More than 35,000 Orthodox Jews gathered for a major Torah event where Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch addressed Israel's military forced conscription and declared that serving in the Zionist army is against the Torah.
This video is not from today, but its message remains just as relevant today as when it was recorded.
The State of Israel continues to present itself as speaking on behalf of all Jews, while ignoring the Jewish communities and rabbis who openly reject Zionism and oppose the existence of the Israeli state.
Israel is not a Jewish state.
Zionism is not Judaism.
Source @authenttorahjew @TorahJudais
@angertab@s_m_marandi Oooohhhh.... Such angry words. Must be really painful to have experienced the rupture of a second arse hole in from of the world, eh? Go on, tell your daddy to attack again. The cope will have to increase exponentially and will be even more fun to watch.
AMD quietly removed RAM encryption from consumer Ryzen CPUs.
No announcement.
No release notes.
No explanation.
A privacy-focused Linux hobbyist noticed.
Spent months chasing it down.
Filed a bug report.
AMD engineers told him to toggle the setting off and back on.
He showed them firmware dumps proving it was hardcoded to FALSE.
A senior AMD engineer closed the thread with “I don’t have any more information to share.”
The community got loud.
AMD announced it’s coming back in July.
The official reason for removing it in the first place.
Still has not been given.
The feature that “didn’t exist” four weeks ago.
Is now confirmed returning next month.
AMD called it “listening to community feedback.”
The community called it “we caught you.”
Complaining works.
The BIOS lied to you for months.
Nobody has been held accountable.
But the feature is coming back.
So that’s something.
A second billboard. The same message.
In upstate NY, one of America’s fastest-growing Hasidic communities, the message remains clear:
“help fight antisemitism,
📢tell the world:
israel does not represent the jews.
zionism is not judaism.”
The louder Israel claims that they speaks for all Jews, the more important it becomes to say otherwise.
#notinourname
#zionismisnotjudaism
Source @authenttorahjew@TorahJudaism
Let’s assume the U.S. government is furious that an international treaty it heavily promoted has fallen apart.
Instead of explaining why the deal served American and allied interests, its response is simply: “This is all about hating Christians!”
That would be absurd, dishonest, and unfair to Jews everywhere.
Serious political arguments should be grounded in national interests, not in weaponizing an entire religion that spans dozens of nationalities.
Dragging millions of Jews into the fight as a rhetorical shield, when better arguments have failed, is a cheap tactic no other country would be permitted to use but Israel.
We’re not even touching the deeper inconsistency of a democratic country cannot call itself “Jewish” or “Christian” without nationalizing a faith
We’re talking about the deliberate exploitation of Jewish identity when Israel is cornered.
The Israeli government and Zionist advocates actively promote the antisemitic dual-loyalty trope, while painting American Jews as a monolith whose loyalty belongs to Israel.
We cannot let them appropriate the identity of American Jews for political cover.
We are Americans first and last. Our allegiance is to the United States of America alone.
You’re allowed to hate the Iran deal. That’s legitimate debate.
But screaming “antisemitism” and “Jew hatred” the moment policy goes against you is one of the most reflexive and cynical moves in the Zionist playbook.
Source @authenttorahjew@TorahJudaism
I received several reactions to the discussion I hosted about how nuclear weapons may be used against Europe to restore deterrence. To be clear, this is not a normative argument about what I think should happen or what I think is just. My argument is what I think will happen. European leaders have become so deeply involved in the attacks on Russia that the Kremlin is under great pressure to restore its deterrence.
Once Russia retaliates with conventional weapons against European targets (weapons facilities, logistics centres), the Europeans will more forcefully attack Russia. At this point, I believe that it is more likely than not that Russia could launch a limited nuclear strike (with tactical nuclear weapons, not strategic). This should not be a controversial prediction. NATO countries are doing the war planning; their intelligence agencies are doing the targeting; their contractors are pulling the trigger; they are supplying the long-range weapons; and they are also using NATO territory to strike Russia. This will only escalate as the Europeans are talking about mass-producing long-range weapons for "Ukraine" to strike deeper and deeper inside Russia, and are setting dates for when Europe will directly attack.
