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William Blum: No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine. wordsmith.social/protestation/…



Enver Hoxha: While adhering unwaveringly to the teachings of Marxism-Leninism on the violent revolution as a universal law, the revolutionary party of the working class is resolutely opposed to adventurism and never plays with armed insurrection. In all conditions and circumstances, it carries out an unceasing revolutionary struggle and activity in various forms, in order to prepare itself and the masses for the decisive battles in the revolution, for the overthrow of the rule of the bourgeoisie with revolutionary violence. But only when the revolutionary situation has fully matured does it put armed insurrection directly on the order of the day and take all the political, ideological, organizational and military measures to carry it through to victory. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


La vie est trop courte pour la passer à regretter tout ce qu'on n'a pas eu le courage de tenter.


Cette citation serait extraite du roman "Du diable au cœur" de Marie-Claude Bussières-Tremblay (1985).

Je n'ai pas les moyens de vérifier.


|La vie est trop courte pour la passer à regretter tout ce qu'on n'a pas eu le courage de tenter.|



Enver Hoxha: In the present revolutionary situations, the Marxist-Leninist parties throughout the world must fight continuously to strengthen their ranks and their Marxist-Leninist unity, to link themselves closely with the masses of people and with one another, because the communist and workers' movement throughout the world is one of the fundamental factors frustrating the plans concocted against the people by both the Soviet revisionists and the US imperialists, who from day to day are strengthening their fascist dictatorships in order to dominate the world. These Marxist-Leninist parties must increase their vigilance, too. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


John Steinbeck: If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


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Kurt Vonnegut: She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction. wordsmith.social/protestation/…




James Baldwin: The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, and do not intend to change the status quo; are responsible for their slaughter and enslavement; rain down bombs on defenseless children whenever and wherever they decide that their "vital interests" are menaced, and think nothing of torturing a man to death: these people are not to be taken seriously when they speak of the "sanctity" of human life, or the "conscience" of the civilized world. wordsmith.social/protestation/…






James Baldwin: I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Fidel Castro: Capitalism means unequal exchange with the peoples of the Third World, exacerbation of individual selfishness and national chauvinism, the rule of irrationality and anarchy in investment and production, ruthless sacrifice of peoples to blind laws in the economy, the rule of the strongest, exploitation of man by man, every man for himself, every man for himself. Capitalism in the social order implies many other things: prostitution, drugs, gambling, begging, unemployment, abysmal inequalities among citizens, depletion of natural resources, poisoning of the atmosphere, seas, rivers, forests and, especially, plundering of underdeveloped nations by industrialized capitalist countries. In the past it meant colonialism and in the present it means the neocolonization of billions of human beings by more sophisticated economic and political methods, but also less costly, more effective and ruthless. Capitalism, its market economy, its values, its categories and its methods can never be the instruments to get socialism out of its present difficulties and to rectify the mistakes that could have been made. A good part of these difficulties arose not only from mistakes, but also from the rigorous blockade and isolation to which the socialist countries were subjected by imperialism and the great capitalist powers that monopolized almost all the wealth and the most advanced technologies in the world, product of the plundering of the colonies, the exploitation of their working class and the massive brain drain of countries that were in the process of developing. Devastating wars, costing millions of lives and the destruction of the vast majority of the accumulated means of production, were unleashed against the first socialist state. Like a phoenix, it had to rise more than once from the ashes and rendered such services to humanity as overthrowing fascism and decisively promoting the liberation movement of the still colonized countries. All of this they want to forget today. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Karl Marx: Someday the worker must seize political power in order to build up the new organization of labor; he must overthrow the old politics which sustain the old institutions, if he is not to lose Heaven on Earth, like the old Christians who neglected and despised politics. But we have not asserted that the ways to achieve that goal are everywhere the same. wordsmith.social/protestation/…



D'énormes bulles repérées à la surface de l'étoile géante R Doradus.


Selon un article publié dans la revue Nature, ces bulles de gaz géantes et chaudes à la surface de R Doradus ont une taille environ 75 fois supérieure à celle de notre soleil.

Ces images de R Doradus ont été prises avec ALMA le 18 juillet, le 27 juillet et le 2 août 2023. Crédit image : ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO / Vlemmings et al.

R Doradus est située à environ 178 années-lumière dans la constellation méridionale de Dorado.

