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Ray Selby #BanX #FBPE #XR #antifascist #Pro-UA #WeStillWarn
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Dutch/British/Global cynic.
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Exposing/debunking: 🚫#Corruption & 🚫#Fascism (also: 🚫 US #Insanitocracy)

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#RearmEurope
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 #NAFO
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This is about why I, a devout pacifiist, am promoting the rearming of Europe #RearmEU.

It's clear to me that, to maintain a state of peace, one needs to be protected against external forces of evil, with a capability of attacking.

It's no help to peace denying existence of those external forces.
ALERT: Spot the scammers!

Take care folks.
November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
So horrific!!! What's wrong with us humans???
That's right, Ray. I don't know if those were the first concentration camps, but the death toll was horrific. Around 40,000 descendants of Dutch settlers were incarcerated by the British Empire.

The total deaths in camps are officially calculated at 27,927, which is about 70% of all prisoners.
Second Boer War concentration camps - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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lol here’s the full OBR book someone pressed publish early here’s the budget obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...
obr.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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The BBC's has responded in The Guardian that this was a routine editorial decision, but also that it was made on legal advice. Those two explanations don’t fit together. /1
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Where Are You Going To Hide,
Donnie Downturn......
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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This is extremely unfortunate to say the least. Not sure how I would have reacted to having my Reith lectures censored - the world has changed in an ill way in the two years since.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Someone really needs to explain the Striesand Effect to the BBC. And also tell them to stop being so pathetic.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Many people think that the Nazis built the first concentration camps. That's not true; they already existed before the Nazis came to power.

Examples:
-In 1838 the US locked up Cherokees in prison camps
-Spain created camps in Cuba (1868-1878)
-The British built concentration camps in South Africa.
CONCENTRATION CAMPS EXISTED LONG BEFORE HITLER CAME TO POWER
Concentration camps have been used by governments on almost every continent over the last three centuries. Between 1933 and 1945, Germans built an extensive system of more than 44,000 camps.
www.lbi.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Was fascinating to hear Bregman's view of events, in O'Brien's interview. Bertram Russel, very first Reith lecturer, was brought up, also. He'll be turning in his grave, as I type this.

My comment about the Streisand effect was way ahead of O'Brien's realization of that, which was also discussed.
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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The 62 richest people in the world have more money than 3.5 BILLION people, the people who don't eat, don't have water, don't have a viable house or home, children that have to work before they're 10 years old, working in decrepit circumstances!.

It is beyond obscene!
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Here is the transcript of Bregman's (turns out to be controversial) Reith Lecture, broadcast yesterday :

downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
downloads.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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The president of the United States is insane. Full stop.
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it.

Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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This sentence was taken out of a lecture they commissioned, reviewed through the full editorial process, and recorded four weeks ago in front of 500 people in the BBC Radio Theatre.

I was told the decision came from the highest levels within the BBC. /2
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Trump never had a fan base.

He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting advice from bald eagle profiles posting Tweets from Eastern Europe.

It’s as stupid as it sounds.
November 25, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Political Cartoon 25 November 2025 by Schot, Netherlands
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Bullying works, if you cave in to it. The more people who cave into it the harder it becomes to be someone who stands up to it.

Shame on the BBC for this, its disgraceful weakness.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Farage Mocked After Giving Bizarre Reason For Not Investigating Reform Russia Claims | HuffPost www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/fa...
Farage Mocked After Giving Bizarre Reason For Not Investigating Reform Russia Claims
"I haven't got a police force".
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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As Trump (Putin's C*NT) Pushes to End the Ukraine Proxy War, pathetic, hyper-brain-dead, LOSER Europe Toils to Have a Say
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
As Trump Pushes to End Ukraine War, Europe Toils to Have a Say
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM