David Barber

Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings Silicon Valley radicalization escalates

They have completely lost it. Nüremberg trials for the whole lot of them.

www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...

What a waste

Trump warns of European ‘civilizational erasure’ in realigned national security strategy The National Security Strategy, which each administration must publish, also said the U.S. should focus on the Western Hemisphere and consider the Middle East a place for investment.

#r4today
Racists in the Trump administration think there are too many people in Europe who look like JD Vance's wife and kids.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors

🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history

75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men

Is this what democracy looks like?

New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...

The UN just held a vote on ending torture, in which three countries voted against ending torture.

🔍 Zoom in…

Funny how many millionaire backers
of the Reform & far right
back British & flag campaign
live overseas ...

Hannah reminds us why we have a cabinet with "talents" like Pete Hegseth, Kristi Noem, RFKJr and Pam Bondi...

Family of Colombian man killed in U.S. strike files human rights challenge In a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas, the first challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats argues that the death was an extrajudicial killing.

Family of Colombian man killed in illegal U.S. strike files human rights challenge
The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on when he was sailing off Colombia's Caribbean coast, in violation of human rights
#Wrldpoli🌐

www.npr.org/2025/12/04/g...

Consumers are definitely not food literalists. I once heard someone order "two cheeseburgers, one without the cheese."

The thread on one page: skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

Donald Trump is a gutter racist and we to start reporting on him as such.

Israeli settlers attack and rob Italian and Canadian volunteers in West Bank Group beaten in early hours of morning in village where they volunteered to help protect Palestinians from settler violence

🔥THIS IS WHO ISRAELIS ARE‼️ Italy and Canada have raised concerns about the treatment of their citizens who were beaten and robbed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.👇
#stoparmingisrael
#stopgenocideinpalestine

🤬🤬Tonight russia hit the city near Kyiv - Vyshhorod.
They struck civilian houses. They hit the local market.
Ordinary streets. Ordinary lives.

This is not war.
This is terrorism against people who were simply at home, simply living.

What do these corporations have in common?

Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel

In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.

This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

Revealed: warning to ministers over privatised water kept secret since 2002 Author calls for disclosure of his report that ‘shows why private equity dominance in England has proved so disastrous’

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Water #ClimateChange

Well, he looks like a frog.

Sorry to hear this. You have to be 75 or over for a booster (or in a care home, or immunosuppressed). Does a booster help long covid, or just stop it getting worse?

Post something random, or you'll have an awful December.

How flattery became a big, beautiful industry Never before have there been so many rich people to be boosted

How flattery became a big, beautiful industry on.ft.com/49ElKMt

Undated file photo shows AFP's Turkish photographer Yasin Akgul at the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art

#UPDATE A Turkish court on Thursday acquitted four journalists, including AFP photographer Yasin Akgul, who were on trial over mass demonstrations in Istanbul in March, according to an AFP journalist inside the courtroom ➡️ u.afp.com/ShPP

Ein Foto von ihr mit Zigarette, dunkel umrandeten Augen, aufgenommen von Lotte Jacobi

Lotte Lenya, auch Lotte Lenja, war eine österreichisch-US-amerikanische Schauspielerin und Sängerin (Dreigroschenoper), die zusammen mit Kurt Weil Deutschland während der Nazizeit verließ und auch in den USA erfolgreich war
18. Oktober 1898 - 27. November 1981


No argument here

Budget 2025.

The wealthy hardly hit.

Minor tweaks on dividend and mansion tax.
No wealth tax.
No alignment of taxes on dividends & capital gains tax with taxation of wages.
Partnerships won't pay NIC on partners' share of profits
No financial transactions tax.

Lobbying and political donations pay

"a Russian military victory in Ukraine is not inevitable, and a rapid Russian seizure of the rest of Donetsk Oblast is not imminent"
and the US officials who keep saying so are repeating Russian propaganda

P.S.: What makes offshore attractive to men who don't want to pay their taxes AND men who want to rape women/girls is light regulation.
Offshore centers protect the property and contract rights of the powerful, without imposing corresponding obligations.
The law is selectively suspended for them.

PFI didn’t just burden NHS trusts with huge debt, it trapped them in decades of overpriced maintenance contracts.

One trust was charged + £300 to change a lightbulb. Outrageous.

And now the gov is exploring PFI-style schemes again. Fight back with us: bit.ly/NHSandBudget

Mark Zuckerberg has more in common with Jeffrey Epstein than you might expect Is Meta complicit in a massive transnational human trafficking trade?

“Facebook accounts for 59 to 65 percent of online trafficking recruitment in federal cases. For children specifically, 65 percent. Meta platforms generated 85 percent of all child sexual abuse material reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2022.”

GET OFF META!

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’ Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist

International Criminal Court judge, "sanctioned" by the USA for doing his job, blocked from using internet services worldwide, credit cards, banking... And nobody cares...