The Evening Blues - 1-5-24
Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features Jamaican reggae artist Bob Marley. Enjoy!
Bob Marley - Positive Vibration
"Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire."
-- Karl Liebknecht
News and Opinion
We Are Entirely Too Close To Another Major War In The Middle East
The US and its allies have published a joint statement warning Yemen’s Houthis to cease the attacks they’ve been making on commercial vessels in the Red Sea. The Houthis, officially known as Ansarallah, have successfully slashed Israeli port activity by an extremely massive margin with their maritime tactics in response to Israel’s ongoing massacre in Gaza.
The statement asserts that the Yemeni attacks “are a direct threat to the freedom of navigation that serves as the bedrock of global trade in one of the world’s most critical waterways,” complaining that they are “adding significant cost and weeks of delay to the delivery of goods,” and ultimately threatens that the Houthis will “bear the responsibility of the consequences” should these attacks continue.
Many critics have been pointing out the irony of the western power alliance threatening military intervention to protect shipping containers and corporate profits while actual human beings are being butchered by Israeli airstrikes and starved by Israeli siege warfare with nothing but friendly support from these same powers.
“Palestinians would really love to get the same amount of attention and protection as shipping containers,” tweeted Palestinian-Canadian journalist Yasmine El-Sawabi.
That the US and its allies would go to war against the people who are trying to stop an active genocide tells you everything you need to know about them. The fact that they’d do it for corporate profit margins tells you even more, and the fact that they’d do it to a nation they’ve already helped inflict unfathomable horrors upon in recent years tells you more still.
And that’s just one of the potential wars looming on the horizon in connection with the Israeli onslaught in Gaza. As Trita Parsi recently explained in The Nation, there are three other fronts along which wars could also erupt in the region apart from a western conflict with the Houthis: in Iraq and Syria where US forces have been repeatedly under attack by militants in response to the Gaza assault, in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah, and the absolute nightmare scenario of a full-scale war with Iran.
“That risk exists on four fronts: Between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah, in Syria and Iraq due to attacks on US troops by militias aligned with Iran, the Red Sea between the Houthis and the US Navy, and between Israel and Iran following both the assassination of an Iranian general in Syria and the explosion in Kerman today at the commemoration of the death of General Qassem Soleimani that has killed more than 100,” Parsi writes.
It is a potentially ominous sign that Israel has begun focusing on ramping up aggressions against Iran and Hezbollah while simultaneously withdrawing thousands of troops from Gaza. Some analysts argue that we are seeing an attempt by Israel to pull the US into a direct war with Hezbollah, which is something US officials have reportedly been worried would happen ever since the Gaza assault began.
There are entirely too many fronts along which a new horrific war in the middle east could potentially erupt, and things are entirely too close to the brink on all of them. And all for land, money and geostrategic control, same as always. The sooner the US-centralized power structure crumbles, the better it will be for humanity.
Wider war in the Middle East looms
Islamic State claims responsibility for Iran bombings that killed at least 84
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack on a crowd in southern Iran marking the anniversary of the death of the senior Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Suleimani.
At least 84 people died when two blasts ripped through the crowd near Suleimani’s tomb in the city of Kerman, four years after he was killed by a US drone strike in Baghdad. Suleimani had been a staunch enemy of IS, which resents the damage he did to its cause in Iraq and Syria.
Early on Thursday Iran had said it was bolstering security along its borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan, in the first tangible sign that it suspected that the attack was the work of an IS affiliate. “We have points on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan that are a priority for blocking,” Iran’s interior minister, Ahmad Vahidi, said.
Later in the day, in a statement posted on its affiliate Telegram channels, the Sunni extremist group said two IS members had detonated their explosive belts in the crowd.
One of Iran’s main goals will be to limit the amount of traffic crossing the border, something that will be discussed with the Taliban. A leader of the Afghan opposition, Ahmad Massoud, had already sent a message of condolence to Iran that made clear he believed IS was involved. The group has an affiliate – Islamic State Khorasan Province – that is primarily active in Afghanistan.
