#judean #desert #israel JUDEAN DESERT Isreal The Judaean Desert or Judean Desert (Arabic: برّ الخليل, romanized: Barr al-Khalil, Hebrew: מִדְבַּר יְהוּדָה, romanized: Midbar Yehuda) is a desert in the West Bank and Israel that lies east of the Judaean Mountains, so east of Jerusalem, and descends to the Dead Sea.
New study reveals that ion gradients across cell membranes create a network for swift cellular decision-making, separate from DNA. Cells constantly navigate a dynamic environment, facing ever-changing conditions and challenges.
> "Trump is not a man who lies. Trump is a lie," Rothkopf wrote. "Trump is a fabrication of the mind of Trump. Trump is a fictional character who has fictional achievements and fictional wealth. He is no more real than the tales of visitors from outer space that are so popular with his partners in prevarication at the National Enquirer."
Gotta reiterate that when the police make a mistake, they generally ruin people's lives. When the police act out their own sense of bigoted justice, they ruin lives.
Hold these cops to higher standard if you're too afraid to abolish them completely.
there are certain directors that basically have carte blanche at this point, like Michael Bay, famously, but if you want to have a helicopter in your movie or whatever, the US military has to approve what happens to it
@Thomas the movies that use military hardware without getting it from the us military tend to have some wild fucking stories lol. like for lord of war they just bought or rented a bunch of weapons and vehicles from actual eastern european arms dealers lmfao. at one point they lined up fifty t72s and they had to notify nato it was for a movie and wasn’t a mobilization of some kind
Students in Paris inspired by Gaza solidarity encampments at campuses in the United States have blocked access to a campus building at a prestigious French university, prompting administrators to move all classes online.
it is weird how people see the campus protests suppression as some unique escalation in police violence because it’s happening to ivy league students. like this is fucking reprehensible shit but literally all of it happened in the black lives matter protests too. like did you not go to the protests that summer do you not remember seeing all of this happening then.
the feds were black bagging people in unmarked cars and plain clothes in the city i live in just a few years ago. we’ve been in this shit for a while now
its so fuckign scary how the world seems to have memory-holed the fact that a shitload of the original organizers of the BLM marches ended up murdered or dead under incredibly suspicious circumstances
@photophoregirl I think hardly anyone ever knew that in the first place, it got no media attention so if you weren't listening to their surviving friends and family there was no way to even know it happened
#USPS is proposing an 8% #postage hike. Yes, USPS did just recentlly increase its postal rates.
But these measures - including the deliberate slowdown of delivery - are all part of USPS's carefully crafted, long-term master plan to make itself ridiculously uncompetitive and ultimately obsolete.
The FTC says Jeff Bezos, current CEO Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal’s disappearing messages to destroy data relevant to a massive antitrust lawsuit.
A second encampment has begun at NYU. NYPD riot police were here, but students agreed to remove their tents, and the riot police left. NYU Campus security now there but seem relaxed. I talked to some folks there who seem to think that things will not escalate tonight, but I can hear the chanting from my bedroom, and helicopters are circling.
The term “glass escalator” refers to the finding that men in female-dominated occupations often experience a faster and smoother rise to the upper levels of leadership than women.
History exposes their evil acts in the context of long term reality
It reveals what they would have you believe as an unprovoked attack on their sovereign nation by foreigners, as being the reality of a last ditch, literally, reaction by those native to the land against colonisers who have imposed ethnic cleansing, apartheid & bastardry on them for 76 years with the full support of almost everyone in the world.
This is why we mustn't let them destroy books & history.
Evil people thrive in darkness & ignorance, we must shine the light of knowledge & history on them.
Against the guidance of scientific advisory panels, the EPA is relying on industry-backed tests to relax regulations on acephate, which has been linked to neurodevelopmental disorders. “It’s exactly what we recommended against,” one panelist said.
I have a little bit more faith in the European members of G20, since some of them have indeed raised taxes on the richest in the past 10 years, and closed loopholes.
Not accusing any country of perfection, but there is movement in the right direction.
@justafrog the president's fiscal year 2025 budget request for the department of defense is almost $850 billion dollars. if they're spending anything less than double or triple that on global poverty and wellbeing, idk how you expect the global community to keep up with fixing the destruction left by that $850 billion in us defense budget.
During and post-WWII the top marginal rate was 91% in the USA. Rich people were still very rich. We're in a climate crisis that easily justifies at least that rate.
Sharpen the gullotines!
