I guess the point they're trying to make was Rittenhouse would have been beaten to death by a rampaging mob in Chicago.DesertFox- wrote:
Was that in response to the Rittenhouse shootings? I don't think I get it.
Its as if they are lurching from crisis to crisis trying to distract from the fact they have no practical experience or track record of doing anything.uziq wrote:
https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1341355364734918657
this is literally modern britain under boris's lot.
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My conservative American friends are really impressed about the deal though! Which aspect of it, they couldn't say.uziq wrote:
i’ll pass on any celebration of a deal like that.
Apparently Cummings triggered a lot of people to ignore the rules anyway.uziq wrote:
https://twitter.com/independentsage/status/1342051746307338240?s=21
independent scientific advisory group in the UK are freaking out about our xmas rules. the situation is out of control and the government have set new restrictions to come in place on boxing day. the situation is out of control now.
january is going to be so miserable.
Russia said on Monday that its coronavirus death toll was more than three times higher than it had previously reported, making it the country with the third-largest number of fatalities.
For months, the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has boasted about Russia’s low fatality rate from the virus, saying earlier this month that it had done a better job at managing the pandemic than western countries.
But since early in the pandemic, some Russian experts have said the government was playing down the country’s outbreak.
On Monday, Russian officials admitted that was true. The Rosstat statistics agency said that the number of deaths from all causes recorded between January and November had risen by 229,700 compared with the previous year.
“More than 81% of this increase in mortality over this period is due to Covid,” said the deputy prime minister, Tatiana Golikova, meaning that more than 186,000 Russians have died from Covid-19.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h … 79549.htmlRSPCA calls for cut in meat and dairy as activists launch legal fight to end factory farming
Animal-welfare activists are planning a legal challenge to the government to force ministers to end factory farming in the UK to halt damage to the environment and human health.
And RSPCA members have also called for a major cut in meat and dairy consumption in what has been hailed a landmark decision after years of debate over how much the charity should speak out on climate issues.
In the legal case, believed to be the first of its kind in the world, members of a group called Humane Being are crowdfunding with the aim of raising £60,000 to force ministers to curb intensive animal agriculture.
They say it is a major cause of greenhouse gas emissions and risks starting new pandemics by spreading viruses, as well as causing deforestation, animal cruelty and antibiotic resistance.
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The World Health Organisation and other UN experts have pinpointed animals or food of animal origin as a starting point for emerging diseases, such as Covid-19, and some of the world’s leading scientists have warned future pandemics are likely to be more frequent, spread more rapidly and kill more people if humanity continues to exploit animals.
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A report last month warned a new bird flu virus with “high transmissibility” would make Covid-19 appear mild, with factory-farmed chickens exposed to a “cocktail” of infections, creating a “near-perfect breeding ground” for a disease outbreak of pandemic potential.
David Finney, of Humane Being’s Scrap Factory Farming campaign, said: “We are sitting on a pandemics timebomb. Factory farming – with huge numbers of animals in cramped and unhygienic conditions – is the perfect breeding ground for these diseases.
“We may eventually get control of Covid-19 but we are doing nothing about the conditions that created it in the first place.”
lmao oh yeah nothing surprises you. and it’s capitalism’s fault, right?Shahter wrote:
what's "scandalous" about that?
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