Matthew Travis Barber

I've just published a detailed political/historical overview of the early phase of the #Yazidi Genocide, in the latest volume of the Iranica series. The volume can be purchased in print or e-book from @harrassowitz_v: harrassowitz-verlag.de/Yezidism/title… #Sinjar

@adamseconomics youtu.be/XuFC6ud1cAQ

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 TOTALITARIANISM OUT OF CONTROL! A man in Sydney, Australia who has been attempting to exposed Government corruption has been detained under Schedule 3 of the Mental Health Act 2007! Health care professionals & NSW Police entered this man’s home WITHOUT a warrant this morning, produced a non-clinical declaration that he is mentally ill & forced him to go to a local hospital! He has been told he is not allowed to leave! (I just spoke to him!) On what planet can the Government arbitrarily detain a freedom fighter, produce a fictional medical diagnosis & detain him at a hospital against his will??? Corruption in Australia has NO BOUNDS!

Syria's Kurds caution Iran's Kurds against trusting America, following the U.S. abandonment of its allies in Rojava: "I hope that the Kurds of ​Iran will not ally themselves with America, because they will abandon them." "We Kurds… have had a negative experience with the Americans in ‌Syria, and ⁠their abandonment of Kurdish resistance movements." reuters.com/world/middle-e…

Totalitarian bureaucracies destroy traditional modes of living, local economies, and our relationship with the earth. In "the land of the free," a farmer can't sell her own eggs.

@wyattreed13 @JoshuaBailey184 Could you list out the eight occasions if you don't mind—would be interesting to see. 🙏

Over the last 75 years, the Kurds have been armed — then sold out — by the US on 𝙚𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙨𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙘𝙘𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨. But hey, maybe the 9th time’s the charm.

@BjorkquistKarl @elonmusk Conquest is one means of theft.

If one is to use the term “First Nations” or “Indigenous Peoples” or “Native Americans” in the Americas and Antipodes, then, in fairness, it should also apply to English, French, Spanish and other such peoples in Europe

@vonderleyen @RTErdogan Meanwhile, Erdogan is escalating his own conflicts: theamargi.com/posts/iraq-and…

Good phone call @RTErdogan of Türkiye tonight. The instability in the region impacts us both profoundly, so close coordination is essential. We have each been in contact with key regional partners today to assess the situation and discuss steps to de-escalate. I welcome Türkiye’s readiness to mediate and support a resolution through peaceful means. We agree that diplomacy is the only viable path forward. I also appreciate the President’s preparedness efforts to deal with a potential impact of this crisis on migration. We already work together closely on Syria. Regional and global stability is at stake; we’re well aware of this.

@nords41 @Hammonda1 x.com/i/status/20281…

Please, if you’ve ever been inclined to give this man any credibility or take him seriously, now is as good a time as ever to stop.

Iraq and the Hashd al-Sha'bi have threatened to attack the Yazidi YBŞ in Shingal (Sinjar) after March 10. This is being instigated by Turkey while the world's eyes are focused on Iran. My explanation of the sensitive situation at @the_amargi: theamargi.com/posts/iraq-and…

@PauloMacro @Delta Air travel is now an all-around dehumanizing experience due to a multitude of factors.

I am never one to fuss about stuff outside people’s control like the weather but I am putting @Delta on notice right now. My wife hasn’t seen our four young children in three weeks and her return flight home to NYC was canceled. It happens. Instead of offering her a 50% refund on the $800 round trip fare after waiting *4hrs on hold* on the phone, she gets $150 and has to rebook away, because in Delta’s cockamamie math a return leg is only worth 20% of the fare once you flew the outbound leg. Delta listen to me as I say this sincerely, deeply from the heart - and know that I *never* forget. You are now in the box indefinitely. Canceling all my upcoming business class abroad across the board - that’s $40k just between now and year end. I hope it was worth it.

I never understood why people would take an mRNA booster after an initial shot that wasn't mRNA. I got a job that was mandating boosters so I wrote the management an email asking "What about people who took the J&J shot?" They never replied. Regarding being in the clear, scientists noticed that vaccine injuries seemed to cluster around batch numbers. There was a website tracking this where you could look up your batch # and see how serious it is: howbadismybatch.com/jansen.html

I took the J&J. It was a choice — Jab or job. With wife, kids, mortgage…I caved. With the research available at the time, I opted for adenovirus-vector in lieu of mRNA. It’s been almost five years. Annual blood tests are very good, coronary calcium score of zero and I’m never sick (knock on wood). Wondering if (1) I’m out of the woods and (2) if Dane might have gotten mRNA boosters after that initial J&J jab, potentially triggering the ALS.

