Benjamin Arce

Stories don't write themselves... or do they?💡📽🎬🎼

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

lol, no, thank unions. Capital would work you 24/7 in a coalmine starting at the ripe old age of 7 if they were allowed to. Every ounce of leisure time working people have is because workers organized.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Because the US Constitution is so outdated that it does not actually have an article spelling out what is and isn’t a presidential duty. What can the he do? Pretty much anything Congress lets him. So the question “can the President even break the law?” is not seen as ridiculous

[Nick Cleveland-Stout @nick_clevelands]

VAN HOLLEN: “Americans should become really informed and on alert about the huge influence operations that the Israeli government is launching in the United States, including [LLM poisoning].”

[Christo Aivalis 🌹🍊 @christoaivalis]

This is something that @avilewis touched on when he challenged surveillance pricing. Corporations want to use algorithms and AI to rip you off on the wages you earn, too.

If they use data to find out you're on the verge of homelessness, they'll pay you less because you're desperate

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

US plans for destroying nations like Russia, Iran, and China have been publicly published, talked about, and implemented for decades.

Politicians do not make these policies. They simply sell it to the public or distract the public away from these policies.

Multinational multi-billion dollar corporations don't sit there every 4-8 years leaving their future/fate and US policy to "voters" and the clowns they pick for office.

Instead they have created a political system to serve as an "explanation" for and/or a distraction away from their own continuity of agenda.

Corporations fundamentally pursue the maximization of power and profit - and therefore their collective agenda driving US policy is to maximize US power and profit - hence endless exploitation at home and hegemonic war worldwide no matter who you vote for.

This should be beyond commonsense.

But instead of understanding this as the fundamental nature of the US system and going on from there - people cannot help but to indulge in the daily political circus and attempt to cobble together fictional narratives to explain why "Obama" or "Trump" or "Biden" are doing the things they're doing - essentially continuity of agenda - without actually acknowledging continuity of agenda itself and the real interests driving it.

Instead, the "reason" Trump is continuing wars the corporations have planned and implemented for decades is because "he's blackmailed" or "has bad advisors," or "lost his temper" and not because the US political system is a deliberate system of control rather than a process of self-determination.

If you understood continuity of agenda and that unelected corporations drive it - BEFORE the 2024 elections you would have known these wars would continue and others would be started - just as they now have been - regardless of who won.

These people ignoring continuity of agenda and doing "analysis-by-official narrative" or "analysis-by-political party" are constantly wrong precisely because of this.

They are the same ones who said Trump would end all these wars in the first place (simply because he "said" so) or that Iran "won" and the US would leave West Asia (because the Western media suggested it), and are still looking for reasons to explain US policy in terms of "Trump," his "emotions," and the circus performed by him and those around him and even those "opposing" him.

And because they are doing this - they will continue to be wrong.

Truth is arrived at through first principles and scientific analysis and an understanding of material reality.

Like a math problem, if you don't get it right from the very start - everything you do onward will drift further and further from the right answer.

Go back to the beginning and start over until it all actually adds up.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

Much of Trump's America was foreshadowed by what he did to the Atlantic City Trump Taj Mahal — utilizing heavy surveillance on casino gamblers, Trump extracted profits from victims he was able to lure into his resort, and left the place in ruins with his contractors unpaid when it shut down.

Trump capitalizes on the alienation that capitalism has wrought in the American public — and through his exploitation of it, he and the rest of the bipartisan political class have made these pathologies grow.

[Travis W. Fast, 收費員, جمع کننده🫐 @Fast72W]

Huge story. Effectively major Canadian university administrations across Canada had their Emergency Response units absconded to form a vast domestic spy network in the furtherance of repressing charter protected freedom of expression and assembly @CBCNews @RadioCanadaInfo

[Travis W. Fast, 收費員, جمع کننده🫐 @Fast72W]

Some more thoughts, the investigation revealed the administrators involved understood what they were doing was wrong, hence why they stressed the need for secrecy and destroyed evidence. Besides the Charter violations, there are university ethics codes & collective agreements

[Yla 🖕 @Ylainoa]

El Castillo de Beaufort, patrimonio de la humanidad, ya no existe más, Israel lo ha reventado.

[Julián Macías Tovar @JulianMaciasT]

Que hacen Nacho Abad y Felipe González en la embajada de Marruecos?
Basta ya de chantajes, ruptura de relaciones con Marruecos y una postura firme de apoyo al Sáhara Libre.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

- Q: “why are you subjecting me to slavery / Jim Crow / Apartheid / Residential Schools / Military Occupation?”

- A:

[Leyla Hamed @leylahamed]

I am from Ceuta, and Spain has never oppressed us. You genocidal maniacs do not get to weaponise our identity or speak on our fucking behalf. Shut the fuck up.

[Rubén Gisbert @gisbert_ruben]

Cámaras del paso de la frontera España hacia Marruecos ahora mismo. Los millares que huían "del hambre y la miseria" volviendo al "hambre y la miseria".

El PLAN DE EEUU e ISRAEL era usar a Marruecos para PROVOCAR UNA RESPUESTA VIOLENTA de ESPAÑA que Israel y EEUU pudieran presentar internacionalmente como falta de legitimidad de una potencia colonial que reprime con violencia el legítimo reclamo de una “descolonización”.

Es una vergüenza como hemos sido atacados y vendidos por nuestros propios “aliados”.

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

I’m sure this is nothing. Just a coincidence.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN CEUTA, read the timeline of events, and then decide for yourself

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PART ONE: 2020 – 2021 TRUMP, NETANYAHU AND THE LEADERS OF MOROCCO
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2020 December 10
To the dismay of much of the public of Morocco, US President Donald Trump announces that Morocco’s leaders have agreed to recognize Israel.

