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doboprobodyne<a href="https://mstdn.ca/@AlisonCreekside" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AlisonCreekside</a> I'm always deeply wary of anyone that isn't the Roman Empire trying to start a new salute (or reappropriate an old one).There are a variety of perfectly acceptable options (handshake, touching elbows, namaste) depending upon how socially distanced one wishes to be.I wonder if there's merit in making anyone wishing to start a new salute use one from the <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ArnoldRimmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArnoldRimmer</a> character in <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/RedDwarf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RedDwarf</a>.<a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SciFi</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comedy</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BBC</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#military</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/paramilitary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paramilitary</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/brownShirts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brownShirts</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a>

Headlines AfricaSudanese army chief vows to defeat RSF <a href="http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJr6NC" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJr6NC</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Sudan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sudan</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Military" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Military</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/RSF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RSF</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/AbdelFattahAlBurhan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AbdelFattahAlBurhan</a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Paramilitary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Paramilitary</a>

BongolianThe <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/mercenaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mercenaries</a> who took on Northern California's hippies resurface: 'It was like a nightmare,' a tree-sitter said of Lear's psychological warfare Paul Trouette, the CEO of Lear Asset Management, stares down a environmental protester in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Humboldt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Humboldt</a> County, flanked by one of his operatives.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#California</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Idaho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Idaho</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LearAssetManagement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LearAssetManagement</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/paramilitary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paramilitary</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Coeurd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Coeurd</a>’Alene <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/northcoast/article/lear-asset-management-history-cannabis-forest-20213983.php" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sfgate.com/northcoast/article/lear-asset-management-history-cannabis-forest-20213983.php</a>

The Kyiv Independent [unofficial]Ukraine Daily summary - Saturday, March 15 2025 ‘I can’t sit and watch it’: US volunteers join Ukrainian army after Trump’s sharp policy turn -- Putin still seeks control over Ukraine despite US peace efforts -- Ukraine, EU look to deepen cybersecurity cooperation as Russian threat rises -- Russian troops attacked a residential area in Kryvyi Rih in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast with ballistic missiles -- Ukraine is the front line in the battle against oligarchic capitalism -- and more <a href="https://writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/Ukraine%20Daily%20summary%20-%20%20Saturday,%20March%2015%202025/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/Ukraine%20Daily%20summary%20-%20%20Saturday,%20March%2015%202025/</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History October 27, 2006: U.S. anarchist activist and journalist, Brad Will, was murdered by a government-affiliated paramilitary while covering the teachers’ strike in Oaxaca, Mexico. He was affiliated with Indymedia. In the 1990s, he worked as a teaching assistant to Peter Lamborn Wilson (a.k.a. Hakim Bey). He later moved to a squat in New York’s Lower East Side. He once participated in a protest against a proposed amendment to the Colorado constitution that sought to curtail gay rights, by pretending to marry another man, dressed in drag, with a parade in front of a Promise Keepers event in Boulder, Colorado. He was also active in Earth First, pirate radio, and other causes.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/bradwill" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#bradwill</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oaxaca" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#oaxaca</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/teachers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#teachers</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/assassination" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#assassination</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mexico</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/paramilitary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#paramilitary</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deathsquads" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#deathsquads</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#anarchism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pirateradio" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#pirateradio</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/earthfirst" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#earthfirst</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lgbtq" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#lgbtq</a>

DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Blackwater</a> Founder <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrince" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ErikPrince</a> Indicted for Arms Sales to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Libya" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Libya</a>By Miriam RafteryJuly 27, 2023 (San Diego) — "The name Erik Prince became familiar to many residents in San Diego’s East County when Blackwater, the private military contracting firm he founded, sought to build a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/paramilitary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#paramilitary</a> training camp in Potrero."Now Austria has indicted Prince for alleged arms trafficking to Libya in violation of a United Nations arms embargo; at least one shipment of explosives reportedly went through <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Austria" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Austria</a> using an Austrian business, BNN reports. Prince is accused of organizing a covert military operation to supply Libyan warlord <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KhalifaHafter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#KhalifaHafter</a> with war equipment for rebellion against a government backed by the U.S. and the U.N."If convicted, Prince could face up to five years in prison. However, it is unclear whether or not he will be extradited to Austria; Prince holds residency in both the U.S. and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbuDhabi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AbuDhabi</a>. Prince has denied UN allegations of arms peddling to Libya."The local <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Potrero" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Potrero</a> project drew massive opposition on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#environmental</a> grounds as well as the many controversies involving Blackwater, which Prince was CEO and chairman of at the time. The Harris Fire in October 2007 displaced many residents, but that didn’t stop them from showing up to vote and recall all five community planning group members who had voted for the project, which sparked national news headlines."The 2007 firestorms scorched Round Potrero Valley, where Blackwater planned to store <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ammunition" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ammunition</a> and a bunkhouse with 200 men in the box valley with only one exit. "Blackwater ultimately dropped plans for the Potrero facility in 2008, ostensibly due to noise mediation requirements, although those had not changed since the project’s inception."Prince, a former Navy Seal before founding Blackwater in 2009, is no stranger to controversy. Three Blackwater guards were convicted in 2014 of manslaughter and another of murder in charges stemming from the massacre of civilians in Baghdad’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NissourSquare" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NissourSquare</a> in 2007. In March 2009, Prince resigned as Blackwater’s CEO but remained chairman of the board until the company’s sale in late 2010."Blackwater’s successor company, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Academi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Academi</a>, was accused of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArmsTrafficking" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ArmsTrafficking</a> in 2012 dating back to when Prince served as CEO and Chairman. Then in 2020, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FBI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FBI</a> investigated Prince for arms trafficking involving <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cropduster" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cropduster</a> planes converted for military use."He moved to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates in 2010, where he was hired by the crown prince to organize foreign troops for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UAE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#UAE</a> and formed a new firm called <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReflectResponses" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ReflectResponses</a>, or R2. He later trained Somalis in anti-piracy operations with UAE funding."Prince also leads a private equity firm, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FrontierResourcesGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#FrontierResourcesGroup</a> and until April 2021, chaired Frontier Services Group Ltd., which had various business dealings in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Africa</a>."Prince also drew controversy over revelations that he lied to the House Intelligence Committee in Nov. 2017 about his involvement in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Trump</a> transition team and was at a Trump Tower meeting that allegedly had backchannel communications with a representative of Russian President Vladimir <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Putin</a>. A Special Counsel in 2018 found evidence contradicting Prince, the Washington Post reported. The House Intelligence Committee Chair Adam Schiff sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department which announced in 2020 that it had opened an investigation into Prince’s alleged perjury during his testimony."Politically well connected, Prince is the sister of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BetsyDevos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BetsyDevos</a>, former Secretary of Education under President Donald Trump, and has been a major donor to numerous Republican candidates and a Trump-aligned super-pac."<a href="https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-indicted-arms-sales-libya" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-indicted-arms-sales-libya</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PrivateArmy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Xe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Xe</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PrivateArmies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#PrivateArmies</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Fascism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ErikPrinceColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ErikPrinceColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CorporateColonialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Blackwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Blackwater</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TigerSwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TigerSwan</a>

DoomsdaysCWMore of this, please! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Maine</a> Town Drives Out ‘<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BloodTribe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BloodTribe</a>’ <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Nazi</a> Encampment MOVE ON OUTA <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhiteSupremacist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WhiteSupremacist</a> group bought up land in rural Maine for a headquarters. Months after their location was revealed, they’ve sold the property. "'We made the decision to sell the 10 acres that was in my name up here,' he wrote. 'With the militant leftist <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/doxing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#doxing</a> the location, it was basically too dangerous to fulfill its purpose to be a safe space for families to make the transition up here. People were coming up there all the time, snooping and getting very brazen, even driving down into the clearing.'"But Maine lawmakers had previously warned that the compound’s residents posed a potential risk to locals. 'We have a problem with Nazis coming to set up a military-style camp,' Maine State Sen. Joe Baldacci told The Daily Beast in August, noting that he was proposing a law like one on the books in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Vermont" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Vermont</a>, where <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/paramilitary" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#paramilitary</a>-style training facilities are banned."Read more: <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/maine-town-drives-out-blood-tribe-nazi-encampment" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.thedailybeast.com/maine-town-drives-out-blood-tribe-nazi-encampment</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoRoomForHate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NoRoomForHate</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiNazi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AntiNazi</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Antifa</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoSafeSpaceForNazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NoSafeSpaceForNazis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoRoomForHateInOurState" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NoRoomForHateInOurState</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NazisGoHome" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NazisGoHome</a>

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