Dérégulation environnementale sous couvert de simplification ! Si le texte de la Commission européenne passe, des dizaines de substances toxiques seraient commercialisées sans réévaluation de leur toxicité. Bloquez ce texte en signant la pétition de POLLINIS mobilisation.pollinis.org/non-autorisa...
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A powerful US spy-tech company linked to genocide in Gaza, ICE deportations, and Trump’s war with Iran is now expanding across Europe into our hospitals, police and data systems. We must expose it and stop its expansion action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03...
I have just signed this petition. It's an issue I care about. Will you sign it too? action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03...
As the US and Israel cause death and destruction in Iran, our leaders just look on. All European nations and the EU must follow Spain’s lead and say NO to war. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03...
EU Commission President von der Leyen caved in to pressure from US President Trump. Tell Europe’s leaders to reject the trade deal and protect climate and citizens today. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-10...
The bombs fall silent. The headlines fade. But the poison remains. Strikes on Iran have unleashed toxic pollutants that will contaminate the environment for decades. Cancer rates will rise. Birth defects will increase. This is the heartless, long tail of modern warfare. We must hold the architects
We need to talk about the words we use.
"Clearing ancient forests" is not "land management."
"Destroying ecosystems" is not "economic development."
It's the permanent erasure of a unique, irreplaceable life-support system.
Let's call it what it is: #Ecocide.
An ancient forest isn't just a collection of trees; it's a cathedral of biodiversity,a climate regulator, & a water cycle engineer.
Calling its destruction "development" ignores the truth: you cannot develop a cemetery.
You can only mourn it.
It's time to recognize #Ecocide.
When we say "sustainable land use" while bulldozing millennia-old forests, we're lying to ourselves.
What we're actually doing: committing #Ecocide, the deliberate, massive destruction of ecosystems we know can't be replaced.
Words matter. Truth matters more. 🪓🌲
Trust Trump to do two things to help Putin:
1. Bomb Iran boosting the global oil price.
2. Substantially ease US sanctions on Russian oil exports.
Trump will substantially increase Russia's revenues to kill Ukrainians.
Trump is Putin's best friend.
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I have only just recently started digging into data centres and water, and the way companies are hiding vital information is beyond belief. It is so, so dodgy.
The entire project to widely popularise the idea these concerns are "fake" makes so much sense in this context
Russia is feeding Iran targeting data on US warships in the Middle East - the same surveillance playbook refined against Ukraine.
The drone partnership that battered Ukrainian cities is now being turned against American positions, with strike precision analysts say Iran can't achieve alone.
I think @abilutangwa.bsky.social that bringing positive news that gives hope is an essential ingredient.
Costa Rica has shown it *IS* possible to bring back nature on a mass scale, as @thinkorswim.bsky.social outlines in this great piece.
Meanwhile in Ireland all we get is, at best, incremental change and fudging.
Why is Irish nature always just an afterthought?
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
"Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country, and you see it happening already."
-Donald Trump, 4/2/25
So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
Despite Viktor Orbán's anti-Ukraine rhetoric, the Hungarian government has paradoxically partnered its newly privatized defense industry with foreign military contractors that actively supply weapons to the Ukrainian armed forces.
I'm not suggesting this is an open secret within the climate science community, but it's remarkable how little impact this sort of research is generating. Because if the rate of warming really has *doubled* then you can kiss goodbye to 2°C. www.carbonbrief.org/pace-of-glob...
EU and Canada eye digital trade deal, in wake of US hostility
The commissioned announced Friday, that the EU and Canada have begun to negotiate a so-called ‘Digital Trade Agreement’, with the aim of boosting legal certainty and fair digital trade across the Atlantic.
Moscow has dispatched a team to Hungary to interfere in the elections, VSquare has learned from multiple European national security sources. The operation, overseen by Putin confidant Sergei Kiriyenko, is designed to keep Viktor Orbán in power — and follows the same blueprint Russia used in Moldova.
Interesting that among the few advance plans we made are those that benefit Russia. See my longer essay on Oligarchic Corridors.
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Russia is using Ukraine as a training ground for the army it plans to use against NATO next, Lithuanian intelligence warns.
If sanctions are lifted, Moscow could field a force 50% larger than before the war – fully re-armed and ready to strike within six years.
euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/06/r...
Crimean Tatar political prisoner with a malignant brain tumour forced to sign a fake ‘clean bill of health’
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The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.
Centuries-old trees are planetary anchors. They store carbon, shelter millions of species, and hold our soil in place. Reducing them to ash for short-term profit is not development—it's ecocide. #StopDeforestation #ClimateCrisis
A forest that took centuries to build, destroyed in days. For profit. This isn't development. It's the liquidation of our planet's natural capital. #Ecocide #Deforestation
One ancient tree can be home to thousands of species—insects, birds, fungi, plants. Reducing it to ash isn't clearing land; it's demolishing an entire city of life. That is ecocide. #Biodiversity #Forests
It's time to change the language. Clearing an ancient forest isn't "land use" or "development." It's the permanent loss of a unique, irreplaceable life-support system. That has a name: #Ecocide.