It's good the Nature Restoration Law passed but it has been so badly gutted. So sad to see those @FineGael signed Amendments passed - difficult to understand just how bad they are...
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Ariel Brunner🇺🇦: Unbelievable. @europarl_en plenary just voted to kill all the part of #RestoreNature law on farm land #birds, #pollinators, #peatlands and anything that would improve sustainability of farming. 😱
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1679118669534617603
Re @ArielBrunner Do you not realise that several of the most damaging of the amendments that were passed today and that your own organisation's briefing lists, were co-signed by one of these Irish EPP members and were supported by all of the other Irish EPP members. Hardly "courageous".
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1679133359694389257
If anyone is remotely interested in #RestoreNature + the truth behind the Political games and Disinformation that @FineGael and @fiannafailparty have been engaged in, just check out @dmacthomais who has been at the Coal face of negotiations from the start - It's a horror scene...
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Damien Thomson: What’s dead clear from these amendments is that @FineGael haven’t a clue what they are doing on this law. What do they want with this regulation? Why are their members signing such ludicrous amendments, that have nothing to do with Irish interest?
It’s downright embarrassing 😳
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1678894450263699456
The booing of Belarusian player @vika7 Victoria Azarenka at Wimbledon speaks volumes about the unspeakable elites that attend this spectacle - Azarenka has zero to do with this stupid War between Imperialist Powers - Sadly promoted in Europe by those who are not doing the dying.. https://n.respublicae.eu/guardian_sport/status/1678290220687536130
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Guardian sport: In an incredible atmosphere on No 1 Court, Elina Svitolina, driven by a desire to bring a little happiness to her nation in a time of war, produced a stunning, emotion-filled win over Victoria Azarenka to reach the Wimbledon last eight.
By @scambers73 https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/jul/09/elina-svitolina-into-quarter-finals-after-emotional-win-over-victoria-azarenka?CMP=share_btn_tw
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1678390952203804672
Lebanon is screaming out for stability as the country faces one crisis after another - But Western Media is calling for the IMF to subject the country to even more economic pain - Long past time for #US + their puppet States to stop their disastrous interference in #Lebanon ... https://t.co/fW2ahJleQi
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1678309323062095872
I was standing behind the goal on the French end with an #Italia jersey that day in Berlin - it was a good day to be alive ...
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Italian Football News 🇮🇹: 17 years ago today……🇮🇹 https://t.co/uISXkukdeS
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1678137400483016705
Why are 'Merchants of Death' like Samantha Power never held to account..? https://n.respublicae.eu/mtracey/status/1677789900458819585
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Michael Tracey: Samantha Power, 2017: Shame on Donald Trump for preserving stockpiles of cluster munitions
Samantha Power, 2023: Kudos to Joe Biden for using those cluster munitions Trump stockpiled to defend liberal democracy in Ukraine https://t.co/9BI8DPvW9U
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1677976568067497984
Decades of Climate inaction by the richer nations of the Developed North has cost many lives. The #EU has consistently opposed a Loss and Damage fund for the poorest nations who've done the least damage but are most affected - And now we have @EPPGroup fighting #RestoreNature ..? https://t.co/fX5hfa3zjZ
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1677941560233586688
The #EuropeanUnion began as an Economic Union with a strong interest in Peace - Now we are seeing the increasing Militarisation of Europe + the promotion of War, as the Warmongers in EU drive the #US #NATO Agenda at great expense to the people of Europe...
https://i4ctrouble.simplecast.com/episodes/ep-138-the-slow-creep-of-militarism
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1677768264665931776
Taoiseach @LeoVaradkar knows well that @EPPGroup are engaging in Disinformation - It's not good enough to stay silent about #RestoreNature Law when so much is at stake. A clear message from the Irish Leader now, could make a difference on Wednesday when we vote in Strasbourg.... https://n.respublicae.eu/codohertynews/status/1677634811823808513
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Caroline O'Doherty: European Peoples Party to which Fine Gael belong say the Nature Restoration Law will cause food & power shortages, mass job losses & demolition of Helsinki suburbs & Santa's Lapland home. Leo Varadkar & FG refuse to say if they believe/support the claims
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/taoiseach-leo-varadkar-tightlipped-on-campaign-claiming-controversial-nature-restoration-law-will-wipe-santas-home-off-the-map/a1570768636.html
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1677661238283710464
Why does anyone even listen to the 'Merchants of Death' in #NATO and #US Empire who killed over a million civilians in #Iraq, bombed #Libya back to the stone age + destroyed #Afghanistan for 20 years - Now they're prepared to destroy Ukraine to suit their Geopolitical Agenda.... https://n.respublicae.eu/MarkAmesExiled/status/1677665716743331840
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Mark Ames: "they won't use cluster munitions in *urban* environments"
13 million Ukrainians, 30% of the population, lives in rural environments, but apparently they're game.
