Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@qoto.org

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Q: How to export 50,000 barrels/day of oil into Europe?

A: Start by exporting 1,600,000 barrels a day into Europe THEN start a genocidal war with it's largest country.

Wenn #Schnee Spaß macht 😊

Senator Chris Murphy:

“You can't make this up.

Republicans added $4 TRILLION to the debt with their tax cut for corporations and billionaires.

Now, they are refusing allow Treasury to pay back the loans unless Congress agrees to cuts to Medicare and Social Security.”

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/president-trumps-4-trillion-debt-increase

Met officer who was posted at school admits child sexual abuse offences - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/25/met-police-officer-hussain-chehab-admits-child-sexual-offences gosh, it's almost as if @metpoliceuk is beyond salvation....

I am old enough to remember when our rivers were burning and smog enveloped our cities - the regulations were put into place for very valid reasons!
#environment

George Santos: I was definitely never a drag queen. But when I was a drag queen, I won “sevral GAY ‘BEAUTY PAGENTS.’”

Which raises a question. The Republican leadership has no problem with his being a con artist, serial liar, embezzler, and international fugitive serving in Congress under an assumed name. Will the drag queen thing be a dealbreaker?

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/20/george-santos-appears-to-admit-drag-queen-past-in-wiki-post-00078812

Suella Braverman has refused to apologise to a Holocaust survivor who said the home secretary’s description of migrants as an “invasion” was akin to language the Nazis used to justify murdering her family.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/14/suella-braverman-wont-apologise-to-holocaust-survivor-for-calling-migrants-invasion

'The British Medical Association has warned that relying on the private sector threatens the "sustainability of the NHS”, which has suffered from “a decade of underinvestment”.'

Private health firms donated £800,000 to Conservative Party | openDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/private-health-firms-donate-to-conservative-party-amid-nhs-crisis/?utm_source=SEGMENT%20-%20Newsletter%3A%20oD%20weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Conservatives%20took%20more%20than%20%C2%A3800%2C000%20from%20private%20health%20firms&_kx=u21e0qqT6J7jw__c2srKO-SI0dMizRafjc_2d6g4uiMltCkKqCY0pZm1jLnP4TV2.YjCYwm

Sunbeams in the Evergreen Oaks of Allerford Plantation, Exmoor National Park. #Exmoor #exmoornationalpark #allerfordplantation #sunbeam #sunbeams #woodland #evergreenoak #oak #photography #landscapephotography

#LeaveLies just sort of keep exposing themselves. Like rancid old perverts who just can’t help opening their stupid mouths. I take no pleasure at all in this - it was all so predictable, all so obvious and inevitable. I desperately don’t want to see France walk the same path. Il faut jamais #Frexit

HOLY SHEET! The Nassau County @GOP is on national TV calling for George Santos to resign.

If you are the kind who say, “You know, I'd mask on flights if WHO or the CDC said I should,” I guess you can now start masking on flights.

WHO urges travellers to wear masks as new #COVID19 variant spreads. #wearamask

https://www.reuters.com/world/whoeurope-backs-travel-checks-us-given-spread-latest-omicron-variant-2023-01-10/