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[🇨🇳XuZhenqing徐祯卿 @XueJia24682]

✨🇨🇳 China offers interest-free student loans to make higher education accessible.

On a separate note, tuition fees in China are also very low — for example, a public university in Jiangxi charges only 5,000 yuan ($740) for tuition and 1,000 yuan ($148) for accommodation per year.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

In @AbbyMartin's new film, 'Earth's Greatest Enemy,' she exposes how the US military has unleashed death, devastation and more pollution than any other institution in the world on the global populace.

Watch our conversation on YouTube now: https://t.co/IdsNPTLtx1

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Meet Christopher Harborne, the billionaire bankrolling Reform UK.

He moved to Thailand in the 1990s and became a Thai citizen, but he has pumped over £25 million into UK political parties, including £15 million to Reform UK and £10.2 million to the Brexit Party.

How is he legally allowed to do this?

A Channel 4 News investigation can reveal that Harborne specifically re-registered as a UK resident to cast his vote for the Brexit referendum whilst declaring just a few months later in a UK company documents that he lived in Thailand.

It’s a move that legally enabled him to pump tens of millions into British politics. Experts are calling it a "gaping loophole".

We look into the man behind Nigel Farage's £5 million gift.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Estas imágenes no son antiguas, es Gaza hoy, tras ser bombardeada masivamente por "Israel" en un supuesto cese al fuego, donde han matado a más de 1.100 palestinos.

Los medios te mintieron, Hamas ya no gobierna Gaza, los rehenes fueron devueltos.. "Israel" sigue bombardeando.

[lan Byrne MP @IanByrneMP]

Superb initiative by Mayor Mamdani.
This will feature in our Committee report and road map👏

#RightToFoodCommittee
#HungerIsAPoliticalChoice

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

El momento en el que "Israel" voló por los aires la principal escuela infantil del pueblo Hanine, en el sur de Líbano, como el ISIS, los sionistas perpetran un borrado cultural premeditado.

El mundo pasó de hablar de derechos humanos a normalizar que "Israel" explote escuelas y maten niños a diario sin ningún castigo.

[terry christian @terrychristian]

For many of us who have been around - this was when Britain changed for the worse and has never quite recovered . All the things the generation after WW1 and post world War 2 started to be taken away

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

There’s a powerful new documentary out called Earth’s Greatest Enemy by @AbbyMartin about the ecocidal abuses of the US war machine, and it addresses the most pressing existential hurdles we face as a species like nothing I’ve seen before.

The film breaks down how the US military has become the single most environmentally destructive institution on our planet by an extremely massive margin, walking the audience through the many ways the Pentagon and its global metastases have been churning out carbon emissions, pouring toxins into the air and water, wiping out precious ecosystems for gratuitous military bases, and pummeling our sea life with sonar and noise pollution, all while gleefully salivating at the prospect of plundering the resources which lay hidden beneath our planet’s rapidly thawing polar ice caps.

Martin skillfully ties the planet-devouring behavior of the US military to the global systems of capitalism and imperialism it was built to uphold. The viewer is left with a crystal clear picture of the ways ecocide, militarism and capitalism are inseparably intertwined, and an understanding that meaningfully opposing any of these malignancies necessarily entails opposing them all. The liberal fiction that one can be pro-environment while also supporting the US military is forcefully exposed for the absurdity that it is.

It’s a jarring film with extremely dark subject matter, but it also manages to be a work of transcendent beauty and optimism. A deep love of humans and all of earth’s creatures shines through in shot after shot, while slick editing and an inspired soundtrack allow the movie to zip along at a lively and entertaining pace. Martin concludes with a galvanizing call to use our outrage to loosen the empire’s already weakening grip on humanity’s collective consciousness, because our entire world depends on it.

Perhaps the most touching aspect of the documentary is the personal element Martin chose to bring in to her overarching narrative. She discusses how she and her husband (antiwar activist Mike Prysner, who co-directed the film) had their lives forever altered when they had kids and experienced a new level of urgency to help give rise to a brighter future. Their family of four becomes a microcosm of humanity’s struggle to liberate itself from the tyranny of the machine to create a better world for our children, and we see Martin’s love for her son and daughter reflected in a great tenderness for the world as a whole.

Anyway, I’ve never felt inclined to write a film review before so I don’t know if I’ve done a good job of encouraging people to watch this thing, but for my own audience I truly cannot recommend Earth’s Greatest Enemy enough. It’s available streaming on Apple TV, Prime Video, and Watermelon Pictures. Screening tour dates and further information can be found on the Earth’s Greatest Enemy website. Be sure to leave a review on Letterboxed or IMDB if you can.

Enjoy!

[non_fi 𐤊 @nonfiktion_]

@ZoeJardiniere One simple way to understand this phenomenon = endemic corporate lobbying X systemic corruption

[The Observer @ObserverUK]

The Coca-Cola factory in Morpeth, Northumberland, sits above a natural underground reservoir of fresh water. It produces enough bottled water every year to fill 30 Olympic-size swimming pools.

But The Observer can reveal Coca-Cola is paying the Environment Agency (EA) just £6,070 in annual charges for a licence to extract up to 674m litres of water for its production line at Morpeth. It extracted about 125m litres last year. @JonUngoedThomas investigates
https://t.co/cl6a9smJwO

[richard oneill @silverrich39]

Surprise surprise:- How Tony Blair’s family have built a buy-to-let property empire in Greater Manchester
The former Prime Minister’s wife Cherie and son Euan have become private landlords, snapping up nearly 30 flats in south Manchester, Stockport and Trafford. 😉

[Unite For A Workers' Economy @UniteEconomy]

Today marks 40 years since Thatcher sold off British Gas.

Remember the “Tell Sid” campaign? Turns out Sid took us all for a ride.

Thatcher called it creating a share-owning democracy. In reality, it was selling off the family silver – public assets built by generations of working people, handed over so private companies could make billions.

Forty years on, British Gas and Centrica have made obscene profits, while millions of people have struggled to keep the heating on.

That’s what happens when you run essential public utilities for private profit instead of the public good.

Energy isn’t a luxury. It should be run in the interests of the people who rely on it, not shareholders looking for bigger dividends.

Enough is enough. Time to bring our energy system back into public hands.

#TellSid #PublicOwnership #WorkersEconomy #FuelPoverty

[non_fi 𐤊 @nonfiktion_]

@implausibleblog Ian Dale = 🐖

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

I am begging people to understand the reason you pay so much tax is because the richest pay so little.

The combined tax dodged by the richest 1% is more than the tax contribution of the bottom 70%.

If they paid their tax, you wouldn't have to pay any.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING: Israeli invaders are entering civilian homes across South Lebanon, rigging them with explosives — then blowing them up.

Not military targets. Homes.

This is happening every single day during a so-called “ceasefire.”

No justification. Just pure terrorism.

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Así es la comida infantil en las escuelas de EEUU, bajo el National School Lunch Program, los padres estadounidenses pagan por alimentar a sus hijos con esta basura, según sus ingresos.

Mientras se gastan 37.000 millones en bombardear Irán, sus hijos comen plástico a la plancha.

[James Conran @JamesConran1]

Councils stopped building houses...and basically nobody took their place.

[non_fi 𐤊 @nonfiktion_]

@BladeoftheS Traidor a la patria☝🏻💯

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The revelation that Sunak has paid £1M in tax in the last 3 years 0.13% of his £720m wealth.

While the average person has paid about £45k or 14%, 100x as much.

Should open your eyes to just how much and how blatantly the rich dodge tax