Notices by JuneSim63 (junesim63@mstdn.social), page 4

It's taken 22 years, but public transport and archaeology meet in Thessaloniki this weekend with the opening of its new metro system, which will reduce traffic congestion by as many as 60,000 vehicles.
There are 13 'archaeostations' where ancient finds are displayed or are part of the infrastructure.

#Transport #Archaeology #Thessaloniki #Greece #PublicTransit

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/30/a-blend-of-ancient-and-modern-inside-thessalonikis-new-3bn-metro-system?CMP=bsky_gu

Israeli troops blew up hundreds of years of history and culture when they laid waste to communities in southern Lebanon

#Israel #Lebanon #History
A short history of the ancient Lebanese villages destroyed by Israel | Middle East Eye
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/short-history-ancient-lebanese-villages-destroyed-israel

A good news story...

"Due to intensive arable farming, with decades of ploughing, herbicide and pesticide use, biodiversity was incredibly low when we started. Wildlife had largely been sanitised from the fields. Rewilding the site has had a remarkable benefit"

#Bees #Bumblebees #Rewilding #Scotland #Biodiversity

Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland project
https://www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bumblebee-population-increases-116-times-over-in-remarkable-scotland-project-4882622

"It’s far more straightforward to blame an abstract “wokeness” than to reckon with the fact that Harris ran a broadly right-of-centre campaign and still lost. It also conjures up a convenient voter, one who is more offended by language than by the promise of mass deportations. That then makes these voters retrievable rather than subject to big shifts"

Yet another excellent analysis from Nesrine Malik

#Woke #Trump #IdentityPolitics #USElection

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/25/woke-lost-us-election-patrician-class-identity-politics

Oil Change International recently found that 28% of the crude oil supplied to Israel between 21 October 2023 & 12 July 2024 came from Azerbaijan, the nation hosting this year’s UN climate summit.

“If they’re fuelling the genocide, how can they talk about climate justice?”

#COP29 #Palestine #Israel

‘Protect the climate for whom?’: Palestinians highlight Gaza at Cop29 | Cop29 | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/nov/23/protect-the-climate-for-whom-palestinians-highlight-gaza-at-cop29?CMP=bsky_gu

Sri Lanka’s new leftist president is on track for a landslide victory in parliamentary elections, bolstering his mandate for change in a country still reeling from the aftermath of a devastating financial crisis.

#SriLanka #Politics

Sri Lanka’s leftist president on track for parliamentary landslide
https://archive.is/OPq3w

@oatmeal @palestine @israel The Campaign Against Antisemitism is a rightwing zionist organisation which was prominent in the smearing of Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party in the run up to the 2019 general election. This refutation of their claims from Jewish Voice for Labour makes good reading.

https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/smoke-without-fire-the-myth-of-a-labour-antisemitism-crisis/

A very good analysis by Jonathan Cook of recent events in Amsterdam, in the wider context of Israel's on-going genocide in Gaza, the increasing demonisation of Muslim and Arab minorities in Europe, and media complicity in both.

#Israel #Amsterdam #Gaza #TelAviv #Football #Hooligans #Genocide #Media #EUPolitics

The West buries a genocide – by making victims of Israel's football thugs
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-west-buries-a-genocide-by-making?publication_id=476450&post_id=151508839&isFreemail=true&r=96cfk&triedRedirect=true

Three-quarters of 5000 respondents to a survey of rape and sexual assault survivors in England and Wales said their mental health was damaged “as a direct result of what police did, or failed to do, in their case” and only one in 10 said they would report again.

#Rape #SexualAssault #OperationSoteria #Policing #Justice

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/12/rape-sexual-assault-survivors-report-crime-england-wales-survey?CMP=GTUK_email

Lovely tribute to the late David Graeber by Rebecca Solnit, from her foreword to a new collection of his writing.

"David’s recurrent rallying cry as both a scholar and an activist was: “It does not have to be this way.” Where academia can be cool and guarded, pulling away from direct engagement, he was warm and enthusiastic, wanting to see ideas lead to actions that could change the world"

#DavidGraeber #Anarchism #Politics #Anthropology

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/07/david-graeber-optimistic-anarchist-rebecca-solnit?CMP=firstedition_email

The latest from Led By Donkeys on how far-right conspiracy theorist Elon Musk swayed the US election.

