#American soldier detained in Russia

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For months, forcibly transferred children, ages four months to 18 years, were listed in a public Russian adoption database without mention of their Ukrainian origin. That they were in the database at all was not widely known until May 31, when the Russian dissident outlet iStories exposed its use in an article alleging that the children were being made to sew camouflage nets for the Russian military, which some were even forced to join.

The iStories revelations prompted Russia to scrub the database of all information about the Ukrainian children. Fortunately, much of it had been scraped by at least one group of open-source intelligence (OSINT) investigators who asked not to be named in order to continue their sensitive work. Such groups are scouring publicly available databases, social media, precision satellite imagery showing the locations of camps, and other sources to track the disappearing Ukrainian children.

The Ukrainian government officially estimates that about 19,500 Ukrainian children have been taken to Russia since the start of the war. The exact number is unknowable, and keeping track of all of the children is nearly impossible—some of the parents have been killed or lost touch with their children as Russia shifts them from place to place.

At the beginning of the war, some parents in eastern Ukraine sent their children to what the Russians told them were summer camps. The parents believed that the camps would keep their children safe, or provide them with enough food to eat, Syniuk says. Reports have since alleged severe abuse at the camps. No matter the conditions, the camps now appear to have been a pretext for luring the children away from their parents and into Russia. As Raymond said: “They can be given caviar every day, riding horsies and having the best day ever, and it’s still a war crime.”

Dozens of these camps are scattered across Russia, according to Conflict Observatory, an American NGO that collects and analyzes evidence of war crimes in Ukraine. The camp farthest from Ukraine is 3,900 miles from the border, in Russia’s Magadan Oblast. The facilities apparently specialize in political reeducation; some reports suggest that military training is also part of their program.

When Ukrainian parents are ready to bring their children home from camp, many are told that the children will remain in Russia, or that there is a “delay.” Some families have managed to recover their children, but only with great difficulty; others report that their children are not allowed to leave, have been transferred to different camps, or have become unreachable. Now, says Veronika Bilkova, an author of an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe report about the forcible transfer of children published in May, “it seems that really the Russian Federation is getting ready, legally speaking, to be able to adopt these [camp] children as well.”

Not all of the Ukrainian children in Russia came by way of the camps. Others are evacuees, removed by Russian soldiers from areas of Ukraine that Russia’s shelling had made perilous. Anya belonged to this group. Still others were transferred through a process of filtration, in which they were separated from their parents at camps like Bezimenne, in Donetsk, where Russian forces detain and interrogate Ukrainian citizens in Russian-held territories. And then there are the children from Ukrainian orphanages raided by Russian troops, taken across the border to orphanages in Russia.

Many of these supposed orphans actually have parents: In both Ukraine and Russia, families who fall on hard times commonly send their children temporarily to orphanages, experts told me, expecting to later recover them. But once the children are in Russia, according to the OSCE report, “the Russian Federation does not take any steps to actively promote the return of Ukrainian children. Rather, it creates various obstacles for families seeking to get their children back.”

At the moment, the younger the child is, the bleaker the prospects of a return to Ukraine. The only children to have made it home so far, according to legal and human-rights advocates I spoke with, are those old enough to have called their parents or guardians—provided that they have any. Some of those who have made it home reported seeing younger children they knew in Russia—but with the carousel of stolen children still spinning, those sighted likely won’t stay in the same place for long.

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Saturday, December 28, 2024

Americans are exhausted by political news (AP) As a Democrat who immersed himself in political news during the presidential campaign, Ziad Aunallah has much in common with many Americans since the election. He’s tuned out. “People are mentally exhausted,” said Aunallah, 45, of San Diego. “Everyone knows what is coming and we are just taking some time off.” Television ratings—and now a new poll—clearly illustrate the phenomenon. About two-thirds of American adults say they have recently felt the need to limit media consumption about politics and government because of overload, according to the survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Smaller percentages of Americans are limiting their intake of news about overseas conflicts, the economy or climate change, the poll says.

Cutting the Deficit Is Easy—It’s Just Unpopular (WSJ) The federal deficit reached $1.8 trillion, or 6.4% of GDP, last fiscal year, a record outside of war, recession or emergency. Musk and Trump have promised to attack it by cutting federal spending. One simple step would be to stop adding to it. And yet last week neither stood in the way of Congress’s $300 billion in new spending. The reason is obvious: Spending is popular with voters and both parties. This is why commissions, think tanks and earnest outsiders have been papering Washington for decades with ideas to cut spending and the deficit—and mostly gotten nowhere.

Panama’s president calls Trump’s Chinese canal claim ‘nonsense’ (BBC) Panamanian President José Raúl Mulino has denied claims by US president-elect Donald Trump that there are Chinese soldiers stationed at the Panama Canal. In recent days Trump has threatened to take the canal back into US control, accusing Panama of “ripping off” the US by charging high shipping rates. In a message posted to his Truth Social account on Wednesday, Trump wrote: “Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal”. Mulino called the claim “nonsense” and said that there is “absolutely no Chinese interference”. Mulino also rejected the possibility of reducing tolls for US ships or ceding control of the canal, a major shipping channel which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. “The canal is Panamanian and belongs to Panamanians. There’s no possibility of opening any kind of conversation around this reality,” he said.

Finland Says Vessel Suspected of Cutting Cable May Be Part of Russia’s ‘Shadow Fleet’ (NYT) The Finnish authorities seized an oil tanker on Thursday on the suspicion that it was involved in cutting vital undersea cables and said the ship might have been part of Russia’s “shadow fleet,” aimed at evading Western sanctions. In a statement, the police in Finland said the authorities had boarded the Eagle S tanker in Finnish waters. The ship, which is registered in the Cook Islands in the South Pacific, had been sailing from St. Petersburg, Russia, to Port Said, Egypt, when it was detained. The police said they were investigating whether the vessel was involved in the cutting on Wednesday of the Estlink 2 submarine cable, which carries electricity between Finland and Estonia. The Finnish authorities said Thursday that four other cables carrying data also had been damaged. The police called the latest cable cuts “aggravated vandalism.” The Finnish authorities said the tanker might be part of Russia’s shadow fleet, which emerged as a way to circumvent Western-imposed price caps on Russian oil transported by sea.

Ukraine’s military intelligence says North Korean troops are suffering heavy battlefield losses (AP) North Korean troops are suffering heavy losses in the fighting in Russia’s Kursk region and facing logistical difficulties as a result of Ukrainian attacks, Ukraine’s military intelligence said Thursday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said earlier this week that 3,000 North Korean troops have been killed and wounded in the fighting in the Kursk region. It marked the first significant estimate by Ukraine of North Korean casualties several weeks after Kyiv announced that North Korea had sent 10,000 to 12,000 troops to Russia to help it in the almost 3-year war.

China’s Xi orders a stop to a spree of mass killings known as ‘revenge on society crimes’ (AP) The order came from the top. China’s leader Xi Jinping wants the recent spree of mass killings that shocked the country not to happen again. He ordered local governments to prevent future “extreme cases.” The attacks, where drivers mow down people on foot or knife-wielding assailants stab multiple victims, are not new in China. But the latest surge drew attention. In November alone, three took place: A man struck people at an elementary school in Hunan province, wounding 30, after suffering investment losses. A student who failed his examination stabbed and killed eight at a vocational school in the city of Yixing. The most victims, 35 people, resulted from a man mowing down a crowd in the southern city of Zhuhai, supposedly upset over his divorce. While pinpointing the exact motive of such attacks can be difficult, there is an overwhelming feeling of being pressured within Chinese society, experts say. “On the surface, it seems like there are individual factors, but we see there’s a common link,” Wu Qiang, a former political science professor, said. “This link is, in my personal opinion, every person has a feeling of injustice. They feel deeply that this society is very unfair and they can’t bear it anymore.”

Taiwan is preparing more than just the military for a China invasion (Business Insider) Taiwan's Presidential Office held its first-ever tabletop war games on Thursday in a sign of heightened tensions with Beijing. The exercise simulates a military escalation with China, which claims Taiwan as its territory. The three-hour wargame exercise involved central and local governments, as well as civil groups. It simulated various scenarios, including one in which self-governed Taiwan is "on the verge of conflict" and "high intensity" grey-zone warfare, Lai said. Liu Shyh-fang, Taiwan's interior minister, said the island's government aims to train over 50,000 volunteers to respond to emergencies by next year. Authorities hope to involve a range of people, including taxi drivers and security guards, in the effort.

South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly votes to impeach acting President Han (AP) South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly voted Friday to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo despite vehement protests by governing party lawmakers, further deepening the country’s political crisis set off by President Yoon Suk Yeol’s stunning imposition of martial law and ensuing impeachment. The impeachments of the country’s top two officials worsen its political turmoil, deepen its economic uncertainty and hurt its international image. The single-chamber National Assembly passed Han’s impeachment motion with a 192-0 vote. Lawmakers with the governing People Power Party boycotted the vote and surrounded the podium where assembly Speaker Woo Won Shik was seated and shouted that the vote was “invalid” and demanded Woo’s resignation. No violence or injuries were reported.

Israel Loosened Its Rules to Bomb Hamas Fighters, Killing Many More Civilians (NYT) At exactly 1 p.m. on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel’s military leadership issued an order that unleashed one of the most intense bombing campaigns in contemporary warfare. Effective immediately, the order granted mid-ranking Israeli officers the authority to strike thousands of militants and military sites that had never been a priority in previous wars in Gaza. Officers could now pursue not only the senior Hamas commanders, arms depots and rocket launchers that were the focus of earlier campaigns, but also the lowest-ranking fighters. In each strike, the order said, officers had the authority to risk killing up to 20 civilians. The order, which has not previously been reported, had no precedent in Israeli military history. Mid-ranking officers had never been given so much leeway to attack so many targets, many of which had lower military significance, at such a high potential civilian cost. It meant, for example, that the military could target rank-and-file militants as they were at home surrounded by relatives and neighbors, instead of only when they were alone outside. The military leadership changed its rules of engagement because it believed that Israel faced an existential threat, according to a senior military officer who answered questions about the order on the condition of anonymity.

Israel’s plan to double the number of settlers in the Golan Heights (AP) A dry mountain wind whipped through a cluster of Israeli flags at the entrance of a kibbutz in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, where the tranquility belies the tumultuous events unfolding nearby. Earlier this month, Syrian President Bashar Assad was ousted after nearly 25 years in power. Within hours, Israeli tanks rolled past a razor wire-reinforced fence into the Golan’s demilitarized buffer zone in Syria, created as part of a 1974 ceasefire between the countries. Israel said it was a temporary move to secure its border. Days later, the Israeli government approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s $11 million plan of financial incentives to double the population of Israeli settlers in the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Mideast war. Israel will “continue to hold onto it, make it flourish and settle it,” Netanyahu said. The international community, with one exception, considers the Golan to be occupied Syrian territory, while the United Nations lists Israeli settlements there as illegal. In 2019, the United States became the only country to recognize Israel’s 1981 annexation.

Israel Bombs Yemeni Airport and Ports After Houthi Missile Launches (NYT) The Israeli military on Thursday unleashed a significant air assault on parts of Yemen controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthi militia in retaliation for the group’s missile attacks against Israel, striking back at an adversary more than a thousand miles away. The Israeli assault comes after a week of the Houthis’ near-nightly launches of ballistic missiles and drones against Israel. At least four people were killed and 21 others injured in the attack on Thursday after Israel struck the international airport in Sana and the city of Al Hodeidah, the Saba state news agency said, citing Yemen’s Health Ministry.

Choir named world's oldest during Christmas concert (BBC) A choir with an average age of 94 have sung their way into the record books as they have been crowned the oldest in the world. The Prime Timers, made up of 17 members from seven care homes in Warwickshire, broke the Guinness World Record during a Christmas carol concert in Stratford-upon-Avon on Thursday. The singers, aged between 87 and 99, were joined at the Crowne Plaza Hotel by Tony Christie and the show was hosted by actor Sian Reeves, who advocates for therapeutic use of music. Speaking before the performance, member Chris Righton, 91, said he wasn't feeling nervous, adding: "You can't have nerves. You've got rid of them all by the time you're 90."

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US soldier detained in Russia after accusation of stealing

New York Post By Diana GlebovaPublished May 6, 2024, 3:36 p.m. ET An American soldier was arrested and is being held in Russia on charges of stealing, US officials confirmed Monday. Multiple reports identified the soldier as Staff Sgt. Gordon D. Black, who was arrested May 2 in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok, near Russia’s borders with North Korea and China. Black, 34, traveled to Russia on…

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Russia Will Keep U.S. Soldier in Custody for Months, Local Media Reports

The American soldier, Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, was detained last week. He was traveling home after being stationed in South Korea, according to the U.S. authorities. source https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/world/europe/us-soldier-detained-russia.html

[rennyji]

-pg 1-30 of old tweets right side up

"America-the nation that misled the world & let it astray w/what no country would think of. The evil of their govmt. is fed by their imagination for new ways 2 screw w/minorities.Their people worship their military&flag over God Himself.Those who serve in name, enslave in action.-",

"-for the Americans who hail from some Christian basis in ancestry or whatever, an instruction giving nation, getting the world to act in an otherwise questionable manner, sounds like the Biblical demon, Legion. What did he say? for we are many? Americans, for now, they are many.-",

"-Through instructions and shared stupidity, thanks for ruining an otherwise perfect world.",

"The American people, government, and their f*in military, in connection with the state university in Albany, is responsible for a 10+ year hate crime against a brown man. 10+ years of indignity, of a manipulated life, of a people united against one, under a common secret/notion.-",

"- I had everything in life before America took it away from me. The American public, under controlled positive public perception/opinion on my situation, probably, selfishly allowed this to transpire because they think it will protect their own, from a similar experience.-",

"- next time you wanna make a point, use one of your Aryans with pale skin and blonde hair. F* me for minding my own business. -",

"- saw the Netflix series ‚Manifest‚. Something extraordinary happens to a good group of people. And then the American government!Coming to detain, experiment, restrict- and oh the experimentation, while the rest of the Americans in the show is lost under the delusion of miracles-",

"-Guess which nation allowed their dirty laundry to spread and corrupt the rest of the world? Thank goodness that oceans protect the rest of the continents from this disease in thinking.-",

"-why fear the military? Aside from a select energized few, no one is leaping to go abroad and get a leg amputated.-",

"-These are people who needed opportunity, a leg up, a chance at an education or job, and willing to make the hard choice of risk, and then being praised for a choice on self interest.It‚part of American propaganda?-",

"-The over emphasis and parading of the flag‚I bet half of you can‚t even say why you post these things on your cars and houses‚lemme guess, the neighbors are doing it‚-",

"-and now the flowery crowd jumps to ‚why so angry/mean‚‚oh I‚m sorry I don‚t like prostituting my life for show, an experience that, mind reading, mind control, Lord knows what ‚ get real‚-",

"-posers & talkers, I‚m robbed of my life & opportunity for 10 years while getting to eat ice cream‚but sure, having my values/faith/family/life/mind/body/dignity violated, is no match for the god like military in their neuroscience arms race using weaker minds for amputations.-",

"- and for breaking the fourth wall, don‚t like me? when somehow, for frills in your life, you decided to stalk mine? Are you serious? Are lives that boring? Here‚the takeaway, while you lose yourself to a word or sentence that offended you, amidst a larger picture: -",

"-Wake up America. There‚more of you than in ur government or military. U shouldn‚t be submissive.-",

"-When have Americans trusted anything federal? So why now? B/c of the random allure of fame& fortune? ‚People shouldn‚t be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.‚",

November 2nd and November 3rd Tweets of 2021 right side up/in order in tumblr blog link below...  https://t.co/3poXfpB8QX

something that wasn't tweeted in a separate tumblr blog post...  https://t.co/nTJCIhQodA

"How many American soldiers does it take to screw in a light bulb? Will it take them 12 years in the same way they left me to rot in the Albany school cr*p?",

"Americas military&federal govmnt-a bunch of pigFaced controlFreaks where itsAllAboutThe literal&figurative bacon..oinkOink right @ U..go Russia/China/Cuba/Germany/MiddleEast..USA InEvery1‚business 4 tech&oil..now its individualLives..tryActuallyDoingUrJobs: f*in publicServants.",

"It‚said during the end times, the armies of the devil face off against Christ&His angels or followers in 1 last fight‚you wonder who‚so arrogant&stupid‚American infidels! You would fight God Himself out of the grievances of ur own life and blame game against Him‚-",

- Just like my situation The American armies will tell their stupidly cocky young/middle aged to follow an instruction amidst the hateful faces of their rosy elderly towards the victim. Burn in h*  https://t.co/nvE20FQPkn are the demons Legion for like Legion u r many.

