Christel Ames

Also, if the government has to pay the companies back, the general public will end up footing the bill for that too, one way or another.

This is deeply revealing. On some level, he knows he is lying & cheating & getting ahead *by virtue of exploiting a rule-based system that someone else created & maintains*. In other words, someone else is in charge of holding things together. Someone else is the mom. He's the naughty boy.

Russia, a country that has expanded throughout its entire history by invading its neighbours.

1/ Leaked messages and photographs from a senior Russian general show his role in the murder, torture and abuse of captured Ukrainian, some of whom had their ears cut off. The messages illustrate how extreme brutality has been normalised in the Russian army. ⬇️

The russian aggression against Ukraine started on this day in 2014. It didn't begin in 2022.

Everybody still on there convinced that they are a special flower unaffected by propaganda.

Totally, because once the troops are removed, there's nothing to stop Russia expanding into the space.

Mandelson is next then ...

Witkoff´s mouthpiece telling us nothing interesting. Again.

Russia readmitted to Paralympics after Heraskevych banned for remembering the Ukrainian athletes it killed The decision to readmit Russia to any Olympic event is an outrage and profound affront to all victims of Russia’s aggression, including the slain athletes whom Vladyslav Heraskevych was punished for h...

Russia readmitted to Paralympics after Heraskevych banned for remembering the Ukrainian athletes it killed
khpg.org/en/1608815528

Ukraine Rescues 2,000 Children from Russian Control Since 2022, But Thousands Still Remain, Says Zelenskyy Zelenskyy says Bring Kids Back UA has returned 2,000 children from Russian control; Ukraine says thousands more remain in Russia’s hands.

⚡️ Ukraine has successfully rescued 2,000 children from Russian control, but President Zelenskyy warns that thousands more are still being held.

Trump's corruption is probably unique in the history of all democratic countries.

Yeah, one of the other occasions was the Munich Agreement in 1938. I wonder if Rubio can join the dots ...

So, he's upset because they will "bring death to the peaceful population of Russia"?

If these Russians are so peaceful, why don't they fck off back to their homeland and take their guns and tanks and missiles with them?

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

In this atmosphere of warm brotherhood, how could they not have felt chosen? Noam Chomsky described the ethos: “The cool observers – us smart guys – it’s our task to impose illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications to keep these poor simpletons on course”
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

Jeffrey Epstein’s Intellectual Enabler How did Epstein meet so many luminaries in the worlds of science and technology? It all might trace back to literary agent John Brockman.

I posted this elsewhere but a good early piece on the Brockman network by Morozov here. Still more to say about the reactionary politics of the pop science boom of the 90s/00s beyond The Bell Curve wars I cover in my book too.

newrepublic.com/article/1548...

Anne Applebaum: "Steve Witkoff has no experience with Russia or diplomacy. I fear he imagines a US-Russia pact where he, his son, Trump's family or their circle benefit personally

It's disturbing that American foreign policy conducted not for the US, allies or world peace, but for private interests

Everybody knows you never go full Putard. Orban just went full Putard. Never go full Putard.

I really do hate that people who are geological illiterate keep pointing to records compiled by paleoclimatologists to downplay climate change because, if anything, the lessons of deep time only emphasize how extraordinary and unprecedented the rate of modern warming is.

The thread does rather suggest that the switch to MAX from Telegram may have been because they are more worried about revolution in the ranks than they are about winning in Ukraine.

Britain’s relentless rain shows climate predictions playing out as expected After an exceptionally wet start to 2026, two climate scientists explain what’s going on.

"2025 from spring onwards was exceptionally dry. [Now] we’re facing the opposite – weeks of rainfall and flooding. These extremes are what we expect as heat builds up in the global atmosphere and oceans. For British people, this is climate change."

Spain too.

theconversation.com/britains-rel...

BLACK & CASPIAN SEAS: CRAZY SUMMER DAY
UNBELIEVABLE what we are seeing:
32.6 Rasht 🇮🇷
3C above the winter record,2C above JULY average
29.4 Ramsar

Temp up to 24C AT NIGHT Batumi GEORGIA
4C above July Average Minimum

RUSSIA HIGHLANDS
22.3 Akthy 1016m asl
18.3 Gunib 1420m asl

⚡️ Zelenskyy: We cannot just withdraw. There are 200,000 Ukrainians living there. It is our land.

🇦🇿🇺🇦 In Munich, President Aliyev stated that three strikes had been carried out on Azerbaijani embassy in Ukraine.

It was assumed to be accidental. Then, the coordinates were transmitted to the Russian side, after which two more strikes followed. Baku viewed this as an unfriendly move.

🇪🇸 Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

We need to stop Putin. We need to strengthen our deterrence capabilities. But let us do it in a coordinated and targeted way that we can control.

Let’s build a true European Army — not in 10 years, but now. Spain will join with all the resources that are needed.

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT IN MOZAMBIQUE
42.0C at Beira right on the coast,
it smashed its February heat record by 3C.
It's one of the most extreme heat events ever seen in Southern African tropics.

Over 170 countries are breaking records.
There had never been anything like this month.

Russia’s war is getting cheaper. That’s the worst news Europe has heard in years. - Euromaidan Press Four years of data show Russia trading tanks for drones—while its new armor heads not to Ukraine, but to NATO's border.

"New [tank] production has reached roughly 500 T-90Ms since Feb. 2022, with annual output at about 300 tanks, according to Western intelligence."

"These are not going to Ukraine. They appear to be deployed to Leningrad - in preparation for a future war with NATO"
euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/14/r...

I realize media doesn’t think it’s a big deal that Trump, Vance & Hegseth continue to give partisan political speeches to troops, evidenced by the fact that they are never asked about it nor are members of Congress, but it is one of the most dangerous things happening right now.

Crypto-Funded Human Trafficking Is Exploding The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight.

"Researchers found crypto transactions for human trafficking grew at least 85 percent. The amount of transactions, Chainalysis says, is now in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually—though it considered measurements to be conservative."
www.wired.com/story/crypto...