Dave Berkeley ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ˜ท

Dave Berkeley ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ˜ท

@daveberkeley.bsky.social

Eco-Socialist. Software & FPGA engineer. Ex Labour. Zero Covid. Opposed to racism, war crimes, genocide, apartheid & ethnic cleansing.

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Replying to @lattengustl.bsky.social

It's a little known fact that during WW2 when the UK was fighting the Nazis through Belgium/ France, Jewish/ pro-Israel terrorist groups Lehi and Irgun were attacking British forces. In 1944 they assassinated the British minister of state in the Middle East, Lord Moyne, in Cairo.

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This new electoral vรญdeo from Pedro Sรกnchez is quite something. Standing in front of Guernica defending the anti-war stance of his government, limiting military expenditure, denouncing the atrocity of Gaza. English subtitles.

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BBC happily interviews lots of Zionists saying they are offended and fearful about Green Party rehashing a 1975 UN motion saying Zionism is racism But not Palestinians living in apartheid Israel about discrimination they face in jobs, housing, education every day of their lives meme via Dave Toller

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UK Tory govt failures led to Covid spreading โ€˜like wildfireโ€™ in care homes. Ministers lied. Residents sent home without protection. 43,000 died from Covid-19 in UK care homes between March 2020 and July 2022. 2016 Exercise Cygnus showed NHS couldn't cope with a flu pandemic. Govt did nothing.

theguardian.comUK government failures led to Covid spreading โ€˜like wildfireโ€™ in care homes, inquiry findsInquiry chair says failure to advise care homes to isolate people discharged from hospital was โ€˜significant oversightโ€™

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UK govt can get information about your bank accounts if you get universal credit, pension credit, employment support allowance. Court order not needed. You won't be told, can't appeal. Same won't apply to enablers of illicit financial flows. No financial privacy for old, poor, sick, unfortunate.

independent.co.ukDWP reveals exact information banks have to share about benefit claimantsMore details have been shared on how the new powers work

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90% of Englandโ€™s water industry is foreign-owned, including entities linked with the Chinese state. The result is low investment, high bills, sewage in rivers, over 1,200 criminal convictions, harms to nature, health and national security. Public ownership is needed. Watch the Minister's reply.

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Electricity costs put UK steelmakers in worst position against EU rivals. Govt subsidising energy cost of 10,000 businesses via public purse. Others suffer too. Govt not attending to real causes - faulty pricing formula based on cost of gas, profiteering by energy companies. Nationalise energy.

theguardian.comElectricity costs put UK steelmakers in worst position in three years against EU rivalsPremium paid over French counterparts has risen to almost ยฃ30 a megawatt hour, analysis by lobby group finds

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You will hear a lot about the protests in France today, but Albania has practically collapsed with protestors controlling almost the entire country. The Police are literally forming defensive lines outside the main Government offices while firing rubber bullets. A last stand.

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OPEN CALLS Huda Ammori explained at our Open Call why Palestine Action chose direct action as its method for shutting down Israeli weapons factories on UK soil. โ€œMy own grandfather was assassinated by a British soldier during the colonisation of Palestine in the 1936 uprising.โ€

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The Tories have called for a 5 year freeze on the Minimum Wage to 'fix unemployment'. Corporate profits in the UK are ยฃ680bn a year, enough to employ 25.1m people on the Minimum Wage full time, including NI payments. There are only 1.8m unemployed people.

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26 years ago Israel shot these two civilians as they hid from the IDF as Israel invaded the Gaza Strip. Israel's killing has been going on non-stop since 1948 and even before that.

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Replying to @bladeofthes.bsky.social

They don't want you to get richer, they want you to stay poor so they own everything. Capitalism isn't about rewarding hard work, or competing to be the best. It is about setting up a monopoly and rinsing you dry, over and over and over and over again.

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Streeting says the UK is providing military assistance to Saudi Arabia because Houthis are attacking civilian targets there Israel has been attacking civilian targets in Gaza for 3yrs & not only are you not providing Palestinians with military assistance, you're arming Israel!

