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Jane Goodall calls for the end of poverty to protect wildlife
She called for people to be lifted out of poverty, pointing to its strong impact on the natural world, as people with no alternatives and who are desperate to feed their families will cut down forests to survive, and in urban areas will choose the cheapest food whatever the harm caused by its production, because they have little other choice.
People must move away from factory farming …
“Highly intensive farming systems have created an abundance of food but in Europe, at least, there is also significant waste and at times animal suffering,”
She nevertheless has a confused understanding of how the economy works
War and violence also fuelled the destruction of nature, she warned, and so did our overweening consumerism and urge for “stuff that we accumulate”, as well as our diets. The wealthy should put pressure on leaders and take care over what they buy to avoid adding to the problem, she said. “We have got to stop buying their products,” she said, of companies that use factory farming and exploit nature.
she warned there was only a small window of opportunity to make drastic changes before facing disaster. “One of the lessons learnt from this crisis is that we must change our ways. Scientists warn that to avoid future crises, we must drastically change our diets and move to plant-rich foods. For the sake of the animals, planet and the health of our children.”
ye without sin, cast the first stone
Sheku Bayoh died in Kirkcaldy in 2015 after he was restrained by up to nine police officers using CS spray, pepper spray and batons.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/tragic-sheku-bayohs-partner-draws-22135189
black people are more than twice as likely to die in police custody.
The White House was forced to delete a video claiming that Antifa was leaving stacks of bricks for use by demonstrators at the George Floyd protests.
Free money in Germany – I believe it is called helicoptering
Families will receive a one-time transfer of €300 for each child.
Protecting their vested interests?
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-52916119
HSBC and Standard Chartered have given their backing to China’s new security laws for Hong Kong. Both banks made statements saying the proposed law can help maintain long-term stability in the troubled city. HSBC’s statement noted that the Hong Kong Association of Banks had already issued a statement saying the law would contribute to a stable business environment.
Community policing?
In Minneapolis, 92 percent of police officers do not live in the city, but come in from other places, including from out of state. And additional state troopers and National Guardsmen have also been called in from outside Minneapolis.
NYPD, the numbers are 62 percent of all police officers live inside the city limits—but only 45 percent of white officers do.
Nationally, among the 75 cities with the largest police departments, only 35 percent of officers live in the cities they police.
Derek Chauvin who killed George Floyd keeps a house in Florida and has voted in Florida in the last two federal elections.
Colin Todhunter happily does not focus upon his usual bugbear GM food and describes agroecology farming methods.
As Trump Threatens to Send Military Into Cities, Some GIs Refuse to Comply
Certainly it is an account of only isolated individuals but from acorns grow mighty oaks
While Sweden reflects on its approach that ” led to too many deaths”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-52903717
Did lockdown succeed. This article says yes
“…despite its enormous short-term economic costs, has saved hundreds of thousands of lives…”
Boris Johnson is stating he was ready to offer a right to live and work in the UK to any of the nearly 3 million Hong Kong citizens eligible for a British National Overseas passport if China imposes its national security law,
Dominic Raab, implied the offer was available only to the narrower group of those 350,000 current BNO passport holders in Hong Kong. Johnson appeared to make a far wider offer to all those eligible to hold a BNO passport.
It exposes the past hypocrisy that we could not accept large numbers of the more desperate and vulnerable refugees from actual war-zones
For sure, I am not saying that the overwhelming number of police are sympathetic to the protests, their loyalty remains first to themselves in an act of group self-preservation and then secondly to the authorities that pay their wages.
One thing to note that those who normally denounce the power of unions and organised workers never criticise the police unions who wield enormous influence and rarely in the interests of justice.
But another example, this time of the National Guard in Tennessee exhibiting their support for the protests by laying down their riot shields.
We will only get such gestures when protests remain peaceful and are not perceived as a threat to the safety of law enforcement. For those “warriors” who think they can fight the police, they are sadly mistaken because they are up against militarised police departments. And if that is not enough, troops from the 82nd Airborne Division have been moved from their base in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to the outskirts of Washington, DC, according to multiple reports from unnamed Defense Department officials.
Around 700 members of the 82nd are now poised at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland and Fort Belvoir in Virginia, the Associated Press reports. Joint Base Andrews is where Air Force One takes off when the president goes on trips and is minutes from the White House, just outside the boundary of the capital. Washington DC is the one jurisdiction where Trump can deploy troops without needing approval from a governor.In addition, 1,400 more soldiers are ready to be mobilized within an hour, AP writes, according to two Defense Department officials, who are not named.
The soldiers are armed and have riot gear, and they also have bayonetsAnother bright sign. We are used to clapping for the NHS, now American hospital staff clap in solidarity with the protesters
Our standard analysis is that the police are part of the coercive structure of the State but as socialism grows, just like many other workers, they will become disaffected with the system and side with the revolution.
We see in the us a polarised effect. Them and Us. But glimpses and glimmers of hope shine through.
Already referred to was n Flint, Michigan, where Sheriff Chris Swanson joined the protest last weekend, saying he wanted it to be a “parade not a protest”.
In Newark, New Jersey protest ended without any arrests. “The police showed an uncanny level of restraint. They did not come downtown with tanks and body armor.”
In Camden, New Jersey, the police chief, Joe Wysocki, and other police officers marched with protesters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/02/police-marching-with-protesters-george-floyd-reform
