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Warning⚠️
AI IS DANGEROUS!

We're in the beginning stages of a surveillance state nightmare that will be global & dangerous.

Freedom is at stake.
Your livelihood is at stake.
Your life may even be at stake.

Call Congress at 202-224-3121.

Demand restrictions on AI to protect our privacy & jobs.

Post comments on the fact that after meetings with Farage, Trump always attacks Starmer.

Farage bad-mouthing Britain to the orange war-monger again.

Hungary’s opposition leader accuses Orbán of enabling Russian influence Péter Magyar also warned of Russian interference ahead of the parliamentary elections in April.

Hungary’s opposition leader accuses Orbán of enabling Russian influence share.google/9BrlzCUtljyB...

When I first started out as a journalist I thought it paid to have a background in US history when covering America. Then I thought it would probably be better to be a constitutional lawyer with expertise in jurisprudence. Now I think it would be useful to be a psychiatrist.

Is this the December protest over Orban’s failure to act in child-abuse scandals?

Because I can't find reports of anything more recent.

Hungary’s election campaign is about to get even dirtier Now that the candidates are locked in, analysts expect smear campaigns and influence operations to intensify.

Magyar has said he suspects his opponents are planning to release a sex tape “recorded with secret service equipment and possibly faked, in which my then-girlfriend and I are seen having intimate intercourse.”

#Hungary

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into this illegal war, even though the President has no plan for what comes next.

There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.

This is insane.

Blair is the last person who should be piping up.

The national suicide being committed by the Republican-led United States has no historical precedent. Centuries from now (if humanity survives that long), historians will struggle to explain how such a thing was possible.

Nissan ‘says Sunderland plant could close’ if UK excluded from Made in Europe rules Reports of carmaker’s warning come as lobby group says EU proposals could damage £70bn cross-channel trade

In a word, Brexit!
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Explains a lot about the failure of Brexit that its main adherents should right now be prostrating themselves before the US because they think that's what an independent UK means.

Did you know ...
When the Greens🌻 started in Germany, they came from a wild variety of backgrounds. That was completely new, as it had only been possible to rise in politics WITHIN the established party ladders up until then. It really shook up German politics – with this becoming an iconic moment 👇

The only sensible course is complete dissassociation with what's happening and global middle powers opposition to facilitating it. But I've found Starmer, Carney, Albanese and Merz lukewarm at best.

Merz Warns of Economic Damage Due to ‘Endless’ War Against Iran German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned the US and Israel against waging an “endless war” against Iran that could lead to the disintegration of the whole Middle Eastern state, a new migration crisis i...

Fascinating to watch 🇫🇷, then 🇬🇧, then 🇮🇹, now 🇩🇪 start to acknowledge what 🇪🇸's government recognised from the very start: the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran is a reckless intervention conducted without regard for rules of war and without a strategy for what comes next.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Absolutely insupportable. Labour have a massive majority. It’s a hugely popular issue. To fail to act would be a dereliction of historic proportions, and utterly inexplicable.

‘I’m all for climate change’: Axel Springer CEO faces heat over leaked messages Mathias Döpfner’s reported comments on climate, Muslims and east Germany – and his apparent political manoeuvring – create shock waves

Oh, FFS!

For five minutes, I allowed myself the thought that a change of ownership might result in the Telegraph ceasing to be one of the most toxic climate change denying propaganda sheets in the Western world – but it seems not. 🫤
www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...

Iceland locks in on date for EU referendum | Euractiv As a member of the European Economic Area, Iceland is already aligned with much of the bloc's legislation

Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August.

A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways already a non-voting 🇪🇺 member because of the EEA. This would give them voting power to shape the laws they have to follow.

Sadiq Khan invites Anthropic to move to London The London mayor also asked to meet Amodei, adding he would like to discuss how Anthropic could move to the capital.

Boss move.

'Sadiq Khan has sent Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei an invitation to move to London after the AI giant’s spat with President Trump. The mayor of London praised the company over its "steadfastness" after it refused to give the US military access to its tools.'
www.cityam.com/sadiq-khan-i...

And here's the clip, thanks to James: bsky.app/profile/jame...

Well would you look at that

The lack of wisdom is so glaring you gotta wear shades to watch this guy.

My daughter: mum, am I adopted?

Me: no, not yet…

Deeply disturbing.

A third of Gen Z men agree a wife should obey husband www.kcl.ac.uk/news/almost-...

"31% of Gen Z men agree that a wife should always obey her husband & one third (33%) say a husband should have the final word on important decisions..."

Online survey, so caution. Still... ugh.

Obeying the law is political correctness gone mad.

As the world's pre-eminent superpower for the last 80 years, the USA has a lot of political capital.

Trump is playing the geopolitical equivalent of Brewster's Millions.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

We paid an ex-Tory MP to lobby for our fake Chinese firm - and authorities did nothing Investigation finds no rules were broken. It just goes to show how few rules there are.

Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett

We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs

Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken

New, by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-paid-an...

Coincidence corner: JCB and Reform UK

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Does anyone think that this - effectively describing people who came here at *our* invitation to work in care homes as would-be parasites on the welfare state - is what she meant?

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.