ICYMI….. Tit for Tat Playground games will commence under Reform UK Ltd (Deflection to protect Nige) ….
Veronica P
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Here is a clear example of how corporate capitalist forces (and their media) try to undermine science & create their own counterfactuals (and enemies) - in this case using useful idiots. A clear example of false consciousness - where publics must be deceived to protect corporate capital accumulation
“It’s time to make oil giants pay up to repair the climate breakdown they’re driving. Think how many fire and flood defences we could build, or how many solar panels we could install, if big oil paid their fair share in taxes.” www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
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👉NEW -- UK charities face inquiry over Israeli settlement funding by Martin Williams Charity Commission announcement follows Declassified’s investigation into donations to illegal settlers www.declassifieduk.org/uk-charities...
UK charities face inquiry over Israeli settlement funding
Charity Commission announcement follows Declassified’s investigation into donations to illegal settlers
declassifieduk.org
German courts have decided it is not against the law to call Israel a Nazi state. I want you to take a minute and consider to what degree you need to get German courts to agree to that, in a country where the Nazi salute gets you arrested. Israel is a Nazi state. It is committing genocide.
PETER FALK making his debut as ‘Lt. Columbo’ in 1968’s “Prescription: Murder”.
Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "
Scottish actor #BrianCox, best known for playing Logan Roy in HBO’s Succession, isn’t afraid to speak his mind. In an interview with TRT World’s Ghida Fakhry, Cox explained why he refuses to stay quiet despite concerns about Hollywood backlash......” #AllHeroesDontWearCapes 🇵🇸
Just a random reminder that immigrants are good for society and good for the economy.
The Truth About Immigrants and the Economy | Robert Reich
No matter what you hear on Fox News, immigrants are good for the economy and our society. Watch.
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BREAKING: The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.
Can't think of a thing that will radicalize a generation faster than "you've gotta let that old man in the corner over there see what's inside those pants before you play Kindergarten volleyball."
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d agoAn initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play
Anyone who has worked with domestic violence victims know the answer to this is too often yes.
But that would mean I already knew I was going back into politics when I accepted the £5 million, so I'd have been lying when I said I didn't need to declare it.
BREAKING: Max Miller - republican Rep from Ohio who is accused of beating his wife and child - is making an announcement on Twitter at 10 AM tomorrow. It better be his resignation.
I'm absolutely furious that facts and information like this are allowed on social media while every Reform MP is working so hard to spread misinformation and lies and stir up our gullible supporters who will believe any old bollocks.
The New York Times reports the U.S. dropped a 2,000-pound bomb on a family home in Iran, killing a husband, wife, and their 2-year-old son. The paper found no indication of a nearby military target.
Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians (Gift Article)
The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.
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This is just too easy, we could all start a "make no mistake" post relating to Braverman, here's mine: "Make no mistake", Braverman is a vile racist spreading lies. Anyone else notice Reform is pushing the same lie, 'these men' have already returned to Morocco.
Gianni Infantino has been forced to cancel his plan to sell football. He must now be replaced and be investigated for corruption.
Fossil fuel companies should pay up for climate crisis, public believe flip.it/0bgHwc
Fossil fuel companies should pay up for climate crisis, public believe
MOST Britons believe fossil fuel companies should compensate communities after extreme weather destroys their homes or livelihoods, a poll showed today.
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Just FYI, PoliticsUK is a right wing front. Their owner Bailey prominent in Reform UK. Step 1. grow follows by posting news Step 2. viral via sharing Step 3. inject propaganda to that audience Step 4. shape British narrative Post this under all their posts, and anyone you see sharing them.
Setting up a podium for people to read poems is now terrorism. Andy Burnham can stop this. He isn't.
“Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city,” [says Jean-Louis Missika, Paris’s deputy mayor for urbanisation]. “They are parked 95% of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70kg. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is.” www.ft.com/content/882e...
How Paris beat the car
Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model
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Carers' Allowance is capped at £86 a week. Or £70,000 a year if you're a private equity firm that has bought a care home.
At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
theguardian.com
Even GB News cringes as Reform turns dementia patients into a political football