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Captain Zarmband

@stelladebris.bsky.social
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In the Dark Times will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing. About the Dark Times. (Bertolt Brecht 1938) Je bouge mon corp instinctivement 🎶

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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Proud to have put my name, with so many colleagues, to this brilliantly drafted letter
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Hundreds of lawyers call for UK sanctions on Israel over Gaza war
Their letter warns of genocide in Gaza, and calls on the UK to take concrete actions to meet its international legal obligations.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Dear Leaders of the Free World, We're not with these maniacs. Sincerely, Decent Americans johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-world...
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Dear World, (An Apology From Decent Americans)
Dear World,
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ᵁⁿᵏⁱᵉᴹᵒⁿᵏⁱᵉ @unkiemonkie.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
By Portuguese cartoonist Zez Vaz. Simply brilliant.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
A brave and urgent column by the Labour MP Clive Lewis - @labourlewis.bsky.social - calling on his own party to stop appeasing capital and work on behalf of people and the living world. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I’m a Labour MP – but the government’s ‘growth’ mission reeks of panic | Clive Lewis
The decision to expand Heathrow is just the latest evidence that my party is chasing policies that serve profit, not people, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
It is not just that Musk is attempting to 'influence' democratic politics in the UK & elsewhere. Above all, he is attempting, with success, to cause disruption & chaos: instilling a sense the game - of media; politics; truth - has changed. It has. And it accelerates faster than we can all keep up...
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The Psycho-Social-Techno Politics of ‘MAGA’ Trumps Democracy – And the Liberal Left Has No Answer
Donald Trump’s second victory in the United States is a warning sign to democracies everywhere of the centrality of emotions – and their manipulation – in the new politics of gross inequality and psyc...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
How come Labour can find money when it wants to? youtu.be/vdnMDz3wuqs?... Labour found £6 billion in the last week to buy 166,000 houses for the Ministry of Defence. The spending wasn’t budgeted, so how did it fund the money all of a sudden?
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How come Labour can find money when it wants to?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Definitely worth a read.
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Captain Zarmband @stelladebris.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
@writerinpyjamas.bsky.social My Christmas decoration this year - I called it Red Bull Fallen Angel Road Kill
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 19/12/2024
Wow… Ex chief of Reform exposes how Nige owns and runs Reform like a corporate dictatorship. They are trying to buy democracy… We need this law changed. Our democracy is not for sale…
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Brilliant from @ledbydonkeys.org Merry Griftmas
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Captain Zarmband @stelladebris.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
@jayrayner1.bsky.social this truly must be a contender for world's greatest comfort food even if it's probably knocked months off my life expectancy ! Lasagne of confit de canard, sauce au ceps & duck fat fried chips. Winter signature dish of the Café Pablo in Céret in the French Pyrenées Orientales
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Captain Zarmband @stelladebris.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
"Middle Class Women Of A Certain Age"
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Special Economic Zones??? It goes like this: break up a nation, subdivide the land, invite foreign venture capitalists in, and hand over powers of governance to them while reducing elected government oversight.👇🏻
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
“Some 56% of farmland bought in 2023 was sold to landowners who were not working farmers. The revenue per acre is too low to warrant the purchase, unless you are extremely wealthy and are avoiding inheritance tax” 🚜🌾 vs. 🧐💰
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Whose land? Tax avoidance and the broken economics of British farming
Noise in the billionaire press about inheritance tax changes hides a basic fact: the non-farming rich own too much land
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Captain Zarmband @stelladebris.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
That's Christmas presents for everyone sorted... Palestinian olive oil and zaatar spices Yes it's virtue signalling and everyone should do the same. 🍉🍉🍉
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 29/11/2024
not seen it mentioned elsewhere so: my theory is that Elon has become obsessed with Britain because he's essentially stopped sleeping due to drugs and/or madness but for like six hours of his nights Americans are sleeping so Brits are the one English-speaking timezone awake and posting
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Save the Observer @savetheobs.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Why are Guardian and Observer journalists going on strike for four days in December over the deal to offload the Observer onto a failing digital startup? Five reasons here. Please repost 🙏
Five reasons the journalists are striking
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Rajan Naidu 📎 Ⓥ @rajannaidu.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
#ClimateCriminals #Ecocide #CorporatePillaging www.businessinsider.com/cruise-ship-...
