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"Wall Street Journal reports Iranian security officials helped plan Hamas’s Saturday surprise attack on Israel and gave the green light for the assault at a meeting in Beirut last Monday, according to senior members of Hamas and Hezbollah, two terrorists groups backed by Iran.
"Officers of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps worked with Hamas since August to devise the air, land and sea incursions—the most significant breach of Israel’s borders since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
Details of operation refined during several meetings in Beirut attended by IRGC officers and representatives of four Iran-backed militant groups, including Hamas, which holds power in Gaza, and Hezbollah, a Shiite militant group in Lebanon."
https://x.com/afneil/status/1711127338283307182?s=20
Indeed 15% more RefUK voters strongly disapprove of the record of Sunak as PM than UK voters overall do
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1711125784427991283?s=20
"Everyone knows that in war, men are allowed to kill men. No one in US would care if Hamas had attacked or ambushed the IDF. Sucks but that’s how it goes. War is war. Hamas invaded a rave and raped and tortured and then displayed tourist women as trophies. Palestine is fucked."
https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1711113949213839609?s=20
War is primitive and animal. Atavistic emotions are evoked. Palestine will now endure a primitive, atavistic revenge
Anyone putting them down to vote Con at the GE may be misleading themselves.
And when it does, it lets Hamas have a couple.
Israel's recent moves towards having a closer relationship with the Saudis would be greatly cemented if they took Iran back to the Dark Ages.
I wouldn't be surprised if we see a surprise declaration of war by Israel against Iran with almost simultaneous strikes against Iranian targets within the next few days / weeks.
A pro-regime football team bring in a bunch of Palestinian flags to the stadium during a game to show support for the Hamas attack on Israel.
The supporters of their opponents start chanting "shove that flag up your ***"
Many Iranians don't want war"
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1711130616538779986?t=TNA0A_w5ZbP8RDjhQqxEQw&s=19
Tehran tonight it seems.
Now they are reduced to being a perverse form of ISIS, and they will be punished as such. What's worse, they have brought it all on themselves
Bibi Netanyahu now has carte blanche to do what he likes to Gaza, the West won't intervene, and I don't know anyone else that will
But show me the video of Israeli soldiers parading a mutilated, raped, and murdered young Palestinian woman, on a pick up, with all her limbs broken, as they spit on her naked body and chant Godly verses from the Torah. In Jerusalem. And all of this posted dutifully on TikTok
Hamas only control Gaza, Fatah and the Palestinian National Authority control the West Bank
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BREAKING: Downing Street is lit up in the Israel flag this evening after the government asked that all its buildings use appropriate coloured lighting to show solidarity with the country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_election
Should have we collectively punished the Germans in World War 2 given only a minority voted for Hitler?
I'm sure DA will come along and explain that it has a leak or something, but it's handy that the big Western powers have a presence in the area at the moment.
Kudos to Sadiq Khan, however (and I almost never say that). He has been quite firm
But it also comes down to the tension that was always present in the 52% Was it for the UK to become more Somewhere, or to become more Anywhere? Sunak is, in many ways, the Anywhere archetype. I'm pretty sure that's what most UKIP/Leave/Brexit Party/RefUK voters thought they were voting against.
It explains a lot of his recent language and choice of issues. But I suspect the relevant voters are not really listening.
@Louise_m_perry
The people cheering Hamas on the streets in the UK, Germany, Canada and elsewhere are telling us that they would commit the same atrocities here if they could, how clearer do they need to be?
9:33 PM · Oct 8, 2023"
https://twitter.com/Louise_m_perry/status/1711117511893405770
Ukrainians - they have told me - felt their morale supported and energised when they saw Ukrainian flags displayed, in lights or for real, around the world
I have heard Americans - decades later - tell me that when the guards at Buck House play the Stars and Stripes they felt a twinge of gratitude and allyship and renewed endeavour. It may be sentimental, kitsch, or even wank, but when your friends say GO YOU, WE ARE WITH YOU it really does help
And Israel has just suffered its greatest civilian loss, in one day, in its history. We are right to do this
Its only - dubious - benefit is to mark out those whose moral compass has gone missing. Maggie Chapman MSP is one such - she may also have committed a criminal offence. She was pretty bloody useless beforehand but has plumbed depths tonight which even sewage pipes don't reach.
His being a globalist banker just adds to it for them
I think them over represented in online panels.
Exclusive: number of official observers boosted in order to ‘dig up dirt’ on Keir Starmer and mingle with donors
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/08/conservative-party-sends-extra-spies-to-labour-conference-say-sources
Pro-Hamas demonstration in Barcelona, Spain.
There are also LGBT flags being waved, despite the fact that Gaza criminalizes consensual same-sex sexual activity and makes it punishable by up to 10 years' imprisonment.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1711123795740684603?s=20
And yes, it's hard to separate the perpetrators from the people, and I have no way of knowing what I would do if it were happening closer to me. But forgiveness at a national level is the only thing that has ever worked.
