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Smearing BRICS As ‘Anti-US Camp’ Won’t Dent Its Increasing Appeal Around World

— Wang Yi | July 18, 2023

Illustration: Chen Xia/Global Times

At a time when the BRICS mechanism is becoming increasingly attractive, an article by VOA's Chinese site titled "Expansion and de-dollarization, will the BRICS turn into an anti-US camp?" claimed on Tuesday that "China hopes that the expansion of the BRICS should have the consideration of competing with the US," smearing the mechanism with sinister intensions.

By inciting confrontation with a zero-sum mentality, this VOA article attempts to portray the BRICS, an inclusive multilateral cooperation platform that promotes mutual benefit and win-win results, as an exclusive organization. It is also trying to drive a wedge among the countries of the BRICS cooperation mechanism. However, such smears that go against the facts cannot interfere with cooperation among the BRICS countries or undercut the attractiveness of the mechanism.

This round of smearing of the BRICS cooperation mechanism by the Western media has been going on for some time. For example, after the BRICS foreign ministers met in South Africa on June 1 and 2, the US Newsweek website published articles such as "BRICS is evolving from China-Russia dream to potential US nightmare" and "China's and Russia's growing BRICS bloc speeds decline of US influence."

Unlike the earlier despising and bad-mouthing of the BRICS, the US and Western media now show more worries and fears about the rapid expansion of the cooperation mechanism. This change fully reflects the indisputable fact that the BRICS mechanism has gained momentum.

Indeed, as a global governance platform built by large developing economies, it has continuously deepened practical cooperation and increasingly become a model of promoting South-South cooperation. The new vision of global governance advocated by the BRICS mechanism has increasing appeal. 19 new countries have formally or informally approached BRICS to express the interest in becoming members as it prepares to hold its annual summit in South Africa in August, according to media reports.

The economic influence of the BRICS countries is also becoming increasingly attractive to economies around the world amid risks. In 2022, BRICS countries accounted for more than 25.6 percent of global GDP, and the group is expected to contribute more than 50 percent by 2030. The huge market potential, abundant resources and regional cooperation have made the BRICS cooperation mechanism a strong magnet for global investors.

The reason why the cooperation mechanism attracts more and more countries is because this platform meets the needs of countries seeking stable economic development and cooperation against anti-globalization and protectionism and the risk spillovers from the economic policies of developed countries such as the US.

For instance, as for the BRICS' promotion of "de-dollarization" claimed by the American and Western media, all that the BRICS countries are doing is taking legitimate steps to protect their economies from common external shocks caused by the US dollar's hegemony.

In recent years, the US has abused the hegemony of the dollar, exacerbating the risks of the world economy. In this regard, many countries, even US allies, have responded to these risks by reducing their holdings of US debt, promoting bilateral currency agreements and diversifying their foreign exchange reserves.

Now, while economies across the world are hedging the risk of dollar hegemony, the BRICS cooperation mechanism effectively helps member countries deal with the risks brought about by the hegemony of the dollar and the irresponsible monetary policy of the US.

As the BRICS cooperation mechanism is further strengthened, slandering by Western media is expected to intensify. There may be more US and Western media and experts who accuse the BRICS of "wooing Southern countries against the US and the US dollar." Or they will resume rumor-mongering and division tactics to undercut the momentum of the expansion of BRICS.

However, the expansion of the BRICS has become an irresistible trend, which is not only conducive to the sustainable development of the BRICS mechanism but also in line with the interests of developing countries. Faced with the exclusive cliques formed by the US and the West to engage in camp confrontation, developing countries will voluntarily join the open, inclusive, cooperative and win-win BRICS mechanism. The noise made by the US and the West cannot reverse this trend.

— The author is a reporter with the Global Times.

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It's 1932 again

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[bjfinn]

This is a message for all of my USAmerican mutuals and followers, as well as those I follow (and all of their mutuals and followers, and so on a so on) -- I know things seem hopeless now, I know you're scared, I know you think the extremists have won. I'm sitting here sobbing and shaking myself.

But NOTHING IS DECIDED YET -- you still have the opportunity to pull your country back from the abyss. YOU HAVE A DUTY TO DO SO.

Luckily, you can still vote in the November election -- you still have that right.

BUT YOU NEED TO REMEMBER THAT THE US HAS A TWO-PARTY SYSTEM!!!

