tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61847888660710736212024-03-27T16:54:06.800-07:00The Revolution Continues The Revolution Continues blog is news, views, opinion and other expressions of hope from a leftist point-of-view. (We are not affiliated with any candidate, political party or organization. All are welcome.)Cindy A. Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12724627097783524710noreply@blogger.comBlogger460125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6184788866071073621.post-8518942889104401172024-03-25T14:43:00.000-07:002024-03-27T11:50:49.482-07:00Deal With The Devil<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbrb8iuY_egK1fkLEMT3xUaEe7iZkYby-AFVsuE0MIPg4n9NbgFtrQ4ZYFGL-dWDxaMYVL41AnCgJTARAbcfuqR7aq8xzOTopR-dun9ukNLbXTsnCbrT_yRQKwhZqLsXIfCnDmbHiKrDhxU8BaIgAbbqY8HlPCbQpnr6b-cr8zMPCcD4c6qHFs6ZrKejQ/s2000/Triden%20Bump.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1333" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbrb8iuY_egK1fkLEMT3xUaEe7iZkYby-AFVsuE0MIPg4n9NbgFtrQ4ZYFGL-dWDxaMYVL41AnCgJTARAbcfuqR7aq8xzOTopR-dun9ukNLbXTsnCbrT_yRQKwhZqLsXIfCnDmbHiKrDhxU8BaIgAbbqY8HlPCbQpnr6b-cr8zMPCcD4c6qHFs6ZrKejQ/w266-h400/Triden%20Bump.jpeg" width="266" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv3hKjMvPSzKtB_S4-_b7wMSbdMDt5yDo96zsRchXyCPncFmWEbeyY3nwTnqIMDkgaPtK24yJQMSiDf_PuS8gP9bH0MrTVCjB9tfow6C8Eo20LlBtbAvZrH05Wl_3bO_1yr5AxxP3_6fCtoxJecobiBrqlm9g0MbNqeBxbNUTxHjQHx_UO-3VPu_d-tUs/s640/Blah%20blah%20blah%20sheeps%20Ds%20Rs.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="434" data-original-width="640" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgv3hKjMvPSzKtB_S4-_b7wMSbdMDt5yDo96zsRchXyCPncFmWEbeyY3nwTnqIMDkgaPtK24yJQMSiDf_PuS8gP9bH0MrTVCjB9tfow6C8Eo20LlBtbAvZrH05Wl_3bO_1yr5AxxP3_6fCtoxJecobiBrqlm9g0MbNqeBxbNUTxHjQHx_UO-3VPu_d-tUs/w400-h271/Blah%20blah%20blah%20sheeps%20Ds%20Rs.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">by Mark Taylor, <a href="https://mark192.substack.com" target="_blank">DeMOCKracy Ink</a></span></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Deal With The Devil</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br />by C.A. Matthews<br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br />About once a year, I feel compelled to write a post about the dangers and pitfalls of <i>lesser evil </i>voting in the US. So here it is, for better or worse.<br /><br />If you add a letter “d” to the front of the word “evil”, you’ll get the personification of evil, that is, the “devil.” However lesser evil voting is being discussed, the end result is the same: The voter is being asked to make a deal with the devil or evil.<br /><br />What is often left out of this old saying are what consequences you incur when you make a deal with the devil. Here’s the complete saying: “When you make a deal with the devil, be careful you don’t get burned.”<br /><br />Dealing with the devil can get you burned. Lesser evil voting burns voters. Don’t believe me? Let’s take a closer look.<br /></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzdcnm3ZsszvU6IHLVd3PMYeSo4KGBVqM6e-ENsl-5n9xJ_pyqYg6swJvSk1InM57MwGA0pqL34BafwtNzUMLqRGTabOpX_HVna8H8bByq91CmKRXsx11DnbKngnScQB9Futnefop6_WpayAxly9jo7pDQO_BfkQqTPNDmg3Y7GgPG24XwSdsMvkkQk6c/s680/Joe%20Pushes%20the%20button.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="544" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzdcnm3ZsszvU6IHLVd3PMYeSo4KGBVqM6e-ENsl-5n9xJ_pyqYg6swJvSk1InM57MwGA0pqL34BafwtNzUMLqRGTabOpX_HVna8H8bByq91CmKRXsx11DnbKngnScQB9Futnefop6_WpayAxly9jo7pDQO_BfkQqTPNDmg3Y7GgPG24XwSdsMvkkQk6c/w256-h320/Joe%20Pushes%20the%20button.jpeg" width="256" /></a></u></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u>The Devil is in the Details</u><br /><br />First, a definition of lesser evil voting is needed. In the lesser evil voting scenario, voters are informed that there are only two candidates running for each office. We’ll call them candidates “A” and “B”. Voters are told they have no other options, and they have been convinced of this fact. They feel compelled to vote for either A or B or stay home and not vote. That’s it.<br /><br />But what if voters don’t care for either candidate A or B? What if they strongly detest and/or despise both A and B? Can they vote for candidate C, D, E, or F instead? In most states in the United States there are other candidates’ names printed on their ballots for each office. However, many voters have been programmed (brainwashed) into thinking those options simply do not exist for them, so they’re stuck with choosing between A and B or not voting at all.<br /><br />But what happens when a voter decides to vote for C, D, E, or F, and their treachery to vote outside the box is discovered? Woe to that voter! The voter will be <i>vote shamed</i> and pressured to change their mind. The most common vote shaming method is to tell renegade voters that they have cast a <i>wasted vote</i> because they refused to vote for either A or B. They are informed by supporters of A and B that all voters who dare to vote for C, D, E, or F are stupid and foolish.<br /></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaHaVHls_PqwPEzPj9UBuNKC3oh-muGdezFwrG6blokffyhUxOkApL87HDJYQtUvYgaJ05UtRtzr_rOODBgVJO8VthVVmYArVk1OBOQUJTXOBXqWUbdgKxq50RB1NsIqSG032MlHs1ZAHNSfkERoFnuigXJ5EPXuEJ5hVmZRRRWwRmheAnjzmpZutSEP4/s1200/vote%20shaming%20is%20so%20hot%20right%20now.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1200" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaHaVHls_PqwPEzPj9UBuNKC3oh-muGdezFwrG6blokffyhUxOkApL87HDJYQtUvYgaJ05UtRtzr_rOODBgVJO8VthVVmYArVk1OBOQUJTXOBXqWUbdgKxq50RB1NsIqSG032MlHs1ZAHNSfkERoFnuigXJ5EPXuEJ5hVmZRRRWwRmheAnjzmpZutSEP4/s320/vote%20shaming%20is%20so%20hot%20right%20now.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Other forms of coercion exercised by supporters for A and B can include ostracizing these rebel voters socially in-person and/or online, threatening the rebel voters’ careers or job positions, and sometimes even threatening or committing physical violence against the rebel voters or their property. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>All of these forms of lesser evil voting coercion tactics have been documented widely (and some of them experienced by yours truly). </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>These are only but a few of the ways voters can get burned when making a deal with the devil called lesser evil voting.</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br />I’m sure there are supporters/past-supporters of A and B out there whose ears are burning about right now as I expose their crimes. But I’ve found that lesser evil aficionados often are proud of their vote shaming tactics. They rarely get caught or charged with any criminal activity since fellow A or B supporters will cover for them, so I doubt they’ll ever stop the dirty tricks. <br /><br />With that sort of pressure placed upon voters to consider voting for only A or B, what do you think happens to candidates C, D, E, and F? Do you think they receive as much attention in the mainstream media as A and B do? Lesser evil voting supporters for A or B cannot afford to allow voters to learn about other candidates and their platforms, so mainstream media spokespersons are generally kept in line and told to exclude all mention of other candidates as much as possible.<br /></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ZRKts7BRMyrQ_oQJ9woT5scK1zGVwJ0MtnEdNK0Y2PKE8WCLE92hyhyxBe_U80h8wSfy6KgGcJ2mzMf8IQO4XAdPCtmzCj1I6gaTdrHMafjl4mzgD2ipBLexRIo6CpvBk7vhvUstQbPZ-UNuD-6KDf9HbLZNDqtLF_4OHaVunviAaBXaFnf44HZOBi0/s622/Vote%203rd%20Party%20--%20No%20vote%20shaming.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="622" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ZRKts7BRMyrQ_oQJ9woT5scK1zGVwJ0MtnEdNK0Y2PKE8WCLE92hyhyxBe_U80h8wSfy6KgGcJ2mzMf8IQO4XAdPCtmzCj1I6gaTdrHMafjl4mzgD2ipBLexRIo6CpvBk7vhvUstQbPZ-UNuD-6KDf9HbLZNDqtLF_4OHaVunviAaBXaFnf44HZOBi0/s320/Vote%203rd%20Party%20--%20No%20vote%20shaming.jpeg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Can you see how this <i>practical censorship</i> would prevent C, D, E, and F from effectively advertising or fundraising? Without sufficient funds to campaign, what would you say are the chances of these alternative candidates being able to compete against the well-funded and well-promoted campaigns of A and B? Did you say zero to none?<br /><br />It should be obvious by now that lesser evil voting isn’t really a strategy to help American voters choose a candidate who represents their values, needs, wants, or desires. Lesser evil voting is simply a method to get rid of A’s and B’s competition. </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Think about it: It’s much cheaper and easier for corporate lobbyists, wealthy individuals, and political action committees (PACs/Super PACs) to bribe two candidates to do as they command than a multitude of candidates who may or may not be open to taking corporate lobbyist cash. This <a href="https://act.represent.us/sign/lobbywow" target="_blank">legal bribery of politicians </a>in the US is allowed under the 2010 Citizens United ruling. Money talks, and it talks much louder than average voters' voices, obviously. <br /><br />How fair is lesser evil voting? Not fair at all unless you absolutely adore A and/or B. But it’s completely legal and acceptable by the parties of A and B who rather you didn't know you have more choices. Here’s an example of how it’s manifesting itself in this year’s presidential election.<br /><br /><u></u></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfJit5cVeudZp-55sjYEwYGsV3qpIGhE-mNSsQk6tM6H8f8ULvBDfGURl-m0vCdaYeewy7VZBXgFZHWF4sHscqlq0LemsWRYseuTPXZU92KK_3fuUyqMLsA1REEsxgymidYX8I_OpzhWU_YQnXacwL4ZZdekgsrMGuNhmQpeGpauKGpaIu-AzmKcxMBPA/s680/Left%20Right%20continuum.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="680" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfJit5cVeudZp-55sjYEwYGsV3qpIGhE-mNSsQk6tM6H8f8ULvBDfGURl-m0vCdaYeewy7VZBXgFZHWF4sHscqlq0LemsWRYseuTPXZU92KK_3fuUyqMLsA1REEsxgymidYX8I_OpzhWU_YQnXacwL4ZZdekgsrMGuNhmQpeGpauKGpaIu-AzmKcxMBPA/w320-h272/Left%20Right%20continuum.jpeg" width="320" /></a></u></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><u><br />The Devil You Know...</u><br /><br />Americans worship stability and sameness. Life just seems safer that way. Even if their present lives are miserable or downright unbearable, Americans’ philosophy of life can be summed up thusly: “Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t.”<br /><br />Note once again how the letter “d” can be subtracted from “devil” leaving the word that describes the devil’s best known quality of “evil”. Americans rather put up with a known evil than radically change their lives by making a different choice, possibly for the better, because what if their choice proves worse than the one they’ve been told to make by supporters of A or B? Many American voters seem paralyzed by indecision. They seek guidance and are looking for someone else to make the decision for them.<br /><br />If only Americans believed they needn’t be cornered into corner A or B! Think of all the possibilities for a brighter future voters might have by choosing C, D, E, or F. How can we break through such a lack of imagination and encourage American voters to invite change and consider non-duopoly (non-A or -B) candidates?<br /><br />Let’s say you’re an American voter who wants the genocide in Gaza to end as soon as possible and all the war criminals punished. You’re sick and tired of the bloated US military budget and long for more funding for programs such as Medicare For All, free university tuition, student loan debt forgiveness, and programs to tackle the climate crisis. What are your choices for president who speak to your conscience?<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM7hyphenhyphen2m5ytDUJteC6LkTlqt1E_7SN5mDe3TzgGNLUDkiQRUPBP-4iYYC97uHKuzq_6bOFT4sGdHJJECdN42n9CVJnslZBqafK1jG_uFGDhRZNuj9nuzr_cVnDNU7b0G1MbN9JDMfBMw9fRRoDPNBrUdA-jlk01eCw0f13X_qhqfqHMm51j_qgXKmVXrkk/s960/bullshit%20in%20elections.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="703" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM7hyphenhyphen2m5ytDUJteC6LkTlqt1E_7SN5mDe3TzgGNLUDkiQRUPBP-4iYYC97uHKuzq_6bOFT4sGdHJJECdN42n9CVJnslZBqafK1jG_uFGDhRZNuj9nuzr_cVnDNU7b0G1MbN9JDMfBMw9fRRoDPNBrUdA-jlk01eCw0f13X_qhqfqHMm51j_qgXKmVXrkk/w146-h200/bullshit%20in%20elections.jpeg" width="146" /></a></div>Here in a nutshell are the options of the upcoming presidential election:<br /><br />A – a current known evil who supports the genocide in Gaza and takes money from AIPAC and many corporations/PACs<br /><br />B – a past known evil who supports the genocide in Gaza and takes money from AIPAC and many corporations/PACs<br /><br />C – another candidate (with a famous last name) who accepts corporate cash and loudly supports the genocide in Gaza and takes money from AIPAC/PACs<br /><br />D – a candidate who doesn’t accept corporate/PAC cash and doesn’t support the genocide in Gaza, supports Medicare For All and climate crisis actions, and will probably be on all 50 state ballots and the District of Columbia<br /><br />E – a candidate who doesn’t accept corporate/PAC cash and doesn’t support the genocide in Gaza but probably won’t be on very many state ballots<br /><br />F- a candidate who doesn’t accept corporate/PAC cash and doesn’t support the genocide in Gaza but probably won’t be on very many state ballots<br /><br />(G, H, I candidates – some accept corporate/PAC cash, some don’t support the genocide or war, but most probably won’t be on very many state ballots)<br /><br />Looking at the above chart, you’ll see that your personal choices do not include the A or B candidates that lesser evil voting strategists are going try to shame you into voting for. Your best bet to change the leadership the White House to a person who represents you is to vote for candidate D or possibly E or F or one of the other lesser known candidates if they're on your ballot. By voting for a candidate like D, you’ll feel proud of yourself that you aren’t perpetuating the genocide in Gaza and are helping to make the US a better place for all its people.<br /><br />Sounds like a sound voting choice that reflects your values and speaks to your conscience, right? If only it was that easy in the USA!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil_CQIgeyVv9bD2hVU1HbqYn_LwrRFvYyOhoUXCoK-5-F_vRawEk5e7NNQ9iStbLE3ENlT5bNOm_g6NL-MGw7Gw7xzHjX98tqZfeVNtlx_zqHmfxRDd7OPQEgymXSLbmB8PiV2PTSWZ0VZaPI6VXw81zJ_iZFyMIp3e9_ta_-qupkSepakzyb-s6Tecxk/s998/Lesser%20genocide.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="998" data-original-width="991" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil_CQIgeyVv9bD2hVU1HbqYn_LwrRFvYyOhoUXCoK-5-F_vRawEk5e7NNQ9iStbLE3ENlT5bNOm_g6NL-MGw7Gw7xzHjX98tqZfeVNtlx_zqHmfxRDd7OPQEgymXSLbmB8PiV2PTSWZ0VZaPI6VXw81zJ_iZFyMIp3e9_ta_-qupkSepakzyb-s6Tecxk/w318-h320/Lesser%20genocide.jpg" width="318" /></a></div>The political parties of A and B will do all that they can to block your preferred candidate’s name from being on as many states' ballots as they possibly can. With huge war chests of campaign donations from military-industrial complex corporations and money from PACs such as AIPAC, these parties will use every legal and extra-legal trick in the book they can to prevent any competition from challenging them. Supporters of A and B who own the mainstream media outlets will block all mention of the other candidates and pass along the propaganda that teams A and B dream up to slander/libel their competition.<br /><br />Many American voters, never knowing there are actually candidates who closely represent their own values because of the practical censorship, might choose to stay home and not vote. Voter apathy in the US is sky high, and with such a screwed up system, is it any wonder?<br /><br />This is lesser evil voting strategy at its worse. These devils you’ve known for years are anti-democratic and bullies. And you will be forced to put your conscience to sleep and vote for A or B because you’re told these are your only options. </b></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>You’ll be told that C, D, E, or F have no chance of winning, not realizing that in poll after poll the largest percentage of American voters consider themselves as independent. These voters don’t support the parties of either A or B and stay home more often than not if they don't have another option. If that large percentage of voters followed their conscience and voted for other than A or B, another candidate might actually win. The math speaks for itself.</b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit_qCMkYyzbRANT9yqzsoC6zqqplCXPgBb_gR3X1baLHVWJMRpOYZfpqwP01q6Iox91bjv2j8b-cNeAduJyMrVCHUsxEwX3calxXaJDrZ8-q9KQkEUR441IrkssiSHpztdCrw-4jTsUR2-t97RCsPpiqRfxByt1JQvkcydFBWfAgDF8PCmb5kN0HXlkfU/s679/Green%20Vote%20Bucket%20Explanation.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="447" data-original-width="679" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit_qCMkYyzbRANT9yqzsoC6zqqplCXPgBb_gR3X1baLHVWJMRpOYZfpqwP01q6Iox91bjv2j8b-cNeAduJyMrVCHUsxEwX3calxXaJDrZ8-q9KQkEUR441IrkssiSHpztdCrw-4jTsUR2-t97RCsPpiqRfxByt1JQvkcydFBWfAgDF8PCmb5kN0HXlkfU/w400-h264/Green%20Vote%20Bucket%20Explanation.jpeg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Vote shaming can be intense, but it can be dealt with rationally as the above meme demonstrates. A candidate must earn your vote and stand for your values. Follow a <a href="https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/the-new-litmus-test" target="_blank">litmus test like I do</a> to pick your candidate, and you'll never suffer from a guilty conscience. You won't be tempted to sell your soul to the devils and their corporate masters. You'll help others to avoid getting burned as well.<br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The great Eugene Debs gave us this sage advice that voters should always follow:</b></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than to vote for something I don't want and get it." </b></span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0fLljCDzweQjN5ABEDMaGdlf-BtZVE1UwOE_2zM8rjcGzFEbyjB1Foi3y0ba4O8jcOTFP0A8cTjJITb3EPYo_cnaikIjcWXXtHW8ffg3lHm9GaVZZ4O7H7pjsRdltdi9cIaUjJbRKyzoVs_i4HJZCYOb-L3GRWOyME_Eo8Ep4jrrAVvT-ZL_FxGEr2ro/s2044/Eugene%20Debs%20quote.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1308" data-original-width="2044" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0fLljCDzweQjN5ABEDMaGdlf-BtZVE1UwOE_2zM8rjcGzFEbyjB1Foi3y0ba4O8jcOTFP0A8cTjJITb3EPYo_cnaikIjcWXXtHW8ffg3lHm9GaVZZ4O7H7pjsRdltdi9cIaUjJbRKyzoVs_i4HJZCYOb-L3GRWOyME_Eo8Ep4jrrAVvT-ZL_FxGEr2ro/w200-h128/Eugene%20Debs%20quote.jpeg" width="200" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Don’t be tempted to make a deal with the devil (d-evil). Don’t get burned. Stay away from lesser evil voting. Always vote your conscience, and encourage others to do the same. And may the <i>best</i> candidate win.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV-jbDRDwpJdGmDTu5X3NqqPUYiDkLR4Ek0buQJ9B_fRRqbH4fNTzHhJpH7gcjwnPF5ri1kNj0wARUBLbznqLsLJGCJJiDoR8G9Suv4e31q_nEP2lES0oxNEglETnF78X2FDBYq8IeeuiB4NlHBQyaxdH19TXvwGU8oM-ifHZ63Ys_XPWxrwJI_1ja-5E/s1200/2024%20Presidential%20Race.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="813" data-original-width="1200" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV-jbDRDwpJdGmDTu5X3NqqPUYiDkLR4Ek0buQJ9B_fRRqbH4fNTzHhJpH7gcjwnPF5ri1kNj0wARUBLbznqLsLJGCJJiDoR8G9Suv4e31q_nEP2lES0oxNEglETnF78X2FDBYq8IeeuiB4NlHBQyaxdH19TXvwGU8oM-ifHZ63Ys_XPWxrwJI_1ja-5E/s320/2024%20Presidential%20Race.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Related Articles and Other Interesting Links<br /><br />Here's a way to turn lesser evil voting on its head: <a href="https://twitter.com/CallForCongress/status/1771242193438593153" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/CallForCongress/status/1771242193438593153</a></b></span><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The Democrats’ “all-out war” on third parties and independent candidates <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/23/bzsf-m23.html" target="_blank">https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/23/bzsf-m23.html</a><br /><br />UN Special Rapporteur finds Israel is committing genocide <a href="https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/un-special-rapporteur-finds-israel" target="_blank">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/un-special-rapporteur-finds-israel</a><br /><br />The Chris Hedges Report: Halting Biden’s Weapon Shipments to Israel <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2024/03/22/the-chris-hedges-report-halting-bidens-weapon-shipments-to-israel/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2024/03/22/the-chris-hedges-report-halting-bidens-weapon-shipments-to-israel/</a><br /><br />"It's Not About Trump": American CJ Hopkins, Charged Again in Germany, Describes Global Censorship Effort <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/its-not-about-trump-american-cj-hopkins" target="_blank">https://www.racket.news/p/its-not-about-trump-american-cj-hopkins</a><br /><br />Armed by Washington, Israel Trashes the Genocide Convention <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2024/03/20/armed-by-washington-israel-trashes-the-genocide-convention/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2024/03/20/armed-by-washington-israel-trashes-the-genocide-convention/</a><br /><br />Flour Massacre Called ‘Aid-Related Deaths’—Rather Than Part of Israel’s Engineered Famine <a href="https://fair.org/home/flour-massacre-called-aid-related-deaths-rather-than-part-of-israels-engineered-famine/" target="_blank">https://fair.org/home/flour-massacre-called-aid-related-deaths-rather-than-part-of-israels-engineered-famine/</a><br /><br />Find Someone Who Loves You Like Israel Loves Attacking Palestinian Hospitals <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/find-someone-who-loves-you-like-israel" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/find-someone-who-loves-you-like-israel</a><br /><br />As Conflict Rages On, Israel and Gaza’s Environmental Fates May Be Intertwined <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15032024/todays-climate-gaza-israel-sewage-environment-debris-pollution/" target="_blank">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/15032024/todays-climate-gaza-israel-sewage-environment-debris-pollution/</a><br /><br />British Surgeon Describes Children Suffering “Appalling Injuries” in Gaza, Demands Immediate Ceasefire <a href="https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/21/gaza_doctor_nick_maynard" target="_blank">https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/21/gaza_doctor_nick_maynard</a><br /><br />After Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation, a Pentagon witch hunt looms <a href="https://therealnews.com/after-aaron-bushnells-self-immolation-a-pentagon-witch-hunt-looms" target="_blank">https://therealnews.com/after-aaron-bushnells-self-immolation-a-pentagon-witch-hunt-looms</a><br /><br />Just Seeing Through The Propaganda Isn't Enough - We've Got To Open Our Hearts As Well <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/just-seeing-through-the-propaganda" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/just-seeing-through-the-propaganda</a><br /><br />IDF General Admits War Impossible Without US Support <a href="https://rumble.com/v4kh2tc-system-update-245.html" target="_blank">https://rumble.com/v4kh2tc-system-update-245.html</a><br /><br />Here’s What Canada’s Vote to End Arms Sales to Israel Means for Antiwar Effort <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/heres-what-canadas-vote-to-end-arms-sales-to-israel-means-for-antiwar-effort/" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/heres-what-canadas-vote-to-end-arms-sales-to-israel-means-for-antiwar-effort/</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Israel Lobby DESTROYED On Mainstream Media!<a href="https://youtu.be/kQ_58cRZeaM?si=ITU3k366k5V3BnIO" target="_blank"> https://youtu.be/kQ_58cRZeaM?si=ITU3k366k5V3BnIO</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Things That Have Been Discredited During The Destruction Of Gaza </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/things-that-have-been-discredited" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/things-that-have-been-discredited </b></span></a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you say this is a genocide and then you support the people who are
backing this genocide, it means either (A) you’re fine with genocide or
(B) you only called it a genocide to score progressive political points
and don’t actually believe what you said.</span></b></blockquote><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">* * * </span></b></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><span><b><span><span><span><span><span>Subscribe
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These folks and organizations can post the above meme on their social media sites if they choose. Keep your nominations coming!</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Banksy (Best Graffiti Artist with a Conscience)<br /><br />Laura K from Normal Island News (Best Satirist with a Conscience)<br /><br />Randy Credico (Best Podcaster/Indie journalist</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> with a Conscience</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">)<br /><br />Neil Oliver (Best Podcaster/Journalist </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">with a Conscience</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">)<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Toledo Area Activists </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">with a Conscience:</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <br />Jomana Al, Walaa Kanan, Mike Ferner, Jasmin Nada Hummos, Yousef Baddar, Susan Kuehn, Terry Lodge, Omar Aysha, and Ahmed Amrou.<br /><br />Suggested category: Best Poet with a Conscience </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Congratulations all!<br /></span></b></span><br /></p><p><style type="text/css">h1 { margin-bottom: 0.08in; background: transparent; page-break-after: avoid }h1.western { font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }h1.cjk { font-family: "Noto Serif CJK SC"; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }h1.ctl { font-family: "Lohit Devanagari"; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 115%; background: transparent }a:visited { color: #800000; so-language: zxx; text-decoration: underline }a:link { color: #000080; so-language: zxx; text-decoration: underline }</style></p>The Revolution Continueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13710180679677988774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6184788866071073621.post-25863448834776097982024-03-18T15:19:00.000-07:002024-03-19T10:11:13.863-07:00Introducing “The Aarons”<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb0r6N86JcYIQCutZDNMRY0hignMgxJmLhptYD16XOjzaO5lg6nFmSyQEf3Z-Jxpy_oOM27klWWieuj715TfXqtZB4YYNz4Vkv3Edp5IweluvhFTLd2IMFy8GWJ3rG51d8PcV0wDqm6YTQ9fN-1tF1yGoOBI-taKIs7PgvkDPZTlL6gagA-UkIaEISiYY/s565/Aaron%20award%20with%20laurel%20wreath.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="504" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb0r6N86JcYIQCutZDNMRY0hignMgxJmLhptYD16XOjzaO5lg6nFmSyQEf3Z-Jxpy_oOM27klWWieuj715TfXqtZB4YYNz4Vkv3Edp5IweluvhFTLd2IMFy8GWJ3rG51d8PcV0wDqm6YTQ9fN-1tF1yGoOBI-taKIs7PgvkDPZTlL6gagA-UkIaEISiYY/w356-h400/Aaron%20award%20with%20laurel%20wreath.jpg" width="356" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">
<p style="font-style: normal;">
<b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Hollywood
has its “Oscars” so why can’t the activist community have its
“Aarons”?</span></b></p>
<style type="text/css"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 115%; background: transparent }a:visited { color: #800000; so-language: zxx; text-decoration: underline }a:link { color: #000080; so-language: zxx; text-decoration: underline }</b></span></style></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></b></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Introducing “The Aarons”</span></span></b></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;">words & photos of the U.T. Students for Justice in Palestine </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Aaron Bushnell memorial event </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">by C.A. Matthews </span></b></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The last five months protesting the genocide in Gaza have brought together some very diverse people both online and offline. When a person commented on one of my Substack posts that they found it interesting how they were agreeing with me, a “Communist”, I was momentarily taken aback. Most Communists wouldn’t label me as such, in spite of my cool Substack and Twitter/X avatar picture with the <i>In Event of Capitalist Crisis Break Glass</i> fire alarm box with a hammer and sickle inside. <br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">It really doesn’t make much difference to me how anyone labels what they perceive are my political leanings or philosophical outlook. I’d call myself a Christian Liberationist/Eco-Socialist, but if you want to call me a Green, or a Communist, or a Socialist, or an Anarchist, or a democratic socialist (small d) it doesn’t faze me one bit. I replied to the comment that I hoped I could be labeled “a human with a conscience” during these dark times when a genocide is being livestreamed on social media while simultaneously being denied by the corrupt and manipulative powers-that-be and their sycophants.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">This brief interchange got me to thinking. What does it mean to be “a human with a conscience”? What would a human who possessed a conscience look or act like? And then it hit me. “A human with a conscience” is the perfect description of <a href="https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/true-civilization" target="_blank">Aaron Bushnell</a>. Aaron who sacrificially gave up his life in order to draw attention to the people of Gaza because it pained his conscience to see their suffering ignored. </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo34DHV3jXxq8sexn-myFusNMKkkLtpjI2VmZJf_LUvKlrACnKmkRx9qfF69jMvcflz5mQYj25QcTvos83PvvqKvkARKylz7MiQRea5E-8tyP6mkj8Y3q4D1f_cZzf71ZXX8IZ6xsBKrqbM3PyZoRD0d4E6xjxDNRcAQ7YBW2u3hz0Y6etDyoj8fPHNJE/s640/Aaron's%20memorial%20photo.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo34DHV3jXxq8sexn-myFusNMKkkLtpjI2VmZJf_LUvKlrACnKmkRx9qfF69jMvcflz5mQYj25QcTvos83PvvqKvkARKylz7MiQRea5E-8tyP6mkj8Y3q4D1f_cZzf71ZXX8IZ6xsBKrqbM3PyZoRD0d4E6xjxDNRcAQ7YBW2u3hz0Y6etDyoj8fPHNJE/s320/Aaron's%20memorial%20photo.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The signed photo was hung on the Free Speech board in the Univ. of Toledo Student Union</span></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A human with a conscience such as Aaron should be praised, but often they’re dismissed, ridiculed, or scoffed at in our mainstream media. People are seldom truly acknowledged for their compassionate actions taken on behalf of others in our self-centered capitalist society. We praise billionaires and entrepreneurs for increasing their corporations’ profit margins instead of honoring all those kind souls who humbly help their neighbors.</span></b></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Thus, the idea of “The Aarons” was born.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Superficial and self-centered Hollywood has its “Academy Awards” or “Oscars,” so why can’t the selfless and hard-working activist community have its “Aarons”? Officially the awards would be known as “A Human With A Conscience Awards.” I’d freely give them to as many people as possible so that nobody is forgotten or not thanked for their sacrificial giving to the world at large.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The awards presentation ceremony wouldn’t have to be a once a year event in a huge, glitzy theater with sparkly chandeliers and a red carpet because, let’s face it, activists aren’t usually into that sort of fancy dress-up and show off your bling thing. We could just throw a casual, come-as-you-are pot-luck supper while doing some food distribution to hungry folks in the park or near the community center where we passed out the awards. I think Aaron Bushnell would have approved.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcZO5j4Z2mT-PvRCHEHQriPpOgYDP06NgM-OmnqJfvRpGa4oO9uW2jfc3Con2aVExBeca1j75nyJaQSSgVPfWFq37z05-oeQ1zkEMCpKnXz3OaDddrsitJ8abNHS6nQQRREeRz0yZO73MhO6jQoqGp3RfrHcRtGPKwcEVUluJOpUwVTOlFKzPH-gyeqpg/s640/signing%20the%20photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcZO5j4Z2mT-PvRCHEHQriPpOgYDP06NgM-OmnqJfvRpGa4oO9uW2jfc3Con2aVExBeca1j75nyJaQSSgVPfWFq37z05-oeQ1zkEMCpKnXz3OaDddrsitJ8abNHS6nQQRREeRz0yZO73MhO6jQoqGp3RfrHcRtGPKwcEVUluJOpUwVTOlFKzPH-gyeqpg/s320/signing%20the%20photo.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></b></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My suggestion is we throw the first Human With A Conscience Awards here in inner-city Toledo at the <a href="https://thedoug419.org/about-us/" target="_blank">Frederick Douglass Community Center</a> (a.k.a. “The Doug”). But until I can get a non-profit organization set up so we can crowdfund some money in order to host and make the awards themselves, that big ceremony will have to wait. I’d also like to be able to provide a grant to each person or organization who wins/are nominated to help them continue their good work in the community. Because what’s the good of a statuette on your shelf if you’re in desperate need of funding to continue serving others? (If you have experience with creating a non-profit and would like to help me create one, please leave a comment below or direct message me. Thank you.) </span></b></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s time we recognize and celebrate all those who work selflessly to aid other human beings without regard to status, class, gender identity, race, nationality, ethnicity, religion, or any other characteristic used by the bourgeoisie to divide us. Humans with a conscience are people who care about the people that our sick and twisted society ignores or sneers at because they aren’t “successful” in the dog-eat-dog world of capitalism, or what I call “the endless rat race” of accumulating monetary wealth or material gain.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Are there any other qualifications a person must meet in order to receive an Aaron? I believe my article on <i><a href="https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/the-new-litmus-test" target="_blank">The New Litmus Test</a></i> describes the essential character an Aaron recipient should have. First and foremost, they cannot be pro-genocide or pro-Zionist. They can’t be enthusiastic about white settler colonialism in any way, shape or form. Forcing indigenous peoples from their homeland isn’t a thing a compassionate human does or condones. Practicing racism and apartheid isn’t something to be proud of, in other words. Expressing classist or elitist opinions are telltale signs of a lack of conscience as well.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjltJxeijsF6Rhw47J92SX0oOOugz56BzdPpSMPs-wdRxtFew5elRcsIGDEAEOqxQnHxOlLJnxmDlfecyd_XwmGe5dflPieC9ZQVNA6BquOYhqOhAe1WG6dkswu7WJl3F-t4k6SpPRFmgPAV3qIZS-FOYDwTs3HV0q4-ziRJT397IWCc6wIGR5Y0aVtm98/s640/Mike%20upclose%20signing%20photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjltJxeijsF6Rhw47J92SX0oOOugz56BzdPpSMPs-wdRxtFew5elRcsIGDEAEOqxQnHxOlLJnxmDlfecyd_XwmGe5dflPieC9ZQVNA6BquOYhqOhAe1WG6dkswu7WJl3F-t4k6SpPRFmgPAV3qIZS-FOYDwTs3HV0q4-ziRJT397IWCc6wIGR5Y0aVtm98/s320/Mike%20upclose%20signing%20photo.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What about those who make excuses for those who commit or aid and abet genocide? Or those who simply turn a blind eye and pretend that a genocide in Gaza isn’t happening? These kinds of actions reveal to me they’re not worthy Aaron recipients. While pulling the trigger and killing another makes you a murderer, those who help the killer load the weapon or place it in the killer’s hand or commit perjury to cover for the killer's movements can also be charged with murder. </span></b></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">For example, Hitler himself never hit the switches or turned any valves on the gas chambers at the death camps, now did he? Yet we consider Hitler responsible for the crime of genocide committed by his soldiers working under his orders. Kissing up to genocidal powers-that-be and then claiming later that you were “only following orders” or trying to fit in with the crowd to maintain your status or further your career doesn’t indicate that you ever put the needs of others before your own or even possessed a conscience in the first place. Actions like these will bring about their own rewards in time.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiFlurQbbopVlKn410hnq6TXbEJUYPonVfFhCWt469we5cKr9C9f22t-IIGBwooSyBRJ1xmRLRYP9Uo1H7_1l2sCWzyCJxmO2J_QkHhRFfEv_L7g3qH1P6emABw51e4rTCGR2rP9wthlBF23nf__c7sV3h0qvm9k6CjQKmNt7J0yu7Ptr0QQONr7dexg4/s640/lining%20up%20to%20sign%20the%20photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiFlurQbbopVlKn410hnq6TXbEJUYPonVfFhCWt469we5cKr9C9f22t-IIGBwooSyBRJ1xmRLRYP9Uo1H7_1l2sCWzyCJxmO2J_QkHhRFfEv_L7g3qH1P6emABw51e4rTCGR2rP9wthlBF23nf__c7sV3h0qvm9k6CjQKmNt7J0yu7Ptr0QQONr7dexg4/s320/lining%20up%20to%20sign%20the%20photo.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></b></div><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Genocide apologists who post vile comments online against the victims of Israeli violence are on par with the actual culprits, in my opinion. Anyone who spends so much time and energy trying to convince others they’re “good people” while making excuses for those who are ethnically cleansing innocent civilians and starving children probably wouldn’t want to hang with us do-gooders anyway. They're free to attend the Oscars instead.</span></b><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Please drop me your suggestions of award categories and the names of humans and groups worthy of an Aaron in the comments below. My talented husband has helped me put together a meme that they can display on their social media accounts showing that they’ve been nominated for an Aaron in the meantime. Folks who see the meme will know to thank them for their service to their fellow human beings. And hopefully, this award will encourage others to demonstrate that they, too, have a conscience and want to help their neighbors at home and around the globe.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW852_6Ca-2NvSQK1_ZyZ-E7zrZtq38QocPL2o4VMEUD5M2aeg2_WySGLBOVyB3shBxi_D05CKBlmBw34Db6YIhBxz4rMQYGwqJuYyjRkB6I-bCWtK0Ve3yFI54PX2f-VjkpLY_Z79LR1Mad46N6RBuFVaC1PV4-ilITbfpjYjb8Vo6SbZ8wEHtu2sEo4/s1280/Aaron%20ROTC%20protesters.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW852_6Ca-2NvSQK1_ZyZ-E7zrZtq38QocPL2o4VMEUD5M2aeg2_WySGLBOVyB3shBxi_D05CKBlmBw34Db6YIhBxz4rMQYGwqJuYyjRkB6I-bCWtK0Ve3yFI54PX2f-VjkpLY_Z79LR1Mad46N6RBuFVaC1PV4-ilITbfpjYjb8Vo6SbZ8wEHtu2sEo4/s320/Aaron%20ROTC%20protesters.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Wouldn’t it be great if everyone on the planet could be nominated for a <i>Human With a Conscience</i> award? Wouldn’t you like to live in such a world? I know I would.<br /></span></b></span><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Here are some my ideas for Aaron recipients so far:</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Medical Group with a Conscience: <a href="http://doctorswithoutborders.org" target="_blank">Doctors Without Borders</a> <br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Food Distro Group </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">with a Conscience</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">: Food Not Bombs, Third Thursday<br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Community Center/Library Builder </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">with a Conscience </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">(Detroit): Unholy Rome with Tour for the Poor <br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Activist Organizers </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">with a Conscience</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">: AMP – American Muslims for Palestine, Jewish Voice For Peace, Not In Our Name, Veterans for Peace, CodePink<br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Indie Podcasting Channel Highlighting the Struggle of the Workers </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">with a Conscience</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">: <a href="https://www.revolutionaryblackoutnetwork.com/" target="_blank">Revolutionary Blackout Network</a></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Video Compiler Blogger with a Conscience: Truthful News Weekend on Beanstock's World <a href="https://beanstocksworld.wordpress.com " target="_blank">https://beanstocksworld.wordpress.com </a></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Network of Independent Podcasters </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">with a Conscience</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">: Indie News Network/Indie Media Today <a href="https://www.indiemediatoday.com/" target="_blank">https://www.indiemediatoday.com/</a></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Comedian-Journalist </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">with a Conscience</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">: Lee Camp, Ron Placone, Graham Elwood</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Essayist/Political Commentator </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">with a Conscience</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">: Caitlin Johnstone (and Tim Foley), Chris Hedges, Julian McFarlane<br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Political Cartoonist</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">with a Conscience</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">: Mr. Fish (<a href="https://scheerpost.com/category/mr-fish/" target="_blank">ScheerReport</a>), Mark Taylor (<a href="https://mark192.substack.com/" target="_blank">DeMockracy Ink</a>)</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Independent Journalist </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">with a Conscience</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">: Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, Glenn Greenwald, Richard Medhurst <br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Documentary Maker </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">with a Conscience</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">: <a href="http://theempirefiles.tv/" target="_blank">Abby Martin</a></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Podcast Interviewer </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">with a Conscience</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">: Sabby Sabs, Briahna Joy Gray, Katie Halper, Joy Marie Mann<br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Alternative Radio Show </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">with a Conscience</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">: DJ Amjad’s <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/Deep_Mix_Music_and_More/" target="_blank">Deep Mix: Music and More</a></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Film-maker </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">with a Conscience</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Glazer" target="_blank">Jonathan Glazer</a></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Film Festival </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">with a Conscience: The Media Decompression's 2024 Palestine Film Festival <a href="https://mdctoledo.org/" target="_blank">https://mdctoledo.org/<br /></a></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Political Figure with a Conscience: Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party (Sign the pledge against genocide at her website <a href="https://jillstein2024.com" target="_blank">https://jillstein2024.com</a>); Claudia de la Cruz, <a href="https://votesocialist2024.com/about-the-candidates" target="_blank">Party of Socialism and Liberation</a>; Dr. Cornel West<br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Best Religious Figure with a Conscience: <a href="https://bethbc.edu/Faculty/munther-isaac/" target="_blank">the Rev. Dr. Munther Isaac</a> of </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="kY2IgmnCmOGjharHErah" style="-webkit-line-clamp: 3; font-family: georgia;"><span>Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church</span></span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> in the West Bank who gave the famous <a href="https://youtu.be/aEGiANa0-oI?si=CiZkPVsQ9tFPyZWR" target="_blank">“Christ in the Rubble”</a> sermon on Christmas Eve</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Humans with a Conscience who sacrificed their lives in service to others: <a href="https://youtu.be/qHCafAwhFZo?si=I9OOtIdcnqOh3sCN " target="_blank">Rachel Corrie</a>,<a href="https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/true-civilization" target="_blank"> Aaron Bushnell</a></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbW3lQZCIpcpGBJC8B9gA2qilg-iLgy0arJdpMz1zfGBdtTXyrJth-Bmuu0GmBuAFGKI1a4zhydnWb-Fof1JTNY0fEtIdp_F-TigW0ikvD9qqzrvebk9D0SnTf-EH32c-8_rqkAfjYdaEupi1RzTAFL6ug95Aqr1v4eUhxi1mZat4Gz-puKKRsXogdwWw/s565/Aaron%20head%20and%20wings_1b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="504" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbW3lQZCIpcpGBJC8B9gA2qilg-iLgy0arJdpMz1zfGBdtTXyrJth-Bmuu0GmBuAFGKI1a4zhydnWb-Fof1JTNY0fEtIdp_F-TigW0ikvD9qqzrvebk9D0SnTf-EH32c-8_rqkAfjYdaEupi1RzTAFL6ug95Aqr1v4eUhxi1mZat4Gz-puKKRsXogdwWw/s320/Aaron%20head%20and%20wings_1b.jpg" width="285" /></a></span></b></div><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I know I’ve left out a lot of worthy recipients. Share your thoughts below in the comments and share this link with your contacts who might have more suggestions. The main requirement to be nominated is to be “a <i>human </i>with a <i>conscience</i>” so, no A.I. ‘bots please! Also, no sociopaths, psychopaths, neoliberals, or other warmongers</span></b><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">We should all strive to be a human with a conscience and follow Aaron Bushnell’s instruction: Free Palestine!</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTD3E6Ue2hW826tMEicV3jFZQ1jQbiSkBd-jz37t_BAYASjUwBzLUPC19NY_lykGdegLqtD0Tc6-uE6yMd5T7-niHG3j01Hn-Aq_t63gOmxRbTCXC_4WT7BklKgUEmLi0YrKH65kqm4LpgKMHb5mKZlBI_OE4Z6zR-REhC8d2P6FDJQaSxsxS1Mk1FIQo/s1078/stand%20with%20Palestine.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="763" data-original-width="1078" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTD3E6Ue2hW826tMEicV3jFZQ1jQbiSkBd-jz37t_BAYASjUwBzLUPC19NY_lykGdegLqtD0Tc6-uE6yMd5T7-niHG3j01Hn-Aq_t63gOmxRbTCXC_4WT7BklKgUEmLi0YrKH65kqm4LpgKMHb5mKZlBI_OE4Z6zR-REhC8d2P6FDJQaSxsxS1Mk1FIQo/s320/stand%20with%20Palestine.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></b></div><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">Related Articles and Other Interesting Links </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">True Civilization <a href="https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/true-civilization" target="_blank">https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/true-civilization</a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The New Litmus Test <a href="https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/the-new-litmus-test " target="_blank">https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/the-new-litmus-test </a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Remembering Rachel Corrie: American in Gaza Crushed by Israeli Bulldozer <a href="https://youtu.be/qHCafAwhFZo?si=I9OOtIdcnqOh3sCN" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/qHCafAwhFZo?si=I9OOtIdcnqOh3sCN</a> </span><a href="https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/the-new-litmus-test " target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"> <br /></span></a></b></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">They're Really Going To Try To Lay All The Blame For Gaza On Netanyahu <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-really-going-to-try-to-lay" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theyre-really-going-to-try-to-lay</a><br /><br />Genocidal Psychopaths Celebrate International Day To Combat Islamophobia <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/genocidal-psychopaths-celebrate-international" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/genocidal-psychopaths-celebrate-international</a><br /><br />Killing Palestinians by Blocking Aid. 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season in the US has to be the most stressful time of the year. Even if
you’re fairly certain you’ll receive a refund and not owe anything, you
still have to deal with the uncertainty of pleasing our masters. You
must give them the correct figures to “appease the beast” and keep its
growling belly full and its appetite satiated.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>You
may think it's over-exaggeration calling the US government an animal,
but recent events prove my point. The US is financing and arming a
genocide. It’s providing arms and aid to the ethnostate of Israel to
ethnically cleanse the Palestinian people from their land in Gaza. (It
is even readying to send troops into Gaza as we've learned recently
after <a href="https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/true-civilization" target="_blank">the extreme protest of Airman Aaron Bushnell</a>.)
Can you get any more beastly than encouraging the mass murder of tens
of thousands of civilians and the slow starvation deaths of innocent
children?</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Now
that we’re agreed that the US government is a beast of unparalleled
proportions, what can we do about it? Do we keep feeding the beast and
hope for the best that it doesn’t turn around one day and decide to
devour us as well? Don't think it couldn't happen. Is this any way for
us to live, in perpetual fear and loathing? How can we as prey fight
back to see a world freed from the bloodthirsty hunger of the beast?</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Believe
it or not, We the People (prey) do have the power to slay the beast. We
can deny it sustenance. We can starve it, weaken it, and when it's
spinning in confusion, topple it.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Can
we do this simply by refusing to pay taxes to the Feds? Good question.
There have been some Americans who have done precisely that in protest
against the US war machine, and they have been penalized for it with
jail sentences and fines. And still, the US funding of endless wars for
oil and genocide continues. It’s as if tax dollars don’t really make
much of a difference one way or the other in how the US government pays
for its weapons and practices warfare.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>And
really, why should the government tax us at all? The government doesn’t
need our tax payments. It can always print more money, or produce more
ones and zeroes in a computer spreadsheet, nowadays. Modern Monetary
Theory (MMT) shows us how this works. There's no need for a Ft. Knox.
There’s nothing backing up the US “petrodollar” except American wars and
other<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-war-geopolitics-gaza-multibillion-dollar-gas-field " target="_blank"> oil resources grabs such as the one happening off the coast of Gaza</a>. <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/19/dedollarization-95-of-trade-between-china-and-russia-is-no-longer-done-in-us-currency/" target="_blank">De-dollarization</a> has begun.<br /></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmI3XjecSV1wb3cCUy5qvs-uu-OMYDEl-w4nt_LtPOD_q32uaIx3OldqX68Wlf2t67__ks6szbrNtWD9oZ5mz1QCMZEY-TK8Lgvga52Ay_854oNh29VmDqA7Pabf4oe_zQaiY3DRw5bLZZWyIVBJz-pYG8gACeiOiqVLyN9q3kg1KyerJKhnkoW8IDoRs/s1216/Bombs%20keep%20dropping%20no%20matter%20who%20in%20WH.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1216" data-original-width="1216" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmI3XjecSV1wb3cCUy5qvs-uu-OMYDEl-w4nt_LtPOD_q32uaIx3OldqX68Wlf2t67__ks6szbrNtWD9oZ5mz1QCMZEY-TK8Lgvga52Ay_854oNh29VmDqA7Pabf4oe_zQaiY3DRw5bLZZWyIVBJz-pYG8gACeiOiqVLyN9q3kg1KyerJKhnkoW8IDoRs/w320-h320/Bombs%20keep%20dropping%20no%20matter%20who%20in%20WH.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>So,
if the government will continue to finance war-making in our names
regardless to how We the People feel about it, or whether we pay our
taxes or not, who really controls the war machine? Could it be that
those who actually produce the weapons are the ones in control of
America’s never-ending military conflicts?</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>When
in doubt, follow the money. Who or what profits the most from the
trillion dollar US “defense” budget? If you answer, “Raytheon, General
Dynamics, Boeing…” go to the head of the class! You are no dummy. You
aren’t fooled by the US’s supposed democracy heralded by its paid-off
politicians. You know who's the real rulers are.<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>In
order to stop the genocide in Gaza, the genocide in the Congo, the
genocide in Sudan, the ceaseless bloodbath in Ukraine, the bucks must
stop here at the doors of the Military-Congressional-Industrial Complex
and its supporters like <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/blood-money-top-ten-politicians-taking-most-israel-money-israel-lobby/286491/" target="_blank">AIPAC</a>.
But how do we shut off the flow of blood money to these heartless
capitalist gangsters? This is where We the People need to get creative
and grow a pair of whatever-gender-specific-organ that gives you courage
and bravery, because it’s probably going to get worse before it gets
better.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQrlWXdpaO58EfnLvQSOUagGiTGWISO1EmNcoC7UqMF_Ks9cJkuerUsn0Og7vkYoR2l0PUXYrw857opNlwrgQZKqr6Vs_qX8Sg-9wE6bhg5RUAF0RY_pkMr2f-YzZruMhLRx-xyLjePlAh5zwRt_hbIh1NFniiqN6uzBKhhLKTMEHac6JJnXLddJ87lTA/s1131/Biden%20Genocide%20ice%20cream%20cone.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1131" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQrlWXdpaO58EfnLvQSOUagGiTGWISO1EmNcoC7UqMF_Ks9cJkuerUsn0Og7vkYoR2l0PUXYrw857opNlwrgQZKqr6Vs_qX8Sg-9wE6bhg5RUAF0RY_pkMr2f-YzZruMhLRx-xyLjePlAh5zwRt_hbIh1NFniiqN6uzBKhhLKTMEHac6JJnXLddJ87lTA/w226-h320/Biden%20Genocide%20ice%20cream%20cone.jpeg" width="226" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>A
good place to start is to find others of a like mind and become
involved with organizations that are working to bleed money from
corporate interests away from American politics. <a href="https://www.movetoamend.org/" target="_blank">The Move to Amend </a>organization
is an excellent example of individuals working together to put the
lobbyists for the MIC, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Insurance… out
of business forever. They wish to do so by having the US Constitution
amended with a "We the People Amendment" stating that all elections must
be fair and equal and federally funded—no money from corporations,
billionaires, or their lobbyists allowed. </b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>The
Move to Amend movement has been around for some time and receives
endorsements from some Congress members, but so far it’s a no go.
