Trump warning Mexico to stop drug trafficking is a dog & pony show to disguise his barbarism against refugees. Messing with the cartels & their colleagues in the Mexican government is one thing. Messing with the US banks laundering multi-trillions in drug money is quite another. Many banks would collapse & send the US economy into a tailspin.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) just awarded India’s Modi the Order of Zayed, its highest civilian award. Because of the UAE’s close alliance with Saudi Arabia & central role in the bombing of Yemen for the past five years & Modi’s role in genocide against Muslims, this could not possibly be a human rights award. It’s as discredited as the Nobel Peace Prize. Previous recipients of the Zayed include Sepp Blatter, the disgraced former president of FIFA now banned for six years for corruption; Al Khalifa, the king of Bahrain who brutally suppressed the Bahraini Arab Spring; Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, the dictator of Turkmenistan with a human rights rap sheet a mile long; Vladimir Putin, whose criminality needs no elaboration; Xi Jinping, the president of sweatshop nation China engaged in genocide against the Uyghur people; Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Saudi king who assisted Al Khalifa in repressing the Bahraini Arab Spring, leader of the Saudi-coalition bombing Yemen to smithereens, & the father of MBS, who orchestrated the beheading & dismemberment of Khashoggi.
The award was given to our man Modi because he has increased Indian investments that profit the UAE & because of his role in strengthening counter-terrorism defense in the region. The cruel irony of a monarch engaged in bombing Yemen for five years giving a counter-terrorism award to a politician engaged in persecuting Muslims & shooting pellet guns at unarmed protesters in Kashmir is too much for the sane mind to grasp. Given the nature of the Zayed award, Modi more than deserves it to wipe his ass with.
Photo is Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi & Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces giving award to Modi.
(Photo from Getty)
This nationalist creep, Praveen Kumar Togadia, says that if his party is elected in Kashmir they will order the carpet bombing of stone pelters. Which means, the carpet bombing of unarmed protesters.
Stand with Kashmiris in their struggle against occupation & for self-determination.
Went to check on Twitter if Charlie Hebdo had died yet. It’s psychosexual level remains that of an adolescent boy saying naughty words that could get his mouth washed out with soap. It’s political level is still that of a braying ass. (With all apologies to the ass for such an invidious comparison.)
Don’t know about the rest of you but the Facebook policy of covering photos it deems sensitive annoys the bejesus out of me. Photos that appear all over media are considered offensive here.
Remembering the Syrian chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun on April 4, 2017. Seventy-two civilians, including 20 children, were killed. The White Helmet rescuers & other witnesses say the attack was notable for its barbarism with men, women, & children gasping for air & foaming at the mouth.
Here Abdul-Hamid Alyousef holds his twin babies who were killed in the chemical attack along with his wife, two brothers, nephews & several other family members. The Assad regime, its propagandists & their guppies in the antiwar & socialist movements, drawing on the ideology of the ‘war on terror’, call them “Wahhabi jidahi terrorists.” We call them brothers & sisters.
Cease the bombing of civilians in Syria. All foreign military forces out of Syria.
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Australia has passed a law in response to live-streaming of the New Zealand massacre on Facebook. It will fine social media companies & imprison executives for up to three years if violent content is not removed “expeditiously”. The question is, who defines what is violent content?
Animal control tells me it wasn’t an anaconda hole but rather a minor sink hole. Big enough to swallow me but minor to animal control.
