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And then the most #horrible dilemma again; = which book to read next. The more I read, the more work I have cut out for me and the more places I should really go. (With or without your help)
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Oh look, now we have to deploy armed soldiers just to make sure the immigrants don't go kill folks. Well, that mass immigration from you-know-who was a really bright idea, wasn't it? And hits the deport button.
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Belgium deploys soldiers to city streets to provide extra security to the Jewish community following what officials said were antisemitic attacks in Belgium and the Netherlands reut.rs/41olOKM

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Al Jazeera English@AJEnglish·
Security analyst Hamidreza Azizi says that US President Trump's "Iran strategy has been nothing more than a military solution in search of a problem”, and now, in the Strait of Hormuz, he may have created one that is “too big to handle” on his own terms.
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Warren@WarrenRothman·
Purely and simply, the UK is done.
Christian@decorativeartt

THE IRGC: Iran’s Blood-Soaked Terror Empire Now Running Its Own Branch in London With the ENTIRE Labour Government’s Full, Treasonous Complicity. To the entire fucking Labour government, every last one of you complicit, spineless, soulless, treasonous cunts and willing protectors of terrorists and rapists. Ashab al-Yamin, the IRGC’s own terrorist branch, now openly operating right here in London, has proudly claimed responsibility for torching four Hatzola Jewish ambulances in Golders Green. The Iranian regime’s armed death squad is celebrating victory on British soil while the wreckage is still smouldering and oxygen canisters lie exploded like fucking bombs. This blood is on EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU. Starmer, Streeting, Mahmood, every Labour MP, every minister, every backbench traitor you are all guilty. You imported this evil. You shielded it. You empowered it. You refuse to destroy it. You are the enemy within. You know exactly where they are. What the fuck are you doing? GO AND GET THE TERRORISTS, YOU GUTLESS PIECES OF SHIT. Here is their whole fucking history of slaughter, the river of British, American, Jewish and innocent blood that flows straight to your open borders, two-tier policing and total betrayal of Britain: 1979: The IRGC is born as Khomeini’s personal execution squad, designed to murder opponents, rape dissidents, and export Islamic revolution through pure terror. 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War: They marched thousands of Iranian children through minefields as human bombs. Then unleashed the Quds Force to spread global carnage. 1983 Beirut: IRGC and Hezbollah proxies slaughtered 241 American Marines and 58 French troops in a single morning. They filmed the carnage and laughed. 1994 Buenos Aires: They blew up a Jewish community centre, 85 dead, hundreds maimed. Deadliest terror attack in Argentine history. 1996 Khobar Towers: IRGC truck bomb ripped apart 19 American airmen. 2003-2011: Supplied armour-piercing bombs that tore British and American soldiers apart in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trained militias to kidnap, torture, behead and parade our troops on camera. Syria: Flooded the country with Hezbollah killers to prop up Assad, hundreds of thousands butchered, millions turned into refugees. Pure slaughterhouse. Yemen: Arming Houthis to sink ships and fire missiles at civilians. Gaza & Lebanon: Bankrolling Hamas and Hezbollah every single rocket, every suicide bomber, every murdered Israeli child carries IRGC fingerprints. Europe & UK: Assassination squads hunting dissidents in London, Paris and Berlin for years. And now their London branch, Ashab al-Yamin is burning Jewish ambulances and gloating on our streets. Inside Iran: The IRGC and Basij thugs gun down their own people, women tortured to death for “bad hijab”, children executed, protesters massacred in 2009, 2019, 2022. They run Iran’s nuclear bomb programme, ballistic missiles and drone factories feeding Putin’s war. The US and EU have both designated the entire IRGC a terrorist organisation. But under the whole Labour government? Zero action. No ban. No raids. No mass deportations. Just pathetic scripted lies while an IRGC terror unit celebrates on British soil. This monster is YOUR creation, you worthless traitors. While those ambulances burned you were busy freezing pensioners, destroying family farms, surrendering British territory and flooding the country with more invaders. The entire Labour government is complicit in treason. You know where the IRGC’s London branch is. What the fuck are you doing? GO AND GET THE TERRORISTS. Or are you too busy protecting the monsters who rape our daughters and burn our streets? Britain First. No Surrender. 🦁🇬🇧

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Xi Van Fleet@XVanFleet·
Excellent investigative report by my friend @AsraNomani on Roy Singham, known as China’s Soros. Communist China has never given up its mission since its inception to challenge and ultimately replace the United States—and it continues to benefit from the helping hands of wealthy Americans in pursuing that goal!!
Asra Nomani@AsraNomani

NEW. POWER COUPLE OF CHAOS: How a tycoon and activist built a 'Revolutionary Base' at the House of Singham WATCH: Exclusive remarks from Neville Roy Singham ⬇️ I’ve spent a decade in the streets covering the protest industry, not just what people say, but who shows up, how movements form and what patterns repeat. This morning we are publishing the first part of a five-part series @FOxNews Digital that started with my reporting on the streets. It changed when I used large language models to analyze years of data, including IRS filings, corporate records, events, messaging. READ and SHARE: Part 1 of our series: foxnews.com/us/house-singh… What emerged: a clear portrait of the system and infrastructure behind the protests. At the center: a transnational network funded by tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham. His wedding to CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans in Jamaica in 2017 ushered in a new decade over which this network has been built. I call it the House of Singham. And for the first time — in his own words in a video that I have unearthed from a conference last fall in Shanghai, blessed by the Communist Party of China — we have evidence that Singham is explicitly aligned with: 🟥 The People's Republic of China 🟥 President Xi Jinpeng 🟥 "The CPC," as Singham calls it: the Communist Party of China "Comrades and friends....," he begins. SIngham continues in the video: "If we want to, therefore, have a new world order that is based on multilateralism that President Xi and CPC and China have proposed, we have to undo the ideological damage that has been done by the narrative of World War II." (The West speaks about the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP. Singham uses the term that the government of China uses for its ruling party.) In the newly discovered remarks, Singham: 🟥 Calls the Western view of WWII a “fascist lie” and frames Western democracy as “fascism” 🟥 Argues the global order must be reconstructed around China 🟥 Praises Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China’s vision for a "new world order" In a 172-page study, "80th Anniversary of the Victory of the World Anti-Fascist War: Acknowledging Who Truly Saved Human History and Restoring Historical Truth," published under his name, Singham: 🟥 Minimizes U.S. sacrifice in WWII — claiming "just 1%” of deaths were "Anglo-Americans" 🟥 Diminishes the deaths of U.S. and British troops and servicemembers, writing that the Soviets and China really won the war with, "59.8% socialists dead, 13.1% colonised peoples dead – only 1% Anglo-Americans dead" 🟥 Praises Mao Zedong's views on winning "protracted war" through the "masses of the people" This isn’t abstract rhetoric. It connects directly to a funding, influence operation and cognitive warfare we mapped: 5 Rings. 2,000 Groups 🟥 223 transactions 🟥 $591M moved globally 🟥 $278M tied directly to Singham I've included all of the transactions in a public spreadsheet with Part 1 of our series. Here’s how it works: 🟥 LEVEL 1 — The Funnel Tax-exempt money routed through shell-like entities + a donor-advised fund tied to Goldman Sachs → anonymity for wealthy donors. (Goldman Sachs confirmed to me that it terminated Singham's fund in 2024.) 🟥 LEVEL 2 — The Core $278M flows into 6 nonprofits — several created rapidly, with leadership tied to Singham + his wife Jodie Evans 🟥 LEVEL 3 — Expansion About $163M redistributed into 52 orgs + regional pipelines 🟥 LEVEL 4 — Global Distribution $150M pushed outward across continents, including tens of millions into Sub-Saharan Africa 🟥 LEVEL 5 — Network Effect 67 core orgs linking to about 2,000 groups worldwide This is not just about money. It’s the infrastructure for malign influence, shaping protests, narratives and political pressure across countries. Thank you to @DataRepublican for her support as I walked through a labyrinth of data. And for the many researchers following the money — and the words — in the House of Singham, I have tried to share the raw data with you publicly so you can see the receipts and analyze the data. What is the best defense in cognitive warfare? What is the best innoculation? I believe it's knowledge, awareness and insight. And I hope that this investigation will help peel back the layers for you in a war over not just the hearts and minds of Americans but the world. Links to all original sources in the 🧵

