Notices tagged with uk

The year #1976.

1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (dominical letter DC) of the Gregorian calendar, the 1976th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 976th year of the 2nd millennium, the 76th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1970s decade.

The year when the commercial #Concorde flights started, #Bangladesh and #Pakistan make up, the #US vetoes calls for a #Palestinian state, #Spain withdraws from Western Sahara, #Apple is formed, #Ramones release their first album, an earthquake kills 900 in #Italy, #Syria intervenes in the #Lebanese civil war, the Sex Pistols perform some of their first concerts, #Seychelles gains independence from the #UK, North #Vietnam unites with the south to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, leftist #German terror group members go on trial, Viking 1 and 2 land on Mars, an earthquake kills 242,769 (!) people in #China, first outbreak of the #Ebola virus, state of emergency since 1939 lifted in #Ireland, The Muppet Show is aired on #TV, space shuttle #Enterprise rolls out of the hangar, #U2 is formed, anti Fidel #Castro terrorists bomb a plane killing 73, a British Airways and a Yugoslav plane collide mid-air killing 176, right-wing paramilitaries massacre #students in Bangkog, the Chinese Cultural Revolution ends, Chimpanzee is placed on the endangered list, an earthquake kills 3,800 in #Turkey, Murara erupts in Zaire, the first laser printer is introduced by #IBM and Diffie-Hellman key exchange #cryptography is proposed.

Just a regular year on #Earth. This was also the year I was born on this day. During these 40 years humanity has enjoyed a relatively peaceful and successful period of growth.

Please help that we could have another 40 years on this Earth by fighting #climatechange and #hatred. You can help by sharing knowledge of these threats, choosing leaders who will actually try to act and live like we're at war - since we are. At #war against ourselves. At war against the ignorance towards the #future and other #people.

I don't personally expect much from the next 40 years. But one can always hope.

#England’s Forgotten #Muslim #History - NYTimes.com

#uk #islam

TLDR, the world was and is a small place. We need to live here together.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/sunday/englands-forgotten-muslim-history.html

#brexit #uk #britain

British Brexiters shocked to find out they might have to get permission to travel to #Europe / Boing Boing

#brexit #uk #britain

"Just imagine the bloviating Harry Enfield rage of lumpy English holidaymakers denied entry to Spain or Ibeefa because they forgot to register their trip with the Proper Authorities. It's going to be beautiful."

Reshare because of this paragraph 😂

http://boingboing.net/2016/09/13/british-brexiters-shocked-to-f.html

Britons may have to apply to visit #Europe after #Brexit | The Guardian

#UK #Britain

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/09/britons-may-have-to-apply-to-visit-europe-under-eu-visa-scheme

Well most of the Leave voters probably don't care - they're either too old to ever leave the UK or are totally happy not to. Sad for the young generation.

Brexit camp abandons £350m-a-week NHS funding pledge | The Guardian

#Brexit #UK #Britain

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/10/brexit-camp-abandons-350-million-pound-nhs-pledge

But it was a good way to win votes - who cares if your promises are true or not!

#BrexitBritain

For the non Brits, #BrexitBritain is trending today with an out cry of people angry at Theresa May for not following through with what the Brexit campaign promised.

Are you fecking kidding me? When Brexit won, the very next day, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove were called out for lying and ran for the hills. Claims by Nigel Farage the NHS was going to be £350 million better off. Rubbished the very next day.

How can you be outraged at Theresa May for breaking these pledges and promises when they always were utterly unattainable? You were lied to. Remain Campaign were no better, but acting surprised now that these pledges cannot be met is the daftest thing I have heard since Brexit first began.

#brexit #brexitvote #eu #europe #politics #uk

Originally posted at: http://sableyes.co.uk/?p=3233

#UK #government to #ban #microbeads from #cosmetics by end of #2017 | #Environment | The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/02/uk-government-to-ban-microbeads-from-cosmetics-by-end-of-2017
#Pollution

#Burkini #France #Catholism #UK #IRA

#Scotland completely powered by #wind #turbines for a day | #Environment | The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/11/scotland-completely-powered-by-wind-turbines-for-a-day
#Renewables #RenewableEnergy #UK

Sign the #Petition: Don't Waste Billions On #Hinkley #Nuclear Plant

#uk #britain

https://secure.greenpeace.org.uk/page/s/osborne-dont-waste-billions-nuclear

The UK, like Finland, is wasting insanely huge amounts of money on failed over due projects on ancient technology, instead of pushing future energy and creating innovation and jobs.

Please sign and share if you are UK based!

Anyone who's UK-based - this petition is worth a moment of your time.

Petition to stop development of new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point

This whole project has been utterly wasteful. The commercial operator is guaranteed a price roughly treble the normal wholesale price for energy, and there are no guarantees in return about when it will start operating, or about its performance when it does start.

The project was supposed to cost £6.1 billion, and it has already cost £37 billion, is 8 years overdue, and construction hasn't even started! And the two plants of this design which are under construction, one in France and one in Finland, have terrible problems and may never work properly or safely.

Let's put pressure on the government to back down from this disastrous deal and back investment in renewable energy, the cost of which is falling rather than rising, instead.

#uk #nuclear #renewableenergy #Hinkley #petition

UK scientists speak about #Brexit pain - BBC News

#UK #science

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36835566

Well, who needs science anyway??!1

'Maybe the #Brits are just having us on': the world reacts to #Boris Johnson as foreign minister | The Guardian

However, his track record when it comes to interacting with other cultures is patchy to say the least, and politicians around the world have been slightly less than excited by the prospect of working with a man who once wrote a poem about the Turkish president having sex with a goat.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/14/maybe-the-brits-are-just-having-us-on-the-world-reacts-to-boris-johnson-as-foreign-minister

The #UK, continuing to provide humour to the world.

New #uk PM; not elected, but the unelected Queen is OK with it. Thank goodness we're leaving that "undemocratic" EU. Irony meter and all.

As UK Piracy Falls To Record Lows, Government Still Wants To Put Pirates In Jail For 10 Years https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160708/18024234925/as-uk-piracy-falls-to-record-lows-government-still-wants-to-put-pirates-jail-10-years.shtml #uk gov for monopoly

Britain's Completely Batshit Week Since #Brexit Explained

#britain #uk #england #wtf #help

https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukebailey/the-crisis-explained-maybe

This has to be the best go through of the last week so far. Funny story if this was TV. Kinda explaines well too why Farage is staying on as MP.. The end will probably be just a lot of nothing happening at all and the public being left wondering "wtf did this just happen or was it a comedy show on TV".

Entire country decides to leave things half-finished and f**k off

#uk #england #brexit

The actions of Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Chris Evans have led the nation to conclude that if something involves hassle then suddenly giving up without warning is the right thing to do.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/entire-country-decides-to-leave-things-half-finished-and-fk-off-20160705110230