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John Cleese

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Trainee hermit, & keen Amateur Squirrel Trainer

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Berly Martawardaya@bmartawardaya·
@ParrotMystery The Royal Spain Football Association edited Trump out of the trophy lifting picture
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He told his students to go to the windows. Get out. Jump if you have to. Then Liviu Librescu walked to the classroom door and pressed his body against it. He was 76 years old. He weighed 140 lbs The gunman was in the hallway. It was April 16, 2007. A Monday morning. Solid mechanics class at Virginia Tech, Room 204. Twenty-two students, most of them 19 or 20 years old. At 9:45 AM, gunshots echoed through Norris Hall. Room by room, the shooter was working his way down the corridor. Liviu heard it. He understood immediately. He had survived the Holocaust. He had survived a labor camp. He had spent decades living under Communist oppression. He knew exactly what evil sounded like. He told his students to escape through the windows. Second floor — it was a drop, but they'd survive. Then he walked to the door and held it shut with his body. The shooter tried to force it open. It wouldn't move. He fired through the door. Wood splintered. Bullets came through. Liviu stayed. Behind him, students were climbing out the windows. Dropping to the ground. Running. One by one, all twenty-two of them got out. The shooter kept firing through the door. Liviu held it shut until every student was safe. Then the bullets killed him. When police arrived, they found his body at the door. All 22 of his students survived. Not one was injured. Liviu Librescu was born on August 18, 1930, in Ploiești, Romania. He was Jewish. In 1941, when he was eleven years old, Romanian authorities sent him and his family to a labor camp. His father died there. Liviu survived. When the war ended, he was fifteen. He went back to school. Studied engineering. Earned a doctorate from the University of Bucharest. But Communist Romania had no interest in allowing a Jewish intellectual to succeed. He was blocked from academic positions. Passed over for jobs he deserved. He applied to emigrate. The government kept refusing. Finally, in 1978 when Liviu was 48 years old — Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally intervened. Romania let him go. He had spent most of his adult life trapped in a country that didn't want him. In Israel, he taught at Tel Aviv University. Published over 300 papers. Became an international expert in aeroelasticity — the science of how air flows over aircraft wings. In 1985, Virginia Tech offered him a position. He moved to Blacksburg, Virginia. He taught there for 22 years. His students loved him — demanding but kind, high standards, genuine care. He was still teaching full-time at 76. Still publishing research. Still showing up every Monday morning for solid mechanics. April 16 was the first day of Passover — the Jewish holiday celebrating liberation from slavery and oppression. Liviu Librescu died on the day his tradition sets aside to celebrate freedom. He spent his entire life escaping death and oppression by luck, by persistence, by the intervention of others. And on his last morning, he chose to stand at a door so that twenty-two young people could have the future he had fought so hard to reach. He could have run. He could have hidden. He could have climbed out a window with his students. He chose to stay. The Virginia Tech shooting killed 32 people that day — the deadliest school shooting in American history at the time. Room 204 had zero casualties. Because a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor held a door with his body until every student behind him was gone. His funeral was held in Israel. Students from Virginia Tech flew across the ocean to honor him. The Israeli government awarded him the Star of David Medal posthumously. Virginia Tech named a scholarship in his memory. His son said his father died the way he lived — protecting others. A man who survived everything evil threw at him for 76 years. On his last day, he made sure 22 kids survived too. Professor Liviu Librescu. August 18, 1930 — April 16, 2007. Holocaust survivor. Labor camp survivor. 302 published papers. 22 years at Virginia Tech. 22 students out the window. He held the door.

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John Cleese@JohnCleese·
Please read this She reveals the propaganda tricks used by woke folk to create en entirely one sided view of history
Wall Street Apes@WallStreetApes

Every person living in a western nation needs to listen to every word of this Katherine Berbalsingh went to the University of Oxford and is Headmaster at Michaela Community School in London, UK She PERFECTLY explains the mass indoctrination into the narrative of oppressor and oppressed, and of hating White People I will write only some of this out because it’s very important, however you should listen to it so you can hear the passion: “The culture shift comes from what children learn at school and online. Ask any young person what history they learned at school, and they’ll tell you, Hitler. Ask them what else? Slavery. Ask them what else? American civil rights. In fact, what little they know of history will be all about Black and brown people fighting for equality against the white man, women fighting men for the vote, gay and trans people fighting for various rights. Our young people have been taught that history is simply one long story about various groups struggling under the oppressive dead white man. — History is taught through an oppressor lens. The triangular slave trade, white men held the power. What about Britain ending the slave trade? More than a quick mention, if at all? Mm, no. What of the Arab slave trade that lasted 3 times as long as the triangular slave trade? Mm, no. Okay, so GCSE history in Britain is often taught as migration through time, so the idea that Britain has always been a land of immigrants is embedded in our children’s heads. Most schools would prefer to concentrate learning about the tiny number of Black people who existed in Tudor England over a thorough analysis of England’s break from Rome. — Not to mention weeks on King Mansa Musa of Mali because he was a Black Muslim. His bearing on British institutions, laws, and faith is nonexistent. And the fact that he is said to have been the richest man in history, thanks in part to his massive slave-owning society, is a detail somehow that teachers rarely ever teach. But it isn’t just our schools. It’s our general culture too. Take your kids to a museum or an art gallery in any Western country, and you’ll find the same narrative. As an example, when learning about aviation in London’s Science Museum and the extraordinary feat that is man making massive machines move in the sky, a write-up on the wall explains that women and Black people were historically barred from aviation schools and the military. Similarly, James Watt, the man who invented the steam engine and is considered the founder of the Industrial Revolution, has a write-up on the wall explaining that his early career involved slave trafficking, with a bonus analysis of the whole of Britain’s complicity in the slave trade. They flatten the entire human story and all of its complexities into the narrative of oppressor and oppressed, leaving young people unable to see the world in any other terms.” We have to end the mass indoctrination

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James Melville 🚜
James Melville 🚜@JamesMelville·
"What did you think of the World Cup final half-time show?" Wayne Rooney: “I thought it was crap.” Wayne Rooney speaks for the entire world. #WorldCupFinal
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Kate from Kharkiv
Kate from Kharkiv@BohuslavskaKate·
John Foreman: Putin can't leave power now. He’s prisoner of system he’s created. He’s going to die in harness. Putin gets older, more stale, more detached from man he used to be, more surrounded by aging sycophants, drives Russia further into the ground, with no succession plan.
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Chino@ChinoUTD·
🚨 Roy Keane on Nico Williams disallowed goal against Argentina: “I’ve just seen the biggest robbery of this World Cup. The ball comes into the box, nobody touches anybody, everyone goes up for it, then one Argentina player starts shouting. The next thing you know, two defenders are on the floor appealing, Nico Williams has scored, and Emiliano Martinez … who wasn’t even touched… is somehow lying there as well asking for a foul. The referee blows immediately. No VAR review. No replay. No check to see if there was actually any contact. Just disallowed. Apparently if enough Argentina players fall over at the same time, that’s now considered conclusive evidence. If we’re being honest, Paredes shouldn’t even still be on the pitch after some of the tackles he’s made today. Yet somehow the only thing the referee managed to spot instantly was an invisible foul.”
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Caura
Caura@CauraAI·
The most expensive model in the run sent us four blank answers. Then it billed us for them. The receipt is brutal.
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Akash Maniam
Akash Maniam@ManiamAkash·
With European sanctions constantly held up by a few bad actors, russia knows it can attack with impunity. Stop protecting russian assets more than Ukrainian lives.
Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦@andrii_sybiha

While the world is still responding to Russia's brutal overnight attack on Kyiv, Moscow continues its campaign of terror throughout the day. Russia has now struck a civilian vessel navigating Ukraine's maritime corridor. The crew included citizens of Syria and India. A Ukrainian maritime pilot was killed, as well as four crew members, eight crew members were evacuated and five still remain missing. A civilian ship. An international crew. A route serving global food security. Putin saw another target. This attack leaves no room for illusions. Putin's Russia does not care whom it kills. Ukrainians or citizens of any other nation. For Putin, human life does not matter. Only his criminal objectives do. In the last wave of attacks, it wasn’t an isolated incident. Just yesterday, Russia attacked another foreign merchant vessel in the Black Sea flying the flag of Antigua and Barbuda, killing one person and injuring three others. Russia is deliberately turning freedom of navigation into a target of war. Upon Prime Minister @KoretskyiUA’s instructions, @MFA_Ukraine is already informing the International Maritime Organization and our international partners about Russia's latest attacks on civilian shipping, as well as the governments of the states whose citizens were killed or injured. During President @ZelenskyyUa's recent visit to London, I discussed this issue with the IMO leadership and called for the deployment of an international monitoring mission to Ukraine's ports. We expect this mission to begin its work as planned in the fall and help document every act of Russia's maritime terror, paving the way for accountability. Today Russia also struck the Kharkiv region with missiles, killing at least four people and injuring at least twenty. In Zaporizhzhia, guided aerial bombs killed at least three civilians, injured at least thirty three more. Every delay in increasing pressure on Moscow costs more innocent lives. Russia must face overwhelming force, crippling sanctions, lower oil revenues, full diplomatic isolation, and justice. Terror must never be allowed to prevail.

