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  1. Western/European media channel: "Who can stop the Houthis?"

    Me: LOL. My dude, I'm rooting for the Houthis. Get on the right side of this conflict. Oppose Western Imperialism.

    I'm rooting for Iran and the Houthis. Western Imperialsim is long overdue to be overthrown.

    #Iran #War #Energy #Oil #US #Imperialism #Capitalism #Europe #Houthis #Politics

  2. Putin would rather keep killing than admit he’s lost. As a winter of misery looms in Ukraine, Nato must step in | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    > The Russian leader is ploughing on with his forever war – and each day is a crime against humanity. Western democracies cannot simply sit on their hands, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

    And it's impossible to imagine that if he “wins” that he won't regroup and attack more people. Emperors don't do that.

    Or that there will be peace in Ukraine. Those people have shown they will keep fighting.

    Like Palestine, or whoever Trump picks on next.

    #Imperialism

  3. Putin would rather keep killing than admit he’s lost. As a winter of misery looms in Ukraine, Nato must step in | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    > The Russian leader is ploughing on with his forever war – and each day is a crime against humanity. Western democracies cannot simply sit on their hands, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

    And it's impossible to imagine that if he “wins” that he won't regroup and attack more people. Emperors don't do that.

    Or that there will be peace in Ukraine. Those people have shown they will keep fighting.

    Like Palestine, or whoever Trump picks on next.

    #Imperialism

  4. Putin would rather keep killing than admit he’s lost. As a winter of misery looms in Ukraine, Nato must step in | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    > The Russian leader is ploughing on with his forever war – and each day is a crime against humanity. Western democracies cannot simply sit on their hands, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

    And it's impossible to imagine that if he “wins” that he won't regroup and attack more people. Emperors don't do that.

    Or that there will be peace in Ukraine. Those people have shown they will keep fighting.

    Like Palestine, or whoever Trump picks on next.

    #Imperialism

  5. Putin would rather keep killing than admit he’s lost. As a winter of misery looms in Ukraine, Nato must step in | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    > The Russian leader is ploughing on with his forever war – and each day is a crime against humanity. Western democracies cannot simply sit on their hands, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

    And it's impossible to imagine that if he “wins” that he won't regroup and attack more people. Emperors don't do that.

    Or that there will be peace in Ukraine. Those people have shown they will keep fighting.

    Like Palestine, or whoever Trump picks on next.

    #Imperialism

  6. Putin would rather keep killing than admit he’s lost. As a winter of misery looms in Ukraine, Nato must step in | Simon Tisdall | The Guardian

    theguardian.com/commentisfree/

    > The Russian leader is ploughing on with his forever war – and each day is a crime against humanity. Western democracies cannot simply sit on their hands, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

    And it's impossible to imagine that if he “wins” that he won't regroup and attack more people. Emperors don't do that.

    Or that there will be peace in Ukraine. Those people have shown they will keep fighting.

    Like Palestine, or whoever Trump picks on next.

    #Imperialism

  7. For the #silentsunday let's bring forward the silent return of one of the most cruel means of destruction by the modern capitalist States.

    "Back to the killing fields? Anti-personnel mines return from the dustbin of history" alternatives-humanitaires.org/

    Feeling threatened by the expansionism of their powerful neighbour – which is using anti-personnel mines on a large scale in its war against #Ukraine#Poland, #Finland, #Lithuania, #Latvia and #Estonia have confirmed their disastrous decision to turn their back on the #OttawaTreaty. As regards Ukraine itself, the country has announced its intention to suspend its ratification of the treaty. As warfare surges in an increasingly lawless world, these ill-fated choices will inevitably be a death sentence for many civilians.

    Alas, the unthinkable is now happening.

    Humanity’s propensity for self-destruction is as old as the history of warfare, miti­gated only by attempts to regulate armed hostilities to protect non-combatants. What was once called the “landmine epidemic” – which peaked in the 1980s and 1990s with nearly 30,000 new vic­tims each year – was one of its most insidious and barbaric manifestations, but also one of the most ignored or ne­glected.

    By signing the treaty, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine had solemnly committed to “nev­er, under any circumstances […] use anti-personnel mines” nor “develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or transfer to anyone, direct­ly or indirectly, antipersonnel mines” (Article. 1 of the Ottawa Treaty).

    Withdrawing from the treaty or suspend­ing obligations in regard to it are a bla­tant breach of the good faith that is vital among the signatory states, with immense symbolic and practical repercussions. Beyond being an insult to the treaty’s other parties, this renunciation will be endured – by the more than 600,000 sur­vivors of these weapons worldwide and the families of those who did not sur­vive – as a betrayal and an open wound, since it was explicitly in their name that states pledged to eliminate anti-person­nel mines from their arsenals.

