Andy Simmonds

Tammy Bruce: "Beginning August 20, nationals of Malawi and Zambia applying for B1, B2, business ,and tourist visas will be required to post a bond of up to $15,000."

The Renewable Illusion: Why Fossil Fuels Keep Winning Global renewables hit records in 2024, but fossil fuel use still rises. Here’s why solar’s surge isn’t enough—and what the latest energy data really shows.

1. This is something I've been saying for 25 years, but it's hard to get many people to listen. What counts is not the new energy sources you add, but the old ones you retire. Unfortunately it's politically easier to build renewables than to shutter fossil fuels.🧵
www.forbes.com/sites/rrapie...

Evidence - rare, like hens teeth, great share:

Got from my sister

See full thread, including:

"The take-home message is clear.
Overlooking nature’s tree planters risks missing ‘win-win’ pathways for both climate mitigation and biodiversity conservation."

New: After Gaza aid flotilla volunteer & US citizen Christian Smalls was taken into Israeli custody, seven uniformed individuals beat him, choking him & kicking him in the legs, according to the Freedom Flotilla Coalition.

Smalls is co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union.

Millionaire exodus numbers “fabricated” warns forensic analysis; Tax Justice Network comments - Tax Justice Network This simply confirms our thorough debunking of these scare stories, and shows how far the opponents of fair wealth taxes are willing to go.

As a general rule, regardless of the topic, the media is at least 50% of any problem.
taxjustice.net/press/millio...

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party.

🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

I'm a Scottish Greens member, so separate to the Green Party of England & Wales, but Zack is exactly the type of political leader the UK needs.

Not afraid to clearly call out the snake oil of Reform, & offer solutions to properly improve the lives of all communities who have been left behind ✊️💚

The realest of the real ones ❤️

Across the Western world, public opinion is overwhelmingly hostile to Israel’s crimes.

That isn’t being acted on because the Western media forms a protective shield around Israel, cementing its impunity.

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Is there any shred of silver lining to this dark cloud? If they divest from commercial interests in renewables (US wind example in article), aren’t they entities that have no part to play in a sustainable future and the focus on them can be that much more intense wrt anti-ff campaigns?

London library forced to briefly close after fox 'made itself comfortable' inside Foxes have been known to live everywhere in London from back gardens to the top of the Shard

Fantastic

U.S. socked with 15 billion-dollar weather disasters during the 1st half of 2025 » Yale Climate Connections Four of the top 20 costliest weather disasters have occurred in the last year.

Of the 20 costliest weather disasters in history, four have occurred in just the last year.

Rhetorical question I assume?!

DON’T LOOK AWAY: Children seen shackled and escorted by federal agents out of a downtown Los Angeles detention center.

Multiple minors. In chains. In public. This is not a “border issue”—this is a fucking human rights crisis.

Guys, this is a standard staple of every authoritarian regime ever

You call the Secret Police on your neighbour for listening to Radio Free Europe to stop them mowing the lawn on Sunday morning

Helps us understand how Nazification of Germany happened….

🚨BREAKING: Prince Andrew is now free to travel internationally after the FBI quietly shut down its investigation into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

No charges. No accountability. Just a royal hall pass.

Shitstorm brewing?

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Plastic nurdles may sound harmless - but, when a spill of nurdles occurs, as in the X-Press Pearl disaster, or off the coast of East Yorkshire this year, these tiny pieces of plastic can absorb other pollutants, & are eaten by sea creatures who cannot digest them, as Dr Megson explains here:

Our government is selling arms being used to commit genocide.

Israel kills a child every 45 minutes.

We are all Palestine Action. 🇵🇸

Palestine Action is part of Britain's proud history of protest. Proscribing it is an assault on democracy | Suresh Grover Through decades of anti-racist campaigning, I have seen that peaceful, direct action can be the only way to get results, says campaigner Suresh Grover

Palestine Action is part of Britain's proud history of protest. Proscribing it is an assault on democracy | Suresh Grover

'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack'
Wednesday 2nd July, 10 pm
Channel 4

Channel 4 to air BBC-commissioned documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack BBC last week announced it had dropped the film over concerns it may create a ‘perception of partiality’

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
Channel 4’s head of news and current affairs :“This is a meticulously reported and important film examining evidence which supports allegations of grave breaches of international law by Israeli forces that deserves to be widely seen (...)"

This…in LA. The home of which they exploded the door off of…was reportedly occupied by all US Citizens.

Are you beginning to understand why the people who you could never understand why they boarded those cattle cars…went ahead and got on?