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People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others aier.org/article/people-with… via @aier #TheUnvirtuousCycle
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🚨🇫🇷 Paris, France
Every riot has its Marianne
(Photo taken by the outstanding photojournalist Motaz Azaiza)
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Wes Streeting Declares War:
In 1000 Days.
Wuss has Credible Evidence of Enemy Activity against the UK.
He just can't show us the Military Intelligence Reports.
He wants to.
He just can't.
"Security Issues"
So we must take the word of one of the biggest and most unpleasant Cowards and Liars to insult the position of Defence Minister.
Likely??
The British people believing a Snivelling Little Turd of a man?
A man who wished death on an elderly female journalist.
Advising us that War is on the way in a Thousand Days.
Now I've heard of the Thousand Day War, Mr Streeting.
But not the War in a Thousand Days.
Seems like we are warning our "Enemies" to be ready for Conflict:
In 1000 days.
Or to attack us any day before a 1000 days is up.
Literally fall the way to Day 999:
And they are guaranteed winners.
Wes, you really are an idiot of the first order.
A Posturing Plastic General, parading across the World Stage.
No gun in hand, just a limp, flacid instrument of self-abuse.
You Truly Are Pathetic.
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Imagine buying an electric car to save the planet and a fucking tree kills it.
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A man is standing in a primary school with a bowl of porridge, telling you the government paid for it. He was sacked three months ago.
"Government funding," says Darren Jones, as if the government has a wallet of its own. He was Chief Secretary to the Treasury. He knows there is only your money, taken out of your pay and handed back in smaller pieces than it went out.
And he has spent all summer proving the state is broke. Within hours of being sacked in July, for being too close to the last Prime Minister, he was on social media calling the new one's £850m VAT cut "unfunded". Where is the money coming from, he asked. Now he is in a school, calling a bowl of porridge government funded.
And the scheme is not keeping up. The manifesto promised free breakfast clubs for every primary child. So far, 750 schools, then 2,000 more. There are around 16,700 primaries in England. The pledge is £315m. The estimate to do it properly is over £500m. Schools have already started dropping out over the shortfall.
So a sacked minister, three months into the back benches, five days before a Budget he has no part in, is holding up a bowl of porridge as proof that the state works.
And the school has changed its name. Once Avon Primary, now Nova. That is the country in one sentence. A rebrand, a smaller bowl, and a Treasury man calling it a gift.
Government funding, he calls it. He knows better than anyone. It is your money, and it is coming back in a smaller bowl.
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If you want to tax my constituents more to fund random handouts to your mates overseas then yes, that is "stolen wealth" - their money is not yours, they have done nothing wrong, and you can do one.
This 👇 Such a gift to our enemies.
This is the scandal that just keeps giving. It has emerged that national security adviser Jonathan Powell, who sits at the centre of Britain’s most sensitive intelligence and diplomatic secrets, and who happens to be married to a Gaza fanatic who has defended Hamas, was not vetted by security before he was handed the job.
The source is Morgan McSweeney, Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff, in evidence to Parliament about Peter Mandelson that came to light this week. “We made a political appointment for National Security Adviser, in Jonathan Powell,” he remarked, offhand. “As far as I remember, we appointed him and then we began the DV.”
DV stands for developed vetting, the highest routine level of security clearance. Any clearance Powell held from his days as Tony Blair’s chief of staff would have lapsed long ago; the rules require a review after seven years, and he left Downing Street in 2007. In other words, the government put a man in charge of national security first and determined that he wasn’t a security risk afterwards, just as it did with Peter Mandelson (and look how that turned out).
This is more than a procedural lapse. It is a window into how this government works: a combination of cronyism and complacency which, step by step, has allowed ideological zealotry to seep into the heart of our foreign policy. And when you look at what the vetting officers would have found had they been allowed to do their job first, it becomes clear why this matters so much...
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“Since it is so likely that [children] will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise, you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”
- C.S. Lewis
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“The difference between humans and animals is that animals never allow a fool to lead the pack.”
— Winston Churchill
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They call the English a mongrel people... 🏴🇬🇧
The science says something better. 🧪👨🔬
In 2015 scientists in Oxford tested 2,039 people. Only people whose 4 grandparents were all born within 50 miles of each other. So the map they drew wasn't Britain today. It was Britain in 1885. Before anyone moved.
17 groups across these islands. 🗺️ Cornwall. Wales in pieces. The north. Scotland in pieces. Orkney. And the English were one. One people from Kent to Yorkshire. One group, where everywhere else on the map was many.
So where did they come from?
In 2022 they went to the graves. ⚱️ 278 people who died here 1,500 years ago. They read what was in them. 3 streams.
The Britons who were already here before the Romans. The families who crossed the North Sea after the Romans left. Whole families. As many women as men. Not a wipe-out. They married in. And a third stream from across the Channel, over centuries.
3 streams. 1 river. 🌊 By the Middle Ages the mixing had settled. The map of 1885 still showed it, 900 years on. Same fields. Same church. Same names on the gravestones.
