Chip Pitfield

We must never forget the damage this guy has done.

I’m done with twitter. Anything associated with Mr Musk is poison. I’ve migrated to @chipduck.bsky.social and wish you all the best.

@DannysInferno @MachismoDonny @marcowenjones Read about the history of Zionism and what the early Zionists said about Palestinians and the need to expel them. Then read the Israeli-sponsored histories extolling how the Israelis ‘made the desert bloom’. They are the best propagandists on the planet.

@MachismoDonny @marcowenjones No need to be condescending.

The more I reflect on what happened in Amsterdam the stranger it seems. A racist team who have a reputation for hate speech come to Amsterdam during a genocide and engage in acts of racism and violence against the local population. They are accompanied by Mossad agents. All this happens under the increased success of Islamophobic Geert Wilders and the PVV. The media, not just in the Netherlands but in Europe and North America publish what looks like an Israeli press release using incendiary language about pogroms and Kristelnacht. Politicians around the world immediately and uncritically embraced this rhetoric and say nothing of pro-genocidal chants. They media mislabel on the ground journalism by Dutch photographer @iAnnetnl to minimise Israeli violence. They ignore evidence from other Dutch journalists like @OmeBender. Channels like Sky News even re-edit packages to maximise the narrative of antisemitism and minimise examples of anti-Arab racism. Dutch parliamentarians then wield propaganda by the Israeli diaspora affairs as if it constitutes evidence. Many media outlets still haven't corrected the record about what happened, from the BBC to WSJ and Sky. It's disturbing and sinister, and shouldn't be allowed to slide.

@marcowenjones And guys like .@JustinTrudeau repeat the Israeli propaganda like puppets. Then when the actual truth of the situation is clarified, they are silent. But they are also conspicuously silent about the Israeli genocide. Tough to admire those completely lacking principle.

@funtomvids Except he’s been silent on genocide. Funny that…

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@Charlie533080 @herdyshepherd1 James is brilliant. And his communication skills make him unusually effective.

Important article by James Rebanks on the broken contract between our farmers and our government. The gathering storm. Hugely important that we (the consumers) support British farmers and British farming in their campaign. @herdyshepherd1 unherd.com/2024/11/a-farm…

@LauraBabcock @CharlieAngusNDP Correct. We should be in massive preparation mode. This is an ‘assume-and-prepare-for-the-worst’ moment.

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@DalrympleWill Yes. And it isn’t going to slow down.

It's getting worse and worse...

@RanaForoohar Correct. .@Biden should have stopped it when Musk first started such behavior. Instead he did nothing. Another reason his legacy will be forever tarnished (and it pales in comparison to the genocide he failed to stop).

Thanks for having me. The idea that Elon Musk can turn on or off communications to countries at will is too much power for one man. It’s just one example but oligarchic states are fragile and antithetical to democracy

@anthonyzenkus Yes, the good stuff they did will be overwhelmed in people’s memories by the horror they abetted. .@Biden’s legacy will also include Trump’s election; he should have resigned when his faculties first started to erode. Hubris is usually costly to others.

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will leave office in January with the minimum wage still at $7.25, seeing homelessness spike over 12%, and having participated in a genocide that has left at least 200,000 dead in Gaza.

He ripped up trees. He ripped up bike lanes. Record ERs closed. Hallway medicine worsened. $27 million to install, $48 million to rip up. No respect for taxapayers. And he's cruising to a 3rd term in Ontario's election. Yours to Discover. @bcohenn thestar.com/news/gta/remov…

Correct. When one is overwhelmed with shit the smell loses its impact.

@Jonathan_K_Cook Same process on a fresh subject. One must never, ever assume media accuracy (from any source) until sufficient time has passed for confirmation.

