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“There is not a single sign of any overall economic damage done by Brexit” says Nigel Farage Meanwhile back on planet earth by almost every economic & financial measure Brexit has been disastrous for the UK Is anyone seriously buying his bull****? Get the FACTS here👇 youtu.be/DQRzdz-7R8U?...

𝗧𝗵𝗲 $𝟰𝟯 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗼𝘆𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗭𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗸𝘆𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 A Norwegian royal residence, a $43 million price tag, an offshore company historically linked to Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a video apparently produced by the American entertainment outlet E! News. The story contained enough authentic details to look plausible. It was also fabricated. At the end of September 2026, social-media accounts began circulating a video claiming that Film Heritage Inc., a Belize-registered company with historical links to Zelenskyy and his family, had purchased the Norwegian royal estate of Skaugum for approximately $43 million. The property was described as covering 240 acres, while the supposed transaction was linked to Zelenskyy’s visit to Norway for the funeral of King Harald V. Independent investigations found no evidence that such a sale had ever taken place. 𝗔 𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 The fabrication was carefully constructed around genuine information. King Harald V had died in August 2026, and Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena Zelenska travelled to Oslo for his funeral on 9 September. Skaugum is also a genuine royal estate in Asker with a long history as a residence of Norway’s heir to the throne. The false report turned those facts into a fictional property transaction. It claimed that Zelenskyy had previously attempted to buy the estate, that the Norwegian royal family had rejected an earlier approach and that the purchase had finally been completed after the property supposedly became a financial burden. No documentary evidence supporting any of these claims has emerged. Norway’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs later confirmed to fact-checkers that the allegation was false. Searches of established Norwegian and international media also produced no credible reporting about the supposed transaction. 𝗔 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝘄𝗼 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 The most important part of the operation was not the property claim itself. It was the source apparently verifying it. The video was designed to resemble an E! News report, borrowing the visual language of the established American entertainment brand. But investigators found no such story on E! News’s genuine website, social-media channels or archived pages. Instead, the accompanying article appeared on eonline.news, a domain closely resembling E! News’s legitimate eonline.com address. Registration records showed that the imitation domain had been created on 27 September 2026 — only two days before the story was published. The accompanying video also showed signs of synthetic production. Fact-checkers examining the material identified indications that AI tools had been used in the narration and audiovisual elements. The operation therefore did not simply invent a news story. It created an apparently credible media environment around it. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 The supposed buyer was also carefully selected. Film Heritage Inc. was not invented for the fabrication. The Pandora Papers previously documented a genuine historical connection between the Belize-registered company and Zelenskyy’s former business network. Leaked documents showed that Zelenskyy and his wife had held an interest in another offshore company through Film Heritage before changes were made to the ownership structure around his 2019 presidential campaign. That authentic history gave the new fabrication an additional layer of plausibility. The same company name has previously appeared in false narratives alleging extravagant purchases by Zelenskyy, including supposed luxury-property and casino acquisitions. Those stories were also unsupported by evidence. This illustrates a recurring feature of effective disinformation: not every component has to be false. A genuine company can be combined with a genuine trip, a genuine property and a genuine media brand to manufacture an event that never occurred. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗿𝘆𝗼𝘀𝗵𝗸𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation assessed the operation as consistent with the Russian Matryoshka disinformation playbook. The technique strongly resembles previously documented Matryoshka activity: impersonating established Western media organisations, creating fabricated video reports and distributing them through coordinated or pro-Russian social-media networks. French authorities have documented Matryoshka since 2023 as a pro-Russian influence operation targeting media organisations, public figures and fact-checkers. Investigations have shown repeated use of counterfeit reports imitating major European and North American news brands. The Norwegian-estate story fits that pattern closely. The attribution nevertheless requires precision. Independent evidence establishes that the E! News report was fake, that a newly created imitation website was involved and that the story circulated through pro-Russian information channels. Publicly available forensic evidence does not yet identify a specific individual or technical operator who created this particular asset. It is therefore more accurate to describe the Matryoshka connection as a well-supported analytical attribution rather than a publicly proven chain of command. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗳𝗮𝗸𝗲 The most important element of the operation is not really the $43 million figure. It is the construction of credibility around it. A genuine royal funeral supplied the timing. A genuine Norwegian estate supplied the location. A genuine offshore company supplied a documented connection to Zelenskyy. A counterfeit E! News website supplied apparent journalistic confirmation. Synthetic audiovisual material supplied what looked like additional evidence. Each element reinforced the others. This reflects a broader change in contemporary disinformation. The most sophisticated operations no longer rely exclusively on fabricating photographs, videos or statements. Increasingly, they fabricate the source that supposedly verified them. The deepfake is sometimes the entire newsroom! 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 Lead Stories — investigation into the fake E! News report https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2026/10/fact-check-enews-did-not-publish-report-about-zelenskyy-buying-43-million-dollar-mansion-from-norways-royal-family.html Center for Countering Disinformation of Ukraine — Norwegian royal estate fabrication https://cpd.gov.ua/en/international-threats-en/europe/fake-about-zelenskyys-purchase-of-a-norwegian-royal-family-estate/ Ellinika Hoaxes — investigation and Norwegian government response https://www.ellinikahoaxes.gr/2026/10/09/agorase-o-zelenski-ektasi-240-stremmaton-apo-ti-vasiliki-oikogeneia-tis-norvigias-gia-43-ekatommyria-dolaria/ The Royal House of Norway — funeral of King Harald V https://www.royalcourt.no/news/the-funeral-of-king-harald-v The Royal House of Norway — Skaugum and the Royal Estates https://www.royalcourt.no/the-royal-court/the-departments-the-royal-court/the-royal-estates-and-parks President of Ukraine — Zelenskyy and First Lady attend King Harald V’s funeral https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/prezident-ukrayini-ta-persha-ledi-vzyali-uchast-u-ceremoniyi-106293 OCCRP — Pandora Papers investigation into Zelenskyy’s offshore network https://www.occrp.org/en/project/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle AFP Fact Check — previous false luxury-purchase narrative involving Film Heritage https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.36PG6EC VIGINUM / SGDSN — Matryoshka technical report https://www.sgdsn.gouv.fr/files/files/20240611_NP_SGDSN_VIGINUM_Matriochka_EN_VF.pdf CheckFirst — Operation Overload / Matryoshka investigation https://checkfirst.network/operation-overload-an-ai-fuelled-escalation-of-the-kremlin-linked-propaganda-effort/ Keywords #DISINFORMED #Episode19 #Zelenskyy #Ukraine #Norway #Russia #RussianDisinformation #RussianInfluence #Matryoshka #OperationOverload #Disinformation #InfluenceOperations #InformationWarfare #FIMI #MediaImpersonation #FakeMedia #ClonedWebsite #FakeNewsroom #ENews #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #AIGeneratedContent #VoiceCloning #SyntheticMedia #Deepfake #SourceLaundering #NarrativeLaundering #FilmHeritage #PandoraPapers #Skaugum #NorwegianRoyalFamily #Propaganda #DigitalInfluence #FactChecking #VIGINUM #OSINT #MediaManipulation #WRLD

Former “free speech” crusaders have ushered in an unprecedented campaign of censorship in Texas universities, resulting in pulitzer winning books being banned, medical and scientific facts being suppressed, and entire fields of study deemed “woke” being eliminated www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Henrik Dahl wrote that Lars Løkke Rasmussen, in his opinion, was the Danish politician most indifferent to facts. Dahl claimed that Rasmussen had neither knowledge of migration nor wanted to acquire it. He referred to his own experience from working on the preparation of the VLAK government's initiative against parallel societies and wrote that Rasmussen, despite great efforts, did not learn anything about the subject. #danskpolitik #migrasjon #LarsLøkkeRasmussen (translated)

To those who hoped to see the centre-right divided, today we respond with facts: we are united, cohesive, and determined to carry forward the commitments made to citizens. We are introducing rules designed to promote the stability and parliamentary coherence of any government, regardless of its political colour. #ItalyElections #Meloni #PoliticalReform

The REAL MADRID FANS account shared a quote attributed to Toni Kroos, who stated that Cristiano Ronaldo continued to play because, in his opinion, he remained the best attacker in the box and not just for having that name. https://t.co/05iMxLkMYZ #CristianoRonaldo #ToniKroos #Fútbol (translated)

The author wrote that they commemorated October 7 and did not condone the massacre of civilians, but argued that Israel itself posed a greater threat to Israel than Hamas or Iran. They said Israel fostered people who used the hashtag “#WheresDaddy.” #WheresDaddy https://t.co/VLqeZAEJbd #Israel #Hamas #Peace #IL #IQ

The author argued that people who cared about victims should focus on facts, and said otherwise victims were being used as a political tool. The author claimed Egypt had warned Israel in advance and been ignored, that the UAE had warned Benjamin Netanyahu and been ignored, and that Israel had funded Hamas. #Victims #Facts #PoliticalTool #EG #AE #IL

The author wrote that the US had committed not to attack Ukraine but had made no commitment to help defend it or take any action if a third country, including a signatory, attacked it. They said Rees Mogg was careless with facts and described the US commitment as seeming “rather empty.” #UkrainianCrisis #InternationalRelations #Geopolitics #US #UA

The author said reports from Irkutsk of suspected plague, quarantines and a possible laboratory incident were alarming, while stressing that the facts needed verification. They linked the reports’ symbolism to what they described as Vladimir Putin’s choice of war, aggression and destruction. https://t.co/XXth5wTzKL #Россия #пандемия #новости #RU (translated)

