LivingARetiredLife

Enjoying a good life.

[Janez Janša @JJansaSDS]

Ko smo se odločali za vstop v EU, si ni nihče predstavljal, da bo v kaki njeni članici in uniji nasploh mogoče brez posledic:
1. Razveljaviti predsedniške volitve (Romunija);
2. Ukiniti informativni program na nacionalni RTV (Madžarska);
3. Poslati policijo na Ustavno sodišče (Poljska);
4. Tri tedne pred volitvami poslati v zapor predsednika stranke, ki vodi v anketah (Slovenija);
5. Zasesti nacionalno RTV s policijo in zamenjati vodstvo (Poljska);
6. Prekiniti mandate vodstvu nacionalne RTV in izvesti čistko zaposlenih (Slovenija);
7. Poslati v zapor člane prejšnje vlade brez možnosti obrambe (Madžarska);
8. Podeliti skoraj milijon državljanstev ilegalnim migrantom po hitrem postopku (Španija);
9. Zapreti novo Nuklearno elektrarno in zgraditi plinovod do Rusije (Nemčija);
10. Obdavčiti ogljične energetske vire ob hkratnem zapiranju NE ter preseliti industrijo v države z nizkimi ekološkimi standardi pod pretvezo, da tako rešujemo planet.
Nastala je EU, ki se mora reševati sama pred sabo.

[Loong of the east @loong_of]

Do you remember the incidents from a few years ago on the streets of Hong Kong, where rioters attacked police with bricks, petrol bombs, and crossbows?

Nancy Pelosi famously described these events as "a beautiful sight to behold." At the time, the European Parliament passed several resolutions concerning Hong Kong, framing most of the street violence as "peaceful demonstrations in defense of democracy and freedom." They accused the Hong Kong police of "excessive use of force" and demanded an independent investigation.

Major European media outlets—such as the BBC, Euronews, and Deutsche Welle (DW)—consistently characterized these events as a "pro-democracy movement" or "anti-extradition bill protests." Their coverage and editorials frequently portrayed the protesters as "champions of democracy."

While European media did acknowledge the radical, violent acts committed by these rioters—such as paralyzing the airport, setting fire to the subway, smashing specific shops, assaulting citizens with opposing views, and occupying universities—they often attributed this behavior to "a desperate reaction to the government’s failure to address their demands." They almost never used terms like "rioters" or "terrorists" to condemn these actions directly.

It is truly ironic; perhaps the "revolutions" currently sweeping across Europe are also "a beautiful sight to behold."

[YourFavoriteGuy☭ @guychristensen_]

UPDATE: I’m free from detention by Border Patrol at US customs. Agents had me for an hour and a half. I was informed this was a targeted measure against me.

The message they’re trying to send to me & everyone else is this:

Don’t advocate and fight for others.

I say NO WAY.

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

If you go to visit China, you won't get detained by the Chinese police unless you commit a crime, but you might get detained by the US government for no crime whatsoever...

Facts matter.

[Ma shenmemei🇨🇳 @goodneighbor520]

新手司机的福音，中国制造

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

Betrayer of the Bolivarian Revolution Delcy Rodriguez announces the privatisation of ‘non-essential state assets’, reversing the Chavez-era nationalisations which brought previously oligarch-controlled industries under state control.

The hard-won achievements of the Revolution are now being reversed, for Venezuela’s riches and industries to be sold on the cheap to a returning Venezuelan oligarchy, US oligarchs, and corporations.

Delcy Rodriguez is nothing but a Viceroy of the United States, installed by Donald Trump, to oversee the selling of her country.

[Ronni🧂Salt-WhoWroteGunnawahYeahThatOne @RonniSalt]

A group of Australian citizens were kidnapped on international waters and beaten senseless on camera by their captors - Israel

The most prominent Israel advocate in Australia - Jillian Segal - has so far said nothing about the welfare of her fellow Australian citizens nor condemned this atrocious abuse of human rights and brutality by her home state of Israel

Jillian Segal is an employee of the Australian people charged with promoting "social cohesion" and her silence on this blatant Israeli abuse of her fellow Australians is a disgrace to these abused citizens and to the Australian taxpayers who fund her

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Every time an African country elects a government that tries to keep more of its own resources, Western media discovers a "democracy deficit."

Every time an Asian nation builds technology that competes with Western products, Western governments discover a "security threat."

Every time a Latin American country charts an economic path outside the Washington Consensus, Western financial institutions discover a "stability risk."

The pattern is precise and it has been precise for two centuries.

The West is not afraid of authoritarian governments.

It has funded dozens of them.

The West is not afraid of economic mismanagement.

It has imposed structural adjustment programs that produced exactly that.

What produces the alarm, the specific, urgent, editorial-board-meeting alarm, is independence.

A poor country making its own choices with its own resources for its own people without asking permission.

That is the danger.

That has always been the danger.

Everything else is the vocabulary chosen to describe it in ways that don’t require honesty.

[حازم 𓂆 @ABO_Watan9]

انشروا هذا الفيديو على أوسع نطاق ليعرف العالم ماذا فعلت إسرائيل في غزة بحجة الدفاع عن النفس.