"- who goes where they‚re not wanted ‚ the meddlesome nature of the American middle aged in a 12year situation ‚ have some dignity and move on‚ ur invincibility comes from ur propaganda wielding military with flag postings everywhere‚-",

"-and then the high end commercials to get young people to kill themselves‚it‚through tricking the. They‚re going to be in high end facilities working on high end projects. You‚re just expendable near for the higher ups to throw into the desert.-",

"There isNone amongNations more twisted&devious than America. EnergyVampires as they‚ll suckTheLife outOf u w/ their high&mighty talk,&fictitious values thatDiedThru generations ofLosing religion&cultural roots. They take pride in beingPirates. Their successes&knowledge areStolen.",

"Looks like Albany school and their a*s grabbing lovers in the military gave their next pretext/introduction/warning/context..get ur own lives..12 years of mine, so u rot in jail, get hung, face the electric chair..face me in person u disgusting non a*s wiping demons playing god",

"Bow wow, what barks like a dog&sits&stands like a dog upon its masters commands? Ans: the following of god like Albanyites&their govmt friends stealing my clearly inflated citizenship rights..American govmt. wants U to be their dogs. take a hint so u eat swine & don‚t obey them.",

"Oh gee, I wonder if I told my white slave owners things that will give me a spanking thru mind  f*ks 4 being quote on quote, ‚bad‚‚yeah god like American swine govmt. likes bad boys‚they jack off to people obeying their infinite commandments aroundSome1 who doesn‚t know U exist",

"GetThis: asPartOfAnother unbelievableWay of ‚Äòjustifying‚ 12+ yrs ofGettingAll involved againstMe, American militaryOverlords want 2 beatMe 2 be their crucifiedModel 4 allHopelessCases in paganChristianNamesakeAmerica 2 compare/feelOk. Sorry,noHope 4 any1. Remember, u got no 1.",

"12 yrs of usingMy voice&writing 2 escape my prison. Albanyites,American F*BI, govmt, military-whatever violates citizenship rights-want 2 delude aPopulation. 12 years so I can win aLotto&kiss a*s?‚wat planet were u born on? RememberFrom12 yrs: WordsWillNotSave U. ProofInTime.",

"in 2012, I wanted my life returned 2 normal. I was all pleases/thankUs/& literally telling police I‚ll lick their feet if they lend me an ear. & then yrs later to find out they were all part of it. I wrote clearly 2 stop acting on my behalf,-",

"-I tippy tied around feelings, gaveStory Examples. 12 years later, yeah I couldn‚t give a flying f*k. I am trying to peel off everyone like a scab without the pleasure.-",

"-I have my loved ones, my community, why to even bother in 2012 for the sake of leaving things intact, I dunno‚doesn‚t affect me beyond having to see ur stupid faces from the corner of my eye or something. Do me and ur selves a favor and f* off.",

"get a hobby.I was pretty clear I want nothing to do w/broader range of Americans beyond day to day transactions. I pay for something or go to work, then I‚m out, back to my world.-",

"-I said Im not ur friend/enemy. I said I didn‚t even want 2 be in ur heads, let alone ur lives. 12 years&this..some get a high from injecting their dullSelvesIn LivesOfOthers. My retarded situation aside, I steer clear of all u partakers for yrs. Take a hint from a clear mind.",

Anyone who believes in anything wouldn‚t allow anything to happen to anyone for 12 years. That‚help: ending someone‚torment rather than listening to douche pickles on the next thing to say/do for another 12 years‚America‚insane much‚   https://t.co/p466YHadBM

"America‚it‚military, it‚bureaucracy ‚ it stole more than 12 years from my life to further their mind project against my will ‚. Their biggest excuse to the tantalizing news prone public is I wasn‚t supposed to know ‚-",

"- these several years haven‚t been kind and I don‚t anticipate joy and laughter towards the end‚for making me into a fool, a body to be instructed around for every American young and old (I.e. a prostitute) I hope to God for the justice He have Samson against the Philistines ‚-",

"- except justice is from holding americas federal govmt, law enforcement, & military accountable‚Im tired despite my composure over living, in awareness, a massive head game‚-",

- I hope for a moment like Will Smith‚character in the clip in the link below against the white demons with the superiority complex looking to feed on the helpless from ‚I Am Legend‚ from 1 min into it or the last 47 seconds:   https://t.co/wDkA2uGM4I

"- For the 6 continents that were led astray by the America Legion demon, influencing the world around one Indian man just trying to push forward with his life or mind his business, you should see the Netflix 2021 movie, #DontLookUp",

"DontLookUp",

"- ‚Don‚t Look Up‚ depicts American reactions, government abuse of power and government officials, the handling of/misleading truths around a crisis, relationships, secularism -",

"- &finally,2end continuedThought of tweets, dashed @ start, on2021 Christmas w/darkSkies in N.Y., inPlace ofSunOrSnow, w/America‚useOf psychology&sedation as threat 2 control/discipline thePublic &their ‚drunken-urHigh‚ perspectives, #DontLookUp is theUSA lookingInto aMirror.",

"DontLookUp",

"The way some of U react or see whole thing going on w/me: its truly remarkable how out of the loop U are with a 12+ year phenomena. TantalizingNewsUSA doesn‚t realize lack of complexity2it&clever hand of the government 2 manipulate a past crime done ‚unto‚ me 4 aMilitaryProject.",

Regarding Americans using my life like Im their prostitute its like 37 secs in2 this clip till end of it: Neville says ‚theyre not gonna stop‚then U see deranged Americans unable2face off against a person in personenjoying power over others..12+ years.  https://t.co/wDkA2uGM4I

"#DontLookUp¬† represents ignorance of America (be it guy on street or a newscaster), deception by America‚government toward its people, the lack of seriousness & severity encouraged by U.S. government from its people, & psychological disorders in typical American, undiagnosed.",

"DontLookUp",

"Had 2update bio‚4 whatever reason, was not clear 2 point, where typical American, misleading a world looking to hope/believe/trust brand name of ‚America‚, thinks the arrow/spotlight is on them: the enablers.People haveBeenInPrison 4 shorter periods than my 12+year enslavement.",

"MindControl/attempts @ mindReading..theres a thought..USA may cleverly 1 day pass it off as brainMappingProject on1 guy w/fancy terms like predictiveAnalytics. AsTrueAs Im human asNextGuy, typicalAmerican willSpread thisProblem 2entireWorld..govmt‚ll sayItsHoax, &AmericansBelieve",

Oh look it‚the cr*ppy American flag that its superficial pretend polite people worship first and foremost along with their military‚military and flag takes precedence for them over family and even God Himself‚they have the nerve to create the expression ‚‚Bless America‚   https://t.co/USY0dF7e6e

In my 12+ year predicament where my American citizenship rights were denied with it being longer than some prison sentences you realize the sh*tyy  value of America‚it‚label is good for wiping urself‚is that cr*p or mud below?‚who knows‚hopefully cr*p‚   https://t.co/GxfokQNNGk

"from my experience, the military could be looking for a way to induce states of mind at their whim like DiCaprios character in the ‚The Wolf of Wall Street‚, where, depending on the need or situation, he does Marijuana and cocaine.-",

"- It‚the military‚new covert way of tormenting brown people from Asia. They can now discreetly screw w/ peoples heads by a thought or button push. Want a real example? Google ‚HAELO PEMF device‚. in the same way u induce focus w/ the device, the military screws thru ur brain.",

"RT @RennyJi: MindControl/attempts @ mindReading..theres a thought..USA may cleverly 1 day pass it off as brainMappingProject on1 guy w/fanc

Falling victim to the U.S. ...  https://t.co/x3R93I0nua

Transcript to vimeo video plus *additional stuff (updated 2/26/22):  https://t.co/FrsHIOqTkS

price of being an american citizen...  https://t.co/llVt40IoPD

transcript for second video in previous tweet...where style of talking may cause ambiguity and result in need to see talk in writing:  https://t.co/sXs81n2xIx

foul play when just one person is out of the loop...  https://t.co/vPt8uKIgMS

transcript for third and last video...  https://t.co/acH48FMHUY

"‚People don‚t want news‚they want entertainment‚‚ - ‚The Morning Show‚ on Apple TV

"‚People want stories‚not facts‚‚ - Apple TV show: ‚Suspicion‚",

"- and as a result, as I‚ve been saying for more than a decade, people forget everything in the midst of what‚tantalizing‚no one cares what really happens nor for how long-more than a decade

"White people and their dogs.. Nice evening walk? Leash your dog. Want to listen to your ape overlords to get my attention or forge a coincidence? Wave and I‚ll know also you want my attention. When you go to Home Depot with your dog, white guy, leash your dog

"- that‚two in the same day‚people who don‚t leash their dogs‚careful you might hurt your friendly neighborhood minority minding his own business‚Americans stick to the business of your country folk

"So something federal with America, turns me in, essence, to their porno. They‚ll go so far as to turn my own blood against me. As they‚ve been doing this for more than decade, I kinda got old in between. Children, play games with someone else. Parents, I‚m me because that is me.-",

"-No point 2 whatever alien knowledge comes ur way. Foreign community in my vicinity takes it upon themselves 2 know what Im thinking while American overlords screw w/my brain as a leash, while open season on me from those who otherwise wouldn‚t bust a grape in a fruit fight

"Just walking by the tv with the news on, and I hear there‚another shooting‚-",

"- so to be clear, I‚m not out to make grand points to save the world‚but moving past that, I think the shooters were all white‚I think, don‚t quote me, when a perpetrator is white, they don‚t say it was a white man or Caucasian man‚-",

"- you know what‚ironic? Something federal with America has taken away my rights, freedoms, privacy.-",

"- Apparently for the Americans and their society and country, (ur retarded if you think I‚m one of you with a decade plus of everyone holding a secret against me), they‚ve made it open season to cause me problems‚they‚ve even coerced or brainwashed family into it‚-",

"- but what am I getting at? Multiple recent shootings. Shooters are probably all white.-",

"- for those attacking Israel, I learned in a high school history class there‚a concept in Islam called ‚People of the Book.‚ Maybe Google it along w/ word ‚Quran.‚ The beliefs of Islam were conveyed to Mohammed via the Angel Gabriel- the same angel who spoke 2 the Virgin Mary.-",

"- ‚People of the Book‚ is a concept Muslims cannot or maybe should not attack Jews and Christians. They‚re not what was considered pagans or maybe even the term infidel. But Islamic extremists attack Christians and Jews, despite the common ancestry in being Abrahamic religions.-",

"- for someone like a stereotypical Trump supporter, on the other side of the spectrum, did you know that even Muslims believe Jesus is returning in the end times? The difference is that they see Jesus as a great prophet and not The God.-",

- and on the topic of Trump supporters has anyone else seen this?:  https://t.co/CN2h5rSXDf

"- passion like the insurrection on the capitol is admirable, maybe even enviable. But was it thought through? You march. ok. The colonists threw tea bags out against the British with the Boston Tea Party. You break glass to get into the building and then what?-",

"- are you expecting the 350+ million people in America to follow a new code of conduct? What if everyone behaved that way? And they have, like with the storming of 200 people at an Apple Store in Philadelphia. -",

"- Trump is a talented guy. period. But is everyone ignoring the elephant in the room? He speaks in the vernacular or common tongue of a typical American. He knows that those speaking that tongue like a certain passion and certain topics.-",

"- Knowing this, Trump shouldn‚t say things like not to show weakness, or we‚re going to ‚take back‚ a stolen election. I‚m still confused? Did anyone actually do a recount of the votes/ballot? What is the stolen election based on?-",

"- after the insurrection, Trump posts a tweet and says I love you: what about the people who died or were assaulted, the property damage, the people who got arrested? Regarding those arrested, right now, are they caring about trump‚‚I love you?‚ Will they be freed from prison?-",

"- Trump is smart is stirring the fervor with his supporters. He knows that fervor can be used with his mentality of ‚get even‚ vs. not getting down or losing.-",

"- That fervor gives him an unhealthy amount of power with a militaristic group of people after saying to court clerks that something should happen to them. -",

"- all that said, Trump is a smart guy: but I don‚t see why a boarder wall got an appropriation bill passed in support, after his administration. Now because the money was raised for that, Biden has to use it for that.-",

"- But if it was done sooner like a Great Wall of China style, the migrant crisis might not be as bad. You make all this fuss about illegal immigration, but then legally, under the label of migrant, people come over, inciting the reaction of the American natives who are jobless.-",

"- I don‚t understand this thing with the wording behind laws. Apparently under the Impediment act, if another president wanted a bill passed for a wall, the next president can‚t use the money for anything else. In this case, a wall should be built.-",

"- There‚no room for being sentimental about it. Your not hurting someone by maintaining the structure of a country. For proponents, it‚like they‚re saying, why can‚t we have more illegal immigration.-",

"- you can get into the country by claiming asylum but you can‚t cross the border. The play on words when dealing with legalities doesn‚t make sense to me. People need to interpret the law, not follow it blindly.-",

