Robert Bas
@rpbas.bsky.social
(Ex)journalist (NOS, ANP, AD, Havenloods). Speelt Bandoneon & tuba. NL’er, maar woont nu in Sibiu/Hermannstadt in Transsylvanië (Roemenië)
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A scientific journal retracted a study which found that glyphosate — the active ingredient in one of the most widely used herbicides on the planet — does not pose a human health risk, igniting a debate over the chemical’s possible link to cancer.
A retracted study on Roundup reignites debate over its potential cancer risk
The 2000 study in the scientific journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology had concluded that the active ingredient in Roundup, glyphosate, did not pose a cancer risk to humans.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A scientific journal retracted a study which found that glyphosate — the active ingredient in one of the most widely used herbicides on the planet — does not pose a human health risk, igniting a debate over the chemical’s possible link to cancer.
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Tategate: How a Human Trafficking Suspect Was Protected by Trump’s Whitehouse. #SpookyConnections #3E #EndImpunity
Tategate: How a Human Trafficking Suspect Was Protected by Trump’s Whitehouse
Uncovering how Andrew Tate’s trafficking case became entangled with the Trump White House, foreign influence networks, and the vulnerabilities of U.S. federal institutions. Examines DHS interference, ...
spookyconnections.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Tategate: How a Human Trafficking Suspect Was Protected by Trump’s Whitehouse. #SpookyConnections #3E #EndImpunity
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Thread on the huge shift in US policy towards Russia visible in the new National Security Strategy - the biggest change since the collapse of the USSR. 🧵
December 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Thread on the huge shift in US policy towards Russia visible in the new National Security Strategy - the biggest change since the collapse of the USSR. 🧵
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Trump has no real peace plan. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are in Russia just to make business deals with the Russians to enrich themselves and their friends in exchange for selling out Ukraine and NATO countries.
December 3, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Trump has no real peace plan. Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are in Russia just to make business deals with the Russians to enrich themselves and their friends in exchange for selling out Ukraine and NATO countries.
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The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
Trump's national security strategy is out and some of the Europe sections are shocking. "...the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
gives cause for great optimism."
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.
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🇺🇸🇪🇺 US may partially "withdraw" from NATO by 2027, — Reuters
Washington demands that Europe take over most of NATO's conventional defense functions — from intelligence to missiles — by 2027
Washington demands that Europe take over most of NATO's conventional defense functions — from intelligence to missiles — by 2027
December 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🇺🇸🇪🇺 US may partially "withdraw" from NATO by 2027, — Reuters
Washington demands that Europe take over most of NATO's conventional defense functions — from intelligence to missiles — by 2027
Washington demands that Europe take over most of NATO's conventional defense functions — from intelligence to missiles — by 2027
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🦅🔥 Unmanned systems forces hit Syzran oil refinery.
December 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
🦅🔥 Unmanned systems forces hit Syzran oil refinery.
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Washington has been privately pressing European governments to block an EU proposal to deploy immobilized Russian funds for Ukraine’s financing needs, according to European diplomats quoted by Bloomberg. euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/05/u...
US presses EU states to reject Plan using frozen Russian assets for Ukraine — Bloomberg
Washington has been privately pressing European governments to block an EU proposal to deploy immobilized Russian funds for Ukraine’s financing needs, according to European diplomats quoted by…
euromaidanpress.com
December 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Washington has been privately pressing European governments to block an EU proposal to deploy immobilized Russian funds for Ukraine’s financing needs, according to European diplomats quoted by Bloomberg. euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/05/u...
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Vorige week zegde Mona Keijzer Nieuwsuur af over dit zelfde onderwerp omdat ze ook een vraag kon krijgen over haar gekat op de NOS. Dat gedrag wordt beloond, want nu kan ze over haar plan ouwehoeren bij een andere talkshow.
Vanavond in Pauw & De Wit: Marco Borsato werd vandaag vrijgesproken. Geert-Jan en Carry Knoops schuiven aan. We praten met Mona Keijzer over haar nieuwe voorstel om Oekraïense vluchtelingen na 2027 mee te laten draaien als volwaardige burgers. En Renske Leijten over de formatie.
