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KarunaX

@KarunaX@mastodon.world

A traveller in love with the chaos and wonder of life, and an interest in many things, particularly geo-politics. #socialjustice for all. #antiwar #antiimperialism . Those who blindly follow Western propaganda narratives are requested to stay away, as I prefer to deal with people of at least some intellect, even when we disagree. And please note, liking or boosting does NOT always signify agreement, but rather that the post is of interest.

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mondoweiss, to Palestine
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The events of recent days suggest we may be seeing the Israeli endgame take shape. Netanyahu's far right government’s goals are not limited to Gaza: it wants to take over all of Palestine and start a war with Hezbollah and Iran as well.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/netanyahus-endgame-and-the-israeli-far-rights-regional-ambitions/


@palestine @israel

KarunaX,
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@faab64 @palestine @israel @mondoweiss I wish it was only 40% of Israelis who are fascist psychopaths. This survey from Tel Aviv Uni (late Oct last year) suggests a much greater proportion of Israelis approve of .

ajsadauskas, to sydney
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Sydney has opened up consultation on a strategy to reduce car traffic and make the city more walkable

"Driving in central Sydney will become harder under a plan to make the city more comfortable for pedestrians.

"The City of Sydney wants to narrow roads for wider footpaths and push for lower speed limits to discourage drivers from the CBD and transform Sydney into a walkable city.

"The council will also install more pedestrian crossings and prioritise people over cars... five times more pedestrians than motorists on the average street, yet just 40 per cent of road space is allocated to footpaths."

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/greener-safer-calmer-the-plan-to-discourage-drivers-from-central-sydney-20240312-p5fbr7.html

Some key points of the strategy are:

We will ensure that there is sufficient space for people to walk.

We will improve connectivity for people walking by ensuring there are frequent street crossings that give people priority and that align with people’s walking routes.

We will ensure that footpaths and crossings are accessible so that everyone can use them.

We will plan our city based on 10-minute neighbourhoods so that people are able to meet their daily needs easily by walking.

We will make it safer for people to walk by reducing vehicle speeds.

We will reduce traffic volumes on surface streets and manage through-traffic in residential neighbourhood streets to improve both safety and experience for people walking.

We will work to make all people feel safer while walking around our city.

We will work to improve compliance with road rules, especially the lesser-known rules that benefit people walking.

We will make our streets and public spaces comfortable and inviting by ensuring that they
are green and cool.

We will make sure that there are frequent opportunities for people to stop and rest, use the toilet or have a drink of water.

We will make our city more pleasant to walk in by reducing noise and air pollution from
traffic.

We will make all streets interesting to walk along by ensuring that built form has active, permeable frontages that invite engagement and curiosity.

We will use design, activations and installations to create neighbourhood-based community and encourage people to interact with their streets.

Full details here: https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/policy-planning-changes/your-feedback-walking-strategy-action-plan#strategy

Unfortunately, the car-brained leader of the local business lobby isn't on board:

"Business Sydney executive director Paul Nicolaou welcomed efforts to make the city pedestrian-friendly... But Nicolaou said it was difficult to see how making Sydney a predominantly walking city would benefit businesses such as retailers."

(Worth repeating that 80% of people on an average city street are pedestrians, so it already is a predominantly walking city.)

Anyway, if you think the plan's a good idea, make sure you let the Sydney City Council know by emailing sydneyyoursay@cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au

#urbanism #UrbanPlanning #Sydney @fuck_cars #walking #walk #walkability #nswpol #auspol #nsw #planning #cities #UrbanGreening #city #cities #australia

KarunaX,
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@largess @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars @kim_harding Will someone please reincarnate Gough?

smitjo, to auspol
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Anthony Albanese demands accountability from Israel over death of aid worker in Gaza
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/anthony-albanese-demands-accountability-from-israel-over-death-of-aid-worker-in-gaza/0ms3lvr2g

PM says he's calling in the Israeli Ambassador to demand a full explanation. Don't call them in Albo, kick them out. There's no way Australia should continue as a friend and ally of Israel. They are a rogue state that has a long history of disdain for the rule of law and human rights.
#auspol

