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this 3 act story has something for everyone

The world is full of sourdough bakers and people who nurse injured birds back to health, scientists studying the lunar migration of moths, farmers who want to restore health back to the tired soil, and hippies who hug trees and dream of moss 💚

Worth repeating...

"There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people."

Howard Zinn

'Crushed by a flawed system': More than 2,000 prisoners being held under defunct UK law

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Wow. You must be heavy drinkers. 😯

„Friedlicher Rückzug“: Hat Trumps Mann Putin falsch verstanden? Verwirrung um Ukraine-Friedensgipfel: Witkoff missinterpretiert Putins Forderungen.

Bild today: "Trump's special envoy, Witkoff, is said to have... misinterpreted Russia's demand for a "peaceful withdrawal" of Ukrainians from Kherson and Zaporizhia as an offer of a "peaceful withdrawal" by the Russians from these regions."
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Military force against Americans, in our nation’s capital, starts Monday. They’ll start with the homeless and mentally ill, but it won’t end there. This is a test…

Ukraine will not give up land, Zelensky says as Trump plans to meet Putin - follow live The Ukrainian president has rejected Donald Trump's suggestion that a deal with Russia could involve

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukrainians "will not give their land to occupiers", hours after US President Donald Trump hinted at territorial concessions to end war with Russia

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Only a mile or two from the edge of Belfast city, a secret gorge conceals a fragment of Irish rainforest.

Pure magic.

Waiter brings legal action against Ivy restaurant over share of tips and service charge Restaurant chain paid worker £97 out of a £31,600 pot and is accused of failing to clarify how payments were calculated

Hats off to this brave waiter who is single-handedly taking on tycoon Richard Caring's Ivy empire over their alleged pocketing of staff tips.

Ivy restaurants explicitly claim tips go directly to the individual who was given them - this waiter says otherwise.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Future profit projections for polio treatments are also very rosy...

The Race to Find a Measles Treatment as Infections Surge The measles vaccine was so effective the disease was considered eliminated in the U.S., but a resurgence of outbreaks is spurring a need for drugs.

As the US hits a 33-year high in measles infections, there is now a "race" to find a treatment for the disease.

One pharma company "is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel a need for measles treatments—and in turn, more investor interest"

🎁 link

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Eliminating disease is very bad news for pharmaceutical companies, there’s billions to be made from the anti-vax movement.

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Imagine being the society that didn’t save itself—because billionaires said it wasn’t “cost-effective.”

#WealthTax #GreedTax
#Limitarianism #WealthCap
#RBE
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#NRx #ElonMusk #JeffBezos #PeterThiel
#EU #UK #USA

I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that the Internet was designed and built entirely for the Museum of English Rural Life and the rest of us are just getting the benefits of its existence incidentally.

BREAKING: Ukrainian President isn't wild about a deal he wasn't involved in negotiating which cedes huge tracts of his country to the occupier, including thousands of square kilometres they don't hold and which contain Ukraine's defences, in exchange for a temporary ceasefire Putin needs anyway.

The Lancet thinks the same as me.

Following from Question 3 above, here we see the HSE Policy Director suggesting that healthcare workers, injured by occupational exposure to Covid-19, may just want some "incredible retribution for what happened to them"

No! Not retribution! They just wanted an official record made of their case.

Remember when we hounded & harassed kids who put books online for public educational access?

Or the music geeks we threw in jail for sharing mp3s?

It’s all just “oopsie” now?

His product can only ever be profitable if we continue to allow him to steal the commons & sell it back to us.

Covid protection racket GOVERNMENTS are very good at covering up. so what hope is there of proving that health and care workers died or were seriously harmed by Covid because they weren't given adequate protechon against what was known to be an arbome virus? The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has a duty to prevent workplace death, injury and ill health, with legal enforcement powers against any dangerous practices. In April 2020, it issued guidance to its inspectors confirming that the SARS-CoV-2 virus "transmits when someone breathes in acrosolised droplets from an infectious Person* ",and that people were at risk of airborne infection if "they were within a metre of someone aerosolising the virus (eg through coughing)". To protect health and care staff who would invariably come into close contact with infected patients would require them to wear efficient respirators such as FFP3 or powered respirators. Alas, the UK didn't have nearly enough. The optons were for the govemment to be honest about the lack of protective equipment, giving staft the choice to devise or seek alternative protection. Or to downgrade the threat of the virus, pretend it wasn't airborne and pretend that simple surgical masks with gaping side holes provided adequate protection in most health and care settings The government chose the latter. Not only did the UK suffer one of the highest rates of death among health and care workers, but also inadequately protected and infected workers passed the virus to patients. More than 14,000 patients died of Covid-19 that they acquired in hospital. This could be another hugely expensive scandal the government is keen to avoid The decision to downgrade respiratory protection during the pandemic lies squarely with the Department of Health and Social Care, Public Health England and NHS England. But the HSE should have objected. Instead, it helped prepare an FAQ document for staff reassuring them they would be safe, However, HSE knew that surgical masks a…

I can’t keep posting this enough. Bravo @privateeyenews.bsky.social

I don’t know what his agenda is, but boasting about a boat of 20 people detained before process it’s fuelling the impression that illegal immigrants are arriving in huge numbers. We know this perception is wrong and fuels only more hatred and xenophobia which favours reform voters and Brexiters.

Neither Farage of Reform is On Your Side ...

"His speeches are echoed and rewarded, and the perks come from the very establishment he pretends to despise. His legacy is not policy or progress but a trail of poisoned discourse and emboldened bigotry."
via Anthony Corella

The very British way of corruption

"Somethings got to change. Are we mad as hell yet?"
via @dailypolitik.bsky.social

via The Omniscient Observer

Five fall ill with E. coli at Aysgarth Falls, campaigners say Volunteers from Stop Ure Pollution say one person was hospitalised after visiting Aysgarth Falls.

Five fall ill with E. coli at beauty spot

BBC News - Five fall ill with E. coli at Aysgarth Falls, campaigners say

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If only ...

via Joel Vos

It was just wishful thinking on my part.

See various historical partitions of Poland by other countries.

Beautifulest? Bigliest too?

The blatant hypocrisy of the far right

via Dave W. Mac