2025 HP EliteBook 8 G1i 14" Laptop Unboxing and Overview
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We Are All Human, Or None Of Us Are.
“The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.” – John F. Kennedy
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The UK is slipping even further into a dark, dark place. Let’s just be clear from the outset: once you declare someone, anyone, as not worthy of human rights you are declaring them to not be worthy as humans. And once you declare someone, anyone, as not being a worthy human, you might be next. Human rights apply to all of us, or to none of us.
Watching Nigel Farage spend a day of unrelenting media coverage this week to show off his latest idea of stripping migrants of their human rights and putting them in concentration camps was sicking. Worse, was seeing Keir Starmer’s response which was basically “we’ll do it too, but better”.
Then we got treated to a second day of it as former Conservative MSP Graham Simpson defected and attracted all of the airwaves to Farage again, followed for a third day by another defection in the form of former Labour Councillor Audrey Dempsey. Make no mistake. If you thought that was merely a coincidence, then you missed the deliberate strategy there.
Farage’s proposal is to follow a decade-long Conservative shibboleth of declaring that those “foreign courts” in Europe who safeguard our human rights via the European Convention on Human Rights are the worst kind of evil and the UK needs to withdraw from it. He’ll put in its place a “British Bill of Rights” that will apply only to British citizens and instead of “the state” telling you what you can do, you’ll have the freedom to do anything unless the state says you can’t do it.
One of the things he wants to do is to round up Afghan nationals who collaborated with the British armed forces during the invasion and occupation of that country. Many of these people now live under the threat of torture and execution by the Taliban since the latter reconquered the country and took back control. Many of these people had their personal details of their involvement with British forces leaked due to the UK’s appalling data security. Some received emergency evacuation. Some, it seems, did not.
Not surprisingly, the Taliban themselves appear to be quite happy to “receive” these people if Farage gets to implement his plans. When asked about whether he’d do it too Keir Starmer, a former human rights lawyer, said, effectively, ‘we’re not taking that option off the table’.
Removing the UK from the ECHR is not going to be as easy as waving a legislative wand. The rights bill is baked into the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and can only be amended with the agreement of Ireland. Farage’s entire plan can be vetoed with a single memo containing the word “No”.
Or Northern Ireland could leave the UK, which would considerably smooth the passage of his plan. There’s still a complication in that ECHR is also baked into the Scotland Act and thus any attempt to disapply it to devolved areas in Scotland would require a legislative consent motion. But as Brexit has shown, this can simply be overridden by a Farage (or Starmer) Government. Or they could unilaterally amend the Scotland Act directly. Devolution will be no protection for Scotland in the way that it is for Northern Ireland.
“My partner is a migrant and is not a UK citizen nor likely to become one. Whenever someone says “prioritising British citizens”, they mean deprioritising and delegitimising my family.”
Even if the “British Bill of Rights” contains a carbon copy of the ECHR and it remains applying to everyone in general (i.e. Farage isn’t allowed to disapply it to Irish, Commonwealth, EU or non-EU citizens as he’s hinted) then we still have to remember that the actual purpose of doing this is to disapply it to specific people in specific instances whenever they become a nuisance to The State.
We’ve long been fed lines of the “bad person” who is “abusing human rights law” to avoid deportation for flimsy reasons like their cat is sick or they’d miss chicken nuggets (the actual stories behind those propaganda lines are far more nuanced). The point is that if such a person existed, these radicalised factions within the UK want to declare them less-than-human and to punish them for it.
This all matters because, sooner or later, it may well affect you. It’s certainly already affecting me. My partner is a migrant and is not a UK citizen nor likely to become one. Whenever someone says “prioritising British citizens”, they mean deprioritising and delegitimising my family. We also have to remember that I don’t just support Scottish independence, I work for an activist organisation that advocates for it. I am paid to agitate against the State in support of secession. In some countries, that’s not a job – it’s a death penalty offence. It might be me they strip citizenship from and declare to be unworthy of human rights.
Which, of course, means it might be you too. Or it might be Nigel Farage. Because even he is only a lost election and a charge of “collaboration with the previous regime” away from seeing his human rights abused too. As the famous line from the play A Man for All Seasons goes: “If you cut down the laws, and you’re just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?”
Human rights must apply to all of us or they apply to none of us. So I would ask Farage (and Starmer, and any other MP tempted to support this idea) a question: Please look through the rights guaranteed by the ECHR. Which rights do you wish would no longer apply to you, personally?
Because if he gets his way, one day they might not.
#ECHR #HumanRights #news #politics #UKPolitics #UKPolitics
ECHR exit ‘would breach Good Friday Agreement’
The UK remains part of the European Convention on Human Rights, separate to the EU, after Brexit.BBC News
Watched August in the Water (1995), directed by Gakuryū Ishii, last night with a group of friends.
It's a coming of age story of sorts, that follows a high school girl who suffers from a mysterious illness and begins to unlock the secrets of the universe.
With the back drop of climate crises and the early days of emerging internet technologies in Japan.
Beautiful and dreamy.
#JapaneseFilms #ClimateChange #Technology #Drama #Aliens
Sepia sentinel - where light fades into memory.
Street Light in Morgan, South Australia.
Photographed and edited by Kev.
© All Rights Reserved by 2 Peeps and a Camera
#photo #photography #2peepsandacamera #australia #southaustralia #light #lamp #streetlight
“El Fediverso es joven”, decimos… mientras discutimos protocolos como si estuviéramos en la sobremesa del domingo.
Hemos hecho un bestiario mastodónico: desde el abuelo sabio de Usenet 📚 hasta el fiestero de after 🕺 o la abuela que saluda con 200 favs
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Guía no autorizada de abuelos mastodónicos - Tuiter.Rocks
(porque la media de edad del Fediverso no engaña) En Mastodon decimos que no hay influencers, que aquí no hay postureo y que todo es comunidad. Pero si miras un…elenamusk (Tuiter.Rocks)
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400 Photographers Demand World Press Photo Restore Nick Ut's 'Napalm Girl' Credit
400 photographers, including some world-famous names, have signed an open letter decrying World Press Photo for stripping Nick Ut's credit.Jeremy Gray (PetaPixel)
@news
eunews.it/2025/09/01/palestina…
Sottolineata l’importanza di continuare a supportare il popolo palestinese, in particolare i cittadini di Gaza City
#Palestine #Gaza #Génocide
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Lignes rouges, par Gwen Brees - Agence Media Palestine
Par Gwen Breës, le 30 Août 2025 « Ligne rouge ». Symbole d’un interdit, d'un ultimatum lancé au présent. Manière de dire stop, ça suffit, les bornes sont dépassées. « Tracer une ligne rouge pour Gaza ».redacteur media palestine (Agence Media Palestine)
Der OMNIBUS verlässt X und kommt komplett zu Mastodon!
Selbstverwaltete Plattformen gibt es kaum, Mastodon ist ein kleiner Schritt zu freier Information.
Wir bleiben außerdem auf Instagram, Facebook & unserer Webseite: omnibus.org
#OMNIBUS #Mastodon #DigitaleFreiheit #Selbstverwaltung #FreieInformation #SozialeMedien #Unabhängig #Gemeinschaft #ZukunftGestalten
OMNIBUS für Direkte Demokratie
Der "OMNIBUS für Direkte Demokratie" ist ist eine Bürgerinitiative, die sich für die Verwirklichung der Volksabstimmung auf allen Hoheitsebenen einsetzt.Die Direkte Demokratie ist das Instrument, die Schule und der Weg.OMNIBUS für Direkte Demokratie
Back to school is coming fast!
Drop-off + pick-up at our kids' elementary school in #Montreal used to be a dangerous rodeo.
This year, we got approval for a rue-école (school-street).
Closed to cars—open to people.
I explain how we did it in this weekend's Globe:
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To make school safe for children, close down streets
Under a variety of names, from ‘school exclusion zones’ to piazze aperte, versions of the ‘school street’ have spread across Europe. But Canadian versions of the concept have been timid affairsTaras Grescoe (The Globe and Mail)
You'd figure convincing people to keep kids safe and active would be easy. In #Paris, there are 300 school-streets; London has 500.
But this was an uphill battle—and it's still only a pilot-project.
This year #Quebec's CAQ government slashed $18 million from a fund intended for safe school zones. (Of course they did, they're awful.)
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.www.youtube.com
→ « La création de jeux vidéo progressistes est une impasse »
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« [Marijam Didžgalvytė, habituée des milieux punks et #anarchistes,] dresse un portrait acerbe de l’industrie du #jeu_vidéo et des conditions de #production des jeux ou du matériel informatique. Il permet de prendre la mesure des problématiques qui traversent le jeu vidéo, mais aussi des formidables possibilités de ce loisir souvent boudé par la gauche. »
#punks #gauche #création #matériel #industrie
« La création de jeux vidéo progressistes est une impasse »
Autrice d’un livre sur la dimension politique des jeux vidéo et leur pouvoir émancipateur, Marijam Didžgalvytė appelle la gauche à s’emparer de ce pan de la culture, sans se perdre dans de fausses pistes et en s’intéressant aux conditions de producti…Théo Dezalay (Mediapart)
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Che pianeta di Merda!!!
Dwayne Johnson, 'volevo un ruolo non amato da Hollywood' - People - Ansa.it
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Dwayne Johnson, 'volevo un ruolo non amato da Hollywood' - People - Ansa.it
Pugni, sangue e tenerezza, in 'The Smashing Machine' di Benny Safdie in concorso all'82/a Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia e interpretato da Dwayne Douglas Johnson, noto anche con lo pseudonimo di 'The Rock', attore, produttore…Agenzia ANSA
Western Sahara Resource Watch | Spanish conservatives call for Western Sahara exclusion from EU-Morocco trade
The Spanish delegation to the EPP group in the EU Parliament requests that Western Sahara be excluded from the EU-Morocco trade agreement.wsrw.org
Prima il covid, poi le alluvioni e ora i roghi: l’opposizione spagnola usa ogni emergenza per attaccare il governo e le istituzioni. E a guadagnare il terreno è l’estrema destra.
I negazionisti e la destra sfr...
I negazionisti e la destra sfruttano gli incendi
Prima il covid, poi le alluvioni e ora i roghi: l’opposizione spagnola usa ogni emergenza per attaccare il governo e le istituzioni. E a guadagnare il terreno è l’estrema destra LeggiJosé Enrique Monrosi (Internazionale)
Le regard de sel
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"Sodome, Gomorrhe et l'avenir européen
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Le regard de sel - Sodome, Gomorrhe et l’avenir européen Sara Tetzchner
Sodome, Gomorrhe et l’avenir européen Sara Tetzchnerlundimatin
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Coop richiama di nuovo la pasta di Gragnano IGP Fior Fiore
Coop ha richiamato un altro lotto di pasta di Gragnano IGP a marchio Fior Fiore per la possibile presenza di frammenti di legnoGiulia Crepaldi (Il Fatto Alimentare)
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Allo stadio “Nardini“ e subito super derby. I gialloblù contro le favoritissime zebre del Viareggio.
Emma Heming Willis Fires Back At Judgment Over Her Care For Bruce Willis
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bruce-willis-wife-care_n_68b1e5ece4b0da2a07e42f30?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Emma Heming Willis Fires Back At Judgment Over Her Care For Bruce Willis
"It was one of the hardest decisions that I’ve had to make so far," she told Diane Sawyer.Carly Ledbetter (HuffPost)
Neu auf Jansens Pott:
Radurlaub in Friesland 2025
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#Blog #Fahrrad #Friesland #Niederlande #Reisebericht #Reisen
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Privater Blog über unser Leben, unsere Hobbys und unsere Leidenschaften.Herr Tommi (Jansens Pott)
If you are looking for kitchen decor or a gift for a gardener or cook, here's an idea for you, original fruit and vegetable drawings by yours truly, all available on Folksy...
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#FediGiftShop #ScottishArtist #MastoArt #CreativeToots
#Fruit #Vegetables #KitchenArt #OriginalArt #Drawing #PenAndInk #ColourPencil #MixedMedia #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop
The Wee Owl Art on Folksy
The Wee Owl Art - Nature and landscape unique original artworks from my studio in Scotland.Folksy
disclose.ngo/fr/article/au-ryt…
"Des centaines de médias dont Disclose, réunis à l’initiative de Reporters sans frontières et Avaaz, demandent la protection des journalistes palestiniens à Gaza, l’évacuation d’urgence de ceux qui le souhaitent, la
Scientists could soon lose a key tool for studying Antarctica's melting ice sheets as climate risks grow
Scientists say the planned decommissioning of a valuable research vessel is part of a series of actions by the Trump administration that take aim at climate science.
Scientists could soon lose a key tool for studying Antarctica's melting ice sheets as climate risks grow
This summer, the U.S. and much of the world have been pummeled by floods, fires and heat waves.Evan Bush (NBC News)
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If you have any transfem or transmasc people or creatures in your life, please do not furrget to tell them that you love and care about them.
It's getting rough out there in certain parts of the world. It never hurts to let those you care about know that they have someone looking out for them. 
