Azimat66

Dog lover 🐾 | Free thinker with a passion for classic films 🎬 | Connoisseur of good old-fashioned comedy 😂 | Optimist, my glass is always half full 🥂

[Mossad Customer Support @LionOfJudahX]

Yemeni man destroys the UN in 90 seconds 🔥
UN Human Rights Chief: “Nothing justifies how Israel fights in Gaza…”
Then a Yemeni takes the mic:
“I ask the UN, the Arab League, and everyone waving the Palestinian flag since October 7…
Where is the flag of Yemen?
Half a million dead. Biggest famine in modern history.
Silence.

Where is the flag of Sudan?
150,000 killed in less than two years.
Silence.

Where is the flag of Syria?
Half a million dead.
Silence.
Why is it that when Arabs kill millions of Arabs… no one bats an eye?

The Houthis spend millions firing missiles at Israel instead of feeding their own starving people.

Your report mentions Israel 188 times.
Iran? Zero.
And Qatar sits here on the Human Rights Council… while hosting Hamas leaders in luxury hotels.”

The room went quiet.

This is the real face of UN hypocrisy.
#AmYisraelChai #StandWithIsrael

[Azimat66 @Azimat66]

Every single item on that list. Not one is extreme, hateful, or negotiable; it's just sane, evidence-led policy that used to be common ground across the political spectrum. The only people who find it "sad" are the ones who've never once had to give an inch on any of it themselves.

[Azimat66 @Azimat66]

Sad to hear Richard O'Sullivan has died at 82. Loved watching his comedy growing up; Robin Tripp in Man About the House and Robin's Nest was pure charm, and Dick Turpin was a childhood favourite too. Effortless timing, real warmth. RIP.

https://t.co/HR0qfAORfn

[Azimat66 @Azimat66]

😔 Same story in the UK, and it's not anecdotal.
1 in 3 people over 75 can only book a GP appointment online, despite this breaching their own GP contract, which requires phone and in-person booking to remain available. 70% say they lack the equipment or knowledge to book online without help. (Re-engage, 'Care on Hold', 2026: https://t.co/qAdUyIlOe9)

Utilities are the same pattern: email-only sign-ups, QR codes on paper letters, 'portal-only' helplines that loop you back to the website that never worked. 4.7 million over-65s in the UK don't have the basic digital skills needed to use the internet safely. (Age UK: https://t.co/hWvNiaZGSI)

Britain just scrapped its mandatory digital ID scheme (BritCard) in July, partly because of exactly this fear; pensioners' groups warned 4.3 million over-65s without a smartphone would become 'second-class citizens.' But killing that one scheme changed nothing about the quieter version already built into everything else: https://t.co/JAJ3M8JDCF, utilities, the NHS. (Al Jazeera: https://t.co/1WGl02e8PE)

We didn't vote for this. We just let 'online only' become the default, one company and one form at a time, and called it modernisation.
#DigitalID #Digitalexclusion

[WohlstandsWal @WohlstandsWal]

Meine Nachbarin ist 81. Sie wollte Strom, Wasser und Internet anmelden. Sie hat es nicht geschafft.

Der Stromanbieter: nur noch online, mit E-Mail-Adresse. Hat sie nicht.
Der Wasserversorger: ein QR-Code auf dem Brief. Sie hat ihn ans Fenster gehalten – sie dachte, er muss ins Licht.
Der Internetanbieter: 40 Minuten Warteschleife, dann die Ansage, es doch bitte übers Kundenportal zu machen.
Ich hab drei Abende gebraucht. Sie saß daneben und hat sich zehnmal entschuldigt. Für Dinge, die nicht ihre Schuld waren.
Sie hat keine Familie mehr. Kein Enkel, der mal eben vorbeikommt.

Ohne einen Nachbarn, der zufällig Zeit hat, hätte sie diese Verträge nicht abschließen können. Punkt.

Jahrzehntelang hat sie alles selbst geregelt. Heute scheitert sie an einem Muster auf Papier.

Wann haben wir eigentlich entschieden, dass Grundversorgung nur noch für die gilt, die ein Smartphone bedienen können?

[Azimat66 @Azimat66]

Funny how a department with 'nothing to hide' happens to delete every consultation response from a Working Group stacked with people sympathetic to the MCB and MEND. Nothing to see here, apparently. Rayner owes the public answers, not silence.
#FreeSpeech #Islamophobia #AngelaRayner #FOI #FreeSpeechUnion

[The Free Speech Union @SpeechUnion]

Britain now has an Islamic blasphemy law via the backdoor, thanks to the Government's official definition of Islamophobia — now repackaged as "anti-Muslim hostility".

