cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36943977

The 4th Branch Lyrics

[Intro]

1. The new age is upon us
2. And yet the past refuses to rest in its shallow grave
3. For those who hide behind the false image of the son of man
4. Shall stand before God (God, God, God, God, God, God, God)
5. It has begun, the beginning of the end
6. Yeah ... yeah ... yeah, yeah

[Verse 1]

7. The voice of racism preaching the gospel is devilish
8. A fake church called the prophet Muhammad a terrorist
9. Forgetting God is not religion, but a spiritual bond
10. And Jesus is the most quoted prophet in the Qu'ran
11. They bombed innocent people, tryna murder Saddam
12. When you gave him those chemical weapons to go to war with Iran
13. This is the information that they hold back from Peter Jennings
14. 'Cause Condoleeza Rice is just a new age Sally Hemings
15. I break it down with critical language and spiritual anguish
16. The Judas I hang with, the guilt of betraying Christ
17. You murdered him, stole his religion, and painted him white
18. Translated in psychologically tainted philosophy
19. Conservative political right-wing ideology
20. Glued together sloppily, the blasphemy of a nation
21. Got my back to the wall 'cause I'm facin' assassination
22. Guantanamo Bay, federal incarceration
23. How could this be the land of the free, home of the brave
24. Indigenous holocaust, and the home of the slaves?
25. Corporate America dancin' offbeat to the rhythm
26. You really think this country never sponsored terrorism?
27. Human rights violations, we continue the saga
28. El Savador and the Contras in Nicaragua
29. And on top of that, you still want to take me to prison
30. Just 'cause I won't trade humanity for patriotism

[Chorus]

31. It's like MKUltra, controllin' your brain
32. Suggestive thinkin’, causin’ your perspective to change
33. They want to rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto
34. The fourth branch of the government want us to settle
35. A bandanna full of glittering generality
36. Fightin' for freedom and fightin' terror, but what's reality?
37. Read about the history of the place that we live in
38. And stop letting corporate news tell lies to your children

[Verse 2]

39. Flow like the blood of Abraham through the Jews and the Arabs
40. Broken apart like a woman's heart, abused in a marriage
41. The brink of holy war, bottled up like a miscarriage
42. Embedded correspondents don't tell the source of the tension
43. And they refuse to even mention European intervention
44. Or the massacres in Jenin, the innocent screams
45. US-manufactured missiles and M16s
46. Weapon contracts and corrupted American dreams
47. Media censorship blockin’ out the video screens
48. A continent of oil kingdoms bought for a bargain
49. Democracy is just a word when the people are starvin'
50. The average citizen made to be blind to the reason
51. A desert full of genocide where the bodies are freezin'
52. And the world doesn't believe that you fightin' for freedom
53. 'Cause you fucked the Middle East and gave birth to a demon
54. It's open season with the CIA buggin' my crib
55. Trapped in a ghetto region like a Palestinian kid
56. Where nobody gives a fuck whether you die or you live
57. I'm tryna give the truth and I know the price is my life
58. But when I'm gone they'll sing a song about Immortal Technique
59. Who beheaded the president and the princes and sheiks
60. You don't give a fuck about us, I can see through your façade
61. Like a fallen angel standing in the presence of God
62. Bitch niggas scared of the truth when it looks at you hard

[Chorus]

63. It's like MKUltra, controllin' your brain
64. Suggestive thinkin’, causin’ your perspective to change
65. They want to rearrange the whole point of view of the ghetto
66. The fourth branch of the government want us to settle
67. A bandanna full of glittering generality
68. Fightin' for freedom and fightin' terror, but what's reality?
69. Martial law is coming soon to the hood to kill you
70. While you hangin’ your flag out your project window

[Outro]

71. Yeah
72. The fourth branch of the government AKA the media
73. Seems to now have a retirement plan for ex-military officials
74. As if their opinion was at all unbiased
75. A machine shouldn't speak for men
76. So shut the fuck up, you mindless drone
77. And you know it's serious
78. When these same media outfits are spending millions of dollars on a PR campaign
79. To try to convince you they're fair and balanced
80. When they're some of the most ignorant and racist people
81. Giving that type of mentality a safe haven
82. We act like we share in the spoils of war that they do
83. We die in wars, we don't get the contracts to make money off 'em afterwards
84. We don't get weapons contracts, nigga
85. We don't get cheap labor for our companies, nigga
86. We are cheap labor, nigga
87. Turn off the news and read, nigga ... read
88. Read... read^[[1] https://genius.com/Immortal-technique-the-4th-branch-lyrics]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37972636

Nathan Bernard
Oct 23, 2025

“It’s been a helluva week,” said Platner as he took the stage. “I went from being a communist on Thursday to a Nazi by Monday.”

