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One guy shows up in a blue suit to the Pope’s funeral. You will never guess who.

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As reported by Byline Times last month bylinetimes.com/2025/03/20/n...

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youtube.com/watch?v=Ufe7... ...and the insanity continues!

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Full monthly state pension for post-2016 UK retiree is £997.75. Only 27% receive it. Elsewhere: Luxembourg £5,426 Norway £1,839 Switzerland £1,657 Denmark £1,486 Sweden £1,373 Belgium £1,338 Netherlands £1,322 France £1,254 Spain £1,238 UK GDP spend on pension is less than OECD average.

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Curse of Private Equity US Private equity (PE) Sycamore Partners in $10bn (£7.8bn) takeover of the owner of Boots. Boots didn't recover from 2007 PE control. Usual problems - profiteering, price hikes, staff/wage cuts, low investment, asset-stripping, tax dodges. Another victim of greed?

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Nigel Farage defends allowing US chlorinated chicken into UK as part of trade deal. Farage/Reform want US style insurance-based healthcare; lower food/environmental standards, worker/consumer rights; return to gold standard, benefit cuts. Who in their right mind wants this.

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Brexit Curse. NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to Brexit costs. Cost of importing new cancer drugs quadrupled. Shipping costs up 10 times. Brexit destroyed collaborative research. That wasn't on the side of the red bus. Save lives. Rejoin the EU.

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Tory legacy. In England 48,830 A&E patients waited 24 hours or more for a hospital bed, 33,413 aged 65 or over. Some went 10 days to get bed in a ward. People deserve care and dignity. Must expand NHS capacity. Privatisation won't. 30%-40% of money vanishes in profit, money buys less.

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Legislators for Hire. 236 UK MPs declared some outside earnings. Is £93,904+exp not enough? Some spend a day a week on second jobs. Nigel Farage the worst culprit. MPs hired to serve their paymasters - access to policymakers, govt contracts. End political corruption. No second jobs for MPs.

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Ofwat investigating claims water companies are spending vastly more on refurbishment projects than operators in comparable countries. Sewage upgrade in Oxford up from £40m to £435m. New sewage network cost £29m in Denmark. People ripped-off again and again no, Ofgem slept.

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Zonal electricity pricing. Ministers braced for showdown over ‘postcode pricing’ in energy market shake-up. Don't do it. Will add £3bn+ to customer bills, Increase fuel poverty & business costs, hike energy industry profits, hinder development of national infrastructure. Instead, end profiteering

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Trump Pressures Ukraine to Accept Peace Plan Favoring Russia. Russia gets land, US gets minerals. Akin to Germany and Russia carve-up of Poland in the 1930s Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons in return for worthless security guarantees from US, UK, Russia More states will go nuclear archive.ph/iK5ww

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Republican House Rep. Don Bacon is calling for Pete Hegseth to be fired, calling the Signal group chat leaks "unacceptable." Bacon also calls Kegbreath "an amateur person" who is "acting like he's above the law." “It looks like there’s a meltdown going on." 🍿

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Could They Truly Be This Clueless?!? The Answer Is Yes!!!

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Wife of wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia forced into safe house after government posts address online Source: The Independent share.newsbreak.com/cr5o0i1a

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Just A Friendly Reminder….

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They both keep their money in Tax Havens.

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Russia and Putin's peace initiatives in action. #StayWithUkraine

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Her name is Yana, thank God she survived the Russian missile attack. #Ukraine #Kyiv

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💯 "The U.S. said if either side rejected a full ceasefire, there would be strong consequences, including sanctions. I see no serious pressure on Russia now," — Zelensky

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🇺🇸❗️🇺🇦 Following Donald Trump’s inauguration, there has been a sharp increase in the number of Russian missile and drone strikes on Ukrainian territory. The intensity of these attacks has more than doubled across 12 regions of the country. In Odesa region the number of strikes has increased tenfold.

