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[ealingfox]

Putting a paedophile in charge of law enforcement to own the libs

[leicsmac]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/onion-wins-alex-jones-infowars-bankruptcy-auction-rcna179936

 

Better news.

[Mickyblueeyes]

 

A UN special committee has said that Israeli policies and practices in Gaza are “consistent with the characteristics of genocide”.

The committee, set up in 1968 to monitor the Israeli occupation, also said in its annual report that there were serious concerns that Israel was “using starvation as a weapon of war” in the 13-month-old conflict, and was running an “apartheid system” in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

[Parafox]

1 hour ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

 

 

A UN special committee has said that Israeli policies and practices in Gaza are “consistent with the characteristics of genocide”.

The committee, set up in 1968 to monitor the Israeli occupation, also said in its annual report that there were serious concerns that Israel was “using starvation as a weapon of war” in the 13-month-old conflict, and was running an “apartheid system” in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

 

Nothing we didn't already know.

 

Politicians of the world will ignore this just as they have ignored every Israeli atrocity since the attack on the concert by Hamas.

 

It makes me wonder what they're scared of.

 

 

[blabyboy]

52 minutes ago, Parafox said:

It makes me wonder what they're scared of.

 

 

Palantir?

[leicsmac]

8 minutes ago, blabyboy said:

Palantir?

I wasn't aware the Lost Seeing Stones had such power in this realm.

[ajthefox]

4 hours ago, Mickyblueeyes said:

 

 

A UN special committee has said that Israeli policies and practices in Gaza are “consistent with the characteristics of genocide”.

The committee, set up in 1968 to monitor the Israeli occupation, also said in its annual report that there were serious concerns that Israel was “using starvation as a weapon of war” in the 13-month-old conflict, and was running an “apartheid system” in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

Saying "consistent with the characteristics of genocide" is an interesting turn of phrase. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

2 hours ago, leicsmac said:

I wasn't aware the Lost Seeing Stones had such power in this realm.

Didn't do young Peregrine any good.

[Trav Le Bleu]

55 minutes ago, ajthefox said:

Saying "consistent with the characteristics of genocide" is an interesting turn of phrase. 

Indeed ... call a spade a spade!

 

No doubt this UN committee will also be outlawed by Israel too.

[Torquay Gunner]

Welcome to the new Heath Secretary!

 

Edited 15 November 2024 by Torquay Gunner

[Bellend Sebastian]

10 minutes ago, Torquay Gunner said:

Welcome to the new Heath Secretary!

 

I think we're at the stage of hoping that the brain worm is going to take more moderate policy positions than those around it

[leicsmac]

9 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Didn't do young Peregrine any good.

Nor Denethor, come to that.

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, leicsmac said:

Nor Denethor, come to that.

Excellent Middle-Earth lore 

[Greg2607]

if you are all alarmed at what the trump administration are doing and the type of people that he is putting into positions of power, then this is exactly what it would look like in the UK under a Reform UK Government. It would be exactly the same kind of playbook. 

[leicsmac]

I wonder if in light of recent developments, the UK will impose vaccination record requirements on American visitors/tourists, as no doubt they do on visitors from various other countries?

[bovril]

2 hours ago, Greg2607 said:

if you are all alarmed at what the trump administration are doing and the type of people that he is putting into positions of power, then this is exactly what it would look like in the UK under a Reform UK Government. It would be exactly the same kind of playbook. 

I think the difference between Trump and Reform generally reflect the differences between US conservatives and UK "conservatives" in that the latter are still quite committed to Thatcherism, free trade etc whereas American right wingers are much more traditionally conservative and protectionist. 

[bovril]

Totally insane really that there is this one simple trick to improve the UK economy and we're not allowed even to entertain the thought of it.  

[leicsmac]

30 minutes ago, bovril said:

I think the difference between Trump and Reform generally reflect the differences between US conservatives and UK "conservatives" in that the latter are still quite committed to Thatcherism, free trade etc whereas American right wingers are much more traditionally conservative and protectionist. 

For the time being, certainly.

 

However, it is rather clear that social media is allowing a certain amount of bleedover from the latter into the former in terms of certain ideas.

[Dahnsouff]

Will this new Trump regime screw the US citizens over by sticking loads of tariffs on stuff? Sounds like just yet another ‘damn foreigners’ divisive claptrap.

[Grebfromgrebland]

3 hours ago, bovril said:

I think the difference between Trump and Reform generally reflect the differences between US conservatives and UK "conservatives" in that the latter are still quite committed to Thatcherism, free trade etc whereas American right wingers are much more traditionally conservative and protectionist. 

The same people behind the trump and the Tories/reform. Exactly the same would be tried to put through if the Tories or reform get back in power.

[Grebfromgrebland]

35 minutes ago, Dahnsouff said:

Will this new Trump regime screw the US citizens over by sticking loads of tariffs on stuff? Sounds like just yet another ‘damn foreigners’ divisive claptrap.

He'll screw them over in every way possible. 

 

Employment rights, health rights, education. Nothing will improve.

[leicsmac]

45 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

The same people behind the trump and the Tories/reform. Exactly the same would be tried to put through if the Tories or reform get back in power.

I don't exactly foresee the Tories pushing for the right to bodily autonomy for women to be hypocritically restricted in the way that their US counterparts might (and the Tories, if not Reform, actually aren't delusional enough to not buy the scientific consensus on most matters), but there are similarities.

[Grebfromgrebland]

15 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

I don't exactly foresee the Tories pushing for the right to bodily autonomy for women to be hypocritically restricted in the way that their US counterparts might (and the Tories, if not Reform, actually aren't delusional enough to not buy the scientific consensus on most matters), but there are similarities.

They've got eyes on abortion, the NHS, rewriting the curriculum, rewriting history and taking us out of the ECHR. 

 

Once we're out all bets are off.

 

It will happen in an English way 

 

 

They play the long game. They're better organised, better funded and have the support of the print media, TV news channels and will also be in the eyes of Elon musk, Putin and American, South African,Russian as well as British billionaires and the aristocracy.

 

 

[leicsmac]

13 minutes ago, Grebfromgrebland said:

They've got eyes on abortion, the NHS, rewriting the curriculum, rewriting history and taking us out of the ECHR. 

 

Once we're out all bets are off.

 

It will happen in an English way 

 

 

They play the long game. They're better organised, better funded and have the support of the print media, TV news channels and will also be in the eyes of Elon musk, Putin and American, South African,Russian as well as British billionaires and the aristocracy.

 

 

I can't see all of those happening on any short term time frame tbh, and then the attitudes of such people towards the biosphere may end up pushing the needle to 11 anyway as resources drastically diminish.

[Grebfromgrebland]

Like I said its the long game. As the centre moves further to the right with each election these things won't even seem radical anymore.

 

Until the next general election things won't move too much but the astroturfing and manufacturing of consent will be never ending.