December 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Vorige week zegde Mona Keijzer Nieuwsuur af over dit zelfde onderwerp omdat ze ook een vraag kon krijgen over haar gekat op de NOS. Dat gedrag wordt beloond, want nu kan ze over haar plan ouwehoeren bij een andere talkshow.
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Russia is falsely claiming to have captured Dobropillia near Huliaipole, according to the Ukrainian General Staff. A Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group infiltrated the village outskirts, taking advantage of bad weather. The group has since been eliminated.
December 4, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Russia is falsely claiming to have captured Dobropillia near Huliaipole, according to the Ukrainian General Staff. A Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group infiltrated the village outskirts, taking advantage of bad weather. The group has since been eliminated.
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BREAKING: The Pentagon released an 84-page report on Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal to discuss military strikes. It found he risked putting troops in danger.
Pentagon releases report on Hegseth’s Signal chats
The agency watchdog investigated whether the Defense secretary violated the agency’s standards for sharing classified information and put troops in danger.
www.politico.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
BREAKING: The Pentagon released an 84-page report on Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal to discuss military strikes. It found he risked putting troops in danger.
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‼️👀 Four unidentified drones flew in the direction of the flight path of Zelensky's plane, violating a flight ban, on Monday evening as he departed for Ireland, — The Journal reported.
December 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
‼️👀 Four unidentified drones flew in the direction of the flight path of Zelensky's plane, violating a flight ban, on Monday evening as he departed for Ireland, — The Journal reported.
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🧨 Why Is Trump So DESPERATE To Hide Jack Smith's Final Report?
open.substack.com/pub/deanblun...
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🧨 Why Is Trump So DESPERATE To Hide Jack Smith's Final Report?
New reporting from Politico details a desperate Trump doing everything he can to ban Jack Smith's final report from being released to the American people. Because he's GUILTY AF.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🧨 Why Is Trump So DESPERATE To Hide Jack Smith's Final Report?
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Putin delivering his usual nonsense, this time from New Dehli. In an interview with India Today, he claimed Russia didn’t occupy Crimea but came to “help people,” and that the war in Ukraine was started by the West, not Moscow. He called the full-scale invasion an effort to “end” war, not begin one
December 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Putin delivering his usual nonsense, this time from New Dehli. In an interview with India Today, he claimed Russia didn’t occupy Crimea but came to “help people,” and that the war in Ukraine was started by the West, not Moscow. He called the full-scale invasion an effort to “end” war, not begin one
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Russia sends stolen Ukrainian children to North Korea to become militarized.
December 4, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Russia sends stolen Ukrainian children to North Korea to become militarized.
We moeten de wolf met diplomatie benaderen www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Opinie | We moeten de wolf met diplomatie benaderen
Wolf: Diplomatie is niet alleen van belang met wolven, het kan ons ook helpen leren te samenleven met andere dieren, schrijft Eva Meijer.
www.nrc.nl
December 4, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We moeten de wolf met diplomatie benaderen www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Pointer: 'Geheim dossier onthult Assads geoliede moordmachine in Syrië: "Mensen moeten dit weten."' pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/geheim-dossi...
Geheim dossier onthult Assads geoliede moordmachine in Syrië: ‘Mensen moeten dit weten’
Geheime foto’s en documenten onthullen dat de prominente activist Mazen al-Hamada, net als duizenden anderen, slachtoffer werd van Assads martelsysteem. ||Duizenden documenten en foto’s, uit Syrië ges...
pointer.kro-ncrv.nl
December 4, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Pointer: 'Geheim dossier onthult Assads geoliede moordmachine in Syrië: "Mensen moeten dit weten."' pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/geheim-dossi...
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1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional.
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has been traveling the world to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations on behalf of the president.
popular.info
December 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
1. Jared Kushner's trip to Moscow yesterday was not just unethical; it was illegal.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
You cannot accept tens of millions of dollars from foreign governments and simultaneously conduct high-level diplomacy for the federal government.