From the start, the Free Speech Union warned that any such definition would have a chilling effect on free speech and stifle our right to criticise, debate, and mock religion in this country.

We were proved right almost immediately. Since the definition was published in March, it has been used by activists and Labour MPs to silence legitimate criticism of Islam. When the Shadow Justice Secretary, Nick Timothy, criticised a mass Muslim public prayer event in Trafalgar Square, he was branded an Islamophobe, reported to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, and even faced calls to resign from the then Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer.

The Labour Government did not consult Parliament about its plans to revive Britain's blasphemy laws for Islam alone. At the start of the year, the Free Speech Union exposed that all five members of the Working Group tasked by Angela Rayner to draft the Islamophobia definition had troubling links to Islamist organisations. These include the Muslim Council of Britain and MEND, both of which are subject to a government policy of non-engagement over concerns about extremism.

What is even more concerning is that it is almost certain extremists were able to influence the drafting of the definition. If that is not alarming enough, Nick Timothy's Freedom of Information (FOI) request has revealed that the Communities Department deleted all the responses to the Working Group's consultation on the Islamophobia definition.

If there is nothing to hide, why did the department delete all the responses — a move that appears to breach its own policy on data retention?

There are serious questions for Angela Rayner and her department to answer. Why did they delete all these responses? Did ministers direct officials to dispose of the submissions? Did extremist groups really have the chance to influence the definition, while the Free Speech Union and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) did not?

The public deserves to know the truth.

Watch FSU External Affairs Officer @_ConnieShaw👇

[Azimat66 @Azimat66]

@elonmusk has been awarded Ukraine's Order of Freedom by President Zelensky, one of the country's highest state honours, and the top award given to any foreigner. It recognises Starlink's vital role in keeping Ukraine connected through the war and strengthening ties between Kyiv and Washington.

Somewhere right now, a chorus of professional Musk-haters is refreshing their feeds in despair, desperately searching for a way to spin "awarded a nation's highest honour for saving lives" into something sinister. Bless them. The rest of us can enjoy watching the man get credit where it's overdue.

Well-deserved recognition, and a shot in the eye for every critic who bet against him.👏

https://t.co/JZP5SteMqJ

[Azimat66 @Azimat66]

2018: BBC reporter inside Gaza's tunnels. Oct/Nov 2023: BBC says it has 'no evidence of tunnels' and 'can't verify '; Israel: same tunnels, very different tone.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

Eight years ago a BBC reporter was given access to the terror tunnels under Gaza.

Later in October and November 2023 the BBC claimed that they had “no evidence of tunnels” and they “could not verify Israel’s claims”.

You decide what to believe….

[Azimat66 @Azimat66]

Asian hornet nest found in Somerset for the first time.
A beekeeper in Ashcott (near Street) spotted one by his hives. The nest in nearby woodland was tracked with an electronic tag and destroyed.
One nest can eat tens of thousands of pollinators. If you see a dark hornet with yellow legs and an orange face, don’t touch it, photo + report it.

App: Asian Hornet Watch (free, iOS & Android)

https://t.co/WVlX2miJ4D
#AsianHornet #Somerset #Bees

[Azimat66 @Azimat66]

Absolutely, this 👏 James Dreyfus is a superb actor and a decent bloke. Calling him a Nazi because some people don't like his opinions is deranged. Hire the talent, ignore the emails, tell the busybodies to fuck off 🔥 More of this, please. Love @DreyfusJames ❤️
#JamesDreyfus #FreeSpeech #CancelCulture #CARA #FuckOff

[Azimat66 @Azimat66]

Worth watching. Carl Setzer is speaking about Ohio, but the warning applies just as clearly here in the UK.

Data centres are repeatedly presented as harmless "cloud" infrastructure. They are not. At hyperscale, they are major industrial developments: immense users of electricity, land, water and grid capacity, with local consequences that do not disappear because the output is digital.

The UK Government has designated data centres as Critical National Infrastructure and is now embedding stronger support for them in planning policy. Fine, resilience and secure domestic data capacity matter. But "critical" must not become a free pass for weak scrutiny, rushed consent, preferential access to constrained infrastructure, or deals that leave residents paying the price.

Before any large scheme is approved, local people deserve clear, independently verified answers:
How much electricity, water and land will it use?

