Dr. Michael BlumeJun 4

Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕?

Fundstück zur Gefahr des Fossilismus & Öl als fossiler Gewaltenergie in der ZEIT vom 3. Juni 2026, S. 3:

"Die Reporterin Polly Toynbee vom britischen Guardian ist 41 Jahre alt und inmitten ihrer beruflichen Karriere, als sie in einem Londoner Luxushotel einen gleichaltrigen Amerikaner zum Interview trifft: Donald J. Trump. Man schreibt das Jahr 1988. […]

‚Ich wäre harsch mit dem Iran‘, erklärt der Trump von 1988. ‚Sie haben uns psychologisch geschlagen, lassen uns wie einen Haufen Narren aussehen.‘ Er fährt fort: ‚Ein Schuss auf einen unserer Männer oder eines unserer Schiffe und ich würde ein Ding drehen mit der Insel Kharg. Ich würde reingehen und sie einnehmen.‘"

Als ich 2015 "Öl- und Glaubenskriege" publizierte, später für erneuerbare #Friedensenergien plädierte, war es zu spät...

#USA #Medien #Politik #Geschichte #Trump #Toynbee #PollyToynbee #UK #Guardian #DonaldTrump #Fossilismus #Öl #Gewaltenergie #Faschismus #Iran #Revolutionsgarde #Kharg https://scilogs.spektrum.de/natur-des-glaubens/der-fossilismus-im-jahr-des-feuerpferdes-trumps-iran-kharg-desaster/

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Schon am 3. März 2026 zitierte mich die Stuttgarter Zeitung zum Angriff Israels und der USA auf das fossile Revolutionsgarden-Regime des Iran: Auch der Antisemitismusbeauftrage des Landes Baden-Württemberg, Michael Blume, rät zur Wachsamkeit. „Im Hinblick …

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CheshireFeb 13
It’s risky, but it could change everything: Labour is at last beginning to focus on the young
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/13/votes-to-16-year-olds-young-people-labour-uk-nigel-farage?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#PollyToynbee
It’s risky, but it could change everything: Labour is at last beginning to focus on the young

People my age have been privileged all our lives, yet we’re still the political priority. Votes at 16 is the start of a welcome change, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian
Show threadClaire McNabJan 26
@sjcooke66 @statsguy This thread seems to be at risk of becoming an I Hate #PollyToynbee More Than You show. Which would of course be a very welcome development 😈 😅 🤣
Show threadClaire McNabJan 26
@lionelb But as usual #PollyToynbee can't even be half-rIght on one simple point (that Starmer is crap at politics) without missing the point (that #Starmer was chosen by #McSweeney precisely because he is crap) and telling the whopper lie that Starmer is "a good and clever man". Starmer is a compulsive liar with a record which got increasingly ugly as his career progressed.
Claire McNabJan 26

"Here is the Starmer tragedy, a good and clever man not made for politics or leadership", writes #PollyToynbee in #TheGuardian.

https://archive.is/Xu2cL / https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/26/andy-burnham-labour-new-leader

This is a deranged denial of reality.

#Starmer is a serial liar who broke all his pledges made to win the #LabourParty leadership. He purged Jewish ppl as #antisemites, insisted that cutting water for Gaza was legal, & redefined anti-genocide protesters as "#terrorists".

He is the v opposite of a #goodMan

#ukpol

the roamerJul 17, 2025

I like Polly Toynbee, even if I often disagree with her. She is consistent and has real, old-fashioned passion for a better society.

In the last year she kept pointing out the hidden good things in the disastrous Starmer/Reeves project. Sometimes she was at least partially right.

Her piece in today's Guardian is about the removal of the whip from a selection of the Labour MPs who voted against the horrible Welfare Bill. She's finally had enough of Starmer's cruelty and incompetence. Even Polly can't defend the man anymore. That means something.

Worth reading. Her contrasting Starmer with Blair is illuminating.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/17/keir-starmer-labour-party-suspensions-tony-blair

#Starmer #PollyToynbee #Labour #UKpol

Bluster, bullying, suspensions – this is no way to run the Labour party

Keir Starmer has made a mess of dealing with this rebellion. Perhaps Tony Blair could give him some tips, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian
Kevy B 🇵🇸Mar 23, 2025
Oopsy. Did she ever really believe it, or was it just to get leftists to vote #Labour? #theguardian #pollytoynbee
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Kevy B 🇵🇸Mar 14, 2025
...would be the wrong take, because there is an alternative cuts. Polly Toynbee, with the most centrist take, possible. Nice cuts, not nasty cuts. #pollytoynbee #guardian
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Doug Baker - Elbows Up! 🇨🇦Jan 31, 2025

#PollyToynbee is 100% right: it might be the last gasp chance for democracy: lower the vote to 16. The kids CAN'T do any worse than we've done.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/30/young-people-strong-leader-vote-democracy?CMP=GTUK_email

#guardian #lowerthevote

Young people say they’d elect a ‘strong leader’. I say give more of them the vote

Given what gen Z have been through, it’s no wonder they’re not impressed by democracy. But giving them a real stake in it could change everything, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian
Steph MokNov 29, 2024
#pollyToynbee very readable on the list of #tax #reforms which could have been implemented in the name of #fairness
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/22/farmers-protest-tax-labour-reform
Look at the farmers’ protest, and then ask yourself: how will we ever make tax fairer amid such grumbling?

Labour inherited a dire situation that needed desperate change – but powerful lobbies make any tax reform near-impossible, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian