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On a besoin de testeurs pour préparer le déménagement de #Seenthis sur une nouvelle machine.

►https://seenthis2.zoo-logique.org est à disposition pour permettre à tout un chacun d’effectuer des vérifications que tout fonctionne. Cette phase devrait aussi nous permettre de vérifier la montée en charge du nouvel environnement système et logiciel. Le nouvel environnement sera réinitialisé lors de la mise en production. Ce jour-là, l’ancienne instance sera rendue inaccessible, synchronisée puis éteinte et la nouvelle instance sera accessible dans l’heure qui suivra.

Évidemment, tout ce que vous posterez sur cette machine de test sera effacé au moment du déménagement définitif, puisqu’on réinstallera sur la nouvelle machine l’état du Seenthis actuel.

Too Depraved to Defect: Why the Gulf Kingdoms Would Rather Bend Over Than Jump Ship
▻https://bettbeat.substack.com/p/too-depraved-to-defect-why-the-gulf?publication_id=437130

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The Gulf monarchies would rather take it up their ass, repeatedly, by their allies than be liberated by their enemies. Because liberation, for them, means the end of depravity and opulence.

Lebanon — Water wars with Israel, and the Road to 1967
▻https://www.thecanary.co/global/2026/02/21/lebanon-water-wars

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By the mid-1950s, the regional water conflict entered a new and far more volatile phase. Where earlier decades had been defined by Zionist frustration over losing the Litani, the 1950s and 1960s witnessed the emergence of an organised Arab response — an attempt to prevent Israel from exploiting the headwaters of the Jordan River. Lebanon, despite its political fragility and chronic marginalisation of its southern districts, was thrust into the centre of this struggle.

“You either die with your family around you... or you die alone”
▻https://beeley.substack.com/p/you-either-die-with-your-family-around?publication_id=716517

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“When reality is harsher than fiction.

Yesterday, in the town of Tallouseh (southern Lebanon), the martyr Ahmad Termos (62) was on a family visit. He was sitting with his wife in her brother’s house. There was the sound of a drone overhead, then another. He had barely stepped inside to sit when his phone rang. Ahmad answered.

The voice on the line was cold and clear:

“Is this Ahmad Termos?”

“Yes”, he replied.

“This is the Israeli army, Ahmad. You either die with family around you… or alone.”

Without hesitation, he answered: “Alone.”

If the West Was a Pimple. October 7 Popped It.
▻https://bettbeat.substack.com/p/if-the-west-was-a-pimple-october?publication_id=437130

Future historians will thank the Palestinians.

Not for the violence—though violence, in the hands of the oppressed, is often the only language the oppressor understands. No, they will thank them for something far more consequential: for forcing the West to show its true face to the world.

On October 7, 2023, the Palestinian resistance did more than breach a fence. They ruptured a myth. They tore away the carefully stitched veil of Western moral superiority and exposed the festering wound beneath. Genocide, authoritarianism and pedophilia: what followed was not just a war, but a revelation—a great unraveling of the lies that have sustained empire for centuries.

Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2026
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/Clermont-Ferrand-International-Short-Film-Festival-2026.html

Europe’s largest (and the world’s second largest) film festival back, nestled in the heart of France’s wild, volcanic region of the Massif Central. Its international competition, made up of 12 programmes of shorts, is one of the richest platforms for storytelling from around the world. The accessibility and relatively low cost of short filmmaking allow for breadth of voices that can’t be matched by feature film festivals. The more experimental films are given a competition all to themselves (…) #Festivals_and_Events

▻https://www.lecourt-clermont.org

New translation: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan : What it means to listen
▻https://www.mydylarama.org.uk/New-translation-Don-Josephus-Raphael-Eblahan-What-it-means-to-listen.

In the space of four years, the Filipino director has made his mark with his intimate and luminous short films. Discovered in France in 2021 at the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, he has consolidated his reputation on the global short film circuit with the release of Vox Humana, and is still at the forefront of the cinematic representation of the indigenous peoples of the northern Philippine archipelago, where he was born. Platforming stories that need to be told In four films, (…) #Shorts

/ #Critical

▻https://www.rappler.com/entertainment/movies/interview-don-eblahan-director-the-headhunters-daughter
▻https://clermont-filmfest.org/the-headhunters-daughter
▻https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/don-eblahan/hilum-a-short-film?lang=zh
▻https://www.rappler.com/entertainment/movies/vox-humana-don-eblahan-interview-toronto-international-film-fest-2024

Welcome to Trickle-Down Psychopathy - by BettBeat Media
▻https://bettbeat.substack.com/p/welcome-to-trickle-down-psychopathy?publication_id=437130

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Every empire requires testing grounds. The Romans had their arenas. The Nazis had their camps. The American empire has Palestine.

