‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers

‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers

PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved

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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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In April, the Starmer government passed an Act of Parliament enabling the police to shut down any protest they deem to have a “cumulative” impact on the community. The only protests that have ever succeeded are those with a cumulative impact. Effective protest is now illegal.

As always: attacking basic infrastructure like energy, water etc is an attack on civilians

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 5d ago

Israel is planning to rejoin the war against Iran, CBS reports. The US is considering strikes against Iran’s energy infrastructure, the WSJ says. #foreverwar

"For more than 25 years, following Unilever’s acquisition of Ben & Jerry’s in 2000, the Foundation operated without corporate interference. That has changed rapidly in the last year, particularly since Ben Cohen’s public solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza" www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/ben-jer...

Ben & Jerry's Foundation forced to close after 40 years as corporate owner tightens grip - Alliance magazine

The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation says it will shut down at the end of the year after its corporate parent cut off funding and evicted its workers.  Food giant Unilever, owned of confectionary brand Magnum...

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"Mamdani told The New York Times that his administration’s legal department was discussing the possibility of Netanyahu’s arrest if he visited New York, saying he believes the Israeli premier “belongs in The Hague.”" www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260720-mam...

Mamdani says ICC warrant against Netanyahu should be ‘taken seriously’

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday that the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be “taken seriously,” …

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Takes a special kind of thinking to see the wild fires raging around Europe, thousands of deaths from this year's heatwaves (so far) and conclude "we need to expand drilling in the North Sea to give us the economic power to transition to renewables"

Buckle up... a super El Niño is brewing. The remainder of this summer and next may be hotter and stormier than anything you have experienced yet! #ClimateChaos + #ElNiño www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This El Niño is set to be the largest on record by a ‘mind-blowing margin’

Forecasters predict that the monster climate pattern will combine with global warming to push global temperatures in 2027 to new heights.

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#Polycrisis is a mood killer 👇

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 2w ago

People keep saying “It’s inflation you moron” but this is literally the unexplained growth in economic pessimism AFTER YOU CONTROL FOR INFLATION. That’s what “residual” means: the error left over that the model (which includes inflation) can’t account for. That’s why it’s bizarre.

Electric bills are way too high — particularly PG&E — and plug-in solar is a great way to lower those bills. I’m authoring legislation to allow Californians to easily use these devices; it’s currently quite hard, if not impossible, for people to do so.

California bill backs plug-in solar as PG&E rates soar, and renters could save on power

"Anyone can access it to harvest sunshine and generate immediate energy savings."

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Q: What does being a good politician mean to you? Mamdani: I think it means delivering.

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

“Not getting it right” is what you say about an underbaked cheesecake, not a policy stance on an ongoing slaughter that has claimed at least 73,000 Palestinian lives. Tellingly, Burnham still will not call what happened and is happening in Gaza a genocide." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Don’t believe Andy Burnham’s PR machine

As his empty Gaza apology clearly demonstrates, he will not bring the radical change Labour really needs.

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@andyburnham Are Labour going to start looking at preventing Covid infections and follow the Covid inquiry recommendations? Everyone is at risk from long covid and clinically vulnerable remain unsupported. It’s been 6 years! #CleantheAir #RollVaccines #Ffp3inHealthcare

Foreclosures increased 21% in the first half of this year. Student loan defaults are at a record high. Total household debt is also at a record high of $18.8 trillion. Meanwhile, corporate profits are the highest they’ve ever been. “New Golden Age” for whom?

Congresswoman AOC has introduced a bill that would ban Supreme Court Justices from accepting lavish gifts from the ultra wealthy. Love that, but what I find insane is that this isn’t already illegal.

Switzerland put solar panels in the unused space between train tracks. They are removeable, so you can still work on the tracks. And it's working!

Switzerland has turned its train tracks into solar power plants

The patented solar panels use existing unused space to generate clean electricity — without getting in the way of a single train.

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Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

At 250 years, we should not still be fighting for the right to vote… Should we?!

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or simply sought better lives for themselves and their descendants. Donald Trump wants to stoke so much fear and hatred that people forget this. Do not.

This heat wave brought to you by ExxonMobil and Chevron.

Without Climate Change, U.S. Heat Wave Called ‘Virtually Impossible’

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Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

"Any good decision-making relies on advice. Heads of government will have doctors brief them on public health, economists to guide financial decisions, military chiefs to warn of security threats. The climate and planetary challenges we face today are no less relevant than these issues..."

PIK_climate@pik-potsdam.bsky.social · last mo.

New article by PIK director Johan Rockström on why every government should have a Chief Planetary Scientist. Belgium has just become the first country to take that step by appointing @lucbas.bsky.social, Director of #CERAC, as Chief Planetary Scientist. 👇 www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-ap...

Three ICC judges sue Trump over the unlawful financial sanctions imposed on them, in retaliation for executing their duties in relation to the warrant issued for Netanyahu's arrest... www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

ICC judges sue Trump over US sanctions

Three judges argue the measures imposed on them amount to unlawful political retaliation over the court's investigations into Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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"Bayer has spent the last decade fighting more than 100,000 lawsuits filed by people who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma they blamed on exposure to the glyphosate weedkillers, and the company has paid out billions of dollars in jury awards and settlements." www.theguardian.com/business/202...

US supreme court blocks thousands of lawsuits over Roundup maker’s pesticide warning labels

The case, Monsanto v Durnell, specifically dealt with claims that the company failed to warn users of product risks

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Spain’s electricity bills have decreased due to its commitment to renewable energy, reducing the influence of fossil fuels on electricity prices.

Why Spain’s electricity bills have fallen during an energy crisis

Homes and business are benefitting from Spain's commitment to clean energy.

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Pleasure to be at UNISON conference in Brighton. To bring our communities together - we need to end Rip off Britain. And that starts with tackling extreme wealth.