David Stirrup @davidstirrup

@EuropeanPowell The millionaires and Billionaires do not live in our world #EpsteinFiles

A message that part of the UK needs to learn

The richest man on Earth dismantled the organization that feeds the poorest children on earth. He also cancelled all of the global Ebola prevention programs. The UN has now declared Ebola outbreak a global health emergency. Elon Musk’s dismantling of USAID has already killed more children than in Gaza and Ukraine combined. He cut lifetimes for millions and the result is a silent massacres. Nor should we forget his complicity in the genocide in Gaza, as well as in the war in Ukraine and the Epstein case. I don’t understand how billionaires think. If I only had one billion dollars, I would rush to fix our world problem. Homeless, hungry, poverty, wars, climate change... etc. They can be heroes and not just billionaires. What a waste.

Tbh if Andy Burnham can't win a by-election in the area he's been mayor for a decade without the Green party standing down, he obviously shouldn't be prime minister

From Oxfordshire to the Welsh Valleys to the Dorset countryside, Keir Starmer’s ‘Labour’ government is orchestrating the largest industrial land grab in a generation, and most communities have no idea it’s happening. Over 200 local authorities across the UK have submitted bids to become “AI Growth Zones”, a designation that strips away planning protections, bypasses environmental safeguards, and fast-tracks massive data centers into communities that never asked for them. The government is keeping applications open indefinitely, with new selections to be announced in summer 2025. open.substack.com/pub/europeanpo…

@ArtCrunchy No Monarchy No unelected House of "Lords" No Politicians second jobs No donations to politicians No Corporate lobbying No Tax havens No Privately owned utilities No Austerity No Alcohol and subsidised meals in Parliament Art maybe we need a list of what we do want 👍

No Data Centres. No Compulsory Digital ID. No Online Pornography. No Manufactered Pandemics. No Israel Lobby. No Genocides. No Zionists. No Billionaires.

Amsterdam has been doing this for over 100 years, and it's still one of the best ideas in education. The city runs a school garden program where primary school kids in participating schools each get their own plot as part of the curriculum. They sow seeds, weed it, water it, and harvest it themselves across a full growing season. One garden site near the center of the city serves around 15 schools. The program started in 1918 and never stopped. Kids who grow a carrot from seed don't forget where food comes from. They don't forget what soil is, or what a bee is doing, or why rain matters. Does your kid's school do this?

Norway and the UK drilled the same North Sea. 🇳🇴Norway got $2 trillion. 🇬🇧The UK got tax cuts. Same basin,Same era.... Completely different outcomes. Norway captured $30 per barrel in government revenue. The UK captured $11. That gap, compounded over 50 years of production, is the entire difference. Norway's model was simple: tax heavily (78% marginal rate), take direct equity stakes in fields via the SDFI, own part of Equinor, and put everything surplus into a fund invested abroad. The Government Pension Fund Global now holds over $2 trillion in assets. That's $390,000 per Norwegian citizen about 1.5% of all listed equities on earth. The fiscal rule: only spend the 3% annual real return. Never touch the principal. The UK started producing earlier, at lower prices, with a lower tax rate (40%) and no saving mechanism. North Sea revenues flowed straight into the general budget. Economists estimate the UK missed out on roughly £400 billion compared to a Norwegian style regime. The windfall largely financed tax cuts in the 1980s rather than a fund. Where things stand in 2026? Norway's petroleum sector will generate $63 bn in net cash flow this year alone feeding a fund already large enough to cover 10-15% of the national budget from returns alone. The UK is a net energy importer. Since 2021 it has paid countries like Norway more than £100 billion for gas. One country treated oil as a finite resource to convert into permanent financial wealth. The other treated it as income. image source:eia