Here’s everything new Apple TV+ has coming in September
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/01/heres-everything-new-apple-tv-has-coming-in-september/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All Stories @all-stories-9to5mac
Here’s everything new Apple TV+ has coming in September - 9to5Mac
Apple TV+ kicks off its packed fall with a strong lineup of September premieres, including big returning favorites and new shows too.Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)
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Mostra Cinema Venezia 2025, voti ai look del red carpet di oggi. FOTO
https://tg24.sky.it/spettacolo/cinema/2025/09/01/red-carpet-mostra-cinema-venezia-look?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Le fotogallery di Sky TG24 @le-fotogallery-di-sky-tg24-SkyTG24
Mostra Cinema Venezia 2025, voti ai look sul red carpet, da Amanda Seyfried a Emily Blunt
Le foto e i voti ai look delle star sul red carpet della sesta serata della Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2025.Redazione Sky TG24 (Sky TG24)
Werte Journalist*innen wenn jemand die Meinungsfreiheit abschafft dann ist das kein "Umstrittenes Extremismusgesetz" sondern dann ist das faschistische Scheiße. Meine fresse so schwer ist das doch nicht. Wann habt ihr eure Eier verloren und warum zum fick verharmlost ihr zunehmend eindeutige Scheiße mit solche Begriffen? Ihr habt verdammt noch mal einen Auftrag aufzuklären doch inzwischen seid ihr nur noch Diktiergeräte von Regierungspropaganda.
In a landmark victory for student activists, the Supreme Court of New York ruled that CUNY must disclose the school's financial portfolio, specifically contracts with businesses connected to the genocide in Gaza.
mondoweiss.net/2025/09/cuny-st…
#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel
CUNY students win landmark legal case demanding the school disclose investments linked to Gaza genocide
In a landmark victory for student activists, the Supreme Court of New York ruled that CUNY must disclose the school’s financial portfolio, specifically contracts with businesses connected to the genocide in Gaza.Claudia Gohn (Mondoweiss)
Harry Potter: siamo stati all'evento Back to Hogwarts a Milano e ne abbiamo viste delle belle
https://www.vanityfair.it/article/harry-potter-evento-back-to-hogwarts-milano-pannofino-novita?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Pubblicato su Musica e Show @musica-e-show-VanityFairItaly
Harry Potter: siamo stati all'evento Back to Hogwarts a Milano e ne abbiamo viste delle belle
Tra le novità annunciate da Warner Bros. e diversi ospiti a sorpresa, ecco cosa è successo all'evento più atteso dai fan di Harry Potter di tutto il mondoMario Manca (Vanity Fair Italia)
My PeerTube thread offered a lot of incredible suggestions. What about Pixelfed? I'm a sucker for good urban photography and photos of rural Europe and Japan.
The August 2023 art journal is now public!
No drawn art this time, for reasons explained in the entry. *Tons* of photos, though!
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#CreativeToots #blog #photography
#News #IsraelTerroristState #GazaGenocide #WesternAccomplices
#History will not be forgiven towards those who stayed silent.
theguardian.com/world/2025/sep…
Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say
International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution backed by 86% of members who votedLorenzo Tondo (The Guardian)
🌹Contre-budget, #cohabitation : le PS tend la main à Macron et se pose en roue de secours du régime
Si le #PS s’apprête à voter contre la confiance, le parti prépare l’après-8 septembre et se montre disponible pour Matignon en cohabitation avec #Macron. Mais son contre-budget, loin d’être une alternative à l’#austérité, pourrait surtout servir de base à de futures négociations avec un nouveau gouvernement macroniste.
revolutionpermanente.fr/Contre…
Contre-budget, cohabitation : le PS tend la main à Macron et se pose en roue de secours du régime
Si le PS s'apprête à voter contre la confiance, le parti prépare l'après-8 septembre et se montre disponible pour Matignon en cohabitation avec Macron.Damien Bernard, Enzo Tresso (Revolution Permanente)
“Trunks and Needles” — Trunks and needles at the base of a small copse of Sierra Nevada backcountry trees.
