Faraan

Follow Where Reason Leads

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

I am using the difference betw think tanks & genuine scholarship as a marker betw the SOPHISTS & the birth of PHILOSOPHY (Socrates), where you are not trying to advocate, learn effective rhetoric, & argue. You are just AT ALL TIMES trying to elicit the truth.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

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A physical book is a real object, anchored. If you read a particular edition, you remember not only the contents but the object itself: its cover, typography, smell, even where a passage sat on the page.
Books organize themselves in memory by place --the ancient method of loci.
Digital text does not exist.

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

The Man Who Destroyed The Mughal Empire

In the small town of Kelat-i-Naderi, two hours north of the Iranian pilgrimage town Mashhad, lies a sandstone Mughal tomb that feels straight out of Delhi.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

That's right. Inflammation is the big miss for getting ahead of coronary artery disease
https://t.co/KIs1AFxflE
My review of this big shift
https://t.co/foSaaTYUD4

[Richard Medhurst @richimedhurst]

Do not be fooled by the ceasefire in Iran.

In 90 days, the US have launched an energy blitzkrieg:

• Crippled Russia’s oil infrastructure 🇷🇺
• Disrupted 1/3 of China’s oil & LNG 🇨🇳
• Seized the planet’s largest oil fields 🇻🇪
• Seized Syria & Gaza's gas🛢️

This is the birth of the Petrogas-dollar and the Pirate State 🏴‍☠️

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

Today I$rael tried to kill me in a targeted airstrike in southern Lebanon as I was reporting on was the targeting of bridges and the forced displacement of 1 million people, an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba

I have absolutely no doubt that this was deliberate. Despite claims there were no warnings ahead of the strike and no notifications sent to the Lebanese Army who allowed us to film

As we have seen in Gaza they want to silence journalists who document and report their war crimes

It is the western powers who provide political and military support for I$rael, arming it to the teeth to carry out genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing here in Lebanon. They are not simply complicit, but active participants and should be held accountable for their actions.

But if I$rael thinks today’s strike will silence us and keep us out of the field they are very, very mistaken

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

I am delighted that the High Court has ruled in my favour on the key issues in the libel case brought by Raffi Berg.

The court rejected the claimant’s interpretation of the article and ruled that it expressed an opinion based on stated material.

I stand by my journalism and, if Mr Berg decides to continue the libel claim, I look forward to defending my article in court.

I would like to thank my legal team at @RPCLegal, my barrister Aidan Eardley KC, and @DropSiteNews, which published the article and has stood by my journalism throughout.

[Nadia Jamil @NJLahori]

Rizwana is a normal 14 year old. She loves to dress up, play with dolls, laugh, look pretty.

But she was sent into labour and beaten and tortured. Her limbs were broken, her head was smashed till the bone poked into her brain. She was forced to drink toilet cleaner and has burn marks all over her body from the acid burns and iron burns.
Her teeth were smashed.

She was left to rot in an empty house while the perpetrators went on holiday. When they returned she could barely breathe and her wounds had caught maggots. Especially on her head.

Months and months of surgeries, hair removal, hair still not growing over the raw skin of her head wounds, skin grafting and she is still in hospital.

Why this was done to her is hardly the question we need to ask. It’s evident. We expose poor children to self entitled monsters as a solution to poverty. These children are a source of income for parents who often have nine, ten of them, to make them work. They are trafficked by middle men as the cheapest most vulnerable form of slave labour. Those who speak kindly to these child slaves feel they are good people. Whereas it would be kinder to support the family and send the child to school to grow up, have a future and break the cycle of child trafficking and poverty. It would be kinder to make sure the constitution is followed and they be in full time education by five. In UK if a poor woman put her minor child to slave labour she would be arrested.
It is not the responsibility of children to raise the economic status of their families. It is ours, the states, their parents and the adults of our countries responsibility.

The woman who smashes up and tortured Rizwana is a mother of two and a school teacher. She is free on bail. Her husband a civil judge, reflects the joke of our own systems, as he slapped Rizwana many times and witnessed this brutality. He has been given a promotion recently.

This is the farce of justice and progress in our country.

Please change it. Please be part of the solution. Please raise voice for #JusticeForRizwana and #EndChildTrafficking. Now. Please demand a #ChildProtectionSystemPakistan. Now.

Rizwana is like my daughter. But how many Rizwana’s have no voice?
And how many #FatimaFariros will die raped and abused on cctv infront of a zombie nation and never get justice?
Till when?

Thank you.

Photographs shared with consent of parents, Rizwana & local authorities. Please don’t share photographs of minors without such consent. In the last picture Rizwana is wearing a wig I got her. She still has no hair. She still struggles to walk. She is still on and out of hospitals for surgeries and skin grafts. While her perpetrators are rewarded and scot free.

@NawazSharifMNS @MaryamNSharif @CMShehbaz @fbhutto @BBhuttoZardari @BakhtawarBZ @AseefaBZ @sherryrehman @Dr_YasminRashid @SalmanSufi7 @SyedKausarAbbas @kishwarenam @rabrabbit @saynotoweapons @naeem_zafar @AyeshaRaza13 @SarahAhmad_CPWB @UNICEF_Pakistan

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Here is an example of how media nudges your thoughts.

CBC coverage (https://t.co/d4rLekXKeL) does not even bring up the conflict of interest (a sitting member of parliament working for a foreign government?), but does bring up how Trump "has hurled a sling of insults over the years toward Freeland."

CBC has forgotten it works for Canadians. This isn't news, it's propaganda.

[Richard Werner @scientificecon]

The secret power of the City of London Corporation.

[Faraan @faraans]

Bahut Aala…

[Askari Naqvi @Ask_Naqvi]

Krishna Janamashtmi ki badhai! A poem by Maulana Hastat Mohani from Qasba Mohan in Awadh.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

I never thought that, in 21st C. America, we could witness the incarceration of a student for authoring an opinion piece in a student newspaper --and without bail.

Lobbies are the destruction of Western Civilization.

Note: the piece was about Israel.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

"If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own." — Epictetus

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

If the ONLY way to survive is to keep bombing your neighbors (and killing more and more local indigenous populations) while addicted on support from a certain (current) superpower obtained via lobbying & artificial control, your model is not very sustainable.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

From PRINCIPIA: every penny of enrichment by a politician post office belongs to the taxpayers.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

What sort of democracy ransacks bookshops? The Israeli police just pillaged my brilliant friend Mahmoud Muna's wonderful bookshop opposite the American Colony, the best in Jerusalem. Apparently Muna and his nephew Ahmed have both been arrested & marched into court...
https://t.co/Bh9L6atnyu

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Absolutely not.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

It's not over, but some hope: last night I went to bed at 8:30 & slept for ~11 hours straight, the first serene night in 467.
You can't watch a massacre for so long without feeling the toll of helplessness & bystander guilt; I wonder what Palestinians feel.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Any plans to report this @BBCNews? Seems a major story to me. Or does this go against your Netanyahu fanboy censorship regime @raffiberg ?

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

This week @EmpirePodUK we look at

THE BUILDING OF THE TAJ MAHAL