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Good Law Project

For ordinary people the pandemic was a tragedy. But for well-connected VIPs it was the chance of a lifetime – huge fortunes were up for grabs.

This is the cost of cronyism – good administration suffers, efficient buying of PPE suffers.

goodlawproject.org/ppe-urgent-

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Good Law Project

RT @JujuliaGrace@twitter.com

I am very proud of the work @EveryDoctorUK@twitter.com and @GoodLawProject@twitter.com did together to prove the existence of the VIP lane. This government must be held to account for their actions. twitter.com/guardian/status/15

🐦🔗: twitter.com/JujuliaGrace/statu

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@AnnPettifor just seen that you followed me, I remember discussing your analyses on debt with colleagues over lunches at work in the early 2000s. Because we couldn't see how there wasn't a debt crisis looming.

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Nae

I don't know who needs to hear this but

The postal service exists to deliver letters and parcels to people
Not to make money for shareholders

The transport system exists to move people to where they need to go
Not to make money for shareholders

The water, gas, and electricity supplies exist to provide people vital utilities
Not to make money for shareholders

The healthcare system exists to ensure (and that's ENsure, not INsure) the health of the population
Not to make money for shareholders

Shareholders in vital public services are a vampiric drain on those services

Capitalism is a disease

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Alan Crawford

Not claiming any great artistic merit for this pic, just wanted to show the rough weather in Scotland today!

#scotland #photography #waves #aberdeen

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Jim Parkin

@ProfLouiseL you can almost see it turning into peat

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Refactored genetic codes enable bidirectional genetic isolation science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

The researchers changed how genetic information is encoded by DNA in the organisms and the new organism cannot transfer functional genes either way with other organisms. Nor could extant viruses attack them.

Well I guess that's the end of the Deus ex machina in War of the Worlds.

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Dr Tess Machling

Amazing what some positive social media interaction can do for your paper-writers' block!

Thank you lovely tootlers for being inspiring- the troublesome 'dating of Iron Age gold torcs' paper is underwayyyyyy! 2500 words done!! Woohoo!

And to say thank you, here's a photo from my recent research trip to the British Museum of the rather lovely Snettisham bracelet (except it's not, its an arm-ring, but more of that in the paper!! 😉)

#Archaeology #Gold #Torcs #Writing

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Dr Tess Machling

There's nowt new in archaeological woowoo.

Well worth watching these BBC Horizon programmes from 1999 & 2000 which shredded the same nonsense!!!

dai.ly/x223jd8
dai.ly/x33mfs5

#Archaeology #AncientApocalypse #WooWoo

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Stefan Koopmanschap

If you don't do so yet, follow @auschwitzmuseum. It is important to remember, and to realize what should never happen again.

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Dr. Robert Rohde

Another year, another increase in carbon dioxide emissions. ☹️

A few years ago, the IPCC issued a Special Report on keeping global warming below 1.5 °C (ipcc.ch/sr15/).

All the scenarios for reaching that ambitious goal require emissions to fall sharply and soon.

Instead, we are continuing higher.

#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #CarbonDioxide

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HarryMoWolves

RT @marcuschown@twitter.com

“The way a government treats its refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.”
- Tony Benn

🐦🔗: twitter.com/marcuschown/status

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Peter O’Hanraha-hanrahan

Morning all, may a pigeon with a bug crap over Nigel Pharage today

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Julian ♪🌻🥥🌴♫

Considering that he himself was possibly illegally in the US (see the capitolhunters thread), this one especially stings...

RT @JoshuaPHilll@twitter.com

Bill Fox, anti-immigrant MAGA propagandist. /7

🐦🔗: twitter.com/JoshuaPHilll/statu

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Vicmeldrew

#PPE #BBC #Chronyism 

Will the #BBC at long last cover this story that's been brewing for months.....

Revealed: Tory peer Michelle Mone secretly received £29m from ‘VIP lane’ PPE firm
theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/n

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science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc

An important step in

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Ian Saltern

Water companies dumping sewage during dry weather, SAS report finds theguardian.com/environment/20

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theguardian.com/environment/20

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Mike Galsworthy 🦣

🔥 PPE scandal 

This is bombshell reporting into what must now be a raging national scandal.

For govt buddies to take many millions from the public purse for unusable equipment during a pandemic when people are dying - and then lie about it…

…is sick and unforgivable.

#MichelleMone #PPE
theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/n

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Tim Welch :verified:

Flights going to Qatar for the World Cup.
Tell me how climate change is going.

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