@CommonishGround @GuidoFawkes The GRU have made many stupid mistakes as seen in the Salisbury Incident, the Litvinenko poisoning so it's not implausible
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Nick
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@npink1981
Subjected to commuting via southeastern and interested in stock investing.
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@GuidoFawkes One had an IQ of 66. And their supposed Russian mastermind controllers didn't know where the PM lives.
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Ukrainian Roman Lavrynovych, 22, and Romanian Stanislav Carpiuc, 27, have been found guilty at the Old Bailey of plotting to damage property linked to Keir Starmer.
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The "US biolabs in Ukraine" story is one of the Kremlin's oldest and most successful disinformation campaigns.
The facilities in question were Ukrainian public health and veterinary laboratories supported by the US Cooperative Threat Reduction Program to improve biosafety and disease surveillance. None of the publicly available documents show evidence of biological weapons.
In Russian state media, these facilities are routinely described outright as "US bioweapons labs." Among pro-Kremlin influencers and politicians in the West, the messaging is often more subtle. They simply talk about "dangerous pathogens" and hint at unspecified sinister purposes, allowing audiences to draw their own conclusions.
Yet Tulsi Gabbard, a long-time Russia supporter who met Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad twice and questioned the Assad regime's responsibility for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack, is now presenting old public documents as newly "declassified evidence." In reality, ODNI simply re-stamped documents that had already been public for years.
Many of the slides are excerpts from a Pentagon DTRA fact sheet released publicly in March 2022. Gabbard's office repackaged these documents and presented them alongside Russian fabrications as evidence of a sinister biolabs program.
This shouldn't surprise anyone. When it comes to Ukraine, Gabbard has consistently echoed Kremlin talking points. She has argued that the US and NATO provoked Putin into invading Ukraine, framed the conflict as a US-Russia proxy war, claimed that sanctions hurt the West more than Russia, blamed an "elite cabal of warmongers" for the conflict, and suggested that peace negotiations should prioritize avoiding nuclear war.
She has repeatedly claimed that the war could have been avoided by ruling out NATO membership for Ukraine. But Putin himself made clear in his essays and speeches before the invasion that his goals went far beyond NATO and centered on denying Ukraine's right to exist as an independent nation.
She has also dismissed allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election as a "manufactured hoax" and appeared as a speaker at the "antiwar" Rage Against the War Machine rally in 2023.
Tulsi's only goal with all this is to hurt Ukraine and help Russia.
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It's back. Incredible how giving the state powers to assist people to die, is a now considered a higher priority for some politicians than fixing an NHS that struggles to keep people alive. Grrr.
Paul Brand@PaulBrandITV
NEW: The Assisted Dying Bill is returning to Parliament this week. Labour MP Lauren Edwards will reintroduce it on Wednesday after coming 2nd in the private members’ ballot. “The process has been frustrated by a small minority”, she argues.
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Ten reasons wealth taxes don’t work:
1.Europe already ran the experiment and quit. Twelve OECD countries had wealth taxes in 1990; only four do now. Those that still have wealth taxes don’t have CGT or IHT.
2.Norway proved how dangerous they are. A tiny rate hike was meant to raise ~$146m; instead $54bn of wealth fled and revenue fell by ~$448m net.  They hit the opposite of the target.
3.It will hit regular people. Governments typically bring in taxes on the “super rich”, then when it doesn’t work they lower the threshold.
4.Britain already wealth-taxes by stealth. Council tax, stamp duty, dividend tax, frozen thresholds, CGT, 40% IHT, luxury tax, private school tax - we have a diffuse wealth tax wearing a dozen costumes.
5.Wealth is a guess, not a fact. Income hit a bank account; wealth is an opinion about future value. You end up taxing and then litigating based on arguable estimates, every single year.
6.Most people can’t tell wealth from income. The politics sells because the public conflates “owns £10m of illiquid business” with “earns £10m” - they’re nothing alike.
7.It punishes illiquidity. Paper-rich, cash-poor founders must strip dividends from their own companies to pay - taxing ownership by gutting the thing that makes jobs.
