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Jan 11
In 1947 HMS VANGUARD, the last British battleship took the King & His family to South Africa. TOP SECRET MOD files, only declassified in late 2025 reveal a very different story about how the ship came close to open mutiny - with MI5, the Admiralty and the King all involved... Image
VANGUARD was launched by HRH Princess Elizabeth in 1944, and commissioned too late for WW2. In 1947 she was converted for service as a Royal Yacht to take the King to South Africa for the first visit by the Monarch. This was a high profile visit amid austerity of post war UK.

The photo was taken in Jan 47, just before she sailed.Image
The ship arrived in Cape Town in Feb 1947 under the command of Rear Admiral Agnew (her first CO, holding local rank of Captain). Over 1700 crew were embarked for the tour. The Royal Party disembarked to conduct their tour, with the ship then conducting a local programme off the South African coast.
(image ©National Museum of the Royal Navy.)Image
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Jan 11
The Ofcom Files: Exposing the UK's Attempt to Destroy the First Amendment

prestonbyrne.com/2025/10/16/the…
The Ofcom Files, Part II: IP Blocking the UK is Not Enough to Comply with the Online Safety Act
prestonbyrne.com/2025/11/06/the…
The Ofcom Files, Part III: No Surrender
prestonbyrne.com/2025/11/18/the…
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Jan 11
How this Polymarket trader made $106K in 1 month

Low win rate.
Huge profits.
This isn't luck — it's probability.

1/ Let's break down how trader sb911 did it 🧵 Image
2/ In the past month, sb911 made $106K on Polymarket.

But here's the surprising part:

Total predictions: 294

Winning predictions: 75

Win rate: 25.51%

So how does someone lose ~75% of the time and still win big?
3/ Most of his trades focus on one repeating question:

"Will Elon Musk post X–Y tweets this week?"

This isn’t random speculation.

Elon's tweeting behavior is:

Frequent
Consistent

Statistically stable over short time windows

That makes it measurable. Image
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Jan 11
@ImFiredUp2 @SandraFeistMN @IngrahamAngle @CMDROpAtLargeCA @CMDROpAtLargeCA

Thank you for everything that you are doing.

May I respectfully suggest that you confine your public comments to immigration law enforcement and your other official duties?

This can include effects on the labor market when unskilled labor returns home.

1/
@ImFiredUp2 @SandraFeistMN @IngrahamAngle @CMDROpAtLargeCA Similarly, by enforcing current law re removal of noncitizens with criminal convictions, there’s probably an effect on current crime, but we have to assume that Congress knew what it was doing, and why, when they enacted the law.

Great job re 8 USC 1325.

2/
@ImFiredUp2 @SandraFeistMN @IngrahamAngle @CMDROpAtLargeCA I don’t see any direct connection between #2A and enforcement of current immigration laws.

Yes, #2A is in the Constitution, and some people don’t like it, but when something is in the Constitution then it’s removed from ordinary political discussion.

Best wishes.

3/3
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Jan 11
At 5pm GMT (just a few minutes to go) we welcome attendees to “History Repeating: Has Antisemitism Taken Root in Feminism?” our online event. We will be live posting thoughout the event – though may not be able to reply to any comments immediately. Please remember the posts are not a transcript of what the speakers are saying, but are the poster’s understandering of the points being made. The event is being recorded and will be made available at a later date.
Antisemitism has simmered in feminist spaces for decades, but after October 7 it boiled over, spilling into a new phase of an old, ugly pattern: Jew-hatred disguised as social justice. Today, that hostility often takes the form of Antizionism: a movement built on demonisation and delegitimisation, fuelled by myths of “colonisation,” “genocide,” and “apartheid.”
But how did we get here?
This event is designed for anyone who wants to understand what’s happening – no prior knowledge required.