"- It‚about something as basic as strict constructionists vs. loose constructionists. Interpret law & it will work for all times and seasons. Even Christ took it up with the Pharisees when their law prevented some1 from saving someone in a hole. Some1 falls, U help them up.-",

"- but to close the lid on Trump, it‚a little unnerving when there‚this group of orchestrators spinning the world against you. I know first hand. He should take out of his language indirect and direct threats.-",

"- and then there‚Congress-The House with its Republican majority. I think the term of Speaker of the House is 2 years. When ousting your speaker, consider its only been 10 months. When trying to get rid of him, consider however much he accomplished in the limited time.-",

"- the world is a dynamic fast moving place. One week a country is at peace, and then war.-",

"-Yet, American govmt. & overlords want 2 harass me, when Im just working or going on w/my life is it 2 test my level of irritation? Looks like while Americans wasted time on me, they let hostile people/shooters looking like them, on multiple occasions, cause chaos 4 their people.",

"If ur bored, I haven‚t tweeted anything in a while, &if U want 2 bother throwing ur precious time my way, read the last 10 tweets, going backwards‚read from the 10th tweet down and all the way up to the most recent tweet (since that‚twitter‚tweet order) -food for thought

How the American Christians refer to any notion of God as heard in this clip (for them life and it‚problems are God‚fault not because of theirs their governments and the failings of others in their vicinity)‚they‚ll wave the flag but they curse the idea of God‚  https://t.co/VXfeDxbTRU

The double standard of the American whites vs immigrants and the rest of the colored residents of the world:  https://t.co/kS4029zdnF

"Was watching a movie and heard about how American satellites roam the earth, keeping tabs on all nations. It has to do with their D.O.D.‚paranoid approach to defense. If you weren‚t bad people trying to control everyone else‚actions, you‚d probably have nothing to worry.-",

"- America creates nukes 4the sky, water, earth, they try 2 seize Afghanistan 2 have a foothold in Middle East‚so the U.S. can have nukes, america-in practical approach, though not on paper-can expand territory‚but if any1 else does what the U.S. does, theyll gang up on them.-",

"- America expanded their control from what nations as a whole do, to what individuals in those nations do, with their far reaching mind control/mind reading. and they cover it up with the rantings of the idiot Albany based arrogance who think they know everything. -all parasites.",

"Exerting control, dating back 2 white mans subconscious desire 4 slavery over physically superior counterparts, & ganging up on all who differ from them-all part of American lust 4 dominance.Control &forms of ganging up on individuals/countries is their theme.",

"An extended thought-",

"-So America has shown its prowess in being a nuclear power. In 1998, India had to fight against all odds to reach that same status because America didn‚t want someone else competing with them, despite China and Pakistan being nuclear powers in the region. -",

"-After India succeeds in joining the ranks, America ‚retaliates‚ with sanctions/restrictions. So everyone else has to listen and obey the all knowing Americans on a massive continent, by themselves, across oceans?-",

"-It‚this thing with the white race‚other groups try to live well, but for those like Americans, living well is boring. They need to overstretch ambition and conquer other lands.-",

"-Nowadays it‚through propaganda and economics while getting on, at bare bones, Putins case, for a less hidden agenda for Ukraine. -",

"-People of the American conquerors, feel, in midst of that ambition, that they need 2educate world by erasing other peoples cultures&values, cuz theyre thinking is they‚re Asguardians from Thor or the advanced race. Theyre doing this w/my family&me. Sadists? Sociopaths? Psychos?-",

"-And in India & abroad, now they‚re replacing Indian means of establishing mental strength w/ psychiatric meds that not even the creators fully understand. Like I said in previous tweets, Americans are into ‚control‚ & ‚ganging up‚ on others when they cannot have that control. -",

"-When India disobeyed the Americans, they get other nations to express disapproval and pass sanctions. Control and ganging up again. In my life, the Americans wanted to steal from my family and me. Greedy opportunists.-",

"-So they exert supreme control over my life and get a nation to withhold the truth to my situation from me. What? Do the American stalkerish audience disagree? Is there a lie in that sentence? Does America not exert supreme control over my family and my life? -",

"-Again control and ganging up. Then there are what the Americans do in their workplaces and schools. In schools, the ones with the attention, gang up on, or harass those they view beneath them.-",

"-At the workplace, you could end up in a scenario where the entertainment hungry zombies in your vicinity, gang up on an individual so that they can react or listen to their supposed thoughts or results from invasion of privacy.-",

"-America is all about control and ganging up on those they cannot control. Look away youth, find amusement elderly, truth is truth, ur all a piece of work and deserve each other.-",

"- and that‚the end of the extended thought, starting backward from 12 or so tweets ago. That‚in addition to the other tweets from earlier today, on, 6/24/22 .",

"I think when most people shop for coke or cola or soda, they typically buy what‚on sale. Sure companies like Coca Cola and Pepsi try to push their brands as something more attractive, but I don‚t think people are that picky when it comes to the taste between them.",

"Coca Cola is iconic. It has less sugar than Pepsi, the last time I checked, which admittedly was years ago. I think for subtle taste buds, that small decrease in sweetness adds to the taste.  It‚not heavily advertised like Pepsi with its Michael Jackson sponsored concerts‚-",

"U can now get the Mexico sugar cane glass old school Coca Cola bottles at Chipotles or an H mart. I think at ShopRite you can get medium& small sized plastic bottles. Ive heard not so pro male rumors about Pepsi‚other brand Mountain Dew.Comparatively, I think Sprite is better.",

"I like how Pepsi adopted the blue color for its bottles after yrs of a predominantly white can. But there‚a nice feel to bottles Coca Cola uses vs the dominant can style drinks of Pepsi.-",

"Maybe Ive had Coca Cola polar bear engraved in mind from Christmas time, but I prefer that during holidays. Maybe it‚the red color of the can/bottle during the green&red Christmas colors season‚combine it w/a possible white (from snow) Christmas,&U feel like a cozy polar bear.",

"But Pepsi has arguably some good brands. Like Tropicana for instance. But they sell a same taste less sugar version called Trop50 for a higher price. Doesn‚t it cost more to add more sugar? Or is the cost of the added sugar less than the cost of charging more for less sugar? -",

"Trop50- the less sugar version of Tropicana orange juice should just be the regular Tropicana. With obesity on the rise, why bother with the added sugar?",

"Something that Pepsi did right is the Bubly brand. While you get a watered down version of it for free at the PepsiCo locations, what they sell in the cans has sugar free reasonable flavor. It‚a great alternative to seltzer or even water.-",

"I personally drink Bubly after adding two capfuls of the separately purchased flavor to the 1 liter of carbonated water from my SodaStream machine.-",

"Bubly is good for home drinking, but if I were 2 buy soda at Chipotles or McDonalds, for whatever reason, I‚m inclined 2 buy pre-made/pre-bottled Coca Cola. Maybe it‚because I cannot make that with water and a soda stream machine.-",

"But Pepsi seems to acquire some solid brands. It has Pizza Hut pizza (though I also like the Brooklyn style pizza of Dominos or the Little Caesars good low price pizza). It has Starbucks, though I think America is missing out on Nescaf√© Dolce Gusto coffees‚-",

"But that said, regarding Pepsis and Coca Colas 2nd-ary brands like Mountain Dew or Sprite, respectively, I think after a workout, if I want sugar, Sprite in its lime flavor would be more favorable/refreshing than Mountain Dew. But then lime flavor Bubly isn‚t a bad choice either.",

"- I guess the overall point I‚m trying to make is why companies charge more for less sugar or what makes us choose one brand over the other in terms of similar products‚-",

"Another ominous type thing probably worth breaking my silence here and elsewhere, in plain English, is:Has anyone noticed the amount of blue eyed people in movies or amongst American actors? I started watching Charlie Wilson‚War, &U just seem to see a lot of blue eyed people.-",

"Blue eyes, genetically, is a less common trait- I think. So whats w/all blue eyed people in American cinema? that said, eye color seems 2 be a good way of establishing commonality or national identity in a country like America where people are of different skin tone&features.",

"I guess it‚a conspiracy like everything else‚mind reading, mind control, the addition of unneeded sugars to drinks, surge of blue eyes in cinema, lack of cholesterol free whole eggs at a time of genetically engineering strawberries to be more flavorful & bigger‚conspiracy..",

"There‚something that keeps me up at night‚Y R Bollywood movies leaving iconic song/dance just to 1 at the end of a movie, if any? Movies like Kal Ho Na Ho, Main Hoon Na‚w/their songs, their plots, were an experience 2 have. Songs like Mahi Ve were 2 mimic @ family functions-",

"- Movies like Dobaarra, from 2022, have an interesting spin to stories or plots to a movie‚but ur losing opportunity 4 songs & dance‚Bhangra Paa Le‚feel like that‚a rare window 2the evolution of dance & opportunity 4 dance, in terms of movies that make opportunity 4 dance‚-",

I miss mid movie song and dance in my Hindi movies like:  https://t.co/zNliFc7UL2

Or like   https://t.co/5wiBZlh6fQWhen women were more feminine in behavior

- it when my all time favorite actress Juhi Chawla danced to rhythmic beats   https://t.co/FDGotk40bn

Or beats like   https://t.co/BAxE9TaZFE

A song from every family function  https://t.co/6MXH7OjvMB

A song too cool for one period in time:  https://t.co/xAb4tghlB4

A song with insanely synchronized dance movements:  https://t.co/fVPOgeACep

A favorite  https://t.co/Td1WYefdEI

One of the few modern Indian music videos thanks to the millennials:  https://t.co/axiQodpN5Y

"Hey Bollywood, do me a favor&come back w/ immersive movies again‚some of us are prisoners of the mind&need our escape‚bring back female actresses that are very much in ur face & womanly like Juhi Chawla or Madhuri Dhixit or Sri Devi or Ameesha Patel‚-",

"- modern day actresses look like girls, not women. I‚m a guy who looks like he‚from the 80s with my sideburns and once voluminous hair. I need someone who matches at least for vicarious living through movies in my controlled restricted life, all thanks to the Americans

"But Bollywood seriously, make movies every 10 seconds like you used to‚ I have no life‚I rely on the frequent release of movies‚COVID is over‚no excuses‚need a taste of home with the Americans doing as they please with peoples lives for more than a decade

"Apparently bouncing boy from the Legion of Superheroes finds it ok to include my properties doorstep on his apparent walk around the neighborhood‚where do these guys come from? You‚re on tape

"So, when in a situation, where ur constantly on the spot, and the American government ‚enables‚ people to express their true a*s hole selves, the remarkable thing is:-",

"- it‚usually people compensating for something/some1 making themselves feel better by screwing another, some loser, some person who cannot get a date - an undesirable sort- that takes advantage of the aforementioned opportunity from the government‚take a hike Ike

"But now something more civil-",

"Speaking of superhero ‚shows,‚ as there is no hero in life, - get a load of these pics:-",

Some of these are examples of what animation used to look like I.e. mature:   https://t.co/wy4NNwIgB4

- now look at animation of modern marvel tv shows:   https://t.co/wDSHXIG6BI

Look at the childish plot descriptions of modern shows for kids :   https://t.co/sKChqBk61T

- Now look at plot descriptions for shows like the x men series from the 90s:   https://t.co/vbYZtkDUJe

- here are some more mature animation for kids:   https://t.co/qNOoSB1jAP

Compare the plots from left to right. The first is animation following the 2000s. The latter two are from the 90s. The first pics plot is ‚Spidey gets the hiccups‚(actual hiccups). In the 90s the plot was about time travel or the phoenix saga or the apocalypse  https://t.co/2UvPIwB2n4

"It‚like with everything in the modern day. At companies like PepsiCo, you have to bow down to your fearless leader or boss at every random whim and ask permission to send emails‚random stuff‚ or you could be the one technical guy isolated to not be able to answer questions

"In the modern day, if ur found drunk and walking aimlessly on the street, you don‚t get a ‚good talking to,‚ you don‚t get sentenced to jail for overnight precautions, you get sent to the behavioral health or psych ward centers

"- some guy could‚ve just had a retarded night and you use up tax dollars and above all, space, for mentally ill people‚it‚probably because of these stupid redirects to mental health facilities, the real psychos are shooting up schools ‚-",

"u can go2a Macys nowadays&have staff stalk U 2another counter if, @ the first, U didn‚t get help sought. 4 having serious face of a dark skinned individual or a  face of opposite playful faced Caucasians, (contrasting 2 what‚rooted in Middle East), Ull be told u make girls cry.",

"- &then overall emphasis that people in powerful positions put people in less powerful/vulnerable positions‚they say things like theyre following some protocol, theyll try 2 control U by saying ur aggressive, not calm 2 instill a reaction, or make u look psychologically impaired",

"If psychology were as effective as religion used to be, or if better medications and counseling were available, as people in the modern day claim, why are their shootings by, contrary to perception, by all these white people (yeah sorry no offense)‚wtf

"A common theme that applies just about  in every facet of American life: forms of quantity are placed as more important than quality in things‚America preaches better mental health or civilized people‚like saying ‚all these things are going well for us‚‚ I.e. ‚all things‚, -",

"- but quality wise, there is no clear evidence of civil people or sound psychology‚you have kids threatening schools with guns‚and you waste time throwing the village idiot or the local drunkard in psych wards for wandering aimlessly on the street while inebriated

"Then there‚the bureaucracy in America and it‚government. Just because the constitution doesn‚t specifically say you cannot f* someone in the head, doesn‚t mean it is now a good thing to do. You need a degree or license for common sense?!-",

"- Three branches of government, where the legislative alone, with the house and senate, it‚a circus to make a decision it takes forever to carry out stupid proclamations and petty decisions on not so hard subjects‚people frown at kings and dictators‚-",

"- but the way kings and dictators work? They have a council for advise and one guy makes a decision on sound advise. In America, you have all these people debating healthcare for all, or something simple to talk about‚healthcare for being expensive is the source of contention?-",

"- do any of you realize how much Uncle Sam takes from peoples paychecks and 401ks and purchases? If you make six figures exactly like $100,000, about $40,000 goes to taxes. It‚un-f*in-believable.  That‚from one person making a half decent salary.-",

"- there‚at least 350 million people in America. Imagine if just $10,000 was coming from every person. what is govmt. doing w/all this money? & then f*me if U own a house. Do U know 4 a square plot of land or walking space in a big enough livingRoom, thats $10,000 property tax?",

"If you buy something that‚3-$400, there‚close to another $100 with tax. Now multiply that by the American population a 100 times more for groceries, electronics, new phones‚-",

"Get this.The orchestrators of my situation want 2 make my life hard after showings it‚so nice. Im trying 2 get where they come from. Some of these guys have never hard a decent meal. It‚remarkable that outside of Greek or Asian households, people thrive on turkey sandwiches.-",

