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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏May 16, 2023

Thailand election results are in, and pro-military parties are squarely trounced by pro-civilian and liberal-progressive parties.

Here's hoping the de-facto ruling military dictatorship faction does not annul or otherwise undermine these election results.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/thailand-election-pita-limjaroenrat-move-forward-pm-government-3489076

#Thailand #SoutheastAsia #Geopolitics / #fz_currentEvents

*Edit: forgot to include my personal commentary; or somehow it got deleted? 🤷

Move Forward leader Pita Limjaroenrat ready to form Thai government after electoral win

BANGKOK: Mr Pita Limjaroenrat, the leader and prime ministerial candidate of Thailand’s progressive party Move Forward, announced on Monday (May 15) that his political group is ready to form a majority government, following its

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Ferdinand F. Zebua May 2, 2023

CHOMSKY'S WRONG ABOUT UKRAINE. AGAIN. — A casual yet coherent breakdown on why Noam Chomsky's latest (published on New Statesman on April 2023) belief about Russia's "righteousness" in invading Ukraine is, once again, erroneous.

📹 https://youtu.be/rDcVk4Tz0yU

#Ukraine #Russia #geopolitics #PhilosophyOfGovernment #CurrentAffairs #VladVexler / #fz_webVideos #fz_currentEvents

Vlad Reacts: Chomsky on Ukraine

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏May 2, 2023

📹 https://youtu.be/rDcVk4Tz0yU

#Ukraine #Russia #geopolitics #PhilosophyOfGovernment #CurrentAffairs #VladVexler / #fz_webVideos #fz_currentEvents

Vlad Reacts: Chomsky on Ukraine

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏Jan 6, 2023

Here's an idea for the US Democratic party, from @beautfc, for taking advantage of the current chaos that is the US Republican party currently refusing to elect a speaker of the house:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA2tPK4-7Ok

#USPol #malarkey / #fz_currentEvents

Let's talk about Dem leverage, McCarthy, and the Speaker....

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏Dec 28, 2022

Jeez now why would Putin murder a sausage tycoon what did he even do!? 😑

BBC News, 28 Dec '22: Russian sausage tycoon Pavel Antov dies in Indian hotel fall

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64101437

#fz_currentEvents #Russia

Russian sausage tycoon Pavel Antov dies in Indian hotel fall

Meat millionaire Pavel Antov, who recently denied criticising the war in Ukraine, had just turned 65.

BBC News

Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏Nov 9, 2022

New video from @beautfc : "Let's talk about why there wasn't a 'red wave'..."

https://youtu.be/3z0VrkCBrv8

#fz_webVideos #fz_currentEvents / #USpol #Trumpism #TheKidsAreAlright

Let's talk about why there wasn't a red wave....

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Ferdinand F. Zebua Jul 26, 2022

"This Is Not a Climate Protest" (after Magritte) — There have been a spate of climate protest actions lately, the World over, where activists glue their hands to famous paintings at museum.
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To be clear this drawing of mine ⚠ is not ⚠ meant to minimize their effort, their message, nor the importance of their actions. I was just tickled to do a pseudo-Magritte illustration, inspired by the news.
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I also want to digitize this hand-drawing properly some time. Not tonight though I've got day-job homework to do. This was just me procrastinating.
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#fz_drawing #fz_thinkingOutLoud #fz_currentEvents / #ClimateAction #ExtinctionRebellion / 2022-07-26, 18:27pm

Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏Jul 18, 2022

16 July, 2022: Gunmen kill 10 traders, hurt 2, in Indonesia’s province of Papua. Murderers believed to be Papuan separatist rebels, possibly aligned with the West Papua National Liberation Army, local police said.

https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-8557eab22bda1e03bd3004d2703f31b9

#Indonesia #FreePapuaMovement #ArmedTerrorInPapua #RegionalPolitics #SoutheastAsia #Geopolitics / #fz_currentEvents #fz_currentAffairs #fz_links

Gunmen kill 10 traders, hurt 2, in Indonesia's restive Papua

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) — Gunmen believed to be separatist rebels killed 10 traders and wounded two others in an attack Saturday in Indonesia’s restive Papua province, police said. Clashes have escalated in country's the easternmost province since last year, when rebels set fire to several schools and killed two teachers.

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏Jun 2, 2022

«’An economic crisis will sober them up’» — Russian economist Andrei Yakovlev on the nature of Russia’s ruling coalition, and why Russian elites have failed to stop the war
Meduza news, June 2, 2022

🗒️ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/06/02/an-economic-crisis-will-sober-them-up

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#Russia #Ukraine #EuropeanEnergy #OilAndGas #Geopolitics / #fz_links #fz_currentEvents

'An economic crisis will sober them up' Economist Andrei Yakovlev on the nature of Russia's ruling coalition — and why elites have failed to stop the war — Meduza

It’s been over three months since Russia invaded Ukraine. The entire time, there haven’t been any major resignations from Russia's government, and no top officials have publicly spoken out against the war. Meduza spoke to the economist and Gaidar Prize laureate Andrei Yakovlev about what Russia’s elites are thinking, why they aren’t trying to influence the President, where the war is headed, and why ruling class replacement system fell apart as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed.

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏Jun 2, 2022

«Russia’s Catastrophic Oil & Gas Problem» — video essay from Real Life Lore channel (39 minutes)

https://yewtu.be/Eo6w5R6Uo8Y

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#Russia #Ukraine #EuropeanEnergy #OilAndGas #Geopolitics / #fz_links #fz_currentEvents

Russia's Catastrophic Oil & Gas Problem

Get a year of both Nebula and Curiosity Stream for just 14.79 here: https://curiositystream.com/?coupon=reallifelore Watch the full companion video covering Russia's Intervention in Syria here: https://bit.ly/3t1PWej Please Subscribe: http://bit.ly/2dB7VTO Select video clips courtesy of Getty Images Select video clips courtesy of the AP Archive Special thanks to MapTiler / OpenStreetMap Contributors and GEOlayers 3

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