https://n.respublicae.eu/BBCWorld/status/1677398416660242434
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1677674520432332800
Sending more Cluster Bombs into the War in Ukraine will bring more misery to the Ukrainians than to anyone else. Terrible that Russia, Ukraine and the US refused to sign up to the UN Treaty in 2008 banning the use of Cluster Bombs - #UN needs to intervene and stop this madness... https://n.respublicae.eu/declassifiedUK/status/1677574736799313921
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Declassified UK: ❗️Cluster bombs - which the US will now supply to Ukraine - are banned by 120 countries including the UK, in a 2008 UN treaty.
The US refuses to sign up to the ban and there are suspicions it uses a loophole to store them at its air bases in Britain.
https://declassifieduk.org/cluster-bombs-for-ukraine-a-warning-from-kosovo/
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1677599459394330624
'Sustainable Development Goals' Report calls for 'continued Global economic growth'. While development in Global South needs to continue, surely not in Developed North - It is incompatible with Environmental protection targets - We need to reject the endless growth imperative... https://t.co/h7NdDyvHMb
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1677612727194222592
Has it dawned on the Corporate Media + the Warmongering Politicians that the longer this stupid War goes on, the more Working Class Ukrainians + Russians are dying, the more Ukraine is destroyed - No fear of the people promoting the War on both sides doing the dying.... https://n.respublicae.eu/MarkAmesExiled/status/1677451402681909248
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Mark Ames: What a gruesome reason to commit war crimes: “we can’t make enough conventional weapons, so we’ll hand you illegal weapons”. And all this time NATOland was gloating about how Russia was on the verge of running out of everything & collapsing any day now. Kakistocracy 4ever. https://t.co/TAiFm6P15J
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1677594806023860225
The use of cluster bombs is a War Crime and a Crime against Humanity. Will the International Criminal Court hold to account anyone that uses them or facilities their use..? Or are the #US and Ukraine immune to the law of the ICC...? https://n.respublicae.eu/jeremyscahill/status/1677404094128898056
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jeremy scahill: It is now public that the Biden administration is giving Ukraine cluster bombs. And the U.S. is offering risible caveats about why this is an acceptable act rather than a clear case of facilitating war crimes. Remember that the U.S. condemned Russia for using these bombs in… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1677404094128898056
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1677412082898092034
Report looks at the #EU control on large infrastructure projects but there's a lack of detail about regulating Private Sector involvement in large projects. Too often the Private Sector is given an easy ride, leading to no Value for money - Like Ireland's Children's Hospital... https://t.co/J0gUidCAnt
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1677360637805043733
We hear so much talk in the #EuropeanParliament about #disinformation from #Russia and #China - About time the truth was told that Disinformation from @EPPGroup on #RestoreNature + other areas is on a different level - The #EPP could give lessons to Russia + China on fake news... https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1676625296974282753
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EPP Group: We❤️Helsinki! It's already one of the best cities in the world to live in.
Cities are different, but Mr Timmerman’s badly designed #NatureRestoration Law is blind to that.
His law will cover 10.7km2 of Helsinki in green areas, in a city where 38% of land is already forests! https://t.co/WEbUAi6MH4
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1677279234685911042
It's interesting that the Democrats are as keen to employ War Criminals like Elliott Abrams as the Republican Party. It was Noam Chomsky who once said that 'there's only one Party in America, it's called the Business Party - it just has two factions'...
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BreakThrough News: Pres. Biden just nominated infamous war criminal Elliott Abrams to be a US advisor on "Public Diplomacy."
In this 2011 speech, Abrams boasts of his time inside the Reagan administration waging wars of aggression all over the world. https://t.co/r8AC3tam0D
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1677219011078107138
The Leaders in Latin America want Peace, the Leaders in the #EuropeanUnion want War - The old Colonialists still can't help putting the interests of Elites before the interests of the people... https://n.respublicae.eu/djuric_zlatko/status/1677191426474483712
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Zlatti71: Ukrainian channel Rezident:
The issue of Ukraine has caused discord among the countries participating in the summit of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), which will be held in Brussels on July 17-18.
Spain invited Volodymyr Zelensky to speak at the meeting. But this… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1677191426474483712 https://t.co/H5FMsHAzWP
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1677210072085061633
Zelensky has called for the release of former #Georgia leader #Saakashvili who imprisoned over 300,000 of his own people, torturing + killing many of them. Meanwhile, US publication Jacobin has been Reporting on lack of Democracy in Ukraine today + the many Human Rights abuses... https://t.co/3h7jGFWZgs
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/wallacemick/status/1677011838083407872
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