Richard Torné
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Richard Torné
@ZRicht
Writes and plays a bit. Past bylines in The Sunday Times. Co-author of ‘David Lean’s Dedicated Maniac - Memoirs of a Film Specialist’. All views my own.
UK انضم Ağustos 2014
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The UK Prime Minister - Former human rights lawyer Sir Keir Starmer - has nothing to say about Israel imposing 'one of the world's most extreme death penalty laws' on Palestinians only.
Please RT this until he does condemn this - or he resigns.
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@HealthRanger You were never the good guys after WWII.
Trump has only shattered that illusion.
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America is no longer "the good guys."
Reality hits hard. Our own nation has become the terror of the world.
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Morally I have a severe problem with this. I don’t think we are the “good guys” anymore. We’ve gone full rogue. The events I’m watching are things that I never thought I’d see us ever do to anyone. It’s really disturbing
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@1Kicknchicken @alanrosca @McFaul @grok You should know all about embarrassment. You voted for an orange cockwomble who's a paedophile, an idiot and a serial liar.
Watching your gradual but unstoppable collapse on the international stage is a gift that keeps on giving.
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Did we join the UK in support of their war against the Falkland Islands? no.
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@kainejohnson18 @BBCWorld You can thank the Mango Mussolini and Netanyahu for that.
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This isn't a peaceful passage, it is a hostage negotiation where the ship won. Iran just proved they have a VIP list for the Strait. If you criticize Trump and play nice with Tehran, you get to pass. The Strait of Hormuz is no longer international water, it is an Iranian toll gate.
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French-owned ship passes through Strait of Hormuz bbc.in/4sg9yHs
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@1Kicknchicken @alanrosca @McFaul @grok Do you know who does have nukes? North Korea and China. You can tell because you assholes haven't threatened to bomb them yet.
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@1Kicknchicken @alanrosca @McFaul @grok This is the biggest blunder the US has made in the last 60-odd years, and that's saying a lot. You've alienated just about every possible ally in the process, except for Israel.
Perhaps you can ask them to send their navy and army to help you jerks out.
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@1Kicknchicken @alanrosca @McFaul @grok Not even your orange goblin knows why you've gone to war. Even your head of security said Iran posed no imminent threat. You were in the middle of negotiations when you decided to launch an illegal and chaotic war. I think we all know who the biggest terrorists are.
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@1Kicknchicken @alanrosca @McFaul @grok The thing about idiots like you is that they don't respond to facts or reason. Iran has no nukes and we're not a Caliphate. You, on the other hand, are an example of that unique blend of stupidity and arrogance that sticks in the craw of all normal human beings.
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@alanrosca @McFaul @grok The US is using bases in the UK from which to launch criminal bombing raids on Iran. You're also relying on intel from the UK, sadly. You are a bunch of hoodlums who started an illegal war, not to defend your territory or to claim it back but to bring chaos to the ME.
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@ConstantUnder @McFaul You clown. You are literally using bases in the UK to launch your criminal attacks.
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@McFaul We gave them use of our bases, weapons and logistics.
- We weren't an obstacle, like they were.
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@TheCinesthetic It turned out to be one of the most accurate critiques of US imperialism ever made.
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In 1995, Paul Verhoeven turned up uninvited to the Razzies knowing Showgirls would get roasted, and personally collected seven awards — including Worst Director, Worst Picture, Worst Music, and Worst Acting.
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A man with a normal IQ speaks.
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🇺🇸🇫🇷 Macron on Trump: “He talks too much and goes in every direction. This is not a show. When you are serious, you don’t say the opposite of what you said the day before. Perhaps you don’t need to speak every day.” Presidential shutdown.
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@jonlis1 It's going to backfire badly.
Maybe it's a deliberate attempt at self-sabotage. Starmer seems to have acquired a taste for it.
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Absolutely unconscionable that the King is about to make a state visit to this President.
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Trump right now in his live address: "We're going to hit [Iran] extremely hard over the next 2 to 3 weeks, we're going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong." Pure savagery. And textbook genocidal: saying the Iranian people "belong" in the stone ages means he's targeting them as a people, which is the definition of genocidal intent. That's where letting Gaza happen without consequences gets you... Also pretty ironical to call others primitive while sounding like a barbarian king on bath salts.
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@TheScobbler @_BrianMankin_ @implausibleblog If you think only politicians should, you have the government you deserve.
Writers, filmmakers & philosophers often have far more valuable things to say about the world we live in.
This is why someone like Shakespeare is still revered & the clowns who profess to lead us are not
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@ZRicht @_BrianMankin_ @implausibleblog I'd like to think I'm cultured, but I certainly don't profess to be sufficiently expert in Foreign Affairs to comment on TV.
Do you?
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Cathy Newman, "Trump smashed up the old world order, the UK and EU are wondering what to do about it"
"Keir Starmer offered closer ties with the EU, why not go the whole hog and rejoin the EU, with the majority of the country in favour?"
Sir Michael Morpurgo, "It was the greatest mistake this country has made since the war, I have no doubt about that at all"
"I mean to turn our back on our neighbours in that way, not just in terms of trade but in terms of culture and everything"
"It was a ridiculous decision"
"Somehow we have to understand when we make a mistake, we admit it and make a change"
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@ZRicht @_BrianMankin_ @implausibleblog 'Cultured' doesn't imply informed or authoritive. Perhaps even less so.
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@GovPressOffice The world sees you for what you are - you're all the same monsters, except you wear different masks.
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RT if you miss having a President with empathy
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President Macron scolds the US and Israel for attacking Iran,
"The day you say I don't like your regime, I consider you threatening your neighbour so I will intervene and bomb you, you open a Pandora's box"
"Iran is a very bad regime, no discussion about that. I disagree with on a lot of topics"
"But I don't agree we will fix the situation just by bombings or military operations"
"Look at what happened in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya - we never delivered. Never"
"You have to respect the sovereignty of people, if people want to change a regime, they can do so"
"Having an agenda shared by Korea, France, the other Europeans, Canada, Japan, India, Brazil, Australia, you start having a third way"
"Those who don't want to be dependent on China, or aligned by definition, on the US"
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2005: George Galloway’s “pack of lies” speech in front of the U.S. Senate Committee with regarding the Iraq War. A tour de force.
Sadly, the lessons of recent history appear to be forgotten by some.
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