Gaza genocide update

 

How can any human being be expected to exist under these horrible conditions?

What does the UK, Germany, EU do? Nothing except excuse the zionists for their genocidal actions and send them more weapons. They also regularly suppress Gaza solidarity movements.

What do the Arab feudal nations do? Nothing except talk.

What have the so-called world courts done? Nothing except stall for time - they call it 'investigation and deliberation'. 

What does the corporate media do? They keep burying the story, just as they are told to do by their zionist paymasters. The BBC truth suppression case wins top prize for being the most duplicitous. 

What does the US government (acting as agents of Israel) do? Nothing except lie and demonize the Palestinian people.

What do the western weapons corporations do? Make lots of cash by pumping out more weapons for more war crimes.

What does the global 'Christian' community do? Nothing but issue a few 'sweet words' by the Roman pope and then celebrate the 'birth of Christ' who is actually buried under the rubble in Bethlehem. The radical right-wing evangelists raise funds for Israeli settlements and tell Congress to keep sending more bombs.

What do most Jewish synagogues around the globe do? They continue to spread fear about anti-semitism and claim the Palestinian people are all terrorists. Some Jewish organizations do participate in solidarity protests but then mainline Jewish 'leaders' claim they are all self-hating Jews. So ignore them.

What do the Democrats and Republicans do? They applaud Netanyahu and send the zionists more money as the American economy falters before our eyes.

So this is basically how a genocide happens. The so-called leaders of virtually every institution across the 'democratic and exceptional western world' close their hearts and call for the slaughter of the innocents.

Bruce

Documentary: Alert in orbit, the threat of space debris

French

Alors que l'espace est devenu un nouvel eldorado, des scientifiques, partout dans le monde, cherchent aujourd'hui à nettoyer le ciel de ses poubelles. Il n'aura fallu que 60 ans de conquête spatiale pour polluer la banlieue.
 

English

At a time when space has become a new Eldorado, scientists all over the world are seeking to clean up the sky of its rubbish. It has only taken 60 years of space conquest to pollute the planet's inner suburbs, leaving behind over a hundred million pieces of debris: pieces of rockets, metal carcasses, obsolete satellites. More and more of this debris orbits the planet for decades, if not centuries. They are projectiles capable of colliding with a satellite, a space station or falling back to Earth. 

~ Scientists fear a growing cascading series of space junk collisions unless Earthlings stop polluting the orbits. It's called the Kessler Syndrome. If we don't get smart real soon this could cause much of the planet to go dark due to our reliance on satellites to run much of what we do.

Major winners & losers of halting Russian gas transit via Ukraine

 

Sputnik

As the Ukraine gas transit contract with Russia is set to end, Ukraine’s largest private energy company DTEK received its first delivery of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the US on December 27.

Winners

US LNG producers: 

• The halting of Russia's gas deliveries through Ukraine will increase the US share and reduce competition in the EU market.
  

• The latest US LNG delivery amounts to 100 million cubic meters of gas (1 TWh of energy, or 3,530,000 MMBtu), bought by D.Trading, DTEK’s pan-European trading subsidiary. The shipment arrived at Greek LNG terminals such as Revithoussa, where it will be "re-gasified" and distributed "through EU and Ukrainian gas networks," according to DTEK. One network, the Vertical Corridor, will transmit US LNG deliveries between Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Moldova, and Ukraine.
  

• LNG from the US for Europe is at least 30-40% more expensive than pipeline gas from Russia.
  

• In December 2022, the US became the world’s leading exporter of LNG amid Europe's energy crisis and the sabotage attack on Russia's Nord Stream pipelines.

Losers

• Ukraine: Ukraine will lose almost $1 billion annually from Russian gas transit fees. Additionally, Ukraine is likely to pay more for US LNG coming through the Revithoussa LNG terminal than for Russian pipeline gas, which used to come in the form of a "virtual reverse." 
  

• Hungary, Austria, and Slovakia which have long relied on Russian gas transit through Ukraine, will face challenges. Being landlocked, access to LNG delivered to marine terminals is costly and difficult. Long-term contracts with Russia's Gazprom allowed them to buy natural gas considerably cheaper than EU gas spot prices. For instance, Austria had been receiving Russian gas at a price almost three times cheaper than EU spot prices in 2022, according to Reuters.
  

• European Union: After sliding to $11.79/MMBtu in October, European gas prices rose to almost $15/MMBtu on November 22. On December 27, benchmark futures rose further by 5% on the news of halted Russian gas transit through Ukraine. Stopping the supply of Russian gas through Ukraine will cost Europe around $125 billion in total losses in 2025-2026, according to Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.

One thing we can do to support Palestine - Boycott these corporations

Simplicius writes about the past year:

2024 was the year of unvarnished genocide, and what’s more: it was the total white-washing of said genocide by the bought-and-paid-for corporate media.

More than anything else, I declare year 2024 as the death of mainstream media. Never before was their bias, their criminality and total hostility to truth more openly obvious, more flagrantly flaunted by them. Scandal after scandal marred the last few remnant crumbs of credibility that remained, from covering up Biden’s clear dementia, presidential incompetence, and family crimes, to covering for Israel’s genocide all year long, with ‘creative’ formatting and syntax tricks, as well as lack of any impartiality or ability to question the State Narrative. They have exposed themselves as nothing more than an antiquated soapbox of disinformation and narrative control. This year was truly the long-overdue—and much-earned—death of mainstream media as an institution.

Virtually everything of note, any newsworthy revelation or exposé, was broken on either Twitter, Substack, or associated ‘citizen journalist’ haven. People are tuning out more and more from corporate legacy programming in general, whether it’s MSM or Hollywood or even major sports—with recent headlines reporting NBA viewership down by 50%, for instance.

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In spite of all that 'Happy New Year'. Let's each do our best to turn things around so that those that come after us will not have to face this ugly madness. 

It's the least we could do.

I know many of you are on full throttle but I also am aware that there are some heavy duty skaters who read these pages that are not pulling their share of the load.

Maybe its political party loyalty, too much corporate media intake, fear of what the friends, relatives and neighbors might think, or just plain laziness. Maybe you've just given up - thrown the towel in.

What more do we all need to see before we kick it in gear?

It's time to become a human being again.... 

Please resolve to do better in 2025.

In peace,

Bruce 

Trump and his zionist 'friends'

 

Lowkey says “Donald Trump has assembled the most pro-Israel cabinet in the history of the United States, I’ve investigated his funders and it all makes sense”.