"-am I getting screwed over by people angry they‚re eating turkey sandwiches? You pick up on pieces of insight from American Idol type shows. The dream for some of these guys is ‚cruising down sunset boulevard with a hamburger in hand‚‚ your dream is a hamburger?! -",

"- the millennials‚they‚re feeding off of ramen noodle once a day diets? After super expensive educational degrees and now masters degrees? Your lives in this first world country are truly incredible. Try relocating to India or China where ur American salary has more weight.-",

"- in such places, ur rent for a fingerprint scanner door apartment thats fully furnished is $50 a month. Try getting an apartment in Westchester, NY that‚fully furnished, for less than $2000. Then utilities. The people, the govmt., lifestyle, expenses in America: simply warped.",

"There‚a show with the actress from Echoes or Source Code or Eagle Eye, called ‚The Messiah‚ on Netflix or maybe it‚‚Al Mesi‚ the man with the gift in the show tells Americans president to withdraw troops for promoting peace globally.-",

"- it‚just gets a person to think‚when America gets involved in Ukraine or Afghanistan, it‚to promote American footholds and strongholds abroad. Under imperialistic goals, you can about it through wars, economics, or here‚a good one: ‚genuine altruism‚ and style.-",

"-English is now a universal language, & if U were 2 give an upgrade 2 these dilapidated buildings or life circumstances 4 the people living in those harsh conditions of temperature, lack of common language, lack of electricity or other utilities, theyll naturally be pro-American.",

"- Approach can make such a difference. You want to ‚look like‚ you care, then ‚act like‚ you care. America, on top of all the taxes wants to make money, then I dunno sell weapons to the Ukrainians rather than sending an American abroad.-",

"- When you think about it, there‚a lot of scamming done in America. In what sense? For one thing, you have people waving American flags and saying mechanically ‚made in America‚ or ‚thank you to troops‚.-",

"- Y is it instead of training Ukrainians or enlightening Afghanis into leaders of their own troops or providing tools/weapons, ur having 1 of ur countrymen-an American- go there & risk getting killed? Ur basically asking some1 to trade their future, their life 4 those on a plane.",

"- Why is someone else‚life more important than urs? Aren‚t we all equal? It‚about ‚approach,‚ ‚practical kinds of education, quality over quantity of sorts‚but I guess the richest country in the world has to first evolve past turkey sandwiches and mayonnaise

I got this from Amazon. Where do they get the gall to send this wet or dried up sticky wet box to me? You spend $40 on something and get cr*ply product packaging. It‚like someone dropped dish washing liquid on it or carelessly handled someone‚purchase‚   https://t.co/MEIKwQXJiI

The horrible packaging that Amazon puts customers through‚dented boxes that are either partially open or poorly taped‚once again: that theme about quality over quantity‚Amazon doesn‚t seem to be getting it.   https://t.co/NkMjd6qa6A

"And has anyone else noticed the stench of marijuana in front of a string of stores on a strip or in a mall parking garage? The amount of alcohol and depressant type things going around‚realize it‚a gift to be awake and have free will‚-",

"- maybe from the lack of health insurance, people are self medicating with things like marijuana to alleviate anxiety in driving or life stressors or to drown themselves out in repetitive type jobs

"And over the last 16 years of my life, I‚ve run across several people who have bad eye sight.-",

"- There are people who are just about blind in a way that can be corrected by glasses or contacts or LASIK but cannot afford to, or whose health insurance doesn‚t cover it. Disturbingly, they‚re the same people driving on the same road as you for years at a time.",

"How hard is a good idea? Rotating spins or centripetal force might be the way 2 travel at speed of light w/ a few thrusts of air in different directions. Time travel might be possible with a y-shaped flux capacitor where the shape allows it to harness the energy from lightning.-",

"- get off the drugs and think. Maybe a way to prevent cat accidents is to have people enter a speedway of sorts where the speed is commanded by the highway and through repelling magnetism people are prevented from tailgating.-",

"- a good idea can be as simple as a swivel keyboard tray that you can park under your desk with a clamp by rotating it. But even for that, America waits for a China to think of it, as evidenced through Amazon dot com inventory

"Maybe like Marty to Doc Brown, in Back to the Future,‚all the best things are from Japan‚ will be a sentiment that can be extended in the form of ‚all the best ideas are from China‚‚",

The devolution of the Teen Titans:   https://t.co/Ox2bLI7D7j

DC in the 2020s   https://t.co/oODPdHvuVh

More befores and afters with animation from Marvel/DC movies (from mature drawings to immature caricatures):  https://t.co/leMj8Mvme9

"devolution of super hero shows is like something from the Idiocrasy movie.People nowadays are high/sedated & mindlessly going along w/inane plots behind some of these shows‚from experience, Americans will laugh at anything. Some1 trips in Americas Funniest Videos, people laugh.",

"&while concept of multiverse allows multiple spins on stories of characters like Batman or Superman, someone‚gotta realize we‚re constantly coming up with changes to the lives of these characters from the 1950s. We need newer characters&stories like Static Shock introED in 90s-",

And they screwed up the faces the background of all the Scooby Doo characters‚why mess with the classics? Next thing will be The Flintstones and The Jetsons on HBO Max‚things messing with a persons nostalgia of these shows:   https://t.co/XoBLHfzxsr

"gun shot related rap feuds seem 2 be over ‚he said this/she said that‚. so if some1 is, 4 lack of better word, ‚hurt‚ by some1‚insult, is it just me, or isAffected individual so overwhelmed, that he shoots some1?! Where is psychiatry in such situations? Probably notLimited 2rap",

"In my day, I think, among theThings that piss me off, it‚how Apple‚feature request website hasn‚t responded/addressed my concern over their x large screen onThe iWatch Ultra. That concern being, ‚Y can‚t we skip thru a playing music track by sliding fingers on watch screen?!‚",

AmazonOriginal ‚Invincible‚ is a long awaited newAngle/newCharacters/newStoryLine 2 the superHeroScene. Hope theyll hurry up w/Season 2 - That &newStories 2the DragonBall saga. 4 that series can‚t get enough episodes but need something newer than another super saiyan level.   https://t.co/EF1xig0vjn

"I think the 90s were a time when people were quite opinionated about violence in TV like mighty morphin power rangers or dragon ball z. I think its been slowly laying the tracks for this ‚U cannot react‚ 2 anything, anywhere or adding 2 the list of whats socially acceptable.-",

"- maybe people are looking at present day violence like shootings in school, the wrong way. Maybe it‚because you have people implode or keep things in, that you get such violent acts. Outlets like the gym are needed to release or practice accumulated aggression,-",

"- with something like the Dragon Ball Z series, the ones making commotion are pristine American people with time to think- I don‚t know how to say that nicely. I mean these are the people who ground their kids in place of slapping them.-",

"-In the CW series, Superman& ouis, there‚a scene somewhere in the last 2 episodes where Lana Lang slaps her daughter 4 saying her mother is the reason her father cheated on her. Both the comment & slap are unneeded, but then this culture encourages behavior in the daughter.-",

"- the daughter in the series then makes this huge emotional deal out of the situation, where she goes to the father & everyone is laying down how it‚all bad psychology. Ud think psychology makes minds & peoples stronger. Instead it about sedating people & go on about feelings.-",

"- I don‚t mean to be insensitive, but not everything needs to boil down to psychology or be this huge process. Emotions are signs we need to act on a change in our behavior or our surroundings. They‚re not to be treated like leather through a series of refining processes-",

"-If ur depressed about something, then you need to sit down and find the cause, and remove the source of sadness. Or you can use it push through at the gym. Healthy outlets vs drinking away the pain or shooting someone. People should look to ‚putting in the work‚ to be stronger.-",

"- everything had become so delicate and fragile with people tippy towing around others and fearing retaliation. I worked at PepsiCo where they said people should ‚voice opinions fearlessly.‚ I feel people like that, in America just like to preach such things.-",

"- you can mention an advancement or a better way of doing things and it might hurt your managers ego. They call it ‚politics in the workplace.‚ In government, it boils down to ‚bureaucracy‚-",

"- when it comes to parents making a fuss about shows that are violent in the 90s, like either everything and everyone else in this country that is leading perceptions globally, you need to look at context, and not what‚in the surface with shows like Dragon Ball Z-",

"- Dragon Ball Z is the sequel series 2 the original ‚Dragon Ball.‚ Its a show where martial arts is a theme, in the original, & in the sequels. It‚about adventure, brotherhood, sharpening the mind & body and doing great things and journeys with comrades you make along the way-",

"- Dragon Ball Z series builds on original series, probably targeting audience growing up thru it in 80s & into the 90s. But American parents? Oh no, theres blood! It‚violent. Maybe it‚from a high school where I wrote theme papers, but do those parents see beyond the surface?-",

"The irony is, while parents were making a fuss over those shows, they also get into Scream movie series where someone hacking away at someone else. I guess what I‚m saying is, I don‚t get the pick & choose American values.-",

"Your emotions are a sign you need to continue something or make a change. Let it fuel you.",

"Other thing, U have no idea how many people in this country and in the world are waiting 2 say everything on their mind to someone else. At times its not relevant 2 the context of the situation, at times it‚muddied by language barriers. 1 takeaway is people need 2 listen more.-",

"- I think 2 emigrate to Canada, U need 2 pass an English comprehension/writing exam. Maybe also needs 2 happen in the States. It‚1 less barrier 4  effective communication&encouraged listening 2 others. 1 less reason 4 some1 w/an axe 2 grind 2 not misunderstand alleged offenses.",

"I drove past a Kumon math tutorial center yesterday. I remember attending those when I was younger, literally 20 years ago. But it brings to mind how some people say some kids are smart kids while others are lazy.-",

"- in the last 10 or 16 years of my ordeal, I realize people still don‚t have an effective ADD pill, or a successful OCD pill, or even a real understanding of what illnesses like schizophrenia. People aren‚t even under a consensus of what a thought is for different people.-",

"- for one thing, the deliver system of all medications makes no sense. U have a drug you swallow- that then travels thru your bloodstream, going to a lot of unintended places, while also reaching the target place. But a drug for OCD might also be affecting your kidneys & liver.-",

"- why is it that you can‚t have a cloud technology nanotech pill that only releases its contents to the intended part of your body? Wouldn‚t that alleviate the side effects because none of the sources of those side effects are reached?-",

"- An intelligent pill and intelligent delivery system are needed for these western style medications that treat what‚on the surface. I say western meds because eastern treatment systems look 4 ways to heal ur soul thru oils & prayer, which then has a healing effect on ur body.-",

"- theres a short prayer some Christians say, during services, that reflects this Eastern mentality. It goes, ‚Lord, I am not worthy that U should enter under my roof, but only say the word, & my soul shall be healed.‚-(said b4 Communion) Heal the soul, & everything else follows.",

"-Basically heal ur consciousSelf-the part of U speaking a well articulated thought, or conversation piece. Heal ur conscious self, b/c thats the chariot driver controlling all ur horses of thoughts/feelings/words/actions. American meds targets the horses & not the chariot driver.",

"HBO Max has a series called ‚Fired on Mars‚. From the 1st episode, its about a guy getting handled. When ending up in demanding situations, theres some back pedaling, some poorly constructed explanations. He gets stepped on so many times, his speech is of 1 tippy toeing around.-",

"- the first episode shows everyone behaving like animals, basically saying what they think, irrespective of how it affects the other individual. At least for us Indians, from good families, this is an eye opener. People in America lack conscious thoughts or decisions-",

"- some other genia*s might say the show, like many other things, is dependent on perception of different people. Its b/c of notions like that, the legal system is designed 2 be objective. Objectivity vs. subjective thinking is about fact, 1 fact, vs. peoples varied opinions.-",

"- I remember trying to convey to family, my internist doctor, officials in law enforcement and at a retarded school, my side of the story in the most worlds unheard of situation, spanning more than a decade.-",

"- I wasn‚t supposed to know about my situation, and I‚m stuck trying to get it to stop my saying all my observations and theories about what is an actual conspiracy, by definition.-",

"- I remember those like doctors labeling it as mental illness because of the attempts at speech, that was articulating a situation, amidst all sorts of confidence deflators and lack of acknowledgement of the situation. -",

"I‚m in a situation involving the mind. My thoughts may get redirected in some shape or form. For all these high ranking people in the world, flaunting their degrees, those who don‚t have my situation-are you telling me like the retards in the HBO max show, they don‚t think?-",

"- they‚re  not conscious, but like cats and dogs- just impulsive in speech and actions? America advocates 8 yrs for med school programs & an 8 hr mcat exam under notion that it creates doctors with perspective, intellect & compassion. The rest of the world has 5 yr programs.-",

"- yet I‚m not seeing creative, intellectual solutions to the most outrageous and inflated of situations. Because the American legal system doesn‚t explicitly outlaw my situation, apparently it‚ok to do. America breeds animals, not people with evolved or learned minds‚-",

"- at the end of it all, you have morons going on about the system not working or ‚the system works.‚ It‚about how ‚not dumb‚ the individual exercising the system is, not ‚whatever system‚ in question, is working or not working

"- on the topic of animalistic behavior with Americans, saying and doing what they feel or compelled to do (I mean it‚outrageous for the rest of the world and explains weekly school shootings), none of them have the capacity ‚to listen‚.-",

"- Everyone here feels they‚re under appreciated and leap at the chance to say everything on their mind while not listening and giving appropriate responses based on their listening. You end up with blithering idiots.-",

"- adding 2 that, Give people a filter or glasses 2 see thru, that U monologue or don‚t let others speak, in this complete role reversal, lack of listening & talking on part of the other person, worsens. Simply saying this warps weak minds 2 thinking, what if Im seen that way?!-",

"- the interesting thing, the idiots in the orchestrators of my situation have the privilege of seeing thru my eyes. They have the opportunity 2 compare & contrast w:their native thinking.  Even then, knowing they‚re wrong, 4 entertainment for others, they continue to step on me.",

"I asked 4 everything 2 be natural & not manipulated by retarded orchestrators of my situation. What do they do? They find ways&manipulated situations 2 make themselves useful, in what‚clear as daylight: their attempt 2 legalize/ justify decade plus of wrong doing. Rot in h*ll.",

"The Americans focus on surface level symptoms like happiness, depression, anxiety, aggression and it‚their psychology, psychiatry, and associated meds. -",

"- it really boils down to, is peace, anguish, confidence, overcoming fear, & ultimately believing in urself. If U believe, U can move mountains. This deeper mindset is accomplished w/willful decisions & putting in the time & effort. No meds replace the obligations of the soul-",

"- What it really boils down to, on a lighter note, is what older Static says to younger Static, on the idea of belief, in the YouTube click below- even if no one else believes in you, you should believe in you and the universe will conspire to give you ur dreams. -",

- Believe in yourself for that is our greatest power:  https://t.co/mCbgLWFDGT

"Pix11 news in New York, like around 10:15 PM, was talking about how employers are trying to better the work environment. (ex. Things like: Are such and such meeting necessary, is a 4 day work week better, is one day in the office good)-",

"I know about 1 particular beverage company (could be PepsiCo or Gatorade or a Starbucks company, whatever/whichever be the case) that broadcasts ‚voice your opinions fearlessly.‚ You hear things about office politics or getting involved w/ baby showers or not outshining ur boss-",

"- people 4 the sake of the law, preach everyone has a say. But let‚say U have an innovative idea & start employment same time as a manager or start a new project the same time as another new manager. If U email it 2 just ur peers, manager will feel insecure & ask 2 recall it-",

"- U may suggest let‚have an agenda or ‚action items‚ 4 a meeting, the manager will feel insecure over the unstructured & sometimes 5 hr long dragged out meeting where he‚selfishly using the time to learn from everyone else‚inquiries. He‚ll call it: ‚ steering the meeting.‚-",

"- you‚ll say that the day to day tasks aren‚t clear, overall and all around, there‚no focus. Do you know what the head guys will call it? ‚Navigating through ambiguity.‚ So a thought that‚come to mind on multiple occasions is, ‚what then is the manager‚duty?‚-",

"- while u get in2 the fine tuned details of a project, managers will throw around bigger & broader terms like ‚master data master data‚ or ‚did the data discovery take place‚ & then theyll use bigger terms, fancy labels 2 inquire about that: like is phase 1 at a 100% on tracker.-",

"- let‚say on top of everything else your in a slandering phenomena that‚disguised as showing someone naked and their true intent through mind reading. Through some argument with non English speaking parents, for example sake, or w/people experiencing some kind of dementia-",

"- U end up depicted as not letting any1 speak. The phenomenal thing w/ those suffering from inferiority complexes is that they project their delusions onto you and then have the nerve to call you delusional or paranoid. They‚re actually subconsciously talking about themselves.-",

"- now let‚say as part of the slander, when U talk about and preach the importance of listening, you‚re depicted as a monolonguing type of guy. Ur depicted or seen in something as someone who doesn‚t let someone speak. U may even tell someone in two languages, they can speak.-",

"- theyll then keep saying or asking ‚can I speak ‚ pathologically. Even after you explicitly tell them you can speak. I called a pharmacist today. I asked if a newer prescription was received va the partial old one. You hear her getting irritated while you mention that -",

"- ur not talking about the old RX refill number. Either because he knows & doesn‚t clear that, or he‚still confused, u hear his irritation. There are all sorts of direct and indirect forms of not letting some1 finish their sentences. Unless some1s rambling about pure nonsense-",

"- or literally speaking gibberish, I tend to let idiots be idiots. But then to tell someone give someone glasses that you don‚t hear what they have to say, it just compounds needless problems. But back to corporate America-",

"- you wouldn‚t believe the amount of people practicing the motto of ‚faking it until you make it‚ some guys you see turning red, others give mechanical responses from someone else‚email,-",

"-another guy will use common expressions like ‚have a good 1‚ or ‚ thats what I was saying: gotta break some eggs‚-what the h*ll does any of it mean? U have blind leading the blind while other blind people walk around in perpetual circles & take 5 days or months 2 do 5 hrs work.-",

"- then there‚the group of people who are probably operating off of a sluggish type of diet or who need caffeine. No 1 is saying what they mean. Then you have people working in Australia & India and elsewhere. To accommodate them, u have 2 wake up at 7:30 for a 9-5 paid workday-",

"- some of the meetings in these places at 7:30 are bull sh*t. ‚Hey everyone, let‚spend the first half hour of a 90 min meeting playing scrabble or talking about our favorite hobby.‚ It‚ll promote commradery . Do you need this farce to ask your coworker a question? -",

"- next bull sh*t about breaking the ice. People are hired 2 do a job. It shouldn‚t be banned 2 talk 2 some1 or difficult to ask a question. Weak minded people. & then after the five hr meeting where people are making guesses about how 2 do something instead of asking a question,-",

"- after that massive waste of time, you then still have to finish your normal work even if it goes past 5 pm, when ur only paid 9-5, and no overtime.-",

"- and heaven forbid you go to Human Resources and speak against ur manager. Next thing about office politics is that Human Resources will put on a show of supporting or hearing someone‚perspective, but they‚re only interested in defending the company from legal issues.-",

"- theyll say we put one of our people there to support you, when really all they do is listen to ur manager explaining a typical day. You‚ll repeatedly ask can you clarify my task for tomorrow, and he‚ll spite you for his own insecurity by saying something unbelievably random -",

"- like you made HR cry‚for asking what‚my work for tomorrow? Wtf? Then senior HR gets involved and gives a severance package so you don‚t sue the company.-",

"- let me be honest: you wanna throw a baby shower. Great. I‚ll make an appearance if I‚m not busy, even when I don‚t know the person. But my goal is to go to work so that I can return home to my life. I want to work to the best of my ability, grow, learn, prosper, help my peers,-",

"- but at the end of the day, I want to go back to my house and watch Netflix, or go to the gym, or take my family to eat or to the movies- work/life balance‚work isn‚t supposed to be life. It‚about giving the time owed to your responsibilities fully and continuing w/life.-",

"- and then there are those retarded training videos like what to do when someone‚hostile or holding a gun or what could be offensive to say to someone. Really? You need a video for that that spans 90 min? You need to be told that you need to report sexual abuse or that -",

"- if someone comes with a gun, you shouldn‚t fight them, that you should evacuate and help the disabled people evacuate? You can skip to the end of these videos and take the assessments blindly.-",

"- voice ur opinions fearlessly - my a*s",

"What I‚ve found is that the world is increasingly moving toward scenarios in movies like Idiocrasy. People are like selfish animals following every impulse and faking it till you make it, and blindly following mechanical rules without thinking.-",

"Some of the people i come across - nothing substantive to say. It‚like hearing from someone else ‚I made a poopy.‚ Um, yeah, ok good for you, there, buddy.-",

"- And then the mind readers have everyone do this overtime as though doing a little extra stupidity will make everyone else look good.",

"When U talk about something ‚so basic‚,‚so obvious‚,maybe even‚so outrageous‚or‚outside of whats even conceivable‚, it can be hard 2 believe/fathom, or process/digest. Those in charge, in various aspects of life, won‚t want 2 risk looking foolish&will try 2 hideThingsUnderTheRug.",

"- ud B surprised how much U have 2 spell out 2 people, amidst coffee/cigarette mind sharpening methods, 4 them 2 know exactly what transpires or 4 them 2 get a clear picture- I mean, just as an example, can U imagine for 10 yrs or more, no1 even hints at mindReadingControl 2me?!-",

"- the scary thing about life is that the person who was nodding their head to you for more than a decade to everything you were saying, could have been deaf‚a metaphor on the matter of stating the obvious

Ex. of American idol mentality. People think they can help some1 else thru clicking on phones. Usually its 2 help self get more IG followers. When does any1 go 2 another directly&talk 2 them or walk w/them-forms of empathy. Heaven forbid some1 actually telling me what goes on‚   https://t.co/L6vuMEM78F

"The thing I always noticed was, nothing based on something directly from me, got a direct response. F* me if I write on this again. I‚ll try to get what I want, and something else turns it into something equivalent of playing on phones or something indirect and ambiguous.-",

"- yeah I‚m so happy some of you agree with me and let things happen to someone year by year. I can‚t imagine the joy my predicament brings to those doing this to me, when I‚m chances are, I never even spoke to them, or may have even seen them. -",

"- it‚like the story of the woman making the cake & asking every1 2 pitch in. They all said they were basically preoccupied. Come time 2 eat, every1 comes. If I had 1 person to support my claim as to what really happens, I could‚ve ended this. Irony is, ull all come 2 collect-",

"- & when that day comes, Im gonna pull a Matthew 25:41-43. It won‚t matter if ur already friends/family. I‚ll pull a Matthew 3:33-35. U didn‚t have confidence in me, my values/methodologies. U believed in the initiative of my eternal enemeies(those people). &then: Matthew 10:14 -",

"- Ive made it easy, Ive spelled out so much 4 things that shouldnt have required spelling out. Google stuff, talk 2 some1. Ur just recycling things that I was present for, a decade or so, ago. Maybe all this happened, so that when ur up against The Judge, ull have had experience.",

"Ensure to watch at least first episode in the available season of ‚Class of ‚Äò09‚ on FX or the Hulu streaming app.-",

"- What none of you altruists or geniuses realized was that by getting on my case in ur instructed or jealous or hate filled ways, you justified the need for mind reading, predictive analytics, NSA data collection of texts and phone calls, predictions through AI-",

"- but I guess it didn‚t seem that way while you were having fun at my expense. Somehow the retarded logic was if we screw him, he‚ll be pristine, we‚ll all be better off.-",

- The FBI apparently stands for fidelity bravery and integrity. In the attached clip they show a statue of a guy defending someone on the ground while another looks like he‚expressing gratitude for his mere presence.   https://t.co/7FKpjxMpa2

"- right underneath statue is fidelity, bravery, integrity. These people, as evidenced by more than a decade of my predicament, have no integrity- psychotic chess players who weren‚t happy with a normal wife and kids. The D.O.D. In Ukraine and elsewhere,just about imperialism.-",

"- fidelity? In America, even1 life of 1 American is important. What are these people loyal 2?-Not about the freedom symbolized in the statute of liberty. Theyre loyal to the militaries agenda of prevent/contain/salvage. Its about the dopamine fueled rush in the battleground game-",

"- imagine U playing Halo on ur Xbox. It‚4 the power and the rush. None of them actually care of dealing with the h*ll they subjected my family & me to. To top it all, they stimulate or sedate me 2 watch television & order takeout to make it seem like I‚m living the grand life.-",

"- then there‚the next one: bravery? I begged to the point where I told them I‚d kick their feet if they would just tell me what was happening, to take me seriously. I begged for the pity of American monsters, who could apparently feel my pain, anguish, or at least suspect it/",

"- That said, 5-15 rounds of interviewing a Speaker, & then 10 months later, while ur still getting paid, while military workers R threatened w/ not getting their paychecks b/c of a govmt. shutdown- stemming from disagreements b/w elected officials, U then want 2 oust the speaker-",

"- all of it is a massive waste of time. U want 2 judge ur Speaker, based it off of however much was accomplished, not by likes/dislikes or hurt feelings. After Speaker McCarthy aided passing a CR w/ help of Democrats, apparently narrative was he later offended them thru words.-",

"- this then furthered support to oust the Speaker. You won‚t believe the process. I heard electing a Speaker is a painful process.-",

"- But to oust him/her? First you need to get votes as to whether to vote again to oust the Speaker. That may take 2 hours. Then another 2 hrs for counting votes to actually oust him/her. The amount of time that gets wasted. On the day of the insurrection of the capital, congress-",

"- stayed in session till 3:30 in the morning. It‚because of non objective use of time. I‚ve worked in places where a chunk of the workday gets used on eating together, and then guessing what promotional prices in a category could mean for five hrs.-",

"- and the voting process to decide whether to oust a speaker or not, before actually voting for it happen? I think that process used to happen 5 times. The decrease in the process, is critiqued by some. It‚just incredible the disrespect to use of time.-",

"- U want 2 vote, use electronic clickers like they did 4 checking multiple choice question/answers in my MBA program. It‚insane that for 400 people, u‚ll manually collect each individual persons vote. & that too apparently five times and then a sixth time to get rid of some1.-",

"- and then after 10 months of serving in what is a group effort to pass bills, after a massive amount of time to elect speaker, oust speaker, pass a continuing reposition to keep the government from shutting down, Congress now faces a looming shutdown in November.-",

"- Congress can‚t focus on preventing the shutdown, because the strict constructionists now need to dedicate time to selecting a speaker. Apparently no one can move a muscle or come up with an idea until a speaker is selected. -",

"- meanwhile military or air traffic workers are at risk of not getting paid in a few weeks while these guys in a Congress continue to get paid while wasting a ton of time. The time wasting is an embarrassing fact as witnessed in the last few weeks. Americas pro Israel.-",

"- In their present situation, can America help Israel? Can they help Ukraine? Can they even keep the government from shutting down so that, at the very least, military workers can get paid?-",

"- then this situation with Israel and Gaza. Apparently the terrorist attack that started a war with Israel was because of a raid on shared hallowed ground by Israel, offending the Palestinians or Hamas.-",

"- Gaza is bordered by Israel and Egypt. Gaza is said to be twice the size of Washington DC and houses 2 million people. Yes Israel cannot live in peace. Horrible things are happening to babies. But that‚Hamas‚ doing. What happens to the civilians in Gaza?-",

"- I think the logic shared from the news was that for 150 hostages to be released to Israel, 2 million people in Gaza won‚t get electricity, water, fuel, or supplies. Apparently as a courtesy, Israel warned people should avoid a certain part of Gaza.-",

"- if borders are blocked in Gaza, if Egypt and Israel aren‚t taking migrants or asylum seekers or refugees, where are the millions of people in Gaza to go? And this is after taking away water and electricity. Can you eat? Where have they been going to the bathroom in last week?-",

"- hamas may get destroyed. But what Israel ends up doing, with these harsh conditions, is create the next generation of people against Israel. By showing mostly Israeli losses, and not equally showing Gaza, America risks hate from the surrounding regions.-",

"- no water & no electricity‚then there‚self inflicted restrictive culture of people in Gaza. They‚re dressed in burkas in heat w/o water. It‚tragic people at an Israeli music festival were tortured. These people in Gaza wouldn‚t understand the luxury of a music festival.-",

An episode from Apple TVs show Physical- Season 3 Episode 9 - show title: ‚Like We Never Left.‚ I bring it up because I don‚t think food and utilities today are built to a certain standard-   https://t.co/f6PHRZtr6T

"- in the show from the previous tweet, rose Byrnes daughter- in the show- swallows a plastic animal from a toy set. The parents panic. They call up the person who bought the toy set as a gift. They then contact the store it was bought from.-",

"- They get some info later that helps find out what the plastic animal was made from? They‚re worried whether the plastic animal was composed of harmful chemicals like something called barium.-",

"- the law enforcement sent the people I complained about, from the random kids to the UAlbany faculty, to stolen tech, to law enforcement making a joke out of my situation, and sent me to h*ll with them leading the charge for a decade.-",

"- writing about your problems, talking through them, reporting something to The Law, all useless if ur not red cheeked and blonde and loaded with old money. I spent more than a decade seeking help. nasty American government then tries to blame some baseless case, my parents/me-",

"- If ur not black or white in this country, if u look Middle Eastern, American muscle wants to take the life out of U. Like in some 90s x men episode, they crush ur psyche by having people swing it with forged niceties or real life screwing. They sedate you, electrocute ur brain-",

"- The FBI, the Americans and their military, while I‚m left experiencing this white f*s disagreement and spite, they will screw you over for the big AI predictive analytics Xbox Halo like adult game. -",

