Jon Burke🌍

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.

A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

What is NOT on my news feed since the weekend:

Ukraine (about 50% of previous)
ICE (about 25% of previous)
Climate change (about 10% of previous)
Epstein Files (about 5% of previous)

The US/Israel war against Iran is, for obvious reasons, distracting me/us from many other issues.

Worth noting that despite frothing at the mouth of various right-wing media outlets in UK, the decision by Ed Miliband to go ahead with over 8GW of offshore wind in the recent renewables auction now looks a sensible bet

One of few ways UK can reduce economic risk from instability in Middle East

1,100 Iranian civilians killed by America, Israel, and Saudi Arabia in the last three days.

That’s a strange way to ‘liberate’ people.

It’s a shame Donald Trump couldn’t find more time to talk about when making that important announcement about his new ballroom.

More solar energy for electricity generation falls on the Earth in a day than we use in a year.

Remember, when we wanted more renewable energy to reduce fossil fuels and tackle the climate crisis, we were sneered at and dismissed as ‘fantasists’.

Yet, when tech billionaires want solar to power the AI data centres stealing people’s jobs, the right can’t get enough of it.

Capt Cody Khork
Sgt Noah Tietjens
Sgt Nicole Amor
Sgt Declan Coady

Donald Trump - a man whose father helped him dodge the Vietnam draft six times - spent more time talking about his new ballroom than these people.

Not one drop of British blood for that moral black hole.

Trump spent more time talking about his new ballroom than he did about these four soldiers killed in an operation designed to cover up his involvement with Epstein.

The guy is a moral black hole.

Fuel Duty has been frozen, and therefore cut, for 15 years in the U.K, turbocharging transport emissions and starving local councils of grant funding to repair our crumbling roads.

It’s been a disaster and it’s beyond embarrassing that any mainstream party would campaign to maintain the freeze.

Approximately 95% of a modern solar panel can be recycled, with some advanced processes achieving recovery rates as high as 99%.

Then why did you just bankroll Israel to kill 73,000 Gazans? Why do you keep threatening to invade Canada and Greenland? Why did you re-elect a coup leader and sex offender?

Respectfully, they are not the actions of ‘the good guys’.

100% this…👆

It was never about the technology. It was always about who owns it. Renewables for the grid = socialism. Renewables for Musk's data centers = innovation. Same panels. Different owners. That's the whole story.

I know, back then most of us still thought of America as, at least to some extent, the good guys.

75% of your fellow American citizens oppose Operation Epic Epstein Cover Up.

I have some terrible news for you…

You don’t back the U.K.

We gave 638 lives coming to your aid in Iraq and Afghanistan only for your sleepy, diaper-wearing six-time Vietnam draft dodger President to constantly ridicule us and rubbish their memory.

To be clear, I am 100% committed to not spending a penny of British taxpayers’ money or committing a single British soldier to a billionaire dictators’ war in the Middle East, ESPECIALLY when the lot of them are cosy with the fascist Russian leadership that actually threatens us.

The most minimal support possibly short of a massive diplomatic spat.

Iran is a murderous dictatorship, a Russian proxy, & terrorism sponsor.

It is currently being bombed at the request of Israel, which just killed 73,000 Gazans, and Saudi Arabia, a murderous dictatorship that produced 15 of 19 9/11 bombers.

But Britain is the bad guy for refusing to get involved? 🤔

They were claiming solar was an uneconomical con until the tech bros told them to think something else.

I think it would be fair to say that I have been justifiably critical of Keir Starmer many times, but the moral courage he has shown to stand up to the U.S deserves praise.

“We don’t believe in regime change from the skies” is a blistering riposte to Trump.

Remember, when we wanted more renewable energy to reduce fossil fuels and tackle the climate crisis, we were sneered at and dismissed as ‘fantasists’.

Yet, when tech billionaires want solar to power the AI data centres stealing people’s jobs, the right can’t get enough of it.

Three days ago, Trump claimed the war it started with Iran to cover up the Epstein Files would take ‘four weeks; maybe less’.

Yesterday, it was ‘four to five weeks, but we’re ready for longer’.

Today, Netanyahu says ‘it won’t take years’.

What happened to ‘no more wars’ MAGA?

Catalogue cover for Doniselli, makers of triporteur-type cargo trikes, featuring an illustration of a triporteur rider riding through a big letter D, with a row of normal bicycles following behind. In the background there's the Milan cathedral and some other buildings.

Doniselli cargo trike catalog
1949

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You think it’s more odd than the the son of an Iranian dictator overthrown for being a murderous despot thinks Europe’s young men should be liberating Iran for him to swan back into? Okay.

We’re now being lectured on the morality of spending our money and sending our young men to die ‘liberating’ Iranians by the “Shah of Iran”, a man hiding in America for 48 years after his father massacred 3,000 Iranian protesters in Tehran on ‘Black Friday’, 1978.

No!

1/ He wasn’t a child; he was a trainee pilot in the Imperial Iranian Airforce.

2/ He’s had 48 years to put his life on the line to liberate the people whose family members his father butchered, so he shouldn’t be expecting 20 year-old Europeans to do his job for him.