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In five years, #JoeBiden will likely get the #NobelPeacePrize. But not because he did anything proactively for peace.

It is because a #Multipolar World will be more peaceful than a unipolar one, and Biden has done more than anyone else (albeit unwittingly) to further that. (1/n)
The US-led #sanctions against #Russia in response to the #UkraineRussiaWar have forced countries around the world to abandon the US dollar as a medium of trade. This is forcing the rest of the world (non-West) together. Banning Russia from #swift was most important in this. (2/n)
#India and #China desperately need oil. Because of sanctions, Russia is providing oil at cheap rates to both. Russia has now become India's largest source of oil, displacing Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Chinese imports of Russian oil have also zoomed upwards. (3/n)
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@NATO Sc. pres #Niinistö has not had a #mandate to sign laws.
THREAD 13 Finland #ElectionsCrimes
FROM: #Finland's #PresidentialElections 2018.
TO: The #IPU. In 2015 #ParliamentaryElections their votes were #RESET in the #ElectionNight.
@NATO cc:@ janus_putkonen
An illegal #NATO #coup to the end, and such systematic #fraud is certainly not thoughtless. Any other #NATO member country can use the harsh truth to throw #Finland out of NATO or leave it to its own... tinyurl.com/576e3pfk Image
@NATO #Niinistö took #Finland to the #Euro zone with #treason (a crime that does not expire), and now we are going to #NATO even though the #Paris #PeaceTreaty is still #valid with #Russia and #prevents Finland from becoming a NATO member.
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@kajakallas #Niinistö took #Finland to the #Euroz one with #treason (a crime that does not expire), and now we are going to #NATO even though the #Paris #PeaceTreaty is still #valid with #Russia and #prevents Finland from becoming a NATO member.
@kajakallas #Treason.
cc:@ janus_putkonen
An illegal #NATO #coup to the end, and such systematic #fraud is certainly not thoughtless. Any other NATO member country can use the harsh truth to throw #Finland out of NATO or leave it to its own... tinyurl.com/576e3pfk Image
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1. oggi abbiamo la nostra inchiesta sulle #bombeAGrappolo che la #Russia usa in #Ucraina e che l'#Ucraina ha usato in alcuni casi, ma ora ha chiesto le #MK20 agli Stati Uniti,amministrazione #Biden è sotto pressione. L'Italia verrà coinvolta? ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/art…
2. l'Italia ha aderito alla messa al bando delle #BombeAGrappolo. Guardate i nostri arsenali come erano :
3. guardate come sono oggi i nostri arsenali di #BombeAGrappolo,grazie alla #ConvenzioneControMunizioniAGrappolo, prodotto di oltre 30 anni di lotte della società civile contro queste armi terribili
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#GuerreEnUkraine D+402 (01/04) POISSON D'AVRIL !

Des T-34 déstockés et modernisés !👇 Avec chargeur automatique d'obus, viseur optique...

C'est fini, oui ?!

M'enfin vous n'y pensez pas !

POISSON D'AVRIL !!!
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Il y a 3 ou 4 ans, #Russie a passé commande au #Laos d'une trentaine de T-34 👇(ce sont ceux qu'on voit sur le train) pour défiler lors des commémorations du 9 mai 1945 !

Il n'y en a plus en stock dans les 19 centres de stockage russes !

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Par contre, ils ont bien déstocké des T-54 !
La mauvaise surprise est que les russes savent moderniser des vieux clous (peut être pas les très vieux T-54 tout de même...)

Les 🇷🇺 ont une industrie de production de viseurs optiques par exemple...👇

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Day 379 of #Russia's attack on #Ukraine, here's my daily thread.

The fierce fighting around #Bakhmut and other hotspots in the east continues.

Bakhmut is 35 miles (55km) from #Kadiivka in #Luhansk region which has been under Russian control since 2014.
35 miles in 379 days!
Yesterday's link for the thread is here⬇️
Luckily, a quiet day with #Georgia's heavily Russian influenced Govt taking most of the headlines.

More death and destruction from #Russia already this morning.

Four people are dead in #Lviv region after local officials say a rocket hit a residential area.

Rescuers are still searching debris in #Zolochiv.
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Sigue el ciclo #EnsillArte, donde hablaremos de la #silla como objeto del #arte, para el #TwitterCultural.

Esta #escultura en forma de silla gigante y coja la podéis ver en #Ginebra, #Suiza.

Ha ayudado a salvar millones de vidas y a ganar un #NobelPrize de la Paz.

