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Straight of Hormuz, with Buddha imposed, text: The realization that the lack of oil isn't causing your suffering, but the desire for oil itself, on your path to enlightenment.
Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?
It’s hard to blame woke DEI when the military is losing a war because of the straits.
war seems to be going to plan!
Yellow text on purple background pledges to double GP walk-in clinics, with a stethoscope icon above and SNP voting info below.
Walk-in GP clinics are working for patients and easing pressure on family GPs.
If re-elected, the SNP will double the number of GP walk-in centres across Scotland, reaching more communities the length and breadth of the country.
Make it #BothVotesSNP on May 7. #SNP26
Bold text on graph paper promoting childcare from 9 months to end of primary school, surrounded by school-related doodles like globe, calculator, and books.
Parents across Scotland have told us they need more support. The working day does not stop at 3pm.
A re-elected SNP Government will extend childcare from 9 months old to the end of primary school, 52 weeks a year.
Make it #BothVotesSNP on May 7 for a Scottish Government on your side. #SNP26
Map of the ME showing the two straits
Yemen’s Houthis have announced they’ll be joining the war in support of Iran shortly. Analysts expect them to shut down another strait, Bab El-Mandeb, which will close the Suez Canal. The global economy hangs by a thread.
Trump to the UK, 6 March: "We don't need them any longer... We don't need people to join wars after we've already won!"
Trump six days later: Publicly begs for the UK to send warships.
"I ASSUMED the US Military had an active plan to open the Strait." How can people who are paid to understand geopolitics be so bafflingly naive?
His anti-Muslim and pro-mass-deportation videos have gone viral with millions of views. Advance UK, the far-right party led by Ben Habib, paid the anonymous group behind him to produce a range of propaganda pieces. But English-Nationalist “rapper” Danny Bones doesn't actually exist @tbij.bsky.social
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773 people killed in Lebanon so far, including 18 paramedics.
The pattern is familiar.
The silence, once again, is familiar too.
"Another example was Mahmood’s claim that if her “earned settlement” proposals are not implemented 'we will see a £10bn drain on our public finances and further strain on public services..this is a mix of the deliberately misleading and the completely wrong."
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Very good Foreign Affairs read on mines.
www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/hormuz-...
Side point: loads of good pieces recently on the poor state of USN mine clearance capacities (and that of the RN).
But surely the really big strategic failing here is the Gulf navies?
Not like Saudi, the UAE, etc are short of cash.
The people that first responded to the Central fire were both homeless and one arrived here from the Gambia and they talked about doing the right thing and one even talked about duty as a citizen of Glasgow. Maybe we should care about immigrants and homeless people as much as they do about the city.
Crypto billionaire no longer interested in Reform-Tory pact.
He lives in Thailand, given £12m to Reform UK.
Farage pushes for wider adoption of cryptocurrency, promised to cut tax on crypto.
Another example of the super-rich buying power/influence, shaping public choices.
She’s being denied bond.
Vintage portrait of a young boy with a serious expression, featuring a signature at the bottom.
Black and white portrait of a woman with hair styled in waves, wearing a high-collared blouse and a detailed top, looking directly at the camera.
14 March 1927 | A Czech Jew. Hanuš Brod. was born.
On 27 July 1942 he and his mother, Olga, were imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto, and on 15 December 1943 they were deported to #Auschwitz. They did not survive.
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Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto at Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/3MdIVUA
“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”
"My biggest fear is the market is still working under the assumption that this will not get out of control.”
Are markets being too complacent about the Iran war?
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AI chatbots had “assisted in planning assassinations of named elected officials on both sides of the aisle”.
“Political violence is already rising. When AI starts providing tactical guidance to attackers, it becomes a direct threat to democracy.”
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The Netherlands submitted an intervention to the ICJ in the case of South Africa against Israel, supportive of the arguments that Israel's conduct amounts to genocide.
It's the third such intervention from an EU member, after Spain and Belgium.
I expect the hotel protesters will be along shortly demanding they be deported for taking the space of good honest British animals.
OK this is nuts.
A vulnerability in the Companies House website that let *anyone* with an account view ***ANY COMPANY'S DASHBOARD***, see all personal info and - I think - modify company records.
“Many”
#BrokenNews: Never Forget.
This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.
Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With
Pete Hegseth Questions What Girls Were Doing In School To Begin With https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-questions-what-girls-were-doing-in-school-to-begin-with/
Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied.
But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.
