Keith Smithies

Appalled how far right funding is driving unrest. Against privatising the NHS. Rejoin & reform the EU.

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

This video was deleted from Facebook yesterday.

You know what to do ‼️

Trump in 2008: Anyone who invades the Middle East under false pretenses should be impeached.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

3 of the 4 people didn’t attack the police officer and all of the 4 were cleared of violent intent. So the only disgrace here is the lie you’re telling to justify a clear miscarriage of justice & the use of anti-terror laws to justify your government’s complicity in a genocide.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The President of Palestine's football association has been banned from attending the World Cup.

He refused to shake hands with Israel's rep 6 weeks ago when Infantino tried to force him, instead shouting out "We are suffering"

Now the racist genocide supporters have banned him

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

Jeremy Johnson - in 50 years time this will be the only 1.39 minutes of your life you'll be remembered for. It'll be played in genocide museums to sum up the complicity and callous brutality of the British state in the face of the slaughter of the Palestinian people - and the courage of those who opposed it.

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

A judge with a 'Zionist Connection' has seen a 'Terrorist Connection" & imposed sentences totally disproportionate with the charges a jury found them guilty on.

Please RT this - until this travesty of justice is corrected & can never be repeated.

Thank you.

[Keith Smithies @KeithSmithies]

@PalestineCultu1 @nulasuchet 🇬🇧

[Palestine Culture @PalestineCultu1]

If you stand with Dr. Hussam Abu Safieh, Reply with your country's flag،

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

🚨 Jo Cox, a 41-year-old British Labour MP for Batley and Spen, was murdered on 16 June 2016 outside a constituency surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire.

Thomas Mair, then 52, attacked her with a sawn-off rifle and a knife, shooting and stabbing her repeatedly while shouting phrases such as “Britain first!”, “This is for Britain”, and “Keep Britain independent.” Cox died of her injuries shortly afterwards.

Mair, who had a long-standing obsession with far-right and white supremacist ideology (including neo-Nazi literature and links to American extremist groups), was convicted of her murder and terrorism-related offences. He was sentenced to life imprisonment with no possibility of release.

The judge and court accepted the killing as a politically motivated terrorist attack by a far-right extremist.

The murder took place one week before the Brexit referendum, and just a few hours after Nigel Farage, then UKIP leader, unveiled the controversial “Breaking Point” poster in Westminster. The poster showed a long queue of mostly non-white migrants and refugees (a 2015 photo from the Slovenia-Croatia border) with the slogan “Breaking Point: The EU has failed us all” and called for Britain to “take back control of our borders.”

It was widely condemned at the time (including by some on the Leave side) for its imagery, which strongly resembled Nazi-era propaganda depicting columns of refugees or “invaders.”

In a 2019 interview with media researcher Emma L Briant, Andy Wigmore, head of comms for https://t.co/9paSsw4iUP (the group behind the poster co-founded by Arron Banks and Richard Tice) admitted the imagery was "inspired by Nazi propaganda" to maximize emotional impact.

The murder and the poster launch both occurred exactly one week before the Brexit referendum on 23 June.

[𝘈𝘯𝘥𝘺 𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘪𝘰 🇮🇹 @Andy_Calcio]

Declaraciones de Jurgen Klopp a ZDF, sobre la reanudación del juego retrasada por el árbitro, durante el cooling break del México-Sudáfrica para que terminaran los comerciales de algunas cadenas de TV:
"Esto es el fútbol siendo tomado como rehén por ejecutivos en oficinas con aire acondicionado".

"Estos supuestos 'descansos por el calor' nos los vendieron como un escudo para el bienestar de los jugadores, una noble espada contra el calor. ¿Pero en realidad? No es más que una jaula dorada construida para patrocinadores. Cuando vi a los jugadores parados durante un descanso por calor mientras los tiempos de televisión dictaban el ritmo del partido, no pude evitar preguntarme: ¿a quién está sirviendo realmente la Copa del Mundo? ¿A los aficionados?, ¿A los jugadores?, ¿O a los anunciantes?".

"Un partido de la Copa del Mundo debería fluir como un río. En cambio, estamos construyendo presas en medio de él para que los comerciales puedan pasar. Eso es peligroso para el espíritu del juego. El fútbol alguna vez fue el evento principal, pero ahora corre el riesgo de convertirse en la música de fondo de un espectáculo publicitario. Nos dicen que estos descansos son por el bienestar de los jugadores, y por supuesto la salud de los jugadores importa. Pero cuando el juego empieza a doblar sus rodillas ante los tiempos de la televisión, la gente va a hacer preguntas. El balón se supone que es la estrella. No un descanso comercial".

