BBBruce @Didaho@social.cleverlibre.org

@w7voa this month’s scheduled russian scaremongering. Modernized Icbm’s and nuke subs are more than enough to anihilate a continent with an iron dome

Google, Environmental Defense Fund will track methane emissions from space

Satellite data + Google Maps + AI should help figure out where methane is leaking.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/google-environmental-defense-fund-will-track-methane-emissions-from-space/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@nadiaalbelushi I disagree with your notion of demonizing. The ethnicities don’t matter. If occupying government occupies land they didn’t originally own they should expect resistance and nobody could blame someone for “being radicalized” under such circumstances.

However, that doesn’t excuse the actions. Did Hamas bomb a military base? A government building? Literally anything at all related to the occupying government? No. It was innocent people. This logic applies across all borders, all ethnicities.

And same to the occupiers. Did Israel storm in and take over government buildings? No, they beat children and took homes.

It’s not about “demonizing” anyone. It’s about understanding the difference between resisting a government and beating children or blowing up a concert full of random people.

@vertana @cowardlylionel The question is, who's the bigger asshole? The one who pushed the other side into doing this due to his illegal occupation, or the other side that was so brutalized by decades of occupation that it ended up becoming radicalized? That's my point. My whole point is one side is clearly a bigger asshole than the other, and it's not Hamas or the Palestinians. It's Israel. And yet, White libs in America paper over Israel's genocide, and refer to only one side as terrorists.

"“U.S. President Joe Biden issued a memorandum on Thursday requiring allies who receive military aid from the U.S. to provide ‘credible and reliable written assurances’ of their adherence to international law including international human rights law,” the Times of Israel reported. Israel will need to supply written assurances within 45 days or risk loss of aid."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/13/biden-israel-aid/

#Israel #Gaza #Palestine #War #HumanRights #Biden #USA #News #WorldNews

Your #ABC? No.

#Murdoch #SaveTheABC #journalism #auspol

Half of migratory species face extinction due to human activities

Since the 1970s, global biodiversity has plummeted by 70 percent.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/half-of-migratory-species-face-extinction-due-to-human-activities/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

The #australia govt is paying consultants to do another climate risk assessment. It’s likely to be a shocker. The worst thing about the terms of reference for the National Climate Risk Assessment (NCRA) is that they assume +1.5-+2C by 2050 - a wildly overly optimistic projection. #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #auspol

Here’s David Spratt’s commentary:
https://johnmenadue.com/as-warming-accelerates-and-1-5c-is-breached-faster-than-forecast-australia-needs-to-re-think-climate-risks-and-policy/

"Bits and pieces of experience and memory can accumulate into a shift in what people believe is possible and our own perceptions of our power to impact the world. Exposing the public to sights and sounds and ideas that help them make connections and have realizations they may have not otherwise have had is important. Making instruments and avenues for direct action and liberatory practices accessible is important. All attempts, large and small, at nurturing liberation can transform and expand people’s capacities for creative resistance, dreaming, and action."

#Palestine #FreePalestine #FreeGaza #Gaza #CeasefireNow

https://itsgoingdown.org/growing-power-and-imaginations-together-reportback-from-durhams-autonomous-palestine-action/

“History will not look kindly on House Republicans for their blatant act of unconstitutional partisanship that has targeted an honorable public servant in order to play petty political games.” - Statement from President Biden on impeachment of DHS Secretary Mayorkas https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/02/13/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-house-gops-baseless-impeachment-of-secretary-mayorkas/

"Libs of TikTok and Elon Musk rushed to spread the misinformation as part of the far right’s desperate push to make “trans terrorism” a thing."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bnna/lakewood-church-shooting-houston-far-right-misinformation-claiming-suspect-transgender

Thousands out in the streets right now in #SanFrancisco in support of #Palestine.

Australian Greens member Jo Clay MLA has sought to table legislation to ban fossil fuel advertising in the Australian Capital Territory https://greens.org.au/act/news/media-release/you-dont-make-friends-fossil-fuel-sponsorships #greenwashing #advertising #promotion #sponsorship #auslaw #auspol

Catastrophic is the word I would use here.

https://www.sciencealert.com/its-confirmed-a-major-atlantic-ocean-current-is-verging-on-collapse

#auspol

Today at 12:30 on ABC, tax coal and gas on export, oil and diesel on entering #australia & economists show Australia BY ITSELF could reduce GLOBAL emissions by 6-9% AND become a super power while compensating every household! Doesn’t say anything about cooling, but it’s a step forward. Working for this is really important. Globally. And
Ross Garnaut doesn’t do things by halves, right?
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #fossilfuels #tax #auspol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-14/economists-call-for-carbon-levy/103461496?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link

Australian fossil fuel tax could raise $100bn in first year alone, Rod Sims and Ross Garnaut say

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/14/fossil-fuel-tax-australia-revenue-economists-ross-garnaut-rod-sims

Note that, for whatever their reasons, the Guardian goes on to say "veteran Australian economists", no slur there at all.

#auspol

Barnaby’s Bench has its own pin on Google Maps and the reviews are truly delicious

#AusPol

#TheOneTimeYouWantToReadTheReviews

"Climate Scientist Michael Mann Wins $1 Million Defamation Case Against Right-Wing Climate Deniers" | My segment this morning on Democracy Now @democracynow
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/13/climate_scientist_michael_mann_defamation_lawsuit

Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

Memo details layoffs, "strategic corrections," and a desire for "trustworthy" AI.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social