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🇨🇦/🇺🇸 border kid. Ex-SJTO/TJSO (Social Justice Tribunals of Ontario/Tribunaux justice sociale ON). Thomson Reuters & Globe. MLS. McGill BA “Anthroapology”.
Quebec, Canada Katılım Haziran 2017
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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING: Credible reports that the missing F-15E weapons systems officer has been recovered alive from inside Iran.
Jack Murphy, a former Green Beret and national security journalist, reports the WSO was evading capture on the ground when rescue forces reached them.
A "massive firefight" at the recovery site.
If confirmed, American special operators just fought their way into Iran, found their pilot, and pulled them out alive.
The most dramatic combat rescue since the war began. Possibly in decades.
Source: @JackMurphyRGR @DropSiteNews
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 BREAKING: Traffic jams forming in southwestern Iran as civilians reportedly rush to help security forces capture the downed American pilot. Iranian military urging people to stay away from the area. Source: Middle East Spectator
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⭕️ At least three U.S. academics have been suspended or dismissed in the past month after voicing opposition to U.S.-Israeli actions in the Middle East, the Guardian reported.
▫️ Shirin Saeidi — University of Arkansas: formally dismissed after social media posts supporting Palestine and praising Iran’s leadership, and after allegedly using university letterhead to advocate for the release of an Iranian official convicted in Sweden. She was suspended earlier, and her termination proceeded despite a faculty committee unanimously recommending she be retained.
▫️ Idris Robinson — Texas State University: Philosophy professor filed a lawsuit after his contract was terminated following an off-campus talk on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Pro-Israel social media accounts launched a campaign urging his dismissal.
▫️ Aria Fani — University of Washington: Removed as director of the Middle East Center after sending emails via the center’s listserv criticizing Israel and U.S. policy, and writing that Iran’s nuclear threat “was always BS.” Retains his faculty position.
Palestine Legal says faculty requests for legal help over Palestine-related discipline rose 305% since 2022.
Kourosh Ziabari@KZiabari
Aria Fani, an Iranian-American associate professor of Persian studies has been fired from his role as the director of Middle East Center after sending a group email criticizing Israel. Fani is the latest academic to face reprisal over Israel-related speech theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a…
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I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to laughing at people who were totally behind Quebec’s ridiculous secularism bill as long as they thought it affected only others.
“We have a right to our religious convictions” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, Caroline. 🤦♀️😒
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🇸🇾 REPORT | A New York Times investigation found that abductions of women and girls from Syria’s Alawite minority are far more widespread and brutal than authorities have acknowledged.
▫️While the government officially acknowledged only one "real" case, the Times verified the kidnappings of 13 Alawite women and girls and received reports of scores more.
▫️ Survivors reported being grabbed off the street in broad daylight, held in filthy conditions, beaten, and subjected to sexual violence. Five of the verified victims were raped, and two returned home pregnant.
▫️ Captors often explicitly targeted victims for being Alawite, at times citing extremist views that deem the minority "permissible to rob and rape". Other cases involved purely criminal extortion, with one family paying a $17,000 ransom for a relative who was never released.
▫️Families and rights groups say many cases remain uninvestigated, pointing to a pattern of denial and limited accountability despite mounting evidence.
