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British #climate protesters who plotted highway shutdown given record harsh #prison sentences

Source: https://apnews.com/article/britain-climate-protesters-record-prison-sentences-7b8b7e56a4611ccfdf4896edf9ea2c67

ā€œThe plain fact is that each of you some time ago has crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic,ā€ Hehir told the group. ā€œYou have appointed yourselves as sole arbiters of what should be done about climate change.ā€

#court #law #protest #uk #politics #fail #Problem #activism #future #humanity #justice #news

British climate protesters who plotted highway shutdown given record harsh prison sentences

Five climate activists who planned a protest to cause gridlock and block traffic over four days on a major highway circling London have been sentenced to as much as five years in prison.

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hudsonlacerda@diasporabr.com.br
Hudson Lacerda*

RepĆ³rter e ativista prĆ³-Palestina Ć© presa no Reino Unido por denunciar genocĆ­dio israelense em Gaza

#SarahWilkinson ganhou destaque por cobrir a crise humanitĆ”ria no enclave; hĆ” duas semanas, jornalista #RichardMedhurst tambĆ©m foi detido em Londres e disse que naĆ§Ć£o usa ā€˜fascismo para proteger sionismoā€™

https://operamundi.uol.com.br/guerra-israel-x-palestina/reporter-e-ativista-pro-palestina-e-presa-no-reino-unido-por-denunciar-genocidio-israelense-em-gaza/

#israel #sionismo #Ć© #nazismo

#Gaza #Palestina #ReinoUnido #UK #freedom #journalim #censorship #genocide

RepĆ³rter e ativista prĆ³-Palestina Ć© presa no Reino Unido por denunciar genocĆ­dio israelense em Gaza - Opera Mundi

A ativista britĆ¢nica de direitos humanos e jornalista pelo portal MENA Uncensored, Sarah Wilkinson, teve sua casa invadida pela polĆ­cia do Reino Unido e foi

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ā€˜Home Deskā€™: The Foreign Officeā€™s covert propaganda campaign inside Britain

ā€œto keep communist activities in this country under review and to recommend what counter-action could properly be takenā€

Image/photoharry haller wrote the following post Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:33:09 +0300

ā€˜Home Deskā€™: The Foreign Officeā€™s covert propaganda campaign inside Britain >

The Home Deskā€™s modus operandi was to collect information on ā€œsubversiveā€ individuals and organisations from open and secret sources, ranging from newspaper clippings and books to MI5 moles and classified material.

It would then pass this information to trusted contacts in the British press, parliament, think tanks, universities, and other private networks in an effort to discredit the activities of ā€œsubversiveā€ leftists in Britain.

The Home Desk was kept entirely hidden from the public, and its funding was not subject to parliamentary oversight. Outside of a small clique of high-ranking British ministers, diplomats, and intelligence agents, the Home Desk simply did not exist.

Its ultimate target was the British public. The recently declassified record allows us to peel back a layer of these secret operations. ā€” https://www.declassifieduk.org/home-desk-the-foreign-offices-covert-propaganda-campaign-inside-britain/ Image/photo

#uk #britain #england #british #censorship #totalitarism #MI5 #psyops #propaganda #corruption #fraud #mindmanipulation #intelligence #anticommunism #mccarthyism #history

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harryhaller@diasp.eu
harry

ā€˜Home Deskā€™: The Foreign Officeā€™s covert propaganda campaign inside Britain

The Home Deskā€™s modus operandi was to collect information on ā€œsubversiveā€ individuals and organisations from open and secret sources, ranging from newspaper clippings and books to MI5 moles and classified material.

It would then pass this information to trusted contacts in the British press, parliament, think tanks, universities, and other private networks in an effort to discredit the activities of ā€œsubversiveā€ leftists in Britain.

The Home Desk was kept entirely hidden from the public, and its funding was not subject to parliamentary oversight. Outside of a small clique of high-ranking British ministers, diplomats, and intelligence agents, the Home Desk simply did not exist.

Its ultimate target was the British public. The recently declassified record allows us to peel back a layer of these secret operations. ā€” https://www.declassifieduk.org/home-desk-the-foreign-offices-covert-propaganda-campaign-inside-britain/
#tags#uk #homeoffice #homedesk #foreignoffice #attlee #InformationResearchDepartment #IRD #anticommunism #history ">

ā€˜Home Deskā€™: The Foreign Officeā€™s covert propaganda campaign inside Britain

A secret unit of the Foreign Office monitored leftist journalists, intellectuals and trade unions deemed ā€œsubversiveā€ and sought to discredit them during the Cold War, recently declassified files reveal.

