Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net Feb 4, 2025:
The collapse of global industrial civilization is happening much faster than expected. It hurts terribly to watch these evil people do their evil things.
But I keep returning to the truth that the faster modern civilization is gone, the better off everything else will be.
I agree. I wish I could be a bird and see earth without any humans on it, and watch nature heal our abuses. It’s killing me watching humans wipe out so many of their neighbours and other species, polluting and consuming in over drive as if terrified they may not gobble and destroy as much as the next guy.
Is it good or bad?I think it’s the fascist evil nature of our species, most are incapable of thinking of anything but self, and how to amass more for self.
The “total precipitable water” for 2024 is now complete.
1.5°C in warming = 11% more atmospheric water vapor capacity = a f&%k-ton of flooding.with much worse ahead.
Accomplished_Bet2499 Feb 4, 2025:
“A first serious candidate to become the fentanyl tsar at the canadian border” rule
Go to Quebec
Puzzled_Dreamer2453:
Mesdames et messieurs, votre nouveau Tsar du Fentanyl
Accomplished_Bet2499:
For context this is posted by the official account of Infoman which is like if the onion actually haf their version of infowar and the star of the show was unironically a great journalist and also it’s aggressively Québécois
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Canada’s provinces should pass laws putting billion-dollar liability on gunmakers whose smuggled products are used in crimes here.
Let the Americans fix that problem, or let their companies be bankrupted by it.
How American guns are giving life to the fentanyl trade Donald Trump blames on Mexico and Canada, International organized criminals behind the fentanyl trade are powerful, in part, because they’re packing made-in-America weapons by Toronto Star, Feb 4, 2025
… Here in the GTA, Toronto police say that nearly 90 per cent of the 717 crime guns seized last year can be sourced to the U.S.
That same year, 44 of the city’s 85 homicides were gun-related.
Those illegal, American-sourced guns frequently show up in the GTA’s ongoing tow truck wars, Deputy Chief Robert Johnson told the Toronto Police Service Board meeting earlier this year. …
Another ongoing lawsuit was launched in 2022 by the Mexican government against five gun stores near the border in Arizona, accusing them of illegally arming drug traffickers.
Pucino said there’s a new troubling trend coming out of America — the export of components for “ghost guns” made in the U.S.
These are privately assembled weapons with no serial number. …
“….all artwork…would have to be removed.”
Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social:
It’s gonna be necessary to kick the USA out of the G7, like Russia got kicked out when it was G8.
The Nazis had a phrase: “eintartete Kunst,” meaning degenerate art that affronted their ideology.
So it is again under Trump.
HEIL SHITLER!
So who continues to believe it is impossible that Trump would invade Canada?Of course Adolf the Idiot will invade Canada (and Greenland and Panama and Gaza and West Bank and Syria and Iran and Lebanon and and and … ) if we dare vote for anyone but the Pee Pee for PM or election interference by president Musk fails to trick Canadians. Fortunately, our pollution, greed, stupidity and cruelty destroying earth’s climate will kill us and our enemy, the USA, first.
Trump, unwise as ever, just gave Hamas reason to attack the USA and kill Americans.
And if he seriously goes down this road, they’d even be legally justified in self-defence.
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@SmithInAmerica Feb 4, 2025:
In White House East Room. Donald Trump to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “That’s a lot of press. Congratulations, you really brought them out.”
Trump:
“I don’t want to be cute, I don’t want to be a wise guy – but the Riviera of the Middle East.”
“I envision world people living there, the world’s people.”
“I love Israel and I will visit there and Gaza and Saudi Arabia.”
“We want to give people a chance at life. The Gaza Strip has been a hellhole… This is not for Israel. This is for everybody in the Middle East… You have to learn from history. You can’t keep doing the same mistake over and over again.”
“I do see a long term ownership position… Everyone I’ve spoken to loves the idea of the United States owning this piece of land, creating thousands of jobs.”
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“We’re going to take over that piece, develop it and create thousands and thousands of jobs.”
“We want the Arab and Muslim nations to have peace and have tranquility and have great lives.”
“Two weeks ago I once again designated the Houthis as a terrorist organisation.”
Trump: “We are a respected nation again.”That has not happened in my lifetime, and will never happen. The USA is a law-violating mass murderer mass polluter, all under the guise of Christianity which makes the country’s crimes worse. Why the hell is USA allowed to compete in the 2025 Invictus Games in Vancouver and Whistler after threatening Canada and all Canadians (even the quisling idiot Danielle Smith)? Yes, there are some good Americans, but the country is evil. And why the hell is USA and Israel (IDF past and current soldiers) allowed to compete in them, given they are genocidaires? WTF Canada!?
Gaza has been an unlucky place. “We should go to other countries of interest with humanitarian hearts…. The only reason Palestinians want to go back to Gaza is they have no alternative… The US will take over the Gaza Strip and do a job with it too. We’ll own it.”
“The Israelis have stood strong and united in the face of a movement that has kidnapped, tortured, raped and slaughtered innocent men, women, children.”
