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Aktion T4 will soon be underway in the UK. The disabled were the first victims of the nazis and this is how it started.

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The two delegations also reviewed the progress of various agreements, including the removal of the 10% processing fee in Afghan transit trade, the provision of insurance guarantees, reductions in scanning procedures, and the activation of the track-and-trace system.

Additionally, the discussions covered the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan railway framework agreement, with both sides agreeing to finalise it soon. The return of Afghan citizens to their homeland was also a key topic of discussion. The briefing revealed that since January 2024, Pakistan has issued over 500,000 visas for medical, tourism, business, and educational purposes.

Stop agreeing to finalize plans to plan, and build the fucking railways!!!!!!

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Anyone actually closely familiar with this? Very annoying having to go find people like John Helmer to get specific details on stuff like the Vladivostok Eastern Economic Forum. What is going on in there?? Tell me!

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The man, a U.S. national, was arrested in possession of weapons used exclusively by the Army; he was wearing a bulletproof vest, night vision helmets and a CIA credential.

An unusual and high-impact event set off the alerts of the Mexican authorities: a man of U.S. nationality was detained by elements of the Security Secretariat of the State of Mexico (SSEM) and the Municipal Police in possession of exclusive Army weapons, tactical equipment and a credential of the Mexican Army.

The report was handled by the Control, Command, Communication, Computing and Quality Center (C5), which channeled the incident to field security units.

According to the official report, upon arriving at the site, members of the Support and Reaction Force (FAR) - who were participating in Operation Argos to strengthen regional security - found a man on the balcony of a housing complex.

He was wearing a helmet, a green tactical vest and was carrying a long gun slung over his shoulder, as well as a knife in his hand. Considering the scene as an active threat to the community, the uniformed officers proceeded to neutralize and disarm the individual, who was found to have a wound on his right hand.

The man, identified as James “N”, was arrested on charges of disturbing the public order and carrying weapons for the exclusive use of the Army.

During his transfer to the hospital, the security forces found among his belongings a CIA badge and credential.

The subsequent inspection of the apartment where he was staying revealed a high caliber arsenal: four pistols of different models, two Colt 5.56 mm assault rifles (one without cartridges), more than 100 rounds of ammunition, magazines, a combat knife, ballistic vests, helmets -one with a digital camera and night vision-, tactical goggles, lamps and advanced protection equipment.

After receiving medical attention, James “N” was handed over to the Special Affairs Prosecutor's Office (FAE) of the State of Mexico.

The agency opened an investigation to clarify the origin of the weapons, the validity of his alleged CIA credentials and the reasons for his stay in the area.

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This is a devastating intervention. More than a hundred BBC employees have written a letter to the director general, Tim Davie, complaining that the Corporation has become a mouthpiece for Israel.

It was also signed by 300 other journalists and media professionals: one of them was yours truly. The BBC employees, as you would expect, are all anonymous, because otherwise they would face grave consequences to their careers.

The letter says:

We’re writing to express our concerns over opaque editorial decisions and censorship at the BBC on the reporting of Israel/Palestine. We believe the refusal to broadcast the documentary ‘Gaza: Medics Under Fire’ is just one in a long line of agenda driven decisions. It demonstrates, once again, that the BBC is not reporting “without fear or favour” when it comes to Israel.

It goes on to note that the decision not to broadcast the investigation was taken by BBC management despite the content being signed off in accordance with BBC guidelines and editorial policy, which it says “Appears to be a political decision”, adding that the BBC response shows the organisation “is crippled by the fear of being perceived as critical of the Israeli government.”

This is a letter which passed every single BBC internal check. No factual errors are alleged. The only other BBC documentary which focused on the apocalyptic plight of the Palestinian people in Gaza was taken down as a result of a hysterical pro-Israel campaign - because the father of the child narrator’s son had a junior technocratic position in the Hamas administration. Irrelevant, given the narrator’s words were written for him by the documentary producers.

The letter emphasises that the signatories are not “asking the BBC to take a side”, but just to allow BBC journalists to “do their jobs in delivering facts transparently and with due context”. They note one striking failure:

As an organisation we have not offered any significant analysis of the UK government's involvement in the war on Palestinians. We have failed to report on weapons sales or their legal implications. These stories have instead been broken by the BBC’s competitors.

This is, by the way one of many striking scandalous failures on the part of the BBC, which is a public service broadcaster which is duty bound to hold the British government to account and has failed to do so.

And this is the really crucial allegation. The letter says:

This hasn’t happened by accident, rather by design. Much of the BBC’s coverage in this area is defined by anti-Palestinian racism.

This is exactly it. There hasn’t even been a pretence by the BBC that Palestinian life has even the fraction of the worth of an Israeli life. When I did my detailed investigation into BBC coverage for Drop Site News at the end of the last year, I worked with data journalists who used incontrovertible statistics to show how this is the case.

The letter mentions a crucial name. It says:

The inconsistent manner in which guidance is applied draws into focus the role of Sir Robbie Gibb, on the BBC Board and BBC’s Editorial Standards Committee. We are concerned that an individual with close ties to the Jewish Chronicle, an outlet that has repeatedly published anti-Palestinian and often racist content, has a say in the BBC's editorial decisions in any capacity, including the decision not to broadcast ‘Gaza: Medics Under Fire’.

Sir Robbie Gibb is a striking case study. The brother of a Tory minister, he joined the BBC as a political researcher after he graduated, before becoming chief of staff for Tory Shadow Chancellor Francis Maude. He then returned to the BBC as deputy editor of the flagship current affairs programme Newsnight, then became the editor for BBC political programmes such as Daily Politics, where he worked closely with its main presenter, Andrew Neil, then chairman of the hard right Spectator magazine. He then went off in 2017 to become director of communications for the Tory prime minister Theresa May. He then returned to the BBC, joining its Board.

You can be forgiven if this revolving door between the Tories and BBC has left you dizzy.

He was singled out by the likes of former Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis who said he was an “active agent of the Conservative party” who was shaping the Corporation’s news output by acting “as the arbiter of BBC impartiality”.

In 2020, he led a consortium bid to buy The Jewish Chronicle, a newspaper which rather than doing what is vitally important - offering media representation for Britain’s Jewish community - has acted as a zealous cheerleader of the Israeli state, and indeed that newspaper has pushed, as the letter notes, hideously anti-Palestinian racist output.

It is absolutely remarkable that this man has the power and influence he does at the BBC. Can you imagine someone with left-wing and pro-Palestinian connections having this power and influence? There is more chance of the Moon turning into a giant panda called Flibble.

As the letter notes:

This conflict of interest highlights a double standard for BBC content makers who have themselves experienced censorship in the name of ‘impartiality’. In some instances staff have been accused of having an agenda because they have posted news articles critical of the Israeli government on their social media. By comparison, Gibb remains in an influential post with little transparency regarding his decisions despite his ideological leanings being well known. We can no longer ask license fee payers to overlook Gibbs’ ideological allegiances.

The letter notes that the BBC’s reporting on Israel and Palestine “falls short of our own editorial standards”, with “a gulf between the BBC’s coverage of what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank and what our audiences can see is happening via multiple credible sources including human rights organisations, staff at the UN and journalists on the ground.”

Which is why the letter makes the incendiary claim:

All too often it has felt that the BBC has been performing PR for the Israeli government and military.

Note that over a hundred journalists who spend their lives working for the BBC have stated their agreement with this.

They state that: “We have been forced to conclude that decisions are made to fit a political agenda rather than serve the needs of audiences.”

They go on to note their extreme concern about BBC reporting on the issue “falling short of the standards our audiences expect”, adding that:

We believe the role of Robbie Gibb, both on the Board, and as part of the Editorial Standards Committee, is untenable. We call on the BBC to do better for our audiences and recommit to our values of impartiality, honesty and reporting without fear or favour.

Other than those BBC journalists, signatories include the actors Juliet Stevenson, Khlaid Abdalla, Zawe Ashton, Miriam Margoyles.

Now BBC insiders have some choice things to say. Once says:

At the BBC, the strength of feeling against Gibb is palpable.

In corridors at New Broadcasting House, staff confide in each other about the illogical decisions reached by management and the role that Gibb has to play.

We often feel we are in an abusive relationship with the BBC, in which we are gaslit and pacified.”

They go on to say:

We are exhausted by the double standards and the suspension of editorial standards. For many staff this has shattered any notion of fairness.

We frequently console in each other about how this has been allowed to happen. We believe the BBC will not be able to deliver on its commitment to fairness and due impartiality whilst Gibb is in post.

Another notes:

For more than a year now we’ve been aware that the BBC’s news output is out of step with reality. Audiences are being asked not to believe their own eyes and ears.