It was early evening, and I had been working subjects along the shoreline of a subalpine Sierra Nevada lake. There’s lots to see in such places — the shoreline itself, meadows ringing the lake, boulders scattered here and there. As the light over the lake became less interesting my attention turned to the nearby lodgepole pine forest…continues: gdanmitchell.com/2025/09/01/tr…
#trees #nature #naturephotography #landscape #landscapephotography #sierranevada #photography
Trunks and Needles
“Trunks and Needles” — Trunks and needles at the base of a small copes of Sierra Nevada backcountry trees.G Dan Mitchell Photography
Sei pronto a entrare nella Flotta Stellare? O ti serve ancora una visione guidata? Scopri quanto sei fan di Star Trek con il nostro test
extratrek.it/2025/09/01/scopri…
#StarTrek #StarTrekUniverse #StarTrekTrivia #ParamountPlus #Skydance
Tesla erhält europäisches Umweltzertifikat
Die Tesla-Fabrik in Grünheide hat das europäische Umweltzertifikat EMAS bekommen. Lob kommt von der Landesregierung, die Tesla als "Leuchtturm" sieht. Eine Bürgerinitiative nennt das Umweltsiegel dagegen "Greenwashing".www.rbb24.de
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Alles schlüssig, was in dem RBB-Bericht steht.
BMW oder VW werden dagegen nicht erwähnt.
Unoffensive Animal: **PRESS OFFICER FOR NAALPO JOSEPH BUDDENBERG RELIVES LIBERATION AT CONRAD MINK FARM 12 YEARS AGO.**
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via NAALPO: “This is one of the many sheds at the Conrad Mink Farm in Keota, Iowa. Twelve years ago today, I parked my car in a nearby cornfield and then liberated over 500 mink from Conrad. I’ve been on nearly a hundred fur farms. All
#greyskyandsun #sunny #greysky #cloudy #bewölkt #wolken #grauerhimmel #landscape #landscapephotography #iphonephotography #iphonefotografie #landschaft #landschaftsfotografie
Bartoli: dal ministro Musumeci inaccettabile insulto a giornalisti e magistrati - Articolo21
“Il contributo di sangue pagato in Italia da magistrati e giornalisti per aver fatto il proprio dovere è stato altissimo.Articolo21
“On ne fait pas de dumping fiscal !” L’Italie énervée par les propos de Bayrou
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"Lors de son interview du 31 août, le Premier ministre français a accusé l’Italie de faire du “dumping fiscal” pour attirer les contribuables fortunés. Le gouvernement transalpin n’a pas tardé à réagir, mais qu’y a-t-il de vrai dans ces affirmations ?"
“On ne fait pas de dumping fiscal !” L’Italie énervée par les propos de Bayrou
Lors de son interview du 31 août, le Premier ministre français a accusé l’Italie de faire du “dumping fiscal” pour attirer les contribuables fortunés. Le gouvernement transalpin n’a pas tardé à réagir, mais qu’y a-t-il de vrai dans ces affirmations ?Beniamino Morante (Courrier International)
The amount of MediaSplaining making excuses for nazis, downplaying them, normalising them, after yesterday's #MarchForWhiteAustralia is just astounding.
This is why we can't have nice things in this country.
How a Rock Band Bassist Is Remixing Climate Activism | Adam Met of the indie-rock band AJR thinks fan-building strategies can amplify the climate movement’s reach and impact.
How a Rock Band Bassist Is Remixing Climate Activism - Inside Climate News
Adam Met of the indie-rock band AJR thinks fan-building strategies can amplify the climate movement’s reach and impact.Inside Climate News
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Ze verwachtte een manonvriendelijke avond, zei gastvrouw Griet Op de Beeck direct na de opening van de laatste Zomergasten van dit seizoen. “Vind je
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#Featured #LITERAIR #MEDIA #TELEVISIE #WAARDEERDONEER #GrietOpDeBeeck #HermanKoch #recensie #vpro #zomergasten
Herman Koch en Griet Op de Beeck sluiten Zomergasten 2025 af met drie uur die nergens over gaan. - Cultuurpers
Ze verwachtte een manonvriendelijke avond, zei gastvrouw Griet Op de Beeck direct na de opening van de laatste Zomergasten van dit seizoen. “Vind je?”, vroeg gast Herman Koch met zijn bekende twinkeling in de ogen.Wijbrand Schaap (Cultuurpers)
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"Détenue par une poignée de milliardaires réactionnaires, l’immense majorité des médias défend une ligne politique libérale allant dans le sens de l’intérêt de leurs propriétaires. Pour autant, si certains journalistes, comme ceux de l’Empire Bolloré, ont abandonné toute subtilité, d’autres mettent en place des subterfuges pour manipuler les observateurs les moins attentifs. Mr
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How much would people pay to be a billionaire? How many people can afford to be a billionaire?
And the other question is, what is the currency involved?
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"Appel à rassemblements les 5, 6 et 7 septembre, soutenu par la LDH"
Ángela Stella Matutina
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