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LynneJones

@LynneJones@mastodon.green

Former Labour MP for Birmingham Selly Oak (1992-2010); Grandmother; Gardener for wildlife and food; Wrote chapter for Trans Britain; www.lynnejones.org.uk

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https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/bombing-palestinians-public-function-top-dutch-court-rules Gantz boasted to Israeli voters that he had returned Gaza to the “stone age.”

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My new blog examines the media discussion on the new Uni Copenhagen study arguing that the Atlantic overturning circulation is heading for a tipping point, with catastrophic consequences for humanity.
Some questioned the study.
Rightly? Or not?
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2023/08/the-amoc-tipping-this-century-or-not/

LynneJones,
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@rahmstorf I used to think this would not be in my lifetime and by generating our own power, having own water supply and growing our own food, my family & I would be able to eke out a reasonable life if we were somehow able to keep what we’d built for ourselves. All seems increasingly unlikely.

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“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”

– Naomi Shulman

LynneJones,
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@aral Actually, resisters of injustice and exploitation are usually nice people - just not to those who look the other way to whom they are also a nuisance/interfering/…. Think @juststop_oil- they’re the most wonderfully nice people - thoughtful, considerate, non-violent. They are, however, disruptive of “business as usual” and all that entails:

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https://councilestatemedia.substack.com/p/the-assange-case-is-about-much-more?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email “We are on the verge of a world when privacy and accountability are things of the past and the only way we avoid that is by making a stand now. This stand starts with demanding the release of Julian Assange. Any politician that supports his extradition is an enemy of freedom who deserves no one’s vote and that includes the leaders of both major political parties.”

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Ecologist William Rees, professor emeritus at the University of British Columbia, has referred to modern techno-industrial culture as “fundamentally dysfunctional”. It “is systematically - even enthusiastically - consuming the biophysical basis of its own existence.” He describes humanity’s relationship to the planet as analogous to a “malignant parasite”. https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/climate-change-crisis-action-hot-air

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“Double Tap” attacks, a war crime - latest use by Russia in Ukraine and history of such attacks by other states. https://labourhub.org.uk/2023/08/11/russias-latest-war-crime/

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My membership of British Cycling has come around for renewal and I have no hesitation in telling them to get lost. The fact that they took on a major sponsorship deal with Shell (SHELL!) in October and have refused to reverse that decision is appalling. This is classic greenwashing - Shell are continuing to extract all the oil they can. Cycling should not offer shelter to the fossil fuel companies putting profit ahead of the planet.

https://bikebiz.com/a-shocking-decision-industry-reacts-as-british-cycling-signs-deal-with-shell/

LynneJones,
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@helenczerski Me too!

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/25/florida-ocean-temperatures-hot-tub-extreme-weather Hot ocean temperatures around Florida will lead to an ice age in Northern Europe - if I live as long as my mother, within this 72 year old’s lifetime.

breadandcircuses, to climate

🥵 It's hot as hell in South America, in the Middle East, in Southern Europe, in China and Southeast Asia, and in much of North America — so many heat waves, and so many heat deaths, it's almost impossible to keep track.

🔥 Forest fires are STILL out of control in Canada, sending double the previous record amounts of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.

☀️ But that's not all we have to worry about. Because climate chaos also will destabilize our economies, disrupt food chains, cause crop failures, and more.

Our Mastodon friend Geoffrey Deihl, aka Sane Thinker (@gdeihl), has some strong words about what we must expect, and what actions we should be prepared to take...

These heat waves, droughts, and floods are destroying agriculture. If agriculture fails at scale — and it will if we stay on this path — societies will crash, massive inflation will rise, and hundreds of millions of people will migrate to escape death only to find closed borders.

Infrastructure will break, including hospitals, medical care, and medicines. Riots, military law, and governmental collapses will be in the daily news, if our power is on to see it. This is how the economy is going to break if we don’t act.

This situation was foreseen 50 years ago by the oil industry. Exxon funded its own scientists to perform studies that predicted the crisis we’re in today with remarkable accuracy. Exxon's executives chose to minimize and hide this information, and our congress, bought by oil, couldn’t be bothered to look closer.

We also have a compromised, corporate owned mainstream press that wallows in routine sins of omission, and a murderous lack of urgency in reporting on the . Finally, they’re forced to give it coverage, because the planet is thrashing before our eyes. What they won’t do, however, is tell you how to change the outcome.

We live in a world that is now controlled by a handful of insatiable billionaires. They become richer by impoverishing the rest of us, and raping the Earth. They and our politicians are not going to save us. They are either oblivious to the destruction they are causing, don’t care, or have determined the only way to save the planet is to depopulate it. We have to save ourselves. The fastest way to do this, perhaps the only way, is to deprive them of money. We need to slow this economy down to a crawl, or be complicit in watching our world burn and drown.

It is time to sick out, protest, strike and walk out. I know it’s hard, I know it’s scary, I know it involves risk, but if enough of us do it, we can’t all be fired. We will gain the upper hand. It’s the only way. We can either sacrifice now, or sacrifice everything later, and it appears later is here.

There is much more in the full article, and I urge you to read the whole thing.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://geoffreydeihl.substack.com/p/the-economy-is-going-to-break

LynneJones,
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@breadandcircuses We need more people to join @juststop_oil I’ll be participating in slow walks in the autumn.

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So, Steve Barclay says (on expanding involvement in the ), 'We must use every available resource to deliver life-saving checks to ease pressure on the NHS'!

So here's an idea Mr Barclay:

a. money is a resource;
b. its available (because you're spending with private sector providers);
c. Why not add it to the core funding of the NHS.... pay the staff better & expand the maintenance funds...

LynneJones,
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@Thebratdragon @ChrisMayLA6 Yes, so why is @UKLabour urging more and faster!

LynneJones,
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@calmeilles @Thebratdragon @ChrisMayLA6 @UKLabour The private sector is parasitic - uses NHS trained staff and extracts profits. Bring those staff back into the NHS and stop paying the profiteers to do what can be done more cheaply and efficiently in house. Stating that’s what Labour will do in government would be a big inhibitor of profiteering. Instead they’re encouraging it. As a Party member, I’m ashamed.

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These people have apparently got a £3billion - yes, £3billion - contract to “help” with NHS recruitment. More creeping privatisation of work that could be done in-house! Better still, how about using it for pay increases - would give real boost to recruitment! https://govdata.co.uk/total-workforce-solutions-3/#1663928482285-ba1b23f4-e84a

LynneJones, to random
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The International Monetary Fund estimated that the global production and burning of coal, oil and gas was subsidised by $5.9 trillion in 2020 and an analysis of Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development figures claims to show that Britain currently supports the fossil fuel industry through tax breaks and subsidies for exploration and research and development to the tune of £10 billion a year. https://labourhub.org.uk/2023/07/26/what-lies-ahead-if-we-fail-on-net-zero/

breadandcircuses, (edited ) to environment

⬇️ This is a fact. ⬇️

It’s not a meme. It’s not an opinion. It’s a fact — a fact I wish everyone could accept, take to heart, and use to motivate action!!

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

LynneJones,
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@breadandcircuses And the politicians that are too weak or too self-serving to challenge the oligarchs

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My interview earlier today on @CBCNews on the climate crisis & the extreme weather events it is generating this summer + a discussion of my forthcoming book (via @public_affairs / @hachettebooks https://main.mp4.cbc.ca/prodVideo/news/CBC_News_VMS/97/126/Michael-Mann.mp4

LynneJones,
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@MichaelEMann @CBCNews @public_affairs @hachettebooks Anthropomorphic climate heating is already having a devastating effect in Africa. Those suffering are not responsible we are - especially Europe and North America. We started polluting earlier and we continue to pollute at home as well as outsource much of our polluting consumption to China. Our Governments continue to encourage our greed whilst neglecting our needs.

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From to those complicit in https://juststopoil.org/2023/07/19/open-letter-from-just-stop-oil-to-all-those-complicit-in-genocide-your-time-is-up/?link_id=2&can_id=5ceecb94e6dac0089993265a68dd3a1b&source=email-uhghusad&email_referrer=email_1994269&email_subject=see-you-in-court

LynneJones,
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Please join me in supporting fundraising for those brave people from standing up for humanity: https://chuffed.org/project/rips

LynneJones, to random
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Starmer: ‘If I see something wrong in society, I can’t turn my head and walk on the other side of the road, I’ve got to do something about it.’ Another U-turn! https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/n15/james-butler/short-cuts

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Deaths in UK prisons https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/07/11/another-death-in-custody-at-bristols-hmp-eastwood-park/?__s=uvgrop53kraqrxbybnzq

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    LynneJones,
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    @devxvda what’s your formula for reducing weight and is it sustainable? Strongly recommend https://joinzoe.com/

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    LynneJones,
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    @peterdutoit Yes, but recognise they’re just part and parcel of that started with the State enabling land enclosures, the slave trade and colonialism = capital accumulation by the Few. Ordinary people’s lives only started to improve when they protested against these injustices but we’ve been going backwards since 2010 - even as the richest get richer, enabled by the State.

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    As, Purni Morell reminds us in a letter to The Guardian, the fees for access to services & has been with us for some time:

    'Britons have paid for eye care, dentistry, prescriptions & a whole host of other treatments apparently considered peripheral for years. Isn’t it time we admitted that the NHS has not existed as intended for several decades & if we want to bring it back then we must choose to pay sufficient levels of tax to fund it?'

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    @markhughes @ChrisMayLA6 👇 https://99-percent.org/your-chance-to-read-the-rational-policy-makers-guide-to-the-nhs/

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    An open letter to from one of his constituents published in his local paper, Camden New Journal. As a of 49 years, couldn’t agree more more. Letter written before moves to expel , 44 years a member.

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    And this is what happened to Starmer’s “pledge” to Unite the Party and promote pluralism:

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    https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-boris-johnson-out-must-restore-integrity-politics Newspapers are supposed to hold power to account, but when it came to Johnson’s lies, they gave him a free pass, while delivering plenty of falsehoods of their own.

    The BBC was little better. The corporation’s exciting new Verify project, which says it will expose disinformation and fake news, now has a duty to investigate the BBC’s own reporting on Johnson and his former opponent, Jeremy Corbyn, especially in the run-up to the 2019 general election.

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