Retired wannabe Oz socialist. One of those annoying progressives that Albanese now despises, but used to rely on for support. Sigh🫣
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Robert Barton retweeted
“Russia is a great country. There is no reason whatsoever to ostracise it from the international community.”
Here is a compilation of more than 2 minutes of footage of Marine Le Pen expressing her thoughts on Russia.
Robert Barton retweeted
Don't know why Farage is laying a wreath at the Cenotaph? His side lost in 1945! #Antisemite
#bbclaurak
Robert Barton retweeted
Huge win for the community with Victoria Barracks in Sydney and Melbourne, as well as historic Point Cook, being kept in public hands. Labor wanted to privatise them, but community campaigns, and a months long Senate inquiry, has forced Labor to back down. That’s people power.
Robert Barton retweeted
Someone send a peacekeeping force to help, now. DO something!
I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
Robert Barton retweeted
"AUKUS costs a minimum of $33 million a day for the next 30 years!! PASS IT ON.
Robert Barton retweeted
A shocking crime in Kraków. On behalf of the Ukrainian people, and personally, I extend my sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims. There can be no justification for this attack, and we trust the perpetrator will face justice.
We wish strength and a speedy recovery to the injured and to everyone affected by this tragedy. Ukraine stands in solidarity with Poland and the Polish people. People have the right to safety.
Robert Barton retweeted
Rule of thumb No. 28,554:
If a single paragraph contains the words “Witkoff,” “Kushner,” “Russia,” and “peace,” you can automatically assume, without the slightest doubt, that it's nothing but empty talk and political showmanship, completely detached from reality and not worth the paper it's written on.
Robert Barton retweeted
Europe should send a clear, unified message to Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner: nothing about European security can be decided without Europe at the table
Robert Barton retweeted
Russell Brand mildly sexually harassed me at a party in 1999. It didn’t occur to me to report him, it was just part of the experience of a young woman working at the Edinburgh festivals in those days, he wasn’t even the worst. But anyone arguing that he’s not guilty is a mad cunt
Robert Barton retweeted
Were you one of those people who NEVER liked Russell Brand?
Who found his 'humour' boring and childish, and his behaviour creepy and 'rapey' even right from the start.
Shout out if you were.
Robert Barton retweeted
It’s hard to grasp the BBC’s systematic attempt to launder Israeli propaganda until you see the sheer scale of it. Here's a compilation of them doing it at 2x speed.
The latest was on Newsnight on 4 November. When Bernie Sanders called Israel’s government extremist, Victoria Derbyshire answered for it: “And the Israeli government would deny that they are extremists.”
As this video shows, BBC presenters repeatedly do this as guests describe Israel’s crimes: “Israel would say.” “Israel would deny.” “They would reject that.”
We counted 70 of these denials and justifications in 52 aired interviews. The BBC calls this impartiality. But in not one of those 52 did a presenter raise any of these words from Israel’s own leaders:
- “We are fighting human animals.” Yoav Gallant, 9 October 2023
- “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.” Isaac Herzog, 12 October 2023
- “They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.” Israel Katz, 13 October 2023
- “Remember what Amalek did to you.” Benjamin Netanyahu, 3 November 2023
- Starving two million people in Gaza until the hostages came back might be “justified and moral”. Bezalel Smotrich, 5 August 2024
On 10 October 2023, Tahani Mustafa told the BBC that Israeli forces were not distinguishing civilians from fighters. The presenter replied: “They would reject that.” Mustafa then had to bring up Gallant’s “human animals” herself. The BBC supplied the denial. The guest had to supply Israel’s own words.
That is cherry-picking. The Royal Charter requires the BBC to be impartial, and the public pays for it through the licence fee. In these interviews, it handed its audience Israel’s denials and left out its leaders’ own words, during a genocide streamed live to the world.
We have archived the BBC’s coverage for three years, and we are now counting all of it: 50,000 video clips and many more written excerpts.
We are calling this first part: "BBC: The Would Say Files".
Handing Israel its denials is only one of the ways the BBC launders Israeli propaganda, so we will count every other technique too. Over the next few weeks, we will announce each milestone as we complete the report.
These are the first results, with every clip, quote and source: newscord.org/editorials/bbc-…
Robert Barton retweeted
I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
Robert Barton retweeted
Proposed new laws would allow the Australian Defence Force to build projects across the nation without having to comply with state or territory rules. #sydneycriminallawyers #adf #AustralianDefenceForce
sydneycriminallawyers.com.au…
Robert Barton retweeted
It’s safe to condemn Netanyahu for this, now @AlboMP @SenatorWong Will you??
Last night was one of the worst nights Gaza has seen. The bombs have never stopped raining down on them, and when the actual rain fell upon them, their tents flooded. So many missing limbs, all missing loved ones, most without homes. And the world just pretended it stopped. I didn’t even post an image with people this time because they’re sick of showing us images of themselves in desperation without action on our part. A reminder to you and me to not forget them because they’re no longer in your feed.
Robert Barton retweeted
Ron DeSantis trying to distance himself from the trump administration like he wasn't the one who built a concentration camp surrounded by alligators where they feed migrants maggot infested food while desantis and trump's people laugh and sold merch!
Robert Barton retweeted
Residents of Dalby in Queensland raise concerns about the lack of consideration given by the 3 levels of government to the $32b Digital Park. Once Premier David Crisafulli gave the nod to Anthropic the lease just went into place with Zerra DC. #qldpol nine.com.au/australia-news/a…
Robert Barton retweeted
Ruffalo is talking about AIPAC and you changed it to Jews. AIPAC doesnt equal Jews. New polling shows most American Jews oppose AIPAC