KarunaX,
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@mativity @DropBear @smitjo @palestine
Yes, and as most know, is just as efficient as its US corollary, AIPAC, in hijacking the political process, and using media and money to manipulate Australia's politicians into defending the indefensible, the rogue state of Israel, and doing no more than muttering "naughty, naughty" as Israel murders an Australian aid worker, and practices genocide in front of the world.

alkeddie, to random
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Headlines from Democracy Now

The World Health Organization warned Tuesday many infants in Gaza are on the “brink of death” due to the lack of food. A WHO spokesperson said newborn babies are “simply dying because of low birth weight.”

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/20/headlines/who_warns_infants_in_gaza_on_the_brink_of_death_as_israel_keeps_limiting_aid_deliveries

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KarunaX,
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@alkeddie I guess 5 months and 30,000 deaths too late should be ignored as we gratefully applaud the suden discovery of a fig-leaf of morality.

Sherifazuhur, to iran
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Iran Prosecutes Nearly 100 Journalists In 2024 - Report @iran

https://www.iranintl.com/en/202404031384

KarunaX,
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@Sherifazuhur @iran But does Iran jail its unpopular journalists in sub-human conditions for years, as the West has done with ?

KarunaX,
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@Sherifazuhur @iran Perhaps Iran will one day adopt the more sophisticated Western approach to journalists, and simply refuse to employ any who show the slightest sign of independent thought or critical analysis of the Official narratives.

KarunaX,
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@Sherifazuhur @iran The war on information cuts across all ideological and political lines. I am less concerned with Iran than the West, because West:

  1. dominates the provision of information globally through legacy media and social media.
  2. claims to be "liberal" and a champion of "free speech".

Iran does not engage in such blatant hypocrisy, as it does not appear to extol such principles - then simply ignore them.

faab64, to syria

Didn't promised they will leave and Syria?

A massive military convoy belonging to U.S. forces entering from northern Iraq, consisting of 63 trucks loaded with military equipment, logistical supplies, and MIM-23 Hawk air defense systems.

The convoy dispersed in northeastern .


@palestine @israel

KarunaX,
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@faab64 @palestine @israel It has been that way for many years. The first Nakba was largely ignored by the West too. Most people really don't think critically, they just accept the narratives fed them by media. Sad beyond belief.

KarunaX,
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@faab64 @palestine @israel This is an illegal occupation of a sovereign country. Very clear in international law.
I am sure that when realises this he will immediately withdraw all US forces from Syria, being as how he is such a champion of a "rules based international order".

DropBear, to auspol
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Matt Golding 3 April 2024

@palestine

KarunaX,
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@platypusparent @DropBear @palestine Yes indeed! There are parallels between modern Palestine and 18th C Gondwanaland - hopefully Israel will not be as successful in their genocidal settler-colonial project as Australia was.

KarunaX,
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@DropBear @palestine Yes indeed. They can be a rather parochial lot down under. Most Australians never think about Palestine, or have a vague notion that they should support Israel. I suspect having an overwhelmingly pro-Zionist media in Oz and the major political parties under AIJAC's thumb feeds the ignorance.

GottaLaff, to Israel
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“An Israeli delegation is expected to arrive in Cairo on Sunday as part of negotiations for a ceasefire-hostage release deal in the Strip... A Walla report stated that will also send a delegation to the Egyptian capital for negotiations.

According to the report, the Israeli delegation will present the names of the Palestinian terrorists that refuses to release and will demand to receive the list of hostages that will be included in the deal.”

