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@KaterynaLis @michaeldweiss @ralakbar 1).
โThe U.S. pledged to protect Ukraine from any future Russian attack, U.S. officials said, offering to support European security guarantees and seek Senate backing for Washingtonโs promised role, which it hasnโt yet publicly detailed.
โThe U.S. pledged to protect Ukraine from any future Russian attack, U.S. officials said, offering to support European security guarantees and seek Senate backing for Washingtonโs promised role, which it hasnโt yet publicly detailed.
@KaterynaLis @michaeldweiss @ralakbar 2).
The American pledge, which Russian officials are likely to dispute, came on the second day of talks in Berlin among the U.S., Ukraine and European leaders and top officials. It remains unclear to what extent Washington would militarily intervene.
The American pledge, which Russian officials are likely to dispute, came on the second day of talks in Berlin among the U.S., Ukraine and European leaders and top officials. It remains unclear to what extent Washington would militarily intervene.
@KaterynaLis @michaeldweiss @ralakbar 3).
The shift could lift one of the biggest obstacles to Kyiv signing up to a peace deal with Russia, but a bigger hurdle remains, over territory.
The shift could lift one of the biggest obstacles to Kyiv signing up to a peace deal with Russia, but a bigger hurdle remains, over territory.
@FBIDirectorKash @Shayan86 @FBI @ProvidenceRIPD 1).
โ @FBI offers $50,000 reward in search for Brown University shooting suspec [1]โ
โEarlier, a person of interest detained in connection with the attack was released, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said.
โ @FBI offers $50,000 reward in search for Brown University shooting suspec [1]โ
โEarlier, a person of interest detained in connection with the attack was released, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley said.
@FBIDirectorKash @Shayan86 @FBI @ProvidenceRIPD 2).
That person has been cleared in the investigation, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha said [2].โ
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Dec. 15, 2025
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Final thoughts on #Steelers and Dolphins an hour before kickoff.
Dolphins running game is strong. Offense is creative. Bears-like vibe, though ball comes out quicker in pass game.
Achane big play guy. Brewer one of best pulling centers. Can spread you out and run power with a FB. Alert pistol/sidecar/Pony looks. Lots of calls built off it.
Achane big play guy. Brewer one of best pulling centers. Can spread you out and run power with a FB. Alert pistol/sidecar/Pony looks. Lots of calls built off it.
Pass game has been muted. Tua hasn't been asked to do much during win streak. Throw to sticks on 3rd down is their goal.
Waddle a big play threat. Waller at TE could be a problem. 'Tare' concept out of 3x1 (two outs + No. 1 vert).
Waddle a big play threat. Waller at TE could be a problem. 'Tare' concept out of 3x1 (two outs + No. 1 vert).
Power Without Office: Caste-Based Elite Capture & the Feudalisation of Governance in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir
In the southern Bhimber district, an official meeting in the Deputy Commissionerโs office is being presided over by an individual without lawful authority,
In the southern Bhimber district, an official meeting in the Deputy Commissionerโs office is being presided over by an individual without lawful authority,
2 as he holds no public office, continuing a legacy of running the territory like a fiefdom.
This individual belongs to the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and is a former minister, despite the fact that there is already a PPP government in the region.
This individual belongs to the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and is a former minister, despite the fact that there is already a PPP government in the region.
3
Even so, the visible power arrangement places this unelected and unaccountable figure at the center of the meeting, reducing lawful office-holders to passive roles and blurring the line between state authority and personal influence.
Even so, the visible power arrangement places this unelected and unaccountable figure at the center of the meeting, reducing lawful office-holders to passive roles and blurring the line between state authority and personal influence.
Last thought on this.
I think there is a difference between victim blaming and discussing empowerment that can help prevent abuse.
If you tell someone who has been a victim of a romance scam, "here are some tools that you can use to reverse-image lookup, here are some common
I think there is a difference between victim blaming and discussing empowerment that can help prevent abuse.
If you tell someone who has been a victim of a romance scam, "here are some tools that you can use to reverse-image lookup, here are some common
tactics and stories that scammers use to take advantage of people, if you're going to date online, this is how you do it" -- this is not victim blaming.
In the same way, setting a norm that you absolutely can and should say no to your pastor sometimes, that a woman who submits
In the same way, setting a norm that you absolutely can and should say no to your pastor sometimes, that a woman who submits
to men is not holier than one who is, that if you are concerned about someone at church you should tell someone, and that no good pastor or professor will ever expect you to keep secrets -- that's also not victim blaming.
