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Tweets seen
[“The European Parliament will vote on Chat Control tomorrow morning.
Chat Control will make it possible to scan all private chats, emails and messages for “forbidden content” even before they are sent.
EU leaders say it’s needed to stop child abuse material but critics argue it’s just another step toward a full surveillance state.
After failing to pass the law multiple times previously, tomorrow’s vote has been rigged through procedural maneuvers to favor approval.
After MEPs rejected the measure in March with 311 votes against, the largest group suddenly pushed an urgent procedure this week to force a new plenary vote on Thursday, the final session before summer recess.
This revives the proposal as a second reading, meaning rejection now demands an absolute majority of 361 votes rather than a simple majority against.
Proponents thus need only prevent strong opposition, inverting the usual dynamic.
Timing ensures many MEPs will be absent or traveling home for the summer vacations, with non-votes effectively counting toward passage by making the high threshold harder to reach.
Opponents denounce this as unprecedented and anti-democratic, bypassing the prior “no” and Parliament’s own rules.
The critics claim the sudden vote ignores widespread concerns over mass surveillance without warrants, false positives flooding police with innocent content, encryption risks and treating all citizens as suspects.“]
The cartoon below shows the situation as in the USA, but whether USA, EU, or UK, the same applies— scaring the general population with hysteria about terrorism, child abuse etc, when the real agenda is the control and censorship of social and political opinion.
Incredible. He must be both brave and trusting.
Good grief. Shows how desperate the Kiev regime is. Hinting that Ukrainian women might be available to Indian migrants. Zelensky and his cohorts should be taken out and shot.
More American attacks on civilian infrastructure in Iran. If anything happens in the USA by way of retaliation, we shall of course never hear the end of it.
[“Series of explosions at U.S. military bases in the region
According to media reports, powerful explosions occurred in the eastern regions of Jordan. One of the targets of these rockets was also an industrial complex in Jordan.
Regional media reported a series of explosions at the U.S. military base of Az Zarka in Jordan.
According to sources, in the latest wave of attacks, Iran is using “Haybar Shekan” missiles to target U.S. military bases in Western Asia.
Iranian forces also launched missile attacks with cruise missiles against U.S. ships off the coast of Bahrain. According to media reports, one destroyer and several U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf were hit by the missiles.“]
[“Clacton: Candidates who have expressed intent to stand
Nigel Farage – Reform UK.
Count Binface – Count Binface Party.
Laurence Fox – Reclaim Party leader.
Rejoin EU Party -candidate to be named.
Monster Raving Loony Party – candidate to be named.
Climate Party – candidate to be named.
Kai Stephen -British Democrats.
Adham Alkhatip -Forward Party.
Marc Berger – Independent (Extended Civil Restraint Party).
Ollie Granger – Independent; television professional.“]
Laurence Fox is a joke candidate: pro-Jewish lobby, pro-Israel. Basically an anti-immigration conservative and maybe-“libertarian”. Waste of space.
The only candidate at that by-election worthy of at least provisional consideration is Kai Stephen, British Democrat.
Most migrants in the UK are, to a greater or lesser extent, parasites. A smaller but still very significant number are criminal to some degree; a yet smaller group are supporters of, or actual, terrorists or para-terrorists.
We do not need them. We do not want them. They must be removed.
This country is so decadent now, even compared to, say, the 1980s, 1970s, 1960s. An alien environment replete with enemies of the people.
[“I’d really like to know when the @Tate plans to put the Resurrection, Cookham by Stanley Spencer back on public display? One of the standout pieces of 20th century British art and it’s been out of view for what feels like ages This came after they put up an explanatory plaque accusing Spencer of “reinforcing racist stereotypes and divisions” in the painting. If they are, as it seems, sitting on Spencer’s masterpiece because they are ashamed of it, then the Resurrection should be displayed by people who aren’t embarrassed. The Stanley Spencer gallery in Cookham would have no such qualms! Sorry, it’s too important a painting to shove in a basement because your trustees are pussies.”
I remember seeing that painting at the Tate (as it was then called— Tate Britain now) long ago, I think in the mid-1980s. It was once, in 1927, called “the most important picture painted by any English artist in the present century. … What makes it so astonishing is the combination in it of careful detail with the modern freedom of form. It is as if a Pre-Raphaelite had shaken hands with a Cubist.“
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Spencer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Spencer#The_Resurrection,_Cookham
While I have little time for Farage or Reform, Reform is at present the only non-System or not-totally-System party really in the game, with any serious chance of knocking Lab and Con off the board.
Our animal friends.
Ukraine has long been assessed as being the most corrupt country in Europe. A fake state, not really a state at all.
The pathetic and sad cannon-fodder of the Kiev regime, forced to serve an open-ended “contract” (in fact no contract, because not willingly entered into), so that corrupt billionaires, many Jewish, can rip off the Ukrainian people mercilessly.
Late tweets seen
For once, I agree with Hodges, but the fact is that this is Farage’s contest to lose. It would be a huge upset if he were to lose, even were the System parties to stand candidates. Without them, he must have a 99% chance of winning (which is why he is doing this).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Haigh
There’s nothing much to Andy Burnham, policy-wise, and I imagine that his clique of Mancunian and other clowns will crash and burn pretty quickly.
He is referring to Starmer-stein’s statement in 2023 that there was nothing wrong about Israel cutting off food and even water to Gazan civilians, as well as bombing women and children and killing hundreds of thousands of non-combatants.
Predictably, the Twitter/X Jews are all screeching and screaming about Burnham’s tweet above, but in fact it is the minimum he could say, after Starmer-stein’s craven playing of the dummy to Israel’s ventriloquist.
In fact, Burnham and those around him are all heavily pro-Israel, pro-Jewish lobby, all Labour Friends of Israel, so he is just playing politics to keep the Labour-leaning Muslims on board.
Wise move.
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Ian Robert Millard 