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It appears that a long lost original model of the Enterprise, used before the historic 6 foot model (which is in the Smithsonian) was complete has surfaced after nearly 50 years “missing”. Found in an abandoned storage unit and briefly listed on eBay yesterday before people informed the seller of it’s likely illegal provenance.

1 day ago

heritageposts:

I’m reading about how Israel, in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, deliberately replaced olive trees and other indigenous flora with European plants. This ecological disaster, which is now proudly hailed under the banner of ‘making the desert bloom,’ was done to 'de-Arabize’ the landscape, and to cover up - often with fast-growing European pine trees -the ruins of Palestinian villages that were destroyed by Zionists forces.

And I just need everyone to read this passage from Pappé, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:

The three aims of keeping the country Jewish, European-looking and Green quickly fused into one. This is why forests throughout Israel today include only eleven per cent of indigenous species and why a mere ten per cent of all forests date from before 1948.1 At times, the original flora manages to return in surprising ways. Pine trees were planted not only over bulldozed houses, but also over fields and olive groves. In the new development town of Migdal Ha-Emek, for example, the JNF did its utmost to try and cover the ruins of the Palestinian village of Mujaydil, at the town's eastern entrance, with rows of pine trees, not a proper forest in this case but just a small wood. Such 'green lungs' can be found in many of Israel's development towns that cover destroyed Palestinian villages (Tirat Hacarmel over Tirat Haifa, Qiryat Shemona over Khalsa, Ashkelon over Majdal, etc.). But this particular species failed to adapt to the local soil and, despite repeated treatment, disease kept afflicting the trees. Later visits by relatives of some of Mujaydial's original villagers, revealed that some of the pine trees had literally split in two and how, in the middle of their broken trunks, olive trees had popped up in defiance of the alien flora planted over them fifty-six years ago.ALT

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006, p. 227-228.)

1 day ago

discocuttlefish:

I love how in “Measure of a Man” Data doesn’t even give a hard no to Maddox’s plan to vivisect him. He’s just like, “Could you maybe do a bit more research before vivisecting me? Sorry, thanks.”

1 day ago

txttletale:

txttletale:

as well as all the ways that it’s just running rhetorical cover for the genocidal murder of the people of gaza, the liberal obsession with “condemming hamas” is so fucking indicative of Mind Palace Politics. like okay all us pro-palestine protestors will Condemn Hamas. we’ll go blockade all of those famous hamas arms factories in our countries, protest our politicians who go on TV saying hamas has the unconditional right to kill as many israelis as it wants, boycott all the multinational companies that work with hamas to help them kill israelis. oh wait whats that? none of those things fucking exist? only israel has those things? well then it seems like ‘condemming hamas’ is pretty fucking pointless innit!

like again even before you engage with the reality of what 'condemming hamas’ really means, every time i see some idiot pundit or liberal zionist handwringing over “why aren’t there marches against hamas in europe and america???” it is so fucking irritating because the answer is the most clearcut and obvious it could possibly be. americans aren’t having anti-hamas protests because their government isn’t arming, backing, funding, and enabling hamas. that’s why. it’s really fucking simple!

2 days ago
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