    #FuckTheWarmongers #CrimesAgainstHumanity #war #imperialism #nato #InternationalHumanitarianLaw

  8. For the #silentsunday let's bring forward the silent return of one of the most cruel means of destruction by the modern capitalist States.

    "Back to the killing fields? Anti-personnel mines return from the dustbin of history" alternatives-humanitaires.org/

    Feeling threatened by the expansionism of their powerful neighbour – which is using anti-personnel mines on a large scale in its war against #Ukraine#Poland, #Finland, #Lithuania, #Latvia and #Estonia have confirmed their disastrous decision to turn their back on the #OttawaTreaty. As regards Ukraine itself, the country has announced its intention to suspend its ratification of the treaty. As warfare surges in an increasingly lawless world, these ill-fated choices will inevitably be a death sentence for many civilians.

    Alas, the unthinkable is now happening.

    Humanity’s propensity for self-destruction is as old as the history of warfare, miti­gated only by attempts to regulate armed hostilities to protect non-combatants. What was once called the “landmine epidemic” – which peaked in the 1980s and 1990s with nearly 30,000 new vic­tims each year – was one of its most insidious and barbaric manifestations, but also one of the most ignored or ne­glected.

    By signing the treaty, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine had solemnly committed to “nev­er, under any circumstances […] use anti-personnel mines” nor “develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or transfer to anyone, direct­ly or indirectly, antipersonnel mines” (Article. 1 of the Ottawa Treaty).

    Withdrawing from the treaty or suspend­ing obligations in regard to it are a bla­tant breach of the good faith that is vital among the signatory states, with immense symbolic and practical repercussions. Beyond being an insult to the treaty’s other parties, this renunciation will be endured – by the more than 600,000 sur­vivors of these weapons worldwide and the families of those who did not sur­vive – as a betrayal and an open wound, since it was explicitly in their name that states pledged to eliminate anti-person­nel mines from their arsenals.

    #FuckTheWarmongers #CrimesAgainstHumanity #war #imperialism #nato #InternationalHumanitarianLaw

  9. For the #silentsunday let's bring forward the silent return of one of the most cruel means of destruction by the modern capitalist States.

    "Back to the killing fields? Anti-personnel mines return from the dustbin of history" alternatives-humanitaires.org/

    Feeling threatened by the expansionism of their powerful neighbour – which is using anti-personnel mines on a large scale in its war against #Ukraine#Poland, #Finland, #Lithuania, #Latvia and #Estonia have confirmed their disastrous decision to turn their back on the #OttawaTreaty. As regards Ukraine itself, the country has announced its intention to suspend its ratification of the treaty. As warfare surges in an increasingly lawless world, these ill-fated choices will inevitably be a death sentence for many civilians.

    Alas, the unthinkable is now happening.

    Humanity’s propensity for self-destruction is as old as the history of warfare, miti­gated only by attempts to regulate armed hostilities to protect non-combatants. What was once called the “landmine epidemic” – which peaked in the 1980s and 1990s with nearly 30,000 new vic­tims each year – was one of its most insidious and barbaric manifestations, but also one of the most ignored or ne­glected.

    By signing the treaty, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine had solemnly committed to “nev­er, under any circumstances […] use anti-personnel mines” nor “develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or transfer to anyone, direct­ly or indirectly, antipersonnel mines” (Article. 1 of the Ottawa Treaty).

    Withdrawing from the treaty or suspend­ing obligations in regard to it are a bla­tant breach of the good faith that is vital among the signatory states, with immense symbolic and practical repercussions. Beyond being an insult to the treaty’s other parties, this renunciation will be endured – by the more than 600,000 sur­vivors of these weapons worldwide and the families of those who did not sur­vive – as a betrayal and an open wound, since it was explicitly in their name that states pledged to eliminate anti-person­nel mines from their arsenals.

    #FuckTheWarmongers #CrimesAgainstHumanity #war #imperialism #nato #InternationalHumanitarianLaw

  10. For the #silentsunday let's bring forward the silent return of one of the most cruel means of destruction by the modern capitalist States.

    "Back to the killing fields? Anti-personnel mines return from the dustbin of history" alternatives-humanitaires.org/

    Feeling threatened by the expansionism of their powerful neighbour – which is using anti-personnel mines on a large scale in its war against #Ukraine#Poland, #Finland, #Lithuania, #Latvia and #Estonia have confirmed their disastrous decision to turn their back on the #OttawaTreaty. As regards Ukraine itself, the country has announced its intention to suspend its ratification of the treaty. As warfare surges in an increasingly lawless world, these ill-fated choices will inevitably be a death sentence for many civilians.

