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Truss has blamed the war in Ukraine for her problems.
How long before she switches to blaming Saudi Arabia?
Promising news for animal rights protesters
Don’t forget the fish
Lynne Sneddon, a lecturer in the biological and environment sciences department at Gothenburg University who has researched pain in fish for more than two decades, said: “There is now a wealth of scientific data showing fish are capable of pain and many government bodies accept this.
“Fish are highly intelligent. They can navigate mazes, they have numerical skills and they have complicated relationships. They should be given the same protection as mammals.”
I was making a parallel with WW2, on how the USA provoked a war with Japan.
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2012/12/americas-good-war-part-two-japan.html
I’m not so sure China is 100% behind Russia.
It appears to be qualified support and it shows a lot of adherence to the UN economic sanctions against Russia by China, at least in public.
The China South Sea and Taiwan appear to be the trigger issues, not Ukraine. The longer the war, the more China may benefit from Russia’s discounted oil.
But any reading of the build-up to war between Japan and the USA cannot avoid the embargo on key raw materials to Japan by USA.
You had the advantage over me.
I had not heard of Clare Daly until today when I came across the first clip in my customary web crawl.
She may be a Trot but she echoes much of our own case loudly and clearly within a media dominated by pro-war voices.
Deserves better coverage than AOC and the Squad.
I placed another video link on our African blog
The media won’t publicise it but today there is a global protest in support of Julian Assange.
Hands Around Parliament to oppose the extradition of Julian Assange.
LONDON
https://dontextraditeassange.com/human-chain/ELSEWHERE
https://handsoffassange.com/protests/The heightened trade war
Biden enacted a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut China off from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with US tools, vastly expanding its reach in its bid to slow Beijing’s technological and military advances. If effective, they could set China’s chip manufacturing industry back years by forcing American and foreign companies that use US technology to cut off support for some of China’s leading factories and chip designers.
“…it was the religion of the plebeians, the slaves and the poor of Rome similar to our modern working class movement…”
The other hypothesis is that Roman Christianity was the religion of the elite hence non-followers were called pagans..the rural peasant.
If it was solely the religion of the plebs, how did it acquire the political power to outlaw the traditional religions?
The expansion of Christianity was imposed upon the population. All the various rival Christian sects repressed.
Of the Jewish Christians such as the Ebionites, very little is known.
If people wish to continue this thread, it is their choice.
I have said enough and now withdraw as a participant and contributor.
I believe this thread has served its purpose and run its course.
It has repeatedly expressed the socialist position that we do not consider the defence of Ukraine nor of Donbas worth the blood of our fellow-workers, both sides being duped by nationalism into meaningless sacrifices.
We do not accept the pretext of Russian invasion was a “humanitarian” intervention nor that NATO arming of Ukraine is protecting “democracy”.
We commended those Ukrainian men called up who sought to flee the country as refugees and we applaud those Russians who are now rejecting conscription by becoming exiles.
We want an end to the war and if the price of peace is ceding territory, then let it be so.
I will, of course, visit the topic in my role as a watchful moderator.
If something occurs that I believe warrants a special comment by myself I will start a new topic thread for such a specific event.
The facade is crumbling. An air of defeatism
The head of the lower house of parliament’s defence committee, former general Andrei Kartapolov, said on Wednesday that the army should “stop lying”, as Russia’s official daily briefings speak of enormous losses supposedly suffered by Ukrainian forces without mentioning the high-profile failures of Russian troops on the battlefield. Kartapolov went on to suggest that the Kremlin’s propaganda efforts were also falling short.
“The people know. Our people are not stupid,” the former general said. “They see that we do not want to tell them even part of the truth…”
The FBI has gathered enough evidence to charge Hunter Biden with tax crimes, according to CBS News
I deleted Lizzie45 post and had to by default delete MS’s reply to it as it repeated Lizzie’s insult.
The ultimate sanction if people do not abide by our commonsense rules is that I can simply end this thread.
Such happened previously to our Hong Kong democracy topic by another moderator who could not stop acrimonious posts.
