Clean and Tidy

I urge people to watch and share this because in just 6 minutes this young Jewish girl nails down what politicians have failed to grasp for generations. Quite brilliant.

@Alis_Hawkins Wedi mwynhau Not One of Us. Diolch yn fawr 👏👏👏

Leicester do things differently 🇵🇸❤️

When Israeli president Isaac Herzog described the assault on Gaza as a war “to save Western civilization, to save the values of Western civilization,” he wasn’t really lying. He was telling the truth — just maybe not quite in the way that he meant it. The demolition of Gaza is indeed being perpetrated in defense of western values, and is itself a perfect embodiment of western values. Not the western values they teach you about in school, but the hidden ones they don’t want you to look at. Not the attractive packaging with the advertising slogans on the label, but the product that’s actually inside the box. For centuries western civilization has depended heavily on war, genocide, theft, colonialism and imperialism, which it has justified using narratives premised on religion, racism and ethnic supremacy — all of which we are seeing play out in the incineration of Gaza today. What we are seeing in Gaza is a much better representation of what western civilization is really about than all the gibberish about freedom and democracy we learned about in school. A much better representation of western civilization than all the art and literature we’ve been proudly congratulating ourselves on over the centuries. A much better representation of western civilization than the love and compassion we like to pretend our Judeo-Christian values revolve around. It’s been so surreal watching western rightists babbling about how savage and barbaric Muslim culture is amid the 2023 zombie resurrection of Bush-era Islamophobia, even while western civilization amasses a mountain of ten thousand child corpses. That mountain of child corpses is a much better representation of western culture than anything Mozart, da Vinci or Shakespeare ever produced. This is western civilization. This is what it looks like. Western civilization, where Julian Assange awaits his final appeal in February against US extradition for journalism which exposed US war crimes. Where we are fed a nonstop deluge of mass media propaganda to manufacture our consent for wars and aggression which have killed millions and displaced tens of millions in the 21st century alone. Where we are kept distracted by vapid entertainment and artificial culture wars so we don’t think too hard about what this civilization is and who it is killing and maiming and starving and exploiting. Where news cycles are dominated more by celebrity gossip and Donald Trump’s latest mouth farts than by the mass atrocities that are being actively facilitated by western governments. Where liberals congratulate themselves for having progressive views on race and gender while the officials they elect help rip apart children’s bodies with military explosives. Where Zionist Jews center themselves and their emotions because opposition to an active genocide makes them feel like they are being persecuted, and where Israel supporters who are not Jewish still kind of feel like they are being persecuted also. Where a giant globe-spanning empire powered by militarism, imperialism, capitalism and authoritarianism devours human flesh with an insatiable appetite while we congratulate ourselves on how much better we are than nations like Iran or China. These are western values. This is western civilization. Ask somebody to tell you what their values are and they’ll give you a bunch of pleasant-sounding words about family and love and caring or whatever. Watch their actions to see what their actual values are and you’ll often get a very different story. That’s us. That’s western civilization. We say we value freedom, justice, truth, peace and free expression, but our actions paint a very different picture. The real western values, the actual product inside the box underneath the attractive label, are the ones you see acted out in Gaza today.

Read our open letter to ITV below.

“I spent 19 years locked up and the Rwanda policy makes me ashamed to be British.”

“How will Santa find me if I’m homeless?” That’s the question a disabled eight-year-old boy asked his Mum after they were evicted from the flat they used to rent, when their landlord sold up. 🆕 BBC Wales Investigates 📺 Tomorrow 8pm on BBC One Wales and @BBCiPlayer

Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto No. 4 in F minor, "Winter", played with an accordion by Alexandr Hrustevich twitter.com/omg_interestin…

@LlyfrauCymru @Atebol @CarregGwalch @trydarbarddas @YLolfa @RilyBooks @GraffegBach @LlyfrauBroga @Gwasgybwthyn1 @yrawrgymraeg @PublishingWales Wedi ceisio archebu llyfrau y Pump Prysur sydd yn y cylchgrawn, ond dydy nhw ddim wedi cael eu cyhoeddi eto 💁‍♀️

📚Cofiwch am Gatalog Gwledd y Nadolig! 📚Copiau ar gael yn rhad ac am ddim o’ch siop lyfrau leol. ⬇️Porwch ar-lein yma: flipsnack.com/cyngorllyfrauc… #CaruDarllen #CefnogiSiopauLlyfrau

Hi @Keir_Starmer A Labour MP, @margarethodge, is seen here boasting, openly, about sabotaging the 2019 general election. What action is going to be taken? #ItWasAScam

@BolycsCymraeg Neb swyddogol. Ffrind yn dweud i fod yn ofalus. Does dim manylion am y cwmni ar y wefan. Methu danfon neges breifat atoch ar trydar chwaith.

@AndTidy Rhybuddio gan bwy?

@BolycsCymraeg Bore da. Hoffi’r cynnyrch yn eich siop arlein, ond ai jôc yw hyn? Does dim unrhyw wybodaeth ynglŷn â lleoliad a phwy ydych chi. Bu bron i fi brynu ond ces fy rhybuddio i beidio...💁‍♀️

@Bwlch1 @OwsWills Araf tu hwnt. Methu uniaethu â’r cymeriadau rhyfedd. Pob cyfres ddrama ar @S4C yn rhy dywyll. Ddim yn eu gwylio’n aml i ddweud y gwir. Dramâu Walter Presents yn fwy llwyddiannus. 💁‍♀️

@AndTidy @OwsWills Fel rhywun yn cefnogi cynnyrch cymreig. Chwater awr yn digon. Rhy araf, rhaid i stori gafael dyddia yma efo yr holl dewis a'r gael, anffodus methodd yn llwyr.

Spellbinding performances from a superlative cast. Pren ar y Bryn is shaping up to be an offbeat classic of its genre. This is Ed Thomas writing at its idiosyncratic best. Watch it on BBC iPlayer tonight.

@BenjaminNorton @BRAVENEWEUROPE1 YouTube also

See the "Ad" note? Israel is paying Twitter/X to promote war propaganda and disinfo as it carries out crimes against humanity. I don't follow this account. Israel paid for these ads to show up in our feeds. (Btw even CNN admitted Israel planted guns in Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital)

South African President @CyrilRamaphosa: “Gaza is now a concentration camp where genocide is taking place” “We have accordingly…referred this whole Israeli government operation to the International Criminal Court …because we believe that war crimes are being committed there”

A year on, with world attention on Gaza, the western media quietly reports that the biggest ever act of industrial sabotage and environmental terrorism was carried out by our supposed ally, Ukraine. That's the same Ukraine that has received untold billions of dollars in weapons and aid that could have been spent on alleviating hardship in the West. The blowing up of the Nord Stream pipelines plunged Europe into a prolonged energy crisis, tipping its economies deeper into a recession from which they are yet to recover, and forced Europe to buy in more expensive US liquid gas. Given the close ties between the Ukrainian and US militaries, and the extremely sophisticated operation necessary to blow up the deep-sea pipelines, there is an additional conclusion to draw that the western media continues to avoid. If Ukraine did it, it was not alone. The US must have been intimately involved too. archive.ph/SY5Tt

Israeli Genocide against #Palestinians continues and #EU still doesn't call for a Ceasefire. This week President @vonderleyen said "There's no justification for the horror that Hamas unleashed" but she can't say "there's no justification for the horror that Israel unleashed"...

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✊🏽 #CeasefireForGazaNOW