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One Zambia One Nation ...tiyende pamodzi

[Xi Alonso 🇨🇳🇦🇷 @ale_hangzhou]

El Presidente de China 🇨🇳 Xi Jinping, acaba de dar un discurso que quedará en los libros de historia, y las futuras generaciones aprenderán del ejemplo que imparte este país asiático:

"¿Hacia dónde va la humanidad? Todos los países navegamos en el mismo barco. En lugar de dispersarnos en más de 190 barcas pequeñas, cada uno a la deriva por su cuenta, deberíamos unir fuerzas: construir un solo gran navío o, al menos, una flota que avance junta, para que toda la humanidad pueda llegar a un horizonte mejor.
Si las civilizaciones se achataran a un único color o un único modelo, el mundo perdería su riqueza y se volvería gris, monótono, invivible.

Lo que hace falta es reconocernos como iguales, dejar de lado la soberbia y los prejuicios, esforzarnos por entender mejor lo que nos distingue de otras culturas, y fomentar el intercambio, el diálogo y una convivencia armónica entre todas las civilizaciones." 🌎🤝🇨🇳

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I pray for the Palestinians every day but to no avail. Evil reigns in their land

[Mahdi Hemmat @HemmatMahdi]

One hundred twelve souls were finally lifted from the ruins of Sabra after nearly three years beneath the rubble.

Forty were children. Thirty-eight were women. They were carried through Gaza in white shrouds and Palestinian flags while grieving families filled the streets and many more remained missing below the concrete.

Three years of waiting, searching, and mourning ended in one of the largest funerals Gaza has seen. May every buried name be found, every family receive an answer, and every child be remembered.

#Gaza #Sabra #Palestine #PersiaBoi #SacredDefense

[zed issue @zedissue]

This is what a superiority complex looks like. Mxxm

[TheNewsHawks @NewsHawksLive]

🔵If white people were to leave Africa for good, particularly South Africa, black people will starve, according to the world's richest man Elon Musk's father Errol.
Is this a racist and patronising stereotype or simply a realistic economic assessment, or both?

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This Russian war is the quietest world war, but world war it is.

Asians and Africans are fighting in it, the US and Europe are fighting in it, its actually quite wild

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"Russia is standing for nothing."

Russia, which is currently fighting the largest conventional land war in Europe since 1945, against a military supplied by more than fifty countries, funded by hundreds of billions in Western money, armed with the most sophisticated weapons NATO could transfer without triggering a formal Article 5 declaration.

Russia, which has absorbed more than twenty-three thousand targeted sanctions, from energy to aircraft parts to individual bank accounts, SWIFT exclusion, the most comprehensive economic warfare ever waged against a major power in history, and has not capitulated, has not sued for the "peace" that Washington keeps waiting for.

Russia, which had three hundred billion dollars in foreign reserves frozen by Western governments in an act of financial piracy so naked that even some Western economists called it a dangerous precedent.

And it is still there. Still fighting. Still refusing the terms.

Calling a country standing firm against the full military and economic force of the Western alliance, absorbing costs that would have collapsed most states, "cowardly" and "standing for nothing"...

That is a sentence that requires you to ignore the war that is actively happening.

Spain recognized Palestine from inside NATO, with American bases on its soil, with full access to Western financial markets, at essentially zero cost to its material position.

Those are not equivalent forms of courage.

[Ian Carroll @IanCarrollShow]

Let the Israeli false flags begin.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

The USS Gerald R. Ford has been at sea for 241 days.

Her deployment has been extended twice. She is now heading back toward the Middle East for a third time, and the Wall Street Journal just published what the Pentagon does not want you to read.

Sailors are missing funerals. Missing births. Missing their children’s first steps. The ship’s sewage system is failing, requiring maintenance calls every single day and acid flushes costing $400,000 each.

Crew members are telling reporters they want to quit the Navy. Morale is described in terms that defense journalists have not used since Vietnam-era reporting.

