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Guess who'll pay more tax come the Budget in 3 weeks..
Like their oppression of the Uyghurs, Tibetans et al... Don't want anyone interfering in that!
So right.
Same for the Faroese murderous "customs".
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youtube.com/watch?v=Btbq... a lullaby and a warning in this gorgeous video by Schmidt Ocean in honor of the world’s largest regatta, the Barcolana …(you can hear echoes of Captain Cousteau,) sleep tight ⚓️⭐️
An Ocean’s Song | Barcolana 2025 (English)
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
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Nice for you that you can afford the up-front costs. Many can't, or don't expect to occupy to the pay-back point. We need more collective roof-based schemes - many villages, like mine, are still off the gas grid. Ideal opportunities.
Imagine this in the UK - in summer at least!
Absolutely amazing: they've got so much solar in Australia that they need more people to use more of it, so the gov't has instructed energy retailers to offer *at least three hours of free power* during the middle of the day.

Meanwhile fossil-addled US struggles with an energy-price crisis ...
Energy retailers to be directed to offer free power three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
www.abc.net.au
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Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Center for Civil Liberties, spoke at De Balie in Amsterdam about the role of citizens in war, Russian aggression, and the fact that occupation is not peace.

📹 Center for Civil Liberties/Facebook
Sophisticated (over)fishing in the 21st century..
It's, ostensibly, to invest in the crumbling or non-existent infrastructure they haven't been investing in for decades.
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Water company shareholders have pocketed over £85 billion of our money. 💸

So why are rivers being pumped with pollution, homes routinely filled with waste and farmland contaminated with raw sewage?

Because the system’s designed to make a few people rich—not deliver a decent, affordable service.
MP slams Thames Water for 'reckless mismanagement'
North East Hertfordshire MP Chris Hinchliff has slammed Thames Water for its "reckless mismanagement" of the sewers in his constituency.
www.thecomet.net
And now a much higher volume of water has been contaminated, with only partial testing for assurance.
They should be seeking to remove the original contaminant - possibly only by activated carbon absorption?
But those permitted levels are still high relative to those viewed as safe by impartial scientists.
A large fraction of that £85 billion is, reportedly, debt those companies have taken on and then passed through as dividends, while also paying interest back for years to the crooked lenders.
Little investment in the infrastructure - e.g. no new reservoirs in 30 yrs!
They maintain UK drinking water is safe. How do they define safe and how can they assure it is?
Citizens are going to need more digital treacle protection.
He's really going for that peace prize..
Was this about the USA still not letting Cuba (or Japan) play in the "World" series?
Have a cigar, Mr Cuban Ambassador.
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This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll
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Les Paul, inventor of the solid-body electric guitar, developed the concept using a short section of railroad track, a guitar string, and some railroad spikes.