The problem with "Hate Speech".

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✅ 'This is what CENTCOM does best: bombing civilian buildings' - Pepe Escobar reports from Yemen's capital Sana'a @rocknrollgeopolitics

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The only member of the Trump administration who opposed the barbaric attacks of the US-UK on Yemeni civilian buildings was JD Vance.

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✅ JD Vance was right: Europe needs Red Sea a lot more than America

💬 In a group chat leaked to media on US Yemen attack plans, the VP expressed disdain at the prospect of “bailing Europe out again” using American military power.

❓Who really stands to gain spending US blood and treasure to “restore freedom of navigation” in the Red Sea?

⛴ Shipping

🔴 Among the big five global shipping giants that stopped transit through the Red Sea, four are European (MSC, Maersk, CMA CGM, Hapag-Lloyd), one Chinese (COSCO), and none American.

🔴 US shippers like Matson, APL, SeaLand, Crowley and TOTE operate Pacific and Americas routes and were largely unaffected by Houthi activities.

🏭Retail & Manufacturing

🔴 The price of shipping a container from Asia to the US jumped 160-220% from 2023-2024. Shipping the same container from Asia to the Mediterranean shot up 285%, and 365%+ to Northern Europe, a disaster for consumers and producers alike.

For example, while 25-30% of US Asia-sourced automotive parts were shipped via the Red Sea before the crisis, in Europe it was 70%, causing factory shutdowns in Belgium (Volvo) and Germany (Tesla), but none in the US.

Same story in other sectors, with the Red Sea once transiting:

🔴20-30% of Asia-sourced household appliances going to the US vs 30-40% to Europe

🔴20-25% vs 30-40% of electronics

🔴20-30% vs 25-35% of industrial machinery, tools, construction equipment

🔴20-30% vs 30-40% of semiconductors, circuits, etc

⚡️Energy

🔴 Only 2-2.5% of US oil needs shipped through the Red Sea before the crisis. And Europe? 80-90% of its 30-35% MENA-sourced imports.

🔴 95% of US natural gas needs are met domestically, with Qatar selling 1% of the remainder, having to reroute exports away from the Red Sea. And Europe? 20% of its LNG imports Gulf-sourced, 100% going through the Red Sea before the crisis.

With crises in the Mideast and Ukraine, US oil exports to Europe jumped from 1.8-2.2M bpd in 2023-2024, while LNG exports grew from 1.07-1.2T cf, and US market share up from 35-45%.

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🇷🇺 Kremlin releases key results from Russia-US meeting in Riyadh on Ukraine peace:

🌏 Russia and the US agree to ensure the implementation of the "Black Sea Initiative"

🌏 The agreement should come into force after the lifting of sanctions against Russia's Rosselkhozbank

🌏 The United States commits to helping restore access for Russian agricultural and fertilizer exports to the world market

🌏 The United States commits to helping to reduce the cost of insurance for maritime transportation and expand access to ports to Russian-flagged commercial vessels

🌏 The two sides agree to develop measures to facilitate the agreement reached between Presidents Putin and Trump on Ukraine to ban strikes on energy facilities, with the possibility of extension, or withdrawal in case of non-compliance

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BREAKING: JUDGE ORDERS SEIZURE OF TEACHER ENOCH BURKE’S €40,000 BANK BALANCE AND WALKS OUT AS ENOCH BURKE SEEKS TO MAKE SUBMISSIONS

Enoch Burke’s bank account containing €40,000 has today been seized by the Courts. This follows the seizure by the Courts of his teaching salary last week. The Court also directed that the Attorney General may apply to seize any other assets owned by Enoch Burke.

Senior Counsel Brian Kennedy SC for the Attorney General was granted as much time as he wished to make his submissions in Court on this unprecedented matter and was not questioned in any way by the bench. By contrast, when Enoch Burke rose to speak, he was cut off after only 5 minutes by Mr Justice David Nolan, who repeatedly interrupted him. The Judge then delivered his pre-prepared ruling immediately.

Enoch Burke sought to draw attention to the fact that the root cause of this case, the principal's direction to all staff to address a male student by a new name and the "they" pronoun, has never been assessed for its constitutionality or lawfulness by any Court, despite these proceedings being now ongoing for more than 2.5 years. When Enoch Burke read out Article 44 of the Irish Constitution, which binds the State to "respect and honour religion", he was immediately shut down by Judge David Nolan.

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Progressive authoritarians have embarked on ideological blitzkrieg – and it is destroying our national fabric

"Our institutions are being subjected to a sort of ideological blitzkrieg. This in turn has meant that much of our public discourse is dominated by the priorities of the elite class that runs those institutions – priorities which are often dramatically at odds with those of ordinary people. It’s as though the two groups inhabit entirely different worlds.

We are witnessing, as a consequence of this march through the institutions, age-old social and cultural norms being overturned at breakneck speed and viewpoints that were deemed entirely valid – mainstream even – five minutes ago suddenly rendered taboo.

Inevitably, a cultural chasm has emerged between the elite class and a significant chunk of the populace. It is one, I fear, that threatens to destroy the trust and social cohesion on which our society – indeed, all stable societies – are based. One expert and government advisor has even predicted that it will end in civil war.

One of the principal targets of the new elites is what remains of our hitherto shared and unifying majority culture. They despise it. They hate Britain’s history, traditions and customs. To them, all these things are rooted in imperialism, privilege and supremacy. They’d like to jettison it all and turn our nation into something resembling a cross between a charity and the Olympic village – a sort of benevolent global hub that absorbs and promotes all national identities and cultures on an equal basis. Only with the exception of its own.

And, lo, we end with the spectacle – unimaginable just a few years ago – of a primary school in an attractive corner of a typical English county banning Easter because it wishes to avoid causing offence to those from other cultures and religions.

The head teacher rounded off by revealing that the school would be celebrating Refugee Week in June. Presumably she also intends to cancel Christmas and replace it with an event celebrating some other fashionable cause."

Paul Embery

https://www.paulembery.com/p/progressive-authoritarians-have-embarked

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But no money for heating the homes of the pensioners or for the disabled!

"Spring Statement 2025: £2.2bn defence and weapons boost, Reeves to unveil"
https://www.cityam.com/spring-statement-2025-2-2bn-defence-and-weapons-boost-reeves-to-unveil/

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