Creeping Normality

Liberal democracy is under attack...💙

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

En Italia, los bancos tienen acaparados más de 500.000 ruedas de queso parmesano, que son utilizados como garantía de préstamos por los ganaderos, ahora la ola de calor está amenazándolos y necesitan un consumo de energía masiva.

El capitalismo es surrealista, los alimentos dejan de ser comida y se convierten en mercancía, se exprimen a los animales hasta la muerte para acaparamiento de activos bancarios mientras 3.000 millones de personas no tienen alimento nutritivo en el mundo.

[Juan Real Street @eris_28]

El coche contamina, hay que cambiarlo a eléctrico.
Cala di Volpe, Cerdeña, Italia.

[Kayla @KaylaDavis2000]

Trump told the country not to feel sorry for Joe Biden’s stage 4 prostate cancer because “he’s vicious”

A sitting president publicly dismissing a dying man’s suffering as political score-settling.

No dignity. No basic humanity. Just raw cruelty!

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

ICE AGENTS STOPPED FOR COFFEE. THEIR ILLEGALLY PARKED VEHICLES DISAPPEAR.

Across America, https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY users are finding innovative ways to lawfully and constitutionally resist ICE.

They noticed ICE agents parking like douchebags who think they own the place while grabbing food or coffee. Spotters have teamed up with property owners and tow-truck operators. ICE gets spotted, property owners are alerted, and then the tow-truck drivers move in.

The agents return to find their vehicles gone. So sad. Never mind.

No interference with active operations. No vigilantism. Just ICE facing the same laws and consequences as everyone else.

KEEP PAXIS FREE: https://t.co/Hi5Yo2N2N2

A BADGE IS NOT A PARKING PERMIT.

Know your rights: https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Farage's name appears about 40 times in the Epstein files. Mostly in emails between Epstein and Bannon discussing Farage as a possible leader of Bannon's proposed European far-right movement.

Farage thanked Bannon for his help in winning the Brexit referendum. So, according to Farage himself, a key role in delivering Brexit was played by a pro-Russian foreign fascist, who we have recently found was a close associate of a convicted pedophile. Epstein and Bannon exchanged hundreds of emails.

Did Farage know about Bannon's link to Epstein? We don't know, and if he did know he's no more likely to tell us than he was likely to voluntarily disclose his £5m 'gift' from Harborne. Farage likes to keep his little, or not so little secrets.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hunter Biden: “My dad in 1972 took a vow he would never own a stock or a bond and he kept that vow over 50 years of public life. He retired from the presidency as having probably the lowest net worth of anyone that ever entered the presidency. Meanwhile, he got tagged with this idea of the Biden Crime Family and all of that crap. Donald Trump is selling 100K early access to his Truth Social tweets which is just a front-running for insider trading in the open”

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 Britain has NO national food stockpile.

Finland 🇫🇮 holds strategic grain reserves capable of feeding its population for around 9 months.

Sweden 🇸🇪 is building emergency reserves of grain, seeds, fertiliser and food.

Switzerland 🇨🇭 requires strategic stocks.

Meanwhile Britain 🇬🇧 says it doesn’t need them because our food supply chains are robust.

WTF???

Our food self-sufficiency is falling. British harvests are being hammered by extreme weather. Europe is suffering crop failures too. Hormuz has exposed our dependence on imported fertiliser and global trade routes.

And Brexit has put additional barriers between Britain and its largest food suppliers.

Stockpiles alone aren’t the answer.

We need something much more fundamental: a national food production and resilience plan, maintaining domestic production, protecting farmers, storing water, securing fertiliser and other inputs, and deciding what strategic reserves Britain actually needs.

We prepare for war with weapons and energy. Why wouldn’t we prepare the food needed to survive one?

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

A truly WILD story. This appears to be the order of operations:

1. Trump flies to Turkey on the new Qatari-gifted Air Force One for the NATO summit.

2. An Iranian assassination threat triggers a secret “deception operation.” Security officials devise a plan to conceal which aircraft Trump is actually traveling on.

3. The Qatari-gifted Air Force One leaves Turkey first, without Trump.

4. Trump publicly boards the legacy Air Force One in Ankara, walking up the stairs and waving for cameras, creating the appearance that this is his plane home.

5. Trump secretly exits Air Force One through the other side of the aircraft and gets into an airport catering truck raised to the plane’s door.

6. The catering truck drives Trump to a smaller Air Force C-32A, a modified Boeing 757 parked nearby.

7.. Trump secretly boards the C-32A. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also boards separately.

8. Reporters and some White House staff board the legacy Air Force One, apparently unaware Trump is no longer aboard. They are instructed to close their window shades. (Remember all that reporting from the time?)

