“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled” Mark Twain

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joergthereader retweeted
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict summed up in one video. 🚨 SHARE THIS!
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Germans Actually ATE These Beetles?! The Forgotten Soup Recipe youtu.be/W_418-YmhGs?si=SLuF… via @YouTube
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EUROPE'S DANGEROUS CONFUSION: MORALITY IS NOT A STRATEGY Moral certainty is not a peace plan. Bismarck called politics the art of the possible. Clausewitz said war is the continuation of politics by other means. Helmut Schmidt warned that without balance there can be no reliable peace. Europe keeps pledging billions for Ukraine and still can't say which settlement is actually achievable. Meanwhile the human cost keeps growing on both sides of the front. 🎙️ AI-generated commentator: fictional presenter with an AI voice. English narration, German captions. Credits: photos and video from Wikimedia Commons. Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, State Emergency Service of Ukraine, ArmiaInform, Kryzhopil council, Embassy of Ukraine in Belgium, Pakkin Leung, KenSwe72, Некто участник (all CC BY 4.0); President of Ukraine (CC0); DNR Online videos (CC BY 3.0). Public domain: portraits by Franz von Lenbach and Wilhelm Wach; Helmut Schmidt photo by Jack Kightlinger/The White House. Map: own work from Natural Earth data. #Europe #Ukraine #Russia #Geopolitics #Realpolitik #Diplomacy
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UKRAINE THE WAR THAT DID NOT BEGIN IN 2022 What if one of the greatest mistakes of this war happened long before the first Russian tank crossed the border? From NATO's 2008 Bucharest pledge and William Burns' warning, to Maidan, Crimea and Minsk, to the Trump Putin Xi channel in October 2026: understanding why Russia reacted is not the same as approving it. And diplomacy between nuclear powers has never mattered more. AI-generated commentator: fictional presenter with an AI voice. English narration, German captions. Credits: photos and video from Wikimedia Commons. kremlin.ru (CC BY 4.0); State Emergency Service of Ukraine (CC BY 4.0); Ministry of Defence of Ukraine (CC BY 4.0); KenSwe72 (CC BY 4.0); Юрий Д.К. (CC BY 4.0); Sasha Maksymenko (CC BY 2.0); Christiaan Triebert (CC BY 2.0); Vietinghoff, Gary Todd, A1 (CC0). Public domain: The White House, U.S. Dept. of State, U.S. Army, U.S. Embassy Kyiv, U.S. Mission to NATO, VOA, NASA, Architect of the Capitol, George Chernilevsky. Maps: own work from Natural Earth data. #Ukraine #Russia #NATO #Geopolitics #Diplomacy #Trump
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Horrible Regime in Iran
🚨RAPED BEFORE EXECUTION: That's the destiny reserved for Niloufar Esfahani. She is only 18 years old and comes from Qazvin, in Iran. In January 2026, she was arrested together with her mother during the nationwide protests against the Islamic regime. Her only “crime” was asking for freedom and dignity. A few days later, the revolutionary court sentenced her to death by hanging. But before killing her, according to reports from activists and historical testimonies from Iranian prisons, they intend to rape her. Why? Because Niloufar is a virgin. According to a distorted and barbaric religious belief, a virgin girl who is executed would go straight to paradise. For this reason, in the past and still today, virgin female prisoners are systematically raped before execution: to “send them to hell” instead of paradise. This is a practice documented for decades and confirmed even by former officials of the regime itself. She is a girl like so many others, with her whole life ahead of her, who is about to be crushed by the ayatollahs’ killing machine. Thoughts?
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This is what remains after hundreds of years Arabs conquering the Middle East
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Israel, Palestine, Gaza, Westjordan….
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joergthereader retweeted
Finally!! The history of Palestine!! (Not what you think. That word, Palestine, doesn’t mean what you think it means…) You can call names or you can watch and learn a thing or two about the actual facts.
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I hope more people are waking up
Wach auf, New York! Ein aktueller Werbeclip der Republikaner für die Wahlen im November. Stark! Danke @justdanaw 🗽
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A really amazing story and a wonderful dog
Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower on September 11, 2001. He has been blind since birth. His guide dog, Roselle, was under his desk when the plane hit. The building lurched. Smoke filled the offices. People shouted. Roselle stood, calm, and waited for the harness. They went into Stairwell B and started down. Seventy-eight floors. Firefighters passed them going up. Jet fuel burned in the air. A woman stopped, too afraid to keep walking. Hingson talked her forward. Roselle never pulled away, never panicked, never stopped. They reached the lobby and then the street. Minutes later the South Tower fell and a wall of dust rolled over them. Roselle kept leading. Hingson lived. Roselle lived. They walked out of a building that would not be standing an hour later. He has spent the years since telling the story not as a miracle of sight, but as a story of trust: a man who could not see the stairs, and a dog who did not need to be told that the only way out was down. Remember Michael Hingson. Remember Roselle. Remember everyone who started down those stairs and never reached the street.
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There is some truth to it 😂
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Europe and the new normal 😂
🇫🇷 A young woman figured out how to protect herself from thieves in Paris 😂 Writer: Sol
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CRISIS in ITALY -Record-Breaking Earthquakes at Naples Supervolcano -Hom... youtu.be/U7v59TwEPJg?si=b0kj… via @YouTube Best Reporting about Campi Flegrei This Supervolcano is ready for at least a Phreatic Eruption Silki is the best reporter about what is going on there. Very Knowledgeable and no Nonsense
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