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One of the appalling truths behind the climate crisis is that it has long been known that the planet would heat dangerously without serious, radical action.
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When the only person talking sanity on Ukraine is Donald Trump.🤦♂️Can this planet get any weirder?
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BREAKING: President Trump slams escalation in Ukraine - calls for war to end
No other world leader is calling for this
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Oh boy, he's gonna do another aimless antiwar campaign, and he'll probably win because this war is insane.
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BREAKING: President Trump slams escalation in Ukraine - calls for war to end
No other world leader is calling for this
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So do the Palestinians also get any tanks from Germany & Co or is their resistance against Israeli occupation still “terrorism”?
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For public-relations reasons, fossil-fuel corporations like ExxonMobil often portray themselves as soulful and benevolent, working day and night for the benefit of the common good. It’s called greenwashing.
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When Obama first told Americans they should get ready for US involvement in the NATO war in Libya -- despite the House voting *against* its authorization (who cares?) -- he assured everyone that regime change was neither the goal nor the likely outcome.
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* We'll never send Patriot defense missiles, as Zelensky demands ---> We're sending Patriots.
* We'll never send Abrams tanks, as Zelensky demands ---> We're sending tanks.
* We'll never send fighter jets, as Zelensky demands.
How soon until Ukraine has the F-15s?
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'How do you maintain your status as a Western person of colour after Blair has entwined your national military and security apparatus with the US security forces that tried to break the civil rights movement, bugged Dr King, fed details of his sex life to the right-wing press...'
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Deeply moving memoir from black academic Gavin Lewis:
'Pressure: A Personal Reflection On British And Western Establishment Racism'
'Over the course of my life I averaged a police stop-and-search once every two years, continuing well into my fifties.'
arena.org.au/pressure-a-per
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The truly sobering realisation that we’re now at the point of end stage capitalism, witnessing the epic scale of political/corporate deception, civil destruction and ecocide. And yet, there’s still wonder to behold in the agency of remedial human action. Vital reading
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Our latest media alert:
‘End Stage Capitalism’: Collapsing Britain And The Climate Crisis
medialens.org/2023/end-stage
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The February 2023 issue (No. 243) of the free ColdType pdf magazine is now online at coldtype.net/Assets23/PDFs/
and at issuu.com/coldtype/docs/
Get your Free Subscription at app.mailerlite.com/webforms/landi……
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“‘Prof Shukri Al Hassan told us that cancer here is so rife it is ‘like the flu’.’ The survey of 4,800 individuals in Fallujah showed a 4-fold increase in all cancers & a 12-fold increase in childhood cancer in under-14s.”
Wicked Leaks -
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Loach: 'Every now and then, to show we’re a democracy, there’s a change of government. The party changes, but it’s so important from the establishment’s point of view that the alternative party won’t change anything. And that’s what Starmer is proving now to those with power.' 👏
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Ken Loach speaks out in new documentary attacking Starmer as a “tool of the establishment”
dorseteye.com/ken-loach-spea via @Dorset_eye
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Our latest media alert:
‘End Stage Capitalism’: Collapsing Britain And The Climate Crisis
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But surely sending offensive weapons into Ukraine, rather than pressing for a lasting negotiated peace, *will* drag out the war. I wonder if Lord Dannatt can explain what Britain's interest is in this conflict. I can see the USA's interest clearly. But ours?
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Yeah, but on the other hand, you could listen to what Putin says, which is no first use of nukes.
And they’ve got a plethora of unused ’conventional‘ weapons to escalate with anyway.
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The February edition of looks great and is full of good stuff. Do read it. Includes our most recent alert.
coldtype.net/Assets23/PDFs/
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The U.S. Director of National Intelligence stated that Putin might use nuclear weapons if there was 'an existential threat to his regime and to Russia, from his perspective.' This could occur if 'he perceives he is losing the war'. medium.com/@benjamin.abel
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Cowed nuclear power with 5,977 nuclear warheads to non-nuclear power:
'Yes, yes, you've got tanks; we'll do whatever you say.'
dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/
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Sorry, but Ukraine has effectively ceded whatever "sovereignty" it had to the US -- hence the nonstop pleading with the US to give them stuff. The US exercises ultimate decision-making power, not Ukraine, whose very existence as a state is now singularly dependent on US patronage
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They are defending their sovereignty. Russia escalated they war.
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Well said. 👏👏👏
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Again, @BBCNews perpetuating propagandistic idea that Germany's reluctance to supply #Leopards was due to hopes of restoring gas deals w/ #Russia. It really wasn't. It's about #WW2 legacy & German public opinion.
Btw reluctance was right
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Amazed to see even that sane comment in the Guardian.
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“The possibility that the [Russia-Ukraine] conflict could spin out of anyone’s control remains high" - @UCSUSA theguardian.com/world/2023/jan @stillawake @medialens @CPMacL2008
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If we go much above 2C will quickly get to 4 C.
4 degrees only supports 1 billion people.
#ClimateEmergency
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber=
TOP GERMAN ASTROPHYSICIST
#ClimateScientist
Founder of term "Tipping Points"
Already 9 of 15 known TPs activated
Arctic Circle has tipped
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Did you know this?
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Where does waste go? It doesn’t go in your backyard, it goes to places like Somalia that can’t protect themselves. The EU, for example, has been dumping its atomic wastes & other pollution off the coast of Somalia, harming the fishing areas and local industries. It’s horrendous.
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Can't help but perversely appreciate whatever historical wormhole we've fallen into where German tanks rolling across Europe for the first time since 1945 is seen as a big celebratory triumph
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So many Politicians across Europe are happy to fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian - But their desire to promote War doesn't extend to them going to Ukraine and fighting themselves. War is stupid, War siphons money away from the people + funnels it to the Industry of Death...
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Germany's FM, Annalena Baerbock: "We are fighting a war against Russia,"
They are openly saying it. They are literally saying US/NATO are at war with Russia.
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Interesting!
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Provoked, unprovoked? This from Richard Sakwa, professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent, quoted by Benjamin Abelow in his essential book, 'How The West Brought War To Ukraine', is the key to understanding the true insanity of this war.
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No, she doesn't 'need to answer'; it's her choice. She clearly sensed (accurately) that these weren't real questions; they were tired attempted 'gotchas' and other nonsense. When she's worked so hard and still no-one's taking the issue seriously, she's entitled to laugh.
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If she's answered them 1000 times, it should be pretty easy to give a response by now, don't you think? And yes, she does need to answer these questions 1001 times or as many times as she's asked. For better or worse she's the most recognizable spokesperson for this movement.
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It's not a mystery, . Thunberg (it's tʉ̂ːnbærj, by the way) has been asked these questions 1,000 times and answered them sensibly 1,000 times. When someone asks them for the 1001st time, it's not serious, so why not laugh?
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When we do it vs. when they do it. 🇨🇳
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Amazing. In his press conference, President of Mexico calls out for taking money from the US government (NED), as well as its CEO Ruth Smeeth for her “campaign against Jeremy Corbyn”.
Index is now an international joke.
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Mi hilo de ayer sobre el "Index on Censorship" llegó a la mañanera de hoy. Qué bien, para que la maquinaria detrás de los golpes internacionales -que la vasta mayoría de la prensa empresarial repite sin investigar- quede más al descubierto.
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There is no free press without a free Julian Assange.
Watch my speech at the Belmarsh Tribunal here: youtube.com/watch?v=j_QqpY
It's time for others to break their silence over this travesty of justice.
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Key point from the that most corporate journalists seem unable to understand: "That does not mean excusing Russia’s war. A war can have been provoked — Russia’s fear of Nato expansion is real enough — while remaining unjustified" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/e/risk
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It's a month before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and a prominent liberal columnist in Russia pens an article about the impending invasion titled 'In defence of the fence' twitter.com/medialens/stat
theguardian.com/politics/2003/
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As late as September 2003, with the US-UK oil grab in Iraq well underway, Garton Ash felt able to write of Blair’s 'strong Gladstonian instincts for humanitarian intervention'. (Garton Ash, ‘Blair’s bridge,’ The Guardian, 4 September 2003) twitter.com/IanJSinclair/s…
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Sacrificing Ukrainians for US realpolitik is not protecting them:
'The lesson to learn from that history is not that German tanks should never be used against Russia, whatever the Kremlin does, but that they should be used to protect Ukrainians.'
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In 2007, Garton Ash wrote:
'… the question being asked here [Washington], even by staunch Republicans who share the president’s goals, is: why has the Bush administration been so incompetent?'
The key issue, then, was not the West's genocide but its 'incompetence'.
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As late as September 2003, with the US-UK oil grab in Iraq well underway, Garton Ash felt able to write of Blair’s 'strong Gladstonian instincts for humanitarian intervention'. (Garton Ash, ‘Blair’s bridge,’ The Guardian, 4 September 2003)
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"Vladimir Putin’s criminal war of terror". No doubt the Guardian's @fromTGA described the illegal and aggressive invasion of Iraq as "George Bush and Tony Blair's criminal war of terror", right?
theguardian.com/commentisfree/ @medialens @ElwinWay @CPMacL2008
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Americans have been brainwashed into accepting with zero critical thought that US military escalation is the only conceivable option in the Ukraine war. The mere notion of diplomacy, despite being advocated by India/China/Brazil/Mexico/South Africa etc., never even occurs to them
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Over 1.446 billion cars on Earth right now
Replacing all of these with electric cars would cause environmental damage on a massive scale
People need to get out of cars
Invest in public transport, walk cycle,
Recycle and find alternatives to cobalt and lithium already possible
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