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Travis W. Fast, 收費員, جمع کننده🫐 retweeted
Apartheid South Africa had WAY MORE colored members of parliament than Israeli Arabs in the Knesset
Apartheid's 1983 Tricameral Parliament allowed 2.8 million colored & 850,000 Indian citizens to vote. 42% of parliament members were colored & Indian Reps.
Still Apartheid!
Israel’s Arab citizens, men and women, are turning out in historic numbers to vote. They can vote, run for office, and serve in the Knesset, rights denied to many Arabs and women across much of the Middle East.
Our critical ally in the fight against terror, Israel, is the only democracy in the region, and today shows it.
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Yes Mr Blair:
Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere need an end to genocide, Israel's militarised colonisation and apartheid.
They need respect for Intl Law and justice.
They also need no more advice from those who have profited from their misery for too long.
Be kind. Step aside
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While I'm not saying this is a pump and dump scheme, if it *was* a pump and dump scheme this is exactly how you'd structure it...
There's a very good reason for the 180 day lockup...to minimise the chances of people lying in their S-1s...
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Recomiendo profundamente este artículo que, además de bien escrito, sintetiza lecciones muy interesantes. No tiene desperdicio:
"La izquierda brasileña tardó años en entender una verdad incómoda: no se puede ganar una pelea callejera en internet con maneras de profesor universitario. Durante demasiado tiempo, el Partido de los Trabajadores reaccionó a la guerra sucia digital como si estuviera redactando una tesis doctoral. Cuando la maquinaria de la ultraderecha soltaba a primera hora de la mañana un bulo incendiario sobre el cierre de iglesias o la destrucción de la familia, la cúpula del partido convocaba reuniones interminables, consultaba a sus abogados y publicaba, ya de noche, un comunicado infumable de tres páginas en un lenguaje que no entendía nadie fuera de la sede. Para entonces, la mentira ya había entrado en los teléfonos de quince millones de familias y moldeado el pánico de medio país.
La campaña de Lula se dio de bruces contra la realidad de las pantallas. En el fango de TikTok y WhatsApp, los desmentidos solemnes y los sellos de las agencias de verificación no conmueven a casi nadie; son munición de fogueo frente a un misil emocional. Si querían frenar la sangría, había que dejar de dar lecciones morales desde un púlpito y empezar a jugar con las mismas reglas que rigen internet: velocidad salvaje, humor descarado y cero burocracia"
jotdown.es/2026/10/anatomia-…
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In case it wasn't clear: the Zionist opposition is too racist. Signs indicate that they will prefer another elections (even with Netanyahu as an eternal caretaker PM) than to collaborate with Arab parties
Exit polls: 17-18 seats for the Arab parties in the elections. The only way to unseat @netanyahu is for the Zionist opposition to cooperate with Palestinians
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Zuckerberg already admitted it wrongly suspended the No Kings Instagram account during the peak of a massive voter-mobilization effort.
Now, seven days before the midterms, Zuckerberg has suspended the account Angie Nixon’s Senate campaign uses to organize Latino voters.
At what point do repeated “mistakes” that suppress organizing by Democrats become an election-integrity crisis?
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What did the Iranian soccer team say that caused them to get banned to enter the States during World Cup again? Nothing.
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I grew up in Israel. I was educated there. Served it. Studied it. Taught about it. No one knows it better than I do. And there is no doubt. It was built on racism and the destruction of the Palestinian people.
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The Banach–Demski paradox states that given an electoral demographic with 80% support for a given policy, there exists a decomposition of that demographic into a finite number of subsets that may be reassembled into a larger demographic of suburban republicans who oppose it.
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🇪🇨🇧🇷🇦🇷 BOLSONARO LEFT VIA ARGENTINA FOR ECUADOR
At about 02:00am Buenos Aires time, Argentina's immigration agency said Flávio Bolsonaro and his family crossed the Tancredo Neves bridge into Misiones at 10:50pm on 27 Oct.
Flavio had valid documents and no legal impediment.
At 11:30pm they took a private flight from Puerto Iguazú to Guayaquil, Ecuador.
That contradicts last night's CNN and Reuters reports that he was already flying to Florida. It’s unclear if he continues to the US or not.
Trump said the election was strange and that he would welcome Flavio in the US.
