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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Everywhere, the countryside was burned, enemies were massacred, and women were raped. Most often, the officers gloried in these practices and did not seek to reestablish discipline. In time, the procedures for punishment became more elaborate. In Kabylia and at oases, the army set fire to ksours (fortresses) and villages, and what they did above all was cut down fig trees and palm trees, causing irreparable ruin.

    Scandal broke out in 1845, with the affair of Colonel Aimable Pélissier’s smoking out of insurgents from the caves of Dahra, Pélissier having refused to let these insurgents live, despite their promises to surrender and pay a ransom. The crime this officer committed there was not some isolated incident, as it was preceded and followed by other fires and massacres in the course of the conquest.

    https://www.sciencespo.fr/artsetsocietes/en/archives/1376

    Tony Johannot (1803-1852), Les grottes du Dahra (The caves of Dahra), 1845, 27 x 19 cm, etching excerpted from a work by Pierre Christian (1811-1872), L’Afrique française, l’empire de Maroc et les déserts de Sahara . . . (Paris: A. Barbier, [1846]). Private collection.



  • Known in Australia as the man with the golden arm, Harrison’s blood contained a rare antibody, Anti-D, which is used to make medication given to pregnant mothers whose blood is at risk of attacking their unborn babies.

    The Australian Red Cross Blood Service who paid tribute to Harrison, said he had pledged to become a donor after receiving transfusions while undergoing a major chest surgery when he was 14.

    He started donating his blood plasma when he was 18 and continued doing so every two weeks until he was 81.

    There are exceptional people in this world



  • The game is called Subpixel Snake and can technically played if you put all of your settings to maximum zoom and hold a magnifying glass up to your screen, but even then you would have a tough time of actually building a long snake or seeing anything that’s going on. You can check it out in action and learn more about subpixels in Patrick’s Video below, and you can also have a go at the game on his website. I’ve tried making this work on my Mac and I can’t get anywhere near close enough to see what’s going on, but if you do have a microscope handy or can put your Mac on the other end of the Hubble telescope, then you might stand a chance!





  • Au cours de l’échange qu’il a eu avec RFI, Saïf al-Islam Kadhafi revient également sur la partition qu’il affirme avoir personnellement jouée dans le financement libyen. « Sarkozy, dit-il, a reçu 2,5 millions de dollars de la Libye pour financer sa campagne électorale » lors de l’élection présidentielle de 2007, somme en contrepartie de laquelle, Nicolas Sarkozy devait « conclure des accords et réaliser des projets en faveur de la Libye ».

    Une seconde somme de 2,5 millions de dollars, également en espèces, a selon lui été remise au clan Sarkozy. Saïf al-Islam Kadhafi ne précise pas quand mais affirme qu’en contrepartie les autorités libyennes attendaient de Nicolas Sarkozy qu’il mette un terme à l’affaire de l’attentat contre le DC10 d’UTA qui a fait 170 morts dont 54 français en 1989. Elles souhaitaient également que les noms de six Libyens impliqués dans cet attentat soient retirés de la notice d’Interpol, dont celui d’Abdallah Senoussi, le chef des services secrets libyens et beau-frère de Kadhafi.

    Toujours selon Saïf al-Islam Kadhafi, cet argent a été placé ensuite sur un compte bancaire à Genève. Saïf al-Islam Kadhafi soutient donc à RFI que 5 millions de dollars en espèces ont été transmis à Nicolas Sarkozy.

    Impossible ! Sarko n’est qu’un 🐏 émissaire, un innocent 😁




  • A Liberian rights activist tells RFI it was “painful” to see Johnson commemorated as a hero.

    It’s painful – the jubilation I’m seeing, the celebration I’m seeing, of a murderer, a war criminal,” human rights activist Maxson Kpakio told RFI.

    Kpakio, founder of the Liberia Justice Forum, has been active in calling for a special war and economic crimes court for Liberia “so that those that bear the huge responsibility for the war can be punished”.

    In May, Liberia’s President Joseph Boakai signed an order to create a war crimes court. But it’s clear to Kpakio that there is ongoing impunity for Liberia’s former military leaders.

    Seeing [Johnson] not being punished but being celebrated and remembered as a hero is painful to all those that lost family members, killed through his initiative or by himself.”

    Kpakio regretted they could no longer ask Johnson: “Why did you do this to Liberia?”.

    In an interview with RFI in 2009 he denied he had taken part in massacres during the civil wars.

    But two years later, while running for president, the father of 12 justified his role in the war.

    I have done nothing criminal… I fought to defend my country, my people who were led to the slaughterhouse, as if they were chickens and goats, by the Doe regime,” Johnson told AFP news agency.

    https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20250118-funeral-of-former-liberian-warlord-prince-johnson-reopens-wounds-of-civil-war



  • This is part of the damage of sanctions, that you are forced to receive (purchases) through multiple dealers instead of buying from a factory directly,” Zarif said. “If the Zionist regime can infiltrate one of the dealers, then it can do anything and install anything.”

    He added: “For instance, our friends at the Atomic Energy Organization (of Iran) had purchased a platform for centrifuges in which (the Israelis) had installed explosive material.”

    Zarif did not elaborate, and the interviewer did not press him on the issue.

    However, it marked the first clear acknowledgment of the degree Mossad had infiltrated Iran’s program.

    Iran’s nuclear program previously attacked

    In July 2020, a mysterious explosion tore apart Natanz’s advanced centrifuge assembly, which Iran blamed on Israel. In April 2021, another blast tore apart one of its underground enrichment halls.

    A few months later, Israel’s outgoing Mossad chief Yossi Cohen gave an interview to Israeli television in which he all but acknowledged his spies executed the two attacks. The show said a saboteur “made sure to supply to the Iranians the marble foundation on which the centrifuges are placed” that included “an enormous amount of explosives.”

    At this time I wonder how many products and other services that have passed through their hands are full of explosives and are circulating around the world. This subject should be taken seriously by the international community



  • Messages then started piling into Darim’s studio and the game developer claiming she was a feminist and demanding she be fired. Within hours, the company pulled the promotional video.

    There is evidence the authorities are also capitulating to the anti-feminists’ demands. When Darim reported her abuse to the police, they refused to take her case.

    Following outrage from feminist organisations, the police backtracked and are now investigating. In a statement, Seocho district police told the BBC their initial decision to close the case had been “insufficient” and they were “making all efforts to identify the suspects”.

    According to Prof Kim, the feminism academic, men are using now feminist threats in the office as a way to harass and control their female colleagues - it is their way of saying ‘we are watching you; you should behave yourself’.



  • This is especially rich coming from a guy who lives in an area famously known as Billionaire’s Row where monthly rent would likely be north of $10,000. He’s also the founder of Buttonwood Development and Town Residential, two real estate companies that are worth quite a bit of money. Even if he paid $18 to visit his kids every single day, that’s only $6,500 or so per year. He probably spends more than that on a bottle of wine at dinner. The man just doesn’t want to walk even though we know walking is good for longevity, and the ultra-wealthy are obsessed with longevity.

    😂