junesim63

junesim63, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to home

The Home Office will launch a surprise operation to detain asylum seekers across the UK tomorrow..
Officials will hold refugees who turn up for routine meetings at immigration offices & also pick people up nationwide.
They will be immediately transferred to previously prepared detention centres & held to be put on later flights to Rwanda.

Anyone who takes part in this disgusting operation is breaking international law.

#HomeOffice #Rwanda #AsylumSeekers #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/28/home-office-to-detain-asylum-seekers-across-uk-in-shock-rwanda-operation

junesim63, 5 months ago to random

Siri, show me end-stage capitalism...

"Arctic Ice harvests ice from the fjords of Greenland, and then ships them to the United Arab Emirates to sell to exclusive bars"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/09/greenland-startup-shipping-glacier-ice-cocktail-bars-uae-arctic-ice

junesim63, 1 month ago to Israel

"In Rafah I saw children who had amputations, but were living in tents because hospitals are full. Those children – and many, many more – are now being told to go to zones such as Al Mawasi. The so called “safe zone” of Al Mawasi: where UNICEF reported on a little boy, Mustafa, who went to get some parsley for the family dinner. Mustafa was shot in the head, and killed … in the “safe zone” of Al Mawasi"

Statement from Unicef. Read it all.

#Unicef #Rafah #Gaza #Israel
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/when-nightmare-becomes-reality

junesim63, 4 months ago to random

The UK government is planning to scrap millions of unused SARS-CoV-2 vaccine doses, which could have been used to vaccinate previously ineligible groups for free, after they closed the autumn booster campaign.

Meanwhile, pharmacies have just been authorised to offer Covid vaccines at a massive £45 a pop, thus excluding the poorest sections of the population.

And the new scheme starts on...yes you've guessed..April 1st.

#Covid19 #Vaccines #NHSPrivatisation

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/02/pharmacies-in-england-and-scotland-to-offer-private-covid-jabs-for-45

junesim63, 5 months ago to Israel

Israel has begun pumping seawater into underground tunnels in Gaza, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.

“The negative impact on groundwater quality would last for several generations, depending on the amount that infiltrates into the subsurface"
Prof Eilon Adar of the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at Ben-Gurion University

Another tactic of genocide and ethnic cleansing. Poison the wells.

#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Hamas
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/israel-hamas-tunnels-seawater-gaza-b2463093.html

junesim63, 1 month ago to Israel

"So two things are being asserted:

1. Famine in Gaza is now unavoidable and will kill many civilian noncombatants even if more food aid starts getting in now.

2. The responsibility for this starvation of children, women and noncombatant males lies squarely with Israel, which is obstructing food aid deliveries"

Conclusions of a memo to Anthony Blinken from US State Dept officials seen by foreign policy journalist Colum Lynch.

#Israel #Gaza #Famine

https://www.juancole.com/2024/04/unavoidable-exponential-outpacing.html

junesim63, 2 months ago to Israel

Israeli forces have arrested and severely beaten Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul in Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital.

Al-Ghoul was there early on Monday with his crew and other reporters to cover the Israeli army’s fourth raid into the hospital, where thousands of civilians are trapped, including medical staff, patients and displaced families.

#Israel #Gaza #alShifa #WarCrimes

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/18/al-jazeera-journalist-beaten-arrested-by-israeli-forces-from-gaza-hospital?traffic_source=rss

junesim63, 3 months ago to Israel

The #ICJ hearing begins today on Israel's occupation of Palestine. Link below to Al Jazeera's live feed.

