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La tolerancia llegará a tal nivel,que las personas inteligentes, tendrán prohibido pensar,para no ofender a los imbéciles. F.Dostoievski

Papua New Guinea
Joined October 2014
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«En su país miserable, ¿acaso no tienen ni siquiera con qué alimentar a sus hijos?» — así intentaron unos periodistas estadounidenses humillar públicamente a una boxeadora soviética de 14 años; su respuesta, sin embargo, pasaría a la historia. Era el apogeo de la Guerra Fría. Durante un torneo juvenil internacional, un grupo de reporteros occidentales decidió someter a una frágil campeona de 14 años, proveniente de la URSS, a una calculada prueba psicológica. Aprovechando que tenían ante sí a una niña, la bombardearon sin pudor con las preguntas más viles y cínicas, con la intención de ridiculizar públicamente al deporte soviético y hacer estallar en llanto a la joven. Con una sonrisa maliciosa, un periodista estadounidense preguntó —lo suficientemente alto como para que toda la sala lo oyera— sobre su modesto equipamiento y la escasez de alimentos en la Unión Soviética: «Señorita, mire a sus rivales occidentales: lucen radiantes, visten uniformes de marcas costosas y entrenan con los mejores preparadores. Usted, en cambio, parece una huérfana pálida y hambrienta. ¿Acaso en su país empobrecido no alimentan a los niños con otra cosa que no sea serrín, dado que no pueden permitirse comida adecuada y se ve tan demacrada? ¿Ha visto alguna vez carne de verdad en su vida, o es que en la URSS la gente se dedica al boxeo simplemente por hambre?». Una carcajada burlona estalló en la delegación estadounidense. Los periodistas, olfateando un espectáculo, prepararon sus cámaras para un primer plano, esperando que la joven se derrumbara en lágrimas, indefensa y humillada ante los ojos del mundo. Pero la atleta soviética ni siquiera se inmutó. Acercó lentamente el micrófono, recorrió la sala con una mirada gélida y madura, y, con un tono absolutamente frío, pronunció solo dos frases. Sus palabras asestaron un golpe devastador a toda la maquinaria propagandística estadounidense: las sonrisas se borraron de los rostros de los extranjeros en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, el descarado reportero se quedó sin habla al instante y, al día siguiente, su declaración ocupaba las portadas de todos los periódicos de Estados Unidos. La joven atleta soviética miró al reportero estadounidense directamente a los ojos y, hablando con claridad ante el micrófono, declaró: «Mis oponentes suben al ring por el dinero de sus ricos patrocinadores y por la publicidad llamativa; por eso les preocupa tanto su indumentaria. Yo, en cambio, estoy aquí gracias a mi propio carácter, a mi arduo trabajo y al país que forjó mi fortaleza espiritual, sin pedir nada a cambio. No les vencemos con la abundancia de sus hamburguesas, sino con la fuerza de nuestros golpes; y cuando subimos al podio, los jueces miran nuestras medallas de oro, no sus rostros bien alimentados». La insolencia del estadounidense se evaporó en un instante. El refinado reportero, que apenas unos momentos antes sonreía con sorna ante las cámaras, perdió toda su arrogancia, se puso intensamente rojo y, presa de la cobardía, bajó la mirada. Abrió la boca para replicar, pero no encontró palabras bajo la intensa y gélida mirada de la joven de catorce años. El salón entero quedó sumido en un silencio atónito, impresionado por su firme seguridad, hasta que uno de los periodistas europeos lanzó un silbido de respeto y comenzó a aplaudir. Durante el resto de la conferencia de prensa, toda la delegación estadounidense permaneció en un silencio absoluto y abatido, sin atreverse siquiera a dirigir una mirada hacia el equipo soviético. Ante los ojos de los medios de comunicación de todo el mundo, esta joven había desmantelado, ella sola, la arrogante propaganda de Estados Unidos, defendiendo el honor de millones de ciudadanos soviéticos y dejando claro algo fundamental: el espíritu y el orgullo de una persona soviética no pueden comprarse con ninguna cantidad de dólares. La mismísima URSS. Vía VK. Gracias a Vladimir Elin.
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The wound of Yemen pains me, and the wound of Gaza makes me weep. O God, help our brothers in Gaza ..
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This is heartbreaking... Gaza is literally drowning and the mainstream media are ignoring this
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I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes. Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure. I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold. We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep. I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety. What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings? I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
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Same weapon, same missile , same victim, same crime What changed is the criminal ...
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Moments ago, Saudi Arabia bombed civilian homes in the Bani Hashish area. When paramedics arrived, Saudi Arabia bombed them again. The death and wounded toll has now reached 52 52 Yemeni citizens were killed and wounded by Saudi Arabia a short while ago.
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Epstein is not the story. Epstein is the proof of concept. The story is the system that produced him, elevated him, protected him, and then, when protection became impossible, disposed of him in a way that ensured his knowledge died with him. That system is still operating. The same social networks exist. The same financial relationships exist. The same intelligence-adjacent operators exist. The same media protection rackets exist. The same prosecutorial discretion that looks the other way for the right names and the right zip codes exists. Epstein is gone. The infrastructure that made him possible is intact. And the infrastructure that made him possible is the same infrastructure that makes governance possible for the donor class. The same protection networks. The same mechanisms of mutual assured destruction among elites. The same implicit understanding that certain people are outside the accountability systems that exist for everyone below them. This is why the files matter. Not for the prurient satisfaction of knowing names. But because the files, if released, would constitute irrefutable documentation that the people who hold power in the Western world hold it not through democratic legitimacy but through mutual blackmail, mutual protection, and shared criminal exposure. That is not democracy. That is not a republic. That is a hostage situation where the hostages have been convinced they are free because they get to vote on the color of the cage.
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This is Pauline Lumumba, the woman who watched them kill her husband and then walked half-naked in protest. You may not have seen the photo, but it shows a Congolese woman, bare-chested, with her hair shaved, walking in the street crying, with a child tied on her back. That woman is Pauline Opangu Lumumba, the wife of Patrice Lumumba, in 1961. Patrice was only 35 years old and had been Prime Minister of Congo for just 67 days. His crime was that he declared, "Congo is not Belgium's property. Our gold, our copper, and our diamonds will feed our children." Because of those words, Belgium, America, and his own army chief, Mobutu, decided that he must die. On January 17, 1961, they took Patrice, together with Maurice Mpolo and Joseph Okito, to Katanga. Pauline recounts what happened to him in harrowing detail. She said they beat him for hours, pulled out his teeth, and forced him to eat his own speech papers. Then a Belgian officer, Gerard Soete, shot him. After that, they cut his body into pieces with a saw and poured acid over it to dissolve him, so that no grave would ever exist. There was no body, no grave, only acid. When they told Pauline, she did not scream. In Congolese tradition, she shaved her hair to mourn her husband. She removed her top to show the world, "You have stripped me of my husband. I have nothing left." Then she walked barefoot from Leopoldville to the place where they killed him, a journey of 1,000 km, with her baby on her back, singing his name all the way. Mobutu, who took part in killing her husband, went on to become President for 32 years with US support. Belgium kept Lumumba's gold tooth as a souvenir in a police station until 2020. Patrice Lumumba died because he wanted a united Africa, like Gaddafi. Pauline died in 2014, still waiting for his body to be buried, and she never remarried. That is the price of saying, "Africa for Africans." And you still think Africa's poverty is because we are lazy?
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Unfortunately, Saudi Arabia's crimes in Yemen are not receiving widespread attention on the X platform. I hope that everyone who stands with Yemen will publicize Saudi Arabia's crimes in Yemen so that the world knows what crimes Saudi Arabia is committing in Yemen.
