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- accountability continues to be a theme this week, with a notorious former despot who attempted an insurrection finally facing some serious charges and calls - and possible mechanisms - for major global changes, but cowardly local councils in my home state. Meanwhile, a despot who was unrestrained by any actions has pursued his attempts to destroy a neighbouring nation by nearing the placement of nuclear weapons in a third (sock puppet) nation;
- on ISSUES OF MAJOR GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE and/or ACROSS MULTIPLE CATEGORIES:
- “reforming the global financial system, moving beyond Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of economic progress, and addressing technology challenges are crucial to achieving a more just and equitable future for all” (UN) - see also here (Lowy) and “proposed legislation in New York state, in the northeast United States, could provide effective and fair relief for developing countries crippled by debt, two experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council said” (UN); “climate-related disasters leave behind trauma and worse mental health. Housing uncertainty is a major reason why” (TC);
- former US president #45 is facing federal, rather than state charges over his “mishandling” of confidential materials: see this searing indictment of #45 from his niece Mary L Trump (MLT), and also this (TG), this (F24), this (TND), this (TND), this (TG), and this (TG);
- South Africa is now trying to get out of its decision to support alleged war criminal putin evade arrest (The Daily Maverick);
- “admissible evidence, competent courts, critical to ensuring justice for [violent extremism] victims in Iraq” (UN) - see also this (UN);
- “just like banking, the AI revolution needs to be regulated” (TND) - see also this (UN) ... and, optimistically, “EU asks big tech to tackle disinformation” (DW); “states haven’t stopped spying on their citizens, post-Snowden – they’ve just got sneakier” (TG); “Palestinian Forum highlights threats of autonomous weapons” (JC);
- following the rejection last week of a defamation case, the Australian government is being called on to - and is reportedly considering - provide compensation to victims of Australian war crimes in Afghanistan (TG). The full judgement (TG) is extremely (SBS) critical (TG) of the soldier - see also here (TG), and raises the possibility of criminal acts (ABC) - see also here (Lowy), and the role of investigative journalism has been highlighted (TND);
- on FAR RIGHT (AND LEFT) WING EXTREMISM AND HATE:
- further to last week’s theme of accountability/lack thereof, a review of a film about a town of black people in the USA that was destroyed by white supremacists includes this comment: “the only lesson white citizens seemed to learn from all over the state of Florida learned from the previous destruction of two Black communities is that there would be no consequences”;
- in the USA, “a federal judge appointed by [former potus45] said a first-in-the-nation Tennessee law designed to place strict limits on drag shows is unconstitutional” (TG); criticism of the media (TND); “California’s Democratic governor ... branded his rightwing Republican Florida counterpart ... a “small, pathetic man”, and appeared to threaten kidnapping charges after the first incident in which a group of migrants was dumped at a ... church [in California]” (TG); a black woman who asked for return of her property (a digital device) was shot dead by a white neighbour - who, in what appears to be an egregious failure of judgment by police (because of racism?) - was not charged (TG) - see also “when the law makes it easier for anyone to kill Black People - stand your ground sounds more like the "Casual Killing Act"” (M); “LGBTQ+ Americans living in state of emergency” (TG); following the cancellation (Star) of yet another LGBTIQA+ event, “Councillor Baxter pointed to the larger implications of cancellations of queer events. “The decision to buckle in the face of bigotry will have long-lasting effects. The far right will be assured that their tactics work – this is a huge win for