Capitalism is a project to make a few people rich Socialism is a project to treat everyone fairly I never voted for barbarism & greed but that is what we have
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David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
I have information. You completely destroyed Iran's nuclear program in June last year. It must be true because Donald Trump said so.
Can I have the money?
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David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
I admit that I completely broke down today. I cried uncontrollably. I couldn’t hold myself together after witnessing what I saw with my own eyes.
Today, we went to film a journalistic report inside the displacement tents along the seashore. I swear, what we witnessed was beyond what any human being should have to endure.
I saw men crying bitterly. Men I had never seen cry when they lost their children or when their homes were destroyed. Today, I saw them crying because they were powerless to do the simplest thing: protect their children from the water and the cold.
We spoke to families who told us they had spent the entire night carrying their children in their arms after floodwater covered the floors of their tents and soaked their mattresses. They couldn’t find a single dry place to put their children. They couldn’t even give them a few hours of sleep.
I saw children no older than five, without proper clothes to protect them from the cold, without heating, and without a dry place to sleep. Children shivering inside tents that cannot keep out the rain, protect them from the wind, or provide even the most basic sense of safety.
What more must happen for this world to act? How much more suffering must people endure before someone remembers that they are human beings?
I am sick of this world. I am sick of its hypocrisy and empty slogans. To hell with a world that talks endlessly about human rights while leaving children to drown inside their tents. To hell with everyone who has witnessed this suffering and chosen silence, and to hell with the governments and institutions that have the power to act but continue to turn their backs on us.
David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
Ukraine has been a massive money laundering operation. $100 billion missing out of the $177 billion the U.S. sent? That’s not just corruption, that’s a scandal of historic proportions.
Now that Trump is in office and the charade is over, Zelensky admits he did not receive over $100 billion of our tax dollars.
He says he “does not know where all the money is”.
Meaning Ukraine was a massive money laundering operation, and the Biden regime never actually cared about defending Ukraine or preserving democracy. All of the pro-Ukraine propaganda was a psyop to garner American support, so the People would willingly send our tax dollars to “defend democracy”, and it worked on millions.
All of it was a lie, just so Western oligarchs could use Ukraine as a laundry mat. They sacrificed the lives of millions of soldiers, because of their greed. They stole our money from our labor, then used it to start and fund a war on the other side of the globe, and then lied about it. They bankrupt the American People, and stuffed their pockets, while millions suffered.
It was all a scam. Many of us said this from the beginning and we were labeled as “Russian assets”.
David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
🚨 Palantir entered the NHS for £1 during Covid.
Then it became a £23.5mn contract.
Then a £330mn contract.
Now ministers admit it is so deeply embedded that removing it would be too disruptive.
Whatever the original intention, this is textbook vendor lock-in: the customer becomes dependent upon the supplier, and dependency becomes the supplier’s greatest protection.
The proposed two-year extension must therefore be treated as an emergency extraction period, not another comfortable renewal.
During that time, the government must require:
• complete data portability and open standards;
• independent access to the system architecture;
• transfer of knowledge and skills to the NHS;
• a tested migration plan with firm deadlines;
• government step-in rights; and
• a procurement process that is not designed around Palantir’s existing product.
Palantir must not be allowed to shape the problem, define the requirements and then win again because only Palantir can satisfy them.
And calling the replacement “British” is meaningless unless Britain controls its intellectual property, technology and future development.
A £1 foothold has become national dependency.
That is not sovereignty and it is precisely why sovereignty is now necessary.
David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
I don’t know. It feels obscenely stupid to start posting videos of my loved ones in Gaza right now, as their tents flood with rainwater in the middle of the night, as they sleep in damp clothes on soaked mattresses, and to think for a f*cking second that these images might move someone to save their babies, to protect what little dignity they have left.
As if this time could be any different from last year, or the year before that, or the year before that.
As if people around the world, especially those with the power to do something, might suddenly be moved by a family’s tent flooding with rainwater when the sight of hundreds of babies whose bodies were shredded by Israeli bombs was not enough to put an end to this.
How many more times must we expose the suffering of the people we love, strip them of their privacy in their most vulnerable moments, in the desperate hope that someone, somewhere, might finally care enough to act?
David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Andy Burnham leadership campaign was funded by Israeli citizen who served with the IDF.
To date, no British newspaper has printed this story.
But today, I am revealing his identity:🧵
David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
Crown Jewels hurled to private equity swine by Westminster treasonous vandals.
David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
Let’s do the actual math of the imperial supply chain.
Take a mother working in a garment factory in Bangladesh.
She works a 12-hour shift.
During that shift, she sews more than 150-200 t-shirts for H&M.
Her pay for the entire day? Less than 5 dollars.
Now look at the other end of the ledger.
H&M takes those exact same shirts and sells them to European consumers for more than 20 Euros each.
That is over 4,000 Euros in retail value. Generated by her hands. In a single day.
Her cut is less than a fraction of a percent. The rest goes straight to shareholders in Stockholm.
What is the human cost of this math?
This mother spends 12 hours away from her child. She works until her body gives out. And she goes home to a wage that barely covers the bare minimum food to share with her family at the dinner table.
This is what Western "free trade" actually looks like on the ground.
The European consumer gets cheap fashion. The corporate boardroom gets record dividends. The Bangladeshi mother gets starvation.
H&M runs massive ad campaigns in Europe talking about "conscious" fashion and "sustainability."
But there is absolutely nothing sustainable about a system that requires a mother to sacrifice her child's childhood just to keep the company's profit margins intact.
This is why the factories are shutting down.
They aren't just striking for a few extra cents. They are striking for the right to actually sit at the dinner table with their kids.
All power to the striking workers of Bangladesh.
They are hitting the empire right in the ledger.
David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
We're being told that we might not have enough gas to keep the power on throughout winter and we might face blackouts when all we have to do is turn the fucking data centres off?
David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
If they could, trees would be screaming this message—but instead they're showing us—unmistakably—how we're messing up the natural world.
This summer's intense and prolonged heat in the UK drove trees into dormancy, but in November, trees are showing us their spring flowers, six months early.
Kew Gardens and the Woodland Trust are very concerned how this will affect pollinators and the trees' health.
Kevin Martin, head of tree collections at Kew said:
"They won’t have those buds again in the spring."
He said the true impact of this won't be known until spring 2028.
David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
This is the worst morning ever. No one in Gaza City slept last night. The rain completely flooded the tents, soaking mattresses and destroying families' belongings. We are underwater.
Thousands of families have been trying for hours to save what little they have left, with nowhere dry to go.
David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
US State Department statesman George F. Kennan, who was fluent in German and Russian, “who knew Russia best,” testified against Bill Clinton’s proposed NATO expansion into Eastern Europe, stating it would be “the most fateful error of US foreign policy in the post-Cold War era.”
At a US Senate hearing in 1997, Kennan declared that NATO’s eastward expansion into former Warsaw Pact countries would once again divide Europe and rekindle the Cold War. Kennan’s final, departing words, "Don't meddle in the Ukraine."
Disregarding Kennan’s warning, during election year 1996, eyeing the Eastern European emigree vote in northern Illinois and Indiana, Bill Clinton campaigned on expanding NATO into the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland - which became members in 1999.
Continuing NATO enlargement in 2004, George W. Bush added Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia - and in 2008 at the NATO summit in Bucharest - asserted that “Ukraine has a roadmap to NATO.”
As Kennan predicted, the Cold War reignited after 1999 and is the root cause of the war in Ukraine: NATO's encroachment into the Russian borderlands, and the West's refusal to listen to or address Russia's legitimate security concerns.
Displaying the strategic patience of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping: “Hide your strength, bide your time,” Russia is preventing NATO and its proxy #Ukraine army from defeating, harming Russia. And, as Barack Obama pointed out, “In its own neighborhood, Russia enjoys escalatory supremacy."
David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
The man below standing with indicted ICC fugitive Netanyahu and holding a Barak sniper rifle to be sent to IOF genocidaires is the man UNSG Antonio Guterres has just appointed as the new head of the UN World Food Programme. He is Luke Lindberg, a former Trump administration official and vocal Israel regime supporter who publicly praised Netanyahu in the middle of the genocide in Palestine (wishing him “godspeed”), and who is the son-in-law of Israel lobby darling US Sen. John Thune. In the meantime, WFP has announced it is cutting food aid to half a million genocide survivors in Gaza, as winter approaches and their situation grows ever more dire. This is the UN on its knees before the US empire. It will find the courage to stand up, or it will fade into permanent irrelevance. #Shame
David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
So Palantir buying a Labour Lord was good value for their money after all.
Cash for access. Stinks.
Palantir’s Tom Watson, ex-Labour MP, wrote to Yvette Cooper last month saying the controversial US company could help boost the UK’s tech sovereignty, letters show. Weeks later, sources say the UK is extending its NHS contract for two more years
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David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
I spent two years working with Stephen Miller.
His appointment as White House chief of staff is among the most dangerous personnel decisions in the history of our republic.
I say that without reservation.
David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
🇺🇸 El-Sayed says the same people are financing the Republicans and the Democrats:
“People don't trust our party because too often we're funded by the very same people who fund Republicans... Can we actually cut the cord that we've had to corporate money and start governing like we give a damn about working people?”
David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
While American liberals congratulates themselves on a great achievement
David Stirrup @davidstirrup retweeted
Stop gushing over newly elected progressive Democrats. Every lawmaker on Capitol Hill is a scumbag. All Democrats and all Republicans in mainstream national politics are imperialists. All of them. They’re not all equally bad, but they’re all bad. Don’t believe me, watch and see.