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[aldo cernezzi @cernauta]

@SMaurizi @rantoniucci @gbsumudflotilla Non sono le dita il punto della questione, ma la presenza di numerosi soldati che ridevano per la scena, mentre alla persona oggetto di questa "ispezione intima" tenevano la bocca tappata.

[aldo cernezzi @cernauta]

@PropositoyVida Uguali a noi, al buffet aperitivo

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

GOOD NEWS. There is a way out, but we need to stay CALM, not panic or feed into any grotesque moves. The ANTIDOTE is in the very system they seek to dismantle. The human rights movement (the one now active on Palestine and the other coverging struggles, from environment to Indigenous peoples, LGBTQI+ and more) must continue growing: keep awakening, uniting, and resisting to protect all our rights and freedoms (not our privileges, alas)—this is the essence of human rights.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

🚨 ALERT: What the new US Administration is doing is very clear and strategic: it is called psychological overwhelming. Hitting us every day with XXL doses of baffling rhetoric and erratic policies serves to "control the script", distracting and dishorienting us, normalising the absurd, all while disrupting global stability (and consolidating US control).

[L'HuffPost @HuffPostItalia]

La mente nazista (di M. Gervasoni) https://t.co/G3XPTU6PaR

[WikiLeaks @wikileaks]

Have US tech leaders “dangerously lost the plot”?

Arnaud Bertrand on Palantir CEO Alex Karp, whose video was recently reposted by @elonmusk. Palantir is an intelligence contractor controlled by Peter Thiel, Karp and Stephen Cohen, founded with CIA seed capital:

"Perfect illustration that U.S. tech leaders have dangerously lost the plot. Not only does Karp not seem to understand the first thing about geopolitics, he doesn't even understand what made the U.S. successful.

He claims that:
- The only way for the U.S. to be safe is for their adversaries to "wake up scared and go to bed scared"
- The U.S. should do collective punishment, threatening not just adversaries but their "friends, cousins, mistresses, and whoever was involved."
- The U.S. "cannot have parity" with adversaries because "our adversaries do not have our moral compunction. If it's even, they will take advantage of our niceness, kindness."
- International institutions such as the UN are "discriminatory against anything good"

In short, this is imperial hubris at its most deluded and hypocritical. Karp simultaneously claims American moral superiority while advocating deeply immoral tactics like collective punishment, making everyone else live in fear and rejecting any checks on its power. It's a worldview that mistakes bullying for leadership and domination for security. And which, by the way, betrays America's own historical lessons as a former British colony...

And, most importantly: it's dead wrong - the world absolutely doesn't work this way. Rule by fear has a long and very well documented history of failure. Empires that rely on fear and domination always sow the seeds of their own demise because fear always generates resistance and resentment.

This is by the way exactly what's happening now, as explained by none other than Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski in his book "The Grand Chessboard", in which he wrote that the most dangerous scenario for the U.S. would be an "alliance of the aggrieved": "The most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia, and perhaps Iran, an 'antihegemonic' coalition united not by ideology but by complementary grievances."

That's what rule through fear and intimidation gets you: it unlocks the "most dangerous scenario" for the U.S. because, guess what, turns out people don't particularly enjoy being bullied and threatened... They tend to band together against the bully, regardless of their differences.

What made America truly successful wasn't its ability to frighten others - it was its ability (largely lost today) to build. The Marshall Plan, international institutions, cultural exchange, industrial might, technological innovation - these were the real sources of American power.

How did the U.S. "win" the cold war? Let's turn to another actually smart American statesman, George Kennan, the architect of the U.S. cold war strategy. Key to his strategy was, in his words, proving that the U.S. was "coping successfully with the problems of its internal life and with the responsibilities of a world power".

This meant creating a society and an international order that inspired admiration rather than fear, one that nations would be inspired by rather than be coerced into. This is precisely why Gorbachev, for better or worse, ultimately pushed for reform - he recognized the clear success of the American economic and technological model compared to Soviet stagnation. He was convinced by U.S. achievements, not intimidated by threats.

Most tellingly, this tech CEO seems completely disconnected from today's tech reality. His claim that the U.S. is "the only one with a real tech scene" is peak delusion - China has now overtaken the U.S. in innovation and scientific discoveries according to almost all credible rankings.

All in all Karp's "make them afraid" rhetoric reveals a profound insecurity - a tacit admission that America can no longer compete on the basis of positive achievements. When he dismisses international institutions and advocates for rule by fear, he's essentially admitting that America can no longer lead by example or build constructive alternatives. All that's left is the threat of force.

It also reveals something about the current state of American tech leadership. When tech CEOs start sounding like Cold War hawks, advocating for global domination through fear rather than innovation through building, it suggests they've run out of ideas. They're no longer confident in their ability to compete on the merit of their products and solutions.

To conclude, Karp's worldview isn't just dead wrong - it represents everything that's gone awry with American leadership: the abandonment of building for bullying, of influence for intimidation, of power for control, the triumph of worst instincts over thoughtful judgment.

When America elevates leaders like Karp who preach fear over building, we're not witnessing the restoration of American greatness as many of the comments below claim - we're watching its erosion in real time. A nation that can only threaten rather than inspire has already lost its claim to leadership."

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

🏆 Jeffrey Sachs Should Be A Nobel Prize Winner

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[Roberto Iannuzzi @riannuzziGPC]

Trump e Gaza: la rottamazione di un popolo

Il mio nuovo articolo su #IntelligenceForThePeople
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(Link all’articolo in fondo al thread!)

