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Posted - January 3, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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It's worth remembering that, as he cast his vote in last year's presidential election, Maduro shouted "long live free Palestine!" His opponent, Maria Corina Machado, said that "Israel's struggle is our struggle." https://t.co/aYk0je04fv

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Posted - February 26, 2022 at 10:15 AM
Saved - August 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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I recently explored Tucker Carlson's past, revealing his involvement in Nicaragua during the 1980s. Uncovered recordings and a 2005 interview show he aimed to support the anti-Sandinista side. College newsletters indicate he visited Nicaragua multiple times. Notably, this was during a period when his father led a media group pushing for regime change in Nicaragua. Carlson has openly acknowledged his privileged upbringing and has criticized figures like Bill O'Reilly for their inauthentic personas, despite later adopting a similar approach himself.

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[Thread] New from me. Did Tucker Carlson really fight for the Contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s? Newly uncovered recordings suggest that he might have. Read my new @MintPressNews article on Tucker’s background here. https://www.mintpressnews.com/tucker-carlson-biography-nicaragua-cia/279782/

Tucker Carlson: The Elite Pedigree of a Brilliant Cosplaying “Populist” Alan Macleod reveals populist firebrand Tucker Carlson's to the CIA and multiple trips to Nicaragua as a "freedom-fighter" with the Contras. mintpressnews.com

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In an unaired interview from 2005, Carlson reveals that he went to Nicaragua in the 1980s to, in his own words, “get involved in the war and support the side that was right, which was not the Sandinista side.” A 2017 interview confirms as much. https://t.co/7AgE0425h8

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Speaker 0 and his roommate went to Nicaragua the summer after freshman year to get involved in the war and support the side opposing the Sandinistas. They spent the summer trying to understand the war, and "all kinds of hilarity ensued."
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Speaker 0: And so the, summer after my freshman year, my roommate and I decided to go, down to Nicaragua for the summer and work and, you know, get involved in the war, you know, and support the side that we thought was right, which not the San Anista side. And Speaker 1: know that you were actually a freedom fighter, who traveled down to Central America to fight with the Contras. Will you fill them in on that story? No. Speaker 0: We spent the summer in Nicaragua trying to get a sense of the war there, and all kinds of hilarity ensued. But I love

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An old newsletter from his college reveals that he went to Nicaragua on at least two occasions. https://t.co/t9V94LvBII

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This was all at a time when Tucker’s dad was head of CIA cutout media group Voice of America, who were waging a relentless propaganda war against Nicaragua in an effort to bring about regime change. Here is Mr Carlson speaking about his role in bringing down communist countries. https://t.co/cjCHXBW7AZ

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International broadcasting played a critical role in the USSR and Eastern Europe. Information poured across borders from Beijing to Budapest to Warsaw to Vilnius. News that millions stood up to oppressors helped others sweep oppressors away. International broadcasters were equally important in laying the groundwork for democratic revolutions. Eastern Europeans sound Western in talking about freedom, democracy, free enterprise, and environmental concerns. They got these ideas mainly from international broadcasters like Voice of America, BBC, Radio Liberty, and Radio Free Europe, not from their own media or textbooks.
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Speaker 0: I think we would all agree that international broadcasting played a very critical role as was suggested by mister Murdoch in the events that took place in The USSR and Eastern Europe over the last couple of years. From Beijing to Budapest to Warsaw to Vilnius, information poured across borders, and news that millions of people had stood up to their oppressors helped millions of others sweep those oppressors away. I also believe that international broadcasters were equally important in laying the groundwork for the democratic revolutions that we have seen. Isn't it incredible how western all of those Eastern Europeans sound in talking about freedom, democracy, free enterprise, environmental concerns. And they didn't get, those ideas from their own media or from textbooks in their countries. They got them mainly from international broadcasters like Voice of America, BBC, Radio Liberty, Radio Free Europe.

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Tucker grew up “extraordinarily loaded just from money I inherited from a number of trust funds” and was a bowtie-wearing “out-of-the-closet-elitist” in his own words; “I don’t run around pretending to be a man of the people; I’m absolutely not a man of the people, at all.” https://t.co/WKXE81nC5i

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The speaker states they are "extraordinarily loaded" due to inherited money from multiple trust funds, including the "Swanson deal." They claim never to have needed to work and that their involvement with cable news was merely a "phase." The speaker admits to being an "elitist" and an "asshole," but clarifies they are an "out of the closet elitist" who doesn't pretend to be a "man of the people."
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Speaker 0: Well, I'm, like, extraordinarily loaded just from, like, money I, you know, inherited from my number of trust funds. From the Swanson deal? From the Yeah. Totally. From the Swanson deal? Yeah. I'll go out and beat some servants. I'll wrap my Lamborghini around a tree, go pick up a kilo or two. You know, just like normal stuff like that. You're just living you're a trust fund baby, are you not? No. Completely. I've never needed to work. Yeah. I mean, it's all just the whole cable news thing was just a total toad. It was just it was like a phase I was going through. You're about the most unordinary person I know. You're an elitist. You're an asshole. Yeah. I don't know. I'm a but, see, I'm an out of the closet elitist. I don't run around pretending to be a man of the people. I'm absolutely not a man of the people at all.