The author said they strongly supported Ukraine’s cause but objected to what they described as falsifying facts in its favor. They wrote that the United States had not guaranteed Ukraine’s territorial integrity in the Budapest Memorandum. #Ukraine #BudapestMemorandum #SupportUkraine #UA #US

RONDOSSG argued that, before asserting that Italians could not rap in English, the same reasoning should be applied to Latinos born in the United States who used that language. He referred to the Italian mass emigration to America and defined Italian-American culture as the one closest to Italian culture, citing history and roots. He added that Americans would in turn adopt Italian elements, such as food, clothing brands, and cars. #CulturaItaliana #ItalianiInAmerica #StoriaEIdentità (translated)

🚨 Chief Executive of the Premier League, Richard Masters: “The core decision establishes the facts of what happened at Manchester City during this period. It details how the club systematically broke Premier League Rules for nearly a decade. “It also vindicates the Premier https://t.co/5X6QH0uwCx #ManchesterCity #PremierLeague #FootballJustice #GB

Η κριτική που μου ασκεί εδώ ο αρθογράφος είναι ορθή. Την δέχομαι και ως καλόπιστη και ως έχουσα βάση. Δυστυχώς πάσχω από μία ανίατη ασθένεια ακράτειας λόγου, αλλά και από μία ανίκητη διάθεση να υπερασπίζομαι όσα πιστεύω και να μην αδιαφορώ όταν βλέπω να κινδυνεύει κάποιος από την ομάδα μου. Αν αυτοί είναι λόγοι κάποιοι να με αντιπαθούν το δέχομαι. Αλλά το να ισχυρίζονται ότι δεν εργάζομαι αυτά τα 3 χρόνια για το Υπουργείο Υγείας είναι άδικο: https://t.co/TKX1V8SbA8 Σεντόνι με Q&A session. Εργάζομαι ως επαγγελματίας στο χώρο της Υγείας για 40 περίπου χρόνια. Και μπορώ να πώ μετα λόγου γνώσεως οτι με το έργο που έγινε στην τελευταία επταετία, έχουμε πλέον ένα απο τα καλύτερα ΕΣΥ στην Ευρώπη. Μερικά facts & figures : -Διαχείριση πανδημίας 2020-21 και εμβολιαστικό πρόγραμμα που αξιολογήθηκε ως ένα απο τα καλύτερα στην Ευρώπη -Αναβάθμιση 90 νοσοκομείων και 156 Κέντρων Υγείας σε εξέλιξη. -Προγράμματα προληπτικής ιατρικής με δωρεάν εξετάσεις στις οποίες υποβλήθηκαν μέχρι τώρα 7 εκατομμύρια άνθρωποι. -Υπερδιπλασιασμός των ΜΕΘ -Ιχνηλάτιση ασθενών και εντυπωσιακή μείωση του χρόνου αναμονής -Επέκταση ηλεκτρονικής συνταγογράφησης και στα νοσοκομεία -Ψηφιακός φάκελος ασθενών -Αποστολή στο σπίτι ή στο φαρμακείο της γειτονιάς, φαρμάκων υψηλού κόστους για βαρέως πάσχοντες και ασθενείς -Αδιάβλητες διαδικασίες αξιολόγησης και επιλογής διοικητών νοσοκομείων -Κινητές Μονάδες Υγείας -Απογευματινά χειρουργεία -Πρόσληψη 11.000 γιατρών, νοσηλευτών και διοικητικού προσωπικού -Αυτοτελής φορολόγηση των υπερωριών των γιατρών -Ένταξη νοσηλευτών στα βαρέα και ανθυγιεινά -Προμήθεια υπερσύγχρονων αεροσκαφών για αεροδιακομιδές και ασθενοφόρων του ΕΚΑΒ -Τρία νέα υπερσύγχρονα νοσοκομεία σε Σπάρτη, Κομοτηνή και Θεσσαλονίκη ( ογκολογικό παίδων) με δωρεά του Ιδρύματος Νιάρχος που θα είναι έτοιμα σε 8 μήνες απο τώρα. -Ωνάσειο Μεταμοσχευτικό Κέντρο -Νέο Θεαγένειο στη Θεσσαλονίκη μέχρι το 2030 -Ολική ανακαίνιση νοσοκομείου Μεταξά ( δωρεά Allwyn), ΚΑΤ ( δωρεά Ιδρύματος Παύλου και Αλεξάνδρας Κανελλοπούλου), Ευαγγελισμού ( δωρεά οικογένειας Κωνσταντακόπουλου) -Δωρεές εταιρίας La Vie en Rose της οικογένειας Κατσαφάδου για εκσυγχρονισμό υποδομών νοσοκομειακών μονάδων για ογκολογικούς και καρδιολογικούς ασθενείς -Δωρεές οικογένειας Λάτση για Μονάδες Ημερήσιας Νοσηλείας σε τρία νοσοκομεία. -Επιδότηση γιατρών που δέχονται να υπηρετήσουν σε 60 μικρά νησιά με 1.500 ευρώ το μήνα για μια 7ετία ( Δωρεά Ιδρύματος Χατζηιωάννου). Λύθηκαν όλα τα προβλήματα ; Ασφαλώς οχι. Μας λείπουν ακόμη τουλάχιστον 2-2.500 νοσηλευτές και γιατροί για μονάδες που είναι υποστελεχωμένες, αλλά με τους εξαιρετικά χαμηλούς μισθούς να αποτελούν πάντα αντικίνητρο. Η υποχρηματοδότηση στα χρόνια της κρίσης, άφησε σημάδια που θα πάρουν χρόνο να γιατρευτούν. Επιπλέον, χαμηλή πρόοδος υπάρχει στους κανονισμούς λειτουργίας των νοσοκομείων, με τα περισσότερα οργανογράμματα να είναι απηρχαιωμένα και οι μονάδες υγείας να λειτουργούν με βάση συνθήκες και δεδομένα που υπήρχαν τις προηγούμενες δεκαετίες. Η δουλειά ωστόσο που έγινε και γίνεται συνολικά, δεν έχει προηγούμενο, το επιτελείο στο Υπουργείο είναι εξαιρετικό κι ο Υπουργός ένας ίσως απο τους αποτελεσματικότερους στη Μεταπολίτευση μαζι με τους Σπύρο Δοξιάδη, Γιώργο Γεννηματά, Παρασκευά Αυγερινό. Η μόνη ένσταση που έχω προσωπικά για τον Άδωνι, είναι οτι μιλάει συχνά και πολύ επι παντός του επιστητού και οτι είναι συγκρουσιακός άνευ λόγου και αιτίας, αντί να αφήσει το έργο να μιλάει μόνο του. Υπάρχει για παράδειγμα λόγος να τσακώνεται συνεχώς με τον Πολάκη και την Ακρίτα ακόμα κι αν προκαλείται ; Οχι. Γιατί αυτοί κρίθηκαν και σύντομα θα αποτελέσουν παρελθόν. Υπάρχει λόγος να τα βάζει με τα κανάλια και τους δημοσιογράφους ; Όχι. Ακόμη κι άν έχει χίλια δίκια για τον ελεεινό τρόπο που οι περισσότεροι απ´αυτούς χειρίστηκαν τα ξυλόλια και την τραγωδία στα Τέμπη, διαδίδοντας τερατώδεις θεωρίες συνωμοσίας και χειραγωγώντας ξεδιάντροπα την κοινή γνώμη, τα δίκια τα χάνει όταν τους ρωτάει αν παίρνουν μπάφους. #Υγεία #ΔημόσιαΥγεία #ΕΣΥ

