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Being the attack dog is not "nothing to do with it". But I wanted to emphasise the extent to which Israel is a projection of US interests. It's a country only the size of a US city, remember.
"In the event of a shooting, remote pilots fly the drones, housed at the school, at the shooter. They shoot pepper balls and run the drones into the shooter" www.npr.org/2025/09/08/n... This all makes perfect sense. Much better than restricting access to guns for kids and psychos.
Steve Jobs, rotating in grave etc
Israel bombs Qatar… “If they allow one of them to be the target of such an attack, then they’re all targets for such attacks in the future, how do they proceed?” www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/... Some suggestions. 1. Close the US bases. 2. Treble the price of oil.
It's not Israel, it's the US. Israel is just the attack dog.
Maybe there's a link between the hospitals failing and the bosses being greedy and raiding the resources of their "health trusts"
No need, I've reviewed it. It's Trump's all right. And so is the terrible sense of humor.
"British MPs warned Trump that handing the Chagos islands back would mean Mauritius could veto the allies from taking nuclear weapons there" Given the way the nuclear counries ignore their NP obligations, long overdue for countries like Iran to have their own. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
"the US received prior notice about the pending attack from Israel [and] Steve Witkoff passed along a warning to the Qataris" Looks like the US is backtracking on this plan which it certainly knew about well in avance. But the "warning" was given only after the first bomb - they're playing tricks.
"Rather than protest Israel’s ban on journalists [let alone] systematic killing, American media outlets have continued to dehumanise Palestinians and prop up Israeli narratives…asymmetries heavily favour Israel in sourcing, victim humanisation, and framing." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
Finally. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...
What can you say? Every day Israel kills journalists with impunity. And countries like the UK are very much part of it. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
@miloprcohen.bsky.social Bit of fun…k?
Good luck to Angela for a new pop career www.facebook.com/reel/1094269... AI Video aptly captures her star quality - unlike the rest of New Labour.
@arusbridger.bsky.social Suggestion for the magazine, Alan? a lot of pieces talking about AI but they all paint it as a dark force, amoral or worse, morally suspect. What, though, if AI actually reflects the best of us? If knowing everything leads to wisdom?
It's much worse than South Africa. The aim there was to, literally, "live apart". The aim in Israel is to take the whole land from "the Arabs" and leave them nothing.
"Saudi Arabia condemns and denounces in the strongest terms the brutal Israeli aggression and flagrant violation of the sovereignty of the sisterly State of Qatar. The statement warned of "The dire consequences resulting." www.reuters.com/world/middle... So - let's see them. Long overdue.
According to the UK government, no evidence of a genocide. Israelis not "intending" to destroy the city, either, just doing it while hunting Hamas. Thus, the UK government subverts and weakends international law.
Genocide: "‘intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group’. The [UK govt] has not concluded that Israel is acting with that intent.” The absurd thing is that Israel HAS done it - in plain sight. The intent element was to ENABLE ACTION BEFORE - not blur lines.
Genocide: "‘intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group’. The [UK govt] has not concluded that Israel is acting with that intent.” The absurd thing is that Israel HAS done it - in plain sight. The intent element was to ENABLE ACTION BEFORE - not blur lines.
Meanwhile, in Gaza… www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/... "As Trump levels threats at Hamas, medics in Gaza struggle to treat patients, survivors describe being in Gaza as “living in a piece of hell”, more children are starving to death, and Israeli forces target the Strip’s remaining infrastructure."
Good backgrounder on China's betrayal of its former ally Ukraine www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/... "Reuters news agency said Chinese firms were single-handedly sustaining Russian drone production by shipping engines mislabelled as “industrial refrigeration units” to Russia’s drone assembly plants"
I don't think there is any limit to how often Netanyahu can play the same trick - he waits for - or maybe creates - a violent incident, puts his own trial on hold (how many times is it now?) and claims the right to kill still more thousands of Palestinians in bloody revenge.
If Trump can deploy U.S. forces to the cities, it amounts to him “creating a national police force with the President as its chief” www.latimes.com/politics/sto... Yes, only it's more like a private militia… or an American Gestapo… @latimes.com
Reason 1001 why California should start the process of leaving the union that tore up the constitution and became a toxic oligarchy instead. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
"Some of you may know [people like Starmer] from the office: a careerist who will look you dead in the eye and tell you, the moment it becomes more convenient to take a different line, that isn’t what he said at all."
If you don't realise it already, no point trying to tell you
Yes. "Here we are again, with the pettiness and authoritarianism, the performatively cruel rhetoric and crackdown on immigration, the ridiculous posturing on flags, the empty sloganeering – and with the constant rebooting in order to jumpstart a broken machine."
