Family oral history has it that folk in Greenock were clearing their rooftops of incendiaries at night.
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Family oral history has it that folk in Greenock were clearing their rooftops of incendiaries at night.
The bombing prompted the construction of a “Dummy Glasgow” North of the city.
www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history...
NEW: The DOGE deposition videos a judge ordered removed from YouTube on Friday after they had gone massively viral have since been backed up across the internet, including as a torrent and to the Internet Archive
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this is making me laugh so hard
Remember, Iran’s FM said “We are waiting for them.”
We elect politicians who don’t care if they have to poison us to get re-elected.
Prime Minister Carney speaks with members of the Canadian Armed Forces in Trenton, Ontario.
We're rebuilding, rearming, and reinvesting in the Canadian Armed Forces.
From making sure they have the equipment they need, to giving service members the biggest pay raise in a generation — we’re reinforcing our capacity to protect our country, our allies, and our values.
First projection has us at a 13.0% hike. Now we’re really seeing the costs of years of deferred maintenance bang up against relatively static revenue. And let’s be clear, there are no big new amenities in this budget beyond, you know, the infrastructure we need to keep the District running.
EGAN-JONES: “.. Israel and the U.S. have succeeded in antagonizing and further radicalizing a state they have no possibility of defeating.”
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
Nobody has ever been so lyrically yet thoroughly excoriated as in this piece. And yet, few people have ever deserved such a complete dismantling as the Prince formerly known as Andrew
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Speaking of ground troops, time for a geography lesson🤓
The magnificent Iranian plateau is super rugged with massive northeast & southwest running mountain ranges with both ice and (rare) salt glaciers but also two expansive salt deserts (one being one of the hottest spots on earth)
Screenshot of an article from CBC News. The headline reads: In Tokyo, Carney signs agreement with Japanese counterpart to expand trade and defence ties.
We’re working with close partners to create greater security, stability, and prosperity.
Prime Minister Carney meets with Prime Minister Takaichi in Tokyo, Japan.
Prime Minister Takaichi and I are launching an ambitious new Strategic Partnership.
Canada are Japan are going to work together in defence, energy, critical minerals, trade, and technology to unlock enormous opportunities for our workers and businesses.
Screenshot of an article from the Australian Financial Review. The headline reads: IFM Investors wants to pump $10b into Canada.
These investments will help create thousands of high-paying careers for Canadian workers and unlock important new opportunities for our businesses.
Thank you, Prime Minister Takaichi, for your warm welcome to Tokyo.
Canada and Japan are close and long-standing partners. In a more uncertain world, we’re ready to deepen our partnership to the benefit of both our peoples.
There's no reason for Iran to attack NATO nation Turkey—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it.
There's no reason for Iran to attack a UK base in Cyprus—but a drone did. Iran denies sending it.
Now Azerbaijan has been attacked. Iran denies involvement.
I think this is Israel.
NSO has spent years lobbying in the US to overturn spyware restrictions, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Vas Panagiotopoulos. Now it’s hired former US ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, to help rebuild its business and recruit US law enforcement customers. Will these efforts pay off?
Winning the War is one thing. Winning the Peace is another.
H/T W. Churchill
The US is playing Moscow Rules
Don Quixote is led on horseback by an allegory of folly, into a landscape with windmill with characteristics of a giant and his beloved Dulcinea
Charles-Antoine Coypel, Don Quixote Led by Folly, oil on canvas, 1714-1734 (Musée national du château de Compiègne)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
“Port Vendres” in the British Museum.
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'Clockhouse Road, Winter.' (1957)
Denis Lucas was a British figurative painter strongly influenced by the dark urban scenes of Walter Sickert. The place in the title of this work most likely refers to Clockhouse Road in Beckenham, now in Greater London but once in Kent.
'Twilight.' (1892) Relatively unknown today, Charles-Victor Guilloux exhibited his paintings at the Salon alongside Paul Gauguin and the Nabis artists. A reviewer praised his work as 'remarkable, he is clearly a master colourist.'
Gloucester Road, London (1958)
One of William Brooker’s great strengths was his aptitude for combining the expressionistic lightness of painting with strong composition; flat patches of light and dark allow people and vehicles to recede gradually into the distance.
Fairfield Porter's picture (1967) shows a pear tree in blossom and the bright yellow flowers of forsythia bushes in the background. The building just visible beyond the shrubbery is his home in Southampton, New York, the setting for many of his paintings.
'Les Vieux saules à Moret,' (1905) reveals Francis Picabia’s early brilliance as an Impressionist. Inspired by Monet, Sisley & Pissarro, he captured the countryside around Moret, often reimagined later in the studio rather than painted en plein air.
