New Debanking scandal in UK emerging:
Did The Canary just go down in history as one of the first media outlets in the United Kingdom, if not the first, to be put out of business by debanking?
Yesterday (19th Oct), the British left-wing news website The Canary announced that it is closing its doors “indefinitely” after 11 years of journalism.
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Today CBC published an article with the headline: “Why a spate of gun-for-hire shootings in Toronto were likely paid for by Iran.”
I was intrigued, as there has been almost 0 evidence offered for this claim thus far.
Unfortunately this article doesn’t offer any either, adding nothing new. CBC says they spent weeks on the investigation, so these are pretty pitiful results, at least in terms of finding evidence of who paid for the shootings.
I’m not sure why they feel comfortable with such a declarative headline given the lack of evidence (other than journalistic standards going out the window when the subject is an Official Enemy country).
Also, CBC and other journalists continue platforming police claims that they need backdoor access to messaging apps to solve these shootings, with no push back or critique about how these powers can be abused, including against journalists.
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Shein adds about 4,700 new styles to its site every day, and the end of the line for clothes like that is a beach in Ghana where the sand has grown tentacles.
82% of what Shein makes starts life as fossil fuel. Last November Greenpeace sent 56 Shein garments and shoes to a lab. Of those, 18 broke EU chemical limits, three of them children's clothes, and the waterproof jackets carried PFAS at up to 3,300 times the limit.
A dress like that gets worn twice and goes in a charity bag. What the charity can't sell is pressed into bales, and a great many go to Kantamanto in Accra, the biggest second-hand clothes market in the world. About 15 million used garments land in Ghana every week. Traders buy the bales blind, cut the string, and something like 40% is rubbish before it's touched a hanger. Around 100 tonnes a day leaves the market as waste. When Greenpeace tested the clothes on Accra's dumps, 89% had plastic in them.
Some goes on the tip, where old clothes have built up into cliffs with layers like rock. Some goes into Korle Lagoon, and the rains flush the lagoon out to sea. The sea brings it back. On Jamestown beach the tide buries it in the sand and twists it into ropes, tentacles of cloth that start on the beach and carry on under the waves. Last year reporters found M&S, Primark, H&M, Zara and Next clothing dumped in the Densu Delta, where endangered leatherback turtles nest.
And some of it gets burned. In Old Fadama the public washhouses heat their water over fires of old clothes, and the air inside carried benzene at almost 200 times Germany's indoor guideline. People wash in water boiled over somebody else's wardrobe.
Chile has its own version. What won't sell from the free port at Iquique gets dumped in the Atacama, and the pile can be photographed from space. There are Christmas jumpers in it.
Shein knows where all this goes. In 2022 Xu Yangtian's company pledged $50 million over five years to a fund for Kantamanto's waste workers. On the first of September it floated in Hong Kong and raised about $1.7 billion, enough to pay that pledge for 170 years.
Meanwhile a ewe in Powys grows one coat a year. Scientists left wool and polyester in seawater for 90 days, and the sea got stuck into the wool and barely touched the polyester.
Jamestown beach is what the sea does with the stuff it won't eat.
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Iran is asking to join the Saudi defense pact with Pakistan and Turkey.
This meeting is going to mark the end of Iran's network of armed groups.
Iran's president then said publicly that Iran was ready to join, even though he admitted he did not know the terms. Then the Saudi defense minister, Pakistan's army chief and Turkey's intelligence chief sat down with Iran's leadership in Tehran.
Eight months ago Iran was firing missiles at Riyadh.
To many people this will not make sense.
I have said this over and over.
Governments in this region shoot at each other and keep talking at the same time. The two can coexist.
We are seeing the effect of this now.
Iran is doing this because it has very little left.
A convenient timely transition.
Assad is gone, Hezbollah sat this war out, and Iraq's government wants nothing more to do with the militias. Neither does Lebanon. The only piece still working is the Houthis, and they are now firing at Saudi Arabia.
Iran cannot join a Saudi pact while its last ally is bombing Saudi airports, so the condition for getting in is that Iran hands the Houthis over to a settlement.
I have said this well, and this is coming.
In July I wrote that the Houthis were the last working part of Iran's network and that it would come out of this war smaller. Plenty of people said Iran was rebuilding it, and now Iran is asking to join the pact its last ally is attacking.
Since March, every government involved has been careful about what it has hit, and has kept talking the whole time, and has left the other side able to sign a deal at the end.
Israel is at the other side of this. For years Iran has been the reason Israel gives for striking Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran itself without asking anyone's permission.
Once Iran is inside a Saudi-led pact that includes a nuclear-armed Pakistan, that reason is gone.
This all ends in normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel, but on Saudi terms, and Riyadh still says there is no deal without a path to a Palestinian state.
It will also end with Israel normalizing with Iran.
About 2 million Palestinians are still in Gaza. Egypt and Jordan refused to take them, and the Arab money to rebuild Gaza depends on them staying.
Israel's far right, saying Gaza belongs to Israel, wanted the war to end with the Palestinians gone or exterminated.
When normalization comes, Israel will have to choose between its place in the region and the goal its far right has built its politics on.
This is going to be an existential dilemma for Israel.
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At 13 Judy Garland signed with MGM, and the studio decided she was too fat, put her on chicken soup, black coffee and cigarettes, and handed her pills to keep her going and more pills to knock her out, and by the time she finished The Wizard of Oz she was hooked on both.
She had been on stage since she was two, as Frances Gumm, the youngest of the Gumm Sisters. Her mother, Ethel, managed her, and according to her biographer first gave her pills, for energy and for sleep, before she was ten. Judy later called her mother the real Wicked Witch of the West.
MGM signed her in 1935. Louis B. Mayer and the studio bosses reportedly called her a fat little pig with pigtails. Mayer insisted on the diet himself: chicken soup, black coffee and cigarettes, with pills to take her appetite away. The studio supplied the pep pills, and when they left her too wired to sleep after the long days on set, it supplied sleeping pills for that. She and Mickey Rooney, she said later, were worked "days and nights on end", once for 72 hours straight, and kept going on pills.
She was 16 when filming began on The Wizard of Oz, and by the time it ended she was addicted to amphetamines and barbiturates. The girl in the gingham dress singing about somewhere over the rainbow was being starved by the studio and dosed by it.
The rest of her life was pills, husbands, comebacks and collapses. "At times," she said, "I have been pretty much of a walking advertisement for sleeping pills." She died in London on 22 June 1969, aged 47, of an accidental overdose of barbiturates.
At MGM a growing girl's hunger was treated as the problem, and the studio had a chemical for it.
Hollywood has never stopped thinking that way. It has only changed the delivery, from a bottle of pills to a weekly injection.
So, Russia was invaded 3 times and repelled the invaders. But because the 2nd time was by a cabal of 17 *capitalist* armies, it's been whitewashed in the west.
El 25 de octubre de 1922, acababa la agresión imperialista contra la Rusia bolchevique, con la entrada del Ejército Rojo en Vladivostok, aplastando a los últimos remanentes del Ejército Blanco y las fuerzas imperialistas de 17 países capitalistas.
Seguro que lo leíste en sus libros de historia occidentales, pero solo un año después de la Revolución Bolchevique, EEUU, Reino Unido, Francia, Checoslovaquia, Grecia, Rumania, Alemania, Austria-Hungría, Italia, Canadá, Turquía, Polonia, Serbia, Finlandia, Australia, China y Japón invadieron Rusia... pretendían acabar con la revolución obrera y devolver el poder a la burguesía zarista, en lo que se llamó como "Intervención Aliada" para restaurar el orden capitalista.
17 ejércitos con llegaron a tener a 1 millón de soldados invadiendo Rusia, en apoyo a la oligarquía capitalista y su ejército zarista, el cual también fue armado por todo Occidente... a esta flagrante agresión imperial de Occidente en Rusia lo llamaron "guerra civil" y murieron al menos 7 millones de rusos, hicieron todo lo posible para aplastar la revolución bolchevique que era un peligro para el capital mundial.
