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Many thanks to #StephenFry for a generous & timely endorsement: “A book to make you cry out ‘Yes, yes, yes!’ SPEECH! is an utterly enthralling voyage into the very heart of what makes us human…” And the high noon of that journey is now the horror of #Gaza https://t.co/3qzTX1Ktqm
This is the speech I’ve been waiting to hear in Parliament. I never expected to hear it from such a voice, but that gives it all the more force. Let’s hope we’ve finally reached a turning point and can look at the situation with clear eyes and act accordingly. As the whole world!
Ban trade with illegal settlements. The Palestinian people have the same right to a nation as anyone else.
For the past year, MAGA has been screaming “Europoor” like a cheap car alarm going off at three in the morning. Nobody asked for it, nobody knows how to turn it off.
But then along comes this chart.
America sits at number four in average wealth. Except “average” is the statistic billionaires hide behind. Put Elon Musk in a room with 500 broke MAGA guys, and on average, everyone in that room is a multibillionaire. That’s the trick!
Now look at the median. The actual middle American, the real one with the pickup truck, the missing teeth and the medical debt. Fourteenth place. Behind Belgium. Behind Italy. Behind Spain. And the ordinary European? The man MAGA calls a Europoor pays $9 for his insulin, glances over at the American paying $900 for the exact same vial, shrugs, and goes back to being more than twice as wealthy. He’d feel sorry for you, but honestly, he’s too busy being on vacation.
And that gap between fourth and fourteenth? That’s not a statistical quirk. That’s the entire scam laid bare. America’s wealth exists. It’s just not yours. It belongs to about eleven people in Palo Alto, and you’ve been guarding it for them for free, like an unpaid nightclub bouncer, shouting at Europeans on the internet while the owners drink champagne inside.
American exceptionalism. No other nation on Earth has ever been this successfully convinced to cheer for its own fleecing.
So by all means, keep shouting Europoor. We’ll be over here with our healthcare, our six weeks of vacation, and our double-your-median wealth, trying very hard to hear you over the sound of how sorry we feel.
If Farage wins, as he expects, it won’t tell anyone anything. Nothing will have changed except for a sneaky derailment of the investigation into his affairs. It’s a transparent dodge. @ClactonGazette Do your duty and vote this hypocritical grifter out - he’s done nothing for you.
Nigel Farage, "Today, I will resign as an MP for Clacton"
"This is a people vs the establishment election, a chance to stick two fingers up to the establishment, to frankly tell them where to go"
"To the voters of Clacton: if I win, you win"
You win an MP who doesn't hold in-person surgeries like other MPs
You win an MP who received a £5m gift without declaring it
You win an MP who earns more per hour from a gold company than the average disposable annual income in Clacton
Good luck with your choices Clacton 👍
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Rare that I agree with Peter Hitchens, but he's absolutely on the money here.
British veteran journalist Peter Hitchens is raising very uncomfortable questions today in the Mail on Sunday about the West's double standards. The title of the article is: "Are we villains? If Putin had done what the West did, we would be outraged".
He points out that the Western press, joyfully commenting on the assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei in Iran, did not even mention the death of his one-year-old granddaughter: "NO ONE in the US government ever directly commented on her death, let alone apologized. It seems that it's the Iranians' fault that they had a little girl when the US decided to kill her grandfather in a surprise attack".
He then asks to imagine the uproar in Europe if Russia had done the same as the Americans did with the girls' school in Minab or what the Israelis did with Gaza. In conclusion, Hitchens concludes:
Maybe it's worth trying something else?
For these suggestions, of course, I will again be called a pacifist, a traitor, etc.
This mindless nonsense is drowning debates in countries that have allowed primitive propaganda to supplant thought. If we continue in this vein, we are heading for a complete national catastrophe.
Yes, few dare to ask such obvious questions out loud in the mainstream Western press.
