Glaswegian · Socialist · 'To bring about a fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people and their families'
Eddie Dempsey: "I hate to say this: people aren’t paid according to what social value they bring to society. If they were, you wouldn’t see nurses going to food banks. Your wages depend on the strength of the union and your preparedness to take militant strike action" 🎯
This thread is, at best, disingenuous on parliamentary scrutiny. Scrutiny involves testing all substantive policies within legislation. Wrecking amendments may not be permitted but that does not mean that the job of MPs is not to test, question, ask for examples.
@Planet_bel@frjohnwhiteford They did have their own militia. Nusour Az-Zawba handled security in the area for most of the civil war until the militias were suppressed by Assad
🚨Israel is aiding ISIS-linked terrorists & criminals to sow chaos & famine in Gaza:
Shadi al-Sofi, a wanted murderer & son of an informant/collaborator with Israel, & Yasser abu Shabab, a drug dealer, are the main warlords responsible for looting most aid under IDF protection.
They formed gangs of over 200 armed criminals & “established a military like compound” (per the UN) in an emptied "death zone" fully under IDF control, where they looted only this Saturday night about 100 aid trucks at once.
This way Israel can absolve itself of responsibility for its deliberate starvation policy in Gaza and say “look, we’re letting aid in, it’s Hamas’ fault that food doesn’t reach people” (as claimed by Senator Jon Fetterman yesterday).
IDF soldiers never fire at those gang members as they loot aid right in front of Israeli tanks & troops in a closed military zone that no Gazan is allowed into. The IDF only fires at local policemen whenever they try to prevent the looting.
Yasser Abu Shabab was arrested by Gaza's local police multiple times in the past for drug smuggling & trading, which is often facilitated by ISIS groups in Sinai.
Hamas militants attempted to eliminate him yesterday in an attack that killed 11 of his gang, including his brother & partner Fathi & the gang's accountant. 30 others were wounded.
Shadi Al-Sofi murdered in 2020 Jabr al-Qeeq, a PLFP member whom Israel had sentenced to life & imprisoned for 15 years for killing al-Sofi's father during the 1st Intifada for spying on Palestinians for Israel.
Al-Sofi was convicted in a Gazan court & the local police captured him in a special operation in late 2020, before he broke out of prison with the help of ISIS-linked militants & was smuggled out of Gaza to Sinai, then reportedly to Israel's Negev. He returned to Gaza with the IDF ground invasion where he now co-leads the criminal gangs that loot aid & sabotage humanitarian work under IDF protection.
This is Céline Haidar, a Lebanese national team footballer.
Céline now lies in intensive care, critically injured after being struck in the head by Israeli shrapnel in Beirut.
If she were Ukrainian, her story would be everywhere. But because she’s Lebanese, the world is silent.
Very sad to hear Jon Kenny has passed. 😞
I was reared on D’Unbelievables & will be re-watching these clips now all week.
“ya can’t be doin dat”
RIP
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This is ridiculous. Biden isn’t stumbling, he’s doing what the Fremen call a sandwalk. It’s a specific technique involving irregular steps which are meant to mimic natural, random movements to throw off the sandworms. 9/10 technique.
IDF tells Ireland to remove its peacekeepers from an outpost on the border with Lebanon as its invasion of the country continues. They are not moving.
https://t.co/S6JPUUKz82
An Austrian Tongue Choir from the Alps region of Tyrol sings ‘Moscow Nights’ with their tongue in a 1982 performance.
If not for the Internet, we’d never know music videos like this existed.
https://t.co/Rjn08q2HfU