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Keir Starmer sends one soldier to help Denmark defend Greenland. A regular profile in courage, that guy.
January 15, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Keir Starmer sends one soldier to help Denmark defend Greenland. A regular profile in courage, that guy.
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Video has emerged of Gen Xu Qinxian of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army at his court martial in 1990, explaining why he refused orders to crush the Tiananmen Square protests. Xu said he didn’t want to become “a sinner in history”. He was given a 5 year sentence.
December 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Video has emerged of Gen Xu Qinxian of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army at his court martial in 1990, explaining why he refused orders to crush the Tiananmen Square protests. Xu said he didn’t want to become “a sinner in history”. He was given a 5 year sentence.
This is one of the most extraordinary graphs I’ve seen for a while…
The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
December 5, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is one of the most extraordinary graphs I’ve seen for a while…
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NEW: US agrees UK pharma deal - US guarantees exemption from tariffs for duration of Trump presidency.
But
-UK agrees a reduction in the drugs rebate payment system to 15% (EU countries are less than 10%)
- NHS agrees to pay 25% more on new innovative drugs
Thoughts?
www.ustr.gov/about/policy...
But
-UK agrees a reduction in the drugs rebate payment system to 15% (EU countries are less than 10%)
- NHS agrees to pay 25% more on new innovative drugs
Thoughts?
www.ustr.gov/about/policy...
U.S. Government Announces Agreement in Principle with the United Kingdom on Pharmaceutical Pricing
WASHINGTON – Today, the Office of the United States Trade Representative, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of Health and Human Services issued the following statements announcing an agre...
www.ustr.gov
December 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
NEW: US agrees UK pharma deal - US guarantees exemption from tariffs for duration of Trump presidency.
But
-UK agrees a reduction in the drugs rebate payment system to 15% (EU countries are less than 10%)
- NHS agrees to pay 25% more on new innovative drugs
Thoughts?
www.ustr.gov/about/policy...
But
-UK agrees a reduction in the drugs rebate payment system to 15% (EU countries are less than 10%)
- NHS agrees to pay 25% more on new innovative drugs
Thoughts?
www.ustr.gov/about/policy...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
Who will be Trump’s Khrushchev?
It’s not jd Vance, and it’s certainly not Hegseth…?
It’s not jd Vance, and it’s certainly not Hegseth…?
November 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Who will be Trump’s Khrushchev?
It’s not jd Vance, and it’s certainly not Hegseth…?
It’s not jd Vance, and it’s certainly not Hegseth…?
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Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings and sexual assaults in several states, warns an FBI bulletin to law enforcement agencies issued last month.
The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves
In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
www.wired.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Criminals posing as US immigration officers have carried out robberies, kidnappings and sexual assaults in several states, warns an FBI bulletin to law enforcement agencies issued last month.
The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
The bulletin urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.
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The Universe Browser is believed to have been downloaded millions of times. But researchers say it behaves like malware and has links to Asia’s booming cybercrime and illegal gambling networks.
This ‘Privacy Browser’ Has Dangerous Hidden Features
The Universe Browser is believed to have been downloaded millions of times. But researchers say it behaves like malware and has links to Asia’s booming cybercrime and illegal gambling networks.
wrd.cm
October 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The Universe Browser is believed to have been downloaded millions of times. But researchers say it behaves like malware and has links to Asia’s booming cybercrime and illegal gambling networks.
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In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...
October 15, 2025 at 4:39 PM
In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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"and it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
October 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"and it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny."
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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List of foreign governments with military bases on U.S. soil in the last 213 years:
Britain, 1812.
Qatar, 2025.
Britain, 1812.
Qatar, 2025.
October 11, 2025 at 3:38 AM
List of foreign governments with military bases on U.S. soil in the last 213 years:
Britain, 1812.
Qatar, 2025.
Britain, 1812.
Qatar, 2025.
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For those feeling lost trying to understand what is happening with the Israel / Gaza deal... at least the minor reassurance that you are not alone... from an interview with Ami Ayalon, a former head of the Shin Bet, Israel’s security service www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/...
October 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
For those feeling lost trying to understand what is happening with the Israel / Gaza deal... at least the minor reassurance that you are not alone... from an interview with Ami Ayalon, a former head of the Shin Bet, Israel’s security service www.foreignaffairs.com/middle-east/...
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Let us not forget the journalists killed in the last two years in Gaza. International Federation of Journalists says Israel has "controlled the narrative" throughout and demands that it "lift its media ban and grant foreign reporters independent access to Gaza".
www.ifj.org//media-centr...
www.ifj.org//media-centr...
October 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Let us not forget the journalists killed in the last two years in Gaza. International Federation of Journalists says Israel has "controlled the narrative" throughout and demands that it "lift its media ban and grant foreign reporters independent access to Gaza".
www.ifj.org//media-centr...
www.ifj.org//media-centr...
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Our horror at the genocide in Gaza, at the mass murder of civilians on Oct 7 2023, and at today's atrocity in Manchester, comes in each case from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.
October 2, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Our horror at the genocide in Gaza, at the mass murder of civilians on Oct 7 2023, and at today's atrocity in Manchester, comes in each case from the same, inherent part of our shared humanity. We need to assert that shared humanity as loudly as possible, and in as many practical ways as we can.
