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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 9h

Elon Musk used X to suspend the UK British Consulate’s account in Jerusalem after it called out the systemic abuse of thousands of Palestinians who were detained without trial. youtu.be/G6dRdO1I9WA

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Ex-Diplomat Reveals Who Is Quietly Replacing Governments

YouTube video by Dr Myriam François

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Dublin South-West PBP @pbpdublinsouthwest.bsky.social · 8h

TD Paul Murphy said the Irish people should not accept being "held hostage to the demands of US corporations that are using Ireland as a conduit to a corporate tax haven". Amongst other measures proposed by the party include a 10% pay increase to public sector workers, raise disability payments to

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PBP proposes tax on millionaires, corporation tax hike

People Before Profit is proposing a new tax on multimillionaires as well as increasing the corporation tax to 20% as part of its alternative budget package.

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"If Palantir’s contract were to be terminated, NHS staff would lose access to everything there. ‘All the work we do is on the platform,’ one ..... ‘It’s not stored in files that can be exported elsewhere, and everything is done using their proprietary software.’ Can you imagine signing up to this?

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There really isn't anything else to be said. robinmcalpine.org/tales-of-the...

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Tales of the expected | RobinMcAlpine.org

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Can you take 2 mins to respond to Ofwat's consultation to demand they BLOCK the water bill hike. If water companies can't survive without hiking our bills, let them go bust and bring them into public ownership. Deadline: midnight Thurs 24th Sept weownit.org.uk/NoBillHike

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Ofwat: No to water bills hike, let them go bust - Respond by midnight on Thursday 24th September

Demand that Ofwat says no to bill hikes. Let water companies go bust and bring them into public ownership for nothing.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Any politician using the phrase “legitimate concerns” can’t be trusted to do what’s necessary

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Arrest and prosecute “Danny Tommo” or lose the country to the Fascists. That’s the choice here

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Roy74🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @royh74.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Farage, Lennon-Yaxley’s gang and the Raise The Flag muppets are historically ignorant, plastic patriots. Their funding by ‘foreign powers ‘ would have seen them imprisoned during World War 2 - while our grandfathers were fighting their ideological fellow travellers.

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

MUST now be asked to give evidence.

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't recall ever having confidence in Ratcliffe. He's for burning the planet and against paying tax. But he's right about gas stocks. How come we are told to stock up on food supplies while our government can just hope people don't freeze to death this winter? www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK

Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Only a complete cynic could think this manufactured 'pressure' was a scripted attempt to dodge the fact that the SNP ruling junta blocked all the resolutions about independence submitted by the membership. www.thenational.scot/news/2656349...

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Pressure on John Swinney as SNP's largest affiliate body backs new indy strategy

John Swinney is facing fresh pressure to back a new independence strategy at the SNP’s forthcoming party conference.

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And we're all really upset that our donors won't let us do anything about it. Next Why we have to have more nukes and aircraft carriers!

Labour Party Conference event Britain's Wealth Gap

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm not entirely comfortable with companies or states taxing stupidity - even if it's entirely voluntary. However, I think it could be argued that the world is facing more urgent problems right now.

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

4 Tories pleading guilty is to be welcomed. Can we assume they are not from the Johnson/Truss wing of the party? www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

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Tory campaign chief and MP candidate wife admit cheating with election bets

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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Must-read, especially for @europeanisa.bsky.social members!

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's or just the countryside and the rivers and the sea. Look at the Stock Exchange, Inland Revenue and Companies House. We need proper regulation - not new laws or sound bites but the staffing, management and democratic oversight to make work. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Worcestershire field investigated over medical waste dumping claims

The Environment Agency is leading an investigation into the site off Mill Lane, near Wadborough.

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The new American oligarchs have completed the multigenerational project of reversing all the gains of the 20th century labor movement finance.yahoo.com/news/super-r...

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Super rich’s wealth concentration surpasses Gilded Age levels

America's richest of the rich just passed the Rockefeller-Carnegie cohort in wealth concentration, according to Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman.

