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When you're a Democratic member of Congress, and people who literally work for Kremlin-owned media outlet Russia Today like your tweets, you have a problem. A serious problem.
I just realized that @IlhanMN has retweeted Rania Khalek. I really hope she doesn't actually know who Rania Khalek is, because she's about to lose the goodwill of every single anti-Assad voice on this platform.
Sixteen hours later and @IlhanMN still has that tweet up. Either she didn't get to her tweets all this time, or she's sending us a message.
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The pettiness of this Gulf states feud is beyond childish. If what this tweet describes is true, then absolutely FIFA should investigate, especially after reports the UAE government bought the tickets for all these jeering fans
Qatar still won btw, 4-0.
Looks like it's totally for real.
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي
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Here's a reminder that Venezuela has more oil than Saudi Arabia, yet its people have been starving (and children dying of malnutrition) under Maduro. Three million people have fled the country.
Look, you don't have to listen to me. Listen to John Oliver.
And no, my position on Venezuela was not formed watching Last Week Tonight. It was formed listening to Venezuelan human rights activists for 5+ years.
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İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي
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We Muslims have a word for a wealth tax, we call it "zakat". The early Muslim state collected no income tax, but collected an annual wealth tax of 2.5% from those with total savings above a certain amount.
There was also a land use tax (5-10%) levied upon prized land (productive agricultural land, or prime urban land). Land ownership was seen as conditional, not absolute. Meanwhile natural resources (mining etc) were taxed at 20%.
At the same time there were no customs, no income taxes, no sales taxes, no price controls, and money was basically gold/silver, which meant the government couldn't inflate the money supply. The rulers were also expressly forbidden from levying any other taxes.
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