Voting for ANYONE else besides the two main presidential candidates WILL result in your vote going to waste!

JOE BIDEN is the lesser of the two evils, if you stand for progress.

VOTE FOR HIM, OR TRUMP GETS IN.

There's no other choice.

And make no mistake -- Trump will absolutely use your nuclear arsenal to destroy the planet, just because. Just like a comic-book supervillain.

So please, please, please vote. I'm begging you. The world is begging you.

Otherwise we really are on the Eve of Destruction.

And in the meantime (and if worst comes to worst), DO WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO TO KEEP YOURSELF AND YOUR LOVED ONES SAFE. After all, fascist regimes haven't lasted all that long -- Nazi Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Franco's Spain, Peron's Argentina, Pinochet's Chile ... ALL of them were toppled, either by the people themselves, or by the rest of the world. It may take a few decades, but so long as the orange man keeps his finger off the button, it'll happen eventually.

Remember that.

A CHANGE IS GONNA COME.

A CHANGE IS GONNA COME.

A CHANGE IS GONNA COME.

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read more on enough idiot tweets to now be receiving all of online americas worst takes about The World. new in: eu food standards are just about hyper local protectionism, there are no eu farming subsidies, being amused by someone in the netherlands who implicitly thinks where they are is germany is classism,

[readandwriteclub]

If you didn't vote for Harris, congratulations: you helped elect Trump!!!

That how math works; that's how voting works -- it doesn't matter if you don't like it, that's reality.

[magz]

Palestine related news summary from LetsTalkPalestine, May 1 to May 4, 2024.

[Ways to help, sources, and more: LetsTalkPalestine Linktree]

May 1.

(Instagram reel of UCLA protest. Includes footage of treating n washing a pro-palestine protestors' bloody head)

Day 208

🇨🇴 Colombia to cut diplomatic ties w/ Israel

•⁠ ⁠33 killed, 57 injured in the last 24 hours. Real number likely higher

⚖️ US lobbying ICC not to issue arrest warrants for senior Israeli officials, after Israel's threat to respond by retaliating against Palestinian Authority for sparking ICC investigation

🇫🇷 France denies selling weapons to Israel used in Gaza, claiming what's sold will be re-exported to 3rd countries via Israel, but did supply Israeli Iron Dome defense system

🇹🇷 Turkey set to follow Columbia & Nicaragua by joining South Africa's ICJ case against Israel

🎓 Zionist mob attacked Palestine protestors at UCLA w/ fireworks & pepper spray for 3 hours, police didn’t intervene (📹👆). Columbia & CUNY asked NYPD to raid & arrest 280+ student protestors. New encampments across UK, Tunisia & Canada

🚚 First aid trucks enter through Beit Hanoon crossing to north Gaza despite Israel's promise to open 1 month ago. Nearly half of aid convoys to north Gaza denied by Israel.

May 2.

(Instagram post, news update. The Israeli occupation has killed Palestinian Dr. Adnan Al-Barash.)

Day 209

• 28 Palestinians killed, 51 injured in last 24 hours. Note that the toll is underreported.

🏥 Dr. Adnan al Barash killed in captivity after IOF abducted him in Dec (📷👆)— 496 medical personnel killed in Gaza + 309 in captivity

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia arrests many for anti-Israel online posts, incl. an executive & media figure. Timing suspicious w/ reports of renewed normalization talks

• IOF attacks aid convoy, killing 1

🇹🇷 Turkey stops all trade w/ Israel after banning 54 exports to Israel

🇺🇸 US House pass “antisemitism awareness” bill using repressive IHRA definition of antisemitism despite antisemitism covered in anti-discrimination law. Why is IHRA definition problematic? See tinyurl.com/ynsfy8sx

• IOF airstrike in central Gaza killed 5, incl. a child

🪨 37m tons of rubble in Gaza, heavy contamination w/ unexploded ammunition & 800,000 tons of asbestos

🎓 Columbia & Emory University face federal investigation for anti-Muslim discrimination, reports of doxing & harassment

May 3.

Day 210

• World Press Freedom Day: Israel killed 100+ journalists since Oct 7 + holding 53 captive

• 26 killed, 51 injured in the last 24 hours. Note the toll is underreported.