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National Nurses United @nationalnurses.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Palantir is a digital weapons manufacturer that builds A.I.-powered tools for large-scale data collection and mass surveillance. They have no place in our society! Join our People vs. Palantir: Global Week of Action kickoff call on Sept 28: bit.ly/peoplevspalantir

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

'Journalists' on the Guardian, the BBC and elsewhere need to know that calling the paramilitary wing of the New Right 'protesters' may not be enough! You too could still be on the list with Muslims, Jews, Black, Gay, Lesbian and disabled people, and leftists. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Hundreds of far-right protesters descend on Portsmouth after small boat arrival

Influencer livestreams event calling for men to travel to port to block coaches carrying asylum seekers from leaving

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"Hundreds of far-right protesters descend on Portsmouth after small boat arrival" One of the things about fascism is that it is always better to catch it early, before it grows and spreads.

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ICE got permission to cut open a Cuban hunger striker’s stomach and insert a gastric tube to make him easier to forcefeed Nuremberg trials are too merciful for these monsters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE given permission to force-feed Cuban hunger striker with gastric tube

Exclusive: court orders seen by Guardian show agency given approval to fit Texas detainee with tube without his consent

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Is it still US policy that people subject to terrorist attacks have a right, not just to self-defence, but to destroy the authors of such attacks? archive.ph/2026.09.05-1...

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Clare Daly @claredalyirl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

How would you feel about Irish troops safeguarding Israel's scorched earth land grab in Lebanon? Under the cursed flag 🇪🇺 of the same EU that backed Israel's genocide? Would you be happy about that? Because that's what our government wants to do after it repeals the Triple Lock.

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The fascist regime in Israel murders aid workers because they can. They can because the US & UK shield them from consequences. Together, they condemn the people of Israel to insecurity and parish status for generations to come. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike

Exclusive: Guardian investigation reveals targeting of World Central Kitchen convoy was result of widely used military tactic

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This week Burnham switches to support the ultra-rich buying control of Parliament and Authoritarianism at the top of the SNP Next week Water somewhat damp? www.thenational.scot/news/2650113...

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SNP members' fury as party 'blocks independence strategy debate at conference'

THE SNP leadership has been accused of “shutting down debate” after multiple draft resolutions on the party's future independence strategy…

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's possible that some of the people who didn't survive the Middle Passage (and were thrown overboard) lied about their age, their strength, their health. If so, this might not be most important truth about the slave trade, exploitation or Cambridge University.

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Dublin South-West PBP @pbpdublinsouthwest.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🗞️ Outside Dublin, only one county had homes to rent within HAP limits in June. We cannot continue to pour €1 billion of public money every year into the pockets of private landlords through failing schemes like HAP and RAS. This is the "madness of the market" in action. We need a radical shift NOW

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Outside Dublin, only one county had homes to rent within HAP limits in June

Just 20 rental properties nationwide were available within HAP limits, despite more than 1,300 being listed overall.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Dutch doctors and activists displayed 1,400 pairs of white shoes in a square in the Netherlands in memory of fallen healthcare workers in Gaza. This is heartbreaking.

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This NOT a story about carbon v alternatives But Will there be ANY kind of transition or just a fire sale! Without regulation, short term profit sucks investment from production into speculation in commodities, currencies and 'futures'. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2642526...

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BP puts its North Sea business up for sale after 60 years of production

The energy giant said the decision to market the business for a potential sale forms part of its strategy to slim down the group by selling off…

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Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

If councils had inspectors and enforcement officers, we could save billions. Shame that Local Government had to be shredded to cover the costs of Austerity (aka pumping billions from our pockets, services and facilities into the offshore banks of the obscenely rich) www.bbc.com/news/article...

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A14 fly-tipped waste takes six months - and £500K - to clear up

National Highways describes the clean-up as "an appalling waste of taxpayers' money and our time".

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