Takes me back to 1967. We were sitting in front of out black and white TV and the Beatles turned up releasing the "All you need is love". In their afghan coats, balloons and whatnot. Parents disgusted whilst we loved it!
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Takes me back to 1967. We were sitting in front of out black and white TV and the Beatles turned up releasing the "All you need is love". In their afghan coats, balloons and whatnot. Parents disgusted whilst we loved it!
Another day, another utterly shameful cruelty against refugees announced. Recognised refugees - so people granted the long term right to stay in the UK because they have escaped real danger - will face new barriers to reuniting with spouses & children safely in the UK #r4todat
We pay less than the average household in the UK and we use 15918.72 kWh a year. This chart is based on 3000 kWh a year! I can't understand which households can manage to use as little as that in a year, and for sure not in Norway!
Fake I'm afraid. Such a shame when "we" use the same methods as "they". We don't need to make up things to ba able to prove what a despicable waste of elementary particles this man is.
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
How do you know an IDF official is lying? His (tends to be men) lips are moving!
Back to basics - Beatles: I feel fine
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Every Palestinian (and supporter of the Palestinian people) are Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis and antisemitic all at the same time!
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Simple - Bad by M. Jackson
LOL
It is far beyond time for! It has been time for for decades! What is happening now is what was in the Likud parties program ever since 1978! This is NOT a defensive war. This is NOT about getting hostages back and securing Israel. It is about obliterating the Palestinian people!
Forgive us not! We know what they are doing and we do not do enough to stop it!
Of course! When a nation sets out to commit genocide - rape, sexual abuse and all sorts of terror is unleashed on the victims! Bastards!
And then watch the whole world try to disprove it! :D
Trump is allowing and supporting genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing on the West Bank. He is strengthening and helping Russia in its unjust and illegal war against the people of Ukraine and casung more deaths. And yet the moron thinks he is a candidate for a peace price! How thick can one be?!
"good old Mao" wrote "When your enemies attack you, it's not a bad thing, it it a good thing. It proves you are strong and they are afraid of you"
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'Czechoslovakia was the site of the Prague Spring, a brief period of reform and liberalization under Alexander DubΔek to create "socialism with a human face"' and "Jan Palach, a 20-year-old Czech student, set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square as a protest to the Sovjet invasion 21.8.1968
cepr.net/publications... Especially the US sanctions that has regime change as a goal.
imagine when you are 70!!!
A Day in the Life - Probably one of the best Beatle songs ever!
We must never forget 21.8.1968. We mus never allow Putin to do the same to Ukraine! We must never allow Israel to do what they are doing on the West Bank and in Gaza. It is all examples of the same!
21.8.1968 Sovjet tanks rolled into Praha. We "all" (well I was only 13 so I started a few years later) protested. This poem was written by Edward Hoem and the melody made by a sommer camp in 1976. ChatPGT has made a few spelling mistakes, but I think it is good and important to remember!
Far too little far too late! UK are responsible for the genocide in Gaza, the illegal settlements on the West Bank and the illegal occupation of the Golan Hight's together with the US and the rest of the western world who have stood by applauded and supported Israel. Bastards!
RUSSIA, IF YOU'RE LISTENING... We hope you're able to find the 28 GIRLS who were flown in for a private party at Mar-a-Lago in 1992 TO "ENTERTAIN" THE PARTY'S ONLY 2 ATTENDEES: JEFFREY EPSTEIN... AND TRUMP
"The White House is providing the paper, but the Kremlin is holding the pen."
Old man river
From "Sapiens - a short history of humankind".
The Nobel Peace Prize committee has not said any such thing. The committee do NOT comment on candidates not given the prize.
But it for sure must be tempting!
Always look on the bright sides of life
The worst of the whole shit show was the two of them under a banner saying "Perusing Peace"! You could not fucking make it up!
Starmer's comments was sickening! He is a useless piece of shit!
Why on earth are news outlets spending the whole day covering the fucking business meeting Putin had with his asset? Has nothing else important happened on this planet the last 24 hours ?
McGyver ?
TACO is bad excuse as a human being as well as a politician! The "summit" with Putin was Chamberlains "peace in our time" with Hitler on steroids! What a deplorable excuse of waste of elementary particles!
I'm all in!
It is much more astonishing. In the stone ages life expectancy was 33 year. In the middle ages it was 30-35. In Victorian times it was 41. From 1900 and onwards it has "exploded" and is now 73 world wide with "developed" countries having a life expectancy in the low to mid 80's. Trust Science!
Israel is now escalating its genocide in the West Bank to force the Palestinians out of their own land and todo whatever they can to prevent the Palestinians their right to statehood. It has been their goal ever since 1917 and they are using the same "justifications" as IS in creating a Caliphate.
I'm almost ashamed to say I remember "Love Shine a Light" - UK's Eurovision entry many a year ago.
LOL
Many years ago some research was done and it concluded that political views is the most inheritable trait! As it is not a genetic trait (according to our present knowledge) that IS an interesting find.
No truer words have been spoken. π³π
UK is turning into a police state ala Russia. Both places people peacefully protesting the governments policies are arrested and pulled off the streets. In addition the UK is preparing to get out of ECHR. Human rights are not political cards to shuffle around to fit the policies of the day!
