Kevin (Des)

Beside Israel's northern border fence, the bursts of machine-gun fire from inside Lebanon are loud and long, as new Israeli forces push in to take strategic positions near the border. The regular rumble of air strikes echoes over the shattered remains of Shia villages, destroyed during Israel's last ground war there in 2024. A senior military official said on Thursday that Israeli ground forces were taking additional hilltops inside Lebanon - a defensive operation, he said, to better protect Israel's northern communities. But there has been a significant military build-up here. On Friday morning we passed dozens of tanks and armoured bulldozers, newly-positioned right by the border, fuelling growing speculation that a full-scale ground invasion is planned.

Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians have been fleeing Israeli air strikes in Lebanon over the past few days, less than 18 months after a ceasefire ended the last conflict with Israel in November 2024. During that war, Israel fought its way house to house through many Lebanese border villages. Their crushed remains still litter the landscape. But some Hezbollah fighters have reportedly returned to these areas, and Israel is now fighting its way through the area again. Without those assaults on Hezbollah in 2024, which left a key Iranian proxy severely weakened, Israel would have found it much harder to launch its current war on Iran - or the previous one in June last year - without a much higher cost at home.

This is the language used by the BBC to describe Israel's war on Lebanon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cited: IDF Chief of Staff, Israeli living near the border, another Israeli, an Israeli politician and a Israeli commentator. No one else.

The Lebanese are just numbers throughout the piece.

Diesel jumping by almost $1 — in one week — should go over well in Texas. ⛽️

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Labour is dead to me, but they did persuade me to do something I've never done before - I joined a political party for the first time.

At this point, Labour is synonymous with cruelty. And given your failure to stand up for the trans children affected by Labour's monstrous medical & DFE policies, why on earth would we believe you on this one issue?

This is how you do “being a country’s Prime Minister”.

Israel kills father, daughter in Gaza as genocide continues amid wider war

Israel kills father, daughter in Gaza as genocide continues amid wider war https://aje.news/7hx1jp

Iranian hackers threatening to hack into the top 3 credit bureaus and wiping Americans debt… and I just wanna know who I gotta speak to in order to expedite this.

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Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school After the school was bombed, eyewitnesses describe a second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in the prayer hall.

israelpalestinenews.org/iranian-girl...

On this day in 1965, peaceful marchers in Selma, including my friend John Lewis, were beaten by state troopers for demanding the right to vote.
The violence of Bloody Sunday shocked the nation and helped lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act just months later.

Incredible to listen to 3 people paid really good money to have political opinions, all delivering absolute nonsense based on the fundamental failure to grasp that #Labour are no longer a party of the left. Which is why the left don't vote for them.

Over 1000 civilians dead, and we're letting Trump use UK bases to further his war.

Britain should stand firm against Trump's illegal warmongering, and stop these bombers landing on UK soil.

A tribute to Rik Mayall in the style of Julian Opie's "Blur: The Best Of". The four panels consist of: Top left - Rik as Rik from "The Young Ones" on a yellow background. Top right - Rik as Colin Grigson from "Bad News/More Bad News" on a blue background. Bottom Left - Rik as Flashheart from "Blackadder Goes Forth" on a green background. Bottom right - Rik as Richie from "Bottom" wearing his devil's outfit against a pink background.

A tribute to Rik Mayall in the style of Julian Opie's "Blur: The Best Of". The four panels consist of: Top left - Rik as Fred from "Drop Dead Fred" on a yellow background. Top right - Rik as Carlos from "A Fistful of Travellers' Cheques" on a blue background. Bottom Left - Rik as Gertrude Richard Rich from "Filthy Rich and Catflap" on a green background. Bottom right - Rik as Alan B'Stard from "The New Statesman" on a pink background.

A Happy People's Poet Day to all who celebrate.

I would be happy if I never saw or heard of Boris fucking Johnson ever again.

The only "positive" of all this being, that the murder of Huntley should guarantee that this man never sees the light of day again.

Daily Mail Twitter post: Flying a Union Jack Flag is branded a ‘tool of hate’ in government's leaked social cohesion strategy. Multiple Union Jack and St George’s Cross flags are displayed prominently along a road, amidst greenery and a building in the background.

“A leaked draft of the proposals suggests national symbols were sometimes used last summer to 'exclude or intimidate'.

It warned that the: 'EXTREME RIGHT HAS TRIED TO TURN SYMBOLS OF PRIDE INTO TOOLS OF HATE'”

Okay…

This is the Daily Mail Headline 👇🏼🙄😖

International Women’s Day stands for “Rights, Justice, Action”. Yet we’re increasingly seeing it framed around a very different idea: “Give to Gain”.

Women’s rights shouldn't be reduced to corporate slogans. Real progress requires structural change not marketing campaigns.

#IWD

That must be infuriating. 🙂

My cat does this all the time with mice. Unless stopped he's then likely to "play with" (torment) them under the impression that they like it.

Same principle really.

Best thing is to keep a big net handy so you can trap them and release them into the wild.

Huntley dead, and the world is slightly less shit.

Don’t make a hero of his killer though. He’s already on a whole life sentence for three murders, including a five-month pregnant mother who he also raped.

Remember the victims of these foul men.

This notinourname.org.uk petition by @nionwomen.bsky.social has almost reached 90,000 names!

If you are a woman who is opposed to transphobic bigotry being deployed in your name, please sign and share…

ian huntley is dead. i'll always remember how the british press attempted to incite hatred against the trans community by reporting he was transitioning, then apologised to him for incorrect reporting instead of apologising to trans people

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Almost certainly.

Right up to the point that they're being marched away as well.

So, is LGBTLabour still pretending to care about the "T"?

Violent animal cruelty is always a red flag about a person, real character, whatever act they put on, its always just that, an act, and they will always be capable of violence towards people

Oh dear. 🤣🤣🤣

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Those two little girls should be 33-34 now with many decades ahead of them.
Let's remember Holly and Jessica and think of their families today, rather than waste too much thought on the man who murdered them.

Tory peer quits after Lords probe into PPE deals — BBC News It comes after a Lords standards probe into his contacts with ministers and advisers during the pandemic.

Baroness Mone, wherefore art thou?

Tory peer quits after Lords probe into PPE deals - BBC News