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We’re certainly hoping to, given the size and state of HMF and all the other commitments we’re supposed to be meeting, but when a sizeable chunk of the political class is very ignorant, well who knows ?

Grimly amused by the draft dodging skidmark accusing anyone else of being late for a war, mind…

Iceland has announced holding a referendum on whether to restart EU membership negotiations.

A significant decision now lies ahead for the Icelandic people.

In a world that is changing fast, the European Union offers an anchor in a community of values, prosperity and security.

Cover of the book ‘Savage Century’ by Thérèse Delpech, translated by George Holoch.

Reread it a few weeks ago. Highly recommend.

Keep flicking through my replacement copy of this, a gift from an Omani friend who hasn’t slept well in days.

The cover speaks.

VDV soldier from the famous song and dance video. Caption reads ‘Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.’

‘Kish ? Hell no. IKA or bust.’

FB Mk VI fighter bomber, which totalled about 1/3 of production.

Having been told by the Supreme Court that the bulk of his tariffs are illegal because he doesn't have the authority to set them up, Trump has switched to "Section 122" which applies when the US has balance of payments problems. This article ⬇️ argues he cannot use Section 122 either.

Now official: EP work on EU-US deal is on hold until further notice!
Our negotiating team just decided to put on hold @ep_trade legal implementation of Turnberry deal&postone vote foreseen for tomorrow.
Clarity&legal certainty are needed before any further steps can be taken

Mexican Troops Slay Mencho And His Thugs Set Country On Fire Washington gave intel on CJNG leader; Mexico City ruled he not be taken alive

Truly huge news on death of El Mencho.

-US intel key in locating Mencho
-Mexican forces had ruled shoot to kill
-US pressure to get Mencho before world cup games in Jalisco
-Unclear who replaces Mencho
- Cartel attacks across Mexico massive.

Read here:

www.crashoutmedia.com/p/mexican-tr...

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

My kingdom for an OCCAR with serious muscle and teeth and an EU that brute forces joint purchases of critical equipment.

domestic criticism for the F-35 purchase. Buying GCAP or son-of without red meat for the Mittelstand and its own aerospace primes in this political climate may be too much of an ask.

electoral future to drive a harder bargain with European partners than it will with the US, which is largely immune to that kind of pressure.

Not a criticism of Berlin’s stance, just a fact of life. Eyes are on Germany to heavily fund and staff whatever emerges from NATO’s rubble. It’s taken some

Especially for a potential customer like Germany. One of many holdups in the very early days of the Eurofighter project was infighting over particular systems, some of which the U.K. had developed as part of the EAP technology demonstrator, and we can expect any German government which treasures its

Workshare negotiations would/will be interesting. Every politician wants to justify investment in defence projects by building the shiny components whose importance is easy to explain to the layman, very few have the stomach to accept the less obvious parts of the bigger prize.

Yoon Suk-yeol has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

The judge is also stating that South Korean society as a whole has suffered immeasurable damage due to Yoon's insurrection, a cost that the entire nation must now bear.

There’s a Running Man type show if we reboot Python’s ‘upper class twit of the year’ skit as ‘Dumb nativist of the year’.

Matthews various have to blend in with working people buying lattes on the high street and ordering spiced mboga and sambusas from food vans outside hardware stores.

I suspect Matthew has a very limited social circle of people who view getting breakfast on the high street as quaint or daring.

The kind of entitled rich nativist whose sole exposure to working people is berating Waitrose staff for running out of the quail’s eggs truffle mayo snack pack.

Matthew has encountered market forces, which his crowd used to pretend they were in favour of.

Grabbed breakfast at a Greggs very early this morning and the orders before me were all ‘posh’ coffees bought by guys in dirty hi vis.

Working people susceptible to trends, more at 11 Matthew.

Someone sell Piker a Winnie-the-Pooh hoodie or a yellow baseball cap so we can see how his next two minute conversation goes.

Photo of Prime Minister Carney with President von der Leyen of the European Commission and President Costa of the European Council.

Canada is now the first non-European country to be granted a membership in SAFE. This is a gamechanger program that means Canada can rearm our Canadian Armed Forces members more effectively and scale up our defence industries with more contracts overseas.

count of the Treasury Brain eye rolling in response to these controversial takes. Just as well nuclear propulsion engineers and aerospace engineers don’t have civilian employers crying out for expertise and clearances or we’d be kicking ourselves in the fork by shortchanging them.

‘People are our most important asset’, the old swear jar favourite.

The absolute basics ? Hot water on demand in the blocks like any normal home, hot food overnight if we’re pulling maintainers in to generate jets/ships/tracks, and generating those assets doesn’t mean cannibalising others.

Lost

Can anything equal the high of the Wagner vermin getting hosed a few countries further north ?

Yes. Yes it can.

Could anything better it ?

Elmo leading a flying column of techbros in Cybertrucks deep into cartel territory in Sicario 3.

He can go hunt lions for all I care as long as he proves how manly he is by levelling the playing field.

No firearms, no local expertise, just drop him in the Okavango and see how he gets on against whatever crashes out of the reeds first.

Do you accept foreign money disguised as travel expenses routed via your consultancy work for my totally legit think tank in a fashionable part of DC, or does it need to be difficult to trace ?

a man wipes his forehead with a towel while holding a bird cage Alt: A scene from the movie Hard Boiled. Chow Yun-Fat turns a partly covered bird cage to use a small mirror to keep watch on a group of weapon traffickers at a nearby table.

How many of us can combine a visit to a tea house with vigorous physical exercise ?

An impressive ratio.

Every time Schumer and his ilk speak, or post, I get flashbacks to the Remain campaign. Bubble-wrapped, hand-wringing fools, wildly out of their depth and baffled by the typhoon of lies and criminality bearing down on them, all but begging these malignant rapists to play nice.

Ella Marriott, Commander of the Metropolitan police said: "Following the further release of millions of court documents in relation to Jeffrey Epstein by the United States Department of Justice, the Met received a number of reports into alleged misconduct in public office, including a referral from the UK Government. "I can confirm that the Metropolitan Police has launched an investigation into a 72-year-old-man, a former Government minister, for misconduct in public office offences. "The Met will continue to assess all relevant information brought to our attention as part of this investigation and won't be commenting any further at this time."

it’s good night from me

Impossible to quantify just how much of the last decade could’ve been avoided if these gutless courtier fucks had been the uncompromising truth tellers they like to tell everyone they are.

Still vital that the Truth and No Reconciliation Commission finds a way to publicly skewer them though.