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As Colombia Reels From Massive Earthquake, New Government Takes Time Out To Recognize Israel's Golan Heights Occupation
At least 224 people are now confirmed to have died in a massive earthquake that hit Colombia on Monday. The tragedy was the first test for new far-right president, Abelardo de la Espriella, who was inaugurated on Friday.
De la Espriella's administration, it seems, had other priorities, as it spent Monday releasing a statement recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights – Syrian territory Israel has illegally occupied since 1967.
De la Espriella, a US citizen, has made it clear that he will always favor the interests of Washington and Tel Aviv. The decision to work on this as a top priority, even as the country suffers from one of its worst ever natural disasters, however, has angered many Colombians.
At least 224 people are now confirmed to have died in a massive earthquake that hit Colombia on Monday. The tragedy was the first test for new far-right president, Abelardo de la Espriella, who was inaugurated on Friday.
De la Espriella's administration, it seems, had other priorities, as it spent Monday releasing a statement recognizing Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights – Syrian territory Israel has illegally occupied since 1967.
De la Espriella, a US citizen, has made it clear that he will always favor the interests of Washington and Tel Aviv. The decision to work on this as a top priority, even as the country suffers from one of its worst ever natural disasters, however, has angered many Colombians.
🇫🇷⚡️ — The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed the initiation of disciplinary proceedings against the French Ambassador to the Central African Republic, Bruno Foucher.
The ambassador is accused of bringing approximately thirty young women to his private apartments in the residence between January 2024 and March 2026.
According to the newspaper Le Canard enchaîné, which had access to the inspection report, the lustful ambassador was visited by young women about fifteen times a month. He also allegedly ordered one of these young women to remain at the embassy even during his absence, which was already a serious breach of security protocols.
The ambassador, who was interrogated twice, admitted to having sexual relations, but only with two of the young women.
Disciplinary sanctions may range from a reprimand to dismissal from the civil service and, in his case, forced retirement.
It is also worth noting that the charges against him do not concern his disgusting and immoral behavior, but only the compromise of embassy secrets.
Notice that he not only organized orgies involving underage girls, but also used his position of authority, power, and influence to coerce them into it, and being a typical racist, he exploited them.
So many immoral things and behaviors in one situation.
@intelslava
The ambassador is accused of bringing approximately thirty young women to his private apartments in the residence between January 2024 and March 2026.
According to the newspaper Le Canard enchaîné, which had access to the inspection report, the lustful ambassador was visited by young women about fifteen times a month. He also allegedly ordered one of these young women to remain at the embassy even during his absence, which was already a serious breach of security protocols.
The ambassador, who was interrogated twice, admitted to having sexual relations, but only with two of the young women.
Disciplinary sanctions may range from a reprimand to dismissal from the civil service and, in his case, forced retirement.
It is also worth noting that the charges against him do not concern his disgusting and immoral behavior, but only the compromise of embassy secrets.
Notice that he not only organized orgies involving underage girls, but also used his position of authority, power, and influence to coerce them into it, and being a typical racist, he exploited them.
So many immoral things and behaviors in one situation.
@intelslava
Anyone else seeing the pattern here, or should I draw the flowchart? 👀🧐
@jasonbassler
#Flock #Dystopia #SurveillanceInfastructure
@jasonbassler
#Flock #Dystopia #SurveillanceInfastructure
🇺🇦 Ukraine: World Bank Reports Catastrophic Poverty Level
According to the World Bank, the share of Ukraine's population living below the poverty line reached 41.6% in 2025, more than double the figure since 2021.
Rising poverty is accompanied by a drop in real incomes and sharp increases in the cost of basic goods and services. Food prices have surged by 80%, and utility costs by 70%.
Low-income families are the most vulnerable, forced to cut consumption and rely on loans for daily expenses. 17% have resorted to microloans just to cover basic needs.
A significant gap persists between different population groups: the economic crisis hits the poor hardest, while the so-called "right Ukrainians" have grown wealthier by another 10%.
@Slavyangrad
#Ukraine
According to the World Bank, the share of Ukraine's population living below the poverty line reached 41.6% in 2025, more than double the figure since 2021.
Rising poverty is accompanied by a drop in real incomes and sharp increases in the cost of basic goods and services. Food prices have surged by 80%, and utility costs by 70%.
Low-income families are the most vulnerable, forced to cut consumption and rely on loans for daily expenses. 17% have resorted to microloans just to cover basic needs.
A significant gap persists between different population groups: the economic crisis hits the poor hardest, while the so-called "right Ukrainians" have grown wealthier by another 10%.
@Slavyangrad
#Ukraine
As of January 1, 2025, the European Union of 27 countries had 30.6 million non-European citizens, representing 6.8% of its population, according to the latest data available from Eurostat residents did. It also had 14.1 million citizens from other member states.
