Monday, June 17: Eid Mubarak Errbody
First and foremost a most sincere Eid Mubarak to all the beautiful homies and their families and the entirety of the beauty of humanity out there. The past year has been filled with the worst sorts of news updates, as we witness a world-historical atrocity, every day seeing something that should abolish the entire human civilization, and then we wake up again, still here, watching the world seemingly forget about yesterday. Every day we’re still finding ways to be inspired to try and improve our reality, and I respect and appreciate all of you out there doing the same.
Eid Mubarak specifically and especially to all of our brothers and sisters in Sudan and Palestine. So many of them were deprived of the chance to properly celebrate Ramadan or Eid al Fitr earlier this year, and now they’re spending Eid al Adha being massacred and ignored months later. May we witness the liberation of our nations one after the other from the tyranny and corruption and stupidity that we currently find ourselves directed by.
At long last, after people stopped even asking about a death estimate, the Associated Press provided a detailed investigation into some of the Palestinian families being decimated in Gaza. After nine months of Palestinian families openly sharing their tragedies and listing their deceased for all to mourn, the western outlet has only just gotten around to at least 60 Palestinian families where 25 people or more were killed in the murderous bomb campaigns between October and December last year. As the article reports, several families have almost no one left to document the death toll and thousands struggle to account for all their dead because so many bodies remain buried under rubble.
The Israeli government meanwhile, focused its efforts on blocking the UN's actual investigation into sexual violence on 10/7 while producing a documentary full of inaccuracies on it with Sheryl Sandberg and filling the New York Times with so many easily-debunked claims that the rag of a paper happily repeated without the slightest scrutiny. This genocidal apartheid state officials also claimed that Benny Netanyahu had dissolved his genocide-influencing cabinet of war criminals and scumbags after one of his key partners, Benny Gantz, broke off from the government.
In the US, the house of representatives passed a measure last week automatically registering American men aged 18 - 26 for the selective service (not technically a military draft, but kinda similar to approaching a military draft). It was part of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which sets out the US government’s military and national security priorities over the next fiscal year. This year's NDAA authorizes $895.2 billion in military spending, a mere $9 billion increase from fiscal 2024. Consider that amount of money being used to prioritize the “national defense” of this country. Consider that any government automatically registering its young people for a military draft but not automatically registering them to vote is not realistically interested in promoting democracy.
Side Items
sNeAkY aNtIvAxXeRs: The US military, the most corrupt and malignant organization in human history, launched a secret, clandestine program during the COVID pandemic to try and discredit China’s Sinovac vaccine – payback for Beijing’s alleged efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. The main target of this undercover plan was the Filipino public. The morons over at the pentagon targeted Filipinos by creating loads of fake accounts on twitter, spreading hashtags and trying to drum up fears among Muslims about Sinovac by spreading misinformation that the vaccine contained pork gelatin
Euro Update: England managed to scrape by with a victory in their first game against Serbia, with young player of the season Jude Bellingham willing the team to win. Elsewhere, Spain and the Netherlands have impressed and the tournament has at the minimum lived up to expectations. The Copa America kicks off later this week on Thursday to really provide endless debate and conversation material for football fans for the coming weeks