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[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

This month, unless Donald Trump stops it, our treasonous Congress is likely to merge the US military with Israel’s genocidal armed forces. Dennis Kucinich on the end of American sovereignty.

0:00 The Attempt to Merge the US Military With the IDF
6:08 The Subversion of Congress
12:30 Why Is So Much Money Spent on Defense?
25:15 Israel's Genocide
26:59 Who Is Pushing This Bill?
45:33 How Can America Remain Independent?
48:38 Are People Getting Radical?
52:41 Will Democrats Vote Against This Bill?
55:46 Was This System Designed to Hurt Our Country?
58:50 Has Anyone Explicitly Defended This?
59:24 Will Trump Veto This Bill?
1:03:10 Is It Possible to Fix the System?

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

We've been quiet recently because Mark Goodwin and I have been working to write the most comprehensive investigation into Polymarket's origins and ambitions to date.

We found that Polymarket's "official" origin story, that Shayne Coplan founded the company alone in 2020 and then built "the company in his bathroom", is a lie. Polymarket really started years earlier as another company called TokenBnk that was deeply tied to Israeli interests, specifically a crypto company founded by Benjamin Netanyahu's niece and nephew. Coplan has actively tried to obfuscate this company from his story and it's not the only thing either.

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we unravel the real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect controversial DARPA programs from its now defunct Information Awareness Office. Polymarket appears to have been chosen by Thiel and his associates to succeed in resurrecting DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.

Stay tuned for Part 2, where we explore the current influence of prediction markets and Polymarket, including how an insidious effort to have prediction markets replace representative democracy as a governance model is already being slowly implemented by the White House.

Read Part 1 here: https://t.co/xTmU5RzoZz

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage’s convicted criminal ally George Cottrell handed out business cards with Farage’s email address despite having no official role in Reform UK

It contradicts Robert Jenrick's claim that Cottrell is a simply a personal friend of Farage

[@thetimes]

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING: 🇬🇧 The mainstream media is losing trust, so the UK government is requiring social medias to boost their algorithms, per the Guardian

The UK government has proposed new rules requiring social media platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Meta to artificially boost the visibility of mainstream media news sources.

[ik @ik52789]

@FabrizioRomano why have red cards if they don't matter and you can just make up rules

[Moon @desimudda]

@Lowkey0nline

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

Wild video shows British cops in an unmarked car detaining a jogger with a Palestine flag because he “flagged up in [their] live facial recognition” system.

“We stop a lot of people that have done nothing wrong whatsoever,” he explains.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage appears to have breached MP rules after failing to declare that convicted criminal George Cottrell paid for his staff, security and social media output before 2024 election

[@thetimes]

[ik @ik52789]

@UnitedStandMUFC Ineos / Jim unleashing The Clearance Rack Strategy.A complete "will they, won't they" strategy written for a gullible fan romcom. lol.

What’s even funnier is how United can’t attract elite players anymore, resorting to hypothetical promises and catching the biggest L's.

[ik @ik52789]

@UnitedStandMUFC The fact is they are "relaxed" because they never intended to buy primary targets unless they were cheap. They’re dwindling the transfer window away, waiting for the final days when they can scavenge for last-minute bargain bin players. Window shopping at its finest.

[ik @ik52789]

@UnitedStandMUFC * as a sales pitch
*that's why you can't make guarantees

[ik @ik52789]

@UnitedStandMUFC You can't promise captain for the future lol. United going around promising everyone captain as s ales pitch. That's you can't make no guarantees. You may win the lottery in the future but there is no guarantees lol.

Enjoy eating spin lol

[Hon. PolProf of Agile Ceremonies @CeilNoyle]

IT’S ONE BIG CLUB! @pollytoynbee

[MintPress News @MintPressNews]

🧵The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that chemical giant Bayer cannot be sued for its failure to warn the public that its weedkiller Roundup causes several types of cancer.

