May 13, 2024 · 1:45 am
Theodore K
Why has the “Uygher genocide” narrative fizzled out? … ………….. AND why is it that when a real genocide takes place in Gaza, the majority in the West is in denial? It’s a fair question. These two guys discuss Xinjiang with regard to this line of questioning……………
A good point is made about the small band of Uyghers that are propped up by the US, who have come out in support of Israel: a bit strange, even amazing, given that the Uyghers are supposed to be Muslims.
It enables alternative narratives on what is happening in Gaza to be heard. These narratives undermine the official US government propaganda line on Gaza.
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April 23, 2024 · 3:02 pm
Camel Rider **
Listen//See https://youtu.be/aelzcw0Q3QE?si=GyB80oZknUfG71Fk
When you see the level of stupidity, arrogance and incompetence, as part of a massive disinformation campaign coming from the British mainstream media today (as illustrated in this interview by Piers Morgan) we can have absolutely no confidence whatsoever in anything the Western mainstream media says. In this interview, Professor Marandi’s explanations were correct. His analysis of Iran’s response to Israel’s destruction of the Iranian Embassy was correct. Iran responded by mounting three interrelated operations.
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The first was a Psychological Warfare operation. Here, Iran delayed their retaliatory strike by two weeks in order to sow fear among the Israeli population and to undermine confidence in the Israeli Government.
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April 21, 2024 · 3:32 pm
An American on The Fringe, whose preferred title is “Russia, China, Iran & North Korea – Combatting the New Axis of Evil”
“Evil is on the march! History is calling! And now is the time to act!” declares Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX). He says Congress has an opportunity today to do the equivalent of “stopping Hitler” in the 1930s ……………………………….. https://twitter.com/i/status/1781688097693909335
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March 15, 2024 · 12:17 pm
Anonymous
Watch …. https://www.youtube.com/live/2EZg8mPatv4?si=uzoFr0XBWGEqB5A0
Today, we learn what I’ve known for years: that the CIA have spent billions in spreading anti-China propaganda to stir up trouble in China and with countries dealing with China, thereby seeking to topple the government of China and destroy its economy. This propaganda campaign included pushing fake stories that the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative [BRI] was a threat to the world, that China would use the BRI to take over the world, that China would militarize ports they had built as part of the BRI, such as in Hambantota. It was all lies. It is now confirmed that Trump ordered the CIA to bad mouth China’s infrastructural projects, which has caused tremendous damage around the world, costing trillions of dollars to the US in damages, destroying relationships around the world, and for what?
Jeffrey Sachs
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February 29, 2024 · 1:07 pm
Shamindra Ferdinando, in The Island, 28 February 2024 where the title runs thus: “National Elections: Ex-military Factor”... with highighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
With the presidential election scheduled for later this year, political parties represented in Parliament have stepped up efforts to forge alliances.
Ex-military personnel at a rally organized by the JVP last year (pic courtesy JVP)
In terms of the Constitution, presidential elections will have to be conducted between Sept 18 and Oct 18, 2024. The last presidential election was held in Nov 2019.
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February 12, 2024 · 9:05 pm
Vindhya Buthpitiya: “How to Capture Birds of Freedom: Picturing Tamil Women at War,” Trans Asia Photography (2023) 13 (1) … derived from ………………………………………… https://doi.org/10.1215/21582025-10365016 … with the aid of my Aloysian mate KK De Silva; whilr the highlighting is my imposition.
Abstract: This article examines the uses of images of women fighters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam during and after the Sri Lankan civil war (1983–2009) to explore the contrasting mobilizations of visual representations of Tamil women cadres, focusing on the cultivation and framing of contradictory nationalist imaginaries by competing ethnic and state actors. In northern Sri Lanka, portraits of gun-bearing women fighters were wielded to signal revolutionary possibilities for the future of the Tamil nation-state as well as to inform the political socialization of its hopeful citizens. Meanwhile, images of Tamil women cadres were cast as gendered and ethnicized threats by the Sri Lankan state in what constituted a calculated form of visual ethno-political othering and weaponization. This article reflects on the ways in which such appropriations exacerbated the political precarity of and the denial of victimhood to Tamil women.
Malathy was the First Tamil Tigress to face death for the Tamiil for the Tamil Cause
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December 24, 2023 · 12:01 am
A Suffering Ignoramus
About half a century back I was driving with my wife to Bath when I found myself struggling to breathe. We drove immediately to the Bath hospital where I joined the Emergency queue. The same problem persisted: fit and well but couldn’t breathe! I quickly saw that the others in the queue were far worse off than I was. One had a deep gash in his neck; another a badly wounded arm, etc, etc. My non-breathing was trivial to everyone except myself!
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December 15, 2023 · 7:11 pm
A Sri Lankan American, whose choice of title was different: viz: “Western Media fake Headlines on Russian Losses in Ukraine to Promote more war funding.”
Note the attached fake Western media headlines
Impeccable timing: Zelensky meets with Biden and lawmakers in push for more Ukraine aid …………. CNN – December 12, 2023 ……………. “90% Russian army in TATTERS”
“Ukraine cannon fodder helps to keep Europe safe from the marauding Putin!” … Meanwhile Russian tourists are travelling in large numbers overseas.
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November 19, 2023 · 3:36 pm
A FORECAST by Errol FERNANDO, …. A Piano Player from the Heavens, 19 November 2023
After a long tournament, we reach the final that we all predicted many weeks ago, Lorenz – India vs Australia – with the obvious prediction that India will win. Millions will back India,of course.
Let me take a different path by predicting a win for the Aussies, especially if they bat first. Head, Marsh and Maxwell are dangerous players who can take the game away from India.
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October 17, 2023 · 12:49 pm
Fair Dinkum
Maloof strongly believes Mossad and Netanyahu knew Hamas would attack Israel, but allowed this to take place so it would give Israel the excuse to ethnically cleanse Gaza, level the entire city to the ground, including apartment blocks, hospitals, schools, universities, UN buildings, aid trucks, as well as convoys of civilians leaving their homes in compliance with Israeli demands. All this so that Israel can annex Gaza and begin to build up new Israeli settlements in Gaza which were the same policies adopted by Hitler in WW2.
Michael Maloof, Former Pentagon Senior Security Policy Analyst and a former senior security policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense of the US Government.
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