Where do you think the UK gets much of its fresh produce from? @bbcnews @skynews @itvnews
'Farmers report 'catastrophic' damage to crops as Storm Marta hits Spain and Portugal.
CORDOBA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Farmers in Spain warned on Saturday that torrential rains and high winds had left fields submerged and caused millions of euros worth of damage to crops, as Spain and Portugal braced for more extreme weather.
The Iberian Peninsula has already experienced a succession of storms in recent weeks, bringing heavy rain, thunder, snow and strong gales ahead of the arrival of Storm Marta on Saturday.
More than 11,000 people have been forced to leave their homes in Spain's southern Andalusia region, while nearly 170 roads have been closed across Spain and rail services have been disrupted in Portugal.'
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Master thread on the 2015-2022 closure of the Internet, the process by which every major Internet platform went from broadly open with a few basic guidelines to strict narrative enforcement, often with the collaboration of govts and outsourcing moderation power to NGOs.
https://x.com/i/status/2037324942069342679
YouTube was the most important platform for reaching The Youth and also uniquely compatible with monetization, allowing independent political/intellectual entrepreneurs to make a career. Closed 2015-2019.
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https://x.com/i/status/2037324944204247140
Reddit was known for its "anything goes" speech policy in 2015, and was the hub for text-based debate between normal people on opposing sides of issues. Turned into a leftist echo-chamber to spite r/TheDonald.
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https://x.com/i/status/2037324947412975892
Amazon, with its dominance of the e-book and e-commerce markets, played a similar political commissar role for aspiring authors and merch sellers.
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https://x.com/i/status/2037324950407708819
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🚨Mike Benz has begun working directly with the Trump administration on a new transparency drive exposing the NGOs and the taxpayer money that funded the Censorship Industrial Complex.
@MikeBenzCyber "There is a censorship class in exile who are not out of jobs, they've simply gotten jobs in Europe with the EU."
https://x.com/i/status/2037651659955097864
Nick Matau's post debunks a viral claim of massive insider trades exactly five minutes before Donald Trump's 7:05 AM ET announcement on halting Iran strikes, using a TradingView chart of S&P 500 e-mini futures volume to show no unusual spike in that window.
The chart displays total volume per time bar, coloured green for upward price closes rather than net buying pressure, clarifying a common misinterpretation while highlighting normal activity up to 14 minutes prior.
Broader context from CME data and CNBC reporting reveals ...
Thirty years ago today: March 26, 1996: seven Trappist monks from the Abbey of Our Lady of the Atlas in Tibhirine, Algeria were kidnapped by the Islamist GIA, bodies never found, their heads would be found six weeks later. The monks were beatified in 2018.
https://x.com/i/status/2037142250409345299
The events leading up to the abduction of the monks are the subject of the 2010 award-winning movie, "Of Gods and Men. Blessed martyrs of Tibhirine, whose lives exemplified friendship and peace, pray for us.
https://x.com/i/status/2037370741872607563
Extraordinary souls. Extraordinary witness to the love and peaceful ministry of Jesus Christ. As we remember them, may they pray for us. The film about them, featuring the great Michael Lonsdale, is worth watching.
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A ceux & celles qui n'ont pas vu "Des hommes et des dieux": placez-le dans la liste des films à regarder en priorité! Un souvenir ici xfru.it/Z4O5nD Bel hommage par le #cinema aux moines de Tibhirine, avec une ...