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“But it means nothing as there is no prospect of this of course.”
Ouch, I hope this time the prediction will be accurate and not mistaken as before.
I have no idea why Joe Manchin is permitted to remain a member of the Democratic Party and is not expelled.
As you say he is Republican and a corporate servant. Why not confirm the reality?
I think it serves the Democratic Party leaders to have Manchin inside the Party to ensure nothing ‘radical’ ever has a chance to be passed.
But after November mid-terms, his importance will cease when the Republicans assume the majority in both houses.
Media complicity is sympathetically representing Pelosi
Extinction Rebellion on Wednesday revealed plans to bring people into the United Kingdom’s streets on September 10 in response to the government’s latest efforts to enact new limits on protest.
hat the anti-protest measures include:
New criminal offenses of locking on, and going equipped to lock on to others, objects, or buildings—carrying a maximum penalty of six months’ imprisonment and an unlimited fine;
The creation of a new criminal offense of interfering with key national infrastructure, such as airports, railways, and printing presses—carrying a maximum sentence of 12 months in prison and an unlimited fine;
Measures to make it illegal to obstruct major transport works, including disrupting the construction or maintenance of projects like HS2—punishable by up to six months in prison and an unlimited fine.
“The bill is expected to extend stop and search powers so the police can seize articles related to these new offenses
“New preventive ‘serious disruption prevention orders’ will also be available for repeat offenders.”
US Senate failed to advance legislation that would codify the right to an abortion into federal law
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/11/senate-abortion-rights-bill-vote
UK has agreed mutual security pacts with Sweden and Finland, agreeing to come to their aid should either nation come under attack.
Ukraine turns off the gas for Europe
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-western-f19fc83e64850001b73734254a8efeff
The Home Office has admitted that lesbian, gay and bisexual refugees could be persecuted if sent to Rwanda – but still plans to fly them 4,000 miles to Kigali.
Latest theory on history of meat-eating
https://www.dw.com/en/why-do-humans-eat-so-much-meat/a-60735141
The international aviation industry has failed to meet all but one of 50 of its own climate targets
In 2007 Virgin Atlantic set a target of a 30% reduction in CO2 per revenue tonne kilometre (CO2/RTK) by 2020, which the company later described as “a big target and we’re sticking with it”, according to the report. In a 2014 sustainability report, with a reduction in CO2/RTK of only 8% from baseline, the airline admitted: “We’re nearly halfway through our target period and know we have to pick up the pace.”
But when Virgin’s 2020 annual report was published, it no longer mentioned the 2020 target. The following year, a press release from the company announced a new target of 15% gross reduction in CO2/RTK by 2026.
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The researchers conclude that climate target setting is in effect a smokescreen for business as usual. Such targets “appear to function principally as a tactic for giving an impression of progress and action to address aviation’s environmental impacts to the public and policymakers, in order to prevent any policy barriers to ongoing growth in the industry”, the report says.
It includes a quote from Steve Ridgway, Virgin’s chief executive in 2007, who said: “It is important that the airline industry is being seen to do something.”
Members of Poland’s anti-abortion movement have also been at the border to greet refugees. Within the first weeks of the war, volunteers from the Life and Family group started handing out leaflets at refugee reception points depicting dismembered foetuses and citing abortion as the biggest threat to peace. The leaflets also advised pregnant women to denounce to the police anyone offering them an abortion.
It will take decades for Ukraine to be accepted into the European Union, France’s Emmanuel Macron has said in a speech to the EU’s parliament in Strasbourg
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61383632
“That is the truth, unless we decide to lower the standards for accession. And rethink the unity of our Europe.”
Is this the harbinger of the next big recession?
…Global markets fell sharply on Monday as fears over rising inflation and a slowdown in China’s export growth fuelled worries about the health of the world economy. Stocks in Asia-Pacific markets, Europe and the US all dropped…
Voice of reason?
https://countercurrents.org/2022/05/okinawa-urges-government-to-reduce-tensions-with-china/
The governor of the southern Japanese island of Okinawa said Friday: Japan should focus more on peaceful diplomacy with China instead of on military deterrence…
“We are strongly alarmed,” Okinawa Governor Denny Tamaki said of discussions in parliament about the possibility of a security emergency involving Taiwan, and concerns that Okinawa, 600 kilometers (370 miles) away, could become embroiled in it.
“Any escalation of problems over the Taiwan Strait and the contingency of Okinawa being a target of attack must never happen or be allowed to happen,” Tamaki said
Anti-abortion lobby twist the science
The Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt changes the ADL’s official official that anti-Zionism isn’t always antisemitic.
“To those who still cling to the idea that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism — let me clarify this for you as clearly as I can — anti-Zionism is antisemitism.”
He specifically vilified three Palestine solidarity groups — Students for Justice in Palestine, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Jewish Voice for Peace — terming them “hateful” and “extremist.”
ADL’s 2021 Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, found that of the 2,717 incidents it recorded last year, 345 (just over 12 percent) involved “references to Israel or Zionism” and of these, “68 took the form of propaganda efforts by white supremacist groups.
ADL CEO Misrepresents Report on Antisemitism to Attack Palestinian Groups