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Trump on Iran: “They cannot have a nuclear weapon. It’s very simple.”
Trump: “Today I also took action to restore a maximum pressure policy on the Iranian regime.”
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Netanyahu on whether US should own Gaza: “President Trump sees a different future for that piece of land… He has a different idea and I think it’s worth paying attention to this… It’s something that could change history.”
Netanyahu: “I think peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia is not only feasible. It’s going to happen… We’ll give it a good shot and I think we’ll succeed.”
Netanyahu to Trump: “You see things that other people refuse to see. You say things that other people refuse to see. After their jaws drop they say, you know what, he’s right.”
Netanyahu: “The Bible says the people of Israel rise like lions and boy, do we rise.”
Netanyahu: “You boldly confronted the scourge of antisemitism.”
Netanyahu to Trump: “You are the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House.”
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‘We would rather die here than leave’: Palestinians on Trump’s plan for Gaza by Malak A Tantesh in Gaza and Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem, 5 Feb 2025, The Guardian
The US president’s idea to take over the territory and his claims Palestinians were keen to move were met with anger – and a determination to stay
In Gaza, Donald Trump’s plan for the United States to take over the territory was met with anger and disbelief by Palestinians sheltering in the ruins of their houses, or crammed into makeshift camps.
They know better than anyone the terrible impact of 15 months of Israeli attacks that have reduced so much of Gaza to rubble.
Abu Firas, 52, lives in a tent on the coast that Trump claims he will remake into the “Riviera of the Middle East”. His home in eastern Khan Younis has been destroyed, and he lost 80 relatives.
He wants help rebuilding, not a ticket out of the place he loves. “We would rather die here than leave this land,” he told the Guardian. “No amount of money in the world can replace your homeland.”
Trump suggested Palestinians were keen to leave a place he described as “unlucky” and a “symbol of death and destruction”. It was a vision of Gaza apparently formed without consulting the people who live there.
Even before the war, life in Gaza was difficult, with an economy stifled by an Israeli blockade, political repression under Hamas’s hardline rule, and overcrowding in one of the most densely populated places on Earth.
But residents were proud of a history stretching back millennia, their spirit of optimism even in difficult times, their commitment to education at more than a dozen universities and higher education institutes. They loved the beaches that also caught Trump’s eye, Gaza’s sunny climate, and enjoyed relaxing in its orchards, restaurants and cafes.
Last week thousands trekked back to homes in the north after Israel lifted controls on movement across the strip. Many wept with joy when they arrived, even when they found only piles of rubble.
As he made the long trek home, Ramz, a 50-year-old father of four, said:“No matter where a person moves or how much they try to live in beautiful cities, they will never find peace except in their own city and land.
“In the end, despite all this destruction we will stay here on our land to live and die with dignity.”
In Gaza, people’s affection for the place they were born, raised children and buried loved ones is often reinforced by a political commitment to staying on land envisaged as part of a Palestinian state.
Trump’s proposal for a Gaza largely empty of Palestinians is not a novel one, although it has never been made by a US president before.
For decades Israeli politicians and officials have debated expelling Gaza’s residents by force, or using economic incentives to encourage mass migration.
Walid al-Munayya, who was displaced six times in the war, said: “We have a famous saying: ‘He who leaves his home, loses his dignity’. We are a resilient people, and this will not happen, even in Trump’s dreams. We will stay here and not give up an inch of our land.”
Many families moved to Gaza as refugees in the Nakba, or catastrophe, of 1948, in which about 700,000 Palestinians were expelled after the creation of Israel. That history means many are sceptical of any displacement.
During the war many in Gaza feared that Israel’s repeated orders for civilians to leave the north of the strip could be a prelude to settling or annexing the land.
Some who stayed on were too sick or disabled to travel, but others were determined to stay on their land, even as a blockade within a blockade reduced food supplies more than in the south.
There would be no less scepticism about a US request for Palestinians to leave before bringing about a rebuild, despite Trump’s claim that some Palestinians might be allowed to return to the new “international” Gaza.Trump’s a vile white supremacist and a incestuous liar. Nothing he says is trustworthy or believable.
The survival of Hamas as a fighting force, despite the Israeli military’s scorched earth tactics, should also serve as a warning to Trump if he is serious about sending in US troops, Firas said. “[Israel] bombed Gaza with all kinds of bombs and missiles. Despite all this, they couldn’t control Gaza. So how can they force us to leave?” he said. “What more can they do to us?”
Hamas’s military capacity has been badly degraded, but once the ceasefire was declared dozens of fighters emerged into the streets to manage hostage releases, manage the migration north, and claim a form of victory in survival.
Any US military mission would face the same guerrilla attacks that killed and injured so many Israeli troops in Gaza, even months into the war.
Munayya called on Trump to abandon his real estate dreams and instead relaunch a proposal US presidents have chased for decades. “I propose a solution for the Gaza issue: separate the two states. Each should live in peace and separately. The Israelis should have their land, and the Palestinians should have their land.”