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Israel's 'Last-Ditch Battle' to Win the Media War

Recent reports of an Israeli campaign to win the social media war by granting millions of dollars to TikTok and social media influencers is only a fraction of a massive, coordinated campaign. Many pro-Palestine activists are now highlighting the direct complicity of the Western media, especially in the UK, in attempting to whitewash rape accusations against Israeli soldiers. Instead of using the unequivocal word “rape,” mainstream outlets refer to the horrific Sde Teiman prison episodes merely as “abuse.”

UK: Crime and Asylum Seekers

Nigel Farage: An Afghan male has 22 times more likely chance of being convicted of rape than somebody born in this country.” Ian Boakes I have a degree in Statistics and I'm well aware of how data can be represented in misleading ways. However, I just don't  believe that young men who enter the UK, uninvited and unauthorised (e.g. across the Channel with no documentation), are less likely to commit crime. The opposite is more likely to be true, whatever the stats might suggest as they just aren't a representative sample of the populations they come from because they went by illegal and perilous routes to get here. That said and done, obviously, lots of them pose no threat but why willingly import the risk when we have enough of our own bad eggs to deal with? Andrew Grainger Ian Boakes well, it just goes to show a degree doesn't always guarantee good judgement. You have literally no data, you make  an assumption and "believe" this is more likely to be the oppos...

Big Tech Takeover: Authoritarian Capture

  An article subject to subscription . Read here then continue with some excerpts below. ******** Palantir is the data backbone of the authoritarian state, and Anduril is its autonomous warfare command system, turning information dominance into automated military power. Its Lattice platform connects satellite feeds, radar data and battlefield imagery into a single operational network, allowing military missions to be planned and executed at lightning speed. The company claims its systems can function at ‘level 5 autonomy’: launching, identifying targets, striking and returning without human intervention. [Starshield, SpaceX’s of Elon Musk]  When NATO’s battlefield communications depend on infrastructure controlled by one man who openly endorses European far-right parties, defence autonomy becomes theatrical fiction. Other solutions such as GovCloud, from Amazon Web Services, or Azure Government, provided by Microsoft – in partnership with OpenAI, Meta and Anthropic – are now e...

The UAE’s 'Subimperialism' in Sudan

Realpolitik and selective accountability.  “The UAE is a strategic partner of the West. It is a buyer of arms, a major collaborator with Israel’s genocidal regime, a conduit for intelligence, and a financial hub. It has hosted US military bases, participated in counterterrorism operations, and invested heavily in Western economies. In short, it is too useful to punish.” Counterrevolution, gold and global impunity

Welfare Spending in the UK vs. the EU

For those anti-migrants who scream about refugees and asylum seeker choosing the UK for its benefit system. Another graph here

UK: The Telegraph Facebook Page (8)

On asylum seekers, Muslims, ‘Islam’ Tim Ford Well they wont be laughing when they [asylum seekers] cant leave hotel. Ned Ma Tim Ford  so it is not a hotel if you cannot leave it Tim Ford Ned Ma  well they shouldn't fkn be there then scrounging c*nts need to fk off back to where they came from taking fkn British taxpayers money best thing they can do is leave the country Ned Ma Tim Ford  Well, I fundamentally disagree with you because of your language, the myths you have, the bigotry, etc. and the denial. I think by now you are already typing an insult to be hurled at me. Your comment is a nationalistic and a xenophobic one and has nothing to do with how migration in general is treated in a scientific and rational way. So, your extensive skills of using nice vocabulary will be admired by others here. I though see it as an immature language coming from an adult person living in a country with so much academic knowledge, history of migration, wars, empire, quality universiti...