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Danny Padilla

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Republic of the Philippines Katılım Aralık 2013
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Gandalv@Microinteracti1·
The Man Who Gave Away Patagonia Doug Tompkins sold his stake in The North Face for $50,000.  He used the money to co-found Esprit. Then he sold that too, and did something almost no one does with a fortune: he disappeared. He moved to the tip of South America in 1990 with a theory most businessmen would find absurd. He believed the best thing a rich man could do was buy wilderness before someone else destroyed it, then hand it back to the country it belonged to. Together with his wife Kris, a former CEO of Patagonia clothing, they bought and conserved more than 2 million acres across Chile and Argentina. For context: that is roughly the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. Most of it had been degraded farmland. Overgrazed, stripped, exhausted. The Valle Chacabuco ranch alone had been one of South America’s largest sheep operations. They bought it in 2004 for $10 million, then spent another $55 million over 20 years restoring the grasslands.  Pumas returned. Guanacos returned. The land remembered what it was. The Chileans were not immediately grateful. Many locals saw it as a land grab. An American buying millions of acres and telling them to change their way of life. Some accused him of planning to split the country in two. Others claimed he was building a nuclear waste site. He kept buying land anyway. The deal his wife finalized in his name after his death became the largest-ever private land donation to a country. Over 1 million acres handed directly to Chile, triggering government protections on another 9 million. Five new national parks. Three expanded. A conservation corridor stretching 1,250 miles. He died on December 8, 2015, in a kayaking accident on a Patagonian lake, surrounded by friends including Yvon Chouinard. He had called what he was doing “paying rent for his time on the planet.” There is a certain kind of person who builds something great and then builds something greater by walking away from it. Tompkins is the rarest version: he walked away from two fortunes, bought a wilderness, and gave it to strangers. The land is still there. The sheep are gone. If this kind of story is what you read on weekends, you might belong here. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
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Danny Padilla
Danny Padilla@LucaToon·
Checkmate!
📢Rebelión en la Granja🚨@elorwelliano

AJEDREZ HÚNGARO QUE HACE LLORAR A BRUSELAS🤣 🇭🇺 Viktor Orbán coloca a su “traidor” de confianza y la UE cae en la trampa perfecta: el jaque mate que ha dejado humillados a Bruselas, Soros y Obama. En un ejercicio de ajedrez político tan brillante que roza lo cómico, Viktor Orbán se olió desde hace tiempo que la Unión Europea, George Soros, Obama todo el club globalista iban a por él. Como en Hungría ya no quedaba oposición de izquierda que valiera (ninguno superó el ridículo 5% electoral), el primer ministro húngaro decidió resolver el problema a su manera: tomó a su mejor aliado y hombre de confianza, Péter Magyar, y lo mandó al frente como “opositor” de lujo. El plan era tan simple como genial: Magyar, que hasta 2024 era pieza clave del gobierno orbánista, abandonó dramáticamente el barco, se hizo el disidente, recibió con gusto los fondos de los mismos euroburócratas que odian a Orbán y se presentó como la gran esperanza del “cambio”. La izquierda europea y sus mecenas cayeron en la trampa como moscas en miel. “¡Por fin!”, gritaron en Bruselas, mientras abrían la chequera. Nadie entendió nada, claro, porque casi nadie habla húngaro y los títulos de los medios occidentales eran demasiado bonitos para cuestionarlos. Resultado, Magyar ganó. Y apenas puso un pie en el poder, el “traidor” reveló su verdadera cara. Declaró que la frontera “no es lo suficientemente fuerte”, rechazó el 90% de las exigencias de Ursula von der Leyen, priorizó los derechos de los húngaros étnicos y siguió, en la práctica, la misma línea soberanista que tanto molesta a la UE. La Unión Europea, Soros, Obama y compañía pisaron el palito, soltaron la plata y ahora miran atónitos cómo el “cambio” que tanto celebraron es exactamente igual al Orbán de siempre, solo que con otro nombre. Jugada maestra. Ajedrez 5D en su máxima expresión. Y lo mejor: todo legal, todo limpio y todo delante de sus narices.

