Michael P Fenwicks

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal. Learn what is true in order to do what is right.Think you've got the big picture? Think Again. 

[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

HOLY SHIT.

Israeli settlers just seized homes in Southern Lebanon, planted their first outpost with the IDF backing them all the way.

They openly declared the start of their expansion into Lebanese land.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Imagine the countless staged incidents we don’t know about.

[Whale Insider @WhaleInsider]

JUST IN: 🇪🇸 Spain blacklists U.S. tech giant Palantir $PLTR from public and private firms over national security data risks.

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

Israel bulldozed a monastery in southern Lebanon.

Complete silence from our FAKE Christian leaders like Mike Huckabee, who sold Jesus Christ out for a couple of shekels and a bowl of matzah balls.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

White British students are a minority in almost one in five universities, analysis by The Telegraph has found.

Institutions are coming under pressure to end “racially discriminatory programmes” that exclude white working-class students, who are one of the most under-represented groups in higher education.

🔗:https://t.co/T93jy4ippT

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Today, I asked the Foreign Office Minister to take action to halt Israel's illegal settlement expansion.

The best he could come up with was a completely baseless smear. What a total and utter disgrace.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

Lloyds debanks The Canary with no explanation and are currently withholding their funds.

This sets a very dangerous precedent and attack on Independent media.

Journalism is NOT a crime

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

US Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin after Iran’s World Cup elimination:

“I’m just glad they’re done, and they’re not coming back. I was so happy when we were able to pull their visas and said they could leave U.S. soil, and I might’ve sung a song or maybe even danced a happy dance.”

What an absolutely deranged thing to say after the U.S. rigged the World Cup against Iran by making them travel back to Mexico between every game, reducing their rest, recovery, and practice time.

This only reinforces to the world that the United States is nothing more than a cruel empire that gets off on bullying and subjugating other countries.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Absolutely fascinating to see the difference in rhetoric on China between the German business community and the European political class.

This is the lead story of the business section of today's Berliner Zeitung, titled "Why We Need China | Germany needs help with a fresh start — Beijing stands ready to provide it"

The author is my good friend Michael Schumann, the chairman of the Board of the German Federal Association for Economic Development and Foreign Trade (@BWA_Vorstand) - one of Germany's main business lobbies.

Michael argues that it would be considerably harder for Germany to reindustrialize without Chinese capital, technology, and market access.

His core argument is that beyond being a competitor for some German companies, China is also "a technology driver, supply chain power, investor, and increasingly a production partner on German soil." He says that "anyone who seriously wants to shape Germany's industrial future should make strategic use of this."

As he points out, we're already at a stage where, in 2025, "China surpassed the United States in the number of new investment projects in Germany." And, given that you need new investments and new industrial projects to reindustrialize Germany, it'd be completely schizophrenic to attempt reindustrialization while simultaneously closing the door to such a major provider of new investment projects.

On reciprocity and fairness, a criticism often made to China ("your market is more closed than ours") Michael makes an interesting point: "Reciprocity is achieved through negotiating power, and a significant expansion of Chinese investment stocks in Germany strengthens rather than weakens the German position."

Which makes sense: if China is cut off and has nothing to lose from Germany - and Europe overall - then your word doesn't carry much weight.

Which is, incidentally, the same strategy that China itself followed with "reform and opening-up": by opening up to Western companies, China gave them a stake in its success.

Michael is arguing that Europe should give China a stake in its success as opposed to more to gain from its decline. Always sound business advice: you make your life immensely easier when incentives are aligned.

That, however, requires a political class capable of thinking strategically rather than ideologically, which is a different matter entirely...

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

"Not only do they slaughter innocent civilians, they also slaughter their own people, and now we have to silver bullet to prove it."

My recent translated video, depicting the first-ever published footage of an Israeli official calling to implement the Hannibal Directive on October 7, was featured on @TYT

I hope they won't be platforming any Israeli agents anymore.