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He used to rail against Bill O’Reilly and his fake everyman schtick. Check out this incredible clip from 2003 where he talks about how fake O’Reilly’s conservative populist persona is. Yet years later, he would adopt this exact same character. https://t.co/UPFx3sZilE

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Bill O'Reilly's success depends on the perception that he is who he claims to be. He is seen as an Irish Catholic populist fighting for the common person against the elite. However, there's a deep phoniness at the center of his persona. The moment this persona is revealed to be false, it's over. If he gets caught behaving like a stereotypical wealthy, demanding celebrity, such as slapping a flight attendant or making unreasonable demands of his staff, it would be devastating. His entire image is predicated on the idea that he is a regular person, which is impossible for someone making millions of dollars a year.
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Speaker 0: Bill O'Reilly's success is built on the perception that he really is who he claims to be. If he ever gets caught out of character, it's over. Speaker 1: That's right. I I I say before that that, know, Bill O'Reilly's really talented. He's more talented than I am. You know, he's got a lot more viewers than I do. He's a better communicator than I am. But I think there's kind of a deep phoniness at the center of his shtick. And again, as I say, the shtick is sort of built on this perception that he is the character he plays. He is every man. This kind of he's not right wing. He's a populist. This kind of Irish Catholic populist fighting for you against the powers that be. And that's great as a shtick, but I'm just saying the moment that it's revealed not to be true, it's over. The moment he gets caught, you know, slapping a flight attendant on the Concorde for not bringing his champagne fast enough or barking at, you know, one of his subordinates to take the, you know, brown M and M's out of my bowl and get me a bottle of Evian or something like it. The second that makes page six, it's over. Right? Because the whole thing is predicated on the fact that he is who he says he is. And just nobody is that person, especially not someone makes a million dollars, you know, many millions a year.
AlanRMacLeod
Posted - June 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Saved - June 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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I've noticed a surge of outrage from US politicians regarding an Iranian strike on an Israeli hospital, prompting me to reflect on the US's own troubling history of bombing hospitals globally. From the destruction of the Al Rasool Al-Azam Hospital in Yemen to repeated attacks on medical facilities in Syria, Afghanistan, and beyond, these actions have led to significant civilian casualties and humanitarian crises. This history, spanning decades and multiple conflicts, highlights a pattern of targeting healthcare institutions, often with devastating consequences for local populations.

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Thread 🧵: I'm seeing a lot of US politicians express outrage at the Iranian strike on an Israeli hospital, so I thought I'd fill you all in on the shocking history of the US purposely bombing hospitals around the world. For more, see my investigation: https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-bombing-hospitals-yemen-history-war-crimes/289368/

With Yemen Attack, US Continues Long History of Deliberately Bombing Hospitals The U.S. airstrike on a Yemeni cancer hospital follows decades of deliberate attacks on medical centers from Vietnam to Raqqa to Kunduz. mintpressnews.com

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Yemen 🇾🇪 In March, Trump carried out 14 separate attacks against the Al Rasool Al-Azam Oncology Hospital in Saada, Yemen, turning it into rubble. The newly built Al Rasool Al-Azam Hospital was the centerpiece of the region’s healthcare network. Costing over $7.5 million, the center provided crucial treatment to hundreds of cancer patients who previously went without any care at all or faced an eight-and-a-half-hour round trip to the capital, Sanaa, for therapy. The Anti-Cancer Fund, a local government medical organization, described the events as a clear “war crime.” “These attacks are not just airstrikes, but systematic executions, intended to eliminate hope and wipe out life amid a suffocating blockade,” it said in a statement. These images give a taste of what repeated US bombardment did to it.

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Syria 🇸🇾 In 2017, on Trump's orders, US forces repeatedly bombed the National Hospital in Raqqa, Syria, carrying out 20 separate attacks against the building, including using white phosphorous munitions. A highly controversial and widely-banned weapon, white phosphorous instantly ignites upon contact with oxygen, sticks to clothes and skin, and burns at an extremely high temperature. It cannot be extinguished by water, leaving those affected to suffer excruciating – and deadly – injuries. At least 30 civilians were killed, some likely due to the effects of the white phosphorous, which causes respiratory damage and organ failure.

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Afghanistan 🇦🇫 In 2015, the Obama administration carried out a bombing campaign against a Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan -- one of the city's largest and most recognizable buildings. They knew precisely where it was, because Doctors Without Borders had given them the coordinates. An internal inquiry revealed that the airmen aboard the AC-130 gunship that carried out the operation pushed back against their superiors, questioning the strike’s legality, knowing the buildings was a hospital. However, they were overruled and ordered to bomb it, regardless of their concerns. A Doctors Without Borders report concluded that the U.S. knew where the hospital was and that it did not hide any Taliban fighters and targeted it anyway. At least 42 people are known to have been killed in the incident. The bombing was a unique moment in history, as it was the first time that one Nobel Peace Prize winner (Barack Obama) bombed another one (Doctors Without Borders).

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Libya 🇱🇾 In 2011, NATO forces carried out a huge aerial operation on Zliten, destroying the city's primary hospital in the process. 85 people were killed, including at least 11 at the hospital. The action was part of a war that turned one of Africa's most prosperous countries into a failed state, replete with open-air slave markets. Barack Obama was particularly fond of attacking developing countries. In this final year in office, he was bombing seven countries simultaneously.

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Iraq 🇮🇶 One of the myriad of examples of the US targeting civilians in Iraq is the April 2003 missile attack on the Red Crescent Maternity Hospital in Baghdad. The center was Iraq's finest maternity hospital, and developed a reputation as a first-class institution. Even still, it charged ten times less than the city's private clinics, and was a lifeline for working-class Iraqis. Several doctors were killed and wounded in the strike, but, as UNICEF explained, the true death toll of the action continued to rise for years, as, without the hospital, maternal mortality skyrocketed.

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Yugoslavia 🇷🇸 In May 1999, NATO planes dropped cluster munitions on and outdoor market and hospital in the city of Niš, killing at least 15 people. Cluster munitions are now banned under international law. Two weeks after the Niš bombing, NATO targeted the University Hospital Center Dr Dragiša Mišović in Belgrade with precise, laser-guided missiles. The missile strike destroyed much of the maternity ward, with rescuers pulling infants and mothers from the rubble in the dead of night.

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Somalia 🇸🇴 In 1993, US soldiers carried out a mortar attack against Digfer Hospital in Mogadishu. The bombs destroyed the main reception area, blew a gaping hole in the wall of the recovery room, and shattered glass across the building. The death toll is unknown, because US soldiers attacked Western journalists and photographers who showed up to cover the event, as this LA Times article recounted. The military laughably claimed that they threw grenades at the media in order to keep them safe.

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Sudan 🇸🇩 In 1998, President Clinton ordered an attack on the Al-Shifa medicine factory near Khartoum. Fourteen cruise missiles hit the plant, turning what had been one of the largest pharmaceutical producers in North Africa into rubble. While not a hospital, the destruction of Al-Shifa was vastly more lethal than any other attack listed, as crucial antibiotics, antimalarial, and diarrhea medications were now non-existent in the country. The German Ambassador to Sudan estimated the death toll of the strike as many "tens of thousands."

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Grenada 🇬🇩 In 1983, the US invaded the tiny island and bombed the Richmond Hill Mental Hospital. At least 20 people were killed. The Regan administration initially attempted to deny the attack, before finally conceding their culpability.

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El Salvador 🇸🇻 In April 1989, US-trained death squads using US-made jets and helicopters bombed an FMLN hospital in San Ildefonso, killing five people. The death squads then stormed the hospital, and abducted the medical staff, including French nurse Madeleine Lagadec, who was raped, tortured and executed.

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Nicaragua 🇳🇮 Throughout the 1980s, Ronald Reagan's government armed, trained and supported “Contra” death squads in Nicaragua. The Contras intentionally targeted hospitals and other “soft targets” to terrorize the population into accepting their rule. At the scene of the attacks, the Contras left behind graffiti announcing that “the Lions of Reagan” had visited the area. President Reagan described the Contras as “the moral equivalent of America's Founding Fathers.” A study by a Professor Richard Garfield of Columbia University found that, between 1981 and 1984 alone, Contra attacks forced at least 63 health centers to close.

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Vietnam 🇻🇳 Hospitals were a prime target of the United States in its war against the Vietnamese people. “The bigger the hospital, the better,” one former Army intelligence specialist said. Perhaps the best known case of this was the December 1972 attack on the 1000-bed Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi. American warplanes dropped over 100 bombs on the complex, killing at least 28 medical staff and scores of patients.

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Laos 🇱🇦and Cambodia🇰🇭 During the Vietnam War, the US also deliberately bombed hospitals in Laos and Cambodia. In 1973, former Army captain Rowan Malphurs testified that, he helped orchestrate attacks on Cambodian health centers. “We were planning bombings of hospitals,” he said. Yet Malphurs was unrepentant, explaining that: “I think it was a good thing because the North Vietnamese Army had a privileged sanctuary in Cambodia.” To this day, Laos remains the most bombed country in world history. Most Americans know nothing of this history.

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North Korea 🇰🇵 The government of North Korea estimates that, during the Korean War, the US military destroyed around 1,000 hospitals. Entire Korean cities were leveled. Professor Bruce Cummings, America’s foremost expert on Korea, estimates that the U.S. killed around 25% of the entire North Korean population between 1950 and 1953.

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If you've enjoyed this thread, please follow/subscribe to me, or read the full and detailed investigation here. Being ignorant of our own history condemns us to repeat it again and again. https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-bombing-hospitals-yemen-history-war-crimes/289368/

With Yemen Attack, US Continues Long History of Deliberately Bombing Hospitals The U.S. airstrike on a Yemeni cancer hospital follows decades of deliberate attacks on medical centers from Vietnam to Raqqa to Kunduz. mintpressnews.com
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Posted - June 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Saved - June 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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I shared a map detailing the Middle Eastern countries bombed by the US since 2016, highlighting a troubling trend. In March, the Trump administration bombed a cancer hospital in Yemen 14 times, continuing a long history of targeting hospitals. My article outlines the US's actions over the past 50 years. I also noted the recent outrage from US politicians regarding an Iranian strike on an Israeli hospital, prompting me to share a thread that discusses the US's own history of deliberately bombing hospitals globally.

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Map of Middle Eastern countries that the US has bombed since 2016 (updated).

