Jonathan Warren

@sdneum @RyanRozbiani People aren’t usually marked on maps.

@JKWarren234 @RyanRozbiani Just the regime.

🛎️🇮🇷: Iran's IRGC Issues Statement on Readiness to Restart War with U.S. Statement: With unity and coordination, and under the leadership of Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, they are fully prepared, their fingers on the trigger, to respond with devastating and deterrent force to any American or Israeli aggression against Iran. The readiness of the Army's ground forces, along with the Revolutionary Guard forces, has thwarted potential scenarios for a land or sea attack, or even an attempt to seize the Gulf islands, confirming that any folly by the enemy will be met with crushing blows and a humiliating defeat.

@sdneum @RyanRozbiani Why do you want to murder 92 million people?

@RyanRozbiani I hope they do put up a fight. We will wipe them off the map.

@MattStirner @DewiMJones @iAmJoshHunt Try printing some bank notes or hacking your bank account to add some zeroes to your balance and see what happens. As a private person you can’t create new money.

@JKWarren234 @DewiMJones @iAmJoshHunt I'm sorry MMT happened to you.

This one will require a stiff drink. In the early 1990s, the government came up with a clever idea. Instead of borrowing money cheaply to build hospitals, schools, and roads, it would get the private sector to build them and then pay the private sector back over 25 to 30 years. The Private Finance Initiative. PFI. The attraction was obvious. You got a shiny new hospital today. The bill didn't show up on the government's books. The cost was deferred into the future. Politicians got ribbon-cutting ceremonies without the awkward conversation about borrowing. It was, in effect, the nation's credit card. Buy now, pay later. Except the interest rate was extraordinary. The total capital value of everything built under PFI was around £50 billion. As of March 2024, there were 665 PFI contracts still running across the UK, with roughly £136 billion in remaining payments stretching out to the early 2050s. These are payments public bodies are contractually locked into. Hospitals, schools, councils, government departments. Paying for buildings that in many cases were constructed twenty or thirty years ago. And the terms are extraordinary. PFI contracts were structured so the private sector would not just build the facility but manage its services. Cleaning. Maintenance. Catering. Portering. These services are bundled into long-term contracts with built-in inflation increases that the public sector cannot renegotiate, cannot exit without paying massive penalties, and often cannot even fully scrutinise because of commercial confidentiality clauses. In one case raised in Parliament, a hospital was charged £333 to change a lightbulb. That isn't an urban myth. It was cited in Hansard. The NHS has been hit hardest. According to parliamentary analysis, the capital cost of NHS PFI projects was around £13 billion. The total repayments are estimated at around £80 billion. And the peak of NHS PFI annual repayments isn't even here yet. It arrives in 2029. The bills are still going up. In 2020-21, NHS trusts paid £457 million purely in interest charges on PFI contracts. Not services. Not maintenance. Interest. In the last five years, NHS trusts have handed over more than £1.8 billion in PFI interest alone. We Own It calculates that money would have covered the starting salaries of over 50,000 new doctors. One NHS trust, Essex Partnership, has reportedly paid back 27 times what was originally borrowed. Some hospitals are spending more on PFI repayments than on medicines for patients. And remember, these repayments come out of the same NHS budget that's supposed to fund patient care, staff, and equipment. Scotland got it just as badly. Audit Scotland reported that Scottish taxpayers will pay a cumulative £40 billion for PFI assets worth just £9 billion. North Ayrshire Council will have paid £440 million by 2038 for four schools that cost £83 million to build. Now here's what makes this worse. Many of these contracts are starting to expire. The buildings are being handed back to the public sector. And the NAO has warned of significant risks around the handback process, including cases where public bodies were dissatisfied with the condition of assets being returned to them. Decades of payments. And some of these buildings may come back needing significant further investment. So what actually happened? The government could have borrowed money at significantly lower rates to build these hospitals and schools itself. Sovereign borrowing has always been cheaper than private finance. Instead, it paid the private sector to borrow at a premium and passed the inflated cost on to the taxpayer. The private sector took the profit. The taxpayer took the risk. The buildings are now ageing. The debts are still being paid. And the services that were supposed to benefit are being squeezed partly because so much of their budget is locked into contractual obligations they cannot escape. PFI wasn't investment. It was an accounting trick. A way for governments to build things without the borrowing showing up in the national debt figures. It made politicians look fiscally responsible while loading future generations with obligations they had no say in and no ability to renegotiate. Both parties did this. The Conservatives created PFI in 1992. Labour massively expanded it after 1997. More than 700 projects were signed. The coalition eventually wound it down. The current government scrapped the latest version. But the contracts remain. The payments continue. And the damage is already done. This is what it looks like when a country chooses to buy its infrastructure on hire purchase instead of investing properly. You lock in above-market rates for decades. You lose control of the assets. You tie the hands of future governments. And when the bill keeps coming due, you're told there's no money for doctors, teachers, or social care. There was always money. It just went somewhere else.

