Richard Burnham
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Notice how the Murdoch media has started calling illegal settlements "Jewish settlements".
The ultimate conflation between Judaism and Zionism.
The ultimate conflation between Judaism and Zionism.
Netanyahu’s extremist government continues to colonise the West Bank, while his Western supporters and ‘peacemakers’ continue to treat him as if he isn’t a war criminal.
www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
www.thetimes.com/world/middle...
Israel approves 19 new Jewish settlements in occupied West Bank
New West Bank settlements mark a 50 per cent increase in Jewish presence under the present government, deepening divisions and complicating peace efforts
www.thetimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Notice how the Murdoch media has started calling illegal settlements "Jewish settlements".
The ultimate conflation between Judaism and Zionism.
The ultimate conflation between Judaism and Zionism.
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Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk's Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining in Western space superiority that has helped Ukraine on the battlefield.
Starlink in the crosshairs: How Russia could attack Elon Musk's conquering of space
NATO-nation intelligence services believe Russia is developing a weapon to target Starlink satellites.
bit.ly
December 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk's Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining in Western space superiority that has helped Ukraine on the battlefield.
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"The gov't is looking after puppies and kittens and everyone is delighted. Quick! Find me a negative angle."
My heart breaks for The Times. ~AA
My heart breaks for The Times. ~AA
December 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"The gov't is looking after puppies and kittens and everyone is delighted. Quick! Find me a negative angle."
My heart breaks for The Times. ~AA
My heart breaks for The Times. ~AA
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Bari Weiss & CBS pulled the plug on 60 Minutes CECOT special just hours before it was scheduled to air.
Men who had been sent there risked their lives to tell their stories, and they’ve been silenced by the regime.
This article by The Guardian shines light on the torture & abuse they suffered:
Men who had been sent there risked their lives to tell their stories, and they’ve been silenced by the regime.
This article by The Guardian shines light on the torture & abuse they suffered:
Venezuelans sent by Trump to El Salvador endured systematic torture, report finds
Human rights groups accuse Trump officials of complicity and draw comparison with scandal at Abu Ghraib prison
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Bari Weiss & CBS pulled the plug on 60 Minutes CECOT special just hours before it was scheduled to air.
Men who had been sent there risked their lives to tell their stories, and they’ve been silenced by the regime.
This article by The Guardian shines light on the torture & abuse they suffered:
Men who had been sent there risked their lives to tell their stories, and they’ve been silenced by the regime.
This article by The Guardian shines light on the torture & abuse they suffered:
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And then it turns the stupidity up to 11.
Nile wants Trump’s administration... unelected by anyone in the EU... to exert pressure on Europe to hold Brexit style referendums in European nations.
Nile wants Trump’s administration... unelected by anyone in the EU... to exert pressure on Europe to hold Brexit style referendums in European nations.
December 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
And then it turns the stupidity up to 11.
Nile wants Trump’s administration... unelected by anyone in the EU... to exert pressure on Europe to hold Brexit style referendums in European nations.
Nile wants Trump’s administration... unelected by anyone in the EU... to exert pressure on Europe to hold Brexit style referendums in European nations.
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The Venezuelan government condemned the seizure as "a serious act of international piracy;" meanwhile, a US official said the Coast Guard was pursuing a third tanker in the Caribbean.
Trump Ramps Up Aggression Against Venezuela With Seizure of Ship Not Under US Sanctions
The Venezuelan government condemned the seizure as "a serious act of international piracy;" meanwhile, a US official said the Coast Guard was pursuing a third tanker in the Caribbean.
www.commondreams.org
December 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The Venezuelan government condemned the seizure as "a serious act of international piracy;" meanwhile, a US official said the Coast Guard was pursuing a third tanker in the Caribbean.
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Think of your biggest financial risk: it's not your stock portfolio, it's losing your paycheck. That's why unemployment is the single best measure of economic health—when people can't earn a living, everything else in the data is just background noise.
And unemployment is rising.
And unemployment is rising.
December 21, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Think of your biggest financial risk: it's not your stock portfolio, it's losing your paycheck. That's why unemployment is the single best measure of economic health—when people can't earn a living, everything else in the data is just background noise.
And unemployment is rising.
And unemployment is rising.
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Bad news for #transit. The ridiculously long overdue #WestYorkshire #masstransit system has been delayed. Again. Condemning Leeds/Bradford to be eternally Europe’s largest conurbation without a decent #rail based mass transit system, & proving #UK cannot deliver major infrastructure quickly. Shame.
'Business Case and Planning can't be developed in tandem because that might speed things up a bit'
www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2570586...
www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2570586...
