This may become a defining image/legacy of the Trump/Putin summit – politicalbetting.com
This may become a defining image/legacy of the Trump/Putin summit – politicalbetting.com
AI? No it’s not. Russian media is circulating footage of Russians assaulting Ukrainian positions in Zaporizhzhia while carrying an American flag. A pathetic propaganda stunt that only underscores Moscow’s desperation. pic.twitter.com/lvMMMaib3A
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The other is the flag of the Russian Federation.
Financial fraud? New York has exposed it.
Sexual shenanigans? Those who don't know how close Trump was to Epstein and what that meant is so stupid they ought to be President themselves.
Mental incapacity? The sharks wave hello.
Corruption? He appointed Pete Fucking Hegseth to a post.
So what could they have? That he was a paid agent of the KGB? Frankly seems unlikely.
It was so out of character they locked it away.
What he would suggest and use is a shell company paying over the odds to rent a hotel room in a trump hotel or office block
Really you might think that the Russians had overreached, but it doesn't seem possible with this bizarrely masochistic administration or the mulishly stupid Republican base.
Prophets are going through the roof.
What time does this charade start, as I expect it to be the confirmation of Trump and Putin's love in as Europe looks on helpless and impotent
Sky reporting all the nations flags were put out on display including NATOs, but ominously that flag was unceremoniously removed apparently not to annoy Putin
These are dark days, especially for Europe who seem to have no choice but to spend many billions on defending their eastern border from a smug and dangerous Putin
I hope I am wrong, but all the signs are there unfortunately
https://x.com/clarksonsfarm1/status/1957419985246015511
The UK’s net zero plan targets zero emissions by 2050, despite its <1% global emissions compared to China’s >30%. I can’t help but critique the economic cost to agriculture and industry. Subsidies must balance sustainability and rural livelihoods.
What are your thoughts?
https://youtube.com/shorts/J5upAEZOchM?si=9dCLTbLb7u_TFAO5
His last speech as president. Aside from the material, this was the man that people have claimed was a vegetable by 1988.
Compare and contrast with the word salads of the Orange One.
https://www.gov.uk/plug-in-vehicle-grants
That should get battery factories being built in the UK.
It wouldn’t require money up front - subsidy is on delivery.
Jacob Rees-Mogg"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKN174fluFQ
Miliband is not a realist. He inhabits a dream like world at some distance from reality. There is every reason to embrace green technology and build a better world. But there is also the reality that some energy policies are nonsense, such as paying wind farm owners NOT to generate power. We ought to be benefitting from the huge increases in green energy yet somehow in the UK was are still paying the highest prices. What's gone wrong?
https://x.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1957461232866426997
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/18/protester-arrested-wearing-plasticine-action-t-shirt-palestine-gaza-protest
..He had been arrested under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000, which makes it an offence to wear anything supporting a proscribed organisation. A senior officer asked the arresting officer if he could arrest Pickering under section 12, which could have brought a more serious charge of supporting a proscribed group.
“[The arresting officer] said: ‘No, I can’t.’ And they said: ‘Why not?’ He said: ‘Because he hasn’t got Palestine Action written on him. He’s got Plasticine Action written on him.’”
About five minutes later, the arresting officer approached him again. “He said: ‘I’ve got good news and I’ve got bad news.’ I said: ‘What’s the good news?’ He said: ‘I’m de-arresting you.’
“And I said: ‘What’s the bad news?’ He said: ‘It’s going to be really embarrassing for me.’..
That's not bad news.
The time to be worried about this was around a decade ago.
As I was saying at the time.
Someone needs to get it into SirKeir and Miliband’s heads that economic growth is inversely proportional to energy prices, pretty much more so than any other single factor. Will it take Ineos closing their Grangemouth factory for them to wake up - or will they think of the factory closing as a positive development, even if the net result is the same production outsourced overseas where there’s fewer carbon targets?
LOL. Again, why?
But anyway, what can you do if we're not making these things? That state of affairs is inherited by this government not created by it.
https://news.sky.com/story/ozzy-osbourne-documentary-pulled-from-bbcs-schedule-without-explanation-13414083
The problem is that it’s entirely the wrong direction, he appears to sincerely believe that meeting international Net Zero targets is more important than British industry or maintaining economic growth and living standards.
This makes it very hard for Republicans to admit to having made a mistake in backing Trump, because nothing would make liberals happier than to see Trump receive a kicking from his own side. So they're prisoners of their past decisions.
https://x.com/yarotrof/status/1957118953139917211
https://x.com/keir_starmer/status/1957412471720804370
And anyone saying "this time it will be different!" has to explain *why* it'll be different.
If we want the war to end we have to win it.
Welker plays Rubio a clip of him saying in 2022 that "you can't cut deals with guys" like Putin
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1957085963760402925
You can disagree with him but that's a different matter.
The sad thing being that Trump would regard that as a compliment.
My solution is every time a politician appears on TV 'balance' that with clips of saying the opposite
But it's hard to stop wealthy people using their power and resource to achieve better outcomes.
We used to be >1%, not <1%, but we did something about it, and we should go on doing something about it because climate change is hurting all of us. It's hurting us economically, it's hurting our agriculture, it's hurting rural livelihoods. And having achieved net zero, we can go sell our expertise in China.
BESS, pump storage and new powerlines take longer than a year to deliver.
Miliband proposals for storage
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/26/miliband-eyes-battery-bonanza-to-cut-wind-farm-costs/
Miliband proposals for pylons
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/09/miliband-steamroll-nimbys-new-pylon-powers/
Accurate forecast today for thunderstorms in Cork, Kerry and Limerick.
https://nation.cymru/news/welsh-conservative-councillor-defects-to-reform/
"Swansea has its first Reform UK councillor after Cllr Francesca O’Brien, who represents Mumbles, joined the party.
The former Welsh Conservative was first elected to the council in 2022 and described Reform UK as the only chance to break the “Labour-Plaid consensus in Cardiff Bay and create a government in Wales that understands the concerns of ordinary people”.
Cllr O’Brien had stood as a prospective Conservative MP for Gower in the 2019 general election, finishing second behind Labour’s Tonia Antoniazzi."
It seems to me that he thinks 'Net Zero' is a vote winner, and therefore that's what he concentrates on. Sadly, the issues facing energy are much bigger than that.
What a statement of arrival, that only the French could also replicate, neither the Americans nor the Soviets (although the latter tried and failed).
I've asked in a couple of posts today. And that was because you made statements of opinion, and I wanted to explore your thinking a little more.
But it appears you had none...
This has all the sings of an unedifying spectacle, but I hope that the European leaders at the WH today can at least say they tried.
Of course you can disagree with him, but it's wholly inaccurate to do so on the basis that he's only doing it because it's a vote winner.
And it follows that annexation of further land from a neighbour by this already gargantuan landmass is equally unjustifiable, regardless of anything else, on basic geopolitical grounds. The USSR was too big. The British Empire was too big. Panem was too big (indeed, one can make a fairly reasonable case for the current USA being too big).
The 'international community' needs to go bold on this one - the optimal solution isn't just for Russia to GTFO of Ukraine - it's for more breakaways. IndieRefs for Chechnya, Siberia, Kaliningrad and anywhere else that might want one. Then do the same thing with China.