[Fabio Sabatini @FabbioSabatini]

🧵Una lista di keywords che, secondo indiscrezioni, provocheranno il rigetto immediato di qualsiasi richiesta di finanziamento presso la National Science Foundation (NSF).
Un segnale spaventoso per la ricerca negli Stati Uniti, ma anche un'opportunità per l’Europa. 👇🇪🇺

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[Ricochet Media @ricochet_en]

Brandi Morin in Ecuador: A Canadian mining giant vs. the guardians of the Amazon.

The first of four parts in a riveting series about the impact of a Canadian mining project on Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, featuring stunning photos by Ian Wilms.

https://t.co/uvMj9rrbQJ

[Baobab Experience @BaobabExp]

Roma oggi

Un signore di 60 anni è morto di freddo davanti l'ufficio immigrazione durante la fila notturna per fare richiesta di asilo questa mattina

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Wow just wow. Thank you Arwa Damon (
5x Emmy winning ex-CNN senior correspondent)

This is a very critical video to expose Israeli lies

[Roberto Burioni @RobertoBurioni]

E guarda caso la differenza nell'eccesso di mortalità è massimo nelle contee gonfie di novax dove la gente si vaccina poco (a sinistra), minimo nelle contee dove ci si vaccina molto (a destra). 🔽

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Quite a sign when Stephen Walt, one of the most renowned scholars of international relations in the world (and Harvard professor), writes an article in Foreign Policy arguing that "Noam Chomsky has been proved right": https://t.co/SAmSGsXDJJ

Walt agrees with Chomsky that "the claim that U.S. foreign policy is guided by the lofty ideals of democracy, freedom, the rule of law, human rights" is "nonsense".

As he explains, all of US history proves the contrary, from the "genocidal campaign against the indigenous population" the country was founded upon, to the fact it intervened militarily "to thwart democratic processes in many countries, and waged or backed wars that killed millions of people in Indochina, Latin America, and the Middle East."

Walt also agrees with Chomsky that this is enabled by a massive brainwashing campaign on the US population: "government institutions work overtime to 'manufacture consent' by classifying information, prosecuting leakers, lying to the public, and refusing to be held accountable even when things go wrong or malfeasance is exposed. Their efforts are aided by a generally compliant media, which repeats government talking points uncritically and only rarely questions the official narrative."

Walt concludes: "If I were asked whether a student would learn more about U.S. foreign policy by reading [Chomsky's] book or by reading a collection of the essays that current and former U.S. officials occasionally write in journals such as Foreign Affairs or the Atlantic, Chomsky and Robinson would win hands down. I wouldn’t have written that last sentence when I began my career 40 years ago. I’ve been paying attention, however, and my thinking has evolved as the evidence has piled up."

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Wow, this has got to be one of the most 'saying the quiet part out loud' statements since the start of the Ukraine war.

Boris Johnson: 'Mate, let's face it... We're waging a proxy war! We're waging a proxy war but we're not giving our proxies the ability to do the job. And for years and years we've been allowing them to fight with one hand tied behind their backs and it has been cruel. It has been cruel and moral...'

He obviously meant to say 'morally wrong' there at the end...

I still remember the time when suggesting - as John Mearsheimer or Jeffrey Sachs (or, more humbly, myself) have done since the beginning - that this was a proxy war of the West against Russia was considered 'Russian propaganda'...

Johnson is saying the West has been cruel to Ukrainians. Which is absolutely correct, but not because we've only 'been allowing them to fight with one hand tied behind their backs' as he suggests, but for the very fact we've used them as proxies in a war that could a) have been prevented or, save that, b) could have been shut down early on. All resulting in hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian casualties.

The only 'pro-Ukraine' position has always been and will always be that of those - like Mearsheimer or Sachs - who've always called out Western instrumentalization of Ukraine. That's what's always been cruel and morally wrong, and Johnson has a lot to answer for in this regard.

[aldo cernezzi @cernauta]

@dariodangelo91 Una posizione che condividevo nei primi giorni a seguire dal 7 ottobre 2023. Adesso no, proprio no, e l'immagine di Israele è distrutta

[aldo cernezzi @cernauta]

Codice Strada

"Finora il CdS prevedeva la sospensione della patente per chi viene trovato alla guida «in stato di alterazione psico-fisica». Sospettando l'uso di sostanze stupefacenti dovevano fare un test preliminare per confermare l’assunzione. "
https://t.co/QVbkgoitBs

[paola caridi @invisiblearabs]

Cartoline dalla distruzione. Cartoline dall’orrore. Questa è Gaza, oggi, nelle immagini della responsabile dell’ufficio legale di Unrwa competente su Gaza.

C’è chi osa attaccare Papa Francesco perché ha chiesto di indagare se ciò che sta compiendo Israele a Gaza è genocidio. Solo chi è in malafede, o serve una precisa agenda politica, può avere l’ardire di attaccare Bergoglio che chiede giustizia. Solo la giustizia, al contrario, potrà farci - tutti - risalire l’abisso di disumanità in cui siamo precipitati senza opporre resistenza.

#ceafirenow

[Meral Hussein-Ece @meralhece]

Never in our lifetimes have we seen images like this.

[Nino Cartabellotta @Cartabellotta]

@ritadallachiesa @claudioborghi Gentile @ritadallachiesa Lei porta il cognome di un eroe.
Con queste squallide parole, oltre ai cittadini italiani, offende anche la memoria di Suo padre