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Mark Chadbourn

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Empowering people with news and information about a dangerous and confusing world. Everything is Connected. Journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Always looking for stories. LDN, NYC, LA https://substack.com/@chadbourn Buy Me A Coffee: coff.ee/chadbourn

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Dec 21

The theme for this feed is Everything is Connected.

The posts cover news and politics from all over the world, things that I think it’s worth paying attention to but which may not always get priority in other media.

Even if it happens 5000 miles away it can still roll up on your doorstep.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4h

No procedure for expelling countries unfortunately.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4h

The Taliban cross national borders and operate more on a tribal land system in that part of the world.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4h

Exciting!

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5h

Pakistan is now conducting airstrikes on Jalalabad.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h

The Pakistan Air Force has hit targets linked to the Pakistan Taliban in Paktika province, near the Afghan-Pakistani border.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 6h

News from the Authoritarians Club: the US Treasury has finalised a $20 billion currency swap with Argentina and directly bought Argentine pesos to help stabilise the country’s economy.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7h

TIL: salamanders and chameleons have a ballistic tongue which can reach speeds of 16 feet per second.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8h

Pakistan has launched two missiles at Kabul, Afghanistan. The target was a vehicle believed to belong to Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h

A fifth column in Canada. Presumably this will get yeeted south in the blink of an eye.

Elizabeth Thompson @lizt1.bsky.social · 15h

U.S bill calls for negotiations for more integration between Canadian, American border agents and for U.S. law enforcement to be able to operate in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

www.cbc.ca

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h

Countries can be suspended but there’s no provision for expulsion unfortunately.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9h

The European Commission is going to investigate allegations that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government placed intelligence officers in Brussels to gather information on EU institutions and recruit an EU official.

www.reuters.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h

A new CNN poll shows for the first time more Americans now sympathise with the Palestinians over Israel.

Was Israelis +48 in October 2023, now Palestinians +1.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h

Zelenskyy playing Trump like a fiddle. (Politico)

NEWS > POLITICS
Zelenskyy: If Trump gives us Tomahawks, we'll lobby for Nobel Peace Prize
Long-range missiles and a ceasefire with Russia is all it would take for a nomination from Kyiv, Ukrainian leader says.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h

Nightmare fodder.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h

Not a huge fan of Find Out Now - their polling always seems off-beam. But posting this Westminster poll here purely for that Greens figure:

RFM: 32% (-3)
LAB: 17% (-2)
CON: 17% (+3)
GRN: 15% (+4)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 3% (=)

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 14h

The first phase of the Gaza ceasefire deal was signed by Israel and Hamas in Egypt earlier today.

The ceasefire will begin within 24 hours of Israeli cabinet approval, which meets in 15 minutes.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15h

Some work still to do, shall we say.

Chart: Homophobic views have declined around the world with Iceland at the top and Nigeria at the bottom

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h

An annual check-up every six months. Soon it’ll be every three months. Then it’ll be 25A and all hail President Peter Thiel (Vance).

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h

The signs are becoming more obvious.

Trump to Get Second ‘Yearly’ Health Screening in Months — TIME

When the President visits Walter Reed on Friday, he’ll do a “routine” annual check-up, the White House said—despite the fact he just did one in April.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h

The Deputy Chair of the Reform group on Cornwall Council, Rowland O’Connor, has quit the party, ITV West Country reports.

O’Connor says his views on how to help local people “increasingly diverged from those of the party”.