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La phrase sérieuse la plus drôle du jour répétée par de nombreux journalistes et :
« Trump se donne 2 semaines pour réfléchir »
#Histoire d'un jour - 20 juin 1789 : Le serment qui fit la Nation https://www.election-politique.com/election.php?ref=1466
The coming of the US revolution 2.0
Georges Lefebvre wrote in “The Coming of the French Revolution” that several factors enabled the revolution. I'm paraphrasing from memory, but as I recall they were due to the following:
- The middle class bourgeoisie (the mercantile and trades people) had gained some level of wealth and comfort over several prior decades then started a 30 year decline in wealth and opportunity
- The government raised taxes on the middle class and the poor to pay for wars and for general largess for the royalty (the royal class paid no taxes)
- Rampant corruption in the government and the church
- Poverty was rising and basic food costs increasing while there were shortages of basic staples
- The middle class bourgeoisie were fed up and looking for some relief
I see these same issues in the US today. Last week’s No Kings protests, with a large percentage of middle class participants from all age groups, demonstrate that the 98% of us are fed up.
My goodness, I agree with most of what Kettle has written.
How many successful ‘interventions’ have occurred through military action in the Middle East? Israel have been backing Hamas for years as a ‘disruptor’ and look where is has got the (unless the excuse for territorial expansion and an excuse of ethnic cleansing ease always their end goal 
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Safeway, Albertsons workers vote to strike in Colorado Springs
According to the union, employees say the strike is in part due to stalled negotiations, staffing shortages, and wage freezes.
https://krdo.com/news/2025/06/17/safeway-albertsons-workers-vote-to-strike-in-colorado-springs/
If you don't know what the International Currency Union (ICU) proposes and you want to understand, please read The Global Minotaur by Yanis Varoufakis.
If you want me to give you a summary, reply privately and I will find a way to get you the information in a format that makes sense for your time constraints.
NO KINGS
Wear it to stand for equality, freedom, and the end of tyranny, old or new.
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I wish people got as enthusiastic about class politics as they do about sports. We'd have a revolution tomorrow.
"The calamitous turning point of Israel's political culture occurred when the Zionist movement was taken over by the Russian political sect, particularly those from the Second Aliya (the 1904-1914 wave of Jewish immigration to #Palestine). Russian culture possesses noble aspects and achieved intellectual and cultural summits. But at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th, Russia underwent dramatic political upheavals that engendered a brutal political culture that scorned tolerance and enlightenment."
by Ofri Ilany: https://archive.ph/DhflH#selection-873.0-873.527 via @oatmeal @israel @histodons 
![immigration to Israel [-Palestine]
Annual totals since 1948 show a peak at 240,000 persons entering in 1949 and show a peak at 200,000 persons entering in 1990.
(People emigrating are not envisaged.)](https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/114/686/863/888/748/205/original/a5f812a45bad6e0e.png "immigration to Israel [-Palestine]
Annual totals since 1948 show a peak at 240,000 persons entering in 1949 and show a peak at 200,000 persons entering in 1990.
(People emigrating are not envisaged.)")
"The calamitous turning point of Israel's political culture occurred when the Zionist movement was taken over by the Russian political sect, particularly those from the Second Aliya (the 1904-1914 wave of Jewish immigration to #Palestine). Russian culture possesses noble aspects and achieved intellectual and cultural summits. But at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th, Russia underwent dramatic political upheavals that engendered a brutal political culture that scorned tolerance and enlightenment."
by Ofri Ilany: https://archive.ph/DhflH#selection-873.0-873.527 via @oatmeal @israel @histodons
"The calamitous turning point of Israel's political culture occurred when the Zionist movement was taken over by the Russian political sect, particularly those from the Second Aliya (the 1904-1914 wave of Jewish immigration to #Palestine). Russian culture possesses noble aspects and achieved intellectual and cultural summits. But at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th, Russia underwent dramatic political upheavals that engendered a brutal political culture that scorned tolerance and enlightenment."
by Ofri Ilany: https://archive.ph/DhflH#selection-873.0-873.527 via @oatmeal @israel @histodons