@MattStirner @DewiMJones @iAmJoshHunt Matt you don’t understand, the people don’t create money, the government does. You can’t tax people until after the government has spent money into the economy. Money isn’t wealth.

@DewiMJones @iAmJoshHunt Yes, in a retarded world run by scammers this may be the case. We need to leave this evil behind.

@BallouxFrancois @davrosz Even if they were only bombing military targets it’s still an unprovoked illegal war of aggression, which the Pope would be right to condemn. The fact that they bomb school girls, volleyball teams, Unesco sites, and synagogues just amplifies the american war crimes.

This article is utter tosh, whatever one's position on Trump, Pope Leo XIV, or the morality of the Iran war. Essentially every paragraph is nonsense. It reads like borderline satire at times. One example of the idiocy of the piece among others, I quote "... 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴", which is a truly insane thing to write, given that the first salvo of the war was literally a double-tap on a school that killed ~150 schoolgirls. It's puzzling this embarrassing piece passed an editor at the Times. thetimes.com/comment/column…

@bejerezc Australia!

Buenos días a tod@s☀ 🌝 Deseando un feliz lunes e inicio de semana, les pregunto: ¿desde dónde me ven? 👀 Yo los leo desde mi tierra linda: #Cuba 🇨🇺

@piersmorgan Terrorist is a meaningless word. In the UK people who spray paint aircraft are called terrorists. 80 year olds who hold up signs are called terrorists. Hezbollah are labelled terrorists for resisting. Remember the French Resistance in WW2. They were heroes for resisting.

The Professor’s terrorist-loving mask slips.

Australian foreign minister @SenatorWong is the ultimate racist. She values the lives of Jewish children more than Palestinian and Lebanese children. She condemned the death of 12 syrian children only when she wrongly assumed they were Jewish. Other than that she’s only ever “deeply concerned”.

@phat3lvis @bazzacc2 So it was banned in america! Grok confirmed it and you drew the opposite conclusion. Weird. Sounds like you’re the one who is full of💩.

I asked Grok and you are full of shit. No, The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck is not banned in the United States. There has never been a nationwide or federal ban on the book (the U.S. has no central authority that bans books for the entire country). It remains widely available for purchase in public libraries, and is often taught in high schools and colleges as a classic of American literature. facebook.com Historical context and local bans/challenges The novel (published in 1939) has faced local bans and challenges, especially right after its release and occasionally in later decades. The most notable early example was in Kern County, California, in August 1939—just months after publication. The county Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to remove it from public schools and libraries. The ban lasted about 18 months (until early 1941). thefussylibrarian.com Other early removals or bans occurred in places like: East St. Louis, Illinois (public library, on grounds of obscenity) Buffalo, New York Kansas City, Missouri And a few other localities. study.com It has also been challenged (attempts to restrict or remove it) in various school districts over the decades, including in the 1980s–2000s, but these were isolated and not nationwide. bbark.deepforestproductions.com

Still relevant today ✔️

@TweetCat666 @OunkaOnX “but also looking at military capabilities” is the phrase you are overlooking.

@OunkaOnX That’s not what he said at all. Why does everyone keep reporting it like this? You scared the shit out of me. He’s talking about some diplomatic plan and logistics

Keir Starmer just confirmed he's coordinating with Trump to build a 30‑nation coalition to force open the Strait of Hormuz Starmer is leading Britain straight into another illegal war

ASIO Amendment Bill No. 2 has officially passed Parliament — 106 Ayes to 8 Noes. This is no longer “temporary anti-terror legislation.” It is now permanent law giving ASIO police-state style powers over every day Australian citizens. What the bill actually does: Removes the sunset clause — these powers are now permanent Allows compulsory questioning of children as young as 14 Lets the Attorney-General personally issue questioning warrants — no court approval required Makes it a criminal offence to tell anyone (including your family) that you’ve been questioned Gives ASIO the power to reject your chosen lawyer and severely restricts what your lawyer can do or say during questioning Strips away your right to silence — you must answer their questions or face jail This is not about catching terrorists anymore. This is about giving an intelligence agency the power to secretly drag any Australian in for interrogation without suspecting you of any crime. 106 politicians just voted to hand ASIO these powers. Only 8 had the courage to vote No. Your right to remain silent? Your right to proper legal defense? Your right to know when the state is targeting you? Gone. Eroded. Normalised. This is how freedoms die — not with a bang, but with a quiet division in Parliament House. Share this widely. Australians need to know what just happened behind closed doors. #ASIOBill #PoliceStateAustralia #FreedomUnderAttack #australiawakeup

