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'The Special Rapporteur discusses corporate entities in various sectors: arms manufacturers, tech firms, building and construction companies, extractive and service
industries, banks, pension funds, insurers, universities and charities.
industries, banks, pension funds, insurers, universities and charities.
A must read, devastating, Report by Francesca Albanese (UN Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967) on the global economic foundations of the Palestinians' genocide: THE ECONOMY OF GENOCIDE.
Please share!
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
Please share!
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
'By shedding light on the political economy of an
occupation turned genocidal, the report reveals how the forever-occupation has become
the ideal testing ground for arms manufacturers and big tech –
occupation turned genocidal, the report reveals how the forever-occupation has become
the ideal testing ground for arms manufacturers and big tech –
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This is really the critical point: Firefox is packing its browser with AI slop functions by default; relying on a user actively choosing to turn it off.
That isn't neutral - that is a political and ideological statement that they want more reliance on these tools
That isn't neutral - that is a political and ideological statement that they want more reliance on these tools
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 AM
This is really the critical point: Firefox is packing its browser with AI slop functions by default; relying on a user actively choosing to turn it off.
That isn't neutral - that is a political and ideological statement that they want more reliance on these tools
That isn't neutral - that is a political and ideological statement that they want more reliance on these tools
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"Figures from a fish counter in Waterville... show sea trout stocks have decreased by 95.6 per cent since 2002"
The sea is empty, fishing as an economic sector is over, the only thing that will turn things around is strict protection
www.independent.ie/regionals/ke...
The sea is empty, fishing as an economic sector is over, the only thing that will turn things around is strict protection
www.independent.ie/regionals/ke...
South Kerry fish species near extinction new data shows
Recent data has revealed a near obliteration of a Kerry fish species over two decades.
www.independent.ie
February 8, 2026 at 11:48 AM
"Figures from a fish counter in Waterville... show sea trout stocks have decreased by 95.6 per cent since 2002"
The sea is empty, fishing as an economic sector is over, the only thing that will turn things around is strict protection
www.independent.ie/regionals/ke...
The sea is empty, fishing as an economic sector is over, the only thing that will turn things around is strict protection
www.independent.ie/regionals/ke...
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This is not ok.
Use of Irish airport for US deportation flights to Israel called ‘reprehensible’
Use of Irish airport for US deportation flights to Israel called ‘reprehensible’
Irish politicians condemn use of Shannon airport by ICE-chartered private jet owned by Trump donor
Politicians in Ireland have said the use of an airport in County Clare by planes deporting Palestinians from the United States is to Israel “reprehensible”.
A private jet owned by the Donald Trump donor Gil Dezer was chartered by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for two separate flights that took detainees to Israel, a Guardian investigation revealed this week. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 3:24 PM
This is not ok.
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'Vindication': Gaza film BBC refused to show wins British Journalism Award
Ramita Navai told Press Gazette: "The whole process with the BBC was deeply disappointing and deeply upsetting"
But she said Channel 4 stepping up was "journalism at its best"
pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazett...
Ramita Navai told Press Gazette: "The whole process with the BBC was deeply disappointing and deeply upsetting"
But she said Channel 4 stepping up was "journalism at its best"
pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazett...
'Vindication': Gaza film BBC refused to show wins British Journalism Award
Documentary maker Ramita Navai said it felt like “vindication” after Gaza: Doctors Under Attack won a prize at the British Journalism Awards.
pressgazette.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 10:58 AM
'Vindication': Gaza film BBC refused to show wins British Journalism Award
Ramita Navai told Press Gazette: "The whole process with the BBC was deeply disappointing and deeply upsetting"
But she said Channel 4 stepping up was "journalism at its best"
pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazett...
Ramita Navai told Press Gazette: "The whole process with the BBC was deeply disappointing and deeply upsetting"
But she said Channel 4 stepping up was "journalism at its best"
pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazett...
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These figures show trans suicides amongst minors went from 5 and 4 per annum to (at least) 22. The only explanation for the media not reporting that four or five fold surge is because it doesn't want to. And it doesn't want to because its trans panic was a cause of that surge.
One of the wickedest things Wes Streeting has ever done is push politically convenient falsehoods about suicide rates amongst young trans people. We have new data from the National Child Mortality Database that exposes the truth he tried to cover up.
New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
goodlaw.social
February 8, 2026 at 9:40 AM
These figures show trans suicides amongst minors went from 5 and 4 per annum to (at least) 22. The only explanation for the media not reporting that four or five fold surge is because it doesn't want to. And it doesn't want to because its trans panic was a cause of that surge.
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'Granted, if our problem were orcs or the Dark Lord Sauron or something, then it would be easier to sympathise with Martin’s insistence that he is not Gandalf. Until then, it seems fair enough to ask for some semblance of a real, timely solution.'
This week's column is about Magic Wand Micheál.
This week's column is about Magic Wand Micheál.
