DieselDoctor

@tradTNKristi I was on merchant ships in the eighties. The longest voyage was 6 weeks gulf to gulf, but we didn't do anything but keep the engines running. These sailors are stressed to the hilt, day and hour. Must be horrendous.

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about 22 hours ago

@jalle51 Indian support for Russia seems illogical.

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Artur Nadolny

@ArturNadol7566

2 days ago

PARMOD KALIA IS DEAD He died on 13 March 2026, aged 67, still waiting for the full compensation he was owed. Owed for a crime he never committed. Parmod Kalia ran a Post Office branch in Orpington for 11 years. Clean record, steady business, nothing unusual. Then Horizon showed up and decided he owed £22,000 he never took. He was accused of theft in 2001. Investigators got a confession out of him. He said later it was signed in fear, not guilt. He pleaded guilty because that is what people do when the system makes resistance cost more than surrender. He got 6 months in prison. It took until 2021 for Southwark Crown Court to quash the conviction. @PostOffice didn't even oppose the appeal. Twenty years to undo what one honest look at the evidence should have caught in a week. Through all of it Kalia worked as a foster carer, giving stability to vulnerable children while carrying a criminal record he was too ashamed to mention to the people closest to him. His friend Tim Brentnall said he brought calmness and warmth to whatever room he walked into. Funny how the system managed the opposite for him. Then came the cancer diagnosis. He told ITV News he was taking it one day at a time, hoping his final redress payment might arrive before he ran out of days. It didn't arrive in time. He was one of more than 4,300 subpostmasters still waiting on full and final compensation when he died. Post Office said if there had been retrials there was still a reasonable prospect of conviction, so Kalia wasn't owed full compensation for malicious prosecution. Read that twice. A wrongly convicted, terminally ill man was told the theoretical odds still weren't fully in his favour, so the payment could wait. Meanwhile MPs pointed out that Fujitsu @Fujitsu_UK still hasn't contributed a single penny to the nearly £1.5 billion redress bill for a scandal it built and sold to the Post Office. Not one penny. They can engineer software that jails hundreds of innocent people but apparently a bank transfer is beyond their technical capability. More than 700 branch managers were convicted between 1999 and 2015 because of Horizon's fictional shortfalls. Only a fraction have full settlements. The Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry @PostOffInquiry keeps recording the names of people who died waiting. Kalia is just the latest entry on a list that should never have existed. He wasn't asking for a favour. He was asking for what he was owed, for a crime he never committed, from a system that has known it was broken for over a decade. SOURCES @BBCNews @ITVNews @ComputerWeekly @PostOffInquiry

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Spirit Of Attlee

@SpiritOfAttlee

2 days ago

Sunday Times just dragged Farage's donor network into the daylight and it stinks of offshore crypto and convicted fraud. The two men who bankroll his lifestyle and his party are both tied to the same unlicensed betting site that took British money without a licence. Harborne the Tether billionaire whose payments firm routed UK punters into Tether bet. Cottrell the wire fraud lag who paid for Farage's staff, security and a five storey pad near the Palace. Shell companies linked to Reform's own data protection officer processed the bets. All deny knowledge. Always the same. I've watched this pattern for years. You vote for the bloke who says he's taking on the establishment and what do you get? Security paid by a man who did time for wire fraud. Social media army funded by the same. Digs sorted by the same. The big donor whose firm funnels British bets offshore into a Curacao bookie that never bothered with a UK licence. Lunch in Mayfair. Site registers days later. Coincidence they call it. This is not patriotism. This is the same old rich boys club. Crypto servers chew the grid while ordinary bills climb. The casino class extracts, the politician performs, the high street loses. Farage still thinks the public has no right to know how he spent the secret five million. Now we see the network that delivered it. Share this until it sticks. Tag your MP. Write to the Standards Commissioner and the Electoral Commission. Demand the books open and the offshore pipes shut. Real people deserve better than a party bankrolled by the very grift it pretends to fight.

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Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦

@rshereme

1 day ago

Something very strange is happening across Europe. In the span of a single week, NATO countries have seen a remarkable series of incidents involving ammunition production, energy infrastructure, military facilities, and russian intelligence operations. Let me start with what we know. 🇵🇱 POLAND On 7 August, Polish security services detained a russian citizen, recruited by russian intelligence, whose task was to execute a man holding both American and Ukrainian citizenship – in Warsaw. Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced it yesterday. According to him, this is the first time someone acting on russian orders has tried to kill an American citizen on the territory of another NATO country. 🇩🇪 GERMANY On 6 August, a drone carrying explosives was found near a runway at Leipzig/Halle airport – next to a Ukrainian Antonov Airlines cargo aircraft. Two days later, two drones were spotted over the Bundeswehr base at Mechernich. Also not a rumor. 🇮🇹 ITALY A fire in the powder compression department at the KNDS Ammo Italy plant in Colleferro, southeast of Rome, was followed by a massive explosion. No one was killed. The plant produces 155 mm artillery ammunition supplied to Ukraine through European partners. 🇳🇱 NETHERLANDS Within a few hours at Europe’s largest port: a transformer fire, a major power failure, an emergency shutdown at the ExxonMobil refinery in Botlek, and then an explosion at the Gunvor Energy refinery and terminal that killed one worker and injured six. I wouldn’t be surprised if russia is responsible for all these “accidents”. I wrote about this problem two years ago. Back then, Europe was already experiencing an extraordinary wave of suspicious incidents: 🇱🇹 IKEA set on fire in Vilnius. 🇬🇧 An arson attack on a Ukraine-linked warehouse in London. 🇩🇪 Sabotage plots against military and industrial targets in Germany. 🇨🇿 Attempts to attack infrastructure in the Czech Republic. 🇪🇪 An attack on the car of Estonia’s interior minister. 🚆 Attempts to disrupt European railway systems. 📦 And later, incendiary devices sent through European logistics networks – including devices that detonated or ignited in Germany, Poland and Britain. At the time, people could argue these were isolated incidents. Today, we know much more. European investigators and courts have connected multiple sabotage operations directly to networks organized or coordinated by russian intelligence. The pattern was real. It was simply diagnosed late. That is the design. Hybrid war works by staying below the threshold at which any single incident forces a response. Every event, taken alone, is deniable. Only the sequence gives it away. So when another extraordinary cluster of explosions, fires, drones, power failures, and intelligence operations appears across Europe in one week, perhaps we should stop treating every incident as if it exists in a vacuum. Europe no longer has the luxury of automatically assuming accidents and coincidence. Russia is waging a hybrid war against Europe. Sabotage. Arson. Cyberattacks. Assassination plots. GPS interference. Attacks on logistics and critical infrastructure. These are not theoretical threats. They have already happened.