Catherine Arrow

🇮🇷 Day 3 of the U.S. naval blockade: An Iranian-flagged cargo vessel tried to sneak out of Bandar Abbas, slipped through the Strait of Hormuz, and hugged the Iranian coastline in an attempt to evade the blockade. The USS Spruance (DDG-111) intercepted it and successfully turned the ship around. That makes ten vessels turned back so far and zero ships have broken through since the blockade began on Monday. The U.S. Navy is making its point without firing a shot. Iran is testing the limits, but so far the blockade is holding firm. Source: U.S. Central Command

BREAKING: Mass arrests under the Terrorism Act in Trafalgar Square, as hundreds defy the ban on Palestine Action. The police are knowingly unlawfully arresting peaceful protestors for holding placards which say: "I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action"

On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted. Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness. I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit. I’m not defending Iran but let’s be honest about all of this. The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they’ve been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon. You know who has nuclear weapons? Israel. They are more than capable of defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it. Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing. On Easter, of all days, we as Christians should be reminded that the son of God died and rose from the grave so that we can be forgiven once and for all of our sins. Jesus commanded us to love one another and forgive one another. Even our enemies. Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians. Christians in the administration should be pursuing peace. Urging the President to make peace. Not escalating war that is hurting people. This NOT what we promised the American people when they overwhelmingly voted in 2024, I know, I was there more than most. This is not making America great again, this is evil.

Fmr PM Clark on Bkfst: “Positioning by this (Luxon led) government never made any sense - clearly one-sided… a (Iran) war of choice launched in the middle of negotiations….totally illegal strike…people find hypocritical…you can cower … in the end you have to count for something - not for nothing"

🚨WHAT META JUST DROPPED IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN ANYTHING OPENAI HAS EVER BUILT!!!!! while everyone was losing their mind over Claude Mythos.. Meta dropped something that nobody noticed.. they built an AI called TRIBE v2.. it's basically a digital copy of your brain.. you show it a video, a sound, a sentence.. and it already knows how your brain is going to react.. 70,000 different parts of your brain.. blood flow, oxygen, everything.. they trained it on 1,000 hours of brain scans from 700 real people lying inside MRI machines.. it doesn't read your thoughts.. it does something worse.. it knows what's going to make you feel something before you even feel it.. think about that for a second.. if an AI already knows which image, which sound, which word is going to hit your dopamine.. you don't need to read someone's mind.. you just build the perfect trap.. and meta didn't even keep it locked up.. they open-sourced it.. gave the code, the weights, everything to the entire world.. this is the same company that got caught making instagram destroy teenage girls.. the same company whose own research said their algorithm pushes rage because rage keeps you scrolling.. that company now has a working copy of how your brain responds to everything you see and hear.. they don't have to guess what keeps you glued to the screen anymore.. they can rehearse it on a copy of your brain before you ever see it.. the product was never the app.. the product was always you.. now they have the blueprint.

Impacts of Middle East crisis are wide ranging & likely to be protracted. Listening to Christine Lagarde, one can only draw conclusion that countries need to build their resilience urgently to such shocks thru greater supply chain diversification & moving away from fossil fuels.