Worth remembering. And that this man was killed without warning, with all the leaders of the Iranian government, in an unprovoked, illegal act of war that makes Pearl Harbour look like child’s play. Imagine the outrage if Iran had done that to Italy, say, and killed the Pope too.
Ali Khamenei hated weapons of mass destruction.
The Iranian leader, murdered by the Israeli military earlier this year, had issued a formal fatwa forbidding his people from producing nuclear bombs.
Nuclear energy was best used for peaceful purposes such as power generation, he argued, going against the advice of his advisors. How could any truly spiritual community focus on making mass killing devices?
Khamenei, whose funeral is taking place at the moment, became a hero to Shia Muslims around the world. While he was not officially the equivalent of the Pope to Roman Catholics, he was a man whose principles provided leadership to the more than 200 million Shia Muslims around the world.
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DEFENSIVE POSITION
In taking this stand against nuclear bombs, Khamenei went against the urgings of his own generals and political analysts, who said that the US and Israel were unprincipled nations which would attack the country if they did not have defensive nuclear capability.
Repeated incursions and open threats revealed that Khamenei may have the moral high ground, but his advisors had got the facts right.
So the Iranian leadership eventually adopted a position they borrowed from the United States: “strategic ambiguity”.
The country’s store of uranium was enriched to a position between that of energy production and weapons production—and the level could be wound down or ramped up.
The message was clear: we know our attackers are violent and we know they disregard international law, so, Iranians, for our own defense, need options. We prefer peace. Our attackers prefer war. (It is worth noting that this is roughly the same as China’s rationale for investing in its military: to avoid war.)
Khamenei made harsh criticisms against Benjamin Netanyahu and wanted Israeli colonizers of Palestinian land to go home. These arguments were seen as unacceptable to many in the west.
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FALSE REPRESENTATION
He also asked Iranians to argue against the false representation of their country.
- Iran is portrayed as a secret builder of active nuclear weapons – that’s not true of Iran, but accurately describes Israel.
- Iran is portrayed as a nation refusing to allow inspections or sign the anti-proliferation treaty – again, this is untrue of Iran, but true of Israel.
- Iran is portrayed as having a history of attacking neighbors, but it’s actually Israel which has launched wars or assaults on seven neighboring countries.
The western press portrayed Iran as a medieval country which enslaved women – but under Khamenei, women became dominant in training for science and medicine, and make up 62% of students in higher education.
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NED, CIA AND MOSSAD NEWS BLACKOUT
The pestilent US National Endowment for Democracy has been active in Iran, energetically instilling hate for the Iranian leadership, since 1991. The CIA and Mossad ran parallel programs. (As is standard, the western mainstream media ran and still runs its usual news blackout on such activities.)
But these agents’ hate-cultivation work has been undone in recent years. Israel’s treatment of the people of Gaza, especially women and children, shocked Iranians. And then Israel spent 12 days making unprovoked bombing runs across in Iran in June of 2025.
This united most Iranians against Israel and the United States, as even some western mainstream media grudgingly reported at that time.
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TWO WAR CRIMES
And all this was before the launch of the disastrous US-Israel attack on Iran on 28 February, 2026, which began with two horrific war crimes.
- One was the killing of more than 40 people associated with the Iranian leadership, including children.
- The other was the horrific US double-tap bombing of a primary school in Minab, southern Iran, in which more than 100 children and 26 teachers were killed, and 95 more innocents injured.
NGOs, most which were discreetly funded by the US, tried to justify the unprovoked US-Israel attack on the country by claiming that Iran's rulers had killed 30,000 or 50,000 or 80,000 “peaceful protesters” – turning an unsuccessful Mossad-run armed coup into a public relations attack on Iranian leadership.
The western mainstream media fell for the ruse like a stone but multiple video leaks enabled the independent media to reveal the truth – heavily armed gangs tried to stage a coup but failed. This led to several thousand (estimated at 3,000 to 5,000 deaths), on all sides, in January. An armed insurrection is not a peaceful protest.