Anyone with a phone has seen the footage coming out of Gaza and the West Bank yet BBC News has tied itself in knots with notions of ‘complexity’.

Why have we taken a clear position on Ukraine and Russia when we fail to confidently assert facts when it comes to the Palestinian people? Robbie Gibb is at least part of the answer.

We raised these concerns so many times and we have not been listened to. We are speaking out because we must serve audiences better.

Well indeed, and here is just another example of the biggest scandal of Western journalism of our time.

What the BBC and other organisations did is either completely erase the statements of genocidal and criminal intent made by Israeli leaders and officials, or bury them, and indeed refuse to explain the genocidal and criminal nature of those statements. These statements proved the most accurate roadmap for what Israel would go on to do, and yet the BBC completely misled their audiences about Israel’s intent, treating these statements as though they were being issued in a parallel universe, and instead zoning in on deceitful statements issued by Israeli officials designed for Western audiences.

The BBC repeatedly framed their stories around the false statements and claims of the Israeli state, treating them as credible despite the overwhelming evidence of Israel lying over and over again and indeed committing every single war crime and crime against humanity under the sun.

Palestinian voices received much less coverage and were prosecuted as though they were in the dock in a way pro-Israel voices are not.

Atrocities and war crimes have been ignored and whitewashed. Studies exposing war crimes have been ignored or given precious little coverage.

Palestinian life has been treated as having infinitely less worth than Israeli life, while emotive terms such as ‘massacre’ are reserved for Israeli victims rather than Palestinian victims, and humanising words are proportionately used far more for Israeli victims than Palestinian victims

While sentences such as ‘Hamas run health ministry’ are woven in as standard to undermine faith in the death toll in Gaza, basic facts like the International Criminal court issuing arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defence minister are not.

The fact there is a consensus amongst genocide scholars, including Israeli genocide scholars, that Israel is committing genocide, has been suppressed, with those scholars being erased.

We could go on.

This is the biggest scandal of Western journalism of our age. These BBC journalists have spoken out. Other journalists should do the same.

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A representative of the Venezuelan indigenous movement requests before the BRICS Council to remove obstacles so that his country can join this key mechanism.

The national secretary of the United Indigenous Movement of Venezuela (MIUVEN), Cesar Carias, requested on Saturday, before the members of the BRICS People's Council held in Brazil, the entry of the Bolivarian country to the group of emerging economies that challenges the unipolar world order led by the United States.

"We thank you very much for the invitation, but at the same time we respectfully request that the veto imposed on our country be removed. We respectfully request that the veto imposed on our country be eliminated and that our voices not be silenced", said Carias.

The BRICS People's Council, made up of social movements, civil organizations and community actors of the member countries of the bloc, achieved after the last summit held in 2024 its recognition as a consultative body within the structure of such organization.

Said instance has decided to express its support to the South American country, but will only advocate for a general enlargement of the BRICS members, without paying special attention to the case of Venezuela, according to Agencia Brasil.

The plenary session was also attended by the Venezuelan Ambassador to Brazil, Manuel Vadell, who expressed optimism about the eventual incorporation of Venezuela into both the People's Council and the BRICS.

Venezuela and Brazil have been estranged since the elections of July 28, 2024, in which Venezuelan electoral authorities proclaimed the victory of President Nicolás Maduro, however, the opposition, with the support of foreign countries, has questioned the result, after which Brazil vetoed Venezuela's formal entry into the bloc that integrates more than half of the global population under the BRICS banner.

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One of the proposals discussed during the previous BRICS summit last October 2024 in Kazan, Russia, was the possibility of creating a new payment system as an alternative to SWIFT, currently the main interbank payment network. The interest was discussed with more impetus at the most recent XVII BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro, which took place on July 5 and 6.

During the seventeenth annual meeting of the BRICS in Rio de Janeiro 2025, the bloc's leaders proposed moving forward with the creation of such a system, within the framework of the BRICS Cross-Border Payments Initiative, which aims to facilitate more accessible, fast and secure transactions between member countries.

According to the summit's final declaration, the group welcomed the technical report prepared by the BRICS Payments Working Group, which explained possible strategies to ensure greater interoperability between national financial systems.

SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) is a network connecting more than 11,000 financial institutions in over 200 countries controlled by the major Western powers, which use it as a political tool to impose unilateral economic sanctions.

