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📽️ OUR FILM IS NOW LIVE 👇

We present the first documentary about Britain's complicity in the Gaza genocide, exposing Keir Starmer's shady spy flight missions for Israel.

Watch the full film on YouTube here
👉 youtu.be/0fk3t28TiAc
December 11, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Just like how the actions and statements of US and European leaders can be easily explained just by acknowledging that the plan was always to just get rid of as many Palestinians as possible - whether slowly or quickly - and that all these important people always knew that was the intent.
December 11, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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As Trump drags us into an Iraq-style war in Venezuela, 312 members of the House — including 115 Democrats — just voted to authorize over $900 billion in military spending.
December 10, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Permafrost is melting with emissions of carbon dioxide and methane on a par with Japan’s human emissions. Soon they will overtake India’s.

drtomharris.substack.com/p/permafrost...

#climatechange #permafrost #cryosphere #melting #emissions #CDR #carbonbudget #tippingpoint #arctic
Permafrost emissions are on track to overtake India’s human emissions
Arctic Amplification, driving temperature increases up to 4x faster than the rest of the world, is melting Permafrost at alarming rates that will soon see it’s emissions eclipse even large countries.
drtomharris.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Just noting that no one is ever going to seize a tanker full of solar energy
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
U.S. seizes ‘very large’ oil tanker off Venezuelan coast, Trump says
The seizure was a significant escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his country’s oil-dependent economy.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Great thread (ICYMI) on the many ways in which mean-minded government decisions, and incompetent prison / IT / maintenance contractors, are delaying justice. Nowt to do with juries.

But rather than fix these problems, Lammy chooses to tear up the right to a trial by our peers, instead? For shame.
1. The defendant not being produced at court from prison. 🚚

A classic. It happens due to the private contractors simply not bothering, knowing that the contracts negotiated by government include no meaningful penalty for failure.

Trials every day in every court are affected.
December 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Climate advocates say it's time to move to accountability for climate change, as people in Asia are living the evidence.
At least 1,250 people dead: What caused the devastating Asia floods?
Climate advocates say it's time to move to accountability for climate change, as people in Asia are living the evidence.
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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The modal year of death from the evolution of Homo sapiens until the 1940s was 0 - 1 year old.
December 2, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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There's a move to delay EU phaseout date of petrol & diesel cars because of domestic auto industries are struggling to change

But head of Volvo says “If Europe doesn’t take lead in this transformation [to electric] rest assured, other countries will do it for us”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘The Chinese will not pause’: Volvo and Polestar bosses urge EU to stick to 2035 petrol car ban
Exclusive: Swedish carmakers push to retain target as Germany lobbies to help its own industry by softening cutoff date
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Together 9 top experts joined the dots. We didn't just talk about climate, nature, and tipping points as abstract issues, we heard briefings on what this emergency means for:
Our food security here in the UK
Our health and the NHS
Our national security
December 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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My friends Neil & Katy from the Gougane Barra Hotel organized this raffle for Gaza. It ends in a couple of days. Please check it out www.idonate.ie/raffle/Gouga...
November 27, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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If you're in or nearby Sligo, Ireland there is an amazing art auction benefiting Gaza that my friend @vandalhandle.bsky.social helped organize. Nov, 29th doors open at 5:30pm
November 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Guardian currently running with some shit Starmer said in 1992, and not this? very weird
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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A new book by Costs of War contributor William Hartung and Ben Freeman looks at how we got to a trillion dollar military budget — more than half of which goes to military contractors. www.commondreams.org/opinion/tril...
'Trillion Dollar War Machine': Understanding US Militarism and How to Dismantle It | Common Dreams
​William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman's extremely timely and necessary book explains how today's crises are the predictable consequence of an entrenched system of militarism, a politics captured by lobb...
www.commondreams.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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At least 160,000 people have been granted refugee status over the past five years. It now seems they are intended to be caught by the Government’s plans to make refugees wait up to 20 years for settlement - even for those just months away from ILR

www.thetimes.com/article/6f83...
November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Things like this can only happen a profoundly corrupt & immoral society. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
Elon Musk is set to make more than every U.S. elementary teacher combined
See how Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s new payment package compares with other occupations in the United States.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Lord Dubs speaks with some authority here
Asylum changes seek to use children as a weapon, says Labour peer Alf Dubs
Dubs, who was a child refugee, says Shabana Mahmood’s ‘shabby’ plans will increase community tensions
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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As Obama’s WH counsel Kathy Ruemmler and Obama’s NEC director Larry Summers are pulled into the Epstein case, are Obama’s legal ethics, economics and administration going to be tainted? Or are ppl compartmentalizing these as separate?
November 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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Alice fucking Wong never had a “job,” scraped by on freelance gigs, had to win a MacArthur to keep from being warehoused in an institution, and got laid off a week before she died by Teen Vogue…

…and this dipshit Nuzzi gets like one of the few writing gigs in America? At Vanity Fair?
November 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Just so: the plan is to lock the cabin doors to keep the passengers out, fly the plane into the ground and then walk out of the wreckage untouched to fancy jobs at Facebook and PWC. And if you don’t like it, fuck you.
November 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM