The EU fears its credibility is at stake as it seeks to weigh growing concerns about the crushing of dissent in Tunisia while preserving a controversial migration deal with the north African country, according to a leaked document.

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    Imagine my disgust when I learned the USA, under Madame Secretary Killary, helped the brutal crushing of the Arab Spring (and it seems we helped start it, too, besides the normal covert stuff we do, but I can’t remember), which iirc, also began because a man had only one it two tomatoes to sell to provide another black day for his family, that were ruined by the overturning of a table, or something like that.

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        PNAC lays out a plan to destabilize the middle east, and it worked. There was a video of Wesley Clark or someone and a bunch of emails leaked to WikiLeaks and their competitor, forget the name rn. Assange was a political prisoner, not a criminal one.

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            We used to have a website called the memory hole that helped preserve such documents but things happened. I had guests come in around 3a.m. so I’m not quite awake yet, and don’t remember the exact details rn. If I remember later, I’ll see if I can find documentation, but a lot of it was scrubbed, lost etc