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A cross-party coalition of over 30 MPs and Senators are calling for Canada to negotiate an international prohibition on the development of superintelligence, recognizing the risk of human extinction posed by the technology.
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Royal Mail privatisation
Only 75.7% of UK first class mail delivered on time
Regulator keeps reducing targets, Royal Mail still doesn't meet them.
1st class postage price £1.80, 2nd class 91p.
When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
https://t.co/xiwg2tDTG7
Has Nukes
🇮🇷 No(0)
🇮🇱 Yes (200-500)
Signed The Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty
🇮🇷 Yes
🇮🇱 No
Broke The Atmospheric Test Ban Treaty
🇮🇷 No
🇮🇱 Yes
Allows IAEA Inspections
🇮🇷 Yes
🇮🇱 No
Has engaged in nuclear blackmail against the US
🇮🇷 No
🇮🇱 Yes
The Current Balance in This Pause—Not End, But Pause, Perhaps Perpetual Pause—in the War in the Persian Gulf: MOST IMPORTANT THING, by @delong https://t.co/JTvAOiabf7
@TheNewsAgents@SheronWilkie The media in our country are in the habit of trying to make the news instead of simply reporting the facts.That is what @Nigel_Farage is allowed to get away corrupting our politics with little to no push back by the billionaire owned media.
@TheNewsAgents The media keeps telling us Farage is charismatic and Starmer isn't. But I and very many others actually find Farage utterly repellent and obnoxious and much prefer Starmer. Why do you keep pushing a narrative onto us?
A Congressman’s warning: “I really hope the British public learns the lesson from Donald Trump when it comes to Nigel Farage”.
“Farage is a total fraud, and I hope they realise before its too late”
"generative AI is being used to churn out atrocity propaganda to manufacture consent for imperial war projects - these new technologies lend themselves perfectly to the task of creating realistic-looking video footage of events which never transpired. "
https://t.co/KxK7cdRtvZ
"Remember how much anger there was about the fictional beheading of Israeli babies on 7 October. Compare that with the silence that greets Palestinian children actually beheaded by Israeli weapons."
https://t.co/Ym0C02yHJO
Oh dear - cornered
Report ‘phone hack’ to police or I will do it for you, Labour chair tells Farage
Anna Turley gives Reform leader 24 hours to report Russian hacking claim in ‘public and national interest’
https://t.co/2jpHgMTqkH
POLICE KILLED AN INNOCENT MAN, LIED ABOUT IT, AND ARRESTED THE WOMAN WHO TOLD YOU
In July 2005, Jean Charles de Menezes, an innocent man, was shot dead at Stockwell tube station by Metropolitan Police firearms officers who mistook him for a terrorist.
Police initially claimed he was wearing bulky clothing, had vaulted the ticket barriers, and run from officers. None of it was true. But police did not correct the misinformation. They waited until someone forced their hand.
That someone was Lana Vandenberghe. A secretary. Not a senior official, not a KC, not a politician. A secretary who sat at her desk at the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) and watched the official story fall apart in front of her.
As files passed across her desk, she began to feel that the facts of the case were being misrepresented, or not presented at all, to the public.
So she did something about it.
Over several weeks, Lana stayed late at the office and used her camera to photograph the evidence, which she then handed to a news producer.
She leaked the documents to ITN, which contradicted the official narrative being promoted by the Metropolitan Police.
The story broke. The cover was blown. And the state's response?
Dawn raids. Vandenberghe was arrested by Leicester Constabulary Serious Crime Unit acting on behalf of the IPCC. Two more dawn raids followed weeks later, including the arrest of the ITN journalist who ran the story and his pregnant girlfriend.
Vandenberghe said she was "scared to death" and that it never crossed her mind she would be treated as a criminal for telling the truth. "Unlike the police," she said, "I hadn't killed an innocent person."
She lost her job. She lost her home. She was treated for depression.
The threat police reportedly considered charging her with?
The theft of ink and paper.
Ink and paper.
The first IPCC inquiry concluded that none of the officers involved would face disciplinary charges. The Crown Prosecution Service later found "insufficient evidence" to prosecute any named individual.
No charges were ever filed against Vandenberghe.
No charges were ever filed against the officers who killed Jean Charles de Menezes and then lied about it either.
Lana has said she would do it all again. She does not consider what she did heroic. She was taught to speak out for the truth, no matter what. She stands by that code today.
The system called her a criminal. History called her a witness.
SOURCES:
@metpoliceuk | @policeconduct | @WhistleUK | @BBCRadio4 | @itvnews | @Wikipedia
Amos Goldberg, Professor of Genocide Studies at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem "Yes, it is genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. Jewish history will henceforth be stained"
Is there anyone more qualified and unbiased?
I'm Jewish, British & 64
All my life, I wondered how the Holocaust could have happened. I understood that Hitler & other leaders were EVIL, but how did millions of ordinary people go along with it?
NOW, seeing how so many in the West rationalise & defend the Gaza Genocide, I feel I have an answer and it is profoundly disturbing