[Financial Times @FT]

FT Exclusive: The International Energy Agency has forecast US-based spending on power plants fuelled by coal and gas will reach $50bn this year, as companies rush to build out data centres. https://t.co/cd3XQoAPsW

[Sunrise Movement 🌅 @sunrisemvmt]

BREAKING: Rep. DeGette gets heated with a constituent pressing her on why she voted to send bombs to Israel:

"If this the only issue that you care about is this issue, then you should not vote for me"

DeGette, who's 68, is facing a primary challenge from @MelatKirosCO.

[Michael P Fenwicks @micpets]

@sunrisemvmt @MelatKirosCO Direct democracy......

[Eric @Ericrse37986]

Update: She lost her primary to a 29 year old Democratic Socialist.

[The Sirius Report @thesiriusreport]

US democracy strikes again:

Efforts to remove a U.S.-Israel defence integration provision from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) never received a vote in the House after the House Rules Committee prevented the amendment being eligible for debate.

The amendment was introduced by Massie and Khanna and if passed would have removed Section 219 of the NDAA.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Following Israel's recognition of the Armenian Genocide, Turkish President Erdoğan rejected the move, saying: "In our history, there is no genocide, no massacres, no oppression, and no colonialism. Throughout our thousands of years of glorious history, there has only been justice and compassion."

[Going Underground @GUnderground_TV]

Prof. Jeffrey Sachs on the farce of Western countries telling Congo to ‘just govern properly’:

‘The Kingdom of Belgium created a slave colony in Congo for 30 years. The government of Belgium ran the slave colony for another 40 years.

The CIA assassinated Congo’s first popular leader Patrice Lumumba, and then installed another dictatorship for the next 30 years.

And then Glencore and others now suck out your cobalt without giving Congo tax income. We don’t reflect on that. We say what’s wrong with you? Why don’t you govern properly?’

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 The USS Liberty is back in the spotlight.

A new congressional resolution has been introduced to honor the crew of the USS Liberty, the U.S. Navy intelligence ship attacked by Israel in 1967.

The resolution also calls on the president to declassify and publicly release all remaining government records related to the attack, in which 34 Americans were killed and 174 were wounded.

Source: @RepThomasMassie / Writer: Lynn

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨 Israeli Plan to Herd Palestinians Into Controlled “Shelters” to Begin “Within A Matter of Weeks”

🔸Israel is preparing to channel Palestinians into fenced “humanitarian shelters” in areas outside Hamas’s control, policed by a foreign force, while its military deepens its occupation of the rest of Gaza, according to the pro-Netanyahu paper Israel Hayom, which reported the plan approvingly.

🔸Under the plan, unarmed civilians would be directed to a first zone in Tel al-Sultan, near Rafah, an area Drop Site has documented Israel systematically razing.

🔸A “multinational force” - the ISF - operating under the Trump administration’s “Board of Peace” would deploy there from a newly built base, equipped to police the zones, while the Israeli military “continues to maintain and deepen its hold” beyond the Yellow Line.

🔸 The camp/base for the force “has already been built,” and the Board of Peace has “begun identifying sites” for logistics warehouses, with the groundwork underway now, and deployment in the coming weeks.

🔸The paper described the effort as a “pincer movement”: the military seizing more territory as the population is siphoned into the controlled zones, in the hope that Hamas is left “without a population, territory or resources.”

🔸Officials said the areas would receive caravans and aid, but not the concrete needed to actually rebuild Gaza.

◽️The plan matches what Drop Site has previously exposed through leaked documents: a surveilled, checkpoint-controlled “planned community” in Rafah designed to force Palestinians into what amounts to an Israeli panopticon, tracked and screened as a condition of receiving aid.

🔸An Israeli political source told the paper the military would keep up “the pace of targeted killings while remaining below the threshold of international criticism… as long as Hamas is unwilling to disarm.”

📸 The buildup is already visible: the “Board of Peace” itself posted images of tactical vehicles arriving at a logistics base on June 30, matching the article’s account of preparations underway.

[RussiaNews 🇷🇺 @mog_russEN]

Netanyahu THREATENS Iran:

'We entered Iran twice, to save ourselves from the destruction of NUKES...

...there WILL BE a THIRD TIME if necessary'