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A Failed State
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Duaa for the mom, his family members, and the diaspora that has to live with so much hatred and boundless violence in France.
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🧵NEW: a thread on Nahel. French Algerian boy who loves rugby and wanted to be a mechanic. Killed by the police at 17 years old. #SayTheirNames
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Once again well done everyone involved in making anti semitism a meaningless descriptor - tory MPs now just openly using Nazi tropes with casual guilelessness
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The news is always like: "America has banned wheelchair ramps because they weren't in the Bible. Finland has made ice cream free."
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me, early twenties: I have to achieve so much, I have to accomplish things
me at 29: I would just like to have fun and try my best
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Very Cool and Normal News:
Private water company bosses caught out conspiring with Observer journalist Will Hutton and other unnamed figures to devise a reform-in-name-only plan with the Labour party to keep water privatised for the profiteers.
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Wait until you discover what’s been happening to sex workers for years
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The Spanish inflation rate in June slowed sharply to 1.9%, which is below the ECB's inflation target. 🇪🇸 gas price cap in power production, limits on rent increases, windfall profit taxation etc. early on did make a difference.
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ALT A screenshot from https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers-overview/ showing Amy Coney Barrett's ancestor Joel J. Coney owned 21 slaves
BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court rules colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions, putting an end to affirmative action in higher education. apne.ws/IPmvUPv
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The richest 50 families in the UK have more wealth than the bottom half of the UK population (33.5 million people).
The number of households unable to afford a decent standard of living is approx 11.1million (39%).
We are far too patient with the political and economic system.
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No residuals. This was a basically a shakedown of a creator who had little/very limited power to negotiate (because every writer wants their show made) and even in success to the highest degree, they give him no participation? That's not "business" that's theft.
“Squid Game” increased the value of Netflix by an estimated $900 million.
It also made South Korean writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk famous — but not rich.
In his contract, he had forfeited all intellectual property rights and received no residuals. latimes.com/world-nation/sto…
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Finally, of the almost £25 billion they have made in profit over the years they have paid out every penny, and more, in dividends. In other words, the shareholders have taken 15p in every pound paid for water. There was nothing left for reinvestment, at all.
