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ruth mills🔶 retweeted
NATO bombed Serbian tobacco factories in 1999.
Sounds strange. Why bomb tobacco? Not military targets. Not critical infrastructure. Just factories making cigarettes.
Then Philip Morris showed up. Rebuilt those same facilities. Modernized the equipment. Brought them up to international production standards.
Today you can buy cigarettes made in Serbia under Philip Morris brands in Australia, Europe, everywhere. Serbia became a major exporter.
So let's think about this. NATO bombs the factories. Philip Morris rebuilds them and profits from the production capacity.
Who benefited from that bombing?
Same pattern with Microsoft. Right after the bombing stopped, big Microsoft headquarters opens in Belgrade city center. I remember walking past that building and seeing their logo up there. Didn't take long.
The bombing was illegal under international law. That's not opinion. No UN Security Council approval. Violated the NATO charter itself. But they did it anyway.
Then Western corporations moved in while the rubble was still being cleared.
I lived through it. I watched it happen. And 25 years later I'm still asking the same question: who were they really fighting for?
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
Netanyahu has posted an image of a nuclear mushroom cloud over New York City.
If you’re an American & you still support Israel - stop.
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
A US Army commander took duffel bags full of classified files from the United States, converted to Judaism, fled to
Israel, and was protected by Israel’s law of return.
The United States did nothing about it.
And I apologize for the audio, I am currently traveling and making do.
No
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
Burnham just has to raise Freedom of Movement and the massive lies of the Leave campaign start again. Any minute now Penny Mordaunt will pop up to claim that the whole population of Turkey will arrive in the UK if FOM is reinstated. They lied in 2016, don't be conned again.
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
Fox News is putting Nicki Minaj up telling people to vote red.
Let’s break that down.
Can Nicki Minaj vote? No.
She’s not a U.S. citizen.
Can Nicki Minaj’s husband vote? No, he’s a registered sex offender.
Can Nicki Minaj’s brother vote? No, he’s serving 25 years to life for child sexual assault.
She seems like the perfect spokesperson for MAGA republicans.
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
Israel is rocked by a deal Netanyahu made with suspected rapist and pedophile Rabbi Yoram Abergil who leads a party he wants to drop out of the elections. In exchange, Abergil will get a deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Office of his choice and will advance laws that he believes in. At the end of the video, you can hear Netanyahu agree to the terms. Pedophilia is part of the Israeli system.
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
Why should a 25-year-old deserve the freedom to work across Europe, but not a 55-year-old starting a business?
Or a 70-year-old wanting to spend more time with family?
Freedom of Movement isn't a youth benefit.
It's a freedom for people of every age.
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
Dear @IsabelOakeshott will you please clarify what lobbying and public opinion campaign you/Oakright offered to Lybia (via former MP Daniel Kawczynski who now works with you)? Why was that not registered under FIRS lobbying rules? Was any Reform MP doing anything linked to Lybia?
دانييل كاوتشينسكي، النائب البريطاني السابق عن حزب المحافظين، ما زال يحاول بعد فشله السياسي أن يرجع للساحة من باب الملف الليبي، رغم إنه كان واحد من أشد المحرضين ضد القيادة العامة للجيش الوطني وضد الفريق صدام حفتر شخصيًا. في أكثر من مناسبة داخل البرلمان البريطاني استخدم كاوتشينسكي موقعه للهجوم على الجيش الوطني الليبي، ووجه أسئلة رسمية لوزارة الخارجية طالب فيها بفرض عقوبات على صدام حفتر، مستندًا إلى تقارير من منظمات منحازة. هذا السلوك وقتها كان واضح إنه عداء مباشر لأي مشروع وطني حقيقي في ليبيا.
اليوم بعد خسارته في الانتخابات، رجع كاوتشينسكي يحاول يقدم نفسه كوجه جديد “محايد” من خلال ما يسمى بالجمعية الليبية البريطانية للتنمية LBDA، ويتحرك عبر بوابة “الشراكة والتعاون الاقتصادي” وكأنه لم يكن يومًا من خصوم الجيش. لكن في الكواليس بدأ يظهر كلام كثير، مجرد word whisper، عن تحركات غامضة مرتبطة به وببعض الشخصيات الليبية المقربة من دوائر مالية.
الحديث المتداول يقول إن كاوتشينسكي يعمل مع الصحفية البريطانية إيزابيل أوكشوت من خلال شركة اسمها Oakright Global FZ-LLC، وهي شركة استشارية مسجلة في الإمارات تعمل في مجالات السياسة والإعلام وإدارة الأزمات والتأثير في الرأي العام، وتقدّم نفسها على أنها فريق من مستشارين ذوي خبرة في الحكومات والإعلام والسياسة الدولية. الشركة هذه، حسب موقعها الرسمي، متخصصة في صياغة الرسائل السياسية والتعامل مع الأزمات وتوجيه الصورة العامة لصالح عملائها.
اللي زاد الشكوك إن بعض المصادر غير المؤكدة تحدثت عن وساطة بين كاوتشينسكي وشخصيات ليبية عبر هذه الشركة، لعقود استشارية أو حملات إعلامية، لكن ما فيش أي دليل رسمي لحد الآن على صحة هالكلام. في المقابل، ظهرت مؤخرًا الصحفية أوكشوت نفسها بمقال في The Telegraph تكلمت فيه بإيجابية عن القيادة العامة واعترفت بمجهودات الجيش الوطني في محاربة الإرهاب وتحقيق الأمن، وهو مقال أثار جدل واسع لأن خصوم الرجمة روجوا إنه مدفوع الثمن وإن في أموال وصلت لقرابة 3 ملايين دينار ليبي، وهي إشاعات لم يتم التأكد منها حتى الآن.
