French ICC Judge Nicolas Guillou is living a nightmare after the US sanctioned him and other judges for issuing an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, once again exposing the risk of Europeans' reliance on American services.
https://www.
When Does AI Fakery Become AI Reality?
We are living in the precise historical moment when the question "Is this real?" has become unanswerable in real time, and the fact that nobody seems particularly alarmed by this should alarm us all. The case study arrived this month with the force of a wartime broadcast, which is exactly what it was: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose physical whereabouts and physical condition have been the subject of intense…
Amazon Prime Video plans to raise the price of its ad-free plan, Ultra, to $4.99 per month, and add support for up to five simultaneous streams, from April 10 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/894466/amazon-prime-video-ultra-ad-free-price-hi…
A London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia articles for governments and billionaires
Portland Communications helps rich clients
‘protect their reputation’
– with a shady, off-the-books editing service
The clients who benefitted from this “wikilaundering” are some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.
The firm's founder,
Tim Allan, is now the director of communications for Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
And it has been busted once already for th…
Danish PM says US
‘ambition to take over #Greenland’
is intact after Washington meeting
'Not easy' talks with US leave to #Denmark determined to
'prevent' US takeover of Greenland
Danish prime minister
Mette Frederiksen has responded to last night’s “not easy” meetin…
I searched "formula 1 going woke" to boost my blood pressure. Also works with "the bride movie woke" 😄
Breitbart is particularly beneficial if you need a healthy blood-boiling exercise, their respective titles being:
"Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Ultra-Woke Frankenstein Flick ‘The Bride!’ Bombs at Box Office"
vs.
"Melania Film Debuts as #1 Movie in America on Amazon Prime"
I am curious, how basic should your readers/viewers/listen…
Hahaha! Haha! Hahahahahahahahahaha!
No. Not a chance.
LOL, at some point I had an Amazon Prime membership (because I wanted to watch certain shows and they were only on Prime Video).
I just got a physical letter from Amazon telling me that the US government decided that I was missold Prime as I only used certain benefits and that the FTC requires them to pay me compensation.
How much? $14.99. The letter came with a cheque. There is no possible way to cash that in Norway. Oh and they spelt my name wrong anyway because they cannot do …
Aging often highlights our perceived limitations, yet consider Winston Churchill, who became Prime Minister at 65. A testament that setting new goals and personal reinvention can occur at any age. Embrace each chapter with courage – the BEST is yet to come! 🌟 #AgeIsJustANumber
Pedro Sšnchez: No to war
It is naive to think that escalating conflict in #Iran will lead to anything good, writes Spain’s prime minister.
A powerful statement.
Every EU country should agree with this.
https://archive.vn/V5gMx
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein.
Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
https://
@… The Prime Minister has the power to dissolve the House of Representatives in Japan, and in most cases a general election (for all seats) is held before the end of the term. This is the largest and most important election in …
"In his aping of Farage, Starmer is now contemplating a ‘review’ in the new year of how the European Convention of Human Rights — drafted by British lawyers to enshrine in law fundamental basic rights after the Second World War — is implemented in the uk. That is, watering it down."
As I Please: Starmer and/or Kafka
htt…
He is right ofcourse....
""To go to a foreign country and to ask for assistance in breaking up Canada, there's an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is treason," said Eby, ahead of the closed-door meeting in Ottawa."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/eby-alber
606 people died trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea in the less than two months 2026 had so far, that's the deadliest period on record.
More dangerous routes taken, constant pushbacks received, all because of Frontex.
Gaza showed us that so-called European values don't exist outside of Europe, Frontex is a prime example of how European values don't exist anywhere, especially not in Europe.
So former Dutch Minister and @… leader Sigrid Kaag is not part of Trump's "Board of Peace", but of his closely related "Gaza Executive Board", which has 4 members in common with the founding Executive Board of Trump's "Board of Peace": Witkoff, Kushner, Blair, Rowan
Just found out all 12 seasons of #MurderSheWrote are on #Amazon #Prime, and I couldn't be happier. I know, I'm a simple man. Now, shush, my program is coming on right now 😉
"The prime minister of England also doubles up as the prime minister of the whole of the UK. This is not ideal. The governor of California can’t also be the president of the US. There are clearly conflicting priorities"
#ScottishIndependence
#WelshIndependence
"The lesson isn’t “be accurate” or “be fair.” The lesson is: make us look good, or face the consequences."
