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excog @excog.bsky.social · 1d

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# Gaza

‘I am the only one that matters’: Trump deals praise and insults at Gaza summit

Patrick Wintour, Guardian, 14 Oct 2025

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

⚪ If you start off thinking, I suppose I'd better read this, then after 10 lines begin to feel nauseous, this is quite normal.

‘I am the only one that matters’: Trump deals praise and insults at Gaza summit

Self-styled world’s greatest peacemaker calls Meloni ‘beautiful’ and Erdoğan a ‘friend’, but takes jab at Iraqi and Canadian leaders

www.theguardian.com

excog @excog.bsky.social · 2d

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They will have a great deal of trouble finding 100s of candidates to fight constituencies at the next election.

excog @excog.bsky.social · 2d

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#BrigitPhilipson

Jonathan Cook, Substack, Mon 13 Oct 2025

open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Israel is the excuse to snatch away freedoms we once took for granted

Starmer's government is ripping up the rulebook on protest to protect Israel – from classing protests as 'terrorism' to banning repeat marches and fining universities that allow student to demonstrate

open.substack.com

excog @excog.bsky.social · 2d

Through much of American history vigilantes were used by industrialists to smash unions with govt. connivance. Today a proto-fascist govt choses to hit labour vital to the economy.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2d

Judging by the headlines I’ve seen just since this went up Saturday, I could rewrite this piece once a week, with a new list of horror stories to lead off with every time.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 4d

ICE is an armed gang, and they’re only going to get worse. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 3d

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#microplastics

"..microwaving food in plastic containers: “When you expose plastic polymers to heat or direct sunlight, this is what transforms or degrades them into microplastics.”

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies & minds

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds

The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do

www.theguardian.com

excog @excog.bsky.social · 3d

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#IsraelPalestine

Warnings from history: Lessons unheeded in the search for peace

As peace talks begin, three historic warnings about Zionism and statehood remind us how fragile peace remains

Jacob Ecclestone, East Anglian Bylines, 10 October 2025

eastangliabylines.co.uk/opinion/warn...

Warnings from history: Lessons unheeded in the search for peace

As peace talks begin, three historic warnings about Zionism and statehood remind us how fragile peace remains

eastangliabylines.co.uk

excog @excog.bsky.social · 4d

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#Machado

Venezuela's María Corina Machado: What Mainstream Media Isn't Saying

Steve Ellner, Codepink, 5 July 2025

www.codepink.org/venezuela_ju...

When Maria Corina Machado Wins Nobel Peace Prize, “Peace” Has Lost Its Meaning.

Michelle Ellner, 10 Oct 2025

www.codepink.org/nobel_peace_...

Venezuela's María Corina Machado: What the Mainstream Media Isn't Saying

www.codepink.org

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 7d

Sergey Fyodorovich Podmarev.

stylised painting, long thin trees reaching up to the sky

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 5d

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#Nobel
#Machado

burnett-lynn.medium.com/donald-trump...

⚪ 47 wanted the peace prize because Obama got it. Remember it was 47 who ran with Obama birther bilge for years.

⚪ Well worth running through this article⬇️ again to peek once more into the racist mindset of a current president

Donald Trump’s Deep White Supremacist Roots

In 1927, Donald Trump’s father was one of seven men arrested at a Ku Klux Klan rally that turned violent. Although some people have…

burnett-lynn.medium.com

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 5d

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#Film
#Cinephilia&Beyond

‘Pulp Fiction’: How Quentin Tarantino Made a Postmodern Masterpiece

Koraljka Suton

cinephiliabeyond.org/pulp-fiction/

⚪ screenplay pdf for download

⚪ C & B still short of funds to carry on its fantastic work.

A puzzle is why rich film people don't contribute

‘Pulp Fiction’: How Quentin Tarantino Made a Postmodern Masterpiece • Cinephilia & Beyond

By Koraljka Suton In the early 1990s, Quentin Tarantino and his friend Roger Avary came up with an intriguing idea for a short film, but soon realized that no one would be willing to produce a short. ...

cinephiliabeyond.org

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 5d

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And deeper down:

Ocean Currents and Sea Ice from Atlas of World Maps, United States Army Service Forces, Army Specialized Training Division. Army Service Forces Manual M-101 (1943).

excog @excog.bsky.social · 5d

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Gotcha. Thanks. 1943.

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 5d

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#Covid

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

Prof. Christina Pagel, Diving into Data & Decision making substack

10 Oct 2015

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

christinapagel.substack.com

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 5d

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Music seems great! And diverse.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=abdP...

Pajarillo - Venezuelan folk tune

YouTube video by Božo Paradžik musician

www.youtube.com

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 5d

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Well, we've only just learned who she is, but it's so easy to get up to speed isn't it?

47's regime is very anti-Maduro, now going off into la-la land (again..) accusing him of being the head of a drug cartel.

V. is a big producer of oil. Largest reserves in the world.

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 5d

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Oh, ah, um.

Thanking 47 for his help to my mind is not a good move (in the long run). For starters he's kicking out Venezuelans. What sort of message does *that* send to the V people?

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 5d

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Looks like it. Not like to be in the Prize committee myself.
Shouting match probably! Or should we suggest it might have been explosive?

excog @excog.bsky.social · 5d

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😼 How can we know who is really interested and just posting up stuff?

I've been running through the Trump - Nobel Prize posts to see what folks are saying.

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 5d

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The facts on her are out there. Not many people (like me) know many of them but are trying to catch up!

To my eyes look like a political decision. She's been framed in the citation in as apolitical fashion as they can muster but this will rebound. Trump is already threatening 100% tariff Norway.

excog @excog.bsky.social · 5d

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It's only a short piece but gives some info about where she's coming from & where the interested person might go to.

News in : "The WH" chewing maracas about not getting the prize. Can't watch him, but fun to see if he said he didn't know who Machado was!

This the Google run down on Machado :

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 5d

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Machado seems to be Trump supporter. But then most people hadn't even heard of her.

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The Venezuelans Cheering Trump’s Drug War

To certain members of the opposition, the Caribbean anticartel operation seems to promise long-awaited salvation.

www.theatlantic.com

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 5d

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😼 News hound are rushing to catch up!

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

It does rather take away from the ongoing story of 47 and his remarks about ridding Gaza of Palestinians, and whether once the Israel hostages are free Netanyahu will finish the job of flattening Gaza.

The Venezuelans Cheering Trump’s Drug War

To certain members of the opposition, the Caribbean anticartel operation seems to promise long-awaited salvation.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jens Gammelgaard 🇵🇸🇲🇲🇬🇱 @jensgam.bsky.social · 5d

He and his backers in the oil industry are exited today.

“Some Venezuelan observers have speculated that the Trump administration launched this mission at least partly with Machado’s encouragement. (Her spokesperson declined to comment for this story.) The notion is not far-fetched.”

The Venezuelans Cheering Trump’s Drug War

To certain members of the opposition, the Caribbean anticartel operation seems to promise long-awaited salvation.

www.theatlantic.com

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 5d

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The question furiously typed headlines in the offices of MSM across the world will of course (once they look up her details) be multifarious. Many in the UK will use the word Caracas. Machado is a Trump supporter.

😼 I suspect DT might do a negative saying he was glad Greta didn't get it.

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excog @excog.bsky.social · 5d

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MSM has al last got something to get their teeth into.

Nobel says:

news.sky.com/story/nobel-...

But Google says: