'We Won't Be Silenced!' Protesters Decry DeJoy at USPS Meeting

Defenders of the U.S. Postal Service are warning about an austerity plan by the Trump-appointed postmaster general that "will slash jobs and shrink processing centers and post offices."

Common Dreams

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/18/uvalde-school-shooting-federal-investigation-police-response

states require students and teachers to receive far more training to prepare them for a mass shooting than they require for the police. At least 37 states require schools to conduct active-shooter-related drills, nearly all on an annual basis. But Texas is the only state that mandates that all of its police officers complete repeated training, at least 16 hours every two years. That requirement was implemented after the #Uvalde shooting.
#ItsTheGuns #StateSanctionedViolence #2ndAmendmentPatrols #BidenIsComplicit #EndQualifiedImmunityNow
#DomesticTerroristMovement

“Cascading failures”: Justice Department blasts law enforcement’s botched response to Uvalde school shooting

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said that had responding officers followed general procedures, some victims would have survived.

The Texas Tribune
The Latest Methane Agreement at COP28 Is “A Smokescreen”

This weekend's voluntary pledge by oil and gas companies is a distraction. It also misses the biggest source of methane emissions.

Distilled
“We appeal to Israel to withdraw the order, and take every possible measure to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, including hospitals and humanitarian facilities”- WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
#BidenIsComplicit

#MinistryOfTheFuture: Mary Robinson rocks, “We’re in an absolute crisis that is hurting women and children more than anyone … and it’s because we have not yet committed to phasing out fossil fuel. That is the one decision that Cop28 can take and in many ways, because you’re head of Adnoc, you could actually take it with more credibility.”

#TranslatingGaza #COP28BlahBlahBlah #BidenIsComplicit

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/03/back-into-caves-cop28-president-dismisses-phase-out-of-fossil-fuels

Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels

Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says phase-out of coal, oil and gas would take world ‘back into caves’

The Guardian

#BidenIsComplicit

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-02/us-pledges-3-billion-for-climate-aid-to-poor-countries-at-cop28

Meanwhile in science:

Nature, Nov 3, 2023- Rich Nations Fall Short

“poor countries could need between $215 billion and $387 billion “per year” for adaptation efforts “this decade.””

#MalAdaptationWillKill #COP28BlahBlahBlah

US Pledges $3 Billion for Climate Aid to Poor Countries at COP28

Vice President Kamala Harris will announce the commitment at the summit in Dubai, where increasing climate finance is a focus of talks.

Bloomberg

https://overcast.fm/+CCsfezubs

#ExpandingEthnicClensing moving survivors to #Egypt: Ziad Abbas of Middle East Children’s Alliance on KPFA’s Flashpoints on the expanding killing fields in southern Gaza’s neighborhoods, Blinken’s fake plea to avoid civilian casualties, and the violations of the pause. Areas to be bombed are advised to go to area being bombed. Israelis now hold the record at 67 journalists known killed.
#BidenIsComplicit #BorderRule #BufferZone #SettlerColonialViolence

Blinken’s Fake Plea for a More Humane Bombing CAMPAIGN. — KPFA - Flashpoints

Today on the Show: AFTER Blinken’s fake plea for a more humane bombing CAMPAIGN, the Israelis pull out all the stops, and continue their expanding deadly siege in Southern Gaza, killing and wounding hundreds: Ziad Abbas of Meca, we’ll join us for an update; also we’ll offer a Palestinian perspective on the Israelis latest killing fields of children: And Deconstructing War Landia, our weekly media deconstruction segment with Arun Gupta. The post Blinken’s Fake Plea for a More Humane Bombing CAMPAIGN. appeared first on KPFA.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2417526/middle-east

#BorderRule: Israeli forces dropped a massive (California) bomb on their home in Beit Lahia. She can’t even take a picture with him because his face is swollen.
Almadhoun said the search continues for Siwar’s body but his family’s efforts are hampered by the communications blackout imposed during the conflict by Israel, which has had total control of the Gaza Strip since 1967

#BidenIsComplicit #TranslatingGaza #FakeTwoStateSolution
#IronDome #CeasefireNow

6 members of American UN aid worker’s family killed by Israeli attack in Gaza

CHICAGO: All 14-year-old Siwar Almadhoun wanted to do was play basketball. Her 9-year-old brother, Omar, dreamed of being a soccer star. Their dreams died with them in the early hours of Friday, Nov. 24 when, as they slept, Israeli forces dropped a massive bomb on their home in Beit Lahia, in the Gaza Strip. Their parents, Majed, 41, and Safa, 38, were also killed in the indiscriminate Israeli slaughter, along with siblings Reman, 18, who had just started college, and 7-year-old Ali, said Hani Almadhoun, Majed’s brother.

Arabnews

#AbolishPrisonsAbolishPolice: Most of all, the list is a dizzying testament to just how central detention and imprisonment are to Israel’s occupation and control over Palestinians. the same system that, in July of this year, acquitted an Israeli police officer who shot dead Iyad al-Hallaq, an autistic Palestinian man, despite clear testimonies and video evidence proving he was unarmed and made no threat of any kind.
#BidenIsComplicit #EndQualifiedImmunity

https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-prisoners-israeli-hostages-exchange/

What Israelis won’t be asking about the Palestinians released for hostages

The list of Palestinians slated to be exchanged for Israelis should provoke reflection over the role of mass imprisonment in the occupation.

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