DerpTrades
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ForgottenVolumes@ForgottenV1918
Documents on the Expulsion of the Germans from Eastern-Central-Europe, Vol. II/III: The Expulsion of the German Population from Hungary and Rumania by Theodor Schieder, 1961. This book is a collection of official documents, census tables, and hundreds of sworn eyewitness affidavits that record what happened to ethnic German civilians in Hungary and Romania after World War II. These were ordinary people farmers, craftsmen, and families who had lived in those regions for hundreds of years. They had nothing to do with the Nazi Party. They were targeted because they spoke German and because their ancestors had settled there centuries earlier. The affidavits show the raw brutality they faced simply for their language and long roots in the land. The nightmare often began with the Soviet advance into East Prussia and other eastern areas. In places like Nemmersdorf, Soviet troops carried out mass rape and murder. Women were gang-raped. Babies and small children were thrown against walls, beaten, mutilated, or killed alongside their mothers. Refugee columns were attacked, with tanks crushing people and soldiers dragging women out for repeated assaults. This pattern of terror against innocent civilians spread as the Red Army moved west. In Hungary and Romania, entire villages were emptied at gunpoint. Families were given only minutes to grab one suitcase before mobs and Soviet troops descended. Men were beaten to death with rifle butts and farm tools in front of their wives and children. Women and girls were dragged into barns, cellars, and roadside ditches for gang rape, often in front of their families. Fathers were shot or clubbed unconscious for trying to protect their daughters. Girls as young as teenagers were violated repeatedly until they could not walk and were left bleeding. In the internment camps, conditions were deadly. Women were taken for repeated sexual abuse by guards. Pregnant women were kicked until they miscarried in the dirt. Then came the transports in sealed cattle cars with no food, water, or sanitation. People suffocated, froze, or died of thirst, with corpses left among the living. On death marches in winter, the weak were shot or abandoned to freeze. Babies and infants suffered some of the most horrific fates. They died first from starvation, dehydration, disease, and exposure, often in their mothers’ arms. In the chaos of roundups and mob attacks, the testimonies describe infants being thrown against walls or beaten to death in front of their families. Babies were hurled against stone walls until their skulls fractured. Others were smashed or stomped while parents watched helplessly. Some mothers, in desperation during raids or hiding, smothered their crying infants to keep the group quiet a choice forced by terror. Historian Antony Beevor estimates at least 1.4 million women raped in East Prussia, Pomerania, and Silesia alone during the Soviet advance and initial occupation. Overall figures for Germany reach up to ~2 million. • Soviet war correspondent Natalya Gesse described Red Army soldiers as “an army of rapists,” noting assaults on females “from eight to eighty.” • Rapes were often gang rapes, repeated over days, and frequently accompanied by violence or murder. Many victims died from injuries, infection, or suicide (some mothers killed their children and themselves to avoid the fate). These were not soldiers or Nazis. These were innocent civilians whose only “crime” was their German language and centuries of life in those lands. The affidavits preserve the voices of survivors who wanted this recorded so it would not be forgotten. archive.org/details/in.ern…
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Peak male performance on full display. John Fisher just set a new Guinness World Record for the most takeaway dishes memorized in 30 seconds.
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@geertwilderspvv Where does this happen in Africa when the team wins?
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@NotFarLeftAtAll @grok
what is the source of this video and did the measure pass?
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This man SPEAKS for the whole of the WESTERN World…
Buy this man a Beer 🍺
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@Sacha_Lord @AaronBastani Remember this. Despite the fact the current Labour government has destroyed his hospitality industry, Sacha still wants his mate, Burnham in power. He's pushing a false narrative to push votes to Restore, knowing it will split the vote, so Burnham will win. #VoteReformUK
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Restore getting 10%, with no data, would be nuts. And I find it hard to believe.
But if that’s what they’re seeing while they canvass, then why on earth would they stop? Mockery or denigrating them won’t help.
Nigel Forrester@NigelForrester9
My guess at the current state of play from the rumours I have heard: Labour 43-47% Reform 35-40% Restore 10-12% Others negligible
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@GBPolitcs Rupert Lowe will never be forgiven if he hands Labour this seat by splitting this vote. People really need to back Reform.
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🚨BREAKING: GB Politics has released its prediction for the Makerfield by-election
🌹 LAB: 40% (-5.2)
➡️ REF: 33% (+1.2)
🦁 RES: 17% (NEW)
🔶 LDM: 4% (-2.8)
🌍 GRN: 3% (-1.4)
🌳 CON: 2% (-8.9)
☑️ OTH: 1% (+0.1)
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It’s 2035, and it’s just hit 35 degrees C - in March.
The bees are confused, where are the flowers? Crops get ruined by a lack of water in the weeks that follow.
But in the Daily Mail comments still say “ITS THE SUMMER, ENJOY IT”.
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@MariaBowtell @JamesMu39334144 Maria, isit not too much to ask for a party not to be under the influence of jews. We don't want to be slaves to fucking jews. Get them gone and back to Israel so we can have our country back.
