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Überaus verstörendes Interview mit dem @SecGenNATO Mark Rutte, der: 1⃣-7⃣ ❌
1⃣stolz darauf ist, dass die #NATO eine Plattform für US-amerikanische Machtprojektion ist;
2⃣feiert, dass beim völkerrechtswidrigen US-Angriff auf den #Iran 5000 (!) Einsätze amerikanischer Flugzeuge von europäischem Boden stattfanden;
3⃣zugibt, dass der massive Anstieg europäischer #Militärausgaben insb. der Entlassung der USA bei einem Zweifronten-Krieg im Pazifik dient;
4⃣prima findet, dass die Europäer aktuell für 300 Milliarden Dollar #Waffen in den US kaufen und damit die US-#Rüstungsindustrie reich machen;
5⃣einräumt, dass die NATO #Russland haushoch überlegen ist und ein ein Angriff Russlands auf NATO-Territorium "nicht passieren wird" und damit das gesamte Bedrohungsnarrativ als alarmistisch entlarvt;
6⃣weiterhin auf eine NATO-Mitgliedschaft der #Ukraine setzt und damit jeden Verhandlungsansatz zur Lösung der Ukrainefrage sabotiert;
7⃣geschichtsblind feiert, dass Deutschland künftig doppelt so viel Geld für Militär ausgibt wie Frankreich und UK zusammen.
❌Eine #NATO, die diesen Generalsekretär möglich macht und laufen lässt, ist ein Problem und keine Lösung. ❌
This would literally save the west.
I am not exaggerating.
It should be studied how they did this while still being an economic beast.
This is something that people are typically not aware of, but which is a good illustration that China is more open to the West than vice-versa: there are literally hundreds of international schools in China, managed by Westerners and, oftentimes, directly by Western governments.
This is the case of French schools for instance, which I know quite a bit about given that my two daughters attended the French school in Shanghai. Under the so-called "AEFE" system all French international schools globally are managed by the French government, only have French teachers, and follow the French curriculum with zero difference in what kids are taught in China vs France.
The rule, AFAIK, is that to attend these schools the kids need to have a foreign passport, which in practice is the case of a very large number of kids in China from international marriages, Chinese who obtained foreign citizenship while living abroad and then returned, and of course of expat families working in China.
Imagine the outcry if the opposite were the case: a Chinese school in France managed by the Chinese government. It's basically unthinkable, even if these schools were only opened to Chinese kids.
Heck we don't need to imagine the outcry: we just need to see what happened with China's Confucius institutes which were just language and cultural centers - and yet were so intolerable to us that we systematically shut them down across the West.
The end result is that you get thousands of kids in China with an intimate understanding of the West, which is a good thing for China - it's that type of deep understanding that gives China a structural advantage in understanding and engaging with us.
Just another illustration that the West is more ideological than China: we are way more uncomfortable with what it'd take to understand them than they are in understanding us, to our own detriment 🤷♂️
@thomasgrusz @viktorgiacobbo VG weiss offenbar wenig über die Hintergründe des Konflikts. Und eine Theorie für die Zukunft hat er auch nicht. Seine Posts zeigen eigentlich immer nur, dass ihm Stammesdenken wichtig ist. So wie wir's in der Schule über Afrika gelernt haben.
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I am gravely concerned by reports of a severe deterioration in the condition of Dr. Abu Safiyah.
We reiterate our demands for his release, along with all other doctors being held without charge.
Israeli soldiers are reportedly torturing Dr Abu Safya --a pediatrician, for God's sake!
Without strong pressure on Israel, these may could be his last hours.
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As Chinese officials say, "Houses are for living, not for speculation".
But Wall Street sees real estate as a speculative asset to get rich. So when housing becomes more affordable for average working people, US investors complain the "gains" (for rich landlords) were erased.
