About a month ago the Zionist censorship machine led by depraved scumbag Liora Rez and her “StopAntiSemitism” account that trawls random people’s social media, found an Instagram account of a neurologist who had shared one of my posts. This led to a Zionist mass doxing and smear campaign to have her fired, and soon she was forced to resign. A deluge of death threats by Zionists went along with this of course.

Recently I got an email from a local reporter doing a story on this, asking me for comment, and I sent her the response added in the image, with the request to forward my message to her. This was done, and soon after Michelle Bravo sent me a very kind email back. Here is the email I sent in response to the reporter:

This is the only way these Zionist Gestapo tactics can be stopped: solidarity with those who are targeted by it. If those are targeted are not subject to isolation, ostracizing, and, crucially, financial and material damages to their lives, then the weapon is made impotent. Then it no longer carries any weight at all. In fact, being targeted by it can be used as a badge of honor: Look, the Zionist Gestapo is coming after me, this proves that I am actually principled and have minimum morality, ethics and decency as a person. Just like Ms Rachel and all the others who are the targets of this deranged Liora Rez scumbag.

For everyone else who knows just how disgusting and vile Liora Rez is, and btw as I said in my email response she is funded by Zionist billionaire scum like Adam Milstein, you know that this vast Zionist censorship industrial complex, which goes against everyone no matter what your ideological background or politics, must always in all circumstances be opposed. Just like they are indiscriminate in who they target, we must be indiscriminate in upholding the principle that these scum cannot be allowed to censor, blacklist and fire people on behalf of their precious genocidal Israeli death and rape-cult, the sole thing they are loyal to.

To that end, I ask you all to donate to Michelle Bravo. I told her that she incurred a lot of costs due to this Zionist censorship campaign, and she should pursue any means she can to fight it. She made a Gofundme for this purpose, and I encourage you all to donate however much you can to it. https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-dr-bravo-against-unjust-accusations

In current news we could hear that the USA wants to gather a lot of data from everyone entering. This includes data of other people who aren't entering the USA, like family, maybe even contacts on the phone.

Wouldn't this mean that you need to invest a lot of time to get consent or, alternatively, pay a fine on return from the USA?

In the case of the fine, how high would it be? And if you travel to the USA again, will the fine stay the same, now that you do break the law knowingly/intentionally?

European nations are struggling to compensate for halted US aid to Ukraine, with a significant drop in overall support in 2025. While some countries like France, Germany, and the UK have increased contributions, Italy and Spain have reduced or stopped aid. The European Commission aims to use frozen Russian assets for a major Ukraine loan package, but the plan faces resistance, particularly from Belgium.

Report from Burmese media with photos of the damage: https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/hospital-massacre-in-mrauk-u-junta-airstrike-kills-33-injures-76.html

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"We are recording an actual increase in the de-sovereignization of part of Russian territory in favor of China. This primarily concerns the use of resource-rich lands and the sale of scarce resources to China," Ukraine's President is cited after a report by the Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Oleh Ivashchenko.

"We are also recording that China is taking steps to intensify cooperation with Russia, particularly in the field of the defense industry. Intelligence services of our partners have similar information."

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In a related report, U.S. outlet Newsweek cites Patrick Cronin, the Asia-Pacific security chair at the Hudson Institute: “Xi Jinping views Russia as an indispensable strategic partner in constructing a post-U.S.–led world order.

“Reconciling these competing impulses points toward a strategy of slow, steady accretions of effective sovereignty, punctuated by performative shows of solidarity, from parades to joint military drills, that mask an emerging asymmetry," Cronin adds.

Cronin said however that China "clearly appears poised to expand its influence across its shared borderlands through a mix of brazen cyber intrusions and opportunistic moves to anchor itself inside Russia’s increasingly enfeebled economy."

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The stricter guidelines are part of the EU’s work to protect its economy as Europe grapples with US President Donald Trump’s tariff war and China’s restrictions on the critical materials that fuel industrial production.

Earlier this month, the EU issued its first economic security doctrine, which stressed that the bloc must ensure inbound investments don’t expose critical sectors to hostile ownership. It also insisted such investments should bring added value to the EU and not hollow out the bloc’s technological edge.

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The new screening rules update a mechanism first implemented in 2020. They set a minimum scope for review that includes so-called dual-use items, which can have civilian and military uses. The scope also covers military equipment and critical technologies such as artificial intelligence and semiconductors.

