Chirone Shakti
@chirone.bsky.social
Astrologer, natural wellness advocate, green leftie, on Gubbi Gubbi land. Loves art, architecture, linguistics, and intelligent writing - journalism, history, the occasional novel.
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You must read @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on the latest “too big to fail” stock market shattering statements of the Tech Bros.
Alex Karp and Sam Altman in full head wagging denial mode should tell you all you need to know about the reckoning to come
broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie...
Alex Karp and Sam Altman in full head wagging denial mode should tell you all you need to know about the reckoning to come
broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie...
Peter Thiel Gets Out of Dodge
Yesterday, I published on "Great AI Bubble". Today, Silicon Valley's Dr Evil dumps his stock
broligarchy.substack.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:19 PM
You must read @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on the latest “too big to fail” stock market shattering statements of the Tech Bros.
Alex Karp and Sam Altman in full head wagging denial mode should tell you all you need to know about the reckoning to come
broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie...
Alex Karp and Sam Altman in full head wagging denial mode should tell you all you need to know about the reckoning to come
broligarchy.substack.com/p/peter-thie...
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At least 30 people killed in a US strike on a Yemeni migrant detention centre, says Houthi group - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-30-people-killed-us-strike-yemeni-migrant-detention-centre-says
At least 30 people killed in a US strike on a Yemeni migrant detention centre, says Houthi group
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www.middleeasteye.net
April 28, 2025 at 6:06 AM
At least 30 people killed in a US strike on a Yemeni migrant detention centre, says Houthi group - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/least-30-people-killed-us-strike-yemeni-migrant-detention-centre-says
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Israeli forces continue bombarding Gaza, as aid officials sound the alarm over “full-scale famine conditions” amid Israel’s blockade aje.io/18rnsl
April 27, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Israeli forces continue bombarding Gaza, as aid officials sound the alarm over “full-scale famine conditions” amid Israel’s blockade aje.io/18rnsl
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"Are you a Palestinian?"
"Yes"
"Goodbye"
Apartheid in Israel.
I wonder where else certain racial groups were treated as 2nd class citizens?
From Louis Theroux's new documentary The Settlers on the BBC until Israel forces them to remove it.
"Yes"
"Goodbye"
Apartheid in Israel.
I wonder where else certain racial groups were treated as 2nd class citizens?
From Louis Theroux's new documentary The Settlers on the BBC until Israel forces them to remove it.
April 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"Are you a Palestinian?"
"Yes"
"Goodbye"
Apartheid in Israel.
I wonder where else certain racial groups were treated as 2nd class citizens?
From Louis Theroux's new documentary The Settlers on the BBC until Israel forces them to remove it.
"Yes"
"Goodbye"
Apartheid in Israel.
I wonder where else certain racial groups were treated as 2nd class citizens?
From Louis Theroux's new documentary The Settlers on the BBC until Israel forces them to remove it.
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Student loans were designed to make sure that people could never escape poverty by education, instead all their extra wages go back to the billionaires to pay off debts that can never be paid.
Expect Student Loans to get far worse in every country.
They need to be abolished.
Expect Student Loans to get far worse in every country.
They need to be abolished.
April 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Student loans were designed to make sure that people could never escape poverty by education, instead all their extra wages go back to the billionaires to pay off debts that can never be paid.
Expect Student Loans to get far worse in every country.
They need to be abolished.
Expect Student Loans to get far worse in every country.
They need to be abolished.
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On April 17 each year, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day is commemorated to highlight the plight of those held in Israeli jails and their struggle for freedom under occupation.
Here’s why so many have ended up behind bars.
🔗: aje.io/28de9e
Here’s why so many have ended up behind bars.
🔗: aje.io/28de9e
April 17, 2025 at 10:19 AM
On April 17 each year, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day is commemorated to highlight the plight of those held in Israeli jails and their struggle for freedom under occupation.
Here’s why so many have ended up behind bars.
🔗: aje.io/28de9e
Here’s why so many have ended up behind bars.
🔗: aje.io/28de9e
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So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes.
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes
Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - Economic Crises and the Breakdown of Authoritarian Regimes
www.cambridge.org
April 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
So. I wrote a dissertation on how economic crises can lead to the breakdown of authoritarian regimes.
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
Here are three key point to keep in mind as you watch the news this week 🧵
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INSANE AUTUMN HEAT IN AUSTRALIA
Today again 43.5C at Carnarvon with the extreme heat expected to continue until last day of March
Nothing like this had ever happened before so late
Monthly record
Tmin 22.1 Albany
March Records also in INDONESIA
36.5 Palangakan Bun
36.0 Kaimana
Today again 43.5C at Carnarvon with the extreme heat expected to continue until last day of March
Nothing like this had ever happened before so late
Monthly record
Tmin 22.1 Albany
March Records also in INDONESIA
36.5 Palangakan Bun
36.0 Kaimana
March 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
INSANE AUTUMN HEAT IN AUSTRALIA
Today again 43.5C at Carnarvon with the extreme heat expected to continue until last day of March
Nothing like this had ever happened before so late
Monthly record
Tmin 22.1 Albany
March Records also in INDONESIA
36.5 Palangakan Bun
36.0 Kaimana
Today again 43.5C at Carnarvon with the extreme heat expected to continue until last day of March
Nothing like this had ever happened before so late
Monthly record
Tmin 22.1 Albany
March Records also in INDONESIA
36.5 Palangakan Bun
36.0 Kaimana
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And it isn’t even the biggest Trump story of today.
The IRS estimates DOGE has lost the US treasury more than half a trillion dollars.
