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Toger Froikin @rlefraim wrote,
"Paramount and Warner Bros. merger is on hold for a year

Why?

Because of a lot of lawsuits that have been filed to stop the planned merger.
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@rlefraim Some of the lawsuits say the merger would create an antitrust situation, a virtual monopoly that would damage the market.

But there is an underlying reason they are not mentioning.
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@rlefraim The plaintiffs are groups of far-left-financed organizations trying to prevent Paramount, led by conservatives today, from eroding left-wing power in the entertainment and news business."
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Big 3:

Here are the Big Three problems we need to keep in focus, problems which have corroded our democracy, and need urgent repair to restore government “of the People, by the People, and for the People”:

1.  Get the rotten dark money out of our politics. I’ve watched dark money redirect Congress away from voters, instead to big special interests with the motives and means to feed the big, crooked dark money machine.

2.  Defeat the fossil fuel industry’s climate denial fraud operation and its dark money corruption operation. Those crooked operations have dominated Congress for far too long, and the price to us of their political influence is way too high.

Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote,

"While the Democrats are appearing to have a dilemma about Israel and Jews, a bit of history might be needed to destroy two Democrat Party myths.
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@rlefraim (1) That they were the party that supported Israel since its reestablishment, and (2) that they are the party of civil rights in the USA.

Perhaps Jews who blindly believe in the Democratic Party and their media should think a bit.
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@rlefraim So, let's take Myth Number One.

The Democrats point to the historical fact that President Harry Truman, in 1948, was the first to recognize the new State of Israel de jure, beating out the Soviets, who recognized Israel slightly later.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote:

"Semantics Are Important

Settlers, residents, re-settlers???
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@rlefraim I’ve been thinking more and more that the biggest problem Jews have is changing the way Jews perceive themselves, Judaism, Jewish rights, and Jewish dignity. I guess that is why I am so stubborn about the issue of terminology.
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@rlefraim We should not be defining ourselves by what those who hated us think, or by the terms they apply to us for their own interests, or the terms we adopted under their cultural domination.
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@FiresOfTruth BTW ... I noticed something odd. After you replied to some posts by L, I noticed that my account had you blocked.

@FiresOfTruth I phrase it that way, because I couldn't remember having done any such thing and your account looked far more like the kind of account I'd follow than the kind I'd block.

I got curious, so I tried to find out if we had ever interacted, and as far as I could tell, we hadn't.

@FiresOfTruth Then I remembered that a few years ago, Twitter took the liberty of having users accounts un-follow other users, without the knowledge of the owners of the accounts they were tampering with. The owners would then discover this later.

@LukeDuke1268 @Rosso29043 Se Lei avesse cercato e letto sulla materia, avrebbe scoperto che
Fino al 1995, lo Stato pagava le pensioni ai propri dipendenti attingendo direttamente dal bilancio generale (tramite il Tesoro), senza che esistesse una vera cassa previdenziale separata con fondi accantonati.
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@LukeDuke1268 @Rosso29043 Quando l'INPDAP è nato e ha preso in carico la gestione di queste pensioni, si è trovato a dover erogare assegni a chi aveva lavorato nei decenni precedenti, ma senza possedere i capitali accumulati da quei vecchi contributi.
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@LukeDuke1268 @Rosso29043 Il taglio dei trasferimenti dello Stato (Legge Finanz 2008) Eliminazione del fondo di ristoro: per compensare il problema dei contributi mancanti prima del 1996, lo Stato versava un regolare "apporto finanziario" all'INPDAP.
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1/ Religious Zionism held its primary vote tonight. Not a traditional membership primary. A few hundred central committee members, in a room, deciding who represents the party in the next Knesset. Here is what came out of it.

2/ Orit Strook first. Simcha Rothman second. Zvi Sukkot fourth. Smotrich kept two slots in reserve and is expected to use one on Tzvika Mor, who led the small group of hostage families that opposed the partial deals and who argued against a swap that would have freed his own son.

3/ Smotrich told the room to wake up and that the "national camp" is asleep the way it was in 1992, before Oslo. He promises though that his party will win ten seats. The polls say four or five, or below the threshold entirely.

The son of a murdered Marxist revolutionary now backs the son of the monarch whose CIA–MI6 coup and “monarcho‑fascist” state massacred his father’s generation. To understand that choice, we need two voices: Ervand Abrahamian and Bijan Jazani (the father). 1/21

Abrahamian is one of the main historians of modern Iran. He shows that 1953 wasn’t a tragic misunderstanding. It was a deliberate operation by Britain and the US to crush a government serious about nationalization and to restore the Shah’s rule. 2/

Abrahamian criticizes the whole “benign intent” narrative: the idea that Washington only wanted to save Iran from communism and accidentally paved the way for dictatorship. He reads the archives “against the grain” and follows oil, power and control instead. 3/

🧵 (1/10) Early Islamic law was not based primarily on hadith. Ahl ray accepted some hadith but believed that many hadith were forged. Doubtful hadith could be set aside if better legal reasoning supported a different ruling. Abu Hanifa, Yusuf, Shaybani belonged to Ahl al-ray.

🧵(2/10) Hadith of Muadh ibn Jabal treated ray as an independent legal source later ijtihad became analogy rather than broad personal judgment.Hadith was probably created in the 8th century by supporters of the ahl al-ray. Hanafi theoretical writings have been lost or suppressed.

(3/10) Byzantine law influenced Islamic law. Early Abbasids wanted a unified imperial legal system using Hanafi jurists. Ahl al-hadith opposed these efforts and instead emphasized authentic hadith limiting independent legal

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I found it. I found where the money for these ALPRs came from. And... you're gonna get 🤬🤬🤬.

Remember the American Rescue Plan Act? Yeah, that behemoth passed under Biden? March 11, 2021.

Yes. Probably autopenned into law.

Passed while everyone was worrying about "vaccine passports."

They knew what they were doing.

Here are some links, pro and con.

gfrc.uic.edu/our-work/featu…

STOP STARTING YOUR EMAILS WITH:

“I HOPE YOU’RE DOING WELL.”

IT’S CORRECT. IT’S POLITE. AND IT’S ALSO ONE OF THE MOST FORGETTABLE OPENINGS THERE IS.

IF YOU WANT SOMEONE TO REPLY, DON’T START LIKE EVERYONE ELSE.

START WITH INTENTION.

HERE ARE 10 ALTERNATIVES: 👇

1. When you want to bring an email back to the top of someone’s inbox without sounding pushy

Instead of:

“Any updates on this?”

Try:

“I’m reaching out to bring this back to the top of your inbox. Have you had a chance to review it?”

It works because it doesn’t sound demanding.

It sounds helpful.

You’re not applying pressure.

You’re making it easier for the other person to pick the conversation back up.

2. When the other person seemed interested but disappeared

Instead of:

“Any updates?”

Try:

“Is there any question I can answer to help move this forward?”

The difference is huge.

You’re not asking them to think from scratch.

You’re offering an easy way to unblock the decision and move things forward.

The Miles Mathis Take: The Hollywood "Murder" of William Desmond Taylor. If you read this through the lens of Miles Mathis, you immediately see that the "unsolved murder" of William Desmond Taylor in 1922 was just another staged event, a black op fake-death cooked up by UK intel

The mainstream narrative is a joke. We are expected to believe that a top Hollywood director—the head of the Director's Association—was shot by a mysterious rogue lover or a disgruntled butler, and the

LAPD just happened to botch the case? Right.Let's look at the actual genealogy and intelligence markers they left in plain sight:The Gentry Pedigree: Taylor wasn’t "Irish." He was William Cunningham Deane-Tanner, straight out of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy bloodlines.

C’mere:

The Panopticon is an 18th-century prison concept conceived by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Its design allows a single, hidden guard to observe all inmates.

https://twitter.com/phoneyourfrien1/status/2081383709744431381

Because prisoners never know exactly when they are being watched, they are forced to self-regulate, ensuring compliance through continuous psychological pressure.

Michel Foucault used the panopticon—an "all-seeing" prison design created by Jeremy Bentham—as a major symbol for how modern power and control work through constant surveillance, making people police their own behavior.

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Ich denke es ist inzwischen gesichert, dass der gestrige Anschlag im Umfeld des #CSD #Berlin ein Terroranschlag mit islamistischem Hintergrund war.
Da der oder die Täter nur in der Amateurliga anzusiedeln sind, blieben die nichtsdestotrotz schrecklichen Folgen überschaubar.

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Ob gemäss Medienberichten am gestrigen Terroranschlage zwei Täter an der Ausführung beteiligt, waren oder nicht ist noch unklar, ebenso ob & wenn, wie sehr Hintermänner bei Planung, Finanzierung & Ausführung unterstützt haben.

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Im Grossen & Ganzen ist jedoch auch dieser Terrorakt in der Amateurliga der "Einzeltäter" anzusiedeln, selbst wenn von aussen zB Geld geflossen sein sollte.
Die Radikalisierung findet inzwischen (leider) überall statt, egal ob (Jugend-)Gefängnis, Moschee oder online.

