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Was @_Polinard in the blue vulture place 🐦 - now a 🦤 Floundering here …but what’s new?
Intro to follow, so please come back.

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Rachel Reeves wants to give us "inclusive "
She deserves the George Award for double-speak

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/rachel-reeves-wants-to-give-us-inclusive

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The House of Lords is full of people nominated for their financial contributions to a political party, rather than their public service. This is an abuse of democracy and undermines public trust in parliament.

Petition calling for a ban on Party Donors being nominated to the :

https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/ban-party-donors-2?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blast44529

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Creating Scotland is the first of Believe in Scotland's creative campaign events.

Join us in Perth for an afternoon of music, comedy and poetry to start to create a vision for a better independent Scotland. The line up currently includes Bruce Fummey, Sheena Wellington and the Yes, Yes Band - more to be announced soon.

https://www.believeinscotland.org/shop?#!/Creating-Scotland/p/630931966/category=0z

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I just signed the open letter calling on the to ban now, until the criminal investigation into her deception over concludes.
Will you join me?


https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/ban-michelle-mone-2024?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blast44672&submit=true#cor

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took £1.3m from donor group linked to Israeli settlements

Amnesty International says must review donations from and its directors after openDemocracy findings

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/conservative-party-jcb-donations-israel-settlements-palestine-west-bank/

greenaspen, to Scotland
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Vote splitting trick won’t work with ’s Single Transferable Vote


https://www.electoral-reform.org.uk/vote-splitting-trick-wont-work-with-scotlands-single-transferable-vote/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=ers-email&utm_campaign=blog-roundup&utm_content=ERS+News:+9+March+-+Core+-+Split:D

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Spain’s plan to ban domestic flights where you can take a train in under two and half hours

https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/02/23/spains-plan-to-ban-domestic-flights-where-you-can-take-a-train-in-under-two-and-half-hours?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=green_newsletter&utm_medium=referral&insEmail=1&insNltCmpId=257&insNltSldt=10080&insPnName=euronewsfr&isIns=1&isInsNltCmp=1

greenaspen, to Amazon
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Ecuador’s president wants to drill for oil in the rainforest, against the will of the people!

Drilling was banned last year in a historic national referendum championed by Indigenous communities -- but the new president wants to keep the flowing

Please stand with Ecuadorians to defend democracy and the rainforest :

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/stopoilamazon_ctr_fr/?bgfRnkb&v=154743&cl=21131628413&_checksum=c44860a2473c6b01725e6a9b0356c99e4f339e9d8d19f3f18a15f87eb25ddaf7

greenaspen, to Scotland
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Protect Loch Tay, Glen Lyon and Kenmore.
If you are in this petition needs more support.

https://www.change.org/p/protect-loch-tay?cs_tk=AuJO09hDpTZ4NzM7y2UAAXicyyvNyQEABF8BvLa-zSQiTva_ZGy8c5Y1bOU%3D&utm_campaign=84d40e673b6a41d2abbd5cb7fd518569&utm_content=initial_v0_2_0&utm_medium=email&utm_source=recruit_sign_digest&utm_term=cs

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Protect Loch Tay and land access rights

Discovery Land Company (DLC) plans to create a private resort for the mega-rich on over 8000 acres of land at , , and areas around Loch Tay. They threaten to destroy natural habitats & cultural heritage along with land access rights for the people of Scotland.
DLC sales brochure claims Scotland is “an untouched playground”
Pease help protect from this corporate attack.

https://chng.it/hFDdXMpQyQ

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French insurance companies slam EU re-authorisation of glyphosate as repeat of asbestos scandal

In the light of the re-authorisation of #glyphosate in the #EU, the leaders of forty French mutual insurance companies have spoken out in Le Monde about the danger of repeating with #pesticides the same costly mistakes that were made with #asbestos.

https://mailchi.mp/gmwatch.org/daily-digest-1rlu2xfjkg-368710?e=bdb7fe5132

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What happened to the ventilators bought for £135m?


https://us11.campaign-archive.com/?e=1bf98b5597&u=f1c42fae5214b3ee59aab75ab&id=f28bc14053

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Glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup, is showing up in pregnant women living near farm fields – that raises health concerns

Living near farmland can significantly increase people’s exposure to #glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used #herbicide #Roundup, new research shows. This #chemical has been connected to health concerns, including #nonHodgkinLymphoma and a higher risk of #pretermBirth.

