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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today is 25 yrs since 9/11, thousands died that day, but why. The question is never asked because the answer is already plain to see. The US then as now attacks, steals, murders, commits crimes against humanity, arms Isreal to commit genocide, all in the persuit of wealth.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today, parliament will again discuss the assisted suicide Bill. I am against this, I'm a keen observer of human behaviour and a psychotherapist for many years I believe that any such relaxation around death will become an economic tool for a right wing government to manage sickness and disability.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We vilify big oil, rightly so in my opinion. We scorn ice vehicles. But carbon in the atmosphere gets there from many other sources. For every kg of cement manufactured up to 0.9 kg of carbon goes skywards. China used more cement between 2011/13 than the US did in the previous 100yrs!

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Boys in balaclavas, sneaky ways to get round foreign finance laws, big buck donations, abject failure in office. Our black shirts are useless but, but, but... the public are so angry at being taken for fools. Not left behind, left out altogether. Poverty and hopelessness rule! Neoliberalism sucks.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Capitalism only worked for the capitalists when they could get free land and free labour. Nowadays when neither is available, they need to take money from poor people to make a profit without doing anything.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Andy Burnham says, we all know we need to reduce welfare spending! No, No, No! We do not know this. What we know is that neoliberals want, need, constant austerity. We have the lowest social security of any similar economy and we really need to increase it.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Imagine the horror I feel. I've just discovered that Trade Unions, after being viciously attacked and illegal for generations, were suddenly welcomed by government and capitalists alike. It seems the only way to control workers was make them join a union! I'm heartbroken to realise this.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 27/05/2026

Your 'doom quote' for today: "There is a serious possibility of human extinction as a result of pumping GHGs into the atmosphere, so we're talking about a crime fundamentally different from any other in history." www.thriftbooks.com/w/suicide-th...

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Suicide: The Political and Legal... book by Roger Hallam

Buy a cheap copy of Suicide: The Political and Legal... book by Roger Hallam. Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Chris Hedges In the age of climate collapse, telling the truth has become a crim...

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I was very saddened to hear how the energy companies are having it so tough of late. I know they don't like to complain, but I do think the government have been too slow in upping the prices. These people have to eat you know.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I've just listened to Danny Dorling on YouTube. He tells us that we have almost the lowest pension in Europe. In the Netherlands, where the pension is much higher, they actually give pensioners an extra month's pension in the summer so that poorer pensioners can have a holiday!

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Southampton football club received a harsher punishment than Philby and Burgess for spying.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

That doesn't mean we should not do the impossible. Even modest success would stop the neoliberals in their tracks. Most countries are full of poverty stricken electorates just waiting for something better, fairer to come along. Life is so short there's no time to waste. We just need a leader.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Every University now only teaches neoliberal ideas. Virtually all economists only know neoliberalism, not all do, but they are few. Plus we are part of an international banking and trade system mostly based on neoliberalism. We would be an outlier and the wealthy will try to destroy us.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Until there is a fundamental change in the economy, away from the neoliberal policies of the past 47 years, then it little matters who is in power. We have a MMT economy and can choose to run it for the people and not for the ultra wealthy. Problem is the entrenchment of neoliberalism is complete.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I didn't expect much from Starmer's speech today, so I wasn't disappointed. Taking over a failed steel producer is not nationalisation. West has now backed down from her threats to challenge Starmer. He just thinks he's doing a great job. He might be, but it's not what's wanted or needed.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Renationalisation isn't when you takeover failing businesses that the Capitalists don't want anyway. It's when you force purchase massively profitable businesses, like Energy, that they would never want to sell. Because the people demand it.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

we've done an FT deep dive on what a Reform government might look like and what their main policies - and policy disagreements - are right now: www.ft.com/content/93df...

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What would a Reform government do?

As Nigel Farage targets national power, his policies are still tangled in ambiguity and impracticality

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Another day, another vote to punish disabled people. Never talk about the costs of billionaires or punish or tax them in any way. No it's always you, you are too expensive, not on the streets yet, still breathing.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

We've had to take difficult choices, says Starmer. Taking money off the poor is not a difficult choice, it's what you do consistently. A better difficult choice would be to take money off the rich and give to the rest of us.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I'm reading that "across the board" politicians are reporting abuse. Personally I don't like abuse, but as all politicians have treated the public like disposable wipes for as long as I can remember, you reap what you sow.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

We also need to change ownership of utilities, media and BBC policy. The NHS needs to be front and centre of all political choices and include social care (what ever that's supposed to mean!), dentistry and eyecare. We need a nationalised pharmaceutical industry.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I know what the country needs and it has nothing to do with Israel, immigrants or austerity. We need to stop lying about the economy, we need to educate MPs and the public about how the economy works because it's nothing like we have been told all our lives.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Today is local councillor election day in the UK. I'm still a Labour Party member. I've remained hoping to help change what the party has become, with zero effect thus far. Everytime Starmer opens his mouth, the exact opposite of what is needed comes out. It's not just him though. Feeling hopeless!

