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FriedButter said:

Meanwhile in the UK, the new government is now planning to arrest people for retweeting, liking, etc on twitter (x).

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1821236459887570953

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BoraTas said:

I'd say I actually agree with the UK on this. The current breed of Anglosphere far righters is an incredibly toxic bunch of people and they are beyond reasoning. In the UK:

- They comment "two tier policing" below videos where the police arrests both sides
- They tried to burn hotels with people in them and they still complain about police prioritizing them
- They celebrate violent deaths of immigrants on Twitter
- They share gore on Twitter
- Almost every time the content they share is offensive and fake. AI generated photos are common too. They never fact check.
- Their movement is clearly against all immigrants of all types. They want deportations of even citizens which would be a mockery of hundreds of years of practices. And is a non-negotiable for 90% of the people.
- They don't respond to counter-arguments. They would just post atrocity news. Nobody even knows if the said events have happened for real and it would not matter if they were. An anecdote isn't data and it for certain doesn't make all immigrants liable. And it doesn't give the mobs the right to violence.
- They chimped out when Muslims organized against them. Their popular pages made thousands of fake news about it.

Nobody state worth calling a state tries negotiate with such a group. Also, Twitter under Elon Musk does nothing against these pages. In fact it apparently boosts them. His platform is going to get suppressed if he doesn't back down. Countries won't watch a foreign corporation disrupt their social fabric. He might run into problems even in the USA if Kamala Harris wins.

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sheogorath said:

Kinda shows China had the right idea by staying away from western internet and social networks, though.

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Bellum_Romanum said:

If the hypothesis of this study is further confirmed by other studies then it's no wonder why the so-called "Global North" are so desperate to shackle and stop China's rise because it could and is pulling Global South countries into development. India is such a copy cat of the West who pretty much ape everything the west does but it's too weak to bully countries.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1821488215947149584

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iBBz said:

That is is all true, but this is a family member criticizing him in public. It shows how abusive and narcissistic he is behind the scenes. It will change the way he is viewed forever.



Update on Scott Ritter's home raid by the FBI

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Shams said:

I would add some hypothetical scenarios.
If we consider Dr. Yunus as total US puppet, he does not have the power to implement pro US policies.

First, he does not have a parliament. At interim government he will head, none of the other members are of his own choice.

Second, BNP is pro US. After winning election at 2002, they were in power for five years. Before that it was Awami league. At 2000-2001 sitting US president Clinton visited Bangladesh and asked for a base at Cox's bazaar which awami league denied. But they did not get it in BNP term either , because of strong anti US sentiment.

The man, Dr Yunus, can be an US puppet. But as head of government, he does not have legislative power to implement anything against public sentiment, which may lead to another violent uprising.

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Bangladesh as color revolution on India’s doorstep​

US had a geopolitical interest in Hasina’s removal and was tellingly quick to welcome her military-installed interim replacement
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Why would the US bother?​

Given the country’s relatively small geographical presence that belies its population and its lack of substantial resources, the primary question for any reader would be why the US would even bother to trigger a coup in the country.

The answer lies in the country’s location, in the strategic eastern part of India with significant proximity to China. That is not all – being essentially a riparian state serviced by two of the world’s biggest rivers, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, which together form one of the world’s most fertile deltas (explaining the population density) – the country’s ports have long attracted naval powers ranging from the British, Japanese and Russians, to more recently the Chinese and Americans at different points in time.

At the moment, the primary US interest in the country is to establish a service port for mid-size US naval vessels that could help America manage naval operation risks caused by China’s access to ports in neighboring Myanmar and offer logistic services to friendly powers in the region without needing any approval or participation from India.

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Catalan police search sewers, seal off Barcelona Zoo looking for Carles Puigdemont​

The Mossos d’Esquadra — Catalonia’s autonomous police force — has been tasked with making sure that doesn’t happen.

The neoclassical Palace of the Catalan Parliament is located within the 31-hectare Parc de la Ciutadella. To keep Puigdemont out, only one entrance to the park will be open, and only accredited members of the parliament and their staff will be allowed to enter.