Platner opened his address by discussing the skull tattoo. Just a day earlier, Platner sent the internet into a frenzy over a skull tattoo revealed to be inked on his chest resembling Nazi iconography. He claimed ignorance of the tattoo’s links but apologized and fully covered the tattoo with Celtic knots and dogs. “I got it covered because I do not want something on my body that represents in any way the antithesis of my politics,” Platner said. “I grew up as a little punk rock kid listening to Dead Kennedys and Dropkick Murphys. So, I would say hating and fighting Nazis has been a big part of how I see myself. My continued disgust of racism, anti-semitism and Nazism has been a constant throughout my life. And still today anchors much of my politics.”

He concluded, “Fascism is a cancer, and it has no place here.” The statement was met with a raucous applause.

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SNAP Cuts: 42 Million Americans at Risk as Government Shuts Down

Sabby Sabs discusses the imminent risk to SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) benefits for 42 million Americans due to a government shutdown. She argues that politicians are "messing with people's lives" and that the government is deliberately mismanaging funds, pointing to foreign aid to countries like Israel and Argentina as evidence that domestic needs are being neglected.

Sabby Sabs' Main Points:

• Crisis Scale: 42 million Americans, including vulnerable groups like the disabled, elderly, children, and veterans, are at risk of losing SNAP benefits in November.
• Government Failure: She blames both Republican and Democratic politicians for holding the American people "hostage" and failing to govern effectively.
• Systemic Critique: The need for SNAP highlights a systemic failure to care for citizens. She criticizes the prioritization of foreign aid and military spending over domestic welfare.
• Impact on Vulnerable Groups: She specifically highlights how the shutdown and new work requirements will hurt the most vulnerable, including the disabled, elderly, and veterans.
• Inadequate State Response: She notes that states lack emergency funds to bridge the gap, placing the entire burden on community resources.

Mutual Aid Point: Sabby Sabs strongly advocates for building Mutual Aid networks as a necessary community-based solution. She argues that when government systems fail, people must rely on each other. She defines mutual aid as neighbors providing direct support like groceries, clothing, childcare, or transportation for free. She cites a real-world example from Atlanta where a mutual aid group is using proceeds from an event to help those affected by the SNAP cuts.

Event Information: Sabby Sabs is hosting a free Mutual Aid Workshop on Saturday, October 25th. Details and the Zoom link are available to those who sign up for her Substack newsletter. The workshop, co-hosted with JB, is designed to teach people how to start and run their own local mutual aid groups.

About Channel:

Leftist news commentary & interviews. Fighting for political and social change. Sabby Sabs podcast is a part of Revolutionary Blackout Network.

LIVESTREAM SCHEDULE:

• Tuesdays @7pm ET
• Thursdays & Fridays @8pm ET
• Every Other Sunday @5pm ET

Website: https://sabbysabs.com/

This is my solar powered setup. A somewhat old Pixel 6a that fell from a foot and a half (really!?), a 10w Solar setup that was around 20$ on amazon. And an old compost container I have too many of. Ill be giving it a proper 3d printed case when I get a chance (and a host of other changes) but for now this works! Its worth about 40$ in total (the phone is now worth about 21$ on the open market).

Website: https://solar.chrisco.me/

Website was made with a collection of scripts, apache2 (nginx for some reason did not install, errors), and termux. Ill open source the whole setup in a bit. Theres not much to it to be honest.

Hopefully keeping the battery at 80% will help the lifetime of the battery. I may bump it up at some point if it keeps dieing because lack of sunlight. But we shall see.

More info in the link. I couldn't get Piefed to repost from a GotoSocial link.

This is my solar powered setup. A somewhat old Pixel 6a that fell from a foot and a half (really!?), a 10w Solar setup that was around 20$ on amazon. And an old compost container I have too many of. Ill be giving it a proper 3d printed case when I get a chance (and a host of other changes) but for now this works! Its worth about 40$ in total (the phone is now worth about 21$ on the open market).

