Notices by JuneSim63 (junesim63@mstdn.social), page 3

A group of hundreds of German civil servants have written to Chancellor Olaf Scholz and other senior ministers calling on the government to “cease arm deliveries to the Israeli government with immediate effect”.
They sent the statement via email to ministries last week, with the disclaimer that “due to the sensitive content and the excessive state repression that criticism in this area is met with, we want to remain anonymous”.

#Israel #Germany #Genocide #Gaza
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/7/german-civil-servants-demand-immediate-end-to-israeli-arms-supplies

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

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

Great news for NHS privatisers this morning. The Tories' policy is working.

"That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital"
Noam Chomsky

#NHS #UKPolitics #Privatisation #PublicAttitudesSurvey

Public satisfaction with the NHS at its lowest ever level, poll shows | NHS | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/27/public-satisfaction-with-the-nhs-at-its-lowest-ever-level-poll-shows?CMP=GTUK_email

"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

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

"Water companies are commercial entities and we do not comment on the financial situation of specific companies as it would not be appropriate."
A Government spokesperson.

Ludicrous. Water is an essential service. It should never be subject to such subterfuge, particularly as Thames Water is demanding being allowed to pay higher dividends, while increasing bills by 40%, and limitations on fines for serious pollution of rivers.

#ThamesWater #Privatisation #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/12/come-clean-on-secret-taxpayer-rescue-plans-for-thames-water-mp-demands?CMP=firstedition_email

@LALegault This is their proud boast: global policing..

"And when we say, "Uniting Global Forces for a Safer Tomorrow," it isn't just a motto—it's our mission. This is where the world's law enforcement builds stronger ties, aiming for a safer, brighter future"

https://www.worldpolicesummit.com/

"The party is not capable of reflection or sensitivity to the public on a matter that doesn’t sit squarely in its matrix of “electability”. Which is why it will never be out of the woods as long as the war continues. An unstoppable force has met an immovable object. In its position on Gaza, Labour is confronted with a problem that is at odds with everything that the party has made its core coping mechanisms"

Good from Nesrine Malik.

#LabourParty #Gaza #UKPolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/26/faultine-keir-starmer-politics-gaza-labour?CMP=firstedition_email

“From the first day of its occupation, Israel started colonising and annexing the land with the aim of making its occupation irreversible. It left us with a collection of disconnected Bantustans preventing the independence of our state as shown in Map 4.

The fifth one is a map presented by Netanyahu at the UNGA described as “the new Middle East”.

“There is no Palestine at all on this map, only Israel comprised of all the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea”

Riyad al-Maliki

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

"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

"Touted as making Britain “A fairer, greener future” for Britain, “Labour’s Green Prosperity Plan” certainly differentiated it somewhat from the ruling Tories. Now that differentiation has been abandoned and the Labour politicians are claiming that “Labour’s fiscal rules … [are] … more important than any policy”, which is about as moronic as it gets. More of the same from the so-called political voice of the working class.
Economist, Prof Bill Mitchell
#LabourParty #UKPol
https://billmitchell.org/blog/?p=61561

@aral I would tell everyone not to fly at all, in any plane, if they can. I took the flight free pledge some years ago. I know not everyone is able to do this.

@susurros @palestine Link to article without a paywall:
https://archive.is/dZGat

@klimateriet
Link to article free of the paywall:
https://archive.is/XrG2q

Famine in Gaza.

"There’s no food, no water, no heating. We are dying from the cold,” Mohammad Kahil, displaced from northern Gaza to Rafah.

“It is horrible. We are having just one meal a day, of bread made with flour and salt. Maybe we can get some tinned beans if we can buy it on the black market. Otherwise we are hungry”
Hussein Awda, who fled northern Gaza after his house was destroyed and had many relatives killed at the beginning of the war.

#Israel #Gaza #Famine
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/16/no-food-no-water-no-heating-famine-exists-in-gaza-say-officials

"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

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

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/