Riyad Al-Malikhi began:
“I stand before you as 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, half of them children, are besieged and bombed, killed and maimed, starved and displaced.
As more than 3.5 million Palestinians in West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are subjected to colonisation of their territory and the racist violence that enables it"

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/19/icj-on-israel-occupations-of-palestine-live-hearings-to-begin

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza

junesim63, 7 months ago to Israel

"It is a terrible, terrible situation. There is no room even to sleep on the floor. There is one toilet for 700 or 800 people. No bread, no stoves for cooking. We are drinking irrigation water.
No one can get an accurate number of IDPs [internally displaced persons] here. We know nothing about what happens outside. Everyone is just concentrating on survival"
UN official at a compound in Khan Younis, Gaza.
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza
#CeasefireNow #WarCrimes

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/06/conditions-worsen-in-gaza-shelters-there-are-lots-of-diseases-now?CMP=GTUK_email

junesim63, 5 months ago to Israel

There is not one sentence in this article that I disagree with. Once again, Thunberg shows us how it's done.

"The horrific murders of Israeli civilians by Hamas cannot in any way legitimise Israel’s ongoing war crimes. Genocide is not self-defence, nor is it in any way a proportionate response"

#GretaThunberg #FridaysForFuture #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #Hamas.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/05/gaza-climate-justice-human-rights-greta-thunberg

junesim63, 4 months ago to Israel

"Each day I have people who die before my eyes because I don’t have medicine or burn ointment or supplies to help them"
Dr. Suhaib Alhamss

To make room for the daily rush of war-wounded, Alhamss has crammed a few dozen extra beds into the intensive care unit. He cleared out the pharmacy, which was largely empty anyway since Israel's siege has deprived the hospital of IV lines and most medicines.
“The situation is completely out of control”
#Israel #Gaza #Rafah

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-b2478047.html

junesim63, 24 days ago to Israel

"This is not the life of any normal human being. There is nothing: no water, no food, no health care, not even a toilet. My children ask me if they could just have potatoes but we have no money now. All we have is canned food distributed [by the United Nations],” she said.

“My children have already had flu, and fevers, and hepatitis. They are weak now, and there aren’t enough antibiotics, so I’m very worried.”

#Gaza #Israel #Rafah #AlMawasi #WarCrimes #Genocide

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/15/no-water-food-health-care-toilet-desperation-deepens-in-gazas-camps

junesim63, 2 months ago to Futurology

This is the classic scam. Privatise an essential service. Load it with masses of debt, while investing the minimum it can get away with. Pay shareholders as much as it can get away with. When it collapses, walk away so the state has to pick up the pieces until it becomes viable again. Rinse and repeat.

#ThamesWater #Water #Privatisation

Thames Water shareholders refuse to inject more cash into ‘uninvestable’ company | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/thames-water-shareholders-funding-london-b2519896.html

junesim63, 2 months ago to Israel

"Here in the north of Gaza, there is virtually no food available. People are resorting to eating animal feed or bird seed to stay alive. For some, there is only grass left to eat..Some people I have met are surviving on just a cup of coffee a day. They are sacrificing whatever food they can access for their starving children"

"Meanwhile, the Israeli government continues to throttle aid at the border crossing into Gaza"
Mahmoud Shalabi

#Israel #Gaza #Starvation #Genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/18/gaza-famine-israel-crossings-aid-workers?CMP=GTUK_email

cindyweinstein, 5 months ago to languagelearning

Essential reading re: #Trump, his evisceration of #language, why we see the same #media people who are perpetually shocked (but shouldn't be) by #fascism, which then gets normalized. It's difficult to choose an excerpt to introduce the piece b/c it's all so important and chilling but the piece ends with this: "If you have transgender kids, or you're transgender yourself, you've got to try to leave the country if Trump and the fascists win."
https://www.salon.com/2023/12/11/jason-stanley-on-undermining-propaganda-with-fascism-trump-is-robbing-democracy-of-any-meaning/

#JasonStanley
@GottaLaff

junesim63, 7 months ago to uk

Data published in 2020 shamed the #UK government by showing no English river was in good chemical condition. The last full water assessments were in 2019, when just 14% of rivers were in good ecological health and none met standards for good chemical health.

