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Peter Donaldson retweeted
I don’t know if you can see me, but Elon Musk has made the chances of my posts appearing before you extremely slim, simply because I am from Gaza and am speaking about our suffering.
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Peter Donaldson retweeted
Hero of the majority which is why they must vilify him and never validate his words completely as they deserve. Shame on all them all.
Peter Donaldson retweeted
“In the long run, we are all dead.”
Except the neoclassical representative agent
Peter Donaldson retweeted
Britain used chemical weapons on Russia, and Winston Churchill was the man who offered them.
It was right after World War I, while British troops were fighting in Russia's Civil War. They dropped M Devices from aircraft, bombs that released an arsenic-based toxic smoke. Churchill, then Britain's Secretary of State for War and Air, offered the weapon to General Ironside, and the air attacks began around Emtsa, a village in northern Russia.
Nine days after one bombing, a British officer found civilians in Emtsa with signs of chemical exposure. Prisoners described men lying on the ground bleeding from the nose and mouth, and British army doctors examined 46 gassed prisoners.
London was pleased. General Rawlinson credited the success of the Arkhangelsk operations largely to the M Bombs, and Ironside praised their effect on the enemy's morale. When the British finally pulled out, they dumped around 47,000 unused devices into the White Sea. All of it is in British military records.
Peter Donaldson retweeted
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent huffily denounced Iranian leaders on Friday after being moved to a US military base amid alleged security concerns from a threat linked to Iran.
“F the Iranian leadership,” Bessent said during an appearance on CNBC. He actually said the letter F, like a little kid describing something he heard a grownup say.
“I’m not gonna be cowered that they have initiated death threats against me,” Bessent added. “The other members of the cabinet, we’re not gonna be cowered, and it means that what we are doing with Operation Economic Outcast is working.”
“The IRGC, they’re like a dangerous cornered animal,” Bessent proclaimed.
“Operation Economic Outcast” is the Trump administration’s current slogan for its efforts to cripple the Iranian economy.
Bessent has repeatedly admitted to deliberately fomenting the violent unrest in Iran at the beginning of this year, saying the US actively crushed the Iranian economy with the explicit goal of driving a desperate, immiserated population to civil war against their government.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in January of this year, the treasury secretary said the following:
“President Trump ordered Treasury and our OFAC division, Office of Foreign Asset Control, to put maximum pressure on Iran. And it’s worked, because in December, their economy collapsed. We saw a major bank go under; the central bank has started to print money. There is dollar shortage. They are not able to get imports, and this is why the people took to the street. So, this is economic statecraft, no shots fired, and things are moving in a very positive way here.”
Bessent repeated the same claim when speaking to the Senate Banking Committee in February:
“One thing we could do at Treasury, and what we have done, is created a dollar shortage in the country. At a speech at the Economic Club in March I outlined the strategy. It came to a swift and I would say grand culmination in December when one of the largest banks in Iran went under. There was a run on the bank, the central bank had to print money, the Iranian currency went into free fall, inflation exploded, and hence we have seen the Iranian people out on the street.”
So it’s kind of hilarious to see this mummified bureaucrat posturing as a tough guy for the cameras and acting like he’s being unjustly targeted by an evil regime. He and his own regime are the obvious aggressors here.
I always reflexively dismiss all claims that Iran is targeting US officials, just because the claims are always presented without any evidence and the US consistently lies about the governments it is targeting in order to justify its tyrannical warmongering. That which has been presented without evidence may be dismissed without evidence.
But for the record Iran would be completely within its rights to assassinate US officials, and those US officials would 100 percent deserve it.
You don’t get to start an unprovoked war of aggression, assassinate the leaders of a sovereign nation, massacre schoolchildren, deliberately target civilian infrastructure, deliberately immiserate the entire population with the goal of provoking civil war, and then posture as an innocent widdle victim if you get back what you dished out.
“F the Iranian leadership”?
Fuck you.
Peter Donaldson retweeted
Helen is a millionaire who earns 100k per year and works in a palace. She claims expenses for a second home despite living 50 miles from work. She wants you to think that it’s the disabled that are the problem.