Additionally, the scope includes critical entities in energy, transport and digital infrastructure, electoral infrastructure, and some financial entities, such as central securities depositories.

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Christabelle, a 10-year-old Congolese girl, said she was raped alongside her mother by M23 insurgents in February. The child passed out and awoke in excruciating pain.

17-year-old Christelle said she was gang raped by at least seven M23 soldiers during the battle for Goma in January. She needed surgery to recover, but the pain was just beginning. Neighbors called her a “compromised woman” whom no one would marry. Her parents sent her away to neighboring Burundi. “I don’t have family. I can’t go to school. I can’t work. They destroyed my life,” she said of her rapists.

Celine, age 9, said 10 M23 soldiers burst into her home in the middle of the night. “They stabbed my mom to death in front of me,” she said, shaking violently at the memory. Celine said the soldiers tried to rape her, but got frustrated because she was so tiny, so they beat her instead. She and her uncle fled to Burundi. “I couldn’t even bury my mom,” she said.

M23 and other armed combatants are using sexual violence as a weapon of war in Congo. Reuters spoke with 46 rape victims, nearly half of them children. One was so badly injured that two surgeries have only begun to repair the damage. It’s a tactic of terror meant to destroy families and communities, a veteran doctor who works with rape survivors told Reuters

Second-highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism makes apparent reference to succession of exiled spiritual leader Dalai Lama

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This year, sales of Chinese-made cars across the EU, UK, and EFTA are expected to exceed 700,000. This is up significantly from the 408,000 that were sold in 2024.

Rather than dampen demand, the tariffs have simply redirected it. While the added fees specifically target EVs and extended-range electric vehicles, hybrid and internal combustion engine (ICE) models remain subject only to the base 10 percent tariff.

Whereas EVs accounted for 44 percent of Chinese car sales in Europe from January-October 2024, this share has dropped to 34 percent in 2025.

Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the “biggest waves of censorship” on its platforms in years.

The takedowns and restrictions began in October and targeted the Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp accounts of more than 50 organisations worldwide, some serving tens of thousands of people – in what appears to be a growing push by Meta to limit reproductive health and queer content across its platforms. Many of these were from Europe and the UK, however the bans also affected groups serving women in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

Repro Uncensored, an NGO tracking digital censorship against movements focused on gender, health and justice, said that it had tracked 210 incidents of account removals and severe restrictions affecting these groups this year, compared with 81 last year.

Meta denied an escalating trend of censorship. “Every organisation and individual on our platforms is subject to the same set of rules, and any claims of enforcement based on group affiliation or advocacy are baseless,” it said in a statement, adding that its policies on abortion-related content had not changed.

A child bride who was due to be executed this month in Iran over the death of her husband has had her life spared by his parents, who were paid the equivalent of £70,000 in exchange for their forgiveness.

Goli Kouhkan, 25, has been on death row in Gorgan central prison in northern Iran for the past seven years. At the age of 18 she was arrested over allegedly participating in the killing of her abusive husband, Alireza Abil, in May 2018, and sentenced to qisas – retribution-in-kind.

Forced to marry her cousin at 12, Kouhkan became pregnant at 13 and gave birth to a son. She suffered physical and emotional abuse for years. On the day her husband was killed, Kouhkan found him beating their son, then aged five. She called her husband’s cousin, Mohammad Abil, for help. When he arrived a fight broke out which resulted in the death of her husband. According to Iran Human Rights, Abil remains on death row.

Kouhkan’s lawyer confirmed in a post on Instagram on 9 December that the original sum of 10bn tomans had been reduced to 8bn tomans and that amount had been raised through donations. In a video published by Mizan News Agency, Kouhkan’s parents-in-law are seen signing documents.

China, by contrast, has a close ​relationship with the Palestinians and has recognised a Palestinian state since 1988. Taiwan has said it does not plan to recognise a Palestinian state.

Taiwan, whose government rejects Beijing’s sovereignty claims, has been hosting Israeli officials and lawmakers.

In October, Mr Wu met director-general Yinon Aaroni of Israel’s Ministry of Welfare and Social Affairs ​in Taipei while, in September, President Lai met six Israeli lawmakers at his office.

Mr Lai told a dinner in Taiwan ​of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobbying group, that Israel’s determination and capacity to defend its territory provide a “valuable model” for Taiwan, and cited the biblical story of David against Goliath.

Big tech showing its true colors.

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