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The Soviet-era killings of Jews makes it hard to sympathize with Ukraine in the Russia-Ukraine war despite knowing the aggressor. I remember the historical Soviet repressions, purges,
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and later antisemitic campaigns under Stalin that killed many Jews alongside millions of others.
Further, the Soviet KGB using Yasser Arafat created the myth of the Palestinian people. Soviet involvement was substantial and
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Further, the Soviet KGB using Yasser Arafat created the myth of the Palestinian people. Soviet involvement was substantial and
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well-documented through funding, training, propaganda, and intelligence ties. After the 1967 Six-Day War and the humiliation of Soviet client states Egypt and Syria, the KGB under Yuri Andropov ramped up anti-Israel operations as part of a broader disinformation and
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1/ Earlier today, our Bitcoin engineering and security teams at Block began investigating reports of non-Bitkey wallets being drained. To proactively protect our customers, we began investigating immediately. Here’s what we found 🧵
2/ First, no Block products including @Bitkey are affected. But we want to protect everyone who has bitcoin in self-custody, so we continued to investigate.
@Bitkey 3/ Initially, only single sig wallets were affected, in a remote drain over an hour. The attack is likely ongoing and more wallets will be drained – including those with 25th word passphrases that are too weak, and multisig setups with weak key generation for more than one key.
During an interview on July 24, 2026, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told commentator Laura Loomer that the number of synagogues, tragedy monuments, and related laws in Ukraine serve as "the answer to Putin."
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Zelenskyy made this statement while discussing how Ukraine preserves the memory of Jewish tragedies and counters Russian disinformation regarding religious freedom and alleged persecution.
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He contrasted Ukraine's actions with Putin's false image of being an ally to Jews, noting that Russia actually persecutes Jewish communities.
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Anthropic bought millions of books, cut the spines off, scanned the pages, and threw the originals away
After Vatican II the Netherlands did something similar: entire seminary and monastery libraries were discarded
Most Dutch people don’t know this 🧵
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After Vatican II the Netherlands did something similar: entire seminary and monastery libraries were discarded
Most Dutch people don’t know this 🧵
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This was a quiet cultural genocide.
Newspaper: 'Seminariy Library Given to Garbage Man'
Collections carefully built over more than a century were sold off to other continents, transferred, or simply thrown out as the old theology and philosophy was dismantled
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Newspaper: 'Seminariy Library Given to Garbage Man'
Collections carefully built over more than a century were sold off to other continents, transferred, or simply thrown out as the old theology and philosophy was dismantled
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In Amsterdam the Catholic Theological High School ordered six containers and placed them along the canal
At night they threw all the pre-Vatican II books into them
Junkies and prostitutes later emptied the containers and walked home loaded with heavy old volumes, hoping to sell them
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At night they threw all the pre-Vatican II books into them
Junkies and prostitutes later emptied the containers and walked home loaded with heavy old volumes, hoping to sell them
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "A comment on the Fauci problem
Anthony Fauci might have done harm, but let’s be realistic, he could not have done anything without the cooperation, the collusion, of a lot of other people. The proof? Florida.
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Anthony Fauci might have done harm, but let’s be realistic, he could not have done anything without the cooperation, the collusion, of a lot of other people. The proof? Florida.
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@rlefraim Florida chose to make its own decisions based on the real science. Other states chose to adopt every policy based on fear that came out of Washington, DC.
So, if one chooses to demonize Fauci, fine, but only if you also take a look and demonize those state politicians,
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So, if one chooses to demonize Fauci, fine, but only if you also take a look and demonize those state politicians,
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@rlefraim those governors, those local politicians that chose to impose draconian closures and who invented excuses to favor certain types of businesses and groups over others.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "The major oil companies issued an announcement that sometime soon in August oil prices will be higher than ever before.
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@rlefraim This is an effort of the giant international oil companies, acting like an organized cartel, BP, Exxon, Shell, Aramco, Total, to artificially push up prices starting with Brent crude, not because of the Iran situation, and
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@rlefraim not because of Russia-Ukraine, as there is an oversupply of oil currently on the international markets,
But specifically to influence the elections in the US and other nations that take place this fall between September and December.
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But specifically to influence the elections in the US and other nations that take place this fall between September and December.
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🔥 Zelensky to Russia: Ukraine's long-range campaign is accelerating.
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🔥 40% of Moscow's gasoline supply hit
Rosneft's key refinery supplying the Moscow region is offline.
The plant (capacity ~11–12 million tons/year) provides roughly 40% of the capital’s gasoline and a major share of its diesel.
Repairs may take six months or longer.
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Rosneft's key refinery supplying the Moscow region is offline.
The plant (capacity ~11–12 million tons/year) provides roughly 40% of the capital’s gasoline and a major share of its diesel.
Repairs may take six months or longer.
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🔥 Ukraine strikes another pillar of Russia's fuel sector
A Ukrainian drone strike forced the shutdown of the CDU-5 unit at Lukoil's Perm refinery (~13 million tons/year), taking 34% of the plant's refining capacity offline and further tightening Russia's fuel supply.
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A Ukrainian drone strike forced the shutdown of the CDU-5 unit at Lukoil's Perm refinery (~13 million tons/year), taking 34% of the plant's refining capacity offline and further tightening Russia's fuel supply.
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Jillian Segal says her plan is to “expand” IHRA training “at scale” — to all govt depts & all businesses in the country — & be driven by a new taxpayer funded body - which she reveals is already in the works.😳
What the hell is going on?
What the hell is going on?
Date of hearing - 30 July, yesterday.
Segal also said this is being rolled out in the AFP, & stated what she expects leaders of business and govt depts/agencies to do once they receive their IHRA training
Segal “Spread it down through the organisation”
Like a virus?
Segal also said this is being rolled out in the AFP, & stated what she expects leaders of business and govt depts/agencies to do once they receive their IHRA training
Segal “Spread it down through the organisation”
Like a virus?
She also said she wants this rolled out at all schools, claiming teachers and students need to also be trained,
and she said they are already doing this in the US and some European countries.
There’s already pilot programs in place. It’s really happening….
and she said they are already doing this in the US and some European countries.
There’s already pilot programs in place. It’s really happening….
Um oncologista admitiu:
"Existem três tipos de pessoas que não desenvolvem câncer."
(SALVE ISSO):
"Existem três tipos de pessoas que não desenvolvem câncer."
(SALVE ISSO):
1. Aquelas que suam com frequência até o sal se formar na pele.
Pessoas que trabalham sob o sol, no calor e em empregos de trabalho pesado. Qual a melhor alternativa? A sauna.
O suor elimina metais pesados. Cádmio, arsênio e chumbo são carcinógenos conhecidos. Eles não são eliminados pela urina, mas pelo suor.
Pessoas que trabalham sob o sol, no calor e em empregos de trabalho pesado. Qual a melhor alternativa? A sauna.
O suor elimina metais pesados. Cádmio, arsênio e chumbo são carcinógenos conhecidos. Eles não são eliminados pela urina, mas pelo suor.
Um trabalhador de escritório que não sua de verdade há anos acumula esses metais no tecido adiposo.
Isso gera um estado de inflamação crônica e estresse oxidativo que danifica o DNA, o que por sua vez impulsiona a mutação celular.
Isso gera um estado de inflamação crônica e estresse oxidativo que danifica o DNA, o que por sua vez impulsiona a mutação celular.
BREAKING 🚨: Don’t replace your iPhone when the battery starts draining.
BREAKING 🚨: Don’t replace your iPhone when the battery starts draining.
BREAKING 🚨: Don’t replace your iPhone when the battery starts draining.
Apple won’t say this out loud…
But your settings are draining your battery faster than they should.
I tested this myself.
Same iPhone.
Same usage.
Battery jumped from 6 hours → 10 hours just by fixing a few settings.
No new phone.
No paid apps.
No tricks.
Here’s exactly what I changed 👇
BREAKING 🚨: Don’t replace your iPhone when the battery starts draining.
BREAKING 🚨: Don’t replace your iPhone when the battery starts draining.
Apple won’t say this out loud…
But your settings are draining your battery faster than they should.
I tested this myself.
Same iPhone.
Same usage.
Battery jumped from 6 hours → 10 hours just by fixing a few settings.
No new phone.
No paid apps.
No tricks.
Here’s exactly what I changed 👇
1/ First thing, check who's the main culprit.
Settings → Battery
Scroll down and see which app is consuming your battery the most.
Usually it's not the app you use a lot. But the problematic app is the one running hidden in the background.
Settings → Battery
Scroll down and see which app is consuming your battery the most.
Usually it's not the app you use a lot. But the problematic app is the one running hidden in the background.
2/ Background App Updates.
This feature ain't useful but it's on by default.
Settings → General → Background App
Updates → Turn it off
The whole point is that every app on your phone "updates itself" even if you haven't opened it.
Instagram downloads the vid, Shopee updates the prices.
Why, you ask? You can still open the app manually anyway.
This feature ain't useful but it's on by default.
Settings → General → Background App
Updates → Turn it off
The whole point is that every app on your phone "updates itself" even if you haven't opened it.
Instagram downloads the vid, Shopee updates the prices.
