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Paul Hebden
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · Aug 12
FWIW - this is how food prices spiked in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and how the cost of essentials is spiking again now.
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 3h
People have been flagging the multiple crises of climate change, geopolitical tension and inequality for years now. Politicians cannot claim they were not warned. Will there be a 911 moment?. And is our democracy strong enough to see off another crisis?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn
Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published
www.theguardian.com
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 3h
Yet we all know who the real thieves are.
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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 6h
🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 3h
The cost of living crisis showed that corporates have a playbook that will see them protected as climate induced crises hit food chains food the cost of essentials soar. But politicians and centrists, including commentators on here, will blame shop lifters and thieves when the shit hits the fan.
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 3h
The UK harvest data is due tomorrow and it's likely to have been the 5th worst on record. The three worst harvests in UK history have been in the 2020s.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn
Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published
www.theguardian.com
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 3h
Mate, thinking of you.
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 5h
Mad to me that the centrist UK commentariat still insist this never happened and nothing needs to change.
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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 6h
🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.
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Gregor Semieniuk @gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social · 6h
🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
River or sankey diagram showing the allocation of profits from global oil and gas companies to quantiles of the US wealth size distribution via financial system intermediaries, such as asset managers, and categories of ultimate beneficiaries, such as business owners, pension funds and shareholders in listed companies. The scale is hundreds of billions of US dollars, and ultimately 50.4% of profits reaching the US personal wealth distribution go to the richest 1% of households.
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 5h
Yep, but apparently this never happened and nothing needs to change.
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 6h
He never misses
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h
I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.
Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h
I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.
Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.
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Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social · 13h
2. The current rhetoric of those who mobilise racism for political gain proposes that those who investigate colonial history and modern racism are the problem. Not racism itself.
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 6h
Love being part of the "More than 30" minority.
Who are these morons who ONLY have 2-5 tabs ? Get in the frickin sea with yeh!
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 6h
How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 6h
The football facebook chat groups have spoken and they're backing Gary Neville.
There's a group of white, entitled middle class men who cosplay the working class of this country, deliberately sowing anger and division.
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 7h
I am really enjoying how punchy Zack is being towards the media. Honestly, I'm 100% here for it.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h
My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 10h
"Isn't it? Wasn't it?"
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
#WarRavagedPortland
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 10h
But then, you'd assume from this chart that a country with a balanced pension provision (ahem the UK) would be in a better position?
BUT NO!! You'd be wrong, because the OBR ALSO wants to increase the retirement age in the UK aswell.
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 10h
Germany's pension problem looks to be more down to the balance between public and private provision, than down to the actual pension or pension age itself.
This from the recent OBR fiscal risks report is illustrative
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 10h
I might be stupid, but is it really a great idea to be making people work for longer for a pension, amidst a collapse of the centre, the biggest drop in living standards since WW2 and a growing far right?
Who is going to rein in the centrist economic extremists?
www.meinbavaria.de/retirement-s...
Retirement shock for Germany: Experts propose raising pension age to 73
A group of top economic advisers to the German government has caused a stir by recommending a dramatic rise in the retirement age — all the way
www.meinbavaria.de
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 10h
I get your point, but then I would also argue that the YIMBY's who are deeply embedded in the Tory think tank ecologiy are literally dictating significant parts of Reeves's programme.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
www.theguardian.com
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 11h
I'm agreeing with you.
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 11h
Germany doesn't have a fiscal crisis, it has no debt problem It's opted to spend trillions on weapons without endangering its economy.
The problem we face as society is that there is a class of "centrist" economic extremists who are intent on burning western democracies to the ground.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 11h
Turns out having a welfare state and a hoarding capitalist class isn’t actually sustainable
unusual whales @unusual_whales X.com Germany has proposed raising the retirement age to 73 to prevent the collapse of the pension system, per Reuters
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 11h
There are areas of the UK where people just don't want to integrate.

Newark: the constituency of Robert "Racist" Jenrick, is 90% white.

It's people like Jenrick who refuse to integrate with the rest of society.
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 12h
What's the worse that could happen eh? Fascism?
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Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social · 12h
I know: lets kill local jobs, sell public assets to businesses, let's make it impossible to see a GP, lets allow the cost of food and essentials rocket with no cap on supermarkets, lets keep the minimum possible state on hand to respond to murders and a few social workers to remove kids if needed.
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