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Don't let your emotions control you!

[Benson @Bensonikt]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Robert Bruce @24_70xu]

Spain is showing spine to the world. 🇪🇸🔥

🇺🇸Trump today: "The U.S. will cut all trade with Spain due to the airspace closures during the Iran war."

🇪🇸Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez: "We don't care. Go to hell. We will find other partners, but we will not support the U.S. and Israel's illegal war against Iran."

Spine: 100%
Courage: 100%

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Un 8 de julio de 1763, el comandante colonialista británico en América del Norte, el general Jeffrey Amherst, escribió a uno de sus coroneles: "¿No sería posible infectar con viruela a las tribus nativas indias para extirpar esa aborrecible raza?".

Los colonialistas entregaron mantas infectadas con viruela a los nativos de America del Norte con una sonrisa en la cara, después estallaria una epidemia de viruela que matarian a miles y miles de nativos arrasando las regiones de los Grandes Lagos y del Valle de Ohio en los meses siguientes.

Asi fueron siempre los "valores occidentales", estos son los que llaman "incivilizados" a los inmigrantes.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

Imagine if on February 28 Iran struck America, killing Trump and murdering 160 school girls

Then just as the President was being buried, Iran struck the East Coast

This is what America is doing right now to Iran

[BRICS News @BRICSinfo]

JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iranian President says "the US government's conduct as World Cup host follows its familiar foreign policy."

"Bending rules, bullying rivals, creating obstacles, and cheating. This is their MAGA playbook."

[Benson @Bensonikt]

@xKnowledgeBANK Tell us how he died. Your history is not complete without it.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

JUST SO I UNDERSTAND THIS, BLOCKING THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ IS UNFAIR, BUT BLOCKING OIL SHIPMENTS TO CUBA IN ORDER TO COLLAPSE THEIR WHOLE COUNTRY, IS FAIR 🤔 DID I GET THAT RIGHT 🙄

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

2:00 PM: 🇺🇸 U.S. judge ordered the DOJ to unredact Jeffrey Epstein files which name alleged co-conspirators.

5:00 PM: 🇺🇸 Trump REJECTED Court order to hand over redacted Epstein files.

8:00 PM: 🇺🇸 Trump began bombing Iran. The war restarted.

You connect the dots.

[Benson @Bensonikt]

@FoxNews who's next after Iran? Please choose between NK and China or Russia

[Benson @Bensonikt]

@Kath755 @FoxNews

[isaac Samuel @rhaplord]

It's interesting to read how astonished explorers were to find that the Africans they encountered were equally well-travelled

Barth in 1850 met Africans in Bagirmi (Chad) who had visited Basra (Iraq), kept works of Plato, and were as inquisitive about Europe as he was abt Africa

[H i s t o r y V i l l e @HistoryVille]

As Egypt’s President, Mohammed Anwar el-Sadat was the most protected man in the country. He was covered by, at least, four layers of security at any function, including a unit tasked with seizing ammunition from the military during a parade. But an unlucky string of events led to his vulnerability and assassination on October 6, 1981.

Three years before, Sadat had signed the Camp David Accords that brought an end to his country’s war with Israel. In doing so, he had enraged his neighbours, who promptly threw Egypt out of the Arab League. He also made many domestic enemies, and his crackdown on Islamist groups did not make matters any better.

In February 1981, the Egyptian government learned of a Fatwa that had been issued by a cleric. The fatwa authorised the Islamic Jihad to assassinate Sadat. His death would be followed by a government coup. In the months between February and September, the government cracked down on the jihad. The crackdown got all the main players except a small jihad cell that was right under its nose, in its military.

On October 6, 1981, Sadat attended the eighth anniversary of the Yom Kippur War. It was a show of might for the Egyptian military, and they brought their best toys for the country to see. As military planes flew overhead, the army trucks passed in front of the presidential dais. The noise from the jets distracted most people from the fleet of trucks.