Just realised Eric Dane took the JnJ vaccine! I was a director with JnJ then and didn't even take it because it was highly experimental. The news media/politicians killed a lot of people with their safe and effective narrative and they are getting away with it.

@Sasanearr @ABarnardNYC Or with Fuentes. But at least he's doing it on this issue.

@ABarnardNYC It’s funny he didn’t do 1% of this with Putin

You don’t have to like Tucker to appreciate this type of relentless follow up questioning to fact check a baseless claim by a US official. We need more of this in US journalism.

@Hexagram012 @KhalilJeries No, he's saying it's wrong to kill children.

@KhalilJeries Are you seriously trying to say that child soldiers are civilians, and thereby encouraging children to become soldiers (by giving them protected status as civilians)? You are sick.

Is Huckabee seriously trying to justify the killing of children in Gaza? How would he justify the killing of my Christian sister, who was only 17 and had nothing to do with Hamas? I am so grateful to have known the Christ of the Bible and not whatever Huckabee believes in.

@dazzee @KhalilJeries Of course, all of those atrocities must be condemned. And that's why Israel's genocide in Gaza must be condemned. Atrocities are atrocities; this doesn't change according to who's doing the killing and who is the target.

@KhalilJeries How would you justify the massacre of families and even babies and rape on Oct 7 and those held hostage?

@BrotherRasheed @KhalilJeries This is not war, this is genocide. And self defense is not a justification for conducting genocide.

It seems you don’t differentiate between justifying the killing of children and justifying a country defending itself after being attacked. No one justifies the killing of children. But civilian casualties tragically happen in every war. That’s the reality of war. If you want to assign blame, blame Hamas for starting this war on October 7th. It wasn’t wise. It wasn’t necessary. It was evil. If you don’t want a state to wage war against you, don’t start one. This has nothing to do with Christ. It’s common sense. Go attack any country and then ask them, “Why are you fighting back? Don’t you see we have children here?” That’s not how war works. Blame Hamas. Can you?

@grybeardactual @KhalilJeries You're complimenting him for consistently and uncompromisingly rejecting double standards, correct?

@KhalilJeries I thought this guy's name looked familiar.

I've been wanting to write this for a while: an article on the key characteristics of the Chinese health system, as a patient. It's something that I - perhaps unfortunately - have come to have a lot of experience with in my eight years in China. I've been to the doctor as a patient dozens of times. My wife delivered our first daughter in a Chinese hospital, and had cancer surgery in Shanghai. My younger daughter - who once completely severed her thumb in an unfortunate accident in rural Gansu - had emergency surgery in a small clinic there (her thumb is fine now!). We spent the entire covid episode in China. And, to this day, I still go back to China every year to do my routine health tests or the occasional procedure (like a thyroid biopsy in Harbin last year). In other words, when it comes to the Chinese health system, I've seen a lot. What's fascinating about the Chinese health system, and that's true in general about many things in China, is that it never inherited Western dogma about how things were supposed to work, it's completely unconstrained by what everyone else has decided is "normal". And, as a result, you end up with things that would simply sound impossible to any Western patient: a consultation with the head cardiologist of one of Shanghai's best hospitals for less than $10, blood test results in under 30 minutes, and a system where you can walk in, see three specialists and walk out with a diagnosis and your medicine - all before noon. As I argue in the article that's all enabled by 3 characteristics that sound super unorthodox: 1) extremely short consultation times, less than 5 minutes 2) no GP gatekeepers (you go straight to see specialists) 3) systematic testing for every patient, even if you just have a cold Each one sounds wrong. And in fact when I describe them to doctor friends in the West they immediately explain to me why that can't possibly work, and how their own system is far superior. Except that it does work, I checked the numbers (on top of my personal experience): the Chinese system handles close to 10 billion total outpatient visits a year (nhc.gov.cn/cms-search/dow…), or about 7 visits per person per year on average, and the average wait time is only about 18 minutes (gov.cn/yaowen/shipin/…). Contrast this with France, my country, where people already go to the doctor A LOT, but still less than in China: only 5.5 visits per person per year (evaluation.securite-sociale.fr/home/maladie/M…). And the French system can't even handle this lower volume: when you can see a specialist straight away in China - you don't even need to make an appointment in advance - you need to wait months to see one in France (50 days on average for a cardiologist, for instance: drees.solidarites-sante.gouv.fr/sites/default/…). I've personally managed to see 3 specialists AND do all related tests AND get the test results AND get diagnoses AND buy the medicine to cure me - all in the space of a morning at a hospital in Shanghai. That would have undoubtedly taken me a whole year in the French system. My purpose here is not to argue that the West should replicate the Chinese health system wholesale, but to ask an honest question: what if some of the things we take for granted about healthcare aren't nearly as inevitable as we think? Is it completely unthinkable that we've developed some dogmas that are costing us - in money, in time, and occasionally in lives? That's the whole point of my article: describing a health system built from first principles by people who never assumed we in the West knew better - up to you to decide if they have a point. Enjoy the read here: open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbert…