People on benefits shouldn’t be better off than people in work.
Some households are getting thousands more in welfare than a full-time job.
People who’re working say to me – why do I bother?
We will make sure work always pays more than benefits.
We’ll restore the two-child benefit cap. Working families don’t get a pay rise when they have another child. Nor should people on benefits.
And we’ll reform housing benefit. No more asking taxpayers to pay for people on benefits to live wherever they want – especially when working people can’t afford to live there themselves.
Peter Donaldson retweeted
As I am yet again the target of another smear campaign, I will give a brief rebuttal here that I was denied by our journalists. The media argues that my comments about the detention facility for Ukrainian soldiers outside Kiev are 'disinformation' because the 14-year-old boy who was abused inside the facility was a protester and not a detained conscript. However, I never said that a 14-year-old was conscripted, which makes no sense.
The kid says he was knocked down from the wall and pulled into the facility, where he was beaten with shovels, hit and kicked, while Azov used knives to cut open his clothes (including his underwear) as they filmed it all. After spending an unknown period of time inside the facility, the boy was escorted out of the building wearing a blanket and a terrifying look of shock on his face. We do not know more, partly because our media does not want to know more, and the little coverage there has been has focused on smearing those who mentioned it.
The journalists who contacted me promised that they would also report on the boy's statement, which they predictably did not do. Why is that? Why is it not newsworthy to report on the statement from the 14-year-old boy who was abused? Nothing can get in the way of the smears and the war narratives that criminalise diplomacy and support the notion that weapons are the path to peace. I wrote an article (below) about the event and how the media would whitewash the event and smear criticism, and I even sent it to the journalists who contacted me regarding their hit pieces – yet they seem to have used my article as a manual.
My advice to academics who are critical of how Ukrainians are used by NATO as cannon fodder is to make sure to respond with few words when the journalists come to destroy your reputation. They have to contact you to tick a box as a formality for journalistic practice, although they are free to pick out what they can use from your answer in terms of what fits with the smear piece. Give them only a few short sentences to limit their ability to select a quote meant to deceive, and only give answers in writing so you can document how they mislead their readers.
Journalists got access to my employment documents at the university, and it is no longer a secret that I will soon go into exile after more than 6 years of intimidation. Thus, the attacks are now intensifying, as they only have a few more weeks left.
glenndiesen.substack.com/p/w…
Peter Donaldson retweeted
The War Machine has targeted another person telling the truth about Ukraine.
This time it’s @Glenn_Diesen one of the last prominent people in Norway with the courage to report honestly on the Ukraine torture camps run by Nazis
As I am yet again the target of another smear campaign, I will give a brief rebuttal here that I was denied by our journalists. The media argues that my comments about the detention facility for Ukrainian soldiers outside Kiev are 'disinformation' because the 14-year-old boy who was abused inside the facility was a protester and not a detained conscript. However, I never said that a 14-year-old was conscripted, which makes no sense.
The kid says he was knocked down from the wall and pulled into the facility, where he was beaten with shovels, hit and kicked, while Azov used knives to cut open his clothes (including his underwear) as they filmed it all. After spending an unknown period of time inside the facility, the boy was escorted out of the building wearing a blanket and a terrifying look of shock on his face. We do not know more, partly because our media does not want to know more, and the little coverage there has been has focused on smearing those who mentioned it.
The journalists who contacted me promised that they would also report on the boy's statement, which they predictably did not do. Why is that? Why is it not newsworthy to report on the statement from the 14-year-old boy who was abused? Nothing can get in the way of the smears and the war narratives that criminalise diplomacy and support the notion that weapons are the path to peace. I wrote an article (below) about the event and how the media would whitewash the event and smear criticism, and I even sent it to the journalists who contacted me regarding their hit pieces – yet they seem to have used my article as a manual.
My advice to academics who are critical of how Ukrainians are used by NATO as cannon fodder is to make sure to respond with few words when the journalists come to destroy your reputation. They have to contact you to tick a box as a formality for journalistic practice, although they are free to pick out what they can use from your answer in terms of what fits with the smear piece. Give them only a few short sentences to limit their ability to select a quote meant to deceive, and only give answers in writing so you can document how they mislead their readers.
