Carduelis

_Ma grâce te suffit, car ma puissance s’accomplit dans la faiblesse.

_Car, quand je suis faible, c’est alors que je suis fort.

[Carduelis @cedlicg]

@JusteMilieu3 Edouard Philippe et ses potes à la manœuvre ?

[Carduelis @cedlicg]

@PerseusLeGrand Première pensée: c'est où, je veux bien y aller.

[Carduelis @cedlicg]

@Desertup Regardez les images, et réfléchissez 1 minute. Juste une minute de votre vie.

[Desertup @Desertup]

Des soldats de l'armée judénazie israélienne arrête un garçon trisomique palestinien !

[Carduelis @cedlicg]

@BFMTV + 6 milliards pour le complexe militaire industriel français qui se frotte les mains, et donc -6 milliards pour la santé, l'école, les services publics, les infrastructures de base.
=ÇA VA BIENTOT PÉTER

[Carduelis @cedlicg]

@LaTableDeGaya L'amour est patient, il est plein de bonté… il supporte tout, il espère tout, il endure tout.

— 1 Corinthiens 13,4-7

[Carduelis @cedlicg]

@le_Parisien "l'Ukraine"= Royaume Uni + USA

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

I rarely have reasons to be proud of France these days, but this is definitely one.

France's parliament just voted - unanimously, 170 votes to 0 - a law that institutionalizes the restitution of cultural artifacts looted during the colonial era (the law covers a massive 157-year period).

It's going absolutely viral in Chinese social media because of this speech 👇 by MP @JPatrierLeitus who noted in Parliament that it included items stolen to China during the joint British-French sack of the Summer Palace in 1860.

Patrier-Leitus cites Victor Hugo's famous 1861 letter to Captain Butler, the British officer who wrote to him seeking his endorsement of the expedition - and got the exact opposite.

Hugo wrote (whole letter here: https://t.co/zyWomXJYBn):

"One day two bandits entered the Summer Palace. One plundered, the other burned. Victory can be a thieving woman, or so it seems. The devastation of the Summer Palace was accomplished by the two victors acting jointly. Mixed up in all this is the name of Elgin, which inevitably calls to mind the Parthenon. What was done to the Parthenon was done to the Summer Palace, more thoroughly and better, so that nothing of it should be left. All the treasures of all our cathedrals put together could not equal this formidable and splendid museum of the Orient. It contained not only masterpieces of art, but masses of jewelry. What a great exploit, what a windfall! One of the two victors filled his pockets; when the other saw this he filled his coffers. And back they came to Europe, arm in arm, laughing away. Such is the story of the two bandits.

We Europeans are the civilized ones, and for us the Chinese are the barbarians. This is what civilization has done to barbarism.

Before history, one of the two bandits will be called France; the other will be called England. But I protest, and I thank you for giving me the opportunity! the crimes of those who lead are not the fault of those who are led; Governments are sometimes bandits, peoples never.

The French empire has pocketed half of this victory, and today with a kind of proprietorial naivety it displays the splendid bric-a-brac of the Summer Palace. I hope that a day will come when France, delivered and cleansed, will return this booty to despoiled China.

Meanwhile, there is a theft and two thieves. I take note.

This, Sir, is how much approval I give to the China expedition."

Hugo's letter is so revered in China that a bronze bust of him stands today at the Summer Palace ruins - I believe the only instance of a Westerner honored in China at the site of his own country's crime.

A powerful testament of how much a single act of intellectual honesty can redeem, if not a nation, then at least a name.

Hugo was also prescient: as Patrier-Leitus notes, that day "when France, delivered and cleansed, will return this booty to despoiled China" has indeed come (even though the "delivered and cleansed" part is, overall, pretty questionable in the current context).

This new law doesn't only concern China and the Summer Palace: it concerns ALL stolen artifacts by France during the period ranging between November 1815 and April 1972 - corresponding to the start of the second French colonial empire to the entry into force of the UNESCO convention on cultural property.

