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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 5h

'Trump’s "Liberation Day" tariffs, which set a baseline rate of 10 percent for all countries, had hit Argentina’s export-dependent economy hard. Capital started to flow out amid fears that a global slowdown would crush demand for its agricultural and mineral exports'
www.politico.eu/article/why-...

Why Davos isn’t crying for Argentina

Buenos Aires’ experiment with shock therapy was supposed to invalidate the Davos agenda. But now it needs a $20 billion bailout.

www.politico.eu

Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 5h

Argentina bailout by Trump:

Europe: the message is that access to dollar liquidity, the essential backstop of the world financial system for nearly a century, is being politicized, and may increasingly depend on how closely its policies align with those of the U.S.

Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 5h

Farage loves Milei but...
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threw Milei a $20 billion lifeline to help Argentina defend a currency that is collapsing despite nearly two years of shock therapy programs that had had supply-side economists and investors in raptures.

www.politico.eu/article/why-...

Why Davos isn’t crying for Argentina

Buenos Aires’ experiment with shock therapy was supposed to invalidate the Davos agenda. But now it needs a $20 billion bailout.

www.politico.eu

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 8h

The move of the Nobel laureates from the US comes as experts warn that President Donald Trump’s cuts to research funding and attacks on academic freedoms could cause a brain drain of top minds.

www.wionews.com/world/nobel-...

Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo to leave US, move to Zurich amid funding cuts

Experts have been warning that US President Donald Trump’s cuts to research funding and attacks on universities’ academic freedoms could lead to a brain drain, with some countries trying to attract US...

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 8h

TRUMP:
India-born Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, who won the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics, are leaving the USA where they are working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and will join the University of Zurich in Switzerland starting July next year.

www.wionews.com/world/nobel-...

Nobel laureates Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo to leave US, move to Zurich amid funding cuts

Experts have been warning that US President Donald Trump’s cuts to research funding and attacks on universities’ academic freedoms could lead to a brain drain, with some countries trying to attract US...

www.wionews.com

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 9h

Europe only has two rare earth processing facilities, one in Estonia and one in western France. It is the only plant outside of China that can process all 17 different rare earths.

BBC News - How Europe is vying for rare earth independence from China
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How Europe is vying for rare earth independence from China

The EU is aiming to increase its own production of rare earth metals, led by a facility in France.

www.bbc.com

Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 9h

the EU's Critical Raw Materials Act came into force last year. It sets targets for reducing dependence on imports for the extraction, processing and recycling of the most important substances by 2030.

BBC News - How Europe is vying for rare earth independence from China
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How Europe is vying for rare earth independence from China

The EU is aiming to increase its own production of rare earth metals, led by a facility in France.

www.bbc.com

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 10h

'reported in the Daily Express at the time of the deeply damaging budget, that Farage had, “praised Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng for cutting taxes and moving ahead with the policy despite warnings from world economic organisations.” '

Nigel Farage’s fantasy economics share.google/enpW2Y2y48zO...

Tax cuts: Nigel Farage’s fantasy economics

Under a Reform UK government there would be tax cuts that it estimates would cost nearly £90bn per year. Yet somehow, they also claim there would be spending increases of £50bn per year.

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 10h

'Mr Farage said, of Truss’s mini-budget, "Kwarteng was right to cut taxes. Of course, he was right. Right to set up investments zones…and yes, taking a risk - increasing borrowing to do it.” - Express, 29 September 2022'

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Farage would plunge UK into 'Liz Truss doom loop' - 10 times he praised ex-PM

The Reform UK leader has repeatedly heaped praise upon the former Tory PM - whose disastrous mini-budget crashed the economy and sent mortgages spiralling

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 10h

“I absolutely, 100 per cent believe in her’, said Nigel Farage, speaking about Liz Truss at Tory Party Conference in 2023 - Telegraph, 2 October 2023.

Nigel Farage would plunge UK into 'Liz Truss doom loop' - 10 times he praised Tory ex-PM - The Mirror share.google/WCF8Su3se6kA...

Farage would plunge UK into 'Liz Truss doom loop' - 10 times he praised ex-PM

The Reform UK leader has repeatedly heaped praise upon the former Tory PM - whose disastrous mini-budget crashed the economy and sent mortgages spiralling

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 10h

On the day of Ms Truss' mini-budget, September 23 2022, Mr Farage declared it "the best Conservative budget since 1986."