El Ejército Blanco armado y financiado por Occidente, además empleó la brutalidad más infame, en los Urales, más de 100.000 campesinos fueron exterminados en campos de concentración por el Ejercito Blanco por el "delito" de apoyar a los bolcheviques, exterminó a 150.000 judíos en el sur de Rusia (pogromos que más tarde imitarían los nazis) e hicieron limpiezas étnicas de más de 300.000 indígenas... metían a los sospechosos de ser bolcheviques en las calderas de sus trenes blindados para que se quemaran vivos.
La Rusia que quedó después de la cruenta agresión imperialista mal llamada "guerra civil", fue una de las naciones más pobres del mundo, sumida en el hambre y en las enfermedades... murieron al menos 3 millones de personas de hambruna y otras 2 millones de enfermedades como el tifus, la gripe o el cólera... en solo 40 años, esa misma Rusia devastada y con una guerra mundial por medio, seria una potencia mundial equipada con bomba atómica gracias al socialismo.
No somos conscientes del sacrificio del pueblo ruso para defender su revolución, primero tuvieron que luchar contra 17 países capitalistas, más muchos otros que apoyaron indirectamente la invasión económicamente y con armamento.... pero no contentos con eso, unas décadas más tarde, Occidente le financió a Hitler para acabar con la URSS y le montaron una guerra mundial que costó la vida a 27 millones de soviéticos.... y ni así, tampoco pudieron tumbar la revolución, es el ejercicio de resistencia mayor de un pueblo que ha conocido el mundo.
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El 25 de octubre de 1922, acababa la agresión imperialista contra la Rusia bolchevique, con la entrada del Ejército Rojo en Vladivostok, aplastando a los últimos remanentes del Ejército Blanco y las fuerzas imperialistas de 17 países capitalistas.
Seguro que lo leíste en sus libros de historia occidentales, pero solo un año después de la Revolución Bolchevique, EEUU, Reino Unido, Francia, Checoslovaquia, Grecia, Rumania, Alemania, Austria-Hungría, Italia, Canadá, Turquía, Polonia, Serbia, Finlandia, Australia, China y Japón invadieron Rusia... pretendían acabar con la revolución obrera y devolver el poder a la burguesía zarista, en lo que se llamó como "Intervención Aliada" para restaurar el orden capitalista.
17 ejércitos con llegaron a tener a 1 millón de soldados invadiendo Rusia, en apoyo a la oligarquía capitalista y su ejército zarista, el cual también fue armado por todo Occidente... a esta flagrante agresión imperial de Occidente en Rusia lo llamaron "guerra civil" y murieron al menos 7 millones de rusos, hicieron todo lo posible para aplastar la revolución bolchevique que era un peligro para el capital mundial.
El Ejército Blanco armado y financiado por Occidente, además empleó la brutalidad más infame, en los Urales, más de 100.000 campesinos fueron exterminados en campos de concentración por el Ejercito Blanco por el "delito" de apoyar a los bolcheviques, exterminó a 150.000 judíos en el sur de Rusia (pogromos que más tarde imitarían los nazis) e hicieron limpiezas étnicas de más de 300.000 indígenas... metían a los sospechosos de ser bolcheviques en las calderas de sus trenes blindados para que se quemaran vivos.
La Rusia que quedó después de la cruenta agresión imperialista mal llamada "guerra civil", fue una de las naciones más pobres del mundo, sumida en el hambre y en las enfermedades... murieron al menos 3 millones de personas de hambruna y otras 2 millones de enfermedades como el tifus, la gripe o el cólera... en solo 40 años, esa misma Rusia devastada y con una guerra mundial por medio, seria una potencia mundial equipada con bomba atómica gracias al socialismo.
No somos conscientes del sacrificio del pueblo ruso para defender su revolución, primero tuvieron que luchar contra 17 países capitalistas, más muchos otros que apoyaron indirectamente la invasión económicamente y con armamento.... pero no contentos con eso, unas décadas más tarde, Occidente le financió a Hitler para acabar con la URSS y le montaron una guerra mundial que costó la vida a 27 millones de soviéticos.... y ni así, tampoco pudieron tumbar la revolución, es el ejercicio de resistencia mayor de un pueblo que ha conocido el mundo.
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⚖️The censorial #OnlineSafetyAct became law on this day, three years ago.
The result? Orwellian stories of censorship like @AnnekaSvenska's.
Police turned up at her home and urged her to take an "online thinking skills course" after she exposed animal abuse on social media.
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This post goes some way to explaining the dire financial straits the UK is in...
"Britain has almost run out of taxpayers, or at the very least, it’s slowly running out of people who pay enough taxes to plausibly finance the state."
"...in 1998, about 43 per cent of British earners paid sufficient tax to cover the Government’s average per-capita spending. During Covid, that figure fell to an absolute low of circa 20 per cent, then by 2025 recovered modestly to 26.6 per cent."
No wonder if fewer than 27% of people are net contributors to the state
It's stats like this that make me want to leave. Big new project in the US in the next few months might be just the springboard I need
@griffitha @LiamHalligan
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This young woman filmed outside Ben-Gvir's rally saying Israel should annex Gaza and push its Arabs into other countries,
is not voicing an extreme view.
She is saying out loud the aim Israel has pursued since 1948.
On October 13, 2023, Israel ordered 1.1 million people in northern Gaza to move south within 24 hours.
This month Ben-Gvir, a sitting cabinet minister, told a Tel Aviv town hall that Israel should "conquer Gaza, because it's all ours," and told the Jerusalem Post that Gazans should be sent to France.
This is not extreme.
This is the most rational goal Israel has.
Jews and Palestinians between the river and the sea number roughly 7 million each by most estimates, so a state that wants both a Jewish majority and all of the land has to remove people.
Every alternative costs Israel one of the two:
annexation with citizenship ends the majority,
two states give up the land, and permanent rule without rights carries the apartheid charge that the International Court of Justice case filed by South Africa in December 2023 put in front of the world.
People tell me I am delusional about this ceasefire, ignoring the killing that has continued under the ceasefire. Gaza's Health Ministry counts 1,551 people killed since the ceasefire took effect on October 10, 2025, and the UN human rights office had independently verified 1,076 deaths by the end of July.
What people don't understand is context;
what the ceasefire blocks is the one outcome Israel needs, which is the population either leaving or being exterminated. Egypt and Jordan refused to take Gazans, the Arab League adopted Egypt's $53 billion reconstruction plan in March 2025 on the condition that Palestinians rebuild where they live, and Egypt, Qatar and Turkey sit inside the arrangement as guarantors. The ceasefire prohibits Israel from mass extermination.
Israel can keep killing people under that framework, at the rate that is being tolerated, but it cannot move them out, or exterminate en masse,
in which both objectives was the whole point of the war.
So most commentary measures this war in the wrong unit. This includes the overarching outcome.
Israel killed the leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah, struck Iran and holds large parts of Gaza, so the conclusion is that Israel won.
Measured against its own aim, it did not.
About 2 million Palestinians are still in Gaza, the demographic problem Israel went to war to solve is unchanged, with a massive genocide case it will be defending until the end of its existence.
A war fought to empty a territory and ending with the territory still full is a loss, and the longer that population stays, the less Israel can hold the land and the majority together.
The same mistake shows up in how people read Yemen.
When the Houthis fired at Israel and at Red Sea shipping in 2023, Saudi Arabia and the UAE declined to join the US-led naval coalition announced on December 18 of that year, implicitly supporting the Houthis.
On October 10 this year a Houthi missile hit Riyadh's airport and killed people, while allowing US and Israel ships to pass by their own blockade.
Both positions can hold true at once: the Gulf let Houthi fire at Israel run because it served a regional interest, and it fights the Houthis when the same missiles land on Saudi airports, because at that point it is defending its own territory while the Houthis are negotiating their own survival.
What needs to be understood is that
conflicts in this region is hierarchical. Apex alignment, diplomatically and militarily, occur against Israel. Remove Israel, and each state has it's own survival interest it needs to bargain with.