It's a massive scope: 157 years, thousands of objects and dozens of nations with potential claims. It's France reckoning with its colonial past in an unprecedented way and the fact ALL of France's MPs voted in favor of the law, without a single exception, is also pretty remarkable.

Hopefully this will also serve as a signal to other countries, especially the UK - the other "bandit" in Hugo's letter.

There is this Chinese saying from the Zuo Zhuan (左传), one of the foundational Confucian classics:

"To err and be able to correct it - there is no greater virtue." ("过而能改，善莫大焉", "guò ér néng gǎi, shàn mò dà yān").

France, with this law, proved its virtue.

[Carduelis @cedlicg]

@AlertesInfos @Raph_journalist Comparé à son engagement contre les crimes contre l'humanité et contre le génocide à Gaza, la balance est clairement en sa faveur. Ce n' est pas elle qui est criminelle.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran.

This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.

Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons.

I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late.

Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.

[Tribune Populaire🌐 @TribunePop23]

🚨ALERTE INFO

La Bank of America accepte de verser 72,5 millions de dollars pour mettre fin à une procédure civile l’accusant d’avoir « sciemment et intentionnellement participé à l’entreprise de trafic sexuel » organisé par Jeffrey Epstein.

[Anne-Laure Bonnel @al_bonnel]

Après une année de traitement, je suis en rémission.
Deux opérations lourdes, un staphylocoque doré où j’ai cru y passer, 20 chimiothérapies, 25 radiothérapies, et un traitement hormonal à venir.

Merci pour votre patience, votre présence, même silencieuse.

Je me reconstruis doucement.
Je reviens bientôt avec des chroniques hebdomadaires.

Vous m’avez manqué.

[Carduelis @cedlicg]

@LHDSR_View J'ai perdu mon temps. Absolument rien d'intéressant à conclure de cette analyse.

[South Asia Index @SouthAsiaIndex]

🚨 US is dismantling its THAAD and Patriot Systems from South Korea to send it to the Middle East.

▪️ In 2017, South Korea sacrificed its diplomatic and economic relations with China to host US THAAD.

▪️ Chinese tourism to South Korea, worth billions of dollars, was abruptly stopped due to diplomatic standoff.

▪️K-Pop was banned in China.

▪️ Hyundai and Kia had to close their factories in China, ultimately losing their market shares in China.

▪️ South Korea lost billions of dollars of exports to China in order to host US THAAD and Patriot Systems.

📍Now, US has dismantled its THAAD and Patriot Missile Systems in South Korea and is sending to Middle East.

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

Catholic priest Fr. Pierre Al Rahi, killed by Israel in Qlaya'a, Lebanon.

"We carry nothing but kindness, goodness, love, and prayer. I am ready to die in my house -- because this is our home."

[Propaganda & co @propandco]

The war isn't coming.

It’s already here.

Leaked documents obtained by Ken Klippenstein from Pentagon contractors expose the full scope of Trump’s secret war plan for Iran. (Full video)

[Linformatrice @Linformatrice1]

Vous avez typiquement ici l'exemple du mal qui ronge la France. Vous avez un homme qui connaît l'Iran, son identité et sa psyché, de l'autre des aboyeurs qui n'y connaissent rien et qui lui opposent un terrorisme moral. Le pauvre homme est obligé de céder.

[Carduelis @cedlicg]

@DoucetGaubert @Linformatrice1 Mdr si tuer des innocents est le problème, ceux-là mêmes qui ont bombardé le "régime des Mollahs" ont inauguré en ciblant une école de jeunes filles, 85 morts.
Contre des "criminels" tu en défends d'autres, c'est très malin ça 🥱

[Council Estate Media @cem_uk_]

Imagine telling the world that you're liberating the women of Iran and one of the first things you do is blow up a school full of girls. Extraordinary.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

@DeptofWar OPERATION EPSTEIN FURY