To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. (Nelson Mandela)
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Rather than build almost 30 million electric cars over the next 10 years why dont we just maintain the cars we've got and protect the environment by leaving all that cobalt, lithium & nickel etc. in the ground?
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🇺🇸🇮🇱 Tucker just WENT OFF on NETANYAHU AND ISRAEL'S LEADERSHIP
And he's going after something much deeper than the war itself.
Tucker argues that when a country convinces itself the entire world wants it dead, eventually ANYTHING can be justified in the name of survival.
He points to the devastation in Lebanon, DESTROYED CHURCHES, and what he explicitly calls GENOCIDE.
And then comes the question that really stings: What the hell did the Christians do to deserve any of this?
His larger argument is that suffering doesn't give anyone a lifetime license to inflict suffering on others.
“You become a monster to the extent you believe you are a victim.”
And Tucker isn't just talking about Israel. He's warning that ANY society can reach the point where it stops seeing innocent people on the other side as human beings.
That's a pretty dark place to end up.
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No political party will save us. No politician will save us. They aren’t public servants. They are parasites. The people who feed off fear, hopes, votes, helplessness and our taxes have no interest in ending the conditions that make voters comply to them. But they do have a vested interest in making their corporate donors exceedingly rich.
The only force capable of changing anything is the one that never waited for permission: people who stop looking upward for deliverance and start building, defending and refusing where they stand. History does not record a single sustained improvement that arrived as a gift from those who profit by keeping the gift out of reach. It records the moments when enough people decided the waiting was finished.
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I can’t stand when people will make exceptions for their “team” Same method of slaughter different prayers… although with that said “some” halal is stunned 1st. ZERO Kosher animals are stunned.
BAN IT BOTH!
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Here is Andy Burnham discussing his meeting with Zelensky. @russell_kane absolutely nails it once again.
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There are times when I wonder whether “the Russians are coming for us” is dumber than “there’s a novel deadly virus” or “CO2 is boiling the planet”. But then I wake up and realize that a substantial swathe of humanity has reached absolute stupidity, making comparison pointless.
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If you are going to listen to the extremist Muslims. Then you ALSO have to listen to the extremist jews… and Christians.
Imagine being so brainwashed & ignorant that you FAIL to listen & HEAR what they believe in their own words.
Their words.
Their views.
Their beliefs.
Their scripts.
Their books.
Their history.
Their thoughts of you.
Their vision for the future of humanity.
And still you don’t LISTEN.
This is nothing but ignorance.
And those that highlight these FACTS & TRUTHS in THEIR words & defend themselves from the consequences of the actions of this ideology are the ones that are condemned.
This is ABUSE & Psychological Warfare.
NO ONE is above criticism, responsibility & accountability.
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This is the political class which wants to send our children into a suicidal war. Look carefully, what do you see?
Very few are as convincing as @georgegalloway because he has something that most of our politicians have not. It's called integrity.
Breaking News🚨: "If you want to 'David Kelly' me, you'd better come after all of my friends, all of my family and all of my followers. Just who the hell do you think you are?".
Veteran broadcaster and Leader of the @WorkersPartyGB goes into overdrive on a one man mission to call out and roundly humiliate, the head of Mi5 and fellow Scot, Sir Ken McCallum.
Mr Galloway was not only firing on all of his Dundonian cylinders, but with the truth at his sails, he outed the hapless and tireless work of the state to paint the Russians as our enemy.
George's references to those poor souls, 'liquidated' by 'dirty tricks', were targeted as the loudest prevailing voices offering counter arguments to those endlessly espoused by the 'state with the UK state, AKA the Crown.
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THE IRAN WAR IS STALLED. IS PETE HEGSETH ABOUT TO BE SACRIFICED?
President Trump now says the U.S. may have gone too far by targeting Iran’s leadership because Washington no longer knows who it can negotiate with.
Seven months into the war, 81 U.S. aircraft have been lost or damaged, at least 21 service members have been killed, and 865 wounded. Billions have been spent, yet no clear path to victory remains.
The strategy was simple: remove Iran’s leadership and force collapse. It failed. Iran hardened, more hardline figures rose, and Trump now admits the U.S. may have eliminated the people needed to end the conflict.
If the intelligence behind the leadership strikes was wrong, what else is Washington getting wrong? Trump says China and Russia are not significantly aiding Iran and argues the U.S. would know if they were. But the war remains stalled.
Ending it will require concessions, and Washington will need someone to blame. Trump reportedly has reservations about livestreaming the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, a plan publicly backed by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. The report remains unconfirmed, but it suggests potential friction inside the administration.
Reports also say more service members are seeking conscientious-objector discharges, while as many as 60 troops have objected to participating in Hasan’s execution.
With midterms approaching, a prolonged war, casualties, rising costs, and public exhaustion are becoming a political problem. When the pressure mounts, someone will take the fall.
And as the administration looks for a way out, is Pete Hegseth becoming the fall guy for its failure in Iran? With midterms approaching, a prolonged war, casualties, rising costs, and public exhaustion are becoming a political liability. When the pressure peaks, someone will take the fall. Dr. Trita Parsi (@tparsi) joins us to break it down.