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mkwadee@diasp.eu
Khurram Wadee

As it's a #BankHoliday #weekend, we went on a hike on #Dartmoor. I planned it to be a visit to somewhere I hadn't been before but starting off from a familiar location. In total, the excursion was 18 km of walking and took the best part of 6 hours with all the stops and breaks. As anyone who has walked here before knows, it's not to be done without preparation and having a good #map and #compass with you is vital. Mobile phone reception is patchy at best and so I rely on a paper map and the tried-and-tested method of #DeadReckoning. Essentials include a pair of good quality #WalkingBoots, #WaterProof clothing available and you should always prepare to be colder than you would be in town. As the terrain is quite rough and the vegetation can be thorny along with the presence of insects, #Shorts are not recommended unless you're happy to have grazes and bites by the end of the trip. The elevation is between 400-500 m above sea level and it is one of the wettest places in #England. It is also exposed to high winds.

The start of the journey was easy enough, just a short climb up to a #Cairn.
View looking south from the start of journey on Dartmoor
A cairn on Dartmoor

Until you join a #path or #bridleway, you have to negotiate #gorse which, if you're not careful, could easily mean a twisted ankle. However, the wild #flowers are very colourful. You can also see part of #FernworthyForest in the background, which is where we were headed.
Irregular terrain with forest in mid-ground
Gorse and flowers around a bridleway

On the way to our first target, there were some #Neolithic artefacts such as these #StandingStones. There are some wild #DartmoorPonies in the background and I took a zoomed-in image of one of the ponies -- it's best not to get too close to them.
Standing Stones
White Dartmoor pony feeding

The first destination on the itinerary was #FernworthyReservoir. It has a #MasonryDam, which is not a common form of #Dam, most being concrete or earth (embankment) dams in the #UK. There is a another one in Dartmoor and so I'm guessing there was a trend to build such types at the beginning of the twentieth century, which is when I happen to know the other one was built. Neither the dam nor the #reservoir are very big but they do provide water for nearby populations.
Detail of masonry dam
Detail of vegetation in the foreground of dam

The surface of the reservoir was quite choppy owing to the windy conditions. Also, the level was near the maximum and right up to spillway at the centre of the dam.
Choppy surface of Fernworthy Reservoir
Spillway of Fernworthy Dam
Shore of Fernworthy Reservoir

Fernworthy Forest is a #conifer forest, which I think is not natural, rather being there to provide timber. There are many track through it but none are marked and so the only way to find out which way you're going is to use a compass. I was uncertain of my precise location after a while but I knew that if we kept heading in a westerly direction, we'd eventually get to the other side.
Bases of coniferous trees
Tops of coniferous trees
Densely packed trees
Details of tree foliage

Once out of the forest, it was a matter of heading south towards the main road. The weather forecast was spot on and it started to rain right on cue. Once over a rise, eventually we found a bridleway down.
Western edge of Fernworthy Forest
View south

Once we passed this #StoneCircle, I knew we were on the right track as it's marked on the #OSMap. The journey from there was quite straightforward, although still another 5-6 km to go.
Stone circle
Ferns on valley side

The last leg of the journey was on a main road, without a separate footpath but just before getting onto that, I looked at the path we'd taken and also to the other side of Dartmoor.
Looking back on the path from the forest
A panorama of Dartmoor

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Summer #Countryside #Moorland

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kuchinster@rusx.org
kuchinster

Image/photoharry haller wrote the following post Sat, 24 Aug 2024 21:56:10 +0300

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Roosevelt was interested in balance of power - a divided europe served US interests.

Austen Chamberlain's doctrine was let Germany expand eastwards. That was in the UK's interest.

But the USA dominated UK via Canada and Churchill represented their policy.

Auswaertiges Amt Weissbuch Nr. 3 Polnische Dokumente Zur Vorgeschichte Des Krieges

https://archive.org/details/auswaertigesamtweissbuchnr.3polnischedokumentezurvorgeschichtedeskrieges1940128s.scan_202003/

what the "democratic" bloc did for the "democratic front of Spain" ? NOTHING.

No. They worked against it. They helped Franco. That was the intention of the the non-interventionist doctrine - to stop aid reaching the republic. That has been confirmed by UK cabinet papers.

