On occasion, important knowledge or information can emerge from unlikely – & even unpalatable – origins or sources.

“The UK government is waging a punitive war on working people, from cradle to grave, in the name of ‘austerity’. This war includes attacks on child care, education, wages and pensions; cutting public services, privatising them and slashing welfare/social security safety net to shreds. Workers’ rights and conditions, including health and safety, are at the forefront of austerity cuts.”

“It may not be a crime for a candidate fir president to seek to make money from a hostile foreign power during an election and mislead the country about it.” “ But the counterintelligence concerns go beyond mere violation of criminal law. There at one time not necessarily a criminal activity and at the same time potentially far more serious than criminal activity because you have the capacity to warp U.S. policy owing to the same form of compromise.”

Well I’ll be. Missed this in the deluge, as you do (slow, retrospective meticulosity). Sarah Ransome is the very intriguing & vocal South African Ghislaine/Epstein survivor (trafficked, raped, abused, threatened) who will be familiar to those acquainted with the saga (she appears in Netflix’s Filthy Rich, attended Maxwell’s trial, & has contributed to many news broadcasts on the subject as well as shouldering solidarity with the Epstein/Ghislaine survivors’ sisterhood).

“Open AI is now leading our acceleration towards this modern-day colonial world order” – Karen Hao

well I never … what an absolutely fantastic, startling & profusely enlightening exposé of hard-boiled & stoic investigative reporting at its finest.

riveting & brilliant, this fervently bold bombshell is delivered with a classic Rusky dispensation, terse, frank as fuck, cold fact & point-blank wryness with a habit of delicious deadpan humour.