"Donald Trump loves to lecture Volodymyr Zelensky that he's negotiating from a position of weakness and must make painful concessions to end the war with Russia.
But here's the uncomfortable truth: when Trump himself sat down to cut a major deal with Iran, he did exactly the same thing - striking a framework agreement from a far-from-dominant hand. If he'd truly held the stronger cards, that deal would have looked radically different"
When U.K. PM Keir Starmer announced yesterday that his government would ban social media for under-16s, the Downing Street press room erupted in applause.
But some people stand to gain more than others.
https://t.co/Sj4wWG2MWK
🔺Telegram founder Pavel Durov compares the lack of panic during the sinking of the Titanic with the current lack of awareness in Europe as citizens freedoms are stripped away: “I came here today to tell you-that we find ourselves in a similar predicament. In a similar situation. Our ship. Has already hit the iceberg. We have already started to sink. Without even realizing it. And I'm talking about the ship of our personal freedoms”
Continuing giving examples of his personal experiences of fraud and corruption with Russia, the EU and France. Before moving onto Keir Starmer’s UK clampdown on social media:
“Thousands of people are getting arrested every year in the United Kingdom for social media posts. You say somethingpolitically incorrect online, you may end up being fined or spend some time in prison in Germany”
I think that the ones who benefit the most from this measure are the written press, which is already on the path to extinction, displaced by social media.
When U.K. PM Keir Starmer announced yesterday that his government would ban social media for under-16s, the Downing Street press room erupted in applause.
But some people stand to gain more than others.
https://t.co/Sj4wWG2MWK
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An open letter to @TheLancet from an Iranian-Jewish cardiologist.
Today, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals published a campaign to suspend the Israeli Medical Association from the World Medical Association — the body founded after WWII to ensure physicians would never again be weaponized by political ideology.
I'm a cardiologist. I'm an Iranian Jew who grew up under a regime where medicine was subjugated to the state.
What The Lancet just did is a disgrace to my profession.
Here's what they published — and what they deliberately left out.
@RealShahriqKhan You say "Islam taught me about a God who was distant and untouchable" unlike you I have learnt and felt God is close to me and unlike you, I will never leave Islam as I cannot live without it ...