them. And next year, maybe there won’t be any queer events at all. For safety” ” - and why are police not investigating death threats against children? (Star); another gutless coward republican in the USA has attacked trans children (M) - and similar cowards in Tasmania (Star) - as a notorious far right extremist billionaire becomes open about his transphobic hate (Star); Australia will (TND) ban (TG) public displays of right wing extremist symbols, but not gestures; the problems of trans panic (which a trans activist in Australia has been warning of for decades - the fear of “accidentally” being homosexual) and carceral justice (M);
- France’s Parliament reports that a far right party was a sock puppet for russia (F24);
- an examination of the problem of left wing violence in Germany (DW), and right wing lone wolf attacks in the USA (TG); charges over an alleged threat to kill a Senator in the USA (when charges are laid, remember: innocent until proven guilty) (TG); as China continues to erase (DW) and (F24) actively (ABC) suppress (TG) memories of the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, a museum is being opened in the USA despite fears of actions by China there (TG);
- on the CLIMATE CRISIS (noting the UNFCCC) and ENVIRONMENT (noting multiple international agreements):
- examinations of heat waves generally (TC via JC) and in West Asia (DW); a suggestion to use smart electric water heaters to store renewable energy (TC); social media is enabling (TC) tracking (TND) of cherry blossoms in Japan and thus the impact of climate change; raids by climate-crisis-enabling police in Germany on a climate activist group have increased membership (F24); “in Kenya, lions are speared to death as human-wildlife conflict worsens amid drought” (AP); the loss of leaf litter invertebrates during bushfires (TC); “our oceans are in deep trouble – a ‘mountains to sea’ approach could make a real difference” (TC); on COP28: concern as a fossil fuel CEO is appointed COP28 president (LM) - and a The Guardian exclusive reports that “UAE state oil firm able to read Cop28 climate summit email” (TG); little optimism (DW); ocean pollution has aided the growth of flesh eating (vibrio) bacteria in a massive blob of seaweed in the Pacific that is heading for the USA (TG); the recovery work that is needed after ceasing logging of native forests in my home state (TC); a humpback whale was freed from commercial fishing lines and floats after an eight hour effort (TG); noise pollution (The Walrus); attempts to introduce sustainable fishing in the Amazon being stopped by threats of violence (TG); “endangered animals released into the wild may lack the match-fitness to evade predators” (TC); animals travelled more during pandemic lockdowns (NPR);
- climate / environmental issues have also occurred in: plastic pollution (UN), sustainable energy (UN), cities (UN), the Amazon basin (TG), Mozambique (BB), NSW (dam) (TG), oceans (TG) - see also this (UN), tourism (TND), waste heat (Aeon), logging of native forests (TC);
- on NATURAL and OTHER DISASTERS (noting Article 1(3) of the UN Charter) including COVID-19 AND OTHER PANDEMICS:
- conflict and the climate crisis have left 16 million people in need of aid in the Sahel (rfi); heat wave and associated bushfires in West Asia (JC) and bushfires in Canada (TG) - see also here (TND), here (F24), and here (TG); food aid has been suspended (F24) in Ethiopia (UN) after major thefts; “scores dead and thousands displaced after flooding, landslides in Haiti” (F24) - and an earthquake (UN); more on the terrible train crash in India: here (DW), here (a signals failure is suspected) (TND), here (a overview of rail safety in India) (DW); “South African president admits failure [of water treatment] in prevention of cholera outbreak” (AN); “WHO declares end to Marburg virus outbreak in Equatorial Guinea” (F24);
- on CORRUPTION (noting international agreements and monitoring) and other democracy-threatening CRIMES, MISGOVERNANCE, MAL-/MIS-/NON-FEASANCE, MISCONDUCT and other THREATS TO DEMOCRACY/FREEDOM including GREED:
- “Australian abuse survivors fight to stop Catholic church’s ‘new type of cruelty’.
Survivors are lobbying to change the law to prevent institutions
unfairly using legal stays to stop them taking cases to trial” (TG); a recently pardoned woman “was demonised by a legal system that even punished efforts to establish her innocence” (TG); “pregnant Aboriginal women are living in fear due to Victoria’s unborn child protection notifications” (TG); “Canberra Rape Crisis Centre calls out media conduct over reporting of sexual assault” (ABC) - see also here (SBS); “three years on from the Black Lives Matter marches, Indigenous deaths in custody are at a record high” (SBS); the attempt to rearrest
an Indigenous child in Queensland was so traumatic it caused the
boy to attempt suicide, and was done so clumsily it critically damaged
an organisation aiming at preventing crime (TG) - see also this (TG); very (TG) concerning (TND) allegations about the leaking of emails are being made in an ongoing court (defamation) case;
continuing fallout from the scandal of a consulting company that abused
their access to sensitive government information may include criminal charges (TC) - see also this, on the damage done by this scandal to professional consulting (TC) and “how reliance on consultancy firms ... undermines the capacity of governments” (TC); a criticism of the RBA by a respected journalist is titled “is the RBA acting out of spite or just lost the plot?” (TND) - see also “why Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe wants to damage the economy further” (TC); “the Morrison government gave $4m to an organisation accused of “extreme religious practices” – including exorcisms and gay conversion – on the same day the Australian government solicitor (AGS) advised the grant would “likely be without lawful authority” ” (TG) - see also here (TND); a The Guardian exclusive reports “Australia’s military will emerge stronger after ‘confronting’ war crime inquiry, defence chief says” (TG); in what is perhaps a statement of the blindingly obvious (although sometimes the blindingly obvious can do with a little evidentiary support) research into the effects of competition has “found it was only the losers of the number-guessing game who became more dishonest,
with a larger effect (d = –0.34). The winners of the competition stage,
on the other hand, showed no change in their honesty behaviour” (TC);
- concerns around past/current/potential corruption/misgovernance also in the former neolib Australian government (TG), an Australian bank (TG), NSW (TG), business scare campaigns (TC), Australia (TG);
- on rashist putin and his cronies’ ILLEGAL (it is contrary to Chapters VI and VII of the UN Charter and international law [and the 1928 Pact of Paris which was successfully used in post-WW2 trials], and possibly includes conduct contrary to the "laws" of war and international humanitarian law (IHL)) INVASION of UKRAINE:
- a review includes “the absence of a possible diplomatic solution provides an added incentive for both sides to climb up the escalation ladder” (TC); an examination of “the limits of plausible deniability in Ukraine and beyond” (PVG); russia/putin has destroyed a dam in Ukraine, causing an ecological disaster (see here (DW), here (TG)), long-term risk of problems at a nuclear power plant (but the cooling pond must be protected now (R)), loss of water supplies & food & power, safety risk to thousands of people from flooding and washing mines etc into flood areas (including towns) and risks of disease, and allegations of war crimes (although I note the allies did this during World War (part) Two) but no likely effect on Ukraine’s counterattack; see here (TG), here (WP), here (TG), here (ABC), here (AJ), here (DW), here (SBS), here (TG), here (TG), here (UN), here (TND), here (a fake video attempt at misinformation) (DW), here (TC), here (TND), here (LM), here (UN), here (DW), this photo essay (DW), this (UN), this (F24), this (UN), and important and excellent comments on journalistic reporting here (TS); mobilisation for full warfare is testing Ukraine’s social fabric (F24);
- on the nuclear (weapons and power) situations: PUTIN WILL HAVE TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN BELARUS IN JULY (R); South Korea claims their alliance with the USA is now nuclear-based (BB);
- inside russia: “Russian rebels who crossed the border hope to 'stay in Russia'” (LM); the return of politics to russia (TS);
- on INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS (noting the UN Charter [particularly Chapters VI and VII] and numerous international treaties):
