Last Saturday in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, nine-year-old Rizwan Ahmad Kaboo was hit in the head by a rubber bullet when Indian paramilitary troops opened fire on young protesters pelting their armored vehicle with stones. Young Rizwan is in hospital requiring specialized treatment for a serious head wound. There is no report on whether he was among the protesters or if he was playing or standing near the incident.
The Indian army will be holding funeral services for the armored vehicle even though it suffered no serious injuries. Armored vehicles, made of galvanized & stainless steel, are manufactured to withstand the impact of shrapnel, bullets, missiles, shells.
Hopefully this small boy will recover from his injury without brain damage or severe emotional distress.
My little flock of cockatiels have been quite unhappy for a while since captivity bores them silly. I try to thwart their biological imperatives because I don’t approve of breeding birds for captivity. They were meant by nature to fly free. But they’ve been so discontent for the past several months that when I discovered the ménage à trois had gone through the silverware drawer to the cabinet below to build a nest, I decided not to interfere so they would be occupied in doing what birds do & wouldn’t be so miserable. Now the landlady is coming to fix the mold problem in the cabinet next to where they are & they must be moved to prevent them from getting sick. This solves my problem of preventing babies but it’s very stressful for them. After nearly 25 years of rescuing birds (usually let go by their caretakers), I have become opposed to the abuse of birds as pets. It violates their nature & ties them to humans when they were meant to be free in the companionship of each other.
Running interference for the bonehead in the White House, experts on the morning news were asked to ‘give the context’ for Trump’s claim that undocumented immigrants (economic refugees) are ‘animals’. Why can’t they just say he’s a racist dirtball?
The same network interviewed Thomas Friedman from the NY Times, a more unscrupulous Zionist & political halfwit most of us have never seen outside the Knesset or the White House. Offended that Palestinians don’t like living in an open air penitentiary, he said Hamas should stop forcing Palestinians to ‘throw themselves up against the fence.’
Any reports or comments on Modi’s visit? There was once an interesting discussion among Kashmiris on my wall about India pirating hydroelectric power from Kashmir. It would be valuable to hear some insights on what that means for Kashmiris.
Left the news off all day hoping to avoid both Trump-dumb-as-a-stump & the “royal” wedding. But that damn wedding was everywhere on evening news. Love is grand & it was swell they quoted Martin Luther King but nothing about it will make me think of feudalism as anything but a stinking rotten institution that believes some people are superior to others. Me? I wouldn’t consider marrying into it, even for love, especially the British moochocracy which is steeped in racism & colonialism. If you’re committed to human equality, all that pomp & bullshit is nothing but offensive.
Most of us get heartsick when we hear the US & other governments vilify Palestinians as terrorists. We just have to remember that the truth is out & irrefutable & that it is Zionist propagandists who are shoveling manure against the tide. The only way to get over the nausea is to build BDS & try to connect with Palestinian supporters wherever you are & however you can. The truth is on the side of Palestinians.
Nikki Haley, who talks through her teeth like a pit bull, lectured the UN Security Council on its bias against Israel. She said Israel, “the most democratic government in the Middle East,” is being scapegoated at the UN. With Jared Kushner sitting right behind her, she also lectured Mahmoud Abbas, sitting in the audience like a dumb ox, against inciting Palestinians to violence. It’s at this point that she begins to talk through her ass & denounce “Hamas terrorist oppression” in Gaza which does not provide social services to Palestinians but instead builds tunnels & rockets. She expressed pity for the suffering of Palestinians but never mentioned the brutal Israeli embargo of Gaza, the several carpet bombing onslaughts, & the UN warnings that Israel was making Gaza uninhabitable.
The whole world witnessed unarmed Palestinian protesters shot down in cold blood by Israeli snipers but Haley talked about the large fictitious number of Israelis who have died from Palestinian suicide bombers & stabbings. Before such contemptible cynicism & deceit, the only response is to redouble our efforts at building the economic & cultural boycott of Israel.
(Photo is screenshot of the lying-assed Trump representative lecturing the UN. May she rot in hell.
Dramatizing how tragic the story of the inconsolable infant whose mother was killed in a hunt to kill operation & father arrested for stone pelting, these are Kashmiri children in an orphanage preparing to break the Ramadan fast. There are 214,000 orphans in the valley, per a 2010 study, 37% of whom lost their parents to the turmoil of the military occupation.
The military occupation of Kashmir, as of Palestine, is a children’s rights issue.
(Photo from Getty Images via Muhammad Uzair on Twitter)
US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley got up & walked out of a Security Council meeting when Palestinian representative Riyad Mansour began speaking. Now will all those who invited me to like her Facebook wall & who lauded her rhetoric about Syria please come to their senses?
