Russia has released a video showing a coast guard vessel warning the HMS Defender that it was violating its state border and firing warning shots at the British warship, challenging London’s assertions about Wednesday’s encounter.
The short clip, released on Thursday by Russia’s Federal Security Bureau (FSB), shows the confrontation between a patrol ship and the ironically named Royal Navy destroyer that sailed past Cape Fiolent, near the Crimean city of Sevastopol on Wednesday.
“If you don’t change course to starboard, I will fire,” the coast guard vessel officer radioes the British destroyer, warning the warship it was about to violate Russian territorial waters.
The Brutish Royal Navy sent a destroyer, ironically called HMS Defender, into Russian territorial waters off Crimea in a deliberately provocative move. Russia finally stopped showing “restraint”; a Russian Coast Guard gunboat fired warning shots, and then a Sukhoi 24 strike aircraft dropped two bombs into the sea, whereupon the Brutish turned tail and ran for their lives.
Despite the fact that a Brutish Bulldung Craporation “reporter” and another from the Daily Mail were on the ship – by an amazing and total coincidence, of course – and reported that the Brutal Navy crew had loaded weapons before entering Russian territorial waters, and that Russia had indeed fired warning shots, the Boorish Johnson regime farcically denied any such thing even happened. Then the Russians not just released the video of the incident, but warned that next time Brutain tried this sort of thing Russia would drop its bombs on…
Roxane Gay, born in 1974 in Omaha, Nebraska, to a family of Haitian descent, is an American professor, author, editor, and commentator. She began writing essays as a teenager; her writing was sparked by having survived a sexual assault at age twelve. Her higher education was interrupted by a relationship, but she returned to school and went on to receive a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and a PhD in rhetoric and communication from Michigan Technological University. She began her academic career teaching English at Eastern Illinois University; while there, she was a contributing editor for Bluestem magazine, founded Tiny Hardcore Press, and started to produce short stories, essays, and novels. Her fiction and nonfiction explore a variety of issues and challenges relating to race, gender, and sexual identity, and also delve into privilege, body image, and the immigrant experience.
In Germany alone, 40,000 piglets end up in the rubbish bins every day, they are rubbish and are not needed.
Per day!
Half dead, lying helplessly dying, they die a painful, slow death after being hit on the floor.
The cattle are hung by one leg, their necks cut off, millions of animals die the same gruesome death for minutes, not just at a week-long festival, but every day.
Only these “other” animals were not declared as pets by humans.
One wonders if Yulin would get that much attention when it came to pigs or calves.
Of course, the Yulin massacre is not justified by the fact that it could be worse in every country with different “animal species”.
ALL animals have the same feelings and exactly the same right to a happy life without suffering and without being killed for their bodies in the end. The same pain is…
In one year the group of anarcho squatters have phased themselves out while creating a horizontal assembly-based organisation of 100 families and 61 different family plots and tghe rest communal. Congratulations!!!!An example to us all!
The one-hectare estate, owned by CaixaBank, was occupied in June 2020 and has since become a community garden that gives space to a hundred families. The celebration of the first anniversary of the project took place on Saturday 12 June.
Dr Cyren (Asteraceya) Wong talks to us about finding his place in nature.
Chilling at the waterfall in front of our home
Most people know me as “Dr Cyren (Asteraceya) Wong” of Naturetalksback, but I did not always go by this name. I started coming out to my family and community at the age of 14. I believe they have always had my best interests at heart, but the pre-existing norms and values of our society got in the way and only succeeded in pushing me to a point where I felt effectively estranged for years. By the age of 16, I believed that I could only be happy if I was like “everybody else”. There were always expectations that I have never been able to fulfil which have always instilled within me a sense of profound inadequacy, anxiety, and insecurity. Giving myself a new name was a powerful…
We do not believe that real prison abolition can happen without there first being a revolution or radical social transformation of society as we know it.
With that being said, we have to ask our selves: then what is our vision and what is the strategy to make that vision a reality?
We believe in a two-pronged or multi-pronged approach. We do not support a strategy that involves making prisons more comfortable or kinder, gentler places of oppression.
In Belfast today, a small group of anarchists, abolitionists, and anti-authoritarian communists has formed around old and new anarchist infrastructure.
For wont of a better label, we are Belfast Anarchists/Ainrialaithe Bhéal Feirste – leave the fancy names and acronyms to the statists, we’re here to build community solidarity, smash the state, and abolish capitalism (if the sea doesn’t swallow us before the insurrection).
We are a group with shared anarchist values but representing slightly different tendencies inside the anarchist, autonomist, and abolitionist family. Anarchists often struggle to pass on the flame to the next generation as by our very nature we tend to prioritise the here and now over long-term building, so while there have been many anarchist groups before us but most of us only know of them through myth and legend.
