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12.05.26 - 17:30
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I don′t want to sound like a tub-thumping zealot … but it′s time to ban ads for gambling | Emma Beddington (The Guardian)
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I've had it up to here with Danny Dyer's commercials for Paddy Power. The UK needs to take a tip from Amsterdam and rein in its advertisersAmsterdam's new ban on public advertisements for meat and fossil fuel products makes me wonder whether we should be more ban-happy with ads in the UK. There are plenty I want rid of: “See it, say it, sorted”, obviously, which refuses to die, and those LNER ads featuring a hideously perky puppet treating train travel like an excuse for a party (pipe down, Eleanor). Also up against the wall when I'm in charge: overly matey ads for banks (don't you dare call me “bestie” when you're selling me an Isa); any catchy jingle that displaces the scraps of useful information still clinging on in my brain; and the whole wellness grift of snake oil powders and goo.But if I could ban only one type of advertising, I'd go after gambling. It's hard not to sound like a Victorian tub-thumping religious zealot when you rant about gambling ads, but my God, they're grotesque...
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12.05.26 - 11:12
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Media Spreads Hantavirus Hysteria In Attempt To Save Disgraced WHO (ZeroHedge)
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Media Spreads Hantavirus Hysteria In Attempt To Save Disgraced WHO
The establishment media has been drumming up fear after a recent outbreak of Hantavirus on a cruise liner traveling from Argentina to West Africa. The Guardian has used the opportunity to assert that the US is currently ill equipped to deal with future pandemic threats, largely because of Donald Trump (of course) and the dramatic US exit from the now disgraced World Health Organization.
Is Hantavirus a serious danger to the world, or, is it another hyped up virus like Covid being used to trigger public hysteria? And if it is being hyped, who (or WHO) stands to benefit?
For decades the WHO constructed its image as a global angel of benevolence; the primary line of defense against what they said was the inevitable invasion of a population rending plague. However, when the time finally came in the form of a mutated Coronavirus (Covid), they dropped the ball, and evidence suggests they may have done it deliberately.
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10.05.26 - 16:36
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Iran-Linked Media Floats Data Tax On Hormuz Undersea Internet Cables (ZeroHedge)
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Iran-Linked Media Floats Data Tax On Hormuz Undersea Internet Cables
An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-linked media outlet has signaled that submarine fiber-optic cables running through the Strait of Hormuz remain in Tehran's crosshairs.
Tehran views Hormuz not only as an energy chokepoint but also as a digital chokepoint, with undersea cables beaming internet across the Gulf and into the global network.
Source: Retuers
Tasnim published an article titled “Three Practical Steps for Generating Revenue from Strait of Hormuz Internet Cables,” pointing out that Tehran must reassess how it exercises sovereignty over the strategic maritime chokepoint.
Source: Retuers
The IRGC-linked outlet said that submarine fiber-optic cables in the critical waterway facilitate more than $10 trillion in financial transactions each day, and claimed that Iran has been deprived of the economic and sovereign benefits tied to the digital economy.
Source: Retuers
Tasnim warned that any disruption, cut, or d...
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