Te cuento⬇️
Pues sí, le falta una pata, claramente arrancada con violencia, astillada, destruida...

Una silla a la que le falta una pata está "handicapeada", algo le ha pasado...

Sólo decir que, a pesar de las apariencias, no es una silla rota: es un ser humano herido.

Sigue⬇️
Al mirar la silla rota deberíamos ver algo así.

Sigue⬇️
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A proposito di #USA #NATO #EU,democrazia da esportare,#Guerra,#armi, #morte #pacifinti #liberali #neoliberisti #Putin #Zelensky e tifo da stadio x la mattanza, un breve thread🧵sul Paese in cui mi trovo attualmente:🇱🇦Repubblica Popolare del Laos e fanculo ai fabbricanti d'armi.1)
2) Dal 1964 al 1973, gli #USA hanno sganciato più di 2,5 milioni di tonnellate di ordigni sul #Laos durante 580.000 missioni,pari a un aereo carico di bombe ogni otto minuti, 24 ore al giorno,per nove anni,rendendo il paese più pesantemente bombardato nella storia.3)
3) Gli attentati erano parte della guerra segreta americana per sostenere il governo reale del Laos contro il Pathet Lao e per interdire il traffico verso il #Vietnam.I bombardamenti hanno distrutto villaggi e sfollato centinaia di migliaia di civili durante quei 9 anni.4)
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The U.S. is presently waging another criminal war mercilessly attacking civilians in #Yemen, but this time the U.S. is on the side of the one-party state that is the lead aggressor, Saudi Arabia. Few, if any, American media have made the ironic
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connections between #Laos and #Yemen, but the Hong Kong based Asia Times nailed it despite running a half-wrong headline:

“U.S. apologizes to Laos over cluster bombs,
then sells them to pound #Yemen

The story that followed, by
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Johns Hopkins Fellow Christina Lin, does not mention the apology that never happened. She reports on President Obama’s speech in Laos this way:

Obama said, “Given our history here, I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to help Laos heal.” This gesture of
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#Ramayana-Hindu Culture spread throughout Asia via the Rama Story.
It travelled by sea and land to China, Tibet, Turkestan, Java, Sumatra, Malaya, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Philippines, Cambodia, Japan
#Thread Repost

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Most countries have adapted Rama Story acc. to their own culture with a local setting; the Indian names are used for important towns, sites, mountains, rivers, and lakes.
The adoption of Valmiki Story in Asian countries was selective and influenced by local values

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#China
The Buddhist work Mahavibhasa (150ce) is oldest record of Ramayana. Hsuan Tsang stated "There is a book called the Rāmāyaṇa...[it] explains only two topics:
1. Rāvana carrying Sītā off by violence
2. Rāma recovering Sītā and returning."

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#Shi & her 2022 #China Patent: BALB/c mouse adapted strain of #SARS related coronavirus WIV1-RsSHC014S and application thereof..
Inventors: Shi Zhengli, Lin Haofeng, Liu Meiqin, Jiang Rendi
Zhou Peng. #WIV1 #RsSHC014S Image
The invention relates to the technical field of coronavirus, in particular to a BALB/c mouse adapted strain of SARS-related coronavirus WIV1-RsSHC 014S. Image
The SARS-associated coronavirus #RsSHC014 can effectively replicate and propagate in a corresponding cell line and a transgenic mouse by using #hACE2 as a receptor, Image
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Call an immediate #generalelection #Petition - Country List for 16th October 2022

Current: 852,789 signatures
Previous: 616,389 signatures.
Difference: 236,400 signatures.

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#NeverVoteConservative #GeneralElectionNow #WhoVotedForThis #GTTO
1) #UnitedKingdom 842,029 (+232,982)
2) #France 2,298 (+660)
3) #Spain 1,285 (+361)
4) #UnitedStates 840 (+283)
5) #Germany 798 (+279)
6) #Australia 773 (+262)
7) #Netherlands 423 (+133)
8) #Canada 402 (+138)
9) #Ireland 387 (+130)
10) #Switzerland 320 (+110)
11) #NewZealand 306 (+113)
12) #Italy 233 (+79)
13) #Belgium 209 (+64)
14) #Portugal 206 (+71)
15) #Sweden 192 (+70)
16) #Denmark 131 (+47)
17) #Japan 113 (+34)
18) #Greece 106 (+33)
19) #Norway 104 (+33)
20) #IsleofMan 97 (+33)
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Call an immediate #generalelection #Petition - Country List for 16th October 2022

Current: 616,389 signatures
Previous: 606,921 signatures.
Difference: 9,468 signatures.

sydesjokes.blogspot.com/2022/10/call-i…

#NeverVoteConservative #GeneralElectionNow #WhoVotedForThis #AntiGrowthCoalition
It is sad that a time like this a poll like this doesn't get millions of signatures 🙁
1) #UnitedKingdom 609,047 (+9,327)
2) #France 1,638 (+25)
3) #Spain 924 (+24)
4) #UnitedStates 557 (+7)
5) #Australia 519 (+8)
6) #Germany 511 (+10)
7) #Ireland 290 (+5)
8) #Canada 264 (+3)
9) #Netherlands 257 (+11)
10) #Switzerland 210 (+2)
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Call an immediate #generalelection #Petition - Country List for 15th October 2022

Current: 606,921 signatures
Previous: 570,208 signatures.
Difference: 36,713 signatures.

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#NeverVoteConservative #GeneralElectionNow #WhoVotedForThis #AntiGrowthCoalition
Parliament will debate this petition on 17 October 2022.

You'll be able to watch online on the #UK #Parliament #YouTube channel youtube.com/UKParliament

Need the petition to be at least 1 million signatures by then.
1) #UnitedKingdom 599,720 (+36,255)
2) #France 1,613 (+88)
3) #Spain 900 (+45)
4) #UnitedStates 550 (+43)
5) #Australia 511 (+24)
6) #Germany 501 (+36)
7) #Ireland 285 (+23)
8) #Canada 261 (+28)
9) #Netherlands 246 (+16)
10) #Switzerland 208 (+16)
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Call an immediate #generalelection #Petition - Country List for 9th October 2022

Current: 570,208 signatures
Previous: 555,757 signatures.
Difference: 14,451 signatures.

sydesjokes.blogspot.com/2022/10/call-i…

#NeverVoteConservative #GeneralElectionNow #WhoVotedForThis #AntiGrowthCoalition
1) #UnitedKingdom 563465 (+14286)
2) #France 1525 (+36)
3) #Spain 855 (+14)
4) #UnitedStates 507 (+17)
5) #Australia 487 (+15)
6) #Germany 465 (+13)
7) #Ireland 262 (+6)
8) #Netherlands 233 (+7)
9) #Canada 230 (+5)
10) #Switzerland 192 (+5)
11) #NewZealand 177 (+4)
12) #Italy 143 (+4)
13) #Portugal 132 (+5)
14) #Belgium 125 (+1)
15) #Sweden 107 (+3)
16) #Denmark 79 (+1)
17) #IsleofMan 72 (+3)
18) #Norway 67 (+1)
19) #Greece 66 (+1)
20) #Austria 58 (0)
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International food commodity prices are retreating but simply not enough to dent food inflation!
Hundreds of millions of people remain crippled by the toxic combination of tumbling currencies and high food inflation.
See evidence ⬇️🧵
@WFP @WFPVAM @WFP_Media @WFPChief
1/15 #Lebanon
2/15 #Zimbabwe
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The Army International Games -ARMI-2022 has started today

The geography of the games is quite extensive. 38 countries are participating, 12 states will host the games at their training grounds.
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For the first time, the competitions will be held in #SaudiArabia and #Venezuela

