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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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Avatar: Me, a white woman with short, greying brown hair. Wearing a large pair of red spectacles.

Header: Climate Stripes going from blue on the left to terrifying red on the right.

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junesim63, to humanrights
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This is the final article in Simon Hattenstone's excellent series on prisoners serving indefinite IPP sentences. They were abolished in 2012 but that wasn't retrospective. 3000 prisoners are still affected. 90 have committed suicide so far.

This is a stain on our crumbling justice system.


Marc Conway risked his life to stop the London Bridge terror attack. Why did he fear being sent to prison for it? | Prisons and probation | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/08/marc-conway-risked-his-life-to-stop-the-london-bridge-terror-attack-why-did-he-fear-being-sent-to-prison-for-it?CMP=firstedition_email

junesim63, to nigeria
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As a twin, ( my mother had two sets of twins), whose maternal grandmother had twins, and with twins on both sides of my family, I found this article on Nigeria's self-proclaimed capital of twins fascinating.

Nigeria, twins and a love-hate relationship - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68977986

junesim63, to random
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Thought for today:

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor"
Archbishop Desmond Tutu

junesim63, to UKpolitics
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It looks like the Tories were using the awful Rwanda detentions as a cynical election ploy in local election week, with the media in on it.
Contacts at Loughborough reporting centre say there have been no detentions at all of asylum seekers reporting for bail so far this week. Apparently, the same is happening in London.
If this is true, it's an absolute disgrace to use vulnerable people in this way.
Meanwhile, others live in fear.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c72pyz221ejo

junesim63, to Israel
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"When photographer Alex Levac wanted to get out of the car for a moment, the soldier asked him: "Are you Jewish?"
There's no place on earth where this question is legitimate. It crosses clear, acceptable boundaries of privacy & racism. There's no place on earth where a man is asked what his origin, birth or nationality is in order to know how to treat him. Only here, at Einav checkpoint laying siege on Tul Karm, this question was legitimate"
Gideon Levy


https://archive.is/yUOyp

junesim63, to Israel
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Owen Jones in his latest video, rightly incandescent over US and Biden's hypocrisy in pausing arms shipments to Israel.

#Israel #Gaza #Rafah #ArmsShipments #Genocide #USPol #USPolitics

Biden PANICS Over Israel's Genocide
https://youtube.com/watch?v=dIxkI6HREHA&feature=shared

junesim63, to climate
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"We keep doing it because we have to do it, so [the powerful] cannot say that they didn’t know. We know what we’re talking about. They can say they don’t care, but they can’t say they didn’t know"

"I think 3C is being hopeful and conservative. 1.5C is already bad, but I don’t think there is any way we are going to stick to that. There is not any clear sign from any government that we are actually going to stay under 1.5C.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2024/may/08/hopeless-and-broken-why-the-worlds-top-climate-scientists-are-in-despair

junesim63, to Israel
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"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.


https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/when-nightmare-becomes-reality

junesim63, to Cats
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Fascinating article on the life expectancy of cats.
TLDR: if you want a long-lived pusscat, get a female crossbreed.

Sphynx has lowest life expectancy of domestic cat breeds, research finds | Cats | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/08/sphynx-has-lowest-life-expectancy-of-domestic-cat-breeds-research-finds?CMP=GTUK_email

RichardJMurphy, to random
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Quantitative tightening will thwart any economic plans Rachel Reeves has unless she challenges it head on https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/08/quantitative-tightening-will-thwart-any-economic-plans-rachel-reeves-has-unless-she-challenges-it-head-on/ Rachel Reeves has a choice. She can try to deliver he economic policy with both hands tied behind her back by the Bank of England, who will do all they can to undermine it, or she can take on the Bank. It's her decision, but there is only one way she can win.

junesim63,
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@RichardJMurphy Not a chance. Reeves is ex Bank of England herself. In the Mais lecture she said:

"So let me begin with the Bank of England. The Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee must continue to have complete independence in the pursuit of its primary objective of price stability. And, just so there is no doubt about this: a Labour government will retain the 2 percent inflation target, while the Financial Policy Committee will continue with its core objective of financial stability"

junesim63, to Economics
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Good from Prof Richard Murphy on why we need taxation and what taxes actually do (paying for public services is not included).

There are six reasons why we need taxes
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/07/there-are-six-reasons-why-we-need-taxes/

junesim63, to Israel
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Three artists from art collective Creative Debuts have defended a mural it painted on a house in Ilford, England, paying tribute to Palestinian journalists amid calls for its removal from UK Lawyers for Israel.

