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Paul Mobbs: Rambler; Activist; Film-maker; Author; Researcher; Deep Ecologist; Camp cook; but none of the subsequent parameters in that list exists without the influence of the first.
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Digital media doesn't even need to be burned, just switched off...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK1Z...
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Is this meant to be ironic?
(see the UN speech he gave for details)
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Have you sunk into my house and stolen my books?
www.fraw.org.uk/blog/reviews...
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Two people I thought I knew just disappeared down the alt-Right rabbit hole of anti-trans "fair women's sport" propaganda... nothing can make you sadder than that.
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Wow! Have you got some surprises coming!! (assuming Trump lets us live that long)
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Sorry, I can't vote because I have no photo ID (i like to live simply).
Then again, what can you vote for these days?
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Learn how to be a better drone.
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Don't touch it! It's evil!!
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OBR report on the budget projects continual rise in house prices, while people's savings are projected to fall, and interest rates will remain high to attract foreign money.
Strange how most journo's commenting on OBR figures seemed to have missed that bit.
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Alternately, for those with substance issues...
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Strange that Irish politics is now more interesting than that of your (almost) former occupiers.
Did you know 'Keir Starmer' is an anagram of 'Errr mistake'?
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I remember when there were things called 'libraries', that had things called 'print', that worked a bit like a screen without electricity or intensive surveillance.
annas-archive.org
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It was Elon!
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You do realize that "Keir Starmer" is an anagram of "Errr mistake"?
They put 'DLR' in charge for a reason.
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He had a follow-up to that: "The reason the Conservative Party are so keen on fracking is that they want to break-open the Earth and release the soul of Margaret Thatcher from hell".
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Ignorance is worse than stupidity: Stupidity can't be helped, it's how you are; ignorance is willing, often, out of malevolent intent.
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Logically, either option is bad for billionaires.
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Bridge over the Leam on the path south out of Wappenbury, heading for Hunningham and the Ridgeway to Ufton.
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As if the day couldn't have gotten any worse :-(
OK, I'm playing Parallel Lines really loud this afternoon.
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To be fair, Bessant made no secret that this was the plan:
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
If you want the real 'disruptor' in all this, you need to see Stephen Miran's tome, 'A User's Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System',
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You're brave. I did a photographic baseline along the route from Missenden to Kenilworth before construction, but now I just can't bring myself to go back there:
www.fraw.org.uk/rambles/hs2....
I don't want to see it now. Then again, I got moments like this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok2o...
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I read Mogg Snr's book in 2016, after putting it off for a decade or so. But really the Mogg's and their ilk are just parroting the Classical self-justifications of Aristotle, Polybius, & Plutarch -- now rewritten for a modern audience by Curtis Yarvin.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDuZ...
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Except that 'the plan' this time is worse for ordinary pwople as it takes neoliberalism to its ultimate logical conclusion -- neofeudalism:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-feu...
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Ever considered Trump's 'madness' might be a deliberate plan that's been laying around for a few years? it's just "they've" never had a politician who is bats*** crazy enough to do it until now.
This is just like the transition from Carter to Reagan in 1980/1:
www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
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Look-up the Bill Hicks gag, "we've got a ourselves reader"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwkd...
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Damn! Birthday just gone past. That means I'll have to buy it.
Is this the 'Gen-X Radical' edition of "Now That's What I Call Music"?
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“Suddenly, I heard a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.”
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I'm actually 'MAGA'... "Make America Go Away"
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There's more about Friedman's quote, and the Naomi Klein's book that revealed it to a mass audience, in this review:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=erD_...
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‘Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around... our function [is] to keep [ideas] available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable’ (Milton Friedman)
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Try this. I presume it has subtitles for the English:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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What do you need DW for now? Just switch-on Whitehouse press briefings for the same content.
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FFS :-(
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Next day...
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That said... please, keep dangling!
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E.g., liberals use the 'cost of living crisis' to berate the insensitive economic policy of the Right, yet there's ample evidence that the roots of the crisis lie in trends operative long before Trump or Putin's excesses:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF_-...
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Except 'liberals' generally avoid any deep critical analysis, lest they be force to do it to themselves. Deep down they understanding of whats going on, but they're afraid to look too deeply into that mirror because of what it says about their own stance.
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Why does Starmer support air travel when most airlines refuse to let him fly? (apparently every time he gets on an airplane he chops-off the left wing)
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My day's been murder too.
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It gets worse.. "it was the 'bros. what did it"
www.tradingview.com/news/cointel...
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Is there some sense of Sadism in the way you dangle these tantalizing morsels of pleasure in our faces?
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The politics of 'late stage capitalism' are not actually about doing anything because you can't improve on 'perfection' -- it's about giving the impression that things are being done, by endlessly re-announcing previous announcements, but never actually doing anything.
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Happy birthday!
Don't worry, in another decade you'll realize that you were just over-reacting to the pressures of adulthood; and a decade after that you'll realize that you'd better stop prevaricating because one of your incessant critics has a black cloak and a scythe.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku33...