Neither the House or the Senate has held a vote on the proposal. It
appears that Congress members are willing to put their names on it for
good marketing purposes but nothing more. Perhaps one day the 28th
amendment will come about, but in the meantime, it cannot be our only
action.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>What else can we be do to shut down the war machine? <a href="https://moneyforhumanneeds.org/" target="_blank">Move the Money (to Human Needs)</a>
is an organization which is working to help to take money away from the
war machine, thus denying it of funding. Detroit recently became the
biggest US city so far to pass a resolution that calls on Congress and
the president to shift public money away from the military to fund
social services. The Michigan Peace Council was a major backer of the
campaign to win the resolution. It came on the same day that nearly
101,000 Michiganders voted “Uncommitted” in the Democratic primary to
oppose Biden’s support for Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian
people. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTgdM3xtw2LmQV7uNpaC8WBe76PNNu6YT1l8ZWsPDCrn5Myw3r1ZaT6p0Cm_OezjQ_w6IgANjCl9pFh_YFUyROmRBRexbJAiUpzA0lqAY32WSBv-G9SHn5rmVz0wUz3jO2VwXyaU_WU84ppzMDCWFqtn1xJbMzbtnYPMoRwlODrSku4zPkX0gcmqptVK8/s945/Change%20My%20mind%20about%20War.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="945" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTgdM3xtw2LmQV7uNpaC8WBe76PNNu6YT1l8ZWsPDCrn5Myw3r1ZaT6p0Cm_OezjQ_w6IgANjCl9pFh_YFUyROmRBRexbJAiUpzA0lqAY32WSBv-G9SHn5rmVz0wUz3jO2VwXyaU_WU84ppzMDCWFqtn1xJbMzbtnYPMoRwlODrSku4zPkX0gcmqptVK8/w320-h312/Change%20My%20mind%20about%20War.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Halting
the funding of the military industrial complex is like draining the
blood out of the beast. It takes time, but it’s doable. Is there
anything else we can do simultaneously while we’re denying the beast of
its insatiable need of money? Yes, there is. We can expose its
supporters and manufacturers of armaments to the world at large. We can
get them where they’re most vulnerable, in their public relations area.</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Scrolling
my Twitter (X) feed some days can be uplifting because there are so
many videos of protests and strikes happening in the US and around
the world that are each in their own small way helping to bring about
the death of the beast. From attending politicians’ speeches (including
Genocide Joe Biden’s) and shouting for the end of the genocide and all
wars, to <a href="https://www.thecanary.co/editorial/2024/03/01/palestine-action-four-actions/" target="_blank">protesting in front of or on top of the headquarters of arms manufacturers</a>, such as Israel’s Elbit Systems, We the People are making our wishes known. <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/most-americans-want-the-us-to-stop-sending-weapons-to-israel-poll-finds/ " target="_blank">We are the majority.</a> We know where they're making the instruments of death:<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Here's Every US Factory Making Bombs for Israel: <a href="https://youtu.be/ETtAGRvO33w?si=aiVcXY9iwGnJecO3 " target="_blank">https://youtu.be/ETtAGRvO33w?si=aiVcXY9iwGnJecO3 </a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>We’re
tired of the blood of innocents being spilled. We’re tired of watching
the slaughter of our neighbors worldwide for the sole reason of making
billionaire CEOs and their puppet-politicians ever richer. We’re making
our voices heard, and we’re engendering fear in these purveyors of death
and destruction. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Protesting
and general strikes, especially those events involving large numbers,
are more effective than you may realize. The beast thrives on pretending
that it only commits these unspeakable horrors out of a need to protect
our “freedom and democracy” (TM). We all know this to be complete and
utter bullshit. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>The fact that a <a href="https://forward.com/fast-forward/590870/teaneck-protest-israel-property-sale-event" target="_blank">New Jersey real estate agent is now selling stolen Palestinian properties in the West Bank to American Zionists</a>
negates the idea that the US is supporting "freedom and democracy" in
apartheid Israel. The fact that the US and other NATO countries cut off
funding to UNRWA because Israel told them twelve United Nations staff
members were part of "Hamas," which has since been proven to be false,
negates that. In fact, <a href="https://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/internacionales/349352-report-reveals-israel-tortured-unrwa-employees-to-falsely-admit-links-to-hamas " target="_blank">new evidence shows that Israel actually tortured (waterboarded) these UN workers into making false confessions</a>. How "democratic" is that?<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>By
standing together in a public space and shouting the lies back at the
liars, We the People take charge. The beast finds itself increasingly
cornered and isolated. By boycotting (<a href="http://bdsmovement.net" target="_blank">BDS</a>) any products that are funding our enemy's' evil actions, We the People make the beast realize its days are numbered.</span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcuCrB_KRzAY1JhFWG4-5-YKKgx7YMy2S5eUIIZwCw_tY-r8W1DqdvwQQbrz0bWvN3freeU7Cw_wcZpTEtpLh43npet48DZN-q636DHVm3pLhCdpZRs1Yf-xtop0WoC4auIUHE22x0lV0KexI7BoCEHALLT7K5HVNtd8EWwAM2tvSZ5ZW9xiqadi_1QQ/s972/Hamas%20Revealed.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcuCrB_KRzAY1JhFWG4-5-YKKgx7YMy2S5eUIIZwCw_tY-r8W1DqdvwQQbrz0bWvN3freeU7Cw_wcZpTEtpLh43npet48DZN-q636DHVm3pLhCdpZRs1Yf-xtop0WoC4auIUHE22x0lV0KexI7BoCEHALLT7K5HVNtd8EWwAM2tvSZ5ZW9xiqadi_1QQ/w237-h320/Hamas%20Revealed.jpeg" width="237" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>We
the People aren’t hiding in corners anymore, shivering in our shoes,
acting like prey creatures ready to be eaten. We’re growing stronger,
growing in numbers, and growing in our resolve to overcome the beast. We
will consume the beast whole like a pack of mice nibbling on a wounded
lion. We’ll eat it up bit by bit, but, in the end, the beast will be
eaten. And that’s why it fears us.</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>We’ll
no longer have to cry about the blood on our hands when we at last turn
off the flow of blood money. Then true freedom and democracy will
reign.<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUPmsiJ_9PvJtqnCx5GhOgahZAB3IKI6qEIY5dB2mJcuGw6ipedXp9e4IIKNQY29c4DJtH7i9TQtjYbYKdEUQWaivG3j87yNchMRQf5Y2nyGxm5iPTypxwRHoIjaqvlYP7oR-5HbY5p6AW-LyoU1YEJNgGuzMlqzCQCZxDqdOp9KyHPwA8yAoCps3fVHA/s1024/Biden%20has%20blood%20on%20his%20hands.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUPmsiJ_9PvJtqnCx5GhOgahZAB3IKI6qEIY5dB2mJcuGw6ipedXp9e4IIKNQY29c4DJtH7i9TQtjYbYKdEUQWaivG3j87yNchMRQf5Y2nyGxm5iPTypxwRHoIjaqvlYP7oR-5HbY5p6AW-LyoU1YEJNgGuzMlqzCQCZxDqdOp9KyHPwA8yAoCps3fVHA/w300-h400/Biden%20has%20blood%20on%20his%20hands.jpeg" width="300" /></a></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b>Related Articles and Other Interesting Links</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br /><br />‘Move The Money’: Detroit Votes For Slashing Bloated Pentagon Budget <a href="https://popularresistance.org/move-the-money-detroit-votes-for-slashing-bloated-pentagon-budget" target="_blank">https://popularresistance.org/move-the-money-detroit-votes-for-slashing-bloated-pentagon-budget</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Move the Money to Human Needs <a href="https://moneyforhumanneeds.org/" target="_blank">https://moneyforhumanneeds.org/ <br /></a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Report reveals Israel tortured UNRWA employees to falsely admit links to Hamas </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/internacionales/349352-report-reveals-israel-tortured-unrwa-employees-to-falsely-admit-links-to-hamas " target="_blank">https://www.radiohc.cu/en/noticias/internacionales/349352-report-reveals-israel-tortured-unrwa-employees-to-falsely-admit-links-to-hamas </a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Protesters target Teaneck event promoting West Bank real estate to U.S. Jews <a href="https://forward.com/fast-forward/590870/teaneck-protest-israel-property-sale-event/ " target="_blank">https://forward.com/fast-forward/590870/teaneck-protest-israel-property-sale-event/ </a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Israel wants to seize Gaza's multibillion dollar gas field <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-war-geopolitics-gaza-multibillion-dollar-gas-field " target="_blank">https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-war-geopolitics-gaza-multibillion-dollar-gas-field <br /></a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>At least 5 killed after airdropped aid falls on them in Gaza<br /><a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/least-5-killed-airdropped-aid-144754461.html" target="_blank">https://www.yahoo.com/news/least-5-killed-airdropped-aid-144754461.html</a><br /><br />Pretending The US Can't Just Drive Aid Into Gaza <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/pretending-the-us-cant-just-drive" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/pretending-the-us-cant-just-drive</a><br /><br />"Pay No Attention To That Genocide Right In Front Of Your Face"<br /> <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/pay-no-attention-to-that-genocide" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/pay-no-attention-to-that-genocide<br /></a><br />The US pretends that imposing the Hunger Games on Gaza = humanitarianism <a href="https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/the-us-pretends-that-imposing-the" target="_blank">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/the-us-pretends-that-imposing-the</a><br /><br />Most Americans Want the US to Stop Sending Weapons to Israel, Poll Finds <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/most-americans-want-the-us-to-stop-sending-weapons-to-israel-poll-finds/ " target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/most-americans-want-the-us-to-stop-sending-weapons-to-israel-poll-finds/ </a><br /><br />Oscar Winners Who Don't Speak Out On Gaza This Weekend Will Be Complicit In Genocide <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/oscar-winners-who-dont-speak-out" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/oscar-winners-who-dont-speak-out</a><br /><br />A US politician has let slip his genocidal intentions for Gaza <a href="https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/a-us-politician-has-let-slip-his" target="_blank">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/a-us-politician-has-let-slip-his<br /></a><br />How the ‘fight against antisemitism’ became a shield for Israel's genocide <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-fight-against-antisemitism-shield-israel-genocide" target="_blank">https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/war-gaza-fight-against-antisemitism-shield-israel-genocide<br /></a><br />Leaked Israel lobby presentation urges US officials to justify war on Gaza with ‘Hamas rape’ claims <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2024/03/06/leaked-israel-lobby-officials-war-gaza-mass-rape/" target="_blank">https://thegrayzone.com/2024/03/06/leaked-israel-lobby-officials-war-gaza-mass-rape/</a><br /><br />America Enters the Samizdat Era <a href="https://www.racket.news/p/america-enters-the-samizdat-era" target="_blank">https://www.racket.news/p/america-enters-the-samizdat-era</a><br /><br />The government is classing everyone it disagrees with as "extremists" <a href="https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/the-government-is-classing-everyone?" target="_blank">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/the-government-is-classing-everyone?</a><br /><br />Saying "Hamas Just Needs To Surrender" Is Saying "We'll Kill Kids Until We Get What We Want" <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/saying-hamas-just-needs-to-surrender" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/saying-hamas-just-needs-to-surrender</a><br /><br />The Most Dangerous Thing In The Western Hemisphere<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/33p-8QHZpzY?si=9lkt9Knz46pI2j00" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/33p-8QHZpzY?si=9lkt9Knz46pI2j00 </a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Dedollarization: 95% of trade between China and Russia is no longer done in US currency </b></span><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b><span><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/19/dedollarization-95-of-trade-between-china-and-russia-is-no-longer-done-in-us-currency/" target="_blank">https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/19/dedollarization-95-of-trade-between-china-and-russia-is-no-longer-done-in-us-currency/</a></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b><span><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Blood Money: The Top Ten Politicians Taking The Most Israel Lobby Cash </span></span></span></b></span></span></span><a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/blood-money-top-ten-politicians-taking-most-israel-money-israel-lobby/286491/" target="_blank"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b><span><span><span style="font-size: medium;">https://www.mintpressnews.com/blood-money-top-ten-politicians-taking-most-israel-money-israel-lobby/286491/ <br /></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></a></p><p><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b><span><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Palestine Action Has Been in Action Four Times This Week--doing what politicians dare not <a href="https://www.thecanary.co/editorial/2024/03/01/palestine-action-four-actions/" target="_blank">https://www.thecanary.co/editorial/2024/03/01/palestine-action-four-actions/</a></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Liberals Are Always Trying To Distance Biden From Netanyahu, And Netanyahu From Israel <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/liberals-are-always-trying-to-distance" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/liberals-are-always-trying-to-distance</a></span></b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b><span><span><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b><span><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Save the people of Piqua, Ohio, from toxins caused by lithium-ion battery burning their city government is allowing: <a href="https://savepiqua.com/ " target="_blank">https://savepiqua.com/ </a></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></p><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b><span><span><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Subscribe
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Matthews</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />There has been a lot of discussion both online and offline about the extreme act of protest US Airman Aaron Bushnell committed in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC on February 25, 2024. Some of the chatter is put out by Zionist trolls trying to negate the magnitude of his sacrifice, calling him “mentally ill,” “suicidal,” “homicidal” or worse. However, most of the commentary has been respectful and awe-filled, praising the commitment Aaron made toward creating a lasting peace for the people of Palestine.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aaron was willing to die in order to make the point that others should be allowed to live. His positive and self-sacrificial message has made it through the dregs of negative propaganda and found a welcoming place in millions of hearts worldwide. Here are some comments I've found particularly illuminating.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKcwwxg-_m598vq76UMgygvJ5zx9XOv9u9Hcf744fyB5OZCbInGxODmZhWolMly1jb08MJ7bly-oSWVP0zyl_MQ3Wwc-2yxNLPgBqOhrUFmuUB2_qPtK6m1_DXxjZFw3q_RhyphenhyphenUYrE0j-OYI92m4-erOcHTIaQ5r4LKQc5pq8yRwxkkQ_Na86lddNTAbSY/s1350/Aarons%20will.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKcwwxg-_m598vq76UMgygvJ5zx9XOv9u9Hcf744fyB5OZCbInGxODmZhWolMly1jb08MJ7bly-oSWVP0zyl_MQ3Wwc-2yxNLPgBqOhrUFmuUB2_qPtK6m1_DXxjZFw3q_RhyphenhyphenUYrE0j-OYI92m4-erOcHTIaQ5r4LKQc5pq8yRwxkkQ_Na86lddNTAbSY/w320-h400/Aarons%20will.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Nuno Marques (@numarqs) on X/Twitter says:</span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aaron was not mentally ill. This system that calls him mentally ill and supports a genocide is mentally ill. As someone who has gone through therapy myself, I find it abhorrent to insult martyrs this way. What the US government and its media stenographers want you to believe is if you have a conscience, you’re mentally disturbed! <a href="https://twitter.com/numarqs/status/1762276006340301148" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/numarqs/status/1762276006340301148<br /></a></span></b></span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">I agree. Having a conscience is not a “mental illness”. Far from it. Having a conscience shows you are a fully realized human being who can empathize with the suffering of others and have compassion on them and their plight. This week I learned that Aaron left his savings in his will to the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aaron really did believe in using whatever means he had at his disposal to help others, to bring about justice and peace. <br />As Nuno Marques says Aaron Bushnell is a martyr, deserving of our thanks and praise.<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Another who expressed a similar take on Aaron’s protest is Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti of Ansar Allah. </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3" style="font-family: georgia; text-overflow: unset;">(@M_N_Albukhaiti) </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here is what he said about honoring Aaron’s sacrifice:<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Today, the world lost Aaron Bushnell, a brave, noble, and conscientious human being, but his message reached and resonated around the world. Aaron proved that his conscience's ability to bear the scenes of dead and wounded Palestinian children was weaker than his ability to bear the pain of fire burning his body, so he continued to chant freedom for Palestine until the last moment of his life. Thank you Aaron, your message has awakened the global conscience, but we will continue to cry for you as we cry for the children of Palestine. <a href="https://twitter.com/M_N_Albukhaiti/status/1762198093628375103" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/M_N_Albukhaiti/status/1762198093628375103</a><br /></span></b></span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aaron Bushnell has “awakened the global conscience.” His protest is powerful and positive, not the act of a madman or mentally ill individual. Thank you, Aaron, for waking our sleeping consciences so that we may be inspired to do good deeds for our fellow human beings in their time of trial and need.<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and ordained minister Chris Hedges sees Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation as <a href=" https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/aaron-bushnells-divine-violence" target="_blank">“divine violence”</a>. He phrases it this way: <br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Divine violence terrifies a corrupt and discredited ruling class. It exposes their depravity. It illustrates that not everyone is paralyzed by fear. It is a siren call to battle radical evil. That is what Bushnell intended. His sacrifice speaks to our better selves.</span></b></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aaron’s protest has exposed the depravity in our “corrupt and discredited ruling class”, and for this reason alone it is worthy of our attention. Hedges is right to call it a” siren call to battle radical evil” because this is exactly what Aaron wished to expose—the evil of genocide, the evil of bombing innocent children and their parents whose only “crime” was being born Palestinian in the modern ethnostate of Israel.<br /><br />Aaron Bushnell: A martyr who practiced divine violence in order to awaken the global conscience.<br /><br />“Aaron Bushnell wasn’t addressing the Israeli government with his soul-jarring message. He wasn’t even addressing his own government. He was addressing you. Each of us. His goal was to get us all to open our eyes to the horror of what’s happening, and spur us to action to end it,” said <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/a-profound-act-of-sincerity" target="_blank">journalists Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley</a>. They call Aaron’s actions “a profound act of sincerity.” <br /></span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">I agree. In a world built on lies, manipulation, and gaslighting, when evil meets that pure and unadulterated sincerity of love of others so much that Aaron felt compelled to lay down his life for the sake of the persecuted Palestinian people, it pauses, astonished and chastised. Could we lesser mortals ever learn to put our hatred and racism aside and embrace such sincere compassion? <br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">It remains to be seen, but the conversation has begun. For that profound act of sincerity alone, I see Aaron as a saint and a genius. <br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aaron Bushnell: A martyr who practiced divine violence in order to awaken the global conscience through an act of profound sincerity and compassion.<br /><br />A quote that has been mentioned in relation to Aaron’s extreme act of protest is one attributed to the world-renown anthropologist Margaret Mead. Surgeon Dr. Paul Brand remembered Mead saying:<br /></span></b></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Early in my career I heard a lecture from the anthropologist Margaret Mead. “What would you say is the earliest sign of civilization?” she asked, naming a few options. A clay pot? Tools made of iron? The first domesticated plants? “These are all early signs,” she continued, “but here is what I believe to be evidence of the earliest <i>true civilization</i>.” High above her head she held a human femur, the largest bone in the leg, and pointed to a grossly thickened area where the bone had been fractured, and then solidly healed.<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Such signs of healing are never found among the remains of the earliest, fiercest societies. In their skeletons we find clues of violence: a rib pierced by an arrow, a skull crushed by a club. But this healed bone shows that someone must have cared for the injured person—hunted on his behalf, brought him food, served him at personal sacrifice.” --a quote from <i>Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: A Surgeon Looks at the Human and Spiritual Body</i> by Dr. Paul Brand and Philip Yancey. (Found at <a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/07/25/femur/" target="_blank">https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/07/25/femur/)</a></span></b></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/07/25/femur/" target="_blank"></a> Caring for your fellow human beings in their time of need is a sign of <i>true civilization</i> according to Margaret Mead. If so, what sort of sign is committing (or aiding and abetting) a genocide then? A sign of a <i>false civilization</i>? A false civilization that cannot acknowledge that ethnically cleansing two million plus people is evil and wrong?<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">No wonder this false civilization we live in doesn’t recognize Aaron Bushnell for the saint he was, a man who practiced divine violence in order to awaken the global conscience through his act of profound sincerity and compassion!<br /> </span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY5Sga1lidHMLoMw8kbs-571L2SOVann-lWQDdpKqyzsAT4eLchSRDkZjtuMDS6aZjK9n-_pzjb5A3QPAfHLsyau3wsID1TpijQlI6PHQ2svFDXfwo1BQd-WUM4ML9ElgVHpFiOBkcE6Gv3d-RrzxeRw2s9TzJEfUj0CeZglWnZ0jS5RgnfsOR0nZ3tPo/s1129/last%20words.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1129" data-original-width="941" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY5Sga1lidHMLoMw8kbs-571L2SOVann-lWQDdpKqyzsAT4eLchSRDkZjtuMDS6aZjK9n-_pzjb5A3QPAfHLsyau3wsID1TpijQlI6PHQ2svFDXfwo1BQd-WUM4ML9ElgVHpFiOBkcE6Gv3d-RrzxeRw2s9TzJEfUj0CeZglWnZ0jS5RgnfsOR0nZ3tPo/w334-h400/last%20words.jpeg" width="334" /></a></span></b></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?” Aaron posted on his personal Facebook page before he began his walk toward the Israeli embassy. “The answer is, You’re doing it. Right Now.”</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Aaron Bushnell’s very last words spoken as he walked to the place where he would set himself ablaze: “I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I'm about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine, at the hands of their colonizers it's not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”<br /><br />“Free Palestine!”<br /><br />We will never live in a <i>true</i> civilization until we have freed ourselves from the tyranny of those who commit genocide for their own corrupt purposes. As Mead says “personal sacrifice” is what was shown in the earliest forms of human civilization. Caring for the injured and the sick was what made us truly “human." How quickly we’ve forgotten what our ancestors learned and practiced!<br /><br />Let us follow Aaron’s lead not by burning ourselves alive in front of an embassy, but by doing all we can to stop the corrupt ruling class that has brought about this false civilization in which we currently live. A civilization that is destroying our planet with its wanton pollution of our air, land and water... A civilization that is destroying our very souls with its greed and inhumane actions. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Our personal sacrifice to the cause of ending this false civilization will save the lives of billions and save our own humanity. Anything less from us isn't worthy of the sacrifice that Aaron Bushnell made to open our eyes to this evil reality.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Rest in Power, Aaron. May we all live to make you proud.<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5nDrSMu3erMIF15dy7F_r221O6IFGHExrNQx25S6ZvN24watCH3nwLpoK0nxpldH68mB5_zhEn7rGdnRN7awQCsE0punf5CBk0JHZ1KL0hKuGhpHsCVQj0JC3XLoZ73gjahn-KdqfKVZkopjhleHlqPBZiwv20BLVElgv_1uyE4JXzPmxyxrYZ-tUjAc/s905/Bread%20not%20bombs.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="871" data-original-width="905" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5nDrSMu3erMIF15dy7F_r221O6IFGHExrNQx25S6ZvN24watCH3nwLpoK0nxpldH68mB5_zhEn7rGdnRN7awQCsE0punf5CBk0JHZ1KL0hKuGhpHsCVQj0JC3XLoZ73gjahn-KdqfKVZkopjhleHlqPBZiwv20BLVElgv_1uyE4JXzPmxyxrYZ-tUjAc/s320/Bread%20not%20bombs.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">* * *</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg233RjxwvpIro-IaKFUfH7gZshIiZ1p-K9_Ljz9z_DJZ-f9ex9cNNuOTFSFmUV5wihpg8DM_ywZt3YoOUjS60ZqyWK1yWZSrjfxAmZxokLNdbO2-sro48SoLfpLQdj-sAwUtvD_5DrgEwzSGCQGr631TjYuXSLl9vAKykFRDbr0G5PKVTBwh6ltPRNeks/s1280/Jill%20with%20pen%20and%20paper.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg233RjxwvpIro-IaKFUfH7gZshIiZ1p-K9_Ljz9z_DJZ-f9ex9cNNuOTFSFmUV5wihpg8DM_ywZt3YoOUjS60ZqyWK1yWZSrjfxAmZxokLNdbO2-sro48SoLfpLQdj-sAwUtvD_5DrgEwzSGCQGr631TjYuXSLl9vAKykFRDbr0G5PKVTBwh6ltPRNeks/s320/Jill%20with%20pen%20and%20paper.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Organizer-in-Chief</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">photos and words by C.A. Matthews <br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein came through the Toledo area this past weekend where she met and chatted with avid supporters and skeptic questioners alike.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUzjTUiqdaYYqehiSkXrkHiaj3qRg2pwVbP-4B5-rmYY3lMSL-6ThSaWaUEJ6YQ6exdyd7kUzg78_ZwZruxRAMQ4MB3uVaximhH5Iqc3GB3VC1NbQfQ2S8klUMUrV4_Kq56GLFJo27IXZjfsF0W9ampNmevuvOgUfXtMnnu_87KrRvfLC2H8wSWb1nDgw/s1280/Jill%20with%20crowd.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUzjTUiqdaYYqehiSkXrkHiaj3qRg2pwVbP-4B5-rmYY3lMSL-6ThSaWaUEJ6YQ6exdyd7kUzg78_ZwZruxRAMQ4MB3uVaximhH5Iqc3GB3VC1NbQfQ2S8klUMUrV4_Kq56GLFJo27IXZjfsF0W9ampNmevuvOgUfXtMnnu_87KrRvfLC2H8wSWb1nDgw/s320/Jill%20with%20crowd.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">I've seen just about every interview Jill has ever done with both independent and mainstream media journalists, but there's something special about being in Dr. Stein's personal presence. She really is a believer in the ability of "We the People" to enact and practice true democracy. She never talks down to her audience, and she's always welcoming of folks' feedback, information, and comments. It is truly refreshing to be taken seriously as a voter and to be treated with such graciousness.</span></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNBWGia6HxugjSZquaTFXzCsR5j8sDWpjc7Lv_l70p9J2WwpTXRVVb2ErXcXKmffMvlF-HpcmdwBp35AR_0FU6mrT8cenIkmtkFLpPOa1oJyVePjelZOyrvZRvz-nYzovQQYwuZ4YVt-TiNpYyjfg2q4xcvbs4_paodYBF0r-QT5LxDn0OIfGoU5jnU-M/s1280/Jill%20with%20Mo%20and%20Marj.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNBWGia6HxugjSZquaTFXzCsR5j8sDWpjc7Lv_l70p9J2WwpTXRVVb2ErXcXKmffMvlF-HpcmdwBp35AR_0FU6mrT8cenIkmtkFLpPOa1oJyVePjelZOyrvZRvz-nYzovQQYwuZ4YVt-TiNpYyjfg2q4xcvbs4_paodYBF0r-QT5LxDn0OIfGoU5jnU-M/s320/Jill%20with%20Mo%20and%20Marj.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">I particularly like how Jill envisions a "Green House" in DC. She sees herself acting as the "Organizer-in-Chief," keeping the various activist organizations that will work together to bring about a Jill Stein victory and a better America doing just that even after she takes office. We will all continue working together against the corrupt status quo politicians and their policies until they are no longer in power, and a true democracy in the USA is born. </span></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">It's a lofty goal and a beautiful vision, one that many will want to become a part of as we "Abandon Biden, Dump Trump, and Join Jill!" (For more information about how you can volunteer, donate, or just learn more about Jill, check out <a href="http://jillstein2024.com" target="_blank">jillstein2024.com</a>)<span><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjffFRuwYMsQvvzZmYJZKh-jK_JCEqHR8J1yIKGXL_rxlYZcg1psIo4FokZwREaK8gsruin-ku7OUmm4fAYpjrSHh4_JkZY-2jz73Bhvf5mmuZkgjXjLVfEToo2qmD-hGQ_vNpunyPPh3sii4dY3Tb9YufVg3G33YRDa153hfL0mNdmM2gNftyZxDd1u1E/s1280/Jill%20with%20Kelly%20and%20Anita.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjffFRuwYMsQvvzZmYJZKh-jK_JCEqHR8J1yIKGXL_rxlYZcg1psIo4FokZwREaK8gsruin-ku7OUmm4fAYpjrSHh4_JkZY-2jz73Bhvf5mmuZkgjXjLVfEToo2qmD-hGQ_vNpunyPPh3sii4dY3Tb9YufVg3G33YRDa153hfL0mNdmM2gNftyZxDd1u1E/s320/Jill%20with%20Kelly%20and%20Anita.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Related Articles and Interesting Links</span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">A profound act of sincerity <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/a-profound-act-of-sincerity" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/a-profound-act-of-sincerity</a><br /><br />Aaron Bushnell's Death Can't Rightly Be Called An Act Of Suicide <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/aaron-bushnells-death-cant-rightly" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/aaron-bushnells-death-cant-rightly<br /></a><br />On Aaron Bushnell, Methinks The Israel Apologist Doth Protest Too Much <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/on-aaron-bushnell-methinks-the-israe" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/on-aaron-bushnell-methinks-the-israe</a><br /> <br />Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2024/03/01/chris-hedges-aaron-bushnells-divine-violence/ https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/aaron-bushnells-divine-violence" target="_blank">https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/aaron-bushnells-divine-violence</a><br /><br />A message from Mohammed Al-Bukhaiti (Ansar Allah, a.k.a. 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Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly.” — Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant</span></b></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><blockquote>Biden Repeatedly Confuses Ukraine & Russia & Iraq <a href="https://rumble.com/v4f44no-biden-repeatedly-confuses-ukraine-and-russia-and-iraq.html" target="_blank">https://rumble.com/v4f44no-biden-repeatedly-confuses-ukraine-and-russia-and-iraq.html</a></blockquote><a href="https://rumble.com/v4f44no-biden-repeatedly-confuses-ukraine-and-russia-and-iraq.html" target="_blank"></a><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjfSVEeuLJdEYBj70fV2FeYxNhdGJ6X9xnv0XWI3XVQBITh0VWsde5IDiTf3lYgpbDmXrcFe2-KdjVgfFezJzI5k29sK6TZnsXpU5q_diCzOPXZziqhy2oz9oXGWBklHLZeFSh9hmWRXh7-wogjPzrgrYwijosoa_uPe72X2AC4SWx3Ls57odPjcSjGQo/s1536/genocide%20confirmed.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1536" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjfSVEeuLJdEYBj70fV2FeYxNhdGJ6X9xnv0XWI3XVQBITh0VWsde5IDiTf3lYgpbDmXrcFe2-KdjVgfFezJzI5k29sK6TZnsXpU5q_diCzOPXZziqhy2oz9oXGWBklHLZeFSh9hmWRXh7-wogjPzrgrYwijosoa_uPe72X2AC4SWx3Ls57odPjcSjGQo/w400-h250/genocide%20confirmed.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Quiet Part</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">by C.A. Matthews<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Some days you have to pinch yourself. Did she really say that? (Yes, she did.) Did he really say those dehumanizing and racist things? (Yes, he did.) Did our president confuse Ukraine and Russia and Iraq? (Yes, he has mixed up these sorts of things on several occasions, but it has nothing to do with his cognitive decline issues we're told.) <br /><br />Why are they saying (or acting) the “quiet part” out loud?<br /><br />It hit me about eight years ago that the corrupt American status quo doesn’t waste time on niceties anymore. They don’t try to hide the fact that they couldn’t care less about the working classes. They don’t care if their mindless “puppet-president” is just that obvious nowadays. Our electeds don’t even pretend to be on our side as they take yet another wad of cash from AIPAC and send billions of dollars in bombs to Israel to assist with a genocide of the Palestinian people.<br /></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigX6hBdAYdNwdsE6KIPxHrEoAJhtilpbWb3Jn6tSOu-WxOQmB132aEUoxWV9sCPRx2SBDPQr06S0gBw8ApFLh-VkhIK4y7Kt4Rzxj_MaApm2VKud3CiEfTyXPRsbk3IkfM2RhKHnW_mdbGrnclwxIxfJLdwlA5YXG36UA2H_16y0vzfOq5TH0fv15-3qk/s2279/AIPAC%20Supports%20Crime.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1450" data-original-width="2279" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigX6hBdAYdNwdsE6KIPxHrEoAJhtilpbWb3Jn6tSOu-WxOQmB132aEUoxWV9sCPRx2SBDPQr06S0gBw8ApFLh-VkhIK4y7Kt4Rzxj_MaApm2VKud3CiEfTyXPRsbk3IkfM2RhKHnW_mdbGrnclwxIxfJLdwlA5YXG36UA2H_16y0vzfOq5TH0fv15-3qk/w400-h255/AIPAC%20Supports%20Crime.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The smug establishment is saying the “quiet part” out loud. For this reason alone we should take them at their word. Push all those doubts out of your mind. The US is gladly helping Israel with their “Final Solution to the Palestinian Question.” Our UN ambassador just said it out loud, didn’t she? <br /><br />No doubts about it at all—the US government doesn’t care if the Israelis wipe out the entirety of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank to take their land, natural gas and oil resources. And why should it? We’ve done it ourselves before, haven’t we?<br /><br />Whose land do you live on, “American”? The original inhabitants’ land—not the white settlers’ stolen parcel. Don’t give me that, “I paid for it—it’s my property!” nonsense. All property is theft. You did not create the land out of thin air, did you? It belonged to someone else before you. And probably before them as well if they were of European heritage. Wiping out entire indigenous peoples and language groups and replacing them with white Anglo-Saxon culture is as American as Dutch apple pie and German frankfurters, a.k.a. hot dogs.<br /><br />Don’t grieve if this makes you look complicit with genocide by association. The quiet part needs to be said out loud from time to time to keep us honest. So kudos goes out to United States Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield for keeping it real. Even if it was a <i>faux pas</i> on her part or a poorly worded statement she read without editing first, she still made it. Now the world knows exactly why the US continues to veto a ceasefire in Gaza in the UN Security Council. We’re helping the Israelis with their “Final Solution” according to a senior US official, so that makes it official.<br /><br />The term “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” was a euphemism used by Nazi Germany’s leaders according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Most of us know enough history to understand what the Nazis were up to at their concentration camps during the 1940s. They weren’t holiday camps. They didn’t expect the people who walked in through their gates to walk out ever again. “Final” meant just that. No more problems can be expected from people who aren’t breathing any longer.<br /><br />“It’s all so...shocking, isn’t it?” I’ve heard this line many times over the past four months. “The US is openly supporting a genocide in Gaza and turning a blind eye to the war crimes their ally Israel is proudly committing. Who would have thought this was possible in the year 2024? I blame [insert villain of the week the duopolists are shouting about here].”<br /><br />My response to this line of nonsense is this: “I don’t know where you’ve been most of your life, but what is so shocking about how the US has never learned its lesson and has decided to support white settler-colonialism on their ‘world’s largest aircraft carrier in the Middle East’? How long did legal chattel slavery of Africans exist in the US? We slaughtered </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Native Americans </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">both before and after our blessed independence from Great Britain in the 18th century, did we not? Please stop trying to blame others for the war crimes Americans have done, continue to do and condone others for doing.”<br /></span></b></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE77djxGOJwD3VVnetzOLX0sL9tEolnrTOU3HY_h2Db6okx_OybXuTTYgDdZuIgyOlAG-HMWK3TVgluMSFEMk2CI6oxs5yUcrdHRN-Km5X9UTIfKXC75EoR3ucqVdY-SW24q09dUzqbMwP46aS3Hv_ra6nVOMMQJantk9kQdHG36wf8JGLadvA_pi0VRw/s1280/History%20everyone%20refuses%20to%20talk%20about.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE77djxGOJwD3VVnetzOLX0sL9tEolnrTOU3HY_h2Db6okx_OybXuTTYgDdZuIgyOlAG-HMWK3TVgluMSFEMk2CI6oxs5yUcrdHRN-Km5X9UTIfKXC75EoR3ucqVdY-SW24q09dUzqbMwP46aS3Hv_ra6nVOMMQJantk9kQdHG36wf8JGLadvA_pi0VRw/w320-h400/History%20everyone%20refuses%20to%20talk%20about.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">When the US government spends massive amounts of their tax payer dollars on military budgets, it expects to win after all. You can’t expect the US to “win” if it doesn’t have the best in armaments and locations to launch its military strikes from, can you? Israel has been the site of many American operations in that corner of the world, operations to secure and steal petroleum resources. Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq again… We’re in it together! Why should Americans worry about brown-skinned “human animals” getting wiped out in <a href="https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/the-root-of-all-evils" target="_blank">our journey to gain control over more of the Earth’s black gold</a>? The Israelis certainly don’t act squeamish about it.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sure, being painted with the same brush as Adolf Hitler and friends makes our consciences (what’s left of them) twinge a bit, but this genocide is all in a good cause. What cause is that? Well, our cause, of course! Saying the quiet part out loud should be of no concern to Westerners who have come to depend upon petroleum-powered vehicles and plastics, plastics, and more plastics to maintain their high standard of living. <br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">The choice is simple: It’s our lavish lifestyles or the lives of strangers dying under tons of rubble in an open air concentration camp called the Occupied Territories. How many Westerners are going to give up their BMWs or Cadillac Escalades for the sake of saving little children from having their bomb-damaged arms and legs amputated without anesthesia? </span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwOsoQ04LUbeSWpLQCMHy5x5w36lbw7MnEZRzKupt-BzslIgmxmZ8S0ccKXFf20fkaJ8gGgdE3pqxkKe1R6CvU528kYnwI6dEIPI1UeYsASx1O4k5roPgqBg2f4W778oUPgOQz-lu3XOVOWnlUFRszMoD9DntcPPAnpPXoHRkZ7NYgV5nkFPwJ6gAPrn8/s941/10%20children%20lose%20a%20limb%20a%20day.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="877" data-original-width="941" height="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwOsoQ04LUbeSWpLQCMHy5x5w36lbw7MnEZRzKupt-BzslIgmxmZ8S0ccKXFf20fkaJ8gGgdE3pqxkKe1R6CvU528kYnwI6dEIPI1UeYsASx1O4k5roPgqBg2f4W778oUPgOQz-lu3XOVOWnlUFRszMoD9DntcPPAnpPXoHRkZ7NYgV5nkFPwJ6gAPrn8/w200-h186/10%20children%20lose%20a%20limb%20a%20day.jpeg" width="200" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Hands up all those willing to give up their lifestyle to save others? Anyone? Hmm, yeah, I thought so.<br /><br />The quiet part said out loud recently in the West has been known by the vast majority of non-Western humans on this planet for decades now. They are not surprised at all. Ask a Cambodian or a Vietnamese person about how Agent Orange dropped from American aircraft in the 1970s changed their lives and the lives of their loved ones forever with its mutative effects. </span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Southeast Asians understand white settler-colonialism even if the whites didn’t come and take their land away from them directly. Destroying their villages and their health with cancer-causing chemicals pretty much made the point clear: Americans didn’t and still don’t give a shit about anyone’s health and safety. It should come as no surprise to you that the Global South sympathizes wholly with the Palestinians and not at all with the Israeli occupiers and their allies.<br /><br />That’s the funny thing about saying the quiet part out loud. It’s only “shocking” to those who have benefited materially, financially, and socially from not hearing the words said out loud before. To everyone else it’s just, “Oh, yeah, we knew that all along. Why didn’t you know about it?”<br /><br />So, why didn’t you know? Why have you been keeping the quiet part quiet in your own conscience? What do you have to lose by admitting out loud to others that your country is taking part in a genocide? What do you have to gain by being honest and acknowledging the truth of the matter? Will others expect you to fight back against it if you admit it’s a <i>bona fide</i> genocide? Will they expect you to give up your white settler-colonialist privileges (even if you’re not considered officially white in your Western society) in order to bring about an end to this genocide and the occupation of an indigenous people’s land and resources?<br /><br />Will you have to<i> *gulp!*</i> actually change the way you think, speak, and act from here on out?<br /><br />Change can be scary. But so is a genocide for the innocent civilians suffering through it. Why should you be allowed to remain quiet and unchanging, uncaring while others are dying in Gaza, Congo, Sudan...?<br /><br />Say the quiet part out loud and take action against it. Today.<br /><br /></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The biggest insult to the memory of the Holocaust is not denying it but using it to commit genocide against the Palestinian people. --Norman Finkelstein </span></b></span></blockquote><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Rest In Power, Aaron Bushnell <br /></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtzqUXyuW_0uJezsz-M9tem9Z2q6vPH-6nzak2Cj7On8_dAGe5R8ZFqbjFndqllO4LMpIdPu-3g4Qe5CqFfDHzVJPFjFmYL5GkiE7wD327avFYvz9lwMs8DaYtJ46jJRHB0gK05JDWbLigfLlyoO49KX1nVgc-O_mI037xG5ep2GKKllHL48KWoB__MA/s680/Aaron%20Bushnell.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="612" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHtzqUXyuW_0uJezsz-M9tem9Z2q6vPH-6nzak2Cj7On8_dAGe5R8ZFqbjFndqllO4LMpIdPu-3g4Qe5CqFfDHzVJPFjFmYL5GkiE7wD327avFYvz9lwMs8DaYtJ46jJRHB0gK05JDWbLigfLlyoO49KX1nVgc-O_mI037xG5ep2GKKllHL48KWoB__MA/w180-h200/Aaron%20Bushnell.jpeg" width="180" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Active duty US airman Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire outside of the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC on February 25 protesting Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. He has since died from his injuries. He is the second person to have self-immolated in extreme protest to bring awareness to the genocide in Gaza. A woman on December 2, 2023, self-immolated outside an Israeli consulate in Atlanta. Aaron’s last message on social media explains why he was protesting:</b></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdLXeDu8exaq30Os4-v58d30mwi8MMquBAIaZXbuPEdkqdrzBX3JgmeUJi2QwPqZ43tHtc5caHeQyeVQzmzHV7Yy03iNXGQPRIu2W1SroaBjxBG-j9WrAisYQfXn9f4wNCo6Nk-87WMhI2kdWHEN_XwuD_fKv9NfXfLfIP16iczne_HIcAiM05Nf2-bh0/s828/last%20post.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="419" data-original-width="828" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdLXeDu8exaq30Os4-v58d30mwi8MMquBAIaZXbuPEdkqdrzBX3JgmeUJi2QwPqZ43tHtc5caHeQyeVQzmzHV7Yy03iNXGQPRIu2W1SroaBjxBG-j9WrAisYQfXn9f4wNCo6Nk-87WMhI2kdWHEN_XwuD_fKv9NfXfLfIP16iczne_HIcAiM05Nf2-bh0/w400-h203/last%20post.jpeg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">His last words spoken were "Free Palestine!"</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Caitlin Johnstone summed up Aaron's protest in this way: "I would never do what Bushnell did, and I would never recommend anyone
else does either. That said, I also can’t deny that his action is having
its intended effect: drawing attention to the horrors that are
happening in Gaza." --from </span></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><a href=" https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/aaron-bushnell-burned-himself-alive" target="_blank">Aaron Bushnell Burned Himself Alive To Make You Turn Your Eyes To Gaza</a></i></b></span></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Rest in power, Aaron. May your sacrifice not be in vain. #FreePalestine</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5nfD64hKk3GDo13voDYAflV4eezuf-x__nsryfRYagkkHWJ-txa4Sp5GsbVF39HoLEvSLrbB0V-6mMmi5l5qQTR1ZRv6_V_QD5AN7gzNQACqTT0Zi1RsJEB3f4jhGb2ji6pt4df-Xh1UK2MT-mIhsROokW-5oTBP6obW1JIq6UlkUXaq0qvV_eD5HJE4/s1024/Peace%20Please.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5nfD64hKk3GDo13voDYAflV4eezuf-x__nsryfRYagkkHWJ-txa4Sp5GsbVF39HoLEvSLrbB0V-6mMmi5l5qQTR1ZRv6_V_QD5AN7gzNQACqTT0Zi1RsJEB3f4jhGb2ji6pt4df-Xh1UK2MT-mIhsROokW-5oTBP6obW1JIq6UlkUXaq0qvV_eD5HJE4/s320/Peace%20Please.jpeg" width="300" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></b><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Related Articles and Other Interesting Links</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Remarks by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield at the UN Security Council Stakeout Following a Vote on the Situation in the Middle East <a href="https://usun.usmission.gov/remarks-by-ambassador-linda-thomas-greenfield-at-the-un-security-council-stakeout-following-a-vote-on-the-situation-in-the-middle-east/" target="_blank">https://usun.usmission.gov/remarks-by-ambassador-linda-thomas-greenfield-at-the-un-security-council-stakeout-following-a-vote-on-the-situation-in-the-middle-east/</a></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <br /></span></b></span></p><div class="h1" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">YANIS VAROUFAKIS: Here's What The West Actually Stands For <a href="https://rumble.com/v4focxn-yanis-varoufakis-heres-what-the-west-actually-stands-for.html" target="_blank">https://rumble.com/v4focxn-yanis-varoufakis-heres-what-the-west-actually-stands-for.html</a></span></b></span></div><div class="h1" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div><div class="h1" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Aaron Bushnell Burned Himself Alive To Make You Turn Your Eyes To Gaza</b></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href=" https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/aaron-bushnell-burned-himself-alive" target="_blank"> https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/aaron-bushnell-burned-himself-alive</a> </span></b></span></div><div class="h1" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div><div class="h1" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Free Palestine!" 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<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">An
update on the <a href="https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/thirty-pieces-of-blood-stained-silver" target="_blank">Ceasefire in Gaza resolution that Toledo City Council</a>
has dragged its feet on </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">for
the past several months</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">:
It has finally passed! It passed “unanimous</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ly</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">”
(or at least the council members who were actually there all voted
for it). </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">This
is a huge relief to all the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
people </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">who
have put so much time and energy into seeing it pass</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">. </span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">It’s
probably no coincidence </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the resolution's</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
passage happened </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">after</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Biden’s poll numbers took a huge dive because he couldn’t give the correct names of the presidents of Egypt and Mexico. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
D</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">em</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ocrat</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s
on council might have felt </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">now was the time to</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">divert
away from their party’s stance on refusing to acknowledge that a genocide in
Gaza is actually happening and that a ceasefire is necessary. Rest assured, politicians don’t do things out
of the goodness of their hearts without first checking in with local
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">p</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">arty
leaders for their okay to vote yes. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">But
a win is still a win, and it was well-deserved. Power to the People!</span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Now onto this week's topic. </span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHY2vLWiADVc3IA-PZK6TT8yL-PoV4a3dBXsXeTkDGhyt-sK9EZXocAWEgMutaX3AXVZiY7xxCy2HZfUK2S628i-sxPh9JqC63mPnaGC1mxPQofVGfCToLzefs3MBcf092qKcZiw0zNaP8VOf4DGXO1MnyyxrzNhxuSSpgWjK7_izOQpZ76JLhwedJVgk/s720/Loving%20those%20who%20oppressed%20you.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="720" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHY2vLWiADVc3IA-PZK6TT8yL-PoV4a3dBXsXeTkDGhyt-sK9EZXocAWEgMutaX3AXVZiY7xxCy2HZfUK2S628i-sxPh9JqC63mPnaGC1mxPQofVGfCToLzefs3MBcf092qKcZiw0zNaP8VOf4DGXO1MnyyxrzNhxuSSpgWjK7_izOQpZ76JLhwedJVgk/w400-h313/Loving%20those%20who%20oppressed%20you.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></b><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Bullets </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;">v.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Ballots </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;">or...</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;">?</span></span></b></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">by C.A. Matthews<br /></span></span></b>
</p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></b></p><p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">After
the third online discussion on pretty much the same topic within a
week, you start to notice a pattern: Folks are fed up.</span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
revolution isn’t happening quickly enough or at all. The same
corrupt puppet-politicians are still in power. The workers are </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">being
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">oppressed
by capitalist bosses who don’t give a damn about the harm they
inflict upon their employees or the earth itself. Endless war is
waged to line the pockets of Big Oil and MIC CEOs. Genocide is openly
practiced and applauded by sycophantic politicos and celebrities
alike. A human life is </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">only
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">worth
whatever a billionaire says it is.</span></span></b></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuWt7hnZXm29ixO75fu7_oR4ip5euu_aXtrU13XkzGXwiceStH1QdhjrGHi6Q_xSsdyTxVkB2PnoJAwtntAmRp8z_u5sbrnR7crkvpJbEeyfB87f5zMaIi4nqwhcBIkSQ8fwt0tq55r7WGGw1Fw3HRKGQ6JyfRxwlfiWfXJcfoFwDQZdKl_q0RFni4QEc/s2048/Gaza%20beach%20from%20UNRWA.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuWt7hnZXm29ixO75fu7_oR4ip5euu_aXtrU13XkzGXwiceStH1QdhjrGHi6Q_xSsdyTxVkB2PnoJAwtntAmRp8z_u5sbrnR7crkvpJbEeyfB87f5zMaIi4nqwhcBIkSQ8fwt0tq55r7WGGw1Fw3HRKGQ6JyfRxwlfiWfXJcfoFwDQZdKl_q0RFni4QEc/s320/Gaza%20beach%20from%20UNRWA.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Gaza today</b></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Get
the picture?</b></span><p></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What
are we to do about it? There are two major schools of thought on this
topic that can be summarized as follows: The revolution will come
about through either 1) bullets or 2) ballots. </span></b>
</p><p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That’s
it. It comes down to fighting our way out of this oppressive,
corrupt system by using good ol’ fashioned firepower, that is, guns
and ammo, or by using the power of the vote or ballot box. </span></b>
</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Tempers
have been strained these past four months watching innocent children
and civilians being slaughtered in Gaza. Palestinian homes and
refugees have been pulverized. Most Americans are heartsick and
angry, totally at a lost as to how to stop the killing. If there’s
anything positive to come from this horrendous loss of life, it’s that
most Westerners </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">don’t
see</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
their governments as the “good guys” any longer.</span></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Eyes
have been opened. They don’t like what they see. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Those
brainwashed into thinking they live in a “democracy” now know
better. “</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">F</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">reedom
and democracy” </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">cannot
be </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">created
though military strikes and conquests. Military excursions are just
that—a use of deadly force to take what another country or people
possess. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">If
you want the land itself, you bomb the inhabitants into rubble or
push them into someone else’</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
backyard. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(In Gaza’s case, this means Egypt.)</span></span></b></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“Freedom and democracy” are imaginary constructs used to manipulate
Westerners into cooperating with their imaginary democratically
elected governments. The so-called “major parties” in any Western
country are about as genuine as a $3 bill. The partisans work for the
same bosses everywhere, the billionaires (oligarchs), and not for
their lowly constituents.</span></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Sure,
on occasion </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">our elected officials
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">might
throw us a bone to get us off their backs. This </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">happened
this past week when the Toledo City Council finally passed a
Ceasefire in Gaza resolution after three months of tortuous protests,
intense email and phone call campaigns, and painful public statements made
by individuals who have lost family members in the genocide. Not
passing the ceasefire resolution could have very well spelled an end
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">council
members’</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
political careers at this point. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Pro-Palestine</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
protests </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">have</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
expos</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ed</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">politicians
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">for
the sociopaths they </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">are,
breaking the illusion of “freedom and democracy” and “justice
for all” </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Americans
supposedly enjoy</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">. </span></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">We
the People are “free” to live in the falsehood of</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
a </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">“democracy”
that allows 60,000 Americans to die each year </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">due
to lack of</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
health care. Westerners are “free” to live in a “democracy”
that ethnically cleanses a whole population in order to steal their
oil and land resources </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">while
allowing</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> white settler colonialism to flourish. Or we are free to rise up and
take out the puppet-politicians </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">billionaires by use of force.</span></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNwlYClBLkshIyPUyRaNg6PTuw13OHUExDnqfZV61ZNDC1lHOvbMAVGqYqYcJPemNRb5mMAK-1oqkP1TDNbsl9M1tVvz84x4U7U3t-kJgN3OmEXrBYLUBY2KIJvUUGzdGmx5gM4S2oryKc52QqJxVLTH49puQ9zw1omby462lZHb4w_DnUFHdDegBMli8/s1350/gaza-death-toll-feb-13-2024.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNwlYClBLkshIyPUyRaNg6PTuw13OHUExDnqfZV61ZNDC1lHOvbMAVGqYqYcJPemNRb5mMAK-1oqkP1TDNbsl9M1tVvz84x4U7U3t-kJgN3OmEXrBYLUBY2KIJvUUGzdGmx5gM4S2oryKc52QqJxVLTH49puQ9zw1omby462lZHb4w_DnUFHdDegBMli8/w320-h400/gaza-death-toll-feb-13-2024.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
lot of folks online think that force </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">or
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
“bullet” is the only effective solution to bring about
revolution. Obviously, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
ballot has failed us—just look at the example of Toledo City
Council.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
But I’m not convinced the bullet is anymore effective than the
ballot. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Consider
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">this:
Western governments have bombs and nuclear weapons and </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">large
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">organized
military forces called “Armies”. We the ordinary people have
nothing close to approximating their firepower, and </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">we
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">never
will.</span></span></b><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
bunch of angry citizens running around with shotguns and pistols will
not be able to take out a professional military force using the
latest in weaponry and tactics. Sorry, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">but
it won’t work. We</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
can’t do it because </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">we</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
will not lay </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">aside
our </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">differences
with </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">our</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
fellow citizens in order to organize and train sufficiently to be
able to take on </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">professional
army. G</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">overnments have endless bombs </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
drop on any uprising that occurs. Plus, they have friendly fellow
governments t</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">o
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">help
out </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">when
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">they
need it. Just look at how </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">readily
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
US helps Israel in conducting its genocide against the
Palestinians.</span></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Sorry
for the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">cold
splash of water </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
the face,</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
revolutionaries. In the bullet v. the ballot argument, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">w</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">e
are not organized enough, and we are not on the same footing
weapons-wise </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">as</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
the corrupt government we wish to do away with. But the ballot? It
has problems, too. We just have to look at our elected officials and
see how they do as their wealthy donors tell them to do. Billionaires
rule.</span></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Neither
the bullet nor the ballot alone are able to bring about the
revolution we seek. Could combining them be effective? Possibly if
the government we wish to overthrow doesn’t have a professional
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">military.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
We’re screwed if it does. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">V</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">iolence
is n</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ever </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the answer. </span></span></b>
</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">he
“major parties” </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">only
nominate candidates they’re assured will </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">do
the bidding of the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ir</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
billionaire </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">donor</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">V</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">oting
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">under
these circumstances</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
isn’t the answer. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">It’s</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> time to add another “B” to the bullet/ballot scenario of
revolution: Brains.</span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">We
the People may be poor and lacking firepower, but we’re not stupid. Our
corrupt governments run by puppets of the wealthy assume we’re
mentally deficient because we’ve allowed </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">their
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">corrupt politicians to take power. But what the billionaires and their
puppets don’t realize is how frustrated </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ordinary
folks</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
ha</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ve</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
become. They don’t </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">seem
to </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">realize
that desperate people are not afraid to try new tactics and learn
new skills in order to survive and thrive.</span></span></b></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Using
our brains, we can bring about the revolution we desire.</span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRMS-yqrGuS5DCv1rxCP9YeP6lpFH_b1uFT_D4nd8BgHbsD6G64OVPEVs6M21w9S9egebto0FuH2_ckI3pirCYqoaNoz8SngYLjvOli3BhNCebnQi6sT6hUeIqViX1eHYk4QEWXU_Xyo6JzRCj2P68inD4kzOzESji-Z7PcnKXMT3M9n3gZGFbgytDqxU/s1055/Boycott%20Israeli%20brands.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1055" data-original-width="846" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRMS-yqrGuS5DCv1rxCP9YeP6lpFH_b1uFT_D4nd8BgHbsD6G64OVPEVs6M21w9S9egebto0FuH2_ckI3pirCYqoaNoz8SngYLjvOli3BhNCebnQi6sT6hUeIqViX1eHYk4QEWXU_Xyo6JzRCj2P68inD4kzOzESji-Z7PcnKXMT3M9n3gZGFbgytDqxU/s320/Boycott%20Israeli%20brands.jpg" width="257" /></a></span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br />The
<a href="https://bdsmovement.net/" target="_blank">BDS Movement </a>(Boycott, Divest, and Sanction) is one example of using
brains and not bullets or ballots to make a point. We pressure the
real power behind the politicians—the corporations—to stop doing
business with people </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
countries </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">we
don’t like and want to see go away. McDonald’s </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">has</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">experienced </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">huge losses because of the boycott of their restaurants </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">worldwide
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">by
those who support the Palestinian cause. </span></span></b>
<p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">We
could kill off the military-industrial-Congressional-complex this way
if we really worked hard at it. McDonald’s and other corporations
stop doing business with Israel and </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>wham</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">!
Israel is too broke to keep buying armaments from Western nations.
The </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Israeli</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
government is weakened and overthrown by those who want to end the
genocide and bring about a true democracy in that part of the world.</span></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Along
with the BDS, the power of the strike could be wielded as a weapon
of brains. Workers organized and striking could bring down major
corporations and industries that have harmed our planet with their
endless wars for oil and their insistence on building nuclear
weapons. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
nationwide </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">General
Strike or, even better, a <i>Global </i>General Strike is the power of the
people on steroids. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">W</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">e’re
talking </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>millions</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
or </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>billions</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
or human beings striking against corrupt governments </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>everywhere</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
on the globe at once. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Yes,
there is the risk of bullets—mostly coming from the weakened
corporations-governments </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">who
want to terrify the workers back into the factories</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">—but
possibly if we’re organized enough to run a Global General Strike
effectively, we can effectively organize militia units to protect our
fellow workers </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">on the picket lines</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></b></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQLF8pfNj3WXMEHH9rDBL1sIbeFXGj-kb81mipqQlBxU_JZD1YlOMyfGR5Yg9WhsNNug1OGrY1Zv1ZArXVRQPiEAs4i84wVAt55rulX0ULuvg8h8goFMirXe0dPfjwJFHC8pD-roU0Z6rW45npg1Q61P2z1K5AlSV6YuTdbM9fGyTLb403VT1mDWqYokk/s680/Vote%20For%20Someone%20Else.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="680" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQLF8pfNj3WXMEHH9rDBL1sIbeFXGj-kb81mipqQlBxU_JZD1YlOMyfGR5Yg9WhsNNug1OGrY1Zv1ZArXVRQPiEAs4i84wVAt55rulX0ULuvg8h8goFMirXe0dPfjwJFHC8pD-roU0Z6rW45npg1Q61P2z1K5AlSV6YuTdbM9fGyTLb403VT1mDWqYokk/s320/Vote%20For%20Someone%20Else.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br />Brains
and ballots </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">can
be </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">used
effectively together when we organize ourselves to </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">support
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">candidates
and issues </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that
take out </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">corrupt
government</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">. One recent example </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
the US </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">is the “Abandon Biden” movement. Arab Americans are not going to
reward Genocide Joe Biden with their votes, and they’re not making
any promises that they ever will support his party ever again. This
organized method of creating a massive voting bloc can wake up the
powers-that-be and prove to them that we’re not stupid.
We’re not cooperating with their evil intentions, and we’re not
afraid to </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">deny them power</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span></b><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">If
a General Strike and the BDS tactics are added to this massive voting
bloc </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
take out the “major parties” in the US</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">then
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">We
the People </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">could
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">become
stronger than any army in history. But we will need to be united on
whom we will </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">support
in order</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
to prevent Biden or his evil twin Trump from taking power again. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">My
suggestion is to support a strong alternative party candidate who
will have wide ballot access and is clearly on the people’s side.
And there is one such individual who is currently rising in the polls
that fits this definition: Dr. <a href="https://jillstein2024.com" target="_blank">Jill Stein </a>of the Green Party. (The Green Party US does not accept money from corporations or PACs.)<br /></span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I
know there are those who will still moan that the ballot box is
ineffective—especially in the US where rigged voting machines are
not unheard of—but give me a chance to explain this tactic further.
By voting in large numbers for Jill Stein, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Americans</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
will be making a very strong message that we’</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ve
caught on</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">major
parties’ crooked</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
methods. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">W</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">e’re
not playing along with them and their billionaire donors any longer.
Throw in a General Strike or a series of wildcat strikes, BDS
tactics, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">teach-ins,
sit-ins, protests and other outpourings of anti-oligarchy sentiment,
and we will have seriously messed with the minds of the
powers-that-be. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Th</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">e</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">use
of our </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">collective
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">brain
power </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">will
cause confusion and panic in the ranks of the elites and their puppet-politicians. </span></span></b>
</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Mistakes
will be made </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">by
our oppressors </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that
We the People can take advantage of to our ultimate benefit. If the
government resorts to rigging the election, we can up our strikes, protests and other tactics to expose their treachery. That's what independent media and journalism is for, helping the people tell their side of things. </span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">If the government resorts to violence, then we can return the same with a clear
conscience that we didn’t instigate it. We are only protecting
ourselves from tyranny. We are true patriots, and they are despots.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Who would blame us for standing up to evil?</span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">What
have we got to lose by exposing the corrupt puppets and their
billionaire donors </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in such a fashion</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">?
Propaganda is meant to keep the people in line. When we’re in
control of making the headlines through indie media, then the propaganda narrative of
Western governments will cease to exist </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
so will they</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><i>We
will become the story</i>.</span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Bullets
v. Ballots doesn’t quite give us the credit we’re due. We the
People have brains, too. If we organize and use them wisely, the
future is ours.</span></span></b></p>
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Free Your Mind.<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzIYyrFMCT_e3vRnDmqrxCP4ct8eer9fVh280oPtKMuJL9vQBo4s_osicNt39HaGTyyrCWDA0sS1zDgA6iLYYQtXUcfUTiea56Z7PROcNcOpqs7frMgkjbpFJGfv1IMIylaIjBewarDi4ZHNbdgP71ea7XIgexZsYuYgcTmmNh98HXWd-q55qzyFIlKx0/s1080/Day%20X%20Free%20Assange.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzIYyrFMCT_e3vRnDmqrxCP4ct8eer9fVh280oPtKMuJL9vQBo4s_osicNt39HaGTyyrCWDA0sS1zDgA6iLYYQtXUcfUTiea56Z7PROcNcOpqs7frMgkjbpFJGfv1IMIylaIjBewarDi4ZHNbdgP71ea7XIgexZsYuYgcTmmNh98HXWd-q55qzyFIlKx0/w400-h400/Day%20X%20Free%20Assange.jpeg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Free Assange. Free Palestine. Free Your Mind.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">by C.A. Matthews </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br />February 20, 2024 is a date that could very well live in infamy. <br /><br />Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange could be extradited from the UK to the US on that date or the next day. He’d be transferred from Belmarsh, one hellhole of a prison to another similar lock-up across the Atlantic. Locked up ever deeper away from the prying eyes of the public and kept far away from the loving arms of his wife and children and his father and brother who have fought so hard for his release. And why? Simply for publishing the truth.<br /><br />Why all the fuss over one journalist? It’s not like it’s the end of the world if he dies in prison, is it? In a way, it is. Julian Assange has become a world famous icon signifying free speech. He is the man who defied the corrupt system, the establishment or status quo. He fearlessly published the <a href="https://youtu.be/HfvFpT-iypw?si=60T0rN_AFn0W_4UY" target="_blank">Collateral Murder video</a> demonstrating just how craven our rulers really are and how little they care about civilians killed in their endless wars for oil, wars they lied our way into in the first place.<br /><br /></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiziTN82RObveB37hvqXNfhzb7Yb6QU63gIO_86ZzMwDlHNzhrpCesNsculoqwfsV10twH-L7scTHT0vsiTaaFAQOnkfAF8VpeZncCsFCi4DwqhUTxgVup2CtXTDVxjopdiIsFRP44hOVsjD0tUdS1DSB8fSNwaq1WkXGg2y5eFuwc9F1C5VMVqy1VPLgo/s1160/Assange%20%20proceedings.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="828" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiziTN82RObveB37hvqXNfhzb7Yb6QU63gIO_86ZzMwDlHNzhrpCesNsculoqwfsV10twH-L7scTHT0vsiTaaFAQOnkfAF8VpeZncCsFCi4DwqhUTxgVup2CtXTDVxjopdiIsFRP44hOVsjD0tUdS1DSB8fSNwaq1WkXGg2y5eFuwc9F1C5VMVqy1VPLgo/w456-h640/Assange%20%20proceedings.jpg" width="456" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">It can’t be overstated just how angry and vengeful Assange’s revelation of the truth has made the powers-that-be. Mere words cannot expressed how worried they are that Assange would do it again in a heartbeat if he could. He’d expose their bloodthirstiness over and over again to the public, and other journalists and publications would follow suit and, before you knew it, the whole world would be in the streets, demanding justice. The workers would be pulling these villains who rule us out of their mansions and dragging them from their luxury yachts and marching them off to the gulag or up the steps toward the guillotine. <br /><br />Yeah, Julian Assange and what he stands for—freedom of expression—is that dangerous to the powers-that-be.<br /><br />Actual journalism is not what our rulers want. It’s best to keep us working drudges in the dark, ignorant of the transgressions they commit regularly in our names in any number of military conflicts, proxy wars, or genocides worldwide. And so Assange must be held accountable for committing the crime of journalism—<i>real</i> journalism and not simply pumping out propaganda such as CNN and other mainstream media outlets are known for and even now are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/feb/04/cnn-staff-pro-israel-bias" target="_blank">being exposed for doing so by their own staff</a>.<br /><br />Call your representative and senators today at (202) 244-3121 and tell them to sponsor H.Res. 934 to drop the charges and free Julian Assange. Freedom of speech cannot be allowed to die along with our hopes for democracy.<br /><br />#FreeAssange</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEcOCHesJdQRH8Y5hBfG4-v0CxtctMxnIUuRwguz_3xoO-CxgjmV-TQjRw7XfDRXUSVi9-Q0ewJl3jUithQ4-JfFAmHeFG5WnrpWnL4IeQns0fzNdS4CU5j1U8S4VmWFW4lKKJJgJV-K_BftuLuRErX3SIyWpB1tcHetCpWTNeW4dxQHvXvFk6rAj_v_w/s1170/No%20Mercy%20bombs.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1129" data-original-width="1170" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEcOCHesJdQRH8Y5hBfG4-v0CxtctMxnIUuRwguz_3xoO-CxgjmV-TQjRw7XfDRXUSVi9-Q0ewJl3jUithQ4-JfFAmHeFG5WnrpWnL4IeQns0fzNdS4CU5j1U8S4VmWFW4lKKJJgJV-K_BftuLuRErX3SIyWpB1tcHetCpWTNeW4dxQHvXvFk6rAj_v_w/w320-h309/No%20Mercy%20bombs.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">If Assange were free today, I’m certain he would be publishing stories to expose the genocidal machinations of the Netanyahu regime in Israel. He would expose the complicity of Biden and the US government in supplying arms to fuel the genocide in Gaza. No doubt about it. Assange implored us to learn all we could of what is being done in our names by our so-called elected officials. It shouldn’t have taken a court proceeding at the International Court of Justice at The Hague to determine Israel has “plausibly committed acts of genocide.” A free press should have yelled this fact out from day one.<br /><br />In a world filled with journalists doing their jobs instead of doing what they are told to do by the CIA and corrupt governments, it would have been made more than obvious what the Zionist regime’s intentions toward the Palestinian people were from the start. The point would have been driven home repeatedly. Instead, independent publications and journalists that attempt to share the viewpoints of the Palestinians are forced to crowd fund to keep their operations working. They’re forced to fight for bandwidth and social platform space as the <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/in-the-war-of-propaganda-it-is-very" target="_blank"><i>Ministry of Truth</i></a> finds excuses to force them offline so its propaganda can continue to cloud the issues and confuse the public.</span></b><b><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsvLpo9khn0yspzsc4GRsvr-KSlqcgIspH0RK1lToXlBDH9xbv4deDZYzdxlfYBZwE3eOXKrTdW8q75s6ekiTW0WLtdH0p1uk63mYlLRSqHHRrs-TNECUZWNAIwg9-F4mZDV187F0mh8i9_fO68_bZBp028SAo4kuC5a7_IQ6nMtMI3h2fAYvBUDliSVo/s1283/Journalist%20heroes.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1183" data-original-width="1283" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsvLpo9khn0yspzsc4GRsvr-KSlqcgIspH0RK1lToXlBDH9xbv4deDZYzdxlfYBZwE3eOXKrTdW8q75s6ekiTW0WLtdH0p1uk63mYlLRSqHHRrs-TNECUZWNAIwg9-F4mZDV187F0mh8i9_fO68_bZBp028SAo4kuC5a7_IQ6nMtMI3h2fAYvBUDliSVo/w400-h369/Journalist%20heroes.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">The vast majority of Americans actually believe that Israel is full of war criminals committing genocide against the Palestinians. The numbers rise in every poll in spite of all the US government propaganda and narrative spin by the mainstream media pundits. Amazing how the truth will come out even when evil minds work hard to keep it from being revealed! Without a free press, or a free online forum of ideas and independent journalists, the story that Palestinians are the victims of Israel's genocidal aggression instead of the other way around—that Israelis are eternal “victims of Arab terrorists”—would never have been able to reach the public's ears. <br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXhOOBXA9-bLjKyiPIv3g1DKwB2m9IhdTl1vMk_hBWH0FvlTGfbj0QlZE1ZlAsNZk3jtJehrRM_AfZMAFRvudBv1JM-U8KJnd39zM3PtHB1tCYF_ocM1KUu56iyofUI57A8ndjwb7oFpU0mxMyrk7IsDJW3SmkCGEqHIPnCtpgbgFIvfd36Wa6_LeSMY0/s1024/Mother%20and%20children%20in%20Gaza.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXhOOBXA9-bLjKyiPIv3g1DKwB2m9IhdTl1vMk_hBWH0FvlTGfbj0QlZE1ZlAsNZk3jtJehrRM_AfZMAFRvudBv1JM-U8KJnd39zM3PtHB1tCYF_ocM1KUu56iyofUI57A8ndjwb7oFpU0mxMyrk7IsDJW3SmkCGEqHIPnCtpgbgFIvfd36Wa6_LeSMY0/s320/Mother%20and%20children%20in%20Gaza.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the freedom of independent journalists and publishers to cover all angles of a story are all important “weapons” in the struggle to protect the human rights of indigenous peoples everywhere. Without the world knowing what is going on in Gaza—an open air concentration camp under fire—would the world have overwhelmingly taken the side of the Palestinian cause? The professional journalists and the citizens journalists alike who have lost their lives in this cause are to be admired and their names honored by all who value honesty.</span><br /></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>To the slain journalists in Gaza who kept their eyes open so the world could see Israel’s crimes: <a href="https://therealnews.com/a-tribute-to-our-slain-journalist-colleagues-in-gaza" target="_blank">https://therealnews.com/a-tribute-to-our-slain-journalist-colleagues-in-gaza</a></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>RIP 6-year-old Hind Rajab and all the innocent children of Gaza slaughtered brutally by the US funded Israeli Defense Forces <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/hind-rajab" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/news/hind-rajab</a><br /><br />#FreePalestine<br /><br /></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1wLAsJFK2JMvzyAue8QCqKmGurosKbf5J5iqPgV4Stf1w9skACtmM8mujEedJfO79o8zSMohGRb8wlVcUr0sR6yjsHsNhz5Jqk_lDHqRgG0BiG9-4BtwkunQz0iOQt7kTrbGQwkZM35-w5P9CBSPkDoLARYGytwZR55-Y8lANVelYfhnR2xTC5n5lrUA/s1075/why%20do%20my%20taxes%20pay%20for%20genocide.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1075" data-original-width="950" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1wLAsJFK2JMvzyAue8QCqKmGurosKbf5J5iqPgV4Stf1w9skACtmM8mujEedJfO79o8zSMohGRb8wlVcUr0sR6yjsHsNhz5Jqk_lDHqRgG0BiG9-4BtwkunQz0iOQt7kTrbGQwkZM35-w5P9CBSPkDoLARYGytwZR55-Y8lANVelYfhnR2xTC5n5lrUA/w354-h400/why%20do%20my%20taxes%20pay%20for%20genocide.jpeg" width="354" /></a></b></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">It’s hard to remain optimistic during times like these. True journalism is portrayed by the American regime as a crime punishable by life imprisonment. Being born a Palestinian in Gaza or the West Bank is seen as a crime punishable by death by the Israeli regime. Is there any light at the end of this tunnel full of doom and gloom?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Who knows? In the meantime we need to keep our spirits up and our minds focused on important tasks at hand. An online acquaintance mentioned how difficult it was repeating the same facts and stories to others in order to convince them of the truth of the genocide happening in Gaza. I agree. It is difficult. <i>Very </i>difficult.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">I found myself without words earlier this week, unable to think clearly, feeling tired and foggy-brained just like our foggy morning air. I didn’t know what to write about for this week's post. And then I was encouraged by comrade activists to write a poem for a Palestine-inspired poetry read at a local coffee house.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqu-6VVi84M5BKv7g8gneYH5Kfhup2iP8p2xqNEZEJJqsALKgtnI0iIsHptvc3goEn8yU6yyLG-L7XB0AMoHm38Pudj0bKz8wleTH1T5tSl0e988t8F6S2DbZnNZE5thTdsA5NEOAdyLXonRdovgJLxEHDdvBWxj84zMIXdF4Ou_PzpRfRsB-cwUd-ek0/s1280/Poetry%20read.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqu-6VVi84M5BKv7g8gneYH5Kfhup2iP8p2xqNEZEJJqsALKgtnI0iIsHptvc3goEn8yU6yyLG-L7XB0AMoHm38Pudj0bKz8wleTH1T5tSl0e988t8F6S2DbZnNZE5thTdsA5NEOAdyLXonRdovgJLxEHDdvBWxj84zMIXdF4Ou_PzpRfRsB-cwUd-ek0/s320/Poetry%20read.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Writing poetry helped to lift my mental fog. Just doing something different with words can help your mind reset and refocus. Instead of trying to hammer coherent sentences together, I focused on what I was <i>feeling</i> about what is happening in Gaza. A different style of writing cleared away the fog. I found I could write prose again after crafting a poem to share what has been hurting me deep in my heart. </span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Here is a poem I wrote as I realized how my recent daily ritual was connected to the sorrow and shame I was feeling for those trapped in Gaza:</span><br /></b><b><br /></b></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Dust From Gaza<br /><br />The air quality index is higher than it's ever been <br />The particulate count is sky high<br />No fires burning in California or out west currently<br />Could this be dust from Gaza?<br /><br />I breathe in the air full of particulates and cough and groan<br />Where has all the oxygen gone?<br />Has it been burned up in thousands of fires caused by Israeli bombing?<br />Could this be caused by dust from Gaza?<br /><br />It is said that matter is neither created nor destroyed<br />That we are breathing in air that was once breathed out by pharaohs and kings<br />That every speck of soot clinging to our car windows isn't original<br />Could these gray motes be dust from Gaza?<br /><br />Every morning I check the air quality index<br />Every day since October the number has been in the moderate to unhealthy range<br />Once a day I take my asthma medication and think--<br />Am I breathing in dust from Gaza?<br /><br />What air do Gazans breathe in?<br />What air do Zionists breathe in?<br />Are we all not breathing in the same air?<br />Why are Americans allowing the IDF to disintegrate an entire people, turning them to dust?<br />For our penance this Ash Wednesday we should be covered in dust from Gaza<br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br />Yeah, I know it's not going to win me any poetry contests, but writing this poem helped me come to terms with the frustration, the sadness, and the anger I’m feeling. I think writing poetry inspired by Palestine helped others </b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>at the poetry read </b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>deal a little bit with their overwhelming emotions, too.<br /><br />No matter what fate awaits us, we must free our minds and remain vigilant to keep them free. We are living witnesses to the events happening here in our communities and over there in Gaza. We owe it to ourselves and posterity to never forget, to never let <i>them</i> forget, to never let genocide happen ever again—to anyone, anywhere.<br /><br />#FreeYourMind (And don't be afraid tell the world what you're seeing and feeling. Your viewpoints are valid and needed. History will cherish them.)<br /></b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXKk5e11P9SVwQUjVdji0xoFePco-4bXgspT8vXRL7m8LzvOgMNkYIHtHf7lppOEjpRxjN6I8WYPOhLokVoueSmnyNZ_NN7wHtT19S_Z8_g2uhie_jOrCJ_l4MN7Xfz1VsJ-k3BJr7CF5NqGNQohvHYDBknBoeMa3_d-CTkNhswUI0NMY87n_xwwVJbJQ/s925/ceolawyer.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="925" data-original-width="750" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXKk5e11P9SVwQUjVdji0xoFePco-4bXgspT8vXRL7m8LzvOgMNkYIHtHf7lppOEjpRxjN6I8WYPOhLokVoueSmnyNZ_NN7wHtT19S_Z8_g2uhie_jOrCJ_l4MN7Xfz1VsJ-k3BJr7CF5NqGNQohvHYDBknBoeMa3_d-CTkNhswUI0NMY87n_xwwVJbJQ/w324-h400/ceolawyer.jpg" width="324" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Related Articles and Other Interesting Links</span></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Free Julian Assange! 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Pieces of Blood-Stained Silver</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">by C.A. Matthews <br /></span></span></b></span></p><div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">If
I could </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">regain</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
those two hours I’d gladly </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">take
them back and do </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">something
useful </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">with
them,</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
like clean out my cat’s litter box. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">But
there’s no time machine invented yet that can </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">return
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">those
wasted minutes of our lives, so we simply have to live and learn from
them.</span></span></b></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">You
may ask what is worse than cleaning out my cat’s stinky litter box.
