Tony Jackson

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Tony Jackson

Tony Jackson

@ARNJ47

Friend Warminster Athenaeum, Hospital, Rugby, Cricket, Wilts Wildlife, Ornithology. Retired military & humanitarian logistician

Warminster, England Katılım Şubat 2017
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Tony Jackson
Tony Jackson@ARNJ47·
Warminster Independent Spring Market Sun 29th March, 10am- 4pm. Organised by Town Council with Warminster Business Network. Roads closed in town centre with a rich variety of stalls across High Street, Market Place and Civic Centre.
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Proudofus.uk@ProudofusUK·
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 Chapter One. The Beginning of the End. This is the story of how ordinary British people ended slavery. It starts here. In 1086. William the Conqueror had just seized England by force. His first act was to count everyone in it. What the 'Domesday Book' revealed was extraordinary. More than seventy percent of the people on this island belonged to someone else. Not slaves. But not free. Serfs. Bound to the land from birth. Unable to leave. Unable to own property. Their children inherited their chains automatically. Then in 1348, the Black Death arrived. Within two years it had killed nearly half the population of England. Villages emptied overnight. And the survivors realised something the lords had hoped they never would. They had power. They demanded wages. They walked off the land. They refused to return on the old terms. Parliament passed a law in 1351 to force them back. The people ignored it. In 1381, sixty thousand ordinary people marched on London. They burned the records that proved their bondage. They demanded to be treated as human beings. The king rode out, made promises, then broke every one of them. The leaders were hunted down and executed. But serfdom never recovered. Without a single law. Without a king declaring it so. Over the next hundred years it quietly collapsed. The English simply stopped accepting it. By 1500 it was dead. Three hundred years before France. Nearly four hundred before Russia. This was the character being forged. On this soil. By ordinary people who refused to stay down. And they were just getting started. 🇬🇧 Their individual stories are on our page. Our book is coming soon. Help us make this possible. proudofus.co.uk/support Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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Tony Jackson@ARNJ47·
@Sport4Wiltshire Shocking that not all sports centres open on bank holidays. Legacy restrictive employment practices regrettable
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ActiveWiltshire@Sport4Wiltshire·
Most of our leisure centres are closed for the Easter bank holidays, but Five Rivers Health and Wellbeing Centre (Salisbury), Melksham Campus, Springfield Campus (Corsham) and Tidworth Leisure Centre are open Good Friday (1/2)
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Tony Jackson@ARNJ47·
🧠 Monday Night Quiz – 8PM Prestbury Club Questions are ready. The prizes are waiting. All that’s missing… is your team. Up to 6 players per team. 💰 Cash prizes 🍹 Drinks vouchers at the end Are you in?
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Kemi Badenoch
Kemi Badenoch@KemiBadenoch·
What kind of person targets Hatzola, a volunteer-run ambulance service? Just last week in Golders Green, members of the Jewish community told me how they live in fear of constant attacks. The police must find those responsible. A hatred of Jews is growing in our country and all of us need to make it clear in our words and actions that Britain will not tolerate antisemitism.
BBC Breaking News@BBCBreaking

Arson attack on ambulances in London being treated as antisemitic hate crime, Metropolitan Police says bbc.in/4rQGwho

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Proudofus.uk@ProudofusUK·
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 A blind man built 180 miles of road across the Pennines. He navigated by touch and memory. His name was Blind Jack. 🦯 Born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, 1717. At six he caught smallpox and went blind. That never stopped him. He learned to ride. To swim. To hunt. At fifteen he became a fiddler. He fought at the Battle of Culloden. He ran a stagecoach company. He eloped with the innkeeper's daughter. The day before her wedding to another man. 💨 He bet a colonel he could walk from London to Harrogate faster than a coach. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁹󠁯󠁲󠁫󠁿 He won. Five and a half days on foot. 207 miles. In 1765, Parliament authorised new turnpike roads across the north. There were very few people with experience. Jack was 48 years old. He seized his moment. He walked every route first. Alone. Then he built. Proper foundations. Drainage. Techniques nobody had used before. 🛤️ Then he hit the bog. Other engineers said it was impossible. Jack cut heather from the moor. Bound it into rafts. Laid the road on top. The bog held. ✅ Across the north of England. 180 miles of road. You have driven on his roads. At 77 he walked to York to dictate his life story to a publisher. 📖 He died in 1810. He was 92. He left behind four daughters, twenty grandchildren, and ninety great and great-great grandchildren. Did they teach you his name? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jack could never see the roads he built. He made them anyway. For everyone who came after. These stories are in the dark. You keep the light on. 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support 💡 Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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Mir Yar Baloch
Mir Yar Baloch@miryar_baloch·
Kudos to the great Baloch leader Honorable @hyrbyair_marri Baloch leaders support Afghanistan jolts Pakistan. It is time for Kabul and Balochistan to join hands and #PakistanVacateBalochAfghanTertitories
Hyrbyair Marri@hyrbyair_marri

