The Travelling Whaleburys?

What went wrong in Israel? A genocide scholar examines ‘what Zionism became’ In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza

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Just a small correction there: "Loss of empathy" – He never had any empathy to lose.

More Oil price manipulation

Maybe he should have read #TheArtOfTheDeal

Flu killed more in 1918-19 than died in the entire Great War.
Saves the Chinese cooking up COVID for germ warfare* when they can just wait for the US troops to get the flu.
*They didn't

What a loser!

Right in time for World Cup crowds (or lack of by the way things are going, no one wants to go there at this time) 1st match 11th June

Gusts of up to 80 mph on way for Easter weekend

It's surreal:football helps man shed seven stone

Paul Waring made 161 feet and 10 inches on putts

The 24ft (7m) fishing boat capsized east of Old Harry Rocks four nautical miles (7km) off Swanage on Tuesday at about 12:15 BST. The crew onboard the yacht raised a mayday with HM Coastguard, who requested Swanage lifeboat to launch.

All the talk of cultural acceptance of the euro and of Europeanness the last few days has been positive, almost exhilarating from our side .

You know what would be a good step towards European norms: if the BBC started using metric by default.

My children were born in France.

Baby weights in lbs./oz. are meaningless to me.

I was previously a midwife. European mothers wanted their baby's weight in kilos, British mothers, even the young ones brought up on kilos, wanted to know in pounds and ounces. I also spent a lot of time explaining that the .5 of a pound the conversion app showed them wasn't 5 ounces

Interesting how the US wars go when their soldiers are lying in bed coughing and have high fevers.
Who knows, maybe peace president Trump's path to the Nobel Prize, how to stop soldiers from fighting, no vaccine

The *Scientific* American apparently feels constrained to write that "*one* expert says" that "The decision to no longer enforce mandatory annual flu shots for military personnel *could* mean more troops will get sick during flu season." (my emphases, I must make clear)

What a time to be alive!

president donald trump is giving a speech in front of an american flag . ALT: president donald trump is giving a speech in front of an american flag .

"Locker-room solidarity", he might call it.

If he could just get his mouth to articulate the word "solidarity".

What is this Government’s vision for the future of young people in Ireland?

In at least one Dublin house, dozens are sharing overcrowded rooms and paying hundreds for a bed.

This is not a housing system. It is a return to tenement conditions.

Has "social cleansing" entered the lexicon of Trumpistan?

Tim Cook donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.

He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions).

Apple donated to Trump’s White House ballroom.

And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ.

Remember this.

Has to be an adult Catholic convert

Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages

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Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages

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Politico trying to save his skin by pre-emptively writing a story about something that hasn't even happened?

Israel jails two soldiers who damaged and photographed a Jesus statue in Lebanon | CNN The Israeli soldiers who damaged a figure of Jesus Christ in southern Lebanon and photographed the incident will be removed from combat duty and sentenced to 30 days of military detention, according t...

I'm certainly not opposed to punishing these soldiers, but it is hard not to notice that they're facing harsher punishment than IDF soldiers who committed document war crimes against human civilians. www.cnn.com/2026/04/21/m...

How Aircraft Carrier Crews EAT, SHOWER & SLEEP on MASSIVE Aircraft Carrier YouTube video by The Daily Navy

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Someone should gather 20 people currently suffering from the common cold, sit him down in the middle of a small room, and make him watch this.

With JFK Jr serving the choc-uces during the intermission.

Spanish Flu. Someone should google it.

Colonos israelíes matan a dos palestinos en Cisjordania, entre ellos un niño de 13 años cuyo padre ya fue asesinado en 2019 - EFE Colonos israelíes matan a tiros a dos palestinos, entre ellos a un niño de 13 años, cuyo padre fue asesinado también por colonos en 2019

Colonos israelíes matan a tiros a dos palestinos, uno de ellos un niño de 13 años, cuyo padre también fue asesinado por colonos en otro ataque violento en 2019 en la aldea cisjordana de Al Mughair, según una fuente local.

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I guarantee that RFK Jr has all his vaccines current.

As a civil servant whose job often entails defending the status quo because one is not in a position to change it, one develops an extensive armoury of such terms. Military bureaucracy no different.

A simply brilliant "tweet" by the Iranian Embassy in Thailand. Look closely!

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

This👇🏼takes the BBC’s Pro Reform campaign to another level it’s fcuking unacceptable - here is how to make a complaint, I will

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