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Problem: there are millions of chewing gum blotches all over Britain’s pavements. Costing 25p each to remove. Solution: Ban non-biodegradable chewing gum. ⁦Colin Fernandez⁩

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A scandal in plain sight. Britain is covered in tens of millions of chewing gum blotches, scarring and polluting pavements. Mars UK has 95% of the gum market in the UK, and pays nothing towards clean up costs. Is that fair...?

A scandal in plain sight. Britain is covered in tens of millions of chewing gum blotches, scarring and polluting pavements. Mars UK has 95% of the gum market in the UK, and pays nothing towards clean up costs. Is that fair...?

Clean Up Britain

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Dr. Rhonda Patrick

317,870 views • 1 year ago

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Valerie Anne Smith

157,582 views • 11 months ago

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Mario Nawfal

180,976 views • 1 year ago

Here's JLO spitting chewing gum into her assistant's hand in the middle of New York City. Such rude and nasty behavior. There is no reason to treat your employees like this.

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11,523,837 views • 2 years ago

BAHAHA: CPC's Dr. Stephen Ellis calls Health Minister Mark Holland "The Sugar Minister" in the Health Committee. "You voted to remove the GST on candies, candy floss, chewing gum, chocolate, popcorn coated or treated with candy, chips, crisps, puffs, curls, sticks of popcorn.."

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33,314 views • 1 year ago

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“One of my favorite videos that I’ve seen is where we’re in San Diego actually, and Shohei’s standing next to Will Smith and Will Smith’s chewing some gum, and he takes it out and throws it on the field, and Shohei just turns and side-eyes him, like ‘What are you doing?’” 🤣 “That’s a culture thing, I think, but it also speaks to who he is.” 🎥: Talk Dodgers to Me / YouTube

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97,638 views • 2 years ago

Two Ghanaian women are fuming over the Christmas gifts they received. According to one of them, a man based abroad, who had promised her a Christmas gift, sent her GHS 438, which she described as “peanut money.” She rhetorically asked whether she was supposed to use it to buy chewing gum. The other woman complained that, from January to December, the only Christmas gift her man could manage was a single bag of rice with no oil, no tomatoes, no fish, and no money. She also asked what she was supposed to do with just the bag of rice.

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🇬🇧 Meanwhile all across London Large parts of London streets are being stained dirt red. Why? Because the millions of South Asian la imports participate in something called ‘Paan Spitting’ - we’re chewing Paan or Gutka is an important custom. Now local authorities everywhere are having to spend tens of thousands of pounds in just removing the stains from the Streets.

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🇬🇭 A video from the KFC Junction stretch leading toward the Tema Motorway shows severe flooding around a bridge area, with significant water flow affecting a nearby warehouse. The footage suggests the warehouse has been inundated, with floodwaters carrying additional floating items into the area. Items such as packs of chewing gum, tea rolls, toffees, and gas cylinders are seen being swept along as bystanders and residents attempt to salvage and recover affected goods.

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Breaking News: Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi reaffirmed his previous statement of removal of 50% non caste Hindus from the Indian Army, "If anyone has any problem, they should complain to center government. We are under orders to remove all non caste Hindus by 50% till 2028."

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11,958 views • 9 months ago

The all-marble Panathenaic Stadium in Athens is getting its first deep clean in more than a century. Once the site of Ancient Greek athletic contests, the U-shaped stadium fell into disuse until it was rebuilt for the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. The landmark has remained the site of the Olympic flame send-off since. The stadium is made of the same marble used on the Acropolis monuments. Crews are carefully spraying the stadium’s 47 tiers with clean water at low pressure and using steam to remove dried chewing gum. Upgrades at Panathenaic Stadium will continue for the rest of the year. But the stadium will be ready for partial use for the Dakar Youth Olympics’ torch-passing ceremony in September.

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The United States is neither omnipotent not omniscient. We are only 6% of the world’s population & we cannot impose our will upon the other 94% of mankind. We cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity. There cannot be an American solution to every world problem. - JFK

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335,224 views • 4 months ago

"Governments around the world are all becoming tyrannical at the same time. This is being done on purpose." "They manufacture crisis events to create chaos. Then they can bring order out of that chaos." "Problem, reaction, solution. You create a problem. You invoke the reaction that you need from the people who will then beg you to give the solution for the very same problem they created." "From Covid to mass immigration to the digital ID. All this is being used to convince people that it's good for them to acquiesce to their own enslavement." "The only way out of this is united non-compliance." 🎯

"Governments around the world are all becoming tyrannical at the same time. This is being done on purpose." "They manufacture crisis events to create chaos. Then they can bring order out of that chaos." "Problem, reaction, solution. You create a problem. You invoke the reaction that you need from the people who will then beg you to give the solution for the very same problem they created." "From Covid to mass immigration to the digital ID. All this is being used to convince people that it's good for them to acquiesce to their own enslavement." "The only way out of this is united non-compliance." 🎯

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