Why, you ask? You can still open the app manually anyway.
We now finally have the story of the behind-the-scenes crisis management by Peter Daszak and Shi Zhengli regarding RaTG13 (and other unpublished viruses).🧵👇
The story begins in May 2021, when yours truly posted Yu Ping's 2019 WIV thesis on Twitter. It listed, among other things, "Ra4991" with lower spike identity to SARS (75.4%) than the published RaTG13 (76.6%).
About a month later, on 23 June 2021, Clare Thomas (Nature Senior Editor) emails Shi Zhengli, saying she had been "contacted by someone" but had "not looked at the thesis itself," and requests clarification regarding the discrepancy.
The story begins in May 2021, when yours truly posted Yu Ping's 2019 WIV thesis on Twitter. It listed, among other things, "Ra4991" with lower spike identity to SARS (75.4%) than the published RaTG13 (76.6%).
About a month later, on 23 June 2021, Clare Thomas (Nature Senior Editor) emails Shi Zhengli, saying she had been "contacted by someone" but had "not looked at the thesis itself," and requests clarification regarding the discrepancy.
2 days later, Clare reminds Shi again that they have an obligation to look into the apparent discrepancy.
(There were, and still are, many other anomalies surrounding RaTG13.)
(There were, and still are, many other anomalies surrounding RaTG13.)
2 more days later, Shi Zhengli clarifies to the Nature editor that the discrepancy was an artifact of using different bioinformatics software: the 2020 Nature paper used NCBI's BLASTp, while the 2019 thesis used Mafft and Bioedit.
She also notes that the thesis was under "embargo", and she "doesn't know why this thesis was uploaded" and "misused by the conspiracy people."
"Conspiracy people" meant us. But how that supposedly embargoed thesis found its way to Twitter is another story. I can't tell it yet because sharing it could put people in China at risk.
In any case, we had also independently reached the same conclusion that the RaTG13-Ra4991 discrepancy was explained by differences in bioinformatics, thanks to @EtaitLife, who had reverse-engineered, reconciled the differences and replicated the results by December 2021.
So far so good.
web.archive.org/web/2021121619…
She also notes that the thesis was under "embargo", and she "doesn't know why this thesis was uploaded" and "misused by the conspiracy people."
"Conspiracy people" meant us. But how that supposedly embargoed thesis found its way to Twitter is another story. I can't tell it yet because sharing it could put people in China at risk.
In any case, we had also independently reached the same conclusion that the RaTG13-Ra4991 discrepancy was explained by differences in bioinformatics, thanks to @EtaitLife, who had reverse-engineered, reconciled the differences and replicated the results by December 2021.
So far so good.
web.archive.org/web/2021121619…
"Un día millones de hombres abandonarán el Hemisferio Sur para ir al Hemisferio Norte. Y no irán allí como amigos. Irán allí para conquistarlo. Y lo conquistarán poblándolo con sus hijos. Es el vientre de nuestras mujeres el que nos dará la victoria".
H. Boumédiène
H. Boumédiène
H. Boumédiène fue presidente de Argelia entre. Dijo estas palabras durante su intervención en la ONU, en abril de 1974. Años más tarde Yasser Arafat popularizó una variante similar refiriéndose al «vientre de la mujer palestina» como su «mejor arma demográfica».
Con este mensaje no pretendo decir nada que no se haya dicho ya. Constato el hecho de que existe un peligro objetivo en lo que está sucediendo como podemos ver por la cantidad de datos y noticias que ya no se pueden contener. Estaba predicho.
200 milhões drenados: o que se sabe até agora sobre sweep coordenado de algumas carteiras de Bitcoin
Cerca de 594 BTC (US$ 37–40 milhões) foram drenados de ~500 endereços em apenas 15 minutos.
Segue o fio 🧵
Cerca de 594 BTC (US$ 37–40 milhões) foram drenados de ~500 endereços em apenas 15 minutos.
Segue o fio 🧵
Os fundos vieram de 1.324 UTXOs e foram enviados primeiro para um endereço (bc1qnk4zh9qcnap2mycp56qjrgza3cc8ylrh8fecp0) intermediário e depois consolidados (~562 BTC) em outro (bc1qq85v2c926eg6pgxhwp6q7lf6cnsz80qs3fcu9r), que até agora segue parado.
Tudo aconteceu entre 01:31 e 01:56 UTC.
Tudo aconteceu entre 01:31 e 01:56 UTC.
