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🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Mesut Özil: "As a star, I had a voice, and I knew I had to speak out on certain things. If I posted, I knew I would get in trouble with Arsenal. But I didn't care, I posted it and I was happy." "So they closed the door on me. They didn't let me play anymore." "It was difficult, because I was enjoying playing football and they just took it away from me. I thank God that I had my wife and kids with me."

Pretty outrageous that the News Agents missed out the next sentence which I said: "Neither are acceptable."

"Now, sources are claiming producers think Ed Balls “lost his cool” during the row and are facing pressure to “distance” the show from him." standard.co.uk/showbiz/itv-sa…

Mesut Özil confirms Arsenal closed the door on him after he posted about the Uygur genocide to his social media. Some things are bigger than football ❤️

This is the difference between China's economy, and Western casino economies. This is actually, objectively, an amazing ACHIEVEMENT - making housing affordable again in China. It's why its home ownership rate is more than 90%. But it's presented as "erased all gains"🤔

Defence barristers walk out after judicial ruling in Filton 6 trial - while police make arrests outside court For a third time over the last week the Met police have made arrests outside Woolwich Crown Court of people holding signs communicating the principle of jury equity. The group of 6 people arrested were sitting peacefully displaying the signs: "Jurors have an absolute right to acquit according to their conscience" and, “Even without legal defence jurors can still acquit on conscience”. Meanwhile inside Woolwich Crown Court, there has been a shocking development in the Filton case, five of the six defence barristers have left the trial following judicial rulings which cannot be reported until the end of the trial. A spokesperson for Defend Our Juries said today: “In recent years we have seen judicial rulings that banned climate campaigners from saying the words ‘fuel poverty’ and ‘climate change’ in their trials. Today we understand a judicial ruling has been given that goes even further, and as a response the legal professionals representing five of the six defendants on trial in the Filton case have no choice but to leave the trial because they have been left with literally nothing they can say in closing arguments.” The trial of the first six defendants from the group known as the ‘Filton24’ has reached the stage of closing arguments. Five of the six defendants will now be giving their own closing speeches as they have no legal representation.

When Americans teach their kids how to use firearms, it is patriotism, self defense and all about the second amendment. When Muslims teach their kids how to use firearms, it’s violence and jihad. Meanwhile their countries are getting bombed and destroyed. Do they not deserve the right to self defense? Western hypocrisy is so nauseating, at this point, it’s not ignorance, it’s conscientious stupidity.

@MrJohnNicolson @TonyGoldSE This Brian Walden!🤣 If you think that's impartial journalism ...

@TonyGoldSE Some of the most distinguished journalists are ex politicians including one of my personal favourites Brian Walden. Former Labour MP.

Hold on. He went into spasms a couple of days ago when his Labour connections were raised on air. And this morning he's proudly reporting what the foreign secretary, his wife, told him last night. Pick a lane, Ed.

Let’s be honest. The only reason Ed Balls has a job on #GMB is because he’s a former Labour cabinet Secretary and the husband of current Labour cabinet secretary, Yvette Cooper. That is precisely what is wrong with our so called ‘unbiased’ media in this country. #r4today #bbcbreakfast

Left: Ed Balls criticises Zack Polanksi suggesting that him being a Labour cabinet minister 16 years ago doesn't affect his journalistic independence Right: Ed Balls gloating about talking to his wife, Yvette Cooper, the current Foreign Secretary, who spoke about her trip to the US with King Charles, and how his speech in the US Congress was 'incredibly moving' Don't be like Ed Balls

BBC PAID HIM 6X MORE. THE TRIBUNAL SAID THAT WAS ILLEGAL. THE BBC SAID IT WAS COMPLICATED. Samira Ahmed @SamiraAhmedUK presented Newswatch on @BBC for years. Same format. Same length. Same job. Read viewer feedback on camera, wrap it up, go home. Jeremy Vine @theJeremyVine did exactly the same thing on Points of View. She got £440 per episode. He got £3,000. Ahmed spent years trying to fix it quietly through internal BBC processes. The BBC said there was no problem. She filed for tribunal. In January 2020, the tribunal ruled unanimously in her favour. The BBC could not explain the difference. They tried. They argued Vine needed "a glint in the eye" and to be "cheeky." The tribunal said that was not a skill. It was a story the BBC told itself. The total underpayment was close to £700,000. Sarah Montague, another BBC woman, settled separately for around £400,000. The National Union of Journalists flagged around 70 more cases waiting resolution internally. After Ahmed won, 700 BBC women received pay rises. The BBC's statement after losing? They regretted it had gone to tribunal. Not that they paid a woman six times less than a man for the same work for years. Just that it became public. Sources: @guardian, @BBC, @IFJGlobal, Others

Surely this is a matter for the police: ‘PR executive working for Labour Together tried to ‘get rid’ of documents despite legal warning: Audio recordings reveal Tom Harper told contractor to destroy material about an investigation into journalists’ archive.ph/2026.04.28-163…

“I spoke to my wife the Foreign Secretary” — how much longer do we have to put up with the insanity of Ed Balls — former Labour cabinet minister — “impartially” presenting the news, while also being married to Yvette Cooper? It’s such a joke.