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@wesstreeting @lucianaberger @thetimes Funny way to say you just want to control what people see on the internet, you realise that your brand of politics is failing so the only way to perpetuate it is to censor and lie.
We see you.
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Last chance to back social media ban for the under-16s.
Brilliant piece by @lucianaberger in @thetimes.
Big Tech following the same playbook as Big Tobacco: design an addictive product, get ‘em while they’re young, addict them for life.
thetimes.com/article/04c742…
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No. It was 32 degrees 82 years ago, yesterday was 34. Hence it’s a new record, which is the point.
Yesterday was less than a degree away from being the record temperature in June. It’s bizarre to downplay how warm it is for…Spring.
Sunil Sharma 🇬🇧@SunilSharmaUK
So wait the weather was the exact same temperature as 82 years ago ?! But I thought every summer was “the hottest ever” because of climate change …
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@Thesecretinves2 Gold/Silver sovereigns and other legal tender coins is the way, if you can a) stomach the (comparatively low) volatility and b) aren't afraid of a confiscation type event.
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For UK savers paying attention: wake up.
ISAs were sold as 'tax-efficient forever'.
Now a 22% levy on cash interest inside them is being floated as 'anti-circumvention'.
If they can move the goalposts on ISAs, no UK wrapper is safe. 🧵
Self-custody is structurally different.
No platform to freeze it.
No custodian to seize it.
No retroactive rule change that quietly erases your purchasing power overnight
You hold the keys. You hold the asset. That's the whole point.
Caveat from your friendly UK Bitcoin & crypto accountant:
Self-custody is not the same as off the tax grid.
UK residents still owe CGT on disposals, and HMRC receives crypto data via CARF.
Own your keys. Pay what you owe. Both can be true. 🟠
Freddie New@freddienew
Move your savings into an asset you can custody yourself, which you can buy and sell and send peer to peer without state oversight or interference, and which they cannot arbitrarily confiscate from you. Ideally they shouldn't ever know you hold it. Choice of asset is up to you
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@archer_rs @therealhostman WE NEED CO2 TO GROW FOOD YOU ABSOLUTE HELMET.
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@therealhostman No James, the alternative is not to,
"Go back to the Stone Age"
There is really no excuse for you to think as you do. There is a myriad of peer reviewed information on this subject and I politely suggest you read some of it.
Goodbye.
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The level of ignorance here regarding climate change is simply astonishing.
This is an existential threat to the human species and yet there are still some saying things like,
"It's summer" and "Just a hot day" or "warmer when I was young"
Incredible!
RS Archer@archer_rs
Apparently climate change is a myth.
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@DerpTrades @eurostrategist @archer_rs The first one is about a risk. We do not know what kind of risk. The risk is probably temperature related, but still the map is not about temperature.
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@robvanhoff @elonmusk I believe it is a cog within, not solely to blame.
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@DerpTrades @elonmusk You believe Europe turning Muslim is due to tiny Israel and not to massive expansionist ideology of Islamic desire to rule the world with Shariah law.
😂
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@ProudSocialist @AlexLikesCake1 Mass murder is just a rather unfortunate bi-product though.
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@AlexLikesCake1 Lenin has an unparalleled track record of being right about a lot of things.
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Putting the common good over profit is the essence of socialism.
Putting profit over people is the essence of capitalism.
Without corporate media influence, people choose socialism over capitalism.
This is why 6 corporations own 90% of the media to ensure people never wake up.
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The UK is a currency issuer, not a household. We don't need to "find money" to reshape our economy for public purpose.
#MMT #JobGuarantee #UKEconomy
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@Puka_Supay @eurostrategist @archer_rs It’s registering temperature in degrees on both charts you absolute helmet.
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@eurostrategist @archer_rs If you csnnot read Spanish, let me help you:
The 1st map is about some kind of risk.
The 2nd one is about temperature.
So it makes no sense to compare them.
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@elonmusk Let someone talk long and freely enough and they’ll tell you exactly who they are.
“Israel is to blame!
Israel is the reason Europe is turning Muslim!!!
Trump is insane!”
This guy starts smart and then quickly reveals his hatred.
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If you want @RupertLowe10 to be PM in 2029 vote Restore in Makerfield next month. No one cares which Neo-Marxist Fabian inadequate squats in No 10 between now and then. In point of fact, the more damage to Britain they do, the better. The warming frog needs to wake TFU.
Jacob Rees-Mogg@Jacob_Rees_Mogg
If you want Andy Burnham to be Prime Minister vote Restore…
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@irishmobstah @FartCrapper88 @HollyGrayle Yes, ruled, I do know we’ve had our turn unlike you amerimuts who are blissfully unaware of your imminent fall from grace.
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@DerpTrades @FartCrapper88 @HollyGrayle *ruled... past tense. This isn't Francis Drake's great britain. This isn't even margaret thatcher's britain anymore. There are no more paddy maynes! There are no more Kray brothers or Georgie Cornells. No Ricky Hattons either. Their nation is cooked
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This is a really interesting theory. I'm not sure what I think about it...but, it's consistent with my hunch that Britain will 'kick off' first...
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