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Is there no leader in the Western world with the courage to say "ENOUGH!"

@BenGrahamUK If I’m ever reduced to stealing chocolate, I’m nicking Tony’s. Not this shite.

In Britain shops are security tagging bars of Dairy Milk now. We’ve reached the point of lawlessness where chocolate needs anti theft protection. At what point do we tackle the root issue?

That moment in 2016 when Victoria Nuland was bragging to the US Congress about how thoroughly Washington had taken over Ukraine after the 2014 coup. She spelled it out without shame: 🔴US operatives embedded in a dozen Ukrainian ministries. 🔴American-trained cops patrolling 18 cities. 🔴The US Treasury gutting 60 Ukrainian banks while sparing depositors to keep people quiet. 🔴Hundreds of millions of dollars funneled into molding Ukraine’s military. This wasn’t "assistance", it was a takeover dressed up as aid.

🇺🇸/IRAN/🇨🇳🇷🇺NEW ARTICLE: The US War on Iran is a US War on Multipolarism NOTE: Because X censors NEO links I will be posting the entire article below. The US war of aggression launched against Iran on February 28, 2026 is only the most recent US aggression launched to undermine and dismantle the multipolar world. The US has not only threatened the existence of Iran as a nation state as well as the security of the entire Middle East, but the death and destruction it has caused has already begun to radiate out across the world in terms of disrupted or destroyed energy exports and rapidly unraveling economic stability. The US - being energy independent itself - has forced much of the world into an American energy monopoly - having placed sanctions on Russian energy exports and now either seizing, disrupting, or destroying all other potential competitors. This includes a US invasion of Venezuela just earlier this year, kidnapping the Venezuelan president and holding the remaining government hostage while openly seizing the nation’s natural resources - including oil - for the US itself. The current US war of aggression against Iran is not only targeting Iranian energy production but has resulted in regional conflict damaging or destroying energy production across the Persian Gulf altogether. . Because the US produces nowhere near the amount of oil and LNG required to make up for disrupted or destroyed energy production and exports from the Middle East, this will result in global energy shortages and subsequent collapses in both industry and consumer demand. The world which had been collectively rising above and beyond the reach of US primacy now faces the prospect of being deliberately destabilized and dragged down by the US. The US itself, incapable of competing within the very world order it created following the World Wars, has decided to use its remaining military, economic, financial, and political strength to demolish it in the hope of emerging from the settling debris once again “strongest.” Far from an obscure theory, this is an observation made even by Russia’s top diplomat, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who in a recent interview would say that, “the events in Latin America and the Middle East directly stem from the West’s attempts to preserve the remnants of its dominance,” and that, “the elites of Western countries, continue to invest whatever political and economic resources they have left in their confrontation with our country.” Far from a last minute plan, the US spent much of the 21st century preparing not only for the now ongoing war with Iran but also its ongoing proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, and its growing encirclement of China in the Asia-Pacific region - targeting all of multipolarism’s major pillars and many in between. On the Path to Persia To encircle and weaken Iran, the US invaded Afghanistan to its east and Iraq to its west in 2001 and 2003 respectively under the Bush Jr. administration. During that same administration, the US began preparing armies of extremists to wage proxy war against Iran and its regional allies including Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, the nation of Syria, and Ansar Allah in Yemen. During the Obama administration at least as early as 2008, the US began training and equipping opposition groups across the Arab World for the eventual 2011 so-called “Arab Spring.” Together with the armies of extremists prepared under the previous Bush Jr. administration, the US-engineered protests and ready-made violence served as cover to trigger regional chaos resulting in US wars and proxy wars against Libya, Yemen, and Syria leading to the collapse of all three as unified nation-states. While the same Obama administration signed onto the so-called “Iran Nuclear Deal” in 2012, US policy papers dating back to as early as 2009 sought to use such diplomacy - not to avoid war - but to serve as a pretext for war. One such paper published by the Brookings Institution titled, “Which Path to Persia?” noted that, “the ideal scenario in this case would be that the United States and the international community present a package of positive inducements so enticing that the Iranian citizenry would support the deal, only to have the regime reject it,” before stating, “under those circumstances, the United States (or Israel) could portray its operations as taken in sorrow, not anger, and at least some in the international community would conclude that the Iranians “brought it on themselves” by refusing a very good deal.” And that is precisely what happened - come 2018 under the first Trump administration, the deal was unilaterally withdrawn from by the US after baselessly accusing Iran of violating its terms before applying “maximum pressure” on Iran in the lead up to the war the US is now waging against Iran. In 2024 with the collapse of the Syrian government under the Biden administration, Syria’s advanced integrated air defense network was destroyed leading to the creation of open air corridors to Iran and almost immediately to direct US and Israeli strikes spanning 2024-2025 and of course this year. The now ongoing war on Iran is just one piece of a wider global strategy to destabilize and destroy the multipolar world before its otherwise inevitable displacement of American unipolar primacy. Extending Russia Russia, another central pillar of emerging multipolarism has been besieged by US-led NATO expansion since the end of the Cold War. Throughout the 21st century, the US has systematically destabilized and attempted to politically capture nations along Russia’s periphery including Serbia in 2000, Georgia in 2003, and failed attempts to capture Belarus and Ukraine in 2001 and 2004 respectively. Upon Georgia’s capture in 2003, it was immediately militarized by the US and transformed into a battering ram against neighboring Russia culminating in war in 2008 the European Union’s own investigation concluded was provoked by US-backed Georgia. By 2014, the US had successfully captured Ukraine as well and immediately began to militarize it on a much greater scale than Georgia from 2003-2008. This included not only the reorganization and training of Ukraine’s military, but also the capture and control of Ukraine’s security and intelligence agencies by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). By 2017 under the first Trump administration, the US began openly supplying Ukraine with arms - likely the final red line crossed forcing Russia to pre-emptively strike before another Georgia 2008-style war was launched against it - but on a much greater and more dangerous scale. The resulting war occupied tremendous amounts of Russian resources and attention, undermining its ability to sustain Syria’s stability and is likely a contributing factor to the Syrian government’s collapse in 2024, helping set the stage of the US’ direct war on Iran today. Both the US provoked proxy war in Ukraine and additional pressure on Syria were laid out in a 2019 RAND Corporation paper titled “Extending Russia” - both scenarios, together with many other options that have since been implemented against Russia, having sought to extend Russia and eventually precipitate a Soviet-style collapse. Throughout the ongoing US proxy war on Russia in Ukraine the US CIA has coordinated and directed long-range drone strikes on Russian energy production deep inside Russian territory as well as conducted maritime drone strikes on tankers carrying Russian energy exports. Together with the US invasion of Venezuela, its ongoing war on Iran, the attack on Russian energy production and exports reveals a troubling pattern - the seizure, destruction, or degradation of China’s major energy partners around the globe. Blockading China In addition to targeting China’s largest and most important energy partners, the US has also spent years attempting to likewise destabilize, destroy, or deliberately provoke conflict along China’s immediate peripheries and even within Chinese territory itself. This includes years-spanning terrorism targeting China’s Xinjiang region, US-backed riots in Hong Kong as recently as 2019, and the backing and arming of the separatist administration on the Chinese island province of Taiwan. Beyond China’s own territory, since the end of World War 2, the US has spent decades attempting to politically capture and pivot nations into battering rams against China along three fronts; Japan-Korea, India-Pakistan, and Southeast Asia. This includes the Philippines which has abandoned modern infrastructure deals with China and redirected national resources to an expanding US military presence within the former US colony and an expanding confrontation with China in the South China Sea. Closer to China’s borders in Myanmar and Pakistan, the US has backed terrorists in attacking key components of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) including the Myanmar-China pipelines US policy papers including one from the US Naval War College Review in 2018 had previously proposed bombing during any open conflict with China as part of a wider “maritime oil blockade” on China. Instead of waiting for open conflict with China, US-backed terrorists have repeatedly attacked the pipelines for years including last year. Earlier this year, an American and several Ukrainians were caught smuggling drones into Myanmar in a bid to assist US-backed opposition groups in overthrowing the China-friendly central government. Taken together - the US has waged wars and proxy wars against China’s key allies as well as waged a dirty war all along China’s own borders and even within them. The most recent war on Iran targeting the majority of China’s energy imports from abroad seeks to damage China’s economic development as much as possible before a 5-10 year window of opportunity closes as China reaches energy independence. China Has Prepared China was well aware of US efforts to blockade it for decades and has invested both domestically and internationally in both preparing for it and defending against it. The distant blockade the US Naval Review College paper proposed imposing at the Malacca Strait in 2018 is now likely no longer possible as China’s military power has drastically expanded since then. Not only does China have a vastly larger and more capable missile force, it also has a physically larger navy than the United States does and has concentrated its navy in the Asia-Pacific region. This is likely why the US has instead imposed the blockade at the Strait of Hormuz - much further from Chinese military capabilities. However, China appears to have prepared for this as well. China has built up vast strategic crude oil reserves, is rapidly expanding coal-to-liquid fuel production, and has invested in and adopted renewable energy resources on a scale unseen in human history. While the majority of vehicles on Chinese roads are still dependent on refined oil fuel products, over 50% of all new cars, trucks, and motorcycles are electric. China possesses the largest and fastest passenger rail network on Earth and also possesses the most powerful electric freight locomotives ever built. While the United States appears to be making a drastic global lunge at China and its network of partners and allies, China has spent decades preparing for exactly this scenario. What is left to determine is whether the US’ capacity for global death and destruction can outpace China and the multipolar world’s capacity of resilience and economic, technological, and civilizational expansion. Only time will tell for sure. Brian Berletic is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer.

Let's frame it another way. People have become so poor they need to steal food.

@paulgwaweru @GigglingGanon Oh, they’re here

@GigglingGanon Ahhh! Can't see that one or more comment about, "he should have just complied and everything would have been fine." Where are they?

