Notices by JuneSim63 (junesim63@mstdn.social), page 3

@aral At least we CAN see it due to the reporters on the ground. The West Bank isn't Gaza. It's still open to Western journalists and media.

The IDF used a slight 10 year old girl as a human shield in their latest raid in the Nur Shams refugee camp.
The platoon pushed her up to each of the doors in her aunt’s house, while they remained braced behind her ready to fire at whoever might be inside.

"There was no mercy, even on children. Why take a 13- or 14-year-old boy from his house and beat the shit out of him and break his phone?”
A local Baker referring to his son

#Israel #WestBank #WarCrimes #NurShams #IDF
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/31/trauma-in-the-west-bank-after-israeli-raids-palestinian-territory

"Nothing demonstrates better the appalling environmental record of our polluting water companies than the fact that they are not even taking care of the highly protected areas that they actually own. It simply cannot be right that the payment of large dividends to shareholders and huge bonuses to bosses is prioritised before protecting SSSIs. This entire culture of polluting for profit must end”
Charles Watson, Chair River Action

#Rivers #SSSI #WaterPrivatisation #Water
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/31/water-companies-natural-england-sites-special-scientific-interest?CMP=GTUK_email

An estimated 19,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both parents in the genocidal war waged by Israel.

The overwhelming majority of children are hungry, with or without parents, aid workers point out, and have little or no access to healthcare as they contend with the daily threats of death, injury and the loss of loved ones.

#Gaza #Israel #Children #Orphans #Genocide

‘My siblings have become my children’: the plight of Gaza’s orphans
https://archive.is/l3iKv

"We face the greatest predicament humankind has confronted: the erosion and possible collapse of our life-support systems. Its speed and scale have taken even scientists by surprise. The potential impacts are greater than any recent pandemic, or any war we have suffered. Yet the effort to persuade people of the need for action has been left almost entirely to either the private or voluntary sectors. And it simply does not work"
George Monbiot

#ClimateEmergency
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/28/dear-ministers-i-am-a-climate-crisis-campaigner-nationalise-me-right-now

@thejapantimes Covid-19 ISN'T over. Thousands are dying every day, and in Japan at least 10% of people are suffering longcovid symptoms. The WHO still classifies SARS-CoV-2 as a pandemic.

https://www.asahi.com/sp/ajw/articles/15123674

"First we did it with manganese. Later we did it with nickel and lithium. And then we used a different strain of bacteria and we were able to extract cobalt and nickel.”

University of Edinburgh scientists are using bacteria helping to extract rare metals from old batteries to help create a circular green economy.

#RareMetals #GreenTech #Bacteria
#ClimateEmergency

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/25/bacteria-helping-to-extract-rare-metals-from-old-batteries-in-boost-for-green-tech?CMP=GTUK_email

Today's Guardian briefing on #CruiseShips

* European cruise ships alone emitted more sulphurous oxides than 1bn cars in 2022, creating huge pollution in cities where they dock.

* Cruise ship CO2 emissions in Europe rose by 17% between 2017 & 2022, reaching the equivalent of 50,000 flights between Paris & New York.

* A single ship can emit as much diesel exhaust as 34,400 idling lorries to power operations while docked.

#Pollution #Environment #ClimateEmergency

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/26/tuesday-briefing-first-edition-cruisezillas

Starmer is talking bollocks.
There is no need for a round of further Tory austerity. There are many ways of raising the necessary billions, if only he and Reeves could ditch their craven adherence to neoliberal ideology and 'fiscal rectitude'.

They could start by taxing capital gains at the same rate as income tax and restricting pension tax relief to the basic rate. This would more than cover their fictional £22bn black hole.

#LabourAusterity #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/24/keir-starmer-warns-of-tough-times-ahead-to-fix-tory-ruins

"[The war in Gaza] will be counted against [Biden] forever. He could have stopped it long ago. He did not, and even now, when everything is already hopeless, he lets Blinken surrender to Netanyahu's demands"

Gideon Levy in a damning column in Haaretz yesterday.

