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A schlemiel schlepping my way through life...Cat worshipper. Sniffs glue whilst building plastic models and argues over correct shade of paint.🇮🇱

[Decko @delcatto1]

@EssexPR Hyacinth Bucket would be upset by his Onslow tribute act.

[Rich Toronto @rich_toronto]

If we are heading towards another massive ethnic cleansing of Jews, then there’s something the world needs to know. After the Holocaust, people asked “how could this happen?” “Why did nobody say anything?” “How did you not see it coming?”

So let’s set the record straight.

We see it coming.

We feel it coming.

We know that the intent of the Islamic Regime is to commit a Holocaust, the likes of which the world has never seen.

We know they plan on finishing what Hitler and the Nazi Regime started.

We know that they want to kill Jews everywhere. They’ve said it. We’ve heard them. We believe it.

So if they are successful, as historians are looking back at how, let’s set the record straight.

Western governments. We see this coming. We tell our governments it’s coming. We ask them to pause immigration. We ask them to stop the hate and the threats and the incitement. We ask them to protect the Jews. They don’t. They increase immigration. They continue to fund the terrorists. They allow the Jew hatred to increase, unchallenged.

University administrations. We say shut down the encampments. Stop the protests. Make statements against antisemitism. Protect your Jewish students and faculty. They negotiate with the terrorists. They capitulate. They allow the encampments to exist. They rationalize them. They allow radicalization and Jew hatred on campus.

The "As-a-Jew". We say stop protesting against your own people. Stop being the token spokesperson the Islamic Regime is looking for. We tell them they’d be killed just as soon as the rest of us. They ignore us. They pretend it’s not about the Jews.

The woke left. They’ve bought into the propaganda. They believe they’re supporting the “oppressed”. They believe there’s a genocide. They’ve drank the Kool Aid. We say nothing to these people because they believe “all Zionists lie” and they’re not even open to actual fact or critical thinking.

The silent majority. We don’t know what they think, but we beg and plead with them to speak up, to speak out against terrorism. To stand up for Israel. They remain silent. Fear? Apathy? Laziness?Lack of awareness? We don’t know why.

So, if there’s another Holocaust, we want the world to know that we stood up. That we spoke up. That we tried everything to get your attention.

And the world ignored us.

Again.

[Liam Halligan @LiamHalligan]

Yes, we need to use our Brexit freedoms to a much greater extent, allowing Britain to excel in sectors including biotech, artificial intelligence, satellites, agricultural genomics and financial services among others.

And of course the UK needs to recalibrate once again as a low-tax, low-regulation, high-productivity economy – and, again, Brexit provides the perfect opportunity, if only we could summon the courage.

But the "clearly Brexit has been an economic disaster" horror stories aren’t true – and, if we so chose, and pursue the right policies, Britain could soar economically outside the EU.

Conventional wisdom, as is so often the case, is no wisdom at all ....

If you find this writing valuable, please like and share.

And for more sharp, independent analysis, follow and subscribe to "When The Facts Change: Economics and Politics in a fast-moving world", with Liam Halligan

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[No Farmers, No Food @NoFarmsNoFoods]

Two adverts by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) promoting British beef and milk have been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) after television presenter and environmental campaigner Chris Packham complained that they misled consumers about the products’ carbon footprints. Here are the adverts. Support British farmers. Buy British milk and British Beef.
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[Kathryn Porter @KathrynPorter26]

No, he isn't. He's presided over one of the most corrupt governments we've ever hsd

He's either corrupt or extremely stupid

Under @Keir_Starmer

Two people with close links to pedophiles were promoted to high office

His ex deputy is in hot water with HMRC

One minister resigned because she turned out to be a literal criminal

His anti corruption minister has been convicted overseas of corruption

A homelessness minister had to resign over evicting tenants

A heath minister resigned after hoping a constituent would die

Another Labour MP resigned after punching a constituent in the face 6x

A Labour MP was suspended after being arrested for sex offences

The Business Secretary thought he was a solicitor when he wasn't

His Chancellor seems extremely confused about her work history. She also failed to get a licence to rent her property

Multiple ministers including the PM accepted gifts including clothes from donors despite earning more than double what most people earn

The Attorney General has failed to act on conflicts of interest and supported baseless lawfare against British soldiers

The Labour Welsh First Minister was forced to resign over so many allegations of corruption it's hard to know where to start typing them

On top of all that there's the cronyism, firing officials without due process, and the Chinese spying case

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

Dear antisemites,

I know you like to boycott Israeli products so I thought I’d help you out. You’re welcome.

So here are the things you need to stop using immediately.

