Extreme air pollution in Pakistan


The Pakistani Health Department reports that at least 1.8 million people in Punjab, #Pakistan have become sick with respiratory and eye irritation ailments caused by chronic, record-breaking air pollution.
apnews.com/article/pakistan-sm…
#airpollution
in reply to GM7077

A graphic showing 335 bullet casings arranged in a grid, representing the number of bullets fired into a car containing a 6 year old girl and her family. The text reads "I'm so scared. Please come." -Hind Rajab. The text below explains that the girl was trapped in the car with her slain family and that paramedics were fired upon while trying to reach her. A single teardrop is shown at the bottom of the graphic.

The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please log in.

A bit of black humour from my favourite satire site


thebeaverton.com/2024/11/ameri…
“I don’t understand what went wrong!” sighed the facility’s chief scientist. “I added a flawed constitution, an electoral system designed by slave owners, a biased and corrupt supreme court, and centuries of frothing racism, violent sexism, and misguided exceptionalism.
fionag11 reshared this.

#Ecosia 's summary of implications of #trump2024 victory for the environment and Earth's #climate

blog.ecosia.org/trump-climate-…

“A second Trump presidency is game over for meaningful climate action this decade, and stabilizing warming below 1.5C probably becomes impossible.”

Michael Mann, Climate scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, The Guardian, October 2024

This entry was edited (1 year ago)

fionag11 reshared this.

fionag11 reshared this.

Israeli warplanes have bombed a house in northern Gaza’s Beit Lahiya town, killing a mother and her three children, according to the Wafa news agency.

The Palestinian Information Centre (Palinfo) identified the mother as Shurooq al-Radhi, wife of Naseem al-Radhi, who is imprisoned by Israeli authorities.

@palestine
#Gaza
#children

fionag11 reshared this.

fionag11 reshared this.

“Dahiyeh Doctrine”

The doctrine, which takes its name from the Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut and entails the large-scale destruction of civilian infrastructure to pressure a hostile government or armed group, was devised in the context of Israel’s 2006 war on #Lebanon

Israeli jets dropped more than 80, 2000-pound “bunker-busting” bombs that have a destruction radius of 35 metres (115 feet) on their target. The strike that killed Nasrallah also flattened six residential buildings

@palestine

fionag11 reshared this.

in reply to earthling

1/2
The doctrine, for example, was clearly in play during Israel’s “Operation Cast Lead” in 2008 that killed 1,400 Palestinians, including 300 children, in Gaza. The Goldstone report from the UN’s post-war fact-finding mission found that Israeli soldiers “deliberately subjected civilians, including women and children, to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment… in order to terrorize, intimidate and humiliate them”.

aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/10…

@palestine
#Gaza
#DahiyehDoctrine

fionag11 reshared this.

Israeli soldiers continue to bomb and destroy Kamal Adwan Hospital in war-battered northern Gaza, the territory’s Health Ministry says, suggesting that the plan seems to be to execute medical workers who refused to evacuate.

@palestine
#Gaza
#hospitals
#KamalAdwan

reshared this

This is just pointless and cruel


Mark Longo, who rescued an orphaned squirrel that became a social media star, describes how authorities raided his New York state animal sanctuary and seized the furry creature, along with a rescued racoon. Both animals were later euthanized.

cbc.ca/news/world/peanut-squir…

Conservative Senators block bill that would ban live export of horses from Canada for slaughter in Japan


100 more horses going for slaughter in Japan from Canada's Edmonton International Airport. The horses came from Grover feedlot near Hanna, so besides the time and stress of being loaded onto the trucks and the 3+ hour drive to Edmonton, they now face the loading onto the plane here and then a grueling journey to Japan. All this without food, water and rest.
#horses #animalrights
Bill C-355 banning live export, is stalled in the Senate, largely due to delaying tactics by several Conservative Senators (led by Senate Opposition Leader, Don Plett).

Canadians can reach out to their provincial Senators. Go here to find your Senators sencanada.ca/en/senators/?v=li…
Then choose Province (Designation) to locate your provincial Senators. Phone numbers and email addresses for each Senator are to be found by clicking on individual names.

The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please log in.


Over a hundred thousand turned out to stand in solidarity against this insane genocide, here's some photos and video...
#photos
#video
#myWork
#StopArmingIsrael
#protest
#solidarity
#London
tube.nogafa.org/w/3iKadv2V7Za6…

reshared this

The media in this post is not displayed to visitors. To view it, please log in.


4 Lebanese civilians have been reported killed due to Israeli airstrikes targeting multiple areas in the ancient city of Tyre in southern Lebanon earlier today.


Just like the #Taliban and #ISIS, Israel is destroying #UNESCO sites, but with American and German bombs and money.

#Lebanon #Israel #SaveLebanon #StopIsrael


fionag11 reshared this.

Our latest Honest Government Ad is out , and it features a very special guest actor:

her name is Ingyin Hlaing Hlaing and she is a refugee from the 2021 military coup in Myanmar. If you know about the conflict in Myanmar, you'll appreciate how brave it is of her to front this video. And If you don't, then this HGA will give you a good overview in under 5 minutes!

🇲🇲✊ အရေးတော်ပုံ အောင်ရမည်

youtube.com/watch?v=ERiZRUIlna…