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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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2 fucking headlines right next to each other

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Prescient

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When the water industry was privatised in 1989, it had zero debt. Since then, it's accumulated combined debt of £60bn. This has been used to pay shareholders £72bn in dividends & to refinance companies: so original investors paid themselves back the original cost, ie they get the companies for free.

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Real headline: Man-baby throws toys out of pram. BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6... Ukraine latest: Trump calls Zelensky a 'dictator' as he hits back at 'disinformation' criticism - BBC News

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Please share

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This by Michael Rosen is terrifying and apt for the times we live in now.

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Thames Water, which is over £16 BILLION in debt, has just been granted a £3 billion rescue loan. Last December it was still paying fat dividends to bosses and shareholders. This corporate greed and entitlement needs to be stopped. As I’ve said before: It’s fucking WATER.

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"Anti-migrant politics will not build a single house, staff a single hospital or raise anyone’s wages. Instead, by echoing its rhetoric, the government is simply fuelling the rise of Reform UK" Well done to these Labour MPs, trade unionists, and members. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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This is what oligarchy looks like.

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Germany’s protest against Nazis and the AfD ahead of the election. “democracy needs you”. (🎥Kilian Boedrich) #3E

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Tilda Swinton yesterday called out greed addicted governments who make nice with planet wreckers and war criminals. She gave this powerful acceptance speech when she received an honorary Golden Bear award on the first day of the Berlin Film Festival on February 13.

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Insurrectionist supporter, Vance, lectures European leaders on democracy. Who the hell do these people think they are? They supported a violent coup to overthrow a democratic election in their own country, pardoned the guilty and now lecture us? Unbefuckinglievable. And yet also, tragically, not.

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Whether you agree with them or not, Farmers have a right to protest and, whilst it might annoy, block traffic, and they are being allowed to do so But Just Stop Oil protestors are serving long prison terms for merely PLANNING a protest which would also have blocked traffic. How’s this work then? 👇

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Barclays CEO pay up from £4.3m to £10.5m. Real average pay of UK workers unchanged since 2008. Govts tell workers pay rises are inflationary, but that doesn't apply to exec pay, dividends, exec pay, share buybacks. Their profiteering is our inflation and poverty. It is class war.

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Love it.😄🤣😄

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This isn't a surprising but it is devastating. The great betrayal of Ukraine begins. We, in Europe, are in a place of danger. We all owe Ukraine & its people a debt of gratitude for its extraordinary courage. 😢

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Honestly I despair❗️🤷🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️ WTF is Starmer thinking chasing Reform & Tory racist, anti migrant voters when Labour won by a majority A majority sickened by the corrupt, Tory right wing, racist anti migrant shit show and wanted a change.. And now he’s ignoring us by coming over all Reform-Lite 😡

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A Labour MP.

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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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What this piece lets out of the bag is, whatever is driving the far/right's hatred of trans people it is absolutely, positively not a desire to protect women from sexual violence. They are happy to celebrate a perpetrator of sexual violence, so long as he shares their hatred of trans people.

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VOX POPULI VOX DEI

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Or they make themselves the unelected dictator of the USA.

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How much chaos does the world have to endure before the Americans finally understand what we mean by the word 'wanker'?

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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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