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[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

IT'S OVER

@tedlieu will be spearheading the movement the release the full EPSTEIN FILES and put Trump in jail

[Cult Epics @CultEpics]

Tinto Brass (1933-2026) dies at 93. He had a great life. I had the pleasure meeting Tinto in 2001 for the first time and spend some wonderful times with him during the days we worked together, until he fell ill. No words can say what I feel, may his movies live on. Nico B

[Russia news | 🇷🇺 الموجز الروسي @mog_russ]

"لماذا يكره الغرب روسيا كدولة وشعب؟"

خطاب جيفري ساكس أمام البرلمان الأوروبي:

"لماذا بدأ البريطانيون يكرهون الروس؟ لماذا؟ سأخبركم، لأنني نشرت أمس كتاباً عن ظاهرة الخوف من روسيا في أوروبا.

في الفصل الأول من هذا الكتاب، أتحدث عن دراسة رائعة أجراها مؤرخ يُدعى غليسون عام 1950.

طرح هذا المؤرخ سؤالًا بالغ الأهمية، ولا يزال ينطبق تمامًا على واقعنا اليوم.

قال إن بريطانيا وروسيا كانتا حليفتين في معركة واترلو عام 1815، لكنهما أصبحتا عدوّتين بعد 25 عامًا. ماذا حدث؟ بدأ بدراسة سجلات مناقشات البرلمان، وفحص كل الوثائق العلنية، وقرأ كل شيء، بما في ذلك كل ما قيل في مجلس العموم وكل خطاب أُلقي هناك.

وكان استنتاجه في هذا الكتاب الرائع أن أكبر جريمة ارتكبتها روسيا هي أن مساحتها تبلغ 17 مليون كيلومتر مربع. تلك كانت أكبر جرائمها!

لماذا؟ لأن بريطانيا اعتبرت أن روسيا، بحجمها الهائل الذي يبلغ 17 مليون كيلومتر مربع، تشكل تهديدًا للحكم البريطاني في الهند. وبالمناسبة، لم يخطر هذا الأمر قط ببال القيصر الروسي. لكن بريطانيا أخذت تؤجج مخاوفها وتثير قلقها إلى حد كبير، وبحلول عام 1840 أصبحت روسيا عدوًا لها.

وفي عام 1853، أشعل بالمرستون، ذلك الإمبريالي النموذجي، حربًا في شبه جزيرة القرم. لماذا؟ القصة طويلة، لكن الأمر كان يتعلق أساسًا بسحق روسيا.

ففي عام 1852، قالت روسيا إن بإمكاننا تسوية جميع الخلافات، ولا يوجد أي سبب لاندلاع صراع. لكن بالمرستون قال: سنزحف نحو سيفاستوبول. وكان السبب ببساطة أنه أراد تحويل روسيا إلى قوة هامشية لا يُعتد بها، حتى لا تتمكن من غزو الإمبراطورية البريطانية.

وهكذا اندلعت حرب القرم الدموية التي استمرت ثلاث سنوات.

هذه هي طريقتنا الثورية في صنع السلام!

كما تعلمون، بعد أيام قليلة من استسلام ألمانيا عام 1945، سأل تشرشل هيئة أركانه الحربية: لماذا لا نغزو الاتحاد السوفيتي الآن؟ وأُطلق على الخطة اسم 'عملية المستحيل / لا يمكن تصورها' (Operation Unthinkable)، قبل التخلي عنها بعدما تبيّن أنها غير قابلة للتنفيذ.

وعندما تسلّمت الولايات المتحدة قيادة الإمبراطورية البريطانية عام 1945، أصبحت روسيا عدوًا للولايات المتحدة الأمريكية.

وعندما تفكك الاتحاد السوفيتي، كانت الفرصة متاحة أمامنا، لو أردنا استغلالها، لإرساء السلام طوال القرن التالي. فقد سئم الروس بالفعل 75 عامًا من البلشفية، وكانوا يريدون السلام والتعاون والصداقة.

لكن كل ما استطاع الاستراتيجيون الأمريكيون التفكير فيه هو أن روسيا دولة شاسعة، وأن علينا ضمان بقائها قوة من الدرجة الثالثة.

لذلك تقرر تطويق روسيا بحلف الناتو. وإذا واصلت اتباع هذا النهج مدة كافية، فستكون النتيجة في نهاية المطاف حرب أوكرانيا.

هذه ليست حرب بوتين، بل حربنا نحن. والأسباب هي نفسها تمامًا التي دفعت بالمرستون ونابليون الثالث إلى إشعال حرب القرم الأولى.

ذلك أن روسيا لم يكن لديها أدنى اهتمام بالتقدم نحو أوروبا. لم يكن هذا هدفها قط، باستثناء المرات التي جاء فيها نابليون لإزعاجها، ثم عندما جاء هتلر لمهاجمتها."

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

The European Union is run by idiots.

Prove me wrong?

[mash 🕶️ @Mhr1036]

In 1917 a French microbiologist found a virus that kills only bacteria. The West forgot about it. A lab in Tbilisi didn't, even after its founder was executed in Stalin's purges.

