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Peter Garbutt
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I'm 73, happily married. Vegan. I'm a dad and a grandad. Sheffield, UK. Climate catastrophe. Civilisational collapse. Degrowth will help. Sustainable communities will help. Sortition will help. But capitalism won't, Political Parties won't, the media won't
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Much though my heart cries out to donate to Palestinians on this platform desperate for food, I'm a pensioner and have a limited income. I give to a charity, and I join protests and vigils to show my solidarity with you.
Your plight often brings me to tears, I feel helpless.
The ONLY way to hold back authoritarianism is to sever the means of attaining power.
That means a one-off Party offering the abolition of elections and introduction of government by Citizens Assemblies selected by sortition with a one-third annual turnover.
There's no other way.
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The answer is 1.62°C.

Here's some more climate data you can quote during your water-cooler conversations:
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Liberals: "I want to get rid of Trump!"

Me: "I want to get rid of the system that created Trump in the first place."

Our goals are not the same. If you remove Trump, but keep the system in place, you'll just end up with another worse Trump in 4-8 years. That's the history of the last half century.
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It is no wonder we are at peak apathy. Hyper-narcissism was engineered by a psychonomy that recognized, very early on, that selfish consumatrons will buy more stuff while at the same time become politically inactive.This was a double win for the necrocapitalist oligarchy

From my book THE PETRI DISH
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Two weeks ago I wrote a piece about Reform's links to the Centre for a Better Britain, a think-tank that looks poised to introduce our very own version of Project 2025 in the UK.

This weekend, Reform further solidified their links to CFABB by making Dr James Orr a senior advisor.

Articles Below:
Throughout human time on this planet, people have moved, settled, mingled, moved on, etc.
The problem here is a lack of knowledge of history. A belief that England has always been white, English-speaking protestant. They forget our colonialist past.
And they've lost all compassion.
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The left has consistently been its own worst enemy. Splitting hairs based on the minutiae of ideology rather than coalescing around the beliefs that are common to everyone. Purity tests got us here and will keep us on this path until we agree to fight the bigger fights together. IMO.
This precedes postmodernism as IMO the original sin of the left. The left has ALWAYS been “splitters”, prioritizing purity over functionality. If you’re not pure enough, your ideas are dismissed. If you push back, the ideas become anathema rather than examined.
Mine is Saltburn, that you featured the other day!
I like York, it's got an interesting array of attractions, but somehow it doesn't really figure high on my "must visit" list.
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Being a Democrat is like having a My Space or Facebook profile when everyone has moved on to TikTok and Bluesky. You can’t bring down the regime using the same tools that brought it on. Please note the double meaning in “tools” ✌🏽✌🏿✌🏻
Oddly, within what we fondly call "democracy", there isn't a single Party that can act on behalf of the people, the demos. They're all captured; by ideology, by corporates, or even by other nations. We desperately need to think outside that box!
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The UK state hands subsidies to corporations, doesn't invest directly in new industries, infrastructure'.

Corporate profits, dividends boom.

UK is left behind
UK invested 18.2% of GDP in productive assets
OECD countries' average 23%
China 40.4%
India 30.5%.

Neoliberalism is destroying the UK
Rachel Reeves’ budget must reduce inequalities and increase spending capacity of the masses
This is how to secure sustained economic growth
leftfootforward.org
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Izrahell needs to be stopped. No ceasefire. Invasion & force are the only things these terr0r1sts understand.
#IzrahellIsATerr0r1stState
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Well worth a watch as some background.

So France 🇫🇷 & Great Britain 🇬🇧 conspired to divide up the middle east to their greatest advantage.....hmmmm sounds like colonialism/theft101...

Nothing complicated about it.

And the zi0s seized the chance to take what they coveted.
youtu.be/QUCeQt8zg5o?...
Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story | Al Jazeera World Documentary
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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Wordle 1,584 3/6

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While a cold front reached Honshu,the suffocating humid heat 24/7 goes on in Okinawa

Tonight an insane Minimum of 28.1C at Kitadaito (well above summer average)
Summer weather will even worsen and extend for weeks and will break all November records!
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The two Israelis killed today were killed when their bulldozer hit an unexploded bomb, which had been dropped by Israel.

The only side that killed, 44 people today, was Israel.

Please RT to get the message out, over all of the lies.
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So in western Alaska, thousands of people are homeless due to flooding rains, one person is dead & two people are missing. But yet, the regime hasn't said a word, no thoughts or prayers, nothing.
Once again, they could care less about Americans, it's about enriching themselves through GREED.
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While the Queen was on the throne, it was a different matter.

With her passing it's time to ask - perfectly reasonably - who the institution of monarchy serves and whether this one family should rule over us all in perpetuity... with almost zero accountability

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
MPs urged to confront royal family over Prince Andrew’s Epstein links
Calls grow for parliamentary rule changes to strip Andrew of titles and ask questions of royals
www.theguardian.com
Septle 1583 - 🔥 57 day streak - septle.com

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Septle - The Seven Letter Wordle
Guess the hidden word in 8 tries. New puzzles are available each day.
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