A party conference is a chance to face the country, lean into your base, give supporters something to rally behind — and cause your opponents to pause for thought. The announcement of plans for compulsory ID cards in the run-up to Labour’s annual get-together seemed a stunning miscalculation for this reason. Like many, I oppose […]
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“Goose is a jam band. Geese is indie rock. They both have new albums. They’re also both on tour. Confused? We can help.”
— New York Times
FREDDIE: Hey, Eddie.
EDDIE: Hey, Freddie.
FREDDIE: So Eddie, I’m putting together a playlist for the Audubon event.
EDDIE: Who’s on it?
FREDDIE: I got Geese.
EDDIE: Goose?
FREDDIE: No, Geese.
EDDIE: More than one?
FREDDIE: It’s just the one. Geese.
EDDIE: I’m saying. Geese is more than Goose.
FREDDIE: I’m glad you think so. I tried for Goose, too, but no luck.
EDDIE: What went wrong?
FREDDIE: They led me around and around and around for nothing.

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- Video by the University of California

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- by Janan Mostajabi

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Renewables, EVs, and AI itself are straining the grid. These researchers have ideas to evolve it.
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Last summer, we dreamed of Trojan horses. It was never going to be a revolution, but there remained some optimism, articulated through gritted teeth. Dull, politically unimaginative, rarely going far enough: when Keir Starmer was elected, it was clear that all of the above would probably continue to apply — after all, dreary politeness had tainted […]
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October 6th, 2025: If you scroll allll they way down to the bottom of the site (and you're not on the mobile site!) you can se ~by Sean Paul Kelley A little lesson in history is in order to understand why Israel remains dominant in the Middle East and continues to wage war against just about everyone. To understand better Israel’s strategic dilemma we have to look back at the Crusades. The First Crusade established the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1099. […]
by Tony Wikrent Trump not violating any law ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’ Trump Stuns By Saying ‘I Don’t Know’ When Asked Directly NBC’s Kristen Welker ‘Don’t You Need to Uphold the Constitution?’ Joe DePaolo, May 4th, 2025 [mediaite.com] Trump’s War on America Chris Hedges, Sep 28, 2025 Trump’s newest […]
~by Sean Paul Kelley This post is meant to piggy-back on Ian’s recent post, “The Next Big Crash Is On Its Way.” There has been little coverage in the legacy media of the GENIUS Act. This recent legislation, passed by both Houses of Congress and signed by President Trump is about “regulating” the crypto-economy. The […]
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So what should we do when Trump decides to boost import duties on French champagne and cognac by a cool 200 percent? Celebrate! Because then we can finally have the wonderful French champagne, around ten percent of which has been going to the United States, all to ourselves. We no longer must ship it laboriously […]
I Sverige år 2025 låter vi fortfarande friskolekoncerner med undermålig verksamhet få plocka ut skyhöga vinster — vinster som den svenska staten gladeligen låter dessa koncerner ta av vår skattefinansierade skolpeng. Dessa smarta välfärdsplundrare har överlag en högre lönsamhet än näringslivet i sin helhet, men när man väl plundrat färdigt lämnar man över problemen och […]
A roving reporter who covered Italy’s top politicians explains to The Grayzone how his country was reduced to a joint US-Israeli “aircraft carrier,” and raises troubling questions about an Israeli role in the killing of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro. For years, Israel’s Mossad monitored and secretly influenced a violent communist faction that carried out the March 16, 1978 kidnapping and murder of Italian statesman Aldo Moro, veteran investigative journalist Eric Salerno has documented. Having worked closely alongside multiple Italian […] The post Mossad ‘in contact from very beginning’ with killers of Italian PM, reporter reveals first appeared on The Grayzone. The post Mossad ‘in contact from very beginning’ with killers of Italian PM, reporter reveals appeared first on The Grayzone. | ||