JMacfie

JMacfie, 4 months ago to random

A pal ( who went to Oxford, but that's not important right now) pointed me to this website. If you're at all interested in the #PostOfficeScandal #HorizonScandal check it out.
If you can contribute to it. Money or info, or both.

https://www.postofficescandal.uk/

JMacfie, 4 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/06/rishi-sunak-javier-milei-donald-trump-atlas-network

Today's essential read, no matter what country you live in. And I mean #essential.

JMacfie, 4 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/02/number-of-ghost-patients-registered-with-nhs-gps-up-two-thirds-since-2018

Ah. This is being stirred by the notorious #TaxPayersAlliance which consistently refuses to clarify who funds it - and IIRC is part of the Tufton Street Mafia. So they have an agenda which includes privatising the NHS.

Why is the #Guardian not explaining this?

JMacfie, 5 months ago to DadBin

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/27/tories-consider-scrapping-inheritance-tax-and-helping-first-time-buyers

What percentage of the electorate even hits the threshold for inheritance tax?

When 29% of #children in the UK are living in #poverty, children are arriving at school too hungry to learn, and in East Anglia, #rickets is back with a vengeance, what kind of government prioritises #tax breaks for the already #wealthy?

#ToriesCriminalsUnfitToGovern

JMacfie, 5 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/23/do-electric-cars-really-produce-fewer-carbon-emissions-than-petrol-or-diesel-vehicles

Yes. But they cause as much particulate pollution from their tyres. Buy the smallest, lightest car you can. Better still, use public transport or bicycles or - shock! - walk, and only hire a car when you actually need one.

JMacfie, 5 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/22/zombie-deer-disease-yellowstone-scientists-fears-fatal-chronic-wasting-disease-cwd-jump-species-barrier-humans-aoe

Zombie deer disease. Nope, that definitely wasn't on my 2023 bingo card either...This poor planet really would be better off without any humans.

JMacfie, 5 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/dec/19/classes-in-character-do-little-to-narrow-gap-in-pupil-outcomes-says-study

It's simple. There is only one thing that will fix this; stopping #poverty. Stop all the unbelievably expensive* bureaucratic fannying about by the DWP and start UBI now.

Tory Minister long ago on the radio: "Means testing child benefit will cost much more than it saves". And that was before bureaucracy was outsourced to the useless shower who leech off us today, Capita and Serco and the rest of 'em.

JMacfie, 5 months ago to UKpolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/08/tories-rwanda-asylum-deal

No money for teachers and health workers but....#UKPolitics #ToriesUnfitToGovern

JMacfie, 5 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/02/keir-starmer-praises-margaret-thatcher-for-bringing-meaningful-change-to-uk

FFS. I mean, seriously. FFS!!

JMacfie, 6 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/18/it-galls-the-french-but-english-has-become-europe-cultural-lingua-franca

NB: it's not because of the UK that English is a Lingua Franca. It's because of the USA.

JMacfie, 6 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/23/norway-heat-pumps-cold-heating

We could have had this if the UK government hadn't long ago been subverted by the oil and gas lobby. And if our politicians weren't nearly all self-servatives.

Scandinavian electoral systems help, too.

JMacfie, 6 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/nov/20/caught-not-quite-in-the-act-church-cameras-reveal-bat-sex-ritual

"Bat sex ritual" is another phrase that wasn't on my 2023 bingo card.

JMacfie, 6 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/nov/16/nigel-farage-im-a-celebrity-australian-outback

Oh good. Let's keep him there.

JMacfie, 6 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/16/unemployed-benefits-in-jeremy-hunt-autumn-statement

Let's start with MPs. If they don't turn up for regular constituency surgeries, debates and committees - dock their pay.

JMacfie, 6 months ago to music

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/nov/16/archive-of-contemporary-music-new-york

Any philanthropic billionaires out there? #music #archives #history #culture

JMacfie, 6 months ago to UKpolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/15/rishi-sunak-to-bring-in-emergency-law-after-courts-rwanda-ruling

The LibDems are right, he's "doubled down on failure" and he will prolong that failure as he tries to get the legislation through. #ukpolitics #ToriesOutNow

alissaazar, 6 months ago to random

Holy shit. So I’m sure by now a lot of y’all have heard about the “friends of the IDF Gala” in California and in turn all the people protesting outside of it & the confrontations… but a group of folks took it upon themselves to truly disrupt this gathering and were able to effectively shut down the event within the first hour by filling the water main with concrete in a symbolic and effective tactic.

