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Mark Stafford retweeted
"We don't need a war in Ukraine. Peace in Ukraine is in the interest of Germany. I don't want German soldiers and weapons sent to Ukraine. I am ashamed that, after the Second World War, German tanks are once again being used against Russia.
That is a disgrace for our country"
(Alice Weidel, AFD)
Mark Stafford retweeted
Europas ledare har lyckats med ett otroligt geopolitiskt hattrick: Man gjorde sig beroende av Ryssland för energi, Kina för handel och USA för sin säkerhet, och har på något vänster lyckats bli ovän med alla tre samtidigt.
Ett rent mästerverk i självskadebeteende.
Mark Stafford retweeted
The weapons used against Yemen are among the most sophisticated ever manufactured.
Precision-guided munitions. Advanced radar systems. Coordinated air campaigns planned with American logistical support. Intelligence architecture that costs more per year than Yemen’s entire GDP.
They hit hospitals.
They hit wedding parties.
They hit school buses.
They hit water treatment facilities and grain storage and everything that sustains a civilian population.
And Yemen is still there.
Still there not despite the targeting of civilian infrastructure, but in some sense because of it.
Because when you demonstrate to a population that you are not distinguishing between their military and their children, you have answered the question of what defeat would mean.
You have shown them.
And shown them.
And shown them.
And instead of producing surrender, you produced the specific, furious, generational clarity of a people who now understand exactly what they are fighting against.
That is not a military failure of execution.
That is the fundamental, irreducible limit of what violence can accomplish against a people who have seen enough of it to stop fearing it.
Mark Stafford retweeted
🚨 35,000 anti-Zionist Jews gathered in Philadelphia.
There are hundreds of thousands of anti-Israel and anti-Zionist Jews in the world, but the mainstream media ignores this fact.
Zionists spread the lie that all Jews support Israel and Zionism, but this is never true.
There are hundreds of thousands of Jewish families around the world who are against Israel and Zionism.
Israel is not a Jewish state.
Zionism is not Judaism.
Being against Zionism is not antisemitic, it is in fact pro-Judaism.
Anti-Zionism is NOT Antisemitism.
Mark Stafford retweeted
There is a sentence that almost never appears in Western coverage:
Under international law, a people under military occupation have the right to resist that occupation.
This is not a controversial claim.
It is in the United Nations Charter.
It is in the Geneva Conventions.
It has been affirmed repeatedly by the UN General Assembly, explicitly referring to "all available means, including armed struggle."
It is the same principle invoked to describe French resistance to Nazi occupation as heroic rather than terrorist.
It is so uncontroversial that it doesn't need to be stated when applied to almost any other occupied people in history.
When applied to Palestinians, it disappears.
Not because it became false.
Because the people who control which sentences appear in the news made a decision about which populations are permitted to have legally recognized rights that are spoken aloud in prime time.
That decision is political.
The silence around it is also political.
The pretense that both are journalistic is the lie inside the lie.
Mark Stafford retweeted
Now it is official.
"In relation to Israels military operations in Gaza, we conclude that Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes. Including extermination, murder, using starvation as a method of war, forcible transfer"
(UN Human Rights Council)
Mark Stafford retweeted
This insane: California and China both started their High Speed Rail projects in 2008
- California hasn’t completed a single track
- China completed over 31,000 miles of track during the same time
Here’s where it gets really crazy, I did the math on how much California is spending compared to China
This is the cost per mile breakdown:
- China’s rail coeds about $30 million per mile
- California official Phase 1 spending is $255 million per mile
Read that again.
Gavin Newsom needs to go to prison, this is the biggest money laundering project in California history
Mark Stafford retweeted
- The U.S. government has already banned Chinese humanoid robots (FCC ban this year). Why? Because they're better.
- The U.S. government has already banned Chinese EVs. Why? Because they're better.
- The U.S. government has already banned Chinese drones. Why? Because they're better and cheaper.
