1/4 Welcome to Part 1 of a 4-part series: The Methodology. The 2020 "Shadow Campaign" wasn't a conspiracy theory—TIME Magazine openly confessed to it in Feb 2021. But this methodology wasn't invented in 2020. It was imported, refined over 20 years, and turned inward. 🧵👇
2/4 Since the late '90s, a specific "Color Revolution" playbook was deployed in Belgrade, Tbilisi, and Kiev to oust incumbents. The architects? A constellation of US philanthropy, intelligence, and State Dept bureaus (NED, USAID, Open Society). The goal: orchestrate perception.
3/4 Michael McFaul outlined the operational checklist for these transitions in 2005:
Cultivate narratives of electoral fraud. Mobilize mass street demonstrations. Deploy "independent" monitoring. Synchronize media to amplify the narrative. Sound familiar?
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Washington ya no parece dirigir la relación con Pekín desde una lógica estratégica,sino desde la gestión de percepciones. #China #EEUU #Taiwan #Geopolitica
L'nueva dinámica entre Trump y Xi podría redefinir el equilibrio de poder en Asia-Pacífico durante años. Mientras Washington separa su diplomacia con China de l competencia global,Pekín aprovecha l apariencia de acercamiento para ampliar su influencia regional. #Trump #XiJinping
El verdadero objetivo de Pekín no sería solo mejorar la relación bilateral, sino también debilitar la confianza de los aliados de EE.UU. y poner a prueba la determinación estadounidense en Taiwán y el Indo-Pacífico. #Taiwan #IndoPacifico #China #EstadosUnidos #AsiaPacifico
Derrida, China, Freud y la escritura: ¿y si el “logos” nunca fue exclusivamente occidental? La gramatología también es una disputa por la memoria, la voz y el alma.#Filosofía #China
La crítica a Derrida no consiste solo en señalar que la escritura china también es fonética, sino en mostrar que el logocentrismo atraviesa tanto Oriente como Occidente. Entre Freud, la psique y la “arque-escritura”, emerge una pregunta más profunda:
¿es la escritura una huella del lenguaje o la condición misma de toda presencia?#Psicoanálisis #Derrida #Freud #FilosofíaContemporánea
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Nothing new under the sun. — Whenever the elites feel threatened by the people wanting change, antisemitism comes back.
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It is a pattern that goes back almost 2,000 years. Antisemitism has always been a tool of those with the real power in any nation, used to distract the ignorant and redirect their attention.
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You can look back at every upsurge in antisemitism in both the Christian and Muslim worlds, and you will find, again and again, that most times it is connected to a problem where people were questioning the control by some elite class,
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Los políticos y activistas, ni entienden el trabajo ni los impuestos
Vamos a exponer algunos DATOS
Un autónomo (autoempleo), paga 445€ al mes solo de cuota a la Seguridad Social más el descuento de IRPF raisin.com/es-es/tributac…
2 un trabajador con un sueldo de 1.300€ al mes descontado el IRPF le quedan unos 1.044€ y de todo lo que compre (comida ropa etc etc) le cargarán un 21% de IVA
3 Un LUMPEM recién traído, con cuatro hijos, (que tienen “reagrupación familiar") SIN TRABAJAR cobra más de 1.630€ AL MES solo de Ingreso Minimo Vital (IMV) .
A eso hay que sumar AYUDAS para luz, agua, gas, bonos de alimentos...
Studies found 7 things men do that instantly turn women on.
Not money.
Not looks.
Not muscles.
These 7 behaviors trigger attraction on a psychological level.
1. Eye Contact.
Studies show that prolonged eye contact increases feelings of attraction and emotional connection. Not staring aggressively. Not looking away frequently. Deep, steady, warm eye contact. It signals confidence. It signals presence. It signals that she has your full attention.
When you look at her like she is the only person in the room, her brain releases oxytocin, the bonding hormone. She feels seen. She feels chosen. And feeling seen is the foundation of desire.
2. A Low, Calm Voice During Intimacy
Research on vocal attraction shows that women are highly responsive to a man's tone of voice during intimate moments. A low, calm, grounded voice signals safety and control. A high, nervous, or rushed voice signals anxiety and uncertainty.
Speak slowly. Speak softly. Speak with intention. Whisper what you want to do to her. Tell her how she feels. Your voice can arouse her before your hands ever touch her body. Use it deliberately.