Wild
La Dirección Nacional de Migraciones informa que a las 22:50 hs del dia 27/10, ingresaron por el paso fronterizo de Puente internacional Tancredo Neves en la provincia de Misiones, los ciudadanos Flavio Nantes Bolsonaro, Fernanda Antunes Figueira Bolsonaro, Carolina Figueira Bolsonaro y Luiza Figueira Bolsonaro, quienes lo hicieron con documentación hábil de viaje sin ningún impedimento legal para el ingreso al país, asimismo los tránsitos fueron registrados por la autoridad de aplicación sin incidentes.
Por su parte, a las 23:30 hs, la comitiva ingresante abordó un vuelo privado despachado por la compañía Baires Fly S.A con destino a la ciudad de Guayaquil, Ecuador, según se informó en el plan de vuelo.
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By the end of WWII, 90% of Warsaw's buildings lay in ruins. The Soviet Union, wrecked by the same war, sent builders to help raise it again.
Soviet construction crews arrived in the Polish capital and brought their own building materials with them.
Warsaw chose the hardest and most expensive option: rebuild the historic Old Town exactly as it had stood before the war.
The Warsaw tourists photograph today rose from that rubble, with Soviet builders and Soviet materials in the mix.
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The widely advertised by Zelenskyy Flamingo missile was never a superweapon—just a political statement to scare Russians, production company FirePoint now admits. The company tied to Zelenskyy’s circle and heavily promoted by him, received its first state contracts in 2023. In 2025–2026 alone it received $2.4 billion in contracts.
Zelenskyy’s strategy is now clear: pour billions into offensive weapons produced by his friends while Ukrainians die without real air defenses. They produce 300 km ballistic missiles that cost $600K per shot, yet admit there’s no point using them when cheap drones do the job for $40–50k. So the missiles are simply stockpiled for a future European air-defense project. Not for Ukraine. Offensive systems that make no military sense, while our cities burn and children are buried.
Ukrainian lives and European billions were wasted for business interests. I wonder which politicians else, except of Zelenskyy, are behind the bloody scheme?
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This is one hell of a threat from international capital. And believe me, that is exactly what this editorial is.
If Brazil’s president believes that now is the time to double down on the policies that won him re-election, he will cause a fiscal crisis and a deep recession. His golden victory will turn to ashes economist.com/leaders/2026/1…
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The American CEO who bought Stelco is openly admitting that he purchased the company to sabotage it.
This is why the Liberals should have never approved Stelco's sale in the first place. When you give away ownership of a critical industry like steel, your economy is forever under another's thumb.
There is only one solution that will save these jobs and put Canada back in the driver's seat: we need to nationalize Stelco.
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He intends to sell Stelco “in a year or so,” once he “makes some money.”
He intends to strip it of assets and value and then offload the rump—true private equity style.
Canada would have to bail out that rump or entirely lose domestic steel production.
Nationalise Stelco now.
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Some of the sharpest analyses of Israeli politics come from Daniel Levy.
This should be subtitled in every language. Short, clear, impeccable.
Daniel Levy | Former Israeli Peace Negotiator | US/Middle East Project (@USMEP):
Netanyahu did not alone commit genocide for 3 years. He did not alone maintain decades of illegal occupation. It was system-wide.
Eisenkot was part of it & served in the military. He sat in the emergency unity security cabinet after Oct. 7 - during the genocide.
Israeli generals, soldiers & judges - all part of a system-wide mobilization. Dissenting voices existed but remained marginal.
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Very true until Janet Yellen advocated for Russia’s central bank assets to be seized after they invaded Ukraine. Not your keys, not your coins. Not your vault, not your gold.
Jamie Dimon to a country that pulled its gold out of New York: you have three armies within 400 miles, while gold in America is protected by two oceans and the US military
“If we have the strongest military in the world and the strongest economy in the world, we will be the preeminent reserve currency. It is those two things.”
“I was in a country somewhere in the Middle East, and also in Europe, and the people said, we took our gold out of the vaults in New York City and moved it to our country. You know what I said to him? I said, you have three armies within 400 miles who can come take your gold.”
“That’s the real world. You’re not thinking clearly about safety. That gold is protected by the Atlantic, the Pacific, the United States military, the rule of law.”
“But if we are not the preeminent military and economy, you will see our reserve status come down.”
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Ian Fleming's daily schedule while writing all 14 James Bond books
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As I expected, Netanyahu, knowing it is impossible for him to form a right wing government again, just called for a national unity government exclusively of "Zionist parties," sending the message that the "Arab parties" must not be allowed to have any part in a governing coalition.
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Germany's century of genocide didn't begin in Namibia but in the Boxer Rebellion where they were the most brutal western army that burned villages, slaughtered civilians, and plundered Beijing. And today, they are the second-largest military supplier of Israel.
