#indigenous defense

[rightnewshindi]

भारत की सैन्य ताकत को नई उड़ान: DRDO का लॉन्ग रेंज ग्लाइड बम ‘गौरव’ सुखोई-30 MKI से सफलतापूर्वक परीक्षित, 100 KM की सटीक मार

DRDO Gaurav Glide Bomb: भारत की रक्षा क्षमता को नया आयाम देने वाली एक और उपलब्धि ने देश का सिर गर्व से ऊंचा कर दिया है। रक्षा अनुसंधान और विकास संगठन (DRDO) ने अपने लॉन्ग रेंज ग्लाइड बम ‘गौरव’ का सफल परीक्षण कर दिखाया है। 8 से 10 अप्रैल 2025 तक भारतीय वायुसेना के सुखोई-30 MKI विमान से किए गए इस ट्रायल ने न केवल तकनीकी दक्षता साबित की, बल्कि भारत की स्वदेशी रक्षा तकनीक की ताकत को भी दुनिया के…

[bookofshitposts]

If we interrogate the promises of Land Back, we are brought back to an ancestral perspective that the land belongs to no-one but itself. Land Back then becomes a question of unmapping "legal" terrain, tearing down walls, and cutting through fences. It becomes an undoing of the forceful imposition of the capitalist idea of private property and the colonial/capitalist impulse to declare dominion or domination over Mother Earth and existence. To realize Land Back means to end the ways humans have profaned all of existence and imposed their will upon the land and reasserting that the land belongs to no one.

Klee Benally, No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred

[underwaterspiderbird]

order 66 was NOT a genocide. you can only genocide people & cultures, you can’t genocide a systemically deified super-religion that wants everyone in existence to either agree with them & exist their way or burn in hell for eternity. any decent ppl who went down with the purge forfeit their lives down the drain along with their family, home & very sense of self. they. had. it. fucking. coming.

from an indigenous person, fuck y’all for even comparing order 66 to genocide & talking all over survivors of real genocides to save face for your evangelical faith & the people you think are good guys. you are not about to disrespect the continent-sized OCEANS of blood that make up our ancestors & loved ones who were lost to real genocide. fuck off.

[kyliafanfiction]

Admittedly, and then there's these people who are... very much not sane. Or paying attention to the text. And are very clearly importing very specific and entirely out of place real world baggage into the fannish debate in places they do not belong.

(The Jedi are not Catholic and they're not biblethumpers and insofar as the term 'thought policing' can be applied to the Jedi - not very, but there is some extent it can be applied to them - they only do it to themselves and their own members, not like, random civilians. And as for the Sith valuing freedom, uhm... for the vast majority of them it's only in the sense that right-wing techbros value freedom (i.e. their own freedom to be monsters to everyone).

For the record, I am not affiliated with this person or their ilk.

[deermouth]

I'm a communist but it's wild seeing other communists go to bat for the Concept of "reeducation camps."

[azelmaandeponine]

I don't know why people are blaming Ford for entering into an abusive relationship with Bill. Just because Ford ignored the warnings left in the cave to not summon Bill? His research hit a dead end, he was desperate and Bill supposedly had the answers. Ford clearly was not thinking straight when he decided to summon him. If the research of your life hit a dead end and you are desperate, would you not ignore the warning of an ancient civilization that might be wrong about this being with answers just because he was more intelligent than them? Ford probably thought he could handle Bill and that the warnings were simply exaggerations and that Bill had been misinterpreted, misunderstood by a more primitive culture because of his knowledge.

Right?

Not only is it disgusting to blame the VICTIM instead of the abuser, desperate people do desperate things.

Ford literally thought he was summoning demon google.

Ford isn't really given any context for the warnings. It's literally just vague cave paintings on a wall.

[blanket-burrito-protocol]

With the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which has kept Native children from being purposefully removed from Native families into non-Native foster families since 1978, being reevaluated in the US Supreme Court, it is at risk of being greatly weakened and undoing decades of work to stop the systematic erasure of Native cultural identity.

(It may also re-designate the term "Indian" in the bill to mean a racial classification rather than political, reversing precedent with regard to tribal sovereignty. Native tribes must remain independent entities in the law rather than just a race to protect their rights to self-governance.)

