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junesim63

@junesim63@mstdn.social

Retired researcher living in Nottinghamshire, England.

#Socialist #Politics #Environment #Cats #Gardening #Wildlife #Opera #ClassicalMusic #Refugees #HumanRights #AlcoholFree #WearAMask #NoBridge

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junesim63, to d100
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Lawyers & migrant rights campaigners have warned that the government is heading for a repeat of the Windrush scandal after imposing a “cliff edge” deadline by the end of 2024 for immigrants to switch from physical biometric residence permits (BRPs) to digital e-visas.
Our incompetent Home Office is in charge of this change, so it will go swimmingly of course.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/18/digital-visa-switch-uk-immigrants-december-deadline

junesim63, to random
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He's been a very good boy this morning. It only took two of us and some Dreamies to take his temperature at the vet, and he only growled once (as would I if someone stuck an implement up my bum).
He's had a virus infection, but he now has a clean bill of health. So it's a good #Caturday today.

junesim63,
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@BashStKid He had anti inflammatory and antibiotic jabs on Monday ( it took three of us to take his temperature then!). He had a chest infection.

junesim63, to classicalmusic
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On now on #BBCRadio3, the story of the West Eastern Divan Orchestra, started by the remarkable Edward Said and Daniel Barenboim, to bring Arab and Israeli young people together to make classical music.
It’s now its 25th anniversary.

Also moving, as the presenter & violinist Clemency Burton-Hill, who joined the orchestra briefly in 2008, is still recovering from a catastrophic brain injury, which left her initially unable to speak or play.
#ClassicalMusic

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001z5h7

junesim63, to Israel
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"If you hadn’t had Ukraine you could make some case that Gaza is a faraway conflict of which we know little..Ukraine’s blown all that out the water. We were very clear: foreign occupation is bad, illegal invasion is bad, bombing civilian neighbourhoods is bad, targeting World Central Kitchen [in Ukraine, as Russia did in 2022] is bad. It’s a genocide, said Joe Biden, very casually"

Mehdi Hasan: “We don’t value Palestinian life” - New Statesman
https://archive.is/iRnfe

junesim63, to Israel
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"This is what it looks like when a community of shepherds is suffocating. The sheep are locked up in their pens and all the grazing land in the vicinity is blocked by violent settlers who have seized control of the area, and all that, combined with the high price of food, deprives the shepherds of the possibility of existence. The children are terrified"
Gideon Levy in Haaretz

https://archive.is/G0nEC

junesim63, to environment
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Some good news.

An insect glue, produced from edible oils, inspired by plants such as sundews that use the strategy to capture their prey, has been produced in a new trial. A key advantage is that pests are highly unlikely to evolve resistance, as this would require them to develop much larger and stronger bodies, while bigger beneficial insects, like bees, are not trapped by the drops.

#Environment #Pesticides #Farming #Biodiversity #Agriculture

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/18/sticky-trick-new-glue-spray-kills-plant-pests-without-chemicals?CMP=GTUK_email

junesim63, to UKpolitics
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The Labour Party has been accused of “disgusting” behaviour towards a Palestinian man who lost his family in Gaza, after refusing to reveal what information the party has gathered on him.
Police dragged Dalloul Neder out of a Labour fundraising event attended by the party’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, in January, after he held up a picture of his late mother and told the audience: “I lost my family in Gaza… I want to show you my mum.”

#LabourParty #Gaza #UKPolitics
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/freedom-of-information/labour-accused-racism-palestinian-dalloul-neder-angela-rayner-subject-access-request-gaza/?_kx=Y6Jr9DX7uTfIhCWL5xh7Xk6toSLI9GmA13iML-VdLDs.YjCYwm

junesim63, to landlords
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The government is starting a pilot to allow local councils to force the rental of High Street shops vacant for more than a year, for the lowest rent achievable.
Some 80% of vacant shops in the UK have been empty for more than two years, while over one in five has stood vacant for longer than four years.
Of course, landlords aren't happy as they keep them empty to maintain artificially high valuations. Sad.

#HighStreets #CityCentres #Landlords #UKPolitics

https://archive.is/HYLPK

junesim63, to Israel
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Arts Council England (ACE) issued a warning that “political statements” could break funding agreements after discussions with the government about artists speaking out over the Israel-Gaza war.

A Freedom of Information request revealed the issue was discussed in a meeting between ACE and DCMS on 12 December 2023. The meeting, titled “ACE/DCMS Liaison Meeting” included the agenda item “Reputational risk relating to Israel/Gaza conflict”.


https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/may/17/arts-council-gaza-political-statements-warning-to-artists-government-talks

junesim63, to climate
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Major media companies The New Statesman and Politico have sparked a wave of criticism after allowing Norwegian oil and gas company Equinor, which is behind the UK’s largest new North Sea project, to sponsor events on climate change.

Both saw MPs pull out over the sponsorship, while the first was interrupted by a climate activist.

#Equinor #Oil #Gas #Politico #NewStatesman #ClimateEmergency

https://www.desmog.com/2024/05/17/protests-equinor-media-energy-climate-sponsorship-greenwashing-new-statesman-politico/

junesim63, to random
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Home Office officials fear the number of migrants deported on the first Rwanda flight could be in single figures because of legal challenges.

The concerns are believed to be behind moves to expand the scheme to include ALL failed asylum seekers on top of the initial cohort of 5,700 migrants so far earmarked for deportation.

Given Rwanda only has room for a few hundred currently, this is arrant nonsense and performative cruelty.