I’ll warn you </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">first</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
to hold your nose. It was an event quite odorous. In fact, it stunk
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
high heavens. Since it involve</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">untrustworthy
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">politicians,
that revelation should come </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">as
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">no
real surprise to those who are wise to the ways of politics. You’re
use to dealing with foul individuals who, by comparison, make mucking
out a horse barn a genuine pleasure. </span></span></b></span>
</div>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytuNoXSEUHITwotskKKyxcfgtz2oKpwKjv_WNGjNVJ3BLm_HL7k-8ON14tV9Uz0lUN2oZM3fnzcCSTLcnsmboxu_Px-Lfx_rW6w2vmC2DbzkSS3RECUhpgBouAOqrm_oFmTU4z2i7fHx3NNvrYxV5Deu2inFuG-hlKKDIzeE2OlJh4-qtqnTcZqGeMjmq/s960/Don't%20stop%20talking%20about.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="802" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiytuNoXSEUHITwotskKKyxcfgtz2oKpwKjv_WNGjNVJ3BLm_HL7k-8ON14tV9Uz0lUN2oZM3fnzcCSTLcnsmboxu_Px-Lfx_rW6w2vmC2DbzkSS3RECUhpgBouAOqrm_oFmTU4z2i7fHx3NNvrYxV5Deu2inFuG-hlKKDIzeE2OlJh4-qtqnTcZqGeMjmq/s320/Don't%20stop%20talking%20about.jpeg" width="267" /></a></span></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br />If
you go</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
back a couple of weeks and re-read my plaintive cry to </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Toledo
City Council </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(TCC)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
pass a ceasefire in Gaza resolution </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i><a href="https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/how-much-is-a-childs-life-worth" target="_blank">How Much Is A Child’s Life Worth?</a></i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">),
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">you’ll
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">get
a feel of what the mood was like when I and a hundred or so fellow
activists showed up at </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">city
council meeting on January 31 </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
anticipation of better news on the matter</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I
don’t think any of us expected this level of betrayal and sheer
heartlessness </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that
awaited us</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
M</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">any
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
us had journeyed </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
day previous </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
the Tower of Sauron—I mean, One Government Center—</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a
foreboding white skyscraper </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
down</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">town
Toledo, to give short statements </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
the council </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
support of a </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">vote
on the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
ceasefire resolution</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
that had been tabled </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">two
weeks previously</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span></b></span>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Trusting
that our statements </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
January 30 </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">would
be given proper consideration by our elected representatives,</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
we </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">thought
we’d</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">be</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
making </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">our
case for the ceasefire resolution</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
before most of the council members. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">To
our chagrin, o</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">nly
three council members (and possibly a fourth who snuck in very late
in the proceedings to grab something off her place on the dais </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
then escaped</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">)
were actually present. Still, we were making our statements </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">for</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
the record and being video-recorded so </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
the “absent members” would have a chance to </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">listen
to what we said</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
at their leisure.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">We
were told to </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">return</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
the next day </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(January
31)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
for a city </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">council</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
meeting where the ceasefire measure could be untabled and voted upon.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">A</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">t
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
very </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">least
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">it
was implied that a </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">more
productive discussion </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">w</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ould
take place on the matter so the public could understand what the hold
up was </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">among
the twelve city council members</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
It’s not like </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">council
hadn’t had time to consider </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
ceasefire resolution before—it was first introduced in November
2023. Think of how many thousands of </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">people</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
have been </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">murdered</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
Gaza </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">by
IDF forces</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
the three months </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">following
its introduction, some of whom were relatives of Toledo area
residents.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Toledo, Ohio, has one of the largest concentrations of Arab Americans in the US, so it’s
no secret that many Toledo voters aren’t at all happy with
their city council members right now. And who can blame them? All
they are asking for is a </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">yes
vote on a </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ceasefire
in Gaza resolution that numerous other cities in the US have </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">already
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">passed.
They want to know if their elected representatives care about them
and their </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">extended</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
families, care enough to give them a simple yes vote on </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
proposed</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
ceasefire resolution.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">But
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">it</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
was not meant to be. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Our
trust in the fairness and compassion of our elected officials was
misplaced.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
stench of partisan politics </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">has</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
gassed out all hope that Toledo will ever be</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">come</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
a</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
cit</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">y</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
to pass a ceasefire resolution in solidarity with the Palestinian
people. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Toledo
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">City
Council</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">smells
as</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
fragrant as a cow barn after a particularly nasty infection has swept
through the herd, giving the cows all </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">explosive
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">bouts
of diarrhea. And if you’ve ever walked through a cow barn when the
herd is feeling well and taken in a big breath of air then… I don’t
have to describe to you how much worse </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that
stench</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
is when they’re sick.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCeMxt_Whik53YUxQWEhsbHnVajcknPq4uWtDtMKz06AGFvaXNpTxA3kSw6h7UoEuB7ZUuFlUxq2AG9PiZrLR_5ZoMPb9HU6hHfFjF7qAoDu1CiXGS-OGd3-RJPxnbi_pEea_z2qcQ4AE3HmgJ98wvk4IvIumAnjXF1EFau01QD-OUks4tsgkkDmDjPe7n/s2885/Crocodile%20Tears%20of%20the%20Dems.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2194" data-original-width="2885" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCeMxt_Whik53YUxQWEhsbHnVajcknPq4uWtDtMKz06AGFvaXNpTxA3kSw6h7UoEuB7ZUuFlUxq2AG9PiZrLR_5ZoMPb9HU6hHfFjF7qAoDu1CiXGS-OGd3-RJPxnbi_pEea_z2qcQ4AE3HmgJ98wvk4IvIumAnjXF1EFau01QD-OUks4tsgkkDmDjPe7n/w400-h304/Crocodile%20Tears%20of%20the%20Dems.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">by Mark Taylor -- <a href="https://mark192.substack.com/" target="_blank">deMOCKracy.Ink</a></span></b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">first </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">stinky</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
warning sign </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
betrayal </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">we
should have smelled </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">at
the January 31 </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">council
meeting was </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
return of its </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
“absent members”. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I
found it notable that none of the African American council members
had been in attendance the day before when the public was allowed to
give their statements, and it’s probably even more notable that all
of the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">absent</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">council
members, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Black
or White,</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
are Democrats. The connection between that neoliberal party and the
organization run by Mr. Smith* (not his real name), mentioned in my
article two weeks ago, cannot be underestimated. The writing of large
checks for </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">politicians’
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">campaign
war chests is a great motivator and predictor of their behavior.
These council members’ </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">conduct</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
prove no exception to that rule. </span></span></b></span>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">After
several photo ops and some cursory council business, the comment
section </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
the meeting </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">began.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
proposer of the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
ceasefire resolution did not untable the measure for a vote. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">nstead,
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">he
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">gave
an impassioned speech in its defense and </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">pleaded
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">with
his fellow council members to consider</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
tremendous lost of life</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> in Gaza and the family members of Palestinians living in the city. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
audience took to its feet as one and gave him a rousing standing
ovation for his remarks.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">And</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
that </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">was
the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">end
of discussion for the ceasefire resolution.</span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
two other</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
members who had attended the statement-giving meeting made </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">some
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">brief
mentions of the citizens who gave statements, but </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that
was it. O</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ne
of th</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">es</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">e
two </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">made</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
a negative comment about how a certain “red line” had been
crossed in the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">public
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">statement
giving. It seems you cannot tell a Toledo City Council member to
imagine what it would be like to lose all his loved ones </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">when
a bomb </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">is
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">dropped
on their home</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Mentioning
such an everyday occurrence in Gaza </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">just
isn’t polite conversation, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
he was thoroughly miffed.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
To quote famous neoliberal AOC: “Your words are violence</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">!
(And you need to be censored.)”</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
majority</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
“absent members” made zero comments about the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">public
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">statements.
Apparently they </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">had
neither</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
the time nor the desire to watch the video </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">or
read the transcript</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
Instead, they spoke on inconsequential matters in their </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">allotted
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">time,
mostly of a personal nature that made no sense whatsoever</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
T</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">hey
drone on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on…
You get the picture? When the clock turned six pm. there came a
rushed, “No more comments? Council adjourned!” from the council
president and a loud gavel knock. They all stood at once and rushed
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">toward
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
council members’ exit </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">behind the dais.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfluptJE17PtPGl8AEQrcVcsWPGZrOfNG2q8OK5cVSB0rEHzz_rYei-1B1CC_O0D-0pJUbwscFgPRbH9XuE0Yen4ilK_nOxUeQixqvOuxyXJ6ivy3PIbE5HgYSxvJudstQ0rzzeWEiT4XEYfG4J1iLVeiT17GoifuhW__7CEOcBUUcGm36Q9IafVxGJx_B/s360/Enough.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="360" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfluptJE17PtPGl8AEQrcVcsWPGZrOfNG2q8OK5cVSB0rEHzz_rYei-1B1CC_O0D-0pJUbwscFgPRbH9XuE0Yen4ilK_nOxUeQixqvOuxyXJ6ivy3PIbE5HgYSxvJudstQ0rzzeWEiT4XEYfG4J1iLVeiT17GoifuhW__7CEOcBUUcGm36Q9IafVxGJx_B/w320-h320/Enough.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">We </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">were told to </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">attend
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
second city council meeting </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">because
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">we
would </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">hear
more about what the hold up </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">was
on the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">voting for the ceasefire resolution. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Of
course since what was promised didn’t happen, the shitty behavior
of the majority of members </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">didn’t
sit </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">too
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">well
with </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the audience.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">C</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">hants
of “Shame on you!” began almost immediately. “We will remember
in November!” could be heard as well. Obviously </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
small number of “yes votes” </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">on
council </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">must
have decided not to untable the ceasefire resolution (once again)
because </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">they
feared the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
power to vote the resolution down of the “absent members” a</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">long
with</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Mr.
“I’m-scared-of-women-wearing-head-scarves-</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">telling-me-to-imagine-what-it’s-like-lose-all-your-family-to-an-Israeli-bomb</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">”.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">O</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">nce
again the Arab American </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">population
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
Toledo </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">has
been betrayed by their elected officials,</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
left out in the cold and with </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">little
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">comfort.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">he
stinkiest aspect of all this isn’t simply that a good portion of
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Toledo
City Council</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
is on the take </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
Zionists who </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">write
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">big
checks </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
fill their campaign war chests. (You can see just how easily TCC
members can be bribed in <a href="https://www.13abc.com/2023/09/05/former-toledo-councilmembers-sentenced-bribery-extortion-convictions/" target="_blank">this article</a>. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">There’s
a pattern here.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">)
No, it’s </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">much
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">stinkier
than that. It’s the fact that human beings—especially little
children—are dying under horrific circumstances in Gaza and
elsewhere in the Occupied Territories right now, and these “faithful
party members” of </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">so-called</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
“</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Democratic”
Party </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">will
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">spit
in the eye of their constituents and </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">refuse
to even allow a </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">vote
on a symbolic ceasefire resolution.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">se
“</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">absent
of empathy” council </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">members</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
can’t even bring themselves to acknowledge that there’s a
ceasefire resolution on the table. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">hey
can’t even acknowledge the suffering of their constituents who are
concerned about their loved ones’ </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">health
and safety</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
in Gaza. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">They
won’t even listen to the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
public</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
statements—particularly </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">those
made by</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ir</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Arab American constituents. They can’t wait to rush out the door to
get away from the jeers and the vocal condemnations they received
because of their cowardice.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Can
you think of any </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">more
shitt</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ier</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
behavior </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">than
that? </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Can
you imagine the betrayal you’d feel if you had voted for these
council members in hopes that they’d actually represent <i>you</i>?</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">In
my life, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I’ve
walked through a cow barn, a horse barn, a pig farm and a chicken
house, and I’ve </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">changed
millions of baby diapers </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
I’ve emptied my cat’s litter box at least a thousand times—and
even I can’t think of anything smellier, more disgusting, or more
foul than these Toledo City Council Members’ behavior </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">toward
their constituents </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
regards to this </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">c</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">easefire
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
Gaza </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">resolution.
</span></span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZqffkzaeaxUDMR01w34BaT5hBn_Kze9RDDoAG7fNUHeuS57VUkY_8YaKQIzQb8crApGJ1DzFntFVvVUQ04r3KelY0vc9OnL1572I_dgaPPe3bdWnNhmxE5jHJEoUD-56PSkawF4BThhvB2S_TSxKtbgoqRvwzvLB0e4D_WEvqUf70fipXtP7ww6w3vebX/s2358/Biden%20wins%20in%20SC.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1569" data-original-width="2358" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZqffkzaeaxUDMR01w34BaT5hBn_Kze9RDDoAG7fNUHeuS57VUkY_8YaKQIzQb8crApGJ1DzFntFVvVUQ04r3KelY0vc9OnL1572I_dgaPPe3bdWnNhmxE5jHJEoUD-56PSkawF4BThhvB2S_TSxKtbgoqRvwzvLB0e4D_WEvqUf70fipXtP7ww6w3vebX/w400-h266/Biden%20wins%20in%20SC.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>by Mark Taylor -- <a href="https://mark192.substack.com/" target="_blank">deMOCKracy.Ink</a></b></span></span></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><b>The
</b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Dem</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ocrats
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">re
so hung up at pleasing “</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Butcher
Biden” in </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Washington
DC that even your local </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Dems</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">—the
ones you might actual</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">l</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">y</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">see
in </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
grocery store </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">checkout line </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">or
attend church with—don’t acknowledge there’s a genocide
going on in Gaza. You’d think they’d act somewhat more
conciliatory toward Arab American voters in Toledo after the ICJ’s
recent ruling </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
a “plausible genocide”</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
but they can’t even bring themselves </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
get </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">off
their high horses to acknowledge their </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Arab
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">American</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">constituents
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">actually
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">exist
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
have lost loved ones to Israeli bombing</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">W</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">hat
should we make of all this shittiness </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">expressed
toward us by neoliberals in office?</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">For
certain, now isn’t the time to back down on the protests, the
emails, the phone calls, the letters to the editor, and the rambling
blogs (like this one). Now is the time to continue exposing the
stinky bastards </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">office
and reveal their crappy attitude</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">world</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
If you feel so moved, please write an email to the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">members
of the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Toledo City Council and tell them what you think about their behavior
recently. Two of them have </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">since
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">“moved
up” into cushy city government jobs, but they were on council long
enough and knew what their constituents expected of them. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">They
chose to</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
ignored th</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">eir
Arab American constituents</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
and their suffering family members in Palestine.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Now
is the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
time to muck out the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">proverbial</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
stable, dump the nasty litter box </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
politicians</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
and toss them all into the compost pile of history. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Now
is the time to support alternative party candidates who will treat
all citizens equally and with compassion.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Judas
betrayed Jesus with a kiss—all for a mere thirty pieces of silver.
Our </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">neoliberal
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">electeds
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">would
sell</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
us all out for a mere fraction of that price, eagerly grabbing </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">at
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
blood-stained silver coins without hesitation. It’s time we nailed
them to a cross and make sure they never rise again.</span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXpcFy9byvQBlDCrY5LDQmoH8FW40w68ZBGV_MtvrB5J-IpKfcwKYJ0mEoHrhvOh93kkqrzOsmDATW1i2IruS1mttuConLh6W8SZreYe45v6LCy-JBonwtCxTaF_yBXyWVk6e8JmiOisxLMIGuwj9FnO5KHjNy5PDJg1NlvVEjcbiEuxe76mWGeN1KzHxA/s1200/Do%20not%20give%20up...jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="675" height="400" 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<p><style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 115%; background: transparent }a:visited { color: #800000; so-language: zxx; text-decoration: underline }a:link { color: #000080; so-language: zxx; text-decoration: underline }</style></p>The Revolution Continueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13710180679677988774noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6184788866071073621.post-47071957764499640982024-01-29T10:43:00.000-08:002024-01-29T13:35:46.593-08:00Read The Room<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhczub5bXXRoN2VkFu7s9uCt6kK90vxGxhkRxdWJJhyl7a3SeQUQ-V7KiewTqIi29uJJ0LZqYysVCheSbxeTDe0OsWU3Bo-28Fbh32zxaLOAU9m267xSnyK5F0e99SL_ZLBEGtGOA-3rZ0Cimaa2u3tMC0p4VyUU_2XY-nT93-DKVr2T4w49ynaBtult9Ux/s945/Change%20My%20mind%20about%20War.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="945" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhczub5bXXRoN2VkFu7s9uCt6kK90vxGxhkRxdWJJhyl7a3SeQUQ-V7KiewTqIi29uJJ0LZqYysVCheSbxeTDe0OsWU3Bo-28Fbh32zxaLOAU9m267xSnyK5F0e99SL_ZLBEGtGOA-3rZ0Cimaa2u3tMC0p4VyUU_2XY-nT93-DKVr2T4w49ynaBtult9Ux/w400-h390/Change%20My%20mind%20about%20War.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Read The Room</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">by C. A. Matthews</span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span> <span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful
and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure
wind." ~George Orwell </span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYXKz_bqMLr7axjVrMhTVJQdBbLQPxdRyzxBFEwsnEGSLk0uV74NR9LInpz1AdznHIr5SlqjIaZ3KbnA0vqHp8btbqWySBI3DlNql8KxlPXDkvM_S2GWqq4CA1qimbRTTZ0Q8jydpVnTDhpUi4wLQBQoIWyHUdCbl01BMfp4QzI2udn0qqvVhGkUmslqSJ/s1401/Chris%20Hedges%20on%20Children%20shot%20in%20Gaza.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1401" data-original-width="1280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYXKz_bqMLr7axjVrMhTVJQdBbLQPxdRyzxBFEwsnEGSLk0uV74NR9LInpz1AdznHIr5SlqjIaZ3KbnA0vqHp8btbqWySBI3DlNql8KxlPXDkvM_S2GWqq4CA1qimbRTTZ0Q8jydpVnTDhpUi4wLQBQoIWyHUdCbl01BMfp4QzI2udn0qqvVhGkUmslqSJ/w292-h320/Chris%20Hedges%20on%20Children%20shot%20in%20Gaza.jpg" width="292" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br />Example 1:<br /></b></span></span><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"Wherever violence, fear and hatred thrive, working people cannot,” reads a statement by Mary Kay Henry, the president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). SEIU, which boasts two million members, just joined a growing section of the US labor movement in calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. SEIU is now the largest union in the country to issue such a statement. </b></span><a href="https://popularresistance.org/one-of-the-largest-unions-in-the-us-called-for-a-ceasefire-in-gaza/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>—</b></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i><a href="https://popularresistance.org/one-of-the-largest-unions-in-the-us-called-for-a-ceasefire-in-gaza/" target="_blank">One Of The Largest Unions In The US Called For A Ceasefire In Gaza</a></i> </b></span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b></b></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>On December 14, the leadership of the United Auto Workers, the Postal Workers Union, and the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), held a press conference in Washington, DC with several members of Congress to call upon the labor movement to take action for a ceasefire in Gaza.<br /></b></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>“I thank our UAW members for speaking out and pushing us to come out in support of a ceasefire,” said UAW President Shawn Fain, whose union joined the movement for a ceasefire earlier in December. “It was the right thing to do. Now it’s time for the rest of our elected officials to step up and do what it takes to end the violence. And I call on the rest of the labor movement to join us in this mission for peace and social justice for all of humanity.” </b></span><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/14/us-union-leaders-call-on-labor-to-join-movement-for-a-ceasefire/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>—</b></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/14/us-union-leaders-call-on-labor-to-join-movement-for-a-ceasefire/" target="_blank">US union leaders call on labor to join movement for a ceasefire</a></i> </b></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>470+ UAW members have signed a new petition calling for the union leadership to only endorse candidates who publicly call for ceasefire in Gaza, and specifically criticizing Biden's support of Israel. Many expecting a Biden endorsement from UAW today (January 24). </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>—</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/LaurenKGurley/status/1750215094573674643" target="_blank">Lauren Kaori Gurley, labor reporter for the <i>Washington Post </i>on X</a></b></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br />UAW Endorses Joe Biden for President of the United States <a href="https://uaw.org/uaw-endorses-joe-biden-for-president-of-the-united-states/" target="_blank">https://uaw.org/uaw-endorses-joe-biden-for-president-of-the-united-states/</a></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>UAW members
protest for a ceasefire, as this is their union’s official position:
<a href="https://twitter.com/codepink/status/1750636511530189015" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/codepink/status/1750636511530189015</a><br /></b></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br />Read the room, UAW President Shawn Fain. Your rank-and-file union members want a ceasefire in Gaza. They're even loudly protesting for a ceasefire at a big union shindig! Genocide Joe Biden wants to keep furnishing arms to Israel so the IDF can continue murdering Palestinians in Gaza--especially babies and children. He's also turned a blind eye to the Israeli settlers' terrorist activity in the West Bank. Biden is good with the settlers moving in and stealing the natural gas and oil reserves that rightfully belong to the Palestinians. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>One day you say you're with your union members supporting a ceasefire in Gaza, and the next you're endorsing the largest supporter of genocide in the world for president. What is your word worth when it comes to representing the wishes of your rank-and-file union members, Shawn? Nothing.<br /><br />Read the room.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhMOOLNHYMsScOFk_s_YJAfqoResRGvzghD65G4bhmL0kDXEX7f5iiMLykXQ_US93vBzQYV1XRzUUPgve7xU3QIXjTf_ypB4AwK12H3PauyJOQ1jmnIDIzBjdx_s6jW-MNfbVhwgK5wH-imHpb3zDf-PLv49UyCcolA0WlkFPdMeXIMMIPRi2yAreq0lNv/s1044/How%20are%20you%20voting%20zionism.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="823" data-original-width="1044" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhMOOLNHYMsScOFk_s_YJAfqoResRGvzghD65G4bhmL0kDXEX7f5iiMLykXQ_US93vBzQYV1XRzUUPgve7xU3QIXjTf_ypB4AwK12H3PauyJOQ1jmnIDIzBjdx_s6jW-MNfbVhwgK5wH-imHpb3zDf-PLv49UyCcolA0WlkFPdMeXIMMIPRi2yAreq0lNv/w400-h315/How%20are%20you%20voting%20zionism.jpeg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Example 2:<br /><br />Half of Biden voters say Israel committing genocide in Gaza: Poll<br /><a href="https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4429906-half-biden-voters-israel-committing-genocide-in-gaza-poll/" target="_blank">https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4429906-half-biden-voters-israel-committing-genocide-in-gaza-poll/<br /></a><br />Biden Thinks It’s Just a Matter of Time Before US Troops Are Killed in Iraq or Syria <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/22/biden-thinks-its-just-a-matter-of-time-before-us-troops-are-killed-in-iraq-or-syria/" target="_blank">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/22/biden-thinks-its-just-a-matter-of-time-before-us-troops-are-killed-in-iraq-or-syria/</a><br /></span></b></span><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The brutal war that Israel is waging on Gaza is increasingly becoming a regional conflict. Since October, the United States and Israel have bombed not only Gaza, but also Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.</b></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Now, the U.S. government is even threatening Iran with war. President Joe Biden sent the Iranian government a private message while the U.S. military was bombing Yemen on January 13. He said threateningly, “We’re confident, we’re well prepared”. </b></span><a href="https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/01/18/war-us-israel-yemen-iraq-syria-iran/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>—</b></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i><a href="https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/01/18/war-us-israel-yemen-iraq-syria-iran/" target="_blank">Is a huge war coming? US bombs Yemen, Iraq & Syria. Israel bombs Gaza & Lebanon. Both threaten Iran.</a> </i></b></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>2024 is an election year, and Biden, who is running for reelection, has been hounded by Pro-Palestine demonstrators at several campaign events already. Mainstream media outlets openly worry about Biden’s chances in 2024, with the aging President losing key demographics of Democratic Party support such as young people and Arab-Americans.</b></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>“Instead of focusing on the American people, our tax money is being used to spread hatred, to spread warfare, to support criminal activity, frankly speaking, to support a genocide,” Mohamed Sabri, who traveled from Chicago to attend the march in DC, told Peoples Dispatch about why he will not be voting for Biden. </b></span><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/01/15/400000-marched-in-washington-dc-against-bidens-complicity-in-israels-genocide/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>—</b></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/01/15/400000-marched-in-washington-dc-against-bidens-complicity-in-israels-genocide/" target="_blank"><i>400,000 marched in Washington DC against Biden’s complicity in Israel’s genocide</i></a> </b></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> “Based on unproven allegations alone, the U.S. has cut off funding to UNRWA, one of few groups which provides crucial on the ground aid to Palestinians,” said the antiwar group CODEPINK. “Yet, as Israel commits war crime after war crime, the U.S. continues sending weapons.”</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>“The US is collectively punishing Palestinians, who rely on UNRWA to survive, based on Israeli allegations against 0.0004% of UNRWA’s staff. Outrageous,” said the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU)…</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>“So, the US State Dept drops a rather significant statement on (unsubstantiated) allegations against UNRWA workers and pulling funding on the day of the ICJ ruling which finds sufficient evidence for plausible genocidal acts—- and decides there’s no need for a press briefing,” wrote AJ+’s Sana Saeed. “Honestly, this would be masterful manufacturing of the news if it wasn’t so transparent.” </b></span></span><a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/biden-cuts-off-life-saving-aid-to-palestinians-based-on-israeli-allegations-against-unrwa/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>—</b></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/biden-cuts-off-life-saving-aid-to-palestinians-based-on-israeli-allegations-against-unrwa/" target="_blank">Biden cuts off life-saving aid to Palestinians based on Israeli allegations against UNRWA</a></i><br /></b></span></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br />'The most difficult case': US judge deliberates suit accusing Biden of failing to stop genocide <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/most-difficult-case-us-judge-deliberates-after-testimony-accuses-biden-failing-stop-genocide" target="_blank">https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/most-difficult-case-us-judge-deliberates-after-testimony-accuses-biden-failing-stop-genocide</a><br /><br />Arab and Muslim Leaders in Michigan Refuse to Meet With Biden Campaign <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/arab-and-muslim-leaders-in-michigan-refuse-to-meet-with-biden-campaign/" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/arab-and-muslim-leaders-in-michigan-refuse-to-meet-with-biden-campaign/</a><br /><br />Read the room, President Biden. The vast majority of voters have stated that they want a ceasefire in Gaza, and most have wanted it from day one of Israel's assault on the Occupied Territory. Americans have repeatedly said that they don’t want the genocide of Palestinians to continue, and they don't want you to keep sending arms to Israel. Some have even taken you to federal court to stop the ethnic cleansing in order to save their loved ones in Gaza.<br /><br />Poll after poll have shown Americans don’t want to widen the field of conflicts instigated by the US in its quest for world hegemony and to steal natural resources. Bombing more countries to steal their oil only ups everybody’s risk for nuclear war. Burning fossil fuels is causing catastrophic climate change to speed up. The US military is the number one polluter in the world.<br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>In case you haven’t heard, most young Americans won’t cooperate with a military draft if and when you do decide to start war on multiple fronts. Nobody desires to die in a war with China, Russia and Iran simultaneously. There's no way so many conflicts at once could be sustained with our meager numbers of volunteer troops. People will resist conscription. You're going to get us all killed.<br /></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDOEVcsp9Iov3WI921pj4e-O8fufi0Bst7MwiCsYKFAqriA3SBYZQ2hh52p32Gb1tu9e9nXVj1uKWSEhyphenhyphenwdWeWNlla6aJEcLE2OCVYInqgUCjv_8t5vKUGZXzUzv-JEc1gVnv4zxXsWKIq71RyXVkJGY9yB14XiNQ4d7t-e-mWAmTxEw7U-p0qJru42Yzc/s680/bidens%20genocide%20snap.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="608" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDOEVcsp9Iov3WI921pj4e-O8fufi0Bst7MwiCsYKFAqriA3SBYZQ2hh52p32Gb1tu9e9nXVj1uKWSEhyphenhyphenwdWeWNlla6aJEcLE2OCVYInqgUCjv_8t5vKUGZXzUzv-JEc1gVnv4zxXsWKIq71RyXVkJGY9yB14XiNQ4d7t-e-mWAmTxEw7U-p0qJru42Yzc/w358-h400/bidens%20genocide%20snap.jpeg" width="358" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Growing numbers of Americans of color don’t care much for perpetuating white settler colonialism. They see what is happening to other POCs throughout the world, and they see themselves in the Palestinians, a people who are simply trying to stay in their homes on their native land. What makes you think that sane and caring Americans wish to inflict more injustices upon others who have already suffered so much? </b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>What makes you think most Americans are lacking compassion and empathy just because you do? The large Arab and Muslim communities in SE Michigan are openly stating they will not vote for you in November. Why would you throw away all those votes when you could keep them by simply stopping the sale of arms to Israel and shutting down the genocide in Gaza once and for all? All it would take is a phone call to your counterpart in Israel.<br /><br />Your administration even stopped providing funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, on the same day Israel lost its genocide case before the International Court of Justice. How petty can you get! UNRWA provides food and medical aid to refugees around the world, not only to Gazans. You’ve unilaterally decided that, because the Israelis don’t want life-saving aid to reach wounded and starving Palestinians in Gaza, UNRWA must be unfunded immediately. Are you mad or just plain cruel? </b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>You've committed such an inhumane act of denying humanitarian aid to reach people in Gaza because of unsubstantiated allegations made by a country that's been accused of genocide at the ICJ. You're doing so based on the flimsiest of stories, that 12 persons out of 13,000 United Nations workers might have worked for Hamas at one time. And you know that Israeli <i>hasbara</i> propagandists are known for telling whoppers</b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>—</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>huge, fat lies like beheaded babies baked in ovens that were easily debunked by independent journalists.<br /> <br />You've already garnered the nicknames of “Genocide Joe” and “Butcher Biden," both of which are currently trending on social media. Do you really want this heartless bloodthirstiness to become your legacy? Do you even know what's going on in the world, or is Antony Blinken really calling all the shots?<br /><br />Read the room.<br /><br /></b></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhndddwSKxhpmWo-Vo33DEHrrjCoX3FEJ9_7OlsRoYnxBD8yDkF8W_BGg7dbmwgmw8bUMiS0LtDfk0YOEz14ZLpl5Jj9pSB-uFvHcER9_raxDoGT_teEnGW0RtpA2rGAJCwfiaKYZ35WqJnLGASlloOuTwybRBV3fjXz4RKyCaBc969_TFq6G9rUkBo4k0D/s1004/war%20criminals.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="994" data-original-width="1004" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhndddwSKxhpmWo-Vo33DEHrrjCoX3FEJ9_7OlsRoYnxBD8yDkF8W_BGg7dbmwgmw8bUMiS0LtDfk0YOEz14ZLpl5Jj9pSB-uFvHcER9_raxDoGT_teEnGW0RtpA2rGAJCwfiaKYZ35WqJnLGASlloOuTwybRBV3fjXz4RKyCaBc969_TFq6G9rUkBo4k0D/w400-h396/war%20criminals.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Example 3:</span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span><b></b></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>January 26: The ruling issued by the ICJ [International Court of Justice] ordered six provisional measures including for Israel to refrain from acts under the Genocide convention, prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to genocide, and take immediate and effective measures to ensure the provision of humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza. Crucially, the Court also ordered Israel to preserve evidence of genocide and to submit a report to the Court, within one month, of all measures taken in line with its order.<br /><br />“Today’s decision is an authoritative reminder of the crucial role of international law in preventing genocide and protecting all victims of atrocity crimes. It sends a clear message that the world will not stand by in silence as Israel pursues a ruthless military campaign to decimate the population of the Gaza Strip and unleash death, horror and suffering against Palestinians on an unprecedented scale,” said Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International.<br /></b></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>“However, the ICJ decision alone cannot put an end to the atrocities and devastation Gazans are witnessing. Alarming signs of genocide in Gaza, and Israel’s flagrant disregard for international law highlight the urgent need for effective, unified pressure on Israel to stop its onslaught against Palestinians. An immediate ceasefire by all parties remains essential and – although not ordered by the Court – is the most effective condition to implement the provisional measures and end unprecedented civilian suffering. </b></span><a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/01/israel-must-comply-with-key-icj-ruling-ordering-it-do-all-in-its-power-to-prevent-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>—</b></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/01/israel-must-comply-with-key-icj-ruling-ordering-it-do-all-in-its-power-to-prevent-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/" target="_blank"><i>Israel must comply with key ICJ ruling ordering it do all in its power to prevent genocide against Palestinians in Gaza</i></a> </b></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>It’s really up to the international system as we know it to make sure that genocide is not carried out. And so it’s imperative that this be followed up by countries around the world making sure that Israel doesn’t get to do whatever it wants to do with Palestinians in Gaza and continue this genocide. </b></span><a href="https://truthout.org/video/genocide-scholar-icj-ruling-is-beginning-of-a-process-of-isolating-israel/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>—</b></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://truthout.org/video/genocide-scholar-icj-ruling-is-beginning-of-a-process-of-isolating-israel/" target="_blank"><i>Genocide Scholar: ICJ Ruling Is “Beginning of a Process of Isolating Israel”</i></a> </b></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Gaza was pounded with bombs, missiles and artillery shells as the ruling was read in The Hague — at least 183 Palestinians have been killed in the last 24 hours. Since Oct. 7, more than 26,000 Palestinians have been killed. Almost 65,000 have been wounded, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Thousands more are missing. The carnage continues. This is the cold reality.<br />Translated into the vernacular, the court is saying Israel must feed and provide medical care for the victims, cease public statements advocating genocide, preserve evidence of genocide and stop killing Palestinian civilians. Come back and report in a month.<br /><br />It is hard to see how these provisional measures can be achieved if the carnage in Gaza continues.<br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>“Without a ceasefire, the order doesn’t actually work,” Naledi Pandor, South Africa’s minister of international relations, stated bluntly after the ruling. </b></span><a href="https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/it-may-be-genocide-but-it-wont-be" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>—</b></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i><a href="https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/it-may-be-genocide-but-it-wont-be" target="_blank">It May be Genocide, But it Won’t Be Stopped </a></i></b></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The U.N. General Assembly now can suspend Israel from participation in its activities as it did for South Africa and Yugoslavia. It can admit Palestine as a full member. And — especially since the International Criminal Court has been a farce — it can establish a tribunal to prosecute the highest level officials of the Israeli government, both civilian and military.” </b></span><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-accuses-the-icj-of-you-guessed" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>—</b></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-accuses-the-icj-of-you-guessed" target="_blank">Israel Accuses The ICJ Of (You Guessed It) Antisemitism</a></i><br /></b></span><br /></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Read the room, Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel’s “dream team” of lawyers didn’t exactly wow the ICJ judges. The South African lawyers just had to read out your government's officials' actual words</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>—</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>and your own indicting words</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>—</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>spoken at various press conferences and in media interviews to demonstrate to the court that the total annihilation of the Palestinian people is what you’ve been aiming for all along. You know full well that public opinion both within your borders and from without is against this ethnic cleansing operation of Palestinians, the indigenous people of the land.<br /><br />And stop with the weak arguments that somehow Palestinians aren’t indigenous—just take a look at a map from 1947 or earlier. As a secular Ashkenazi Jew, you’re about as indigenous as your buddy Joe “Butcher” Biden is. You even lived in the US as a child and attended M.I.T. as an adult. I guess that's where where you learned how to be such a great racist/Zionist, right?<br /><br />The ICJ is giving you an honorable way to stop the mass killing of civilians and slink back into your hole with your tail between your legs. If you don’t call for a permanent ceasefire and cooperate with getting humanitarian aid to the Gazans, the United Nations could excommunicate Israel from the family of nations like they did to apartheid South Africa a few decades ago. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_iTWdyiTYsy4yOaeWV9tWTxwZmqwntn4qzRoBbNNG5vD9IlpUDcI8KC3jYEOZLGBEkXb32CNoQCVMB-rQcen2rk3IEkXkB1H9jef04ETA4L-FkoUNgNXrnkMCf4IBeC4V-i54WL63Jh6Q68BXEwYvgjETNx6k63TC7lYghYl_erpqcV2S4QRrMf4CGXmt/s1240/Israel%20playing%20victim%20and%20perpetrator.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1240" data-original-width="1170" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_iTWdyiTYsy4yOaeWV9tWTxwZmqwntn4qzRoBbNNG5vD9IlpUDcI8KC3jYEOZLGBEkXb32CNoQCVMB-rQcen2rk3IEkXkB1H9jef04ETA4L-FkoUNgNXrnkMCf4IBeC4V-i54WL63Jh6Q68BXEwYvgjETNx6k63TC7lYghYl_erpqcV2S4QRrMf4CGXmt/w302-h320/Israel%20playing%20victim%20and%20perpetrator.jpeg" width="302" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><br />You know, South Africa the country that built such a solid case against your government in front of the sixteen justices at the International Court of Justice? Do you want more of your country’s dirty laundry to be aired in public when the UN sets up military tribunals to air the grievances of those you’ve persecuted? Do you want the thousands of human beings you've maimed and crippled for life to give their testimony in public as to what your soldiers got up to in Gaza?<br /><br />Do as the ICJ says, Bibi, and you might even survive an assassination attempt, unlike Prime Minister Rabin, the man it is said you helped “retire permanently” because you disagreed with him. Take the ICJ up on their offer and call for a ceasefire in Gaza now and let the humanitarian aid flow into the beleaguered area ASAP.<br /><br />Read the room. Read the goddamn room the lot of you. </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><strong>Or we will read you the riot act.</strong></span><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZC3dh6exBp8rekP1H52uQ-46ViEZtf19DeHqWi4Mdlvv75CRguUPeL-jtRN7HMGm1gglUBviMja_SOTCiyZfypB3Nvlirj9wo83ap_skhJB7_8f4nWJXb1YbViFi_8HnfpO5hVdIa0cHw2AzqCtWQOcE1y27Sc6wW2s28xc-eCqfyjhC3XFbOeXC0YnsM/s800/Sending%20murder%20jets%20to%20Israel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZC3dh6exBp8rekP1H52uQ-46ViEZtf19DeHqWi4Mdlvv75CRguUPeL-jtRN7HMGm1gglUBviMja_SOTCiyZfypB3Nvlirj9wo83ap_skhJB7_8f4nWJXb1YbViFi_8HnfpO5hVdIa0cHw2AzqCtWQOcE1y27Sc6wW2s28xc-eCqfyjhC3XFbOeXC0YnsM/w320-h320/Sending%20murder%20jets%20to%20Israel.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br />Related Articles and Interesting Links</b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>US Union Leaders Call On Labor To Join Movement for a Ceasefire </b></span></span><a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/14/us-union-leaders-call-on-labor-to-join-movement-for-a-ceasefire/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/14/us-union-leaders-call-on-labor-to-join-movement-for-a-ceasefire/</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> <br /></b></span></span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>United Auto Workers (UAW) becomes largest union in US to call for a lasting ceasefire in Gaza</i> <a href="https://youtu.be/XUNZ3RTpw2E?si=0hv6OChbGgXxuROo" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/XUNZ3RTpw2E?si=0hv6OChbGgXxuROo</a></b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>US union leaders call on labor to join movement for a ceasefire</i> <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/14/us-union-leaders-call-on-labor-to-join-movement-for-a-ceasefire/" target="_blank">https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/12/14/us-union-leaders-call-on-labor-to-join-movement-for-a-ceasefire/</a></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>UAW members
protest for a ceasefire, as this is their union’s official position:
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<p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;">H</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ow
Much Is A Child’s Life Worth?</span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">by C.A. Matthews</span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> <br /></span></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Editor’s
Note: On January 17, 2024, the Toledo (Ohio) City Council once again
tabled voting on a Ceasefire in Gaza </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">R</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">esolution.
More than one hundred days into the incessant bombing and bulldozing
of Gaza, and the Toledo City Council (TCC) can’t make up its mind
whether it wants to denounce the genocide of the Palestinians or not.
</span></span></b>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">What’s
the deal? After an intense email campaign flooded all twelve of the
TCC members’ inboxes, the vote on the ceasefire resolution has been
put off for a later time. We’ve been told this tabling of the
motion (by its original pr</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">oposer</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">)
has been done “in hope of persuading the hold-outs” to vote in
favor of it. With many cities in the US, including </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">an</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
inconsequential metropolis located 40 miles north of Toledo called
“Detroit”, passing resolutions condemning the genocide and
calling for solidarity with the Palestinian people, what (or rather
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>who</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">)
on earth could be causing a half-dozen plus Toledo City Council Members to lean toward the side of backing the genocidal Israeli
government?</span></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Our
organizers </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">for
this email campaign have told us to </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">continue</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
politely emailing and calling these TCC members for the next two
weeks until the tabled resolution comes up again for a vote, but I’ve had it. My patience is gone with those who think a genocide is
“no big deal” or </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">“there’s
two sides </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
every issue.” Sorry, but no. When it comes to genocide, there isn’t
a “pro” s</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">id</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">e
unless you’re an outright sociopath. I wrote a polite and
fact-filled email earlier in the week, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">but</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
apparently it didn’t touch the naysayers’ hearts, or what</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ever</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
they have instea</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">d</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
of </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">an
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">organ
of empathy. </span></span></b>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I
can’</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">t</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
trust myself to write another “polite email” (or ten) again, so
I’ve decided to write my email into a blog post instead. This
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">letter
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">would
be what I would send to the Toledo City Council </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">M</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">embers
if I could, but I won’t </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">send
it and </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">jeopardize
this resolution’s chance of passing just to vent my frustration. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">A</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">t
least </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I’ll
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">have
a few things off my chest, which might help me refrain from spitting
in their faces the next time I see any of them in person. Here goes...</span></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></b>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicOXnQSLI-CbRiZHHCmCIl1HUjgniYqCinyC9BaTTSNyxFsQnKx36ScnbVjyIgix-oyl37g6SaT1m-aL3vI0FFYc-oI2Nm0kucngYBWQCQG2R_YLbUBKXrqu7S2JdId1pz-_XtoeLSCuD_hVJELnaTWbmwpvAEUndz-6B3c1viWraUzcAa57alOWbFb_F8/s1134/Israel%20at%20the%20ICJ%20giving%20evidence.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="806" data-original-width="1134" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicOXnQSLI-CbRiZHHCmCIl1HUjgniYqCinyC9BaTTSNyxFsQnKx36ScnbVjyIgix-oyl37g6SaT1m-aL3vI0FFYc-oI2Nm0kucngYBWQCQG2R_YLbUBKXrqu7S2JdId1pz-_XtoeLSCuD_hVJELnaTWbmwpvAEUndz-6B3c1viWraUzcAa57alOWbFb_F8/w400-h284/Israel%20at%20the%20ICJ%20giving%20evidence.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></b></div><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br />Dear Council Member:</span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></p><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">You
may not remember my email from this past week among the many hundreds
of emails on this topic that flooded your inbox, so allow me to jog
your memory.</span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I’m
an immigration advocate, writer/editor, and mother. In my line of
work, I’ve seen up close how devastating ethnic cleansing </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">can
be for an individual</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the same kind that is happening currently to the Palestinians in Gaza. I can
empathize with just how terrifying it is not to be able to help your
friends and family who are stuck in the middle of the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">IDF
carpet </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">bombing</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
One small </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">demonstration
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
support by the Toledo City Council </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">by
passing this ceasefire resolution </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">could
go a long way in showing the local Palestinian/Arab American community
that </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
city truly c</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ares
about them and their families.</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">All
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">you
as a Council Member</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
ha</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ve</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
to do is vote yes on the Ceasefire in Gaza Resolution that was proposed</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">. Why is this simple, yet compassionate, act </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">so
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">difficult
for you to understand? </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Your
silence speaks volumes. </span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">t</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
was brought to my attention that a former Council Member
has been causing you </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">some
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">confusion.
I must say that I am confused by his actions, too, as he no longer
lives in the city, but rather he lives in a small, mostly white, affluent suburb
located to the northwest of Toledo. Why </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Toledo
City Council</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
allows persons who live outside the city limits to tell them what to
do and how to vote on a resolution was a mystery to me until I
learned more about this individual.</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Mr.
Smith* </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">apparently
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">has
a lot of rich, powerful friends in the county. I see now how he controls
your votes. Although he </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">currently
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">lives
in another city, he still thinks he and his gang can tell the Toledo City Council what to do. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">As</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
we all know, Toledo is no longer as affluent as it once was and is no
longer mostly white, either. Mr. Smith </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
his earlier remarks </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">espouse</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">d</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Zionist political philosophy, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">one</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
that is known for its racism against all people of color, Palestinians in particular. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">It
seems probable Mr. Smith </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">doesn’t
support a ceasefire because he wants the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">genocide
to continue until all Gazans are dead </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">nd
the next phase of driving out any remaining Palestinians in the West
Bank can begin. Perhaps he </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">i</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s
hoping that a similar </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ethnic
cleansing </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">operation
could </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">make</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Toledo “</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">mostly white” again </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">one
day? </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Who
knows what lurks in Zionists' hearts?</span></span></b></p></div>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNP6B8A4vkhLagg45jKOlR-LYPR6wvbsBm0j9y8vN9vJEESqfrgIiK9dFlvx5K2FJ3DZEQzSivlgxlAZ2-C7ze9TwPwB3NfcLsHbToV7TM2QFfw_q7pEsKfuPC6C-xSqSnfcvqvkZHUw_AkXjYN7VDbbH5E3Aw9GDWMMmmKeIaTHLNyDLymNK7PKthuXr3/s941/10%20children%20lose%20a%20limb%20a%20day.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="877" data-original-width="941" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNP6B8A4vkhLagg45jKOlR-LYPR6wvbsBm0j9y8vN9vJEESqfrgIiK9dFlvx5K2FJ3DZEQzSivlgxlAZ2-C7ze9TwPwB3NfcLsHbToV7TM2QFfw_q7pEsKfuPC6C-xSqSnfcvqvkZHUw_AkXjYN7VDbbH5E3Aw9GDWMMmmKeIaTHLNyDLymNK7PKthuXr3/w320-h298/10%20children%20lose%20a%20limb%20a%20day.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I’</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">m
certain Mr. Smith couches his approval of </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
Israeli genocide</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
in flowery terms, but the fancy verbiage doesn’t hide the cold hard
facts: There are an estimated </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">10</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">0,000
human beings </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">missing,
maimed, or </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">dead
in Gaza, 12,000</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">+</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
them </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">children.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Over
700,000 are without food or drinkable water as of today. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I’m
assuming that you don’t personally feel that toddlers and newborns
are “hardened terrorists” like most Zionists do. In that case,
you’d agree with me that Palestinian children aren’t guilty of
any “</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">crimes”
whatsoever. So, if Palestinian children are innocent </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
any crimes</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
why should they be punished—or in this case murdered by carpet
bombing </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
the withholding of food and potable water</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">—for
actions</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
in which</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
they </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">can</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">no</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">t</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
be held </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">responsib</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">le</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
for in the first place? </span></span></b>
<p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Wouldn’t
calling for a ceasefire to end the hostilities so both sides can sit
around the negotiation table and work things out be a good thing to
do for the sake of the children? Wouldn’t Toledo City Council
backing a Ceasefire in Gaza Resolution help</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
encourage public opinion to demand these negotiations</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> begin and the killing stop?
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Wouldn’t
it</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
show how much Toledo </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">stands
in solidarity with innocent Palestinian </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">children and civilians in general?
Aren’t children’</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s
health and safety</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
worthy of your time and consideration, so much so that you’d vote
yes </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">on
the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
ceasefire resolution today if you could</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">?</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">o
put it another way: How much is a child’s life worth to you,
Council Member?</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">If
you’re still siding with a wealthy, white suburbanite who wants the massacres to continue in Gaza, then you’re telling me and the world that you don’t really place much worth on the life of a</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ny</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
child—</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a
child</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
o</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">f</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
color </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
particular. A</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
child </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
color </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">who
resides in either in Gaza or Toledo. Brown or Black lives aren’t
worth a whole lot to you is what </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">refusing
to vote yes on the ceasefire resolution</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
says to me. </span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Essentially, you’ve placed a price tag of $0 on these
children’</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s
heads</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Whether
they live or die is of no importance to you. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I
personally find your callous </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">disregard
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">for the lives of children disgust</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ing.</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I’m
sure Mr. Smith and his friends (who after all live in a very </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">well-to-do
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">suburb
in the same county as the city of Toledo) can write some
pretty big checks come election campaign time. I’m also certain
that your county political party machine relishes those big fat checks. I'm sure your party leaders have warned you to never do anything that could drive away those big
campaign donations </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">on
pain of political death, no doubt. So, even if you won’t answer the
question</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
“How much is a child’s life worth?” you've given us all the
answer.</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
child’s life isn’t worth your political career, obviously.</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">This
can mean only one thing—your political career must be terminated so
that children may live.</span></span></b></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi75kWki2ew4vuC5gyG40AngU7TSaN0gtEE3n8zeSH5IcC9JE5Lp4RhdVnANjJYP0EWKScAwqJwi4giS28tLFqROWkv-fl6vC5U8RPVrIiDoY-qzaeqBFCIwWW-qMIR6bs_NQ4QhyHIBJD4FBsnaZvaPOdOWn-Om8Nx9s2aPhrkOQ43Km_UYxJ9YwemSsKu/s528/self%20defense%20is%20not%20genocide.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="528" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi75kWki2ew4vuC5gyG40AngU7TSaN0gtEE3n8zeSH5IcC9JE5Lp4RhdVnANjJYP0EWKScAwqJwi4giS28tLFqROWkv-fl6vC5U8RPVrIiDoY-qzaeqBFCIwWW-qMIR6bs_NQ4QhyHIBJD4FBsnaZvaPOdOWn-Om8Nx9s2aPhrkOQ43Km_UYxJ9YwemSsKu/w320-h217/self%20defense%20is%20not%20genocide.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></span></b></div><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I
know you’ll take exception to my reasoning, but what else have you
given us to go on? A reasonable request to pass a resolution calling
for a ceasefire of the bombing of innocent civilians in Gaza is being
ignored. There has to be something causing you as Council Member to not
enthusiastically support saving children’s lives—any child’s
life, no matter </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">what
color </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">he/she
is </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">or
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">where
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
child </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">lives</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
And that something must have something to do with what Mr. Smith and his
rich suburbanite friends have that you so desperately want—money. </span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Rich people use money as a threat or an incentive to get what they
want frequently. I’ll have to assume they’ve threatened that the
big checks will stop dropping in</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
your party's campaign war chests if you don’t do as you’re told </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
vote down the ceasefire resolution</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">. To
quote a few outspoken</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> audience </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">members at
the last council meeting: “Spineless.” “Cowards.”</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
child’s life (whatever his/her color) is of infinite worth in case
you didn’t know. I don’t know if you’re a parent or grandparent
or have never even held a baby in your arms in your life before, but
know this: A child’</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s
life</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
is worth </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">far
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">more
than any damn campaign contribution. Spineless cowards like you have
put a price tag of $0 on their heads in order to stay in office.
Proud of yourself? Putting your political career above the chance of
standing in solidarity with others who wish to save innocents’
lives </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
Gaza</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">. </span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">What a “neighborly” thing to do, Toledo! </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">And
we </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">belong
to the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
so-called “Welcoming C</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">it</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">y”
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">organization,
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">too.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Ha</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> ha ha</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">!</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">You
seem to forget, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Council Member,</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
that Palestinian Americans can and do vote and that Arab Americans/Muslim Americans make up a good percentage of voters in Lucas County. They're well paid
professionals just like your friend Mr. Smith and his group, too. They
will be writing big checks to your political opponents from now on.
Your refusal to vote yes on the Ceasefire in Gaza Resolution will
mean the end of your political career after all. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Ironic,
isn’t it? I can’t wait for the day when your cowardice catches up
with you.</span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Sincerely
yours,</span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">A Fed-Up Voter For Peace & Justice<br /></span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><i>*</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><i>Not his real name, but you probably know someone just like him.</i></span></span></b></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><i></i></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Wk5P4ytHOgvfB_OF-AbrXsKGOnTsd4FjAGslj12_hbbTKuzSEcnEyiH6EA52yyCFmFlAKzz9TXQHXeJlSiPyaG-eK1ITDjf-xm_HrEnvrJ5kJLNWPIZ2h_60wnGYmGzdon1Qkz2DCzebGaYm72bp8gxnIAwoW_0A4uabPkErOktJMfTG5-W8pP-3kKd7/s680/child%20killers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="680" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1Wk5P4ytHOgvfB_OF-AbrXsKGOnTsd4FjAGslj12_hbbTKuzSEcnEyiH6EA52yyCFmFlAKzz9TXQHXeJlSiPyaG-eK1ITDjf-xm_HrEnvrJ5kJLNWPIZ2h_60wnGYmGzdon1Qkz2DCzebGaYm72bp8gxnIAwoW_0A4uabPkErOktJMfTG5-W8pP-3kKd7/w320-h297/child%20killers.jpg" width="320" /></a></i></span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><i><br /></i></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span>Related Articles and Interesting Links: </span></span></b><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Thousands of Babies Being Born Into 'Hell' in Gaza, Says UNICEF <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/women-babies-gaza" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/news/women-babies-gaza<br /></a></span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>On Parenthood and Genocide <a href="https://inthesetimes.com/article/gaza-genocide-children-israel-palestine-mother " target="_blank">https://inthesetimes.com/article/gaza-genocide-children-israel-palestine-mother </a></span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Israel Forcing Palestinians to Starve “Just Miles From Trucks Filled With Food” <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/israel-forcing-palestinians-to-starve-just-miles-from-trucks-filled-with-food/" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/israel-forcing-palestinians-to-starve-just-miles-from-trucks-filled-with-food/</a></span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Palestinian Women and Children Don’t Deserve to Die in Gaza. Neither Do Men. <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/palestinian-women-and-children-dont-deserve-to-die-in-gaza-neither-do-men/ " target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/palestinian-women-and-children-dont-deserve-to-die-in-gaza-neither-do-men/ </a> </span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>St. Louis’s Ceasefire Resolution Is a Testament to Black-Palestinian Solidarity <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/st-louiss-ceasefire-resolution-is-a-testament-to-black-palestinian-solidarity/" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/st-louiss-ceasefire-resolution-is-a-testament-to-black-palestinian-solidarity/</a><br /><br />‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 105: Israel destroys Gaza’s last university as Netanyahu doubles down on rejection of a Palestinian state <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-105-israel-destroys-gazas-last-university-as-netanyahu-doubles-down-on-rejection-of-a-palestinian-state/" target="_blank">https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/operation-al-aqsa-flood-day-105-israel-destroys-gazas-last-university-as-netanyahu-doubles-down-on-rejection-of-a-palestinian-state/<br /></a></span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Israel’s war on Gaza live: No ‘deliberate’ war crimes by Israel, says US <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/1/19/israels-war-on-gaza-live-us-support-for-israel-ironclad-despite-rebuff" target="_blank">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/1/19/israels-war-on-gaza-live-us-support-for-israel-ironclad-despite-rebuff</a><br /><br />Palestinians welcome Chile and Mexico’s call for ICC probe into Gaza war <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/19/palestinians-welcome-chile-and-mexico-call-for-icc-probe-into-gaza-war" target="_blank">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/1/19/palestinians-welcome-chile-and-mexico-call-for-icc-probe-into-gaza-war<br /></a><br />Israeli Military Chief Says Lebanon War Likely in Coming Months<br /><a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/18/israeli-military-chief-says-lebanon-war-likely-in-coming-months/" target="_blank">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/18/israeli-military-chief-says-lebanon-war-likely-in-coming-months/</a></span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>5 Radical Martin Luther King Quotes Fox News Would Hate<br /><a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/notthatkindofchristian/2024/01/5-radical-martin-luther-king-quotes-fox-news-would-hate" target="_blank">https://www.patheos.com/blogs/notthatkindofchristian/2024/01/5-radical-martin-luther-king-quotes-fox-news-would-hate<br /></a><br />Senate Kills Sanders Resolution Requiring Biden to Report on Israeli Human Rights Conduct in Gaza <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-resolution-gaza" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-resolution-gaza<br /></a><br />Western racism laid the foundations for Israel's genocide in Gaza <a href="https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/western-racism-laid-the-foundations" target="_blank">https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/western-racism-laid-the-foundations</a><br /><br />Has Israel Lost its Right to Exist? <a href="https://joebrunoli.substack.com/p/has-israel-lost-its-right-to-exist" target="_blank">https://joebrunoli.substack.com/p/has-israel-lost-its-right-to-exist</a><br /><br />Patrick Lawrence: This Is Not Another ‘Phoney War’ <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/19/patrick-lawrence-this-is-not-another-phoney-war/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/19/patrick-lawrence-this-is-not-another-phoney-war/<br /></a><br />Biden, Israel’s accomplice in Gaza, pretends to be a bystander <a href="https://www.aaronmate.net/p/biden-israels-accomplice-in-gaza" target="_blank">https://www.aaronmate.net/p/biden-israels-accomplice-in-gaza<br /></a><br />How Israeli forces trapped and killed ravers at the Nova Festival<br /><a href="https://new.thecradle.co/articles/how-israeli-forces-trapped-and-killed-ravers-at-the-nova-festival" target="_blank">https://new.thecradle.co/articles/how-israeli-forces-trapped-and-killed-ravers-at-the-nova-festival</a><br /><br />Switzerland says Israel President subject of criminal complaints at Davos <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240119-switzerland-says-israel-president-subject-of-criminal-complaints-at-davos/amp/" target="_blank">https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240119-switzerland-says-israel-president-subject-of-criminal-complaints-at-davos/amp/<br /></a><br />Technicality Could Sink Genocide Case v Israel <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/17/technicality-could-sink-genocide-case-v-israel" target="_blank">https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/17/technicality-could-sink-genocide-case-v-israel</a></span></span></b></span></p><p data-pm-slice="1 1 []"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia;">Indonesia Files Lawsuit Against Israel At World Court <a href="https://popularresistance.org/indonesia-files-lawsuit-against-israel-at-world-court/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://popularresistance.org/indonesia-files-lawsuit-against-israel-at-world-court/</a></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia;">Cuba Proposes Non-Aligned Movement Support Urgent Dispatch Of Protection Mission To The Gaza Strip <a href="https://popularresistance.org/cuba-proposes-non-aligned-movement-support-urgent-dispatch-of-international-protection-mission-to-the-gaza-strip/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://popularresistance.org/cuba-proposes-non-aligned-movement-support-urgent-dispatch-of-international-protection-mission-to-the-gaza-strip/</a></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><br /><br />Can the US Please Stop Supporting Genocidal Nazis? <a href="https://joebrunoli.substack.com/p/can-the-us-please-stop-supporting" target="_blank">https://joebrunoli.substack.com/p/can-the-us-please-stop-supporting</a></span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>The Biden Administration's Absurd Justification For Its Yemen War <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-biden-administrations-absurd" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-biden-administrations-absurd </a></span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Ohio Pastor Charged for Opening Church to Homeless People in Freezing Weather <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/ohio-pastor" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/news/ohio-pastor</a><br /><br />One year after the toxic train derailment, is East Palestine (Ohio) safe? Depends on whom you ask. <a href="https://grist.org/accountability/is-east-palestine-safe-depends-who-you-ask/" target="_blank">https://grist.org/accountability/is-east-palestine-safe-depends-who-you-ask/</a><br /><br />COVID-19 has killed more than 7 million people since 2020 <a href="https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/01/13/covid-19-has-killed-more-than-7-million-people-since-2020/" target="_blank">https://peoplesdispatch.org/2024/01/13/covid-19-has-killed-more-than-7-million-people-since-2020/</a><br /><br />Global 1% own 43% of financial assets, 5 richest billionaires doubled wealth while 5 billion workers got poorer <a href="https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/01/18/billionaires-richest-doubled-wealth-poorer-oxfam/" target="_blank">https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/01/18/billionaires-richest-doubled-wealth-poorer-oxfam/</a><br /> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><i><br /></i></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZhxSrMIJYvoZbwji5iRmVrkjFu9SE93ZW7TIiiCAJD4pwLeNs7E375SMjEIXdCWcE0XnHpzTnd7TNmnCKilXCtNTv_zvmGyhcyxttUf_cAdtqoSKrWpiuCaByAWbIBSwaPO5xzUGXt-GvM3s_FbcAu_QENSLbURAdI8W7UEiTRL75chFzMxHcogBc_MdR/s1080/Butcher%20Biden.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="1080" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZhxSrMIJYvoZbwji5iRmVrkjFu9SE93ZW7TIiiCAJD4pwLeNs7E375SMjEIXdCWcE0XnHpzTnd7TNmnCKilXCtNTv_zvmGyhcyxttUf_cAdtqoSKrWpiuCaByAWbIBSwaPO5xzUGXt-GvM3s_FbcAu_QENSLbURAdI8W7UEiTRL75chFzMxHcogBc_MdR/w400-h350/Butcher%20Biden.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></b></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Some videos well worth watching:</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Palestine in 1920 <a href="https://youtu.be/QUCeQt8zg5o?si=juKUncu86IoJLr2-" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/QUCeQt8zg5o?si=juKUncu86IoJLr2-</a><br /><br />Are We The Baddies? (A History of US Empire)<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/ooMCvGlbbc4?si=wdFvdUxzzsM7i0Bu" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/ooMCvGlbbc4?si=wdFvdUxzzsM7i0Bu<br /></a><br />South Park's take on Israeli propaganda: <a href="https://twitter.com/AdameMedia/status/1747953750403084674" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/AdameMedia/status/1747953750403084674</a><br /><br />Miko Peled interviews Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party candidate<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/rgIMHAJlPVM?si=x_hFcYMQjscVA0H8" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/rgIMHAJlPVM?si=x_hFcYMQjscVA0H8</a></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span>Subscribe
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<p><style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 115%; background: transparent }a:visited { color: #800000; so-language: zxx; text-decoration: underline }a:link { color: #000080; so-language: zxx; text-decoration: underline }</style></p>Cindy A. Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12724627097783524710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6184788866071073621.post-82806848417736709202024-01-15T14:16:00.000-08:002024-01-16T13:05:12.643-08:00Marching Toward Justice<div><div class="ii gt" id=":1hc"><div class="a3s aiL" id=":1hb"><div dir="ltr"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhxvjutrtA-4rDxpBOng_qOn4aqobPTRrj7T-pBhS2k2KtbRXermnAiAR5OtBBHeO9nPLvKV-orAD0Kw01pFPGZ97XWSbMnrhr0HUM-YG2WvQO-aWUBPSIt3IxHIAkQY7zTMtuTM0LnCS5gAkxSBPDstNmL8TMxxk9HLFA1SWRckJt5DiuOtKglZPD3YMkGVHBCQaD88-1DIcDmSxuA0JDnKrv7i8dj3oxi53W4vlf9cwdV1bUMx3cozE47EYRDYxa9mjvdLydhe-Tg9qfQUxubSYBBJjrMJw3VaMlRx8zBcNPoqLN6mg2AwiI6X0tDH-8-eXUn0zZ-1UNw-TEmRV4_5td6ENcHI9jwwktl8RDRwciwe2Wnxuq10d7UmSxUkVsU-pmuBiosJGvpDou6V_V2Zwq2ker_PDdQNZJEPhXUPzrY-x5nUQhBAkNyvQCsLfiKR80ammvOneBFxJECVTXBChb63X2xmScRk_RVLZBtN38=s0-d-e1-ft" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-complicity-gaza" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/<wbr></wbr>news/biden-complicity-gaza</a></span></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Marching Toward Justice</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">by C.A. Matthews<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><i>No justice. No peace!<br />Know justice. Know peace!</i><br /><br />I
wore an orange jumpsuit and a black hood over my head this past
Thursday (January 11) for two hours. I, along with a couple dozen
activists, marched around our county courthouse chanting the above chant
as well as many others concerning justice, freedom, and for the end of
unjust detention and torture. Ours and many other protests worldwide
this week marked the twenty-second anniversary of the opening of the
Guantanamo Bay detention camp, an extrajudicial prison operated by the
US military that has held hundreds of men, many without charge, for the
past 22 years. </span></b></span></p><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEg_Xss9qnMl1pusZPmohrA1EhbGWmPl0P3g3JUbBwqkClQ0kAU1KLDgWlD_1Lk7pXHxOyVThVHRXjTTOsDGPprDs3qPHumL_COO5BM8Sn-LduUDyEDHzmC8rorL0JIvLbmQT2zGYluwicJataiGedzz-vcN_YXoapLv8W-L5ZS9F5cB82VYcUnQn8vvP3OMKBahuCG1iKDL6GoyunAvxxvXj5SJDJXqkaunjyxhtL-VIbWnldiUyNHOhhn2Y2W-IQIGQZm7YPAtPknQ-qr-pIfyY3oA3kk_AvrP-cKQLi9lfYEsEjjOu7igZcFCnv-_t7b06a8dH577Gn_DWN_Xckepr5OeePC-u9edz5gTXXIJHKVGb5mWkxEHeSsecTMxaoI2nUIA-GbpiEMGF61xTg8znSfaMQ9hGrxBpHbfIPS8na6S6WETD2VWjHpkNMjUaXu6TlHNXIxkZtUEiXJJZjxbxA=s0-d-e1-ft" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;">(I’m carrying the “Close Guantanamo” sign in this video <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/1434577297270587" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/reel/<wbr></wbr>1434577297270587</a>)</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">There
are currently thirty souls still detained at Guantanamo, sixteen of
whom were supposed to have been released many years ago, but they
haven’t been because the US simply doesn’t release these individuals to
go back to their homes and families. They are only released to other
countries that are willing to lock them up again behind bars or keep a
close eye on them. You’re not really being “freed” if you’re simply
placed into another prison or detention set-up without a trial and
without a chance to see your family again, are you?<br /><br />There are
many parallels between the detainees of Guantanamo and the detainees of
the open-air concentration camp known as Gaza. You can learn a lot (I
sure did) from the following webinars. I recommend you watch them and
share the links with others. Together, we can pull down the walls of
unjust detention and tear down the torture chambers that have been built
with US taxpayer dollars and used to destroy others in our names. </span><br /><br /></span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">From Guantánamo to Gaza: Resisting State Violence and Occupation <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.youtube.com/live/X9A9xUKXUpY?si=OapW7b5gqocTxLib" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/live/<wbr></wbr>X9A9xUKXUpY?si=<wbr></wbr>OapW7b5gqocTxLib</a><br /><br />From Guantánamo to Gaza: Where Do We Go From Here?<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://youtube.com/live/aPxHKEjmCuw" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/live/<wbr></wbr>aPxHKEjmCuw </a></span></b></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank"><br /></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />If you feel so moved, please donate to the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">Guantanamo Survivors’ Fund</a>.