Nigel Farage would plunge UK into 'Liz Truss doom loop' - 10 times he praised Tory ex-PM - The Mirror share.google/WCF8Su3se6kA...

Farage would plunge UK into 'Liz Truss doom loop' - 10 times he praised ex-PM

The Reform UK leader has repeatedly heaped praise upon the former Tory PM - whose disastrous mini-budget crashed the economy and sent mortgages spiralling

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 10h

UK:
NHS:

Personalised mRNA cancer vaccines= form of immunotherapy treatment, which are currently being tested in clinical trials. They are tailored to each person’s cancer & work by training the immune system to recognise, destroy & prevent the spread of cancer cells.

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NHS England » NHS Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 10h

UK:
NHS Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad (CVLP) is a platform that will speed up access to messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) personalised cancer vaccine clinical trials for people who have been diagnosed with cancer. It will also accelerate the development of cancer vaccines as a form of cancer treatment.

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 10h

US Department of Health and Human Services recently cut $500 million in #mRNA research funding. “mRNA technology poses more risks than benefits,” HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a statement....

More lunacy from RFK / Trump regime.

www.salon.com/2025/10/11/r...

RFK Jr.'s attack on mRNA vaccines will cost lives

HHS shouldn't pull the plug on vaccine breakthroughs

www.salon.com

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 11h

Trump does interesting things to the car industry.
$7 billion hit.

www.ft.com/content/55d7...

‘This is existential’: Donald Trump’s tariffs drive US car sector into turmoil

Michigan’s ‘Big Three’ carmakers forecast a combined $7bn tariff-related hit to earnings in 2025

www.ft.com

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 11h

'William Hill owner says it could shut up to 200 shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes'

Do I care?
No.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

William Hill owner says it could shut up to 200 shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes

Evoke considering the plans before expected tax increases in budget, with up to 1,500 jobs potentially affected

www.theguardian.com

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 11h

‘Nigel Farage’s Patronising Coal Mine Fantasy Says a Lot About What He Really Thinks of Working People’
The Reform leader’s pledge to restart Welsh blast furnaces ignores the practical realities of flooded pits, collapsed infrastructure....

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 11h

Australia
In September electricity from solar, wind hydro and biomass totalled 9.24 terawatt hours, compared with 8.8 terawatt hours from burning coal, according to data from the energy thinktank Ember.

Farage just wants coal & oil in the UK.

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Electricity from renewables overtakes coal in Australia for the first time

Power from solar, wind hydro and biomass totals 9.24 terawatt hours, compared with 8.8 terawatt hours from burning the fossil fuel

www.theguardian.com

Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 11h

Electricity generated from renewable sources has surpassed the amount of electricity generated from coal in Australia for the first time.

The world is going Green but not Farage or Tice.

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Electricity from renewables overtakes coal in Australia for the first time

Power from solar, wind hydro and biomass totals 9.24 terawatt hours, compared with 8.8 terawatt hours from burning the fossil fuel

www.theguardian.com

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 1d

Homeowners: "we pay too much in property taxes. We demand lower taxes"

Also Homeowners: "I can't believe how little this city does for us. Roads are in terrible condition, services are awful, and infrastructure is crumbling"

how do people not see the connection

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 19h

Explosions were reported overnight in Smolensk, Russia. Smoke was seen rising over the city, with local sources suggesting a possible hit on the airfield or aircraft factory.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 15h

⚡️Ukraine liberates village in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, military claims.

Ukraine liberates village in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, military claims

Ukrainian troops have liberated the village of Mali Shcherbaky in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine's 24th Separate Assault Battalion "Aidar" announced on Oct. 12, releasing footage purportedly showing Ukr...

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Pooh 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 🇩🇰 @poohbearcorner.bsky.social · 13h

Reform is a policy void.
And
A Truss-style black hole.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14h

At least one person was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting at a university campus in Mississippi on Saturday night. A child was injured in a separate shooting outside a college football stadium in the state capital, the authorities said.

At Least 1 Dead and 3 Injured After Shootings at Mississippi Universities

The shootings at historically Black institutions occurred within about 24 hours of three other shootings across rural Mississippi that left at least eight people dead.

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 1d

Marjorie Taylor Greene : "Prices have not come down at all. The job market is extremely difficult. Wages have not gone up. Health insurance premiums are going to go up. Homeowner's insurance goes up every year. Rent is going up. Young people have no hope of buying a home."

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