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An apology to Doctor David Bull, Reform’s new chairman – politicalbetting.com
An apology to Doctor David Bull, Reform’s new chairman – politicalbetting.com
? Good news for Reform's new chairman Dr David Bull and former presenter of 'Most Haunted': our new polling finds that he's in tune with a good chunk of his party with Reform UK supporters more likely to believe in ghosts than the public as a whole
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https://x.com/Michael_J_Black/status/1933880755752480915
Wayve AI headquartered in the UK.
The celebrated documentarian’s five-part series charts the decline of Britain’s democracy with a witty, kaleidoscopic selection of archive footage. It begins, of course, with Margaret Thatcher
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jun/14/shifty-review-adam-curtis-new-show-bbc-iplayer
https://x.com/TreyYingst/status/1933493841392177570
On the strikes against IRGC Air Force leadership: Israel tricked the top command of Iran’s air force into a meeting and then kept them there, I’m told by an Israeli security official.
“We did specific activities to help us understand things about them and then used that information to make them act in a specific way,” the official said. “We knew this would make them meet, but more importantly we knew how to keep them there.
Im surprised they didn't go for Widders for the lolz
DAVID: Now we're crossing live to Maidstone where Zia has found something spooky
ZIA: Thanks David, our investigation team has found some spectral goings on in the accounts
etc
Or angels, voodoo, god(s), evil spirits, virgin births, healing crystals or any other supernatural nonsense.
The people who find it OK to mock some of the list but take others seriously are wryly amusing.
What's the difference between a church and a lunatic asylum?
A church is where you go to talk to God
A lunatic asylum is where you go if he replies
Better tech, less susceptible to western hacking, and far better military kit.
Also their largest oil customer.
I suppose it could be coincidence, but if coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?
You'll never accept Israel's right to self-defence will you?
Those calculations were based on inflation averaging out at the Bank of England’s target rate of 2 per cent across the entire century of payments.
But this week Darren Jones, the chief secretary to the Treasury, said that for most of the period the Treasury is assuming inflation will run at 2.3 per cent.
That would add £4.8 billion more than expected, according to Tory calculations, taking the final bill to the taxpayer up to just over £35 billion.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/14/starmers-chagos-surrender-will-cost-5bn-more-than-feared/
I rememeber when the government were claiming this renegotiation wasn't going to cost anywhere near the leaked figures of £16bn. Started at £10bn, ended up paying £35bn. Even Delboy or Arthur Daley never got stitched up this badly.
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Brevard County Sheriff Sheriff Wayne Ivey: "If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at, because we will kill you graveyard dead."
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Brevard County Sheriff Sheriff Wayne Ivey: "If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains at, because we will kill you graveyard dead."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lrl63culzt2a
Farda Motors production site at Borujerd, a company that imported and assembled Chinese cars was hit by Israel. A number of engineers have died, number of casualties unknown.
For better, or for worse, it looks as though that is being extinguished.
That will have global implications.
Or a government that is going to stop small boats but somehow presides over record daily numbers of arrivals.
Or a government that wants to improve education and opportunity but is rolling back reforms requiring teachers to teach literacy and numeracy while taxing into oblivion the best schools in the country.
Or a government that is worried about the public finances but dished out tens of billions in climate aid and unconditional pay rises to public sector workers.
(And yes the last lot weren't greatly better in many ways, but this lot are beyond belief).
If there is a bad decision, they will make it. And then gaslight about how everything is getting better and it was all the last government's fault anyway.
Person A sees something that current science cant explain.....Now mostly that will be imagination, misinterpretation etc.....there will be however a tiny percentage that probably needs to be looked at. I am sure this is the attitude galilleo experienced....hey my observations don't support everything revolving around us, looks more like we revolve around the sun.
I have no doubt most of the ephemera observed are bollocks and products of minds, if so no problem dismissing it. My concern is more that things are often categorized as such with no investigation because they sound similar to other things. I am pretty sure for example native people had been catching coelecanths for centuries but there statements dismissed as it was extinct for 50 million years....till a western scientist actually saw one. The alternative would be no one had seen one for 50 million years then we suddenly started catching them....I know which my money is on.
Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lrl74nrzwh2u
Sen. John Hoffman and Rep. Melissa Hortman, as well as their spouses, were shot in the overnight shootings in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, sources told FOX 9's Karen Scullin.
Their conditions are not known as of this writing.
Hortman, a Democrat from Brooklyn Park, represents District 34B. Hoffman, a Democrat from Champlin, represents Senate District 34.
