Guillaume De Nogaret

I slapped the Pope in 1303 and had soldiers of God burnt at the stake in 1314. I possess the right skill set for the current year.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

I have been reading the new UN report about how Israel has been targeting children in Gaza. There are no words to describe how awful it is. Here are some of the worst examples:

1) Hind Rajab and family, Tel al-Hawa, Gaza City, 29 Jan 2024. Named. A family of seven plus two paramedics killed. Hind Rajab, 5 to 6, stayed on the phone with rescuers for hours, trapped in a car among her dead relatives. Her cousin Layan Hamadeh, 15, was killed mid-call. The rescue ambulance, dispatched with COGAT clearance, was shelled.

2) The 15-year-old with the white flag, Khan Younis, 24 Jan 2024. Anonymous. Shot in the foot during an ordered evacuation while holding a white cloth, then shot twice more in the back and neck as he tried to rise. His 20-year-old brother killed running to him; their mother shot signaling for an ambulance. Assessed as DAN .338 sniper fire from about 200m.

3) The 10-day-old baby, Nuseirat camp, 12 Apr 2024. Anonymous. Shot in the head by a quadcopter-mounted rifle while being breastfed inside a tent. Survived with brain damage and seizures.

4) The 14-year-old killed with fragmenting pellets, Aug 2024. Anonymous. Cube-shaped pellets that fragmented internally like cluster munitions, destroying multiple organs. The report flags the munition itself as a possible war crime.

5) Jadallah "Jad" Jadallah, Al-Far'a camp, Tubas, 16 Nov 2025. Named. Jadallah Jihad Jouma Jadallah, 14, shot at close range and left bleeding for roughly 45 minutes while about 14 soldiers stood around him. One kicked his cap back when he threw it for attention, one filmed him, one placed a stone beside him to stage a stone-throwing pretext. Soldiers fired at his approaching mother and blocked two ambulances. Body withheld.

6) Layla al-Khatib, Muthallath al-Shuhada, 25 Jan 2025. Named. Layla (Laila) Muhammad Ayman al-Khatib, 2, shot in the back of the head during dinner at home, four bullets fired through the living room window. Youngest West Bank child killed in the reporting period. B'Tselem found the only man in the building was her grandfather, contradicting the "wanted terrorist" claim.

7) Saddam Rajab, Tulkarem, shot 28 Jan 2025, died 7 Feb 2025. Named. Saddam (Sadam) Rajab, 10, shot during an incursion. A soldier told the father, "I am the one who shot your son. God willing, he will die." Medical care obstructed; the boy died of his wounds days later.

8) Walid Ahmad, Megiddo Prison, died 22 Mar 2025. Named. Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, from Silwad. Healthy at arrest in Sept 2024; dead six months later of starvation, muscle wasting, untreated colitis and scabies. First Palestinian minor to die in Israeli custody since Oct 2023. Family learned of his death from a news article; body withheld.

9) The Sde Teiman 15-year-old, detention. Anonymous. Held among 70 adults, shackled until his hands bled, dogs released on prone detainees; described as "the worst days of my life." A separate 15-year-old reported being electrocuted via a needle in his shoulder over 54 days.

10) The four newborns at Al-Nasr Pediatric Hospital, Nov 2023. Anonymous. Found decomposing, still attached to defunct life-support machines, after staff were forced to evacuate without being able to move them. Independently verified by the Commission, Washington Post, and CNN.

11) Newborn hypothermia deaths, Dec 2024 to Feb 2025. Anonymous. At least 15 newborns, including a one-day-old girl, died of cold linked to lack of shelter, fuel, and incubators. UNICEF called the deaths preventable.

12) Sexual violence in detention. Anonymous. Forced public stripping and filming of boys during mass arrests; two cousins aged 7 and 13 stripped at gunpoint in Jenin; new reports of boys raped in custody, one on multiple occasions.

The Commission documents at least 20,179 Palestinian children killed and 44,143 wounded in two years, 30 percent of all the dead in Gaza, alongside 213 more killed in the West Bank. Thirteen times the Commission asked Israel to respond, and thirteen times it heard nothing back. Israel doesn't care enough to even respond. It kills children as a matter of policy.

[Almut Rochowanski @rochowanski]

Every post in this thread reads like satire about the paranoid mind

[Martin Konečný @MartinKonecny]

Now we know who in the EU is protecting even Ben-Gvir and Smotrich from sanctions.

At yesterday’s EU ambassadors meeting, according to @destandaard:

🇩🇪Germany insisted on leaving out Smotrich, limiting it to Ben-Gvir.
🇨🇿Czech Rep. alone against sanctioning even Ben-Gvir.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

BRITAIN’S OVERCAPACITY of atrocious leaders is causing chaos internationally, analysts say.

The island nation produces more horrible leaders than it can use and unloads them on innocent countries around the world, a study shows.

- Tony Blair, associated with horrific war crimes in the Middle East, is back there as a leading voice in the Board of Peace, a war-profiteering group focused on Gaza real estate.

- Boris Johnson continues to visit Ukraine to remind them that their ongoing sacrifice of a generation of young men for rich people in Washington DC is a good idea.

- Liz Truss works to encourage the US hard right and has relaunched herself as savior of western global supremacy, with a book, Ten Years to Save the West.

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CLASSIC OVERCAPACITY

“It’s classic overcapacity,” said analyst Saad Mann. “They produce far more examples of terrible leaders than they need and flood the world with them.”

- Rishi Sunak is an advisor to Anthropic, the AI company that works with Palantir, run by a real-life movie supervillain.

- David Cameron joined DLA Piper, a law firm that works for US President Donald Trump, a man unparalleled in his ability to cause global misery and chaos.

“The sheer number of ghastly premiers produced by one small country is remarkable,” said a spokesman for China.

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MORE TO COME

Meanwhile, critics note that the problem is likely to get worse.

- The wildly unpopular Keir Starmer is not expected to last long as Prime Minister.

- Waiting in the wings is Nigel Farage, who makes Donald Trump look like a DEI manager.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

[Bernard et Chantal @frenchboomers]

Canicule à Paris. Notre petite-fille Léa me dit qu'elle "étouffe" sous les toits dans son 9m².

On lui aurait bien proposé l'appartement à Odéon, mais il est loué tout l'été (12 000€ la semaine à des Américains adorables).

À l'époque on mettait un gant mouillé sur le front et ça se passait très bien.

Elle peut toujours aller au parc Monceau, c'est ombragé et c'est gratuit....

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Iranian media blamed the United Arab Emirates for the strike on the Lavan Island refinery, while Emirati officials have not acknowledged responsibility. Separate reporting by The Wall Street Journal, later cited by multiple outlets, said the UAE secretly carried out strikes inside Iran during the war, including the Lavan refinery attack.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 An oil spill triggered by an attack on an Iranian refinery during the Iran war has polluted waters around Shidvar Island, a protected wildlife breeding ground in the Persian Gulf, according to the Associated Press. Videos and satellite imagery show oil washing ashore on the uninhabited island, with dead birds, crabs, and fish reportedly found covered in oil. The spill followed an April 9 strike on a refinery on nearby Lavan Island.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Hillel at @TheNewSchool was found to have taken money from mandatory student fees and used it to support specific units in the IDF known for notorious war crimes. I think doing that should itself be a crime, but the audacity to think there is some natural right you have to take other people’s student fee funds and spend them on war crimes is mind blowing.

Hillel can’t raise its own funds to support units carrying out war crimes?

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Eric Swalwell's office door highlights his utility to the malign forces that propelled his career.

When he staged his first run for Congress in 2012, Swalwell’s seemingly underdog campaign was aggressively propelled by AIPAC, Big Pharma, and corrupt land developers. Their target was Rep. Pete Stark, a legendary reformer and antiwar stalwart who had infuriated the Israel lobby with his consistent opposition to wars on Iraq and Lebanon.

