kate dodd

Announcement, to those who care ... I'm not standing in May. Here's why, and what I'll be doing next 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Seriously? If the pilot was injured.. They should have asked Iran to take him in as a POW and keep him alive Cos that's the important thing...isn't it? He will probably succumb to wounds

This is literally what Trump just told you. The US flew in, built a secret US base, landed 2 C130s ran 35 miles to a distant mountain, rescued a severely injured pilot from the mountain travelling 35 miles back by foot across open plain, while engaged in massive night time fire fight. Tried to take off in 2 c130s that got stuck in airport. Kept battling until more troops came and took them away, then blew up the C130s in air.

As a former Marine embassy guard who served during the era of the Benghazi discourse, it is remarkable to me how little discussion there is that the U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia got hit by a missile and had multiple floors (including the CIA station) destroyed & lit on fire.

How are you now following the Iran Embassy Zimbabwe? 😂 😂

One of my first experiences living in France in the late 80s was a nurse's strike. I was working for the local newspaper in a small-ish provincial town, and the nurses began their demo from the town hall, up the top of the road where our office was. Everyone from the office rushed into the street as they went by, and I was astonished to see that all the shopkeepers and office staff lined the whole street, applauding and cheering as they went by. The French have a very different view of workers and their rights.

“Hello, doctor, this is the occupation army. If you do not leave the hospital and head south now, we will kill your family.” Despite this threat, Dr. Nihad Ghuneim continued saving wounded children in northern Gaza. A missile, prohibited under international law, struck his family’s home, killing over 100 of his relatives, including his wife, children, brothers, and their children. His entire family was wiped out because he refused to stop saving lives. Dr. Nihad Ghuneim… a selfless doctor, loyal son of the camp and northern Gaza. Days earlier, while on duty at Kamal Adwan Hospital, a nearby explosion shook the building. Amid the chaos, he rushed to care for the wounded, sensing the heartbeat of the next potential victim. The building targeted was a four-story residence housing his family. More than 100 martyrs were trapped under the rubble. Shock and disbelief filled him as he realized he was alone. Several families were erased from the civil registry in seconds. Two days later, Kamal Adwan Hospital was targeted again. Dr. Nihad was severely injured while treating colleagues and patients, including Dr. Saeed Joudeh, yet he continued stitching wounds despite his pain. He worked tirelessly from dawn to dusk, traveling even long distances by bicycle to reach patients who could not access care. His dedication, humanity, and sacrifice became a beacon for others. Dr. Nihad remains a symbol of loyalty, courage, and resilience. Please do not forget him — and do not forget Gaza in your prayers. O Allah, strengthen his heart and complete his healing. O Allah, relieve the suffering of our people. +417 is still enduring slow and painful suffering. Our tents are cold, our hearts exhausted, and our souls can no longer bear the pain. Allah is the Greatest. Dr. Mostafa Naim 💔⚘️🙏🇵🇸

Police: “If you show support for Palestine, you are breaching the conditions and you may be arrested.” Woman: “So if we show support for Israel, we can stay?” Police: “Yes. Yes.”

UPDATE: A German court has suspended the freezing of my wife’s accounts. It said it has “serious doubts” about the legality of the measure and a “massive interference” with her rights, dismissing claims I “control” her finances as normal family behaviour. A rare sigh of relief for us.

Fucking outrageous. And highly illegal. "Trump has grifted his entire life. Now he’s just taking it. The State Department transferred $1.25 billion in foreign aid to Trump’s Board of Peace, pulling $1 billion from international disaster assistance, $200 million from peacekeeping operations, and $50 million from international organizations. Money that Congress authorized for hurricanes and refugees, moved without a congressional vote, into a fund that Trump created by executive order and controls personally. When reporters asked the State Department about it, a spokesperson said they had nothing to announce at this time. The Board of Peace has one defining characteristic. Trump controls it forever. He named himself chairman for life. No audits. No transparency requirements. No conflict of interest rules. Countries pay $1 billion into a fund he runs to get a seat at the table. It has transferred nothing to Gaza, disclosed nothing about its spending, and received $1.25 billion of your disaster relief money without a word of explanation. When he leaves the White House he keeps the fund. That is not a loophole. That is the design." He’s Not Grifting Anymore. He’s Just Taking It. open.substack.com/pub/meidastouc…

Holy shit. That Jewish crackhead @LauraLoomer was behind this, naturally. She apparently convinced the White House that this was Soleimani's niece. Then Rubio makes the dumb tweet about it lmao. Soleimani's daughter then makes a post on Virasty saying she has no idea who this is and that this lady has 0 familial relations to the Soleimani family. Plus, logically, if this "Soleimani-Afshar" lady was Soleimani's niece through "Soleimani's sister" as Loomer falsely claims, she wouldn't even have the "Soleimani" last name. She would have her father's last name. Mind you her last name isn't even the same as Soleimani. She has an added AFSHAR, indicating she's from the Northeast, an entirely separate region of Iran from Hajj Qasem's Kerman. Soleimani is a common last name in Iran, it's like saying Sullivan. I'm gonna arrest a random guy named Danny Sullivan-Mills and claim he is related to Jake Sullivan on CNN. Entirely riidculous. The Trump swamp government is a ridiculous low-IQ oligarch shitshow of cocaine and fentanyl-addicted billionaire real estate agents.