I believe the deterioration that we are seeing in our society is because so many follow the political pendulum from one extreme to the other.
It's understandable of course, but just because something is understandable does not make it right.
Currently, the British people are more frustrated and angry than I've ever witnessed in my lifetime, and rightly so, because we've been lied to, misgoverned, and undefended for a very long time, and most ordinary Britons have had enough.
The problem with this is that if you push people far enough, no matter how tolerant they are, they do eventually lose their composure.
Perhaps that's the plan. I'm not saying it is, but I've got an open mind.
Extremism, something that we're not particularly renowned for, has crept into British society. And it's dangerous, because if you look back in history you will see plenty of examples where extremism has led to the emergence of dystopia.
We need to guard against this.
Right now we need to be firm, but we also need to remain rational and civilised, and these are the qualities that we should look for in our leadership.
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Britain is visibly decaying.
Everything costs a fortune.
Everything is decaying.
Everyone is saying it.
Living in Britain should be like hitting the jackpot. But successive governments have pissed our assets away. Often deliberately.
Britain faces huge difficulties and we don’t have the calibre of politicians to deal with the issues being faced. We have the most useless, insincere and out of touch politicians ever seen in British history. It’s a dreadful situation. We are being led by a bunch of shysters with their nests being feathered by their corporate cronies.
We are an island full of natural resources & with a temperate climate. We should have energy security, vibrant agriculture and fishing industries, blue collar industries to be proud of, manufacturing centres of excellence, but instead, it's all being destroyed, sold off or closed down. The industrial and community fabric of so many communities has been wilfully destroyed or neglected for decades.
We have infrastructures and public services that are rotting despite having the highest tax burden in history.
We have an ongoing cost of living crisis where supermarkets & utility & energy companies fleece consumers on a daily basis while showing record profits.
And for all of this, I blame governments for being more concerned in political game playing, consolidation of power, suppressing freedom of speech, indulging in petty punishment rules and surveillance culture, facilitating corporate greed rather than addressing the many concerns and challenges faced by individuals and communities right across the country.
Britain has turned into a total mess. Nothing works. Everything is bogged down in governmental petty bureaucracy or punishment politics. Pensioners, small businesses, students, farmers, fishing communities and the disabled are wilfully hammered by the Labour government. Over £100bn of taxpayers’ money is now spent per year on interest payments for the national debt, £30bn is being spaffed away on carbon capture machines, The cost of living for basic essentials like water, energy and food is through the roof. We are taxed to the hilt and yet public services and core infrastructures are rotting. We have water, energy and food security concerns despite having the national resources to be secure in all of these. We have successive governments literally asset stripping the country to give everything away to multinational corporations. We have massive amounts of poverty and homelessness. We have thousands of migrants arriving across the channel while £millions are spent every day on housing them in 5 star hotels. We have an NHS that is in a total mess with millions of people living in excruciating pain because they can’t get treated for months on end. We have governments who are more concerned with sucking up to the likes of BlackRock rather than fixing the mess that they created. And we even have a government who ram through plastering solar panels on thousands of acres of prime farmland while spending £50bn on sun dimming experiments. It’s an utter disgrace what has happened to Britain and for all of this, I blame successive governments.
Also, community spirit has declined. Membership and attendance of the institutions that once bound communities - pubs, clubs, youth centres - has been in long decline.
This is not nostalgia for a mythical past. It is the measurable result of decades of under-investment in maintenance. Deferred government maintenance is a false economy: costs compound, service reliability falls and the daily experience of the British public becomes a scenery of quiet degradation and a country that increasingly looks and feels as though it has stopped trying to maintain standards. It’s horrendous.
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Britain is not the same.
The Covid era broke something in Britain. The national spirit has been broken. It feels muted. So many people are saying this.
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Same decay with Edinburgh Waverley and the rubbish strewn streets and traffic chaos in the centre of Edinburgh. Taxes go up. Civic standards are going down.
Edinburgh Airport last night. Passengers from 3 flights bussed to, and then herded through a narrow entrance to climb a staircase, to then descend another in order to join a massive queue at passport control!
It's a dreadful experience, which feels almost third world, and a terrible welcome to our capital City.
And who owns Edinburgh Airport? The highly profitable Vinci Airports (French) and Blackrock!
The great arguments for privatisation included modernising and responding better to customer demands, but what we've ended up with in Edinburgh is fat cat profit over national pride.
Edinburgh Airport last night. Passengers from 3 flights bussed to, and then herded through a narrow entrance to climb a staircase, to then descend another in order to join a massive queue at passport control!
It's a dreadful experience, which feels almost third world, and a terrible welcome to our capital City.
And who owns Edinburgh Airport? The highly profitable Vinci Airports (French) and Blackrock!
The great arguments for privatisation included modernising and responding better to customer demands, but what we've ended up with in Edinburgh is fat cat profit over national pride.
