Here’s proof that child marriage and poverty go hand in hand – The Washington Post.

Sigh….

Oregonians to vote to legalize recreational marijuana – CNN Political Ticker – CNN.com Blogs.

hmmmm.

somebody’s getting in on the ground floor of a new source of state revenue and it ain’t NH!

White House revises contraception opt out – CNN Political Ticker – CNN.com Blogs.

We’ll see.

UN: Israel assault in Gaza may be war crime – Human Rights – Al Jazeera English.

Ayup.

I no longer talk to Obama: Turkey’s Erdogan – Yahoo News.

Well, yeah he’s an arrogant idiot with no grip on reality and no idea of how to perform well at his job.
I feel ya, dude!

Hamas Rockets Found in Second United Nations School – Yahoo News.

Earth to the Israeli government, this is not justification to kill schoolchildren.
It simply is not.

Hamas may be slippery and dishonest but when you try to pass off Hamas’s failures as an excuse to commit genocide, murder schoolchildren, and kill hospital workers? You are so, so, so much worse than they ever were.

▶ Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Problem – YouTube.

Who are the Haredi?

Other than bigoted scum, that is.

Jewish Settlers Stoning Palestine Christian Children walking to school – YouTube.

Delightful.

…Not.

Some Food Companies Are Quietly Dumping GMO Ingredients.

hmmm.

Mom arrested for leaving 9-year-old alone at park – CNN.com.

Sigh……….

Principals in U.S. Are More Likely to Consider Their Students Poor – NYTimes.com.

sigh….

Gaza resident: We’re being ‘collectively punished’.

sigh….

Free Tibet exposes fake Twitter accounts by China propagandists

hmmmm.

Live From Occupied Palestine: American Jewish activist, Lucas Koerner says,”Not in my Name”..

It’s like the government of Israel’s own version of the Ulster Orangemen marches.

▶ American Beat by Israeli police – YouTube.

Here is an interview with that arrested kid.

▶ Young American Jew Stands up For Palestine – YouTube.

And the cops come.

Of course.

Shocking.

…Not.

▶ Young American Girl Target of Extremist Jews in Israel – YouTube.

what horrible, evil, godless bigots.

Israel Ground Offensive Is Strategic Mistake – Business Insider.

hmmmm.

Israel steps up Gaza ground offensive, civilian casualties grow | Reuters.

and they claim to be within their rights and justified. they act like they stand on the moral high-ground.
and the news message control and propaganda in the world doesn’t make a siege or mass murder justified.
they need to be called out on the genocide they claim is their only resort.
they wanted war. created war. and still don’t have war because they won’t allow their enemy to meet them head on in the battle field.
it is the definition of immoral and unjust.
Hamas’s bad behavior does not come close to justifying genocide.

‘Virtual Unreality’ helps to sort the true from the false on the Internet – CSMonitor.com.

“We are at the beginning of an information famine,” he declares at one point. A little later, he adds that “over the next few years, even the news media may well become increasingly indistinguishable from spam.”

CSM disagrees. I disagree with them. Hyperbole aside, it’s nice to read someone else’s thoughts on a issue that has seemed glaringly obvious to me for a long, long time yet the entire world pretends isn’t happening.

Slaves helped build this country. Why are we so reluctant to acknowledge that? – The Washington Post.

hmmm.

Lawmakers say there will be ‘hell to pay’ if Russia is behind Malaysia Airlines crash | Fox News.

Sure there will….

….not.

Yawn.

Israel launches ground assault on Gaza: The Israeli government no longer thinks strategically..

Unless they really want to have to lock people into Warsaw-type ghetto their own strategy here is gathering propaganda so they can “justify” genocide.
Which still wouldn’t get them what they want, but hell, it is a strategy.

Gaza child: Three wars old .

Sigh…

Israel Launches a Ground Invasion of Gaza. No One Knows How It Will End | TIME.

No one? Hmmm…

I called Israel’s government not being satisfied with anything less than a full on war to satisfy their racist urge to commit genocide.

I’d say they pull back in a few weeks or month, saying they have achieved goals. (Which counts for nothing more than doublespeak because their espoused goal was to rescue three teenagers who they knew were dead the whole time….) What they will have achieved is a multiplicity of warcrimes. The trumped up arrest of at least close to a thousand people whose true crime is to adhere to beliefs with a different name than the name of the beliefs the Israel’s adhere to. The cold blooded murder of hundred of children in areas which have no strategic importance. The cessation of all food and medical supplies for all Palestinians. (And a few self congratulatory articles about how a few pathetic Palestinians have made their way to treatment at an Israeli hospital, never mention the complete lack of options on their own side being a deliberate Israel war tactic.) The death of thousands of Palestinians. the destruction of thousands of homes which Israel will prevent from being rebuilt because fuck what is right or laws. Israel builds homes wherever the fuck it wants and then rips that sanctity of belonging away from everyone else.

They won’t have made any progress in whatever they will say their goals were but they will have made Gaza into much more of a Warsaw ghetto and they will have made great strides towards genocide.

It aches in my heart that a country I used to look on so fondly, used to believe in the rightness of is really run by a bunch of murderous racists whose evil goes completely unchecked.

I don’t want Israel to be destroyed or disappear but after watching them for the past ten-fifteen years I think justice would only be achieved by them getting back exactly what they dish out, in such a way to it spelled out to the entire world this anguish and trauma we experience is what we brought upon other by treating them in this exact same way. Unfortunately I think true justice, true eye for an eye would wipe Israel off the face of the planet. Why is why I cannot believe, even if they are truly, truly racist and bent on the elimination of the race whose land they share they do not conduct themselves with more class and honor. In the long run, treating their neighbors like actually human beings instead of herding them into ghettos like they preparing the showers might be their only actual option if they actually do want peace and security for their citizens.

For now, their government and policies simply and purely disgust me.