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Military bunkers in the UK are being upgraded so they can be used to store US nuclear weapons again after 14 years of standing empty, according to US defence budget documents.
In the Biden administration’s 2023 defence budget request, the UK was added to the list of countries where infrastructure investment is under way at “special weapons” storage sites, alongside Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey – all countries where the US stores an estimated 100 B61 nuclear bombs.
The rhetoric of genocide against Ukrainians grows in hyperbole.
Insulate Britain
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-61085689
The judge added his role was to “apply the law” and said their actions had caused “significant disruption” to the motorway.
He said: “I have heard your voices. They have inspired me and personally I intend to do what I can to reduce my own impact on the planet, so to that extent your voices are certainly heard.”
>>>>>Western media photographed the serial number which clearly shows the missile was from Ukrainian batch/production.<<<<<< In a propaganda war we should be extra cautious about claims, you did not offer a source
I note that one of their revolutionary demands is more public toilets
Perhaps more alarming are the predictions of food price rises and supply shortages.
The futures market may make a killing but for ordinary people hunger is very likely
Shanghai has been under a total lockdown since April 5 as Covid-19 cases skyrocket. The city’s 26 million inhabitants have been barred from leaving their homes or apartment buildings and are now depending on government supplies and overloaded grocery delivery apps for food.
https://observers.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20220408-china-shanghai-lockdown-quarantine-food
Still around
Dr Graeme Hayes, an academic at Aston University who studies social movements, was also among those who gathered in Hyde Park. He has observed, researched and analysed XR since its inception in 2018. Hayes said he felt ideological barriers were preventing XR from evolving.
“I’m trying to look for things about capitalism, for example, and it’s hard to find.”
Methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, increased by a record amount for the second year in a row in 2021, the largest annual increase recorded since modern measurements began in 1983. The previous record increase, of 15.3ppb, was set in 2020.
“Our data show that global emissions continue to move in the wrong direction at a rapid pace,” said Rick Spinrad, administrator of Noaa. “The evidence is consistent, alarming, and undeniable.”
The fully anticipated consequence of the war on the food chain is now taking effect and it is guaranteed to grow even more extreme.
We won’t be seeing the same urgency in the supply of food as we have in the supply of weaponry.
Nor will we witness the same degree of sympathy as the hungry go on the move in search of food.
The deaths of children, the old and the ailing will practicably be invisible to the media.
Soon this topic will be deserving of its own thread.
As will the failure to contain climate change with the return to fossil fuel energy.
The casualties from both these spill-overs will far exceed those of the war itself.
US threatens China with sanctions
US deputy secretary of state,Wendy Sherman, while speaking at a House of Representatives foreign affairs committee hearing on Wednesday, said the “range of sanctions” and export controls coordinated among US allies and partners against Russian President Vladimir Putin, the country’s economy, and oligarchs, should serve as an example for China’s leader Xi Jinping.
“It gives President Xi, I think, a pretty good understanding of what might come his way should he, in fact, support Putin in any material fashion.” She said Beijing should “take away the right lessons”
AUKUS – have agreed to cooperate on hypersonic weapons and electronic warfare capabilities.
Anew arms race if it had ever gone away
A precedent?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Tribunal_for_the_former_Yugoslavia
“…While the war in the former Yugoslavia was still raging, the ICTY prosecutors showed that an international court was viable. However, no accused was arrested…”
A precedent?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Tribunal_for_the_former_Yugoslavia
“…While the war in the former Yugoslavia was still raging, the ICTY prosecutors showed that an international court was viable. However, no accused was arrested…”
