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artofmanliness.com/character/beha… This is very important to understand if you don’t do it you still need to recognize when it’s done to you Applies to news cycles and distraction operations not just military Pay attention to the lyrics here please youtu.be/JMie4Ov2uT0?si…

The Foreign Office's top civil servant has been fired over the Mandelson affair. Civil servants and ministers complicit in genocide remain safe in their jobs. The governance of UK foreign policy needs a transformation. declassifieduk.org/complicity-or-…

Quite the spot from @SamCoatesSky Sir Keir Starmer ignored advice from the head of the civil service to ensure that Lord Mandelson’s national security vetting was carried out before appointing him as ambassador to the US Lord Case, who was the cabinet secretary at the time, told the prime minister in November 2024 that he should inform officials of the name of his preferred candidate so they could “acquire the necessary security clearances” and conduct due diligence on potential conflicts of interest The prime minister did not take the advice and instead pressed ahead with Mandelson’s appointment, announcing it on December 20, 2024. Senior allies of the prime minister including Jonathan Powell, the national security adviser, raised concerns at the time that the appointment had been rushed Starmer pressed ahead with Mandelson's appointment despite being told about Mandelson's long-standing friendship with the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including the fact that it continued after he was jailed for child sex offences. The was also warned by officials about Mandelson's links to Russia and China UK Security Vetting, the small body in the Cabinet Office that vets public appointments, subsequently concluded that Mandelson should be denied clearance on January 25, 2025. It is understood to have raised concerns about Mandelson's business links to China and Russia rather than Epstein Sir Olly Robbins, the permanent secretary at the foreign office, considered the report from UK Security Vetting and decided that the security risk could be managed. He gave Mandelson's appointment the green light, and the peer became Britain's ambassador to the US in February. He was given the highest level of security clearance Robbins did not inform the prime minister or anyone in Number 10. The prime minister went on to make a series of public statements insisting that "due process" had been followed and, in February, stating categorically that Mandelson had passed his security vetting. That claim was false thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

🔥NEW - buried in the bundle of documents from the Humble Address Keir Starmer was advised by the cabinet secretary Simon Case to do security clearance BEFORE appointment but ignored the suggestion. Case said (If you want a political appointment) "you should give us the name of the person you would like to appoint and we will develop a plan for them to acquire the necessary security clearances and do due diligence on any potential Conflicts of Interest or other issues of which you should be aware *before* confirming you choice" Which feels quite material .....