We’ll look at how critical theories changed feminist thinking and created a culture that often pushed Jewish women to the margins. We’ll dive into the Spare Rib controversy in the 1980s, when Britain’s leading feminist magazine split over fierce arguments about Zionism, racism, and antisemitism. And we’ll look at how antisemitism is showing up again in today’s feminist spaces.

This discussion will turn down the heat and expose what’s beneath the surface, helping women make sense of what they’re witnessing. Together, we’ll ask: What does this mean for the future of feminist solidarity, and for the place of Jewish women in the movement?

Kara Jesella – Author and scholar whose forthcoming Routledge book (2026) traces the history of antisemitism within the feminist movement. Kara holds a PhD and MA in Performance Studies from NYU and a BA in Women’s Studies and English from Vassar College. She served as managing editor of a feminist academic journal and is currently a fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. Her expertise illuminates the intersection of feminist theory, Jewish identity, and exclusionary politics.
Zoe Strimpel – Telegraph columnist and social historian, Zoe writes extensively on feminism, identity politics, and cultural trends. She has researched the Spare Rib controversy of the 1980s in depth and published on the magazine’s role in shaping feminist discourse, including chapters in Women’s Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain and articles in Social History of Medicine. Her work offers valuable insight into how debates over Zionism and antisemitism fractured the feminist movement and why those fault lines matter today.
Nicole Lampert (Moderator) – Freelance journalist, broadcaster, and commentator who writes regularly on antisemitism, Israel, and women’s rights for outlets including The Telegraph, Daily Mail, Independent, The Sun and the Jewish Chronicle. A former showbusiness editor of the Daily Mail, she uses her media expertise to clarify complex social issues. She was recently awarded the Pete Newbon Award for her outstanding contribution to public understanding of antisemitism by the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism.
Our spokeswomen Freya is introducing the event and speakers. We will be exploring how Antisemitism is currently being manifested in feminist spaces.
Nicole saying how she and Zoe are currently working on a story about this - and recounting the events at FILIA which prompted the formation of this organisation. the silence of the Pro-Pal group WRT to supporting the women of Iran is noted.
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Jan 11
🧵According to new data by Hamas Ministry of Health released this week, 475 Gazans have died from "famine and malnutrition" for the ENTIRE WAR—and 14 since the ceasefire on Oct 10. Seventeen per month is not far above baseline and exposes every IPC report as pure propaganda. 1/ Image
Even IPC's Dec 2025 report claims that 1.5 million Gazans are living in Phase 4 Emergency or Phase 3 Crisis hunger levels, which by definition leads to consistent mortality. If true, more than 3,000 Gazans should have died from hunger related issues in December alone! 2/ Image
Thread shows that even in US there are 23,000 malnutrition deaths each year, not much lower than baseline implied by 475 Gazans deaths in two years. There has never been "famine" or "intentional starvation" in Gaza; the data proves it definitively. 3/
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Jan 11
Many of you haven't been introduced to PROMIS Software , Bill Hamilton or the Octopus.and Danny Casolaro's work on what he dubbed as the Octopus.
This single subject covers more areas than you realize and is at the crux of much of what we're dealing with today.

What I am about to post is from Bill himself and collected resources.

Take notes .Image
1.
National Security Provided Cover for a Multi-Billion Dollar Theft.

INSLAW,Inc.

February 27 , 2011

Edwin Meese, Earl Brian and PROMIS at the Start of Reagan Administration.

In January 1981, the month of Ronald Reagan’s first inauguration as President, Earl W. Brian, who had served in Governor Reagan’s California cabinet alongside Edwin Meese, launched the initial public offering of Biotech Capital Corporation. Brian controlled a number of companies, including Hadron, Inc., a Virginia-based information technology vendor to the U.S. intelligence community, through Biotech Capital Corporation in New York City.
2. During the same month, Edwin Meese’s wife, Ursula, bought shares in the initial public offering of Brian’s holding company, using funds loaned to her for that purpose by Edwin Thomas, a White House subordinate of Presidential Counselor Meese. Thomas was also a close friend of Brian. Meese failed to disclose the loan or the equity investment on his White House Financial Disclosure Reports for 1981 and 1982, as required by law. Brian reported to Meese during the initial years of the Reagan Presidency as the unpaid Chairman of the White House Task Force on Health Care Cost Reduction.

