💙All tweets belong to one of my 8 personalities, retweets are someone else's. Responsible for the death of ‘independent’ media, apparently.
#Think32
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The BBC really don’t cope well when their audience manipulation has been highlighted.
Mariam Barghouti pointing out some home truths.
This is how media works.
Little Jewish woman opposing genocide is unmasked by the MetPolice as a little Jewish woman opposing genocide.
English police arrest daughter of holocaust survivors for protesting against mass slaughter.
Shit you can’t make up.
Oh look, tens of thousands of radical fundamentalists on their way to burn parliament and lynch some MPs.
… or so UK Labour & the Tories would have you believe of this mass of humanitarians marching against genocide.
“There are over 500,000 American colonists living in Israel, some of them the most racist, aggressive and violent in killing Palestinians and stealing their land.”
~Dr Brian Feeney, The Irish News
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You’d be forgiven for missing this … in a society with any moral compass this action, taken against the Ministry of Defence and Police Service of Northern Ireland, resulting in a £1.5 million payout for collusion would be headline wall-to-wall news.
Aidan McAnespie’s life, after a 35 year battle, was only worth a suspended 3 year sentence - the man who pulled the trigger wore a British army uniform.
Draw your own conclusions.
“The vehicle in which Boris Johnson floated to power was Brexit. It took him to an astonishing place, one where, in any sane world, he did not belong.”
~Fintan O’Toole
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“Unlike Bono, it didn’t take John Lennon two public enquiries, an apology from a British prime minister and 50 years to find his conscience when it comes to Bloody Sunday.”
~Patricia MacBride
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“At the very least, Ireland should issue a statement in support of South Africa’s resort to the ICJ for the purpose of preventing serious international crimes.”
~Maeve O’Rourke, The Irish Times
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If you find yourself complaining that you can’t have a sandwich flown from a different country across a sea, rather than making your own fucking sandwich - or buying a local one - then you really need to look at your priorities in life and chill out.
Nothing suggests ‘Cover-up’ more than the issuing of a Public Interest Immunity Certificate by a British proconsul; preventing the disclosure of documents relating to the death of a child.
“When historians sit down to write the record of Israel’s current bombardment of Gaza, the biggest puzzle they will have to address is why other powerful, self-congratulatory democracies stood by and watched 14,500 children …being slaughtered.”
~Justine McCarthy, Irish Times
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“Political unionism simply does not want the Northern Ireland of 2022 to work. It strives instead to recreate the very loyal British Ulster of a distant past …”
~Chris Donnelly
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Breaking: PSNI have confirmed they’ve recieved reports of a shark attack in the Waterworks in north Belfawst. One eye witness, Dean (not his real name) reported the 25 ft maneater, suggesting cops bring a ‘bigger boat’. Dale (not real name) says Dean telling the truth so he is.
This is self defence in the eyes of the EU
This is self defence in the eyes of the US
This is self defence in the eyes of the UK
This is self defence Israeli style
To the rest of us it’s inhumanity and barbarism.
30 bodies discovered in a mass grave inside a school in northern Gaza, bound, blindfolded and shot. Victims of a mass execution. Continuing evidence to add to the genocide list.
EU response - protect the ‘Amazon deliveries’.
Shit you can’t make up.
“…July bonfires are Ireland’s burning crosses on the lawn. They tell every Irish person and Catholic that their neighbours do not accept their right to be equal.”
~Andrée Murphy
@ATownNews
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Southern media squirming uncomfortably over their cozy oats and coconut milked coffee wondering how best to bury, ignore and diminish even more confirmed cases of British state collusion with narco-terrorist death squads.
BBC enter the chaos late and pass the rioting as a Catholic v Protestant news story. Amateur false equivalence nonsense for ingestion by an audience who would struggle to find Belfast on a map (even with a fluorescent circle round it).
Two decapitated former heads of unionism in Scotland and Ireland, Ruth Davidson and Arlene Foster, have been commandeered to help save the union … what could possibly go wrong?
“Nationalists are the majority in 4 and a half of the 6 counties. Belfast is no longer a unionist city. Failure to reach an accommodation with nationalists has meant the gradual but inexorable reining in by law of unionists’ provocative and lawless behaviour …”
~Brian Feeney
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“Eoghan Harris used his position as a producer in RTE to shut down programmers who wanted to expose the injustice and oppression experienced by nationalists…and the collusion between security forces and loyalists…” ~Frank Connolly
“Unionism had killed the radical tradition of Presbyterianism, which fuelled the revolutionary ideas of the 1798 rebellion. Later, partition destroyed unionism’s need to modernise, by being gifted an artificial state in which to indulge cultural & political repression.”
~P Murphy
“The aim was to set up a totally dependent settler colony, instead of stationing a garrison trying to rule a resistant Arab population.”
~Brian Feeney
The Irish News
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It’s taking an Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, to say what hundreds of western ‘newspapers’ won’t and thousands of western politicians refuse to see.
Editorial Haaretz
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Shit You Can’t Make Up
A member of an organisation representing unionist narco-terrorists arrested for possession of arms and ammunition (connected to a bomb plot on an Irish govt minister in the grounds of a catholic monastery) gets a character reference from a Tory minister.
“The state of perpetual anger, outrage and fury affecting unionism is a product of an insatiable desire for the return of an entitled superior status … frustrated by the onset of an era marked by respect and moves towards equality”
~Chris Donnelly
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Tory Johnny Mercer, champion of those accused of murder while in uniform, rumoured to be set to defect to UK Labour. The very fact tories are comfortable enough to do so and Starmer is comfortable enough to let them says multitude.
Sinn Féin vote up because of West Belfast wans moving out into other areas has to be THE sloppiest take on a vote surge from a ‘political analyst’ I’ve heard EVER.
Seriously Pete?
“Settler colonialism, which is what this is, is by far the worst kind of imperialism, because it gets rid of the native population. Other kinds of imperialism exploit them, but settler colonialism eliminates them, “exterminates” them….”
~Noam Chomsky
“Donaldson offers no more hope that nationalist rights and culture will be respected than the notorious Northern Ireland prime minister Basil Brooke, who famously said he would not have Catholics about the place.”
~Tom Collins
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“Leinster rugby boys singing an IRA song is absolutely fine and dandy while mostly working class women footballers doing it was an event of Archduke Ferdinand proportions.”
~Squinter (Andersonstown News)
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Anybody else notice a certain air of jealousy over the constant success of Féile an Phobal from ‘politicians’ from other constituencies? Or is it just me?
“…if the DUP refuse to allow the north to work equitably and cooperatively the Irish and British governments have the mechanism in the Good Friday Agreement to bypass unionist intransigence.”
~Brian Feeney
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“It can’t be emphasised too often that the attraction of a hard Brexit for the DUP was for them a win-win - a hard British border in Ireland and scuppering the GFA … make no mistake, that’s what they’re still after.”
~Brian Feeney
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“No matter how often Israeli politicians state that the military bombardment of Gaza is lawful, it is not. The watching world knows the truth.”
~Justine McCarthy, The Irish Times
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“The majority of people in the north don’t agree with him about the protocol or Brexit. The majority of people here don’t vote for the DUP or UUP. Unionists aren’t a majority in Stormont or Westminster. The majority of unionists now don’t support the DUP.”
~ Brian Feeney
“British and Irish govts bend over backwards to appease them, accommodate them , yet unionists continue to perpetrate disorder and injustice all while claiming to be victims.”
~Brian Feeney
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Full support to Diane Roberts. Shock-jock sectarian/racist baiting programming has no place in a post conflict society trying to encourage a semblance of normality.
Protests at parents collecting their children at the gates of a Catholic secondary school in loyalist Ballysillan, Catholic homes being attacked outside Maghera … not the 1920s but the 2020s - the never ending cycle of sectarian, racist supremacy.
“There is an obvious contradiction between how the loyalist marching tradition and band culture is accommodated…”
~Chris Donnelly, The Irish News
[don’t tell Nolan though, he wouldn’t recognise contradiction or irony]
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“No one in the DUP has said they will accept a Sinn Féin first minister. Pulling down the executive on the pretext of the protocol is a way to avoid the dread scenario of a Sinn Féin first minister.”
~Brian Feeney
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“Misled by Donaldson, the DUP resembles the Taliban. For them, like their Afghan counterparts, it’s theological dogma that matters, even if it is balderdash …”
~Brian Feeney
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“There is, of course, another unionist game afoot and that is to change the terms of the GFA regarding a border poll from one requiring a simple majority to one that requires a majority from both communities … the continuation of the unionist veto.”
