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DOGE staffer Edward “Big Balls” Coristine is the grandson of Valery Martynov - a “former” KGB spy. That’s right, one of Elon Musk’s young cyber criminals — related to a former KGB spy, and who seemingly did not have to undergo a background check — now has unprecedented access to…

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Le Monde, "French MPs vote through the left's wealth tax on the ultra-rich" Your reminder that a 2% wealth tax on those with £10 million, affecting 0.04% of the UK population, would raise £24 billion a year You have to wonder why Labour chose not to do this..

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The UK's anti-protest laws pre-legitimise far right authoritarianism. Labour must repeal them now. My column today. www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

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A photo circulating online appears to show former governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, on a beach with sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, but this picture isn’t real. It was almost certainly created using ‘Grok’, the generative AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s startup, xAI.

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Magic Money Tree. UK govt to hand £130bn to Bank of England to pay stealth subsidy to banks. Govts gave £895bn QE to speculators, banks profited. Govt reversing QE, selling bonds at loss, covering BoE losses from rising interest rates and the unwinding of QE, banks make billions.

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HSBC made $32.3bn profit before tax in 2024. $26.9bn given to shareholders in buybacks & dividends. Jobs/branches slashed Banks fleece customers, engage in illicit financial flows; no curbs on profiteering, exec pay, dividends. Their profit is our poverty. Govt deregulated.

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Foreign Leader Favourability Ratings amongst British Voters: 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy Favourable: 64% Unfavourable: 16% NET: +48% 🇺🇸 Donald Trump Favourable: 22% Unfavourable: 73% NET: -51% 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin Favourable: 4% Unfavourable: 89% NET: -85% Via @YouGov, 16-17 Feb.

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A very clear response from London Fire Commissioner, Andy Rowe to a question at Fire Plenary last week from Emma Best AM about the impact of LTNs on fire brigade attendance times. "We genuinely couldn't find any evidence of LTNs doing anything to our overall attendance times".

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'If you tax the rich they will leave' is an admission that the rich are mercenary and predatory, that we are held hostage by them. Tax the self-serving rich who feed on our country like vampires, tax their assets, their income, and close every kind of tax evasion and avoidance loophole.

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80 years ago, American power was needed to demilitarize Germany in order to defend the values of the free world. Today, German militarization is required to defend those same values from American power!

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Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy

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Next week Reform UK are putting up Anthony Goodwin as a candidate. Even he’s ashamed of the things he says - he’s deleted both his Twitter accounts to hide it before the vote… We found them before he did: Racism, Britain First, Tommy Robinson, and calling everyone that disagrees with him a Marxist.

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350 Rabbis took out a full page ad in the NYTimes today opposing Trump’s plan for Palestine and calling it ethnic cleansing.

submitted 9 days ago • 42 comments

That'll be about as successful as his management of twitter

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The United States is now an open kleptocracy. The Constitution has been suspended to allow the wealthiest man in the world to loot and destroy the federal government.

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NEW: Explosive new revelations from ex MI6 spy. Why did Boris Johnson block the publication of the Russia Report before 2019 Gen Election? Finally some answers.. Russian military intelligence - the GRU - targeted the Brexit vote. "Money changed hands" 1/ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...

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40% of the world's dirty money is laundered through London and UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. The govt can combat it with Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWO). Since 2017, only SEVEN UWOs have been issued. ZERO prosecutions and convictions. Contrast it with attacks on little people.

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Read it slowly and understand it. 😳🥺 Repost 👇🏾 👇🏾

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The End Game? Thames Water restructuring deal would provide £1.5bn now, potentially rising to £3bn. Already has £19bn debt. Customer bills will rocket. New money would pay adviser fees, existing interest charges, leaving £500m in usable cash. And after that? End the Ponzi scheme. Nationalise

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Thames Water tells the High Court that it's currently spending £15 million PER MONTH on lawyers and advisers and that next year interest payments on its steaming debt pile will be between £800 to £900 million. Wanna guess who's money it is they're spending? www.ft.com/content/40b5...

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Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?

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In case you happen to read Camilla Tominey in theTelegraph abt Kay Burley leaving Sky, there’s at least 1 inaccuracy in the piece She mentions Newsnight & claims it’s ‘haemorrhaging viewers’ Not true The audience figures are up 30% since the new format began last May

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Italy’s security bill threatens fundamental rights It criminalizes peaceful protest, with harsh penalties for activists, detainees, and migrants Human rights bodies warn of serious risks - the Senate should listen ❌Repression is not security❌ hrw.org/news/2025/02...

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ok, so basically I'm trying to make this post go viral.

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I’m told that - unusually - next week’s scrutiny of the bill by the committee of MPs tasked with going through it line by line will be on camera. Will gave a rare insight into how a bill as consequential as this one is hammered out by MPs.

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Exciting news! We’re thrilled to announce that tapir Yuna gave birth to a rare and endangered Malayan tapir calf Sunday night. The newborn, covered in distinctive white spots and stripes resembling a fuzzy walking watermelon, is only the second tapir born in our 120-year history.

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High Court hearing today on Thames Water plan to borrow another £3bn. Already has £17bn debt, mostly to fund dividends, wants 53% price hike. Nearly a third of customer bill covers interest payments. More debt= higher bills. Let it go bankrupt. Nationalise at nominal price.

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Just a reminder for anyone that thinks Brexit hasn’t harmed sterling as currency. Today it’s still 9.22% weaker than it was pre-Brexit referendum result. Therefore everything has cost 10% more than it needed to. Put that on a bus…

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We can easily spare a tenth of England for nature without affecting food production! 20% of our land produces just 3% of our food. Vast swathes of our uplands are owned by about 150 wealthy landowners who use it for shooting grouse, and set fire to our biggest carbon sink, our peat bogs...

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Exclusive: Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the US government human resources agency locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials reut.rs/3CuCEPs

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These guys don’t even have security clearances yet, but are wading their way deep into govt systems, controlling budgets, personnel, processes, payments etc, locking out or firing the people responsible for ensuring probity. This is an unprecedented power grab. An internal coup. A hostile takeover.

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5th anniversary of Brexit: “We just want freedom to work” There has been a dramatic drop of 74% in artists touring the EU. The campaign, led by ‘Carry on Touring’, represents all creative artists affected by Brexit not just musicians.

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‘You were twerking with some racists in a cocktail bar… When I met you…’ Nigel Farage looking right at home with his Nazi buddies We are here

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I've been in rehearsal rooms with men like Wynne Evans, men who are just a bit cheeky, it's all a laugh, ha ha, he's always standing a bit too close to you, lol lmao, he's putting his arm round you while he's talking but it's all just friendly, at the beginning of the day when you arrive he

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