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'tiny feet in the planet garden,' wool and embroidery thread on monks cloth, 2023.
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The largest integrated green hydrogen production and refuelling complex in China is able to supply hydrogen at 35 yuan per kilo ($4.86/kg), near cost parity with diesel, according to reporting by the Chinese newspaper Hunan Daily.[...]
By way of comparison, hydrogen fuel is being sold at the pump elsewhere in China for 75 yuan per kilo — which is still cheaper than in other countries. The largest H2 fuel market in the US, California, is currently seeing pump prices of $36/kg — more than seven times higher than the Changsha facility — while in Germany, Europe's largest market, current per-kg prices are between €12.85 and €15.75 ($14-16.60).
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Little shows a lack of systematic thinking more than treating results of national elections as simply results of purely voluntary action
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Begging everyone to stop asking this rhetorical question and, instead, demand our elected officials do something about it
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Freedom and liberal democracy for ya innit [11 Mar 24]
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🇮🇹🇵🇸 🚨
PRO-PALESTINE PROTEST IN MILAN CONDEMNING ISRAEL'S ONGOING GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP
📹 Pro-Palestine protesters gather on a public square in Milan, Italy, condemning Israel's ongoing war of genocide in the Gaza Strip and standing in Solidarity with the Palestinian people.
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@WorkerSolidarityNews
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i just cant get over how ridiculous it feels to read all this shit from distraught liberals about trump and the police state when the democrat governor of my state is sending the fucking national guard into the subways as i type this and talking about banning people with felonies from riding the subway. this isnt an alternative to trump its a fucking prelude
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people are being institutionalized for taking covid seriously, while simultaneously cases have never been this high this far out from the holidays and more and more evidence comes out all the time that repeated covid infections cause long term damage and long covid, which can easily destroy your life, is common and becomes more common with each infection.
I am so scared of having to go to the hospital as someone with complex health problems.
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Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Pro Palestine protest is taking place in Los Angeles on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, as the Oscars 2024 kicks off
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eveeyones got it wrong your mid 20s arent for going to the club or partying or picking up new crafts. your 20s are for discovering how much more autistic you are than you thought you were in high school
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“You simply cannot fit more America into a single incident than a man dying a horrifying death in protest of war crimes while a first responder screams at cops to stop pointing their guns at him and go get fire extinguishers. If you were to pick a single moment in history to sum up the essence and expression of the US empire, that would be it.”
Caitlin Johnstone, The Most American Thing That Has Ever Happened
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poem, “there’s laundry to do and a genocide to stop,” by vinay krishnan (x). transcription in alt text
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Corrected McDonald's bus stop ad in London
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And of course the US is sponsoring genocide in Palestine and proxy war in Ukraine. American "foreign policy" is just throwing around billions to preserve fascism.
US CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY & GLOBAL TERRORISM
US Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction The indiscriminate use of bombs by the US, usually outside a declared war situation, for wanton destruction, for no military objectives, whose targets and victims are civilian populations, or what we now call “collateral damage.”
Japan (1945) 
China (1945-46) 
Korea & China (1950-53) 
Guatemala (1954, 1960, 1967-69) 
Indonesia (1958) 
Cuba (1959-61) 
Congo (1964) 
Peru (1965) 
Laos (1964-70) 
Vietnam (1961-1973) 
Cambodia (1969-70) 
Grenada (1983) 
Lebanon (1983-84) 
Libya (1986) 
El Salvador (1980s) 
Nicaragua (1980s) 
Iran (1987) 
Panama (1989) 
Iraq (1991-2000) 
Kuwait (1991) 
Somalia (1993) 
Bosnia (1994-95) 
Sudan (1998) 
Afghanistan (1998) 
Pakistan (1998) 
Yugoslavia (1999) 
Bulgaria (1999) 
Macedonia (1999)
US Use of Chemical & Biological Weapons The US has refused to sign Conventions against the development and use of chemical and biological weapons, and has either used or tested (without informing the civilian populations) these weapons in the following locations abroad:
Bahamas (late 1940s-mid-1950s) 
Canada (1953) 
China and Korea (1950-53) 
Korea (1967-69) 
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia (1961-1970) 
Panama (1940s-1990s) 
Cuba (1962, 69, 70, 71, 81, 96)
And the US has tested such weapons on US civilian populations, without their knowledge, in the following locations:
Watertown, NY and US Virgin Islands (1950) 
SF Bay Area (1950, 1957-67) 
Minneapolis (1953) 
St. Louis (1953) 
Washington, DC Area (1953, 1967) 
Florida (1955) 
Savannah GA/Avon Park, FL (1956-58) 
New York City (1956, 1966) 
Chicago (1960)
And the US has encouraged the use of such weapons, and provided the technology to develop such weapons in various nations abroad, including:
Egypt 
South Africa 
Iraq
US Political and Military Interventions since 1945 The US has launched a series of military and political interventions since 1945, often to install puppet regimes, or alternatively to engage in political actions such as smear campaigns, sponsoring or targeting opposition political groups (depending on how they served US interests), undermining political parties, sabotage and terror campaigns, and so forth. It has done so in nations such as
China (1945-51) 
South Africa (1960s-1980s)
France (1947) 
Bolivia (1964-75)
Marshall Islands (1946-58) 
Australia (1972-75)
Italy (1947-1975) 
Iraq (1972-75)
Greece (1947-49) 
Portugal (1974-76)
Philippines (1945-53) 
East Timor (1975-99)
Korea (1945-53) 
Ecuador (1975)
Albania (1949-53) 
Argentina (1976)
Eastern Europe (1948-56) 
Pakistan (1977)
Germany (1950s) 
Angola (1975-1980s)
Iran (1953) 
Jamaica (1976)
Guatemala (1953-1990s) 
Honduras (1980s)
Costa Rica (mid-1950s, 1970-71) 
Nicaragua (1980s)
Middle East (1956-58) 
Philippines (1970s-90s)
Indonesia (1957-58) 
Seychelles (1979-81)
Haiti (1959) 
South Yemen (1979-84)
Western Europe (1950s-1960s) 
South Korea (1980)
Guyana (1953-64) 
Chad (1981-82)
Iraq (1958-63) 
Grenada (1979-83)
Vietnam (1945-53) 
Suriname (1982-84)
Cambodia (1955-73) 
Libya (1981-89)
Laos (1957-73) 
Fiji (1987)
Thailand (1965-73) 
Panama (1989)
Ecuador (1960-63) 
Afghanistan (1979-92)
Congo (1960-65, 1977-78) 
El Salvador (1980-92)
Algeria (1960s) 
Haiti (1987-94)
Brazil (1961-64) 
Bulgaria (1990-91)
Peru (1965) 
Albania (1991-92)
Dominican Republic (1963-65) 
Somalia (1993)
Cuba (1959-present) 
Iraq (1990s)
Indonesia (1965) 
Peru (1990-present)
Ghana (1966) 
Mexico (1990-present)
Uruguay (1969-72) 
Colombia (1990-present)
Chile (1964-73) 
Yugoslavia (1995-99)
Greece (1967-74)
US Perversions of Foreign Elections The US has specifically intervened to rig or distort the outcome of foreign elections, and sometimes engineered sham “demonstration” elections to ward off accusations of government repression in allied nations in the US sphere of influence. These sham elections have often installed or maintained in power repressive dictators who have victimized their populations. Such practices have occurred in nations such as:
Philippines (1950s) 
Italy (1948-1970s) 
Lebanon (1950s) 
Indonesia (1955) 
Vietnam (1955) 
Guyana (1953-64) 
Japan (1958-1970s) 
Nepal (1959) 
Laos (1960) 
Brazil (1962) 
Dominican Republic (1962) 
Guatemala (1963) 
Bolivia (1966) 
Chile (1964-70) 
Portugal (1974-75) 
Australia (1974-75) 
Jamaica (1976) 
El Salvador (1984) 
Panama (1984, 89) 
Nicaragua (1984, 90) 
Haiti (1987, 88) 
Bulgaria (1990-91) 
Albania (1991-92) 
Russia (1996) 
Mongolia (1996) 
Bosnia (1998)
US Versus World at the United Nations The US has repeatedly acted to undermine peace and human rights initiatives at the United Nations, routinely voting against hundreds of UN resolutions and treaties. The US easily has the worst record of any nation on not supporting UN treaties. In almost all of its hundreds of “no” votes, the US was the “sole” nation to vote no (among the 100-130 nations that usually vote), and among only 1 or 2 other nations voting no the rest of the time. Here’s a representative sample of US votes from 1978-1987:
US Is the Sole “No” Vote on Resolutions or Treaties
For aid to underdeveloped nations 
For the promotion of developing nation exports 
For UN promotion of human rights
For protecting developing nations in trade agreements
For New International Economic Order for underdeveloped nations
For development as a human right
Versus multinational corporate operations in South Africa
For cooperative models in developing nations
For right of nations to economic system of their choice
Versus chemical and biological weapons (at least 3 times)
Versus Namibian apartheid
For economic/standard of living rights as human rights
Versus apartheid South African aggression vs. neighboring states (2 times)
Versus foreign investments in apartheid South Africa
For world charter to protect ecology
For anti-apartheid convention
For anti-apartheid convention in international sports
For nuclear test ban treaty (at least 2 times)
For prevention of arms race in outer space
For UNESCO-sponsored new world information order (at least 2 times)
For international law to protect economic rights
For Transport & Communications Decade in Africa
Versus manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction 
Versus naval arms race 
For Independent Commission on Disarmament & Security Issues 
For UN response mechanism for natural disasters 
For the Right to Food 
For Report of Committee on Elimination of Racial Discrimination 
For UN study on military development 
For Commemoration of 25th anniversary of Independence for Colonial Countries 
For Industrial Development Decade in Africa 
For interdependence of economic and political rights 
For improved UN response to human rights abuses 
For protection of rights of migrant workers 
For protection against products harmful to health and the environment 
For a Convention on the Rights of the Child 
For training journalists in the developing world 
For international cooperation on third world debt 
For a UN Conference on Trade & Development
US Is 1 of Only 2 “No” Votes on Resolutions or Treaties 
For Palestinian living conditions/rights (at least 8 times) 
Versus foreign intervention into other nations 
For a UN Conference on Women 
Versus nuclear test explosions (at least 2 times) 
For the non-use of nuclear weapons vs. non-nuclear states 
For a Middle East nuclear free zone 
Versus Israeli nuclear weapons (at least 2 times) 
For a new world international economic order 
For a trade union conference on sanctions vs. South Africa 
For the Law of the Sea Treaty 
For economic assistance to Palestinians 
For UN measures against fascist activities and groups 
For international cooperation on money/finance/debt/trade/development 
For a Zone of Peace in the South Atlantic 
For compliance with Intl Court of Justice decision for Nicaragua vs. US. 
**For a conference and measures to prevent international terrorism (including its underlying causes) 
For ending the trade embargo vs. Nicaragua
US Is 1 of Only 3 “No” Votes on Resolutions and Treaties 
Versus Israeli human rights abuses (at least 6 times) 
Versus South African apartheid (at least 4 times) 
Versus return of refugees to Israel 
For ending nuclear arms race (at least 2 times) 
For an embargo on apartheid South Africa 
For South African liberation from apartheid (at least 3 times) 
For the independence of colonial nations 
For the UN Decade for Women 
Versus harmful foreign economic practices in colonial territories 
For a Middle East Peace Conference 
For ending the embargo of Cuba (at least 10 times)
In addition, the US has: 
Repeatedly withheld its dues from the UN 
Twice left UNESCO because of its human rights initiatives 
Twice left the International Labor Organization for its workers rights initiatives 
Refused to renew the Antiballistic Missile Treaty 
Refused to sign the Kyoto Treaty on global warming 
Refused to back the World Health Organization’s ban on infant formula abuses 
Refused to sign the Anti-Biological Weapons Convention 
Refused to sign the Convention against the use of land mines 
Refused to participate in the UN Conference Against Racism in Durban 
Been one of the last nations in the world to sign the UN Covenant on 
Political & Civil Rights (30 years after its creation) 
Refused to sign the UN Covenant on Economic & Social Rights 
