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Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

It's all a front for a major upgrade of his war bunker, which is directly under the East Wing. They are planning some truly horrible shit. Share far and wide.

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

Gita Gopinath on the crash that could torch $35trn of wealth The world has become dangerously dependent on American stocks, writes the former IMF chief economist

‘A market correction of the same magnitude as the dotcom crash could wipe out over $20T in wealth for American households, equivalent to roughly 70% of American GDP in 2024. This is several times larger than the losses incurred during the crash of the early 2000s.‘ www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Despite being among the most carbon-intensive modes of transport, aviation and shipping continue to enjoy generous VAT exemptions across Europe.

This is costing governments billions in lost revenue and putting cleaner forms of passenger transport at a competitive disadvantage.
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The U.S. economy has grown by $20 trillion since 2000 … about $7.7 trillion of that (36% of all the growth in GDP) is spending related to recovering from or preparing for climate disasters per Bloomberg Intelligence #EconSky

#EconSky
The Labor Market Consequences of Acquisitions https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ces:ceswps:_12162&r=&r=ind

"… the consequences of corporate acquisitions for workers and find that they are far from neutral: earnings decline through both job displacement and wage cuts among stayers from 1/4

Biodiversity Gets Its ISO Moment: Nature Accounting Arrives ISO 17298, the first global biodiversity standard, marks a shift from carbon to nature accounting, bringing measurable, investor-grade accountability to ecosystems.

#ResistanceEarth

Nature drives more than half of global GDP — about $58 trillion — but companies had no framework for addressing biodiversity risks. The new ISO 17298 standard provides a comprehensive approach for embedding biodiversity into company decision-making.

www.forbes.com/sites/felici...

Mehdi Hasan, "Is rejoining the EU a Green Party aim"

Zack Polanski, "Yes it is"

And just like that, the Green Party have leapfrogged the LibDems

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com

Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
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FYI :“Destruction of federal property is a federal crime. 18 U.S. Code § 1361 defines the crime as willfully injuring or committing any depredation against U.S. government property. If the damage exceeds $1k it is a felony with a fine, up to ten years in prison or both.”

Awaiting law enforcement.

Microsoft Pushed Back Against Regulators Before System Crash “Regulators should carefully avoid any intervention” the company said in response to a federal probe of security and interoperability risks.

Today’s AWS outage is a reminder of what happens when a handful of tech giants control the internet.

Last year, we warned this was coming: Microsoft pushed back on regulators who tried to rein in Big Tech’s monopoly over the cloud.

Read the investigation 👇

www.levernews.com/microsoft-pu...

Tackling the cost of living crisis goes hand in hand with tackling the climate crisis.

We need food security, insulated homes, and cheap renewable energy.

Just because the AWS block is a lot bigger and sturdier doesn't mean it's not also a single point of failure

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Screenshot of Byline Times. Inside Epstein’s Russian Tech Web: How Oligarch Cash and Three Women Connected Moscow to Silicon Valley Leaked records obtained by Byline Times reveal how Kremlin-linked investors used Epstein’s network to channel oligarch money into Silicon Valley Matt Bernardini 20 October 2025 Photo from bottom left: Masha Drokova (Bucher) on the cover of Authority Magazine, Masha and Victoria Drokova in Putin’s Kiss (2011), Lana Pozhidaeva with Jeffrey Epstein in 2013, . Photo: Elder Ordonez

🚨 New evidence suggests Jeffrey Epstein channelled millions of dollars through Russian-linked banks. Byline Times reveals fresh details of the Kremlin-connected tech figures at the heart of his circle.
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Sunday Times interview Tory "rising star" Katie Lam

She is clear she wants lots of legal migrants to be told to "go home" so as "to leave a mostly but not entirely culturally coherent group of people"

(The interviewer suggests she is scrapping ILR or stripping people of it)

Cash ISA reforms are being considered for Budget, No 10 confirms Rachel Reeves has indicated tax rises are likely to fall on assets rather than wages

Reeves mulls ISA changes.

Cut Cash ISA from £20k to £10k. Savers to pay more tax.

Force savers to hold shares for tax relief. Mulls removing 0.5% stamp duty on shares.

Will boost bank fees. Trading results in A buying from B. Money doesn't go to companies.

And when shares crash?
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2025: Claire Coutinho criticises net zero

2023: Claire Coutinho praises net zero

These are their values, and for the right price, they have other values too

“The UK has a system in which a TV channel can pay a political leader almost half a million pounds a year and give him an hour an evening to react to his rivals without breaking a single rule.”

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Brexit impact on UK economy 'negative for foreseeable future,' Bank of England chief says The bank's governor, Andrew Bailey, said for nearly a decade he had been careful to "take no position on Brexit" but when asked directly about its impact on economic growth he "had to answer that ques...

Brexit impact on UK economy
'negative for foreseeable future’, Bank of England chief says

news.sky.com/story/brexit...

#A_NewHope ✊

I know how the media works. The whole China kerfuffle is being bigged up to avoid the bigger picture about Russia.

China is not a friend. On the other hand, it hasn't launched the biggest land war in Europe for 80 years with well over a million casualties so far

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Young Republicans are done — for now — after racist chat

Well, some kind of accountability came for them. There's still hope.

www.politico.com/newsletters/...

"Senator Adam Schiff asked, 'You begin to wonder – do they believe they have the authority by putting some groups on a list, even domestic groups, to use lethal force against them, with no trial, no due process, no nothing? The reality is we can’t rule that out.' No, we can’t."