Pardes Seleh @PardesSeleh
These people have been trying to destroy my life for the past week
because I shared a funny TikTok video that Ted Cruz retweeted. I don’t even know how to answer this. Is TikTok considered a “white supremacist forum”??
10:00 AM · May 24, 2021
https://twitter.com/PardesSeleh/status/1396828452163002378
(This was priorly unseen footage to me.)
Learn the truth: Capital Police Hold Doors Open on Jan 6th
45-sec vid
https://twitter.com/georgie87881196/status/1396546934664531972
As Anger Toward Belarus Mounts,
Recall the 2013 Forced Landing of Bolivia's Plane to Find Snowden
What Belarus did, while illegal, is not unprecedented. The dangerous tactic was pioneered by the same U.S. and E.U. officials now righteously condemning it.
Glenn Greenwald 52 min ago
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On board that Ryanair flight was a leading Belarusian opposition figure, 26-year-old Roman Protasevich, who, fearing arrest, had fled his country in 2019 to live in exile in neighboring Lithuania. The opposition figure had traveled to Athens to attend a conference on economics with Belarus’ primary opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and was attempting to return home to Lithuania when the plane was forcibly diverted.
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In 2013, the U.S. and key E.U. states pioneered the tactic just used by Lukashenko. They did so as part of a failed scheme to detain and arrest the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. That incident at the time caused global shock and outrage precisely because, eight years ago, it was truly an unprecedented assault on the values and conventions they are now invoking to condemn Belarus.
In July of that year, the democratically elected President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, had traveled to Russia for a routine international conference attended by countries which export natural gas. At the time of Morales’ trip, Edward Snowden was in the middle of a bizarre five-week ordeal where he was stranded in the international transit zone of Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, unable to board a flight to leave Russia or exit the airport to enter Russia.
On June 23, Hong Kong officials rejected a demand from the U.S. Government that they arrest Snowden and hand him over to the U.S. Hong Kong was the city Snowden chose to meet the two journalists he had selected (one of whom was me) because of what he regarded as the city's noble history of fighting against repression and for independence and free expression. When announcing their refusal to hand over Snowden, Hong Kong officials issued a remarkably defiant, even mocking statement explaining that Snowden had been permitted to leave Hong Kong “on his own accord.” That statement also accused the U.S. of having issued a legally improper and inaccurate extradition demand which they were duty-bound to reject, and then pointedly noted that the real crime requiring investigation was U.S. spying on the populations of the rest of the world.
Snowden thus left Hong Kong that day with the intent to fly to Moscow, then immediately board a flight to Cuba, and then proceed to his ultimate destination in a Latin American country — Bolivia or Ecuador — in order to seek asylum there. But even after then-President Barack Obama denied that the U.S. Government would be "wheeling and dealing” in order to get Snowden into U.S. custody — “I'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker,” he dismissively claimed during a June press conference — the U.S. Government was, in reality, doing everything in its power to prevent Snowden from evading the clutches of the U.S. Government.
Led by then-Vice President Joe Biden, U.S. officials warned every country in both Europe and South America said to be considering shelter for Snowden of grave consequences should they offer asylum to the whistleblower. Threats to Havana caused the Cuban government to rescind its commitment of safe passage they had issued to Snowden's lawyer. Under Biden 's pressure, Ecuador also reversed itself by proclaiming the safe passage document issued to Snowden was a mistake.
And on the day that Snowden had left Hong Kong, the U.S. State Department unilaterally cancelled his passport, which is why, upon landing in Moscow, he was barred from boarding his next international flight, destined for Havana. With the Russian government unable to allow him to board a flight due to his invalidated passport and with Snowden's asylum requests pending both with Russia and close to two dozen other states, he was forced to remain in the airport until August 1, when Moscow finally granted him temporary asylum. He has lived there ever since. This has always been a staggering irony of the Snowden story: the primary attack on him by U.S. officials to impugn his motives and patriotism is that he lives in Russia and thus likely cooperated with Russian authorities (a claim for which no evidence has ever been presented), when the reality is that Snowden would have left Russia eight years ago after a 30-minute stay in its airport had U.S. officials not used a series of maneuvers that barred him from leaving.
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https://greenwald.substack.com/p/as-anger-toward-belarus-mounts-recall
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1396847583855796231
America's Foreign Policy 'Experts' Are Projecting Their Own Failures Onto Jared Kushner
NewsWeek Opinion
For the past four years, there was no greater laughingstock in the American foreign policy cognoscenti than Jared Kushner. …
But the Young Pretender in charge of the Mideast portfolio is gone, and the mommies and daddies are back in charge, …
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Kushner-era policies—on Jerusalem, UNRWA, and regional diplomacy—were promised again and again to lead to an "explosion," but didn't. The return of the experts was supposed to improve lives and prospects for Israelis and Palestinians alike, but hasn't. In fact, it was the foreign policy intelligentsia's values and vision that have led to disaster.
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https://www.newsweek.com/americas-foreign-policy-experts-are-projecting-their-own-failures-jared-kushner-opinion-1593061
Governor Ron
DeSantis Signs Bill to Stop the Censorship of Floridians by Big Tech
Florida’s Big Tech Bill gives every Floridian the power to fight back against deplatforming and allows any person to sue Big Tech companies for up to $100,000 in damages. Today, we level the playing field between celebrity and citizen on social media.
https://twitter.com/GovRonDeSantis/status/1396854819130859535
flgov.com/2021/05/24/governor-ron-desantis-signs-bill-to-stop-the-censorship-of-floridians-by-big-tech/
(First use of #Bidinflation HashTag on twitter)
Proud American @Trump2Usa
#Bidinflation
8:17 PM · May 20, 2021·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/Trump2Usa/status/1395534135637200898