Syria Justice Archive@SyJusticeArc
📰 A New York Times investigation found that abductions of women and girls from Syria’s Alawite minority were more common, and more brutal, than the government has acknowledged By @NYTBen A 16-year-old girl left her home in northwest Syria last May to visit a shop and disappeared. Weeks later, an anonymous stranger phoned her distraught family and said that he had the teenager and would let her go if they paid thousands of dollars in ransom, according to four people involved in her case. The family paid the ransom and the girl returned in August, more than 100 days after she had been kidnapped. She told confidants that she had been held in a dank basement and was regularly drugged and raped by strangers, the four people said. A medical exam turned up yet another shock: She came home pregnant. Since rebels ousted the dictator Bashar al-Assad in late 2024, panicked families and activists trying to help have regularly sounded the alarm on social media that women and girls from Syria’s Alawite minority have mysteriously disappeared or been kidnapped. Many fear that their sect is being targeted as retribution for the brutality of Mr. al-Assad, who also belongs to the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite. The government has denied that Alawite women and girls are being targeted by kidnappers, saying that it has confirmed only one such case. But a New York Times investigation based on dozens of interviews with Alawites who say they were kidnapped, their relatives and others involved in their cases found that these abductions have been common and often brutal. The Times verified the kidnappings of 13 Alawite women and girls, in addition to one man and one boy. Five said they had been raped. Two came home pregnant. The family of one woman said it sent $17,000 to kidnappers who never released her, and provided screenshots of ransom demands and the money transfers. A 24-year-old said she had been held for three weeks in a filthy room where men raped her, beat her, shaved her head and eyebrows and cut her with razor blades. Her relatives also paid the kidnappers and in this case secured her release, according to four people involved in her case. Syrian activists say they know of scores of such kidnappings but details are difficult to confirm because victims and their families are too scared to talk. Most people who spoke with the Times did so on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals from the government or the kidnappers. The Times is not identifying most of those who were kidnapped for the same reason. The Times corroborated accounts from people who had been kidnapped and their relatives, as well as through social media posts announcing when they were taken and returned, ransom messages sent by kidnappers and interviews with medical and aid workers who spoke with the abductees after their release. The kidnappings took place against a backdrop of deep distrust between the Alawites, who make up about one-tenth of Syria’s population, and the new government. Mr. al-Assad relied heavily on his sect in his military and security services while in power. That led many of the Sunni Muslim former rebels who now run Syria to associate the Alawites with the ousted regime. Last March, that anger fueled days of sectarian violence in northwestern Syria that left about 1,400 people dead, according to a U.N. investigation. The inquiry found that some government security forces had participated in the killing, leaving many Alawites afraid of them. Many of the kidnapped women and girls, along with their relatives, said the government had failed to take their cases seriously. nytimes.com/2026/04/03/wor…
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Iran is demanding sovereign control over the Strait of Hormuz. If it succeeds in imposing this logic, it will undermine the very foundation of international maritime law. The Strait of Hormuz is an international strait governed by the regime of transit passage: passage cannot be arbitrarily prevented or made selective. If Iran succeeds, it will open a Pandora's box: other states will also decide they can act the same way.
Let's look at other straits that are critically important for the global economy:
◾️ The Straits of Malacca and Singapore are the next most dangerous example. The Strait of Malacca is the world's busiest oil chokepoint, as well as one of the main corridors for common trade; studies estimate that about 20% of global maritime trade passes through the Strait of Malacca, amounting to approximately $2.4-2.5 trillion annually. In theory, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore could all seek to exert tighter control here. If even one of these countries were to impose a system of permits, selective inspections, or political restrictions, global trade would suffer.
◾️ Bab-el-Mandeb is another example of how control over a narrow strait can quickly become a tool of war. In 2023, approximately 9.2 million barrels per day passed through it, but following the escalation, flows dropped to about 4.0-4.2 million barrels per day in 2024-2025. Formally, Yemen, Djibouti, and Eritrea may attempt to strengthen their control here, and effectively, armed non-state actors may also be involved. The threat is clear: whoever controls this chokepoint can sever the maritime link between Europe and Asia via the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.
◾️ The Bosphorus and the Dardanelles are a separate case, as they are already subject to a specific regime under the Montreux Convention, and Türkiye has broader authority over military vessels. But that is precisely why this example is important. In the first half of 2025, approximately 3.7 million barrels per day of oil and petroleum products passed through the Turkish Straits, not counting grain and other Black Sea exports. The danger here lies elsewhere: the existing legal exception could become a justification for new exceptions in other straits.
◾️ The Danish straits are a critical exit route from the Baltic Sea. In the first half of 2025, approximately 4.9 million barrels of oil and petroleum products passed through them daily. Formally, Denmark could impose stricter controls here, and in a broader regional sense, so could the states that control the approaches to the Baltic Sea. If Europe ever adopts a policy of selective access through such a strait, it would mean that even within the Euro-Atlantic space, freedom of navigation is no longer considered absolute. This would be a critical moment for maritime law.
◾️ The Taiwan Strait is perhaps the most dangerous case in the long term. According to CSIS estimates, approximately $2.45 trillion worth of goods passed through it in 2022, accounting for more than one-fifth of global maritime trade. There is only one potential contender for political control here - China. If Beijing manages to impose a system where passage depends not on international rules but on Chinese jurisdiction, it will be a turning point. Then, not only regional security would be at risk, but also the very principle that major trade routes cannot be controlled by a single state through political decision. And since the Taiwan Strait is also linked to the risk of a major war between the US and China, maritime law here directly confronts the risk of global escalation.
◾️ Arctic shipping routes demonstrate that this logic now extends beyond traditional straits. Russia regards the Northern Sea Route as a "historic national transport corridor" and demands compliance with the navigation rules established by Moscow; in 2024, the Northern Sea Route Administration issued 1,312 permits for 975 vessels. Canada, for its part, considers the Northwest Passage to be part of its internal waters, while the United States and other states disagree with this approach. Here, the risk is particularly significant for the future: if Arctic routes begin to be established as a licensed passage under the control of coastal states, this will provide yet another strong argument for those who wish to establish their own control in other areas.
So, control over sea lanes is becoming a new weapon. If Iran breaks this barrier in the Strait of Hormuz, other states will also begin competing for control of the seas. The next conflict may arise not only over territory, but over the right to determine who has access to global trade, energy, and naval traffic. This is the real danger: the Strait of Hormuz could lay the groundwork for many future wars.
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Dozens of hostile armed israelis are attacking the Palestinian village of Qusra, setting fire to two chicken farms, as well as the owners’ houses
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What the fuck!
On Israel’s Channel 14 News Shimon Riklin suggests it is time for Israel to use an atomic bomb on Iran:
"Why aren't we using a neutron bomb (in Iran)? It's a type of atomic bomb that doesn't damage buildings, it kills people.”
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“I think it would be a shame if (this) were to end, because we live in a free society, so I feel like we should be able to."
A day after Quebec passed its expanded secularism law banning collective public prayer, hundreds of people walked silently through the streets of Montreal to honour Jesus’s last day on earth, as they do every Good Friday in a procession known as the Way of the Cross.
Read the latest: montrealgazette.com/news/it-would-…
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🚨 A nuclear incident is underway. 🚨
Russia's state nuclear company Rosatom evacuates a further 198 of its staff from Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant — Reuters
It didn't have to be this way.
Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara
Terrifying escalation. A top Russian official confirms a deadly strike just breached the Bushehr nuclear plant's protection circuit. He warns a catastrophic nuclear incident risk is skyrocketing as mass evacuations to the border begin.
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🇮🇱🇵🇸Zionist woman LOSES HER MIND after meeting Jews standing for Palestine
You can see her brainwashed worldview crumble in real time
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Governor-General’s husband says the couple are planning their exit: “I’ll put it this way: that discussion has to happen only between Mary and the Prime Minister and they have talked,” he said. “But I’ll tell you that we’re looking for an apartment.” theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
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NEW: Artemis II astronauts report a burning smell after a $23M space toilet malfunction, New York Post reports.
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What looked like space debris was spotted in the sky above Viedma, Argentina last night...
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Preparing and distributing freshly baked bread to families in need and displaced families in Gaza.
Your donations make a real difference. We are deeply grateful to everyone who stands with Gaza and its people during these difficult times.
To contribute: chuffed.org/project/172937…
Thank you!
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@Kasparov63 If anyone is confused by what Stoltenberg was actually trying to accomplish, taken directly from his book:
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Igor Sushko@igorsushko
Stoltenberg's Plan, according to his book. I give Stoltenberg permission to use this visual aid in his 2nd edition print.
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Massive 3D printers build houses on site by layering concrete, using no bricks and producing minimal waste.
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Finland has been a NATO ally for two years now. 🇫🇮
The Baltic Sea looks different on a map when you understand what that membership actually means for regional security.
Happy #NATODay Finland 🎉 The north is covered. 🧡
Darth Putin@DarthPutinKGB
OTD in 2023 Finland joined NATO, triggering 5th stage of Kremlin grief 1 “NATO is aggressive alliance” 2 “This crosses critical red line” 3 “The West will face terrible consequences” 4 "We remind you Russia is nuclear power" 5 “This is entirely meaningless & changes nothing”
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Il s'agit du plus grand investissement fédéral en défense de l'histoire de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador et d'un élément crucial de notre nouveau plan ambitieux pour défendre, développer et transformer le Nord.
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