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MORE THAN 100 MISSILES
On February 28 this year, the Israeli Air Force fired more than 100 missiles at the building housing Khamenei. They killed him – and his daughter, his son-in-law, a grandchild, and his daughter-in-law.
The unprovoked US-Israel attack on Iran was clearly a violation of international law, but western mainstream media such as Reuters now refer to it simply as "a war”, thus absolving the attackers from the repercussions of what is clearly an ongoing criminal act.
Meanwhile, the funeral of Ali Hosseini Khamenei is being presented by the world’s media as an ending. Of course, it is no such thing.
Questions are being asked worldwide: How often can a militaristic group get away with war crimes before the rest of the world, and its own people, stand up and tells it to stop?
To give you an idea of how British politics has degraded into deranged radical-right lunacy, just consider what the public reaction would have been had a politician in the 60s or 70s proposed the following:
I’m looking forward to the lawsuits. Funny ha-ha and all that - but actually, not.
🇺🇸 Trump might be the most unserious president the world has ever seen!
One of his latest Truth Social drops is pure hilarity!
Your boy is wearing a lab coat and straight-up pushing a cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome with testimonials from AI Whoopi, Rosie O’Donnell, and more!
Who showed him how to use Grok Imagine and why? Next thing you know, he’ll be riding a horse bareback like Putin!
Source: realDonaldTrump (Truth Social) / Writer: Jamie
This is getting tiring to say, but where’s the outrage?
To everyone celebrating the first flight on Qatar Force One today, understand what you are actually applauding.
A foreign government handed the sitting President of the United States a $400 million plane. American taxpayers then paid to retrofit it, with an estimated cost of at least another $400 million (some estimates far higher), for security and communications work in a Texas hangar since last September.
When Trump leaves office, the plane does not stay with the government. Ownership transfers to his presidential library foundation. In other words, he keeps it.
You are being asked to treat pure corruption as normal, to shrug at a President personally profiting from a foreign gift the taxpayers paid to upgrade.
In any other administration this would be the scandal that ends a presidency.
With Trump, it’s Wednesday.
https://t.co/qAfVUp8KBd
i'm obsessed with what's happening in AI reforestation right now
this Franco-Brazilian startup called MORFO took a patch of land in Brazil that was rock-hard and compacted from years of cattle farming. they replanted it using a single drone. months later the ground was covered in grass, bushes, and small trees. the land came back to life.
here's how the whole thing works.
1. drones scan the terrain with high-resolution cameras and sensors
2. AI analyzes the imagery alongside soil samples, moisture levels, slope, and surrounding vegetation
3. the system picks from a catalog of 300+ native species, deciding exactly which plants will thrive in which specific spot
4. the drone fires biodegradable seed pods packed with seeds, nutrients, and moisture at 180 capsules per minute
5. satellite and drone imagery monitors regrowth over time, with AI tracking vegetation cover and biodiversity
6. two people and one drone cover 50 hectares a day. a person planting by hand manages about one hectare.
and MORFO isn't alone. AirSeed in Australia drops 250,000 seed pods per day into bushfire-scarred koala habitat, replanting swamp mahogany that koalas depend on to survive. Flash Forest in Canada fires 50,000 pods daily into wildfire-destroyed boreal forest, planning the replanting alongside Cree Indigenous communities. re-green won Prince William's Earthshot Prize after planting 6 million seedlings across 30,000 hectares of Amazon and Atlantic Forest.
five companies across four continents built this same approach independently. nobody coordinated. the physics of the problem demanded it.
knowing which seeds belong in which soil used to require years of ecological fieldwork, manual planting crews, and budgets that made large-scale restoration nearly impossible. now two people with a drone and an AI model trained on local soil data can replant 50 hectares before lunch.
this is the AI work that'll still matter in 50 years.
That time when an unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before Indian President Modi as a gesture of respect.
Then, at the last moment, the United States suddenly abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to wait and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.
