There is no paywall.

The Guardian is actually the only major newspaper that refuses to charge readers for content.

We haven’t put up a paywall. Instead, we want to remain a strong, progressive force that is open for all.

https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2017/oct/26/together-we-are-safeguarding-the-guardians-independent-journalism

They rely on small donors (like me).

What Marc Carney should do :

• Invest in nuclear technology

• Create tough fuel efficiency norms. Canadians currently drive the least fuel-efficient vehicles in the entire world. Canada aligned its vehicle norms with the United States. An incredibly stupid decision.

• A carbon tax that wires money directly to Canadians every month to change incentives simply won’t work. It’s good in theory but it has become politically toxic because of Pierre Poilievre’s AX THE TAX campaign.

• Consider politically acceptable measures to reduce meat consumption or help cattle farmers transition from to chicken farming. I have no idea what those measures could be. I feel any decision will lead to complete hysteria from the far-right.

• Reform the Federal Lobbying Act to significantly increase the powers of the Lobbying Commissioner.

• Cut ALL Microsoft Office and Microsoft Windows contracts from all government departments. Switch to Linux and LibreOffice. Save billions.

• Require all car ads to encourage people to walk, bike or take public transit for short term distances. France has this rule.

• Announce there will be no federal housing money for cities that don’t get rid of parking mandates.

• Create National Wildfire Fund to help Wildfire victims. The fund will be funded by a $1 tax on all flights and a 1% sales tax on all Plastic Bottles. Going above that would lead to popular backlash.

• Significantly increase taxes on private jet fuel. It’s currently barely taxed. You could multiply the price by 3 or 4 and private jet users would not even feel it.

• Massive investment in the train network. New rail stations all across the country.

• Build high speed train line between London-Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal-Quebec. A high speed train line between Edmonton-Calgary. It just makes sense.

What Marc Carney will actually do:

• ???

Who says we needed another pipeline, Pierre?

The same people that want to ban bike lanes and encourage gas-guzzling SUVs.

https://www.facebook.com/DanielleSmithAB/posts/all-municipal-governments-have-a-duty-to-move-traffic-swiftly-and-efficiently-ac/1584219922791356/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bicycle-lane-transport-calgary-1.7583814

Pierre Poilievre has the oil industry dick so far up-his ass it’s not even funny anymore

He pledged to get rid of single-use plastic bans:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-scrap-plastics-ban-1.7514037

He was defeated, but he still arguing about Canada needs more plastics:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pierrepoilievre_stop-the-liberal-plastics-ban-layfield-activity-7349074774393831425-u2xn

We can’t get everybody to agree on any basic fact, even the basic fact that we need a pipeline

Who is “we”?

You run for office with the electorate you have, not the electorate you wish you had.

400 000 people have been killed in Sudan recently. I didn’t see you post about it. Take a look in the mirror before claiming you have the moral high ground over her.

This an opinion article, not a news article.

So … become more like the climate deniers and billionaire mafia?

You remind of US democrats attacking Marie Gluesenkamp Perez.

She won a tough race in a rural conservative area. She agrees with progressives on labor rights, abortion, medicaid, medicare, increasing taxes on the rich.

Yet leftists living in New York City are attacking her online because she never talks about Palestine 🤦

There is no environmental policy that is compatible with the existence of individuals with the net worth of a small sovereign nation.

I agree. Billionaires are a huge problem.

Yes, eat the rich.

This slogan is how you lose an election.

First lesson of politics: You don’t need to win your supporters. You can’t convince your enemies. You need to win those who are unsure

Did you actually read the article?

One of the Greens’ key problems is personnel. At their peak in 2021 they had two lead figures in Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck, who were widely regarded as pragmatists – a prerequisite for effective government in Germany’s compromise-oriented system

The party elected a new leadership duo – Franziska Brantner, 45, and Felix Banaszak, 35 – and new Green Youth leaders: the climate activist Jakob Blasel and the self-proclaimed “leftwing radical” Jette Nietzard.

You could practically hear the collective sigh of relief at the top of the party when Nietzard announced that she wouldn’t run for the Green Youth leadership again this autumn. She has repeatedly alienated the centrist voter groups the Greens are trying to win back, appearing in clothing imprinted with the anti-police acronym “ACAB” and the anti-capitalist slogan “Eat the rich”. Last month she pondered whether resistance to any future government coalition containing the far-right AfD should be “intellectual or perhaps with weapons”.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/08/green-party-politics-germany

It’s not about policies. It’s about not saying stupid shit.

You don’t get elected by saying stupid shit to only appeal to your base.

This is a mask-off moment.

Good

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What exactly is your point? Were the criticisms valid?

The timing was strangely suspicious.

Shutting down the Middle East Eye was part of the demands of Saudi Arabia and the UAE during their embargo on Qatar:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/23/close-al-jazeera-saudi-arabia-issues-qatar-with-13-demands-to-end-blockade

You realise this is fairly trivial to look up?

Why do we have to dig into company houses to find their address ? What kind of newspaper doesn’t post their address on their website? I have never seen this. It’s very unusual.

Also, what’s their business model? The 3 models of revenue for newspaper are :

• Subscriptions

• Advertising

• Asking for donations

They don’t have any subscriptions. They don’t have ads. They don’t ask any donations.

Where is the money coming from?

If you think the Government is breaking the law, the solution isn’t breaking the law.

In Britain, you can sue the Government if you think the government is breaking the law.

https://dpglaw.co.uk/uk-arms-exports-to-israel-high-court-judgment/

Also, what country do you think is respecting international law? Should citizens of all countries start attacking military bases? How does that end?

That’s a crime for the people who broke into a base, not a reason to ban an entire organization. Lots of activist organizations have had members do illegal things. If that’s all it takes for the government to ban them, that’s an easy bar to manufacture and/or selectively activate.

Their lawyer can appeal the decision in court.

Daily reminder that the Middle East Eye has no physical address. Which is extremely unusual.

That’s because it’s run by the Qatari embassy in London.

Notice how it doesn’t depend on paying subscribers. It doesn’t sell any advertising. And it doesn’t ask readers for donations. How do they make any money? This is a serious red flag.

When Qatar was in a diplomatic crisis with Saudi Arabia, the Middle East Eye criticized Saudi Arabia 24/7.

If you start breaking into military bases to target jets, consider yourself lucky you don’t get shot.

“Charged with supporting” RIP democracy.

Palestine Action was banned after they breached a UK military base

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/20/pro-palestine-protesters-deface-two-aircraft-raf-brize-norton

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/20/uk/palestine-action-protest-uk-airbase-security-breach-intl

Free Speech is important. But what they did isn’t free speech.

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The United Nations special representative Pramila Patten released her full report on sexual assaults on October 7.

https://www.un.org/sexualviolenceinconflict/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/report/mission-report-official-visit-of-the-office-of-the-srsg-svc-to-israel-and-the-occupied-west-bank-29-january-14-february-2024/20240304-Israel-oWB-CRSV-report.pdf

She concluded that sexual violence did indeed take place. The NYT didn’t publish anything false.

The fact Hamas committed bad thing doesn’t mean the NYT vilified Palestinians.

The NYT told the story of a Palestinian grandmother who refuses to leave her home in Gaza during bombardments because she already lost her home once, in 1948:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/25/world/middleeast/gaza-diaspora-families.html

The NYT wrote stories about a Palestinian child orphaned by the air strike that killed dozens of her family members :

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/18/world/middleeast/gaza-children-israel.html

There’s no story that is more fiercely contested than Israel-Palestine drama , more mired in competing zero-sum narratives. It is nearly impossible to produce fair, accurate coverage without making all sides angry.