Peace on Earth Kinda

US says it is ready to support amended UN resolution aimed at boosting aid to Gaza | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian

The US has declared it is ready to support a UN security council resolution intended to boost the flow of humanitarian supplies into Gaza after a week of negotiations and substantial amendments, including the removal of a call for an “urgent suspension of hostilities”.

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It was not clear whether other council members, particularly Russia, would accept the changes. A postponement of a vote until Friday was agreed to allow UN missions to consult their capitals.

In a draft of the amended resolution seen by the Guardian, a call for an “urgent suspension of hostilities” to allow humanitarian relief, has been removed, and replaced with an appeal for “urgent steps to immediately allow safe and unhindered humanitarian access, and also for creating the conditions for a sustainable cessation of hostilities.”

A section calling for the UN secretary general to set up a mechanism that would “exclusively” be responsible for monitoring aid shipments has been amended to call for the appointment of a “senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator” with responsibility for “facilitating, coordinating, monitoring, and verifying in Gaza, as appropriate, the humanitarian nature of all humanitarian relief consignments”.

This coordinator, who is to be appointed “expeditiously” is supposed to “establish a UN mechanism for accelerating the provision of humanitarian relief consignments to Gaza” while consulting with “all relevant parties”, a reference primarily to Israel.

The draft resolutions “demands that the parties to the conflict cooperate with the coordinator to fulfil their mandate without delay or obstruction”.

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Author: patd

“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

46 thoughts on “Peace on Earth Kinda”

  2. odd that the hue and cry is only for israel to cease fire in gaza.  how ’bout the UN expanding the call for russia to cease its fire on ukraine.  hostages and fatalities and hungry injured orphans in both wars.

  3. The MAGA crowd vowed revenge on President Biden after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Trump can’t be on the primary ballot, Rudy Giuliani was ordered to immediately pay the $148 million he owes two Georgia election workers, and The Late Show’s new sponsor makes a creepy holiday product for grown ups.

  4. time for a trail betting pool on “what sayeth supremes” 

    I say they wiff it. In My most Humble Opinion reposted from last thread:

    My bet is that SCOTUS will (by maybe a 7-2 decision) opt for the handwashing Pilate way (“i’m innocent of this man’s blood. see to it yourselves”)* and let the states according to their own election laws put or not put him on the ballot and declare it’s up to congress to do their 2/3s thing of putting him back on.  in other words “see to it yourselves.  we ain’t touching this tar baby.”
    p.s. clarence and samuel squealing like stuck pigs in their dissents.

    * matt 27:24

    what say ye?

  5. I think there’s a better than even chance you are right, Pat. I also agree about Thomas and Alito squealing in dissent saying they would have invalidated the CO SC decision as unconstitutional backed by Dobbs-like historical misinformation to justify their position.

    i also think there is a slightly less than even chance they will strike the CO decision down in a 5-4 decision ordering that Dumdass be placed on the repute primary ballot, with Roberts joining the liberals in dissent.  
     
    But I will bet on the whiff option.

  6. And it’s good to get past the solstice and gain the what, 6 additional seconds of daylight today on Festivus Eve?  Better go dig the Festivus pole out of storage and start getting those grievances ready for airing. 

  7. pogo, thanks for reminding me. i’ll fish out my home made festivus pole forthwith. it’s a cheap mini-version for easy storage: an aluminum pie plate with a small pole made of rolled up heavy aluminum foil stuck in the middle. perfect for the festivus feast (a frozen TV dinner) table’s centerpiece.

    for the forgetful apostates on the trail, here’s wiki info:

    The non-commercial holiday’s celebration, as depicted on Seinfeld, occurs on December 23 and includes a Festivus dinner, an unadorned aluminum Festivus pole, practices such as the “airing of grievances” and “feats of strength”, and the labeling of easily explainable events as “Festivus miracles”. The episode refers to it as “a Festivus for the rest of us”.
    It has been described both as a parody holiday festival and as a form of playful consumer resistance.Allen Salkin describes it as “the perfect secular theme for an all-inclusive December gathering”

    so on this eve of festivus join in and sing

    The Buffalo Festivus Chorale was established in 1949 on the lower West Side of Buffalo to help celebrate and promote the accomplishments of the Festivite community. The Chorale was active giving performances throughout Buffalo until the mid-1960’s when much of the Festivite community emigrated to other parts of the country where they would not be persecuted for their beliefs . This historic recording was discovered at an estate sale in Cheektowaga, and digitally restored by Tea With Warriors in 2011.

  8. In a way they could just copy and paste their rationale in Dobbs for overturning Roe — it’s up to the states. They didn’t mind opening the door to chaos among the states on abortion, why not ballot qualification?

  9. Big story out of Michigan: Trump pressured two electoral college canvassers not to sign the certification of the 2020 presidential election, according to audio recordings reviewed by The Detroit News.

    Enough for an investigation by the Michigan Attorney General who has already indicted 16 fake electors and gotten one to flip.

    His offer in the call to supply lawyers if they do what he wants sounds like offering something of value to public officials for a benefit — Hey kids, that’s what we call BRIBERY.

  11. “It would be the height of folly to not re-elect Joe or to not continue our resistance against fascism.”

  15. Canton Ohio used to have a Festivus Christmas tree.  It was a steel pole with Steel rings (a steel town)
    mostly during the 60’s    It was a bit controversial and now there is no mention of it ever.  It has completely disappeared from history.

  16. Trump Lawyer Vows Revenge

    Trump appellate lawyer Jesse Binnall just told Steve Bannon on Real America’s Voice that Trump “will prosecute” the Colorado Supreme Court judges if elected — plus “other courts and prosecutors across the country using their powers to pursue a political agenda to destroy American democracy.” He said Trump’s “real DOJ”, which he expects to join, “will punish” the Colorado justices.

    “What needs to happen is there are already federal statutes on the books about violation of civil rights and the color of law,” Binnal said. “Every single one of these people — when we actually have a real Department of Justice — should be held to account for their decision to throw our justice system into the fire, effectively, and leave the rule of law that has made our country so special over the years, and instead decide to make decisions based on politics and not the law.”

    Bannon cheered him on, saying, “And you will be there, brother, to make it happen”

     

  17. Karl Rove on Michigan story (FOX):

    “I think the former president’s got a problem with this. They had voted to certify the election and he attempted to force them to change their decision, which they tried to do l. I think this is what we would call election interference. And just as he got into trouble in Georgia over a similar act, calling the Secretary of State and say find me 11,000 some odd more votes, this is a problem. The former president should not have been doing this, these people are supposedly independent officials who are supposed to certify the election based upon their reviews and if this tape is is true the former president created another problem for himself’

  18. Rove not even trying to spin, on Ronna McDaniel:

    “I think the chairman is in trouble here because she’s saying to them if you agree to change your decision on certification in Wayne county we’ll get you lawyers to stand by it. I think that was highly inappropriate”

  19. A cautionary tale?  Wapo.

    Raunchy celebrity party in Russia draws outrage over ‘nude illusion’ theme

    RIGA, Latvia — A raunchy celebrity-filled party in Moscow has drawn the ire of Russian politicians and fervent Christian Orthodox activists who are urging law enforcement to punish the event’s guests and organizers for violating laws prohibiting “gay propaganda” — the latest testament to the country’s sharp shift toward a closed-off, conservative society at the behest of President Vladimir Putin.
     
    The party, a costume ball with a “nude illusion” theme hosted Wednesday night by one of Russia’s most popular Instagram influencers, Anastasia Ivleeva, was attended by some of the most prominent Russian celebrities who have remained in the country since the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, including some who have not supported the war.
     
