Brain

Drain

Electronic music,

curdled milk,

promise land,

plays, turned,

disney land,

nod, prod,

playful zombie,

ignored all,

published,

X files,

confusion,

cloud,

truth dying,

piles,

out there

On 5 January I will go on trial at Kingston Crown Court charged with an offence under Section12 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The maximum penalty if found guilty is 14 years in gaol. There are others due to follow me.

You might be forgiven for thinking that my ‘offence’ was preparing a bomb intended for the Israeli Embassy. In fact, it was disagreeing with government policy and received opinion.

I was arrested on 20 December 2023 by Counter-Terrorism Police in a dawn raid under the Terrorism Act 2000. My ‘crime’ was posting a tweet, one month previously, saying that I supported the Palestinian resistance against the Israeli Defence Forces.

The anti-terrorism police are reminiscent of the Thought Police (Thinkpol) in George Orwell’s 1984, who spent their time hunting down “thought crime.” Britain’s equivalent of seized my electronic devices – computers, laptop, mobile phone etc. When I applied to the courts to recover these items, the police justified their retention by saying that they provided a ‘highly relevant insight’ into my mind.

The aim of Orwell’s Thought Police was to enforce mental conformity, ensuring citizens police their own minds. In his Expert Witness Statement in the Case for the Deproscription of Hamas, Jonathan Cook, a journalist who has worked on The Guardian, The Observer and The Times amongst other papers and a recipient of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism in 2011, wrote:

Over the past several months, I have been watching with growing professional alarm – and personal trepidation – what I can only describe as a campaign of political intimidation and persecution of a number of journalists in the UK. The journalists who have been targeted share one thing in common: they report and comment on Israel’s actions in Gaza from a critical perspective that judges those actions to be genocidal…

Middle East Monitor | Dec 27, 2025

I am so sorry,

clap, clap,

run out,

the clock,

veal calf,

distant,

chatter,

oligarchy,

endless war,

wronged our,

children,

TO. DEATH.

A polar low-pressure system accompanied by heavy rain and strong winds swept across the Gaza Strip on Saturday, adding to the suffering of Palestinians living in flimsy tents and overcrowded shelters that lack basic living conditions, Anadolu reports.

The system is the third polar low to affect the Palestinian territories this winter, beginning Saturday afternoon, and is expected to continue until Sunday evening, with a fourth low-pressure system forecast to hit the area starting Monday, meteorologist Laith al-Allami told Anadolu.

The current system is expected to intensify later Saturday, though rainfall totals will likely be lower than those recorded during the last storm that hit Gaza about two weeks ago, he added.

He said the storm will be accompanied by strong wind gusts ranging from 70 to 80 kilometers (49 miles) per hour, with rainfall expected to be heavy at times and accompanied in some areas by hail.

Temperatures are expected to drop to around 10 degrees Celsius (50 degrees Fahrenheit) during evening hours, increasing the hardship faced by displaced people, he said.

Middle East Monitor | Dec 28, 2025

Soon it will,

*in english*

be okay,

time to go,

form or,

function,

turn off,

human brain

The Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), the African Union (AU), and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have joined numerous countries and foreign ministers in decrying Israel’s formal recognition of the Somali breakaway region of Somaliland as an independent state.

Somaliland, a region in the Horn of Africa, declared independence from Somalia in 1991 and has pushed for international recognition for decades, with President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi making it a top priority since taking office last year.

Israel announced on Friday that it viewed Somaliland as an “independent and sovereign state”, becoming the first country to make such a declaration.

The announcement prompted Somalia to call the decision a “deliberate attack” on its sovereignty that would undermine regional peace.

In a statement on Friday, the AU continental bloc rejected Israel’s move and warned that it risked “setting a dangerous precedent with far-reaching implications for peace and stability across the continent”.

Al Jazeera | Dec 27, 2025

Heart,

already,

hurt-dead,

beating,

dumb-dead,

beat

@imeupolicy

Bricks in,

the wall,

cell phone,

chiming,

steps in,

the dark,

we break,

YET you,

STILL,

won’t,

BREACH,

that wall,

BREATHE.

one word

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which has received over 220,000 applications for more than 10,000 ICE officer positions, has officially hired 11,751 law enforcement officers, criminal investigators, attorneys and mission support staff under President Donald J. Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s leadership.

“Thanks to President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, ICE has the resources necessary to enforce immigration law as it’s been written and codified by Congress,” said ICE Deputy Director Madison D. Sheahan. “The president and Secretary Noem set a goal and we exceeded it, but that doesn’t mean we’re done. We continue to call on American patriots to serve the homeland because we know that there’s still more work to do — and we will not stop until every community in this nation is safe.”

President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill enables ICE to offer unparalleled recruiting incentives, including:

A signing bonus of up to $50,000

Up to $60,000 in student loan repayment

Up to 25% in premium pay

The agency also offers attractive benefits packages, including health, dental and vision insurance; life and long-term care insurance; a retirement plan; eligibility for the Thrift Savings Plan; flexible spending accounts; an Employee Assistance Program; personal and sick leave days; and paid federal holidays.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Dec 18, 2025

One world,

stuck here,

venn diagram,

for now,

welcome home,

until one day,

ARE. YOU. HAPPY?

WE. ARE. DYING..

@cakes_stencils

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