Leaked US cable - marked SECRET - reveals the extent of American spying from RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus, which is just 150 miles from Lebanon. The highly-classified letter from UK military official to US counterpart reveals: 🚨 The "regular intelligence flights that the US undertakes from RAF Akrotiri" 🚨 UK official says these American flights "have become routine" 🚨 US flies secret spy flights over Lebanon from RAF Akrotiri 🚨 The intelligence product from these flights is "intended to be passed to third party governments", likely to be Israel 🚨 UK official says "there are sensitivities” with Cypriot government about the Americans using the British base for spy missions 🚨 “Other agencies” – believed to be the CIA – are using RAF Akrotiri for spying missions

People aren't paying enough attention to this but it's genuinely insane. This 👇is Nicholas Burns, former U.S. ambassador to China under the Biden administration. First of all the very notion that he'd gloat and call it a "badge of honor" to have so antagonized the country he was ambassador to that they had to issue an official statement to rebuke him says a lot about the man. In a normal world, diplomacy is about building bridges, not bragging about burning them... But that's not the insane part. The reason why China issued their statement (found here: english.news.cn/20260407/ad2ff…) is because Burns had been publicly taunting them for NOT doing more to oppose America. Yes, you read that right, the former **American** ambassador to China, was mocking China for being **not hostile enough** toward his own country. I'm not exaggerating. Back on March 1st, at the beginning of the Iran war, Burns called China a "feckless friend" of Iran for not doing more to help Iran fight his own country (x.com/RNicholasBurns…). He then doubled down on Bloomberg TV on March 28th, calling China "fickle" for failing to confront the U.S. over both Iran and Venezuela (bloomberg.com/news/articles/…). I mean, how unhinged is that? The man keeps mocking a rival nuclear-armed power for exercising restraint toward his own country and refusing to start WW3. And then, when China "rebukes" him, saying that he's trying to "drive a wedge" between China and other countries while "distorting China's stance for peace" - honestly one of the most measured responses imaginable given what he'd been saying - Burns treats it like a trophy. A former top diplomat, proud of trying to make the world's most dangerous relationship - that he was in charge of - worse. And keep in mind: this isn't some Trump admin loony who used to be a Fox News host or some sort of shoddy businessman. Burns is supposed to be the best the American foreign policy establishment has to offer: a career diplomat under both parties, ambassador to NATO, Undersecretary of State, Biden's handpicked envoy to Beijing, and now professor "of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations" at Harvard Kennedy School. That's the scariest part of all: Burns isn't a deviation from the system. He IS the system. Which means rot isn't at the margins - it's at the core.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 US Continues its "Good Cop, Bad Cop" Game with Israel Amid Fake Interest in Iran "Peace" If only there was some way the US could stop Israel from bombing ahead of peace talks... If there was only some possible way the US could stop the shipment of all the bombs it sends to Israel week to week, without which Israel couldn't bomb anyone, anywhere... If only there was some sort of leverage the US had to stop the construction and shipment of American warplanes, spare parts, and billions in US funding and support that created and maintains Israel's air force in the first place... Of course I'm being sarcastic. Every Israeli transgression is also 100% a deliberate American transgression. Israel does not exist as it does without constant and complete US support in terms of weapons, aircrafts, parts, funding, and political support - but also all other kinds of military support America has in the region Israel does not - without which Israel COULD NOT pursue aggression. Stop allowing the US to play this elementary game of "good cop, bad cop" where it pretends it wants peace but "Israel" is somehow ruining it. The US has never sought peace. Peace only occurs when physically imposed on the US and even then it does all it can to undermine it. It has played exactly this game in regards to Ukraine, which makes all of this even more obvious! Why doesn't anyone ask why can't the US ever say no to Ukraine? Because it doesn't want to! It wants war and proxy war, and Ukraine, Israel and many others allow it to do so! If the US wants to curb Israel, the leash is entirely in its hands, just like with Ukraine, and violence continues only because the US desires it to, no matter what it claims. If Israeli lobbying ended today, big-oil and the arms industry - which spend VASTLY more than Israel anyway - would continue pushing for war everywhere with everyone - just as the US did for 2 centuries before Israel ever existed - and NOTHING in the US would change. If the US cut off support for Israel today, it would blow away in the wind tomorrow. That tells you who is the master, and who is the puppet. Any claim otherwise is an act of delusion and/or deception.

@DrEliDavid Iran had peaceful protests about economic conditions after Bessent targeted their currency. The protests were co-opted by CIA & Mossad agents who had been supplied with weapons & comms gear. They rioted, shooting police & setting fires. 3,100 people died as a result, not 45,000.