That's not a mongrel. A mongrel is a mix nobody meant. This is a recipe. 3 ingredients. 1,000 years to set. 🏺
And here's the part that matters. A lineage isn't a wall. It's a line. People who kept the same place and the same ways, then handed them on. The Normans joined it. The Huguenots joined it. Anyone can. The price is keeping it.
They teach you the English are a mixture. So is every people on earth. What they don't teach you is what it became. 1,500 years on the same ground. Not many can say that.
That's why Proud Of Us is here. To teach the next generation who we really are. No sponsors. No ads. No agenda. Just people like you.
If you can, stand with us. If you can't, send this to someone who's never been told.
They said mongrel. That doesn't change a thousand years of lineage. It just means nobody told them.
Let's teach our next Generation the truth.👇
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Responding to a terrorist attack, is not “genocide”.
Hunting and butchering people at a music festival, is.
Warning civilians of a pending attack, giving them time to evacuate, is not “genocide”.
Planning to send 6,000 rockets aimed at civilians, is.
Targeting hospitals and schools that combatants are using for military purposes, such as storage/firing of weapons, and hideouts for terrorists, is not “genocide”.
Targeting fields where children are playing football/soccer, is.
Protecting your citizens from attacks, and doing everything possible to rescue hostages when they’re taken by terrorists, is not “genocide”.
Setting up rocket launchers inside of schools and hospitals, in order to draw fire from your enemy at innocent civilians to make your enemy look bad, is.
In an effort to make Israel look bad, the word “genocide” has been tossed around a lot since Oct 7 – even before Israel responded to the massacre.
When you look at the actions of the two sides, only one side’s actions can be construed to be genocidal.
And it’s not Israel.
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Sarah Helm has been pushing images of Burayr, which was once a small Arab village northeast of Gaza City. She posted them to promote the Nakba myth: that a poor Arab village was massacred and depopulated by violent, nasty Jews who just wanted to ethnically cleanse the Arabs.
As usual with fictions such as this, she begins at the point when the Jews responded to Arab violence. Burayr’s history did not begin with its capture.
@SarahHelm1 did not bother to tell anyone that it was the Arabs who started the war. She also neglected to describe how the village of Burayr was armed and hostile; how villagers attacked vehicles trying to take supplies to Jewish villages; how they blockaded roads and fired shots at Jews who tried to pass; and how, when a nearby kibbutz was established, Burayr villagers tried to kill its residents.
Nor does she mention that the village lay on the Egyptian army’s invasion route, and that the Jews had to take control of the area and deal with hostile villages along the route, or they would have been massacred.
This explains why the village was captured - and all of this is ignored. This is the true story of Israel's war of independence - a war of survival against Arabs who wanted to wipe them out.
The end point - when the Arabs paid the price for losing a war they started - is all that she cares about. She is trying to invert history and make the aggressors - the Arabs - look like innocent victims.
Hope this helps clear that up.
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Ah. So they DO have a line you can’t cross.
Same thing in any classroom or school.
There is always a line.
The question is where you draw it.
The Louvre is where France chose to draw the line.
French police warned protesters: "If you approach the Louvre Museum in Paris, we will open fire!"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
French police issued no such warning to open fire near the Louvre. Coverage of the Oct 17-19 protests details non-lethal crowd control like tear gas amid clashes and a small peaceful student blockade of the museum.
thelocal.fr/20261019/prote…
lemonde.fr/societe/live/2…
leparisien.fr/societe/direct…
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France is in flames (yet he wants to rejoin the EU).
Trump is selling out Ukraine, cosying up to Putin again
A cost-of-living crunch is looming this winter, especially fuel bills.
He still hasn’t told us how or when defence spending will reach 3% GDP.
Inflation is rising once more, as are interest rates.
Russian forces are threatening our infrastructure, especially undersea data and energy links.
The Strait of Hormuz remains closed, our Gulf allies are under attack.
And PM Burnham drivels about this!!
It’s like the opening sketch from Saturday Night Live.
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In riots, burning, looting & destruction across France Palestinian flags dominate. The craven appeasement of jihadists, such as the likes of Macron turning against Israel has not worked & will not work. There is a lesson here for Western European political leaders.
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Voilà ce que de Gaulle disait en mai 1968 :
« Comment voulez-vous dialoguer avec des enragés qui veulent tout foutre en l’air ? Le seul ton à prendre, quand il y a des émeutes dans la rue, c’est le ton du commandement. À la fin des fins, l’État a une prérogative, celle d’abattre ceux qui veulent l’abattre. Vous faites les sommations, vous tirez en l’air, une fois, deux fois et, si ça ne suffit pas, vous tirez dans les jambes. Il faut d’abord rétablir l’ordre. C’est une affaire de rapport de forces.
De Gaulle n’était pas d’extrême droite, il était d’extrême France.
À bon entendeur.👂👌🫡
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Absolutely incredible…
Elon once again showing the Billionaire class how it’s done. Bypassing the state completely, the fraud, the waste of tax dollars, the NGOs, and giving capital directly to American children. They will directly own a piece of American exceptionalism.