The architect of the Federal Reserve, which is neither federal nor does it possess any reserves, was a zionist Jewish German banker by the name of Paul Warburg. His brother, Max Warburg, was part of the German central bank. In essence, two brothers were involved in financing both sides of WWI. But that's beside the point. The Feds were created against the will of the American public, which was decidedly against central banking, particularly stemming from Andrew Jackson's fight against the Second Bank of the United States. He and the majority of Americans viewed central banks as a dangerous concentration of economic power that was not authorized by the Constitution and represented a corrupt power benefiting the wealthy elite at the expense of the common farmer, laborer, and small business owner. Baked into the cake of the Federal Reserve are war profits. It was perhaps no coincidence that WWI broke out a mere six months after the passing of the Fed when the majority of Congress was on Christmas holiday in 1912. Then the profits started rolling in like nothing the elite had ever seen before. It hasn't stopped since. A shockingly outsized number of Fed Chairman have been Jewish and/or zionist. All of them pro-war. Endless war means endless profits made by printing money out of thin air and collecting real money in return. Those profits, along with Zionist pressure to establish or expand their Jewish colony in Palestine, are the reasons the US was dragged into WWI, and nearly every war since. Zionists have been running a racket on the world for a very long time.

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CHANGE is coming 🤔 NEW! NEW! NEW! Labour 🙄 How long before the podium comes out for the enth relaunch?

Stealing land through force isn’t a “war strategy, it’s a war CRIME.

It is mid-May. The hedge looks like it has got completely out of hand. The hedge trimmer is in the shed, ready, and the urge to sort it out is entirely understandable. 🌿 It is also the worst possible time of year to do it. Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, it is a criminal offence to intentionally damage or destroy the nest of any wild bird while that nest is in use or being built. Every species of garden bird is covered without exception. This is not guidance — it is law. And May is not a neutral point in the nesting calendar. It is the peak. Active nests in a typical garden hedge right now: Blackbird (Turdus merula) — the first brood may have only just fledged, and the pair will have begun their second clutch in the same hedge, often in the same fork. Up to three broods are possible before late July. Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) — its domed moss nest sits at the base of the hedge in dense cover. First-brood chicks may still be in the nest or have only just left. A second nest may already be under construction in the same section. Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) — arrived from migration in April and will have laid immediately. In May its eggs are incubating or its first chicks are in the nest at one to two metres height — exactly where a trimmer blade runs first. Robin (Erithacus rubecula) — nests within 50 cm of the ground in the densest cover. A second brood is often underway in May. The nest is found almost exclusively by destroying it. Dunnock (Prunella modularis) — two broods between April and July, moss nest in low scrub. Its turquoise-blue eggs are among the most beautiful and least visible in a garden hedge. May is the moment when the hedge looks most in need of cutting — and the moment when active nest density is highest across the entire year. The only remaining clear window is August. The hedge held through winter; it will hold through summer. 🐦 #WildlifeGardening #HedgerowHabitat #NestingBirds #GardenWildlifeIt is mid-May. The hedge looks like it has got completely out of hand. The hedge trimmer is in the shed, ready, and the urge to sort it out is entirely understandable. 🌿 It is also the worst possible time of year to do it. Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, it is a criminal offence to intentionally damage or destroy the nest of any wild bird while that nest is in use or being built. Every species of garden bird is covered without exception. This is not guidance — it is law. And May is not a neutral point in the nesting calendar. It is the peak. Active nests in a typical garden hedge right now: Blackbird (Turdus merula) — the first brood may have only just fledged, and the pair will have begun their second clutch in the same hedge, often in the same fork. Up to three broods are possible before late July. Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) — its domed moss nest sits at the base of the hedge in dense cover. First-brood chicks may still be in the nest or have only just left. A second nest may already be under construction in the same section. Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) — arrived from migration in April and will have laid immediately. In May its eggs are incubating or its first chicks are in the nest at one to two metres height — exactly where a trimmer blade runs first. Robin (Erithacus rubecula) — nests within 50 cm of the ground in the densest cover. A second brood is often underway in May. The nest is found almost exclusively by destroying it. Dunnock (Prunella modularis) — two broods between April and July, moss nest in low scrub. Its turquoise-blue eggs are among the most beautiful and least visible in a garden hedge. May is the moment when the hedge looks most in need of cutting — and the moment when active nest density is highest across the entire year. The only remaining clear window is August. The hedge held through winter; it will hold through summer. 🐦 #WildlifeGardening #HedgerowHabitat #NestingBirds #GardenWildlife

