Notices by Gladwyn d’Souza (godsouza@sfba.social), page 2

High-level Democrats want their party to lose in November. You think they’ve enjoyed being the Darth Vader on the face of the evil empire these last 3.5 years? Do you realize how hard it is to pretend to oppose racism and injustice while openly backing a literal genocide?

#VictimsDontCareIfGenocideJoeOrTFGIsDroppingBombs

https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone/p/nonstop-news-stories-proving-palestine?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

Local police bureaucracies and carceral tech companies were also unable to procure the public money to fulfill their dream of integrating vast amounts of government surveillance data into expensive new cloud-based computing databases that would connect reservoirs of police data to facial and voice recognition software, license plate trackers, and proprietary behavior prediction algorithms.
After Officer Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown, these actors were savvy: they used a moment of public outrage and the many calls for change to get self-professed “progressives” in local and national government and well-meaning people in the general public to support one of the most lucrative expansions of surveillance technology in modern history.
How did they do it? As I show in this article, they portrayed Orwellian government surveillance infrastructure as a “reform” for police violence at a moment of extreme uncertainty over what had exactly happened to Brown.

#EndQualifiedImmunityNow

https://open.substack.com/pub/equalityalec/p/the-body-camera?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

Nobody thinks that courts are gonna solve homelessness. The problem with cases like this is that courts can make it a whole lot worse. And this decision's gonna make it worse because this decision greenlights jurisdictions that want to criminalize to go ahead and do that.

That's gonna put more pressure on jurisdictions like Los Angeles that want to have long-term solutions because we're already doing this in LA.

The widespread homelessness is an American problem. Legal mechanisms are not put in place to end homelessness. Enlightened politicians with veto proof majorities have not done what it takes to end nimbyism.

#HomelessnessIsAtTheIntersectionOfWarMisogynyPovertyMilitarismRacism

From Scheer Intelligence: The Supreme Court criminalizes being homeless, Jul 5, 2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scheer-intelligence/id1054586928?i=1000661212995
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scheer-intelligence/id1054586928?i=1000661212995

Scheer argues that the problem has been around long before the recent SCOTUS decision and the elephant in the room for states like California, which Scheer points out is the fifth largest economy in the world, do not use their vast resources to address the problem but rather put the blame on decisions like this and continue their politics that ignore the central issue.
Pastore agrees, “people who are growing up thinking this is normal, is that this idea that this is intractable, is taking hold and it's not right.”
The greed in the U.S., where housing is regarded as a private good, strains the ability to attack the roots of the issue.

#GreaterOfTwoEvilsIsTheBipartisanConsensusForHumanRightsViolations

Priorities: The Democrats, expected to lose control of the Senate, are desperate to win back the House, as the sole means of countering Trumpism.

#JohnLewisVotingRightsAct stalled for genocide.

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/3/as_authoritarianism_sweeps_the_globe_will

“Cuba is at least 62 percent Black, and the Cuban-American community that wants to play a dominant role in Cuba is 90 percent White,” Dr. Moore writes.

https://open.substack.com/pub/extremearturo/p/is-cuba-more-oppressive-than-the?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

#BlowbackGaza: UN whistleblower Craig Mokhiber wrote: "U.S. presidents have always been above the law. Their victims span the globe, in the Philippines, Vietnam, Iraq, Chile, Palestine and beyond. Yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling extends that impunity to the victimization of the American people at home. The crimes of empire always come home."

#NeoLiberalismCreatesMoralMonstersFromPlutocratsFascistsAndAutocrats

https://open.substack.com/pub/husseini/p/is-the-president-above-the-law?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

Israel had detained Mohammed Abu Selmia because he was guilty of running the hospital they’d pretended was a Hamas base so they could kill the patients. Worryingly, the doctor was witnessed saving civilians who had been designated for genocide, easing the suffering of horrifically injured children, and upholding his Hippocratic oath. Even worse, there was huge concern that refugees were staying on hospital grounds to evade Israel’s bombs. Clearly, a solution had to be found, and that solution was super-credible allegations, mass arrests, and more murder.

#StopKillingAndDisapearingMedicalPersonnelAndTheirFamilies #AlShifaHospialMassGraves

https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/israel-frees-head-of-al-shifa-hospital?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

Oslo-based KLP sold its shares and bonds in the company, worth 728m krone ($69m), earlier this month.
Kiran Aziz, the firm’s head of responsible investment, said the Texas-based firm's equipment was used “to demolish Palestinian homes and infrastructure to clear the way for Israeli settlements" and also pointed to the use of Caterpillar equipment by the Israeli army.
#BulldozersAreWMDofCarbonSinksAndHumanRights
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/norways-largest-pension-fund-divest-stake-caterpillar-over-israeli-settler-expansion

Congress asks a question, an intelligence official says they can only talk about it in a classified setting, where they later brief the Congressperson — but not the American people who, lacking security clearances, remain in the dark. In this case, the public remains in the dark about something quite significant: the evidence upon which the intelligence community is basing its monitoring of American protesters.