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Roman slaves ate bread, olives and porridge, washed down with vinegar. Roman senators ate boar, dormice and peacock. Egyptian labourers raised the pyramids on bread, onions and beer. The pharaoh ate beef. Spartan helots ate barley and figs. The Spartans who owned them ate a black broth of pork and blood. Chinese peasants ate millet and rice. Genghis Khan's horsemen rode over them on mutton and mare's milk. Indian lower castes ate rice, lentils and flatbread. The Mughal emperors ate lamb off gold plates. Japanese peasants ate rice and pickles. The samurai ate fish and game. Medieval serfs ate pottage and black bread. The lord ate venison, and blinded a serf for touching a deer. Tudor commoners ate bread cut with chalk. Henry VIII's court went through thousands of cattle a year. Irish cottiers ate potatoes, and in 1847 they ate grass. Their landlords ate beef, and shipped the rest to England past the dying. Plantation slaves ate cornmeal and a weekly scrap of fatback. The planter ate ham, oysters and cream. Victorian mill hands ate bread, tea and jam. The Victorian aristocracy ate beef, game and butter. Soviet collective farmers ate black bread and cabbage soup. Stalin served his inner circle roast meat and caviar until four in the morning. Every civilisation. Every century. Every continent. The poor got the plants. The powerful took the animals. Nobody in five thousand years ran a trial on it. They watched which men grew tall and which men obeyed, and kept the meat for themselves. Then in 1977 a wheat-state senator, a Harvard professor on sugar money and a reporter with no training told the world the slave's plate had been the healthy one all along. No pharaoh ever fed the pottage to his own son. They fed it to yours.
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Y luego tuvieron la audacia, la audacia deslumbrante, de pasar las décadas siguientes posicionándose como la autoridad moral del planeta.
Agent Orange is still killing people. Let that be your starting point every time someone wants to have a "civilized" conversation about American foreign policy. Not metaphorically. Not as history. Right now, today, children are being born in Vietnam with devastating disabilities because the U.S. Air Force saturated the Vietnamese countryside with dioxin-laced herbicide between 1961 and 1971. The half-life of this poison in human tissue and in soil is not a matter of decades. It is a matter of generations. They poisoned the land. They poisoned the water. They poisoned the genetic legacy of millions of families. And then they left. And then they had the audacity, the breathtaking audacity, to spend the following decades positioning themselves as the moral authority of the planet. To sanction other countries for human rights abuses. To fund international courts. To write reports about atrocities committed by governments they didn't like. To show up at the United Nations and speak about the "rules-based international order." The same government. The same institutional continuity. The same flag. The country that is still poisoning Vietnamese children from a war that ended more than fifty years ago is the country that lectures the world about human rights. And here is the thing about Vietnam that makes this hypocrisy historically radioactive: Vietnam won anyway. Despite everything done to it. Despite the poison in its soil and the bombs in its mountain. There are still undetonated American bombs in the mountains of Vietnam, still killing farmers today. Still. Despite all of it, Vietnam rebuilt. Vietnam developed. Vietnam survived. They tried to make Vietnam an example of what happens when you resist. Vietnam made itself an example of what happens when you survive. Every country watching this story has to make a choice about which example matters more. The example of: this is what we will do to you if you resist. Or the example of: this is what is possible if you refuse to be destroyed. Vietnam chose. Vietnam chose to fight and to suffer and to rebuild and to stand. And today Vietnam is a country. A real one. With its own government. Its own choices. Its own future. And the men who ordered the Agent Orange are dead, and their war is over, and their example failed, and Vietnam is still here. That is the most important sentence in modern history. Vietnam is still here.
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Honor y Gloria al orgulloso pueblo yemení!
This scene isn't from Hollywood; this is a road in a Yemeni village, used by citizens every day. Just watch, and you'll understand that Yemen, by its very nature, is not easy to conquer, and that its men have been raised to endure harsh conditions and dangers. For this reason, defeating the Yemeni people and occupying Yemen is impossible, no matter how strong the enemy is, let alone a country like Saudi Arabia, which possesses nothing but money and thinks that its money will bring it victory against a people like the Yemeni people. The Yemeni people, before being a strong people, are a proud and generous people who live in the mountains because they believe they deserve to live only on the peaks, so proud are they of themselves, their history, and their dignity. It is one of the wonders of the world that a country that is not more than ninety years old would want to occupy and defeat a people and a state that is more than ten thousand years old, and this is impossible.