Surrealing in the Years: Oh good, something else that Magic Wand Micheál is powerless to solve
We’re not talking about orcs here, man.
www.thejournal.ie
February 7, 2026 at 9:10 AM
'Granted, if our problem were orcs or the Dark Lord Sauron or something, then it would be easier to sympathise with Martin’s insistence that he is not Gandalf. Until then, it seems fair enough to ask for some semblance of a real, timely solution.'
This week's column is about Magic Wand Micheál.
This week's column is about Magic Wand Micheál.
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#TrevorPhillips has been best friends with Peter Mandelson for decades and he recently confirmed they remain friends. Here he is today fronting Sky News's flagship Sunday morning politics show. How is this tenable, you ask? Thats the British mainstream media, folks.
February 8, 2026 at 8:37 AM
#TrevorPhillips has been best friends with Peter Mandelson for decades and he recently confirmed they remain friends. Here he is today fronting Sky News's flagship Sunday morning politics show. How is this tenable, you ask? Thats the British mainstream media, folks.
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Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?
February 6, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?
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There are currently two corporations with applications to strip the west coast of seaweed.
There will be a tiny window to put in a submission to these applications but it'd be good to build momentum now and get these applications being talked about locally.
Please sign and share.
There will be a tiny window to put in a submission to these applications but it'd be good to build momentum now and get these applications being talked about locally.
Please sign and share.
''Acadian Seaplants, a massive Canadian corporation and owner of Arramara Teoranta, has put in an application to harvest tens of thousands of tons of wrack from huge swathes of the west coast.''
Sign the petition and lets stop this from happening ✊️
#SpeirGorm
my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...
Sign the petition and lets stop this from happening ✊️
#SpeirGorm
my.uplift.ie/petitions/st...
Stop a Canadian corporation harvesting huge forests of seaweed from the west coast
There should be a public consultation on this plan opening soon but lets gather signatures to demonstrate the fact that up and down the west coast, thousands of people don't want our seaweed rights gi...
my.uplift.ie
February 6, 2026 at 4:47 PM
There are currently two corporations with applications to strip the west coast of seaweed.
There will be a tiny window to put in a submission to these applications but it'd be good to build momentum now and get these applications being talked about locally.
Please sign and share.
There will be a tiny window to put in a submission to these applications but it'd be good to build momentum now and get these applications being talked about locally.
Please sign and share.
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I don't know anyone who ever saw Bezos as a "saviour of American journalism" - in contrast, I would say everyone in the media knew what was going to happen once he bought the WP.
Once cast as a saviour of American journalism, Bezos now appears willing to hollow out a great newspaper in exchange for proximity to power, writes Marion McKeone...
jrnl.ie/6948549
jrnl.ie/6948549
From white knight to grim reaper: Bezos guts the Washington Post
Once cast as a saviour of American journalism, Bezos now appears willing to hollow out a great newspaper in exchange for proximity to power, writes Marion McKeone.
jrnl.ie
February 8, 2026 at 9:31 AM
I don't know anyone who ever saw Bezos as a "saviour of American journalism" - in contrast, I would say everyone in the media knew what was going to happen once he bought the WP.
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⛵️The Global Sumud Flotilla announced two days ago the largest coordinated humanitarian action for Palestine: on March 29, 2026, a maritime flotilla & overland convoy will depart together, mobilizing thousands from over 100 countries to challenge Israel’s siege & mass starvation in Gaza, they said...
February 7, 2026 at 7:02 PM
⛵️The Global Sumud Flotilla announced two days ago the largest coordinated humanitarian action for Palestine: on March 29, 2026, a maritime flotilla & overland convoy will depart together, mobilizing thousands from over 100 countries to challenge Israel’s siege & mass starvation in Gaza, they said...
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So desperate to find the Good Right Winger, they're nostalgic for the "Obama is not bad, unlike Arabs" guy.
Flashback to 2008 when John McCain shut down a racist line of questioning.
I miss this Republican Party.
I miss this Republican Party.
February 7, 2026 at 7:07 PM
So desperate to find the Good Right Winger, they're nostalgic for the "Obama is not bad, unlike Arabs" guy.
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🇱🇧 LEBANON | Israeli fire hit multiple areas across southern & eastern Lebanon on Thu., stretching from the border villages in the south to the Hermel highlands in the northeast.
➤ Along the southern border, a Merkava tank shelled the outskirts of Yaroun, w/ add'l machine-gun fire directed at the...
➤ Along the southern border, a Merkava tank shelled the outskirts of Yaroun, w/ add'l machine-gun fire directed at the...
February 7, 2026 at 7:06 PM
🇱🇧 LEBANON | Israeli fire hit multiple areas across southern & eastern Lebanon on Thu., stretching from the border villages in the south to the Hermel highlands in the northeast.
➤ Along the southern border, a Merkava tank shelled the outskirts of Yaroun, w/ add'l machine-gun fire directed at the...
➤ Along the southern border, a Merkava tank shelled the outskirts of Yaroun, w/ add'l machine-gun fire directed at the...
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Fitting that Streeting, who rose by carrying water for the worst people in the world, should fall for the same reason.
In these dark days of February, a little something to look forward to.
