Kenny H
@kenny-h.bsky.social
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Kenny H
@kenny-h.bsky.social
· Dec 14
Israel/Palestine: There’s something wrong with this picture!
My Epiphany In all my fifty-plus years, I have seldom if ever felt such anger, revulsion and sadness as that which I experienced during a seven week period during July and August of this year (2014…
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It did not start in October 2023. I wrote this in 2014.
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Thames Water names US private equity (PE) group KKR as preferred bidder.
Worst possible outcome. Water industry woes started with PE.
PE business model: profiteering, asset-stripping, low investment, staff/wage cuts, tax dodging.
Govt must reject PE takeover. Must nationalise.
Worst possible outcome. Water industry woes started with PE.
PE business model: profiteering, asset-stripping, low investment, staff/wage cuts, tax dodging.
Govt must reject PE takeover. Must nationalise.
Thames Water names US private equity group KKR as preferred bidder
KKR expected to acquire stake worth £4bn as UK’s biggest water supplier tries to stave off nationalisation
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Thames Water names US private equity (PE) group KKR as preferred bidder.
Worst possible outcome. Water industry woes started with PE.
PE business model: profiteering, asset-stripping, low investment, staff/wage cuts, tax dodging.
Govt must reject PE takeover. Must nationalise.
Worst possible outcome. Water industry woes started with PE.
PE business model: profiteering, asset-stripping, low investment, staff/wage cuts, tax dodging.
Govt must reject PE takeover. Must nationalise.
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For the last 40 years, Britain has repeatedly chosen finance over industry, austerity over investment and the rich over the poor. It's time to change direction.
March 31, 2025 at 10:04 AM
For the last 40 years, Britain has repeatedly chosen finance over industry, austerity over investment and the rich over the poor. It's time to change direction.
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You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
www.quaker.org.uk
March 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Here is my lazy Saturday promoting of our latest episode where we mostly talk about The Dead by James Joyce, but I also list Ireland’s 1994 World Cup team and try not to slag content creators.
The Firsts and The Dead
Podcast Episode · Blow-Ins · 27/03/2025 · 35m
podcasts.apple.com
March 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Here is my lazy Saturday promoting of our latest episode where we mostly talk about The Dead by James Joyce, but I also list Ireland’s 1994 World Cup team and try not to slag content creators.
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'Labour is committed to championing the rights of disabled people and to the principle of working with them, so that their views and voices will be at the heart of all we do' - Labour manifesto, 2024
March 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
'Labour is committed to championing the rights of disabled people and to the principle of working with them, so that their views and voices will be at the heart of all we do' - Labour manifesto, 2024
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"I am a Holocaust survivor. UK police interviewed me for protesting genocide" -- Stephen Kapos
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
I am a Holocaust survivor. UK police interviewed me for protesting genocide
It’s vital for all of us in Britain to speak out now against our own government’s complicity in Israel’s genocide.
www.aljazeera.com
March 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM
"I am a Holocaust survivor. UK police interviewed me for protesting genocide" -- Stephen Kapos
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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The announcement of even deeper cuts to support for sick and disabled people is deeply concerning and morally reprehensible.
Starmer and Reeves have chosen to push millions into poverty with austerity over implementing a wealth tax on the super rich.
Starmer and Reeves have chosen to push millions into poverty with austerity over implementing a wealth tax on the super rich.
Rachel Reeves To Announce Fresh Welfare Cuts In Spring Statement
The move will spark more fury among Labour MPs and disability campaigners.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 8:31 AM
The announcement of even deeper cuts to support for sick and disabled people is deeply concerning and morally reprehensible.
Starmer and Reeves have chosen to push millions into poverty with austerity over implementing a wealth tax on the super rich.
Starmer and Reeves have chosen to push millions into poverty with austerity over implementing a wealth tax on the super rich.
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‘I felt they wanted to kill me’: Hamdan Ballal recounts settler-soldier assault - https://www.972mag.com/hamdan-ballal-settlers-soldiers-susiya-oscar/
Hamdan Ballal recounts assault by Israeli settlers and soldiers
The Palestinian filmmaker describes being brutally beaten in front of his home in Susiya before experiencing further abuse in Israeli military detention.
www.972mag.com
March 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
‘I felt they wanted to kill me’: Hamdan Ballal recounts settler-soldier assault - https://www.972mag.com/hamdan-ballal-settlers-soldiers-susiya-oscar/
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After 14 years of Conservative rule, we were told that austerity was over. That was a lie.
A statement from The Independent Alliance on the Chancellor's decision to abandon those in need.
A statement from The Independent Alliance on the Chancellor's decision to abandon those in need.
March 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
After 14 years of Conservative rule, we were told that austerity was over. That was a lie.
A statement from The Independent Alliance on the Chancellor's decision to abandon those in need.
A statement from The Independent Alliance on the Chancellor's decision to abandon those in need.
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"A lot of my colleagues have been chosen for loyalty"
Clive Lewis making the connection between the Labour right leadership stitching up selection processes before the election with Labour MPs not opposing the govts social security cuts now.
Clive Lewis making the connection between the Labour right leadership stitching up selection processes before the election with Labour MPs not opposing the govts social security cuts now.
March 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"A lot of my colleagues have been chosen for loyalty"
Clive Lewis making the connection between the Labour right leadership stitching up selection processes before the election with Labour MPs not opposing the govts social security cuts now.
Clive Lewis making the connection between the Labour right leadership stitching up selection processes before the election with Labour MPs not opposing the govts social security cuts now.
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As Rachel Reeves follows the deathly neoliberal script to the letter, here is our latest video, explaining the dire state of this government and demanding better. Please do watch.
EXPOSED: Keir Starmer’s Corporate War on Great Britain
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EXPOSED: Keir Starmer’s Corporate War on Great Britain
George Monbiot EXPOSES Labour’s Biggest SCAM
www.doubledown.news
March 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
As Rachel Reeves follows the deathly neoliberal script to the letter, here is our latest video, explaining the dire state of this government and demanding better. Please do watch.
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"We are loud, proud, aggressive and unapologetically Zionist."
Betar US, a Zionist group, says it's sharing the names of pro-Palestinian protesters with the Trump administration to expel and deport them.
Here's what you need to know aje.io/t3phko
Betar US, a Zionist group, says it's sharing the names of pro-Palestinian protesters with the Trump administration to expel and deport them.
Here's what you need to know aje.io/t3phko
March 26, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"We are loud, proud, aggressive and unapologetically Zionist."
Betar US, a Zionist group, says it's sharing the names of pro-Palestinian protesters with the Trump administration to expel and deport them.
Here's what you need to know aje.io/t3phko
Betar US, a Zionist group, says it's sharing the names of pro-Palestinian protesters with the Trump administration to expel and deport them.
Here's what you need to know aje.io/t3phko
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"I interviewed a lot of kids. Some of them told me they just want to die. But they want to die in one piece. They're scared of being... shredded." #GazaCrimes
March 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"I interviewed a lot of kids. Some of them told me they just want to die. But they want to die in one piece. They're scared of being... shredded." #GazaCrimes
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BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
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When a Tesla dealership gets shot at they send ICE. When a school gets shot at they send thoughts and prayers.
March 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
When a Tesla dealership gets shot at they send ICE. When a school gets shot at they send thoughts and prayers.
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“They ordered all of us, men and women, to take off our clothes and to continue walking, ordering us to only look forward. I was walking naked between the tanks, not even wearing underwear..."
March 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
“They ordered all of us, men and women, to take off our clothes and to continue walking, ordering us to only look forward. I was walking naked between the tanks, not even wearing underwear..."
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The fall of America.
Trump to dismantle US Dept of Education.
Will hurt the poor, children with disabilities and students needing financial aid for college education.
Selected reading material, diversity programs banned, right-wing indoctrination OK.
Trump to dismantle US Dept of Education.
Will hurt the poor, children with disabilities and students needing financial aid for college education.
Selected reading material, diversity programs banned, right-wing indoctrination OK.
Trump signs executive order to dismantle US Department of Education
Order calls for teardown of department as Trump seemingly tries to circumvent need to obtain congressional approval
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
The fall of America.
Trump to dismantle US Dept of Education.
Will hurt the poor, children with disabilities and students needing financial aid for college education.
Selected reading material, diversity programs banned, right-wing indoctrination OK.
Trump to dismantle US Dept of Education.
Will hurt the poor, children with disabilities and students needing financial aid for college education.
Selected reading material, diversity programs banned, right-wing indoctrination OK.
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Private equity bids for Thames Water “are conditional on further, and varying, regulatory support and accommodations being achieved”.
Translation - bailout, bigger bills, no fines for sewage dumping & leaks, no restraint on dividends & exec pay.
Total Govt/OFWAT capitulation
Translation - bailout, bigger bills, no fines for sewage dumping & leaks, no restraint on dividends & exec pay.