The Cradle is a ‘one-stop shop for all things West Asia’
▻https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2026/01/14/the-cradle

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The Cradle, aptly named after the region’s historical appellation as the cradle of civilisation, is possibly the only multilingual news outlet whose remit is specifically West Asia as a geopolitical entity. Journalist Sharmine Narwani founded the outlet less than 6 years ago to analyse global events through the prism of their impacts on the region. Unsurprisingly, the Cradle’s audience has surged in the last two years especially. Israel’s genocide in Gaza has led readers to seek alternative and uncensored sources of information. Sharmine’s no-nonsense humour and the sizzling dynamic between hosts of the Cradle’s digital content has put them on many listeners’ agenda.

The Cradle is entirely independent and relies on donations. Despite this, it has expanded to include a podcast, a live stream, and now exists in three languages. Most recently, the team launched the Cradle Turkiye.

#thecradle

Palantir’s Palestine: How AI Gods Are Building Our Extinction
▻https://bettbeat.substack.com/p/palantirs-palestine-how-ai-gods-are?publication_id=437130

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The machines are not coming for us. They are already here. And the men who control them have made their intentions terrifyingly clear.
There is a moment in every civilization’s collapse when the instruments of its destruction become visible to those paying attention. We are living in that moment now. But the warning signs are not carved in stone or written in prophecy—they are embedded in source code, amplified by algorithms, and funded by men who speak openly of human extinction while racing to cause it.

Mouhamad Bakri 1953 - 2025
رحل محمد بكري... وجه السينما الفلسطينية
▻https://www.al-akhbar.com/culture/873049/%D8%B1%D8%AD%D9%84-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%D8%A8%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%8A----%

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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie - by Michael W. Green
▻https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie

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The anger isn’t about the goods. It’s about the breach of contract. The American Deal was that Effort ~ Security. Effort brought your Hope strike closer. But because the real poverty line is $140,000, effort no longer yields security or progress; it brings risk, exhaustion, and debt.

When you are drowning, and you see the lifeguard throw a life vest to the person treading water next to you—a person who isn’t swimming as hard as you are—you don’t feel happiness for them. You feel a homicidal rage at the lifeguard.

We have created a system where the only way to survive is to be destitute enough to qualify for aid, or rich enough to ignore the cost. Everyone in the middle is being cannibalized. The rich know this… and they are increasingly opting out of the shared spaces:

Bondi beach attack was shamefully used as spin
▻https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/12/18/bondi-beach
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Gorillaz Drops New Single ‘Damascus’ ft. Yasiin Bey & Omar Souleyman
▻https://scenenoise.com/New-Music/Gorillaz-Drops-New-Single-Damascus-ft-Yasiin-Bey-Omar-Souleyman

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The track is part of the band’s upcoming album ‘The Mountain’, recorded across Damascus, London, Devon, Mumbai, and New York.

Golden Lines: The UAE, Sudan’s Blood Gold, and China’s Quiet Facilitation | UKColumn
▻https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/golden-lines-the-uae-sudans-blood-gold-and-chinas-quiet-facilitation

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According to independent investigations, a significant amount of Sudan’s gold wealth completely eludes state oversight, supporting a covert economy that keeps the war going. According to an analysis by Global Witness, networks associated with Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) run smuggling routes that transport unregistered gold through Chad and Darfur on their way to Dubai, where it is refined and reexported under the guise of lawful trade. Once in the UAE’s refineries, these shipments frequently conceal their origins by combining legally mined metal with gold from conflict sources. Despite UN sanctions and international monitoring efforts, RSF-controlled companies have continued to maintain trading links with Emirati intermediaries, according to Reuters reporting from late 2023.

Cartel De Los Soles, the ‘cartel of the suns’, is now on the US foreign terror organisation (FTO) list. The problem is that this cartel – which the US claims is run by senior Venezuela politicians – may not even exist.

Original research by The Canary
▻https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/11/24/venezuela-us-terror

Why a War with Venezuela Means the Big War with Iran is Coming
▻https://bettbeat.substack.com/p/why-a-war-with-venezuela-means-the?publication_id=437130

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The logic is brutal in its simplicity. If you plan to wage war against Iran—and make no mistake, this war has been desired, planned, and postponed more times than we can count—you must first solve a problem of mathematics and geography. The Strait of Hormuz, through which flows roughly a fifth of the world’s oil supply, will almost certainly be closed in any serious conflict with Tehran. This is not speculation; it is strategic inevitability.

So what does an empire do when it knows it will soon choke off its own energy supply? It secures an alternative. It manufactures a crisis that allows it to seize control of the largest oil reserves on the planet. It transforms a regional irritant into a national emergency, complete with the familiar rhetoric of drugs, terrorism, and threats to the homeland—the very same vocabulary deployed to justify every imperial adventure of the past half-century.

Mountain of waste dumped in Oxfordshire field contains rubbish from councils | Waste | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/19/mountain-of-waste-dumped-in-oxfordshire-field-contains-rubbish-from-cou
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Evidence of waste from primary schools and local authorities in south-east England points to possible large-scale corruption, expert says

Première historique : une entreprise de défense israélienne ouvre une usine au Maroc
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Le rapprochement entre Israël et le Maroc dans ce domaine se fait au détriment de la France.

UpScrolled: the Tech for Palestine social app making waves
▻https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2025/11/02/upscrolled-app
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New social app UpScrolled is promising an experience which is free from the “censorship” and “algorithmic punishment” of other social media apps. This is proving popular with pro-Palestinian accounts – especially in light of the US takeover of TikTok, which has placed the social media site in the hands of pro-IDF billionaire Larry Ellison.

Islam Is Not the Enemy of Christianity: An Arab Christian Perspective
▻https://beeley.substack.com/p/islam-is-not-the-enemy-of-christianity?publication_id=716517

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Let me explain with this small retell of a significant incident no history book will tell you about:

In the spring of 1945, as the newly formed United Nations convened in San Francisco, delegates flaunting their colonial privilege spoke in French and English, drawing lines in the sand as they designed the post-war world order. Then came a Syrian representative who refused to bow.

Syria’s Prime Minister at the time, Fares al-Khoury, a man who rose from a small village to make the voice of an independent Syria heard, walked deliberately to the seat of the French delegate and sat down. The hall froze. Moments later, the French ambassador approached, demanding he vacate the chair.

Al-Khoury looked up and replied calmly: “You are outraged that I sat in your chair for five minutes. Imagine how Syrians felt after 25 years of your occupation”.

The General Theory of Enshittification | Portside
▻https://portside.org/2025-07-25/general-theory-enshittification

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Once almost everyone was using the internet, it became possible for businesses in a variety of areas to build up customer bases sustained by strong network effects. And one after another, these businesses have gone through the enshittification cycle.

Khartoum, an ode to the city amidst media blackout
▻https://www.thecanary.co/discovery/2025/10/18/an-ode-to-khartoum-amidst-media-blackout

A highly original piece of filmmaking, it manages to encapsulate the complex nature of the war raging in Sudan, its material and psychological impact, and the rich history and beauty of the city itself. 

Since the Sudanese revolution of 2019 (briefly but prominently) made the news, the country’s near-constant state of conflict has been rumbling in the background to little global interest. The film started out as a collective effort to create a panorama of life in Khartoum. Then the conflict between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted during filming and changed the course of the project in 2023.

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda
►https://www.972mag.com/israeli-army-3d-propaganda-animations

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An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations, used to justify Gaza strikes and amplified by international outlets, discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

La Palestinienne Malak Mattar « heurte la sensibilité » du monde de l’art - Catherine Cornet

►https://orientxxi.info/lu-vu-entendu/la-palestinienne-malak-mattar-heurte-la-sensibilite-du-monde-de-l-art,85

La Palestinienne Malak Mattar « heurte la sensibilité » du monde de l’art

L’admission de la première peintre palestinienne à la prestigieuse école Central Saint Martins of Art and Design de Londres a mis en lumière les paradoxes d’un monde artistique contemporain qui se targue de provocation – mais dans des limites très établies.

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