If you're still on X/Twitter or thinking of buying a Tesla, watch this.

#LedByDonkeys #ElonMusk #Tesla #USElection #USPolitics #Corruption

TESLA = TRUMP
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iX3vMJOADlE&feature=shared

"In running an opinion piece that suggests it may now be acceptable to use the term genocide about Gaza, the Guardian has admitted it has been – even according to its own resident genocide expert – complicit in obscuring that genocide for a half a year.

Remember that when editor Kath Viner comes cap in hand once again, as she did this week, begging for money from readers for her brand of supposedly “fearless, independent journalism”.

#TheGuardian #Israel #Genocide #Gaza
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/a-year-late-the-guardian-finally?publication_id=476450&post_id=151357499&isFreemail=true&r=96cfk&triedRedirect=true

I never use Trainline, but if you do....

"Trainline is a profiteering machine that’s ripping off passengers and unnecessarily costing taxpayers.

“Their model relies on hidden fees, deceptive ticket options, and overpriced fares – all designed to boost shareholder profits at the public’s expense.”
Mick Lynch

#Trainline #Railways #RailTravel #RMT #Trains

Trainline accused of ripping off customers and deliberately misleading them - rmt
https://www.rmt.org.uk/news/trainline-accused-of-ripping-off-customers-and-deliberately/?preview=true

An administrative court in Germany this week ordered the deportation of Dilmurod Ergashev, a Tajik opposition political activist, despite the risk of his detention and torture in Tajikistan.

#Refugees #Tajikistan #Germany #HumanRights #Deportation

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/10/31/tajik-activist-germany-risk-deportation

"The denial of the applicability of the principle of proportionality on the emotional grounds that civilians were killed who were nice people is, to put it bluntly, the first step toward justifying genocide"

Juan Cole on the moral stupidity of ex President Clinton.

#Israel #Gaza #Genocide #Proportionality

As UN warns entire Population of Gaza is at Risk of Death, Bill Clinton says he's not keeping Score
https://www.juancole.com/2024/11/population-clinton-keeping.html

"Clinton’s remarks are a form of unfaced racism on his part. Israeli kibbutzim are white people, whose deaths are to be mourned. The 42,000 dead Palestinians are brown people, mere statistics, whose deaths, while unfortunate, are necessary so that white people can feel safe — which is what really matters. It is the same logic Clinton used, as president in 1996, when he spoke of African-American “superpredators"

Juan Cole

#Israel #Gaza #Racism

@cstross Badenoch is dangerous. She has huge self-belief and little self-knowledge, and will use any pretext to start a culture war or jump on an existing culture war bandwagon. Her politics verge on fascism.

Multiple Israeli air strikes hit the densely populated area of Beit Lahiya in northern Gaza,with no warnings given. Dozens of people have been killed.

“People are trying to recover victims from under the rubble because civil defence rescuers are unable to reach the scene after first responders were targeted by Israeli forces earlier today"

#Israel #Gaza #BeitLahiya

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/26/dozens-killed-in-horrific-israeli-bombing-in-beit-lahiya-gaza-ministry?traffic_source=rss

Work & pensions secretary Liz Kendall plans to keep £1.3bn in cuts to UK sickness benefits announced by the previous Tory government. This will affect half a million of the most vulnerable people.
She also plans to keep the draconian Tory changes to work capability assessments, in order to 'encourage' disabled people into work.

Kendall was the only Labour leadership candidate in 2015 to fully back Tory welfare cuts.

#Disability #DWP #LabourAusterity #UKPolitics

https://archive.is/ndpE4

Disturbing account of the way Israeli intelligence, particularly Unit 8200, has evolved over the years, culminating in algorithmically controlled kill lists and supported by high-tech companies like Elbit and Palantir. Includes interviews with ex-IDF personnel.

#Israel #Infosec #Gaza #IDF #Unit8200 #Intelligence #Palantir #Elbit #KillLists

Sophia Goodfriend · Kill Lists
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n19/sophia-goodfriend/kill-lists?CMP=firstedition_email