[MonitorX @MonitorX99800]

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️– Israel carried out two airstrikes targetibg seddiqin, Southern Lebanon.

[MonitorX @MonitorX99800]

🇮🇷🇴🇲🇪🇺⚡️– Bloomberg reports that some European countries have agreed that ships passing through the strait of Hormuz will now have to pay tolls to Iran and Oman.

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

The Epstein Coalition are now controlling World Football. @FIFAcom are no longer fit for purpose...

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Newly released documents reveal the inner workings of Labour Together and its role in covertly undermining Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party. https://t.co/OQ1LLWfcXH

[Evan @EvanWritesOnX]

For roughly thirty years the world ran on a single operating system.

American military reach, the dollar as the settlement layer for global trade, Western financial institutions setting the terms of credit, and a network of alliances and proxies that extended Washington’s writ into every region.

That system is not collapsing.

It is being shed.

The private capital networks that profited from it are quietly building positions inside the next arrangement while the old one still functions.

Understanding the shift means looking at what’s moving underneath.

The unipolar order was less about American virtue than American chokepoints. Trade settled in dollars, which meant nearly every cross-border transaction touched the US financial system, which gave Washington the power to cut off any actor it chose.

Sanctions were the enforcement mechanism, and they worked because there was no alternative. A country pushed out of the dollar system had nowhere else to go. Resource flows, shipping insurance, the courts that adjudicated disputes, the benchmark for pricing all debt on earth all ran through Western infrastructure.

That concentration is what made the system both stable and extractive at the same time.

Today, we have China processing the majority of the world’s rare earths, alternative payment rails like CIPS, bilateral trade settled outside the dollar, central banks buying gold because gold cannot be frozen by anyone’s legal system.

None of this happened overnight, and none of it has replaced the dollar yet. But the existence of even partial alternatives changes the leverage math.

A sanctioned state with a buyer in Beijing and a settlement channel that skips New York is no longer isolated. It is inconvenienced.

The freezing of Russian reserves in 2022 did more to advance this shift than two decades of summits. It proved that reserves held in another country’s currency are sovereign only until that country decides otherwise. Every central bank with an independent foreign policy took the lesson.

The tool of dollar dominance depletes its own potency each time it is used.

A multipolar world distributes power, and distributed power has a structural advantage in one respect. When several actors each hold real leverage, no single actor can impose outcomes without negotiation.

That tends to produce bargaining over coercion, and bargained outcomes are often more durable because every party has a stake in keeping them.

But the same distribution introduces fragility. A single hegemon, whatever its flaws, provided one set of rules and one enforcer. Multiple poles mean multiple rule sets, contested chokepoints, and far more places where miscalculation can happen.

The danger period is not the settled multipolar state. It is the transition itself, while the old enforcer is still strong enough to resist and the new arrangement is not yet built. That gap is where conflict concentrates, because the declining power is tempted to use its remaining leverage and the rising powers test how far they can push.

When external extraction slows, predatory systems turn inward. A power that can no longer profitably project abroad starts financializing its own population and applying tools built for foreign theaters at home. That produces domestic instability that spills outward in unpredictable ways.

I expect globally, the next ten to fifteen years to be more unstable, not less, even though the eventual multipolar equilibrium may prove more durable than the order it replaces.

The instability is front-loaded into the handover.

The decisive variable is whether the major powers treat the transition as a managed handover with everyone’s core interests preserved, or as a zero-sum fight over the wreckage.

The structural currents favor the former, because no major player actually benefits from a genuine systemic war.

But the transition window is exactly when miscalculation is most likely and most expensive.

[ik @ik52789]

@graham_pitt @UnitedStandMUFC it's like you don't know what you're walking into and what you expect to get. lol

[ik @ik52789]

@graham_pitt @UnitedStandMUFC lol there seems to be a pattern walk in to greggs don't want to be shafted so went to pound stretchers & walks out don't want to be shafted , so walked to the local chippy walked back out don't want to be shafted ... you stay hungry the rest of the day