François Royer

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[François Royer @f_royer]

Douleur et Gloire Pedro Almodóvar mai 2019 I Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Asier Etxeandia, César Vicente I Un #chef d’#œuvre, un #Géni. l

[Bauhaus Movement @BauhausMovement]

Walter Gropius’ balconies at the Bauhaus Building in Dessau. A perfect study in rhythm, proportion and the clarity of modern design. Photo © MWART.

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#BauhausExperience #Bauhaus100 #BauhausDessau #WalterGropius

[Anna Kubišta @AnnaKubista]

On était légitimement choqués par l'utilisation de la formule "solution finale" par un politicien RN évoquant la condamnation de MLP. Il s'agirait de l'être aussi quand JLM évoque une "révolution culturelle" rappelant irrémédiablement les crimes du maoïsme.

[Maneli Mirkhan | مانلی میرخان @ManeliMirkhan]

Au-delà de l'impact militaire direct des récentes frappes de missiles, c’est la stratégie de communication interne du régime et d'intrication géopolitique qu'il faut analyser. Le fait d'avoir inscrit le slogan « Nous n'abandonnerons jamais le Liban » sur les missiles n'est pas un détail rhétorique, c'est un choix stratégique majeur qui impose trois niveaux de lecture :

1 - La stratégie d'intrication (Linkage Strategy) : En liant explicitement l'action militaire au Liban, l'objectif est de fusionner des dossiers diplomatiques pour rendre impossible toute sortie de crise ou négociation future (sur le nucléaire ou les sanctions) sans y inclure l'équation libanaise et celle de l'axe de résistance. C'est une sanctuarification par procuration.

2 - La fracture entre la diplomatie de rue et la réalité sociologique : Les images de liesse à Téhéran mettent en scène la base dure et idéologique, qui ne représente historiquement que 10 à 15 % de la population (selon les données admises). La majorité des Iraniens, asphyxiée par la crise économique et la répression, subit les conséquences de cette escalade sans en partager l'agenda.

3 - Le maintien de la pression sur les fronts internes : Pendant que l'attention internationale est focalisée sur les frappes balistiques régionales, la pression cinétique et les frappes contre les forces kurdes au Kurdistan n'ont jamais cessé. Ces forces sont identifiées comme des verrous de résistance intérieure capables de se structurer en cas de déstabilisation du pouvoir central.

En conclusion : une stratégie de survie systémique des gardiens de la révolution.
#Iran #IRGC

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

All these children were kidnapped or murdered by Palestinians on October 7th.

Not in a war zone. Not in the vicinity of war. In their homes and cribs.

[Sylvie Taroni @GerdaTaroni]

© Erich Lessing

[Constance Le Grip @ConstanceLeGrip]

Tout mon soutien au grand réalisateur iranien Jafar Panahi, dont la condamnation à une peine de prison vient d'être confirmée par les tribunaux iraniens. Palme d'Or à Cannes en 2025 pour "Un simple accident", Jafar Panahi s'était courageusement engagé aux côtés du mouvement #FemmeVieLiberté et des combattants iraniens pour la liberté. Ne l'oublions pas ! #JafarPanahi

[Marcel Sel @marcelsel]

« Goebbels contrôlait les médias d'État, la radio et le cinéma. Son ministère produisit une propagande systématique conçue pour que le public allemand perçoivent les Juifs comme des entités non-humaines. » (Encyclopédie de la Shoah).
Voici la version Keffieh.

[François Royer @f_royer]

Anonyme, encre projetée.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — June 7, 2002

As billions in international aid — including your taxpayer dollars — continued pouring into the Palestinian Authority, a Kuwaiti newspaper dropped a bombshell.

On this day in 2002, Al-Watan reported that Yasser Arafat had siphoned $5.1 million in Arab donor money, explicitly earmarked for the Palestinian people, and deposited it directly into his personal bank account.

This was Arafat’s standard operating procedure:

- Arafat’s personal fortune was estimated between $1 billion and $3 billion (some intelligence assessments reached $6.5 billion), stashed in secret accounts in Switzerland, France, and offshore havens.

- A leaked 1997 Palestinian Legislative Council investigation found that 40% of the entire annual budget — $326 million that year alone — had disappeared into corruption and mismanagement. Arafat suppressed the report.

- His economic advisor Mohammed Rashid took stolen funds and invested them in the Jordan Cement Company to personally profit from the reconstruction boom caused by the Intifada.

