Forwarded from Constantine's Notebook
🇵🇸🇸🇾 - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas meets Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus.
Forwarded from Clash Report
NEW: U.S. State Department warns of possible attacks in Syria.
“We advise our citizens not to travel to Syria at this time and urge those already there to leave immediately.
Intelligence information indicates imminent attacks in areas frequented by civilians in Syria, including markets, hotels, and places of worship.”
🇺🇸 - Axios reports that Trump's administration will move ahead with a new rule that will make it easier to remove federal employees that are 'undercutting Trump's agenda'
🇮🇹🇹🇳 - Italian police arrest Tunisian ISIS "organiser".
Authoritarianism is bad.
But there is functionally authoritarian level, which you can do business with, and Pol Pot level.
The Pol Pot level, in Salvador, that was when you could get shot over walking in a nearby neighborhoods because local gangs would think you came to attack them.
Salvador’s Bukele only restored a minimal civil life which is, sorry for human rights absolutists, necessary for a decent economic development.
And yes, I do think his strategy is sustainable.
The international liberals are turning on Bukele, but did nothing under the Biden administration, who refused to sanction Salvador or even talk bad about it.
But there is functionally authoritarian level, which you can do business with, and Pol Pot level.
The Pol Pot level, in Salvador, that was when you could get shot over walking in a nearby neighborhoods because local gangs would think you came to attack them.
Salvador’s Bukele only restored a minimal civil life which is, sorry for human rights absolutists, necessary for a decent economic development.
And yes, I do think his strategy is sustainable.
The international liberals are turning on Bukele, but did nothing under the Biden administration, who refused to sanction Salvador or even talk bad about it.
If you are on French Twitter, you just have to post "Something something Macron good catholics bad" and poof you’re instantly with a million view.
Elon taking care of his business interests in France.
Even Google is less supportive of the French govt.
Elon taking care of his business interests in France.
Even Google is less supportive of the French govt.
Forwarded from Constantine's Notebook
🇩🇪🇹🇷 - Berlin blocks Euro fighter jet sale to Turkey.
Global Intel Watch
🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Putin says Easter ceasefire.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 - The Russian army will stop all military actions from 18:00 on April 19 to 00:00 on April 21.
BBC fails to mention mass killings in educational communism video
Broadcaster claims Bitesize clip is for use alongside extra material after critics say it provides ‘dishonest’ view of communist regimes.
The narration in the BBC video concedes that some people think the ideology and economic system may place “too many limits on individual freedom” and be “too centralised”.
However, no other downsides of communist regimes are presented in the teaching material, which does not mention the famine and mass killings in the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong’s China, or Pol Pot’s Cambodia.
In a parallel video covering capitalism, BBC teaching material lists a greater number of common criticisms, including the concentration of power in a minority “capitalist class”.
It is stated that critics of capitalism believe this class “profits from the exploitation of workers” and seeks profit “over what’s best for society, sustainability, and the environment”.
Fascism is also a topic, and pupils are told that the political system involves “eroding democratic institutions” and an “authoritarian regime in which many aspects of life are tightly controlled”.
It further states that such regimes are “usually ruled by one party” that creates a situation in which “violence and oppression are used to crack down on opposition”.
While these characteristics are equally applicable to states including Cuba, Soviet Russia, China and Vietnam, they are not presented as features of communist countries.
Broadcaster claims Bitesize clip is for use alongside extra material after critics say it provides ‘dishonest’ view of communist regimes.
The narration in the BBC video concedes that some people think the ideology and economic system may place “too many limits on individual freedom” and be “too centralised”.
However, no other downsides of communist regimes are presented in the teaching material, which does not mention the famine and mass killings in the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong’s China, or Pol Pot’s Cambodia.
In a parallel video covering capitalism, BBC teaching material lists a greater number of common criticisms, including the concentration of power in a minority “capitalist class”.
It is stated that critics of capitalism believe this class “profits from the exploitation of workers” and seeks profit “over what’s best for society, sustainability, and the environment”.
Fascism is also a topic, and pupils are told that the political system involves “eroding democratic institutions” and an “authoritarian regime in which many aspects of life are tightly controlled”.
It further states that such regimes are “usually ruled by one party” that creates a situation in which “violence and oppression are used to crack down on opposition”.
While these characteristics are equally applicable to states including Cuba, Soviet Russia, China and Vietnam, they are not presented as features of communist countries.
🇩🇪 - German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wishes a Blessed Easter to Christians and promises to improve the situation in the country: "after dark days, light comes again."
Global Intel Watch
🇷🇺🇺🇦 - The Russian army will stop all military actions from 18:00 on April 19 to 00:00 on April 21.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 - The truce comes into effect.
🇷🇺🇺🇦 - The 30-hour long ceasefire will not be respected by Russia in Russian Kursk oblast', according to the Russian media.
Also it is not clear whether the ceasfire will be respected by Russia in the Ukrainian regions that Moscow claims to be an integral part of their state - Kherson, Zaporizhzia, Donetsk, Lugansk regions.
Also it is not clear whether the ceasfire will be respected by Russia in the Ukrainian regions that Moscow claims to be an integral part of their state - Kherson, Zaporizhzia, Donetsk, Lugansk regions.
Forwarded from AMK Mapping
A Russian Su-57 is conducting patrols/reconnaissance to the northeast of Ukraine, however it poses no threat.
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Whatever happens between the US and Iran, it is clear that Israel will not tolerate Iran's continued nuclear activities. So words like "the US will make concessions" or "this thing is no longer necessary to sign an agreement" don't mean much; Israel can and will strike on its own if it feels the US has caved in too much.
Forwarded from Constantine's Notebook
🇮🇱🇵🇸 - The IDF confirm the death of one Israeli soldier in the Gaza strip.
Constantine's Notebook
🇮🇱🇵🇸 - The IDF confirm the death of one Israeli soldier in the Gaza strip.
🇮🇱🇵🇸 - The slain soldier is named as Warrant Officer G'haleb Sliman Alnasasra, 35.
🇫🇷🇻🇦- In France: 10,384 adults and 7,400 teenagers aged 11 to 17 will be baptized this year on Easter night. This brings the total number of catechumens receiving baptism in France this year to over 17,800; an increase of 45% for adults compared to 2024.