#Khashoggi

In 2014, when she was 25, Saudi women's rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul was arrested for the first time for protesting the ban on women driving. She spent 73 days in
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5 years ago I started doing a segment at 6:45am on the Australian current affairs radio show @RNBreakfast about global news.The point was to cover stuff that was breaking during
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Working w @ninaandtito last night my strong guess is the would-be #pardongate prisoner is George Nader; that the person who is “not a lawyer” with whom privilege was broken when
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This morning I pulled up the Brennan/Comey posts from 8kun and noticed they are in RED. The two rows of RED reminded me of post 273 - doesn't line up
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(Thread) Why the Far Right has so much successDC asks this:https://twitter.com/dcdeejay/status/1107310447907098625Recall that the GOP has been taken over by RWAs (right wing authoritarians: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318260321
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Thread 1/6 Saudi Arabia, a systematic and pervasive human rights violator, is hosting the #G20 this week. Read my take in the @OttawaCitizen on why #Canada should not fall
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Told you guys #Brookings was involved and is toast.#KhashoggiKoolAid #ObamaGate There are way more connections than disclosed in this interview and will outline below. Expired GNA rat at CBLRegime Change
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But the fun part of today’s Morning Jolt is going back two years at a series of “Unsolved Mysteries” in the news in early 2019.https://twitter.com/jimgeraghty/status/1092799834812227584https://bit.ly/2MYLHy1  For example, remembe
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(Thread) Reactionaries v. ConservativesThe GOP is no longer conservative. It’s reactionary. Let’s stop calling it “conservative.”True conservatives, according to NYU prof. @Jonhaidt, form a kind of yin-yang balance with liberals
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Holidays off to a good start. Finished - "Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power", one of @FT 's 2020 book shortlist. Cocktail of history, palace
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THREADRemember 9-11, that was terrible. Out of the 19 highjackers 1 was from Lebanon, 1 was from Egypt, 2 were from the UAE and the remaining 15 were all from
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#HistoryKeThread MawingoThe name of Gabriel Prudhomme (pictured) wouldn’t ring familiar with most Kenyans. Not with many historians, either. But Gabriel was a European living in Kenya in the 1930s. He
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Mexico's new copyright law was rushed through its Congress without debate or consultation, copy-pasting the US copyright system into Mexican law as though America's system was working perfectly.https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/07/
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(Thread) Libertarians: Destroyers of DemocracyLibertarian Peter Thiel said, "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian (h/t @JemezStargaz
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Thread: FACTS: MAGA? OBVIOUSLY, by your statement you ADMIT YOU AND YOUR ADMINISTRATION TOTAL FAILURES! 156K DEAD FROM COVID; 4.5M INFECTED; 71K DRUG OVERDOSE deaths; 38K GUN DEATHS; 1800 FARMERS
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Far from me to gain mileage over the misfortune of unlucky men .. but the Canadian PM must be worried about his friends in Asia and the inhumane treatment they
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