US strike kills Iran-backed militia leader in Baghdad as regional tensions rise
A US airstrike in Baghdad on Thursday killed the commander of an Iranian-backed Shia militia that Washington blames for attacks on American forces in the region, according to US officials.
One official said that a leader of Harakat al-Nujaba, later named by the Pentagon as Mushtaq Jawad Kazim al-Jawari, was killed in his car as he was about to enter the garage at his group’s Baghdad headquarters. News footage from Baghdad showed damage to the building. Harakat al-Nujaba, which has been active in Syria and Iraq, is loyal to Tehran but also forms part of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF), a collection of largely autonomous militias.
The Pentagon said that Jawari, also known as Abu Taqwa, had been involved in planning and carrying out attacks on American forces. The Nujaba group had also claimed responsibility for a drone strike on an Israeli school in the southern coastal city of Eilat.
Maj Gen Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesperson, said that one other Harakat al-Nujaba member was killed and added: “No civilians were harmed. No infrastructure or facilities were struck.”
The airstrike prompted outrage from the Iraqi government, who called it a “dangerous escalation and aggression”.
Prof. John Mearsheimer : Who Is the US Enemy: Russia or China?
Demands for Israeli Ambassador to UK's Expulsion After 'Clear Call for Genocide'
A member of British Parliament demanded the foreign secretary "take the strongest possible action against" Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli ambassador to the U.K., after she appeared on a radio broadcast of LBC and told host Iain Dale in no uncertain terms that Israel's military must target civilian infrastructure in Gaza—a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.
Hotovely told Dale that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have found that "every school, every mosque, every second house, has an access to tunnel," referring to the tunnels used by Hamas—which were first built when Gaza was under Israeli control in 1980.
"That's an argument for destroying the whole of Gaza, every single building," Dale said, prompting Hotovely to ask, "Do you have another solution, how to destroy the underground tunnel city?"
Journalist Hamza Ali Shah said the ambassador's statement amounted to "a clear call for genocide."
Israeli ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely says every school, mosque and second house is a target for Israel.
Asked if that’s effectively a call for the destruction of all of Gaza, she asks “do you have another solution?”
A clear call for genocide. pic.twitter.com/VERR3x9XUA
— Hamza (@Hamza_a96) January 3, 2024
Hotovely is hardly the first Israeli official to publicly call for genocidal violence in Gaza—even as the government continues to claim it is targeting Hamas and protecting civilian lives and as the U.S., which has provided military aid for Israel's bombardment and vehemently defended the IDF, claims accusations of genocide are "meritless."
But her statement on British national radio underscored how genocidal language has become commonplace among Israel's mainstream political class since the country began its bombardment in retaliation for Hamas' October 7 attack.
British journalist Robert Carter said Hotovely's comments make her "a good pick for Israel's envoy to the U.K."
"She always finds a way to properly sum up how evil Israel's colonialist project is and what Tel Aviv's true ambitions are—the total genocide and land theft of all Palestine," he said.
Mitchell Plitnick cautioned observers against dismissing Hotovely's remarks as the musings of a extremist whose views are outside the mainstream under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.
Understand, Tzipi Hotovely is not Smotrich or Ben Gvir. She is a long time Likud stalwart, very much a part of Netanyahu's team, from his party.
Here, she calls for #genocide." When asked about it, she doubles down.
This is the very heart of what the US is supporting. https://t.co/6IyfM7cb4r— Mitchell Plitnick (@MJPlitnick) January 3, 2024
Afzal Khan, a Labour MP, wrote to British Foreign Secretary David Cameron to demand that Hotovely's comments be met with "stern denunciation" from the government.
"The situation is unfathomable, and the words of the Israeli ambassador make clear that it is the intention of the Israeli government to continue with its horrific bombardment and ground fighting until there is nothing and no one left in Gaza," wrote Khan.
Others, including Guardian columnist Owen Jones and research analyst Naks Bilal, said Hotovely should be expelled from her role.
"The Israeli ambassador has gone on national British radio and incited genocide," said Jones. "This is an illegal act under the 1948 Genocide Convention. As such, the U.K. must expel Tzipi Hotovely immediately."
Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza Is Becoming an Official Israeli Government Policy
The idea of cleansing Gaza of its Palestinian population is slowly becoming an official Israeli government position, Zman Israel reported on Wednesday.
A senior Israeli official said that Israel is already in discussions with Congo and other nations on absorbing Palestinian refugees. “Congo will be willing to take in migrants, and we’re in talks with others,” the official said. ...
The Zman report came a day after the US condemned rhetoric from two Israeli ministers, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, about the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza and the establishment of Jewish settlements in the conflict. The US State Department said the Israeli government has insisted the statements do not reflect government policy, but that claim does not align with reality.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was working on finding countries to accept Palestinians. “Our problem is [finding] countries that are willing to absorb Gazans, and we are working on it,” he said.
EU foreign policy chief says world must ‘impose’ solution to Gaza war
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said the international community must impose a solution to the Israel-Hamas war as both sides are unable to come to terms.
“I believe that we have learned in these 30 years that the solution has to be imposed from outside because the two parties will never be able to reach an agreement,” Borrell said at an event in Lisbon, Portugal, on Wednesday.
“If this tragedy doesn’t end soon, the entire Middle East might end up in flames”, he said.
Bibi Ally's INSANE Defense of Starvation in Gaza
TNA Arabic journalist Diaa al-Kahlout 'tortured in Israeli prison'
A journalist in Gaza for The New Arab's Arabic-language sister site is being tortured in Israeli detention, a recently released Palestinian detainee has said. Diaa Al-Kahlout, Gaza bureau chief for Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, was arrested at gunpoint, beaten, and stripped by Israeli forces in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia on 7 December.
A recently released young detainee told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that he had seen Kahlout being brutally tortured in Israeli detention, including being forced to kneel for hours at a time or made to sit shackled to a chair for prolonged periods. Kahlout and a group of other civilians were seen stripped to their underwear on a northern Gaza street in humiliating conditions by Israeli forces.
Like other Palestinian detainees, Kahlout is being brutally interrogated, the freed detainee said, in his case for his media work.
Almost a month after Kahlout was detained, Israel has not commented on the journalist's welfare or whereabouts. Detainees released by Israel have said Kahlout is being held at an Israeli prison in Beersheba, and his health is deteriorating.
Russia ‘attacked Ukraine with North Korea-supplied ballistic missiles’
Russia has started using ballistic missiles supplied by North Korea to attack Ukraine, the White House has said. ... The US’s national security council spokesperson, John Kirby, said on Thursday that Russia fired a North Korean ballistic missile into Ukraine on 30 December, but it landed in an open field. However, Kirby said Russian forces had launched more such missiles as part of a large salvo on 2 January, and their impact had yet to be assessed.
“Due in part to our sanctions and export controls, Russia has become increasingly isolated on the world stage, and they’ve been forced to look to like-minded states for military equipment. As we’ve been warning publicly, one of those states is North Korea,” Kirby told reporters at the White House, adding it was a “significant and concerning escalation” in Pyongyang’s support for Moscow.
Kirby said the range of the North Korean missiles was 900km (560 miles), and that in return for the weapons, Russia was expected to supply fighter aircraft, surface-to-air missiles, armoured vehicles, ballistic missile production equipment and other advanced technologies.
“This would have concerning security implications for the Korean peninsula and the Indo-Pacific region,” he said.
New York mayor sues bus operators that brought migrants from Texas for $708m
New York City has sued 17 charter bus companies that transported migrants from Texas, Eric Adams, the mayor, announced on Thursday. The lawsuit, filed in New York state court in Manhattan, says the city is seeking $708m from the firms because that was the cost it incurred to house the migrants and provide services to them over the past two years.
In that time, more than 33,000 people were bussed to the city as a part of Operation Lone Star, a joint effort between the Texas department of public safety and the Texas military department that began in 2021 to curb illegal immigration. Operation Lone Star was born from what the Texas Republican governor, Greg Abbott, called “Biden’s reckless open-border policies”.
