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Trump denies US involvement in strikesPresident Trump said he had been aware that Israel would launch strikes on Iran and had informed another Middle East ally of the imminent attack.
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Roger he had a huge target on his back yesterday too and the number of allies of Israel has always been small. The only change is the Iranians might try harder to hit the target.
Those Iranians really are perfectionists.
Grim stuff from the ME, obviously israel is now all in, things will escalate rapidly. Worth keeping an eye on Tehran as theres a non zero chance of an uprising against the Ayatollahs regime. What and who Iran hits determines if this goes much wider
A lot has been done to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb over the last several decades. There was the stuxnet computer virus that I believe wrecked a bunch of centrifuges. There were diplomatic negotiations and deals (which I believe Trump wrecked because it was something Obama did).
Belfast and Derry will have their traditional riots round the 12 July fuelled by punch the neighbours politics and Buckfast.
Might I suggest you spend a week there, it may inspire some creative ideas.
I think the Iranian people will come together to face the common enemy Israel.
If Iran can develop a nuclear bomb "in days" this will encourage them to get on with it.
Whether they’ve succeeded in making any seems to be unknown? In the modern era it’s not very hard to make a crude nuclear device - it’s obtaining the right Uranium or Plutonium isotopes in sufficient quantities that’s the hard bit.
But yes, his idiocy in Ukraine is far more clearcut.
Perhaps the mistake is to view these events as though they were disconnected.
War is breaking out because Trump pulled out of the Iran Deal and got humiliated by Netanyahu while trying to negotiate his own, and he's gonna have a military parade for his birthday. The weakest strongman.
https://x.com/brhodes/status/1933331046566617339
@Reuters
On the campaign trail, US President Donald Trump promised to end the world's hottest conflicts and usher in global peace, but nearly five months in, with Israel attacking Iran and bloodshed in Gaza and Ukraine unabated, those hopes are in shambles
https://x.com/Reuters/status/1933416555758444758
Odd that you studiously ignore the negative stuff Iran does to its neighbours and the region...
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/not-the-typical-case-jan-6-defendant-asks-judge-to-apply-trumps-mass-pardon-to-child-pornography-charge/
Anyway I’ve read on PB that the only reliable defence worth having for a nation is a nuclear one. A principle is a principle, regardless of the regimes involved.
Then he pardoned Antony Fauci of things he MIGHT have done. Like enable the deaths of 20 million people
It seems you’ve gone fully for the MAGA world view: that there is no longer a free world, just regional powers and their legitimate spheres of influence.
America whinges about freeloaders but its military investments around the world have been in its economic and security self interest. They bought it global hegemony for decades.
Rognaknettir: they’re dumplings - deep fried, and made from cod roe, raisins, and the fat from around a sheep’s rectum
That would go perfectly with a nice pot of Earl Grey
Quite frankly we have freeloaded but that was the price.
Europe now needs to step up to the plate.
Those days have gone. Look at what we are allowed to talk about and not talk about. Look at what you are forbidden to say - it’s a long long list in the UK. Say it in the wrong way and you go to jail
Look at the subjects banned on here. Look at the online safety act. Look at hate speech laws. Look at the new blasphemy acts. Look at the teacher in Batley. We are NOT FREE
I was on a call with a client and my Chinese colleague yesterday talking through the paperwork required to issue an invoice for a price adjustment, receive cash for it and then remit the cash back to the UK. Several months, multiple documents, sign off by Shanghai SAFE, and then they might actually let them move a bit of money around.
Has @Leon said "brace" yet?
I might have thought a stronger blend with roe and sweet bits - Earl Grey is a bit 'dishwater'.
Perhaps something more "Yorkshire Tea"?
It smells hideous - for a very good reason. It’s rotting. Your brain is saying via your nose: don’t eat this. And then you do and - it’s even worse than the smell
Pilot whale blubber is ok in comparison, but “rindin” - the black hard chewy skin - is simply weird. Like eating a slice of patent leather shoe
Hilariously the other night my lovely Faroese lady host admitted she’d never eaten “rindin” but after a few glasses we, her guests, persuaded her to have a go and she did - then instantly vommed it into the sink
When a Faroese person reflexively pukes up Faroese food you know it’s got to be quite extreme
I love it here
Gabbard and Hegseth will fill in him by showing Fox News clips I guess.
