Andrea

it’s not about right and left, it’s about right and wrong.

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

This post seems to be gaining traction. So, the Home Affairs Committee which investigated West Midlands Police's ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans, was led by MP Dame Karen Bradley - yes, who is both a member and officer of the Conservative Friends of Israel.

Four of the MPs who participated in the oral inquiry had declared direct links to Friends of Israel.

Paul Kohler MP (Liberal Democrat)
Jo White MP (Labour)
Dame Karen Bradley MP (Tory)
Peter Prinsley MP ( Labour)

Therefore, questions about impartiality and potential confirmation bias within the inquiry itself.

[David Miller @Tracking_Power]

If you find yourself in a similar situation under threat from your employer, over your views on Zionism, don't accept it. Contact the Left Legal Fighting Fund (LLFF) and we will help you.

The LLFF was founded in 2019 to fight Zionist lawfare and has successfully represented dozens of people since then.

This is an outrageous story about a police officer sacked for expressing totally understandable rage at the genocide inflicted in the Levant by Jewish supremacists.

No-one should be forced to humiliate themselves as apparently happened in this case.

"Nizam... told the hearing that he had undergone considerable reflection since the investigation began. He said he had started reading Jewish News, contacted the Jewish Police Association for guidance, attended an online seminar about antisemitism, visited a synagogue event commemorating the Holocaust and attended an exhibition relating to the October 7 attacks. He deactivated the relevant social media accounts and told the panel he was ashamed of some of his previous comments."

If you find yourself in a similar situation in any workplace or similar. Don't give up or give in. Contact the Left Legal Fighting Fund and we will try and help you fight back. https://t.co/ORbc61ftFL

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[David Kurten @davidkurten]

It is not illegal to film or take photos in public in the UK, despite the government spreading misinformation.
To obey their own guidance however, they should immediately turn off and dismantle all AI facial recognition cameras which are repugnant to freedom and privacy.

[Andrea @hepto1]

@javiernegre10

[Ryan @forbiddenmerch]

Americans should know this: There are around 800,000 to 900,000 jewish settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and none of them work. They live off government funding — free housing, free healthcare, free everything.
And your tax dollars pay for it.

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

It isn't a price cap if the price is constantly rising.
They think we're stupid.

[matt ༼ ◕_◕ ༽🇵🇸 @GhostStoriesEnd]

Ran some numbers and this entire scheme is designed to save Sainsbury’s about £2 million p/w in wages, if we say every “work experience” kid is doing 16 hours a week. That’s £127 million a year. Lord Sainsbury bought £127 million off Burnham’s Labour for £165000.

[Jen Wood - est optimum simpliciter @unojen_wood]

Nice little earner for Sainsburys at £5k a head from the Govt. So the work placements are actually Xmas slave labour posts. YTS all over again with no guarantee of a job afterwards.

[sandra @mrsDugskullery]

Do you remember when Russia did a cyber attack on Marks & Spencer and Co-op.

Guess what... it wasn't them.

It was teenagers in their bedroom in the midlands.

Remember when they blew up Nordstream?

Guess what... that was a Ukrainian.

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

Remember when the Panama Papers showed us even Queen Elizabeth was stashing her money offshore to hide it from the taxman, and nothing happened apart from the murder of the person who leaked them?

[Andrea @hepto1]

@ProtectTheWild_ Pigeon droppings were so valuable as a fertiliser dovecotes used to be protected by armed guards. We need more dovecotes.

[Protect the Wild @ProtectTheWild_]

Pigeons are not pests! Do you agree?

[Devon CPRE @cpredevon]

Was anyone asked whether they’d like this part of north #Devon to become some kind of gargantuan industrial concept?  There's already a growing cluster of solar & batteries totalling 700 acres. With an AI data centre & another BESS, 1,500 acres of Devon’s #farmland could be lost.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Dr. Ron Dickinson🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ron_dickinson]

@theSNP need to hold the line on #DataCentresMoratorium

Not one should be built without thorough Environmental Impact Analysis

Some of these consume enough power & water equivalent to medium size town

For a handful of jobs & no other benefit

[Tiger @tiger26931]

Protecting nature means protecting a home that already belongs to thousands of living things.

[Andrea @hepto1]

@BladeoftheS Why so many data centres on our tiny island?

[Heather Mendick @helensclegel]

A jury took 2 hours & 11 mins to find Tony Greenstein not guilty of inviting support for Hamas.
I've been on three juries. You only come to a verdict that fast when it's obvious to all 12 of you that a person should not have been prosecuted.
The judge would've found him guilty.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Our Entire Civilization Is Run By Oligarchs And Empire Managers

The Wall Street Journal has a new article out titled “The Hidden Debt That Apple Owes to the CIA,” subtitled “Without CIA funding that helped keep NeXT afloat in the ’80s, Steve Jobs might not have made a triumphant return to Apple — and the iPhone might not have its foundational operating code.”

All the top tech giants have deep ties to the CIA. Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon. Facebook and Instagram are overseen by “former” CIA operatives. Our whole civilization is run by an alliance of oligarchs and empire managers.

