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Watching the world die from malignant economic growth. Investing is a parasitic colonial practice. LESS = MORE less greed = more equity less waste = more to share less pollution = more clean air and water less war = more peace less death = more life
🔴 NEW 🔴 Campaigners are now demanding a parliamentary investigation into Reform MP Sarah Pochin following a donation to her office by food industry millionaires. 📝 @desmog.com & @goodlawproject.org report 👇🏻
Investigate Reform MP Over Donation, Campaigners Demand
Sarah Pochin, Reform UK MP for Runcorn and Helsby, is facing pressure over a £5,000 donation from food industry millionaires that stand to benefit from her campaigning. According to an investigation ...
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Much of what is said about economics is little better than gaslighting.... I used AI tools when writing this post, including a spell checker. I also used 50 years of experience writing about these issues. The drawing was the smallest part of all that, and I had no budget to do it any other way.
Canada is doubling down on fossil fuels as climate-fulled wildfires rage. Read Mitch Anderson's latest below:
As Climate-Fuelled Wildfires Rage, Mark Carney Cuts Emergency Response and Funds Fossil Fuels
The prime minister should consider the potential outcomes of siding with his Bay Street buddies and oil industry bigwigs over climate-beleaguered Canadians.
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Forget about the 'boring' physics. What this graph actually shows is the probability of civilisation collapsing. The ecological consequences are far more interesting. Unbearable heatwaves. Droughts. Wildfires. Crop failures. Food shortages. Famines. Global conflict. Unprecedented misery.
‘Stench of sleaze’: Farage struck deal over political return months before 2024 election, reports say
‘Stench of sleaze’: Farage struck deal over political return months before 2024 election, reports say
Labour chair accuses Reform of making ‘grubby pacts’ after contradictory reports emerge on timeline of events Reform UK is operating under a “stench of sleaze” Labour have said, after reports that Nigel Farage struck a secret deal to return as leader of Reform UK months before the general election. Farage was in discussions about a return to the political frontline from as early as March 2024, despite claiming that he had no intention of returning to politics until June 2024, the Sunday Times reported. Continue reading...
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As Europe burns due to fossil-fuel induced climate heating, war-profiteering petrostate Norway's oil oligarchs use their filthy oil blood money to parasitise European economies. You couldn't make it up. They align more with Trump than anything. Seize 'their' assets. www.nrk.no/nyheter/olje...
Oljefondet kjøper seg inn i kjøpesentre i Spania for 15 milliarder
Oljefondet kjøper en eierandel på rundt 92 prosent i en portefølje av kjøpesentre i Spania for rundt 15 milliarder kroner. Sammen med Somae Sierra kjøper fondet porteføljen av LSGIE, kommer det fram i...
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Yesterday UK organic eggs were found to be worse on climate than factory-farmed eggs. Today, a damning investigation shows horrific conditions within an organic chicken farm in the US. Watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-qy...
New Investigation: Abuse Continues at Costco Chicken Supplier
YouTube video by mercyforanimals
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The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Organic eggs have worse impact on climate than eggs from caged chickens
At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot
The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Europe is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander Hurst
Europe is burning – and if Trump’s war on the climate is not met with sanctions, things will only get worse | Alexander Hurst
The White House seems committed to ecocide. The EU should harness the power of the single market to force it to change course, says Guardian Europe writer Alexander Hurst
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As Shell faces a landmark climate lawsuit, "confidential" documents from the 1960s show British scientist James Lovelock warning executives of the risks of burning fossil fuels. See his June 1966 memo published in full for the first time with my latest for @desmog.com
The Lovelock Papers: Shell’s Hidden Climate Knowledge Under Scrutiny as Court Battle Looms
“What seems to be important,” wrote the visionary British scientist, James Lovelock, in June 1966, is “the almost certain fact that the climate is worsening and the probability that the combustion of ...
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Excess deaths caused by heatwaves in England ‘almost double’ so far this year
Excess deaths caused by heatwaves in England ‘almost double’ so far this year
UKHSA estimates 2,877 heat-associated deaths during heatwaves in May and June, almost twice the number in summer 2025 The number of excess deaths caused by heatwaves has almost doubled so far this year in England compared with 2025, the UK Health Security Agency, has said. There were 2,877 heat-associated deaths during the heatwaves in May and June this year, a report has estimated, almost double the figure reported from the UK heatwaves in June to August last year. Continue reading...
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Corporations (shareholder-backed colonial interests) were told to 'take back control' in the 1970s, at any cost. Now we're all threatened by neocolonialism/neoliberalism and its psychotic billionaire 'gods' wired to gleefully rob humanity of a survivable future. m.youtube.com/watch?v=gAV0...
How the Rich Took Over the Economy
YouTube video by Anna Bocca
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Ben Jennings on plans to allow private investors to buy stakes in the World Cup – cartoon
Ben Jennings on plans to allow private investors to buy stakes in the World Cup – cartoon
Fifa has announced plans to sell the commercial rights to its tournaments, including the World Cup
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This is surely curtains for Farage's political career. I don't think there's any coming back from it. I hope not, at any rate. Looks like there could be a strong basis for a criminal case as well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son
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🔴 NEW - Meet the Aristocrats Helping to Fund Reform Nigel Farage’s donors include Mayfair club owners, fox hunt masters, and the landed gentry. 📝 @mc00.bsky.social
Meet the Aristocrats Helping to Fund Reform
On 7 June, Nigel Farage announced that he was resigning as the MP for Clacton amid the political furore caused by his £5 million undeclared gift from crypto billionaire and major Reform UK donor Chris...
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PM urged to uphold climate pledges made as mayor and ban new North Sea oil drilling
PM urged to uphold climate pledges made as mayor and ban new North Sea oil drilling
Experts who helped Burnham draw up Manchester carbon neutral pledge say backtracking would send wrong message amid wildfires and heatwaves * Europe wildfires – latest updates Leading climate scientists who created Greater Manchester’s carbon neutral by 2038 commitment are urging Andy Burnham to unequivocally reject new drilling in the North Sea. In a letter to the prime minister they said he, as previous mayor of Greater Manchester, had unveiled one of the UK’s most ambitious local climate programmes that tackled housing, green growth and public transport. Continue reading...
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If necessary? Did Burnham get the memo? Andy Burnham has a choice. To serve the people of Britain or himself. As just another predictable neoliberal clown, it should be obvious who he serves behind the words and closed doors of power. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Andy Burnham says he will disagree with Trump in public if necessary
PM promises to ‘defend national interest before anything else’ in first big broadcast interview since entering No 10
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When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
Always this. "Protect our women and children from those people" is pure projection. The beast is the man in the mirror. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse
Exclusive: Hampshire police data reveals 22 of 37 detained had been accused or convicted of intimate partner violence
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🔴 NEW 🔴 ‘They Want Us Gone’: BP Gas Field Forces Out Senegal’s Fishers Traditional fishing grounds continue to be off-limits in Senegal as its government pursues a high-risk gamble on the export of LNG, a new DeSmog investigation can reveal. www.desmog.com/2026/07/24/t... 📝@Hans Wetzels
‘They Want Us Gone’: BP Gas Field Forces Out Senegal’s Fishers
Amadou Diague sits in a plastic chair, looking out over the Atlantic Ocean. In the distance a traditional wooden pirogue cuts through the waves to deliver freshly caught fish to the city of Saint Loui...
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A barrister represents his clients in court. Clients who are political dissidents. He now faces criminal prosecution for doing so. Not Turkey. Not Egypt. Not Russia. England. Astonishing, deeply disturbing, and part of a long slide towards authoritarianism. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Palestine Action barrister’s prosecution criticised as ‘chilling’
CBA chair says contempt charge over closing speech by Rajiv Menon KC has left lawyers fearful of doing their job
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Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot
Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot
Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Major climate impacts on crops in North America and Europe. Major shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and now, potentially, the Red Sea. Transit through the Panama Canal threatened by drought. It's time we started getting serious about #FoodSecurity.
‘If all else fails, sue’: how ultra-processed food firms are using the courts to obstruct health rules
‘If all else fails, sue’: how ultra-processed food firms are using the courts to obstruct health rules
Exclusive: Global investigation reveals 235 lawsuits have been brought against governments in five countries since 2010 The world’s biggest ultra-processed food companies have filed scores of lawsuits challenging government policies that tackle junk diets, the Guardian can reveal. Ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked to harm in every major organ system of the human body and poses a seismic threat to global health. Worldwide consumption is rising and UPF now makes up as much as half the average diet in many countries, including the UK, the US and Australia. Continue reading...
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Equinor (Norway state) earned $11.5 billion in 3 months profiteering from war and robbing children of a survivable future. Note their celebration and pathological greed. They're evil parasites. www.nrk.no/rogaland/equ...
Equinor tjente 11,48 milliarder dollar i andre kvartal
Høye oljepriser og geopolitiske spenninger bidro til at Equinor leverte sitt høyeste resultat på over tre år i årets andre kvartal.
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Nordicism kills 'immigrant' wolf. Flag-waving Nazi supremacist twats. www.nrk.no/innlandet/ul...
Ulv felt i Sør-Fron – trolig finsk-russiske immigrant
Statens naturoppsyn mener det overveiende sannsynlig at de har felt ulven de har jaktet på. Dyrerettighetsorganisasjon Noah betegner det hele som en «skandale».
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