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Justification of war, especially offensive war, generally requires a heavy dose of mythmaking, with myths that ennoble one’s own side and demonize the other.”", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1745498568770195456", "published": "2025-03-09T15:48:08+00:00", "attachment": [ { "type": "Document", "url": "https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1745498160791052288/xlarge/", "mediaType": "image/jpeg", "height": 1132, "width": 1432 } ], "source": { "content": "Clear the fog of war.\n\n“The famous fog of war confuses understanding while the fighting rages. Another kind of fog shrouds understanding afterwards. Winners, we all know, write the histories and those histories inevitably justify. Justification of war, especially offensive war, generally requires a heavy dose of mythmaking, with myths that ennoble one’s own side and demonize the other.”", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1745498568770195456/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/entities/urn:activity:1744164916136251392", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100", "content": "Multiple bullies at work, out to create a ‘multipolar world’ <br /><br />A growing illiberal international project is posing the biggest threat to democracy, people and peace in the world<br /><br />‘What kind of Ukraine do Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump want?’<br /><br />Why has U.S. President Donald Trump thrown a public tantrum and refused to deal with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy? It is time to remember what is at stake for Ukraine. Who better to tell it like it is than John Mearsheimer, Realist advocate of a multipolar world order, who has consistently accused the U.S.-led West of provoking Russia to war.<br />Exactly a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Mearsheimer explained in a media interview that any peace deal with Mr. Putin would require Ukraine to give up not just some territory or hopes of North Atlantic Treaty Organization membership. It would be nothing short of its democracy. He told an interviewer that Mr. Putin “wants to install in Kyiv a pro-Russian government, a government that is attuned to Moscow’s interests....”A Ukraine that was a liberal democracy, he said, was “from a Russian perspective...an existential threat.”<br />Also read | A high-stakes power play — Trump, Putin and the Ukraine war<br />But would it not be imperialism, asked the interviewer, to tell Ukrainians that they cannot be a liberal democracy? Mearsheimer replied, “It’s not imperialism; this is great-power politics. When you’re a country like Ukraine and you live next door to a great power like Russia, you have to pay careful attention to what the Russians think, because if you take a stick and you poke them in the eye, they’re going to retaliate.”<br />‘Democracy is not realistic’<br />Democracy simply is not realistic in a multipolar world, said Mearsheimer. “In an ideal world, it would be wonderful if the Ukrainians were free to choose their own political system and to choose their own foreign policy. But in the real world, that is not feasible.”<br />Today, Mr. Trump is eager to give Mr. Putin the regime change he wants. He calls Mr. Zelenskyy a “dictator”with a “4% approval rating,” and has suggested more than once that peace is possible only if Mr. Zelenskyy steps down.<br />Also Read: Trump's Oval Office thrashing of Zelensky shows limits of Western allies' ability to sway U.S. leader<br /><br />What kind of Ukraine do Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump want? Look at the other nations that “live next door to a great power like Russia,” and the answer is clear. Democratic protests in Belarus and Kazakhstan have been brutally suppressed with the help of the Russian military. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko declares, “It’s better to have a dictatorship like in Belarus than a democracy like Ukraine.” The Ukrainians obviously disagree.<br />It should be remembered that far from instigating Mr. Zelenskyy to stay and fight, former U.S. President Joe Biden had done all he could to force him to flee, hoping that it would appease Mr. Putin and avert a prolonged war.<br />In January 2022, Mr. Biden had declared that NATO would be divided in case of a “minor incursion”, and Zelenskyy had to “remind the great powers that there are no minor incursions and small nations”.<br />Mr. Biden had evacuated the U.S. embassy from Kyiv and said, days before the Russian invasion, that “it may be the wise choice for President Zelenskyy to leave Ukraine”. After the invasion, Mr. Zelenskyy had to again tell the U.S. that he was looking for ammunition, and not a ride.<br />Also Read: After fiery Trump-Zelensky spat, what next for Ukraine?<br /><br />The wider border of this project<br />Ukraine is not the only country where Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin want a regime in their own image. U.S Vice President J.D. Vance and Mr. Trump’s oligarch aide Elon Musk urged Germans to vote for the far-right anti-immigrant AfD. Mr. Vance told the European Union (EU) in Munich that Mr. Trump wanted to liberate European people from their “internal threat” — immigrants and the liberal democratic leadership that let them into Europe.<br />For the past decade, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has declared making his country an “illiberal democracy” as his goal, and to turn the EU into an illiberal project. Since then, Mr. Putin has put his weight behind that project in every way. And Mr. Vance made it clear that Mr. Trump, “the new sheriff in town”, wants the same: an EU aligned with Christian values, not universal human rights and democratic standards; an EU where member-nations will face no censure for passing Putin-style laws banning “gay propaganda”.<br />Mr. Orbán has the distinction of refusing to honour the International Criminal Court’s warrants issued against Mr. Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mr. Trump and Mr. Netanyahu voted for Mr. Putin in the United Nations. Mr. Trump treats Gaza and Ukraine as pieces of real estate at the mercy of the genocidal bully next door. Mr. Trump has branded ethnic cleansing in Gaza with his name, turning it into an obscene AI-generated Nero’s Feast. He turned peace talks in the Oval Office into reality TV where the most powerful man in the world and his henchmen and media bully an elected leader of an invaded and occupied nation.<br />Also Read: From handshake to meltdown: What went down in Trump, Zelenskyy’s fiery Oval Office meeting<br /><br />The national bullies are acting in concert to create a “multipolar world” — a world safe for all bullies and bigots. It is high time we stopped imagining that multiple bullies make the playground safer, and that “multipolar” non-western tyrants are the lesser evil “regardless of the internal character” of the regimes involved.<br />U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has declared support for a multipolar world. Mr Putin has always insisted that there are “two Wests”, and that his quarrel is with the West of universal democratic principles and rules; an illiberal U.S., United Kingdom and EU are welcome to the multipolar world.<br />It is better late than never<br />It is the growing assertion of an illiberal international project (led by Mr. Trump, Mr. Putin, Mr. Netanyahu, and China’s Xi Jinping, and including Narendra Modi, Mr. Orban and European fascists) that poses the greatest threat to democracy, people, peace, and the planet today.<br />To insist that the rise of this new illiberal international is just the West versus the Rest “business as usual” is moral bankruptcy and suicidal folly — exactly as it is to quibble over the semantics of Mr. Modi’s project of an illiberal Hindu-only India.<br />It is better late than never to take on the illiberal international and defend universalist human rights, democratic solidarity. A good start would be for Indians defending democracy to show solidarity with Ukraine defending itself from the Putin-Trump tyranny.<br /><br />Kavita Krishnan", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1744164916136251392", "published": "2025-03-05T23:28:41+00:00", "source": { "content": "Multiple bullies at work, out to create a ‘multipolar world’ \n\nA growing illiberal international project is posing the biggest threat to democracy, people and peace in the world\n\n‘What kind of Ukraine do Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump want?’\n\nWhy has U.S. President Donald Trump thrown a public tantrum and refused to deal with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy? It is time to remember what is at stake for Ukraine. Who better to tell it like it is than John Mearsheimer, Realist advocate of a multipolar world order, who has consistently accused the U.S.-led West of provoking Russia to war.\nExactly a week after Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Mearsheimer explained in a media interview that any peace deal with Mr. Putin would require Ukraine to give up not just some territory or hopes of North Atlantic Treaty Organization membership. It would be nothing short of its democracy. He told an interviewer that Mr. Putin “wants to install in Kyiv a pro-Russian government, a government that is attuned to Moscow’s interests....”A Ukraine that was a liberal democracy, he said, was “from a Russian perspective...an existential threat.”\nAlso read | A high-stakes power play — Trump, Putin and the Ukraine war\nBut would it not be imperialism, asked the interviewer, to tell Ukrainians that they cannot be a liberal democracy? Mearsheimer replied, “It’s not imperialism; this is great-power politics. When you’re a country like Ukraine and you live next door to a great power like Russia, you have to pay careful attention to what the Russians think, because if you take a stick and you poke them in the eye, they’re going to retaliate.”\n‘Democracy is not realistic’\nDemocracy simply is not realistic in a multipolar world, said Mearsheimer. “In an ideal world, it would be wonderful if the Ukrainians were free to choose their own political system and to choose their own foreign policy. But in the real world, that is not feasible.”\nToday, Mr. Trump is eager to give Mr. Putin the regime change he wants. He calls Mr. Zelenskyy a “dictator”with a “4% approval rating,” and has suggested more than once that peace is possible only if Mr. Zelenskyy steps down.\nAlso Read: Trump's Oval Office thrashing of Zelensky shows limits of Western allies' ability to sway U.S. leader\n\nWhat kind of Ukraine do Mr. Putin and Mr. Trump want? Look at the other nations that “live next door to a great power like Russia,” and the answer is clear. Democratic protests in Belarus and Kazakhstan have been brutally suppressed with the help of the Russian military. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko declares, “It’s better to have a dictatorship like in Belarus than a democracy like Ukraine.” The Ukrainians obviously disagree.\nIt should be remembered that far from instigating Mr. Zelenskyy to stay and fight, former U.S. President Joe Biden had done all he could to force him to flee, hoping that it would appease Mr. Putin and avert a prolonged war.\nIn January 2022, Mr. Biden had declared that NATO would be divided in case of a “minor incursion”, and Zelenskyy had to “remind the great powers that there are no minor incursions and small nations”.\nMr. Biden had evacuated the U.S. embassy from Kyiv and said, days before the Russian invasion, that “it may be the wise choice for President Zelenskyy to leave Ukraine”. After the invasion, Mr. Zelenskyy had to again tell the U.S. that he was looking for ammunition, and not a ride.\nAlso Read: After fiery Trump-Zelensky spat, what next for Ukraine?\n\nThe wider border of this project\nUkraine is not the only country where Mr. Trump and Mr. Putin want a regime in their own image. U.S Vice President J.D. Vance and Mr. Trump’s oligarch aide Elon Musk urged Germans to vote for the far-right anti-immigrant AfD. Mr. Vance told the European Union (EU) in Munich that Mr. Trump wanted to liberate European people from their “internal threat” — immigrants and the liberal democratic leadership that let them into Europe.\nFor the past decade, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has declared making his country an “illiberal democracy” as his goal, and to turn the EU into an illiberal project. Since then, Mr. Putin has put his weight behind that project in every way. And Mr. Vance made it clear that Mr. Trump, “the new sheriff in town”, wants the same: an EU aligned with Christian values, not universal human rights and democratic standards; an EU where member-nations will face no censure for passing Putin-style laws banning “gay propaganda”.\nMr. Orbán has the distinction of refusing to honour the International Criminal Court’s warrants issued against Mr. Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Mr. Trump and Mr. Netanyahu voted for Mr. Putin in the United Nations. Mr. Trump treats Gaza and Ukraine as pieces of real estate at the mercy of the genocidal bully next door. Mr. Trump has branded ethnic cleansing in Gaza with his name, turning it into an obscene AI-generated Nero’s Feast. He turned peace talks in the Oval Office into reality TV where the most powerful man in the world and his henchmen and media bully an elected leader of an invaded and occupied nation.\nAlso Read: From handshake to meltdown: What went down in Trump, Zelenskyy’s fiery Oval Office meeting\n\nThe national bullies are acting in concert to create a “multipolar world” — a world safe for all bullies and bigots. It is high time we stopped imagining that multiple bullies make the playground safer, and that “multipolar” non-western tyrants are the lesser evil “regardless of the internal character” of the regimes involved.\nU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has declared support for a multipolar world. Mr Putin has always insisted that there are “two Wests”, and that his quarrel is with the West of universal democratic principles and rules; an illiberal U.S., United Kingdom and EU are welcome to the multipolar world.\nIt is better late than never\nIt is the growing assertion of an illiberal international project (led by Mr. Trump, Mr. Putin, Mr. Netanyahu, and China’s Xi Jinping, and including Narendra Modi, Mr. Orban and European fascists) that poses the greatest threat to democracy, people, peace, and the planet today.\nTo insist that the rise of this new illiberal international is just the West versus the Rest “business as usual” is moral bankruptcy and suicidal folly — exactly as it is to quibble over the semantics of Mr. Modi’s project of an illiberal Hindu-only India.\nIt is better late than never to take on the illiberal international and defend universalist human rights, democratic solidarity. A good start would be for Indians defending democracy to show solidarity with Ukraine defending itself from the Putin-Trump tyranny.\n\nKavita Krishnan", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/entities/urn:activity:1744164916136251392/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/464083126033850388/entities/urn:activity:1742602501272395776", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/464083126033850388", "content": "Growth<br /><br />Frequently its important to look at growth. How do we feel about it, what is it creating that's new, and what could we obtain from seeing thru what is starting.<br /><br />I have been studying how a soul grows. This is not a common thread, mainly because there is no real definitive text or source one can quote. There is no established path to be taken and by far it is the most immeasurable activity one could endow themself with.