#Israel #Gaza #Biden #USPolitics #Netanyahu #Capitulation

https://archive.is/mVGEV

The BBC has produced dozens of films and articles for oil and gas companies, agricultural giants, fossil fuel states, and high-emission transport firms in recent years.

The content was produced by BBC Storyworks, which boasts on its website that it 'leverages the reputation of the BBC'

My licence fee pays for that!

#Greenwashing #BBC #BBBStoryworks #Polluters #Oil #Gas #PR

BBC Accused of Doing PR for Major Polluters - DeSmog
https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/22/bbc-storyworks-pr-greenwashing-major-polluters/

Major corporations, including Mastercard, Meta, and Coca-Cola, are quietly sponsoring a Canadian conference headlined by Christopher Rufo, a far-right activist and crusader against diversity initiatives. Many of these same companies, however, champion diversity in their public communications.

#Canada #FarRight #ChristopherRufo #Diversity #CocaCola #Mastercard #Meta #DoorDash #SunLife

https://popular.info/p/major-corporations-sponsor-anti-woke?publication_id=1664&post_id=147983589&isFreemail=true&r=96cfk&triedRedirect=true

Well done NATAS. Yet another attempt to silence a Palestinian journalist bites the dust.

#Bisan #BisanOwda #Emmys #Palestine #Journalism #Gaza #NATAS

Emmy body defends nomination of Gaza journalist Bisan Owda after 150 industry pros call for it to be revoked | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/bisan-owda-gaza-emmys-b2599502.html

"After each atrocity it perpetrates, the Israeli state has a standard modus operandi: deny, deflect, deceive, & wait for attention to move elsewhere. Most media outlets have collaborated with this strategy, which has allowed Israel to continue its genocidal onslaught, because it prevents observers from joining the dots to understand what this really is"

#Israel #Gaza #HindRajab
Hind Rajab’s death has already been forgotten. That’s exactly what Israel wants | Owen Jones
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/18/hind-rajab-israeli-state-atrocity

By accident, I just heard an item on BBC Radio 4's Today programme covering the Athens wildfires. Not a mention of global heating or the climate emergency. "Of course, Greece is used to wildfires," says the reporter, "they have them every year."

#Athens #Wildfires #BBCNews #Radio4Today

He was diagnosed diabetic yesterday and thinks this gives him carte blanche to receive food on demand. Tough love is required.
#Caturday #FelineDiabetes

The number of students & overseas workers applying for UK visas has dropped following curbs introduced by the Tory government.

There was a particularly sharp decline in monthly applications for health & care visas, with an 82 per cent fall to 2,900 in July.

The number of people applying to study in the UK fell by 15 per cent to 69,500.

If Labour does anything, it should reverse these strict visa curbs. It's killing higher education & the NHS.

#Immigration #UKPolitics
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/migration-figures-student-worker-visa-b2593823.html

"Rather than developing a coherent policy, [the Tory government] chose to keep redefining extremism, to exclude the bigoted elements in its own base and focus instead on environmental protesters and peaceful campaigners contesting the unfolding genocide in Gaza. The police kept warning that the far right was the fastest-growing terrorism threat in the UK, but the government did nothing"
Excellent from George Monbiot

#FarRightRiots #ToryBritain #Racism #UKRiots #Fascism

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/06/riots-thuggery-14-years-tory-race-baiting

"Of course, they were amply assisted by the media: not just the Mail & the Telegraph, but also, shamefully, the BBC. We should never forget the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices. It built Farage into a major public figure, just as it built the recognition & momentum that Boris Johnson & Jacob Rees-Mogg..enjoyed"
George Monbiot

#FarRightRiots #ToryBritain #Racism #UKRiots

@isotope239 @malwaretech We have a new law in the UK now. Since January, an amendment to the Online Safety Act 2023 allows for the prosecution of those who convey information that they know to be false and “if the person intended the message, or the information in it, to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience”.