9. The legacy Air Force One takes off as a decoy and eventually uses the “AF1” call sign despite Trump not being aboard.

10. Trump’s actual C-32A flies secretly to Britain under the nondescript call sign “Reach 18,” with its normal flight-tracking systems reportedly switched off.

11. Trump arrives at RAF Mildenhall in Britain on the C-32A, shortly before the decoy Air Force One arrives.

12. Trump somehow transfers back onto the legacy Air Force One after landing. The Post says exactly how this transfer occurred remains unclear.

13. Trump then emerges from the legacy Air Force One in front of cameras, making it appear as though that was the aircraft he had flown from Turkey.

14. Trump boards the Qatari-gifted Air Force One in Britain and finally flies back to Washington with the press and staff.

P.S. Remember when Trump told the reporters on the plane, "I go, you go," in regard to the plane being targeted? It actually seems Trump left and endangered the lives of everyone on board.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

What in the heck did all the mayors before him even do?
He’s solving problems we didn’t even know existed

[Spirit Of Attlee @SpiritOfAttlee]

How the hell does a water company £21bn in debt, cash running out and still dumping sewage into rivers justify pulling a million quid from its emergency borrowing facility to pay the finance chief a signing on fee?

Thames Water just did it for Steve Buck. Delayed 15 months. “Contractual.” Cash from the lenders fighting to stop nationalisation. Chairman admitted customers will call it unfair.

Your bills are up. Your river is a toilet. They still look after their own.

This isn’t a scandal. It’s the privatisation model working exactly as designed. Special Administration and public ownership under democratic control is the only adult answer left.

Demand Burnham and Eagle stop playing games with the vultures and take it back. Now.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

🇺🇸🇮🇱Last year, Melina Suarez served in the IDF and posted a photo with prayer beads looted from Palestinians.

Today, she is a police officer with the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Police Department in Oregon, USA.

How can one serve both Israel and the U.S?

How can she even be trusted with any supervision over people when we heard of all the warcrimes the IDF has committed?

[Fire Brigades Union @fbunational]

In the last 48 hours, we've seen major wildfires in Nottinghamshire, Hampshire, South Wales, and Suffolk.

This is not bad luck. This is climate change, and firefighters are on the frontline.

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Andy Burnham says he wants AI to power a new industrial revolution that drives good growth in every postcode.
Here is what that revolution actually looks like up close.
His business adviser, Varun Chandra, is the former managing partner of Hakluyt, a corporate intelligence firm. Chandra still holds shares in a company that owns the Hakluyt Capital fund, which holds a burgeoning portfolio of AI companies.
Burnham is implementing an AI industrial strategy that will make those companies very rich. The Cabinet Office's statement on Chandra's conflicts of interest said there would be "specific mitigations which can include recusals" when organisations he previously advised engage with government.
https://t.co/u0p706MeFs

[Lucy @TheLucyShow1]

17 year-old Joey cooks for his family of five every night. His mother had been ill for a very long time and so he took over cooking duties while his father worked 12 to 13 hours a day. Sadly, his mother passed away on August 7.

He’s a remarkable young man and his goal is to one day go to school for a culinary arts. ❤️

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

Danube River levels so low in Europe they’re revealing a woolly mammoth skeleton and WWII boats sunk by Germans retreating from Russia.

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

I believe Clacton deserves an MP who will spend their time shining a light on everything the area has to offer. And why wait till I'm elected? I've been to visit one of the constituency's most stunning landmarks.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Well, well. Here's a copy of @thameswater's licence to operate as a water company issued by @Ofwat.

It's signed by Cathryn Ross as Chief Executive of Ofwat.

Would that be the Cathryn Ross that is now Director of Strategy and External Affairs at Thames Water?

Of course it would

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

ZVERNEC, Albania—Residents of this tiny coastal village were shocked two years ago when Jared Kushner posted renderings of a planned Mediterranean resort on a slim peninsula sandwiched by the azure sea and a lagoon where flamingoes flock. 
The images were of a spit of land where their parents and grandparents once raised potatoes. The villagers contended the property was stolen from them in the 2000s by Artur Shehu—a suspected gangster who fled to Miami after a gunfight at his bar. 
So they wrote a letter to Kushner saying they were locked in nearly two decades of court disputes with Shehu, urging the developers not to proceed. The site, they wrote, is “owned by the village and its residents.”

[Rachel Sylvester @RSylvester1]

New Scandinavian wings at Wandsworth and Pentonville jails have seen a 45% drop in assaults, 57% fall in self harm, 62% reduction in disorder and a halving of staff sickness rates - fascinating results from new trial of a more rehabilitative approach to prison. My piece for @ObserverUK https://t.co/qptuCflb1t

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

There's a lot of SHOCKED reaction in the papers today that Arron Banks could be capable of intimidating and surveilling a journalist.

As if...he'd never done such a thing before.

Thank you @lionelbarber for the only article that hasn't tried to pretend this is his first rodeo