The problem is I don't believe that's what people
The problem is I don't believe that's what people
A look back at RFK Jr. detonating the Westโs biggest geopolitical lie
He said what no U.S. politician was allowed to say out loud, that the war in Ukraine didnโt begin in 2022. It didnโt even begin in 2014. It began in 1990, with a betrayal so foundational it fractured the architecture of European peace, and laid the groundwork for everything that followed: NATOโs Eastward march, Ukraineโs ruin, and the hybrid war now convulsing the world.
That year, the Soviet Union withdrew 450,000 troops from East Germany. Not a skirmish, not a bargain for territory, a full-scale strategic, agreed upon pullout. In exchange, U.S. officials gave their word: โNot one inch eastward.โ That wasnโt propaganda, it was documented. In declassified U.S. memoranda, diplomatic cables, and NATO meeting records, Secretary of State James Baker, President George H.W. Bush, UK Prime Minister John Major, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and NATOโs own Secretary General all echoed the same line, no NATO expansion beyond Germany.
They didnโt write it into a treaty, not because the promise lacked weight, but because the plan was never to keep it. That was the brilliance of the deception, get Gorbachev to demobilize, to open space and fill it later with missiles, bases, and encircle Russia.
Gorbachev didnโt completely misread the West. He misread the moment. He naively believed the Cold War had ended, a handshake, not a handover. But Washington didnโt see peace. It saw a unipolar window, a brief chance to rewrite history (a la end of history), redraw borders, and neuter its only true civilizational rival before it could ever rise again. The promise wasnโt broken out of negligence. It was a calculated maneuver, a velvet deception, designed to coax the Soviet Union into disarming itself so the West could encircle what remained.
What followed wasnโt diplomacy. It was conquest through delay.
NATO crept east by over a thousand miles. Fourteen countries absorbed. Missiles moved in. Exercises in the Baltics. Airfields in Poland. Radar stations in Romania. The ring tightened, and every Russian protest was mocked as paranoia, even as the alliance that promised not to move was building an offensive perimeter around Moscow.
And then came Ukraine.
RFK Jr. is one of a few American figures with the clarity to connect what happened next. Because behind the flags, hashtags, and televised appeals for โdemocracy,โ this war was never about defending sovereignty. Itโs about laundering money, and laundering the collapse of the old world order through a fire that someone else has to die in.
Congress authorized a couple hundred billions in โaid.โ That aid didn't go to Ukrainian schools, hospitals, or pensions. It flows directly into the balance sheets of Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, which delivered weapons in exchange for state contracts, then return the profits to their shareholders. And who holds the shares? BlackRock. Vanguard. State Street.
Thatโs layer one,the war as stimulus. Layer two is much worse.
Ukraine was never meant to be rebuilt. It was meant to be collateral.
Because while the war raged, the West was already sketching the post-war carve-up. In 2022, Ukraine signed an agreement with BlackRock Financial Markets Advisory to manage its โrecovery framework.โ Translation: BlackRock would help structure the incoming capital, loans, and investments needed to rebuild the country, under the friendly guidance of those who also hold Ukraineโs war debt.
This was the endgame, Ukraineโs future mortgaged to pay for its destruction.
He said what no U.S. politician was allowed to say out loud, that the war in Ukraine didnโt begin in 2022. It didnโt even begin in 2014. It began in 1990, with a betrayal so foundational it fractured the architecture of European peace, and laid the groundwork for everything that followed: NATOโs Eastward march, Ukraineโs ruin, and the hybrid war now convulsing the world.
That year, the Soviet Union withdrew 450,000 troops from East Germany. Not a skirmish, not a bargain for territory, a full-scale strategic, agreed upon pullout. In exchange, U.S. officials gave their word: โNot one inch eastward.โ That wasnโt propaganda, it was documented. In declassified U.S. memoranda, diplomatic cables, and NATO meeting records, Secretary of State James Baker, President George H.W. Bush, UK Prime Minister John Major, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and NATOโs own Secretary General all echoed the same line, no NATO expansion beyond Germany.
They didnโt write it into a treaty, not because the promise lacked weight, but because the plan was never to keep it. That was the brilliance of the deception, get Gorbachev to demobilize, to open space and fill it later with missiles, bases, and encircle Russia.