These officers were 1000% wrong on this one. 👀 This one ended in a massive lawsuit. Cop arrested blind man for carrying a walking stick. These two officers should be removed from duty for this. This man was walking home after serving on jury duty. The officer said she thought his walking stick was a gun in his pocket. Even after it was revealed it was not a gun, they still continued to arrest him after he asked for their name and badge number.

@Rainorshine7775 @GigglingGanon Victim blaming.

@GigglingGanon While the police in this case were wrong all he had to do was be nice. Joke a little with the female officer instead “why are you a tyrant?” If he would have simply said “hey I appreciate you guys checking.” She would have let him go. But noooo!

@AlanRMacLeod @OneQuantumLeap Jeez these bastards!

Not enough people remember when the CIA deliberately introduced African Swine Fever into Cuba 🇨🇺 as part of their biological warfare strategy.

When I was 12 years old I learned diabetics in the United States were being slowly-but-surely murdered by CEOs price gouging a medicine invented by men who explicitly gave it to the commons. Suffering horrific deaths by no fault of their own. On that day I became a socialist.

NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT HOW FUCKED THIS ACTUALLY IS Germany just told every man aged 17 to 45: you need our permission to leave. Not during a war. RIGHT NOW. In 2026. You want to study in Spain? Ask the military. Job offer in Canada? Ask the military. Backpacking Southeast Asia for 4 months? ASK THE FUCKING MILITARY. And here's the part people keep skipping: The government doesn't need parliament to call up troops anymore. They wrote that into the law. Every 18-year-old boy must declare online if he's willing to serve. From 2027, mandatory medical screenings begin for boys born 2008 and later. Germany just compared itself to Ukraine without saying the words. Ukraine banned men from leaving after the war started. Germany did it before. That's the difference nobody wants to admit.

Jesus the prices in this country - this for egg on toast at Heathrow…how much is the immodest breakfast?

Ella es la que está destruyendo Europa. No los rusos, ni China. ES ELLA 👇 🔥🔥🔥🔥☄️

People visit the rich with gifts, but they visit the poor with advice. — African Proverb

🚨🇧🇷 BREAKING — President Lula: “Since 1500, they discovered gold in Latin America they spent 500 years taking everything from us. They left us stripped bare. We sold raw ore for almost nothing, earned very little from mining, and then bought industrialized products back at the price of gold. Now something new has been discovered: rare earths beneath our soil. And once again, they are looking to take, take, take, and leave behind only the holes they dig."

@edwinhayward What a load of nonsense. People getting me all riled up for nothing! 😆

A lot of nonsense circulating today about how the EU will force us to relabel marmalade as "Citrus Marmalade". The truth: The new law's requirements will be met if the citrus fruit is named, so e.g. "Orange Marmalade" would be fine. You merely can't use "Marmalade" on its own.

@ProgressIbrahim @jacksonhinklle Whereas capitalism is the law of the jungle

@jacksonhinklle I don’t believe in socialism and communism, they make people have entitlement mentality

🚨🇺🇸🇬🇧 BREAKING: SNEAKO says “I align on everything with George Galloway” “He’s right about socialism & the economy”

@kingethuk @jacksonhinklle Mate, you live in Kenya. Stop embarrassing yourself, larping for the USA

@jacksonhinklle Iranian Islamic bigots are so obssessed with the downing of the fighter jet but what they don't know is that they just signed the fall of their country

🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 BREAKING: Iran calls on US Air Force Chief to resign following downed F-15 fighter jet. “It is time for the US Air Force commander to be added to the list following resignations in the US Army”

@bad_goy49 @intelFromBrian Maduro is a hostage.

@intelFromBrian He already did There is an American 🇺🇸 pilot at risk of being taken hostage by Iran 🇮🇷 and hundreds of US pilots risking their lives trying to find him, and all this clown 🤡 has to say is some nonsense about keeping oil

I expect Trump to do something very stupid in the next day or so.

@dufitalexis1 Thank you! ☺️

Before you buy a single bag of anything, grab a handful of soil from your garden and squeeze it. If it crumbles apart immediately, you've got sand. If it holds its shape with a shiny surface, you've got clay. If it holds shape but breaks apart when you poke it, that's loam — and loam is what you're building toward. That took five seconds. Here are three more tests that cost nothing. 🌱 The ribbon test: Press a moist ball of soil between your thumb and finger into a flat ribbon. If it breaks before an inch — sandy. If it stretches past two inches without breaking — heavy clay. The longer the ribbon, the more clay you're working with. The worm count: Flip one full shovelful of soil and count the earthworms. Ten or more means the biology is working. Under five means the soil needs organic matter — compost, leaf mulch, or cover crops. Worms tell you what a lab test can't: whether anything is alive down there. The jar test: Fill a jar one-third with soil, add water, shake hard, and set it down. Sand drops to the bottom in a minute. Silt settles in a few hours. Clay stays cloudy for a full day. After 24 hours you can see the layers and roughly gauge your soil's composition without sending anything to a lab. Every one of these tests points the same direction: add compost. Sand needs it for moisture retention. Clay needs it for drainage. Low worm counts need it for biology. Compost is the answer to almost everything these tests reveal. Four tests. No kit. Your hands and a jar.