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6 months

@RubinReport @OldandUnpopular Nobody disputes a Jewish presence in the region - they dispute that fact justifies removing other residents at gun point.

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@katakurikpowder @benshapiro You clearly have not read Marx.

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@_rubberbaron @upholdreality China seems to suggest otherwise

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@davidschor @caitoz They have never bee offered a peace deal that is remotely reasonable or involved either meaningful sovereignty or a land that even looks like a state.

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@_rubberbaron @upholdreality China is a socialist country with a goal of communism - this does not preclude trading on markets to get there.

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@mishtal Israel is responsible for its behaviour - having atrocities committed against you does not allow you to commit atrocities - the laws around War Crimes is quite clear on this issue.

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@danielgoyal Gas prices are set by the markets and the regulatory oversight is weak at best - Labour has no plan to change this or nationalise gas so this poor lady would freeze under Labour too. We need need new options that are meaningfully different.

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@nealasher @jeremycorbyn The occupied territories is more than just Gaza - the never ending expansion of settlements, massive territory losses since 1948.

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@COLRICHARDKEMP @IDF This is a flat out lie.

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@DouglasKMurray Many of the people of Britain will be marching at this anti-war march - a perfect time and location for it.

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@Pudseycat67 @Spriter99880 Isn't that exactly the point? If he needs a card then perhaps should be retired rather than stumbling about shaking hands with absent figures, wandering off stage, launching nuclear weapons, ...

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@itsJeffTiedrich Doesn't change the contents of the diary though does it?

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@Spriter99880 A silly withdrawal - when Venice was the end of the Silk Roads into Europe they boomed and the beauty we see today is from that period. Once the roads were bypassed Venice went into decline.

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@ClarkeMicah @ubique60 @Oz_UK This is all irrelevant - you cannot displace a people whatever their national identity.

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5 months

@eraofballoon @SeosQuinn

Ukraine clashes: dozens dead after Odessa building fire

Trade union building set alight after day of street battles in Black Sea resort city

www.theguardian.com

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@_rubberbaron @upholdreality Perhaps, but it also seems an easy way to keep up the claim that socialism doesn't work by simply claiming its not socialism when it is shown to work in China - at least in terms of economic progress.

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@Madelei79067106 @Kahlissee Boko Haram does not hold a position at Leeds.

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@RachelMoiselle Palestinians have a right to self determination - which means Israel should not evict them from their ancestral lands and pretend they are behaving morally.

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8 months

@davidschor @caitoz Not really here is a book well worth reading on this failure, or you can stick to a discourse that paints Palestinians as unreasonable etc

The Discourse of Palestinian-Israeli Relations: Persistent Analytics and Practices

Many observers have portrayed the Oslo Process as a milestone in the peacemaking process between Palestinians and Israelis. In this controversial and groundbreaking new work, McMahon challenges the...

www.routledge.com

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@ARLinklater @theiaincameron *Sigh* - they are literally selling an experience - this is commodity fetishism and commodification of human endeavour and the exploitation of the Sherpas labour for ego-tourism. Clearly capitalism at work.

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1 year

@McFaul @NBCNews The USA sanctioned members of the ICC and The US state department has also restricted the issuance of visas for ICC staff involved in "efforts to investigate US personnel". Hypocrites of the worst kind. SO a rules based international system only for some?

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@MaxNordau Yet Zionists seem to have murdered well over 14,000 children so maybe they are not the good guys either?

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@caitoz The discourse around this and other conflicts leaves no room for rational discussion or nuance. One is expected to pick a side, forget history and shy away from inconvenient facts that complicate the issues beyond a daft binary of good versus bad.

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1 year

@Peterinexile Calling Xi a dictator strips the word of meaning and reveals that you do not understand anything about Chinese politics or how their system functions.

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7 months

@terry61201 @TheGreenParty MPs votes are literally part of the public record. Democracy demands their votes be known by the public they are supposed to serve.

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5 months

@olddog100ua @SeosQuinn Technically, they never actually had any that were Ukrainian, just Soviet weapons stationed on their land

Did Ukraine give up nuclear weapons?

www.icanw.org

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1 year

@ClareDalyMEP The right to self-determination means that people have the right to determine their political status, economic, social and cultural development, the right to choose one's own government, and the right to control natural resources and economic activities within one's territory.

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Michael Francis

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@gwestr @shipleynoise @jedwinmok No - Munich to Paris can be done in less than 6 hours usually longer with a change but not so bad around 8 hours. A flight is more expensive and once you add in journey to the airport, 3 hours prior, the flight, delays etc 8 hours is lost anyway.

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4 months

@macastel3 It is not magic, the USA companies could do the same - why the sudden protectionism?

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@rickygervais Do you mind if we pirate it?

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@KevOmnipotent @Culture_Crit They have mummies of people who were listed as stone cutters etc - they also know how old they are etc - mot as mysterious as people think.

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@Mr_Andrew_Fox Try looking at actual international laws.

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@realrobdurden Someone needs to hack the teleprompter and change the script.

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@ClarkeMicah Opposing the killing of Palestinians is hardly a left versus right issue. Or at least should not be.

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@USAmbUN You have a War Crimes Rewards Program - Israel must be a Platinum member.

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@TMasudin A child lashed out due to a lifetime of oppression - so yes a child here is a victim - this is the same reason a 14 year old is sentenced as a child not as an adult.

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@KRD_20 The creation of the state of Jordan did not involve the mass displacement of Palestinians the way Israel's creation did.

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4 months

@thinking_panda They did a similar thing for a former spy in the UK who killed a young man and then fled claiming diplomatic immunity

Former US spy Anne Sacoolas to be sentenced for killing teenage motorcyclist Harry Dunn outside air...

Despite Harry Dunn's family's wish that she attend the sentencing in London, the US government has refused to allow her to travel to face justice in person.

news.sky.com

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@EmperorT123 @macastel3

Everyone's Got The Chinese 'Ghost Towns' Story All Wrong

Why concerns about Chinese ghost cities are completely overblown according to Ting Lu.

www.businessinsider.com

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1 year

@PeImeniPusha I have better intelligence it looked more like this one

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@Brad_Setser The savings are also not under pillows but deposited in banks that invest the money so again not a sound argument. Blowing the money would fuel consumption in the short term but lead to a crash in the future.

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1 year

@OlivetteOtele I am sure the Cherokee/etc would not mind discussing this further...

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@ElbridgeColby As stated already the USA is creating a security dilemma in the South Pacific and one that makes the whole world less secure but perhaps hastens a new word order that is fairer than the current one.

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@EmperorT123 @macastel3 The America Competes Act of 2022, authorising US$52 billion to subsidise semiconductor manufacturing, US$45 billion to strengthen supply chains of critical goods and US$160 billion for scientific research and innovation. EU also does this massively.

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@ElbridgeColby Threatening to blow up the semi-conductor factories (and the scientists working there presumably) seems rather aggressive - maybe you have a skewed view of the world?

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@dusiaoyb @DD_Geopolitics The Soviet Union helped win WW2 for the allies - fighting the soviets in WW2 puts you on the wrong side of history.

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@guardian The fact that he claims he is moving strongly suggests he is domiciled in the UK - so his claim of non-dom status is clearly untrue. He pays almost nothing to the treasury so who cares if he leaves. There should be a wealth tax which would apply to all his properties in the UK.

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@LMCA73 @libbyemmons They are literally not allowed tor return to Palestine - no right of return for Palestinians and their land is still being stolen today in the West Bank - the occupied territories.

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@Mr_Andrew_Fox Removing the settlers was insufficient as they were still denied statehood and freedom of movement.

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@Israel2252 @jacksonhinklle That is a child and a propane tank. Even if true she was making a bomb she is allowed to resist against military occupation.