#CriminalizingDissentDoesntHideAtrocities

https://open.substack.com/pub/kenklippenstein/p/us-gov-finally-admits-to-spying-on?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

Systemic racism ingrained into our American institutions has been a historical roadblock perpetuating child poverty. Current statistics indicate the ongoing effectiveness of the roadblocks in pushing the American Dream of economic mobility further out of reach, especially for Black and Brown children (see Table 2).
• Among the 74 million children living in the United States, 11 million live in poverty.
• One in six children under five (3 million children) were poor, the highest rate of any age group.
#GenocideTaxForeverWarDivestsFromYouthHousingFoodCleanAirAndWaterMedicareForAll

https://www.childrensdefense.org/tools-and-resources/the-state-of-americas-children/soac-child-poverty/

While the US government is sabotaging meaningful action at the UN and other countries pontificate, Palestinians are being slaughtered.
If countries are serious, they will move on a Uniting for Peace resolution with teeth in the General Assembly immediately.

#ICJOrderedAnEndToAllActsOfGenocide

https://open.substack.com/pub/husseini/p/video-state-dept-denies-rigging-un?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

“Nothing feels more emblematic to the fight for the soul of the Democratic Party than a Republican-funded super PAC coming after a former nurse and middle school principal,” he said, pointing to United Democracy Project donors like hedge fund manager Paul Singer, whose Elliott Management has fossil fuel investments.

#CrowLeoSingerCorruptedRobertsSettlerColonialCourt #VultureCapitalism #GenocideTaxBuysApartheidFromTheRiverToTheSea

https://www.eenews.net/articles/green-new-deal-backers-in-danger-of-losing-primaries/

Congress should seize this opportunity to immediately reform the Espionage Act to include an exception for information disclosures that advance the public interest. This move would send a strong signal in defense of press freedom

https://open.substack.com/pub/francisaboyle/p/assange-freed-but-supporters-say?r=39z3o&utm_medium=ios

Whoops, they did it again. Only this time it was no “tragic mistake.” There were no apologies. Indeed, the IDF claimed the bombing was a “precision strike.” The target? An UNRWA school in the Nuseirat Refugee Camp in central Gaza, which was being used as a shelter for thousands of displaced Palestinian families. The victims: at least 40 killed, 14 of them children and 9 women. Another 75 were wounded, including 23 children and 18 women. The weapon? A US-made GBU 39, the same bombs used to kill 45 people at the Tel al-Sultan tent encampment outside Rafah last week.
what is the “proper” use of such weapons, which are designed to spew shrapnel 2,000 feet?

#GenocideJoeKnows

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/06/08/whoops-they-did-it-again/

Biden's puppet, Ruto, who ignored the Supreme Court, has "called out the army after millions protested his mass austerity Finance Bill. Describing protesters as “treasonous” and “dangerous criminals” in a televised address, he said he would “treat every threat as an existential threat to our republic.” Protestors want Nairobi "to withdraw plans to raise more than $2 billion in new taxes from workers and the rural poor, as dictated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)"

#AutocratsRespondToBRICS

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/06/25/bwoi-j25.html

#SiblingBeings in trouble surviving us: fish are threatened by diversions of water that reduce river flows, harmful algae blooms that can trigger fish kills, and overfishing by recreational anglers. They say the fish are particularly vulnerable because they spawn infrequently — only in wet years that bring high river flows.

#ForeverWarSubsidizesFossilFuelsAndSprawl

#CattleWreckedLandscapeByBibleBeefAndBulletsCauseAfluenza

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-06-25/california-may-declare-white-sturgeon-a-threatened-species

#OnlyGoodDamIsABeaverDam

An Israeli sniper shot at the two children from a distance of 100 to 150 meters with six bullets, according to Defense for Children International - Palestine.

One bullet hit Ahmad in his leg, and he collapsed and started pleading for help. The other child was able to flee though he was injured in the thigh.

The Israeli sniper shot towards Ahmad again, striking him in his chest and head.

An Israeli military vehicle then approached Ahmad, and the Israeli driver stepped out and shot the child three more times.

The driver of the military vehicle remained near him for a few minutes as Israeli forces blocked a Palestinian ambulance from reaching Ahmad as he lay wounded on the ground.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israel-kills-children-damages-infrastructure-west-bank

#ICJOrderedAnEndToAllActsOfGenocide

Clint Smith- when you have a more acute understanding of how slavery shaped the infrastructure of this country, then you’re able to more effectively look around you and see how the reason one community looks one way and another community looks another way is not because of the people in those communities, but is because of what has been done to those communities, generation after generation after generation. And I think that that is central to the sort of public pedagogy that so many of these activists and organizers who have been attempting to make Juneteenth a holiday and bring attention to it as an entry point to think more wholly and honestly about the legacy of slavery have been doing.

#GentrificationAppliesKushnerToRedlining

#Juneteenth: Every time I would return home, I would drive on streets named for those who would have wanted me in chains.
Go straight for two miles on Robert E. Lee, take a left on Jefferson Davis, make the first right on Claiborne. Translation: Go straight for two miles on the general who slaughtered hundreds of Black soldiers who were trying to surrender, take a left on the president of the Confederacy who made the torture of Black bodies the cornerstone of his new nation, make the first right on the man who permitted the heads of rebelling slaves to be put on stakes and spread across the city in order to prevent the others from getting any ideas.
What name is there for this sort of violence? What do you call it when the road you walk on is named for those who imagined you under a noose? What do you call it when the roof over your head is named after people who would have wanted the bricks to crush you?
Clint Smith, author of the book How the Word Is Passed on Democracy Now
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/6/19/juneteenth_special_historian_clint_smith_on