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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 24/05/2026
🖊️ new @palestinespace.bsky.social database entry: GKN Aerospace Supplied to the entity: - F-16 and F-35 parts from Germany and possibly the UK - PACBI target for partnership with Israeli company Eviation on aircraft development Space activities: - Ariane rocket program - Orion for Artemis II
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Palestine Space Institute seeks to reshape the narrative surrounding space, striving to ensure that outer space remains a domain for the betterment of all humanity rather than a perpetuation of confli...
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the most typical @jazzpomegranate.com · 02/05/2026
@palestinespace.bsky.social spends all that time compiling their reports and then he just says it directly in a press conference
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LIVE: Trump meets with Artemis II astronauts at the White House (full)
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 30/04/2026
I'll be presenting virtually at #EGU2026 on Monday on behalf of @palestinespace.bsky.social about our model of political education in science. Abstract & info: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-...
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Abstract EGU26-21981
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 29/04/2026
Btw von Braun’s buddy Arthur Rudolph helped build the UK space program, too. You can read a little about that here: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... @palestinespace.bsky.social
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The Palestine Space Institute: Disrupting a Culture of Space Militarism, Colonialism, and Imperialism
The Palestine Space Institute (PSI) is a think tank established with a transformative vision: to challenge and disrupt the prevailing colonial and militaristic narrative in the space industry. Recogni...
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 29/04/2026
“Dual-use” is a lie! About that: www.palestinespace.org/spacewashing @palestinespace.bsky.social
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 28/04/2026
Interested in #SpaceComplicity? Read in order: Intro to PSI - zenodo.org/records/1718... PSI - Database - www.palestinespace.org/database Militarism in space (history/present) - averyreview.com/issues/71/ou... PSI - Spacewashing - www.palestinespace.org/spacewashing @palestinespace.bsky.social
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 27/06/2025
15 months after Palestine Space Institute exposed that over half of NASA spending goes to companies arming the genocidal entity, how can you still be saying “fund science not war”? We cannot go back to the polite genocidal “normal.” #SpaceComplicity
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 06/04/2025
A long-term contractor for NASA on the astronaut program, CACI, was found liable for torturing kidnapped Iraqis at Abu Ghraieb in November a month or two after NASA awarded it a new $2 billion contract Not a single space news site or science freelancer will report on this
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 12/04/2025
Genocide was not sufficient for any planetary science organization—in a field where 50.2% of NASA’s spending goes to companies arming the genocidal entity—to issue an “advocacy action center.” But all these organizations formal and informal worked overtime to suppress those who tried.
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 07/03/2025
As an aside: 50.2% of NASA spending goes to 29 companies that arm the Israeli occupation forces to commit genocide in Palestine.
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 28/04/2026
50% of NASA funding goes to companies complicit in the genocide in Gaza. @palestinespace.bsky.social
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
It is not an exaggeration to say that NASA's early success were built on the work of Nazis, who were brought to the U.S. after World War II.
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The true story of the secret program that brought Nazi scientists to the U.S.
After World War II, Operation Paperclip quietly recruited German scientists to work on its most advanced weapons and space programs—including some who had been active in the Third Reich.
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
NASA is arguably the most successful spacewashing campaign ever. www.palestinespace.org/spacewashing
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Palestine Space Institute - Spacewashing
What is Spacewashing? The Palestine Space Institute (PSI) has conceptualized spacewashing to explicitly describe the practice of nation states, multinational corporations, and other actors use space a...
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
NASA contracts with the same companies who kill people for oil and perpetuate genocide. You can learn more from our 2024 NASA case study. www.palestinespace.org/database
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 01/04/2026
Space Launch System (SLS) manufacturers that supply the zionist entity: Aerojet Rocketdyne, Boeing, Collins, Jacobs, KBR Wyle, Moog, Northrop, Orbital, Safran Via @palestinespace.bsky.social
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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 07/04/2026