Section 224 is going to permanently merge the US military-industrial-technological-intelligence complex with the Israeli, and make it impossible to disentangle once it is implemented. It will forever end the possibility of a US break with Israel. It will ensure permanent US enslavement to Zionism and Israeli Jewish supremacy. This is why Netanyahu, Lindsay Graham, Huckabee, Fetterman (who is merely a proxy for a Zionist Jew Mossad handler), AIPAC, WINEP, J-Street, the entire Zionist Israel lobby network came out recently to push the line (also adopted by AOCIA after it got the green-light from them) that the military aid to Israel can be stopped entirely, because that creates the problem of mobilization efforts to cut it off which creates pressure on the genocidal Israeli death and rape-cult.
The Zionist Israeli Jewish supremacists figured out a way to permanently get around that using their total control over the media and political class to push it through: Section 224. And it is going to pass now. Unless there is massive mobilization from now on against it, it will pass.
Bernie Sanders gave some token symbolic opposition to it, but barely ever talks about it or what it means. Massie and Ro Khanna have been more vocal, but that's pretty much it. No one else in the political class is saying anything about this, and no one in the media class and barely anyone in the epic based pseudo-radical alt-media class is saying anything about it.
I am going to regularly point this out because I want to make sure that once it is passed I will be on the record as having consistently and repeatedly done whatever I could to expose it. Take note of those who have massive platforms who do not do this, as it tells you exactly what they are.
🇪🇺🌱 THE EU IS NOT PROTECTING YOU — IT'S PROTECTING MONOPOLIES
The European Union is finalising a new regulation on plant reproductive material (PRM). On paper, it's about "modernising" seed laws. In reality, it's about handing the market to three corporations.
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**THE FACTS:**
1️⃣ **The regulation**: Over 250 organisations have warned that the new PRM regulation could accelerate the loss of crop diversity across Europe. It equates free seed exchanges with commercial activities, subjecting them to bureaucratic controls.
2️⃣ **The lobbying machine**: Corporations spend €382 million per year influencing EU decisions. The biggest spenders? Tech (€73m), Energy (€52m), and Chemicals & Agrifood (€46.5m).
3️⃣ **The three kings**: Bayer, Corteva and Syngenta already control more than half of the global seed market. They spent millions lobbying for rules that squeeze out small farmers and seed savers.
4️⃣ **Von der Leyen's gift**: Her Commission has already passed 10 "omnibus" deregulation packages — designed to minimise public scrutiny. Transparency EU warns that the EU is serving "shady US corporate interests" instead of protecting citizens.
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**But let's be honest about what this really means.**
**The EU is not banning neighbours from swapping seeds — not yet. But it is creating a system where only the big players can play. Where traditional varieties disappear. Where farmers become dependent on corporations that control what they can grow.**
**And who is behind this?**
**The same corporations that write the rules. The same lobbyists who walk the corridors of Brussels. The same money that buys influence while citizens pay the bill.**
**The EU claims to care about biodiversity. But its policies are systematically destroying it.**
**Brussels is not protecting citizens. It is protecting monopolies.**
**Facts, not filters.**
**Sources:** Corporate Europe Observatory, LobbyControl, Euractiv, EUobserver, ARCHE NOAH, Transparency EU (2024-2026)
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⚖️ **Marco | Independent Analyst**
Ali Khamenei hated weapons of mass destruction.
The Iranian leader, murdered by the Israeli military earlier this year, had issued a formal fatwa forbidding his people from producing nuclear bombs.
Nuclear energy was best used for peaceful purposes such as power generation, he argued, going against the advice of his advisors. How could any truly spiritual community focus on making mass killing devices?
Khamenei, whose funeral is taking place at the moment, became a hero to Shia Muslims around the world. While he was not officially the equivalent of the Pope to Roman Catholics, he was a man whose principles provided leadership to the more than 200 million Shia Muslims around the world.
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DEFENSIVE POSITION
In taking this stand against nuclear bombs, Khamenei went against the urgings of his own generals and political analysts, who said that the US and Israel were unprincipled nations which would attack the country if they did not have defensive nuclear capability.
Repeated incursions and open threats revealed that Khamenei may have the moral high ground, but his advisors had got the facts right.
So the Iranian leadership eventually adopted a position they borrowed from the United States: “strategic ambiguity”.
The country’s store of uranium was enriched to a position between that of energy production and weapons production—and the level could be wound down or ramped up.
The message was clear: we know our attackers are violent and we know they disregard international law, so, Iranians, for our own defense, need options. We prefer peace. Our attackers prefer war. (It is worth noting that this is roughly the same as China’s rationale for investing in its military: to avoid war.)
Khamenei made harsh criticisms against Benjamin Netanyahu and wanted Israeli colonizers of Palestinian land to go home. These arguments were seen as unacceptable to many in the west.
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FALSE REPRESENTATION
He also asked Iranians to argue against the false representation of their country.
- Iran is portrayed as a secret builder of active nuclear weapons – that’s not true of Iran, but accurately describes Israel.
- Iran is portrayed as a nation refusing to allow inspections or sign the anti-proliferation treaty – again, this is untrue of Iran, but true of Israel.
- Iran is portrayed as having a history of attacking neighbors, but it’s actually Israel which has launched wars or assaults on seven neighboring countries.
The western press portrayed Iran as a medieval country which enslaved women – but under Khamenei, women became dominant in training for science and medicine, and make up 62% of students in higher education.
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NED, CIA AND MOSSAD NEWS BLACKOUT
The pestilent US National Endowment for Democracy has been active in Iran, energetically instilling hate for the Iranian leadership, since 1991. The CIA and Mossad ran parallel programs. (As is standard, the western mainstream media ran and still runs its usual news blackout on such activities.)
But these agents’ hate-cultivation work has been undone in recent years. Israel’s treatment of the people of Gaza, especially women and children, shocked Iranians. And then Israel spent 12 days making unprovoked bombing runs across in Iran in June of 2025.
This united most Iranians against Israel and the United States, as even some western mainstream media grudgingly reported at that time.
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TWO WAR CRIMES
And all this was before the launch of the disastrous US-Israel attack on Iran on 28 February, 2026, which began with two horrific war crimes.
- One was the killing of more than 40 people associated with the Iranian leadership, including children.
- The other was the horrific US double-tap bombing of a primary school in Minab, southern Iran, in which more than 100 children and 26 teachers were killed, and 95 more innocents injured.
NGOs, most which were discreetly funded by the US, tried to justify the unprovoked US-Israel attack on the country by claiming that Iran's rulers had killed 30,000 or 50,000 or 80,000 “peaceful protesters” – turning an unsuccessful Mossad-run armed coup into a public relations attack on Iranian leadership.
The western mainstream media fell for the ruse like a stone but multiple video leaks enabled the independent media to reveal the truth – heavily armed gangs tried to stage a coup but failed. This led to several thousand (estimated at 3,000 to 5,000 deaths), on all sides, in January. An armed insurrection is not a peaceful protest.
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MORE THAN 100 MISSILES
On February 28 this year, the Israeli Air Force fired more than 100 missiles at the building housing Khamenei. They killed him – and his daughter, his son-in-law, a grandchild, and his daughter-in-law.
The unprovoked US-Israel attack on Iran was clearly a violation of international law, but western mainstream media such as Reuters now refer to it simply as "a war”, thus absolving the attackers from the repercussions of what is clearly an ongoing criminal act.
Meanwhile, the funeral of Ali Hosseini Khamenei is being presented by the world’s media as an ending. Of course, it is no such thing.
Questions are being asked worldwide: How often can a militaristic group get away with war crimes before the rest of the world, and its own people, stand up and tells it to stop?
The EUSSR strikes again. As @RnaudBertrand absolutely correctly points out, this is the final death of freedom of expression and freedom of journalism in the EU. Worst thing is, we can‘t even be sure if it‘s only sharing the actual videos/articles that will put you in prison, or if, more generally, all INFORMATION that is contained in such pieces also counts as an offense…. Are we still allowed to talk about things that RT also talks about? Or is that it, your off to a Brussels Gulag?
Julian Assange’s 55th birthday:
“I want to be totally clear, I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today after years of incarceration because I plead guilty to journalism.”
@edouardhusson It's one of the examples we looked at in our survey study on "Who Believes Misinformation".
https://t.co/UxQfZd4rRV
Nord Stream : le récit allemand est doublement grotesque
L'Allemagne accuse l'Ukraine d'avoir ordonné le sabotage de #NordStream. Si cette thèse est vraie, elle révèle un acte de guerre contre les intérêts de l'Allemagne et de la France. Si elle est fausse, elle dissimule les véritables responsables. Dans les deux cas, le récit officiel est grotesque.
