Russ

Small govt & free enterprise | Low taxes & sound money | Private property advocate | Company Director | Support @TheOceanCleanup | Views my own

[Russ @1RustyP]

@DefraGovUK 🚨Would you please also plant thousands of Cotoneaster franchetii along roadsides? Experts have identified it as a 'super-plant' that absorbs roadside air pollution. It’s bird friendly too! #COP26

[Papageorgio @gecffmn]

Dogs always bring the best out of people!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Leafy seadragon.. 😊

[Russ @1RustyP]

@NavyLookout @LukePollard Even if the government suddenly treated Venturer as an urgent fleet requirement and removed funding, manpower, and bureaucratic bottlenecks, surely it would be late 2028 as a realistic accelerated deployment date. Or late 2027 being an extremely optimistic best case?

[Russ @1RustyP]

The real scandal isn't that authoritarian governments seek influence. It's that the international community keeps rewarding them with it. Every time a regime accused of repression is elevated within the UN, it's credibility takes another hit. With such low standards, what does UN membership on key bodies actually signify?

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

Congratulations to Zimbabwe on being elected for a two-year term on the U.N. Security Council.

Zimbabwe's credentials:
🇿🇼 Torture
🇿🇼 Child labor
🇿🇼 Tainted elections
🇿🇼 Jails critics and journalists
🇿🇼 Authoritarian rule over decades

[Sabin Howard @SabinHoward]

What we make and who we are is inextricably connected to our rich history.
And if you destroy that history and the idea of higher power, you destroy a part of each and everyone of us.
You destroy our moorings and our grounding. that’s why I sculpted the national World War I Memorial. To fight the destroyers!

[Russ @1RustyP]

@elonmusk Truth doesn't fear questions. Why does so much of today's media ignore it? Where are the journalists with the integrity, curiosity, and courage to ask the questions others won't? The public expect better.

[James Wright @JPBWFarm]

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[James Wright @JPBWFarm]

Natural England wants to remove 90% of Dartmoor’s ponies.

Our Exmoor ponies are next. These animals have been here for thousands of years.

A government quango, destroying the countryside and its heritage.

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

An ibex is carved into a Derbyshire cave wall. 🇬🇧

But there are no ibex in Britain...

There never have been. Nobody knew THIS until 2003.

Church Hole Cave at Cresswell Crags, on the Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire border. A British limestone gorge that had been excavated by archaeologists for over a century.

In April 2003, Paul Pettitt and Sergio Ripoll walked into the cave with grazing torches. They tilted the light at an angle no Victorian had thought to try.

And the wall revealed itself.

🦌 Stags. Bison. Long-necked birds. An ibex. Cut into the limestone roughly 13,000 years ago. Britain's oldest known art.

The carving is a paradox. There are no ibex in Britain, and there never have been. So why is one here?

The Ice Age had pinned modern humans into the southern refuges of Europe. The caves of southern France. The valleys of Spain. The Alpine foothills. The same culture that painted Lascaux and Altamira.

When the glaciers retreated, they walked north. Back into these islands. And they brought their world with them. Including the mountain animal they had grown up watching.

🇬🇧 Cave art was made all over the world. Africa. Indonesia. France. Spain. And Britain. Most British schools were never told.
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Most British schools don't teach Cresswell Crags.

We do.

Your support pays for the research, the production, and the time it takes to get it right.

Keep us at it. 👇🙏

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Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Proudofus.uk @ProudofusUK]

🇬🇧 In a Welsh sea cave 33,000 years ago... 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

A young man was buried by his people with red ochre and grave goods.

It is the oldest formal burial ever found in Western Europe. 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Goat's Hole cave sits high in a Welsh sea cliff on the Gower Peninsula. Above the sea, beneath the headland.

33,000 years ago, this coast looked nothing like it does today. The sea was lower. The land was colder. The Bristol Channel was mammoth steppe.

But the cave was already there.

A young man died. He was around 21 years old. Slender.

🕯️ And his people prepared him.

They wrapped him in cured hide. They covered him with red ochre — a pigment they used only for the dead. They placed grave goods beside him. A carved rod of mammoth ivory. Perforated wolf teeth. Periwinkle shells from the shore.

They did not bury him quickly. They did not bury him alone. They did not bury him without his things. They buried him with grief.

Time passed. The sea rose. The cliff stayed. And the young man slept.

In 1823, the Reverend William Buckland of Oxford found the bones. And got everything about them wrong.

He decided the bones belonged to a Roman-era prostitute.

He called the burial the 🍎Red Lady of Paviland🍎

He was wrong on three counts.

The bones were not Roman. They were Paleolithic.

The bones were not female. They were male.

And the bones were not a prostitute. They were a young man buried by his people with dignity and grief.

The people who buried him did not vanish. Their descendants moved across these islands as the climate changed.

They became Britons. Their descendants became the British. And the British still bury their dead with care.

🇬🇧 Dignity is one of the oldest things on these islands. And the people who feel it are still here.
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The Red Lady is not a lady.

He is our oldest link to the world that made us.

This video was made in Britain. So our children inherit what made us.

We can't do it without you. 🙏

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Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧

Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The bronze sculpture of Neptune rising from the sea at Melenara Beach in Spain

[Waken Minds 𓂀 @wakenminds]

The people who built this weren't motivated by profits.

[SaveOurChurchesUK @SaveukChurches]

For centuries, this medieval Cornish church lay hidden beneath the sand dunes.

Today, St Enodoc’s stands restored, a reminder that Britain’s churches are worth saving.

[Catholic Quotes @CatholicQuote12]

A magnificent statue of Jesus Christ beneath the water.

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Friends come in all shapes and sizes..🐕🐾🦌😍

[Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist]

More people need to know that ancient Roman engineering was so precise, their aqueducts still produce clear water to this very day - 2,000 years later.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire, the Ming dynasty of China, the Inca Empire, the Māori settlement of New Zealand, and the Ottoman Empire.

[RedWave Press @RedWavePress]

NAILED IT: Jeff Bezos: “A nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year pays more than $12K a year in taxes. Does that really make sense?”

“So people talk about making the tax system more progressive. How about we start by having the nurse in Queens NOT pay taxes? At all!”

“Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75K a year paying more than $1K a month in taxes?”

“That’s $1K a month that could help with rent or groceries or anything.”

“And by the way, do you know what that all adds up to? The bottom half of income earners in this country pay only 3% of the taxes. It’s only 3%.”

“We can find 3%. So we don’t have... it’s a small amount of money for the government. You know that. And the more I thought about it, to me, it’s kind of absurd that we’re doing this.”

“We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington — they should be sending her an apology. It really makes no sense.”

Exactly!

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

The Trevi Fountain marks the exact endpoint of a 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct, where ancient engineering still pours fresh water into the heart of the city every single day.

Aqua Virgo was constructed in 19 BC by Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa during the reign of Emperor Augustus.

[Russ @1RustyP]

@coyleneil The NHS was created in 1945 under Attlee & Bevan but it grew out of wartime cross party planning & wider public support for welfare reform. Churchill’s coalition government helped lay some of the groundwork. I'd like to see more cross party work than today's point scoring.