February 29, 2024

'The fix is in': Coup trial delay reveals Supreme Court 'in cahoots' with Trump

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Really scary stuff.

February 19, 2024

AIPAC Throws Millions at Possible Insurgent Campaigns to Unseat Progressive Democrats

I repeat, ' TO UNSEAT PROGESSIVE DEMOCRATS!! I had no idea until I just came across this info!
It is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee! They used to only lobby, now they're funding elections!

In a mounting offensive by AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, to unseat progressives who speak up for Palestinian rights, Westchester County Executive George Latimer, who has been courted by AIPAC, announced earlier today he is launching a primary challenge against New York Congressmember Jamaal Bowman.

Last month, two Michigan Democrats running for the U.S. Senate revealed AIPAC offered them $20 million to instead primary Congressmember Rashida Tlaib for her House seat. Nasser Beydoun, a Lebanese American businessman, and Hill Harper, a Hollywood actor-turned-politician, both turned AIPAC down.

Meanwhile, a new book by journalist Ryan Grim reports an AIPAC representative approached Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with an offer to raise $100,000 after her stunning 2018 win. The fundraising was presented as an opening salvo to “start the conversation” about AOC’s position on Israel.

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/12/6/headlines/aipac_throws_millions_at_possible_insurgent_campaigns_to_unseat_progressive_democrats

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This kind of activity will come closer to the forefront as people start asking questions.
WISE UP!

February 14, 2024

Israel launches strikes on Lebanon; hostage talks in Egypt continue

Source: WaPo

(( This is international news, this war is far beyind the constraints of Israel / Palestian context only. ))

Israel launched an attack on neighboring Lebanon on Wednesday, striking various locations in the south that killed at least four people and raising the specter of war between the two countries. The strikes followed a morning attack launched from Lebanon into Israel that struck a house and a military base. One Israeli woman was killed, and at least eight people were injured, according to a government spokeswoman.

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Aid organizations and several world leaders are renewing calls for Israel to rethink its impending military operation on Rafah, warning of widespread destruction and heavy civilian casualties.

Nearly 1.5 million people have crowded into Rafah, the southern Gaza city that was once seen as a last refuge for those attempting to flee fighting elsewhere in the enclave. Before the war, Rafah’s population was estimated to be 280,000. Now, the overwhelmed city is bracing for what Israel has referred to as a “massive operation” meant to “collapse” the remaining Hamas units in the Gaza Strip.

“Military operations in Rafah could lead to a slaughter in Gaza,” Martin Griffiths, the U.N. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, warned in a statement on Tuesday.

“The international community has been warning against the dangerous consequences of any ground invasion in Rafah,” he added. “The Government of Israel cannot continue to ignore these calls. History will not be kind.”

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On Wednesday, the prime ministers of Spain and Ireland sent a joint letter to the European Commission warning of the risk of a “humanitarian catastrophe posed by the imminent threat of Israeli military operations in Rafah.” The two leaders urged the European Union to undertake an urgent review of whether Israel was complying with its obligations to respect international human rights law.




Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/14/israel-hamas-war-news-gaza-palestine/

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“The international community has been warning against the dangerous consequences of any ground invasion in Rafah,” he added. “The Government of Israel cannot continue to ignore these calls. History will not be kind.”

February 14, 2024

The new-ish D.U. "TOP" button. I guess I'm late to the party but this new TOP button is great! I used to scroll back

to the top of each page, but now I just used the button on the lower left of each page.

Wondeful!

That is all.
Thank you.

EDIT: Usonian is right, each POST has the TOP button though every page seems to have the "BACK TO TOP" button.

February 12, 2024

Overnight bombing in Rafa kills 67, most-likely innocent people.

This is international news, this war is far beyind the constraints of Israel / Palestian context only.


JERUSALEM — The Israeli strikes that lit up the night in Gaza’s southern city of Rafah on Monday sent pulses of fear through the 1.4 million Palestinians for whom that strip of land has become a shelter of last resort.

Israel’s army described the overnight attacks as cover for a special forces mission to rescue two elderly Israeli-Argentine hostages. The operation succeeded, but at massive human cost: At least 67 people were killed in locations throughout the area, the enclave’s Health Ministry said. A video from a nearby house showed the body of a Palestinian girl, her legs shredded into ribbons of flesh; other footage showed a bleeding boy being carried away, and four more children dead on hospital stretchers.

The ministry said that 164 people have been killed and another 200 wounded across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours. That the overnight operation had focused on Rafah, a place that Israel’s army had until recently described as somewhere it would spare from attacks, shocked a bone-tired population that has spent months on the move, in what has often felt to them like a futile attempt to outrun the bombs.

WaPo:: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/12/israel-rafah-strikes-panic-offensive/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3cb8353%2F65ca52754fe9d4463de77890%2F5fe8e448ade4e21670bc1e37%2F5%2F53%2F65ca52754fe9d4463de77890

It's through my subscription so it might not help you.




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February 11, 2024

The Entitlement of Cars, Self-Driving or not and The Loss of Pedestrian Rights - Has A Long and Interesting History.

I remembered this article yesterday after reading about the vandalism and burning of a self-driving car in Chinatown S.F. CA.
It is a war of classes and convenience.

From Voxx: https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history


A hundred years ago, if you were a pedestrian, crossing the street was simple: You walked across it.

Today, if there's traffic in the area and you want to follow the law, you need to find a crosswalk. And if there's a traffic light, you need to wait for it to change to green.


Fail to do so, and you're committing a crime: jaywalking. In some cities — Los Angeles, for instance — police ticket tens of thousands of pedestrians annually for jaywalking, with fines of up to $250.

To most people, this seems part of the basic nature of roads. But it's actually the result of an aggressive, forgotten 1920s campaign led by auto groups and manufacturers that redefined who owned the city streets.

"In the early days of the automobile, it was drivers' job to avoid you, not your job to avoid them," says Peter Norton, a historian at the University of Virginia and author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. "But under the new model, streets became a place for cars — and as a pedestrian, it's your fault if you get hit."

One of the keys to this shift was the creation of the crime of jaywalking. Here's a history of how that happened.

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As cars began to spread widely during the 1920s, the consequence of this was predictable: death. Over the first few decades of the century, the number of people killed by cars skyrocketed.

Those killed were mostly pedestrians, not drivers, and they were disproportionately the elderly and children, who had previously had free rein to play in the streets.

The public response to these deaths, by and large, was outrage. Automobiles were often seen as frivolous playthings, akin to the way we think of yachts today, they were often called "pleasure cars". And on the streets, they were considered violent intruders.

Cities erected prominent memorials for children killed in traffic accidents, and newspapers covered traffic deaths in detail, usually blaming drivers. They also published cartoons demonizing cars, often associating them with the Grim Reaper.

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Then the corporate lobbying and massive ad / propaganda campaign began. Worth the read.

February 10, 2024

In a nutshell: The Sick Fucks' rallies are nothing more than organized temper tantrums. eom

February 8, 2024

As with so many others, it finally hit me: the sick feeling I get seeing pics of Donald Trump. Like rubber-necking a

car wreck, there was some kind of curiosity full-filling to be had. But now, seeing pics or videos of Trump and his family literally turns my stomach.

I'm guessing that there are more and more people feeling this way every day.

February 7, 2024

Israel's "Deliberate Propaganda Campaign"" Holy Crap! From Democracy Now! This no conspiracy theory or some goofy

idea.

This is astounding! The lies to U.S. authorities, the fake news about UNWRA staffers being involved with the 10/7 attack. It appears to be all part of a propaganda strategy.

Didn't all the so-called Hamas evil doings sound a bit too unreal? Well, it was according to a journalist who looked closely at the many deaths of individual Israelis.

A piece about Hamas' atrocities in major media was written by a former IDF soldier!
I am NOT defending Hamas, but the truth requires exposure and WILL come out.

This is a MUST watch.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/13219556

February 7, 2024

Our cat seems to favor no faith, no dogma, Our dog however, favors out-running Karma and

chasing Khatma.

Aaarf!