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@hdifihegdjdjjwf @WestHam_Central Exactly what I’ve been saying, imagine the butterfly effect this decision is going to cause now. Hundreds of millions of pounds at stake and West Hams Premier League status. We all know how hard it is to get back to the Prem once you’re down.

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@ChigaCzr 2-0 PSG

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BREAKING:

Ukraine’s massive FP-5 Flamingo cruise missile has struck Russia’s JSC VNIIR-Progress military electronics plant in Cheboksary for the first time.

The FP-5 Flamingo, which carries a large 1,150 kg warhead, hit the target 1000 km from the frontlines.

The Russian plant produces military electronics, including navigation systems, GNSS receivers/antennas and components for Russian suicide drones, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles and other precision weapons.

Due to its large warhead, the FP-5s cause much more damage than Ukraine’s long-range drones. They are now being produced domestically in larger and larger numbers, causing a massive headache for
Russia.

They are also the Ukrainian weapon with the longest range, able of hitting targets more than 3000 km away.

@DenShtilierman’s missiles and drones are flipping the script on the Kremlin.

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@Mickh1997 @JackieJasp12694 @7NewsSydney The fact they’re talking about it as if it’s of concern is crazy to me!

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@DennisB64606601 @SawyerMerritt @elonmusk You are?? 😂

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@EndGameWW3 Congratulations, sharing the pride! 🇳🇿 🇺🇸

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BREAKING: Fox News Senior White House Correspondent Jacqui Heinrich reveals Melania Trump's statement pushing back on false connections to Jeffrey Epstein "came out of left field" for reporters at the White House:

"We had no heads up on this. We're not getting any information from them now, including whether or not the president was aware she would be making this statement. It's unclear to us if she is reacting to something that's already happened, already come out, or getting ahead of a story that might be about to drop. We don't really know."
@JacquiHeinrich @TheStoryFNC

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@visegrad24 It begins

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A Canadian court has reduced the ineligibility period of parole for a murderer because he is black.

The man stabbed his girlfriend 15 times.

Everton Javaun Downey received a life sentence with no parole eligibility for 12 years for the second-degree murder of his 25-year-old girlfriend, Melissa Blimkie in 2021 in Burnaby, Canada.

The attack involved stabbing her 15 times in a stairwell of a shopping mall.

Melissa Blimkie, a Simon Fraser University graduate who loved dance and travel, died despite emergency efforts.

Justice Heather Holmes cited Downey's history of violence (including a significant criminal record with serious violent offences including crimes involving firearms) and the savage nature of the attack as aggravating factors.

The Crown had requested a parole ineligibility period of at least 15 years.

However, the judge reduced it to 12 years, taking into account mitigating factors such as Downey's confession, his expression of remorse in a personal statement to the court and an Impact of Race and Culture Assessment (IRCA).

The IRCA was compiled by the social worker professor Patrina Duhaney from University of Calgary.

In it, she detailed how Downey as a Black man experienced broader systemic, structural, and community factors related to his race that contributed to his life challenges.

The report highlighted early exposure to violence, chronic instability, poverty and “systemic anti-Black racism.”

It noted that while Downey did not report overt racism in his early life in Toronto (where he grew up in predominantly Black and racially diverse neighbourhoods and schools), his move to British Columbia in 2016 led to greater difficulties.

There, he encountered a much smaller Black population, unfamiliar cultural norms within local Black communities and resulting feelings of disconnection, isolation and being adrift.

The judge specifically referenced these elements under "Mitigating Circumstances," stating that the IRCA demonstrated how systemic anti-Black racism and related traumas played a part in his life experience, bringing negative peer influences and trauma.

Impact of Race and Culture Assessments (IRCAs) emerged in Canadian sentencing practices during the 2010s, particularly following growing recognition of systemic racism and over-incarceration affecting Black, Indigenous, and other “racialized communities.”

They built on earlier tools like Gladue reports (for Indigenous offenders, mandated since a 1999 Supreme Court decision) and were adapted to address similar disparities for Black offenders.

Key developments included advocacy by legal aid organizations, community groups, and academics.

Pilot projects started in provinces like Ontario and British Columbia around 2014–2017 and resulted in increased judicial acceptance by the mid-to-late 2010s.

IRCAs provide “individualized expert-prepared social histories that contextualize an offender’s background,” including experiences of anti-Black racism, intergenerational trauma, discrimination in housing/education/employment and cultural disconnection.

These are now factors courts may weigh in mitigation when determining appropriate sentences or parole ineligibility periods under the Criminal Code’s discretionary framework for second-degree murder.

Their use has become more established in the 2020s as courts “seek to address evidence of racial bias in the justice system.”

The ruling has drawn sharp criticism for perceived race-based leniency.

The legal changes making such verdicts possible stem from Critical Race Theory being introduced in universities from the 1970s, brainwashing a generation of politicians, journalists and legal experts.

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

🚨 I believe everyone needs to hear @davidnasser's chilling TRUE story of surviving the Islamic revolution in Iran.

This is a real-life example of God putting his hand of protection over a family so He can ultimately call them home. Incredible.

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Video footage from the deck of a Chinese cargo ship which allegedly shows the moment an Iranian one-way attack drone, a Shahed-136, struck an oil tank earlier today at the MINA Petroleum Facility on the Port of Salalh in Oman

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Dozens of interceptions seen earlier in the skies over Northern Israel, during tonight’s combined ballistic missile and rocket attack by both Iran and Hezbollah, with over a hundred projectiles said to have launched in total at Israel.

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Interceptors being launched by the “Iron Done” during tonight’s most recent rocket attack by Hezbollah in Lebanon, with several impacts reported across Northern Israel.

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Lebanese Hezbollah reportedly recently launched roughly 100 rockets towards northern Israel, as LH and Iran increasingly synchronize waves of strikes on the Mediterranean nation.

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A Chinese-owned cargo ship attempting to run the Strait of Hormuz made a complete U-turn this morning after the ship in front of it was attacked by an Iranian USV.

[Damien Symon @detresfa_]

China’s construction push at Antelope Reef in the South China Sea continues, latest imagery illustrates the scale of growth, shifting from a single Chinese outpost to development spanning the entire atoll in just three months

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Documentation of the Joint US-Israel Attack on the IRGC Base in Northwest Iran.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

The explosion at the American Embassy in Oslo has been deemed a “targeted attack” by Norwegian authorities.

“One of the hypotheses is that it is terrorism”

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A kamikaze drone that hit RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus contained Russian-made Kometa-B navigation hardware.

The drone attack (March 1) is believed to have been carried out by the Iran-backed Hezbollah from Lebanon.

#USIranWar #IsraelIranWar #MiddleEastConflict