Historian, author, ailurophile, ex-army, interested in military & Byzantine history; archaeology; cinema; bee keeping. Pro Ukraine, West Papua; Iran; anti-CCP

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One of the more unusual items I have come across researching medical history.
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Masoud Pezeshkian, falsely portrayed as a moderate by Western liberal media, is a murderous regime thug whitewashing the largest massacre of protesters in modern Iranian history. He branded the January 2026 protesters “armed,” blamed them for their own slaughter and portrayed them as tools of the United States and Israel after the Islamic Republic killed more than 45,000 people. The United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission determined that the massacre constituted crimes against humanity. Pezeshkian responded by repeating the IRGC’s propaganda and justifying the bloodshed. There is no difference between the Islamic Republic’s so-called reformists and hardliners. Both defend the same regime, whitewash its atrocities and protect its killers.
Amir Farshad EBRAHIMI
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The Islamic Republic’s nefarious regional ambitions and decades of exporting instability were put front and center at the United Nations. Timor-Leste President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate José Ramos-Horta delivered a devastating assessment of the Islamic Republic’s regional policy: “We are aware of the mad approach of Iran’s leaders to achieve regional dominance.” He accused the Islamic Republic of fueling religious extremism to destabilize neighboring states and condemned its attacks against neighboring countries and civilian infrastructure. The significance goes beyond one speech. For decades, the Islamic Republic built its regional strategy around extending its influence beyond Iran through the IRGC, armed groups and political networks across Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and the Palestinian territories. Then this year came direct Iranian missile and drone attacks across the region, including against Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman. Countries far beyond the immediate conflict are increasingly confronting the consequences of a regional strategy built around armed proxies, missiles, drones and the pursuit of influence across other states. The Islamic Republic calls it “resistance.” Its neighbors have spent decades living with the instability it produces.
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Under Antonio Guterres: 🇨🇳 China sits on the UN Human Rights Council 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia chaired UN Women's Rights Commission 🇮🇷 Islamic Republic of Iran chaired UN Disarmament Commission
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The only Church that never gave any ground on this. Anglicans, baptists, all caved
Pope Leo states the church "categorically rejects" abortion.
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Argentina's President Javier Milei used his time in front of the UN Assembly to say the UN is useless. "This has become a useless organization whose only purpose is to sustain a cast of fatally arrogant parasites masquerading as well-meaning bureaucrats." Now that's telling them like it is!
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John Coltrane was born 100 years ago today September 23, 1926. Trane was still near the start of his remarkable creative journey when he went into Rudy Van Gelder’s living room studio on September 15, 1957 & recorded his 1st great masterpiece: “Blue Train” bluenote.lnk.to/JohnColtrane…
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Russians are currently bombing the shopping areas and restaurants near Kyiv's central railway station.
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All morning, Russia has been bombing the center of Kyiv, the most densely populated areas near the central railway station. Purely civilian targets, homes, office buildings, shopping areas - purely terrorism.
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Sums it up perfectly. The Islamic regime's central ambition is jihad. They may negotiate, and negotiations may buy time, but that doesn't mean they will abandon their broader objectives. They'll continue funding and promoting terrorism and pursuing capabilities, including nuclear weapons, that they will ultimately use. There will only be peace once the regime is eradicated.
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The Communications Minister decides what Australians are not allowed to see. Asked who decides, she said the test would be made by her. Australians should decide what they see online, not government. Sign the petition.
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"A free press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that free men prize. It's the most dangerous foe of tyranny" — Winston Churchill
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LITHUANIA OPENS DOOR TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS Lithuania’s parliament has passed an amendment allowing the deployment of nuclear weapons on its territory. As per my assessment, this is less about immediate deployment and more about giving NATO another strategic option on its eastern flank. Lithuania’s location near Russia and Belarus makes the move particularly significant.
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You don't compromise with evil. Socialism is directly evil. I refuse to accept anything from a sinister ideology that only works on paper.
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Today in 1862, President Lincoln issues the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, marking the abolition of slavery in Rebel states as a Federal war aim. He drafted the decree months earlier but felt the North needed a victory before issuing it. Antietam provides an opportunity
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🔔 HELLO @UN‼️ 👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼 🆘 As you invite these illegitimate clown terrorists and occupiers of Iran, they (@araghchi & @drpezeshkian) decided to move this young innocent Iranian man (Ali Zarei) to solitary confinement ahead of his execution by hanging. They took his eye first and now they are taking his life out of spite, nothing else, and you are legitimizing this murder. These men should be arrested for their crimes against humanity and the Iranian nation not invited to an assembly! Why exactly are you legitimizing these terrorists at the expense of the Iranian nation? The blood of the Iranian people is on your hands as well.
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