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“Absolute fucking nightmare.” #TrumpTariffs

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First, Donald Trump launches a memecoin, netting himself billions. Next, his family gets in on the scheme. Now his billionaire buddies are getting even richer too. The most brazen corruption imaginable. x.com/StevenTDenni...

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Donald Trump is the absolute worst of us.👇

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Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen! Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...

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The TUC calls for a closer trading relationship with the EU in an increasingly unpredictable and volatile global economy. Sounds like a plan www.tuc.org.uk/news/major-s...

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40% of the world's dirty money is laundered through the UK and its crown dependencies and overseas territories. Laws passed to create impression but not enforced. 49,521 UK registered companies have not provided details of persons of significant control. Companies not struck off.

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How about we start treating people like people? Is that too much to ask?

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L - The official photo from the Kremlin of US Special Envoy @SteveWitkoff putting his hand over his heart as he greets his friend Vladimir Putin again this week. R - Putin’s latest missile attack killing at least 21 people, including 7 children, on Palm Sunday. Putin’s stooge.

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🤬 In Kharkiv, the Russians attacked a kindergarten with a drone, — Terekhov Whitkoff went to Putin and the terror began...

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OUTRAGEOUS: Trump’s Social Security Administration will be shifting its public communication exclusively to Twitter (gosh — I wonder whose idea that was?). This comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

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🇬🇧🇳🇴🤝🇺🇦 $580 million UK/Norway military aid package will include: ▪️hundreds of thousands of FPV drones: ▪️radars; ▪️anti-tank mines; ▪️funding for the repair and maintenance of military equipment.

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‼️ Today marks exactly one month since Russia refused to accept a full temporary ceasefire proposed by the US, - MFA From March 11 to April 11, Russia launched: ▪️~70 missiles of various types; ▪️~2,200 Shahed drones; ▪️~6,000 guided bombs.

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🇱🇹🇺🇸🕯️ Thousands of Lithuanians in Vilnius honored the four American soldiers who tragically lost their lives.

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The trouble with tarrifs

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💯 TRUTH!!! 🗽🗽⚓️⚓️

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Thames Water dumped sewage for 300,000 hours into rivers last year. It has criminal convictions, operates illegally. Change of ownership will deliver more of the same - chase for profits, high bills, sewage in rivers. Only public ownership can make a difference.

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Millions of Britons brace for across-the-board bill rises in ‘awful April’. Unchecked profiteering destroying lives. 16m people live in poverty. More will be added by benefit cuts. Wages taxed at higher rate than wealth. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.

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Today, UK minimum wage has increased. Worker over the age of 21 working a 35-hour week will earn £22,222 a year, £19,519 after tax & NIC. For minimum living standard, a single person needs to earn £28,000; couple with 2 children need £69,400. Millions will struggle with poverty rely on charity.

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Squeeze of low/middle income families is part of a deeper malaise. Political system is captured by big business and the rich. They fund political parties; control media & industry. Govts reluctant to cut corporate welfare, tax the rich. Power of corporations/rich is cause of austerity/poverty.

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Prime Minister Keir Starmer comments on household bills rising from today

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⬆️💷NHS dental charges in England rise today. Not a penny of this hike will go towards expanding access or improving your care. It's simply providing cover for cuts in government funding. Send a message to Rachel Reeves. 👉 https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/scrap-the-nhs-dentistry-price-hike

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The European Union has a 'strong plan' to retaliate against tariffs imposed, and set to be imposed, by US President Donald Trump, although it would prefer to negotiate a solution, EU executive chief Ursula von der Leyen said www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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Russia will be placed on the top level of a government scheme aimed at protecting the UK from malign foreign influence, security minister Dan Jarvis has announced. Anyone directed by Russia to carry out activities in the UK must declare it or face five years in prison. www.itv.com/news/2025-04...

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FYI:

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The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it

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The wages of the richest 1% have skyrocketed 182% since 1979. Meanwhile, the wages of the bottom 90% have seen just 44% growth. Trickle down economics was always a hoax.

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