This week the University of California system has decided to ban encampments and face masks “ensure a safe, inclusive campus climate that fosters a free exchange of ideas”. As long as those ideas don't upset the political establishment. This is just the latest example.
I'm disgusted with Israel's genocidal, apartheid politics and Washington's unconditional support. Unlike a lot people online I actually participated in the anti-war protests.
UCSC for short. Friday my electronic mailbox received this message from the Chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, no doubt sent to the entire Alumni Association:
Dear UC Santa Cruz Community,
Jesus was a Palestinian Jew who would be killed if he came today.
On this silent and holy night of #ChristmasEve, our hearts beat in unison for every soul born under God's watchful eyes. In the quiet reflection of this sacred evening, we remember those taken from us in #Gaza. Their voices may have been silenced, yet they live on, eternal and undying in our collective memory. Though their physical presence has been stolen away by #Israel, their spirits remain unbroken and free, forever cradled in the loving embrace of our thoughts and prayers. On this night, as the stars twinkle with a solemn promise, we realise that Israel can take lives, but never the memories, the love, the legacy. The children of Gaza remain with us, now and always. Via @Alicesverige
Are people next?
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/17/opinion/wolves-endangered-yellowstone...
"OPINION
GUEST ESSAY
A Slaughter of Wolves Like This Hasn’t Been Seen in a Century
Jan. 17, 2022
Credit...John Conrad/Getty Images
By Thomas McNamee
I recently read the books mentioned here, found them to be essential reads, and also find it amazing how the UK and US seem to have an infinite ability to whitewash our own recent past and the implications of same.
Genocide disguised as incompetence indeed.
How many people will die this summer, before Election Day? What proportion of the deaths will be among African-Americans, Latinos, other people of color? This is getting awfully close to genocide by default. What else do you call mass death by public policy? #COVID19 #coronavirus
— Gregg Gonsalves (@gregggonsalves) May 6, 2020
It's 9/26 and ancient evil continues to burden us all
(This is a picture of skeleton thin children starving in Yemen. You'll have to use your imagination or search the internet, I don't have the stomach for it right now.)
(Note: I've got a little 6 month old grandson visiting for the holiday. When I saw the picture of the starving child in Yemen, I saw his eyes looking at me. Angry? You bet.)
"All I know is that first you’ve got to get mad. (shouting) You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!"
Howard Beale
Prior to Little Hands Dictator Trump's unbearably chickenshit speech at the United Fraud, the Wall Street, I said WALL STREET, Journal made a proposal to solve the North Korea manufactured "crisis".
