Countries without freedom of assembly
North Korea
Egypt
United Arab Emirates
Iran
China
Cuba
Belarus
Bahrain
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Turkmenistan
...
UK (not executing the arrested, but where an assembly of one is too much already)
I can but assume Raab is refering to trade deals with countries sharing the UK's (*post-VoteLies*) values
A word about AZ vaccine "panic".
First thing, communication matters -and it's been dreadful.
So what are we talking about?
A (urgently needed, life-saving, efficient) vaccine has been rolled out.
At one point, an anomaly was detected 👇
Bear with me (1/n) pei.de/EN/newsroom/hp…
Why was an anomaly detected?
The truth is *we don't know*
Does it mean AZ vaccine mustn't be used ever again?
No, that's not what it means either.
Remember? During its trials, AZ noticed an anomaly and stopped the trial for investigations. For 1 case. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/hea…
What's happening now is the same process.
*Temporary* pause for investigating the anomaly.
What could explain this?
Do the people afflicted have a common point?
Should some people sharing that common point not be given this vaccine?
Was there a problem with a batch? (Can happen)
#Breaking
Corrupted banana republic govt sparks outrage after its announced it’s about to pass a new law that will make any public gathering of any kind illegal -unless it pleases so-called “People’s govt“
(No, this is not an old headline about North Korea)
Please note that all gathering of any kind can be deemed illegal on the ground it may RISK to be problematic.
Any protest, even the most peaceful, is at risk of being annoying.
That is effectively a total ban on inconvenient/annoying for govt protests, aka all protests.
“Woke“ actually means “decent people caring about others and fighting inequalities“
Let’s replace the word with its meaning in the current headlines shall we?
“Victory in his war against decent people caring about others and fighting inequalities“
Aka “the BBC spirit”
“BREAKING: The format of Andrew Neil’s GB News show will include ‘decent people caring about others and fighting inequalities watch’“
As in let’s make sure these bloody do-gooders good deeds don’t stay unpunished
"I think there's like an epidemic of trans people. There are way too many of them" she says
Tbh I could do without the epidemic of hateful morons getting a platform on TV
Note to people who have been convinced that "the trans lobby wants to erase gay people" and thus may want to endorse what this woman says
She also endorses gay conversion therapy -yes, for children.
"But how will the therapist be able to do that, in a world where homosexuality will be recognized as a sexuality like any other, and not as a pathology anymore?"
Seriously not giving bigotry a platform is a thing
I still struggle to get why commercial interests are a thing here
Just a global pandemic you know
would be a shame to call it a global emergency &mobilise all our strength -all available/buildable production capacity- against it
But hey this new technology = future bns so patents
What makes me mad is -we can do that for war
National effort, new plants popping out of nowhere -to build weapons
But apparently we can’t do the same when we’re at war with a virus killing us, only when the point is us killing each other
🤷♀️
Covax program is much needed and welcome, but it shouldn’t be needed.
Vaccine producing companies should be working together instead of competing against each other -globally.
It’s kind of sad we end up celebrating not being completely selfish a**es