The recent Pakistani airstrike on a rehabilitation Hospital in Kabul resulting in the slaughter of 400 unarmed Afghan civilians and more than 250 were injured, is another grim reminder of Pakistan’s lies and propaganda, self-proclaimed defender of the Muslim world. I extend my deepest condolences to the bereaved and pray for the swift and full recovery of all those who have been injured. I condemn this heinous crime against humanity committed by Pakistan. It is a continuation of the Pakistani Punjabi expansionist agenda. The deliberate destabilisation of Afghanistan through state-sponsored violence and its barbaric attacks on innocent civilians and critical infrastructure must be defeated with unity. As neighbouring nations, the people of Balochistan and Afghanistan have shared a deep-rooted bond long before the artificial creation of Pakistan. Our histories, cultures, traditions, and borders are intertwined, built on trust and mutual respect. In times of hardship, the people of Afghanistan stood as trusted allies with the Baloch nation and we have always reciprocated that solidarity in their times of need. Today, once again, Pakistan’s occupying forces continue their anti-Afghan aggression through air force and drone strikes, exploiting territories that rightfully belong to the Baloch and Pashtun peoples. This illegal occupation has been the primary source of instability in Afghanistan created by Pakistan. We firmly believe that lasting peace in Afghanistan will only be achieved when these occupying forces are expelled from our lands, sea, and airspace. The Baloch nation reiterates its unwavering support for the people of Afghanistan. We stand shoulder to shoulder against Pakistani Punjabi aggression. A future of peace and prosperity lies in cooperation between our two nations. A sovereign, united Balochistan will ensure that its ports serve as gateways of opportunity, welcoming Afghan trade and enabling access to regional and global markets, including those in Central Asia and Europe. Pakistan has consistently demonstrated that it has no genuine interest in peaceful relations with Afghanistan, regardless of who governs Kabul. Its expansionist ambitions and anti-Afghan policies have acted as a destabilising force, Pakistan is a cancer upon regional peace. This is a defining moment. Both nations must unite, to defend our territories, protect our economic interests, preserve our shared cultural heritage, and strengthen the bonds of brotherhood. Together, through unity and determination, we can confront and overcome the forces that threaten our sovereignty and regional stability.

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Tony Jackson@ARNJ47·
Self determination for Kurdistan and Baluchistan in federal or independent model a way forward
Mir Yar Baloch@miryar_baloch

Worldwide debates have started now, A toothless, cashless Iran is in the better interests of the world. Shia Iran is a landlocked and does not has resources (oil, gas, and maritime leverage once these ethnicities are given autonomy and rights to govern their own territories, sea ports countries. #Balochistan, #AlAhwaz, #Lor, #Kurdistan, #Turkemen, #Azerbaijan are going to have control over their own #Sea, #Land, #Oil, #Ports and #Airspace which Iran is occupying for decades and destabilizing the world.

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Proudofus.uk@ProudofusUK·
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 In 1921, thirty elected councillors walked calmly into a prison. They chose to be there. They did it to protect the poorest people in Britain. Do you know their names? Poplar. East London. One of the poorest boroughs in the country. 🏚️ High unemployment. Hunger. And a tax system designed to make it worse. Poor boroughs like Poplar had to collect taxes not just for themselves but for London-wide authorities, the Metropolitan Police, the Asylums Board, the Water Board. ⚖️ The rich boroughs paid a low rate. Poplar paid a high rate. And got nothing back. In March 1921, the Labour council, led by former mayor George Lansbury, decided to stop collecting those taxes. They'd use the money to feed the poor instead. 🥣 The High Court ordered them to pay. They refused. On the 29th of July, thirty councillors marched through the streets of Poplar with 2,000 supporters, led by the official mace-bearer, to the sound of a brass band. 🎺 Their banner read: "Poplar Borough Council, marching to the High Court and possibly to prison." They weren't possibly going to prison. They were going to prison. ⛓️ Thirty councillors. Twenty-five men to Brixton. Five women to Holloway. One of them was pregnant. One of the women was Minnie Lansbury. She was 32. She developed pneumonia in prison. She died two months after her release. She was still 32. They held council meetings inside the prison. The women were brought from Holloway to Brixton by taxi. George Lansbury addressed thousands of supporters from his cell window. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 After six weeks, the court ordered their release. Parliament rushed through a new law. The tax burden between rich and poor boroughs was equalised. Thirty ordinary people went to prison. And changed the law. 🇬🇧 Did they teach you their names? Thirty people went to prison so that others would be treated fairly. Nobody remembered them. Every time you support this channel, more of them survive. Be Part Of Us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧 proudofus.co.uk
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Proudofus.uk@ProudofusUK·
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 There is something in most kitchens around the world. 🫖 You have probably used one today. A Scottish scientist invented it in London in 1892. And almost nobody knows who he was. His name was James Dewar. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Born in Kincardine, Scotland. 1842. Chemist. Physicist. One of the finest scientific minds Britain had ever produced. 🏅 Nominated for the Nobel Prize eight times. ❌ Never won. In 1892 he was trying to store liquid hydrogen. Not make a flask for your tea. ☕ He built a vessel with two glass walls and pumped the air out of the gap between them. A vacuum. No air. No heat transfer. ❄️ It worked perfectly. ✅ He didn't patent it. He just didn't. He was a scientist. Not a businessman. The science was enough. A German glassblower named Reinhold Burger had been watching. 👀 He took the design. Made it sturdier. Patented it. Named it Thermos. In 1904 it went on sale. It made a fortune. 💰 Dewar sued. ⚖️ The court agreed he was the inventor. But because he hadn't patented it there was nothing they could do. He got nothing. The word Thermos eventually became so common it lost its trademark entirely. Just a word now. For something a Scottish scientist invented in a London laboratory. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧 Every flask you've ever owned. Every cup of tea kept warm on a cold morning. ☕ Every building site. Every school trip. Every football pitch. ⚽ James Dewar. Did they teach you his name? 🇬🇧 These islands have thousands of stories the world has forgotten. We find them. We tell them. We put them in front of millions. You help us make that possible. Be Part Of Us. 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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ASSYRIA TODAY ܐܬܼܘܪ ܝܘܡܢܐ
ASSYRIA TODAY ܐܬܼܘܪ ܝܘܡܢܐ@TodayAssyria·
KAFNO, THE ALMOST FORGOTTEN TURKISH OTTOMAN GENOCIDE OF THE MARONITE CHRISTIANS OF 1915 IN LEBANON. The genocides of Armenian, Assyrian, and Greek Christians under the Ottoman Empire are widely known, but the Genocide of Maronite Christians in Lebanon remains far less remembered… 😔 Kafno—“hunger” in Syriac—was not just a word, but a reality forced upon thousands. Families were left without food, protection, or hope. 💔 Under Ottoman rule, Maronite Christians faced persecution, starvation, and abandonment. Many were driven into the mountains, where hunger and suffering became their final reality. 😔 Over 200,000 Maronite Christians were killed or left to die—many not by direct violence, but through prolonged hunger, suffering, and isolation. 💔 With no other choice, thousands fled their homeland, escaping death and searching for life in both South and North America. Among them were the ancestors of Carlos Slim Helú, who rebuilt their lives in Mexico. Generations later, he became the richest man in the world in 2010 and remained so in 2011 and 2012. Kafno remains a story of pain, exile, and survival—a memory that must not be forgotten. 💔 Read more here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fam… #Maronite #Kafno #Genocide #Assyrian #Syriac #Lebanon #Christian TURKISH
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