Total Govt/OFWAT capitulation
Regulators must not go soft on Thames Water now
With six bids on the table, the company’s reference to ‘support and accommodations’ sounds like a plea for special treatment
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Private equity bids for Thames Water “are conditional on further, and varying, regulatory support and accommodations being achieved”.
Translation - bailout, bigger bills, no fines for sewage dumping & leaks, no restraint on dividends & exec pay.
Total Govt/OFWAT capitulation
Translation - bailout, bigger bills, no fines for sewage dumping & leaks, no restraint on dividends & exec pay.
Total Govt/OFWAT capitulation
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'Total war to defeat fascism gave birth to a post-war, Western military-industrial complex with a deep investment in war and yet more war.'
Media Lens make the case for refusing to fight the forever wars of Sir Keir Starmer: www.medialens.org/2025/wurden-...
Media Lens make the case for refusing to fight the forever wars of Sir Keir Starmer: www.medialens.org/2025/wurden-...
Würden Wir Alle Deutsch Sprechen! The Case Against Fighting For Sir Keir Starmer
Former BBC Newsnight diplomatic editor Mark Urban covered wars in Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He has written books with titles like 'Generals: Ten British Commanders Who Shaped the World’, ‘...
www.medialens.org
March 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
'Total war to defeat fascism gave birth to a post-war, Western military-industrial complex with a deep investment in war and yet more war.'
Media Lens make the case for refusing to fight the forever wars of Sir Keir Starmer: www.medialens.org/2025/wurden-...
Media Lens make the case for refusing to fight the forever wars of Sir Keir Starmer: www.medialens.org/2025/wurden-...
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K-12 educators and educational organizations are being shut down for including Palestinian voices or criticizing the Israeli government’s policies.
Organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) are using disingenuous, racist smears that weaponize antisemitism.
Organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) are using disingenuous, racist smears that weaponize antisemitism.
March 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
K-12 educators and educational organizations are being shut down for including Palestinian voices or criticizing the Israeli government’s policies.
Organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) are using disingenuous, racist smears that weaponize antisemitism.
Organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) are using disingenuous, racist smears that weaponize antisemitism.
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A Labour by-election campaign targeting asylum hotels is callous & indefensible.
Last summer, a hotel named by a Labour MP in Parliament was set on fire with people inside. This rhetoric fuels hate & puts lives at risk.
After last year's far-right riots, it is beyond contempt.
Last summer, a hotel named by a Labour MP in Parliament was set on fire with people inside. This rhetoric fuels hate & puts lives at risk.
After last year's far-right riots, it is beyond contempt.
March 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
A Labour by-election campaign targeting asylum hotels is callous & indefensible.
Last summer, a hotel named by a Labour MP in Parliament was set on fire with people inside. This rhetoric fuels hate & puts lives at risk.
After last year's far-right riots, it is beyond contempt.
Last summer, a hotel named by a Labour MP in Parliament was set on fire with people inside. This rhetoric fuels hate & puts lives at risk.
After last year's far-right riots, it is beyond contempt.
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On this day 22 years ago, UK ministers launched an illegal invasion of Iraq.
No-one has ever been held to account.
No-one has ever been held to account.
March 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
On this day 22 years ago, UK ministers launched an illegal invasion of Iraq.
No-one has ever been held to account.
No-one has ever been held to account.
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Yesterday, Mahmoud Khalil, a US permanent resident abducted by ICE last week, shared a powerful public statement that he dictated over the phone to his legal team.
March 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Yesterday, Mahmoud Khalil, a US permanent resident abducted by ICE last week, shared a powerful public statement that he dictated over the phone to his legal team.
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Israel always intended to reboot the genocide once Trump had been able to take credit for negotiating the ceasefire.
Then they could work together to concoct a new set of pretexts to justify why more of Gaza's children needed to be murdered.
My latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/israel-doe...
Then they could work together to concoct a new set of pretexts to justify why more of Gaza's children needed to be murdered.
My latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/israel-doe...
Israel doesn't care about the captives. It always planned to reboot the genocide
It is President Trump and his administration that must be held responsible for every Palestinian death from here on out
jonathancook.substack.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Israel always intended to reboot the genocide once Trump had been able to take credit for negotiating the ceasefire.
Then they could work together to concoct a new set of pretexts to justify why more of Gaza's children needed to be murdered.
My latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/israel-doe...
Then they could work together to concoct a new set of pretexts to justify why more of Gaza's children needed to be murdered.
My latest: jonathancook.substack.com/p/israel-doe...