3/ O padrão:
• Todos os endereços eram single-sig • Nenhum uso de Taproot • Muitos fundos estavam parados há anos (2021–2026) • Valores frequentemente entre 0,15 e 0,26 BTC
• Todos os endereços eram single-sig • Nenhum uso de Taproot • Muitos fundos estavam parados há anos (2021–2026) • Valores frequentemente entre 0,15 e 0,26 BTC
« Où étiez-vous ? » : plus d’une💯de personnalités interpellent les soutiens de Barbara Butch.
Une tribune d’artistes et de chercheurs dénonce l’essentialisation de Barbara Butch à sa judéité et l’amalgame entre antisionisme et antisémitisme de la part de ses soutiens.
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Une tribune d’artistes et de chercheurs dénonce l’essentialisation de Barbara Butch à sa judéité et l’amalgame entre antisionisme et antisémitisme de la part de ses soutiens.
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Tribune signée par plus de 200 artistes et travailleur·euses de la culture - dont Yoa, Adèle Haenel ou Habibitch -, en réponse à la tribune « Concert interrompu de Barbara Butch : agresser une DJ juive ne sauvera pas la Palestine » du 21 juillet 2026.
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liberation.fr/idees-et-debat…
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liberation.fr/idees-et-debat…
L’affaire Barbara Butch ne cesse de diviser les acteurs de la culture.
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▪️Barbara Butch, Amir…Pourquoi le boycott culturel divise la gauche. L’interruption du concert de la DJ a remis en débat ce mode d’action qui répond historiquemt à un cadre précis.
humanite.fr/culture-et-sav…
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▪️Barbara Butch, Amir…Pourquoi le boycott culturel divise la gauche. L’interruption du concert de la DJ a remis en débat ce mode d’action qui répond historiquemt à un cadre précis.
humanite.fr/culture-et-sav…
Who is Schrödinger's putin? A man who can end the war tomorrow, yet also can't
[my latest op-ed in a 🧵thread]
Few medieval figures loom larger in 🇷🇺’s origin story than Yuriy Dolgorukiy, the prince who founded an outpost on the Moskva River from which russian empire arose
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[my latest op-ed in a 🧵thread]
Few medieval figures loom larger in 🇷🇺’s origin story than Yuriy Dolgorukiy, the prince who founded an outpost on the Moskva River from which russian empire arose
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But the man moscow claims as a forefather is buried not in 🇷🇺, but in 🇺🇦
Dolgorukiy’s ambition was to rule Kyivan Rus from its true center – let the name be a hint.
He died there as Grand Prince in 1157 and was laid to rest at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, which Russia struck on June 15, setting a UNESCO World Heritage site ablaze
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Dolgorukiy’s ambition was to rule Kyivan Rus from its true center – let the name be a hint.
He died there as Grand Prince in 1157 and was laid to rest at the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, which Russia struck on June 15, setting a UNESCO World Heritage site ablaze
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The barbarism of the attack crystallizes the very contradiction in which Russia's war is rooted. Putin oscillates between insisting Ukraine does not exist and dismissing it as a fabricated state, yet Moscow's own origin story keeps leading back to Kyiv.
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Assuming he actually wrote it, Jason Arday’s 2020 book “Cool Britannia and Multi-Ethnic Britain,” further demonstrates his stupefying mediocrity and the state of academic sociology.
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2/ Arday argues that though the 1990s-era United Kingdom is remembered as a time and place of diverse cultural production and racial progress, black Britons view “Cool Britannia” as a period of deep-seated racism.
The UK’s chart-defining influence on pop music and pop culture obfuscated the racist realities faced by Britons of color, or so the story goes.
The UK’s chart-defining influence on pop music and pop culture obfuscated the racist realities faced by Britons of color, or so the story goes.
3/ I’ll return to his argument later, but first we need to look at the book’s format.
Arday’s book is only *THREE* chapters long. Excluding front and back matter, Arday only wrote *79* pages of material. This is unheard of in academic publishing! It’s a waste of time and money to publish a work this short in book format, but Routledge apparently made an exception for Jason “Best in the World” Arday.
Sidenote: The lack of coherent capitalization & stylization across the TOC makes no sense. And the intro’s title is unprofessional and, frankly, stupid.
Arday’s book is only *THREE* chapters long. Excluding front and back matter, Arday only wrote *79* pages of material. This is unheard of in academic publishing! It’s a waste of time and money to publish a work this short in book format, but Routledge apparently made an exception for Jason “Best in the World” Arday.
Sidenote: The lack of coherent capitalization & stylization across the TOC makes no sense. And the intro’s title is unprofessional and, frankly, stupid.
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In Drohobych, the reburial of 26 more victims of political repressions by the NKVD took place, whose remains were exhumed on the territory of the former torture chamber of the Soviet special services - the prison on Stryiska Street.