Gorbachev didnโt completely misread the West. He misread the moment. He naively believed the Cold War had ended, a handshake, not a handover. But Washington didnโt see peace. It saw a unipolar window, a brief chance to rewrite history (a la end of history), redraw borders, and neuter its only true civilizational rival before it could ever rise again. The promise wasnโt broken out of negligence. It was a calculated maneuver, a velvet deception, designed to coax the Soviet Union into disarming itself so the West could encircle what remained.
What followed wasnโt diplomacy. It was conquest through delay.
NATO crept east by over a thousand miles. Fourteen countries absorbed. Missiles moved in. Exercises in the Baltics. Airfields in Poland. Radar stations in Romania. The ring tightened, and every Russian protest was mocked as paranoia, even as the alliance that promised not to move was building an offensive perimeter around Moscow.
And then came Ukraine.
RFK Jr. is one of a few American figures with the clarity to connect what happened next. Because behind the flags, hashtags, and televised appeals for โdemocracy,โ this war was never about defending sovereignty. Itโs about laundering money, and laundering the collapse of the old world order through a fire that someone else has to die in.
Congress authorized a couple hundred billions in โaid.โ That aid didn't go to Ukrainian schools, hospitals, or pensions. It flows directly into the balance sheets of Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, which delivered weapons in exchange for state contracts, then return the profits to their shareholders. And who holds the shares? BlackRock. Vanguard. State Street.
Thatโs layer one,the war as stimulus. Layer two is much worse.
Ukraine was never meant to be rebuilt. It was meant to be collateral.
Because while the war raged, the West was already sketching the post-war carve-up. In 2022, Ukraine signed an agreement with BlackRock Financial Markets Advisory to manage its โrecovery framework.โ Translation: BlackRock would help structure the incoming capital, loans, and investments needed to rebuild the country, under the friendly guidance of those who also hold Ukraineโs war debt.
This was the endgame, Ukraineโs future mortgaged to pay for its destruction.
Part 2/2 In the fantasy sold to Western publics, Ukraine would win. Then rebuild. Then integrate with Europe. In reality, the loans are unpayable (it never was meant to be repaid by fiat, looting Ukraine's national assets was the game), the infrastructure is gone, the population is evicerated, and the vulture investors are circling, not to save the country, but to harvest it. With one hiccup, that of a Russian victory.
The recovery plan was never humanitarian. It was a boardroom playbook. BlackRock structures the loans. McKinsey fills in the spreadsheets. Monsanto patents the seeds. Bayer owns the soil. Cargill buys the silos. Halliburton draws the blueprints. Shell bids on the gas fields. This isnโt a Marshall Plan, but a leveraged buyout underwritten by the blood of a betrayed people.
And none of this could happen if Ukraine retained sovereignty. Thatโs why it had to be broken, politically, economically, militarily. And thatโs exactly what happened.
In 2014, when Yanukovych refused to sign the EU Association Agreement, the deal that wouldโve handed Ukraineโs trade, currency, and economic policy to Brussels, neocon Washington intervened. The color revolution on the Maidan was not a spontaneous cry for freedom. It was a regime change op, executed in the open. We have the receipts. In a now-infamous call, Victoria Nuland chose the new government in advance: โYats is the guy.โ The State Department picked the cabinet. Ukraineโs fate was decided from outside.
Then came Minsk, not a peace process, but a stall tactic. Merkel and Poroshenko both admitted Minsk was never designed to be enforced. It was meant to buy time. While Ukraine was pretending to negotiate, NATO was training troops, fortifying positions, preparing the battlefield.
But it backfired. Russia didnโt wait. And now the fantasy is in ruins.
Russia didnโt collapse. It fortified economic firewalls, building sovereign infrastructure like SPFS, its alternative to SWIFT, long before the West pulled the trigger. It turned over 19 rounds of EU sanctions into rocket fuel, catapulting itself to the rank of the worldโs fourth-largest economy. Its economy realigned east. Its diplomacy expanded south. Its military might reestablished, and on the fronts that matter (missile and drone tech), surpassed Western parity. The plan, to use Ukraine as a spearhead to fracture Russia, then feed off the chaos, has failed. And for the Russophobes who sold it as strategy, the result is absolute humiliation.
Real decisions were made far from Kiev, in the embassy corridors of DC and London, where strategy is scripted by CIA and MI6 coordinators, and refined by Pentagon war planners and NATOโs forward command structures. The financial architecture is dictated by IMF technocrats, World Bank emissaries, and the ever-present calculus of BlackRock and global capital.
Narrative control outsourced to Atlantic Council affiliates, NGO apparatchiks, and the sprawling ecosystem of Western-funded โcivil societyโ instruments whose real mandate is to simulate consent while neutralizing dissent. The language of democracy is retained, but only as a branding exercise.
And through it all, the Ukrainian people, courageous, exhausted, misled, continue to bleed, not for sovereignty, but for a geopolitical hallucination drafted in Western capitals.
Ukraine has already sold nearly 30% of its farmland to foreign conglomerates. It has traded its independence for a lie. It has outlawed opposition parties and extended martial law indefinitely. It is no longer a nation, it is a Western asset under hostile management.
This was never a war for democracy.
It was a war for markets, for access, for contracts, a war to secure the right of empire to loot without resistance.
But every empire dies the moment it forgets what its promises once meant.
And this one, bloated with nuclear debt, drowned in lies, choking on its own illusions, is already being buried under the betrayal it thought no one would remember.
The recovery plan was never humanitarian. It was a boardroom playbook. BlackRock structures the loans. McKinsey fills in the spreadsheets. Monsanto patents the seeds. Bayer owns the soil. Cargill buys the silos. Halliburton draws the blueprints. Shell bids on the gas fields. This isnโt a Marshall Plan, but a leveraged buyout underwritten by the blood of a betrayed people.
And none of this could happen if Ukraine retained sovereignty. Thatโs why it had to be broken, politically, economically, militarily. And thatโs exactly what happened.
In 2014, when Yanukovych refused to sign the EU Association Agreement, the deal that wouldโve handed Ukraineโs trade, currency, and economic policy to Brussels, neocon Washington intervened. The color revolution on the Maidan was not a spontaneous cry for freedom. It was a regime change op, executed in the open. We have the receipts. In a now-infamous call, Victoria Nuland chose the new government in advance: โYats is the guy.โ The State Department picked the cabinet. Ukraineโs fate was decided from outside.
Then came Minsk, not a peace process, but a stall tactic. Merkel and Poroshenko both admitted Minsk was never designed to be enforced. It was meant to buy time. While Ukraine was pretending to negotiate, NATO was training troops, fortifying positions, preparing the battlefield.
But it backfired. Russia didnโt wait. And now the fantasy is in ruins.
Russia didnโt collapse. It fortified economic firewalls, building sovereign infrastructure like SPFS, its alternative to SWIFT, long before the West pulled the trigger. It turned over 19 rounds of EU sanctions into rocket fuel, catapulting itself to the rank of the worldโs fourth-largest economy. Its economy realigned east. Its diplomacy expanded south. Its military might reestablished, and on the fronts that matter (missile and drone tech), surpassed Western parity. The plan, to use Ukraine as a spearhead to fracture Russia, then feed off the chaos, has failed. And for the Russophobes who sold it as strategy, the result is absolute humiliation.
Real decisions were made far from Kiev, in the embassy corridors of DC and London, where strategy is scripted by CIA and MI6 coordinators, and refined by Pentagon war planners and NATOโs forward command structures. The financial architecture is dictated by IMF technocrats, World Bank emissaries, and the ever-present calculus of BlackRock and global capital.
Narrative control outsourced to Atlantic Council affiliates, NGO apparatchiks, and the sprawling ecosystem of Western-funded โcivil societyโ instruments whose real mandate is to simulate consent while neutralizing dissent. The language of democracy is retained, but only as a branding exercise.
And through it all, the Ukrainian people, courageous, exhausted, misled, continue to bleed, not for sovereignty, but for a geopolitical hallucination drafted in Western capitals.
Ukraine has already sold nearly 30% of its farmland to foreign conglomerates. It has traded its independence for a lie. It has outlawed opposition parties and extended martial law indefinitely. It is no longer a nation, it is a Western asset under hostile management.
This was never a war for democracy.
It was a war for markets, for access, for contracts, a war to secure the right of empire to loot without resistance.
But every empire dies the moment it forgets what its promises once meant.
And this one, bloated with nuclear debt, drowned in lies, choking on its own illusions, is already being buried under the betrayal it thought no one would remember.
