Tom Lowe

Wonder how long it will take for Americans to realize why russian officials are posting this

Budapest can be very Proud indeed 🏳️‍🌈

Brexit the 'stupidest thing any country has ever done' Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has told an audience in Dublin that Brexit was the single stupidest thing any country has ever done, adding that "it's hard to believe how they did it."

9 years of sunlit uplands
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Virginia Giuffre, Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein accuser, dies by suicide Giuffre alleged she was trafficked to the Duke of York when she was 17, which he has strenuously denied.

RIP
In awe of her courage
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I also make this pledge

Hot 🔥 investment tip (avoiding US) in uncertain times: Euro bonds + Asian tech + LatAm emerging markets = massive (33 euro cent) gains.
KNEEL 💪🔬🥲🍷

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Canada Election 2025 🍁

The Canadien Government has made an ad for the coming election, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative! #Canada2025

I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking | Steven Donziger Greenpeace lost – not because it did something wrong but because it was denied a fair trial

The farcical oil industry show trial against Greenpeace in North Dakota ended 10 days ago, but the battle over the appeal is just beginning. I outline in the @theguardian.com why Greenpeace is unlikely to pay even one dollar of the $667 million judgment. ⤵️

“Why doesn’t he wear a suit?”

Climate change could slash global GDP by a third by century’s end The cost of investing in climate mitigation, although hefty, pales in comparison to the price of inaction.

Climate inaction could wipe 34% off global GDP by 2100.
Suboptimal.

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via @semafor.com

"Extreme weather events in 2024 led to the highest number of new displacements recorded in a year" since records began, while "eight countries had at least 1 million more people facing acute food insecurity in 2024 than during the 2023 annual maximum".
#StateOfClimate

Tax the Super-Rich. We have a World to Win Why can’t there be education for every child? Why can’t there be healthcare for everyone who needs it? Why can’t everyone be freed from hunger and deprivation? Though these are promised to all as righ...

Great piece from @benphillips76.bsky.social and UN independent expert (and @taxjusticenet.bsky.social senior adviser) Prof Attiya Waris - why we need to #TaxTheSuperRich!
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NEW | Solar generates more EU electricity than coal for the first time in 2024 🇪🇺☀️

Renewables made up nearly HALF of the electricity mix last year, while fossil power fell to a historic low ⚡

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Dutch government ordered to comply with its own targets and drastically reduce nitrogen emissions to protect vulnerable and depleted ecosystems.

🔴 Emprisonné au Danemark, Paul Watson, le défenseur des baleines, libéré dans les prochaines heures

Lire : bit.ly/3ZHaTdN

IPBES report sees climate, nature and food challenges interlinked A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.

The IPBES Nexus Report was published today.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Of the US$492 billion in tax revenue lost each year to corporations & tax havens of the ultra rich, nearly half is enabled by just 8 countries who maintain their stubborn opposition to a UN tax convention

Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland project ‘The sound of traffic and a uniform sea of barley have been replaced by the most beautiful meadows, full of wildflowers, young saplings and the buzz of bees’

"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project."

Read that again: **116** times.

Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding??
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Even if Israel, USA (inter alia) did NOT sign the Rome Statute establishing the ICC, "the acceptance by Israel of the Court’s jurisdiction is not required, as the Court can exercise its jurisdiction on the basis of territorial jurisdiction of Palestine"

Meanwhile Ukraine’s #nuclear power plants dangle by a thread as Russia pummels Ukrainian electricity infrastructure required for their safe operation
#stormshadow #atacm #ukraine

Nom nom? go.bsky.app/QU4hYot

Go to "Home". Next to it you see three tabs: "Following"; "Discover"; "Popular with Friends".

Top right corner, there's a hashtag. Click it to add/amend feeds you see. There are MANY good ones. For now you want "Mentions" (mentions without likes etc.) & "Only Posts" (friend posts without replies).

Staff of the new Greenpeace Ukraine office hold a banner reading 'зелене відновлення для україни' ('Green reconstruction for Ukraine') by the bridge to Trukhaniv Island in central Kyiv

Great news! Today Greenpeace is opening an office in Kyiv, Ukraine

Greenpeace Ukraine will help with the green reconstruction of the country, investigate environmental war crimes and monitor the country's nuclear power stations

www.greenpeace.org/eu-unit/issu...

Amal Clooney supports ICC’s decision to seek arrest warrants against Israeli and Hamas leaders | CNN Human rights attorney Amal Clooney is among a group of legal experts who advised the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor to seek arrest warrants against the top leaders of Israel and Hamas.

Human rights attorney Amal Clooney is among a group of legal experts who advised the International Criminal Court prosecutor to seek arrest warrants against the top leaders of Israel and Hamas.

Supreme Court of India rules Indian states have a duty to protect citizens’ right to a clean & healthy environment

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#India #supremecourt #environment

'Los hombres tienen mucho que ganar con el feminismo' - Alba Flores a bordo del @greenpeace.bsky.social barco Arctic Sunrise
www.abc.com.py/internacionales/2024/03/07/alba-flores-los-hombres-tienen-mucho-que-ganar-con-el-feminismo

#8M #diainternacionaldelamujer #IWD #internationalwomensday

COP28 host UAE to massively ramp up oil production, BBC learns The state oil company Adnoc is set to be the world's second biggest producer, analysis shows.

…and lo: COP28 host UAE to massively ramp up oil production COP28 host UAE to massively ramp up oil production, BBC learns www.bbc.co.uk/news/science...

Will be watching for the surely robust and unconditional repudiation of this from Hoekstra: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science... via @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social

As #COP28 opens, climate summit president (& CEO of #UAE state oil co Adnoc) Sultan al-Jaber response to reports that 🇦🇪 planned to use COP28 for fossil fuel deals:
‘Please respect that we’ve been honest & transparent. Do you think I need COP to establish business deals or commercial relationships?’

Anything you can do, Argentina: far-right, anti-immigration PVV appears to have surged to be the biggest party in the Netherlands, making Geert Wilders prime minister-elect by a landslide #verkiezingen2023