In Drohobych, the reburial of 26 more victims of political repressions by the NKVD took place, whose remains were exhumed on the territory of the former torture chamber of the Soviet special services - the prison on Stryiska Street.
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Almost a century after their tragic death, they received a dignified Christian burial. A funeral procession passed from the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul to Rynok Square, where a city-wide memorial service was held for the repose of the innocently murdered.
Almost a century after their tragic death, they received a dignified Christian burial. A funeral procession passed from the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul to Rynok Square, where a city-wide memorial service was held for the repose of the innocently murdered.
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The building at 3 Stryyska Street, where one of the buildings of the Ivan Franko Drohobych State Pedagogical University is located today, was the regional NKVD department and a remand prison in 1939-1941.
maps.app.goo.gl/UUjWnVubwLTa5f…
The building at 3 Stryyska Street, where one of the buildings of the Ivan Franko Drohobych State Pedagogical University is located today, was the regional NKVD department and a remand prison in 1939-1941.
maps.app.goo.gl/UUjWnVubwLTa5f…
It is sad to see Ukraine is again in 2026 where it was in 2023.
Specifically, Ukraine is failing to use available barge alternatives to move grain through Odesa to the wider world markets.
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Specifically, Ukraine is failing to use available barge alternatives to move grain through Odesa to the wider world markets.
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I pointed this out in a couple of posts in 2023, before the Black Sea grain deal put it on the very back burner, explaining what could be done.
Here is one post
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Here is one post
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And here is another in a larger Russian truck, port clearance & barge logistical 🧵
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Compartimos el comunicado de los compañeros de Border Resistance (bord.eresistance en IG) sobre los sucesos ocurridos hoy en Ceuta.
Lo que subyace es el uso por parte de la burguesía marroquí de las masas migrantes desesperadas como arma política contra el gobierno de España.
Lo que subyace es el uso por parte de la burguesía marroquí de las masas migrantes desesperadas como arma política contra el gobierno de España.
Quienes ante todo sufren las disputas entre la burguesía marroquí y la burguesía española son las miles de personas que intentan huir de la pobreza y que son utilizadas como arma de cañón por el régimen de Mohamed VI. Volverán a ser deportados y masacrados como en 2021.
Mientras tanto la extrema derecha aprovecha el suceso para lanzar una nueva una campaña de odio masiva contra los migrantes.
Pero silencio absoluto cuando la clase obrera marroquí se moviliza contra la pobreza y es reprimida sin piedad por el régimen de Mohamed VI.
Pero silencio absoluto cuando la clase obrera marroquí se moviliza contra la pobreza y es reprimida sin piedad por el régimen de Mohamed VI.
🚨 ¿QUÉ ESTÁ PASANDO EN CEUTA?
España tiene dos ciudades en el norte de África. Marruecos solo presiona una.
No es casualidad. Es geografía.
Abro hilo 🧵
España tiene dos ciudades en el norte de África. Marruecos solo presiona una.
No es casualidad. Es geografía.
Abro hilo 🧵
📍 El Estrecho de Gibraltar mide 14 km en su punto más estrecho.
Por ahí pasan más de 100.000 buques al año. Petróleo del Golfo. Contenedores de Asia. Gas argelino.
Por ahí pasan más de 100.000 buques al año. Petróleo del Golfo. Contenedores de Asia. Gas argelino.
🔑 Se controla desde tres puntos:
· Gibraltar → británico desde 1713
· Tánger-Ceuta → orilla africana
· Tarifa-Algeciras → orilla europea
España tiene dos de los tres. Sin Ceuta, tiene uno.
· Gibraltar → británico desde 1713
· Tánger-Ceuta → orilla africana
· Tarifa-Algeciras → orilla europea
España tiene dos de los tres. Sin Ceuta, tiene uno.
"Soviet Union never intended to conquer Finland in 1939"
It's one of the most common russian claims about the Winter War.
But it raises one question.
Why was everything already prepared long before the first shot was fired?
This short 🧵digs into it.
It's one of the most common russian claims about the Winter War.
But it raises one question.
Why was everything already prepared long before the first shot was fired?
This short 🧵digs into it.
As we know, months before the invasion, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
Its secret protocol placed Finland inside the Soviet sphere of influence.
Finland's future had already been decided between Nazis and USSR.
Its secret protocol placed Finland inside the Soviet sphere of influence.
Finland's future had already been decided between Nazis and USSR.
The protocol didn't mention only territorial changes.
It spoke of "territorial and political rearrangements."
They were talking about replacing legitimate governments of independent countries.
It spoke of "territorial and political rearrangements."
They were talking about replacing legitimate governments of independent countries.