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[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The New World Screwworm, a grave parasitic threat, has just been detected in US cattle for the first time since it was eradicated in 1966.

The parasite's revival comes after Trump and DOGE slashed funding for Screwworm monitoring programs.

[Ray Wilton now on Bluesky as Raymond Wilton💧 @raywilton4]

Anyone who bothers to read the US Congressional Research Service’s advice to Congress on AUKUS knows we will not get subs from the US. Anyone who bothered to read the recently released UK Parliamentary report on AUKUS knows we will not get subs from the UK https://t.co/EJAX6FJqgs

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

THERE WAS DELIGHT at the United Nation yesterday as Kyrgyzstan last night roundly defeated the Washington-controlled Philippines to win the sole Asia-Pacific seat at the UN Security Council.

Kyrgyzstan received 142 votes, while the Philippines received only 49.

The Iranians, sitting in one row ahead, were clearly delighted at the win.

The Central Asian nation now becomes a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council for the 2027-2028 term.

Most people in the west have never heard of the country, but the US was concerned about the vote, because Kyrgyzstani people have friendly, peaceful relations with their Chinese and Russian neighbors.

The US spends billions of dollars a year to demonize China and Russia. The UK voted with the US.

There was more bad news for the US-Israel bloc, too. Germany was defeated by Austria and Portugal in the European vote.

After the illegal US-Israel attack on Iran, German leader Friedrich Merz shocked the world by echoing the far-right Israeli view that that international law did not apply to Iranians.

[😈 Xavier ✞ @RealXavier011]

China again!

[Ahmed sabe~Gaza @sabe_ahmed1985]

One of the hardest nights we have ever endured.

We are not okay.

Goodbye to a world that chose silence while we suffered.

We will never forget those who looked away when we needed humanity the most.

[Carl Zha @CarlZha]

In 1950, China was 1 of the poorest nations in the world. Chinese per capita income was 1/3 of sub-Saharan Africa.

Mao said let's plan to surpass the US after the 15th 5-year plan.

This year China just started the 15th 5-year plan (2026-2030)

[Geoff Kitney @4mambo]

Tony Abbott's two most notable achievements were the destruction of two of the most important tax reforms of recent times - the carbon tax and the mining tax. His contribution to the future of this country has been totally destructive. He offers just regression and division.

[Squizz @SquizzSTK]

Tim Wilson gets caught blaming Labor for data when the LNP was in government🙄

Jim Chalmers "I wonder why he's including Mar 2022 and pretending Labor was in office .. that was the biggest fall in productivity in more than 40 years! So it always pays to check the numbers"

#qt

[Global Insight Journal @GlobalIJournal]

This was HEARTBREAKING

Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, who volunteered in Gaza, exposed Israel:

"I held a lifeless child in my arms. There was no equipment to save him. This is not a war; it is a massacre of the innocent."

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

Albanians continue to gather in droves to prevent the sale of their lands to Jared and Ivanka Kushner to build Epstein Island 2.0.

We should all be following this example.

[Ahmet Gemici @ahmetgemici2990]

Filistin bayrağı açan Lamine Yamal tüm İsrail’de protesto ediliyor, formaları yırtılıyor.

O halde biz de Yamal’a çok büyük destek verelim!

Yamal’ı sevenler bu tweeti beğensin ve paylaşsın 🇵🇸

[NADA 𓂆 @nadaa01012]

Don't stay silent, at least share!!

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

China's economy will eclipse the West economically for decades to come.

One of many reasons: infrastructure.

For the West, its not very profitable for the investor class.

For China, its essential, and a priority.

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

Trump Has Lost the Initiative

Iran Just Leveled Up to 4th Superpower.

What Washington and Tel Aviv sold as a swift knockout blow has become a grinding war of attrition — and America no longer sets the pace.
The latest Iranian barrage wasn’t simple tit-for-tat. The U.S. struck a tanker and Qeshm Island; Iran answered by hammering American bases across Kuwait, Bahrain, Erbil and beyond. Hangars flattened, fuel depots gutted, aircraft and radar wrecked. The damage and casualties were far greater — with American blood on allied soil. Trump’s own words said it all: “They were slightly provoked; they were reciprocating.” That’s not strength. That’s damage control.
Far from a setback, this has propelled Iran into a new paradigm. Tehran now stands as the world’s fourth superpower beside the U.S., China, and Russia. Its missiles reached deep, its resilience held firm, and its control of the Strait of Hormuz reshapes global energy.
Crucially, Iran is gradually expelling the United States from the region. Each barrage makes those forward bases more untenable. Gulf allies are recalculating the cost, and the entire architecture of American dominance is crumbling.
This is multipolarity in action. What America meant as dominance only exposed its limits and accelerated the broader shifts underway. The old unipolar era is cracking.
In this round, Iran leveled up.

We are entering a new paradigm.

[Ben Davison @Ben_Davison1]

Labor’s “socialism” in Australia delivered:
-Medicare
-Superannuation
-Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
-Public schools
-Minimum wages
-Universal TAFE
-Below OECD avg tax rates

The wealthiest citizens in the English speaking world

This is what the whiners call “Socialism”🤦‍♂️

[Idris @7signxx]

What they do to Palestinians children daily. Imagine surviving and growing up under this kind of evil as a child...

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

An Israeli soldier testifies UNDER OATH that October 7th was a FALSE FLAG, and that he was ordered to STAND DOWN from 5:20am to 9am the day of the attack.

You could face up to 5 years in prison for sharing this video in Israel.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨SENATOR VAN HOLLEN JUST LEFT MARCO RUBIO SPEECHLESS:

“Netanyahu said he's been waiting 40 years to do this. Turns out he finally found a president who was both stupid and reckless enough to join him."

🔥🔥🔥

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

This video of Israel’s latest war crime is being systematically suppressed by Twitter.

I screen recorded the moment the platform removed 19 retweets from the post — evidence of Western war crimes being targeted by Elon’s algorithm.

Minutes later, it removed 21 more retweets👇