"- I‚ll be at peace knowing U f*s who couldn‚t open ur mouth to me across a decade w/ the evidence & proof I needed go nuts w/ the police charging you for crimes you‚re expected to commit and when they sedate you based on a computer algorithm that categorizes your mental status-",

"- and the thing with the Americans. Like a disease spreading globally. No one is going to stop this, no one is going to save you, if you say the wrong thing, instead of helping you, you‚ll be targeted. I got random guys lightning bonfires like it‚supposed to signal something.-",

"- do you realize how much I know, see, hear? ‚They‚, the Big Brother in the American government doesn‚t tell you that. Still trying to prevent, contain, salvage in the biggest operation of this country to get the biggest utensil to control the rest of you.-",

"- through ur behaviors, if you ever do see this, you were always proving the savagery of humans, not their altruism. The sick Americans wanted me to see this, know this, witness this, because years ago, they were stupid enough to leave things in broad daylight.",

"- ur all screwed & there‚no hope for any of U. The average person cannot deal with this constant scrutiny. It‚going to throw mental sanctity out the window. That sound U heard, that thing you noticed or saw, there will always be the doubt that the government is screwing w/u.",

"- fidelity, bravery, integrity-probably what U wipe ur a*ses with & Y ur colleges smell like a*s. If U couldnt make sense of 100s of pages of complaints, rather than shutting the complaint system down on me when U thought U could screw me w/ my own words, u shouldve talked 2 me.",

"- more like filth, (little) b*tches, and injustice (upholders.)",

"This aint ‚nod ya head‚ like ‚yeah boss, we totally get it & what ur saying‚ Naaa man. U just saying some watered down sh*t of what Im saying or..yeah..could be thinking. U need 2 know ur f*ked, & u proved need 4 data collection 4 the power mongers 2 make u think ur safe. #NoHope",

"NoHope",

"Indians have a community that is our world. I was just watching the Hugh Jackman movie, ‚The Son‚ on Netflix. for years before this, we‚d say to each other, Not one of the Americans are normal. We‚d joke maybe it‚their alcohol-marijuana-cocaine-bacon diet‚-",

"- I mean ‚ from the movie and my observations in college and the workplace, you seem pretty impulsive, envious, spiteful, inclined to do what you ‚feel‚ in the moment‚there is no social etiquette. And your doctors and judges and parents seem to act like farmers with a pig pen-",

"- you seem to watch from afar and I think there‚even a show for troubled kids that I remember seeing more than a decade ago. Intuitively, I‚m guessing the way it works is they spy on teenagers with cameras in their bedroom. They look for drugs or something. -",

"- the shows payment is airing it for other people‚pleasure on tv. Think of what that does 2 the teenagers psyche. Your putting them in a conspiracy of sorts. Then you leave others to laugh at them on television in their flaws while making it about what parents should watch for-",

"- helicopter parents have been heard about extending their reach above the age of 18 or 21 for disagreements with their adult children that they‚d like to pass off as mental illness. Let‚say you throw youth into an unheard of situation. Every time they talk about it-",

"- every time they try to salvage their dignity, when U see their anxieties making them frantic, u‚ll probably look 2 how angelic a mother might come off, when the parents might not comprehend English as a native speaker w/ colloquialisms or pop culture themes like mind control-",

"- Then let‚say the show for troubled kids on NBC or some station cannot find something wrong. They‚ll convince a mother to team with them so that they can extend their show to adults and also tell immigrant parents that they‚ll give their son/daughter an opportunity-",

"- to be rich and famous in America, the land of opportunity (apparently/allegedly), by showing how wonderful he is, because they couldn‚t find fault. Then let‚say a disturbing underachieving and poorly funded school in Albany, the state capital of New York, finds-",

"- a way to get money for their school like Binghamton, the Harvard of the SUNYs. Random kids who don‚t know you try blackmailing parents to have involvement in the show with computer hacking and social TEXT stalking. They threaten to tell the son for what they initially-",

"- didn‚t realize was something low and demeaning. Then the professors seeing something as an opportunity for predictive analytics and brain mapping get involved. They feel they have input from all angles to perfect mind reading and control.-",

"- They again tempt the parents w/opportunity. Your son will make it, when really it‚about victimizing some one for other peoples failings. But this movie that I started out with, looking through another cultural lens, the context of all this being complained about ages ago, -",

"- all of it really hints to the psychological abuse for someone separate from the context of the movie. I don‚t know if it‚the hamburger/hot dog culture or lack of culture, the mixed marriages, the lack of religion, the growth of psychology- it‚like ur all animals at heart,-",

"- u as a people stop shaving, stop showering before school, make going to bars and wandering the streets some kind of norm, you advocate no form of restraint, everything is a quick dopamine reward game with American idol phone to vote helping and Amazon one day deliveries -",

"- by which I mean instant gratification-",

"- you have all these Americans passing judgment on an Indian

"- the things I go through as an Indian‚cultural clashes can be something like a family seeing their son as insane because he decided to shave his head at the onset of balding-",

"- I would love to tear a new one into the lives of the law enforcement, doctors, professors who decided to do the most ridiculous thing over a decade or more, and then make it about whether I‚m of sound mind‚-",

"- it‚unbelievable‚regarding the instructions they give out, for people understanding it, they‚ll jump in front of your cars, for those not understanding the instructions- no one verified whether they comprehend the wording or the reasoning‚it‚that bad-",

"- meanwhile everyone else is trying to hint at something if anything happening without specifics or being on the same page. I‚m on the other hand saying I told everyone about this in writing to official police complaints and authority figures a decade or more ago-",

"- the mind readers/controllers will use their wave technology or brain mapping tech or maybe even simple hypnosis to spite me for writing about any of this or mentioning that movie, by making me look crazy or just crazy eyed like the focal point of that aforementioned movie

"And the amount of jabs at appearance‚I complained that random kids were stalking me while they said something about me being discovered at a time, years ago, when I was somewhat good looking. Now I‚m an obese and bald mess‚-",

"- U wanna know just how spiteful the white & black professors & the American law enforcement are? For not taking care of their own kids acne, they give me acne and acne scars. I had class with one of the faculty‚kids. For random kids blaming my appearance for their initiative-",

"- and because the random kids blaming the police for not responding to my cries for help, the professors and law enforcement want my face to be associated with an American tragedy and mind reading and mind control? How can I live in the same city or my house ? -",

"- unnecessarily, I don‚t trouble others. It‚just about independence and not ego. You want my face to be associated with pity and sympathy (which isn‚t even empathy)? You want to blame my family when you didn‚t have the common sense to speak with me? I sh*t you not, -",

"- I‚ve never seen the faces of these people, unless by accident or by wondering what‚this white gut doing in India?-",

"- That‚across a decade. While in those accidents, these weirdos give me expressions of ‚he has everything, what is he complaining about, he doesn‚t know how lucky he is‚, they‚ve never once spoken to me, while using crazy sounds of unknown faces to make me think I‚m discovered-",

"- immigrants have certain impressions of stereotypical American. We say things in our dialect like what does ‚madam‚ want or madam-a. In my case, American overlords wanted an excuse 2 use military tech on my face, my life. Of course they wouldn‚t use a blonde/blue eyes 4 this

"So among conspiracy theories, the CIA was part of the plan to kill Catholic John F. Kennedy. Something with that family led to the deaths of many of their family members‚conspiracy?!-",

- get this: there‚an NPR article in the link below to discredit and/or kill Martin Luther King by the FBI‚fidelity bravery integrity my a*s-conspiracy?  https://t.co/zL4MoNlv7y

"- you see in Avengers: Civil War that the Hydra organization infiltrated America after the Second World War. What if the Nazis decided to lose the war on paper but embedded itself in America? Conspiracy? Why are there so many blue eyed actors on television and movies?-",

"What the American government does? When they want to spread their reach like colonialism, they do it with economics and fake altruism. Like in Afghanistan and Ukraine-",

"- What does the American government do? When they want to have total or supreme power, while the rest of Asia establishes itself as nuclear powers, they threaten India when they contemplate it.-",

"- what does the American government do? When they see individuals or rising stars not part of their agenda, like urs truly, they discredit the individual or make him look a fool 2 call sir or boss, but then ensure no 1 takes him seriously or ensure everyone has their way w/him.-",

"- what does the American govmt do? When they realize they‚re in over their head or their greedy minds see opportunity in a life more valuable, they get into their prevent, contain, salvage mentality.-",

"- From my situation, America faces embarrassment and will follow the pattern of the messages in my last few tweets‚the land of freedom and opportunity in someone‚make believe fantasy

"- & then there are pathetic 1s who u can‚t reach w/ur bestowing of awareness. They want 2 bring U down over some inadequacy/misgiving in their life-pathetic&desperate 4 a distraction or 2 feel part of something. GROW a pair & get @ me. I believe this is what coins the term:hater",

On how the usual Americans are - coming from someone who emigrated here or is around the first generation American range-of all the people in this f*ed up place they use me:  https://t.co/3BkykXN1mx

"- not about insensitivity/arrogance/pride/or about being pretentious‚Indians, East Asians (China, Japan, Korea, etc.), the Middle East, Eastern Europeans, Austria/Russia/Greece/Turkey - there is an innate bond in values, ideas ‚we click‚other places focus on hyped up nonsense.",

[birdzflycom]

Recent apprehensions indicate that Putin is discreetly attempting to curtail the influence of some of his most efficacious proponents of the conflict in Ukraine.

Putin is discreetly attempting The Russian administration seems to be tightening its grip on military bloggers — even if a substantial number of these war-focused bloggers overtly endorse Russia's incursion into Ukraine. While these weblogs serve as an effective tool for disseminating propaganda and rallying public support for the war, their robust critique of errors made in Ukraine could potentially erode backing for Vladimir Putin's regime. The detention of several prominent bloggers hints at the extent of the Kremlin's apprehension. In August, American researchers Donald Jensen and Angel Howard wrote in The Kyiv Independent that milbloggers have "gradually, securely, and subversively — even if unintentionally — challenged the Kremlin's management of the war in Ukraine, the performance of the Russian military, and, consequently, the competence of the state." Milblogs, primarily hosted on the Russian messaging platform Telegram, have not only gained popularity among a Russian populace wary of official media but have also evolved into an indispensable resource for Western governments, think tanks, and media outlets seeking to monitor the Russian war campaign. Pro-Russian combatants patrol Makiivka in Donetsk, Ukraine Pro-Russian fighters patrol Makiivka, a suburb of Donetsk, in February 2015. DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP via Getty Images These blogs have brought to light blunders such as Russian troops assembling in formation only to be decimated by HIMARS rockets. They have also exposed how Russian soldiers are being dispatched into battle lacking sufficient arms and ammunition or are being used as expendable pawns in brutal confrontations, as seen in Bakhmut. In times of war, media censorship is a common practice in democratic nations. Both the U.S. and British governments monitored and censored news reports during World War II to safeguard sensitive information and bolster morale. Even today, Israeli media is subject to scrutiny by military censors, and the British government can issue DSMA notices to request news organizations not to publish certain stories. Nevertheless, the intricate relationship between Putin and milbloggers exemplifies the complexities of social media in an authoritarian regime. Many milbloggers are fervent nationalists with deep-seated connections to the Russian military and intelligence apparatus. This symbiotic alliance benefits both parties: leaked information enables bloggers to amass wealth through increased web traffic from information-hungry audiences, while the leakers gain a degree of influence over the milbloggers' agendas. Putin Putin engages with residents during a visit to the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on March 18. POOL/AFP via Getty Images The mere existence of milblogs amid the Kremlin's crackdown on most other media outlets signifies that the Russian government acknowledges their value. Blogs also serve as weapons in the fierce realm of Russian politics. Influential politicians, such as Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, clandestinely sponsor milbloggers as conduits for their political objectives, as noted by Jensen and Howard. Putin, whose reliance on the military, security services, and affluent oligarchs is accompanied by a sense of distrust, employs blogs to indirectly convey his preferences and signal the rise or fall of individuals. Factions within the government also utilize blogs to discredit adversaries and shift blame for errors, such as military setbacks. However, there exists the peril that milbloggers may become uncontrollable forces. Igor Girkin, a former KGB officer who has emerged as a prominent pro-war blogger, was detained in July after labeling Putin as a "base individual" and a "timid coward." In August, a Moscow court ordered Girkin's continued detention for at least another month. Another figure, Andrey Kurshin, an ultranationalist who frequently criticized the Russian military's actions in Ukraine, faced arrest in August as well. Russia court Igor Girkin Strelkov Russian nationalist critic and former military commander Igor Girkin behind a glass enclosure for defendants during a court hearing in Moscow in August. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Nevertheless, the Kremlin must tread a precarious path. On one hand, milbloggers actively promote a pro-war narrative, motivating Russians to enlist and contribute funds to the soldiers ("a portion of which they undoubtedly misappropriate," according to Jensen and Howard). Perhaps even more crucially, milbloggers serve as a release valve for a Russian populace that was never enthusiastic about invading Ukraine and now bears the brunt of Western economic sanctions. On the other hand, the roots of Russia's failure in Ukraine can be traced back to the country's senior leadership. Despite years of substantial defense expenditures and Putin's assertions of possessing "invincible" weaponry, Russia has been unable to subjugate its smaller neighbor, Ukraine, which has launched a counteroffensive threatening to expel Russian forces from Ukrainian soil. Blame can be apportioned in many directions, but the crackdown on milbloggers suggests that the Kremlin is keen on preventing them from directing their criticisms at Russia's ultimate decision-maker: Putin. Michael Peck is a defense writer whose work has been featured in Forbes, Defense News, Foreign Policy magazine, and various other publications. He holds a master's degree in political science. You can follow him on Twitter and LinkedIn. Read the full article

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Events 8.6 (after 1900)

1901 – Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation. 1914 – World War I: U-boat campaign: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea. 1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia. 1915 – World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay. 1917 – World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins. 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel. 1940 – Estonia is annexed by the Soviet Union. 1942 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of the United States Congress. 1944 – The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Kraków are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising, the Kraków Uprising, that was planned but never carried out. 1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning. 1956 – After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series. 1958 – Law of Permanent Defense of Democracy, outlawing the Communist Party of Chile and banning 26,650 persons from the electoral lists, is repealed in Chile. 1960 – Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation. 1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom. 1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law. 1986 – A low-pressure system that redeveloped off the New South Wales coast dumps a record 328 millimeters (13 inches) of rain in a day on Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW makes its first appearance as a publicly available service on the Internet. 1991 – Takako Doi, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives. 1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms. 1997 – Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam, killing 229 of the 254 people on board. 2001 – Erwadi fire incident: Twenty-eight mentally ill persons tied to a chain are burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu. 2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. 2010 – Flash floods across a large part of Jammu and Kashmir, India, damages 71 towns and kills at least 255 people. 2011 – War in Afghanistan: A United States military helicopter is shot down, killing 30 American special forces members and a working dog, seven Afghan soldiers, and one Afghan civilian. It was the deadliest single event for the United States in the War in Afghanistan. 2012 – NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars. 2015 – A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.

