Bas Kousemaker (he/him)

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[Bas Kousemaker (he/him) @BasKousemaker]

#Truth

[Tomi 🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 @TallbarFIN]

Thank you @CaolanReports you are doing very important work. 🙏

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This is exactly what Europe needs now, calling out the bastards still doing business with the russians!

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

Ireland is a Russian colony in plain sight.
Russian mafioso Oleg Deripaska controls the colony.
Russians extract 67,000 tons of alumina per month from their colony and send it back to Russia to build weapons.
That's 83% of total production of Ireland.

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

The German far right's open attendance at Russia's SPIEF conference proves that the threat to Europe is already inside the house.

If the RN, AfD and Reform UK win elections, European security will completely collapse.

European democracy is facing its most dangerous moment since the Cold War. AfD sending representatives to Saint Petersburg to smile for cameras alongside war criminals is not an isolated incident. It is part of a coordinated, long-term strategy to place pro-Russian traitors and their puppets at the helm of the British, French, and German governments.

A political victory for the National Rally, AfD, or Reform UK at the next elections would be a historical catastrophe. These groups are designed to paralyze Europe, cut off vital aid to democracies under attack, and legitimize brutal authoritarian expansion. They wrap themselves in national flags, yet they take their marching orders directly from Moscow. Real traitors!

It is time to speak with total clarity about what a vote for these parties actually means. Choosing to support these movements is a betrayal of national sovereignty and a direct contribution to the destabilization of the West. Voters who fall for their populist rhetoric are actively enabling foreign subversion. A vote for them is a vote for Putin.

We need a massive mobilization of citizens within these countries to fight back against this creeping threat. Passivity is no longer an option when the enemy is on the ballot. We must aggressively expose their lies, contest their narratives, and protect the values that keep Europe safe and free

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

To make sure British citizens realise what's going on, Palantir can now:

• Build and run the National Firearms Registry, tracking the addresses and medical files of 500,000 gun and explosives holders across all 43 police forces.

• Map your digital footprint by trialling police systems (like Project Nectar) that pull your texts, call logs, emails, and social media data into a single profile.

• Track your physical movements by linking live number plate trackers, CCTV locations, and mobile phone tower pings.

• Process unverified intelligence by feeding anonymous tips and police notes about who you meet into automated linking models.

• Profile police officers using data-matching tools that actively scrape the device logs, vehicle uses, and system logins of a force's own employees.

• Access direct NHS data through a £330 million contract, using admin privileges that let engineers view patient environments before the files are scrambled (pseudonymised).

This is the same Palantir used to coordinate the largest simultaneous terrorist attack in history by the IOF in Lebanon.

This is the same Palantir used by the IOF since 2014 and actively being used in Gaza.

[neyi kaybettiğini hatırla @neyikaybettik]

Hussam Ebu Safieh, "İsrail'in rehineler için ölüm cezası" ile öldürülecek olan Filistinli doktorlardan biridir (diğer 95 doktor arasında).

Onu öldürmelerine izin verme.
Bunu yeniden yayınlayın.

[dr. Marina @mmeeuw]

Jules Deelder "Als je in Rotterdam woont ben je Rotterdammer. Er is maar één wereld, die is van ons allemaal. We gaan allemaal dood, dat maakt ons mens. Rotterdam moet daar het voortouw innemen en heel de discussie over de splijtzwam der groepsvorming moeten we geen kans geven."

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Today the EU made American AI illegal in 27 countries.

The reason is ONE sentence Microsoft's own lawyer said under oath:

This morning in Brussels, EU Tech Chief Henna Virkkunen unveiled the Cloud and AI Development Act. It's the most aggressive anti-American tech move from Europe since GDPR.

The law forces EU public sector procurement in banking, healthcare, defense, and energy to apply mandatory non-price factors favoring software and hardware built inside the EU. Microsoft Azure can be cheaper, AWS can be faster, Google Cloud can have the better model, and EU governments MUST legally prefer European alternatives.