Only Stalin later helped but their intervention wasn't innocentā€¦

To be innocent would be irresponsible.

The USSR was hardly 20 years old and had already suffered 2-3 attempted invasions. It was the only socialist state on planet earth.

How can one criticise the only country that aided the republic?

Spain was being ruined by the POUM and a load of foreign agents.

Just as with the fight against the Nazis, the imperialists and their Trotskyists criticise the USSR and paint themselves as heros - or at least - as innocent bystanders.

#history #uk #britain #europe #WWII #WW2 #soviet #USSR #Russia #socialism

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kuchinster@rusx.org
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England's Parliament was ā€œfuriousā€ about the impossibility of striking the USSR

Members of the British Parliament in March 1940 were really furious that London's plans to launch a military strike against the USSR had been thwarted, as described in documents from the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation, published by the Presidential Library.

In essence, Britain, France and other Western countries acted then in the same way that their followers within NATO are now hatching aggressive plans against Russia. Saturday marks the 75th anniversary of the entry into force of the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.

England and France in early 1940 made a fundamental decision to go to war against the USSR, to strike from Finland, with which the Soviet Union was then fighting, to capture Leningrad, to strike from the Caucasus, destroying the local Soviet oil fields, and to establish a ā€œnational Russian governmentā€. This decision was made by the Supreme Military Council, the official main body of the military leadership of England and France, it was headed by the Prime Ministers of both countries, Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier.

But the plans of London and Paris to strike the Soviet Union was not destined to come true. England and France did not care about them in connection with the military successes of Germany in the west of Europe in 1940. And on March 12, 1940 the war between the USSR and Finland ended, Moscow and Helsinki signed a peace treaty.

On March 14, 1940, the USSR Ambassador to England Ivan Maisky reported by cipher telegram to Moscow, to the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, ā€œabout the mood in the English Parliament in connection with the conclusion of peace between the USSR and Finlandā€.

ā€œI was today at a meeting of Parliament, where Chamberlain made a report on the conclusion of peace between the USSR and Finland, and once again could see how great was the danger of open intervention of England and France on the side of Finlandā€ - reported Maisky.

He described the general mood of the members of the British Parliament at that meeting.

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ā€œIt was a vivid demonstration of concentrated but impotent frenzy, and it is worthy of note that this feeling permeated both the Conservatives and very significant circles of the opposition,ā€ the diplomat reported. ā€œThe parliamentary 'masses' were furious and met every anti-Soviet outburst with tumultuous approbation. I have rarely seen a parliament in a state of such irritation and excitement,ā€ Maisky pointed out.

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The most ardent supporters of supporting Finland with military equipment and men were British Labor. Maisky had reported this fact to the USSR NKID earlier, on February 11, 1940, when reporting on England's military aid to Finland. He described the details of his conversation with Richard Austin Butler, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in England.

ā€œButler told him that the Laborists, especially the 'working delegation' returned from Helsinki headed by Sitrin, were pressing the British government hard in the sense of strengthening and intensifying aid to Finland,ā€ Maisky wrote.

The current British Labor prime minister, Keir Starmer, has asked the country's National Security Council to consider plans for more support for Kiev, The Times reported last week.

https://ria.ru/20240824/velikobritaniya-1968202055.html

#uk #britain #british #parliament #england #france #germany #finland #europe #eu #Western support #nazism #nazi #NATO #WWII #WW2 #history #soviet #USSR #russian #Russia

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harryhaller@diasp.eu
harry

Monarchies can work as soft dictatorships because people are groomed to get the wrong end of the stick - a common trick in propaganda.

King to receive extra Ā£45m of public money as crown estate income soars | King Charles III | The Guardian
Public money? Like dividend payments to major shareholders isn't really their money but the company's money? - they own the company and appointed the CEO...

Sir John Major: I think there are lots of things to celebrate and there are lots of answers to that particular question. I think probably the Queenā€™s service to the nation, that has been impeccable.
She served the nation, not the nation served her?
(...)
One thing about the meetings with the Queen is that no-one is there, just the corgis, behaving or not, as the case may be, and you could speak in absolute privacy. There is no Private Secretary there, no notes were made...
BBC

The sea bed belongs to the crown as well...

Crown News !!!

"We are an independent business sitting between the public and private sectors, acting in the national interest both today, and for future generations."

Do we live in UK plc? pdf

#uk #ukplc #monarchy #softdictator #softpower #softbrains

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