#systematic

[mushrooms010]

Systematic

Tell me that

You’ve never seen a system with a crack

That however improbable

And however small

Someone fell down

And wasn’t welcomed back up.

Because only so many times

Can the nail be hammered

Before the wood begins to warp

And only so long

Can the earthquake go on

Before the ground begins to fail.

System failure, system failure

Throw the dying ones a rope

But cut off their hands before you do

Or this systematic failure could be fixed.

Tell me how you’ve never seen

Someone fall and fall and fall

Down a hole so deep

It swallowed them up

Never to be noticed again.

Letters on a paper

Ruining lives

Laws for people

Who have never been seen.

System failure, system failure

The hammer keeps on hitting

So cut off their hands

And keep shaking their world

So the systematic failure can thrive.

[cha-mij]

[shattered-pieces]

‘Fighting for their release keeps me strong’: Ex-Ukrainian POW on mission to reveal horrors of Russian captivity - Geneva Solutions

As thousands of Ukrainian fighters and civilians remain in Russian custody, one former prisoner of war who endured torture is determined to expose the harsh conditions they face. He was in Geneva to tell his story, where UN experts have also been working to locate those who are missing. Oleksii Anulia has the body build one would expect from a kickboxing champion. It was hard to believe that the tall person standing in the hallways of the Palais des Nations in Geneva, a year and a half ago, was a frail body with protruding ribs, as seen in the picture he held up in his smartphone. The 31-year-old from the Chernihiv region was among the many Ukrainians who joined the military in February 2022 to resist the Russian invasion. He was also among the unlucky ones to be captured by the enemy forces, being a prisoner of war from 9 March 2022 until a swap of 140 Ukrainian POWs on New Year’s Eve of the same year. During his 10 months of captivity, Anulia was starved, beaten and tortured to the point of resulting in 36 hospitalisations since his release, he said. Despite that, Anulia told Geneva Solutions that “he has no time to feel depressed”. “Fighting for the release of those who are still captive keeps me strong,” he said. That’s what brought him to Geneva earlier this month for the United Nations Human Rights Council’s summer session at the invitation of the Oslo-based Human Rights Research League. In front of a room packed mostly with western diplomats, Anulia described in detail his ordeal, how he was captured in Lukashivka, a small town a few kilometres south of Chernihiv city, while his father was burned alive in a local church nearby. He was then driven to a place near Belarus in a truck carrying potatoes, ammunition and Russian corpses, where a Russian soldier who recognised him from his kickboxing days saved him from being raped. He recounted being moved through six different detention centres, including a notorious correctional colony in Donskoy town, in the Russian Tula province, south of Moscow. There, he endured horrid conditions, subsisting on nothing but two spoons of porridge at times, drinking his own urine and toilet water, and being electrocuted.

‘Widespread and systematic’ Though harrowing, Anulia’s story is not unique. The Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, set up by the Human Rights Council in 2022 to investigate violations during the war, released a report in March detailing the “horrific treatment” and torture of POWs in at least 11 detention centres across Russia and Russian-controlled areas in Ukraine. The document described the practices as “widespread and systematic”, potentially amounting to war crimes.

[enchantedephiphany]

Seeing Sednaya and what russians do to Ukrainians.... there isn't anything I can do to my characters that's too over the top. It might seem that way if I put it in my stories tho. That's how awful and unimaginable the ways are these torturers think up to hurt people.

[athena5898]

aza Government Media Office:

We sound the alarm bells: the Palestinian people have reached a catastrophic stage of hunger and escalating suffering. We call on the World Food Programme (WFP) to fulfill its responsibilities and distribute flour to our people to end the current food crisis and prevent the disaster of overcrowding at bakery doors.

For 420 days, the "israeli" occupation army has continued its policy of starvation against the Palestinian people, especially targeting children and women, by closing all crossings and access points to and from the Gaza Strip.

Amid the humanitarian disaster and the severe crisis our people are enduring, we are shocked by the utter failure of international organizations and institutions operating in Gaza, a matter we will address in detail in the coming days. We have become convinced that these entities align with the "israeli" occupation’s oppressive policies targeting civilians and vulnerable groups within the Palestinian population in Gaza, particularly children, women, and patients.

In this context, the World Food Programme (WFP) has refused to distribute the large quantities of flour stored in its warehouses to displaced individuals and Palestinian families in Gaza. This refusal appears to deliberately perpetuate the current food crisis, clearly aligning with the policies of the Israeli occupation.

Tragically, we have received news of (https://t.me/PalestineResist/70400) three deaths (https://t.me/PalestineResist/70400) and previously learned of other fatalities among those waiting at bakery doors for a loaf of bread to feed their families. These deaths were caused by large crowds of citizens driven to desperation by advanced stages of hunger, fulfilling the warnings we have issued repeatedly.

In light of this humanitarian catastrophe and the systematic starvation policy, we emphasize the following:

We condemn the compounded crimes committed by the "israeli" occupation army against the Palestinian people, foremost among them the systematic starvation of vulnerable groups, particularly children, women, and civilians. We call on all nations to condemn these crimes, classified under international law as crimes against humanity.

We demand that the World Food Programme (WFP) take immediate responsibility for the field disasters resulting from its questionable policies in managing operations in Gaza. We call for the immediate and urgent distribution of flour to the Palestinian people in Gaza to end the food crisis and prevent further tragedies at bakery doors. We also demand that WFP assume its administrative, legal, and moral responsibilities toward the families of the martyrs who lost their lives in recent days due to overcrowding and compensate these bereaved families, as their deaths result from WFP's failed policies.