Il faudrait donc croire qu'un État largement financé, armé et soutenu par l'#Allemagne aurait décidé de détruire une infrastructure énergétique stratégique appartenant notamment à des intérêts allemands et français. Que cette opération aurait porté un coup durable à l'industrie allemande, premier moteur économique européen et principal soutien de l'effort de guerre ukrainien. Qu'elle aurait constitué un acte d'une gravité exceptionnelle contre un État membre de l'Union européenne et de l'#OTAN. Et que, malgré tout cela, Berlin continuerait exactement comme avant, sans sanctions, sans rupture diplomatique, sans demande de réparations, sans même un véritable débat public. Il faut reconnaître une certaine audace au récit... rarement une accusation aussi grave aura produit aussi peu de conséquences.
Le plus fascinant est sans doute le traitement médiatique de cette affaire. Pendant des années, il allait de soi que la #Russie avait probablement saboté son propre gazoduc, détruisant au passage plusieurs milliards d'euros d'investissements et un levier stratégique majeur sur l'Europe. Aujourd'hui, l'hypothèse ukrainienne est présentée avec le même sérieux, sans que personne ne semble éprouver le besoin d'en examiner les implications logiques. Les contradictions sont pourtant grossières, car personne au niveau officiel n'ose pointer le doigts vers les Etats-Unis, ne serait-ce que pour poser une question.
Comme si, dans un monde orwellien, il suffisait de changer la version officielle pour que les questions disparaissent avec elle. George Orwell n'aurait sans doute pas imaginé meilleur hommage rendu à 1984.
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https://t.co/PLNPv0X0FY
This is properly insane: quite literally the worst example of censorship I've ever heard of anywhere.
I checked the actual ruling (which you can see here: https://t.co/dBKFWZ2ZWm) and, to be clear, it isn't just censorship in the conventional sense - blocking access to a website or removing content from platforms - this is the criminalization of information relayed by private citizens, with prison sentences attached.
And the most insane aspect if that it does NOT matter if the information relayed is accurate or not. It just matters that it originates from RT or other media outlets banned in the EU.
In other words, truth isn't a defense anymore in the EU, it literally doesn't matter. It's purely based on the identity of the speaker.
The ruling is actually explicit about this: the regulation, quoted by the Court says that the prohibition applies to "any content," and they draw no distinction based on what the content actually says. If it originates from banned outlets, it's banned.
It is, quite simply, a complete unraveling of the entire post-Enlightenment legal and philosophical project where entire generations of Europeans fought to move from "who says it" to "is it true" as the operative question.
Think about the absurdity of it: if RT publishes a video saying the sky is blue and you share it on a publicly accessible website in the EU, you'd fall within the scope of this ruling, making you liable to criminal prosecution.
Completely and utterly absurd. But that's the EU today for you 🤷
@anitakoers @Glenn_Diesen Great to hear, thank you so much.
I just checked at https://t.co/XaxSlySST5. It worked from my system. - It's a zip file; when you click on it you should get the pdf.
It's now also available on my website:
https://t.co/2q327So6A5
Hope that works.
U.S. offers to return some of Iran's frozen assets if Iran gives up what it gained in the war - control of the Strait of Hormuz. This is another example of Washington attempting to renegotiate the MoU.
This is the kind of graph future documentaries pause on before saying, ‘By then, the warning signs were obvious.
Watch our report on Monika Silva, the Ecuador-based activist found murdered weeks after providing the US embassy in Quito with a file on President Daniel Noboa's narco links
Noboa's US-controlled government falsely claimed Silva committed suicide, when she died from blunt trauma and strangulation
Meanwhile, the left-wing mayor of Guayaquil, opposition leader Aquiles Alvarez, is rotting in prison after announcing on national TV his plans to expose those behind the drug trafficking operations in his city's ports
Silva's death demands an international investigation which delves fully into the Noboa Trading scandal she attempted to expose
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