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Pat Metheny - And I Love Her (The Beatles) YouTube video by Pat Metheny

And I Love Her | Pat Metheny
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There are few things more galvanising and motivating to unite a culture than to destroy its past.

Strikes on Iran Damage Fabled Heritage Sites, Infuriating Iranians

Strikes on Iran Damage Fabled Heritage Sites, Infuriating Iranians

Revered cultural icons that have withstood the upheavals of history are being hit hard in the war being waged by Israel and the United States.

Badenoch at PMQ’s, it is weekly whack-a-mole time, but she keeps on popping up through the same ‘fuel duty’ hole. #Badenoch #PMQ’s

Badenoch at PMQ’s, it is weekly whack-a-mole time, but she keeps on popping up through the same ‘fuel duty’ hole. #Badenoch #PMQ’s

No, she live in Twitter-ville

“.. For the American consumer, things are getting very real, very fast: average gasoline price is now up by 19.9% over the past 10 days ... that eclipses the move in 2022 and is now the largest spike we've seen in the history of the data going back to 2004.” ⛽️

- Schwab

Citizens of planet earth 🌎 say they have “mixed emotions” about end of the world.

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

So depressing, the worst of it is the legacy lives on, we stopped at a roadside service station near Hanoi in 2019 part of which was devoted to a craft workshop, we bought a beautiful woven silk picture. Everyone working in the store had birthday defects as a result of US ‘Agent Orange’.

It really should have, a Fuzzy Felt wing of the National Gallery would be a barnstorming hit.

Morning.

[Guardian]

Badenoch denies whatever she said yesterday that, with the passage of 24 hours, proved to be erroneous/ unpopular/ daft/ was causing mutiny in her depleted party/ could not be tweeted easily (delete as applicable).

I still think about this a lot.

What Reform says vs what Reform does — today’s pick:

Promised council tax cuts to win elections.
Every single Reform council raised it.
When Nigel Farage was confronted with his own leaflets, proving the promise, his response:
“Wrong, wrong, wrong.”

No explanation.
No apology.
No accountability
👇🤷‍♀️

🔥 Analysis of the Storm Shadow missile attack on the Kremny El plant (Bryansk), - CyberBoroshno

In total, 7 hits were recorded on the territory of the Kremny El plant.

The main part of the strikes fell on building #4 - 5 hits. Another 2 missiles hit other production buildings of the enterprise.

business is business...

'That is the central lie of the Maga project. Making Trump feel great is the undoing of American greatness.' - Rafael Behr.

The World Needs These Two Middle East Pipelines Now More Than Ever The blockage in the Strait of Hormuz has suddenly made Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure in the world.

The blockage in the Strait of Hormuz has suddenly made Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure in the world.

Kash Patel’s latest firings ousted agents with expertise in Iran The FBI director gutted a specialized, global espionage unit of counterintelligence agents, just days before Operation Epic Fury.

Patel fires FBI Iran experts just in time for war. Counter-terror generally has already been taken apart.
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Akin to ‘McCullum doubles down on desire to see bazball played in all formats - despite evidence that it is not working.’

Kim: The vast majority of what I hear in these classified briefings can be said publicly, but they intentionally do this to as a tactic to be able to prevent the American people from hearing and questioning what it is that they're doing.

They know that the American people do not want a war

Cartoon by Bill Bramhall | New York Daily News

“Never once did Reform promise to cut council tax” insists an angry Nigel Farage to Sky News.

Here's some of the leaflets Reform have been putting out ahead of the local elections

SNOWDROPS Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you. I did not expect to survive, earth suppressing me. I didn't expect to waken again, to feel in damp earth my body able to respond again, remembering after so long how to open again in the cold light of earliest spring— afraid, yes, but among you again crying yes risk joy in the raw wind of the new world.

after so long how to open again in the cold light
of earliest spring—

Louise Glück

Authorities probe spike in Portuguese exports to Russia-tied countries Countries with close ties to Russia have seen an increase in imports of Portuguese products that are under EU sanctions following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Countries with close ties to Russia have seen an increase in imports of Portuguese products that are under EU sanctions following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations.

But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.

By @hannahallam.bsky.social

My initial reaction: it's impossible that the FBI and DOJ didn't know about this at the highest levels. Which means they covered up Epstein's murder and consciously lied to the public about it. Which means we should be highly skeptical of every claim they make about Epstein. bsky.app/profile/ms.n...