Cluster Bucks

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[Anglo Futurism Capital LP 🇬🇧🐿️ @RollingHedge]

Children (U16s) are in more danger by using VPNs to bypass Labour’s social media ban, than they are now after being banned from social media.

Labour don’t care about children. Obviously. Look at Southport. Look at Rotherham and 49 other locations for details. They will now try to ban VPNs. But that hasn’t worked anywhere. Not even in Russia or Iran where they dedicate even more resource to doing it. Labour can’t even fund the army or patrol the border. So it won’t work. Obviously.

Even more obviously it’s got naff all to do with what the nudge units will try to convince you it is for.

It is - IN FACT - all about capturing everyone’s digital ID, de anonymising everyone so they won’t call the govt and the state sector workers most worthy of their ire - “retards and bastards” - which of course many of them are - and putting into an immensely hackable centralised system, all so they can crack down on free speech even more and arrest people for wrongspeak and wrongtype.

Importantly, when these things are rolled out, these powers abused, they are rarely rolled back in. It’s a veritable Pandora’s box. Much like the inflation led cost of a pint, authoritarianism finds a new gravity and stays there. I don’t see this stuff going away. Much of the west is rolling it out too. Again, the elitist (free from morons and authoritarianism) city state model proposed by the likes of @drydenwtbrown and @balajis looks more appealing by the day.

[Tom Tugendhat @TomTugendhat]

Anyone who still downplays Russia’s attacks is one of two things: wilfully ignorant or complicit. There is no third category. The Kremlin is not ambiguous about its intent. Nor should we be.
Those who bend the knee to Moscow are traitors. https://t.co/Mn4UjC3ZB3

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Terrible scenes here as the majestic Kyiv Pechersk Lavra- the Monastery of the Caves - burns, deliberately struck by missiles sent by Russia under Putin who presents himself as the leader of a Christian Civilisation and Russian World.
The attack is a sign of desperation - a nihilistic attempt to destroy Ukraine's own history culture and religion, the ugly rage that if Russia cannot have it then nor can Ukraine. The Caves are older than Russia, much older since Russia was in part invented by Peter the Great but even a century older than the earliest foundation of Moscow as a minor fortress. Indeed it is not just ironic but revealing that the founder of Moscow itself, the Rurikid Prince Yuri I Vladimirovich known as Yuri the Long-Armed, Dolgorukiy, is buried there. Founded when Russia did not exist, when Moscow was a forest, it was initially ruled by the fissiparous Rurikid princes of Kievan Rus and built by priests from Mount Athos around the 1050s. It was sacked several times by Mongol invaders and the Mongol rulers of Russia the Genghizid khans of the Golden Horde - echoes of today - and later ruled by a succession of realms including the huge Grand Duchy of Lithuania.... And then swallwed into the Principality of Muscovy by Peter the Great's father Alexei.
In 1787, when Catherine the Great progressed down towards the newly conquered Crimea, she rendez-voused with her co-ruler Prince Potemkin in Kyiv. He was half sybarite half coenobite and while he was waiting for her, he moved into the Caves and lived there for months, holding court for ambassadors and adventuresses - in between spasms of prayer and scourging. Putin identifies with Catherine and Potemkin who conquered Crimea and south Ukraine and he stole the body of Potemkin during this war. But Potemkin loved the Lavra... As the Red Army retreated in 1941, the Soviets blew up parts of the Lavra and it was rebuilt after the war.... Now its destruction is heartbreaking - it semaphores the barbarism and bankruptcy and nihilism of the Russian war - it may just mark a new low in a bloodcurdled spiral of brutality that is this unnecessary imperial conflict but one can only hope that the vandal madness of this attack marks another stage in the road to the realization that Putin's war has failed ....

https://t.co/gwYWdaMtt0

[Cluster Bucks @Clusterbucks247]

@BBCNews

[Cluster Bucks @Clusterbucks247]

@P_Kallioniemi @alex_kokcharov overdue

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Hey, as an Irish politician have you considered not sending 14 ships full of alumina to Russia every month?

[Cluster Bucks @Clusterbucks247]

@davidmcw @dalkeybookfest @janabakunina and #Alumina21 omertà continues

[Cluster Bucks @Clusterbucks247]

@davidmcw @dalkeybookfest @janabakunina cos “Good russians” r prime victims in their unprovoked genocidal invasion of 🇺🇦, cos they never demonstrate against putin regime in safety of West but join pro Z rallies, spy,sabotage& threaten 🇮🇪&EU infrastructure.
seems ur only interest is laundering🇷🇺reputation

No 🇷🇺visas

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

We are fighting the satanic west to defend traditional Christian values.

By bombing cathedrals.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

I just watched priests trying to save crucifixes from a burning monastery.

This is what russia is destroying.

The Kyiv Lavra is one of the holiest Orthodox sites on earth. A UNESCO World Heritage site.

Moscow calls itself “Christian civilisation.”

It’s literally barbarism.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Video of the fire inside the Lavra complex struck by Russia‼️

​The damage is severe, with a massive fire. Russians deliberately targeted the heart of one of Christendom's greatest shrines!

[Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 @robert_lyman]

We live in a post-truth world.

It seems you can tell any number of outright lies in the cause of activism, and be shortlisted for the Turner Prize. https://t.co/4geFwkRWL1

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Money matters more than blood.

[Benjamin Jones @BenBarryJones]

In today’s @DailyMail an essay from my new book, ‘ISLAND OF STRANGERS: Diversity, Decline and Free Speech in Crisis’.

We must not destroy freedom of speech in the name of multiculturalism 👇

[Benjamin Jones @BenBarryJones]

"Freedom of speech in Britain is under attack. People have shown immense tolerance - but we will not accept the destruction of our liberty in the name of multiculturalism."

✍️ My essay in yesterday's @DailyMail, based on my book 'ISLAND OF STRANGERS' (link below)

[Cluster Bucks @Clusterbucks247]

@noclador Under the Starmer cuts JEF will become one bloke called Jeff with a rifle, 10 rounds of eco-friendly biodegradable ammo and a rather shouty voice to deter the russkies

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

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[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is an important post, worth reading in full. The BBC would seem to have a death wish when it comes to impartiality.

[Colin Brazier @ColinBrazierTV]

Time was when Belfast was like nowhere in Britain. Sectarian enclaves bounded by flags. Marches rooted in religious affiliation. A place where changes in demography meant submission or overlordship. What do Belfast's woes this week tell us about Britain's future?
My Friday take.