Rob Cain

❗️👉 EXPOSED: Israeli operation to help Brits move to West Bank by @martinrw UNDERCOVER investigation reveals charity touted "awesome" illegal settlements and claimed it could benefit from UK tax subsidies declassifieduk.org/exposed-israel…

ITS NOT TOO LATE to stop this shocking and shameful attack on our fundamental right to protest. More than 40 civil society groups including the TUC and Greenpeace have joined forces to oppose this draconian crackdown on our right to freedom of expression and assembly - and you can help too by CONTACTING YOUR MP RIGHT NOW - tag them to this film and and ask them to oppose this

So, public ownership of water is 'not the answer' according to the government, ignoring all the real evidence. But leaving our companies and us to be preyed on by the most expert amoral asset strippers and financial engineers is regarded as a market-led solution! This is why we need the power of a referendum to end the scam. Please sign and share. Less than a week after launch, we are already on 38K signatures and we need 100K to get a Parliamentary debate. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7626…

Attackers have found a way to forge digital signatures and pass them as genuine. Read more: cnews.link/wolfssl-vulner…

Donald Trump has revealed plans for his presidential library in central Miami, featuring a glass tower containing a decommissioned Air Force One and a golden statue of himself with his fist in the air. ft.trib.al/K9HGHHD

The government digital ID “consultation” is here, deadline 5 May: …rn-digital-government.campaign.gov.uk/digital-id-con… Our guide to responding is here: togetherdeclaration.org/guide-to-the-g… It’s reasonable to doubt this is a consultation in any meaningful way. Even so, it’s important to share your opinion. If people stay silent, the government might point to the lack of responses as “proof” that the public supports it – so it’s better to speak up and make your view heard.

BANNED LEGO MOVIE They took their channel down on social media.

We can take these actions knowing that we are doing the right thing. The ban on Palestine Action will be lifted. The unlawful ‘terror’ charges will be dropped. UK complicity in Israel’s crimes against humanity will come to an end. We will not give up. EveryoneDay.uk

President Trump has threatened to impose a US blockade on Iranian ports, starting in just a few hours time. The decision drove oil prices rising above $100 a barrel again, while all shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is said to have stopped after Trump's announcement. Sir Keir Starmer said the UK would not support the blockade, declaring that it was vital to get the Strait "fully open".

📢UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese drops a bombshell: "Gaza’s future cannot be negotiated with Israel." Citing international law, she makes it crystal clear: the illegal occupier has no right to decide the fate of the occupied. Continuing “business as usual” with Israel? That makes states complicit in unlawful acts. Time to wake up. Inaction has legal and moral consequences. The world must choose: justice or complicity. @FranceskAlbs

People seem to have forgotten the two massive spikes in oil trading, one on 23 March, immediately before Donald Trump’s post announcing a delay in attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure, and the other on 7 April when he declared a ceasefire. Investors made something like $1.5 billion. But were these a genuine huge gamble, or was it insider trading — a serious criminal offence in the US?

@JohnSimpsonNews suspicion is one thing, hard evidence another; let us hope there are still intrepid journalists capable of unearthing & exposing the latter.

@JohnSimpsonNews 22 years ago, they caught Martha Stewart in 5 minutes. The amount she avoided losing was $45k Trump's Republican-appointee stooges at the Securities and Exchange Commission that regulate Wall St will NOT launch an investigation into insider trading. #r4today

Chinese scientists have innovatively proposed a systematic assessment framework for the large-scale industrial application of direct seawater electrolysis for hydrogen production, in which they established, for the first time, a correlative criterion between microscopic reaction mechanisms and macroscopic system operations, thereby bridging the research gap in the field where fundamental micro-level insights have been disconnected from practical engineering applications. The study constructed a comprehensive, multidimensional systematic evaluation framework covering material performance, interfacial processes, device configuration, marine environmental factors and renewable energy adaptability, offering clear and quantifiable benchmarks for the optimization of the entire seawater hydrogen production chain, engineering design and large-scale deployment.

The Labour Government has fundamentally changed the way patients access a specialist. It mandates that GP referrals HAVE to go through a filtering process with an explicit aim to divert many of them. This isn’t NHS reform. It’s rationing by another name. An explainer🧵 1/16