At one point, one of the trucks stopped, and an officer jumped out. The officer, Lieutenant Khalid Islambouli, ran towards the dais, followed by his accomplices. As bad luck would have it, the officers who should have ensured the soldiers had no live bullets were on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

Sadat, mistakenly thinking it was part of the show, stood up to receive what he thought was a salute. By doing so, he exposed himself even further. Islambouli threw three hand grenades at Sadat and started shooting as he shouted ‘Death to Pharaoh!’ The other assassins provided cover fire for Islambouli, whose work was to kill Sadat.

By the time they ran out of ammunition one minute later, they had fatally wounded Sadat and 11 other people, including the then Cuban ambassador to Egypt. Attempts to shield Sadat by throwing chairs at him had been a second too late. In the gunfight, one assassin was shot dead, and the others were injured.

They had had no escape plan as the assassination was meant to be an act of jihad. One of the top Egyptian politicians who was wounded that day was Vice President Hosni Mubarak, who became president shortly after. Another, then Foreign Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali, later became the Secretary-General of the United Nations. #HistoryVille

[Krisztina Maria @KrisztinaMaria]

Your Vacuum Cleaner Became an EU Matter

I talked to my mother yesterday. She is 84 and told me she had bought a new vacuum cleaner. She wanted one with at least 1600 watts, like her old one.

The man in the store told her those don’t exist anymore. In 2017, the EU decided that no vacuum cleaner may have a motor above 900 watts. Everything above 1600 was already banned in 2014.

My mother never asked the EU for permission. Neither did you. But the decision was made for both of you.

The justification was the climate. The EU wanted to save energy, and millions of vacuum cleaners times many watts sounds like a lot. So they banned the powerful models. They didn’t inform. They didn’t label. They banned.

And then we were told we wouldn’t notice the difference. That 900 watts cleans just as well as 1600.

That is not my experience. I have used both, and there is a world of difference. But you don’t have to take my word for it. The claim was based on laboratory tests where vacuum cleaners were measured with an empty bag - a showroom illusion no one experiences at home, because suction drops as the bag fills up.

Dyson sued the EU on exactly this point. And in 2018, the EU Court ruled in their favor: the testing method was misleading, and the energy label was annulled. The EU’s own proof that you lost nothing didn’t hold up in the EU’s own court.

So what did we get out of it?

The EU’s own figures say the rule saved around 11.7 TWh of electricity in 2020. That sounds massive, but it amounts to less than half a percent of the EU’s electricity consumption.

And mind you, that is the EU’s own calculation, measured against the EU’s own guess at how big vacuum cleaners would have been without the rule. There is no independent measurement.

And CO2? The EU accounts for 6-7 percent of the world’s total emissions. That share shrinks year by year, while China and India build new coal plants. Even if the entire EU hit zero emissions tomorrow, it would barely register on the global curve. A vacuum cleaner rule that moves fractions of those 6-7 percent means nothing for the climate in the big picture.

But it means something for you.

You pay with your freedom of choice. My mother cannot buy the vacuum cleaner she wants. You pay with bureaucracy, control, and testing regimes. And you pay with the principle: that Brussels can regulate what you keep in your utility closet.

Here comes the objection, every time: “But if all the small players say they don’t matter, nothing ever happens.”

Fine. Then show me that it works. The EU has pursued this policy for over a decade. Global emissions have risen anyway - because the growth happens in China and India, far beyond Brussels’ reach. We bought the symbol. Not the result.

And that is the mechanism you need to see. Each individual intervention is “small”. The sum is called “necessary”. By that logic, you can justify regulating almost anything in your home.

The problem is not that people care about the climate. The problem is that the concern has become a blank check to regulate citizens’ lives with no measurable effect. The power grows. The freedom shrinks. The climate doesn’t change because of it.