This has been especially exploited by the United States and its allies to economically sanction several countries or to exclude their companies from this network, preventing them from making payments, as is the case of Russia, a recurrent victim of U.S. and EU sanctions.

Faced with this reality, the bloc seeks to reduce its dependence on the US dollar in international trade and finance, so a new alternative payment system would focus especially on de-dollarization in member countries.

In summary, the possible new alternative system pursues the following objectives:

  • Facilitate more accessible, fast and secure transactions between member countries.

  • Reduce dependence on platforms controlled by Northern powers.

  • Strengthen trade and investment among the countries of the Global South.

  • Protect the countries of the bloc against unilateral sanctions.

  • Ensure greater monetary and financial autonomy.

Driven mainly by China and Russia, as well as established as a priority by Brazil during its presidency of the bloc, the initiative is part of a broader project of de-dollarization of international trade, and should be complemented by other financial measures such as the use of the New Development Bank (NDB) to finance in a local currency and strengthen regional insurance and reserve mechanisms for the bloc.

In this regard, the final declaration of the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro proposes the development of a Multilateral Guarantee initiative through the NDB, a tool to stimulate investment in infrastructure in member countries, a measure that is considered central to making the new cross-border payment system viable, as well as to consolidating the group's financial autonomy.

The recently concluded summit demonstrates that, in the midst of the constant sanctions to which many BRICS nations are subjected, the bloc is proposing the construction of its own financial ecosystem that allows for greater economic sovereignty and avoids the vulnerability implied by dependence on systems such as SWIFT.

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Guillotine NOW.

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I will have to look up some research on the makeup of their air defense forces

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Britain has officially restored full diplomatic relations with Syria, more than ten years after severing ties amid a Western-backed conflict aimed at destabilizing the Arab nation.

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy met with Syria’s de facto leader Abu Muhammad al-Jolani in Damascus Saturday, marking a significant but controversial shift in UK policy.

The decision comes despite extensive evidence of war crimes and brutal repression under the current Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) regime, particularly against minority communities such as the Alawites, who have suffered targeted violence.

Last week, Reuters said its investigation had found that fighting units associated with HTS played a key role in the mass killing of Alawite civilians on the Syrian coast last March.

The British news outlet stated that between 7 and 10 March, “1,479 Syrian Alawites were killed and dozens were missing from 40 distinct sites of revenge killings, rampages and looting.”

The investigation found that armed units associated with HTS, the former al-Qaeda affiliate led by Jolani, participated in the killings in at least 10 sites, where nearly 900 people were killed.

During an interview with Al Jazeera in 2015, Jolani vowed to kill any Alawites who refused to convert.

London originally cut diplomatic ties in 2011 following the Syrian government’s efforts to maintain law and order amid terrorist uprisings fueled and armed by Western powers. The UK also imposed sanctions and took part in military actions targeting Syrian forces.

Following the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in December 2024 by a foreign-backed offensive led by Jolani, Britain has begun easing sanctions and re-engaging diplomatically.

Foreign Secretary Lammy framed Britain’s renewed ties as a way to support Syria’s sovereignty, reduce illegal migration caused by Western-led chaos, combat terrorism, and ensure the destruction of leftover chemical weapons.

Yet critics warn that Britain’s re-engagement risks legitimizing a regime with a history of links to the most brutal terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and Daesh.

Despite the concerns, Britain has pledged over $129 million in aid to assist the current regime in rebuilding the war-torn country.

Critics of Britain’s policy shift say the pledge ignores the broader context of Western aggression and the role of foreign-backed terrorist groups that wrought devastation across Syria.

Britain’s move follows similar steps by the United States, which is lifting sanctions and preparing to remove Syria and its turncoat leaders from its list of state sponsors of terrorism.

Based on Western media reports, the US government’s conditions to lift sanctions against Syria include normalizing relations with Israel through signing the Abraham Accords and expelling Palestinian resistance factions from the country.

US President Donald Trump met Jolani during his trip to Riyadh in May, praising the founder of al-Qaeda in Syria and deputy commander to the founder of Daesh as a “young attractive guy” and a “fighter” with a “very strong past.”

Later, he signed an executive order lifting a majority of Washington’s sanctions regime against Syria.

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Seems pretty tame, anti-drone stuff.

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Comrade JDPON doing what i thought it was impossible, make our biggest business lobby (COPARMEX) call for diversification.

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