A significant portion of non-nationals on the European continent (whether or not they are from another member state) reside in Germany (12.4 million), Spain (6.9 million), France (6.5 million), and Italy (5.4 million). Luxembourg remained at the top in terms of proportion, with 47% of non-nationals, followed by Malta (29.4%) and Cyprus (24.8%). The lowest proportion of non-nationals is found in Poland and Slovakia, where they represent 1.2% of the population, followed by Romania (1.6%), Bulgaria (2.3%), and Hungary (2.7%). In France, foreigners represent 9.4% of the population.
- Situation Europe Sea Arrivals (UNHCR/PDFs)
- EU Article
#EU #Kalergi #Migrants
A significant portion of non-nationals on the European continent (whether or not they are from another member state) reside in Germany (12.4 million), Spain (6.9 million), France (6.5 million), and Italy (5.4 million). Luxembourg remained at the top in terms of proportion, with 47% of non-nationals, followed by Malta (29.4%) and Cyprus (24.8%). The lowest proportion of non-nationals is found in Poland and Slovakia, where they represent 1.2% of the population, followed by Romania (1.6%), Bulgaria (2.3%), and Hungary (2.7%). In France, foreigners represent 9.4% of the population.
- Situation Europe Sea Arrivals (UNHCR/PDFs)
- EU Article
#EU #Kalergi #Migrants
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New Plan To Wipe Out Missiles & Target Putin, UK Tries To Call Russia. Trump Plans To Keep Hormuz
💥 From Palestine to Zvërnec, powerful maps keep redrawing other people’s claims
🟠 They Bought It Anyway: The Disputed Land Beneath Kushner’s Albanian Resort - READ MORE:
https://21stcenturywire.com/2026/08/13/they-bought-it-anyway-the-disputed-land-beneath-kushners-albanian-resort/
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are backing plans for luxury development on Albania’s Sazan Island and the nearby Zvërnec coast, where protected territory and village property claims have collided with the development drive of Edi Rama, Albania’s four-term prime minister and leader of the ruling Socialist Party. The project helped trigger nationwide protests before prosecutors froze more than €110 million connected to land acquired for the Zvërnec resort.
@My21wire
#Albania #FlamingoRevolution
#SazaIsland #PropertyClaims
🟠 They Bought It Anyway: The Disputed Land Beneath Kushner’s Albanian Resort - READ MORE:
https://21stcenturywire.com/2026/08/13/they-bought-it-anyway-the-disputed-land-beneath-kushners-albanian-resort/
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are backing plans for luxury development on Albania’s Sazan Island and the nearby Zvërnec coast, where protected territory and village property claims have collided with the development drive of Edi Rama, Albania’s four-term prime minister and leader of the ruling Socialist Party. The project helped trigger nationwide protests before prosecutors froze more than €110 million connected to land acquired for the Zvërnec resort.
@My21wire
#Albania #FlamingoRevolution
#SazaIsland #PropertyClaims
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🇵🇸🇱🇧🇮🇷Wes Streeting's Cyprus land grab EXPOSED | Declassified UK
The British army has requisitioned a large area of Cypriot land to build over 130 military antennas, which campaigners fear will be used to spy on the Middle East.
While the land - amounting to over 60 football pitches - is technically in the British occupied part of Cyprus. This land grab has led to a furious response from Cypriot residents, who held a protest outside the RAF #Akrotiri air base on Saturday.
https://terracypria.org/ανησυχίες-για-τις-προτεινόμενες-κερα/
#Palestine #Lebanon #Iran
#5Eyes #Cyprus #Wildlife #Birds
The British army has requisitioned a large area of Cypriot land to build over 130 military antennas, which campaigners fear will be used to spy on the Middle East.
While the land - amounting to over 60 football pitches - is technically in the British occupied part of Cyprus. This land grab has led to a furious response from Cypriot residents, who held a protest outside the RAF #Akrotiri air base on Saturday.
Akrotiri is one of the most important areas for biodiversity in Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean. The Akrotiri Salt Lake is a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar Convention, a Special Protection Area (SPA) and a Special Conservation Area (SCA) within the Natura 2000 network, and at the same time, it is one of the most important migratory routes for birds in the Eastern Mediterranean.
https://terracypria.org/ανησυχίες-για-τις-προτεινόμενες-κερα/
#Palestine #Lebanon #Iran
#5Eyes #Cyprus #Wildlife #Birds
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🇮🇹 In the meantime, an arms munitions factory near #Rome, clearly linked to sending weapons to war zones, has blown up in the outskirts of Rome, #Italy.
KNDS Ammo Italy (ex-Simmel Difesa) in Colleferro. It makes medium- and large-calibre rounds, including 155 mm artillery shells. It is a listed contractor on the 2023 European Defence Agency 155 mm framework contracts. Those were set up to supply Ukraine.
said to include the US PAC-3 interceptors.
https://t.me/LauraRuHK/11598
@robinmg & @SimurghRes
KNDS Ammo Italy (ex-Simmel Difesa) in Colleferro. It makes medium- and large-calibre rounds, including 155 mm artillery shells. It is a listed contractor on the 2023 European Defence Agency 155 mm framework contracts. Those were set up to supply Ukraine.
said to include the US PAC-3 interceptors.
https://t.me/LauraRuHK/11598
@robinmg & @SimurghRes
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A BBC reporter documented the escalating settler violence in Qusra, where four Palestinian homes have been under siege for four days, leaving seven Palestinians trapped inside.
