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Saudi Arabia has been executing dissidents, jailing journalists, and conducting a war in Yemen that has produced one of the worst humanitarian crises on earth.
Britain, France, and America have sold it weapons throughout.
Not reluctantly. Not with conditions. Enthusiastically, with trade delegations and arms fairs and billions in contracts.
The same governments that speak about Muslim extremism as an "existential threat" to "Western values" are the primary suppliers of the regime that funds the specific theological tradition, Wahhabism, most associated with the extremism they claim to be fighting.
This is not a paradox.
It is a policy.
The extremism is useful. The weapons sales are profitable. The humanitarian crisis in Yemen is not a television story in most Western countries.
If you want to understand Islamophobia, not as a cultural accident but as a political function, start here.
Start with who benefits from a population that fears Islam in the abstract and cannot see the arms deal in the specific.
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You can hate Putin. He still made Russia stronger, richer, more stable, and more influential than he found it.
Western leaders did the opposite to our countries. We are weaker, poorer, less stable, less influential and none of that is his fault.
This is the simple truth!
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JF Kennedy was infinitely cleverer than today’s idiots - Prof Sachs
“Never put an enemy into the position to choose between a humiliating defeat and the use of nuclear bombs”, JFK said.
All politicians have forgotten this. Switched off their brain. They are reverting to Neanderthal ‘club hitting’ level.
“Sit down and talk!!!!”
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🚨 Google lost power in London this morning and Revolut, a bank with 80 million customers, went down with it.
I've spent the morning reading what Revolut users went through. It's wild.
People stranded at petrol stations, unable to pay for fuel or a taxi to the airport.
One traveller couldn't get out of a train station in Japan.
A 71-year-old woman stood at a supermarket till for an hour. Her kid had to drive 30km to bring her cash.
Card payments, transfers, ATM withdrawals, currency exchange, share trading. All down.
Revolut's statement said "all our customers' money and data are safe."
Safe. You just can't touch it.
Google's explanation so far is a "power event" in one zone of its London cloud region. Its advice to affected customers was to move their workloads to another zone or region "if feasible."
Must be nice. Revolut customers couldn't even move £10.
In July the UK government put Google Cloud, AWS, Microsoft and Oracle under direct Bank of England oversight, because one outage at any of them could shake the entire financial system.
12 days ago the Bank of England ran a drill with the UK's 38 biggest banks and market operators. The scenario they practised was a global cloud outage.
And exactly one year ago today, AWS went down and took Lloyds and Halifax with it.
Same date. Different cloud. Lloyds was having problems again this morning.
Revolut spent five years earning a UK banking licence.
Bitcoin has been running for almost 18 years. It doesn't have a London region.
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Son air grave et concerné … putain il est ridicule … il est cringe … comment les français ont pu voter pour ça … c’est interminable
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Gifi, groupe créé il y a 45 ans, serait en cessation de paiement, c'est 500 magasins, 6 000 salariés.
Le massacre des enseignes continue :
Jennyfer
Camaïeu
Go Sport
San Marina
Galeries Lafayette (certaines)
André
Kookai
Pimkie
Minelli
GAP
Courte paille
Sergent Major
Du pareil au même
Naf Naf
Habitat
Maison Lejaby
Casa
Princesse Tam Tam
Comptoir des Cotonniers
Brandt
IKKS
JOTT
ARC France
Alinéa
Bouchara
Et maintenant, GIFI
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French protesters aren’t failing for lack of revolutionary will. They’re failing because the target moved. In 1968 the state could be pressured because the state controlled the economy. Now the bondholders do, and they don’t answer to French voters. The National Assembly can’t restore the schools because debt service comes first. That’s why the cycle repeats.
You don’t build parallel institutions against a bond market. You break it. What the left abandoned in 1983, when Mitterrand capitulated to the franc fort, was national credit and directed investment in production. Nobody has offered it since.
Protests are a symptom that the program is missing.
If French protests are so effective why are they still stuck with neoliberalism? Why is their country still loyal to Israel and NATO? Why is the French ruling class completely unresponsive to French protester demands?