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@IanBlandThatsMe As a young man...oh sorry it's 1/2/1 - butter/flour/sugar - so for a pie plate size crumble 50g butter/100g flour/50g sugar can use brown or normal sugar - don't forget to add sugar to the apples/etc

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@PatriotIss @BrockRiddickIFB Ironically, the sigmoid curve of the ISS is not because the path curves but because the ISS is going around a sphere and the map is a flattened projection of the sphere.

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@Shot_fox A memorial to the end of war is an apt place to hold an anti-war protest.

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@FissileFinance @LisaHay92756018 @caitoz The West Bank is a brutal Apartheid system where Palestinians live in Bantustans deprived of basic freedoms and the settlers are backed by military might with freedom of movement.

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@GodfreeTrh Nobody wins in a World War - as they say in Africa, when elephants fight the grass suffers. Or, Only the dead have seen the end of war.

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@shi_huang5 Leaving Africa long ago had nothing to do with progress or advanced society - it was just hunter-gatherers wandering where they could. The successive waves of groups of people melded and changed. What we see as progress is incidental to the last 200 years.

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@NowTheEndBegins @jeremycorbyn The destruction of civilians and mass bombing of cities in WW2 was wrong then too so it is not a great comparison to try and make.

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1 year

@FromPhDtoLife Pack a roof rack for journeys across the Kalahari - nobody could tie a load down like me.

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@UCUEssex @Uni_of_Essex If they are proposing a three term year then arrange teaching for each staff in two only to avoid issues of burnout and overwork - not ideal but a fix for an untenable situation.

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@anderscorr The USA maintains its embargo on Cuba despite overwhelming global condemnation - the UK still holds the Chagos Islands as a colony that they lease to the USA - again with UN condemnation. So both too are rogue states by many measures.

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@ReallyMyOpinion @BenzionSanders What a vile claim to make - what you demand is ethnic cleansing - a war crime.

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@Mr_Andrew_Fox They have a right to self determination and they have rights not to be kicked off their land and out of their homes. How many years of land loss and continued oppression must they endure? Israelis have no more right to a state then they do.

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@JamesKneale If the University of Manchester capped student numbers in programmes such as Politics and reduced their first year intake by 100 other universities in the North West would thrive - they currently take about 600 in first year.

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@SamRamani2 My research is with communities that experienced a real genocide and I constantly have to add in that it was a real genocide. The term is being watered down to mean any bad event as they hope it triggers a response.

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@HenMazzig Zionism is exclusionary and negates the Palestinian's existence.

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@Mr_Andrew_Fox The deals were never fair or just. Britain had no right to give away any land in 1948 and the continued land theft in the West Bank is also against International law and basic human decency. A one state solution is the only one that will bring peace.

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@McFaul Should Iraq/Libya/Vietnam/etc then send the USA a bill for rebuilding?

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@JayinKyiv You approve of censorship?

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@Brad_Setser The Chinese culture of savings leads to consumption smoothing during rough times in economic speak - the notion that they should blow all their money to keep the economy hot is inflationary and not well thought out.

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@onedarwinian @ClarkeMicah @GoingMedieval No it was not, it was industrial capitalism as the fascist state worked with industrialists to remake the power of the state.

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@ElbridgeColby Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers, because they will be called sons of God” (Matt. 5:9). You keep beating the drums of war and seem rather keen on being a peace breaker.

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@baum_p In 1937 land was not yet stolen - 1948 is clearly different, as is the expansion of settlements in the West Bank.

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@DavePerrino @brianulmer503 @realDonaldTrump @60Minutes Hey Dave don't come here with your facts! This is a fact free zone of the post-truth era. We want crass ideological statements coupled to grandiose claims of greatness thank you very much.

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@LordIanAustin What a messed up ideology you have - stopping ongoing war crimes should be a clear path. You need to check your morals.

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@Bob72270 @ggreenwald @ReggieMeezer @haaretzcom International laws and state behaviour in war was updated since 1945 due to the awful brutality so it was not to be repeated. What is happening in Gaza is clearly war crimes even by 1945 standards.