- The U.S. government has already banned Chinese-made network routers. Why? Because they're better and cheaper.
NOW, they want to ban Chinese-made open source AI models.
Guess why?
Because the AI models are great and also FREE.
Thus, the U.S. government wants to restrict your access to them and protect the U.S. AI cartel just like the automobile cartel and robot cartels are being protected.
This is PROTECTIONISM disguised as "safety."
Mark Stafford retweeted
The rubber that built European industry came from somewhere.
The cotton that built the textile mills came from somewhere.
The sugar that sweetened European tea came from somewhere.
The gold that backed European currencies came from somewhere.
The phosphate that fertilized European farms came from somewhere.
The timber, the ivory, the copper, the palm oil, the cocoa, the indigo.
All of it came from somewhere.
That somewhere had people in it.
Those people were not compensated.
In many cases, those people were the labor. Not hired labor. Not contracted labor. Not even particularly well-fed labor.
Owned labor. Coerced labor. Labor maintained through violence and the constant credible threat of more violence.
The Industrial Revolution was not a European achievement alone.
It was a global achievement extracted from the bodies and lands of people who did not consent to participate and did not share in the proceeds.
The prosperity that produced the tolerance you're currently celebrating was built in a system whose operational costs were paid by the people who got none of its benefits.
That accounting has never been settled.
It is still open.
Mark Stafford retweeted
Francesca Albanese :
« Ils m'ont allongée sur une table en métal, ont plaqué ma poitrine et ma tête contre elle, ont attaché mes mains au bout du lit et ont tiré violemment sur mes jambes. »
« J'ai senti une barre me pénétrer l'anus et un homme me violer. J'ai commencé à hurler, alors ils m'ont frappée dans le dos et sur la tête. »
« Les yeux bandés, j'ai senti un homme me violer et éjaculer dans mon anus. Je n'arrêtais pas de crier et de me faire battre, et j'ai entendu une caméra, donc je pense qu'ils me filmaient. »
« Je ne peux pas décrire ce que j'ai ressenti. Je voulais être morte. À chaque instant. »
La Rapporteuse spéciale des Nations Unies Francesca Albanese lit les récits de rescapés palestiniens victimes de viol, de torture et de meurtre dans les centres de détention israéliens.
Plus de 18 500 personnes ont été détenues depuis le 7 octobre. Au moins 100 personnes, dont un enfant, sont mortes en détention. Environ 4 000 personnes ont également fait l'objet de disparitions forcées.
« Ce qui a été perdu en Palestine sera perdu pour nous tous. »
La vidéo provient de l'intervention de Francesca Albanese devant le Conseil des droits de l'homme des Nations Unies à Genève le 23 mars 2026, lors de la présentation de son rapport sur la torture et les abus dans les centres de détention israélien.
Mark Stafford retweeted
In the Philippines, between 1899 and 1902, the United States fought a war most Americans have never heard of.
After defeating Spain, America decided the Philippines should not be independent. Should not govern itself. Was not ready.
The Filipinos disagreed.
And so America, which had declared its own independence 123 years earlier, went to war to prevent another people from winning theirs.
The methods:
The "water cure": forcing water into a prisoner's stomach until they talked or died.
The systematic burning of villages.
The forced reconcentration of civilians and collective punishment in areas of resistance.
General Jacob Smith's order: kill everyone over ten.
Kill everyone over ten.
Between 250,000 and 1 million Filipinos died.
The American general who oversaw much of it, Arthur MacArthur, was celebrated back home.
His son Douglas became an even more celebrated general.
The war is not in most American textbooks.
When it appears, it is described as the "Philippine Insurrection."
Insurrection.
A Filipino fighting for Filipino independence on Filipino soil is, in the American vocabulary, an insurgent.
The Americans who crossed the Pacific to prevent that independence are, in the same vocabulary, soldiers.
The words are the empire's first line of defense.
They were doing their job in 1902.
They are still doing their job now.
