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We showed this footage - which the BBC has verified - to Dimitris
Baltakos, the former head of special operations with the Greek
coastguard. During the interview, he refused to speculate about what
the footage showed - having denied, earlier in our conversation, that
the Greek coastguard would ever be required to do anything illegal.
But during a break, he was recorded telling someone out of shot in
Greek: "I haven't told them much, right? It's very clear, isn't it.
It's not nuclear physics. I don't know why they did it in broad
daylight… It's… obviously illegal. It's an international crime.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0vv717yvpeo?

I don't know why they did it in broad daylight

As long as you keep your murdering to the night time it's all good then?

Not a lot shocks me about the disgusting treatment of migrants but this is horrendous.

Outright mass murder as a policy. The people involved should rot in prison.

"They don't have the same affection for children as we do".

fuck me 😑

No. Like a lot of things on the political spectrum it's not necessarily straightforward. Many on the right would reference De Gaulle over Pétain.

The French cultural understanding of the 2WW and Vichy is an after-the-event Gaullest creation to help rationalise the trauma. So it naturally differs from ours.

A bit like our 2WW narrative.

The French cultural understanding of the 2WW and Vichy is an after-the-event Gaullest creation to help rationalise the trauma. So it naturally differs from ours.

That’s very interesting. Could you comment more on that?

Much like how Britain overplays the Blitz and our impact on the war to soothe the loss of empire. France emphasises active military resistance by regular people - as though there was a widespread organised guerilla organisation. De Gaulle wrapped it into a conservative patriotic wartime story (in which he tries to write himself in).

There really wasn't. For a start there was a much bigger representation in the resistance of persecuted and marginalised groups like the Spanish* immigrants, Jews, and communists - because unsurprisingly they had established networks in a way that your average Frenchman didn't.

There was never really "the resistance" in a uniformed cohesive sense. It was a fractured movement and much manifested culturally like say journals or books the Science of the Sea.

None of that to say that their were no resistance fighting the occupation. But it's much easier to group it into an idea postwar.

I wonder if I still have any books on it. If I find them I'll @ you the titles.

*on that note people don't realise how many Spainish immigrants there were in France and how they were treated.

France emphasises active military resistance by regular people

Ironically there's a lot of truth in that in modern times. Their strikes and demos have real power. Farmers, truckers and other groups are good at holding the country to ransom. Demos easily become riots with many cars torched. People power is an ever present force.

@Joey7Barton
“Between 8 and 12 January 2024 I published 11 posts which accused Jeremy Vine of having a
sexual interest in children, and created a hashtag which made the same allegations, which were viewed millions of times. I recognise that this is a very serious allegation. It is untrue. I do not believe that Mr Vine has a sexual interest in children, and I wish to set the record straight. I also published posts during the same period in which I referred to Mr Vine having advocated forced vaccination during the Covid 19 pandemic, based upon a video clip of his TV programme. I accept that he did not advocate this policy and that the video clip has been edited to give a misleading impression of what he was in fact saying. I then taunted and abused Mr Vine for bringing a legal complaint against me. I have agreed not to make the same allegations again about Mr Vine and I apologise to him for the distress he has suffered. To resolve his claims against me in defamation and harassment, I have agreed to pay Mr Vine £75,000 in damages and his legal costs.”

https://x.com/Joey7Barton/status/1803026022910026075

I also acknowledge that i harboured a member of my family guilty of murder and paid for him to get out of the country !
Or the cigar incident.

I think his fund raiser was on £25k.

The Pentagon reportedly ran a secret anti-vax campaign to discredit China during the covid pandemic.

They have admitted it, and defended it. But they don't mention causing the deaths of Filipinos or anyone else who may have been persuaded not to have Sinovac: “Several state and non-state actors use social media platforms and other media to spread disinformation and conduct malign influence campaigns against the United States. The DoD uses a variety of platforms, including social media, to counter those malign influence attacks aimed at the U.S., allies, and partners. As it relates to COVID-19 disinformation, China initiated a disinformation campaign to falsely blame the United States for the spread of COVID-19.” https://taskandpurpose.com/news/pentagon-anti-vaccine-disinformation-philippines/

UK children shorter, fatter and sicker amid poor diet and poverty This is what Cameron and Osborne started. “We used to think of the combination of undernutrition and obesity as a feature of low and middle income countries. We are now seeing it in Britain in 2024. Over a century of history has led us to expect continuous improvements in health. Over the last dozen years that has changed. Healthy life expectancy has declined."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/19/uk-children-shorter-fatter-and-sicker-amid-poor-diet-and-poverty-report-finds

"Speaking from inside a planter on Monday, June 17, local resident
Maxine Charlton said: “We want them to hold full consultations"

https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/bermondsey/defiant-bermondsey-residents-camping-out-in-plant-pots-to-sabotage-unwanted-estate-improvements/

Just Stop Oil throw orange paint over Stonehenge
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw44mdee0zzo

Obviously their main aim is exposure but I can't see this making them many friends.

The Gammons are already kicking off on the socials wHaT hA5 St0n3HEng3 G0t 2 dOO w1V O1l?1!1!! 😂😂😂

For once, I see their point. I am sympathetic to the aims of Just Stop Oil, but a cheap stunt at a scheduled monument, built by people thousands of years ago using nothing but their ingenuity and their own strength? Come on, go and throw paint over something or someone who deserves it.

It'll be corn starch paint or something. Publicity and all that.

The orange cornflour we used will soon wash away with the rain

Yes, cornflour apparently

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Come on, go and throw paint over something or someone who deserves it.

Like a snooker table or a painting?

built by people thousands of years ago using nothing but their ingenuity and their own strength?

They nearly certainly used large tools, and probably beasts of burden (or slaves). If they were clever enough to figure out astronomical alignments, they definitely would have been able to fashion scaffolding and levers.

Wooly mammoths.

If this stunt is a bad idea, what should activists do to get more done about climate change? Nothing seems to work. They are desperate. I'm sure that many lufgussers empathise.

As is mentioned by a few french people, everyone was in the resistance.

Then I did spend my formative years around the area where the free french trained in England.

Then look at how the rape and assault during the liberation is coming up recently after being hidden for so many years