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Friday, October 27th, 2023
| Time |
Event |
| 10:51a |
Polycrisis tipping points at hand
*Humanity is moving dangerously close to irreversible tipping points
that would drastically damage
our ability to cope
with disasters, UN researchers have warned.*
| | 10:51a |
Plutocratic, anti-protest, state laws
*Fossil fuel firms
spent millions on US lawmakers who sponsored anti-protest bills.*
| | 10:51a |
Fossil-fuels cuts behind schedule, EU
*EU must cut carbon emissions
three times faster
to meet targets, [according to climate commissioner].*
*Earth’s
"vital signs"
worse than at any time in human history, scientists warn.*
| | 10:51a |
Al Jazeera losses in Gaza
* The wife, son, daughter and grandson of Wael al-Dahdouh, the [Al
Jazeera] bureau chief in Gaza, were
targeted at a relief camp,
outlet says.* This is one small fraction of an enormous war crime.
Al-Dahdouh asserts that Israel is systematically targeting civilians
who have fled — that this is not just a long series of coincidences.
| | 10:51a |
Israel punishes UN
Israel says it will
punish the UN
by barring UN staff from visiting Israel. This is in response to
Secretary General Guterres's mentioning Israel's long oppression of the Palestinians in Gaza.
This may provide Israel with the secondary coup of preventing UN staff
from meeting with anyone in Gaza or the West Bank. Egypt could let
them into Gaza; will it? Jordan has a bridge by which people can enter
the West Bank, but the western side is controlled by Israel and it
might block UN staff there too.
This step calls for international pressure on Israel.
| | 10:51a |
UN chief rebukes Israel
Secretary General
Guterres rebuked Israel
for the bombardment and
blockade of Gaza, which he rightly compared to "collective punishment
of the Palestinian people".
Israel replied by falsely equating Guterres's support for
international law to "support for terrorism", in its standard way.
Its policy is to try to stop the rest of the world from recognizing,
and saying that "Condemning HAMAS for its terrorism does not require
us to condone the other war crimes, those that Israel is carrying
out."
Likewise, *Israel must stop
weaponizing the Holocaust.*
*Gaza hospitals
ceasing to function as water and fuel run out.*
Israel could, and is morally obliged to, let them get the humanitarian supplies
they need — and the rest of Gaza too.
| | 10:51a |
N. Gaza 1km tank-raid
Biden rebuked
the fanatical "settlers" that systematically inflict violent pogroms
on Palestinians in the West Bank, saying that they are "pouring gasoline on the fire."
| | 10:51a |
Poland's progressive govt sewn up
It looks like the democratic victory in Poland is for real — the
winning parties are
ready to form a coalition
and replace the right-wing religious authoritarian government.
| | 10:51a |
Culture warrior chairs lower chamber, US
SCROTUS made one of their
most extreme
members speaker of the House. Mike Johnson is an election denialist,
a climate denialist, an abortion persecutor, and seeks to impose Christianity.
In addition, he also wants to make non-rich people poorer.
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