En nog dit: Defensie wil software Palantir - gebruikt in de Navo intensief gebruikt in de verdediging van Oekraïne- ‘binnen twee jaar’ vervangen door Europees alternatief www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/def...

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

youtu.be/HHM1_Z9EluA We gingen met Alexander naar een van de grootste militaire begraafplaatsen van Oekraïne. Meer dan 10.000 graven van vooral jonge mannen. Allemaal gestorven in de afgelopen paar jaren. Vrijheid is nooit vanzelfsprekend.

It’s astounding that Zelensky survived a full-scale war without ever having a ballroom.

The brutality of the Israeli regime knows no boundaries. They kill almost at random and make life impossible for those that survive the killings. While the U.S. is the most important protector of this rogue state, most European countries have done nothing to hold it accountable either.

Josh Rogin: “Somebody shorted the oil market today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement— If you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that's happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began — that's a pattern”

At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

This is Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen He just called on Trump to assassinate the Iranian delegation. 1. This is a war crime 2. Wash Post is now state media and promoting war crimes 3. Why are you still subscribed to them? Yes, inviting you to my platform: www.qasimrashid.com/subscribe

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.

Trump's son-in-law, his business buddy and JD Vance are going to negotiate an end to the U.S. bombing campaign against Iran. We need to talk about how fucked up this is. 🧵

The only president stupid enough to do it.

What’s killing NATO isn’t the European refusals to access to US bases, but Trump’s unilateral decision to redefining NATO as a US force-projection tool rather than a collective defense arrangement. That’s the constitutional coup against the alliance. Europe didn’t break NATO, Trump did.

"The Times’s analysis shows that the damage was often caused by strikes in crowded neighborhoods" "In most instances examined by The Times, the intended target of a strike was not clear. In some cases, schools and health care facilities ... were directly hit." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

The president of the United States is now threatening to commit genocide.

JD Vance flies to Hungary to interfere with the election, while complaining that people who haven't flown to Hungary to interfere with the election are interfering with the election. I doubt he'd know where to feed himself if it wasn't for his mouth flapping all day long. www.theguardian.com/uk

Opiniestuk in De Standaard over de centrale rol van technologiebedrijven in hedendaagse oorlogsvoering: www.standaard.be/opinies/de-m...

He was in 1972. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15654729/amp/trump-not-afraid-ground-combat-iran.html

Footage reviewed and geolocated by Bellingcat confirms US tomahawk missiles hit the girls’ primary school in southern Iran that killed 175 people, most of them children. Researcher Trevor Ball notes Israel does not possess Tomahawk missiles. United States does.

real life or a leak of tonight SNL's cold open? You decide

Welke argumenten en propaganda ook gebruikt worden in deze oorlog, dit beeld zal niet vergeten worden.

There won’t be $5B of US arms “aid” to Ukraine next year, as Rutte suggests here. The 2026 US defense budget mentions an amount of $400 MILLION. The 5 BILLION Rutte mentioned refers to US arms SALES to other NATO countries, who will then pass the goodies on to Ukraine. That’s BUSINESS, not aid.

Een minister van Buitenlandse Zaken die in de eerste week van zijn ambtstermijn doodleuk zegt dat "het internationale recht niet enige kader om de situatie te beoordelen is." Als het dat niet altijd wél is, is er geen internationaal recht meer.

Hegseth: "Israel has clear missions as well for which we are grateful. Capable partners are good partners, unlike so many of our traditional allies who wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force ... no stupid rules of engagement."

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/

Niet onbelangrijk, maar dreigt door Iran ondergesneeuwd te geraken: OpenAI (bedrijf achter ChatGPT) heeft akkoord gesloten met VS ministerie Defensie over gebruik van zijn AI-modellen. Concurrent Anthropic weigerde eerder om zijn AI-tools zonder beperkingen beschikbaar te stellen aan leger. 1/4🧵

As a professional military strategist, I just wanted to make sure everyone has a full understanding of the American strategy in Iran, thank you for your attention to this matter

Foreign Minister Sikorski: Contrary to what Russian propaganda says, NATO did not expand into Central European countries. It was us - our countries, the countries of our region, including Poland - that sought membership.

Good to highlight this. I always wonder how it is that this long piece in Wired from 2017, on how Palantir takes over institutions, has not found its way into the minds of public procurement decision makers around the world. www.wired.com/story/how-pe...

Volgens De Tijd gaat het daarbij ook om onderdelen van Belgische bedrijven. Het volledige onderzoek:

Bari Weiss is doing exactly what she was expected to do. Ellison, Bezos, and other oligarchs are not trying to make their media properties profitable. They are turning them into regime media--to make their other properties more profitable.

We have two dominant visions for digital tech: one from major corporations that maximizes profit at any cost, and another based on cyberlibertarian ideals that assumes you must code to participate in society. We need another: where the public sector builds and funds tech for the broad public good.

Het Israëlische leger heeft de grensgebieden van Libanon en Syrië besproeid met grote hoeveelheden landbouwgif. Op die manier probeert de Israëlische regering vermoedelijk semipermanente, onbegroeide bufferzones te creëren waar boeren zich niet langer kunnen begeven.

Rubio just made a speech to the European defense community in Munich that did not mention Ukraine. Or democracy. Or US business deals with Russia. Or the administration's plans to support the European far right. But there were lots of nice words about our common civilization.

Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

Dit opiniestuk van in NRC van Floris Burgers, Adriaan Duiveman en Lotte Hogeweg citeert tot 4x toe Musa al-Gharbi als bron (ook het boek dat ze citeren doet dat). Maar Al-Gharbi is helemaal geen betrouwbare bron. Al-Gharbi was jaren onderdirecteur van Heterodox Academy, de anti-woke lobbygroep van

ICYMI: The Epstein files have pushed a powerful surveillance contractor back under the spotlight 👉 citizensreunited.substack.com/p/palantir-p...

‘Alleen illegalen worden aangepakt’. Nope. En de overheid LIEGT er over. Keer op keer. Dit is van weer alleen gísteren bijvoorbeeld:

ok but is there a third woman labeled never producing a billion ai powered humanoid robots

No. Sensationalistic journalists attempt to trigger fear of an AI uprising. A bots-only social network triggers fears of an AI uprising www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society. How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?

striking how many mainstream, supposedly sane and rational quality media, fall for Trumpist lines and frames. Same with the idea that the rules-based order America wrote was somehow putting America second, and now Trump is putting that right. Or that the US 'paid to protect Europe' - the altruists!

US law requires 2/3 Senate approval for international treaties

I had to write a corrective. This crisis is anything but over. Even by the standards of Trump speeches, this was psychotic.