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Over 10 years of work on the roof of the world & in the laboratory, 61 scientists from 20 labs in 6 countries, 1 publication in Cell @CellCellPress on a #moss you probably never heard of: #Takakia.
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Following days of stormy deluges across Gaza, a pale sun briefly emerged today, as the gaunt residents crept out from their tents and mounds of snow to scavenge for a few sparse crumbs to sustain their starving spirits 💔
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$700 MILLION MISSING while #Ebola spirals out of control in DR #Congo. Hundreds of millions in aid vanished, leaving frontline workers unpaid, clinics without water, and ambulances out of fuel as over 5,400 people die. Where did the money go??? bbc.com/news/articles/…
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Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 retweeted
Pay attention to the scroll—look at the sheer number of likes and comments, and see how many people fall for these Gaza AI fakes
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I LIVED in Afghanistan for over 40 months when I was in the Army and I saw it first-hand but NO liberal white woman wants to listen to ME because I'm American and white so I MUST be RACIST and ISLAMAPHOBIC. This is what gets me.
We are constantly told to ‘listen to women,’ ‘believe lived experience,’ and ‘amplify marginalized voices.’
Then an ex-Muslim woman speaks about what SHE lived, what SHE believes, and what SHE is warning people about…
…and suddenly the left is checked out of the conversation and DO NOT want to hear her.
Fatima said:
‘Under sharia law; you either die, convert to islam, or pay the infidel tax.
Don’t let anyone lie to you and tell you that Islam is a religion of peace, it’s not.’
Those are HER words. HER views. HER experience. SHE lived this.
Her experience gets explained away by people who never lived ONE SINGLE DAY of it. Her 'truth' is silenced, ignored and pushed under the rug.
Funny how fast ‘listen to women’ becomes ‘SHUT UP’ when the woman’s truth is inconvenient.
We are constantly told to ‘listen to women,’ ‘believe lived experience,’ and ‘amplify marginalized voices.’
Then an ex-Muslim woman speaks about what SHE lived, what SHE believes, and what SHE is warning people about…
…and suddenly the left is checked out of the conversation and DO NOT want to hear her.
Fatima said:
‘Under sharia law; you either die, convert to islam, or pay the infidel tax.
Don’t let anyone lie to you and tell you that Islam is a religion of peace, it’s not.’
Those are HER words. HER views. HER experience. SHE lived this.
Her experience gets explained away by people who never lived ONE SINGLE DAY of it. Her 'truth' is silenced, ignored and pushed under the rug.
Funny how fast ‘listen to women’ becomes ‘SHUT UP’ when the woman’s truth is inconvenient.
Under sharia law; you either die, convert to islam, or pay the infidel tax.
Don't let anyone lie to you and tell you that Islam is a religion of peace, it's not.
Islam is a violent regime that takes over through conquest.
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Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 retweeted
if you'd like to understand Russia's level of wealth, here you go.
the area in blue has a larger GDP than the area in red (yes, really)
the area in blue has a larger GDP than the area in red (yes, really)
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Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 retweeted
A group of hackers published classified data on Russian soldiers killed in the war, from Russia's statistics agency Rosstat. In late August, the total was 450,100 (around 100k per year). It is in line with other independent estimates. There is also a regional breakdown.
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Forgotten African history.
African Tippu Tip owned roughly 10,000 slaves in the 1890s. That was decades after the American Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 13th Amendment.
While white European societies had already abolished the slave trade and then slavery itself this man was still ral Africa, burning villages, chaining captives, and selling them.
Tippu Tip became a famous slave and ivory trader of the East African interior. He led armed caravans of thousands of men hundreds of miles inland, raiding villages at dawn, killing the weak or elderly on the spot, and marching the rest in coffles to the coast. Roughly one-third of the captives often died on the journey.
The survivors were sold for Zanzibar’s clove plantations, for domestic service, and for export to the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf. Women and girls were routinely taken as sex slaves and concubines—standard practice in the Arab trade for centuries.
By 1895 he controlled seven plantations worked by about 10,000 slaves. He built a personal commercial and political domain in the eastern Congo, confirmed or replaced local chiefs, monopolized the ivory trade, and became one of the richest men of his era.
He assisted European explorers when it suited him, then watched from comfortable retirement in Zanzibar as European powers finished suppressing the trade he had helped expand. He died in 1905.
This photograph of him seated in turban and robes, staff in hand, is the classic image of the merchant who got rich selling other Africans.
You can earn a degree in African American studies and never hear Tippu Tip’s name, or the names of the African kings and Arab traders who actually captured and sold Africans who crossed the Atlantic or the Indian. Today’s universities treat the Arab and Swahili caravan Slave traders as footnotes or ignored entirely.
This is not an accident. Acknowledging that African elites and Middle Eastern buyers ran the supply side for centuries undercuts the simple narrative that frames slavery as a uniquely white-European or American invention.
British whites abolished the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in its colonies in 1833, then spent decades and enormous resources on naval patrols to stop the trade. The United States followed in 1865. These white societies were among the first large-scale institutional and systematic bans on slavery in history.
Slavery and the open slave trade continued in Africa and the Islamic world long afterward. Legal chattel slavery was abolished in Saudi Arabia only in 1962; Mauritania was the last country to ban it on paper, in 1981. Tippu Tip’s operation in the 1880s and 1890s was not a dying remnant; it was still large, profitable, and expanding under Arab-Swahili leadership.
The peak slave population in the United States in 1860 was about 3.95 million. Modern estimates of people in forced labor, forced marriage, and other forms of modern slavery put the global total near 50 million TODAY!!!.
Africa alone accounts for millions of slaves TODAY; the Arab states also show some of the highest prevalence rates in the world TODAY. Absolute numbers of people in modern slavery in Africa and the Middle East today exceed the peak historical figure for the United States. Definitions differ—historical chattel slavery is not identical to every form of forced marriage or debt bondage—but the scale of ongoing exploitation is not small.
Tippu Tip was certainly not the only African slave trader. Arab and Swahili traders from Zanzibar and the Omani sphere ran the East African trade for generations, selling captives north into the Middle East for labor, military service.
European societies were among the first to abolish slavery and enforce the ban. That fact is routinely omitted from the version of history taught in American universities. The men who owned ten thousand slaves in the 1890s while marching deep into the African interior should not be ignored. -RJ
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Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 retweeted
Would you like to leave a comment, @cem_oezdemir @HagelManuel ?
The Muslim Brotherhood in Germany has found a new target, and it is not voters, it is CHILDREN. Baden Württemberg's new intelligence report says Brotherhood linked teams have run camps every year since 2023 for kids aged 9 to 17, advertised on social media with tents, campfires and nature, for 80 to 120 euros per child, and in October 2025 one was held in Waldbrunn. Among the speakers were graduates of the IESH, the Brotherhood's European school for future leaders, which France dissolved in September 2025.
The same report calls the network's loud loyalty to democracy a cover story and an attempt to deceive. Campfire outside, cadre school inside.
Germany, who exactly is tucking your children in?
BTW, the Muslim Brotherhood is banned in the UAE.
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Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 retweeted
Ich muss gestehen, dass ich Singulus Technologies bisher nicht kannte.
Deutscher Maschinenbau. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Deutscher Maschinenbau. ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Ein deutscher Mittelständler liefert jetzt die Fabrik für Musks Dyson-Schwarm
SINGULUS TECHNOLOGIES aus Kahl am Main hat gestern einen Liefervertrag mit SpaceX unterzeichnet: eine schlüsselfertige Produktionslinie für Heterojunction-Solarzellen, erste Linie im ersten Halbjahr über 100 Gigawatt (!!!) Produktionsausrüstung.
Starmind ist die geplante KI-Satellitenkonstellation von SpaceX. Rund eine Million Satelliten, hundertmal größer als Starlink, die als verteilte Rechenzentren im Orbit arbeiten.
"a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization, one that can harness the sun's full power".
Musk rechnet mit 100 Kilowatt pro Satellit und einer Megatonne Satelliten pro Jahr, das ergibt 100 Gigawatt zusätzliche KI-Leistung jährlich. Genau diese 100 Gigawatt stehen jetzt im Vertrag mit SINGULUS.
Zur Einordnung: Deutschland hat in rund 25 Jahren Energiewende etwa 100 Gigawatt Photovoltaik installiert. Das soll diese Linie jährlich an Zellen fertigen. Nicht für irgendwelche Dächer. Für den Orbit.
Das ist eine gute Nachricht!
Hier hat ein deutscher Mittelständler verstanden, wohin die Reise geht, lange bevor es in den Mainstream Medien Konsens ist.
Während Berlin über Netzanschlüsse diskutiert, schießt Unterfranken die Zukunft mit in den Orbit.
Das Know-how ist da. Die Entscheidungsfreude im Mittelstand auch.
Gefertigt wird damit allerdings in Bastrop, Texas. Und finanziert hat SpaceX seinen Lieferanten gleich mit, im März dieses Jahres und noch einmal im Oktober über ein nachrangig besichertes Darlehen.
Deutschland liefert die Anlagen für den Dyson-Schwarm und diskutiert zu Hause über Netzentgelte.
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Forgotten African history.
African Tippu Tip owned roughly 10,000 slaves in the 1890s. That was decades after the American Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the 13th Amendment.
While white European societies had already abolished the slave trade and then slavery itself this man was still ral Africa, burning villages, chaining captives, and selling them.
Tippu Tip became a famous slave and ivory trader of the East African interior. He led armed caravans of thousands of men hundreds of miles inland, raiding villages at dawn, killing the weak or elderly on the spot, and marching the rest in coffles to the coast. Roughly one-third of the captives often died on the journey.
The survivors were sold for Zanzibar’s clove plantations, for domestic service, and for export to the Arabian Peninsula and the Gulf. Women and girls were routinely taken as sex slaves and concubines—standard practice in the Arab trade for centuries.
By 1895 he controlled seven plantations worked by about 10,000 slaves. He built a personal commercial and political domain in the eastern Congo, confirmed or replaced local chiefs, monopolized the ivory trade, and became one of the richest men of his era.
He assisted European explorers when it suited him, then watched from comfortable retirement in Zanzibar as European powers finished suppressing the trade he had helped expand. He died in 1905.
This photograph of him seated in turban and robes, staff in hand, is the classic image of the merchant who got rich selling other Africans.
You can earn a degree in African American studies and never hear Tippu Tip’s name, or the names of the African kings and Arab traders who actually captured and sold Africans who crossed the Atlantic or the Indian. Today’s universities treat the Arab and Swahili caravan Slave traders as footnotes or ignored entirely.
This is not an accident. Acknowledging that African elites and Middle Eastern buyers ran the supply side for centuries undercuts the simple narrative that frames slavery as a uniquely white-European or American invention.
British whites abolished the slave trade in 1807 and slavery in its colonies in 1833, then spent decades and enormous resources on naval patrols to stop the trade. The United States followed in 1865. These white societies were among the first large-scale institutional and systematic bans on slavery in history.
Slavery and the open slave trade continued in Africa and the Islamic world long afterward. Legal chattel slavery was abolished in Saudi Arabia only in 1962; Mauritania was the last country to ban it on paper, in 1981. Tippu Tip’s operation in the 1880s and 1890s was not a dying remnant; it was still large, profitable, and expanding under Arab-Swahili leadership.
The peak slave population in the United States in 1860 was about 3.95 million. Modern estimates of people in forced labor, forced marriage, and other forms of modern slavery put the global total near 50 million TODAY!!!.
Africa alone accounts for millions of slaves TODAY; the Arab states also show some of the highest prevalence rates in the world TODAY. Absolute numbers of people in modern slavery in Africa and the Middle East today exceed the peak historical figure for the United States. Definitions differ—historical chattel slavery is not identical to every form of forced marriage or debt bondage—but the scale of ongoing exploitation is not small.
Tippu Tip was certainly not the only African slave trader. Arab and Swahili traders from Zanzibar and the Omani sphere ran the East African trade for generations, selling captives north into the Middle East for labor, military service.
European societies were among the first to abolish slavery and enforce the ban. That fact is routinely omitted from the version of history taught in American universities. The men who owned ten thousand slaves in the 1890s while marching deep into the African interior should not be ignored. -RJ
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Do you trust the Russians?
•No. They broke every agreement they made with me that’s why I don’t trust them.
Harry Truman
•No. They broke every agreement they made with me that’s why I don’t trust them.
Harry Truman
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Russia’s imperial delusions will ultimately trigger its downfall. The rest of the world will breathe easier when it’s over.
Russia's demands BEFORE A PEACE AGREEMENT are for Ukraine to withdraw from its own territory in Donetsk & Luhansk, territory they hasn't been able to conquer in 12 years, which would leave Ukraine vulnerable to a new invasion, and then MAYBE after that Russia will discuss peace.
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Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 retweeted
This is how you raise the next generation. A baby in a crib, a Quran behind its head, rifles on both sides, and a belt of ammunition wrapped around it.
This is not a war forced on them. This is the culture.
This is not a war forced on them. This is the culture.
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This is even less translatable. To get the full understanding of what this means, you need a couple of paragraphs of context.
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Ach ja, ich vergaß. Moin!
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