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Disgraceful scenes in Argyle St. Glasgow yesterday as some Orange Walk followers meted out horrendous abuse to a small group of peaceful Palestinian protesters. As well the physical assaults, "Red Hand of Ulster" aka Gnat-Sea salutes were thrown, plus I*F chants. Remarkably, a few of those losing the plot were accompanied by their kids. Credit to the young protestor who remained calm throughout the onslaught. It's worth stressing that only a small minority of the Boyne Parade followers were involved. The vast majority passed by peacefully. The Orange Order in Scotland must despair every time they witness such scenes. They've spent the last few years changing the focus and direction of the organisation in attempt to bring it in to the 21st Century and eradicate this type of behaviour but I fear that it's far too deeply ingrained in some people.

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Parliament had its say. A knife attack they called it. Bystanders screamed HE’S TRYING TO CUT HIS HEAD OFF at police arriving on the scene. That gap has never been wider and this is what calm meant to look like. Benn praised the bystanders. Then condemned the community protests as senseless violence. Said nothing about who approved him or how he got here. The man on the street gets condemned. The man who built the system gets praised. So let me tell you what built the system. Sudan declared a genocide zone. 99% of Sudanese asylum applications waved through. Because they'd already admitted they couldn't send anyone back. He crossed three countries. Walked off a bus in Belfast. Filed a form. Six months later approved. Nobody checked who he was or what Sudan actually is. The Chief Constable of Northern Ireland stood at a press conference today. His status when he crossed that border is yet to be determined by us. Yet to be determined. Four years later. For every one person removed 35 more came through. The ECHR and the lawyers guaranteed it. Every smuggler on the Channel coast built their business model around it. Farage said leave to remain handed out like Smarties. A senior Trump official said horrified but not surprised. Only the British government didn't see it coming. An elected MLA sat in Stormont and decided this wasn't the moment to discuss any of it. Parliament called it a knife attack. DUP called it medieval. Systematic mutilation and attempted slaughter of a citizen on our streets. A man had his eyes attacked with a kitchen knife on a residential street in Belfast. Maitiu Mag Tighearnan turned a corner and saw what was happening. He picked up a hurling stick and ran toward it. No government sent him. No policy produced him. No slogan created him. He is what this country actually is. The politicians calling for calm are not. Diversity is our strength they told us. Built careers on it. Called anyone who questioned it racist. Far right. Dangerous. A man lost the sight in his eyes on a street in Belfast. They were wrong. We were right and public are still paying for the difference.

Parliament had its say. A knife attack they called it. Bystanders screamed HE’S TRYING TO CUT HIS HEAD OFF at police arriving on the scene. That gap has never been wider and this is what calm meant to look like. Benn praised the bystanders. Then condemned the community protests as senseless violence. Said nothing about who approved him or how he got here. The man on the street gets condemned. The man who built the system gets praised. So let me tell you what built the system. Sudan declared a genocide zone. 99% of Sudanese asylum applications waved through. Because they'd already admitted they couldn't send anyone back. He crossed three countries. Walked off a bus in Belfast. Filed a form. Six months later approved. Nobody checked who he was or what Sudan actually is. The Chief Constable of Northern Ireland stood at a press conference today. His status when he crossed that border is yet to be determined by us. Yet to be determined. Four years later. For every one person removed 35 more came through. The ECHR and the lawyers guaranteed it. Every smuggler on the Channel coast built their business model around it. Farage said leave to remain handed out like Smarties. A senior Trump official said horrified but not surprised. Only the British government didn't see it coming. An elected MLA sat in Stormont and decided this wasn't the moment to discuss any of it. Parliament called it a knife attack. DUP called it medieval. Systematic mutilation and attempted slaughter of a citizen on our streets. A man had his eyes attacked with a kitchen knife on a residential street in Belfast. Maitiu Mag Tighearnan turned a corner and saw what was happening. He picked up a hurling stick and ran toward it. No government sent him. No policy produced him. No slogan created him. He is what this country actually is. The politicians calling for calm are not. Diversity is our strength they told us. Built careers on it. Called anyone who questioned it racist. Far right. Dangerous. A man lost the sight in his eyes on a street in Belfast. They were wrong. We were right and public are still paying for the difference.