8.The mobile escape; the rooted pay. Norway’s most-taxed man left for Switzerland in a weekend.  The regional business owner and the homeowner can’t so they get the bill.
9.It causes capital flight. More super-rich Norwegians left in 2022 than in the previous 13 years combined.  Capital is the most mobile thing there is.
10.It eats the seed corn. Wealth is just deferred investment the capital funding the next hire and the next business. It raises little, invites avoidance, and drains the capital base. 
BONUS: 90% of what we call wealth now is intangible - intellectual property, data, algorithms, startup venture valuations, brand equity etc. The days of wealth being houses, factories and materials that can be seized are long gone. If you make your country anti-wealth you are basically making it anti-competitive in the modern economy.
Gary Stevenson@garyseconomics
Why does The Economist hate wealth taxes?
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@OneAcountOnX @Jaredhowe Before the Ukraine crisis it was under a lot of russian influence hence corrupt.
Now its free of Russian influence it is less corrupt
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She's actually a traitor to America who allows herself to be used in foreign influence operations.
If Roger Stone and Mike Flynn had it their way, they would have stopped Trump in the 2024 primaries with a half-baked scheme to use contested delegates against him.
Roger Stone@RogerJStoneJr
Tulsi Gabbard is an American hero. Eat it Laura Loomer you unhinged psychopath neocon warmonger stonezone.com/dni-tulsi-gabb…
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Many of the cornerstone aspects that make capitalism so powerful have been eroded.
Capitalism is:
- private ownership of productive assets: this we have made widely available. Almost anyone can start a ltd company, pool resources, raise investment and build a balance sheet of productive assets (although we probably need better education on this) ✅
- increased competition to improve quality and lower price: sadly many of the biggest industries are winner-take-all and must be treated like monopolies and broken up to restore genuine competition. ⚠️
- clear price signals so that markets can respond: sadly high government spending and subsidising creates market distortions. We need to reduce the influence of government and restore genuine price signals. ⚠️
- healthy markets so consumers can freely chose how to spend their time and money: sadly the costs of high taxation and the existence op monopolies leaves many consumers with limited disposable income and fewer choices. ⚠️
- many available options for workers to sell their labour to: good jobs have been concentrated around expensive cities and fewer good jobs exist in regional areas. Workers have been put in direct competition with cheap foreign labour with lower working standards. ⚠️
Wolfe@everytimeicash
Unpopular opinion, we don’t actually live in a capitalist society.
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@NocIntellect @DursinsBN Gain of function research isn't banned by international law and what evidence is there that this was being conducted from these labs? None? 🤭
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@DursinsBN FYI, what they were doing with gain of function research is against international law. Did your country catch Covid? Was your country forced to take vaccinations for Covid? Did you like it? Was it fun?
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Tulsi Ganbard is a russian agent. We’ve known that for years.
NOTUS@NOTUSreports
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is promoting a long-disproven conspiracy theory about the U.S. secretly supporting bioweapons manufacturing in Ukraine, just before she leaves her post at the end of the month. notus.org/health-science…
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One of the most troubling aspects of the Palestine Action/Elbit case is the moral psychology involved.
It is what happens when a political cause becomes a total identity and creates the opportunity for malign actors to exploit it.
Once “Palestine” is transformed from a cause into a sacred symbol of moral standing, ordinary ethical boundaries begin to collapse. Violence is described as “direct action,” criminal damage as “solidarity,” arrest as “repression,” and prison as martyrdom.
The worker in the factory, the police officer with a family, the public frightened by political violence, even the activist discarding their own future, all fade into a heroic narrative about resistance.
It is radicalisation. Outrage narrows the mind; group approval encourages escalation; online applause replaces conscience. The slogan provides moral permission, and the crowd offers emotional insulation. Every consequence is then reinterpreted as proof that the system is evil, making self-correction nearly impossible.
The most tragic aspect is how cheaply lives are destroyed. People with futures sacrifice them for a fantasy of moral purity. Supporters enjoy the warm glow of righteousness. The accused face the sentence, the criminal record, the terrorist notification requirements, and the ruin of adulthood.
You can care about Palestinians without excusing political violence. You can condemn civilian suffering without romanticising criminality or being duped by false propaganda narratives about “genocide”.