But Adams said the transportation companies had violated a 19th-century New York state law that requires anyone who transports a needy person likely to seek government assistance from another state to cover their expenses.
Facebook SPYING on USERS: New Report Details Social Network's MASS SURVEILLANCE
Bill Introduced in House Calls for US to Drop Charges Against Julian Assange
A resolution introduced in the House last month calls for the US to drop the charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who faces up to 175 years in prison if extradited to the US and convicted for journalism that exposed US war crimes.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), expresses “the sense of the House of Representatives that regular journalistic activities, including the obtainment and publication of information, are protected under the First Amendment and that the federal government should drop all charges against and attempts to extradite Julian Assange.” ...
Click here to find your representative, or call the House switchboard operator at (202) 224-3121. Tell them to support H.Res. 934 to protect the First Amendment and press freedom.
CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS Hearings For Hunter Biden Coming Next Week After He BAILED on Subpoena
Illinois voters file petition to remove Trump from Republican primary ballot
Voters in Illinois have filed a petition to remove Donald Trump from the state’s Republican primary ballot, echoing efforts in other states to bar the former president from returning to the White House over his role in the 6 January capitol attack.
The petition, similar to those filed in more than a dozen other states, relies on the 14th amendment to the constitution. ...
The Illinois state board of elections has yet to set the petition for hearing, spokesperson Matt Dietrich told the Associated Press. The board is set to hear 32 other objections to the proposed ballot later in January.
Also on Thursday, a group of voters in Massachusetts launched an effort to remove Trump from that state’s primary ballot.
Birds of prey in Africa experiencing population collapse
Africa’s birds of prey have experienced a widespread population collapse that risks unforeseen consequences for humans, according to a new study.
Tropical raptor species including the martial eagle, the bateleur and the dark chanting goshawk have vanished from swathes of the African continent over the past 40 years, new analysis shows, as many wild areas were converted to farmland. Several African birds of prey are on track to become locally extinct in many countries this century.
Published in the journal, Nature Ecology and Evolution, the new research used road surveys to find that nearly 90% of the 42 raptor species studied had experienced declines, with more than two-thirds showing evidence of being globally threatened.
Dr Phil Shaw, the study’s author at the University of St Andrews, said the disappearance of apex raptor species could have unintended consequences for humans, citing the example of the decline in Indian vultures that led to a rise in rabies cases in humans in the early 1990s.
The study found that the African birds of prey, many of which are big enough to hunt jackals and antelopes as well as snakes, rodents and smaller birds, were becoming increasingly dependent on protected areas such as national parks and reserves. While many populations of raptors also declined in protected areas, the fall was often significantly slower. The researchers cited the importance of a UN target to protect 30% of the Earth by the end of this decade for nature.
Germany’s emissions hit 70-year low as it reduces reliance on coal
Germany’s emissions hit a 70-year low last year as Europe’s largest economy reduced its reliance on coal.
A study by the thinktank Agora Energiewende found that Germany emitted 673m tonnes of greenhouse gases in 2023, 73m tonnes fewer than in 2022.
The drop was “largely attributable to a strong decrease in coal power generation”, Agora said, accounting for a reduction of 46m tonnes in CO2 emissions. Emissions from industry fell significantly, largely due to a decline in production by energy-intensive companies.
Electricity generation from renewable sources was more than 50% of the total in 2023 for the first time, while coal’s share dropped to 26% from 34%, according to the federal network agency.
Germany had resorted to coal following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when Moscow cut off gas supplies. But since then Germany has significantly reduced its use of the fossil fuels.
California snowpack lowest in decade despite hope with December storms
In the first snow survey of the season, California came up short – just 25% of the historical average – despite a spate of strong storms that caused flooding and landslides along the coast in late December.
On Tuesday, officials measured a depth of just 7.5in at a monitoring station in the Sierra Nevada mountain range east of Sacramento, where brown patches of vegetation could be seen poking through the shallow snow. Statewide, the amount is the lowest logged for this time of year in the last decade.
This year’s survey stands in sharp contrast to last year’s, when a parade of storms caused by “atmospheric rivers” coincided with cold weather, producing one of the largest snowpacks in history. For 2023’s first survey the banks stood at 55.5in, roughly 177% of average.
Most of California’s precipitation falls between December and March with peak snow amounts accumulated by 1 April, so there’s still time for the state to catch up. “We often get slow starts to our water year,” said the state climatologist, Michael Anderson, who added that the next measurement, scheduled tentatively for 1 February, will paint a clearer picture of how the year will play out. ...
California’s climate has long produced boom-and-bust cycles when it comes to water, but the climate crisis is turning up the heat and increasing volatility. Policies and infrastructure have struggled to keep up with changes exacerbated by the thirsty state’s overuse. Reservoir levels are now robust, but heavy rains without snow could cause destructive flooding in the short term with less water to go around during the hot, dry months to come.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Craig Murray: A Shift Against Impunity for Genocide
After US Rebuke, Top Israeli Ministers Double Down on Ethnic Cleansing Push
Palestinians—and the World—Will Never Forget US Complicity With Israel's Genocide in Gaza
Ukraine SitRep: Zelenski's Propaganda Outlet Is Leading His Decline
The Anti-China Chip Jeremiad Is The Stupidest Policy Imaginable
Seagrass resurgence offers ray of hope for Florida’s hard-hit manatees
"My Heart Is Still in Gaza": Palestinian Scientist Flees Israeli Bombs, Begs World to Stop Genocide
Wall Street's DYSTOPIAN Entire Neighborhood Scheme
Tech Leader REVEALS Industry's TERRIFYING Pro-Israel Bias
INTEL Roundtable Johnson & McGovern: How Intel Will Disguise the Ukraine Defeat
A Little Night Music
Bob Marley and The Wailers - Talkin' Blues
Bob Marley - Sun Is Shining
Bob Marley - Babylon System
Bob Marley - Burnin' And Lootin'
Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Roots, Rock, Reggae
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Bend Down Low
Bob Marley - Everything's Gonna Be Alright
Bob Marley - One Love
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Redemption Song
Bob Marley - Live At London 1973 The Paris Theater
Comments
Evening
thanks for the Marley
wish we could share the
thangs gonna' be alright
vision
question everything
evening qms...
yeah, marley's music takes me back to a more hopeful time. sigh.
have a good one!
SOMEBODY out there needs to be keeping a scrupulous list...
...of every atrocity - and lesser-but-still-bad-enough crime and fraud - that's been committed with (to date) impunity by the monsters in D.C., Langley, Tel Aviv, London, NYC, Davos, and Bohemian Grove.
Take the past 24 years alone even without what came before, and our list makes those compiled by Martin Luther and Thomas Jefferson put together look like peanuts.
Total accountability must be our uncompromized goal, no matter how remote it may seem.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
evening moonbat...
i hear you. sadly, it seems that the worst monsters tend to die peacefully in their sleep at an advanced age - kissinger, pinochet and franco come to mind immediately.
Well that's not acceptable, now is it?
Others' fatalism, as much as anything, is what let that happen.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Voodoo dolls, anyone?
There doesn't seem to be any other practical real-world solution.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Belief IS how it starts.
This ISN'T the real world; this is politics, where belief makes reality. Why do you think people who believe the universe was created in 7 days by an inexplicably pre-existent grumpy old man are so good at it?
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Waaa….
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Hey Kirby, this could have been avoided if your boss had allowed Zelensky to sign the peace treaty with Russia 2 years ago so don’t be whining about what Russia does to defend itself.
Utah had its last snowstorm back in November, but we’ve got a little one today. Just a few inches, but the Sam dawg absolutely loved running in it today. The mom didn’t enjoy it so much except for how lovely it was to walk in it. Plus it’s a PITA to brush the snow off the beast. Might get one of those cover things, but not sure where to find it.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
evening snoopy...
i forget where i heard it, but i heard that putin gave north korea an icbm that is more than capable of targeting the continental u.s.
perhaps biden's strategy of goading enemies into confrontation has a downside. /s
we're supposed to get our first snow accumulation of the year over this weekend. my area seems to be on the edge between serious snow and nasty snow, ice and sleet. i guess we'll see what we get. it's been pretty cold for the last few days, so the ground is cold enough not to melt the snow on contact and any rain/sleet/ice will probably build up on the roads that they haven't gotten around to salting.
glad to hear that sam is enjoying the snow. please deliver a scritch for me.
Ted Postol, CSIS, and Ray MacGovern...
...spread the canard that Putin gave North Korea the HS 18 ICBM.
38North.org posted an authoritative rebuttal of the claim. I reviewed the available discussions and relevant articles-
The Transfer of a Russian ICBM to North Korea?
August 17, 2023, by Theodore Postol
https://beyondparallel.csis.org/the-transfer-of-a-russian-icbm-to-north-...
A Renewed Axis: Growing Military Cooperation Between North Korea and Russia
September 6, 2023, by Victor Cha and Ellen Kim
https://beyondparallel.csis.org/a-renewed-axis-growing-military-cooperat...
Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover: North Korea’s HS-18 Is Not a Russian ICBM
https://www.38north.org/2023/08/dont-judge-a-book-by-its-cover-north-kor...
The North Korean nuclear threat
語必忠信 行必正直
found it...
i didn't read it, i heard it today:
This is the second time Ray
...has stated this on the Judge's program. The first time was Sept 6, 2023. Ray's statement is based on Postol's article for CSIS. He and Postol are out in left field on this.
語必忠信 行必正直
Ted Postol was the single expert
...who effectively debunked the false flag chemical weapons attacks which were blamed on Syria by the US. Postol insisted in his very detailed analysis report that there were no chemical weapons dropped on the site by Syria, and explained exactly how the evidence was faked. He also exposed the White Helmets for the saboteur operatives they were. His compelling report allowed Putin to stroll into Syria and remove any questionable weapons in Syria's stockpile, and transfer them to the US military at sea. This averted a US threatened bombing of Syria, based on crossing Obama's "Red Line." I don't think, at that time, that Obama was a party to the Neocon-Mossad shadow government that is transforming the Middle East into Greater Israel.
An American news site being censored by Israel
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Some country drops bombs on Gaza, but the media doesn’t know what country did it until Israel admits or denies that they were the ones who did it. Kinda makes me wonder how many other countries are bombing Gaza…doh!
The genocide convention was put in place after the Holocaust and to make sure that Jews weren’t genocided again. And yet it’s Israel who is now the one committing genocide.
During the holocaust people weren’t given enough food so they looked like this when found.
Will we start seeing Palestinians looking like they did because Israel is deliberately starving them? How or will the world react if this happens? Or are people already looking like this, but the world’s media is covering it up because Israel doesn’t approve of showing how the Zionists are acting just like the Nazis?
Well let’s hope that if the ICJ finds Israel’s leaders and other world leaders guilty of genocide they don’t get to escape justice like the hundreds of thousands Nazis who did.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
hmmm...
i suspect that whether or not we get treated to visuals of skeletal beings depends upon how long the israeli seige is allowed to continue. if it is allowed to continue for much longer, i would guess we will first start hearing of mass deaths of disease and starvation and within a couple of months we will see skeletal beings haunting gaza.
We were treated to pictures like this coming out of Yemen
for years and yet nothing happened to those who were starving them nor was there much outrage over it so I wonder how the world will react if we see Palestinians looking like that. Probably another big yawn.
Israel admitted 3 months ago that they were going to starve people and still people support what they are doing. Dog shit humans. Is that what Caitlin called the people still supporting Israel?
Gawd I can’t wait for this stupid timeline to end, but I’m not sure that the future will be any better since mankind hasn’t found its humanity in over 5,000 years.
Scritches delivered. She sends her thanks. Good luck with your storm. I’ve read that it’s going to be a doozy. We were in the 40's and sunshine for a few weeks so the cold will take some getting used to. But as long as the dawg is happy…
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
heh...
even failing to find it's humanity in 5000 years, man(un)kind has utterly failed to figure out how to live sustainably on its host planet in numbers beyond the thousands. a failed experiment thus far for all the grandeur of its imagination about itself.
as long as the dawg is happy, i guess everything is fine.