Journalists got access to my employment documents at the university, and it is no longer a secret that I will soon go into exile after more than 6 years of intimidation. Thus, the attacks are now intensifying, as they only have a few more weeks left.
glenndiesen.substack.com/p/w…
Peter Donaldson retweeted
Have you really?
I’m 73 and I have never met a single family where three generations had never worked.
Never taught one either.
Could you put me in touch with the families?
Peter Donaldson retweeted
Quick reminder that pretending “orthodox economics” is neutral and politically unmotivated, is entirely the purpose of calling it “orthodox”. Making something seem “normal” while using it to pervert the narrative is a feature of fascism.
Peter Donaldson retweeted
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Peter Donaldson retweeted
In fact government is hardly ever the cause of inflation. Most common causes: corporate price gouging, supply shocks & banks funding real estate bubbles.
Peter Donaldson retweeted
Oh dear.
The notion that Iran is causing the USA to set the sirens off at Lakenheath and grounding US flights is accurate, but not in the way you think.
The US needs to convince the populations in the rest of the NATO countries to accept as legitimate the combined US/Israeli attack on Iran, to maintain their illegal seizure of the Strait of Hormuz (which is all part of the US plan to seize and/or control global energy).
We are, after all, vassal states to the US, even if we don't like their current President much.
Warmongering is a serious business. So are resource wars. Expensive, too.
But the rich rewards are worth the comparatively minor inconveniences of temporary infrastructure sabotage.
Peter Donaldson retweeted
And it is the biggest lie of them all, that has controlled us like sheep for decades.
Peter Donaldson retweeted
Russia has increased the accuracy of "Iskander" missiles to within a few meters: modernized missiles bypass Ukrainian electronic warfare systems - The Telegraph
▪️According to the British publication, Russian "Iskander" ballistic missiles have been equipped with improved optical and radar guidance systems, allowing them to adjust their trajectory in the final stage of flight.
▪️The new systems scan the terrain immediately before hitting the target, increasing the accuracy of the strike to within a few meters and reducing the effectiveness of Ukrainian electronic warfare systems.
▪️Professor of military strategy at the Hertie School, Mauro Gilli, noted that one of the problems with ballistic missiles used to be the inaccuracy of hitting the target in the final stage of flight. Now, he says, the situation has changed.
▪️The Telegraph links the modernization of the missiles to Russian strikes on bridges in Kiev. At the same time, the expert acknowledges that it is extremely difficult to completely destroy large bridge structures due to the strength of their construction.
▪️The publication also claims that Russia is seeking to "isolate" the Ukrainian power grid – dividing the unified network into isolated sections, making it difficult to transmit electricity between them.
▪️According to the newspaper, the situation is particularly difficult on the left bank of Kiev, where some residents only receive electricity for two hours a day and face interruptions in heating and water supply. Disruptions to the power grid also complicate the operations of Ukrainian industry, including military enterprises.
Interesting how the British propaganda rag acknowledges that hitting the electrical infrastructure is indeed a military target.
Peter Donaldson retweeted
Disability = Poverty=Assisted Dying. It's all very national socialist.
Peter Donaldson retweeted
My account is constantly being reported. I hope everyone will share this post and #follow_me now to protect my account from being suspended and deleted.
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Peter Donaldson retweeted
The fact remains if you can give 10 billion quid to a corrupt Ukrainian coke head fucker like Zelensky and then steal benefits from young chronically ill and disabled then you've got to be twisted. Thats Likud Labour!
Peter Donaldson retweeted
Mercedes just announced they're halting investments in Germany and considering factory closures.
This is the same Germany that:
- Cut off Russian energy to punish Putin
- Paid 4x more for American LNG
- Watched industries flee to the US
- Told citizens Russia would collapse first
Three years later, Mercedes is leaving. Russia is still producing. European media still runs stories about Russia's economy in crisis.
Pattern recognition isn't conspiracy. It's just watching what actually happens versus what we're told will happen.