The Lakota People's Law Project is asking US citizens to ask their state lawmakers to enact similar legislation at the state level which codifies the rights and protections ICWA gives to Native children should it be weakened in the Supreme Court. This is not protection for the ICWA itself, although they do have action you can take for that on their website as well. In the link is a pre-written email which you can personalize and easily send to your state lawmakers.

Thanks for your time. :)

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

The Staggering Cost of Losing Europe's Arms Market (and trust) | Part 3: Drones!

Over the last few weeks, we’ve showcased Europe’s cutting-edge military capabilities—from tanks, GMLRS, fighter jets, IFVs, APCs, and air defence systems. In this episode, we shift our focus to one of the most rapidly evolving aspects of modern warfare: drones, anti-drone technology, electronic warfare, and satellite capabilities. Segment 1: Fixed-Wing Drones European manufacturers are redefining endurance and versatility on the battlefield. In this segment, we explore flagship projects like the Eurodrone program and highlight combat-proven systems such as the Slovenian-made C-astral, Danish Heidrun from Sky Watch, Tekever’s long-endurance platforms, and the Dutch DeltaQuad Evo and Pro. These drones—engineered for extended ISR missions with high-resolution sensors and modular payloads—are transforming how surveillance and precision strikes are executed. Segment 2: FPV Drones & Loitering Munitions Next, we delve into the world of FPV drones and loitering munitions. From innovative designs like Lithuania’s Sphak and Finland’s Steel Eagle to mass-produced 3D-printed variants like Goida, Bavovna, and Nort Varta, these agile platforms are proving indispensable in Ukraine. We also look at European loitering munitions, including Poland’s Warmate, KNDS’s Colibri, and other emerging systems that offer affordability and scalability in dynamic combat scenarios. Segment 3: European Counter-Drone Measures As drone technology advances, so does the need for effective countermeasures. We break down how European defence industries are developing sophisticated electronic warfare capabilities—like Italian ELT’s scramblers and Sweden’s Saab Sirius system—to jam, disrupt, and neutralize hostile drones. We also examine kinetic solutions from Rheinmetall and Poland’s Pilica system, as well as experimental laser-based directed energy weapons and advanced autonomous combat drones from Turkey and collaborative projects like Eurodrone and BAE’s Taranis. Segment 4: The Bigger Picture What does all this mean for European defence? The integration of cutting-edge drone systems with robust counter-drone measures signals a major strategic shift. By developing home-grown, scalable solutions, Europe is not only enhancing its offensive and defensive capabilities but also setting new benchmarks in military innovation and strategic autonomy.

[milo-by-the-fishtank]

I feel bad for some indigenous people, because like sometimes you’ll meet a family and one person‘s named like Skyfire and the other ones named Matt. Not to dis on Matt tho, we love him, but how the fuck is he expected to compete with his brother‘s name.

[underwaterspiderbird]

there’s no such thing as “light” or “dark” sides of the force, there never was. its all just different expressions & experiences of the same energy field. “falling to the dark side” is but a religious scare tactic akin to “you’re good and are going to heaven if you believe what we believe but if you don’t you’re gonna burn in hell for all eternity”, no amount of palpatine’s generation of fuckery, the psychos within the sith that could also be found within any group of ppl, or jedi worship will ever convince me otherwise.

suck it bitches

[fatehbaz]

On May 28, 1914, the Institut für Schiffs-und Tropenkrankheiten (Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases, ISTK) in Hamburg began operations in a complex of new brick buildings on the bank of the Elb. The buildings were designed by Fritz Schumacher, who had become the Head of Hamburg’s building department (Leiter des Hochbauamtes) in 1909 after a “flood of architectural projects” accumulated following the industrialization of the harbor in the 1880s and the “new housing and working conditions” that followed. The ISTK was one of these projects, connected to the port by its [...] mission: to research and heal tropical illnesses; [...] to support the Hamburg Port [...]; and to support endeavors of the German Empire overseas.

