Debs

Students of PR: this is called a pre-emptive strike. News24 and @wicks_jeff have been promoting their “expose” tomorrow on the CEO of Medicare. Today @enca tries to help the dude to put the shit back in the donkey before it’s even come out.

So we are somehow supposed to believe that the paramedics whom Israel keeps killing and injuring in southern Lebanon are all Hezbollah? Targeting healthcare workers is a war crime.

Astonishing how much media time Tony Blair gets: a war criminal & profiteer who illegally led Britain into war, who has profited to the tune of tens of millions from wars & who is an integral part of the Trump/Netanyahu evil alliance. In a sane society he would be in jail. But in Britain the establishment media salivates over his every reactionary word

THE IRAN WAR, COMPLEX CONFLICT AND THE COHERENCE TRAP The development of the Iran war over the last four weeks is a very illustrative reminder, and warning, of our tendency in complex conflicts to search for clarity and coherence. In the midst of fast-moving developments, complex and chaotic events, we increasingly need, and look for, certainty and comprehension. Our careers, reputations, lives or just some cognitive dissonance demand that we make sense of the turmoil and noise around us. This sets us up for what that excellent Canadian, Dr. Mark Szabo, has called the Coherence Trap. This perfectly natural instinct can lure us into oversimplification, bias projection, missing important clues, and a rush to resolution, all before we have all of the important puzzle pieces necessary to deal with the conflict optimally. In submitting to the Coherence Trap, the discomfort temporarily disappears, "answers" become apparent, and everyone believes that we have the solution. Sometimes our knowledge, experience and probability may get us to the correct strategies and solutions, but this trap can steer us badly off course early on, a mistake that becomes increasingly difficult to notice or to correct. So, in most complex conflicts, such as the Iran war, resist the urge to build your puzzle before you have all the pieces, learn how to make the right conflict decisions with partial information, and make peace with confusion. In the Iran war, we ser nearly daily examples of the Coherence Trap forcing bad decisions, compounding follow-up strategies, limiting options, and leading to uncontrolled escalation

@vlok_andre Agree.

@debbieflorence The more reason to be careful of the Coherence Trap

@RnaudBertrand @chessclubgringo Two of the most corrupt war mongers started this war. The "stupid" are those who follow their orders.

The objective of the war has become undoing the consequence of the war. The stupidest war in history.

- 👏👏👏👏👏👏 @AlexCrawfordSky This is how you report Israeli attempts to demonise the journalists they murder. The contrast with @BBCNews extraordinary. @SkyNews rightly leading with the story.

You have to watch this! Targeted harassment & assault of journalists in the West Bank. This time, it’s the @cnni team of @JDiamond1 & @cyrilthps

“The two senior correspondents were very well known in Lebanon. They now reach more than 20 journalists in Lebanon who have been targeted by Israeli strikes since October 2023.” our @AlexCrawfordSky on the latest from Lebanon

Opinion | It’s Not Trump. It’s America. - The New York Times nytimes.com/2026/03/26/opi…

@GavinMabie 💯

No number of investigations or commissions will stop the rot. The real problem is how resources are allocated: as long as contracts are awarded based on WHO you are instead of WHAT you can deliver, the problem will never go away.

@RyanCoetzee I'm watching the compelling @DavidOlusoga 'Empire' history series, nothing about the "madness" and racism and perceived superiority should come as a surprise. Maga has certainly emboldened the right wing nuts.

Is Liz Truss the maddest person in British politics. Here’s my list: Worst: Farage Most stupid: Polanski Maddest: Truss

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@geoffreyyork All African Despots behave the same way.

Kagame's fans are greatly triggered by this tweet -- they are outraged that anyone would question his tactics. Others, however, are unsurprised by the video.

Kagame often treats Rwandans like children. It's what happens when a leader has had unlimited power for 32 years and wins "elections" with 99% of the vote.

@88KOS No shame among this bunch.

Fucking savages. Thieves

Why are people surprised? They are racist American white supremacists.

The @AP is now calling Israel’s military actions in southern Lebanon an invasion. Here's why we made that decision: apnews.com/article/iran-l…

How did PetroSA award a $1-billion gas infrastructure deal to a company with zero experience in the gas industry? We finally have the answer.  According to a draft internal audit report – kept secret until now – PetroSA’s management thought that Equator Holdings (an unknown SPV) was bidding as part of a consortium that included French oil giant TotalEnergies and UK consulting firm Wood PLC. “The evaluation was based on Equator and their Project Partners as a collective,” PetroSA’s management said. This was backed up by Sesakho Magadla, who until recently was PetroSA’s interim CEO: “The Evaluation team evaluated the bid holistically rather than just looking at Equator Holdings,” she reportedly told the auditors.  In other words, it didn’t matter that Equator wasn’t a major player because TotalEnergies and Wood were on board. Right? Wrong as it turns out. The internal audit team could find no evidence to back this up and when we asked Wood PLC about the claim, they told us: “Wood was not involved in Equator’s bid … and was not a project partner … any reference to Wood in Equator’s materials was made without our knowledge or approval.” Read the full investigation – no paywall – at amaBhungane.org: amabhungane.org/delinquent-soc…

@RediTlhabi Voice of reason, as usual! (although I'm still hacked off with France)

I agree with you. Truly I do. But I also think Macron and Ramaphosa ha e a solid relationship. I am sure they talked and agreed that jeopardising the Summit - when RSA is not a G7 country anyway, is not worth the noise. Give Trump his silly victories (on behalf of Israel). France has opposed the USA on significant issues and probably calculated that this one was not major. Although I think principles matter and should not be compromised. Giving an inch to a bully is not a good idea. I guess that's why you and I are not diplomats because we would have said "Tsek. Fine. Don't come ke wena."