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Ben Nevis

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Pre-Bunking, Media Literacy, & Debunking Chronic Acronym Disorder

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Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · 3d

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Israel's ongoing mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza
Israel’s brutal occupation
siege
successive wars
atrocities
bipartisan complicity🔴🇺🇸🔵
corporate media
global institutions
McCarthyite crackdown on free speech, dissent, and academic freedom in the U.S

FULL TALK | Norman Finkelstein at UMass: Gaza, Truth & the Battle for Free Speech

YouTube video by Media Education Foundation

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Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · 5h

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Michael Parenti "Imperialism, Drugs and Social Control"

YouTube video by The Michael Parenti Library

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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 7h

Modern stained glass in the Lismore pub in the Partick area of Glasgow.

Cont./

#glasgow #stainedglass #architecture #architecturephotography #lismore #partick #thelismore #window #stainedglasswindow

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Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · 8h

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Esraa atar🍉🕊 @esraa86.bsky.social · 7d

I am Israa, I have 3 children. My son Adam is 3 years old. He was injured in the head and needs treatment and painkillers. I ask you to help me so that I can buy medicine for my son. Donate to us and support my campaign, please.🙏💔😭👇👇
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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 1d

The conspiracy theory that grabbed Karl Marx.

@iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss how Marx went down a loophole with a very specific Russian spy conspiracy.

Full episode here 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...

#marx #karlmarx #originstory

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 12h

Catherine Hodes was taken hostage by the PFLP at age 13 while traveling from Israel to the U.S. The experience sparked a lifelong commitment to Palestinian liberation.

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#Palestine #Israel

She was taken hostage by Palestinians 55 years ago. Now she’s an anti-Zionist activist.

Catherine Hodes was taken hostage by the PFLP at age 13 while traveling from Israel to the U.S. The experience sparked a lifelong commitment to Palestinian liberation.

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Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · 11h

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Israel refuses to release abducted Palestinian doctors, will not let foreign medics enter Gaza either

Doctors imprisoned without charge, beaten and starved will remain in 'detention' says Israel as it blocks international access to Gaza

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 17h

Paul Holden: why I’ve given exclusive extracts of The Fraud to the Canary and Inside Croydon

Labour Together's targeting of both Inside Croydon and the Canary was genuinely shocking and needs exposing, Paul Holden says in an exclusive column for the Canary
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Paul Holden: why I’ve given exclusive extracts of The Fraud to the Canary and Inside Croydon

The Fraud shows the targeting of both Inside Croydon and the Canary are genuinely shocking, Paul Holden says in an exclusive column

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Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · 12h

He's had a visit from the men in dark suits

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12h

I am tempted to laugh, but its actually pretty terrifying that Peter Thiel is so self-radicalized and out of touch with reality that he can think and write like this.
And that the world's governments and people just keep forking over more money and influence to him.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 13h

Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-bank-israel-raids-homes-prisoners-be-released-Gaza-ceasefire-deal

Israel raids homes of West Bank prisoners set to be released in deal

Families of captive Palestinians threatened not to celebrate release of family members following ceasefire deal

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Eric the Green (and Red) @rerics.bsky.social · 13h

Hyper-Normalisation and the Criminalistion of Protest bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/10/06/h...

Hyper-Normalisation and the Criminalistion of Protest

The UK government is planning to clamp down even harder on peaceful protest against the genocide in Gaza. Given their support of the Israel — through the supply of weapons parts, troop training and…

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Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · 13h

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Jonathan Cook (@jonathancook)

Chief Rabbi Ephraim MIrvis, who was caught on video openly praising Israeli soldiers for slaughtering Palestinian children in Gaza, tells Radio 4 it's time to ban all protests in solidarity with Pales...

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 18h

The Digital Coup: How Silicon Valley Billionaires and Tech Giants Are Capturing Britain’s Future
I investigate the web of influence connecting Larry Ellison, Tony Blair, Keir Starmer, and the corporations vying to control Britain’s digital infrastructure.
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The Digital Coup: How Silicon Valley Billionaires and Tech Giants Are Capturing Britain’s Future

An investigation into the web of influence connecting Larry Ellison, Tony Blair, Keir Starmer, and the corporations positioning themselves to control Britain’s digital infrastructure

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Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · 13h

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U.S. Aid to Israel in Four Charts

Israel has long been the leading recipient of U.S. foreign aid, including military assistance. That aid has come under heightened scrutiny over the course of Israel’s conflicts with Hamas and Iran.

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 14h

Far too much of Scotland's land is hoarded by a small group of the extremely rich.

But we can change that.

Scottish Greens are working to strengthen the upcoming Land Reform Bill to boost community ownership and put Scotland’s land in Scotland’s hands.

Public 'overwhelmingly' supports bigger changes on land reform, say charities

SCOTS overwhelmingly support bigger changes on land reform, a coalition of charities has said following a public consultation ...

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Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · 13h

Clacton: Labour 'block own candidate' from campaigning against Reform

www.thenational.scot/news/2441613...

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24416139.clacton-labour-not-putting-fight-nigel-farage/

Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · 13h

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 15h

“The UK’s net zero economy grew by 10 percent in 2024, employing almost a million people in full-time jobs.”

Reform want to ditch renewables for fossil fuels. Not even the oil & gas industry thinks it’s a good idea:
https://bit.ly/46LOfGc

Oil and Gas Trade Group Blasts Reform’s Anti-Renewables Agenda

LIVERPOOL – The UK’s largest oil and gas trade body has criticised Reform UK’s plans to “turn off the tap” on renewable energy. Nigel Farage’s party has tried to present itself as the oil and gas indu...

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Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · 14h

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Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · 14h

Is 'Pleasant' a reasonable expectation 🤔

Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · 14h

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Clacton: Labour 'block own candidate' from campaigning against Reform

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‪Mike Tapp MP‬
‪@miketapp.bsky.social‬

New tie, new haircut, new legislation to treat the evil smuggling gangs like terrorists!
MP for Dover & Deal.

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