Eddy Canfor-Dumas
@ec-d.bsky.social
Co-founder of The Centre for Creative Conversation creativeconversation.org Co-author of 'The Talking Revolution', civilian lead MCDC’s ‘Understand to Prevent’. @samaritans.bsky.social #MMT
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Eddy Canfor-Dumas
@ec-d.bsky.social
· Nov 21
We need a talking revolution
We’ve got a big problem, we human beings. Bigger than plastic in the oceans and toxins in the air, bigger even than climate change. It’s how we talk and listen to each other.It’s the basis for everything we do – and will need to do – together . Yet so much of our communication washes around in a sea of confusion, conflict and dysfunction – at home, at work, in society and in the world.‘That’s life,’ some will say. ‘It’s normal.’ But it needn’t be. We can do better. We have to do better. Because
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How about joining the talking revolution, where you are, right now?
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Just 10k signatures needed now
Just 13k more signatures and the call for a public inquiry into Russian interference has to be debate in Parliament
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Just 10k signatures needed now
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What a superb investigation from @wsj.com making sense of all the coming and going between US and Russia representatives we have seen so far. The US sees Russia as a massive private business opportunity, and everything that stands in between gets pushed out of the way.
“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:29 AM
What a superb investigation from @wsj.com making sense of all the coming and going between US and Russia representatives we have seen so far. The US sees Russia as a massive private business opportunity, and everything that stands in between gets pushed out of the way.
How does this square with Trump’s war against drugs coming into the US? Unless it’s blatant corruption. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles
Trump says he will pardon ex-Honduras president convicted of drug trafficking
Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced in the US last year to 45 years behind bars for conspiring to import cocaine into the country.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 6:27 AM
How does this square with Trump’s war against drugs coming into the US? Unless it’s blatant corruption. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles
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I've signed. Have you?
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I've signed. Have you?
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Ryan Bourne admits that “project fear” was actually “project massive underestimate of the costs of this madcap scheme we took the nation on”
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Ryan Bourne admits that “project fear” was actually “project massive underestimate of the costs of this madcap scheme we took the nation on”
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Hope is here.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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The Israeli state is extremely violent and kills people with impunity – regularly, routinely and beyond its borders. With barely a ripple of news coverage.
Israeli strikes on Syria kill at least nine, including two children - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-strikes-syria-kill-least-nine-including-two-children
Israeli strikes on Syria kill at least nine, including two children
A deadly Israeli incursion in Beit Jinn has displaced families and injured several Israeli soldiers
www.middleeasteye.net
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The Israeli state is extremely violent and kills people with impunity – regularly, routinely and beyond its borders. With barely a ripple of news coverage.
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Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
A prominent former MEP for Nigel Farage's old party denies taking bribes in a pro-Russian campaign.
www.bbc.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Former Brexit Party MEP denies taking payment from pro-Russian campaign
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For those unfamiliar, this involves:
- Cutting down trees that have sucked up carbon as they grew
- Burning them for energy
- Capturing the carbon that results from burning
- Transporting the carbon
- Injecting it underground
- Guarding it for the next few thousand years at least
- Cutting down trees that have sucked up carbon as they grew
- Burning them for energy
- Capturing the carbon that results from burning
- Transporting the carbon
- Injecting it underground
- Guarding it for the next few thousand years at least
NEW | A single carbon removal project at a biomass power station In the UK could cost £30 BILLION in government subsidies.
This would cost more than the UK government plans on spending for carbon capture programmes over 25 years.
https://loom.ly/XibxT4k
This would cost more than the UK government plans on spending for carbon capture programmes over 25 years.
https://loom.ly/XibxT4k
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
For those unfamiliar, this involves:
- Cutting down trees that have sucked up carbon as they grew
- Burning them for energy
- Capturing the carbon that results from burning
- Transporting the carbon
- Injecting it underground
- Guarding it for the next few thousand years at least
- Cutting down trees that have sucked up carbon as they grew
- Burning them for energy
- Capturing the carbon that results from burning
- Transporting the carbon
- Injecting it underground
- Guarding it for the next few thousand years at least
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France plans to spend $150 million to rip out grape vines due to wine industry woes from increasing heat, drought, etc
Yet planting rows of trees around vines can drought- & heat-proof them while keeping production up w/o irrigation
I reported about this #agroforestry solution in southern France:
Yet planting rows of trees around vines can drought- & heat-proof them while keeping production up w/o irrigation
I reported about this #agroforestry solution in southern France:
Better wines among the pines: Agroforestry can climate-proof grapes, French researchers show
MONTPELLIER, France — As the world warms due to climate change, winemakers are struggling to maintain the quality of their product. But in the home of wine, agroforestry researchers are showing that g...
news.mongabay.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
France plans to spend $150 million to rip out grape vines due to wine industry woes from increasing heat, drought, etc
Yet planting rows of trees around vines can drought- & heat-proof them while keeping production up w/o irrigation
I reported about this #agroforestry solution in southern France:
Yet planting rows of trees around vines can drought- & heat-proof them while keeping production up w/o irrigation
I reported about this #agroforestry solution in southern France:
The Israeli state is extremely violent and kills people with impunity – regularly and in many different settings. There will be no meaningful investigation of these murders, let alone any punishment for the murderers. Again.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
West Bank: Israeli troops kill two Palestinians after they appear to surrender
The Palestinian Authority says the killings are a
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The Israeli state is extremely violent and kills people with impunity – regularly and in many different settings. There will be no meaningful investigation of these murders, let alone any punishment for the murderers. Again.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump administration officials are using the McCarran Act from the 1950s to target immigrants and calling political opponents "the enemy from within."