BanksyCat

149,842 views • 1 month ago

This is why Britain rose, not in thousands but in millions. Every street, every city, the people stood for the safety of their babies, their women, their land. Millions of voices sent a message far beyond London. They gave hope not just to Britain but to the world. Yet your government, Keir Starmer, still feeds the Muslim Brotherhood. They hand them kebab shops, real estate agencies, and let them tear down churches to build mosques. But not one Muslim hospital has been built. Why? Because the Brotherhood does not heal, it corrupts. They do not save lives, they bury you in propaganda. They want you as their hostage. Every weekend they drag you into the streets chanting for Hamas in Gaza, while your own people are drowning in taxes, in homelessness, in drugs. You forget your sons and daughters, and you cry for terrorists. The truth is clear. Even if you jail one man( Anjum), the machine behind him, the Muslim Brotherhood, still roams free in the UK. But I tell you with pride, in my country, in the UAE, this evil is banned. In England .. These jihadists seized 60 mosques, control 700 more, and sent 800 British passport holders to ISIS. Their hands drip with the blood of Britons, killed at home, slaughtered abroad. And still, you let them walk your streets. Britain has spoken. The people will not kneel to terror. And the world is watching.

This is why Britain rose, not in thousands but in millions. Every street, every city, the people stood for the safety of their babies, their women, their land. Millions of voices sent a message far beyond London. They gave hope not just to Britain but to the world. Yet your government, Keir Starmer, still feeds the Muslim Brotherhood. They hand them kebab shops, real estate agencies, and let them tear down churches to build mosques. But not one Muslim hospital has been built. Why? Because the Brotherhood does not heal, it corrupts. They do not save lives, they bury you in propaganda. They want you as their hostage. Every weekend they drag you into the streets chanting for Hamas in Gaza, while your own people are drowning in taxes, in homelessness, in drugs. You forget your sons and daughters, and you cry for terrorists. The truth is clear. Even if you jail one man( Anjum), the machine behind him, the Muslim Brotherhood, still roams free in the UK. But I tell you with pride, in my country, in the UAE, this evil is banned. In England .. These jihadists seized 60 mosques, control 700 more, and sent 800 British passport holders to ISIS. Their hands drip with the blood of Britons, killed at home, slaughtered abroad. And still, you let them walk your streets. Britain has spoken. The people will not kneel to terror. And the world is watching.

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59,339 views • 6 months ago

The Devil thinks he's already won... In 1831, the German artist Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch created a painting called "Checkmate." It portrays a chess game between a young man and the Devil, with the man's soul at stake. The Devil sits confidently. The young man stares at the board, convinced everything is lost. The scene appears final. But the story surrounding this painting took a remarkable turn years later... According to a well-known anecdote first recorded in the late 19th century, the legendary American chess master Paul Morphy once studied a copy of the painting. He examined the board and came to a startling conclusion: the game was not over. The young man was not in checkmate. Hidden within the position was still a move — one that could escape the trap and turn the game against the Devil. Morphy, one of the greatest chess minds who ever lived, showed that the apparently lost game could still be won. What once looked like the moment of inevitable defeat became a reminder that despair can be an illusion... The chessboard in Retzsch's painting came to symbolize life itself. Sometimes the position looks hopeless. Every move seems blocked. The enemy appears to have already won. But the lesson is simple: Look again. There may still be a move left. And the move that saves everything is often the one no one else could see. Even when the board looks lost, the game may not be over...

The Devil thinks he's already won... In 1831, the German artist Friedrich August Moritz Retzsch created a painting called "Checkmate." It portrays a chess game between a young man and the Devil, with the man's soul at stake. The Devil sits confidently. The young man stares at the board, convinced everything is lost. The scene appears final. But the story surrounding this painting took a remarkable turn years later... According to a well-known anecdote first recorded in the late 19th century, the legendary American chess master Paul Morphy once studied a copy of the painting. He examined the board and came to a startling conclusion: the game was not over. The young man was not in checkmate. Hidden within the position was still a move — one that could escape the trap and turn the game against the Devil. Morphy, one of the greatest chess minds who ever lived, showed that the apparently lost game could still be won. What once looked like the moment of inevitable defeat became a reminder that despair can be an illusion... The chessboard in Retzsch's painting came to symbolize life itself. Sometimes the position looks hopeless. Every move seems blocked. The enemy appears to have already won. But the lesson is simple: Look again. There may still be a move left. And the move that saves everything is often the one no one else could see. Even when the board looks lost, the game may not be over...

James Lucas

106,942 views • 4 months ago

For a thousand years, when nobody was coming to help the British people, the British people helped each other. 🇬🇧 That has always been our answer. Long before any state asked it of us. Long before any law required it. We were already looking after each other. 🙏 In the year 900, every Anglo-Saxon man was bound by oath to nine of his neighbours. If one was wronged, the other nine were responsible for putting it right. ⚖️ The whole village answerable for each other. It wasn't charity. It wasn't kindness. It was the law. By the 1300s, every English parish kept what they called a poor box. 🍞 Bread for the family who couldn't farm. Wool for the widow who couldn't weave. Coin for the orphan with no one. The state didn't tell them to. The state didn't even exist yet. They just did it. In the 1400s, the wealthy started leaving their fortunes in their wills. Not to their children. Not to the church. To strangers. 🏛️ To houses where elderly neighbours could live for the rest of their lives. Some of those almshouses, founded six hundred years ago, are still housing British people today. In the 1700s, the working men came together. They didn't own land. They didn't have fortunes. They had a few pennies a week. So they pooled them. They called themselves Friendly Societies. ⏳ If a member fell sick, his family was fed. If a member died, his children were buried with dignity. If a member was injured, the doctor's bill was paid. By the 1870s, half the working men of Britain belonged to one. Long before there was a welfare state, the British working class had built one for themselves. Penny by penny. 🪙 In 1824, William Hillary watched a ship break up off the Isle of Man. He could hear the sailors calling for help. Nobody was coming for them. No navy. No coastguard. No state. ⛵ So Hillary asked the British people to be the ones who came. Volunteers. Donations. Lifeboats. Two centuries later, the RNLI has saved more than 146,000 lives. Still volunteer-run. Still funded by donations. Still no state involvement. 🌊 In 1862, half a million Lancashire mill workers were out of work. A naval blockade had cut off the slave-grown cotton from America. Their families were starving. Someone offered them slave-grown cotton from elsewhere. Just to keep working. They voted on it. In Manchester's Free Trade Hall. They voted no. They chose hunger. For people they would never meet. For people enslaved on the other side of an ocean. 💔 In 1911, a chancellor named Lloyd George stood up in Parliament. He had a plan. Workers would pay a few pennies a week. Their employers would pay too. And in return, when a worker fell sick, his family would be fed. The doctor's bill would be paid. He didn't invent the idea. He copied it. From the Friendly Societies the British working class had been running themselves for two hundred years. Thirty-seven years later, a Welsh miner's son named Aneurin Bevan made it national. 🏥 They called it the National Health Service. One of the proudest achievements in British history. And it was built on the model the Friendly Societies had been running for two hundred years before it. British working people had already invented it. The state finally caught up. The state didn't give us this. We gave it to ourselves. ✊ 🙏🇬🇧 Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

For a thousand years, when nobody was coming to help the British people, the British people helped each other. 🇬🇧 That has always been our answer. Long before any state asked it of us. Long before any law required it. We were already looking after each other. 🙏 In the year 900, every Anglo-Saxon man was bound by oath to nine of his neighbours. If one was wronged, the other nine were responsible for putting it right. ⚖️ The whole village answerable for each other. It wasn't charity. It wasn't kindness. It was the law. By the 1300s, every English parish kept what they called a poor box. 🍞 Bread for the family who couldn't farm. Wool for the widow who couldn't weave. Coin for the orphan with no one. The state didn't tell them to. The state didn't even exist yet. They just did it. In the 1400s, the wealthy started leaving their fortunes in their wills. Not to their children. Not to the church. To strangers. 🏛️ To houses where elderly neighbours could live for the rest of their lives. Some of those almshouses, founded six hundred years ago, are still housing British people today. In the 1700s, the working men came together. They didn't own land. They didn't have fortunes. They had a few pennies a week. So they pooled them. They called themselves Friendly Societies. ⏳ If a member fell sick, his family was fed. If a member died, his children were buried with dignity. If a member was injured, the doctor's bill was paid. By the 1870s, half the working men of Britain belonged to one. Long before there was a welfare state, the British working class had built one for themselves. Penny by penny. 🪙 In 1824, William Hillary watched a ship break up off the Isle of Man. He could hear the sailors calling for help. Nobody was coming for them. No navy. No coastguard. No state. ⛵ So Hillary asked the British people to be the ones who came. Volunteers. Donations. Lifeboats. Two centuries later, the RNLI has saved more than 146,000 lives. Still volunteer-run. Still funded by donations. Still no state involvement. 🌊 In 1862, half a million Lancashire mill workers were out of work. A naval blockade had cut off the slave-grown cotton from America. Their families were starving. Someone offered them slave-grown cotton from elsewhere. Just to keep working. They voted on it. In Manchester's Free Trade Hall. They voted no. They chose hunger. For people they would never meet. For people enslaved on the other side of an ocean. 💔 In 1911, a chancellor named Lloyd George stood up in Parliament. He had a plan. Workers would pay a few pennies a week. Their employers would pay too. And in return, when a worker fell sick, his family would be fed. The doctor's bill would be paid. He didn't invent the idea. He copied it. From the Friendly Societies the British working class had been running themselves for two hundred years. Thirty-seven years later, a Welsh miner's son named Aneurin Bevan made it national. 🏥 They called it the National Health Service. One of the proudest achievements in British history. And it was built on the model the Friendly Societies had been running for two hundred years before it. British working people had already invented it. The state finally caught up. The state didn't give us this. We gave it to ourselves. ✊ 🙏🇬🇧 Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Proudofus.uk

29,572 views • 2 months ago

‼️LIFE IS GREATER THAN A BET ‼️ Gbenga was just like every other young man. He had dreams. He had friends. He had a family waiting for him to come home. But one careless moment ended it all. It started as a joke last week Saturday , a simple dare among friends: “Who can carry 4 bags of cement?” The prize? Their phones. Just phones. 👉🏾 1 bag of cement = 50kg 👉🏾 4 bags = 200kg That’s almost 3 times the weight of an average man. Gbenga, full of energy and ego, stepped forward. He lifted. His body couldn’t take it. In seconds, he collapsed. His spine and nerves gave up on him. They poured water on him. He tried to move, but he couldn’t. He tried to speak, but his words weren’t audible enough. He lay there even while the tried pulling him up. By Wednesday, Gbenga was gone. A mother lost her son. A family lost their future. Friends lost a brother. All for a bet. All for a moment of clout. Dear youths, this is not bravery. This is not entertainment. This is not masculinity. 👉🏾 This is suicide in disguise. Your family needs you alive. Your dreams need you alive. Don’t throw away your tomorrow for a moment of applause today. 🕊️ Rest in peace, Gbenga. May your painful story save another life.

‼️LIFE IS GREATER THAN A BET ‼️ Gbenga was just like every other young man. He had dreams. He had friends. He had a family waiting for him to come home. But one careless moment ended it all. It started as a joke last week Saturday , a simple dare among friends: “Who can carry 4 bags of cement?” The prize? Their phones. Just phones. 👉🏾 1 bag of cement = 50kg 👉🏾 4 bags = 200kg That’s almost 3 times the weight of an average man. Gbenga, full of energy and ego, stepped forward. He lifted. His body couldn’t take it. In seconds, he collapsed. His spine and nerves gave up on him. They poured water on him. He tried to move, but he couldn’t. He tried to speak, but his words weren’t audible enough. He lay there even while the tried pulling him up. By Wednesday, Gbenga was gone. A mother lost her son. A family lost their future. Friends lost a brother. All for a bet. All for a moment of clout. Dear youths, this is not bravery. This is not entertainment. This is not masculinity. 👉🏾 This is suicide in disguise. Your family needs you alive. Your dreams need you alive. Don’t throw away your tomorrow for a moment of applause today. 🕊️ Rest in peace, Gbenga. May your painful story save another life.

S𝖎𝖗 S𝖊𝖆𝖓 🇺🇸

199,669 views • 9 months ago

Rockville, Maryland - the man seen in this video verbally accosting elderly Jews has contacted StopAntisemitism to issue an apology - "My aggressive approach to the older Jewish people yesterday was unacceptable, there was no reason to treat someone like that. I didn’t know they were asking for the hostages to be returned home, but I never asked. My action took away from what I wanted to promote, which is unity, respect, and understanding. I was angry about the war and just had spoke to some friends who lost there whole families in this war. It is a painful time we are living in. I took out my hurt and rage on them and that was not right at all, I called them outside of their names and that was wrong. I blamed them and that was wrong, I was wrong. I apologize, if you all could send this to whoever sent you the video of me yelling like that, I would appreciate it, because they deserve an apology."

