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[DMP @DMPender]

Sound advice.

[الدقم الاقتصادية | Economic Duqm @sezaduqm]

#Duqm is giving Oman’s next generation a closer look at the industries shaping its future.

SEZAD working in partnership with Sultan Qaboos University has launched a summer internship program for 18 undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines. Over the course of the program, they’ll spend time with leading companies in Duqm, working on assignments linked to daily operations, gaining a better understanding of how academic study translates into today’s demanding workplace.

For more, read the full story:
https://t.co/fEh1YSrylF

[الدقم الاقتصادية | Economic Duqm @sezaduqm]

EVs account for 1 in 4 new cars sold worldwide. ELB&T's US$250 million manufacturing plant in Duqm is part of that story with its Oman-made EV and battery cells set to help feed this growing global appetite.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Eleven children killed or injured every 24 hours in Lebanon, UN says - https://t.co/VRg3ak1x2k

[films7 @films7]

David Lynch : "Pour le genre de choses que je voulais faire, le cinéma européen m'intéressait davantage que le cinéma américain. On va parfois au cinéma juste pour sortir, et parfois il y a les films qui vous pénètrent et vous font frissonner l'âme. Et la plupart de ces films-là viennent sans aucun doute d'Europe."
(Entretiens avec Chris Rodley)
Mulholland Drive, Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Angelo Badalamenti, Les Films Alain Sarde, Studiocanal, États-Unis, France, 2001

[abdullah baabood عبدالله باعبود @abaabood]

As a result, Oman found itself increasingly sidelined, with noticeably fewer high-level contacts and less engagement from the Trump administration despite its longstanding role as a trusted U.S. partner and mediator.

[abdullah baabood عبدالله باعبود @abaabood]

He appears to be repeating the same position he held during his first term, but this time with an overt threat. That is both unfortunate and strategically counterproductive, given Oman’s longstanding role in facilitating dialogue and reducing tensions in the region.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned, Mr Blair kept quiet while honing his skills at securing power by other means.

His first job, after his ejection from 10 Downing Street, was as the West’s Middle East envoy, with a supposed emphasis on Gaza. It took six painful years for Mr Blair’s tenure to prove a failure so profound it amounted to active complicity in Israel’s ethnic cleansing, in Palestinian erasure, and in paving the ground for the ongoing genocide.

Soon after, the Chilcot Inquiry demolished Blair’s Iraq lies, exposing him as a liar, a chancer and a war criminal responsible for countless corpses of Iraqis, but also of British soldiers.

Then came Blair’s real innovation: the financialisation of the ex-premiership itself. The Tony Blair Institute, fuelled by £130 million from Oracle's Larry Ellison—coincidentally, the largest individual donor to the Friends of the IDF—became a shadow state, brokering governance contracts for autocrats and companies like Palantir that weaponise AI to produce mega-death abroad and full-on surveillance of Western populations.

Now, in May 2026, this corporate fixer issues a 5700 word tantrum demanding that Labour embrace Trump even more than Starmer already has, denounce what is left of Labour’s betrayed Green New Deal, and trash the remnants of workers' rights. This is not the wisdom of an aging statesman. It is the frantic squirming of a man fearing his grip on oligarchic power might soon wane and whose entire post-10 Downing Street existence depends on preventing the many from ever reclaiming what the few have plundered.

https://t.co/1Onlpx9Nkh

[abdullah baabood عبدالله باعبود @abaabood]

Trump’s blunt rhetoric threatening to “blow up” Oman -a peaceful and neutral country, longtime US partner, and trusted mediator that has repeatedly helped Washington through diplomacy and backchannel negotiations -is reckless, dangerous, and totally unacceptable.

[abdullah baabood عبدالله باعبود @abaabood]

Oman will continue to pursue its peaceful policy of neutrality, dialogue, and diplomacy, and will not bow to the dictates of Trump and Netanyahu. It will not sign the ineffective Abraham Accords while supporting the Arab Peace Initiative and the 2-states solution.

[abdullah baabood عبدالله باعبود @abaabood]

Certainly. Threatening Oman-a peaceful, neutral, and longtime U.S. partner- is a serious strategic mistake. Undermining one of the most reliable and trusted diplomatic bridges with Iran only weakens diplomacy and further damages American credibility in the Gulf.

[محمد بن أبوبكر السيل الغساني @Ceomohd1963]

The State Department’s official account just threatened to bomb a nation famous for being a neutral peace mediator . Next up: 'President Trump warns Canada: hand over maple syrup or else.😅

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

Happy birthday Eric Cantona.

[Grizz Khan @GrizzKhan]

A genius of a coach. Belter of a human ❤️

[الدقم الاقتصادية | Economic Duqm @sezaduqm]

New episode of #DuqmNow. This time, the conversation turns to tourism in Duqm and the work of turning a remarkable stretch of Oman’s Arabian Sea coast into a destination people choose, remember and return to https://t.co/OzfcescSEN

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

Immigration makes Britain brilliant.

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

On this day May 5th 1981, Bobby Sands passed away after 66 days on hunger strike.

“I may die, but the Republic of 1916 will never die. Onward to the Republic and liberation of our people.”

— Bobby Sands

[CONSEQUENCE @consequence]

Mick Jagger reveals how Robert Smith ended up on The Rolling Stones' new album:

"I turned up one day to do my vocals in London and there's this bloke standing there with his back to me with his long gown on, and when he turned around he was covered in lipstick.

"I've never met him before and I said, 'You are Robert Smith of The Cure.' And he said, he said, 'Yeah, we've never met.' And then I said, 'Well, while you're here then you'd better go and do something.' That's how collaborations work sometimes. Go out and sing the backing vocal."