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He exposed Israel's nuclear weapons. Israel kidnapped him and locked him in solitary confinement for 11 years.
On December 21, 1986, a prisoner pressed his hand against the window of an Israeli police van.
Written across his palm were the words:
"Vanunu M. was hijacked in Rome."
His name was Mordechai Vanunu. And this was his extraordinary attempt to tell the world what had happened to him.
For almost ten years, Vanunu had worked at Israel's secretive nuclear facility near Dimona, processing materials used to manufacture nuclear weapons.
Israel had never publicly admitted possessing nuclear weapons.
Vanunu decided the world had a right to know.
Before leaving his job in 1985, he secretly photographed restricted areas of the facility.
In September 1986, he provided his evidence to Britain's Sunday Times.
Nuclear experts examining the material concluded that Israel possessed a sophisticated nuclear weapons programme. Contemporary estimates suggested an arsenal of 100 to 200 warheads.
But before the newspaper could publish its investigation, Vanunu disappeared.
A woman calling herself Cindy had befriended him in London and persuaded him to accompany her to Rome.
She was working for Mossad.
On September 30, 1986, Israeli agents abducted Vanunu in Italy, drugged him and secretly transported him to Israel.
The Sunday Times published its revelations on October 5.
Vanunu was already in Israeli custody.
When he eventually managed to communicate his kidnapping through the police van window, the authorities responded by painting the windows white before his next court appearance.
In 1988, following a secret trial, he was sentenced to 18 years in prison for espionage and treason.
He spent approximately 11 of those years in solitary confinement.
Eleven years.
Amnesty International condemned his prolonged isolation as cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
On April 21, 2004, Vanunu finally walked out of prison.
But Israel immediately imposed restrictions on his movements, foreign travel and contact with foreigners.
He had served his entire sentence. Yet the punishment continued.
Israeli authorities argued that he might still reveal classified information. Vanunu maintained that he had already disclosed everything he knew.
Four decades after his abduction, he was still being prevented from leaving Israel.
Consider the extraordinary contradiction.
Israel refuses to officially acknowledge its nuclear arsenal, even as the international community widely accepts its existence.
The man who helped establish that reality has spent much of his life imprisoned or deprived of basic freedoms.
Mordechai Vanunu exposed nuclear weapons.
He also exposed how far a government was prepared to go to protect its secrets.
Note that Israel has developed the Samson option. Remember Samson? He tore down the temple killing himself, but also everyone else.
Well, if things ever go a little too much against little Israel, it has promised to nuke the entire world. Cause Israel could be overrun, but its nuclear subs would still be around.
Don't give us too much trouble or we nuke the entire world.
Blackmail doesn't come in a bigger shape than that.
Mushroom clouds everywhere.
Jim Cavet🕊️🇸🇩🆘🍉 retweeted
"I cannot show you a tesseract because I, and you, are trapped in three dimensions."
- Carl Sagan
Jim Cavet🕊️🇸🇩🆘🍉 retweeted
Synthesizer pioneer Wendy Carlos interviewed on BBC 2 TV in 1989 youtube.com/watch?v=Z3cab5Ic…
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Welche Auswirkungen könnte eine Einschränkung der COVID-19-Impfungen auf ältere Menschen (hier: > 65 Jahre) auf die Krankheitslast, Hospitalisierungen und Todesfälle haben? Die Hospitalisierungen in sämtlichen Altersgruppen erhöhen sich, die Zahl der Todesfälle steigt.🧵
ALT Anstieg der Hospitalisierungen bei Impfung nur ab 65 Jahren Prozentuale Veränderung gegenüber der Impfung aller Altersgruppen; Hauptschätzung der Modellierung. Die Werte sind die zentralen Modellschätzungen, keine direkt beobachteten epidemiologischen Messwerte.
Jim Cavet🕊️🇸🇩🆘🍉 retweeted
You might appreciate this live version of "T.E.E./M.o.M." from 1981, played much faster and with even more cold intensity than the studio recording. (1:20:36 mark)
youtu.be/f16ZTSGu1XQ?si=_0pF…
![Kraftwerk | Live 1981 [Remastered]](https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/2116348055729721345/OT5R1dbN?format=jpg&name=800x320_1)
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Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
A stern, electronic ode to the wonders of European travel. Colossal, unstoppable; not only predicting pop music’s future, but sounding like it’s transporting you there too.
1977.
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Comedian Stewart Lee called out Russell Brand all the way back in April 7, 2008.
"The way Russell Brand makes up names for his own penis makes him sound like a child molester."
The end is hilarious.
Q: Why did you take an instant dislike to @rustyrockets?
A: Because it saves time in the long run.
Jim Cavet🕊️🇸🇩🆘🍉 retweeted
THE RETIRED LAWYER WHO DID PARLIAMENT'S JOB AND WON A JOURNALISM AWARD FOR IT
Dan Neidle (@DanNeidle) retired at 49 from Clifford Chance, one of the world's most powerful law firms, where he spent nearly 25 years as head of tax. Most people in that position go quiet and enjoy the garden.
Neidle started a non-profit think tank and spent his retirement doing what journalists, regulators, and parliament couldn't be bothered to do.
In July 2022, he published detailed analysis showing that Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi (@nadhimzahawi) had used an offshore structure to avoid approximately £3.7 million in capital gains tax on his YouGov stake. Then he showed Zahawi had lied about it.
Zahawi's lawyers at Osborne Clarke sent him threatening letters marked "confidential" and "not for publication," demanding he retract the allegations within 24 hours or face defamation action. They told him it would be "improper" and a "serious matter" to publish the letters.
Neidle published the letters.
