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[leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ @LeilaniDowding]

From my electricians FB…

[Tired Peasant @HorrorGorl]

Ed Sheeran is a Coward. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Ed Sheeran just had a Ratner-moment. He has trashed his brand for a mess of potage…

[Dr. Urso @richardursomd]

Islam ban!

[Oscar @HeyOscarx]

Your glasses cost $5 to make. You paid $300. And one company you've never heard of is the reason why.

Luxottica owns Ray-Ban. They own Oakley. They own Persol. They own Oliver Peoples. They own Costa. They own Arnette. They make the glasses for Prada, Chanel, Versace, Dolce & Gabbana, Burberry, Giorgio Armani, and Michael Kors. They own LensCrafters. They own Pearle Vision. They own Sunglass Hut. They own Target Optical. They own the online retailer https://t.co/kRIbMGKUAX. They own EyeMed the vision insurance provider that tells you where to buy your glasses. And they own the lab that makes your lenses.

One company controls the frames. The brands. The stores. The insurance. The lenses. And the price.

A guy spent 11 years working in the optical industry 4 in a lab making lenses, 3 managing a retail optical store, 4 consulting for independent eyewear brands trying to compete with Luxottica.

He told me: "The frame on your face cost between $2 and $5 to manufacture. The lenses cost $1.50 to $3. You paid $300–$700. That's not a markup. That's a scheme. And it only works because one corporation owns every step between the factory and your face and nobody knows it."

"There are 4 billion people on Earth who need vision correction. Most of them are paying a 1,000%–2,000% markup on a medical device they literally cannot live without because the entire industry from factory to face is controlled by one company pretending to be 50 different brands."

"The glasses on your face right now are almost certainly made in the same Italian factory as every 'luxury' brand on the wall at Sunglass Hut the store that Luxottica also owns."

Here are 10 things the glasses industry doesn't want you to know and exactly how to stop overpaying for a product that costs less than your morning coffee to make:
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[Christian @InTheTrenchesUK]

England is in shock.

Not the shock of surprise. The shock of recognition. That moment when we finally admit what we have been seeing for years but were too polite, too exhausted, too bullied to name.

Our capital city flies foreign flags on New Year's Eve and its mayor jokes about independence. Our Prime Minister appointed a Hamas sympathiser as his chief legal adviser and a convicted fraudster as his deputy. Our police force spent £631 million on diversity training while corruption investigations collapsed by 70% and rape gangs operated with impunity. Our Energy Secretary oversaw £44 million vanishing into fraudulent schemes. Our Chancellor pocketed £54,000 from a woman who accused him of failing 1,400 raped girls. Our Manchester Mayor covered up grooming gangs while taking UAE blood money.

This is not a government. This is a looting party with parliamentary privilege.

Let us be specific, shall we? Let us do what the BBC won't.

Andy Burnham. The "King of the North" who lost his own working class constituency because his own people saw through him. The Health Secretary who buried 1,200 deaths at Mid Staffordshire to protect institutional reputations. The man who voted for an illegal war on fabricated intelligence, then voted eighteen times against inquiries into his own crime. The Mayor who spent £27 million on consultants while children were raped in the streets he controlled. The Prime Minister who, within weeks of taking office, exchanged texts with an imposter posing as Trump's chief of staff because his operational security is a joke. Who appointed Andy Slaughter, photographed shaking hands with Hamas officials in Jerusalem, to decide which groups Britain proscribes as terrorists. Who made Louise Haigh, convicted of fraud against the police, his de facto Deputy Prime Minister. Who made Miatta Fahnbulleh, daughter of a Liberian dictator's minister, Energy Secretary after she lost £44 million to fraud. Who made John Healey, who was "not convinced" an inquiry into 1,400 raped girls in his constituency would help them, his Chancellor. Who made Bev Craig, who covered up Manchester's grooming gangs, Mayor of the city region.

This is not failure upward. This is criminality institutionalised.

And London? London has Sadiq Khan. The human rights lawyer who freed Louis Farrakhan, Louis Farrakhan, to enter Britain. Who consulted on the defence of a 9/11 conspirator. Who visited terror suspects in prison and shared platforms nine times with an imam who called women subservient and gays condemned. Who signed a letter blaming 7/7 on British foreign policy, not on the bombers. Who has presided over a 72% rise in knife crime, was officially rebuked by the statistics watchdog for lying about it, and stripped the Met of AI tools that catch corrupt officers. Who extracted £500 million from drivers through ULEZ while his own assessments admitted it had "negligible effect on air quality." Who bankrupted TfL (£12 billion in debt) and hiked our council tax by 71%. Who lit the London Eye in EU colours on New Year's Eve and "joked" about declaring independence. Who denies grooming gangs exist in his city in 2026, calling survivors "politically motivated."

Our capital is being managed by a man who thinks it is his personal city state. Our country is being run by a cabinet that reads like a criminal indictment. Our police are more concerned with pronouns than burglaries. Our borders are sieves operated by Iranian terror units. Our media, our BBC, our ITV, our Channel 4, maintain a disciplined silence while MI5 stops twenty terrorist plots in a year and says nothing.

They do not serve us. They serve each other. They serve ideologies imported from American campuses and Gulf funded think tanks. They serve the next consultancy contract, the next peerage, the next sinecure in a Brussels bureaucracy or a UN agency.

