"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known"
― Carl Sagan
Video shows Mohammad Abu Giab, a 15-year-old fisherman from Gaza, diving into the sea he loved. He was later shot dead by Israeli forces off Deir el-Balah.
Gaza's Fishermen's Syndicate says at least 238 fishermen have been killed by Israel since October 2023.
PM Edi Rama said that no amount of protesters can stop him, so the Albanians took that as a challenge!!!
Protests against Kushner's Epstein Island 2.0 continue into the night.
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The EU must not ignore its responsibilities toward us!
Section 224 of the 2027 NDAA - National Defense Authorization Act integrates the U.S. military with the Israeli military.
This is what complete capture to a foreign government looks like and there hasn’t been a single shot fired.
🇪🇸SPAIN'S IRENE MONTERO GOES OFF ON EU VICE-PRESIDENT KALLAS: “Israel has been for 24 hours Kidnapping European Citizens And You’re SMILING?!”
“What would you do if it were Iran? If it were Russia?
But since it is ISRAEL, you smile and look the other way.”
“Shame on you”
Quienes consideran que ondear la bandera de un Estado es “incitar al odio”, o han perdido el juicio o han sido cegados por su propia ignominia.
Lamine solo ha expresado la solidaridad por Palestina que sentimos millones de españoles. Otro motivo más para estar orgullosos de él.
The production of Christopher Nolan received permission for 15 days of filming in Greece with a budget of 16 million euros. The Greek state gave them 6 million as a subsidy from the money of Greek taxpayers, who were never informed about the cast of the film or the distortion of the most important work in our history.
The issue here is not that they received money. We Greeks would gladly have given all 16 million for Nolan to shoot a faithful Odyssey. But it should have been a film that properly represents us Greeks, Hellenism and stays true to the values and writings of Homer. Not so we Greeks could pay for a Black Helen and Clytemnestra, a Batman-like Agamemnon, a trans Achilles or Elpenor (a woman playing a male role), a Black Athena, and a script based on the worst possible "translation" that exists.
In short, Nolan disrespected all Greeks, while the Greek people are now officially in the crosshairs of racism and the falsification of their history and culture. Woke Hollywood must die.
Thousands of Israeli settlers stormed the Old City of occupied East Jerusalem, harassing Palestinians and shouting racist chants to mark the anniversary of Israel’s occupation in 1967.
For 18 years, Israel has enforced a naval blockade around the Gaza Strip. Palestinians have zero access to the sea. Every civilian flotilla that has tried to break through has been intercepted.
This is not Al, Trump actually said this.
"We don't lose wars. Sometimes, we don't fight to win. We'll stay around a country for 15 years, just bomb the hell out of everybody, make everybody miserable.Nobody knows why we're there."
huh? US backed Saddam Hussein and Iraq in an 8-year war against Iran. In which chemical weapons (including sarin) were used by US proxies and in which 200-250,000 Iranians were killed. So tell me again: what has Iran "done to Humanity and the World" for which they deserve to pay a larger price than that?
And if Iran deserves to pay a larger price, what price should be exacted from the nation which backed Iraq in its war against Iran?
ULTIMA HORA 🆘La hija del senador republicano estadounidense Jay Block: 🆘
"Israel le paga dinero a mi padre y él difunde propaganda.
Me avergüenzo mucho por esta situación. Creo que mi padre le ha vendido su alma al diablo.
¡Espero que su carrera termine!"
#IsraelisGenocidalEntity
A 45-year old man is occupying the top of Washington’s Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge to protest the war on Iran.
Guido Reichstadter spoke to Al Jazeera from atop the structure - here's what he had to say.