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Opinions on Palestine 🇵🇸 ultimately boil down to a single question: in the early 1900s was it a land already inhabited or was it a barren land waiting to be given away for new immigrant settlers?
Nath doesn't believe that the Middle East has rain - I know this is an extreme example but I visited Oman in 2010 a few years after this event.
When it rains - it can really rain hard.
The way these people share weather forecasts of the next few days is their excuse for genocide.
This is a lie. Fake videos. "Gaza is in the Middle East. It rains between 25 and 45 days per year in Gaza (counting light rain days or precipitation of at least 1 mm). Currently, it is 22°C (72°F) and sunny."
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The massive flooding in Gaza last week from heavy storms that lasted just 2 days is made worse by the lack of drainage or sewage treatment due to Israeli bombing, plus the people have been forced to low lying areas. The biggest threat to the population now will be disease.
The rhetoric from Israeli supporters is genocidal, they want everyone dead - they are also inventing new lies to explain the lack of drainage (apparently Hamas ‘ripped up all the pipes to use for rockets 🤥).
Yet, there is evidence that the consequence of Israel’s “blocking of tunnels” has overflowed concrete into drainage systems. Accidentally?
Let's reword this -
"Conservatives Plan £36 Billion Welfare Cuts to Tame Rising Bill"
to
"Conservatives Plan to remove £36 Billion from the economy"
REMEMBER - Money spent on benefits is spent back into the economy and will return to the treasury as tax, via spending chains.
The original version of Monopoly was actually designed to demonstrate the dangers of allowing private individuals to accumulate vast amounts of land and wealth, and how this leads to inequality and economic exploitation.
It was originally called The Landlord's Game, invented by an American woman named Elizabeth Magie in 1903.
Interestingly, the game was intended to make the case for a very different economic system from the one that the modern Monopoly game appears to celebrate.
Magie was influenced by the economic ideas of Henry George.
George argued that:
•Land is a natural resource that nobody individually created.
•Individuals should be able to own and develop property, but the value arising from land scarcity and location is largely created by society.
•Landowners can become wealthy simply by controlling valuable land and collecting rent.
•This concentrates wealth in the hands of a relatively small number of people.
His proposed solution was a Single Tax on the unimproved value of land, rather than taxing people's labour and productive activity.
The original game had two different sets of rules
This is the particularly interesting part.
Magie designed two ways of playing:
Landlord's Game - 1906 - Images
Monopolist rules
Players bought land, charged rent and attempted to accumulate wealth. Eventually, one player would dominate while the others became increasingly impoverished.
This demonstrated the consequences of concentrated property ownership.
The Landlord's Game — Base Camp Math
Prosperity rules
Players could benefit collectively from economic activity. The aim was to distribute the benefits of land ownership more fairly, rather than allowing one player to monopolise everything.
This illustrated George's alternative economic philosophy.
The contrast was deliberate: she wanted players to experience the difference between an economy dominated by landlords and one in which the benefits of land were shared more widely.
This is what happens when people mistake a board game for an economics education.
Monopoly has a fixed amount of wealth, no innovation, no investment, no productivity growth, and no new businesses. Capitalism has spent centuries doing precisely what Monopoly cannot, creating wealth that didn't previously exist.
The richest people in 1900 couldn't buy an antibiotic, a smartphone, or a commercial flight. Today, ordinary people have access to things kings couldn't have imagined.
Monopoly is a game about acquiring existing assets. Capitalism is an economic system that allows people to create entirely new ones.
If your understanding of economics comes from passing Go and collecting $200, perhaps sit this one out.
Craig are you being deliberately dishonest?
You don’t have to be a data analyst (I am) to realise that you have been more than selective about your data… all private rail companies have performed worse than the nationalised ones.
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Despite an evening of cuddles and a loud television to mask the sound of the fireworks which finished hours ago … my little boy 🐶 is still traumatised and hiding in the shower
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Thanks to NewsCord for this montage of BBC’s complicity in the support of Israel’s propaganda machine - I hope they don’t mind but I recorded it and slowed it down to actual speed. Over 5 minutes.
It’s hard to grasp the BBC’s systematic attempt to launder Israeli propaganda until you see the sheer scale of it. Here's a compilation of them doing it at 2x speed.
The latest was on Newsnight on 4 November. When Bernie Sanders called Israel’s government extremist, Victoria Derbyshire answered for it: “And the Israeli government would deny that they are extremists.”
As this video shows, BBC presenters repeatedly do this as guests describe Israel’s crimes: “Israel would say.” “Israel would deny.” “They would reject that.”
We counted 70 of these denials and justifications in 52 aired interviews. The BBC calls this impartiality. But in not one of those 52 did a presenter raise any of these words from Israel’s own leaders:
- “We are fighting human animals.” Yoav Gallant, 9 October 2023
- “It is an entire nation out there that is responsible.” Isaac Herzog, 12 October 2023
- “They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world.” Israel Katz, 13 October 2023
- “Remember what Amalek did to you.” Benjamin Netanyahu, 3 November 2023
- Starving two million people in Gaza until the hostages came back might be “justified and moral”. Bezalel Smotrich, 5 August 2024
On 10 October 2023, Tahani Mustafa told the BBC that Israeli forces were not distinguishing civilians from fighters. The presenter replied: “They would reject that.” Mustafa then had to bring up Gallant’s “human animals” herself. The BBC supplied the denial. The guest had to supply Israel’s own words.
That is cherry-picking. The Royal Charter requires the BBC to be impartial, and the public pays for it through the licence fee. In these interviews, it handed its audience Israel’s denials and left out its leaders’ own words, during a genocide streamed live to the world.
We have archived the BBC’s coverage for three years, and we are now counting all of it: 50,000 video clips and many more written excerpts.
We are calling this first part: "BBC: The Would Say Files".
Handing Israel its denials is only one of the ways the BBC launders Israeli propaganda, so we will count every other technique too. Over the next few weeks, we will announce each milestone as we complete the report.
These are the first results, with every clip, quote and source: newscord.org/editorials/bbc-…