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Benjamin Zac
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I like politics and porridge.

People need to know!

No DMs please. The engines cannae take it!
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Palestinians are freezing to death because Israel has blocked all the aid. There are thousands of caravans and portable housing ready for 11 months to go into Gaza but Israel is blocking them.
December 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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The assaults on immigrants and any American who does not look 'White enough' is just the beginning. Trump is gearing up to disrupt the 2026 election by preventing those who do not approve of his autocratic kleptocracy from voting.
December 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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The Washington Post has published a scathing attack on the NHS, essentially claiming that socialised medicine doesn’t work. Dreadful. The reason the NHS isn’t working well is that politicians are turning the NHS into a cash cow for private companies 🚨

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Socialized medicine can’t survive the winter
The British government is begging sick people to stay away from hospitals during the holidays.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
World leaders need to get off their backsides and help Gaza. It is absolutely imperative as storms move in and folk are in cold tents with children and sick. One woman has drowned overnight.

Israel is refusing supplies to enter Gaza despite UN calls to increase aid!
December 28, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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The MSM have consistently refused to properly investigate the UK duopoly’s nationwide rollout of deregulated free zones. Find out why here👇🏻
substack.com/@europeanpow...
The Hidden Infrastructure Transfer: NICs, Freeports, and the Privatization of the Commons
How and why the UK duopoly is gutting critical public infrastructure for the likes of US Blackrock
substack.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Starmer, Farage and Badenoch are all pushing the UK towards brutal US style capitalism which is basically corporatism/fascism.
December 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Patriotism, nationalism, loyalism, call it what you want but in a world where global issues are affecting everyone do these labels matter anymore and should folk be more internationalist in outlook?
December 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Former Wessex Water CEO received £170k bonus despite ban on performance pay.

Received total of £693,000 in pay from Malaysian-owned parent company, YTL Utilities (UK), including bonus.

Company has 47+ criminal convictions, dumps sewage in rivers, fleeces customers, rewards bosses.
Former Wessex Water boss received £170,000 bonus despite ban on performance pay
Company owners say bonus was unrelated to water business and complied with ban after pollution conviction
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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France condemns Israeli fire that injured UN peacekeeper in south Lebanon
<article data-history-node-id="433143" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/france-condemns-israeli-fire-injured-un-peacekeeper-south-lebanon" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/france-condemns-israeli-fire-injured-un-peacekeeper-south-lebanon" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">France condemns Israeli fire that injured UN peacekeeper in south Lebanon</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p data-end="367" data-start="132">France has condemned Israeli gunfire in southern Lebanon that slightly injured a United Nations peacekeeper, describing it as part of a pattern of recent incidents targeting UN forces.</p> <p data-end="616" data-start="369">In a statement on Friday, the French foreign ministry said: "France condemns the Israeli army's firing on December 26, 2025, near UNIFIL patrols," denouncing "a series of similar actions by the Israeli army against Unifil in recent weeks."</p> <p data-end="896" data-start="618">The incident is the latest reported by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which operates in southern Lebanon as a buffer between Israel and Lebanon and works alongside the Lebanese army to uphold a truce in place for about a year between Israel and Hezbollah.</p> <p data-end="1120" data-start="898">Unifil said Israeli positions opened "heavy machine gun fire from positions of the Israeli Defense Forces" near a patrol in the village of Bastarra, "slightly injured a Blue Helmet, who suffered an ear concussion."</p> <p data-end="1363" data-start="1122">The UN force added that "another patrol carrying out a routine operational task also reported machine gun fire coming from the Israeli side in the immediate vicinity of its position" in the southern village of Kfarshouba on the same day.</p> <p data-end="1470" data-start="1365">Unifil said it had already notified the Israeli army in advance about its patrol movements in both areas.</p> <p data-end="1651" data-is-last-node data-is-only-node data-start="1472">Earlier this month, the peacekeeping mission reported further incidents in which Israeli forces fired at UN personnel, following similar episodes recorded in October and November.</p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
December 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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#palestine #gaza #UN #colonialisation #occupation #israel

For decades, the UN has been the epitome of hypocrisy, bleeding into awareness when it comes to Palestine. The recent screening of The Voice of Hind Rajab at the UN Headquarters in New York is no exception.
What has the UN done for Palestine except help Zionism colonise it?
For decades, the UN has been the epitome of hypocrisy, bleeding into awareness when it comes to Palestine. The recent screening of The Voice of Hind Rajab at the UN Headquarters in New York is no e…
www.middleeastmonitor.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Myanmar’s military seeks to entrench rule as it begins to claw back territory and China presses for stability.
What's happening in Myanmar's civil war as military holds elections?
Myanmar's military seeks to entrench rule as it begins to claw back territory and China presses for stability.
www.aljazeera.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Northern Gaza declared disaster zone amid Israeli fuel and water blockades
<article data-history-node-id="433137" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/northern-gaza-declared-disaster-zone-amid-israeli-fuel-and-water" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/northern-gaza-declared-disaster-zone-amid-israeli-fuel-and-water" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Northern Gaza declared disaster zone amid Israeli fuel and water blockades</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>Municipalities in northern Gaza say Israeli forces have turned the area into a disaster zone by continuing to block the entry of water, fuel, spare parts and reconstruction materials, deepening the collapse of basic services and the humanitarian crisis.</p> <p>They report widespread destruction, including more than 150 kilometres of roads, 70 main water wells and treatment plants, all privately owned electricity generators, and 50,000 dunams of farmland.</p> <p>Officials warn that fuel shortages, a lack of maintenance materials and the build-up of thousands of tonnes of waste are driving the spread of disease and posing a serious threat to public health.</p> <figure role="group" class="align-center media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="A Palestinian woman stands with a child next to the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip on 24 December 2025 (AFP/Bashar Taleb)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="081774ce-b00e-4e85-91e2-26c966e16062" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/000_88YQ6MX.jpeg" width="2000" height="1125" alt="A Palestinian woman stands with a child next to the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip on 24 December 2025 (AFP/Bashar Taleb)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>A Palestinian woman stands with a child next to the rubble of destroyed buildings in the Jabalia refugee camp, in the northern Gaza Strip on 24 December 2025 (AFP/Bashar Taleb)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5) url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> </div> </div> </article>
www.middleeasteye.net
December 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The world is looking for a thread of hope…
December 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Israels foreign minister now says it's antisemitic to oppose Israel's illegal settlement expansion.

Israel cheapens the concept of antisemitism, throwing Jews abound the world under the bus to advance its agenda of land grab.

Everyone is being played and it's so very dark.
December 26, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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#WATCH | German journalist and activist Anne Liedtke said she was raped by Israeli soldiers while being held at Negev Prison, after she was abducted from a boat that was part of the Sumud Fleet seeking to break the blockade on the Gaza Strip.
December 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Israel is a brutal regime, supported by the U.S., another brutal regime.
December 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM