Month: Apr 2024

Freedom received this statement from the Camden Art Cafe squatters who have liberated Gordon Ramsay’s York and Albany Hotel restaurant in Camden:

“Why we squatted Gordon Ramsay’s pub”

Agricultores y ganaderos vuelven a las movilizaciones hasta que se tomen las medidas que garanticen una rentabilidad y un futuro estable a sus explotaciones.

El campo se rebela

“We are a punk band. We are an Irish folk band. On a good day we are both. On a bad day we are neither” Mr. Irish Bastard blend the energy of Irish folk with Punk-Rock guitars and attitude.  A band that needs little introduction Mr. Irish Bastard came bursting out of the blocks in […]

ALBUM REVIEW: MR. IRISH BASTARD – Battle Songs Of The Damned (2024)

April 14, 2024  Iran – Live News – Middle East – News – Top Iran announced the destruction of two key Israeli military sites as part of their retaliation operation against the occupied Palestinian territories. Major General Mohammad Bagheri revealed that the Israeli intelligence headquarters in Mount Hermon and the Novatim military base were targeted and successfully destroyed using ballistic and cruise missiles. […]

Iran Strikes Back: Two Israeli Sites Destroyed in Retaliation Attack, Iranian Officials Warn of Harsh Response

Octopus farm must be stopped, say campaigners, as new documents reveal plans were reckless and threatened environment, wildlife and public health 8 April 2024 CIWF Press Release Campaigners are calling on a seafood company to scrap plans to build the world’s first octopus farm in Spain as new documents reveal that – as well as […]

Spain: Octopus farm must be stopped, say campaigners, as new documents reveal plans were reckless and threatened environment, wildlife and public health.

Germany and the United States along with other Western powers are continuing deep-seated historical crimes by way of their proxy war against Russia

from https://wp.me/pIJl9-BRl on 14th April 2024 by Strategic-Culture Foundation via Nicolas Cinquini

Germany is Israel’s 2nd biggest arms supplier after the US

The repeating of history might seem tragic, even farcical. One may wonder how such apparent madness can be repeated. But the explanation is straightforward when it is understood that the motive force is the same.

The charge against Germany at the International Court of Justice this week of aiding genocide in Gaza is truly shameful. Germany was brought to court by Nicaragua for facilitating Israel’s genocide in Gaza in breach of the 1948 Genocide Convention.

That convention was created in the aftermath of Nazi Germany’s mass murder of six million Jews during World War Two. Only 79 years after the end of that war, the German state is again in the dock for complicity in an ongoing genocide in Gaza committed by a self-declared Jewish state of Israel.

It seems a shocking and deplorable twist in history. Within living memory, Germany stands accused again of abominable crimes against humanity.

What is even more disgraceful, the German authorities are denying that Israel is committing genocide and that Germany is nobly defending Israel’s security out of a special obligation owing to its heinous World War Two holocaust.

Germany’s supposed rationale for supporting Israel is an astounding perversion of history.

Germany joins Israel in dock for genocide… Western imperialism’s perverse evolution

The case against Germany this week is incontestable as was the earlier case brought against Israel by South Africa in January before the same United Nations court at The Hague. A definitive ruling by the court on both cases is pending.

Nevertheless, already world public opinion is in concurrence with numerous international legal and human rights experts that Israel’s military siege of the Gaza Strip amounts to genocide and incorporates multiple violations of international law. Ergo, Germany’s culpability.

Continue reading “Germany stands on Wrong Side of history again – Strategic Culture Foundation”

from thefreeonline on 14th April ’24 by Molly Quell at ClimateNews

Court finds in favour of group of older Swiss women who claimed inaction on the climate crisis by their government put them at greater risk of death from heatwavesStrasbourg4 days ago

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Europe’s highest human rights court has ruled that its member nations have an obligation to protect their citizens from the effects of the climate crisis in a landmark ruling.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) sided with more than 2,000 Swiss members of Senior Women for Climate Protection, who had argued that their government’s inadequate efforts to combat climate change put them at risk of dying during heatwaves.

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Court president Siofra O’Leary said the Swiss government had violated the human right to a private and family life, by failing to put in place sufficient domestic policies to tackle climate change.

“This included a failure to quantify, through a carbon budget or otherwise, national greenhouse gas emissions limitations,” president O’Leary told the courtroom. She also noted the Swiss government had failed to meet its past greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, by not putting in place measures to ensure the goals were achieved.

One of the Senior Women for Climate Protection’s leaders, Rosmarie Wydler-Walti, said she was struggling to grasp the full extent of the decision. “We keep asking our lawyers, ‘Is that right?’. And they tell us ‘it’s the most you could have had. The biggest victory possible’.”

“This ruling is not just a victory for the Senior Women for Climate Protection. Our victory is a victory for all generations,” she added in a statement.

The Federal Office of Justice, which represents the Swiss government at the court, has taken note of the ruling, the government said, adding: “Together with the authorities concerned, we will now analyse the extensive judgment and review what measures Switzerland will take in the future.”

The European court’s decision on the case could have a ripple effect across Europe and beyond, setting a precedent for how some courts deal with the rising tide of climate litigation argued on the basis of human rights infringements.

Although activists have had successes with lawsuits in domestic proceedings, this was the first time an international court ruled on climate change.

However, the court threw out a high-profile case brought by six Portuguese youngsters aimed at forcing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A case brought by a French mayor similarly seeking stronger government efforts to combat climate change was also defeated.

Those involved in bringing the three cases had hoped the Strasbourg court would find that national governments have a legal duty to make sure global warming is held to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, in line with the goals of the Paris climate agreement.

Continue reading “Swiss women win climate victory at Court of Human Rights- appealing over Broken Promises causing deaths of 1000’s of old people in Heatwaves”