Stephen Ohare

@BladeoftheS China shows the world that communism can work - the West cannot bear it. Or tolerate it.

The largest offshore Solar Power Plant in the world is in China. While the West waste their money on military junk China is going completely renewable energy. The West is lead by fools.

@thesiriusreport Accurate

If Trump pulls the US out of NATO, Europe will quickly realise that they never needed the US in the first place. As we have said for years, the US was never going to defend Europe. It was and will always be an utter myth. They just want Europe to buy their useless military hardware and munitions and so they can seek to control Europe and prevent it's rotation to Russia and Eurasia. Europe has a choice, die defending its pointless relationship with the US or embrace Eurasia including Russia

@FT come the FT, just do it, like you always do -- ...but at what cost?

Chinese government bonds have sidestepped a global debt sell-off since the start of the Iran war, emerging as a haven from soaring energy prices and rising global inflation. What’s behind Chinese bonds’ resilience? ft.trib.al/KAoGthk

@angeloinchina and that's just his personal private one for special family celebrations

1944 Hitler introducing a "gas chamber".... (Topic forbidden to question/debate)... Nahhh this is 2026 from a European supremacist representing Israel, a sick society. This is Ben Gvir introducing execution chamber for Palestinian people, the same owners of the land colonisers stole. Palestinian prisoners used to be tortured and sodomized, now they will be executed as well.

@Fx1Jonny it's more a crystal ball than a globe. I am buying a dozen.

Check this shithouse out: “They’ve erased israel my country from the world” My only question is where is the nearest selfridges so I can buy 1 because that’s a world I want to be part of.

Peace will not break out soon! Iran will only end their defensive military response once they are happy Israel and the US are weakened enough. The ME will never return to what it was. The West will pay for their aggression with a depression so deep it will hurt everyone. We hurt their economic interests for so long with impunity that we deserve everything that is coming.

We have yet to feel the full force of oil and gas price spikes and energy shortages.  But they’ve started in Asia, the destination for most oil and gas that went through the Strait of Hormuz. They’re now coming our way, arriving by the middle of April at the latest, as they roll west across the globe.  Just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean it isn’t going to. Energy shocks unfold sequentially NOT simultaneously.  People and politicians haven’t yet woken up to this. Yesterday on this show we spoke to Greg Newman, an experienced energy trader. He warned of major problems coming down the pike. He’s right. It was a wake up call we’d do well to heed.  What’s already happening in Asia is a harbinger of what’s in store for us. Huge rises in the price of oil and gas. Growing shortages in diesel and jet fuel. Knock on effects on everything from fertilisers for the spring growing season to microchip production.  About a third of the world’s fertilisers, needed for food production, and a third of the world’s helium, needed for chip production, are produced by the Gulf’s petrochemical industries and come through the Strait of Hormuz. No longer.  Western governments need to wake up to the economic tsunami coming their way. The Starmer government in particular needs to get a grip.  The PM and his ministers are dangerously insouciant in the face of what’s about to hit them. They speak in generalities, with no sense of urgency, complacently out of their depth. I fear they have no idea what’s in store.  They talk about average household energy bills falling by over £100 from tomorrow. What they never add is that they will rise by almost £300 come July.  Soon the price of everything from petrol at the pump to food at the check out counter will soar. Central banks will panic at the sight of inflation reignited — and jack up interest rates.  Remember this — every major energy shock in the past has led to recession. Not because energy prices went through the roof but because central banks pushed up interest rates in their wake, killing consumer spending, the property market and business investment in the process. AND ushering in recession.  There is every chance history is about to repeat itself. Especially since we’re now run by people who are wholly ignorant of that history.  Of course, peace could soon break out and, after a rough spring and summer, normality could beckon before winter is again upon us.  But if the Strait of Hormuz is still closed in a month’s time we will all be paying a steep price for a war — Trump’s War — we did not start and did not ask for. And having to deal with an increasingly deranged White House.  2/2