So what do the Tories do in this type of situation?
Yes, you've got it.
Remove the requirement for annual reporting and change the standards against which water quality is assessed.
#WaterQuality #Environment

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/27/england-to-diverge-from-eu-water-monitoring-standards

junesim63, 7 months ago to USpolitics

"Biden’s attempt to sow doubt about the human toll of Israel’s assault is in keeping with a broad US pattern, stretching back decades, of rejecting allegations of mass murder by client states and allies, and of disputing casualty numbers cited by journalists, activists, and international organizations"

Historian Bradley Simpson details the long litany of US atrocity denial.

#USPolitics #Biden #Israel #Gaza #AtrocityDenial
https://jacobin.com/2023/10/biden-reagan-nixon-johnson-carter-us-atrocity-denial-israel-gaza/

junesim63, 3 months ago to Israel

"The International Court of Justice is set for the first time to broadly consider the legal consequences of Israel’s nearly six-decades-long occupation and mistreatment of the Palestinian people"
Clive Baldwin, senior legal adviser at Human Rights Watch.

An unprecedented 52 countries and international organisations are expected to participate in the oral hearings at the ICJ, beginning on Monday Feb 19th.
#Israel #ICJ #Occupation #Palestine

https://www.juancole.com/2024/02/international-justice-occupation.html

junesim63, 2 months ago to ukteachers

"How did Estonia, a small country that is relatively poor compared with most of the EU, become an educational powerhouse? In the OECD's Pisa rankings, which measure 15-year-olds’ abilities in maths, reading and science, the top spots are held by a handful of Asian countries, but Estonia ranks next – the best in Europe"

#Education #Estonia #Europe

Free lunches, brain breaks and happy teachers: why Estonia has the best schools in Europe | Life and style | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/27/free-lunches-brain-breaks-and-happy-teachers-why-estonia-has-the-best-schools-in-europe?CMP=saturdayedition_email

junesim63, 2 months ago to Amazon

Amazon is up to its old union-busting tricks in its vast BHX4 warehouse in Coventry, England. They are hiring huge numbers of extra staff in an attempt to dilute the GMB union membership below 50%. If union membership at BHX4 grows to more than 50 per cent, Amazon could be forced by the Central Arbitration Committeeto recognise the GMB.

These tactics are throwing the warehouse and working conditions into chaos.

#Amazon #TradeUnions #UnionBusting
https://novaramedia.com/2024/03/28/amazon-warehouse-in-chaos-due-to-union-busting-dirty-tricks/?mc_cid=a645bcbc35&mc_eid=cc062cb3ef

junesim63, 1 month ago to ukteachers

Faith schools in England will no longer have to offer up to half of their places to children who don’t belong to their religion, under changes to state school admissions rules sneakily announced by the government, after serious lobbying by the Catholic Church.

I propose, therefore, that the 100% funding they get from the state is also scrapped. I don't object to faith schools. I do object to them being funded by the state.
#Education #FaithSchools

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/may/01/england-scraps-50-rule-on-faith-school-admissions?CMP=GTUK_email

junesim63, 5 months ago to Israel

"What does it mean to erase a people – a nation, culture, identity? In Gaza, we are beginning to find out. Artists killed, journalists silenced, libraries and mosques destroyed. What will be left to bind the survivors together?"

Nesrine Malik on Israel’s cruel and deliberate obliteration of Gaza. Its people call their dead 'martyrs', a word meaning witness. But Israel is systematically removing those witnesses so nothing can be passed on.

#Gaza #Israel #Palestine
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/18/gaza-israel-destroying-culture-and-identity

junesim63, 5 months ago to random

I missed this earlier. Social media influencers were paid to boost the UAE’s climate credentials in and around COP28 in what appears to be a coordinated PR effort by the host nation. Two of the contracted influencers confirmed to DeSmog they were paid by an external PR company hired by the COP28 official team.
#Greenwashing #COP28 #DeSmog #Oil #Gas

https://www.desmog.com/2023/12/14/instagram-influencers-paid-to-boost-uaes-climate-credential-over-cop28/

junesim63, 9 days ago to random

Spare a thought for the brave jurors in the Trump trial today. Trump is a vindictive narcissist.

#Trump #TrumpTrial #Guilty