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About the bias of the Guardian and well worth a read
study shows that the genetic makeup of Atlantic salmon populations from a century ago compared with the current stock across 13 Swedish rivers is more genetically similar than distinct, which researchers say could compromise the ability of the fish to adapt to climate change.
We will now have a long appeal process based upon the influence of the media and politicians swaying the jury.
Next up will be the vigilante justice trial of Ahmed Arbery, killed by the McMichaels.
FYI
Dawkins hit by cancel culture
The United States’s largest coal miners’ union said Monday it would accept President Joe Biden’s plan to move away from coal and other fossil fuels in exchange for a “true energy transition” that includes thousands of jobs in renewable energy and spending on technology to make coal cleaner.
Cecil Roberts, president of the United Mine Workers of America, said ensuring jobs for displaced miners — including 7,000 coal workers who lost their jobs last year — is crucial to any infrastructure bill taken up by Congress.
“I think we need to provide a future for those people, a future for anybody that loses their job because of a transition in this country, regardless if it’s coal, oil, gas or any other industry for that matter,” Roberts said. “We talk about a ‘just transition’ all the time,” Roberts added. “I wish people would quit using that. There’s never been a just transition in the history of the United States.”
“That fans don’t count for much”
They still bring in revenue with all the franchises operated and also sponsorship is reliant on the allegiance of the fan base.
But saying that, living in a country where the Super League members have huge numbers of fans and will be a receptive television audience and are already a lucrative source of income for all the usual paraphernalia, what the average domestic supporter thinks is little influence on this huge global market.
But for a Scot, this is well out of our league and Rangers and Celtic might as well join the English divisions to make up the numbers if the top teams leave it…they just might have a chance of qualifying for Europe, something competing with the super six they had little opportunity of achieving and the only reason they stay in the moribund Scottish league as top dogs.
As an aside. Rangers being demoted to the bottom league and having to crawl their way back up to the premier is a sign that when push comes to shove – it is the fans that still make a club not TV money and the sponsors remained just as loyal because of that.
Sport will always adapt – Indian cricket league being another example of chasing the cash and the star players which has been an aspect ignored by the football authorities…any successful team in one season will find its best players stolen before the following season and so become a one-season wonder to lapse back to mediocrity once again…and have to build up yet again. I once read that not a Scottish club lost money because of this trade in player transfers. Football is a poverty-porn market, trading in people’s flesh, when we come down to the very basics.
That will be an effect if the Super League is a success…the best players will also go where the money is.
One of Myanmar’s leading trade union leaders has been arrested as part of escalating attacks on pro-democracy figures by the military junta. Daw Myo Aye, director of Solidarity Trade Union of Myanmar (STUM), one of Myanmar’s largest independent unions, is a central figure in the movement for workers’ rights.
One reason the government has been so open in the case of Hong Kong may be because of the wealth and skills that people are expected to bring with them: one survey found that a typical emigrant has a university degree and an average salary of £33,270 a year. Home Office guidance for the visa scheme states that an emigrant from Hong Kong must be able to support themselves in the UK for six months without access to public funds: wealth barriers are a typical condition of UK visas.
The reason this apparent openness coexists with the authoritarian posturing on boats in the Channel is because the government is treating citizenship as an asset whose value on the global market needs to be maintained.
There was a “relentless” intensification of the climate crisis in 2020, according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization.
The coronavirus pandemic made the accelerating impacts of global heating even worse for millions of people. But the temporary dip in carbon emissions due to lockdowns had no discernible impact on atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, the WMO report said.
Last year was ranked as the hottest on record, in a tie with 2016 and 2019, despite the cooling effect of the cyclical natural climate phenomenon, La Niña. Without this, 2020 would most likely have been the hottest year yet. The decade 2011-20 was the hottest on record.
Peaceful environmental protesters are being threatened, silenced and criminalised in countries around the world including the UK and the US, according to more than 400 leading experts – including 14 authors from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
I think we can anticipate that Glasgow’s COP26 will be an occasion of more direct action
Rather than start a new thread
The Super $ix and the European $uperLeague
The ramifications are big with fan power now being seriously considered by a government.
Echoes of Packers cricket changes?
Cheers for the video clip, BD.
A useful addition to our case
As you say he talks the talk about the culpability of the profit system but his underlying solution is for people to live “more economically”, that “Western culture will have to pause”…he means austerity and again it is placing blame on individuals and not what creates consumerism, in the first place. He won’t call for the end of capitalism
I don’t know if he has been to any of the run-down council estate near his home in Surrey but how much more economising do we have to do even in our Western culture much less in the slums of Mumbai or the favelas of Brasil.
It is not our personal choice that nearly everything we buy falls apart within a year or needs replaced.
Not that i begrudge anybody a nice home in suburbia but that we all should have one and our case is the socialism is capable of providing such for everybody, capitalism cannot.
JanetS and myself know of Colin Todhunter’s articles from old as a critic of GMO foods where he could be accused of throwing the baby out with the bathwater although i do believe many of his reasons such as aligning domestic farming to the requirements of the global market are valid.
But here is his latest offering
https://countercurrents.org/2021/04/gates-unhinged-dystopian-vision-for-agrifood-must-not-succeed/Any link to that quote, BD.
It is the closest i have seen of any critique of capitalism by David Attenborough
More revelations are surfacing of what should be called the Corbyn Conspiracy.
Labour disclosure “shows antisemitism was weaponised against Corbyn”, activists say