My monologue on The Times at One with Andrew Neil on @TimesRadio on Trump’s War: Donald Trump woke up this morning to tell Britain to open the Strait of Hormuz without US help and to ‘start learning how to fight’ for ourselves because America ‘won’t be there to help you.’   Well, we learned how to do that in 1940, Mr President, when your country was nowhere to be seen and only Britain stood with its Commonwealth allies to defend civilisation against the greatest evil the world has ever seen.  For those of you wondering if the Atlantic Alliance still has a future, you can stop wondering. As long as Trump is in the White House clearly it doesn’t.  Meanwhile Trump’s Secretary of State Marco Rubio is impatient with media criticism that the aims of Trump’s War are confusing and uncertain. So yesterday on American TV he helpfully listed them. Write them down, he advised, implying this was the definitive list. So I did: 1. The destruction of Iran’s air force 2. The destruction of their navy 3. The severe diminishing of their missile launching capability 4. The destruction of their factories Which is clear enough — except that it’s not the list with which President Trump started the war. That list clearly included regime change and the end of Iran’s ability to develop nukes.  They didn’t make Secretary Rubio’s list. Nor did the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.  There is further cause for concern. IF Rubio’s list is now the definitive one, then Trump could claim war aims achieved, victory declared even with Iran still in control of the Strait of Hormuz, still able to develop a nuclear arsenal.  Not quite the victory anybody envisaged.  Yet that may well be the route we’re now going down. Late last night in Washington we discovered that Mr Trump was telling aides he WAS prepared to end the war even if the Strait of Hormuz was still closed.  That opening it would prolong the war beyond his deadline. That it was up to the Europeans and the Gulf States to take the lead in opening it because they needed it more than America.  Well, thanks a lot Donald. You start a war without consulting your allies, you change your war aims more often than Keir Starmer performs U-turns and now you talk of ending it, leaving us to hold the baby. Just great.  This matters. Because the longer the Strait of Hormuz is closed the more the global economy faces something close to catastrophe. 1/2

@KobeissiLetter He said this 20 days ago. So fake news. US investors are either suckers or insiders.

BREAKING: Iran's President Pezeshkian says Iran is ready to end the war with the US but wants guarantees. US stocks are surging on the news.

@ShaykhSulaiman eh no.

BREAKING: CHINA & PAKISTAN PROPOSE 5-POINT PLAN ON GULF CRISIS 1. Immediate ceasefire and humanitarian access to all war-affected areas. 2. Launch peace talks as soon as possible; safeguard sovereignty of Iran and Gulf states; “with all parties committing to peaceful resolution of disputes, and refraining from the use or the threat of use of force during peace talks.” 3. Security of nonmilitary targets: Protect civilians and halt attacks on nonmilitary and critical infrastructure, including energy and nuclear sites. “Fully adhere to International Humanitarian Law (IHL).” 4. Secure shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and restore safe commercial passage: “protect the security of ships and crew members stranded in the Strait of Hormuz, allow the early and safe passage of civilian and commercial ships, and restore normal passage through the Strait as soon as possible.” 5. Reinforce UN-led multilateralism and pursue a comprehensive peace framework under international law.

@CraigMurrayOrg This is an outstanding insight into what is going on. Thank you, brilliant work. Makes one quite sad though seeing the awful predicament facing Venezuela.

The Weight on Delcy Rodriguez - As I was leaving the University of the Communes in Tayacito, after a joyful and uplifting visit, an earnest young Professor came up to me and pulled me aside. Very quietly, he asked me what was going to happen. A number of craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/…

Background - the bill targeted ‘killing motivated by nationalism.’ However, the Israel's ‘legal’ experts realised this would legally require the execution of Zionist settlers who murder Palestinians. Faced with the threat of having to apply their own laws to Jews, they carefully engineered a racist loophole.

My statement with France, Germany and Italy on our united opposition to Israel’s death penalty law. The death penalty is wrong and we oppose it around the world. gov.uk/government/new…

@DoctorLemma That scene was so emotional it made my wife’s waters break, not kidding! Amazing film.

