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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h

Did President Putin say anything about *your* involvement with children, dear?

redcazza.bsky.social @redcazza.bsky.social · 7h

The global house/land market bubble is due to burst next year according to Fred Harrison who precisely predicted the last crash in his 2005 Boom Bust: House Prices Banking and the Depression of 2010
Land, prime collateral for loans, reaches Minski Moment in 18-20 yr cycle

L @banalplay.bsky.social · 13h

is this good

graph showing that the average inflation-adjusted home price is more unaffordable than at any point since 1890

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 7h

Anyone buying into the war propaganda about Venezuela is a fucking moron. The lies are dumb even by usual US warmongering standards, and US regime change interventionism is consistently disastrous. People who say they want Trump to remove Maduro are admitting they never grew up.

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Collateral Damage @coldamage.bsky.social · 8h

Racism is when this happens regularly for decades and the world does nothing to stop it. #FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15h

On the same day that a poll shows the Green Party in front of the Labour Party for the first time - it's time to take on Reform too.

My chat with @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social 👇🏼

youtu.be/XRNB5MD7Ijw?...

How to stop a right-wing takeover of the UK | Zak Polanski | UNAPOLOGETIC

YouTube video by Middle East Eye

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 8h

British PM endorses notorious football hooligans who support genocide.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wrong to stop Maccabi Tel Aviv fans attending Aston Villa match, says PM

Followers of the Israeli club will not be allowed to attend the Europa League game over safety concerns.

www.bbc.co.uk

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redcazza.bsky.social @redcazza.bsky.social · 8h

Just a reminder that if @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social had been allowed to win in 2017 (he nearly did) we would have had a good Brexit.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 8h

With the slightest changes, accepting Free Movement, the UK could rejoin the Single Market and end about 95% of the damage that Brexit is doing to the UK.

Why don't we just get it done?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17h

When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them. I meant it.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll showing labour and greens neck and neck.

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 8h

In the space of 9 months Trump has indicted Bolton, Letita James and James Comey.

A reminder that if Biden had wanted to indict Trump for his attempted coup he easily could've done.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

John Bolton: Former Trump national security adviser indicted

Bolton's indictment makes him the third of the US president's political opponents to face criminal charges in recent weeks.

www.bbc.co.uk

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redcazza.bsky.social @redcazza.bsky.social · 8h

1% own 70% of UK land. You can't hide land in a tax haven. Tax land www.labourland.org

redcazza.bsky.social @redcazza.bsky.social · 9h

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Ali @vejadu.xyz · 10h

Found laughter, I need it.

APPARENTLY it costs the NHS over £300,000 a year to remove foreign objects from people's rectums. Why aren't we removing British objects instead?
Was Brexit all for nothing?
Gerry Paton, London

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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 1d

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10h

“Two sources say Weiss has said to others that she doesn’t own a television herself.”

Inside Bari Weiss’s First 10 Days as the Controversial Head of CBS News

After a softball Netanyahu interview, newsroom sources tell Zeteo the start of Weiss's tenure at CBS has been chaotic and has underscored her own pro-Israel biases.

zeteo.com

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redcazza.bsky.social @redcazza.bsky.social · 10h

Tax the rich till the pips squeak to curb their purchasing power especially of politicians
But we don't need them or their money

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

redcazza.bsky.social @redcazza.bsky.social · 10h

'Government debt' is mythical. No connection with that and MAGA corruption.

redcazza.bsky.social @redcazza.bsky.social · 10h

There doesn't have to be any fiscal pressure on average Joe. Taxes don't fund public expenditure. MMT says tax the rich hard to curb their purchasing power, especially of politicians.

redcazza.bsky.social @redcazza.bsky.social · 10h

MMT is just a theory of how the monetary system actually works. It's not a set of policies, although there are 2 that MMT economists support: the Job Guarantee and Zero Rate Interest Policy.

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Señor Beto @albthere.bsky.social · 12h

Yam Tits to make an “announcement” at 3 o’clock

Barron must be busy trying to fire up his laptop to game the stock market..

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redcazza.bsky.social @redcazza.bsky.social · 12h

Love this

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13h

British.

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redcazza.bsky.social @redcazza.bsky.social · 12h

Rubbish
The Fed is the monopoly supplier of new $$
The US gvt can't run out of its own money
Treasuries are just corporate welfare w/o which the extractive finance sector couldn't function
Learn MMT & stop being fooled abt what a decent gvt can do
@wbmosler.bsky.social @stephaniekelton.bsky.social

anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 18h

Great job, Krasnov.

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redcazza.bsky.social @redcazza.bsky.social · 14h

Agree. The US (hence global) economy is in uncharted waters with Trump.

redcazza.bsky.social @redcazza.bsky.social · 14h

It was not a significant recession despite fears that it would be. And interest rates will be cut next time anyway. MMT says Zero Rate Interest Policy forever because interest rates don't control inflation and strangle the real economy.

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redcazza.bsky.social @redcazza.bsky.social · 15h

Quite happy to see the finance sector binned:-)

redcazza.bsky.social @redcazza.bsky.social · 16h

Yes, but just like the DotCom bubble it doesn't much affect the real economy. It's house price bubbles that do that because houses are the main collateral for bank loans. The house price crash is due next year. Debts that can't be paid won't be paid.

Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 17h

‘Of course it’s a bubble.’

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