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In March, the Trump administration bombed a cancer hospital in Yemen. 14 separate times. This continues a very long history of the US deliberately bombing hospitals. My article recounts all the hospitals the US has bombed in the past 50 years. https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-bombing-hospitals-yemen-history-war-crimes/289368/

With Yemen Attack, US Continues Long History of Deliberately Bombing Hospitals The U.S. airstrike on a Yemeni cancer hospital follows decades of deliberate attacks on medical centers from Vietnam to Raqqa to Kunduz. mintpressnews.com

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See also: this thread

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Thread 🧵: I'm seeing a lot of US politicians express outrage at the Iranian strike on an Israeli hospital, so I thought I'd fill you all in on the shocking history of the US purposely bombing hospitals around the world. For more, see my investigation: https://www.mintpressnews.com/us-bombing-hospitals-yemen-history-war-crimes/289368/

With Yemen Attack, US Continues Long History of Deliberately Bombing Hospitals The U.S. airstrike on a Yemeni cancer hospital follows decades of deliberate attacks on medical centers from Vietnam to Raqqa to Kunduz. mintpressnews.com
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Posted - June 19, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Saved - June 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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In light of Iran's claims about WhatsApp sharing location data with Israel, I've been investigating the deep ties between Israeli intelligence and big tech for four years. Meta, Google, Microsoft, and TikTok employ numerous former agents from Unit 8200, Israel's elite cyberwarfare unit. This group is responsible for extensive surveillance and cyber operations, including the creation of targeting software used in military actions. Additionally, I've uncovered former Unit 8200 operatives influencing major media outlets, raising concerns about objectivity and the integrity of information shared with the public.

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Thread🧵 In light of Iran's allegations about WhatsApp sharing user location data with Israel, it's important to understand how deep Israeli intelligence penetration of big tech firms goes. I've been working on this topic for 4 years. Here's what I found. https://www.mintpressnews.com/revealed-former-israeli-spies-working-top-jobs-google-facebook-amazon/282413/

Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft Hundreds of agents from Israeli spying organization Unit 8200 are now employed in top roles at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon. mintpressnews.com

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Firstly, Meta (WhatsApp's parent company) is filled with former intelligence agents from the Israeli Defense Force's elite cyberwarfare battalion, Unit 8200. Chief among these is Emi Palmor, who sits on Meta's Oversight Board - a 21-person panel that ultimately dictates the direction of the company, deciding what content is allowed and what is disallowed. Palmor is a former Israeli spy and later went on to become General Director of the Israeli Ministry of Justice. In this role, she directly oversaw the stripping away of Palestinian rights and created a so-called “Internet Referral Unit” which would find and aggressively push Facebook to delete Palestinian content on its platform that the Israeli government objected to.

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Another important person at Meta is Eyal Klein, head of data science. Klein spent six years in Unit 8200, rising to the rank of captain.

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But what is Unit 8200? Put simply, it is the centerpiece of Israel's hi-tech global spying, hacking, and cyberwarfare apparatus. Responsible for covert operations, spying, surveillance and cyberwarfare, since October 7, 2023, the group has been at the forefront of the world’s attention. It is widely identified as the organization behind the infamous pager attack on Lebanon, which left at least nine dead and around 3,000 people injured. Unit 8200 has also constructed an artificial intelligence-powered kill list for Gaza, suggesting tens of thousands of individuals (including women and children) for assassination. This software was the primary targeting mechanism the IDF used in the early months of its attack on the densely populated strip. Using gigantic amounts of data compiled on Palestinians by tracking their every move through face recognition cameras monitoring their calls, messages, emails and personal data, Unit 8200 has created a dystopian dragnet that it uses to surveil, harass and suppress Palestinians. Unit 8200 compiles dossiers on every Palestinian, including their medical history, sex lives and search histories, so that this information can be used for extortion or blackmail later. If, for example, an individual is cheating on their spouse, desperately needs a medical operation, or is secretly homosexual, this can be used as leverage to turn civilians into informants and spies for Israel. One former Unit 8200 operative said that as part of his training, he was assigned to memorize different Arabic words for “gay” so that he could listen out for them in conversations. Unit 8200 operatives have gone on to create some of the world’s most downloaded apps and many of the most infamous spying programs, including Pegasus, which was used to surveil tens of thousands of activists, journalists, and politicians around the world. The Israeli government authorized the sale of Pegasus to the Central Intelligence Agency, as well as some of the most authoritarian governments on the planet. This included Saudi Arabia, who used the software to spy on Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi before he was assassinated by Saudi agents in Türkiye.

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That is why it is so inappropriate for big tech companies to hire Unit 8200 agents. Among those companies is Google. My investigation revealed at least 99 former Unit 8200 spies in Google's ranks. One notable example is Google's Head of Strategy and Operations, Gavriel Goidel. Between 2010 and 2016, Goidel served in Unit 8200, rising to become Head of Learning at the organization, leading a large team of operatives who sifted through intelligence data to “understand patterns of hostile activists”, in his own words, transmitting that information to superiors. Whether this included any of the over 1000 Gazan civilians Israel killed during their 2014 bombardment of Gaza is unknown. https://www.mintpressnews.com/revealed-former-israeli-spies-working-top-jobs-google-facebook-amazon/282413/

Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft Hundreds of agents from Israeli spying organization Unit 8200 are now employed in top roles at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon. mintpressnews.com

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Perhaps more alarmingly, Microsoft appears to be actively recruiting from the regiment, hiring people straight from Unit 8200 ranks, without even a career break in between. My investigation found at least 166 former Unit 8200 agents working for Microsoft. https://www.mintpressnews.com/revealed-former-israeli-spies-working-top-jobs-google-facebook-amazon/282413/

Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft Hundreds of agents from Israeli spying organization Unit 8200 are now employed in top roles at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon. mintpressnews.com

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Even TikTok, long slammed as a pro-Hamas, anti-Israel platform, has recently begun hiring former Unit 8200 agents to run its affairs. Reut Medalion is a particularly notable case in point. Medalion enjoyed a long career at Unit 8200, serving as an intelligence commander and later becoming head of its cybersecurity operations team. In the wake of Israel’s attack on Gaza, she moved to New York City to work as a global incident manager for TikTok’s trust and safety division. Considering the events going on in the world at the time, it is fair to wonder with what sorts of “global incidents” is she helping TikTok. One also has to wonder what sort of pressures TikTok is under, and if they relate at all to hires like these.

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For the full investigation into TikTok's ties to Unit 8200, see here: https://www.mintpressnews.com/288710-tiktok-isnt-anti-israel-its-hired-unit-8200-agents-to-run-its-affairs/288710/

TikTok isn’t anti-Israel: It’s Hired Unit 8200 Agents to Run its Affairs A MintPress News study has unearthed a network of former agents of Israeli spying agency Unit 8200 working at TikTok, a company charged with supposedly being a Chinese-owned hub of anti-Semitic content., Chinese influence TikTok, Israeli spying influence TikTok, Project Texas TikTok, TikTok anti-Palestine bias, TikTok former CIA hires, TikTok Israel content moderation, TikTok Israeli intelligence hires, TikTok pro-Palestine suppression, TikTok U.S. government ties, Unit 8200 TikTok controversy, mintpressnews.com

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If this wasn't bad enough, Unit 8200 agents could also be writing your news about the Middle East. My investigation uncovered a number of Israeli spies working in America's top newsrooms. https://www.mintpressnews.com/revealed-israel-unit-8200-spies-american-media/288457/

Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing America's News Media personalities like Barak Ravid, an ex-Israeli spy turned Washington journalist, play a key role in shaping media coverage that protects Israeli military actions and influences unwitting American audiences., Barak Ravid, Barak Ravid spy, Biden administration, Israel-Palestine conflict, Israeli intelligence, Israeli media influence, Media Manipulation, media whitewashing, pro-Israel bias, U.S. media bias, U.S.-Israel relations, UNIT 8200, White House press corps, mintpressnews.com

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A case in point is Barak Ravid, who, last year, won the prestigious White House Press Correspondents’ Award “for overall excellence in White House coverage”—one of the highest awards in American journalism. There's one problem: Ravid is an Israeli spy. Or at least he was. And it was only in 2023 that he announced he was no longer serving in Unit 8200's reserve forces. Ravid has been a key tool in the laundering of Israeli and US government talking points into the media. He also doesn't hide his open disgust for Palestinians, and has retweeted posts calling them "PaliNazis", as @zei_squirrel explores here:

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this is amazing. Barak Ravid, who is considered by the Western media class to be the greatest most objective neutral "journalist" on the ongoing Gaza genocide even though he served in Israeli military intelligence and constantly launders Israeli propaganda, is now openly

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Other former Unit 8200 spies who went on to have influential media careers include Shachar Peled and Tal Heinrich, who CNN hired to produce political news (including about 🇮🇱/🇵🇸) for American audiences. Heinrich left CNN and is now the official spokesperson of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, lol.

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Sticking with CNN for a second, don't you think it is crazy that their current Middle East reporter was an official IDF spokesperson? How blatant do you want to be?

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@MintPressNews Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has also labeled WhatsApp a spying tool for Western nations, and suggested deleting Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp from your devices.

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@MintPressNews Facebook is also teeming with CIA agents. My investigation found dozens of top spooks employed in some of the most politically sensitive positions at the platform, effectively deciding what billions see (and don't see) in their newsfeeds. https://www.mintpressnews.com/meet-ex-cia-agents-deciding-facebook-content-policy/281307/

Meet the Ex-CIA Agents Deciding Facebook's Content Policy Facebook has recruited dozens of individuals from the CIA to highly politically sectors such as trust, security and content moderation. mintpressnews.com

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@MintPressNews You'd never guess from this official FB interview with its Head of Content Regulation that this guy was one of the highest ranking members of the CIA In 2019, Aaron Berman left his position at the CIA to become a top Facebook manager, despite zero relevant qualifications

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Aaron, a product policy manager at Facebook for two years, states his team writes the rules for Facebook, addressing safety and security standards. He acknowledges the difficulty in pleasing everyone when rules aren't clear, especially concerning content moderation. Transparency is crucial in balancing harmful content and protecting free speech. He believes discomfort is natural when drawing the line on content, as a small percentage spreading harmful content can negatively impact the majority. Currently, they develop rules and policies without regulation, navigating the space as best they can. Aaron suggests regulation could help define acceptable and unacceptable content, providing standardized guidelines for platforms. He feels technology has outpaced legislation and regulation, and a standardized approach would help platforms across the board. Regulation can help better define the balance of those rules.
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Speaker 0: My name is Aaron. I've been with Facebook for two years now, and I'm a product policy manager. Speaker 1: What does your job entail? We're part of the team that writes the rules for Facebook. If something violates our standards for safety and security, what Facebook could, should, can do. You and your team are faced with very important decisions, especially when it comes to content. There's very little agreement whether we should be leaving more content up, taking more content down with any particular rule or issue that we're looking at where something has come up where the rules are not 100% clear, we're not gonna make everybody happy. How does your team work on that? Transparency is incredibly important in the work that I do. How do we think about the balance between harmful content and protecting from the speech? It's a balance. Does it ever make you feel uncomfortable to be put in a position where you're having to draw the line? Yes. And I think it should make me uncomfortable and all of us who do this work. If 99% of the people are expressing themselves, sharing their family photos, exchanging ideas, point 001% are encouraging violence or spreading harmful content that can ruin the thing for everybody. These decisions can have real effects on people. We are developing rules and policies without regulation. We're really navigating that space as best we can. Why would updating regulations help you? Regulation can help us better define what is acceptable and what's not. I think a standardized approach would help platforms all across the board actually give us guidelines where right now there's very few. Technology has changed so quickly. We need the legislative and regulatory space to catch up. Regulation can help us better define what the balance of those rules should be.