    Alas, the unthinkable is now happening.

    Humanity’s propensity for self-destruction is as old as the history of warfare, miti­gated only by attempts to regulate armed hostilities to protect non-combatants. What was once called the “landmine epidemic” – which peaked in the 1980s and 1990s with nearly 30,000 new vic­tims each year – was one of its most insidious and barbaric manifestations, but also one of the most ignored or ne­glected.

    By signing the treaty, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine had solemnly committed to “nev­er, under any circumstances […] use anti-personnel mines” nor “develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or transfer to anyone, direct­ly or indirectly, antipersonnel mines” (Article. 1 of the Ottawa Treaty).

    Withdrawing from the treaty or suspend­ing obligations in regard to it are a bla­tant breach of the good faith that is vital among the signatory states, with immense symbolic and practical repercussions. Beyond being an insult to the treaty’s other parties, this renunciation will be endured – by the more than 600,000 sur­vivors of these weapons worldwide and the families of those who did not sur­vive – as a betrayal and an open wound, since it was explicitly in their name that states pledged to eliminate anti-person­nel mines from their arsenals.

    #FuckTheWarmongers #CrimesAgainstHumanity #war #imperialism #nato #InternationalHumanitarianLaw

  11. For the #silentsunday let's bring forward the silent return of one of the most cruel means of destruction by the modern capitalist States.

    "Back to the killing fields? Anti-personnel mines return from the dustbin of history" alternatives-humanitaires.org/

    Feeling threatened by the expansionism of their powerful neighbour – which is using anti-personnel mines on a large scale in its war against #Ukraine#Poland, #Finland, #Lithuania, #Latvia and #Estonia have confirmed their disastrous decision to turn their back on the #OttawaTreaty. As regards Ukraine itself, the country has announced its intention to suspend its ratification of the treaty. As warfare surges in an increasingly lawless world, these ill-fated choices will inevitably be a death sentence for many civilians.

    Alas, the unthinkable is now happening.

    Humanity’s propensity for self-destruction is as old as the history of warfare, miti­gated only by attempts to regulate armed hostilities to protect non-combatants. What was once called the “landmine epidemic” – which peaked in the 1980s and 1990s with nearly 30,000 new vic­tims each year – was one of its most insidious and barbaric manifestations, but also one of the most ignored or ne­glected.

    By signing the treaty, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine had solemnly committed to “nev­er, under any circumstances […] use anti-personnel mines” nor “develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile, retain or transfer to anyone, direct­ly or indirectly, antipersonnel mines” (Article. 1 of the Ottawa Treaty).

    Withdrawing from the treaty or suspend­ing obligations in regard to it are a bla­tant breach of the good faith that is vital among the signatory states, with immense symbolic and practical repercussions. Beyond being an insult to the treaty’s other parties, this renunciation will be endured – by the more than 600,000 sur­vivors of these weapons worldwide and the families of those who did not sur­vive – as a betrayal and an open wound, since it was explicitly in their name that states pledged to eliminate anti-person­nel mines from their arsenals.

    #FuckTheWarmongers #CrimesAgainstHumanity #war #imperialism #nato #InternationalHumanitarianLaw

  12. Sunday, September 13, 2026

    Russian attacks kill 11, injure 96 across Ukraine as Odesa comes under mass overnight strike . . . . . Hybrid War Probe: Explosion at Bulgarian ammunition depot supplying Ukraine sparks massive fire . . . . . Russian region offers record $18,000 reward for recruiting foreigners to fight in Ukraine . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  13. Sunday, September 13, 2026

    Russian attacks kill 11, injure 96 across Ukraine as Odesa comes under mass overnight strike . . . . . Hybrid War Probe: Explosion at Bulgarian ammunition depot supplying Ukraine sparks massive fire . . . . . Russian region offers record $18,000 reward for recruiting foreigners to fight in Ukraine . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  14. Sunday, September 13, 2026

    Russian attacks kill 11, injure 96 across Ukraine as Odesa comes under mass overnight strike . . . . . Hybrid War Probe: Explosion at Bulgarian ammunition depot supplying Ukraine sparks massive fire . . . . . Russian region offers record $18,000 reward for recruiting foreigners to fight in Ukraine . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  15. Sunday, September 13, 2026

    Russian attacks kill 11, injure 96 across Ukraine as Odesa comes under mass overnight strike . . . . . Hybrid War Probe: Explosion at Bulgarian ammunition depot supplying Ukraine sparks massive fire . . . . . Russian region offers record $18,000 reward for recruiting foreigners to fight in Ukraine . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  16. Sunday, September 13, 2026

