SurfingRed #FBPA #RestoreDemocracy

Trying to reconcile competing demands of my 4 passions: surfing, the mighty reds, product management &, foremost, my wonderful family. Pls expect the eclectic.

[SurfingRed #FBPA #RestoreDemocracy @SurfingRed]

Brexit has emphatically NOT failed

It has massively increased the wealth & control of those that planned, funded & enacted it

Putin’s beyond chuffed with a UK fractured from both EU & US

And the vulture capitalists are loving the bargains & emergence of a N Altantic sweatshop

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

Let's get #ChargeFarage trending

[Sarah @kokeshimum]

Farage has been hiding for weeks to avoid scrutiny over his financial affairs.

Today he stood alone in a field with no media scrutiny again to use the murder of a young man to rage bait his supporters.

He is an abhorrent piece of shit.

[SurfingRed #FBPA #RestoreDemocracy @SurfingRed]

@AntSpeaks Sounds like your own mighty testerone production has fully corroded your brain. Never mind, any kind of root vegetable can still qualify as one of Nige's brownshirts

[SurfingRed #FBPA #RestoreDemocracy @SurfingRed]

@LFCApproved Sounds so sensible it begs the question 'why wasn't this the approach already?'. Related to contracts and budgetting, is there recognition that LFC simply need more players? The club routinely play >50 games per season and now a coach who has been hired to restore 'intensity'

[SurfingRed #FBPA #RestoreDemocracy @SurfingRed]

May not be true but who cares. There’s no end to the embarrassment Trump deserves to feel 👇🏻

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

‘Absolutely Disgusting!’: Trump smells so bad interviewers use Vicks VapoRub under their noses before every interview because his odor is completely unbearable — leaked memo exposes the foul reality
https://t.co/6wdMcOkqII

[SurfingRed #FBPA #RestoreDemocracy @SurfingRed]

@OWS1892 @annettedittert Bungo Forage awakens from his £5m Spring hibernation by the opportunity for jingoist simplification. I’m sure even the sheep can see through his ‘I’m respectable & trustworthy’ golf-club get-up.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Nigel Farage hasn't bothered to vote in Parliament for the last 11 weeks.

During that time he will have collected about £50,000 in wages and expenses.

But he will tell you Disabled People and immigrants are the problem.

No, it's rich lazy parasites like him.

[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.

[SurfingRed #FBPA #RestoreDemocracy @SurfingRed]

@jackcoder0 Thomas Malthus and his theory of 'effective demand' comes to mind. Humans are so overdue proper thinking on what the 'economy' is actually for. And in that debate we need to start defining & measuring it properly...not the narrowly defined set of outputs & assets in current use

[SurfingRed #FBPA #RestoreDemocracy @SurfingRed]

@Chris78Williams Martin fucking Samuel? Less expert than Nigel Forage on ethics in Politics. No need to read a word from that floppy-haired pork chop.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 DISGUSTING: Epstein survivor Liz Stein exposes the DOJ's massive coverup. She confirms the files are full of names and financial records, yet the Trump administration is blatantly lying, claiming there are no leads.

She reveals the DOJ is actively protecting the elite!

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

In other countries, this would be called corruption in high office.

[SurfingRed #FBPA #RestoreDemocracy @SurfingRed]

It’s almost as if Farage is bullshitting.

How very out of character

[Reform Party UK Exposed 🇬🇧 @reformexposed]

Reform failed to tell the UK’s data watchdog about Farage’s ‘hacked’ phone

https://t.co/fVf0G7Pxts

[SurfingRed #FBPA #RestoreDemocracy @SurfingRed]

@WilsonCoxLFC Drift and dithering. All whilst having 3 Sporting Directors and the perception of being 'smartest in the room'. I understand judgement on Slot is highly naunced by there is a big opportunity cost to not making a decision in this short summer.

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

He Who Pays the Piper: The BBC, Tony Blair, Rishi Sunak and a Failure of Journalism

@AdamBienkov pointing out how the BBC consistently fails to enlighten the license payer over the financial interests of its interviewees

https://t.co/ZrldXsEDqQ

[GBX @GBX_Press]

Israel drops bombs on the Qarn Dam in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. What the occupying entity is doing is not a military operation, but a targeting of daily life that destroys the water infrastructure. This is an act of genocide

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide.

A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage.

But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide.

But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide.

It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words.

But there does need to be a clear intent.

And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there.

A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here.

Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership.

Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements.

And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it.

But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world.

But reality cannot be denied.

So yes, it is a genocide.

And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”

- Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024
- Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

[Dr Elaine Cox 🍃 💚 🍃🌽🥬🐦‍⬛🐌🇬🇧 @ElaineCox11]

Uncut grass keeps the ground at around 19.5°C
Grass cut to 10 cm raises the ground temperature to about 24.5°C
Bare ground in the middle of summer rises to over 40°C
It's important to raise awareness #NoMowMay

[SurfingRed #FBPA #RestoreDemocracy @SurfingRed]

So important👇! When wealth can both buy politicians & policies AND control the 'informationsphere' by owning main media voices, democracy cannot correct for the terrible outcomes of our politics. Democracy has been allowed to become feeble & fragile - it needs this upgrade.

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

Farage is taking political donations into new territory and to new levels. The influence of big money in UK politics can no longer be ignored. Wealthy people, big business, and foreign-linked money are finding new ways into the system - from companies to cryptocurrency.

The danger is clear: politicians make decisions based on the interests of their donors, not the country. Rather than play political whack-a-mole trying to close the latest loophole in donations - crypto being the very latest - we should deal with the root problem. A complete ban on political donations is simple, clear and enduring. No donations means no loopholes.

And no influence.

https://t.co/bWPHHyiaL8

[Will Black 🍓🍄 @WillBlackWriter]

People are saying that Nigel Farage has asked Elon Musk to ban people from X for sharing this clip of him attacking his crony Robert Jenrick.

Surely free speech champion Nigel Farage isn't that petty? But just in case, THIS is the video that you mustn't download or share