<br /><br />Yet, when measuring meaning and purpose in life, it seems offering a depth of quality back to life is the single most important undertaking. It feels like nurturing a safe-haven for sensitivity is a paramount pursuit for any life. For should we wish to know why we get up and do what we must do each day, a general direction must be held as purpose.<br /><br />This by way of the outer world currently would be seen as a moot point. What tangible aesthetic could be held forward from self exploration? What would I learn from embracing the observer state with my consciousness, and in so doing give the highway to the higher-self completion. This is the antithesis of the highly competitive world of have and own we pine over currently as a species.<br /><br />So I can see there are deep divisions in the use of time. I can sense that we must always be learning simply to stay relevant. It feeds our information overload, following trend, keeping savvy to the new method of earning and the evolving information transfer system works quite well for those who entered into form with a digital prosthetic, yet for us of the previous ilk a different tangent emerges.<br /><br />Knowing per say took some effort prior to the modern age. It also required to a large degree seeking sources, and in that you would need to directly communicate with persons who rang true. Ultimately the largess of knowing was pay-walled, and as such required some cunning to get access as an average person.<br /><br />Perhaps that is why many were spiritual in previous times. The choice to seek meaning could be weighed in locality, so the efficacy of flow and pattern in society was in general a direct experience. Knowing beyond what allowed you to earn sufficiently was optional, yet the cowboy logic was prevalent in most persons.<br /><br />You would have an organic understanding based in a per-ordained access point to knowing. Rules of interface were discovered and consequences were first hand. As such the fragility of life was held in the heart, so conduct and the social accord has peacefilled.<br /><br />Now we can fast forward beyond the GOOgle age into our modern Now it all digital assistant. It can give information on anything instantly. So, has this created a normality of higher intelligence? One has to ask if meaning and purpose can be discerned from facts alone, or dies it require introspection to be held as truth.<br /><br />We have broken open the dogma of belief structures. Removing the risk of ridicule and death from an elite group has helped many individuals excell at expressing core principles, and this has given a great expansion in seeking ancient texts and knowings. For this we must give great thanks, that time has broken the dam of philosophy, alchemy hermeticism and other concepts to infuse daily life with options. This is bringing a great leap in locating and establishing connection to the source energy and soul.<br /><br />This has been the boom of the many modern influencers encouraging us to establish the link of soul. They have so much ancient text available, one can see the past was filled with deep and robust intellects. So much so that they tapped into a divine code. They connected descriptions of the use of time that marvels the average modern human BE-ing.<br /><br />So what was their AI? What gave them the ability to see without a search engine? What opened inside their life that granted these deep and meaningful things to rise, and give such depth and color to the journey of their time. This is the connection to our energy body. This is our organized information/energy system communicating with us.<br /><br />Have we lost this power to interact with this web of life system? Quite the contrary. We are experiencing the greatest expansion ever in these fields. So much so that new grand thinkers and philosophers are making updated connections to the field of knowing. The are giving our modern language new life to swim in.<br /><br />This is where knowing from within meets having a digital assistant. Do we use this vast tool to become more sovereign, or do we become more co-dependent and lackadaisical. Do we get lost in a ocean of information and drown from over consumption, to the point our own inner genius and creativity is quelled?<br /><br />If we don't recognize the whole of being life, and grow from the union of <a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https://www.minds.com/minds\" target=\"_blank\">@minds</a> body and spirit, what happens to that left unused. If we don't use a muscle it atrophy. So if we don't connect to our inner knowing and develop our unique tools of expression, the ones we have to find develop and hone, what are we sacrificing simply for entertainment?<br /><br />If consciousness is primary, and all of reality springs from its use, we have to determine there are choices to be made in growth. We can embrace our infinity, or we can create the ultimate straw man in its place. For what do we really know when an answer is provided. Even more diabolical what does meaning and purpose hold when the work is done for you, instead of the labors needed for self actualization and self improvement.<br /><br />These are complex challenges humanity must face, as our godlike communication skills seem to have upended the necessity of our resolve for human rights and dignity's. We have come no where close to solving the basics of shelter food and conflict, yet we wish to steam forward with an air of supremacy. That seems a means to an end, should we not factor why life itself is important.<br /><br />Perhaps inward growth must be met with outward prosperity, if we are going to adopt the potentials we already are. If we cant tend to each other and our environment, what good is expansion from our current pathway. If it does not include expanding our inherent nature, then we have to assume to fit in we must sacrifice our most potent gift of growth, and that is the ability to live express and feel deep unconditional love.<br /><br />I Love You", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/464083126033850388/followers" ], "tag": [ { "type": "Mention", "href": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/100000000000000000", "name": "@minds" } ], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1742602501272395776", "published": "2025-03-01T16:00:12+00:00", "attachment": [ { "type": "Document", "url": "https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1742592247469989888/xlarge/", "mediaType": "image/jpeg", "height": 680, "width": 680 } ], "source": { "content": "Growth\n\nFrequently its important to look at growth. How do we feel about it, what is it creating that's new, and what could we obtain from seeing thru what is starting.\n\nI have been studying how a soul grows. This is not a common thread, mainly because there is no real definitive text or source one can quote. There is no established path to be taken and by far it is the most immeasurable activity one could endow themself with.\n\nYet, when measuring meaning and purpose in life, it seems offering a depth of quality back to life is the single most important undertaking. It feels like nurturing a safe-haven for sensitivity is a paramount pursuit for any life. For should we wish to know why we get up and do what we must do each day, a general direction must be held as purpose.\n\nThis by way of the outer world currently would be seen as a moot point. What tangible aesthetic could be held forward from self exploration? What would I learn from embracing the observer state with my consciousness, and in so doing give the highway to the higher-self completion. This is the antithesis of the highly competitive world of have and own we pine over currently as a species.\n\nSo I can see there are deep divisions in the use of time. I can sense that we must always be learning simply to stay relevant. It feeds our information overload, following trend, keeping savvy to the new method of earning and the evolving information transfer system works quite well for those who entered into form with a digital prosthetic, yet for us of the previous ilk a different tangent emerges.\n\nKnowing per say took some effort prior to the modern age. It also required to a large degree seeking sources, and in that you would need to directly communicate with persons who rang true. Ultimately the largess of knowing was pay-walled, and as such required some cunning to get access as an average person.\n\nPerhaps that is why many were spiritual in previous times. The choice to seek meaning could be weighed in locality, so the efficacy of flow and pattern in society was in general a direct experience. Knowing beyond what allowed you to earn sufficiently was optional, yet the cowboy logic was prevalent in most persons.\n\nYou would have an organic understanding based in a per-ordained access point to knowing. Rules of interface were discovered and consequences were first hand. As such the fragility of life was held in the heart, so conduct and the social accord has peacefilled.\n\nNow we can fast forward beyond the GOOgle age into our modern Now it all digital assistant. It can give information on anything instantly. So, has this created a normality of higher intelligence? One has to ask if meaning and purpose can be discerned from facts alone, or dies it require introspection to be held as truth.\n\nWe have broken open the dogma of belief structures. Removing the risk of ridicule and death from an elite group has helped many individuals excell at expressing core principles, and this has given a great expansion in seeking ancient texts and knowings. For this we must give great thanks, that time has broken the dam of philosophy, alchemy hermeticism and other concepts to infuse daily life with options. This is bringing a great leap in locating and establishing connection to the source energy and soul.\n\nThis has been the boom of the many modern influencers encouraging us to establish the link of soul. They have so much ancient text available, one can see the past was filled with deep and robust intellects. So much so that they tapped into a divine code. They connected descriptions of the use of time that marvels the average modern human BE-ing.\n\nSo what was their AI? What gave them the ability to see without a search engine? What opened inside their life that granted these deep and meaningful things to rise, and give such depth and color to the journey of their time. This is the connection to our energy body. This is our organized information/energy system communicating with us.\n\nHave we lost this power to interact with this web of life system? Quite the contrary. We are experiencing the greatest expansion ever in these fields. So much so that new grand thinkers and philosophers are making updated connections to the field of knowing. The are giving our modern language new life to swim in.\n\nThis is where knowing from within meets having a digital assistant. Do we use this vast tool to become more sovereign, or do we become more co-dependent and lackadaisical. Do we get lost in a ocean of information and drown from over consumption, to the point our own inner genius and creativity is quelled?\n\nIf we don't recognize the whole of being life, and grow from the union of @minds body and spirit, what happens to that left unused. If we don't use a muscle it atrophy. So if we don't connect to our inner knowing and develop our unique tools of expression, the ones we have to find develop and hone, what are we sacrificing simply for entertainment?\n\nIf consciousness is primary, and all of reality springs from its use, we have to determine there are choices to be made in growth. We can embrace our infinity, or we can create the ultimate straw man in its place. For what do we really know when an answer is provided. Even more diabolical what does meaning and purpose hold when the work is done for you, instead of the labors needed for self actualization and self improvement.\n\nThese are complex challenges humanity must face, as our godlike communication skills seem to have upended the necessity of our resolve for human rights and dignity's. We have come no where close to solving the basics of shelter food and conflict, yet we wish to steam forward with an air of supremacy. That seems a means to an end, should we not factor why life itself is important.\n\nPerhaps inward growth must be met with outward prosperity, if we are going to adopt the potentials we already are. If we cant tend to each other and our environment, what good is expansion from our current pathway. If it does not include expanding our inherent nature, then we have to assume to fit in we must sacrifice our most potent gift of growth, and that is the ability to live express and feel deep unconditional love.\n\nI Love You", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/464083126033850388/entities/urn:activity:1742602501272395776/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/464083126033850388/entities/urn:comment:1740858928482230272:::0:1740873125475655680", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/464083126033850388", "content": "gimme gimme gimme", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/464083126033850388/followers", "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1740858928482230272?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1740858928482230272:::0:1740873125475655680", "published": "1970-01-01T00:33:45+00:00", "inReplyTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1740858928482230272", "source": { "content": "gimme gimme gimme", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/464083126033850388/entities/urn:comment:1740858928482230272:::0:1740873125475655680/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1666907156978339850", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "content": "<a href=\"https://youtu.be/xkeukmdf65U?si=djm94wLatXfx5J_Z\" target=\"_blank\">https://youtu.be/xkeukmdf65U?si=djm94wLatXfx5J_Z</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1666907156978339850", "published": "2024-08-04T18:53:55+00:00", "source": { "content": "https://youtu.be/xkeukmdf65U?si=djm94wLatXfx5J_Z", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1666907156978339850/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/entities/urn:activity:1738304867081920512", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100", "content": "Kiss the ring. Grovel before the Godfather. Give him tribute, a cut of the spoils. If he and his family get rich you get rich. Enter his inner circle, his “made” men and women, and you do not have to follow rules or obey the law. You can disembowel the machinery of government. You can turn us and the natural world into commodities to exploit until exhaustion or collapse. You can commit crimes with impunity. You can make a mockery of democratic norms and social responsibility. Perfidy is very profitable at first. In the long term it is collective suicide.<br /><br />America is a full blown kleptocracy. The demolition of the social and political structure, begun long before Trump, makes a few very, very rich and immiserates everyone else. Mafia capitalism always leads to a mafia state. The two ruling parties gave us the first. Now we get the second. It is not only our wealth that is being taken from us, but our liberty.<br /><br />Since the election of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, currently worth $394 billion, saw his wealth increase by $170 billion. Mark Zuckerberg, worth $254 billion, saw his net worth increase by nearly $41 billion.