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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55786409 The UK has identified 77 cases of the coronavirus variant first detected in South Africa, the health secretary has said. Cases are linked to travellers arriving in the UK, rather than community transmission, Matt Hancock added. He told the BBC's Andrew Marr cas...

Not at all clear yet. I have a bad feeling about it. I was just beginning to hope things might get back to relatively normal by April, but now I'm wondering whether we are looking at another 6-9 months of this misery. It's like being in prison, while your life drips away one day at a time, with not...

Heard of the Great Barrington Declaration? Have you heard of the American Institute for Economic Research ? Funders of such tomes as: "What Greta Thunberg Forgets About Climate Change" "The Real Reason Nobody Takes Environmental Activists Seriously" "Brazilians Should Keep ...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/16/magazine/russia-climate-migration-crisis.html A great transformation is underway in the eastern half of Russia. For centuries the vast majority of the land has been impossible to farm; only the southernmost stretches along the Chinese and Mongolian bord...

Preaching to the choir here, but might be a useful resource. Perfect explanation of where we are heading, and why.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPb_0JZ ... e=youtu.be

I think it is important to distinguish anthropogenic greenhouse emissions from the feedback effects like clathrate release. Both matter, but they obviously aren't the same thing. I don't believe CO2 emissions have peaked yet, although it is probably close. There's too many unknowns about what the ec...

https://www.ft.com/content/e2736009-4b9b-4535-a025-ed48c1eb21a9?fbclid=IwAR1FyuT6kOuYUHHtbEM5GFfdDoYAduAaoKxLbbhGBxKPclASBN_VGEeU8C0 The Bank of England does not understand its own flagship quantitative easing programme, the central bank’s internal independent watchdog concluded on Wednesday. QE, wh...

BritDownUnder wrote: ↑Fri Jan 15, 2021 12:27 pm I remember a joke from my school days. Why did the Romans build straight roads? So there could be no Indian corner shops.

That is a shit joke, given that corner shops are found at the intersections of straight roads.

https://www.dezeen.com/2021/01/13/line- ... city-neom/

I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

More here : https://www.vice.com/en/article/m7a598/ ... umber-form

Quite apart from the typical hysterical bullshit about roads "being choked up with ill and dying people", do you seriously not grasp how the use of terms like "covid-deniers" makes people like you look really, really stupid? No. It's you who looks stupid. You look like raving lu...

Meanwhile, in Alabama...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-55641084

Fans of the University of Alabama football team gathered in the streets of Tuscaloosa in Alabama, ignoring social distancing.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/10/wild-deer-set-to-wreak-havoc-in-uk-woodlands-as-venison-demand-plunges?fbclid=IwAR0HYRwi60i6X_u0EmA1H7ggmRrFpm305k69GU7wlxjooV8e8MZg69JN6tc Wild deer set to wreak havoc in UK woodlands as venison demand plunges Unmanaged animals from Britain’s larg...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-55555074

Supporters of US President Donald Trump have breached the Capitol, where lawmakers have been meeting to confirm President-elect Joe Biden's poll win.

America has completely lost the plot.

Little John wrote: ↑Mon Jan 04, 2021 11:51 pm
2), Assuming it does fail, it remains to be seen how long Assange lives following release.

Are you asking that because he appears so psychologically and physically broken, or because you think the US will try to assassinate him?