Nuclear energy is a con
It’s just a cover for making their bombs
And it sends people to an early grave
So we want the power of the wind and the waves

Harness the wind
Harness the waves
We don’t need this filthy nuclear waste
Solar power - yet another alternative
Think of the boundless energy the sun has to give
Then there’s hydro-electricity with turbines and dams
And we can cut our consumption with conservation programmes

Harness the wind
The sun the waves
We don’t need this filthy nuclear waste
The civil atomic energy programmes is nothing but an elaborate cover-up for the real use of nuclear power namely the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons
We call for an end to the nuclear power programmes and properly funded research into renewable sources of energy

Harness the wind
The sun the waves
We don’t need this filthy nuclear waste

https://youtu.be/DjF6g51GHng

I think this song epitomises what rafoix replied with

Safety rules - corners cut
Just to keep the profits up
Money saved - profits rise
But consequence is someone dies

Victim of a chemical spillage

Safety regulations breached
Critical concentrations reached
Money is saved but a live is lost
Loved ones left to count the cost

Tanker crashing the village
Death could from the spillage
No escape from the fumes
Peoples’ homes become their tombs

In the face of corporate greed
Ecodefence is what we need
Read and act upon this text
Or you become the next victim of a chemical spillage

https://youtu.be/Q3sHdN4f_TI

To clarify, when knowone says “that’s not a fun time” they don’t mean “oh it tastes bad”. They mean it’s really not a fun time, avoid going anywhere near giant hogweed!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum

NSFL (if you’re squeemish):

How to harvest, dry, and make tea with nettles:

https://slrpnk.net/comment/16978019

If you have arthritis or hayfever they’ve been shown to help with that. Science has confirmed the old wives tales traditional herbal remedy works for this one. Not as effectively as modern medicine of course but if it’s all you can afford, or whatever, then something is better than nothing.

If you have a vote in the English/Welsh Greens leadership election vote for Polanski then.

He’s stated a willingness to work with this new party so they don’t put forward candidates in the same seats and compete with each other. The other candidates have done no such thing and are greedily and delusionally running on the idea that they can convince enough people to vote Green that the Green party will be able to enact change on its own.

Labour are not left wing, that is evident from the last year.

The Lib Dems are not left wing and will sell their principles for a whiff of power.

A Polanski led Green Party working in tandem with the Corbyn/Sultana party (and possibly the SNP and Scottish Greens) is the only hope I see of the left enacting any serious change. One of the most important of which being proportional representation.

I’m sorry, but there have been regular protests since the proscription of Palestine Action, around the country, and large enough for the attention of national news.

And another direct action group has formed and already got to work.

Apart from No Kings, a one day event more akin to a parade than a protest. And some unrest in LA that never amounted to anything. What has America been doing against their rise of fascism? Fuck all.

Not to mention our population is unarmed, protesting in the knowledge they are risking 14 years in prison, and doing so on behalf of people on the other side of the planet, not for their own benefit.

The UK is making America look like a push over in comparison.

Land of the Brave Cowards.

For anyone who would like to learn more about what Nigel is talking about I recommend you watch this documentary: The Labour Files

Yeah but guys, you’ve got to remember, money doesn’t grow on trees.

So despite me owning multiple properties, owning so much land I must employ people to maintain it for me, and owning multiple cars that are worth more than you earn in an entire year, you have to remember it’s the immigrants that are making everyone poorer.

Look! They dress and look slightly different from you, therefore it must be them at fault. Ignore that they’re here because their country is currently going through war/genocide/famine/mass poverty, they’re different!

What do you mean you want me to pay 2% more tax per year? Fuck off you communist scum!

For a decade, Russia has submitted a text denouncing the ‘glorification of Nazism’

In the context of the war in Ukraine – and with Russia justifying its invasion, which began on 24 February, by the desire to “denazify” the country – many states that had previously abstained decided to vote against the resolution

In its explanation of the vote, the European Union recalled that it had been advocating “for years that the fight against extremism and the condemnation of the despicable ideology of Nazism must not be misused and co-opted for politically motivated purposes that seek to excuse new violations and abuses of human rights.”

According to the press release published on the UN website, Ukraine called this text hypocritical believing that, contrary to its title, it was a pretext used by Russia to justify its brutal war against its country and the despicable crimes committed against humanity.

The countries opposing the resolution emphasize at every turn that they do not in any way condone the Third Reich. “We reaffirm our strongest condemnation of all forms of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance,” Ukraine insisted in 2019, while recalling that 8 million Ukrainians died in the Nazi offensive.

Before the vote, Australia managed to get an amendment to the draft resolution adopted (63 votes in favor, 23 against and 65 abstentions) inserting a new paragraph in which the General Assembly “notes with alarm that the Russian Federation has sought to justify its territorial aggression against Ukraine on the purported basis of eliminating neo-Nazism, and underlines that the pretextual use of neo-Nazism to justify territorial aggression seriously undermines genuine attempts to combat neo-Nazism.”

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2022/11/09/why-france-and-51-other-countries-voted-against-the-un-resolution-condemning-nazism_6003471_8.html

Hmm…

Hey Russia, thoir Ifrinn ort! ‘S e plàigh a th’ annad.

This isn’t their first time getting involved in Scottish politics. Remember when Alex Salmond had his own show on Russia Today and then started a right wing party under the name Alba that he couldn’t even pronounce? He pronounced it as an English speaker would read it, Ahl-bah. That’s not how it’s pronounced in Gàidhlig and gave away entirely his lack of honesty to the cause. He just wanted power.

Having read the article it appears there’s loads of grammatical errors and things like mistranslations of “gym” instead of “grammar school” so I doubt any real Gaelic speakers will take this seriously. The problem is that as time goes by they’ll become more accurate and harder to discern as gibberish.

€180 for a fan? For a tiny motor and a plastic fan blade. Jesus Christ. They wouldn’t be in business if people didn’t buy this crap as well, what the hell?

A fan is like the most basic of electrical products out there, it doesn’t need to cost a fortune just to make some plastic spin round

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2. Create first international tournament for this sport
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Womp womp womp Scotland

I can see the Labour Party coming to power in the next election - maybe, maybe not - who knows? But it doesn’t really make a difference who’s in power - the State remains the same, the structure is still there, they just tinker with it a little here and there.

https://youtu.be/-1uSSRcn7UE

That relies on the loggers fearing a murder charge. In Trump’s America, would a logger be charged with murder for “accidentally” killing a tree hugging protestor?

The cruelty is the point

What you were hoping for was no change in your life. You gave a scenario and a solution was provided to you. You’re taking no responsibility, and want no change in convenience. How can you expect the ignorant to move off of WhatsApp if even the informed won’t do it?

I did the method suggested above and the vast majority of my contacts eventually moved to Signal, those that didn’t switched to old fashioned SMS to contact me. You are not missing out by not being a part of one specific messaging app, there are many out there.

Not totalitarian you say?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purges_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

My experience in Azerbaijan also included tales of when they were children passing curds to starving prisoners through chain fences in Kazakh gulags. The Soviet Union did more harm than good to the leftist movement and is used as the scary example every single time someone begins to think twice about the capitalist system they live under. Socialism is forever tainted by the USSR and severely struggles to remove that image. Fuck the USSR.

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