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[Greg @GregBoiadjiev]

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[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

🇷🇸 UEFA has fined Serbian football club FK Crvena Zvezda €40,000 over a large tifo displayed by fans during a Europa League match against LOSC Lille.

The tifo featured an Orthodox icon of Jesus Christ and a Serbian-language banner reading, “May our faith lead you to victory.”

UEFA imposed a total fine of €95,500 on the club, with €40,000 specifically for the banner, citing it as “displaying a message deemed inappropriate for a sporting event” and “undermining the reputation and integrity of football and UEFA.”

[Greg @GregBoiadjiev]

Old Bulgarians never took or practiced slavery never Slavery is a Semitic culture Now they say instead of a slave a Goy (Goyim, plr) These people are very sick

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Slavery is as old as organized human society, older than written law and nearly as old as memory itself. In the river kingdoms of Mesopotamia, war captives were branded and worked until they died; in Egypt, prisoners hauled stone for monuments meant to defy time; in Greece and Rome, slavery was not a moral problem but a fact of nature. Aristotle could write calmly that some men were “slaves by nature,” living tools endowed with breath, while Roman law treated the enslaved as property no different from livestock. Herodotus noted enslaved peoples the way one notes climate or terrain. No civilization of antiquity imagined itself without bondage. The question was never whether slavery should exist, only who would bear it.

The medieval and early modern worlds inherited this assumption intact. Serfdom tied peasants to land they did not own; Islamic empires operated vast slave systems stretching from Eastern Europe to Africa; African kingdoms enslaved rivals and sold captives abroad; Asian empires relied on slaves in households, courts, and armies. Slavery shifted forms—chattel here, debt bondage there—but not its moral status. It was regulated, restrained, sometimes softened, but rarely condemned. Even religion initially moved cautiously. Christianity urged mercy, encouraged manumission, warned masters against cruelty—but most didn’t advise overthrowing the institution outright. Slavery remained embedded in economics, law, and war, accepted as part of the human condition.

Yet the seeds of its undoing were present in Christianity from the beginning, quietly subversive and slow to ripen. The Christian claim that every soul stood equal before God, that Christ died for slave and master alike, sat uneasily beside chains. Saint Paul could send a runaway slave back to his owner—and yet call that slave a “beloved brother.” The Church baptized slaves, buried them beside free men, and taught that no human being could own another’s soul. Medieval theologians wrestled with natural law, increasingly uneasy with slavery justified by conquest or race. These ideas did not abolish slavery, but they planted a moral tension that never went away. Christianity did not destroy slavery in a single blow; it corroded its legitimacy over centuries.

By the early modern period, that tension became open argument. Western thinkers, drawing on Christian theology, classical philosophy, and emerging ideas of natural rights, began to ask a dangerous question: not how slavery should be regulated, but whether it could be justified at all. These debates were neither free nor safe. Economic interest fought theology, empire fought conscience, and habit fought imagination. Yet something unprecedented was happening. Slavery was no longer merely managed—it was being judged. And judged by standards that claimed universal moral authority.

That judgment reached its most consequential expression in the British Empire. For all its conquest, coercion, and exploitation, Britain became the first global power to abolish the slave trade in 1807 and slavery itself in its empire in 1833. This was not symbolic. Parliament compensated slave owners, disrupted colonial economies, and accepted diplomatic and commercial loss. The abolitionist movement—driven by evangelical Christians, Quakers, moral philosophers, and relentless public petition—turned moral outrage into law. An empire built on trade declared one of its most lucrative trades morally illegitimate, not because it was inefficient, but because it was wrong.

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[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

In 1938, on the streets of Austria, a Chinese officer appeared in a German uniform. The man in Wehrmacht gray was Chiang Wei-kuo, the adopted son of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek.

It may sound impossible today, but in the 1930s China and Germany shared close military cooperation. German advisers were helping modernize the Chinese army, while Chinese cadets were sent to Germany for elite training. Chiang Wei-kuo was among them.

He enrolled at a military academy in Munich and eventually served in the Wehrmacht as a lieutenant. During the Anschluss—the annexation of Austria—he commanded an armored car platoon. Soon after, he took part in operations in the Sudetenland as German forces absorbed border regions of Czechoslovakia.

For a brief moment in history, a future Chinese general wore German field gray during Europe’s prewar expansions. But by 1939, before Germany invaded Poland, Chiang was recalled to China. The world was shifting, alliances were breaking, and war in Asia was intensifying.

Back home, he served in the Nationalist forces against Japan. After 1949, he followed Chiang Kai-shek to Taiwan, continuing his military career there.

From Munich to Vienna, from Europe’s rising storm to China’s war against Japan, Chiang Wei-kuo’s story is a forgotten chapter where global politics crossed in the most unexpected uniform.