    Russian attacks kill 11, injure 96 across Ukraine as Odesa comes under mass overnight strike . . . . . Hybrid War Probe: Explosion at Bulgarian ammunition depot supplying Ukraine sparks massive fire . . . . . Russian region offers record $18,000 reward for recruiting foreigners to fight in Ukraine . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  17. @ajsadauskas Some more history from Wikipedia:

    "The Parramatta Female Factory is a National Heritage Listed place and has three original sandstone buildings and the sandstone gaol walls. The Parramatta Female Factory was designed by convict architect Francis Greenway in 1818 and the only female building authorized by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. It comprises the 1821 Matron's Quarters and Administration and Stores Building, the 1821 Female Hospital and the 1826 3rd Class Female Penitentiary. It is the first female factory in the penal colony of New South Wales, and is located at 5 Fleet Street, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. It was one of 13 female factories in the colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.
    ...
    "The factory was the destination for many of the convict women sent as prisoners to the colony of NSW. Over 9,000 names have been recorded as passing through the factories, of which an estimated 5,000 went through Parramatta.
    ...
    "The first stone was laid by Governor Macquarie in 1818 and the women were transferred from the old factory in 1821. The factory was built using convict labour from locally quarried sandstone and was completed in 1821 at the cost of £4,778.
    ...
    "The Parramatta Female Factory was multi-purpose. It was a place of assignment, a hospital, a marriage bureau, a factory, an asylum and a prison for those who committed a crime in the Colony. The reason it is called a factory is because it manufactured cloth - linen, wool and linsey woolsey. It was also the site of the colony's first manufactured export producing 60,000 yards (55,000 m) of woven cloth in 1822.The women also did spinning, knitting, straw plaiting, washing, cleaning duties and if in third class, rock breaking and oakum picking.
    ...
    "In October 1827, the factory was the site of women rioting as a response to a cut in rations and their poor conditions. The matron, Mrs Raine, had resigned and she had to be rescued. Ann Gordon began her work as the factory's new matron and superintendent with her first task being to negotiate with the women who had escaped from the building. She was able to persuade them to return, but the disputed ration of bread and sugar remained. In less than an hour over 100 women escaped en masse and proceeded into the town where 40 soldiers and the threat of guns brought them back. They returned with a plunder of foodstuffs and when the ringleaders were confined, they released them. This was the first of the riots. Other riots at the factory occurred in 1831, 1833, 1836 and 1843.
    ...
    "By 1842 the factory accommodated 1,203 women as well as children. With the end of convict transportation to the colony, in 1848 the site was reassigned as a Convict Lunatic and Invalid Asylum."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parramatta_Female_Factory

    #history #AustralianHistory #Britain #colonialism #capitalism #imperialism #Australia #NSW

  18. @ajsadauskas Some more history from Wikipedia:

    "The Parramatta Female Factory is a National Heritage Listed place and has three original sandstone buildings and the sandstone gaol walls. The Parramatta Female Factory was designed by convict architect Francis Greenway in 1818 and the only female building authorized by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. It comprises the 1821 Matron's Quarters and Administration and Stores Building, the 1821 Female Hospital and the 1826 3rd Class Female Penitentiary. It is the first female factory in the penal colony of New South Wales, and is located at 5 Fleet Street, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. It was one of 13 female factories in the colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.
    ...
    "The factory was the destination for many of the convict women sent as prisoners to the colony of NSW. Over 9,000 names have been recorded as passing through the factories, of which an estimated 5,000 went through Parramatta.
    ...
    "The first stone was laid by Governor Macquarie in 1818 and the women were transferred from the old factory in 1821. The factory was built using convict labour from locally quarried sandstone and was completed in 1821 at the cost of £4,778.
    ...
    "The Parramatta Female Factory was multi-purpose. It was a place of assignment, a hospital, a marriage bureau, a factory, an asylum and a prison for those who committed a crime in the Colony. The reason it is called a factory is because it manufactured cloth - linen, wool and linsey woolsey. It was also the site of the colony's first manufactured export producing 60,000 yards (55,000 m) of woven cloth in 1822.The women also did spinning, knitting, straw plaiting, washing, cleaning duties and if in third class, rock breaking and oakum picking.
    ...
    "In October 1827, the factory was the site of women rioting as a response to a cut in rations and their poor conditions. The matron, Mrs Raine, had resigned and she had to be rescued. Ann Gordon began her work as the factory's new matron and superintendent with her first task being to negotiate with the women who had escaped from the building. She was able to persuade them to return, but the disputed ration of bread and sugar remained. In less than an hour over 100 women escaped en masse and proceeded into the town where 40 soldiers and the threat of guns brought them back. They returned with a plunder of foodstuffs and when the ringleaders were confined, they released them. This was the first of the riots. Other riots at the factory occurred in 1831, 1833, 1836 and 1843.
    ...
    "By 1842 the factory accommodated 1,203 women as well as children. With the end of convict transportation to the colony, in 1848 the site was reassigned as a Convict Lunatic and Invalid Asylum."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parramatta_Female_Factory