LE PEN — PUTIN’S AMBASSADOR TO PARIS?1 That is my provocation. These are the documented facts behind it: 🇷🇺 In 2014, Le Pen’s party took an approximately €9 million loan from the Moscow-based First Czech Russian Bank. 🤝 In March 2017, Vladimir Putin received Marine Le Pen at https://t.co/92Wgzx6DbI #LePen #Putin #France #RU

I've got Data Centres on my mind... I get it, that many communities do not want these in their backyard. Mostly they do seem to be a nuisance, using up sorely needed resources, making excessive noise (surely that can be mitigated?) and generally upsetting people, who often don't even have all the facts. But I think that is a rather selfish and hypocritical stance! I bet those same people also use the online services and advantages that require more and more data centres... and they would be quite happy plonking them in someone else's backyard! So banning them totally from the state (as in the USA) or country, county, province... whatever you have... makes absolutely no sense. They're not going away, and the need will just continue growing as we move to the next level of computing and AI. The answer clearly lies with the companies building these behemoths, and the authorities granting them the permission to do so in their jurisdiction. They have to negotiate the terms properly, so that these things don't become a nuisance, but a benefit to the community. And there will be some job creation. Because even computers need humans to program, repair, clean, organise, and generally look after everything! The locations must be chosen carefully. They should be as unobtrusive as possible. They must generate their own electricity and supply surrounding areas with any excess. They must not be built in areas with water shortages. I think the best options are near the coast, where water could be desalinated, and electricity be generated, at least partially, with wind turbines. One could even make it a tourist destination, with tours, educating the public on what data centres do, and showing the benefits, as well as the deficits, of this new future. Like I said, they won't be going away... no matter how much the people protest. They will just be built in someone else's backyard! So don't be the hypocrite; rather, be the one who helps to find sustainable solutions.