© MilitaryHistoria

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[Greg @GregBoiadjiev]

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[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Iran is telling vessels that they are closing the Strait of Hormuz, per Reuters.

Over 20% of global oil supply is potentially coming to a halt.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It is happening before our eyes

[Adam Moczar @AdamMoczar]

⚡🇪🇺🇩🇪 Alice Weidel wants a strong Europe without unelected Ursula von der Liar and without EU dictatorship.

Make Europe Great Again!

[Slavic Networks @SlavicNetworks]

🇨🇿 BREAKING: Czech Government Announces Immediate Showdown With Brussels

ETS2, EU Migration Pact and Ukraine funding to be rejected before Christmas — Okamura: “We will not be alone.”

A massive political shift is underway in Prague.
With Andrej Babiš set to return as Prime Minister, the incoming Czech government has already declared its first battle will be fought in Brussels.

SPD leader and incoming Speaker Tomio Okamura confirmed that cabinet meetings are scheduled before Christmas — even before the new government is formally settled into office.

❌ Rejection of EU Climate and Migration Mandates

Okamura says the new majority will block implementation of the EU’s new ETS2 emissions program, warning that it would crush living standards:

“ETS2 will destroy our people. We are stopping it.”

He also announced full rejection of the EU Migration Pact:

“We will not accept forced migrant quotas.”

🇨🇿🤝🇸🇰 A new Czech–Slovak front inside the EU

Okamura confirmed that Slovakia has already agreed to coordinate its position with Prague:

“We are no longer alone.
Slovakia will join us.
We will confront Brussels together.”

This marks the emergence of a sovereigntist bloc inside the EU — the strongest Czech–Slovak alignment since the split of Czechoslovakia.

💶 Fiala government accused of sabotage

The outgoing coalition is accused of delaying the 2026 budget to harm citizens and obstruct the transition:

“It is a betrayal of our people.”

The new bloc says political perks will be frozen immediately, while elite pay raises pushed by the defeated government will be blocked.

🗳 Confidence vote already scheduled

The vote of confidence in the new government is set for 13 January.
According to Okamura, the government expects a fierce fight — but has the numbers to win.

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⚡ What this means

Czechia is preparing to:
•Defy EU authority
•Shift foreign spending inward
•Reverse progressive climate rules
•Fight compulsory migrant redistribution
•Rebuild a Central European sovereignty alliance

With Slovakia joining early, Czechia is no longer isolated.
The confrontation with Brussels is now immediate and public.
@Nirali_1989 @VladVVeles @SlavFreeSpirit

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

I mean it. Not kidding.

[SMX 🇺🇸 @iam_smx]

FAFO: Elon Musk is now calling for the abolition of the EU

"The EU should be abolished and sovereignty returned to individual countries, so that governments can better represent their people"

[Greg @GregBoiadjiev]

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[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

The Sumerian King List records a time when the first rulers of Earth supposedly reigned for tens of thousands of years. One king, Alulim, is said to have ruled for 28,800 years, while another held the throne for 36,000. These reigns appear alongside later kings whose rule suddenly drops to normal human lifespans after a great flood event.

Scholars debate whether the earliest figures were symbolic, legendary, or based on memories of something far older, but the text itself presents them as real rulers. It’s one of the strangest ancient documents ever found and it quietly blurs the line between myth, history, and something we may not fully understand yet.

#archaeohistories

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

Gold just keeps hitting record highs.

IT'S ALL ABOUT SUPPLY AND DEMAND.

I predict that the current GOLD BULL will peak out at $6,000/oz.

[lone wolf @MApodogan]

The Louvre robbery was carried out by a group of four criminals, two of whom disguised themselves as workers and wore yellow vests, according to Le Parisien.

According to the newspaper, two of the nine stolen pieces of jewelry have already been recovered.

[TazTears💦 @TazTears]

@FoxNews it needs to stop NOW

[Orbán Viktor @PM_ViktorOrban]

The European Union is falling apart in front of our eyes. Only a fundamental reorganisation can stop the forces that are pulling the Union apart. If we fail to act, the next one will be the last EU-budget!

[Greg @GregBoiadjiev]

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[The National Independent @NationalIndNews]

#BREAKING #Balkans Albania, Croatia, and separatist Kosovo* have agreed on the joint procurement of weapons from the United States.

[Greg @GregBoiadjiev]

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[Art Encyclopedia @artenpedia]

Ophelia at the river’s edge, ca.1900, Carlos Ewerbeck

[Greg @GregBoiadjiev]

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[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

"Peace at home, peace in the world." – Atatürk

[Greg @GregBoiadjiev]

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