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  • The Finnish Supervisory Agency (LVV) said work at one site was carried out without a mandatory environmental impact assessment and ordered measures that would “significantly alter the environment” to be suspended by 23 October.

    to be suspended by 23 October.

    23 October.

    This is the 7th. How much forest can they clear in 16 days? Then an environmental impact assessment is no longer necessary because there is no environment!





  • Similar restrictions are already in place in England and Wales.

    In England, price or multibuy promotions on unhealthy food and drink were banned in October 2025.

    Wales followed in March, external when it brought in its rules preventing medium and large retailers promoting less healthy products.

    Restrictions on advertising junk food, external across the UK were also introduced in January.

    Before people get red with anger at the “SNP nanny state” or some such bollocks.





  • They get the Two Minutes Hate from 1984 pumped into them every day, for far more than 2 minutes, via traditional and social media for years and years. They’re so deep within propaganda they can’t see themselves as the monsters* they have become. That doesn’t excuse it of course, but it can explain it.

    The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but, on the contrary, that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one’s will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

    https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html#ch1

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    Before the inevitable accusations of dehumanisation. Calling them monsters doesn’t mean I think they’re sub-human. Humans are capable of horrendous acts and calling them monsters doesn’t take away from them being human. Many humans throughout history have proven themselves to be monsters whilst simultaneously having the multitudes that makes them human.