As part of the security operation, police are also carrying out a room-by-room search of the parliament. Emulating the royal guards who searched the bowels of London’s Palace of Westminster to seize Guy Fawkes and the piles of explosives with which he sought to blow up the House of Lords in 1605, Catalan police have been sent into the basement of the nearly 300-year-old building to ensure no one is hiding down there.

They have also searched the sewers, and agents have sealed a door that connects the parliament — a formal arsenal and royal palace — with the Barcelona Zoo, which surrounds the building on three sides. The closest animal enclosures to the parliament contain impalas, porcupines and — perhaps fittingly — hyenas.

“These are standard security procedures that are carried out before any investiture ceremony,” a spokesperson for the Mossos d’Esquadra told POLITICO.

But the spokesperson admitted that if officers were to encounter someone with an outstanding arrest warrant in their name — as is the case with Puigdemont — they would “evidently” be obliged to take them into custody.

“Our duty is to enforce the law,” the spokesperson said.

Puigdemont’s planned return after seven years in self-declared exile in Belgium has Spain talking. Pundits on radio and television talk shows have spent the week drawing up fanciful scenarios, with some insisting that the politician will attempt to sneak into the parliament in disguise and others suggesting he could attempt to evade police by landing on the building’s roof in a hot air balloon.

Puigdemont famously fled Spain after authorities ordered his detention for organizing an illegal independence referendum in 2017, and despite the passage of a controversial amnesty bill last May, the warrant for his arrest remains active.

The separatist politician declined to stand in June’s European election in order to make a bid for the Catalan presidency, hoping to stage a triumphant return to the region he had fled seven years earlier. But Socialist candidate Salvador Illa scored the most votes and last week struck a deal that will allow him to form a minority government.

Puigdemont’s determination to make it to Thursday’s investiture session is based on his theory that he’ll be able to shame other lawmakers in the parliament into backing out of their deal with Illa. While his arrest would likely delay the vote on the Illa’s leadership, enough lawmakers have said that they’ll back him anyway.

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The vote was upstaged by Puigdemont, who appeared outside the parliament before the session began and gave a five-minute televised speech.

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Pepper said:

Imagine being a Canadian today.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1821192067282022630

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Chevalier said:

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This is now becoming a bigger international scandal, and the CHINADA is pressing its advantage. Makes sense though, if you’re the Chinese team and you’ve trained hard and beaten the cheating lying Anglo teams and now the anglos are threatening to kidnap you and harm you, of course you’re going to want to destroy them. If the IOC banned Sun Yang for smashing blood vials that were improperly taken from him, why shouldn’t Anglo athletes be placed under similar scrutiny?

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supercat said:

The reality of free speech in the US.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1821497394124476563

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1821605691649618059

However, some people indeed think it was a color revolution.

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BoraTas said:

I'd say I actually agree with the UK on this. The current breed of Anglosphere far righters is an incredibly toxic bunch of people and they are beyond reasoning. In the UK:

- They comment "two tier policing" below videos where the police arrests both sides
- They tried to burn hotels with people in them and they still complain about police prioritizing them
- They celebrate violent deaths of immigrants on Twitter
- They share gore on Twitter
- Almost every time the content they share is offensive and fake. AI generated photos are common too. They never fact check.
- Their movement is clearly against all immigrants of all types. They want deportations of even citizens which would be a mockery of hundreds of years of practices. And is a non-negotiable for 90% of the people.
- They don't respond to counter-arguments. They would just post atrocity news. Nobody even knows if the said events have happened for real and it would not matter if they were. An anecdote isn't data and it for certain doesn't make all immigrants liable. And it doesn't give the mobs the right to violence.
- They chimped out when Muslims organized against them. Their popular pages made thousands of fake news about it.

Nobody state worth calling a state tries negotiate with such a group. Also, Twitter under Elon Musk does nothing against these pages. In fact it apparently boosts them. His platform is going to get suppressed if he doesn't back down. Countries won't watch a foreign corporation disrupt their social fabric. He might run into problems even in the USA if Kamala Harris wins.

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