Mark Stafford retweeted
Malaysia just chose the off-switch it can control
This is not Malaysia “defying” Washington. That’s the framing they always use when a country stops asking permission.
Malaysia is looking at Huawei chips for a sovereign AI project because it does not want American law sitting on top of its own data. The CLOUD Act, the entity list, the sudden cutoff. You sign the contract, they keep the key.
That’s the deal.
Everyone already knows Nvidia is faster.
That’s not the argument. The argument is who can turn the machine off after you’ve paid for it. Who can freeze the stack because a politician in Washington had a bad week.
Huawei got cut off six years ago. They were supposed to disappear.
They didn’t. They rebuilt the chain, shipped chips, and now a government is actually considering them. That part never makes the press release.
We’ve seen this movie. First they sanction the company. Then they warn the neighbours. Then they call it “rules-based order” when the only rule is: buy ours or else.
If Malaysia goes through with it, it won’t be because Huawei suddenly beat Nvidia on benchmarks. It will be because enough countries are tired of buying hardware that comes with a political remote control.
The first one that does it stops being a customer. It becomes an example.
Defying warnings and threats from Washington, Malaysia may become the first country to utilize Huawei AI chips instead of U.S.-made alternatives.
Despite the Trump administration's strong opposition to the use of Huawei AI chips by other nations, Malaysia remains inclined to rely on Huawei’s technology to power its sovereign AI initiative.
Malaysia is seriously considering Huawei’s AI hardware as the cornerstone of a 2 billion ringgit (approximately 3.317 billion yuan) project aimed at securing greater national control over its data. Huawei has been striving to enhance the performance of its AI chips in the face of long-standing U.S. restrictions on its access to foreign manufacturing equipment. Although a significant performance gap remains compared to Nvidia’s products, Huawei is seeking to establish a foothold in the global data center market—including in Southeast Asia and the Middle East—as its manufacturing prospects improve.
Meanwhile, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has stated that Malaysia does not wish to be merely a consumer of foreign technology. Beyond the infrastructure potentially supplied by Huawei, Anwar’s administration is encouraging local telecommunications companies to partner with foreign firms to develop a broader AI framework. Sources indicate that the chip under consideration is Huawei’s flagship Ascend 910C; the Trump administration had previously issued explicit warnings that the use of chips like the Ascend 910C "anywhere in the world" could violate U.S. export control regulations.
If Malaysia proceeds with adopting Huawei chips, it would mark the first known instance of a foreign government formally selecting Chinese AI chips over U.S. products—a move that sees Anwar challenging U.S. efforts to dominate global AI infrastructure.
At the heart of Malaysia’s sovereign AI project is the goal of keeping data—including highly sensitive government, military, and intelligence information—within the country. Anwar has previously expressed concern that U.S. regulations, particularly the CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act), could hinder this objective; he has described the legislation as unreasonable. Back in late August, regarding the AI computing infrastructure project in Egypt, the 102-page proposal submitted jointly by Huawei and iFLYTEK—featuring Ascend 950 chips (1,408 for training and 600 for inference), a 12-month delivery schedule, and integrated iFLYTEK security applications—was highly competitive. It was compelling enough to prompt the U.S. State Department to intervene and orchestrate a consortium of U.S. suppliers to bid for the project.
In reality, everyone acknowledges that Nvidia chips offer superior performance; however, Malaysia recognizes that when weighing high-performance chips against national security and sovereign autonomy, the latter is clearly more important. U.S. chips may contain backdoors, and the U.S. is known to wield sanctions arbitrarily—even treating contracts and agreements as worthless scraps of paper—cutting off supplies or remotely disabling systems at will.
I believe an increasing number of nations will come to realize the severe risks associated with these drawbacks; transactions laden with political conditions and threats of sanctions that disregard contractual integrity will only serve to deter potential partners.
Mark Stafford retweeted
Israel's cheerleaders:
"Any comparison between Israel's behaviour and the Nazis is outrageous antisemitism!"