    #history #AustralianHistory #Britain #colonialism #capitalism #imperialism #Australia #NSW

  19. @ajsadauskas Some more history from Wikipedia:

    "The Parramatta Female Factory is a National Heritage Listed place and has three original sandstone buildings and the sandstone gaol walls. The Parramatta Female Factory was designed by convict architect Francis Greenway in 1818 and the only female building authorized by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. It comprises the 1821 Matron's Quarters and Administration and Stores Building, the 1821 Female Hospital and the 1826 3rd Class Female Penitentiary. It is the first female factory in the penal colony of New South Wales, and is located at 5 Fleet Street, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. It was one of 13 female factories in the colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.
    ...
    "The factory was the destination for many of the convict women sent as prisoners to the colony of NSW. Over 9,000 names have been recorded as passing through the factories, of which an estimated 5,000 went through Parramatta.
    ...
    "The first stone was laid by Governor Macquarie in 1818 and the women were transferred from the old factory in 1821. The factory was built using convict labour from locally quarried sandstone and was completed in 1821 at the cost of £4,778.
    ...
    "The Parramatta Female Factory was multi-purpose. It was a place of assignment, a hospital, a marriage bureau, a factory, an asylum and a prison for those who committed a crime in the Colony. The reason it is called a factory is because it manufactured cloth - linen, wool and linsey woolsey. It was also the site of the colony's first manufactured export producing 60,000 yards (55,000 m) of woven cloth in 1822.The women also did spinning, knitting, straw plaiting, washing, cleaning duties and if in third class, rock breaking and oakum picking.
    ...
    "In October 1827, the factory was the site of women rioting as a response to a cut in rations and their poor conditions. The matron, Mrs Raine, had resigned and she had to be rescued. Ann Gordon began her work as the factory's new matron and superintendent with her first task being to negotiate with the women who had escaped from the building. She was able to persuade them to return, but the disputed ration of bread and sugar remained. In less than an hour over 100 women escaped en masse and proceeded into the town where 40 soldiers and the threat of guns brought them back. They returned with a plunder of foodstuffs and when the ringleaders were confined, they released them. This was the first of the riots. Other riots at the factory occurred in 1831, 1833, 1836 and 1843.
    ...
    "By 1842 the factory accommodated 1,203 women as well as children. With the end of convict transportation to the colony, in 1848 the site was reassigned as a Convict Lunatic and Invalid Asylum."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parramatta_Female_Factory

    #history #AustralianHistory #Britain #colonialism #capitalism #imperialism #Australia #NSW

  20. @ajsadauskas Some more history from Wikipedia:

    "The Parramatta Female Factory is a National Heritage Listed place and has three original sandstone buildings and the sandstone gaol walls. The Parramatta Female Factory was designed by convict architect Francis Greenway in 1818 and the only female building authorized by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. It comprises the 1821 Matron's Quarters and Administration and Stores Building, the 1821 Female Hospital and the 1826 3rd Class Female Penitentiary. It is the first female factory in the penal colony of New South Wales, and is located at 5 Fleet Street, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. It was one of 13 female factories in the colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.
    ...
    "The factory was the destination for many of the convict women sent as prisoners to the colony of NSW. Over 9,000 names have been recorded as passing through the factories, of which an estimated 5,000 went through Parramatta.
    ...
    "The first stone was laid by Governor Macquarie in 1818 and the women were transferred from the old factory in 1821. The factory was built using convict labour from locally quarried sandstone and was completed in 1821 at the cost of £4,778.
    ...
    "The Parramatta Female Factory was multi-purpose. It was a place of assignment, a hospital, a marriage bureau, a factory, an asylum and a prison for those who committed a crime in the Colony. The reason it is called a factory is because it manufactured cloth - linen, wool and linsey woolsey. It was also the site of the colony's first manufactured export producing 60,000 yards (55,000 m) of woven cloth in 1822.The women also did spinning, knitting, straw plaiting, washing, cleaning duties and if in third class, rock breaking and oakum picking.
    ...
    "In October 1827, the factory was the site of women rioting as a response to a cut in rations and their poor conditions. The matron, Mrs Raine, had resigned and she had to be rescued. Ann Gordon began her work as the factory's new matron and superintendent with her first task being to negotiate with the women who had escaped from the building. She was able to persuade them to return, but the disputed ration of bread and sugar remained. In less than an hour over 100 women escaped en masse and proceeded into the town where 40 soldiers and the threat of guns brought them back. They returned with a plunder of foodstuffs and when the ringleaders were confined, they released them. This was the first of the riots. Other riots at the factory occurred in 1831, 1833, 1836 and 1843.
    ...
    "By 1842 the factory accommodated 1,203 women as well as children. With the end of convict transportation to the colony, in 1848 the site was reassigned as a Convict Lunatic and Invalid Asylum."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parramatta_Female_Factory

