fasterlight @fasterlight

Yes, Britain famously transferred wealth to India. When British arrived in India its share of the world economy was 4%. When they left in 1947, they had taken it to 23%, roughly equal to all of Europe combined. On a serious note. The Indian railways were financed entirely by bonds sold on the London Stock Exchange. British investors were guaranteed a return of 5% per annum by the colonial government. A guaranteed return, in an era when no other safe investment in Britain offered anything close. And who guaranteed those returns? Indian taxpayers. Indians paid for the construction. Indians paid the guaranteed profits to British shareholders. Indians paid for the equipment, which was manufactured exclusively in Britain and shipped to India at inflated prices. One mile of Indian railway cost twice what the same mile cost to build in Canada or Australia, because the guaranteed return meant there was no incentive to control costs. The more it cost, the more British investors and suppliers earned. And what were these railways designed to do? Move raw materials from India’s interior to ports. Cotton from the Deccan to Bombay. Jute from Bengal to Calcutta. Coal from Bihar to wherever the Empire needed it. Tea from Assam to London’s drawing rooms. The routes connected mines and plantations to harbors. Not cities to cities. Not people to opportunities. Raw materials to ships. The Indian public’s transportation needs were, as Shashi Tharoor put it, entirely incidental. Oh, and the railways also moved troops. Very efficiently. So that when Indians protested being looted, the British could deploy soldiers to shoot them. That was the other “infrastructure investment.” But wait, there is more. Before the railways, India had the world’s finest textile industry. The British smashed the looms, broke the weavers’ thumbs (this is not metaphor, this is documented history), imposed tariffs on Indian cloth, and shipped raw cotton to Manchester to be manufactured into garments that were then sold back to Indians. India went from being the world’s largest textile exporter to an importer of British cloth within a generation. The Bengal Famine of 1943 killed an estimated 3 million people. Churchill diverted food supplies from Bengal to already well-supplied British troops and European stockpiles. When informed of the famine, his response, on the record, was to ask why Gandhi had not died yet. This is the “infrastructure investor” Musk is defending. India contributed 2.5 million soldiers to fight in two World Wars on Britain’s behalf. So let us summarize the colonial “investment” in India. They took a 23% global economy and left it at 4%. They destroyed the world’s finest textile industry. They built railways with Indian money, for Indian resources, generating British profits. They engineered famines that killed millions. They drained an estimated $45 trillion in today’s value over 200 years. That’s some unprofitable adventure.

Elon Musk @elonmusk

21 hours ago

@Coinvo It wasn’t. With rare exception, colonies were unprofitable, meaning more was spent building infrastructure like roads, railways, buildings, etc. than was exported. And look at places like Singapore and Hong Kong. Both were colonies for a long time and yet they are extremely

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MASSIE: “The Israelis napalmed the deck of the USS Liberty and then machine-gunned the lifeboats. They were intent on leaving no survivors.” It took 59 years for the USS Liberty survivors to even be recognized by our occupied government. God bless Thomas Massie.

@marklevinshow Sounds like you’re bitter that I ratioed you and you had to delete your lying dishonest tweet about my friend @FmrRepMTG, or face a lawsuit. Tune in to CSPAN Monday to hear my speech honoring the Americans who were visciously attacked by Israel while serving on the USS Liberty.

A Lebanese Christian girl killed by Israel, just out of bloodthirst. Vicious criminals.

Jvnior @Jvnior

a week ago

This is Theodosia. A Christian girl from Lebanon. She was on her way to write her exams. She was about to graduate. Israel killed her. They murdered her and her entire family today.

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🇮🇱 A West Bank council has finally admitted Israeli settlers have been systematically raping kids as young as three and four. After years of denial, the Gush Etzion Regional Council acknowledged ritualistic sexual abuse cases in its communities following a bombshell Kan 11 investigation. The abuse spanned years and is emerging as one of the most organized and disturbing sexual abuse cases ever exposed in Israel. For years, allegations were met with denials and deep skepticism, but in a complete 180, the council is now acknowledging the problem, calling it "pure evil and moral depravity that has no place in human society." Source: Kan 11

The Israeli ambassador to Denmark is protesting the spread of this video. Let's make this go viral all around the world."