#AsylumSeekers #Rwanda #HomeOffice

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/05/16/fewer-10-migrants-first-rwanda-flights-officials-fear/

junesim63,
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Paywall free link here:

https://archive.is/Tlfpn

junesim63, to random
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Graham King, an Essex businessman who won government contracts paying his firm £3.5m a day for transporting and accommodating asylum seekers has been named among the 350 richest people in the UK.

Profiting from misery the UK way.

#SundayTimesRichList #AsylumSeekers #Billionnaires

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/17/british-asylum-housing-tycoon-breaks-into-sunday-times-rich-list

junesim63,
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@kathimmel they demonise the people smugglers for profiting from the same human misery. Graham King is just the same.

junesim63, to photography
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One of the first foreign photographers in Gaza, Sean Sutton, who was travelling with NGO UK-Med, documents the destruction in Khan Younis, in hospitals and photographs the destitution in the Israeli-designated ‘humanitarian zone’ of al- Mawasi.
Some shocking pictures.

‘Smoke and chaos’: a snapshot of Gaza – in pictures | Global development | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2024/may/17/smoke-and-chaos-a-snapshot-of-gaza-in-pictures

junesim63, to random
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John Woodcock, formerly a Labour MP & now a crossbench peer, has prepared a review of “far-left” involvement in disruptive protest, including activism against climate change & war. At the same time, he has been chairing & advising lobby groups representing arms manufacturers & fossil fuel firms.

Woodcock gained his peerage for his part in smearing Corbyn. He resigned from Labour to avoid investigations of sexual assault allegations.
A nasty little grifter.

#Protests
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/17/government-adviser-on-disruptive-protest-accused-of-conflict-of-interest?CMP=firstedition_email

junesim63,
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"Woodcock’s entries in the Lords’ register of interests show he is paid to act as the chair of the Purpose Business Coalition, an organisation run by the PR and lobbying firm Crowne Associates, which counts the oil company BP and the arms company Leonardo among its clients."
"All could theoretically welcome restrictions on protest against their operations. Leonardo, in particular, has been subject to a persistent campaign of protest by Palestine Action"

#Protests #Palestine #JustStopOil

drandrewv2, to random
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Unite (the union) is lobbying Labour to row back on pledge of no new North Sea oil & gas licenses…

Genuinely interested to hear what people think of this…

I trained in climate science, and now work for a union (formerly and soon to be back in an energy sector union), so I have very strong and possibly conflicting views on the subject!

Tell me your wildest thoughts on workers’ protections in the energy transition. You probably can’t shock me…
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/17/union-urges-labour-not-to-ban-new-north-sea-licences-without-plan-for-jobs

junesim63,
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@drandrewv2 I'm a member of Unite and I can see where they're coming from. As Sharon Graham says, we've seen this transition coming for years and should be planning for it. I'm also from Hull, which has the huge Siemens factory producing turbine blades for offshore wind. Their skilled workers mainly came from the closed Hawker Siddeley aircraft factory. Hull now sees itself as a green hub for new energy transition jobs. If Starmer has the will (which I doubt) the same can be done for Scotland.

junesim63, to Futurology
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In the Financial Times today:

"Britain’s debt-laden water utilities are being encouraged by the regulator Ofwat to set up new privately financed companies to deliver billions of pounds worth of critical infrastructure such as reservoirs, treatment works and pipelines, which will be paid for through customer bills"

Outrageous. Nationalise them without compensation and abolish Ofwat, which is totally compromised.

#Water #Privatisation #Ofwat #PFI
#UKPolitics
https://archive.is/K408y

junesim63, to Israel
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"Adnan Al-Bursh was the head of the orthopedic wing at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. During the war, he had to wander from one hospital to the next, as they were all destroyed by the IDF. He has not been back to his home in Jabalya since the start of the war, and last December all trace of him disappeared. Recently, it transpired that he had died in an Israeli jail, apparently due to the torture of beatings during interrogation"
New from Gideon Levy


https://archive.is/UafQq

junesim63,
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"The last people to see him were other doctors and detainees who have been released. They told Haaretz correspondents Jack Khoury and Bar Peleg that they had barely recognized him. "It was clear he had been through hell, torture, humiliation, and sleep deprivation. He wasn't the person we knew; he was a shadow of himself." (Haaretz, May 12.)

junesim63,
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"A doctor, a hospital ward director, was beaten and tortured to death in an Israeli jail. That did not set off alarms here. Nearly all his physician colleagues, including heads of the medical establishment and those who take part in the horrific torture ongoing at Sde Teiman base and in Israeli prisons, did not say a word. A department director was beaten to death. So what?"
Gideon Levy on the murder of Dr Adnan Al-Bursh

junesim63, to india
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"A defining feature of life in India today is the suffocating atmosphere of menace and threat to critics of the government. Shah is the face and embodiment of this fear, which lurks everywhere, from the newsrooms to the courtrooms, and which inspires a sense of alarm that is bigger than the sum of the facts and anecdotes that can be amassed to illustrate it"

Chilling long read on the rise of Amit Shah, Modi's right-hand man.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/16/amit-shah-narendra-modi-right-hand-man-india

junesim63,
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"Partly owing to his days in Gujarat and partly owing to the Indian government’s widely documented use of Israeli spyware to target journalists, activists and critics, the image of Shah in the public imagination is that of a man who holds everyone’s secrets. “Modi has a certain charm, which is perhaps the most dangerous thing about him,” the Indian novelist and activist Arundhati Roy told me. “Amit Shah is a single-string instrument: the only note he can strike is fear.”

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