"...love to know what happened the days right after"
Andersen agrees with me about the shock of someone in Wuhan seeing a match of the Wuhan Institute of Virology's published RdRp 4991 to the virus spreading in the city.
But here's a weird thing...
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https://x.com/tlitb/status/1693000017294827988

Andersen's reply above comes after Holmes had just revealed to his fellow authors that back on Jan 4 2020 "my spy" had showed him a tree of 4991 showing a match to the new virus.
He is doing this now because he thinks it helps a narrative that will exonerate Shi Zhengli 2/n

So Holmes thinks the 4991 tree match his spy showed him was independent of WIV & hadn't been seen outside Wuhan. So when Shi Zhengli later revealed RaTG13 (aka 4991) she showed no guile or dishonesty. She could have tried to hide but didn't.
"the SMOKING GUN of NOT lab escape."!

1/ Vladimir Putin has strongly hinted that Russia should claim the entire eastern half of Ukraine, going far beyond the existing annexation of the Donbas and southern Ukraine. He foresees a future in which western Ukraine is also annexed by its neighbours. ⬇️

2/ In a meeting with sailors in St Petersburg to mark Navy Day today, Putin extensively discussed Russia's historical rights over Ukraine, highlighting in the process his obsession with Russian and Ukrainian history and his dubious reading of it.

3/ He told them that "Ukraine has always been divided into Left-Bank and Right-Bank. Left-Bank Ukraine has always been considered not just Russia-oriented, but part of Russia."

20 Years of NIFG - The Top 20s!

Day 25: Northern Ireland's Most Expensive Internationals

The players who commanded the highest reported or estimated fees. One transfer per player.

Please see the notes as available information is often inconsistent.

#GAWA #NornIron

20. Daniel Ballard
Arsenal to Sunderland
£2,000,000, June 2022

19. Keith Gillespie
Newcastle United to Blackburn Rovers
£2,350,000, December 1999
[Gillespie had already been valued at £1,000,000 during his transfer from Manchester United to Newcastle in January 1995 as a makeweight in a £7,000,000 move for Andy Cole]

*** Ontario Virus Update | July 26 ***

Hospitalizations due to COVID have decreased from 16 to 6 in the last update. Influenza hospitalizations increased from 5 to 8 and RSV finally decreased from 3 to 0. 🧵1/

#Ontario #Virus #COVID #Hospital #Wastewater

Looking at age groups, only age 75+ had COVID hospitalizations which decreased since the last update. 2/

For this epidemiological year 2025/2026 so far, adults 75+ had the highest rate of COVID hospital admissions, followed by age 65-74 and then age 0-4 in third place. Young children 0-4 had hospitalization rates twice as high as fourth place group age 50-64. 3/

🧵“Questi e quelli per me pari son”

Se ci fate caso, sia gli ambientalisti gretini che gli oltranzisti nuclearisti usano lo stesso assioma pseudoscientifico: la CO₂ come origine di tutti i mali del mondo. Una premessa utile solo a giustificare le rispettive soluzioni a un ⤵️

problema creato ad hoc.

Non solo, ma i due gruppi sono accomunati anche dal medesimo uso surrettizio della stessa arma dialettica: il caro-energia delle fonti fossili. Peccato che entrambi dimentichino però di menzionare che una fetta cospicua di quei costi derivi proprio ⤵️

dalla tassazione abnorme imposta in nome della "CO₂ brutta e cattiva".

Ma le analogie non finiscono qui. Per tirare acqua ciascuno al proprio mulino, le due fazioni – che pure conoscono a stento le tecnologie che si arrogano il diritto di denigrare – sono estremamente attive ⤵️

@LONDO87540615 @ElonsGiftHorse @NewsWire_US Goomba fallacy+Mistaking interrogation tactics for kindness+Dylann roof is literally on death row.

The justice system is too complex for your mind to understand. Not everything is about race

@LONDO87540615 @ElonsGiftHorse @NewsWire_US mind you, these comparisons arguments don't even work cause we could spam any number of horrific POC criminals (d4vd abused a 12 year old, killed her and was free for a year)

@LONDO87540615 @ElonsGiftHorse @NewsWire_US also no, POC violent crime actually outweighs whites. Your points cant be proven cause they are objectively false and you can't back up your own points. Nice try blocking but i get last word

1 🧵El "CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO" son los políticos que LEGISLAN para impedir limpiar bosques y cauces
Ayudados por los ecologistas-de-salón quienes ni han ido, ni irán jamas, a limpiar esos bosques que tanto dicen querer
Escuchen a este desbrozador profesional...+

2 Los incendios en grandes extensiones de bosques solo se apagan desde el aire
Y no es que no lo sepan los políticos, y no es que le de igual, es que, con sus decisiones, impiden que se puedan apagar
Son DESASTRES PLANIFICADOS vozpopuli.com/espana/politic…

3 Los activistas que se creen lo de:
"EL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO DE ORIGEN ANTRÓPICO"
Cuando los mierdi-politicos les jaleen con ese CUENTO, deberían preguntarse:
"Si están tan preocupados ¿por qué no se han preparado para combatir los incendios forestales?"
20minutos.es/nacional/quinc…