    #history #AustralianHistory #Britain #colonialism #capitalism #imperialism #Australia #NSW

  21. @ajsadauskas Some more history from Wikipedia:

    "The Parramatta Female Factory is a National Heritage Listed place and has three original sandstone buildings and the sandstone gaol walls. The Parramatta Female Factory was designed by convict architect Francis Greenway in 1818 and the only female building authorized by Governor Lachlan Macquarie. It comprises the 1821 Matron's Quarters and Administration and Stores Building, the 1821 Female Hospital and the 1826 3rd Class Female Penitentiary. It is the first female factory in the penal colony of New South Wales, and is located at 5 Fleet Street, North Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia. It was one of 13 female factories in the colonies of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.
    ...
    "The factory was the destination for many of the convict women sent as prisoners to the colony of NSW. Over 9,000 names have been recorded as passing through the factories, of which an estimated 5,000 went through Parramatta.
    ...
    "The first stone was laid by Governor Macquarie in 1818 and the women were transferred from the old factory in 1821. The factory was built using convict labour from locally quarried sandstone and was completed in 1821 at the cost of £4,778.
    ...
    "The Parramatta Female Factory was multi-purpose. It was a place of assignment, a hospital, a marriage bureau, a factory, an asylum and a prison for those who committed a crime in the Colony. The reason it is called a factory is because it manufactured cloth - linen, wool and linsey woolsey. It was also the site of the colony's first manufactured export producing 60,000 yards (55,000 m) of woven cloth in 1822.The women also did spinning, knitting, straw plaiting, washing, cleaning duties and if in third class, rock breaking and oakum picking.
    ...
    "In October 1827, the factory was the site of women rioting as a response to a cut in rations and their poor conditions. The matron, Mrs Raine, had resigned and she had to be rescued. Ann Gordon began her work as the factory's new matron and superintendent with her first task being to negotiate with the women who had escaped from the building. She was able to persuade them to return, but the disputed ration of bread and sugar remained. In less than an hour over 100 women escaped en masse and proceeded into the town where 40 soldiers and the threat of guns brought them back. They returned with a plunder of foodstuffs and when the ringleaders were confined, they released them. This was the first of the riots. Other riots at the factory occurred in 1831, 1833, 1836 and 1843.
    ...
    "By 1842 the factory accommodated 1,203 women as well as children. With the end of convict transportation to the colony, in 1848 the site was reassigned as a Convict Lunatic and Invalid Asylum."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parramatta_Female_Factory

    #history #AustralianHistory #Britain #colonialism #capitalism #imperialism #Australia #NSW

  22. Halt the Deployment of South Korean Troops to the Strait of Hormuz

    Below, we publish the statement from the South Korean group March to Socialism — member of this initiative of…
    #EuropeSays #Korea #KR #Imperialism #iran #Korean #SouthKorea
    europesays.com/korea/152091/

  23. Saturday, September 12, 2026

    Investigation: Inside Russia's FSB prison system in Crimea . . . . . Half a million Russian troops killed since start of full-scale invasion of Ukraine . . . . . Russian forces executed 2 Ukrainian POWs near Dobropillia . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  24. Saturday, September 12, 2026

    Investigation: Inside Russia's FSB prison system in Crimea . . . . . Half a million Russian troops killed since start of full-scale invasion of Ukraine . . . . . Russian forces executed 2 Ukrainian POWs near Dobropillia . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  25. Saturday, September 12, 2026

    Investigation: Inside Russia's FSB prison system in Crimea . . . . . Half a million Russian troops killed since start of full-scale invasion of Ukraine . . . . . Russian forces executed 2 Ukrainian POWs near Dobropillia . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  26. Saturday, September 12, 2026

    Investigation: Inside Russia's FSB prison system in Crimea . . . . . Half a million Russian troops killed since start of full-scale invasion of Ukraine . . . . . Russian forces executed 2 Ukrainian POWs near Dobropillia . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  27. Saturday, September 12, 2026

