‘Ik ga weg omdat ik me schaam voor dit land’, vertelt @LenKuhr in haar laatste interview voor haar emigratie naar #Israël. Ze vertrekt naar Israël wegens toenemend antisemitisme. #nieuwsvandedag
“Godfather Don Corleone zou er jaloers op zijn: al 35 jaar komt Poetin weg met misdaad en moord,” zo opent @HSalemon haar nieuwe boek, waarin ze beschrijft hoe de Russische president zich als grijze KGB-muis kon ontpoppen tot dictator van Rusland.
https://t.co/4H6fL7D92q
@Sandra_Of_Zo@kaasboerke3 Ik begrijp het heel goed. Voer importeren, stront blijft hier en het vlees wordt geëxporteerd. Dus veel minder vee is de oplossing.
Albanians just showed the world how it's done.
The government was selling off prime coastal land and protected islands to Jared Kushner and linked investors for a massive luxury resort turning public beaches and nature reserves into private playgrounds for the ultra-rich. The people said: HELL NO. Thousands poured into the streets under “Albania Is Not For Sale.” Protests turned fiery. They stormed government buildings and burnt down the Prime Minister’s house. This isn’t just about a deal. It’s about sovereignty. It’s about refusing to let your country be auctioned off to foreign billionaires while locals lose access to their own coastline. When elites sell the nation’s future for kickbacks and luxury resorts, the people have every right to push back hard. Respect to the Albanians for refusing to be colonized by cash. Other countries should be taking notes.
Hunter Biden has done a better job of exposing Trump family corruption in a few days on social media than some elected Dems have in their entire terms. Even MAGA voters are listening to him.
Something to think about.
Scandal brewing in “neutral” Ireland after revelations that one Russian-affiliated plant there has been supplying over 83% Irish exports of alumina to Russia where it’s smelted into aluminum, a critical component for war production.
Aughinish Alumina in County Limerick, Europe’s largest alumina refinery, owned by United Company Rusal (Russia’s largest aluminium producer), whose parent EN+ Group was founded by sanctioned oligarch Oleg Deripaska. An investigation by the Irish Times, OCCRP and other outlets, drawing on confidential documents, customs data and satellite imagery, established the supply chain.
The Irish government tried to deflect but when a reporter filmed the plant with signs in Russian, they could no longer deny it. Now internal documents were leaked showing that the company is threatening the Irish government with loss of jobs and all sorts of things if it tried to curb its exports to Russia.
The newest defense is that alumina isn’t under EU sanctions so technically no rules were broken. Except Ireland had no problem defying the EU and forging ahead with its own restrictions on imports from Israel with its Occupied Territories Bill. Because… reasons (or maybe Russian occupation of Ukraine is OK while Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands is not).
Australia stopped its alumina exports to Russia because the material is so necessary for the war (its main exporter was also 20%-owned by Deripaska). The neutral Irish government is operating under different standards, where morality is spelled in Russian.
I wonder what the Irish people, who overwhelmingly support Ukraine (in fact, they are among the strongest supporters in Europe when it comes to economic and financial aid), think about all of this.
De Tweede Kamer heeft vandaag asielmaatregelen aangenomen, waaronder mijn voorstellen om de vreemdelingenbewaring aan te scherpen: geen mobiele telefoons meer en een langere periode van insluiting.
Vreemdelingenbewaring moet gericht zijn op terugkeer. Wie hier niet mag blijven moet ook vertrekken.
https://t.co/Qyul3dNRjK
Dr. Muhammad Mashali, lovingly known across Egypt as “The Doctor of the Poor,” never owned a car or a cellphone. He lived without luxury, but spent over 50 years quietly healing thousands of lives.
Every day, he walked the streets of Tanta in Egypt’s Nile Delta to his modest clinic, where patients, rich or poor, were always welcome. Many paid nothing. Some days he treated 40 to 50 people, often covering the cost of their medicine himself.
After graduating with honors in 1967, he made a solemn vow: he would never turn away anyone who couldn’t afford treatment, a promise inspired by watching his father sacrifice everything for his education.
“My reward is not money,” he once said, “it’s the smile of someone whose suffering has ended.”
When a wealthy businessman once gifted him $20,000, a car, and an apartment, Dr. Mashali sold it all and used every penny to buy medical equipment for his patients.
He treated everyone with equal dignity, regardless of religion, status, or background. For more than ten hours a day, he offered not just medicine, but compassion and hope.
Dr. Muhammad Mashali passed away in 2020 at the age of 76, leaving behind no wealth, no grand possessions, only a profound legacy of kindness.
“You are being sold a raw deal. You won’t be trained. Your equipment will be substandard. And if you are wounded, you may be left to suffer in the mud and die” — NATO chief Mark Rutte delivered a blunt message to young Russian men considering joining the war against Ukraine.
Video: Clash reports