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Paul Boizot
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Photography & photoart, semi-retired circle & folk dance teacher & musician in York, UK, also posting political & environmental items. Photos at Pixels/Fine Art America, Redbubble; a smaller amount at Pictorem, Teepublic and Photo4Me.
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MK-Ultra...
At 16, I was experimented on by the CIA and now I'm suing
Lana Ponting is part of a class-action lawsuit against the Canadian government for its alleged role in the MK-Ultra experiments.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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For them, distance is protection — not isolation.
Uncontacted Indigenous peoples are defending their lands.

Discover their stories, their resilience – and the threats to their survival: uncontactedpeoples.org

#AtTheEdge #uncontacted #uncontactedpeoples #northsentinel #amazon #indigenouspeoples
October 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy
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November 10, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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This feeling is called hope
Three electoral lessons from a week of progressive victories.
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November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Inside the Cover-up: How Prince Andrew was exposed
Behind the headlines lies a deeper story of privilege, protection and a public kept in the dark
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November 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Israel’s underground jail, where Palestinians are held without charge and never see daylight
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January
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November 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Tourism to Xinjiang booms as China gives the region a makeover
China has repackaged Xinjiang into a tourist haven, touting
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November 2, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Delivery firm DPD accused of ‘revenge’ sacking drivers who criticised pay cuts www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Delivery firm DPD accused of ‘revenge’ sacking drivers who criticised pay cuts
Exclusive: Labour peer calls for change in the law after company terminates contracts of strike ‘ringleaders’
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November 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?
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November 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Survival found there are at least 196 uncontacted Indigenous groups worldwide. Half of them could be wiped out in 10 years if nothing is done. Take action!
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Take action for uncontacted peoples!
Uncontacted Indigenous peoples’ forests are being invaded and ripped up to extract resources and make way for roads and ranches, by those who value profits over human rights and survival. Send an ema...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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'Brothers in the forest' - the fight to protect an isolated Amazon tribe
Peru's Mashco Piro face a struggle to survive in the 21st Century, but locals want to help them.
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October 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Jewish figures across the globe call on UN and world leaders to sanction Israel
Exclusive: In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide
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October 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Standing with Maccabi’s football hooligans against local police – is that what patriotism looks like now? | Jonathan Liew
Tommy Robinson is said to be going to Villa Park as a Maccabi Tel Aviv fan. Do the politicians jumping on this bandwagon care what they are doing, asks Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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October 21, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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The Tories set a tax trap and Rachel Reeves walked straight into it. It may be her defining mistake | Chris Mullin
By taking Jeremy Hunt’s NI cuts and ruling out other rises, Labour tried to out-Tory the Tories. And made a bad situation worse, says former Labour minister Chris Mullin
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October 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials
Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths
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October 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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King Gizzard’s Stu Mackenzie on leaving Spotify and making all their music free: ‘Sometimes you just forget that you have free will’
Australian band’s decision to remove catalogue in protest of CEO’s military investments an easy one, frontman says, and making music with friends remains ‘top of the triangle’
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October 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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‘London has turned into something crazy’: is the city in the grip of a crime wave?
Perception of runaway crime partly blamed for ‘driving away the super-rich’ but in reality some high-profile offences such as watch theft are falling
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October 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Flag alert! Gary Neville may not be Orwell but he is a very English type of patriot | Barney Ronay
An easy target for accusations of luxury hypocrisy, Neville has at least tried to address an issue that has everything to do with aggressively flag-draped and militarised modern sport
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October 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Afghan women lose their 'last hope' as Taliban shuts down internet
For many women, the internet was their last resource. An internet shutdown threatens to end this.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Free speech - only for right-wingers? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 150 lawyers and refugee NGOs report being ‘pressured into silence’ by far-right protesters
At least two groups supporting UK asylum seekers have closed their offices after credible threats to their safety
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September 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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The US right claimed free speech was sacred – until the Charlie Kirk killing
Rightwingers had long complained of a censorious leftwing ‘cancel culture’ but seem happy to now reframe that as ‘consequence culture’
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September 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Israel attack on Yemeni newspaper was second deadliest on journalists ever recorded
Press freedom group says ‘brutal and unjustified attack’ is deadliest since 2009 Maguindanao massacre in Philippines
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September 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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‘It’s resurrection’: 1,000-year-old seeds could grow ancient plants in England’s ice-age ghost ponds
An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’
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September 20, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Taliban ban books written by women from Afghan universities
The decree also outlaws the teaching of 18 subjects, including human rights and sexual harassment.
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September 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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How not to start a revolution......https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/sep/18/baader-meinhof?CMP=share_btn_url
‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang | Jason Burke
In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were characterised by vanity and incompetence
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September 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM