Freedom, in America, has been successfully repackaged as a consumer product.
You are free to choose your streaming service.
You are free to choose your phone plan.
You are free to choose between two candidates, both of whom were selected before you arrived, both of whom are funded by the same industries, both of whom will maintain the same foreign policy, the same military budget, the same basic architecture of whose interests the government actually serves.
You are free to express any opinion on the internet.
Provided it doesn't cost anyone with power anything.
Provided it stays on the internet.
Provided it doesn't become organization, doesn't become bodies in the street, doesn't become the kind of friction that actually changes material conditions.
Opinion is free. Disruption is criminal.
Speech is protected. Strikes are complicated.
Dissent is tolerated. Resistance is terrorism.
This is not freedom.
This is freedom's aesthetic, mass-produced and distributed cheaply enough that everyone can afford to feel like they have it.
The founders whose portraits hang in the schools would not recognize it as the thing they were describing.
Though several of them, being wealthy men who feared genuine democracy as much as they feared the British, might recognize the function perfectly.
There's a reason the American antiwar movement of the 1960s and 70s was the most significant domestic political crisis the American empire faced in the twentieth century.
It was not just Americans feeling bad about a war.
It was Americans beginning to see the machine from the inside at the same moment the Vietnamese were dismantling it from the outside.
The Vietnamese resistance created the conditions for American soldiers to come home changed. Radicalized. Willing to testify. Willing to name names. Willing to describe, in public, in their own words, what had been done in their name with their bodies.
Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
These were not academics. Not intellectuals. Not comfortable critics.
These were the kids from the deindustrialized towns who had been handed the rifle and the story.
And they came back with something the story could not survive contact with.
Experience.
The Vietnamese resistance, by holding on, by refusing to be defeated on the timeline the empire required, gave those soldiers enough time to see.
Enough time to understand.
Enough time to come home and tell the truth.
Vietnam fought for Vietnam.
And in fighting long enough and hard enough, it gave some of the people sent to destroy it the chance to save themselves.
Colonel Jacques Baud: The current Israelis are, in fact, Europeans. They are not from the Middle East. They have never been from the Middle East historically. Never. The Israelis that are currently in Israel are pure Europeans. Pure.
They have a small number of Israelis who are Mizrahi, who belong to the Middle Eastern culture and might probably be able to understand the nuance and the subtlety of the diplomatic dialogue or discussion in the Middle East.
But those Mizrahi, those Israelis who are the real Jews from Palestine, if I can put it that way, these are not in power. They have even been kept away from power. The power belongs to those Eastern European Jews, which is the Ashkenazi, who have historically had no relationship with the Middle East.
And these people have all the features of the Europeans. They have the same arrogance. They have the same approach to problems. They probably have some positive aspects; probably they are more efficient, or things like that, but at the same time they are not able to understand complex triangular relationships.
It’s always bipolar. It cannot be more than this. That’s very much who we are as Europeans, and I’ve witnessed that so many times that when you start to have a discussion, a dialogue in the Middle East, Europeans are lost, essentially because, for them, again, we come from a culture where everything is either black or white.
For us, the friend of my friend is my friend, but put an enemy in this triangle, and you start to have a problem. For a European, you cannot put the word “enemy” in this triangle. But in the Middle East, you can put the word “enemy” in this triangle, and it still works.
Day 2 of Arms Sales Andy.
Still arming Israel. Still sharing intelligence. Still refusing to call the genocide in Gaza what it is.
Now he’s allowing Donald Trump to use UK bases for illegal strikes on Iran.
Different Prime Minister. Same imperialist genocidal foreign policy.
United Kingdom of 'israel' (Andy Burnham's) Cabinet in full:
• John Healey (Chancellor)
Labour Friends of 'israel' (LFI) parliamentary supporter. Opposed recognition of Palestine.
• Louise Haigh (First Secretary of State)
Labeled Gaza a genocide. Accepted up to £50,300 in office and staffing backing from Labour Together (pro-'israel' think tank).
• Ed Miliband (Foreign Secretary)
Personal family ties to 'israel'. Self-described 'friend of "israel"'. Opposed BDS.
• Wes Streeting (Defence Secretary)
20+ year LFI member. Received funding from pro-'israel' lobby (£30k+). Introduced IHRA into NHS. Mentored by Peter Mandelson. LFI funded delegation trip to 'israel'.
• Shabana Mahmood (Home Secretary)
Defended and appealed to protect proscription of Palestine Action. Commended police for enforcement actions (mass arrests) against public.
• Yvette Cooper (Health Secretary)
Instigated the initial proscription of Palestine Action. Accepted over £215,000 from the 'israel' lobby.
• Lucy Powell (Education Secretary)
LFI member. Condemned anti-Zionist campus movements. Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Angela Rayner (Housing Secretary)
Accepted a £25,000+ donation from pro-'israel' lobbyist Trevor Chinn. Vocal opponent of BDS.
• Miatta Fahnbulleh (Energy Secretary)
Defended the continuity of UK military component licensing and exports to 'israel'.
• Angela Eagle (Environment Secretary)
Long-term LFI supporter. Voted down parliamentary motions for weapons embargoes.
• Pat McFadden (Work and Pensions Secretary)
Former LFI Vice-Chair. Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Jonathan Reynolds (Business and Science Secretary)
Longtime LFI Vice-Chair. Signed off on and maintained existing arms export licences to 'israel' (Trade secretary). Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Alex Norris (Justice Secretary)
Member and parliamentary supporter of LFI.
• Heidi Alexander (Transport Secretary)
Defended the UK's continuing export of F-35 fighter jet components to 'israel'.
• Lisa Nandy (Culture Secretary)
Stated that boycotting 'israel' can be used to whip up hostility. Opposed full bans on arms sales to 'israel'.
• Emma Reynolds (Chief Secretary to the Treasury)
Prominent LFI supporter. Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Ellie Reeves (Attorney General)
LFI member. Backs directives limiting public sector procurement boycotts.
• Douglas Alexander (Scotland Secretary)
Deep historical ties to LFI. Addressed official LFI annual receptions alongside 'israeli' ambassadors and supports anti-boycott platforms. Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Stephen Kinnock (Wales Secretary)
Voted in favour of proscribing Palestine Action.
• Chris Bryant (Northern Ireland Secretary)
Long-term LFI parliamentary supporter. Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Kanishka Narayan (AI Minister)
Declined to support parliamentary calls for asset freezes or direct state sanctions on 'israeli' officials.
• Bridget Phillipson (Women and Equalities Minister)
Longstanding LFI member. Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Hamish Falconer (European Relations Minister)
Former Labour Together consultant. Defended continuing F-35 jet parts trade with 'israel'. Campaigned against emergency party motions labeling actions a genocide. Refused to investigate British dual nationals serving in the IOF.
• Matthew Pennycook (Housing Minister)
LFI parliamentary supporter. Voted against independent sanction proposals. Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Anneliese Midgley (Chief Whip)
No known links.
• Alan Campbell (Leader of the House of Commons)
Long-term LFI supporter. Funded trip to 'israel'.
• Baroness Smith (Leader of the House of Lords)
LFI parliamentary supporter. Reaffirmed total alignment with 'israel' in official House of Lords statements. Funded trip to 'israel'.
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This is what a captured state looks like.
Britain is not independent or sovereign.
Free Palestine. Free Britain.
Okaaaaaay
We are not responsible for the actions of Israel and we should not be held to account for Israel - while on the same hand if you criticise Israel or stand against Israel, we get our feelings hurt because we feel and identify as part of Israel
Do I have that right?
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@Myotis1134@SmirkingJoseph@ginamilan_ So amusing you Americans still don't realise you are controlled & occupied by Israel and and you are fighting and dying for Israel.
CNN will never show you this : An Israeli settler pointing a gun at a Palestinian farmer.
"This land is mine now. Get out. Never come back"
The farmer's family worked that land for generations.
The settler flew in from Eastern Europe.
$866 million. Hidden from the Senate, and there’s more
$866 million. That’s the real cost of the BOM’s tech overhaul. For years nobody could get the figure out of them. “Cabinet-in-confidence.”
