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Entering candidates in local authority elections is free. The only expense is the printing of the leaflets and their distribution of leaflets is also free, accomplished by the voluntary labour of members themselves, and that activity results in a certain bonding with other members.
National elections are another issue. They entail expensive deposits for each candidate we stand but leafleting to each constituent is performed free by Royal Mail, although we do pick up the cost of the leaflets as with council elections.
It was 40 years before the Party even engaged in a General Election so it is not, for the moment, at least, the be-all and end-all
The global food impact of the war
Add to this the sanctions against Russia will also reduce supply and we face increased food prices across the world
Who is paying for the vaccine?
Moderna revealed that “in March 2022, we entered into a further amendment to [its Covid-19 vaccine contract with the federal government], increasing the amount of potential reimbursements by $308 million, in connection with costs associated with the clinical development for the The maximum award from [the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority], inclusive of the 2020, 2021, and 2022 amendments, was approximately $1.7 billion, adolescent and pediatric studies and the Phase 3 pivotal study…”
Moderna reported Wednesday that it sold $5.9 billion worth of its Covid-19 vaccine in the first quarter of 2022, far surpassing analysts’ revenue and profit expectations and briefly sending the company’s stock price soaring.
Job losses in Russia
https://www.dw.com/en/western-companies-leave-russia-taking-russian-jobs-with-them/a-61697175
According to Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, some 200,000 people in the Russian capital alone could lose their jobs due to foreign companies moving away.
Forbes reported that more than 600,000 jobs could be lost in Russia by the end of the year.
Tatiana Mikhailova, an economist and lecturer at the New Economic School in Moscow, says that sanctions will have long-term effects, including the exclusion of Russia from global supply chains, and that the restrictions will lead to isolation and technological holdups.
“Businesses will be forced to close and fire employees. Demand for goods and services will decrease, because the population will be poorer, and that will affect every sector, even down to hairdressers.”
Will the bread and butter issues counter nationalist patriotism? Or reinforce it by creating a siege mentality?
Republicans in Louisiana have advanced a bill to make abortion a crime of murder.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/05/louisiana-abortion-bill-murder-republicans
The sinking of the Moskva assisted by the US
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/05/us-intelligence-russia-moskva-ukraine
the US has provided “a range of intelligence”
The World Health Organization has estimated that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems over the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in south-east Asia, Europe and the Americas.
USA organising the assassination of Russian generals in the field
This year, at least 27 states have introduced or enacted 250 pieces of legislation designed to restrict voting, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. This comes after a record year in which 19 US states enacted 34 restrictive voting laws in 2021.
‘If Republicans win in the midterm elections through voter suppression, they will continue to enact unpopular measures such as book bans and abortion bans, prohibitions on political protest and the teaching of racial justice in schools, and they will be able to block any initiatives to address climate change.’
Fox Fake News
Judge Jeanine cites ridiculously false abortion ‘stats’ that would mean most women get an abortion every year
There’s about 72.7 million women in the U.S. considered to be of “reproductive age,” 15-49, according to The Guttmacher Institute, “a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) worldwide.”
According to Judge Jeanine, “And my stats that I have are that there are 63 million abortions a year in this country. Those are the stats that I heard! That’s a little too much!”
NBC News reported that the number of deaths from Covid-19 in the United States has surpassed a million, less than a quarter of the way through the third year of the pandemic.
An informed analysis of the Russian claims that Ukraine is producing bioweapons.
Like all conspiracy theories there has to be a kernel of ambiguous facts to exaggerate.
The US woos Sweden
“Update on Biden’s economic agenda,” tweeted Stephen Semler of the Security Policy Reform Institute. “He’s abandoned his Build Back Better agenda and is now openly praising war profiteering.”