Opposed the emerging new UN Covenant on the Rights to Peace, Development & Environmental Protection
Sampling of Deaths >From US Military Interventions & Propping Up Corrupt Dictators (using the most conservative estimates)
Nicaragua – 30,000 dead
Brazil  – 100,000 dead
Korea – 4 million dead
Guatemala – 200,000 dead
Honduras – 20,000 dead
El Salvador – 63,000 dead
Argentina – 40,000 dead
Bolivia – 10,000 dead
Uruguay – 10,000 dead
Ecuador – 10,000 dead
Peru – 10,000 dead
Iraq – 1.3 million dead
Iran – 30,000 dead
Sudan – 8-10,000 dead
Colombia – 50,000 dead
Panama – 5,000 dead
Japan – 140,000 dead
Afghanistan – 10,000 dead
Somalia – 5000 dead
Philippines – 150,000 dead
Haiti – 100,000 dead
Dominican Republic – 10,000 dead
Libya – 500 dead
Macedonia – 1000 dead
South Africa – 10,000 dead
Pakistan – 10,000 dead
Palestine – 40,000 dead
Indonesia – 1 million dead
East Timor – 1/3-½ of total population
Greece – 10,000 dead
Laos – 600,000 dead
Cambodia – 1 million dead
Angola – 300,000 dead
Grenada – 500 dead
Congo  – 2 million dead
Egypt – 10,000 dead
Vietnam – 1.5 million dead
Chile – 50,000 dead
Other Lethal US Interventions CIA Terror Training Manuals Development and distribution of training manuals for foreign military personnel or foreign nationals, including instructions on assassination, subversion, sabotage, population control, torture, repression, psychological torture, death squads, etc.
Specific Torture Campaigns Creation and launching of direct US campaigns to support torture as an instrument of terror and social control for governments in Greece, Iran, Vietnam, Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Panama
Supporting and Harboring Terrorists The promotion, protection, arming or equipping of terrorists such as:
Klaus Barbie and other German Nazis, and Italian and Japanese fascists, after WW II
Manual Noriega (Panama), Saddam Hussein (Iraq), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic), Osama bin Laden (Afghanistan), and others whose terrorism has come back to haunt us
Running the Higher War College (Brazil) and first School of the Americas (Panama), which gave US training to repressors, death squad members, and torturers (the second School of the Americas is still running at Ft. Benning GA)
Providing asylum for Cuban, Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Haitian, Chilean, Argentinian, Iranian, South Vietnamese and other terrorists, dictators, and torturers
Assassinating World Leaders Using assassination as a tool of foreign policy, wherein the CIA has initiated assassination attempts against at least 40 foreign heads of state (some several times) in the last 50 years, a number of which have been successful, such as: Patrice Lumumba (Congo), Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic), Ngo Dihn Diem (Vietnam) Salvador Allende (Chile)
Arms Trade & US Military Presence
The US is the world’s largest seller of weapons abroad, arming dictators, militaries, and terrorists that repress or victimize their populations, and fueling scores of violent conflicts around the globe
The US is the world’s largest provider of live land mines which, even in peacetime, kill or injure at least several people around the world each day
The US has military bases in at least 50 nations around the world, which have led to frequent victimization of local populations.
The US military has been bombing one Middle Eastern or Muslim nation or another almost continuously since 1983, including Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Iran, the Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq (almost daily bombings since 1991)
This, then, is a sampling of American foreign policies over the last 50 years. The FBI uses the following definition for Terrorism: “The unlawful use of force or violence committed by a group or individual, who has some connection to a foreign power or whose activities transcend national boundaries, against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives.” This sounds like the terrorism we just experienced. It also sounds a lot like the US policies and actions since 1945 that I’ve just described.
This is a version of an an original page atributed to Robert Elias, a US Professor of Political Science , a list which, like so many others,  has otherwise ‘disappered’
via https://web.archive.org/web/20161125052245/http://www.the-philosopher.co.uk/whocares/popups/warcrimes.htm
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