That’s more than the entire wealth of Elon Musk before his wealth started to collapse.
The IRS estimates DOGE has lost the US treasury more than half a trillion dollars.
That’s more than the entire wealth of Elon Musk before his wealth started to collapse.
March 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
And it isn’t even the biggest Trump story of today.
The IRS estimates DOGE has lost the US treasury more than half a trillion dollars.
That’s more than the entire wealth of Elon Musk before his wealth started to collapse.
The IRS estimates DOGE has lost the US treasury more than half a trillion dollars.
That’s more than the entire wealth of Elon Musk before his wealth started to collapse.
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BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
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Today, Israel killed our colleague Hossam Shabat, who reported for @dropsitenews.com from northern Gaza. Witnesses say it was a targeted strike on his car. This is our statement:
www.dropsitenews.com/p/statement-...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/statement-...
Statement from Drop Site News on Israel’s Murder of Our Colleague Hossam Shabat: We Hold Both Israel and the U.S. Government Responsible
Today, March 24, 2025, Israel killed journalist Hossam Shabat, a reporter for Al Jazeera Mubasher and a contributing reporter to Drop Site News, in what witnesses described as a targeted strike.
www.dropsitenews.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Today, Israel killed our colleague Hossam Shabat, who reported for @dropsitenews.com from northern Gaza. Witnesses say it was a targeted strike on his car. This is our statement:
www.dropsitenews.com/p/statement-...
www.dropsitenews.com/p/statement-...
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film "No Other Land" is attacked by Jewish settlers and arrested, activists say.
March 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian co-director of Oscar-winning film "No Other Land" is attacked by Jewish settlers and arrested, activists say.
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They fucking disappeared Hamdan Ballal. Sheer impunity, knowing the US isn't going to say shit.
"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."
"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."
Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Jewish settlers and detained, activists say
Activists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military.
apnews.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
They fucking disappeared Hamdan Ballal. Sheer impunity, knowing the US isn't going to say shit.
"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."
"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."
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Hours before he was killed by Israel, Hossam Shabat filed his last report for @dropsitenews.com, “Report from the Frontline of Israel’s War of Annihilation.”
We are publishing Hossam’s story along with a deeply moving tribute to Hossam by Sharif Abdel Kouddous:
www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...
We are publishing Hossam’s story along with a deeply moving tribute to Hossam by Sharif Abdel Kouddous:
www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...
Hossam Shabat’s Last Article
Filed hours before his killing in an Israeli airstrike, journalist Hossam Shabat describes the resumption of Israel's scorched earth campaign in his hometown of Beit Hanoun.
www.dropsitenews.com
March 24, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Hours before he was killed by Israel, Hossam Shabat filed his last report for @dropsitenews.com, “Report from the Frontline of Israel’s War of Annihilation.”
We are publishing Hossam’s story along with a deeply moving tribute to Hossam by Sharif Abdel Kouddous:
www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...
We are publishing Hossam’s story along with a deeply moving tribute to Hossam by Sharif Abdel Kouddous:
www.dropsitenews.com/p/hossam-sha...
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I listened to this interview with the wonderful Francesca Albanese on @news.rte.ie with incredulity.
An army that is actively inflicting genocide, or groups seeking to defend that, cannot have their statements repeated as if they were legitimate.
**20,000** innocent Gazan children murdered, RTÉ.
An army that is actively inflicting genocide, or groups seeking to defend that, cannot have their statements repeated as if they were legitimate.
**20,000** innocent Gazan children murdered, RTÉ.
March 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I listened to this interview with the wonderful Francesca Albanese on @news.rte.ie with incredulity.
An army that is actively inflicting genocide, or groups seeking to defend that, cannot have their statements repeated as if they were legitimate.
**20,000** innocent Gazan children murdered, RTÉ.
An army that is actively inflicting genocide, or groups seeking to defend that, cannot have their statements repeated as if they were legitimate.
**20,000** innocent Gazan children murdered, RTÉ.
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BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!
Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian
Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.
www.reuters.com
March 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!
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I mean... holy shit.
March 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I mean... holy shit.
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The contrast between a society that realises democracy is at stake and one that doesn’t.
March 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The contrast between a society that realises democracy is at stake and one that doesn’t.
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Musk did not buy X to protect free speech. He bought it to promote the far-right. It is now being used to silence dissenters against authoritarian government.
www.politico.eu/article/musk...
www.politico.eu/article/musk...
Musk’s X suspends opposition accounts in Turkey amid civil unrest
Suspensions affect accounts spreading information about the widespread demonstrations.
www.politico.eu
March 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Musk did not buy X to protect free speech. He bought it to promote the far-right. It is now being used to silence dissenters against authoritarian government.
www.politico.eu/article/musk...
www.politico.eu/article/musk...
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There's going to be an event, sometimes in the next ten years, when Europe's military independence from the US is made painfully clear. Trump types are going to hate it. But its origin will lie in the events of the last few weeks.
There is lots of whining from Trump-types about the US doing this sort of thing and not getting compensated, but if we actually shifted to a world where, say, Europe was capable of this kind of military action, I think the Trump folks would be outraged at the loss of US dominance.
March 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
There's going to be an event, sometimes in the next ten years, when Europe's military independence from the US is made painfully clear. Trump types are going to hate it. But its origin will lie in the events of the last few weeks.
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Its called patriotism...a distinction well drawn by Orwell...patriotism celebrates what he have....nationalism asserts its superiority over others...
March 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Its called patriotism...a distinction well drawn by Orwell...patriotism celebrates what he have....nationalism asserts its superiority over others...