Michael Bird

I’m an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia.

Link below.

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Stewart Lee’s pub joke from episode 1 was masterful

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

𐂺 In Romania, zoos and breeders are trading and exhibiting tigers, only to watch them suffer and die.

This hustle must end

www.animalhustlers.com

YouTube video by Wild at Heart Investigates Fina the White Tiger for Sale

❤️‍🩹 Soimaru also exhibited Fina to his visitors, charging them ten euros to play with the animal, even when she was physically injured and suffering breathing problems. Her fate is unknown.

www.youtube.com/shorts/QPr9T-WWmg8

YouTube video by Wild at Heart Investigates Animal Hustlers

💶 Last month our investigative team exposed the dealer for this tiger - Dorin Soimaru in Noah’s Ark Zoo in Suceava - who tried to sell us the Craiova tiger’s sibling, Fina, for 12,000 euro.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYaD...

Un pui de tigru alb a murit la grădina zoologică din Craiova după ce a înghițit o pungă de plastic. Nu e primul incident de acest fel Un pui de tigru alb de la grădina zoologică din Craiova a murit după ce ar fi înghițit o pungă de plastic aruncată de unul dintre vizitatori. Nu este prima oară când se întâmplă o astfel de tragedie a...

🐯 A white tiger has died in Craiova Zoo in Romania after choking on a plastic bag thrown by visitors, reports the press today.

www.digi24.ro/stiri/actual...

7 reasons why The Thing (1982) is a Christmas film:

1) snow
2) bearded men concealing surprises
3) compulsory party games
4) introverts shunning group activities
5) digestive issues
6) revellers bursting open to reveal partially assimilated canine lifeforms
7) knitwear

Planet will burn so we can make videos of overweight cats riding unicycles

What’s the biggest threat to Europe: ‘something made up’ or Nazis?

Home - Animal Hustlers Animal Hustlers reveals the illicit trade in exotic animals in Europe, a market sustained by legal loopholes, weak enforcement and a fetish for wild creatures.

Europe’s wildlife trade isn’t what it seems.

Animal Hustlers uncovers the shadowy networks selling exotic animals legally… & illegally. 😔

‼️ The EU’s wildlife loopholes are fueling a silent crisis.

Explore the full investigation ⤵️ animalhustlers.com

Home - Animal Hustlers Animal Hustlers reveals the illicit trade in exotic animals in Europe, a market sustained by legal loopholes, weak enforcement and a fetish for wild creatures.

Through investigations, first-hand accounts and storytelling, the project reveals how big cats, monkeys, crocodiles and other animals are trafficked and abused, while calling for systemic reform and accountability.

Website here: Test how much you know about animal traffic: animalhustlers.com

YouTube video by Wild at Heart Investigates Animal Hustlers

How much does a tiger cost in Romania? How much does a lion cost in Czechia? A macaque in Albania?

Our new video, website and reports 'Animal Hustlers' exposes the illicit trade in exotic animals in central and eastern Europe

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYaD...

Because Farage is open to the media. He is willing to be quoted any time. The media gets views. Journalists need quick fixes. Therefore, his agenda is given the oxygen of publicity. He's a product of the media entirely, doesn't exist as a proper human, like plankton that needs only light to exist

YouTube video by Wild at Heart Investigates 'Animal Hustlers' Trailer

How much does a tiger cost in Romania or a monkey in Albania? Check out the trailer for our new investigation on animal traffic youtube.com/shorts/Ur0yg...

“He’s gonna sell Poland to Nazi Germany - that’s what a dealmaker does”

John Waters would be great

Seeing those words in the opening credits ‘and Udo Kier’ meant you were always in for a treat, even if the film was terrible

YouTube video by Wild at Heart Investigates Monkey Hustlers of Montenegro

Monkeys, snakes and baby caiman face abuse on Europe's beaches - will 2026 offer another season of animal suffering?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh-x...

Also interesting us that all the so-called ‘experts’, ‘analysts’ and senators and deputies who backed this plan were played into accepting the Russian position - it shows none of them can be taken seriously again

Probably the biggest media comms disaster any country has ever seen - and it took almost 2 days to fix - shows that no one is in charge in the administration

Tony La Mesmer?

To be fair if there was war in the UK, I am sure it would be very civil

That’s one hell of a steel butt

russians published a video showing an FPV strike on Ukrainian soldiers.

The Ukrainian serviceman was extremely lucky cause the drone hit him right in the butt, but didn’t explode. The warhead and the fiber-optic cable separated from the drone.

Trumpcescu

Car Bomb Attack on Investigative Journalist Sigfrido Ranucci A car bomb targeting Italian journalist Sigfrido Ranucci exposes deepening threats to press freedom in Italy. Journalists and media freedom groups demand urgent protection and justice.

EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR PRESS AND MEDIA FREEDOM: Car bomb attack on investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci rings alarm for media freedom in Italy www.ecpmf.eu/car-bomb-att... @ecpmf.bsky.social #photojournalism #journalism #journalismisnotacrime #pressfreedom

I think he’s bang on. It’s almost like the BBC is deliberately trolling Davey

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here?

For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

I read Diane Kruger had defected to Reform. I was so disappointed.

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