[libertariantaoist]

News Roundup 6/8/2023 | The Libertarian Institute

Here is your daily roundup of today's news:

News Roundup 6/8/2023

by Kyle Anzalone

US News

The FBI aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to ban Twitter users and collect their data, new leaks show. Twitter declined to censor journalists targeted by Ukraine, including The Grayzone’s Aaron Maté. Grayzone

Russia

Russia on Wednesday questioned what the US might have known about Ukrainian plans to attack the Nova Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine using a US-provided HIMARS system. AWC

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Wednesday reaffirmed Kyiv’s position that it’s against the idea of pausing the fighting in Ukraine to foster peace talks between the warring sides. AWC

Germany is preparing to lead NATO’s largest-ever air deployment exercises in a show of force meant as a warning to Russia. AWC

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that Ukraine has received a “powerful offer” from countries that are willing to provide their American-made F-16 fighter jets. AWC

The former civilian head of the NATO alliance is warning that some Eastern European states are prepared to send their soldiers to Ukraine if the bloc does not make significant pledges to Kiev during an upcoming summit. The Institute

China

Several media outlets have reported that Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to travel to China this month amid soaring tensions between Washington and Beijing. AWC

Syria

US Central Command said in a press release on Tuesday that it conducted 38 operations against ISIS in Iraq and Syria in May, killing eight alleged ISIS “operatives” and detaining 31 more. AWC

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Voice of America 0340 13 Apr 2023

6080Khz 0253 13 APR 2023 - VOICE OF AMERICA (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) in ENGLISH from MOPENG HILL. SINPO = 55434. English, s/on with dead-carrier. @0259z Yankee Doodle int fb news anchored by Richard Green @0300. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday called for a moment of silence to honour those whose lives have been lost in Ukraine at an address during the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund. Ukrainian officials on Wednesday opened an investigation into a video on social media purportedly showing one of Kyiv’s soldiers being beheaded. Russia's deputy foreign minister on Wednesday acknowledged that detained U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich had not been granted consular access, two weeks after his arrest. The Wall Street Journal journalist was arrested in Russia on claims of espionage, which he denies. "The question (of consular access) is under review," Sergei Ryabkov was cited as saying by state-run agencies. U.S. President Joe Biden told people in Belfast on Wednesday that he hoped Northern Ireland’s devolved power-sharing government could soon be restored, promising that American corporations were ready to invest in the region. Residents in northern Ethiopia’s Amhara region say local fighters briefly took over a police station and seized weapons amid ongoing clashes between protesters and the military. The fighting was sparked last week when Ethiopia’s government ordered all regional forces to integrate with federal forces or regional police. Amhara residents say gunfights have erupted in cities and authorities have shut off the internet. Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to return to New York City Thursday to sit for a second deposition as part of New York Attorney General Letitia James' $250 million civil fraud lawsuit. He also asked a U.S. judge to delay the scheduled April 25 trial over whether he defamed former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll by denying he raped her, citing the recent "deluge of prejudicial media coverage" of criminal charges against him. The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed new privacy protections to prevent women's health information from being used to investigate or sue people who obtain or facilitate abortions. The proposal by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is aimed at protecting women living in states where abortion is illegal who travel out of state to have the procedure done; something thousands of women are already doing, research shows. The rule would also protect healthcare providers, insurers, or other entities which perform or pay for abortions. The second of two Black Democrats expelled from the Republican-led Tennessee House will return to the Legislature after a Memphis commission voted to reinstate him Wednesday, nearly a week after his banishment for supporting gun control protesters propelled him into the national spotlight. @0304z “Daybreak Africa” anchored by male announcer (w/African accent). MLA 30 amplified loop (powered w/8 AA rechargeable batteries ~10.8vdc), Etón e1XM. 100kW, BeamAz 350°, bearing 85°. Received at Plymouth, United States, 14087KM from transmitter at Mopeng Hill. Local time: 2153.

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The Taliban have detained multiple foreign nationals, including Americans and Europeans, in Afghanistan in what appears to be a systematic roundup by the group, which has a history of holding Westerners hostage to trade for political advantage. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently said “several” U.S. citizens are prisoners of the Taliban. Others in Taliban custody include British and Polish citizens, their governments confirmed.

The detention of an unusually large number of Westerners, possibly more than a dozen, comes amid an alarming rise in hostage diplomacy—in which citizens of one state are captured and traded for advantage by another—by countries hostile to the United States. Russia detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich in late March and accused him of spying for the United States, an accusation the Biden administration has denied.

The James W.  Foley Legacy Foundation, a media advocacy organization named for a U.S. photographer murdered by the Islamic State in Syria in 2014, found that the number of Americans wrongly held abroad has risen by 580 percent in the past decade, while the length of time they’re held has increased by 60 percent. Its 2022 report said “Iran, China, Venezuela, Syria, and Russia account for 75% of U.S. nationals currently wrongfully detained,” some for as long as four years, and that detentions are outpacing releases. 

“There are rising concerns that U.S. nationals are being increasingly targeted for detention in order to secure political leverage against the United States,” the report said.

There are any number of theories behind the Taliban’s recent dragnet. The sweep could be a sign that the Taliban aim to rid Afghanistan of any Western presence as they impose their extremist values, such as banning girls from post-primary education. Some security sources think the Taliban may be planning to use the foreigners as collateral for prisoner swaps, as they have several times before. Others think it’s a move to pressure the Biden administration to release billions of dollars in foreign reserves frozen by U.S. financial sanctions. Still others believe the hostages are meant to secure, at last, U.S. and Western recognition of an outlaw regime that still is persona non grata a year and half after its violent takeover of Afghanistan.

“The Taliban’s primary objective in abducting and detaining Western civilians is to compel their governments to establish direct communication with the Taliban regime instead of relying on nongovernment organizations,” said Mirwais Naab, a former deputy foreign minister of Afghanistan. The Taliban are also concerned about the potential for NGO workers to conduct espionage for the United States, he said.

Rafi Fazil, a former deputy national security advisor to the Islamic Republic, said this “new wave” of detentions was a reaction to diplomatic isolation “to build pressure on the West because they are not being recognized, and that is taking a huge toll.” De facto Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi has complained that the Taliban have met all conditions for diplomatic recognition and yet remain out in the cold. 

The Taliban have long found hostage-taking to be an expedient method of extracting favors from the United States. U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was held captive for five years by the Haqqani network, a Taliban affiliate headed by their current de facto interior minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, after the soldier deserted his base in southern Afghanistan in 2009. He was swapped in May 2014 for five Taliban operatives who had been in custody at Guantánamo Bay, in what was seen as a huge victory for the Islamists. 

Last year, the Taliban released former U.S. Navy diver Mark Frerichs after more than two years in return for Bashir Noorzai, a drug trafficker who was 17 years into a life sentence in the United States for conspiracy to traffic heroin. Filmmaker Ivor Shearer was released in September after four months’ detention. The Taliban claimed it was a goodwill gesture, and the U.S. State Department said no money or prisoners were exchanged for his freedom.

At the same time, Taliban leaders have been demanding the return of more than $9 billion in Afghanistan’s foreign exchange reserves held in banks in the United States and Europe. U.S. bans on financial transactions with sanctioned terrorists and institutions under their control were triggered when the Taliban returned to power in August 2021. (Many Taliban leaders are listed by the U.N. Security Council as terrorists, though not the group itself.) The resulting cash crisis is contributing to economic disaster. Anger at concerns that they’ll help themselves to the money could conceivably have pushed the Taliban back to their tried-and-tested tactic for getting what they want.

Blinken revealed the presence of Americans in Taliban detention to the House Foreign Affairs Committee last month. “There are several Americans who are being detained by the Taliban. We are working to secure their freedom,” he said. “As we speak, American citizens who identified themselves to us who are in Afghanistan—some of whom have been there since the withdrawal, some of whom went back to Afghanistan— … that we’re in contact with, [there are] about 175. Forty-four of them are ready to leave, and we are working to effectuate their departure.” 

In a statement to Foreign Policy, the State Department confirmed that “there are several U.S. nationals who are being detained by the Taliban.” No details were given “due to privacy considerations.” The U.S. government prioritizes the safe return of citizens held abroad and like many governments believes publicity exacerbates danger—which could explain the long silence on the Afghanistan detentions, some of which date back months.

The State Department also reiterated advice against travel to Afghanistan due to the threat of civil unrest, armed conflict, terrorism, and kidnapping: “Travel to all areas of Afghanistan is unsafe. The Dept. of State assesses the risk of kidnapping or violence against U.S. citizens in Afghanistan is high.” 

The number of Americans held by the Taliban could be a lot more than “several,” and perhaps as many as a dozen, according to sources familiar with the state of play.Three British detainees have been confirmed by the U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office. Poland’s foreign ministry confirmed one citizen captive. Another Pole who was detained at the same time was released for health reasons, the sources said. French and Australian citizens are also possibly in Taliban custody; this could not be immediately confirmed. It’s not clear when or where all the detentions took place. 

The British government has confirmed the detention of three U.K. citizens, including two men with extensive experience working in Afghanistan on legitimate contracts and another who was traveling independently to make videos for social media. The two men on contracts were taken from a residential compound in Kabul on Jan. 11. One, 53-year-old medic Kevin Cornwell, whose family gave British media permission to name him, was working with a charity called Iqarus International, liaising with U.N. agencies to deliver aid. The man detained with him was the compound manager. Relatives said they were accused of possessing an illegal firearm, though family members say the gun was licensed by the Taliban and never used.

The men are in a wing for foreigners in a Kabul prison operated by the Taliban secret service, the General Directorate of Intelligence. After their detention was reported on April 1, they were allowed phone calls to families. Security sources say they may be moved to Kandahar in a possible first step to their release.

Poland’s foreign ministry said it was “aware of the case” of a citizen detained in Afghanistan, adding in a statement: “We cannot share any details with respect to the privacy and security of the person and their family.” It is believed that two Polish citizens were traveling with the British social media influencer, Miles Routledge, when he disappeared in early March. The British government has confirmed that Routledge is in Taliban custody, though his whereabouts and condition are unknown. 

Throughout the 20 years of the republic, which was propped up by the United States, NATO, and allies until its collapse in August 2021, thousands of foreigners lived in Kabul and elsewhere in the country. Many were diplomats, journalists, aid workers, and military contractors whose major threat was kidnapping for ransom or trade. Purpose-built compounds popped up on the outskirts of the city to provide secure accommodation, catering, and other creature comforts. The Taliban are believed to have targeted these compounds, which still provide services for the many foreigners who have returned to work with humanitarian organizations, as well as some hotels in the capital.

Afghanistan doesn’t have a functional justice system, and all previous laws have been canceled. As the Taliban are not recognized as the legitimate government, there’s no diplomatic representation for foreigners in custody, and they have no access to consular support. Most embassies closed when the republic fell, and many moved to Doha, the capital of Qatar. 

“By taking hostages and applying similar tactics employed by some of Afghanistan’s neighbors in the past, the Taliban hopes to coerce Western countries into engaging with them in a more diplomatic manner,” said Naab, the former deputy foreign minister. He criticized the way that Western governments and the United Nations have done little to actually curtail Taliban excesses, after enabling their takeover with the 2020 Doha peace deal and withdrawal agreement. 

“These developments are the outcome of dealing with terrorists and terrorist group propagators as a legitimate government, reflecting a myopic and poorly defined approach.”

[shinra-makonoid]

I talk about terrorism because that's what the response post was bothering me as well as the journal? Because I think it's nuanced from all sides?

It isn't terrorism if you attack soldiers, especially when it's controversial like when political conflicts happen such as invasion, occupation or oppression. Terrorism is specifically against civilians, it's the whole point: scaring or submitting civilians to an ideology or to a group. Cops and the army aren't civilians. If you have police from another country that you feel is invading your territory, you're gonna resist it. Otherwise, again, you're calling several resisting groups during history terrorists, and it is a stance that is nowhere factual nor neutral in regards to history.

Even if they are prisoners, political prisoners don't make Israel look good if their only crime is resisting an inviting political power. "Hostage" is a loaded word if you are from the Israeli side because you consider that they were unlawful in regards to the Israeli government. From a Palestinian partisan, this is absolutely a hostage situation as they are victims of being detained for resisting the oppressor, in exchange for things (people, cease fire etc), which they are.

"Political prisoners" is more neutral (in my opinion, I'm not a historian or anything), "criminals" is definitely not. It's all semantics, it depends which view you have over the conflict. It will condition which words you use, and how much you think it's loaded or manipulation, but it's not manipulation in this case, at least not as much as you seem to think.

I sure hope you wouldn't call Ukrainian resistants criminals, just because Russia would consider them as such. Just like you would not consider Northern Irish resistants as criminals because they wanted to be their own country away from the English who invaded them before. French Résistants were also criminals in regards to Pétain and Nazis. The native Americans who resisted weren't criminals either, etc etc.

Being unlawful towards a political power that is oppressive against you doesn't make you a criminal from the perspective of the victims, nor historically as we remember it after (unless propaganda).

[newstfionline]

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Small, well-built Chinese EV called the Seagull poses a big threat to the US auto industry (AP) A tiny, low-priced electric car called the Seagull has American automakers and politicians trembling. The car, launched last year by Chinese automaker BYD, sells for around $12,000 in China, but drives well and is put together with craftsmanship that rivals U.S.-made electric vehicles that cost three times as much. A shorter-range version costs under $10,000. Tariffs on imported Chinese vehicles probably will keep the Seagull away from America’s shores for now, and it likely would sell for more than 12 grand if imported. But the rapid emergence of low-priced EVs from China could shake up the global auto industry in ways not seen since Japanese makers exploded on the scene during the oil crises of the 1970s. BYD, which stands for “Build Your Dreams,” could be a nightmare for the U.S. auto industry.

Mexico Prepares for a Potential Trump Win (NYT) They’re studying his interviews, bracing for mass deportations and preparing policy proposals to bring to the negotiating table. As Mexico heads toward its presidential election next month, government officials and campaign aides are also girding for a different vote: one in the United States that could return Donald Trump to the presidency. The last time Mr. Trump took office, his win surprised many of America’s allies, and his threat-filled diplomacy forced them to adapt on the go. Now, they have time to anticipate how Mr. Trump’s victory would transform relations that President Biden has tried to normalize—and they’re furiously preparing for an upheaval. For some, the memory of negotiating with Mr. Trump the last time he was in office, when he used extreme threats against Mexico, looms large. What it took to reach a deal with Mr. Trump’s team back then? “Time, patience, cold blood,” the former Mexican foreign minister Marcelo Ebrard said in an interview. “You can win, if you understand this. It’s not easy.”