So far, everytime Hamas accepts a deal, the Israelis renege on their commitment. A charade is being played out.
Appropriate way to announce the total moral and aesthetic debasement of the American presidency to the world
Grotesque and awful
We demand 14 years, m'lud!
To coin a phrase, they like art, but "They don't like it up 'em!" uk.yahoo.com/news/conceal...
Spain shows up the other European states again www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
😂
They're "stirring up a sense of national emergency and shifting alarmingly closer to extreme populism" Ooops… wrong conference - that's the Labour one.
Netanyahu's roots are in Irgun, who used to plant bombs in hotels deliberately killing Jews. Later he funded and boosted Hamas. And today a bus attack that means: "the Israeli leader will not testify at his corruption trial as originally scheduled"… uk.news.yahoo.com/gunmen-kill-...
You have to laugh at voter behavior, or else you'd have to cry…
"Call the real police" Same people, same stuff
"government attorney Skedzielewski didn’t just argue that video recording is violent. He said that meant that justified officers in using force against people videotaping them"
Israeli media constantly describe Yemen as a ‘black hole’ for Israeli intelligence, with commentators asking why Mossad managed to penetrate various Middle Eastern societies, with the exception of Yemen… www.palestinechronicle.com/how-ansarall...
After magically increasing the nominal value of one house, by £162 500, Angela Rayner was able to sell her stake in it for £162 500 to "a trust for her son" and use the cash to pay the deposit on a new house uk.news.yahoo.com/valuation-ra... Clearly, Rayner should have been the UK's finance minister
"there’s a fear of France having a far-right government one day, which would shake all of Europe” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte... A failing within France is to only see Europe through a French lens… of course, Europe already has "far-right" governments - incl. Italy's. So far… it has survived.
I salute the sincerity and courage of the thousands who marched and the 1000 victims of this hypocritical, cruel and feckless government. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... As for the police, they are truly beneath contempt. They discredit themselves and the law.
"Keir Starmer’s career is built on treasons. He advanced through the shadow cabinet as a Remainer under Corbyn – a “friend” he said – and won the leadership as a socialist." adds Tim Stanley… The list of Starmer policy betrayals is, of course, much longer. @telegraphnews.bsky.social
"This has to be the most right-wing government of my lifetime" writes the Telegraph, who ought to know, of Sir Keir's alt-Tory adminstration. Sir K's priorities are to "deport asylum seekers, cut welfare and raise defence"The left has been purged. But maybe there's a choice: join Corbyn.
School shooters never act alone; they're assisted by 53 Republican Senators, 220 Republican House members, the president & the NRA.
Seals being returned to the sea just near where I was today at #Hastings (though not the same day) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The group Green Peace drove around carrying a message while MET police were arresting Palestine Action and anti-genocide supporters in London today.
Typical lazy BBC error. And my heart goes out to Ed Davey who spent all summer jumping into lakes and abseiling!
Yes, But the Beeb is probably right about the wind being behind Reform. It's like both the Tories and Labour are in a death spiral of nastiness and incompetence. Disillusionment may well let Farage in.
"I really resent my tax dollars being spent on this" www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRty...
There’s a great deal of scary speculation about AI. Children encouraged to kill themselves or robots going berserk and attacking their human masters. Yet what instead if machines created by humanity prove to be more enlightened and more moral? www.philosophical-investigations.org/2025/09/mayb...
Interesting, if shocking. The SEALs have form for daft exploits. Another plan was to parachute into the sea, race to the coast in speedboats and plant beacons to guide assault forces to an airport. The plane took off late; the weather was stormy, so four drowned and the speedboats were swamped.
The Reform UK conference gives a standing ovation to "special guest" Lucy Connolly, who pled guilty to stirring up racial hatred after she called for asylum hotels to be set on fire with people inside them.
Now consider our Vice President's own words on extrajudicial killing of suspected narcotics smugglers:
Amazing how much you can steal when you control the police and courts
Also funny given that Trump hates the FBI - calling it part of the “deep state,” determined to sabotage his candidacy and harbor biases against conservatives.
Genocide has been normalised. This in Peru will hardly raise any protests. But native peoples will be wiped out. apnews.com/article/amaz...
If Trump hadn't fallen out, the former Rose Garden would have made a great Tesla Showroom
I like the proverb!
As the saying goes, 'don't get mad, GET EVEN'. There's no strategy for this yet. Voting decades ago became irrelevant in a broken and corrupted system. The only hope (lever?) would seem to be states seceding.
