Notices by Mazz@1984 (caringkindersociety@aus.social)

@RenewEconomyRSSFeed
#NASAclimateScientist #ClimateCrisis #AusPol

‘It’s critical the message makes it to the mainstream’: Nasa climate scientist speaks on his tearful protest
Peter Kalmus was among a group of scientists who chained themselves to a JPMorgan Chase building in Los Angeles in protest of the bank’s financing of fossil fuels.'

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/protest-nasa-scientist-rebellion-b2059788.html

#Walking #DogsOfMastodon #MentalHealth #NewcastleNSW
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Walking by the harbour, my happy little friend poses patiently for this photograph 💞

@zakalwe @skinnylatte I'm so sorry Sean 🕊️🫂💔

@skinnylatte @skinnylatte My late father in law spoke with respect for the bravery of the Chinese soldiers during the fall of Singapore. He was based there as a young doctor in the British Army & was taken captive for nearly 3 years. *When he was an adolescent, his Russian born family (Sakhalin), had fled to Harbin (China) and then spent a year in Shanghai before going to Hong Kong to study medicine.
In his recorded interview with the Singapore national archives he says " we told the Chinese soldiers to get out of their uniforms and save themselves" ie. by looking like civilians. They refused to do this which was a very brave but final act of courage. He liked and respected them.

Steamy summer Sunday morning down at the beach. #Australia #NewcastleNSW

#Gaza #ChildAmputees #StopArmingIsrael

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-24/child-amputees-gaza-hospital-israel-hamas/104145780

#Gaza #Israel #Genocide #Zionism #StopArmingIsrael

Rupert Murdoch visits firebombed Melbourne synagogue
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/rupert-murdoch-visits-firebombed-melbourne-synagogue/ar-AA1vIej4

#Israel #MaccabiHooligans #Amsterdam

"Paradoxically, it was left to an Israeli politician, Ofer Cassif, who belongs to the tiny Hadash party, the only joint Jewish-Arab party in the Israeli parliament, to bring some perspective. ..... “[Israeli] fans go on a violent rampage, carry out beatings, tear up Palestinian flags in the streets as if they were an occupying force, and shout Nazi slogans in favour of the extermination of a nation [Palestinians], and then whine when the situation degenerates into complete chaos and violence returns to them like a boomerang.”

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"The BBC, which trumpets its dedication to accurate reporting with its Verify service, didn’t bother to verify images from Amsterdam it used to supposedly illustrate attacks on Israeli fans."

"In fact, as the Dutch photographer who shot an image used by the BBC pointed out, it showed the exact opposite: Israeli youths beating up a local Dutch resident."

"The misuse of these images – disinformation – was repeated by CNN, the Guardian, the New York Times, and other major outlets, as all raced to bolster the fake news narrative being imposed by the western political class."

"The photographer has since demanded apologies and corrections from media organisations that used her footage incorrectly and without authorisation. By Saturday, she had received only one – from the German news programme Tagesschau."

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2024-11-11/genocide-victims-israel-football-thugs/

My morning walk yesterday. Beautiful, meditational and regenerating. 👣 🕊️

#Australia #NewcastleNSW

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#RefaatAlareer #Poetry #PalestinianPoet
#IsraeliAirStrike #DontLookAway

If I must die
by
Refaat Alareer

If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze—
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself—
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up
above
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love
If I must die
let it bring hope
let it be a tale.

Refaat Alareer was a prominent Palestinian writer, poet, professor, and activist from the Gaza Strip. Killed by an Israeli Air strike December 6th 2023.

#Israel #Gaza #Apartheid #Genocide

"To invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present, is gross hypocrisy." Bertrand Russell
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Bertrand Russell's last message. Written 1970;
"The bombing raids [by Israel] deep into Egyptian territory will not persuade the civilian population to surrender, but will stiffen their resolve to resist."
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"..the present Israeli attacks will fail in their essential purpose, but at the same time they must be condemned vigorously throughout the world."
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"For over 20 years [now in 2023, 76 years] Israel has expanded by force of arms. After every stage in this expansion Israel has appealed to “reason” and has suggested “negotiations”. This is the traditional role of the imperial power, because it wishes to consolidate with the least difficulty what it has already taken by violence."

"The aggression committed by Israel must be condemned, not only because no state has the right to annexe foreign territory, but because every expansion is an experiment to discover how much more aggression the world will tolerate."
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"The tragedy of the people of Palestine is that their country was “given” by a foreign Power to another people for the creation of a new State. The result was that many hundreds of thousands of innocent people were made permanently homeless. With every new conflict their number have increased. How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty? It is abundantly clear that the refugees have every right to the homeland from which they were driven, and the denial of this right is at the heart of the continuing conflict. No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?"

"We are frequently told that we must sympathize with Israel because of the suffering of the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis. I see in this suggestion no reason to perpetuate any suffering. What Israel is doing today cannot be condoned, and to invoke the horrors of the past to justify those of the present is gross hypocrisy. Not only does Israel condemn a vast number. of refugees to misery; not only are many Arabs under occupation condemned to military rule; but also Israel condemns the Arab nations only recently emerging from colonial status, to continued impoverishment as military demands take precedence over national development."

"All who want to see an end to bloodshed in the Middle East must ensure that any settlement does not contain the seeds of future conflict. Justice requires that the first step towards a settlement must be an Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied in June, 1967. A new world campaign is needed to help bring justice to the long-suffering people of the Middle East."

https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/bertrand-russell-on-israel-and-palestine/