Russian Forces Push Deeper Into Northern Ukraine (NYT) In the past three days, Russian troops, backed by fighter jets, artillery and lethal drones, have poured across Ukraine’s northeastern border and seized at least nine villages and settlements, ­and more square miles per day than at almost any other point in the war, save the very beginning. In some places, Ukrainian troops are retreating, and Ukrainian commanders are blaming each other for the defeats. Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are fleeing to Kharkiv, the nearest big city. As anxiety spreads, some hard questions loom: How far will this go? Is it just a momentary setback for the underdog Ukrainians? Or a turning point? Ukrainian soldiers, by all accounts, are exhausted. More than two years of trying to fight off a country with three times the population to draw from has left Ukraine so depleted and desperate for fresh troops that its lawmakers have voted to mobilize convicts, a controversial practice that Ukraine had ridiculed Russia for using in the first half of the war.

Russia is ramping up sabotage across Europe (Economist) The fire that broke out in the Diehl Metall factory in the Lichterfelde suburb of Berlin on May 3rd was not in itself suspicious. The facility, a metals plant, stored sulphuric acid and copper cyanide, two chemicals that can combine dangerously when ignited. Accidents happen. What raised eyebrows was the fact that Diehl’s parent company makes the iris-t air-defence system which Ukraine is using to parry Russian missiles. There is no evidence that this fire was an act of sabotage. If the idea is plausible it is because there is ample evidence that Russia’s covert war in Europe is intensifying. In April alone a clutch of alleged pro-Russian saboteurs were detained across the continent. Germany arrested two German-Russian dual nationals on suspicion of plotting attacks on American military facilities and other targets on behalf of the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency. Poland arrested a man who was preparing to pass the GRU information on Rzeszow airport, the most important hub for military aid to Ukraine. Britain charged several men over an earlier arson attack in March on a Ukrainian-owned logistics firm in London whose Spanish depot was also targeted. The men are accused of aiding the Wagner Group, a mercenary group that has been active in Ukraine and is now under the GRU’s control. On May 8th Britain announced that in response to “malign activity” it was, among other steps, expelling Russia’s defence attaché, an “undeclared” GRU officer.

Georgia: Agents of foreign influence (Foreign Policy) The Georgian Parliament’s legal committee on Monday approved the third and final reading of a controversial foreign agents bill that has brought tens of thousands of Georgians to the streets in recent months to protest what they see as a Russian-style effort to chill free speech. Lawmakers took only 67 seconds to review and greenlight the legislation. Parliament is expected to pass the bill on Tuesday, and Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has promised to back it. Opposition members, who have recently been denied access to Tbilisi’s main government building, did not attend Monday’s vote. Under the proposed legislation, civil society organizations and media outlets that receive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad must register as “agents of foreign influence.” In April, the ruling Georgian Dream party introduced the bill, which is modeled after a Russian foreign agents law that President Vladimir Putin enacted in 2012 and has since used to crush dissent. Mass demonstrations have erupted in the capital in response to the proposed law, marking some of the largest rallies in Georgia since it declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.

India’s mammoth election is more than halfway done as millions begin voting in fourth round (AP) Millions of Indians across 96 constituencies began casting their ballots on Monday as the country’s gigantic, six-week-long election edges past its halfway mark. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a third straight term with an eye on winning a supermajority in Parliament. Monday’s polling in the fourth round of multi-phase national elections across nine states and one union territory will be pivotal for Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, as it includes some of its strongholds in states like Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. The staggered election will run until June 1 and nearly 970 million voters, more than 10% of the world’s population, will elect 543 members to the lower house of Parliament for five years. The votes are scheduled to be counted on June 4.

Malaysia’s appetite for oil and gas puts it on collision course with China (Washington Post) In the open sea off the coast of Malaysian Borneo, industrial rigs extract massive amounts of oil and gas that fuel the economy of Malaysia. Slightly beyond that, in waters Malaysia also considers its own, Chinese coast guard vessels and maritime militia boats maintain a near-constant presence, say Malaysian officials. For 10 years, their country has done little to contest them. But Malaysia is running out of oil and gas close to shore. Increasingly, it has to venture farther out to sea, raising the likelihood of direct confrontation with Chinese forces in the South China Sea. As tensions rise throughout the South China Sea, one of the world’s busiest and most contested bodies of water, energy demands are drawing Malaysia deeper into the fray and testing the country’s long-standing reluctance to antagonize China, according to interviews with more than two dozen government officials, diplomats, oil and gas executives and analysts in Malaysia.

More bodies found in Indonesia after flash floods killed dozens and submerged homes (AP) Rescuers recovered more bodies Monday after monsoon rains triggered flash floods on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island, bringing down torrents of cold lava and mud, leaving 41 people dead and another 17 missing. The heavy rains, along with a landslide of mud and cold lava from Mount Marapi, caused a river to breach its banks. The deluge tore through mountainside villages along four districts in West Sumatra province just before midnight Saturday. The floods swept away people and submerged nearly 200 houses and buildings.

Sleepy far-flung towns in the Philippines will host US forces returning to counter China threats (AP) The far-flung coastal town of Santa Ana in the northeastern tip of the Philippine mainland has long been known by tourists mostly for its beaches, waterfalls, fireflies and a few casinos. But that’s changing after the laid-back town of about 35,000 people, which still has no traffic light, became strategically important to America. The United States and the Philippines, which are longtime treaty allies, have identified Santa Ana in northern Cagayan province as one of nine mostly rural areas where rotating batches of American forces could encamp indefinitely and store their weapons and equipment on local military bases under the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement. Thousands of U.S. forces withdrew from two huge Navy and Air Force bases in the Philippines in the early 1990s at the end of the Cold War, ending nearly a century of American military presence in the country. In recent years, Washington has been reinforcing an arc of military alliances in Asia to counter an increasingly assertive China, which it now regards as its greatest security challenge.

The flow of food and other aid into Gaza has almost entirely dried up over the past week, the U.N. says. (NYT) The flow of aid into Gaza has almost entirely dried up in the past week, according to the United Nations, at a time when humanitarian agencies say the enclave needs a drastic increase in the amount of food, medicine and other goods to tackle a looming famine. Since the start of the war, most aid for Gaza has entered through two border crossings in the southern end of the territory. Israel shut down one of those, Kerem Shalom, after a Hamas rocket attack nearby killed four Israeli soldiers on May 5. The next day, Israel’s military seized and closed the second, in Rafah, on the Egyptian border, as part of what it called a “limited operation” against Hamas, bringing the flow of aid to a near-total stop.

Christian presence quickly dwindling in Gaza after seven months of war (Baptist Press) At Easter, Gaza Baptist Church leader Shady Al-Najjar described those sheltered in the church’s remnants as “too tired to suffer,” living “very difficult” and “useless” days. Al-Najjar has since fled to Egypt, and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have set up shop in what remains of the church compound damaged in the war, former church pastor Hanna Massad told Baptist Press May 8. Al-Najjar is among many Christians who are fleeing Gaza with a renewed vigilance, International Christian Concern (ICC) said as the Israel-Hamas War enters its eighth month, speculating whether any Christians would remain. ICC estimated 25 percent to half of the 900 to 1,000 Christians who lived in Gaza before the war have fled, and that an additional 25 percent are applying to leave.

Hospitals overflowing in besieged Sudanese city as final battle looms (Washington Post) Dozens of people were killed in fighting in the Sudanese town of El Fashir this weekend, a civil society group said Sunday, raising fears for more than 2.5 million civilians trapped there as paramilitary forces encircle the city—the last one in the region outside their control. “Today was one of toughest days we have ever witnessed … The attack was from three directions,” wrote a member of the city’s Emergency Response Room in a message to The Washington Post. “The fighting was inside the populated areas, all kinds of weapons were used.” At least 38 civilians were killed, 189 injured and “many houses” destroyed, he said. “The hospital is calling for blood donations, they say the numbers of wounded are over their capacity.” Abdo Musa Hassan, the medical director of El Fashir South Hospital, said on Sunday he was too busy to give a death toll. But he said the hospital was already overwhelmed and patients were being treated on the ground, in a tent or on balconies. Medical resupplies had been cut off two weeks ago after the RSF seized control of the Melit area, which links El Fashir to the rest of Sudan, he said.

[specialagentleonkennedy]

Special Agent Leon S. Kennedy Personnel File. #2476986675

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WARNING! THIS FILE CONTAINS SENSITIVE DATA! MUST HAVE LVL 4 CLEARANCE AND WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM THE FOLLOWING:

•Dr. William Birkin.

•Dr. Annette Birkin.

•Dr. Alex Wesker.

•Dr. Albert Wesker.

IF YOU DO NOT POSSESS A LVL 4 CLEARANCE AND WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM ANY OF THE DOCTORS LISTED ABOVE, YOU WILL BE DETAINED AND USED AS THE NEXT TEST SUBJECT. PROCEED WITH CAUTION!

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Dec. 17, 2015. U.B.C.S Sgt. Nikolai Zinoviev was sent out to [REDACTED] in the territory of Siberia, Russia. Upon arrival, Sgt. Zinoviev was informed of movement picked up via radar and accompanied a group of Umbrella trained soldiers to track down the source.

Once arriving at the location, Zinoviev was met with a deep gorge separating the flat snowcapped land from the dense forest. Zinoviev and his men rappeled down into the gorge, and were met with a gruesome sight; in the middle of the gorge laid a man, roughly late 20s/early 30s, lifeless.

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The man bore B.S.A.A. standard issued clothes and gear. Both left and right legs had been taken out by a large caliber sniper rifle, lower right arm bore a open-compound fracture and left arm had been dismembered from the elbow down. A half-inch diameter hole is present in the man's head, most likely shot execution-style.

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Sgt. Zinoviev recalls approaching the deceased and kneeling down to look for any identification when the eyes of the deceased man reacted in response to Zinoviev's flashlight.

According to Zinoviev, this was his cue to call in a helicopter and transport the barely conscious man back to base. His actions proved to be justified, as the man was miraculously saved by the men and women of Umbrella's medical team.

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Umbrella's IT department recovered body cam footage from the man's gear, revealing the events leading up to his discovery.

The man is revealed to be Agent Leon S. Kennedy, a survivor of the 1998 Raccoon City Incident. The body cam footage shows Kennedy deployed on a "Mission" with B.S.A.A special forces, only to be shot down and executed by B.S.A.A Captian Chris Redfield in response to a "Betrayal".

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Umbrella's North American branch searched Kennedy's name through official databases, only to be met with the same line in every file; "Status: Deceased. Died in Combat."

We have reason to believe the B.S.A.A does not know that Agent Kennedy is in fact alive and highly aware of his situation.

Agent Kennedy expressed hatred and malice towards Captian Redfield and the B.S.A.A. and here at Umbrella, we plan to help him utilize that hatred. END FILE.

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PLEASE BE ADVISED THAT ANY UNFILTERED CONTACT WITH THE SUBJECT STATED IN THE FILE ABOVE WILL RESULT IN AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR OF THE SUBJECT FOLLOWED BY THE RAPID DISMEMBERMENT AND CONSUMPTION OF THE OPPOSITE PARTY. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

[ukrainenews]

Daily Wrap Up May 21, 2022

Under the cut: Russia places a lifetime ban on 963 Americans (some of whom are already dead); Ukraine willing to open talks with Russia as long as Russia does not harm the defenders of the Azovstal steel factory; Russia to consider exchanging Mariupol defenders for Medvedchuk; Portugal will provide up to 250 million euros in financial support to Ukraine; A hotline has been set up for Russian soldiers who want to surrender to Ukraine; President Biden signed a bill providing another $40 billion in aid to Ukraine; Russia has cut gas supplies to Finland because Finland refuses to pay in rubles.

“Russia on Saturday released a list of 963 Americans it said were banned from entering the country, a punctuation of previously announced moves against president Joe Biden and other senior US officials.

The country, which has received global condemnation for its 24 February invasion of Ukraine, said it would continue to retaliate against what it called hostile US actions, Reuters reported.

The lifetime bans imposed on the Americans, including secretary of state Antony Blinken, US senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, defence secretary Lloyd Austin and CIA head William Burns, are largely symbolic.

They came on the same day Biden signed a support package providing nearly $40bn (£32bn) in aid for Ukraine.

Several on the Russian government’s list of undesirables wouldn’t have been able to make the trip anyway: they are already dead.

John McCain, the former Republican US presidential candidate and long-serving senator; Democrat Harry Reid, who served as senate majority leader from 2007 to 2015; and Orrin Hatch, whose 42 years in the chamber made him the longest-serving Republican senator in history; are all included.

McCain died in August 2018 at the age of 81; Reid died last December, aged 82; and Hatch died on 23 April at 88.”-via The Guardian

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“Ukraine has suggested that it is willing to resume talks with Russia as Moscow claimed to have taken full control of the besieged city of Mariupol – its biggest prize since it invaded Ukraine in February.

Speaking to a television channel on Saturday, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said that “discussions between Ukraine and Russia will undoubtedly take place”.

“Under what format I don’t know – with intermediaries, without them, in a broader group, at the presidential level,” he added. “But the war will be bloody, there will be fighting and [it] will only definitively end through diplomacy.

“There are things that can only be reached at the negotiating table. We want everything to return [to as it was before] but Russia does not want that.”

However, he warned that the precondition for resuming negotiations was that Moscow did not kill Ukrainian troops who had been defending the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol. “The most important thing for me is to save the maximum number of people and soldiers,” he said.”-via The Guardian

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“Moscow is exploring a possible exchange of Ukraine fighters captured at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol for an oligarch and politician close to president Vladimir Putin, a leading Russian negotiator says.

According to AFP, Leonid Slutsky, a senior member of Russia’s negotiating team, the prisoners might be handed over if Ukraine gives up Viktor Medvedchuk, a wealthy businessman known as the “dark prince” of Ukraine politics who was detained last month for a second time.”-via The Guardian

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Portugal will provide up to 250 million euros in financial support to Ukraine.-via Telegram (Ukrainian language)

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“The Security Service of Ukraine has released a number of the hotline - 2402 - for the occupiers who are looking for a way out of the war.

"Well, we give a hint for the invaders who want to stay alive: call 2402 and surrender. This" hot line "is specially designed for such cases. They will help you.”-via Pravda (Ukrainian language source)

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President Biden signed a bill providing another $40 billion in aid to Ukraine. -via White House official website

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“Natural gas supplies to Finland under Gasum’s supply contract have been cut off.

Starting from today, during the upcoming summer season, Gasum will supply natural gas to its customers from other sources through the Balticconnector pipeline. Gasum’s gas filling stations in the gas network area will continue in normal operation.” (Mearning Russia has cut gas supplies to Finland because Finland refuses to pay in rubles).-via Gasum website