"LMAO only 2%? GTFOH
"G20 Ministers Get Behind a Global Wealth Tax on Billionaires – Mother Jones"
Temporary farmworkers get more protections against retaliation and other abuses under new rule
Temporary farmworkers workers are getting more legal protections against employer retaliation, unsafe working conditions, illegal recruitment and other abuses #press
Greening the way we eat needn't mean going vegetarian. A healthy, more realistic solution is to adopt a flexitarian diet where seafoods add umami to "boring" vegetables. University of Copenhagen gastrophysicist Ole G.
Masha Gessen in a New Yorker essay draws a parallel between the Warsaw Ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland and the Gaza Strip, where Israel’s long siege is now escalating to genocide. Some Israeli military tactics in Gaza mirror those of the
Trump VP candidate Kirsti Noem makes shocking admission she shot pet dog she 'hated'
In her new book, due to be released next month, the South Dakota governor described the dog as ‘less than worthless’ and also claimed to have also killed a ‘nasty and mean’ goat #press
I do not understand the legal theories, but it really seems like this year President Biden and VP Harris could be tempted to do legally questionable things before and after the election. If they do so and it leads to a bipartisan precedent that once you get power you can use the levers of power and and even summon a mob to try to stay in power, liberal democracy is on the way out.
Trump is not the peaceful, riding into the sunset, law abiding President who after losing an election, looked forward to writing his memoirs. Instead, he attempted to overthrow the government, by influencing a mob, and strong arming electors, Governors, and his Vice-President . He demanded that everyone around him comply with his crime. His actions can never fall under Presidential immunity. It would be criminal for any justice to allow Trump immunity.
I can't think of a worse idea than to give Trump unchecked power, but here we are with this Lurch-looking Trump stan proposing just that on Charlie Kirk's show.
Most drivers will pay $15 to enter busiest part of Manhattan starting June 30
Transit officials say the start date for the $15 toll most drivers will be charged to enter Manhattan’s central business district will be June 30 #press
well it's official. i'm off instagram for good. the enshitification of that platform made it so incredibly bad that i can't tolerate it anymore even though it was my last place where i connected with many of my friends back home. it came to a point where everything i saw was either an ad or a view farming post. just reached a point i couldn't take any longer.
It really sucks that all the internet platforms have taken such a horrible turn and people are just being held hostage by convenience :(
Here is an article at The Nation detailing the response of numerous u.s. campus administrations to this month's protests, each written by people from those schools.
Basically, their reports paint a picture that feels like campus administrations have declared war on their own students.
Across the US, pro-Palestine students have faced repression, suspension, and arrest. We asked more than a dozen students to share how their schools have restricted the right to protest.
![In 1975, Coppola hoped for cooperation from the United States Army and scouted military locations in Georgia and Florida,[1] but the Army was not interested. While promoting The Godfather Part II in Australia, Coppola and his producers scouted possible locations for Apocalypse Now in Cairns in northern Queensland, as it had jungle resembling Vietnam's,[54] and in Malaysia.[1] He decided to make the film in the Philippines for its access to American military equipment and cheap labor. Production coordinator Fred Roos had already made two low-budget films there for Monte Hellman, and had friends and contacts there.[52] Frederickson went to the Philippines and had dinner with President Ferdinand Marcos to formalize support for the production and to allow them to use some of the country's military equipment.[55]](https://friendica.myportal.social/photo/preview/640/25325820 "In 1975, Coppola hoped for cooperation from the United States Army and scouted military locations in Georgia and Florida,[1] but the Army was not interested. While promoting The Godfather Part II in Australia, Coppola and his producers scouted possible locations for Apocalypse Now in Cairns in northern Queensland, as it had jungle resembling Vietnam's,[54] and in Malaysia.[1] He decided to make the film in the Philippines for its access to American military equipment and cheap labor. Production coordinator Fred Roos had already made two low-budget films there for Monte Hellman, and had friends and contacts there.[52] Frederickson went to the Philippines and had dinner with President Ferdinand Marcos to formalize support for the production and to allow them to use some of the country's military equipment.[55]")
![Kubrick acquired four M41 tanks from a Belgian army colonel who was an admirer of his work.[41] Westland Wessex helicopters, which have a much longer and less-rounded nose than that of the Vietnam era H-34, were painted Marines green to represent Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw helicopters. Kubrick obtained a selection of rifles, M79 grenade launchers and M60 machine guns from a licensed weapons dealer.[21]](https://friendica.myportal.social/photo/preview/640/25325824 "Kubrick acquired four M41 tanks from a Belgian army colonel who was an admirer of his work.[41] Westland Wessex helicopters, which have a much longer and less-rounded nose than that of the Vietnam era H-34, were painted Marines green to represent Sikorsky H-34 Choctaw helicopters. Kubrick obtained a selection of rifles, M79 grenade launchers and M60 machine guns from a licensed weapons dealer.[21]")
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