And we? We pay for it all. We pay the ULEZ charges for air quality that doesn't improve. We pay the council tax hikes for services that don't arrive. We pay the TV licence for news that isn't reported. We pay for the diversity officers while our daughters are raped and our police are overwhelmed and our borders are crossed by people who hate us.

And where do these operatives report? To 16 Princes Gate, Knightsbridge. The Iranian Embassy. A Grade II listed building overlooking Hyde Park in London's most expensive postcode. The IRGC's London headquarters operates in plain sight, untouched, unraided, unclosed. We proscribed the group. We declared them terrorists. We gave ourselves the legal power to act. And then we did nothing. The Union Jack flies at half mast for dead monarchs while the flag of the Islamic Republic flies at full mast in our capital, directing operations against our own people. The building should be shuttered. The diplomats expelled. The networks dismantled. Instead, it remains open for business. A terror hub with a SW1A postcode. This is not diplomacy. This is surrender wearing a tie.

The Iranians know it. The IRGC runs smuggling routes across our Channel with impunity from their Knightsbridge embassy. They send operatives daily via small boats while our navy is deployed to diversity workshops. Trump kills IRGC operatives on Iranian soil. Burnham lets them walk free in London. That is the difference between a leader and a placeholder. Between a nation that survives and one that submits.

This is not incompetence. Incompetence is random. This is systematic. This is the deliberate dismantling of a nation by people who view its history as shameful, its people as obstacles, and its institutions as resources to be strip mined for their own advancement.

We have been told this is diversity. This is inclusion. This is progress.

It is not. It is conquest by administrative procedure. It is the replacement of competence with credentials, of justice with ideology, of truth with narrative.

The game is up. The receipts are filed. The pattern is proven.

England will not save itself. Either we do it, or it dies. Decide.

[Sean Galloway @SeanGalloway_]

There are actually people who have labelled HIM the modern day Churchill btw… No. Really…

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

I'm being attacked in various parts of the media today for receiving money from X. I would like to invite those same journalists to Great Yarmouth to see how my entire net MP salary is given to local charities in our community.

Some of the causes I have donated to...

- Great Yarmouth Community First Responders
- St Mary Magdalene Church
- Hemsby Lifeboat
- Phoenix Karate Schools
- Martham Boat Dyke Trust (helping young people get skilled qualifications)
- Shine, a local charity helping children with special educational needs and disabilities
- A graffiti clean up
- Belton Scouts Group
- Caister Lifeboat
- Great Yarmouth Pathway Cafe & Support Centre (food bank)
- Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, ensuring everyone could access a poppy for free.
- Great Yarmouth Sea Cadets
- East Coast Truckers (helping disabled children)
- Great Yarmouth Minister (repairing a church window)
- St Elizabeth Hospice
- Centre 81 Dementia Programme
- Louise Hamilton Trust (end of life care)
- Local football club
- A Heart2Heart lifesaving defibrillator

Each and every month this money is donated - I made a promise during the election, and I am keeping that promise.

I am NOT in politics for the money.

If I wanted to increase my bank balance? TRUST ME - I would not be doing this.

Roughly £100k donated since the election, and I will continue to do so. As promised to my constituents.

If those journalists want to take up the offer and see how that money has been spent, they know where to find me.

[John Olooney @OlooneyJohn]

at last one with some integrity

[Nigel Cording @niggle29]

@Michael_Yon You deserve it 😇😇

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

When Zelensky co-hosted the New Year's show in Moscow on Russia-1 in 2013, one year before the NATO-backed coup in Ukraine.

[Diu Me Damne @AodereSemper]

@dhulqarnayn786

[Nigel Cording @niggle29]

@freedom_rpt 250

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

The Greater Manchester result showed what Restore Britain can deliver.

The next step is how we maximise the chances of delivering the change Britain needs - it means putting personal differences aside.

That is why today I am making a public offer to Nigel Farage and Reform UK.

[Kevin McKernan @Kevin_McKernan]

@JuliaLBach8 @mjtimber2 @PatrickSSte @Deus_Abscondis @kueny_michael @jonnynukeem @APosoukh @CL4Syr @JohnBeaudoinSr @hmatejx @NeilSul70388398 @BenignBrodwicz @Christi30686380 @deadlycassowary @CryptoWooX @j00d0k1ck @jsm2334 @imetatronink @MntyP1 @BrentCa24718741 @justask66054535 @jimmy_dore @ggreenwald @mtaibbi @AlexBerenson @KimIversenShow @MartinKulldorff @FatEmperor @NickHudsonCT @ProfTimNoakes @creon @TuckerGoodrich @mtracey @KyleKulinski @Dr_ScottMc Masks have never produced any significant signal in RTCs.

The physics of masks nebulize droplets into aerosols.

[Ahmed Ali Abdul malek @AhmedAli22288]

@DiversityVB

[bex @ciiillian]

@DiversityVB

[Ahmed Ali Abdul malek @AhmedAli22288]

@DiversityVB

[W @_common_W_]

Argentina are the only team out of all 48 participants not to have a single VAR intervention against them, despite committing the most fouls in the tournament. Do you even realize how insane that is?

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

Putin has no interest in conquering Europe whatsoever. Europe has nothing: there are no assets, there's no oil, there's no gold, and there's nothing you're gonna gain.

On the other hand, Europe needs this war.