NBC Hid The Boos For JD Vance. Where’s Trump’s ‘Unfair Editing’ Lawsuit? | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/09/nbc-hi
RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/113441521436240302
Today, I learned that the new Prime Minister of the Brussels Region is the district mayor who ordered the removal of these bicycle parking facilities.
Trump says the job market is booming for U.S.-born.
-- The data doesn’t show it.
Since the summer, Trump officials have been trumpeting the idea that job creation is booming for U.S.-born workers.
Trump said so, too, during a prime-time address last month aimed at assuaging Americans’ concerns about the economy
Trump administration officials also said recently that more than 2.5 million U.S.-born workers gained jobs in 2025
as 1 million immigrants left the workfor…
Geometric configuration of integrally closed Noetherian domains
Gyu Whan Chang, Giulio Peruginelli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22314 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2601.22314 https://arxiv.org/html/2601.22314
arXiv:2601.22314v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we completely describe the family of integrally closed Noetherian domains between $\mathbb{Z}[X]$ and $\mathbb{Q}[X]$. We accomplish this result by classifying the Krull domains between these two polynomial rings. To this end, we first describe the DVRs of $\mathbb{Q}(X)$ lying over $\mathbb{Z}_{(p)}$ for some prime $p \in \mathbb{Z}$, by distinguishing them according to whether the extension of the residue fields is algebraic or transcendental. We unify the known descriptions of such valuations by considering ultrametric balls in $\mathbb{C}_p$, the completion of the algebraic closure of the field $\mathbb{Q}_p$ of $p$-adic numbers. We then study when the intersection $R$ of such DVRs with $\mathbb{Q}[X]$ is of finite character, so that $R$ is a Krull domain, and we finally compute the divisor class group of $R$. It turns out that such a ring is formed by those polynomials which simultaneously map a finite union of ultrametric balls of $\mathbb{C}_p$ to its valuation domain $\mathbb{O}_p$, as $p\in\mathbb{Z}$ ranges through the set of primes. By a result of Heinzer, the Krull domains of this class are precisely the integrally closed Noetherian domains between $\mathbb{Z}[X]$ and $\mathbb{Q}[X]$. This novel approach provides a geometric understanding of this class of integrally closed domains. Furthermore, we also describe the UFDs between $\mathbb{Z}[X]$ and $\mathbb{Q}[X]$.
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I understand that there is no plausible evidence that Ukraine targeted Putin's residence. I don't understand why that matters. He's the prime combatant. Why should he not be targeted?
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Was ne arme Wurst!
Oder man könnte sagen: Mark Carney, alles richtig gemacht!
Oder man kann es ernsthaft politisch analysieren: dann müsste man urteilen, das Trump damit die Zukunft dieses Fantasiegremiums besiegelt hat. Solange die Mitgliedschaft von der Laune eines Operettenkönigs abhängig ist, wird es keinerlei Relevanz haben.
From The Conversation
Three ways Canada can navigate an increasingly erratic and belligerent United States
Charles Conteh
Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Department of Political Science, Brock University
"...the Canada-U.S. relationship is a complex picture of deep interdependence, marked by significant power imbalances, and the creative ways Canada has learned to adapt and prosper. ..."
If you've looked at recent US government websites, and wondered why you don't see UK government sites covered with photos of British cabinet members, it's not entirely a design choice.
Central government resources aren't allowed to be used to promote party political content - and for websites that can include raising the public profile of politicians.
There is, in essence, a civil servant who can reject website update requests made by the Prime Minister if they fe…
My congratulations to Canadians. They have a prime minister who speaks with reason, common sense, and pragmatism.
Here is his speech at the World Economic Forum, a must-listen to understand the current state of the so-called "world order", perhaps already destroyed forever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btqHDhO4h10
Medical Aid for Palestinians.
MAP is one of the 37 humanitarian aid organisations banned by Israel.
UK citizens - Please join the campaign to put pressure on Israel. Your MP can help by placing pressure on the Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary to demand that Israel immediately reverse this decision and end all barriers to aid.
