I proudly boasted about having claimed "zero personal expenses". Which is not surprising when you consider that there is no such thing as 'personal expenses' for MPs, so nobody has claimed any. But I have claimed over £150k in office expenses.
Yet another indictment of the politically (and literally) bankrupt water industry in this country. England had its 8th wettest winter on record. And yet the total lack of investment from the companies to build new reservoirs and capacity leaves us here. Urgent change needed.
@JonLemire@RadioFreeTom@TheAtlantic At the 250th anniversary of our country, we've hit a wall and are now rapidly descending into a twisted mishmash of every dystopian movie ever made and Succession/Billions, while Trump dances on a stage like the strange guy in the Red Room in Twin Peaks. Pretty scary stuff
This lying POS Trump administration.
Marco Rubio got caught because every one is not a brainwashed maga cult member and informative people are observational.
Just catching up my ass! You do that separately from meeting with UAE’s president to discuss serious issues like the MOU and other international security matters. WTF.
THE VIDEO
7 weeks after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Jeffrey Epstein told Steve Bannon a video of the killing may exist.
This was Thanksgiving Day 2018. The Saudi government had admitted Khashoggi was killed but was still disputing the circumstances. The existence of audio and video recordings was not yet publicly confirmed.
Epstein sent this.
"There may be a video of kasshohgi. If so game over"
Turkish intelligence had recorded the killing inside the consulate. The CIA had concluded MBS ordered the murder. Neither had been officially confirmed publicly at the time Epstein sent this message.
Epstein was not reading the news. He had already assessed MBS as becoming too weak to sit at a table of leaders. He had already mapped MBS's covert operations network to Bannon 7 weeks earlier. Now he was telling Bannon the video existed before it was public knowledge.
A convicted sex offender. With advance intelligence on the existence of a murder recording. Sharing it privately with a former White House Chief Strategist on Thanksgiving Day.
This is message 1526 of 3,356 in the Bannon thread alone. We have read 1,700.
Source: DOJ Epstein Files Transparency Act release. Jmail iMessage Archive. steve-bannon thread. Message 1526. November 22 2018.
The most dangerous person in trump administration is a brainy fascist that nobody even heard of, pays attention to or worried about. Russell Vought is killing our democracy. Google him.
Pretty disgusting quid pro quo here. Tech CEO's like Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai pay Trump bribes in the form of donations to his inauguration or via lawsuits, and now they don't have to testify before Congress about kids getting exploited on their platforms.
Before President Trump insisted on changing the color of the Reflecting Pool, he was fixated on another paint job, @NickMiroff reports: https://t.co/dnpaQUIT1m
Bipartisan bill. Passed with massive margins. Would’ve helped crush the housing shortage.
Trump’s response? “Minor importance unless you give me my voter suppression bill first.”
He doesn’t give a damn about your wallet — only about rigging the game. Disgusting.
@Beinggathungu@falayi@politicsusa46 He is pushing (just a little) now. But you’re probably too young to know about all the lies he told from 2016, right through until last year.
Moscow has taken control of illegal migration routes and narcotics trafficking into Europe through North Africa. In this way it helps its far-right tools like Farage, Traitor Tommy, and the German AfD. We in the UK remember Farage's 'Breaking Point' poster which exploited the tide of Syrian refugees weaponised by Putin.
@PhilipObaji@Ziggys_Men Moscovia runs drugs and migrants into Europe as a deliberate destabilization tool, not a side effect. Every kilo and every crossing funds its war. European capitals still pretend this is a law enforcement problem rather than a battlefield extension.
@Charlie149489@ProudSocialist This is a clip of the final couple of minutes of Fahrenheit 9/11
It makes the point really clearly, it’s the perpetuation of poverty
And I agree, Hegseth is making it worse by removing the experienced senior ranks who learnt lessons & respect their troops https://t.co/QRG8u4yzmR
That large companies are an equal power to national governments really hasn't entered common political understanding still less thinking about solutions - though I think many of the public understand this well.
Read Careless People on the plane and coming after reading Apple in China the obvious conclusion to draw is that US and European government efforts to win a battle with China will fail because their own large companies want to do business there.