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Gaza City is literally living through its final days, and every passing day makes life here more difficult and unbearable. We are losing what little remains of our resources and capabilities, with no alternatives available. Dozens of essential goods and raw materials are still prohibited from entering. Every basic necessity of life is gradually disappearing from the city. I am not exaggerating; this is the reality we are living. Things you take for granted in your everyday lives, things you barely think twice about, are simply unavailable here. It has reached the point where even lighters are no longer available. Wood, iron, cement, and all other construction materials are prohibited from entering. Bakeries, water stations, and shops are shutting down one after another because of shortages of fuel, oils, and raw materials. Even the agricultural sector has been almost entirely destroyed after approximately 70% of agricultural land was seized. We are not simply facing a shortage of goods. We are gradually losing everything that allows a city to function, survive, and sustain life. What is happening is pushing Gaza City towards complete dependence on external aid, rather than allowing it to produce its own necessities and provide for its people. Write, share, and speak about what is happening. Do not stop amplifying our voices.
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Inma retweeted
🇾🇪 Why don't people care about Yemenis the same way they care about people suffering in other parts of the world? More than 1,670 people have died, and nearly 7,400 have been wounded in Yemen since September, yet the mainstream media barely mentions it. The WHO also says over a quarter of a million people have been displaced. Why aren't students at Columbia and Harvard marching for Yemenis? Why is the outrage so selective? Saudi Arabia is no different from Israel in its brutality, competing with it in crimes against innocent people. Yet Yemenis are largely ignored by the world. This selective political outrage is disgusting.
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Our pages on X are blocked and restricted when we post about Saudi Arabia's crimes in Yemen, so if you see this tweet, please share it and leave a comment so it spreads. Thank you all.
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a reminder that Israel is not a real country. It doesn't have declared borders. It doesn't have a constitution. Its population does not have family roots in the land prior to the modern advent of zionism. They don't have a native culture, native food, dance, or stories. Israel is literally the greatest heist of the 20th century that expelled an ancient society and turned their land into a jewish supremacist military outpost murdering its way through time, and constantly cobbling together new stories about itself to suit the latest political whims, while destroying everything that threatens their latest flimsy narrative. God and the Bible have nothing to do with this abominable entity. They're not "chosen." They're not "a light." They're the biggest and most dangerous charlatans the world has ever known. That was not a democratic election. It was another act in this absurd theatre we're all forced to endure.
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Inma retweeted
A Yemeni father stands atop the rubble of his home—bombed by Saudi aircraft—having lost his entire family today. No one will speak of him, because he has no oil.
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Here we have Pierre de Gaulle, the grandson of Charles de Gaulle, saying: "It makes me smile when people talk about Russian interference because it suits our political elites and allows them to avoid telling the truth to the French people. Most of our politicians took part in the Young Leaders program, sponsored by the CIA"
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إلى كل الأحرار في العالم: مأساة غزة لها وجعٌ يشبهها في اليمن.. مجا//زر وقصف وحصار وتجويع. تحالف العدوان بقيادة السعودية استخدم ذخائر عنقودية أميركية، والرئيس الأميركي دونالد ترامب نفسه تحدث عن المساعدة التي قدّمتها إسرائيل للسعودية. كونوا صوت اليمن.. ولا تصدقوا إعلامكم.
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پدری یمنی بر آوار خانه‌اش ایستاده؛ خانه‌ای که جنگنده‌های سعودی بمباران کردند و امروز تمام خانواده‌اش را از دست داد. کسی درباره او حرفی نمی‌زند، چون نفت ندارد. 💔🇾🇪
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