Dismayed by eternal cruelty, injustice, inequality, greed, violence, destruction in the world - & entrenched power structures. Trying for sthg better. Vegan.
"I cannot think of any other country on earth that, in full view of nightly TV audiences, has performed such miracles of detailed sadism against an entire society and gotten away with it."
Edward Said, 25/9/2003
#Palestine
I was intrigued to see someone wearing a jacket with Refaat Alareerโs poem, If I Must Die, transcribed into traditional Japanese calligraphy on the back at yesterdayโs UCL rally.
I found myself walking behind someone wearing the Refaat Alareer poem, Japanese transcription, sweatshirt again today.
Maybe a sign I should get one!
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@hyfreelance
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@NaokiQYamamoto
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Oh my God. Caroline Flint would vote to ruin the country and make people poorer by opting for "no deal", rather than revoking. We really don't need damaging Labour MPs like that set to harm people for ideological reasons. There are enough Tory ones doing that.
#Marr
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โItโs perfectly clear that Nazanin isnโt coming home until they pay that debt. Thatโs a matter of conscience at a certain point, not politics or law.โ Richard Ratcliffe on day 15 of his hunger strike.
Tonight at 8pm on โฆ
@BBCTwo
โฉ I take a walk through the past and present of a very special slice of Hampshire reflecting on life and how we live it .
#TheWalkThatMadeMe
Pertinent interview with Jane Goodall on Ch4 News just now. It's our perennial abuse of other animals that gave rise to this pandemic. Not to mention the horrendous cruelty involved in their callous objectification, but it brings destruction to our world too.
@ChrisGPackham
You'll get over the cheese thing Chris. I was a cheese-aholic as a long term vegetarian. 6 years vegan now, and have no hankering for it. They say the casein addiction is broken after about 6 weeks. Thinking of it as a big lump of fat helps. Good luck!
Have you noticed the huge difference between the
#bbcaq
audiences on Radio 4 from those of Question Time?
Funny that.
Could it be to do with the audience of the former is first come first served, when that of the latter is hand-picked by the BBC?
@1Ummah79
@Jonathan_K_Cook
I care deeply. It keeps me awake at night. I canโt believe what the world is allowing to happen. I watch AlJazeera for info, have been on all the marches/protests (9 recent), written to my MP, am a member of the PSC & do what I can. Our parliamentarians donโt care unfortunately.
@GeorgeMonbiot
I sincerely will never understand the minds of people who obtain their pleasure from killing other sentient beings. Surely, something must have gone wrong during their childhood.
Chris Hedgesโ speech at Craig Murrayโs Blackburn election rally:
โLet the world denounce our genocide. What do we care? The billions in military aid flows unchecked from our American ally. The fighter jets. The artillery shells. The tanks. The bombsโฆโ
@krishgm
I also think of all the wild animals who have to put up with them going off all around them for days on end. They must be terrified. Iโm sure the bangers are louder than when I was a kid.
Total Solidarity With Palestine is the Only Anti-Racist Position Excellent, thoughtful article by
@BarnabyRaine
on the particular, insidious racism inflicted on Palestinians. He also gave an outstanding, impassioned speech at yesterday's demo.
Shocking.
Patients paying for private ops to avoid NHS waits. 69k operations privately paid for in last 3 months of 2021, a 39% increase on same period pre-Covid, many taking out loans. Two-tier system developing.
Was there ever a more unpleasant bunch than Israeli settlers: arrogant, ignorant, narcissistic, selfish, cruel, thieving, belligerent bullies.
West Bank settler expansion: a year on the frontline via
@paraicobrien
#C4News
So many heartbreaking stories. Apparently his 12-year old brother died 6 months before his mother died. Yet he will become another statistic among the many. Appalling.
โThe response of President Joe Biden to the military humiliation inflicted on America by the Taliban has been a scorched earth policy designed to cause the maximum amount of economic damage to what was already one of the worldโs poorest countries.โ
@GilesClark78
Horrific that the two babies were stolen. God knows what torturous life they are now enduring. Donโt you just hate the human race sometimes.
