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Posts by Brigitte Scammell

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Palantir manifesto described as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’ amid UK contract fears Alarm caused by posts of Alex Karp, tech firm’s CEO, championing US military dominance and of AI weapons

More on Palantir👇🏼
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If trickle-down economics worked at all, the world gaining 400 billionaires last year would have set off an economic boom, given everyone raises, and lowered our prices.

But it didn't. Because trickle-down economics is a scam designed to make the rich richer off the rest of us.

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‘Labels protect us’: Olivia Nervo wants reproductive coercion to be a standalone offence – she is not alone Grammy-winning songwriter says she was deceived into pregnancy, and that cases like hers fall between the cracks

‘Labels protect us’: Olivia Nervo wants reproductive coercion to be a standalone offence – she is not alone

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BREAKING: We're taking the government to court over Palantir Peter Thiel's surveillance firm is embedded in the NHS. Wes Streeting won't show us the briefings - so we have launched a legal challenge.

BREAKING: We’re taking the government to court over Palantir.

The government is refusing to hand over important briefings given to Wes Streeting about the £330m NHS data contract with Peter Thiel’s surveillance firm

So we’re taking legal action.

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-w...

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Unforgiven.

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95% of people carry this virus and scientists may have just found how to stop it Scientists have taken a major step toward stopping Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), an extremely common infection linked to cancer and chronic disease. By using mice engineered with human antibody genes, res...

95% of people carry this virus and scientists may have just found how to stop it

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

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Both were 100 percent right about the Orange Dictator..

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France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

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The government has turned its back on pandemic prevention The UK’s new pandemic preparedness strategy – and ending the country’s contribution to the Pandemic Fund as part of aid cuts – raises serious questions about whether the UK can protect itself, writes ...

New piece of whether uk govt had abandoned pandemic preparedness:

www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

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The Prime Minister’s shocking and shameful plan for immigration and why we must all oppose it
The Prime Minister’s shocking and shameful plan for immigration and why we must all oppose it YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

The governments plan for immigration will keep people working in key industries like care in temporary status for a decade or more, it will keep people in insecure work, make them more easily exploitable & marginalised -when did that become the policy of a Labour government?
youtu.be/G7uTFllI5ks?...

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The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

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For a lot of women and children the most dangerous place is their home.

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I’m Team Pope Leo.

And you don’t have to be a practicing Catholic to think — what the hell is wrong with the Pentagon’s mouthpiece?

This is repugnant.

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Middle East crisis live: Red Cross ‘outraged’ as Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill 254; Trump says US military to remain in region As Israel attacks continue, Abbas Araghchi points to announcement that says ceasefire includes Lebanon while JD Vance says US never promised that

More unnecessary deaths and destruction.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

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While Ukraine aid runs dry, Trump asks for record-breaking $1.5 trillion in military spending The proposed budget calls for a $445 billion (44%) increase in defense funds in 2027 — as U.S. military aid to Ukraine has dropped by 99% under Trump's watch.

⚡️While Ukraine aid runs dry, Trump asks for record-breaking $1.5 trillion in military spending.

The proposed budget calls for a $445 billion (44%) increase in defense funds in 2027 — as U.S. military aid to Ukraine has dropped by 99% under Trump's watch.

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Mum hospitalised in 1st wave, Dad died; she never came home, got decanted to care home, put in solitary confinement. Unspeakable misery. Boris and crew made terrible decisions, fuelled by hubris and a desire to party. I'm incandescent with rage. (Thank you Christina for making sure we don't forget).

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SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 are transmitted through the air between ferrets over more than one meter distance - Nature Communications Some epidemiological data suggests that SARS-CoV-2 can be transmitted through the air over longer distances. Here, Kutter et al. show in the ferret model that SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV can be transmitte...

Never forget the ferret experiment. Showed that SARS-CoV-2 was airborne. Was dismissed by infectious disease doctors "animal data, doesn't count". Many humans died as a result.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Understand that if Trump ends his War as he just told Reuters and US voters he would, it's the second war he's lost to Iran in a year. No regime change. No nuclear material recovered. No deal to stop enrichment. Strait of Hormuz closed. Ballistic missiles falling on Israel daily.

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Nuns who broke back into their Austrian convent ‘are step closer to being able to stay’ Plan for three nuns who escaped from care home last year to go to Rome thought to be positive sign of Vatican’s decision

Go Sisters! Lovely story. #ageinginplace

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Molly the border collie rescued after a week waiting for injured owner in New Zealand’s remote backcountry A rescue mission involving volunteer helicopter crew and public donations ended in joy after Molly was located and brought home

Loved this amongst all the horrors of war news
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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'Wes Streeting is facing criticism after accepting £55,000 donation from a firm linked to private healthcare. One doctor summed up the frustration
“I can’t accept a plastic pen because it might influence my decisions — but MPs can accept ££££s from private healthcare interests?”'
via The £Daily Scar

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Didn’t want to get affected like this giving evidence. Caught me by surprise. We all lost so much. We have to act on the inquiry’s recommendations. We have to be better now, so that we can be better next time.

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The Prime Minister’s plan to offer rapid routes to settlement for those earning six-figure salaries whilst punishing and making lower-paid workers wait up to 15 years appears to be based on the notion that care workers are “low-skilled” because they are low-paid - its a disgrace

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End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Did you watch Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

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I didn’t lose my ability to see beauty.
Moreover, the war taught me to see it everywhere.

Beauty is not a distraction.
It shows how amazing our planet is.
The one we should protect.

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Taking multivitamin daily could help to slow biological ageing, study suggests Researchers working to unpick whether daily multivitamin results in people staying healthier as they age

Oh good 👀
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

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Kyiv.
He was playing in a mall today.
And I imagine him playing for all the women in the world.

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