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Absolutely fair enough, I'm just a somewhat ignorant Welsh man!
They have only ever been described here as American/Native American.
Though now that you mention this, Cowboys & Indians suddenly makes a lot more sense to me.
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Are there actually Amish people in India?
I can't tell if this is real or not.
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Took me longer than I care to admit before I realised this was the Onion.
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It is the end at one of the biggest steelworks in the world as the last blast furnace shuts down, leaving it unable to make its own steel. Nearly 2,000 jobs will be lost at Tata Steel UK’s Port Talbot plant as blast furnace number four ceases production meaning it will no longer be able to make virgin steel. The ironworks will enter a transition phase until 2027 when steelmaking will resume through a £1.25 billion electric arc furnace. The new furnace uses electric current to melt scrap steel or iron to produce steel, whereas blast furnaces use coke, a carbon-intensive fuel made from coal to produce steel.
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Well shit.
In that case, keep posting!
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Well written.
I fear there are many on Lemmy that don't truly grasp the gravity of the current geopolitical climate, and despite you laying it out here with ease, people will disagree with your assessment.
Keep writing like this, we need as many doses of reality as we can muster in amongst the genocide apologists and arm chair experts.
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The latest National March for Rejoin is scheduled for this coming weekend in London, on Saturday 28 September. It comes at a time of mixed fortunes for those campaigning to take the UK back into the EU. On the one hand, the level of support for rejoining has never been higher. The social and economic effects of Brexit are becoming clearer, and Brexiters sound increasingly defensive. On the other hand, the political outlook remains challenging. Labour in office has stuck to its red lines on freedom of movement. It talks about “resetting” the relationship, and at least – unlike its predecessors – behaves maturely when dealing with European counterparts. But it persists in its stance that there’s “no case” for joining the Single Market and Customs Union, let alone rejoining the EU as a full member. While there are some hopeful signs, its position on free movement for young people remains a barrier to substantive changes in the relationship.
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A three week-long celebration of music is coming to Cardiff from tomorrow (Friday, September 27). According to organisers the Cardiff Music City Festival is set to push the boundaries of music innovation, performance and tech. A spokesperson said: “The Welsh capital has a rich history as an exciting and energetic music city and this autumn Cardiff’s streets will pulse with immersive music happenings, secret gigs, headline shows and inventive pop-ups.
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The first minister says she has not given up on bringing HS2 funding to Wales. Despite the high-speed rail project being entirely in England, Wales received no extra cash from the previous Conservative UK government to make up for the scheme. So far, Eluned Morgan's UK party colleagues have been reluctant to commit to consequential funding.
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Further savings and cuts may need to be found as a health board grapples with a budget deficit of just under £23 million – which could balloon to around £35 million. The dire financial situation facing Powys Teach Health Board (PTHB) was discussed at a board meeting on Wednesday, September 25. PTHB had initially planned to post a £24.9 million deficit budget this year, but in May they were asked by the Welsh Government to look at the figures again. This saw the figure brought down to £22.9 million, which has yet to be agreed by the Welsh Government.
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A consortium of Welsh climate activists has set out a series of measures it would like to see pursued in 2025. Climate Cymru is an active network of 370 partner organisations from every sector of Welsh society, and a movement of over 15,000 individuals from across Wales who say they share a desire for urgent, fair action to address the climate and nature emergencies. The network’s campaign coordinator David Kilner said: “We’d like to see the Welsh Government join the global Fossil Free Treaty – a concrete, binding plan to end the expansion of new coal, oil and gas projects and manage a global transition away from fossil fuels.
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To imagine a Wales and a world where peace reigns is not just to imagine the absence of war. It’s to imagine a place where we all live free from fear, where our rights are respected, and where everybody is equal. It’s to imagine conducting all our relationships – with ourselves, neighbour to neighbour, stranger to stranger, community to community, country to country – with justice and fairness. Imagine if this kind of positive peace was part of our national identity, a value that drove all of what we do. Ahead of the United Nations Summit of the Future, a global cooperation event held in New York last weekend, Academi Heddwch Cymru (Wales’s Peace Institute) worked on a paper exploring how Wales can become a ‘Nation of Peace’ – Cymru fel Cenedl Heddwch. Imagine that.