The only reason you heard about the $96.5 million website is because it was such a dud the new boss had to front up and admit it. The old site did the job. Farmers checked it every morning. So did truckies, fishos, your nan. Didn’t matter.
Accenture’s original contract was $31 million. It got extended nine times. No new tender. It ended up at $78 million.
And why were consultants running the whole show? Because Canberra put a cap on public service numbers, then had to pay consultants to do the work anyway. The cap came in under the Coalition. The blowout happened under Labor. Nobody’s hands are clean here.
So the firm delivers a dud. What happens next? More work. A $17 million Defence deal. A $30 million AEC contract. And $15.7 million to build another government website. Meanwhile CSIRO is sacking hundreds of scientists because apparently there’s no money.
The Minister told Senate estimates this shows we need “greater oversight of consultants.” Then his own agencies went and signed the new deals anyway.
Stuff up at your job and see if you get $170 million worth of new work out of it.
None of it is illegal. That’s the problem.
What’s your Thoughts…?
Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺
Sources:
- BOM CEO Senate Estimates opening statement; Australia Institute via The New Daily; Canberra Times/AusTender; Senate Estimates Dec 2025; 2GB ($170m figure).
Did you know Leo Messi is ferried around wherever he goes by a team of Israeli special forces?
And that he is the face of an Israeli AI company run by "former" spies?
Read my investigation into the surprising ties between Messi & an Apartheid State.
https://t.co/oTkQRHiFlP
"Los palestinos son una invención, esta tierra nos pertenece solo a nosotros, intentan quitárnosla. No solo nos pertenece toda Palestina, también nos pertenece toda la tierra desde el rio Nilo hasta el Éufrates. Los que no lo acepten, deberán irse a otro pais".
Daniela Weiss, lider sionista de los asentamientos colonos en Cisjordania, volvió otro de sus discursos supremacistas donde niega que existan los palestinos y dice que invadirán la tierra de hasta 7 países entre el río Nilo y el río Éufrates.
Accenture paid him $35 million. Now he sits at Labor’s Cabinet table.
And it’s all legal.
$35 million. That’s what Accenture reportedly paid Andrew Charlton for his consulting firm in 2020. He stayed on as one of their managing directors.
Two years later, Labor parachuted him into Parramatta. Today he’s Cabinet Secretary and Assistant Minister for the Digital Economy, sitting at the centre of the same government handing Accenture roughly $300 million a year in contracts.
The same Accenture behind the BOM website disaster. $31 million contract, extended nine times, finished at $78 million. Same Accenture that got rewarded after the stuff-up with new deals from Defence, the AEC, and yes, another government website.
Now, let’s be fair. I checked Charlton’s register of interests myself. No Accenture shares. No Accenture directorship. He exited clean.
But here’s what I found instead. His entire $40 million fortune sits in three boxes on the public record: a family trust, a private investment company, and a unit trust. Each one described with a single word, “Investment.”
That’s it. That’s all the law requires him to tell you.
So ask the obvious question: can anyone check whether any minister still has money riding on companies winning contracts from their own government? No. The register names the boxes. It can’t open them.
And the bloke across the chamber? Angus Taylor. Seven years at McKinsey. Both sides of the dispatch box, one consulting industry, and a disclosure system built not to look too hard.
He’s followed every rule. That’s exactly the problem.
What’s your Thoughts…?
Peter Lyndon-James 🇦🇺
Sources:
- Register of Members’ Interests, 47th & 48th Parliament (APH); Accenture Newsroom (AlphaBeta acquisition, Feb 2020); https://t.co/mekc4nIJzn (Charlton Accenture role; Taylor McKinsey); Canberra Times/AusTender (~$300m contracts); Australia Institute via The New Daily ($31m→$78m); Senate Estimates Dec 2025.
Belgian official exposes hypocrisy in Europe!
“You consider expelling Iran’s ambassador, but for two years of genocide, none of you demanded the expulsion of Israel’s ambassador. This is shameful!”