, 2026 at 7:24 AM
The cost of repression is less than the price of liberty.
Will someone find this mad fuckers 'rosebud' and give it to him.
January 16, 2026 at 5:26 AM
Will someone find this mad fuckers 'rosebud' and give it to him.
Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis.
"Fort Snelling has,
Since the Dakota war 1862, a really notorious anti-Indigenous history,” Estes said. “It’s kind of like a continuation of the monopoly of violence from the military outpost to the ICE facility."
"Fort Snelling has,
Since the Dakota war 1862, a really notorious anti-Indigenous history,” Estes said. “It’s kind of like a continuation of the monopoly of violence from the military outpost to the ICE facility."
Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention
The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota said three of the four tribal members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week have been transferred to an ICE facility and called for th...
abcnews.go.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis.
"Fort Snelling has,
Since the Dakota war 1862, a really notorious anti-Indigenous history,” Estes said. “It’s kind of like a continuation of the monopoly of violence from the military outpost to the ICE facility."
"Fort Snelling has,
Since the Dakota war 1862, a really notorious anti-Indigenous history,” Estes said. “It’s kind of like a continuation of the monopoly of violence from the military outpost to the ICE facility."
The United States has completed its first sale of Venezuelan oil, valued at $500 million, according to an administration official.-CNN
The US has officially started selling Venezuelan oil | CNN Business
The US has completed its first sale of Venezuelan oil since the US attached Venezuela and captured its president, Nicolás Maduro, earlier this month, according to an administration official.
www.cnn.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:57 AM
The United States has completed its first sale of Venezuelan oil, valued at $500 million, according to an administration official.-CNN
Napoleon's stenchmen gleefully carried out their orders. Left or right, there's always a Napoleon and Squealer.
January 14, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Napoleon's stenchmen gleefully carried out their orders. Left or right, there's always a Napoleon and Squealer.
Genocide is a model Netanyahu is most delighted with. He's quite a pathetic creature.
January 14, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Genocide is a model Netanyahu is most delighted with. He's quite a pathetic creature.
He was waterboarded 83 times.
UK intelligence agencies were complicit in his torture at secret US interrogation sites. Tortured at so-called CIA “black sites” in third countries such as Poland and Lithuania before being transferred to the US prison at Guantanamo Bay in 2006. Humans.
UK intelligence agencies were complicit in his torture at secret US interrogation sites. Tortured at so-called CIA “black sites” in third countries such as Poland and Lithuania before being transferred to the US prison at Guantanamo Bay in 2006. Humans.
UK to pay ‘substantial sum’ to Palestinian Guantanamo detainee over torture claims
Lawsuit settlement for Saudi-born-and-raised prisoner Abu Zubaydah, jailed since 2002 and now said not to have belonged to al-Qaeda, comes after he was waterboarded 83 times
www.timesofisrael.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:31 AM
He was waterboarded 83 times.
UK intelligence agencies were complicit in his torture at secret US interrogation sites. Tortured at so-called CIA “black sites” in third countries such as Poland and Lithuania before being transferred to the US prison at Guantanamo Bay in 2006. Humans.
UK intelligence agencies were complicit in his torture at secret US interrogation sites. Tortured at so-called CIA “black sites” in third countries such as Poland and Lithuania before being transferred to the US prison at Guantanamo Bay in 2006. Humans.
“I am not some anomaly,” Kasky told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “The next generation of Jewish Americans is changing their tune on the State of Israel and how it operates.”
Cameron Kasky embodies rising Gen Z Jewish criticism of Israel. Can it get him to Congress?
The 25-year-old Parkland school shooting survivor reflects a new political landscape after more than two years of war in Gaza, though his inexperience has some NY voters hesitating
www.timesofisrael.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:24 AM
“I am not some anomaly,” Kasky told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “The next generation of Jewish Americans is changing their tune on the State of Israel and how it operates.”
Dozens of private schools in East Jerusalem have suspended classes after an Israeli decision to limit the days on which work permits are granted for teachers from the West Bank, Palestinian officials said Tuesday.
East Jerusalem private schools strike over entry restrictions on teachers from West Bank
Classes suspended for some 20,000 students to protest limit on days that work permits are issued, which General Secretariat of Christian Educational Institutions slams as 'arbitrary'
www.timesofisrael.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Dozens of private schools in East Jerusalem have suspended classes after an Israeli decision to limit the days on which work permits are granted for teachers from the West Bank, Palestinian officials said Tuesday.