• Israel attack on Rafah killed 7, incl. a mother & her children — the children’s bodies were shredded by the airstrikes

🇹🇹 Trinidad & Tobago recognizes the State of Palestine as West Bank & Gaza

🇬🇧 UK sanctions 2 Israeli groups + 4 settlers for violence in West Bank, warns of more sanctions if no Israeli action against settler attacks

• Israeli strike on Bureij camp killed 5, incl. a child

💰 UN estimates cost to rebuild Gaza at $40bn; more than post-WWII reconstruction

🎓 Goldsmiths University students in London win & obtain demands after occupying library — @ goldsmithsforpalestine on instagram for details

🎓 University encampments for Gaza go global spreading to 🇨🇦 🇮🇳 🇳🇿 🇪🇸 🇦🇷 🇯🇵 🇰🇼 🇱🇧 🇹🇳 🇯🇴. US crackdown w/ 2,200 students arrested

• Iran-backed Bahraini militia launches attack at southern Israeli port Eilat

May 4.

Day 211

✝️ Israel blocks entry of many Palestinian Christians to Jerusalem for Holy Saturday celebrations

•⁠ 32 Palestinians killed, 41 injured in Gaza in last 24 hours. Toll underreported

•⁠ ⁠IOF killed 5+ in 15-hour siege on Tulkarem (West Bank) & clashes with Hamas resistance fighters. IOF targeted fighters’ homes w/ women & kids inside, demolished homes trapping many under rubble

•⁠ ⁠Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 11 incl. 3 in bombings of tents in Rafah

•⁠ Head of UN WFP says north Gaza experiencing “full-blown famine” and it’s only a matter of time before south Gaza faces same level of starvation

🇫🇷 British-Palestinian @ dr.ghassan.as denied entry to France for Senate address as witness of Gaza Genocide as Germany put year-long ban on his entry to Europe (Schengen)

🇺🇸 88 US lawmakers warn Biden that Israeli aid blockade violates US ‘foreign assistance’ law

•⁠ IOF abducts 5 overnight in West Bank

🎓 Uni encampments spread to Switzerland, Ireland, Germany, Cuba & Costa Rica

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UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LATEST TO ENDURE POLICE VIOLENCE AND SUPPRESSION IN NATIONWIDE CRACKDOWN

📹 Scenes from the University of Virginia, where student protesters were attacked, assaulted, and more than 20 arrested by police in the latest among countless crackdowns on college campuses nationwide.

More than 2'000 students across the country have been arrested in Pro-Palestine, anti-genocide student protests.

Police in riot gear have been widely used by elites to break up encampments using tear gas and rubber bullets on peaceful student protesters, while an officer in the NYPD reportedly "accidentally" discharged his firearm.

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“It could never happen in our country”. It is. As many stand behind this vulgar and violent fascist movement happening in America, embracing the division, promoting the hatred, cheering on the would be dictator, it’s difficult not to be in awe of the spectacle. To see our fellow Americans, so willing to relinquish their rights and freedoms due to a manufactured fear that has gripped their soul. A fear created by Trump and his sycophantic minions, warning of dangers that do not exist, scapegoating the vulnerable and defenseless as the “vermin” who are responsible for all the hardship one endures. It is difficult not to be disheartened by it. As a title wave of lies and deception, misinformation and falsities bombard is from all directions, cover ups and excuses, justification of the unjustifiable, normalizing what is absurd. It’s difficult to not be discouraged. As we watch this fascist coalition threaten the very principles upon which this country anchor to, we see calls for the termination of news networks for not bending to the will of the autocratic leader by fact checking him, as we hear calls for imprisonment of legislators who’s crime is calling out the anti-democratic behavior and rhetoric, the calls for military intervention against us, the citizens of this nation, calls for executions of those who would dare stand for democracy, those who stand with our Constitution, those who stand for freedom. It’s difficult to not feel powerless.