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سيف الدرعي| Saif alderei
Strong UAE Warning from Dr. Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, UAE Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and ADNOC Group CEO: “Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz is economic terrorism targeting every nation in the world, with consequences far exceeding energy markets. No country should be allowed to hold Hormuz hostage… This is not aggression against one nation—it’s economic terrorism against everyone!” The UAE stands firm in protecting the global economy and the Gulf
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Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips@MelanieLatest·
Thank you @elonmusk for recognising my work. I thought you might like to hear a little more about it.
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Flashback to Datong before they decided to rebuild the city walls in some great gesture. I never got around to revisit but i'd love to and find out what changed. Plenty to see and visit in the surroundings too. As always, North China, grime, dust but gotta love it.
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M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman·
𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗟𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗔𝗧 𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗔𝗡 𝗔𝗠𝗠𝗨𝗡𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗢𝗧 𝗜𝗡 𝗦𝗢𝗨𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗡 𝗜𝗥𝗔𝗡 New footage has emerged of what appears to be one of the 𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗮 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗽𝗶𝗰 𝗙𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗯𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗻 — a major ammunition depot in southern Iran going up in a chain-reaction blast. This is what "degrading Iran's ability to project regional power" looks like in practice. Every missile, every rocket, every artillery round stored in that depot is gone. It cannot be used against American forces in the region. It cannot be transferred to H-z-b, the Houthis, or any other Iranian proxy. It 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗼𝗻𝗲. The timing matters. While negotiations are actively underway — with Witkoff, Kushner, and Iran's parliament speaker at the table — the military campaign has not stopped. The five-day pause covers 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. It does not cover ammunition depots. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵. And while he talks, America keeps hitting.
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This is likely the biggest export control violation in American history: attempting to smuggle $2.5 billion in America’s crown-jewel AI technologies to China. The Chip Security Act would create security mechanisms to ensure that the Chinese Communist Party couldn’t steal their way to winning the AI Arms Race. justice.gov/opa/pr/three-c…
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Ken Cao-The China Crash Chronicle
Great insight. China wants to lead the world but nobody wants to follow. Xi keeps talking about a “multipolar world.” Don’t buy it. What Communist China really wants is a unipolar world—just with Xi at the very top. Here’s the good news for the world: the Chinese system doesn’t scale. English remains the language of global commerce—Mandarin isn’t fit at all for that role. The USD dominates global finance—China still runs a closed capital account with no real rule of law. And soft power matters: people line up to enter the American system, not the Chinese one. In fact, more and more Chinese elites are choosing to flee China, hence the astonishing amount of capital outflows. Can China integrate diverse cultures, ideas, and talent at scale? Look at Xinjiang. Look at Hong Kong. Look at Taiwan. Look at Jack ma and Li Ka-shing. A true hegemon attracts. It doesn’t coerce. The world doesn't want to learn Chinese, trade in RMB or live like China.
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen

If you haven't been NOTICING this about Tucker Carlson, then you should by now. This is a mask slip moment. What he's touting here is multipolarity, which is nothing more than a politically correct way to say American decline. The Chinese Communist Party has been chanting the exact same tune for years - a “peaceful rise,” a “multipolar world order,” and “shared power” with America. They couch it in such docile language knowing full well what it means - the slow erosion of American primacy while they build up their military capacity, steal tech, and dominate global supply chains. Furthermore, Pax Sinica (a Chinese-led world order) and Pax America are fundamentally incompatible and mutually exclusive. They are antithetical systems. One cannot expand without shrinking the other. Beijing explicitly views the current US-led order as “an unfair constraint to its rise” and wants to replace its norms with its own. Indeed it has violated many of these terms that defined the Post WWII order and the US, until Trump came along, did nothing in response to these violations. These include trade violations, territorial claims in the South China Sea, sketchy dual-use operations and tech, etc. Multipolarity or “sharing power” is not a peaceful compromise - it’s the transition phase between one Pax and the next. The CCP has never hidden that it wants a China-led order. The United States (until recently) never hid that it intends to preserve the one it built. These two peaces cannot coexist any more than Pax Britannica and Pax Germania could have co-ruled Europe in 1914. That’s why “multipolarity” is just Western declinism with better branding. America First isn’t about imperialism. It’s about refusing to live under rules and norms written in Beijing. Tucker has shown he's not America First.