In total, there will be 34 competitions, where more than 5,000 military personnel will compete in field, air and sea training. /2
Kazakhstan’s military will take part in seven competitions. Moreover, three of them will be held on the territory of our country, and four – abroad.
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The #USA killed #India’s #nuclear physicist #HomiBhabha and Prime Minister #LalBahadurShastri—confessions of Robert Crowley, then second in command of the CIA's Directorate of Operations (in charge of covert operations) recorded in a book by Gregory Douglas.
Via @MeghBulletin
Pertinent to note here that the confession by the CIA officer indicates the #US government in 1966 wilfully murdered 117 civilians on @airindiain flight 101 just so they could kill #HomiBhabha .
An act of State sponsored #terrorism by #WashingtonDC any way you look at it .
A lot of water has flown under the bridge since then . Every nation has national imperatives that overrule previous issues. We've let this slide just as we've let the 1971 Enterprise incident go .
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The economic situation in Laos is dire. In 1 yr+ the currency has gone from 8500 kip= 1USD to 22000. It’s just lost 10% in 2 days. No one will accept kip anymore, only US or Thai baht. Fuel crisis getting worse. Petrol near impossible to find/only sold by bottle for double.
In Luang Prabang, the few hotels & restaurants that survived 2 years of closed borders, the inflation, cost of goods, currency crash will probably be the straw to break the camel’s back.
Unfortunately, the canteen in Luang Prabang that was feeding some very desperate people announced it can no longer continue due to no donations / high costs of goods. #laos
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L'Assemblea Generale #Onu ha approvato con 93 voti a favore la richiesta #Usa di sospendere la #Russia dal Consiglio dei diritti umani di Ginevra. Nella bozza di risoluzione - tra i co-sponsor c'è anche l'#Italia - si chiede di "sospendere il diritto della Russia di far parte👇 Image
del Consiglio" e si esprime "grave preoccupazione per la crisi umanitaria in Ucraina, in particolare per le notizie di violazioni e abusi del diritto internazionale umanitario da parte di Mosca".
Da notare i voti contrari: #Cina leva la maschera, non più astenuta, ma contraria.👇
Paesi contrari alla sospensione della #Russia:
🇩🇿#Algeria
🇧🇾#Bielorussia
🇧🇴#Bolivia
🇧🇮 #Burundi
🇨🇫 #RepubblicaCentrafricana
🇨🇳#Cina
🇨🇬#Congo
🇨🇺#Cuba
🇰🇵#CoreadelNord
🇪🇷#Eritrea
🇪🇹#Etiopia
🇬🇦#Gabon
🇮🇷#Iran
🇰🇿#Kazakistan
🇰🇬#Kirghizistan
🇱🇦#Laos
🇲🇱#Mali
🇳🇮#Nicaragua
🇷🇺#Russia
👇
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#Somaliland and #Taiwan: The benefits

A THREAD

1/14. S/land and Taiwan have a lot in common such as both being a fully functioning democracies with volatile neighbours. Both are striving for international recognition and will not budge to threats or diplomatic pressure. Image
2/14. Somaliland brings a lot to the table. S/land’s strategic location in the Horn of Africa will give Taiwan a gateway into East Africa and beyond. Landlocked countries in Africa can benefit from this diplomatic move such as Ethiopia, South Sudan, and Uganda.
3/14. S/land will give Taiwan an important access to the Gulf of Berbera (Gulf Aden) where access to the Middle East, North Africa and the rest of the world can be established which will boost Taiwan’s export opportunities as well as a chance to make new friends in the region.
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Nixon on Larry King Live 1990 via @YouTube
With all his faux pas and shortcomings.
#Nixon was a great statesman and a natural diplomat.
He understood the world better than most of his predecessors.
After him, the USA has not been able to mimic another leader like him in the Oval Office.
I am not being satirical.
#Nixon and his #Domino Theory in Former French Indochina turned out to be quite right.
After the Americans left the region, both #Laos and #Cambodia fell into Communists hands.
South #Vietnam fell as well.
The remarkable resemblance with Modern Day #Afghanistan.
#SVA #ANA
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In a world grappling with pandemic-related construction delays and cost overruns, #Laos will launch its $6b #China-backed high speed #railway on schedule in coming week. Can it maximise returns on the debt it took on? Deep dive -->> straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/l… Pic: Vientiane Times
A senior #Laos finance ministry official tells me Laos-China #railway will be "a very effective investment". But Laos leaders are keenly aware that "economy is going to collapse" if it does not get finances in order, says economist straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/l… Pic: Vientiane Times
Over in #Thailand's Nong Khai, near the terminus of the #Laos-China #railway, locals are getting ready for potential influx of tourists and goods from China. Railway officials tested freight capacity of existing Thai-Laos rail link during my trip there

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The #ASEAN disunity over AUKUS

The #ASEAN sees #aukus pact increases geopolitical risks in the region, as #aukus is aimed at countering rising Chinese belligerence.
The rise of partnerships in the region, which are not ASEAN-centric causes them concern.

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2/ How have various #ASEAN countries reacted to #aukus ?

They've not reacted in unison. Each member expressed its own views. The divergence in opinion was quite apparent.
Brunei did not speak about it.
Indonesia expressed caution with AUKUS.
Malaysia appears astonished. Image
3/ #Vietnam is more open to #aukus “All countries strive for the same goal of peace, stability, cooperation, and development” & nuclear power can be harnessed for development.

The #Philippines is more welcoming of the #aukus though President #Duterte sounded contradictory. Image
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