Rockville, Maryland - the man seen in this video verbally accosting elderly Jews has contacted StopAntisemitism to issue an apology - "My aggressive approach to the older Jewish people yesterday was unacceptable, there was no reason to treat someone like that. I didn’t know they were asking for the hostages to be returned home, but I never asked. My action took away from what I wanted to promote, which is unity, respect, and understanding. I was angry about the war and just had spoke to some friends who lost there whole families in this war. It is a painful time we are living in. I took out my hurt and rage on them and that was not right at all, I called them outside of their names and that was wrong. I blamed them and that was wrong, I was wrong. I apologize, if you all could send this to whoever sent you the video of me yelling like that, I would appreciate it, because they deserve an apology."

StopAntisemitism

482,699 views • 2 years ago

Sidney Williams, a WWII veteran, explains why he would never volunteer for war again, and why no one else should either: When asked about his experiences, Sidney recalls a haunting encounter in no man's land. "One Jerry who I laid out sniped him and he laid down out in no man's land. He was there for about over ten minutes, about 20 yards out." Sidney dragged the wounded German soldier back to his lines, but the man was already dying. "I laid him on the first day... it was all blue in the face. I said to him, 'You're a fool. You should have given yourself up and you'd have been taken prisoner. But he turned to run, so I shot him in the back of the head.'" Another memory haunts him even more deeply. A young soldier had wandered into the wrong lines: "I never forgot that fella. He was only a young fella, only about 15 or 16. He had a brand new uniform on and he must have got lost, coming from his own lines into our lines and just strayed. I felt sorry. He was only a kiddie. I'm sorry I did it to him." When asked how many people he killed during the war, Sidney can't give a number: "Oh God, couldn't say. I was in the Lewis guns, blazing by penny... I'm still here, still alive and kicking." Beyond the killing, Sidney describes the relentless misery of daily survival in the trenches. The impossibility of staying clean, the constant hunger, and the lice: "Trying to keep clean, you're smothered in lice. You thought you got rid of them, you got more on you. They used to breed... it just simply comes up to you. Through a good night's rest and then... I've got the memories." When finally asked the question that cuts to the heart of it all, was it all worth it? Sidney's answer is unequivocal: "No. Never ever. Never volunteer. You're old enough now, and they will get me again. The volunteer? Not me. Never." His reasoning is simple and devastating: "I've seen all this butchery. I know what I've been through. I'll never volunteer for anything else." Sidney Williams' testimony is a reminder that behind every war statistic is a human being carrying memories that never fade. The young German with the new uniform. The man shot in the back of the head. The lice. The hunger. He survived. But he carried it all with him for the rest of his life.

History Nerd

184,779 views • 2 months ago

$Two British men built the machine that changed the world. 🇬🇧⚙️ An ironmonger. And a plumber. You've never heard of either of them. 1690s. Britain's mines were drowning. The deeper they went, the more they flooded. Men drowned in those tunnels. Children hauled water out by hand. Bucket by bucket. When the water won, the mine closed. And the village starved. Thomas Newcomen. Ironmonger. Dartmouth, Devon. John Calley. Plumber and glazier. Both Baptists. Both barred from the universities. Both outsiders. One knew metal. The other knew water. They worked for a decade. With their own money. No patron. No institution. Just a forge, a bench, and an idea. For years, it wouldn't work. Then cold water leaked through a crack. The steam condensed instantly. The engine fired. The flaw was the answer. 1712. A coal mine near Dudley Castle. They built their engine at the pit head. Twelve strokes a minute. Ten gallons a stroke. Not horses. Not children. A machine. But they couldn't patent it. Thomas Savery already held the rights — to every engine that raised water by fire. Even machines he never built. Calley died in Holland. 1725. Far from home. Still working on their engine. Newcomen died in London. 1729. His grave is lost. Decades later, a young man was asked to fix a model of their engine. While fixing it, he saw how to improve it. His name was James Watt. You've heard of him. But without them, there is no engine for Watt to fix. No Industrial Revolution. No modern world. Every factory. Every railway. Every power station. British men. An ironmonger. And a plumber. And that's only a fraction of what we have done for the world. 🇬🇧 Names like theirs are buried everywhere. We dig them out. No sponsors. No algorithms. Just a community that believes its true history matters. Our community makes that happen 👉 Be part of us.🙏 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧$

