Joshua Wright

[Daily Turkic @DailyTurkic]

Sacha Baron Cohen invented a completely false Kazakhstan of dog-shooting festivals, horse-urine wine, buying wives with insecticide, and a hometown full of rapists and prostitutes and MORE.

The “Kazakh village” scenes were filmed in a real Romanian village after the residents were told it was a documentary about POVERTY. They were paid a few dollars a day. When they saw the finished film they sued for $30 million over the deception and humiliation.

Kazakhstan’s government shut down his website, blocked distribution, and spent millions on campaigns just to fight an image that had nothing to do with reality.

Sony is now financing his return.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

James Cameron: "In Star Wars the good guys are the rebels; they're using asymmetric warfare against a highly organized empire. I think we call those guys terrorists, Mujahideen, Al-Qaeda today."

George Lucas: "When I did it they were Vietcong. That was the whole point."

Lucas confirms that Star Wars is a film about the evils of American imperialism.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

WATCH: Israeli "settlers" stole a donkey from a Palestian farmer and dragged it until it died in the South Hebron Hills, occupied West Bank.

The footage shows the animal being pulled and struggling as the vehicle moves.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Access to water under Israeli apartheid. Imagine making fun of it.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

The MI5 attempted to recruit the deputy chair of the BBC's board, British millionaire Damon Buffini

It worked to infiltrate the broadcaster as it simultaneously fought to suppress an embarrassing BBC documentary

Another blockbuster by @KitKlarenberg https://t.co/bxg83kUar9

[Mark Curtis @markcurtis30]

The fact it's going to take "weeks" for Whitehall to work out its response to a bunch of genocidal mass-murderers tells you everything you need to know about UK foreign policy.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

Jewish surgeon, Dr. Mark Perlmutter, who volunteered in Gaza and appears in the new documentary American Doctor, summarizes the Israeli government’s plan for Palestinians as “I want their land, and I’m willing to kill their children to get it.”

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

Heart-shattering story about children deprived of their education for years in Gaza.

Please do read it.

@Rashaaboujalal1 reports for @DropSiteNews
https://t.co/xTpsxtoFky

[Paul Holden @pauleholden]

Andy Burnham's register of interests, reflecting donations for the last year, were released last night.

They make for very dispiriting reading. They will do little to dispel fears he is simply a continuity Labour Together/Starmer candidate and I think they raise serious issues with his judgment.

Burnham took over £350k in donations in cash and kind over the last year. Most was taken to pay for his Labour leadership campaign in June and July this year.

This includes £25k from Gary Lubner, one of the biggest donors to Labour Together and Starmer's Labour from 2021.

He also took £22k from ThinkLabour (the new name of Labour Together after it was disgraced by repeated scandal, including reporting me and other journalists to the security services after I investigated Morgan McSweeney and LT's unlawfully undeclared donations). ThinkLabour gave him staff and IT services, so it was basically embedded in his campaign.

He also took £164k from Lord Sainsbury, another big historical donor to Labour Together.

I think this reflects very poorly on Burnham'sjudgmen. He should have sought funding and support from other sources not so closely associated with Labour Together. I'm sure he could have raised money from other sources. Many of his MPs and the Speaker of the House have called for an inquiry into Labour Together and APCO Worldwide. Will Burnham agree to institute an inquiry into LT now if he's funded by the think-tank and it's biggest donors?

It also suggests ThinkLabour might have lots of influence over Burnham's government. That will mean some form of re-heated marketing and polling driven strategy that is basically Blue Labour with a smile. That's not good enough for our moment of polycrises and I really don't it is sufficient to beat Reform.

Deeply disappointing.

[Tom Hatfield @WordMercenary]

If you live in Birmingham you should never forget that Labour, The Conservatives, The Lib Dems and Reform all wanted this to happen to you.

[Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski]

Another new video shows Ukrainian man snatched from his car & woman thrown to the ground by press gang in Kropyvnytsky. Self-proclaimed supporters of Ukraine in fact support not Ukrainians but such illegal forced mobilization by Zelensky regime & proxy war to the last Ukrainian.

[Ivan Katchanovski @I_Katchanovski]

Orwellian: 15 year prison sentence in Ukraine for "criticism of the glorification of the OUN and UPA, the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, and the use of Nazi and far-right imagery in the military, including Azov and other units."

[The Heartlands Tribune @HeartlandsTrib]

#Burnham is not the change. He is the adjustment.

This is the necessary interval in which the public is taught to forget how power changed hands. First there is confusion, then repetition, then acceptance.

The questions become tiresome: how did he become Prime Minister, who chose him, when did the country consent? Eventually the machinery of politics depends on one thing above all, that nobody asks anymore.

“Yesterday it was extraordinary. Today it is explained. Tomorrow it will be remembered as inevitable. Then Parliament will reconvene, the benches will fill, the rituals will resume, and we will all go along as before.”

That is how managed democracy hardens into obedience. Not with jackboots at the door, but with a new face on the screen and a population encouraged to move on.

Tony Benn understood that the management team could change while the system remained untouched.

@PaulKnaggs

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Israeli 🇮🇱 minister Ben-Gvir:

‘30 to 40 should be murdered in Gaza 🇵🇸 every night’
‘Even though not a threat [to 🇮🇱]’
‘It’s a compliment to call them ‘people’’

‘They are not worthy of life’

While wearing a hanging rope broach

Racism
Fascism
Genocide

Expel 🇮🇱 from the UN now.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

Horrific scenes in Stourbridge.

As your home burns, remember the UK government met with fossil fuel lobbyists over 500 times during their first year in power

While we bin our BBQs, they’re being wined & dined by the arsonists.

Be furious.

[Liam @SomosLos_Rojos]

Doomed country with infrastructure collapsing all around because some bitch in the 80’s decided to privatise every facet of our lives and the results thereof have been catastrophic

[Tom Hatfield @WordMercenary]

We are arresting our own citizens for this cunt.

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

The CIA is blaming Israel for the made-up threat that left Trump hiding inside a catering truck.

The claim that Iran planned to blow up Trump's plane was "Israel-derived, not US-generated, and viewed as low confidence," the CIA is telling their colleagues at the Washington Post.

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

One of Lebanon's wealthiest men was just exposed as a dominant force behind the campaign to convince Lebanon to submit to occupying Israel's will.

His name is Antoun Sehnaoui, and his girlfriend, former Trump special envoy to Lebanon Morgan Ortagus, publicly bragged that he's been "trained" since birth to "be a supporter of the state of Israel" — and that his actions are "technically illegal" in Lebanon.

I broke down his crusade and documented the media mercenaries he's recruited for his mission at @TheGrayzoneNews.

https://t.co/r9U5MWR6Zl

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

Sangita Myska lost her job at LBC just because she took an Israeli government spokesman to task over their illegal attack on an Iranian diplomatic compound in Damascus, Syria.

This is what journalism should look like, but it gets you sacked in the UK.