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This is something AI is incredibly useful at - a quick overview of Trump/US statements on Greenland in the past year. Rather than the individual shock dynamic, the overview shows a pattern and an increasing aggressiveness in the demands towards territorial annexation of Greenland:
Some thoughts on Mad King trade policy and the British economy. Beware the 'nimble UK will dodge the fallout' thesis. open.substack.com/pub/johnspri...
One sleep till Liberation Day
The UK economy is in trouble, even if Trump's tariffs are rescinded
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Territorial sovereignty is the topmost agenda item for any state's international engagement. Any threat to it, no matter how far-fetched, cannot be ignored or wished away, especially when it is coming from the world's most powerful state and the relevant countries' primary ally and/or partner.
Purely my opinion, but this is a terrible move by Streeting. You can't "work with" Musk when he is spreading far right disinformation. You embolden him, and by extension the far right to whom he is playing. His comments needed full throated condemnation. www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/elon...
Wes Streeting offers olive branch to Elon Musk after Keir Starmer criticism
Wes Streeting offered an olive branch to Elon Musk following his attacks on the UK government after Labour rejected a call for a national inquiry into child grooming. The billionaire X owner triggered...
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One of the things I find weird about the way Trump is covered is that no one ever asks “how trump would do this or that?”
Richard Tice in 2018 on George Soros' donation to UK political groups: "He doesn't live here. He doesn't pay taxes here. What right has he got to interfere with our democracy?" Richard Tice in 2024 ahead of Elon Musk's donation to Reform UK: "If Mr Musk can legally donate... We'd be delighted."
The stories of those released from Assad’s brutal prisons are both heartbreaking and uplifting. Ragheed Al-Tatri was Syria’s longest serving political prisoner. 43 years ago he was incarcerated for refusing to bomb civilians. Now he’s free.
An interesting judgment, from back in July - national court applies the EU Digital Services Act against X in private litigation, ie the Act can be enforced without waiting for the EU Commission or national regulators to act. (The case involved the GDPR too) techcrunch.com/2024/07/12/m...
More bad news for Elon Musk after X user's legal challenge to shadowban prevails | TechCrunch
If X continues to violate Europe's data protection rules, the company is on the hook for fines of up to €4,000 per day.
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