<br /><br />Tidy sums for kneeling before Moloch.<br /><br />At least 11 federal agencies that have been affected by the slash and burn campaign of the Trump administration have more than 32 continuing investigations, pending complaints or enforcement actions, into Musk’s six companies, according to a review by The New York Times.<br /><br />The mafia state ignores legal constraints and regulations. It lacks external and internal control. It cannibalizes everything, including the ecosystem, until there is nothing left but a wasteland. It cannot distinguish between reality and illusion, which obscures and exacerbates gross incompetence. And then the hollowed-out edifice will collapse leaving in its wake a shell of a country with nukes. The Roman and Sumerian empires fell this way. So did the Mayans and the sclerotic reign of the French monarch Louis XVI.<br /><br />In the final stages of decay for all empires, the rulers, focused exclusively on personal enrichment, ensconced in their versions of Versailles or The Forbidden City, squeeze the last drops of profit from an increasingly oppressed and impoverished population and ravaged environment.<br /><br />Unprecedented wealth is inseparable from unprecedented poverty.<br /><br />The more extreme life becomes, the more extreme ideologies become. Huge segments of the population, unable to absorb the despair and bleakness, severs itself from a reality-based universe. It takes comfort in magical thinking, a bizarre millennialism — one embodied for us in a Christianized fascism — which turns con artists, morons, criminals, charlatans, gangsters and grifters into prophets while branding those who decry the pillage and corruption into traitors. The rush towards self-immolation accelerates intellectual and moral paralysis.<br /><br />The mafia state makes no pretense of defending the common good. Trump, Musk and their minions are swiftly repealing executive orders regarding health, environmental and safety regulations, food assistance, as well as child care programs such as Head Start. They are fighting a court order to halt their dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has ensured that Americans have been reimbursed with more than $21 billion due to cancelled debts, financial compensation and other forms of consumer relief. They are abolishing the U.S. Agency for International Development. They are closing federal defenders’ offices, which provide legal representation to the poor. They have cut billions of dollars from the budget of the National Institutes of Health jeopardizing biomedical research and clinical trials. They have frozen permits for solar and wind projects, including sign-offs needed for projects on private land. They fired more than 300 staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration, the agency that manages our nuclear stockpile. They are gutting the workforce of the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and the United States Geological Survey.<br /><br />The mafia state, its blueprint contained in Project 2025, ignores the dire lessons from history of extreme social inequality, political disintegration, wanton ecological plunder and the evisceration of the rule of law.<br /><br />We are, of course, not naturally destined for freedom. It was two millennia before democracy reappeared in Europe after its collapse — largely because Athens became an empire — in ancient Greece. The mafia state, not democracies, may be the wave of the future, one where the wealthiest one percent of the globe owns some 43 percent of all global financial assets – more than 95 percent of the human race — while 44 percent of the planet’s population lives below the World Bank’s poverty line of less than $6.85 per day. These calcified regimes endure solely because of draconian systems of internal control, wholesale surveillance and the evisceration of civil liberties.<br /><br />We have at the same time wiped out 90 percent of the large fish such as cod, sharks, halibut, grouper, tuna, swordfish, and marlin and degraded or destroyed two thirds of the mature tropical forests, the lungs of the planet. Lack of access to safe drinking water, and the resultant spread of infectious diseases, kills at least 1.4 million people annually — 3,836 per day — and also contributes to 50 percent of global malnutrition, according to the World Bank. Between 150 and 200 million children are impaired by malnourishment. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is well above the 350 parts per million that most climate scientists warn is the maximum level for sustaining life as we know it. By May of this year, atmospheric CO2 levels are forecast to reach 429.6 ppm, the highest concentration in over two million years. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that the measurement could reach 541 to 970 ppm by the year 2100. At that point huge parts of the planet, beset with high population density, droughts, soil erosion, freak storms, massive crop failures and rising sea levels, will be unfit for human existence.<br /><br />Clans, in the later period of the Easter Island civilization, competed to honor their ancestors by constructing larger and larger hewn stoner images, which demanded the last remnants of the timber, rope and manpower on the island. By the year 1400 the woods were gone. The soil had eroded and washed into the sea. The islanders began to fight over old timbers and were reduced to eating their dogs and soon all the nesting birds.<br /><br />The desperate islanders developed a magical belief system that the erected stone gods, the moai, would come to life and save them from disaster.<br /><br />The belief by Christian nationalists in the rapture, which does not exist in the Bible, is no less fantastic. These Christian fascists — embodied in Trump appointees such as Russell Vought, head of Trump’s Office of Budget and Management, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Mike Huckabee, nominated to be the ambassador to Israel — intend to use schools and universities, the media, the judiciary and the federal government as platforms to carry out indoctrination and enforce conformity.<br /><br />The followers of this movement defer to a leader they believe has been anointed by God. They embrace the illusion that the righteous will be saved, floating naked upwards into heaven, at the end of time and the secularists they despise will perish. This retreat into magical thinking, which is the foundation of all totalitarian movements, explains their suffering. It helps them cope with despair and anxiety. It gives them the illusion of security. It also ensures retribution against a long list of enemies — liberals, intellectuals, gays, immigrants, the deep state — blamed for their economic and social misery.<br /><br />Our millennialism is an updated version of the faith in the moai, the doomed Taki Onqoy revolt against the Spanish invaders in Peru, the Aztec prophecies of the 1530s and the Ghost Dance, which Native Americans believed would see the return of the buffalo herds and slain warriors rise alive from the earth to vanquish the white colonizers.<br /><br />This retreat into fantasy is what happens when reality becomes too bleak to be absorbed. It is the appeal of Trump. Of course, this time it will be different. When we go down the whole planet will go with us. There will be no new lands to pillage, no new peoples to exploit. We will be exterminated in a global death trap.<br /><br />Karl Polanyi in “The Great Transformation” writes that once a society surrenders to the dictates of the market, once its mafia economy becomes a mafia state, once it succumbs to what he calls “the ravages of this satanic mill,” it inevitably leads to “the demolition of society.”<br /><br />The mafia state cannot be reformed. We must organize to break our chains, one-by-one, to use the power of the strike to cripple the state machinery. We must embrace a radical militancy, one that offers a new vision and a new social structure. We must hold fast to moral imperatives. We must forgive mortgage and student debt, institute universal health care and break up monopolies. We must raise the minimum wage and end the squandering of resources and funds to sustain the empire and the war industry. We must establish a nationwide jobs program to rebuild the country’s collapsing infrastructure. We must nationalize the banks, pharmaceutical corporations, military contractors and transportation and embrace environmentally sustainable energy sources.<br /><br />None of this will happen until we resist.<br /><br />The mafia state will be brutal with any who revolt. Capitalists, as Eduardo Galeano writes, view communal cultures as “enemy cultures.” The billionaire class will do to us what it did to the radicals who rose up to form militant unions in the past. We had the bloodiest labor wars in the industrialized world. Hundreds of American workers were killed, tens of thousands were beaten, wounded, jailed and blacklisted. Unions were infiltrated, shut down and outlawed. We cannot be naïve. It will be difficult, costly and painful. But this confrontation is our only hope. Otherwise, we, and the planet that sustains us, are doomed.<br /><br />Chris Hedges", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1738304867081920512", "published": "2025-02-17T19:22:56+00:00", "source": { "content": "Kiss the ring. Grovel before the Godfather. Give him tribute, a cut of the spoils. If he and his family get rich you get rich. Enter his inner circle, his “made” men and women, and you do not have to follow rules or obey the law. You can disembowel the machinery of government. You can turn us and the natural world into commodities to exploit until exhaustion or collapse. You can commit crimes with impunity. You can make a mockery of democratic norms and social responsibility. Perfidy is very profitable at first. In the long term it is collective suicide.\n\nAmerica is a full blown kleptocracy. The demolition of the social and political structure, begun long before Trump, makes a few very, very rich and immiserates everyone else. Mafia capitalism always leads to a mafia state. The two ruling parties gave us the first. Now we get the second. It is not only our wealth that is being taken from us, but our liberty.\n\nSince the election of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, currently worth $394 billion, saw his wealth increase by $170 billion. Mark Zuckerberg, worth $254 billion, saw his net worth increase by nearly $41 billion.\n\nTidy sums for kneeling before Moloch.\n\nAt least 11 federal agencies that have been affected by the slash and burn campaign of the Trump administration have more than 32 continuing investigations, pending complaints or enforcement actions, into Musk’s six companies, according to a review by The New York Times.\n\nThe mafia state ignores legal constraints and regulations. It lacks external and internal control. It cannibalizes everything, including the ecosystem, until there is nothing left but a wasteland. It cannot distinguish between reality and illusion, which obscures and exacerbates gross incompetence. And then the hollowed-out edifice will collapse leaving in its wake a shell of a country with nukes. The Roman and Sumerian empires fell this way. So did the Mayans and the sclerotic reign of the French monarch Louis XVI.\n\nIn the final stages of decay for all empires, the rulers, focused exclusively on personal enrichment, ensconced in their versions of Versailles or The Forbidden City, squeeze the last drops of profit from an increasingly oppressed and impoverished population and ravaged environment.\n\nUnprecedented wealth is inseparable from unprecedented poverty.\n\nThe more extreme life becomes, the more extreme ideologies become. Huge segments of the population, unable to absorb the despair and bleakness, severs itself from a reality-based universe. It takes comfort in magical thinking, a bizarre millennialism — one embodied for us in a Christianized fascism — which turns con artists, morons, criminals, charlatans, gangsters and grifters into prophets while branding those who decry the pillage and corruption into traitors. The rush towards self-immolation accelerates intellectual and moral paralysis.\n\nThe mafia state makes no pretense of defending the common good. Trump, Musk and their minions are swiftly repealing executive orders regarding health, environmental and safety regulations, food assistance, as well as child care programs such as Head Start. They are fighting a court order to halt their dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has ensured that Americans have been reimbursed with more than $21 billion due to cancelled debts, financial compensation and other forms of consumer relief. They are abolishing the U.S. Agency for International Development. They are closing federal defenders’ offices, which provide legal representation to the poor. They have cut billions of dollars from the budget of the National Institutes of Health jeopardizing biomedical research and clinical trials. They have frozen permits for solar and wind projects, including sign-offs needed for projects on private land. They fired more than 300 staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration, the agency that manages our nuclear stockpile. They are gutting the workforce of the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service and the United States Geological Survey.\n\nThe mafia state, its blueprint contained in Project 2025, ignores the dire lessons from history of extreme social inequality, political disintegration, wanton ecological plunder and the evisceration of the rule of law.\n\nWe are, of course, not naturally destined for freedom. It was two millennia before democracy reappeared in Europe after its collapse — largely because Athens became an empire — in ancient Greece. The mafia state, not democracies, may be the wave of the future, one where the wealthiest one percent of the globe owns some 43 percent of all global financial assets – more than 95 percent of the human race — while 44 percent of the planet’s population lives below the World Bank’s poverty line of less than $6.85 per day. These calcified regimes endure solely because of draconian systems of internal control, wholesale surveillance and the evisceration of civil liberties.\n\nWe have at the same time wiped out 90 percent of the large fish such as cod, sharks, halibut, grouper, tuna, swordfish, and marlin and degraded or destroyed two thirds of the mature tropical forests, the lungs of the planet. Lack of access to safe drinking water, and the resultant spread of infectious diseases, kills at least 1.4 million people annually — 3,836 per day — and also contributes to 50 percent of global malnutrition, according to the World Bank. Between 150 and 200 million children are impaired by malnourishment. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is well above the 350 parts per million that most climate scientists warn is the maximum level for sustaining life as we know it. By May of this year, atmospheric CO2 levels are forecast to reach 429.6 ppm, the highest concentration in over two million years. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates that the measurement could reach 541 to 970 ppm by the year 2100. At that point huge parts of the planet, beset with high population density, droughts, soil erosion, freak storms, massive crop failures and rising sea levels, will be unfit for human existence.\n\nClans, in the later period of the Easter Island civilization, competed to honor their ancestors by constructing larger and larger hewn stoner images, which demanded the last remnants of the timber, rope and manpower on the island. By the year 1400 the woods were gone. The soil had eroded and washed into the sea. The islanders began to fight over old timbers and were reduced to eating their dogs and soon all the nesting birds.