Mark Chadbourn
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This sounds like something drafted by an AI wargame, which typically escalates to the use of nuclear weapons... www.livescience.com/technology/a...
AI war games almost always escalate to nuclear strikes, simulation shows
A new study reveals that AI decision-making during conflicts is naturally prone to escalation.
livescience.com
The Trump administration is drafting a new nukes strategy which emphasises the possible use of tactical nuclear weapons in a regional conflict with China or Russia.
Pentagon drafting a new U.S. nuclear strategy in case of regional war with China or Russia, sources say
The classified strategy informs nuclear options for the commander in chief during crises.
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Ukrainian drones have destroyed a Wildberries hub in Aleksin, Tula, 150km south of Moscow. #explodey
The UK Conservatives want Jewish groups to meet their new Neo-Nazi ex-con candidate.
Tories offer Jewish groups meeting with ex neo-Nazi activist candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed over neo-Nazi activism, but has been selected to stand in a new Somerset Council seat in 2027.
bbc.co.uk
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is to meet Epstein survivors and may hold a full public enquiry into Epstein.
Burnham 'looking into' conducting Epstein inquiry, says victims minister
Alex Davies-Jones tells BBC Newsnight she discussed an inquiry with the PM when she was re-appointed as minister.
bbc.co.uk
The UK government is scrapping Net Zero and environmental criteria from procurement rules.
UK to strip back procurement rules to focus on job creation, says Louise Haigh
Andy Burnham’s de facto deputy PM says requirements for businesses vying for Whitehall contracts will be streamlined
ft.com
The US military while conducting a GPS jamming exercise could have caused a civilian aircraft to crash into the side of a mountain, killing everyone on board.
A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Drone warfare is making the skies more dangerous, even for airplanes far from the battlefield.
wired.com
Cash from misery. Time to spread these profits around a little. #climatecrisis
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
Two dead from the US cyclospora outbreak, just in case you had any doubt how dangerous it is. There are now 18,000 confirmed or suspected cases across 45 states. By any standard this would be a scandal but it’s just another metaphor for life under Trump - killer food contaminated with human waste.
Two People Have Died in the Cyclospora Outbreak — TIME
Two people in Michigan have died from cyclosporiasis, state health officials announced on Aug. 3. They are the first reported deaths from a record Cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands of pe...
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Syria has agreed to slash Russian oil imports as part of talks with Washington over lifting the last major US sanctions, Reuters reports.
The US has now used up 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during the Iran war, Reuters World News reports.
Kemi Badenoch certainly seems to be advancing with her agenda to turn the Conservatives into Reform.
Badenoch Slammed After Former Neo-Nazi Activist Chosen As Tory Election Candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine is the creator of the Crewkerne Gazette.
huffingtonpost.co.uk
More evidence that Reform voters are not like other people in the UK. Show them some potential corruption and they’re all in.
In a report endorsed by the former head of MI6, the Henry Jackson Society said a staggering 50% of the Russians in London - 75,000 - were informants for Putin. Russia has many operatives across Europe.
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 2d agoA Paris court today rejected Russian television star Xenia Fedorova's appeal against a ruling that she must leave the country, a week after French authorities accused her of acting as "a conduit for disinformation campaigns" orchestrated by Moscow.
The #climatecrisis is driving drastic measures. In Romania the navy has carried out a controlled explosion to deepen the channel of the Danube to keep water flowing to the Cernavoda nuclear plant's cooling systems.
Big night for Ukraine. The oil refinery in Syzran is on fire and a Wildberries warehouse in Krasny Bor, Leningrad, has been destroyed. #explodey
Trump is considering removing Jeanine Pirro as US attorney for the District of Columbia, CNN reports. He’s upset she didn’t back up his fantasy that the issues with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool were caused by vandalism.
Miller scurries up with a poll of six people in the West Wing.
“Not since Facebook’s IPO in 2012 have tech investors seen such a high-profile offering lead to such early disappointment.”
SpaceX's post-IPO plunge sets tense backdrop for first earnings report
Two weeks after Tesla's earnings report was panned by Wall Street, Elon Musk faces investors again, but this time to discuss SpaceX's results.
cnbc.com
This is good. Iran is not talking to the US because the US has already lost. Professor Paine explains it all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjtl...
Sarah C. M. Paine — Concepts to Navigate the Second Cold War
YouTube video by Norsk Industri
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Reform starting to get the scrutiny it deserves on multiple fronts.
Standards watchdog investigating Reform UK’s Richard Tice
Party’s deputy leader accused of a possible failure to declare an interest, commissioner says on its website
theguardian.com
Geopolitics and Security Studies Center analyst Dionis Cenusa on the Ceuta crisis: “Ceuta is a geopolitical node that today involves the traditional interests of Spain and the emerging interests of the US and Israel related to Iran and the Middle East. 1/
Ukraine has destroyed the Wildberries warehouse in Khrastovo, Vladimir. #explodey
It’s Monday - Happy Trump Announces New Talks With Iran day. Oil prices have just started falling.
Trump says new talks with Iran to begin on Monday
Tehran has not responded to the suggestion that new talks are imminent. Trump has previously said a negotiated end to the war is close, only for strikes to resume.
bbc.co.uk