Anyway, if you’re interested in learning more specifically about the connections between the space industry and the genocide in Palestine, you should follow the work of @palestinespace.bsky.social www.palestinespace.org
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 17/04/2026
This has been a long time in the making. Read our new definition paper on spacewashing. @palestinespace.bsky.social www.palestinespace.org/spacewashing
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Palestine Space Institute - Spacewashing
What is Spacewashing? The Palestine Space Institute (PSI) has conceptualized spacewashing to explicitly describe the practice of nation states, multinational corporations, and other actors use space a...
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 23/03/2026
Last chance to apply today:
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
This weekend is your last chance to sign up for our workshop series! Apply here: tiny.cc/PSIworkshops
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Registration for the 2026 PSI Workshop Series
We at the Palestine Space Institute are pleased to invite you to register for our 4-part workshop series focused on critical analysis of the space sector. Session Topics and Dates (All sessions will ...
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
PSI invites you to apply to our 2026 Workshop: Bringing Humanity to the Stars. This 4-session workshop will take place with invited participants collaborating on critical analysis of the space sector. Applications are due Monday, March 23. Apply here: tiny.cc/PSIworkshops
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PSI 2026 Workshop Series. Bringing Humanity to the Stars. A community effort to co-produce knowledge for justice in space. Apply Now button.
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Successful applicants will receive responses by Friday, April 3 with more information. We look forward to reviewing your application. Please reach out with any questions. Apply here: tiny.cc/PSIworkshops
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Registration for the 2026 PSI Workshop Series
We at the Palestine Space Institute are pleased to invite you to register for our 4-part workshop series focused on critical analysis of the space sector. Session Topics and Dates (All sessions will ...
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Reminder to apply to join @divyampersaud.com and @spacelawshitpost.me for the 2026 PSI Workshop Series by Monday March 23! Apply at this link: tiny.cc/PSIworkshops
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Registration for the 2026 PSI Workshop Series
We at the Palestine Space Institute are pleased to invite you to register for our 4-part workshop series focused on critical analysis of the space sector. Session Topics and Dates (All sessions will ...
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 09/03/2026
Come join us at @palestinespace.bsky.social for critical discussions to advance our understanding of space, the military-industrial complex, and settler colonialism:
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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Black In Astro @blackinastro.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Apply now 👇🏼
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 17/03/2026
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Reminder to apply to join @divyampersaud.com and @spacelawshitpost.me for the 2026 PSI Workshop Series by Monday March 23! Apply at this link: tiny.cc/PSIworkshops
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Registration for the 2026 PSI Workshop Series
We at the Palestine Space Institute are pleased to invite you to register for our 4-part workshop series focused on critical analysis of the space sector. Session Topics and Dates (All sessions will ...
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 11/03/2026
All of these are also "space companies." See @palestinespace.bsky.social database: www.palestinespace.org/database
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Successful applicants will receive responses by Friday, April 3 with more information. We look forward to reviewing your application. Please reach out with any questions. Apply here: tiny.cc/PSIworkshops
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Registration for the 2026 PSI Workshop Series
We at the Palestine Space Institute are pleased to invite you to register for our 4-part workshop series focused on critical analysis of the space sector. Session Topics and Dates (All sessions will ...
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
PSI invites you to apply to our 2026 Workshop: Bringing Humanity to the Stars. This 4-session workshop will take place with invited participants collaborating on critical analysis of the space sector. Applications are due Monday, March 23. Apply here: tiny.cc/PSIworkshops
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PSI 2026 Workshop Series. Bringing Humanity to the Stars. A community effort to co-produce knowledge for justice in space. Apply Now button.
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 07/03/2026
Manufacturers of ammunition for the IOF: - 30 mm chain gun/Apache ammunition - General Dynamics - 120 mm mortars - General Dynamics - 155 mm shells - General Dynamics, Thales - Unspecified ammunition - Elbit Systems Source: @palestinespace.bsky.social
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 05/12/2025