@AlanRMacLeod - Alan MacLeod

It is a similar story on Reddit, where one day in 2017, the company hired Jessica Ashooh to become its Director of Policy, giving her huge control over what was allowed on the platform, and what would be suppressed. To say the decision was a surprise is a huge understatement, as Ashooh had no relevant qualifications and expertise. In fact, her primary achievement before that was as a high government official. In May 2017, she suddenly quit her job at the Deputy Director of the Atlantic Council (NATO) Middle East Task Force. There, she had been overseeing the US' dirty war in Syria, which led to the overthrow of Bashar Al-Assad and the founder and head of Al-Qaeda in Syria becoming president. She was then parachuted into Reddit, and rapidly changed the direction of the site. My investigation: https://www.mintpressnews.com/jessica-ashooh-reddit-national-security-state-plant/277639/

Jessica Ashooh: The Taming of Reddit and the National Security State Plant Tabbed to Do It Exploring the troubling background of Reddit Director of Policy Jessica Ashooh, her links to a dictatorship and hawkish think tanks. mintpressnews.com

@AlanRMacLeod - Alan MacLeod

@MintPressNews The bottom line in all this is social media apps and communications devices are not neutral, but massive, silent battlegrounds. We give these apps incredible amounts of our data, and we have to be extremely wary of what it is being used for.

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@MintPressNews (If you've liked this thread, drop me a follow, a subscription, or just like and share the links provided). https://www.mintpressnews.com/revealed-former-israeli-spies-working-top-jobs-google-facebook-amazon/282413/

Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft Hundreds of agents from Israeli spying organization Unit 8200 are now employed in top roles at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon. mintpressnews.com
AlanRMacLeod
Posted - March 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Headlines like this should be used in any future genocide trials to prove complicity. https://t.co/tUSWRpnoDN

AlanRMacLeod
Posted - December 25, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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Somebody better put "winter" on trial for crimes against humanity. https://t.co/F7uh5nwVVx

AlanRMacLeod
Posted - December 24, 2024 at 11:52 PM
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What a headline 🇵🇸 https://t.co/aGiSdGAlIQ

AlanRMacLeod
Posted - November 14, 2024 at 11:09 PM
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BREAKING: Today, the United Nations voted 170-6 on "The Right of the Palestinian People to Self-Determination". Those voting against: 🇺🇸United States 🇮🇱Israel 🇦🇷Argentina 🇵🇾Paraguay 🇫🇲Micronesia 🇳🇷Nauru https://t.co/VpKEiWKnFG

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Posted - October 22, 2024 at 10:15 AM
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"This article is more than 10 years old" https://t.co/gdtkHwV1aG

AlanRMacLeod
Posted - October 15, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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What is the most insane argument you've ever heard? https://t.co/HurwcJAcg3

AlanRMacLeod
Posted - September 3, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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What kind of psychotic, genocidal nonsense is this? https://t.co/2Tanw2C8aI

AlanRMacLeod
Posted - August 30, 2024 at 3:12 AM
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Absolutely shameful use of the passive voice, here. https://t.co/aJuKvDianv

AlanRMacLeod
Posted - August 13, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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You would never guess from this Daily Mail headline that the Muslim guy pictured is actually the hero, and stopped the attacker killing more people. Do you think this was deliberate? https://t.co/TVILU4oXMi

AlanRMacLeod
Posted - June 21, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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Destroyed by who, BBC? https://t.co/YULeQyicfk

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Posted - February 29, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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It's absolutely surreal to see -- in real time -- virtually the entire Western media pretend they don't know who just carried out a massacre of 100+ starving civilians. https://t.co/h9dpQOnBSj

AlanRMacLeod
Posted - February 29, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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The IDF just committed one of the worst massacres in modern history. But if you rely on US media, you wouldn't even know that from their headlines. https://t.co/KvH242sDvu

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Posted - January 7, 2024 at 9:02 PM
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If anyone thinks this stuff is remotely new, here's a story from 2004...🇮🇱🇵🇸 https://t.co/TL6lGUnU3S

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Posted - December 20, 2023 at 11:46 PM
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I've revised your headline, @WashingtonPost. I've conducted an investigation revealing the top 10 US politicians who received the most money from the Israel lobby. Number 1 may be unexpected.

@AlanRMacLeod - Alan MacLeod

Fixed your headline for you, @WashingtonPost

@AlanRMacLeod - Alan MacLeod

New investigation from me: Find out the 10 US politicians who have taken the most cash from the Israel lobby. (At the risk of sounding clickbaity, number 1 might surprise you). https://www.mintpressnews.com/blood-money-top-ten-politicians-taking-most-israel-money-israel-lobby/286491/

Blood Money: The Top Ten Politicians Taking the Most Israel Lobby Cash In this investigation, MintPress News breaks down the ten largest individual recipients of pro-Israel cash, exposing the links between the Israel lobby and the movers and shakers in Washington, D.C. mintpressnews.com
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Posted - October 16, 2023 at 9:29 PM
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A local doctor describes what it is like working with no water and precious little electricity and calls for help from the world.

