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Eye on Palestine (@eyeonpalestine) A young Palestinian girl was injured after being shot in the head by Israeli gunfire in the Halawa refugee camp in the northern of Gaza Strip.

A young Palestinian girl was injured after being shot in the head by Israeli gunfire in the Halawa refugee camp in the northern of Gaza Strip

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The Empire Is Scrambling To Fully Dominate Latin America, And Other Notes Reading by Tim Foley:

Daily Mirror has a gross propaganda piece claiming “Hamas plotters are spreading their tentacles of terror into Europe, with secret arms dumps & operatives planning attacks even as far as the UK”

They provide no evidence whatsoever, citing only an intelligence report of unspecified origin

Everything we've seen over the past 5 years has been about the US preparing for war with China.

Wearing down Russia in a proxy war. Knee-capping Iran. Making Europe spend more on arms. Regime change in Venezuela (Colombia and Brazil next).

We're already in WW3.

The Empire Is Scrambling To Fully Dominate Latin America, And Other Notes Reading by Tim Foley:

Whenever I catch myself wondering if I’ve been too hard on the Democrats I re-watch last year’s video of DNC attendees covering their ears and mocking activists reading the names of children who’d been murdered in Gaza

When they’re not in power it’s easy to forget how evil these people are

US offers 'free economic zone' in east if Ukraine cedes Donbas, Zelenskiy says Ukraine has presented the U.S. with a revised 20-point framework to end its war with Russia, President Zelenskiy said.

Just reading this... in Reuters, so yeah, Trump and the US bullying their way around the world taking what they want.

www.reuters.com/world/us-off...

US ROGUE STATE
that
FOREIGN English Colonialist Occupying Oppressor
ROGUE STATE
cut
Scotland & the Six Counties of the North of Ireland
off from
WHEN WE VOTED TO 'REMAIN'

Colonialist Govs deals
SILENCING CELTIC VOICES

Colonialist Govs plotting to take MORE
of what
BELONGS TO WE CELTIC NATIONS

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Guillotines restore all accountability

The Empire Is Scrambling To Fully Dominate Latin America, And Other Notes Reading by Tim Foley:

BBC is training staff that it's antisemitic to oppose Zionism, because most Jews identify as Zionists

A textbook example of an ad populum fallacy—claiming something is true because a majority believe it

Just as the Atlantic slave trade would have been wrong even if every white person supported it

The Empire Is Scrambling To Fully Dominate Latin America, And Other Notes Reading by Tim Foley:

The House & Senate have agreed to make registration for the draft “automatic”

The US is making its biggest draft policy change in 45 yrs so it’s easier to force Americans to fight & die in a war, just as the NYT editorial board launches a series explaining why the US must prepare for war with China

Jonathan Cook (@jonathancook) Edward Snowden blew the whistle on illegal mass surveillance by US authorities of their own population – and had to flee into permanent exile. Julian Assange published details of the US military's wa...

The US is the ultimate rogue state, destroying anyone who tries to hold it to account

It is utterly lawless

Its methods are those of the gangster, ruling a world where there are no police who can bring it to heel

Trump is different only in that he no longer bothers to hide the fact

A lesson of the Ukraine War is the disastrous outcomes achieved when great powers abandon diplomacy and non violent conflict resolution and prefer war and dominance

Nearly 4 years on and Nato leaders still don’t get it

Exactly 💯% right

ABI aciona PGR contra Motta: “não sabe a importância do jornalismo” Entidade denuncia cerceamento e agressões a repórteres no plenário da Câmara

“O trabalho de relato dos fatos, de relato da verdade, de compromisso com a verdade que o jornalista tem, compromisso com a ética, incomoda muita gente. E pelo visto também o presidente da Câmara. Ele não sabe o que é jornalismo e sua importância para a democracia. É uma grave censura à imprensa.”

PALESTINA...
A verdadeira história que a mídia burguesa não conta.
#PIG
Por @BlautUlianJunior

Israelis watch with glee as Storm Byron brings a new catastrophic chapter to Gaza As relief convoys remain stalled and basic infrastructure is decimated, Palestinians are left unequipped to withstand freezing conditions after years of siege and global indifference

Israelis watch with glee as Storm Byron brings a new catastrophic chapter to Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israelis-watch-glee-storm-byron-brings-new-catastrophic-chapter-gaza

Trump is the very real and very
sickening embodiment of white
power, white privilege and white
supremacy™.

Anthony Albanese sidesteps calls for reform amid growing community anger over MP travel perks The federal opposition and crossbenchers have backed a review of expenses spending rules

A fundamental quality needed to be a politician is judgement. A fundamental role of a politician is to ‘show the way’. Taking advantage of flexible travel rules for private benefit demonstrates neither. #auspol

You should read Janet Frame's In the memorial Room.

You really should.
Especially if you're a writer.

#Booksky

I guess Israel (and the US) is going to conquer Syria and Lebanon... and no one's going to stop them.

Australia passes a shameful milestone: over one million children now living in poverty For all the focus on inflation, interest rates and cost-of-living pressures this year, the nation quietly passed a shameful milestone in 2025, ensuring a bleak Christmas for more Australian families t...

"Australia passes a shameful milestone: over one million children now living in poverty" #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/news/251212-...

The real winners of Australia’s under-16s social media ban Australia’s social media ban for under-16s is sold as child protection, but its most tangible effect is a transfer of power away from global platforms and back to legacy media interests.

The real winners of Australia’s under-16s social media ban johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...

Labour, a supply side explanation for the rise of populism, and the growing acceptability of xenophobic discourse in the UK I never cease to be amazed at how bad Labour politicians are at politics. It may seem arrogant for an economist to say that, but it’s not ...

It’s not much more complex than: Labour, Tories and Reform all regard Thatcherism, crackdowns and migrant terror as non-negotiable Grown Up politics, and everything to the left of that as idiotic, foofy, probably treasonous lunacy that has to be crushed utterly. The press agrees, and enforces this.

Covid scheme fraud hit almost £11bn but much 'beyond recovery', report says The response to the pandemic led to

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK joins call for Europe’s human rights laws to be ‘constrained’ Britain aligns with some of Europe’s hardline governments in calling for change to allow Rwanda-style migration deals

WTF is wrong with these people? They couldn't be more detached from voters - it's like they're actively trying to make themselves more unpopular.... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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US seizes oil tanker off Venezuela as Caracas condemns 'act of piracy' Footage shows a military helicopter hovering over a large ship, and troops descending on to the deck using ropes.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not to mention it's that never elected right wing money man and full fat fudge Offord, waltzing on to a prime seat on the state broadcaster.

YouTube video by TV Fórum URGENTE: Morte de TEORI ZAVASCKI precisa ser investigada; Moro e Lava Jato na mira de Toffoli

URGENTE: Um capítulo delicado e pouco conhecido sobre os bastidores da Lava Jato ganha contornos ainda mais graves. A ex-juíza Luciana Bauer relatou agressões cometidas por Sergio Moro e levantou novas reflexões sobre o episódio das mortes de Teori Zavascki e do delegado que investigava o caso.

The town of Floriano, Piaui State, Brazil is ending 2025 with a year average temperature of 29.8C which is:

Highest average temperature in 2025 in the whole Southern Hemisphere

Highest average temperature in 2025 in South America

The State capital Teresina follows close with 29.7C.