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Greta on Cop26
“Unfortunately it turned out just the way as I had expected, and that many others had also expected, they even succeeded in watering down the blah, blah, blah, which is quite an achievement…“There is still no guarantee that we will reach the Paris Agreement. The text that it is now, as a document, you can interpret it in many, many different ways. We can still expand fossil fuel infrastructure, we can still increase the global emissions. It’s very, very vague.”
Johnson has warned that the west must soon choose between reliance on Russian gas and standing up for Ukraine amid continuing tensions on the borders of eastern Europe.
US has condemned Russia for conducting a “dangerous and irresponsible” missile test that it says endangered the crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The test blew up one of Russia’s own satellites, creating debris that forced the ISS crew to shelter in capsules.
Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said last week that Russia had amassed nearly 100,000 of its soldiers near Ukraine’s border,
The Nato secretary-general, Jens Stoltenberg, has cautioned Moscow against “any further provocation or aggressive actions” following warnings by US officials that Russia could be preparing to a launch a Winter offensive in Ukraine.
“We have seen large and unusual concentrations of Russian forces close to Ukraine’s borders,” Stoltenberg said on Monday. “Nato remains vigilant … Any further provocation or aggressive actions by Russia would be of serious concern. We call on Russia to be transparent about its military activities.”
Stoltenberg said, “we need to be realistic about the challenges we face. And what we see is a significant, large Russian military buildup.”
Satellite imagery and videos uploaded to social media have shown tanks, artillery, and even short-range ballistic missiles on the move in the border regions of Ukraine and Belarus since late last month..new rail transports of military hardware have been spotted in southern Russia and from as far away as Russia’s Urals region, as well as on the Crimean peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.
Russia last week also sent nuclear-capable bombers and paratroopers on training missions to Belarus’s western borders with Poland and Lithuania as Moscow and Minsk held joint exercises.
Lithuania’s foreign minister, Gabrielius Landsbergis, also suggested the Kremlin could be using the Belarus border crisis as a smokescreen to prepare an attack.
“It is very likely that Ukraine could be attacked while we are dealing with the situation on the Polish, Lithuanian and Belarusian border,” he said.UK Prepared for Coup in Colombia by Training Military in Psychological Warfare
Colombia too
In 1970, Britain’s Cold War propaganda arm, the Information Research Department (IRD), secretly provided counter-insurgency instruction to high-ranking Colombian military officials.
Part of the course was held at the Joint Warfare Establishment at Old Sarum in Wiltshire, where the Colombian officers were given special instruction in psychological operations.
At this time, the British ambassador encouraged the provision of military assistance to Colombia so as to “not find ourselves without lines to the government” in the case of a coup.
Pet shops aren’t really the problem, but those puppy farms run illicitly to supply the demand and those who
don’t neuter their animals.XR put the figure at 3.5% for social change. George Monbiot says it is more like 25%, describing it as domino dynamics
There was an era that there was no such thing as immigration controls. In the UK I think it arrived in 1905.
How many have Huguenot surnames?
I always wonder if that political refugee Marx would be granted political asylum. How would history have panned out if he couldn’t use the British Library?
Capitalism itself recognised the redundancy of borders and its hindrance to the free mobility of labour when the EU brought in the Schengen Agreement. (long time ago I still recall sitting in the dole office listening to an Italian arguing with the official that he didn’t need a passport and his ID card was sufficient)
But the pandemic showed that even the “right” of internal movement within a country can be curtailed
During the 30s California tried to restrict the arrival of migrants contrary to the US Constitution.
Overall, I think the thinking of those who call for “no borders” increasingly reflect our own anti-nationalist position.
In SEAsia the reason for the popularity of SUVs is the bad state of the pot-holed roads.
I’ve mentioned it before – the rising number of pampered pets and the environmental impact they inflict – is a taboo topic for many.
Some Greens will talk of too many people but don’t ever mention dogs and cats.
The ghost-writers for Xi Jinping have been busy greenwashing China’s role in carbon emissions
Why is the UK sending 10 soldiers to assist the Poles on the Belarus border to strengthen the anti-migrant fence. When did NATO assume immigration responsibility?
Failures on Covid-19 vaccine equity and net-zero by 2050 pledges, he said, “are just the latest examples of deliberately sacrificing the poor for profit by those whose wealth was, and continues to be, looted from the Global South.”
Honestly so fed up with the lies and spin from rich countries that I decided to rip up my speech about the #COP26 cover decision at today’s high level segment & bring the message from @COP26_Coalition into the halls instead pic.twitter.com/LiqA9QmdKJ
— asad rehman (@chilledasad100) November 10, 2021