Both Brain, as California’s Secretary of Health, and Meese, as Chief of Staff to Governor Reagan, had been in a position to witness the ability of a large government contract to galvanize the growth of an information technology vendor into a large company: in the early 1970s, Brian awarded California’s Medicaid claims processing business to Electronic Data Systems (EDS). The contract helped propel EDS into one of the largest information technology companies in the world, and to make Ross Perot, EDS’ founder, a billionaire.

In addition to being Counselor to the President, Meese was a member of the so-called Troika that ran the Reagan White House. Most significantly for what transpired regarding PROMIS, Meese was not only a member of the Reagan National Security Council (NSC) but also the NSC member through whom Reagan’s first National Security Adviser, Richard Allen, reported to the President.
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Jan 11
1/7 Putin doesn’t want you to know this:

Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine has now lasted longer than the Soviet Union’s war against Nazi Germany in WWII.

By this stage of that war, Soviet troops were already in Berlin.

Today, Russia is still struggling to take Chasiv Yar Image
2/7 Russia has been trying to conquer the Donbas for 12 years, and the rest of Ukraine for nearly four of those.

Despite going all in and receiving help from partners, Russia controls less land now than it did in March 2022, one month into the invasion Image
3/7 The cost?

Over a million Russian casualties.

And after all that Russia still hasn’t achieved its strategic goals. It is far from controlling the Donbas let alone Ukraine.

This is a failure so massive it will be studied in military academies for decades Image
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Jan 11
@WaliRuchi @CBCTerry Hindu extremists last year alone have perpetrated over 950 incidents of violence against Christians in India,” It also included threats to abandon the Christian faith, social boycotts, halting prayer services and church closures.
opendoorsuk.org/news/latest-ne…
@WaliRuchi @CBCTerry Human rights and religious freedom in India continued to deteriorate throughout 2024, spike in hate crimes, cow-related lynchings, hate speeches & transnational repression, as documented in annual report of the Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC). iamc.com/new-report-ind…
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Jan 11
@violin4all The key phrase : "humans always found refuge in some of the most ludicrous supremacy hallucinations". HUMANS did this. HUMANS constructed a wide variety of realities, and most of those constructions appropriated religious dogma to back it, including Bible interpretations. 1/
@violin4all But neither "religion" , nor even "the Bible" is the culprit here. It's HUMANS, and their insistence of constructing a narrative or story to "explain" things. I can see this disconnect in the first few sentences of the article, and coming through strong in the comments. 2/
@violin4all But I'm continuing on and reading the rest of it right now. 3/
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Jan 11
You Would Not! 🧵

Sitting still and waiting on the LORD is not easy for those used to instant gratification, instant answers, or those who feel they must do something!
The LORD tells His people this!

Isaiah 30:15
For thus saith the LORD GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
He wanted His people to trust Him, not others; to return to walking with Him, but they wouldn’t listen!

Isaiah 30:1-3
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of Me; and that cover with a covering, but not of My Spirit,
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Jan 11
Gold is at all-time highs and sentiment is euphoric.

Tomorrow I’m meeting someone from a company that has been helping people invest in gold for centuries.

Here are the questions I want answered. 1/7
Why would you invest in gold? Research by Professor Jeremy Siegel shows that, over long periods of time, stocks deliver much higher returns than gold. 2/7 Image
Why would you invest in gold if the gold price has risen much faster than inflation over the past 25 years?

In the United States: prices +92%, gold +1390%.

Gold has no cash flows and creates no value, so why should it be able to outperform inflation? 3/7 Image
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