Further discussion here @palestinespace.bsky.social: www.palestinespace.org/database "Beyond the research connections and dual-use relationships...is this reality: NASA, arguably the most significant space research entity in the world, is still, ultimately, the state." #SpaceComplicity
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Palestine Space Institute - PSI Database
Palestine Space Institute seeks to reshape the narrative surrounding space, striving to ensure that outer space remains a domain for the betterment of all humanity rather than a perpetuation of confli...
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 11/12/2025
A reminder that @palestinespace.bsky.social's growing database of 80+ companies complicit in the genocide is public now. Each entry lists, with numerous citations, products supplied + documented use of those products, as well as shipments... www.palestinespace.org/database
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Palestine Space Institute - PSI Database
Palestine Space Institute seeks to reshape the narrative surrounding space, striving to ensure that outer space remains a domain for the betterment of all humanity rather than a perpetuation of confli...
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 17/12/2025
Use @palestinespace.bsky.social’s database to learn which manufacturers are in your country. www.palestinespace.org/database
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Palestine Space Institute - PSI Database
Palestine Space Institute seeks to reshape the narrative surrounding space, striving to ensure that outer space remains a domain for the betterment of all humanity rather than a perpetuation of confli...
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 31/12/2025
With Sahba El-Shawa, on using satellite imagery to study destruction in Gaza, for @palestinespace.bsky.social We presented this at IAC, where we raised funds for Spark Space - chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Witnessing with Earth Observation: Using Sentinel-2 Data to Assess Environmental Destruction in Gaza
Assessing environmental destruction in war-affected regions presents significant challenges due to restricted ground access, damaged infrastructure, and ongoing security concerns. Traditional field-ba...
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 31/12/2025
For @palestinespace.bsky.social - I spent a few months working to make our database public and expand it to now include 80+ companies complicit in the genocide, as well as specific details on documented complicity. www.palestinespace.org/database #SpaceComplicity
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Palestine Space Institute - PSI Database
Palestine Space Institute seeks to reshape the narrative surrounding space, striving to ensure that outer space remains a domain for the betterment of all humanity rather than a perpetuation of confli...
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 19/01/2026
Sahba El-Shawa's latest in UN News, talking about the work of @palestinespace.bsky.social: news.un.org/ar/story/202... (Arabic)
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الباحثة الفلسطينية -الأردنية صهباء الشوا: الفضاء الخارجي ليس محايدا، بل مرآة للعدالة والظلم على الأرض
اختارت الأمم المتحدة الباحثة الفلسطينية - الأردنية صهباء الشوا ضمن الدفعة الخامسة من مبادرة القادة الشباب من أجل أهداف التنمية المستدامة لعام 2025، تقديرا لعملها الرائد في توظيف تكنولوجيا الفضاء لخدمة...
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 03/02/2026
Over and over in @palestinespace.bsky.social’s work (or if you’ve ever been part of a divestment campaign for a city or district) it’s clear that people in the US and UK, regardless of their politics, really fucking hate weapons manufacturers in their neighborhoods—once they find out about them
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 03/02/2026
Your reminder that every alien conspiracy is about US weapons & military aircraft testing. That is the only thing being “hidden” from you.
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Social justice cannot be achieved without confronting power, and challenging the structures that normalize violence and impunity.
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND SPACEWASHING
Social justice requires examining how systems of power,
inequality, and violence are produced and sustained.
Presenting space as neutral and universally beneficial only
serves to limit scrutiny of how it hinders social justice via:
militarism and the arms trade
surveillance, borders, and occupation
colonial and extractive practices
This is what PSI has termed “spacewashing.”
Spacewashing describes how states and corporations
use space activities, space science, and space
imaginaries to deflect attention from their role in violence,
militarism, and the military-industrial complex.
SPACEWASHING MECHANISMS
Spacewashing operates across multiple layers, including:
Greenwashing: framing military-driven R&D as
improving “efficiency” or “sustainability”
Diversity washing: celebrating “first women” and “first
people of color” while building weapons systems
Humanitarian washing: offering “crisis EO data” while
supplying militaries and selectively restricting access
Normalization of genocide, apartheid, occupation:
presenting space as advancing “peace” and
“diplomacy” while enabling repression through
partnerships with occupying entities