@Eddie47683002
@nazirafzal
@AlanSherry1
Itโs precisely the victims of crimes who shouldnโt determine what the sentence is. Humans are emotion-ridden, and victims will be biased and more likely to want revenge. Itโs why we have detached, impartial and independent arbiters - who can take account of impact statements.
@Jonwolf81
@RichardDawkins
The onus is on those who are advocating a major upheaval in our society to demonstrate in which ways life will be better, and not on those who opt for the security of remaining where we are (whist fighting for improvement from within).
@Depheruk
@StevePeers
Thatโs how much plumbers usually charge unfortunately. Last week my 91 year old father (also no other income than state pension) paid just under ยฃ300 for having a leaking pipe isolated (but not fixed), a 15 minute job.
@WilliamTaborDDS
@ecomarxi
Inflicting the most unimaginable horror & suffering on a population, children bombed to smithereens, families slaughtered around them, mutilated, starved, orphaned in a pile of rubble will create far more Hamases than you can imagine. Which is how we got here in the first place.
Do We really have to wait an entire week for the next episode of
#wisting
??That canโt be right.
Great, captivating, visually stunning mid-winter, Saturday night TV!
@gembob86
@ChrisGPackham
@WeAreVeganuary
Totally agree. It's this constant collectivisation of animals rather than thinking of each one as an individual with feelings who wants to live. People care about "wildlife", yet not about "livestock". Sad and illogical.
@marybuckley549
@JasonNParkinson
@bassett1970
I think these types have always been around - think back to the National Front, BNP, the violent racist yobs who smash the place up every time the England football team play abroad. They've just been given a focal point that's emboldened them to crawl out of the woodwork now.
@bathtubgin81
@RamAbdu
What are you talking about? Warnings to evacuate to where? Nowhere is safe in that tiny strip of land that is being bombed relentlessly, day after day, including supposed "safe" zones and including people in tents.
@chrisApharm
@codemancer
@RichardDawkins
Thatโs great that youโre fond of democracy, so youโll be happy to vote on specific options and their ramifications which have now become clearer. Obviously democracy is not static and frozen in a moment in time.
Thank goodness for
#Channel4News
- not afraid to portray the unmitigated disaster, in all its ignominy, that the country is about to put itself through. Great, albeit depressing, programme tonight.
This is the threatening letter sent to Karim Khan at the ICC by the US Senate.
"Target Israel & we will target you. If you move forward with the measures indicated... we will move to end all American support for the ICC, sanction your employees and associates... contd.
@TVGordonU
@jenrabbit21
@JohnOberg
Umโฆ so you choose to kill for pleasure (or pay others to do your killing for you), when you could choose not to, and thatโs not selfish?
A sentient being killed for a few minutes of pleasure.
@ashiesandie
@drkasenene
Vegetables, fruit, beans, lentils, nuts, seeds, unrefined grains, season with herbs and spices rather than salt, olive oil rather than other oils.
I agree. I had to stop what I was doing and listen to David Hareโs very moving account of surviving Covid 19. Quoting James Baldwin, an articulate and devastating critique of the governmentโs handling of the crisis. Around 8.52, worth listening to if you missed it.
#r4today
I do hope this powerful piece by David Hare on his own experience of
#Covid_19
and on government dishonesty and shameful daily parade is going to be published somewhere. "Government ministers must give something back - own up to mistakes - trust us with the truth."
Talk on the appalling effect the military industrial complex has on climate change, yet it is given an exemption from inclusion in climate agreements. The US military has GHGs higher than most other countries in the world.
@pintof150
@CraigMurrayOrg
He said when he first put himself forward as candidate that, at his stage of life (around 70), he had no political ambitions, didnโt need the money, but was motivated by one thing in this. Itโs unproven speculation to say heโs lying.
@widehope
@ScepticalGospel
@BBCr4today
@BorisJohnson
Of course Brits in Luxembourg will want to demonstrate against it. Ex-pats didn't even get a vote; now they feel well & truly stitched up. To think the Luxembourg govt. is going to pay people to protest is conspiracy theory gone mad.