If and when a detainee is finally released, he receives no help in
making the transition from imprisonment to life outside. He's given no
money, no housing, no clothing, and no medical help to deal with his
trauma of both mind and body. Please give generously if you’re able and
share the link with others.<br /><br />No justice. No peace.<br /><br />And
since I’m sharing video links, here are some well worth a look. These
are the testimonies given at the International Court of Justice at The
Hague by legal representatives from the Republic of South Africa and
from the state of Israel this past week. The case presented by South
Africa is well argued and, without a doubt, revealing of the true
natures of Israel's leaders. The South Africans very wisely didn’t state
that “Israel is calling for a genocide”—they simply quoted Israeli
officials who openly called for the “elimination” or “complete
annihilation” of the Palestinian people or the “human animals” of Gaza
as the Israeli Defense minister named them. Their own hideously racist
words will damn them. </span></b></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Day 1 of SA v Israel on Genocide at World Court<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/10/watch-day-1-of-sa-v-israel-on-genocide-at-world-court/" target="_blank">https://consortiumnews.com/<wbr></wbr>2024/01/10/watch-day-1-of-sa-<wbr></wbr>v-israel-on-genocide-at-world-<wbr></wbr>court/<br /></a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">22-Minute Speech Details Israeli Officials' Genocidal Statements at ICJ <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-genocidal-statements-2666930604" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/<wbr></wbr>news/israel-genocidal-<wbr></wbr>statements-2666930604</a></span></b></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></a></p><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiT0OFbac2ZDnS_vpuaD-k9Ib49vG7CyYxzmujM_6McrGs2kSb_0kdcDQ54E-gASu9uFT350Wt2UID01i0B_ipMM8ebVgabv7aivhw-KfVY7H6D_HBKu6CO3AY8_29NxS362kmOwxCkeXIex-Bi5x52qkUy6sXwOWUJYta70VsaKx6zBg3NVyUP7r5bssBu6lx3Dnb-ZRI8eZPkn4zXekyxpBv3_SCTA5Li54NwRydVh5smj20czP3_-56xza-9D5gJbzm4rzR7zDhKzccfsOv41QBYXz1HoKdILCQfRQH0lTCN7SjDkmUdON5vNBFTRY1PsMx8PCpiI7RnQ6R4y3_HCdBC_Rrhw84FjTTCw88QjZyeLWmLTIcfELbOZFZLMhFQgo1Ma3MmjGHvFv7-ylkSVcRIUJUi70crPNwgZ_BXbfRy65f3AZmI0SvXKLJbXkBCmJjLl7GDUjt46keUAtvcOnsqkdSg3_X9oh-u2RTwcl2DX5GxCg=s0-d-e1-ft" width="320" /></a></span></b></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>It
doesn’t take much to convince the public that Israel is committing
genocide against the Palestinian people when Israeli leaders are openly
declaring that it’s what they’re in fact doing. But will the judges rule
that a “potential for genocide” is indeed happening in Gaza? <br /><br />In
a perfect world, a ruling would be announced right away, but it will
probably be two or three weeks (or more) until the world hears back from
the ICJ justices. It is a very biased and political court from what
I’ve learned. Judges from countries that have had similar charges made
against them in the past might not want to judge Israel guilty of the
same crime in fear it could come back and bite their country at some
point. The ICJ in reality, however, has little to no "bite" and no way
to hold countries accountable for their war crimes, alas. Politics
trumps justice in this imperfect world.<br /><br />No justice. No peace. </b></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And now for our third story concerning the march toward justice this past week, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.youtube.com/live/MCNrimImrH0?si=MAWHW7ZQfOj8XM4X" target="_blank">The National March on Washington for Gaza (livestreamed in its entirety via BreakThrough News.)</a></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br />“No
country that supports genocide will ever flourish! ...Take a look at
our irrational relationship with Israel!”-- Sh. Yasir Qadhi, a speaker
at the March </span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />“I
don’t feel safe as a Palestinian.” – Anees, a Palestinian-American
artist reading his poem in front of 400,000 people at the March<br /></span></b></span></p><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgD_lKPYWqSviFQLBpOXvvFrBnr1_Gzqde9pmq7PvsHf2Fn6izZ4bBzR_-bvOvo9Xx6j8zcIcgL9lhYa4LGzOHI4KaBz3eVB8kUzB0iO_bv0xJ_-3RpOEAB5dQ1pcQjwzk7I2PAQIdSuOJTnyyanIknP5Vaok4Qv7ilDWRtigwd1As86OrY6Z0YChyphenhyphenTCtx_ZKoSIAAXbdVR9MQqgQ8uyxuRk9DtM5sCKlHVcsWyHh6_7XtZoSBH43Vmk7JT3N1mwJenRtdwv5NFiVXIbx91bLy2lh54DLRofkKP-HsKEnPh7NZrmdcekOI78IL0cs7q3O7bTvSKsXTY-OROk48-gzQvHqU0czt8mIb7PGZYKxVDd4EiB3YLrZvW_M8p9_xIRl_EZMAE4XFNaN2mASoUfxPST25Z7O2NZpALuciWipOkD47E-w9ZTc2TBAIjq-M99I540YecGUnTcE3800N6xkHKOtRETz0Sh8Q=s0-d-e1-ft" width="315" /></a></i></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br />Biden, Biden you can’t hide! You’re supporting genocide!<br />Your silence is a license for Israeli violence!<br />We will free Palestine...within our lifetime!<br />From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!</i><br /><br />I
wish I could have attended the massive National March on Washington for
Gaza this past weekend, but the march around the courthouse in the cold
and damp earlier in the week was about all my old body could take for a
while. The buses from our city heading toward DC were full, so I knew
we would be well represented there. <br /><br />Independent journalists
broadcast live coverage on You Tube of all the rally speakers and the
march to the White House to let “Genocide Joe” know that the majority of
Americans want an end to the bombing of Gaza and a permanent ceasefire.
</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">BreakThrough News</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">
was the only media group that I could find online that followed all the
events of the day. Once again, the American mainstream media
purposefully ignored an anti-genocide/pro-Palestinian event in the
nation’s capital in order to suppress its message and public knowledge
of its large turn out. <br /></span></b></span><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhKF_d8QYpvQE_t0uCI6Xb_jtb8ZeiWGfRpdbkXDhBdCcH43gaxrOpzsJbuuwRhdPefvp9d2righwOj-3eeasiYJqQaWJuXhzX0MOnodiVHOKNYoZSugSnpkHBiT5KnBkDt081m2C5rUjivPKTAy_EodNFIn95Bq86AdTPHnn8wiKJBQNHR8o3t4hdqmuTycfeXjJjpVdtiSfkrbTANJutD5IztiShxqe87w6kHO9HezV9oOijA3_Svejkyi1vp7DlCWqs179_ti1MBapHf76b4INdhDX1c5FlpmbvlrrXUgEqW71N_m7XD0wxGk6-qz3Kw8759p51Jegxfuz-dvUl6jWcBDPId9-33pTVXco_OM9-gw_TxtMHXQsKSCPjLUWfq6G0oUIJlMu3qAtoEJTYNxyEpqySl3z3zsKV07n8gZr6u4fxykK9WrRyUKVgF0by_zvdSH3WlQJmi=s0-d-e1-ft" width="400" /></a></i></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now!</i></span></b></span><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></b></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Speakers
expressed their disgust and sheer horror at how the Biden’s
administration continues to ignore the plight of the Palestinians and
send even more weapons to Israel. How anyone could ignore the mass
murders of so many civilians (now estimated at 30,000+ lives lost with
12,000 of those deaths being children’s) brought forth stern commentary
using straightforward terminology. Biden and Secretary of State Blinken
were painted as despicable, morally bankrupt, and explicitly complicit
in the genocide against the Palestinian people. </span></b></span></div><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">That
the Democratic Party even entertains the notion that Biden is a viable
candidate after this and similar American rallies over the past three
months demonstrates that they’re not really serious about keeping the
White House. Perhaps that’s the plan of the oligarchy after all—to pass
off control of the Executive Branch to the Republicans as a distraction
from what’s really happening in the world at the expense of the
struggling classes. </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The
oligarchs probably believe that most Americans can't tell there are no
actual differences between the two establishment factions. We are easily
fooled. But on-the-street interviews during the march to the White
House give evidence to the fact that the protesters know they have a
choice in the voting booth. Some expressed their support for the Green
Party’s Jill Stein, one of the speakers at the pre-march rally.</span></b></span></div><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></p><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjg6UcSZQ6VK3qy_ALFaB2RgKlu7YtIpZ2xgnkXxrgEYlCaud798kjJnCrP0wAE4vN7kWtY-cLuyMVbyahcem8XI4l1uo5oOtx3fAjdEOaCuJ49UQtTJe60j1xbFFa-RbHOlKtoifX9eEDrS5jGmq352kM3eiCb1GYxc4CxTHqOfPC7HHA_0sVZr5urveGCeWp5Iy3M58WrqFTKgiXtMBSuhJB7AE64FS0C6RJMkZxwpRcw7xl5lfHnGmaJs9wqWHnRol2ouYninCMu7bPhz5DUzegfpWwWn_LEs3hVdRdbxkTlnjR9DdR9etgTm4N2Zk7GhdAa-FgxH91eas7aE7KVAVEBICtioaNgv9GqeDUTwyq2UEo0yWQLg0_u6-hIswZFm1w5IdyQ1pgqmSyIRt_J1w4j6oVRGBBXYWxHy4r1Ja0ri54aVAGNJ51A-1BmoNVdANRyJY7y5XeBtD5CW3O-acLR0Z5ygiRL8_-S8pQbBTG4_z1U54k=s0-d-e1-ft" width="400" /></a></span></b></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Dr.
Stein was in good form. Wearing shades of blue, the wind blowing
through her silver-white hair, she boldly proclaimed to the crowd as she
took the stage, “I see power! I see justice! I see democracy as far as
the eye can see!” She ended with, “You have the power! Remember, we have
the power to change history. Together we are unstoppable!” Jill is
collecting names for a pledge demanding an end to the genocide at her
campaign web site now: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.jillstein2024.com/pledgetostopgenocide" target="_blank">https://www.jillstein2024.com/<wbr></wbr>pledgetostopgenocide</a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">You can watch Jill Stein's speech here: <a href="https://youtu.be/ooUatY8IATc?si=UFqvmOq6kQEgh6gu " target="_blank">https://youtu.be/ooUatY8IATc?si=UFqvmOq6kQEgh6gu </a><br /><br />The
solidarity of the different groups of marchers was lovely to see. A
young activist said of Joe Biden when asked why the president continued
to send money and arms to Israel: “It’s not the eyes that are blind;
it’s the heart that is blind.” “(Biden is) an excuse of a president,”
another marcher told a reporter with BreakThrough News. “We are tired of
being second class citizens in our own country.” <br /><br />Very telling
comments on this, the weekend of American civil rights leader Martin
Luther King Jr.'s birthday. If Dr. King were alive today, no doubt he
would have gone to DC and marched, proudly carrying a Palestinian flag.<br /><br />“There’s
no turning back,” said Liane, an activist with the Shut It Down For
Palestine Coalition as she stood outside of the White House’s
double-fence in the bitter cold after sunset. “Biden has lost
legitimacy. No one running in either of the two parties has any
legitimacy. Consciousness has been raised.”<br /></span></b></span></p><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhg8E21XUFNOhp5YM5j7FTZHAfOmuGqzqHiUyh_b4YkFqzQugPfHtOYEzBuh9sLwdWjdoHIjjwv0oaXQW218kVNyEd9bdFsIgTY4TQ8wAJb9ujrJyzy9NdrnSTnwv2O7n5n4vbPTY17bjU68ZHwUW1uhdJeY-5lMgPKh2-dsZRNQejAvykYcf3LZYFYC74ev-F0Rfz8P7S15jeXLeIIhO22aMeB4GfC7xFf6_k3ydaEh_EQNo2TmW4cxxutU_Igh4EO98FWCZz3b5Lgi1spTfqBAU-WUE1cZ6aIDz1BBmCFGkEwCI154VAPhlBMdW7FtFczq5fVrKl7MgkzbdIS33wlRv44NKZtRTUmw9qkvXxxigw_Jtnwx5WW1w4vraiHxoog7keny66D7B9qGCqaOH_N_hCLJPoqjL8zNMpGCCUcsS_G8XojGOOaZU7ISVAiE2gwUMUCgh33J5pkjI8rn1IXptpwC-c22nW3Hi8SDJyBuu_5TS0=s0-d-e1-ft" width="225" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Well
said. It’s impressive how well-informed activists are and how they
aren’t swallowing the pro-Zionist propaganda put out by the government.
They're fighting back, speaking out, and naming names. They understand
they have options, choices in the polling booth. Jill Stein, a strong
pro-Palestine/anti-genocide candidate for the presidency, is one of
them.<br /><br />There is no justice and no peace yet for the beleaguered
people of Palestine, but at least there is some hope on the horizon. And
so we will continue marching on toward justice.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span><br /></span></span></span></b><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Related Articles and Interesting Links</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>T</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">he National March on Washington for Gaza, January 13, 2024 </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.youtube.com/live/MCNrimImrH0?si=MAWHW7ZQfOj8XM4X" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/live/<wbr></wbr>MCNrimImrH0?si=<wbr></wbr>MAWHW7ZQfOj8XM4X</a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chris Hedges: The Case for Genocide<a href=" https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/12/chris-hedges-the-case-for-genocide/" target="_blank"> </a><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank"></a><a href=" https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/12/chris-hedges-the-case-for-genocide/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2024/</a><wbr></wbr><a href=" https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/12/chris-hedges-the-case-for-genocide/" target="_blank">01/12/chris-hedges-the-case-</a><wbr></wbr><a href=" https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/12/chris-hedges-the-case-for-genocide/" target="_blank">for-genocide/</a><br /></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Genocide
is not a political problem. It is a moral one. We cannot, no matter
what the cost, support those who commit or are accomplices to genocide.
Genocide is the crime of all crimes. It is the purest expression of
evil. We must stand unequivocally with Palestinians and the jurists from
South Africa. We must demand justice. We must hold Biden accountable
for the genocide in Gaza.</span></b></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />‘The Evidence of Genocide Is Not Only Chilling, It Is Also Overwhelming and Incontrovertible’<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1705442137960000&usg=AOvVaw3BFmY5ozgGD6-_D9TNgC9H" href="https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/12/the-evidence-of-genocide-is-not-only-chilling-it-is-also-overwhelming-and-incontrovertible/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2024/<wbr></wbr>01/12/the-evidence-of-<wbr></wbr>genocide-is-not-only-chilling-<wbr></wbr>it-is-also-overwhelming-and-<wbr></wbr>incontrovertible/<br /></a><br />What Israel Faces at The Hague<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/10/what-israel-faces-at-the-hague/&source=gmail&ust=1705442137961000&usg=AOvVaw26FBWVm_-Fj28UTy6r3r57" href="https://consortiumnews.com/2024/01/10/what-israel-faces-at-the-hague/" target="_blank">https://consortiumnews.com/<wbr></wbr>2024/01/10/what-israel-faces-<wbr></wbr>at-the-hague/</a><br /><br />South
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<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/12/south-africas-impassioned-plea-to-stop-israels-genocide/&source=gmail&ust=1705442137961000&usg=AOvVaw1W0Bsd9BUFEI24ObEH17r6" href="https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/12/south-africas-impassioned-plea-to-stop-israels-genocide/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2024/<wbr></wbr>01/12/south-africas-<wbr></wbr>impassioned-plea-to-stop-<wbr></wbr>israels-genocide/</a><br /><br />Your Man in the Hague (in a Good Way).<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/01/your-man-in-the-hague-in-a-good-way/&source=gmail&ust=1705442137961000&usg=AOvVaw1ISWnUHZaMVB9BvSAROQSv" href="https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/01/your-man-in-the-hague-in-a-good-way/" target="_blank">https://www.craigmurray.org.<wbr></wbr>uk/archives/2024/01/your-man-<wbr></wbr>in-the-hague-in-a-good-way/</a><br /><br />US and UK Bomb Yemen, Israel's Pathetic Defense at the International Court of Justice, and More <br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://rumble.com/v46nujl-us-and-uk-bomb-yemen-israels-pathetic-defense-at-the-international-court-of.htm&source=gmail&ust=1705442137961000&usg=AOvVaw1eEbsh3x5hMxBeGyDoHs9z" href="http://rumble.com/v46nujl-us-and-uk-bomb-yemen-israels-pathetic-defense-at-the-international-court-of.htm" target="_blank">rumble.com/v46nujl-us-and-uk-<wbr></wbr>bomb-yemen-israels-pathetic-<wbr></wbr>defense-at-the-international-<wbr></wbr>court-of.htm</a><br /><br />Give to the Guantanamo Survivors Fund <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nogitmos.org/guantanamo-survivors-fund&source=gmail&ust=1705442137961000&usg=AOvVaw0I8n7_tZnaGISRYbfGhWbD" href="https://www.nogitmos.org/guantanamo-survivors-fund" target="_blank">https://www.nogitmos.org/<wbr></wbr>guantanamo-survivors-fund</a><br /><br />An
Ex-CIA Agent Looks Back at 22 Years of Torture at Guantánamo Bay
<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/10/john-kiriakou-22-years-of-terror-at-guantanamo-bay/&source=gmail&ust=1705442137961000&usg=AOvVaw02TV8Yp8Jj8GtzSZi7M8xx" href="https://scheerpost.com/2024/01/10/john-kiriakou-22-years-of-terror-at-guantanamo-bay/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2024/<wbr></wbr>01/10/john-kiriakou-22-years-<wbr></wbr>of-terror-at-guantanamo-bay/</a><br /><br />Accountability
and Legacy at Guantanamo: Some Progress, Still A Long Way to Go
<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.justsecurity.org/91156/accountability-and-legacy-at-guantanamo-some-progress-still-a-long-way-to-go/&source=gmail&ust=1705442137961000&usg=AOvVaw2tgs-PlEqZ-mCHFXYiVKpI" href="https://www.justsecurity.org/91156/accountability-and-legacy-at-guantanamo-some-progress-still-a-long-way-to-go/" target="_blank">https://www.justsecurity.org/<wbr></wbr>91156/accountability-and-<wbr></wbr>legacy-at-guantanamo-some-<wbr></wbr>progress-still-a-long-way-to-<wbr></wbr>go/</a><br /><br />Gaza crisis: another hospital facing dire shortages, warns WHO <br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/01/1145332&source=gmail&ust=1705442137961000&usg=AOvVaw0-KVA0vJxfRLL9uv2Az2B8" href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/01/1145332" target="_blank">https://news.un.org/en/story/<wbr></wbr>2024/01/1145332</a></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Screams without proof: questions for NYT about shoddy ‘Hamas mass rape’ report <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/10/questions-nyt-hamas-rape-report/" target="_blank">https://thegrayzone.com/2024/01/10/questions-nyt-hamas-rape-report/</a><br /><br />Pro-Palestinian household targeted with bomb in Sydney, Australia<br /><a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/01/10/sohf-j10.html" target="_blank">https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/01/10/sohf-j10.html</a><br /><br />Westerners Have An Absolutely Psychotic View Of Airstrikes <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/westerners-have-an-absolutely-psychotic" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/westerners-have-an-absolutely-psychotic</a><br /><br />Western Empire Bombs Yemen To Protect Israel's Genocide Operations In Gaza <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/western-empire-bombs-yemen-to-protect" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/western-empire-bombs-yemen-to-protect</a><br /><br />US and UK launch war against Yemen <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/01/12/vgxz-j12.html" target="_blank">https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/01/12/vgxz-j12.html</a><br /><br />US and UK Bomb Dozens of Sites in Yemen <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/11/us-and-uk-bomb-dozens-of-sites-in-yemen/" target="_blank">https://news.antiwar.com/2024/01/11/us-and-uk-bomb-dozens-of-sites-in-yemen/</a><br /><br />We Could Try Simply NOT Provoking A Wider War Via The Continued Destruction Of Gaza <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/we-could-try-simply-not-provoking" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/we-could-try-simply-not-provoking</a><br /><br />Biden Is Everything People Feared Trump Would Be<br /><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/biden-is-everything-people-feared" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/biden-is-everything-people-feared</a><br /><br />If You've Just Started Paying Attention To US Foreign Policy<br /><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youve-just-started-paying-attention" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youve-just-started-paying-attention</a><br /><br />We badly need the kind of critical reporting that WikiLeaks supplied on the crimes of the “war on terror” <br /><a href="https://www.stopwar.org.uk/article/why-gaza-reporting-shows-that-julian-assange-should-be-free/" target="_blank">https://www.stopwar.org.uk/article/why-gaza-reporting-shows-that-julian-assange-should-be-free/</a><br /><br />Abby Martin Explains Why Israel Will Never Be The Same<br /><a href="https://rumble.com/v46mcbr-abby-martin-explains-why-israel-will-never-be-the-same.html " target="_blank">https://rumble.com/v46mcbr-abby-martin-explains-why-israel-will-never-be-the-same.html </a></span></b></span></div>
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<p></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">#BoycottMickey</span></b></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>by C.A. Matthews</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><b><span> <br /></span></b></span></p>
<p>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">From
Mickey Mouse (Disney) to MickeyD’s (McDonald’s), Palestine will be free!</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I’m
just back from a cold—but very effective—protest for </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Peac</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">e
in Palestine. We marched several blocks </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">along
a heavily trafficked city street </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
an Interstate highway crossing </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">where
the most intrepid activists </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">among
us </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">hung
a </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">large
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">banner
over the side </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
the bridge </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">for
a couple of hours. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
remainder of us held</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
our picket signs and chant</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ed</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
at </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">th</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">at</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
very busy (and noisy) intersection </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">at
the highway entrance</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
I was amazed at the positive response </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">we
received </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">from
the public. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I
was </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">very</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
heartened by the physical and spiritual toughness of my fellow
protesters marching and chanting under </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">such</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">frigid
and </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">damp
conditions, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">too</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Protesting is a big challenge for those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere in
the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">winter
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">month</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
How do we continue </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
send</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
the message </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
our elected officials </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that
we </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">demand</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
a permanent ceasefire and </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">we
want Israel out of Gaza </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>now
</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">without
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">doing
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">peace
demos and marches in</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
below freezing </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">temperatures</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">?
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Activists
are a creative lot, and we know th</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ere
are other ways of making our voices heard that don’t involve
standing around in the cold. One of the oldest and most effective
protest methods is the boycott. This week’s guest blog, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">by
our resident historian</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Coast Watcher, gives us a brief history of the boycott.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">So,
wh</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">at
businesses</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">should</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
we </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">as
North Americans </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">currently</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
focus our boycott on t</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">o</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
help the cause of the Palestinian people? The “big three” that
are feeling the pain of Pro-Palestine consumers boycotting their
products are McDonald’s, Starbucks, and the Disney Company.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">It’s
not too hard for those of us standing on the side of Palestine to
avoid giving them </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">our</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
business. Who really needs fast food, overpriced coffee and insipid entertainment?<br /></span></span></b></span>
</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbEA2mFddBdZiHgaMHtNeSPjLQjRGffn4RqRmSl6C_L8ZXQVB1Rs29VaHkocmFf2QJ-_FVJqAMylZNLGrigmmAvvHQMRprNX55kEnHq5F8Bp-MWUmEGIkCNCNlPtQoBUaFEVCg5t9Y7Yege2T8athTosbEyFXKGVjuije5Qh4QlBdCIvNOcL4ncMdsUvUD/s1071/McDonalds%20boycott.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1071" data-original-width="1067" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbEA2mFddBdZiHgaMHtNeSPjLQjRGffn4RqRmSl6C_L8ZXQVB1Rs29VaHkocmFf2QJ-_FVJqAMylZNLGrigmmAvvHQMRprNX55kEnHq5F8Bp-MWUmEGIkCNCNlPtQoBUaFEVCg5t9Y7Yege2T8athTosbEyFXKGVjuije5Qh4QlBdCIvNOcL4ncMdsUvUD/w399-h400/McDonalds%20boycott.jpeg" width="399" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">“<span style="font-style: normal;">Misinformation”
about McDonald’s support for Israel is having a “meaningful
impact” on its sales in the Middle East, the fast food restaurant’s
chief executive has said </span><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/01/04/mcdonalds-chief-says-pro-palestinan-boycotts-hurting-sales/" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: normal;">according
to an article in the </span><i>Telegraph</i></a><span style="font-style: normal;">.
It’s not </span><span style="font-style: normal;">really
</span><span style="font-style: normal;">“misinformation”
that McDonald’s </span><span style="font-style: normal;">openly
supplied food to the Israeli Defense Forces after they launched their
genocid</span><span style="font-style: normal;">al</span><span style="font-style: normal;">
campaign in Gaza. This action has angered many in mostly Muslim
countries where their restaurants have been forced to shut down. Is
it any wonder that a worldwide boycott of McDonald’s restaurants is
hurting their bottom line? They’re learning the hard way that being
pro-genocide isn’t good for business.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I
was amazed that even trade publications have made note of the
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">effectiveness
of </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Pro-Palestinian/anti-genocide
boycotts. From </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>The
Drum</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">:
</span></span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: georgia;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: georgia;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> Gauging
appetite for boycotts among the crowds at a pro-Palestine protest
organized by If Not Now, Jewish Voice for Peace Los Angeles, and the
Arab-American Civic Council, <i>The Drum</i> heard from 33-year-old
Palestinian-American activist Zainab about why she is no longer
buying pro-Israel brands. “I am a Palestinian; my grandparents were
expelled in the 1948 Nakba, so I have grown up seeing the oppression.
I not only stand for Palestinians; I stand for all humanity. I stand
for Black Lives Matter, I stood against the wall suppressing Mexican
rights, and I do not stand for the killing in Sudan or Congo. I am
not going to stop protesting, whether it is monetarily against brands
and companies or going out in the streets every weekend.”</span></span></span></b></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: georgia;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">--from </span></span></span><i><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.thedrum.com/news/2023/11/10/activists-boycott-pro-israel-brands-what-should-marketers-do-next" target="_blank">As activists boycott pro-Israel brands, what should marketers do next?</a></span>
</i> <span style="color: #0a0a0a; font-family: georgia;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></span></b></span></b></span></blockquote><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.thedrum.com/news/2023/11/10/activists-boycott-pro-israel-brands-what-should-marketers-do-next"></a></span></span></b></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Yeah,
even marketers know that being linked to Israel is the
kiss of death for capitalists. We must keep up the pressure by
spreading the names of these pro-Israeli businesses to boycott in all our social
media posts and through good old-fashioned word of mouth. </span></span></b></span>
</p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF7gqJQ6G2BHPuBcLxXLL8nxVUyg7ryeqTnZvTtQZGfJ2WuMr1C4SnwzomVjfGTnFrYGGl3sa0qZQ0HJUdIuffUPeCG7QYQen6mAGnF2xnE-lNisoiqDotEXqe8Io_yqjqDKlixJS_hhMhqTRepq6OwHFBABPDr7E3lu-K3ftCGkDXNy_PysUAQOd_k3uP/s2048/Contents%20may%20contain%20genocide.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF7gqJQ6G2BHPuBcLxXLL8nxVUyg7ryeqTnZvTtQZGfJ2WuMr1C4SnwzomVjfGTnFrYGGl3sa0qZQ0HJUdIuffUPeCG7QYQen6mAGnF2xnE-lNisoiqDotEXqe8Io_yqjqDKlixJS_hhMhqTRepq6OwHFBABPDr7E3lu-K3ftCGkDXNy_PysUAQOd_k3uP/w300-h400/Contents%20may%20contain%20genocide.jpeg" width="300" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia;"><br />By</span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">
December 2023, </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">pro-Israeli
</span></span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://new.thecradle.co/articles/mcdonalds-latest-business-titan-to-face-impact-of-pro-israel-stance" target="_blank"><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">Starbucks
</span></span></span><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">losses
</span></span></span><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">stood
at </span></span></span><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">$11
billion </span></span></span></a><span><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://new.thecradle.co/articles/mcdonalds-latest-business-titan-to-face-impact-of-pro-israel-stance" target="_blank">during the last quarter</a></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia;"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-style: normal;">. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Starbucks
had already been under </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a
lot of </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">pressure
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">financially
due to its</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
closing stores where unions were forming </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">employee</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
strikes for better working conditions</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
so </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">further
boycotting of their products will reall</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">y
send a message that when Starbucks hurts one of us—or one
people such as the Palestinians—it will feel our pain in its CEO’s pocketbook.
Besides, in blindfolded taste tests most coffee drinkers say they
prefer other less expensive brands of coffee. So, do yourself and your
wallet a favor—boycott Starbucks and learn how to brew your own coffee instead.<br /></span></span></b></span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Disney
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Company
acts amazed as to why their donations to Israel along with their
producing an upcoming Marvel movie featuring an apartheid-loving
Israeli superhero would be upsetting to so many people worldwide.
From their own publication, <a href="https://insidethemagic.net/2023/12/disney-boycott-israel-donations-theme-parks-jc1/" target="_blank">Inside the Magic</a>: </span></span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://bdsmovement.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #3cc5e7;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;">BDS</span></span></span></a><span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-style: normal;">)
movement leads the most prominent pro-Palestine boycotts. They
recommend consumer boycotts of companies like Sodastream and HP but
suggest “pressure” on bigger corporations that are harder to
avoid– like Disney.</span></span></span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">Still,
many former fans feel boycotting...Walt Disney World Resort is the
right thing to do. Former</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;"> Disney
cast member </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">and
TikTok creator Helen Jane (@helenjp1313) shifted her content because
The Walt Disney Company donated to Israel. She </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">recommends
</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">a
Disney Parks boycott....Weeks ago, Disneyland Resort thousands
protested </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">at
</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">the
theme park in support of Palestine.</span></b></span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">I
d</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">o</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">n’t
know about you, but I can think of </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">much
</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">better
places to go on vacation besides the </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">soulless,
overly commercialized</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">
fa</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">ke</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">ness
of Disney </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">W</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">orld. </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">Visiting pristine
mountains and beaches come to mind. And can we live without watching
the latest Marvel motion picture? Yes, we can. Boycotting the </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">Marvel
</span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">movie,
along with protesting any theaters that dare show it, will </span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;">definitely
get the message across that pro-genocide supporters' products aren’t wanted in
decent society.</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">So,
tell your friends today to avoid or </span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">keep
</span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">avoid</span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ing</span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
these brands and the brands listed at <a href="https://bdsmovement.net/Act-Now-Against-These-Companies-Profiting-From-Genocide" target="_blank">BDSMovement.net</a>. Why? </span></span><span style="color: #111111; font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Because boycotts
work.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWQm79-D3YR8DRM2XjBO9g3X5yXA03SGut-QDdd6waKcQmyg8j8hT2XUfT_f6VsIFUyhFfwOY0_he6XeXgVlVupS9_iROIL2PnxF94sMSuE9iXudLnRfdAX6sjn0CFNNYmadb7YHfiEPrJtCok85K5ri0PZkjpNKvc_wVAQmN2laQWRESNKEZQ9ZTd7mg/s1055/Boycott%20Israeli%20brands.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1055" data-original-width="846" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWQm79-D3YR8DRM2XjBO9g3X5yXA03SGut-QDdd6waKcQmyg8j8hT2XUfT_f6VsIFUyhFfwOY0_he6XeXgVlVupS9_iROIL2PnxF94sMSuE9iXudLnRfdAX6sjn0CFNNYmadb7YHfiEPrJtCok85K5ri0PZkjpNKvc_wVAQmN2laQWRESNKEZQ9ZTd7mg/w321-h400/Boycott%20Israeli%20brands.jpg" width="321" /></a></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4IpXB9KGJowAXBcuye1mGbhfBX3yqJa6LnWhTtbhjzDmy1OhUIKXScKLwutf6TOcNTI-S27Oifhp9nECadoGGGzPA6HJ4i2r3F4YOX9MWXxMOHrmQ7NEzE07eCn6tWT0j1BGFlPfDcKrcrSaHBTYZ9ypAV0mAy3jG11ziLbrRcyNIVcUM4F5CCa8-fFDJ/s2000/Boycott%20Israel_Free%20Palestine.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="2000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4IpXB9KGJowAXBcuye1mGbhfBX3yqJa6LnWhTtbhjzDmy1OhUIKXScKLwutf6TOcNTI-S27Oifhp9nECadoGGGzPA6HJ4i2r3F4YOX9MWXxMOHrmQ7NEzE07eCn6tWT0j1BGFlPfDcKrcrSaHBTYZ9ypAV0mAy3jG11ziLbrRcyNIVcUM4F5CCa8-fFDJ/w320-h320/Boycott%20Israel_Free%20Palestine.jpeg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Boycotts
Work</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">by Coast Watcher</span></b></span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Starbucks
CEO Laxman Narasimhan recently complained that sales figures for the
coffee store giant had plummeted following the boycott of their
products due to the chain’s support for Israeli genocide. For many
who’ve always advocated the use of boycotts to punish businesses
for their social</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">infractions
this is proof that the tactic works.</span></span></b></span></p><p style="background: transparent; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
origin of the term stems from Captain Charles Cunningham Boycott, a
retired British army officer. In 1873 he became manager for the
County Mayo, Ireland, estates of absentee landlord the Earl of Erne.
Absentee landlords were the bane of the rural Irish people. They
reaped vast profits from their estates throughout Ireland, often
without even setting foot there. </span></span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="background: transparent; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">In
1879 bad harvests threatened another famine like that of 1845-49. A
Land League formed to prevent it occurring. The League told Boycott
to reduce rents by 25% to help the rural people weather the
situation. In response Boycott attempted to serve eviction notices,
which was historically a typical act of the landed class of the time.
Previously there had been little</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that
could be done to stop such measures, but late nineteenth century
Ireland had learned a thing or two. </span></span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="background: transparent; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">President
of the Land League, Charles Stewart Parnell, urged tenants faced with
Boycott’s and other landlords’ </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">eviction
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">demands
to avoid any communication with those who refused to lower rents.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Boycott
himself was the primary target for the measure, and it worked. Scab
laborers guarded by the military and even the soldiers themselves
were employed to harvest crops. The situation led to questions in the
British Parliament, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">leading</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
to a Land Act of 1881 that instituted fair-rent tribunals.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;">
</span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="background: transparent; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Boycott
remained agent for the Earl of Erne until 1886 when he took new
employment in the county of Suffolk, England. Parnell of course went
on to become a major player in Irish political affairs until his
death in October 1891.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="background: transparent; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-variant: normal;"> </span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ever since that time the tactic of
boycotting has been used effectively by people who have few other
resources of reprisal against authority. By showing their displeasure
at their governments’ and businesses’ impositions, the ordinary
public can hurt them where it really counts—their bottom line. So
it is happening with Starbucks and other businesses that back or
support the genocidal Zionist regime in any way, shape or form. </span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Boycotts work. </span></b></span></p><p style="background: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxDWiUro479xvTm_T_LnhoKGzTcMHYrSN0JxIyqp2iaALaJZsnhb_52RLpxui7COqUo-topsEXkznyCDdGpaJed35HhHqkmnfBG-ShMS0OF_bNhte-efcvCgs7DqEfPd07NIgNKZ4kQGNmdXxjgz9kkatzba2xIr6lECH3XIlInwYtmpvSPuyM1dGCAkVd/s159/Coast%20Watcher.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="155" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxDWiUro479xvTm_T_LnhoKGzTcMHYrSN0JxIyqp2iaALaJZsnhb_52RLpxui7COqUo-topsEXkznyCDdGpaJed35HhHqkmnfBG-ShMS0OF_bNhte-efcvCgs7DqEfPd07NIgNKZ4kQGNmdXxjgz9kkatzba2xIr6lECH3XIlInwYtmpvSPuyM1dGCAkVd/s1600/Coast%20Watcher.jpg" width="155" /></a></span></b></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Bio: Coast Watcher believes in putting your money where your morals are...Or at least not spending your money at businesses that support a country openly committing a genocide like Israel is doing. 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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><b style="font-family: georgia;">Folks, it is way past time that Israel is completely isolated from the civilized community of nations. A total boycott of Israel, sports events, economic trade, cultural exchanges - total!! Like the apartheid South African govt, they have forfeited all claims to legitimacy.</b></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>— Ajamu Baraka (@ajamubaraka) <a href="https://twitter.com/ajamubaraka/status/1744435250627809494?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2024</a></b></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK0sPrN_9TmtG2s1Ld7pwl07f_ofVdGaAFPmerpr9bVy8g2eqbwTwb8-0lffa_9ZdnWI4fj6Yxqgj8oPZk7uz2jjVHgAZFB4bFhr_si2XUcYomsDGdM6geZ8aJ4qqEydzGvYKPWfdzvBEbua14F36R9Bf_0Yn_-w-_KopZG9mb9nCb23dX9zG4uWvsKb4/s1029/Red%20Green%20Black.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1029" data-original-width="828" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK0sPrN_9TmtG2s1Ld7pwl07f_ofVdGaAFPmerpr9bVy8g2eqbwTwb8-0lffa_9ZdnWI4fj6Yxqgj8oPZk7uz2jjVHgAZFB4bFhr_si2XUcYomsDGdM6geZ8aJ4qqEydzGvYKPWfdzvBEbua14F36R9Bf_0Yn_-w-_KopZG9mb9nCb23dX9zG4uWvsKb4/w321-h400/Red%20Green%20Black.jpg" width="321" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Subscribe
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">New
Year’s Revolutions</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> </i></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>I
can ease the suffering of this world<br />
With my head, my heart and
my hand </i></span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">
–-from the song<i> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">Of This World</a> </i></span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><blockquote><p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">resolution
/rĕz″ə-loo͞′shən/</span></b></span></p>
<h3><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">noun</span></h3>
<ol><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The
state or quality of being resolute; firm determination. </span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">"faced
the situation with resolution."</span></b></span></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">A
firm decision to do something. </span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">"made
a resolution to get more exercise."</span></b></span></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">A
course of action determined or decided on. </span></b></span>
</p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">"His
resolution is to get up early."</span></b></span></p>
</li></ol>
</blockquote><p> </p><blockquote><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">revolution
/rĕv″ə-loo͞′shən/</span></b></span></p>
<h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">noun</span></span></h3>
<ol><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Orbital motion about a point,
especially as distinguished from axial rotation.
</span></b></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">"the planetary revolution about
the sun."</span></b></span></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">A turning or rotational motion
about an axis.
</span></b></span></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">A single complete cycle of such
orbital or axial motion.
</span></b></span></p>
</li><li><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The overthrow of one government
and its replacement with another.
</span></b></span></p>
</li><li><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">A sudden or momentous change in a situation.
</span></b></span></p>
</li></ol>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition</span></b></span></p></blockquote>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Just
in case you thought I made a typo or spelled the last word in the
title wrong, I’ve </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">provi</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ded
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
definitions </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">above</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
While many folks this week are discussing their “New Year’s
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>resolution</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>s</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">”
to lose weight or take up </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">exercising</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
what </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">this
world</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">desperately</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
need</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">are</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
“New Year’s </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>revolution</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>s.</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">”
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Yes,
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>revolution</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s
it states in the fifth definition: </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">“a
sudden or momentous change in a situation.” </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">f
we </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">don’t
see any revolutions in 2024, we probably shouldn’t </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">expect
to be alive and well this </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">same
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">time
next year.</span></span></b></span></p>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd8MIwzu2roTATSGEwbHE_9uIA-C6Y2wRAdYOaN3MD3dfsgsKhtSuBoVhi2FHPwBS9JMg5E-isCeoz9iOBbF7U1QfA5EOCUMWk6lhQ6IBSfEA0DAnES4Mi9vu6UJt_cxRlSPpSeIKmVsOHSX7K5OsspxWl8v20nCttf0N7oStzqng0Ghp6sOwiRzB8kzlB/s1000/we%2520are%2520all%2520palestinians.jpeg&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw3L6wIqob1QILtJaZcPm0sM" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd8MIwzu2roTATSGEwbHE_9uIA-C6Y2wRAdYOaN3MD3dfsgsKhtSuBoVhi2FHPwBS9JMg5E-isCeoz9iOBbF7U1QfA5EOCUMWk6lhQ6IBSfEA0DAnES4Mi9vu6UJt_cxRlSPpSeIKmVsOHSX7K5OsspxWl8v20nCttf0N7oStzqng0Ghp6sOwiRzB8kzlB/s1000/we%20are%20all%20palestinians.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgpbUey5bmPj5I4M_z1nwi2OyV4wHPI1dxTk-3MeirijLYrmgAsDfEKD7Cbhlci7i2Zb9Dh5igqxHwe6cRN3o3NDfMxcLD7BsGe60E-XLnK5jItbC3F7GugHs7fO6dwRK4V8UN2d_bOWnPmWsNjv4fS7zq0NPV69jTW4yc7oRWOwPlh_VtJh4Hmqx5_I-DYL6VxC6YklsNnCE3yWPOy1VXY6UOKRGJ6RO8ACPw_Ook0Rab4EWV9szpUQlwYDVeflqGJr1-PsZWfOkzd2fSMeaHM-DJpXeDw78VpgIXAGqEIMyvS_0lv4s1oZUv0Rw0JvaHcsMXGdTAhxgqj0Y6q7RkAewMGCJXevkq0ckaiWYDez4H2ZahYi5VfmAbhiT-J9EyfsRosabCgGzhMVuSzQB6sslCVVFRlwL73qCuArAIsJ2arRdIZi47BnQMq6D33MvljW9ODfgKkkZ-uGYfuaE-J84NlvCY0Oqo=s0-d-e1-ft" width="400" /></a></span></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br />I
know you</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
thought I was going to say we need </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>revolution</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
as defined in the fourth line: “the overthrow of one government and
its replacement with another.” Well, that </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">kind
of revolution </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">m</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ay
ultimately </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">be
necessary to enact </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">needed
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">sudden
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">or
momentous </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">change
in our situation. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">F</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">or
now, let’s stick with just the simple idea of change and a
resoluteness to enact </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">those
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">much
ne</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">eded
change</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span></b></span>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">See?
I didn’t throw out the first word’</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s
definition</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
entirely, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">but
I’ve changed it</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">slightly</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Resolution</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
such as </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">undertaking
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">an
activity like jogging, has been changed to </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>resoluteness</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
a character trait </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">we
all need to have, a spirit of firm determination </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
tackle the job that needs to be done</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">So,
what New Year’s </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>revolutions</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
need to be enacted </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
2024</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">?
In case you’re an alien from outer </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">pace
who has just landed </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">on
Earth, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">or
you’ve been cryogenically frozen for the past year or more, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">you
can</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
catch up with what’</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s
been</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
going on with humankind by reading last week’s (that is, last
year’s last post) entitled </span></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Silence
Equals Death</i></span></a><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">:
2023 In Review</a>. That should help you understand </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">how</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">human</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ity</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">cannot
remain </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">forever
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">locked
in</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
the death-giving behavior patterns it finds itself </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">locked
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
now. </span></span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">To
continue </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">down
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">our
current</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
path of death and destruction is to ensure humanity’s final and
total </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">annihilation</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
This is not something rational, sane individuals </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">should
wish</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
to do. Nor should rational, sane individuals </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">desire
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
be led by leaders—elected or appointed—who wish to continue down
this pathway of death and destruction. Hence, we </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">are
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">all
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
need </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a
“sudden or momentous change” in </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">our</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
situation </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
order </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
save us from </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">our
demise</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">his
is where the fourth definition of </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>revolution</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
might become necessary. Even </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
threat or </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">hint
that the workers have had enough of the bourgeoisie class dictating
death-giving terms to them could ignite the momentous change
necessary to turn things around (</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>revolve</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
them </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">into
something better</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
you could say) and put </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">our
society</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
on </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">road</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
t</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">oward</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
life and creativity, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">away
from death and destruction</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Contrary
to popular belief, revolutions don’t have to be bloody to be
effective. A revolution of the heart, an awakening of conscience, or
the raising of our collective consciousness (as prolific essayist
Caitlin Johnstone terms it) could be all it takes to instigate
changes for the better. After all, the word “love” can be found
in the word “revolution” if you look closely enough.</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(R
E V O L U T I O N. Do you see it? Try flipping the word around and
spelling it out. Sometimes a sudden change of view is all it takes to
see the good in everything.)</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">he
question really </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">becomes
this:</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">D</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">o
we </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>want</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
to look closely enough? Are we resisting a revolution of our hearts
because to open our hearts </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
love others can be… too humbling? </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">With
an open heart, would we see others as fellow human beings, equal in
the eyes of our God/Higher Power? Would this insight make us
uncomfortable because we could no longer dismiss others’ needs and
treat them as objects for our own gain?</span></span></b></span></p>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgEPZyqspMIAuSWli0Ze5-DuUH-bbE995u1WDwn0vhE76Xdo0v1kNN47yrbixg9__VBnMGizw7GGNMt4rpDmdCRuF8lyU-VJy4GLDSSklp3kq2hvuCXgn4uQQw4yz8xn-iejsPlwtZHMGsiQnZdlhYpRTg_DHy8TpbeyZS097XItaX5T2WEhy-gD6_otM01AoQ2FQTE__RtYuWtdlRaPzHQnydXfZM6Se3GcDX5MGD8pFTDDiYv_GKIDUtMb0nq488rAGivJ5q5LCOUiqBBUw9roxf2Bc1dBPIhB3xLvOxzwYmwZrSBOO9pLys3p2-Oi7iZKbjpMYIY6pFGbNgobtO7TFhTcHxf9sn5zRQrce75t9PZjml6XNoZghVkjq3IFvoksM1Xh24ONdcxk1rBeufjbp8hBAuld-DfMfccsA4eRW5H3aOHZWa1jvUwBAETzdt6RQLC=s0-d-e1-ft" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">For
instance, d</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">o
the majority of us want to keep turning a blind eye to the genocide
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">happening</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
in Gaza? </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Or
the ones occurring in Congo or Sudan, for that matter.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
We Westerners seem to be experts at ignoring the pain and suffering
of others, particularly people of color whose religion or culture is
different </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">than</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
our own. We’ve been indoctrinated to keep our emotions to
ourselves, to point out the “flaws” and “weaknesses” of
other cultures </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
not our own</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">so
much so that</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
w</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">e
don’t even seem to </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">realize
how hypocritical w</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">e’</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">re
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">acting</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">To
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">open
our hearts and </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">love
is to reveal our true nature—our own flaws and weaknesses—to the
other. It means asking for forgiveness </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">for
our</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
past sins. It means making reparations to those whose families lost
their lives and lands to our capitalistic greed and hunger to exploit
natural resources </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">for
our own gain</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">It
means sharing with and caring for everyone on the planet, not just
the face in the mirror.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Love
isn’t for sissies. It’s not for those without a resoluteness of
spirit </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">willing
to</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">walk</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
the painful pathway toward reconciliation between two or more warring
factions, but it can be done. Look at how South Africa dealt with the
evils of apartheid </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">with
its Truth and Reconciliation Commission</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Where
there is love, t</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">here
is hope. </span></span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">A</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">nd
there are </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">plenty
of </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">examples
of how a revolution of love could bring about an end to the selfish,
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">warmongering</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
behavior of the US and its allies. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Building
a world order based on trust and mutual aid rather than the
petrodollar </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
US hegemony </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">would
eliminate the competitiveness and spitefulness engendered under
Western capitalism</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Once
a momentous change </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">or
revolution</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
of </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">heart
has occurred, similarly changes in the “head” or the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">human
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">intellect
usually follow suit. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">We
can make a revolution f</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">rom
using faulty pretzel logic to rationalize its need for more wars to
grab more fossil fuels (which </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">we
acknowledge </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">are
destroying our climate and our planet) to using our intellect to
design cleaner, greener energy sources and technology that could
improve the life of everyon</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">e
on the planet. A</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">nd
I mean </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">there
would be life improvements for</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>everyone,
</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">not
just the rich and those of lofty social status. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">revolution
of both the heart and head of humanity could lead to many wondrous
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">positive</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
inventions and </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">fascinating
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">explorations
of our universe, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">technology
and knowledge shared with everyone, everywhere</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span></b></span>
</p>
<div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjikkkMQOhRaNVJkfmpVbhola74_Fj18CE2e_11OuHn9sSeLpd_a0nyXuLvgPqLLpXa9r5LQ8V93cNvYuvEhoPaJXy8YXexcfLtBsx5XGZD6dOswLnugWaKFZ-KZw-_-q72kR1pLsPJTEfWBHfiswH9_g2px78muZd1ARQ_keG2tvC9fuDQ_E2UO4HXOKWaeoO0klK7pPFvj1AlfqdhJVCugCDJwE_gpRdH-zdazFUQ4T5RR-Ea9PQYx6qx8F6xqKYRp6oAWuaTTVUb0Z7Q_8fCRqsn6rlP2xZijcV3ePMePKIS09gxRrx9raFyyd7XqDZkMh2GNpiCVo9wf_JwaMQdLhlx-N6Z8Ei_aeZSAcUmm30Rk5LMFCQkcRje9jF18lt4_5CX0YmZi_ZAtCGc41HduXK42dN27Pv0bzXyz3PdZ0temDcpYktyQcmw-TWGUEFq4uZjWCbDXJKQVqZA_uyHYaw=s0-d-e1-ft" width="200" /></a></span></b></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">We
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">should</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">n’t
underestimate just how much </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">good
and beauty humankind is actually capable of creating if it is willing
to do it </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>together
as one body </i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
not as competing cells. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
“Lone Wolf Syndrome” (a.k.a. “the oligarchy” or
“billionaires”) would be cured once and for all in a world that
is unified to protect, nurture, and care for all its members </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">not
just a few</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">To
start the revolution of the heart and the head, we must first be
willing to use our “hands” to spread this message of love to all.
Hands on the keyboard typing a social media post sharing the news of
a group who </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">is</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
supportive of </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">life
and creativity, away from the path of</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
death and destruction we’re currently taking. Hands holding a
protest sign telling those in authority that we will not accept the
slaughter </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
our brothers and sisters</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
in Gaza </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
elsewhere</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
Hands </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">raised
in a fist to prove we have the love that it takes to begin the
“overthrow of one government and its replacement with another” </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">if
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that
is </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">what
would be </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">more
conducive to guaranteeing peace and prosperity for all human beings.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">A</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s
Peter, Paul, and Mary sings:</span></span></b></span></p>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>I
can ease the suffering of this world</i></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i> </i></span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>I
can ease the suffering of this world</i></span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>I
can ease the suffering of this world</i></span></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>
With my head, my heart and
my hand</i></span></b></span></div>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">In
2024, let us stand resolutely together and shout boldly, “I can
ease the suffering of this world.” </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Let’s
get </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">down
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
work on our New Year’s revolutions, shall we?</span></span></b></span></p>
<p><span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span><br /></p><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgCtdJX9VMrXZkK_KrQ-Fs97hJDSAaAiSpX9otVqVDoyMml-4AY_7Jz4KWpfWpGneY0rSM5BzBmuOkHuhDUZZKXP9r_yCB7To8kM6-2ACx31IAn-eGeea0pJ_G90IMZHATXlE3Akoxsf0NUCkaZqB_DMCvpfvSTK_klN_wb8RnbJCDTmw3feo-P3e1kn_H4YzQalrnnfdR8zAtvhr0-X5Rb2R7_69fu9E5FusIR85IBFTgmMiOaVP-PODh8RTBUJNvuEhjRZTPaL0_FN8C_OtejinAizVp6SHR6kqXYKxZSN9YLDEnrsBnpK8riBSgmpsquzTglr64UYv0f8Ok3uxYaYYDv_x9jWrd0_eBKjH-LxR2PuxfIhUFbaZ4tktQFCdmjzL7ZNNcJoi4j7Rzm6n3AlpennTl3-BrYikAS1Bg1z-7FR3ku1FR_PXIypnSneA3l_NC56GQ_aRb3lDq9N6WlXte1=s0-d-e1-ft" width="400" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Articles and Other Interesting Links<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE: Press Release<br />29 December 2023<br />The
Republic of South Africa institutes proceedings against the State of
Israel and requests the Court to indicate provisional measures <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/<wbr></wbr>default/files/case-related/<wbr></wbr>192/192-20231229-pre-01-00-en.<wbr></wbr>pdf</a><br /><br />South Africa Invokes Genocide Convention Against Israel<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/<wbr></wbr>12/29/south-africa-invokes-<wbr></wbr>genocide-convention-against-<wbr></wbr>israel/</a><br /><br />Israel Says It's Anti-Semitic To Invoke The Genocide Convention Over Gaza <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/<wbr></wbr>p/israel-says-its-anti-<wbr></wbr>semitic-to-invoke</a><br /><br />2023: The Year Humanity Died<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/<wbr></wbr>opinion/2023-humanity-died-<wbr></wbr>gaza<br /></a></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>One
month into the bloodshed, after Israel had killed 1,000 children, I
said that’s it; the world would make its move now, if only to save the
children! But the U.S. responded by vetoing a humanitarian cease-fire
that could have saved thousands of innocent lives! A month after, when
the death toll of children reached 10,000, I said enough is enough; it’s
high time the world acted NOW, because humanity itself is at stake!
U.N. officials had already sounded the alarm that Gaza was becoming a
“graveyard for children,” so no one could pretend they did not know. The
time to act was now or never! Yet there was another U.S. veto; another
cold hand was raised to issue a new death sentence for Palestinians.
