Wagnerlass (aka Dr Judith Trew)

Donald Trump’s justification for freezing the Europeans out of the negotiations/ sell-out on Ukraine is based on a lie. Trump has asserted over and over that the US has supplied the lion’s share of aid to Kyiv in the last three years. No it hasn’t. 1/

I am incandescent with rage right now. I feel sick to the stomach. A US Vice President stood today on the soil of where so many Americans gave their lives to defeat fascism in Europe. He delivered a disgraceful speech that spat on their graves. Not that we should expect any different, given his boss skipped visiting the graves of fallen Americans in Europe for fear of getting his hair wet. The same man who called the same fallen heroes suckers and losers. As a Brit that loves America and the American people, I am deeply disturbed at the insults delivered by a man who once described Donald Trump as an “idiot" and said he was "reprehensible." Privately, comparing him to Adolf Hitler. How times have changed. Vance is now part of the most authoritarian administration in American history. An administration actively seeking to deny bodily autonomy to women. An administration pursuing the same mass deportation of immigrants that Europe witnessed in 1930s Germany. Vance is a man that his own president doesn’t even see as his successor. He came to Europe to vomit his Christo-fascist bile on leaders from the UK and across Europe, in what appears to be a retribution tour designed to assert American power. The U.S. are to my knowledge the only NATO country to have invoked Article 5 of the NATO charter after 9/11. We, his European allies, met that call with no questions asked. We sent thousands of soldiers to the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq to fight a war on the false premise of Donald Rumsfeld’s ‘known unknowns’. We did this despite millions of our own citizens protesting in the streets of our cities. Our military stood shoulder to shoulder with his military and we, like many Americans, stood to salute our fallen young men and women returning home day after day. I have tears in my eyes as I write this, thinking of them and their loved ones. Our brave men and women willingly gave their all and far too many made the ultimate sacrifice in support of an American led war. For the record, 6000 Ukrainian solders server alongside American soldiers in Iraq. This, despite Ukraine not being a member of NATO. In 1994 upon signing the Budapest Memorandum they gave up their nuclear weapons in return for security assurances from the US and the UK. These were then reneged upon in 2014 when Russia invaded Crimea. They were told ‘An assurance is not a guarantee’. Now, despite their friendship and their brave sacrifice on the battlefields of Ukraine, the President of the United States has decided to abandon them and hand a victory to an indicted war criminal, who illegally invaded the sovereign territory of a US ally. An ally who’s soldiers had previously lost their lives supporting America in its war on terror. SHAME ON HIM. Shame on the man who dodged the draft and never served a day in defense of his nation. He is a coward and I would gladly call him that to his face. To all those Americans on social media currently posting vile insults to those who have always been there for America, I say, democracy is bigger than you, as you sit anonymously behind your phones posting poison. America might have the most powerful army on the planet, but remember, that same army fled from Saigon after being handed their ass by a bunch of peasant rice farmers, armed with grenades made from discarded US coke cans. Ukraine have been to the Russian army what the Vietnamese were to you and we salute them. You might want to throw Ukraine under the bus while stealing there mineral deposits, BUT EUROPE WILL NOT ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN. I know for sure that the UK will not abandon the Ukrainian people. Our aid to GDP contribution already exceeds that of the US as does Poland, Germany Finland and others. The U.S. is no longer a reliable ally and if need be, we will stand with Ukraine without America. As for your pathetic tariffs, do your worst. You will soon have no friends but thugs and autocrats, so I’m sure Wun Dum Fuc will be right at home.

Yesterday's PMQs was deeply shameful. UK proudly welcomes refugees from Ukraine (as we should), but when our weapons decimate Gaza, we deny sanctuary to the most vulnerable. As naked a display of institutional racism coming to the surface as you'll ever witness in UK politics.

What are Sarwar & Starmer up to with their nuclear love-in? Scotland going for new nuclear is like geothermal Iceland going 4 new gas. It makes no sense at all. Our destiny is to develop clean green baseload energy like tidal for ourselves & the world thenational.scot/politics/24931…

🚨The US Vice President just LIED about human rights in Scotland! Misinformation fuels the far-right; we won't stand by and let him get away with it. (More info below 👇)

1/ After residency at Mass General Hospital, I reported to Atlanta to meet my fellow CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers. I have never felt so intimidated by my peers The best and the brightest, they were star clinicians, had served in disaster zones; MD/PhDs and MSF.

Why aren’t you also letting the public know that COVID-19 increases the risk of heart attack and stroke @WHO?

Another brilliant thread by our behatted feline friend! As a health & safety practitioner, when investigating accidents & incidents, we're taught to always identify the 'root cause'. This thread identifies the root cause of why so many people get Covid-19 in hospitals (esp HCWs)

THE INFECTION CONTROL PROBLEM IN A NUTSHELL 🌰 In just 1 minute & 20 secs, this video clearly demonstrates why we have such a HUGE problem with infection control in NHS hospitals… …and why so many patients are ending up infected with Covid during a stay in hospital. /1

Yes, you read that right. Westminster blocked Scotland's deposit return scheme. Now it's doing its own deposit return scheme. It doesn't include Scotland. So we're back to square one. Lorna Slater says it's baffling and it would be hard to say otherwise. thenational.scot/news/24889346.…

Irn Bru makers Barr's & their new London PR firm can’t win. If they keep 30 yrs of the Leith Agency’s cheeky, Scottish style, why dump this Scottish firm? If they change dramatically to include Union Jacks & Great British sloganising, there’ll be uproar. thenational.scot/comment/248778…

Labour MPs and candidates happily posed for photographs with @WASPI_Campaign women, but then turned their backs on them when they got into power. @StephenGethins is right, their refusal to deliver compensation and justice is yet another broken Labour promise.

America leaving the WHO is a mistake. When it comes to pandemics, no one is safe until everyone is safe. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A lot of folks are concerned that leaving here will result in a loss of community For disabled & chronically ill people especially, online connections are invaluable When you’re too sick to leave your home or abandoned by most in “real life”, your online home is everything 🧵

“Infections like #flu” says @UKHSA; “flu and other viruses” says @AmandaPritchard. Is this how you deal with Covid? Do you think that if you stop talking about it & stop testing for it the problem will go away? What a cringeworthy, transparent and short-sighted strategy.

BBC Scotland isn't Scottish. It's a franchise of the London BBC. Just as organisations such as US based Amazon or McDonalds have Scottish franchises, so too has the London based BBC. It isn't ours. Once you understand that then everything falls into place.

Elon Musk needs to be stopped. After he fanned the flames of racial division in the UK last summer, I warned that he was one of the most dangerous men on the planet. Armed with billions and driven by hatred, it is time we confront Musk's hateful rhetoric, not pander to it.

Please consider your freedoms and give some acknowledgment to how some of them were hard won by brave activists . We must protect our right to peaceful protest , it is fundamental to our invaluable democracy . To find out more please visit actionnetwork.org/forms/january-… @DefendourJuries @JustStop_Oil

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I'm in Raigmore at the moment no bed bugs rats or any nasties cleanliness is spot on even though they're run off their feet..perhaps she needs psychiatric care if she is seeing all those things in our hospitals that others don't see