@smc429 @RobertKennedyJr 1).
„Bottom-of-the-class @RobertKennedyJr says he went to the top after he started taking heroin
@smc429 @RobertKennedyJr 2).
– »I’ll tell you something about heroin« – he said. – »I did very very poorly in school until I started doing narcotics then I went to the top of my class because my mind was so restless and turbulent and I could not sit still«.
Nov. 26, 2024
Jan 5 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@JimBeattie18 1).
In the Name of the Father” (1993) 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 [1] [2]
◆ Directed by Jim Sheridan
◆ Starring
🔸Daniel Day-Lewis
🔸Emma Thompson
🔸Pete Postlethwaite (1946–2011)
@JimBeattie18 2).
The song for the film, performed by Shinéad OʼConnor (1966–2023), entitled „You Made Me the Thief of You Heart” [3] [4] was written by Bono, Gavin Friday and Maurice Seezer
@BBCBreaking @Shayan86 1).
„Las Vegas Sheriff Kevin McMahill said Thurs. that investigators think the @Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside a Trump International Hotel on Wed. was probably a suicide.
@BBCBreaking @Shayan86 @Tesla 2).
– »There is no definitive link between the attack here in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas« – Christopher Raia, deputy assistant director of the @FBI's counterterrorism division, said at a Thursday news conference on the New Orleans attack.”
Jan. 2, 2025
Jan 2 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@clashreport @Shayan86 1).
„Matthew Livelsberger was active on LinkedIn, and often commented on posts from colleagues in the military. In a comment on one post about student debt, he responded to a question asking who was responsible for debts saying:
– »The govt« [1].”
@clashreport @Shayan86 2).
„An intelligence and operations specialist, he spent 19 years in the army, 18 of which were with the special forces, he claimed on his LinkedIn profile [2].”
Jan 1 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
@BBCBreaking @Shayan86 1)
„At least 10 killed in New Orleans after driver intentionally rams into crowd on Bourbon Street [1]”
„The attack took place in the French Quarter, one of the most crowded areas of New Orleans and the heart of the city's tourism industry, which is crucial to its economy [2]”.
@BBCBreaking @Shayan86 2).
„A man intentionally drove a pickup truck into a crowd of revelers [...], killing 10 people and injuring dozens of others, officials said. The @FBI said the driver was killed in a firefight with police (@NOPDNews) [3].”
Dec 30, 2024 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
@krz_luksza 1).
„The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.“ [1] – prof. @RichardDawkins [2].
@krz_luksza @RichardDawkins 2).
– [...]„Could God create a stone so heavy that even he could not lift it? [3] [...] why could not God, who is Almighty, in His omnipotence transcend the paradox and act beyond all logic?”
Dec 28, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@CollinRugg @Shayan86 1).
„One of the officers [...] participated in the incident is currently facing civil litigation for his alleged involvement in the 2020 beating of another inmate at Marcy Correctional, according to court records [1].”
@CollinRugg @Shayan86 2).
„Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, told @CNN it seemed possible Brooks sustained a fatal spinal cord injury when officers lifted him from the table by his shirt.
Dec 28, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@RG_Horvath 1).
„[...] на акцию стали приходить совершенно далекие от идей нацболов политики и правозащитники. Эдуард Вениаминович Лимонов (1943–2020) [1] в ответ шипел и просил не упоминать их имен рядом со своим, это была его личная акция [2].”
@RG_Horvath 2).
„В своих статьях [...] обвинял либералов за прозападную позицию по войне на Украине, считал их предателями, сочувствовал оппозиции, поддерживающей сепаратистов в Донбассе [3].
Dec 24, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
@MomiraMonika @HossainNilofar 1).
„Thereʼs my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening.
@MomiraMonika @HossainNilofar 2).
There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, thatʼs the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself whereas life alone is enough.”
Dec 18, 2024 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
1).
Wspiął się był na drugą kadencję na elektoratu @pisorgpl plecach
(P)rezydent belwederski @AndrzejDuda.
A mimo to zapewnia, że nie cechuje go obłuda,
W sprawie niedotrzymanych obietnic 24. świadczeń, które obiecał [1].
2).
W gruncie rzeczy nie są źli ani dobrzy; przyczyną
Jest ślepa bezlitosna obojętność jako ich immanentna cecha [2].
Czy polski polityk się uśmiecha,
Czy też chodzi z ponurą miną.
Dec 18, 2024 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
@mwendling @Shayan86 1).
„Stew Peters [...] has referred to Judaism as a »death cult built on the blood of murdered babies« [1].
@mwendling @Shayan86 2).
In Jan. 2024, Peters published a series of tweets insulting Martin Luther King Jr., including a claim that he »stud[ied] Jewish Bolshevism«,
Dec 14, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
@realjayjem @Shayan86 1).