In 2003, a German film crew followed a nomadic family in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. The film, The Story of the Weeping Camel, was nominated for an Oscar. A mother camel had rejected her newborn after a brutal two-day labour. Without her milk, the calf would die. The family knew one option. They sent their two young sons on a journey across the desert to find a musician who could perform a ritual called Hoos, a chanting ceremony passed down for centuries specifically for this moment. The musician came. The ritual was performed. The mother camel wept real tears and turned to her calf for the first time. The film crew had gone to document a way of life. They had no idea they would capture that. UNESCO added the Hoos ritual to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2015, alongside flamenco, the Mediterranean diet, and the art of Neapolitan pizza making.

@Hamza_a96 Always the victims

LBC presenter Shelagh Fogarty and Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland discuss how tough life is for Israelis. “It’s the blitz… it’s very difficult to imagine… waking up the children to go to an underground shelter…” Words fail me.

@sneako @georgegalloway good decision, few have his depth of geopolitical knowledge.

@georgegalloway hello George, would love to have you on my stream to cover the war

@Keir_Starmer Your bases are being used to carpet bomb Iranian civilians?

I will always make decisions that are in the national interest. It’s why we aren’t getting dragged into the Middle East conflict, and why we are fighting to protect your living standards. And while opposition parties have responded by dividing communities, we respond with hope and pride. Pride in our communities, and the hope of a country that’s better for our children. That’s what we’re fighting for. Vote Labour on Thursday 7 May.

@Realarafi Resilience personified.

If you recognize him, you can surely write at least one word for him... COMMENT FAST..?

@RnaudBertrand right, now model the accelerated erosion of the reserve currency.

This is pretty ironic: Goldman Sachs estimates that the US economy will be *twice* more affected (negatively) than the Chinese economy by the oil supply shock. "The Chinese economy appears better positioned amid the oil supply shock than its global peers [...] Due to the oil shock, our economists have trimmed China's real GDP growth forecast by 20bps compared to 40bps for the US"

@MrImranPk A scotsman living in France. Go Iran, go, the world stands with you.

Where are you supporting Iran from? Name your country with pride.

@BillAckman This is called colonial hubris.

Some of the highest quality businesses in the world are trading at extremely cheap prices. Ignore the MSM. One of the most one-sided wars in history that will end well for the U.S. and the world. And we have the potential for a large peace dividend. One of the best times in a long time to buy quality. Ignore the bears.

@shameensuleman why the fuck are they in masks? Is this Israel? Or ICE?

🔳 Arrested at 6:30am under counter terror powers not for violence but for an Instagram story saying “take direct action” after 15 months on remand without conviction this is intimidation plain and simple and they’re targeting her because she didn’t break

🟥 URGENT | QESSER ZUHRAH RE-ARRESTED 🔳 Qesser Zuhrah one of the Filton 24 has been re-arrested under counter-terror powers just weeks after being released on bail following 15 months on remand without trial after being taken at just 19 years old in a dawn raid. ▪️ She is not in normal condition she carried out a 48-day hunger strike, collapsing around day 46–47 and requiring hospitalisation after her body began to shut down, with reports she was left unable to move for hours without proper medical care. 🔳 This morning, counter-terror police turned up at her bail address and took her again knowing exactly the condition she is in. ▪️ The Filton 24 case is linked to action against an israeli weapons company operating in the UK, where multiple defendants were held beyond legal pre-trial limits, forcing hunger strikes as a last resort. 🔳 If you are in London, people are mobilising NOW outside: ▪️ Hatfield Police Station ▪️ Direct train from King’s Cross ▪️ A 19-year-old taken, held 15 months without trial, pushed to the brink on hunger strike, released… and now taken again if this doesn’t make you move, what will. @CrispinShow @Tracking_Power @swilkinsonbc @MENAUncensored @kennardmatt @Rehiana1980

@MelanieLatest no such flags but more to the point, why did the US and Israel create and fund ISIS then?