Libertarian agenda is continued under Starmer's Labour, making UK an unregulated tax haven. I make the case for a free, social EU including UK. Proud 2b woke.
@g_gosden Corruption is global and very hard to root out. But when it takes human lives and destruction, such as in the cases of Hillsborough, Grenfell, PPE, Covid in care homes, and news media, politicians and the judiciary keep each other protected, it becomes a different matter.
Brazil election isn’t Lula vs. Bolsonaro.
It’s Lula vs. Israel , trump , Meta, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, local news channels, local media, Elon Musk, Google, social media algorithms...
And Lula will win
🇮🇱 Clashes are breaking out in Israel between Orthodox Jews and Zionist authorities.
Scenes many people never expected to see.
Religious Jews protesting against Israel that claims to speak in their name.
Judaism and Zionism are not the same.
ONLY A MORALLY SICK SOCIETY TREATS RAPISTS LIKE CELEBRITIES…
The victim he raped on camera was a 16-year-old boy.
The assault ruptured his intestines.
He died 10 days later.
Once again, a civilian merchant vessel has been attacked near the edge of Romania’s territorial waters. The ship has sunk, and there are reports of deaths and injuries. The perpetrator is, in all likelihood, Russia once again.
And once again, NATO is taking no action.
In the Black Sea, 13 nautical miles (24 km) off the coast of Constanța, a merchant vessel sailing under the flag of the Comoros was attacked by a drone. There were 13 people on board: 10 Ukrainian citizens and 3 Azerbaijani citizens.
Nine crew members were rescued, one crew member died, and three others remain missing.
Trump's America has now joined the exclusive club of countries that have blocked or obstructed independent international election observation.
Other members include Russia, Belarus, Georgia and Tajikistan.
Quite the company for the world's self-proclaimed beacon of democracy.
NHS England has said that you cannot opt out of Palantir having your medical data and they refuse to review their policy.
So if you live in England, Palantir, Donald Trump, Netanyahu and co have access to all your medical data.
Nobody voted for this.
Pete Hegseth reportedly wanted Dwight Eisenhower's globe in his office, but did not want to wait for historians to move it and went rogue.
Hegseth's staff then attempted to move it themselves and broke the historic globe.
🇧🇷 Presidente Lula afirma que "vai pro pau" contra a Meta, dizendo que o Brasil não aceitará que uma empresa estrangeira influencie de forma negativa os brasileiros e a humanidade com um "império digital". Lula também defendeu a solidariedade entre as pessoas e o humanismo.
Jared Kushner's iPhone was hacked.
Dutch military intelligence got access to his iPhone.
He had two bank accounts.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited up to $700 million dollars in transfers.
And Hunter Biden sold a painting.
To put it bluntly: According to the latest "peace plan" from street-huckster Wittkop and the Kremlin...
🇺🇦 Ukraine must:
• Withdraw its troops from the Donetsk region
• Abandon plans to join NATO
🇪🇺 Europe must:
• Resume the purchase of Russian energy resources
• Admit Ukraine into the EU
🇷🇺 Russia must:
• Do nothing
🇺🇸 The USA must:
• Do nothing
In exchange, Ukraine is expected to relinquish the territories occupied by Russia, receiving in return security guarantees described as being "similar to NATO’s Article 5." Given the current conduct of the US administration, however, many no longer even have faith in Article 5 itself—let alone in "similar" guarantees.
In short: This is not a peace plan; it is a word that begins with "capit" and ends with "ulation."
And it represents a capitulation not only for Ukraine but also for Europe—which, under this plan, Trump intends to bring completely to its knees before the USA and Russia.
When it comes to security, Europe needs a bit more than nuclear protection: It needs defence against its own oligarchs, non-European powers funding rioters, racist attacks, cyberattacks and disinformation. Their democracies are under attack by their own news media.
Fiona Bruce, "You're not keen on Trump or NATO in the Greens"
Ellie Chowns, "No, the Green Party's policy is to work as part of NATO"
"The nuclear bit should be separated off, we shouldn't have nuclear weapons, in the same way we outlaw biological and chemical weapons"
"But co-operating with our allies, especially our closest European neighbours should be a key part of facing the threats"
"We face threats from Russia"
"And we also face threats that have increased by the really unstable actions of Donald Trump, launching another illegal war in the middle east"
"We see it in fuel prices and energy prices"
My view:
Ellie Chowns makes the case for a more serious, broader idea of defence: working with allies through NATO, deepening cooperation with our closest European neighbours, and protecting the country from threats that reach beyond the battlefield.
Russia is a clear security threat. So is the instability created when Donald Trump launches an illegal war in the Middle East, with the consequences felt in fuel and energy prices. Britain needs allies it can rely on, and Europe is central to that.
Chowns also makes an important point about resilience. Covid showed how a health emergency can disrupt the whole country; climate change threatens infrastructure, food supplies and energy security. Preparing for those risks is part of protecting the nation too.
Her view on nuclear weapons will be contested. But the wider argument is hard to dismiss: defence means cooperating with allies and making Britain more resilient—not simply spending more on weapons.
“The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account.
What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man”
It’s now officially confirmed.
Tonight, russia struck Kyiv’s historic centre with an Iskander ballistic missile carrying a cluster warhead.
58 submunitions explode in mid-air, designed to inflict maximum casualties across a 400 × 400 metre area.
“This strike had no military purpose. The goal was to destroy part of the old city and injure as many people as possible,” said a Ukrainian presidential adviser.
No military objective. Just terror.