@hartmannreport.com Good to hear your caller mention Gary Stevens... Key message in this clip from around 23.00 - World governments' (= citizens') declining ownership of their countries' resources > youtu.be/Oi265I48MdI
@reformpoliticalads.bsky.social ICYMI, from the other place. Astley is currently on Manchester Council for Reform.
@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social @nickabbot.bsky.social UFC on The White House lawn reminds me: 3.15pm today Channel 4 film epic of Attila the Hun pillaging the West with his barbarian hordes, "The Sign of the Pagan" Finally turned back by Pope Leo I in this 1 min clip Verdi's opera youtu.be/lG358go_osY
The post these are replying to shows it has 12 replies but I only see 11 till I click "see more replies"...
@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social @nickabbot.bsky.social Reminder: Farage is destroying the West with Putin: “that time Reform leader Nigel Farage was part of an operation to divide California known as Calexit, which collapsed after it was revealed to be funded by Russia” bylinetimes.com/2024/06/28/a...
@matthew-wright.bsky.social @nickabbot.bsky.social 23yo Jack Barwell elected as Croydon-Forestdale councillor... Son of Tory Lord Gavin Barwell (Housing Minister, Grenfell) > www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/former-...
@matthew-wright.bsky.social Croydon: Fairfield (the Town Centre) > 🟢 Green!
@matthew-wright.bsky.social New Addington South > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Add...
Truer than we think, as Japan's 'ecosystem' has let it peacefully lead the world in robotics and tech for so long. www.taylor-weed-control.co.uk/news/post/is...
If someone’s attention is kept - by disinformation/fear-mongering/inequality - in the ‘bottom-2‘ of Maslow’s Needs, joining a group might feel existential.
Unfortunately can’t recall where I clipped this from but fairly sure it’s findable.
@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social @nickabbot.bsky.social New Orleans: "9 April 2025, Trump stole $185M in disaster relief from Louisianans calling it 'wasteful and ineffective'." He ended his 2020 law giving residents FEMA disaster-money for flood defence/prevention. indivisiblenola.org/2025/04/10/t...
@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social @nickabbot.bsky.social Queen Elizabeth's Speech to Congress in 1991 "Some people believe that power grows from the barrel of a gun. So it can, but history shows that it never grows well nor for very long. "Force, in the end, is sterile." archive.org/details/CSPA...
@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social @nickabbot.bsky.social "The job diGenova had in the 2020 election was to regularly meet secretly at a Trump hotel restaurant with a team [incl Kash Patel] tasked with manufacturing fake pro-Biden foreign election interference. "[this] is a 5-alarm national fire." -SA
@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social @nickabbot.bsky.social FDR: When corporate power outstrips the power of your democratic state, you've got fascism...
@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social General MacArthur's post-WW2 pacifist Japanese Constitution > www.cfr.org/japan-consti...
@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social Peace can be learned. “Nonviolent Communication training evolved from Dr. Rosenberg’s quest to rapidly disseminate much-needed peacemaking skills. “The Center for Nonviolent Communication emerged from his work with civil rights activists in the early 1960s.” www.cnvc.org
Bury Place, just south of British Museum. Been up and down there so often and never seen it. I think Russell Mansions coincidental. Russell Square is “named after the surname of the Earls and Dukes of Bedford” according to Wiki. Carpets & curtains haggling with Bertrand is quite the image.
@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social @nickabbot.bsky.social 2011 Only 9 of 62 flats at [Candy Bros'] One Hyde Park were registered for Council Tax: www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/nov/... Starting £3.6M for a 1-bed, only 4 were paying full £755.60 pa Council Tax. 5 were paying the 50% 2nd-Home C.Tax reduction.
Good news, Wiki-people would seem to be all over this... full marks... am thinking a healthy exercise for any of us may be to pick a manageable topic and create its Wiki entry to their required specs... sans ellipses, obv. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
@jowolff.bsky.social James Agate’s diary, excerpt from his last entry before Germany invaded Poland.
@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social “Trump’s…donation [came from his] non-profit tax-exempt charity, the Donald J. Trump Foundation...listed…as a gift to a Kansas anti-abortion group with a name similar to Bondi’s re-election effort. “…[He] paid a $2.5K fine to the IRS for this violation of federal tax law“
@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social “In 2016, CREW discovered the Trump Foundation had [given] an illegal $25K…to a political group supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi… “…as Bondi’s office was deciding whether to take legal action [on] Trump University” www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...
@jowolff.bsky.social This popped itself off the shelf today. Delicious to read the clear language expressing the people's needs.
@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social @nickabbot.bsky.social Reagan‘s Veto ended The Fairness Doctrine in 1987… “…antagonistic to the freedom of expression guaranteed by the First Amendment.” (end of 1st para) > www.senate.gov/legislative/... 4 pics: ‘The Fairness Doctrine’ entry on Britannica online >
@simonmarksfsn.bsky.social @nickabbot.bsky.social 3 quotes from The Powell Memo - the traditional role of the American business executive as “good citizen” - the old days of the profitable *and* socially responsible executive - Ralph Nader as people’s hero > www.greenpeace.org/usa/democrac...