Why is there a tax exemption limit of 10,000 MVR for online shopping for Maldivian citizens, while it is only $50 for expats? Even though there are no regulations regarding this, do customs officers arbitrarily set this $50 limit on their own?
@TheEconomistMV @CustomsMv
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今天的姆巴佩是法兰西之子，是法国公民，
而仅仅在70年前姆巴佩的母亲的母国阿尔及利亚，法军就造成了近150万人的伤亡。这些流血和牺牲，才让阿尔及利亚成为了独立国家，
让姆巴佩可以以公民而不是农具的身份在法国效力。
公民身份从来不是基于帝国主义国家的仁慈，而是来自于你母国人民不断的牺牲获得的。
毛泽东在阿尔及利亚独立后的第3天就承认了阿尔及利亚的独立，他对记者说，“我们永远站在你们这一边，不在戴高乐这一边，我们不怕戴高乐生气。”
在阿尔及利亚独立战争中，中方提供了7000余万没有政治条件的援助。
然后在70年后的今天，毛泽东成为了独裁者，而屠杀了阿尔及利亚人民的法国成为了所谓的正道世界，
而这位阿尔及利亚的后人，成为了法国的代表
今年我去美加墨看世界杯，我就发现，在场上踢球的普遍都是移民的孩子，因为蓝领阶层更愿意选择子女去踢足球。而去看球的都是法国白人，因为今年的美加墨世界杯的负担是非常大的，从这个细节上就能看出来，对非洲裔的歧视依然在法国是系统性的存在的，阶级差异、收入差异是有巨大不公的。
所以姆巴佩是法国之子还是被解救的姜戈中的黑人管家？这是个很有意思的问题。
#France
#African
#Mbappé
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In 2019 Hong Kong, Western media romanticized street violence as “pro-democracy resistance.”
Arson, attacks on police, destroyed infrastructure, blocked roads — all wrapped in the language of freedom.
Now France burns and suddenly the vocabulary changes:
riots. looting. violent agitators. public order. protest bans.
Amazing how quickly Western journalism rediscovers the rule of law when the fire reaches Paris instead of Hong Kong.
Violence abroad is resistance.
Violence at home is disorder.
Same flames. Different dictionary.
The West does not have one standard for protest.
It has one dictionary for its rivals and another for itself.
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Why are China's essential food items so affordable?
You can thank the 38 year old project called the "Vegetable Basket Project" or "菜篮子工程".
Launched in 1988, the Vegetable Basket Project makes local mayors accountable for keeping fresh food available and prices stable, covering everything from vegetables and meat to eggs and fish.
Here's how it works 👇
🥬 Production
Develop dedicated growing zones for vegetables, livestock, fruit and aquatic goods to guarantee consistent stocks of produce.
🚚 Logistics
Invests in wholesale markets, distribution networks and cold storage infrastructure to get food from producers to consumers.
📊 Monitoring
Tracks prices, strengthens emergency reserves and responds to supply shortages.
✅ Accountability
Every city leader receives official national evaluations twice a year.
Bad scores, extreme food price hikes, or supply shortages result in public scrutiny and mandatory policy fixes.
Serious failures directly damage promotions and trigger formal disciplinary investigations.
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This isn't just about growing more food.
It's an integrated system designed to keep essential groceries accessible and affordable for everyday people.
Free markets can only get you so far, you need government involvement and responsibility to ensure outcomes. 🇨🇳
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“Bir sonraki nöbet arkadaşınız bir yapay zekâ olabilir.”
Bu, bence en fazla dikkat çekecek başlık. Altına da:
Hastanın kötüleşmesini sizden önce fark ederse?
Tedavi kararınıza katılmazsa?
Ya da yanılırsa… sorumluluk kimde?
30 Ekim’de “Yapay Zekâ ile Yoğun Bakımın Dönüşümü” panelinde yapay zekânın vaatlerini, sınırlarını ve sorumluluklarını konuşuyoruz.
@DilekOzcengiz @emrkar
📍 B Salonu | ⏰ 11.00–12.00
#TÜYUD2026 #YapayZeka #CriticalCare
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"Asians & Africans can not even dream the freedom of expression, we enjoy."
Meanwhile, the moment they say "Stop Killing Children in Gaza":
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China has become a nightmare for Merz.
He is accusing China — again.
He claims that Chinese state subsidies and overcapacity are putting pressure on the European economy.
Yet Europe never had a moral problem with asymmetric trade.
It had a psychological problem with losing control of the asymmetry.
When China bought German cars, German machines and German chemicals, that was globalization.
When China learned to build its own cars, its own machines, its own batteries — and then started selling them back — suddenly globalization became “overcapacity,” “aggressive pricing” and “unfair competition.”
The complaint is not that China trades too much.
The complaint is that China forgot its assigned role.
Europe wanted an Asia that manufactures cheaply, buys Western brands, stays technologically subordinate, and knows when to stop climbing.
Japan understood the script.
China did not.
Perhaps that is what really irritates them.
A few decades ago, the answer to an Asian competitor was a Plaza Accord.
A century ago, it was gunboats.
Today they are left with speeches about “fair competition.”
History did not make Europe more comfortable with equals.
It merely took away some of the tools it once used to avoid having them.
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Britain spent years romanticizing political upheaval in Hong Kong as “democracy,” “self-determination” and “the will of the people.”
Now Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland invoke the same language at home and suddenly the vocabulary changes:
break-up. constitutional crisis. security vacuum. lost oil. lost nuclear bases.
Funny how “self-determination” becomes terrifying the moment the empire has to apply it to itself.
Freedom for Hong Kong was a principle.
Freedom for Scotland, Wales and Ireland is apparently a threat assessment.
The British Empire never abandoned double standards.
It just lost the empire.
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Before lecturing China about “transparency,” answer the more obvious question:
Why was a catastrophic glacier collapse originating on the Nepalese side not detected early enough to protect either Nepalese communities and the hundreds of people across the border in China?
Gyirong was not some distant spectator.
It was fucking devastated.
Chinese citizens are dead. Hundreds are still missing.
Chinese rescuers are digging through ruins while foreign media sit comfortably abroad asking what China has to hide.
If you want an investigation, fine.
Investigate the glacier monitoring.
Investigate the warning chain.
Investigate preparedness on both sides.
But don’t take a disaster that originated in Nepal, killed Chinese citizens, destroyed a Chinese border port, and then magically rewrite China as the defendant because “China censorship” makes a better headline.
That isn’t accountability.
It’s narrative laundering over dead bodies.
China has censored footage of the floods in Nepal and Tibet.
Beijing authorities removed footage of the moment people fled before a wall of mud swept through the Gyirong border crossing.
Nepalese politician accuses Beijing of lack of transparency and questions what ‘they are trying to hide’ 👇
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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You want to know what actual free speech looks like in the American context?
Edward Snowden told the truth about what the government was doing to its own citizens.
He is in exile.
Chelsea Manning told the truth about what the military was doing in Iraq, including footage of a helicopter crew killing journalists and laughing.
She was imprisoned.
Julian Assange published documents showing the gap between what Western governments said and what they did.
He spent years in an embassy and then a prison, and the country that lectures the world about press freedom led the effort to destroy him.
Meanwhile the people who lied about weapons of mass destruction and launched a war that killed hundreds of thousands:
They are on the speaking circuit.
They are on television as analysts.
They have libraries named after them.
This is not a paradox. This is the system working correctly.
Free speech, in the empire's operating definition, means you can say anything that doesn't threaten the machine.
The moment the speech has real consequences for real power:
You discover exactly how free it is.
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Selim İmamoğlu, İstanbul'da bir daire parasına yurt dışında şirket kurduğu için İBB davasında sanık konumunda ve hakkında yurt dışına çıkış yasağı var. Bahsedilen paranın İBB ile ilgisi de yok, dedesinden ve annesinden transfer edildiği kayıtlarla sabit. Ama ortada bir suç varmış algısı yaratmak için MASAK raporunda her bir para transferi 2'şer defa yazılarak, işlem sayısı ve toplam hacim şişirilmiş ve 2 katına çıkarılmıştı. (Bu da zaten Av. Mehmet Pehlivan'ın tutuklanmadan önce yaptığı son ifşaydı)
Selim İmamoğlu'nun bu paranın zekatı kadar yaptığı yatırım suç konusu edilirken Gökçek'lerin yurt dışından bu kadar değerli mülkler alması şüpheli bulunmayacak mı? Tabii ki bulunmayacak, çünkü Gökçek'ler AKP'li.