The shelter-in-place alert sent at 5:30 a.m. by Brooklyn Park Police Department is for the 3-mile radius around the Edinburgh Golf Course.
Police say they are looking for a suspect in multiple targeted shootings. The suspect is armed and dangerous. The suspect is a white man with brown hair wearing black body armor over a blue shirt and blue pants, and he may be impersonating law enforcement.
https://x.com/dotconnectinga/status/1933880814623654378
Shocking.
Its equally reasonable to mock the way some people take their own beliefs seriously, while mocking those of others.
It is always reasonable to mock hypocrisy.
If its OK to mock believers in ghosts, its OK to mock believers in prophets or anything else. There's no difference between the two that elevates one above the other.
The IRA targeted Thatcher.
Many leaders have over time been killed, and many executed following wars or revolutions too. Its been difficult to get at leaders typically.
Rep. is their equivalent of MP.
law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lrl7qe63qx2h
Law enforcement official on Hortman shooting: "It was knocking on the door and asking the person to come out. Absolutely impersonating a police officer ... we have the suspect's car. The suspect is on foot."
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lrl7vtfbge23
And huge protests and Trump parade to come later.
Don't go to war if you don't want to fight. Leadership are legitimate, just targets.
Law enforcement official: "When we did a search of the vehicle, there was a manifesto that identified many lawmakers and other officials." (The suspect is not in custody at this time.)
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lrl7xingmu23
How do they know he was "impersonating" a Police Officer whilst wearing a Police uniform and driving a police vehicle?
What led them to conclude that?
a) Leaders are sancrosanct and no launching a war they wont be targetted
b) Leaders are prime targets in any war
which of a) or b) do you consider will make a national leader less likely to start a war?
One is that if you decapitate the other nation, it's harder for them to send someone to sign the surrender documents.
The other reason for the taboo is that if there isn't an unwritten law against killing them, there also isn't an unwritten law against them killing you...
We had several plans to kill Hitler during WW2, and one, Operation Foxley, is fairly well known. IMV that got overrun by events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Foxley
This is pretty shocking to be honest. 53% have no or not very much confidence in the British judicial system according to YouGov.
https://www.twitter.com/YouGov/status/1932737179219792173
Or not?
Stay tuned for the drama of the All American mental gymnastics championships next!
Secondly....why should we grant our own leaders from immunity....if hussain had taken out blair thats blairs problem for starting the war in the first place....why should he claim immunity when he was happy to send so many to their deaths.
Unless "reality" is wholly the product of our minds.
If it means 'Judges are corrupt and dim' I think their ground is less secure.
I assumed that would be implicit in my post, but clearly you need it spelled out.
What I don't understand is why you seem so pro-Iran.
If your position was "a pox on both their houses," then again, I could understand it. But the Iranian state is a terrible, repressive entity, and should not be supported just because they are Israel's enemy (and fund many of Israel's other enemies).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_and_government_who_were_assassinated_or_executed
The last was in 2021, and the one before 2011 (Gadaffi). But there were many in the 1980s and 1990s.
It’s a major peeve of many medieval historians: the popular belief that people who lived before Christopher Columbus thought that the world was flat. It is actually rare to find groups in the classical, Late Antique and medieval eras who believed in the flat Earth. On the contrary, numerous ancient thinkers, navigators and artists observed that the Earth was round.
https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2018/05/the-earth-is-in-fact-round.html
This is not self defence. This is an attack on a hostile nearby country but represents a significant escalation.
That’s it, isn’t it!
I think it's seriously naive to think it a change that will act as a force for stability.
https://x.com/HJB_News__/status/1933840665940570540?t=Umd9mSOzQ4YOCi70GuGncA&s=19
https://earthlymission.com/how-the-ancient-greeks-knew-the-earth-was-round-explanation-eratosthenes-circumference/
Since Carl Sagan's fantastic Cosmos series is clipped in that link, this bad premonition from Sagan the Sage in 1995 feels horribly relevant to both this thread and the wider scene;
when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), the lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
Iranian state-run media has confirmed strikes recently targeted the Phase 14 Refinery of the South Pars Gas Field, the Fajr Jam Natural Gas Refinery, and the Kangan LNG Port on the coast of the Persian Gulf, all in the Bushehr Province of Southern Iran. It appears that Israel has begun strikes against Iran’s economic sector, primarily made up of natural gas and oil facilities along the Persian Gulf.