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From the BBC, Trudeau has backed himself into a corner. Along with numerous other Leaders, including those in the EU, agreeing with, and supporting Trump is deemed impossible.

"Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he will seek "justice" for those killed on board a Ukrainian passenger plane downed by Iran.

Mr Trudeau spoke in Edmonton, Alberta at a vigil for the 57 Canadians killed in the disaster.

The PM promised to pursue answers from Iran, which admitted its military shot down the plane in error, killing all 176 people on board."

Jan 13, 2020 at 10:14 AM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

Jan 13, 2020 at 1:03 AM tomo

Verging on criminality, certainly deception for financial gain.

http://joannenova.com.au/2020/01/on-facebook-greta-looks-16-but-secretly-identifies-as-two-grown-men/

Jan 13, 2020 at 9:37 AM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

"New Zealand schools to teach students about climate crisis, activism and 'eco anxiety'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/13/new-zealand-schools-to-teach-students-about-climate-crisis-activism-and-eco-anxiety
Education? Or propaganda?
Jan 13, 2020 at 8:41 AM Mark Hodgson

Child abuse.
Psychological warfare
Brain washing

They could enter their red star pupils into North Korean school competitions

Jan 13, 2020 at 9:21 AM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

Jan 13, 2020 at 8:41 AM AK
Thank you! I am glad that someone appropriately qualified has made that observation.

We must now await the combination of Philippine volcanic dust and Australian forest fire particulates into the latest non existent existential threat to the Great Barrier Reef/Antarctica/Polar Bears etc.

Jan 13, 2020 at 8:58 AM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

Dr Who was successfully relaunched and given the budgets necessary. I have been a regular-ish viewer for 40+ years, but it is now trading on its success of 5+years ago.

Unfortunately, the switch to a female Dr Who will be blamed, not the BBC's choice of scriptwriters.

Why don't the BBC replace Jodie Whittaker with St Greta to match the acting, scripts and target audience?

Jan 13, 2020 at 8:44 AM | Unregistered Commentergolf charlie

BBC needs educating in volcanology (or the English language). News at 8.30 included information that a Philippine volcano was spewing lava and was expected to erupt soon.

Jan 13, 2020 at 8:41 AM | Unregistered CommenterAK

"Universities divesting from fossil fuels have made history, but the fight isn't over
Today student campaigners are celebrating the 77th university to divest, but we won’t stop fighting for climate justice"

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jan/13/universities-divesting-from-fossil-fuels-have-made-history-but-the-fight-isnt-over


"Pictures of the world on fire won’t shock us for much longer
Mark O'Connell
The Australia bushfire photos are already hardening hearts towards those in the midst of it"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/13/pictures-world-fire-australia-bushfire-climate-emergency

"Not so long ago, one of the reigning cliches around the subject of climate crisis was that it was a “looming catastrophe”. The situation was urgent, yes, and catastrophe was more or less imminent, but when people talked about it they mostly stuck to the future tense. It’s hard to identify the precise moment when the crisis moved from the horizon of popular imagination to the immediate foreground, but the spectacle in recent weeks of a continent in flames feels like a clear indication that the time of looming has ended and the catastrophe proper has commenced.

...Yet the most disturbing thing about the images of the fires is not that they might signal the end of the world, but that they might signal how the world will continue. That we might just get used to large parts of the planet being on fire, and even larger parts of it being underwater. And more disturbing still, that we might harden our hearts against the people who live and die in the floods and the fires.

Because when I look at the images of those Australians crowded on the beaches, fleeing the smoke and the flames, there is a kind of double exposure effect, whereby I see the ghostly image of those other refugees who have come by boat to Australia from places where they were no longer safe, only to be held indefinitely and in appalling conditions on offshore detention facilities in the South Pacific. In the rest of the world, their suffering has been mostly ignored. These people know better than anyone what an apocalypse looks like."

Typical Guardian writer. He doesn't seem to understand that moving people from a developing country with low per capital CO2 emissions to a developed country with some of the highest per capita emissions in the world will inevitably increase CO2 emissions. By all means be compassionate to refugees; just don't do it in the same article banging on hysterically about a climate crisis. "Green" policies are often self-contradictory. You can't move lots of refugees (or economic migrants) from developing countries to developed ones without increasing CO2 emissions.


"Polluting vehicles could be pulled from UK sale, say carmakers
New fines for breaches on CO2 limits will clash with Britons’ taste for higher-emission SUVs"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/13/polluting-vehicles-could-be-pulled-from-uk-sale-say-carmakers


When one article on a story just isn't enough:

"Half of UK universities have committed to divest from fossil fuel
78 out of 154 universities joined campaign in blow to big oil’s ‘social licence’, campaigners say"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/13/half-of-uk-universities-have-committed-to-divest-from-fossil-fuel


"Avoid UK recession by kickstarting green economy, says thinktank
New Economics Foundation calls for £50bn to reboot economy on greener footing"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/13/avoid-uk-recession-by-kickstarting-green-economy-says-thinktank


"New Zealand schools to teach students about climate crisis, activism and 'eco anxiety'
Changes to the curriculum will put the country at the forefront of climate crisis education worldwide"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/13/new-zealand-schools-to-teach-students-about-climate-crisis-activism-and-eco-anxiety

Education? Or propaganda?

Jan 13, 2020 at 8:41 AM | Unregistered CommenterMark Hodgson

Uncle Andrew is well pleased with his nephew ?

Jan 13, 2020 at 2:54 AM | Registered Commentertomo

Looks like Sparkles has taken a wrecking ball to the RF - and her dim witted spouse went along with it.
Sparkles and hapless Harry have made the RF a laughingstock

Jan 13, 2020 at 2:47 AM | Unregistered CommenterKleinefeldmaus

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