Gorbachev didnโt walk away empty-handed. He was rewarded, not with security for Russians, but with standing ovations, glossy magazine covers, Pizza Hut, and... a Nobel Peace Prize granted not after peace had been secured, but while the West was still carving up the Soviet sphere. The prize was not for defending his nationโs future, but rather for facilitating its orderly liquidation. He was not deceived in silence. He gave away strategic depth, critical alliances, and economic sovereignty in exchange for personal gained. And when the consequences came โ NATO expansion, national humiliation, and economic collapse, he offered no apology
THE FEMINIST CASE FOR... BREAST AUGMENTATION??
"Multiple peer-reviewed studies show that women report substantial increases in their own satisfaction after augmentation. These effects are on average LARGER than the changes perceived by partners."
Did you know this?
"Multiple peer-reviewed studies show that women report substantial increases in their own satisfaction after augmentation. These effects are on average LARGER than the changes perceived by partners."
Did you know this?
How increasing attractiveness (as perceived by men) increases a woman's own sexual satisfaction (as perceived by her).
Counterintuitively, being aggressively indifferent to men's tastes hurts women as much or more than it hurts men.
๐จ1/4 We are requesting the public's assistance in identifying a person of interest in Saturday's incident at Brown University. Please share these video clips and direct all tips to 401-272-3121 or fbi.gov/brownuniversitโฆ
๐จ2/4 We are requesting the public's assistance in identifying a person of interest in Saturday's incident at Brown University. Please share these video clips and direct all tips to 401-272-3121 or fbi.gov/brownuniversitโฆ
๐จ3/4 We are requesting the public's assistance in identifying a person of interest in Saturday's incident at Brown University. Please share these images and direct all tips to 401-272-3121 or fbi.gov/brownuniversitโฆ
Okay, letโs actually break this apart.
First: the idea that consent cannot exist across authority lines is not unique to the church. It also exists at your therapist or doctorโs office. It also exists at your workplace.
So if we say that actually people can freely consent to sex
First: the idea that consent cannot exist across authority lines is not unique to the church. It also exists at your therapist or doctorโs office. It also exists at your workplace.
So if we say that actually people can freely consent to sex
with their pastors, weโre actually making an exception for clergy. Itโs not controversial that your psychiatrist should lose his license if he tries to have sex with you.
Second, the analogy of a crime is flawed for two reasons.
One reason is that there is a meaningful
Second, the analogy of a crime is flawed for two reasons.
One reason is that there is a meaningful
difference between having a crime committed against you, and committing a crime. If your psychiatrist stabs you, you are not culpable. If your psychiatrist tells you to stab someone else, and you do it, you will almost certainly be charged, even if the charge and sentence
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HELLO.
Some of you might be new here. Where've you been all this time?
We're Caithness Broch Project, and we love brochs!
What are brochs, though? They're 40ft, multi-floored Iron Age towers, thought to be houses, found only in #Scotland.
AND WE WANT TO BUILD ONE!
HELLO.
Some of you might be new here. Where've you been all this time?
We're Caithness Broch Project, and we love brochs!
What are brochs, though? They're 40ft, multi-floored Iron Age towers, thought to be houses, found only in #Scotland.
AND WE WANT TO BUILD ONE!
2) Quickly about us:
- All volunteers, we do not get paid to do this!!
- Been on the go since 2013.
- Started off small by making tourism leaflets, interp. panels, grass-cutting, broch exhibitions (inc. our #LegoBroch) and excavations!
- Then in 2021...
- All volunteers, we do not get paid to do this!!
- Been on the go since 2013.
- Started off small by making tourism leaflets, interp. panels, grass-cutting, broch exhibitions (inc. our #LegoBroch) and excavations!
- Then in 2021...
3) We did our biggest project yet, ยฃ180,000 conservation of #OusdaleBroch!
It was described as #Caithness's best broch, before part of it collapsed. We saved it, and made it much safer and easier to visit! Got a sign for in 'n' all.
It was described as #Caithness's best broch, before part of it collapsed. We saved it, and made it much safer and easier to visit! Got a sign for in 'n' all.
Sure, lets look at Esquimalt Nation๐งต
The have an on Reserve Population of 167 people
A total band population of 384
The have an on Reserve Population of 167 people
A total band population of 384
Esquimalt First Nation has
$29 million in cash
$51 million in accumulated surplus
$29 million in cash
$51 million in accumulated surplus
In 2025 Fiscal year Esquimalt First Nation received $15 million from government (aka taxpayers)
It also had a "profit" of $15 million
In 2024 they *only* made $5 million in profit
It also had a "profit" of $15 million
In 2024 they *only* made $5 million in profit