First trams between Bradford and Leeds not expected until late 2030s
THE long-planned tram system between Bradford and Leeds will not start running until the late 2030s – it has been revealed.
www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Bad news for #transit. The ridiculously long overdue #WestYorkshire #masstransit system has been delayed. Again. Condemning Leeds/Bradford to be eternally Europe’s largest conurbation without a decent #rail based mass transit system, & proving #UK cannot deliver major infrastructure quickly. Shame.
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Christmas 🎄 is also a period of reflection.
Hope that British travellers stuck in their cars at the border have time to reflect that Britain is a small country.
And that just outside it there is a vast free travel area.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hope that British travellers stuck in their cars at the border have time to reflect that Britain is a small country.
And that just outside it there is a vast free travel area.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Port of Dover Christmas getaway delays due to IT issues in Calais
The Port of Dover says earlier problems in Calais have caused processing delays of up to one hour.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Christmas 🎄 is also a period of reflection.
Hope that British travellers stuck in their cars at the border have time to reflect that Britain is a small country.
And that just outside it there is a vast free travel area.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hope that British travellers stuck in their cars at the border have time to reflect that Britain is a small country.
And that just outside it there is a vast free travel area.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
December 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The White House has been caught.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims.
In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.
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At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
December 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
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My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
December 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!”
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.
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For all of Farage’s bombast and bravado, Reform is basically just a retirement home for disgraced Tories - and the media should be reporting it as such
Farage’s Tory recycling scheme
And why it will surely backfire...
writesbright.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
For all of Farage’s bombast and bravado, Reform is basically just a retirement home for disgraced Tories - and the media should be reporting it as such
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this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
December 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
December 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
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Still people like Toynbee don’t understand that complaining about the ‘Brexit deal’ helps Farage. The problem isn’t the deal. It’s Brexit.
“Finally, Labour is finding its nerve and getting Britain’s bad Brexit deal undone”
Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Finally, Labour is finding its nerve and getting Britain’s bad Brexit deal undone | Polly Toynbee
Rejoining Erasmus should just be a first step – as the economic evidence piles up, the need for closer ties with Europe could not be clearer, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Still people like Toynbee don’t understand that complaining about the ‘Brexit deal’ helps Farage. The problem isn’t the deal. It’s Brexit.
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Lyman, Donetsk region
The city is covered with fiber-optic cables from drones. Every day, hundreds of enemy UAVs fly here.
📹: 3rd Army Corps/Defense of Ukraine
The city is covered with fiber-optic cables from drones. Every day, hundreds of enemy UAVs fly here.
📹: 3rd Army Corps/Defense of Ukraine
December 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Lyman, Donetsk region
The city is covered with fiber-optic cables from drones. Every day, hundreds of enemy UAVs fly here.
📹: 3rd Army Corps/Defense of Ukraine
The city is covered with fiber-optic cables from drones. Every day, hundreds of enemy UAVs fly here.
📹: 3rd Army Corps/Defense of Ukraine
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The British Press caring so much for “women and girls” that they’ve covered up abuse by a yet another sex pest for decades…
…to make space for their transphobic moral panic
…to make space for their transphobic moral panic
December 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The British Press caring so much for “women and girls” that they’ve covered up abuse by a yet another sex pest for decades…
…to make space for their transphobic moral panic
…to make space for their transphobic moral panic
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February 2015. St. Petersburg's Channel Five 'analyzed' the Russian army's ability to quickly reach the capitals of Europe&even America.
One of the channel's hosts suggested options for deploying Russian troops to European capitals to hold a festive Victory Day parade.
One of the channel's hosts suggested options for deploying Russian troops to European capitals to hold a festive Victory Day parade.
December 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
February 2015. St. Petersburg's Channel Five 'analyzed' the Russian army's ability to quickly reach the capitals of Europe&even America.
One of the channel's hosts suggested options for deploying Russian troops to European capitals to hold a festive Victory Day parade.
One of the channel's hosts suggested options for deploying Russian troops to European capitals to hold a festive Victory Day parade.
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Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
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As predicted, a month ago.
No government willingly discloses adverse information, *especially* when it says it is doing so.
No government willingly discloses adverse information, *especially* when it says it is doing so.
One should always be suspicious when the state resists disclosure of documents.
And one should be more suspicious when the state suddenly purports to agree to the disclosure of documents.
And one should be more suspicious when the state suddenly purports to agree to the disclosure of documents.
December 20, 2025 at 12:29 AM
As predicted, a month ago.
No government willingly discloses adverse information, *especially* when it says it is doing so.
No government willingly discloses adverse information, *especially* when it says it is doing so.