    Investigation: Inside Russia's FSB prison system in Crimea . . . . . Half a million Russian troops killed since start of full-scale invasion of Ukraine . . . . . Russian forces executed 2 Ukrainian POWs near Dobropillia . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  28. From Monthly Review Newsletter
    'Trumpism is, among other things, the War on Terror coming home, a twenty-first century version of what Aimé Césaire called the imperial “boomerang effect.”'
    monthlyreview.org/978158367025

    #Imperialism #racism #Trump #WarOfTerror

  29. From Monthly Review Newsletter
    'Trumpism is, among other things, the War on Terror coming home, a twenty-first century version of what Aimé Césaire called the imperial “boomerang effect.”'
    monthlyreview.org/978158367025

  30. From Monthly Review Newsletter
    'Trumpism is, among other things, the War on Terror coming home, a twenty-first century version of what Aimé Césaire called the imperial “boomerang effect.”'
    monthlyreview.org/978158367025

    #Imperialism #racism #Trump #WarOfTerror

  31. From Monthly Review Newsletter
    'Trumpism is, among other things, the War on Terror coming home, a twenty-first century version of what Aimé Césaire called the imperial “boomerang effect.”'
    monthlyreview.org/978158367025

    #Imperialism #racism #Trump #WarOfTerror

  32. From Monthly Review Newsletter
    'Trumpism is, among other things, the War on Terror coming home, a twenty-first century version of what Aimé Césaire called the imperial “boomerang effect.”'
    monthlyreview.org/978158367025

    #Imperialism #racism #Trump #WarOfTerror

  33. Imperiumia puristetaan nyt siitä mistä tuntuu ja massimiehille se tuntuu sopivan hyvin.

    Hormuzin salmi on enää noro entisestä öljyvirrasta. Ainoan helpotuksen tilanteeseen tarjosi saudien itä-länsiöljyputki ja kuinkas sitten kävikään.

    HS: "Putken kautta on viime kuukausina kulkenut 4–5 prosenttia maailman öljyntarjonnasta.

    Viranomaisten mukaan putki suljettiin."

    "There is an even bigger and more immediate issue than a reduction in crude oil flows. The world economy runs on refined fuels, such as gasoline and diesel...much of the missing Hormuz volumes (around 4 million barrels a day) came in the form of refined fuel. This, together with Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries and fuel exports and a lack of medium heavy oil on the market, have caused global gasoline, diesel, jet and shipping fuel prices to rise significantly."

    Ja kuka kerää rahat:

    "with the US being in the epicenter of these events, is it any wonder that it’s American corporations running refineries and LNG facilities who are reaping the biggest benefits of the war... LNG prices both in Europe and Asia reached price levels not seen since 2022/2023. Meanwhile US oil majors used the war to buy stakes in Iraqi oil fields, reducing Chinese influence in the region. As President Trump said: “I ‌like our position now much better, with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and their economy totally collapsing.” The donor class must be extremely happy: corporate profits and the stock market are rising sharply, despite the massive calamity this little affair with Iran is causing."

    thehonestsorcerer.substack.com

    #öljy #energia #iran #oil #capitalism #imperialism #hormuz

  34. Imperiumia puristetaan nyt siitä mistä tuntuu ja massimiehille se tuntuu sopivan hyvin.

    Hormuzin salmi on enää noro entisestä öljyvirrasta. Ainoan helpotuksen tilanteeseen tarjosi saudien itä-länsiöljyputki ja kuinkas sitten kävikään.

    HS: "Putken kautta on viime kuukausina kulkenut 4–5 prosenttia maailman öljyntarjonnasta.

    Viranomaisten mukaan putki suljettiin."

    "There is an even bigger and more immediate issue than a reduction in crude oil flows. The world economy runs on refined fuels, such as gasoline and diesel...much of the missing Hormuz volumes (around 4 million barrels a day) came in the form of refined fuel. This, together with Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries and fuel exports and a lack of medium heavy oil on the market, have caused global gasoline, diesel, jet and shipping fuel prices to rise significantly."

    Ja kuka kerää rahat:

    "with the US being in the epicenter of these events, is it any wonder that it’s American corporations running refineries and LNG facilities who are reaping the biggest benefits of the war... LNG prices both in Europe and Asia reached price levels not seen since 2022/2023. Meanwhile US oil majors used the war to buy stakes in Iraqi oil fields, reducing Chinese influence in the region. As President Trump said: “I ‌like our position now much better, with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and their economy totally collapsing.” The donor class must be extremely happy: corporate profits and the stock market are rising sharply, despite the massive calamity this little affair with Iran is causing."

    thehonestsorcerer.substack.com

    #öljy #energia #iran #oil #capitalism #imperialism #hormuz

  35. Imperiumia puristetaan nyt siitä mistä tuntuu ja massimiehille se tuntuu sopivan hyvin.

    Hormuzin salmi on enää noro entisestä öljyvirrasta. Ainoan helpotuksen tilanteeseen tarjosi saudien itä-länsiöljyputki ja kuinkas sitten kävikään.

