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Mr Intergalactic KeyboardA few years back I read this book, Raven Rock, by Garrett Graff. I can’t recommend it enough. It covers the history of the Cold War and the defense strategies to protect political leadership in the event of a nuclear attack. So many fascinating details and stories. One of the things that really surprised me was how many US presidents said they wouldn’t leave the Oval Office. Eventually the strategies baked this in. Another fascinating detail was that JFK ran on a platform that promoted building more nukes, but once he became president he learned that America already had 10x more nukes than Russia. <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/BookReview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BookReview</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uspol</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/coldwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coldwar</a>

Flipboard Culture DeskSwitzerland has more bunkers per capita than anywhere else in the world — in the event of a crisis, every resident of the country would be guaranteed shelter space. The Dial takes a look at the origins of the bunker-building policy, what the underground shelters provide, and how they're used during peacetime — as wine cellars, saunas and even, in the case of large "command posts," as overflow housing for refugees.<a href="https://flip.it/xHke8p" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://flip.it/xHke8p</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Switzerland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Switzerland</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Culture</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColdWar</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@histodons</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/EmergencyPreparedness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EmergencyPreparedness</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Prepping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Prepping</a>

Zoocide Black Metal<a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/ArtWolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtWolf</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/HarshNoiseWallWednesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HarshNoiseWallWednesday</a>Vomir Ulbricht, First Secretary of the Harsh Noisist Unity Party<a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Noise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Noise</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/HarshNoise" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HarshNoise</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/HarshNoiseWall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HarshNoiseWall</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/HNW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HNW</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Vomir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vomir</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meme</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Memes</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Satire</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Humor</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Humour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Humour</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Fun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fun</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Jokes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jokes</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/FanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FanArt</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalArt</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/GIMP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GIMP</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Politik" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politik</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/DDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DDR</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/GDR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GDR</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Communism</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColdWar</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/Berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Berlin</a> <a href="https://metalhead.club/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a>

Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/2015983/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/2015983/</a> World is ‘lining up’ to work with Europe amid Trump’s trade war – POLITICO <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Americas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Americas</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Canad%C3%A1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canadá</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#China</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColdWar</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GiorgiaMeloni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GiorgiaMeloni</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/iceland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#iceland</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#India</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Malaysia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Malaysia</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/markets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#markets</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Mercosur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercosur</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Philippines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Philippines</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SouthAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthAmerica</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/stability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stability</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tariffs</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trade</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TradeWar</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UrsulaVonDerLeyen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UrsulaVonDerLeyen</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/XiJinping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XiJinping</a>

UK<a href="https://www.europesays.com/uk/39923/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/uk/39923/</a> World is ‘lining up’ to work with Europe amid Trump’s trade war – POLITICO <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Americas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Americas</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#China</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColdWar</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#European</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GiorgiaMeloni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GiorgiaMeloni</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Iceland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iceland</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/India" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#India</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Malaysia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Malaysia</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Markets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Markets</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Mercosur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercosur</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewZealand</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Philippines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Philippines</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SouthAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthAmerica</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Stability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stability</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tariffs</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Trade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trade</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/TradeWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TradeWar</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UrsulaVonDerLeyen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UrsulaVonDerLeyen</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/XiJinping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#XiJinping</a>

Politico.eu (Unofficial RSS)Von der Leyen: World is ‘lining up’ to work with Europe amid Trump’s trade war <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/urusla-von-der-leyen-world-lining-up-work-european-union-donald-trump-trade-war/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.politico.eu/article/urusla-von-der-leyen-world-lining-up-work-european-union-donald-trump-trade-war/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/southamerica" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthAmerica</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/environment" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Environment</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/stability" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Stability</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/americas" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Americas</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/mercosur" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mercosur</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/tradewar" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tradewar</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/coldwar" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColdWar</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/markets" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Markets</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/tariffs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tariffs</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/tradeuk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TradeUK</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/trade" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trade</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://social.espeweb.net/tag/trade" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trade</a>

michael<a href="https://photog.social/tags/Soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Soviet</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/MiG21" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MiG21</a> abandoned in <a href="https://photog.social/tags/Mongolia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Mongolia</a> There were many such aircraft left behind during the Soviet withdrawl in the final years of the <a href="https://photog.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColdWar</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photo</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://photog.social/tags/TravelPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TravelPhotography</a>

UK<a href="https://www.europesays.com/uk/35949/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/uk/35949/</a> Germany admits it is NOT ready for World War Three as it issues chilling warning to residents <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColdWar</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Germany</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WorldWar3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WorldWar3</a>

Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/2009230/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/2009230/</a> Why Does America Have a “Space Force”? <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColdWar</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SovietUnion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SovietUnion</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#space</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SpaceRace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SpaceRace</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/U" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#U</a>.S.SpaceForce

XharkSelf - Chorus Cover！🎙️🎹🎸 □⬜︎◼️1979◼️⬜︎□ 【 Go West - Village People ( Pet Shop Boys ) 】🎶 🔽YouTube🔽 <a href="https://youtu.be/XJdiWxXAYx8?si=SySXh32lhqynN_ZL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">youtu.be/XJdiWxXAYx8?...</a> If you like it, please subscribe to my YouTube🤓✨ <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Music" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Music</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23musicsky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musicsky</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23musiciansky" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musiciansky</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23nowplaying" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nowplaying</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23villagepeople" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#villagepeople</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%2370s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#70s</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23coldwar" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coldwar</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/XJdiWxXAYx8?si=SySXh32lhqynN_ZL" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">【 Go West - Village People ( P...</a>

