Trojan Badger

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Today Prince William is lecturing us about Climate Change.

Yesterday he flew in a Private Jet, then a Helicopter, then travelled in a multi vehicle Land Rover Convoy.

Earlier this year he went on holiday in this $450m Megayacht that uses as much fuel as 2000 cars.

He is full of shit

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

There is no two state solution.

There is only a one state solution, Palestine.

The Zionists can go back to Europe, or to jail for War Crimes.

All the Jews who love to live in peace, like Ultra Orthodox Jews, many of who hate Israel, will be happier living in Palestine.

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

On March 16, 1968, US troops were raping and massacring Vietnamese civilians including children and babies at My Lai.

Then an American helicopter pilot named Hugh Thompson Jr. saw what was happening — and decided he could not stand by.

Thompson was flying a reconnaissance mission in an OH-23 Raven with his two crewmen, Glenn Andreotta and Lawrence Colburn. Their job was to scout ahead of the ground troops and identify enemy positions.

But something was terribly wrong.

From the air, Thompson noticed bodies everywhere — women, children, infants and elderly people. There was virtually no return fire.

He marked wounded civilians with smoke so they could receive medical help.

But when he came back, he discovered that some of the people he had marked as wounded had been shot dead.

He watched a wounded Vietnamese woman lying on the ground. An American soldier approached her, prodded her with his foot — and shot her in the head.

Thompson was horrified.

He then saw a group of 12–15 Vietnamese women and children fleeing toward a bunker while American soldiers pursued them.

He landed his helicopter between the civilians and the soldiers.

Thompson confronted the Americans and ordered his crew to cover the civilians. He told his gunner, Lawrence Colburn, to train his M60 on the American troops and fire if they opened fire on the Vietnamese.

Think about that.

An American soldier had reached the point where he was willing to risk shooting fellow American soldiers to prevent them from committing more war crimes.

Thompson then helped get the civilians out of the bunker and called in other helicopters to evacuate them.

His crew helped rescue Vietnamese survivors and wounded children.

After returning to base, Thompson immediately reported what he had witnessed to his superiors.

Hugh and his men deserve to be remembered, not because they were American soldiers, but because they chose humanity when others had abandoned it.

While others were killing innocent people, these three Americans risked their lives to save them.

That is courage. That is humanity. This is Thompson Hugh Jr.

[Garland Nixon @TheGarlandNixon]

RUSSIA is weak, inept, the economy is collapsing, and losing to Ukraine. Also, they are about to attack the entire European continent if not the world.

[Weaver Whiteheart 🇻🇦 @WeaverRising2]

Just filled up my car.

I'm okay with Iran having a nuclear weapon.

[Your Party @thisisyourparty]

Thanks to Robert Kraft for single-handedly rolling out the largest-scale political education programme of our times.

Through him, millions have learned:

✔️ How unaccountable billionaires protect Israel
✔️ The power of solidarity
✔️ The cowardice of Ed Sheeran

#FreePalestine

[Trojan Badger @WarrenHurd]

@antonstrydom @ShareenSingh8 Every human rights organisation across the planet including B'Tselem in Israel says it is a genocide. I guess they must all be in on a giant conspiracy.

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.

Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.

An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.

For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.

It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.

By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.

So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.

How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.

At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.

It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.

[ꕤ smosher ☆ @ThatOnePoes]

Never once did I think that Cape Town needs these? For what fucking reason do we need SWAT vehicles? We are not America man. Just give your city their basic needs for fucks sake🫩

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

Israel has just banned me from entering.

Given that this is a fascist government presiding over genocide, apartheid and an illegal occupation, I’ll wear it as a badge of honour.

I will not be intimidated into silence. I will continue to speak out against Israel’s genocide and against the UK’s complicity.

If anything, this ban only strengthens my resolve to keep speaking out.

The disgrace is that Andy Burnham, Ed Miliband and this Labour government continue to arm, trade and cooperate with a state committing genocide against Palestinians.

One day, I look forward to visiting Jerusalem not as an occupied city, but as part of a free and liberated Palestine - a single state with equal rights for all, where Palestinians enjoy the freedom, dignity and equality that have been denied to them for far too long.

Until then, we as a movement must keep fighting. We have no other choice.

From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free 🇵🇸✊🏽

[Trojan Badger @WarrenHurd]

@dpreston71 @RediTlhabi I don't think the Independent Electoral Commission is concerned about Israel's gen0cide in Gaza. The International Court of Justice is though.

[James 🇦🇺 🇮🇹 🦘 @JamesDiMichele3]

Gal Gadots acting by the way🥴😭
#shewontbemissed

[Trojan Badger @WarrenHurd]

@CityofCT Please do something about the Imam Haron road works. The City of Cape Town should light a fire under Civils 2000's backside and get them moving on this project. It is a daily misery for commuters. Businesses are suffering due to these roadworks and some have already closed down.

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

We began this war by massacring little girls and now we’ve bombed a wedding. Monstrous. Imagine how we would react if this was done to us.

[Jackie Walker - HRH, MP, MBE, ABC @Jackiew80333500]

Why doesn’t Cohen satirise his own?

[Luke 'Ming' Flanagan @lukeming]

How Nazi Germany is expanding settlements in Europe in drive to reshape the continent.

[Neena Jha @DrNeenaJha]

I’ve often been asked:

“Why do you care about what’s happening in Gaza so much?”

No, I am not Muslim
I am not Palestinian
I have no links to Palestine

I am just a human witnessing a genocide, is that not enough of an explanation?

My answer - I am simply a human.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

I cant get them out of my head.

Two young siblings from the Hajjaj family lie side by side on a medical hospital bed, their fragile little bodies covered in blood following a brutal airstrike. Severe injuries and fresh blood coat their faces as medical hands frantically try to provide first aid under catastrophic conditions, all while Israel blocks painkillers and basic medical supplies.

[Trojan Badger @WarrenHurd]

@vipkalombo @RosHariMIA @helenzille @ForGoodZA @CityofCT @CityofJoburgZA The City of Cape Town don't attend to anything immediately. Emails - you're lucky if you get a response 2 weeks later. Pot holes - what a joke. Still not filled in months after reporting.

[aapayés @aapayes]

Este es el expresidente de Pakistán, Imran Khan. Este gran hombre es la persona más honorable y valiente hasta ahora de Pakistán...

Desafió a Trump en plena Casa Blanca, diciéndole textualmente: «Creamos el [programa] nuclear para defendernos con él, no para 🧵