Teresa

Retired. #Free Palestine. Project for Peace and Justice #BLM I admire Jeremy Corbyn.

[Àrchie Leishmàn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇬🇧 @ognittis37]

Craig Murray is generally regarded as being a boring windbag but this is actually quite interesting,

Mainly because he is criticising the SNP

https://t.co/DfQU4pZbuI

[Captain Spacehawk @CAcehawk]

@TomLondon6 That's what happens when your gov is infiltrated by israel. Seems like most of the west has been soft couped, all it took was greedy corrupt politicians and cash. A fucking disgrace

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

I can criticise
The King
UK govt
US govt
Any MP
Capitalism
Religions
UK army
Security Services

I can criticise
ANY foreign country EXCEPT if I criticise Israel ALONE, I risk serious personal consequences EVEN though Israel is carrying out terrible crimes including GENOCIDE

[Jeremy Vine & Daytime on 5 @JeremyVineOn5]

"Why is it that two non-working royals are basically being funded by us, by money that otherwise should go into the national coffers?"

@Tessadunlop questions why taxpayers are forking out for Beatrice and Eugenie to live rent-free.

@albieamankona | @theJeremyVine | #JeremyVine

[Nina @ShakeLS]

Great father Charles didn't want to pay anything for Prince Harry and Meghan, even took their security away endangering theirs and Archie's safety. But he has no issue paying for Beatrice and Eugenie. They both don't pay anything for the houses they are staying on, owned by the crown estate. Absolutely shameful.

[The Royal Family Revealed @royalfamilyrevd]

GRIFT upon GRIFT upon GRIFT.
• William and Kate pocket £23 million a year charging rent to gov bodies, charities, and public works. They also LIED when they said they alone paid for Forest Lodge renovations. They scammed 400K for that.

• Beatrice and Eugenie have had free luxury residences for nearly 20 yrs.

• Sophie and Edward paying a pittance for their 120-room, 51-acre home AND subletted a portion of the estate for more cash.

• Prince Andrew also tried to make money from charging STAFF for rent.

• Zara and Mike pay nothing to live in Gatcombe Park (a free property given by QEII) and cash in on their proximity to the royals with every media deal they make. Anne rents it out for events and as a farm. This is all just the tip of the iceberg.

• The Met pays for their security. The government pays hundreds of millions for funerals and ceremonies, the daily helicopter commuting around England, and for William to go watch footie matches around Europe.

• Charles is paid £86 million a year to maintain their lifestyle. And ALSO pockets £27 million a year from Duchy of Lancaster.

CUT THEM ALL OFF. They would all be living in absolute comfort and luxury for generations even without the grant.

[Wokerati Marty @WokeratiMarty]

It’s absolutely shocking this.

They set fire to car in the driveway at 1.30am in the morning while people were asleep inside the house

[The Green Party @TheGreenParty]

A message of solidarity from @MothinAli

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

I am horrified that a car has been deliberately set alight outside the home of the family of Salma Yaqoob, a wonderful prominent anti-racist and peace campaigner in Birmingham.

I hope the police take this shocking incident seriously. Sending my solidarity to Salma & her family.

[Teresa @tmoptimist]

@murchadhfinn @kellylgiven Well said.

[Nadeem Ahmed @Muqadaam]

Criticism of Israel is not antisemitic

Retweet if you agree with Corbyn

[Suppressed Voices @supressedvoic]

Join the "One Million Voices for the Free of Hussam Abu Safieh" and other Palestinian prisoners.

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[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

Honestly speaking, today I feel like I'm really getting tired of Iran agreeing to be managed by the US in this war (the US says jump, they say how high, rinse and repeat), and locking itself into a purely passive, forever reactive role.

I know Iran doesn't want to be controlled or occupied, but right now they appear to be accepting a state of half-occupation, which means de facto occupation.

In terms of narrative management, Iran is letting the US win (because Iran agrees for the US to decide the timing, place and intensity of conflict, and also continually agrees to be fooled by a negotiation process the whole world knows is fake, and even if it is real, it doesn't reflect confidence: why should a free country negotiate the terms of removing an illegal military threat and blockade?). And that's bad. Losing momentum is bad. Becoming boring is bad. It is letting the US and Israel take over.

It is accepting colonialism by trying to come to terms with it.

Temporary conclusion: Iran is wasting precious time, energy and international credit waiting sheepishly for the US and Israeli to attack at their preferred and convenient timing and locations, and looks like it is feeling growingly comfortable with a respectable and bureaucratically-managed grey defeat and existence. This is Iran's right, of course, but is far from inspiring to anyone.

(Personally, today I am starting to lose patience and interest in this war. I really hope it means things are about to change dramatically).
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The way Iran is conducting itself only makes sense if they plan for this war to last till the US and Israel exhaust all their energy and ammunition. The problem with this approach is not much but scorched earth will remain of West Asia by that time, and we have no idea if any surviving organized force will be able to rise from the rubble.

It is in Iran's interest to push for a short period of maximum violence, which it will survive as a coherent and unified political power. An endless war of attrition is a much more dangerous gamble when the US still has a lot of power to practically isolate Iran from the world mentally and logistically.

If this goes on for much longer, Iran runs the risk of losing its sense of purpose, its unity and cohesion, and allowing its enemies time to find the weak spots in its defenses, which exists in every system and structure.

Agreeing to be passive is agreeing to be occupied. And this is a lesson for Russia and China, too. When war is a certainty, waiting for your opponent to decide when and where to start it is a potentially fatal strategic error.

One of the reasons the West wins, and has been winning, is it always has the initiative. The colonized people of the world, which is everyone outside Western elites, need to finally get that

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[Teresa @tmoptimist]

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[Teresa @tmoptimist]

I just signed this petition https://t.co/TWovobNqGH

[Joao Aliano @joaoaliano]

@HindRFoundation Lets put this in perspective. Those two commanded the bombing of Gaza during a genocide. They're the ones that ordered the indiscriminate bombing, wiping out much of Gaza from the face of Earth, including little Mariam and her entire family. Arrest them! https://t.co/xVS3GyKiqA

[Zo Brown @receipts_lol]

Will @NYCMayor roll out the red carpet for war criminals?

[Jake Romm @jake_romm]

Amir Eshel & Amikam Norkin, two former commanders of the Israeli Air Force, are responsible for an untold number of murders, an untold amount of destruction, an untold amount of suffering
They belong in prison, & every country in the world has the ability & duty to put them there

[Red Collective @RedCollectiveUK]

Mariam was not "Hamas". She was not a "terrorist". She wasn't even an adult.

Mariam was a much loved 3 year old girl but that didn't stop the Israeli Nazis murdering her, as part of their evil Palestinian holocaust.