Putin: “Iran has not requested weapons deliveries, and Russia is not supplying them.” Ukraine’s United24 has just published leaked contracts showing Russia supplying Iran with air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles.
Mark Dobson
@kellysheroes.bsky.social
Migrated from the other place. Here for sport, politics and cute dogs :) Escaped to Cornwall for some quiet time. Guardian sport … all views my own.
"So tell me Mr Farage, what was it that first attracted you to the idea of becoming an MP in exchange for a £5 million gift from a crypto billionaire?"
Trump on the stump, 2024: "I will tell you, you're not going to have a war with me and you're not going to have a Third World War with me." Trump attacking Iran, 2026: "We projected 4 to 5 weeks, but we have capability to go far longer than that" "Wars can be fought forever, and very successfully"
'The Kremlin said on Friday that the war in Iran had fuelled demand for Russian energy products, noting that buyers such as China and India were guided by their national interests.' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
US grants waiver to allow India to buy Russian oil amid Iran war
‘Stopgap measure’ designed to keep oil flowing into global market as Middle East crisis disrupts crude shipments
theguardian.com
Imagine an Iranian bomb had slaughtered 165 Israeli school kids. Imagine the response of the Western media and politicians. And note the lack of outrage and disgust here.
This is horrifying because it implies the Iranian school mistargeting was down to Claude layer in Palantir systems. What’s more horrifying is that if the rest of the article is accurate AI was a massive force multiplier for US/Israel strikes.
Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’
Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelined
theguardian.com
Ian Botham with Lou Ferrigno, the 'Incredible Hulk' at the LA Dodgers' stadium in Los Angeles in September 1981. Botham was in LA for an all-stars match (Paul Popper)
Top: Extreme #drought has developed very early… it’s one of the driest periods on record this early in season. If there’s a spark, the ground is very flammable. Bottom: We are in dry season, and a dry La Niña, so prospects for meaningful rain are limited as evidenced by the model prediction… 1/
I can't stop thinking about what Bezos has done to the Washington Post. But I also don't know why I & anyone else is shocked. I went undercover in an Amazon 'fulfilment centre' in 2013 and saw first-hand exactly who Bezos is. We have all been SO naive. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
My week as an Amazon insider
With questions being asked about its treatment of employees, what is it like to work at Amazon? Carole Cadwalladr lands a job in one of its giant warehouses
theguardian.com
Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 6mo agoNEW: Trump's coup is almost complete. And the attack on the press is a central piece of it. Bezos's gutting of the Washington Post cannot be allowed to be just another blip in the news cycle. We are all going to have to fight for a free and independent press. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Pls read whole piece. Neither Mandelson or Mosley were asked about Mandelson’s role in fixing Starmer’s visit to Palantir & subsequent £240m deal. It finally made headlines on Weds when a q was asked in Parliament. But honestly, BBC also has qs to answer open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
Peter Thiel's New Model Army
The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster
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Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/
Guardiola can be both right to speak out and a performative hypocrite on Sudan from @barneyronay.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Guardiola can be both right to speak out and a performative hypocrite | Barney Ronay
Coach should not ‘stick to football’ when football strays into politics and death but his role as fluffer for his club’s autocratic owners cannot be ignored
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#China’s solar capacity set to overtake coal in ‘historic’ shift. #Wind and #solar projected to account for half of China’s total installed power capacity. www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...
China’s solar capacity set to overtake coal in ‘historic’ shift
Wind and solar combined are projected to account for about half of China’s total installed power capacity
independent.co.uk
The plaintiffs are asking the court to declare the Gold Card program unlawful and to halt its implementation.
Donald Trump’s Gold Card Visa Hit With Major New Lawsuit
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From VAR to generative AI, modern life is making me think more and more the luddites were right. Smash the machines. This is technology failing to make things better.
Why are the BBC *still* giving generous airtime to the multiply disgraced Peter Mandelson? #WATO
Deeply weird and menacing scenes in Minneapolis. ICE agents sat in masks and balaclavas in unmarked, often blacked out cars, watching local residents. They themselves being observed by a network of locals, trying to deter them from mounting raids. Profoundly abnormal.
Pew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
Steven Skarsgård at the European Film Awards in Berlin on Saturday night, regarding Greenland: “It’s absurd, isn’t it? It’s a little man who got megalomania, and he’s trying to take the world. He took Venezuela, suddenly, and that’s for Chevron. He’ll take Greenland for minerals. He’s a criminal.”
Stellan Skarsgård Reacts To Trump’s Greenland Demands: “What’s Happening Is Absurd” – European Film Awards
Stellan Skarsgård Reacts To Trump’s Greenland Demands: “What’s Happening Is Absurd” - European Film Awards
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Anonymous Tory MP in 2018: "If we try to cancel Brexit, we destroy ourselves. If we go ahead with it, we destroy the country." They did both. And now the culprits are running from the wreckage.
Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez, "It is the complicit silence of some, the turning a blind eye of others" "We have not accepted the double standards when we talk about Gaza, Ukraine, Greenland or Venezuela"
London* gets its first Reform MP: Andrew Rosindell. *Admittedly Andrew dislikes being part of London so much he has repeatedly campaigned for his constituency to be moved into Essex.
Nationalist, but not for your nation is usually a position that ends in interesting ways for those expressing it.
Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 7mo ago130,000 Small and Medium-size Enterprises in the UK export products to the USA. Courtesy of Ben Leo at GB News, we now learn that they're all "globalists" and no doubt part of some Illuminati like conspiracy.