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Alex Armstrong
Alex Armstrong@Alexarmstrong·
“undoubtedly saved lives” I’m extremely worried as to what is going on in the Home Office. Twice, in a week, the most senior politicians in our country are looking stupid because they’ve shared police misinformation, or have made it up themselves. Spreading misinformation to millions of people, without apology, whilst you hold high office should be a breach of ministerial code.
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GB News@GBNEWS·
'We can’t deport an Albanian drug dealer because he cooks and cleans for his wife.' @AlexArmstrong discusses the latest 'joke' asylum claims as 'a convicted drug trafficker who broke back into this country illegally is allowed to stay because he does the washing up'.
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Sall Grover
Sall Grover@salltweets·
“Why don’t more women confront men who claim to be women in women’s spaces?” So, this is how they behave in public with someone they are actually intimidated by, law enforcement.
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Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧@JChimirie66677·
Lammy's Data Cover-Up Is A Scandal About Power, Not Just Numbers The Ministry of Justice is now in court to stop the public seeing crime data the public is legally entitled to see. That is the story, stripped of the politics around it. David Lammy's department asked the Information Commissioner for permission to withhold seven years of conviction data broken down by nationality. The Commissioner refused. The MoJ is appealing that refusal to a tribunal rather than complying with it. The reasons the MoJ gave for withholding the data are worth dwelling on, because both were tested and both failed. The department claimed the request would cost too much to fulfil. The Information Commissioner's office did not simply take a different view. It found the MoJ had never produced a coherent estimate of the cost in the first place. Complexity, the ruling noted, does not excuse a public body from having to show its working. A government department asserted a defence and could not substantiate it to its own regulator. The department also claimed publication risked identifying individuals. The Commissioner rejected this too, and for a reason that exposes how thin the objection was: the standard method of suppressing any category with fewer than five convictions would resolve the privacy concern entirely. This is routine practice across government statistics. The MoJ did not explain why it would not apply here. Two arguments, tested by an independent watchdog, both found wanting. That is the pattern that should trouble people regardless of where they stand on immigration. A department lost on the merits and chose litigation over compliance. Nick Timothy and Robert Jenrick have both called this a cover-up, and it is easy to see why the word fits. But it is worth being precise about what is actually being covered up, because the temptation is to overreach. The published figures already show foreign nationals accounted for one in seven sexual offence convictions last year, against a population share of roughly one in eleven. What remains hidden is the breakdown within that figure: how many of those convictions were rape, how many grooming, how many child sexual abuse, and which nationalities appear most often within each category. Nobody outside government currently knows that with precision. That is exactly why the MoJ's resistance matters. The public is being asked to trust a conclusion it is not permitted to check. Lammy's own account of this makes the pattern harder to defend, not easier. In a letter to Timothy last week, he defended the department's position by pointing to a "range of statistical breakdowns" already published, and said publication of further data was kept under "continuous review." Continuous review is not a commitment. It is a form of words that allows a department to say something is being considered indefinitely without ever being obliged to act on it. Put alongside two failed arguments before the Information Commissioner, it reads less like caution and more like a holding position dressed up as process. It would not be the first time. When early release for serious offenders began this year, the same department declined to publish a total figure for how many foreign nationals would be affected, despite holding the data. There is a version of this story that is simply about migration policy. It is not that story. It is about whether a government department will accept the ruling of the watchdog charged with enforcing transparency law, or whether it will use the machinery of litigation to delay disclosure indefinitely. Parliament does not need to wait for the tribunal to ask that question. It needs to ask why a government that says it has nothing to hide is paying lawyers to make sure nobody can check.
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spiked@spikedonline·
‘The people telling us not to “politicise” Ann Widdecombe’s murder are the very same people who immediately blamed Jo Cox’s murder on the Brexit campaign. These are bad-faith actors trying to police our emotions’ Claire Fox on the killing that shook a nation:
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🗣️ Luis de la Fuente: “I’m so happy we won the World Cup. This is the happiest day of my life, thanks to Ferran Torres’ goal. But we also need to talk about the VAR and the referee. I have never seen a bigger robbery in my coaching career than this. It looked like they wanted Argentina and Lionel Messi to win it again so badly. The referee was practically Argentina’s 12th man on the pitch. In the first half, there were several fouls that he ignored, but the worst was the challenge on Dani Olmo. Mac Allister tackled him with both feet, which is a red-card offense, but the referee and VAR ignored it. There was also the challenge on Yamal, where a player stepped on his ankle from behind. The referee ignored it, and VAR didn’t intervene either. Argentina should be ashamed of receiving such favoritism in a World Cup final. They had the officials on their side, but we were fully prepared for everything. In the end, football won.”
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Pinpoint Inaccuracy@pinpointinaccry·
@sharrond62 I’m all for adults being into whatever kink they desire. But that presupposes adult responsibility and respect. Which seems to be absent in the case of anyone who parades like this in front of sprogs or takes their kids to see it.
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Ladykorg@Ladykorg·
@sharrond62 Public displays of lewd fetishistic behavior involving non-consenting individuals (children) is abuse. These men are no different to flashers. They're getting a kick out of exhibiting their privates. We all know where that kind of mentality can lead. mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/k…
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