Our political leaders are obsessed with defeating the world's largest nuclear power, which considers itself to be fighting in a war for its existence. It should worry us that our political leaders did not define what a NATO victory looks like in this scenario, and we should also be worried that our political leaders have incrementally become so directly involved in attacks on Russia and still pretend it is merely a war between Russia and Ukraine. Our political leaders sabotaged both the Minsk peace agreement and the Istanbul agreement, and then shut down all diplomacy for more than 4 years while declaring that "weapons are the path to peace". It is obligatory in Europe to pretend this is about "helping Ukraine", but this is dangerous self-delusion.
Where exactly did we think this was heading? Is nuclear war not the obvious end? Can anyone imagine it ending in any different ways if we had done this during the Cold War or if Russia were now similarly attacking the US through a proxy? Biden once said that sending F-16s meant World War 3, yet now it has become controversial to point out that NATO clearly crossing the line between proxy war and direct war will trigger a nuclear war. I see no morality in such self-delusion. NATO escalations are now out of control, we are heading to war, and that war will not be limited to conventional weapons. The fact that this is dismissed as a "pro-Russian" argument demonstrates how completely lost we have become in mindless war propaganda.
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In Russia - a brilliantly shot mini-film by German director Vincent Urban about the most beautiful country. Of course, this is a film about Russia, which is called "In Russia". In it, he showed not only the natural beauties, but also the types of different people. There are hooligans, shepherds, and soldiers.
The film really turned out to be very large-scale, although it only lasts 6.5 minutes. It's breathtaking. The atmosphere of our country is so brilliantly conveyed. In 6.5 minutes, absolutely different people with different needs and desires, living in different natural and climatic zones, are shown. And all of this is our huge, beautiful country, Russia 俄罗斯 🇷🇺
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The Soviet Union (USSR), which was a communist state under Marxist-Leninist ideology, dissolved on December 26, 1991. The Russian Federation that emerged is a separate country with a different system.
Key Facts About Modern Russia
- Constitution and Government: Russia's 1993 Constitution establishes it as a democratic federal republic with a multi-party system, separation of powers (though in practice it's highly centralized under the president), and recognition of ideological diversity. No single ideology, including communism, is declared as state ideology. It describes Russia as a "social state" but operates within a market economy framework.
- Economy: Russia has a mixed capitalist economy with private ownership, markets, oligarchs, and significant state involvement in key sectors (e.g., energy). It is not based on collective ownership of the means of production or central planning as in Soviet communism.
- Politics: Vladimir Putin and the dominant United Russia party lead an authoritarian system. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF/KPRF) exists as the second-largest party and adheres to Marxist-Leninist ideas in theory. However, it typically gets 10-20% of the vote, functions as a systemic opposition (often patriotic and socially conservative), and does not control the government.
- Russia is not listed among the remaining countries with communist governments (e.g., China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, North Korea).
Putin has nostalgia for certain Soviet aspects (like strong state power), but he has criticized Lenin, pursued nationalist policies, and built a system based on personalist authoritarianism, state capitalism, and Orthodox Christian cultural elements rather than communist ideology.
In short, while Soviet-era symbols and nostalgia persist for some, Russia's current system is fundamentally post-communist.
🚨 🇮🇱 THIS IS MASSIVE
An ISRAELI CYBER FIRM just got exposed for running a GLOBAL ELECTION INTERFERENCE OPERATION across five countries, simultaneously.
Read that again.
The moment journalists called BlackCore for comment, the company DELETED ITS ENTIRE INTERNET PRESENCE
This is what a ROGUE STATE does when it can’t win the argument.
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We have become aware of a privacy bug in the -privatebroadcast feature, newly introduced in Bitcoin Core 31.0, that may cause the originator’s IP address to be revealed to the receiving peer under certain network conditions. A fix is forthcoming and will be released with 31.1.