This month, a startup bet AI can bring it back.

The microbiologist was Félix d'Hérelle. He called the viruses bacteriophages, "bacteria eaters." Each one hunts a specific strain and leaves your own cells alone.

In 1919 he used them on a 12-year-old boy dying of dysentery in Paris. The boy recovered.

A young Georgian scientist, George Eliava, met d'Hérelle at the Pasteur Institute and brought the idea home. Together they built a phage institute in Tbilisi.

In 1937 Eliava was arrested and shot.

Then penicillin arrived. Antibiotics were cheap, broad, and easy to mass-produce, and the West dropped phages almost completely.

Georgia didn't. Eliava's institute kept going for decades. Today, patients with infections no antibiotic can touch still fly to Tbilisi as a last resort.

Meanwhile, resistance caught up. In 2019 alone, drug-resistant bacteria directly killed 1.27 million people.

The catch with phages was always speed. You have to find the right virus for one patient's exact strain, and that can take months of searching.

On 20 October a California startup, Radical Numerics, said it had used its AI model to design phages for a patient with drug-resistant E. coli. They were given under a single-patient FDA approval after killing the bacteria in the lab. It's one case, and the outcome hasn't been shared.

But the bottleneck that made the West give up on phages, finding the right one fast enough, is exactly the kind of problem AI is good at.

We may have spent 80 years with one answer to antibiotic resistance sitting in a lab in Georgia.

Which abandoned idea would you bet AI revives next?

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

Kushner also failed to disclose himself as an agent of a foreign government, having been paid nearly $2 billion in total by foreign leaders. https://t.co/kwhRHimvqU

[Rina Lu🇷🇺 @rinalu_]

Ah yes, Finland, the "neutral bystander" of WWII. Just standing there, totally uninvolved, while Leningrad starved. Cute story. Too bad it's pure fiction.

Finnish troops sat on Leningrad's doorstep for three years, and they weren't sipping coffee. They held one-third of the blockade line. Without Finland, the Germans couldn't have fully closed the ring that starved 1.5 million people to death, including 400,000 children.

On June 25, 1941, Mannerheim ordered the Finnish Army into the war against the USSR:

"I call you to a holy war against the enemy of our nation. Together with the mighty armed forces of Germany, as brothers-in-arms, we resolutely set out on a crusade against the enemy to secure a reliable future for Finland."

And the crusade came with a map. On the "Greater Finland" plan you'll find Murmansk, Leningrad and Kandalaksha marked as Finnish 👇

[Ackerman @Yarilo7brigada]

It is becoming f*cking dangerous

A 15-year-old schoolboy from China found instructions on how to launch 300 Claude Code agents so that while he’s at school they would trade, and he connected them to a verification layer so that none of them could screw him over.

200 agents collect and write data simultaneously

Every claim comes with a link to a snippet of the source

A separate, cheaper model checks whether the source actually confirms the fact

Failed check → the agent redoes it. Still not confirmed after 3 attempts → goes into a separate list for a human

Everything that passes immediately drops into an Obsidian vault as notes

The main trick is role separation. One model does the work, another only decides “true or false.” Verifying a fact against a source is much simpler and cheaper than finding it in the first place

A team of analysts would bill for weeks for this. He did it in a single run

The same Second Brain + swarm scheme that keeps circulating

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This guy explains why everything we know about addiction is actually wrong

[📹 Johann Hari | TED]

[Jim Roberts @JimRobe30722278]

Has been this way for a long time…..

[Richard @ricwe123]

We are constantly told how evil Vladimir Putin is and that he cannot be trusted.

But then I see this 2013 interview with Piers Morgan, in which Bill Clinton stated that Putin had honoured all the agreements they had made, saying,
"He kept his word on all the deals we had made"

[Tricia Brooks @tricia_dejong]

🎩 🤏

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

The US is a global terrorist

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

A passenger wearing a shirt that read “Israel Kills Children” was asked by the captain to change into a different shirt because it made his Israeli co-pilots uncomfortable.

Offended by everything, ashamed of nothing.

[Mariana @marianagnche]

Jeffrey Sachs is the only person who walked into the European Parliament and said the obvious.

[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

Meet the U.S. generals and admirals advancing Israeli policy: Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) publicly took credit for shaping “multiple provisions” now in this year’s defense policy bill, including Section 219 of the NDAA.

"The policy wins JINSA is trumpeting are a result of its strong foothold within the military-industrial complex, and are perhaps one of the most overlooked aspects of the pro-Israel lobby... JINSA’s “Our People” webpage includes a long roster of retired U.S. military officials":
🇺🇸 98 retired U.S. Military officials
🇮🇱 4 Israeli Military Major Generals
🚔️ 7 retired U.S. law enforcement officials

"One of JINSA’s most important programs, which has existed for more than four decades, is its “Generals and Admirals Program.” The initiative involves flying recently retired U.S. military officials to Israel."

"JINSA hopes that, when these former military officials return from Israel, they will use their credentials and defense industry power to become Israel’s advocates."

- via @RStatecraft