Let me tell you my pro-democracy friends. These anxious feelings, although normal, are unwarranted. For we are the people. We are the vast majority of this nation. It goes beyond our sheer numbers. This vast and beautiful collection of diverse peoples that we are, we are the soul of the nation. Our love is stronger than their hate. Our bravery dwarfs their fear mongering. Our positivity counteracts their negativity. Our desire for freedom outmatches their want of oppression. Together we will arise victorious from this darkness that has blanketed our land. We will over these forces of old and evil as we did in 1865, as we did in 1945, as we did in 1964, and when this perilous struggle is over, it not only cauterizes the wounds inflicted by those who have assaulted the character of our nation, it will once again tamp down the notion that racism is acceptable in any way, sending the bigots back to their shadows, it will send the message that hate has no home in the United States of America, that the only superiority is that which is written in our founding documents. That all are created equal, that we are endowed with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Do not fret friends. Organize. Do not worry. Organize. Do not give in. Speak out. I truly believe that good is stronger than bad, that light is more powerful than darkness, that peace overcomes violence, that unity triumphs over division, that love supersedes hate. ☮️💟🇺🇸

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"ANTI-SEMITISM” is a trick regularly used to FUEL it by yours truly 🇺🇸🇮🇱 to shut down ANY criticism of 🇮🇱

It's NOT "Anti-Semitic” to be against genocide

It's NOT "Anti-Semitic" to be against apartheid

It's NOT "Anti-Semitic" to be against Occupation

It's NOT "Anti-Semitic” to be against LAND THEFT

It's NOT "Anti-Semitic” to be against ETHNIC CLEANSING

It's NOT "Anti-Semitic” to be against 🇵🇸'S HOLOCAUST

ITS HUMAN" from Rasha Naddaf-Whaits, 07/May/2024:

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🚨 Day 209 (@letstalkpalestine)

• 28 Palestinians killed, 51 injured in last 24 hours. Note that the toll is underreported.

🏥 Dr. Adnan al Barash killed in captivity after IOF abducted him in Dec— 496 medical personnel killed in Gaza + 309 in captivity

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia arrests many for anti-Israel online posts, incl. an executive & media figure. Timing suspicious w/ reports of renewed normalization talks

• IOF attacks aid convoy, killing 1

🇹🇷 Turkey stops all trade w/ Israel after banning 54 exports to Israel

🇺🇸 US House pass “antisemitism awareness” bill using repressive IHRA definition of antisemitism despite antisemitism covered in anti-discrimination law. Why is IHRA definition problematic? See tinyurl.com/ynsfy8sx

• IOF airstrike in central Gaza killed 5, incl. a child

🪨 37m tons of rubble in Gaza, heavy contamination w/ unexploded ammunition & 800,000 tons of asbestos

🎓 Columbia & Emory University face federal investigation for anti-Muslim discrimination, reports of doxing & harassment

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Yale University students celebrate graduation in 1914—despite what the date scribbled on the image says. In the early 20th century, U.S. elite colleges were panicked about an influx of Jewish applicants. They devised a system to screen them out that remains mainly in place today. Photograph By George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress

Why Do Colleges Have Legacy Admissions? It Started as a Way to Keep Out Jews.

Standardized tests. Interviews. Extracurricular Activities. In the early 20th Century, Universities used these Tactics to Ensure their Students were Predominantly Protestant.

— By Erin Blakemore | July 28, 2023

Should college students gain admission based on academic merit—or who their parents are? That question has become more pertinent than ever with the U.S. Supreme Court’s invalidation of affirmative action and the Department of Education’s announcement of a civil rights investigation into Harvard University’s preferential treatment of “legacy” students with family connections.

Although it may seem like a modern problem, it’s only been about a century since U.S. colleges and universities began factoring family relationships and other criteria like extracurricular activities, interviews, and standardized test scores into their admissions decisions. These policies, it turns out, are rooted in anti-Semitic attitudes that aimed to keep Jewish students out of elite schools.

Here’s how anti-Jewish discrimination fueled modern college admissions—long before affirmative action ever existed.

Training Grounds For Society’s Elite

Before the late 19th century, a college education was largely out of reach for anyone but wealthy Protestants, who founded universities and colleges to prepare their sons for cultural and community leadership. Though these institutions extended preferential treatment to the sons of previous graduates, their entrance requirements were relatively lax. In a time before widespread public education, few who could afford to pay were turned away.

But beginning in the 1840s, the makeup of American society changed with waves of immigration that brought Catholics and Jews into the country in large numbers. As these emigrants flooded into the nation, write sociologists Deborah L. Coe and James D. Davidson, their presence threatened white Protestant groups who had previously dominated mainstream culture.

“As a result,” Coe and Davidson write, “anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic sentiments found their way into a variety of mechanisms that were created in response to the undesirable demographic changes.” This soon filtered into college admissions too.

Catholics quickly founded their own universities and encouraged members of their religion to attend them. So it was Jewish college enrollment that generated special concern at predominantly Protestant institutions.

