The UN chief tells reporters Gaza is “becoming a graveyard for children. Hundreds of girls and boys are reportedly being killed and injured every day... More journalists have reportedly been killed over a four-week period than in any conflict in at least three decades... More United Nations aid workers have been killed than in any comparable period in the history of our organisation... I joined the UN family in mourning 89 of our UNRWA colleagues who have been killed in Gaza, many of them together with members of their family.”
UN chief: ‘Gaza is becoming a graveyard for children’ - YouTube
"Should we assume that Hansen and his team of researchers are right, and therefore take the drastic actions that are indicated? Or should we trust that mainstream moderate scientists like Michael Mann are correct, and calmly adopt a more gradual approach? Which choice represents the greatest risk? I think the answer is obvious." - Bread and Circuses at Climate Justice Social
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." — James Baldwin
The best government money can buy. It’s a bit bonkers that anyone still considers the US to be any kind of democracy. It’s not.
Fossil fuel companies have spent millions of dollars on lobbying and campaign donations to state lawmakers who sponsored anti-protest laws—which now shield about 60 percent of US gas and oil operations from protest and civil disobedience, according to a new report from Greenpeace USA.
Eighteen states, including Montana, Ohio, Georgia, Louisiana, West Virginia, and the Dakotas, have enacted sweeping anti-protest laws which boost penalties for trespass near so-called critical infrastructure, that make it far riskier for communities to oppose pipelines and other fossil fuel projects that threaten their land, water and the global climate.
Study: Fossil Fuel Industry Is Behind a Spate of Anti-Protest Bills – Mother Jones
I love Micro.blog but I’ve come to resent how broken search and discovery is here.
BROKEN.
Can we please, please, please get some improvements here.
PLEASE.
I would love to be able to add to my current follows but by design it is made difficult.
PLEASE FIX THIS.
War crimes and genocide. My disgust deepens with each day.
Gaza’s largest refugee camp has been bombed again, the third major attack on the site in the past week. This time, Israel struck a UN-run school within the Jabalia camp where thousands of displaced Palestinians had been sheltering.
Israel bombs UN school in third major attack on Gaza’s Jabalia refugee camp | Al Jazeera
Most of those I follow have been very quiet on this. Complex or not, US tax dollars support Israel. If this is genocide and you’ve remained silent, consider that.
The “G” word – genocide – “can be used recklessly, carelessly, insensitively, as an emotional shutting of the gates, rather than an opening to an important conversation,” Mehdi says. But it’s a conversation we need, given the rhetoric from Hamas & Israeli officials.
The G Word: Mehdi examines accusations of genocide against Israel & Hamas - YouTube
Solidarity.
I woke up this morning thinking about the word solidarity. There was the time of my life when I thought about it every single day. A kind of daily meditation.
An awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes…
It refers to the ties in a society that bind people together as one.
I long for a world where humans care for one another regardless of their differences. And where humans care for their planet as a whole.
Planetary solidarity.
Israel is actively committing the crime of genocide. The evidence is clear: Israel has taken diverse methods to ensure “the destruction of the essential foundations of the life” of Palestinians. These actions include the 16-year-long siege on Gaza. They have cut off food, water, fuel, and electricity, denied access to healthcare, ordered 1.1 million people out of their homes, bombed evacuation routes, and even bombed and targeted hospitals, churches, mosques, and health workers. Incitement to genocide is also punishable under the Genocide Convention. Israeli officials have openly called for the annihilation of the captive population.
Can you see it yet? The Earth systems horizon – the point at which our planetary systems tip into a new equilibrium, hostile to most lifeforms? I think we can. The sudden acceleration of environmental crises we have seen this year, coupled with the strategic uselessness of powerful governments, rushes us towards the point of no return.
Since 1967, Israel has imposed tight restrictions on travel and essential goods such as food, fuel, medicine, and water in its occupied territories. In 2007, those restrictions became even tighter in Gaza after Hamas seized power there. Since then, it has been nearly impossible for Palestinians to leave Gaza or to access an adequate supply of essential goods.
Joy Reid commentary on Israel bombing Gaza in the Israel-Hamas war is right on. She provides historical context of US involvement in the conflict and region including our ineffective, misguided response to 9-11, attacking Iraq and Afghanistan.
US foreign policy in the region and this conflict designed to increase violence and destabilize. It’s criminal.
The Middle East conflict between Israel and Hamas is dividing the world. “Given that these bombings are being done using our tax dollars, perhaps we should ask some questions.”
Predictably Apple’s line-up of Macs continues to be confused and overly complex. I mean, jeesh, now we have M1, M2 and M3 Macs not to mention some of those are Pro, Max and Ultra. Just so confusing.
Who needs all these choices? Ridiculous.
I hope all the podcasters/pundits can make sense of this mess.
Amid growing alarm that more Israeli airstrikes will hit hospitals in Gaza, we speak with two physicians about Gaza’s medical system and Israel’s orders to evacuate key hospitals. Dr. Mads Gilbert, who has helped provide emergency trauma care in Gaza for over four decades, condemns Israel for using allegations of military activity to attack civilian hospitals without proof. “This is all part of this immense intimidation of the Palestinian people in Gaza.”
“This Has to Stop”: Doctors Denounce Israel’s Targeting of Gaza Hospitals - YouTube
We bring you the voices of Jewish Voice for Peace and their allies who shut down the main terminal of Grand Central Station during rush hour Friday in one of New York's largest acts of civil disobedience in 20 years to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. The multiracial, intergenerational movement says about 400 people were arrested, including rabbis, famous actors and elected officials from the New York State Assembly and Senate and the City Council.
After a few years of record-breaking temperatures and extreme weather events, Ripple’s experience is a sign of how climate scientists — who once refrained from entering the public fray — are now using strident language to describe the warming planet. References to “climate emergency” and “climate crisis,” once used primarily by activist groups like the U.K.-based Extinction Rebellion or the U.S.-based Sunrise Movement, are spiking in the academic literature.
To a growing number of scientists, climate change is an ‘emergency’ - The Washington Post
Dr. Gabor Maté shares his reflections on Israel/Palestine including recent tragic events on and following October 7th, 2023. This conversation was recorded on October 28, 2023, and was facilitated by Hannah Maté. Please be mindful to engage in respectful discourse in the comments amidst inevitable political disagreement on this subject matter. Resources - Cited in Video: Places to donate: The Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund Dror Israel
Description of video has a list of suggested resources and books including: The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities by Simha Flapan Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom by Norman Finkelstein The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé Dr. Gabor Maté on Israel/Palestine - YouTube
“In six days the government of Israel dropped more bombs in the small concentrated are of Gaza than the United States had dropped in an entire year in the entire country of Afghanistan.” - Source: Washington Post
My take: The indiscriminate killing of children and adult civilian Palestinians in Gaza is a war crime and genocide. The target is not Hamas. Israel is razing the entirety of Gaza.
Updates on #CeasefireNOW| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - YouTube
I've been enjoying my time on the trails this past week. So much color and the fragrance of autumn is overwhelming at times. Fantastic. These woods are home.
We speak with philosopher Judith Butler, one of dozens of Jewish American writers and artists who signed an open letter to President Biden calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. “We should all be standing up and objecting and calling for an end to genocide,” says Butler of the Israeli assault. “Until Palestine is free … we will continue to see violence. We will continue to see this structural violence producing this kind of resistance.”