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I teach maths. I despair at the state of the world.

East, England
Joined January 2017
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Ben Chase retweeted
Swiss firm just handed the £362 million contract to build a metro for the North East of England. The Tories have betrayed British Manufacturing.
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for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights." THE END Albert Einstein in 1949 described the UK General Election of 2019
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Anyone else think it's interesting that a US company applied to patent the Coronavirus in 2015, succeeded in 2018, and had the 'product' cleared for distribution in 2019?
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A truly inspiring story. Julian is finally released from solitary in Belmarsh because the other prisoners in the prison were appalled by his treatment and took up action on his behalf. A small victory for basic humanity - and it took criminals to teach it to the British state.
Prisoners' revolt and pressure from legal team and campaigners forces Belmarsh to move Assange out of solitary. WikiLeaks statement:
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Another day passes and STILL no mention of the Russian report. It's beginning to look like one of the biggest cover ups in British political history, how can people think otherwise, where is it ?
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On January 31 st I will pay my tax bill that is due and with no qualms at all in doing so , Meanwhile Jacob Rees Mogs company that’s made over £105 million pounds in profit will pay none as the company is registered in the Cayman Islands , I’ll leave that one with you
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Brazil would not go after Glenn Greenwald unless they'd secured US consent. First they came for Assange, then Greenwald. Do you care enough yet to want to stop the gradual erosion of press freedoms – until all that's left is the most craven, state-approved journalism?
It’s a threat to democracy when authorities like the Brazilian government use computer crime laws to threaten critics like @ggreenwald, and it discourages all journalists from using technology to best serve the public. nytimes.com/2020/01/21/world…
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Under Soviet Communism you buy everything from a single state outlet, whereas under a fully-mature Capitalism then you buy everything from Amazon.
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There was a 44% spike in Palestinian home demolitions in Jerusalem by the Israeli army in 2019, compared with 2018. The term for this is ethnic cleansing. The British government won’t condemn this behaviour. The term for this is moral cowardice.
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Damn hypocrite, he says this when his own Gov have an innocent man locked away in Solitary for telling the truth, jailed on trumped up charges which have since been dropped but they keep him locked away ( Breaking International law) ready for Trump to dispose of!! #FreeAssange
BREAKING: Britain's @DominicRaab says detention of UK's ambassador to Tehran "without grounds or explanation is a flagrant violation of international law"
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Ben Chase retweeted
Here’s a preposterously spray-tanned President of the United States bragging about war crimes on TV tonight. This is normal now.
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So - Striking workers in Paris have taken over Blackrock’s Paris office. Blackrock is the largest asset management firm on earth. And the largest investor in fossil fuels. And incidentally, they pay former Tory chancellor George Osborne £650k a year...
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Scrap tuition fees = "How we gonna pay for it?" Nationalise rail and energy = "Can't afford that." Increase school funding = "No magic money trees 😂" Weapons to bomb Iran = "👍🏾"
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Replying to @SkyNews
In a country where it is considered essential for Matalan employees to turn up to work at 3am on Boxing day morning for the sales, what should we expect of our PM during a time of international crisis?
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Mike Pence gets the number of hijackers wrong alleged to have carried out 9/11 attacks then tries to tie them to #Solemani. There were allegedly 19 and not 12. 15 of whom were from Saudi Arabia, Solemani’s regional enemy.
Replying to @Mike_Pence
Assisted in the clandestine travel to Afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
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He is taking back control... .... .... Any minute now... ... @BorisJohnson?
Dear Dominic Last plea: can't I stay one more week? Please. Pretty please. I know I've said I'm coming back tomozz, but I really don't want to kick off the new year having to have a go at both backing and not backing Don's snipers at the same time. Janus duplicitus Boris
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