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A quotation from Horace

If that’s his humour, trust me, I shall spare
No kind of pains to win admittance there:
I’ll bribe his porter; if denied to-day,
I’ll not desist, but try some other way:
I’ll watch occasions — linger in his suite,
Waylay, salute, huzzah him through the street.
Nothing of consequence beneath the sun
Without great labour ever yet was done.
 
                              [Haud mihi dero:
muneribus servos corrumpam; non, hodie si
exclusus fuero, desistam; tempora quaeram,
occurram in triviis, deducam. Nil sine magno
vita labore dedit mortalibus.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 9, “Ibam forte Via Sacra,” l. 56ff (1.9.56-60) (35 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/horace/11511/

Spycop HN85 Roger Pearce 'Roger Thorley' infiltrated anarchist groups 1979-84. He gave evidence to the spycops public inquiry in July 2024. The Inquiry hasn't posted video of him being questioned on its YouTube channel, so we've posted it on ours.

Thorley wrote anti-police articles while undercover. Afterwards he became a Special Branch manager before retiring in 2003 to write awful novels.

youtube.com/watch?v=FiQHX0H-Fgs

“Britain’s Secret Overseas Meddling Machine”

by Kit Klarenberg in Al Mayadeen English

“The #Westminster #Foundation for #Democracy (#WFD), a British #intelligence #cutout, covertly funds and orchestrates political destabilization and regime change efforts worldwide under the guise of democracy promotion”

english.almayadeen.net/article

Al Mayadeen English · Britain’s Secret Overseas Meddling MachineBy Kit Klarenberg
#Press#UK#Britain

The new 3-part ITV documentary series 'The Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed' will premiere on Thursday 6 March at 9pm. Five women deceived into relationships by spycops tell their stories in detail.

radiotimes.com/tv/documentarie

Radio TimesITV announces shocking British scandal documentary The Undercover Police ScandalThe three-part series will air on ITV1 and ITVX in the near future.

A different reaction video at lunchtime - Tom leaves the #spycops inquiry to join the Defend Our Juries protest at the Royal Courts of Justice which opposes custodial sentences for peaceful protest.

He's joined by fellow spycops inquiry core participants Zoe Young & Tom Harris

youtube.com/watch?v=v0LAm3KdT-4

At the end of the #spycops inquiry's 1st of 2 days questioning manager HN109 who's not just defending his own actions but also pretty much all of the unit's abuses. His anger at particular other officers and the existence of the inquiry is palpable.

It's not been livestreamed, but Tom & Heather were at the hearing and discuss the day

youtube.com/watch?v=b8Qun248RoI

New Explanation For Siberia’s Permafrost Craters
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news.agu.org/press-release/new <-- shared technical article
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doi.org/10.1029/2024GL108987 <-- shared paper
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"KEY POINTS
• Surface ice-melt water can migrate downward driven by the osmotic pressure associated with a cryopeg, a lens of salty water below
• Overpressure can cause the frozen soil to crack resulting in mechanical explosion.."
#permafrost #hydrates # Russia #YamalPeninsula #BatagaikaCrater #Siberia #climatechange #geomorphology #mechanism #process #climatechange #methane #thawing #frozen #soil #Yamal #Taymyr #cryopeg #ice #water #hydrology #infiltration #osmotic #pumping #explosion #greehousegas

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2/ BTW, please do take a look at the data that arises when one searches, as I did, for the term 'carbon tunnel vision'. I had an image in particular in mind to contribute.

More article quotes:
"Millan is a highly technical & practical scientist, steeped in physics & with an engineer’s stamp. Yet he turns poet when describing how #soil, #water & #plants all work together to recycle water, employing the tercet [composed of 3 lines of poetry¯\_(ツ)_/¯]:
Water begets water, soil is the womb, vegetation is the midwife.
What he means by water begets water is that

healthy landscapes seem to grow water.

Of course, water just can’t be created. There’s a set amount on earth, & though we think of it as spread amongst oceans, lakes, rivers & glaciers, it is also inside living things. Humans are 60% #water birds 75%, fish 70 to 84%. A typical cat weighs in at 67%, while plants & trees are almost entirely water, 80 to 90%. "
More...
#earthworks #infiltration #permaculture
duckduckgo.com/?q=carbon+tunne

duckduckgo.comcarbon tunnel vision graphic at DuckDuckGoDuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.
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Staffel 2 von #Infiltration ist leider die Lebenszeit nicht wert. Unlogisch, dumm, hahnebüchen, nervend. Es wirkt, als hätten sie das Drehbuch nebenbei beim Dreh geschrieben. Jegliche Komplexität der Story und Charaktere wurde entfernt. Alles bleibt eindimensional. Ebenso fehlen jegliche interessanten Drehorte oder Kulturen: Selbst die Japanerin spricht nun weitgehend Englisch. Es passiert so wenig, dass man die letzten 15 Minuten einfach an Staffel 1 hätte ankleben können 🤷🏻.

Auf Apple TV+ gibt es die Alien-Invasions-Serie #Infiltration. Ich bin bei Folge 8 von 9 und bislang sehr begeistert. Die Handlung ist spannend, weitgehend logisch, die Charaktere sind toll und wirken realistisch, die Dialoge, gerade der Jugendlichen in der OV, ein echtes Highlight. Die erste Folge ist etwas slow, aber ab Folge 2 wird es interessant. youtube.com/watch?v=67wEizaaEH

India’s ‘Lake Man’ Relies on Ancient Methods to Ease a Water Crisis
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nytimes.com/2023/09/22/world/a <-- shared media article
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“Anand Malligavad turned to centuries-old knowledge to reclaim dozens of lakes in the high-tech capital of Bengaluru. Now, he is in demand across India, one of the world’s most water-stressed nations…"
#water #hydrology #watersupply #waterquality #restoration #watersecurity #India #Chola #Bengaluru #lakeman #AnandMalligavad #silt #sludge #pollution #plastic #waterconservation #runoff #infiltration #lakes #groundwater #humanwaste #sewerage #rainfall #agriculture #fertiliser #waterstress #waterindustry