"America is an oil company with an army." —George Carlin

5 January 1933 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Anna Strassberg, was born in Antwerp. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 2 August 1943 in a transport of 1,553 Jews deported from Mechelen. She was among 1,087 of them murdered in gas chambers after selection.

4 January 1902 | Pole Fabian Sowiński was born in Radomsko. A teacher. In #Auschwitz from 6 June 1942. No. 38021 He was transferred to KL Mauthausen, where he perished on 1 August 1942. --- 📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

If Trump’s concern was drugs, he’d not have pardoned Honduras’s corrupt leader; if terrorism, he’d have gone after Iran; if world order, Russia; if preserving US power, China. If democracy, human rights or humanitarian motive, dozens of other worthy cases. What’s left is oil. And Epstein.

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate." ― Edward W. Said

Pre Maduro Zack elation.

US chicken is chlorinated because America has no animal welfare laws where poultry is concerned. It has to be chlorinated because Salmonella and e. coli run rife The EU banned that practice in 1997 and as such the UK has among the highest welfare and standards in the world. 1/2

4 January 1914 | Pole Stanislaw Szczepanik was born in Chybie. A football player, from 1929-37, a defender in Wisła Kraków. In #Auschwitz from 25 August 1943. In 1944 he was transferred to Mauthausen, where he perished.

Watching a grim documentary about atrocities committed by the Nazis on the island of Alderney m.imdb.com/title/tt3357...

Outraged, yes but you can’t be shocked that American foreign policy is continuing to be American foreign policy.

4 January 1879 | Jewish woman Marta Cohn was born in Siemianowice Śląskie. During the war, she lived in Jaworzno. In July 1942, she was deported to #Auschwitz. She was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

I don’t believe any country has ever been invaded for its offshore wind turbines.

The trouble with having a lawyer as Prime Minister is that their training is to do their best for their client rather than to pursue their own agenda.

So the Canadian Govt can now authorise bombing West Palm Beach, sending in a team to snatch the orange felon and Melanoma, and taking them to Toronto to be tried for corruption. That’s how it works, yes?

Making a mockery of the whole institution. Alfred Fifa would be turning in his grave right now.

Cancer research costs too much but we have the money to run Venezuela

now we find out if the rest of the world does anything to stop a rogue state, run by narcissists, rich kids, attorneys & podcasters, treating anything or anyone they want like a piñata - i imagine Starmer is in a meeting now checking with his advisors on best way to avoid upsetting the Daily Mail

In the same way the invasion of Ukraine motivated Finland & Sweden to immediately request full membership of NATO, both for their safety & as statement, Starmer should consider making an emergency request for the UK to rejoin the EU. The post WW2 peace is over. We live in a time of sharks & food.

If we can capture another country's president, can another country come and capture ours? Asking for a friend.

A national disgrace.

I’m not at all convinced that the FIFA Peace Medal was awarded to the right person

‘No future for us’: disaffected Iranians say it’s now or never to topple regime

3 January 1924 | Pole Bogusław Grosicki was born in Garwolin. In #Auschwitz from 10 January 1941. No. 9298 He perished in the camp on 20 March 1942. --- 🎧 A podcast about registration photos: https://youtu.be/c2l9hDA5MZc

My clothes drier just posted a message on my TV screen to tell me it had finished - Oh Brave New World !!

1 January 1926 | A Polish Jew, Leon Weintraub, was born in Łódź. In #Auschwitz from August 1944. He was transferred to Groß-Rosen, Flossenbürg & Natzweiler-Struthof. He was liberated on 23 April 1945 near Donaueschingen. He became a doctor. Today he turns 100. Happy birthday!

Slightly confused by the people losing their minds over this fairly sensible list of beliefs

They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple

1 January 1921 | French Jewish woman, Camille Touboul, was born in Casablanca (today Morroco). A shop assistant. 1 January 1921 | French Jewish woman, Camille Touboul, was born in Casablanca (today Morocco). A shop assistant. war and passed away in 2009.

Ex President of Iraq & ex PM of the Kurdistan Region. Barham Salih was a refugee in the UK & was educated at Liverpool & Cardiff universities. He is the second UN High Commissioner for Refugees who has been a refugee with Gerrit Goedhart (1951-56), a Dutchman who fled the Nazis being the first

Two Iranian protesters stand in front a water cannon on Bu Ali Sina Street in Hamadan on 31 December and refuse to move despite being doused in water and warned by a police officer, leading to more protesters joining the pair. Location: maps.app.goo.gl/7emQwpaNishK...

New Years dawn in Lewes

May your year be blessed with accepts subject to minor corrections.

Gentleman in Moscow is rather marvellous

Farage has 41 mentions and counting in the Epstein files, according to this post. Would i be surprised 😮?, no not at all.

Happy New Year

1 January 1896 | A Polish Jew, Chaim Geminder, was born in Dębica. A worker. In #Auschwitz from 5 May 1942. No. 34713 On 20 June 1942, he was shot while trying to escape from the camp. --- 📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

Protests calling for ‘death to the dictator’ erupt across Iran https://www.europesays.com/2665494/ Protests calling for ‘death to the dictator’ erupt across Iran …

rest in piss you once young racist!

28 December 1907 | A Polish Jew, Gerson Ring, was born in Nowy Sącz. Shoemaker. In #Auschwitz from 12 December 1941. No 24333. He perished in the camp 6 days later, on 18 December 1941. --- 📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

“You know who else loved animals, but expressed quite controversial ideas?”

The RSC staging of ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ is breathtaking - best afternoon at the theatre in years

The last 30 seconds of Amandaland is the funniest bit of TV I’ve seen in a long time

I have baked a Parthenon

My Xmas present to you all. The book cover that shows the most mistaken assumptions about the content of all time, I believe.

26 December 1914 | Polish man, Szczepan Antczak, was born in Strzegowo. A carpenter. In #Auschwitz from 15 August 1940 No. 3178 He was released in 1941. He survived the war and passed away in 2010 at the age of 95.

Here’s @rpgrant.bsky.social presiding over the annual winemaking effort — early indications promising! It was a very good year for our grapes.

Anyway, happy Jewish Atheist Xmas for all those, like me, who celebrate tomorrow.