He also published more detailed analysis. Then he referred the lawyers to the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
@TheSun then revealed Zahawi had secretly settled with HMRC for the exact amount Neidle estimated, plus a 30% penalty. Total: nearly £5 million. Rishi Sunak sacked Zahawi in January 2023 after an investigation found he had breached the Ministerial Code by failing to disclose he was being investigated by HMRC while serving as Chancellor.
Neidle won Investigation of the Year at the British Journalism Awards 2023. He is not a journalist.
The SRA referred Osborne Clarke partner Ashley Hurst to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, marking the first time a solicitor had been referred to the SDT for abusive tactics in libel litigation. In December 2024, the Tribunal found Hurst guilty of misconduct and fined him £50,000.
A retired tax lawyer spotted what a sitting Chancellor was hiding, refused to be silenced by his legal team, was proved right in every detail, won a journalism award, and then got the silencing lawyer sanctioned.
Zahawi got a pension. Neidle got a prize. The lawyer got a fine. The public got to watch.
This is what accountability looks like when institutions won't do it themselves.
Sources: @guardian @BBCNews @FT @TheSun @PressGazette |
Jim Cavet🕊️🇸🇩🆘🍉 retweeted
I haven't had a chance to read this BBC article until now as I've been busy all day, but allegations of government doom-mongering aside, I am a bit of a civil defence/resilience nerd. A few things caught my eye:
"An example of this is the new communication system being adopted by the emergency services, which will replace radio comms with mobile phone network technology, says Lord Harris, 'so if the mobile phone goes down it will also impact on emergency services communications'."
The system the Beeb is referring to here is ESN (Emergency Services Network - known within policing as "ESWhen?"), which is supposed to be replacing the old system, Airwave. I used Airwave in a previous life, and even back then we were being told ESN was imminently coming (it's currently nine years late). But I digress…
ESN is built on EE Business commercial 4G/5G mobile infrastructure, whereas Airwave uses dedicated TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio) technology, which is seen as outdated. Which do you think will be the more reliable option in an emergency? Well, the one we’re getting rid of, of course.
In essence, if 4G/5G were to go down post-ESN rollout (whenever that happens), the emergency services would lose all ability to communicate effectively and quickly. Madness.
"The current urgency for disaster planning is coming at an interesting moment for technology we used to rely on. The UK's copper wire landline system - which would work even in a power cut - will be switched off on 31 January 2027."
Why are we ditching the copper wire landline system? It clearly serves a purpose in the event of failure of other systems. I keep saying that analogue systems work when digital systems fail. Cash works when cards don't. Landline telephones work when mobile phones are down (assuming it's not a power issue). Many such examples. Why on earth are we ditching a reliable system - one which can withstand even a power cut - like the copper wire landline?
"The future of FM radio is also under government review."
Again, why?! We've already ditched long wave (in June of this year, when BBC Radio 4's long wave service on 198 kHz officially ceased transmissions). We know that FM will work when DAB and internet radio don't.
During the post-Cold War optimism of the 1990s and 2000s, we dismantled pretty much our entire civil defence/contingency infrastructure in Britain - a terrible decision in hindsight. But we know that the legacy analogue systems we still have (such as copper wire telephone systems and FM radio) will still serve us well when all our exciting modern technology fails us. So why in God's name are we getting rid of these systems?
I often think about public warning systems. When we dismantled all our civil defence infrastructure, we physically removed our air raid sirens (alongside leaving bunkers to rot, among other things). But that's not a problem, right? Because now we have the "Emergency Alerts" system (which I, perhaps controversially, support - if it's not misused by the state). But that, much like the new ESN, will only work if 4G/5G works!
We have myriad professionals working within the civil contingencies and preparedness arena in government - why is, as it seems, nobody thinking of this stuff?
What happens if the internet goes down? BlackSky - the UK's emergency backup plans bbc.in/4BLDC3u
Jim Cavet🕊️🇸🇩🆘🍉 retweeted
On the flip side, look at how the BBC interviews Israeli guests.
Following on from the compilation we released yesterday of the BBC interrupting its guests with "Israel would say", the double standards, which we've also archived and categorised, become clear when you see how they interview Israeli guests.
In this example, the presenter interviews the "former IDF chief of staff" Dan Halutz on 14 October 2023.
Halutz asserted that Israel was “fully compliant with international law” and “acting in proportion”. The interview ended without a concrete contrary fact or humanitarian objection to those assurances.
Earlier in the same programme, Save the Children’s Gabriella Waaijman warned that forcing people to move without safety or assistance risked forcible transfer. The BBC interjected and put Israel’s civilian-protection rationale to her. It did not put that humanitarian argument back to Halutz.
This was over three years ago, when Israel was just a week into its genocide in Gaza. It is therefore hard not to wonder what could have happened if the media, including the BBC, had practised more moral and ethical journalism.
Our job is to ensure that Western media's role in sanitising a genocide and laundering the perpetrator's propaganda is concretely quantified and never forgotten.
We are working around the clock to update the stats and clips here: newscord.org/editorials/bbc-…
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SMOG WARNING - 74 years after THE GREAT SMOG: EXTREME AIR POLLUTION (10/10) across England on Sun 8 November 2026 from BONFIRES and FIREWORKS
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I would love if we could channel the datacenter backlash into curbing the excesses of Big Tech in general. Get screens out of cars. Get computers out of refrigerators. Stop surveilling everything all the time, stop forcing me into the app, stop trying to steal my data.
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Documents released by the Scottish Government show Data Centres could cause water shortages, higher energy bills and power cuts.
Nobody wants AI get them out.
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A CNN investigation has found that while Jared Kushner acted as a key Middle East peace negotiator, his private equity firm held the largest stake in an Israeli company backing businesses tied to Israel's military campaign in Gaza, including its largest arms manufacturer. cnn.it/4y0xe5x
