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Do as thou will, so long as your activities increase biodiversity and biomass, reduce pollution and heat, and replace any resources used.

Want to live in the howling wilderness? OK. But only if you can increase the number and amount of lifeforms, and reduce pollution by being there. If you can’t do all three, you don’t get to live in the wilderness.

Freedom today is based on money. If you have enough money, you can do what you want, if you obey the law. The more money you have, the fewer laws apply to you: either they are laws which if violated are punished with fines, which you don’t care about, or they are laws which are effectively not enforced against the rich.

The New Green Age, instead of having a zero tolerance policy for minor infractions, will have no tolerance for people who damage the ecosphere or the climate.

Defne Sheridan is a producer. She lives in New York and Los Angeles.

No, you read her bio correctly. It goes like this: Defne Sheridan is a producer. She lives in New York and Los Angeles. You might be wondering how that works logistically. But if you have to ask how someone can live in both New York and Los Angeles, then you are not ready to live in New York and Los Angeles. Shhh.

Again: Defne Sheridan is a producer. She lives in New York and Los Angeles. Sometimes Defne says she lives in Los Angeles and New York to switch things up. No matter which order the cities are in, Defne and her long-tailed chinchilla inhabit both in an equally spiritual way.

Defne transcends time and space and has a presence in New York and Los Angeles. Sometimes her art needs sun, so she goes to LA. Sometimes her art needs rain, so she goes to New York. Sun and rain, rain and sun, back and forth, for meaning-making.

Migrants risking their lives to cross the US border is a huge political issue but also a quiet, devastating human tragedy

Despite initially denying it held the data, the Met confirm 2,400 anonymous reports of corrupt or abusive staff

Nikki Haley may be off the stage but what will her voters do next? Martin Burns analyses the answers US voters gave to CNN's exit polls in three states

Selfishness is an enduring part of the human condition. For Iris Murdoch, the antidote is to decentre oneself from the world

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Even when it’s not explicitly religious, belief in alien visitors resembles our oldest ways of making sense of the world

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It was the Summer of 1983 and the Featherstone Rovers loose-forward Keith Bell was preparing for his testimonial season. Back then, rugby league was a part-time game, and a ten-year celebration was the ultimate accolade for loyalty and commitment to the hardest of sports. In an age where players worked around shifts and received £50 […]

The long-run real market interest rate appears to be nearing the higher levels that prevailed from 2004 to 2012. Is the period of low real interest rates over?

ORG and the3million took the Government to court several times before the Government accepted that the Immigration Exemption was unlawful. While we are relieved to see the Government is finally complying with a court order and bringing the Immigration Exemption in line with the law, it is shameful that it took them five long years […]

Western media promoted a UN report as proof Hamas sexually assaulted Israelis. Yet the report’s authors admitted they couldn’t locate a single victim, suggested Israeli officials staged a rape scene, and denounced “inaccurate forensic interpretations.” On March 4, the United Nations released a report into sexual violence which has supposedly taken place amid the Israeli war on Gaza. The report was immediately celebrated in mainstream media outlets as proof of what scores of Israel lobbyists and journalists under their sway […]

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Θεωρητικά, η ΕΕ ενστερνίζεται τον φιλελευθερισμό της ελεύθερης οικονομία. Στην πραγματικότητα, ξεκίνησε ως καρτέλ παραγωγών άνθρακα και χάλυβα που, ανοιχτά και νόμιμα, έλεγχε τις τιμές και την παραγωγή μέσω μιας πολυεθνικής γραφειοκρατίας στις Βρυξέλλες. Ο Μάνος, αγρότης έκτης γενιάς από τη Θεσσαλία, μου το έθεσε ωμά όταν του ζήτησα να μου εξηγήσει γιατί ήταν διατεθειμένος […]

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Companies facing antitrust scrutiny funneled big money to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen before her aides tried to defund regulators’ budget.

The Grayzone has obtained slides from a confidential Israel lobby presentation based on data from Republican pollster Frank Luntz. They contain talking points for politicians and public figures seeking to justify Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip. Two prominent pro-Israel lobby groups are holding private briefings in New York City to coach elected officials and well-known figures on how to influence public opinion in favor of the Israeli military’s rampage in Gaza, The Grayzone can reveal. These PR sessions, convened […]

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People need to be reminded. It was so, so bad.

That’s quite an invitation, no? By contrast, here’s Biden: You tell me which one is fit to be president. By the way, this from Dave Weigel is interesting: A super PAC that urged non-Republicans to cast primary votes for Nikki Haley is pivoting to November, urging Haley’s voters to support President Joe Biden. Starting today, Primary Pivot will become Haley Voters for Biden, and urge anyone who supported Haley in a swing state to stick with the president in November. “This is an effort from people who have actually supported Nikki Haley to try to guide as many of them as possible toward the candidate that respects democracy, even if they may disagree with him politically,” said Primary Pivot co-founder Robert Schwartz. In a statement, Primary Pivot said it would focus on Haley voters in states where they could be counted — nearly 300,000 in Michigan, and nearly 250,000 in North Carolina. The super PAC, which started by urging New Hampshire Democrats to temporarily switch their registrations, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to activate potential Haley voters in South Carolina and Super Tuesday states.

“Israel is now massacring desperate, starving Palestinians seeking to obtain food for their slowly-dying children.” The situation in Gaza is now so terrifying as to be unspeakable, writes South Africa in an urgent request for the International Court of Justice to issue additional provisional measures to stop Israel’s genocide. South Africa today filed an urgent Continue reading »

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I don’t think TV ads work the way they used to but it can’t hurt to try a simple message and repeat it over and over again. Repetition is key: An estimated $2.7 billion is expected to be spent just on presidential campaign advertising this cycle. Pro-Biden super PACs Future Forward and American Bridge already have committed to a blizzard of ads, with $250 million and $200 million in spending respectively, as Democrats prepare an onslaught of ads to turn voters’ attention away from Biden’s age and remind them of Trump’s chaotic first term. In a memo released Wednesday morning, the Biden campaign said that groups allied with it had committed to spending more than $700 million to help defeat Trump. And with the president’s team eager to turn 2024 into a choice election for voters, plans are in place for the campaign itself to ramp up contrast ad-spending this spring. A person familiar with Biden’s campaign strategy but not authorized to speak about it publicly said it will come earlier than when then-President Barack Obama’s allies began turning up the heat on Republican rival Mitt Romney in 2012.

While Congress has obsessed over Palestine solidarity protests on college campuses, Gottheimer’s fixation on high school students is unusual.

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