كل هذا يبين إن الملف الليبي صار ساحة يتحرك فيها بعض السياسيين البريطانيين السابقين لأهداف شخصية ومصالح مالية، ومنهم كاوتشينسكي اللي يحاول يبدّل جلده بعد ما فقد نفوذه في لندن. ليبيا ما تحتاجش ناس من النوع هذا، اللي اليوم يدّعي الصداقة وبالأمس كان أول من يحرّض ضدها. والقيادة العامة لازم تكون واعية لكل التحركات اللي تستهدف تشويه أو استغلال صورتها إعلاميًا وسياسيًا.
وبإذن الله، الأيام الجاية نطلع في فيديو نوضح فيه أكثر خلفيات هذا الموضوع وشن حقيقة الارتباطات اللي تدور بين كاوتشينسكي، أوكشوت، والجمعية الليبية البريطانية للتنمية، بالأسماء والمصادر، حتى تكون الصورة واضحة لكل الليبيين والمتابعين للشأن الوطني
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
The rewriting of 2016 needs challenging.
❌ The referendum ballot did NOT ask: “Should Britain end freedom of movement?”
It asked whether Britain should remain in or leave the EU.
Nothing about leaving the Single Market.
Nothing about the customs union.
Nothing about ending free movement.
And during the referendum prominent Brexit campaigners openly cited Norway and Switzerland as models for Britain outside the EU.
🇳🇴 Norway is in the Single Market and accepts free movement.
The Leave coalition contained several completely different versions of Brexit. The public was never asked to choose between them.
So it is simply not accurate to retrospectively turn 17.4 million Leave votes into 17.4 million votes specifically against free movement.
That interpretation came afterwards.
And if Britain is now deciding what relationship it wants with Europe, voters are perfectly entitled to decide again with the actual choices made explicit.
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
2022: “Stop overreacting, they won’t overturn Roe.”
They did.
2023: “Stop overreacting, they won’t let women die rather than get an abortion.”
They did.
2024: “Stop overreacting, they won’t arrest women for miscarriages.”
They did.
2025: “Stop overreacting, they won’t turn women into incubators.”
They did.
2026: “Stop overreacting, they won’t attack mifepristone.”
They did, today.
Now: “Stop overreacting, they won’t go after birth control next.”
They will.
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
So true.
Here's an extraordinary comparison.
Economists estimated that Brexit was costing the Treasury at least £40 billion a year in lost tax revenue.
And how much did Rishi Sunak announce in tax increases in March 2022?
£46 billion.
Think about that. Britain lost £40 billion in annual tax revenue through Brexit, while the then Chancellor announced tax rises worth £46 billion.
That's almost the same amount.
We were promised Brexit would make Britain richer and free up money for public services.
Instead, we made ourselves poorer — and taxpayers were left facing the bill.
This was a direct result of leaving the single market.
The EU fee was about £12.6bn a year, whereas the estimated Brexit loss of output is now roughly £170bn–£230bn a year, with an associated loss of tax revenue of roughly £65bn–£85bn a year. That makes the fee equivalent to only about 5–7% of the estimated annual GDP loss. #BrexSHIT
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
For approximately the 94th time since 2008, Republicans are threatening civil war again.
Must be about to lose another election.
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
Robot Jenrick has backed up Raheem Kassam's racist comment that Kemi Badenoch is a Nigerian scammer.
He cannot, despite many attempts by Lewis Goodall condemn this comment.
Why is Jenrick ubiquitous across our media? He's a raging liar and clearly a racist.
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
450 million currently have the right to settle in Amsterdam.
But don’t.
The full 69.5 million population of the UK plus the full 5.5 million population of Ireland currently have the right to work and settle in Brighton.
But don’t.
Reform are being very silly, again.
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
Jared Kushner does not have any security clearances.
So his claim about divulging classified information, would mean he is admitting to illegal access of classified information….
Jared Kushner’s attorneys at Clare Locke have sent Vanity Fair a formal demand letter disputing the story and demanding its removal.
It can be very difficult for current and former intelligence customers to pursue defamation cases, not because they face a different legal standard, but because proving their case may require classified evidence they are not authorized to disclose.
I’m not making a prediction about whether Kushner will or won’t file suit…just pointing out that it’s more challenging for him than for most.
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
"Brexit wasn't implemented properly" is an "argument" that is often advanced.
The UK left the European Union. Brexit was implemented properly.
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
A young blonde woman with an American accent in Israel says that all the Arabs must be kicked out of Gaza because it is "our land" since "God commanded us to take it."
The Palestinians should be kicked out to any other Arab state, she continues, except Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, "because they are ours."
"Or we will kill them," she adds
Can we stop pretending that this is a marginal view in Israel? That these are the comments of a fringe minority?
They are not. Israel has been on this path for quite some time.
Western governments know it fully - yet they continue to fund and enable Israel's genocidal policies.
ruth mills🔶 retweeted
Wrong.
Before you and your brexiters lose your shit over today's news - you need to know this:
Britain could control free movement easily. EU countries require even other EU citizens to register locally, conduct police residence checks on them and can deport those without employment, genuine job prospects or sufficient money. Britain had exactly those powers but chose not to use them.
I know because I urged Teresa May to enforce the law when she was Home Secretary.
Know what she said?
"It's just not British".
Now Brexit Britain imports millions of non-European workers of which 52% are their families.
They're not going back.
Which the Europeans did.
After Brexit.
That's not what your people voted for, is it?
🚨 Andy Burnham has said he is open to taking Britain BACK into freedom of movement with the EU.
That means 450 million people will be able to move to the UK, with no powers to stop them.
Plus anyone in the world who can get their hands on citizenship of ANY EU country.
Burnham is determined to open the floodgates and overwhelm Britain.
He MUST be voted out!