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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

rcmmacgregor: The GOP Congress is frozen with fear that the…

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rcmmacgregor:

The GOP Congress is frozen with fear that the moron will turn his invective on them. No guts to do what’s right for the country. Also, The GOP wants Trump’s rubber stamp on their Koch agenda.

Israel’s Netanyahu could act against Iran’s ’empire’

Benjamin Netanyahu is the greatest threat to peace as he tries to get his public to ignore his crimes to enrich himself and friends with citizens of Israel and Palestine paying for his ego. MUNICH (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel would act against Iran, not just its allies in the Middle East, if needed, reiterating that Tehran was the world’s greatest threat.

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Labour will win the next election if it becomes the party of Remain | Eloise Todd

Only a tiny proportion of the party’s voters last year strongly wanted to leave the EU – opposing a disastrous Brexit will shake up the electoral map

Recently, there has been story after story about Brexit ministers giving speeches laying out a road map. This is apart from the chancellor, who has been sent to the Arctic. While the focus for this last week might have been on the Conservative government and its road to nowhere, soon the pendulum will swing back towards the Labour party and its position on Brexit.

Labour fought the election on a mandate that has been hailed as a brilliant middle way between Remain and Leave. MPs on the frontbench Brexit team want to find a solution “somewhere between in and out”. But there is a decision still facing our country and it doesn’t involve a middle way.

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Israel’s Netanyahu condemns Polish PM for ‘Jewish perpetrators’ comment

Does not change fact that he has probably abused his own power to stay n power and enrich his family and friends-supporters at Israel’s people’s cost. WARSAW (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned his Polish counterpart on Saturday for saying Jews were perpetrators in World War Two as well as Poles and others, just weeks after Warsaw drew criticism over a new Holocaust law.

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Facebook plans to use U.S. mail to verify IDs of election ad buyers

Duh!?! Why sell space-time for any political ads by anyone? Better yet – everyone should assume that Facebook is not capable of keeping Russian, Fundamentalist, Nazi, Fascist trolls from abusing free speech and advertising terms of use! WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facebook Inc will start using postcards sent by U.S. mail later this year to verify the identities and location of people who want to purchase U.S. election-related advertising on its site, a senior company executive said on Saturday.

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After Florida, I see the NRA as nothing less than a terrorist organization

What else would you call a group that ensures I need to have a conversation with my daughter about how to survive a school shooting?

I try so hard not to let tragedies like the one that happened at a Florida high school this week feel like just another shooting. This happens so often, it’s easy to fall into frozen despair. If child after child is killed, and still our politicians do nothing – how can we expect anything to change?

The truth is that we have to stop voting for Republicans; we have to stop voting for people who take money from the NRA. At this point, I consider them nothing less than a terrorist organization – what else would you call a group that ensures I have to have a conversation with my seven-year-old about playing dead should she be unable to run away from a shooter.

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Revealed: rightwing groups plot to ditch EU safety standards on food and drugs

‘Ideal’ UK-US trade deal would see banned products sold in post-Brexit Britain, says accidentally released memo

An unprecedented drive to lobby ministers to ditch strict EU safety standards in order to secure a US trade deal is being drawn up by a transatlantic group of conservative thinktanks, it has emerged.

Organisers of the self-styled “shadow trade talks”, which are set to include 10 leading rightwing and libertarian groups from the UK and the US, are preparing to push their “ideal free trade agreement” that would allow the import of US meats, drugs and chemicals banned in Britain.

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