@TradeAndSeaY Happend to me on a trip to Japan in Narita Airport. My brand new passport was flagged as stolen in the system and not the old one it replaced. Took me 2 hours with immigration to clear the whole mess.
John of Damascus lived close to the time Islam first appeared and directly witnessed its rise.
He called Muhammad a false prophet who borrowed ideas from the Bible and mixed them with Arab beliefs to create a new religion.
He questioned why Muhammad claimed private revelations with no public witnesses, unlike Moses and the biblical prophets whose signs were seen openly.
What makes this powerful is that this was not a modern critic.
This was one of the earliest Christian scholars living under Muslim rule, and even he concluded that Islam was built from borrowed teachings, not divine revelation.
🇺🇲 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Delhi and asked, "Where is everyone?" At the airport, he was only greeted by the commander of his own plane, and not a single Indian government official came to meet him.
🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Donald Trump has arrived in China to find that President XI did NOT greet him at the airport.
MAGA is in spin mode heralding the “red carpet treatment,” but the visit is already at a rocky start.
Instead of a presidential welcome, Trump was greeted by US Ambassador to China David Perdue; Xi’s vice president, Han Zheng; China’s Ambassador to Washington Xie Feng; and Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu.
I’m sure Trump would hate if you shared this and rubbed it in all day long.
The Embassy of Iran in South Africa sent a message to the Embassy of Ukraine informing us about the opening of a book of condolences for the deceased ayatollah and his associates. Ukrainian Ambassador Dr. Olexander Scherba sent them a response.
Your Excellency,
Mr. Ambassador,
Since you notified the Embassy of Ukraine of the book of condolences for the deceased Ayatollah Khamenei and Iran’s military leadership, I feel compelled to remind you of the following.
As military allies of the Russian Federation, the deceased leaders of Iran had on their hands the blood of thousands of Ukrainian citizens – men and women, children and elderly – killed with the help of the infamous Iran-made “Shahed” drones and other military know-how so eagerly provided to Russia by your government. Your leaders were complicit in bringing endless grief to Ukrainian civilians.
Being a person of faith, I try not to rejoice in the death of other people, even those who chose to be tormentors of my country, who did nothing bad to theirs. But as someone who has spent three years to the tune of Iran-created machines of death howling every night in the sky over Kyiv and other peaceful Ukrainian cities, I cannot help but wish for every culprit to meet the justice they deserve. If not by human law, then in the face of God Almighty.
Ambassador, I do not know you personally and have no grudge against you. Sometimes, good diplomats must speak for bad leaders and their policies. But I hope you understand that I won’t express condolences for someone whose death I do not mourn.
Sincerely,
Dr. Olexander Scherba
Ambassador
Listen up, Sir Annexalot of Magadonia: Greenland isn’t your golf course. You don’t get to annex countries like tee times. Shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down, you illiterate colonizer.
🚨BOMBSHELL: The White House is panicking after Bill Clinton flipped the entire Epstein files narrative on Trump.
Clinton completely outsmarted him by officially asking Trump to release EVERYTHING.
Clinton says he’s not scared and if Trump is innocent, prove it.
A short film from 1902 of a German suspended railway called the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, shot in 68 mm, colorized and upscaled in 4K.
It shows an unusual drone-like view of a German city at the beginning of the 20th century.
[📹 MoMA]
This is the Trump photo that was accidentally included in the Epstein file release. Once they noticed the mistake, it was quickly removed. I happened to grab a screenshot before it was taken down. 🙃