Let me walk you through the financial reality of the average person in Britain. Because the numbers tell a story that most people feel but have never seen laid out. Start with net worth. Everything you own minus everything you owe. The median household net worth in the UK is £293,700. That sounds reasonable. Until you break it down. According to the ONS, around 40% of that is property wealth. Money locked inside a house you live in that you can only access by selling it or borrowing against it. 35% is private pension wealth. Money you cannot touch until age 55 under current rules, rising to 57 from 2028. 10% is physical possessions. Your car, your furniture. And 14%, roughly £41,000, is net financial wealth. Savings, investments, and ISAs, minus any financial liabilities like credit cards and loans. So the typical British household has a net worth of nearly £300,000 on paper. But only around £41,000 of that is financial wealth, and even that is not the same as cash in the bank. It includes investments that may take time to sell and ISAs that may be locked in fixed terms. Most of Britain's "wealth" is theoretical. It exists on a spreadsheet. It doesn't exist in anyone's bank account. And that's the median. Half of households have less than that. Now look at what people actually have saved. The FCA's Financial Lives survey found that one in ten UK adults has no cash savings at all. A further 21% have less than £1,000 to draw on in an emergency. One in four UK adults has been classified as having low financial resilience. Commercial surveys paint an even starker picture. A nationally representative 2026 Finder survey found that 16% of adults, around 8.9 million people, reported having no savings. Two in five said they had £1,000 or less. A quarter had £200 or less, which is less than the average person spends in a single week. Average savings for under-55s were just £9,888, dragged up by a small number of higher savers. The Money and Pensions Service reports that 11.1 million working adults on modest to low incomes do not regularly save at all. Now break it down by age. Because this is where the generational divide becomes undeniable. If you're aged 16 to 24, the median household net worth is £15,200. If you're 25 to 34, it rises to £109,800. But most of that is property equity if you've managed to buy, or pension wealth you can't access for decades. If you're 35 to 44, it's £209,600. Getting better, but again mostly locked in housing and pensions. If you're 55 to 64, median household wealth is £496,500. If you're 65 to 74, it peaks at £502,500. That peak is 33 times higher than the youngest group. Thirty-three times. The Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that there has been no substantial generation-on-generation wealth increase for anyone born from the 1960s onwards. The escalator that carried the post-war generations upward has stopped. Millennials are less likely to own a home by their early 30s than Gen X were at the same age. And Gen Z is entering adulthood into the most expensive housing market, the highest tax burden, and the weakest wage growth in modern history. Now look at the divide that sits underneath all of this. Property. The ONS reports that households who own their home outright have wealth more than 15 times higher than those who rent privately or from a social landlord. If you got on the housing ladder, your wealth accumulated almost automatically through rising property prices. If you didn't, you have almost nothing. Homeownership is the single biggest determinant of whether someone in Britain builds wealth or doesn't. And homeownership among young adults has collapsed. Then there's the regional picture. Median household wealth in the South East is £489,800. In the North East it's £179,900. The South East is 2.7 times wealthier. Same country. Same tax system. Same government. Fundamentally different economic realities. And at the extremes, the picture gets sharper. The wealthiest 10% of households hold assets of £1.2 million or more. The bottom 10% have £16,500 or less. Around 8% of households have negative net worth. They owe more than they own. And the top 1% hold at least £3.1 million. Now put all of this together. The typical British household has £293,700 in net worth, of which only about £41,000 is net financial wealth and even less is actual cash. The FCA says one in ten adults have no cash savings at all and a quarter have low financial resilience. The generational wealth escalator has broken. Renters have a fraction of the wealth of homeowners. The North East has a third of the wealth of the South East. And real wages have barely grown in fifteen years. The Resolution Foundation has described this period as one of severe economic stagnation. But the most striking thing about these numbers is not what they say about people who aren't working. It's what they say about people who are. The median full-time salary in the UK is about £37,400 a year. For someone paying income tax, National Insurance, a workplace pension contribution, and student loan repayments, take-home pay can be around £2,300 a month. ONS data shows average household spending is roughly £2,700 a month. Those aren't directly comparable figures, one is an individual earner, one is a household. But they help explain why, for the growing number of households relying on a single income, or where both earners are on modest salaries, there is almost no margin left. And where there is no margin, there is no saving. And without savings, there's no investment. Without investment, there's no compounding. Without compounding, there's no wealth. The cycle never starts. This is not a picture of a wealthy country. It is a picture of a country where wealth is concentrated in property and pensions, locked away from the people who need it most, distributed unevenly by age, region, and tenure, and increasingly inaccessible to anyone born after 1970. And the next time someone tells you Britain is the sixth richest country in the world, ask them where the money is. Because for millions of people it's nowhere. For a quarter of the population it wouldn't cover a month's emergency. And for the working people in the middle, it's mostly locked inside a house they can't sell and a pension they can't touch. The "fifth richest country in the world". Where a quarter of the population couldn't survive a month without income. Where real wages haven't grown in fifteen years. And where the average working person's actual accessible wealth would barely cover three months' rent. That's not wealth. That's the appearance of wealth. And the gap between the two is the story of modern Britain.

Australian farmers are right to be perplexed by the EU considering a reclassification and possible ban of Tea Tree Oil. Tea tree oil appeals to what they call the ‘green consumer’, that is the environmentally conscious customer who likes their product to be sustainable, renewable, and natural. It has millions of devoted and happy customers across continents and generations. And it perfectly complies with EU green regulations that seek to expand natural products over petrochemical-derived and other manufactured chemicals. It would be extremely upsetting to Australia and its agricultural community to lose tea tree oil from the mainstream export market. Article | spectator.com.au/2026/04/eu-thr…