@Ilangabet @Charlie_Hebdo_

Les fascistes tabassent des gens parce qu'ils sont : féministes, musulmans, juifs, handicapés, homosexuels, transgenres, noirs, arabes, socialistes, communistes, syndicalistes, anarchistes, tsiganes... Les antifascistes utilisent la violence pour se défendre des fascistes et protéger les libertés collectives. Qu'on soit contre la violence, oui. Qu'on critique son usage, oui. Qu'on mette sur le même plan les fascistes et les antifascistes, non. C'est profondément dangereux pour la société.

Le dessin du jour, par #Félix

@sayerjigmi Who knew—"trust the science" is a slogan of colonizers.

🚨 BREAKING: Newly released Epstein documents show Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Gates's science advisor Boris Nikolic privately discussed how to overcome African resistance to vaccination campaigns. Their solution? "Candles and small mirrors, the same as the Americans did with their native Indians." In a March 2013 email, Epstein tells Nikolic he consulted his "best sources" — people whose conclusions he says are "very often better than the list of the various 26 three-letter agencies." The topic: Nigerian communities resisting a polio program "associated with both the west and with bill and melinda." Epstein's source — described as "the most sophisticated, experienced and successful of the group, great experience in countries of your interest" — offered this advice: "If he wants to get their consent, he needs to use candles and small mirrors, the same as the Americans did with their native Indians." Nikolic's response? "Great input — I guess we will need colorful beads and mirrors." This is Bill Gates's senior science advisor — the man later named backup executor of Epstein's will — laughing along with a colonial metaphor about manufacturing consent from African populations. Nigeria's distrust of Western vaccination wasn't irrational. In 1996, Pfizer tested an experimental drug on children during a meningitis outbreak in Kano. Eleven children died. The resulting Trovan scandal fueled decades of vaccine hesitancy across northern Nigeria. But in this private exchange, African resistance isn't treated as a legitimate grievance rooted in lived experience. It's treated as a problem to be outmaneuvered with trinkets. Epstein also predicted that Boko Haram would begin kidnapping polio workers for ransom — a prediction that proved largely correct. He wasn't guessing. He was receiving intelligence-grade analysis from sources he claimed outperformed the CIA. And he was routing it directly to the man who controlled Bill Gates's scientific agenda. Nikolic told Epstein: "I would rather seek your opinion than seek opinion of 1,000 of global health experts." Think about that. The person advising the world's largest private health funder trusted a convicted sex offender's intelligence network more than the entire global health establishment. Publicly, the Gates Foundation describes its work in Africa as "community-centered" and "evidence-based." Privately, the people shaping that work compared winning African consent to trading beads with Native Americans. That's not a communications problem. That's a legitimacy problem. 📄 Source: EFTA01761706, released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act justice.gov/epstein/files/… View my 5-part investigative series below: 🧵👇

@unhealthytruth @grok @Pgyeoh Oh, heaven forbid a "Public Figure" be expected to take two seconds and provide useful information that benefits readers and backs up her assertions, instead of castigating readers for not mindlessly relying on an LLM that often fabricates erroneous info and nonexistent sources.

Thank you. Do you find it surprising that people bug a Public Figure as if I have time to do such a thing and don’t you think they should be able to do it themselves? My God. The medical doctors with whom I’m doing TV shows tonight just said are they really dumber than a box of rocks? I said I’m afraid so.

Two landmark studies, encompassing 8.7 MILLION people, found that C19 “vaccines” increase your risk of SEVEN major cancers: Prostate: +69% Breast: +54% Bladder: +62% Lung: +53% Thyroid: +35% Gastric: +34% Colorectal: +35%