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[Dick Mackintosh🌹#StopTheWar @DickMackintosh]

73 years ago this week, MI6 and the CIA overthrew the democratically-elected government of Iran. MI6 plots with Islamists to overthrow democracy. Declassified British files highlight a little known aspect of the joint MI6/CIA coup against Iran’s democratically elected government in August 1953
https://t.co/37EqYCLPZH

[Tel Aviv Tommy @zebedy1997]

Pat on the back for whoever did the Wiki updates!!

[Barmy Fotheringay Phipps @trollallaaa]

@_ZachFoster THE MOST COWARDLY ARMY in the world.

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[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Apartheid Israel ranks #1 in the world in using human shields. A sampling, from 2000-present:

June 2025: A 63-Year-Old Medical Worker Spent 3 Months as a Human Shield for Israeli Brigades in Gaza “They dressed me in military uniform, and asked me to search in homes for explosives.” https://t.co/Mlkp8H5gb7

May 2025: Senior Israeli officers instructed soldiers to use Palestinians as human shields, and in some cases ordered them to do so when they tried to refuse: “orders often came from the top, and at times nearly every platoon used a Palestinian to clear locations, said an Israeli officer, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal… one soldier told the AP his unit tried to refuse to use human shields in mid-2024 but were told they had no choice, with a high-ranking officer saying they shouldn’t worry about international humanitarian law.” https://t.co/nxReflb9yW

February 2025: Israeli soldiers used an 80-year-old Gazan as a human shield. Soldiers put an explosive cord around the man's neck and forced him to scout buildings for eight hours. After his release, another division shot him dead. https://t.co/u1gKi2Nj2p

October 2024: A 17-year-old Palestinian student who was used as a human shield in Gaza told @nytimes “The soldiers sent me like a dog to a booby-trapped apartment… I thought these would be the last moments of my life.” https://t.co/zd3P43nVwb

October 2024: the Israeli army published a video (and then deleted it) of the Israeli army using a Palestinian civilian as a human shield during a raid on Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza https://t.co/ZycDT7uv3x

August 2024: @Haaretz published a long report detailing the Israeli Army's systematic use of Palestinian civilians as human shields. The tagline reads: "'Our lives are more important than their lives': Gazans not suspected of terrorism are detained and sent as human shields to search tunnels and houses before IDF soldiers enter, with the full knowledge of senior Israeli officers, several sources say." They write: "Most of the 'recruited' are older men...in some cases boys or very old people were also used...". Palestinian victims are: "dressed in an IDF uniform, his hands are handcuffed behind his back, a camera attached to his body." More reporting: “Today, almost every platoon keeps a ‘shawish’ and no infantry force enters a house before a ‘shawish’ clears it. This means there are four ‘shawishes’ in a company, twelve in a battalion, and at least 36 in a brigade. We operate a sub-army of slaves.” https://t.co/2MXmjMadjZ

July 2024, Al-Jazeera published footage of Palestinian prisoners appearing as human shields for Israeli soldiers in Gaza, including Palestinian prisoners forced to search destroyed buildings in Gaza while being monitored by cameras & drones. Al-Jazeera has also published footage of a Palestinian man forced by Israeli soldiers to search an abandoned UNRWA school in Gaza City, also while being monitored by Israeli drones. https://t.co/Na7QXDwvqd & https://t.co/FjJ6waMjEq

June 2024: Israeli soldiers used an aid truck perfidiously as a humanitarian shield to enter central Gaza, killing 276 Palestinians & releasing 4 hostages. A survivor of the massacre reported: the aid truck stopped in Nuseirat, Israeli soldiers got out of the truck & sprayed him w/3 bullets. https://t.co/6GfPUDraH1

May 2024: the Israeli military used an elderly man in Shuja'iyya, Gaza as a human shield, forcing him to inspect buildings with two (likely explosive) drones on top of his head ready to kill him at any second. https://t.co/zQSVAALOLr

Jan. 2024: the Israeli military used a civilian as a human shield in clashes today in Hebron, West Bank. https://t.co/qL1xBRQgUq

Jan 2024: Israeli gunmen dressed as hospital staff and Arab civilians raided a hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin, killing 3 Palestinians. https://t.co/Ka9bQ4JdU8

January 2024: the Israeli army used a Jerusalemite as a human shield in its invasion of the Qalandia refugee camp. The Israel soldier holding him is careful to keep the Palestinian detainee in front of him as they point their weapons upwards. https://t.co/6ZJLZq7LCO

December 2023: "Testimony of those arrested by the Israeli army (in Gaza): They provided vests packed w/ explosives to the detainees & put them in a tunnel as human shields. If anyone resisted, the army would blow up the detainee booby-trapped in the tunnel!"