نشرت مجندة اسرائيلية صورا لها من منزل جنوبي.. أكثر ما يوجع في هذه الصورة أنها تجعل الفقدان قاسياً إلى حدّ لا يُحتمل. الحديث هنا عن بيت ما زالت فيه خضاره، ما زالت فيه حياة أهله، لكنهم هم وحدهم الغائبون قسراً. هم ممنوعون من العودة، فيما جندية من جيش الاحتلال تدخل المكان، تقطف وتطبخ وتضحك كأن البيت بلا أصحاب. كأن القرى الخمس والخمسين الممنوعة على أهل الجنوب لم تُفرغ من ناسها، وكأن هذا الخراب كله لا يكفي. المشهد مهين لأنّه يختصر كل شيء: اقتلاع الناس من أرضهم، ثم تحويل بيوتهم وحدائقهم إلى مساحة مباحة للغزاة. هذا احتلال وإهانة متعمدة لذاكرة الناس وكرامتهم وحقهم البديهي في أن يعودوا إلى ما زرعوه بأيديهم.

Take a peek inside Palantir’s AI “kill chain” “What you see is now a completely digitally data-driven unit. “ Gen Donahue said How long before the system is integrated into Palantir’s domestic surveillance software suite? It probably already is!

Global electricity demand grew more than 2x as fast as overall energy demand in 2025, with electrification & AI expanding strongly US energy demand growth reached one of its fastest rates this century while growth in emerging economies slowed Read more: iea.li/4ewNOUc

INTERVIEW: Dr. Hassan "the Iranian missile" Ahmadian, who flawlessly spits facts on Al Jazeera Arabic and is beloved among the Arab masses for putting the US, Israel, and Gulf monarchies in their place. WATCH @hasanahmadian in English here: youtu.be/JfFAN3kZzL8?is…

♦️ عـــجــيــب ! 🔺️بعدما قصفت إيران المركز السري للاستمطار وسحب السُحب والضباب والرادارات في الإمارات .. فجأة ▪️تغير المناخ في العراق وإيران، وصار في كل أسبوع مطر، وتغيرت درجات الحرارة بشكل كبير بحيث الفرق هو ٥ درجات، وهذا رقم كبير جداً. ▪️رجعت الفيضات بإيران بعدما كانت تعاني من جفاف كبير جداً ، بحيث كانت الحكومة الإيرانية تفكر بنقل العاصمة الإيرانية من طهران الى جنوب ايران بسبب الجفاف. ▪️كان هدف هذا المركز هو القضاء على القطاع الزراعي في إيران والعراق مما يسبب القضاء على الثروة الحيوانية، وكذلك التسبب بكارثة جفاف وتصحر . ▪️الإعراب أشد كفراً ونفاقاً .......

I wrote to the PM reminding him of his obligations under the Ministerial Code. He’s at best been recklessly negligent, and at worst completely dishonest. It's time for the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Parliament and the British people deserve nothing less.

Gaza is not being rebuilt, despite the pledges of the Board of Peace. Instead, Israel is rapidly expanding military base construction across Gaza. All this seems to signal permanent occupation: 1) The IDF is clearing and fortifying the al-Muntar hilltop in Shujayea, building outposts in Khan Younis, and constructing trenches and berms in central Gaza. New roads are linking military sites to freshly leveled areas, suggesting permanent outposts. 2) These will join at least 48 Israeli military sites in Gaza, 13 built after the October ceasefire. These have evolved into permanent bases with paved roads, watchtowers, and links to Israel's domestic military network. 3) The yellow line is being turned into a permanent frontier. Israel has built berms extending 580+ meters into areas designated for Palestinian habitation, and secretly moved concrete boundary markers deeper into Palestinian zones. The goal of the plan is to divide Gaza into population blocks and closed military zones, confining Palestinians to fenced cities of caravans. It is a very similar concept spatially to what it has done in the West Bank, splitting the territory into Bantustans and keeping the population helpless and divided, with the IDF firmly in control.

Netanyahu: Were it not for the Jews, there would be nothing called the United States of America. We brought you into this world, and we can take you out of it.