Another spit in the face of humanity!</b></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Now
I’m lost for words. I have lost faith in humanity. The staggering death
toll in Gaza is humanly impossible to fathom or accept without losing
our sense of shared humanity. As a Palestinian, as a human being, I feel
that part of me has died in this war. I know for certain that I will
not emerge from this tragedy the same person I was before. None of us
will.</b></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"Christ in the Rubble": Palestinian Pastor Delivers Powerful Christmas Sermon from Bethlehem<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Md_hw_A-oIs?<wbr></wbr>si=93V1j1hEWw0thgQY</a><br /><br />Christmas in Bethlehem 2022 vs. 2023 <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/<wbr></wbr>12/26/christmas-in-bethlehem-<wbr></wbr>2022-vs-2023/</a><br /><br />The lies we believe about Gazan Christians are killing them<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://www.patheos.com/blogs/<wbr></wbr>gracecoloredglasses/2023/12/<wbr></wbr>why-christian-west-cold-<wbr></wbr>hearted-palestinian-<wbr></wbr>christians-enormous-crisis/</a><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Tonight a Palestinian is Born<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://arunnews.substack.com/<wbr></wbr>p/tonight-a-palestinian-is-<wbr></wbr>born</a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span><b>‘Are we the baddies?’ Western support for genocide in Gaza means the answer is yes <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://jonathancook.substack.<wbr></wbr>com/p/are-we-the-baddies-<wbr></wbr>western-support</a><br /><br />Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://chrishedges.substack.<wbr></wbr>com/p/israels-genocide-<wbr></wbr>betrays-the-holocaust</a><br /><br />Debunking the world’s largest skin bank: How Israelis harvest organs without consent? <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@ASll0_/<wbr></wbr>debunking-the-worlds-largest-<wbr></wbr>skin-bank-how-israelis-<wbr></wbr>harvest-organs-without-<wbr></wbr>consent-d8415b266a55</a><br /><br />Overcoming Our Differences Is The Only Way Forward <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://roberturbaschek.<wbr></wbr>substack.com/p/overcoming-our-<wbr></wbr>differences</a></b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>This Can't Be Another Instance Of Genocide — Israel Believes It's Right! <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/<wbr></wbr>p/this-cant-be-another-<wbr></wbr>instance-of</a><br /><br />Voters Want the U.S. to Call for a Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza and to Prioritize Diplomacy <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://www.dataforprogress.<wbr></wbr>org/blog/2023/12/5/voters-<wbr></wbr>want-the-us-to-call-for-a-<wbr></wbr>permanent-ceasefire-in-gaza-<wbr></wbr>and-to-prioritize-diplomacy</a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Patrick Lawrence: To Retrieve History <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150285000&usg=AOvVaw0-KlxtVSX8FlOj_jEM71y8" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/<wbr></wbr>12/28/patrick-lawrence-to-<wbr></wbr>retrieve-history</a><br /><br />Palestinian Journalists Are Exposing How “Objectivity” Is Used to Silence Them <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150286000&usg=AOvVaw00qQYetrb5-mjWN8_6SvUt" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/<wbr></wbr>palestinian-journalists-are-<wbr></wbr>exposing-how-objectivity-is-<wbr></wbr>used-to-silence-them/</a><br /><br />Returning to Gaza after kidnapping, torture by Israel<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150286000&usg=AOvVaw00qQYetrb5-mjWN8_6SvUt" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/svcMuAt3To0?<wbr></wbr>si=8hGrl_uPXyqwJ1cT</a><br /><br />The Overlooked Economic Incentives for Israel's War on Gaza<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150286000&usg=AOvVaw00qQYetrb5-mjWN8_6SvUt" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/vDS5mKiXmgQ?<wbr></wbr>si=CMM5nfE85Gv9P97s</a><br /><br />Jill Stein on the Genocide in Gaza <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150286000&usg=AOvVaw00qQYetrb5-mjWN8_6SvUt" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/<wbr></wbr>DrJillStein/status/<wbr></wbr>1740152022144622839</a><br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><br />We Should All Take Up the Cry of ‘Not in My Name’<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150286000&usg=AOvVaw00qQYetrb5-mjWN8_6SvUt" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://wagingnonviolence.org/<wbr></wbr>metta/2023/12/we-should-all-<wbr></wbr>take-up-the-cry-not-in-my-<wbr></wbr>name-anarchic-politics/<br /></a></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>I
believe, we no longer want to live in a world where the death of
children can be legitimated, rationalized and justified. No law can make
the killing of children right, if it does, it is not just; no amount of
reasons can make the targeting of children right, if it does it is
insanity; no justifications can take away the conditions of peace from a
child, if they do, it is a clear pointer that it serves tyrants and,
therefore, is a perverse mockery of justice. This world must be
overthrown, even if we do not know as yet what will take its place — let
us be open to, and imagine and construct other possibilities. </b></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><br />Israel's War Crimes <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150286000&usg=AOvVaw00qQYetrb5-mjWN8_6SvUt" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://peoplesdispatch.org/<wbr></wbr>2023/12/29/israels-war-crimes/ </a><br /><br />Israel Announces Its Gaza Endgame: Ethnic Cleansing As ‘Humanitarianism’ <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150286000&usg=AOvVaw00qQYetrb5-mjWN8_6SvUt" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://popularresistance.org/<wbr></wbr>israel-announces-its-gaza-<wbr></wbr>endgame-ethnic-cleansing-as-<wbr></wbr>humanitarianism/</a><br /><br />The Long History Of Zionist Proposals To Ethnically Cleanse The Gaza Strip <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150286000&usg=AOvVaw00qQYetrb5-mjWN8_6SvUt" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/<wbr></wbr>12/29/the-long-history-of-<wbr></wbr>zionist-proposals-to-<wbr></wbr>ethnically-cleanse-the-gaza-<wbr></wbr>strip/</a><br /><br />GHOULS: Israel Illegally Stealing Body Parts From Murdered Gazans <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150286000&usg=AOvVaw00qQYetrb5-mjWN8_6SvUt" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://mark192.substack.com/<wbr></wbr>p/ghouls-israel-illegally-<wbr></wbr>stealing</a><br /><br />License to kill: US police killed over 1,200 people in 2023<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150286000&usg=AOvVaw00qQYetrb5-mjWN8_6SvUt" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://www.wsws.org/en/<wbr></wbr>articles/2023/12/30/asgq-d30.<wbr></wbr>html<br /></a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Boycott Israel/Support Palestine Tool Kit<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150286000&usg=AOvVaw00qQYetrb5-mjWN8_6SvUt" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://www.codepink.org/<wbr></wbr>bdstoolkit?</a></span></b></span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150286000&usg=AOvVaw00qQYetrb5-mjWN8_6SvUt" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></a></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>2023: The Year the Bubble of US Leadership Burst <br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150286000&usg=AOvVaw00qQYetrb5-mjWN8_6SvUt" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/<wbr></wbr>opinion/2023-us-leadership-<wbr></wbr>bubble-burst</a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Why Putin is a Hero to Russians<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150286000&usg=AOvVaw00qQYetrb5-mjWN8_6SvUt" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://joebrunoli.substack.<wbr></wbr>com/p/why-putin-is-a-hero-to-<wbr></wbr>russians<br /></a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Silence Equals Death: 2023 In Review</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><span><b><span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150286000&usg=AOvVaw00qQYetrb5-mjWN8_6SvUt" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://<wbr></wbr>therevolutioncontinues.<wbr></wbr>substack.com/p/silence-equals-<wbr></wbr>death-2023-in-review</a></span></b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>US Military Sinks Three Houthi Boats in Red Sea Killing 10 <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1704224150286000&usg=AOvVaw00qQYetrb5-mjWN8_6SvUt" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://news.antiwar.com/2023/<wbr></wbr>12/31/us-military-sinks-three-<wbr></wbr>houthi-boats-in-red-sea-<wbr></wbr>killing-10/</a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>RIP John Pilger <a href="https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/12/rip-john-pilger/ " target="_blank">https://dissidentvoice.org/2023/12/rip-john-pilger/ </a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Subscribe to The Revolution Continues on Substack today! 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Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12724627097783524710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6184788866071073621.post-4283078523549818882023-12-26T00:00:00.000-08:002023-12-27T11:34:52.127-08:00Silence Equals Death: 2023 In Review<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEBDHHa_aY_lRgfCaE8ewpg4RKYoy5lAt00kRClHyqMJlPu1vEysfyGfw_yjtFJteqIERf4-ocjAgDZLI5FI_CRCZ_OIMGRJG5xJdvqkXN8XFEd1879xRNMR7opx3q5b1CKB4Ya6IM2uGM3ePKu-2J0fgt0hjCZBwkP47kHvss44Dmb7cpWK0tZZkhknBn/s1024/Peace%20Please.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEBDHHa_aY_lRgfCaE8ewpg4RKYoy5lAt00kRClHyqMJlPu1vEysfyGfw_yjtFJteqIERf4-ocjAgDZLI5FI_CRCZ_OIMGRJG5xJdvqkXN8XFEd1879xRNMR7opx3q5b1CKB4Ya6IM2uGM3ePKu-2J0fgt0hjCZBwkP47kHvss44Dmb7cpWK0tZZkhknBn/w375-h400/Peace%20Please.jpeg" width="375" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span>
<p></p><p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silence
Equals Death: 2023 In Review</span></b></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">by C.A. Matthews</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><span> </span><span><br /></span></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
very last post of the year for the past couple of years has been a review and
sum</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ma</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">rization
of events that happened in that year. And so it will be again. Why
mess with success?</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">If
there’s one short, pithy phrase that summarizes everything that has
happened in the year 2023—and I believe future historians will
agree with me—it’s this: Silence equals death.</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Looking
at the first half of the year, death was occurring in the usual
places where it had been in the year previous: In Ukraine, at the US
Southern Border, in US prisons and jails and at the hand of the
police in their never-ending crusade to terrorize people of color for
the sake of satisfying the bourgeoisie class.</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silence factors into each of these events in the manner that nothing
was done to prevent the deaths of countless civilians and innocent
bystanders. In the conflict between Russia and Ukraine over the
protection of ethnic Russians in the Donbas region, a potential peace
negotiation hosted by Turkey was revealed that would have taken place
in March of 2022, a mere month after the hostilities began. The US
dismissed it summarily, the US military-Congressional-industrial
complex being the primary supplier of armaments to Ukraine, of
course. </span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">To think
a peace deal could have been made within a month of the conflict’s
start, saving the lives of thousands of Ukrainians and Russian
soldiers and civilians. So many needlessly killed in the twenty months
plus afterward because the US egged on the fighting for its own gain. There was no need for so much loss of life and destruction
to have been leveled on that part of the planet. The two sides could
have worked things out at the negotiation table.</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtcPpkb-vJdAFQNUIqeqS0605UzmAO4HyyArjXFNobQKIfIJFuyz_BsFfi78ikX4RyQNUTWVbLvXDxJq460DHDj3S6KG40v-rUnF7Ynqci1c2ni2VtHot5QeayQ0frfvfLJBiBH3CGTpCfQO4aumJPw5qcNBpSRlAzrv6B2RowaGVWhuXF-dpZgxCRHfMV/s640/sniper%20hat.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="430" data-original-width="640" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtcPpkb-vJdAFQNUIqeqS0605UzmAO4HyyArjXFNobQKIfIJFuyz_BsFfi78ikX4RyQNUTWVbLvXDxJq460DHDj3S6KG40v-rUnF7Ynqci1c2ni2VtHot5QeayQ0frfvfLJBiBH3CGTpCfQO4aumJPw5qcNBpSRlAzrv6B2RowaGVWhuXF-dpZgxCRHfMV/s320/sniper%20hat.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>by Mark Taylor <a href="https://mark192.substack.com" target="_blank">https://mark192.substack.com</a>/</b></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b> </b></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Only
the greed of the US war machine and the ethnic bigotry of Zelensky and his
Azov Battalion has kept this war going for so long, and now that
they’ve had their war usurped by the genocide going on currently in
Gaza, they’ll most likely have to to give in to the Russians of the
Donbas region who they hate so much. Twenty months of death and for what? In
the end, nothing but chaos in a country that will be enthusiastically
“rebuilt” by BlackRock and its subsidiaries at a very nice
profit.</span></span></b></span></div><p></p><p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The US
could have spoken up at any time and ended the weapons dump,
encouraged the Ukrainians to avail themselves of the peace
negotiations offered in March 2022, but instead it chose to do
nothing and say nothing.</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silence
equals death.</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The
horrors of a barbwire floating “wall” in the middle of the Rio
Grande exemplifies the US immigration policy in 2023. While many in
the immigration advocacy field (myself excluded) thought they could
“push Biden left” to improve some of the most heinous aspects of
our immigration laws, nothing got better for immigrants in 2023.</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">In many
ways, things stayed the same or got even worse than they were under the
previous administration. Human beings fleeing terror and
discrimination in their homelands weren’t allowed to step on US
soil and claim asylum, as is their right under both US and
international law. After the “Title 42” policy expired, a
new way to thwart asylum seekers was initiated, the “CBP One app”
program. Poor and technologically disadvantaged asylum seekers cannot
access CBP One from outside the US, therefore, they cannot apply for
asylum in the US.</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkdvLBgytKITpKwECNjxwGlhsqwL_bzXzgKlsDAHdtr3Cc9N4DYbP3-DZEE6HwUc84Vdanuhehmor_eZY1DKGBoPee45rEEGAwFxUD7mVjFhvJjPc64Wf_LpuBM5KkMF5DfU-l2xZ6rY_QG9KVdeK4fnHWInuB0BjnaenhcueiaSleNd9aMErhcdxqCHOs/s792/Racist%20US%20Border.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="792" data-original-width="769" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkdvLBgytKITpKwECNjxwGlhsqwL_bzXzgKlsDAHdtr3Cc9N4DYbP3-DZEE6HwUc84Vdanuhehmor_eZY1DKGBoPee45rEEGAwFxUD7mVjFhvJjPc64Wf_LpuBM5KkMF5DfU-l2xZ6rY_QG9KVdeK4fnHWInuB0BjnaenhcueiaSleNd9aMErhcdxqCHOs/s320/Racist%20US%20Border.jpg" width="311" /></a></span></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br />Insult
to injury, wealthier, more connected immigrants can step off a plane
and plead for asylum without going through the onerous CBP One app
process. Money and political popularity with the present
administration means doors to immigration open far more easily for these migrants, such as the blue-eyed, blond Ukrainians, but not so much for Haitians, Hondurans, and other persons of color.</span></span></b></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">If
the drownings of men, women and children in the Rio
Grande, along with the heat exhaustion/suffocation of immigrants being smuggled into the US in shipping containers on trains and
semi-trucks doesn’t convince you the US government doesn’t care
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">one
bit</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
about those fleeing persecution caused by US funded coups d’etat
and economic sanctions </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
the Global South</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
then what will? </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">What
will make you speak out against these injustices?</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">S</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ilence
equals death.</span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Here are some of the blog articles from the first part of 2023 covering these subjects: </span></span></b></span></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b><span><span style="font-style: normal;">Police Violence<br /></span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b><span><span style="font-style: normal;">Targets On Our Backs https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/01/targets-on-our-backs.html </span></span></b></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b><span><span style="font-style: normal;">Immigration</span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b><span><span style="font-style: normal;">The Unwelcoming Society <a href="https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-unwelcoming-society.html" target="_blank">https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-unwelcoming-society.html</a><br /><br />The New Title 42 <a href="https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-unwelcoming-society.html" target="_blank">https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-unwelcoming-society.html</a></span></span></b></span></p></blockquote><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Endless and Unnecessary Proxy War </span></span></b></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pay For Your Own Wars, Big Oil! <br /><a href="https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/02/pay-for-your-own-wars-big-oil.html" target="_blank">https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/02/pay-for-your-own-wars-big-oil.html</a></span></span></b></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Clusterf*cked: The Cruelty is the Point <a href="https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/07/clusterfcked-cruelty-is-point.html" target="_blank">https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/07/clusterfcked-cruelty-is-point.html</a><br /><br />Good-bye, BlackRock! So Long, Petrodollar! Hello, Peace!<br /><a href="https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/04/good-bye-blackrock-so-long-petrodollar.html " target="_blank">https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/04/good-bye-blackrock-so-long-petrodollar.html </a></span></span></b></span></blockquote><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
second half of 2023 proved no less bloody. More migrant lives were
lost in the deserts and in the Rio Grande, the fighting needlessly
continued on in Ukraine, and many pundits forecast a war breaking out
between the US and China over its runaway province of Taiwan. Nobody
else in the world seemed overly enthused about taking on the Chinese
outside “the Five Eyes” nations who had momentary lapses about
who their largest trading partner really was. (Hint: It’s not the
US.) </span></span></b></span><p></p></span></b><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Nuclear sub deals made between US and Australia helped the
Aussies to forget and to deny imprisoned publisher Julian Assange as
being one of their own, leaving him to slowly die in the UK’s infamous Belmarsh Prison while awaiting extradition to the US this
coming February. Once in the US, he’ll be locked up in solidarity
confinement and never heard from again. All this evil committed
against one individual simply because Assange had the audacity to
publish the truth about US war crimes during the Iraq War. It's almost as if Westerners don't want to hear the truth and take comfort in state propaganda.</span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">And if that isn't enough, our earth's warming is accelerating at such a rate it soon could be at the point of no return. Facts like this aren't stopping oil drilling operations like the Willow Project any. Big Oil and the US government acts as if we have all the time in the world.<br /></span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Silence equals death.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgLXQF87-iXjiETBE63HRbC8Wo8XUBzd5O9fUBMOBVo-pbFzWIckor_kZVSScAPjwM-v0iJoga1OwgMr31uU4BYutVhGQzSSjuddLnvRCqkDwUOeJMzoISaET8_4AaukkXcTLdAOR60fVql1J0cIMvcJigzfkncSXybMDFqRJoO2RMCxxWWh0-pQJTZeI3/s685/Keep%20talking%20about%20Palestine%20meme.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="632" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgLXQF87-iXjiETBE63HRbC8Wo8XUBzd5O9fUBMOBVo-pbFzWIckor_kZVSScAPjwM-v0iJoga1OwgMr31uU4BYutVhGQzSSjuddLnvRCqkDwUOeJMzoISaET8_4AaukkXcTLdAOR60fVql1J0cIMvcJigzfkncSXybMDFqRJoO2RMCxxWWh0-pQJTZeI3/w295-h320/Keep%20talking%20about%20Palestine%20meme.jpeg" width="295" /></a></span></b></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Perhaps
the single worse incident in 2023 of people remaining silent while
thousands are being slaughtered in real time on social media is the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Every country on Earth knows what is
going on there apparently except the US and Israel, as it has </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">been openly acknowledged by the United Nations and international human rights
organizations</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">. The Israelis
continue to pay huge sums of money </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
order </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
purchase billboards </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
Times Square and ads on social media—as well as paying for
“false flags” on US college campuses—just to keep their “victim
card” current while playing the role of the only ethnic group to suffer a holocaust while
perpetrating an ethnic cleansing. US
politicians (such as <a href="https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/11/your-congressmember-at-work-for-israel.html " target="_blank">Rep. Marcy Kaptur</a>) play dumb (not stupid per se,
but by not talking) while their constituents plead with them to call
for a permanent ceasefire.</span></span></b></span></p><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">It
must be that by never calling what the UN and </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">every</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
human rights group </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">on
the planet</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
call a “genocide” an actual genocide then it never ever
happened. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">t’s
not happening, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">so</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
we can all just forget about the unpleasant photos and videos of dead
Palestinian children </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
their families</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
lying in the bombed out rubble of their homes. We can forget all
about those horrible images of tiny babies lying dead in their
incubators where Israeli soldiers sentenced them to die all alone by
forcing their doctors </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">away
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">from
the hospitals they were bombing. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">What
we don’t acknowledge or witness can’t be happening, right?</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Oh,
well, never fear—Israeli real estate mavericks have already started
selling off Gazan beachfront property. It’s not like the land had
ever been occupied by 2.2 million indigenous Palestinians. It’s
“always” belong to Israel—even before the 1948 </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Nakba</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">…
whatever that was.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Silence
equals death.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">So,
we come to the end of another year of Biden’s “Nothing will
fundamentally change” administration and nothing has changed except
for the rapidly increasing death count of Palestinians slain by
US-backed Israeli forces, more deaths of asylum seekers to the US
along our Southern Border, more Ukrainians and Russians dead who all
could have been saved back in March 2022 if the US hadn’t forced
Zelensky to continue the carnage, more Americans dead because they
cannot afford health care, food, fuel and rising housing prices… while the world continues to heats up because of fossil fuel burning.</span></span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">What’s
on tap for 2024? More of the same most likely. US hegemony knows no
bounds </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
has zero empathy for the poor, the indigent, the immigrant, the
indigenous peoples of the globe. It just wants more war, more war
profits along with more grabs for oil and natural gas.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
only way things could get better in 2024 is by following my practice,
what I call “<a href="https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-new-litmus-test.html " target="_blank">The New Litmus Test</a>,” when it comes to whom to vote
for or follow in any matter whatsoever. (I recommend using this
litmus test for everyone or else you could wind up with some nasty
surprises such as the ones I encountered in “<a href="https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/12/how-do-we-live-with-ourselves.html" target="_blank">How Do We Live With Ourselves?</a>”) Because if we don’t get brutally honest with
ourselves about how horribly we’re treating our fellow human beings
and the planet that sustains us all, then we don’t really deserve
to be here in the first place, in my humble opinion.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWFjc9N7l4aRZYu8HVPJz5lVSKKvkz1LwpNRaQs8HSKxxhFZ0J5h3xVSqP9bmmxo5Fc9YgmduJwW1EJkDloi9ZCFBD5PmmxP0bZxCSkN4I5N6rXfPot3tsOwj97LXt1GfSJGSPQk0OR-URaFyNmv3VawcQa8fXEQe-WCs3C2tuJJwbKwmmFmpmXS_3Z8lD/s1211/Journalist%20and%20cats.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1211" data-original-width="1170" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWFjc9N7l4aRZYu8HVPJz5lVSKKvkz1LwpNRaQs8HSKxxhFZ0J5h3xVSqP9bmmxo5Fc9YgmduJwW1EJkDloi9ZCFBD5PmmxP0bZxCSkN4I5N6rXfPot3tsOwj97LXt1GfSJGSPQk0OR-URaFyNmv3VawcQa8fXEQe-WCs3C2tuJJwbKwmmFmpmXS_3Z8lD/w309-h320/Journalist%20and%20cats.jpg" width="309" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Silence
equals death—but speaking out and taking action can sustain our
consciences and sustain life. We can stop a genocide. We can stop a
useless conflict over natural gas sales to Europe around a peace
negotiation table. We can offer sanctuary to those seeking protection
and asylum. We can protect journalists who tell the truth—no matter
how “harmful” the military-industrial complex thinks </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">revealing
their war crimes are</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Support
those who speak up even louder when those in authority shut them
down. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Don’t
choose death or silence. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Choose
life. </span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Here are some of the blog articles from the second part of 2023 covering these subjects: </span></span></b></span></blockquote><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Big Oil's control of our world</span></span></b></span></span></span></b></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;">Happy Co-Dependence Day, America (Boiling Frogs) <br /><a href="https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/07/happy-co-dependence-day-america-boiling.html" target="_blank">https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/07/happy-co-dependence-day-america-boiling.html</a><br /></span></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;">The Root of All Evils<br /><a href="https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-root-of-all-evils.html " target="_blank">https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-root-of-all-evils.html</a></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;">The Choice (Climate scientist Peter Kalmus on global warming)<br /><a href="https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-choice.html" target="_blank">https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-choice.html</a></span></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;">Weaponizing Free Speech (censorship)<br /><a href="https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/04/weaponizing-free-speech.html " target="_blank">https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/04/weaponizing-free-speech.html </a></span></blockquote><p></p><p></p></span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;">The morality of our elected officials and others </span></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: small;">Your Congressmember At Work--For Israel <br /><a href="https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/11/your-congressmember-at-work-for-israel.html " target="_blank">https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/11/your-congressmember-at-work-for-israel.html </a><br /></span></p></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;">The New Litmus Test<br /><a href="https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-new-litmus-test.html " target="_blank">https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-new-litmus-test.html </a></span></blockquote><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;">How Do We Live With Ourselves? <br /><a href="https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/12/how-do-we-live-with-ourselves.html" target="_blank">https://continuousrev.blogspot.com/2023/12/how-do-we-live-with-ourselves.html </a></span></blockquote><p></p><p></p></span></span></b></span><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span> </span></span></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwtrRlJM9tozgD4PxMAEVgZyfUgknOtCcODT2nsuvZ40u8_tGwinPtUK_J_WeLsbbakrl7qC0BS2MofGcQSO-eQ8w7yTady1j4qa8uT-YH8TdbMzK3pA9DHfYVz-hNW9TKw1vGuggzyU2FQtS7Lk2vMsH-yAZYyz-fZBP7DWn6zkHhrz7418zkWU6ceu3e/s720/Peace%20Not%20War%20dove.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwtrRlJM9tozgD4PxMAEVgZyfUgknOtCcODT2nsuvZ40u8_tGwinPtUK_J_WeLsbbakrl7qC0BS2MofGcQSO-eQ8w7yTady1j4qa8uT-YH8TdbMzK3pA9DHfYVz-hNW9TKw1vGuggzyU2FQtS7Lk2vMsH-yAZYyz-fZBP7DWn6zkHhrz7418zkWU6ceu3e/w200-h200/Peace%20Not%20War%20dove.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></span></span></b></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>Cancel Genocide. Keep Christmas. <a href="https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/1739444921717670213" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/1739444921717670213<br /></a></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span><br /></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>Other Related Articles and Interesting Links</span></span></span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>At This Point We Have To Always Assume Israel Is Lying Until Proven Otherwise <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/at-this-point-we-have-to-always-assume" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/at-this-point-we-have-to-always-assume</a><br /></span></span></span></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span>On Tuesday Israel killed a Palestinian baby girl who was born during the IDF bombing campaign on Gaza. 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no protection, no shelters or anywhere to run to, as Israel continues
to pummel them like fish in a barrel. This campaign is not only allowed,
but actively supported by the United States, which supplies 2,000-pound
bombs to be dropped on the hapless Palestinians. More importantly, it
supplies a diplomatic umbrella that justifies and legitimizes what has
been described as an ongoing genocide of apocalyptic proportions, and
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Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12724627097783524710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6184788866071073621.post-22386425164352442012023-12-18T13:56:00.000-08:002023-12-19T19:24:36.957-08:00Peace In Palestine/Baby Angel<p> </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2UjlKZiFTtcQ0disopWqDvKjeES2dvOC2rfKPh3Qw9WtRya1xKvs0iv91qIA2-peQAz6rK-z_i4TQoEHqZrU-Dtdw99_ISTFkU7o2Gz9r91JdEsaRbrJIfSTrfOapEQvASvTdlfS5GOUz3MOhPqO47Vy6k1Sqtv7IVo-h4za-p9iBsc8HHKfgOCCfKDw/s2048/Ceasefire%20Carolers%20in%20the%20Park.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2UjlKZiFTtcQ0disopWqDvKjeES2dvOC2rfKPh3Qw9WtRya1xKvs0iv91qIA2-peQAz6rK-z_i4TQoEHqZrU-Dtdw99_ISTFkU7o2Gz9r91JdEsaRbrJIfSTrfOapEQvASvTdlfS5GOUz3MOhPqO47Vy6k1Sqtv7IVo-h4za-p9iBsc8HHKfgOCCfKDw/w640-h360/Ceasefire%20Carolers%20in%20the%20Park.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">photo by Amjad Doumani</span></b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Peace In Palestine</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The “Ceasefire Carols” for peace in Palestine were well received in downtown Toledo at Promenade Park on Saturday night. We even picked up some new singers for next week’s performance. Nice!</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hear us in this clip: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1Clx7ZgAie/?igshid=NmUwNWViZjkxNw%3D%3D" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1Clx7ZgAie/?igshid=NmUwNWViZjkxNw%3D%3D </a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The welcoming turnout gives me hope that the vast majority of human beings do desire peace, do not desire the deaths of more innocents, and do want to bring an end to the Israeli bombing of Gaza permanently. It gives me a warm feeling that perhaps not all people on Planet Earth are heartless bastards. There are people who care, who have a moral center, and who aren’t easily persuaded to think genocide is a “necessary thing.”<br /></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy4vopAAGBkTY3DBMQUMBelV5bVhfwpiFIVstc7L_-60zxiIlv3zoX-ITidoYMGgYhRoBIgqkJ9wt_VX91utfpxugp_ZtQ8l8F6s_-89SlB0kQFDtYZGTg2kS_scx5mhVhhwWynJVxkCYpIjY0KmQM_JDJn2J0bC06szIm-YoTti9kxVS3LkWULbviFz4/s1182/Mother%20and%20child%20in%20Palestine%202023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1182" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy4vopAAGBkTY3DBMQUMBelV5bVhfwpiFIVstc7L_-60zxiIlv3zoX-ITidoYMGgYhRoBIgqkJ9wt_VX91utfpxugp_ZtQ8l8F6s_-89SlB0kQFDtYZGTg2kS_scx5mhVhhwWynJVxkCYpIjY0KmQM_JDJn2J0bC06szIm-YoTti9kxVS3LkWULbviFz4/w400-h229/Mother%20and%20child%20in%20Palestine%202023.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>I realize there are still quite a few heartless types out there, but their voices are being drown out by Ceasefire Carolers worldwide and celestial choirs of angels who herald the birth of the Christ child. The baby Jesus, according to the Gospel account in Matthew 2:16-18, almost didn’t make it to his first birthday because of King Herod’s Massacre of the Innocents. There seems to be a parallel between that story and current events, don’t you think?<br /><br />Sleep in heavenly peace, little ones, who will never experience a holiday here on this plane of existence. May we never forget you.</b></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZEheBmhsA71fsnvR6AAvieH0IXD3RXgCiPdhktq0IEYPTIglFWur7PcwWm1UwDjk3JQbjGD89nx-is5AX-twz3iApcRsBDFgO_qzdv2smyXNmrwx3XgFJXYi4QbKffVoN10MHSaN58vOi0KmeK4Id1BQD2UTbXJuH7NuMDXrgrj16OsaMRr45KjHX8pk/s1280/baby%20angel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZEheBmhsA71fsnvR6AAvieH0IXD3RXgCiPdhktq0IEYPTIglFWur7PcwWm1UwDjk3JQbjGD89nx-is5AX-twz3iApcRsBDFgO_qzdv2smyXNmrwx3XgFJXYi4QbKffVoN10MHSaN58vOi0KmeK4Id1BQD2UTbXJuH7NuMDXrgrj16OsaMRr45KjHX8pk/w400-h300/baby%20angel.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">You know that the world is broken when a country is given the freedom to
annihilate another people as the world watches in real time. This
should shake each and every one of us to the core. --Michel Moushabeck, <i><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/if-jesus-was-born-today-would-he-be-under-rubble/" target="_blank">If Jesus Was Born Today, Would He Be Under Rubble?</a></i></span></b></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/if-jesus-was-born-today-would-he-be-under-rubble/" target="_blank"></a></i><span><span> </span></span></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Baby Angel</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">by C.A. Matthews<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Most folks who put up a Christmas tree in their homes have a decorative ornament or two that holds a special meaning for them. It could be a handmade ornament given to them by their child or grandchild. It could be an ornament given to them as a present by a very special person in their life. It could be an ornament that honors a milestone in a family’s life—a “first Christmas for baby” ornament or a “first Christmas together as a couple” ornament are two such that come to mind. <br /><br />Or it could be simply an ornament that was purchased because it was beautifully crafted and looks absolutely perfect on the Christmas tree. Art and beauty lend a message that this is a season full of love and wonder. Whatever the meaning behind a special ornament, it usually is given a position of honor on the tree so that all can gaze upon it and contemplate the special meaning it symbolizes.<br /></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gURp1bflN3L1MdqpXJVpHsjLpQ16Ik-eOFbWfVoKnflELDDcB9A-3xXOAQhBEFNpR-4QfcdyZksUFrAqf-WJRWomuNuqxKXiYwP_ymMfPVMxmk5GlPO1TI-oLJIS-KR39vjZur-8jMiuVs1dEnhIId1E0V9G5k0TMEQwdJyznMyywX6zF_eYhysapJc/s640/st.%20francis%20angel.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2gURp1bflN3L1MdqpXJVpHsjLpQ16Ik-eOFbWfVoKnflELDDcB9A-3xXOAQhBEFNpR-4QfcdyZksUFrAqf-WJRWomuNuqxKXiYwP_ymMfPVMxmk5GlPO1TI-oLJIS-KR39vjZur-8jMiuVs1dEnhIId1E0V9G5k0TMEQwdJyznMyywX6zF_eYhysapJc/s320/st.%20francis%20angel.jpg" width="240" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>We’ve collected so many special ornaments over the decades that it’s sometimes difficult figuring out where to place them on our medium-sized Christmas tree. As time goes by, I’ve even forgotten why I found a particular ornament special to begin with. Imagine that! <br /><br /><i>What was I thinking? </i>I ask myself every December as I take some of them out of the storage box. These “lost meaning” decorations usually get put on toward the bottom or on the backside of the tree. Sort of filler ornaments, you could say. But sometimes, an older ornament takes on a new meaning, a new kind of specialness than it had before. It deserves a more prominent place on the tree. <br /><br />Baby Angel is one example.<br /><br />Baby Angel was given to me by my late father when I was pregnant with my first daughter. Now, that fact alone makes it a special ornament in and of itself. But in recent years, we’ve acquired many more flashy angel ornaments. Baby Angel was hung toward the back of the tree more often than not. Just one angel among many. </b></span><b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Oxe_tpMNd4MITbg_fXHqVm0z6AgCiZvrX4Qs5Ji7cW4UrbmYycc_GGgUaAEAEEyzjrnTHV2xxr-ibAz9DvxyusRaKYMdTcZkS9gvzxJ-2at1U3_33c4eAVadrhTXnB0d_KJugV5w2Du3_Bu2qHOngEPCPq9OrxjnLFNM33rMzPHnSHDl58cMHRxcfWI/s1280/angels%20and%20nativity%20scene.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Oxe_tpMNd4MITbg_fXHqVm0z6AgCiZvrX4Qs5Ji7cW4UrbmYycc_GGgUaAEAEEyzjrnTHV2xxr-ibAz9DvxyusRaKYMdTcZkS9gvzxJ-2at1U3_33c4eAVadrhTXnB0d_KJugV5w2Du3_Bu2qHOngEPCPq9OrxjnLFNM33rMzPHnSHDl58cMHRxcfWI/s320/angels%20and%20nativity%20scene.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">This year when I took Baby Angel out of storage I immediately put her in a place of honor in the front part of the tree. Baby Angel reminded me instantly of all the tiny infants slain by Israeli carpet bombing and by Israeli soldiers who forced their doctors away from their incubators in Gazan hospitals, leaving them to die all alone in the cold and dark.<br /><br />Not exactly a “warm holiday season” thing to contemplate over a mug of hot cocoa, is it? <br /><br />But it’s reality. Get use to it. The surviving family members of these murdered infants will have to learn to live with it, even if they’re murdered, in turn, by US-provided bombs. Bombs dropped on their refugee camp in the south of Gaza that crushes them under rubble or dismembers them in an explosion. Or they'll die slowly through starvation and disease because Israel has turned off their water, and food and medicine can’t be delivered under the hail of Israeli bombs and their control of the only exit points in Gaza.<br /><br />I don’t think Baby Angel will ever <i>not</i> remind me of these massacred innocents from now on. </span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiw6ukFzeIHeA-Lai8PpG3_E5GhdTyhedfFKNxI_VOp2N6PxS9uANYJGw3D5kmEQpKjZ0VDKPjjNxuRzlxDtCm5MijbthWw7EcXMmqf8dvlrJPR-pIHbTGAAoNVvseDWADsMDBhvxLhyphenhyphenzlF3x_WFph9kXHx621PbAP8-jvVPzDEDSDO8wUjEPbI0IYELo/s360/Enough.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="360" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiw6ukFzeIHeA-Lai8PpG3_E5GhdTyhedfFKNxI_VOp2N6PxS9uANYJGw3D5kmEQpKjZ0VDKPjjNxuRzlxDtCm5MijbthWw7EcXMmqf8dvlrJPR-pIHbTGAAoNVvseDWADsMDBhvxLhyphenhyphenzlF3x_WFph9kXHx621PbAP8-jvVPzDEDSDO8wUjEPbI0IYELo/w400-h400/Enough.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Over 70% of the civilian deaths in Gaza have been women and children. Not soldiers or terrorists but mothers with their children. Children who will never get to celebrate another birthday or holiday. Children who will never get to go to school again or play football with their buddies. Children who pose no threat to anyone except to those who commit a genocide against an entire group of indigenous people so they can steal their land and resources.<br /><br />Baby Angel will hang on our Christmas tree in a place of honor to commemorate all the babies who became victims of the genocide in Gaza…. In a season that celebrates a baby who survived Herod’s slaughter of the innocents and whose family became refugees who fled to Egypt. It seems appropriate.<br /><br />Holy infants so tender and mild, sleep in heavenly peace. In this world, there is none.</span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlEacRhPJz4XCC0zqcKMrXVvq_mZJzlM3cxrG3CKY3iPuNc1yiq3-ewWofHGcTZk0qU6QCCfyA0F2jjVJB_dwqRQt9ymabZT12LoWCBM6ZHZMGGX23-B9i5JGVlg536v8Mqvu2gbtht2Dnt7ntpyxhM8qs9fkm8Shk-A9apH6gzH_Wi0jK8XIf3S86STc/s1280/dove%20and%20heart.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlEacRhPJz4XCC0zqcKMrXVvq_mZJzlM3cxrG3CKY3iPuNc1yiq3-ewWofHGcTZk0qU6QCCfyA0F2jjVJB_dwqRQt9ymabZT12LoWCBM6ZHZMGGX23-B9i5JGVlg536v8Mqvu2gbtht2Dnt7ntpyxhM8qs9fkm8Shk-A9apH6gzH_Wi0jK8XIf3S86STc/w400-h300/dove%20and%20heart.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>From a "Ceasefire Carol":<br /><br />Silent night, holy night!<br />All is calm, all is bright<br />Safety for fathers, mothers, and child<br />Holy infants alive with smiles<br />Ceasefire now! Ceasefire now! </b></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></b></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGvD1fC_S40V2rmXkA1A8w-q-xaFY_x7uhTIdtHtRfw9eYmxfaDz6hx_EIEZAfSzrMXNoc-i9M1rbXqGFlXpL6pQaW86lXxv59trkdvc9W9LnYF9URvrbyiCv-qdcYy7ThB3ACdDScbhPMQ0rWBfSHL9bNsHh2UQFyP-Uc9Phyl-AG-_cJ2Uu5W8PUVxo/s680/child%20killers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="631" data-original-width="680" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGvD1fC_S40V2rmXkA1A8w-q-xaFY_x7uhTIdtHtRfw9eYmxfaDz6hx_EIEZAfSzrMXNoc-i9M1rbXqGFlXpL6pQaW86lXxv59trkdvc9W9LnYF9URvrbyiCv-qdcYy7ThB3ACdDScbhPMQ0rWBfSHL9bNsHh2UQFyP-Uc9Phyl-AG-_cJ2Uu5W8PUVxo/w400-h371/child%20killers.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Related Articles and Interesting Links to Contemplate Over Cocoa:</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">If Jesus Was Born Today, Would He Be Under Rubble? <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/if-jesus-was-born-today-would-he-be-under-rubble/" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/if-jesus-was-born-today-would-he-be-under-rubble/</a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">All The Propaganda Is Splattering Against A Solid Wall Of Reality <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/all-the-propaganda-is-splattering" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/all-the-propaganda-is-splattering</a><br /><br />The IDF is just shooting at anything that moves <a href="https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/the-idf-is-just-shooting-at-anything" target="_blank">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/the-idf-is-just-shooting-at-anything</a><br /><br />Biden Staffers Hold Historic Vigil Outside White House Calling for Ceasefire <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/biden-staffers-hold-historic-vigil-outside-white-house-calling-for-ceasefire/" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/biden-staffers-hold-historic-vigil-outside-white-house-calling-for-ceasefire/</a><br /><br />The United States Is Losing Allies On Gaza <a href="https://popularresistance.org/the-united-states-is-losing-allies-on-gaza/" target="_blank">https://popularresistance.org/the-united-states-is-losing-allies-on-gaza/</a><br /><br />Senate Passes Massive $886 Billion National Defense Authorization Act <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2023/12/13/senate-passes-massive-886-billion-national-defense-authorization-act/" target="_blank">https://news.antiwar.com/2023/12/13/senate-passes-massive-886-billion-national-defense-authorization-act/<br /></a><br />Increasing Civilian Suffering In Gaza Is Part of the Official Plan of the Netanyahu Government <a href="https://stevendonziger.substack.com/p/increasing-civilian-suffering-in" target="_blank">https://stevendonziger.substack.com/p/increasing-civilian-suffering-in</a><br /><br />Israel admits to “immense” amount of “friendly fire” on 7 October<br /><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israel-admits-immense-amount-friendly-fire-7-october" target="_blank">https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/israel-admits-immense-amount-friendly-fire-7-october</a><br /><br />Nearly Half of All Israeli Munitions Dropped on Gaza are Imprecise ‘Dumb’ Bombs <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/15/nearly-half-of-all-israeli-munitions-dropped-on-gaza-are-imprecise-dumb-bombs/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/15/nearly-half-of-all-israeli-munitions-dropped-on-gaza-are-imprecise-dumb-bombs/</a><br /><br />Israel Apologists Are Psychopaths <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-apologists-are-psychopaths" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-apologists-are-psychopaths<br /></a></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>If children are being slaughtered by the thousands in a horrific massacre and someone tries to make the conversation about what words and phrases you’re not allowed to use when opposing that massacre, the correct thing to do is to tell that person to shut the fuck up.</i><i><br /></i></b></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Time for a Transnational Uprising Against a Reckless Escalation of the Arms Race? <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/09/time-for-a-transnational-uprising-against-a-reckless-escalation-of-the-arms-race/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/09/time-for-a-transnational-uprising-against-a-reckless-escalation-of-the-arms-race/</a><br /></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQxC4CwVZ41_1XO02WWZOnrf5iE48zhuRrF1M0HTyO_xAXvPL_OS3uNV0yk15S31e2xNf6FbqaiUnIHH9ICo5gSPO8c5oKujBiDvCBsk1EJD-iDaFkkhvnyGF8EkND0qRiNC-nUiAgd9ZjTixZCmt875OyOGITgi6a5jLO7XndOJZtfthDgEy01XWgfrA/s1350/Day%2069%20totals.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQxC4CwVZ41_1XO02WWZOnrf5iE48zhuRrF1M0HTyO_xAXvPL_OS3uNV0yk15S31e2xNf6FbqaiUnIHH9ICo5gSPO8c5oKujBiDvCBsk1EJD-iDaFkkhvnyGF8EkND0qRiNC-nUiAgd9ZjTixZCmt875OyOGITgi6a5jLO7XndOJZtfthDgEy01XWgfrA/w320-h400/Day%2069%20totals.jpeg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>20 Things You’re Not Supposed to Know About the War on Gaza<br /><a href="https://worldbeyondwar.org/20-things-youre-not-supposed-to-know-about-the-war-on-gaza/" target="_blank">https://worldbeyondwar.org/20-things-youre-not-supposed-to-know-about-the-war-on-gaza/</a><br /><br />US Palestinians Feel Helpless as Our Tax Dollars Fund Our Families’ Destruction <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-palestinians-feel-helpless-as-our-tax-dollars-fund-our-families-destruction/" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/us-palestinians-feel-helpless-as-our-tax-dollars-fund-our-families-destruction/</a><br /><br />Israel Used US-Supplied White Phosphorous in Attack on Southern Lebanon <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2023/12/11/israel-used-us-made-white-phosphorous-in-attack-on-southern-lebanon/" target="_blank">https://news.antiwar.com/2023/12/11/israel-used-us-made-white-phosphorous-in-attack-on-southern-lebanon/</a><br /><br />Israel Is Wiping Out Gaza’s Journalists: A Tribute <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/15/israel-is-wiping-out-gazas-journalists-a-tribute/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/15/israel-is-wiping-out-gazas-journalists-a-tribute/</a><br /><br />Words Are Never Quite Enough <a href="https://riwaq.substack.com/p/words-are-never-quite-enough" target="_blank">https://riwaq.substack.com/p/words-are-never-quite-enough</a><br /><br />Jewish Demonstrators Block Bridges in 8 U.S. Cities to Demand Ceasefire in Gaza <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/jewish-demonstrators-block-bridges-in-8-u-s-cities-demanding-ceasefire-in-gaza/" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/jewish-demonstrators-block-bridges-in-8-u-s-cities-demanding-ceasefire-in-gaza/</a><br /><br />The Forcible Transfer of 85% of Palestinians in Gaza Is a Crime Against Humanity <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/12/the-forcible-transfer-of-85-of-palestinians-in-gaza-is-a-crime-against-humanity/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/12/the-forcible-transfer-of-85-of-palestinians-in-gaza-is-a-crime-against-humanity/</a><br /><br />US Veto of Ceasefire Resolution Reflects Its Colonial View on Whose Lives Matter <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-veto-of-ceasefire-resolution-reflects-its-colonial-view-on-whose-lives-matter/" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/us-veto-of-ceasefire-resolution-reflects-its-colonial-view-on-whose-lives-matter/</a><br /><br />What US Got Most Crucially Wrong in UN Veto<br /><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/10/what-us-got-most-crucially-wrong-in-un-veto/" target="_blank">https://consortiumnews.com/2023/12/10/what-us-got-most-crucially-wrong-in-un-veto/</a><br /><br />‘Israel-Hamas War’ Label Obscures Israel’s War on Palestinians<br /><a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/12/israel-hamas-war-label-obscures-israels-war-on-palestinians/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/12/israel-hamas-war-label-obscures-israels-war-on-palestinians/</a><br /><br />Ukrainian Trial Demonstrates 2014 Maidan Massacre Was a False Flag <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/13/ukrainian-trial-demonstrates-2014-maidan-massacre-was-a-false-flag/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/13/ukrainian-trial-demonstrates-2014-maidan-massacre-was-a-false-flag/</a><br /><br />Unilateral Sanity Could Save the World <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/14/unilateral-sanity-could-save-the-world/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/14/unilateral-sanity-could-save-the-world/</a></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Chris Hedges: The Death of Israel <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/17/chris-hedges-the-death-of-israel/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/17/chris-hedges-the-death-of-israel/</a></b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></b></p><blockquote><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Israel has no intention of minimizing civilian casualties. It has already <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231216192529/https://www.ochaopt.org/">killed</a> 18,800
Palestinians, 0.82 percent of the Gazan population — the equivalent of
around 2.7 million Americans. Another 51,000 have been wounded. Half of
Gaza’s population is <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67670679">starving</a>,
according to the U.N. All Palestinian institutions and services that
sustain life — hospitals (only 11 out of 36 hospitals in Gaza are still “<a href="https://archive.is/WBATV#selection-621.0-621.45">partially functioning</a>”), <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/17/world/middleeast/gaza-water-plant-photos.html">water treatment plants</a>, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/10/11/1205036361/israel-strikes-neighborhoods-across-gaza-as-the-war-with-hamas-intensifies">power grids</a>, <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/israel-must-stop-using-water-weapon-war-un-expert">sewersystems</a>, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67565872">housing</a>, <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-live-gaza-war-hamas-ceasefire">schools</a>, <a href="https://www.newarab.com/news/israel-destroys-gaza-courthouse-dozens-govt-buildings">government </a>buildings, </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/israel-destroys-beloved-gaza-cultural-center/42741">cultural centers</a>, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/21/keeping-gaza-online-gazas-telecom-heroes-risk-life-and-limb-under-israels-bombs">telecommunications systems</a>, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-call-prayer-rings-out-bombarded-mosque-2023-11-30/">mosques</a>, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/20/war-crime-israel-bombs-gaza-church-sheltering-displaced-people">churches</a>, U.N. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/oct/28/airstrikes-on-gaza-bakeries-add-to-catastrophic-food-shortages">food distribution points</a> — have been destroyed. Israel has assassinated <a href="https://www.un.org/unispal/document/killings-of-journalists-and-their-family-members-in-gaza-dec14-2023/">at least</a> 80 Palestinian journalists alongside dozens of their family members and over <a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2023-12-08/secretary-generals-remarks-the-security-council-the-situation-the-middle-east-including-the-palestinian-question-bilingual-delivered-scroll-down-for-all-english">130</a> U.N.
aid workers along with members of their families. Civilian casualties
are the point. This is not a war against Hamas. It is a war against the
Palestinians. The objective is to kill or <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2023/11/text-translation-the-israeli-plan-for-the-ethnic-cleansing-of-gaza/">remove</a> 2.3 million Palestinians from Gaza. </span></span></b></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>IDF Kills 3 Shirtless Israeli Hostages Waving White Flag; Calling for Help in Hebrew <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-kills-3-shirtless-israeli-hostages-waving-white-flag-calling-for-help-in-hebrew" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-kills-3-shirtless-israeli-hostages-waving-white-flag-calling-for-help-in-hebrew</a><br /><br />The IDF Are So Good At Killing Israelis They Should Consider Joining Hamas <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-idf-are-so-good-at-killing-israelis" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-idf-are-so-good-at-killing-israelis<br /></a></b></span><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>It’s so hard to say who’s in the right in this conflict. On one side you’ve got facts and evidence and a nonstop deluge of raw video footage documenting massacres of civilians day after day after day, but on the other side you’ve got people calling you an anti-semite if you disagree with them. It’s very complicated.</i></b></span><br /></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Latin America and the Caribbean Stand With Palestine: Israel Viewed as a US Proxy <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/17/latin-america-and-the-caribbean-stand-with-palestine-israel-viewed-as-a-us-proxy/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/17/latin-america-and-the-caribbean-stand-with-palestine-israel-viewed-as-a-us-proxy/</a><br /></b></span></p><p></p><p></p>Cindy A. Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12724627097783524710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6184788866071073621.post-51511593452285428512023-12-12T00:00:00.000-08:002023-12-13T13:37:14.786-08:00The Elephant In The Room<div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizA5ktfylriVCtqBTHos8WrnF8UGe26c0BtXyhTvFFQjSib-NG3u36z8Kc_m_MloU5ggEJWWUv8NjgKA9mFhMkAZm1kLE13HNKQfhFFwBCHdtZrIaLS2j7X6qtu7kKLWGuHaW0RHKYvwYH69VlRlLlQFjrm9ZeP4Cbjr9R8E0sF4YxwtSK3TifMbz0ojkV/s640/Me%20with%20sign.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizA5ktfylriVCtqBTHos8WrnF8UGe26c0BtXyhTvFFQjSib-NG3u36z8Kc_m_MloU5ggEJWWUv8NjgKA9mFhMkAZm1kLE13HNKQfhFFwBCHdtZrIaLS2j7X6qtu7kKLWGuHaW0RHKYvwYH69VlRlLlQFjrm9ZeP4Cbjr9R8E0sF4YxwtSK3TifMbz0ojkV/w300-h400/Me%20with%20sign.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">While you were shopping, bombs were dropping... on Gaza.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Toledo area peace activists took a tour of a local shopping mall sharing their concerns over the genocide happening in Gaza. You can see their march here: <br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/bbop.toledo/videos/1074727953942628" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/bbop.toledo/videos/1074727953942628 </a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The holidays aren't supposed to be about death and destruction, but this year that's what's happening to the Palestinian people. It's difficult to remain quiet and talk about children's toys and games when a child is killed in Gaza every ten minutes. An innocent child who will never be able to celebrate a birthday or holiday ever again.<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sometimes, you have to face up to reality and discuss the "elephant" in the room... </span></b></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicZb0M-7joYxBiHIZtpyTiJb0W-WWyc9Sm6qOz3bDBMIJ0ueISfAmckH3-uyrD-SVdF_8VHhazPwQxaMfmbfWWoDG_19QsMG7TxUSvweJMDUcAL5oPcZjeF6_7bKVGX5aMOnnR6_2IeZZNhrKJfTiEoaQF7DUpU89iF4Hv49bm0w08SQ5QWl5Yr66HUIU/s900/Made%20In%20USA%20Genocide.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="506" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicZb0M-7joYxBiHIZtpyTiJb0W-WWyc9Sm6qOz3bDBMIJ0ueISfAmckH3-uyrD-SVdF_8VHhazPwQxaMfmbfWWoDG_19QsMG7TxUSvweJMDUcAL5oPcZjeF6_7bKVGX5aMOnnR6_2IeZZNhrKJfTiEoaQF7DUpU89iF4Hv49bm0w08SQ5QWl5Yr66HUIU/w360-h640/Made%20In%20USA%20Genocide.jpeg" width="360" /></a></div><span class="im"></span><br /><span class="im"></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="im"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Elephant In The Room</span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="im"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></span><span class="im"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">by C.A. Matthews</span></b></span></span></div><span class="im"><div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></div></span><span class="im"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">On a snowy December evening, a twenty-something couple park their small sedan in a crowded, long
driveway of a large suburban home somewhere in the American Midwest. Cheerful holiday lights and
decorations adorn the front of the house. As they get out of the car and
stroll toward the front door, she explains the situation
to her date that he is about to encounter.</span></b></span></div></span><p></p><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla: Remember Kev, if at any time you feel uncomfortable around any of my
family members, and you want to bail, just give me that look of yours
with the rolling eyes and nod. I'll rescue you from the conversation and
get you into a safe place like the laundry room or pantry. Okay?</span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="im" style="font-family: georgia;"><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span>:
No problem! I'm sure I'm going to love your family if they're anything
as special as you. (He gives her a kiss on the cheek as they step up to the front
porch and head toward the door.) Ready to introduce the new boyfriend to the clan?</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span>: Well, ready or not, here we come--or should I say my cousin Emily has already spotted us.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Emily:
(Laughing as she opens the door and invites them in.) Welcome! Come in, come in! You must
be <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span>. Kayla has told us absolutely nothing about you.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span>: Ha ha. Very funny, Em. Here, take our jackets.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Emily:
(Winking at <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span>.) She just doesn't want me to flirt with you right off the bat. I can take a hint. (Emily takes their coats and whisks them away to another room.)</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span>:
Now you see what I mean about my extended family being a bit too...forward. I hear
the crowd partying in the den, so let's go on in and face the music. (She
leads him through a large foyer and down a long hallway.)</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span>:
So far, so good. I don't know why you're so worried about introducing
me to your family. Your parents seemed very nice when I talked to them
last month at homecoming.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span>:
You only chatted with them for a few minutes in the middle of a crowded
college football stadium. When my family is in their own "habitat" things
can be quite different. For instance, beware of Uncle Bill. Just keep him
away from the spiked eggnog and the rum punch.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span>: (Nodding.) Oh, I see. I understand what you mean. <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="im" style="font-family: georgia;">In spite of his...problems, </span></b></span>I'm sure he's a great guy.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span>:
Only when he's sober. And then there's my two male cousins who got caught
peddling drugs at rock concerts--don't bring them up around my mom. She really gets upset about them. They're the current black sheep of the
family. Fortunately, they're not able to attend this year since they didn't get early parole.</div><div><br /></div></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="im" style="font-family: georgia;">: (Flashing a concerned look.) I didn't realize the drinking and drug use sort of runs in your family. I'll be careful not to bring it up.</span></b></span><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">:
Thanks. It's not uncommon nowadays, but it is a...touchy subject around
the holidays. And then there's my crazy Great-Aunt Sally. We've just got
to stay as far away from her as we can help it.</span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="im" style="font-family: georgia;"><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span>: Understood. Sort of like Uncle Bill?</div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span>: Worse! <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKe5TdKqIXUU5e8YVNTFd3xOzHahCD3I-wH1RCH2JK7B_okY6CS-zM09_4HCLiT32LE47-DmL7o7lkOJWu1BEm0HFXMRedfgKSnff2E6ec0P5yXWpBycz2VoEPi0UN1zx0UwJADWqb_xkK_abWFwd8cQmqKGj52ROsGU7kzV-1PxjK0MsQOlkkTK0CuyL7/s1290/Baby%20in%20Bethlehem.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1281" data-original-width="1290" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKe5TdKqIXUU5e8YVNTFd3xOzHahCD3I-wH1RCH2JK7B_okY6CS-zM09_4HCLiT32LE47-DmL7o7lkOJWu1BEm0HFXMRedfgKSnff2E6ec0P5yXWpBycz2VoEPi0UN1zx0UwJADWqb_xkK_abWFwd8cQmqKGj52ROsGU7kzV-1PxjK0MsQOlkkTK0CuyL7/s320/Baby%20in%20Bethlehem.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">They
reach the large family room crowded with people drinking, snacking, and
loudly chatting over festive holiday music while a roaring fire blazes
in the fireplace. Kayla nudges her boyfriend over to the smorgasbord where they fill their plates.</span></b></span></div></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="im" style="font-family: georgia;"><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Uncle
Bill: Hey, it's my little <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span> all grown up! My favorite niece! (He
throws an arm around her and then notices <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span>.) Is this the new man
in your life?</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span>:
(Flinching from his breath.) Yes, it is. Seems like you started
celebrating early, Uncle Bill. Why don't you go and sit by the fire and
enjoy your liquid supper?</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr">Bill
frowns but takes the hint and moves away. <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span> guides <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span> to a
quiet place in the corner <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span class="im" style="font-family: georgia;">with a couple of chairs </span></b></span>behind a huge Christmas tree so they can eat
in peace.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span>: Whew! We'll
be safe here. My parents seem to be busy talking with some distant relations
who flew in from the Bahamas, so we'll have a chance to eat and relax a
little before the interrogations begin.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span>: You really have to stop downing your family, Kayla. They're not all that bad. You need to meet mine sometime.</div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span>:
I will. I promise. It's just not been convenient to get into the
city... Oh, dear. Here comes Aunt Sally. Don't make eye contact--don't
make eye contact! </div><div dir="ltr"> </div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQkFqOiG-scwJ1yFDe68BHQOXMWqZJZe1VSX0TPe3jXjBnIjx_Wey-55TxkrTo2yFPAFtqQ9XCwYMQgAhQhgA4Je-br_WmXhgMPoVngT_YrTpMUsDycjWtBGnnFIVUAPJQO9viLMQ2b2iKAXNTkOZ7bgCW1D3TSWEem638y2B16_S1MQuTrE2Quj5T5v8O/s1463/Bethlehem%20baby%20long%20shot.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1463" data-original-width="1170" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQkFqOiG-scwJ1yFDe68BHQOXMWqZJZe1VSX0TPe3jXjBnIjx_Wey-55TxkrTo2yFPAFtqQ9XCwYMQgAhQhgA4Je-br_WmXhgMPoVngT_YrTpMUsDycjWtBGnnFIVUAPJQO9viLMQ2b2iKAXNTkOZ7bgCW1D3TSWEem638y2B16_S1MQuTrE2Quj5T5v8O/s320/Bethlehem%20baby%20long%20shot.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><br />A woman in a brightly colored tie-dyed caftan approaches and smiles
widely.</span></b></span> <br /></div><div dir="ltr"><br /></div></span></b></span><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sally: Hello there, Miss Kayla! (They hug.) You're so grown up now. A senior
in college, right? And this young man is...?</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">: This is </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">. He's my boyfriend. Now, if you'll excuse us we need to go speak with--</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sally:
Say, </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">, would you like a button? I made them myself, and I'm giving them
out as gifts in the spirit of the season. </span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">: Sure, thanks. <br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sally reaches into a tie-dyed
bag and pulls out a printed badge and hands it to him.</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sally: How about I
give you this one: "All I want for Christmas is for Israel to stop
bombing babies." And here's one for </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">. (She reaches in and retrieves
another badge.) "Peace on Earth for ALL Humankind Not Just The Rich
with Guns." I thought you might like that one, being a business major and all.</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">: Oh, yeah, thanks a lot, Aunt Sally. We've gotta go and--</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sally: (Interrupting.) What do you think about your button, </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">? Do you agree with it?</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">:
It's...very interesting. I mean, why should Israel be bombing babies? Isn't
Christmas about the birth of a baby there long ago who would bring peace
to the entire world?</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sally:
You are so right! That's why the carpet bombing of Gaza and the slaughter of thousands of innocent Palestinian
children is such an abhorrent act. A child is killed in Gaza every ten minutes on average. And they've turned off the water and electricity so illnesses and infections from wounds caused by these bombs are made even worse. Can you imagine a toddler having to have all his limbs amputated because there's no antibiotics, and it's the only way to save his life?<br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">: A friend showed me some photos and videos from there on his TikTok account. It's horrible. It's downright criminal.</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">: (Pulling on his arm.) Come on, Kev, we've got to move along now and--</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJNQ4Lw4_tZN8aNVQWpdDOdzmsQ3HHDKEh7-zxSKnfWE-6df1uay2o6f5T82lPjM9I0WeGt-vgxefXPuyjDc49H4HMggAW7p7JwBRDJLSSwbM8KVAgbZLpFXWuxjok4VJAngencXsPfccT34eFYOf5I5hwUVw4JhSFRSgwLEMttw2f0VYDy6R3zVGjy4_/s900/Gazan%20children%20press%20conference.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="724" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJNQ4Lw4_tZN8aNVQWpdDOdzmsQ3HHDKEh7-zxSKnfWE-6df1uay2o6f5T82lPjM9I0WeGt-vgxefXPuyjDc49H4HMggAW7p7JwBRDJLSSwbM8KVAgbZLpFXWuxjok4VJAngencXsPfccT34eFYOf5I5hwUVw4JhSFRSgwLEMttw2f0VYDy6R3zVGjy4_/w321-h400/Gazan%20children%20press%20conference.jpeg" width="321" /></a></div>Sally:
So, would you two be interested in attending our "Peace in Palestine
Caroling Event" tomorrow night since you both are in town? We'll be singing
familiar carols with an emphasis on peace and a permanent ceasefire in
that part of the world. What do you think?<br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">: The caroling sounds really nice. We don't have anything else on our schedule tomorrow, do we, </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">?</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">: (Sighing.) No, we don't, but--</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sally: Great! I'll give you the details. Want a flyer? I put them over there by the cheese balls, let's go check it out...</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> follows Sally over to the food table, smiling and chatting animatedly
about the caroling. </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> crosses her arms and frowns. Emily approaches.</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Emily: Seems Great-Aunt Sally has stolen your boyfriend away, cousin. That's two for two at these holiday get-togethers, isn't it?<br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">:
Yeah, I don't know how she does it, but she has a talent for hooking
people into her crazy causes and getting them to do stupid things with
her. At Christmastime, no less! (She shakes her head sadly.) </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kevin</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> and I should be out and about drinking and eating and shopping like normal folks, and here Aunt Sally has roped him in to sing carols for peace in some backwards part of the world. Sheesh!<br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Emily: (Nodding.)
Well, at least she didn't get him going with the "People, Planet and
Peace" of the <a href="https://www.gp.org" target="_blank">Green Party</a> schtick like she did with your last boyfriend. I remember how excited he was to learn that Greens believe in free college tuition and reparations. He
dropped you faster than a hot potato after he spotted the Biden/Harris
sticker on your car bumper on campus, didn't he?</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">:
Don't remind me. Damn! Why do I keep picking these overly sensitive types? </span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Emily: (Checking out Kevin talking with Sally and others.) Well, if it's any consolation, he is kind of cute. </span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUsPePmQeHh2zjZdrINGWB5F0G5yEdLQQjlfW46LFfICArOJEiVxUMW66ojn1gMg3Smwgnfe2xWQBiMa6mhjZBhoE47nCXwBGhmAfNlAtwV9Us2BPeOrY3SSkIHEUOquYOtSIwKnXFGpgpEHK7eE6oNB0VXqPfqcYlGuGhhcJvlrOge2fmtzjoXe6Hilfd/s2000/Raytheons%20profits.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="2000" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUsPePmQeHh2zjZdrINGWB5F0G5yEdLQQjlfW46LFfICArOJEiVxUMW66ojn1gMg3Smwgnfe2xWQBiMa6mhjZBhoE47nCXwBGhmAfNlAtwV9Us2BPeOrY3SSkIHEUOquYOtSIwKnXFGpgpEHK7eE6oNB0VXqPfqcYlGuGhhcJvlrOge2fmtzjoXe6Hilfd/w400-h238/Raytheons%20profits.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">: Yeah, but I keep picking guys who believe dumb brown kids in the Middle East are worth
saving. Next thing I know, Kevin will want our families' stock portfolios to tank by
divesting from Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, General Dynamics, and Raytheon. And both our families have been making good money recently on those bombs Aunt Sally gets all in a huff about falling on top of poor people.<br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Emily:
That's Aunt Sally for you. Such a bleeding heart she has.<br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">: For sure. She has an "Eat the Rich" sticker on her electric car. You can't get anymore loser than that, caring about others more than your own family. <br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Emily: (Glancing over at the food table.) It seems Kevin and her are getting on like a house on fire. Still, it's better to find out about what he's really like now before
your parents' big mimosa brunch on New Year's Day for the County
Democratic Party candidates' fund. He just wouldn't fit in with that
crowd. At all.</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">: (Sighing.) No, he wouldn't. I suppose I'll have to let him down gently tonight.</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Emily:
Yeah, or just drop a bomb on him like Israel does to the Palestinians.
Shuts those complainers right up after they've been buried under tons of rubble. It's
probably the easiest way to solve your problems. A peaceful world only
works for those who have the biggest bombs, right?</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kayla</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">: (Smiling wanly as she takes her cousin's arm.) You're right. Let's go get some of that punch before Uncle Bill drains the punch bowl dry.</span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJAyOa8zowpKNR5nITHTGQa-j2oIueJCnwrycnzAEqUH5n7MyzZKsKXm655y7p-OmlkkTYqHrpJC4pWq9qiWOcfw5qLlplH4Vmhe1X4ElHnDafleFci2vC3i3oYOaK5kzfN9rqKg6i_Zd_yLc-q79kILlQGWsPE5SnBynS976xcz2bhwTKZsMQlblVexmX/s1290/Bethlehem%20nativity%20bombed.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1284" data-original-width="1290" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJAyOa8zowpKNR5nITHTGQa-j2oIueJCnwrycnzAEqUH5n7MyzZKsKXm655y7p-OmlkkTYqHrpJC4pWq9qiWOcfw5qLlplH4Vmhe1X4ElHnDafleFci2vC3i3oYOaK5kzfN9rqKg6i_Zd_yLc-q79kILlQGWsPE5SnBynS976xcz2bhwTKZsMQlblVexmX/s320/Bethlehem%20nativity%20bombed.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>The Nativity Scene at Christmas Lutheran Church in Bethlehem</b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> As the US vetoes a United Nations Security Council resolution for a ceasefire...<br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">... The global charity Save the Children <a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/12/09/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/thousands-of-children-in-gaza-are-at-risk-of-dying-from-hunger-an-aid-group-says?smid=url-share" target="_blank">warned</a>
that at least 7,685 children under age five in Gaza are now so
malnourished—a result of Israel's total blockade of the enclave that
began in October and the delivery of just a small fraction of the aid
that is needed—that they require "urgent medical treatment to avoid
death."</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">"The repeated failure of the international community to act signifies a death knell to children," <a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.savethechildren.net/news/deaths-starvation-and-disease-may-top-deaths-bombs-families-squeezed-deadly-safe-zones-two" target="_blank">said</a>
Jason Lee, country director for Save the Children. "I've seen children
and families roaming the streets of what hasn't been flattened in Gaza,
with no food, nowhere to go, and nothing to survive on. Even the
internationally-funded humanitarian aid response—Gaza's last
lifeline—has been choked by Israeli-imposed restrictions."</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">"Gaza's
children are being condemned to further bombardment, starvation, and
disease," said Lee. "We must heed the lessons from the past and must
immediately prevent 'atrocity crimes' from unfolding."</span></b></span></p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The intensifying opposition to Israel's U.S.- and U.K.-backed bombardment of Gaza was made apparent by <a class="rm-stats-tracked" href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/thousands-march-in-london-pro-palestinian-anti-israel-rally/" target="_blank">an estimated</a></span> <span style="font-size: medium;">15,000-20,000 people who marched through London on Saturday to demand a cease-fire. --from </span></span></b><div class="widget__headline h1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="widget__headline-text custom-post-headline" data-type="text" style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-2666509472" target="_blank">'Moral Insanity': Biden Admin Bypasses Congress to Rush Tank Shells to Israel
</a></i></b></span></span></div><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></blockquote><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></span></b></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicRUp7uamyfn8QheWdKdFANUfRdnGDlJgHGfkt2ggDwX8nJDplhOo5qcX6ldIPDYOpAiZL1H0Hxw-xyF_vBZthEIbKpjBYbEzeeLuiStu2UPpmM-PvBO0rEY8DLwctaBMmjb7ejv1X4Za8B9vBQGLLbKOO3SE2otj9k3EZ4zHKjE63mjZrO6tEM_Ktq_-p/s1170/No%20Mercy%20bombs.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1129" data-original-width="1170" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicRUp7uamyfn8QheWdKdFANUfRdnGDlJgHGfkt2ggDwX8nJDplhOo5qcX6ldIPDYOpAiZL1H0Hxw-xyF_vBZthEIbKpjBYbEzeeLuiStu2UPpmM-PvBO0rEY8DLwctaBMmjb7ejv1X4Za8B9vBQGLLbKOO3SE2otj9k3EZ4zHKjE63mjZrO6tEM_Ktq_-p/w400-h386/No%20Mercy%20bombs.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Be sure to check out <i>The Revolution Continues</i> on Substack. You can read the article from your email box or go online to its page where you can leave comments and interact with the growing Substack community. 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There is no name you can call me, no accusation you can scream at me, no talking point you can regurgitate at me that will ever make me shut up and accept this. </i>--Caitlin Johnstone</blockquote></span></b></span><br /><div class="post-title unpublished" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>"Stop Murdering Thousands Of Children," Said The Evil Crazy Nazi</b></span></div><div class="post-title unpublished" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/stop-murdering-thousands-of-children" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/stop-murdering-thousands-of-children </a></b></span></div><div class="post-title unpublished" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dr. Jill Stein: A Ballot Challenge to the Crimes of Empire <a href="https://blackagendareport.com/news/1781/33/Dr.-Jill-Stein-A-Ballot-Challenge-to-the-Crimes-of-Empire" target="_blank">https://blackagendareport.com/news/1781/33/Dr.-Jill-Stein-A-Ballot-Challenge-to-the-Crimes-of-Empire</a></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Israel's genocide in Gaza has Biden's green light <a href="https://www.aaronmate.net/p/israels-genocide-in-gaza-has-bidens" target="_blank">https://www.aaronmate.net/p/israels-genocide-in-gaza-has-bidens <br /></a></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.aaronmate.net/p/israels-genocide-in-gaza-has-bidens" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></a></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>What’s UN Resolution 377A, can it help in efforts to stop Israel-Gaza war? </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/11/whats-un-resolution-377a-can-it-help-in-efforts-to-stop-israel-gaza-war" target="_blank">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/11/whats-un-resolution-377a-can-it-help-in-efforts-to-stop-israel-gaza-war</a></span></b></span></div></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Seen on X/Twitter:<br /></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span><a href="https://twitter.com/MalghaniNudrat/status/1733182242544107928" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">https://twitter.com/MalghaniNudrat/status/1733182242544107928</span></b></span></a></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/1729609886441312668" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/DrJillStein/status/1729609886441312668</a></span></b></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></div>Cindy A. Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12724627097783524710noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6184788866071073621.post-49652486085413326532023-12-05T00:00:00.000-08:002023-12-05T17:08:27.266-08:00How Do We Live With Ourselves?<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV3nsRLzSMR8zIY63T8zJStSEl562_qlpEmfbJJ__3BpX1liMCJiWj63fUBoAy6sNg_654jHPSgqKGqXSrHn6igtB5b6p8g0e8q8O6xYefAVaJ-sJR_389BqM_QMtDzC66iCORuuuyuydOuqXTCU774dMEq0OMqS8MDouuHT7wJQBOcSI0Go-zgAy0bLEQ/s2000/Israel%20is%20killing%20children.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1763" data-original-width="2000" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiV3nsRLzSMR8zIY63T8zJStSEl562_qlpEmfbJJ__3BpX1liMCJiWj63fUBoAy6sNg_654jHPSgqKGqXSrHn6igtB5b6p8g0e8q8O6xYefAVaJ-sJR_389BqM_QMtDzC66iCORuuuyuydOuqXTCU774dMEq0OMqS8MDouuHT7wJQBOcSI0Go-zgAy0bLEQ/w400-h353/Israel%20is%20killing%20children.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b></span></div><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><i>In Lak'ech Ala K'in</i>. "I am you and you are me. What I do to you, I do to myself." </b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>—</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Mayan Saying</b></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">How Do We Live With Ourselves?</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">by C.A. Matthews<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />In this season of supposed “Peace on Earth! Goodwill to All Humankind!” one would hope to see—and experience—some of this peace and goodwill for oneself.<br /><br />But, of course, that’s not possible in December 2023 because there’s a genocide going on in Palestine, both in Gaza and the West Bank. There are also other genocides occurring elsewhere on the planet—such as in the <a href="https://therealnews.com/massacre-in-the-drc-56-killed-in-protests-against-un-forces" target="_blank">Congo</a>—but they’re not making the news cycle much, like the one in Rwanda a few years back didn’t. Africans are invisible to Western media outlets. The stacks of dead bodies of black people don’t register on their cameras or consciousnesses.<br /><br />Criminal, isn’t it? <br /><br />The fact that Netanyahu and Biden have teamed up to slaughter tens of thousands of Palestinians, including little children, babies in incubators, and the elderly, has caused many Americans to simply shut down emotionally and intellectually. That’s the only explanation I can give to explain the lack of responses I’ve received whenever I post an article, a video, or photo detailing what’s happening in Gaza on my Facebook page. I’m lucky to get one or two likes or comments from the same one or two persons, but mostly I receive zero responses. Crickets.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Even to a video that shows the destruction of Gaza that US tax dollars have paid for (Don't you feel proud?): <a href="https://youtu.be/k0pOaRsfxYc?si=CaOByrRvvMFpsJrR" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/k0pOaRsfxYc?si=CaOByrRvvMFpsJrR<br /></a><br />I know it’s foolish of me to even think it’s worth my time posting anything on Facebook, but I feel that the public has the right to hear the whole story and not only the sanitized and twisted narrative the status quo puts out in the mainstream media. I keep hoping some of these posts will get through the blocks and shadowbans. I know a lot of what I’ve posted on X/Twitter has been censored as well, but enough of my X posts must get through because I do receive plentiful responses from online friends and strangers alike. <br /><br />Of course, the strangers are often accusing me of being “antisemitic” because I voice that I am strongly anti-Zionist/anti-genocide. Somehow people are confusing these two radically different concepts, <i>Semitism </i>and<i> Zionism</i>. Semitic peoples are simply people originally from the part of the world that makes up Gaza/Palestine and the modern state of Israel and speak similar languages. That’s all it really means. <br /><br />And I’ll admit that I’m very much for Semitic people living and thriving and not being crushed to death in the rubble of their homes while being bombed by the Israeli air force, bombs courtesy of the US military-industrial complex. I’m very much for <a href="https://twitter.com/intifada/status/1729946899782721835" target="_blank">tiny babies in incubators in hospitals in the Gaza strip to have access to electricity and clean water and to not be left to die alone in the cold and dark because Israeli soldiers forced their doctors and nurses out of the hospitals</a>. I’m very much for Israeli civilians not being burned to death in their cars by missiles shot from Apache helicopters piloted by Israeli Air Force pilots who believe in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxGDRJJ9avw" target="_blank">“Hannibal Directive”</a>.<br /><br />I simply want all signatories to the United Nations Convention on Human Rights to follow the rules. I don’t want them to commit war crimes. That’s not too much to ask now, is it?<br /></span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo4QJqYf51qxXkFpnJ-1GDzqEvkiRnbosgjuhw-QS3rACEyeoh_7iVZwCzOhqlE4AlpSg0J_PbPcr8JUBsLSZv_QGOm3dIFsE2XSoNCyuLR-5zEVv1XFh7qAt6uxcvhK-NaR6lAa6TvauBrWgfbASbYLVjKNbyGtOWMTrklsvCSUzBg327N9vGItEmnQ2A/s1024/Nov%2024%20numbers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="942" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo4QJqYf51qxXkFpnJ-1GDzqEvkiRnbosgjuhw-QS3rACEyeoh_7iVZwCzOhqlE4AlpSg0J_PbPcr8JUBsLSZv_QGOm3dIFsE2XSoNCyuLR-5zEVv1XFh7qAt6uxcvhK-NaR6lAa6TvauBrWgfbASbYLVjKNbyGtOWMTrklsvCSUzBg327N9vGItEmnQ2A/w368-h400/Nov%2024%20numbers.jpg" width="368" /></a></div><br />So, obviously I’m far from being “antisemitic” by the textbook definition. As far as the political ideology of Zionism goes? Nah, I can’t get behind it since it has led to the creation of a horrible ethnostate that has slaughtered the indigenous peoples for decades now without mercy because the Zionists want to steal the natives’ land and natural resources. Any political ideology that supports anything like the 1948 <i>Nakba</i>, apartheid, second class citizenship for native peoples, carpet bombing, and outright genocide isn’t an ideology I can support in good conscience. </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br /></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">And that’s where the problem lies for me. My conscience tells me that genocide is wrong, and that I, as a professing Christian, must do all that I can to “Love my neighbor as myself.” I cannot simply turn a blind eye to the horrors happening to Palestinians since they are my “neighbor.” I must “Do for others as I would like them to do for me.” I must walk a mile in their moccasins and learn what it’s like to be oppressed, to feel the pain of what is happening to them, and then <i>do something about it</i>. I <i>don’t</i> have a choice. It’s what I as a Christian <i>must</i> do. </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /><br />My conscience says that if I simply ignore others being killed and injured with <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2023/12/01/us-sent-israel-15000-bombs-since-october-7/" target="_blank">US provided military armaments</a> then I, as an American citizen/taxpayer, am every bit as culpable as the party to whom we provided the weapons to that is actively doing the killing. <br /><br /></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">We Americans don’t get a free pass on this. We don’t get to deny that we’re causing untold suffering and agony to our fellow human beings just because <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2023/12/01/us-sent-israel-15000-bombs-since-october-7/" target="_blank">we made a private deal</a> with another country that wants to use our military aid to commit a genocide. We must accept the blame and take action to rectify the nightmarish situation before it gets even worse—although it’s already gotten worse, hasn’t it? </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>I can’t imagine a worse scenario than 1.8 million displaced, 7,000 dead children, 20,000 civilians dead or crushed under the rubble of Gaza, murdered simply for the crime of being born Palestinian. <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/12/3/israel-gaza-war-live-israel-bombards-gaza-as-talks-break-down" target="_blank">Once the "temporary pause" was lifted, over 700 Palestinians were killed within the first 24 hour period by IDF bombing.</a> It bothers my conscience. It hurts my heart greatly. I can’t sleep sometimes. I remember my youngest daughter spending her first week of life in an incubator. How would I feel if she had been left to die alone or buried under a ton of rubble because Zionists wanted her dead?<br /></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc8x_BOSfPHrtI99dFH7yfku8QuJ0fcfKee9CrugPamA76o5JhyphenhyphenYJTxr6sHHE-z9i9OdTDdVESS-JSWa4tELcFgDUHbtVJ0D5K3BTnDvxiuz6yOFHtNUp8iIw_6sLOL3nHdpLD_2hTLXdarRXOjIMHgl2MbaolszF3DxkGRm9tyUjBFKczj6tRsm2bd2QJ/s1392/Myth%20of%20Humanity.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1392" data-original-width="1290" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc8x_BOSfPHrtI99dFH7yfku8QuJ0fcfKee9CrugPamA76o5JhyphenhyphenYJTxr6sHHE-z9i9OdTDdVESS-JSWa4tELcFgDUHbtVJ0D5K3BTnDvxiuz6yOFHtNUp8iIw_6sLOL3nHdpLD_2hTLXdarRXOjIMHgl2MbaolszF3DxkGRm9tyUjBFKczj6tRsm2bd2QJ/w297-h320/Myth%20of%20Humanity.jpeg" width="297" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">But nobody wants to hear about my PTSD triggers. This strange concept of having a conscience isn’t going over very well with some Americans I’ve encountered, unfortunately. Here is my recent tale that illustrates this problem:<br /><br />I was sharing information from one group to another group online, because I thought maybe a few people (not all, just a few) in the second group might be interested in using their musical skills to help out the folks in the first group. So I copied and pasted a request from the first group and sent it along in a group email to the second group. Honestly, I didn’t think it would be that big of a deal. I was in a hurry, and I didn’t edit the paragraph I’d received from the first group because I didn’t want to add words or take away anything from what they were trying to ask help for. <br /><br />Imagine my surprise (shock, really) the next day when I’m totally blindsided by a heated response posted in the second group that I emailed. Only two persons emailed back on the loop, but their accusations of my “antisemitism” and the “legal ramifications” of assisting the first group this holiday season pretty much told me that they weren’t the decent human beings I’d thought they were. (And the rest of those on the email loop? They’ve remained silent—in agreement? In fear they could be attacked next? Who knows?)<br /></span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Now here's the real kicker: the second group is a church group, and I’d assumed they were professing Christians as well as musicians. Wouldn’t they as Christians want to stop a genocide being committed with the help of our tax dollars? Don’t their consciences bother them about the genocide going on against the relatives of the first group? Are my friends in the first group seen as being <i>less than</i> somehow because not all of them are the same kind of <i>Christians</i> or aren’t seen as <i>American</i> as the persons in the second group? <br /><br />I’ll never know the answer to these questions. My emails asking for clarification (and maybe some words of comfort?) from the church's pastor were never answered. And I was apparently dropped from the church music group’s email loop as well.<br /></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlQ85oHqPq-tl7MWWpinTmaZAEzOu-pGj49N3nWFGCc0uU2qtrl8bDEP5Iu4ywg0qvqHiOy3QY3fEILmgYeo4Uakb3s0-2c7BnzCe-Dvu5wPEdS24ck2VUmgePr4W-BL2S8B00DRBiFpwW2vcu0q9ZE1OHCmSi_PUx2SO9UL0I-aOuF99AuBnL0AxNcman/s2000/humanity%20has%20failed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1380" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlQ85oHqPq-tl7MWWpinTmaZAEzOu-pGj49N3nWFGCc0uU2qtrl8bDEP5Iu4ywg0qvqHiOy3QY3fEILmgYeo4Uakb3s0-2c7BnzCe-Dvu5wPEdS24ck2VUmgePr4W-BL2S8B00DRBiFpwW2vcu0q9ZE1OHCmSi_PUx2SO9UL0I-aOuF99AuBnL0AxNcman/w276-h400/humanity%20has%20failed.jpg" width="276" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Being ghosted by your pastor and others who you thought were your friends really sucks—especially during the Christmas season. I’ve always sung in church praise bands, choirs, and chorales. My favorite activity in December is going Christmas caroling. It’s the highlight of the year for me. It makes the cold and damp and the darkness of early winter bearable. Now it's ruined for me because I’m not welcome to sing with this second group because… <i>Because I have a conscience? Because I don't support genocide?</i><br /><br />I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to put my conscience to sleep—<i>ever</i></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">—</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">even if I end up friendless. How could I live with myself knowing that I didn’t at least try to help others who are hurting? Why should I become a soulless sociopath just to fit in with present-day, bloodthirsty mainstream American society or a mainline American church denomination that backs those immoral values? <br /><br />Since I've always followed the teachings of a radical Palestinian of the first century A.D. who preaches the Golden Rule, I think I’ll just walk on water and get the hell away from these hypocrites ASAP. <br /><br />I doubt I’ll ever be able to forget this upsetting experience or the unkind things my former church associates implied about the Palestinian Americans with whom I associate with through the local activism scene. I enjoy my current work with immigrants as a paralegal and have enjoyed my work as an ESL tutor and citizenship teacher for many years. I don’t see immigrants and newcomers as second class citizens or <i>less than</i> the people who have lived in the US all their lives. When a person or group has a reasonable request and asks for help, why can’t I share this ask with others without the risk of being attacked and accused of made-up charges of antisemitism?<br /><br />Why are the people who actually support genocide by their actions and non-actions alike getting to call all the shots? I know—it’s because they’re capitalists, right? Money talks, especially in cash-strapped American churches. We can’t be upsetting the folks who write the big checks for the offering plate, can we?<br /><br />It’s going to be a blue Christmas for yours truly. I get to suffer for putting my neck out there because I care about others. But a big thanks goes out to all those online who have supported me in the past and who will continue to support me in the future. You get me. You have a conscience. Bless you for being <i>you</i>.</span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hey—maybe we can get together online and throw a Zoom Christmas carol party? I’ll bring the electronic cookies. (Ha-ha!)<br /><br />How do we live with ourselves if we can’t even be open to showing love to our neighbor whose relatives are being wiped out in a genocide? We can’t. We die. Inside. Our consciences will be lost. Forever. And the warmongers and genocide supporters will win.<br /><br />And we can’t let them win. Ever.<br /></span></b></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span> </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD1Hwr7aDaoB9_O_jKwAicazAHRqhPynjqyd3WS8-ymfw4b6qiOECLeZoUYM3YBcHb69IGeKBSV8eq8EYm6sVd_MKP7F_DjeaRncnYPACgh8eiIJWZwLqEZ_iB8YPyGldEmQEEuzxAaJ0hY_0AHUXKZKyriOVDeW8huz2AHHoEnfGNIifzH1tqaXQKxelV/s580/nativity.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="580" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD1Hwr7aDaoB9_O_jKwAicazAHRqhPynjqyd3WS8-ymfw4b6qiOECLeZoUYM3YBcHb69IGeKBSV8eq8EYm6sVd_MKP7F_DjeaRncnYPACgh8eiIJWZwLqEZ_iB8YPyGldEmQEEuzxAaJ0hY_0AHUXKZKyriOVDeW8huz2AHHoEnfGNIifzH1tqaXQKxelV/w400-h208/nativity.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><br />Liberationist theologian Herb Montgomery puts the whole Christmas story into a sharper perspective in </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>A Christmas Story for the Marginalized</i></b></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span><a href="https://www.patheos.com/blogs/socialjesus/2019/12/a-christmas-story-for-the-marginalized " target="_blank">https://www.patheos.com/blogs/socialjesus/2019/12/a-christmas-story-for-the-marginalized <br /></a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b></b></span></p><blockquote><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Reclaimed interpretations of
the Christmas story emphasize details that we can’t afford to miss.
Jesus being born into immense poverty, being announced to the socially
outcast, bypassing the politically, economically, socially and
religiously of the day, and his parents becoming violence-fleeing
refugees for the well-being of their child—there is an entire foundation
here on which to build a framework for Christians who are working toward
social justice today.</span></b></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b>Please subscribe to <i>The Revolution Continues</i> on Substack today! (Less censorship, more places to leave comments.) <a href="https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com" target="_blank">https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com</a></b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span> <br /></span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span>Related Articles and Interesting Links</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b><span>Massacre in the DRC: 56 killed in protests against UN forces
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There is also the moral force of the children. Not just their deaths, estimated at up to 6,000 in less than two months, but their orphaning, displacement, and deprivation of food and water in a besieged Gaza that is now, according to Unicef, “the most dangerous place in the world to be a child”.<br /><br /></span></b></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b><span>Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago </span><span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-attack-intelligence.html</a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b><span>Genocide Joe label drags Biden down <a href="https://youtu.be/VDJH7soCMPU?si=dtaUjw4jHOJHaWK0" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/VDJH7soCMPU?si=dtaUjw4jHOJHaWK0</a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b><span>A father says goodbye <a href="https://twitter.com/1b2_r/status/1729593191790158257" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/1b2_r/status/1729593191790158257</a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b><span>Five infants died because Israeli soldiers made the doctors leave <a href="https://twitter.com/intifada/status/1729946899782721835" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/intifada/status/1729946899782721835</a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b><span>Israel's Savagery Is So Shocking It's Sometimes Hard To Take In </span><span><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israels-savagery-is-so-shocking-its" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israels-savagery-is-so-shocking-its</a></span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;">"It’s so earth-shakingly ugly that it just might shake the world awake." 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Once Palestinians cross the border into Egypt — which the Egyptian government and Arab leaders are seeking to prevent despite pressure from the U.S. — Palestinians will never return. <br /><br />This is not a war against Hamas. It is a war against Palestinians.</b></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b>War Porn To A T(shirt)<br /><a href="https://mark192.substack.com/p/war-porn-to-a-tshirt" target="_blank">https://mark192.substack.com/p/war-porn-to-a-tshirt<br /></a></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jill Stein interviewed about the genocide in Gaza (first 20 minutes) <a href="https://rumble.com/v3z2eom-live-israels-secret-weapon-pres.-candidate-dr.-jill-stein.html" target="_blank">https://rumble.com/v3z2eom-live-israels-secret-weapon-pres.-candidate-dr.-jill-stein.html</a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Documents expose Israeli conspiracy to facilitate October 7 attack <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/02/klox-d02.html">https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/02/klox-d02.html</a><br /><br />If I Were Going To Commit A Genocide <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one /p/if-i-were-going-to-commit-a-genocide" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one /p/if-i-were-going-to-commit-a-genocide</a><br /><br />‘A mass assassination factory’: Inside Israel’s calculated bombing of Gaza <a href="https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/" target="_blank">https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassination-factory-israel-calculated-bombing-gaza/</a><br /><br />Hamas Uses Human Shields? The Evidence <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/02/hamas-uses-human-shields-the-evidence-2/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/02/hamas-uses-human-shields-the-evidence-2/</a><br /><br />Israel Planning for Gaza War To Last Over a Year<br /><a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/02/israel-planning-for-gaza-war-to-last-over-a-year/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/12/02/israel-planning-for-gaza-war-to-last-over-a-year/</a></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">US Sent Israel 15,000 Bombs Since October 7 <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2023/12/01/us-sent-israel-15000-bombs-since-october-7/" target="_blank">https://news.antiwar.com/2023/12/01/us-sent-israel-15000-bombs-since-october-7/ </a></span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Wall Street Journal published details about the White House’s secretive arms transfers to Israel since October 7. The US has provided Israel with 57,000 artillery shells and 15,000 bombs, including over 5,000 with 2,000-pound warheads.<br /><br />According to a list of weapons obtained by the Journal, the US has shipped Israel “more than 5,000 Mk82 unguided or ‘dumb’ bombs, more than 5,400 Mk84 2,000-pound warhead bombs, around 1,000 GBU-39 small diameter bombs, and approximately 3,000 JDAMs.”<br /><br />The US has additionally shipped 57,000 155 MM shells to Israel. NBC News previously reported in October that Washington sent Tel Aviv artillery rounds that are cluster munitions.</span></blockquote></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ukraine’s top negotiator confirms US-UK sabotaged peace deal with Russia <a href="https://www.aaronmate.net/p/ukraines-top-negotiator-confirms" target="_blank">https://www.aaronmate.net/p/ukraines-top-negotiator-confirms</a><br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">A Tale of Two Valerys: Top Russian and Ukrainian Generals Negotiate to End Ukraine War <a href="https://ohiobarbarian.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-valerys-top-russian" target="_blank">https://ohiobarbarian.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-valerys-top-russian</a><br /><br />Henry Kissinger: The Declassified Obituary<br /><a href="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile-cold-war-henry-kissinger-indonesia-southern-cone-vietnam/2023-11-29/henry" target="_blank">https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/chile-cold-war-henry-kissinger-indonesia-southern-cone-vietnam/2023-11-29/henry<br /></a><br />Henry Kissinger, War Criminal and World’s Biggest A**hole Dies <a href="https://youtu.be/RVGth9Qp9Sc?si=kGIFf8TxHTZBeLTI " target="_blank">https://youtu.be/RVGth9Qp9Sc?si=kGIFf8TxHTZBeLTI </a> <br /></span></b></span></p>Cindy A. Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12724627097783524710noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6184788866071073621.post-78233315839783756322023-11-28T00:00:00.000-08:002023-11-28T10:01:45.244-08:00Your Congressmember At Work--For Israel<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBfCq9caCLOdQAxFlmdsvnwKnARgKzPRlQRgkG_JOvzsFr2dDOARQ-aDS3HVgJeh1zoyxRf9r3NWYFS_5oZzRDUBBAti_5wP37YkhpweTCHaN5gnzieYaecxYKASZQjop_njajYnF9bk101xtTVsIS_BMD8SIl86YOsOlAbZ-V8-hP2njxpDjlBWdWtwoO/s1080/Kaptur%20bought%20off.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBfCq9caCLOdQAxFlmdsvnwKnARgKzPRlQRgkG_JOvzsFr2dDOARQ-aDS3HVgJeh1zoyxRf9r3NWYFS_5oZzRDUBBAti_5wP37YkhpweTCHaN5gnzieYaecxYKASZQjop_njajYnF9bk101xtTVsIS_BMD8SIl86YOsOlAbZ-V8-hP2njxpDjlBWdWtwoO/w400-h400/Kaptur%20bought%20off.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span>
</p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Y</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">our
Congress</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">member</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
At Work—For Israel</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> edited by C.A. Matthews<br /></span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">It
took over a month </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
a multitude of</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
repeated </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">attempt</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
contact</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Congresswoman </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Marcy
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Kaptur. </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Local activists</span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> phoned, emailed, and </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">even
held several </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">very loud protest</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
in front of the building where her district office in Toledo
is located </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">before they garnered</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
her attention. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition formulated and submitted a letter
signed by many activist groups and others asking for Rep. Kaptur to
co-sponsor a ceasefire in Gaza bill in the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">US
House of Representatives</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
Within a week after sending the letter, a</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Zoom call was set up between Kaptur and constituents to discuss </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
reasons behind </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">why she is</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">n’t
open to supporting a </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Gaza
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ceasefire
bill in the Hous</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">e</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
The following excerpts </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">from
the Zoom transcript </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">reveal
her attitudes toward her constituents, especially Palestinian </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
Arab</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Americans </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">who
comprise a sizable minority in the Toledo area where Kaptur was born, grew up in, and currently serves as a representative in Congress.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">First,
a</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">little
background information about her: </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Marcy
Kaptur </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(D)
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">is
77 years old. She </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">serve</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
as the US representative from Ohio's 9th congressional district, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a
strangely shaped, gerrymandered district which includes the western suburbs
of Cleveland as well as most of the city of Toledo</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
Now in her 21st term, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Kaptur</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
has been a Congresswoman since 1983</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
She is the longest serving woman in Congress </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
history </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
presently sits on the appropriations committee</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">According
to <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/marcy-kaptur/pacs?cat=Q05&catlong=Pro-Israel&cid=N00003522&cycle=2024&seclong=Ideological%2FSingle-Issue&sector=Q" target="_blank">Open Secrets</a>, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
current total Political Action Committee (PAC) money accepted by
Kaptur for the 2023-2024 season is $370,550 </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
comes primarily from business (46.21%) and ideological (39.49%) PACs.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">he
pro-Israel “J</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">S</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">treetPAC”
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">has
given her $1,000 so far this year</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
JStreetPAC has a strong link to </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">*AIPAC, the </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>American Israel Public Affairs Committee,</span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> according to the Jewish independent publication </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://forward.com/news/504584/aipac-j-street-matching-endorsements-israel/" target="_blank">Forward</a>. </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">AIPAC has been a contributor to her earlier campaigns. </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Kaptur</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> has also been endorsed by the Jewish Democratic Council of America. </span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The following</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
are some of the questions and answers discussed in the Zoom call with Rep. Kaptur. They have been edited slightly for punctuation and grammar, as the transcript was in a rough draft form.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Imam
Farooq Aboelzahab </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
<a href="https://icgt.org/" target="_blank">Islamic Society of Toledo</a></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">made
th</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ese</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
comment</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">:</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“Why
has the US slept on this issue for 75 years? Kids have right to go to
school, have fun, learn, live honorable lives. What do you expect
after many generations of tragedy? Expect them to be tolerant and
kind to the occupier? If we aren’t doing our job we cannot blame
others for what they’re doing. Lack of justice anywhere is lack of
justice everywhere. Badly failing for years... president after
president, no one showed interest in solving it. Billions of dollars
in war machines to kill more innocent people—those dollars could
build a future instead. Ceasefire is needed, but not the answer</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">—</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">otherwise after two months or years, the bloodshed will start again.”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Kaptur’</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s
response:</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
“</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">A</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">fter
9/11 I came and circled around your mosque to protect it, and I sent
that photo around the world.”</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Editor’s
note: </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Apparently
Marcy Kaptur is thinking more about a photo op</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">portunity</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">she
took advantage of </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">from
more than two decades ago than the fact there is currently a genocide
going on in Gaza. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">This
was her only reply given t</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">o
t</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">he
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Imam.
Its brevity and self-centeredness are telling.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-bf_rMPingJI_qXMnT7MjEZjIRA1jlNmvfeoc-H4mJcwT3GrmYUsa1dOwGP2XnYay6WYojHj7pauXG3VPYKWESunvsmN_fCNx02y_m7FYp54yB05sOtlrI0MY3bwPSAoxVTV9JnTOvwufZ6z0ZYJtcbh3QvZ08bgBAZ6AtE_ndjgW3iAdgjuYnpivZe_3/s1024/Nov%2024%20numbers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="942" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-bf_rMPingJI_qXMnT7MjEZjIRA1jlNmvfeoc-H4mJcwT3GrmYUsa1dOwGP2XnYay6WYojHj7pauXG3VPYKWESunvsmN_fCNx02y_m7FYp54yB05sOtlrI0MY3bwPSAoxVTV9JnTOvwufZ6z0ZYJtcbh3QvZ08bgBAZ6AtE_ndjgW3iAdgjuYnpivZe_3/s320/Nov%2024%20numbers.jpg" width="294" /></a></div>Jasmin
Abu-Hummos representing American Muslims for Palestine, Toledo </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">chapter, provid</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">ed
a slideshow </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
made these remarks </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">as
she shared</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">her
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">photos
and </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">graphic</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s
with Rep. Kaptur:</span></span></b></span></div><p></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“[I]
met with folks last night. Here are points they want me to cover.
CEASEFIRE NOW is our main plea right now. My father was expelled from
Rafah in 1948... My uncle was shot and killed at age of 15 in 1989,
and I never got to meet him.</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kaptur:
“Where was he shot?”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Jasmin:
“He was shot in Ramallah by Israeli forces for attending a funeral.
That’s what brings us here today. We have similar stories and
struggles. It appears that you don't have time for us, don’t care
for our suffering pain. We watched you attend and mourn </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">[at]
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Is</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">r</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">aeli
vigils, posted in their favor, in your stories on I</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">nstagram,
etc. You’ve sent statements for their events. We also mourn these
lives, but we can’t help but notice your lack of regard in standing
by </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">[your]
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Palestinian
constituents.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I’m
the only Palestinian on this panel today—</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">t</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">hat
shows something.”</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“It’s
insulting, how you refuse to vote for a ceasefire. You’re enabling
collective punishment and genocide. What does it take for you to call
for a ceasefire? What are your criteria?”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">“<span style="font-style: normal;">During
the ‘ceasefire’ that (ended) in 2014, Israel was sending in
Apaches, killing 3 year-olds, during your so-called ‘ceasefire.’
When it’s broken from one side, you say it’s ‘gruesome, tragic,
violates all rules of modern warfare.’ You fail to call it gruesome
when it’s the </span><span style="font-style: normal;">a</span><span style="font-style: normal;">ttacks
on Oct</span><span style="font-style: normal;">ober</span><span style="font-style: normal;">
8th… </span><span style="font-style: normal;">T</span><span style="font-style: normal;">hese
are the bombs you’re paying for, your bombs, dropped by Israel
funded by US. Those bombs don’t </span><span style="font-style: normal;">fall
</span><span style="font-style: normal;">on
combat people, but on children. Here are their faces—</span><span style="font-style: normal;">h</span><span style="font-style: normal;">ere
are the kids in Al-Shifa hospital.” </span><span style="font-style: normal;">(</span><span style="font-style: normal;">The
slide show displays p</span><span style="font-style: normal;">hotos
of dead babies </span><span style="font-style: normal;">lying
on a stretcher </span><span style="font-style: normal;">and
</span><span style="font-style: normal;">sickly
premature</span><span style="font-style: normal;">
babies in incubators. </span><span style="font-style: normal;">Jasmin
continues.</span><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">“<span style="font-style: normal;">How
do you want these kids to evacuate the hospital? Here are gruesome
images that you don't want to call
‘gruesome’. </span><span style="font-style: normal;">M</span><span style="font-style: normal;">aggots
coming out of wounds.”</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">“<span style="font-style: normal;">These
</span><span style="font-style: normal;">(photos)
</span><span style="font-style: normal;">are
the Israeli leaders you are so happy to back and support, saying ‘</span><span style="font-style: normal;">W</span><span style="font-style: normal;">e
will turn Gaza into ruins.’ </span><span style="font-style: normal;">(Photos
of Netanyahu and others Israeli gov</span><span style="font-style: normal;">ernment</span><span style="font-style: normal;">
officials </span><span style="font-style: normal;">with
quotes that</span><span style="font-style: normal;">
said:</span><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span><span style="font-style: normal;">
‘</span><span style="font-style: normal;">Focus
on destruction not accuracy.’ ‘Burn Gaza now.’ This is the
government you’re backing and giving the green light to. How can
you be anti-genocide while backing this government?”</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“Co-sponsor
Cori Bush’s resolution, or write another resolution for</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> a
ceasefire, whatever you need to do. I see my family dying every day
on the screen. When I was little I looked up to you… blindly voted
for you. Now a
disgrace to be represented by you. I remember my brother giving you a
rose and a hug, and I said, ‘Marcy’s for us, she’s with us,’
but now those thoughts aren’t clear anymore. That’s what the
majority of your people are also thinking.” <br /></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqVglKqu3TKnnbtdKbQbv8c26lwYlkolYBrCjf3e6qaUBISqQQCE_0fDgiqrSD8wFW5NWC41xmFJH1pZ106Js6SINxRxLVzGDccpttFEyeoQf_Ky9SVra2BcTg4eeQ18G5YgiaG3cgYlrNHQjC45AbiluxUzEPlZRMgFLieK5P_lcOtDQZBeZuXOH9GVuf/s1280/sick%20of%20genocide.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqVglKqu3TKnnbtdKbQbv8c26lwYlkolYBrCjf3e6qaUBISqQQCE_0fDgiqrSD8wFW5NWC41xmFJH1pZ106Js6SINxRxLVzGDccpttFEyeoQf_Ky9SVra2BcTg4eeQ18G5YgiaG3cgYlrNHQjC45AbiluxUzEPlZRMgFLieK5P_lcOtDQZBeZuXOH9GVuf/s320/sick%20of%20genocide.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span><p></p><p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kaptur’s
response: </span></b></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thank you, that took a lot of courage and depth to say that
publicly. I don’t agree with some of what you said regarding my own
efforts, but I respect your delivering them in such a respectful
manner, and this is how you make progress. And I especially liked how
you said I could make my own resolution because Cori Bush’s
resolution would not pass, and we want to be much more thorough in
what we’re proposing."</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Editor’s
note: </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Marcy
Kaptur seems to want to do things her own way and not </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">work
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
a cooperative manner with a fellow Democrat like Cori Bush. Her
response doesn’t provide any comfort </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">to
Jasmin, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">her
constituent,</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">or</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
the others in the call. She doesn’t </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">even
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">provide
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a
deadline as to when </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">we
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">could
expect to see </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">her
proposed</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza. A</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">lso
notice how</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Kaptur</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
doesn’t deny that she is biased by her </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">sympathetic
actions toward Israelis and by her ignoring the pain of Palestinians in
the past. She didn't even make a remark about the very powerful imagery </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of dead and dying babies from Gaza t</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">hat
Jasmin displayed </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">in
her slide show</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
</span></span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">You’ll
notice that </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Rep.
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Kaptur</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
also didn’t </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">make
any comments </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">about
the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> lack of clean water causing death and disease in Gaza since the Israelis cut off
water to Gaza</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">She doesn’t seem to see or acknowledge the </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">suffering
of </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Palestinians
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">at
all. Perhaps they are invisible to her, but she’s clearly
supportive of Israel as indicated by her recent endorsement</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
She praises Jasmin for acting in a </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">“</span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">respectful manner,</span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">”</span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> as if this isn't the usual way a Palestinian acts. It’s almost </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">as
if</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Kaptur
agrees with the Israeli Defense Minister who labeled Palestinians “human animals.” Animals don't have </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">“</span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">manners,</span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">”</span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> now do they?</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> <br /></span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">The
takeaway from this exchange is that Palestinians</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
are </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">simply
not</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
worthy of </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Kaptur's </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">tears
or </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">efforts
to establish a temporary ceasefire or a permanent peace</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">.
One wonders if </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">she</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
could even be diagnosed as a <a href="https://bernie2016.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-new-litmus-test.html" target="_blank">sociopath</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">since
she demonstrates a total </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">lack of empathy toward</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">suffering
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">of
Palestinians</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> and the fears and concerns of her constituents such as Jasmin.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">) <br /></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGFUpt4g8w7AzLRMe9G-HWcSabuSg7XYPuDAqR06xcCYBACXXRA6i-_WLOOD_rSwK7bAsNLGHqThywSiMoyNmceMsAsb8IXTXMzxv_vCfxDEHcSW7jplnWmP_Som_c5ujw1WgjPNdDDHIft3ieGu4KKQUWqyoi5Os6WchwTXl7TWXlSWke0iMBAaRSFoHl/s562/why%20would%20hamas%20do%20this.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGFUpt4g8w7AzLRMe9G-HWcSabuSg7XYPuDAqR06xcCYBACXXRA6i-_WLOOD_rSwK7bAsNLGHqThywSiMoyNmceMsAsb8IXTXMzxv_vCfxDEHcSW7jplnWmP_Som_c5ujw1WgjPNdDDHIft3ieGu4KKQUWqyoi5Os6WchwTXl7TWXlSWke0iMBAaRSFoHl/s320/why%20would%20hamas%20do%20this.jpeg" width="285" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">A</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">dam
Smidi gives his comments:<br /></span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“Any
taking of life is sickening. The narrative right now is that there is
no such thing as an innocent Palestinian life. … One doctor, from
Doctors Without Borders, said this is the ‘worst humanitarian
crisis she’s ever </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">experienced.’
These are the people we should be listening to, humanitarian people,
people on the ground. An acronym was invented, ‘WCNSF,’ unique to
Gaza. It stands for ‘wounded child no surviving family.’ This
acronym shouldn’t exist.” </span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">
“There
is a natural human impulse to protect children. Right now, that
impulse is broken, and disincentivized by our representatives.
Muslims in Ohio are diverse and civically engaged. We will elect
those that hear us. Your legacy in the local Muslim community has
been so positive, all we ask is to be brave enough to stand with us
and be on the right side of history on this thing. Stop the bombing, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ceasefire,
ending of innocent lives lost. Two thirds of Americans agree. (</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">…) A
local family near to us, the (Abu Shaban?) family, lost 35 members,
age </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">2 weeks
to 85 years, all in one sitting.”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kaptur’s
response:</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">“</span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">In [the]
Middle East, this war could expand. The US cannot operate alone, must
have allies in region that help all of us. Keep that wider scope in
mind as we look towards a solution. (...) This will take a united
front, global. We need many nations on board, first to help us keep
honest as a country, and second to help us heal that wounded region.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Editor’s
note: Once again, Rep. Kaptur seems not to have heard or understood
the concerns Adam voiced about the deaths of innocents and entire
families and how a ceasefire could prevent further suffering. She’s
focused on the US fighting in other parts of the region and making
“allies” in a global conflict that would only continue the
senseless and immoral killing of children and innocents. It’s
like she needs a “moral hearing aid” to hear and understand that
her constituents’ concern is not about war strategies and
politics—it’s about saving endangered human beings and ensuring their
health and safety.)</span></b></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9yJSzpe6GoQmQIrFUpaK1hACaDfp15-cJkb8FLGkf_wJsq-NdWA_KbXQOIOuu4ePm0U_SAgynEcfheQxnmCSwjapo9GUzDRweGn5GM9H1i1tTVR5X_uq-Dvbjnxo1IoNTar0CVcMuSik9gCJePPazAIPaXHxDPAQu5ww3JCJkf8uwxAHN8d-5vRty-wA_/s1280/at%20marcys%202.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9yJSzpe6GoQmQIrFUpaK1hACaDfp15-cJkb8FLGkf_wJsq-NdWA_KbXQOIOuu4ePm0U_SAgynEcfheQxnmCSwjapo9GUzDRweGn5GM9H1i1tTVR5X_uq-Dvbjnxo1IoNTar0CVcMuSik9gCJePPazAIPaXHxDPAQu5ww3JCJkf8uwxAHN8d-5vRty-wA_/w400-h300/at%20marcys%202.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Protest outside Kaptur's district office.</b><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">A
brief excerpt from the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Q & A section </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that
ended the Zoom call:</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jasmin:
“As our representative, a lot of people here today understand that
all that work needs to be done, to figure out a two-state or
one-state or five-state solution. We don’t care about that right
now. We want you as our representative to back a ceasefire
immediately.”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kaptur:
“Who’s going to stop the shooting?”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jasmin:
“What do you mean?”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kaptur:
“If we pass a nonbinding resolution—and, I’ll tell you, this
resolution isn’t going to pass.”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jasmin:
“We’re asking you to take that stance, and go on the record. We
want to know that we feel supported by our representatives.”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kaptur:
“I can’t make it happen. I’m just a representative.”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Editor’s
note: It seems odd that Rep. Kaptur feels she is powerless. Here she has been elected to Congress over twenty times and has sat on many committees and has many connections in Washington, DC, but she has no political pull at all according to her. She says, “I can’t
make it happen” when it comes to addressing a life and death issue
such as genocide. “I’m just a representative,” she whines. She
can’t even speak out against ethnic cleansing on the floor of Congress? <br /></span></b></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Why would any voter
support a candidate with so little belief in their own agency? Is
Kaptur just a puppet—not her own person</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">—</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">going whichever way the
wind blows? Possibly it explains her long tenure in office. She’s
the perfect party hack with no original thoughts or sense of morality of her
own. She does as she's told by whoever pays her the most money.)</span></b></span></p><p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghETC6tRJzzTJriZYxMibXeAgW2JRCuLRTYCTP36XbZnW0mNJOjlEe6knjJefPDZRGarflqieU2boTDY07Y-Dtzg7gkzOxgD5KUd2_SFh_ll8eQNqDYJiA4rRhFZhRpjwf81rs_PnFWYbHaeuxZ_LnP9EpHz1UByHtHjzAMtCRo3jP5C9Bx1OcT-sDfLDq/s680/All%20elected%20serve%20Israel.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="671" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghETC6tRJzzTJriZYxMibXeAgW2JRCuLRTYCTP36XbZnW0mNJOjlEe6knjJefPDZRGarflqieU2boTDY07Y-Dtzg7gkzOxgD5KUd2_SFh_ll8eQNqDYJiA4rRhFZhRpjwf81rs_PnFWYbHaeuxZ_LnP9EpHz1UByHtHjzAMtCRo3jP5C9Bx1OcT-sDfLDq/s320/All%20elected%20serve%20Israel.jpeg" width="316" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jasmin:
“You’re our representative, and we’re asking you to do this.”</span></b></span><p></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kaptur:
“I’ll do what I can. And what I can do is what I am doing. And
that’s strengthening our allies’ voices who are negotiating, our
top advisors working with Hamas and our allies. I don’t have a
voice in that, I can just encourage them. Right now, we could try to
pass this resolution in Congress, but it’s not related to the
future or any kind of truce to stop the killing.”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jasmin:
“What’s the harm in supporting the resolution?”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Editor’s
note: A good question. If there’s no harm in it, why not? Even a
symbolic gesture to say you’re standing with the Palestinian people
would be of great comfort to Jasmin and other Palestinian American
voters, wouldn’t it?)</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Terry
Lodge, Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition: “Vote against the
appropriations, cut off the weapons now. This has to stop. It’s
madness and will
get worse.”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kaptur:
“That bill did not move.”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Terry :
“It’s only temporarily on hold, will be up again quickly.”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kaptur:
“It could be.”</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Terry:
“</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">T</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">his
is an emergency. I agree this will take a community to stop this, but
it begins by advocating, using your voice to put on the b</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">rake</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s.
Please put on the br</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">k</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">e</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">s.
Please tell the rest </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">o</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">f
Congress that YOU want this to stop, take immediate steps. I remember
in 2003 when you were one of the brave voices who voted against the
invasion of Iraq! You’ve demonstrated courage in the past.”</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Editor’s
note: Alas, Marcy Kaptur hasn’t demonstrated much courage this time
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">around</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">—except
for courageously representing the pro-Zionist lobby. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">She
sits on the appropriations committee, but she can’t even promise
that she’ll attempt to stop the spending on the weapons of
genocide. There’s so much Kaptur could do and say, but, in the end,
she says and does little to nothing.)</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">These
excerpts from the Zoom call with Rep. Kaptur aren’t meant to
dissuade you from ever contacting your representatives in Congress, but they are
to give you an idea of the resistance you’ll be up against. The
pro-Israel, AIPAC lobbyists are very rich and very powerful. Be ready
to counter each and every excuse they’ve given to your
representative whenever you communicate with them. Bought-off politicians are always looking for an
excuse to ignore you and, when they can’t hold you off any longer,
a way to gaslight you. </span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Don’t
let your Congressmember get away with it. There’s a genocide going on in Gaza. It’s not a picnic or
a football game. There’s no time for sweet talk and niceties. Show your representative the horrific photos of dead children. Give them the numbers of deaths and wounded. Don’t
let them tell you they’re powerless to affect real change. </span></span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Anyone who can spend that much time and
energy on gaslighting their constituents has enough time and power
to spend on doing good things for them instead. Let your representative know you will no longer support them in their re-election bid if they won't represent you. Let them know that you know which lobbyists (PACs) are paying them off to act against their constituents' best interests. And let them know that you're not afraid to take stronger measures to re-establish democracy in the future.<br /></span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1RK-vFCmqGvmIDh3CygWJ47UiPRndxLnaa_0rbYEu42OkfZO5qznkEtNZOYcmq3SZcjT97CVcakzc5rJep-QuU2TRR69uJx0n9n5Si_2eg-eGrIdXc1a_Ivyu2VNEsvWTFal6N8mwHIvxaIZ8zaaEMcoh9wlgKDSOsyu9vCvMl3OaRmugMnyaiDi7kkVm/s1196/AIPAC%20paid%20off%20Dems.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1196" data-original-width="956" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1RK-vFCmqGvmIDh3CygWJ47UiPRndxLnaa_0rbYEu42OkfZO5qznkEtNZOYcmq3SZcjT97CVcakzc5rJep-QuU2TRR69uJx0n9n5Si_2eg-eGrIdXc1a_Ivyu2VNEsvWTFal6N8mwHIvxaIZ8zaaEMcoh9wlgKDSOsyu9vCvMl3OaRmugMnyaiDi7kkVm/s320/AIPAC%20paid%20off%20Dems.jpeg" width="256" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span>
<p></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>*More on AIPAC from </span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><a href="https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/hamas-winning-by-not-losing" target="_blank"><i>Hamas: Winning by Not Losing</i></a></span></span></b></span></p><p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span></span></b></span></p><blockquote><p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>AIPAC
was founded in 1953 as the American Zionist Committee for Public
Affairs–the lobbying division of the <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/dd500022-9032-4388-8a2e-950d3d78bb8a?j=eyJ1IjoicmJhMCJ9.zlocGa8PRokXjlp7qI-KSx-il6cGc0M5hOAFW5KzzgY" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;">American
Zionist Council </span></a>in
an effort to whitewash reports of Israeli atrocities—specifically
the <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/ebf7cc74-f01a-4305-ae06-6e75a072f6e2?j=eyJ1IjoicmJhMCJ9.zlocGa8PRokXjlp7qI-KSx-il6cGc0M5hOAFW5KzzgY" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Qibya
massacre</span></a>.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0.17in;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>In 1963,
it was reconstituted as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
– AIPAC—which has had immense influence in Congress—despite
being out of step with mainstream Jewish opinion. Zionism also made
inroads in the media and entertainment industries. Not to mention
academia.</span></span></b></span></p></blockquote><p style="line-height: 0.22in; margin-bottom: 0.17in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span> </span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal; line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span>
</p>
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Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12724627097783524710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6184788866071073621.post-57946409421790860202023-11-21T00:00:00.000-08:002023-11-24T09:52:17.643-08:00Keeping Up With The Jen O'Syders<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZoAzHCBJGU5s738jD0HEgVWaieletUZnfN9cud04vFfgW0KcNXTCZP-jMy3MVgpTa48ds4QbYuu89XBk0MXa7UbMKZH7cNPsN-q3EuCV9P3pybLGPhqyp9jhRn6baJDgQIaxIKRRKu7TJS4QCY08ppSun9y0tgpNCMrVj6XWjmshShr-pU6O68US4UAQ-/s1143/Genocide%20Joe%20with%20Love.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1143" data-original-width="1142" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZoAzHCBJGU5s738jD0HEgVWaieletUZnfN9cud04vFfgW0KcNXTCZP-jMy3MVgpTa48ds4QbYuu89XBk0MXa7UbMKZH7cNPsN-q3EuCV9P3pybLGPhqyp9jhRn6baJDgQIaxIKRRKu7TJS4QCY08ppSun9y0tgpNCMrVj6XWjmshShr-pU6O68US4UAQ-/w400-h400/Genocide%20Joe%20with%20Love.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="western" style="font-weight: normal; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Keeping
Up With The Jen O’Syders</span></b></span></div><h1 class="western" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">by C.A. Matthews <br /></span></h1>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">From
time to time, we at </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>The
Revolution Continues</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
blog like to get out in the community and see how people are coping
and dealing with life in this challenging century. This week we
stopped by a local park, and </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">had
a chat on a park bench with a mother of two school-aged sons </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">while
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">her</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
kids played on the playground</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Our
guest</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
calls herself “an All-American Soccer Mom.” Meet Jennifer O’Syder
or “Jen” for short.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">TRC:
Thanks for chatting with us today, Jen.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jen:
You’re welcome. I must admit when you walked over to me that I was
intrigued by your t-shirt’s slogan. What does “Not in our name”
mean?</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">TRC:
This shirt was given to me at a peace demonstration </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">held
by <a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org" target="_blank">JVP</a>*</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.
It means we don’t want Israel to ethnically cleanse the Palestinian
people </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">from
their land</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.
We are against the genocide in Gaza </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">and</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the
attacks against Palestinians and others living in the West Bank. We
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">demand
that the bombing stop, especially the bombing of hospitals, places of worship, refugee camps, and schools.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jen:
(Wrinkling her nose up and looking rather perplexed.) But...um… I
thought those Ay-rabs Philistines were the “bad guys”.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">TRC:
Do you mean the Palestinians? The are a Semitic people native to the
region that is now called Israel. They were forced out of their homes
and off their land by Zionist terrorists such as the Stern Gang in
1948.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jen:
Terrorists? The Palestinians have been terrorists for that long?</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJdL15goX9qI5y3e_vNn8ij-dagTQtj-1sk0VR5dPsn4udV27kW9w-Go0zl59-ijvqvMQJSNz7dg0pB9FYu41O3O5w_4jL3DmAkol2BAmv2DsuvIgcWz7MlovOS4E0Kt0zJeHJ-aF20LSl-dy6DAkxforonab02hSBbk58g-MZ5oTf8hW_zznwWnB90N44/s1773/Water%20supply%20cut%20to%20Gaza.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1772" data-original-width="1773" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJdL15goX9qI5y3e_vNn8ij-dagTQtj-1sk0VR5dPsn4udV27kW9w-Go0zl59-ijvqvMQJSNz7dg0pB9FYu41O3O5w_4jL3DmAkol2BAmv2DsuvIgcWz7MlovOS4E0Kt0zJeHJ-aF20LSl-dy6DAkxforonab02hSBbk58g-MZ5oTf8hW_zznwWnB90N44/w400-h400/Water%20supply%20cut%20to%20Gaza.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />TRC:
No, they have been victimized by Zionist terrorists for more than 80
years now. Some of </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zionist</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
terrorist actions against the natives of Palestine started during the
time of the Ottoman Empire occupation </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">before
World War I</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.
But in 1948 </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">it
got much worse.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Zionists, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">mostly
from Europe, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">forced
over 700,000 Palestinians off their farms and olive groves and out of
their ho</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">m</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">es
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">and
villages</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.
The</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">se</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Israeli terrorists literally stole the </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">natives’</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
ho</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">us</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">es
and marched the Palestinians, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the
old and the young, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">men,
women and children, into the desert at gun point.</span></b></span><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jen:
But I thought the Israelites have always lived in Israel. Our Bible
study teacher told us so.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">TRC:
The “Israelites” were an ancient Middle Eastern people who
claim</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ed
that</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
their patriarch Abraham </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">migrated
from the east, from the Tigris and Euphrates River </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">V</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">alley
region or </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">from
what we </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">would
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">call
modern-day Iraq. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Abraham
settled his family in the ancient land </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">of</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
Canaan, and it wasn’t exactly empty—it was full of many native
peoples living there. There seems to have been a lot warring with the
Israelites claiming God had given them Canaan, and that they had the
right to slaughter all its original inhabitants.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jen:
The Israelites were Iraqis? Like that Saddam Hussein guy? (She sticks
out her tongue.) Ugh.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">TRC:
Not quite, but yes, the </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Israelites</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
were related t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">o
the Iraquis and the peoples they intermarried </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">with
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">in
what would later become known as Palestine during the Roman Empire
times</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.
The Israelites as a group </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">fought
and lost a </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">war
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">against
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">their
Roman occupiers in</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
the year 70 A.D. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">and
were dispersed. M</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ost
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">migrated
to others places </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">with</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">in
the Roman world</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">and
began to intermarry with the people in those lands</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.
</span></b></span>
</p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPWUAlpYhbUeHNwOv2AvFj-r-X06t-VgwgIIvkVB0GDfRynMLL-BtrCitmRI4_V1BLmsXI2g83_SzvHGT8JHa9ULqcblhTd5y29ZdZb46XGu-8sgfcjHmAWM0TpDkqnzM7xO-vaz4dLRKQsHCw3PgKN4wbTVGIHqfa5SurNYno3Q0OyE6n7EFE6zwzaKqV/s2000/Do%20you%20condemn%20Hamas%20baby.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1621" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPWUAlpYhbUeHNwOv2AvFj-r-X06t-VgwgIIvkVB0GDfRynMLL-BtrCitmRI4_V1BLmsXI2g83_SzvHGT8JHa9ULqcblhTd5y29ZdZb46XGu-8sgfcjHmAWM0TpDkqnzM7xO-vaz4dLRKQsHCw3PgKN4wbTVGIHqfa5SurNYno3Q0OyE6n7EFE6zwzaKqV/w324-h400/Do%20you%20condemn%20Hamas%20baby.jpg" width="324" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />J</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">en:
But if they’re not living in Israel today, then why do we still
have Israelites?</span></b></span><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">TRC:
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">T</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">echnically
we don’t. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The
“Israelis” </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">of
today </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">are
basically </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Caucasian
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">European
peoples who practice the religion of Judaism </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">or
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">those
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">whose
family members did, as </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">many</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
younger Israelis claim to be atheists</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">They
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">s</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">tarted
to migrate </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">in
numbers to what became the </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Brit</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">i</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">sh
Mandate of </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Palestine
starting in the 1920s </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">under
the banner of Zionism, or the political viewpoint that </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">person</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">s</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">of Jewish ancestry had
the right to take back the land of their distant ancestors</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jen: So a few Israelites, uh, <i>Israelis</i>, returned home? No problem.<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">TRC: It became a bigger problem after World War II when ever larger numbers of Jewish persons, who held to the tenets of Zionism, left war-torn Europe and settled in Palestine against the wishes of
the British ruling the territory. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The
British</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
tried their best to keep the peace between these colonizers and the
native peoples, but the </span><a href="https://joebrunoli.substack.com/p/dont-blame-israel-blame-a-weak-washington" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Zionist
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">newcomers
had a lot of weaponry and rich backers </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">overseas</span></a><span style="font-family: georgia;">. They blew up the King David Hotel in 1946 and killed at least 90 persons, including dozens of British diplomats.
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Then the Zionists
launched </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">a
series of </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">terrorist attacks against the Palestinians that built up to the 1948 </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Nakba,</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
which translates to “catastrophe” or “holocaust,”</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">forcing the Palestinians from their homes at the cost of many lives</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5VeIX8_fwkcDG8o2Rl-LIhAFJ_ik_T5lpI3boL9kZdRCJ-CF36e3kBhxqSnuD47VkRUiI5araIzUKfqtymFhqK1KaTboZJOL61zpQVbdP8dDb76gyfqR0pncUZUUEE4SujbGebUjjY233OZCVZogoPriqK5ha6tkfvDwv0kAGYAdmdMGyMIGok0dm13bH/s2000/father%20exiting%20with%20bodies.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1204" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5VeIX8_fwkcDG8o2Rl-LIhAFJ_ik_T5lpI3boL9kZdRCJ-CF36e3kBhxqSnuD47VkRUiI5araIzUKfqtymFhqK1KaTboZJOL61zpQVbdP8dDb76gyfqR0pncUZUUEE4SujbGebUjjY233OZCVZogoPriqK5ha6tkfvDwv0kAGYAdmdMGyMIGok0dm13bH/w241-h400/father%20exiting%20with%20bodies.jpg" width="241" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">J</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">en:
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">So,
t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">he
Jews started their own holocaust against the Ay-rabs? Guess they’d
be experts </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">at
that sort of thing</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">,
huh? (Snorting and chuckling.) But I thought they were </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">all
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">supposed
to go and live in Israel </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">anyways.</span></b></span><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">TRC:
Uh, no, people who practice the religion of Judaism can and do live
all over the world today. They aren’t confined to one country. Some
even live in our town. For example, there’s a synagogue not too far
from this park.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jen:
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Yeah,
I’ve driven past it, b</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ut
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">i</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t’s
not a proper temple like the real Jews are supposed to worship </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">in</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.
Our p</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">reache</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">r
told us that the </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jews
a</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">re
all supposed to go to Jerusalem to worship at the big temple there.
Once they all get there and do that, then the End Times begin, and
Jesus will </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">come
and </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">take
us, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">his
chosen people,</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
to heaven and send the rest </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">of
you </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to
hell.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">TRC:
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Okay…
So,</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
you’re saying that the fate of the world rests on one religious
group moving to a particular city in the Middle East to perform a
particular style of worship in order for </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>your</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
religious group to reach the afterlife?</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jen:
N</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">o,
n</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ot
the afterlife—heaven. It’s really important that all those Jews
who rejected Jesus be </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">corralled</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
together in one spot called Israel so he can zap them and send them
to hell for having him crucified.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">TRC:
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hmm...Interesting.
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">It
was actually the Romans who had Jesus crucified. Does that mean all
the citizens </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">living
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">in
modern-day Rome </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">will
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">get
“zapped” too?</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jen:
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Shrugging.)
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Well,
maybe. I don’t know. If they’re Jewish, they’ll all be in
Israel anyway and </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">can
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">get
zapped </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">there</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">But
what’s the big deal? </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">We
tell all the Jews in the world to go</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">
live in Israel. </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">It’ll
g</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">et
them out our cities </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">here
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">where
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">all
they do is </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">cheat
people at banking and jewelry </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">sales</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">T</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">RC:
(Sighing) And open up more acting jobs and stand-up comedy gigs for
non-Jewish persons?</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jen:
Now you’re getting it!</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">TRC:
But the Palestinian people </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">also
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">live
in the modern state of Israel and deserve to have homes where their
ancestors lived too, right? Some of them are Christian. The Israelis
bombed the third oldest church in Christendom, St. Porphyrius,
recently </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">and
destroyed it, killing and injuring many people</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">.
Don’t you as a practicing Christian find that upsetting?</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jen:
</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Maybe
if they were “real Christians” that didn’t worship Mary and
their graven idols and paintings on the ceilings so much, I’d find
it upsetting. But they’re fakes, so if they get bombed, then so be
it. The Israelites—I mean </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Israelis
</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">have
got to have more room to squish in all the Jews from around the world
into one place so Jesus can come again to rule with grace and mercy.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_W7Kp-I78w-OXyBzT68DvUcwU3DW_PIKhPapruc_aRddAdv5viX0YrsXUq3LBHLefcknvDdwzsXxBWOr7ep73LQPvLzd1bMUC31bc15jkqoZYtoQ6VABn-6aAUz6AcQBd0sB9xO3KQRsDdvwET-9CL52AFVi-xxaPfCuk3VgZOHEX3SA3AC5IhIC7FyVb/s2119/Preemie%20babies.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2119" data-original-width="1440" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_W7Kp-I78w-OXyBzT68DvUcwU3DW_PIKhPapruc_aRddAdv5viX0YrsXUq3LBHLefcknvDdwzsXxBWOr7ep73LQPvLzd1bMUC31bc15jkqoZYtoQ6VABn-6aAUz6AcQBd0sB9xO3KQRsDdvwET-9CL52AFVi-xxaPfCuk3VgZOHEX3SA3AC5IhIC7FyVb/w271-h400/Preemie%20babies.jpeg" width="271" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">TRC:
How “merciful” is it to bomb hospitals, schools, and refugee
camps where children and their families are located? Do little
children who may or may not be “real Christians” deserve to die
such horrible deaths?</span></b></span><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Jen:
Jesus did say something along the lines of “suffer the little
children” so perhaps that’s what he meant. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Shrugging.)
I don’t know. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">They’re
just in the wrong place at the wrong time so they g</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">e</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">t
to suffer. Besides, if they’re Ay-rabs they’re not going to
amount to much in the long run </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">really</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
are they? They’re not as smart as white people because they can’t
make their letters right. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Their
writing</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
looks like so many squiggles.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">TRC:
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Sighing.)
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Yeah,
it’s not like they </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">were
smart enough to</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
invent </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">the</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
Arabic numerals </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">that
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">we
all use alongside the Roman alphabet, </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">is
it?</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jen:
Huh? (A commotion draws her attention to the playground.) Hey! Jimmy!
Get off that thing right now!</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Jimmy:
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Shouting
back) </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">But
we’re swinging together! </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">W</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">e
can go faster and higher </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">together</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">!</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jen:
Not with that wetback, you don’t! Billy—go get your brother off
that swing pronto!</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Billy:
But </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">M</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">om…
They’</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">re
having fun. They</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
a</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">i</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">n’t
doing anything wrong.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Jen:
I don’t need to tell you that we don’t mess </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">around
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">with
people with skin the color of mud. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">It
might rub off on us. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Curling
her hand into a fist.) Get your little brother off that swing right
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">now
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">before
I make you regret the day you were born!</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">TRC:
“Suffer the little children,” right Jen?</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQccBMkos1V93uGvUdvGqWJIh4kMm36WVOvLX7cc0F22KkBqJywVg0zc5jPIMwLGJdeegLI-aiXKvjMJvd2XguD2of2f-8Stuq6pfk7tlxjcroJ1BjbrbK7pHCVJSaQPRq4kFz2VatQD2WeZw7cMHr9s2Rq0QPwqVatUOmManRA9N0L1Hsn987x7VDQQno/s1080/Children%20killed%20in%20numbers.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQccBMkos1V93uGvUdvGqWJIh4kMm36WVOvLX7cc0F22KkBqJywVg0zc5jPIMwLGJdeegLI-aiXKvjMJvd2XguD2of2f-8Stuq6pfk7tlxjcroJ1BjbrbK7pHCVJSaQPRq4kFz2VatQD2WeZw7cMHr9s2Rq0QPwqVatUOmManRA9N0L1Hsn987x7VDQQno/w400-h400/Children%20killed%20in%20numbers.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Jen:
Hey, I don't mean to sound crass, but people die all the time. Some just </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">get
to </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">die
younger than others. If Israelis want to bomb a bunch of Ay-rabs kids
into the dust </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">and
wipe them off the face of the earth</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
who am I to tell them they’re wrong? For Jews, they at least got
the right idea about not mixing the races. If their ancestors hadn’t
slept with </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">all
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">those
filthy Canaanites, they probably wouldn’t have killed Jesus. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Our</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
p</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">reache</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">r
says there’s more than a grain of truth in that.</span></span></b></span><p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">TRC:
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Nodding.)
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I’m
sure he or she does.</span></span></b></span></p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jen:
<i>He</i>, of course. Women shouldn’t be leading others in worship.
They’re not good enough to in God’s eyes. Not smart enough to
interpret scripture for themselves.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">TRC:
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(Rising
from the park bench.) </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I
sort of figured you’d say that. It’s been interesting talking
with you </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">today</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">,
Jen </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">O’Syder.
Take care. </span></span></b></span>
</p>
<p style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jen:
You’re welcome. Where you going now?</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">TRC:
I’m going to go over t</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">o</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
swing with that little boy </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">who</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">
was enjoying his double swing with Jimmy. Maybe we can swing </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">together
</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">high
enough to reach a low Earth orbit. I feel like leaving the planet
about now.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">*</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">JVP
stands for “Jewish Voice for Peace,” an anti-war, pro-Palestinian
group of Jewish persons and their allies. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Learn
more about them at: <a href="https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/" target="_blank">https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/</a></span></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">* * *</span></span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">November 20 was World Children's Day.</span></span></b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">World Children’s Day, celebrated annually on <a href="https://www.unicef.org/world-childrens-day" target="_blank">November 20</a>, is a global initiative promoting children’s rights, safety, education, health and happiness.</span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">It comes this year amid Israel’s war on Gaza. About half of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million people are children.</span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Since October 7, Israeli attacks have killed at least 5,500 <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/10/9/israel-hamas-war-in-maps-and-charts-live-tracker" target="_blank">children</a>,
according to Palestinian officials. That is one Palestinian child
killed every 10 minutes, or about one out of every 200 children in the
Gaza Strip.</span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">An additional 1,800 children are missing under the rubble, most of
them presumed dead. A further 9,000 children have been injured, many
with life-changing consequences. Many of these children have lived
through the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/19/israels-war-against-gazas-children-explained" target="_blank">trauma</a> of multiple wars.</span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">This infographic online at <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/20/world-childrens-day-tragedy-gazas-5500-lives-lost-to-israels-attacks" target="_blank">Al Jazeera</a> lists the names and ages of less than half of those children killed over the past six weeks.</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"></span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOImB_xMd5ggMG_b_QNJ4H_cqN0_q8d3TkissQcQVFqJW0sEdMHzB76L1iHZg59Ae3H3jtEyLwK908_DoUrPgdwY8k9DcjEXR2Z5hXTDOH4WLMGM5fSjvkNrmKZLJ1yJq28Erabld84AieBfJF1n-KjRcNNRzmI4TxipFJnI19ovb9D26QMa9v3bQR8-Ox/s528/self%20defense%20is%20not%20genocide.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="358" data-original-width="528" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOImB_xMd5ggMG_b_QNJ4H_cqN0_q8d3TkissQcQVFqJW0sEdMHzB76L1iHZg59Ae3H3jtEyLwK908_DoUrPgdwY8k9DcjEXR2Z5hXTDOH4WLMGM5fSjvkNrmKZLJ1yJq28Erabld84AieBfJF1n-KjRcNNRzmI4TxipFJnI19ovb9D26QMa9v3bQR8-Ox/w400-h271/self%20defense%20is%20not%20genocide.jpeg" width="400" /></a></span></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><br />Related Articles and Other Interesting Links </span></span></b></span><p></p><div class="post-title unpublished" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; 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Biden is fully signed up to genocide in Gaza <a href="https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/dont-be-fooled-biden-is-fully-signed" target="_blank">https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/dont-be-fooled-biden-is-fully-signed</a><br /><br />Over 1,200 ‘Educators for Palestine’ Sign Open Letter Demanding Ceasefire <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/16/over-1200-educators-for-palestine-sign-open-letter-demanding-ceasefire/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/16/over-1200-educators-for-palestine-sign-open-letter-demanding-ceasefire/</a><br /><br />GAZA ON THE BRINK - LIVE WITH LOWKEY AND AARON MATÉ <a href="https://chroniclesofhaiphong.substack.com/p/gaza-on-the-brink-live-with-lowkey" target="_blank">https://chroniclesofhaiphong.substack.com/p/gaza-on-the-brink-live-with-lowkey<br /></a></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Criminalization of First Amendment-Protected Pro-Palestinian Speech Is Spreading <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/criminalization-of-first-amendment-protected-pro-palestinian-speech-is-spreading" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/criminalization-of-first-amendment-protected-pro-palestinian-speech-is-spreading<br /><br /></a></span></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">With more than 10,000 Palestinians killed in the last month, Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of refugee camps, and an ever-widening ground invasion in Gaza, it’s critical that student activists and people at large can gather, protest and exercise their right to speak freely.<br /><br />When political speech is criminalized, it renders the First Amendment meaningless. Collectively, we must demand that universities and colleges continue to honor student organizations’ right to freedom of expression, and we must demand the same from our elected officials and law enforcement. Now is not the time for silence.<span><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span></span></b></span><br /></span></b></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Official Israeli Investigation Determines IDF Helicopters Killed Civilians on October 7 <a href="https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1725958732113162579" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1725958732113162579</a></span></span></b></span></p><div class="post-title unpublished" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Israel Doesn't Have A Gen-Z Problem, It Has A Morality Problem <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-doesnt-have-a-gen-z-problem" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-doesnt-have-a-gen-z-problem<br /></a></span></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span><b>America Inc. with Lee Camp: </b></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"><b><span>Top 11 Companies Supporting Israel’s Crimes </span></b></span><span><b><a href="https://youtu.be/Jvz5_yvfwLE?si=UR85uo7TtgWK0433" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/Jvz5_yvfwLE?si=UR85uo7TtgWK0433</a></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span><b>Israel Is Shutting Down Its Human Laboratory In Gaza </b></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span><b><a href="https://popularresistance.org/israel-is-shutting-down-its-human-laboratory-in-gaza/" target="_blank">https://popularresistance.org/israel-is-shutting-down-its-human-laboratory-in-gaza/</a> </b></span></span></p><div class="elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span><b>Meet The Activists Fighting Zionism With Direct Action</b></span></span></div><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><b><a href="https://popularresistance.org/meet-the-activists-fighting-zionism-with-direct-action/" target="_blank">https://popularresistance.org/meet-the-activists-fighting-zionism-with-direct-action/</a></b></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span><b>Palestinians File Emergency Motion to Block US Aid for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/palestinians-file-emergency-motion-to-block-us-aid-for-israels-genocide-in-gaza/" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/palestinians-file-emergency-motion-to-block-us-aid-for-israels-genocide-in-gaza/</a></b></span><span><b><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/palestinians-file-emergency-motion-to-block-us-aid-for-israels-genocide-in-gaza/" target="_blank"><br /></a></b></span></span></p>
<p><style type="text/css">h1 { margin-bottom: 0.08in; background: transparent; page-break-after: avoid }h1.western { font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }h1.cjk { font-family: "Noto Serif CJK SC"; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }h1.ctl { font-family: "Lohit Devanagari"; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 115%; background: transparent }a:visited { color: #800000; so-language: zxx; text-decoration: underline }a:link { color: #000080; so-language: zxx; text-decoration: underline }</style></p>Cindy A. Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12724627097783524710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6184788866071073621.post-67064501245136130872023-11-14T00:00:00.001-08:002023-11-18T19:03:19.336-08:00A Graveyard For Children (Censored)<p><b> </b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b> </b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj27QXmhU4zLuaXgJwwMrgTgioqz4j5JYB6q6OpH2JAMzZkPQouhctJX5CP6cFzq4vreTMwhkk8Dw-ZWDKawYCg4aGRgJuuiROWG7bjpjJB6b9s_5GOQxrFkwezJl4gj5mIDtVSGMo4h8vF1oQoOPFm43fqcf0_WgzLWvXcwY9Th3v1-HtCrGpBPAeuC1hy/s960/Don't%20stop%20talking%20about.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="802" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj27QXmhU4zLuaXgJwwMrgTgioqz4j5JYB6q6OpH2JAMzZkPQouhctJX5CP6cFzq4vreTMwhkk8Dw-ZWDKawYCg4aGRgJuuiROWG7bjpjJB6b9s_5GOQxrFkwezJl4gj5mIDtVSGMo4h8vF1oQoOPFm43fqcf0_WgzLWvXcwY9Th3v1-HtCrGpBPAeuC1hy/w334-h400/Don't%20stop%20talking%20about.jpeg" width="334" /></a></span></span></b></p><p><b>This week's blog has been censored by Blogspot. You can find it in full at Substack at <a href="https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com" target="_blank">https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com</a> Thank you for your understanding.</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">A
state whose existence requires the mass murder of children every few
years is not a state that should continue to exist. --Caitlin Johnstone,
<i><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/getting-called-a-nazi-for-opposing/" target="_blank">Getting Called A Nazi For Opposing A Genocide </a></i></span></span></b><br /></b></p><div aria-haspopup="true" aria-label="Show details" class="ajy" data-tooltip="Show details" id=":1kr" role="button" tabindex="0"><img alt="" class="ajz" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif" /></div><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620341000&usg=AOvVaw1XQheIAE3JkgiN_9_GSKAY" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgRC80d_FhnO0UoKY1A7lvve806654jyFRe3I2zAkjnkSZZ1bvg2d2xU5qid1Omf3LqonY0X4MsUdxm2nwUFDETf_BXsVeECPOR5A4pjhsYplQ8jK29KCO-Asj1vMyYdwAM58DlYiXXWM1bXAEEzqzeHT-336Q8wxSydHFKmxjgg5RwhF-k30kyIIQ2a8o8YwnCsXqrRKKJ-PdP9eAnqVX0PrezFveZLScw6QufeTSR9B3uUdkqDQ5dNkHem9JNr_DYSMN-Lc3n33AwRCixnwxa53uUs687Hmp5Rh4atzxtV6bjIYqOJx2fio4lfmzcKVGVoquODPvhXW4K5fsLzBWwXP0LcxCbYjpBTNMbm41jGRT39RqRtACU6ZGc14bXyUy82T9fASvjRuuYiZoajozt3Yg_k3mgOI2pQaeaU_cLTjnMJx2VX1kR6n9ob9OdTJnUZiqPfHYSfidKE5gY8G-Ra2SGsVLYBw=s0-d-e1-ft" width="400" /></a></span></b></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">A Graveyard For Children </span></b></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">words and peace demo photos by C. A. Matthews</span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />“Gaza has become a graveyard for children,” a UNICEF spokesperson says. “It’s a living hell for everyone else.”<br /><br /><br />Admittedly,
it’s a difficult concept to wrap your head around. Most of us are
taught that children in general are the best and the brightest of
humanity. They are our hopes for a better tomorrow, a cherished part of
life on Earth. </span></span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Most
of us would do anything to protect children and keep them out of harm’s
way. Ask parents what is the worst thing that could ever happen to them
in their lives, and the vast majority will state, “Outliving my child.”<br /><br />The
death of one child can affect more than the child’s parents. The loss
of a sibling, close cousin, or school friend is often listed as one of
the most devastating events of a person’s life. Even the hope of a child
who dies before they can take their first breath can devastate a
family, and perhaps break a marriage apart. I’ve seen this, and their
example will never leave me.<br /></span></span></b></p><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620341000&usg=AOvVaw1XQheIAE3JkgiN_9_GSKAY" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiTCcN3n1QHkcjulw5zl63QnpncYEkME7fpuxwYXTyuM8iwX10awUGGRl9ZIAwUKBMMqw0tFXcqEAPPwRiur5YSVCGyqm4qieawYL47Mkeyp0ZUi8cRfJ0v9Rhm0D3FTI72VnmeQEdHPetX1SPKD_Ii16GiU_3g6vW9QSamjX342gt_H2c-hjqbCb_nNIDpCIeqFAxwPBJ00lznzTh1Wx9thJRH5YqqxlUhNt4US1X-adNMNwYH_nExF6WmrIBQPDvXTDChORbQkxeUbU_RK17wKRBxFLWW5lNOvdjG4mkTtWNDnGNI0AVatsZ_RtK01_TAS_j4EroYo8TrI8LZ2BQOcjH01uR7-lXmNI8Navt7iDIDHFWDPO-3DNyEEBuDlpIgfunQIDhTUxThYHI1fDPuqElQKAYANHByK0A1-AV_1I5KEZVWxzRREBnkek40CiM3vT8=s0-d-e1-ft" width="320" /></a></span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">At
first I thought they were a “normal” family—dad, mom, young school-age
daughter—when I met them, but then I began to notice the occasional
“lapses” in the mother’s attention She would be talking to you and then
something in the conversation would hit her, and she’d stop. Her gaze
would look off into a far distance no one else could see. </span></span></b><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I
learned that this family had lost another child, younger than their
living child, several years earlier. The baby had either been stillborn
or died soon after birth, so perhaps they had never even had a chance to
bring the baby home from the hospital. But the death was still felt,
still mourned, and still haunted their every waking moment. <br /><br />The
father worked his new job hard, but in the few instances I saw him
together with his wife and daughter, I could tell that the empty spot
their lost child would have filled had left a void that neither he or
his wife could cross or heal. Their young daughter was active and
friendly, but often when interacting with her parents I noticed a
quietness and sadness that seemed beyond her years. Even if she couldn’t
remember her lost sibling, she intuited that something important was
missing from all their lives.<br /></span></span></b></p><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620341000&usg=AOvVaw1XQheIAE3JkgiN_9_GSKAY" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgKvFsYkRwBzr4_1xZl8_2bJ8Lgr9vY8U8bVvyWq3jBfmpkjBUK1jGIjL3HvfKseWi5DWOXhx51ZvkrSH-gzH4PnZAgkECZblieaqSkTHf10P3FaJie3EvIhAY4G9x8JfeUGfgFLyBwaIRq8fQqopXuWKwdZ9-QoM60LbMku56vgli7YIc3jj4g6AVI3AHKIRMmKrczk3OlQQmF7iqgLV9Gou9DkcnOiPtt-4i6_VDMb3ih2zdHedbH3joD8IDeV8dORdE-2tNVeQOsBg38xUWwnJkwYQuPN9fFPUJfo1ggq2EjCBkMbn4g5fEbDzjJuoDcLOVXAyAWgPDTYgh2bsFbk7OSjm60dgv0_vyaBZdNmEFgEbIUd0IhkP63YJ-FcnwIq6QPtsXAPoSYjiBArRW8rnnR8rtslHmiaR482hz3A5rqaCEb2qdownEL11-1wg=s0-d-e1-ft" width="320" /></a></span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Now
take this tragic experience of utter loss and devastation and multiply
it times...I don’t know, let’s multiply it times a billion. This is what
losing 5,000+ children feels like to an entire nation. This is what the
war crime of genocide feels like to the Palestinian people.<br /><br />What
sort of person would inflict such a sadistic injury upon their
neighbors, upon the indigenous people whose land they had stolen 75
years earlier in a supposed attempt to find a peaceful home for
themselves? </span></span></b><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There’s
no way these Israeli sadists could be good parents themselves. They
must secretly hate children or despise their very existence to want to
inflict such harm upon little ones. To even think of murdering a child
or an innocent adult as a form of “weapon” to use against another
demonstrates these sick bastards’ twisted psychopathology.<br /></span></span></b></p><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEisQSVNpvFac7XfZKVtTCfFUaHzsKSDXnxOclOVQP1OIJiNXOUpaKYLajure4713V6qAYeqQmBXu7drBBDY6eN0hIA0JvtU9VVMoyj9RTBHcdEWRcewHI4PmDQD2T8_IqvImZQss-lXKF6G25Ds3Akb0JSZ8mND5V0ffnDkN1QYRddXa0dI-uemtM7LnL9uk-5RrvWUgPLltjK41G9dFfUigs6tYyHSuHXb8G9iI3K-ssCm1th-lUGEFbtt15Iz190U1XAKwxDWyRJrSu3d6CueqRUJQoMdRSRDQOpdEaz6zoxsQz2UOo4AKVFFpzv5KUvMavNqUX9EpgWLv8mmRi30qZWvwsJtMB9YUqXwXKyQIz1lfV9MzR8hPEr1h-plXoKSvCX7Em6siR7VTaPKS19BgCO3MMxhTJsAMyUkXdTxh-jVqKvDivzJpGXAaHqgzEg=s0-d-e1-ft" width="320" /></a></span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There’s
no other way I can explain this heinous sociopathic behavior. The
thought of ethnically cleansing little ones and innocent civilians
because you want their land (and possibly the oil and gas reserves
beneath their homes) is just beyond the pale. It brings to mind the
atrocious behaviors white Americans have perpetrated against African
Americans, Native Americans, and Asian Americans through out our
nation’s history. Sick, sick, sick!<br /><br />A loving parent would never
do anything intentionally to harm the precious life of their child—or
anyone’s precious child—if this parent truly cherishes children. But
here we have the Israeli government cutting off water and electricity to
Gaza, cutting off food supplies and medicines, and then intentionally
bombing hospitals, including a hospital with a children’s ward, a
hospital with tiny babies in incubators who need oxygen and heat to
survive. <br /><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiC6wkHs9r9lYGulwY_Y-EIzn_q3FKifkbPqZ_t5Q6rp4QrRlAqVgqggXj688PAHYLPhJZCKpDGSYtp4Di4WEHLyYDSPqGe6Tp2EVH6lBUHt6647ZPfbWrG9JdHfVLcOMoSXeKnKR16SfuJSazoc72RtfUbMmEShQGPoBQScdOBrNczUTYuHUZtN1TWOvmSJG_BOfmejKHp0Y4YAN3w0_dFfh0yRq2O37KFierANBdnJ9NQf0a9hXIIazpn-LvQ_aBQlUQ2uR6IlES95sv2CEdsx2oMb3ILnaOS_MtQFKNcl4fJ4S_FqPq-euyXV2ta7_Dj129nc6O7jvFLbAx_Inbk0skSGHhal8p-DRSfJVkpgAD-m_iRQVSo9sTBcbAvo_i2pEdnvZZDYlhkB96-d0JCEFINr5qyS9DZs1wfN1uKihFkaUUXYZaJ7JGRfLByE2OOP-iisouJlyUWD2EjXA=s0-d-e1-ft" width="320" /></a></div>Do
the Israeli people not share the same deep instinct to protect children
from harm that other people have? Can’t they tell the difference
between terrorists and toddlers? What sort of monsters would murder
babies in their cradles? Can any other government really trust a
government who doesn’t follow the United Nations Declaration of Human
Rights?<br /><br />Are the Israelis who follow Netanyahu the type of
individuals who drown unwanted puppies and kittens? Did they tear the
wings and legs off of insects when they were younger? Bully the smaller
kids on the playground when they were growing up? There must be
something in their psychological make-up and history to explain their
current murderous behaviors. Nothing they say or do gives us any
indication that their desire to commit genocide against the Palestinian
people will let up anytime soon.</span></span></b><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEg9Bfaj2P0h37bdAGiHDpM5n09fAEdxOzWHVHUERV8k4GWPMopekjl3tumWhuqc4oc-i282U9UQJEjEKNfgJBEJdIvEwY2RZYDCoQ2PvtUKFolxGqbRATZFl8U_qEXqQNM6eSOp_vF_UeT5HraSq7TsG9MBa3Lerb5KkjGrpC1MHQW8XeQ_km59DazvHJVdyMpq6fK5itrP0NOh-ndKiac9MBraBMrh6n0MUuMHzi-MYPvYO9lL3uAKxx5uouufWgNflBSFCdGJcYRudZhZ3aYAesamKEp3sZQwrGlNw7cp2kieXvfnxxb8T6QzLyqqwNVc0tGKgc0vu4-sWDDau0qUSJ3JQ84adxo598aGOzg3L5oK9WA3g-7nUJqPunZ5dr9gARo4dvxt2Nd0LJ5RaSyEBl0O7mVxKl9nIsYIziR5Gwt_gHQeSkFgZ9mPzP4-dczO6Bbv=s0-d-e1-ft" width="320" /></a></span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">And then we have the genocide enablers, or more likely genocide collaborators, such as the United States. <br /><br />Who
could be worse than genocidal maniacs Netanyahu and company? Of course
it’s anyone who would knowingly fix their star on his genocidal actions
and try to ride his coattails. If “Genocide Joe” Biden could wash his
hands of Israel and step back and stop all funding of their ethnic
cleansing of Palestinians, then the US could be let off the hook. But
no...Joe’s gotta be a part of it, up to and including supplying
armaments and boots on the ground.<br /><br />I have to wonder, what’s it
like being an American soldier patrolling in the bombed-out ruins of
Gaza? I can only assume it’s hellish and heartbreaking. Well, maybe if
you have a conscience and care about children and innocent civilians,
being bombed into a pulp, it would be heartbreaking. If you’re an
American who enjoys drowning unwanted puppies and kittens and tearing
the wings and legs off of insects, then you might feel right at home in
this nightmare situation. <br /><br />It’s one thing to call other countries
mass murderers and genociders, but to accuse your fellow countrymen of
committing war crimes? It’s truly sickening. I don’t know how we will
ever be able to beg forgiveness for the US military’s genocidal behavior
toward the Palestinians. It’s all too obvious we’ve learned much from
the Nazis we imported after World War II in Operation Paperclip. It’s
all too obvious we admire the Neo-Nazis of the Azov Battalion that we
continue to fund in Ukraine.<br /><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEi9vZryEIyWNexgWVfEWZteP2dLeDGrWtTENWZEBWj2-mjZmfz1jqJue0RpJS2ghZR5fiLgDhMKGZm-sMUkuDqR21ULre9IhRCNcI19TLoQpcmpsrNAQdLcAUP1-GQ8_sqty95E-dd4KhA0FLyZo8lQRIB2vGLYYSftSCHy_kae6nia5FFFsPyIuDOcw_WSC5wjOKRhFpjSnA2UE67TQrAWVmMY7UbAvKzKG-HhOuMwBTuR-tJAs_nSw6JYy2OBrBv8lojAL7mwaTmkU9kuXi_S5WlnkT_ZC7hw8TSnTbLodfEcAkyvOcsAvW-Hjqj_xzxBY8h0ko0baL7szEy-pGL2W2qBLHip2Bqa6L5vTNK-VT_ZUz91A6MNfXTl4AP6uEPMDTiUkdt9B8CkfMa-IMdhf2Rs9cKgQB4-5If27t8zKJfIwP6D5gB7r_Ar1BEY1hM=s0-d-e1-ft" width="320" /></a></div>I’m
just glad my father and grandfathers aren’t alive to see any of this
happening. They’d probably pitch their purple hearts into the gutter in
disgust knowing we’ve become genocide collaborators. My mother’s father
served alongside General George S. Patton in Europe. They liberated POWs
and opened the gates of the Death Camps… Why would they cheer on the US
military of today conspiring to do the same things Hitler’s minions did
at Auschwitz?<br /><br />“Gaza has become a graveyard for children,”
according to a United Nations spokesperson. The leaders who put them
there, their murderers Netanyahu and Biden, need to be held accountable
for their war crimes at the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
Nothing less will satisfy the tears of their loved ones or meet the need
for justice on this woe-begotten planet.<br /><div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgmYELtT6V67kK6S50V9lbvvzbqCRyfhbtT_wOgmuykqVT17gtTaGpjGjnucitWyNh7L_Ms7zQyTbcMuvzKppNMKWxg6M6jgyAP9JDREgvQZFl7acgHabwsF38BoMSvt68kgvQ4cJVQzt8NucYfnZWKSrdlQnxcboGgxuT_ZaXSasdSruVL8O_JEVAjjQl3XceJwDShUNliZfMFd74cBKp_9VGDsJAfi5JyFF0jWjwH2265DqkNQjHeO_3mZfai5ubmlCreahYqkYrEqcfEH0yul6WFnsYgxFOFXnveeIqiGbmOgXA8eGhTFQIjlAOkTvJCemF6sQhyW886p_8c2RseiOGOab1IxRPgfmT4kxc10mtfqNW8FKi1eCWCXb9jbjHByWI9adWqJDrUJFUOiZH3MI-iUwJ3eOu77pWLBnRS6A_9SSyRMbMVeWmLXDf2wtva1JntsbvpYNO0o1I=s0-d-e1-ft" width="320" /></a></div></span></span></b><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Important Announcement: <br /></span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">There is a </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">massacre taking place before our eyes in Gaza.</span></span></b></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td style="min-width: 596px; padding: 0px 2em; text-align: left; width: 596px;" width="596"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="display: block; font-family: georgia;" target="_blank"><img alt="Jill Stein on Gaza, Israel and Palestine" class="CToWUd" data-bit="iit" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjMLiCkjMannVjsY65CZsdfv9nR8ZHvVTT23XhBH72pYwZIJ0ni7NZ7Hje3HDe7YScvTmk4MOOOA7h2ofrK9wbE2OND0d2vhsiVS__B9CFMww80h-mZa-h4cAcWlBxTeU-nOlxazNHILEZAcLMtDbgJ4mY1EBdYIZ6YPwl6JJyLdNAc7oQTJ2iyk1xVXzAMlMj0JdoBuSnUNN3oLXvb6ZOe-3YplOpaCRx6__-oHNLibuRkzxnWXtscyV-1PIOdFwHI0kjUQ22vZ4lALV1g_2bweEQi=s0-d-e1-ft" style="vertical-align: middle;" width="100%" /> </a></span></b></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="min-width: 100%; width: 100%;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="center" style="padding: 1em 2em;"><table style="background-color: #015d31; border-collapse: initial; border-radius: 50px; color: white;"><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tr><td align="center" style="color: white; padding: 12px 38px; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: white; font-family: georgia; line-height: 1; margin: auto; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">WATCH NOW</a></span></b> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href=" https://youtu.be/zrl1FhA1dew?si=9Mf6vx8h-DKBPb6x" target="_blank"> https://youtu.be/zrl1FhA1dew?</a><wbr></wbr><a href=" https://youtu.be/zrl1FhA1dew?si=9Mf6vx8h-DKBPb6x" target="_blank">si=9Mf6vx8h-DKBPb6x</a></span></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dr. Jill Stein has always condemned violence against civilians on all sides. Yet there is no denying it: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Israel’s actions in Gaza are genocidal</a>.
Palestinians are being denied food, water, electricity and medicine, as
they are subjected to relentless bombings that even target hospitals.
These crimes must stop now.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jill is calling for an investigation
of the Netanyahu regime’s war crimes, as well as the role of Biden and
US leadership in aiding and abetting them.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The endless war machine
enriches military contractors, lobbyists, and politicians, while it
fuels bloodshed and devastation around the world. Please join us in
supporting leadership that promotes peace and human rights at home and
around the world by leaving a comment, and sharing this video with
others who support peace.</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thank you,</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jill Stein for President 2024</span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">P.S. Want to share with your friends? Share Jill’s video on <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube</a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TikTok</a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">X</a> (formerly Twitter).</span></span></b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Seen on X/Twitter:<br /></span></span></b></p>
<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><b style="font-family: georgia;">Who is this truth teller? This is a must watch for everyone. <img alt="💯" aria-label="💯" class="an1" data-emoji="💯" src="https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/15.0/1f4af/32.png" /> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://t.co/QPh9EPbB0V</a></b></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>— Indie <img alt="🍀" aria-label="🍀" class="an1" data-emoji="🍀" src="https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/15.0/1f340/32.png" /><img alt="🕊" aria-label="🕊" class="an1" data-emoji="🕊" src="https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/15.0/1f54a/32.png" /><img alt="🦺" aria-label="🦺" class="an1" data-emoji="🦺" src="https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/15.0/1f9ba/32.png" /><img alt="🎸" aria-label="🎸" class="an1" data-emoji="🎸" src="https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/15.0/1f3b8/32.png" /><img alt="🎥" aria-label="🎥" class="an1" data-emoji="🎥" src="https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/e/notoemoji/15.0/1f3a5/32.png" /> (@Indieafterbern) <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">November 11, 2023</a></b></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/<wbr></wbr>Indieafterbern/status/<wbr></wbr>1723333522394427730 </a></b></span></p> <span></span>
<blockquote><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">With
the lsraeli-caused power cut in al-Shifa Hospital, medical staffs
gather premature babies together in a desperate attempt to keep them
alive after three have already passed away. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/f46EOcELYS</a></span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">November 12, 2023</a></span></b></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/<wbr></wbr>Timesofgaza/status/<wbr></wbr>1723693992410280067 </a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Articles and Other Interesting Links</span></b></span></p><div class="ar__ti" itemprop=""headline"" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>6 Newborns Die After Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital Runs Out of Fuel Due to Blockade <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/6-newborns-die-after-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-runs-out-of-fuel-due-to-blockade/" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/6-newborns-die-after-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-runs-out-of-fuel-due-to-blockade/<br /></a></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote><b><span style="font-size: small;">At <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/13/israeli-troops-at-gazas-main-hospital-gates-thousands-of-civilians-flee">least six newborn babies who had to be taken off their incubators</a> at al-Shifa have died as of Monday, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, with at <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/11/37-babies-at-risk-of-dying-in-gaza-hospital-israel-says-to-aid-evacuation">least 30 others</a> still at risk as <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/babies-among-fatalities-as-gazas-main-hospital-al-shifa-loses-power-amid-israel-hamas-war">doctors are forced to perform manual</a> respiration on the babies to keep them alive. Doctors <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/babies-die-gaza-al-shifa-hospital-idf-evacuation-routes-rcna124786">have said</a> that the babies are likely to die as long as the electricity is out. The blockade has also forced dozens of patients <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/8/why-is-gazas-al-shifa-hospital-at-the-heart-of-israels-war">on dialysis</a> to be <a href="https://twitter.com/WHOoPt/status/1723841803856523438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1723841803856523438%7Ctwgr%5Ec46b6afaa3af9ad01daf88579a6b5f840183bb74%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aljazeera.com%2Fnews%2Fliveblog%2F2023%2F11%2F12%2Fisrael-gaza-war-live-israeli-army-surrounding-al-quds-hospital">taken off the treatment</a>, health officials say, meaning that they will likely die within days.</span></b></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>#MurderedByIsrael<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://murderedbyisrael.com</a></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">/<br /></a><br />'I cannot say how long they can last': Gaza newborns face desperate plight as incubators turned off due to power cut <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://news.sky.com/story/<wbr></wbr>israel-gaza-war-latest-hamas-<wbr></wbr>al-shifa-hospital-sky-news-<wbr></wbr>live-updates-12978800?postid=<wbr></wbr>6761510#liveblog-body</a><br /><br />Chris Hedges: The Horror, The Horror<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/<wbr></wbr>11/11/chris-hedges-the-horror-<wbr></wbr>the-horror/<br /></a><br /></b></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The
active complicity by the United States is unfathomable. Nothing
justifies this. Nothing. And Joe Biden will go down in history as an
accomplice to genocide. May the ghosts of the thousands of children he
has participated in murdering haunt him for the rest of his life. (...)<br /><br />We
are not hated for our values. We are hated because we have no values.
We are hated because rules only apply to others. Not to us. We are hated
because we have arrogated to ourselves the right to carry out
indiscriminate slaughter. We are hated because we are heartless and
cruel. We are hated because we are hypocrites, talking about protecting
civilians, the rule of law and humanitarianism while extinguishing the
lives of hundreds of people in Gaza a day, including 160 children.</b></span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />‘Operation
Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 36: Al-Shifa Hospital at Epicenter of Gaza Fighting
as Fleeing Civilians Are Killed by Israeli Strikes <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/<wbr></wbr>11/12/operation-al-aqsa-flood-<wbr></wbr>day-36-al-shifa-hospital-at-<wbr></wbr>epicenter-of-gaza-fighting-as-<wbr></wbr>fleeing-civilians-are-killed-<wbr></wbr>by-israeli-strikes/</a><br /><blockquote>Casualties (As of November 12. Some are estimating the current death toll is nearer to 20,000):<br /><br /> 11,078 killed, including 4,506 children, and 27,490 wounded in Gaza<br /> 183 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem<br /> Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,200</blockquote>'Can You Hear the Screams?' Physician Says Western Leaders Complicit in Israeli Attacks on Gaza Hospitals <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/<wbr></wbr>news/physician-gaza-hospitals</a><br /><br />IDF Soldiers Torturing and Abusing Palestinians in the West Bank<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/<wbr></wbr>11/12/graphic-videos-show-idf-<wbr></wbr>soldiers-torturing-<wbr></wbr>palestinians-in-the-west-bank/<br /></a><br />“We Have Come to an End”: Palestine Red Crescent Says Gaza’s Hospitals Are Out of Solutions <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://www.democracynow.org/<wbr></wbr>2023/11/9/nebal_farsakh_ifrc_<wbr></wbr>israel_gaza</a><br /><br />Death toll in Gaza likely ‘higher than is being reported’: US official <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://thehill.com/policy/<wbr></wbr>international/4301551-gaza-<wbr></wbr>deaths-likely-higher-than-<wbr></wbr>cited-us-official/</a> </b></span></span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Palestine
was inhabited in the Bronze Age by Canaanites, genetic ancestors of
*both* Palestinians & Middle East Jews. Palestinians have been
indigenous since 2000 BC. See:<br />"Palestinians & their genetic relatedness with other Mediterranean populations" <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/<wbr></wbr>publication/11802415_HLA_<wbr></wbr>Genes_in_Palestinians_The_<wbr></wbr>Origin_of_Palestinians_and_ </a></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">Their_Genetic_Relatedness_<wbr></wbr>With_Other_Mediterranean_<wbr></wbr>Populations</a><br /><br />JOHN PILGER: We Are Spartacus<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://consortiumnews.com/<wbr></wbr>2023/11/09/john-pilger-we-are-<wbr></wbr>spartacus/</a><br /><br />Biden Could End All This With One Phone Call<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/<wbr></wbr>p/biden-could-end-all-this-<wbr></wbr>with-one</a><br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Conflating Jewish and Pro-Israel Is Wrong and Misleading <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/<wbr></wbr>11/09/conflating-jewish-and-<wbr></wbr>pro-israel-is-wrong-and-<wbr></wbr>misleading/</a><br /><br />Dismantle Israel And The Entire US Empire<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/<wbr></wbr>p/dismantle-israel-and-the-<wbr></wbr>entire-us<br /></a><br />Getting Called A Nazi For Opposing A Genocide<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620342000&usg=AOvVaw0QD9NJva-EawphI_xaT_ZP" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/<wbr></wbr>p/getting-called-a-nazi-for-<wbr></wbr>opposing/<br /></a><br />What Would It Look Like If You Were Standing On The Wrong Side Of History? <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620343000&usg=AOvVaw2fXjiX75IdSDg-yhJAs9RK" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/<wbr></wbr>p/what-would-it-look-like-if-<wbr></wbr>you-were</a><br /><br />Israel-Gaza War Is Deadliest Month for Journalists Covering Conflict in Over 3 Decades<a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620343000&usg=AOvVaw2fXjiX75IdSDg-yhJAs9RK" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank"> https://scheerpost.com/2023/<wbr></wbr>11/05/israel-gaza-war-is-<wbr></wbr>deadliest-month-for-<wbr></wbr>journalists-covering-conflict-<wbr></wbr>in-over-3-decades/</a><br /><br />Letter to the Children of Gaza <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620343000&usg=AOvVaw2fXjiX75IdSDg-yhJAs9RK" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/<wbr></wbr>11/08/chris-hedges-letter-to-<wbr></wbr>the-children-of-gaza/</a><br /><br />Protesters Block Traffic in Front of Congress Member’s Home, Demanding Ceasefire <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620343000&usg=AOvVaw2fXjiX75IdSDg-yhJAs9RK" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/<wbr></wbr>protesters-block-traffic-in-<wbr></wbr>front-of-congress-members-<wbr></wbr>home-demanding-ceasefire/</a><br /><br />“Ceasefire” Shouldn’t Be a Controversial Word<br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.blogger.com/%23&source=gmail&ust=1699993620343000&usg=AOvVaw2fXjiX75IdSDg-yhJAs9RK" href="https://www.blogger.com/#" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/<wbr></wbr>ceasefire-shouldnt-be-a-<wbr></wbr>controversial-word/</a><br /><br />Holocaust Survivor Says No More! 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A. Matthews<br /></span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: georgia;"> </i></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>For the love of Big Oil is the root of all evils. </i>—1 Timothy 6:10 </span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve [both] God and Big Oil. </i>—Matthew 6:24</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Before you interject, “Hey! That’s not quite what those Bible verses say,” read this short article from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. Here’s a blurb:<br /></span></span></b></p><blockquote><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://unctad.org/news/unrealized-potential-palestinian-oil-and-gas-reserves" target="_blank">The Unrealized Potential of Palestinian Oil and Gas Reserves </a>28 August 2019</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Oil and natural gas resources in the occupied Palestinian territory could generate hundreds of billions of dollars for development. </span></span></b><br /></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Geologists and resources economists have confirmed that the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) lies above sizeable reservoirs of oil and natural gas wealth, in Area C of the West Bank and the Mediterranean coast off the Gaza Strip, according to a recent UNCTAD study.</span></span></b></p></blockquote><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Let that information settle into your brain for a bit. You’re a smart person. (You’re reading this blog, aren’t you?) You’re intelligent enough to put two and two together and come up with five, right? What would you do to get your hands on 122 trillion cubic foot of natural gas along with an estimated at 1.7 billion barrels of oil? <br /><br />More importantly, what <i>wouldn’t</i> you do to get a hold of such a resource?<br /></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh17n1oohpkOBIL9sWJOTrFpUGpUopd67lf5fOEZoO_QbvaygRE3d_mWUGWw8kWyvSCSe0rwTcxDmE-Shu5upJ9AotE0WzWD7OEGjCGPPWIdpf0qlG00HVH-Z8BFCufM1QBMFUbW-EDBMHw9TzXDLy5YoM8QX_0gl4yZSvE23sIzV_7UjevqVAbDrj7YXY/s960/End%20Fossil%20Fuels.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="688" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh17n1oohpkOBIL9sWJOTrFpUGpUopd67lf5fOEZoO_QbvaygRE3d_mWUGWw8kWyvSCSe0rwTcxDmE-Shu5upJ9AotE0WzWD7OEGjCGPPWIdpf0qlG00HVH-Z8BFCufM1QBMFUbW-EDBMHw9TzXDLy5YoM8QX_0gl4yZSvE23sIzV_7UjevqVAbDrj7YXY/s320/End%20Fossil%20Fuels.jpg" width="229" /></a></span></span></b></div><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I know many of my readers are supportive of environmental concerns and would state without hesitation, “I’d do nothing about those oil and gas reserves off the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The burning of fossil fuels is heating up our planet and causing catastrophic climate change—a change we may never be able to recover from as stronger hurricanes, larger floods, and long-lasting droughts become more common. Big Oil has enough blood on its hands already.” <br /><br />I sincerely appreciate that response. It’s a commendable answer, but let’s venture into the hypothetical realm for a minute, shall we? Let’s pretend we’re not decent, planet-loving individuals but politicians from certain nations. (We discussed what kinds of politicians we generally have in the West in <a href="https://bernie2016.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-new-litmus-test.html" target="_blank">last week’s blog</a> and why we need to get rid of these sociopaths.) Okay, ready to use your imaginations? Let’s go.<br /><br />We’re politicians of large Western economies and their allies. Our countries are into burning fossil fuels big time, and we’re not planning to stop burning them anytime soon, no matter how often the climate scientists warn us about their downsides. There’s just too much wealth generated by Big Oil concerns to stop oil and gas exploration. We believe strongly in the superiority of capitalism and the making of big profits for our shareholders.<br /><br />As an added bonus, Big Oil pays us politicos quite well for our work supporting their drilling and fracking. They don’t pay us directly, of course, but they pay us through their lobbyists and political action committees (PACs) that support our campaigns. We’re not about to forget there’s untapped oil and gas reserves off the coast of Gaza and in the West Bank region of what is now known as “Israel” because our bosses in Big Oil will keep reminding us. We’re going to do whatever we can to get our hands on those natural resources, and we’re not going to let anyone or anything get in our way.<br /></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsf35E33LZs8dKxX8olThhszVboDspCEdsK7FWQcG6ZfR1nZaTx4C4umJaTYJSBSnq7unBH_R8KMnSsvLA0rY2I2SWzzDuyTU708N_0SF4yPwR14UluF22VqmbxyEaD_tdJ4jXWFmEbyMGxcolv2ZBz3Di6WVUhmpB_Xyf5h0SIYtcpHd5sgWDdIdRbJo/s701/Oil%20equals%20democracy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="701" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsf35E33LZs8dKxX8olThhszVboDspCEdsK7FWQcG6ZfR1nZaTx4C4umJaTYJSBSnq7unBH_R8KMnSsvLA0rY2I2SWzzDuyTU708N_0SF4yPwR14UluF22VqmbxyEaD_tdJ4jXWFmEbyMGxcolv2ZBz3Di6WVUhmpB_Xyf5h0SIYtcpHd5sgWDdIdRbJo/w200-h196/Oil%20equals%20democracy.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">To put this argument into the oil man’s vernacular: <i>Drill, baby, drill!</i><br /><br />Our minds are made up. We’re going to drill for that oil and gas that’s just sitting there asking for us to take it. We’ll need some land on which to build our oil refineries and start our new pipelines headed north toward Western Europe to sell our oil and gas products, too. We might even <a href="https://rumble.com/v3t4nim-november-1-2023.html" target="_blank">put in a canal near the drilling site to circumvent having to pay another country to ship these products worldwide.<br /></a><br />You do know why we need to sell natural gas in particular to Europe, don’t you? In case you’ve forgotten, we blew up a perfectly good liquid natural gas pipeline a year or so back in the Baltic. (More on that story <a href="https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream" target="_blank">here</a>.) Doing so took out the competition for our oil companies’ gas sales to Europe. Without competition, our oil exporting country sold heating oil to places like Germany for four to six times the previous price they’d paid our competitor. <br /><br />Unfortunately, shipping all this heating oil to Europe started making our own country’s heating oil and gas prices go through the roof, making our constituents none too happy. It also made them question the billions of dollars in military aid we were giving to a proxy army in order to bankrupt our biggest oil and gas competitor. <i>Oops!</i> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7c4wT_dk1orPy5DNVMCe2MV_-supfcOSM189tM8LAlj5Q5DwBqmrxqPA_KeYdPz8ghu8_LYChT0QbJpy3vvSGFYKyb0zKbMPl-xyi9gRP8ob5D5ocx1woHi-tn7Rlga5iwHyb7MWI6BhXAhAZyUkv15uKtSCENcsAHgFQGHGjn6Dl7g4iYMkuJwBIpk/s951/Money%20Laundering%202.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="739" data-original-width="951" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7c4wT_dk1orPy5DNVMCe2MV_-supfcOSM189tM8LAlj5Q5DwBqmrxqPA_KeYdPz8ghu8_LYChT0QbJpy3vvSGFYKyb0zKbMPl-xyi9gRP8ob5D5ocx1woHi-tn7Rlga5iwHyb7MWI6BhXAhAZyUkv15uKtSCENcsAHgFQGHGjn6Dl7g4iYMkuJwBIpk/s320/Money%20Laundering%202.png" width="320" /></a></div>We told our friends in the mainstream media to keep pushing the narrative that our funding of this proxy war was all about protecting “freedom and democracy,” even if the leader of this proxy war had a long track record of absconding with funds. Some of the armaments we sold to him for this proxy war went “missing,” because we didn't keep track of them too closely. These missing armaments eventually ended up in the hands of other not-so-nice people around the world that we’ve said in the past were terrorists. <i>Double oops!</i><br /><br />So, we decided that we really have to stop selling so much of our own oil and gas to Western Europe and get the E.U. their fix via this new pipeline we planned to build in the Middle East. <br /><br />But wait a minute! There are 2.2 million people living on this land where we recently discovered the oil and gas reserves. It’s one of the most densely populated areas on Earth, no less. And these people aren’t interested in us taking their fossil fuel resources from them. They actually want to keep their homes, schools, hospitals, historical landmarks, and houses of worship. They want to keep everything for themselves. Such selfish animals! <br /><br />I know, I know… What else is new? Indigenous people are always crying over losing their land rights and having their mineral and petroleum resources stolen from right under them. But we in the Western nations know how to shut up indigenous people forever, don’t we? It’s what we’ve always done—we just use our military strength to overpower them and wipe them off the face of the earth or scatter them to the four corners of the globe. After all, we do what it says in the white man’s bible: Might makes right. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuthfcbwqpqLrSbv48TlxwsFIl5z94ss8kR9dGxv-83PplvZj3s-yQ7WdqKNfDm8gmmYaMKLjUiIhFylheK7YSO0RZ04njwfF1r_cVWZ-ySYYJhOuKQ3DU5pW9PoV3EHsvTSBgk754R4BdFT_R_j-kX5QtC5o7SrSWkqTwkbPG157KSt4fLcoGy3mM8cU/s2000/Butcher%20of%20Palestine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1977" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuthfcbwqpqLrSbv48TlxwsFIl5z94ss8kR9dGxv-83PplvZj3s-yQ7WdqKNfDm8gmmYaMKLjUiIhFylheK7YSO0RZ04njwfF1r_cVWZ-ySYYJhOuKQ3DU5pW9PoV3EHsvTSBgk754R4BdFT_R_j-kX5QtC5o7SrSWkqTwkbPG157KSt4fLcoGy3mM8cU/w395-h400/Butcher%20of%20Palestine.jpg" width="395" /></a></div>And it’s right for us to have control of all that untapped oil and gas, isn’t it? Our main trading currency, the petrodollar, is tied to the price of fossil fuels. We can’t afford to lose control of the world’s markets of oil and gas. We <i>must </i>have it, or else our economies will falter and collapse, and we politicians would be out of work and off the Big Oil gravy train before we knew it.<br /><br />So, think again: What would you, as a sociopathic politician who is paid well by Big Oil, do to get your hands on that oil and gas? Would you go to war over it? Would you fund a proxy army in a far away country to stop another country from making profits from their own fossil fuels, especially if you could do so without using your own military and risking your own soldiers’ lives? Would you blindly support a Western “ally” in the Middle East, one that you regularly give billions of dollars in aid and military equipment to, and give them <i>carte blanche</i> to wipe out those pesky natives so you can get your oil men on the ground and start the drilling for all that lovely “black gold”?<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-MRq7CSeNWmhLrH7NK_o7rXQQ3CybaFmFjr82T_VkQRpAFB_LCZRZtU8M7yL-qGtGJpw1k6qdh5XM1SJEzKc6fccYZhhdRWJFfGl0l5ZML7igLVo90gNIrT98xshdrAaLCRUdlhHugARhABHvFGJPBHuw-FoZ3doiws83NTqT-bIu58o6Duse66oMsTE/s1305/children%20killed%20by%20bombs.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1305" data-original-width="944" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-MRq7CSeNWmhLrH7NK_o7rXQQ3CybaFmFjr82T_VkQRpAFB_LCZRZtU8M7yL-qGtGJpw1k6qdh5XM1SJEzKc6fccYZhhdRWJFfGl0l5ZML7igLVo90gNIrT98xshdrAaLCRUdlhHugARhABHvFGJPBHuw-FoZ3doiws83NTqT-bIu58o6Duse66oMsTE/w289-h400/children%20killed%20by%20bombs.jpeg" width="289" /></a></div>Would you lose any sleep over exterminating the indigenous people who are in the way? (There's only 2.2 million of them, with half of them age 17 or younger. No big loss there since children can't drive yet.) We’re talking about 122 trillion cubic foot of natural gas along with an estimated at 1.7 billion barrels of oil. What does that amount of fossil fuel translate into dollars? You can't even imagine how much profit there is to be made!<br /><br />And if your “partner” in this acquisition of petroleum resources first wants to wipe out those savages and bomb all their buildings into rubble so they can be razed? Well, that’s <i>their</i> business, not <i>ours</i>. It’s not like we’ve set a sterling example on how to deal kindly with the indigenous peoples of our own white-settler colonizing project over the past three centuries, now have we? Racists gotta live and make money, too.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivwL210p24nWy5-woBzY-kOnivzzgJ1XgEsn2ceXoghKwzW0QLmsJ9Fe_kR_WGQ7BHKY2jAcMi55PtMzXUgayAasGVqDd8dEwiquFbzVcyO5aXc41xw5XQSeJPtcUPi237V-K_KtFwqEP2pa65zPQK8JwOwmv7uMYov3_L29EDPuR7GvVtSpX3vXN2PF8/s960/stains%20of%20genocide%20joe.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivwL210p24nWy5-woBzY-kOnivzzgJ1XgEsn2ceXoghKwzW0QLmsJ9Fe_kR_WGQ7BHKY2jAcMi55PtMzXUgayAasGVqDd8dEwiquFbzVcyO5aXc41xw5XQSeJPtcUPi237V-K_KtFwqEP2pa65zPQK8JwOwmv7uMYov3_L29EDPuR7GvVtSpX3vXN2PF8/w400-h400/stains%20of%20genocide%20joe.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div>I know some of you will balk and say something along the lines of, “But I would never sanction ethnic cleansing just to steal land and drill for oil!” But put yourself into the shoes of the sociopathic leaders of the Western nations and Israel and ask yourself the questions again. You know now what all is at stake, and how much you’ve already invested into this scheme. </span></span></b><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Palestinian people of Gaza and the West Bank area are considered racially inferior by Israel, your partner in this oil deal. You have no problem with the Israeli take on these indigenous people. They feel they</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> rightfully deserve to have control over that oil and gas. </span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">So, there's no problem taking it from the Palestinians, is there?</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ask yourself the questions again: What would you do to get your hands on 122 trillion cubic foot of natural gas and 1.7 billion barrels of oil? What <i>wouldn’t</i> you do to get a hold of such a prize?<br /></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGL7AENwZVkVJndCdkSQjrCZe8Q4iu45dBA6EdSUMWW1BZRxd8KYqRl8iC-mXQqKrTGP9JnYAxW8HOYHHozWlXvU7Vofafrsd6MQ3KZtiidGz8otc7ipN3EuF5uv9AzfzBI5DArGdBzhFHkL71b4AUCbb6YvG7IsgIb4Y4h7QkyRdK4MpXyvFTUrffHoA/s477/Can't%20have%20capitalism%20without%20racism.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="477" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGL7AENwZVkVJndCdkSQjrCZe8Q4iu45dBA6EdSUMWW1BZRxd8KYqRl8iC-mXQqKrTGP9JnYAxW8HOYHHozWlXvU7Vofafrsd6MQ3KZtiidGz8otc7ipN3EuF5uv9AzfzBI5DArGdBzhFHkL71b4AUCbb6YvG7IsgIb4Y4h7QkyRdK4MpXyvFTUrffHoA/s320/Can't%20have%20capitalism%20without%20racism.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Please don’t tell me there aren’t people in Washington DC and in Israel who aren’t more than willing to commit war crimes in order to get that oil and gas and make their Big Oil masters happy. We all know that’s exactly what they’re doing. Capitalists always get their way. </span></span></b><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Money makes the world go round</i>, after all, a capitalist will tell you. What better way to generate it than by drilling for oil and gas?<br /><br /><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/biden-wants-arms-deals-with-israel-to-be-done-in-complete-secrecy/" target="_blank">Why else would the US government want to keep all Israeli aid and military spending talks secret</a>—done<i> without </i>Congressional approval? If the US isn’t committing war crimes alongside the Israeli military already, it certainly sounds like they’re getting ready to do so. And our spineless, sociopathic politicians know the majority of the American public won’t knowingly stand for it and could rebel against them. So, the feds are going to keep their actions quiet and lie about what they're doing for as long as they can get away with it.<br /><br />“For the love of Big Oil [money] is the root of all evils.”<i>All evils</i>—but especially the evil called <i>genocide</i>. </span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/this-weekends-dc-protest-was-largest-pro-palestine-mobilization-in-us-history/" target="_blank">Keep protesting and speaking out</a> to expose Big Oil's evils. Stand with others to end the rule of Big Oil's puppets and the entire military-industrial complex. <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/palestine-solidarity-activists-block-boeings-doors-to-stop-delivery-of-bombs" target="_blank">Shut down the genocidal war machine</a> forever.<br /></span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5-uOyPCAhM4rChOdWxbmtGaNfkyOquT1Q6d8i6b3J05FXfnwL0NEYaC71-FSF6I__p5rObWbOtNZhSD_8CAl-hm6gOcchRDoNXIziMjXCrfa5ZkSvRMFinDy-rIAH9V1pbZHXB01D21f678rNkx15P5QeG9L2KfpQm53Te63R_9yNuWcLvNaiYRSLTXs/s550/10%20stages%20of%20genocide.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="550" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5-uOyPCAhM4rChOdWxbmtGaNfkyOquT1Q6d8i6b3J05FXfnwL0NEYaC71-FSF6I__p5rObWbOtNZhSD_8CAl-hm6gOcchRDoNXIziMjXCrfa5ZkSvRMFinDy-rIAH9V1pbZHXB01D21f678rNkx15P5QeG9L2KfpQm53Te63R_9yNuWcLvNaiYRSLTXs/w400-h319/10%20stages%20of%20genocide.png" width="400" /></a></span></span></b></div><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Related Articles and Interesting Links</span></span></b><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Unrealized Potential of Palestinian Oil and Gas Reserves </span></span></b><a href="https://unctad.org/news/unrealized-potential-palestinian-oil-and-gas-reserves" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">https://unctad.org/news/unrealized-potential-palestinian-oil-and-gas-reserves</span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> 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border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="598" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilhZd7VyZCkkoKf5eX5oF149biUhkGmRAWl7rI3S0e8g7HdMxYbvgrRP1zAp-8cvTthRKsjHBXMhIdMHxF3yuZGU5Sfq-FbIOX3z_f9F0ZZFkc0nuwa0XG_U5G6TTP-bE8nCUPm3b7EwYPpFzmo0OBICYPtsJFU2zmqX0lTO_OC1eGI2qlGCuNSjipA3v_/w400-h364/Genocide%20Joe.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The New Litmus Test</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">by C.A. Matthews </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">As the US November election day rolls around, the question as to whom to vote for haunts me. Often times, I only vote on the issues on the ballot (such as Ohio’s Issue 1 allowing abortion care without government interference) and skip voting for any candidates for office. I just leave those boxes blank. If I don’t agree with a candidate's stances, and if I don’t agree where their particular political party stands on any of the issues, then I’m not wasting my time or vote on them. It’s as simple as that.<br /><br />It makes for a pretty quick voting process. I used to feel a tinge of guilt at leaving so many races without a check mark, but not so much anymore. If a candidate doesn’t prove to me that they deserve my vote, they don’t get it. If neither one of the usual two candidates running for the same office deserve a vote, neither one gets mine. None of this “lesser evil” voting nonsense for me! </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’ve always found it odd that some believe politics is some kind of card game that forces you to play a card whether you want to or not. If a person is undeserving of office, then they’re undeserving. They don’t need my vote endorsing their inadequacy.<br /><br />Five-time socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs said it well:<br /><br />“</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">”<br /><br />With next year being another one of those “most important election of our lives” (to paraphrase an overused soundbite), most American voters will feel obligated to tick a box for at least president, senator, and/or governor. My take is that presidential or gubernatorial elections are no different than off-year ones. Candidates I don’t approve of one-hundred percent don’t get my vote. <br /><br />If a write-in space is provided, I might write in a name of someone I feel who is deserving. If third party candidates make it to the ballot (and in this state, that is <i>extremely</i> difficult), I give them a look-see and check out their party’s stances. I investigate all independents’ stances as well.<br /><br /><i>But who is deserving?</i> I hear you ask. Good question. In the past I’d go through a long list of issues that were very important to me—such as universal health care, UBI, supporting the switch to clean energy sources, and guaranteed food and housing for all—and find out where a candidate stood on these basic issues. Sometimes this is easy, as candidates often will make stump speeches and give interviews detailing exactly where they stand. <br /></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipl0fb68pm_-4SHkVF9mkigvrsiqGN3c7NBSQIuGCJkXKmEHo8CNMpxWb84WUjRKmnBuznSoFKVn-s5hWhSwLK7EzGxyeEpdotceiNmrm5f9fX3ta0YwI05I3Lc3g-u5a4yoaO5JSzpzMTM9AOfkW0G_iIb-geuvUGpwuHSk-PYODGEpc5n4Rl1slZhf0G/s821/Stop%20arming%20Nazis%20and%20give%20us%20food.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="821" data-original-width="759" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipl0fb68pm_-4SHkVF9mkigvrsiqGN3c7NBSQIuGCJkXKmEHo8CNMpxWb84WUjRKmnBuznSoFKVn-s5hWhSwLK7EzGxyeEpdotceiNmrm5f9fX3ta0YwI05I3Lc3g-u5a4yoaO5JSzpzMTM9AOfkW0G_iIb-geuvUGpwuHSk-PYODGEpc5n4Rl1slZhf0G/s320/Stop%20arming%20Nazis%20and%20give%20us%20food.jpeg" width="296" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">If a candidate belongs to a particular political party, I will study their take on the issues and compare and contrast it to the candidate’s take. Nine times out of ten candidates will repeat exactly what the party bosses tell them to say. That one out of ten time they don’t, further research usually shows that they are acting like a “maverick” and are simply pretending not to go along with the party’s platform on that particular subject in order to get voters’ attention. <br /><br />If a candidate is running for re-election, their voting record generally gives their worthiness or unworthiness away. It’s more like 9.9 times out of 10 a candidate running in an establishment party will vote the way they’re instructed to by party bosses no matter what the candidate actually verbalizes on the campaign trail. Not many status quo politicians are truly “their own person,” in other words.<br /><br />Since the beginning of October 2023, however, I’ve come up with a much simpler political litmus test to determine which candidates are worthy of my vote. It boils down to this: <i>Does this candidate condone the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza?</i><br /><br />If a candidate says things straightforwardly like, “They're human animals! Death to Palestinians!” then I need not go any further. They’re struck off my list. If they try to soft-sell their stance by saying, “I grieve for the Palestinians killed, but/except I support Israel’s right to self-defense,” then I know they’re definitely off my list. They’re worse than the first guy who is an outright racist-bigot. At least the first candidate isn’t trying to sugarcoat genocide.<br /><br />For those of you who argue that you can be opposed to the genocide of a people, but want to excuse yourself in order to kill a smaller subset of those same people, I’ll say this: What you're arguing is a logical fallacy along the lines of voting for the “lesser of two evils.” <br /></span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEIDBky3CyRa9pXhG9gjdIa0H8FQ0tzvKO_NGufsSLTM_y2O7PuGfVdLUB62vxHMZKIwcV36SWI89UaIhFtCCVDGNlX01dl4l8tLrCzS_TyVPjI9QCpg_jkAeRrQtD8yEkUu3jVAfHR3bGzujdMCAXwFOQvFtLSVB_b1sTubdo6gu1FVkAU_Ija1BY_LyB/s1280/Gaza%20genocided.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEIDBky3CyRa9pXhG9gjdIa0H8FQ0tzvKO_NGufsSLTM_y2O7PuGfVdLUB62vxHMZKIwcV36SWI89UaIhFtCCVDGNlX01dl4l8tLrCzS_TyVPjI9QCpg_jkAeRrQtD8yEkUu3jVAfHR3bGzujdMCAXwFOQvFtLSVB_b1sTubdo6gu1FVkAU_Ija1BY_LyB/w225-h400/Gaza%20genocided.jpeg" width="225" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Evil is evil. Period. Evil cannot be quantified. Some things just can’t be. Can someone be “less dead</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">”</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> or are they just </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">“</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">dead</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">”</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">? Dead is dead. Can you be okay with murdering “less” of a particular group of people and not be okay with murdering the entirety of those same people? Murder is murder. One premeditated killing is all it takes to be convicted of murder. The quality and quantity of evil are the same.<br /><br />Trying to quantify genocide in any way, shape, or form is a signal that this person is a <a href="https://health.clevelandclinic.org/sociopath-personality-disorder/" target="_blank">sociopath</a>. The person who does so is actually equating the slaughter of innocents with “self-defense” in their sociopathic mind. Look at it this way: How many two-year-old Palestinians does a country need to be “defended against” through the use of ethnic cleansing or genocide? How many wheelchair-bound grandmothers does a country need to be “defended against”? If you said “one or two” then, please, find yourself a psychotherapist pronto and don’t run for office. We have more than enough sociopaths in politics already.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjW4AEasYcChNR0a1LMgo38I3fS-k4cBvnmpYsgKX0GPwXnnHqXEx7WssEkqmXh0hwUfCeV5G0_foSDHgftUti6jJF5VH8oZFIsr59RDDplpfMeOLZ-5fNzUwaF-grcXvAv8sFaBBm3qWzCqSCiTinglOjebjg6kAelhRqAjYtE1x2JeNxbHi-RkplkBWH/s1200/Zionazis.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjW4AEasYcChNR0a1LMgo38I3fS-k4cBvnmpYsgKX0GPwXnnHqXEx7WssEkqmXh0hwUfCeV5G0_foSDHgftUti6jJF5VH8oZFIsr59RDDplpfMeOLZ-5fNzUwaF-grcXvAv8sFaBBm3qWzCqSCiTinglOjebjg6kAelhRqAjYtE1x2JeNxbHi-RkplkBWH/w400-h400/Zionazis.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div>If you’re not mentally and/or morally impaired, you’ll intuit just how horrifying equating ethnic cleansing is to the concept of “self-defense.” If a candidate’s party also gives the “except/but” argument to where they stand on the use of genocide, then you’ll know this person isn’t worth voting for. As I stated before, it's more likely than not they’ll give the same answer to the question: “Are you okay with the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza?” Loyal party members stick together.<br /><br />Very rarely will a candidate speak out against their own political party and remain within that party for long if they truly believe in what they’re saying. Leaving a political party is like experiencing a divorce, only worse. They instantly lose all their “friends” and supporters in that party. They instantly lose access to PACs/Super PACs and other funding sources to fund their campaign. Nobody will return their calls. <br /><br />You might get an occasional, “I disagree with the party platform on this particular point,” comment, but if the candidate sticks with the party, then they’re pretty much saying they’re a loyal spouse. The only ones they’re “cheating on” are the voters, in a weak attempt to fool voters into thinking the candidate is something he/she is not.<br /><br />If a candidate does speak out strongly against genocide and finds themselves kicked out of their party, then it could be worthwhile to check them out further. This person could be that very deserving and rare candidate who isn’t afraid to speak out on all the issues that you find important. If they’re able to speak up to support the voiceless innocents being bombed to pieces by racist war hawks, then perhaps they’ll have the guts to speak up for the rights of Americans to have access to health care and free education as well.<br /></span></b></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwjBI3p4MovXlmZrXaDN5gUUh_MIpZZIMKRyWMx_E9EEOgcDbPQ2xU8YsMLL8yK2zDTtT7WwIIAkYc_RWmLuReSW_3SYRsYwN8e_piqqIs48nvE3XNQnrcTbrZDYBWEnSF1NRPIVS8bUPsRjRHhfpB-EO-L_ZpOuGpoOPGxA8w9XsJ75urhy8MbP2wb04c/s680/Evil%20Knesset%20woman.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="680" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwjBI3p4MovXlmZrXaDN5gUUh_MIpZZIMKRyWMx_E9EEOgcDbPQ2xU8YsMLL8yK2zDTtT7WwIIAkYc_RWmLuReSW_3SYRsYwN8e_piqqIs48nvE3XNQnrcTbrZDYBWEnSF1NRPIVS8bUPsRjRHhfpB-EO-L_ZpOuGpoOPGxA8w9XsJ75urhy8MbP2wb04c/s320/Evil%20Knesset%20woman.jpeg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Another area that will reveal a candidate’s stance on this question is where and from whom do they receive their campaign funds. If a candidate receives any money from AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), then they’ve automatically disqualified themselves. Can you imagine a candidate taking millions of dollars from AIPAC not saying, “The children of Gaza brought it upon themselves!” over and over again—even when confronted with shocking photos and videos of dead Palestinian children? Taking AIPAC and related monies to run for office is a very strong indicator they’re a sociopath who will do as they’re told by their genocide-enabling masters.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">If a candidate and their political party are known for taking money from Big Oil and/or the Military Industrial Complex or its supporters, then they’ve pretty much given themselves away as sociopaths, haven’t they? Big Oil is killing our planet with excessive carbon pollution while fueling the engines of the War Machine that is currently genociding the Palestinians and other peoples throughout the world. Any candidate who is okay with their potential constituents dying of polluted air, water and food sources probably isn't going to lose any sleep over the genocide of millions in order for their corporate masters to get a chance to drill and make big profits from the oil reserves said to be located off the coast of Gaza.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">I believe this litmus test will serve us all well this election and in elections to come. Feel free to use it and let me know how it worked for you. If anyone asks you about the litmus test you used to determine whom to vote for, tell them you found it at <i><a href="https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com" target="_blank">The Revolution Continues</a></i> and share the link. Thanks.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">With this new litmus test, we’ll be able to discern the sociopaths from the morally decent human beings running for office, candidates who can proudly say, “I don’t support genocide.” I hope in time, with less sociopaths in positions of power, our world will become a safer, healthier, and happier place for all. It's worth a try, isn't it?<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuOR1BnWd-WZtRxeoKVyZUnOmv4EbqezFcfx2mF-As8JL6gxqGbkvLmpQGZ9cvKLw9y1H28x7prWMzjr1pdfLI-B5HS88X5fPxN4cHx8dsS7E4AUhhJSkwbo33ZdFXpNZ_iSVZOreCMcIgYcxLMbTb-fw1sUJzWpPh0HD4AceU2lF3BBVTmAmQN5pbl7v1/s680/US%20Aggressors.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="660" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuOR1BnWd-WZtRxeoKVyZUnOmv4EbqezFcfx2mF-As8JL6gxqGbkvLmpQGZ9cvKLw9y1H28x7prWMzjr1pdfLI-B5HS88X5fPxN4cHx8dsS7E4AUhhJSkwbo33ZdFXpNZ_iSVZOreCMcIgYcxLMbTb-fw1sUJzWpPh0HD4AceU2lF3BBVTmAmQN5pbl7v1/s320/US%20Aggressors.jpeg" width="311" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">I'm not the only one who thinks exposing the sociopaths could bring about an end to endless ethnic cleansing. Here's what Caitlin Johnstone says in her piece <i><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theres-only-so-much-propaganda-spin" target="_blank">There's Only So Much Propaganda Spin You Can Put on the Murder of Thousands of Children</a></i>:<br /></span></b></span><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span></span></span></span></b></p><blockquote><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>The Gaza massacre throws a big fat monkey wrench in all that, because </span><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/27/un-says-gaza-health-ministry-death-tolls-in-previous-wars" rel="">the raw data</a><span>
coming out of it is so transparently horrifying that no amount of
narrative spin can make it look acceptable. The fact that the US and its
allies are helping Israel murder children by the thousands is a giant
glitch in the narrative matrix.</span></span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The longer this continues,
the more people are going to wake up out of the propaganda-induced coma
the empire has had them in all their lives. The more people are going to
realize that their government is not what it has been pretending to be
and the media have not been telling them the truth about the world. As
the western empire backs the slaughter of thousands of children, the
discrepancies between what the propaganda tells us about our society and
what our society actually is are being brightly illuminated.</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">By
murdering thousands of children in Gaza, the empire has exposed its true
face in front of everyone. And the people aren’t liking what they see.</span></span></b></p></blockquote><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivyAaZhBFa8TvSccxDjuZ9Uuhd6QjUbveS7GzO9m5kDHwb_ouKFeUsaeEfd-UgTJ3lJj7dH8Z29A_BVynfGYqoZr9-fSVl9YRlRpdYYU5Z13bN_Uiy2rIoJDUGK8iPLiGZsv8gqHxWAkXbKJsG_WIG5Rn11tM53QveQswk6zqp0LGqeUtWWGkc7RHa-wv_/s972/Hamas%20Revealed.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="972" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivyAaZhBFa8TvSccxDjuZ9Uuhd6QjUbveS7GzO9m5kDHwb_ouKFeUsaeEfd-UgTJ3lJj7dH8Z29A_BVynfGYqoZr9-fSVl9YRlRpdYYU5Z13bN_Uiy2rIoJDUGK8iPLiGZsv8gqHxWAkXbKJsG_WIG5Rn11tM53QveQswk6zqp0LGqeUtWWGkc7RHa-wv_/w296-h400/Hamas%20Revealed.jpeg" width="296" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Related Articles and Interesting Links:</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>How Much Killing Is Enough Killing?<br /><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/how-much-killing-is-enough-killing" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/how-much-killing-is-enough-killing</a><br /><br />Exterminate All the Brutes <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/10/29/chris-hedges-exterminate-all-the-brutes/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/10/29/chris-hedges-exterminate-all-the-brutes/</a><br /><br />"A people, imprisoned in the world’s largest concentration camp for sixteen years, denied food, water, fuel and medicine, lacking an army, air force, navy, mechanized units, artillery, command and control and missile batteries, is being butchered and starved by one of the most advanced militaries on the planet, and they [the Palestinians] are the Nazis?" --Chris Hedges</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>The Miracle of Kindness: What Chris Hedges learned from the Palestinians (video) <a href="https://youtu.be/gpU-Sbxg01A?si=VsepH6uXXomNCW0n" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/gpU-Sbxg01A?si=VsepH6uXXomNCW0n</a><br /><br />Israel Has Permanently Lost The Argument <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-has-permanently-lost-the-argument/" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-has-permanently-lost-the-argument/</a><br /><br />There's Only So Much Propaganda Spin You Can Put On The Murder Of Thousands Of Children <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theres-only-so-much-propaganda-spin" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/theres-only-so-much-propaganda-spin</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Over 30,000 Babies in Gaza Are Drinking Contaminated Water, US State Dept Says <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/over-30000-babies-in-gaza-are-drinking-contaminated-water-us-state-dept-says/" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/over-30000-babies-in-gaza-are-drinking-contaminated-water-us-state-dept-says/</a><br /><br />US Media Is Still Avoiding the Word Genocide — It’s Past Time to Start Using It <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/us-media-is-still-avoiding-the-word-genocide-its-past-time-to-start-using-it/" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/us-media-is-still-avoiding-the-word-genocide-its-past-time-to-start-using-it/</a></b></span></p><div class="widget__headline h1" style="text-align: left;"><span class="widget__headline-text custom-post-headline" data-type="text" style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Human Animals’: The Sordid Language Behind Israel’s Genocide in Gaza </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/language-of-genocide-in-gaza" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/language-of-genocide-in-gaza</a></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>It's Okay To Admit You Were Wrong About Gaza<br /><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/its-okay-to-admit-you-were-wrong" target="_blank">https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/its-okay-to-admit-you-were-wrong<br /></a><br />Genocide Is Underway in Gaza. US Leaders Can No Longer Say “We Didn’t Know.” <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/genocide-is-underway-in-gaza-us-leaders-can-no-longer-say-we-didnt-know/" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/genocide-is-underway-in-gaza-us-leaders-can-no-longer-say-we-didnt-know/</a><br /><br />How can anyone deny the Gaza death toll is intentional?<br /><a href="https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/how-can-anyone-deny-the-gaza-death" target="_blank">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/how-can-anyone-deny-the-gaza-death</a><br /><br />Israel Kills Over 400 Palestinians in a Single Day of Airstrikes<br /><a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/10/24/israel-kills-over-400-palestinians-in-a-single-day-of-airstrikes/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/10/24/israel-kills-over-400-palestinians-in-a-single-day-of-airstrikes/</a><br /><br />Report: Blinken Urged Qatar to Censor Al Jazeera Coverage of Gaza Genocide <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/report-blinken-urged-qatar-to-censor-al-jazeera-coverage-of-gaza-genocide/" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/report-blinken-urged-qatar-to-censor-al-jazeera-coverage-of-gaza-genocide/</a><br /><br />Propaganda War: Pro-Israel Trolls are Mobbing Twitter’s Community Notes <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/10/25/propaganda-war-pro-israel-trolls-are-mobbing-twitters-community-notes/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/10/25/propaganda-war-pro-israel-trolls-are-mobbing-twitters-community-notes/</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Media Manufactures Consent for Gaza Genocide <a href="https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/media-manufactures-consent-for-gaza" target="_blank">https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/media-manufactures-consent-for-gaza </a><br /><br />Rights Lawyers Release Legal Analysis Of US Complicity In Israel’s Genocide <a href="https://popularresistance.org/rights-lawyers-release-legal-analysis-of-us-complicity-in-israels-genocide/" target="_blank">https://popularresistance.org/rights-lawyers-release-legal-analysis-of-us-complicity-in-israels-genocide/</a><br /><br />Biden and Starmer face mutinies over genocide support<br /><a href="https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/biden-and-starmer-face-mutinies-over/" target="_blank">https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/biden-and-starmer-face-mutinies-over/</a><br /><br />Joe Biden’s Armageddon, from Gaza to Ukraine<br /><a href="https://www.aaronmate.net/p/joe-bidens-armageddon-from-gaza-to" target="_blank">https://www.aaronmate.net/p/joe-bidens-armageddon-from-gaza-to</a><br /><br />Protests Intensify Across US as Gaza Death Toll Surpasses 5,000<br /><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/protests-intensify-across-us-as-gaza-death-toll-surpasses-5000" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/protests-intensify-across-us-as-gaza-death-toll-surpasses-5000</a><br /><br />Palestinian American hospitalized following suspected hate-crime vehicle assault in Cleveland, Ohio <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/10/24/uvdu-o24.html" target="_blank">https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/10/24/uvdu-o24.html</a><br /><br />US blocks peace in Gaza, supporting Israel's genocidal war on civilians <a href="https://geopoliticaleconomy.substack.com/p/us-peace-gaza-genocide" target="_blank">https://geopoliticaleconomy.substack.com/p/us-peace-gaza-genocide</a><br /><br />As Gaza War Enters 'Second Stage,' Hundreds of Thousands March for Cease-Fire <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-war-next-stage-cease-fire" target="_blank">https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-war-next-stage-cease-fire</a><br /><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>October 7 testimonies reveal Israel’s military ‘shelling’ Israeli citizens with tanks, missiles <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/27/israels-military-shelled-burning-tanks-helicopters/" target="_blank">https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/27/israels-military-shelled-burning-tanks-helicopters/</a></b></span></p><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div class="entry-title" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Something Is Not Right About The Israel/Hamas War — Could It Lead To Genocide, World War Three? </span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.activistpost.com/2023/10/something-is-not-right-about-the-israel-hamas-war-could-it-lead-to-genocide-world-war-three.html" target="_blank">https://www.activistpost.com/2023/10/something-is-not-right-about-the-israel-hamas-war-could-it-lead-to-genocide-world-war-three.html</a></b></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>Hamas is an Israeli/Mossad creation: <a href="https://swprs.org/why-israel-created-hamas/" target="_blank">https://swprs.org/why-israel-created-hamas/</a><br /><br />History: Was Hamas A Creation of Mossad? <a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/hamas-is-a-creation-of-mossad/1818" target="_blank">https://www.globalresearch.ca/hamas-is-a-creation-of-mossad/1818</a> <br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b> Jeffrey St. Clair, <a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/category/roaming-charges/" target="_blank">Counterpunch</a>, captures the essence of genocide:<br /><br />"When you declare total war against Gaza, which has been under perpetual siege since 1967 after being seized by Israel during the Six Day War, what is it you’re going to war against? There are no airbases, no army bases, no tank battalions, no air defense systems, no naval ports, no oil refineries, no rail system, no troop barracks, no armored personnel carriers, no howitzers, no satellite systems, no attack helicopters, no fighter jets, no anti-tank batteries, no submarines, no command-and-control centers. Just people, most of them women and kids."</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b>A Poultry Plant in Ohio Is Under Federal Investigation for Hiring 24 Children <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/a-poultry-plant-in-ohio-is-under-federal-investigation-for-hiring-24-children/" target="_blank">https://truthout.org/articles/a-poultry-plant-in-ohio-is-under-federal-investigation-for-hiring-24-children/</a><br /><br />Activists Say Biden Betrayed Promises with Continuation of Border Wall Construction <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/10/24/activists-say-biden-betrayed-promises-with-continuation-of-border-wall-construction/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/10/24/activists-say-biden-betrayed-promises-with-continuation-of-border-wall-construction/</a><br /><br />Australians Call to End Long Persecution of WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/10/26/australians-call-to-end-long-persecution-of-wikileaks-julian-assange/" target="_blank">https://scheerpost.com/2023/10/26/australians-call-to-end-long-persecution-of-wikileaks-julian-assange/</a></b></span></p><p></p>Cindy A. Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12724627097783524710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6184788866071073621.post-51849694811320561482023-10-24T00:00:00.111-07:002023-10-24T11:46:02.388-07:00How To Succeed At War Crimes (Without Really Trying)<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <br /></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG0XVSXaKfK7wVGVig3GtTcwXAgwKfDvgySx0FGGPugF3bc5ADbyeoQZIdvtDqlk_G8TKLR1ScjG8tVWl8EcIb-SgCPwZXSOI-jvlhfCKvrK3xdkhlhtk8z4IjiBkZD9jP6IW1cjJF7hKlvrzyZOFiaVQjIgOqhD02iBIUjJDsmR0UvywqmX22b3PmE3P6/s1024/South%20Park%20genocide.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG0XVSXaKfK7wVGVig3GtTcwXAgwKfDvgySx0FGGPugF3bc5ADbyeoQZIdvtDqlk_G8TKLR1ScjG8tVWl8EcIb-SgCPwZXSOI-jvlhfCKvrK3xdkhlhtk8z4IjiBkZD9jP6IW1cjJF7hKlvrzyZOFiaVQjIgOqhD02iBIUjJDsmR0UvywqmX22b3PmE3P6/w400-h400/South%20Park%20genocide.jpeg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>It’s a little bit bomby in Gaza today,</span><br /><span>at least that’s what the news men say.</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Israeli victims were “murdered” and “killed”</span><br /><span>and all mourn the innocent blood that was spilled,</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>but in Gaza explosives just fall from the air</span><br /><span>and nobody mentions </span><i>who</i><span> launched them, from where.</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>They talk about “blasts” and how buildings were “hit”.</span><br /><span>Who blasted and hit them? Eh, who gives a shit.</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>It’s a little bit bomby outside, that’s the weather.</span><br /><span>Put up your umbrellas, dudes. Get it together.</span></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span><i>--<a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/its-a-little-bit-bomby-in-gaza-today" target="_blank">It's a Little Bit Bomby In Gaza Today</a></i> by Caitlin Johnstone <br /></span></span></b></p><p> </p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia;">Name a war crime Israel isn't committing... They're running out of war crimes to try out. --<a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/YQY0F6doSp0?si=MO_cpCcLfW5RFHhA" target="_blank">Lee Camp</a></span></i></b></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b></b></span><p></p><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">How To Succeed At War Crimes </span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">(Without Really Trying)</span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">by C.A. Matthews </span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></p>
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<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i style="font-family: georgia;"> WARNING: The
following is satire and is not to be taken seriously or
followed in order to commit genocide UNLESS you’re already a war
criminal like Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, or one of their
sycophants. Then there’s no need for you to read any further really, is there?
You’ve already written the war crimes playbook, haven’t you?</i></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i style="font-family: georgia;"> </i></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-n1BPFoHE__s-8esZI-u0vHeoRX3gwYhyjaym1PcBLLBz_qOFVLAaUwK6IYo5-7lFcyPolhMPUORb6ZrTlQJHjgvatpgo5KNGVv99SBG22UrN6NDiH2r7CNn5SVaN-yO0DSgBvl1D8XH9M9n7GQxW9vU7TgHTYy9iojIfXnjYQHdznhx7FWkP09AWHZs/s1660/electronic%20intifada.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1660" data-original-width="1079" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-n1BPFoHE__s-8esZI-u0vHeoRX3gwYhyjaym1PcBLLBz_qOFVLAaUwK6IYo5-7lFcyPolhMPUORb6ZrTlQJHjgvatpgo5KNGVv99SBG22UrN6NDiH2r7CNn5SVaN-yO0DSgBvl1D8XH9M9n7GQxW9vU7TgHTYy9iojIfXnjYQHdznhx7FWkP09AWHZs/w260-h400/electronic%20intifada.jpeg" width="260" /></a></div><br /> </i><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <br /></span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZg-8vnNklN25G4LjP2cYhmyjmA5ZBu_q0jKdJRShqQzMn92wJUinoY8TJJ_zlu4ic5l_fZJcVaeeaQGOTbwrPcPw1gLkLKeYTV52PThul6aCN8Z05-FGCg6z__XUrHrh5791ZxKJ1UQnbfi97AyG53QcQG_hZQT6yv9UdktDd5kFSfcWjd_ToBiZH8l7Z/s1080/Holocaust%20survivors%20condemn%20Israel.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1080" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZg-8vnNklN25G4LjP2cYhmyjmA5ZBu_q0jKdJRShqQzMn92wJUinoY8TJJ_zlu4ic5l_fZJcVaeeaQGOTbwrPcPw1gLkLKeYTV52PThul6aCN8Z05-FGCg6z__XUrHrh5791ZxKJ1UQnbfi97AyG53QcQG_hZQT6yv9UdktDd5kFSfcWjd_ToBiZH8l7Z/w320-h228/Holocaust%20survivors%20condemn%20Israel.jpeg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">An excerpt from the
chapter <i>How to Succeed at Genocide...</i></span></b></span></p>
<div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Step 0: First take a
bunch of post-WWII European exiles and give them access to the
British Mandate of Palestine. Let them call themselves “Israel”
after an ancient kingdom mentioned in the Judeo-Christian Bible and
pretend they have always lived in Palestine rather than someplace
like Germany, France, or Poland. Once this lie is established as “fact” through various means of propaganda (See Step 6),
you can then proceed with the following steps.</span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Step 1: If anyone
accuses you of being bloodthirsty, racist, and/or a fascist, accuse
them of “antisemitism” even if they are of Semitic origins, i.e.
most Middle Easterners. Rinse and repeat as often as necessary to
shut down all dialogue and to defame as many persons’ characters as
necessary for your cause.</span></b></span></div><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqtLSbtBzqMNksmuiuPeLtD7ePipL25RS_YE5EMmXZ8dsafjVxdLBmsuEJgc5N-Liuuv_DEoHD6q3mWtETT5nA4o0shA29YgUbHv3nCq3zoznzfYN-Z-ZpvhTftVzYhAGsYOtaXzwpvORpP_j7hGo1os11F9J9XVnjTMct8jdAbemq8fcX8dP7paxMDsbu/s776/500%20billion%20to%20Israel.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="776" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqtLSbtBzqMNksmuiuPeLtD7ePipL25RS_YE5EMmXZ8dsafjVxdLBmsuEJgc5N-Liuuv_DEoHD6q3mWtETT5nA4o0shA29YgUbHv3nCq3zoznzfYN-Z-ZpvhTftVzYhAGsYOtaXzwpvORpP_j7hGo1os11F9J9XVnjTMct8jdAbemq8fcX8dP7paxMDsbu/s320/500%20billion%20to%20Israel.jpeg" width="247" /></a></b></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Step 2: Make friends
with a big warmonger, one with a really big war machine that is
hungry for profits for their military-industrial complex. Ask and
receive military and financial aid from Big Warmonger consistently.
If said Big Warmonger doesn’t put out the goods, lay on the guilt
and accuse them of antisemitism (See Step 1) and tell their paid-off politicians they'll be no more briefcases full of cash until they do as they're told.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Step 3: Build your
own nuclear bomb, or at least start rumors that you have built one
while simultaneously denying the rumors. Make your neighbors in the
region worry you might use the bomb on them or have your friend Big
Warmonger (See Step 2) threaten to use their nukes on your behalf or
invade said neighbor, taking their oil, pipelines, and whatever other
desirable resources they might have.</span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSOKt0GSr8hn1lfY1f65GS-rIvw7Mu3uH_dfavgi4c-F8BXjkPJZgQK5D9oTYJYEIi_pQFMVycPLGhJDGBvGW5kXjZDT1dRguPlk6C_hAe9iUjCwiUVSIVZt207z5OJ2ShBMdUUpA9FTsbYUT2Wbki3wJFaRHwjfXPqLHCTI5-Bw1b92gKwbt2Sw_8nA74/s637/child%20bomb%20survivors.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="637" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSOKt0GSr8hn1lfY1f65GS-rIvw7Mu3uH_dfavgi4c-F8BXjkPJZgQK5D9oTYJYEIi_pQFMVycPLGhJDGBvGW5kXjZDT1dRguPlk6C_hAe9iUjCwiUVSIVZt207z5OJ2ShBMdUUpA9FTsbYUT2Wbki3wJFaRHwjfXPqLHCTI5-Bw1b92gKwbt2Sw_8nA74/s320/child%20bomb%20survivors.jpeg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Step 4: Label as
“enemies” any persons who own any land and/or resources you
desire. Do not let others tell you that these persons who have been
living on the land you desire are, in fact, the actual owners of this
land and its resources. If these “enemies” do not willingly give
up the land and resources you desire, then force them into refugee
camps and walled reservations with very limited means of getting in
or out. Turn off their electricity and water at will to further
emphasize your point that you now own all their land and resources.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Step 5: Denigrate and refuse to recognize your “enemies” as human
beings. Call them names such as “human animals” or “terrorists”
to dehumanize them as much as possible in the eyes of the world at
large. Create propaganda scenarios where your “enemies” are seen
as being only worthy of extermination. Even their children and
elderly are to be painted as “vermin” that must be wiped off the
face of the earth. If anyone argues that you are acting like a Nazi
from the Third Reich, accuse them of antisemitism (See Step 1).</span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY2ZYoNkEagJuCRb1GkhQgf6G6aWG7Y4LYiySZb02xy9xTEVaKOyWZgU5t52RT24-RlUwU6HGUBVks3EW0aMDZ2-HD8Dv_os0ZRApXR3kRqTk32Xy-0AmfoWVDDue_lP-rw8jAehz5fzhkKTZ97oCOW3D88UE8EfIOS01Gtgn8aNSfqiUVb5O2juLAW_uo/s960/Gaza%20bombed.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="942" data-original-width="960" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY2ZYoNkEagJuCRb1GkhQgf6G6aWG7Y4LYiySZb02xy9xTEVaKOyWZgU5t52RT24-RlUwU6HGUBVks3EW0aMDZ2-HD8Dv_os0ZRApXR3kRqTk32Xy-0AmfoWVDDue_lP-rw8jAehz5fzhkKTZ97oCOW3D88UE8EfIOS01Gtgn8aNSfqiUVb5O2juLAW_uo/s320/Gaza%20bombed.jpeg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Israeli army mobilized Ezra Yachin, a 95-year-old army veteran,
to “motivate” the troops. Yachin was a member of the Lehi Zionist
militia that carried out numerous massacres of Palestinian civilians,
including the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/crimes-1948-jewish-fighters-speak-out">Deir Yassin massacre</a> on April 9, 1948, where over 100 Palestinian civilians, many women and children, were slaughtered. </span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Be triumphant and finish them off and don’t leave anyone behind. Erase the memory of them,” Yachin <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-veteran-ezra-yachin-soldiers-erase-children">said</a> addressing Israeli troops.</span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Erase them, their families, mothers and children,” he went on. “These animals can no longer live.” </span></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">“Every Jew with a weapon should go out and kill them,” he said. “If
you have an Arab neighbor, don’t wait, go to his home and shoot him.”--</span></b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Chris Hedges: <a href="https://scheerpost.com/2023/10/22/chris-hedges-let-them-eat-cement/" target="_blank"><i>Let Them Eat Cement</i></a></b></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Step 6: Plant a
“<a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/16/how-benjamin-netanyahu-empowered-hamas/ " target="_blank">false flag</a>” to come up with a real good excuse to start the
extermination of your “enemies.” You’ll know when the time has
come, since you will have been keeping them under close surveillance for
years. Manufacture circumstances that will produce the most
outrage in your supporters. Milk it for all it’s worth in the mainstream media,that is with your top propagandists. Follow the
following tenets of propaganda use for maximum effect:</span></b></span></p><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVDuysIFrJUix56DOic83MMmPVkcQo3TzzL2KoojsLux4xMTE5kxgXV0CYo1Hau_DNGyHgOwWGPAqqK4lQtg6F-3rrfNzS5k51MS1d80Y3fSKVu2sfS1A9ZOKRNCyo-T7nPiw12UEU4LY68wx452qeTCHW5jISp8EYO3pIQr22Qn4JXuYFo1o4TkAY58Ap/s378/gags%20palestine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="378" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVDuysIFrJUix56DOic83MMmPVkcQo3TzzL2KoojsLux4xMTE5kxgXV0CYo1Hau_DNGyHgOwWGPAqqK4lQtg6F-3rrfNzS5k51MS1d80Y3fSKVu2sfS1A9ZOKRNCyo-T7nPiw12UEU4LY68wx452qeTCHW5jISp8EYO3pIQr22Qn4JXuYFo1o4TkAY58Ap/w200-h198/gags%20palestine.jpg" width="200" /></a></span></div>
<p></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lord Posonby's Ten
Commandments of War Propaganda</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">1. We don't want
war, we are only defending ourselves!</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">2. Our adversary is
solely responsible for this war!</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">3. Our adversary's
leader is inherently evil and resembles the devil.</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">4. We are defending
a noble cause, not our particular interests!</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">5. The enemy is
purposefully committing atrocities; if we are making mistakes this
happens without intention.</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">6. The enemy makes
use of illegal weapons.</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">7. We suffer few
losses, the enemy's losses are considerable.</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">8. Recognized
intellectuals and artists support our cause.</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">9. Our cause is
sacred.</span></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">10. Whoever casts
doubt on our propaganda helps the enemy and is a traitor.</span></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijGUxeUDIbP15Jxk4PxTIiDBOhZWUpxrPS067FcdrJkFaj_-I4IOQgjsrcqeqmfrhpt3orRardWOQUl39bSvdYA8QaYZTmtM5pfvfKqI3I8UBjFyEaLKzJBs2f9ugyNyNMy5inCco-F-1qQAp2ppAzZVT48ameyXCjFeICgvpz8pH7hD2y-Xrhoi0R6of2/s1885/Hospital%20warning.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1885" data-original-width="1284" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijGUxeUDIbP15Jxk4PxTIiDBOhZWUpxrPS067FcdrJkFaj_-I4IOQgjsrcqeqmfrhpt3orRardWOQUl39bSvdYA8QaYZTmtM5pfvfKqI3I8UBjFyEaLKzJBs2f9ugyNyNMy5inCco-F-1qQAp2ppAzZVT48ameyXCjFeICgvpz8pH7hD2y-Xrhoi0R6of2/w273-h400/Hospital%20warning.jpeg" width="273" /></a></b></span></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Step 7: Repeat the
above steps as needed to maintain the moral outrage and to <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-mainstream-press-keep-slamming" target="_blank">cover your tracks whenever you slip up</a> and get caught making false phone
conversations, etc., to excuse bombing civilian targets such as
churches and hospitals.</span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Step 8: Above all else, do not (repeat: do <i>NOT</i>) allow the rest of the world to see your "enemies" as human beings. This step cannot be emphasized enough. Once your supporters start seeing your "enemies" as actual human beings who have children and grandparents and homes and hospitals and schools and other relatable things, then you'll have lost the propaganda war. Sure, you might still do some massive extermination and raze a lot of useless buildings in order to build seaside condos, but you will never be able to rebuild the respect you once possessed in the western world. </span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">But if respect isn't particularly what you want or need, keep doing what you're doing until you run out of bombs to drop and bullets to shoot. The moment you do stop dropping bombs and shooting children, you're probably history. You've made a helluva lot of people righteously angry, after all. War crimes aren't for sissies.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;">No no you don’t understand: if Israel stops </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/23/gaza-death-toll-exceeds-5000-as-israel-continues-daily-bombardments" rel="">killing children by the thousands</a><span> in its relentless bombing campaign, the </span><span>nation could be taken over by murderous terrorists. --Caitlin Johnstone, </span><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-israel-stops-murdering-thousands" target="_blank">If Israel Stops Murdering Thousands Of Children, The Bad Guys Might Win</a></i></span></b></span></span></b></p></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></b></span><p></p>
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<p><style type="text/css">p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 115%; background: transparent }a:visited { color: #800000; so-language: zxx; text-decoration: underline }a:link { color: #000080; so-language: zxx; text-decoration: underline }</style></p>The Revolution Continueshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13710180679677988774noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6184788866071073621.post-85902238998964897452023-10-17T00:00:00.029-07:002023-10-17T15:54:14.307-07:00Free Free Palestine!<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>UPDATE: <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-gaza-invasion-live" target="_blank">Israel bombs Gaza hospital killing 500, ignites protests across Middle East: Israel accused of committing a 'crime of genocide' after hospital massacre</a></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-gaza-invasion-live" target="_blank">https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-gaza-invasion-live</a></b></span></span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLHr5w6rQnZlk19n5JBZFXCeWs-swjPqQoNR5VRnf6ic2h4pDRTgnGq6xvXQ4rY9YA_OwEVE9sLi5PY5mDLOLIduO8SSCcF1j4avAIlaU1anz4NxAnDyV05bZQHQbC8aKVJF6VjYXODZtSOBg0A53Y04wK1MExs7iFviYJ1kxb-VXWl6hxsb7rSMIxCtdo/s474/palestine%20flag.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="474" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLHr5w6rQnZlk19n5JBZFXCeWs-swjPqQoNR5VRnf6ic2h4pDRTgnGq6xvXQ4rY9YA_OwEVE9sLi5PY5mDLOLIduO8SSCcF1j4avAIlaU1anz4NxAnDyV05bZQHQbC8aKVJF6VjYXODZtSOBg0A53Y04wK1MExs7iFviYJ1kxb-VXWl6hxsb7rSMIxCtdo/w400-h260/palestine%20flag.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Bh7TMBAQapGzuJtIOjpvYyyCRMS5ktQvbH9ig0y_maEl74kQapuS4Y7iqDx4VyTBkbjTdcf6oFHR6qTB14RWAhu9SZUolRWCd5soXcqewAx-vGly-0C0ntcWl0nLx22psCghlw3vsaI1z-h6ZVdU68QWNMsRRT1KxA_43e5V26Wz1PYFxlOYbvxXBrEN/s2048/amjad%20photo%202.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_Bh7TMBAQapGzuJtIOjpvYyyCRMS5ktQvbH9ig0y_maEl74kQapuS4Y7iqDx4VyTBkbjTdcf6oFHR6qTB14RWAhu9SZUolRWCd5soXcqewAx-vGly-0C0ntcWl0nLx22psCghlw3vsaI1z-h6ZVdU68QWNMsRRT1KxA_43e5V26Wz1PYFxlOYbvxXBrEN/w400-h225/amjad%20photo%202.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>photo by Amjad Doumani<br /></b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Free Free Palestine!</span></b><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">words and some photos by C.A. Matthews</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! Free, free Palestine!”<br /><br />I had thought about writing a piece this week about war propaganda after being inundated with the stuff (almost to the point of overdosing on it) via the mainstream media. I would have talked about how I once wrote a paper for a college sociology class on the effects of propaganda during World War I, and how these very same propaganda techniques carry on today with our government’s selling of the Ukraine proxy war and now this current ethnic cleansing in Gaza. <br /><br /></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfKRxgchtaI0Qyb52Zv3Qm33KMjMWWf-AXDP5w_ftXHAbuwHSsetNYSKmroqbnMfDyGoyTMDzi1OYC8p4oF4zkHZS01nEKNJ7HsvCnryX8Oz19O5hgyszPhjJwlKpNUc4BkVXUjPNK2fq9Vceq6u8s4dHlOESGgmW1WrzoqhVcX3bgNDi6wDyRThyYspbS/s2560/Rally%20for%20Peace.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfKRxgchtaI0Qyb52Zv3Qm33KMjMWWf-AXDP5w_ftXHAbuwHSsetNYSKmroqbnMfDyGoyTMDzi1OYC8p4oF4zkHZS01nEKNJ7HsvCnryX8Oz19O5hgyszPhjJwlKpNUc4BkVXUjPNK2fq9Vceq6u8s4dHlOESGgmW1WrzoqhVcX3bgNDi6wDyRThyYspbS/w320-h240/Rally%20for%20Peace.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Then I attended a local peace demonstration—and then another a day later—to stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people who are being bombed and starved out of existence by the Israeli government, and I changed my mind. The following photos and memes tell their story better than my words could break through the Western pro-war propaganda. <br /><br />A picture paints a thousands words—and engenders empathetic feelings that only sociopaths can deny. Alas, the United States of America is a country run by sociopaths and their followers.<br /><br />But propaganda alone cannot wipe away unforgettable images from the human brain. That’s why the mainstream media and many Western governments—<a href="https://greenwald.locals.com/post/4720272/france-germany-officially-ban-pro-palestinian-protests-as-rabid-us-neocons-urge-us-war-w-iran" target="_blank">France and Germany</a> leading the way—are banning protests and any mentions of sympathy with the Palestinian cause on online platforms to keep the public away from seeing inconvenient photos and videos. Watching the Israeli Defense Force wipe out entire apartment blocks and destroy hospitals and schools doesn’t quite sell the Western viewpoint that Israelis are “innocent” occupiers of the Palestinian homeland.<br /><br />Those little Palestinian boys and girls lying in morgues in Gaza just “accidentally” ran into an IDF bullet or bomb, right? They deserve what they got coming to them according to the Israeli defense minister with the laughable name of </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">“</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Gallant.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">”</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> He ungraciously labeled the Palestinian people </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">“</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">human animals.” Animals that needed to be put down, in his opinion.</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBmMm5wPldT4CVP3LcjQ3bnNH-LwtCV62l2KbUfQedpP5T60Nrojgl0vTsjpu84h-iWbA0qlmMb8W7PE2DOm0uYdF_nvdO9MTX1Wv-N9WggHVuwC7riw7Qgrl1NUVdIKDG5hfdh6t6RP7DI9MNrL96xnJ6vFg-e0GptkoiNMLOZnC6q5M1znH9NegDRhaw/s1452/human%20animals.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1452" data-original-width="968" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBmMm5wPldT4CVP3LcjQ3bnNH-LwtCV62l2KbUfQedpP5T60Nrojgl0vTsjpu84h-iWbA0qlmMb8W7PE2DOm0uYdF_nvdO9MTX1Wv-N9WggHVuwC7riw7Qgrl1NUVdIKDG5hfdh6t6RP7DI9MNrL96xnJ6vFg-e0GptkoiNMLOZnC6q5M1znH9NegDRhaw/w426-h640/human%20animals.jpeg" width="426" /></a></div></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The racism doesn't stop there. In the US, <a href="https://www.arabnews.com/node/2391271/media" target="_blank">MSNBC suspended three Muslim anchors</a> during Israel’s Gaza assault because it didn’t want Muslims reporting on the violence against the Palestinian people. Can you imagine why an American propaganda outlet wouldn’t want a Muslim face talking about how the IDF is committing genocide? Maybe MSNBC thought it would upset their Islamophobic American audience?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXbTnW5M7MoNaIb1Xhk5qdNGC5mPYXCwE0VLlvg5Sh15sP5VvpN7yjzTfUuiB5RWZoorw_jOn7Cg2onH-w8ESgBhj6z9PWPL-Rf5gZYy57O630PIZEAm0CL0g1XpdKpArUNVaYj5kdX051C-Q1DAqHSz3TTb0roTDb7LEJBgLjeWqBOwOM9KbNE464w1L9/s640/stop%20US%20funding%20of%20war%20crimes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXbTnW5M7MoNaIb1Xhk5qdNGC5mPYXCwE0VLlvg5Sh15sP5VvpN7yjzTfUuiB5RWZoorw_jOn7Cg2onH-w8ESgBhj6z9PWPL-Rf5gZYy57O630PIZEAm0CL0g1XpdKpArUNVaYj5kdX051C-Q1DAqHSz3TTb0roTDb7LEJBgLjeWqBOwOM9KbNE464w1L9/w240-h320/stop%20US%20funding%20of%20war%20crimes.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Being forced to live in a concentration camp like Gaza should bring back painful memories to Americans. Unfortunately, it doesn’t for the white majority. Unless your immediate relatives or ancestors have been forced to live on a reservation like Native Americans, or been locked up in an internment camp like Japanese-Americans were during the 1940s, or held in the bonds of slavery for over two centuries because you came from Africa, then you’ve probably no real idea what it means to be held prisoner with members of your ethnic group. You lucked out because of your skin color, religion, money, and/or connections with power. You should be eternally grateful that such great fortune has smiled upon you and yours.<br /></span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjtmFPmOjOZw_7vQ-5jVQ6uE6wHAoKfpL1hvqeguuLMImHIigYjaGAk3WUEYiyTrCZzjFFt-zU-0lsYwFSJu4Mn5RxXVNTYLBtl3GJGKhsQ0Swhtfy_lZO008QTA0z1UwZMNN_REgPM4c92vG_kPHlhpqNQHFGGnKbq7VS0hTeOfLJV1bI6X3nK-dZw7as/s842/Free%20Palestine.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="595" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjtmFPmOjOZw_7vQ-5jVQ6uE6wHAoKfpL1hvqeguuLMImHIigYjaGAk3WUEYiyTrCZzjFFt-zU-0lsYwFSJu4Mn5RxXVNTYLBtl3GJGKhsQ0Swhtfy_lZO008QTA0z1UwZMNN_REgPM4c92vG_kPHlhpqNQHFGGnKbq7VS0hTeOfLJV1bI6X3nK-dZw7as/w283-h400/Free%20Palestine.jpeg" width="283" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’ve noticed sometimes it’s those who have been blessed with the most “freedoms” who are the stingiest and meanest when it comes with sharing freedom with others. I wonder why is that?<br /><br />The modern state of Israel isn’t yet one-hundred years old, and already it’s made a mess of the Middle East by attempting to exterminate indigenous peoples. The modern state of Israel was created by those who survived the Holocaust and then discovered that their governments didn’t particularly want them in Europe anymore. These survivors decided to guilt-trip the powers-that-be after the war to allow them to take over the British Mandate of Palestine, and it worked. Europe was free of Jews, and the Palestinians’ worst nightmare had just begun.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7auXMKXOsutDZkZ8rEWT9iXD4jBt2CbYICP7-qDepv11mb2qSg0oOfGXotCFdJBkmeEsqjqb-OHRwj9GkDr9G-33WrqfUNeGfpAqKJKgGw0OCM9aHx1FThshijmNyjXdfG6C1IlWzVTpbof3u38UYadB_YPDRhyphenhyphenEZVlm43YL2FWyq8QEXFYgwQfapBhTG/s2560/No%20War.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7auXMKXOsutDZkZ8rEWT9iXD4jBt2CbYICP7-qDepv11mb2qSg0oOfGXotCFdJBkmeEsqjqb-OHRwj9GkDr9G-33WrqfUNeGfpAqKJKgGw0OCM9aHx1FThshijmNyjXdfG6C1IlWzVTpbof3u38UYadB_YPDRhyphenhyphenEZVlm43YL2FWyq8QEXFYgwQfapBhTG/w320-h240/No%20War.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Excuse me for thinking this was a terrible idea from the start. The Europeans who harmed their Jewish citizens during WWII should have made reparations to them and given them their original homes, lands, and businesses back in their home countries—not just send them into another people’s country on another continent. The Holocaust survivors were Europeans after all, not Middle Easterners. <br /></span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">White European powers are always looking for some “empty land” (like North America in 1492 or Palestine in 1947) to give out to those they’ve hurt. It helps to kick out people you don't want to see anymore so you don’t have to keep looking directly into their hurt faces and feel guilty for what you did. Sending those you hurt off on a boat to a far distance shore is a convenient way out of dealing with your crimes against your fellow countrymen and women, isn’t it?<br /><br />It’s not so convenient for the innocent people whose lands and resources are to be taken away by those you hurt though, is it? The survivors, the hurt ones have taken on the role of European colonizers now, and they don’t want to see the faces of the indigenous peoples they’re displacing because it’s only adds to their guilty feelings. It’s best just to wipe the indigenous peoples off the map completely so their faces will be no more. Once the Palestinians are gone, the Israelis can rest easy knowing that they’ll never come back to haunt the land.<br /></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUYEvm_z1tCbqV7jP1gpTu8xLoSUqN0-Um1RgK5Gc_oK51rEd_Vea_KWpcVDEn_yw6QMaMF0x9cT9qUKZ3zPwPFAF7yRyenIUUjYE7NuHutmBjgGonlxCGO4P93Xp73Zs4iFsFeRzl262IEMsd-17FWXYIRrDtKKkc4dX0FaWoA1lol746hfkaft2z4Dy-/s500/Netanyahu%20meme.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="500" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUYEvm_z1tCbqV7jP1gpTu8xLoSUqN0-Um1RgK5Gc_oK51rEd_Vea_KWpcVDEn_yw6QMaMF0x9cT9qUKZ3zPwPFAF7yRyenIUUjYE7NuHutmBjgGonlxCGO4P93Xp73Zs4iFsFeRzl262IEMsd-17FWXYIRrDtKKkc4dX0FaWoA1lol746hfkaft2z4Dy-/s320/Netanyahu%20meme.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">But they will come back to haunt you… Those faces should haunt you if you possess an ounce of humanity. The sociopaths and psychopaths of the modern War Machine aren’t particularly haunted by those they’ve slaughtered unfortunately. There’s simply too much money to be made in armament sales. Once you mix European colonizers’ enthusiasm for stealing land from indigenous people with the psychopathology of the Endless War crowd, then you have the perfect recipe for ethnic cleansing or genocide. <br /><br />Caitlin Johnstone states it succinctly:<br /></span></b></span><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Stop calling it the “Israel-Hamas war”. It’s the Israel-Gaza massacre. Calling it the Israel-Hamas war creates the false impression that this is a war that is directed exclusively at Hamas when it’s really an ethnic purge that’s directed at all Palestinians in Gaza.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The child body count alone makes it clear that this isn’t a war against Hamas; I saw an anonymous account point out on Twitter that the number of children killed in this onslaught after one week already exceeds the total number of children killed after a year and a half of fighting in Ukraine, per the United Nations. <br /></span></b></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Laying complete siege to a civilian population and bombing anything that stands would be an extraordinary abomination in any war. And this is not a war, it’s an enclosed shooting range with military explosives and human targets. --<a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/its-not-the-israel-hamas-war-its" target="_blank"><i>It’s Not the Israel-Hamas War, It’s the Israel-Gaza Massacre</i></a> <br /></span></b></span></p></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMT0ckjEE3QyvWzvwzmQZPad8U66_WUWmKiGDVGrWcU8zlJyINFmdzMKYa-GCb_ZmID6lpEk18TWFt5-Yz8EFZBTbntIy5vxkKfoVXFkDuIDEJAAIN79GGDz_vpCqDKlldvV23vCFVS7L9TE1l9YUqT9pJN41xhSqNULIXDxA09pFcvA0wc1dq-4KyhdEC/s1280/humanitarian%20palestine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMT0ckjEE3QyvWzvwzmQZPad8U66_WUWmKiGDVGrWcU8zlJyINFmdzMKYa-GCb_ZmID6lpEk18TWFt5-Yz8EFZBTbntIy5vxkKfoVXFkDuIDEJAAIN79GGDz_vpCqDKlldvV23vCFVS7L9TE1l9YUqT9pJN41xhSqNULIXDxA09pFcvA0wc1dq-4KyhdEC/w320-h240/humanitarian%20palestine.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Guess what’s not happening in the modern state of Israel? They’re not following the human rights laws of the United Nations. Worse yet, they’re not even following the commandment, “Thou shall not kill,” either. No one can convince me the modern state of Israel is based upon religion and morality. <a href="https://twitter.com/BTnewsroom/status/1712606372813066586" target="_blank">Recent surveys </a>show how modern Israelis are extremely prejudiced against Palestinians and wouldn’t dare let their son or daughter date or marry one. </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Kill a Palestinian to take his homeland, yes, but marry one? No.<br /><br />So, don’t kid a kidder who was born in the South and has witnessed racism up close. Israel is all about racism and white European settler colonialism, pure and simple. It's not about the Jewish religion. <a href="https://secure.everyaction.com/WH4kpGHXsUWYNw8oPmZ4bg2?sourceid=1051385&emci=b5fa86ed-6f6b-ee11-9937-00224832eb73&emdi=fc20dee9-726b-ee11-9937-00224832eb73&ceid=16801418" target="_blank">My American Jewish contacts support the Palestinians and their desire to have their homeland back</a>, and they don’t disown their family members who marry outside the faith. That’s not was being an observant Jew is all about, I’m told.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdiXWXN_BZE59vgtc6nnUXbu6A_0n-bFgCtmiOO24fNNrE4pISrGCF9zUVp2fQysnnzew2RKgyN1BFs3-e4dQo3Ul10rib7LpBu0BzFhXvcaOOrqsnFXr1kR4OCD07sRnMGkmx6x0bprf37Fz5DZCoO6xnwuz22EQyM1y1Qp-IU2H22hiLYIJzn3LqOLse/s1280/not%20conflict%20genocide.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdiXWXN_BZE59vgtc6nnUXbu6A_0n-bFgCtmiOO24fNNrE4pISrGCF9zUVp2fQysnnzew2RKgyN1BFs3-e4dQo3Ul10rib7LpBu0BzFhXvcaOOrqsnFXr1kR4OCD07sRnMGkmx6x0bprf37Fz5DZCoO6xnwuz22EQyM1y1Qp-IU2H22hiLYIJzn3LqOLse/w320-h240/not%20conflict%20genocide.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I’m not falling for the cultish propaganda circulating on the internet about how Israel's massacre of the Palestinian people is all about “The End Times” or Armageddon and Jesus returning. As if! The Netanyahu government is taking their cues from the Ku Klux Klan or the Third Reich, not the Bible. After all, the book of Genesis states all human beings were made in God’s image. Why should we destroy God’s own handiwork--our fellow human beings-- if we truly believed in what the Bible says? Wouldn’t that make God sad and angry?<br /><br /></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The saddest part of all is the US military helping Israel commit war crimes and not helping save the innocents. Not only are the US “Ministry of Truth” propagandists tasked with convincing the public that “Ukraine is winning the war against Russia,” they’ll have to convince us that simultaneously starting a war with Iran (that says it backs Hamas) is a good idea. Billions of dollars of armaments sent to two hot spots on the globe that is raising the risk of setting off a nuclear world war…</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></b></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-VEFMSYYPzUNoRU_e0ycmF85YZPXDAq-wunTizjBfktMwfG0s2JqGjwTp98DAkVM0PotUKLQ1sDqZa1IiP6qDjTWsIsqk7MJdw16wKWrtL3VtZoX2hgJHXUvi-KhlbXwohZgxfUGRQp_p-IjCWc-6U7qyER7jUUarZBAp5BraU6ZSMpW46QtdNHHOCJdP/s2000/disappearing%20Palestine.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1439" data-original-width="2000" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-VEFMSYYPzUNoRU_e0ycmF85YZPXDAq-wunTizjBfktMwfG0s2JqGjwTp98DAkVM0PotUKLQ1sDqZa1IiP6qDjTWsIsqk7MJdw16wKWrtL3VtZoX2hgJHXUvi-KhlbXwohZgxfUGRQp_p-IjCWc-6U7qyER7jUUarZBAp5BraU6ZSMpW46QtdNHHOCJdP/w400-h288/disappearing%20Palestine.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Settler colonialism seems to be at the root of many problems in the world. Diplomacy and peace talks could help solve these problems. Bombing innocent children, starving them, preventing them and their families from getting to safety, and then stealing their homeland won’t solve anyone’s problems.<br /><br />When has genocide ever solved anyone’s problems?<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYNAXXKrEHMXEBLVarLWKmDJCDyFJcT1vAf7pom4c9At7UJ8HQv05WBeHPNHVviSk3IfQymqzFU2w4gak6E2dGv4l-8ME4jbS9zNVV1SBlVCqpfP1Wd7iHYwtVl4HbgMfcqwKAEMYfSKolKredVb8uE3VD67x6W6hO4EwKqpLg4Qpw5IqjKLG5Z5Nn9un6/s792/always%20a%20genocide.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="792" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYNAXXKrEHMXEBLVarLWKmDJCDyFJcT1vAf7pom4c9At7UJ8HQv05WBeHPNHVviSk3IfQymqzFU2w4gak6E2dGv4l-8ME4jbS9zNVV1SBlVCqpfP1Wd7iHYwtVl4HbgMfcqwKAEMYfSKolKredVb8uE3VD67x6W6hO4EwKqpLg4Qpw5IqjKLG5Z5Nn9un6/s320/always%20a%20genocide.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div></b></span><p></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Chris Hedges says it well:</span></b></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is not a war. It is the obliteration of civilians trapped for 16 years in the world’s largest concentration camp. Gaza is being leveled, flattened, destroyed, reduced to rubble. Hundreds of thousands of its impoverished residents will be killed, wounded or left homeless without food, fuel, water and medical help. Nearly 600 <a href="https://www.dci-palestine.org/genocide_in_gaza_nearly_600_palestinian_children_killed_by_israeli_forces" target="_blank">children</a> are already dead. (As of today, it’s 1250 Palestinians killed.)</span></b></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has been forced to close 14 food distribution centers leaving half a million people without food relief. Gaza’s only power plant has run out of fuel. The United Nations says 12 of its staff have been <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-8-situation-gaza-strip" target="_blank">killed by Israeli air strikes</a>, 21 out of 22 UNRWA health facilities in Gaza have been damaged and hospitals lack basic medicines and supplies.</span></b></span></p></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Israel, as it has in the past, will <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/content/genocide-against-silenced-people/38796" target="_blank">block </a>the dissemination of independent reporting and images once some 360,000 soldiers launch a ground assault. It cut internet service in Gaza on Saturday. The brief glimpses of Israeli atrocities that make it out will be dismissed by Israeli leaders as anomalies or blamed on Hamas.</span></b></span></blockquote> <blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The West refuses to intervene, as 2.3 million people, including 1 million children, are deprived of food, fuel, electricity and water, see their schools and hospitals bombed and are butchered and rendered homeless by one of the most advanced military machines on the planet. – <i><a href="https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/this-way-for-the-genocide-ladies" target="_blank">This Way for the Genocide, Ladies and Gentlemen </a></i></span></b></span></p></blockquote><p> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Free, free Palestine! NOW. Tomorrow may be too late.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyZ7MlFlVaTkXf-3Snnj8R7PsGvkep4mynMFZpAHFtyQQQAmYYIRm1l8oOIKh9uzL0s62NQCeBfPqaOR2IGslq0cyoqt346uutL7s-T0mgLvjIQf1y5qEi7GmzcHV_hsAwVAMBJdQ98-LzkiFEmzOdx7BiYXE4flkH9pqzPS7WkjktyBWtXAboA0wQejTZ/s2560/flag%20on%20Secor.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="2560" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyZ7MlFlVaTkXf-3Snnj8R7PsGvkep4mynMFZpAHFtyQQQAmYYIRm1l8oOIKh9uzL0s62NQCeBfPqaOR2IGslq0cyoqt346uutL7s-T0mgLvjIQf1y5qEi7GmzcHV_hsAwVAMBJdQ98-LzkiFEmzOdx7BiYXE4flkH9pqzPS7WkjktyBWtXAboA0wQejTZ/w320-h240/flag%20on%20Secor.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKDWLDbAF8hvTJiygijFbkfoKOHBLEZTb1tQHJT7Oj7l7lUYyUhT-R1Kx0M29_j9fuz-ZBsejayMD1yl8FsCFQNUW44lMTacTxJHqTDJEm1Iu1SP2jjT7FVaDf1Vy64hk73-Bnzk8d8O8gdJB4qTNG39qO2G1KZ0eUWfQ_nzvfDozVa_ulOguqEC-kAInU/s1280/flag%20wavers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKDWLDbAF8hvTJiygijFbkfoKOHBLEZTb1tQHJT7Oj7l7lUYyUhT-R1Kx0M29_j9fuz-ZBsejayMD1yl8FsCFQNUW44lMTacTxJHqTDJEm1Iu1SP2jjT7FVaDf1Vy64hk73-Bnzk8d8O8gdJB4qTNG39qO2G1KZ0eUWfQ_nzvfDozVa_ulOguqEC-kAInU/s320/flag%20wavers.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />From Twitter/X:<br /></span></b></span><p></p><p></p><div class="css-1dbjc4n"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-a1ub67"><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-ubezar r-16dba41 r-7ptqe7 r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__uhmjrg179h" lang="en"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;">RECAP </span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="font-family: georgia;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Israel?src=hashtag_click" role="link">#Israel</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;"> </span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="font-family: georgia;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestine?src=hashtag_click" role="link">#Palestine</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;"> (as of 21:00 GMT, 15 October)
1. The death toll in Gaza has exceeded 2,450 people with over 60% of the victims being children and women
2. At least 1,000 are still missing under the rubble and over 9,600 have been wounded
3. In Israel, the death toll has reached 1,400 people while 3,400 are wounded, with scores of captives still being held in Gaza
4. At least 12 journalists have been killed since the start of the war, 10 of them Palestinian and one Israeli, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists
5. Israel dropped equivalent to “a quarter of a nuclear bomb” according to the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
6. 47 families have been “entirely wiped out from the civil registry”
7. Gaza’s healthcare system is “taking its last breath amid Israeli massacres”
8. Gaza’s hospitals are overwhelmed with wounded patients which they can no longer cater for, and people seek shelter in the hospital corridors. 6 hospitals in Gaza have shut down after being bombed
9. Fire exchanges between Israel and Lebanon have escalated, as Hezbollah vowed to react if Israel’s aggression on Gaza does not end
10. The Palestinian health ministry says one Palestinian is killed every five minutes in Gaza, while an emergency mass grave has been established to cater for the high number of dead
11. Israel is seeking to close down Al Jazeera’s bureau in the country, with their journalists facing harassment
12. Palestinians in Gaza are in danger of mass ethnic cleansing, Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, warned</span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-vlxjld r-37j5jr r-ubezar r-16dba41 r-7ptqe7 r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__uhmjrg179h" lang="en"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></b></span></div></div></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n"><div class="css-1dbjc4n"><div aria-label="7 replies, 25 reposts, 37 likes, 4 bookmarks, 20815 views" class="css-1dbjc4n r-1oszu61 r-1ila09b r-rull8r r-qklmqi r-1kfrmmb r-1efd50x r-5kkj8d r-1kbdv8c r-18u37iz r-195d4m8 r-1wtj0ep r-3qxfft r-s1qlax" id="id__ecbc2ch97me" role="group"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-13awgt0 r-18u37iz r-1h0z5md"></div></div></div></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-13awgt0 r-18u37iz r-1h0z5md"></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-13awgt0 r-18u37iz 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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Israel is one of the most racist countries in the world.<br /><br />While Israel works hard to play the victim, it’s actually a racist, Jewish supremacist state that aims to ethnically cleanse Palestine.<br /><br />BT’s <a href="https://twitter.com/KeiPritsker?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KeiPritsker</a> explains how racism is the core of Israel’s national identity <a href="https://t.co/71JY6OggEv">pic.twitter.com/71JY6OggEv</a></span></b></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">— BreakThrough News (@BTnewsroom) <a href="https://twitter.com/BTnewsroom/status/1712606372813066586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 12, 2023</a></span></b></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/BTnewsroom/status/1712606372813066586" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/BTnewsroom/status/1712606372813066586 </a></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></p> <span style="font-size: small;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Today was one of the worst days in Gaza<br /><br />So far:<br /><br />—2,800 Palestinians, incl 800 children and 900 women, killed by Israel. That's double the israeli death toll.<br /><br />—1,200 Palestinians, incl 500 children are missing, suspected to be under the rubble.<br /><br />—Over a million Gazans displaced</span></b></p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) <a href="https://twitter.com/richimedhurst/status/1714036369058635897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 16, 2023</a></span></b></blockquote><p><a href="https://twitter.com/richimedhurst/status/1714036369058635897 " target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">https://twitter.com/richimedhurst/status/1714036369058635897</span></b> </a><br /></p><p> </p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script> Cindy A. Matthewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12724627097783524710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6184788866071073621.post-22915314558760225752023-10-10T00:00:00.067-07:002023-10-10T11:08:22.002-07:00Why The Revolution Hasn’t Started Yet Part II: Team Work<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Happy Indigenous People's Day!</span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsvQHHmy37ewZT_oFd6tU361y_QkVWl8isshH1m5rDJoy87ZnVsAw9r4ffqpXQ-h7rCsUFdRhvMhplwsAyntf4YmAI9ANtslWJbnQiXuttXxWm7SC2tpEHQxEljkqxR0PH1IsTPOG7ycBlrHJ3pm-CToh_AEoYwNjUtoQRfrkDSeWvEd0VKFKSLLKYeJjj/s2000/fuck%20Columbus.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="967" data-original-width="2000" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsvQHHmy37ewZT_oFd6tU361y_QkVWl8isshH1m5rDJoy87ZnVsAw9r4ffqpXQ-h7rCsUFdRhvMhplwsAyntf4YmAI9ANtslWJbnQiXuttXxWm7SC2tpEHQxEljkqxR0PH1IsTPOG7ycBlrHJ3pm-CToh_AEoYwNjUtoQRfrkDSeWvEd0VKFKSLLKYeJjj/s320/fuck%20Columbus.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Free the </span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">indigenous</span></b></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"> people of Palestine from the internment camp created by their occupiers! Free Palestine! Watch this short video from 2 years ago to understand better what's going on there today. Related article links are located in the links section below this week's blog post. It's a post inspired by an incident this past week that proves the 1%/capitalists/occupiers are everywhere and could be anyone, even a person you thought you could trust to be on the people's side...<br /></span></b></span></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iWG7JB9saE4?si=7wJwItR31vgQ4VxY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJZSKL-TRiYQQQC7W2b2_oeQUknR-YZXxTCX88OGDP7dUY0cnd0wpGR0VmTRaad_sQmP_nHDMwb0TJgu5iIsqk8QR1QJVyBlHnloGOmHYRjiHE_fFoTN7jpi8cNYQxIzSW8R4NvvRvp6UZ2njKsfZxk_BfsCSNsntjtLqN1t1CiEkNao5TPng2eAUabsP/s420/Revolution%20by%20the%20workers.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="417" data-original-width="420" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJZSKL-TRiYQQQC7W2b2_oeQUknR-YZXxTCX88OGDP7dUY0cnd0wpGR0VmTRaad_sQmP_nHDMwb0TJgu5iIsqk8QR1QJVyBlHnloGOmHYRjiHE_fFoTN7jpi8cNYQxIzSW8R4NvvRvp6UZ2njKsfZxk_BfsCSNsntjtLqN1t1CiEkNao5TPng2eAUabsP/w400-h398/Revolution%20by%20the%20workers.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Why The Revolution Hasn’t Started Yet <br /></span></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Part II: Team Work<br /></span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">by C.A. Matthews<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">If you want our society to change for the better so you don’t have to keep asking, “Why hasn’t the Revolution started yet?” then you need to grow up emotionally and treat your fellow workers as equals, worthy of your trust, respect, and forgiveness. Anything less won’t cut it. —from <i><a href="https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/why-the-revolution-hasnt-started" target="_blank">Why The Revolution Hasn’t Started Yet</a></i></span></b></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i></i></span></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />I never thought I’d be writing another piece along these lines—and so soon—but needs must. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Revolution hasn’t started yet because some of us are still not on the same page as to what being a socialist means. I’m not talking about technical terms or academic explanations. I’m talking about what it means to want to make the world a better place.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Hopefully I explained it well in my first essay that wanting to make the world a better place means that you want it to become a better place for all human beings. And I meant all, not just for those you like or those who look like you, think like you, or like the same kinds of food, books, music, movies, and video games as you. If we make a decision to leave anyone out, then we’re not truly wishing to reform society to bring about equality. We’re just wanting to change things a little bit to make life easier for ourselves and those who are essentially clones of us. That’s not socialism; that’s just maintaining the capitalist status quo.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">When we make the decision—consciously or unconsciously—to leave out the other 99% of human beings and keep the good stuff only for the 1% we agree with and like to be around, then we are not acting like a socialist. The 99% versus the 1%… Now, where have I heard those percentages before?</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Revolution hasn’t started yet because it’s not going to start with just the 1% who want it to begin in order to meet their own personal wants and desires. No person is an island unto themselves, so you have to acknowledge that, by the end of the day, the Revolution must involve the whole planet and the entirety of its inhabitants or else it’s a bust.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">We can’t go it alone, in other words. The Revolution is going to take a team effort. So we must form teams and nurture them.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">To be a team working toward a socialist Revolution means we have to respect and trust our fellow team members. We make a promise to each other that we’ll work together to reach our goals of equality and that we will be there for each other, come what may. We can’t bail out on our team members when times get tough. We can’t just walk away without giving a decent reason as to what why we wish to leave the team.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">We make a promise when we join the team to keep the lines of communication open. That means we can’t hold grudges and stuff all our hurts or confusions deep inside ourselves. We have to share what’s on our minds. We have to talk—and listen—to each other as equals, respecting each other’s unique perspective.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Sure, we might need to take a break or some R and R occasionally, but we don’t leave our fellow teammates out in the cold without any explanation about what’s going on with us. We can’t afford to keep our fellow workers out of the loop or else misunderstandings could occur. Misunderstandings can break up the team and destroy the efforts we’re making as a team. Because we truly respect and trust each other and want only the best for all of humanity, we won’t risk breaking up our team. We should see our team of fellow socialists as an essential tool to make the whole of Planet Earth safer, healthier, and happier. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Breaking up a team for personal wants or desires comes across as an action a capitalist would take. A capitalist is an individual who sees himself or herself as being intrinsically better than others and possibly more deserving of attention. It’s a person who relishes getting their own way and telling others what to do since they know better, so it isn't necessary to share the limelight or the decision-making processes. A capitalist might join a team and say they’re doing it for the sake of the Revolution, but they see the others on the team only as being good for window-dressing and grunt work purposes. The voice and image that matters are the capitalist’s.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">To reiterate, socialists treat everyone with respect, freely giving their trust and forgiveness to their fellow workers. This is necessary for all to benefit from the better society socialism is building. No one is left behind! Socialists aren’t doing all this work on their own for their own glory—they’re members of a team, working together to realize the dream of a better world for all of creation, human beings as well as the plants, animals and the totality of the environment.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The reason I’m revisiting <a href="https://therevolutioncontinues.substack.com/p/why-the-revolution-hasnt-started" target="_blank">my previous article</a> this week is because of the actions of one of the persons it was inspired by. Suddenly what I thought was true of all socialists, that we all are working hard together to bring about the better society, might not be quite as true for this particular person as I first believed. I might have projected my hopes and dreams onto this person, thinking he was happy to be working toward building this better world as a member of our big team. I was wrong. Recent events have convinced me that maybe deep down this person wants to do things on his own because it would be of more benefit to his own team, the 1%.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">It’s heartbreaking to come to this realization. I’m deeply disappointed, but it’s better to discover the truth now rather than later. Later on when the corporate contributions via political action committees (PACs), Super PACs, and millionaires’ checks come rolling into this person’s campaign war chest, we’ll see how, slowly but surely, this candidate’s focus will shift toward his wealthy capitalists donors at the expense of the working class. </span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVfkdL_6qdbogl9SIN14RIpqMPQvTAMD0PaV7C682BUkWBIZsvH5Yebw6cnzpSYSGIlhORfmv1dhkcf6IvB6c8Vz1H_HUwud6lV2OTD3zZ4gk3oLktAKCtuTDwv2rjvj_4ETEVQxhYHgImzxIX7gVRuUWtaYvlHg4XOcDiU4UfPylDABvpJ2AbkuMyiNPw/s800/people%20for%20Cornel%20statement.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVfkdL_6qdbogl9SIN14RIpqMPQvTAMD0PaV7C682BUkWBIZsvH5Yebw6cnzpSYSGIlhORfmv1dhkcf6IvB6c8Vz1H_HUwud6lV2OTD3zZ4gk3oLktAKCtuTDwv2rjvj_4ETEVQxhYHgImzxIX7gVRuUWtaYvlHg4XOcDiU4UfPylDABvpJ2AbkuMyiNPw/w320-h320/people%20for%20Cornel%20statement.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></b></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">It might have already happened at a $250 a ticket soiree held in this person’s honor. The workers who thought they were on the same team, but who couldn’t afford this type of luxury, weren’t welcome. Worse yet, the venue where the event was held is known for being hostile to its own workers unionizing. That doesn’t sound like a place a socialist would want to be seen partying at, let alone allowing it to host their fundraiser. Why cater to capitalists at the expense of those you presumably wish to help unless you feel they are not worthy of your help to begin with?</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">This is not a campaign I’d be proud to be a part of as a socialist. The duopoly candidates accept corporate money via PACs/Super PACs and host champagne receptions with rich capitalists. I thought the candidate was on our team—the workers who wish to bring about a better society—but maybe I misunderstood. He seems to be on a team of one.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Our team was doing hard work to help this candidate get on the ballot in multiple states. Ballot access work for alternative party candidates in the US truly takes a team effort. We really felt that the candidate was a member of our team, and he respected our efforts. We were all equals. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">But it seems this person prefers to pay strangers to collect signatures for his ballot access instead. It explains why he suddenly announced he was leaving our team’s party in the middle of our ballot access work. He wants to be free to take PAC dollars and kiss up to rich capitalists to raise funds to pay for these professional petition circulators. He didn’t seem to appreciate our team’s volunteer efforts, even though we had been doing quite well gaining ballot access so far.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">In a recent <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/VqFeyVHAwa4?si=zpwL6eEnbXHx2m8g" target="_blank">online interview</a>, this person demonstrated that he isn’t really into “grassroots democracy” which is practiced by our team’s political party. He stated plainly that he didn’t want to go through our team’s party primary or its debates or even attend state party events in order to meet with fellow team members. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">This person said in the interview that meeting with members of the party was a waste of time and took him away from the <i>real people</i> he wanted to reach with his campaign. He even stated a horrible falsehood that the party didn’t reach out to people of color and that nobody in those communities even knew who we were, but they knew who he was, so it was better if he just walked away from our team’s party now.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ouch. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Does that mean the people of color who are members of our team's party don’t count in his eyes? Those who worked hard for his campaign's ballot access don’t count? Those he claims aren't worthy of his time don’t count? That he doesn't consider any of us to be his equals?<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">And this person claims to be a “socialist”? </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Apparently, this person, who freely joined our party, wants to be free to use campaign finance methods such as PACs that have totally corrupted the duopoly. Can’t he see that by pushing away the enthusiastic volunteer ballot petitioners and accepting large sums of cash from millionaires/billionaires is exactly what the capitalist corporate-owned-and-operated candidates of the duopoly do? Does he believe those large sums of money won't affect him like they've have for every candidate before him?<br /></span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">If he wants to run his campaign like a capitalist/duopolist, then perhaps he’s not really interested in building a better world for all that he thinks he is.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Revolution hasn’t started yet because some folks, who may have fooled themselves into thinking they’re socialists, are actually arrogant lone wolves of the capitalist class. They don’t hunt in a pack. They want to do it all by themselves, and you should be grateful to get anywhere near their presence without a minimum $250 donation.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">You could say that they “don’t play well with others,” but that’s assuming they even know we “others” exist in the first place. A socialist would acknowledge that their teammates can provide invaluable insights and assistance. A socialist would have the humility to ask for and accept help from others they see as equals instead of ditching them and buying help. A capitalist feels free to walk away from those they see as </span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">“</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">less than</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">”</span></b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"> at any time and hang out with their rich friends because they're more important. It’s called hierarchy.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">This person, a candidate who likes to call himself a “Jazz Man,” is really a solo artist. He wants to do things his way without a thought to how his fellow band members could be of benefit to the cause. He’s not interested in making harmonious music with others. He said in the interview he felt he was better off without our party volunteers around, bringing his image down, keeping him away from the <i>real people</i> who counted more, in his opinion. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">In other words, "Screw the workers who can only donate their blood, sweat, and tears instead of big fat checks!"</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Revolution hasn’t started yet because we the workers, the loyal teammates, need to stop relying on capitalists to lead us through this corrupted and corrupting system of government. We must start leading ourselves without the so-called leadership of famous personalities and other arrogant types who believe their own press releases. We must build our own teams of equals and call the shots.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">We must do it ourselves. Worker standing beside worker. As equals. As brothers and sisters. Together.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">Power to the people.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi19B-8PKqLjWPs6O-070cyvo8l7fU2Y8Mx4HYFo5t6wglrbptmN8WBuEbgLEMmyOimIX5EKsxGAexnw8vcEb9tmdWtmN7fWWlhIQWp0dzbB0afY4BGVrfPbppm9Q2_UhhWYeO-frX2qB8MvcPGA4k_vzwHo-nkGz8fHsw0Oltiu0kSXykZSvumzlr-xHfI/s680/Capitalism%20Kills%20More%20Than.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="512" height="400" 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