- In accordance with this, the United States says it officially recognizes Morocco's claims over the Western Sahara.

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2020 December 11
The Trump administration sells US$1 billion worth of weapons to Morocco, again to the dismay of many Moroccans.

They express concern about Trump and Netanyahu as ruthless, unprincipled leaders with expansionist intentions.

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2021 January 15
- King Mohammed VI of Morocco visits the White House and awards President Trump the Order of Muhammad.

- In return, Trump awards the King with the Legion of Merit, degree of Chief Commander.

- The US says a consulate will be set up in Dakhla in the Western Sahara, to strengthen Morocco’s claims on that land.

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2021 May 17
- Moroccans reduce their border security to punish the Spanish, after they allow the sick leader of a Saharan independence group to be treated in a hospital in Spain.

- About 8,000 migrants suddenly pour into Ceuta.

- The images of dark-skinned men pouring into Spanish territory are carried by the media, and help to amplify a huge wave of anti-migrant, anti-Muslim feeling across Europe and UK.

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2021 November 24
Morocco and Israel sign a defense agreement. IDF personnel in uniform visit Morocco for the first time.

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PART TWO: 2023 TO 2025: ISRAEL BECOMES AN EVEN BIGGER ISSUE IN MOROCCO
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2023 July 17
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu recognizes Morocco's sovereignty over the Western Sahara in a letter to King Mohammed VI.

- Netanyahu says he also plans to open a consulate in the city of Dakhla, Western Sahara, to strengthen Morocco's claims in that area.

- The deals cement unity between Trump, Netanyahu and the Moroccan leadership – although not the North African country’s public.

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2025 April 5
Tens of thousands of Moroccans take to the streets in a large protest demonstration against the IDF .

Marchers say that Israel’s massive assault on Gaza is disproportionate, they express sympathy for the huge number of civilian casualties, and call for an end to the violence.

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2025 April 8
The US State Department releases a statement reiterating the United States’ recognition of Morocco’s sovereignty over the Western Sahara.

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2025 October 9
Spain says it will not spend excessive cash on weapons and military (5% of GDP) as “required” in targets set by US-dominated NATO. Trump threatens to throw the country out of NATO.

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PART THREE: 2026: SPAIN’S OPPOSITION TO IRAN ATTACK INFURIATES TRUMP, NETANYAHU
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2026 April 3
Thousands of Moroccan people march to denounce a new Israeli law that would allow the execution of Palestinians.

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2026 March 2
Spain refuses to allow the United States access to its Rota and Morón military bases, pointing out that the unilateral US-Israel attack on Iran clearly violates United Nations' principles on conflict.

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2026 March 3
US President Donald Trump announces that the United States will cut off all trade with Spain because of its refusal to help in the attack on Iran and its refusal to double the spending of public money on weapons and the military.

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2026 April 24
A leaked Pentagon email reveals that the United States is holding internal discussions to suspend Spain from NATO over its refusal to play any role in the attack on Iran.

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2026 July 27
As US and Israel anger against Spain mounts, Moroccan border controls mysteriously relax.

- An estimated 50,000 to 60,000 illegal would-be migrants cross into Ceuta.

- News media across the world are again filled with images of dark-skinned young men pouring across a border.

- The incident, historians note, is an uncanny echo of the 2021 May 17 event.

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2026 August 1
Most of the people who crossed have been quickly returned to Morocco.

– But Spain’s leadership is considered to be badly harmed;

– Anti-migrant sentiment in Spain and across Europe and UK has been inflamed;

– Anti-Muslim passions in the same areas have also been stepped up;

– Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, accused Madrid of hypocrisy; and

– Trump has blamed Spain for the problem.

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Those are the facts, not in dispute. You decide the underlying story behind what you see in the media.
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[David Pugliese @davidpugliese]

Will anyone be held accountable for this massive screwup that put an innocent man in prison for 18 months?

[Dan Murphy @sportsnetmurph]

Noted soccer guy here, I’ve been told that former Canucks owner Arthur Griffiths is heading a group that has put in a formal offer to purchase the @WhitecapsFC

[Julen @j_vcf13]

En la época de Franco, fue el propio Franco quien metió en territorio español a unos 80000 fieros soldados marroquíes para asesinar españoles y violar a españolas, basta con leer sucesos como la Masacre de Badajoz. No conocéis vuestra propia historia.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Τα απαράδεκτα γεγονότα στην Θέουτα δεν αναιρούν την γενναία απόφαση της Ισπανικής κυβέρνησης να νομιμοποιήσει εκατοντάδες χιλιάδες εργαζόμενους μετανάστες στην χώρα. Ούτε νομιμοποιεί την θρασεία προσπάθεια της κας Μελόνι να ανοίξει μέτωπο με την Ισπανία ώστε να εξευμενίσει μέρος της ιταλικής ακροδεξιάς που αλληθωρίζει προς ακόμα πιο ακροδεξιό κόμμα από το δικό της.

Η (σχετικά) ορθή στάση της κυβέρνησης Σάντσεθ τόσο στο Παλαιστινιακό (όπου θα μπορούσε βέβαια να κάνει πιο πολλά) όσο και στο μεταναστευτικό αξίζουν την στήριξή μας. https://t.co/aoy90FJvoJ

[Ma Wukong 马悟空 @Ma_WuKong]

Cómo explicarle a un extranjero que el tuit más patriota, de un político, sobre la invasión marroquí, lo ha puesto un independentista.