1. Who pays for the grid, road, water and wastewater upgrades?

2. What is the effect on local bills, resilience and the environment?

3. What local employment and lasting economic benefit are actually guaranteed?

4. What happens if the operator withdraws, scales back, or the AI investment frenzy cools?

If these are industrial-scale projects, they should be treated and taxed as such. No blank cheques. No secrecy. No corporate welfare dressed up as "innovation". Our communities should get enforceable safeguards, a fair return and a genuine say before the concrete is poured.
#DataCentres #AIInfrastructure #AIGrowthZones #PlanningMatters #LocalDemocracy #CommunityFirst #GridCapacity #WaterSecurity #EnergySecurity #Infrastructure #PublicInterest #CorporateWelfare #NoBlankCheques #FairTaxation #Accountability

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

He drops a whole heap of inconvenient truths on AI data centres. Worth watching.

[nigel biggar @NigelBiggar]

The case for slavery reparations depends on a highly selective telling of history.

Of an estimated minimum 41 million Africans enslaved and mostly transported across the Atlantic, Sahara and Indian Ocean, Europeans were responsible for 31 per cent. Arabs were responsible for 53.6 per cent. The British traded 3.258 million over roughly a century and a half.

And most of those sold to Europeans and Arabs had first been enslaved by Africans themselves.

These facts do not settle every question about reparations. But any serious case for them has to reckon with the whole history.

I’ve put together a study guide for the next time you’re in the argument at The Biggar Picture: https://t.co/Fy3MmIXeG6

[Azimat66 @Azimat66]

Project Andy, £30 to charge a bus? Only if you define "charge" the way a restaurant defines "service charge": technically true, wildly incomplete.

That's a sip, not a fill. The battery's the size of a studio flat. At a normal industrial rate, you're looking at a weekend in Blackpool, not a round of chips. The diesel he's comparing it to isn't sipping a pint; it's filling a barrel and driving to Leeds and back.

Energy per mile can be cheaper. That's the decoy. A diesel engine is a rebuildable lump; a few grand to twenty-five, same chassis for twenty years. A bus battery is a Chinese pack in a Ballymena box. When it dies, you're on seventy to a hundred and thirty thousand, or a shorter route.

Passengers pay £2. The bill does not.

#ProjectAndy #BeeNetwork #NetZero #ReformUK

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Richard Tice 'really needs to look into the facts', says Andy Burnham after the Reform UK deputy leader hit out at the "rush towards net stupid zero and the multiple increase in renewables".

https://t.co/0PVlrGBBkp

[Dr Clare Craig @ClareCraigPath]

The last hour saw the folic acid petition as the third most popular government petition.

Sign below.

[Emma @MrsEmmaWebber]

I am furious.
Our son was murdered by a man whose violent and vicious history and risks were repeatedly missed.

Now we learn that another mentally ill man with a fixation on us and the Nottingham case travelled to Somerset, including our home town, seeking out victims' families; and the police chose not to tell us.

@nottspolice knew. The @policeconduct knew.

Yet nobody thought Barnaby's family deserved a warning.
Nobody thought Charlie's school deserved safeguarding advice.
Nobody thought we had a right to know.

Is this even legal? Isn’t this within 'Osman warning'.

As @drsanjoykumar points out in the story; the Calocane family were heaped with additional support and resources, including CCTV to make them safe.

We had zero.

How many more shocking failures are we expected to uncover ourselves?

Victims' families should not have to fight for every piece of information while those responsible hide behind processes and excuses.

STILL no accountability for ANYONE in these failed agencies.
⬇️
https://t.co/98DHBJMtlI

[Azimat66 @Azimat66]

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[FindABrit 🇬🇧 @findabrit]

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10,000!!!

I'm genuinely a little lost for words. I started FindABrit with an idea I believed in, but I never in a million years expected this level of support.

Thank you so much to everyone who has followed, reposted, recommended a business or simply offered a few words of encouragement.

I'm genuinely humbled. Thank you all 🇬🇧

[Azimat66 @Azimat66]

@Fatbaldbloke1 ✋out at 05:30

[Camilla Tominey @CamillaTominey]

A correspondent writes…

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

From 3 September the EU is blocking most Brazilian beef, chicken and other animal products.

The issue isn’t a contamination scare - it’s that Brazil hasn’t given the guarantees the EU now requires on how antimicrobials are used.

Growth-promoting antibiotics and certain drugs reserved for human medicine are banned for EU producers; imports must meet the same bar for the animal’s whole life. Brazil hasn’t satisfied that test.

Great Britain is running its own assessment and has not copied the ban, so Brazilian meat can still enter England, Scotland and Wales. Farming unions want tighter controls, pointing to the risk that product shut out of the EU could be diverted here.