It says it right in the Constitution.
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De @kyivindependent.com heeft tientallen Chinese officieren en werknemers van de 🇨🇳 defensie-industrie geïdentificeerd die Rusland bezochten om militaire contracten te onderhandelen tijdens de Russische oorlog in Oekraïne.
Investigation: Chinese military officials’ quiet visits to Moscow, exposed
Key findings:
* After Russia launched its full-scale war against Ukraine, China decided to purchase Russian aircraft, combat vehicles, ammunition, and equipment to enhance its paratroopers.
* Chine...
kyivindependent.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
De @kyivindependent.com heeft tientallen Chinese officieren en werknemers van de 🇨🇳 defensie-industrie geïdentificeerd die Rusland bezochten om militaire contracten te onderhandelen tijdens de Russische oorlog in Oekraïne.
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This ⬇️
'Russia’s destruction of Ukraine continues because Ukraine is under-supported, while Russia remains overprotected' write Ariana Gic, Marko Mikhelson and Roman Sohn.
Tragedy of the West: Sacrificing Ukraine and the Rules-Based Order
The result of Russia's war of aggression is a product of the ambivalence of the West, which by turns supported Ukraine's defence in the conflict and refused to escalate its response to a level consistent with the threat Russia poses. The rules-based ord...
www.rusi.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This ⬇️
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"There’s no need for dog whistles anymore. The government of the United States now openly stands for bigotry. It’s not just closing our borders; it’s targeting Americans."
@saletan.bsky.social on Trump's threat to denaturalize American citizens: lnk.thebulwark.com/48vef8l
@saletan.bsky.social on Trump's threat to denaturalize American citizens: lnk.thebulwark.com/48vef8l
Now Trump Is Threatening Naturalized Americans
He’s not just bashing refugees and illegal immigrants. He’s going after U.S. citizens born in other countries.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"There’s no need for dog whistles anymore. The government of the United States now openly stands for bigotry. It’s not just closing our borders; it’s targeting Americans."
@saletan.bsky.social on Trump's threat to denaturalize American citizens: lnk.thebulwark.com/48vef8l
@saletan.bsky.social on Trump's threat to denaturalize American citizens: lnk.thebulwark.com/48vef8l
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BREAKING: ADP says private-sector payrolls fell by 32,000 in November, with small businesses taking most of the hit.
This is NOT what a “Golden age” looks like.
This is NOT what a “Golden age” looks like.
December 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
BREAKING: ADP says private-sector payrolls fell by 32,000 in November, with small businesses taking most of the hit.
This is NOT what a “Golden age” looks like.
This is NOT what a “Golden age” looks like.
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In russia, the Druzhba oil pipeline was blown up again💥
It happened on the first night of winter, along the Taganrog–Lipetsk section of the pipeline, reported several Ukrainian media citing sources in Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence.
It happened on the first night of winter, along the Taganrog–Lipetsk section of the pipeline, reported several Ukrainian media citing sources in Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence.
December 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
In russia, the Druzhba oil pipeline was blown up again💥
It happened on the first night of winter, along the Taganrog–Lipetsk section of the pipeline, reported several Ukrainian media citing sources in Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence.
It happened on the first night of winter, along the Taganrog–Lipetsk section of the pipeline, reported several Ukrainian media citing sources in Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence.
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NAVO-chef Rutte: Poetin denkt ten onrechte dat hij het langer volhoudt
NAVO-chef Rutte: Poetin denkt ten onrechte dat hij het langer volhoudt
De buitenlandministers van de landen waren vandaag bijeen in Brussel, maar moesten het zonder de Amerikaanse minister doen.
nos.nl
December 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
NAVO-chef Rutte: Poetin denkt ten onrechte dat hij het langer volhoudt
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Troops are on the Ground in Venezuela. This is not going to end well. Read it here:
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open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...
December 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Troops are on the Ground in Venezuela. This is not going to end well. Read it here:
open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...
open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...