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#Coronavirus cases are through the roof in #Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ these days, two weeks after the government pushed through elections for it own gain despite concerns of another outbreak.

Now the country is going back into lockdown, & unsurprisingly people are pissed
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: livestream of tonight's protests in #Belgrade
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: riot police has fired tear gas against protesters in #Belgrade ImageImage
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: protesters ard setting up roadblocks in the center of #Belgrade
Just to be clear: anti-government protesters in #Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ are not #coronavirus deniers. They're just outraged at the government for exploiting the pandemic for political gains
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: Serbian undercover police have been caught on camera kicking and beating protesters
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: police violence in #Belgrade last night.

This country is on track of becoming a #EU member state in 2026
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: thousands of Serbians are once again marching through the streets of #Belgrade, outraged by last night's excessive violence by riot police
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: protests once again turn into clashes as police forces are firing tear gar around the parliament building in #Belgrade
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: riot police facing off with protesters in ths streets of #Belgrade
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: just like last night the protesters are gathering in front of parliament in #Belgrade, riot police is also deployed around the building
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: footage of tear gas in the streets of #Belgrade tonight
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: clashes in #Belgrade continue into the night.
This video from #Belgrade (#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ) tonight is infuriating.

A protester gets beaten and trampled by around 30 riot police, then gets dragged to to the curb and left there so police cars can pass
It's the third night of anti-government protests in #Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ:

Tonight protesters are staging a peaceful sit-in in front of parliament in #Belgrade, hoping for a night without police violence. #SediDole
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: this video was reportedly recorded in #Belgrade tonight; water cannons driving through the city
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: important to stress anti-government protests are not just limited to the capital #Belgrade.

This was the southern city of #Nis last night
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: last night there was a massive anti-government protest march in the northern city #NoviSad, capital of the #Vojvodina region
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: peaceful sit-in in #NoviSad (#Vojvodina) tonight
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: the situation in #Belgrade is much more peaceful tonight.

Clearly protesters aimed to have a nonviolent sit-in in order to prevent another night of police attacks Image
#Serbia πŸ‡·πŸ‡Έ: tonight's protest in marked #SediDole, meaning "sit down" in Serbian.

So far protesters have been successful in preventing another night of violence

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Aug 7
I've just come back from #Venezuela πŸ‡»πŸ‡ͺ where I spent 2.5 weeks, witnessing the run-up to the presidential vote, and what was arguably the most outrageous election steal in the modern history of Latin America.

I'll share some thoughts below 🧡 Image
First off before going into the political situation I just wanted to stress how great it was to be reminded how easy it is to fall in love with Caracas, and how amazing the Venezuelan people are.

Someone I'd met briefly 7 years ago, would greet me again as if we were family.


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I was never big about celebrating my birthday, so I figured I'll just arrive in Venezuela that day, do some work and let the day pass quietly, no big deal.

Well that wouldn't fly when I told my Venezuelan friends there. They insisted on celebrating, and even brought friends. Image
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Apr 10
I just came back a trip around the resistance territories of southern Karenni state (Myanmar).

During my time I went to the frontlines, visited IDP camps in the jungles, stayed the night at an abandoned junta base, met resistance fighters, refugees and community leaders.

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Karenni state (also known as Kayah state) as around the size of Qatar, which makes it the smallest of Myanmar's different states and regions.

Yet because of its proximity to the capital Naypyidaw (120 km) it is still a very strategic region.
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After three years of anti-coup resistance and armed struggle around 90% of Karenni is under resistance control.

Karenni is divided into 7 townships: Loikaw (capital), Demoso, Hpruso, Bawlakhe, Hpasawng, Shadaw, Mese.
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Nov 16, 2023
Strong indication from this Fox News report that the IDF is moving guns around in order to "proof" that Hamas was using al-Shifa hospital.

IDF video claims that "minutes ago" they found a single gun behind the MRI machine, same spot in the FOX report: two guns were added.



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Seriously watch the original IDF video (re-uploaded minutes ago). At 1:48 the IDF spokesman literally said they found a single gun "just minutes ago", same room as where @TreyYingst walks through in his report. Yet Trey's report shows two extra guns placed in the exact spot
Although it doesn't disprove that the guns are from Hamas or that there are any guns in the hospital. It is a very clear sign that the IDF is moving guns around the hospital and places them in suspicious locations.

This puts everything they show about the hospital into question.
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Nov 14, 2023
#Palestine πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ BREAKING: AJE reports that Israeli forces have informed the staff of al-Shifa that they will storm the #Gaza hospital tonight. Image
#Palestine πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ: multiple reports now that Israeli forces are INSIDE al-Shifa hospital in #Gaza city and are "carrying out operations" within the facility.
#Palestine πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ: the #IDF has released footage of their troops supposedly dropping off medical supplies at al-Shifa hospital.

But everything that's important is missing here. Where are the patients? Where are they alleged #Hamas tunnels?
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Oct 23, 2023
The dry season is starting in #Myanmar πŸ‡²πŸ‡². The drier weather and more accessible roads will mean an intensification of fighting between the junta and resistance across the country.

In the north the #KIA as already taken initiative & seized three bases irrawaddy.com/news/burma/kia…
#Myanmar πŸ‡²πŸ‡²: junta warplanes have repeatedly targeted the village of Nyaung Kone in the Mogok Township (#Mandalay region) as fighting between junta forces and #TNLA & #PDF resistance groups is ongoing in the region.

Source: fb.watch/nTkbFARwmj/
#Myanmar πŸ‡²πŸ‡²: junta forces clashed with local #PDF resistance in the Tabayin Township of #Sagaing region, after the soldiers ventured out into the countryside and tried to enter a resistance-controlled village.

Source: fb.watch/nTmjbw5tyf/
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Sep 19, 2023
#NagornoKarabakh BREAKING: Azerbaijani military forces have launched an artillery assault on the city of #Stepanakert.
#NagornoKarabakh: the sounds of artillery fire and air raid siren s fill the air over #Stepanakert this clouded Tuesday afternoon.

Azerbaijani rethoric strongly suggest they're intending to start another war to finish off Armenian self-rule in the region.
#NagornoKarabakh: Azerbaijani artillery is slamming into the hills around #Stepanakert as heavy fighting is ongoing in the region.
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