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Tories, your Party's hijacked by an extreme nationalist VoteLeave clique destroying the UK for their ideology /#ThisIsOurStar Look after it for us - 31/12/2021.

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Conservatives: Clear Desk. Bold Walk Out. Secure P45.

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@SamaHoole So glad that Keith [he, him], though evidently having self-identified as male, still has mammary glands to turn unwanted bramble into useful milk !

[Channel 4 @Channel4]

For various boring reasons we have to say that these are Hugh Grant’s views not ours, and that we definitely haven’t printed his post out and put it in a little frame on our desk

[Alex @olexk1]

@jurgen_nauditt https://t.co/fifmUDS2eo

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

A heartbreaking story which shows just what kind of man Donald Trump is.

Show this to anyone that believes Trump stands for Americans.

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@GhostofChicKiev You can add:
21. Pressed Button B in a phone box.
22. Sent / received messages by Telex.
23. Received a present in a parcel delivered on Xmas Day.
24. Used the educational programming language LOGO.
I've done ALL of these except the Walkman, Boombox & Blockbuster came too late.

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Fine summary by Dr @mattprescott explaining how the English Water industry was asset stripped and indebted so the GBP billions extracted could never be recovered.

[Dr Matt Prescott @mattprescott]

It's often a curse to have researched major national events before they caught wider attention. I investigated the English water industry in 2017. I feel it was privatised & asset stripped in a way designed to ensure its renationalisation with huge debts & rundown infrastructure

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REFORM PARTY CONSOLIDATES R-W OPPOSITION ROLE

The right-wing vote in the Gorton & Denton by-election deserted the Tories and flooded to Reform, who came second with 29%.

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TORIES WIPED OUT IN BY-ELECTION

While Labour’s vote was reduced, they kept a respectable block of voters, coming third with 25%. In contrast, Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives were humiliated, gaining only 706 votes (1.9%), the party's worst ever by-election result.

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LEFT KEEPS SEAT IN GORTON & DENTON

Left-leaning parties won 67% of the vote in the Gorton & Denton (Manchester) by-election, but dissatisfied Labour voters voted the GREEN Party in with over 40 % of votes cast.

[Nature Vid @naturevid2]

They all knew who Donald Trump was before he was elected. They all know who he is now.

This video was deleted from Twitter, you know what to do !!

[StopIslamism @sarahabv155702]

100 000 retweets, c'est possible ?
#FreeIran

[BORED @BoredElonMusk]

Here’s the video of the now iconic smoking Persian girl.

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

On Jan 8, a number of international trains (the main means of transportation amid Russia’s invasion) were stopped in Ukraine amid freezing weather & sweeping energy shutdowns. Here’s what happened next.

“Yesterday I was on a train from Poland to Kyiv when it stopped in Krasne, Lviv Oblast because there was intelligence of a possible bomb on the train.

Krasne isn’t some big city - it’s a small rural settlement east of Lviv with a population of around 6,300 people and a railway station that’s been part of Ukraine’s network since the 1860s. It’s a place normally quiet, not used to seeing hundreds of extra people suddenly arrive.

The train stopped. Passengers were evacuated into the cold. And - without drama, without fanfare - a community came together.

A local pizzeria opened early, fired up its ovens and started serving hot food.

Station staff came in on what should have been their day off, opened rooms to get people out of the freezing temperature - a space for children and babies, warm seats for anyone who needed it. A nearby café poured as many hot drinks as they could make.

For a small town not used to handling this many people at once, they didn’t shrug their shoulders. They helped. They fed. They warmed. They showed up….

This was a tiny moment in a big war, but it sums up exactly what’s happening in Ukraine now:
A small town, thrown into sudden pressure, didn’t panic - it helped.

Ordinary people didn’t run - they served.
A national transport network didn’t collapse - it supported and protected the passengers.

This is what sticking a middle finger up to russia looks like in real life.

Ukraine doesn’t just endure.
Ukraine shows up when it really matters.”

💙💛

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[Andreas Petzold @andreaspetzold]

@atrupar Steve, you can find this document from 1916 in the archives. After decades of negotiations, the US bought Caribbean islands from Denmark (now the US Virgin Islands), and in return, the US Secretary of State signed this guarantee regarding Greenland. Just sayin

[Tom Dreisbach @TomDreisbach]

I've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day.

Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me.

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[JH @CRUDEOIL231]

Ppl r hallucinating on Greenland’s mineral wealth.
Exploring and mining in the Arctic is a literal hellscape. The constraints r insane and the costs to overcome 'em r mooning way past imagination.

Geologically, permafrost is a nightmare. Ground’s frozen solid—normal drilling hits a wall. Building stable foundations for gear is a massive money pit.

Ops r cooked too. Constant darkness for months in winter. Working 24/7 under floodlights craters efficiency and spikes accident risk.

At -40°C to -50°C, metal gets brittle and just snaps. U need custom alloy gear, and keeping fuel/lube from freezing is a constant battle. The diesel/power burn just to keep lights on and engines warm is eye-watering. Immediate Opex blow-up.

Logistics? Absolute disaster. It’s not about digging it out; it’s about moving it.

Zero roads or rails. Everything moves by heli, light plane, or ship. Moving ore to a port costs multiples of what normal mines pay. Plus, zero local smelters. U gotta ship it across oceans, burning time and cash.

Shipping windows r tiny. Some coasts r only accessible a few months a year. U either pay for icebreakers or pray the 1-year supply/export window doesn’t get wrecked by bad weather. If the ship misses the slot, the whole year is a wash.

Look at the Citronen Fjord Zn project at 83°N. It’s one of the world's biggest undeveloped Zn-Pb deposits, but it's 2,100km north of Nuuk. Total isolation.

They get a 3-month window to move a year’s worth of cargo. One bad storm and the project is bricked for the season. Ironbark Zinc tried for ages, but it just got flipped to Dubai-based Almeera Ventures. That’s a clear signal on how brutal the Capex and funding hurdles r.

The core issue: does the margin even justify the risk? Building a mine w/ zero infra is a Capex black hole.
Think global warming helps? Think again.

Thawing permafrost is actually trashing existing infra and roads. Extreme weather just jacks up Opex even more.

We’re talking 10-15 yrs from discovery to first ore. If commodity prices crater in between, u’re left holding a stranded asset.

This is the reality of mining. Arctic dev is 10x harder than u think. Plz, stop living in a dream world. There’s a reason Denmark wasn't aggressive on dev.

U really think they held back just to protect the Inuit? Give me a break. Money always trumps ESG in the end, no matter the optics.

U can spam 'self-sufficiency' and 'strategy' all u want, but u can't meme ur way past physics and economics. Wake up.

#Greenland

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Let DENMARK take you over !

[Kvist @kvistp]

SOON!
Free healthcare, no medical bankruptcy, longer average life expectancy, higher minimum wages, shorter workweeks, strong middle class, robust unemployment benefits, free university education with monthly SU stipends, low crime rates, tax the rich more, lower corruption, etc

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

The 8hr video of Jack Smith’s testimony was released by Congress on New Years’ Eve in between Epstein and Venezuela. It’s an extraordinary display of Smith’s integrity and attention to justice and fairness on 1/6. Allison Gill deserves praise for curating the key clips. 1/4

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