BIG: After evacuating the second crew member of the downed F-15E, the U.S. had to destroy two HC-130J Combat King II rescue aircraft and two helicopters that, for unknown reasons, were unable to leave Iran. The aircraft were blown up on the ground to prevent them from falling into Iranian hands after landing at an improvised refueling site. Three additional HC-130J Combat King II aircraft were then dispatched to continue the combat search-and-rescue mission.

We are very much in this war

@FurkanGozukara It was OK in the Movie? Is this different?

So I am looking forward to hear military experts explanations how there are 0 casualties meanwhile this level of destruction happened

Satellite imaging company Planet Labs says it will indefinitely withhold Iran war imagery after a request from the Trump administration aje.news/cc93u3

@AFpost Stuck 🤣🤣

The missing F-15 pilot evaded capture by climbing an elevated ridge and sending out evac beacons. From that point, multiple aircraft were dispatched, decimating enemy forces all day in an attempt to secure a safe evacuation zone. Upon finally reaching the operator with SF soldiers, two transport aircraft became stuck, at which point the US opted to blow up the two planes and send more transport aircraft to rescue the now trapped SF soldiers and pilot. The planes were stuck at a remote base in Iran. The US suffered zero casualties while eliminating numerous enemies, carrying out a highly complex rescue mission over the course of days. Follow: @AFpost

France has EDF. Norway has Equinor. Both are largely state-owned and use the profits for the public good. Britain sold its energy assets off and now pays billions to private shareholders while households struggle with bills. Was privatisation a historic mistake?

Absolute insanity. Israel is openly threatening to bomb the main civilian border crossing between Lebanon and Syria. Over 200,000 desperate refugees use this route to flee the relentless Israeli bombardment. They are intentionally trapping civilians in a war zone!

It is now illegal for most American farmers to do what farmers have done for 10,000 years. Save seeds from their harvest to plant next season. Four corporations control over 60% of global seed sales. Bayer-Monsanto. Corteva. Syngenta-ChemChina. BASF. Over 80% of all corn and more than 90% of all soybeans planted in the United States use patented biotech seeds. Farmers sign licensing agreements that prohibit saving, replanting, or sharing seeds. Every season requires a new purchase. Seed prices have increased over 300% since 1995. In the 1990s, most farmers saved a portion of their harvest to plant the following year. Seed companies genetically engineered crops to be resistant to specific herbicides, most notably Monsanto's Roundup Ready system. The seeds worked. Yields improved. Farmers adopted them rapidly. Then the patents locked in. Monsanto deployed a team of private investigators to audit farms suspected of replanting patented seeds. They filed over 150 lawsuits against American farmers. Settlements and judgments totaled over $23 million. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Bowman v. Monsanto (2013) that patent protections extend to self-replicating technologies including seeds. Farmers who had planted one crop with patented seeds could not legally replant the offspring of those seeds. The biology of reproduction itself was patented. Today, the four largest seed companies spend more on intellectual property enforcement and patent filings than many of them spend on R&D for new crop varieties. The consolidation of the seed industry is one of the least discussed monopoly structures in the global economy. Corteva (CTVA) was spun off from DowDuPont in 2019 as a pure-play agricultural sciences company. They control roughly 20% of the global corn seed market and are the largest seed company in the Western hemisphere. Revenue exceeded $17 billion. Operating margins are expanding as they shift toward higher-value biotech seeds and crop protection products. The pricing power comes from the fact that once a farmer is in the Corteva seed ecosystem, switching costs are significant because crop protection products are designed to work with specific seed genetics. Deere & Company (DE) sits at the intersection of the seed monopoly and the equipment monopoly. Modern precision agriculture requires Deere's GPS-guided tractors and automated planters to work in concert with biotech seed prescriptions. The software layer that connects equipment to seed to data is becoming the most valuable part of the farm. Revenue exceeded $51 billion. The precision agriculture division is growing faster than the equipment division. For broader agricultural exposure, the Invesco DB Agriculture Fund (DBA) tracks a basket of agricultural commodity futures. When seed costs rise, crop production costs rise, which supports higher commodity prices. The farmers absorb the input cost increase. The commodity market passes it to consumers. The companies selling the seeds and the equipment capture margins on both sides. The seed monopoly is a toll booth on the global food supply. 8 billion people eat every day. Four companies control the genetics. I'm hosting a once in a lifetime webinar where I go over the exact things I know as a former banker and world class investor. 100% free to join. Sign up with the link in my comments.