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Immediate moratorium on fracking in England because of tremor risk
Immediate moratorium on fracking in England because of tremor risk Gooseneck at Cuadrilla’s Preston New Road shale gas site, 5 August 2019. Photo: Ros Wills After seven years of promoting fracking, Conservative ministers have withdrawn their support and blocked the prospects of a shale gas industry. The UK government has issued an immediate moratorium in […]
UK Gov’t Halts Fracking In England Ahead Of General Election
UK Gov’t Halts Fracking In England Ahead Of General Election The U.K. fracking industry has grounded to halt as the British government ended its support for the controversial practice of extracting oil out of the ground, reported Bloomberg. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government announced Saturday that all new hydraulic fracturing wells would be banned. The country’s […]
Finding our common ground and common purpose
Finding our common ground and common purpose We are living in extraordinary, stormy times. In the political sphere, a sixteen-year-old girl speaks truth to powerful global leaders in New York; in the UK, the Supreme Court finds our Government has acted unlawfully in the proroguing of Parliament. In spite of all the promises and declarations, the planet […]
Blain’s Morning Porridge – October 21st 2019
Blain’s Morning Porridge – October 21st 2019 “If you wake up on a Casper mattress, work out with a Peloton before breakfast, Uber to your desk at a WeWork, order DoorDash for lunch, take a Lyft home, and get dinner through Postmates, you’ve interacted with seven companies that will collectively lose nearly $14 billion this […]
Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse But Business as Usual
Pesticides in the Dock: Ecological Apocalypse But Business as Usual In a new paper published in King’s Law Journal – ‘The Chemical Anthropocene: Glyphosate as a Case Study of Pesticide Exposures’ – the authors Alessandra Arcuri and Yogi Hale Hendlin state: “As the science against glyphosate safety mounts and lawsuits threaten its chemical manufacture’s profits, the next generation of […]
A Society Is Only As Free As Its Most Troublesome Political Dissident
A Society Is Only As Free As Its Most Troublesome Political Dissident You wouldn’t know it from any western mass media reporting as of this writing, but musician Roger Waters is about to perform the iconic Pink Floyd song “Wish You Were Here” in front of the office of British Home Secretary Priti Patel in order to […]
Elites “Going Rogue” Suggests The Global Neoliberal Architecture Is Collapsing
Elites “Going Rogue” Suggests The Global Neoliberal Architecture Is Collapsing Listen carefully. That is the sound of going rogue – and bond yields further through the floor. Yesterday UK PM Boris Johnson announced he is going to prorogue–or close–Parliament, meaning that when MPs come back to sit next week they will only do so briefly, […]
Mass Surveillance: NJ Cops Turn Individuals’ Phones Into Spying Devices
MASS SURVEILLANCE: NJ COPS TURN INDIVIDUALS’ PHONES INTO SPYING DEVICES It’s for their own good, of course! A New Jersey police department has unveiled technology that will allow 911 operators to stream video from callers smartphones. For the time being, callers have to turn on the live video stream, meaning they are consenting and giving […]
Boris Johnson, GMOs and Glyphosate: Irresponsible, Negligent and Criminal?
Boris Johnson, GMOs and Glyphosate: Irresponsible, Negligent and Criminal? In his first speech to parliament as British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson said: “Let’s start now to liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti-genetic modification rules and let’s develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world.” Johnson reads from a well-rehearsed script. The ‘GM […]
Inflationary Financing and GDP
INFLATIONARY FINANCING AND GDP This article demonstrates that only government borrowing in the US and UK drives GDP growth. This surprising conclusion is confirmed by long-run statistics. GDP does not represent economic progress, nor does it include the expansion of activity in the non-financial private sector, because that marries up with larger trade deficits, which […]
BigBrotherWatch: Facial Recognition ‘Epidemic’ in the UK
BigBrotherWatch: Facial Recognition ‘Epidemic’ in the UK At TruePublica we have written endlessly about the continued slow strangulation of civil liberties and human rights in Britain. We have warned about the rise of a techno-Stasi-state where technology is harnessed and used against civilians without any debate or indeed any real legal framework. We have alerted the public […]
Another Tanker With Iranian Oil Now Headed For Syria, Intel Sources Say
Another Tanker With Iranian Oil Now Headed For Syria, Intel Sources Say A new report suggests we could be headed toward yet another Grace 1-type incident and showdown involving an Iranian tanker intercept by US or UK forces. A tanker full of Iranian oil is said to be currently on its way to Dubai, with an […]
British colonialism laid the ground for the crises in Hong Kong and Kashmir
British colonialism laid the ground for the crises in Hong Kong and Kashmir Though distance-wise Hong Kong and Kashmir may be about 4,000km (2,485 miles) apart, they have in common a history of being scarred by the crimes of British colonialism. This history and those scars cannot be abstracted when it comes to grasping the […]
Iran Seizes Foreign Oil Tanker Accused Of Smuggling Fuel
Iran Seizes Foreign Oil Tanker Accused Of Smuggling Fuel In what will be seen as another escalation of tensions in the Persian Gulf, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized a foreign oil tanker in the Persian Gulf on July 31, adding to rising concerns about the safety of shipping in a region crucial to oil exports. The […]
“No Quid Pro Quo”: UK Rejects Iran’s Offer To Swap Seized Tankers
“No Quid Pro Quo”: UK Rejects Iran’s Offer To Swap Seized Tankers Britain this week has rejected an Iranian offer to swap each other’s captured tankers, as the crisis involving the British-flagged Stena Impero and the Iranian oil filled Grace 1 previously captured by Royal Marines off Gibraltar on July 4 has remained deadlocked. Most observers agree […]
