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Thatcher’s resignation
No wait it was Mandella’s release - that was earlier in the same year

No wait, it was the fall of the Berlin Wall

I’m not very good at this. It was stuff that happened in about 1989/90

I wasn’t very interested in politics
Wait, does Scott and Charlene’s wedding count?
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In the final para here @NickCohen4 suggests that under a Corbyn Labour government the Human Rights Act would be threatened as it places checks on governments... not sure about that! Certainly no signs of it in anything any Labour politician has said
I do get the point and also worry about some of the anti-dissent tendencies around Corbyn's movement. But whether a Corbyn government would go as far as unravelling the HRA which he and his colleagues have clearly supported, I doubt.

PS this photo montage is terrifying
Can't quite decide who the middle photo reminds me of...

Perhaps
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Have dusted off my Nintendo Wii and playing through Super Mario Galaxy with my 8-year-old. Extreme fun and pleasure!
Such an amazingly imaginative and charming game and surprisingly good with two players
Watching a child play a classic Nintendo game for the first time is an amazing pleasure. These games are magical. Takes me back to playing Super Mario World on my friend's imported Super Famicom in 1991 #nerd
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What a shame. I was heartened to see the Golders Green mosque, which got a lot of nasty criticism from within the Jewish community when it took over the building, was organising an outreach event commemorating Muslims who helped Jews during the Holocaust. Now cancelled.
Here is the story. Another example of the damaging hostility shown to Muslim-Jewish interfaith events by @RmSalih (see also his idiotic response to the @MitzvahDay chicken soup making event) journal.quilliaminternational.com/2019/01/04/the…
@RmSalih @MitzvahDay The event was a travelling exhibition by internationally renowned Holocaust museum Yad Vashem. Here’s what the chicken soup truther had to say
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Hello everyone, I wanted to share with you the most surprising findings from my recent reporting trips to East Germany. Is there a gender element to the rise of the far right? Thread: nyti.ms/2yV1cgu
The far right AfD got 13% in last year's election. But among eastern men it got 28%. In Saxony, where I visited, 1 in 3 men voted for the party
2. Only 9% of German women voted for the AfD. And only 16% of AfD members are women. The far right is disproportionally male. And so, it turns out, is eastern Germany:
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To solve the Shi’a issue in Nigeria, there is a need for frank discussion between the govt & IMN leadership on the evolution of the sect after 1979 Iranian Revolution, Saudi Reaction after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan & Iran/Iraq war in the 1980s.

Here's why.

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After the fall of the Ottoman Empire in 1922, some series of wars ensued, and Saudi Arabia became a sovereign state in 1930. This gave full control of the custodianship of the two Holy Mosques of Mecca and Medina to the hands of King Abdulaziz Al Saud Family. Sunni Muslims.
The Shia and the Sunni had a long history of the political rivalry since the peaceful demise of the Noble Prophet Muhammad (SAW) in the seventh century. The restoration of the Holy Mosques to the control of conservative Sunni Al Saud Family ignited the old Shia/Sunni rivalry.
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How Europe Raped Africa

The Berlin conference of 1884 is where European colonising nations basically carved up Africa. Historians refer to it as “the scramble for Africa”.

#Africa #Europe #WhiteSupremacy
The countries represented at the time included Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, #France, #Germany, Great Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, #Russia, #Spain, Sweden-Norway (unified from 1814-1905), #Turkey, and the United States of #America.
The Conference of 1884–85, also known as the Congo Conference, regulated European colonization and trade in #Africa during the New Imperialism period and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power.
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OK, super-quick thread for anyone wondering why Germany still struggles with neo-Nazi and Far Right movements - particularly in the East. It's a complex situation, but there are a few key contributors...
When the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR) or East Germany was established after WW2, the founders of the new state (and Moscow) were keen to set themselves apart from the capitalist West Germany. This required a new national narrative, in line with Soviet ideology...
Essentially, a 'Day Zero' approach was taken. Fascism was seen to be the endgame of capitalism, its natural culmination. East Germany was a new dawn, a 'tabula rasa', a chance to start fresh. If anything, East Germans were posed as those who fought Nazism. haaretz.com/opinion/how-th…
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#GDR #OTD 1961 – Construction of Berlin Wall begins - it will stand for the next 28 years. (1)
Berlin was already a divided city, but thousands still commuted daily across the East-West border until 1961 (2)
A huge outflow of refugees from East Germany to the West, as well as problems with currency controls and daily border crossers, prompted the construction of the Berlin Wall (3)
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Well now, this article comes across my desk twice in 24 hrs & I've been aware of this fact & how it fits into the very complex multilayered fact patterns I've been posting out in all of my threadstorms in the last month I just haven't meandered my way into weaving in yet till now
This takes us all the way back to Perestroika & the fall of the Berlin Wall & the diaspora of senior Soviet officials into the new oligarchy & senior & most sinister KGB officials into the Russian Mafia & is at the very core of the launch of The Perestroika Deception.
There are 7 key American names involved in this & I'll deal mostly with them. You can read the WSJ article for complete context including the Russians and all the cash, but I'm focusing on who in America has been instrumental in aiding & abetting Soviet subversion & precisely how
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