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Senior councillors have backed plans to buy and set up a new waste depot, to tackle the county borough’s low recycling rates. But the clock is ticking on a potential deal for a site, which Caerphilly County Borough Council must effectively agree to buy in October or the landowner will reportedly “pursue other options”. The depot will be key to the council’s waste strategy, launched after it recorded Wales’ worst recycling rates in 2023.
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You can read part one in the series [here.](https://bylines.cymru/voices-lleisiau/welsh-independence-economics-one/) One of the most common arguments used by Unionists against Welsh independence is that Wales cannot afford to pay its own way. They repeat that Wales receives £18bn a year as a ‘handout’ from the UK, and cannot survive without this ‘subsidy’. They overlook that Wales also generates taxes and revenue, collected directly by the UK, and the £18bn is largely a return of that. However, it’s been difficult to refute such claims as there was long a shortage of reliable data on the economic performance of Wales. There’s a huge body of economic statistics and data published by the UK Government in its National Accounts – commonly referred to as ‘The Blue Book’ – but it’s difficult for the average person to follow, let alone extract the necessary data in a Welsh context.
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Reform UK is to hold events in Wales, Scotland, and across the English regions, as it eyes up representation in the Senedd and town halls, Nigel Farage has said. The Reform leader announced a Welsh conference, a Scottish gathering, and regional events in the North East and South West, as the party rounded off its national conference. Mr Farage on Friday laid out a plan to professionalise the party, giving its members a stake in its ownership.
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A battle to save Blackwood Miners’ Institute from being “mothballed” looks set to drag on, complicated by the venue’s charitable status. Caerphilly County Borough Council leader Sean Morgan announced today (Thursday September 19) a decision on the historic site’s future would be postponed while the local authority takes legal advice. The council has proposed mothballing the cultural venue – which it currently subsidises to the tune of £347,000 annually – because of the need to make a further £45 million in budget savings over the next two years.
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16 is old enough to have taxable income alongside other things in the UK.
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A Welsh Labour minister defended cuts to winter fuel payments for most pensioners in a debate on Wednesday. Conservatives challenged Labour in the Senedd to back calls for the UK government to reverse the plans, warning they will have a "devastating impact" with an estimated 500,000 losing up to £300 this winter. But Jane Hutt, Social Justice Secretary, said "difficult decisions" were being taken because of a £22bn "black hole" in UK public finances.
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Israel isn’t targeting non-combatants
How many thousands of children have been slaughtered by Israeli troops?
If you want to be pedantic, and you're talking only about this specific attack, children were killed in these pager/walkie-talkie blasts too. Are they enemy combatants to you?
Don't be a genocide apologist.
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Five years ago, if you had asked me if Israel would be committing terrorist attacks across Palestine, Lebanon and beyond, I would have said absolutely not.
I would have been wrong, even back then, but jesus fucking christ, what an absolute shambles.
How my government supports this state-sponsored terrorism is beyond me.
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Plaid Cymru will lead a debate in the Senedd this afternoon calling for the Welsh Government to honour NHS commitments made by the last three First Ministers. Former FMs Mark Drakeford and Vaughan Gething both made promises to tackle long waiting lists which now stand at a record breaking high in Wales. In an interview with Politics Wales at the weekend, the newly installed First Minister Eluned Morgan sparked a row with health bosses after saying she would hold them to account on getting long waits down.
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The junior minister who was sacked by Vaughan Gething after being falsely accused of leaking messages to the media has been elected the Chair of the Senedd’s Standards of Conduct Committee. Hannah Blythyn was removed from her Welsh Government role of Social Partnership Minister by the former First Minister in May. Mr Gething claimed she was the source of a screen grab leaked to Nation.Cymru from a Covid-era ministerial group chat.
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Both ‘the Prince of Wales’ as a title and the person who holds it have a unique but controversial place in Welsh culture and society. There are some in Wales who dislike both and want them gone, and some who love that the title exists and see the person who holds it as being an honour for Wales as a country and as part of the UK. Some view the very existence of the title as proof that Wales is, or is seen as, inferior or beholden to England. Yet the title itself holds no true power and its holder performs no real function in modern Wales. Perhaps it should either be endowed with real meaning, or done away with, one or the other?
