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Brian, ALB,
I hope we are not endeavouring to undermine their commitment to peaceful methods of non-violent civil disobedience just so that they get more protesters arrested.
Their tactics so far have been fairly successful in accomplishing publicity for themselves and drawing attention to the urgency of taking action to tackle climate change.
One reason that the police is handling the demonstrators with kid-gloves is that they do have the sympathy of much of the public despite the disruption caused. Something the miners did not. But i’m sure things will be very different when the problem is not a few delays for commuters but the close-down of an airport, for instance.
The 3.5% may be suffice for certain political revolutions which was the basis of the claim but not for the social revolution that we advocate.
“I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat — I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.” Trump
Disloyalty to who? America or Israel but more likely to him personally who has acted on Israel’s behalf
In Queensland Australia XR are being targeted by the state’s government as “extremists”. How long before they are classified as “terrorists”
Police would be given new powers to search anyone suspected of carrying “locking on” devices, which delay the removal of protesters during acts of civil disobedience. The intent of “locking on” actions is to remain in place for as long as possible, and activists do use tactics to prevent their removal. These can include mixing cement with metal, which slows down attempts to cut through devices and extricate them.
State premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, has been accused of “fabricating” claims about climate activists setting booby traps cylinders containing glass fragments and gas containers “so that anyone trying to cut a protester free will be injured or worse”.
Police have never charged a climate protester in Queensland with an offence alleging they had set a trap or intended to cause injury to others. Police told Guardian Australia in a statement that the placing of items into a locking-on device was “designed to delay the attempts of police to extricate protesters in a timely manner”.
Extinction Rebellion, said the government had misrepresented peaceful actions.
“These proposed laws are based on entirely unfounded allegations. There is no evidence of booby trapping lock on devices, and to do so would go against Extinction Rebellion’s principles and strategy of non-violence.
“The state has the monopoly on violence, which Extinction Rebellion wants no part in. We are interested in a safe and peaceful planet, the path to which must be non-violent.“…“Americans mistrust companies to such an extent that the very idea of capitalism is now being debated on the political stage,” Sorkin asserts. “Populism has been embraced on both ends of the political spectrum, whether in the trade protectionism of President Trump or the social-net supremacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders.”…”
Norman Finkelstein interview
Kushner’s Threat to Palestine: An Interview with Norman Finkelstein
“…The prime mover behind the Kushner plan is neither Israel nor the US. It’s Saudi Arabia. Saudi covets an open alliance with the Israelis and the US. It fears the Iran axis. It’s a feudal despotism largely impotent on its own; it needs others to pull its chestnuts out of the fire. Witness the Saudi debacles in Yemen and Syria. On a more immediate level, there’s the Khashoggi affair—MBS (Muhammad Bin Salman) is desperate to be rehabilitated in Washington. If Saudi enters into an open alliance with Israel, even liberal members of Congress will forgive his “indiscretions.” So the Saudis harbor strong motives to push through the Kushner plan…”
Tlaib and Omar were initially given permission to visit Israel but it was Trump who suggested to Israel that they be banned from doing so.
Even AIPAC, the Israeli lobbyists, criticises the ban.
“More generally there are number of things abroad … increased nationalism, increased assertion by governments to interfere in global supply chains and capitalism … that is a consideration.”
“…some critics were sceptical, with Larry Summers, who served as US Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, saying there was no legal requirement on firms to change their approach. He told the Financial Times: “I worry the Roundtable’s rhetorical embrace of stakeholders is in part a strategy for holding off necessary tax and regulatory reform.”…”
https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-central-bank-warns-of-possible-recession/a-50082585
The Bundesbank has warned that a slump in the German economy could have continued over the summer. It cited the US-China trade war as one factor weighing on German exports.
A bit further info
40 million people arrive from the EU – EU nationals – every year into the UK
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49393556
You can be sure of tit for tat reaction by the EU countries which do not rely heavily on UK tourism.
Protecting the Royals.
But I am more curious about those that the media decline to mention and link?
Article on the crimes of a game-keeper. But what struck me is that the owners of the grouse moor and his employers who he was acting on the behest of are not named.
The gamekeeper is the fall guy taking the rap for the shooting industry
Well, you have to take into account my age and health, schekn.
I’ll consider it lucky if I see see a few more years of capitalism and the struggle against it much less see the advent of a socialist revolution
I may well be getting took down the rabbit hole of contesting propaganda but I found this article to be rather depressing and contrary to the prevailing perception of what might happen.
Home secretary, Priti Patel, intended to impose new border restrictions overnight on 31 October if Britain left the EU without a deal.
Home Office sources told the Times details of an alternative plan to maintain freedom of movement until January 2021 and to allow EU immigrants who came to the UK in the meantime to apply to stay under existing “settled status” rules did not reflect government thinking and that freedom of movement for people from EU countries would end “on October 31 should we leave without a deal”.
A Home Office spokesperson told the Independent: “The home secretary has been clear in her intention to take back control of our borders and end free movement after 31 October.
“Ending free movement means we are no longer required to give unlimited and uncontrolled access to those from EU countries when they are coming here seeking to work.”
Theresa May put into place a process for residency for EU citizens but we can be sure that many will be left in a bureaucratic limbo. Just a million out of the estimated 3 million have been granted pre-settled status. They have just over a year to do so.
