Notices by Denis Buckley (wellingtonrock@mastodon.social)

'The irony is that many of those now turning to the far right are seeking exactly what social democracy once offered them: security, belonging, decent public services, economic stability, good healthcare, affordable housing and confidence in the future.'

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/06/14/why-do-older-people-support-the-far-right/

'... administration is also dredging up symbols and propaganda from America’s own past — ranging from the Jim Crow South to the organized terror of the KKK. This is an all-American history so gruesome that it actually inspired the Nazis’ reign of terror. As the poet Langston Huges wrote in 1936: “Fascism is the new name for that kind of terror the Negro has always faced in America.”'

https://open.substack.com/pub/contrarian/p/theyre-echoing-nazis-its-not-an-accident?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=diqr

'What Epstein shows us is that we live in a paedophiliac culture.'

https://www.thenerve.news/p/carole-cadwalladr-jeffrey-epstein-paedophile-david-hamilton

'Palestinian experts say what is unfolding across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem is not spontaneous, incidental, or the work of fringe extremists, but rather a deliberate, state-funded project of demographic engineering—geographically planned, openly articulated, and systematically executed.'

https://open.substack.com/pub/dropsitenews/p/israel-west-bank-palestinian-displacement-settlers-bedouins-jordan-valley?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=diqr

'Maduro’s regime is less of an enemy than a model for Trump (and Vance and Noem), providing examples of how to talk about political murder. Once Maduro claimed that international plots were responsible for domestic opposition. Now he is a prop as the Trump administration says the same thing.'

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/maduro-in-minneapolis?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&shareImageVariant=overlay&r=diqr

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@AliceStollmeyer/115756679288766525

Really? Lying arsehole!

This has >already< happened to me - when Brexshit stripped me of my European citizenship - against my will, against my vote, against my Common Sense. Will I lose my US connection as well, I wonder...

If the US forces me to choose between my two nationalities, I choose France – and Europe | Alexander Hurst https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/12/us-dual-citizenship-france-europe-nationality?CMP=share_btn_url

'It was all there in black and white. A threat to destabilise European democracies. Support for far-right nationalists. Withdrawal from Nato. Support for Russia. It was a moment of existential crisis for Europe. It was time to wake up.'

Trump wants to destabilise European democracy. Where on earth is parliament? | John Crace https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/11/asked-about-the-donalds-national-security-strategy-the-commons-was-remarkable-for-its-absences?CMP=share_btn_url

'The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich. If democracy is the problem capital is always trying to solve, propaganda is part of the solution. Like the kings and empire-builders of the past, they use their platforms to project the claims that suit them and suppress the claims that don’t.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/14/climate-crisis-communication-super-rich?CMP=share_btn_url

'The alienation of young people can be blamed on Covid, phones and much else. But those are exacerbations. The real cause is much more systemic. The real issue is rent exploitation in all its forms. It is neoliberalism that is destroying the lives of young people. And that is why it has to go.'

Young people are alienated by neoliberalism https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11/14/young-people-are-alienated-by-neoliberalism/

Auntie Rachel - raise higher rate income tax, ditch higher rate pension reliefs, increase financial transaction taxes - on shares, capital gains and the like...
... and institute a 'Settling Up' tax if they do leave and attempt to export their wealth. Lots of other countries do all of these.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/16/rachel-reeves-says-those-broadest-shoulders-should-pay-fair-share-tax?CMP=share_btn_url

Watch out you white folks in America today!
link is to graphic from La Cucuracha comic strip - depicts a Native American wearing a facemask and getting ready to deport >the invaders<.

https://www.gocomics.com/lacucaracha/2025/10/13

'Trump, however, is fine with violence when it benefits him. It's why he pardoned the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, many of them violent offenders, because he was okay with violence being committed if it benefitted him.'

Trump thinks violent right-wing radicals have the right idea https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/12/2343154/-Trump-thinks-violent-right-wing-radicals-have-the-right-idea

The Fascist Coup d'Etat against the American Constitution continues - thanks to the neo-Fascists sitting on that once August, now moribund, body, the Supreme Court of the United States.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/08/immigration-officers-los-angeles-california?CMP=share_btn_url

'If Sir Keir Starmer was serious about peace, he would cut off Israel from all trade. His refusal to stand up against the holocaust of our time is a stain on this country that we will never be able to wash away.'

https://open.substack.com/pub/councilestatemedia/p/the-israeli-presidents-invitation?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=diqr

@br00t4c
Haahaahaa! Heeheehee! Hoohoohoo! Haahaahaa! Haahaahaa! Haahaahaa

'... Epstein’s scores of survivors have told the public for decades: Trump and Epstein hung out. At parties, weddings, fashion shows, and wherever else the Epstein files most likely suggest.'

Since No One Else Seems to Care, Let’s Remember Epstein’s Survivors - Jezebel https://www.jezebel.com/since-no-one-else-seems-to-care-lets-remember-epsteins-survivors

'The Israeli government minister Amichay Eliyahu has said that Israel is "racing against time for Gaza to be wiped out" and that the ultimate objective is that "all of Gaza will be Jewish".'

https://open.substack.com/pub/anotherangryvoice/p/the-face-of-israeli-evil?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=diqr

@GreenSkyOverMe @VeroniqueB99

Monstrous. I wonder if the USA can save itself from the galloping stampede toward Authoritarianism embodied by the MAGA Republicans, the Convicted Felon in Chief anf the Project 2025 mafia.

'... being neutral, as Priti Patel and some Labour MPs are demanding, is, in itself, of course, adopting a political position. It is one that protects and condones the aggressor, and it abandons the victims.'

Sanctions worked on apartheid. Why not sanction Israel, then? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06/30/sanctions-worked-on-apartheid-why-not-sanction-israel-then/