Two British men built the machine that changed the world. 🇬🇧⚙️ An ironmonger. And a plumber. You've never heard of either of them. 1690s. Britain's mines were drowning. The deeper they went, the more they flooded. Men drowned in those tunnels. Children hauled water out by hand. Bucket by bucket. When the water won, the mine closed. And the village starved. Thomas Newcomen. Ironmonger. Dartmouth, Devon. John Calley. Plumber and glazier. Both Baptists. Both barred from the universities. Both outsiders. One knew metal. The other knew water. They worked for a decade. With their own money. No patron. No institution. Just a forge, a bench, and an idea. For years, it wouldn't work. Then cold water leaked through a crack. The steam condensed instantly. The engine fired. The flaw was the answer. 1712. A coal mine near Dudley Castle. They built their engine at the pit head. Twelve strokes a minute. Ten gallons a stroke. Not horses. Not children. A machine. But they couldn't patent it. Thomas Savery already held the rights — to every engine that raised water by fire. Even machines he never built. Calley died in Holland. 1725. Far from home. Still working on their engine. Newcomen died in London. 1729. His grave is lost. Decades later, a young man was asked to fix a model of their engine. While fixing it, he saw how to improve it. His name was James Watt. You've heard of him. But without them, there is no engine for Watt to fix. No Industrial Revolution. No modern world. Every factory. Every railway. Every power station. British men. An ironmonger. And a plumber. And that's only a fraction of what we have done for the world. 🇬🇧 Names like theirs are buried everywhere. We dig them out. No sponsors. No algorithms. Just a community that believes its true history matters. Our community makes that happen 👉 Be part of us.🙏 Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

Proudofus.uk

25,446 views • 4 months ago

They sent heavily armored British police. Sent them in force. Sent them with cannons. Not to stop the grooming gangs. Not to stop the stabbings, the gougings, the decapitations. Not to stop the slaughter of children. No, they were sent to stop you from talking about them. Consider.. for decades these self same officers knew little British girls were being subjected to some of the most horrific abuse possible. And did nothing. Stood down. Looked the other way. But now word's gotten out. Now there's discussion. Now there's concern. Now the natives are realizing that the whole children getting knifed thing isn't nearly as rare as they were told. Constantly. Keep in mind these police know the Northern Irish have tried petitions, tried elections, tried lawsuits. They have tried every legal means they could conceive of, every legal means possible. And even when Northern Irish won the Government just went ahead and did it anyway. As a species humans don't have a word in any language to describe a game that's rigged in such a manner that the opposition only plays it to show you how much they can cheat, get away with it, and call themselves the winner just to demoralize you so you give up and stop playing altogether. These police know this too. They know about the grooming gangs and the violations, and the corruption. They know all of this. Every single one of those "police officers" knows their own leaders and their fellow officers turned a blind eye when a little girl had her tongue nailed down to make it easier to violate her. I mean just ask yourself. How much would they have to pay you to turn a blind eye to that kind of child violation? Because we know how much the average cop makes in the UK and it's nothing to brag about. Yet they show up to work anyway. They collect a paycheck anyway. And they don't care about your human rights, or ethics, or good and evil. They don't share your lofty virtues. They do what they're told. Because, and I want to make this painfully clear, these are not your countrymen. They are not your friends or fellow citizens. These policemen are the enforcement arm of an occupational government that will kill you as soon as listen to you choke out on your own blood as they cuff you. They won't think twice. They will shed no tears. Are these men the enemy of the People? I'll let you decide. But I'm pretty comfortable saying they aren't your friends. And they are definitely not legitimate. They're just men with clubs given permission.

They sent heavily armored British police. Sent them in force. Sent them with cannons. Not to stop the grooming gangs. Not to stop the stabbings, the gougings, the decapitations. Not to stop the slaughter of children. No, they were sent to stop you from talking about them. Consider.. for decades these self same officers knew little British girls were being subjected to some of the most horrific abuse possible. And did nothing. Stood down. Looked the other way. But now word's gotten out. Now there's discussion. Now there's concern. Now the natives are realizing that the whole children getting knifed thing isn't nearly as rare as they were told. Constantly. Keep in mind these police know the Northern Irish have tried petitions, tried elections, tried lawsuits. They have tried every legal means they could conceive of, every legal means possible. And even when Northern Irish won the Government just went ahead and did it anyway. As a species humans don't have a word in any language to describe a game that's rigged in such a manner that the opposition only plays it to show you how much they can cheat, get away with it, and call themselves the winner just to demoralize you so you give up and stop playing altogether. These police know this too. They know about the grooming gangs and the violations, and the corruption. They know all of this. Every single one of those "police officers" knows their own leaders and their fellow officers turned a blind eye when a little girl had her tongue nailed down to make it easier to violate her. I mean just ask yourself. How much would they have to pay you to turn a blind eye to that kind of child violation? Because we know how much the average cop makes in the UK and it's nothing to brag about. Yet they show up to work anyway. They collect a paycheck anyway. And they don't care about your human rights, or ethics, or good and evil. They don't share your lofty virtues. They do what they're told. Because, and I want to make this painfully clear, these are not your countrymen. They are not your friends or fellow citizens. These policemen are the enforcement arm of an occupational government that will kill you as soon as listen to you choke out on your own blood as they cuff you. They won't think twice. They will shed no tears. Are these men the enemy of the People? I'll let you decide. But I'm pretty comfortable saying they aren't your friends. And they are definitely not legitimate. They're just men with clubs given permission.

BLACK DUMPLING™

106,923 views • 1 month ago

Here's the full exchange between President Trump and Breitbart News's Nick Nick Gilbertson in which the President called on MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow to resign for their ugly smears of child brain cancer patient DJ Daniel.... Gilbertson: “[W]e saw Democrats behavior during your joint address to Congress. Do you think it shows just how out of touch they are with the American people, especially given that 79 percent, according to a CBS poll, approved of your — of your speech?” Trump: “I love this guy. Who are you with?” Gilbertson: “My name is Nick Gilbertson with Breitbart News.” Trump: “I see. I really liked your questions.” Gilbertson: “Thank you very much, Mr. President.” Trump: “The answer is — just — Nick, to — and I know your name very well. Good job, you do.” Gilbertson: “Thank you.” Trump: “Yeah, the answer is, I thought it was very embarrassing for the Democrats what happened the other night, and that’s not said for any other reason other than it’s obvious. It’s a fact. Even — even CNN fake news said that. They came out and they said it. And worst than CNN is MSDNC, which is the worst and the good news is very few people watch them anymore. They have lost such credibility. Frankly, what Nicolle Wallace said, I’ve never been a fan of hers, but — and she’s not very talented, but I’ll tell you what she said the other day about that young man is disgraceful. She should be forced to resign, and Rachel Maddow should be forced to resign. Nobody watches her anyway. I don’t know if — it’s not possible they pay her as much money as I hear, but certainly she’s lost all credibility, both of them, but what they — what they said the other day, they should be forced to resign about that young person, who is — who is suffering greatly. Thank you, Nick.”

Here's the full exchange between President Trump and Breitbart News's Nick Nick Gilbertson in which the President called on MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow to resign for their ugly smears of child brain cancer patient DJ Daniel.... Gilbertson: “[W]e saw Democrats behavior during your joint address to Congress. Do you think it shows just how out of touch they are with the American people, especially given that 79 percent, according to a CBS poll, approved of your — of your speech?” Trump: “I love this guy. Who are you with?” Gilbertson: “My name is Nick Gilbertson with Breitbart News.” Trump: “I see. I really liked your questions.” Gilbertson: “Thank you very much, Mr. President.” Trump: “The answer is — just — Nick, to — and I know your name very well. Good job, you do.” Gilbertson: “Thank you.” Trump: “Yeah, the answer is, I thought it was very embarrassing for the Democrats what happened the other night, and that’s not said for any other reason other than it’s obvious. It’s a fact. Even — even CNN fake news said that. They came out and they said it. And worst than CNN is MSDNC, which is the worst and the good news is very few people watch them anymore. They have lost such credibility. Frankly, what Nicolle Wallace said, I’ve never been a fan of hers, but — and she’s not very talented, but I’ll tell you what she said the other day about that young man is disgraceful. She should be forced to resign, and Rachel Maddow should be forced to resign. Nobody watches her anyway. I don’t know if — it’s not possible they pay her as much money as I hear, but certainly she’s lost all credibility, both of them, but what they — what they said the other day, they should be forced to resign about that young person, who is — who is suffering greatly. Thank you, Nick.”

Curtis Houck

55,699 views • 1 year ago

🚨 DECLASSIFIED BIOWEAPON FILES REVEAL THE U.S. MILITARY DROPPED TICKS, MOSQUITOES, AND FLEAS AS WEAPONS TO SICKEN HUMAN TARGETS A man suffering from Lyme disease says Cold War–era documents reveal a disturbing series of experiments most Americans have never heard about. “I’m a conspiracy theorist… but these documents reveal things that have been buried for over 50 years.” According to the material he cites: • 282,000 Lone Star ticks reportedly released across Virginia during military testing in the 1960s • CIA operatives tied to Operation Mongoose allegedly dropping infected ticks on Cuban sugarcane workers • The Pentagon running 134 biological weapons tests involving insects • Programs aimed at producing 100 million infected mosquitoes and 50 million fleas every single month One program called “Operation Big Itch” even dropped 670,000 tropical rat fleas from cluster bombs just to see if they could incapacitate enemy troops. “These are declassified documents,” he says. “Some of this sounds insane… but it actually happened.” If they were willing to weaponize insects against humans… what else have they tested that the public still doesn’t know about?

