Andrea Turkalo: Inhabitants of the developed world live far from the natural resource base & have no real idea how their consumption impacts the natural world.
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25 Jan 2025
Alon Mizrahi is an Arab-Jewish writer who left Israel over genocide in Gaza. According to Alon, Israel’s political elite & society are so infused with hatred of Arabs and have enjoyed impunity for so long that region cannot achieve a lasting just peace unless Israel is dismantled
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Decades of rising inequality @Keir_Starmer -
what are you doing about it?
The 50 richest families own more wealth than 34 million people.
A handful have everything.
Millions are struggling.
End Rip Off Britain.
Wealth tax. Now.
ALT The case for labour to introduce a wealth tax has never been stronger.
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So after 15 years of benefits claimants being squeezed, scapegoated, tormented and vilified, while the rich have trebled their wealth, Andy Burnham wants to … squeeze benefits claimants
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UK🇬🇧seized an oil tanker carrying Russian🇷🇺 oil near UK waters. It was a Cameroon-flagged ship - called part of 🇷🇺’s ‘shadow fleet’ (ie just not insured by Lloyds of London & sanctioned by UK, etc!). Russia’s lack of response encourages bravado of 🇬🇧&🇪🇺. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clye…
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So @lisanandy says the govt is making cuts to increase so-called "defence spending." But that begs the question defending us from what? Britain isn't facing any military threats. It's just total bs. As Smedley Butler said in 1935 - WAR IS A RACKET.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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Result of Tory/Labour freeze of personal allowance at £12570 since April 2021.
Number of income tax payers: 2021/22, 33m; 2025/26, 39.1m.
Basic rate payers: 2021/22, 27.4m; 2025/26, 30.4m
Pensioners paying income tax, 2021/22, 6.74m; 2025/26, 8.72m.
More poor pay income tax.
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10 years after the Brexit vote.
UK economy is significantly smaller than it would otherwise have been.
Trade has suffered.
Business investment and productivity growth have stalled.
Families are on average thousands of pounds a year worse off.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
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🚨 In 2025, the @UN documented over 37,000 civilian deaths across 20 armed conflicts. Actual numbers are likely much higher.
People were displaced, traumatized, left hungry and denied aid.
Wars have rules.
Civilians must be protected.
#NotATarget
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#SocialistSunday Reminder While the rich relax in their mansions, millions of workers are worrying about bills, rents, and NHS waiting lists. This system isn’t broken — it’s working exactly as intended for the few. Drop a follow for a follow back today, Organise. Agitate. 🌹
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#savenhsdentists #savenhsdentists🦷🪥#savenhsdentists #savenhsdentists #savenhsdentists #savenhsdentists #savenhsdentists #savenhsdentists #savenhsdentists #savenhsdentists #savenhsdentists #savenhsdentists #savenhsdentists #savenhsdentists #savenhsdentists
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Prem Sikka for Chancellor!
Prem Sikka for leader of the Labour Party!
No more Tony Bliars!!!
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Multi-millionaire Iceland boss wants to axe pension triple lock.
Full UK state pension (received by 35% of pensioners) is less than 50% of minimum wage.
Millions can't save for private pension
2m pensioners live in poverty. 110000 a year die in poverty.
archive.ph/OIdCF
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Jun 13
Multi-millionaire Iceland boss wants to axe pension triple lock.
Full UK state pension (received by 35% of pensioners) is less than 50% of minimum wage.
Millions can't save for private pension
2m pensioners live in poverty. 110000 a year die in poverty.
archive.ph/OIdCF
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I tweet every day to remind everyone that we need to #savenhsdentists in the UK thousands struggle to get NHS dentists, thousands can't afford private dentists, dentists have been privatised via the back door, please retweet,
@LucyMPowell @jamesmurray_ldn
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I mean those marching for a peaceful resolution in Gaza. I mean those marching for an end to the illegal occupation of Palestine. I mean those who want an end to the remorseless slaughter, destruction and ethnic cleansing. I mean those who want that impossible dream - peace.🕊️
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The main headline on @BBCRadio4 6 o’clock news is about Kanye West. This item is covered in great detail
Meanwhile Trump has threatened Iran’s 90 million people with obliteration tonight
BBC is a disgrace
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9 Mar 2023
Gary Lineker never gave the Tories a £400,000 donation, set up an £800,000 loan for Boris Johnson or stood as a Conservative council candidate. But the people who did are lecturing him on the need for impartiality at the BBC.
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The Head of The BBC's Middle East Branch, Raffi Berg, is revealed to be an employee of Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad, who also has brought atmosphere of “extreme fear” to staff at London's BBC Studios to bias coverage for Israel.
dorseteye.com/why-is-the-bbc…
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Netanyahu is wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity
YOU could listen to the BBC for months and not be reminded about that fact
BUT you will hear “Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East”
It is NOT a democracy. It is a genocidal repressive apartheid state
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So GB News was set up as a propaganda outlet in the first place, Boris Johnson filled the BBC with personal buddies and Tory placemen, and it now emerges that former 'regulator' Lord Grade is openly biased in favour of rightwing politicians. See how it works yet?
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The BBC has fed the public a diet of stories demanding increased defence spending, and a stream of warnings of an imminent threat from Russia.
Such spending can happen only through deeper austerity cuts. Despite the propaganda blitz, a majority of Britons want public spending prioritised over more toys for the boys.
That is reflected nowhere in the media coverage, as Des Freeman explains:
"There are twenty stories from the past six months on the BBC’s page dedicated to ‘UK defence spending’. They draw on 71 different sources, of which not one is critical of an increase in defence spending...
"The Trades Union Congress, representing 5.5 million workers, passed a motion at its 2025 conference to ‘reaffirm that our movement’s priority is welfare and wages, not weapons and war’. No broadcaster touched the story and both the Guardian and the Independent ignored it."
More here: lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/june/wag…
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