Yahudi İzleyici: (ağlayarak) Konuşmanız sırasında Yahudilere yönelik birçok kez Nazi benzetmesi yaptınız. Bu son derece incitici. Bu, Nazi rejimi altında gerçekten acı çekmiş olan insanlar için çok aşağılayıcı. Norman Finkelstein cevap veriyor: — Bu tavra artık saygı duymuyorum. Gerçekten duymuyorum. Bu timsah gözyaşlarından hoşlanmıyorum ve onlara saygı da duymuyorum. (Dinleyicilerden alkışlar ve yuhalamalar yükselir) — Yabancı bir dinleyici kitlesi önünde "Holokost kartını" oynamaktan hoşlanmıyorum ama şu an kendimi buna mecbur hissediyorum. Rahmetli babam Auschwitz'deydi. Rahmetli annem Majdanek toplama kampındaydı. Ailemin her iki taraftan da tüm üyeleri katledildi. Annem ve babam Varşova Gettosu Ayaklanması'na katıldılar. — İşte tam da annem ve babamın bana ve iki kardeşime öğrettikleri dersler nedeniyle, İsrail'in Filistinlilere karşı işlediği suçlar karşısında sessiz kalmayacağım! Onların acılarını ve ölümlerini kullanarak; İsrail'in her gün Filistinlilere karşı işlediği işkence, vahşet ve ev yıkma suçlarını meşru göstermeye çalışmaktan daha aşağılık bir şey düşünemiyorum! — Bu yüzden artık bu gözyaşlarıyla sindirilmeyi veya baskılanmayı reddediyorum. Eğer zerre vicdanın olsaydı, burada döktüğün o gözyaşlarını Filistinliler için döküyor olurdun!

This has been going on for 80 years, and heavily documented. The NYTimes finally scraped together enough integrity to publish something.

Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof

4 weeks ago

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give

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BREAKING: Israeli Police have released footage of the French nun who was violently assaulted by a 36-year-old Jewish extremist in front of the cenacle on Mount Zion.

🇮🇱🇵🇸Holy shit, Haaretz published a list of atrocities Israeli soldiers did and saw in Gaza, and the details are stomach churning: •⁠ ⁠Soldiers pissing on a bound, blindfolded detainee while laughing and joking about October 7 •⁠ ⁠Interrogators torturing detainees by tying cable ties around their genitals •⁠ ⁠An officer executing an unarmed Palestinian who had surrendered with hands up, then covering it up as a “terrorist killed” •⁠ ⁠Widespread excitement in units over “special means” used to kill people in tunnels, while one soldier said it reminded him of the Holocaust •⁠ ⁠A tank gunning down five Palestinians crossing a line (four killed), followed by a D9 bulldozer burying the bodies in sand •⁠ ⁠Soldiers opening fire on unarmed civilians, including an old man and three teenage boys who turned out to be completely unarmed •⁠ ⁠Looting Palestinian homes, burning photos, and urinating on personal belongings for fun The impact back home has been brutal. Soldiers are throwing out mirrors because they can’t look at themselves. Others are breaking down crying in public. Many are struggling with suicidal thoughts, shame, and nightmares. These soldiers will carry this for decades. Heavy, painful reading.

Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal

2 months ago

🇮🇱🇵🇸 In 2024, Hala Khreis was holding a white flag and walking with her grandson in northern Gaza. They were walking along a route that had been declared safe by the IDF, yet an Israeli sniper shot and killed her. Never forget Gaza.

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When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

This is horror in real time. The moment Israel started dropping bombs on CIVILIAN AREAS in Lebanon. Without any warning. Israel dropped 160 bombs in the first minute alone — massacring over 250 civilians, dozens of them children. People are still buried under the rubble.

Unfortunately leaving NATO won’t be to avoid foreign entanglements, we’ll be leaving NATO so we can side with Israel when Turkey & Israel eventually clash in Syria. This is after we helped topple the secular Syrian gov & installed a former AQ/ISIS leader as president. Time to stop playing arsonist & fireman in the Middle East, it’s just not worth it.

Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47

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Absolute heartbreak on Al Jazeera. A brave resident exposes Israel's deliberate targeting of civilians. He breaks down after carrying a three year old child with shrapnel in his head. He confirms there were absolutely no military targets, just innocent families. Pure evil.

To ensure the ceasefire is successful we must first ensure that we restrain the Israelis.

Iran Release Proof Erika Kirk Murdered Charlie as Part of Israeli Coup of America Iran just released proof that Erika Kirk has been a Mossad agent for years. Hacked Israeli intelligence files reveal that Erika is a professional honeypot, tasked with infiltrating and compromising the US conservative movement from the inside. The files expose a multi-year operation to smuggle her all the way into the White House.

25TH AMENDMENT!!! Not a single bomb has dropped on America. We cannot kill an entire civilization. This is evil and madness.

🚨Tucker Carlson just went off on Trump on Easter morning. The full statement: “No decent person mocks other people’s religions. You mock other people’s faith — you mock the idea of faith itself. We are not God. Only if you think you are do you talk this way.” “This is not a mockery of Islam. This is a mockery of Christianity. To send a tweet with the F word on Easter morning promising the murder of civilians and then saying ‘praise be to Allah’ — you are mocking every other Christian and me.” “That is evil. That is an intentional desecration of beauty and truth — which is the definition of evil.”