is not for money it's about giving a show out there, being heard
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n.b. I think this band are a bit different. I greatly enjoyed their set at The Hope & Ruin, Brighton on 5th August 2022. Something of The Fall about them, or DC Fontaines, but different. You have been warned.
wonder at mankind trains to Paris undersea pylons lift cables
systems of power connect us to each other bind us to our fate
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n.b. Standing here overlooking Rainham Marshes, watching another bloody sunset, you can hear the electricity cables crackle as they carry charge towards the City of London.
If you listen really carefully, you can hear the insane laughter of stockholders celebrating multi-billions of profits being divvied up by BP, Shell and a few other energy companies, while the Earth’s climate spins inexorably out of control.
Nearby at Wennington, the scenes are of burnt houses, charred trees, scorched earth. Scenes familiar to residents of France, Spain, Portugal, Australia, California. What more proof does this once green and pleasant land need that things have changed, that we must change?
People blithely talk of access to air-conditioning, not aware that more energy is now used on such cooling equipment in summerthan that used in winter to heat us. It is we who are being conditioned by the air.
football match is played so you've been relegated 'now, in other news'
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n.b. I do understand that we need variety in our diet of news, but come on media people, try to keep some perspective. Women from England win tournament, versus women in Ukraine have their children murdered and mutilated; no contest, surely?
aggressors, listen "War is horror, blood and shame." there's no victory
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n.b. Marina Ovsyannikova put it as plainly as possible, speaking in court, when also pointing out that charges against her for allegedly discrediting the Russian armed forces are “absurd”.
It seems to me that the Russian military’s very actions discredit it themselves.