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Rui Ramos's article critiques the UN's perception of Europe's colonial past, comparing historical figures such as D. Henrique and Vasco da Gama to Nazi leaders and arguing that the exclusive blame placed on Europeans for the slave trade ignores the historical complexity and diverts blame from other powers involved. (translated)

If 70,000 people arrive in one day, mostly younger men, it obviously has nothing to do with asylum. In such circumstances, we cannot operate according to the previous rules. Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner added: "If 70,000 people arrive in one day, mostly younger men, it obviously has nothing to do with asylum. In such circumstances, we cannot operate according to the previous rules." (translated)

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated at the annual Valdai Club forum that Russia did not start the war, but was forced to defend itself due to obvious aggression, while emphasizing the importance of strengthening defensive capabilities and cooperation for a peaceful future. (translated)

Real Madrid demands daily commitment and does not understand Kylian Mbappé's ATTITUDES. Out due to INJURY and without STEPPING ON VALDEBEBAS. Kylian Mbappé is determined to live in a state of permanent privilege, still unwilling to assimilate that he is a PLAYER of REAL MADRID. The question is that MBAPPÉ is injured in the knee, which is why he left the French national team camp, and to do the right thing, he should have traveled to Madrid to recover. While the locker room rallies in Valdebebas and the medical staff works at the sports city, Kylian Mbappé has not made an appearance in Madrid to advance his rehabilitation. Instead, Mbappé headed to Paris to enjoy a party. He should be focused on shortening the timeframe of his injury and decides to change the physiotherapist's stretcher and the gym in Valdebebas for the nightlife in the French capital. And in Mbappé's case, this is not the first time because it happened last season. He has not learned from the past and still does not understand what it means to be a footballer for Real Madrid. (translated)

So the vision of a backward Poland from the '80s and '90s. Wow, great promotion with AI... In Poland, people no longer wear headscarves, there are no old Fiats. You are more likely to see IKEA furniture than old PRL partition walls. I last saw carpet beating 5 years ago, and our blocks are insulated. (translated)

I have been following @snemovna since last night. This afternoon I had to be at work. However, the MPs do not have to be at work, even when it comes to expressing distrust in the government. How does the almost empty Chamber affect me as a voter? Like a farce. The most foolish are the obedient ministers who cannot read. It seems that their only qualification is loyalty to the owner. For example, the minister (as Bednárik would say) @ZMrazova_MMR. It's like listening to a comrade who pretends with a guilty look in her eyes to be a decent and honest person. And above all, without shame, she lies about how affordable housing is for everyone under Babiš. A really very perverse morning. (translated)

If you want to have knowledge of what a deceptive world we lived in, read this. If you want to be aware of what awaits us, read this. This may be my most important text. Once, "trolls" were farm workers who wrote what they were dictated. Now troll farms are collapsing because bots are replacing humans. Today, one moderately skilled programmer could control 100,000 bots. Hence the conflicts; troll farms are no longer needed, so why pay them? I saw a troll farm from the outside. I didn't enter their structures, I didn't create a fake account with a flag in the description, and I didn't write under the teachers' strike that children are hostages. I watched from a distance, at the network, at the comments that appeared quickly, too quickly, too consistently, too often on the same issues. And at the company that functioned for years like an ordinary e-PR agency. In 2019, an investigation by Newsweek and the Reporters' Foundation showed that the Wrocław Cat@Net was not just another agency for "creating a presence on social media." It was an organized troll farm. A dozen people managed over 170 fake profiles on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. The content reached millions of recipients. The business was co-financed from PFRON, as the company employed disabled individuals and could offer clients tax deductions. From November 2015 to August 2019, Cat@Net received around 1.5 million zlotys from the State Fund for Rehabilitation of Disabled Persons. From the outside, it looked innocent. An advertisement for teleworking, a student or graduate needed after journalism, working from home, "skillful influencing of recipients." Clients included large companies, small businesses, public administration, private individuals. In practice, accounts were built like characters from a series. A right-wing patriot from Żoliborz, a traditionalist, a student, a chatterbox. A photo from university, a post about lunch, and then, when a scandal erupted, a flood of comments. Teachers' strike - children as hostages, teachers are egoists in expensive scarves. TVP and Jacek Kurski - defense, image warming, attacks on critics. After the death of Paweł Adamowicz, blaming WOŚP and Owsiak, comparisons meant to shift responsibility from public television. What struck the most was not ideology, but flexibility. The farm had business accounts to slander companies, products, and brands, as well as political ones. It worked for TVP, but also for PiS politicians when they needed support before the European Parliament elections. Trolls from the same agency could publicly argue, but only according to a script. It wasn't about beliefs. It was about commission. The trails led journalists further, to the Art-Media agency, to circles associated with "Najwyższy Czas" and "Gazeta Polska," to names in the orbit of Antoni Macierewicz and Bartłomiej Misiewicz. I saw how easily a real person disappears behind an avatar, and the avatar begins to shape a debate that no one explicitly ordered, only paid for the chaos or falsehood of specific events. The troll farm didn't need us to believe in it. It was enough that we click, comment, and recognize as important and significant the voice produced on commission. PiS didn't have to paint the sign "PiS troll farm" on the office door to benefit from it. In practice, within the power camp, there was a mechanism that Newsweek's investigation exposed bluntly. It was fake accounts that coordinated hatred, defended TVP and Jacek Kurski, and attacked Owsiak, WOŚP, and Paweł Adamowicz, along with public money from PFRON that helped sustain this industry. It was a political infrastructure of lies, distorting the image of Poland as "Poland in ruins," pumping propaganda and sowing hate speech under the guise of "ordinary citizens." As long as a troll was right according to the line of power, no one in this environment asked whether the account was real. They only asked whether the post hit the opponent. #InstituteOfTruth (translated)

I really like Iraq. A great country where you stumble upon history at every turn, mostly nice and hospitable people, and in the end, I fell in love with the local cuisine. Today, the last American soldiers who were here as part of the fight against the Islamic State are withdrawing from Iraq. Thus ends a twelve-year-long war, which the terrorists waged without any rules and on whose bloody account the vast majority of the victims are civilians, often barbarically tortured. But who cares about Iraq today, the Yazidis, the Kurds… I will never get Iraq out of my head. I will always have in front of my eyes a number of friends I made there, and sometimes some of the more dramatic moments of my stays there come back to me at night. Today is another day when I wonder if it all made sense and what we could have done differently… (translated)

"U njoj očito sudjeluje strani akter. Za sada neću iznositi mnogo pojedinosti o tome. Želim zahvaliti vlastima u Ujedinjenom Kraljevstvu koje su bile vrlo kooperativne i koje su situaciju držale pod kontrolom”Američki državni tajnik Marco Rubio rekao je da iza terorističke zavjere protiv britanske zrakoplovne baze Fairford stoji strani akter. #terorizam #MarcoRubio #britanskazrakoplovnabaza

The article by António Maria Mello e Castro explores the growing tensions between Russia and Europe, suggesting that the Kremlin may be preparing offensives against European countries in response to Western support for Ukraine, while analyzing the political instability in major European democracies. (translated)