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@althecat
May 22, 2021 • 16 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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On another road trip, this time leaving Europe’s #CityOfPeace possibly permanently. Image
I have had two and a half years at the amazing @EU_Commission funded @HumanBrainProj, mostly helping with the effort to launch @EBRAINS_eu a research infrastructure for computational brain research which will be its legacy. ImageImageImage
This morning as I left I visited a favourite spot near Ferney-Voltaire where Mt Blanc was fully visible for the first time in ages to say goodbye. Image
During this weird period of Covid I was very lucky to spend two months living under this amazing mountain in #Chamonix. One of the great homes of mountaineering and skiing. Image
It looks like the weather is going to be prefect for my transit across France :) Image
Traveling through Burgundy, at my favourite motorway stop on this trip west, fairly near to Cluny and Taize.

This stop is particularly cool because it includes a lovely old forest stop on the hill plus the view of a great castle. ImageImageImage
Going to mix this roadtrip thread up a bit by sharing what I am listening to. First up, the @BBCSounds Friday Night Comedy show, undoubtedly the best way to keep informed about UK 🇬🇧 Politics. podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/fri…
It’s been sunny most of the way so far. But now at the half way point it looks like it’s about to get a bit wet and wild. Image
This bit in particular looks like it will contain some pretty serious rain, and there are several of these under the storm.

This is not normal for late May. And not is the temperature 11 degrees. Typically storms this time of year are more orderly. Image
Next podcast is @camanpour hosted very ably by @biannagolodryga. The @CNN global show has been leading with the Israeli Palestinian conflict since throughout the recent war. Her shows are special for directly addressing issues of reconciliation. podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/ama…
And here comes the rain..... Image
A thunderstorm in the distance. Image
The roads are now deserted..... Covid curfew came into effect 5 hours ago. Image
The last toll gate.... on this 1000km trip, nearly all of it on beautiful motorways, the cost of tolls is roughly the same as the fuel cost. Image
The amazing @crookedmedia’s latest #PodSaveTheWorld podcast, recorded before the ceasefire provides a very interesting, informed and insightful look inside a Democratic perspective on the Israel-Palestinian conundrum. podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/pod…
And home.... /ends ImageImage

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Sep 10
At this point following the Qatar obscenity Israel is now breaking the internet and the world.

something decisive is needed to break Israel - a peaceful action that will work and show the world that justice still exists and that peace is possible.
A wise friend proposed a brilliant idea. Every nation on earth which is willing and able should send a frigate to the Mediterranean Sea and take a message to Israel that it cannot ignore.
The foundations of the United Nations itself are now crumbling under the weight of the Gaza Obscenity and nations like Britain that seem to have been turned are facing protest and resistance of epic proportions from their citizens.

The center cannot hold.
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Sep 4
I’ll be posting videos and news here on Twitter from the flotilla which is about to depart from Majorca for Tunis on the first leg of the journey to Gaza.
More boats are expected to join the flotilla from Europe and North Africa along the way as it moves west across the Mediterranean. @GretaThunberg is making the voyage again and Israel will not be able to contain or stop this flotilla most likely. And definitely not the publicity.
This first video is of a wind squall hitting one of the boats as it departs Barcelona.
Read 13 tweets
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Aug 10
Netanyahu has proposed a pathway to end the war in Gaza under pressure primarily from the U.S. UK, France & Germany. Spain and Ireland and several other European nations & the European Commission.

LIVE: PM Netanyahu Holds a Press conference youtube.com/live/1ebXvF9MO…
The @israelipm sounds defeated. Hopefully this is the beginning of the end. The deal being offered to Gaza is far from perfect but it sounds workable in Netanyahus outline.
@IsraeliPM Whether it will be approved by Hamas however is unclear and rather complicated - as it’s unclear who inside Gaza would be in a position to respond to the offer. Many of Hamas’s fighters may prefer to die as martyrs also than to agree to any deal.
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Jul 25
Guess who has the most to lose if/when @realDonaldTrump discovers he’s now a lame duck President.

He is now so deep under water both in polling and with his base that it’s very hard to imagine him bouncing back.
I’ll answer my question shortly buts it’s well worth pondering…. In the meantime consider this.

Trump is now a laughing stock. And not only is everyone in America now laughing at him. But he has also been abandoned by his base and his party.
The bonfire of vanity that belongs to Donald Trump is iridescent, a signal to the world that his presidency has ended before it even started.
Read 7 tweets
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Jul 25
This is pathetic from @realDonaldTrump he’s lashing out like an angry teenager. Jerome Powell says he’s included a the costs of a building that was completed years ago in his very public attack on the FED Chair.
Trump has completely lost the plot. The single most damaging thing that he could do to undermine confidence in the U.S. dollar (which he publicly claims to want to deflate and there by make all Americans poorer - is to attack the Federal Reserve and the SEC.
@realDonaldTrump Trump is setting fire to the dollar to distract from his Epstein mess what a complete baby.
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Jul 2
I attended the Bonn climate talks. They were very disappointing to everyone. The elephant in the room was (of course) the U.S. decision to withdraw from the talks altogether.

open.spotify.com/episode/3YV0SU…
Unfortunately.. perhaps intentionally in advance of the continuation of climate talks regardless of #US_Disintigration the talks were also very sparsely attended particularly by activists and NGOs. The reason for this was @elonmusk destroying @-USAID.
@elonmusk As you can see the USAID Twitter account is now dead - deleted which is an appalling act of vandalism executed by Elon and his tech-bro team of teenagers.
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