Chase-Dunn here, on World Systems. Why aren't we taught such simple models in schools? They are realistic and more easy to understand than the stuff which is thrust down the throats of students in their formative years.
This is just one small paper of 12 pages. See the amount of learning in this. The trends on which the world operates(above), the tango between capitalism and socialism, the philosophy behind communism(the other one, the better one) and the obvious argument in favour of capitalist democratic movement,
Liberalization, when it met globalization in a core-periphery context demanded a lapse back towards socialism. And the next one is a beauty. Socialism led to State Capitalism. Internally, it's a Socialist State but externally, it's a capitalist state, a phenomenon perfectly identifiable with China.
What you are seeing here is a 10 year old American boy wearing the Medal of Honor around his neck.
The medal had been awarded to his father.
His father gave the order that saved his crew and sealed his own fate in 1943.
His three final words became one of the most legendary phrases in US Navy history.
This is the story of Howard Gilmore..🧵1/5
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Howard Walter Gilmore was born on September 29 1902 in Selma, Alabama. His father worked in dry goods. His mother's maiden name was Howard. He grew up in the small towns of the Deep South.
He enlisted in the United States Navy on November 15 1920. He was 18 years old. Two years later he sat for the competitive entrance examination for the United States Naval Academy. He scored high enough to be admitted. He graduated from Annapolis in 1926, ranked 34th of 436.
His classmates included Wade McClusky, who would lead the dive bomber attack at Midway, and Lofton Henderson, the namesake of Henderson Field on Guadalcanal.
He served four years on the battleship USS Mississippi. Then he volunteered for the submarine force.
In 1932 Gilmore returned to New Orleans and married Hilda Jane St. Raymond. They had two children. A son named Howard Jr. and a daughter named Vernon Jeanne.
While serving as the executive officer of the submarine USS Shark in the Panama Canal Zone, Gilmore was attacked by a gang of thugs on shore leave. They cut his throat and left him for dead. He survived.
The day after Pearl Harbor he was given his first major command. The brand new submarine USS Growler, still being built in Connecticut.
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Gilmore took the Growler to sea in 1942. His first patrol took him to the Aleutian Islands.
July 5 1942. Off the island of Kiska in Alaska. Growler surfaced in the morning fog and found three Japanese destroyers. Gilmore attacked. He sank one, the Arare. He damaged the other two. The Japanese fired two torpedoes at him. He evaded them. He was awarded the Navy Cross for the action.
His second patrol took him to the East China Sea near Formosa. He sank four Japanese merchant ships. Another Navy Cross.
His third patrol off Truk produced nothing. His fourth patrol began on January 1 1943 from Brisbane, Australia. He sank two more Japanese transports in the Solomon Islands. The waters were thick with Japanese ships now evacuating Guadalcanal.
On the night of February 6 1943 Growler was running on the surface in the Bismarck Sea. The diesel engines hummed in the dark. The crew was charging the batteries. Gilmore was on the bridge with three other men. They spotted a small Japanese ship moving toward them through the darkness.
It was the Hayasaki. A 900 ton Japanese provision ship that had been converted into a convoy escort. Her lookouts had spotted the submarine first. She was turning to ram.
" Mahmoud Darwish n'appartenait pas seulement aux Palestiniens, il appartenait à tous ceux qui aiment la liberté. Sa voix manquera cruellement à notre époque."
Tels seront les mots de Shlomo Sand suite à la disparition de Mahmoud Darwish.
Après avoir relaté l'histoire d'amour entre Mahmoud Darwish et Tamar Ben-Ami (sa "Rita"), parlons de cette amitié fascinante, profondément humaine et politique. Tout commence dans les années 1960 à Haïfa. Shlomo Sand est alors un jeune militant de gauche, membre du Matzpen.
À l'époque, intellectuels juifs et arabes communistes se côtoient à Haïfa. C'est là que Sand et Darwish partagent les mêmes cafés, les mêmes débats enflammés sur la justice, et surtout, une vision commune de l'avenir.
Meine ehrliche Meinung: Die ganze Diskussion über die europäische Vermittlung im russisch-ukrainischen Krieg ist sinnlos. Das „Angebot“ Moskaus ist: Es könnte erst etwas werden, wenn die Ukrainer sich aus Donezk/Luhansk, aber eigentlich auch aus Cherson und Saporischschja zurückziehen.