businessinsider.com
63 cruise ships owned by Carnival Corporation released more toxic sulfur gasses than all the cars in Europe, study says
A recent study found 63 cruise ships owned by Carnival Corporation emitted 43% more sulfur oxide in 2022 than all the 291 million cars in Europe.
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Captain Zarmband @stelladebris.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Olympe de Gouge was the 1st french feminist revolutionary and was executed during the Terror for daring to challenge Robespierre and the lack of women's rights in the new republic's constitution. In 1791 a year before Wollstencraft she wrote the Déclaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne.
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Captain Zarmband @stelladebris.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
@tripeuk.bsky.social Triple tripe !
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The campaign against Labour’s planned changes to inheritance tax for wealthy farmers and landowners risks backfiring, amid a deluge of statistical manipulation and unsympathetic spokespeople My latest on the farming row for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2024/11/19/j...
bylinetimes.com
Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson and Junk Stats: Is This the Best the Anti-Inheritance Tax Farming Lobby Has to Offer?
Millionaire landowners are using dubious statistics to campaign against the Government's inheritance tax reforms
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Farmers need to stop talking nonsense www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/11... Wealthy farmers are protesting about inheritance tax changes today. Of all the people with a reason to gripe in this country they are about the last with a reasonable right to protest.
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Farmers need to stop talking nonsense
Farmers need to stop talking nonsense. I thought it worth sharing an anecdote based upon a BBC Northern Ireland radio discussion I took part in yesterday with regard to Labour's new, very modest, inhe...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
40% of UK Farmland is owned by billionaires. Now you know why they are so angry it will be taxed.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The protestors want to call it "the tractor tax" because calling it "the inheritance tax protest" would turn off public opinion. The tractors coming into London today, in fact, pay no road tax, no congestion charge, and no ULEZ. Exempt from all.
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Margaret Halliday @margarethalliday.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This is what we are up against large landowning aristocracy, the small farmer will NOT be affected by this Inheritance tax only these people the landed gentry ENOUGH IS ENOUGH time they paid their fair share like we have to
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/11/2024
End the killings: Al Jazeera demands protection for journalists in Gaza.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17/11/2024
At least 43,846 Palestinians have been killed and 103,740 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7, 2023, says the enclave’s Health Ministry. 🔴 LIVE updates ⤵️
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Israel kills at least 72 in north Gaza, orders more evacuations from Beirut
Medics are unable to reach the wreckage of a residential tower in Beit Lahiya due to the presence of Israeli troops.
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Captain Zarmband @stelladebris.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Just because we've all jumped to a nice, new, clean and friendly platform doesn't mean all that shit is no longer happening in the world and we can just tune it out. Netanyahu's brutal and sadistic killing machine continues #StopTheIsraeliGenocideOfPalestinians
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Captain Zarmband @stelladebris.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Nobody can persuade me that X is all bad...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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Captain Zarmband @stelladebris.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Start as you mean to go on...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Why do 70,000 'farmers' think they should own 90% of the UK forever and never pay tax. While the other 68,930,000 have the other 10% to share and must pay tax. The ultimate elitist BS.
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Captain Zarmband @stelladebris.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Love it that Blue Sky has a blue tick twitter account still, telling people on X to join Blue Sky and getting paid by X to do so.
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Captain Zarmband @stelladebris.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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Etel Adnan, The Arab Apocalypse.pdf
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Captain Zarmband @stelladebris.bsky.social · 06/07/2023
"Silence, you know, is something that can't be censored. And there are circumstances in which silence becomes subversive. That's why they fill it with noise all the while." * * * John Berger
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