µPJust published:Andrew Adamatzky (Ed.): Post-apocalyptic Computing. New Yersey et al.: World Scientific 2025... with my chapter on "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Doomsday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doomsday</a> Machines Computer and Computing in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColdWar</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScienceFiction</a>"<a href="https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811297144_fmatter" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811297144_fmatter</a>

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MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History April 13, 1953: CIA Director Allen Dulles launched the MKUltra mind control program. The program ran from 1953 to 1973. It involved giving human subjects LSD and other drugs, often without their knowledge. Then, researchers would try to “weaken” their minds and force confessions through brainwashing and psychological torture. Over 7,000 U.S. war veterans were unwitting test subjects, as well as many Canadian and U.S. civilians. The program was a continuation of Nazi mind-control experiments, which utilized mescaline against Jews and Soviet prisoners, hoping it could be exploited as a “truth” serum. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor of the CIA, recruited many of these Nazi torturers in the wake of World War II to exploit their knowledge and research. MKUltra was headed by Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, who later devised plans to kill Fidel Castro with an exploding cigar, and saturating his shoes with radioactive thallium to make his beard fall out. He also tried to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of Congo, with poison. Several well-known liberals and radicals knowingly participated in MKUltra and its OSS predecessors, either as test subjects (e.g., Ken Kesey, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hunter), or as researchers (e.g., anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson). Others who have been alleged to have been victims or volunteers include Sirhan Sirhan, Ted Kaczyinski, Charles Manson, and Whitey Bulger. For a really fascinating look at Margaret Mead's and Gregory Bateson’s exploration with hallucinogens and their connection to MKUltra, check out the recent book, Tripping on Utopia, by Benjamin Breen. And for a truly amazing documentary on the 1961 CIA-supported coup in Congo, check out the 2024 documentary, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat.” But the film is really about so much more than the coup. It covers Cold War machinations, propaganda, and covert operations in the early 1960s; the superpowers’ jockeying for control of puppet regimes and spheres of influence in the global south; the Pan-African movement; racism in the U.S., the Civil Rights movement, and the repression against it; and, of course, jazz music, including tons of interviews and live footage of Lumumba, Ghanian president and revolutionary Kwame Nkrumah, activist and writer Andree Madeleine Blouin, Malcolm X, Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Miriam Makeba, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, surrealist artist Rene Magritte. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cia</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mindcontrol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mindcontrol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#torture</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lsd</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mkultra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mkultra</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/castro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#castro</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nazis</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#oss</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/allenginsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#allenginsberg</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lumumba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lumumba</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/malcolmx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#malcolmx</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coltrane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coltrane</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/jazz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jazz</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#imperialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kenkesey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kenkesey</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/margaretmead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#margaretmead</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/charlesmanson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#charlesmanson</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mescaline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mescaline</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/castro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#castro</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#soviet</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coldwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coldwar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ussr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ussr</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#film</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#documentary</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

stefania maurizithe multi-awarded journalist and filmmaker <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaulJay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulJay</a> gave us a great interview in which he analyses the secrets and lies from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColdWar</a> to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> Musk-Thiel era, which shape the US foreign policy.Today we run it in our newspaper <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FattoQuotidiano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FattoQuotidiano</a>

Europe Says<a href="https://www.europesays.com/1991177/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.europesays.com/1991177/</a> North Korean commando involved in plot to kill South Korean president dies at 82 <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/assassination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#assassination</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColdWar</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NorthKorea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorthKorea</a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/SouthKorea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SouthKorea</a>

Aaron DeVriesThe full sized M29 Davy Crockett finished printing. Only a couple small changes needed for the production model. I will also be sanding, finishing and painting this one.It's a lot of fun to hold, I love my nuclear son.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/3Dprinting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#3Dprinting</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/3Dmodeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#3Dmodeling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nuclear</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/coldwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#coldwar</a>

NonilexThe <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> admin is using a rarely invoked <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColdWar</a>-era <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> statute to justify the potential <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deportation</a> of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MahmoudKhalil</a>, a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Palestinian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestinian</a> grad student which they claim poses a national security threat. The threat of Khalil's <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/deportation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#deportation</a> is reigniting debate over the limits of free speech for immigrants and the federal government's broad authority over <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/immigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#immigration</a> policy.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://www.latintimes.com/look-obscure-cold-war-law-revived-deportation-case-against-pro-palestinian-activist-580484" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.latintimes.com/look-obscure-cold-war-law-revived-deportation-case-against-pro-palestinian-activist-580484</a>

Félicien Breton 🍉 🔻 🌱I am driven by my emotions."Our opinions generally have emotional rather than intellectual roots, and indeed rationality largely functions as a post hoc justification. Our political opinions, ultimately, are what we feel about the world, not what we think about it. And in turn, our opinions about particular events have a lot to do with how we feel about the world in general. It’s not an exaggeration to say that most people’s views about the kind of things that happen today are extensions of concerns of their own ego. And consequently, invitations to change their minds because new facts emerge, or because old ideas are discredited by new evidence, are in fact a threat to the strength and even survival of that ego.""But few people, especially those who have received a decent education, want to acknowledge that their views are based on emotion and not reason. 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Jacob Something<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColdWar</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Economics</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/CMEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CMEA</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Comecon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Comecon</a>I'm wondering what would have happened if the Eastern Bloc had used Agile instead of the 5-year plan.

Nathaniel GregoryIt's not a coincidence that every concession <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workers</a> gained in the 20th-century has been taken away by the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/capitalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#capitalists</a> since the end of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ColdWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ColdWar</a>. Why? Because they no longer fear <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#revolution</a>. As long as that fear of revolution was there, they were forced to make concessions.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democrats</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Republicans</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Liberals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Conservatives</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vote</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Election</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DemocraticParty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DNC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RepublicanParty</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RNC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JDVance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biden</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KamalaHarris</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimWalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TimWalz</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#US</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a>

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