Noreen O'Gallagher

Previously comms in UN DPKO, BBCNews & CNNi; still plagued with a serious news addiction. Views my own, RT not necessarily endorsement.

[Dave Keating @DaveKeating]

I see some saying 🇪🇺passenger rights reform agreed last week won't kill off 'backpack only' airfares because airlines can still offer it during booking.

But if they can't display that fare on search engines, airlines won't offer it. Explained here: https://t.co/azNNuvO6Z1

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

A secret society of the world’s elites co-founded by spyware billionaire Peter Thiel has been exposed by hacktivists.

Dialog is a private, invitation-only network, co-founded in 2006 by Palantir chairman Thiel and data entrepreneur Auren Hoffman.

The organisation holds off-the-record summits for powerful figures from the worlds of politics, finance, military, celebrity and tech.

Frequently compared to the Bilderberg Group and World Economic Forum, Dialog has spent two decades refusing to disclose the identity of its members and has a private website.

However, a directory in the website’s code was revealed by Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew, who previously leaked the US government’s no-fly list and hacked surveillance-camera company Verkada, WIRED reported.

The directory included “participant profiles” for those planning to attend the group’s summits, featuring contact information, facts about themselves - and even if they were “looking for love” at Dialog events.

Profiles included Texas senator Ted Cruz, US treasury secretary Scott Bessent, chief economist at Israel’s finance ministry of Shmuel Abramzon, and a number of Google and Google DeepMind execs.

Other names from the world of entertainment include Hollywood actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Josh Brolin, podcast host and author Sam Harris, and tech entrepreneur and longevity obsessive Bryan Johnson, Straight Arrow News reported.

In many cases it isn’t known if those named are full members, conference participants or merely guests of the organisation.

WIRED reported that a separate source revealed details of an upcoming Dialog retreat at a venue outside Dublin, Ireland.

The retreat, due to be held 12-16 August this year, is set to host NATO’s top US commander Alexus Grynkewich, as well as multiple officials from the Trump administration, two US senators, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States.

Also present will be six members of the so-called “Paypal Mafia”, and a number of those running the US’s most prominent surveillance and data firms.

The conference is set to feature sessions titled “Navigating WWIII”, “Battlefield Technologies”, “Money (Does?) Buy Happiness”, “Bring Back Nuclear” and “Build-a-Cult”, the latter of which will be moderated by the founder of the Christian networking site https://t.co/nbjzqZ95gS.

[African Union Political Affairs Peace and Security @AUC_PAPS]

📽️H.E. Adama Dieng, @_AfricanUnion Special Envoy on the Prevention of the Crime of Genocide and Other Mass Atrocities, on the Occasion of the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, 18 June 2026

[No Score Draws ✍️ (Alex & Sian - BOOK OUT NOW!) @CheapPanini]

Hope these guys have a good night

[John McTernan @Johnmcternan]

No one who believes that Irish families do not deserve justice should be anywhere near Labour leadership. And disgracefully smearing those families is of a part with the arrogance that made the Brits feel they were untouchable.

[Wolf Totem 🐺 @CanisLupus003]

Wow! AI bias.

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

France, in the EU, is replacing 🇺🇸Palantir with its own system for domestic intelligence

🇬🇧relies much more on Palantir generally (NHS, defence, policing)

That's 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐭𝐲 in today's world

Just like their nuclear deterrents
🇫🇷is autonomous -🇬🇧relies on🇺🇸

[Badger @Bertrom]

Spending more than 10 years embedded with three single mothers, raising children with severe disabilities, has resulted in a beautiful and technically assured piece of work.

https://t.co/lV6MjYnyQj

[The Sweeper @SweeperPod]

🇨🇻 Tiny Cape Verde become the smallest-ever country by surface area (4,033km²) to claim a World Cup point on their debut in the competition against reigning European champions Spain!!!

An archipelago of half a million people, one of the oldest squads at the tournament, six players born in Rotterdam, one recruited on LinkedIn. It is one of the great all-time World Cup shocks!

[Middle East Eye @MiddleEastEye]

Middle East Eye journalist refused entry to UK for awards ceremony

[louis charbonneau @loucharbon]

Excellent article by @RealBanjo on the UN's cash flow problem (mostly caused by the US not paying its UN dues) & UN chief @antonioguterres' proposal to partially ease the problem.

Reminds us that no UN reform plan can solve problems caused by member states refusing to pay dues.

[Jacqueline Charles @Jacquiecharles]

So who is the 3-year-old ball boy who served as unofficial mascot of the #Haiti national soccer team when they went to 1974 @FIFAWorldCup and what is he doing now? https://t.co/F8Yw8K2nMK

[Sangita Myska @SangitaMyska]

NEW: Ban on Palestine Action ruled lawful by Court of Appeal.

Co-founder of PA, Huda Ammori, says she will “fight proscription all the way” to the Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights to overturn “one of the most extreme attacks on free speech and the right to protest in modern British history”.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

From a leading British lawyer, for Zeteo UK today:
https://t.co/kVMNO16e7I

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

BREAKING: The Court of Appeal ruled in the government's favour, stating that the Palestine Action ban is lawful.

We will not stop fighting for the ban to be lifted, the end of the use of terror legislation against us, and crucially, for a free Palestine.

[Ben Judah @b_judah]

Northern Ireland remaining in the EU single market for goods means we have an entire region running as a counterfactual on how much wealthier we’d have been had we stayed. It’s actually outperformed London.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo have spiked up to 782. At least 149 people have died from the virus.

And as Al Jazeera’s @AlainUaykani explains from Goma, many people mistrust the government’s medical teams.

[UNDRR @UNDRR]

How do you warn about invisible risks? 🧪

📖 A study in Japan found students who read manga-based disaster comms were more likely to notice hidden hazards after a quake than those who read plain text.

💥 Risk comms need to grab attention to inform!

➡️ https://t.co/dZw3ldD3xj

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

9 Years After Grenfell: 72 Dead. 0 Jailed. The System Worked Exactly As Planned

[Badger @Bertrom]

Madeleine de Sinéty 
Images of a Forgotten World.

https://t.co/HjUB8yuObI