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Post by offgrid hero on Jun 20, 2023 15:15:54 GMT
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Post by NomadCris on Jun 20, 2023 17:21:29 GMT
Cant do much about climate change but the main fault is with the water companies,theyve done nothing to fix the thousands of miles of old leaky water mains while pocketing the profits and paying big dividends to shareholders plus theyve sold off 35 reservoirs to bump their profits. It was always going to be a disaster privatising water supply and not building the water national grid proposed 40+ years ago.
The exact same thing has happened in the US because of greedy private utilities.
If the electorate are held to ransom by water companies -which they will be - They have only themselves to blame for voting for it and the parties that did it -Tory and New Labour. The people who did it all want throwing in prison and the water companies nationalised.
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Post by NomadCris on Jun 21, 2023 4:35:46 GMT
Litha/ Alban Hefin / Summer Soltice at Stonehenge this morning
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Post by bernie on Jun 21, 2023 10:19:35 GMT
Cant do much about climate change but the main fault is with the water companies,theyve done nothing to fix the thousands of miles of old leaky water mains while pocketing the profits and paying big dividends to shareholders plus theyve sold off 35 reservoirs to bump their profits. It was always going to be a disaster privatising water supply and not building the water national grid proposed 40+ years ago. The exact same thing has happened in the US because of greedy private utilities. If the electorate are held to ransom by water companies -which they will be - They have only themselves to blame for voting for it and the parties that did it -Tory and New Labour. The people who did it all want throwing in prison and the water companies nationalised. Nationalisation is not the answer. We would just go back to the crass laziness and inertia of the 50s. I worked for the then Nationalised Water Board back in the early 70s and it was a disgrace. But the foreign owned asset strippers we have now are not the answer either. A private company but with the government as a major shareholder might be a better option. However, water prices need to go up by double or treble what they are to cut demand. That's not going to be popular |
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Post by gentu on Jun 21, 2023 11:08:55 GMT
better question might be ... is sex just about shagging, cumming and running ... certainly seems to be about the level of things - as sex is a covert "skirted around [no pun intended] subject" ... isn't porn close to the largest percentage of "traffic" online. Wonder if another solution might be to not label women who dare celebrate their own sexuality as being "tarts" unless they're doing it to produce offspring. We've all been conned into displacement activity instead of having glorious erotic committed relationships with partners. Apologies in advance of any backlash, this post is a sweeping generalisation ... (which is always very sketchy) ... BUT sexual shame/embarrassment or joke making appears to be very prevalent - on the "sex"subject. Reckon we've all been conned into collective disappointment and loss. I sure do hope guys don't go for what might look like an ideal solution - or we are all fucked ... and not in a good way. Probably haven't explained myself very well ... but hey, words only get you so far ... unless you're an accomplished wordsmith.... which I ain't. |
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Post by gentu on Jun 21, 2023 11:20:04 GMT
Cant do much about climate change but the main fault is with the water companies,theyve done nothing to fix the thousands of miles of old leaky water mains while pocketing the profits and paying big dividends to shareholders plus theyve sold off 35 reservoirs to bump their profits. It was always going to be a disaster privatising water supply and not building the water national grid proposed 40+ years ago. The exact same thing has happened in the US because of greedy private utilities. If the electorate are held to ransom by water companies -which they will be - They have only themselves to blame for voting for it and the parties that did it -Tory and New Labour. The people who did it all want throwing in prison and the water companies nationalised. Nationalisation is not the answer. We would just go back to the crass laziness and inertia of the 50s. I worked for the then Nationalised Water Board back in the early 70s and it was a disgrace. But the foreign owned asset strippers we have now are not the answer either. A private company but with the government as a major shareholder might be a better option. However, water prices need to go up by double or treble what they are to cut demand. That's not going to be popular Not sure arguments about RIGHT or LEFT are any longer relevant ... nowt to choose between any party of "govern" ment. More important is the issue of a respect for our place and reliance on the very stuff of life on this planet ... if we ain't got clean water, clean air, clean food - we're dead ... Thinking we're above NATURE becauase of our intellectual cleverness is sheer hubris. As a Native American chief once famously said ... "when the last fish in the sea (and rivers) is gone, we may finally realise that we can't eat money .... but unfortunately it'll be too late at that point - and we and our children and our childrens children will be dead as the dinosaurs .... AGAIN. Fucking hell, will we homo sapiens never evolve before we destroy ourselves by our own egos and stupidity. Hells teeth ..... |
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Post by NomadCris on Jun 21, 2023 11:53:35 GMT
Humans will always be able to rely on rampant predatory capitalism to make a shitload of money while making it virtually impossible for most ordinary people to be 8nable to live more than basic shit lives while the wealthy carry on as normal using up all the resources they choose with impunity.