[Miss Polly 🖤💛❤️ @MissPolly62]

This was done to a trapped population that has NO MILITARY 👇

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Ambassador Huckabee, this is unreleased video of an American who was beaten almost to death last week by Israeli settlers. You know his name because he came to you for help, but you blew him off. That’s disgraceful. Do your job.

@GovMikeHuckabee
@SecRubio
@davidamilstein
@WhiteHouse

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

Because that will never fit the narrative

[Andy Boreham 安柏然 @AndyBxxx]

An American professor asked when China last voted.

Answer: right now. A billion people are choosing 2.6 million local representatives.

He blocked me after I replied.

HOW CHINA'S ELECTIONS WORK:

[LivingARetiredLife @LiveRetiredLife]

“Peaceful” protesters 😏

[K.L @kinglinzhuhui]

2019香港

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

'The nearly 5 million Palestinians in Occupied West Bank + 2.3 million in Gaza do not vote in Israeli Elections. But the 1 million Israeli citizens living illegally in West Bank do vote in the elections'. And the EU calls this the only Democracy in the Region.? Total nonsense...

[Beyond Daily @KieuPhan120820]

Thank you for speaking calmly and quietly, with slow ,measured movements. It really helps the animal to calm down as well. You folks did it up right!
Beautiful. Thank you for helping that precious creature.

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

As the famine in Gaza reached its peak, Israel allowed only a single truck to enter; thousands of starving people in Gaza rushed toward it

It is a video clip that the world must never forget

[Joe Megalith @JoeMegalith]

Virtually 100% of the Israeli Air Force fighter fleet has been paid for by U.S. taxpayers?

@grok | YES OR NO |

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

"I love Judaism and I love the Jewish people.

AIPAC and Israel are not the same as Judaism

The most dangerous thing is expanding antisemitism to include criticism of Israel"

- Abdul El-Sayed Michigan Senator

Absolutely Correct!

[James Wood 武杰士 @commiepommie]

🇵🇭 The Philippines Has Used a Chinese Reef as a Rubbish Tip for 27 Years. China Just Cleaned It Up.

The Dong’an formation was on a routine patrol at Ren’ai Jiao, known internationally as Second Thomas Shoal, when it found the mess.

Large oil drums, plastic bottles, packaging, discarded cable and household waste, floating in a wide band around the Sierra Madre. Several small boats went in and crews in hard hats hauled out timber, rope and everything else until the surface was clear.

That is not a media stunt either. It is what a coast guard does when it finds pollution in its own waters.

The same reef tells two stories. Inside the lagoon the water is still clear enough to watch tropical fish move over living coral. Under the hull of the grounded ship the coral is bleached white. Twenty-seven years of a rusting wartime hull sitting in one spot, with people living aboard and throwing everything over the side, produces exactly that. The ship is not a neutral presence, it is a permanent source of oil, paint, metal and plastic.

It is a 1944 tank landing ship built in Indiana, which served the United States, then South Vietnam, then the Philippines. It was run aground in May 1999, days after NATO bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade. Manila promised to tow it away and has spent the years since sending construction material instead.

China’s Ministry of Natural Resources surveyed the damage in 2024. Reef-building coral coverage across the reef flat fell about 38 per cent between 2011 and 2024. Within 400 metres of the ship the decline reached 87.3 per cent. Heavy metals, oils and dissolved inorganic phosphorus all sit well above their recorded baselines. That does not happen by accident.

The age of the hull explains the rest. A ship laid down in 1944 was built before anyone thought about holding tanks, so everything goes straight into the water. An ordinary vessel moves on and spreads the damage thin. This one has sat in the same place for twenty-seven years, concentrating all of it on one patch of coral. The generators that run the kitchens need fuel, the fuel arrives in drums and the drums end up in the sea.

Manila still calls the Sierra Madre a humanitarian outpost. The people aboard have kitchens, generators and a resupply run every few weeks. They also have a long record of treating the ocean around them as a tip. The most recent delivery went through on 21 October, checked and monitored by Chinese coast guard vessels, which is the arrangement Beijing has allowed on humanitarian grounds.

Chinese fishermen worked these waters for generations before the Sierra Madre was parked on them. Chinese coast guard vessels patrol them now because they are Chinese waters. Ren’ai Jiao sits about 195 kilometres west of Palawan. Distance does not turn a Chinese reef into a Philippine landfill.

One side keeps an illegal grounded vessel in place and lets the rubbish pile up. The other side clears it, documents the bleaching under the hull and carries on with routine law enforcement.

Western coverage almost never shows the floating drums or the dead coral. It prefers the vocabulary of resupply and sovereignty, small boats against big grey hulls, because that reads as an underdog facing a giant. Photographs of clear lagoon water and crews hauling rope out of the sea do not fit that script, so they do not run.

Ren’ai Jiao is part of China’s Nansha Islands. The environmental bill for keeping a broken eighty-two-year-old ship on that reef is now visible above the water and below it.

How many more years of dumping does Manila expect the water to absorb before the humanitarian story stops working?