Website: https://solar.chrisco.me/

Website was made with a collection of scripts, apache2 (nginx for some reason did not install, errors), and termux. Ill open source the whole setup in a bit. Theres not much to it to be honest.

Hopefully keeping the battery at 80% will help the lifetime of the battery. I may bump it up at some point if it keeps dieing because lack of sunlight. But we shall see.

More info in the link. I couldn't get Piefed to repost from a GotoSocial link.

The Queensland government celebrated the creation of new national parks this year, with Premier David Crisafulli saying it is time to “get serious” and be “ambitious” in protecting nature.

But this claim doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Despite decades of conservation promises, Queensland remains a globally significant hotspot for destroying forests and native vegetation.

A new OECD report reveals that Australia’s education system is facing a diabolical staffing crisis**.** Since 2018, teacher shortages have soared leaving Australia among the worst-performing nations in the OECD.

The shortage is most acute in public schools, disadvantaged schools and regional town schools Despite the scale of the problem**,** progress in reducing it has been glacial. Governments have largely ignored the key causes of low teacher pay, high workloads, too much administrative work, lack of support and safety at work.

A new OECD report reveals that Australia’s education system is facing a diabolical staffing crisis**.** Since 2018, teacher shortages have soared leaving Australia among the worst-performing nations in the OECD.

The shortage is most acute in public schools, disadvantaged schools and regional town schools Despite the scale of the problem**,** progress in reducing it has been glacial. Governments have largely ignored the key causes of low teacher pay, high workloads, too much administrative work, lack of support and safety at work.

The headlines are breathless: “ China versus the world,” proclaimed The Australian, quoting some very important people from the sheriff’s office urging allies to “decouple” from Beijing and unite against China’s “takeover of global rare earth supply chains”.

Australia has always known it is resource-rich. What it hasn’t always done is convert that advantage into lasting national strength. In the last cycle, we let foreign companies dig out coal, gas and iron ore, ship them overseas and bank the profits offshore. What remained at home? High domestic prices, environmental damage, and — unlike Norway or the UAE — no sovereign wealth fund. They built futures. We padded quarterly profits – just not ours.

Now, with fossil fuels waning and clean energy ascendant, the danger repeats itself. Australia holds 36 of the 50 minerals the US classifies as “critical". Yet, if we treat these as bulk cargo, we’ll again export our ingredients and import the future framed for us.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37765549

Midwestern Marx | @MidwesternMarx

A video for those people who don’t understand why we support Palestine 🇵🇸 but NOT Ukraine. 🇺🇦

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7:09 PM | Oct 13, 2025

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Source: https://x.com/MidwesternMarx/status/1977919588798026077

Would you recommend to use a RPi 5 or a second hand Lenovo mini pc (i3 6100t, 8gb ram) or something else?

A 27 year old inner city art student has revealed her horror at the meeting between Albo and Trump earlier this week.

Sofia Hurley, the daughter of a magistrate judge and a well-known art dealer, has lived in her city’s once working-class inner suburbs ever since her parents bought the place as an investment.

She now insists that Prime Minister Albanese has “let the country down in a big way.” [...]

Today, Microsoft introduced Mico, a new and more personal avatar for the AI-powered Copilot digital assistant, which the company describes as human-centered.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/37846820

Europe is moving decisively away from U.S. tech giants toward open-source alternatives, driven by concerns over digital sovereignty and reliability of American companies[^1]. At the 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe, industry leaders emphasized that this shift isn't about isolation but resilience.

"What we're really looking for is resilience. What we want for our countries, for our companies, for ourselves, is resilience in the face of unforeseen events in a fast-changing world. Open source allows us to be sovereign without being isolated," said OpenInfra Foundation general manager Thierry Carrez[^1].

This transition is already happening. The German state Schleswig-Holstein has replaced Microsoft Exchange and Outlook with open-source email solutions. Similar moves have been made by the Austrian military, Danish government organizations, and the French city of Lyon[^1].

European companies are stepping up to fill the gap with open-source alternatives, including:

• Deutsche Telekom's Open Telekom Cloud
• OVHcloud's sovereign cloud services
• STACKIT and VanillaCore's European-based offerings[^1]

The movement gained additional momentum when the European Commission appointed its first executive vice president for tech sovereignty, security, and democracy in 2024[^1].

[^1]: ZDNet - Europe's plan to ditch US tech giants is built on open source - and it's gaining steam

it's a legal process where you turn into 'an ounce' or something idk BADPOST!