Email your MP: Stand against Israel’s ban on aid orgs -
RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115926765066748259
Ed Davey's criticism of SpongeDon SquareTrumps is diluted.
Davey failed to resist the urge to also criticise the Prime Minister.
This neither demonstrates, nor encourages, solidarity.…
Trump should remember that if he continues to attack Sanchez, he will end up fighting the whole EU. Especially if he wants to "punish" Spain.
But he is so stupid he probably doesn't realize that.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93wwq1n542o
Local Hero.
"The head of a leading disability rights charity turned down an MBE in the New Year Honours over what she described as the "simply intolerable" situation facing disabled people in the UK."
"Tressa Burke, chief executive of the Glasgow Disability Alliance, was recognised by the prime minister for her services to people with disabilities."
The UK plans to update the Media Act 2024 to bring streaming platforms with 500K users under "enhanced" Ofcom regulation, giving it power to investigate them (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/netfl…
Communist Party general secretary Alex Gordon told the Morning Star: “Peter Mandelson’s resignation from a Labour Party he reformed in his own image is like a man trying to resign from his own shadow. He leaves behind a party apparatus that served as a corporate career ladder dominated by vicious right-wing sectarians.
“The only resignation that matters now is that of Keir Starmer as the Prime Minister who recommended him as UK ambassador....”
Just a day after hosting Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Trump will host Israeli prime minister #Benjamin #Netanyahu at Mar-a-Lago at 1pm ET.
It is the fifth meeting between the two leaders in the US this year and comes amid concerns over progress on Trump’s fragile
Courageous Starmer is waiting for instructions.
The UK is “not entirely clear” what it means for the US to be in charge of Venezuela, the chief secretary to the prime minister has said, urging a move towards a peaceful transition of power.
Darren Jones said the UK would wait to determine whether there had been a breach of international law after the US attacked the Venezuelan capital and captured its president, Nicolšs Maduro, and his wife on Saturday.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/04/uk-unclear-us-attack-venezuela?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
YouTube dominates daytime TV streaming, with 6.3M viewers at 11am in October on average, above Netflix's 2.8M, per Nielsen; prime-time viewership is more even (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.c…
Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr StŸre has acknowledged Trump’s letter is real.
#Trump #USA #Norway #US
Of course not.
He's an authoritarian yet timid cipher of a leader
Starmer indicates he will not U-turn on plan to scrap some jury trials | UK criminal justice | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jan/28/starmer-indicates…
Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott (March 12, 1821 – October 30, 1893) who was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 3rd prime minister of Canada from 1891 to 1892. Probably not well known by Canadians he nonetheless lived an interesting life and the attached Wiki is full of details both fascinating and informative, such as being the great-grandfather of Christopher Plummer. He was Canada's 1st native born PM, and one of just 2 Prime Ministers, the other being Mackenzie Bowell, to have held the office while serving in the Senate rather than the House of Commons. His political career had to overcome his signing of a declaration to join with the United States, and he was at the center of the CPR bribery scandal that brought down Macdonald's government. His 17 months as PM were regarded as effective, despite the fact that he spent a considerable amount of time trying to nominate John Thompson to take his place.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Abbott
"This speech is not going to be the Prime Minister's 'Love Actually' moment."
He's not going to deliver it silently via handwritten signs?
Let's begin by quoting, in full, a letter that the president of the United States of America sent yesterday to the prime minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr StŸre.
The text was forwarded by the White House National Security Council to ambassadors in Washington, and was clearly intended to be widely shared.
Here it is:
"Dear Jonas:
Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to …
Ex-presidents and prime ministers of Barbados (Freundel Stuart), Dominica (Edison James), Grenada (Tillman Thomas), Guyana (Donald Ramotar), Jamaica (Bruce Golding and PJ Patterson) St. Lucia (Kenny Anthony) and Trinidad & Tobago (Keith Rowley) praised Cuba’s long-standing commitment to their Caribbean neighbours through medical brigades, educational scholarships and and disaster relief.
Blockade of Cuba is now putting lives at risk. | Morning Star
I rage with my Danish brothers and sisters. WTAF USA?
#USA #Trump #MAGA #Greenland