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The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Millionaire trophy hunter gored to death by 1.3 tonne bull on African safari Asher Watkins, 52, was tracking a 1.3 tonne Cape Buffalo bull, known as the Black Death, on Sunday when it suddenly charged at him at 35mph.

Ah that's lovely news.

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Yesterday Israel murdered at least 40 Palestinians in Gaza, including 18 people trying to collect food.

France wildfire: Blaze is 'catastrophe on an unprecedented scale' - BBC News The huge wildfire is the largest in France so far this year and has burned an area larger than Paris.

France wildfire is 'catastrophe on an unprecedented scale'

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Throughout Israels genocide the UK has been operating surveillance flights over Gaza & Matt Kennard has been working on the story for all that time. Unlike the UK mainstream media, which has deliberately ignored it.

But as Matt explains to @novaramedia.com here, that is now changing

Rod Liddle to confront the Moorland Association on Times Radio this Saturday (9 Aug 2025) Journalist, broadcaster and Sunday Times columnist Rod Liddle will be hosting a 20 minute piece on grouse shooting during his Saturday morning show on Times Radio, from 12.05hrs. Rod Liddle is no s…

Rod Liddle to confront the Moorland Association on Times Radio this Saturday (9 Aug 2025) raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/06/r...

The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.

"It's a similar test that so many people are failing now."

Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza. It couldn’t have done it without the west's help | Owen Jones The current hand-wringing by Keir Starmer and other western politicians is empty bluster. They knew what was happening all along, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Israel has deliberately starved the people of Gaza.

It said it was starving Gaza over and over again.

It has done so systematically - with the full complicity of the West.

My column on a crime committed in plain sight 👇

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Israel kills 106 Palestinians in a day of attacks on Gaza as people starve Israeli forces kill 12 Palestinian civilians seeking aid hours after US envoy Steve Witkoff visits Gaza.

Israeli forces kill 12 Palestinian civilians seeking aid hours after US envoy Steve Witkoff visits Gaza.

Aerial photo of the destruction of Gaza City by Heidi Levine

This photo of Gaza City had to be illicitly taken during a Jordanian food drop because Israel has threatened to cancel drops of any photos are taken.

Mick Lynch, "Israel should be put under pressure to allow aid in"

"The children of Gaza don't hold the hostages"

"There are children dying of starvation"

This 'patriot' protesting against immigrants in Manchester is actually Irish far right thug Paul Rock, who got eight years for tying up and robbing a 76 year old woman. But yeah, just concerned parents.

@introvertproblems.bsky.social

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This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.

- Carl Sagan, Contact

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

This is really insane ..
this must stop ..
Gazan children are being killed by starving them to death ..
any human this world should never accept this ‼️
#stopstarvinggaza

Trump's Mar-a-Lago Spa Was Tailor-Made for Epstein The Trump Spa sought "young, attractive" college students to wear mini-skirts and "skin-tight" tops

NEW: Trump’s Mar-a-Lago spa was a predator’s playground. Mar-a-Lago sought "young, attractive" college students to wear mini-skirts and "skin-tight" tops. Epstein noticed—and so did Ghislaine Maxwell.

Monarch butterflies’ mass die off in 2024 caused by pesticide exposure – study New peer-reviewed research found an average of seven pesticides in each of 10 butterflies tested

Monarch butterflies’ mass die off in 2024 caused by pesticide exposure – study

Save Coul Links protected nature (Loch Fleet Ramsar SSSI & SPA) from golf development vandalism A planning application was submitted to Highland Council to construct an 18-hole international golf course on Coul Links, Sutherland but the applicant is not Trump Golf. The target lies within Loch Fl...

UK PETITIONS
#SaveCoulLinks Loch Fleet SSSI, SPA & Ramsar wetland
from Mike Keiser's new golf developments.
1st planning application was rejected by Scottish Government MSPs: Vandalism you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/co...
2nd submitted with hoodwinkery: Groundhog you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns Plastic production has increased more than 200 times since 1950 and hits health at every stage from extraction to disposal, says review in the Lancet Plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to human and planetary health, a new expert review has warned. The world is in a “plastics crisis”, it concluded, which is causing disease and death from infancy to old age and is responsible for at least $1.5tn (£1.1tn) a year in health-related damages. The driver of the crisis is a huge acceleration of plastic production, which has increased by more than 200 times since 1950 and is set to almost triple again to more than a billion tonnes a year by 2060. While plastic has many important uses, the most rapid increase has been in the production of single-use plastics, such as drinks bottles and fast-food containers. Continue reading...

World in $1.5tn ‘plastics crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age, report warns

"The UN is warning that every child under the age of 5 in Gaza is at risk of life threatening malnutrition. That's more than 300,000 children"

Love of nature does not only extend to a one-sided enjoyment on our part, but requires a high degree of respect and care for nature.💚🌱🌿☘️🌳🌲🍀💚

New, amazing footage of 90,000 people on Sydney Harbour Bridge, marching to end the genocide in Gaza.

A protest the city and New South Wales authorities did NOT want to happen.

(🎥 ABC News)

A photo of a delicate looking white flower with curving lines on its petals. The centre of the flower has a bulbous creamy white structure which is surrounded by "false nectaries". That is structures which look like they should provide nectar, but in fact don't (or provide very little). Essentially they're there to fool pollinators into visiting the flower. It is these that have tiny drops of dew on them. The background is all black.

Here in landlocked Oxfordshire, we have no chance of contributing to the #ByTheSea challenge. Instead, we'd like to offer this dew covered Grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia palustris). Vulnerable in England and Rare in Oxon, we currently have hundreds maybe thousands in flower.
#WildFlowerHour #Fens

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them.
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
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From above everything looks grey or black. Smoke is seen rising from building ga at the top of the photo. In the foreground many buildings have collapsed entirely. Photo credit to Heidi Levine taken for the Washington Post.

Photo of the Day.

Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.

This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.

Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.

Fishing boat off Shetland abandoned 80km of nets in seas for almost a month A fishing boat off Shetland broke down and left over 80km of nets at sea for nearly a month, raising concerns about harm to marine life and the environment.

A fishing boat off Shetland broke down and abandoned more than 80km of netting in the sea for almost a month, prompting fears sea life and the marine environment may have been damaged...

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Forecast 2-m temperatures today in Finland, based on the MEPS regional model.

20 straight days with 30 °C in Finland! Truly unprecedented heatwave still in full swing with maximum today about 32-33 degrees.

Even the Arctic regions (e.g. Sodankylä Tähtelä) have seen three weeks above 25 °C, and may rival tomorrow their August heat records.