Copied from Shane Healey on X. Please contact your local representative to say no to more government overreach. •••••••••••••• “As someone who has operated within Australia's intelligence community for over 20 years, I can say with authority that Australia is sleepwalking into a surveillance state! The @ASIOGovAu Amendment Bill is about to make “compulsory questioning” powers PERMANENT. No more sunset clauses. No more regular reviews. @ASIOGovAu can now drag any Australian in, even if you’re not charged with a crime and force you to answer questions or send you to gaol. No independent judge required! Legal representation? Heavily restricted. And they’ve just expanded it to cover sabotage, communal violence, border threats, and more. I hunt terrorists and support real national security, but this isn’t security. This is permanent government overreach that shreds our basic freedoms. KILL THIS BILL.”

Everyone celebrating mRNA shots as the cure for pancreatic cancer should probably read this article showing how repeated mRNA shots increase the risk of dying from pancreatic cancer.

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A historic step tomorrow in Dearborn, Michigan, the announcement of a major class-action lawsuit against Washington over the destruction of property and the occupation in Lebanon The Arab-American Civil Rights League (ACRL) will announce tomorrow, Monday, April 20, 2026, at 12:00 PM at the Bint Jbeil Cultural Center located at 14201 Prospect St., Dearborn, Michigan 48126 At this press conference, the League will officially announce the initiation of legal proceedings to file a federal class-action lawsuit against the U.S. government on behalf of American citizens and others whose properties and legal rights in Lebanon were deliberately and unlawfully destroyed This is a historic step to hold the government accountable and to demand justice for every family that was affected and lost its rights and property Your presence matters Join us, support our cause, and raise your voice for justice Date and time: Monday, April 20, 2026 12:00 PM 📍 Location: Bint Jbeil Cultural Center 14201 Prospect St. Dearborn, Michigan 48126 Be there, together we claim justice

⚡️The von der Leyen quote is one of the most revealing things a European leader has said in the last decade and almost nobody is going to process it correctly. “The cheapest energy is the one you don’t use.” That is a sentence spoken by a person presiding over civilizational decline who has decided to reframe the decline as virtue. It’s not a policy statement. It’s a theological position. The energy crisis isn’t a problem to be solved by producing more energy. It’s an opportunity for Europeans to need less. To want less. To consume less. To live smaller lives in smaller apartments heated to lower temperatures with less travel and less activity and less economic output. The scarcity isn’t a failure. It’s the goal. This is the thing Americans and everyone outside of Europe cannot fully grasp about where European elite thinking has landed. They genuinely believe that reducing European energy consumption is morally good regardless of the economic consequences, because European consumption is tied to European environmental guilt which is tied to European colonial guilt which is tied to a broader belief that European civilization has been net negative for the world and should shrink. The energy crisis gives them political cover to implement policies that would otherwise be unpopular. Now they can say circumstances force the reduction when the reduction was always the plan. Von der Leyen is not an aberration. She represents the consensus view among the European political class. Macron believes this. Scholz believes this. The entire EU Commission believes this. They don’t say it this directly usually because it polls badly, but every major policy they implement is consistent with this worldview. Degrowth is not a fringe academic position in European politics. It’s the operating framework at the top. The American version of this framing would be “the cheapest energy is the one we produce ourselves at scale.” That’s what actually reduces cost and increases resilience. Building more nuclear, extracting more gas, expanding the grid, investing in new production. The European version is the opposite. Don’t build anything. Don’t extract anything. Don’t produce anything. Just use less. And when citizens can’t heat their homes or fly for work, frame it as virtue. This is why Europe can’t recover from the current trajectory. The recovery would require a complete reversal of the ideological framework that produced the decline, and that framework is held most strongly by exactly the people who have the power to change it. They’re not going to reverse it because they don’t see the trajectory as a problem. They see it as necessary and good.

Tasnim News Agency reports that Iran plans to strike the following targets, taking a total of 32% of global oil supply offline: The Yanbu pipeline in Saudi Arabia, used to bypass the Strait of Hormuz The Fujairah facility in the UAE, which is used to bypass the Strait of Hormuz Complete closure of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait by the Houthis

What really happened in Islamabad talks? Mr. Ghalibaf (@mb_ghalibaf ), Head of the Iranian Delegation, explains. Full Interview - En Sub