The Biden Admin let the UAE perpetuate a genocide in Sudan because it needed the UAE as an ally in Israel's genocide of the Palestinians. Genocide Joe

It’s not left vs. right. It’s 8.25 billion people vs. 3,428 billionaires, and right now, the billionaires are winning

Just Stop Oil and Palestine Action activists got lengthy prison sentences. Let's see the punishment for those who knowingly fitted flammable cladding to Grenfell Tower.

China’s stranglehold on critical materials While the West slept, China executed a cold, calculated masterplan to seize total control over the minerals that power the modern world. From the moment it entered the global economy, Beijing poured subsidies into mining, refining, and processing, then built massive stockpiles to dictate prices. Through flooding of markets, it ruthlessly crushed Western producers. The last Hungarian gallium plant closed in 2017 to near silence, because the West was too busy offshoring its dirty industries and patting itself on the back for "going green" This wasn’t strategy. It was pure Western opportunism and suicidal shortsightedness: happily selling out its industrial base for cheap imports and virtue-signaling environmental points while handing Beijing the keys to the future. The result is total domination. China now controls nearly 100% of global gallium ,a metal buried in pacemakers, MRI machines, semiconductors, wireless tech, and virtually every advanced weapons system. It produces 95% of the graphite for EV batteries and drones, and holds 85-100% of countless other rare earths and critical metals. There are almost no substitutes. What started as economic warfare has become geopolitical domination. China meticulously maps supply chains, tracks end-users, and weaponizes exports. It rations shipments to foreign buyers, sometimes slashing deliveries to a third of previous levels, and outright cuts off anything touching Western defense industries. Try building capacity outside China? Good luck. The West’s pathetic complacency, its greedy, short-term obsession with cheap junk and virtue-signaling, created this strategic disaster. Now, suddenly panicked, Western governments are scrambling to stockpile, recycle, and beg for domestic production with taxpayer subsidies and minimum price guarantees. The G7’s Critical Minerals Action Plan is a belated, half-hearted admission of failure. China didn’t steal dominance. The West handed it over on a silver platter through decades of idiocy. Critical materials are now one of Beijing’s sharpest weapons, and the West is finally waking up to the humiliating price of its own opportunism.

Evo Morales: "Three helicopters tried to detain me. Shots were fired in volleys. We barely escaped alive. The CIA piloted a helicopter as part of the operation to detain me. The youth must identify both the internal and external demons -- the internal enemies are the right-wing forces in every country; the external enemies are the agents of empire."

If @AndyBurnhamGM is serious about bringing the utilities back into public ownership he needs to ignore neoliberal propagandists like Lord Jim O'Neil, who was on @BBCr4today this morning peddling the lie that govts rely on the bond market. The truth is it's the bond market that relies on the govt. Govts do NOT borrow from the bond markets. Govts sell bonds that provide a guaranteed return for the likes of insurance companies, financial institutions pension funds and super-rich individuals. It's basically a savings account for the corporate sector, or to put it another way, corporate welfare. But the govt issues the currency, so it doesn't raise money for its spending commitments from bond sales or from taxation. When the govt spends, it simply issues an instruction to the Bank of England, which it owns, to release the necessary funds. Govts sell bonds and impose taxation to manage inflation, amongst other things, by decreasing the overall money supply in the broader economy. It's not the availability of money that govts need to worry about, it's the availability of real resources in the economy such as workers, infrastructure, energy, materials etc. And finally, if anybody from @BBCr4today has read this far, why don't you invite some economists on your show like @RichardJMurphy or @ProfSteveKeen to offer an alternative to the relentless propaganda from people like Jim O'Neil, who have a vested interest in maintaining the neoliberal status quo?