"La Copa del Mundo es la catedral del fútbol. Sin embargo, a veces da la sensación de que la hemos convertido en un centro comercial donde la caja registradora recibe más respeto que el propio partido. Si este es el futuro, entonces el fútbol ya no está siendo interrumpido por los anuncios. El fútbol se está convirtiendo en la interrupción entre los anuncios".

[#PositiveForLabour @nowayjomo]

@afneil Makes a big difference to some lives

[Brexit Buster @BrexitBuster]

Imagine your granny or mum waking up in her bed to discover this ‘concerned citizen’ protecting her - as he ransacks her home. Farage rioter Denis Read (28) has been jailed for two years, eight months after pleading guilty. Previous convictions incl burglary and knife crime.

[TRUTH🕊️ @HonestHalo]

Nigel Farage’s £5m crypto gift scandal is getting worse.
I - Secret £5 million from a crypto billionaire
ii - U-turned to run for MP just weeks later
iii- Bought a £1.4 million house in cash
is -Now under official Parliamentary investigation for failing to declare it
Reform promised to clean up Westminster.
Their leader is dodging transparency.
Britain has seen through the act. Say no to Reform and reject them.

~ financial Time

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel is blowing up entire villages in Lebanon, killing 200 to 300 civilians every 48-96 hours, calling it a ceasefire, with absolutely no consequences.

Israel is killing so many Lebanese so regularly that the world has lost interest. Just like has lost interest in Gaza.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 𝙱𝙴𝙰𝚁 🇬🇧 @RangersBear55]

This is Callum Peacock. He battered his girlfriend with a golf club, threw bleach and paint at her, and burned a memorial shirt of her deceased grandmother but has avoided an immediate prison sentence.

The 19-year-old defendant, from St Helens, subjected his partner to a cruel three-hour ordeal inside their home.

Police officers arrived at the flat to find the victim covered in white paint and curled up in a ball on the bathroom floor.

She was audibly sobbing and shrieking through a hole in the door, which was still smouldering and smoking.

During the assault, the teenager hit her with a broom handle and a golf club before putting her in a chokehold from behind.

When she tried to hide in the bathroom, he smashed the door with the golf club and used an aerosol and a lighter to set fire to it.

He then threw dumbbells and a bottle of bleach at her, causing the liquid to splash onto her body.

In what was described in court as an extremely selfish act, he took hold of a memorial t-shirt featuring a photograph of her deceased grandmother.

He set fire to the garment right in front of her while telling her that her nan would rot in hell.

The attack came just two days after another incident where he struck his girlfriend with a hammer following an argument.

Following his arrest, he openly threatened his victim in front of police officers, stating that he was going to smash her face in when he got out.

But he has now walked free from court after a judge handed him an 18-month imprisonment suspended for 18 months.

The court heard he had already spent nearly five months in custody on remand, which the judge noted was the equivalent of a nine-month sentence for a teenager with no previous convictions.

He was also given a five-year restraining order and a rehabilitation activity requirement of up to 20 days.

Another kick in the teeth, metaphorically speaking to the brave young woman who endured his cowardly attacks.

The justice in this country cares more about the accused than the victims.

[Roger Gall @Shambles151]

"Judge Johnson kept the jury in the dark of his plans to sentence the four as terrorists. This is the first time in British legal history that anyone has been sentenced as a terrorist for damaging property."

Please RT until this is both the 1st & last time.

Thank you.

[Alethea Bernard @Tush27J]

Dear @KemiBadenoch
£100 Bn general waste by the Tories.
£148 Mn owed by Michelle Mone.
£1.6 Bn stop the boats barge
£21 Bn handed to covid fraudsters
£471 Mn in total paid to destroy PPE not needed/in storage too long.
=
£123,219,000,000
What have you to say about that?

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany needed compliant judges to provide a legal veneer to their darkest crimes.

Judge Johnson joins their wretched company. He overturned a jury's conviction of four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead.

As one their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence.

Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

A judge has sentenced the Filton 4 as terrorists, behind the back of the jury, who only ever considered charges of criminal damage.

This grotesque distortion of the law tightens the screws on the public’s right to protest, placing more limits on our freedom to fight injustice.

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

Another elderly peaceful Palestine Action anti-genocide protester has just been arrested outside Woolwich Crown Court for holding a sign. The utter fiasco undertaken by the British state to protect Israel at the expense of its own citizens goes on unabated.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

"In one incident, he punched a partner unconscious, knocked out her front teeth"

These are the "English patriots" rioting against violence perpetrated by migrants.