🚨 DECLASSIFIED BIOWEAPON FILES REVEAL THE U.S. MILITARY DROPPED TICKS, MOSQUITOES, AND FLEAS AS WEAPONS TO SICKEN HUMAN TARGETS A man suffering from Lyme disease says Cold War–era documents reveal a disturbing series of experiments most Americans have never heard about. “I’m a conspiracy theorist… but these documents reveal things that have been buried for over 50 years.” According to the material he cites: • 282,000 Lone Star ticks reportedly released across Virginia during military testing in the 1960s • CIA operatives tied to Operation Mongoose allegedly dropping infected ticks on Cuban sugarcane workers • The Pentagon running 134 biological weapons tests involving insects • Programs aimed at producing 100 million infected mosquitoes and 50 million fleas every single month One program called “Operation Big Itch” even dropped 670,000 tropical rat fleas from cluster bombs just to see if they could incapacitate enemy troops. “These are declassified documents,” he says. “Some of this sounds insane… but it actually happened.” If they were willing to weaponize insects against humans… what else have they tested that the public still doesn’t know about?

HustleBitch

40,495 views • 4 months ago

🌿🇬🇧 Every spring, in some corners of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, a strange thing still happens. A priest walks through the streets in robes. Behind him, a group of children carry long willow wands taller than themselves. They stop at certain stones, certain trees, certain spots on the pavement. And they beat them. 🌳 This is a ceremony called Beating the Bounds. It is at least a thousand years old. A thousand years ago, there were no maps. The land was learned by foot. Anglo-Saxon villages walked their boundaries every spring to remember where their parish ended and their neighbour's began. A boundary that you had walked, you could remember. A boundary that you had beaten with a stick, you could remember even better. ⚖️ The ceremony had legal weight. If a parish boundary was disputed in court, men who had walked it as boys could give evidence. One man's seventy-year-old memory was enough to settle a parish lawsuit. 🔥 In 1645, Oliver Cromwell banned it. The Puritans thought the procession too Catholic. The Restoration brought it back. 📜 In most of England, the ceremony faded with the coming of accurate maps. But in certain places, it never stopped. At St Michael at the North Gate in Oxford. At All Hallows by the Tower in London. At Helston in Cornwall. At the Tower of London itself. In some parishes, the ceremony has been walked for over 600 years without interruption. The same parishes. The same boundary stones. The same willow wands. The same simple act of remembering where you are. ✍️ We did not need a state to teach us our land. We taught ourselves. 🇬🇧 The British write their own history. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🍀 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Help us remember who we are.👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

🌿🇬🇧 Every spring, in some corners of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿England🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, a strange thing still happens. A priest walks through the streets in robes. Behind him, a group of children carry long willow wands taller than themselves. They stop at certain stones, certain trees, certain spots on the pavement. And they beat them. 🌳 This is a ceremony called Beating the Bounds. It is at least a thousand years old. A thousand years ago, there were no maps. The land was learned by foot. Anglo-Saxon villages walked their boundaries every spring to remember where their parish ended and their neighbour's began. A boundary that you had walked, you could remember. A boundary that you had beaten with a stick, you could remember even better. ⚖️ The ceremony had legal weight. If a parish boundary was disputed in court, men who had walked it as boys could give evidence. One man's seventy-year-old memory was enough to settle a parish lawsuit. 🔥 In 1645, Oliver Cromwell banned it. The Puritans thought the procession too Catholic. The Restoration brought it back. 📜 In most of England, the ceremony faded with the coming of accurate maps. But in certain places, it never stopped. At St Michael at the North Gate in Oxford. At All Hallows by the Tower in London. At Helston in Cornwall. At the Tower of London itself. In some parishes, the ceremony has been walked for over 600 years without interruption. The same parishes. The same boundary stones. The same willow wands. The same simple act of remembering where you are. ✍️ We did not need a state to teach us our land. We taught ourselves. 🇬🇧 The British write their own history. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🍀 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Help us remember who we are.👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

Proudofus.uk

33,123 views • 2 months ago