\n\nThe desperate islanders developed a magical belief system that the erected stone gods, the moai, would come to life and save them from disaster.\n\nThe belief by Christian nationalists in the rapture, which does not exist in the Bible, is no less fantastic. These Christian fascists — embodied in Trump appointees such as Russell Vought, head of Trump’s Office of Budget and Management, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Mike Huckabee, nominated to be the ambassador to Israel — intend to use schools and universities, the media, the judiciary and the federal government as platforms to carry out indoctrination and enforce conformity.\n\nThe followers of this movement defer to a leader they believe has been anointed by God. They embrace the illusion that the righteous will be saved, floating naked upwards into heaven, at the end of time and the secularists they despise will perish. This retreat into magical thinking, which is the foundation of all totalitarian movements, explains their suffering. It helps them cope with despair and anxiety. It gives them the illusion of security. It also ensures retribution against a long list of enemies — liberals, intellectuals, gays, immigrants, the deep state — blamed for their economic and social misery.\n\nOur millennialism is an updated version of the faith in the moai, the doomed Taki Onqoy revolt against the Spanish invaders in Peru, the Aztec prophecies of the 1530s and the Ghost Dance, which Native Americans believed would see the return of the buffalo herds and slain warriors rise alive from the earth to vanquish the white colonizers.\n\nThis retreat into fantasy is what happens when reality becomes too bleak to be absorbed. It is the appeal of Trump. Of course, this time it will be different. When we go down the whole planet will go with us. There will be no new lands to pillage, no new peoples to exploit. We will be exterminated in a global death trap.\n\nKarl Polanyi in “The Great Transformation” writes that once a society surrenders to the dictates of the market, once its mafia economy becomes a mafia state, once it succumbs to what he calls “the ravages of this satanic mill,” it inevitably leads to “the demolition of society.”\n\nThe mafia state cannot be reformed. We must organize to break our chains, one-by-one, to use the power of the strike to cripple the state machinery. We must embrace a radical militancy, one that offers a new vision and a new social structure. We must hold fast to moral imperatives. We must forgive mortgage and student debt, institute universal health care and break up monopolies. We must raise the minimum wage and end the squandering of resources and funds to sustain the empire and the war industry. We must establish a nationwide jobs program to rebuild the country’s collapsing infrastructure. We must nationalize the banks, pharmaceutical corporations, military contractors and transportation and embrace environmentally sustainable energy sources.\n\nNone of this will happen until we resist.\n\nThe mafia state will be brutal with any who revolt. Capitalists, as Eduardo Galeano writes, view communal cultures as “enemy cultures.” The billionaire class will do to us what it did to the radicals who rose up to form militant unions in the past. We had the bloodiest labor wars in the industrialized world. Hundreds of American workers were killed, tens of thousands were beaten, wounded, jailed and blacklisted. Unions were infiltrated, shut down and outlawed. We cannot be naïve. It will be difficult, costly and painful. But this confrontation is our only hope. Otherwise, we, and the planet that sustains us, are doomed.\n\nChris Hedges", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/entities/urn:activity:1738304867081920512/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/entities/urn:activity:1738330729362513920", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100", "content": "Pro-Israel organizations consistently work to silence Palestine advocacy on campus – a free speech violation. One strategy they use is to accuse Palestine allies of “supporting terror” or “defending Hamas.” Another is to accuse them of “antisemitism.”<br /><br />As part of this strategy, Israel supporters often pressure universities to officially adopt the IHRA “definition” of antisemitism, which defines legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitic. Other strategies include blocking prestigious appointments of and events with supporters of Palestinian rights, threatening to withhold major donations, and more. But supporters of Palestine on campus are fighting back.<br />It is also notable that pro-Israel orgs regularly sponsor trips to Israel for influencers and the influence-able – trips that invariably provide a whitewashed view of Israel and no exposure to the Palestinian narrative, and by withholding the truth, “buy” new Israel partisans.<br />When President Donald Trump issued an executive order threatening to deport international students involved in pro-Palestine protests, advocates expressed immediate concern that the move would target demonstrators — particularly Muslim and Arab students — for engaging in activity protected by the First Amendment.<br /><br />Some members of the Columbia University community, however, leapt at the chance to get young people they claim are “supporters of Hamas” detained and deported. Several people on a large WhatsApp group, Columbia Alumni for Israel — which counts over 1,000 members, including parents, at least one current student, and Columbia professors — welcomed Trump’s plan.<br /><br />Deporting Gaza protesters was already a topic of conversation in the Columbia Alumni for Israel group before Trump’s order came down. On the president’s first day in office, group members shared flyers advertising a pro-Palestine January 21 walkout to push the school to drop disciplinary actions against anti-war protesters.<br /><br />“Identifying the Columbia student-Hamas-sympathizers who show up is key to deporting those with student visas,” former Columbia’s Teachers College assistant professor Lynne Bursky-Tammam said in the chat, according to screenshots from the WhatsApp group obtained by The Intercept.<br /><br />Victor Muslin, another alumnus and pro-Israel activist, responded: “If there are photos of someone who needs to be identified (even with a partially obscured face) I have access to tech that may be able to help. DM me.”<br /><br />Within a few days another member posted a link to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tip line and wrote, “Let’s get to work.”<br /><br />In late January, a group member shared an article about students who spray-painted a building and put cement in a sewage line to protest the anniversary of Israel’s killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab. Bursky-Tammam responded to the article and questioned who was funding the protesters, adding, “Arresting them for hate crimes is not enough. We have to get rid of them.” (Bursky-Tammam declined to comment.)<br /><br />The activities of the chat group, which formed in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack, come amid a wider campaign to crack down on dissent over Israel’s war on Gaza. Columbia has disciplined and suspended protesters — helping to create an environment that has fomented attacks using the courts, among other tactics. Members of the pro-Israel WhatsApp group, whose identities were confirmed by The Intercept using their phone numbers, were of a piece with these efforts, discussing how to report people to law enforcement, including the FBI.<br /><br />With Trump taking the Oval Office, right-wing pro-Israel activists have focused their energy on using his draconian immigration policies to deal with Israel’s critics, including efforts to paint international student protesters as terrorists to have their visas revoked.<br /><br />“It’s very disturbing that the alumni and parents are doing this,” said Abed Ayoub, executive director of the civil rights group the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. “Really, it’s an across-the-board attempt to silence and take away the First Amendment right of people simply because they don’t agree with them. It’s a very dangerous precedent.”<br /><br />Critics of the school’s policies toward protesters say Columbia administrators have done little to intervene with attacks on students and faculty. On Thursday, two Columbia professors wrote an op-ed demanding that the school to condemn calls to deport its students.<br /><br />“The Palestine exception to the First Amendment, to our right to free speech, has been something that’s been ongoing for so many years,” said Sabiya Ahamed, a staff attorney at the civil liberties group Palestine Legal, which filed a complaint about anti-Palestinian discrimination at Columbia that led to a federal investigation.<br /><br />The success of offensives against pro-Palestine students and faculty on campuses across the country today stands as a testament to how far administrators have let pro-Israel advocates take their attacks, Ayoub said. And those efforts started before Trump took office.<br /><br />“These universities have been laying the groundwork for whatever Trump wants to do. This targeting of the students did not begin once Trump was inaugurated. This began last year,” he said. “It began when they started targeting the students, putting them in disciplinary process, disciplinary proceedings, calling law enforcement and police to college campuses and putting the students in harm’s way.”<br /><br />“We Have a List”<br />As campus protests grew in response to Israel’s assault on Gaza, the “Columbia Alumni for Israel” WhatsApp group kicked into overdrive. It soon became a hub for efforts to identify student and faculty protesters, claim they have links to Hamas, and discuss reporting them to the school or law enforcement agencies for alleged antisemitic activity — which, for the pro-Israel activists, includes anti-Zionist speech.<br /><br />Screenshots from the group show its members frequently singling out Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim student activists, including some who have already faced disciplinary action. Faculty and other students, including Jewish student leaders, also land in the group’s crosshairs. Several messages show chat members discussing how to make reports to law enforcement, including contacting New York police and the FBI.<br /><br />Several of the students named in the WhatsApp group have also been targeted by name by groups like Canary Mission, which publishes profiles of students involved in anti-Zionist activism, or in social media posts by the group “Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus at Columbia U,” which at least one chat member is involved in. One student mentioned in the chat was also named in a Twitter post from the Zionist group Betar, which last month sent a list of students it wants deported to the White House and federal agencies including ICE. (Students and faculty targeted in the screenshots from the chat declined to comment. The Intercept is withholding their names to protect them from any possible harassment.)<br /><br />How Columbia has responded to the group’s activities, if at all, is unclear. Several group members have referenced meetings or correspondence with school administrators, including Columbia’s interim president, trustees, donors, and executive vice presidents.<br /><br />“There are reasons why some of these efforts are not public,” wrote Heather Krasna, an associate dean of career services at Columbia, referencing meetings with top Columbia administrators. “For example, if certain efforts were publicized, specific individuals would possible [sic] be fired.” Krasna, whose handle on the WhatsApp group was simply the letter “H,” raised the possibility that their “efforts would backfire by giving pro-Hamas faculty political weapons by claiming external forces are trying to influence the university or squash free speech; a lot is happening that is confidential for these and other reasons.” (Krasna declined to respond to questions.)<br /><br />Beyond pushing the school to target individual students and faculty — including calls to remove two deans — members of the WhatsApp group have also strategized how to best build cases to paint student protesters as “supporters of Hamas.”<br /><br />Trump vowed to “quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses” in a January 30 White House fact sheet published alongside his executive order. Like Trump, the WhatsApp group members regularly refer to opposition to the war on Gaza as sympathy or support for Hamas.<br /><br />At one point, a group member pointed to an issue with only targeting foreign students: “And then there’s the problem that most of the students protesting are US citizens and cannot be deported.”<br /><br />Bursky-Tammam, the former Columbia professor, also addressed how pro-Palestine U.S. citizens could be targeted. “If anyone can trace any of their funding to terror organizations, not a simple task, they can be arrested on grounds of providing ‘material support’ for terror organizations,” she wrote, referring to the Hind Rajab protest. “That is the key to getting these U.S. citizen supporters of Hamas, etc. arrested.”<br /><br />Even before Trump’s executive order, Muslin, the Columbia alumnus, sent a message asking how to identify whether foreign students were on visas, and therefore eligible for removal.<br /><br />“How does anyone know whether any given troublemaker is in fact a foreigner or on a visa (or not on a visa, given that Biden opened the border)?” Muslin also wrote, echoing a false right-wing claim about former President Joe Biden’s immigration policy.<br /><br />Columbia University campus at a Palestine solidarity<br />A demonstrator waves a flag on the Columbia University campus at a Palestine solidarity protest encampment in NYC on April 29, 2024. Photo: Ted Shaffrey/AP (source)<br />Muslin, a technology executive, has been vocal in pushing colleges to treat criticism of Israel’s actions as examples of antisemitism. He founded CU-Monitor, an online platform that tracks anti-Zionism on campus. He also helps maintain the digital archive for the group Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus at Columbia U, which gathers reports of alleged antisemitic incidents. When one chat participant asked whether any members had connections to Canary Misson, another user replied, “Victor is an honorary bird.” (Muslin did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)<br /><br />Last October, WhatsApp group administrator and Aliya Capital CEO Ari Shrage asked the group for help to “identify students who were protesting” and leaders of groups affiliated with the coalition Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Shrage, who co-founded the Columbia Jewish Alumni Association, wrote, “We have a list and need people to do some research.” Last month, he praised Trump’s executive order targeting campus protesters.<br /><br />Among Jewish students targeted by the pro-Israel activists, particular ire was reserved for Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Zionist group whose Columbia chapter was already banned from campus. In one screenshot, a group member referred to members of JVP as “kapos,” a slur referencing Jewish prisoners forced to work as guards in Nazi concentration camps. At one point, following an opinion piece in the school paper by JVP members, Muslin asked for information about students involved in the group.