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The speaker urgently appeals for help in Gaza, where the ongoing conflict has resulted in casualties and affected the hospital. With over 2,500 people seeking refuge there, the staff and civilians are in dire need. The speaker emphasizes that this plea is not limited to any specific group but extends to all humans. They highlight the lack of medical supplies, gas, food, and medication, emphasizing the urgent need to stop the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
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Speaker 0: The casualties. This will affect the, admitted people in the hospital. In the hospital, we don't only have patients. We don't only have the casualties that we have treated. We have many civilians. They came to the hospital to found a safe place. We have more than 2,500 people who are in the hospital. So this will affect the staff. This will affect our world. This is an urgent appeal. Please, if you are a human, I'm not calling the Arabs. I'm not calling them Muslim countries only. If you are a human, please this is an urgent appeal. Please stop this. Save Gaza. Please support Gaza. We have no medical The supplies. We have no gas, no food, no medication. We have nothing. This is an urgent appeal. Please stop this humanitarian crisis.
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Posted - October 16, 2023 at 9:06 PM
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Breaking: Israel has again ordered staff at the Kuwaiti hospital in Gaza to abandon their patients or face the consequences. "We will not leave the hospital–except to heaven," said the hospital director. Sirens blare to show the doctors haven't left.

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Posted - October 7, 2023 at 2:35 PM
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If you're wondering why Palestinians are rising up all of a sudden, it's probably got a lot to do with this:

AlanRMacLeod
Posted - October 7, 2023 at 9:52 PM
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@AlanRMacLeod - Alan MacLeod

They never show you this map on the news. That's because it provides the crucial context necessary to anyone wanting to understand the Israel/Palestine situation.

AlanRMacLeod
Posted - October 7, 2023 at 8:03 PM
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Israeli jets level the Palestine Tower, one of the largest buildings in Gaza. The tower had more than 100 apartments, plus offices of media outlets. A clear war crime.

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Posted - February 27, 2022 at 4:37 PM
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European media coverage of the Ukraine conflict has sparked controversy. Reports emphasize the shock of witnessing violence in a supposedly civilized European city. Commentators highlight the appearance of the victims, emphasizing their European features. The use of powerful weapons in Europe is deemed unthinkable. The contrast with conflicts in the Middle East is emphasized, raising questions about Europe's response. The media's focus on the victims' resemblance to Europeans and their access to modern technology is seen as indicative of biased reporting.

@AlanRMacLeod - Alan MacLeod

[Thread] The most racist Ukraine coverage on TV News. 1. The BBC - “It’s very emotional for me because I see European people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed” - Ukraine’s Deputy Chief Prosecutor, David Sakvarelidze https://t.co/m0LB0m00Wg

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I feel emotional witnessing the loss of European people with blue eyes and blond hair being killed, including innocent children. The perpetrators of these killings are the Russians, who are responsible for these tragic events.
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Speaker 0: I mean, I'm sorry. It's very emotional for me, because I see European people with blue eyes and blond hair being killed. Children being killed every day with Russians, the Russians, the Russians, the Russians, the Russians, the

@AlanRMacLeod - Alan MacLeod

2. CBS News "This isn't Iraq or Afghanistan...This is a relatively civilized, relatively European city" - CBS foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata https://t.co/s7sxZrMzM9

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With the Russians entering, the situation has drastically changed. Many people are fleeing the city, and more will follow. People are seeking refuge in bomb shelters. This city is not like Iraq or Afghanistan, where conflict has been ongoing for years. It is a relatively civilized and European city, where such events are unexpected and undesired. Despite this, the people are not in denial.
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Speaker 0: Now with the Russians marching in, it's changed, the calculus entirely. Tens of thousands of people have tried to, flee the city. There will be many more. People are hiding out in bomb shelters. But this isn't a place, with all due respect, you know, like Iraq or Afghanistan that has seen conflict raging for decades. You know, this is a relatively civilized, relatively European, I have to choose those words carefully too, city where you wouldn't expect that or hope that it's going to happen. So so it's partly human nature, but they are not in denial.

@AlanRMacLeod - Alan MacLeod

3. Al-Jazeera "What's compelling is looking at them, the way they are dressed. These are prosperous, middle-class people. These are not obviously refugees trying to get away from the Middle East...or North Africa. They look like any European family that you'd live next door to." https://t.co/LnopOTaDrA

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The video shows pictures of refugees in Ukraine who are trying to escape the country. These refugees appear to be middle-class individuals and not from war-torn areas in the Middle East or North Africa. They look like ordinary European families that you would find living next door.
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Speaker 0: Population. As you're talking to us, Matthew, we're playing in the latest pictures of some of the refugees trying to get on trains or trying to get out of Ukraine. And what's compelling is just looking at them the way they're dressed. These are prosperous I'm going use the expression, these are prosperous middle class people. These are not obviously refugees trying to get away from areas in the Middle East that are still in a big state of war, these are not people trying to get away from areas in North Africa. They look like any European family that you would live next door to?

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4. BFM TV (France) "We are in the 21st century, we are in a European city and we have cruise missile fire as though we were in Iraq or Afghanistan, can you imagine!?” https://t.co/SzSlJJ9JfR

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5. The Daily Telegraph This time, war is wrong because the people look like us and have Instagram and Netflix accounts. It's not in a poor, remote country any more. - Daniel Hannan https://t.co/QqOoyWvpTg

@AlanRMacLeod - Alan MacLeod

6. ITV (UK) "The unthinkable has happened...This is not a developing, third world nation; this is Europe!" https://t.co/Bot92XT9vN

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In Europe, something unimaginable has occurred. Robert Moore reporting from the studio.
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Speaker 0: Now the unthinkable has happened to them. And this is not a developing third world nation. This is Europe. It's Robert Moore here in the studio.

