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“They [Labour] lack answers to our problems – their manifesto was devoid of any substance – and their leaders do not have the substance or charisma of New Labour’s founders.

In other words, this is as good as it gets.”

I bet the wheels fall off the ToryBoy™️ Starmer charabanc within 6 months.

In the meantime we could all do worse than get behind campaigns to pressure the Government to introduce single transferable vote proportional representation

34% is zero mandate

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Shortwave listeners noting China already taking over some frequencies used by VOA and RFA as USAGM has silenced its own transmitters. Especially critical with thousands of casualties in the Myanmar M7.7 quake where survivors would normally be receiving vital info from our Burmese language services.

“Before neo-Nazi Anders Breivik massacred 77 people in Norway in 2011, he emailed a 1,518-page document, a compendium of his own writing and other far-right texts, to over 1,000 people. The deranged screed warned that Muslim immigration to Europe amounted to an “invasion” of people — whose culture was “incompatible with Western society”

Earlier this month, the vice president of the United States went on TV to say the same thing”

apple.news/AIjnhCyBBSGiZ-xTpII

apple.newsOpinion | How we know the unthinkable could happen in America — MSNBCDemonizing rhetoric from the White House, arrests without due process, deporting immigrants to a brutal prison in a foreign country. This is America today.
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Oh, Muskie, my sweet. Yes, we do want to destroy your "influence" (= complete control), because we believe in democracy. Where ordinary people (remember them?) have a say.

And no, the "Nazi stuff" isn't fake. We saw you, light of my life, heart of my heart's desiring, we *saw* you make a Nazi salute. We *know* you enabled a fascist president, and spent $400 million to get him elected. We *know* you supported the neo-nazi AfD in Germany.

*You* are the evil one.

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@peteriskrisjanis @Nigel_Purchase It’s as plain as day, if you are one of those who learned what was taught to you in history class.

All nazis are fascists but not all fascists are nazis. Fascism follows the same principles but as it is about ultranationalism it always looks a bit different.

The people the post is for, cannot identify fascism without the particular flavour of german nationalism that nazism gave it.

They are stupid. And that’s what Elon is counting on.

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A Lost Bit of the Story of Merlin and Arthur Has Been Found at Cambridge

By Molly Templeton

reactormag.com/a-lost-bit-of-t

You can explore the manuscript for yourself at Cambridge Digital Libraries:
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections

Books about Merlin at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?q

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A hole in protective shell over the Chernobyl reactor poses risks.

For weeks, the Ukrainian authorities have been looking for ways to repair a large hole in the protective shell that covers the fourth reactor of the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear plant. When it was erected in 2019, the giant shell was one of the biggest structures ever moved by humans.

On 14 February, a Russian drone hit the structure.

mediafaro.org/article/20250329

The hole in the protective shell of the Chernobyl reactor. | Image: Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo/picture alliance
DW · A hole in protective shell over the Chernobyl reactor poses risks.By Lilia Rzheutska

Sitting in our local enjoying a local ale or three when a couple plonk themselves at ‘our’ table — and then this happens 🥰

Best night ever 🥳

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Intimidation, Fear and Silence in the Age of Trump

When our children complain that they are being bullied, we tell them to stand up for themselves. As Americans, we must embody this principle. Our founders would be disturbed by current developments

Since our leaders don’t have the courage to stand up to save our democracy, it falls to us average citizens to be brave and risk the wrath of the MAGA faithful

At 78 years of age, I refuse to witness our nation's descent into authoritarianism.