Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Can I get this as a T-shirt please?
What should have happened: the REIT paid no tax but the Tice companies holding shares in the REIT paid £98k tax on the dividends they received. What actually happened: none of the companies paid any tax.
Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions
A 🧵 with the evidence:
whoever this is, they are amazing
Yeah, your man there is still a war criminal. Him, Blair and Mandy
GB News headline: GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.
Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?
How likely does that sound? 🤷♀️
Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'
Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...
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a medieval illustration of the virgin mary punching a horned, claw-footed, bestial devil
virgin mary punching the devil, england, 13th century
BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists
Prince William, heir to the UK throne, collected £2.5m rent for rat-infested Dartmoor prison via the Duchy of Cornwall.
The Duchy owns multi-billion property, runs businesses, pays no corporation & capital gains tax.
The Duke voluntarily pays income tax but details are not known.
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I’d wager that “patriots“ are over represented
GATLING GUN AND GUN CREW. Every American feels a natural sense of pride when he sees the class of men who are behind our guns--tall, handsome, splendid fellows, with lofty brows aud thinking faces. These men are the product of free institutions.
FILIPINO PRISONERS OF WAR CAPTURED REAR SAN ROQUE. When at rest these people rarely stand or sit down, but, on the contrary, squat like animals, this peculiarity being one of the indications of their low state of civilization, The whole nation is not worth the life of one American soldier.
GROUP ON FILIPINO BOYS AND GIRLS Some of these children have the African cast of countenance, but there is no tinge of negro blood among them. They are distinctly Malay with occasionally a mixture of Papuan blood. As American citizens they are hardly up to the mark.
Title page of the racist 1899 coffee table book “Our Islands and Their People.”
Most Americans are oblivious to the fact that the US helped "liberate" the Philippines from Spain in 1898 and then decided to keep it as a colony in one of the most racist & bloody conquests in US history. Just read the incredibly genocidal captions (see alt-text) in this popular book from the era.
Our Father Who art in heaven,
Donald be thy Name.
Thy madness come,
Thy Will be done,
In Iran & not in heaven.
Give us this day your daily dread.
And forgive us our trespasses
As you trespass against us.
And lead us not into Epstein,
But deliver us lots of evil.
Amen.🙏🏻
In Bruges scene where Colin Farrell is pointing a gun at his head and Brendon Gleeson is also pointing a gun at Colin Farrell's head
Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute
youtu.be/-8cOpC68hlo?...
Ned Ludd: so this mechanisation will give us more time off, right?
Mill owner: LOL
Smash the looms
also the ad that partially obscures the three lines of text is so much fun, having to click on a gnat’s clit sized x to close it.
such a fantastic product you have there, especially when those three lines jump around, reload and then my browser crashes. thanks Reach.
Imagining a parallel universe where Jools Holland played the trombone and every band on Later has to do a song with Jools playing alongside them on his trombone.
Five stars, bravo!
Genevieve Holl-Allen, "What further sanctions should be on Israel?"
Zack Polanski, "All options are on the table"
"What would Israel actually have to do and say that this is not a country behaving like an ally?"
Oh great, now that fucking wizard lady has to verify your genitalia before you can play darts.
Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
National Geographic Award winning photograph of the year.
So beautiful. 🐝🐝🐝
While the world waited to see if this psychotic, dementia rattled, narcissist in the White House would destroy an entire civilization, Congress remained on vacation. The problem is not that there are no mechanisms. The problem is that mechanisms only work when people inside them decide to use them
A colorized map of the USA
3) Politics isn’t dirty. It is simply the process by which we make decisions about running the country. If we tell scientists, doctors, teachers, etc to stay out of politics and not get their hands “dirty,” who is left to run the country? And will we like the decisions they make?
The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
