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If you want a scary listen, the new episode of This Machine Kills podcast talks about how Israel has used AI to 'identify targets' in Palestine. There should be war crime prosecutions based on this information https://twitter.com/machinekillspod/status/1779630717099442527 The guardian article was q...

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Found it .

Tearful Biden and Sunak falling for the rubbish of FIFTY DECAPITATED BABIES etc etc

Excellent work from Aljazeera --

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Yes, that last paragraph certainly rings true. One thing bugging me is the blanket description of everyone who went through the Wall, and committed crimes, as Hamas, when the crowd ranged from Hamas to groups of excited teenagers to individuals to criminal gangs (apparently not a shortage of those ...

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Israeli media also has a habit of publishing "polls" purportedly showing that the overwhelming majority of Gazans still back Hamas. Still a free read -- Shaher generalizes, saying, "It's very hard to conduct surveys among Arabs. Everybody has two opinions concerning nationalist and m...

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Haaretz gives six free reads pm, but the one in this Xitter post is Subscription Only - A Free Amira Hass tho -- 'People Are Constantly Cursing Sinwar': Gazans Opposing Hamas Are Sure They're the Majority Four Gazans who spoke with Haaretz rail against the Hamas leader in the Strip and the decision ...

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Neat !

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Mornng refit

Glad to hear that Sky was only undergoing Family Meet-up exhaustion !

First lol of the day --

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Good question !

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Several deleted Xitts this morning !

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This was my first LOL of the day --

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He sounds just the chap for New-New labour's internal policing -- Extortion, blackmail “Any information that might enable extortion of an individual is considered relevant,” one Unit 8200 reservist explained in the letter. “Whether said individual is of a certain sexual orientation, cheating on his ...

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Lawyers acting for a Palestinian activist and Labour member have complained to the party over its decision to hire an alleged former Israeli intelligence officer to help run its social media strategy. Assaf Kaplan was hired by Labour as a social listening and organising manager, a new post describe...

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Stronger words from Starmer, than when Israel murdered 3 UK citizens Morning refit And no words at all on this ? Their accounts were shared exclusively with the Guardian in advance of publication. All six said that Lavender had played a central role in the war, processing masses of data to rapidly ...

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Yep, "small but vital numbers " decide SO much ! Not concentrating solely on gaining votes but also on persuading that small number of the opponent's potential voters into staying home . Now a truism when we've seen Cambridge Analyica at work . https://time.com/5197255/facebook-cambridge-a...

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For something more down to earth , a demonstration of how bad the roots on shop-bought plants/trees can be . Spending some time even on $2 herb plants is well spent

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Its a complete non-story about Rayner, let's all remember that. Agreed , it's pitiful rubbish . So what do you do if she lived 50/50 in both houses, make her half an MP ? Another one on so-called 'crime' is the proportion of the US electorate supposedly not voting for DJT IF he's convicted on any o...

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Morning

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Ben Bernanke’s report into the Bank of England’s forecasting is measured but still quietly devastating, our economics editor Larry Elliott writes: The Bank of England has got markedly worse at forecasting the economy in recent years. Its economic model is faulty. Its systems are out of date. It has...

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20° also for the weekend, then down to ................ 10 ! The unconditional anti-nuke LP members of the past remind me just a bit of those Tories who voted in the CheeseLady . But now with Putin brandishing his nukes, have they changed, just a little ? The obvious answer to the RU govt TV bombast...

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FREE READ AT THE FT VERY HIGH LEVEL CRIME AND SPYING IN VIENNA

Back to the (not so) COLD WAR !

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Bonjour !

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Great one on ... among other things, religious freedom Ukraine compared to Russia , the extraordinary reach of Tucker Carlson & Friends ETC

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Sister in Puerto Rico did the posters for this at her university .

Civilised idea !

" Yesterday and today we have the Election Commission here, for students to register to vote.
An event part of Library Week "

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Doubles all round !

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I need the odd laugh these days --

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refitman wrote: ↑Thu 11 Apr, 2024 1:57 pm Not everyone in Labour is terrible, thank god

She sounds very sensible !

