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Tim Burness
@timburness.bsky.social
Musician (pop/rock/prog, 8 albums), astrologer (deeper stuff, 35+ years), care and support worker, climate justice, democracy and revolution, guinness, vegan... that sort of thing 🌎
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“If they could, 50% of men aged 18 - 35 in UK would vote Trump” & battle will be between those equipped with “stories, myths & cunning” & others convinced all will be well once “relevant numbers align” - brilliant & terrifying from @johnharris1969.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s big relaunch won’t solve its biggest problem: this government doesn’t speak human | John Harris
Farage and Trump are winning because they understand the politics of emotion, while Labour is lost in numbers and statistics, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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🔴COP29: As the Climate Crisis Intensifies, Trump and World Leaders Are Leaving the Stage

The global consensus on tackling climate change is fragmenting at the very moment action is most needed, reports Mike Buckley

bylinetimes.com/2024/11/18/c...
COP29: As the Climate Crisis Intensifies, Trump and World Leaders Are Leaving the Stage
The global consensus on tackling climate change is fragmenting at the very moment action is most needed
bylinetimes.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:57 AM
The stage is set for Pluto finally moving fully into Aquarius this week. Twenty years of global humanitarian revolutions ahead - boy do we need them.
November 17, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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A new UN report finds that the policies and practices of Israel are "consistent with the characteristics of genocide".

There is no excuse for saying you did not know.

This is genocide in plain sight.

www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
A/79/363: Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories
SummaryThe present report contains information regarding the efforts of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of t...
www.ohchr.org
November 15, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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One of my all-time favourites...
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry: a great poem for troubled time...
November 15, 2024 at 4:01 PM