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[Phafnir @Phafnirr]

@razkeyuh @discord_support It’s all good. Will you still keep your discord and substack active?

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@RobertStock6 @FinnLoL Thank you I didn’t even notice it

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@humzhlol @jynxzi Hemmy Humzh Here to Help

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@CaptainSupjt @FilmoreSlim5 @MagdalenaJxxx How do you think that’s made?

[Warfare Analysis @warfareanalysis]

⚡️ Qatar deports Palestinian university professor from Gaza, lecturer in Qatar, Baraa Nizar Rayan, and his family over a tweet that said:

“They paid Trump trillions to protect them, but instead he set their house on fire. So Learn from this, O people of insight.”

He said in a statement:

“An arrogant officer named (M. M. Sh.) interrogated me. I told him that I love the country and its people, but he ignored my words and insisted that I open my phone and give him my passwords and social media accounts, especially my account on ‘X.’ I refused categorically.

I told the officer: You brought me here because of a tweet I posted publicly, and I admitted that I wrote it and that the account is mine, so why do you want to open my phone and violate my privacy?”

“From the first moment of my arrest until my release, officers and guards pressured me to commit to complete silence, to close my account, and not to speak about politics after my release. I firmly refused and told them: My people are being slaughtered in Gaza for political reasons, and it is my duty to convey their voice to the world after they were left to face killing alone.”

“In the final hours before my release, I was subjected to physical and psychological torture. An officer from the cybercrime unit crushed my wrists with metal handcuffs, squeezing them until the metal pressed into my bones. Then he threw me into the transport vehicle on my back, and I felt my hands breaking. In the vehicle, I asked him to adjust the restraints because if it continued, I might need a hospital, but he refused. My hands were injured, and I remained in pain for two weeks because of that abuse.

The vehicle took me from the prison to the cybercrime headquarters in Unaizah, where I showed the guards the deep marks of the cuffs on my hands and said to them:

Is this you? Is this Qatar?
What will my children say about you when they see these marks?

The same officer who ordered my torture mocked me and said: ‘The one who handcuffed you didn’t even know how to do it properly.’”

“I was then placed under severe pressure and threatened with indefinite imprisonment if I did not open my phone and hand over my social media accounts. I refused completely until they gave up, but they still kept my phone. I am not upset about the phone except for losing access to some precious photos and memories.

About a month after my release, in July, I traveled for medical follow-up, then booked a return flight to Doha a week later. I was shocked to be denied boarding and later learned that my name had been placed on a blacklist banning me from entering Qatar.

About two months after my deportation, specifically on Tuesday, September 30, I received a message from the university housing department asking me to vacate the house, which effectively meant deporting my family and expelling my four daughters from school.”

“I appealed to the relevant authorities to at least stop my salary and not deport my family, and to allow my daughters to complete their school year without sudden disruption, given the difficulties of changing curricula and language. However, it seems the security decision did not allow even this simple humanitarian request, despite my contract with the university, and my residency and my family’s residency, originally extending until August 2028.”

[Candace Owens @RealCandaceO]

Iran has a right to exist.
Also, they warned they would strike which I have been reliably informed makes them the most moral army in the world.
Lastly, the children harmed were used as human shields.

Did I miss anything?

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Pete Hegseth said this was "the first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since WWII" (which is false, but that's beside the point), so I decided to look at what happened in WW2 and... this might surprise no-one: turns out the Nazis were more humane than the Americans.

Probably the most abject part here is that the warship had many survivors - 32 to be precise (https://t.co/bS1uARrBtf) - and the U.S. made zero effort to rescue them, despite it being required by the laws of naval warfare and simply being the honorable thing to do.

It took little Sri-Lanka, with its very modest means - especially compared to the $1 trillion US defense budget - to do the honorable thing and launch a (successful) rescue operation.

Even the literal Nazis, during WW2, rescued the survivors of ships their U-boats sank. It was considered a matter of basic honor.

The history of this is actually interesting: the Nazis rescued survivors all the way until the so-called Laconia Incident in 1942 (https://t.co/6wI251aNCv).

The Laconia was a British troopship sunk by U-156, a German U-boat, off the West African coast. Right after the sinking, the Nazis immediately began rescuing over 400 survivors, broadcasting - as was common practice - in plain English their position on open radio channels to all Allied powers nearby, so they wouldn't get attacked during the rescue.

That's when a US B-24 "Liberator" bomber attacked the submarine anyway, even though all the rescued survivors were on its foredeck. The B-24 killed dozens of Laconia's survivors with bombs and strafing attacks, forcing U-156 to cast into the sea the remaining survivors that she had rescued and crash dive to avoid being destroyed.

The American B-24 pilots mistakenly reported they had sunk U-156, and were awarded medals for bravery...

This event completely changed Nazi policy on this matter: Karl Dönitz, commander of the U-boat fleet, issued the "Laconiarefehl" - the Laconia Order - forbidding U-boats from rescuing survivors, because the risk to the submarine was now too high.

In other words, the Americans during WW2 essentially forced the Nazis to abandon survivors - from the allied side (!) - at sea.

Dönitz at least had an excuse.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

I will never understand how you can pray toward the same Kaaba,
read the same Qur’an,
and still save your worst insults,
your deepest contempt,
your loudest hatred
for the Muslims who actually stand between Gaza and annihilation.

[Omar Baddar عمر بدّار @OmarBaddar]

Nothing to see here, folks -- just senior U.S. officials bragging that U.S. sanctions on Iran were designed and are responsible for the economic devastation of ordinary Iranians as a means of creating political instability in Iran that the U.S. can capitalize on:

[fatima bhutto 🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷 @fbhutto]

Didn’t seem to bother you during 2 years of Israel’s genocide of Gaza

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

Canada was fine with the system as long as it was only being used to subjugate others.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Macron to Trump:

We destroyed Syria together.
We can bomb Iran together.
Please don't take Greenland.

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

Macron and the other sick Europeans deserve Trump. Our sad Political lot in the EU still cling to their Colonial Mindset, still Racist to their core.That's why they supported the Israeli Genocide in Palestine. And still do...

[laura Smith @lauraSmITH0ff]

“Dear America,

We worked together on enslaving Africans, on exterminating and dispossessing the indigenous, on colonizing East Asians and addicting them to drugs, and on carving up West Asia for its oil. Why are you bossing our space now?

Yours with concern,

Europe”

[Little Shadow 🔻 @tj4lfe]

@AliAbunimah Europe sold themselves to the empire. Invaded, occupied, slaughtered and tortured people across the globe on its behalf, just to get a piece of the pie. Words can not describe how pathetic and disgusting they are.

There should be no sympathy for any misfortune that befalls them.

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

While the Europeans were “happy vassals” they demanded that everyone else be unhappy slaves. Not such fun when it’s your turn. Truly serves them right.

[Harry Pettit 🇱🇧🇵🇸 @HarrygPettit]

It took western leaders ONE DAY of punitive economic measures that affect them to come out and criticise how the global economic system works for some at the expense of others.

On behalf of the global South, who have suffered and known this for centuries, truly fuck them.