I blame you for introducing me to Ana (on LonerBox) , I hope she is now out of hiding --

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"Rats ate my dam" cont

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Biden risking doing something humane, election year ?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/ ... ge-charges

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I haven't watched PMQ's for quite some time, relying on Mr Sparrow et al, but I do miss THE Report !

We'll be back on 18th April with a studio audience from Buxton

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28 years an MP, and YES he claimed £££ 000'sf or cleaning his swimming pool and painting his summer house, BUT a very clear witness on the right side of History ! I watched half an hour of it , good honest stuff . A number of nuggets -- Liveblog 25m ago 11.55 CEST At the Post Office Horizon IT inqui...

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I don't know very much about him but at least he can communicate with humans, like another human, unlike Robotic Rachel . Notes from the campaign trail: listening, trust, and honesty "Britain should be run in the interests of the people who do the work. " What struck me is that everything ...

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Post Office has run out of road thanks to an honest, stubborn man Zoe Williams Even the judge at the Horizon inquiry seemed impressed as the Alan Bates entered the room to recount his experience with the Post Office " Nonetheless, Bates blames the civil servants more than the ministers. Ultima...

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LOCAL tax offices with local inspectors and employees and knowledge,

as opposed to doing it all on computer screens at the other end of the country ?

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AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Tue 09 Apr, 2024 6:03 pm Many, perhaps most, people have now totally tuned out from anything the Tories say or do though.

AK -- remember that's how , IIRC, they won a by election on ULEZ propaganda ?

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Hi AK Yes sorry it’s been a while But saw that Hodges post and thought of you all 😆 Bit busy today but I’ll pop back in soon. PfY and Yorkshire Bylines pops up on my notifications -- Elections 2024: Conservatives ramping up disinformation campaign As the mayoral and council elections loom, evidence...

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A history lesson for JKR ...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U4Nn6sgqYTI

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I plugged out R4 before the Rachel Reeves, but expect she was pledging to use imagination to grow the economy ?

Wet and windy here !

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" Rats undermined my dam "

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Morning refit Gilsey having been an accountant reminded me of the olden days on Prem Sikka's accountancy threads at the G . Generally only a few score comments, and we had fun ! Steve Hill FCA etc defended the nobility and selflessness of the Big Four against all comers . A little similar fun at The...

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6/4 Posting from the front, Stanislav Aseyev is Not Happy -- (DO Check his bio !) https://twitter.com/AseyevStanislav/status/1776546313863115067 BUT THEN, 8/4 --- " Following public uproar after an apparent incident of a “revenge summons” for a whistleblower report exposing corruption in Ukrai...

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My favourite Tory MP ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOv7zPrheyo&ab_channel=RosieHolt " With a hint of mischief, Holt remembers the time that “a Labour MP quote-tweeted one of my videos and said: ‘This woman is appalling, she should stop inside’. I tweeted back: ‘How do I even know you’re...

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Photographer Paul Conroy was with Marie Colvin when they were targeted by Assad's artillery in Syria . She was killed, and he's back at work after hospitals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MoZx6tp_kM&ab_channel=TimesRadio Nice story about the group of infantry soldiers who learned how to do ar...

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Wes Streeting's war on the left ( nothing to do with his funders )A Youtube Short " Was Streeting has declared war today on what he calls the middle-class left-wing members of the Labour Party who want to prevent him from privatising the NHS. That's nonsense. What he's actually saying is he'd ...

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I have Shaun's book, also Aiden Aslin's. The latter underwent a RT 'confession interview' with his torturer standing right behind the RT 'journalist' .

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How much poorer weaker etc because of her , surely ? OK She had help ! She also had North Sea oil, something her predecessors mostly did not. And basically wasted it. It's always amazed me how some countries just can't look outside their borders to compare what their neighbours are doing differentl...

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How much poorer weaker etc because of her , surely ?

OK She had help !

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Bah, using a grinder is cheating, I just use the bottom of an old mug to sharpen my kitchen knives (ceramics being harder than steel). Although admittedly with blades that size using my technique would probably take about a week. Evening Sky, a week's optimistic i think, I took off a LOT of metal !...

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