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Nonilex

#Trump’s actions & statements suggest he might be envisioning a world in which each of the 3 so-called great powers—the #UnitedStates, #China & #Russia—dominates its part of the globe, #ForeignPolicy analysts say.

It would be a throwback to a 19th-century style of #imperial rule.

Trump has said he wants to take #Greenland from Denmark, annex #Canada & re-establish American control of the #PanamaCanal.…extend[ing] US dominance in the Western Hemisphere….

#geopolitics
nytimes.com/2025/05/26/us/poli

President Trump and his aides have been trying to exert greater American influence from the Arctic Circle to South America’s Patagonia region.
The New York Times · What’s Trump’s Vision on China, Russia and the World?By Edward Wong
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Steve McCarty 🇯🇵

Green and more green: the season of new leaves in Japan. At Kyōto Imperial Palace (京都御所) I went into the former residence area of Emperors. Plus, from the northernmost subway station in the city, I walked around Treasure Pond (宝ヶ池公園), where I spotted a shy doe, oh deer!

It was during this season that my haiku in Japanese was published in the national Asahi Haidan, with a circulation of about eight million households at the time:

若葉には　枝に世界が　回るやう　(全国版朝日俳壇)
To young leaves
The world seems
To spin on a branch

For criteria on making or judging real haiku in languages other than Japanese, read:
"Internationalizing the Essence of Haiku Poetry":
researchgate.net/publication/3

Download my published haiku, the Bilingual Haiku Scroll (和英俳句の掛け軸), with some of my best Kyōto photos representing the four seasons:
researchmap.jp/waoe/works/3080

Built to house the sacred mirror, one of Japan's three semi-mythical Imperial treasures, at the Kyoto Imperial Palace.
Former Imperial garden and pond.
Treasure Pond in northernmost Kyoto City. It's amazing to step out of the subway into an environment like this.
Doe in Kyoto City: the poor dear must have felt stalked, sorry!
#haiku#poetry#Japan
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Geriatric Gardener

The latest blogpost by veteran UK socialist & anti-Zionist campaigner, Tony Greenstein:

“The Time Has Come for Britain’s Anti-Zionist Jewish Groups to Unite”

@palestine
@israel

“British & Western support for #Zionism is not because of their concern for Jews but because of their own #imperial interests. [..] It is for that reason alone that it is incumbent upon Jews who are not Zionists to say in both words & deed that what Israel does is *not in my name*”

azvsas.blogspot.com/2025/05/th

azvsas.blogspot.comThe Time Has Come for Britain’s Anti-Zionist Jewish Groups to Unite
#Israel
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Jason Stiff

A company I bought shoes from last year offered to send me shoes if I wore and reviewed them, and they arrived today in a Saturday surprise. I had NO idea what they'd look like. They have PLENTY of sole... I was 6'3" before, I'm 6'5" or 6'6" now. 😄 They look like Imperial shoes on Coruscant in Andor, and they're comfortable so far. 😊

#ALLSWIFIT#shoes#athletic
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Papa Maccus Primus

Fairytale Units btw is the SI name for anything in the Imperial measuring system.* Based on the fact that imperial not only is a witch's brew of childish units that don't go together, but also that things are based on barley corns. Barley corns. One inch was originally defined as three barley corns, and if that isn't some fairytale shit I don't know what is.

*no need to look it up, just accept it as true.
#imperial #SI #measurements #standards #science

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Geriatric Gardener

“Sights set on Somaliland: The threat of a total US–UK–Israeli takeover”

by Kit Klarenberg in The Cradle

“As Tel Aviv and Washington quietly court Somaliland as a destination for Gaza’s displaced, this British-controlled enclave on the #RedSea emerges as both a strategic #imperial #launchpad & potential open-air prison for Palestinians – armed, trained, & surveilled by London”

thecradle.co/articles/sights-s

thecradle.coSights set on Somaliland: The threat of a total US–UK–Israeli takeoverAs Tel Aviv and Washington quietly court Somaliland as a destination for Gaza’s displaced, this British-controlled enclave on the Red Sea emerges as both a strategic imperial launchpad and a potential open-air prison for Palestinians – armed, trained, and surveilled by London.
#Press#US#Israel
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Geriatric Gardener

“Beyond the App: America's Willing Acceptance of Imperial Crime”

by Raja Sohail Bashir in The Geopolitical Compass on Substack

“This article wields the Signal leak as a diagnostic tool. The disproportionate attention to process over substance exemplifies how the distraction machine operates: trivialities amplified, atrocities obscured, and publics anesthetized to the crimes committed in their name”

open.substack.com/pub/hailyb/p

The Geopolitical Compass · Beyond the App: America's Willing Acceptance of Imperial CrimeBy Raja Sohail Bashir
#Press#US#Signal
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Autiste à :ch_Vaud:🌊 #woke

#Trump’s #imperial plan is now eroding the #rights of people who thought they were safe

No one is safe in a #dicatorship. No one. And the closer you get to the power center, the more at risk you are. #arbitraryness is what characterizes such regime of #authoritarianism and #totalitarianism and it can hit anyone anywhere. You live with the constant fear of finding yourself suddenly on the wrong side of a constantly and hafazardly moving line. And so is it in the #USA.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

In this, there is something that can be seen everywhere in regimes that either have or crave absolute power. In order to seize authority and run a whole country according to the interests of a sovereign, more and more parties must be disenfranchised and repressed. The imperial form of governance is the prototype of what is required to exert control in the presence of mass dissent. But all political systems with large components that subdue a significant portion of the population cannot continue without those components overtaking the entire machine. It is a simple, almost elegant fact; something like a law of nature. But a nation that withholds its best ideals from some will end up losing them for all.
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