#News: Human-driven #deforestation ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ฟ in #Brazil ๐ง๐ทis shifting #forests towards fast-growing trees, reducing #biodiversity and #carbon storage. Boycott brands destroying the world! #BoycottPalmOil be #vegan ๐ด๐ฅฉ๐คฎโ๏ธ @palmoildetect.bsky.social #Boycott4Wildlife wp.me/pcFhgU-9P8
Victims in our countries seldom get profiled and humanised in Western media. This is a portrait of a life cut short. What a tragedy.
"Saleh Ahmed (55) lived in the UAE as an expat for 25 years, sending under ยฃ500 per month in earnings to Bangladesh for his wife and four children."
Ensuring #FoodSecurity - surely a crucial government responsibility on which Westminster has been failing for decades
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Wash your hands knowing youโre not using #palmoil ๐ง๐ซง ALL PALM OIL is linked to #ecocide and #deforestation. โSustainableโ palm oil is a big fat greasy #greenwashing lie. Go #PalmOilFree and #BoycottPalmOil ๐ด๐ฉธโ ๏ธ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐๐ฅ๐ซ#Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/11/p...
Trump to Latin American leaders: "I'm not learning your damn language. I don't have time."
Iran, which is being beat to HELL, has apologized and surrendered to its Middle East neighbors, and promised that it will not shoot at them anymore. This promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack. They were looking to take over and rule the Middle East. It is the first time that Iran has ever lost, in thousands of years, to surrounding Middle Eastern Countries. They have said, โThank you President Trump.โ I have said, โYouโre welcome!โ Iran is no longer the โBully of the Middle East,โ they are, instead, โTHE LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST,โ and will be for many decades until they surrender or, more likely, completely collapse! Today Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death, because of Iranโs bad behavior, are areas and groups of people that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Trump's psychotic, murderous post: "Iran is being beat to HELL โฆ They said, 'Thank you President Trump.' I said, 'Youโre welcome!' ... Today Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious consideration for destruction & certain death are groups of people not considered for targeting until this moment"
Climate heating rate nearly doubles since 2015,
Heating rate rises from 0.2 degrees centigrade per decade to 0.35 degrees.
Data that contradicts the narrative doggedly pursued by climate risk minimizers like @thebti.bsky.social is ignored by them.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... #energysky
The lack of media coverage about the bombing of the girls elementary schools is shocking.
First anniversary of a really outstanding public service. Do follow this newsletter and @monkemma.bsky.social, if you don't already do so, for reliable, painstakingly researched rebuttals/ debunks of false/ misleading news stories.
Most of the media is demanding that everybody supports the war effort. Well, sod that. This is an illegal conflict, launched by a decrepit American to distract from his domestic problems, which has already killed hundreds of women and children. I didnโt back the Iraq war in 2003. Nor this one!
If you want a breakdown of how US LNG imports are just not going to bring down our electricity bills, & greenhouse gas emissions are baked in if we turn ever more to LNG, this is the account to follow ๐๐พ
@txsharon.bsky.social just got back from the EU where she met with EU politicians to educate them on the emissions and economic realities of US LNG.
It got their attention. And current nat gas prices in the EU are likely helping it sink in.
Wes Streeting states the SNP are refusing to use the Palintir App in the Scottish NHS for 'Nationalist reasons'
Here are the reasons the UK Government health Minister refers to as 'Nationalist' and it's a revelation of his thinking.
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HEART & SOUL
An evening of music and spoken word in aid of a new medical centre for Askar refugee camp in Nablus - The West Bank
Saturday 21st March 2026
7 pm - 10 pm
St Lukes Church
Old Shoreham Rd
Prestonville
Brighton & Hove BN1 5DD
Tickets:
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"We believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place."
Britain continues its rapid descent towards fascism.
"Families of failed asylum seekers will be offered up to ยฃ40,000 to leave the UK under a trial scheme announced by Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood."
Previously, on the "Island of strangers"...
Mel Gibson may be fine with it, but as a Scot I'm furious seeing the saltire ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ associated (in any way, shape or form) with American bombing of Iran & deaths of innocents. Entirely despicable video.
A few hours after NYT reported that the U.S. bombed an elementary school in Iran, killing many children, the White House last night posted this video mixing airstrike footage with Top Gun, Iron Man, Gladiator, Halo, Breaking Bad, Star Wars, John Wick, Superman, Transformers and Dragon Ball Z
โIf the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5C (2.7F) limit of the Paris agreement before 2030,โ said Stefan Rahmstorf, a scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reform policies: 'There is also a commitment to "support the Welsh language", but no new policy aimed at doing so โ and in fact the only plans detailed are for cuts to Welsh language support.' Er, right...
Reform's manifesto is filled with plans to make plans
Absolutely outrageous. Political parties should be answerable first and foremost to the public - not to the agenda of uber-wealthy donors. We urgently need a cap on political donations and a ban on crypto donations.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
An alarming feature of the British polity is how far to the right the establishment parties have moved. The UK Labour govt is now further right than Thatcher & using buzzwords & policies derived from the 1970s British National Front. In England, only the Greens are normal politics*.
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Freedom of Movement wasnโt just a policy.
It was a simple freedom: the ability to say yes.
โข Yes to a job.
โข Yes to love.
โข Yes to a new life in another country.
When that freedom disappeared, something subtle but important changed.
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble sayingโฆ I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Does anyone think that this - effectively describing people who came here at *our* invitation to work in care homes as would-be parasites on the welfare state - is what she meant?
Big money has bought British politics
75% of Reformโs money has come from three rich white men
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