This is a great grey owl video from Västmanland province in Sweden.
This is another great grey owl video from Västmanland province in Sweden.
This is another great grey owl video from Västmanland province in Sweden.
This video from the USA says about itself:
16 February 2016
Donald Trump admitted that he would appoint homophobic Supreme Court justices to overturn the landmark marriage equality ruling. Since Donald Trump wants to ban things he doesn’t like, we discuss things we want to ban that Donald Trump likes.
After Islamophobic and anti-Jewish hate crimes in Donald Trump‘s USA, now homophobia.
From the Miami Herald in Florida, USA:
February 25, 2017 1:35 PM
Drunk gay basher tells Key West couple: ‘You live in Trump country now,’ police say
By Gwen Filosa
Calling them gay slurs and taunting, “You live in Trump country now,” a drunken scooter rider attacked two Key West men who were on bicycles riding home on Duval Street early Thursday, police said.
Kevin Seymour, 38, and Kevin Paul Taylor, 49, said it was a drunken tourist who followed them as they rode south on Duval Street “calling us faggots and a slew of other anti-gay remarks,” according to a police report.
At one point, the scooter rider struck the rear tire of Seymour’s bike, knocking him to the ground.
Police were called to 1221 Duval St. about 1 a.m. Thursday for the report of aggravated battery.
“We were victims of a hate crime last night biking home from dinner,” Taylor posted on his Facebook page. “He kept stopping in front of us and swerving into us. Finally Kevin got ahead of him and the guy charges him with his scooter and runs into him and knocks him off his bike. Kevin is okay.”
“I think the cops will be able to track him down,” Taylor wrote.
Police described the scooter rider as a white man in his mid- to late 30s with “a southern accent” wearing gray shorts and a blue polo shirt. His moped was a black Eclipse.
A witness gave a statement to police backing the couple’s story and officers said there may be security video available from nearby businesses.
“I bet you faggots voted for that bitch Hillary,” the suspect said to the couple. “Well, you live in Trump country now.”
As the scooter followed the couple, Seymour told the man he would call 911. “If you do that, I’ll cut you up,” the man replied, according to reports.
George Weinberg, a psychotherapist who, in the mid-1960s, observed the discomfort that some of his colleagues exhibited around gay men and women and invented a word to describe it — homophobia — died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 87: here.
U.S. Jewish centers report another wave of hoax bomb threats: NBC.
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS AND DAY SCHOOLS HIT WITH ANOTHER WAVE OF THREATS Bomb threats to at least 13 Jewish community centers and eight day schools forced evacuations in 16 states. [HuffPost]
Pat Robertson: Stop Witches From Cursing Donald Trump: here.
This video from the USA says about itself:
Trump, The Pipeline, and The Resistance
27 February 2017
TYT contributor Ryan Grim spoke to legendary liberal commentator Bill Press, who took questions from a live TYT audience watching on Facebook. The first question was about the Dakota Access Pipeline and the raiding of the camp at Standing Rock.
This is an American robin video. This North American species is a rare vagrant in Europe.
This 25 February 2017 video from the USA is called The Private Prison Industry Got A Gift From The Trump Administration.
Private prison companies to reap massive profits from mass immigrant detention … Private prison companies such as CoreCivic and GEO Group, Inc. stand to reap massive profits from the mass detentions of immigrants expected from Trump’s executive orders: here.
Boasting of having “taken the shackles off” of ICE and Border Patrol agents for a crackdown against immigrants, the Trump administration is preparing police state measures against the working class as a whole: here.
This video from Britain says about itself:
New evidence of UK complicity in Libya torture
8 February 2013
Exclusive: what was the role of MI6 and Tony Blair’s government in the kidnap of Abdul-Hakim Belhaj from Malaysia in March 2004, which delivered him into the hands of Colonel Gaddafi’s torturers? …
For 10 years British politicians like Jack Straw, Gordon Brown and David Miliband have flatly denied that the British state was complicit in torture during the war on terror. But new evidence in Mr Belhaj’s case appears to strongly challenge those claims.
By Keith Flett in Britain:
The other Miliband obfuscates for Murdoch
Monday 27th February 2017
KEITH FLETT takes David Miliband to school after he claimed in the Murdoch press that Labour is miles from winning power
DAVID MILIBAND, who lost out to his brother Ed Miliband for the Labour leadership in 2010 and subsequently departed for a role in New York as the president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, has given a wide-ranging interview to Rupert Murdoch’s Times newspaper.
The Times predictably chose to run it in the wake of Labour’s low poll performance in the Copeland and Stoke-on-Trent Central by-elections.
Former MP for South Shields and foreign secretary in the 2005-2010 Labour government, Miliband is often touted by the right-wing media as a future Labour leader over the water.
Miliband does not actually attack Jeremy Corbyn in the interview, confining himself to the more potentially interesting point that he believes a more radical outcome can be achieved in different ways to current Labour policy.
He doesn’t make it clear whether this is just a retread of New Labour thinking or something else.
It is his comment that Labour is “further from power than any time in [his] life” that has particularly been seized upon, primarily by Corbyn’s opponents. As with his views on current Labour policy, it is not entirely clear what Miliband means.
Fifty-one years ago, Harold Wilson was Britain’s prime minister in the 1964-70 Labour government. One could argue that Miliband, who was born in 1965, has in mind the period before Labour was elected in 1964 with a very small majority.
Labour had lost the 1959 general election which, after the Suez debacle in 1956 and Anthony Eden’s sudden departure as Tory leader, the party had some hopes of winning.
Under the new Tory leadership of Harold Macmillan, with the economy booming after years of post-war austerity, Labour, to some, appeared out of touch with the beginnings of the “consumer society.”
After the 1959 election, a wellknown study of Labour’s support and policies was undertaken and published in 1960 under the title Must Labour Lose?
The conclusions will be familiar enough to anyone active on the left now because they are essentially the same ones that the Labour right still use to attack the left, namely that talk of public ownership must end and “free” market capitalism be embraced.
This was very much in line with the politics of the then Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell but after his sudden death Harold Wilson took over.
Wilson came from the centre-left and with his speech-writer and spin doctor, Tony Benn, had a rather different take on matters.
Wilson’s perspective on modernisation involved a technocratic future, which the Tories, under old Etonian leader Alec Douglas-Home, were certainly not in tune with.
In the interview, Miliband also compares Labour’s position now unfavourably to the 1980s when it was last out of office for an extended period.
He correctly notes the changes in Scottish politics but also argues that Labour’s core support is now weaker.
In this he is probably right. The Iraq war led to the desertion of many voters and support for both major parties has been in decline for decades. Labour and the Tories took just 67.3 per cent of the vote between them in 2015.
In 1964 the comparable figure was 87.5 per cent. Yet it was also in the 1980s, with the struggles of the miners and printers, that the left rebuilt itself after the defeat to Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
As Henry Mayhew’s Victorian London costermonger noted of an earlier period of left-wing defeat: “People fancy that when all’s quiet that all’s stagnating. Propagandism is going on for all that. It’s when all’s quiet that the seed’s a growing. Republicans and Socialists are pressing their doctrines.”
Maybe that’s not David Miliband’s idea of how to rebuild the left but it may well be Jeremy Corbyn’s.
This video is called Two Beautiful Humpback Whales Dance – Animal Attraction – BBC.
Dutch NOS TV reports that today a humpback whale swims in the navy harbour in Den Helder.
According to SOS Dolfijn, the whale appears to be healthy and will probably find its way back to sea.
This is a king eider video. It features some common eider ducks as well.
I was privileged to see these beautiful ducks in Svalbard.
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