Panic Over 'Undesirable' College Applicants

Institutions historically tolerated some Jewish students, but only those whom officials felt had the proper class standing and had appropriately “assimilated” into mainstream American culture.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, newer arrivals from majority Jewish enclaves didn’t fit that mold, so elite Protestants attempted to close ranks. University officials who bought into longstanding stereotypes of Jews as clannish, conniving, and socially undesirable worried that admitting Jews would taint the reputation of the schools. Plus, they disliked the idea of their sons being educated alongside them.

No longer was mere money sufficient for acceptance into elite social circles. As historian John Higham writes, Protestant elites of the era “grasped at social distinctions that were more than pecuniary,” including “the cult of genealogy.” Suddenly, institutions including social clubs, sports organizations, prep schools, and even neighborhoods emphasized family connections as part of the price of entry—shutting Jews out by default.

It was no different in higher education, where leaders were alarmed by rising Jewish enrollment. In response, they began to brainstorm how to limit Jewish applicants without endangering public funding or damaging their reputations.

Elite Universities’ Anti-Semitic Legacy

Yale University was one of those institutions. “There seems to be no question that the University as a whole has about all of this race that it can well handle,” wrote Robert Nelson Corwin, Yale’s admissions chairman, in 1922. Though Jewish students showed the same academic achievement as their counterparts, Corwin wrote, “members of this race…graduate from college as alien in morals and manners as they were upon admission.”

He recommended that Yale implement “non-intellectual requirements,” including letters of recommendation, in-person interviews, and psychological testing, to limit its number of Jews.

Corwin was far from alone. From Harvard to Rutgers, Columbia to Tufts, elite colleges and universities began trying anything and everything to control the makeup of their student bodies. Some implemented quotas to limit the number of Jews in new classes. Others focused recruiting in areas they knew had lower populations of Jews, and began looking more closely at extracurricular activities that indicated the social class and religion of applicants. More admissions requirements meant more reasons to turn down students—and a way to mask anti-Semitic school policies.

When Jews won more academic scholarships, schools like Harvard and Yale discontinued them in favor of financial aid. They also embraced the new field of psychological testing, offering tests that measured aptitude and not achievement, such as the Thorndike Tests for Mental Alertness.

“The primitive and biased tests effectively reduced Jewish enrollment [at Columbia] by half,” write education historians Jim Horn and Denise Wilburn, noting that many such tests were developed by eugenicists in search of “a purportedly objective way to quantify the structural racism of the day and to have it accepted as scientific.”

Another new requirement was so common it became almost ubiquitous during the period: the photograph. Historian Marianne R. Sanua writes that at Columbia, one fraternity publication satirically recommended that to get around newly tightened admissions requirements, applicants should dye their hair blonde, pretend they were taller, and have photos taken that downplayed stereotypically “Jewish” facial features.

Finally, higher education institutions also implemented internal legacy admissions policies, actively recruiting relatives of alumni and offering them a leg up on other applicants.

“All properly qualified sons of Dartmouth alumni and Dartmouth College officers will be accepted,” wrote Dartmouth College in its alumni magazine in 1922. The school also required applicants to submit multiple letters from Dartmouth alumni, promising that it would prioritize “men who plainly possess the qualities of leadership or qualities of outstanding promise” over those “qualified by high scholarship ranks but with no evidence of positive qualities otherwise.”

The Persistence of Legacy Admissions

As anti-Jewish sentiment became less mainstream in the wake of World War II and the Holocaust and with the rise of the civil rights movement, many universities phased out their more overtly anti-Semitic policies. But many of the restrictions put in place to limit Jewish applicants stuck. Standardized testing and interviews are still common requirements for college admissions, and today’s institutions of higher learning still admit more wealthy students.

One recent analysis found that children from the top 0.1 percent income bracket are more than twice as likely to gain admission to Ivy League schools compared to poorer students with the same test scores—and that 46 percent of their advantage can be attributed to admissions policies that extend preferential treatment to “legacy” students.

Despite some institutions like Amherst, Johns Hopkins, and Wesleyan announcing that they’ve abandoning the practice, the system is still common today. In a 2018 survey by Inside Higher Education, 42 percent of admissions directors at private colleges and universities said legacy status is a factor in their admissions process, compared to 6 percent at public institutions.