AWS, Microsoft, and Google currently control roughly 70% of the European cloud market. Brussels is now openly targeting greater independence from US providers in cloud, AI, and semiconductors.

The largest regulatory market-share transfer in tech history is being written into law right now.

But the real story is how this happened...

On June 10, 2025, a man almost no one outside Brussels had heard of walked into the French Senate. His name is Anton Carniaux, Director of Public and Legal Affairs at Microsoft France.

Senator Dany Wattebled asked him under oath whether he could guarantee that data belonging to French citizens, stored on Microsoft European servers, would never be transmitted to US authorities without explicit consent from the French government.

Carniaux answered honestly. He admitted he could not guarantee it, because Microsoft must comply with the US CLOUD Act regardless of where European data physically sits. One sentence of sworn testimony from Microsoft's own counsel killed every sovereign cloud defense Big Tech had spent five years building.

It became the legal foundation for the law unveiled today.

Then Trump accelerated the divorce.

January 2025 brought executive orders expanding US surveillance authorities. Vance went to Munich and attacked European democracies on stage.

The tariffs followed and so did the Pentagon's $200 million AI contract war that ended with OpenAI replacing Anthropic after Hegseth labeled it a supply chain risk. So did OpenAI's Stargate and yesterday's Trump AI Executive Order, whose Section 3 lets the White House pick which AI companies get 30-day early access to frontier models. American AI was officially declared a US government strategic asset.

Europe heard every word of it.

On May 12, Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch told the French National Assembly that Europe had 24 months to build sovereign AI infrastructure or become a permanent US VASSAL state.

And the response came fast:

April 24: Cohere acquired Germany's Aleph Alpha for $20 billion with both Germany's and Canada's digital ministers in the room at the Berlin announcement. May 30: SoftBank committed up to $87 BILLION for French nuclear-powered data centers, the largest AI infrastructure project in European history.
Yesterday: EU Parliament announced it's dropping Google for French search engine Qwant tomorrow. France ordered every government workstation off Windows and onto Linux.

Today the Cloud and AI Development Act made all of it law.

- Mistral is building a 1.4 gigawatt AI campus near Paris by 2028 with Nvidia, MGX, and Bpifrance
- SAP's EU AI Cloud, launched last November, runs on Cohere, Mistral, and SAP's own sovereign infrastructure
- McKinsey forecasts $600 billion in sovereign AI needs by 2030

None of that money is going to Silicon Valley.

The America First AI policy built a wall around the world's most regulated economy, and American companies are on the wrong side of it.

Microsoft's lawyer told the truth in a Senate hearing nobody watched. Trump turned that admission into a national security narrative while the EU turned that narrative into procurement law.

And one entire continent walked away from the American tech stack...

[Alexander Browder @Alexbrowder_]

BREAKING. The Russian government has just announced that I have been added to their sanctions list for my work exposing their sanctions evading cryptocurrency A7A5. In doing so, I have exposed their Achilles’ heel. Without A7A5 they would not be able to fund their war of aggression. I have been sanctioned alongside Washington Post reporter @catherinebelton and 3 other UK nationals. It’s a badge of honour.

https://t.co/79b55DtSBK

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

Nigel Farage - the leader of Reform UK - is under investigation for failing to declare a £5 million 'gift'.

Please RT this until the BBC gives this story the same level of blanket coverage - as it would for the leader of any other UK political Party.

[Bas Kousemaker (he/him) @BasKousemaker]

@pantarheio @overlistener Convicted felon, that’s she

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

‘Khan is right to block Palantir deal – now let’s cancel their NHS contract’ – via @LabourList https://t.co/W0FiAijoQd

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 HOLY SHIT.

A constitutional law expert just said Americans now have “not much” legal recourse when federal agents violate their constitutional rights.

Read that again.

He said rights without remedies are basically just “guidelines” or “suggestions.”

And honestly…

that’s the terrifying part.