Israel's National Security Minister:
Mark Stafford retweeted
The catastrophic mudslide along the China-Nepal border has triggered a wave of anti-China misinformation online. Here are the facts behind three of the most widely circulated claims↓↓↓
Claim One: Chinese dams or construction caused the disaster.
• This allegation spread widely across some Indian media outlets. Some even used AI-generated images and videos as "evidence".
• However, scientific findings show that the disaster began with a massive slope failure involving a glacier in Nepal's Langtang National Park.
Claim Two: China concealed the disaster.
• Some Western media outlets, including The New York Times, BBC, The Guardian and The Telegraph, suggested China was hiding the scale of the disaster.
• However, Chinese media reported casualties, missing persons and rescue efforts from day one, focusing on verified information rather than repeatedly broadcasting graphic images.
Claim Three: China knowingly failed to warn Nepal.
• Some pro-DPP commentators in China's Taiwan province propagated this claim to fuel anti-China sentiment.
• However, the source area was in Nepal, and the collapse triggered a destructive debris flow that reached China's Gyirong Port within minutes — barely enough time to assess the situation, let alone issue an effective warning.
The facts should outlive the propaganda. A disaster demands scrutiny — but it must never be reduced to ammunition for a political agenda. #MediaUnlocked #Mudslide
One of the better demonstrations of what happened. Thanks for taking the time to share this — RIP to all the lost souls.
基于现有公开信息，我把 8·26 尼泊尔—中国边境冰崩泥石流的形成过程做了一次完整的视频化还原：
冰川—基岩体失稳
沿陡峭峡谷高速下泄
不断卷入冰、岩屑、土体与河道物质
最终演化为跨境泥石流
我用卫星照片前后对比锁定地貌变化，以三维地形动画还原跨境下泄路径，再把冰岩体失稳、贴壁崩解、碎屑流俯冲、卷入沟床物质、进入河谷聚落的过程接成一条连续动线。
片中明确区分了三类画面：
卫星与三维地形，用来交代源区、峡谷和路线；
灾害过程重建，用来还原冰崩如何演化成泥石流；
口岸及尼泊尔河谷现场画面，用来呈现真实冲击。
这支视频希望帮助大家把「一场灾难从哪里开始，又如何冲进山谷」看清楚。成因和精确参数仍以官方后续调查为准。
Mark Stafford retweeted
"¿Que clase de gente son los soldados israelíes que permiten que un niño de 14 años se desangre delante de ellos durante 40 o 45 minutos de agonía? ¿Que clase de personas son sus mandos militares que fomentan que se desangren niños?".
Chris Sidoti, de la Comisión de Investigación de la ONU, denuncia el sadismo de los soldados sionistas, que dejaron que un niño palestino de 14 años se desangrara hasta la muerte mientras lo observaban.
Mark Stafford retweeted
"Prometí aprobar una ley de pena de muerte para los palestinos y lo hice, ahora estoy construyendo una instalación para ejecutarlos, pondré cámaras y se podrá ver cómo mueren en directo".
Itamar Ben Gvir, ministro genocida de "Israel", está construyendo campos de exterminio para palestinos, donde pondrá cámaras para ver como los ejecutan en directo y permitirá visitas para presenciar sus muertes.
Este criminal es la reencarnación de Hitler, un psicópata histórico que quiere convertir la muerte de los palestinos en un show público sádico.
Mark Stafford retweeted
URGENTE: 🇺🇸🇯🇵🇮🇱 Estados Unidos ha sancionado a la presidenta de la Corte Penal Internacional, Tomoko Akane, por la acusación de crímenes de guerra contra Netanyahu
Las sanciones congelan cualquier activo estadounidense que ella posea y la desconectan en gran medida del sistema financiero de Estados Unidos.
¿Se entiende? Ahora EEUU persigue a los integrantes de la Corte Penal Internacional.
