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Lucky Luke
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A large Pew survey out this week shows just how bad it's gotten. (Pew interviewed 6,174 Americans. For context: most good national polls only interview about 1,000 people or so.)
The survey's biggest finding? Democrats and Republicans agree: they really don't like Republicans and Democrats.
Since 2016, growing numbers of people in each party simply don't like people in the other party. They increasingly see people with differing political views as closed-minded, dishonest, unintelligent and even immoral.
Among Democrats, 63% see Republicans as immoral, up from just 35% who said so in 2016. For Republicans' part, 72% see Democrats as immoral, up from 47% seven years ago.
This is sad:
More and more, Americans also don't want to marry or date people of another political party. One survey from 2020 found that almost 4 in 10 people in both political parties would be upset if their child married someone of the opposite political party.
The survey's biggest finding? Democrats and Republicans agree: they really don't like Republicans and Democrats.
Since 2016, growing numbers of people in each party simply don't like people in the other party. They increasingly see people with differing political views as closed-minded, dishonest, unintelligent and even immoral.
Among Democrats, 63% see Republicans as immoral, up from just 35% who said so in 2016. For Republicans' part, 72% see Democrats as immoral, up from 47% seven years ago.
This is sad:
More and more, Americans also don't want to marry or date people of another political party. One survey from 2020 found that almost 4 in 10 people in both political parties would be upset if their child married someone of the opposite political party.
Lucky Luke
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Fighting has intensified in Omdurman since 8 August, with hundreds of soldiers dead on both sides and dozens of civilians killed in crossfire. Many atrocities are going unreported amid the chaos of airstrikes and army shellings, with communication further hindered by regular internet blackouts.
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Civilians targeted in war-torn Khartoum as poor and elderly remain trapped
Latest atrocities in Sudan war include the shelling of house of traditional healer, who died with her children and neighbours
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Lucky Luke
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mmmm beer.
Kimi Karjalainen and his brother Marko poured their life savings into Bone Machine Brewing Co when it opened in Pocklington, East Yorkshire, in 2017 before moving to Hull, as part of the craft beer revolution that swept Britain.
“The entire investment, not including time and labour that we gave for free, was about £70,000,” Karjalainen said. Four weeks ago, it was gone. “That was my parents’ retirement.”
“It just got too much – Brexit,” Karjalainen said. “We were heavily geared for export. We’d be selling to Finland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, Spain. We had Hungary in the pipeline. And it all disappeared with Brexit.”
Steve Dunkley, founder of the Manchester brewery and taproom Beer Nouveau, which shut last year, has been charting the closure of breweries since 2022 and identified 83 last year which had closed down, with a further 33 so far this year and four more under threat.
www.theguardian.com
Kimi Karjalainen and his brother Marko poured their life savings into Bone Machine Brewing Co when it opened in Pocklington, East Yorkshire, in 2017 before moving to Hull, as part of the craft beer revolution that swept Britain.
“The entire investment, not including time and labour that we gave for free, was about £70,000,” Karjalainen said. Four weeks ago, it was gone. “That was my parents’ retirement.”
“It just got too much – Brexit,” Karjalainen said. “We were heavily geared for export. We’d be selling to Finland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, Spain. We had Hungary in the pipeline. And it all disappeared with Brexit.”
Steve Dunkley, founder of the Manchester brewery and taproom Beer Nouveau, which shut last year, has been charting the closure of breweries since 2022 and identified 83 last year which had closed down, with a further 33 so far this year and four more under threat.
‘It all disappeared with Brexit’: Craft beer boom ends as more than 100 UK firms go bust
More than a hundred breweries have shut in the past two years as new trade barriers were compounded by Covid and tax changes
www.theguardian.com
Lucky Luke
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Murika!
For Trump though, the picture is likely to prove yet another money spinner. The mugshot’s rapid appearance on T-shirts, posters and, well, mugs glorifying a martyred Trump can be expected.
As it happens, an official Trump fundraising website is already selling T-shirts and coffee mugs with an image manipulated to appear as if the former president is in a booking photo with height markers behind him and a board in front with his name and the date, “04 04 2023” – the day he was indicted in New York on fraud charges.
Merchandise with the real thing is likely to sell briskly given the enthusiasm with which the former president’s supporters now treat each public humiliation as an accomplishment
www.theguardian.com
For Trump though, the picture is likely to prove yet another money spinner. The mugshot’s rapid appearance on T-shirts, posters and, well, mugs glorifying a martyred Trump can be expected.