We warn all international institutions and organizations against aligning with the policies of the "israeli" occupation by deliberately managing systematic starvation or contributing to tightening the blockade or undermining the work of various institutions and organizations. The Palestinian people will not accept this under any circumstances.

We call on Arab and Islamic nations to take a clear stand regarding the plight of the Palestinian people under "israeli" occupation and against collaborators exacerbating the humanitarian crisis to catastrophic levels in Gaza.

We urge the international community, UN bodies, and global organizations to shoulder their historical, moral, administrative, and legal responsibilities and work to stop the genocide carried out by the "israeli" occupation against the Palestinian people, which has so far claimed over 160,000 victims, including martyrs, missing persons, wounded, and detainees.

We sound the alarm to the entire world: the Palestinian people have reached an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. With no solutions in sight, we are approaching a catastrophe more imminent than ever before.

[everything--under--the--stars]

I love local live music shows so much. There's something so beautiful about sharing the night with 50 or so other people, hearing music only a few thousand (at most) others will ever hear, and having an experience that will never be captured digitally in any meaningful way. Big concerts are great and if it's an artist of band that you love then it's absolutely worth it, but watching some 21 year old film student ascend to the astral plain in a parking lot is free and just as fun.

[loostinyoureyes-blog]

From 1948 through the 1990s, a single word dominated life in South Africa: Apartheid. Apartheid -Afrikaans for "apartness" or "separation" -kept the country's majority black population under the thumb of a small white minority. The segregation began in 1948 after the National Party came to power. The party instituted policies of white supremacy, which empowered white South Africans, descendants of Dutch and British settlers, while further disenfranchising black indigenous Africans.

[bouncinghedgehog]

[d1shsoap]

YOOOOOOOOOOOO

HAPPY FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL AROMANTIC VISIBILITY DAY

[unbrokenjourney]

I live in a country where it feels like a crime to be Black or Brown-skinned, a crime to exist as a minority. I feel as though we’ve been stripped of our rights by the very system that was supposed to protect us. I don’t feel loved by this country—a country built on stolen land, taken from the Indigenous peoples who first called it home. The Native American tribes who nurtured this land were violently displaced, and their cultures were nearly erased by colonizers who claimed it as their own.

Let’s not forget that the so-called ‘discovery’ of the Americas is a lie perpetuated by history books. This land was not discovered by Christopher Columbus or Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer whose name inspired ‘The United States of America.’ In truth, the Americas were known and explored long before their arrival. Evidence suggests that Abu Bakari II of Mali, an African king, sailed to the Americas nearly 200 years before Columbus set foot on these shores. Abu Bakari, known for his vision and exploration, abdicated his throne to lead a fleet of ships across the Atlantic, making him one of the earliest explorers of this land.

Yet, these contributions—along with the sacrifices, resilience, and brilliance of Black, Brown, and Indigenous peoples—are ignored or erased in the narrative of this nation’s founding. Instead, we live in a system that continues to oppress, criminalize, and dehumanize minorities while glorifying the very people who stole and exploited this land.

This is why it’s so important to challenge the narrative, to reclaim our history, and to demand love and justice from a country that has given us so little in return.

(Link here 🔗: https://aaregistry.org/story/african-voyage-to-the-americas-a-story/)

https://aaregistry.org/story/african-voyage-to-the-americas-a-story/

[raffaellopalandri]

Organizing Knowledge: My Mental Map for Learning

I usually do not spend much time chatting about pointless or purposeless topics, both because of my nature and because of the Buddhist precept of abstaining from idle chatter. Photo by Miguel u00c1. Padriu00f1u00e1n on Pexels.com Also, I notice that when I speak in a social gathering and the topic involves knowledge and learning, people find my style quite different from theirs, if not somewhat…

[tenth-sentence]

His systematic observations revealed that the universe is not static.

"The Fabric of the Cosmos" - Brian Greene

[inthewindtunnel]

Italoconnection

Systematic

[shattered-pieces]

The Commission’s recent findings demonstrate that Russian authorities have committed torture in all provinces of Ukraine where areas came under Russian control and in the detention facilities investigated in the Russian Federation. This confirms that torture was widespread. Additional shared patterns in the way in which torture was committed showed that it was systematic. These patterns concern the categories of persons targeted, the commonality of methods employed, the aim for which torture was used, and the transposition of violent practices common in Russian Federation detention facilities to similar facilities in areas under Russian control in Ukraine.  The cases documented illustrate that Russian authorities have deployed or recruited personnel, who have acted in a coordinated manner and according to a division of labour in the commission of torture. Testimonies collected describe the involvement of officials of the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, as well as of Russian armed forces officers; witnesses referred to orders to commit torture and a prevailing sense of impunity.  The overall findings lead the Commission to consider that it has sufficient evidence to determine that the Russian authorities have acted pursuant to a coordinated state policy and have therefore committed crimes against humanity of torture.

[apologeticsfromtheattic]

In this episode we watch a clip where John Macarthur explains the importance of Systematic Theology, then we look at a few pages from Reformed Systematic Theology by Beeke and Smalley. Need a Bible Rebound or want to purchase a new rebound Bible? Go to: www.newkenbiblerebinding.com

[wanderingibon]

anya deserved so much better