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CARE OF THE GUARD
Lyrics by PSYCHADELEPHANT To be a brave strutter through the mind clutter We divine for the line while we earn our bread and butter Stuck in the rhythm of inhibition Just listen to the tales that they spin to distract your intuitions Challenge the grind, search and you’ll find, morals refined Souls…
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GIRL BAND – ELECTRIC BALLROOM IN CAMDEN, 5TH NOVEMBER 2019
Dubliners Girl Band dropped in to Camden’s Electric Ballroom on Bonfire Night for a sold-out show on their first tour for two and a half years. They arrived on the music scene in 2015 with their remarkable debut album Holding Hands with Jamie, and I was lucky enough to see them perform one of the…
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Amanda Palmer – SOLO PIANO TOUR AT THE CORN EXCHANGE IN CAMBRIDGE, 20TH OCTOBER 2019
Amanda Palmer took her solo piano tour There Will Be No Intermission to Cambridge on 20th October, performing a show for almost 4 hours with an intermission. This wasn’t so much a gig as a performance; part stand-up comedy, and part intimate confessional, interspersed with songs from both her solo career and her band The…
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YOUR QUESTIONS AND THOUGHTS
Hi Readers, Thank you for your many letters offering support and suggestions for The Hourglass newspaper. Here’s a selection of some of the comments you’ve sent in. Greetings you wonderful people. My name is Terry, and I’m 77. For health reasons I’m unable to attend your events but get regular emails…
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How far will you go to #TELLTHETRUTH?
Send your photos to: hourglass@rebellion.earth…
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Change One Simple Habit to Plant More Trees
Carbon dioxide (CO2) gas is used by trees for photosynthesis, a chemical reaction that produces food for the trees to live. So the more trees we plant, the more CO2 will be locked away. Most of us don’t have acres of land where we can plant with trees, but there is something we can all…
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WHAT ARE TIPPING POINTS?
Perhaps the climate change metaphor which has stayed in my mind most strongly is that of a group striding out into a minefield without a map or guide. In the analogy the mines represent tipping points in the climate system, primed to go off, but we don’t know where they are, only that the further…
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IN OTHER NEWS
Venice has experienced its second-highest levels of flooding since records began. Two people have died, with an elderly man struck by lightning as he operated an electric water pump. Bolivia’s new interim president has pledged to hold fresh elections after taking the place of socialist Eco Morales, who resigned his post after…
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OVER 11,000 SCIENTISTS DECLARE A CLIMATE EMERGENCY
A team of scientists led by Professor William Ripple of Oregon State University have authored a letter relaying the moral obligation of scientists to ‘warn humanity of any catastrophic threat’. The letter has been signed by 11,258 scientists from 153 countries. It declares ‘clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency’.
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