<br /><br />“Does anyone have a list of JVP members, especially group leaders or a way to get it,” Muslin wrote.<br /><br />Another member responded: “My daughter will send me a list shortly,”<br /><br />After the names were sent, Muslin was unsatisfied.<br /><br />“Thank you. But we need more than theee [sic] random names of potentially low ranked members,” he wrote. “We need to hold leaders responsible for this antisemitic op-ed in the Spec. And we need to hold all members accountable for their membership in this despicable organization. Are club membership lists secret? How does one obtain a list of members in the official Columbia student club?”<br /><br />Friends in High Places<br />Discussions in the group, which includes several people with teaching positions at Columbia, have also focused on efforts to communicate with school administrators and donors about the Columbia’s handling of campus speech.<br /><br />In a discussion in late 2023 about how to get donors like the billionaire football team owner Robert Kraft to influence the school’s actions, Shrage wrote: “Robert is well aware of the situation.” Kraft announced last April that he would withdraw financial support from Columbia over its handling of the protests. Another group member shared a screenshot of Kraft’s contact card and said his friend knew Kraft personally and that he would reach out and report back with any information.<br /><br />Gil Zussman, the chair of Columbia’s department of electrical engineering, along with Columbia Business School professors Ran Kivetz and Shai Davidai, are members of the WhatsApp group. Davidai became famous for his tirades against Gaza protests and has been accused by numerous students of online harassment. At one point, Kivetz shared a petition urging the removal of a dean over public comments at the school’s convocation last year. (Davidai, who was suspended from the Columbia campus after he posted videos of his confrontations with university staff online, declined to be interviewed without a video call. Kivetz did not respond to The Intercept’s request for comment.)<br /><br />Zussman is a member of the school’s antisemitism task force, which was formed in November 2023 amid the protests. The task force, stacked with vocal supporters of Israel, has pushed the university to include expressions of anti-Zionism under its definition of antisemitism. Zussman regularly participates in the WhatsApp group by posting news stories, sharing his social media posts, and asking people to save protest material for an archive at the school. (Zussman did not respond to a request for comment.)<br /><br />In July, Columbia alumnus Ilya Koffman told the group he had scheduled a meeting the following week with the university’s endowment arm on behalf of his private equity firm. “My initial instinct was to politely tell them we don’t want their money and explain why,” Koffman wrote, but he realized “it may be more effective to take the meeting and challenge them on what’s going on at Columbia and what, if anything, the investment arm of the endowment can and should do about it.” Koffman asked the group for any suggested questions or points. (Koffman declined to comment.)<br /><br />Last April, more than 1,600 people including high-profile Columbia alumni and donors signed an open letter calling on President Minouche Shafik to clear encampments and discipline student protesters. Shafik stepped down last August amid pressure over her handling of the protests. Shrage, one of the WhatsApp group admins, wrote to the group on May 1 that he had co-authored the letter with Lisa Carnoy, a Columbia trustee emerita and current member of one of the board of visitors of the school’s Center for American Studies. (Carnoy did not respond to a request for comment.)<br /><br />The alumni and donors wrote the letter “to keep pressure on the university,” Shrage said in the WhatsApp group. “Lisa hired Minouche and was former co- chair of the board,” he added, referring to Carnoy and Shafik. In another message to the group in November, Shrage wrote that Columbia alumnus David Friedman, a Trump adviser and former ambassador to Israel, was one of the first 22 people to sign the letter.<br /><br />When the group member wrote in February about efforts to influence Columbia’s handling of campus speech “that are not public information” including “meetings with the Interim President,” Shrage replied and added that some of those efforts would not go public.<br /><br />“A lot has already been done,” he wrote. “Multiple lawsuit, [sic] congressional hearings, meetings with influential (now former) donors, meetings and calls with people in DC, dozens and dozens of newspaper articles, an entire database of information that has been used by Congress and lawyers.”<br /><br />Shrage added, “much much more that is not public information that likely will never become public info. We are all frustrated but much has been done and working together makes us all stronger.” Shrage declined to speak to The Intercept on the record.<br /><br />Normalizing the Crackdown<br />In the past, Columbia opposed moves by the federal government that impacted foreign students. The school took part in litigation against ICE restrictions affecting international students in 2020 and issued a statement denouncing Trump’s order barring immigrants from several Muslim countries in 2017.<br /><br />Lee Bollinger, the president of the university at the time, wrote that while it was important for the school to avoid political or ideological stances, it had a responsibility to step forward “when policies and state action conflict with its fundamental values, and especially when they bespeak purposes and a mentality that are at odds with our basic mission.”<br /><br />For the WhatsApp group members who seek deportations and terrorism charges, the school’s actions against pro-Palestine students are regularly described as grossly insufficient. Palestine Legal’s Ahamed said, however, that the actions of groups like Columbia Alumni for Israel are aided by the school’s own crackdown on pro-Palestine protests.<br /><br />“All of these things that the university has been doing has been normalizing the fact that it is wrong to say something about Palestine, it is against our policies to protest for Palestine,” she said. “That is the kind of message that the university has been sending. So it’s not that surprising then that you see these sorts of WhatsApp groups. And people feel comfortable being a part of a group like that.”<br /><br />Natasha Lennard ", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1738330729362513920", "published": "2025-02-17T21:05:42+00:00", "source": { "content": "Pro-Israel organizations consistently work to silence Palestine advocacy on campus – a free speech violation. One strategy they use is to accuse Palestine allies of “supporting terror” or “defending Hamas.” Another is to accuse them of “antisemitism.”\n\nAs part of this strategy, Israel supporters often pressure universities to officially adopt the IHRA “definition” of antisemitism, which defines legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitic. Other strategies include blocking prestigious appointments of and events with supporters of Palestinian rights, threatening to withhold major donations, and more. But supporters of Palestine on campus are fighting back.\nIt is also notable that pro-Israel orgs regularly sponsor trips to Israel for influencers and the influence-able – trips that invariably provide a whitewashed view of Israel and no exposure to the Palestinian narrative, and by withholding the truth, “buy” new Israel partisans.\nWhen President Donald Trump issued an executive order threatening to deport international students involved in pro-Palestine protests, advocates expressed immediate concern that the move would target demonstrators — particularly Muslim and Arab students — for engaging in activity protected by the First Amendment.\n\nSome members of the Columbia University community, however, leapt at the chance to get young people they claim are “supporters of Hamas” detained and deported. Several people on a large WhatsApp group, Columbia Alumni for Israel — which counts over 1,000 members, including parents, at least one current student, and Columbia professors — welcomed Trump’s plan.\n\nDeporting Gaza protesters was already a topic of conversation in the Columbia Alumni for Israel group before Trump’s order came down. On the president’s first day in office, group members shared flyers advertising a pro-Palestine January 21 walkout to push the school to drop disciplinary actions against anti-war protesters.\n\n“Identifying the Columbia student-Hamas-sympathizers who show up is key to deporting those with student visas,” former Columbia’s Teachers College assistant professor Lynne Bursky-Tammam said in the chat, according to screenshots from the WhatsApp group obtained by The Intercept.\n\nVictor Muslin, another alumnus and pro-Israel activist, responded: “If there are photos of someone who needs to be identified (even with a partially obscured face) I have access to tech that may be able to help. DM me.”\n\nWithin a few days another member posted a link to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement tip line and wrote, “Let’s get to work.”\n\nIn late January, a group member shared an article about students who spray-painted a building and put cement in a sewage line to protest the anniversary of Israel’s killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab. Bursky-Tammam responded to the article and questioned who was funding the protesters, adding, “Arresting them for hate crimes is not enough. We have to get rid of them.” (Bursky-Tammam declined to comment.)\n\nThe activities of the chat group, which formed in the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attack, come amid a wider campaign to crack down on dissent over Israel’s war on Gaza. Columbia has disciplined and suspended protesters — helping to create an environment that has fomented attacks using the courts, among other tactics. Members of the pro-Israel WhatsApp group, whose identities were confirmed by The Intercept using their phone numbers, were of a piece with these efforts, discussing how to report people to law enforcement, including the FBI.\n\nWith Trump taking the Oval Office, right-wing pro-Israel activists have focused their energy on using his draconian immigration policies to deal with Israel’s critics, including efforts to paint international student protesters as terrorists to have their visas revoked.\n\n“It’s very disturbing that the alumni and parents are doing this,” said Abed Ayoub, executive director of the civil rights group the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. “Really, it’s an across-the-board attempt to silence and take away the First Amendment right of people simply because they don’t agree with them. It’s a very dangerous precedent.”\n\nCritics of the school’s policies toward protesters say Columbia administrators have done little to intervene with attacks on students and faculty. On Thursday, two Columbia professors wrote an op-ed demanding that the school to condemn calls to deport its students.\n\n“The Palestine exception to the First Amendment, to our right to free speech, has been something that’s been ongoing for so many years,” said Sabiya Ahamed, a staff attorney at the civil liberties group Palestine Legal, which filed a complaint about anti-Palestinian discrimination at Columbia that led to a federal investigation.\n\nThe success of offensives against pro-Palestine students and faculty on campuses across the country today stands as a testament to how far administrators have let pro-Israel advocates take their attacks, Ayoub said. And those efforts started before Trump took office.\n\n“These universities have been laying the groundwork for whatever Trump wants to do. This targeting of the students did not begin once Trump was inaugurated. This began last year,” he said. “It began when they started targeting the students, putting them in disciplinary process, disciplinary proceedings, calling law enforcement and police to college campuses and putting the students in harm’s way.”\n\n“We Have a List”\nAs campus protests grew in response to Israel’s assault on Gaza, the “Columbia Alumni for Israel” WhatsApp group kicked into overdrive. It soon became a hub for efforts to identify student and faculty protesters, claim they have links to Hamas, and discuss reporting them to the school or law enforcement agencies for alleged antisemitic activity — which, for the pro-Israel activists, includes anti-Zionist speech.\n\nScreenshots from the group show its members frequently singling out Palestinian, Arab, and Muslim student activists, including some who have already faced disciplinary action. Faculty and other students, including Jewish student leaders, also land in the group’s crosshairs. Several messages show chat members discussing how to make reports to law enforcement, including contacting New York police and the FBI.\n\nSeveral of the students named in the WhatsApp group have also been targeted by name by groups like Canary Mission, which publishes profiles of students involved in anti-Zionist activism, or in social media posts by the group “Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus at Columbia U,” which at least one chat member is involved in. One student mentioned in the chat was also named in a Twitter post from the Zionist group Betar, which last month sent a list of students it wants deported to the White House and federal agencies including ICE. (Students and faculty targeted in the screenshots from the chat declined to comment. The Intercept is withholding their names to protect them from any possible harassment.)\n\nHow Columbia has responded to the group’s activities, if at all, is unclear. Several group members have referenced meetings or correspondence with school administrators, including Columbia’s interim president, trustees, donors, and executive vice presidents.\n\n“There are reasons why some of these efforts are not public,” wrote Heather Krasna, an associate dean of career services at Columbia, referencing meetings with top Columbia administrators. “For example, if certain efforts were publicized, specific individuals would possible [sic] be fired.” Krasna, whose handle on the WhatsApp group was simply the letter “H,” raised the possibility that their “efforts would backfire by giving pro-Hamas faculty political weapons by claiming external forces are trying to influence the university or squash free speech; a lot is happening that is confidential for these and other reasons.” (Krasna declined to respond to questions.)\n\nBeyond pushing the school to target individual students and faculty — including calls to remove two deans — members of the WhatsApp group have also strategized how to best build cases to paint student protesters as “supporters of Hamas.”\n\nTrump vowed to “quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses” in a January 30 White House fact sheet published alongside his executive order. Like Trump, the WhatsApp group members regularly refer to opposition to the war on Gaza as sympathy or support for Hamas.\n\nAt one point, a group member pointed to an issue with only targeting foreign students: “And then there’s the problem that most of the students protesting are US citizens and cannot be deported.”\n\nBursky-Tammam, the former Columbia professor, also addressed how pro-Palestine U.S. citizens could be targeted. “If anyone can trace any of their funding to terror organizations, not a simple task, they can be arrested on grounds of providing ‘material support’ for terror organizations,” she wrote, referring to the Hind Rajab protest. “That is the key to getting these U.S. citizen supporters of Hamas, etc. arrested.”\n\nEven before Trump’s executive order, Muslin, the Columbia alumnus, sent a message asking how to identify whether foreign students were on visas, and therefore eligible for removal.\n\n“How does anyone know whether any given troublemaker is in fact a foreigner or on a visa (or not on a visa, given that Biden opened the border)?” Muslin also wrote, echoing a false right-wing claim about former President Joe Biden’s immigration policy.\n\nColumbia University campus at a Palestine solidarity\nA demonstrator waves a flag on the Columbia University campus at a Palestine solidarity protest encampment in NYC on April 29, 2024. Photo: Ted Shaffrey/AP (source)\nMuslin, a technology executive, has been vocal in pushing colleges to treat criticism of Israel’s actions as examples of antisemitism. He founded CU-Monitor, an online platform that tracks anti-Zionism on campus. He also helps maintain the digital archive for the group Documenting Jew Hatred on Campus at Columbia U, which gathers reports of alleged antisemitic incidents. When one chat participant asked whether any members had connections to Canary Misson, another user replied, “Victor is an honorary bird.” (Muslin did not respond to multiple requests for comment.)\n\nLast October, WhatsApp group administrator and Aliya Capital CEO Ari Shrage asked the group for help to “identify students who were protesting” and leaders of groups affiliated with the coalition Columbia University Apartheid Divest. Shrage, who co-founded the Columbia Jewish Alumni Association, wrote, “We have a list and need people to do some research.” Last month, he praised Trump’s executive order targeting campus protesters.\n\nAmong Jewish students targeted by the pro-Israel activists, particular ire was reserved for Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Zionist group whose Columbia chapter was already banned from campus. In one screenshot, a group member referred to members of JVP as “kapos,” a slur referencing Jewish prisoners forced to work as guards in Nazi concentration camps. At one point, following an opinion piece in the school paper by JVP members, Muslin asked for information about students involved in the group.\n\n“Does anyone have a list of JVP members, especially group leaders or a way to get it,” Muslin wrote.\n\nAnother member responded: “My daughter will send me a list shortly,”\n\nAfter the names were sent, Muslin was unsatisfied.\n\n“Thank you. But we need more than theee [sic] random names of potentially low ranked members,” he wrote. “We need to hold leaders responsible for this antisemitic op-ed in the Spec. And we need to hold all members accountable for their membership in this despicable organization. Are club membership lists secret? How does one obtain a list of members in the official Columbia student club?”\n\nFriends in High Places\nDiscussions in the group, which includes several people with teaching positions at Columbia, have also focused on efforts to communicate with school administrators and donors about the Columbia’s handling of campus speech.\n\nIn a discussion in late 2023 about how to get donors like the billionaire football team owner Robert Kraft to influence the school’s actions, Shrage wrote: “Robert is well aware of the situation.” Kraft announced last April that he would withdraw financial support from Columbia over its handling of the protests. Another group member shared a screenshot of Kraft’s contact card and said his friend knew Kraft personally and that he would reach out and report back with any information.\n\nGil Zussman, the chair of Columbia’s department of electrical engineering, along with Columbia Business School professors Ran Kivetz and Shai Davidai, are members of the WhatsApp group. Davidai became famous for his tirades against Gaza protests and has been accused by numerous students of online harassment. At one point, Kivetz shared a petition urging the removal of a dean over public comments at the school’s convocation last year. (Davidai, who was suspended from the Columbia campus after he posted videos of his confrontations with university staff online, declined to be interviewed without a video call. Kivetz did not respond to The Intercept’s request for comment.)\n\nZussman is a member of the school’s antisemitism task force, which was formed in November 2023 amid the protests. The task force, stacked with vocal supporters of Israel, has pushed the university to include expressions of anti-Zionism under its definition of antisemitism. Zussman regularly participates in the WhatsApp group by posting news stories, sharing his social media posts, and asking people to save protest material for an archive at the school. (Zussman did not respond to a request for comment.)\n\nIn July, Columbia alumnus Ilya Koffman told the group he had scheduled a meeting the following week with the university’s endowment arm on behalf of his private equity firm. “My initial instinct was to politely tell them we don’t want their money and explain why,” Koffman wrote, but he realized “it may be more effective to take the meeting and challenge them on what’s going on at Columbia and what, if anything, the investment arm of the endowment can and should do about it.” Koffman asked the group for any suggested questions or points. (Koffman declined to comment.)\n\nLast April, more than 1,600 people including high-profile Columbia alumni and donors signed an open letter calling on President Minouche Shafik to clear encampments and discipline student protesters. Shafik stepped down last August amid pressure over her handling of the protests. Shrage, one of the WhatsApp group admins, wrote to the group on May 1 that he had co-authored the letter with Lisa Carnoy, a Columbia trustee emerita and current member of one of the board of visitors of the school’s Center for American Studies. (Carnoy did not respond to a request for comment.)\n\nThe alumni and donors wrote the letter “to keep pressure on the university,” Shrage said in the WhatsApp group. “Lisa hired Minouche and was former co- chair of the board,” he added, referring to Carnoy and Shafik. In another message to the group in November, Shrage wrote that Columbia alumnus David Friedman, a Trump adviser and former ambassador to Israel, was one of the first 22 people to sign the letter.\n\nWhen the group member wrote in February about efforts to influence Columbia’s handling of campus speech “that are not public information” including “meetings with the Interim President,” Shrage replied and added that some of those efforts would not go public.\n\n“A lot has already been done,” he wrote. “Multiple lawsuit, [sic] congressional hearings, meetings with influential (now former) donors, meetings and calls with people in DC, dozens and dozens of newspaper articles, an entire database of information that has been used by Congress and lawyers.”\n\nShrage added, “much much more that is not public information that likely will never become public info. We are all frustrated but much has been done and working together makes us all stronger.” Shrage declined to speak to The Intercept on the record.\n\nNormalizing the Crackdown\nIn the past, Columbia opposed moves by the federal government that impacted foreign students. The school took part in litigation against ICE restrictions affecting international students in 2020 and issued a statement denouncing Trump’s order barring immigrants from several Muslim countries in 2017.\n\nLee Bollinger, the president of the university at the time, wrote that while it was important for the school to avoid political or ideological stances, it had a responsibility to step forward “when policies and state action conflict with its fundamental values, and especially when they bespeak purposes and a mentality that are at odds with our basic mission.”\n\nFor the WhatsApp group members who seek deportations and terrorism charges, the school’s actions against pro-Palestine students are regularly described as grossly insufficient. Palestine Legal’s Ahamed said, however, that the actions of groups like Columbia Alumni for Israel are aided by the school’s own crackdown on pro-Palestine protests.\n\n“All of these things that the university has been doing has been normalizing the fact that it is wrong to say something about Palestine, it is against our policies to protest for Palestine,” she said. “That is the kind of message that the university has been sending. So it’s not that surprising then that you see these sorts of WhatsApp groups. 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1000 } ], "source": { "content": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1737889001781596160", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/551693450815217672/entities/urn:activity:1737889001781596160/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/464083126033850388/entities/urn:activity:1480989233249259533", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/464083126033850388", "content": "Remember, the information you consume becomes the life you lead", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/464083126033850388/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1480989233249259533", "published": "2023-03-10T18:02:28+00:00", "attachment": [ { "type": "Document", "url": 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The money velocity stops until some new and more comprehensive control grid system needs start up capitol, then they pile in and buy up the future rights to anything earned.", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/464083126033850388/followers", "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1714685000210718720?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1714685000210718720:::0:1714686223311708160", "published": "1970-01-01T00:33:44+00:00", "inReplyTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1714685000210718720", "source": { "content": "Just so we all remember, there is no trickle down effect. The money velocity stops until some new and more comprehensive control grid system needs start up capitol, then they pile in and buy up the future rights to anything earned.", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/464083126033850388/entities/urn:comment:1714685000210718720:::0:1714686223311708160/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/entities/urn:activity:1714372916935659520", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100", "content": "Chris Hedges<br /><br />I want to draw a distinction between Himmler and Kissinger, because they didn't actually carry out the killing. In fact, though, the one time that Himmler had to witness the mass murder of Jews, [inaudible] I believe threw up, he was sick. And then the actual people who they direct. Of course, they're ultimately responsible, but I think there probably is a difference for people who actually carry out their orders, carry out their murders, there are consequences that they feel, although they are tools of these power systems, that those who direct them do not feel.<br /><br />Gabor Maté<br /><br />Well, I think that's probably true, and when you look at who actually perpetrates the murders, they're usually the lowest, the least educated and the most unconscious people. If you look at Lieutenant [William] Calley, for example, who was the one person who was actually punished for My Lai, where hundreds of people were massacred, women, children, elderly. Who was he? And if you look at the people that perpetrated Abu Ghraib, usually looking at very low level, poorly educated, very traumatized people, and they're the ones who are thrust into these positions. And my guess is, not my guess, my very educated opinion on this one is that the people who perpetrated those things directly are actually themselves that were already traumatized even before they did these things. It's their disconnection and their fragmentation that even allowed them to behave that way in the first place. There was there was an interesting documentary in Hungary, under the communist regime, there was a concentration camp called Recsk, that's the name of the place where they took the enemies of the system to be tormented, sometimes killed, certainly mistreated, often tortured. And the guards that served the communist system had actually been the same ones that belonged to the Cross Arrows Nazi party during the war—low level, poor class, traumatized people, and the economic system took these same people and made them protectors of the People's Republic. And the documentary showed the prisoners and then the guards decades later. Obviously, this film was made much later. The emotional health and demeanor of the former prisoners was so much more solitary and composed and grounded, whereas these guards were just broken. You can tell by their facial expressions how tormented they were, even though it was the prisoners who suffered the torture and the guard who had perpetrated it, it's the latter who, in old age, were totally broken.<br /><br />Chris Hedges<br /><br />I want to ask about Christopher Browning's book, \"Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101,\" these were middle aged police. They were not members of the Nazi Party, recruited to carry out mass executions of Jews. They had the commander, I think the colonel of the unit actually said that those who did not want to carry out these mass executions would not be punished. A handful of people refused, most of them, of course, through heavy drinking. But were they traumatized? I mean, or were they just not morally sentient?<br /><br />Gabor Maté<br /><br />Well, why would somebody become morally insentient? I mean, we're born a certain way, you know? And human morality, if you look at the actual studies, develops not because people teach you morality, not because people indoctrinate you in good ways of being, but because they treat you well, because they see you, they understand you, they love you, they embrace you. They promote the development of moral faculties, which is a natural human process given the right conditions. So the lack of moral sentience is actually a sign of trauma. It means that these people were hurt very early, very early, so that they shut down, and that shut down from feeling that what we're really talking about here is an escape from vulnerability. Now, vulnerability from the Latin word \"vulnerare,\" to wound. So our vulnerability is our capacity to be wounded, which we have from moment of conception until we die. But the mind can handle in so much vulnerability, and only if there's protection, so that we escape not from true vulnerability, but from our capacity to feel and acknowledge our vulnerability. We escape from it when the initial conditions are so painful and so hurtful, so that flight from vulnerability that results in moral lack of sentience is itself a trauma response. And if you look at the mass murderers, you know the mass killers who are in jails, it doesn't matter who you look at, they were all severely traumatized as children, according to all the research. So that's what we're looking at here.<br /><br />Chris Hedges<br /><br />Well, when [Klaus] Theweleit writes his two volume set, \"Male Fantasies,\" he talks about the coldness, the severity, use of corporal punishment within traditional German society is, I think, to buttress your point, as essentially a kind of breeding ground for people who will who, through childhood trauma, will carry out atrocity.