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🎬 A must-watch documentary on how militarism, extractivism & technology turn entire regions into intoxicated pacified fiefdoms for exploitation. Palestine and every Indigenous people resisting, are crushed the same way. https://t.co/N7HXRJ02jj https://t.co/6V2StnZahx #Documentary #Militarism #IndigenousRights #PS

[Thread] [1/6] Je pense que l’on peut désormais affirmer que la France traverse la plus grandes catastrophe agricole nationale depuis 1945. Sans aide publique, 30 000 à 35 000 exploitations pourraient se retrouver en situation de faillite, soit près de 10 % des exploitations agricoles françaises. C’est monstrueux. Les conditions climatiques exceptionnelles que nous connaissons aujourd’hui se rapprochent de ce qui deviendra beaucoup plus fréquent, voire ordinaire, dans les prochaines décennies. 2026 sera dans la moyenne de 2050. Nous connaîtrons encore des années plus chaudes et plus extrêmes que 2026. Le constat devient donc difficile à éviter : notre modèle agricole n’est pas suffisamment préparé au changement climatique qui arrive. C’est aussi le résultat d’un échec politique collectif : les gouvernements successifs n’ont pas suffisamment pris la mesure de l’ampleur des bouleversements que le changement climatique impose déjà, et imposera demain, à notre agriculture. Il ne s’agit plus seulement de réparer les dégâts après chaque sécheresse, canicule ou mauvaise récolte. Il faut désormais engager une transformation structurelle de notre agriculture. Voici les pertes de rendement les plus fiables que j'ai pu trouver par rapport à la moyenne de 5 dernières années (uniquement pour les cultures de printemps et d'été). #Agriculture #ChangementClimatique #France

Hasan Piker, a leftist influencer on Twitch with over 3 million subscribers, is becoming a controversial topic for Democrats as the 2026 midterms approach due to statements deemed antisemitic regarding Israel, prompting several party officials to distance themselves and Republicans to exploit the controversy. (translated)

What Chairman Mao and Dolores Umbridge Have in Common In Harry Potter, Dolores Umbridge is a more realistic villain than Voldemort: she gains power through titles, loyalty, conformity, and paperwork, not competence. She weakens Defense Against the Dark Arts by replacing practical preparation with Ministry-approved theory—her real talent is playing the institutional game. This echoes Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil,” where ordinary people advance by obeying and enforcing a system. When loyalty matters more than ability, institutions start selecting for mediocrity. The parallel with Maoist China is stark. During the Cultural Revolution, Zhang Tiesheng was celebrated for submitting a blank exam and attacking “bookworms.” Despite poor results, political loyalty earned him a seat in the National People’s Congress. Mao’s promotion rule was effectively “red and expert”: political reliability outweighed competence. The consequences were catastrophic. Honest reporting was punished, so officials produced what Mao wanted to hear. False harvest data drove unrealistic targets and helped fuel the Great Leap Forward famine, which killed tens of millions. Education was politicized too: the Gaokao was abolished in 1966, and when admissions resumed, scores were replaced by class background, manual labor experience, and Party recommendations; the national exam returned only in 1977. Totalitarian systems don’t just remove capable people—they select for those politically reliable and morally compliant. Mediocrity shields leaders from rivals; reduced conscience makes coercion easier. Psychologist Andrew Lobaczewski called this pathocracy: rule by the pathological disordered, where normal institutions lose their ability to distinguish honest from manipulative. The system keeps its name and stated purpose while serving something else. The lesson: tyranny doesn’t require everyone to become evil. It requires enough people to stop recognizing the pathological. Once that moral filter disappears, institutions become vulnerable to exploitation—how psychopaths take over a society.

The Austrian Critique of Marx followed a line from value theory to economic coordination. 1) **Menger:** Value is **subjective**. People value goods because they think they satisfy wants; water in a desert can be far more valuable than water at home, with production labor unchanged. 2) **Böhm-Bawerk:** Marx’s surplus value is flawed. **Time and capital** matter: wages and costs are advanced before revenue arrives, so interest/profit reflect time preference, risk, and production structure—not unpaid labor. 3) **Transformation problem:** Marx’s labor-values should imply different surplus values by industry, but competition pushes toward equal profit rates. Marx tried to convert values into **prices of production**, yet the inconsistency with his earlier theory remains debated. 4) **Mises:** The key issue is whether socialism can **calculate**. Rational planning needs prices for **capital goods**, which only markets under **private ownership** can generate. 5) **Hayek:** Knowledge is **dispersed** and local. **Prices** transmit that information so coordination can occur without everyone knowing the full cause. 6) **Rothbard:** Profit isn’t necessarily exploitation. Capitalists bear uncertainty, organize production, and pay wages upfront; workers get an agreed wage, while profit is what remains if the venture succeeds. So the deepest split is not only about profit source, but about coordination: Marx asks who appropriates value; Austrians increasingly ask how millions coordinate exchange, knowledge, and expectations at all.

🇫🇷🇺🇸🎫🎬 FLASH | Énorme succès pour « L’Odyssée » de Christopher Nolan : le film a dépassé les 7 MILLIONS d’entrées en France après seulement 7 semaines d’exploitation. Il devient seulement le 10e film à franchir ce cap depuis le Covid et pulvérise le précédent record de Nolan en France, détenu par « Inception » avec 4,9 millions d’entrées. #Cinéma #ChristopherNolan #LOdyssée

More than 300 Belgians contracted salmonellosis after consuming contaminated eggs sold by chains like Colruyt and Delhaize, prompting the Afsca to issue a recall for specific batches from the producer Laerco, while blocking the affected poultry operation and alerting other European countries about this contamination. (translated)

In the context of increasing environmental disasters, the authors advocate for a revolution in lifestyles and thinking rather than mere adaptation, emphasizing the urgency of recognizing our interdependence with nature and the fatal consequences of the irresponsible exploitation of resources. (translated)