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Een aantal jaar geleden zocht ik met jullie hulp uit waar wel en geen Sint Maarten werd gevierd in Nederland.
Dat leverde deze kaart op.
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How Russian propaganda turned the Kraków mass shooter into a pro-Ukraine, pro-LGBT "left-wing terrorist". buff.ly/gwEivQj
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Israel likes to hold up its Arab doctors as proof that it is not an apartheid state. This week, Palestinian doctors in Israel told Ynet what the job is actually like. This is how Palestinian citizen doctors are treated according to Israel's own media:
1) It started with a video of Dr. Walid Salah, an internal medicine resident at Shamir (Assaf Harofeh). It spread online with comments like "Who let terrorists into the hospitals?"
20 A doctor at a Negev hospital said people there called him "Sinwar 2." It wasn't patients. It was hospital staff. A senior doctor called one of his Arab colleagues a "terrorist." "It's a horrible feeling. If someone says that about you, about a doctor, it's shocking. It can even hurt your career." He asked Ynet not to name him because he still works in the system.
3) The same doctor: "During the war I gave with all my heart, to every sector, and to soldiers." He has been at the hospital for years and still hasn't been given a residency.
4) Dr. Mohammad Mahamid, an internal medicine resident at Shamir: "Right now I don't feel safe going back to full duties at work. It started as a verbal attack, but it could become a physical one." He works in the ER: "We can't predict any reaction, especially when we're directly exposed to patients and families."
5) Mahamid said he heard about a patient's relative at another hospital who told the nurses he had already killed 400 people in Gaza. "Like, 'be careful.' An actual death threat."
6) A doctor at Clalit, who asked not to be named: "I'm already afraid to tell patients who I am. I don't know what racist lunatics I might run into."
7) Dr. Hussam Dayeb, a thoracic surgeon at Shamir, said things have gotten much worse over the past two years: "Someone put these ideas into people's heads."
8) Prof. Naim Abu Freih, chair of the Arab Doctors Association in the Negev, said the rise in racism comes from "clear racist statements, positions and policies by senior figures in the political system." Patients ask not to be treated by an Arab doctor "solely because of his origin." He also raised fears of discrimination in hiring, in residency placements and in promotion.
9) Abu Freih said many doctors won't file a complaint or give their name because they fear it will damage their standing at work. "No medical worker should be afraid to come to work because of his origin."
10) Dr. Murad Mafra'a of the Forum for Promoting Health in Arab Society said some doctors are afraid "even to speak Arabic at work or in public." Some feel "required to prove their loyalty and professionalism again and again, just because of their national identity."
11) Dr. Mansour al-Gergawi, 66, has been a doctor since 1986. As an intern at Soroka he was the only Bedouin. A senior doctor called every other intern to see patients but never him. In the operating room the same doctor taught the interns "as if I wasn't in the room." The other interns noticed and said nothing.
12) A patient from Dimona screamed at al-Gergawi, "I don't want an Arab to touch me." "None of my colleagues rebuked her. They were silent." He says many doctors still stay quiet "because they don't want to deal with the system."
13) The hospital's director answered with a line about coexistence. She said that when Jewish staff left for reserve duty after October 7, Arab doctors and nurses "filled their place."
14) Al-Gergawi said it plainly: "It's a disease. It was in the health system, of all places, that I ran into racism." Colleagues call these doctors terrorists. Patients' families threaten them. Some are blocked from residencies, some are afraid to speak Arabic, and most won't complain on the record. These are the doctors Israel points to as proof of equality.
Do not be fooled. Palestinian citizen doctors are discriminated against, threatened, and abused on a daily basis. Israel is a racist state to its core.
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In 2015, scientists expected the world would pass the 1.5C threshold in 2042–27 years down the road. Now they expect the threshold will be passed in 2029. In eleven years we’ve accelerated warming so much that we’ve shaved thirteen years off the timeline.