Anyone still cares about 45,000 massacred Iranian protesters?

@Tikane50 @RhondaGarad @DavidShoebridge @DeclassifiedAus AUKUS more like PORKAUS

@RhondaGarad @DavidShoebridge @DeclassifiedAus AUKUS is costing Australians $33 million a day, every day, for the next 30 years = $360 billion (before any cost blow outs). So you can take your pick....from Non military Science to Aged Care to Health to Education to Public Housing and everything in between.

Massive diversion of funds from US science to pay for Trump's war of choice. How much will be diverted from Australian science for AUKUS? @DavidShoebridge @DeclassifiedAus

Please understand that Trump is not the exception nor is he unique to American history; he is a byproduct of it. He is the unfettered, morally bankrupt rotten core of American white supremacism/ imperialism staring back at us. It's always been there, its just more unmasked now. Deep down I think the liberal corporate media/ establishment doesn't actually have a problem with Trump's policies per say (look at Pelosi, Schumer and other Dems comments on ravaging Iran), but rather that he's exposed the facade of America. That's what they find so difficult to stomach and contend with. He doesn't care to mask the true face of America's horrific violence or disregard for human life. American imperialist hegemony built itself upon a veneer of moral supremacy that legitimized it's violence as necessary and good. America was a brand, a business, with a very specific image that needed to be sustained. Marketed through its media, corporations and propaganda expeditiously— it depended upon upholding an illusion (myth) of moral and civilizational superiority, that covered over its true evils. That always gave it the upper hand because it was inherently benevolent. This justified it's global dominance, even though it was always maintained through such unforgiving brutality. Yet Trump routinely exposes this with both his incompetence and variable honesty, even though he's not actually trying to be honest. Hence they purposefully make Trump seem like an outlier to the presidency. Recall the years long obsession with the Russian collusion narrative, because of the optics. His victory over the neoliberal feel-good, female empowerment candidate (Clinton), made America, the self-anointed bastion of democracy and progressivism in the world, look bad. That it couldn't actually elect a borderline fascist or overt racist when racism had just ended with the first Black President previously. That it must have been that some foreign entity that helped him win. People today laud war criminals like Bush and Obama because they perceive the US presidency through the expectation of a performance. Trump lacks the relative decorum of his predecessors to mask the fallout of policies which are just as destructive as theirs, if not more. Trump is only an exception to American history in that he doesn't outwardly behave *presidentially* because he wasn't coming off of the traditional, cookie-cutter DC establishment politician conveyor belt. He doesn't possess the charm, wit or likeablity of his predecessors to paint over America's horrors. He has laid it all bare; gloves off, mask off. He's given them permission to show their true essence and not be ashamed of it. There is no need to hide it any longer— the violent white supremacy— unleashed to maximum capability. Maximum lethality, not tepid legality; as Hegseth put it. He's told them to take pride in it; to do it boldy. No fanciful language or need to spin the reality of what they're actually doing or believe in; unrelenting and unabashed; not restricted by or accountable to, any entity or semblance of morality. Just raw power. He is America's true face.

As the US president openly talks about premeditated genocide against Iran's "whole civilization," the US is more openly linking its war on Iran to China. The US will not simply "give up" in Iran because its war on Iran is a war on wider multipolarism and ultimately against the rise of China itself. The US is out of time - each year China becomes stronger and multipolarism becomes stronger. The US is now engaged in a dangerous global murder spree to destabilize and destroy as much of multipolarism as possible. The US would rather destroy the global economy and attempt to emerge strongest on the other end than simply coexist with the rest of the world. The US will do virtually anything - probably up to and including using nuclear weapons against Iran - if not directly - by using its Israeli proxies to do it on their behalf - to permanently destroy the region and further isolate both Russia and China. And again - this isn't "Trump" doing this - the US has planned and prepared for this very war for decades - conducting plans it has put to paper verbatim. To understand and overcome this threat - people must read the policy papers the US is literally reading from as it wages war and proxy war against Russia, Iran, and China at this very moment.

@KieranEleison @sahouraxo Wanker

@sahouraxo They are conveniently self-identifying as IRGC

Iranians are forming human chains on bridges — standing together against threats of destruction. This is today on the White Bridge in Ahvaz, Iran. Trump and Israel’s criminal war has united all of Iranian society — every faith, every class — in defense of their homeland.

@joni_askola @BitterTonic Sovereignty and Independence, so what were Victoria Nuland, John McCain and the CIA doing in Ukraine?

The United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia signed the Budapest Memorandum in 1994. The deal was simple: Ukraine surrendered its massive nuclear arsenal, and in return, those powers promised to respect its sovereignty. Everyone needs to remember that