@michaeldweiss 1).
„In 2020, Washington sent two officials, Roger Carstens and Kash Patel, to Lebanon to locate Austin Tice [1] [2], an American journalist who had disappeared in Syria in 2012 and was thought to be in the hands of the Assad regime.”
Feb. 6, 2026
@michaeldweiss 2).
Endnotes:
[1] „In June 2025, Syrian intelligence files uncovered by the BBC and confirmation from former Syrian officials confirmed that Austin Tice had been held by the Assad regime (a).
@michaeldweiss 3).
The BBC found that the @FBI and @CIA had interviewed Major General Bassam al-Hassan, a former Assad regime official who is accused of being responsible for holding Tice captive, multiple times earlier in the year.
@michaeldweiss @FBI @CIA 4).
Hassan told the investigators that the regime had Tice executed in 2013, a claim that has not been corroborated (b) (c) (d) (e).”
@Cogito1918 @Niunieczka1 @ipngovpl 2).
◆︎ „Enttäuschte Erwartungen. Die strafrechtliche Aufarbeitung kommunistischer Diktatur in Polen” (2017) [1] von Prof. Joachim von Puttkamer [2] aus @UniJena
@Cogito1918 @Niunieczka1 @ipngovpl @UniJena 3).
◆︎ Offener Brief von Michał Bartoszcze vom 9. Mai 1984 bezüglich des Todes seines Sohnes an den kommunistischer Diktator der VR Polen, Wojciech Jaruzelski, veröffentlicht in „Tygodnik Mazowsze“, Nr. 89 vom 24. Mai 1984
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factors such as his perceived business acumen, his economic or immigration policies, or perhaps the fact that he was not a career politician increased his appeal. We cannot speak to these possibilities.
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This study illustrates that something other than veracity accounted for his success, as supporters did not change their voting intentions even if they altered their beliefs about the truth of his statements.
@samidhas @BenMullin 1).
„The 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖙𝖔𝖓 𝕻𝖔𝖘𝖙 (@washingtonpost) told employees on Wed. that it was beginning a widespread round of layoffs that are expected to decimate the organization’s sports, local news and international coverage.
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@samidhas @BenMullin @washingtonpost 2).
The cuts are a sign that @JeffBezos, who became one of the world’s richest people by selling things on the internet, has not yet figured out how to build and maintain a profitable publication on the internet.
@samidhas @BenMullin @washingtonpost @JeffBezos 3).
The paper expanded during the first several years of his ownership, but the company has sputtered more recently.”
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[...] [Peter Mandelson] who was serving as business secretary in Gordon Brown’s cabinet, shared market-sensitive information with Epstein that the paedophile could have used to make money.”
@chessclubgringo @atrupar The real quote by Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) [1] [2] of 1973 is:
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„The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed;
@chessclubgringo @atrupar 2).
how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer.
@chessclubgringo @atrupar 3).
This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie—a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days—but you get a great number of lies,
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„Last year @TulsiGabbard also fired the acting counsel in the intelligence community’s inspector general’s office, and appointed a senior adviser within the office who reported directly to Gabbard. Democrats said the moves violated the law.
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In Oct., the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed a new intelligence-community inspector general, Christopher Fox, on a 51-47 vote. No Democrats voted for Fox, who served as an aide to Gabbard in her role as spy chief before taking the oversight job.”