    HS: "Putken kautta on viime kuukausina kulkenut 4–5 prosenttia maailman öljyntarjonnasta.

    Viranomaisten mukaan putki suljettiin."

    "There is an even bigger and more immediate issue than a reduction in crude oil flows. The world economy runs on refined fuels, such as gasoline and diesel...much of the missing Hormuz volumes (around 4 million barrels a day) came in the form of refined fuel. This, together with Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries and fuel exports and a lack of medium heavy oil on the market, have caused global gasoline, diesel, jet and shipping fuel prices to rise significantly."

    Ja kuka kerää rahat:

    "with the US being in the epicenter of these events, is it any wonder that it’s American corporations running refineries and LNG facilities who are reaping the biggest benefits of the war... LNG prices both in Europe and Asia reached price levels not seen since 2022/2023. Meanwhile US oil majors used the war to buy stakes in Iraqi oil fields, reducing Chinese influence in the region. As President Trump said: “I ‌like our position now much better, with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and their economy totally collapsing.” The donor class must be extremely happy: corporate profits and the stock market are rising sharply, despite the massive calamity this little affair with Iran is causing."

    thehonestsorcerer.substack.com

    #öljy #energia #iran #oil #capitalism #imperialism #hormuz

  36. Imperiumia puristetaan nyt siitä mistä tuntuu ja massimiehille se tuntuu sopivan hyvin.

    Hormuzin salmi on enää noro entisestä öljyvirrasta. Ainoan helpotuksen tilanteeseen tarjosi saudien itä-länsiöljyputki ja kuinkas sitten kävikään.

    HS: "Putken kautta on viime kuukausina kulkenut 4–5 prosenttia maailman öljyntarjonnasta.

    Viranomaisten mukaan putki suljettiin."

    "There is an even bigger and more immediate issue than a reduction in crude oil flows. The world economy runs on refined fuels, such as gasoline and diesel...much of the missing Hormuz volumes (around 4 million barrels a day) came in the form of refined fuel. This, together with Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries and fuel exports and a lack of medium heavy oil on the market, have caused global gasoline, diesel, jet and shipping fuel prices to rise significantly."

    Ja kuka kerää rahat:

    "with the US being in the epicenter of these events, is it any wonder that it’s American corporations running refineries and LNG facilities who are reaping the biggest benefits of the war... LNG prices both in Europe and Asia reached price levels not seen since 2022/2023. Meanwhile US oil majors used the war to buy stakes in Iraqi oil fields, reducing Chinese influence in the region. As President Trump said: “I ‌like our position now much better, with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and their economy totally collapsing.” The donor class must be extremely happy: corporate profits and the stock market are rising sharply, despite the massive calamity this little affair with Iran is causing."

    thehonestsorcerer.substack.com

    #öljy #energia #iran #oil #capitalism #imperialism #hormuz

  37. People who dont live here, will never know how this single statement sent the whole ruling class of Honduras into a frenzy. This single handedly caused them to intensify the amount of anti communist propaganda they had already been spewing through every news outlet. We were bombarded with how we were going to turn into the next Venezuela, the next Cuba.

    Our president however, was the only one in the region to make a direct threat to the U.S. following the poor treatment of Latino immigrants at U.S. borders and concentration camps.

    #Latam #Honduras #Imperialism

  38. People who dont live here, will never know how this single statement sent the whole ruling class of Honduras into a frenzy. This single handedly caused them to intensify the amount of anti communist propaganda they had already been spewing through every news outlet. We were bombarded with how we were going to turn into the next Venezuela, the next Cuba.

    Our president however, was the only one in the region to make a direct threat to the U.S. following the poor treatment of Latino immigrants at U.S. borders and concentration camps.

    #Latam #Honduras #Imperialism

  39. People who dont live here, will never know how this single statement sent the whole ruling class of Honduras into a frenzy. This single handedly caused them to intensify the amount of anti communist propaganda they had already been spewing through every news outlet. We were bombarded with how we were going to turn into the next Venezuela, the next Cuba.

    Our president however, was the only one in the region to make a direct threat to the U.S. following the poor treatment of Latino immigrants at U.S. borders and concentration camps.

    #Latam #Honduras #Imperialism