Elías

Quelque part.

[Elías @I__Ga]

@ImenIBM2990 @Fx1Jonny What's ostensibly on the table is a limited pullout while retaining total military leeway, euphemistically dubbed "full freedom of action."
Like cancer, they only spread.

[Elías @I__Ga]

@JakeKAllDay @LottoLabs @Alibaba_Qwen That would be immaculate. One can only dream though.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

What does the IAEA know about Israel's "nuclear research center" which it's not allowed to inspect, because doing so would be antisemitic

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

What's happening in Panama with the "China-owned" ports (which actually aren't China-owned) is absolutely extraordinary: after the U.S. failed to have BlackRock buy the ports, they're effectively outright stealing them with the help of Panama's Supreme Court.

I'm not exaggerating: Panama's Supreme Court just ruled that the 29-year old concession of the ports is suddenly "unconstitutional".

Legally speaking, this means the concession was never valid so there's nothing to compensate for. Effectively the ruling says that CK Hutchison - the Hong Kong company that invested $1.8 billion to build the ports into world-class facilities and paid fees to Panama to operate them during 29 years - did all of this illegally, without anyone in Panama noticing for 28 years, until Trump decided he wanted the ports 🙄

It's the equivalent of you operating, say, a restaurant somewhere on a beach for 29 years, and then a local oligarch who wants your spot pressures the local mayor, who gets a judge to rule that your lease was actually illegal this whole time - so sorry, you have to leave and lose everything, but thanks for the $1.8 billion renovation.

This is all the more ridiculous given this all started with Trump's narrative that "China is operating the Panama Canal and we didn't give it to China. We gave it to Panama and we're taking it back" (https://t.co/yaKO1FgrQL), which is fake news.

First of all, CK Hutchison isn't "China" - it's a Hong Kong company founded by tycoon Li Ka-shing who is actually currently sanctioned by Beijing (there is a directive that state-owned Chinese companies should not do business with him: https://t.co/cWfHtczohO).

Secondly, when the concession was originally awarded in 1997, the U.S. government itself investigated it extensively - the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the Federal Maritime Commission (at the request of six senators), and the intelligence community all reviewed the process. Their conclusion: there was no discrimination against US companies under US law, and CK Hutchison's presence posed no threat to Canal operations or US interests. The State Department also confirmed that PPC (the subsidiary of CK Hutchison that actually runs the 2 ports) had no significant investment from mainland China, was run out of Featherstone, England with British, New Zealand, and Australian senior management, and a virtually 100% Panamanian workforce.

It's all in this 1999 State Department report: https://t.co/cIsahULvTv ("We have explored concerns that [CK Hutchison] is a front for the government of the People's Republic of China. We have found no information to substantiate that allegation.")

So in effect this is the U.S. stealing ports from a company it already investigated and cleared - using a lie it debunked itself 27 years ago.

[anna 🏹 @myelessar]

over 20 years ago and still entirely relevant

[Elías @I__Ga]

Ubisoft (@Ubisoft @Rainbow6Game) had one of the biggest and most catastrophic operational oversights and technical security failures in gaming history, VERY likely compromising players' sensitive data.

What did they offer said players in return? — "We won't ban you."

[Elías @I__Ga]

Marc Marquez, what a story.

[JOKAMRREDPILLZ @JOKAQARMY1]

It is🇮🇱real 🤔. Project Nimbus

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

“Violence has no place in American Politics”

[Elías @I__Ga]

@ORTHODOXLAD1 Best of luck with it, mate! If you get yourself a kid or two, make sure to involve them.
And thank you for the kind wishes, I appreciate you. All the same to you.

[Elías @I__Ga]

@ORTHODOXLAD1 @northman21 @tylerduran21 @kirawontmiss That's a rock (or willow) ptarmigan.
They're highly prized birds, hard to hunt.

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

"Palestine is a word as old as literacy itself"

@DalrympleWill in conversation with @AyoCaesar

[Blunts4Jesus_ @2Stoned2GoHome]

911, what’s your emergency?

[Mohamed Salah @MoSalah]

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

From @jdforward, one of the most pro-Israel Jewish outlets in America:

How Trump is banning DEI at universities -- except for Jews. Link below:

(Not only is Trump not banning DEI for Jewish students, but he's aggressively expanding them, and forcing colleges to adopt them).