What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had blown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.
This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.
And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear......
Scott Horton puts Iran school bombing into perspective on Joe Rogan:
@anthonyzenkus The more important point is whether or not one person had the original idea, we all get to benefit from it. That’s the power of language and the secret of humanity. But back in the day, you couldn’t build a hundred billion dollar empire by monopolising it. That’s the difference.
Back on form, with relish. And rightly so.
Why has it taken this long to say this? And why leave it to poor old Joe? Why doesn’t @BarackObama speak out? And all the rest of them? Anyone with half an ounce of decency knows. Trump is an utter disgrace - not just to America but to humanity as a whole. We’re better than this.
Biden: Putting his name on the Kennedy Center. Building an arch in his own honor. Even hiring his own pool guy to fix the reflecting pool.
Whoa. What a loser.
Let's hope he holds his nerve. Without this, the swamp ain't going anywhere...
🇺🇸🧐🤔U.S. House Representative Thomas Massie:
“Last night I received a flash drive containing the complete list of files belonging to Jeffrey Epstein. Everything is there: every billionaire, every campaign donor, every single person. Now let me explain why you haven’t heard anything about this in the media. Because they’re all in there. They will do everything to prevent these documents from being made public. Epstein was far more than just a pedophile; he was an intelligence asset. He was part of a blackmail operation used to control billionaires, politicians, and world leaders. If this list ever sees the light of day, the system as we know it will collapse. The public has the right to know the truth, and I am not afraid to share it.”
It looks like a political earthquake may be coming.
@nicksortor Says a man who can’t read the word ‘archeological’ off a teleprompter. After hesitating, he goes with ‘architectural’ at 1.20 on the video. Well, he got the first two syllables right 😆
You want to understand why Western infrastructure is falling apart while military budgets grow?
It is not mismanagement.
It is the correct functioning of the system.
Infrastructure, roads, bridges, water systems, public transit, hospitals, schools, serves populations.
Military spending serves contractors.
In a political system where contractors fund campaigns and populations mostly don't, and where the ideology of the past forty years has systematically delegitimized public investment while celebrating private profit, the outcome is not a mystery.
The bridge collapses.
The F-35 program receives another decade of cost overruns and continued funding.
The school crumbles.
The base in a country most Americans cannot locate on a map receives its budget.
This is not corruption in the sense of deviation from the norm.
This is the norm.
And the people who live near the collapsing bridge and send their children to the crumbling school will, in significant numbers, vote for the politicians who maintain this arrangement, because those politicians have successfully convinced them that the alternative is socialism, and socialism means Cuba, and Cuba has been the monstrous alternative for sixty years.
The same island. The same fear. Recycled through every election cycle since before those voters were born.
They have been voting against Cuba since 1962.
The bridge has been collapsing the entire time.
The genius of the rot is not that it deceives people once.
It is that it hands them the same deception across generations, and they receive it each time as if it were new.
As if this election, this candidate, this particular invocation of the island ninety miles from Florida is the one that finally justifies ignoring what is happening to the place where they actually live.
Cuba didn't collapse your bridge.
Cuba didn't close your hospital.
Cuba didn't move your factory to a country where labor has no rights and then call it "free trade."
Cuba has been under American embargo for six decades and has never once been the reason your water is undrinkable.
But it will be on the television again next election cycle.
And the bridge will still be there.
Collapsing on schedule.
While the contractor cashes the check.
Absolutely so. Starmer’s comments are abhorrent and utterly disgraceful. If for nothing else, he deserves to be removed from office. Shocking.
Today, Andrew Marr asked Jeremy Corbyn how he felt about Keir Starmer saying the Labour Party was “morally bankrupt” when he took over the leadership.
It was good to hear Jeremy set the record straight, as Starmer’s remark was massively insulting to many thousands of people.
This is about the best analysis I've yet seen on the prospects for the coming change of PM: https://t.co/RSzTLxasKm
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