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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · 7d

As the 'Global North' burns more and more energy for junk (see the AI 'actor'?), war, and mass surveillance, its pretence for concern about pollution is turned into... more and more money for its own elites.

Quelle surprise!

BUT... you can't fool all the people all the time.

Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 13d

The Bezos Earth Fund and Amazon are closely linked. Both promote carbon markets.

Carbon offsets are Amazon's false solution to its rapidly increasing emissions - which are largely a result of AI.

Post based on a report by @grain.org.

reddmonitor.substack.com/p/billionair...

Billionaires aren’t going to save the planet: The Bezos Earth Fund, AI, and carbon offsets

A recent report by Grain highlights the conflicts of interest and promotion of carbon offsets in the Bezos Earth Fund.

reddmonitor.substack.com

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · 11d

Answer to your question is... 'see your first sentence'.

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · 18d

Censorship all the rage

Must keep them fighting

And killing

And maiming

And starving

And wasting millions on propaganda

To fool some of the people

Some of the time.

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · 28d

Anyone else find it a bit surprising that so many self-confessed 'English patriots' can neither write proper English, nor know which way up to fly the UK flag?

Bearing in mind... it's never been easier to look stuff up and run grammar/spelling checks.

Just saying.

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Aug 22

What have #immigrants ever contributed to British culture?

Meet George Handel, the 'greatest composer' (according to Beethoven), his music played at every British coronation for 200 yrs.

Naturalised British.
German immigrant.

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Aug 22

What have #immigrants ever contributed to British culture?

Meet George Handel, the 'greatest composer' (according to Beethoven), his music played at every British coronation for 200 yrs.

Naturalised British.
German immigrant.

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Aug 17

And how many of those were in the English Empire?

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Aug 11

Now that everything so obviously resembles a mix of Orwell’s 1984 and Alice’s ‘wonderland’, one might remember two key tests:
1) follow the money;
2) cui bono, who benefits?

There’s no need for any hidden ‘conspiracy’ when particular sectors of a society seek the same goals.

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Aug 11

Now that everything so obviously resembles a mix of Orwell’s 1984 and Alice’s ‘wonderland’, one might remember two key tests:
1) follow the money;
2) cui bono, who benefits?

There’s no need for any hidden ‘conspiracy’ when particular sectors of a society seek the same goals.

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Aug 6

One good thing to have come out of the appalling tragedies of recent years is that the scale of the elites' self-serving corruption, nepotism, hypocrisy and criminality has been well and truly exposed. It won’t be put back in the box, however much they seek to control everything.

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Aug 6

One good thing to have come out of the appalling tragedies of recent years is that the scale of the elites' self-serving corruption, nepotism, hypocrisy and criminality has been well and truly exposed. It won’t be put back in the box, however much they seek to control everything.

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Aug 3

Starvation has long been a favoured weapon of colonial subjugation and land theft, as any history student should know. British rulers have been masters at that game for centuries.

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Aug 3

Starvation has long been a favoured weapon of colonial subjugation and land theft, as any history student should know. British rulers have been masters at that game for centuries.

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Aug 1

Impressive.

Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · Aug 1

"Ayana Gerstmann, 18-years-old, refused yesterday to enlist in the IOF.

She was sentenced to her first imprisonment for 30 days in the military prison.
Here is her refusal statement:"

www.instagram.com/p/DM0GdLWsRo...

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Aug 1

Impressive.

Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · Aug 1

"Ayana Gerstmann, 18-years-old, refused yesterday to enlist in the IOF.

She was sentenced to her first imprisonment for 30 days in the military prison.
Here is her refusal statement:"

www.instagram.com/p/DM0GdLWsRo...

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Jul 20

Turning.

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Jul 20

Opera

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Jul 20

Opera

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Jul 20

Turning.

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Jul 18

Isn't modernity wonderful?

As we ponder this, here's something written in 1668 by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen.

"Won’t all those different holy men stir up their congregations with their various faiths and manufacture another war?"

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Jul 18

Isn't modernity wonderful?

As we ponder this, here's something written in 1668 by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen.

"Won’t all those different holy men stir up their congregations with their various faiths and manufacture another war?"

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Jul 17

So it comes.

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Stephen Corry @stephencorry.bsky.social · Jul 12

👇👇

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · Jul 9

The Telegraph slammed the BBC for “championing” Bob Vylan….

But the Telegraph forgot to mention it gave Bob Vylan a glowing four-star review last year and trumpeted that they “had somehow established a mood of feel-good catharsis."

Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

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The Hind Rajab Foundation @hindrajabfoundation.be · Jul 7

Israel has issued a sanctions list targeting 50 individuals. At the top are Chairman Dyab Abou Jahjah and co-founders Karim Hassoun and Haroon Raza, followed by three lawyers who have worked with the HRF. This escalation is not coincidental. Israel is worried; our legal work is having real impact.

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