Because most Americans still believe:
if the government violates your rights,
a court will save you.

But legal experts are now openly warning that in many cases, the system is increasingly designed to protect the government FROM accountability instead.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 WOW.

Sen. Blumenthal says he was “shocked” after Republicans quietly inserted a provision giving ONLY U.S. senators the right to sue the federal government for constitutional violations.

Not ordinary Americans.

Just senators.

Think about how insane that is.

Lawmakers looked at government overreach and basically said:

“You know who really needs extra protection here?
Us.”

Meanwhile everyday Americans can allegedly be detained, surveilled, have records accessed, or rights violated…

and they get told:
“Good luck.”

The provision got killed after backlash.
But the fact it was inserted at all tells you everything.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

A reminder, all the big American influencers will be in Russia this week.

They say they're going to see the "beautiful churches". Nothing to do with the massive crypto payments they will recieve for promoting Putin's nonsense.

[Bas Kousemaker (he/him) @BasKousemaker]

@gavinzaentz Claude

[John Doomer @jonathandoomer]

The Pope just dropped the theological patch notes for the entire AI industry:

“Your chatbot can generate a breakup text, a fake Van Gogh, and a VC deck about replacing nurses, but it has never held its mother’s hand in a hospital room, never felt shame, never prayed, never forgiven anyone, never had to live with what it said.”

It can imitate the soul.

It cannot grow one.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

You'll shortly read—if you haven't already—that a Russian missile has struck and caused huge damage in Romania, a NATO country. You'll thereafter read that it was likely a mistake and won't cause WW3.

But the strike was preceded—6 days ago—by this report: https://t.co/YoFFI7TevN

[IllimarLepikvonWirén @iLepikVonWiren]

A Fianna Fáil MEP has said that British officials are worried that Ireland has become a “back door” to Kremlin spies, as thousands of russians are granted visas every year. 

Since the invasion of Ukraine, Irish officials have granted 14,000 visas to russian nationals - an approval rate of 90%. 

https://t.co/icq9ZB9FSU

[Rocca @ghostofRoc]

Kremlin narrative:
“Ukraine shelled the Donbas”

Reality:
Russians crossed into east Ukraine in 2014 and posted videos of themselves firing rockets at both Ukrainian military + their own side so they could blame civilian casualties on the Ukrainian govt

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

russians abducted the mother of a Ukrainian serviceman, brutally tortured her for over a year, and then sentenced her to 13 years for… writing letters to her son.

This is not just a crime — it is demonstrative terror against Ukrainian mothers. Olga (Olga Viktorivna Cherniavska), born May 13, 1980, from Tokmak in the Zaporizhzhia region.

Before the occupation, she managed a store. Her son serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. That alone was enough for the occupiers to make her a target.

On May 25, 2023, she was abducted. For over a year, she was held in total isolation — without contact, without legal status, without a lawyer.

Testimony from another political prisoner, Yulia Koveshnikova: Olga’s body was covered in bruises and burn marks from torture.

Her family tried to reach every russian institution — to no avail. Only on August 15, 2024 did the occupiers “formally” bring charges under “espionage”.

The accusation is absurd: allegedly, from February to December 2022, she “sent data to her son via messenger about russian troop positions in Tokmak.” Even though her phone was taken immediately after her abduction.

On December 12, 2024, the occupation “Zaporizhzhia Regional Court” in Simferopol sentenced her to 13 years in a general-regime penal colony. On May 6, 2025, the appeals court (Judge Sergey Vyacheslavovich Babkov) upheld the sentence, but counted the term from the moment of her abduction.

Memorial has recognized Olga as a political prisoner and is demanding her immediate release. This is a classic russian “trial” — no real examination, based on torture and falsifications.

This is not an isolated case. russians are deliberately terrorizing the families of defenders: Svitlana Dovhopola from Enerhodar received 14 years for donating to her son in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Olga is 46 years old. She is an ordinary Ukrainian mother who simply loved her son.