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We love the earth. We love young people and want them to have a viable future on a habitable planet.XRGrandparents& Elders campaign for young people everywhere. We can be found on X and Facebook as well.

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xrgpsandelders.bsky.social @xrgpsandelders.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Climate denial in orbit open.substack.com/pub/talkingc...
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Climate denial in orbit
Figs that turn CO2 into stone, how the U.S. is moving backwards on climate, and taking the fight to court
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xrgpsandelders.bsky.social @xrgpsandelders.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
🚨Energy Transfer is suing Greenpeace organisations 10 hundreds of millions of dollars for solidarity with the ongoing Indigenous-led resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Tell Energy Transfer and other corporate bullies to stop their attacks on free speech. Sign the petition: act.gp/3Hrx6Yem
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NO more corporate bullying! - Greenpeace International
Tell Energy Transfer and other corporate bullies to stop their attacks on free speech. Sign the petition now.
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The arguments around Net Zero are complex but here s a clear explanation of how the misinformation factory works. Churning polluting fake facts into the zeitgeist quite as dangerous as the fossil fuel fumes…
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You've been lied to about Net Zero
YouTube video by Simon Clark
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
People say Rachel Reeves has a £40 billion black hole in her October budget. In this video, I show how £15 billion could be saved instantly simply by stopping unnecessary interest payments to commercial banks from the Bank of England. youtu.be/pwvWw7IQmS0?...
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The truth about the £40 billion gap
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xrgpsandelders.bsky.social @xrgpsandelders.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
How China's clean energy is changing the world open.substack.com/pub/talkingc...
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How China's clean energy is changing the world
China's clean-energy exports cut emissions worldwide, more record-breaking heat and floods, and a Saving Us action story
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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Despite plummeting reservoir levels, it's thought water bosses are reluctant to introduce hosepipe bans for fear of poor customer satisfaction ratings. In some areas, farmers have been told to restrict water use on crops but gardeners are still able to use hoses. 1/2
Image of dry reservoir. Heading: Water, England's reservoirs at lowest level for a decade as experts call for hosepipe bans; Subheading: Levels even lower than in severe drought year of 2022, data shows, with water firms urges to 'be proactive'; by Helena Horton and Ana Lucía González Paz; The Guardian
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xrgpsandelders.bsky.social @xrgpsandelders.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
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William Dalrymple: ‘Britain’s education system sold me a lie about Palestine’ | Real Talk
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
This is definitely not the time to delay or dial back climate policy. The urgency has never been greater. We are approaching dangerous tipping points, almost 200 scientists warn. 🌊 news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...
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‘Tipping points’ experts issue urgent message to world leaders
World leaders must take “immediate, unprecedented action” to prevent devastating climate tipping points, experts say. The Global Tipping Points Conference is taking place in Exeter this week, and almo...
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xrgpsandelders.bsky.social @xrgpsandelders.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Can science help us face our fears? open.substack.com/pub/talkingc...
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Can science help us face our fears?
Climate and Human Nature with Dr. Kate Marvel
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Spot on, as usual, from @doctorvive.bsky.social... "We need to correct a false narrative that the #climate threat is under control. These enormous risks are potentially catastrophic. They would undo the connections between human & ecological systems that form the basis of all of our civilisation"
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‘This is a fight for life’: climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield
Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says the communications expert Genevieve Guenther
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Some people in my mentions are saying "sure, Ocean Ramsey harasses sharks, but also she had a major shark conservation victory banning shark fishing in Hawaii" This rule only applies to state waters, where almost no shark fishing happened. She knows that, but hopes that you don't know that.
Social media graphic saying "victory, Hawaii becomes the first state to ban shark fishing"
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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Why is there no significant action on Climate Change in spite of a having @Ed_Miliband in Gov? Because @RachelReevesMP works hand in glove with fossil fuel industry. In this exposé @writesbright.bsky.social gives the mechanics. Join our campaign #ScrapCCS @stopcambo.bsky.social
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Reeves promised oil industry ‘quid pro quo’ over windfall tax in private meeting
Government accused of making ‘secret exchange deal’ with fossil fuel companies to compensate for tax hike
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Crypto currencies are based on hate of government, hate of banks, and hate of regulated systems. Crypto is like alchemy, they are volatile, and extremely prone to collapse. m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zpi...
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Why Crypto Might Be a Big Mistake
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I was getting changed in my bedroom today & felt like I was being watched. I spun round to see this cheeky heron eyeing me up. There’s a better class of peeping tom out on the river!
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xrgpsandelders.bsky.social @xrgpsandelders.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Please SIGN: The Indigenous Ka’apor people of Brazil are fighting to protect their #rainforest and sovereignty from a U.S. carbon credit project that threatens their land. Support their call for freedom and justice! #IndigenousRights #ClimateJustice rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/13...
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Brazil: Keep US carbon traders OUT of the Ka’apor Rainforest!
The US company Wildlife Works wants to use the rainforest of the Indigenous Ka'apor people to sell carbon credits, but the Ka'apor council rejects the project. The Ka’apor have preserved their forest ...
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xrgpsandelders.bsky.social @xrgpsandelders.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Please SIGN: The Indigenous Ka’apor people of Brazil are fighting to protect their #rainforest and sovereignty from a U.S. carbon credit project that threatens their land. Support their call for freedom and justice! #IndigenousRights #ClimateJustice rainforest-rescue.org/petitions/13...
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Brazil: Keep US carbon traders OUT of the Ka’apor Rainforest!
The US company Wildlife Works wants to use the rainforest of the Indigenous Ka'apor people to sell carbon credits, but the Ka'apor council rejects the project. The Ka’apor have preserved their forest ...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Time to legalise cannabis. I spoke to LBC 👇🏽
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Honoured to speak today at the @hayfestival.bsky.social about The Lie of the Land, land use and why campaigning works - in conversation with the excellent @tomheap.bsky.social, author of Land Smart, & fab access campaigner @phoebesmith.bsky.social
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The money Rachel Reeves needs is readily available. All that is lacking is the understanding on how to use it www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06...
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The money Rachel Reeves needs is readily available. All that is lacking is the understanding on how to use it
Andrew Rawnsley wrote this in The Observer this morning: Nigel Farage can promise the moon on a stick. Sir Ed Davey can oppose every tax rise while bemoaning every spending curb. They enjoy the luxuri...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics.  Strengthening unions and fighting for higher wages. Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare... This is the progressive populist agenda we need in America.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Interest rates in the UK and the USA are way too high, as a comparison with the Eurozone proves. That's because of their incompetent economic leaders. youtu.be/8xnNbA1DOI8?...
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Interest rates in the UK and USA are way too high because markets have no faith in their leaders.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Absolute ignorant scum bags The final nail in the coffin of the Amazon rain forest that has stood for millions of years Brazil senate passes sweeping bill erasing protections for Amazon forest and 3,000 protected areas and 18 million hectares of forest www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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Brazil activists decry green rollbacks as senate passes ‘devastation bill’
Legislation would dismantle regulations in farming, mining and energy, increasing risk of widespread destruction
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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
“August heat in May!! And all the media can think of is recommending that we drink a lot of water, get in the shade and avoid going out in the middle hours of the day..., to change a system that leads us to #ClimateCollapse, for whatever it is, they always forget”
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Veronica Danie @veronicadanie.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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Judge Slaps Down Trump’s Attempt to Kick International Students Out of Harvard
A federal judge has shut down Donald Trump’s push to force international students out of Harvard, ordering an immediate halt to the administration’s latest crackdown on higher education.
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WIRED @wired.com · 29/05/2025
A glacier partially collapsed in Switzerland, burying the village of Blatten in a huge landslide of ice, rock, and mud after residents had been evacuated. Scientists called the collapse of the glacier “unprecedented” in the Swiss Alps.
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Extinction Rebellion Wimborne @xrwimborne.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
“In #Canada it is burning again and the situation is dramatic. In #Manitoba alone, more than 17,000 people had to flee after 22 #forest fires broke out simultaneously in all regions of the province”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
We don't have a migrant crisis. We have an austerity crisis brewed by a Prime Minister without a spine. I sat down with @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social to talk about why it's not time for slow, incremental change. It's time for bold leadership. #BackZack youtu.be/J7zmTZYQVzw?...
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The pro-Palestine populist standing to be Green Party leader: One on one with Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New data finds Americans are more likely to support labor unions over Big Business than at any time in the past 60 years. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power.  If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.
