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Trying to keep things real & simple| DCEite | Alig | Irrational-Logical | inquisitive| Dreamer | Die-Hard | RT & Likes ≠ Endorsement I #BleedBlue 🇮🇳

[Ritika Chopra @RitikaChopra__]

The Election Commission of India is under fire like never before.

The SIR has struck 13 crore names off draft rolls, putting the EC at the centre of intense public debate over its role in deciding who gets to vote — and who doesn’t.

HOWEVER, what nobody knew: through that same period, some of the sharpest questions were being asked from inside.

Out today, after months of work. Our #ExpressInvestigation 🧵
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[Millat Times @Millat_Times]

कांग्रेस नेता आसिम वकार ने असदुद्दीन ओवैसी को दिया जवाब

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[ⓚⓐⓢⓗⓘⓕ @immka013]

Income: Taxed.

Spend it — GST taxed.

UPI payments over ₹2,000 — taxed for tapping your own money.

Triple tax, zero chill. 🙃

#UPI #TripleTax
#DigitalIndia

[Macklemore @macklemore]

Wanting all humans to be treated equal should never be controversial.

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

#NBDSA Fines #Zee News ₹2 Lakh For 'Inflammatory' Coverage Of AMU Palestine Solidarity Slogans, Directs Removal

https://t.co/eh9Pjxrp0f

[Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband]

The UK will stand up for what is right.

[urmilesh @UrmileshJ]

लिखने-कहने की आजादी पर ऐसी ताबड़तोड़ बंदिश!
ऐसी तूफानी 'सेंसरशिप' दुनिया की और किस डेमोक्रेसी में होगी!
हर 68 सेकेंड पर एक Blocking Order!
ये आंकड़ा सिर्फ मार्च-जुलाई, 2026 से लिया गया है यानी जंतर-मंतर का Gen-Z प्रोटेस्ट दौर इस कालखंड में शामिल है!
जानते नहीं, हम "जनतंत्र की जननी" हैं!

[Dr. Arunesh Yadav (डॉ अरुणेश यादव) @YadavArunesh]

ये गाना सरकार में बैठे लोगों को खटक गया...

[ⓚⓐⓢⓗⓘⓕ @immka013]

Movements don't die. The promise that injustice is temporary, and the day of reckoning always comes.
Educate, Agitate, Organize.

[ⓚⓐⓢⓗⓘⓕ @immka013]

VAMOOOOOOOS ESPAÑA!!!!!!!!!!! ⭐️⭐️

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

⭐️🇪🇸 Ferran Torres celebrates an historical goal for Spain’s lead vs Argentina! 🦈

[B/R Football @brfootball]

SPAIN WIN THE MEN'S WORLD CUP FOR THE SECOND TIME 🏆🇪🇸🏆

[Selección Española Masculina de Fútbol @SEFutbol]

Pues al final vamos a vivir un...

¡¡𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗢 𝗘𝗡 𝗡𝗨𝗘𝗩𝗔 𝗬𝗢𝗢𝗢𝗢𝗢𝗥𝗞!!

#VamosEspaña | #CopaMundialFIFA

[ⓚⓐⓢⓗⓘⓕ @immka013]

New #Pew data: 60% of Americans now view #Israel unfavorably (up from 53% a year ago), and no country in Pew's 36-nation survey gave Trump a majority approval on his handling of #Gaza. Same survey: #China now edges the #US in global favorability, 46% to 36%. 🌍📉

[the reporters' collective @reporters_co]

Investigation: Banned in Europe, Scanning Faces in India

Cant sell it in the EU. But Spanish firm Herta's facial recognition software is being used to scan millions of citizens across railway stations, temples and more. With @investigate_eu @_infoLibre

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[Kegham Balian @kbalian90]

BREAKING: U.S Democratic Representative Ro Khanna has become the first American congressman in history to be detained by Israeli settlers while on a visit to the West Bank.

[Bosnian Football @BosniaNTBall]

Whether it is or isn’t a red to Balogun is now irrelevant. Government interference is a violation of FIFA Article 2 & 15, and the punishment is disqualification and suspension. #FIFAWorldCup

[ⓚⓐⓢⓗⓘⓕ @immka013]

#FIFA's idea of "fair play": deny #Iran's own staff visas, exile their training camp to Tijuana, make a #somali referee's entry a diplomatic incident — but the second Team USA's guy gets a #redcard, #Trump makes one phone call and poof, suspension gone. #FIFA Absolute disgrace.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Can you describe your phone call with Gianni Infantino about the red card? Belgium is appealing the decision.

Trump: You’re asking me about the whole soccer thing. So, yeah, I did. I spoke to Gianni.

That wasn’t a foul. That wasn’t even an infraction. That was two guys running full speed who happened to crash into each other. You can’t properly place your foot on somebody else’s foot when you’re going full speed. No, these were two great athletes who got tangled up.

And this referee, who is a little bit suspect—if you check his past. I don’t want to say that because I don’t like to create controversy, but very suspect. If you’d like, I’ll provide you with his past.

He didn’t do anything wrong, and he’s our best player, or one of our best players—a very vital player—and they gave him a red card.

I didn’t know what that meant. I didn’t think it meant much. Then I started hearing that it means you can’t play in the next game, at least in the next game.
I said, “Boy, that’s a big—” You know, if it happened to another player, it would have been unfair, but when they take your best player—or just about; they have some great players—and say you can’t play, that’s very unfair.

That’s one thing, to penalize somebody for the game. But how do you penalize them for a game that hasn’t been played yet? It’s very unfair. You can’t do that.

So, yes, I asked for a review by FIFA. I spoke to a man who is highly respected, and by the way, whose level of respect has gone up tenfold.