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The Welsh Government has withdrawn a Bill that would have introduced a legal mechanism aimed at ensuring the Senedd was gender-balanced. Instead it will issue voluntary guidance to political parties in advance of candidate selection for the next Senedd election in 2026. The decision does not come as a great surprise, given that there were serious doubts about whether enforcing gender balance was within the Senedd’s competence. Laws relating to the policy area of equality are reserved to Westminster.
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A Welsh Scout leader has made his fiftieth delivery of life-saving medical aid to Ukraine. Shaun Hopkins, a 45-year-old IT expert and Scouts volunteer from Newport, began making the 2,500 mile round trip shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Since then, he has spent around 500 days on the road ferrying medical equipment to Ukraine in a transit van and this week delivered 12 hospital beds donated by Cardiff University. “Like many people, we were sat at home as a family watching the full scale invasion unfolding on TV,” Hopkins told Nation.Cymru from the town of Ivano-Frankivsk. “We had a discussion, with my teenage sons and my wife, about what was going on.
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I would absolutely love to believe this, and I sincerely hope this becomes the reality of the situation in the future. That being said, as it currently stands, this is just not true.
Morgan has so far consistently chosen party over country.
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First Minister Eluned Morgan says she will "undoubtedly fall out" with the UK Labour government as she tries to realise her own plans for Wales. She told BBC Politics Wales that as first minister she would have a "country first, party second" approach. Asked whether she would be prepared to have difficult conversations with her Labour colleagues in Westminster when it comes to asking for more funding for Wales, Morgan said she would be "standing up for Wales". The election of a Labour government in both Cardiff and London has been heralded as a "restart" in the relationship between the Welsh and UK governments following hostilities with the Conservatives.
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Perhaps too generous, though I am holding out some hope that many of the people caught in the cynical political machine of Reform can still be pulled out of the spiral.
Ignorant, perhaps, but not beyond hope.
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Tears flowed as relatives of the victims were in the audience for a premiere of a poignant new opera to mark the 90th anniversary of the Gresford Colliery Disaster. There was a standing ovation at the end of the emotionally charged performance of Gresford – Up From Underground on the opening night of the North Wales International Music Festival at St Asaph Cathedral. It told the story of how 266 men and boys were killed when a massive underground explosion and fire ripped through the pit near Wrexham on September 22, 1934.
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Absolutely - I think it would go some way towards building back the trust that has been lost with politicians in Wales. Unfortunately, though, I think that alone won't be enough to bring people back into the fold, so to speak.
We need greater communication, easier to understand bills and political action, and I would imagine it would also help if we had some kind of legitimately progressive innovation in Welsh Government. We've been stagnating for years now, simply 'un-doing' whatever disastrous things the dreaded 'Past governments' did, is no longer enough.
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For many, deep in the Valleys of South Wales, poverty is the grim reality of daily life. Utility bills rise, school transport is cut, shops in the high-street close down and inflation bites. Austerity has done a lot to decimate the coalfields of Wales, leaving the population reeling in it’s wake. These people are scared, poor, confused and unsure how to dig themselves out of this hole. Snake oil salesmen like Nigel Farage have opportunistically seized this shared plight in an attempt to elevate themselves materially and politically.
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Beast master
I was really into He-Man and honestly all things medieval so thought it'd be great for me, but that film kinda fucked me up for a while as a wee one.
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Lets you find Twitch streams with no viewers, with support for category filtering, it's a pretty interesting site.
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Secretly?
Shit, I'm from the UK and I don't know a single person here that doesn't already know that the Conservatives in the US are infested with russian mouth pieces.
Horribly kept secret if you can even call it one.
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I was born the year that the first version of Google was also born.
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Quit smoking a few years back, that was an absolute removed to do.
Still get the feeling every now and then, only 'relapsed' once at a funeral.
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As a European it's absolutely wild to see shit like this.
I wonder what turnout would be like if political parties started doing this in my country (Wales)
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Labour have been effectively shafting Wales in government for the last 20+ years, it's frustrating for sure.
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The amount of people I hear saying "Nitch" instead of "Neesh" when pronouncing it, blows my mind.
No idea where 'Nitch' came from, but it has never been pronounced that way.
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Agreed, the guy is the worst.
Gavin and Stacey, though, is a national treasure.
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