Également connue sous le nom de HD 29712, IRAS 04361-6210 ou TIC 38877693, l'étoile a un diamètre d'environ 350 fois celui du Soleil.

Sa masse est similaire à celle de notre Soleil, ce qui signifie que R Doradus est probablement assez semblable à ce que sera le Soleil dans cinq milliards d'années, une fois qu'il sera devenu une géante rouge.

R Doradus est généralement visible à l'œil nu, mais dans l'infrarouge, c'est l'une des étoiles les plus brillantes du ciel.

«Les étoiles produisent de l'énergie en leur cœur grâce à la fusion nucléaire», expliquent le professeur Wouter Vlemmings et ses collègues de l'université de technologie de Chalmers.

«Cette énergie peut être transportée vers la surface de l'étoile sous la forme d'énormes bulles de gaz brûlantes, qui se refroidissent ensuite et coulent - comme une lampe à lave.»

«Ce mouvement de mélange, appelé convection, distribue les éléments lourds formés dans le cœur, tels que le carbone et l'azote, dans l'ensemble de l'étoile.»

«On pense également qu'il est à l'origine des vents stellaires qui transportent ces éléments dans le cosmos pour construire de nouvelles étoiles et planètes.»

«Jusqu'à présent, les mouvements de convection n'avaient jamais été étudiés en détail dans des étoiles autres que le Soleil.»

À l'aide de l'Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), les auteurs ont observé R Doradus pendant quatre semaines, entre le 2 juillet et le 2 août 2023.

Ils ont pu obtenir des images à haute résolution de la surface de l'étoile.

«C'est la première fois que la surface bouillonnante d'une véritable étoile peut être montrée de cette manière», a déclaré le professeur Vlemmings.

«Nous ne nous attendions pas à ce que les données soient d'une qualité telle que nous puissions voir autant de détails de la convection à la surface de l'étoile.»

«La convection est à l'origine de la magnifique structure granulaire observée à la surface de notre Soleil, mais elle est difficile à observer sur d'autres étoiles», a déclaré le Dr Theo Khouri, également de l'université technologique de Chalmers.

«Grâce à ALMA, nous avons pu non seulement observer directement les granules de convection, dont la taille est 75 fois supérieure à celle de notre Soleil, mais aussi mesurer pour la première fois la vitesse à laquelle ils se déplacent.»

Les granules de R Doradus semblent se déplacer sur un cycle d'un mois, ce qui est plus rapide que ce que les astronomes attendaient en se basant sur le fonctionnement de la convection dans le Soleil.

«Nous ne savons pas encore ce qui explique cette différence. Il semble que la convection change au fur et à mesure que l'étoile vieillit, d'une manière que nous ne comprenons pas encore», a déclaré le professeur Vlemmings.

«Des observations telles que celles de R Doradus nous aident à comprendre comment les étoiles comme le Soleil se comportent, même lorsqu'elles deviennent aussi froides, grosses et bouillonnantes que R Doradus.»

«Il est spectaculaire que nous puissions maintenant imager directement les détails de la surface d'étoiles si lointaines et observer la physique qui, jusqu'à présent, n'était observable que dans notre soleil», a déclaré Behzad Bojnodi Arbab, étudiant en doctorat à l'université technologique de Chalmers.

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Enver Hoxha: Lenin pointed out the classical characteristics of bureaucracy: lack of ability, lack of responsibility, administrative procrastination, etc. He showed how these phenomena, arisen on the basis of a backward peasantry, of an undeveloped capitalism, the feudal traditions and police despotism of the past, remained under the new conditions, too, and can develop and reproduce themselves. Aware of the danger of the development of bureaucracy, Lenin pointed out that the Soviet apparatus was still “true to the type of our old state apparatus", therefore he demanded a rapid change in it, seeking new forces in the deepest roots of our dictatorship”, that is in the development of institutions based on the broadest possible participation of the workers and peasants. Despite Lenin's warnings and despite the struggle carried out by Stalin, who continued his work, against bureaucracy, this did not disappear in the Soviet Union, but under given conditions it became further developed and this, in turn, led to the creation of a parasitic stratum detached from the people, a stratum that became the social basis of the birth of Khrushchevite revisionism. wordsmith.social/protestation/…