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Amateur photographer, optimist - despite the evidence, UK dweller. To date I have abandoned alcohol, smoking, mainstream TV. More recently, The Other Place and Windows 10!
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With Trump's latest antics and Hegseth's astonishingly unhinged rhetoric about using the Marines it's clear that the US is being led into banana republicanism. We can now see why so many senior military ranks were purged and military legal staff fired - Miller et al were planning this illegality.

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Ukrainian ingenuity and resilience.

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The failure of Musk is not by chance www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...

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The very best way to start a Thursday! Now we'll have all the nonsense about unelected judges and a maxi smoke screen from Trump and his enablers... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c2...

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Trump's DOJ has granted Boeing a non-prosecution agreement over the 737 MAX crashes, despite the company's repeated attempts to deceive regulators.  Boeing donated $1M to Trump's inauguration and has paid AG Pam Bondi's former lobbying firm at least $480K. Follow the money.

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The latest moves against Harvard and Columbia universities smack of McCarthyism and truly reflect the Neanderthal leanings of authoritarian Trump and his slide into dementia.

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So, Bessent has the answer to rising long term bond yields - simply remove the guardrails put in place on banks after the Lehman Brothers collapse. The Trump regime seems to be incredibly stupid in everything it does. Incredibly corrupt too...

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National missile defense is the longest-running scam in the history of the Department of Defense. Musk didn’t invent it, but he’s about to get a whole lot richer by perpetuating it. https://trib.al/oQ0USO8

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www.nokings.org Because his meme coin is a corrupt international access-point to the US Executive Branch, whereas his continual grifting and lying, to his arresting US House Reps, mayors, students, and disappearing immigrants, this character will be schooled on how our democracy actually works...

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