https://www.boisestate.edu/spph/ccurl/

greenaspen, to meta
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Zuckerberg has lifted a ban on ads claiming the 2020 US election was rigged. Here's how we fight back:
Sign the here:

https://actions.sumofus.org/a/meta-stop-the-false-election-ads-now?sp_ref=835944613.99.228891.e.0.2&referring_akid=129380.11522990.8dNJdf&referring_source=fwd&source=mlt

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Ireland Could Become the Next Nation to Recognize the Rights of Nature and a Human Right to a Clean Environment

Move to enshrine those rights is part of a flurry of developments advancing the rights of nature movement this year

Surely beyond ?

🇮🇪 has probably the most impoverished in all …& politically seems hell bent on wrecking what few fragments of intact & remain.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01012024/ireland-rights-of-nature-human-right-to-clean-environment/?utm_source=InsideClimate+News&utm_campaign=d5383f40d4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_01_06_02_00&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_29c928ffb5-d5383f40d4-330480986

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“Keir Starmer is not a particularly inspiring man, in his manner or his ideas. But almost as an aside yesterday, he presented us with a beautiful vision of the future of the country. It was the sort of thing I'd man the barricades
for”
Ian Dunt @iandunt
On top form …as ever!

via

https://open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/p/2024-the-year-we-bury-the-culture?r=6pogv&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

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‘The trees are trying to tell us things’: the ecologist championing Britain’s ancient forests

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/01/the-trees-are-trying-to-tell-us-things-the-ecologist-championing-our-ancient-forests?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Weather tracker: Saudi Arabia hit by floods as temperature records broken in Canada - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/01/weather-tracker-saudi-arabia-hit-by-floods-as-temperature-records-broken-in-canada "Heavy rain and hailstorms affect large parts of Gulf state while temperatures in some parts of Canada could be 20C above normal" and so it begins in 2024

greenaspen,
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@glynmoody
sending targeted messages to ?
Makes sense. Where’s next?

greenaspen, to random
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From Wistman’s Wood to Balmoral.

This is how our 21st-century peasants’ revolt took on the royals over rewilding – and won

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/28/revolt-royals-rewilding-rainforest-beaver-balmoral

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Michelle Mone has admitted that she lied to the media over her links to a PPE firm. Enough is enough, it's time those in power put an end to this sordid affair. Sign the petition now and demand Mone is expelled from the House of Lords:

https://act.38degrees.org.uk/act/expel-Mone-2?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=blast43837&submit=true

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Study finds poor land buyout regulation days after land reform bill delay

A commissioned report has found the demand to buy rural land for green investments could deepen divides between landowners and communities, just days after it delayed a new bill.

https://theferret.scot/poor-land-buyout-regulation-land-reform-bill-delay/

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American Academy of Pediatrics advises avoiding #GMO foods due to #glyphosate residues

Pediatricians urge more transparency & more research on GMO foods.

A new clinical report issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in #UnitedStates – to provide guidance to clinicians in providing pediatric care addresses concerns raised by families about #GM foods. It focuses on the risks of the herbicides sprayed on #GMfood & feed crops – especially glyphosate. https://mailchi.mp/gmwatch.org/american-academy-of-pediatrics-advises-avoiding-gmo-foods-where-practical-due-to-glyphosate-residues?e=bdb7fe5132

greenaspen,
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@peterbrown that has been true since start of devolution, but your relief (and mine) at our status in may be about to end. Current plans by Westminster government to deregulate new crops and food will mean that Scottish government will be powerless to prevent their cultivation and sale here, courtesy of the single market Act …a device largely designed to emasculate our devolved powers on a wide front.

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We won’t stop speaking out about Gaza’s suffering – there is no climate justice without human rights

The death rate in the Strip is at a historic high, with thousands of children killed in just a few weeks…

We call on everyone to demand an end to this inexcusable violence

“Silence is complicity.
You cannot be neutral in an unfolding .”


https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/05/gaza-climate-justice-human-rights-greta-thunberg?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Please respond to a public consultation by the HealthAndSafety Executive on lead ammunition

Responding to this important consultation has been made very easy by Wild Justice.

The consultation ends at midnight on Sunday - so if you have a few minutes to spare take a look at the guidance and have your say.

https://wildjustice.org.uk/lead-ammunition/please-respond-to-a-public-consultation-on-lead-ammunition/

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