Putin claims “the West is openly preparing for war with Russia.”
This from the man who launched the largest war in Europe since 1945, invaded a neighbouring country, illegally annexed territory, threatened nuclear escalation, and spends every day accusing others of what he is doing himself.
There is only one country routinely firing nuclear-capable missiles in Europe and warning of nuclear Armageddon whenever events do not go its way.
That country is Russia.
For those who don’t remember…
Just hours after the October 7th Massacre, a large crowd of migrants gathered in front of the Sydney Opera House to celebrate and chant:
“Gas the Jews”
Trump & Musk have a strategy to destroy US democracy. Luckily, they're incompetent, but they have enough money and power to keep trying. So I'm launching my own strategic project to defend freedom, The Next Move, and we must fight to win. Link in bio.
Good evening, MAGA voters. Thanks to your vote, you'll now pay thousands of dollars more per year.
Let's begin by taking a tour of your grimy homes.
In your kitchen:
- Coffeemaker: Likely made in China, Thailand, or Malaysia. You'll now pay 24%–36% more
- Sponges: Enjoy the 34%–46% tariffs
In your bathroom:
- Towels: Many are made in India, Pakistan, or Turkey. Enjoy 26%–29% tariffs
- Toothpaste & body wash packaging often comes from EU, China, or Vietnam. 20%–34% more
In your garage:
- Power tools Often made in China, Taiwan, or Mexico with 32%–34%+ tariffs (thankfully I don't have to worry about this one)
And I'm not even mentioning the expensive stuff, like your cars, appliances, HVAC, furniture, and TVs
You'll pay thousands of dollars more for household items...all so that wealthy guys like me can get a tax cut that I don't need. This is what Republicans voted for
@Riley_Gaines_ Imane Khelif is a 1 transgender 2 Muslim 3 of color. All of you people put together don't have the social capital she has. Olympic committee will cancel Olympics before they cancel her.
#IStandWithAngelaCarini
VENEZUELA TIMELINE
1950s: 4th richest country in the world
1976: Oil nationalization
1980s: Stagnation
1989: Looting instigated by socialists
1992: Failed coup attempts by Chavez.
1990s: Economic reforms to restart the economy.
1998: Chavez elected.
1999: Supreme court is packed and constitution rewritten.
2000: Enabling act allows Chavez to govern by executive order. Nationalizations of land begin, followed by major companies.
2002: National strike and failed coup and insurrection against Chavez.
2003: Centralization and purging of institutions. Firing of dissidents from government. Price and currency controls, and massive increases in government spending begin.
2004: Recall referendum against Chavez rigged. Signatories barred from employment and welfare.
2006: Chavez re-elected. Nationalizations accelerate.
2009: Chavez illegally amends constitution to end term limits.
2012: Chavez re-elected with state support for campaign, media, and irregularities.
2013: Chavez dies, and Maduro elected in a rigged election. Gun ownership prohibited. Country enters deep recession.
2014: Massive protests repressed
2015: Opposition wins national assembly and it's stripped of all powers. Enabling act passed before swearing in of new assembly.
2016: Refugee crisis reaches one million.
2017: Massive street protests repressed. Refugees number 2 million. Economy has shrunk by 25%.
2018: Maduro rigs another election. National assembly vows to impeach. Refugees reach 3.5 million.
2019: Economic crisis deepens. GDP has shrunk by two thirds and the refugee crisis reaches 4.6 million. National Assembly declares Guaido President recognized by most western nations but Maduro remains in power and cracks down on protesters.
2021: The economy is now 75% smaller than when recession began. 90% of Venezuelans live in poverty. Refugee crisis reaches over 6 million.
2023: Refugee crisis reaches 8 million
2024: Maduro rigs the election once again.
Here's a story for you about how the news industry works.
Earlier tonight, the group that invaded Israel, massacred 1000+ people, burned families to death in their homes, took hostages back to Gaza, and recorded it all with GoPros – this group announced that Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza, killing hundreds.
Then, instead of waiting for more information from the Israeli side, the editors of the world's most important media outlets said to themselves: "This is enough for us. Let's run with it."
Headlines screamed that Israel bombed a hospital. Push notifications were sent to MILLIONS of people.
CNN push: "Hundreds of people may have been killed in an Israeli strike on a Gaza City hospital, according to the Palestinian health ministry"
BBC push: "Hundreds feared dead or injured in Israeli air strike on hospital in Gaza, Palestinian officials say"
NYT push: "At least 500 people were killed by an Israeli airstrike at a Gaza hospital, the Palestinian Health Ministry said"
Do you see what they did there?
They put the dramatic news in the beginning of the sentence and then they cited the source at the end so that the assertion is technically true. The Palestinian Health Ministry DID say that.
The thing is, the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza is a Hamas institution.
What do you call people who amplify Hamas propaganda not just as news, but as the top news story in the world?
There is no way that a professional military such as the Israel Defense Forces can give an instant answer about a catastrophe in enemy territory during a war. It took around two or three hours for the IDF to share the results of its initial investigation – that the explosion at the hospital was a due to a rocket launched by Islamic Jihad that malfunctioned and crashed back into Gaza. More evidence is coming out as I write this.
The sad fact is that it appears that hundreds of Palestinians are dead at a hospital because terrorists in Gaza tried to fire rockets at Israelis and ended up hitting their own people. It's unbearably stupid and tragic.
None of this is new, unfortunately. Journalists in the Middle East know – they absolutely know – that a significant percentage of Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s rockets misfire and crash into residential areas of Gaza.
I've attached a famous example. This video is from May 2022. It shows a live broadcast of a rocket being launched from a residential area of Gaza. The rocket malfunctions, turns sideways, and crashes into the city. The overexcited broadcaster tries to pretend that nothing unusual happened and asks the camera man to turn away. The video went viral at the time. There are other known instances where this happened.
These rockets are designed to kill people. Don't act surprised when they do.
I say all of this to remind you to treat breaking news from Gaza with caution, even if it's unpopular to do so.
.@AbuAliEnglishB1:
"AlJazeera saves Israel from the lie that it is responsible for the attack on the hospital.
Attached here is a recording of Aljazeera's live broadcast today against the background of Gaza.
Pay attention to the broadcast time on the right. 18:59 - In the background we can see a failed launch that crashes inside the Gaza strip - exactly at the time when the red alert warning was activated across Israel.
The line of reports running at the bottom of the page talks about the elimination of Hamas commander Iman Nofal so that the broadcast is certainly from today.
Do you remember that I wrote to you that the incident was first reported around 19:10?
That is, a reasonable period of time of about ten minutes from the moment of the impact to the Gaza news channels.
Here is live proof courtesy of Aljazeera - a launch from Gaza is responsible for the impact inside the Gaza Strip"
"Attached also on a Hamas-identified channel: a preliminary report on the attack on the hospital at 19:10 this evening. The schedule is perfect!!!"
Thanks to the “Hot News” Telegram channel for the video!
(To summarize:) "A rocket intended to kill Israeli civilians hit a hospital in Gaza and now "the Jews are to blame". Upside-down world."
https://t.co/NZSVC1akhh
#BREAKING: It is now confirmed. The explosion that killed some 500 Palestinians in a hospital was from a missile fired from within #Gaza that misfired. The world must now condemn #Hamas with the same hatred that it rushed to condemn #Israel for the bombing.
Have no illusions. The attacks in Israel, killing civilians, and kidnapping of children and parents as bargaining chips are directed from Moscow.
The Putin regime needed to escalate without getting into a direct conflict with NATO, divert interest from Ukraine and wipe out any normalization in the Middle East, and end the US "borrowing" munitions from warehouses in Israel for Ukraine's needs. Russia is betting on a larger conflict in The Middle East after Israel answered Hamas. Then Russia has ensured that the US is busy with other than Ukraine. Russia is on its way to becoming the same terrorist financier that the Soviet Union once was. Every terrorist group that wanted to kill Westerners had a checking account in Moscow. Russia invests in chaos and death to achieve its political goals. Terror is now in the game, and those who supported Ukraine become targets for Russian-financed terrorism.
We are back in the 1980s - Russian/USSR money "outsource" to terrorists and warlords to sow chaos, death, and mayhem for the Russians' cynical goals.
https://t.co/7pCps0ZFtL
An exceptional interview with General Zaluzhnyi. He exhibits humility, compassion, humor, intelligence, discipline, selflessness, and vision. He has changed the culture of Ukraine's military...decentralized command, listening to subordinates, building an NCO corps. Inspiring.
Important lesson from Putin backing down on grain blockade after Turkish threats. He makes menacing noises, you bare your teeth, he backs down. When will we realize just how weak and uncertain he is?
When we give @Ukraine the support it needs to win the war, it serves to strongly deter other nuclear blackmailers in their territorial aggressions. Helping @Ukraine does not increase the probability of nuclear war, it reduces the risk of future nuclear conflagrations.