Derek (Del) Pickard

The trees down under have glorious colours as per this shot....

Always will remember this video- it encapsulates the brutal assault of Russia on a Ukrainian City by a Russian Army full of arrogant exceptionalism. Russia descends into the sewer and cesspit of history. The vision of Russia painted by Tolstoy and Chekhov lies crushed under the rubble of cities like Mariupol while the dystopian vision of Russia captured so well by Vladimir Sorokin of a nation 'marinated in violence' has replaced it..

@Gerashchenko_en We know how much Russia 'loves' Mariupol such that Children from that City had to evacuate and flee with dead bodies littering the Streets. It was a thriving City until Russians came to take their liberation away. This Video captures the menace of Russia: youtube.com/watch?v=SBKOIU…

Russian children's rights commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova kidnapped Ukrainian Pylyp Holovnia into her care in the summer of 2022. Pylyp was taken from Ukraine to Russia as part of a group of 30 children. In an interview for a Z-blogger, Lvova-Belova said that initially, he had "a very difficult attitude towards Russia, towards the president." But now, Lvova-Belova shared, he is studying in law college and "loves the country," referring to Russia. Imagine what Russia does to the thousands of Ukrainian children it kidnapped. Lvova-Belova has an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court.

American and Israeli Intelligence services knew exact locations of the Iranian regime leaders on 28th February 2026 but no inkling of how Iran would respond to their War of choice. Their triumphant celebrations were hollow, and the proof is in the blockage of the Strait and in the attacks on the Gulf States. This amounts to an Intelligence failure of colossal proportions- Mossad and CIA caught with their pants down?

Nobody is talking about what’s actually happening in the Persian Gulf right now. 3,200 commercial ships are trapped. Not military vessels. Civilian crews. Carrying oil, grain, electronics, medicine. Crews are running out of drinking water. One ship contacted the local port authority and begged for permission to dock just to resupply They were denied. For context — the Suez Canal crisis in 2021 trapped 400 ships and disrupted global supply chains for months. This is eight times that. The cameras are pointed at missile interceptions and oil price charts. Nobody is showing you the civilian sailor who can’t get drinking water in a war zone he never signed up for. If these ships are abandoned the environmental catastrophe alone — thousands of tons of fuel and chemicals sitting unmanned — would be generational. This is not a shipping disruption. This is a humanitarian crisis. And it started three weeks ago on a feeling. Never stop connecting the dots.

This is a War of choice and consequences were never understood by Israel or Trump who thought it would be a quick easy victory once the 'head of the Snake' was removed (quote from King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz). They under-estimated the ability of the Iranian regime and overestimated their own intelligence reports. One shot down missile could cause immeasurble destruction to cultural and religous sites in Israel or Iran and lay to waste centuries of History.

Footage of an Iranian ballistic missile fragment hitting the old city of Jerusalem, falling roughly 400 yards from the Western Wall and Al-Aqsa.

@fleur_de_irk @MarcoFoster_ @SenSanders @BernieSanders Israel has been mowing the lawn in Lebanon since 1982 so this is just the latest instalment. Hezbollah is embedded in Lebanon and within its Parliament as a result of these Wars so this War will not change anything...

@DelPickard @MarcoFoster_ @SenSanders @BernieSanders You didn't "witness" anything. You are sitting in the comfort of your home thousands of miles away. And yes, Israel had enough of war waged by IRGC on Israel from 1979 and is determined to finish it. Churches have to adhere to the same security instructions as everything else

Bernie Sanders: “To give another 20K bombs to a country which committed genocide in Gaza happens to be among many other things, forget the moral issue, happens to be in violation of American law. You don’t sell arms to countries that violate international law and human rights. Clearly Israel has done that. Why anybody in their right minds would want to continue funding Israel is beyond me”

Trump spends much of his time in Office debunking anything Obama did while he was President such as the Nuclear agrement with Iran, environmental protection and Obama Health Care. Trump's legacy will be to oversee a Middle East War that Israel wanted and got Trump to agree to during his any cosy love-ins and chitchats with Netanyahu..

Former UK Ambassador drops a massive truth bomb: Iran was observing the 2015 nuclear deal to the letter. Trump sabotaged it purely on Israeli advice, and the claims that Iran was cheating are absolute lies debunked by the International Atomic Energy Agency.

@BohuslavskaKate Thank you former 5-Star General and CIA Director, Petraeus, for speaking the truth over the lies and misinformation that is too often uttered by Trump Administration Officials such as Pete Hegseth..

Ex CIA Director, PETRAEUS: Ukraine is fighting our war — let's make no mistake, they're fighting NATO's war. ​(Applause) HOST: And right now, Ukraine is also protecting many countries in the Middle East with its drone technology. They're the hottest ticket in town.

I look at what Ukraine has to endure every day such as the use of Russian Human Safari drones in their Towns, villages and Cities. There are Russian soldiers operating these First-Person View drones who know they are targeting and hunting civilians. What mentality, what depravity it signifies..

This is the “Old Moscow Highway”, about 10km from the frontline in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. Nets have been strung on all sides of the road, in an attempt to protect vehicles from drone attacks. In recent months the number of such attacks has multiplied. During my few days in Ukraine air raid sirens have been going off day and night. A population exhausted by 4 years of war is traumatised by both the impact of the strikes, and the constant sirens that force people underground and disrupt any chance of normal life.

These are amazing images from John Parkinson's book Botanical "The Garden of Pleasant Flowers" Hand Colored Woodcut 1629 (Page 107). How many of these are extinct in the UK such as the Daffodils pictured? Anyone out there familiar with this subject?!

Die Knesset-Abgeordnete Merav Cohen bringt es auf den Punkt: Jüdischer Terror im Westjordanland ist Terror – und nicht nur eine Reihe von „Einzelfällen“, begangen von ein paar „schwarzen Schafen“. Die Realität ist: Palästinensische Zivilisten werden getötet, ihre Häuser angezündet, Moscheen und Kirchen angegriffen, Familien vertrieben, Kinder eingeschüchtert und verfolgt. Auch internationale Aktivisten und selbst Israelis und Juden werden angegriffen, wenn sie Palästinenser schützen oder unterstützen. Es geht nicht darum, dass deutsche Politiker anti-israelisch oder anti-zionistisch werden soll. Es geht darum, konsequent einen Maßstab menschenrechlicher Politik einzuhalten. Wer glaubwürdig für Menschenrechte eintritt, darf solchen Realitäten nicht ausweichen. Der Maßstab im Umgang mit Extremismus muss für alle gelten, ohne Ausnahme.

Merav Cohen is a sane voice in a Knesset that seems to be dominated by the likes of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich, and not forgetting Netanyahu. In a Globe full of Macho Males strutting the world stage with the huge egos and excessive amounts of testosterone, she is a calm humanistic voice..

Bernie Sanders speaks for millions of Americans who have witnessed the Genocide in Gaza and acknowledge it without any prejudice. America is a Christian Nation and an evangelical one- how will it react to Israel actions in Jerusalem in closing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre since Feb. 28 as Israel launched its war on Iran hence preventing worship there during Lent and Easter?

Trump: 'Ukraine has no cards'. Continuously Ukraine shows it has plenty. theguardian.com/world/2026/mar… Ukraine has managed to take back much territory occupied by Russia recently and decimated its Army and mechanised divisions such that frontal assaults on the Donbass Fortress Cities is already severely blunted. No wonder Putin wanted it to be handed over to Russia in the flawed Peace Deal pushed by Steve Witkoff et al..

Totally agree with the report critical of GB News Reform Party bias. I will be surprised if Ofcom does anything- it is as toothless as an old shaggy dog. It is letting bias become the Raison d'être for GB News output. Reform and GB News would love to see BBC funding slashed- that is a good reason to be concerned..

GB News has turned into the Reform channel. After a New World investigation found hundreds of breaches of the rules on accuracy and impartiality, Ofcom has failed to do its job and act. We've seen what Fox News has done to politics in the US. We can't let it happen here.

Imagine a rabid dog and that is the vision I have of Israel's and America's War of choice against Iran. Are Israel and USA running out of military targets and looking for anything to bomb. What is their exit strategy- Israel probably doesn't care. Its ID runs amok like a fever taking hold of it, glorifying in its absolute power.

The Israeli targeting of facilities linked to Iran’s South Pars field, an extension of Qatar’s North Field, is a dangerous & irresponsible step amid the current military escalation in the region. Targeting energy infrastructure constitutes a threat to global energy security, as well as to the peoples of the region & its environment. We reiterate, as we have repeatedly emphasized, the necessity of avoiding the targeting of vital facilities. We call on all parties to exercise restraint, adhere to international law, & work toward de-escalation in a manner that preserves the security & stability of the region.

This emphasizes Ukrainian dignity and determination to overcome Russian drone attacks and maintain Kherson as a living breathing City. It casts Russia as a brutal nation whose culture has been sullied and darkened by the atrocities of its deranged Army such as these 'Human Safari's..

You want to know about Ukrainian invincibility? Kherson. Several drone attacks already today. Two ladies doing the spring street cleaning while Russian human safari drone fly in vicinity. They hide, wait, and get back to cleaning. Russia can never win.

The irony is that if nations like the UK and France sided with Israel and USA in its War on Iran, we would also be complicit in Israel's obscene assault on Beirut and Lebanon. This is Trumps and Netanyahu's War- they tore up the Obama Nuclear Deal with no agreement with anyone else, and now they want NATO to join their dirty sordid, and squalid 'adventures' in the Middle East..

Israel just demolished a big residential building in central Beirut. Israel has illegally and forcibly displaced one million people from South Lebanon. Many sheltering in central Beirut Israel is now bombing central Beirut Israel is a terrorist state