To be fair you gave it a go, but then most of you decided to stick with Mother England
Why on earth is Marco Rubio rather than the *President* being quoted in this statement from the *White House*…
https://x.com/AllieRenison/status/1933419291367584128
Is it perhaps because he's a senile old man who needs a nap?
Northants counting from 9, and we will see if Reforms cock up on the ballot costs them
Their logo is an orange bowler hat.
I assume West Belfast is not the target market
And that Eritreans are 20x more likely to be convicted of sex offences.
I am proposing a law change to force the release of the full facts about migrant crime & end the cover up.
https://x.com/RobertJenrick/status/1933419806608298463
Bob's embedded walk-and-talk video helpfully includes a screenshot of the last time this former immigration minister proposed such a law. It seems to be dated March 2024. Bloody Keir Starmer and his time machine!
That Israel was going to strike to try to ensure Iran does not a bomb was inevitable, and has been for years. Not long ago the FBI taking out senior politicians, and quite happy to have it all videoed, for talking at a press conference was not inevitable.
The seabirds alone. Omg. Sometimes eaten whole - beak, claws, feathers
The holy grail - the ne plus ultra - the Ultima Gastro-Thule - of such foods is the “fermented skate” of Iceland. Kæst Skata
I’m told it’s not just the worst food in the world, it’s the worst food imaginable
I’ve heard it described as like eating mucus soaked in bleach with your head down a urinal
Drones were used to strike ballistic missile launchers at a base near Tehran, preventing Iran from firing missiles at Israel when the attacks began this morning.
In addition, a Mossad commando team deployed guided weapon systems in central Iran, close to Iranian air defense sites. The weapons hit the air defense sites, preventing them from targeting Israeli fighter jets.
🇮🇱 Israeli media:
Mossad sabotaged Iranian air defenses before airstrikes
Before launching its air operation, Mossad carried out a series of sabotage attacks inside Iran, disabling radar systems and air defense units. This paved the way for a “decapitation strike” aimed at the Iranian military leadership.
https://x.com/sprinterobserve/status/1933432364253716705?s=46&t=bulOICNH15U6kB0MwE6Lfw
* just for @Luckyguy1983
In China you are only free if your face fits.
In America you are only free if you are rich.
We suffer both flaws, but not to the same degree.
The Fauci one was because Trump had been clear he intended to go after a public servant for making judgements about what to do in a very difficult situation. Pre-emptive defence
https://x.com/ksamofaen/status/1933381978138493065?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
Q. What have Enoch Powell and Robert Jenrick got in common? A. They are both from Wolverhampton.
If you like those code names, have you come across the Rainbow Codes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Cheese_(missile) etc
@sentdefender
Iranian state-run media reports that Iran will not participate in Sunday’s nuclear talks with the United States in Oman.
At a stretch.
The juxtaposition of orange t-shirts, the pub and the day began to reduce room temperature - they didn't know the issue. I had a brief convention with one of my friends. In the end they fixed it by buying Irish ruby shirts that were on sale behind the bar and wearing them over their Oranje colours.
One of the few positives about the current UK economy has been fuel prices which have fallen slightly - up here in Derbyshire unleaded at £1.26 a litre so a long way off the highs of the earlier part of the decade.
Go read
"In a sense it gives me hope to see these things [the protests]. At a protest or big action like that I always feel cared for, in a strange way, because the only thing that matters is taking care of one another, and trying not to get hurt, and for folks who are in the street to try and remain there.
"You have this kind of disaster community, the same thing you find in conflict zones, or after natural disasters. It's always beautiful to see that...I saw people taking care of strangers when they got teargassed or taking care of strangers when they got shot...if you consumed this stuff through the New York Times you'd think people are looting and burning the city. I didn't see anyone steal shit, I did see people take care of one another and that's a beautiful thing.
Maybe people need to be in the streets to find one another right now, because every year it gets harder to go outside and easier to stay on the internet."
[Posted without irony on an anonymous internet message board in my house just before sitting down to an all-day Zoom meeting]
https://pca.st/episode/b0f6104e-4f7d-45a8-adca-72f9b20fb63d?t=1552.7,1669.8
It makes a pleasant chance from his efforts at political discourse.