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Born before colour was invented! Now retired from a working life mix of drinks industry and audio-related trade. Hard work but fun! Despise Brexit 🤬... I want my freedom of movement back #FBPE / DM's usually ignored
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"Local candidate George explained that the Green party’s big increase in membership nationally has been replicated in Barnet: “This time last year we had 220 members,” he said. “Now, we have over a thousand.”
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🔴 BREAKING: Moldova declares a 15-day emergency as an oil slick from a Russian strike on a Ukrainian hydro plant chokes the Dniester River.
With the water supply at risk, crews are racing to dam the Dubasari reservoir.
King Stupid supported by his cast of Prince Stupids.
❗️Moldova has declared an environmental alert due to pollution of the Dniester River, President Sandu said.
Russia's war is not just "the war in Ukraine." It has global aftermath.
The cause was a massive Russian strike on the Dniester Hydroelectric Power Plant on March 7.
Greetings from Kyiv
and our morning with drones, explosions and missile threats.
Later, after the workout, I’ll go look for beauty.
Because the only way to fight darkness is to bring light.
This is the best response I've seen to Trump from the UK Government so far. We should feel no obligation to get ourselves further involved in this calamity www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour's party chair Anna Turley has written to HMRC asking they investigate the "deeply troubling case" reported by the Sunday Times.
europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz
Former NATO SG, now FinMin of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg, stated that the attack on Iran was unlawful and that this is the position of Norway. He also commented on NATO as a whole and its survival of the Trump admin.
Everything goes back to Bush v. Gore. Even further back...Reagan taking the solar panels off the WH roof that Jimmy Carter put on in the wake of the original OPEC/Iran crisis. China is the clean energy leader now. Frankly China are better stewards.
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
Keir Starmer, "An opportunity to put together our values and principles and apply them to a volatile world"
Mark Carney, "The world has become even more challenging"
Both Starmer and Carney acknowledging the damage to the global order caused by President Trump
Good. More people should be forming alliances and turning their backs on the erratic American regime under Trump!
Some people head to work on Monday, others are simply fast asleep. In Ukraine, reality is on a whole different level. Here, you could lose your life before you even see Monday-or gain a second chance at it, as we just witnessed: rescuers pulling survivors from the ruins of their own home.
Channel 4’s ‘Dirty Business’ revealed the human cost of privatised water. We need public ownership.
I’m co-hosting an MP drop-in with frontline water activists. Ask your MP to meet with them: actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...
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Who are Palantir? And why do they want your health data?
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I guess the billion dollar joining fee was an insurance against being asked to do challenging and onerous jobs like that 🙄?
President Trump is upset that the UK is not sending ships to secure the Strait of Hormuz, which is, incidentally, open to boats from countries not attacking Iran e.g. India
Why doesn't President Trump ask his Board of Peace to help secure the Strait of Hormuz for him?
UK Increase in the state pension age (SPA) from 65 to 66 doubled the relative income poverty rate.
UK SPA rising to 67 by 2028; France, 64 by 2030.
Many UK seniors can't work; will get measly benefits.
Meanwhile young struggle to find jobs.
State pension less than 50% of minimum wage.
Ukraine’s General Staff reports that during the night of March 16 two Tor air defense systems were hit in Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions, as well as an S-300 radar in occupied Donetsk region.
⚡️ A massive drone strike overnight has sparked a major inferno at an oil depot in Southern Russia.
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Underground schools in Zaporizhzhia.
There are already 19 such schools operating, and by summer there will be 25.
And this is not the limit - the next step is underground kindergartens.
It may sound like a scene from a movie about the future.
But this is our reality.
How much evidence does the world need that Israel is an apartheid state? That is a rhetorical question, those who can't see choose not to
This is the story of Oleksii, an entrepreneur and long-time donor to UNITED24. His example proves that generosity and commitment to Ukraine’s victory know no age limits.
Download the UNITED24 app and support Ukraine’s Armed Forces: u24app.gov.ua?utm_source=b...
#Trump is a Sociopath.
The economic case for action could not be clearer.
Today, tens of thousands of supporters of the opposition party TISZA, which opposes Orbán, took to the streets in Budapest, the capital of Hungary.
Average U.S. gas price has climbed to $3.70. Before the Iran conflict started 16 days ago, the national average was $2.92.
“Swaths of the public in Canada, Germany, France and the UK have soured on the US” since Trump.
The Netanyahu government is planning a major reserve mobilisation of up to 450,000 soldiers as the military prepares for a possible ground operation in Lebanon. (Kan News)
Ground operation = invasion of Southern Lebanon.