JuneSim63
"The problem is our monopolised food system. Think of it as a vast profit machine shaped like an hourglass, with many food producers at the top, millions of consumers at the bottom, and a few dominant firms – such as giant supermarkets or global food traders – clustered at its narrowing neck, siphoning a cut from the passing traffic"
Nicholas Shaxson, co-founder of the Balanced Economy Project
#FoodGiants #Farming #Agriculture #Food #RentierCapitalism #UKPolitics
JuneSim63
"According to research by the economists Jan Eeckhout and Jan de Loecker, average global markups– the prices companies charge for goods above the cost of producing them– have risen from around 21% above costs in 1980, to 61% today. So a pizza that may have cost you £12 if markets had been as un-concentrated as they were 45 years ago, may now cost £16. Think of the £4 difference as a private monopoly tax that nobody voted for."
Nicholas Shaxson
#FoodGiants #Farming #Agriculture #Food #UKPolitics
JuneSim63
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
"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.”
JuneSim63
"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
"The Israeli military on Monday called on Palestinians to move out of the eastern parts of Rafah ahead of what it calls a ‘limited scope operation’ in Gaza’s south. The order came after a night of intense Israeli bombardment on Rafah killed 22 people, including eight children"
And so Israel’s ground operation in Rafah begins. Let's see how Biden and the US react to this blatant provocation.
#Israel #Gaza #Rafah
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/5/6/israels-war-on-gaza-live-israel-pounds-rafah-as-truce-talks-stall
JuneSim63
"In the tented camps and crowded streets of Rafah, the pro-Palestine campus protests in the US have been followed closely.
“We hear a lot of news about students’ demonstrations in American universities … When I saw that, I was very happy that there are still those who stand beside us and in support of us,” said Nevin Abu Shahma, 39, who fled to Rafah from northern Gaza early in the war"
JuneSim63
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
JuneSim63
"But all these claims have served a purpose. They keep western publics focused on evil humanitarian aid workers and evil anti-war protesters rather than the kind of evil that dares in broad daylight to kill 15,000 children, destroy hospitals, and hide bodies in mass graves.
Jonathan Cook on how an ‘antisemitism hoax' drowned out the discovery of mass graves in Gaza.
#Israel #Gaza #Antisemitism #MassGraves #UKPolitics #USPolitics
https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/how-an-antisemitism-hoax-drowned
JuneSim63
"Police in Scotland have been put on alert because of the high risks of street protests and attempts by pro-refugee campaigners to stop detentions.
Local communities in Scotland have twice prevented deportations by staging mass protests on Kenmure Street in Glasgow, in May 2021, and in Nicolson Square, Edinburgh, in June 2022."
We need the spirit of Kenmure Street across the UK.
#HomeOffice #Scotland #AsylumSeekers #Rwanda #Deportation #UKPolitics
JuneSim63
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.
JuneSim63
Good morning. Spare a thought today for the children of Gaza, who anxiously await Israel's ground invasion.
In this heartbreaking film from Al Jazeera's Close Up team, one small girl says:
"When they enter Rafah, they will start by killing children." I can't even...
#Israel #Gaza #Rafah #Children
How Gaza’s children are preparing for Israel’s invasion of Rafah I Close Up | Gaza | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/al-jazeera-close-up/2024/4/25/how-gazas-children-prepare-for-israels-invasion-of-rafah-i-close-up
JuneSim63
"I've just returned from the London Book Fair, which is one of the most important annual events in our industry," says Ziv Lewis, the acquisitions editor at Kinneret Zmora-Bitan Dvir publishing house. "I arrive at every fair with a book or two of ours, and try to sell the translation rights internationally. This time I didn't even try. Based on what I gathered and heard, there has never been a worse time for Israeli art. There's no open door and no desire to listen."
JuneSim63
"Overall, we are pretty much like Russia now, only it isn't official yet with us. That may actually be worse, because if it were official, at least we'd be able to fight it," says Adar Shafran ("Running on Sand"), the director and head of the Israeli Producers Association. "When they want to submit a film to a festival, the Russians are told in advance not to do so. We aren't told that – our films simply aren't accepted."
Haaretz
JuneSim63
Only eight out of almost 21,000 bee species in the world die when they sting. Another subset can’t sting at all, and the majority of bees can sting as often as they want. But there’s even more to it than that...
#Bees #Wildlife #Environment
https://theconversation.com/most-bees-dont-die-after-stinging-and-other-surprising-bee-facts-227162
JuneSim63
A sad day for human rights and a terrifying one for asylum seekers in the UK, who are made scapegoats for a failing government.
#Rwanda #AsylumSeekers #HumanRights #UKPolitics
UK passes bill to send asylum seekers to Rwanda | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/22/rwanda-deportations-bill-passes-parliament-sunak?CMP=GTUK_email
JuneSim63
"Giving people who lost their humanity, people were reduced to nothing, giving them their dignity back … Psychologists can’t do that alone. We need responses at state and international level. We need the rest of the world to stand with us.”
Dr Samah Jabr, Head of the PHA mental health unit.
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #PTSD #CTSD #Psychology
‘Chronic traumatic stress disorder’: the Palestinian psychologist challenging western definitions of trauma | Gaza | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/14/mental-health-palestine-children?CMP=GTUK_email
JuneSim63
Chilling article from artist Jill Gibbon, who goes undercover at arms fairs. Here she exposes the Defence and Security Exhibition International (DSEI), which takes place every two years at the ExCel centre in London Docklands.
"Here, missiles are treated as global commodities, and warring regimes as clients and business partners. The fair gives an insight into how arms sales to Israel can continue despite the horrific bombardment of Gaza"
#ArmsDealers #DSEI #War
https://theconversation.com/inside-the-global-arms-industry-what-a-secretive-london-trade-fair-reveals-about-international-weapons-sales-227176
JuneSim63
Well. colour me surprised..
"A promised surge in aid into Gaza that Benjamin Netanyahu promised Joe Biden a week ago has so far failed to materialise, aid workers say, as the US aid chief confirmed that famine is beginning to take hold in parts of the besieged coastal strip.
The increase in the number of truck crossing into Gaza claimed by Israel conflicts with UN records and already appears to be faltering"
JuneSim63
"Another initiator of the German civil servants’ statement, a trained jurist, expressed fear not just of losing employment for being involved in the statement, but of prosecution and even imprisonment, citing the “utterly lawless situation” in the country post-October 7 where people are arrested, sometimes brutally, with spurious legal justifications. “There are no rights in Germany at the moment when it comes to Palestine,” the initiator said"
Retired researcher living in Nottinghamshire, England. Hull native.Also at @jsim63#Socialist #Politics #Environment #Cats #Gardening #Wildlife #Opera #ClassicalMusic #Refugees #HumanRights #AlcoholFree #WearAMask#ChildlessCatLadyShe/HerAvatar: 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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