Lunar soil is 45% oxygen by mass. Almost half the ground astronauts walk on is breathable air, locked inside chemical bonds with iron, titanium, and aluminum. Blue Origin's Blue Alchemist reactor heats crushed Moon rock to 1,600°C, turning it into a molten conductor. Then it runs an electric current through the melt. Oxygen ions migrate to one electrode and bubble off as gas. Iron, silicon, and aluminum collect at the other. The economics are where this gets wild. Delivering one kilogram of anything to the lunar surface costs roughly $1.2 million. A single astronaut breathes about 0.84 kg of oxygen per day. That's over $300 million per year per person just to keep breathing, shipped from Earth. This reactor doesn't just solve the breathing problem. The metals that come out of the same process are construction-grade iron and aluminum. The silicon gets refined into radiation-resistant solar cells. The glass covers those solar cells to protect them for 10+ years on the surface. One machine, running on solar power, producing air, building materials, electronics, and rocket fuel from dirt. Blue Origin estimates this could cut lunar landing costs by 60% and reduce fuel cell mass by 70%. Their facility in LA already spans 60,000 square feet of lab space with 65 researchers. They're running an autonomous demo in simulated lunar conditions this year. The real constraint on a permanent Moon base was never getting there. It was staying there without a $1.2 million-per-kilogram supply chain from Earth. This reactor breaks that constraint at the molecular level.

Orcas eat great white sharks. They hunt seals, dolphins, and baby whales. They have never killed a single human in the open ocean. Not once, in all of recorded history. An orca's brain weighs up to 15 pounds. Yours weighs about 3. They have roughly double the brain cells we do in the regions that handle complex thought. A neuroscientist at Emory named Lori Marino put an orca brain in an MRI and found these animals can tell different species apart underwater. They do it by sending out clicks that bounce off everything around them and come back as a kind of 3D sound map (this is called echolocation). From 500 feet away, an orca knows you're a human and not a seal. It skips you on purpose. The answer is culture. Orcas around the world are divided into at least 10 separate populations, each with its own food rules, its own language, and its own way of hunting. All of it learned from their mothers. One population eats only fish. Another eats only marine mammals like seals and sea lions. These two populations can live in the exact same water and never swap a single meal. A baby orca learns what food is from its mother, and that list stays the same for life. In the Pacific Northwest, one population called the Southern Residents eats almost nothing but Chinook salmon. Scientists have documented them killing harbor porpoises 78 times over six decades, carrying the dead porpoises in their mouths, and never once eating them. Even when the group was starving. A 2023 study in Marine Mammal Science looked at all 78 cases and concluded it was play. These orcas would rather go hungry than eat something their culture says isn't food. Researchers studying whale behavior in 2001 found that orca cultural traditions "appear to have no parallel outside humans." Each family group has its own dialect, its own version of the language. Calves spend about two years just learning how to make all the sounds their family uses. Mothers will slow down a hunt on purpose so their young can watch. In 2005, a 12-year-old kid was swimming in Helm Bay, Alaska when an orca came at him full speed. At the very last second, the orca seemed to realize it was charging a human. It bent its entire body in half and turned back to open water. In captivity, it goes differently. SeaWorld's Tilikum killed three people during his life in a concrete tank. Research from 2016, published in the journal Animals, traced it to psychological collapse from being locked away from the family bonds orcas need to stay stable. I think calling this a "mystery" undersells the science. Orcas decide what to eat based on culture, not instinct. No orca mother has ever taught her calf to hunt humans, so no orca hunts humans. Only about 75 of those salmon-eating Southern Residents are still alive. Their pregnancy failure rate is 69% because we've destroyed their salmon runs. They won't break their food culture to survive. Whether we care enough to protect theirs is the part that actually matters.

Sources if you like to go deeper 🧵 Part 1: 1. Orcas killing porpoises but refusing to eat them (2023 Marine Mammal Science study, National Geographic) nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl… 2. Why orcas don’t attack humans, interviews with Deborah Giles and Lori Marino (Newsweek) newsweek.com/there-no-recor… 3. Orca brain size, intelligence, and cultural behavior (Phys.org) phys.org/news/2010-03-s… 4. Southern Resident population count, July 2025 census (NOAA Fisheries) fisheries.noaa.gov/species/killer… 5. Southern Resident foraging culture and 2001 whale culture study (Orca Network) orcanetwork.org/orca-resource-… Part 2: 6. Starboard kills great white alone in under 2 minutes, African Journal of Marine Science (CNN) cnn.com/2024/03/01/afr… 7. Port and Starboard history, kills, and technique (Wikipedia) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_and_… 8. Great whites flee Farallon Islands, 165 tagged sharks, Nature Scientific Reports (Monterey Bay Aquarium) newsroom.montereybayaquarium.org/press/study-fi… 9. Port and Starboard 60 Minutes investigation, CBS News cbsnews.com/news/great-whi… 10. Port and Starboard liver extraction technique and ecosystem impact (Natural History Museum) nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

Private firms got £12bn NHS contracts. Private equity, offshore tax haven firms big winners. £1.6bn profit in 2 yrs. Enough to pay for 9,178 doctors or 19,428 nurses Health service “taken for a ride”. Say NO to privatisation. Must expand NHS capacity. theguardian.com/society/2026/a…

Here’s a look at what this morning’s Russian papers are saying about the Hungarian election and the defeat of Viktor Orbán. Plus, reports of “layoffs, production cuts” in Russia. #ReadingRussia