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[T.C. Dışişleri Bakanlığı @TC_Disisleri]

1821-1830 yılları arasında Mora Yarımadasında Müslüman Türk ahali sistematik olarak katledilmiştir.

Bu imha politikasına, ibadet yerlerinden medreselere, mezarlıklardan diğer kültürel miras unsurlarına kadar uzanan planlı bir yıkım ve tahribat da eşlik etmiştir.

Tripoliçe katliamının 205. yıldönümünde, acımasızca katledilen Müslüman Türk sivil halkı rahmetle anıyoruz.

[CEO Of Frenology @Frenologia007]

Los alemanes cuando se destruye medio punto del índice de producción industrial y aumenta la inflación un punto:

[BEŞİKTAŞIN SESİ @Besiktasin_sesi]

Gülmekten çenem yerinden çıkacak 😂

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

From what I am hearing there is a sense of emergency among European governments as the Iran war threatens to trigger an economic catastrophe in Europe. But strangely all these governments, Spain excepted, supported the war…

[CEOInterviews.AI @CEOinterview]

Big Short investor Steve Eisman says the AI labs know they have no moats and are manufacturing a crisis to get regulation that hands them a duopoly

"I think this is all nonsense."

[ You think it's all nonsense? ]

"All nonsense. I think that there's something else completely going on here. ... What I think is happening is that token maxing is over. The open weight models are taking big market share. I think these companies are very nervous. They realize that there are no moats around their business whatsoever, and they're trying to manufacture a crisis that will create regulation, and that they think they can then manipulate to create the moats, to create the duopoly that they want."

[ Wow. ]

"That's what I think is going on."

"Honestly, I think this whole Terminator thing is garbage. That's for sure."

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Look at that camera. This is a cold-blooded execution of a child.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Double-tap strike on a child trying to rescue a rescue worker. During a “cease fire.”

This comes as Israeli media and politicians are calling a documentary about this sort of attack a “blood libel.”

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[Giulio Mattioli @giulio_mattioli]

The "dirty work they do for us" (cit.) turned out to have some consequences we don't like.

There is a word for this in German and is "Tja"

[Brett Erickson @BrettErickson28]

MAJOR: Saudi Arabia is CANCELLING shipments of crude to Europe after the catastrophic destruction of the Saudi East-West Pipeline in recent days, paired with Ansarallah strikes against various Saudi infrastructure.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

Investors watching Anthropic define profitability as revenue before cost of goods sold and operating expenses

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

You’re seriously telling me you believe AI workers with access to super secret dangerous tech have no NDA in their contract and the reaction to them accusing their former employer of risking the future of humanity is the CEO saying “yeah we should slow down”? Bc they “care”? Lmao

[Elis Gjevori @Elis_Gj]

If Turkey’s PISA scores were down Timur would be blaming Erdogan! The scores are up, so apparently they have nothing to do with Erdogan. And in the end, decades of scholarship by Timur produce this revelation: the students did well because they practised for the exam!

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

People like Pinker need to be treated like Holocaust deniers such as David Irving

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Christopher Hitchens, intellectual father of Trumpism

[Rahul Jain @rahulj51]

This hackernews comment finally says it out loud.

[Murtaza Hussain @MazMHussain]

The clock tower is becoming more emblematic of Mecca than the Kaaba. You can notice this in merchandise and paraphernalia about the city in which it increasingly takes center stage as the most notable physical landmark of the city. This was inevitable since it was designed and constructed in a way that completely decentered the Kaaba architecturally as a focal point. Even worse than that the tower and surrounding caters solely to an elite global consumer class (as well as people mesmerized by Western mass market KFC slop) which furthers the obvious class stratification at a place where everyone is ostensibly equal.

[Gürkan @gurkte]

Bir de şu havalimanına karşı çıktılar, hatta hala kibirli ve bilmiş laflarla karşı çıkmaya devam ediyorlar. Kibirliler, salaklar, ülke hayrına yapılan hiçbir şeyden memnun kalmazlar ve en önemlisi iki koyun versen güdemezler.