You guys realize that this is like the 100th time in the last 10 years that France has erupted in protests over neoliberalism right? Americans tend to romanticize these protests but what have they accomplished? French protesters engage in revolutionary adventurism but don’t have a follow up on how to change the system in a meaningful way. So we repeat the same cycle over and over
This is not a diss on the French protesters at all because they are just reacting to their material conditions, which is normal. But at what point do we begin having the conversation that western liberal democracy as a whole completely failed and no amount of “protests” will fix it. Protests without further revolutionary action of building real dual power seems to amount to nothing in the west
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Anarcho-tyranny (sometimes written anarcho-tyrannism) is a political concept coined by the paleoconservative columnist Samuel T. Francis in the early 1990s, mainly in essays for Chronicles.
Francis defined it as the combination of two things that look like opposites:
Oppressive government power aimed at the innocent and law-abiding.
A simultaneous inability or unwillingness to use that power for basic public duties such as protection and public safety.
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J’habite et travaille à Paris.
Pour que les gens comprennent : il n’y a pas eu 10 % de l’acte III des gilets jaunes aujourd’hui.
La seule différence, c’est que la police n’est pas intervenue pour stopper le pillage.
Des commerçants m’expliquent que personne ne répond au téléphone (police municipale ou nationale), personne n’est intervenu : des mecs ont ravagé des arrondissements pendant des heures.
Je ne comprends rien, le gouvernement incite aux émeutes ?
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🔴 Nous vivons de plus en plus sous la dictature des minorités agissantes. Je le constate dans le monde judiciaire, où certains groupes de magistrats prétendent imposer leur vision idéologique du droit et de la justice, au mépris de l’impartialité qui devrait pourtant être au cœur de leur mission. ET on le constate également aujourd’hui avec les émeutes étudiantes où une minorité bruyante, parfois violente, prétend parler au nom de tous et impose sa loi à une majorité silencieuse qui souhaite simplement étudier, travailler et vivre dans le calme. #lycée #lfi #blocus #france #manifestation
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Jeffrey Sachs asks a simple question.
"How many wars has China been in, in the last 40 years ? Let me count them. That would be zero. Not one war in 40 years."
The last one: a month-long border war with Vietnam, 1979.
Now count America's wars in the same 40 years >
> Panama, Iraq twice
> Serbia, Afghanistan, Libya
> Syria, Somalia, Yemen
> and this year, Iran
So who is the threat ?
Sachs says the answer was written down. Council on Foreign Relations, 2015, Blackwill and Tellis: China has become so powerful it threatens American "primacy", so its rise is no longer in America's interest.
Not human rights. Not Taiwan. Primacy.
"Because China's economically successful... they're not just economically successful, they're the enemy."
A country that builds gets called a threat.
A country that bombs gets called the leader of the free world.
Be informed.
Not entertained.
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Macron's plan is not de-escalation. It is escalation.
This is the old strategy of tension.
Let the protests become more radical. Let the anti-protester camp become more radical in return. Push both sides further apart until they are fighting each other and the whole country becomes more divided.
A country at war with itself is much easier to control.
Then Macron can step in as the reasonable man, calling for peace, stability and a return to normality. He presents himself as the only one capable of restoring order.
But look at what comes with that promise: more police powers, more surveillance, more restrictions and a state that keeps tightening its grip on society.
First create the chaos, then present yourself as the man who can save the country from it.
This is how you turn a crisis into an opportunity to expand your power.
The more divided and frightened the French become, the easier it is to convince them that they must sacrifice more of their freedoms in exchange for security.
The objective is not to bring France together.
It is to make people accept more control in the name of restoring order.
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Tout est en train de dégénérer.
Pire president de la 5ème Republique. Si on peut appeler ça un président.
Un règne chaotique, à diviser les uns contre les autres, sur un tas de cendres, d’un feu qu’il aura lui même allumé.
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Classic Western media double standard.
BBC: Indian Gen Z “feisty” protesters “taking on Modi” → heroic, amplified, framed as democratic awakening.
Same BBC on France: student protests → “manipulated,” radical left weaponising, political plot ahead of elections.
Playbook is simple. When it hits a non-aligned country (India, BRICS pressure, Modi), Western media cheers the streets. When it hits the West itself, suddenly it’s suspicion, NGOs, manipulation.
Not about students. About who the narrative serves.
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Quand de Gaulle nous a quitté. Lui ne pensait qu'à la France, ses successeurs de Pompidou à Macron n'ont pensé qu'à leurs carrières et à leurs avantages. Macron est le pire et a été placé au pouvoir pour achever notre pays.