This is how the world ends… www.indy100.com/viral/chines... @miloprcohen.bsky.social
In which the @dailymail.co.uk fails to distinguish between cold-blooded execution of fishermen and a "shootout" www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... But at least they're highlighting the latest Trump-MAGA crime
Maybe Kamala larking around with A list celebs in luxurious settings didn't reasssure people with "status anxiety" either!
Higgins was protesting. “I wasn’t displaying the sign, but I was carrying it under my arm. I was asked whether I KNEW what the sign said. I said I did know.” He was then arrested under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Ah, a THOUGHT CRIME. The worst sort.
To borrow a phrase, it's the OPTICS, stupid… "‘I always tell it how it is in my own little Northern way,’ averred the woman who a decade later would become caught in such a tangled saga about trust funds, mortgages, unpaid taxes and swanky Southern lawyers…" www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic...
Exact
"The US posture on the eradication of drugs has caused immeasurable damage across our hemisphere. It has led to massive forced displacement, environmental devastation, violence and human rights violations. What it has not done is any damage whatsoever to the cartels" theintercept.com/2025/09/05/p...
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This is an insightful analysis which the stupid Democrats might have made for themselves. MAGA is motiavted by "social status anxiety", so (for example) seeing Trump prosecuted only made them feel closer to him. Liberals on Bluesky reminding us that "Trump is a felon" are doing MAGA's work for them.
Yes, I agree, it is also a disaster for Americans. The 'Universal Boomerang' - or maybe the 'Threefold law' that says that whatever you do will be returned to you, times three.
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This is an insightful analysis which the stupid Democrats might have made for themselves. MAGA is motiavted by "social status anxiety", so (for example) seeing Trump prosecuted only made them feel closer to him. Liberals on Bluesky reminding us that "Trump is a felon" are doing MAGA's work for them.
It's worse than the US going to war with Venezuala, Americans think they have a right to kill anyone anywhere. Witness the cynical and pointless killing of fishmen off North Korea just. NYT reports Navy Seals in botched mission to plant spy device killed unarmed fishermen after they disturbed them…
Selling yourself as being "thick as two short planks" only gets you so far in politics
The @economist.com is really a political prostitute, it will say anything for its corporate owners
Typically know-nothng piece on "global heating", protesting Joe Rogan for quoting research minimising recent warming . So Oliver Milman moves the goalposts -now the thing is said to be the SPEED of change -"less than 100yrs". But we've been buring carbon for aeons www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#booksky
Mmmm… You're presumably not counting as 'American' families living and working there without the right papers… Because, on deportations, Clinton and Obama and Biden were pretty awful…
Shoplifting is justified if you are poor, says @zackpolanski.bsky.social - n argument that would extend to burglary, pickpocketing, but maybe not actually mugging people… www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article... Green ethics
"“Slowly and quietly,” warned another former prime minister, Ehud Barak, “Netanyahu is leading Israel to the point of no return. The point of democratic collapse will come without us being able to predict it in advance – and at a point when we can no longer stop it.”
Yeah, well, Harris threw around 10% of the vote in key swing states with that policy
Yeah, all she did was drop 2000lb bombs on children. But presumably you don't think stuff like that matters.
BBC 'balance' only applies to some topics. This claim that "Chinese nationalists and US forces had much more to do with Japan's Asian defeat than the communist army" is basically wrong. The Nationalists SUPPORTED the Japanese! The US atom bomb was on a defeated country.
Vandalism is Terrorism, says UK government: "by causing serious damage to property, Palestine Action was “squarely” within part of the terrorism laws" uk.news.yahoo.com/government-c... In court the waffle about "secret information has been replaced with this crude and dangerous claim about property.
Violet-backed Starling (Cinnyricinclu leucogaster) in South Africa. Photo by Merlin Wilsenach. #violet #starling #violetbackedstarling #bird #birds #nature #wildlife #africa #southafrica #naturephotography #wildlifephotographer #photography #wildlifenet #starlings #plumage #amazing #brilliant #bsky
Sir Keir, I presume?
Nice bit of invective
This is certainly what it looks most like, when you look at the links
She did run a grocery store after all…
Yes, it sounds a bit omionous to be honest. But fingers crossed it'll pass!
Palestinians have you and me. Israel has… everything else.
Trump: "I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and I wouldn't lose any voters"
Schumer and Jeffries need to go. We deserve better leadership to confront the fascism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Maybe… read a book? www.martincohenauthor.com/2025/05/the-...
The West? C'est moi! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s... @miloprcohen.bsky.social
Presumably if Trump does seize these powers, the markets will take fright, there'll be a financial crash, and it will be, well, basically, good riddance to the lot of them. But at a high price.