Among those institutions is Harvard, whose legacy admissions policy is now facing scrutiny by federal civil rights investigators. The Harvard Crimson reports that among its 2022 freshman class, more than 14 percent surveyed said they were legacy students, and self-reported legacies were likelier to be white. Over a third with one or more parents who attended Harvard reported a combined family income of $500,000 a year or more.

Will legacy admissions go the way of affirmative action? Until the results of the Department of Education’s reported investigation become clear, there’s no way of knowing. But many of the policies once implemented to keep Jews out of higher education in the U.S. are likely to persist.

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🟠 IDF ATTACKS MISSILE DEPOT / HEZBOLLAH ATTACKS KATRIN - MORNING NEWS

ISRAEL REALTIME - Connecting to Israel in Realtime

( VIDEO 1 - IDF strike(s) Hezbollah weapons warehouses in Baalbek, northeast Lebanon. )

( VIDEO 2 - HOME hit by Hezbollah rocket in Katzrin, Golan Heights. )

⚠️(6:30) Warnings to Golan towns and Katzrin to remain close to protected spaces, minimize gatherings, etc.

♦️IDF DEEP ATTACKS (4) ON HEZBOLLAH.. in Baalbek, northeast Lebanon, hitting surface-to-surface ballistic missile depots.

▪️NASTY HAMAS PROPAGANDA ATTACK..  threatening messages and calls received by families of hostages - some from the phone numbers of their loved ones (via taken phones).  Messages sent by Hamas and Iran per the Defense Ministry. ,The messages included threats such as: if you don't fight you won't see your loved one, or demands to pay a ransom in exchange for information.

▪️AVNEI HEFETZ UNDER FIRE.. Avnei Hefetz is a Jewish town in Samaria near Tulkarm.  Fatah's Khalli al-Aqsa takes responsibility for gunfire at the town, many rounds of attacks.

▪️TERROR ATTACK THWARTED.. Police just reported this event from 2 weeks ago: by the Gilon intersection Route 85, terror-minors set up with Molotov cocktails at 4:30 AM.  Spotted by police, arrested.

▪️SIREN TESTS.. Moshav Shadi Hamad, Moshav Mishmatar, Matan and Nirit from 11:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.  In upgraded tests, some of these tests are regular up-down alert sounds with Home Front soldiers stationed around the area to register siren sound levels.

▪️PROTEST - ANTI-CONSCRIPTION - JERUSALEM.. by Shaarei Yisroel street.  Large police forces present.  Charedi anti-draft protest.

⭕50 ROCKET BARRAGE by HEZBOLLAH - GOLAN.. Katzrin area, several HITS including on a home in Katzrin, man injured.  Katzin is a small city, the population is NOT evacuated.

⭕ATTEMPTED MINE LAYING BLOWS UP.. in Temon, by Tubas, as it was being buried to attack the IDF.

⭕SHIA MILITIAS IRAQ (Iranian proxies) SAYS ATTACKED EILAT.. via suicide drones.  No such arrival of attack reported.

♦️COUNTER-TERROR OPS.. overnight in Shechem, and Shawika.

🔸DEAL NEWS.. Fox News reporter says Hamas sent him the points of dispute (in a PowerPoint presentation):

-The Philadelphi (Egypt border) Corridor (as in, who controls it, the IDF inspecting it)

-The Netzarim route (divides Gaza) (as in, the IDF manning in and preventing the free movement of Gazans and terrorists)

-Inspection of displaced civilians returning to northern Gaza (which might include hostages! And terrorists!  And rockets!)

-Changes to the hostage/prisoner exchange details (Hamas demands the most senior biggest mass murderers be freed, and first).

-Tying aid/reconstruction to acceptance of other conditions (they demand reconstruction BEFORE even releasing hostages).

.. President Biden: Blinken - "We must bring the deal to the finish line.  The United States will not accept Israel's long-term occupation of the Gaza Strip.”

.. At the end of his visit to Doha, US Sec State Blinken sent a message to Netanyahu: It is important that the negotiating teams working on the details of the agreement have "maximum flexibility" so that we can reach a deal.  (Note he is not hassling Hamas, who has refused to send delegates in person.)

.. Politico: Senior US officials say the ceasefire deal is on the verge of collapse.

🇺🇸Not Israel related:  In March President Biden ordered US forces to prepare for possible nuclear confrontations with Russia, China and North Korea.