This World Cup is likely to have the highest carbon footprint of any event - after war - in human history, according to Mike Berners-Lee (Prof of Sustainability, Lancaster University).
@Akhipotter_
I hope someone's documenting and keeping a copy of all these self-confessed war crimes they're so proud of, in case they decide to delete them later. They're so callous and arrogant, they think they can get away with absolutely anything with a shrug.
@CamdenPalestine
Absolutely ridiculous and outrageous. Surely they canโt charge them. I would have thought a complaint was in order for false arrest. How can they possibly argue a dove carrying a key is a terrorist depiction?
On current pro-Palestinian protests, Kwasi Kwarteng said "I've never seen anything like this."
Maybe he can't comprehend numbers of people devastated at so many children blasted to smithereens, starvation & genocide - with govt empathy bypass & double standards.
#PoliticsLive
@RegBurbage
@KellyQuilt
Why do people always tell people who donโt like things about their country they must leave? How easy is it to get up & move to another country, especially when you donโt have money & there are laws preventing you anyway? Youโre just stuck here.
"An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a personโs main task in life โ becoming a better person."
Leo Tolstoy
Giving a shout-out to
@CatfordMews
. I've seen several films there & can say they have the most comfortable seats around! They show a wide selection of films, from blockbusters to less mainstream, which I hope they will continue to do. I very much enjoyed Gunda there yesterday.
โDo we want the next 30 years of doing Brexit, or do we want the next 30 years of doing anything else?โ "Anyone who says we won't be dealing with Brexit for decades to come is selling snake oil". Well said, Stephen Bush on
#bbcaq
@OurielOhayon
@GhassanAbuSitt1
Wow... an award-winning medical doctor who has spent his life working in various conflict zones throughout the world, trying to save lives - when he could have had an easy life in London. What a disgusting POS you are.
I just cried at the end of
@jonsnowC4
's last show. What a legend, and so sad to see him go. Been watching his investigative journalism and his holding politicians to account for as long as I can remember. Enjoy your retirement, Jon.
@andywartrol
I wrote to my (Labour) MP pleading with her to vote for a ceasefire before the H of C vote. Got a long email back saying why she wouldn't.
I will never vote for any of this lot again. Will probably vote Green.
Noam Chomsky: US Military Escalation Against Russia Would Have No Victors
It's possible to assert that Russia's violent invasion of Ukraine is an abomination whilst also asking questions about how we got here & could things have been different.
@EdgeOfEurope
@OwenJones84
Never ceases to amaze me how people think that there is just a limited supply of compassion - and it's simply not physically possible to share it across more than one area of life. Refraining from killing animals doesn't in any way impede our caring for humans. Strange but true.
"The reason the Tories don't invest much in education is because it pays to keep the populace ignorant." Steve Coogan on Ch4 News just now.
#VoteLabourOnThursday
@TomLondon6
It's good that you're honest. I didn't personally know anyone at the time who believed that nonsense - without any credible evidence presented. I marched, totally exasperated, along with many of my friends. Was disgusted with the Blair government.
@suxelamai
Because of our deep cultural inheritance & rigid demarcation between humans and nonhumans, whereby human life is sanctified. Will Kymlicka has written & given talks on the subject. โThose on the left are not immune from species narcissism and self-interestโ.
@garybkatz
@AstroLoay
You really think you can drop 2,000 lb bombs all over the place - in a densely populated area - without killing people? You can demolish thousands of buildings without killing people?
Youโre disgusting. And time will tell, youโre the liar.
Vigil for Dr. Adnam al-Bursh yesterday. He was head of orthopaedics at Al-Shifa Hospital and was tortured to death in Israeli detention a couple of weeks ago. He was a fellow of Kings College Hospital, London. The vigil was held in the park next to the hospital.
@scagnetti73
@GhassanAbuSitt1
@georgegalloway
How many other people would have voluntarily stayed so long, working in such horrendous circumstances, never knowing whether that day would be their last?
Better to stay alive to fight and help more people another day.