Alia Shaikh, who owns and lives in the house, said she personally commissioned the piece because she otherwise “felt powerless” about the ongoing atrocities.
She said "They’re heroes. Without them, we’d have no idea what’s happening.”

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/redbridge-palestine-gaza-london-journalists-creative-debuts-b1156089.html

BashStKid, to TheArchers
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Well, that was the script equivalent of upending the chessboard.

I’m sure Joy will be returning to ‘I shouldn’t have sold her that bottle’ …

junesim63,
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@BashStKid And will George get found out?

junesim63, to Israel
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Here's the latest Israeli excuse to continue the war against innocent civilians in Rafah:

"Israeli officials claim the Biden administration knew about the latest hostage and ceasefire deal proposal Egypt and Qatar negotiated with Hamas, but didn't brief Israel before Hamas announced it accepted it on Monday."

A senior U.S. official pushed back saying "American diplomats have been engaged with Israeli counterparts. There have been no surprises."


https://www.axios.com/

junesim63,
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@palin you for the eggsucking lesson.

urlyman, to random
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The FT’s paywall showing only the headline and not even a smidgen of the lede is a metaphor for where capitalism is going

junesim63,
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@urlyman Just use the Internet archive. Link here:
https://archive.is/

junesim63, to humanrights
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The Home Office is dealing with growing fallout as asylum seekers go into hiding or flee across the border to Ireland.

Predictable and ineffective:

"I was an asylum seeker in 2020 when the Home Office was trying to deport as many asylum seekers as possible to European countries they had passed through before Brexit started. Some asylum seekers went into hiding then & I can see that it is happening again because of Rwanda”


https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/07/asylum-seekers-hide-or-flee-to-ireland-to-avoid-uk-rwanda-detentions?CMP=firstedition_email

Free_Press, to news
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BREAKING NEWS 🚨🚨🚨

"If you hurt Israel, we will hurt you"

  • Republican senators in a letter to the chief prosecutor at the International Court of Justice in The Hague

What The Hell has happened to common sense in the Republican party!?

junesim63,
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@Free_Press How about crediting Zeteo for the scoop?

https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-you-have-been-warned-republican?publication_id=2325511&post_id=144347983&isFreemail=true&r=96cfk&triedRedirect=true

junesim63, to USpolitics
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"A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so"

https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-you-have-been-warned-republican?publication_id=2325511&post_id=144347983&isFreemail=true&r=96cfk&triedRedirect=true

junesim63,
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" In a terse, one-page letter obtained exclusively by Zeteo, and signed by 12 GOP senators, including Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Florida’s Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz of Texas, Khan is informed that any attempt by the ICC to hold Netanyahu and his colleagues to account for their actions in Gaza will be interpreted “not only as a threat to Israel’s sovereignty but to the sovereignty of the United States.”

Rather ominously, the letter concludes: “You have been warned.”

junesim63, to random
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My neighbour, after power washing all his paths, has continued onto all his rockery stones, removing all signs of moss and lichens. Aaargh!

junesim63,
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@BashStKid They don't have pets, but they have a collection of gnomes and fairies in the front garden for the grandchildren. I haven't checked how clean they are!

junesim63, to Israel
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Israel used a US weapon in a March airstrike, which killed 7 healthcare workers in Lebanon, an attack which was described by Human Rights Watch as a violation of international law.

"Israel’s assurances that it is using US weapons lawfully are not credible. As Israel’s conduct in Gaza and Lebanon continues to violate international law, the Biden administration should immediately suspend arms sales to Israel”
Ramzi Kaiss, HRW

Not holding my breath.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/israel-airstrike-lebanon-us-weapons-international-law?CMP=firstedition_email

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Israel calls on 100,000 civilians to evacuate eastern parts of Rafah ahead of planned operation in Gazan city

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-middle-east-68963839

junesim63,
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@pvonhellermannn Netanyahu deliberately scuppered peace talks, which were near a deal 2 days ago, according to both Hamas and Israeli officials.

He and his many fascist supporters want total war and a completely ethnically cleansed Gaza.

Hence the Al Jazeera ban. I expect the internet to also go down. No reports, no war crimes.

Miro_Collas, to Palestine
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‘Israel Aljazeera ban is an act of desperation’: Marwan Bishara - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWyoaoARqZ0

Agreed; Israel is showing weakness and desperation.

Worth watching, great analysis of Netanyahu, aside from his views on Israel's shuttering of Al Jazeera


@palestine

junesim63,
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@Miro_Collas @palestine
"Instead of stopping the war crimes, they're trying to suppress the messenger, in this case Al Jazeera".

Spot on. I fear for Haaretz.

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