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comtechdiagnostics.bsky.social @comtechdiagnostics.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

. Just so everyone remembers . . . . .

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Israel killed two Indonesian UN Peacekeepers by blowing up their vehicle. The Media won't even say who is responsible, never mind call it what it is another blatant Israeli War Crime.

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Greenpeace EU @greenpeace.eu · 31/03/2026

this (onion) article is nearly 12 years old "At press time, representatives from the world’s leading economies had signaled that they would continue to heavily rely on fossil fuels until they had something more than an overwhelming scientific consensus to go on."

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Scientists Politely Remind World That Clean Energy Technology Ready To Go Whenever

CAMBRIDGE, MA—Stating that they just want to make sure it’s something everyone keeps in mind going forward, an international consortium of scientists gently reminded the world Wednesday that clean ene...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Nicolás Maduro is being kept in solitary confinement, locked in a 6ft by 10ft room for more than 23 hours a day All because he wouldn't let Donald Trump steal Venezuela's oil The silence from the international community is deafening They don't care about US/Israeli War Crimes

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I'll pose this question. Explain how allowing a small number of people to own and profit from essential resources everyone has to use like Energy, Water and Healthcare can ever be beneficial to the majority.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Attn: Pete Hegseth

Screenshot of a tweet by Christopher Hale quoting a religious message attributed to Pope Leo XIV about rejecting war and condemning violence. The image shows a pope in ceremonial robes reading from a paper at a microphone.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

As he well knows, the debt is not a debt at all. It is the total amount of dollars held in private or national hands. To reduce the "debt" would mean taking that money back in tax or quantitative tightening. meaning less money in circulation.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Successive governments, since the idea of government, have honed their skills to what we have today. It has morphed into a system of extraction. Everything a government does today is to extract more from the public to give to the rich. Prove me wrong... I can wait.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Trump has been told by the CIA that he has already lost this war. They told him that if the first strike didn't achieve submission by Iran, then in a war of attrition the US forces and Israel would be defeated. Also this will become apparent within 2 to 3 weeks.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

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Proudly Blue @proudlyblue.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Let me be the first to wish all Americans and all other people on the planet a very happy, blessed, holy, sacred, joyous, and merry Trump Death Day.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Now watch the billionaire media throw all the dirt it can at the Greens, who could thwart its dream of a Farage government.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

It matters little who is in power or who represents you. The psychopaths who control the economy will never give up their wealth. We must remember that to get wealthy they, committed heinous crimes to claim wealth. When we can understand that, then we will know what to do.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

By contracting out and eventually selling off our manufacturing base, we have been left with the finance and insurance businesses. Rachel Reeves calls these "the jewel in the crown". They are nothing of the sort. They do not contribute to the well being of our country.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Thatcher and Reagan, far from being the intelligent, insightful leaders portrayed by their supporters, were infact chosen for their naivity and "blank canvas" views. They were nurtured and controlled by the right wing think tanks from the US and UK.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

All the gains made since 1945, the NHS, welfare, pensions etc, have been ripped out under a well planned and executed fight back by the banks and business. They started undermining the Keynesian economics as early as 1930. Their pinnacle was the election of Thatcher and Reagan.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The only government in our history to have put the people first was the Atlee Labour government of 1945. They were not a left wing government having been in coalition with Churchill Labour through the war.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The government can choose, if it wishes, to put the people and our environment first. A politics of care is what is needed. We must reject of politics of hate, of profit before everything, a politics of private ownership, a politics of bankers greed. Put people first.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Capitalism began in England around the late 17th century. The accumilation of capital being the goal, not just trading or manufacturing. To achieve this, massive state intervention was and is necessary. The state bosses business, not the other way around.

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Since the mid 17th century England has had the legal right to create money from nothing. Since 1973 our £ is not based on any tangible reserve. Lord Keynes said that the rule is, if we can do it, then we can afford it. Labour has the power to make a difference, what's it waiting for?

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bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Parliament is on a one week break. Labour seems mystified at their state. I suggest that during the break they find ways of giving people more money. Most people need at least an extra £100 a week cash, just to live, every week, not a one off payment, not next year or by 2030, but now.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Like Dominic Cummings, Morgan McSweeney helped deliver electoral victory but, in doing so, debased and subverted everything his party claimed to stand for.

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 16/01/2026

Extinction Rebellion visits the Oxford Farming Conference In January, Extinction Rebellion visited the Oxford Farming Conference and some fruitful conversations ensued westenglandbylines.co.uk/features/cli...

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Extinction Rebellion visits the Oxford Farming Conference

In January, Extinction Rebellion visited the Oxford Farming Conference and some fruitful conversations ensued

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Will @will83-uk.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The general consensus here in the UK is that the USA are no longer our allies and should be considered a hostile nation who's official doctrine is one of our demise. Like Russia Like Iran Like North Korea. We aren't unusual, the Europeans, Australians, Canadians and New Zealanders feel the same..

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