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Israel’s military has launched air raids on the Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank, carrying out an ongoing large-scale attack that involved a missile and the killing of at least seven Palestinians, according to residents and officials. An eighth Palestinian, 21-year-old Mohammad Hasanein, was killed overnight on Monday by the Israeli army at the northern entrance to the city of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, the health ministry said. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/7/3/two-palestinians-killed-as-israel-attacks-west-bank-city-of-jenin Israeli settlers rampage Palestinian villages continues for fifth day! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=170YjlWt_p0&list=PLO5xXE8xOXpQOfN9guSlVOebbO2FfY83f&index=20 Israeli forces kill several in West Bank and Gaza! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40OpHFlLCLo&list=PLO5xXE8xOXpQOfN9guSlVOebbO2FfY83f&index=14 Israel fires on Palestinians protesting 'flag march' in Gaza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4orKP58GYh0&list=PLO5xXE8xOXpQOfN9guSlVOebbO2FfY83f&index=10 You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite

The vast majority of the public supports the idea of the Government bringing in price controls to ease the cost of living crisis, polling shows – even as the Conservatives and Labour reject the policy. A survey of 1,500 adults by BMG for i reveals nearly seven in 10 – 67 per cent – of those questioned backed the idea of the Government introducing price caps on essential goods to help households manage the effects of rampant inflation. Just 13 per cent of respondents opposed the idea, which would see ministers set prices for certain everyday products, such as milk, eggs and bread, in supermarkets. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/food-price-caps-voters-support-supermarket-controls-cost-of-living-2449962 You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite

Rishi Sunak’s government will force retailers to produce up to date prices at the pumps to stop motorists being used as “cash cows” after an investigation found widespread profiteering. Drivers paid nearly £1bn more for fuel at supermarkets last year due to increased margins, an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) discovered – finding that average fuel margins rose by 6p per litre between 2019 and 2022. That led to an estimated combined additional cost of “around £900 million” for customers of Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Morrisons, the CMA report stated. Downing Street welcomed the report and responded by saying it will introduce new legislation forcing fuel retailers to make up-to-date petrol prices and diesel prices available to third parties. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/petrol-prices-diesel-supermarkets-investigation-b2368555.html You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite

Sir Keir Starmer is extending an olive branch to unions in a bid to get them on board with Labour’s plans for green energy transformation, i can reveal. A new formal pact will see both sides work together on ensuring new jobs are created as part of the policy. The collaboration, which Labour sources say is based on the job-focused elements of US President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, will mean unions are consulted on the details of Labour’s plans for a publicly funded GB Energy company and a push for better green energy creation. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/higher-pay-labour-unions-green-jobs-pact-2437742 You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite

Keir Starmer is under pressure to adopt a more radical policy on Brexit ahead of the next election amid polling showing voters are increasingly disillusioned with the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. A proposal to include negotiating a bespoke customs union with Brussels for the UK in Labour’s general election manifesto will be discussed at the party’s national policy forum later this month, i can reveal. A number of Labour MPs believe there is a palpable shift in public opinion on Brexit due to comparatively worse inflation figures in the UK to Europe and ongoing issues with the trade deal with Brussels, and that space is now opening up for a “bolder” approach to Britain’s relationship with the EU. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/keir-starmer-pressure-customs-union-policy-eu-brexit-2454262 You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite

Labour has ditched a pledge to control surging rents if it wins the next general election – nine months after endorsing the policy. Lisa Nandy said last September that that she wanted to give local authorities the power to freeze rents, telling the party conference: “Doing nothing is not an option.” But speaking on Wednesday, the shadow communities secretary described the approach as a “sticking plaster” and claimed it would increase homelessness. “When housebuilding is falling off a cliff and buy to let landlords are leaving the market, rent controls that cut rents for some, will almost certainly leave others homeless,” she told the Housing 2023 gathering of industry professionals. Scrapping the policy represents a major shift in thinking for Labour, which has promised the regulation of rents in all its manifestos since Ed Miliband was leader. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-rent-controls-lisa-nandy-keir-starmer-b2365616.html You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite

Labour’s lead over the Conservatives has dropped despite growing public concerns about the Government’s handling of the cost of living crisis. New polling by BMG for i shows Labour’s lead stands at 14 percentage points, down three points from last month and back to the level last seen in April. The surprise fall will prompt further questions over Sir Keir Starmer’s cautious approach amid growing pressure from his own side to be bolder and set out a clear vision for the country. https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/labours-poll-lead-falls-cost-of-living-crisis-2448872 You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite

Matt Hancock has blamed failures in the UK’s pandemic planning on local authorities, civil servants and overconfidence on the part of the World Health Organisation. Grilling the former health secretary at the Covid-19 inquiry today about the adult social care sector, chief counsel Hugo Keith said: “[Your] department had no means for finding out whether they had the right pandemic plans, whether local authorities had planned sufficiently, let alone how many numbers were in the care sector.” Hancock agreed, adding: “It was terrible”. He went on to claim that despite being the head of the Department of Health and Social Care, he “didn’t have the levers to act” on adult social care as it is the responsibility of local authorities. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-inquiry-matt-hancock-blame-local-authorities-civil-servants-world-health-organisation/ You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow The Snowflake Server https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite https://linktr.ee/reganelite

Doctors who contracted COVID-19 on the frontline and are still living with the ongoing symptoms of the virus have been left in financial limbo as they struggle to return to work. The British Medical Association (BMA) found one in five doctors with long COVID had been forced to stop work or significantly cut back on their hours. Dr Amy Small had been a GP partner in Edinburgh. She contracted COVID-19 in April 2020 but her symptoms persisted and snowballed. https://news.sky.com/story/one-in-five-doctors-forced-to-stop-working-or-cut-back-hours-due-to-long-covid-12914407 You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite

Incinerator companies avoided £500m of pollution charges for burning plastic last year because of a “loophole” in government policy. Despite burning millions of tonnes of plastic rubbish, the operators of incinerators – including waste giants Viridor, Veolia and Suez – were not required to buy pollution permits under the Emissions Trading Scheme. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) today called on the government to end this exemption and impose a moratorium on granting planning permission for new incinerators. But a waste industry trade group, the Environmental Services Association, is lobbying the government to allow its members to keep burning plastic without paying for the pollution for at least five more years, documents obtained by openDemocracy reveal. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/incinerators-emissions-trading-scheme-loophole-pollution-save-500-million-government-lobbied/ You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite

The UK’s post-Brexit border strategy risks further pushing up food prices, according representatives of Britain’s fresh produce industry. Traders in the food supply chain are warning they will not be able to absorb the extra cost of charges levied for import checks on goods entering the country from the EU and the rest of the world, due to be introduced in the new year. Estimated additional annual costs of more than £10m stemming from import charges would have to be passed on to consumers, fuelling food inflation just as prices are thought to have peaked. The Fresh Produce Consortium (FPC), an industry body that claims to speak for 70% of the UK’s fresh produce supply chain – including businesses that produce, package, move and sell fresh fruit, vegetables, cut flowers and plants – has written to ministers to share its members’ concerns about the UK’s post-Brexit border strategy. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/26/post-brexit-import-checks-risk-further-pushing-up-food-prices-industry-group UK delis could be forced to put up prices after new Brexit tax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWoecSLGXu4 You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow

The government is drawing up plans to drop the UK’s flagship £11.6bn climate and nature funding pledge, the Guardian can reveal, with the prime minster accused of betraying populations most vulnerable to global heating. The disclosure provoked fury from former ministers and representatives of vulnerable countries, who accused Rishi Sunak of making false promises. A leaked briefing note to ministers, given to the Foreign Office and seen by the Guardian, lays out reasons for dropping the UK’s contribution to meeting the global $100bn (£78.6bn) a year commitment to developing countries. It says: “Our commitment to double our international climate finance to £11.6bn was made in 2019, when we were still at 0.7 [% of GDP spent on international aid] and pre-Covid.” It adds that to meet it by the deadline would be a “huge challenge” because of new pressures, including help for Ukraine being included in the aid budget. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/04/revealed-uk-plans-to-drop-flagship-climate-pledge-rishi-sunak You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite

Rupert Murdoch is being urged to rebrand his struggling TalkTV channel as The Sun TV in a bid to tap into the tabloid’s wider audience. The media mogul was shown test promotional links, introduced by TalkTV evening show presenter Jeremy Kyle, with the tagline “you’re watching The Sun TV” during a visit to London this week. The TalkTV logo was replaced by The Sun’s masthead and distinctive red branding in the clips starring Kyle, the Guido Fawkes website reported. https://inews.co.uk/news/media/rupert-murdoch-rebrand-talktv-sun-tv-low-ratings-2432324 You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow

Seven in 10 people in the UK believe charges for NHS care will creep in over the next decade, ending the health service’s record of being free at the point of use, polling has found. One of the NHS’s key founding principles from 1948 is in peril, 71% of the public believe, according to the survey carried out for the Health Foundation ahead of the service’s 75th birthday this week. Despite almost three in four people saying the NHS in its current free form is “crucial”, 51% say they expect to pay for some services within the next decade, while 13% think most services will need to be paid for upfront and 7% anticipate charges for all services. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/02/seven-in-10-people-believe-charges-for-nhs-care-are-on-the-way You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite

House of Lords members who donated millions of pounds to the party that appointed them have attended just 20% of sitting days in the upper chamber, Byline Times can reveal. Byline Times analysed the attendance rates of the 12 Peers appointed since 2013 who have donated more than £1m to the party that appointed them to the Lords and found they attended Westminster for 31 days on average across all of 2022. Many of them had extremely limited attendance, with three of them attending Westminster under ten times across all of 2022. https://bylinetimes.com/2023/07/03/the-missing-million-pound-conservative-donor-lords/ Byline YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@BylineTV/featured Become a Member https://byline.tv/join/ Subscribe here https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/ You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite

Private hospitals in India and Kenya accused of refusing people on low incomes vital healthcare, or holding them hostage until bills have been paid, benefit from UK government investment funds, according to a report by Oxfam. Investments worth hundreds of millions of pounds by government-backed agencies are used to facilitate the “impoverishment and even the imprisonment of the very people [the private hospitals] are supposed to be helping”, said the development charity. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/26/uk-aid-should-not-fund-private-hospitals-in-developing-countries-says-oxfam Sick Development https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/sick-development You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow

Britain’s democratic institutions are under huge strain and the problem is getting worse amid repeated “assaults” on the integrity of elections, citizens’ political rights, and lying in politics, according to a new report. Research launched today by political reform groups Unlock Democracy and Compass sounds the alarm about a long-term decline of UK democracy, exposing a “systematic decoupling of people and power”. It comes as separate new research from the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank finds that almost three in five voters back large-scale reform of Britain’s political system, with just one in 17 people (6%) opposing change. Only one in three people trust Parliament to act in the best interest of people in the UK as things stand. Read it yourself here: https://bylinetimes.com/2023/06/26/uk-democracy-in-retreat-despite-ousting-of-boris-johnson-new-report-finds/ No Parliamentary Investigation Into Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Comments that Conservatives Introduced Voter ID to ‘Gerrymander’ Elections https://bylinetimes.com/2023/05/23/no-parliamentary-investigation-into-jacob-rees-moggs-comments-that-conservatives-introduced-voter-id-to-gerrymander-elections/ UK Democracy under Strain: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5bd057c434c4e2d8eb0434e6/t/6492f224295cc1115f5bad6f/1687351856614/backsliding_report_digital_v1.pdf Can The Green Party Transform British Politics? | Aaron Bastani Meets Zack Polanski | Downstream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgiPW9gB2S4 https://www.youtube.com/@BylineTV https://byline.tv/join/ You can catch Myself & Lee Corne return Wednesday 5th July 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow

China’s sovereign wealth fund, the biggest in the world, is under pressure to shore up Thames Water to prevent the public paying the bill. It is being urged to renew its investment in the utility company, which is facing questions over its financial stability. The state-owned China Investment Company (CIC), which is estimated to have global assets worth $1.35trn (£1.07trn) and recently overtook Norway as the largest sovereign wealth fund, has held an 8.7 per cent holding in Thames Water – currently worth some £1.4bn – for the last 11 years. https://inews.co.uk/news/chinas-sovereign-wealth-fund-pressure-renew-investment-thames-water-2441096 You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite

In an interview with CNN, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine's ultimate goal is to liberate Crimea and any "peace scenario" with the peninsula remaining under Russian control would "not be victory." https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-war-not-over-until-ukraine-liberates-crimea/ Ukrainian infantry raiding across the Dnipro River, near the southern city Kherson, was locked in firefights on Monday with elements of at least two Russian conventional brigades. Pro-Moscow spokesmen said the bridgehead would soon be crushed, whereas Kyiv officials claimed the diversion tactic had exposed previously hidden Kremlin artillery to counterstrikes. Small boat teams from Ukraine’s elite 73rd Marine Special Operations unit were, according to Russian sources, being pressed into a shrinking perimeter around the south end of the demolished Antonivsky bridge, a span across the Dnipro destroyed by retreating Russian troops in November. https://www.kyivpost.com/post/19027 You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite

When a police officer last week shot and killed a resident of Paris’s suburb of Nanterre, 17-year-old Nahel M., it unleashed a wave of unrest across France – an echo of similar protests launched by youth living in housing projects two decades earlier. Billions of euros of investment in the years since have done little to calm anger over police harassment and poor living conditions in France’s housing projects. Concentrated in the suburbs (banlieues) just on the outskirts of major cities, France’s public housing projects are home to largely young populations – 40% are under 25 years of age – often from immigrant backgrounds, who face a never-ending struggle for acceptance in French society. The facts are damning. Youth from economically disadvantaged areas are a “particularly frequent target” for discrimination from the police, namely stop-and-search checks, “even when there is no sign or evidence of wrongdoing”, Human Rights Watch has found. https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230704-nahel You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow https://linktr.ee/reganelite https://discord.gg/xCjFtYdSJp https://www.patreon.com/Reganelite

Labour frontbencher Lisa Nandy has criticised her own party for selecting five white male candidates for the upcoming by-elections forced by Tory and SNP woes. The senior shadow cabinet member said it “certainly” bothered her Labour had gone with an all-white male slate for the crunch votes in the months ahead – insisting that “diversity matters”. Female Labour MPs are said to be outraged at the decision, warning that it could set back the opposition’s mission to reflect the make-up of the UK population. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lisa-nandy-white-male-labour-b2363824.html You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow

The world must rethink its approach to the climate crisis, by investing trillions of dollars instead of billions in the developing world, and moving beyond conventional ideas of overseas aid, one of the world’s most influential climate economists has urged. “We need a complete rethink of the whole nexus of climate, debt and development,” Avinash Persaud told the Observer, before a key summit. “What we are seeing today is new – countries affected by climate disaster, this is happening now. Countries are drowning.” He called for a tripling of the finance available from the World Bank and similar institutions, and a huge influx of cash from the private sector, driven by the careful use of public funds and regulation to remove the current barriers to investment. “This is the biggest financial opportunity in the world,” he said. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/18/countries-are-drowning-climate-expert-calls-for-urgent-rethink-on-scale-of-aid-for-developing-world You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow

More than three million people have been taken to court for council tax debt in some of the poorest parts of the country in the past two years, i can reveal. Since Covid, magistrates courts across England have handed out the equivalent of more than 4,500 debt orders a day in what campaigners say is the latest illustration of the scale of the cost-of-living crisis. Figures obtained via Freedom of Information requests show there has been a rise in local authorities taking legal action against people who haven’t paid their bills as coronavirus restrictions ended and inflation began to soar. https://inews.co.uk/news/council-tax-debt-3-million-uk-2387586 You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow

In the early hours of Tuesday morning, an the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine’s Kherson region collapsed, sparking an international blame game, mass evacuations and an unfolding ecological disaster. Here are the seven critical things you need to know: 1. The dam 2. The blast 3. The blame 4. The human cost 5. The ecological cost 6. The nuclear risk 7. The response https://www.kyivpost.com/post/17955 You can catch Myself & Lee Corne every Wednesday 9PM UK Time on The Snowflake Show https://www.youtube.com/@TheSnowflakeShow