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Trump: "I'm very careful when I walk down stairs, like I'm on stairs, I walk very slowly. Nobody has to set a record. Just try not to fall because it doesn't work out well."
September 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Trump: "I'm very careful when I walk down stairs, like I'm on stairs, I walk very slowly. Nobody has to set a record. Just try not to fall because it doesn't work out well."
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“If I were a planetary doctor, I would sit down with my patient and say: ‘Last year, I suggested you change something but you didn’t. (...) So your health is declining further." PIK scientist Levke Caesar on the 2025 Planetary Health Check via @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life
Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
“If I were a planetary doctor, I would sit down with my patient and say: ‘Last year, I suggested you change something but you didn’t. (...) So your health is declining further." PIK scientist Levke Caesar on the 2025 Planetary Health Check via @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This feels significant.
One of a number of significant political and economic trends that suggest the inevitable gravity of reality will eventually take effect on Trump’s presidency.
One of a number of significant political and economic trends that suggest the inevitable gravity of reality will eventually take effect on Trump’s presidency.
@gelliottmorris.com: "many people fundamentally underestimate how unpopular Trump is."
Trump is currently underwater on all key issues, something our corporate elites should consider before capitulating to him.
Trump is currently underwater on all key issues, something our corporate elites should consider before capitulating to him.
September 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This feels significant.
One of a number of significant political and economic trends that suggest the inevitable gravity of reality will eventually take effect on Trump’s presidency.
One of a number of significant political and economic trends that suggest the inevitable gravity of reality will eventually take effect on Trump’s presidency.
Could the uk or eu offer to buy and operate the satellite?
How much does a 2nd hand functioning satellite go for?
How much does a 2nd hand functioning satellite go for?
“The president believes climate change is a hoax,” reports a former White House staffer who wishes to remain anonymous. “But he also knows the data say otherwise. His solution? Destroy the instruments that deliver the data.”
kaizen-blog.org/en/das-ende-...
kaizen-blog.org/en/das-ende-...
The End of the Climate Watchers: How Trump Is Destroying Humanity's Most Important CO₂ Satellites – And Why the World Knows Nothing About It
Eine investigative Recherche über die systematische Abschaltung der NASA-Missionen OCO-2 und OCO-3, das Schweigen der Mainstream-Medien und die katastrophalen Folgen für die Zukunft Wir bitten auch um...
kaizen-blog.org
August 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Could the uk or eu offer to buy and operate the satellite?
How much does a 2nd hand functioning satellite go for?
How much does a 2nd hand functioning satellite go for?
In your lifetime, has there been a development that hasn’t resulted in the little people getting screwed?
August 7, 2025 at 9:40 PM
In your lifetime, has there been a development that hasn’t resulted in the little people getting screwed?
I mean, ffs…
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention by ICE now feels like “a second kidnapping,” says his sister.
“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
“I felt like someone just sucked my blood, my air. Like, how do you live?"
He fled Boko Haram and helped build an award-winning restaurant. Now he’s facing deportation.
Paul Dama left Nigeria after being kidnapped in 2018. His detention feels like "a second kidnapping," says his sister.
www.motherjones.com
August 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
I mean, ffs…
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Israeli media reports that the cabinet is gearing up to instruct the IDF to occupy all parts of the Gaza Strip.
The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing.
UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.
The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing.
UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.
August 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Israeli media reports that the cabinet is gearing up to instruct the IDF to occupy all parts of the Gaza Strip.
The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing.
UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.
The implications are a severe escalation of the carnage, starvation, and ethnic cleansing.
UK+EU sanctions should preempt this catastrophe - not respond to it belatedly.
Why the fuck are we fishing for krill, now?
This is why the whales will disappear.
We're starving them.
We're starving them.
“The vast majority of the krill take is from an increasingly smaller area.”
“It’s [like] a hunter saying that they’re only killing 1% of the U.S.’ deer population but leaving out that all of the deer were shot in Rhode Island.”
Critical food source for #whales penguins & fish being hoovered up:
“It’s [like] a hunter saying that they’re only killing 1% of the U.S.’ deer population but leaving out that all of the deer were shot in Rhode Island.”
Critical food source for #whales penguins & fish being hoovered up:
July 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Why the fuck are we fishing for krill, now?
… so, If Israel mitigates some of the situation in Gaza, we abandon the 2 state solution?
'We are determined to protect the viability of the two-state solution ... unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza,' Downing Street said in a statement. www.ft.com/content/c3af...
July 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
… so, If Israel mitigates some of the situation in Gaza, we abandon the 2 state solution?
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“State contracts related to Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial detention facility in the Florida Everglades, appear to have disappeared from the state's public contract database.”
Is Florida Quietly Removing Alligator Alcatraz Contracts from Public Database?
On Tuesday, Orlando lawmaker Anna Eskamani accessed the contract documents on the website. The next day, they were gone.
www.miaminewtimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
“State contracts related to Alligator Alcatraz, the controversial detention facility in the Florida Everglades, appear to have disappeared from the state's public contract database.”