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Patrick Devaney retweeted
Useful reminder to those complaining about refugees in Europe: if you want less refugees, your main enemy is the US Military Industrial Complex.
Patrick Devaney retweeted
In a handful of villages in southern Italy, people still speak what may be the last surviving linguistic descendant of "Magna Graecia", the ancient, Classical Greek world that once covered much of southern Italy.
The language, unsurprisingly, is called Griko (Γκρίκο).
1/n
Patrick Devaney retweeted
Uncomfortable but important read from @NickKristof (his courage for covering animal suffering in our denial culture is off the charts).
I can’t see how this is good for human health either, given the stress and suffering these animals endure.
nytimes.com/2026/10/17/opini…
Patrick Devaney retweeted
If you listen to media commentators they'll tell you the Russians are a threat to our undersea infrastructure.
Meanwhile in the real world:
1. A Ukrainian (CIA linked) blew up EU energy security
2. The Brits are spying on our communications
Facts don't fit the narrative.
Patrick Devaney retweeted
Eric Li argues that countries fail when they copy Western political models.
It’s a controversial take. If voting can be manipulated by foreign entities, swayed by entertainment over policy, and if 'installed puppets' are the norm...
Then, is the Western model working as intended?
Patrick Devaney retweeted
The Long March is one of the greatest epics in the annals of human history.
In 1934, 86,000 Chinese Red Army soldiers began an arduous 12,500 kilometre journey to escape encirclement. They crossed 40 mountains, 100 rivers and a marshland known as the “death zone”. They fought more than 600 battles on their journey. Only about 7,000 survived the trek to Yan’an, where they established a revolutionary base.
Along the way, the marching soldiers formed deep connections with local peasants. In many ways, that experience formed the bedrock of China's revolutionary process, which was led by the peasantry and continues to be rooted in the countryside to this day.
Patrick Devaney retweeted
Turning Point UK got caught working with right-wing paramilitaries willing to carry out assassinations on their behalf. Thankfully we’ve got nothing like that in the states.
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The Long March: Keeping the flame alive through song #LongMarch90
Patrick Devaney retweeted
School told us nothing about tryweryn or the Irish genocide btw
Holocaust school lessons to be improved after 'shocking' antisemitism review bbc.in/4i1Woug
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The “deep state” - a vast, classified underground labyrinth of organizations devoted to prosecuting counterinsurgency and strategy of tension, its constituent networks constantly repurposed and reactivated within an ecosystem of teeming factions - is real and exists
🚨🇬🇧 Turning Point UK's CEO was filmed offering an undercover reporter a menu of beatings, stabbings and killings through a Glasgow contact who says he arms the UVF
Al Jazeera’s undercover operation started in 2021 when a reporter joined the British offshoot of the American student group.
Its CEO Jack Ross, a Conservative candidate in 2023, introduced the reporter to Allan Nesbitt, a convicted criminal and self-described UVF member, agreed on camera to pay him to stage a fake pro-Zimbabwe rally, and priced out what Nesbitt’s friends could do to a person, from cutting faces to MURDER.
The UVF is the Ulster Volunteer Force, a Protestant loyalist paramilitary from Northern Ireland’s Troubles that killed over 500 people between 1966 and 1999, including 33 in one day in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, and is still banned as a terror group.
Since the peace deal it has run mostly as a drug gang that kept the name and the guns.
Nesbitt reportedly met the reporter in a London hotel, offered to have a fictional business rival “finished,” claimed he’d personally stabbed a man to death, showed a shotgun and pistol on a video call and said the fee would buy weapons smuggled from Scotland into Northern Ireland.
Ross says it was a joke. The joke came with a price list, a weapons demo and a smuggling route, and the police now have a name and a video... and wasn't particularly funny.
Somebody in Turning Point UK’s donor base should be asking when the fundraising dinners turned into this.
Source: Al Jazeera / Writer: Daniel
Patrick Devaney retweeted
When quoting a fake genocide you can’t even remember the number you created for the bodies that were properly disposed of in a church courtyard. (Not the traditional way to hide mass graves, war crimes and genocide btw)
500 people over several weeks of high intensity combat isn’t even in the realm of a genocide by definition.
There was no attempt to kill Ukrainians or their culture in part or in whole.
Real genocides look like Gaza.
Bucha. It was a genocide, recognized by everyone. They buried hundreds of people. They tortured people. We found the grave. There were, I believe, around 500 people. When we liberated those towns near Kyiv, there emerged this, you know, this kind of hatred for the Russians, right at that moment. Not even at the moment when they started the full-scale war. Back then nobody understood what it really was yet. People understood what this war was and what Putin did personally when we found those mass graves of tortured adults, children. I mean they didn't just kill them, they tortured and killed them.
When we liberated Bucha, I said, bring every journalist here. Don't touch anything, just bring the journalists. The whole world simply has to see this. Imagine finding a mass grave in the U.S. or in Britain, God forbid, with 500 tortured people, adults, kids, dogs, animals shot dead. I mean, they held hunting sprees there from military vehicles. People were running, they were shooting, just hunting, playing games. They literally just played with people, like slavery. So how, after this, can you listen to Putin? And how, after this, can you forgive?
From The Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett. (2/3)
Patrick Devaney retweeted
Aside from the shocking substance of this story, what's amazing is how it was unearthed by Cole. The short version: The Russians were able to penetrate Jared Kushner's iPhone and extract screenshots and data. Then, a Russian intel official was captured by Dutch intelligence (!) and flipped. The Dutch believed Kushner may have been acting on behalf of Russia, so pursued him as an intel target and were able to get into his phone.
They did not find any evidence of Russian collusion, instead they watched him moving hundreds of millions of dollars from slush funds created by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, one of them housed in Israel's central bank.
Incredible reporting, and if Democrats have any sense, they will pull on these threads and learn a lot more about this money.
Explosive story many years in the making, now out in Vanity Fair by Matthew Cole (who will be on Breaking Points next week, and publishing soon in @DropSiteNews):
Saudi Arabia and the UAE set up multi-billion slush funds for Jared Kushner to use.
Iran-Contra 2 here (except with Iran-Contra, at least the US got some hostages released. Not clear what we got out of this one.)
Patrick Devaney retweeted
It has been now over 15 years since Gaddafi was killed. There has not been a parliamentary election in over 12 years. There has never been a presidential election, having been delayed for almost 10 years. There is still no legal definition defining the powers of that presidency.
Patrick Devaney retweeted
I don't think you can defeat a people who melt down entire Panzer divisions and build a church with them. This is the Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces, completed in 2020. It was literally built using metal melted down from captured Nazi tanks, artillery guns, and firearms.