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-789847

KarunaX,
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@GottaLaff Israel is playing games. The Palestinians already know the names of the 7,000 odd hostages that Israel is holding. Some of those are actually in prison for crimes, but many are imprisoned on fake charges, and a substantial number never get charged, never face a trial. They are held on the whim of the Israeli military.

faab64, to Palestine

(not from the Onion): The New York Times receives an award for coverage of Israel's war in Gaza

The has received the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting "for unsurpassed coverage of the war" in


@palestine

KarunaX,
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@faab64 @palestine
The NYT certainly deserves an award for its coverage of the in . The Goebbels Award.
Just one example of their pathetic attempt at propaganda in this conflict was the totally fabricated claims of "sexual violence" by .
The has been caught with its pants around its ankles.
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/

adachika192, to australia
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/israel-idf-air-strike-gaza-foreign-aid-workers-palestinian-translator-killed

Four foreign aid workers and Palestinian translator killed in Israeli strike, Gaza officials say (Guardian, 2024-04-02)
———

“Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese confirmed an Australian national was among those killed while doing ‘extraordinarily important work’, naming her as Zomi Frankcom.”

“Albanese said on Tuesday the government would call in the Israeli ambassador over an incident that was ‘beyond any reasonable circumstances’, adding: ‘Australia expects full accountability for the deaths of aid workers, which is completely unacceptable.’”

🤔 UK and Poland should react as well…

@palestine

KarunaX,
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@adachika192 @palestine If thinks it "unacceptable" for to murder an Australian aid worker, perhaps he could withdraw Australia's unstinting support for the occupation of , which is the root cause of all these problems.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
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"COVID-19 increases a person’s risk of developing an autoimmune disease in the year after infection, a large study out of South Korea and Japan reports, but vaccination helps decrease that risk."

"Researchers used the medical records of 10 million Korean and 12 million Japanese adults to see whether those who had Covid were more likely to be diagnosed with autoimmune inflammatory rheumatic diseases, or AIRDs, in the year following infection"

@auscovid19

Source: https://www.statnews.com/2024/03/04/covid-19-south-korea-japan-study-lupus-sjogren-autoimmune-disease/

Study: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M23-1831

KarunaX,
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19
These studies would have more impact on sceptical ones (like me) who believe many of these adverse outcomes could have readily been the result of the mRNA vaccines as much as of the virus itself. Until researchers are allowed and funded to disentangle such effects, I will remain on the sidelines.

Miro_Collas, to Palestine
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Yanis Varoufakis BLASTS Europe's Complicity in Genocide - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbfK1DcbmbY

Recommended!

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel #ApartheidIsrael
#genocide #EthnicCleansing #Liquidation
#YanisVaroufakis #EU #Europe
@palestine

KarunaX,
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@Miro_Collas @palestine Mr Varoufakis is often a sharp analyst and eloquent speaker. But this one is special in how well he dismembers those apologists for the .

KarunaX, to Israel
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So will now stop? Or maintain its arrogant, murderous spree of killings in ? https://www.palestinechronicle.com/un-resolution-in-gaza-is-binding-china-challenges-us-at-security-council/

KarunaX, to Israel
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A Euro-Med Monitor Report concludes that: "Killing starving Palestinians, targeting aid trucks is a deliberate Israeli policy to reinforce famine in the Gaza Strip".

https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6259/New-Report:-Killing-starving-Palestinians,-targeting-aid-trucks-is-a-deliberate-Israeli-policy-to-reinforce-famine-in-the-Gaza-Strip

KarunaX, to Israel
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has ignored well over 100 Resolutions about across the years. This was the first one. Israel should be either suspended or expelled from the UN.

KarunaX, to Israel
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KarunaX, to Israel
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Al Jazeera’s recent forensic examination of the events around on Oct 7th reveals not only the outrageous lies of but the gullibility and connivance of Western politicians and in furthering their . https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/we-were-lied-into-the-gaza-genocide

KarunaX, to auspol
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Penny Wong has continued the bipartisan agreement to US allow military control of Australia, so it can be used as a weapon with which to threaten China. This serves only Washington’s interests, and the narrow career ambitions of Australian politicians. It is not in the interests of the people of Australia. https://johnmenadue.com/australia-entrapped-in-war-against-china-for-america-pic-wong/

KarunaX, to Israel
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KarunaX, to Israel
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When the massacre of ends (as it most certainly will at some point) keep in mind that will still be committing war crimes daily in - and showing contempt for the UN and international laws - as it has done for 76 years.

KarunaX, to Israel
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https://johnmenadue.com/israel-a-nation-killing-and-starving-children/

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