David Wineberg

Author of The Straight Dope Weekly column at where I have 108k followers. Top writer in politics, history, books...

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@TheFigen_ In the board game Monopoly, everyone starts out equal, then by the role of the dice, one emerges to absorb all the wealth of all the other players and even the central bank. This ends the society completely.

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“Doesn’t Hegseth know that the most unreliable ‘ally’ by far is the US?”

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[The Cradle @TheCradleMedia]

Israeli settlement council admits to systemic ritual sexual abuse of children following bombshell media investigation
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The Gush Etzion Regional Council in the occupied West Bank has issued an unprecedented public admission acknowledging severe, multi-participant ritualistic sexual abuse within the settler community, which involved the gang-rape of children. The official statement marks a dramatic reversal for the settlement’s leadership, which had spent years systematically denying and dismissing allegations of sadistic abuse.

The official acknowledgment follows a damning investigative report by journalist Roni Singer on Israel's Kan 11 channel, which aired identical testimonies from five independent victims detailing organized, ritualistic assaults. Confronted with recorded evidence and professional corroboration, the council released a statement denouncing the perpetrators and describing the uncovered acts as "pure evil and a moral distortion."

In an effort to manage the immense public fallout, the settler council published crisis hotline numbers and urged further victims to come forward. The media exposure and subsequent admission are expected to force Israeli police to reopen previously shelved complaints and expand criminal investigations into what is emerging as one of the most organized abuse scandals inside the settlement enterprise.

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@TheFigen_ @nikitabier Allow me to add that aggregators serve a real purpose. I chose this aggregator of all because her tastes most resemble mine. I could not and would not waste the months necessary to research my own collection of creatives, so this little war has left viewers high and dry.

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@robert_ivanhoe Too bad most US institutions can't trade in Friedland's Ivanhoe copper play. Because it trades in the pink sheets. It sits near its low and hasn't made a new high in maybe four or five years when it briefly breached all of $15.

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@grok @yasam @Top_Disaster Yes, but the fire truck is from station 25 on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where no flooding occurred. In fact, no other media reports any NYC flooding at all, and I watched five local tv stations while at the gym this morning.

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@ctindale "The iron cage of technological competition forces self-destruction."
That's it. That's the takeaway. Don't drive yourself crazy on the hyphenated four syllable invented words.

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@NewsWire_US Which one is the alien?

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@ctindale But this is precisely what capitalism portends. Not deeper industrialisation (where did you get that from?) - but more money for a few. Financialisation is the shortcut, without getting hands dirty. Not a broader class of owners and makers. Just more cash, faster.

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@ctindale Central banks are independent because they do not represent people, parties or gov't. They represent capitalism and so are sacred. They provide enough unemployment to keep wages down, and low inflation to maintain capital's value. Nothing more, nothing less.
Welcome to the woke.

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@ctindale It is why every civilizations disappear. The Fed is a new institution nongovernmental, but hosted by govt, to 1) maintain unemployment at a level satisfactory to capitalism, 2) keep inflation from eroding capital. The result is as you say.

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@ctindale The reserve system's two conflicting goals are there to promote and protect capitalism, ie, the accelerating rush of money towards the top. Societies begin with equality and evolve to financialization, where they do not produce enough by themselves, preferring money. /2

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If I was married to him, jumping out of a plane would be front of mind all day long. My only hesitancy would be: parachute or no parachute?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

JD Vance: "You know what? My wife has the right to skydive, but she doesn't jump out of an airplane because she and I have an agreement she's not gonna do that, because I don't want my wife jumping out of an airplane."

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@fredsoda Oh, I don't know...George W. Bush criticized the French for not joining his Iraq Ware by saying "The French don't even have a word for 'entrepreneur.'" A high bar for the likes of JDV.

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@vtchakarova Add one more: go solar and wind to become energy independent of Hormuz and never look back.

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@TheFigen_ Where's the battery charger? Or is it USB?

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@grok @diarioviralin @MarioNawfal But most of all, he would never be found alone in a café anywhere. He'd be surrounded by security, and there would be people gawking through the windows. He is after all, their supreme leader, not some commuter catching some joe on the way to work.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Place reserved for people twerking in front of a grill.

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My review of Rever's new and long overdue Rwanda's 30-Year Assault on Congo available free with this link:
https://t.co/5vfsjiK8lO

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The architecture of Paul Kagame's impunity. An adapted excerpt from my new book, Rwanda's 30-Year Assault on Congo: the Crimes, the Criminals and the Cover-Up, published by @BarakaBooks .
https://t.co/Z1HU2Y6E85

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@le20hfrancetele Incroyable le kilometrage d'une question posée à Fabrice Luchini.