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'The results suggest patients, doctors and nurses are experiencing the brutal after-effects of the pandemic'

No paywall here: https://archive.ph/Jr2UV#selection-741.125-741.231

#healthcare

From Steve Smith 🇪🇺 @spsmith45 on Tweeter

Sentence Builders...

#Britain Is Much Worse Off Than It Understands

#Inequality
'The United Kingdom remains one of the most unequal developed countries'

#economy
'..denial about the scale of the country’s underperformance or a tendency to scapegoat others'

#Brexit
'..the U.K.’s political class is loath to admit the scale of the problem because to do so would mean calling into question #Brexit '

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/02/03/britain-worse-off-1970s/

Rishi Sunak reacts as he leaves 11 Downing Street, in London, on March 23, 2022. TOLGA AKMEN/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGE

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1621929338542120962?s=20&t=8J7GzC-I3VD3-qCC29szJw

From @docrussjackson on Tweeter

A psychological explanation* which helps us to understand why the UK & USA are among the most #unequal, the most #polarised, & the most dysfunctional of all the world's leading economies.

#capitalism #psychopathy

“Under-regulated capitalism has allowed a strain of raging psychopathy to take control of key sectors of our way of life, including business and politics

@enduringbeta Chat GPT says...

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If it looks like Russian active measures and it smells like Russian active measures, it probably is Russian active measures

'Russia’s involvement in Koran burning in Sweden gets more and more details. Now Finland’s Pekka Haavisto said that Russia may have been involved'.

https://twitter.com/maria_avdv/status/1619637945568464898?s=20&t=u3it0i2vd3s0O7fR2T0IRw

Peter @Deixis9 boosted:

After Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, it hacked Ukraine’s power grid. A Russian-speaking hacker operation hacked Ukraine’s election reporting system. Putin wanted sanctions lifted w/o giving up Crimea. For that, he needed a friend in the White House. My latest piece. #RogerStoneDidSomethingWrong #RogerStone #Ukraine https://buckscountybeacon.com/2023/01/roger-stone-deserves-more-scrutiny-for-his-role-in-the-events-leading-to-january-6/

Peter @Deixis9 boosted:

RT @ProtectTheWild_
Scotland bans fox hunting AND trail hunting

THIS IS HUGE!

RT if you agree that the rest of the UK needs to follow suit!

https://earthstream.social/@PeterDeixis9/109748632394582941

Nobody wants to keep calm and carry on.

'The #Tories have got away with it for almost 13 years ... with the stated promise of #austerity,'

'When #Brexit rolled around, however, public anger was suddenly in vogue.'

'What finally did for the many fantasies of the past 13 years was #Covid.'

1% gain, 99% pain … an Occupy London protest. Photograph: Guy Bell/Alamy

Tony Davis Archive @DavisArchive

Day 2 New York Street ‘who let the cops out’ upper west side New York 1991 #nyc #newyork #newyorkstreetphotography

https://twitter.com/DavisArchive/status/1617811399614369792?s=20&t=RErl61LELTsejmaoXcjz_Q

@jaelisp perhaps more so?

as in the UK will be much more of a junior partner to the US?

Five tax breaks are costing UK taxpayers £4 billion a year while just 70,000 individuals stand to gain around £50,000 each

'There are far better ways for the Government to spend £4 billion'

Nobel laureate in economics Joseph Stiglitz is the latest to argue for a 70% top #tax rate on the #super-rich, plus 2-3% on hyper-wealth (more than $50m) after the post-Covid #wealth boom.

https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/press-releases/five-terrible-tax-breaks-are-costing-taxpayers-4-billion-a-year/

#Taxevasion

#OTD 23 Jan 1980, Giuseppe Conlon

#GiuseppeConlon

Revealed: UK government helped sanctioned Putin ally sue British journalist

Revelations about #Wagner and #Prigozhin were exposed by #Bellingcat in 2020, leading to the notorious libel case against Eliot Higgins

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/prigozhin-government-russia-ukraine-hack-libel-slapp/

Rishi Sunak's Treasury allowed Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin to override sanctions to launch an aggressive legal campaign against a journalist | Aleksey Smagin/Kommersant/Sipa USA. Composite image by openDemocracy. All rights reserved

Former senior #FBI official accused of working for Russian he investigated

The same agent worked on the investigation into #Trump & #Russia in 2016

#McGonigal
Free Access https://wapo.st/3HqUi6f

Charles McGonigal, then Special Agent in Charge for Counterintelligence for the FBI in New York, shown as he is interviewed by Leonardo Reis in 2018

Peter @Deixis9 boosted:

Welcome to this week’s Weather Report from the People’s CDC!
As always, please be sure to check out the full written report, which includes includes even more information, clickable links to sources, and translation to Spanish, on http://www.PeoplesCDC.org!

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#peoplescdc #COVID #COVID19 #COVID19WeatherReport
#longcovid #pandemic

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Peter @Deixis9 boosted:

Last week I was a student for five days, five hours per day—with ChatGPT fully integrated into teaching. Here's what we learned, just in time for Spring Term (which starts tomorrow. Class was Malware Analysis, taught by @jags https://alperovitch.sais.jhu.edu/five-days-in-class-with-chatgpt/

the #UK is now a “junior partner to the United States” – something he thinks will be accelerated because of #Brexit.

#Chomsky

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/chomsky-if-corbyn-had-been-elected-britain-would-be-pursuing-a-much-more-sane-course-266056/

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