That's geopolitical oscillation, where incentives shift depending on hierarchical values. Two seemingly opposite objectives can coexist and be true at once.
I have explained all this at length.
🚨🇮🇱 HOLY SH*T!! LISTEN TO WHAT THIS GIRL SAYS....
"I think it's very important to settle and annex Gaza. I don't think this war is ever going to end unless we kick out the Arabs.
[The Arabs] should go to any other Arab country. I don’t really care…
Except Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, which are ours. Or we'll KILL them."
This was outside a rally for Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir...
And his party is expected to GAIN SEATS in the upcoming election, thanks to these young voters…
The future is f*cked, man.
Source: Reuters, The Guardian / Writers: Marie, Michael
Head's up: if you're in Britain and still have a brain, sign this:
execprosec.org/petition/
It's to make sure that the new Act that lying to the public is a crime ALSO APPLIES TO MPs AND PEERS...
Who are trying to leave themselves out of it. Cf Hillsborough.
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What a transaction timestamp can establish
Clock uncertainty, causal order and the capacity cost of verifiable timing
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Report: In ‘unprecedented confrontation,’ IDF chief resisting carrying out military action ordered by Netanyahu relating to Iran
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The most used weedkiller on American corn turns male frogs into egg-laying females at a tenth of the dose the law allows in drinking water, Europe banned it in 2004, and the company that makes it put the scientist who found out under surveillance.
Atrazine goes on half the corn in America, seventy million pounds a year, and every spring the rain washes it off the fields into the reservoirs of the corn belt in a pulse the water companies can set their calendar by. In 2002 Tyrone Hayes at Berkeley, who had been hired by the maker to test it, found that at a fraction of the legal limit it castrated male leopard frogs and turned some of them into functioning females with eggs. The company tried to keep the results. He published. The documents that came out in court a decade later were the company's plan for him, by name: discredit him, investigate him, have him followed, and buy the search results for his name so his work came up last.
The frogs were the warning. The water is the point. For most of the growing season the taps of Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas and Nebraska run above the European limit, and the water utilities sued the maker to pay for the filters and settled for a hundred million dollars. The European Union looked at the data and banned it because it could not be kept out of the water. The United States looked at the same data and renewed it, twice.
The corn it protects is fed to pigs, burned in cars, and refined into the syrup in the drink.
A pasture has never needed atrazine, and the cows on it drink from the pond. The corn belt puts a chemical through its own taps every June that changes the sex of the thing in the pond, and the official position is that the frogs are not people.
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This is gonna be great for Gen Alpha to not get a job in 10 years bc the EU decided the only way to keep children safe is to link their TikTok to their real name *forever*
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Why do we do Root CAs as a concept still. Maybe we should revisit this?
Can we have a high-trust internet with 200+ companies with root keys to the kingdom on every device?
Is this how we should design our infrastructure? Would this pass a modern design review board?
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* Towards a Commitment-based Political Economy. Will Ruddick
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"How our promises become power, and whether that power helps us care for one another."
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Once again reminding the hardware wallet retards that the risk that becomes real when you leak people’s SHIPPING INFORMATION is not phishing. It’s fucking PHYSICAL ASSAULTS AND KIDNAPPINGS.
We owe you an apology.
On October 20, we detected unauthorized access to our official website. After verifying API activity with Shopify, we confirmed on October 23 that a third party obtained customer shipping information. You trusted us with those details, and we're sorry we didn't keep them safe.
Exposed: names, contact details, shipping addresses, and order details (items and prices).
Not exposed: payment card or bank details, recovery phrases, private keys, or wallet passwords.
We've blocked access, fixed the vulnerability, opened an investigation, and are emailing affected customers.
Scammers may pose as Keystone by phone, text, email, or mail, offering refunds, replacement devices, or "fixes" for your order or address. None of it is from us.
NEVER share your recovery phrase or private keys, and NEVER enter your recovery phrase into a device you didn't order. We will never ask for them. Don't click links in unexpected messages. Type keyst.one yourself.
A detailed report is coming soon.
Until then, trust only our official channels. If anything feels off, email [email protected]. We'd rather hear from you than have you take a chance.
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