Controversial opinion: City are the better team, with the better manager. They’ll win the league again.

While Trump starts wars to steal oil ...

"China has achieved a global milestone in sustainable infrastructure by constructing the world's first fully solar-powered high-speed railway, spanning an impressive 2,800 kilometers. This groundbreaking system operates ..."
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Israel detonating what’s left of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon.

They were already destroyed. Israel is obliterating everything.

Day 2 of the “ceasefire” between Lebanon and the genocidal nation

Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers

It's not betting when there's no risk involved. It's corruption.

Betting involves risk; corruption involves being in Trump's or Hegseth's inner circle in order to know for certain what is planned and when.

RFK Jr. once chopped off a dead raccoon’s penis to ‘study later’ while on a family road trip The bizarre account was unearthed in the new book “RFK Jr.: The Fall and Rise,” authored by The Post’s own Isabel Vincent, who drew upon a wide range of sources including private …

It's amazing that RFK is not the most insane person in the US cabinet. Perhaps not even top three.

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A Super-duper El Niño lurks below the Equatorial Pacific Ocean surface, with a large section of the ocean showing a temperature anomaly of >5°C.

Wait for it:

The company Emrod is already transmitting energy over kilometers without cables, using microwaves and laser-based safety.
In Finland 🇫🇮

Today is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.

I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

The government always spends first, then taxes and ‘borrows’, so finding money isn’t the real problem. The challenge is finding the real resources to expand defence capabilities and the resulting trade offs e.g. recruiting more troops etc reduces the productive workforce elsewhere in the economy.

Extremely difficult to understand why OR would have made this decision.

Global warming is making the strongest hurricanes stronger » Yale Climate Connections Recent studies link human-caused warming to more powerful, more destructive storms worldwide.

Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 16, 2026 ~ a hard wind

"... we now need a 'Category 6' rating for hurricanes with winds of 193 mph (311 km/h) or greater, because global warming is expected to cause significant increases in maximum potential intensity."

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Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

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For Keir Starmer to talk of national resilience and ignore nature is absurd | Letters Letters: Responding to an article by the PM, Caroline Lucas says he must be clearer about climate risks, Molly Scott Cato says we must reverse Brexit and Dr Victor Ajuwon applauds Labour’s directness....

Extraordinary that nowhere in an article on resilience did PM find space to include the growing threat posed to UK security by the dramatic decline in the health of nature around the world - especially since his own intelligence chiefs have recently spelt it out for him in no uncertain terms 👇

In brief, HMRC keeps a strong claim on UK land and property, but may lose its claim on overseas assets if the person leaves cleanly, stays away long enough, and falls outside the UK’s inheritance tax rules.

A billionaire can leave the UK, but his UK real estate can’t. That means HMRC may still tax it via inheritance tax, capital gains tax on sale, and tax on any rental income. The movable wealth is the part that can more easily escape.

National Emergency Briefing: community film screenings Several screenings of the NEB film have been organised in the region, starting with a screening and discussion at Redhills Miners Hall, Durham, on Friday 17 April at 7.30pm.

National Emergency Briefing: community film screenings

Several screenings of the NEB film have been organised in the region, starting with a screening and discussion at Redhills Miners Hall, Durham, on Friday 17 April at 7.30pm

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Jeez. Labour MP’s have just voted to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state.

No protest movement has ever brought about change through one single march or action. How did it come to this?

Country that lectures Iran on democracy arrests another 523 people for peacefully protesting The absurdity surrounding the UK’s treatment of Palestine Action and its supporters has reached new lows.

Country that lectures Iran on democracy arrests another 523 people for peacefully protesting
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About the same size truck bed, drastic difference in body size.

Every so often I remember the day I stumbled upon this real life comparison between an Austin Mini pick-up and a modern mid-size Chevy pick-up

The bloat in body size & the blandness in style are starting. Thought the truck bed is about the same size.

#vintagecar #carbloat #waronthecar #AustinMini

Well put.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

American vehicles getting ever bigger.

Netanyahu and Israel got away with genocide in Gaza so now they’re doing it again in Lebanon.

They’ve demolished entire villages, displaced 1 million people, and plan to build “settlements” on the land they stole.

The peace talks today feel meaningless unless Israel is stopped.

I have signed this and hope other British Jews will as well.

‘Marathon’ = less than 24 hours.

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Yep - read that. Tells you things most of us never knew - including those who have a degree in economics. You don’t have to swallow everything in MMT to recognise it yields insights - because, unlike neoclassical economics, it tries to deal in detail with how the public finances actually work.

The government can always find the money - it’s created in the act of spending itself. The question is whether (a) it’s necessary; (b) the government can find the real resources for it; and (c) what the trade-offs would have to be.

Iran chose 'not to accept our terms', Vance says after peace talks The US vice-president made the announcement after 21 hours of negotiations in Islamabad, Pakistan.

Braindead.
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Unimaginable destruction going on – day in, day out – in places that are supposed to be 'protected' for nature.

When words become totally meaningless.