Lol…
Maybe once humans wipe themselves out through nuclear war gawd will start over again and he will put the animals in charge instead of humans since they seem to get along with each other much better than humans do. I don’t remember the biblical phrasing of how we were given….over the animals?
Yep as long as Sam is happy things are more tolerable. There are so many days that I don’t want to venture out, but the look in her eyes gets me moving. Today was one of them since it was snowing and windy, but I knew how much she would enjoy the snow. No snakes though. Just lots of running.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
heh...
i think that the word you're looking for is "dominion." if there was a god and it did as is described in the magic book that people keep pointing at to support their real estate claims and assorted other rights, giving man dominion over the creatures of the planet was a huge mistake.
dominion
Yes that’s the word I was looking for. And yes it was a huge mistake and you would think that a gawd would know what humans would do after they ate from the forbidden tree. If they couldn’t follow that simple rule then how did he think they could follow his other rules like "Thou shalt not kill!"?
Why people think that he was into deciding real estate is another silly notion. If the world followed Israel’s claims to real estate then the Indians are entitled to take back all their land in America. Right? Heh I’ve put this question to many pro Israel supporters who say that. I get ignored. Sadly so many people think that the war just started on October 7. This current war started on October 2 when Israel settlers attacked the Al Aqsa mosque, but they haven’t heard about that. Good grief…how many wars have started over silly religious beliefs?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Good evening Joe and everybody. Thanks for the ebs, Joe.
Great tunes.
It would appear that another US base was attacked today, possibly in retaliation for our attack in Baghdad yesterday.
So, who do we attack now? The Kurds, the Azeris, the Turks or Tehran?
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
evening el...
heh, i'm sure that the neocon empire will get around to bombing all of them.
have a great weekend!
Gotta wonder how our air defenses are working
Remember that Russia found a way to get through them. Lots of troops are getting brain injuries which means that bombs are landing close by. And how long until the troops run out of missiles for them? We can’t supply any more to Ukraine. We had to go begging other countries for some to send there. Guess that offshoring our manufacturing is coming back to bite us.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Hi bluesters
Hi all, Hey Joe,
Thanks for the great sounds mon! Love me an occasional bout of Rasta Bob. Only thing I have is a Greatest Hits CD. Peter Tosh was a great guitarist in the band, also with a tragic end. I have that 45 single Tosh put out with Jagger on backup vocals (They harder they come - I think was the song) on the Stones label. Wish everyone had that rasta view. One good big spliff of real Jamaican and they would... That stuff was amazing. It was fairly rare out west but more regular in NYC.
The collapse of the African raptors is surely going on with thousands of species of all manner. Most are not as visible or obvious as raptors are. The big obvious stuff is more likely to be noticed, easier to study, etc. Fish or Beetles, not so much. Check out some utube vids on that Bateleur. Used to be Bateleur Eagle when I was young. I think there was a Attenborough or Geo. Page narrated nature show just on them. They are a flying wing appearing nearly tailess, and are unbelievably deft in the air. Quite a unique bird. Some buddies were on the Orange Co. CA Christmas Bird Count long ago, and they saw one! Obviously an escape bird in CA.
Thanks for the news an blues! Have a great weekend!
Have good ones all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
evening dystopian...
yep, marley had an admirably mellow state of mind - and he made some really great music.
it sounds from the write up that the african raptor collapse is largely attributable to habitat loss, which better land management and food policies could remedy i'd bet. i wonder if mankind can get it together to do that. i guess i won't hold my breath.
have a great weekend!
Bob Marley and the Wailers---MY MEN!!!!!!
Lively Up Yourself!! You bet! I pay as little attention as possible to crap like war. I'm too old, and sick of the same bipid sh#t constantly rising to the top. Of course, this human garbage seems to live forever and croak peacefully. A perverted natural law. Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.