The incremental steps to authoritarianism, looks familar. ברור
"They have tried to capture institutions and when that fails they weaken and delegitimize that institution so that it is no longer effective as a check on government power,” said Rozani.
"They have tried to capture institutions and when that fails they weaken and delegitimize that institution so that it is no longer effective as a check on government power,” said Rozani.
Fierce government attacks on Supreme Court part of campaign of delegitimization
By besmirching the judiciary, casting it as usurping Israeli democracy, government is laying the groundwork to disobey operative orders by the country's top court
www.timesofisrael.com
January 14, 2026 at 5:01 AM
The incremental steps to authoritarianism, looks familar. ברור
"They have tried to capture institutions and when that fails they weaken and delegitimize that institution so that it is no longer effective as a check on government power,” said Rozani.
"They have tried to capture institutions and when that fails they weaken and delegitimize that institution so that it is no longer effective as a check on government power,” said Rozani.
Always prefer the hypothesis of stupidity to that of conspiracy. Stupidity is common. The conspiracy requires a rare mind-Michel Rocard.
January 13, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Always prefer the hypothesis of stupidity to that of conspiracy. Stupidity is common. The conspiracy requires a rare mind-Michel Rocard.
How the individuals in 'power' in Ireland treat our older family members.
90-year-old waited 45 hours on hospital chair - INMO
A 90-year-old patient recently spent 45 hours sitting on a chair before being transferred to a hospital bed, the INMO has said.
www.rte.ie
January 13, 2026 at 4:40 PM
How the individuals in 'power' in Ireland treat our older family members.
Democracy and accountability are dying on its knees in Israel.
Knesset advances bill subordinating police internal affairs unit to justice minister
Levin says legislation guarantees equality before the law, current system under state attorney flawed; Likud MK says it will end prosecutors' 'distorted conflict of interest'
www.timesofisrael.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Democracy and accountability are dying on its knees in Israel.
Opposition brands legislation to do away with the offense of fraud and breach of trust a ‘mafia-like move’ aimed at enabling PM and his allies to evade justice.
Coalition advances bill to repeal criminal charge that Netanyahu faces in his trial
Opposition brands legislation to do away with the offense of fraud and breach of trust a ‘mafia-like move' aimed at enabling PM and his allies to evade justice
www.timesofisrael.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:58 AM
Opposition brands legislation to do away with the offense of fraud and breach of trust a ‘mafia-like move’ aimed at enabling PM and his allies to evade justice.
Bishop Hirschfield, The Episcopal Church of New Hampshire.
January 12, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Bishop Hirschfield, The Episcopal Church of New Hampshire.
California Democrat and co-chair of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, Scott Wiener says Israel-Hamas war meets genocide definition.
Scott Wiener says Israel committed genocide in Gaza | The Jerusalem Post
The California State Senator explained that he had been reluctant to call the war between Israel and Hamas a genocide because of the term's creation in response to the Holocaust.
www.jpost.com
January 12, 2026 at 9:13 AM
California Democrat and co-chair of the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, Scott Wiener says Israel-Hamas war meets genocide definition.
Trump and Netanyahu.
Birds of a feather
Flock together.
Birds of a feather
Flock together.
Judicial overhaul redux: New laws aim to weaken legal checks on government action
Netanyahu's coalition is advancing bills to denude the AG of power, politicize ministerial legal advisers, and give the justice minister power over internal police investigations
www.timesofisrael.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Trump and Netanyahu.
Birds of a feather
Flock together.
Birds of a feather
Flock together.
Israeli ethnic cleansing is ongoing. The vanguard/settlers are, of course, fully supported in this endeavour by the Israeli war machine/State.
Fleeing settler violence, Palestinians leave one of few remaining Jordan Valley hamlets
Dozens of families from the Bedouin town of Ras Ein el-Auja have already left their homes, and the remaining residents are desperate. 'Where will we go? There’s nowhere.'
www.timesofisrael.com
January 11, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Israeli ethnic cleansing is ongoing. The vanguard/settlers are, of course, fully supported in this endeavour by the Israeli war machine/State.
January 11, 2026 at 5:07 PM
January 10, 2026 at 8:24 PM