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allen leitch retweeted
ISRAEL IS GOING TO MURDER THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PROSECUTOR.
INSANE: A spy chief is terrorizing an International Criminal Court prosecutor, threatening her safety, family and career, showing secret photos of her husband to coerce her into dropping a war-crimes probe.
Which intelligence agency does he lead?
Agency only @grok
allen leitch retweeted
Olivia Munn says that when she brought lunch to Brett Ratner's trailer on a movie set in 2004, the Rush Hour director masturbated in front of her. She wrote about it in a 2010 book without his name. The next year he went on TV and said he had "banged her a few times." Days later, on Howard Stern's radio show, he admitted that was a lie. Two years after that, a company he co-founded signed a $450 million financing deal with Warner Bros.
The TV show where he said it was Attack of the Show. Munn used to host it.
In the video below, she tells Entertainment Tonight: "He admitted that he lied about all the things that he said about me. And then just a few years later he gets this huge, you know, a few hundred million dollar financing deal with Warner Brothers."
In 2017 the Los Angeles Times published her story and five other women's. Natasha Henstridge, star of Species, said that when she was 19 he blocked the door of his New York apartment and forced her into oral sex.
His lawyer told the paper that Munn and Ratner had been in an intimate relationship. She called that a lie.
"No woman has ever requested or received any financial settlement from my client," the lawyer, Martin Singer, said in November 2017.
Ratner denies all of it. In January his first film since the accusations, a documentary called Melania, came out. Amazon reportedly paid $40 million for it.
Munn never asked him for money and never worked with him. He went on to a $450 million deal with one studio and a $40 million film at another.
If you ran Amazon, would you have paid $40 million for his film?
allen leitch retweeted
One day, there will be an inquiry.
Does this government want to be remembered for making it happen, or for getting in the way?
Do the right thing — and launch a full inquiry into Britain’s complicity in genocide, now.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
allen leitch retweeted
What a (bad) joke privatised water is. It’s water, the stuff of life. So customers are on the hook for every penny that can be squeezed out of them. What to do with that steady, reliable income stream (pun intended)? Is it:
A - invest in reservoirs, maintenance, filtration etc or
B - borrow against it & divert the cash to investors while allowing the system to degrade & pollute our rivers & beaches?
Tricky one.
🚨BREAKING
The Financial Times has just revealed that Thames Water’s US hedge fund creditors are close to agreeing a ‘last and final’ deal to take over the company.
A handover to US hedge funds. A continuation of the privatised chaos. And a huge reward for the people who have run our water into the ground.
The deal would see them allowed to pollute our rivers and seas without consequence - in exchange for an upfront payoff.
This deal is absolutely outrageous, in every regard.
112 MPs have already called for special administration of Thames Water.
A cross-party group of MPs - who scrutinise the Environment Department - have said that the creditors’ proposal should be rejected and Thames Water should be brought into special administration.
And the former Environment Secretary rejected a previous version of the creditors’ deal in June. This new version is not better in any way.
@andyburnham promised to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation. He promised public control of life’s essentials.
This really is the moment of truth for Andy Burnham. If he allows the water supply of 16 million people to be sold off to US hedge funds - how can we take him seriously about any of his promises?
NO DEAL to the Thames Water creditors. Special administration now.
allen leitch retweeted
"A petition calling for an independent inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Israeli genocide in Gaza has passed 100,000 signatures, and will now be considered for debate in Parliament."
The above has NOT been reported on the BBC News website.
Please RT this until it does.
allen leitch retweeted
This is genuinely beautiful to watch. One of the purest and most wholesome interactions I’ve seen in a while.
Some of the smallest moments can say the most.
A simple interaction between a child and an adult can turn into something meaningful when both people take the time to understand each other.
Even without words, a small gesture can show appreciation, patience, and connection.
It’s the kind of moment that reminds people how powerful quiet communication can be. One person takes the time to teach or share, and the other responds in the purest way possible.
allen leitch retweeted
Didn't Robert De Niro once say a real rain would come and wash all the scum off the streets? 🚖 While Elon was busy trying to make it rain in the Midterms, Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney was bringing the real downpour with MUSK. Now available on demand! #MuskMovie
allen leitch retweeted
WILLIE MCRAE LAST WORDS WERE I'M GOING TO GET THEM
In April 1985, a Scottish lawyer named Willie McRae left Glasgow on a Friday evening heading to his holiday cottage. He never arrived.
He was found unconscious in his crashed car on a remote Highland road with a bullet in his head.
Police ruled it suicide. Case was closed.
One problem. The gun was found outside the car, several yards away. McRae was still inside, seatbelt on, doors jammed shut.
The officer who last spoke to McRae said he was being watched by MI5 and Special Branch.
McRae had patted his briefcase and said he had information and was going to get them.
When that officer later requested his own witness statement under Freedom of Information, he found it had been replaced with a forgery...
Every mention of surveillance, MI5, and the briefcase had been deleted.
There had been a fire at McRae's office the day before. A witness saw a man running from the building carrying a briefcase.
This was not a random lawyer. McRae had just humiliated the British nuclear industry at a public inquiry, blocking plans to dump nuclear waste across the UK.
He was also reportedly investigating a Westminster paedophile ring.
40 years later there has still never been a Fatal Accident Inquiry.
The post-mortem report has never been made public. Over 13,000 people signed a petition demanding answers.
The official position of the British state is that a man who embarrassed the establishment, knew dangerous secrets, and had just told a police officer he was going to get them, then shot himself ... after which the gun walked out of the locked car on its own.
Sources:
@pressjournal
@scotsman
@AlbaParty
@BylineTimes
@PrivateEyeNews
allen leitch retweeted
I don’t think I’ve ever encountered writing like this in The Economist before.
allen leitch retweeted
Benjamin Netanyahu is no longer Israel’s prime minister, and the new government takes office this Sunday ; It’s time to hold Mr Netanyahu accountable for the crimes committed in Gaza, along with everyone involved in the conflict over the past three years. To achieve sustainable peace, we need to act quickly and remove all the bad apples on both sides.
@DeboraK_RDC @FullOptionscio
allen leitch retweeted
For last 24 hours I’ve seen footage of horrific scenes from Gaza, just absolute human misery. Yet..it’s not there on any news outlet’s home pages, not discussed on our witless political shows. We’re just going to ignore it? Is that the plan?
allen leitch retweeted
one of the best answers, comments or summaries I've heard about the US mid terms by @JohnAmaechi.
Well worth a listen.
allen leitch retweeted
Elon Musk is hiding this video of Bill Burr ripping him apart.
So don't RT it.
Or do if you don't like Elon Musk.
allen leitch retweeted
This is INSANE.
AIPAC controls 76% of the members of Congress, regardless of which party they belong to.
There’s def a uniparty, but it looks much different than I could have ever imagined.
I NEVER looked or paid attention to any of this until they took out Thomas Massie.
