Ruslan Afandi

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[Ruslan Afandi @RsAliyev]

S.O.S.

Re-post URGENT ACTION CALL from International Initiative for #Talysh scholar Igbal Abilov to prevent him to get 19 years jail. He has trial now:
HELP TO STOP ANTI-TALYSH REPRESSION MACHINE
DON’T LET SCIENCE BE JAILED 2 DECADES!!

#freeigbalabilov
https://t.co/fpjhU9yaPx

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

En el este de Camerún, asi se ven las minas de oro, con madres con sus bebés en brazos y niños de menos de 5 años recolectando el mineral en aguas contaminadas, para llenar los bolsillos a los capitalistas.

Esto es el capitalismo, pero como no ves su cadena de producción esclavista en los paises donde los buitres capitalistas saquean los recursos, parece que este otro mundo no existe.

Ya lo decía Lenin hace más de
100 años: "El capitalismo convierte incluso a los niños en mercancía; millones de niños en países colonizados africanos mueren de hambre y trabajan como esclavos para que las damas burguesas de París Ileven seda, oro y diamantes".

[Majid Hosseini @m4h007]

Iran’s fundamental mistake is that it believes this war is not existential for the US.

This war is existential for the so called American pact aka Pax Americana. The pact in which the US provided investments, military protection, and a very sophisticated financial infrastructure. In return, the other participants focused on what they could do best. The division of labor, and comparative advantage: China: high quality labor, GCC Arabs: cheap and reliable energy, etc.

As part of the pact, any excess capital from these participants would get invested in US financial markets, primarily in the form US treasuries, but also venture capital (eg Saudi money in Softbank), and other instruments.

This did two things:
1-Lower the cost of capital in the US. This meant lower interest rates, higher stock market, more money available for startups, lower housing costs, and many other things.

2-The invested capital served as a hostage, a guarantee of good behavior by those in the system, which supplied some level of stability to the pact. The US could theoretically seize or freeze the assets of any misbehaving participants.

Parts of this pact have already been going away. China is not a US satellite state or even a partner. It is a competitor, building its own pact in the form of Belt and Road Initiative. It is also reducing its exposure to US treasuries and increasing its gold reserves.

If the US loses its dominance over the Persian gulf, another part of this pact will break. The GCC Arab states have lost their protection, while still having a hostage in the US. That’s an incentive to reduce their exposure and diversify their assets out of the US.

It will also send a signal to everyone else in US orbit that the military protection is not available anymore.

As these orbit states reduce their exposure to US assets, the cost of capital in the US will rise: higher interest rates, lower stock market, higher home financing costs, fewer startups, etc.

Furthermore, the US has $31T public debt, with average maturity of 5.9 years. As the interest rates rise, the cost of rolling over this debt is going to rise.

Last but not least, there’s about $1.6T in additional debt that gets added every year, which will be paying higher interest.

As the debt/GDP ratio rises, the feedback loop kicks in: the US has to pay a higher interest rate to keep the same investor.

This is why the loss of the Persian Gulf is so significant for the US.

I might write a later post about the effect of rates on debt financing.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

13 workers left Palantir and issued this statement.

"Palantir is increasingly complicit, normalizing authoritarianism under the guise of a 'revolution' led by oligarchs. We must resist this trend."

[Ruslan Afandi @RsAliyev]

@caitoz they are an army of capital extorting poor countries

[The Gulag @WelcomeTheGulag]

Gold miners in Ghana working barefoot, shivering, covering themselves with bags against the rain

Capitalism isn't your iPhone. It's this. It's always been this

[Thomas Reis @peakaustria]

For twenty years, a biologist dangled from a helicopter on a hundred-foot line, landed in bald eagle nests on the cliffs of Santa Catalina Island, swapped the real eggs for resin fakes, and flew away before the parents killed him.

The eagles sat on the fake eggs for weeks. The real eggs were incubated in a lab. When the chicks hatched, the biologist flew back, removed the fakes, placed the live chicks in the nest, and left. The parents never knew.

Peter Sharpe did this up to four times a year from 1989 to 2009.
The reason was DDT. The Montrose Chemical Corporation manufactured DDT in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1982 and discharged waste into the sewer system, which emptied into the Pacific Ocean off the Palos Verdes Peninsula. Hundreds of tons of DDT and its metabolite DDE settled into the ocean sediment along the Southern California coast. The contamination entered the marine food web. Fish absorbed it. Bald eagles ate the fish. DDE accumulated in the eagles' tissues and interfered with calcium metabolism during egg formation. The shells came out thin. When a twelve-pound eagle sat on a thin-shelled egg, the egg collapsed.

DDT was banned in the United States in 1972, but the chemical does not leave the environment on a human timeline. DDE persists in ocean sediment and continues cycling through the food web decades after the last drop was manufactured. The eagles on the Channel Islands were eating contaminated fish in 2009 the same way they were eating contaminated fish in 1972. The eggshells were still too thin.

The Institute for Wildlife Studies began reintroducing bald eagles to Catalina Island in 1980. Between 1980 and 1986, thirty-three young eagles raised in captivity were released from hacking towers on the island. The birds matured. They paired. They built nests on the cliff ledges overlooking the Pacific. In 1987, the first eggs were laid. Every one of them broke.

IWS biologist Dave Garcelon analyzed the remains and found DDE concentrations high enough to explain the shell failure. The eggs were too fragile to survive incubation. The adult eagles were healthy, paired, nesting, and doing everything right. Their eggs were killing their own chicks before the chicks could form.

In 1989, the egg manipulation program began. Sharpe and the IWS team developed a protocol that sounds like a heist. They monitored every known nest on the island. When a pair laid eggs, they called in the helicopter. The pilot positioned the aircraft above the nest site, which was typically on an exposed rock ledge on a sea cliff face. Sharpe was lowered on a long line, sometimes a hundred feet, with a box of resin replica eggs. He landed in the nest. The adult eagles were nearby, agitated, sharp-taloned, and fully capable of inflicting serious injury. He removed the real eggs, placed the fakes, secured the real eggs in padded containers, and signaled the pilot to extract him. The whole swap took minutes.

The real eggs were transported to the Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group at UC Santa Cruz or to the Avian Conservation Center at the San Francisco Zoo. There, in temperature and humidity-controlled incubators, the eggs were given the stable conditions their shells could not provide in the wild. The hatching success rate of removed eggs was roughly twenty percent. One in five survived. The rest were too damaged by DDE to develop even under perfect artificial conditions.

The chicks that hatched were flown back to Catalina and fostered into the nests. Sharpe repeated the helicopter descent, removed the fake eggs, placed the live chicks among the nesting material, and left. The adult eagles accepted the chicks as their own. They had been incubating what they believed were their eggs for weeks. When a chick appeared in the nest, their parental behavior activated. They fed it. They brooded it. They raised it to fledging age.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇩🇪 Google held 34 meetings with top German government officials to discuss suppressing "hate speech" and "disinformation" online.

Most were confidential and some were deemed "not suitable for public knowledge."

The meetings, revealed through a parliamentary question filed by the opposition AfD, included then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who attended 4 personally.

The implications go beyond Germany. Under the EU's Digital Services Act, content removed or algorithmically downranked applies globally, not just within EU borders.

If the secret meetings between a government and Google to shape what people can find online aren't information control, what is?

Source: Daily Sceptic, ZeroHedge / Writer: Julie

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I am more than familiar with Palestine history during the British occupation -its crimes and legacy - and yet. Watching #Palestine36 was a gut-wrenching experience.

Gentle as it can be, Palestinian storytelling cannot hide the horror of the crimes Palestinians have endured.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

"What's happening in Gaza is a Holocaust and what's being designed by the Israel government is the final solution to the Palestinian problem. As a Holocaust survivor my reaction is not in my name."

Holocaust Survivor Stephen Kapos

CC: LBC @Lewis_Goodall @hasanthehun

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This girl found out that the Albanian island that the Kushner’s are buying is registered in Amsterdam by Zvernic South Adriatic Development & it’s owned through a chain of Dutch Shell Companies & it’s managed by a trust office.They’re really trying to hide the owners names well.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Así es la esclavitud en las minas en el este del Congo, de donde sale más del 70% del cobalto del mundo, miles de esclavos diariamente extraen el mineral por apenas 2$ al dia para llenar los bolsillos a las multinacionales capitalistas.

El capitalismo que no te enseñan, así es como se sostiene el nivel de vida y de consumo en Occidente, en estas minas al menos hay 40.000 niños esclavizados que pican piedra para que Apple saque 4 modelos de Iphone cada año.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Para que los judíos se fueran a Israel, los sionistas se disfrazaron de musulmanes y atacaron a mujeres judías, hicieron atentados terroristas contra judíos en sinagogas de Irak, Egipcio, Marruecos... para aterrorizarlos y que se fueran a buscar refugio a Israel".

Yakov Rabkin, profesor emérito de Historia en la Universidad de Montreal, denuncia el papel del sionismo contra los judíos para crear el apartheid de "Israel", como incluso los sionistas hicieron atentados terroristas contra los judíos (culpando a los musulmanes) para conseguir que se marcharan de sus paises.

Durante el genocidio nazi, los sionistas igualmente llegaron a acuerdos con Hitler para fomentar la expulsión de judíos de Alemania, siempre y cuando esos judios fuesen expulsados hacia Palestina.

[Itay Epshtain @EpshtainItay]

A Jewish lynch mob has raided the Palestinian village of Huwara this morning, assaulting two Palestinians.

This, despite appearances, is not a story of "extremism". To describe it as such is to obscure the legal reality.

Settler violence in the occupied Palestinian territory has long been directed by organs of the State. The perpetrators operate as auxiliary militias, at times in civilian clothes, at times in uniform, but increasingly with functions that blur any meaningful distinction.

From that reality flows a conclusion that is as simple as it is complex. Under international law, responsibility lies not only with the individuals who wield the firearms, but with the occupying Power that supports their actions.

The remedy is not another condemnation. It is compliance with the law. As the International Court of Justice has made clear, Israel's continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful. The obligation is to bring that presence to an end, completely, unconditionally, and without delay.

[neyi kaybettiğini hatırla @neyikaybettik]

🔴İspanyol Dışişleri Bakanı:

▪️İtalya ve Almanya, Avrupa Birliği ile İsrail arasındaki Ortaklık Anlaşması'nın askıya alınmasını engelliyor.

▪️Ukrayna söz konusu olduğunda Almanya ahlaki bir bekçi gibi davranıyor, ancak Filistin söz konusu olduğunda üç maymunu oynuyor. Almanya ikiyüzlü ve acınası bir devlettir.

[Parwiz Hamidi _🇵🇸 @Palestine001_]

This is extremely shameful when the whole world is silent and toothless on this.

🇦🇺 filmmaker Juliet said: I was raped by an Israeli soldier inside a darkened shipping container while handcuffed and shackled on a Gaza aid flotilla.

They also used water torture and beatings.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Yo era un sobreviviente del Holocausto y cuando estuve en la masacre de la aldea palestina de Tantura de 1948, me sentí como cuando era un niño en la Alemania nazi y decidí irme del pais. El ejército israelí reunió a todos los hombres de la aldea y los asesinaron".

Un judío recuerda la masacre de Tantura, una aldea palestina totalmente destruida por los sionistas, que mataron a más de 200 palestinos, quemaron sus casas, fusilaron a niños, violaron mujeres...

[Ruslan Afandi @RsAliyev]

It is the textbook crimes against humanity and war crimes, but USA does not admit ICJ jurisdiction. Cuba too: it is futile. As proved in Israel case. Another sad truth about int. law: a buffonata designed in/as battaglia :(

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This’s Cuba and there’s no electricity. This's a hospital running on bare minimum power in Cuba.

The U.S is starving millions of people in Cuba. The U.S. is laying siege cruelly cut off all fuel and humanitarian aid, power is out, leaving hospitals without electricity. Dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others will die.

Food is rotting. Water pumps stopped working. Systems are breaking down, strangled by the US fuel chokehold.

This's a criminal act of collective punishment, it's a blatant violation of international law, This’s a crime against humanity.

We should be speaking out loudly in the international community: U.S. military action against Cuba is illegal and unacceptable.

Put an end to U.S. impunity before it takes another sovereign country into chaos.

[neyi kaybettiğini hatırla @neyikaybettik]

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