WhatsApp: The founder just donated $200 million to a hospital in the “Occupied Jerusalem”. Stop using WhatsApp immediately.

iPhone/Apple: The iPhone chip is designed in Herzliya and Face ID was invented by an Israeli. Stop using your iPhone immediately. Apple also has a large presence in Israel so no mac either.

Google/Android: Google has a massive presence in the “Zionist entity”. One of Google’s largest engineering hubs outside the U.S. Stop using all Google products immediately.

Microsoft: Massive Israel R&D presence since the 1990s. Thousands of employees across Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Nazareth. Major AI, cybersecurity, and cloud work. No Microsoft for you!

Intel: If your computer is running an Intel processor, that’s built in Jerusalem. Probably the single largest private tech employer in Israel. Massive chip fabs and R&D centers in Haifa, Petah Tikva, Jerusalem, and Kiryat Gat. Stop using Intel immediately.

Nvidia: If you’re using AI of any kind, good chance it is built on Nvidia. Nvidia just tripled their presence in Israel and the CEO is a massive Zionist. No more AI.

Meta: Meta has offices throughout Israel so no Facebook or Instagram for you. Stop using them immediately.

USB: That’s right, USB was invented by an Israeli company called MSystems so no USB products please.

Amazon: Amazon and its web services have a strong presence in Israel and the drone department was started by an Israeli. No Amazon for you.

Pillcam: If someone you love is sick and the doctor suggests an examination using the pillcam, reject immediately. That’s Israeli technology.

Drip irrigation: If your gardener suggests you water your garden with drip irrigation, say no and fire him. He’s clearly a Zionist trying to sell you an Israeli technology.

Waze: We already established that you can’t use Google Maps. You can’t use Waze either. It’s an Israeli company acquired by Google. Maybe buy yourself a map for the car.

Instant messaging or voice over IP: Please refrain from using any instant messaging or voice over IP. Both invented by an Israeli. I’d suggest a pigeon.

Autonomous car: If your car drives itself, good chance it’s powered by mobileye in Jerusalem. Sell it immediately.

Cherry tomatoes: Stop eating cherry tomatoes. They’re an Israeli invention.

A website: If you have a website, it’s likely powered by Wix, an Israeli company. Shut it down immediately.

If you managed to find a phone that doesn’t run iOS or Android, you better not take a picture with it. The dual-lens camera technology for smartphones was pioneered by Corephotonics, an Israeli startup based in Tel Aviv, which was later acquired by Samsung. No photos for you!

Firewall: Check Point Software developed the first commercial firewall. If your work has a firewall, quit immediately.

Rummikub: I’m sure you love playing. We all do. Sorry to tell you this but it was invented by Ephraim Hertzano. Throw out your Rummikub immediately.

Here are some honorable mentions for you. These things were invented by a Jew and as an antisemite, you need to stop using them immediately!

Ballpoint Pen (Biro): Invented by Hungarian-Jewish László Bíró in the 1930s (patented 1938). Throw out your ballpoint pens.

Shopping Cart: Invented by American-Jewish Sylvan Goldman in 1937. Stop using them when you shop.

The Defibrillator (modern portable version improvements) — advanced significantly by Paul Zoll and other Jewish researcher.

You’re welcome.

Just trying to make you the best antisemite you can be.

You can start by throwing away the device you are looking at right now. It’s probably built in Israel.

We wouldn’t want to support those filthy Zionists, now would we?

Good luck cleansing yourself of Zionist products or products created by those Jewish supremacists.

Good luck to you! 🤣🇮🇱💪✡️🙏

[Sebastián Lukomski @lukomski_sebito]

So, apparently, €577 billion is missing and untraceable from the EU Coronavirus Recovery Fund.

Thousands of recipients of the funds have not been identified.

Brussels is the capital of CORRUPTION!
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[Decko @delcatto1]

@EliAfriatISR I stand with Israel!

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Miliband's Secret. China's Opportunity.

Ed Miliband promised the public two things. Bills would come down. The grid would be secure. This week, evidence emerged that he has been actively suppressing analysis that undermines the first promise, while the architecture of his energy policy systematically undermines the second.

Start with the cover-up. Miliband scrapped zonal pricing last July, overriding his own civil servants who had backed the reform. He did so after wind farm developers warned it would reduce their profits and threaten his 2030 clean power target. He then promised a full cost-benefit analysis by the end of last year. His department took five months to respond to a Freedom of Information request, in breach of the legal requirement of twenty working days. It has since blocked release of the impact assessment, claiming the document is unfinished, while simultaneously insisting the policy is definitively closed. Those two positions are mutually exclusive. His department's own director admitted the public interest favours disclosure before refusing it anyway. The reason given for continued suppression: releasing the document might disrupt energy markets. No evidence was provided for that claim.

What the suppressed analysis likely shows is what independent research already suggests. Zonal pricing would have cut household bills by reducing the fees paid to wind farms to switch off when the grid cannot absorb their power. That wasted wind bill hit a record £1.5 billion last year. Miliband sided with the generators over consumers. The analysis that proves it remains locked in a ministerial drawer.

The grid security picture is worse. Britain's electricity network is being radically restructured. Hundreds of internet-connected generators are being added to a system that once linked a handful of large power stations. Each connection is a potential entry point. The chief executive of Hitachi Energy, which supplies transformers to the UK grid, has said plainly that cyber attack on power infrastructure is not a question of if but when. Poland's green energy network was penetrated by hackers, almost certainly Russian, through communications terminals embedded in thirty wind and solar farms. Britain is one of the world's top targets for hostile cyber attack, with around one in four European attacks aimed at British companies and utilities last year.

Against that backdrop, the sourcing of Britain's new grid infrastructure demands scrutiny it is not receiving. Most of Britain's critical electrical components, smart turbines, solar panels and switchgear, come from China. US intelligence services have warned explicitly against growing reliance on Chinese-sourced energy technology. Claire Coutinho has raised it in Parliament. The warnings have been ignored.

The question of who is advising the Prime Minister on these risks sits uncomfortably alongside the sourcing decisions being made. Jonathan Powell, the National Security Adviser, maintained extensive relationships with PLA-connected Chinese officials through his private consultancy before and during his government role. Every parliamentary question about his vetting arrangements and the content of those meetings has been blocked. The government's justification uses language identical to that deployed to block questions about Mandelson. Powell's vetting status has never been confirmed. The man responsible for advising on Britain's national security posture has undisclosed connections to the state whose components are being embedded throughout Britain's most critical infrastructure. Parliament has been refused the information needed to assess whether that is a problem.

Miliband says the public should be reassured. A minister who suppressed his own analysis, overrode his civil servants to protect wind farm profits, and is wiring China into Britain's critical infrastructure against the warnings of Britain's closest ally has not earned that word.

[Amanda Craig @AmandaPCraig]

I hope all Britons who loathe racism will RT this in the light of the vile attacks on British Jews.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Pass it on if you feel the same.

[Donna-Louise @NoLongerTheFuzz]

1/ In January 2008, PC Neil Sampson walked towards a man with a knife. He took seven stab wounds doing it.
His dog Anya, already bleeding, kept hold of the attacker so her handler could live.

That same man, Essa Suleiman stabbed two people yesterday in a terror attack in Golders Green.

Here’s what happened next. 🧵

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

The Undeclared Meeting. The Shared Client. The £750 Million Contract

There is a moment in this affair when the accumulating details stop looking like coincidence and start looking like something else entirely. Sunday's revelation about the Palantir meeting may be that moment.

On February 27 2025, Keir Starmer and Peter Mandelson visited Palantir's headquarters in Washington. Eleven defence personnel attended alongside Britain's defence attaché to the United States. A presentation was given. A tour followed. The Ministry of Defence described it as a meeting. Downing Street says it was not a meeting and therefore required no declaration under the ministerial code. Both positions are on the public record and only one of them can be accurate.

The meeting was not logged in Starmer's transparency returns, while other engagements from the same trip were. Breaking the ministerial code is widely regarded as a resignation offence.

Set aside the semantic argument about what constitutes a meeting. Focus on what was present in that room. Starmer. Mandelson. Defence officials. And the executives of a technology company that was, at the time, a registered client of Global Counsel, the lobbying firm Mandelson co-founded and in which he held a 24 percent stake while serving as Britain's ambassador to the United States.

Global Counsel had been hired by Palantir in 2018 specifically to help procure UK government contracts. Mandelson retained his shareholding when appointed ambassador. The connection between Global Counsel and Palantir was reportedly absent from his vetting. Later in 2025, Palantir won a five year £750 million contract with the Ministry of Defence. Its MoD contract had already tripled in size without due process or competition. Palantir also holds a £330 million NHS contract and a total of 34 contracts with public sector bodies.

The question Alex Burghart has put publicly is the right one. Who arranged the meeting, what was discussed, and what did Global Counsel's client stand to gain? A third question deserves equal prominence. Did Starmer know, when he visited Palantir's headquarters with Mandelson at his side, that Palantir was a registered client of the firm in which his ambassador held a substantial financial interest?

Downing Street has declined to confirm whether Mandelson was directly involved in arranging the visit. The government says there are robust processes in place to ensure contracts are awarded fairly. Palantir says its latest MoD contract was first discussed before Mandelson became ambassador and signed more than three months after he was sacked. Both statements may be technically accurate. Neither addresses the central problem.

