Open Thread | The 1/6 Committee Connects Dots and Names Names

We learned some more yesterday. Resign @Jim_Jordan @RepMTG @RepMattGaetz 11 House Republicans attended a White House meeting with Trump to strategize…

Open Thread | The 1/6 Committee Connects Dots and Names Names

Treespiracy: Forests are being destroyed against a background of corruption, illegality and apathy — Palm Oil Detectives – Please Boycott ALL products of Deforestation; gold, palm oil, exotic wood, soy, beef, leather, etc!

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The world’s forests are being destroyed against a background of corruption, illegality and apathy. This article was originally published in The Ecologist magazine, 28th March, 2022 occurs against a background of #crime and […]

Treespiracy: Forests are being destroyed against a background of corruption, illegality and apathy — Palm Oil Detectives

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Uvalde surveillance video shows police lingering in school hallway | Texas school shooting | The Guardian

Surveillance footage captured the gunman in the Uvalde school shooting entering the building with a AR-15-style rifle and later shows officers in body armor milling in the hallway outside the fourth-grade classrooms where 19 children and two teachers were killed.

The video published on Tuesday by the Austin American-Statesman shows parts of the nearly 80 minutes that passed between the gunman walking into Robb elementary school through an unlocked door and the time when his death put a stop to the US’s deadliest school shooting in nearly two decades.

The four-minute video from 24 May shows two officers approaching the classrooms not long after the gunman and then run back amid the sounds of gunfire. It shows officers, some with shields and rifles, massing in the hall before they breached the room and killed the gunman about an hour later.

The edited footage was published as Texas lawmakers investigating the massacre are preparing to release their findings and show body-camera and surveillance footage to mourning families and other residents of Uvalde.

Officials said the 77 minutes of footage they are preparing to release this weekend did not contain images of children. The footage has received renewed attention over the past week as anger mounts in Uvalde over an incomplete account about the slow police response and calls for accountability seven weeks after the worst school shooting in Texas history.

Source: Uvalde surveillance video shows police lingering in school hallway | Texas school shooting | The Guardian

Police remove two Chinese defence attaches from Pacific Islands Forum meeting | Pacific Islands Forum | The Guardian

Fiji’s prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, acknowledged the US’s reengagement with the region, saying: “It is clear the US is certainly looking a lot more like the Pacific partner we have traditionally held it to be.”

In her virtual address to Pacific leaders on Wednesday morning, Harris acknowledged the diplomatic void that the US had left in recent years, saying: “We recognise that in recent years, the Pacific islands may not have received the diplomatic attention and support that you deserve. So today I am here to tell you directly: we are going to change that.”

She also appeared to take a swipe at China’s involvement in the Pacific, speaking of “bad actors” in the region.

“At a time when we see bad actors seeking to undermine the rules-based order, we must stand united,” Harris said. “In this region and around the world, the United States believes it is important to strengthen the international rules-based order – to defend it, to promote it and to build on it.

“These international rules and norms have brought peace and stability to the Pacific for more than 75 years – principles that importantly state that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all states must be respected; principles that allow all states, big and small, to conduct their affairs free from aggression or coercion.”

 

Source: Police remove two Chinese defence attaches from Pacific Islands Forum meeting | Pacific Islands Forum | The Guardian