First established in 1900 by Bernhard Nocht, chief of the Port Medical Service, the ISTK originally operated out of an existing building, but by 1909, when the Hamburg Colonial Institute became its parent organization (and Schumacher was hired by the Hamburg Senate), the operations of the ISTK had outgrown [...]. [I]ts commission by the city was an opportunity for Schumacher to show how he could contribute to guiding the city’s economic and architectural growth in tandem, and for Nocht, an opportunity to establish an unprecedented spatial paradigm for the field of Tropical Medicine that anchored the new frontier of science in the German Empire. [...]

[There was a] shared drive to contribute to the [...] wealth of Hamburg within the context of its expanding global network [...]. [E]ach discipline [...] architecture and medicine were participating in a shared [...] discursive operation. [...]

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The brick used on the ISTK façades was key to Schumacher’s larger Städtebau plan for Hamburg, which envisioned the city as a vehicle for a “harmonious” synthesis between aesthetics and economy. [...] For Schumacher, brick [was significantly preferable] [...]. Used by [...] Hamburg architects [over the past few decades], who acquired their penchant for neo-gothic brickwork at the Hanover school, brick had both a historical presence and aesthetic pedigree in Hamburg [...]. [T]his material had already been used in Die Speicherstadt, a warehouse district in Hamburg where unequal social conditions had only grown more exacerbated [...]. Die Speicherstadt was constructed in three phases [beginning] in 1883 [...]. By serving the port, the warehouses facilitated the expansion and security of Hamburg’s wealth. [...] Yet the collective profits accrued to the city by these buildings [...] did not increase economic prosperity and social equity for all. [...] [A] residential area for harbor workers was demolished to make way for the warehouses. After the contract for the port expansion was negotiated in 1881, over 20,000 people were pushed out of their homes and into adjacent areas of the city, which soon became overcrowded [...]. In turn, these [...] areas of the city [...] were the worst hit by the Hamburg cholera epidemic of 1892, the most devastating in Europe that year. The 1892 cholera epidemic [...] articulated the growing inability of the Hamburg Senate, comprising the city’s elite, to manage class relationships [...] [in such] a city that was explicitly run by and for the merchant class [...].

In Hamburg, the response to such an ugly disease of the masses was the enforcement of quarantine methods that pushed the working class into the suburbs, isolated immigrants on an island, and separated the sick according to racial identity.

In partnership with the German Empire, Hamburg established new hygiene institutions in the city, including the Port Medical Service (a progenitor of the ISTK). [...] [T]he discourse of [creating the school for tropical medicine] centered around city building and nation building, brick by brick, mark by mark.

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Just as the exterior condition of the building was, for Schumacher, part of a much larger plan for the city, the program of the building and its interior were part of the German Empire and Tropical Medicine’s much larger interest in controlling the health and wealth of its nation and colonies. [...]

Yet the establishment of the ISTK marked a critical shift in medical thinking [...]. And while the ISTK was not the only institution in Europe to form around the conception and perceived threat of tropical diseases, it was the first to build a facility specifically to support their “exploration and combat” in lockstep, as Nocht described it.

The field of Tropical Medicine had been established in Germany by the very same journal Nocht published his overview of the ISTK. The Archiv für Schiffs- und Tropen-Hygiene unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Pathologie und Therapie was first published in 1897, the same year that the German Empire claimed Kiaochow (northeast China) and about two years after it claimed Southwest Africa (Namibia), Cameroon, Togo, East Africa (Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda), New Guinea (today the northern part of Papua New Guinea), and the Marshall Islands; two years later, it would also claim the Caroline Islands, Palau, Mariana Islands (today Micronesia), and Samoa (today Western Samoa).

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The inaugural journal [...] marked a paradigm shift [...]. In his opening letter, the editor stated that the aim of Tropical Medicine is to “provide the white race with a home in the tropics.” [...]

