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Mass Arabic class in protest of Israel's" nation state" law
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Palestinian poet sentenced to 5 months for poem on social media ""Resist, my people resist them""
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#^[hub=https://forward.com/culture/406950/moriel-rothman-zecher-detained-by-shin-bet-at-ben-gurion-airport/] Israeli author detained by security services at airport [/url]
Toward the end of the hour-long interview, the man from the Shin Bet let Rothman-Zecher off with a warning, claiming that it was a “slippery slope” from “legitimate, nonviolent protests… into something more violent and less OK”
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up and running on MX 17.1 - Looking good so far.
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My only recent experience with those is in trying to fix them when they go wrong for other people.
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Yeah, I didn't last very long with Bodhi Linux again. But it's not always sure what makes an operating system a personal success; computer hardware + liveware + machine software + mental software all need to be in sync.
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Accidents at Amazon: workers left to suffer after warehouse injuries Guardian investigation reveals numerous cases of Amazon workers being treated in ways that leave them homeless, unable to work or bereft of income after workplace accidents
"Amazon’s warehouses were listed on the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health’s “dirty dozen” list of most dangerous places to work in the United States in April, 2018. "
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Israel / Palestine - these are wheat fields too, usually; but here we are after the harvest.
As it says in the 10th century BC calendar found at nearby Tel Gezer, which is just off to the left of this picture,
Two months gathering (September, October)
Two months planting (November, December)
Two months late sowing (January, February)
One month cutting flax (March)
One month reaping barley (April)
One month reaping and measuring grain (May)
Two months pruning (June, July)
One month summer fruit (August)
Abij (ah)[9]
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Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi freed from jail
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“He looked like a terrorist!” How a drive in rural India ended in a mob attack and a lynching
These stories of mob lynchings (this one in Reuters) are so depressing. I'm beginning to feel that there is something more going on than simply panic against child abductors.
I was just remembering a paragraph in Saki (HH Munri) story "Filboid Studge" (1912)
" There are thousands of respectable middle-class men who, if you found them unexpectedly in a Turkish bath, would explain in all sincerity that a doctor had ordered them to take Turkish baths; if you told them in return that you went there because you liked it, they would stare in pained wonder at the frivolity of your motive. In the same way, whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then."
That's typical Saki. But it would be truer to say that this is a reaction of village people who have been left out of India's boom. They see rich hi-tech workers from Hyderabad in their shiny new red SUV and something snaps inside them. Perhaps the story they tell themselves is that they are confronting child abductors, but unconsciously they are acting from a deep sense of grievance. All of these lynchings have been of outsiders. In the south, the victims have usually been northerners or people from the cities. In a case near Tiruvannamalai in TN, a 63 year old north Indian woman was killed after having been seen giving sweets to children. Probably the children themselves were pestering her for sweets or school pens.
Whenever there is a bandh (a strike) or any kind of civil unrest in India, the first thing you do is get off the streets, because if you are not a local, or are from the wrong community, you automatically become a potential target. If something unexpected happens, like the death of a well-known politician, the streets empty in an instant, because everyone is afraid.
Is India such a "primitive" country? It isn't the only place subject to mob violence. In America, people become similarly afraid of each other after every national disaster. Every man for himself. Civilization is all too fragile.
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The two films seen yesterday at the film festival were interesting. Ága was the one I liked best. It's quite a minimalistic film about a couple living in a yurt on the tundra. They reindeer are disappearing, the ice is melting earlier, and life is becoming ever more difficult. The main male character is named Nanook, in tribute to the 1922 movie "Nanook of the North", which may be seen on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofC83PK25aU (1 hr 18 min)
We have another film on Tuesday.
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First attempt to burn the MX iso to a DVD doesn't seem to have gone well as it doesn't boot. For now I'm in my Bodhi linux installation. Bodhi is one of the oddest distros I've encountered. At least it's pretty. I spent a fair amount of time setting it up a few months ago; I no longer remember why I didn't continue using it, but I'll no doubt find out soon enough.
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I think it's time to go shopping for another Linux distro. My AntiX is showing signs of fatigue and now there's a boot problem. I think this time I'll try MX. Mepis, on which AntiX and MX are based, was one of the first distributions that I used extensively. I even got a friend to install it too. Fortunately I always have a few different working installations, so that if one breaks down, like now, it isn't the end of the world. Currently I'm running another AntiX from a USB stick.
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A good time to get away from my screens and to the big screen: 2 films at the festival today: Ága and Phoenix
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now even hubzilla is spluttering and spitting things out twice.
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this morning had the urge to de-DRM my digital library, but after one thing led to another I decided there's some sort of issue with the Calibre installation or probably with python. Tech makes me weary; so often rather than empowering it has the opposite effect. I'm beginning to think I should simply life and go analogue.
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this morning had the urge to de-DRM my digital library, but after one thing led to another I decided there's some sort of issue with the Calibre installation or probably with python. Tech makes me weary; so often rather than empowering it has the opposite effect. I'm beginning to think I should simply life and go analogue.
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the most interesting design feature (besides its programability) is that it's "ortholinear". Doesn't that take some time to get used to? How does it feel?
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though boastful pride did lead him far
they'll quickly smash his fallen star
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duly copied into its own cherrytree sub-node. hope one day to rise to the occasion!
hosh
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