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The UK Govt has been given suggestions on how NOT to just stand by… with several ways to ensure suffering in Gaza is eased. @Caabu urged @Ed_Miliband and the UK Govt to ensure that ‘Israel permits free and proper humanitarian access into Gaza. This includes using powers to sanction those who block life-saving humanitarian aid’.
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3 Israeli children's care workers are accused of 400+ child abuse counts against babies and toddlers. UK 'msm' are silent - as usual...
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So, it turns out Manchesterism is just plain old political corruption.
I'm shocked. 🙃
When I posted yesterday about Andy Burnham’s political machine secretly intercepting public emails to protect his Abu Dhabi property deals, my inbox was flooded by people thanking me for finally calling out what goes on in Manchester.
Well, I woke up this morning and looked at the latest financial disclosures coming out of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and the rabbit hole just got so much darker.
Burnham's authority has been caught funnelling nearly £1,000,000 of taxpayer money to completely anonymous beneficiaries in a series of secret payments.
They paid out £83,000 in rent to a hidden landlord. They handed out thousands in anonymous "consultancy fees." Worst of all, they gave a £210,000 capital grant to a property developer and completely redacted the name from the public ledger.
When journalists finally confronted them, the authority claimed hiding the £210,000 developer payout was just a "human error" and blamed the rest of the secrecy on data protection laws.
Look at the terrifying double standard at play here.
If a working citizen misfiles a tax return by fifty pounds or makes a mistake on a local form, the state will investigate their entire life, apply ruthless penalty fines, and threaten them with court.
But when Burnham's regional authority hands a fifth of a million pounds of public cash to an anonymous property developer, they simply shrug and call it a clerical typo.
This is exactly how the modern British political cartel operates. They use the language of bureaucracy and data protection as a legal shield to funnel public wealth to private, hidden corporate interests.
I am sorry, but they are not governing a city. They are running a shadow ledger with your money, and they are terrified of the public finding out who is actually cashing the checks.
Steve retweeted
Look closer at calls to "cut aid" to Israel. The $4B in aid is only tip of the iceberg for US support, and misses 10x that amount in sales of weapons Israel can't get anywhere else, plus massive military deployments to shield Israel while it starts wars.
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🟥 UPDATE NUMBER 1 | 6 NOVEMBER 2026
🔳 Sources: Journalists on the ground
🟥 Gaza
▪️ 12-year-old Palestinian child Adnan Tariq al-Qarinawi was killed by gunfire from “israeli” forces east of Al-Bureij refugee camp, central Gaza.
▪️ Palestinian medical student Sarah Hassan Abu Jiab, from Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City, succumbed to injuries sustained in an earlier “israeli” airstrike targeting the Islamic University campus.
▪️ Sheikh Nabil Hamad, known as Abu Musab, succumbed to injuries sustained during an “israeli” bombing of the Al-Balakhiyah area of Al-Shati refugee camp several days earlier. His funeral procession began at Al-Shifa Medical Complex and continued through Al-Shati camp.
▪️ An “israeli” airstrike targeted the vicinity of Martyrs' Square in Al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City. At least one Palestinian was reported killed and several others injured, including children and displaced civilians. Casualties were transferred to Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
▪️ “israeli” forces carried out demolitions and explosions east of Gaza City, including a reported demolition operation in Al-Tuffah neighbourhood, northeast of the city.
▪️ Low-flying “israeli” warplanes were reported across the Gaza Strip.
🔳 Humanitarian situation | Gaza crossings
▪️ Friday, 6 November: The Rafah goods and humanitarian aid route remained closed for a fourth consecutive day. Zikim and Kissufim crossings were also closed, while Karam Abu Salam continued operating on a limited basis.
🔳 Thursday, 5 November | Karam Abu Salam crossing
▪️ 237 trucks entered Gaza:
▪️ 196 commercial trucks.
▪️ 29 humanitarian aid trucks.
▪️ 12 fuel trucks.
▪️ Vegetables accounted for 39 commercial trucks.
