Defending UK democracy ...

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This week, we focus on what we can do to prevent the UK from going the way of the US.

Palantir's summary of CEO Alexander Karp's manifesto is generating buzz. Read the 22 bullet points. Among the 22 points summarizing Palantir CEO Alex Karp's manifesto is the belief that the US should consider reinstating the military draft.

This company is out of control and its CEO appears in nearly every public appearance to be disturbed in some way.

There are companies our government should have nothing to do with anymore—e.g., those associated with Elon Musk—and Palantir is on that list.

Getting your MP to Defend our Democracy - 99% The launch event for Defensive Constitutional Reform will be on 27 April in Parliament. Our Parliamentary sponsor, Richard Quigley MP, has already invited your MP. But they are more likely […]

Important.

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Defending UK democracy ...

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This week, we focus on what we can do to prevent the UK from going the way of the US.

It’s not just the remarkable 63% who say they’d vote to rejoin the EU. It’s also the fact that this figure continues to rise slowly but steadily.
Brexit has failed and is seen to have failed. And geopolitics brings Britain and its neighbours, with whom it shares interests & values, closer together.

Getting your MP to Defend our Democracy - 99% The launch event for Defensive Constitutional Reform will be on 27 April in Parliament. Our Parliamentary sponsor, Richard Quigley MP, has already invited your MP. But they are more likely […]

Invite your MP to defend democracy.

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The last person in this country I am going to listen to on the question of honesty is Nigel Farage.

Getting your MP to Defend our Democracy - 99% The launch event for Defensive Constitutional Reform will be on 27 April in Parliament. Our Parliamentary sponsor, Richard Quigley MP, has already invited your MP. But they are more likely […]

Please invite your MP to this - it’s @99organisation.bsky.social’s new report on DEFENSIVE Constitutional Reform.
Here’s the link: 99-percent.org/getting-your...

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But neither determine what data Palantir is capable of seeing, does see, extracting if it is so minded (legitimately or not) or what metadata Palantir sees and is capable of extracting and mashing with its multiple other databases from multiple sources and rebuilding.

We should be learning from other countries...

Saw this last night thanks to Transition Chichester.
Here’s a link demanding government hold a televised emergency briefing so that everyone can see it www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-...
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Fantastic news! So glad you’ve taken this on.
OUR NHS & OUR COUNTRY NEED YOU!- and your legal superpowers 🙏
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How was Orbán defeated? With energetic campaigning and cunning exploitation of his weaknesses | Tibor Dessewffy Péter Magyar did not need to dismantle the system – but he understood that Hungarians care more about the cost of living than conspiracies, says Tibor Dessewffy of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest

...With a record turnout of nearly 80% and a supermajority for the Tisza party of almost 70% of the seats, this was not merely a change of government: it was a change of regime, compressed into a single election night.

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What's remarkable is that when Biden was president neither media nor anyone in America appeared to struggle to draw a link between—even a wildly attenuated link between—a stuttering answer and Biden being incapable of safely shepherding America. But Trump's psychopathy? No issue.

Time for a Progressive Tax System? - 99% How you probably pay a higher rate of tax than the wealthiest in society We are often told that the UK tax system is progressive: the better you are doing […]

That is also true of the UK tax system.

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None of this would be happening right now if Trump had gone to prison for January 6th like he should have

Commonwealth Fund rankings of developed healthcare systems in the early 2010s

Not so long ago -- hard though it is to remember -- it was considered the best healthcare system in the developed world.

We cannot afford to let it be destroyed.

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Here's a picture of me looking like a nurse. 😶

We @libdems.org.uk are calling on the FCA to investigate whether Farage’s plans to cash in on Crypto could potentially amount to market abuse and a conflict of interest.

It raises concerns that Farage could be using the Trump playbook to put his own interests above the public good.

The proportion of Brits who think that the US would come to the a NATO’s members aid if they were attacked has also dropped. Now just 2 in 5 Britons believe the US would come to the defence of a NATO ally - in fact as many now think the US would not come to their defence.

That’s why I’ve boycotted Amazon for years. Bezos has enough money and Unions weren’t recognised!

A worker died in a Amazon warehouse in Oregon.

For more than an hour the workers in the facility were ordered to continue working as the man lay dead.

One worker tried to help, but a manager told him “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work.“

EVIL.

Congratulations to Péter Magyar on a decisive election victory in Hungary.

The Hungarian people have chosen a new path. We are ready to work with you, and our European allies, to deepen our cooperation in trade, defence, and security.

Remember: The recipe for economic growth isn’t tax cuts for the rich. It’s investment in our people — in health care, infrastructure and education — to build a strong middle class.

You don't grow the economy through trickle-down nonsense.

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And here is our proposal for rewiring: 99-percent.org/wp-content/u...

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"Without such rewiring, both Ofgem and the Bank of England will stick to their remits and we run the risk that our reaction to today’s oil price surge will be as damaging to households and to the economy as it was to the last one."

The strait of Hormuz

When Putin invaded Ukraine, our response to the resulting oil price shock was among the worst in Europe.

We must do better this time.

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What can we learn from the last oil price shock?

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