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As we have been saying for years on end now here on X. The below>>
Melissa Chen@MsMelChen

If you haven't been NOTICING this about Tucker Carlson, then you should by now. This is a mask slip moment. What he's touting here is multipolarity, which is nothing more than a politically correct way to say American decline. The Chinese Communist Party has been chanting the exact same tune for years - a “peaceful rise,” a “multipolar world order,” and “shared power” with America. They couch it in such docile language knowing full well what it means - the slow erosion of American primacy while they build up their military capacity, steal tech, and dominate global supply chains. Furthermore, Pax Sinica (a Chinese-led world order) and Pax America are fundamentally incompatible and mutually exclusive. They are antithetical systems. One cannot expand without shrinking the other. Beijing explicitly views the current US-led order as “an unfair constraint to its rise” and wants to replace its norms with its own. Indeed it has violated many of these terms that defined the Post WWII order and the US, until Trump came along, did nothing in response to these violations. These include trade violations, territorial claims in the South China Sea, sketchy dual-use operations and tech, etc. Multipolarity or “sharing power” is not a peaceful compromise - it’s the transition phase between one Pax and the next. The CCP has never hidden that it wants a China-led order. The United States (until recently) never hid that it intends to preserve the one it built. These two peaces cannot coexist any more than Pax Britannica and Pax Germania could have co-ruled Europe in 1914. That’s why “multipolarity” is just Western declinism with better branding. America First isn’t about imperialism. It’s about refusing to live under rules and norms written in Beijing. Tucker has shown he's not America First.

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Proud2bstout@luantond·
@HammersteinO Wat u niet zal vermelden is dat er, gelukkig, veel Joodse medeburgers inzien dat de terreurstaat Israël, onder leiding van tuchthuis-boef Bibi, de werkelijke oorzaak van de meeste conflicten is.
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Oscar Hammerstein
Oscar Hammerstein@HammersteinO·
Denk maar niet dat de NOS het nieuws zal openen met de mededeling dat Mark Rutte als secretaris-generaal van de NAVO zich 100% achter Trump heeft opgesteld in de campagne tegen Iran.
M.A. Rothman@MichaelARothman

𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗢'𝗦 𝗦𝗘𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗬 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗘𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗔𝗜𝗗 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗘'𝗦 𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗪𝗢𝗡'𝗧. Mark Rutte leads the most powerful military alliance on earth. He just looked directly into the camera and said what Germany, France, and Britain have been carefully avoiding saying out loud. 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝗶𝘀 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. 𝗜𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆. 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗜 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁'𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀. He laid out exactly why. Iran's nuclear capability and ballistic missile program pose an existential threat to Israel. A direct threat to the entire region. A threat to Europe. A threat to the whole world. The NATO Secretary General — the man whose entire job is the collective security of the Western alliance — is saying that what Trump is doing is not optional. It is necessary. This matters enormously. Rutte is not a Trump ally. He is not an American. He is the head of an institution that has been repeatedly criticized, pressured, and threatened by Trump over burden-sharing. He has every political incentive to hedge, equivocate, and issue carefully worded statements that satisfy nobody and offend nobody. Instead he praised the president's leadership on camera — directly, without qualification. The contrast with European heads of government is stark. Keir Starmer said it was "not a NATO mission." Germany said it was "not our war." France wouldn't send its aircraft carrier. They applaud the outcome while refusing to share the burden — and they won't even say publicly what their own alliance chief is saying privately and now publicly. Rutte knows the truth that Europe's elected leaders are too politically cautious to admit: the Iranian nuclear program was not a problem that was going to solve itself through diplomacy, sanctions, and strongly worded UN resolutions. Seven American presidents tried that approach. The centrifuges kept spinning. The missiles kept improving. The proxies kept k!lling. Trump did what needed to be done. The head of NATO just confirmed it. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗢 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 — 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁'𝘀 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗰 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁.

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