🔳 Crossings Authority weekly report | 30 October–5 November
▪️ Rafah goods and aid route: Open 3 days, closed 4 days.
▪️ Karam Abu Salam passenger travel: Open 1 day, closed 6 days.
▪️ Karam Abu Salam commercial goods: Operating all 7 days.
▪️ Zikim and Kissufim: Closed throughout the week.
▪️ 295 Palestinians departed Gaza, including 243 travelling to Egypt and 52 to Jordan. Among those departing were 137 patients.
▪️ 242 Palestinians entered Gaza, all arriving from Egypt.
🔳 Humanitarian crisis
▪️ The footage of Palestinian children waiting with empty containers at a community kitchen shows the reality behind these truck figures. Commercial goods entering Gaza do not mean families can afford food, and the arrival of aid trucks does not establish that humanitarian assistance has reached everyone who needs it.
▪️ Children continue to queue for food while families struggle to obtain basic necessities. The humanitarian crisis cannot be measured simply by the number of trucks permitted through a crossing.
🔳 Gaza security
▪️ Gaza security services reported further details concerning Mahmoud Abdel Karim Ismail Al-Sama'na, whom they identified as an agent associated with Ashraf Al-Mansi's group.
▪️ According to their statement, Al-Sama'na was arrested on 24 September 2026 alongside three other alleged agents while attempting to infiltrate Gaza through humanitarian aid trucks.
▪️ Security services alleged that following disputes within the group, Al-Sama'na and his brother were sent to Ghassan Al-Dahini's camp. Investigators further claimed that detained men confessed Osama Al-Sultan had induced Al-Sama'na to take a drug, reportedly resulting in repeated seizures and nervous breakdowns.
▪️ The statement addressed circumstances surrounding his death but did not establish its precise date or cause.
▪️ Separately, testimonies attributed to individuals returning from Ashraf Al-Mansi's camp were circulated alongside an appeal urging others associated with the group to return to their communities before the opportunity passed.
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🚨 Celtic CEO Michael Nicholson’s remuneration package rose by 10% to £904,456, including pension contributions, for the financial year ended June 2026. CFO Chris McKay’s package also increased to £626,250.
celticshorts.com/2026/11/cel…
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Today, our petition for a public inquiry into British complicity in genocide reached 100,000 signatures.
I have written to the Petitions Committee to ensure a parliamentary debate is arranged as soon as possible.
Well done to all those signatories who made this happen.
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It’s hard to grasp the BBC’s systematic attempt to launder Israeli propaganda until you see the sheer scale of it. Here's a compilation of them doing it at 2x speed.
The latest was on Newsnight on 4 November. When Bernie Sanders called Israel’s government extremist, Victoria Derbyshire answered for it: “And the Israeli government would deny that they are extremists.”
As this video shows, BBC presenters repeatedly do this as guests describe Israel’s crimes: “Israel would say.” “Israel would deny.” “They would reject that.”
We counted 70 of these denials and justifications in 52 aired interviews. The BBC calls this impartiality. But in not one of those 52 did a presenter raise any of these words from Israel’s own leaders:
- “We are fighting human animals.” Yoav Gallant, 9 October 2023
- “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.” Isaac Herzog, 12 October 2023
- “They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.” Israel Katz, 13 October 2023
- “Remember what Amalek did to you.” Benjamin Netanyahu, 3 November 2023
- Starving two million people in Gaza until the hostages came back might be “justified and moral”. Bezalel Smotrich, 5 August 2024
On 10 October 2023, Tahani Mustafa told the BBC that Israeli forces were not distinguishing civilians from fighters. The presenter replied: “They would reject that.” Mustafa then had to bring up Gallant’s “human animals” herself. The BBC supplied the denial. The guest had to supply Israel’s own words.
That is cherry-picking. The Royal Charter requires the BBC to be impartial, and the public pays for it through the licence fee. In these interviews, it handed its audience Israel’s denials and left out its leaders’ own words, during a genocide streamed live to the world.
We have archived the BBC’s coverage for three years, and we are now counting all of it: 50,000 video clips and many more written excerpts.
