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Seen this*
*Just saw this also on SOYMB? Only another news (DW) website.
Saudi oil giant Aramco has broken its own record with a $48.4bn (£40bn) profit for the second quarter of 2022.
Saudi Aramco: Oil giant tops own record with $48.4bn quarterly profit https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62539480
This from the Daily Mail…
Union barons threaten to axe Labour cash over sacking
Rather than a new thread….this
The audacious PR plot that seeded doubt about climate change
AJ, I remember.
‘Allied’ forces, Australia have investigated this…it was touched on very briefly in the show? Not sure the outcome.
From the BBC news website…above…had been killed, including a 12 and 14 year old boy, with clusters of bullet holes left close to the floor.
More here..
SAS unit repeatedly killed Afghan detainees, BBC finds https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62083196
There is a Panorama- War crimes Scandal Exposed, Iraq and Afghanistan back in 2019, by special forces. There is an allegation of a coverup at a senior level by aBritish military.
From the BBC news website
SAS unit repeatedly killed Afghan detainees, BBC finds https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-62083196
This came up on the BBC news, yesterday. British SAS* ‘death squads’ murdered unarmed civilians in night raids, in 2011.
*Australia military confirmed its forces also murdered unarmed civilians in ‘death raids’ at night.
Not seen any coverage in the tabloids?
Warning ⚠️ distressing imagesAJ
Did read that Ukrainians are white (fairly obvious) and christian…
The Government can find £4bn* in ‘aid’ to Ukraine.
The US I can’t remember how many
$billions*There’s no Tory money tree. This ‘aid’ is on condition Ukraine buys British arms.
Bit off topic..
Putin owns a £1bn* palace!
This on top of the usual £500m mega yacht(s?)
Putin must work hard.
This, not the article I read….close
Putin’s £1bn palace built with illicit funds, says Navalny from prison cell
As above. Russia, or rather Putin, wants to cause global starvation*.
So according to those who say Capitalism has bought billions of people out of poverty (ignoring all the evidence to the contrary) do they suggest we wait for this to happen…?
Begging the question in the first place that this is even remotely possible*?
1.4bn face food insecurity… the market dictates no profit no production.
*She said the hunger crisis was building “like a life-threatening wave before us” but it was Russia’s war that had “made a tsunami out of this wave”, and she said Russia was using hunger as a weapon of war.
World War III
London will be bombed first in World War Three, Putin ally claims
A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that London will be the first city to be bombed in the event of another world war.“The first to be hit will be London.
“It’s crystal clear that the threat to the world comes from the Anglo-Saxons.”Link go to Key points 2nd…on the list
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-news-live-russian-pilot-captured-as-ukrainian-forces-have-to-be-withdrawn-from-severodonetsk-12541713?postid=4069892#liveblog-bodyThis is all the fault of the government….greedy Capitalists.
Government subsidises Rail to the tune of £4bn, ending up largely in shareholders pockets.
From inews
No 10 planning to tear up restrictions on City bosses’ pay amid cost of living crisis
One key plank of the plan included “removing restrictions on director (and specifically NED [non-executive director]) remuneration as suggested by the London Stock Exchange Group to improve London’s attractiveness for listings”.
But with the cost of living crisis and a squeeze on earnings hitting millions of ordinary workers, the proposal may spark controversy.Outrage over banker’s pay
Bonuses in the financial and insurance sector grew by 27.9 per cent over the last year, while average wages in the same period grew by just 4.2 per cent. Some £6bn was paid out in City bonuses in March alone.
While CEOs receive staggering pay and bonuses increases! All perfectly justified..
The Government attacks ordinary workers daring to seek a decent pay rise at all!! …in effect accusing them of causing inflation!
I posted this on RMT Twitter account page…and The Times*
When there was no such thing as inflation, at the turn of the 20th Century. Wages were a pittance, children, forced into indentures worked a 16 hour day, 6 day week. Sundays were for God. You preyed for a better life after death!
The Tories, its then predecessor, were not the Party of the workers!* A good response this being 1…
Well yes! People seem to forget this nugget of information because most people never pick up a history book!