- “Mexico fully recognises Palestine as an independent State, welcomes formal Palestinian Embassy” (JC); Iran claims to have a hypersonic missile (ABC); during the Cold War, “Soviet and American warships had a code to prevent dangerous encounters and the US and China should have the same” (Lowy); a suggestion the League of Arab States could play a constructive regional role (UN); questions (DW) over the future viability of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE);
- noting particularly Chapters VI and VII of the UN Charter, the 1928 Pact of Paris used in post-WW2 trials, the "laws" of war and IHL and Article 20 of the ICCPR on WAR / CONFLICT:
fighting has escalated (VoA) in Sudan, including major fires burning in Khartoum (R) and a risk of it spreading to the south of that nation (R), after the ceasefire officially ended and as “the African Union’s proposal to expand the peace search in Sudan has received early backing from the West, suggesting mediation will now go beyond warring generals and rope in civilian groups” (TEA); the conflict is sill harming civilians (UN) - including mass sexual assaults (VoA), and refugees are also going to the CAR (AN); “Rwanda wants the ... rebel group to be part of the dialogue to restore peace in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a proposal that could potentially kick up a storm in [the DRC]” (I understand the DRC’s concerns) (TEA); Israeli-Egyptian border (F24); Israeli squatters attacking a town for a second time (the first was described as genocide by an Israeli general) have been filmed (JC) - see also this (F24); Israel is annexing the West Bank (Foreign Affairs Magazine); “Palestinian Bil'in's successful Resistance Campaign against the Israeli Wall” (JC); - incidents / action of concern in/regarding: Saudi Arabia (JC);
- violence in: Somalia (F24), Somalia (VoA), Nigeria (R), Burkina Faso (F24), Nigeria (F24), Mali (F24) - see also here (UN), Burkina Faso (F24), France (F24) - see also here (TG), here (TG), here (LM) and here (TND);
- mass gun shootings in the USA: a school (TG);
- on DEMOCRACY, SOVEREIGNTY, AND GOVERNANCE (noting Article 25 of the ICCPR and monitoring projects):
- globally: ahead of elections in Poland, hundreds of thousands - including (F24) the famed Lech Walesa - have marched against (TG) the right wing government - which has been criticised for politicising (my word: the report refers to “instrumentalising”) the holocaust (DW); “Guinea-Bissau votes to elect legislature more than a year after president dissolved parliament” (AP) - and the vote has been praised by observers (DW); an excellent critique of the politicking around the US government debt ceiling (Sarah Chayes); Senator Bernie Sanders has been warning against political tribalism in the USA (JC), but I think he is far too late - see, for instance, this book; a bill to attempt (F24) to overturn the changes to pensions in France has been withdrawn (LM); artists refuse to be silenced (FH);
- in Australia: “Traditional Owners in the Kimberley have raised concerns over the security and environmental implications of [a] Mineral Sands project” (NIT); a call to increase housing density - which, as all such calls do, FAILS to address the need for improved sound proofing for privacy and management of noise pollution, and, in the case of flats/apartments, the need for protection against discrimination and the need for accessible green space (TG);
- on the proposed Voice to the Parliament in Australia: a reminder, including history, that “Voice, treaty, truth: compared to other settler nations, Australia is the exception, not the rule” (TC); “fear of 'tidal wave of abuse' as Voice vote looms” (based on what happened in the equal Marriage plebiscite, I consider the fear justified - and this is already happening) (SBS); the “Voice architect accuses [the leader of the opposition] of being 'duplicitous'” (NIT); “coalition MPs slammed for misrepresenting former high court judges on Voice” (NIT); concerns about the destructive “no” campaign (TG);
- protests in: Serbia (against gun violence) (F24), Senegal (VoA), France (F24);
suppression of opposition / dissent / media in: Africa (New Era Live), Laos (including outside that nation) (DW), Cameroon (AN);
assessment of democracy or risks/issues in: Nigeria (PT), Zimbabwe (AN), eSwatini (AN), CAR (UN), Senegal (rfi) - see also this (LM), Burundi (AN), Benin (constitutional court) (AN), Belarus (DW), Maldives (Lowy), Zimbabwe (news 24), Libya (AN) - on HUMAN RIGHTS (noting the various rights and treaties summarised here, IHL, Article 5 of the Rome Statute founding the ICC):
- a US-focused history of poverty (JW); “Queensland Labor faces internal criticism over prison system” - which is leading to ‘extreme self-harm’ [CW] - disturbing details (TG) - see also this (TG), and “innocent Queensland children pleading guilty to avoid harsh bail laws, lawyers say” (TG); the neochristian bible has been banned in one US state because of extreme violence (I have wanted that - for exactly the same reason - for decades) (SBS); the ICRC is experiencing an existential (largely financial) crisis (LM); Australia’s hypocrisy on human rights (TND); “values based” research in science (Nature); “arrests and hate speech target Baha’i minority in Yemen” (UN);
- human rights are at risk or abuses have also occurred or actions have been taken to support human rights in: CAR (UN), CAR (UN), USA (bbc), Gulf states (DW), South Sudan (VoA);
- noting the GENOCIDE Convention: an atrocity alert for Sudan, El Salvador and Rwanda (GCR2P);
- noting the conventions and the Global Compact on REFUGEES: Europe (DW);
- noting the Yogyakarta Principles on LGBTIQ+ PEOPLE: NSW police were “hostile” towards the justice seeking family of a murdered (his killer was recently convicted and sentenced after decades) gay man (it is difficult, IMO, to read of those emails and, particularly in light of the recent decision, not wonder how homophobic the NSW police force - or members therein - are) (Star); a case against a discriminatory (transphobic) app will be allowed to proceed (Star); an airline has updated its uniform requirements, including scrapping gender stereotypical aspects (TND); “ACT passes landmark laws protecting intersex people” (QN); “head of London's police force apologises to LGBT+ community” (bit questionable given the failures of the present) (Op); - see also the lead sections of this post;
more LGBTIQA+ issues/stories: Israel (JC), USA (Op); - noting ICERD and DRIP on RACISM: “Indigenous deaths in custody at record high and public perception of police worst in 10 years,
report finds. Productivity Commission report on government services
says 26% of Australia’s state-owned Indigenous housing is overcrowded” (TG); a (crime prevention) justice reinvestment scheme in the NT (ABC); “a landmark report by the National Farmers' Federation and [a consultant] has underscored the need for better engagement to unlock the economic potential of First Nations agriculture” (NIT); “full letter: Indigenous players and partners at heart of [a sporting club’s] racism investigation speak out” (NIT); the former Fraser Island is now known by its original name of K’gari (TG); “21st Century Black Leadership: misdirection, alarming adriftness and the politics of stagnation” (M); - see also the lead sections of this post and the section on corruption etc;
more racism issues: Brazil (UN), New Zealand (TG), WA youth prison (NIT), NSW police (NIT); - noting CEDAW on SEXISM: in shades of the violent misogyny recently seen in Iran, “almost 80 schoolgirls hospitalised after poison attack in northern Afghanistan” (ABC);
more sexism issues: a NSW maternity hospital (ABC), gaming industry in India (DW);
- noting the laws listed here, the conventions listed here, and principles discussed here, here, here, here, and here, on ANIMALS and the RIGHTS OF ANIMALS and other forms of life: “octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law following LSE report findings” (London School of Economics and Political Science); “support group using sheep helps people improve their mental health” (GNN);
- noting Articles 2 (1) (also noting this, this, this, and this), 3, 7, 14 (see here and here), 15, 16, and 26 of the ICCPR, Articles 3, 5 (a), and 6 (see here and here) of the ICERD, Articles 2, 12 (2), 37, 39, and 40 of the CRC, Articles 5, 12, 13, and 14 of the CRPD, and Articles 1 - 2, 7 (2), 8 (2) (c), 9 - 10, 12 (2), 20 (2), 27, and 40 of the DRIP on the JUDICIARY / JUSTICE SYSTEM: “Australia needs a dedicated body to investigate wrongful convictions” (TC) - and “people pardoned and exonerated of crimes face unique challenges when released from prison” (TC);
- noting Articles 6 (1), 7, and 8 (see here) of the ICESCR, Article 5 (e) (i) (ii) (see here and here) of the ICERD, Article 11 (1) (a - c) of the CEDAW, and Article 27 (1) of the CRPD on WORK and FAVOURABLE WORK CONDITIONS: “Australian employers who exploit migrant workers will be banned from hiring other visa holders and will face new criminal penalties, as part of a government crackdown” (TG) - which the inflation moguls (TC) of the business world are resisting (TND) - see also this (TND), as a call is made to treat this as tax avoidance is (TC); a review of four day working weeks in companies includes “three of the ten managers reported no loss of productivity despite a 20% reduction in hours – so effectively staff were about 20% more productive. The other seven reported productivity being even higher than before” (TC); another mass underpayment of workers (TND);