This deployment is on track to reach 11 months. The post-Vietnam record is 294 days, set by the USS Abraham Lincoln during COVID in 2020. The Ford will break it. And she is not coming home.

Here is what the human toll tells you about the strike calculus that no OSINT flight tracker can.

The United States Navy operates 11 aircraft carriers. The Ford carries approximately 5,000 sailors and over 75 aircraft. Extending her deployment twice, at enormous cost to crew retention, family stability, and mechanical readiness, is not something the Navy does for leverage.

The Navy fights extensions. Carrier strike group commanders fight extensions. The families lobby Congress against extensions.

Extensions happen over institutional resistance when the mission authority, in this case the Commander in Chief, has determined that the asset cannot leave theater.

The Ford cannot leave theater because nothing has replaced her and the mission she was sent to support has not been completed or cancelled.

Think about what “extended twice” means operationally. The first extension signals that the original timeline was optimistic. The second extension signals that the mission itself has changed.

You do not burn through crew morale, defer scheduled maintenance, and risk retention crises across your most advanced warship for a contingency. You do it for a commitment.

Now connect the dots.

The Ford crossed into the Mediterranean on February 20, adding her air wing to the 500-plus aircraft already in theater. Nine C-17s carrying 700 tonnes of munitions are en route. Hundreds of personnel evacuated from Al Udeid. A P-8A is mapping the Strait of Hormuz.

The IRGC is massing at the Iraqi border. Khamenei has activated shadow government protocols.

Graham is lobbying for strikes. Trump’s deadline expires in days. And Witkoff just told Fox that Iran is one week from bomb-making material.

The Ford’s sailors are paying the human cost of a decision that has already been made in everything but name.

You do not break a post-Vietnam deployment record, destroy your crew’s families, and risk the readiness of your most expensive warship to park it in the Mediterranean as a prop.

The $13.3 billion ship is not a negotiating tactic. She is a weapons delivery platform.

And she has been held in place, at extraordinary cost, because someone in the chain of command has determined she will be needed.

Sailors do not miss their children’s births for bluffs.

The stage is not being set. The stage was set weeks ago. What you are watching now is the cost of holding the curtain.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Carolyn, I know people like you exist.

The fact that you are in my replies proves that not every American cheered, not every American chanted, not every American swallowed the script.

I am not denying that.

What I am attacking is the story that says:

"We were all brainwashed. Something was done to us. We are only victims."

Because that story is a lie at the level that actually matters: the level of outcomes.

If there were truly "millions" like you who hated these wars, hated these governments, hated this machine since Vietnam, then the question writes itself:

How did the same political class keep getting a mandate?

How did the wars keep passing, the budgets keep growing, the bases keep multiplying, the sanctions keep tightening?

Somebody voted.

Somebody enlisted.

Somebody waved the flag at halftime.

Somebody called anti-war voices "traitors" and "terrorist sympathizers."

Those somebodies were not just CEOs and senators.

They were also workers, neighbors, classmates, cousins.

People who may struggle, may be exploited, and still choose the comfort of empire over the cost of refusing it.

When I say "Americans," I am talking about the culture that made all of that possible.

The culture that turned every war into a sporting event.

The culture that treats "we were misled" as a moral amnesty every decade.

You are telling me, "I never cheered a war."

I believe you.

But then we have to be honest: you are not "America."

You are a minority inside America that has been losing the argument for sixty years.

You say, "We hate the government of the U.S."

Good.

So do I.

But hatred that never manages to interrupt the machine becomes something else over time: background noise.

My problem is not with the individual who marched in 1968 and never stopped resisting.

My problem is with a system where, after Vietnam, after Iraq, after Libya, after Yemen, after Gaza, the default setting is still:

"Well, we were lied to, what can you do."

At some point, "brainwashed" stops being a description and becomes a shield.

I am not here to slander the working class for sport.

I am here to say that from the viewpoint of those who died under your bombs, the distinction between "the government we hate" and "the people we are" does not look as clean as you want it to be.