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1 year

@joshmbowsher Next time you discuss workload distribution with your line manager remember that your university counted marking as 25% of your workload so use that to negotiate less teaching or admin?

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@DavidDa54355054 @AHart1974 @mscott7612 @AyoCaesar In 2006 Israel bombed the power station in Gaza, there is not enough land to grow enough food, and desalination plants are energy intensive. Israel runs a blockade so your claims don't fit the actual context.

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@WhiteHouse And with wages at an all-time low compared to the cost of living many working families are taking extra work just to keep up.

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@RedCollectiveUK @itamarbengvir They are supposed to shut down calls for genocide as part of the ICJ ruling. Horrifying words and deeds being done to Palestine.

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@TruthTowerPod @RobertKennedyJr JFK never stopped the Vietnam war. He pulled some troops out but then approved of the coup in South Vietnam and was sending in more advisors and was going to send troops.

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@ISASaxonists Once she lands on someone else's land she cannot be moved.

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@BellaWallerstei Is this the restraint you mean?

Photos show scale of the destruction of Israel air attacks on Gaza

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been displaced across Gaza due to Israel’s air raids after Hamas’s attack.

www.aljazeera.com

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@JamesCleverly This seems like a strong moral stance - can we give back the Chagos islands so we are consistent in our moral stances and not acting as colonial terrorists in that case?

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@AHart1974 @ta_mills @Tesla_Muffin Socialism would see state schools brought up so that all can succeed according to their ability. This labour policy is cheap politics and offers no solution to inequality and will only hurt families who scrape by to afford the fees at decent schools.

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@anderscorr American and European companies offshore all the time for often the same reasons. The American tariffs are anti-free trade and expose their base hypocrisy.

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1 year

@FfcLucan @jeremycorbyn If they are refugees then war made them leave, and often wars the UK has payed a role in. By all means separate out the false claims with a fair process but do not just exclude them all.

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@BFirstParty They were free to display the dolls and the supplier is free to protect their brand and withdraw their supplies. Freedom does not mean freedom from consequences.

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@Stolypin1905 @upholdreality Vietnam under socialism (after Vietnam War) trundled on (under American sanctions) and managed to raise its income and social development massively from the brutal period under colonialism.

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1 year

@ricwe123 I'd tune in to watch question time more often if the UK's parliament was like this.

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@meowbarkchirp @simonateba @PressSec @JoeBiden @WhiteHouse Can cause many things from falling off a bicycle, shaking hands with imaginary people, forgetting who is dead or alive, starting wars, enacting policies that violate the constitution, think Hunter is smart, etc

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@InsightTweeting @LuchG2

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@ElbridgeColby But your solution is simply a classic Security dilemma - more bases, more arms, in an endless spiral of a new Cold War. Maybe try de-escalation and less bases, less arms.

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@ToryFibs Think how many more people would have shown up but could not afford the transport due to the cost of living crisis.

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@UWankings Lunch is often disappointing.

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@ElbridgeColby Some research outs the number of coups and direct meddling at 63 countries - here is a few

Ameri-coup: A brief history of US misdeeds

On John Bolton’s admission that he ‘helped plan coups d’état’ and the US’s casual approach to upending nations.

www.aljazeera.com

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@sheabutterhun @TheZingOne Look up the scholars Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu or Elijah Katsetse - they work with many others as well writing this early history and sorting out the past.

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@ori0n7 @bewilldered The West Bank is clearly a series of Bantustans where the Palestinians are living in isolated 'homelands' while illegal settlers (over700,00 now) steal their land while Palestinians are subject to closed security fences, not allowed to travel freely, no rights, - Apartheid.

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@McFaul Will these new plans also help further to de-industrialise Europe and find markets for American gas?

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@makaalajordan @NileGardiner Maybe come to the UK and see that it is not so bad as whatever media you consume suggests.

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