Government/private partnerships have failed in most respects in providing affordable reluable zervices,just a easy backdoor for funnelling public funds into private companies and disappearing into a blackhole...water energy and rail and health companies already being a prime example soon to be followed by freeports special economic zones and charter cities. In a world off dwindling resources and major climate change ...sure more unregulated predatory capitalism is what we all need.. capitalist totalitarianism like china you can keep.
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Post by gentu on Jun 21, 2023 12:46:27 GMT
have you seen anything about a proposed CULLING OF LIVE STOCK in Ireland ...... that looks like even worse, like a kind of neo genocide (the four legged equivalent anyway) ... dunno what the correct terminology is .... I thought that kind of thing got halted after the buffalo and bison were decimated in North America ... looking like it was only a temporary halt in the warfare. Makes one wonder if the "Foot & Mouth" debacle might also have been a death dealing and fear porn scam .... makes a paranoid person like me ask crazy questions .... There does seem to be a wider scale war being ramped up relating to food and agriculture though. The farmers are being attacked in Ireland, Canada, Holland (probably elsewhere too, can't keep up with the breadth and depth and width of the evil to be honest) .... sommat big and bad and extremely demonic going on IMHO  |
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Post by NomadCris on Jun 24, 2023 0:21:47 GMT
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Post by bernie on Jun 24, 2023 6:03:29 GMT
Yes I have been following that with interest Things could get very nasty very quickly now. |
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Post by NomadCris on Jun 24, 2023 9:18:39 GMT
Prigozhins Wagner forces have taken Rostov news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-war-latest-putin-wagner-prigozhin-rostov-on-don-live-updates-12541713Also reported ... Russian soldiers surrendered en masse to Wagner PMC in Voronezh. Wagner now controls both Rostov (population 1.1 million) and Voronezh (also population 1.1 million). Wagner is now approaching Krasnodar (1 million) and Volgograd (950k) without any resistance. Russia's entire 22nd Special Forces Brigade has switched to Prigozhin's side as well as some FSB border guards. Russian attack helicopter and a fighter shot down overnight by Wagner PMC According to flightradar a rash of private planes left Moscow for Midle East and Russian interior. Panic Panic. |
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Post by NomadCris on Jun 24, 2023 10:00:29 GMT
Lukashenko of Belarus might be in trouble also....he left the country...and this ....
Belarussian soldiers, who are supporting Ukraine have called on Belarussian citizens to unite behind what is transpiring with Wagner, to liberate Belarus of Russia.
"Either we take this historic chance, or we will lose everything," Valery Sakhashchyk, founder of the 1st Airmobile Battalion within the Ukrainian Armed Forces and head of the National Security Department within the United Transitional Cabinet of Democratic Forces in Belarus, appealed to the Belarusian military.
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Post by offgrid hero on Jun 24, 2023 12:08:06 GMT
I don't mind listening to a bit of wagner, good on him👍
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Post by NomadCris on Jun 24, 2023 12:23:21 GMT
Hes just as much a monster but if he fucks up Putin thats all good. There will likely be a big power struggle and or civil war in Russia if he succeeds. Too many oligarchs with power who wont let that go.The Kremlin is full of extreme crazies.....tick tock
The funny part is the Putin leadership are all so confident in their authority theyve all left Moscow to St Petersburg or the Urals.
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Post by lika on Jun 24, 2023 18:50:46 GMT
Absolute nonsense , Russophobic bullshit.
How's it turn out -
Full statement from Lukashenko's press service on the PMC Wagner situation:
"This morning Russian President Vladimir Putin briefed his Belarusian counterpart on the situation in southern Russia with the Wagner private military company. The leaders agreed on joint actions.
Following the agreements, the President of Belarus, having further clarified the situation through his own channels, held talks with the head of the PMC Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in coordination with the Russian President.
The talks lasted a whole day. As a result, they agreed on the inadmissibility of unleashing a bloodbath on the territory of Russia. Yevgeny Prigozhin accepted President Alexander Lukashenko's proposal to stop the movement of Wagner fighters in Russia and to take other steps to de-escalate tensions.
At the moment, an absolutely advantageous and acceptable option for resolving the situation is on the table, with security guarantees for the PMC Wagner fighters.
As previously reported, during today's meeting the Belarusian President held two meetings with the country's security bloc on this situation.
New Prigozhin voice message - "We came within 200km of Moscow without shedding a drop of blood, now there is the possibility of blood being shed, understanding this responsibility we will turn around our convoys and return to our bases"
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