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17 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
WATCH: Cop Who Shot Jacob Blake 7 Times, Paralyzing Him, Given Job Back

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Anyone who empties a clip at point blank into someone's back is the definition of trigger-happy. That's not policing.
I don't buy this excuse that police can potentially murder or paralyze someone over a pocket knife. Here's police in London disarming a man with a machete and no one is killed. There are always other ways to handle these situations they just don't care.

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17 Apr
WATCH: Iran Responds to Israeli Attack on Natanz Nuclear Facility

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The centrifuges damaged by israel were the older, first generation IR-1s. They've been replaced by the newer IR-6 generation. Iran also announced it will add another 1000 centrifuges to the Natanz facility and successfully enriched uranium to 60%.
Israel is a reckless, unhinged terrorist entity that thinks blowing up nuclear facilities and killing scientists is acceptable. Imagine if Iran did that to them. We'd never hear the end of it.
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17 Apr
American media is not only bought and owned by corporations, who have a profit incentive– it's purposely designed to make people dumb and ignorant on virtually every issue.
Imagine if they spent just 1% of the air time covering Palestine, Yemen, or any issue of substance with honesty instead of recycling this garbage about Russian bounties or fear mongering about China. It's incorrigible.
Don't get me wrong, the British tabloid press is equally rank, but given the magnitude of American corporate media they definitely take the cake in many regards. Although the BBC are never far behind lol.
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15 Apr
Officials need to stop asking people to be calm and suspects to be calm and start asking the police to be calm instead. Yelling and drawing guns is not serving a community, that's oppression and terrorism. The word "deescalation" doesn't even exist in their vocabulary.
People resist arrest all the time in the UK that doesn't mean the police can kill them. Some of them are violent, drunk or on drugs too. Still doesn't mean the police can kill them. There are so many different ways you can handle a situation without taking someone's life.
UK has its own issues with race and violence, but the fact most police are unarmed it forces them to take a different approach. Can't be shooting first and asking questions later, this is insanity.
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5 Apr
WATCH: The Video That Changed Everything.

11 years to the day, @wikileaks published the "Collateral Murder" showing Iraqi civilians, among them children and two Reuters journalists gunned down by a US Apache helicopter in Baghdad, 2007. The soldiers can be heard laughing and joking as they also shoot the rescue vehicle.
Dean Yates was Baghdad bureau chief for Reuters at the time. When probing the US military about the death of his colleagues, was only shown the first few minutes of the video. He never knew the truth about this incident until Wikileaks published the video.
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30 Mar
You know Press TV, CGTN, Sputnik and Telesur are doing something right when OFCOM (Britain’s regulator) takes them off the air and/or Silicon Valley giants repeatedly ban their pages & accounts.

Western govts can’t stand foreign outlets informing their populace, esp in English.
“Freedom of the press” means you can choose between MSNBC, FOX and CNN. Anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, anti-war reporting will not be tolerated. You’ll get banned or thrown in jail and accused of espionage.
This idea that Big Tech and the govt are trying to protect people from “state media” and “disinformation” is bollocks. You’ll never see a label under Reuters or BBC for taking money from HM’s Govt. You’ll never see CNN or the NYT banned on FB for lying about chemical weapons.
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9 Feb
How can you answer a question on international law, or any law, with “legalities aside”? Biden admin showing you they’re identical to Trump’s. Israel has been illegally occupying the Syrian Golan Heights since 1967. This is in violation of intl law & UNSC resolutions 242 and 497.
The US has a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. It didn't use its veto power for those resolutions– as a matter of fact both resolutions were passed unanimously by all 15 members on the council at the time. The US is a party to those agreements and must abide by them.
israel stakes its claim as a legitimate state on the fact that it is a member state of the United Nations– while flagrantly violating any UN resolutions that concern its behaviour. What a great deal.
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