<br /><br />Gabor Maté<br /><br />Oh, and when you look at the actual lives of the Nazi leaders, they were all very traumatized children. From Himmler to Hitler to Goring, you know? And their hearts had completely shut down. It completely shut down. So lack of moral sense is itself a trauma response. I've experienced my heart being cold sometimes. I know what that feels like. I don't like it and it's a trauma response, and it takes some work and some awareness and some support to move out of it. I think most people, if they're honest with themselves there's a Holocaust survivor, Edith Eger. She's in her 90s now, a wonderful woman. She was probably on the same train that my grandparents were on, on the way to Auschwitz. Her family died there. My grandparents did. They lived in the same city in southern Slovakia. She survived, and she wrote a book called \"The Choice,\" and she says in that book that we all have a Nazi in us, so that capacity for closing down and being cold hearted that's certainly in me, probably in you, I don't know you personally. It's in all of us. The question is, what circumstances help us melt that heart? And what circumstances frees it even more.<br /><br />Chris Hedges<br /><br />Well, Primo Levi makes, I think, the same point.<br /><br />Gabor Maté<br /><br />Absolutely, and that's why Primo Levi is such a great writer on the Holocaust, is because he's not a moralizer. He just describes the way it was. And by the way, he was also supporter of Palestinian freedom. Primo Levi was, for which, again, he was never forgiven.<br /><br />Chris Hedges<br /><br />He writes about Chaim Rumkowski in the Łódź Ghetto, ran the ghetto the Jewish figure, and talked about how we all have Chaim Rumkowski within us. But of course, it's that knowledge when you externalize evil, the way many Zionists do towards Palestinians, you, in the name of cleansing evil, commit more evil. But it's when we recognize the evil within us that's the most important element to preventing ourselves from committing evil, because we know it's there. I want to talk a little bit about—this has been a very hard year for all of us who care about the human existence and the rule of law and the plight of the oppressed. What, just to close, would you tell people is the most important thing to sustain our own mental health, our own equilibrium, and yet, of course not be not be silenced.<br /><br />Gabor Maté<br /><br />Well, the first thing is find others. Don't be alone with it, because it's almost impossible to suffer and to witness all this without sharing it with people that understand you and can support you. So I think we need to be in community about this, whatever community you can find, number one. Number two, don't get consumed by it. Don't let it take over your life. Not in the sense of don't be active, but take care of yourself, because—for two reasons. One is, if you don't take care of yourself, whatever that means, and I can talk about that, but if you don't take care of yourself, you'll burn out. People talk about compassion fatigue. People talk about burnout. What that is, is not taking care of ourselves, so we burn out. And then you're no good to anybody. The second reason is, if you don't take care of your own mental health in this then the quality and impact of your activity is going to be impaired. So I've spoken many times on this issue over the years, certainly when I come from a place of rage or come from a place of bitterness, my speaking is not that effective. So you have to come from much of a place of groundedness and some understanding of even the people, especially of the people that are on the other side you know, which is understanding doesn't mean condoning or supporting or agreeing with or putting up with, but it does mean you get where they're coming from. If you want to speak to people and have any hope of getting through, you got to speak in a way that doesn't immediately threaten them. And I don't mean that in any way to censor your words or to suppress your truth, I'm talking about the tone and how you talk to them. So both for practical and for self care reasons, you got to take care of yourself. Thirdly, you and I are rather fortunate. They can't fire us.<br /><br />Chris Hedges<br /><br />They just demonetized me, that's all right.<br /><br />Gabor Maté<br /><br />But you know, if I was still a practical, if it was still a practical, not practical, practicing physician, which I'm not. I'm retired, I know they'd be coming after me. Because they do. But to the extent of your anybody's capacities and platform use it, don't stay inactive, because the inactivity itself is demoralizing. So join with others. Take care of your emotional health, whether that takes counseling, sometimes, if it takes yoga, meditation, walks in nature, physically taking care of your body, how you eat, journaling, listening to music, whatever inspires or feeds your soul. Do it and and then be as active as you can be within the limitations of your or the relative limitations or relative possibilities of your situation, and don't take it on personally. There was a rabbi who lived 100 years before Jesus. He said, he's talking about the world the task of what they call in Hebrew, Tikkun Olam, you know, healing the world. And he said, the task is not yours to finish, neither are you free not to take part in it, but it's not yours to finish. You know what? People have been trying to stop suffering and cruelty, promote healing, promote peace. I mean, you're a theologian, you know all these great avatars of spiritual truth. You know, I often talk about the spectacular failures in history. Take the Buddha. How is universal love going? You know, Jesus, how is forgiving your brothers and your enemies and turning the other cheek? How's that going? You know, Lao Tzu, or the Hebrew prophets and their cries for justice. How's it going? So you might say they're failures. Are they, or did they not contribute massively to a human project that is a long term project in our own little ways, we can each do the same thing. It's not us to finish, so we can't take it personally.<br /><br />Chris Hedges", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1714372916935659520", "published": "2024-12-13T18:25:54+00:00", "source": { "content": "Chris Hedges\n\nI want to draw a distinction between Himmler and Kissinger, because they didn't actually carry out the killing. In fact, though, the one time that Himmler had to witness the mass murder of Jews, [inaudible] I believe threw up, he was sick. And then the actual people who they direct. Of course, they're ultimately responsible, but I think there probably is a difference for people who actually carry out their orders, carry out their murders, there are consequences that they feel, although they are tools of these power systems, that those who direct them do not feel.\n\nGabor Maté\n\nWell, I think that's probably true, and when you look at who actually perpetrates the murders, they're usually the lowest, the least educated and the most unconscious people. If you look at Lieutenant [William] Calley, for example, who was the one person who was actually punished for My Lai, where hundreds of people were massacred, women, children, elderly. Who was he? And if you look at the people that perpetrated Abu Ghraib, usually looking at very low level, poorly educated, very traumatized people, and they're the ones who are thrust into these positions. And my guess is, not my guess, my very educated opinion on this one is that the people who perpetrated those things directly are actually themselves that were already traumatized even before they did these things. It's their disconnection and their fragmentation that even allowed them to behave that way in the first place. There was there was an interesting documentary in Hungary, under the communist regime, there was a concentration camp called Recsk, that's the name of the place where they took the enemies of the system to be tormented, sometimes killed, certainly mistreated, often tortured. And the guards that served the communist system had actually been the same ones that belonged to the Cross Arrows Nazi party during the war—low level, poor class, traumatized people, and the economic system took these same people and made them protectors of the People's Republic. And the documentary showed the prisoners and then the guards decades later. Obviously, this film was made much later. The emotional health and demeanor of the former prisoners was so much more solitary and composed and grounded, whereas these guards were just broken. You can tell by their facial expressions how tormented they were, even though it was the prisoners who suffered the torture and the guard who had perpetrated it, it's the latter who, in old age, were totally broken.\n\nChris Hedges\n\nI want to ask about Christopher Browning's book, \"Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101,\" these were middle aged police. They were not members of the Nazi Party, recruited to carry out mass executions of Jews. They had the commander, I think the colonel of the unit actually said that those who did not want to carry out these mass executions would not be punished. A handful of people refused, most of them, of course, through heavy drinking. But were they traumatized? I mean, or were they just not morally sentient?\n\nGabor Maté\n\nWell, why would somebody become morally insentient? I mean, we're born a certain way, you know? And human morality, if you look at the actual studies, develops not because people teach you morality, not because people indoctrinate you in good ways of being, but because they treat you well, because they see you, they understand you, they love you, they embrace you. They promote the development of moral faculties, which is a natural human process given the right conditions. So the lack of moral sentience is actually a sign of trauma. It means that these people were hurt very early, very early, so that they shut down, and that shut down from feeling that what we're really talking about here is an escape from vulnerability. Now, vulnerability from the Latin word \"vulnerare,\" to wound. So our vulnerability is our capacity to be wounded, which we have from moment of conception until we die. But the mind can handle in so much vulnerability, and only if there's protection, so that we escape not from true vulnerability, but from our capacity to feel and acknowledge our vulnerability. We escape from it when the initial conditions are so painful and so hurtful, so that flight from vulnerability that results in moral lack of sentience is itself a trauma response. And if you look at the mass murderers, you know the mass killers who are in jails, it doesn't matter who you look at, they were all severely traumatized as children, according to all the research. So that's what we're looking at here.\n\nChris Hedges\n\nWell, when [Klaus] Theweleit writes his two volume set, \"Male Fantasies,\" he talks about the coldness, the severity, use of corporal punishment within traditional German society is, I think, to buttress your point, as essentially a kind of breeding ground for people who will who, through childhood trauma, will carry out atrocity.\n\nGabor Maté\n\nOh, and when you look at the actual lives of the Nazi leaders, they were all very traumatized children. From Himmler to Hitler to Goring, you know? And their hearts had completely shut down. It completely shut down. So lack of moral sense is itself a trauma response. I've experienced my heart being cold sometimes. I know what that feels like. I don't like it and it's a trauma response, and it takes some work and some awareness and some support to move out of it. I think most people, if they're honest with themselves there's a Holocaust survivor, Edith Eger. She's in her 90s now, a wonderful woman. She was probably on the same train that my grandparents were on, on the way to Auschwitz. Her family died there. My grandparents did. They lived in the same city in southern Slovakia. She survived, and she wrote a book called \"The Choice,\" and she says in that book that we all have a Nazi in us, so that capacity for closing down and being cold hearted that's certainly in me, probably in you, I don't know you personally. It's in all of us. The question is, what circumstances help us melt that heart? And what circumstances frees it even more.\n\nChris Hedges\n\nWell, Primo Levi makes, I think, the same point.\n\nGabor Maté\n\nAbsolutely, and that's why Primo Levi is such a great writer on the Holocaust, is because he's not a moralizer. He just describes the way it was. And by the way, he was also supporter of Palestinian freedom. Primo Levi was, for which, again, he was never forgiven.\n\nChris Hedges\n\nHe writes about Chaim Rumkowski in the Łódź Ghetto, ran the ghetto the Jewish figure, and talked about how we all have Chaim Rumkowski within us. But of course, it's that knowledge when you externalize evil, the way many Zionists do towards Palestinians, you, in the name of cleansing evil, commit more evil. But it's when we recognize the evil within us that's the most important element to preventing ourselves from committing evil, because we know it's there. I want to talk a little bit about—this has been a very hard year for all of us who care about the human existence and the rule of law and the plight of the oppressed. What, just to close, would you tell people is the most important thing to sustain our own mental health, our own equilibrium, and yet, of course not be not be silenced.\n\nGabor Maté\n\nWell, the first thing is find others. Don't be alone with it, because it's almost impossible to suffer and to witness all this without sharing it with people that understand you and can support you. So I think we need to be in community about this, whatever community you can find, number one. Number two, don't get consumed by it. Don't let it take over your life. Not in the sense of don't be active, but take care of yourself, because—for two reasons. One is, if you don't take care of yourself, whatever that means, and I can talk about that, but if you don't take care of yourself, you'll burn out. People talk about compassion fatigue. People talk about burnout. What that is, is not taking care of ourselves, so we burn out. And then you're no good to anybody. The second reason is, if you don't take care of your own mental health in this then the quality and impact of your activity is going to be impaired. So I've spoken many times on this issue over the years, certainly when I come from a place of rage or come from a place of bitterness, my speaking is not that effective. So you have to come from much of a place of groundedness and some understanding of even the people, especially of the people that are on the other side you know, which is understanding doesn't mean condoning or supporting or agreeing with or putting up with, but it does mean you get where they're coming from. If you want to speak to people and have any hope of getting through, you got to speak in a way that doesn't immediately threaten them. And I don't mean that in any way to censor your words or to suppress your truth, I'm talking about the tone and how you talk to them. So both for practical and for self care reasons, you got to take care of yourself. Thirdly, you and I are rather fortunate. They can't fire us.\n\nChris Hedges\n\nThey just demonetized me, that's all right.