You may have been against it since the 1960s.

But enough of your fellow citizens were not.

Enough of them cheered.

Enough of them voted.

Enough of them stayed quiet when it mattered.

That is the audience I am looking at.

Not because you do not exist.

But because you were never the majority that decided how the rest of us would live or die.

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Perhaps this is the reason for the hysteria about immigrants..... they know what their intentions were as immigrants.

[African @ali_naka]

Apartheid Israel was created in 1947, South Africa’s apartheid regime came into power in 1948. Zionists and Afrikaners are Siamese Twins. They both enjoy the direct backing of White Supremacists in Washington. It wasn’t by coincidence. The pattern is repeating itself

[Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt]

Who Really Runs the World? | Money, Power & Debt Explained. Watch on X or YouTube https://t.co/71RxqXhVEG

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Donald Trump's Davos speech really emphasised this, Its very obvious and very blatant

[Save Our Citizenships @LetsStopC9]

Europe’s shock is almost comical. It mistook whiteness for an identity, not a licence issued by power. Washington seems to be revoking it. “Civilisation”, “values”, “democracy” were always euphemisms for racialised solidarity. Now the mask is slipping: Paris, London, Berlin are condemned for failing to police it. Whiteness is not heritage; it is permission, and it can be withdrawn.

[Fear Bavaria 🇿🇦🔴⚪ @InshallahSZN]

They will tell you that you are poor because of black mismanagement. This is ACTUALLY how it happened

[Irlandarra @aldamu_jo]

"If you lock 2 million in a concentration camp for 20 yrs, half of whom are children who were born into that concentration camp, don't react with shock, dismay, disbelief & indignation at what happened on October 7".

Norman Finkelstein

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Hilariously, Melissa replied to my Mao article without, apparently, reading past the title. Accusing me of "propaganda" while in the same breath regurgitating the same old Cold War clichés that my article systematically disproves with data.

On her India comparison, if she'd read the article, she'd have seen this graph 👇 which compares mortality rates in China vs India during the Mao era.

What it shows is that while China's death rates briefly exceeded India's in 1960-1961 during the Great Leap Forward, China maintained substantially lower mortality rates than India in all the other years of the era, despite starting at the same point. By the mid-1960s onward, China's mortality rate advantage over India was 10-12 per thousand.

In effect what this means is that she's completely wrong: if she actually cared about "unnecessary deaths" rather than just scoring propaganda points, the data shows China's approach saved tens of millions more lives than India's during the period. The Great Leap Forward spike was horrific - I don't minimize it in the article - but it was a two-year aberration in a 27-year period where China's mortality rates under Mao were consistently and substantially lower than India's.

You can see the impact reflected in the increase of life expectancy in China under Mao (my second graph), which a Stanford University study (https://t.co/SoekQcZPeD) described this way: "China's growth in life expectancy between 1950 and 1980 ranks as among the most rapid sustained increases in documented global history."

So yes, I'm "defending Mao's economic record" - because unlike her, I've actually looked at the data rather than recycling Cold War talking points.

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Divide and conquer...we fall for it every time

[Unathi Afrika @UnathiAfrika]

When you see Black on Black Violence and African on African hate, always remembered where it is manufactured and why. This Apartheid Special Forces Soldier tells how they engineered it to steer Black People away from fighting Whites by focusing on fighting each other.

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Ex IOF soldier tells of the dark side serving his government

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I can't wait to get my hands on one these... cool slick and modern.

[Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 @jacksonhinkle]

🚨🇨🇳 If Communism doesn't work, why is Huawei creating such cutting-edge tech?

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@IrynaVoichuk Didn't Ukraine just attack yet another Russian power plant. The recent destruction of their energy infrastructure is clearly a retaliation. Why is that difficult to understand?

The days that the West could just blatantly lie about these things and get away with them are over.

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@FortuneMagazine @MariaCorinaYA 🙄

What eveeer!

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Wow this is incredible.