Having a just cause does not make a person just. Sometimes the most dangerous lie people tell themselves is that because they have chosen the “right side”, anything they do in its name must be good.
You can read my report on the Psychology of Disinformation, here: henryjacksonsociety.org/publications/t…
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A juror — a JUROR — in the Palestine Action case is now speaking at a rally in their support. 😵💫
This is the collapse of the apparatus of our freedoms. What is Britain becoming?
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This is Gaza on a regular day.
A huge crowd packs the street while Hamas fighters walk around openly with rifles and heavy weapons. People are cheering, filming on their phones, and one guy even fires an RPG right there in the middle of it all. Smoke everywhere, everyone celebrating.
These are the same “innocent civilians” we keep hearing about. They’re not hiding from Hamas. They’re cheering them on.
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Everything the "pro-Pali" crowd accused Israel of is, in fact, what Hamas is guilty of.
There's absolutely no footage of the IDF treating Gazans like this 👇
However, as I pointed out in another post, there's an abundance of footage coming out of Gaza almost daily showing Hamas "in 4K" and how they treat their own people.
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Just having a play with Comfy desktop AI models. I asked to it make a rudimentary low resolution animation on a fairly high spec PC and it just laughed at me. Easy to see why the AI revolution is stalling. What people actually want is unlimited creative potential for free, and all the RAM in the world cannot deliver that. Most of what we're seeing (AI slop) is the output of loss-making technology demonstrators based on a convergence of fairly old technologies. No way plebs like us are getting close to the real deal this side of 2035.
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This is a really good point. As the confirmation of combatant deaths in Gaza continues to rise, as the fantasy academic papers about 100s of 1000s of dead get proved wrong, as S Africa beg for more ICJ time, their genocide narrative falls apart, so they must escalate.
dan linnaeus@DanLinnaeus
Worth noting that Mehdi Hasan’s recent hate binge and rhetorical escalation are also a sign that his cause is losing its sway over the Western public and a bid for in-group cohesion. He’s had to attack Seinfeld, John Cleese, Bari Weiss, and Mark Dubowitz in the span of the last 24 hours alone to do damage control within his cohorts, which are losing steam and legitimacy. It’s incendiary and not to be taken lightly, but the doubling down seems to stem from realizing his narratives are unwinding and need defending.
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@ItsTheEnforcer Vatnik behaviour
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Vatnik Soup@P_Kallioniemi
In today's #vatniksoup, I'll introduce an American politician and political commentator, Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard). She's best-known for blaming absolutely everything on the US Democrats and NATO, and for being a fan of totalitarian regimes like Russia and Syria. 1/19
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Also, this is problematic because it implicates the U.S. Government in funding the alleged “biolabs”.
Why would the government declassify something that could put a target on our back from Vladimir Putin?
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Notice how they are focusing on Ukraine in this announcement…
It’s alleged the U.S. funded biolabs in 30+ countries but for some reason chose to emphasize the ones in Ukraine.
The U.S. government is actively trying to bolster Putin’s propaganda narrative for invading Ukraine.
DNI Tulsi Gabbard@DNIGabbard
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine. In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted. odni.gov/index.php/news…
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@koshercockney Yeah she has her own soup x.com/P_Kallioniemi/…
Vatnik Soup@P_Kallioniemi
In today's #vatnik soup I'll introduce an American, pro-Russian politician and a conspiracy theorist, Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG). She's also a US representative for Georgia and member of the Republican Party, and is best known for her love of guns and QAnon. 1/15
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Edward Snowden has officially started producing propaganda for the Kremlin.
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@JDBASURVIVOR @SaarNil72 Andrew isn't helping anybody except his own wallet, it's slightly worrying that you see him as someone to admire
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@npink1981 @SaarNil72 What do you do Nick, how do you push yourself everyday to help people, our country, our kids.
I’m generally interested.
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I’ve just realised
Bridgen is an ex Tory who pushes Restore, I guarantee he will stand as a candidate for them if he gets the chance
Another Israel hating drek
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@JDBASURVIVOR @SaarNil72 It's not reality, just stupidity or grifting for engagement payouts
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