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xrgpsandelders.bsky.social @xrgpsandelders.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
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How we can smash Britain’s two-party system for good at the next election | George Monbiot
Labour is beyond repair. Time for a co-ordinated strategy to support progressive parties committed to electoral reform, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Wildflower strips in orchards attract insects that eat pests, reducing crop damage and cutting pesticide use. The savings can be significant, especially in bad aphid years. 🌸
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The flower fix: how nature could slash farm costs
Planting wildflowers between apple trees could save UK farmers up to £3,000 per hectare per year
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Right to Roam @righttoroam.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
BBC on the significance of the Supreme Court judgment in support of wild camping this week. 'Ms Harrison said she was "over the moon" about the judgement. "It is a magical thing to do," she said of being out in the natural environment and sleeping under the stars."' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dartmoor wild camping 'teaches you so much, it becomes addictive'
Wild campers explain what makes the pastime
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Rayner is asked about the two child benefit cap Scrapping the cap would lift over 300,000 children out of poverty & improve the circumstances of another 800,000. But Labour refuse to do this. Instead they're slashing disability benefits & driving another 50,000 kids into poverty
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/05/2025
I think it's fair to say the vast majority of straight reportage on wind power in Norway is decided by feral anti-wind groups. Motvind basically get treated like an unbiased independent authority in these articles. www.nrk.no/trondelag/kn...
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Knuste deler ligger urørt etter flere havari: – Burde vært fjernet med en gang
Vrakdeler og knust glassfiber ligger fortsatt spredt ut over et større område på Sørmarkfjellet vindkraftverk. Nå lover selskapet å rydde opp.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
When Nigel says jump, Labour does www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
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When Nigel says jump, Labour does
I noted this in The Guardian this morning: Nigel Farage will commit to restoring the winter fuel payment to all pensioners and to scrapping the two-child benefit cap, a report has suggested. The Refo...
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xrgpsandelders.bsky.social @xrgpsandelders.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Climate on our plates open.substack.com/pub/talkingc...
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Climate on our plates
Zambia's resilient chickens, Japanese rice shortages, and why tackling food waste is a powerful climate solution
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xrgpsandelders.bsky.social @xrgpsandelders.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Climate on our plates open.substack.com/pub/talkingc...
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Climate on our plates
Zambia's resilient chickens, Japanese rice shortages, and why tackling food waste is a powerful climate solution
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"Win or lose in the Supreme Court, we now want the government to step up and pass a right to roam act, to protect and extend public rights of access to nature across England.” @lewis-winks.bsky.social ahead of this morning’s verdict on wild camping on Dartmoor: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dartmoor case set to decide future of wild camping
Hikers can pitch a tent under the stars on the moor without permission, but for how much longer?
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Neocolonialism in one report "Companies from the Global North seize resources and profits, while social and ecological harms are imposed on the Global South" #ReparationsNow #ResourceCurse phys.org/news/2025-05...
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100 corporations behind a fifth of global extractive conflicts, study reveals
Just 100 corporations are behind a fifth of the documented extractive conflicts worldwide, exposing how companies from the Global North seize resources and profits, while social and ecological harms a...
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Red wolves are one of the most endangered canids in the world—with fewer than 20 believed to remain in the wild. Every sighting, pup, and howl is a sign of hope—and a reason to keep fighting for their future. 🐺 #wolfconservationcenter #saveredwolves
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
As the UK and EU carve up fishing rights, I don't give a damn which party gets to trash our marine ecosystems by overexploiting fish populations, ripping up the seafloor and killing vast numbers of "non-target" animals. I just want this orgy of destruction to stop.
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Extinction Rebellion London Actions MoM (Movement of Movements) @xrlondonactions.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
STOP EACOP Stop East African Crude Oil Protest outside British Investment Institute and Kenya Commercial Bank in London on Wednesday ✊
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John R. Platt @johnrplatt.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Palm Oil Continues to Plague Borneo’s Orangutans, Elephants, and Other Icons -- a powerful essay today on @therevelator.org therevelator.org/palm-oil-ora...
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Palm Oil Continues to Plague Borneo’s Orangutans, Elephants, and Other Icons • The Revelator
Despite 35 years of awareness campaigns, palm oil plantations still devastate the landscape of this biodiversity hotspot and the animals who depend on native forests.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
It's been clear for some time now the direction that Keir Starmer's government has been going in on immigration, despite some people denying it at the time. Here's what I wrote back in February www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/keir-starm...
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Keir Starmer's Reform-Lite Strategy Reaches Breaking Point
The Government's attempt to mimic the anti-migrant, anti-refugee politics of Nigel Farage is a recipe for moral degradation and defeat
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xrgpsandelders.bsky.social @xrgpsandelders.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
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Sign now to scrap new anti-protest legislation
It takes 30 seconds
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xrgpsandelders.bsky.social @xrgpsandelders.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
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Petition: Make the arts part of UK National Renewal | Campaign for the Arts
The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. The arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I often get asked, could incoming Govt's rewrite the regulations on SEZs/Freeports and avoid aggressive lawsuits from corporation set up in UK free zones? Here's my answer Thread
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