Joe Noonan

Commands around the world, including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic’s Claude AI tool, people familiar with the matter confirmed. Centcom declined to comment about specific systems being used in its ongoing operation against Iran. The command uses the tool for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios even as tension between the company and Pentagon ratcheted up, the people said, highlighting how embedded the AI tools are in military operations.

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire.

That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players.

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Bloodied pink schoolbag lies on the ground.

Bloodied pink schoolbag lies on the ground.

On the Strait of Hormuz. God bless capitalism x.com/shanaka86/st...

Bloodied pink school bag lies on the ground.

No limits. Never admitted but this is their position.

World Report Sunday 1 March 2026 From the unusual to the topical, World Report brings you interesting stories from around the world.

My world report on the elderly Cubans facing their country’s crisis alone is on RTÉ playback now.

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Strike on Iranian primary school kills 148, authorities say Girls’ education facility hit as US and Israel launch joint military operation

The death of possibly more than 100 little girls in a primary school. How is that not a central news story today across all serious outlets?
And thank you, FT, for being one of only a few newsrooms driving attention to what happened there.
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Can't stop laughing at a story my friend told me yesterday about going to meet a work contact at the gates of Trinity. He went up to another waiting man and said "Are you Michael?" "Yes" "Will we go for a coffee?" "Sure." Over a coffee he realises it's not the Michael he's meant to be meeting.

The BBC isn’t telling the truth about Israel’s nuclear arms The UK broadcaster is writing hundreds of articles on Iran’s budding nuclear programme while failing to inform the public about Israel’s actual nuclear weapons.

The world’s leading arms watchdog, SIPRI in Sweden, has been saying for nearly two years that Israel is “believed to be modernizing its nuclear arsenal and appears to be upgrading its plutonium production reactor site at Dimona” in the Negev desert.

www.declassifieduk.org/the-bbc-isnt...

The Blair 2003 45 minute story debunked.

However in some of the subsequent press reporting, most notably in the Sun and the London Evening Standard, the 45-minute claim was linked to another eye-catching statement in the dossier - that Iraq possessed an extended range version of the Scud ballistic missile capable of reaching British bases on Cyprus. It was only when the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, John Scarlett, gave evidence to the Hutton inquiry last August that it was disclosed that the 45-minute claim referred only to battlefield munitions, such as rockets or mortar shells. Both Mr Scarlett and the defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, admitted to the inquiry that they had been aware that the press reporting had been wrong but had made no attempt to correct it. The failure to make clear that the 45-minute claim referred only to battlefield weapons was criticised as "unhelpful" to public understanding by the parliamentary intelligence and security committee.

Never not at it.

You may come across suggestions that this is an attack on an EU member State, that calls for an EU military response.

Iran has reportedly sent two missiles that way, which were intercepted.

Cyprus Sovereign Base Areas - UK Overseas Territories Conservation Forum Cyprus Sovereign Base Areas Flamingoes feeding in Cyprus Sovereign Base Areas; Copyright: Michael Gore FRPS We give information about Cyprus in two main ways. Although there is some overlap, they are ...

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The UK base on Cyprus is British sovereign territory.

They count on people then assuming those imaginary votes were cast for the 'other' candidate.

The racism is patent.

If protection of civilians and international humanitarian law is a priority, why will the EU not at least criticise the US & Israel for attacks on Iran. Is the repression of Iranian (or any other) regime now accepted justification for US attacks, including on civilians, sanctioned only by President.

The best form of resistance. 👋

No shelter for Israel's Arab citizens.

Spain slams US and Israeli strikes on Iran, reflecting shift in policy Spain often stands out in Europe as one of the countries most critical of the US foreign policy, Israel’s war in Gaza, and Iran’s crackdown on anti-government protests.

Spain often stands out in Europe as one of the countries most critical of the US foreign policy, Israel’s war in Gaza, and Iran’s crackdown on anti-government protests. #EuropeNews

Remarkable contrast from Spain, which has been among the most outspoken European governments in condemning the Iranian regime's violence against its own citizens, but criticises the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attacks and defends international law now.

Voting in Ireland is a very social experience. I went to school with my local presiding officer and elections are about the only time we ever catch up. I suppose she is breaking some kind of law by saying "your Dad was in earlier"

Exxon and Shell Sue The Netherlands in Secret Tribunals for Closing Europe’s Biggest Gas Field Following billions in profits and over a thousand gas extraction-related earthquakes, the oil and gas giants filed claims against the Dutch state in four separate investor-state disputes concerning co...

🚨 New report on how ExxonMobil and Shell filed *four* separate investor-state claims #ISDS against the Dutch government. These are highly secretive, private tribunals where no residents who suffered through earthquakes for years have ever been called to give testimony.

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‘School could be quite cruel. Songs were a saviour for me’: Philip King on music, film and the essentiality of the arts In the week he brought Foo Fighters to Kerry, the man behind Other Voices says the Irish State cannot just pay lip service to the arts’ centrality

I interviewed the brilliant Philip King while I was down in Dingle earlier in the week: www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

Thanks for giving us such a great sense of the enormous contribution made by Philip and Nuala to our musical heritage.

The bad guys know how to exploit that impulse.

Starmer stoops for Trump

Oscar Wilde said he could resist everything except temptation.

Kallas shows us that the European Union has made its choice.

It's a temptation.