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tuning out the newsvillages lost or regainedwe head for the beach ~ n.b. War, long periods of boredom, broken by moments of complete terror, so something like that. I’m lucky to live in a country where a lost village means coastal erosion, no longer Viking longships full of men seeking new land to farm. CLP →
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War correspondentKharkiv at night as backcloth“Next year…” Autumn comes ~ n.b. Another describes Moscow as running “a forever war”. CLP 04/09/2023 →
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would it be a car?poison? bomb? No, a plane crash.who would have thought it?~n.b. Wagner’s last movement. Anyone surprised? When criminals fall out… CLP 23/08/2023 →
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billions of dollarsflood country drowning in warwho’s counting the cost? ~ n.b. In the end the money talks, lives remain cheap, expendable, as long as the cash keeps coming and corporations profit. This war will end when accountants get involved. I heard on the BBC that the Russian Rouble is worth just 1% of a →
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and so it goes onBakhmut brutally batteredvineyards run with blood ~ n.b. A state of siege around a wine producing city. Russian troops in the valley, freedom fighting army of Ukraine hold the western heights. No end in sight. CLP 10/08/2023 →
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rocking in the ringthunderous blows, staggering hitslack of knock-out punch ~ n.b. Slow, painful deaths. CLP 25/07/2023 →
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US cluster bombsfragmented moral high groundindiscriminate ~ n.b. What other disgusting inventions are being picked out of the warehouses of the industrial military complex in the name of freedom? CLP 08/07/2023 →
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yes, you heard it rightdolphins being trained to fightno young Russians left? ~ n.b. It is alleged, in a BBC Radio 4 news report today, that the Russian military are training dolphins to support attacks on the Ukraine naval forces and their facilities. Just when you think the bitter, twisted, old men in Moscow can →
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day four-seven-onewar becomes wallpaperpeople switch off news ~ n.b. It now takes something outrageous to re-capture attention, a dam being sabotaged and subsequent flooding, for example. The daily tally of lost civilians, a grandmother here, a child there, becomes unremarkable. ~ CLP 09/06/2023 →
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on respecting national borders
smoke of forest firesrespects not our lines on mapsnature’s own Kremlin ~ n.b. North-east USA is choking on the smog from seasonal forest fires in Canada. International cooperation is the only way to tackle climate breakdown. How have we reached a point where there are wars at a time when we need to act to →
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