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@sometimesieatexpiredcatfoof @bowlia @cunt-removal @maddythesadone @littlegoblininyourshoe

@verybald @saccgiriangel @kokodree @ukiharavara @35centtoothpaste

@aoxql @miraculousloverandhater @lycanpunk666 @st4rzl1k3c0nf3t1 @strawbsswift13-2

@theangelcatalogue @autistictojisuzuharafan11

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Learn more about me...

GET THE F*CK AWAY FROM ME/DO NO INTERACT:

Pedos,

Zoophiles,

Proshippers,

Racists/RCTAS,

Furrys that are 18+,

Therians(NO EXCEPIONS),

Anti-Furrys,

Catemoji Fans,

People that get on likes to make fandom dramas/fandom discourses

people that get mad at GAY MEN for saying the f slur.

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Basic information:

my real name is Bernard

I'm a minor (13-14 years old)

gay cis and I use He/him (respect me, bitch!)

Brazilian and half Italian I speak Portuguese PT-BR🇧🇷 and English EN-AM🇺🇸

Green Day, My chemical romance, Pierce the Veil, Fall out Boy, Falling in Reverse, Ice Nine Kills fan

Emo/scene/Punk/Rock/Sigilcore music enjoyer

I FUCKING LOVE HORROR PUNK, DEAD MEAT, KILL COUNTS, THE MISFITS AND ICE NINE KILLS

My birthday is on 20/06

Owen, Noah, Sam, Scott, Shawn, Rodney, Beardo, Lorenzo, Chet, Spud, Ripper and Chase are my favorites😭😭

Joining the TDI and JJBA fandoms! (More active on TDI but I know pratically every thing about JJBA!)

Less active but kinda knows about it on the; Pokemon, Ace attorney, Evangelion, Danganronpa fandoms (I am slowing re-liking Danganronpa help)

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Unnecessary informations:

Ronnie Radke's real son, trust/j

Yes I LOVE fat men and I'll go insane if I don't draw one per day😻

I hate tøp, like, for YEARS and idk why

if you like alenoah/Jacnoah oh my god get the fuck out/j /not joking

I'm not a hero by fir is literally me

I fucking love nightmare on elm street

yeah if you're a therian get the fuck ou please. You guys make me extremely uncomfortable and unsafe, go away.

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[bridgemino]

Introduction Post ⭐️

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[NO Homophobia/transphobia, politics, some religion(respectfully), especially no hating on religion, anti-furry or anti-therian, racism, general toxicity, or any of that jazz shall be spoken of to avoid unwanted conflict! Please be respectful here]

Bestie list/people I look up to✨

@stupidloafofbread , @st3llast4rl1ght , @wispcandle

People that inspire me:

@/kidshowsarecool @/rhunsui @/lunar-rcp @/polina-tvorozhok @/canyonkingdom

I go by Bridget on the internet but neither are my real name

I love beef jerky and pretzels; or just anything strawberry🍓

I’m a furry so if you don’t like them, sorry not sorry.

I love fruits!!

I am a female

I’m in band and play the tuba! 🎶

Not a fan of chocolate things (sorry chocolate lovers)

I don’t mind minor swearing

I am a minor so please try to keep it sfw !!

I really wanna go to Iceland or New Zealand

I love anime

One shot requests: CLOSED !!

I used to on Wattpad, my user is ThatFanficPerson12 (most of my stuff is cRInGe though)

I am autistic and have anxiety so please keep that in mind !!

A few of the shows/fandoms I like: (animes and kid shows)

Robocar Poli

BFDI/BFB/TPOT

Countryhumans (?)

Kinda country balls

Hazbin Hotel (A little bit)

Toilet-bound Hanako Kun

Octonauts

Komi Can’t Communicate 💜

BNA 🦝

Romantic killer

Favorite TV shows/movies ✨ (Not kid show related)

Criminal Minds

Jane the Virgin

Dance Moms 💃🕺 (JOJO, HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING?!)

Twister 🌪

The Day After Tomorrow ❄️

Zombie Land

World War Z

I have 6 cats and a dog ❤️

I was born and live in the USA 🇺🇸

I try to be respectful to all !!

I hope we can be friends~!! :D

SIDE BLOG #1 ~ @droney-desertrescue

SIDE BLOG #2 ~ @bestpirate-rody