Ich sehe nicht, dass die EU am Verhandlungstisch etwas erreichen kann, woran die Trump-Administration seit fast 1,5 Jahren katastrophal scheitert. An dieser Ausgangslage können weiterhin nur die ukrainischen Streitkräfte und der wirtschaftliche Druck etwas bedeutend verändern.
Von daher geht es da praktisch nur darum, dass man Verhandlungen führt, um öffentlich gut auszusehen. Kann man machen. Wenn es aber einen ernsthaften Willen zu einem Waffenstillstand gibt, können sich die Ukrainer und die Russen ehrlicherweise selbst darauf einigen.
A population-based study raises a concerning possibility - after COVID-19, the risk curves for newly detected diabetes may continue to drift apart over time🧵
The cohort included 248,176 adults without prior diabetes
124,150 SARS-CoV-2 positive and 124,026 test-negative controls.
The result was modest but statistically significant.
New diabetes was detected in
0.60% of the positive group
0.53% of the negative group
Hazard ratio 1.13, 95% CI 1.02-1.25
Ya en el siglo XII, santa Hildegarda de Bingen, ofreció una respuesta sorprendentemente profunda y sugerente sobre qué pasa con los animales al abandonar este mundo.
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Ella habla del lugar de los animales dentro del conjunto de la creación y de su relación con Dios. Para ella, el universo no es un conjunto de cosas separadas, sino un organismo vivo, ordenado y lleno de sentido.
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En ese contexto, los animales no son un añadido secundario, sino una parte real y significativa del plan divino. Todas las criaturas tienen un lugar en el orden querido por Dios.
Há 53 anos, Araceli, uma menina de 8 anos, era sequestrada, estuprada e assassinada. Oriundos de famílias ricas e poderosas do ES, os suspeitos foram protegidos pela ditadura militar, que impediu a resolução do caso. Leia no @operamundi
Araceli era a segunda filha de um casal de imigrantes radicados no Brasil — o eletricista espanhol Gabriel Crespo e a boliviana Lola Sánchez. A família vivia em uma residência modesta no bairro de Fátima, na cidade de Serra, no Espírito Santo.
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Em 18 de maio de 1973, Araceli desapareceu após sair do Colégio São Pedro. A princípio, os pais acreditavam se tratar de um sequestro. A polícia, entretanto, considerava a hipótese improvável, em função das limitações financeiras da família.
I'm at the @APApsychiatric conference, and there is a conversation happening here that deserves a much wider audience.
Psychiatric medication deprescription. When to taper, how to taper, and who should be making that call. It is one of the most underserved questions in mental health care. 🧵
The administration has called for greater discussion about deprescribing psych meds. That has created real controversy here.
APA leaders openly acknowledge overprescription is a problem, especially with antidepressants. But these medications are also genuinely necessary and life-changing for many people. Both things are true.
So how do we talk about deprescription responsibly without encouraging people who need their medications to stop taking them?
Here is the framing I keep coming back to. This conversation should be directed at prescribing clinicians more than individual patients.
@rachelsfletcher @tarteArcEnCiel @Bird_OnA_Wire @BiologyStupid @SteveChalke Honestly, this conversation is like 2021.
Here are the reasons we don't want trans-identified men to use women's single sex facilities: 1) They're men. That's actually enough, but there's more. 2) They're not a sacred caste. They sexually offend at a higher rate than other men../
@rachelsfletcher @tarteArcEnCiel @Bird_OnA_Wire @BiologyStupid @SteveChalke 3) Even if they were a sacred caste of harmless men, we can't tell them apart from other men, so we'd have to let all men in. 4) They're not at as much risk of injury from men as we are, because they're physically male.../
@rachelsfletcher @tarteArcEnCiel @Bird_OnA_Wire @BiologyStupid @SteveChalke 5) There is no evidence that they'd be at particular risk of violence if they used the men's. 6) Even if they were at risk of violence if they used the men's, that's not women's problem. Lots of men are at risk in men's facilities: young men, disabled men, gay men, old men etc../
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Why do the Democrats assume that were Puerto Rico a state it would help them?
The current Governor of Puerto Rico is affiliated with the Republican Party.
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The previous Government who was affiliated with the Democrats was pushed out because of connections to the Biden Administration.
Puerto Rico has been attracting investment.
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The Trump Administration has restored US Military involvement in the island which Obama closed causing high unemployment and a drop in the island economy that lasted years and nothing came to Puerto Rico to help after a devastating hurricane.
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