Signed
This is the bare minimum we should be doing. Please sign and share if you can to stop all UK support for the Israeli military in Gaza. 38d.gs/ohvm
We knew this attitude existed in Israel long before "October 7th". So did Owen Jones. But that didn't stop him from throwing Corbyn under a bus as a career move during the fake antisemitism slurs before the 2019 General Election.
Stop calling it "war in Gaza" - Thats like talking about the "war in Auschwitz". When Israels governments sits down to discuss Gaza, it is akin to when Hitler discussed the final solution! Call out these bastards. Call out their enablers and armers! Stop the genocide. NOW!
Bastards!
Spot on and good morning Doc!
Good morning, Espen. How do we stop the genocide in Gaza? We stop funding it. We stop arming it. We name it. We rise up against it. We elect leaders who are morally responsible. Itβs a choice. And silence is complicity.
And how do we stop[ the genocide ?
About fing time!
Det er vel regjeringen dette skulle illustrere siden "etikkrΓ₯det" opptrer i henhold til retningslinjer gitt av regjeringen. Knappast et uavhengig organ...
Unfortunately not!
Doubled since I joined!
Take on Me! Sad that I as a Norwegian had to search my brain to remember that song - one of the very few songs from a Norwegian group to make the charts anywhere around the world. Great video on the release of the song too! www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV1...
Prior to TACO I'd always keep a US bourbon in my collection - Now it is banned. I have a less fulfilling Canadian one - but it will do me as I have another 12 Scottish ones to select from. US bourbon is banned from this house until the fascist is thrown out.
We owe you millennia's of patriarchy. Millennia's of misogyny. Respect and equality should be a natural and given for us all. Those of us that don't stand up and fight for it should bend our head in shame. Even we who do stand up have a gender shame to bear.
I assume you are talking about the new one - the original was LOL funny!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp... How a dictator in the making behaves.
The chess players! A motif for Degas??
Canada will formally recognize the State of Palestine during the United Nations General Assembly this September, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced. Calls for a two state solution, decries Israeli settlers and Hamas. #cdnpoli
I see that Kamala Harris has decided not to stand as a candidate for governor of California and that this is taken as a indication she will be standing for president in 2028. Regardless of her qualities, I think this would be a mistake by the democrats. Where has she been in the anti TACO fight?
'Little darling It's been a long, cold, lonely winter Little darling It feels like years since it's been here Here comes the sun (Doo-d-doo-doo) Here comes the sun And I say, "It's all right"' Should do :D
This is to show my brother how bluesky works
Sad news that Tom Lehrer has died. His record That Was the Year That Was blasted out in my bedroom. Wernher von Braun, Who's Next, Pollution, The Vatican Rag & MLF Lullaby to mention just a few! At 97 he had a good innings as they say and tne world is a better place for him having been in it!
The stroke of genius called "Bye Bye Love"
From a Scottish anti trump placard: May your next jobbie be a hedgehog! :D
Bastards!
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I'm principally against hanging or any other form of capital punishment. To promote it is belittling you and what you stand for.
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And what is the cost to the UK tax payer???
Thick as thieves
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As a 70 year old parent I had never heard of it, so odds are they haven't either... :D
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Thats hard luck and a half!
Stages of aging: a) You look young for your age b) Your not THAT old c) You look good for your age c) Need my seat sir?
about time!
It is as much of a war in Gaza as the killing of jews in Auschwitz was a war in Auschwitz. This is no war, this is pure genocide! Bastards!
How much longer are we gone sit on our hands and allow the Genocide in Gaza to continue? I'm so angry with the lack of response from the "civilised and democratic west". FUCK OFF! Israel could never perform this genocide without billions of support from the West. They are "our" proxies! Bastards!
How much longer are we gone sit on our hands and allow the Genocide in Gaza to continue? I'm so angry with the lack of response from the "civilised and democratic west". FUCK OFF! Israel could never perform this genocide without billions of support from the West. They are "our" proxies! Bastards!
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Absolutely. I believe the definition of our freedom of speech in Norway is "Freedom limited by responsibility". So of course people spreading lies and slander should be hold to account. In the age of social media I think we need to have a debate about the platforms responsibilities too.
I see that TACO is pulling US out of UNESCO again. I'm proud of the fact that my father was secretary general of the Norwegian UNESCO commission for 18 years! Due to that I did get to read papers in the 1970's about global warming! Education, Culture & Science is not high on fascists agenda!
Who really cares?? The man is a fascist and a bastard. At the moment genocide is being committed in Gaza (and the West Bank) all supported by US and UK. THAT matters. what do you to stop that? I know it is a bit of topic, BUT it IS the big issue of now.
Angela Epstein should NOT be given a platform by SKY or anybody else to spread her sionist lies and rubbish about a) when the middle east conflict started and b) who is responsible for for the genocide in Gaza. Calling this Israel - Gaza war is like calling what went on in Auschwitz a war!
Hi Doc. Of course what Candace Owens has said is bullshit. Question is: Is it by suing such idiocy we stop it, or should the platforms allowing such stupidity to be aired sued? EG, should social media have some sort of editorial responsibility for what is posted on their platforms?
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