The science is crystal clear - there can be no new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. Andy Burnham must stop Rosebank, stop Jackdaw and make polluters pay for the destruction they are causing.
Dr Assal Rad— "It’s incredible that Israel can continue demolishing homes and occupying Lebanon—and kill Palestinians on a daily basis—but the only time you see the words "ceasefire violation" is when Israel uses it as an excuse to attack."
Major oil firms make $93bn profits in just 3 months amid war and climate crisis. They shift profits, dodge taxes, fuel poverty and inflation. They don't bear the social cost of their business. Forever holding people/govts to ransom. Polluters must pay. Need windfall tax now.
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
What have I been saying like a broken record. Gaza is a Kill Box. Built and controlled by Israel. #GazaGenocide #GazaHolocaust
I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...
The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People
The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death
monbiot.com
"Grocers are already bringing in more products from abroad because of the poor conditions at home" But the time is coming - soon - when countries will hold onto their own And the UK imports getting on for half its food www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Farmers warn shoppers face smaller and more expensive vegetables due to hot weather
This year's harvest could be the worst on record due to the exceptionally dry spring and summer.
bbc.co.uk
Multinational corporations dodge $500bn tax by shifting profits to low/no tax jurisdictions. Stifle social development. Need a simple change - must pay tax where they actually create profit, instead of where they pretend to on paper. UK can collect extra $16.9bn a yr. Must check corporate abuse.
Countries to gain $500bn more tax a year under UN ‘pay-where-you-play’ plan - Tax Justice Network
UN tax convention commitment to scrap 100-year-old corporate tax approach will unleash new economic era without increasing taxes, experts say Countries can collect US$500 billion more in corporate tax...
taxjustice.net
Looks super normal given the Mandelson connection
Bela Lugosi's Dad 🏳️⚧️ 🇵🇸@belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 16h agoNonce
The Israeli army is back to issuing evacuation orders. On Wednesday, it issued a warning to the residents of Mansouri, demanding they move 1,000 m north of the town.
This is stupid. Golf courses and sports pitches exempt. More important than wildlife and habitats? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thames Water hosepipe ban: Why can golf courses stay green during droughts?
School playing fields and golf greens are unaffected by the hosepipe ban imposed by Thames Water.
bbc.co.uk
This morning I was joined by a firefighter, a medic, a former soldier and Chris Packham to call on the government to act now. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Zack Polanski demands fossil fuel giants pay for firefighting helicopters
The Green Party leader says the companies are ‘profiting from fuelling these infernos’
independent.co.uk
This is pure extraction of wealth from one group of people to another We urgently need: Windfall tax on oil giants Windfall tax on banks Both are creaming money off us during a cost of living crisis Even Thatcher had the balls to tax the banks Will you @andyburnham?
Absolutely astonishing Samantha Jones is the top health official and she is DIRECTLY benefiting from NHS and local authority ££££ That is WRONG - she must resign, this is called corruption @chpithinktank.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/ea8c...
Companies linked to top health official and husband received £2bn in public contracts
Samantha Jones or spouse held financial interests in G Square Capital private-equity business
ft.com
"the largest mass funeral in recorded history, and not a peep from mainstream western media" — susan abulhawa #GazaHolocaust #GazaGeocide
"Heath’s defiance of reality is so well established that it has spawned an “Allister Heath headline generator”, which pumps out bonkers statements not easily distinguishable from the originals .. I think he takes the prize for being more wrong more often than anyone else in British journalism."
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19h agoMy column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"According to reports, viral social media posts from new accounts encouraged young Moroccans to go to Ceuta, fuelled by the promise of an open border. Some posted routes and instructions for where to buy swimming equipment. Those accounts have now disappeared."
How Europe Betrayed Leftwing Spain Over Ceuta | Steven Methven
The deranged response to the Ceuta crisis by European governments shows just how powerful the right has become across the continent, writes Steven Methven.
novaramedia.com
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite £247m revenue, £25.3m profit. Doesn't pay much anywhere, effective global tax rate is 1.4% Shifts profits through intragroup transactions, enjoys tax breaks. UK Govt rewarding it with public contracts, enriching execs & shareholders.
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss
theguardian.com
NEW: Russian companies made an estimated £500m windfall from urea fertiliser alone this spring – £5m per day – as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz sent global prices soaring. Our analysis:
Russia's £500m Fertiliser Windfall from Iran War
Russia earned an estimated £500m fertiliser windfall — over £5m a day — as the Iran war choked global urea supplies, an Unearthed analysis has found.
unearthed.greenpeace.org
Animal dewormer and a drug used to treat scabies are being sold and promoted as unproven cancer treatments. Amazon withdrew drugs after being exposed. Others still selling. Profiteering from vulnerable people. Yet neoliberals oppose regulation.
Undercover reporter offered fenbendazole and ivermectin as cancer treatment
A terminally ill man was offered the drugs by a stair lift salesman claiming they could shrink tumours.
bbc.co.uk
The obscenity continues These corporations are screwing us and screwing the planet, and no government has the balls or the backbone to act against them They need to be eviscerated and the money used for the common good www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...
Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis
Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage
theguardian.com
So 'nice', 'liberal' Andy Burnham is going to preside over by far the largest peacetime roll-back of human rights in the history of the UK. But he is going to remove our human rights "compassionately' "Compassionate oppression" will be the graffitti on his gravestone.
Microsoft: $101 BILLION in profits. $12.5 BILLION in tax breaks. $176 BILLION in stock buybacks. 4,800 workers fired this week. 9,000 workers fired last year. Please don't tell me trickle-down economics works. It never did. Nothing trickles down.
"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them." ― Margaret Atwood
"The remains of 112 people were recovered in Gaza after search teams retrieved bodies from the site of a previous 'Israeli' airstrike that targeted the Al-Hasayneh and Abu Sharia families..." m.youtube.com/shorts/1RkPd... #GazaNews #Israel #IsraelNews #News #Palestine #PalestineNews #WorldNews
🇵🇸Remains of 112 people recovered from Gaza mass grave
YouTube video by Roya News English
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