[pinkcellgirl @pinkcellgirl]

Well, when a child is conceived, the DNA split is 50/50 from both parents. Except for one small detail: mitochondrial DNA. It’s passed down only through the mother and never through sperm.
Which means something interesting: all living humans can trace their mitochondrial line back to one woman, not one man.
And every daughter born continues passing that same line forward.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺��� @FmrRepMTG]

We are back to bombing Iran during the ceasefire for the Iran war that is not a war because Iran bombed a vessel for crossing the Strait of Hormuz that they don’t control yet apparently control.
Not sure how they bombed the vessel because we have totally and completely obliterated their military and beat them in the war that is not a war like 40 times now.
I’m so glad that Trump ran for president to end forever foreign wars otherwise I might start thinking this war that is not a war that we won like 40 times is starting to turn into another forever foreign war in the Middle East.
Good thing Pete Hegseth, Secretary of the Department of Defense, I mean War, is headed to Israel to take orders from, I mean ask for advice, on how to totally wipe out Iran, I mean bring peace.
I’m totally sure no one in the executive branch or donors will do any sort of insider trading based on super duper secret military decisions.
You know the kind based on intelligence that Congress is going to fuse with Israel’s military after they all vote to pass the National Defense (war) Authorization Act.
Because this is exactly what we all voted for when we said Make America Great Again.

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

"It's Time to Apologize to Russia": Finnish Politician Criticizes Kallas's Attacks

Finnish politician Armando Mema, a representative of the Freedom Alliance party, harshly criticized Kaja Kallas's bellicose rhetoric on his social media page X. He believes that instead of imposing senseless sanctions, it's time for Europe to apologize to Moscow.

"I don't understand why someone from a country with a population of 1.33 million should lead European diplomacy. At this point, Europe is obligated to apologize to Russia and work to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Ukraine," Mema stated.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

The funniest part of JD Vance’s speech is the ending:

“I am angry about the rise of China… but I am most angry that American leadership let it happen.”

Let it happen?

As if China’s rise was an American clerical error.
As if 1.4 billion people industrialized because Washington forgot to lock the door.

China was sanctioned, contained, smeared, tariffed, and technologically strangled.

And still it became the world’s strongest industrial economy.

India had the population.
India had English.
India had earlier access to the WTO.
India had Western approval, “democracy” branding, and decades of geopolitical courtship.

Capital still chose China.
Factories still chose China.
Supply chains still chose China.

Why?

Because civilization is not built by flattering Washington.
It is built by infrastructure, discipline, engineers, workers, logistics, electricity, education, and state capacity.

America’s next ten years are not about competing with China.
That phase is already over.

America is now competing with India for who can disappoint capital less.

China’s real opponent was never America.

China’s real opponent is its own execution, its own discipline, its own ability to keep building without believing Western noise.

Vance is angry because China rose.

But what really humiliates him is this:

America tried to stop it.

And China rose anyway.

[Historical Africa @historical_Afr]

Meet Jaja Wachuku; N.igeria's first Ambassador to the United Nations. He became famous after he "slept" during a UN meeting in 1960.

But here's the catch:

He wasn't sleeping, he was denied the opportunity to express his displeasure over a r.acist comment and he in return pretended to be sleeping, ignorıng the entire conversation.

He also helped save Nelson Mandela from déath penalty by the apartheid South African government.

[QINTELPRO @QINTELPRO_]

In 1993 British Petroleum and Amoco helped overthrow Azerbaijan’s elected president, Abulfaz Elchibey. He had won the country’s first free elections the year before.

He was replaced by Heydar Aliyev, a former KGB chief and longtime Communist Party boss. One of Aliyev’s first major acts was signing a $5 billion oil deal with BP.

Five years later Tony Blair hosted Aliyev in London to secure another $13 billion in contracts. BP maintained close ties to British intelligence and employed several former MI6 officers during this period.

In 2003 Aliyev’s son Ilham seized power after a rigged election and has ruled as dictator ever since.

When Western governments speak of democracy promotion and human rights, Azerbaijan stands as a clear example of what actually drives their policy. An elected leader was removed. A KGB veteran was installed. Oil contracts followed. The resulting dictatorship continues without serious Western pressure.

[Benson @Bensonikt]

@throw_away1520 @Cfcjoao_20 You cunt! So what stops you from getting her a snake seeing she likes them so much? And may she not end up in the stomach of her pet someday, when you finally decide to get her one