    The guests paid a hefty entrance fee of about $11,000 to frolic in outfits of flesh-colored mesh, lace and lingerie, with Ivleeva wearing a diamond body chain worth about $250,000 and one guest, the rapper Vacio, paying homage to a 1987 Red Hot Chili Peppers record cover featuring the band members wearing nothing but a sock.
     
    On Thursday, the hostess woke up to a barrage of angry statements from officials and activists accusing her of violating restrictive Russian laws that criminalize “public expressions of non-heterosexual orientations” and of being tone-deaf for hosting a lavish party while Russian soldiers continue to attack and die in Ukraine.
     
    The critics urged the authorities to revoke her promotion deal with a national phone carrier, impose hefty fines and launch an investigation into her finances.

    “There is a war going on in the country, but these beasts, scum are organizing all this, these brutes who don’t care what’s going on,” one of the leading state television propagandists, Vladimir Solovyov, said in a Telegram post.

    [,,,  But wait, it gets better…]

    Sorok Sorokov, a radical Orthodox Christian group, said the party was “a feast during the war, which discriminates against the entire government on the eve of the presidential elections.”
     
    Another group with similar views, named Call of the People, sent a request to the prosecutor general’s office demanding a criminal investigation into the alleged violation of a recently expanded anti-LGBT law. In its request, the group said that “kissing men were seen among the guests, and the presence of drugs and underage persons cannot be excluded.”
     
    The group added: “It had everything from outright LGBT propaganda and debauchery to open drunkenness and use of illegal substances.”

    A year ago, Putin signed a law making it illegal to promote or “praise” same-sex relationships, to publicly express non-heterosexual orientations, or to suggest that such orientations are “normal.”
     
    In his past two terms as president, Putin has called for “traditional values” to be the cornerstone of Russian society, and he has tightened relations between the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church, portraying them as a bulwark against the liberal, decadent, LBGT and gender rights-supporting West.

    [… And even better…]

    This week, a Russian court fined a television channel $11,000 for spreading “LGBT propaganda” after it aired a decade-old music video featuring singer Nikolai Baskov as a Roman emperor-type ruler attending a bacchanal.

    The judge ruled that “the lyrical hero,” portrayed by the singer, expressed “communicative signs of a romantic interpersonal relationship” with another man and his kiss with a female protagonist was not passionate enough.
     
    “It is worth noting that the interaction of the lyrical hero with a female person is predominantly of a detached, contemplative nature,” the judge said, according to Russian news outlet Verstka. “The jealousy of the lyrical hero was aimed not toward the female character, but toward a male character who cheated on the hero with that female.”

    Any of this seem even remotely plausible under a Dumbass administration supported by evangelicals and book burning assholes?  Be afraid.

  20. Anti-Trump GOP group compares former president to Mussolini, Orbán in new ad campaign | The Hill

    The one-minute ad will run on CNN and MNSBC nationally next week and in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin starting Friday, the PAC said. It will also air on TBS’s “A Christmas Story” marathon.

    “Donald Trump isn’t running to be the next president; he’s running to be America’s first dictator. We can’t allow him to get anywhere near the Oval Office again.

  21. News for the weird, far right land of hypocrites.  If you are going to have life of lesbian sex, three ways, and more (I hope), do not video your escapades.
     
    I am still sure the team of legal beagles that sfb has at his beck and yell will fumble the crawl to the court formerly known as supreme.  They have done before, there is no doubt them will do it again.  That includes having someone not admitted to work at the court try to file at the last second.

  22. Supreme Court won’t fast-track ruling on Trump’s claim of immunity  WaPo

    The Supreme Court on Friday said it will not fast-track consideration of Donald Trump’s claim that he has immunity from prosecution for actions he took as president, a question crucial to whether he can be put on trial for plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

    The court’s one-sentence order, from which there were no noted dissents, means a federal appeals court in Washington will be the first to review a district judge’s ruling earlier this month rejecting Trump’s claim of immunity. Arguments are scheduled for Jan. 9.
     
    Special counsel Jack Smith had asked the justices to short-circuit the normal appellate process and quickly settle the question of presidential criminal immunity, which the Supreme Court previously has not been called upon to resolve. He said public interest required intervention now, so the federal election-obstruction trial of Trump — the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination—could proceed as scheduled in March.

    […]

    The likelihood that the underlying case will be concluded before the election just became a long shot.

  23. Party time!!
    Keb’ Mo’, Merry Merry Christmas.
    btw the guy in the beard could have been me, 40 years ago (?, Jeez has it been that long?)

  26. I am supposed to report February 9 to answer jury pool questions. Judge has stayed proceedings pending this immunity appeal but I cannot find out whether that has changed my reporting requirement. The jury office phone number they provided only accepts voicemail, cannot talk to anyone. And their online portal has no new information. It’s all about me! 

  29. KC, I would hope so as well, but unless Nettyhoo has gone Grinch and grown a heart, don’t count on it.

  30. So this guy is obviously on fentanyl, i bought him a coffee, but now do i call the cops or just let him be 🤔 

    update: left him alone

  34. You can get Norcan at your nearest Pharmacy, I noticed a sign at Walmart as I was picking up my prescription. Just googled , it will set you back $45 for 2 doses. And now google ads thinks me or somebody in my family is a drug addict. That should make for some entertaining ads.

  35. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/22/us/elijah-mcclain-paramedics-trial-verdict/index.html

    “Two paramedics were found guilty of criminally negligent homicide Friday in the death of Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old Black man who was subdued by police and injected with ketamine in Aurora, Colorado, in August 2019.”

    “Prosecutors argued the paramedics acted recklessly in administering a large amount of the powerful sedative ketamine to McClain, who had been violently subdued by police, despite not speaking with him or checking his vital signs. An amended autopsy report released in 2022 listed McClain’s cause of death as “complications of ketamine administration following forcible restraint.”

    “However, the paramedics testified they were following their training for treating patients experiencing “excited delirium,” a controversial diagnosis describing extreme agitation generally applied to people being subdued by police.”

    I wonder if Matthew Perry’s death and toxicology report helped them make up their minds?

  36. craig, save the date.  appeal argument is scheduled for jan 9 and that court will move like lightning. some think their decision will not only be a quick affirmation of judge chutkun’s call but will also lift the stay or put a very short leash on it for the loser to go for cert.     

  37. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/22/economy/lael-brainard-inflation-pce/index.html

    “Inflation has come down faster than even the more optimistic forecasts, and that has happened in the context of ongoing solid growth and strong employment.”

    “Inflation’s continued downward trajectory in the broader context of robust economic growth fuels confidence that the US economy can achieve the proverbial “soft landing” of reining in inflation without massive job losses, Brainard noted, adding that the “landing strip has widened.”

    While that is great news, it does not reflect the reality of what many folks are living. Wage increases, covid payments, and cash stored up because the world was largely shut down, a lot of that cash is gone.

    And, housing costs have not snd will not come down. Landlords are not going to cut rents.

    I don’t know what the answer is, but it’s still the stupid, stupid economy.

    ps – The border situation is going to be the straw that breaks the proverbial camel’s back.

  38. “Two paramedics were found guilty of criminally negligent homicide Friday in the death of Elijah McClain, an unarmed 23-year-old Black man who was subdued by police and injected with ketamine in Aurora, Colorado, in August 2019.”

     
    Finally! A verdict we needed to hear in this tragic case. 

    Breaking News: Paramedics found guilty in last trial in Elijah McClain death

  39. I hope tRUMPsky feels so squeezed that he and his entire crime family flee the country.   Then, I hope Gym, and Tom Cotton, and MAGAt Mike, and the rest of the Russian-Republicans are also brought up on charges of insurrection and/or aiding and giving comfort to the enemy.  Wait, did they get preemptive pardons for their part in the attempt to overthrow the government?

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