A Cold War historian warns these tactics mirror 1950s McCarthyism and its devastating social harm. buff.ly/ExB8d7K
A Cold War historian warns these tactics mirror 1950s McCarthyism and its devastating social harm. buff.ly/ExB8d7K
Pentagon investigation of Sen. Mark Kelly revives Cold War persecution of Americans with supposedly disloyal views
President Donald Trump and his supporters cast their domestic opponents as disloyal, traitorous or worse, rather than seeing dissent as part of democracy.
theconversation.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Trump administration officials are using the McCarran Act from the 1950s to target immigrants and calling political opponents "the enemy from within."
A Cold War historian warns these tactics mirror 1950s McCarthyism and its devastating social harm. buff.ly/ExB8d7K
A Cold War historian warns these tactics mirror 1950s McCarthyism and its devastating social harm. buff.ly/ExB8d7K
How can this be verified?
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@bellingcat.com
Israeli occupation soldiers executed two Palestinians in Jenin earlier today.
November 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
How can this be verified?
@bellingcat.com
@bellingcat.com
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In a sane world, the government guilty of committing genocide would be dismantled, and forced to pay reparations. Instead they are allowed to corral their victims into a concentration camp and steal their land. We live in the most obscene of all possible timelines.
November 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
In a sane world, the government guilty of committing genocide would be dismantled, and forced to pay reparations. Instead they are allowed to corral their victims into a concentration camp and steal their land. We live in the most obscene of all possible timelines.
FROM WAR-WAR TO JAW-JAW: Meet Ian Rigden, the former British Army General now training mediators from around the world.
Find out more and book your place to meet Ian on 8 December. www.creativeconversation.org/the-talk-show
Find out more and book your place to meet Ian on 8 December. www.creativeconversation.org/the-talk-show
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
FROM WAR-WAR TO JAW-JAW: Meet Ian Rigden, the former British Army General now training mediators from around the world.
Find out more and book your place to meet Ian on 8 December. www.creativeconversation.org/the-talk-show
Find out more and book your place to meet Ian on 8 December. www.creativeconversation.org/the-talk-show
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 AM
FROM WAR-WAR TO JAW-JAW: Meet Ian Rigden, the former British Army General now training mediators from around the world.
Find out more and book your place to meet Ian on 8 December. www.creativeconversation.org/the-talk-show
Find out more and book your place to meet Ian on 8 December. www.creativeconversation.org/the-talk-show
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The Israeli state is extremely violent and repeatedly kills people with impunity. It also routinely breaks ceasefires. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'This is no life': Security and long-held views shattered in Lebanon amid Israeli strikes
A year on from a ceasefire in Lebanon, Israel is continuing attacks on what it says are Hezbollah's efforts to recover from their war.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:33 AM
The Israeli state is extremely violent and repeatedly kills people with impunity. It also routinely breaks ceasefires. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Israeli state is extremely violent and kills people with impunity. It does this so often that it barely makes the news.
PS There is no ceasefire in Gaza for the Palestinians, just more death.
PS There is no ceasefire in Gaza for the Palestinians, just more death.
Israel carrying out air strikes on Gaza City, Rafah - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-carrying-out-air-strikes-gaza-city-rafah
Israel carrying out air strikes on Gaza City, Rafah
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<p>Israel has already violated the 10 October ceasefire more than 500 times, officials in Gaza have said. </p>
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November 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The Israeli state is extremely violent and kills people with impunity. It does this so often that it barely makes the news.
PS There is no ceasefire in Gaza for the Palestinians, just more death.
PS There is no ceasefire in Gaza for the Palestinians, just more death.
This is an extremely sensible set of recommendations. Currently, the BoE is unnecessarily hawkish and doctrinaire, and effectively funnelling money from the taxpayer to commercial banks.
These costs do not affect other countries Treasuries and the Bank of England could change its approach to setting interest rates to save money. Find out more here: neweconomics.org/2025/09/brea...
Breaking the bank?
The case for and against central bank losses
neweconomics.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:55 PM
This is an extremely sensible set of recommendations. Currently, the BoE is unnecessarily hawkish and doctrinaire, and effectively funnelling money from the taxpayer to commercial banks.
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Spending is cut because we have a govt that doesn't understand govt funding. #mmt
It beggars belief and beggars us all. Pathetic economic nonsense in the 21st Century.
It beggars belief and beggars us all. Pathetic economic nonsense in the 21st Century.
November 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Spending is cut because we have a govt that doesn't understand govt funding. #mmt
It beggars belief and beggars us all. Pathetic economic nonsense in the 21st Century.
It beggars belief and beggars us all. Pathetic economic nonsense in the 21st Century.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Social critiques ✓
AND a bingo card 🎯
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#MMT #Budget2026
Myth tracking ✓
Fact-checking ✓
Media complaints ✓
Social critiques ✓
AND a bingo card 🎯
Yes, Budget Myth Bingo. We're not okay.
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#MMT #Budget2026
‘There are around 350 Palestinian child security detainees being held in Israeli jails, according to the Israeli Prison Service. Many have never been charged and human rights groups, as well as the United Nations, say some have suffered abuse and torture.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Palestinian-US teen held by Israel for nine months without charge due in court
Mohammed Ibrahim, 16, from Florida, was detained by Israeli soldiers while on holiday in the occupied West Bank.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 AM
‘There are around 350 Palestinian child security detainees being held in Israeli jails, according to the Israeli Prison Service. Many have never been charged and human rights groups, as well as the United Nations, say some have suffered abuse and torture.’ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Was there any coverage of the recent record warmth in both the Arctic and Antarctic? Multiple global datasets now confirm these records, and I think it's really quite striking.
Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.
Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Was there any coverage of the recent record warmth in both the Arctic and Antarctic? Multiple global datasets now confirm these records, and I think it's really quite striking.
Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.
Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.