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Palestinian Lubna Speitan has had 56 of her relatives murdered by the Genocidal Israel in Gaza. She called Zionism Racist, it's far worse than that, now Caroline Lucas is calling for her to be banned from the Green Party. Disgusting.

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Ladies and gents, an update here from the core of the global fascist movement, regarding the proper treatment of its eastern outpost

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While the Israeli military invades a Palestinian university in the occupied West Bank to demolish a memorial to Palestinian students the IDF has previously murdered, here in the UK our political & media class focus on telling us the Green Party are the problem.

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Replying to @doctorow.pluralistic.net

For Obama, the grassroots were useful for one thing: getting out the vote. The last thing he wanted was for millions of activated voters to turn into activists who'd flame him and harangue him and picket him if they didn't like his compromises. Boy, did Obama ever compromise.

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Hereโ€™s the final selection of my photos for my 2027 Dartmoor calendar, I chose the December picture, frosty Tavistock not on Dartmoor, but I do live here ..ยฃ16 each inc postage available from me direct via PayPal or bank transfer or my Etsy shop. All profits to Tavistock food bank. only 50.

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94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen OBE, arrested under the Terrorism Act outside @labouruk.bsky.social conference. Her crime? Holding a piece of cardboard with the words โ€œI oppose genocide - I support Palestine Actionโ€ on it. She was among hundreds doing the same.

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For Decades Doctors Thought Post-Infection Syndromes Were Hysteria, Then Stress, Then Trauma, Before Finally Discovering They Were All In The Mind

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94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Welcome I suppose, but look: the time to recognise that most of these people work for gambling outfits, privatised utilities and tech companies, and that they protect those interests in exchange for sweet private sector jobs further down the line, was fifteen or ten years ago. It is too late now.

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Reminder more bombs have been dropped on Gaza than Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden combined. It is a far worse War Crime than any of them.

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BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnhamโ€™s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Replying to @defendourjuries.bsky.social

Last June, Andy Burnham was on a platform with Del Naja in support of the Fossil Fuel Non Proliferation Treaty, praising his โ€˜clarity and leadershipโ€™. Today, heโ€™s having Rob arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding a piece of paper.

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Around 40% of the world's dirty money, proceeds of corruption and crime, is laundered through the UK, its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories. Successive govts promise new laws and enforcement but they make little impact. Why do govts continue to fail? Watch the Minister's reply.

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Here's the list of everything banned going into Gaza including. Water Filters Water Purification Tablets Nappies Insulin Wheelchairs Fishing rods and all fishing equipment All Water Pumping and sewage treatment equipment All Cancer drugs and Antibiotics It's a Genocide.

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Replying to @flyingrodent.bsky.social

I recall the Guardian shitcanned Dawn Foster for telling their audience Watson was deliberately wrecking for factional gain, not giving a fuck about anything except himself and his mates. Shitcanned not because that wasnโ€™t true - it was obviously correct - but it broke omertร .

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You probably don't know but before 1964 nobody owned the seas surrounding the UK. They were common land. In 1964 they were all given to the King, so now all the Wind Turbines and Oil Rigs in the UK pay rent to him. They should all be placed back under Government control. It's a scam.

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A short thread on โ€œlegitimate concernsโ€. The phrase is used repeatedly by UK government ministers. The Home Secretary is at it again this week. But only ever - as far as I can tell - in one context: peopleโ€™s response to the arrival of asylum seekers. Please read whole ๐Ÿงตbefore responding - thanks

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In 2024-25 HMRC failed to collect ยฃ59.2bn of tax; ยฃ500bn since 2010. ยฃ12.8bn lost through profit shifting by multinational corporations. Promoters of a business rates avoidance scheme boasted that they have deprived local councils of ยฃ500m. Billions can be raised by ending abuses.

leftfootforward.orgHereโ€™s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millionsPrem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...