At the end of their only debate, Stark called Swalwell a “slimeball,” a “fucking crook,” accused him of bribery, and predicted, “you’re going to jail.” Mainstream media condemned Stark as a bully in the throes of cognitive decline, while Swalwell became their darling. After the centrist 31-year-old prosecutor eked out a victory, The New Republic hailed him as a “costume-donning, prop-loving thirty something who ousted Pete Stark.” No mention was made of the bathrobe he donned in his now-notorious role as a liquor-sodden lothario.

In Congress, Swalwell provided a reliable rubber stamp for military aid to Israel while distinguishing himself as the most cartoonish promoters of the Russiagate hoax. When he ran for president in 2019 – polling around 0% throughout his campaign – he branded himself the “Guns and Russia” candidate, meaning he would restrict guns for Americans while forking over billions in military aid to Ukraine.

With Swalwell’s demise, Pete Stark may have gotten the last laugh. But in a Democratic Party that is hostile to class politics, overrun by corporate lobbyists and occupied by Israel, Swalwell was a prototype. In his wake, new slimeballs will rise to the surface.

[Climate Warrior🐬 #ClimateJustice🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ClimateWarrior7]

I lived in Hungary for several years under the Orbán dictatorship.

The funny thing was, people could and did say whatever came into their heads, protests were held in front of the parliament, there was a gay cruise bar down the road and Orbán held elections.

And yet, the country was a dictatorship.

Whereas in the UK, people tend to be distinctly guarded and if they do say the wrong thing very publicly, they get locked up.

And yet, it's a free country.

Once you understand that words can mean whatever we want them to mean, it begins to make sense.

[Leonid Ragozin @leonidragozin]

There is a lot of grim stuff around, but German chancellor forcing Ukrainian men to die on the frontline is grimmer than most.

[Ethan Levins 🇺🇸 @EthanLevins2]

Israel bombed a funeral in Bekaa, Lebanon.

Over 10 already confirmed dead, mostly children and elderly.

The entire cemetery is destroyed.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇦🇭🇺 “Our Pride,” a Ukrainian NGO with links to Zelensky’s former Chief of Staff Andriy Yermak, is hiring people to “participate in an important public and political project in Hungary.”

They’re offering bonuses and “prizes,” are open to recruiting people with military experience, and claim to support “democratic values.”

The project in Hungary coincides with the election taking place, that same election that Zelensky is already accused of interfering with by paying €5 million a week to PM Orban’s opposition.

I’m sure that recruiting people with military experience for a special project in Hungary will be peaceful and not at all an attempt to interfere with another country’s democratic process.

Source: Robota

[Pepe Escobar @RealPepeEscobar]

From Moscow.

Confirmed by Russian GRU intel:

"Trump's handlers are going all in on Iran."

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

Whenever there's even the mere possibility of US/Iran negotiations, one thing tis certain: Israel will act immediately to destroy any such possibility, because Israel's goal is to lure the US to destroy the entire Iranian state and render it permanently shattered.

[Guillaume De Nogaret @GdeNogaret]

@paulg Wisely I didn't make such bet otherwise I would have had it for each of my son.

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

Iran has decided to share control of the Strait of Hormuz with Oman.

Iranian Foreign Minister:
“The future of the Strait of Hormuz will be determined by Iran and Oman, not external powers.”

By the way, among all the Arab Gulf countries, only Qatar and Oman have taken a restrained stance towards Iran and recognized the US-Israeli aggression.

The others have sided with Epstein's coalition.

Therefore, Iran will seek support precisely from these two countries.

[Russians With Attitude @RWApodcast]

USrael needs Iran to become a failed state, similar to what they did to Syria: no industrial economy, no universities, no modern medicine. They want Iranians to be too busy stabbing each other over food and dying of 18th century diseases to be able to function as a modern country

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

A desperate Germany is begging China to bail it out of a war that Germany - with its mindless hawkishness and blind deference to Israel - has helped bring about. Sad.

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Jewish troops will be looking for Muslims hidden in the attics of Christians. Let that sink in.