As part of the institute’s agenda to support the expansion of the Empire through teaching and development [...], members of the ISTK contributed to the Deutsches Kolonial Lexikon, a three-volume series completed in 1914 (in the same year as the new ISTK buildings) and published in 1920. The three volumes contained maps of the colonies coded to show the areas that were considered “healthy” for Europeans, along with recommended building guidelines for hospitals in the tropics. [...] "Natives" were given separate facilities [...]. The hospital at the ISTK was similarly divided according to identity. An essentializing belief in “intrinsic factors” determined by skin color, constitutive to Tropical Medicine, materialized in the building’s circulation. Potential patients were assessed in the main building to determine their next destination in the hospital. A room labeled “Farbige” (colored) - visible in both Nocht and Schumacher’s publications - shows that the hospital segregated people of color from whites. [...]

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Despite belonging to two different disciplines [medicine and architecture], both Nocht and Schumacher’s publications articulate an understanding of health [...] that is linked to concepts of identity separating white upper-class German Europeans from others. [In] Hamburg [...] recent growth of the shipping industry and overt engagement of the German Empire in colonialism brought even more distant global connections to its port. For Schumacher, Hamburg’s presence in a global network meant it needed to strengthen its local identity and economy [by purposefully seeking to showcase "traditional" northern German neo-gothic brickwork while elevating local brick industry] lest it grow too far from its roots. In the case of Tropical Medicine at the ISTK, the “tropics” seemed to act as a foil for the European identity - a constructed category through which the European identity could redescribe itself by exclusion [...].

What it meant to be sick or healthy was taken up by both medicine and architecture - [...] neither in a vacuum.

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All text above by: Carrie Bly. "Mediums of Medicine: The Institute for Maritime and Tropical Diseases in Hamburg". Sick Architecture series published by e-flux Architecture. November 2020. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me. Text within brackets added by me for clarity. Presented here for commentary, teaching, criticism purposes.]

[bookofshitposts]

That politicians can perform a "Land Acknowledgement" or mark Indigenous Peoples' Day while simultaneously perpetuating and profiting from ecological devastation and cultural genocide, demonstrates the extreme dissonance of settler cognition. Our struggles and existence are celebrated in theatrical expressions of sympathy, of settler pity. These acknowledgments further victimize. They are the words inscribed above the gates to our open-air prison camps, that settler recognition and our victimhood will make us free.

And what of those of us who refuse to stick feathers up our asses and dance? What use are we other than skeletal victims ripe for anthropological examination as living dead artifacts? Yes. We are the bitter Indians, the unforgiving. We are the Bad Indians.

Klee Benally, No Spiritual Surrender: Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred

[jadeseadragon]

Repost @chaseironeyes

"Link in bio : stand with us and help send a message to the heritage foundation that we ain’t playing that Christian Fundamentalist domination

Take a breath and recognize the threat of Christian Fundamentalism to the evolution of the United States #Project2025

We’ll do a deeper dive I sat down and tried to get my guy 5 minutes to edit, instead I did four separate 20 minute takes. Just know we are up against corporate capture and corporate fascism and we must invest in the world we want for our children."

[wardensantoineandevka]

obsessed with the person who left an annoyed comment (that I deleted, for being a tar pit) on the Arbor Day post from Encyclopedia Exandria bc, quote, "people are important also, you make me sick"

like, buddy, caring for our trees and forests and instituting responsible land stewardship and environmental justice for the benefit of trees IS also taking care of people

human beings benefit from well-cared for trees and forests, wild thought!

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

El Ascod CONQUISTA Letonia: 42 Vehículos Blindados y un contrato de 373 MILLONES! Defensa+

El Ascod CONQUISTA Letonia: 42 Vehículos Blindados y un contrato de 373 MILLONES! Defensa+.

P.S.P.S. The main thing is that ASCOD is produced in European countries...

[thenuclearmallard]

Leaving this here from earlier. I wish Tumblr allowed you to respond with pictures, but I'd rather make the post and leave it. This is fair skin versus what my natural color coincides with. I do not intend to show disrespect when something is said or assumed of me, I try to keep it factual unless there are slurs and blatant disrespect used to which I respond with sarcasm. Here is the picture in question and a picture of what fair skin is. If I make a point in defense, I back myself up.

Top is the general scale, left is a fair skinned woman and the right is my profile picture which was said to be fair skinned. I am a lighter skinned Indigenous woman, there's no denying that, but I am not fair skin and that is my way of explaining that I am not. That is all.