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In a recent interview with Israel Hayom, Israeli “Minister of Diaspora Affairs” Amichai Chikli said that Zionists need to “cooperate with the conservative mainstream, American and European, against radical Islam.”

Chikli argued that the western right doesn’t care about antisemitism, so it doesn’t make sense to place emphasis there, but “radical Islam interests them very much.”

I have said it before and I’ll say it again: Zionists promote Islamophobia because convincing westerners to hate Muslims is easier than convincing them to like Israel.

This is a fact, not an opinion. Last year Drop Site News published a leaked polling report that had been commissioned by the Israeli government which found that while Israel’s reputation is crumbling throughout the western world, one way to salvage it would be to foment panic about Muslims.

Drop Site reports the following:

“Israel’s best tactic to combat this, according to the study, is to foment fear of ‘Radical Islam’ and ‘Jihadism,’ which remain high, the research finds. By highlighting Israeli support for women’s rights and gay rights while elevating concerns that Hamas wants to ‘destroy all Jews and spread Jihadism,’ Israeli support rebounded by an average of over 20 points in each country. ‘Especially once the situation in Gaza is resolved, the room for growth in all countries is very significant,’ the report concludes.”

So if you speak critically about Israel online and suddenly find your replies inundated with Zionists shrieking about Islam and Muslims, that’s why. Their research has concluded that convincing westerners to hate Muslims is easier than convincing them to love Israel.

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The Guardian has published an open letter addressed “to Iran’s political prisoners” from big-name western leftists including Angela Davis, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Rashid Khalidi, Robin DG Kelley, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Judith Butler, and Walden Bello. Their screed frames Iran as being equally immoral as the US empire and criticizes anti-imperialists who refuse to condemn Iran in the middle of an imperialist war of aggression against the Islamic Republic.

“We reject the false binary of imperialism and hollow anti-imperialism,” the letter says. “We invite global civil society and anti-imperialist activists and organizations to extend their unconditional support and solidarity to all incarcerated kin fighting for our collective liberation, to build relationships with Iranian political prisoners and uplift their voices, to put pressure on the Islamic Republic by challenging its narrative, and to call upon that government to immediately stop all the executions and free all political prisoners.”

This, needless to say, is hot garbage.

I don’t care who you are, if your “anti-imperialism” leads you to attack the same governments as the CIA and the US State Department, then you’re just another imperialist.

It’s so obnoxious and disgusting to be an American and accuse empire-targeted countries of tyranny. This is like being a German in 1940 and spending your energy decrying human rights abuses in the Soviet Union. You live in the heart of the empire, and yet you’re moving your crosshairs away from the most murderous and tyrannical power structure on earth to denounce one of the few remaining nations who’ve resisted being absorbed into its power umbrella? Fuck off. Shut the fuck up you ridiculous wanker.

I cannot stand all these western “leftists” and “anarchists” who insist on placing the western empire on equal or near-equal footing with the governments it targets. All they do is nullify anti-war sentiment and help grease the wheels for the imperial propaganda machine by legitimizing militarist narratives about how the people need rescuing from the evil regime and giving uninformed leftists the false impression that we’re watching two equally evil forces battling it out. Stop being pro bono Pentagon propagandists and get your shit together, assholes.

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The answer to the question “Why is that terrible thing happening?” is usually “Because it makes some rich white guys wealthier” or “Because it helps shore up US planetary domination” or “Because Israel wants it,” and it’s often some combination of all three.

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Genocidal apartheid states should not exist and do not have a right to exist.

I said this on Twitter the other day and someone yelled at me for saying terrible things about Israel. I replied, “How did you know I was talking about Israel?”

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Saying you can support Israel without being a racist is like saying you could support the transatlantic slave trade without being a racist.

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You can get a picture of how insane western society is by imagining what would happen if Iran successfully assassinated Trump. The entire western political/media class would act like something outrageous and evil had just happened, but any sane person would know it was fair play.

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The dumbest argument I’ve heard in favor of religion is “Oh so you’re saying the majority of humanity is wrong??”

Of course they are. Have you seen humanity? The majority is wrong about a great many things. They only just began figuring out that Israel is bad, for fuck’s sake.

We live in a highly controlled and indoctrinated society where people are aggressively propagandized by the powerful to believe things which benefit the powerful. It is not safe to vote with the majority in such a civilization. The mainstream worldviews we are given to choose from are made of pure power-serving bullshit.

This isn’t a comment on religion itself; I personally couldn’t care less if you are religious. I’m just saying in an insane society like the one we live in, you’ve got to have the courage to stand on your own and rely on your own reasoning. You might make mistakes, but figuring it out on your own has a much higher probability of finding the truth than following the herd while trapped inside a mind-controlled dystopia.

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Reading by Tim Foley:

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

“I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night. Not just those who pose an immediate threat – there are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people.”

[GBC @GBC_Press]

A U.S. doctor in Gaza:

"Snipers are shooting children.

It's worse than all the disasters I've ever witnessed combined."