Reasons for Kim Jong Unʼs tears during the first day of the 5th National Conference of Mothers held on Dec. 3-4, 2023 in Pyongyang [1].
@realjayjem @Shayan86 2).
„Hearing in emotional tears the words that are warm with the affection and trust of the benevolent father who values the pure conscience and selfless efforts of women that were placed on the journey for the strength of the country like pearls
Dec 14, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@labuszewska 1).
„The Nazi-Soviet Pact of 23 Aug. 1939 contained secret protocols outlining spheres of interest. Finland and the Baltic states, as well as eastern Poland, fell into the Soviet sphere. After invading Poland on 17 Sept. 1939, on 30 Nov. the Soviets invaded Finland [1].
@labuszewska 2).
Then »the League of Nations for the first time expelled a member who had violated the Covenant«. The League action of 14 December 1939, stung, because the Soviet Union became »the only League member ever to suffer such an indignity [2]«.”
Dec 13, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1).
According to a report by @YaleSPH, aircraft and funds of the dictator of the RF „were used in a program that took children from occupied Ukrainian territories, stripped them of Ukrainian identity and placed them with Russian families [1].”
2).
The @StateDept - backed research [...] identified 314 Ukrainian children taken to Russia in the early months of the war in Ukraine as part of what it says was a systematic, Kremlin-funded program to »Russify« them [2].”
Dec 13, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
1).
„Three members of Assadʼs inner circle said he initially wanted to seek refuge in the United Arab Emirates, as rebels seized Aleppo and Homs and were advancing towards Damascus.
2).
They said he was rebuffed by the Emiratis who feared an international backlash for harbouring a figure subject to U.S. and European sanctions for allegedly using chemical weapons in a crackdown on insurgents...
Dec 11, 2024 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
@samerdaboul6 @Shayan86 #BasharAssadHitler
1).
„At the beginning of 2013, Mazen al-Hamada (1977 – c. 2024) [1] [2] [...] was ill and taken to military hospital 601, nicknamed by other detainees as a »slaughterhouse« [3].
@samerdaboul6 @Shayan86 2).
In transit to the hospital, Hamada was physically assaulted. He was told to forget his name, and was assigned the number »1858« [4] [5].
1).
„Können Tränen meiner Wangen nichts erlangen, O, so nehmt mein Herz hinein! Aber laßt es bei den Fluten, Wenn die Wunden milde bluten, Auch die Opferschale sein! [1]”
2).
Aria „Können Tränen meiner Wangen” [2] uit de Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (1727) [3] van Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) (muziek) [4] en Christian Friedrich Henrici (1700–1764) (libretto [1]) [5].
Dec 9, 2024 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
1).
„Inside a windowless room at U.S. Space Command headquarters, a row of immense screens shimmer with real-time data on the thousands of objects whizzing around Earth.
2).
On Feb. 5, 2022, one of those screens lit up when Russia launched a satellite with a highly unusual trajectory. The satellite, known as Cosmos 2553, settled into a lonely orbit about 1,240 miles above the planet - higher than most of the satellites that the world relies on.
Dec 8, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
@iskandermleccha @StudniaMimira3 @Lopat89 @R_Gorskii @ChopinAirport @KONFEDERACJA_ @GrzegorzBraun_ 1).
◆ „Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd (1901–1966) wurde 1937 erster Chefredakteur der in Johannesburg auf Afrikaans erscheinenden Tageszeitung »Die Transvaler [1]«.
@iskandermleccha @StudniaMimira3 @Lopat89 @R_Gorskii @ChopinAirport @KONFEDERACJA_ @GrzegorzBraun_ 2).
[...] Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs hielt die Johannesburger Zeitung 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖗 den im »Transvaler« publizierten Positionen vor, sie ließen eine unterstützende Haltung für den Nationalsozialismus Deutschlands erkennen.
Dec 7, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
@ragipsoylu 1).
„Bashar al-Assad remained in Syria on Friday. Last week, his children and his wife traveled to Russia and his brothers-in-law traveled to the United Arab Emirates, Syrian security officials and Arab officials said.
@ragipsoylu 2).
Egyptian and Jordanian officials have urged Assad to leave the country and form an interim council that includes the opposition, these people said.
Jordan’s U.S. Embassy in Washington denied that Jordanian officials urged Assad to leave.”
Dec. 6, 2024
Dec 7, 2024 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
1).
Dr Damian Markowski [1] [...] „jest zdania, że w Ukrainie wciąż żywa jest "sowiecka szkoła historii".
– »Według niej rację ma ten, kto przekona większą część publiki do swojej wizji historii« – komentuje.
2).
– »W Ukrainie obowiązywało moratorium na prowadzenie prac w poszukiwaniu polskich ofiar. A jednocześnie na terenie Ukrainy przez lata można było prowadzić prace poszukiwawcze np. żołnierzy Wehrmachtu, Waffen ϟϟ, Armii Czerwonej i NKWD...« – przypomina.