“While the liberals were congratulating themselves for having their nonthreatening photo op parade out in front of the gala, our people were out of sight at work on the veins of the building.”

“Palestinians have suffered decades of Israeli soldiers and settlers restricting and destroying their access to water, often bricking up or concreting any water source not directly under strict control of the occupation forces, cutting off Palestinian access to the Jordan River while draining it to near extinction for settlement mono-crop agriculture, shooting holes in Palestinian water towers, bombing Gazan water treatment facilities, poisoning Palestinian springs and enforcing water apartheid in order to exert total control over Palestinian life. We decided to give these Zionist bootlickers a taste of their own medicine.

We cracked open the water main for the building housing the gala, switched it off, and filled the box with fresh concrete. This form of sabotage is quick and incredibly easy to replicate, and the tools are quite cheap. It also renders the building in question completely uninhabitable and unusable. We had a good laugh imagining these fascist motherfuckers driven out of the gala by the stench of overflowing toilets, unable to raise any more money for genocide. As we did we were reminded of how Israeli settlers flood Palestinian olive groves with sewage, poisoning food sources, destroying livelihoods.“

“Donor attendees began hurriedly leaving in a steady stream at the start of what was planned to be a full evening of blood money raising. This disruption, however, was not achieved by the tame, above-ground rally being safely contained by both the police and the rally organizers themselves, at a far distance from the unbothered attendees. These symbolic and futile attempts to shame and appeal to the moral conscience of individuals who have no shame or conscience, will always fail.

You cannot do damage to the Zionist project by merely engaging with its facade; you must strike at its soulless heart. You must strike at its veins (supply chains, logistics, cash flows, infrastructure).”

This report back is worth the read.

https://scenes.noblogs.org/post/2023/11/09/a-communique-on-sabotaging-zionist-infrastructure-shutting-down-friends-of-the-idf-water-main-cemented/

JMacfie, 6 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/11/kenyan-expert-bristol-university-denied-visa-daughter

There are no words in the lexicon adequate to describe this but 'sadistic' goes party of the way, as do 'shameful' and 'reprehensible'. #NotMyHomeOffice #ToriesUnfitToGovern

JMacfie, 6 months ago to BBC

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/nov/08/carol-vorderman-quits-bbc-show-social-media-rules

Not much of a TV watcher so most of Vorderman's career has passed me by but am now a huge fan.
#ToriesUnfitToGovern #BBC

JMacfie, 6 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/31/covid-inquiry-exposes-incompetence-backstabbing-and-misogyny

This merely confirms what we guessed at the time but to see it in print is still shocking

' [Cummings ] was “reflecting a widespread view” that if anything understated the problem, when he used expletive-laden descriptions of ministers including “useless f*ckpigs”, “morons” and “cunts”. '

And nothing has, apparently, changed since then. Our entire #electoral system needs reform, now, because these idiots are just gaming it.

JMacfie, 7 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/air-canada-wheelchair-disabled-man-drag-himself-off-flight

What has happened to empathy in this world? How could the cabin crew not even offer assistance?

JMacfie, 7 months ago to goodnews

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/22/farm-wetland-bird-animal-sanctuary-oregon

There is still a small amount of #GoodNews. Treasure it.

JMacfie, 7 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/08/margaret-mcdonagh-siobhain-mcdonagh-mp-brain-cancer-glioblastoma

This is why Big Pharma is so vile. Lack of potential profit skews research. Health and medicine, like housing and transport, should never be left to the private sector.

JMacfie, 7 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/oct/08/the-logic-of-charging-vat-on-private-school-fees

I felt like cheering after reading each of these letters. There still are people with hearts and minds out there.

JMacfie, 7 months ago to random

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/06/feeding-seaweed-to-cows-can-cut-methane-emissions-says-swedish-report

Crofters in the Highlands used to fetch seaweed to use as a fertiliser for the peaty soil. There is nothing new under the sun.