- noting Article 6 (1) of the ICCPR, Article 11 of the ICESCR, Article 5 (e) (iii) (see here and here) of the ICERD, Article 14 (2) (h) of the CEDAW, Article 27 (3) of the CRC, Article 28 of the CRPD, and Article 20 of the DRIP on FOOD, CLOTHING, and HOUSING: “Australian-first affordable rental scheme a ‘massive relief’ for Victorians faced with housing crisis” (TG);
more food, clothing and housing issues: France (LM), Australia (TND);
- “it’s time to bust the ‘calories in, calories out’ weight-loss myth” (TC); in a blow to repressed religious zealots, scientists have found that masturbation has a forty million year history, going back to primates (TG);
Abbreviations: 3KND radio - 3KND; Aeon Magazine - Aeon; Africa Centre for Strategic Studies - ACSS; Africa News - AN; Al Jazeera - AJ; All Africa - AA; Amnesty International - AI; Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project - ACLED; Associated Press - AP; Australian Associated Press - AAP; Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC TP ; Australian Independent Media Network - AIMN; Australian Unions - AU; Barrons; Bellingcat (B); Bloomberg - BB; British Broadcasting Commission - bbc TP ; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - CBC; Centre for Strategic and International Studies - CSIS; Committee to Protect Journalists - CPJ; Context - CT; the (US) Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); Crikey - C [$]; Dabanga Sudan - DS; Deutsche Welle - DW; European Union - EU; Forbes - F; Foreign Policy - FP; France 24 - F24 TP ; Freedom House - FH; Genocide Watch - GW; Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect - GCR2P; Good News Network - GNN; HumAngle - HmA; Human Rights Law Centre - HRLC; Human Rights Watch - HRW; Independent Australia - IA; International Crisis Group - ICG; Jessica Wildfire (Substack) - JW; Juan Cole Informed Comment - JC; Just Equal - JE; Lawfare Blog - LFB; Le Monde - LM; LGBT Nation; Lowy Institute - The Interpreter - Lowy; Mail & Guardian - MG; mainstream media - MSM; Mary L Trump - MLT; Medium - M; Michael West (news media platform) - MW; Middle East Eye - MEE; Minority Rights Group - MRG; Nation Africa - NA; National Indigenous Television - NITV; National Indigenous Times - NIT; Nature Magazine - Nature; News24; Pearls and Irritations - PnI; Pink News - PN; Political Violence at a Glance - PVG; Politico - P; Premium Times Nigeria - PT; ProPublica - PP; Q News - QN; Quartz - Q; Radio France International - rfi; Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE); Raw Story - RS; Renew Economy - RE; Reuters - R; Robert Reich - RR; (Bruce) Schneier - Sch; Special Broadcasting Service - SBS; Star Observer - Star; Sudan Tribune - ST; Sydney Morning Herald - SMH; Teri Kanefield - TK; The Age - TA TP ; The Big Smoke (TBS); The Conversation - TC TP ; The Defence Post - TDP; The East African - TEA; The Guardian - TG; The (Nigerian) Guardian - TG-N; The Hindu - TH; The Monthly - TM; The New Daily - TND; The New Humanitarian - TNH; The Saturday Paper - TSP; The Sentry - TS; The Shot - TS; Timothy Snyder - TS; Union Aid Abroad - APHEDA; United Nations - UN; Vice - V; Voice of America - VoA; Wall Street Journal - WSJ [$]; War on the Rocks - WotR; Washington Post - WP [$] TP ; Wikipedia - WP; Yahoo News - Yahoo; YouTube - YT.
Note: news sources are never perfectly accurate or good - for instance, some have been transphobic (which is why I may, for instance, cancel email subscriptions), but may be good in other areas (e.g., racism) - and attributes may vary depending on region and over time. I do NOT provide an unqualified endorsement of ANY of the media sources I use. Sources with evidence of being transphobic may be marked with a TP .Assumptions / basis
In writing this, I have assumed / started from the following:
- this blog states quite clearly that it is about political and human rights matters, including lived experience of problems, and thus I will assume readers are reasonable people who have noted the content warning in the post header;
- I
expect readers to take positive action on at least some of these
stories - e.g., write to elected representatives, where that is
possible.
Possible flaws
Where I can, I will try to highlight possible flaws / issues you should consider:
- there may be flawed logical arguments in the above: to find out more about such flaws and thinking generally, I recommend Brendan
Myers’ free online course “Clear and Present Thinking”;
- I could be wrong in my views or commentary - so keep your thinking caps on, and make up your own minds for yourself.
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