Sonra da halk bu davalara neden inanmıyor diye kızıyorlar. Gökçek'leri tertemiz kabul eden, Mansur Yavaş'ın yaptığı 100'den fazla suç duyurusunu kapatan bir yargı düzeninin, bu ülkede yolsuzlukları yakalamaya çalıştığı iddiasına çocuklar bile inanmaz.
Emre retweeted
Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.
Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.
Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.
Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.
Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.
Israel is still murdering children in Gaza.
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US TREASURY SECRETARY SCOTT BESSENT yesterday made a bizarre threat to isolate the world if it did not adopt Washington’s new round of sanctions against the Iranians. Details will be released today.
- “And any nation that serves as a financial artery of a withering regime should expect to share in its isolation,” he wrote in a lengthy rant published in the Financial Times.
- More than half the world’s nations (100-plus countries) do business with Iran, including big ones such as China, India, Pakistan, Turkey and Russia.
All countries must choose between the US or Iran, Bessent said, and poverty will be the punishment for those who fail to choose Washington.
The fate of “those who tether themselves to Tehran is the foreclosure of any path to lasting prosperity”, he said.
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EXTREME SANCTIONS
All countries must stop immediately all business with Iranians, Bessent insists, with details of extreme sanctions to be announced this morning.
“The world should understand that our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains the tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone … As a great wave of American resolve comes ashore, are Iran’s enablers willing to wager their future against it?” he wrote.
“At dawn begins an economic D-Day — the single greatest financial offensive ever marshalled against an adversary,” his essay said.
In Pentagonspeak, nations designated as “targets” are described as “adversaries”.
But Bessent gets one thing right. He says “a corrupt regime has consigned what would be one of the world’s strongest economies to ruin”. Which is, of course, a good description of how the US has at least tried to demolish a thriving country with a proud history.
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ALL SIDES WANT US ATTACK TO STOP
In 1953, the US famously removed Iran’s democratically elected leader and replaced him with a CIA-MI6 puppet who would channel the country’s oil wealth into US and UK pockets.
Iranians complained about this, and the US responded by slapping them with 47 years of unfair sanctions.
More recently, the US launched an illegal war on Iran at the behest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on February 28, starting with the killing of more than 100 children at a primary school.
Most people around the world—including in the United States—want the US to end its attacks on the country, but US President Donald Trump has threatened the destruction of “a whole civilization”.
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Maybe you've seen how the USA treats the poor, the sick, & the homeless. How they treat indigenous Americans. You've seen their ICE Gestapo murdering citizens. The concentration camps. Do you really believe they give a toss about Uighurs or "human rights" anywhere in the world?
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En Cerdeña (Italia), los millonarios capitalistas utilizan helicópteros para desplazarse a una tienda a comprar ropa o a un restaurante de lujo... luego vuelven y los aterrizan en sus superyates que navegan por el mar.
Según un estudio de OXFAM, los multimillonarios emiten un millón de veces más gases de efecto invernadero que un trabajador normal, las 50 personas más ricas del mundo generan en 90 minutos lo que tú en toda tu vida.
El cambio climático es una lucha de clases, si queremos reducir la contaminación debemos empezar por quienes más contaminan, que son los capitalistas y sus ejércitos... pero en el capitalismo siempre se comen la austeridad los pobres, el daño ambiental se socializa, la naturaleza se destruye y el beneficio económico se privatiza.
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Leaked footage of Israeli ministers & military chiefs ordering soldiers/pilots to bomb & kill everything, including their own captured soldiers on October 7th.
The majority of the burned wreckage and destruction you saw was Israeli caused.
This is the Hanibal Directive.
te olsa katılmak gerekirmiş diye düşünürken Maldivlere gelişimin 1. yılında katıldığım yarı maraton geldi aklıma. Tabi ben yarının çeyreği kısmına katıldım 5 km. Maldivliler de yol kenarlarına statlar kurmuş işi festival havasına sokmuşlardı. Serde pis boğazlık var tabi +++
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