And look at that Daily Mail front page - young families. Hamas have plenty of bargaining chips.
If you don't think race is a factor for some voters sadly, you are being very naive.
It also seems much more carefully thought-through than usual, but also completely merciless. That has all the hallmarks of the mullah regime.
Rishi has turned off a few Leave voting white working class whites who have now gone RefUK or won't vote, however he has increased the Tory vote with Hindus, see their gains in Leicester in the local elections and the Hindu vote helped them hold Uxbridge as well
As a guy on the left of things broadly speaking, and maybe even radical in some respects, one of the things that has always kept me away from the socialist movement (along with the frankly tedious people) is the weird dogmatism and obsession with Palestine.
Ed Miliband to announce Labour plan to boost energy independence and cut bills
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/08/labour-to-unveil-plan-for-largest-expansion-of-renewable-power-in-british-history
an energy independence act that would boost Britain’s energy independence and cut bills for families.
The party says the bill will enable a Labour government to establish a UK electricity system fully based on clean power by 2030, with the largest expansion of renewable power in Britain’s history, and establish “GB Energy”, a publicly owned energy company announced by Keir Starmer last year.
Labour sources have suggested the party would aim to include the act in the king’s speech so it could become law soon after a general election win. One source said the act showcased “modern public ownership, working with the private sector without the need to nationalise”...
Objectively, her life story is also pretty global and elite, but I suspect she gets away with more because of the things she says she wants to do.
I thinks its just another examples of how binary left / right division is much more complex these days as lots of people who would describe themselves as socialist i.e. they very much believe in nationalisation, strong trade unions etc have little in common with those who have these dogmatic obsessions where things like trans-rights and Palestine are non-negotiable.
This is perhaps especially true of Israel I think, which is often used to caveated support that many feel misunderstands their predicament (We support Israel's right to defend itself, but...) and when some fairly prominent Western politicians and lots of online activists really would side with Hamas. A signal those cheering on horrific things really don't represent mainstream opinion.
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1711139789011878069?s=20
Ukrainians really appreciated all the flags - they told me so. This has changed my opinion
A beleagured nation needs displays of alliance and friendship. It costs us pennies, why not do this?
Israel, for all its many and grievous sins (and they are many and grievous) is the only democracy in the region and its soldiers would not laughingly desecrate the raped bodies of women (like the Palestinian militants we saw today), live in Jerusalem on TikTok
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/08/covid-corruption-commissioner-recoup-lost-billions-labour
We should not have done this and ethnic cleansing is now recognised as a crime against humanity.
https://x.com/sophielouisecc/status/1710903388299530712?s=20
And repeat across Poland, Slovakia, Czechia, etc
We had no moral basis to intervene - nor was it practically possible. The Russians took their righteous revenge, and TBH the Germans were lucky it ended there, after what they did
When you embark on a war of extermination, you'd better make damn sure you don't lose it.
And, it could have been a lot worse for the Germans. The Morgenthau Plan envisaged that about 20% of the German population would starve to death, as the country was de-industrialised.
This thread has just been shot down by Iron Dome
Russia got its revenge by raping every woman in eastern Germany. Poland had no such revenge, and suffered under communism
Had the Poles not been compensated with German territory, in return for the loss of territory to Ukraine, Poland would have gone the same way as Yugoslavia. The Polish Communists and Nationalists were united in their anger over territorial losses, and determined to be compensated in the West.
We currently have lots of green power when the wind blows, and not much when it doesn't, especially if this coincides with it also being dark. This gap mostly gets filled in with gas, for which we barely have enough generating capacity (we were lucky last winter was mild, and we've even less coal capacity available for last resort action this winter).
Grid scale battery storage still seems to be too expensive to make more than marginal differences, and we don't yet seem to have found a way to make the wind blow at convenient times, or arrange for it not to be dark during the times of peak winter electrical demand.
Building more renewables is all well and good, but we're already curtailing their output half the time because we've got too much power relative to demand. Build lots more and the annual useful amount of electricity generated per turbine will drop as curtailment rates rise. This will mean someone somewhere (guess what, either taxpayers or consumers) paying out lots of money for turbines which generate very little as they are only useful in marginal (low but not zero wind) conditions.
Meanwhile, I still don't see how that gets us away from burning lots of gas when the wind drops. Until the intermittency problem is solved (i.e. batteries become very cheap), the grid will have to stay gas based, not "clean energy" based.
If they do go wild overbuilding turbines there is of course a potential bonanza for anyone with an industrial use for vast amounts of almost free electricity supplied at random times and durations, but I'm struggling to think of good applications in a UK context (in the middle east, desalination plants would be an obvious one - make your plant 10x the size required and have good storage capacity for your clean water, run it in bursts to coincide with times of excess electricity supply, and bingo, no energy cost for you plant).