February 7, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Fitting that Streeting, who rose by carrying water for the worst people in the world, should fall for the same reason.
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as frustrating as it is, there has been something slightly gratifying in experiencing Google's already enshittified search melting into incoherence in real time, even though coherence is the entire point of a search engine
ChatGPT literally choking in its own shit
"One study suggested that this year, large language model training would use 75% data created by AI. The quality of that training data could degrade service quality. As it stands, AI is already making some creative hallucinations in high-stakes situations"
"One study suggested that this year, large language model training would use 75% data created by AI. The quality of that training data could degrade service quality. As it stands, AI is already making some creative hallucinations in high-stakes situations"
February 6, 2026 at 11:22 PM
as frustrating as it is, there has been something slightly gratifying in experiencing Google's already enshittified search melting into incoherence in real time, even though coherence is the entire point of a search engine
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It's like Mandelson and Starmer watched and learned from the Tory VIP Lane:
💷 Privileged access ✅
💷 Personal benefit ✅
💷 No competition ✅
Mandelson benefitted financially through his stake in Global Counsel.
💷 Privileged access ✅
💷 Personal benefit ✅
💷 No competition ✅
Mandelson benefitted financially through his stake in Global Counsel.
That £240m contract Palantir won after Peter Mandelson took Keir Starmer to visit them? Government asserts "there were robust processes in place to ensure that government contracts are awarded fairly and transparently" but the award notice says it was a "directed award", ie without any competition.
February 7, 2026 at 10:01 AM
It's like Mandelson and Starmer watched and learned from the Tory VIP Lane:
💷 Privileged access ✅
💷 Personal benefit ✅
💷 No competition ✅
Mandelson benefitted financially through his stake in Global Counsel.
💷 Privileged access ✅
💷 Personal benefit ✅
💷 No competition ✅
Mandelson benefitted financially through his stake in Global Counsel.
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We did it #spéirgorm ! Legends!
Now let's keep going, we need 1 million signatures across the EU. We're halfway there already!
Now let's keep going, we need 1 million signatures across the EU. We're halfway there already!
February 6, 2026 at 8:07 PM
We did it #spéirgorm ! Legends!
Now let's keep going, we need 1 million signatures across the EU. We're halfway there already!
Now let's keep going, we need 1 million signatures across the EU. We're halfway there already!
Is it too early to say that the UK Prime Minister (like most of his predecessors of the last half century) is corrupt?
New on FT website:
Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.
www.ft.com/content/5bba...
Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.
www.ft.com/content/5bba...
Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson
Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client
www.ft.com
February 7, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Is it too early to say that the UK Prime Minister (like most of his predecessors of the last half century) is corrupt?
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What can be done about this?
Slurry spreaders out today in waterlogged fields beside the Boyne River - total madness and against regulations.
Water quality is deteriorating and there is little enforcement.
@whittledaway.bsky.social
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
Slurry spreaders out today in waterlogged fields beside the Boyne River - total madness and against regulations.
Water quality is deteriorating and there is little enforcement.
@whittledaway.bsky.social
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
February 7, 2026 at 9:28 AM
What can be done about this?
Slurry spreaders out today in waterlogged fields beside the Boyne River - total madness and against regulations.
Water quality is deteriorating and there is little enforcement.
@whittledaway.bsky.social
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
Slurry spreaders out today in waterlogged fields beside the Boyne River - total madness and against regulations.
Water quality is deteriorating and there is little enforcement.
@whittledaway.bsky.social
@irishrainforest.bsky.social
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Not an original thought from this anarchist, but bears repeating that all this happened because the UK media couldn't abide the idea of a Labour Party that was about a fairer society and an attack on privilege.
Everyone knew who he was and how he behaved. They ignored it. For reasons.
Everyone knew who he was and how he behaved. They ignored it. For reasons.
February 6, 2026 at 8:50 PM
Not an original thought from this anarchist, but bears repeating that all this happened because the UK media couldn't abide the idea of a Labour Party that was about a fairer society and an attack on privilege.
Everyone knew who he was and how he behaved. They ignored it. For reasons.
Everyone knew who he was and how he behaved. They ignored it. For reasons.
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It's completely beyond me how authorities can continue to ignore this fundamental issue, especially given that we KNOW that with climate breakdown floods will only keep getting worse.
Pay farmers to rewild NOW.
Pay farmers to rewild NOW.
If you're a victim of repeated flooding, you need to start looking at land use upstream.
One of these sponges up vast amounts of water, releasing it slowly, the other does not. One reduces flooding, the other *increases* it.
Without addressing this core driver, it'll just keep on getting worse.
One of these sponges up vast amounts of water, releasing it slowly, the other does not. One reduces flooding, the other *increases* it.
Without addressing this core driver, it'll just keep on getting worse.
February 6, 2026 at 5:27 PM
It's completely beyond me how authorities can continue to ignore this fundamental issue, especially given that we KNOW that with climate breakdown floods will only keep getting worse.
Pay farmers to rewild NOW.
Pay farmers to rewild NOW.