@AlanRMacLeod - Alan MacLeod

7. BFM TV (France) (again) "It's an important question. We’re not talking here about Syrians fleeing...We're talking about Europeans." https://t.co/uclymWEXZw

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The speaker discusses the importance of Poland and the issue of Europeans fleeing in their cars to save their lives. They differentiate this situation from Syrians fleeing the bombings of the Syrian regime supported by Vladimir Putin. The speaker emphasizes that this matter will be significant for Europe.
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Speaker 0: La Pologne parce que ça va être une question importante et je ne parle pas, on ne parle pas là de syriens qui fuient, qui fuient les bombardements du régime syrien soutenu par Vladimir Poutine. On parle d'européens qui partent leurs voitures, qui ressemblent à nos voitures, qui prennent la route et essaient juste de sauver leur vie quoi. Et ça, c'est une question qui va être importante pour l'Europe.

@AlanRMacLeod - Alan MacLeod

8. If you speak French, sample from the racism buffet on offer. https://t.co/vJMKGr4qVQ

@caissesdegreve - Caisses de grève

50 nuances de racisme

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In this video, the speakers discuss the situation of refugees in a European city. They mention the presence of missile attacks, comparing it to Iraq or Afghanistan. They also talk about the quality of the immigrants, stating that they are intellectuals and Europeans with a similar culture. They differentiate between Syrians fleeing from bombings and Europeans leaving in their cars. The speakers believe that this immigration will be beneficial and of high quality. They emphasize that these migrants will not become permanent residents but rather remain in a temporary immigration status.
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Speaker 0: On voit bien ce qu'il fuit et il n'est pas question de dire est-ce que vous êtes vraiment des des réfugiés On est au vingt-et-unième siècle, on est dans une ville européenne et on a des tirs de missiles de croisière comme si on était en Irak ou en Afghanistan, vous imaginez. Speaker 1: Ce sera sans doute une immigration de grande qualité en revanche. Ce sont des intellectuels. Speaker 0: Parce que ce sont des européens de culture, même si on n'est pas dans l'Union européenne, on est avec une population qui est très proche, très voisine. Speaker 1: On ne parle pas là de syriens qui fuient, qui fuient les bombardements Du régime syrien soutenu par Vladimir Poutine, on parle d'Européens qui partent leurs voitures, qui rassemblent à nos voitures. Il y a une différence entre les ukrainiens qui encore une fois participent de notre espace civilisationnel avec des des populations qui appartiennent à d'autres civilisations. On aura une immigration de grande qualité dont on pourra tirer le profit. Speaker 0: Nous ne sommes pas face à des migrants qui vont passer dans une logique d'immigration.

@AlanRMacLeod - Alan MacLeod

9. Guy on Spanish TV news channel La Sexta: "These aren't like the other children that we've become accustomed to see suffer on TV, these children are blond with blue eyes, [so] this is very important" https://t.co/1jX2UuRKxv

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Over four hundred children have been left at the borders. We are used to seeing suffering children on television, but it is important to note that these children have blonde hair and blue eyes.
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En las fronteras se han quedado muchísimos niños, más de cuatrocientos niños a la historia de la madrugada cuando estamos pasando con un pequeño rebaño, pero no hay niño que estamos acostumbrado a ver el sufrir en televisión, sino el Rubio con los ojos azules, eso es muy importante,

@AlanRMacLeod - Alan MacLeod

10. Star UK media personality Matthew Wright on ITV's flagship show, "This Morning": "The US has used [a thermobaric bomb] before in Afghanistan. But the idea of it being used in Europe is stomach-churning." https://t.co/qcQ2ARUlYq

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There are rumors of a thermobaric bomb, similar to a vacuum bomb, being used in Europe. The US has used this type of bomb in Afghanistan before. However, the idea of it being used in Europe is uncertain.
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Speaker 0: There's rumors of a thermobaric bomb, which is sort of vacuum bomb, which, to be fair, the US was used before in Afghanistan. The idea of being used in Europe is is is somewhat churn.

@AlanRMacLeod - Alan MacLeod

11. The New York Times. On US veterans going to Ukraine, it not-so-subtly suggests that Middle Easterners love dictatorships. "After years of serving in smoldering operations, trying to spread democracy IN PLACES THAT ONLY HAD A TEPID INTEREST IN IT". https://t.co/Ok6WlpORAG

@AlanRMacLeod - Alan MacLeod

12. CNN “It’s one thing for sarin gas to be used on people in far away Syria who are Muslim and of a different culture. What is Europe going to do when it is on European soil, done to Europeans?” - Julia Ioffe (ty to @Normanjam671 for the video). https://t.co/1TpL1a55fM

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NATO's response to the use of Sarin gas in Syria raises questions about their actions if such an attack were to occur on European soil. Will they intervene or remain passive? And if they do intervene, how far are they willing to go? The possibility of a direct confrontation with Vladimir Putin looms.
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Speaker 0: Operation. So what is NATO gonna do if you know, it's one thing for Sarin gas to be used on people in faraway Syria who are Muslim and who are of a different culture. What is Europe gonna do when it's on European soil done to Europeans? Are they going to intervene? Are they gonna keep sit standing back? And if they do intervene, how far are they willing to go? And are they willing to have a direct confrontation with Vladimir Putin, which is what he seems to
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