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The escalation management crowd is weirdly quiet about North Korea giving Russia ballistic missiles to bomb Ukraine. 🤷♀️
💀 Successfully killed: Russian Lieutenant General Erusalimov Igor, — Shtirlitz
🔥Saving Wildberries could require more than a trillion rubles, - The Bell Attacks on Wildberries warehouses, which resulted in the fires of at least 14 of the company's logistics hubs, has destroyed the business model of Russia's largest marketplace, which annually sold goods worth 3% of GDP. 1/3
"None of England’s fire and rescue services are thought to have direct access to firefighting aircraft." It's outrageous. Make the fossil fuel companies pay. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...
Fossil fuel producers should pay for wildfire helicopters, Zack Polanski says
Next week is the anniversary of the start of the Langdale Moor Fire in North Yorkshire, the largest wildfire in the country last year.
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Amazing to see coverage of the Guga hunt licence rejection on BBC Scotland Evening news! This is becoming a major public talking point.
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EXCLUSIVE: Under Patel, FBI forges unprecedented law enforcement ties with China, Russia
FBI Director Kash Patel says he has forged new law enforcement partnerships with China and Russia, two longtime U.S. rivals, over the past year in hopes of gaining allies in combating transnational cr...
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Regulation of mobile phone operators in Scotland is controlled by British governments in England. This is the result.
Andrew Sharpe 🏴|🇪🇺@andrew.sharpe.scot · 7h ago5G access is increasingly useful - if you have it. Cell sites are smaller so they tend to start in cities and along motorways. Countries like 🏴 Scotland have little coverage. But contrast with France with aggressive legally mandated investment.. it's also much cheaper. www.nperf.com/en/map/FR/-/...
More Petitions if you haven't already ✍️ APRS AI Data Centres Campaign - Action to Protect Rural Scotland share.google/MhVzo8xmq0VU...
APRS AI Data Centres Campaign - Action to Protect Rural Scotland
Data centres are the biggest threat to Scotland's net zero target and to our countryside. Join our campaign!
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North Korea has begun deploying a 90-person missile unit with 6 launchers and 120 ballistic missiles to Russia's Voronezh region. Here's what it means ⬇️ 🧵 1/3
𝘌𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭. 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘮𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘭𝘦. ~𝘛𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘕𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘏𝘢𝘯𝘩 Gift yourself the power of healing 🙏🏼🪷
McConnell was not treated like a live human being. CPR had stopped. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Neighbors Say They Saw McConnell Wheeled Into Ambulance On Stretcher: CNN
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Baddenock reaches a new low as she defends someone with a jail conviction for Nazi activism as a suitable Conservative candidate. Is there any limit to this woman's shoddy behaviour? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tories offer Jewish groups meeting with ex neo-Nazi activist candidate
Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed over neo-Nazi activism, but has been selected to stand in a new Somerset Council seat in 2027.
bbc.co.uk
DO NOT look away!!! EVERY Russian involved in the genocide of Ukrainians much face Nuremberg-style trials; every single one of them!!!
UNITED24@u24.gov.ua · 14h ago
23:20 | 04/08 Approximate flight routes of our UAVs: 🔴 Red arrows — directions of strike UAV movement; According to Russian sources, around 400 drones were reported, though these estimates and the displayed routes remain highly approximate.
COLONIALISM = RESOURCE EXTRACTION Unsurprisingly with annual droughts now likely in future, England wants to pipe Scottish water south to London. Read the details here: www.thenational.scot/.../26421513...
No Unionist politician will answer the question: "How does Scotland leave the UK?" So, do you think that Burham will codify that process into a written constitution? No, he will tighten the legal rope round our neck. We need #ScottishIndependence more than ever. www.thenational.scot/news/2643247...
UK constitution 'fundamentally flawed' without exit route from Union, Labour warned
Any UK constitution which does not establish a route out of the Union will be 'fundamentally flawed', Andy Burnham has been warned
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It's 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝘆. You won't hear it from the BBC in 🏴 Scotland, but pass rates are up at every level, the poverty related attainment gap is closing further, and a record number of university places for Scots students have been awarded - a proud day for Scotland’s education system.
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Unregistered children’s homes in England & Wales creating a ‘perfect storm’ for criminals exploiting young people are prevented in Scotland because of Nicola Sturgeon’s ‘promise’ in 2016
Yesterday from Policing Insight, the above and: New research by Anglia Ruskin University into the risks of child exploitation in unregistered children’s homes in England and Wales highlights that w…
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Greetings from Ukraine🇺🇦 Still free. Still standing. Still impossible to break.
I'm walking 16 kilometres in laps of the Scottish Parliament (dressed as a Gannet) to demand Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act is amended to finally bring the Guga hunt to an end.
In a report endorsed by the former head of MI6, the Henry Jackson Society said a staggering 50% of the Russians in London - 75,000 - were informants for Putin. Russia has many operatives across Europe.
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 2d agoA Paris court today rejected Russian television star Xenia Fedorova's appeal against a ruling that she must leave the country, a week after French authorities accused her of acting as "a conduit for disinformation campaigns" orchestrated by Moscow.
I'm doing this walk to raise vital funds for the next phase of our campaign calling on the Scottish Government to outlaw the Guga hunt for good. Until this happens, we'll be caught in an endless loop fighting the licence to kill Gannet chicks every year!
🔴 BREAKING: A Russian airstrike hit an apartment building in central Kramatorsk, injuring 22 people, according to the Donetsk Regional Prosecutor's Office. Rescue operations and damage assessments are ongoing. 📷: Suspilne
ObjectNow says it helped 50,000 people across the UK submit planning objections in 2025. Since Scotland stopped accepting emails, it says no local group has approached it to launch a campaign against a major Scottish energy project
AI flooded the Scottish Government with wind farm objections. So they stopped accepting emails
The Scottish Government says the move was needed to tackle the "burden" caused by the growth in AI-assisted objections to energy projects. Critics say it is a way to mute public opposition.
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