The media’s role in peddling disinformation over last week’s violence in Amsterdam just keeps getting darker. Owen Jones has interviewed a Dutch woman who shot the footage used by major outlets – from Sky News and the BBC to the Guardian and New York Times – to suggest that locals in Amsterdam carried out “antisemitic attacks” on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans. In fact, as she has noted on social media, her footage shows the exact reverse: Israeli fans attacking local Dutch residents. As I noted yesterday in my article on the violence in Amsterdam, despite her efforts to get these outlets to correct their mistake and issue apologies, none has done so, apart from a German news programme, Taggeschau. Jones’ interview offers insights as to why. We know that an early report from the scene by Sky News’ reporter was one of the only to correctly describe the video as showing Israeli hooliganism, not antisemitism. But Sky quickly took down that report, saying it wasn’t “balanced”. The channel then heavily re-edited the segment and issued a new version that presented the footage – quite wrongly – as evidence of Dutch locals attacking Israeli fans. That was crucial to shoring up the false “antisemitism” and “pogrom” narratives spread by western politicians and the establishment media. Here’s where it gets even more disturbing. The Dutch photographer interviewed by Jones says she was interviewed by Sky News about her footage before the second, re-edited report was aired. In other words, not only was Sky's reporter correct in her first account of the events in Amsterdam, but Sky's news editors back in London knew exactly what the footage showed too – because the Dutch woman who filmed it had told them. And yet Sky's news team still edited a truthful news report to make it untruthful. The only conclusion one can draw is that they did so to mislead their audience. They didn't make a mistake. They didn’t act out of ignorance. They knowingly aired disinformation. They intentionally peddled fake news. That’s something very hard for most of us to accept. It requires a troubling recalibration, a shift of perspective, if we are to understand the world we live in. Doing that is the only way to make sense of some of the most significant events that have unfolded over the past two decades. Remember the lies we were sold by the western establishment media about "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq to justify a US-UK invasion and get western troops into a key oil-rich Middle Eastern state in gross violation of international law? Remember the years of evidence-free claims from the entire British establishment media about the most prominent anti-racist politician of his generation, Jeremy Corbyn, who suddenly was outed as an unhinged antisemite the moment he became leader of the Labour party? Corbyn also just happened to be the first democratic socialist to head the party in 40 years. Remember the entire western media establishment telling us that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was completely "unprovoked" – memory-holing years of warnings from leading western foreign policy advisers and analysts that the West was playing with fire: that Nato's relentless military advance towards Russia's borders; its meddling to overthrow in 2014 a Ukrainian government sympathetic to Moscow; and Washington’s tearing up of nuclear arms treaties with Russia leaving the latter exposed to Nato’s expansion to its borders would inevitably trigger a backlash – and Ukraine would be its epicentre? Remember the entire western media insisting that Israel’s slaughter and maiming of many tens of thousands of children in Gaza, the systematic bombing of the enclave’s hospitals, and the mass starvation of the 2.3 million people there was not textbook genocide? Rather, it was “self-defence”. It was a legitimate war against Hamas. None of those things should have sounded like they made any sense at the time. And if they did, we should have noticed that the media’s presentation of the “facts” just happened to coincide precisely with Washington’s interests to prop up its most important client state in the oil-rich Middle East and isolate its one potential military rival, Russia, as part of a strategic policy of “global full-spectrum dominance” – or, expressed another way, its project to be the world’s sole imperial power, to run the planet like some untouchable godfather. The problem wasn't, as you feared, you. You weren’t losing the plot. Your suspicions were justified. You were being lied to. The media was gaslighting you. The challenge is to find a way to liberate other minds still desperately clinging to a comforting illusion: that the establishment media can be trusted, that it is free, honest and moral. Jones' interview can be watched here: youtube.com/watch?v=2HFM_V…

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@FoodProfessor @cbcmarketplace @JimboStanford Genuine question: why have gross margins increased for the major grocers??

Spoke to @cbcmarketplace, and they asked how to easily explain why food prices are higher in Canada. My response? "Well, you're CBC, obviously you'll blame grocers since it's the easiest, most convenient approach. It's not accurate, but it seems to work. Call @JimboStanford."

Interesting thread on Amsterdam events that sounds plausible: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1855427…

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THREAD: It’s now pretty clear what happened in Amsterdam this week. But first some background.

@PierrePoilievre A predictably stupid and uninformed comparison. To be fair, at least you are consistent.

86 years ago tonight, on Kristallnacht, the Nazi regime unleashed a horrific campaign of murder and terror against Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues. Today, we see it again in a chilling echo as antisemitism and violence against the Jewish community is thriving. Common sense Conservatives stand with the Jewish community. Never again is now.

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The violence in Amsterdam last night has been widely described as a pogrom against Jews. This is not only misleading but politically dangerous. A thread.

There’s never been a conflict so disproportionately focused on murdering and torturing children than what Israel is doing to Palestinians. It has nothing to do with self defense. It is evil. Child amputees, orphans, babies starved to death, the anguish of boys like this child:

@atossaaraxia @PublishersWkly Started HIDDEN GLOBE 15 minutes ago. Enjoying it very much. Thanks.