Notices by Mark Burton (markhburton@mstdn.social)

'My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for #Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it.'

Electronic Infitada's Ali Abunimah deported by Switzerland after violent arrest and isolation – SKWAWKBOX
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/01/27/eis-abunimah-deported-by-switzerland-after-violent-arrest-and-isolation/

While in Gaza there's a ceasefire, in the larger portion of occupied Palestine, the IOF and settler allies continue their attacks.

Eight Palestinians killed as Israel launches operation in Jenin - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg750yzdr8o

Well now, we might think that this would be a good thing, the only way to actually get serious reduction in carbon emissions, and given the likely scenario of continued inaction / pretend action, it is.
However, such a crash would destroy many lives and livelihoods.
Before someone suggests it - this is not #degrowth, but unmanaged contraction.

Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP between 2070 and 2090 from climate shocks, say actuaries
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/16/economic-growth-could-fall-50-over-20-years-from-climate-shocks-say-actuaries

#collapse #carbon #climate

@becha @vaurora
Our work proposes a radical but feasible, degrowth-based framework for a national political programme.
People frequently say they like the idea of Degrowth' but can't see how it would work.
Here is at least the start of an answer.
https://gettingreal.org.uk/

@simon_brooke @Mactonex @mekkaokereke @tehstu @Rycaut @dusk @clive @hazelnot @teadrinker
We just gave ours away (Freecycle). Almost always use had tools now and too heavy to lift down frequently - but we'll engineered yes.

It is a matter of profound shame for those of us whose governments continue to enable this Nazi regime in its Palestinian Genocide.

130,000 kids in Gaza ‘cut off’ | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/130000-kids-in-gaza-cut-off
#GazaGenocide #Starmer

"Harris supporters’ “lesser of two evils” pitch to the community backfired because many voters could not see a worse evil than the administration providing the bombs killing their families and destroying their hometowns."

‘We warned you,’ Arab Americans in Michigan tell Kamala Harris | US Election 2024 News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/6/we-warned-you-arab-americans-in-michigan-tell-kamala-harris?traffic_source=rss

#uspol #GazaGenocide

@ElSaltoDiario
Todavía tienen su apellido incorrecto. Julia, amiga mía, no se llama Steimberg sino Steinberger, como se aparece en el texto del artículo.
¡Gracias!

Crisis climática | Julia Steimberg y los lobbies del negacionismo climático: “No hay victoria posible en este contexto" - El Salto - Edición General
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/cambio-climatico/julia-steimberg-lobbies-negacionismo-climatico-atlas-network#comentario_105791

So it's the #GenocideEnabling business as usual for the US 'Democratic' Party.

"The call for a Palestinian speaker at the convention was the simplest of their demands, advocates explained. And it still got turned down."

‘They want to erase us:’ How #DNC rejected demand for Palestinian speaker | US Election 2024 News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/22/they-want-to-erase-us-how-dnc-rejected-demand-for-palestinian-speaker?traffic_source=rss
#Palestine #Gaza

Israel steals yet more Palestinian land for its settlers.

Israel has approved the largest seizure of Palestinian land in over three decades | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/israel-has-approved-largest-seizure-palestinian-land-over-three-decades

#Palestine

The #GazaGenocide continues and deepens.
Can we now compare the current Israeli government to the Nazis?

Starvation already causing many deaths and lasting harm in Gaza, agencies say | Gaza | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/05/starvation-already-causing-mass-death-and-lasting-harm-in-gaza-agencies-say

@abolisyonista
Stress the positive aspects of the alternative but also keep on using #degrowth where the message will be heard.

The terrorist Israeli occupation gives humanitarian organisation #UNRWA 30 days to leave East Jerusalem.
In a masterstroke of projection, it intends to declare UNRWA, part of the UNO, established in the late 40s to bring relief to those fleeing the #NAKBA, a terrorist organisation.

Ocupación israelí | Israel da 30 días a la Unrwa para dejar Jerusalén este tras su intento de declararla “organización terrorista” - El Salto - Edición General
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/ocupacion-israeli/israel-unrwa-jerusalen-declararla-organizacion-terrorista

Why did @BBCNews #Newsnight see it as necessary to interview 2 Israeli propaganda sources? As so often, I turned it off in disgust.

Complicit in genocide: where Israel gets its weapons from | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/complicit-genocide-where-israel-gets-its-weapons

Oh dear mstdn.social is federated with threads?
I might move, if I can be arsed to figure it out.

#Fedipact - The instances blocking Zuckerberg's Threads.net
https://fedipact.veganism.social/

What a little shit the man is.

Keir Starmer 'ordering Labour MPs to abstain on SNP ceasefire motion' | The National
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24133003.keir-starmer-ordering-labour-mps-abstain-snp-ceasefire-motion/

Newcastle's first non-white Lord Mayor quits Labour over Gaza stance | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/newcastles-first-non-white-lord-mayor-quits-labour-over-gaza-stance

OK, so how are you going to do that #TransitionAway from #FossilFuels?
Here are some tips, mainly for rich countries.
1) Stop trying to grow the economy & instead share the abundance.
2) Stop building unnecessarily.
3) Impose an annual declining cap on fossil fuel use: use fair rationing.
4) Stop subsidising fossil fuel industry.
5) Massive energy demand reduction programmes in all sectors
6) Protect & restore green spaces, especially peatlands, wetlands, forests.
... that's just for starters.

I had nil expectations of #COP28. So I'm not particularly disappointed.
Had it agreed what many hoped for, the declaration would have been voluntary, with no enforcement mechanism.
The real action lies elsewhere, particularly in richer countries, under pressure from campaigners and crisis events, dumping the economic model, degrowing, sharing, living with planetary means in every way.