★Mr MacRusty

Views here are mine or my mirth at someone else's delusions

[★Mr MacRusty @rusty_joints]

@CBSNews @djnicholl I hope the transmitters feeding those antennas were switched off.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

The two most plausible explanations for this most dangerous move are:
1) Trump plans to sell this extremely valuable information to foreign states and make billions and billions.
2)The US is run by an agent of a foreign country that desperately needs this information.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Labour continues its descent into cruelty.

Why not give people seeking the right to asylum the ability to be able to work?

They are fleeing war & persecution.

Our country has so much more humanity than this.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

Yeah I know Andy Burnham doesn’t wear a tie, likes buses to run on time and detests the London elite, but any chance we can find out what he thinks about Israel’s genocide in Gaza and how he’ll pursue accountability?

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Richard Tice said a debate on Israeli influence on UK politics was “antisemitic in its very motivation”

What he didn’t tell MPs was that he had been on a trip to “the Gaza front line” last September funded by the newly-created Reform Friends of Israel

https://t.co/GS4gOabc5L

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Just awful to see senior Labour politicians, whose government has helped arm Israel's genocide in Gaza, now expressing sympathy for the victims they played their part in creating.

This is gaslighting.

[Jennifer Robinson @welshroots]

So REFRESHING to have Victoria Derbyshire on Laura Kuenssberg show #bbclaurak
No SNEERING , just taking the job in hand seriously and treating people firmly but respectfully

Derbyshire needs to replace Kuenssberg who needs to STAND DOWN for a better journalist

[★Mr MacRusty @rusty_joints]

@WokeratiMarty And, as usual, she’ll probably be right.

[Pink4IRAN ♛ ✡︎ @pink4iran]

🔴 فوری:

صدور حکم اعدام برای آرتین سالاری ۲۰‌ساله به اتهام محاربه

آرتین سالاری در دی ماه و در نورآباد ممسنی بازداشت شده طی مدت بازداشت تحت شکنجه و فشار شدید بوده و هم اکنون با حکم اعدام دارد.

لطفا صدای «آرتین سالاری» باشید

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

The National speaks to truth

The measure of Andy Burnham’s premiership:

•Ban sales of arms to 🇮🇱 now
•Trade sanctions against 🇮🇱 now
•Ban 🇮🇱 money from 🇬🇧 politics now

Anything less is to be complicit.

[Peyman Haghighi @Peyman223]

من #جاوید_خالص، سرباز، حاضر نشدم به معترضین دیماه شلیک کنم و به اعدام محکوم شدم. صدایم باشید!

[Chris Corney @ChrisCorney1]

I can get a barrister being done for contempt if a judge rules a piece of evidence is inadmissible and the barrister ignores this and shows the evidence to the jury anyway.

But Rajiv Menon KC is in trouble for telling a jury what the LAW is. How can a judge suppress the law?

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

From the outset of his leadership of Labour in 2020, Starmer had worked assiduously to purge the party of its left wing over criticisms of Israel – under the guise of addressing a supposed “antisemitism crisis”.

It hardly came as a surprise, then, that he alienated swaths of the British public with his first foreign-policy test – in Gaza.

In late 2023, as opposition leader, when he had a chance to distance himself from the Tory government’s illegal collusion with Israel, Starmer shocked even sections of his party’s right wing by declaring that Israel’s denial of water, food and power to millions of Palestinians was an act of “self-defence”.

A former human rights lawyer, Starmer was excusing an unquestionable war crime.

The International Criminal Court would later issue an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of crimes against humanity over the starvation blockade of Gaza endorsed by Starmer.

Once in office, Starmer proved no better. He repeatedly denied that the situation in Gaza was a genocide, even though he himself had argued before the International Court of Justice in 2014 that a Serbian attack on the Croatian city of Vukovar 23 years earlier was a genocide. That attack was many orders of magnitude less destructive than Israel’s erasure of Gaza.

Starmer refused even to admit that Israel was committing war crimes in the enclave – not least, because to do so would have required him to stop colluding in those atrocities.

His government continued to sell arms to Israel, and allowed Israeli arms manufacturers such as Elbit Systems to operate factories in the UK to build killer drones for use in Gaza.

British planes transported large shipments of weapons to Israel that helped level the tiny territory, while also carrying out endless surveillance flights over Gaza to supply Israel with intelligence used to obliterate the enclave.

At the same time, Britain provided diplomatic cover for Israeli crimes, including at the UN Security Council, and welcomed Israeli generals and politicians suspected of war crimes.

But most significantly of all, the Starmer government went further than the Conservatives in cracking down on basic and long-cherished rights to speech and assembly to stifle protests against what a consensus of experts concluded early on was a genocide by Israel.

In this regard, Starmer appeared to be extending to the wider public the dirty-tricks, antisemitism smears he had used against Corbyn and his supporters.

In the previous Conservative government, home secretary Suella Braverman had branded anti-genocide demonstrations in London that attracted hundreds of thousands of Britons as "hate marches".

Starmer’s first home secretary, Yvette Cooper, not only continued the theme but recruited Britain’s draconian terrorism laws to further chill the protests.

Journalists and political activists who criticised the government’s complicity in genocide had their homes raided by police at dawn, and faced the threat of up to 14 years in jail for “supporting terrorism”.

Next, Cooper proscribed as a terrorist organisation the direct action group Palestine Action, which targeted Israeli factories hosted on British soil that make killer drones to be used in Gaza.

It was not just the first time in British history that a direct action group had been proscribed. In a related legal first, the judge in the trial of four Palestine Action activists sentenced them this month as terrorists, even though none had been convicted of a terrorism offence or of causing intentional violence.

A popular backlash was inevitable. Thousands of elderly Britons – from vicars and lawyers to doctors and army veterans – took to the streets in protest at an unprecedented assault on civil liberties.

In a clear indication of the deeply authoritarian instincts of Starmer and his government, the police were sent in to arrest the protesters en masse. They now face charges of “supporting terrorism”.

Meanwhile, the government announced it was preparing to scrap the right of many defendants to trial by jury – one of the most important safeguards against the dangers of state overreach.

It was hard not to conclude that the government’s urge to dispense with juries followed from the fact that juries had shown themselves far less ready than judges to convict those caught up in Starmer’s wholesale assault on rights of speech and protest.

This is an extract from my latest article Burnham must break with Starmer's dishonest politics. Find a link to the rest of the article in the reply post ⬇️

[Huda Ammori @HudaAmmori]

During the action at Filton, Palestine Action activists destroyed several of these quadcopter drones, which otherwise would of been used to commit more death and destruction in Gaza.

For doing so, they've been sentenced as terrorists.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The genocide in Gaza is a moral litmus test for Burnham.

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

One of the killings involved a ten day old baby being shot by an Israeli sniper in broad daylight whilst the baby was being breastfed : an independent UN Commission says Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank

[Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @LeftieStats]

🚨BREAKING | Zack Polanski says Greens will NOT work with Labour if Burnham continues to support Israel

Polanski said the genocide in Gaza is a "red line", and that any co-operation with Burnham would be impossible unless he admits Israel is committing genocide

(Via @Guardian)

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

The possibility that Josh Simons could be close to Andy Burnham's government raises some very serious questions.

Should a man who waged factional warfare, spied on journalists and then resigned in disgrace really be at the centre of Government?

Feels very Starmer 2.0

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Imagine supporting this. Imagine funding this. Imagine calling criticism of this ‘antisemitic’.

Sociopaths.

[Natali Morris @natalimorris]

Israeli soldiers use young boys for "target practice." As in, Mondays, we shoot the stomach, Tuesdays, the knees, etc.

This was reported last year by the BBC and now corroborated by the United Nations' report.