~Patricia MacBride
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“Business and commerce have fled the order, wouldn’t be seen dead marching behind bands hired by the tiny membership of lodges whose drums are festooned with the paraphernalia of loyalist terrorist groups.”
~Brian Feeney, The Irish News
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“What we see being waged now is a ‘cultural war’ in which the enemy is not IRA volunteers with guns and bombs, but ordinary nationalists and republicans who don’t speak and act in the way unionists believe they should”
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@ATownNews
editorial
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When a regular contributor to Belfast’s two unionist tabloids (and other media outlets), Ruth Dudley Edwards, decides to troll the grieving mother of deceased journalist Dawn Foster it reveals the rancid nature of what’s passing for ‘journalism’ in Ireland and the UK.
“Why did local broadcasters never ask Peter Robinson or Arlene Foster if they’d be first minister for all the people?”
~Brian Feeney, The Irish News
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“…having sat on their hands as the horrors unfolded in the North. Much easier to blame us than to call out the root causes.”
~Joe Brolly
[incase you closed your ears and eyes the first few thousand times this has been pointed out - here it is again]
“The protocol can’t be unwound. Donaldson must know that. He has never presented a syllable of a proposal for an alternative because there isn’t one and he knows it.”
~Brian Feeney
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No matter what linguistic gymnastics emanate from the SDLP, Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, their attendance at a centenary of partition event shows a total disregard for any concerns outside of unionism and totally undermines the stance taken by the President, Michael D Higgins.
“The DUP will stupidly and doggedly refuse to share power because Donaldson is a one-trick pony and has left himself no way out of the circus.”
~Brian Feeney
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“Who cares if their people die too young, spend more years on disability benefits, underachieve in school and have takehome pay far below citizens of the South, as long as the flag flying atop the boarded-up leisure centre is a union jack.”
~David McWilliams
“Johnson comes from a particular group of British elites that hark back to days of British Empire … They lack talent or skill. Live on rewards of inherited wealth or the gambling casinos called the international money market.”
~Andrée Murphy
[Andersonstown News]
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“The EU was constructed over decades from the ashes of wartime Europe starting in the 1950s. The stronger the EU, the stronger is peace in Europe and the safer European people are. The insane actions of Vlad the Invader have brought Europeans closer…”
~Brian Feeney
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DUP and UUP set to gorge on British mince and impale themselves on English sausage as local suppliers of cold meats look on in amazement with what can only be described as a “what the actual fuck” moment.
The things you do to secure your inner little Englander.
“We live in a partitioned state founded with murder and upheld with murder. The Good Friday Agreement in 1998 was meant to put an end to that.”
~Andrée Murphy
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“The Police Ombudsman’s 336 pages, with details of 19 murders, attempted murders and injuries in the north west of our island, all hold details of systematic collusion between the state, British army and the RUC, and the UDA/UFF that should shake us to the core.”
~Andrée Murphy
“Their dry conversation in Brighton exposed the colonial mindset that has informed British policy in Ireland …There is zero respect for the Irish or the Irish making decisions in their own interest.”
~ Andrée Murphy
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An unacknowledged collective guilt for doing nothing. Better to denigrate to second class citizenship, an ‘almost Irish’ subclass that still refuses to be labelled in such a way. Croppies not.
“From Protestant, unionist backgrounds in Belfast, the two history students – Clarke at Queen’s University Belfast, and Adair at the University of Oxford – support a united Ireland and are part of the civic pro-unity organisation Ireland’s Future.”
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The old mantra of “I’m offending all sides, I must be doing something right” should not be misconstrued as either ‘impartial’ or as ‘journalism’. Pitting communities against communities in sectarian, racist baiting is sensationalist, gladiatorial and despicable.
Such is the disregard for democracy and the contempt for the Good Friday Agreement the DUP’s Paisley Jr attempts to return to the halcyon days of unionist supremacy and veto via a Westminster ‘Super-majority’ Act.
Amateur dramatics at its worst.
Supremacy is ill equipped for a post-conflict society. In what other jurisdiction would the state broadcaster platform, regularly, criminal consortiums? The fact that unionist narco-criminal endeavours attempt to dictate political direction is disturbing.