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Shailja #FreePalestine Patel Profile picture
@shailjapatel
Sep 25, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Today in welfare for billionaires.
"The Queen will receive a £3 million pay rise this year, as a result of laws that guarantee her taxpayer-funded income never decreases. The combined earnings of the monarch and her eldest son have more than doubled since the financial crisis of 2008"
members.tortoisemedia.com/2020/06/29/roy…
"Despite increasing costs, so much money has come into Buckingham Palace in recent years that its reserves have swollen to £65.8 million.

"In other words, the Queen is flush with cash."
"With her 6.6 billion acres, Elizabeth II is far and away the world's largest landowner, with the closest runner-up (King Abdullah) holding control over a mere 547 million, or about 12% of the lands owned by Her Majesty, The Queen."
businessinsider.com/worlds-biggest…
"Have you ever wondered how many properties the royal family own? It can be hard to keep track. But, from Buckingham Palace to Clarence House, the new infographic below pinpoints every royal residence in the UK, from Scotland to Ireland and England."
countryliving.com/uk/homes-inter…
"Forbes estimates the British monarchy is worth around $88 billion (roughly £72.5 billion). The Sunday Times Rich List reports that Queen Elizabeth is estimated to be personally worth £350 million."
standard.co.uk/insider/royals…
"some 20,000 households in England have been made homeless during the pandemic ...mass job losses and the scheduled end of the furlough scheme this autumn risk plunging thousands more into homelessness."
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
"unemployed jobseekers were bussed into London to work as unpaid stewards during the Queen's diamond jubilee celebrations and told to sleep under London Bridge before working on the £12m river spectacle of a 1,000 boats and the Royal family sailing by."
theguardian.com/uk/2012/jun/04…
Who among us has not felt the pain of losing over a hundred million dollars on our $26 billion property portfolio?

newshub.co.nz/home/world/202…

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Nov 2, 2023
Susan Abulhawa, world's bestselling Palestinian author, had her account here banned after a Zionist hate campaign. Please read and RT this thread by her.

"Zionists are pushing a new line of propaganda aimed at breaking Black solidarity with Palestinians."
"The narrative goes something like this: The only reason Palestinians are getting attention is because they're not Black (which is not true because Palestinian society is multi-racial). Just look at the millions killed in the DRC. Look at Sudan. Look at Tigray." - Susan Abulhawa
"So I want to point out that in fact, Israel is at the heart of the genocide in the DRC. Israel has been arming and training militias in Rwanda and Uganda to maintain the violent chaos that facilitates western mineral extraction from Congo's mines." - Susan Abulhawa
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Jan 31, 2023
Twitter has locked the account of Susan Abulhawa @sjabulhawa, award-winning Palestinian author whose novels have been translated into 23 languages. Susan Abulhawa is the founder of the nonprofit @Play4Palestine, and a member of @workersworld and @PalFeminist Image
In her 2021 Edward Said Memorial Lecture, "Visualising Israel's Global Arms Hustling," @sjabulhawa offered invaluable insight into Israel’s global arms trade, and how it ties into Israeli settler colonialism and oppression of Palestinians. Youtube link:
youtube.com/live/TJK7wSzW5…
Listen to @sjabulhawa on Israeli apartheid, the difference between pity and solidarity, and how salvation begins with oneself.

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Sep 27, 2022
Billionaires and monarchies should not exist. Tax them. inequality.org/great-divide/t…
The fortune of the British royal family is estimated to be around $28 billion. No one knows the exact figure, because they're exempt from “sunshine” rules. Charles will not pay a penny of inheritance tax, capital gains tax, or income tax.
"The British empire, says @IPS_DC analyst Basav Sen, “quite literally” opened “the fossil-fueled Industrial Revolution, the driving force behind climate change.” That plunder left formerly colonized societies deeply indebted and vulnerable to climate change they didn't cause."
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Sep 25, 2022
Super-fit immunologist stopped masking after 4 vaccine doses. Omicron gave him congestive heart failure, which forced him to quit his job.

thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/…
“The risk of cardiovascular disease, for example, increased after one infection, but doubled in people who had two infections, and tripled in those who had been infected thrice.”

"Similar risks were found for heart disease, blood clotting problems, brain decline and diabetes."
"The second myth that Goodnow wants demolished is that COVID is a “one and done virus.”

"Many viruses, such as polio or measles, confer long-time immunity after a vaccine shot or natural infection. But members of the coronavirus family don’t behave the same."
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Sep 8, 2022
They were at Treetops Hotel in Kenya's Aberdare National Park. Nine months later, hundreds of freedom fighters would hide from British troops in the forest below. In the next eight years, 1.5 million Kenyans would be incarcerated, starved, tortured, in concentration camps.
At dawn, in Britain's concentration camps in Kenya, imprisoned women would be forced to bury their babies who had died during the night. Babies also died on their mothers' backs during the day, while their mothers were subjected to forced labor under guns and whips.
Fifteen months after "a young girl climbed into a tree one day a princess...and climbed down the next day a queen," the entire Aberdares region was declared off-limits for Africans. Orders were set in place to shoot Africans on sight.
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Sep 7, 2022
Twitter has suspended the account of Jewish anti-Zionist attorney and activist @StanleyCohenLaw. So I'm going to tweet a thread of his articles.

Here's the one I quote most often.

aljazeera.com/opinions/2017/…
@StanleyCohenLaw "As an attorney, I am currently involved in litigation before the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights in which we seek to revoke Israel’s observer status at the African Union on the grounds that it is an outlaw nation..."
counterpunch.org/2021/10/01/isr…
"For generations, the world has been a largely silent witness to an unbridled Western enterprise erasing millions of Palestinians from their unbroken ancestral homeland in the name of a diabolical resettlement project..."

counterpunch.org/2021/05/28/sta…
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