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@AjabVazee @CMShehbaz It's the Iranian's people responsibility to find a better government.
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@CMShehbaz Fuck you and anyone involved. This is not a peace deal, it’s a bargain paid for with innocent Iranian people.

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Following intensive talks, we are pleased to announce that the Peace Deal between the United States of America and Islamic Republic of Iran has been REACHED. Both sides have declared the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon.
The official signing ceremony will be on Friday, 19 June in Switzerland.
We would like to thank the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran for their commitment to finding a diplomatic solution to the conflict. We would also like to extend our sincere appreciation to our brothers in this mediation effort, the great leadership of State of Qatar, for their support in reaching this agreement. I would also especially thank the visionary leadership of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Republic of Türkiye for their immense contributions in this regard.
With the agreement now in place, mediators will facilitate a series of meetings this week. These pre-implementation discussions will lay the foundation for the technical talks and the official signing ceremony.
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No amount of deflection will make people forget that you believe prostituting 14yos is okay (if they like their gifts).
If these good people had a choice to save one of us, they would use you as a human shield.
Now please leave me & my family alone and take a Xanax, Torta Shrek.
Mostly Peaceful Latinas@mplpodcast305
“My dress was completely appropriate, Linda is sexually harassing me”— Grandma wearing a Shein sundress to a debate.
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🚨 BREAKING: Navy Sonar Technician Tiffany Murillo REINSTATED After Being Fired for Refusing COVID Vaccine!
Involuntarily separated in March 2022 for standing her ground.
Now she’s back with nearly 4 years of service credit, full backpay, and her preferred duty station.
Justice finally served. No one should lose their career over this.
Thoughts? 👇
#EndTheMandates #BackOurTroops #TiffanyMurillo #MilitaryFreedom #AmericaFirst

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@mhdksafa Notice Arabia hasn't added anything good to the world culture since becoming Muslim. In fact, they've gone backwards.
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@FreddyLA7 Buying a new suitcase will be cheaper than shipping.
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BREAKING:
Iran publishes a 14-point draft peace memorandum with the United States.
Iranian state agency Mehr has released the full text of a proposed 14-point framework agreement between Iran and the United States.
- Full and immediate cessation of the war on all fronts, including Lebanon;
- Commitment by the United States to the principle of non-interference in Iran’s internal affairs and respect for the country’s sovereignty;
- Complete lifting of the naval blockade within 30 days;
- Resumption of operations in the Strait of Hormuz within 30 days, taking into account agreements with Iran;
- Commitment by the United States to withdraw troops from territories bordering Iran;
- Suspension of sanctions on the sale of oil, petrochemical products and derivatives, as well as full access for Iran to its financial resources;
- The United States and its allies must present a plan to restore Iran worth at least $300 billion;
- Within 60 days, negotiations must be held to reach a final agreement on nuclear issues and the complete lifting of all sanctions, as well as UN Security Council and IAEA Board of Governors resolutions;
- Confirmation of Iran’s commitment to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and renunciation of nuclear weapons production;
- Commitment by the United States not to increase the number of troops in the region or impose new sanctions during the negotiations;
- Unfreezing of $24 billion in Iranian assets within the 60-day period of final negotiations, with half the amount to be provided to Iran before they begin;
- Creation of a monitoring mechanism to implement the agreement;
- Approval of the final agreement by a UN Security Council resolution;
- Final negotiations will not begin until half of the Iranian assets are unfrozen, oil sanctions are suspended, and the naval blockade is lifted.
The Foreign Ministry of the Islamic regime noted that the document is preliminary and that Tehran has not yet made a final decision.

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🚨🚨 Senator Alex Padilla says he is “deeply concerned” about Trump nominating Jay Clayton
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The veteran correspondents staying at 60 Minutes are making the same mistake WaPo reporters did. 60 Minutes fate lies with viewers, not Bari Weiss or any internal deal she cut with them.
Viewers will abandon 60 Minutes like they did WaPo because they no longer trust the owner.
Brian Stelter@brianstelter
Nick Bilton has come in for a LOT of scrutiny, but he gets some credit today — sources say he worked hard behind the scenes to convince the three remaining correspondents to stay. (But the coming weeks/months will be the real test.)
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🫖🇬🇧What The American Patriots Feared Most
As Americans, we are told a familiar story in school about our country’s founding, albeit one that never ceases to capture our imaginations long after we have learned it.
Sick and tired of the British Empire’s taxes, and angry that the British Parliament, across the ocean in London, could levy them without proper representation of the colonies — “no taxation without representation” — the scrappy Americans rose against the “tyrannical” King George, fought a war for independence, and established the greatest Constitutional Republic the world had ever seen. That is the crux of it. That is what we remember most.
But obviously there is so much more to this story than what we learn throughout grammar school, high school, and perhaps even college. This piece hopes to shed some light on one such nugget of overlooked history.
The American Patriots of the late 18th century weren’t simply rebelling against the King. In fact, King George III wasn’t even that powerful, compared to the monster that Britain had unleashed upon the globe nearly 200 years earlier. It was a beast that had no real parallel in the history of the world up until that point – and has had no such parallel since. It was an “empire within an empire,” and the Patriots were right to fear it as much as they feared the monarch.
The Empire Within The Empire
Founded in 1599, the British East India Company (EIC) was one of the first joint-stock ventures, built on the simple yet brilliant idea that allowed outside investors to buy shares in the company while not having to actually run the business. They later grew to become the largest corporation in the history of the world. So large, in fact, that by the early 1800s, one of its directors admitted that the EIC was an “empire within an empire.”
Indeed, they were. The EIC had their own private army, a security force that grew to over 200,000 men by the 19th century, bigger than the British Empire’s army. Early on, the company infiltrated the British parliament, buying off MPs in an attempt to steer the Empire’s policy. Historian William Dalrymple wrote that the EIC “probably invented corporate lobbying” and also faced the “world’s first corporate lobbying scandal,” which prompted a parliamentary investigation, in the 1690s. The company was found guilty of bribery and insider trading, and its governor was imprisoned. Even King George III – though he looked down upon the EIC’s brutal tactics and some of its members’ nouveau-riche qualities, and believed that farmers, not merchants, were the backbone of his nation – admitted in a speech to parliament in 1772, “It is impossible that I can look with indifference upon the prosperity of the East Indian Company.”
The EIC was never a benign corporation that merely traded silks and spices from East to West – it was rapacious. By 1765, as Dalrymple notes, they had transformed into an “aggressive colonial power” that governed much of the Mughal Empire of India, and even shares in the company “were a kind of global reserve currency.” They looted Mughal Bengal, the largest subdivision of the Mughal Empire, strip-mining its wealth and precious natural resources to export back to London. They also became the world’s most powerful narco traffickers, growing opium in India, selling it to the Chinese in exchange for tea, and then selling the Chinese tea back to India, Europe, and the American Colonies. They fought the Opium Wars against the Chinese Qing dynasty to preserve their monopoly on narcotics, and their drug empire would have made Pablo Escobar’s look like a summer lemonade stand.
However, around the time that revolutionary sentiment began to bubble up in New England and the American Colonies in the early 1770s, the EIC was in dire financial straits, bogged down by immense debt. As King George practically admitted in his parliament speech in 1772, the EIC was too big to fail. The Empire relied heavily on the EIC’s exports and its unsavory governorship of India, and did not want to give up any of that territory to the French. Ultimately, the EIC would need a bailout to avoid bankruptcy and stave off great economic harm to the Crown.
The World’s First Corporate Bailout
According to historian Andrew Roberts, the EIC was a mess at this time and on the verge of bankruptcy. Their wars were costly; the company was struggling to pay its £400,000 annual levy (roughly £79.3 million to £94.7 million in today’s money) to the government and other import taxes; there were problems collecting revenue in Bengal; and a global tea glut was eating away at their profits. Further, the EIC was running the risk of not being able to pay their private soldiers, who were absolutely invaluable to their entire business and colonial operation in the Mughal Empire.
Despite some reservations from King George, the British Treasury ended up giving the EIC a £1.4 million bailout (roughly £274 to £278 million in today’s money). However, in addition to this loan, the Crown had other ways of helping the company. The government opened up the American Colonial and North American tea market to the EIC, permitting the sale of vast tea surpluses and granting them a monopoly that would hopefully undercut the Dutch East Indian Company, who were smuggling a much cheaper product into the colonies. The British also presumed that market forces would ultimately drive down tea prices for consumers and that it would be a win-win for all. EIC’s finances would be buffered, the Dutch would suffer an economic blow, and the Americans would get cheaper tea.
In May 1773, the British Commons passed the Tea Act. Duties on tea, re-exported and shipped to America, were abolished, and the EIC was now allowed to sell directly to the American colonies. Although duties were nixed for the EIC, Americans still had to pay their own tax on imports. But that wouldn’t matter much, the British government anticipated, because the tea would still be significantly cheaper than the alternative.
They were wrong.
Tea, Corruption, And Monopoly
“Once again the government had not reckoned with the radicalism of the New England merchant-cum-smuggling community, or the unpopularity of what Americans saw as Britain’s licensed monopoly provider,” Roberts wrote in his biography of King George III, The Last King of America.
Roberts noted that these merchants and smugglers, who were increasingly calling themselves the “Patriots,” worried that the British Parliament’s right to tax imports would be reinforced by the Tea Act; their shipping profits would decrease; the Crown’s revenue would increase, thereby diluting the power of the local colonial assemblies; and the British regiments that were thwarting the colonists from expanding their territories into the west would be boosted by further financing.
The task to prevent the EIC tea from being sold fell to the Sons of Liberty, who, of course, dumped 342 chests, or 96 tons, of it into the Boston Harbor on December 16, 1773. What is less known about the story, however, is the sheer fear the Patriots and Sons of Liberty had specifically for the EIC and how its monopoly could lead to a horrible scenario not unlike that of India: subjugation by the world’s largest corporate entity – a corrupt government accountable only to corporate shareholders, not the citizens under its rule.
Leading up to the Tea Party, one member of the Sons of Liberty, Alexander McDougall, captured the anti-monopoly spirit that was spreading like wildfire through the colonies in a pamphlet series titled The Alarm, published in October 1773. McDougall later served in the Continental Army during the war and was close friends with Alexander Hamilton and George Washington, who described him as a “pillar of the revolution.”
A New York merchant who wrote under the pseudonym Hampden, McDougall decried the power of monopolies and the East India Company, and correctly pointed out that they had successfully corrupted the British Parliament. He wrote in the first of the series, “A monopoly beyond this is manifestly injurious to the Community, and subversive of the Rights of Individuals. The Friends of Liberty and equal Commerce have always considered any other Monopoly dangerous.”
McDougall also criticized the EIC’s barbarism in India, comparing them to the “most brutal of savages” and accusing them of committing “acts of unheard of inhumanity.” He warned that their monopoly would harm trade and merchants like himself, but he also understood that, just as the EIC had turned India into a zone of colonial plunder, they could do the same to the Colonies and rule with an iron fist as they did in Bengal.
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Thank you @DailyMail for covering my monologue on @NewsNation asking President Trump for a tariff rebate or stimmy check for working-class Americans to get them through the Iran hump. I've gotten so many notes from people who are struggling and who say this would help big time.

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