That’s a good moment to think about what you actually put on the plate.

UK farmers have already cut antibiotic use sharply - total sales for food animals are down well over 50% since 2014, and the highest-priority drugs used in human medicine have fallen even further.

Growth promoters have been illegal here for two decades. Local meat, eggs and dairy also come with shorter supply chains, clearer origin, and far less processing than a lot of the imported product that ends up in ready meals and food service.

Choosing locally sourced whole foods - a joint from a known farm, seasonal vegetables, proper eggs - doesn’t just support those standards. It means fresher food with fewer additives and a production system you can actually trace.

That’s a straightforward health choice, no matter whatever happens next with import rules.

[Azimat66 @Azimat66]

The numbers check out. Palestinians received far more aid per person than Yemen, Sudan, Afghanistan, or Congo for years: hundreds of dollars per capita annually, sometimes more.

It didn’t produce a functioning economy because too much of it went into Hamas’s patronage system, taxes on imports, reconstruction that kept getting blown up, and a military tunnel/rocket project instead of factories and jobs.

UNRWA and the NGO layer became a parallel government that Hamas could tax, staff, and hide under. Qatar cash, UN salaries, and “reconstruction” money all helped keep the same people in charge.

Gaza wasn’t poor because the world sent too little. It stayed poor because the governing project was never development. Oct 7 was the logical endpoint of that system, not a surprise.

Watch the full thread/video from @afalkhatib.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Gaza received more per‑capita aid and development funding than any conflict zone on earth for nearly twenty years; yet vast NGO and charity networks ultimately helped Hamas entrench its rule, culminating in the October 7 disaster. I explain how this system took shape, how it enabled Hamas and why the pro‑Palestine and NGO industrial complexes ended up harming Gazans rather than serving them. "Ask Haviv Anything" @havivrettiggur

[Azimat66 @Azimat66]

The UK media has the same problem. Let’s call it what it is: if you’re not authorised to be here, you’re not ‘undocumented’; you’re unauthorised.

By that logic, the tax evader isn’t an ‘informal revenue optimiser’, and the speeder isn’t a ‘trial participant in dynamic velocity’.

They’re just breaking the law.
#Immigration
#RuleOfLaw
#LanguageMatters

[Paulo Spitzbarth 🇧🇷🇩🇪🇮🇱 @PauloSpitzbarth]

🚨🇺🇸 CAR@LHO, QUE LAPADA! 🔥🔥🔥

CNN: “Este é um imigrante sem documentos...”

Miller: “Eles estavam aqui ILEGALMENTE?”

CNN: “Quero que esta seja uma discussão de boa-fé...”

Miller: “Quando você usa uma linguagem feita para ocultar a verdade, isso NÃO é boa-fé. Um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL é um ESTRANGEIRO ILEGAL. Eles não são ‘imigrantes sem documentos’.”

CNN: “Stephen, estamos tentando humanizar o debate...”

Miller: “Humanizar? Então vamos humanizar o Código Penal também. O assaltante de banco passa a ser ‘especialista em retirada sem agendamento prévio’. O estelionatário vira ‘empreendedor de narrativas financeiras alternativas’. O cara que entra na sua casa sem convite é só um ‘visitante com documentação pendente’. Que tal?”

CNN: “Isso é uma analogia grosseira.”

Miller: “Grosseira é fingir que a lei federal some porque a redação da CNN inventou um eufemismo mais fofo. ‘Sem documentos’ soa como alguém que esqueceu a carteira no Uber. Não. É alguém que cruzou a fronteira sem autorização, ficou, e agora a imprensa trata o estatuto jurídico como se fosse uma questão de estilo de escrita.”

CNN: “Mas muitos contribuem para a economia...”

Miller: “Ah, o argumento clássico: o crime deixa de ser crime se a pessoa lava prato ou constrói telhado. Pelo mesmo critério, o contrabandista de cigarro também ‘contribui’, gera emprego no transporte. Quer que a gente chame ele de ‘empreendedor logístico informal’? A CNN topa?”

CNN: “Você está polarizando.”

Miller: “Não. Eu estou recusando o dicionário de marketing. Vocês mudam a palavra, depois acusam quem usa o termo legal de ser ‘desumano’. É o truque mais velho do livro: primeiro suaviza o vocabulário, depois declara vitória moral. Os Estados Unidos já cansaram desse teatro. Chamem o que é. Ou admitam que o objetivo nunca foi clareza — foi controle da narrativa.”