In 2015, the projected date for reaching 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels was 2042, based on ERA5 data. Today, our C3S global temperature-trend-monitor anticipates the threshold breach within this decade.
Read the article: climate.copernicus.eu/how-fa…
#CopernicusClimate
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“Most men will stop reading at this point, knowing full well that the next few paragraphs will be deeply uncomfortable for them. For those men with the courage to admit men must do better and take responsibility, please read on. Let’s Address This.” 👇 qasimrashid.com/p/russell-br…
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I can't figure out if measles vaccines work or not.
Tough one
I can see why RFK Jr is hesistant
Where's Sherlock Holmes when you need him?
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The issue is not whether European security should be discussed in future negotiations. Of course it should. The issue is the assumption that Russia's dissatisfaction with the European security order is a fundamental cause of its aggression, rather than potentially an expression, instrument, and justification of its ambitions to dominate its neighbors.
The fact that Moscow has repeatedly demanded a revision of that order does not establish that its grievances explain the war, let alone that accommodating them would prevent another one.
What if the problem is not primarily the European security architecture, but the Kremlin's unwillingness to accept the sovereignty and strategic autonomy of its neighbors? What if what Moscow presents as a security problem is, in fact, a problem of lost dominance? What if its perception of a hostile security environment is itself shaped by ambitions that no decent security arrangement could satisfy?
A durable peace requires credible deterrence, a militarily capable Ukraine, and effective security guarantees. It does not necessarily require resolving Russia's grievances about the European order, particularly when those grievances may be inseparable from its determination to dominate its neighbors.
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Herrlich, wie @AnAudretsch hier Frau Connemann in Sachen Ökonomie, Physik und Realitätssinn einschult 😅👍🏻
Von der #Union ist geistig überhaupt nichts zu erwarten... da herrscht kognitive Wüste in der Denkmurmel... nur noch übertroffen von der Lernresistenz... 🤷🏼♂️
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I just unraveled the biggest AI astroturfing campaign I’ve found yet.
I found hundreds of fake accounts posing as Americans. The operation traces back to a supposedly defunct Israeli influence company.
They posted thousands of times in the last year to support Nvidia, back chip exports and data centers, attack U.S. lawmakers, and dismiss concerns about AI.
When it broke that Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, was romantically involved with an alleged spy (who runs a company accused of chip diversion and whom US officials believe was passing information to Beijing), dozens of these accounts rushed to Jensen’s defense.
These accounts have targeted people pushing for export controls that ensure advanced chips aren’t going to China. Chris McGuire, a former White House national security official, got more than 100 replies from the astroturf network attacking him and his position on chips. Lawmakers who criticized the chip sales were called “peabrains” and “pure evil,” and accused of spreading “anti-Trump propaganda.”
Throughout this yearlong pro-Nvidia campaign, the operators have been hiding their tracks. They quietly deleted nearly two-thirds of the pro-Nvidia posts that we found, something they seem to do for many of their campaigns.
These accounts have spent years running campaigns that appear to serve the interests of corporate and political clients — most recently supporting the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan’s civil war, a group the U.S. government has accused of genocide.
Many of them trace back to a supposedly defunct Israeli influence company, Koios. In 2025, Haaretz reported that Koios helped run a covert pro-Qatar campaign devised by aides to Benjamin Netanyahu. While Koios claims to have ceased operations in 2025, it looks to me that many of its associated people and accounts moved their work to a new company, IntellACT, that spun up just as the old one shuttered.
Nvidia told me it has no relationship with the Israeli team linked to these accounts, and that while it has recently become aware of the operation, it is also trying to find out who is behind it. So, who is funding a yearlong campaign to shape one of the most important policy fights in history? I’m not sure, but I think it deserves a formal investigation. And Congress has that power.
Read my full article:
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- “the EU is not democratic enough!”
- “lets increase power of the parliament then.”
- “no, the EU is not a federal superstate!”
its almost as if the design is a compromise between the power of the people and the power of the member countries. 😀
D- for not understanding that.