A British ambassador with a direct financial interest in a lobbying firm facilitated a meeting between the Prime Minister and that firm's defence contractor client. The meeting was not declared. No minutes were taken. The contractor subsequently won a contract worth three quarters of a billion pounds.

Each element of that sequence has an innocent explanation available to it. The combination does not. A man whose financial interests were supposed to be held in a blind trust while he served as the Crown's representative in Washington was present at an undeclared meeting between his Prime Minister and his lobbying firm's most significant defence client. Whether that constitutes a conflict of interest is not a complicated question. Whether it constitutes something worse is now a matter for Scotland Yard, which has been asked to widen its investigation into Mandelson to include the Palantir meeting.

Starmer is already facing a privileges committee referral for misleading Parliament. His own Cabinet Office chief has contradicted his account of the vetting process. A senior government source says the wheels have stopped turning.

The Palantir meeting was not declared. The contract was awarded. The question of who benefited and who knew is not going away.

[Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 @EssexPR]

That’s enough for me… Keir Starmer has to go.

[Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧 @JChimirie66677]

Private Emails, Beijing Meetings and the Chagos Deal

There are moments when a government decision forces a far more serious question: who thought this was a good idea? The latest revelations about the Chagos negotiations fall squarely into that category. A man working on one of the most sensitive sovereignty negotiations in modern British history was receiving government material on a private email account, meeting officials before his role was publicly confirmed, and travelling to Beijing to speak at an event linked to Chinese influence networks. Each detail on its own can be explained. Together they tell a story about process, culture and risk.

The first issue is the use of private email. The Chagos negotiations were not routine diplomacy. They involved sovereignty, a joint UK–US military base, and the balance of power in the Indian Ocean. Work of that scale should move through official channels, secure systems and clear oversight. Yet government information was being sent to a private account during negotiations of this magnitude. That alone raises serious questions about judgement and process.

The second issue is the dual-hat problem. Jonathan Powell is not a peripheral adviser. He is the Prime Minister's National Security Adviser, operating at the heart of government while also running his private consultancy, Inter Mediate. At the same time he was receiving government material on Chagos and shaping negotiations over British sovereignty, he was acting in a private capacity abroad. Even if every step was technically permitted, the overlap is obvious. When the Prime Minister's closest security adviser moves between private consultancy work and sensitive state negotiations, conflict-of-interest questions are inevitable. Serious governments anticipate these optics before they explode. They build clear walls. They avoid ambiguity. That discipline appears to have been absent here.

The third issue is the Beijing visit. China has clear strategic interests in the Indian Ocean and in Western military basing. Against that backdrop, the sight of a British negotiator working on the future of Diego Garcia speaking at a conference linked to Chinese influence networks raises immediate questions of judgement and optics. The question is not whether the trip broke rules. The question is why anyone involved believed the optics were acceptable in the first place.

This is the thread running through the entire Chagos saga. Private emails. Informal early involvement. Parallel private work. Sensitive travel during negotiations. The process begins to look casual, clubby and insulated from scrutiny. That is not how decisions about sovereignty, alliances and strategic territory are supposed to look.

The most troubling aspect is not any single revelation. It is the culture they reveal. A small, interconnected professional circle moving between law, consultancy and government, handling one of the most consequential territorial decisions in decades with surprising informality. Each decision may have been defensible at the time. The cumulative effect is far harder to defend.

Foreign policy is not only about outcomes. It is about trust in the process that produces them. When that process begins to look opaque and relaxed about risk, confidence drains away quickly. Allies notice. Rivals notice. Voters notice.

The Chagos negotiations were meant to project competence and control. Instead they now raise a simpler and more damaging question: if this is how the process was handled, what else have we not been told?

"Jonathan Powell is not a peripheral adviser. He is the Prime Minister's National Security Adviser, operating at the heart of government while also running his private consultancy, Inter Mediate."

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks.
The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people.

ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher.

My Take
The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing.

I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all.

Hedgie🤗
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[Decko @delcatto1]

@koshercockney She’s an irrelevant lightweight.

[Cillian @CilComLFC]

🇮🇪 BREAKING: The Irish Government has officially deployed the Irish military to the streets of Ireland to break up anti-Government protests.

This is a MAJOR escalation.

The Irish Government is now at WAR with its own people.

[Decko @delcatto1]

@db_fink @higgyboson Boomer nurse here. fink, you have shown your true colours wishing that on Higgy. ”Cave dweller” - racist, classist and wishing pain upon the elderly and probably the disabled as well.