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Top of the Pops (10th August 1978). Renaissance can see the Northern Lights at number 11.
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Reform's Operation Fortress swings into action.
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BREAKING: Trump's $10 billion BBC lawsuit is BACKFIRING BIGLY and may force Special Prosecutor Jack Smith's January 6 evidence back into the courtroom
After making $16 million from Paramount/CBS to settle one of his frivolous lawsuits, Donald Trump figured he could keep suing media companies and rake in the dough from corporate CEOs who would rather give in than face a protracted and expensive legal fight.
But Trump got greedy and wanted a $10 billion payday from his next target, Britainโs venerable public broadcaster, the BBC.
What he's getting instead is a legal nightmare of his own making.
Trump sued the BBC last December, claiming a documentary on their news program Panorama, "put words in his mouth" by editing together portions of his January 6th speech delivered nearly 50 minutes apart.
He even bizarrely claimed the network used AI to fabricate his words โ it didn't. The BBC did splice the footage, which sparked an internal investigation, the firing of some senior officials at the broadcaster, and the issuing of a written apology.
An apology simply wasn't enough for Trump, however. He still wanted that $10 billion.
Now his lawsuit against the British broadcaster is unraveling spectacularly.
A federal judge ruled this week that Trump must hand over detailed financial records from more than 400 companies tied to his family trust โ because HIS OWN lawsuit claims the BBC's editing damaged his businesses.
You can't claim massive financial injury and then refuse to show your books. Judge Enjoliquรฉ Lett wasn't buying the attempted dodge: "All of President Trump's brand, properties and businesses are impugned... Reputational, economic damages, all of that is now at issue in this case."
It gets worse. The same judge greenlit subpoenas targeting Trump's inner circle โ Donald Trump Jr., Steve Bannon, and Stephen Miller โ to determine what Trump actually intended on January 6th.
And now, in a third gut-punch within 24 hours, the BBC is demanding records showing exactly how Trump LOST his executive privilege claims during Special Prosecutor Jack Smith's January 6th investigation.
Smith's team had already gathered evidence establishing that the Capitol violence was "foreseeable" to Trump, that he "caused it," and that he made "a conscious choice not to stop it" once it began. If the BBC gets that evidence, Trump's entire defamation case collapses.
Trump built a career suing media outlets into silence. This time, he sued an organization willing to actually fight โ and in doing so, handed prosecutors a roadmap straight into his finances, his inner circle, and his own conduct on January 6th.
Plus, the public may get another chance to review the evidence that Jack Smith amassed against Trump, evidence that judges appointed by the litigious president have made sure that heโll never be held accountable for.
Sometimes a lawsuit is simply a trap you built for yourself.
Please like and share to spread the news!
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I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
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๐จ๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ท๐ฆ๐ช UAE billionaire Khalaf Ahmad Al Habtoor just humiliatingly dismissed Senator Lindsey Graham in the most eloquent way possible.
Graham's calling for Gulf states to join the war. Says they're "under attack" and need to fight alongside the US.
Al Habtoor's response: "We know full well why we are under attack, and we also know who dragged the entire region into this dangerous escalation without consulting those he calls his 'allies.'"
In other words: You started this war without asking us. Now you want us to fight it for you? No!
The money shot: Graham said Iran and Venezuela together hold 31% of global oil reserves. That if the U.S. takes control, it's a "nightmare for China" and America would "make a lot of money."
Al Habtoor: "Only then does the picture become clear. And only then do we understand why they want this war."
Not about freedom. Not about security. Oil and money. Graham said it himself.
"We do not need your protection. All we want from you is to keep your hands off us.
We invest in our security and pay billions of dollars for these weapons. This is an industry that thrives on wars and arms sales, not a charitable endeavor."
The kill shot:
"Senator Graham: You may be a senator in the U.S. Senate, but anyone who hears your statements might think you're a member of the Israeli Knesset, because you defend Israel's interests more than you defend the interests of the American people themselves.
We will not enter this war to serve the interests of others, nor will we sacrifice our sons in a conflict that could have been avoided through diplomacy and political solutions.
We want peace and stability. We will not accept being forced down the path of war, nor will we accept being fuel for others' battles."
The Gulf-U.S. alliance just cracked in public. Over oil. Over being used. Over being told to sacrifice their people for American profits and Israeli security.
Meanwhile, the UAE is treating its residents and tourists like their own nationals (Arabs, Israelis, Europeans, Americans, and Asians alike), and resiliently ensuring their airports, ports and infrastructure operate flawlessly. Not lost on them is the media wars being played to bait them into joining a war they never wanted in the first place.
@KhalafAlHabtoor
๐จ๐ฎ๐ท The viral images of Khamenei's body in rubble are AI-generated.
Reuters and Google's SynthID detection tool confirming it, with "very high confidence" the images are fake.
In a war with a near-total internet blackout inside Iran, AI-generated content is filling the information vacuum in real time.
Verify everything. Believe nothing you can't source.
Reuters
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BREAKING: Antifa members broke into the Detroit Economic Club's AV room and changed the intro song for Donald Trump's speech, earlier this evening.
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As brilliant a takedown of Trump as Iโve ever seen
Soak it upโฆ.
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Don't let people forget. The French government has repeatedly offered to build a refugee processing centre for the UK in France, they have offered to help fund it and to allow British immigration staff to work there.
It would instantly solve the "boats" problem
The UK refused.
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Before telling me that you donโt agree with Freedom of Movement of people, **please realise** that UK gov never implemented the 2004/38 directive that meant all EU citizens staying longer than 90 days, had to register and show they had work, health insurance or sufficient ยฃยฃ.
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Latvian journalist, "What impact will Brexit have on the NHS, and on EU citizens working in the NHS?"
Jeremy Hunt, "NHS has 20,000 nurses and 10,000 doctors who are EU citizens.. The NHS would fall over without EU citizens."
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Would it surprise you to learn that the EU proposed a mobility chapter for the TCA in 2020 that could have seen mutual travel, work and settlement arrangements agreed between UK and EU countries after #Brexit?
Would it surprise you to learn that UK gov rejected the offer?
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Nurses are under attack. The government have decided they will take them on and break them if needed
They are the same people who kept this nation going through the pandemic
They are the backbone of society
RT if you stand right behind them and will back them whatever it takes
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Asking a person wearing African dress and a badge with an African name which part of Africa she was from, and then clumsily explaining that you are trying to ascertain where her heritage lies, is not a hanging offence. A slightly awkward conversation does not equate to prejudice.
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Wears traditional dress at an event in a different country from where the dress originates. Gets offended when someone asks where sheโs from. ๐
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.@RishiSunak @Jeremy_Hunt & their mates stopped:
1. The Free Movement of British People.
2. The Free Movement of British Goods.
3. The Free Movement of British Services.
4. The Free Movement of British Capital.
& now they havenโt got a clue about how to get out of the mess.
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Three million people have watched the @FT Brexit Effect film
No platform for those who might distort the truth
Just the facts: how leaving the EU hit the UK economy
And stories from businesses struggling with #Brexitreality
We need an honest debate
youtu.be/wO2lWmgEK1Y
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โThe UK has become like Italy in terms of the sense of financial risk, political instabilityโฆ sadly without the good food, sunshine and glamour.โ
@gilliantett tells @krishgm โthere is a tremendous amount of concern among international investors.โ
