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🇬🇧 London goes full surveillance state. The Met Police is rolling out static live facial recognition cameras in the West End by Christmas and drones across every London borough by mid 2027. (1 min, 1 sec) Join @davidavocadowolfe 🥑

It's interesting that Burnham's No10 North operations will be co-located with GCHQ’s North West operations at Heron House (Albert Square, Manchester city centre), which opened in 2019. Activities there include "intelligence, cyber, and science teams". No10 North will form a key part of the Manchester Digital Campus that's been in planning for decades. Most of the "civil servants" who will be based at the campus will be in digital roles, notably developing AI "solutions". The Government Digital Service (primarily focused on Digital ID systems development) will play a key part in the campus. It also facilitates the procurement of surveillance systems from companies like Palantir across UK government. (The Cabinet Secretary, Antonia Romeo, also helped fast-track Palantir's embedding in the NHS). Many have noted that the establishment of No10 North happened very quickly after Burnham's appointment. But Manchester's role at the centre of centralised government snooping and surveillance is what it represents - as well as the repatriation of UK citizen data to CIA spin-out firms like Palantir. Jeffrey Peel

These are the drawings for “our Andy’s” proposed NEW DEVELOPMENT of the NEW Number 1 0 North. Remember Heron House is just temporary This is the new build. At a staggering cost of £1BILLION! You do realise it’s US who will be paying for it! Look for yourself! Debi Evans

Hold on, I thought that the environment was important? The green belt replaced by data centres, really?

🇮🇷🚀🤖 Targeting the Digital Brain: Iran goes after the US war machine’s data network Recent strikes on three Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in Bahrain reveal a calculated, strategic shift in Iran’s operational targeting, Fars News reported. 💥 Iran has systematically targeted all three main AWS nodes in Bahrain across two stages: one in northern Bahrain during the 40-day war, another in eastern Bahrain on July 22, and a third in western Bahrain on July 24. Amazon Web Services is the critical digital backbone of the US government, the Department of Defense, and the US intelligence community. Satellite imagery, drone feeds, signals intelligence, and radar outputs can be processed through such facilities before they ever reach a US commander.

💬 “If a runway allows a fighter jet to take off, a data center allows that fighter jet to make decisions,” the report explains.

With the US military increasingly relying on AI projects (like Stargate) and tech partnerships (like G42), data centers are now the engines of operational decision-making. 🎯 Bahrain’s proximity to CENTCOM bases and regional communications networks makes it a low-latency, high-value node for US operational data processing in West Asia. Even if AWS’s distributed architecture prevents a total blackout, damaging these hubs forces the US to reroute processing loads. This increases response times, drains bandwidth, spikes costs, and degrades operational efficiency during a crisis. 👍 Boost us | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

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The Red List https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVEootflgsQ

I'm sure it's nothing. What do central bankers know about what is happening in the world anyway...?

What does everyone think of this new series of Ricky Gervais' The Office?

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JUST IN - U.S. Selective Service System plans a computer simulation to test how it would carry out a national mobilization of American manpower, months before the government begins automatically registering men aged 18 to 26 for the draft in December. Read here: https://www.disclose.tv/id/c1qfp6qew0/ @disclosetv

🔴 Khatam Al-Anbiya: Any killing of Iranian citizens will be met with retaliation against American forces 🔴 Major General abdollahi: For every Iranian citizen martyred, one US service member to be sent to hell in retaliation @PressTV

Massive fuel queues erupt across Saudi Arabia following Yemeni strikes on refineries. @PressTV

🚨🇮🇷 Bab el-Mandab: Iran’s other, other nuclear option   Mohsen Rezaee, military advisor to Iran’s supreme leader, has dubbed Hormuz Strait “more important than dozens of atomic bombs” in Iran’s defensive strategy. Indeed, Tehran has shown in the current war that it doesn’t need nukes to humble the American goliath and bring Western economies to their knees. 🎤 Now, US business media fear that Iran has unleashed its other “nuclear option” – Bab al-Mandeb, another strategic shipping strait ~2k km southwest of Hormuz, and controlled by Iran’s Houthi allies.   The militia “are a nonnaval power that can execute a maritime blockade and hold the global economy hostage,” think tank analyst Adam Baron told WSJ. “They did this before and are aware they have this leverage.”   🔊 They don’t even “need an actual missile or drone to stop commercial traffic. If the shipping companies don’t want to go through, you effectively have a blockade,” former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia Michael Ratney said.   Who are the Houthis targeting?   The blockade announced this week is aimed at Saudi oil shipments – and is described as retaliation to Riyadh’s siege of Yemeni ports, and its proxies’ recent attack on Sanaa’s airport. The militia has already targeted two Saudi oil tankers – the Encelia and the Layla.   👉 With Hormuz closed and the Red Sea crossed out, so too are the kingdom’s options for exporting the 11-12% of global oil output it produces by sea. That adds new pressure on the US and its vassals amid the resumption of the Iran war.   Trump has already threatened “major military punishment” against both the Houthis and Iran if ships are targeted in the Red Sea.  

💬 “I just don’t think trying to resolve this militarily will work. It didn’t in the first part of the war,” Ratney said. “The Houthis have absorbed insane amounts of violence from foreign military intervention, and it hasn’t really affected their ideology or motivation.”

  Between 2024-2025, the fighters survived aggression by two separate administrations, and by Israel, shutting down the Red Sea to Israeli-linked merchant shipping and lobbing missiles and drones at Israel 2k km+ away.   For now, the Houthis are offering Riyadh and Trump a way out: end the decade-plus long blockade, and withdraw from Yemen.   But if Trump makes good on his threats, all bets are off. 👍 Boost us | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

⭕️ Explosions were reported in the Saudi cities of Jazan and Yanbu amid reports that Yemen's Ansarallah launched retaliatory strikes following Saudi Arabia's latest attacks on Hodeidah. Saudi Arabia reportedly launched widespread airstrikes across Hodeidah Governorate and Kamaran Island after the Saudi-flagged vessel NCC MASA was hit while transiting the Red Sea. The strikes targeted Hodeidah Port, fuel storage tanks, communications facilities, eastern Hodeidah, and Kamaran Island, with reports of civilian injuries. Ansarallah condemned the attacks as a dangerous escalation targeting civilian infrastructure in Hodeidah and Kamaran, accusing Riyadh of continuing its policy of blockade and collective punishment. The movement warned the strikes would not go unanswered, reiterating its deterrence formula of "a blockade for a blockade, ports for ports, and escalation for escalation," while Yemeni officials said Saudi Arabia would bear full responsibility for the consequences of its actions.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — Austrian Airlines and ITA Airways have canceled their morning flights to Israel amid fears of escalating tensions with Iran. @IntelSlava

Iran FM meets Russian FM, affirms determination to prevent US from abusing Hormuz Strait @PressTV

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