Banie01 🇮🇪🇪🇺🌍

A lovely turn of phrase in this X post "Democratisation of Intelligence"
While most folk get excited about the #TipOfTheSpear when it comes to Air Combat ops, it is the Tankers, AWACS & ISR platforms that make those iOS possible.
They are called #ForceMultipliers for good reason.
As are Recon Sats😉

Shaun Pinner: surviving Russian torture and escaping death | Ukraine This Week YouTube video by TVP WORLD

youtu.be/lg5ZQbCiVgI?...

My interview for TVP World 🙏
Mariupol & 4 years on 🇺🇦

The tragedy behind this war is that it delegitmizes whatever government may come after the Iran's present theocracy as being a puppet of the United States and Israel. Iranians deserve better.

Fox News darling Sen. @JohnFetterman: “Why can’t we all just celebrate what happened today?”

I saw this front page of the Hitler-loving far right Daily Mail. This garbage [even Wikipedia doesn’t consider it valid] pushes far right tropes into lower middle class homes across England & Wales. Am loving the British Royal Air Force [RAF] being described as ‘tourists’ & also the ‘erupts’ [1]

It's been too long since I've posted.
Life & rage kept me busy elsewhere.
The #AVgeek in me has been busy too tho!
Some recent acquisitions & a plan to repaint the #Mosquito & to #Kitbash the #P38 into a #NightLightning are in progress.
& Look at my #BF110G 🤤
#ScaleModels
#Aviation
#Warplanes

i will never stop thinking about the intersection of epstein and the shitty media men list

Gen X here; was 16. I'm pretty sure this headline in 1987 would have drawn equal shares among "That creep?" "That clown?" and "Who?"

Clearly the ReaganBushes dropped the anti-Soviet ball big-time, though.

BBC News, "The US has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela"

Sky News, "This is America, it looks like Somalian pirates"

ITV News, "Venezuelan officials have called the action an act of international piracy"

UK Labour government? No comment at time of posting

Jurors in Sandwich Thrower Case Found Charges ‘Bunch of Baloney’ Two of the 12 jurors who found the accused DC sandwich thrower not guilty of assaulting a federal officer discuss why the case didn’t hold up.

This tasty digestif to the Sandwich Guy case chews on each slice of the deliberations, tantalizingly giving readers a rich flavor of why jurors found the evidence so unpalatable and disgorged all charges against the defendant. Condiments to the reporter.

It used to be an impeachable offense.

Now it’s a daily occurrence.

It's Election Day in many parts of the country. The governors, mayors, city councils, state reps, judges, school boards, and referendums you vote for today will be a vital line of defense against the Trump regime. You still have power. Use it.

Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney

Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket

12... inches. Full... Italian herb... jacket!

Solidarity is the only way

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

‘Did I as a reporter solicit information? Of course. It's called journalism: finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.’

www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Left: Tice to ITV: “It’s slander to say Dr Aseem Malhotra is our health adviser - apologise!”

Right: Reform UK conference: “Dr Malhotra worked with me to write Reform UK’s health policy.”
So which is it, Dubai Dick? Lying on stage or lying on telly. #ukpolitics

Tuapse ... Another angle.
#russianLosses
#UkraineNews

A fitting memorial to Charlie Kirk

#charliekirk #guns #gunviolence

Here's the crucial part of the summary of today's Court of Appeal judgment (full text of the judgment not yet public). The Home Office raised the ECHR in written proceedings, but not oral argument. The rest of the summary makes no mention of the ECHR. It seems it was not the basis of the judgment.

The ECHR as a turnip-ghost, continued.

“A dangerous crank — what on Earth are you on about??!”

@chrislhayes.bsky.social goes in on RFK Jr. for claiming he can diagnose kids just by looking at them.

Spot on review mate 👍
Really enjoyed it

NBC News Chicago headline: 5th grader says friend saved him before getting shot in Minneapolis church shooting

It shouldn't be up to American children to save each other from getting shot.

It's the job of American adults to stop shootings from happening in the first place.

Ban assault weapons again now.

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski responds to Hungary banning Magyar: “Commander Magyar: if you need some R&R and Hungary won't let you in, please be our guest in Poland.” That’s the difference between standing with freedom—or hiding behind pipelines.

Many Gestapo agents were tried and executed by the Allies.

Many OVRA agents were killed by partisans.

Many Cheka operatives were murdered by their own master's purges.

Good luck, ICE goons. You're going to need it no matter how this thing goes. And you deserve whatever you get.

Minnesota is heartbroken.

From the officers responding, to the clergy and teachers providing comfort, to the hospital staff saving lives, we will get through this together.

Hug your kids close.