10 Nov 2023: A video shows Israeli soldiers using a blindfolded Palestinian detainee as a human shield in the West Bank. He is seated on the ground w/ vehicles behind him using him as a shield as an Israeli soldier aim his rifle towards Palestinians https://t.co/UZ9WlBz3vB

Oct. 7, 2023-present: Israeli forces systematically using Palestinians as human shields. "The practice was reportedly so common in the Israeli military that it had a name: “mosquito protocol.” https://t.co/keUHhqxqjx

"the mosquito procedure...refers to Palestinians being detained [& used as human shields] we heard from one of the soldiers... why do I need to push a human being into a tunnel & their officer said, too many dogs in the IDF dog unit died." @NBCNews journalist: "So Palestinian men are replacing animals?" @weimanadav "yes" https://t.co/ZFGheXSc0z

May 2023: Israeli soldiers forced Nidal, 9, Karam, 11, Ahmad, 2 & Mohammad, 2 to stand in front of Israeli military vehicles while Israeli forces fired tear gas canisters, stun grenades & live ammunition at Palestinians confronting the soldiers in Ramallah https://t.co/dKD35stTZz

March 2023: Anas al-Khalili from Nablus. “I was used as a human shield by Israeli forces. They handcuffed me & started shooting from behind me. While I was handcuffed, they pushed me down the stairs, they stayed behind me & were shooting at the men… https://t.co/Slg2O4XsTe

May 2022: Israeli occupation soldiers used a 16-year-old Palestinian girl as a human shield in front of an Israeli military vehicle during an Israeli military attack on the northern occupied West Bank city of Jenin https://t.co/t2oXgF9Jd4

March 2018 Israel soldiers detained ‘Abd a-Rahim Gheith in Jericho & ordered him out the car, handcuffed him & made him sit on the road for 2hrs. Gheith was then used as a human shied, & was hit by stones thrown at the soldiers. Video evidence: https://t.co/XA9WT3Tq0T

July-Aug 2014: “Israeli soldiers handcuffed & blindfolded us...they made us stand by the windows as protective shields for them. There was gunfire all around us. They made us stand by the window for 9 hours. We were their shields.” - Ramadan Qudeih https://t.co/XA9WT3Tq0T

July-August 2014: “They refused to let us out….I asked for am ambulance for my sister, who fainted, they refused. They held us to protect themselves. -Nazeeha al-Najjar (7:30) https://t.co/XA9WT3Tq0T

July-August 2014: "I was taken prisoner, handcuffed & walked almost at gun point…he made me walk forward and he was protected by me…if any shots had been fired, they’d have hit me. He [the israeli soldier] was right behind me.https://t.co/IIPiJBCW08

2013: Israeli forces use 17-year-old Palestinian teenager as human shield while trying to disperse a protest in Abu Dis in the West Bank https://t.co/bAEd1v5FaT

2011: two dozen former Israeli soldiers came forward providing eyewitness accounts(this link opens in a new window) of the abuse of Palestinian civilians by the Israel military, including the use of adults and children as human shields. https://t.co/oOISwZnuOy

2010-2013: "The Committee on the Rights of the Child express deep concern about the continuous use of Palestinian children as human shields and informants. 14 such cases have been reported from January 2010 to 31 March 2013 only." https://t.co/XA9WT3Tq0T

2008-9: Israeli military used Palestinians as human shields in the 2008-9 war on Gaza, including Majdi Abd Rabbo, Abbas Ahmad Ibrahim Halawa, Mahmoud Abd Rabbo al-Ajrami and others. See p. 218-230 of the UN's Goldstone Report: https://t.co/NKAGUYxIux

2009: the Israeli army used Magdy Rabbo as a human shield: “the officers said I wouldn’t see my family unless i did it…he pushed me w/his weapon, held me by my neck & said go." [He had to go back & forth between Israeli soldiers & hamas fighers]. https://t.co/eaKOn6nYB2

2009: “The Israelis would send us ahead...they made me dig holes in the wall & in the houses first to check in case they were booby trapped. We were put in front so in case there was gunfire, we would be [hit].” -Rabbi Abde Rabi, Gaza resident https://t.co/nhjiEkmf5j

2007: Israeli rights group B’Tselem and Defense for Children International - Palestine documented at least 16 cases in which Israeli soldiers used Palestinian civilians - including six children as young as 11-years-old - as human shields during the course of the year. In one case, a 14-year-old girl was shot and severely wounded while Israeli soldiers used her as a human shield in Gaza. https://t.co/Ne14isr0f1

2000-5: the Israeli military used Palestinians as human shields on 1,200 occasions from 2000-5, according to Israeli officials. https://t.co/xUDtcU0GkM

2002: IDF forced Palestinians to walk thru buildings suspected to be booby-trapped. it ordered them to enter certain areas before the combat forces...the army used residents as a “human shield” to serve as a shield against attack on those forces (p.230) https://t.co/mBSnNe5wV2

May 2001: the Israeli army took over Hussein Aladi’s home, established an Israeli military base on the roof. For 3 months, they fired every day from there. The army insisted family always remain in the house, to protect the Israeli soldiers in it. https://t.co/tnyLjOK4Tu

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.