- Arafat and his inner circle ran monopolies on cement, fuel, cigarettes, flour, gravel, and cars — squeezing huge profits from ordinary goods.

While his wife Suha Arafat (pictured below) lived lavishly in Paris (spending over $100,000 per month on designer clothes, shoes, and luxury living), Arafat treated EU, US, Arab, and UNRWA aid as his personal ATM.

Billions flowed in after Oslo. Very little went to building real institutions or prosperity.

Arafat died one of the richest men in the world — having turned a "national liberation movement" into a criminal empire.

The man who posed as the humble revolutionary in a keffiyeh was, in reality, one of the most successful kleptocrats of the modern era.

This was betrayal on an industrial scale; theft to a degree that would make Daniel Ocean blush.

[AN🌱NA @Anna_15_06_099]

© Ernst Haas - New York City, 1957

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Europe Wins Again. Obviously.

Armenia went to the polls yesterday. And the results are exactly what you’d expect if you’d been paying attention for the past five years, rather than wallowing in Kremlin nostalgia like a damp sock.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared victory on Monday, with his Civil Contract Party leading with 52.5% of the vote.  Armenia, a landlocked country the size of Belgium that Russia has spent decades treating as a vassal state, has looked at its options and made a decision that required roughly the same level of intellectual effort as choosing between a Michelin-starred restaurant and a skip fire.

They chose Europe.

This election was less a routine vote than a referendum on Pashinyan’s post-2020 course reducing dependence on Russia and moving toward an explicit European orientation. And Russia, naturally, did everything in its power to stop it. According to Reuters, citing Western intelligence officials, the election faced heavy Russian covert interference, including disinformation campaigns and a plan to transport Russian Armenians into Armenia to sway the vote. One analyst collective described it as one of the largest state-backed disinformation campaigns in modern European history. And Armenia still told them to get lost.

Putin had already warned Armenia it would face economic consequences for drifting westward, and introduced restrictions on Armenian agricultural exports in the weeks before the vote.  Threats, propaganda, economic blackmail. The full Russian toolkit. Result: irrelevant.

Now, Trump, Tucker Carlson and JD Vance would like you to believe that Russia represents some superior civilisational model. A proud, white, Christian fortress holding the line against the Muslim hordes supposedly swamping Europe. It is a compelling narrative, in the same way that flat earth theory is compelling if you ignore every single fact available to you.

Here is one such fact: between 10 and 15 percent of Russia’s own population is Muslim. Tatars, Bashkirs, Chechens, Ingush, Dagestanis. Millions of them. Russia is, by its own demographic reality, a multi-ethnic, multi-faith state with a larger Muslim population than most of Western Europe. But you’re not supposed to know that. It complicates the story.

Meanwhile, the Muslim share of the EU population sits at around 5 percent. But the Tucker Carlsons of the world need you frightened, so the numbers get quietly shuffled off stage.

So Armenia joins the queue. Behind Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, and every Eastern European country that isn’t currently run by a Slovak who seems to have wandered in from a Moscow focus group. The pattern is not subtle. Every country that has actually experienced Russian influence in practice is sprinting in the opposite direction. The only nation currently moving toward Russia’s orbit is the United States, which managed to elect a man whose foreign policy instincts were apparently shaped by a property developer’s admiration for strongmen with good buildings.

The world watches America and hopes it finds its way back. Most people think it will. Eventually. The damage, however, is already considerable, and democracy, like a soufflé, does not always survive rough handling.

Armenia made its choice. The right one. Obviously.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

Morning on the Beach, 1911, E. Phillips Fox (1865-1915).

[Araceli Rego @AraceliRego]

Incesario de origen japones,Meiji,siglo XIX Bronce patinado

[@_rt* @literatura_rte]

Fumi Yanagimoto

[Halte à la Connerie @halteconnerie]

🔴 "L'extrême-droite n'est plus antisémite." L'extrême-droite: ⬇️

Ceux qui croient se protéger de Mélenchon avec des machins comme ça en seront pour leurs frais

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Zelenskyy: We've got messages that they are ready for meeting only if Ukraine will do what they decided in Anchorage. With all respect to the President of the United States, but you can't cut our country. You can't make decisions without us, about us. It's unacceptable and it will not bring peace.

[François Royer @f_royer]

@arialuce1 Le bonheur de cette impression de découvrir une merveille

[Aria Luce  @arialuce1]

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[Mordecai @MenschOhneMusil]

A. L. Syed (1904-1991).

[Sylvie Taroni @GerdaTaroni]

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