We are calling this first part: "BBC: The Would Say Files".
Handing Israel its denials is only one of the ways the BBC launders Israeli propaganda, so we will count every other technique too. Over the next few weeks, we will announce each milestone as we complete the report.
These are the first results, with every clip, quote and source: newscord.org/editorials/bbc-…
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Great anecdote. Martin Asser is one of the heroic insiders willing to tell the truth. Do follow and support him.
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Israeli authorities issue tenders for over 700 settlement units near occupied Bethlehem
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Israeli authorities published land tenders on Sunday to construct 732 new housing units in the illegal Gvaot settlement west of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.
According to official data released today by the Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission, the tenders represent the initial phase of a broader expansion plan targeting the Bethlehem governorate. Published via official records of the Israel Land Authority, the project includes multi-story residential blocks, commercial complexes, and public facilities.
The commission confirmed that bidding for the contracts is scheduled to open on 1 December, with a submission deadline set for 28 December. A secondary tender was simultaneously issued for adjacent land designated for employment facilities and commercial services, signaling an aggressive push to integrate economic hubs into the settlement structure.
Commission records reveal that between early 2026 and 8 November, Israeli authorities issued at least 28 land tenders across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Eighteen of those tenders cover 7,815 residential units, while ten others target non-residential infrastructure.
Over 770,000 Israeli occupiers currently reside across hundreds of illegal settlements and outposts throughout the West Bank, including 250,000 in occupied East Jerusalem.
UN Security Council Resolution 2334 affirms that all Israeli settlement activities established in Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 carry no legal validity and constitute flagrant violations of international law.
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Andrew is just the tip of the iceberg. The whole monarchy is rotten. #AbolishTheMonarchy
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Dear @ABlinken U r a disingenuous, lying hypocrite & a war profiteer: your ‘consultancy’ WestExec was a perfect example of self dealing & war profiteering. Your complicity in the Gaza genocide & the diversion of money to Israel & other warmongers, is what ordinary people are sick of. U r exactly what people hate about politicians. I hope you face justice for your crimes. In the meantime, at least develop an iota of self awareness, you corrupt, murderous fraud
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The govt has announced its giving GPs £40m to help keep people out of hospital. But its not new money so Susanna Reid asks the health minister, where's it coming from?
Karin Smyth explains its being taken from GPs.
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It seems there is no clear route for the SNP to move forward on independence, which is a pretty grim conclusion when it’s the party’s raison d’etre, writes Professor Gregor Gall ✍️
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☝️Palestinians should live in their home country, not as refugees in Europe expelled by Jewish mass immigration in the name of the fake-state Israel!
The jewish occupation wants to force 2 million Palestinians to leave Gaza.
Jewish officials and settlers have said 'let them go to Europe!'
Palestinians refuse.
This is why food, aid, fuel, construction material, and mobile homes are restricted or outright blocked.
The barbaric occupation has failed to massacre, starve, burn and flood the Palestinians into submission.
The most basic action we can do is apply international pressure on the jewish occupation through our governments. To support the Palestinians in remaining steadfast. They have resisted for decades and for 3 years of accelerated genocide without us. They are not begging us. It is simply our duty.
Open the crossings now @andyburnham @Ed_Miliband @FCDOGovUK.
Shelters, building material, and caravans into Gaza NOW.
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The panel doesn't question whether we need to spend more on bombs. Oh no. Instead they discuss where the money has to come from.
And you don't need to watch the clip to know what they say.
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Israel is building a six-meter-high razor-wire barrier, effectively caging 8,000 Palestinians in Sinjil the West Bank near Ramallah preventing them from farming.
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@Ed_Miliband and @andyburnham WHAT are you doing about Gazans starving and weeping in the rain? Your silence is a crime against humanity.
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We want the UK Government to launch an inquiry into any British involvement in Israeli operations in Gaza.
This petition is so close to the 100,000 needed to be considered for a debate in Parliament.
Please sign & share - let's get it over the line!
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