As it happens, an official Trump fundraising website is already selling T-shirts and coffee mugs with an image manipulated to appear as if the former president is in a booking photo with height markers behind him and a board in front with his name and the date, “04 04 2023” – the day he was indicted in New York on fraud charges.
Merchandise with the real thing is likely to sell briskly given the enthusiasm with which the former president’s supporters now treat each public humiliation as an accomplishment
Belligerence and hostility: Trump’s mugshot defines modern US politics
From Bugsy to Bowie, every decade had its defining booking photo. Now we have ours for these politically spiteful times
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One of these strains one day could be hard on the antivaxxers, they should be able to react quickly with an effective vaccine booster by now and a new one is due in September. Looks like a couple of winter covid waves are coming, so expect the usual antivaxxer bullshit, except nobody who cares will give a fuck about them anymore, let Darwin take care of them. As for the innocent, get boosted, the more serious it is the faster the effective boosters will arrive now that we have experience with the monster and vaccines. It is endemic in the animal population too so expect new editions on a regular basis.
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An idea cooked up in Moscow and the City of London, to shield UK bankers from those pesky EU banking regulations and investigations. They run most of the world's tax havens, where the rich hide their money to avoid taxes and they help corrupt government officials to steal money from poor countries and hide it. Special statues islands around the UK and in former crown colonies are where the dirty work is done, all managed from the City of London or Canary wharf. It is why the UK is a leading banking country and why their economy is so large, they are bagmen for the world.mmmm beer.
Kimi Karjalainen and his brother Marko poured their life savings into Bone Machine Brewing Co when it opened in Pocklington, East Yorkshire, in 2017 before moving to Hull, as part of the craft beer revolution that swept Britain.
“The entire investment, not including time and labour that we gave for free, was about £70,000,” Karjalainen said. Four weeks ago, it was gone. “That was my parents’ retirement.”
“It just got too much – Brexit,” Karjalainen said. “We were heavily geared for export. We’d be selling to Finland, Sweden, Norway, Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, Spain. We had Hungary in the pipeline. And it all disappeared with Brexit.”
Steve Dunkley, founder of the Manchester brewery and taproom Beer Nouveau, which shut last year, has been charting the closure of breweries since 2022 and identified 83 last year which had closed down, with a further 33 so far this year and four more under threat.
‘It all disappeared with Brexit’: Craft beer boom ends as more than 100 UK firms go bust
More than a hundred breweries have shut in the past two years as new trade barriers were compounded by Covid and tax changes
No need to believe conspiracies, this is how it really works. See why those pesky EU banking regulations and anti-corruption efforts might get in the way?
The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance
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The Spider’s Web: Britain's Second Empire, is shows how Britain transformed from a colonial power into a global financial power. At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it behind obscure financial structures in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth may be hidden in British offshore jurisdictions and Britain and its offshore jurisdictions are the largest global players in the world of international finance. How did this come about, and what impact does it have on the world today?
Lucky Luke
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The Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, used a closely watched speech on Friday to warn that the fight against inflation in the US is not over.
Speaking at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Powell said inflation was still too high and that interest rates might have to rise further to tamp it down.
The central bank will “keep at it until the job is done”, said Powell.
The Fed raised rates to a 22-year high in July – its 11th rate rise in 17 months. The annual rate of inflation has declined sharply, down from a 40-year high of 9% last June to close to 3%.
www.theguardian.com
Speaking at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s annual gathering of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Powell said inflation was still too high and that interest rates might have to rise further to tamp it down.
The central bank will “keep at it until the job is done”, said Powell.
The Fed raised rates to a 22-year high in July – its 11th rate rise in 17 months. The annual rate of inflation has declined sharply, down from a 40-year high of 9% last June to close to 3%.
Fed chair warns US inflation battle not over and hints at further rate rises
Jay Powell tells symposium in Wyoming that inflation is still too high but that US central bank will ‘keep at it until the job is done’
www.theguardian.com
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It's like Trump, he's a boy's idea of a man and a man's idea of a boy, a bad one.
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The September vaccine will probably be of limited effectiveness against the strain currently spiking. I wonder how long it’ll be until the update will be available.
Lucky Luke
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Caricom nations, including Guyana, have hired a British law firm to examine their case for financial compensation from Britain and other European nations. The trade bloc has said it was advised that its case is strong and should be pursued.
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Guyana’s president asks European slave traders’ descendants to pay reparations
Irfaan Ali also demands posthumous charges for crimes against humanity for traders and enslavers
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cannabineer
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I’m back behind the cloth
DIY-HP-LED
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We could end up sweating for a boost if it gets bad this fall, I'm a covid virgin and I wanna stay that way.