hanrahan
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- Comment on Australia offers Europe, Japan, other allies to sell stakes in its Critical Minerals Strategic Reserve to counter China's control over supply chains 1 day ago:
And incredibly toxic to proceess.
It’s why Lynas didnt even bother trying for a permit for its WA mine and istead pollutes the shit out of the Malaysian rainforest after transporting the ore there.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 1 day ago:
It’s all… perspective and relative ?
The UK oversaw the slaughter of Kenyans in the Mau Mau rebellion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366?wprov=sfla1
The CIA helping Suharto slaughter Indonesians in a genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_mass_killings_of_1965%E2%80%9366?wprov=sfla1
Israel’s existence is becase the US and UK taking native lands
The Kurds were supposed to be free but too much Oil and that was stopped.
Around 80 years ago, Eric Blair (aka George Orwell) wrote this:
All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’ all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our ‘enlightenment,’ demands that the robbery shall continue.
Somewhat more recently, Wendell Berry, in an essay entitled “Word and Flesh”, wrote this:
This statement of Orwell’s is clearly applicable to our situation now; all we need to do is change a few nouns. The religion and the environmentalism of the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something they do not really wish to destroy. We all live by robbing nature, but our standard of living demands that the robbery shall continue. We must achieve the character and acquire the skills to live much poorer than we do. We must waste less. We must do more for ourselves and each other. It is either that or continue merely to think and talk about changes that we are inviting catastrophe to make. The great obstacle is simply this: the conviction that we cannot change because we are dependent on what is wrong. But that is the addict’s excuse, and we know that it will not do.
The destruction of the natural world is not the result of global capitalism, industrialisation, ‘Western civilisation’ or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate. Throughout all of history and prehistory, human advance has coincided with ecological devastation.” ― John Gray, Straw Dogs: Thoughts On Humans And Other Animals
We pretend we’ve been anything other then fascist since …?
- Comment on Kremlin bans fuel exports until the end of the year as Russia’s supply is disrupted by Ukrainian drones 1 week ago:
Not oil, its the Oil that China and India mostly take AFAIK (and refine themselves) , only hitting the refineries for gaoilone, kersone etal products. So there will likely be MORE oil available to export as their refinery capacity is reduced.
- Comment on The UK just took a harder stance on Banksy than genocide 3 weeks ago:
The actual term ‘concentration camp’ was invented by the Spanish (as campo de concentración or campo de reconcentración) in 1896 – three years before the 2nd Anglo-Boer War (1899 – 1904) started. It originated during The Cuban War of Independence (Guerra de Independencia cubana, 1895–98) was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain.
A rebellion had broken out in Cuba, then a Spanish colony in 1895. The rebels, outnumbered by Spanish government troops, turned to guerrilla warfare (and here another myth which says the Boer’s invented ‘guerrilla warfare’ is debunked).
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 3 weeks ago:
Well, the Dutch are moving right. Gert Wilders is a literal fascist.
AfD in Germany then we have Norway, Italy, Finland, UK, France and on and on. They probably feel at home
- Comment on France | Teacher dies by suicide on the first day of school after years of anti-lesbian harassment 4 weeks ago:
The irony of the French Government suing Kick for the.streaming of a suicide,.while this horrible situation was.occuring in France.
- Comment on Colombia coal exports plummet after ban on Israel sales 4 weeks ago:
Is Indiensia now supple Israel, the irony would be ....
Or is it some slime ball countryside like Australia?
- Comment on 'Mockery of science': US experts blast Trump climate report 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on The World’s Largest Solar Plant is Rising in Tibet. It's So Vast It's the Size of Chicago 5 weeks ago:
Rain keeps solar panels clean. Output degrades over time naturally regarldess.
I lived off grid with a 2kW system for a decade,. As a test we cleaned themmonce at about the 5 yr mark with soap, water and a broom. My measuring equipment wasn't sensitive enough to notice any difference.
That said I have seen small robotic cleaners (like robotic window cleaners) used on vast solar arrays, possibly an array that vast and a small increase is worth it?
- Comment on Grocery Chains Are Passing Trump Tariff Costs on to US Consumers With Higher Prices: Report 5 weeks ago:
Shoot the bear molesting the girl
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Mississippi Age Verification Law 5 weeks ago:
Depends where you reside ?, if you are in the US and dont block a US state you can be prosecuted but what will the UK do ? See the current 4chan brouhaha with the UK for example.
- Comment on Trump says China has to give US magnets or face 200% tariff 5 weeks ago:
Give them ? Wtf ?
- Comment on Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians 2 months ago:
Unlike genocide, that situations fixable by voters, we just seem content with what we have.
We could Vote Green, who have policies around higher taxes fo the wealthy and and corporations and dental into medicare, free universty etc
hell, I dont vote Green to elect the Greens per se but to move the syatus quo off the orthodoxy and allow the Overton Window to shift.
Nothing changes until voters do.