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The last diesel tanker which was still heading for US shores has turned around.
So in summary, Trump's diesel deal with Putin caused no diesel to arrive in the US, didn't drop diesel prices, and caused his party to badly lose the US Midterms.
The Art Of The Deal indeed. 📉💥
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Die vielen Vorwürfe an Katherina Reiche lassen sich in konkrete Zahlen übersetzen:
Deutschlands Klimaschutz war auch international noch nie so schlecht.
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Those who track Russian influence will be familiar with most of these names. An impressive investigation! occrp.org/en/investigation/f…
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Het jeugdstrafrecht hangt aan elkaar van goede bedoelingen, die het lang niet altijd waarmaakt. Jaap van der Spek onderzocht hoe de staat omgaat met jeugddelinquenten en ontdekte „een diepe tragiek”. nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/11/01/men…
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Calories in, calories out has some merit. Energy balance is real. But it treats a calorie as a calorie no matter when it's eaten, and the body doesn't work that way.
In a study of healthy young adults, people ate the exact same dinner on two different occasions, once at 6 PM and once at 10 PM. The food was identical, the rest of the day's eating was identical, and they went to bed at the same time. By the CICO math, nothing changed.
But the body handled that dinner differently. After the late dinner, blood sugar ran higher in the hours afterward, and the body burned less of the fat from that meal while they slept. The same calories went in, but what the body did with them changed simply because of the clock.
The late dinner also raised cortisol, a stress hormone that tends to push blood sugar up. And the effects were strongest in people who naturally go to bed earlier, which points to the body's internal clock. As the evening goes on, insulin doesn't work as well, and the body is less ready for a large meal.
This is one of the main problems with counting calories alone. The number on the label tells you what went in, but it can't tell you how the body will use it. Timing, hormones, and the body's clock all shape whether that energy gets burned or stored.
If someone is relying on calorie counting alone, it's worth remembering that when those calories are eaten can change what the body does with them.
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I find it significant that the most AI-pilled people I know use AI for basically everything…except for writing
It’s remarkably consistent. Why? Because to write is to think. And outsourcing your critical thinking to AI is intellectual suicide
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E-LKWs sind eindeutig billiger als Diesel-LKWs.
Speditionen wissen, dass der Kaufpreis nur einen Bruchteil ausmacht und der weitaus größere Kostenposten in Treibstoffkosten und Wartung liegt.
Wenn man A und B zusammenzählen kann, sind E-LKWs und E-Autos viel billiger als Verbrenner.
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🤩 Things are moving quickly in Britain’s relationship with Europe.
👀 Look at what’s being assembled for 20 November UK–EU summit:
🇬🇧🇪🇺 An SPS agreement to remove barriers to food trade
🇬🇧🇪🇺 Linking UK and EU emissions-trading systems
🇬🇧🇪🇺 A youth experience scheme
🇬🇧🇪🇺 Cheaper access to British universities for EU students
🇬🇧🇪🇺 Britain seeking “trusted partner” status for the EU’s new Made in Europe scheme
Andy Burnham wants the summit to reset relations before setting out the longer-term options for unwinding Brexit, potentially including rejoining the EU.
The Government estimates this immediate package could add around 0.3% to GDP.
But Burnham has said he wants the longer-term relationship with Europe to add percentage points to British growth.
That tells us the November settlement is the bridge to pave the way for deeper cooperation.
After years of being told that closer European integration was politically impossible, Britain is already negotiating common standards, mobility, education, industrial cooperation, carbon markets and easier trade with our largest neighbouring market.
November 20 may therefore matter for something much bigger than the individual agreements signed that day.
It could mark the moment Britain stops asking how to make Brexit work and starts seriously asking what comes after it. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Gas, not renewables, is the biggest driver of UK electricity bills. Pricier gas explains nearly 90% of the rise in household bills since 2020.
Gas plants still set the power price most of the time. Cutting gas is the surest way to cut bills.
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