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Danny Padilla
Danny Padilla@LucaToon·
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Sony Thăng@nxt888

"South Vietnam requested America for help." Who created South Vietnam, Daniel? Tell me. Take your time. Go look it up. I'll wait. South Vietnam was not a country. It was a administrative line drawn at the 17th parallel by the 1954 Geneva Accords as a temporary demarcation pending a national reunification election in 1956. It was never intended to be a permanent border. It was never intended to be two countries. Every party at Geneva understood this. The documents say this explicitly. The United States prevented that election from happening. Why? Eisenhower wrote it himself, in his own memoir: American intelligence estimated Hồ Chí Minh would win roughly 80 percent of the vote. So Washington cancelled the election, installed Ngô Đình Diệm, a Catholic mandarin who had spent years living in New Jersey, as the leader of a "country" that had been invented specifically to prevent the Vietnamese people from choosing their own government. Then that invented country, run by an American-installed leader, "requested American help." Do you understand what you just said? You used a puppet requesting help from its puppeteer as your moral justification. That's not sovereignty. That's a ventriloquist act. And you're applauding the dummy for having opinions. And Hồ Chí Minh "started this war with Chinese communist help"? Hồ Chí Minh was writing to Woodrow Wilson in 1919, at the Paris Peace Conference, appealing for Vietnamese independence based on Wilson's own Fourteen Points. Wilson never responded. The man believed in American ideals before most Americans were willing to apply them to non-white people. In 1945, when he declared Vietnamese independence, he opened the declaration with direct quotes from the American Declaration of Independence. He reached out to the United States for support. The OSS, the precursor to the CIA, had officers working alongside the Việt Minh against the Japanese. They liked Hồ Chí Minh. Their field reports described him as a nationalist first. But Washington made a choice. France was a European ally that needed to be kept stable for NATO. So America funded France's attempt to re-colonize Vietnam. Eighty percent of the cost of the French Indochina War was paid by U.S. taxpayers. The CIA was operating in Vietnam before most Americans had ever heard of the place. Edward Lansdale was running psychological operations and building paramilitary networks in the early 1950s. The Phoenix Program, which systematically tortured and assassinated tens of thousands of Vietnamese civilians, was a CIA operation. So when you say Hồ Chí Minh started it with outside help, you are describing America's role more accurately than his. "You should be grateful your enemies were Americans." This is the single most revealing sentence in your reply. Genuinely. Frame it out and look at it. You are telling the Vietnamese people to be grateful for how they were destroyed. Grateful for 3 million dead. Grateful for Agent Orange that is still producing disabled children in 2026. Grateful for Mỹ Lai. Grateful for the bombing of hospitals. Grateful for the embargo that strangled reconstruction for nineteen years after the war ended. Because it could have been worse. This is the logic of the abuser who says "you should be grateful I didn't hit you harder." No. We are not grateful. We won. Gratitude goes in the other direction. If anyone should be reflecting quietly on how things went, it is not the Vietnamese. You said "don't start a war with Americans." We didn't start anything. We were a colonized people who wanted our country back. First from the French, who had occupied us for nearly a century. Then from the Americans, who funded the French, then replaced them when the French lost. We didn't come to America. America came to us. We didn't choose this. We chose to survive it. And we did. That's not a threat. That's not aggression. That's just history. History that already happened. History that ended one way and not the other. You can look up which way on April 30, 1975.

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Danny Padilla
Danny Padilla@LucaToon·
Philippines first...
Roberto Rios@peruvian_bull

the east asian energy crisis is getting worse by the day let's sum up what's happened so far: the Philippines became the first country to declare a national energy emergency. government offices moved to a 4 day work week, and President Marcos says grounding planes is a "distinct possibility." their fuel supply dropped from 57 days to 45 days in less than a month. South Korea is telling citizens to take shorter showers and charge phones during the day. they're considering banning naphtha exports, which means petrochemical production starts seizing up. Japan released 80 MILLION barrels from strategic reserves, the largest drawdown since they created the system in 1978. covers about 45 days. 95% of their crude comes from the Middle East. their refineries are canceling fuel exports and cutting production to prioritize domestic supply. (talked about this in my newsletter) Vietnam has 20 days of reserves. they just panic-bought 4 million barrels from non-Middle East sources, which covers six more days. India is running out of cooking gas. restaurants are shutting down, lines wrapping around LPG distributors in multiple cities. 90% of their LPG imports go through Hormuz. New Zealand has less than 40 days of combined fuel left, gas stations are going dry in parts of the country, and the government is dusting off 1979 era rationing laws. China and Thailand have both banned or restricted fuel exports to hoard domestic supply. Singapore and Indonesian petrochemical companies are declaring force majeure. the IEA released a record 400 million barrels from strategic reserves and then said it won't be enough. Brent peaked at $126, still sitting above $90 today. the crisis deepens in East Asia.

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