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According to an RAF insider, the Air Chief Marshall is willing to compromise national security at a time of growing threats from Russia and China to pursue his ?equity, diversity and inclusion? agenda.
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The U.S. Are Not the Good Guys Wed Aug 17, 2022 08:00 | Noah Carl
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Jump To Comment: 1 2This is a complete sellout by the Greens. Had they voted No, it would at least send message out that GM is not wanted.
The Greens had remained the last hope that sense might prevail somewhere, but this sellout only confirms the view that there is no sector within the current capitalist system that is even remotely let alone willing to address the major environmental issues of the day. It is quite clear that a sustainable environment and capitalism are incompatible and we must drop all pretenses that the Green Party in any shape or form has an even remote chance of changing the course of the destructive policies of the mainstream parties which are totally at the behest of big capital and corporations.
Survey after survey shows that the vast majority of people in Ireland and Europe do not want GM food. And yet the Greens are going to bow down before the WTO and the European Commision and allow its vicarious route into animal feed. How pathetic.
This means the minister will have allowed in Monsanto animal feed which consists of living genetically modified organisms. What's next? Biofuel from the SE Asian and Brazilian rainforests?
Capitalism is simply unsustainable. Social democracy or some meagre from of green conservationism in hoc to neoliberalism will not make it sustainable, and certainly not over the medium to longer term.
Cuba Flies Lone Flag for Sustainability
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84625
""We don’t need environmental evangelicals to tell us that sustainable development is a good idea. Yet, if that is our goal, we are heading in the wrong direction - with the exception of Cuba. So says the first study to examine the ecological impact of changing lifestyles around the globe."
It's capitalism or a habitable planet - you can't have both
http://www.guardian.co.uk/renewable/Story/0,,1700302,00....html
"There is no meaningful response to climate change without massive social change. A cap on this and a quota on the other won't do it. Tinker at the edges as we may, we cannot sustain earth's life-support systems within the present economic system.
Capitalism is not sustainable by its very nature. It is predicated on infinitely expanding markets, faster consumption and bigger production in a finite planet. And yet this ideological model remains the central organising principle of our lives, and as long as it continues to be so it will automatically undo (with its invisible hand) every single green initiative anybody cares to come up with.
Much discussion of energy, with never a word about power, leads to the fallacy of a low-impact, green capitalism somehow put at the service of environmentalism. In reality, power concentrates around wealth. Private ownership of trade and industry means that the decisive political force in the world is private power. The corporation will outflank every puny law and regulation that seeks to constrain its profitability. It therefore stands in the way of the functioning democracy needed to tackle climate change. Only by breaking up corporate power and bringing it under social control will we be able to overcome the global environmental crisis...."