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“What we’re doing is very big; we are bringing wealth back to America. That’s a big thing. There is a period of transition; it takes a little time” — President Donald Trump, 3/9/25 interview with Maria Bartiromo
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Elon and DOGE have done us well.
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Gunther Eagleman™
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“Elon Musk found hundreds of billions of dollars worth of fake contracts” - President Trump
Thank you Elon and DOGE!
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Holy shit @elonmusk 🤣
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Clandestine
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This clip from MSNBC is the exact reason why so many Americans are unable to properly grasp the war in Ukraine.
The American People have been brainwashed for decades the think that Russia are the “bad guys”, simply because the movies portrayed them as bad guys since the Cold War.
The brainwashing is so thick, that dipshits like this guy on MSNBC have convinced themselves that the Ukrainians are “noble” and “more American than us”. Meanwhile,in reality, they are one of, if not THE, most corrupt nation on Earth, with literal Nazi forces in their military, one of the largest human/drug trafficking hotbeds on Earth, and they are laundering hundreds of billions of our tax dollars.
Then this guy brings up how the US need to protect our allies like in WW2. Well this might come as a surprise to him, butRussia were our allies in WW2, and many Ukrainians chose to fight for the Nazis in WW2 via the 14th Waffen, and Bandera’s pro-Nazi movement in Ukraine in the 40’s sought to align with Nazi Germany.
This clip is a brilliant microcosm of the overall complete lack of understanding in America about this conflict and how it started. The majority of Americans are basing their positions off of decades worth of Cold War propaganda, compounded with recent propaganda. All of it based on lies.
If you are convinced that we must have WW3 and send all our money to Ukraine, because the TV said the Russians are bad, then you are part of the problem.
https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1898792772208820394
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This is crazy!
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PeterSweden
@PeterSweden7
BREAKING: Romania has BANNED Calin Georgescu from running for President.
He won the first round of elections before they overturned it.
Now he is leading the polls again.
So now they simply banned him from running.
This is happening in an EU country by the way.
10:49 AM · Mar 9, 2025
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1898794109839569099
The horrifying rise of 'Bacha Bazi': How young Afghan boys from poor families are sold onto warlords, dressed up in skirts and make-up then forced to dance for groups of powerful men - before being sexually abused
In the dimly lit rooms of Afghanistan's private gatherings, young boys adorned in makeup and brightly coloured women's clothing are forced to dance for the amusement of powerful men.
But these boys - some as young as ten - are not merely dancers.
They are victims of Bacha Bazi, an ancient practice that often turns them into sex slaves for Afghanistan's elite.
The barbaric tradition, whose name translates to 'boy play', has persisted for centuries, surviving empires, wars, and political upheavals.
Now, while Afghanistan's current Taliban leadership claim to oppose it, Bacha Bazi continues as an open secret.
A 2024 UK government report found that boys remain at high risk of commercial sexual exploitation through Bacha Bazi, with the practice thriving under the same warlords and power brokers who have ruled Afghan society for generations.
Though some boys reportedly volunteer, many are sold into this life by their own impoverished families desperate to get by.
Others are quite simply abducted, including by police officers - the very people supposed to prevent Bacha Bazi from resurging.
Victims often face further violence upon returning home, and the suspension of international aid to Afghanistan since the Taliban returned in 2021 has left them with little access to support or rehabilitation.
All this in a country where homosexuality attracts the death penalty and pederasty is supposedly punishable by long prison sentences.
A young Afghan Bacha Bazi is dressed by his 'owner' in a private party on November 22, 2008 in a small city in the north of Afghanistan
Dancing bacha (child) and the men admiring him, drawing by Sedoff from a painting by Vereshchagin from Journey through Central Asia, 1867-1868
Following the US¿s departure from Afghanistan in 2021, the tribal custom is now endemic again
A boy dances at an event in Afghanistan
The roots of Bacha Bazi stretch back to at least the 13th century and the practice has been widely documented by domestic and foreign intellectuals, historians and politicians visiting the region.
But its most infamous resurgence came during the Mujahideen's war against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
Afghan commanders who fought in the resistance were notorious for keeping young boys as their personal possessions, treating them as status symbols as well as objects of abuse.
When the Taliban first rose to power in the 1990s, they claimed one of their chief grievances was this 'perversion' among the warlords, and they outlawed the practice.
But after the Taliban was ousted in 2001 amid the US invasion of Afghanistan, the old power structures returned, and so did Bacha Bazi.
The foreign forces operating in Afghanistan were well aware of the heinous practice, but did little to intervene.
During the US occupation, American and British soldiers gave disturbing accounts of scenarios in which men they were ordered to work alongside routinely abused young boys.
One US Marine, Lance Corporal Gregory Buckley Jr., confided to his father that he could hear Afghan police officers raping boys on a military base at night.
'At night we can hear them screaming, but we're not allowed to do anything about it,' Buckley junior was reported as saying by his father.
The Marine was later gunned down by local Afghan forces his unit was tasked with training - one of many so-called 'green on blue' incidents that blighted US and coalition troops in Afghanistan.
Other Western soldiers told how their commanding officers warned them to 'look the other way' and ignore the rampant abuse of children because confronting Afghan allies about the practice could damage diplomatic relations.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14472279/The-horrifying-rise-Bacha-Bazi-young-Afghan-boys-poor-families-sold-warlords-dressed-skirts-make-forced-dance-groups-powerful-men-sexually-abused.html
The horror of the situation was laid bare when Dan Quinn, a former US Special Forces captain, was relieved of his command and pulled from Afghanistan for attacking an American-backed Afghan militia commander who had kept a boy chained to his bed as a sex slave.
'The reason we were here is because we heard the terrible things the Taliban were doing to people, how they were taking away human rights,' Quinn later said.
'But we were putting people into power who would do things that were worse than the Taliban.'
A boy is seen dancing in the mountains of Afghanistan
The barbaric tradition, whose name translates directly to 'boy play', has persisted for centuries and is deeply entrenched in the country's power structures
Following the US's departure from Afghanistan in 2021, the tribal custom is now endemic again
By 2015, the scale of the problem was undeniable.
A New York Times investigation revealed that child rape by government-affiliated Afghan commanders was so common that it became an open secret among US troops.
The Taliban, meanwhile, exploited Bacha Bazi to their own advantage, infiltrating US-backed Afghan police and military headquarters by sending in boys to entertain their enemies as Trojan Horse 'honey traps'.
These boys, once inside the American-allied Afghan law enforcement compounds, would either poison their abusers, shoot them, carry out suicide bombings - or simply open the gates for Taliban fighters to carry out deadly attacks of their own.
In one 2016 operation in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan province, this method led to the deaths of dozens of Afghan soldiers and police officers.
Meanwhile, in his harrowing documentary 'The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan', Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi exposed the ease with which men acquire these children.
Once young boys are sold by their families or abducted, many are harangued into harems and flogged by pimps and traffickers.
Some boys are kept effectively as personal property, with their owners wary of allowing other men to see the children for fear they would try to steal them away.
Others, however, are traded willingly as a commodity.
One powerful figure in the north of Afghanistan named Dastager, when asked how he selected a boy, responded chillingly: 'He should be attractive, good for dancing. Around 12 or 13, and good-looking.
'I tell their parents I will train them. I'll give the family money and tell them I'll look after him.'
The reality is far worse. That man admitted he had been with more than 2,000 boys, using them until they were no longer useful.
Another individual whose name was given as Mestary said that every military commander had a young companion as part of a sick game.
'I had a boy because every commander had one. There's competition amongst the commanders. Without one, I couldn't compete with the others.'
In 2024, the EU Agency for Asylum claimed: 'Afghan security forces, in particular the Afghan Local Police, reportedly recruited boys specifically to use them for Bacha Bazi in every province of the country.'
Once young boys are sold by their families or abducted, many are harangued into harems and flogged by pimps and traffickers
A young Afghan Batcha Bazi (Dancing Boy) performs a dance in a private party on November 22, 2008 in a small city in the north of Afghanistan
Survivors who have escaped speak of beatings, rape, and psychological torment, only to be cast out once they grow facial hair and are no longer considered desirable
With the US departure in 2021 and the Taliban's return to power, one might assume the practice has been stamped out once more.
Officially, it is illegal. In reality, it remains rampant.
Despite the Taliban's public stance against Bacha Bazi, reports indicate that many of its own members continue the practice.
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A 2024 US State Department report revealed that Taliban officials had engaged in sexual slavery, including employing child soldiers who were also victims of abuse.
The Taliban's own morality police - the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice - focus almost exclusively on policing women's behaviour, while crimes like Bacha Bazi continue in the shadows.
Many of the same men who were warlords before 2001 - former Mujahideen fighters, tribal leaders, and wealthy elites - still wield influence, even under Taliban rule.
And with Afghanistan now more isolated than ever, there is little external pressure to stop them.
Reports from human rights organisations indicate that boys are still being bought, sold, and raped - sometimes by the very figures who claim to uphold the Taliban's strict moral code.
Once in their captors' hands, the children are forced to wear women's clothing and subjected to systematic sexual abuse.
Photographs and videos that have surfaced online show boys at these gatherings, forced to perform in front of groups of men who later pass them around as objects of pleasure.
Survivors who have escaped speak of beatings, rape, and psychological torment, only to be cast out once they grow facial hair and are no longer considered desirable.
Many turn to prostitution, drug addiction, or suicide, unable to escape the trauma they have endured.
A report by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) said: 'The victims of bacha bazi suffer from serious psychological trauma as they often get raped.
'Such victims suffer from stress and a sort of distrust, hopelessness and pessimistic feeling. Bacha bazi results in fear among the children and feelings of revenge and hostility develop in their mind.'
In turn, many adolescent victims are said to grow up to have boy lovers of their own, repeating the cycle.
'In the absence of any services to recover or rehabilitate boys who are caught in this horrendous abuse, it's hard to know what happens to these children,' said Charu Lata Hogg, a London-based fellow at Chatham House, told MailOnline.
'We have heard anecdotal reports that many grow up to keep their own bachas, perpetuating the revolving door of abuse.'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14472279/The-horrifying-rise-Bacha-Bazi-young-Afghan-boys-poor-families-sold-warlords-dressed-skirts-make-forced-dance-groups-powerful-men-sexually-abused.html