These are not separate tactics; they reinforce each other.
The entanglement of space with colonial and imperial
interests is both material and ideological.
SPACEWASHING AND PALESTINE
In the context of Palestine, space technologies and
research are directly entangled with:
surveillance of Palestinian populations
targeting of civilian infrastructure
border enforcement and population control
the normalization of occupation and apartheid

All while space agencies, corporations, and research
institutions:
normalize relations with occupying forces
obscure their ties to the arms trade
frame participation in space as evidence of moral and
technological progress

Spacewashing functions as an ideological shield that
obscures responsibility and limits accountability.
SPACEWASHING ENABLES GENOCIDE
As genocide continues in Gaza, space imaginaries are
mobilized to:
distract from material violence
launder corporate and state responsibility
rebrand militarism as innovation
To challenge this, PSI offers intellectual resistance as a
framework for re-politicizing global space discourse in the
pursuit of social justice.
On this World Day of Social Justice, we must ask:
How can space be fundamentally reimagined to confront
its entanglement with militarism and empire, and to
dismantle spacewashing rather than reproduce it?
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
On this World Day of Social Justice, we name #spacewashing: how space exploration is used to obscure militarism, colonialism, and global oppression, including in Palestine. PSI challenges these narratives through research, advocacy, and our Space+MIC database.
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WORLD DAY OF SOCIAL JUSTICE
SPACEWASHING 101
How space exploration is used to whitewash militarism, 
colonialism, apartheid, and genocide
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
@spacelawshitpost.me wants you to apply to the PSI fellowship.
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"Yeah, come work with us." - AJ (from the abyss).
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 28/10/2025
Come work with us.
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Apply now to join a global community reimagining the future of space for justice 🌍 Application form: tiny.cc/psi-fellowship Deadline: November 10, 2025
Palestine Space Institute logo and header “PSI Fellowship General Info.” Text explains the six-month remote fellowship open to individuals worldwide, with mentorship and research support provided. Expected outcomes include a research report, blog post, and presentation. Fellows receive a stipend upon completion. Blue background with glowing edges.Palestine Space Institute logo and header “PSI Fellowship Timeline.” Text lists:

Application deadline: November 10, 2025

Review and interviews: November 2025

Notification: December 2025

Start date: January 2026

Midway milestones: February–April 2026

Final deliverables: June 2026

Showcase event: July 2026
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Palestine Space Institute @palestinespace.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
PSI Fellowship applications are now open! 🚀 The second round of our fellowship will focus on Earth Observation for Gaza, exploring how satellite data can support justice, accountability, and sustainability. Application form: tiny.cc/psi-fellowship Deadline: November 10, 2025
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Data and technical analysis (remote sensing, satellite imagery, open datasets).

Legal and policy considerations (data access, sovereignty, privacy, and international space law). Blue gradient background.
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 27/10/2025
Our @palestinespace.bsky.social database of 82 companies and their complicity in the genocide or supply of the zionist arms industry is now public. We also now have a database of products & their documented use in the genocide. Fill out the form for access. www.palestinespace.org/psi-database
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Palestine Space Institute seeks to reshape the narrative surrounding space, striving to ensure that outer space remains a domain for the betterment of all humanity rather than a perpetuation of confli...
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 20/10/2025
In fact the opposite, I stopped hearing from all the space freelancers overnight !
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 20/10/2025
And remember when we revealed that at least half of NASA spending—$39 billion—goes to companies that arm the zionist entity and the funding was in part for weapons development And no one picked that up or particularly cared
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Dr. Divya (🔔 logged out) @divyampersaud.com · 20/10/2025
Remember when we revealed that NASA had purchased hundreds of lethal firearms directly from Glock for border patrol at NASA sites and no one picked that up or particularly cared
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