[dunk dastardly @GeoffRicha42536]

@tykestakeonit She’s a dead cunt but her cunt legacy cuntinues ⚰️to Thatcherism

[Tykethat @Tykethat2]

@tykestakeonit Divide and rule was her main weapon.
She divided us and she ruled us

[J Bee 🐝 🔥🖐🔥🌍 🕊 @MsParaDoxy]

@tykestakeonit #CorbynWasRight #CorbynIsRight #ForTheManyNotTheFew

[Justintime @tykestakeonit]

Thatcher.
Privatised all our utilities including water.
And nationalised hatred and division.
The root of most of our problems today. 🤮

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

UK govt to pay KPMG and EY up to £456m to train civil servants.

Continuation of policy started by Thatcher; opened the door to privatisation, PFI, outsourcing, deregulation.

Firms mired in scandals get govt contracts, inside access to policymakers.
https://t.co/xczvSAySfh

[Ian McGinness @IMcginness93242]

The UK - led by warmongers in the MOD, the security services, and Westminster - is pushing, pushing, pushing.

They are relying on Russia's apparent unwillingness to retaliate/escalate.

They are playing a very dangerous game of brinksmanship, putting all of our lives at risk.

[Noah B. Price @TrueOnX]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS: U.S Citizens
Waging War On The Surveillance Grid! 🚨

WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!

Flock cameras are getting smashed Left and Right… and no one is stopping it.

Is this the public finally saying “enough” to warrantless tracking on every road?

Or the first crack in a system
that was never supposed to exist?

Who gave these private companies the right
to log every car, every trip, every life…
24/7… with zero consent?

When does “public safety”
become digital slavery?

And the biggest question of all:

If the cameras can watch us
without a warrant…

What happens when We
start watching them back?

Let me know what You think,
and SHARE THIS
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And if You're not
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What the HECK
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[Redderrobbo @redderrobbo]

@mjdaly57 Landlords, Bosses, Millionaires, Zionists r all welcome in the contemporary LP. It is not a Party for a Socialist. So anyone claiming to be one - McDonnell, Burgon, Long-Bailey et al - is a liar.

[Claudette @ClaudetteSurrey]

@mjdaly57 I agree that he may be unscrupulous, however, they have decided to go after the ‘low hanging fruit.’ That they would pursue these two corrupt individuals 👇

[MikeD @mjdaly57]

Bayo Alaba - Labour MP for Southend East and Rochford since 2024.

Bayo is the owner of seven properties which are rented out. He is the fourth biggest landlord in Parliament. His old boss and friend at Redbridge Council Labour MP Jas Athwal tops the list. 🏠

Controversy has surrounded Bayo as a landlord. He was reported by @_TheLondoner to have evicted a mother of two and made her homeless. One week later, Bayo tweeted that ‘“Nobody should have to spend the night on the streets.”’

Bayo has accepted the following donations:

£10,000 from the Trevor Chinn funded/Morgan McSweeney run consortium @LabourTogether/@ThinkLabour

£3,000 from Ruth Driscoll of @mariecurieuk

£10,000 from the @CommunityUnion

£2,000 from the @CWU

£6,133.53 from @unisontheunion

£5,000 from @GMB_union

With his £93,904 salary, expenses (£48,070.94 claimed since 2024), donations, the rent from his seven properties (undisclosed), his share dividends in Alaba Properties (the company linked to the COVID-19 ‘bounce-back loan), Onit Events Ltd and StreetFestiveLive Ltd, his allowances and perks, Bayo was doing very nicely indeed at Westminster until his suspension for alleged financial irregularities.

@UKLabour @BayoAlaba @Jas_Athwal @EofELabour #LabourCronyism

[Steven Handford @HandfordSteven]

Unions funding exploitative landlords as the least worst option is where we are now. A contradictory sclerotic parliamentary system where the party of labour is a party of warmongering imperialist parasites operating against us.

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Before Luigi Mangione is sentenced, the judge should hear a read out of the names of every American who has died because of our profit-obsessed insurance system in the past 12 months. That's 114,000 names so it might take a while.

[dunk dastardly @GeoffRicha42536]

@ArturNadol7566 Westminster scum in full effect 💣⚰️

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

Steven and Cheryl Stuart's charity Friends of Essex & London Homeless is the one being squeezed, and Westminster's cited reason really is litter, even though volunteer Phil Jones says they leave the site spotless.

Worth knowing this isn't new for the council either, they tried the same soup run crackdown back in 2011 and had to water it down after 272 people objected.

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

Britain is governed by people too flattered by a text to check who sent it.

Andy Burnham reportedly exchanged messages with an impostor posing as Susie Wiles, Donald Trump’s chief of staff. No state secrets are said to have been compromised, but that misses the point.

Ministers must use secure government systems and preserve significant decisions in the official record, even when personal messaging apps are used. That safeguard has failed.

Cameron was fooled in 2024. Wallace and Patel were targeted in 2022. In 2015, a bogus caller claiming to run GCHQ was put straight through to Downing Street.

When government moves into WhatsApp threads and backchannels, it hides decisions from scrutiny while leaving the state open to manipulation.

They moved government into the shadows. Now any stranger with the right name can knock on the door.

Read more: 👇
https://t.co/tjlunyi6UH

Should ministers be allowed to conduct public business through private messages when neither security nor accountability can be guaranteed?

@andyburnham #texthoax #SusieWiles