The settlers have cut off water and electricity, damaged property and set up a tent outside the homes, while repeatedly returning after Israeli forces briefly intervened.
The reporter described the siege as a new tactic used to pressure Palestinians into abandoning their homes, amid a broader surge in settler violence across the occupied West Bank.
According to the United Nations, settler attacks have reached unprecedented levels, with Palestinians facing daily violence, displacement and growing threats to their homes and land.
The settlers have cut off water and electricity, damaged property and set up a tent outside the homes, while repeatedly returning after Israeli forces briefly intervened.
The reporter described the siege as a new tactic used to pressure Palestinians into abandoning their homes, amid a broader surge in settler violence across the occupied West Bank.
According to the United Nations, settler attacks have reached unprecedented levels, with Palestinians facing daily violence, displacement and growing threats to their homes and land.
Draining India’s Small Farms to Sustain the City
While critiques of Indian agriculture have long focused on the crisis of commercial cash crops and the corporatisation of wheat and paddy procurement, this focus creates a significant oversight. By treating the state-backed mandi system as the universal standard, such analyses overlook the reality of the vast majority of smallholders—those growing pulses, millets and rain-fed crops who were never integrated into formal MSP procurement to begin with.
Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/draining-india-small-farms-sustain-city/5936680
@gr_crg
#India #Agriculture
While critiques of Indian agriculture have long focused on the crisis of commercial cash crops and the corporatisation of wheat and paddy procurement, this focus creates a significant oversight. By treating the state-backed mandi system as the universal standard, such analyses overlook the reality of the vast majority of smallholders—those growing pulses, millets and rain-fed crops who were never integrated into formal MSP procurement to begin with.
Read here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/draining-india-small-farms-sustain-city/5936680
@gr_crg
#India #Agriculture
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🇺🇸🤡 US State Department taps surveillance giants Palantir and Anduril to advise on 'free speech'
The State Department is bringing Palantir and Anduril into the fold under a new banner, which is called the Freedom Tech Excellence Program (FTEP).
The thing is private-sector tech staff will be detailed to Foggy Bottom through early 2029, advising US diplomats on online free speech, privacy tech, counter-surveillance, and responsible AI: essentially, Silicon Valley brainpower grafted onto American diplomacy.
That means Palantir employees will get security clearances and embed across State Department divisions. Officials insist the program isn't about just deploying AI inside the agency's own operations, but the optics are already raising eyebrows.
Joining them is Anduril, the defense tech upstart helmed by executive chairman Trae Stephens, who also happens to be a partner at Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.
Unsurprisingly, naming Palantir as a free-speech mentor has triggered a backlash from civil liberties groups and First Amendment watchdogs.
🔶 Firstly, Palantir built its name on mass surveillance and data-analytics platforms for police, the military, ICE, and the IRS. Leaked Snowden documents confirmed the company helped the National Security Agency supercharge its dragnet collection of civilian data, which os not exactly a freedom-friendly resume.
🔶 Secondly, there's Peter Thiel himself: the billionaire co-founder secretly bankrolled $10 million in lawsuits that bankrupted Gawker: the move Reporters Without Borders condemned as a direct assault on press freedom. Palantir also sued Swiss outlet Republik over critical coverage and lost on nearly every count.
Knight Institute attorney Carrie DeCell called the program a masterclass in Orwellian doublethink: the State Department and its handpicked partners, she argued, are among the last credible defenders of free expression. The Electronic Frontier Foundation went further, warning that dressing Palantir up as a civil-rights champion doesn't just strain credulity, but simply strips the US of any moral high ground on free speech abroad.
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The State Department is bringing Palantir and Anduril into the fold under a new banner, which is called the Freedom Tech Excellence Program (FTEP).
The thing is private-sector tech staff will be detailed to Foggy Bottom through early 2029, advising US diplomats on online free speech, privacy tech, counter-surveillance, and responsible AI: essentially, Silicon Valley brainpower grafted onto American diplomacy.
That means Palantir employees will get security clearances and embed across State Department divisions. Officials insist the program isn't about just deploying AI inside the agency's own operations, but the optics are already raising eyebrows.
Joining them is Anduril, the defense tech upstart helmed by executive chairman Trae Stephens, who also happens to be a partner at Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.
Unsurprisingly, naming Palantir as a free-speech mentor has triggered a backlash from civil liberties groups and First Amendment watchdogs.
Knight Institute attorney Carrie DeCell called the program a masterclass in Orwellian doublethink: the State Department and its handpicked partners, she argued, are among the last credible defenders of free expression. The Electronic Frontier Foundation went further, warning that dressing Palantir up as a civil-rights champion doesn't just strain credulity, but simply strips the US of any moral high ground on free speech abroad.
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