\n\nGabor Maté\n\nBut you know, if I was still a practical, if it was still a practical, not practical, practicing physician, which I'm not. I'm retired, I know they'd be coming after me. Because they do. But to the extent of your anybody's capacities and platform use it, don't stay inactive, because the inactivity itself is demoralizing. So join with others. Take care of your emotional health, whether that takes counseling, sometimes, if it takes yoga, meditation, walks in nature, physically taking care of your body, how you eat, journaling, listening to music, whatever inspires or feeds your soul. Do it and and then be as active as you can be within the limitations of your or the relative limitations or relative possibilities of your situation, and don't take it on personally. There was a rabbi who lived 100 years before Jesus. He said, he's talking about the world the task of what they call in Hebrew, Tikkun Olam, you know, healing the world. And he said, the task is not yours to finish, neither are you free not to take part in it, but it's not yours to finish. You know what? People have been trying to stop suffering and cruelty, promote healing, promote peace. I mean, you're a theologian, you know all these great avatars of spiritual truth. You know, I often talk about the spectacular failures in history. Take the Buddha. How is universal love going? You know, Jesus, how is forgiving your brothers and your enemies and turning the other cheek? How's that going? You know, Lao Tzu, or the Hebrew prophets and their cries for justice. How's it going? So you might say they're failures. Are they, or did they not contribute massively to a human project that is a long term project in our own little ways, we can each do the same thing. It's not us to finish, so we can't take it personally.\n\nChris Hedges", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/entities/urn:activity:1714372916935659520/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/entities/urn:activity:1714368217508241408", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100", "content": "<a href=\"https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1714368217508241408\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1714368217508241408</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1714368217508241408", "published": "2024-12-13T18:07:14+00:00", "attachment": [ { "type": "Document", "url": "https://cdn.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1714368210028994560/xlarge/", "mediaType": "image/jpeg", "height": 999, "width": 993 } ], "source": { "content": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1714368217508241408", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/entities/urn:activity:1714368217508241408/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/entities/urn:activity:1714375437179686912", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100", "content": "<a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb0AsUXxoGc\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb0AsUXxoGc</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1714375437179686912", "published": "2024-12-13T18:35:55+00:00", "source": { "content": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb0AsUXxoGc", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/661031297950425100/entities/urn:activity:1714375437179686912/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1692157371884769293", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "content": "Europeans have more \"things\" than anybody else and the EU is working hard to reduce the massive amounts of e-waste produced in the region every year. Some places are being innovative. Like Berlin – which is paying residents to repair their broken things. Can this really make a difference?<br /><br /><a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=PlanetA\" title=\"#PlanetA\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#PlanetA</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=RightToRepairBill\" title=\"#RightToRepairBill\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#RightToRepairBill</a> <a href=\"https://www.minds.com/search?f=top&amp;t=all&amp;q=EWaste\" title=\"#EWaste\" class=\"u-url hashtag\" target=\"_blank\">#EWaste</a> <br /><br />We're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.<br /><br /><a href=\"https://youtu.be/3oJV66q3Pk8?si=hY6A-xnKPZf1L4fU\" target=\"_blank\">https://youtu.be/3oJV66q3Pk8?si=hY6A-xnKPZf1L4fU</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1692157371884769293", "published": "2024-10-13T11:09:15+00:00", "source": { "content": "Europeans have more \"things\" than anybody else and the EU is working hard to reduce the massive amounts of e-waste produced in the region every year. Some places are being innovative. Like Berlin – which is paying residents to repair their broken things. Can this really make a difference?\n\n#PlanetA #RightToRepairBill #EWaste \n\nWe're destroying our environment at an alarming rate. But it doesn't need to be this way. Planet A explores the shift towards an eco-friendly world — and challenges our ideas about what dealing with climate change means. We look at the big and the small: What we can do and how the system needs to change. Every Friday we'll take a truly global look at how to get us out of this mess.\n\nhttps://youtu.be/3oJV66q3Pk8?si=hY6A-xnKPZf1L4fU", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1692157371884769293/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1633962459784024071", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "content": "Waarom reclames verboden zouden moeten worden | VPRO Tegenlicht<br /><br />Overal reclame: we zijn het doodnormaal gaan vinden. Kunnen we ook zonder? Een voorhoede van activisten, burgemeesters en juristen strijdt steeds zichtbaarder tegen alomtegenwoordige reclame. <br /><br />In 2020 wordt wereldwijd bijna 600 miljard euro uitgegeven aan reclames. Stadsbewoners zien nu veel meer advertenties dan dertig jaar geleden. Maar in een ontwikkelde informatiesamenleving als de onze is iedereen toch zelf wel in staat om te bedenken wat men wil kopen? Hoe zou een toekomst zonder reclame eruit kunnen zien, en hoe zou die gefinancierd kunnen worden?<br /><br />In bushokjes, in kranten en op onze schermen woedt nu een verwoestende concurrentiestrijd tussen adverteerders die ons gedrag willen beïnvloeden. Jurist Ramsi Woodcock, die we spraken, zegt daarover: 'Billboards zijn de schoorstenen van de geest. Het wordt tijd dat we afrekenen met die geestvervuilende infrastructuur.'<br /><br /><a href=\"https://youtu.be/McsqJnRF_XQ?si=cyh2LmNiYDfOU-lQ\" target=\"_blank\">https://youtu.be/McsqJnRF_XQ?si=cyh2LmNiYDfOU-lQ</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1633962459784024071", "published": "2024-05-05T21:03:27+00:00", "source": { "content": "Waarom reclames verboden zouden moeten worden | VPRO Tegenlicht\n\nOveral reclame: we zijn het doodnormaal gaan vinden. Kunnen we ook zonder? Een voorhoede van activisten, burgemeesters en juristen strijdt steeds zichtbaarder tegen alomtegenwoordige reclame. \n\nIn 2020 wordt wereldwijd bijna 600 miljard euro uitgegeven aan reclames. Stadsbewoners zien nu veel meer advertenties dan dertig jaar geleden. Maar in een ontwikkelde informatiesamenleving als de onze is iedereen toch zelf wel in staat om te bedenken wat men wil kopen? Hoe zou een toekomst zonder reclame eruit kunnen zien, en hoe zou die gefinancierd kunnen worden?\n\nIn bushokjes, in kranten en op onze schermen woedt nu een verwoestende concurrentiestrijd tussen adverteerders die ons gedrag willen beïnvloeden. Jurist Ramsi Woodcock, die we spraken, zegt daarover: 'Billboards zijn de schoorstenen van de geest. Het wordt tijd dat we afrekenen met die geestvervuilende infrastructuur.'\n\nhttps://youtu.be/McsqJnRF_XQ?si=cyh2LmNiYDfOU-lQ", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1633962459784024071/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/100000000000000341/entities/urn:activity:1526671236992602115", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/100000000000000341", "content": "Anyone home?", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/100000000000000341/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1526671236992602115", "published": "2023-07-14T19:26:26+00:00", "source": { "content": "Anyone home?", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/100000000000000341/entities/urn:activity:1526671236992602115/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1596758808590290954", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "content": "'Floating' from the cd 'Dots' <br /><br />Jaap Berends - Guitar<br />Tessa Zoutendijk - Violin<br />Dion Nijland - Bass<br />Yonga Sun - Drums<br />Clemens Horn - Harmonium<br /><br />CD release sunday 4th of february 2024 in Kreek, Weverstraat 24, Oosterbeek, the Netherlands.<br /><br />Free concert<br /><br />Come and float to Kreek :)<br /><br /><a href=\"https://youtu.be/S6oM_FcEi7w?si=I2UKF-rHfiijbHiN\" target=\"_blank\">https://youtu.be/S6oM_FcEi7w?si=I2UKF-rHfiijbHiN</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1596758808590290954", "published": "2024-01-24T05:09:25+00:00", "source": { "content": "'Floating' from the cd 'Dots' \n\nJaap Berends - Guitar\nTessa Zoutendijk - Violin\nDion Nijland - Bass\nYonga Sun - Drums\nClemens Horn - Harmonium\n\nCD release sunday 4th of february 2024 in Kreek, Weverstraat 24, Oosterbeek, the Netherlands.\n\nFree concert\n\nCome and float to Kreek :)\n\nhttps://youtu.be/S6oM_FcEi7w?si=I2UKF-rHfiijbHiN", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1596758808590290954/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1596754773577568260", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "content": "?<br />Where?<br />Do we go from here?<br /><br /><a href=\"https://youtu.be/w2vZug-LnbE?si=kPU5bx-MXWe_BbSo\" target=\"_blank\">https://youtu.be/w2vZug-LnbE?si=kPU5bx-MXWe_BbSo</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1596754773577568260", "published": "2024-01-24T04:53:23+00:00", "source": { "content": "?\nWhere?\nDo we go from here?\n\nhttps://youtu.be/w2vZug-LnbE?si=kPU5bx-MXWe_BbSo", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1596754773577568260/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1528752924493090820", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "content": "A new investigation reveals the extent of the CIA's involvement in the war in Ukraine, where the agency operates clandestinely in what, under a formal declaration of war, would be the domain of the military. We're joined on the show by the author of the investigation, William Arkin, a national security reporter and senior editor at Newsweek, who says that the CIA has \"got its hand in a little bit of everything\" in Ukraine. According to various sources, the CIA is shuttling weapons into Ukraine using a \"gray fleet\" of commercial aircraft that crisscrosses Central and Eastern Europe, sending personnel into Ukraine on secret missions and assisting Ukrainians with new weapons and systems, all while using Poland as its clandestine hub to coordinate its operations inside the country. At the same time, the U.S.'s nonaligned status appears to place a limit on its intelligence, keeping it in the dark on both Zelensky and Putin's next moves.<br /><br /><br /><a href=\"https://youtu.be/vhLLupsfGEU\" target=\"_blank\">https://youtu.be/vhLLupsfGEU</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1528752924493090820", "published": "2023-07-20T13:18:19+00:00", "source": { "content": "A new investigation reveals the extent of the CIA's involvement in the war in Ukraine, where the agency operates clandestinely in what, under a formal declaration of war, would be the domain of the military. We're joined on the show by the author of the investigation, William Arkin, a national security reporter and senior editor at Newsweek, who says that the CIA has \"got its hand in a little bit of everything\" in Ukraine. According to various sources, the CIA is shuttling weapons into Ukraine using a \"gray fleet\" of commercial aircraft that crisscrosses Central and Eastern Europe, sending personnel into Ukraine on secret missions and assisting Ukrainians with new weapons and systems, all while using Poland as its clandestine hub to coordinate its operations inside the country. At the same time, the U.S.'s nonaligned status appears to place a limit on its intelligence, keeping it in the dark on both Zelensky and Putin's next moves.\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/vhLLupsfGEU", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1528752924493090820/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1523427523667431436", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "content": "Live music: Songs of Nature, Martris & John<br /><br />Songs of Nature, hartverwarmende, eclectische wereldmuziek van zangeres Martris en gitarist John Verstegen, een verzameling van op de natuur geïnspireerde liedjes. Met Martris en John reis je door het wereldlandschap van melodieën, talen en culturen. Geïnspireerd door wat ons mensen verbindt, zal je in de opzwepende muziek van Martris en John de ritmes en melodieën herkennen van de Balkan, Zuid-Amerika, Ierland, en Afrika maar ook invloeden van pop, jazz en Bossanova.<br /><br />Zaterdag 8 juli 2023, aanvang 20:00<br />Kreek <br />Weverstraat 24<br />6862DP Oosterbeek<br /><br />Kosten: Waardebepaling achteraf voor de muzikanten.", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1523427523667431436", "published": "2023-07-05T20:37:04+00:00", "attachment": [ { "type": "Document", "url": "https://www.minds.com/fs/v1/thumbnail/1523427504147140626/xlarge/?jwtsig=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJleHAiOjE3NDYwNTc2MDAsInVyaSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm1pbmRzLmNvbS9mcy92MS90aHVtYm5haWwvMTUyMzQyNzUwNDE0NzE0MDYyNi94bGFyZ2UvIiwidXNlcl9ndWlkIjpudWxsfQ._KAyw8Rfji8D7yr8zTIH7tqebBD8gJBICDZYg4hIEqI", "mediaType": "image/jpeg", "height": 2000, "width": 1415 } ], "source": { "content": "Live music: Songs of Nature, Martris & John\n\nSongs of Nature, hartverwarmende, eclectische wereldmuziek van zangeres Martris en gitarist John Verstegen, een verzameling van op de natuur geïnspireerde liedjes. Met Martris en John reis je door het wereldlandschap van melodieën, talen en culturen. Geïnspireerd door wat ons mensen verbindt, zal je in de opzwepende muziek van Martris en John de ritmes en melodieën herkennen van de Balkan, Zuid-Amerika, Ierland, en Afrika maar ook invloeden van pop, jazz en Bossanova.\n\nZaterdag 8 juli 2023, aanvang 20:00\nKreek \nWeverstraat 24\n6862DP Oosterbeek\n\nKosten: Waardebepaling achteraf voor de muzikanten.", "mediaType": "text/plain" } }, "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136/entities/urn:activity:1523427523667431436/like" }, { "type": "Like", "actor": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/458062196417499136", "object": { "type": "Note", "id": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/692418791463723026/entities/urn:activity:1517935777143590914", "attributedTo": "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/692418791463723026", "content": "Died suddenly - 34 year old Ontario father died suddenly and a rare Canadian autopsy showed myocarditis with complete destruction of the heart. His wife confirms COVID-19 vaccines were to blame!<br /><br />DR. WILLIAM MAKIS MD<br />JUN 20, 2023<br /><br /><a href=\"https://makismd.substack.com/p/died-suddenly-34-year-old-ontario\" target=\"_blank\">https://makismd.substack.com/p/died-suddenly-34-year-old-ontario</a>", "to": [ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public" ], "cc": [ "https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/692418791463723026/followers" ], "tag": [], "url": "https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1517935777143590914", "published": "2023-06-20T16:54:50+00:00", "source": { "content": "Died suddenly - 34 year old Ontario father died suddenly and a rare Canadian autopsy showed myocarditis with complete destruction of the heart. His wife confirms COVID-19 vaccines were to blame!\n\nDR. 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