The veterans came home and America threw them away. This part of the story is important, because it tells you something about what America actually values versus what it claims to value. The men who fought in Vietnam, many of them drafted against their will, many of them from the poorest communities in America, disproportionately Black and Latino and rural and working-class, came back to a country that didn't know what to do with them. They had PTSD before PTSD was a diagnosis. They self-medicated with alcohol and drugs because the VA was overwhelmed and underfunded and because the culture told men not to speak about what they'd seen. They had nightmares and flashbacks and impulse control problems and they couldn't hold jobs and their marriages fell apart and nobody wanted to hear about the war because the war was embarrassing now. Thousands of them ended up homeless. The suicide rate among Vietnam veterans was devastating. Agent Orange exposure, because the chemical didn't stop its work when they came home, gave them cancers and gave those cancers to their children. The government that sent them fought their benefits claims for decades. Disputed the Agent Orange connection for years while veterans died. Made them prove what had been done to their own bodies. These men served a government that lied to them about why they were fighting, sent them into a war that couldn't be won, and then processed them out the other side like depleted equipment. So when American politicians stand up and say "support the troops," support them like they supported the Vietnam veterans? Vietnam defeated America on the battlefield. America then defeated its own veterans at home.

THEY BLACKLISTED THE ENGINEER BEFORE THE BODY WAS COLD Hazar Denli is a chassis engineer. His job was to make sure cars don't kill people. He was very good at it. Working for Tata Technologies (@TataTech), he led the engineering team on VinFast's suspension and chassis systems. During testing he found the front strut-to-knuckle connection was loosening. Suspension parts were snapping off after 15,000 miles. They were supposed to last 93,000. He told management. Nothing happened. VinFast had a Nasdaq IPO coming and didn't want to delay production. So Denli resigned and moved to a new job at Jaguar Land Rover (@JLR_News). Then in April 2024, a family of four died in California when their VinFast VF8 lost control, veered off the road and caught fire. Denli posted on Reddit. He said he wouldn't get into a VinFast himself. He said he wouldn't let his family near one. VinFast tracked down the anonymous post. Tata Technologies HR director Patrick Flood then contacted JLR HR director Dave Williams and asked for Denli to be dismissed. The concern, in Flood's words: if he's done this now, he could do the same at JLR. Denli was fired the same day. Then blacklisted on industry recruitment platform Magnit so his future job applications would be auto-rejected. @BBCNews obtained the internal emails proving all of it. The NHTSA has since launched an investigation into the VinFast VF8. There are now 28 safety complaints on file. Denli has filed disclosures with the SEC and NHTSA. He is taking JLR to an employment tribunal. A family is dead. An engineer tried to stop it. He lost his job, his career platform access and his industry future. The companies involved declined to comment. Nobody went to prison. Nobody recalled anything. Everyone kept their jobs except the one man doing his. Sources: @WB_UK @BBCNews @cleantechnica @carscoops

The US shouldn’t be permitted to ban a team from a competition it doesn’t administer. The World Cup should be moved from the USA, obviously, but it won’t happen because FIFA is governed by Nazis.

🇨🇴🇦🇷 Gustavo Petro asks the question the West does not want answered. "If Argentina is an exporter of quality meat, why can't Argentinians eat quality meat and are stuck eating donkey meat?" That is not just a question about Argentina. That is a question about the entire Global South. Countries rich in resources. Oil. Gold. Lithium. Cocoa. Coffee. Beef. Yet their own people cannot afford what they produce. Argentina exports premium beef to Europe and China. Argentinians eat donkey meat. Nigeria exports oil. Nigerians queue for hours for subsidized fuel. DRC exports cobalt. Congolese miners live on less than $2 a day. Ghana exports cocoa. Ghanaian children have never tasted quality chocolate. The system is designed to extract, not to feed. Produce for the West. Starve at home. Petro is right. This cannot happen in Colombia. And it should not happen anywhere in Africa or the Global South. The question is not why Argentinians eat donkey meat. The question is who profits from that arrangement. It's time to change the answer.

Your monthly reminder that Labour Together has deleted this image of Mandelson speaking at a 2023 Labour Together event alongside Johnny Reynolds hosted by Josh Simons and it would be a shame if it were shared

So Indians can convert and become Israeli but Palestinians can't return to the houses and lands where they lived.