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The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood sure has put on a show…
But how much is really serious & how much is just a theatre of cruelty?
Here’s the TRUTH about this week’s asylum changes
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Finally, the important thing to remember, is none of this was necessary or essential. Trump is the sole cause of this situation. A new peace deal could have been easily worked out. But no the fantasist Trump, thought he could take over Iran and put it under American control.
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WCC’s Integrative Ecology and Coexistence Lab recently conducted a study showing that coyotes along the Gulf Coast, including those on Galveston Island, retain genetic ancestry from Red Wolves decades after the species was extirpated from the region.
🔗Read more: https://archive.is/aipRh
Pensioners in poverty skip baths as water bills rise.
Full state pension (received by 35% of pensioners) is less than 50% of minimum wage.
2m UK pensioners live in poverty.
In 2024-25, 88,000 pensioners died in poverty.
Govts don't curb profiteering.
Poverty is a political choice.
Thousands of lawyers oppose jury restriction plan.
Govt wants to restrict the right to jury trials to reduce backlog of court cases.
Backlog caused by Tory austerity and cuts.
Need investment, not cuts in human rights.
Lost rights are hard to recover.
Competition regulator allows additional 2% -4% increase in England water bills on appeal.
Regulators side with industry.
Companies to collect more money from captive customers, dump sewage in rivers, pay dividends, exorbitant exec pay.
Rip-off continues. Who protects people?
Starbucks claims of ethical conduct and supporting farmers are a sham.
It books profits from the purchase and sale of green coffee beans in Switzerland, dodges taxes.
Shifts profits. 18% mark-up on all global coffee purchases before re-selling to other Starbucks subsidiaries.
Grey wolf
Did you know American Kestrels, like Fe, are the smallest falcon species in North America? These tiny powerhouses weigh about as much as a stick of butter, a cup of flour, or a ball of yarn! #AmericanKestrel #DidYouKnow #SmallButMighty
In 2023, I sought to explain to a parliamentary committee what a structural collapse of the global food system would look like, and why this this is plausible - even likely. I think the likelihood has just ratcheted up a notch. I beg you to read and understand. Thanks
www.monbiot.com/2023/03/09/t...
In Lancashire they're still waiting for a fracking site to be cleaned up so it's safe to farm on, years after fracking was paused:
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@shashj.bsky.social: "Interesting to see US satellite companies begin to clamp down. All now heavily delaying or restricting access to images from particular areas in the Gulf & wider region. Some also clamping down on images from within Iran."
"Time to Break The Link".
Our report can be found here: assets.ctfassets.net/fpr6c52ci39f...
Israel and the US appear to want to do to Tehran what they have done to Gaza: reduce a busy and complex society to a toxic wasteland.
This, as our friends across the pond might say - “nails it”.
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Donald Trump doesn’t give a fuck about our troops.
He doesn’t give a fuck about anyone but himself.
He never has and he never will.
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*ellipsis - *almost 80
I used to watch the original USA
“The Apprentice”
(for the cringe/comedy value) especially the celebrity editions (much better than the UK version imo)…I’ve no truck with those that say he’s a socio or psychopath - far too simplistic & unhelpful imv.
He’s Classic NPD
with signs of Dementia 80
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The Courts and Tribunals Bill will remove your right to a jury trial for serious criminal offences.
Toff magistrates/judges will decide your fate.
Chances of miscarriage of justice will increase. Working class, poor, minorities will be the biggest losers.
Who voted for this?
Water companies dump sewage in rivers. Execs get bonuses for destructive practices. Shareholders got £85.2bn in dividends.
6.17m people in England await 7.29m hospital appointments. 300,000 a year die prematurely.
Policies made to appease corporations and super rich.
UK has only two days of gas stored, Iran war threatens supplies.
Maximum capacity is 12 days.
Mainland Europe has reserves of several weeks’ worth of gas.
UK storage capacity shrank after privatisation.
The Rough storage facility closed in in 2017. British Gas wanted subsidies.
Curse of Private Equity
US evidence shows:
When private equity incentives collide with clinical care, patients—especially those who are sicker, poorer, or harder to treat—are more likely to be killed or harmed.
Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE, enabling it to make profits.
Swedish private equity group takes 42% stake in Yorkshire Water.
Thames Water, Northumbrian Water, Southern Water, South West Water and Wessex Water gutted by PE.
All have criminal convictions, dump sewage in rivers, profiteer. 90% of England's water is foreign owned.
Expect more looting.
Democracy in the UK
Unelected Head of state
Unelected second chamber of parliament
MPs pressurized to toe the party line
Political parties, too many legislators available for hire to the super-rich
Unlike the EU no workplace democracy
FPTP skews election outcomes
Deep social/economic problems.
Grey wolf
Canada lynx
Bears vs. Trail cameras
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