Sunday, February 18: Will They Say We've Failed?
Fans at Celtic Park in Glasgow unveiled a banner during a football match yesterday that gets the point across simply and clearly.
“Think about these past few months
Oh will they say we’ve failed?
30,000+ dead - 12,000+ children
End the genocide, end zionism”
30,000+ dead in Gaza, to say nothing of the tens of thousands of Palestinians currently being held in Israeli prisons without charges. Not to mention the million+ Palestinians trapped in Rafah as I write this, counting down the hours until the invasion of an apartheid state. Not to mention FIVE MILLION other currently stateless Palestinians, barred from returning home or even having a place to call home.
When we talk about the 30,000+ dead, and we should absolutely continue talking about this injustice, make sure we don’t forget about the 75 years of torture, rape, occupation, dispossession, and humiliation that came before this.
Side Items
Billionaire Puppetmaster: This article tells the story of Tim Dunn, the Texas oilman that’s behind the scenes of most of the state’s problematic political actors and decision-makers. Dunn has been hard at work for years, gladly spending tens of millions of dollars financing what he considers the ongoing holy war against public education, renewable energy, and non-Christians aka Marxists. This guy is an oddball and a dangerous character, and the fact that I’d never heard of him until yesterday leads me to believe that he’s even more dangerous
Killer Rookie Cop: Earlier this week, a cop in Tennessee named RJ Leonard who had been on the job for two months was texting his wife at night while driving. The idiotic pig used the drive as an opportunity to brag to his wife about making his first arrest, while a woman sat in the back of the car in restraints. Shortly thereafter, Leonard ran his car into a nearby river, killing himself along with the helpless woman handcuffed in the back seat. Most of the articles covering this story mourn the death of the officer, but completely overlook the woman he killed by driving recklessly. Tabitha Smith was 35 years old and is survived by a husband and two children
True Conspiracy Alert: This article in The Guardian shares a report from the Center for Climate Integrity which states plainly that companies producing plastics have known for more than 30 years that recycling is not an economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution. Of course, that didn’t stop them from promoting and leading all of us to believe that our global pollution problem can be addressed by individual action. Turns out that one of the wildest true conspiracies of our lifetimes has less to do with jet fuel and steel beams and more to do with plastic not being recyclable in any meaningful way