@NathanPStrauss How about getting rid of the 1 and dones or the 2 and dones…college hockey is just becoming a stopover, it takes a lot of joy out of it for fans. Obv would require major changes from the NHL/NHLPA that aren’t likely to happen though (eg raise min age a player can be drafted)
One thing not getting enough attention now that the U.S. has admitted to exterminating hundreds of elementary school girls is that many very powerful people lied about it.
They knew it was on the target list, they knew they had launched the missiles, they knew the school had been hit multiple times. And they tried to hide it and deflect blame to boost support for the early days of the illegal war.
In any reasonable society—as opposed to a deeply sick one where there is no pretense to caring about truth or accountability or law or justice—a lie of this magnitude would mark the end of a person’s public life and extensive public proceedings to uncover everyone involved and to eradicate the institutional arrangements capable of such crimes and corruption.
It’s similar to the complete rejection of truth and accountability that I have seen in police and prison corruption/violence. In the most fascist corners of our society, the only principle is who has—and is willing to ruthlessly deploy—power over others. Once a society tolerates this kind of thing, it’s like a cancer that spreads and cannot be stopped.
The US and the Israeli regime have massive stockpiles of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction. But the most lethal weapon in the hands of the US-Israel Axis and their media and corporate proxies is the engineered ignorance of the American people. In place of facts, history, geography, law, and ethics, Americans are raised on a diet of myths, lies, distortions, fear, and hatred of “the other.” The vacuum of their knowledge is then filled by corrupted US politicians and media corporations with the propaganda of the US empire and the hasbara of the Israeli regime, so that they can be manipulated into supporting any atrocity. The result is endless aggression, war, and genocide abroad and fomented bigotry, deprivation, and inequality at home. #FreeYourMind
An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president.
The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo.
Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water.
I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit.
“It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race.”
~ Karl Stojka, Auschwitz Survivor
To believe this is about drug smuggling, you have to ignore Trump’s pardon of the former Honduran president for drug smuggling.
To believe it’s about Maduro’s democratic legitimacy, you have to believe Trump cares even slightly about democratic legitimacy.
Alternatively:
@MicheleMcPhee@LAmag 2/2 One guy right next to me had just successfullt climbed down, showed cop that he was bleeding from the face from a shot, cop pushed him &opened up on him from point blank range . Craziest thing I’ve ever seen. I have pics & he was also all over news in the following days.
@MicheleMcPhee@LAmag I was on Landsdowne during that. Heard the chants “You shot a girl!” . Was not a riot until BPD turned violent. They were shooting people with the weapons that killed Snelgrove as they tried to climb down the Green Monster. Fcking Ridiculous. 1/2
I don't need personal experience of the Middle East, or a degree in law, to know that it is utterly wrong to bomb hospitals, to intentionally starve civilians, and to create the largest population of child amputees on this planet.
And neither do you.
We have ALL seen the videos.
Incredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowned Holocaust experts — describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal.
And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.
New research shows Israel's slaughter in Gaza has killed more journalists than the US Civil War, World Wars 1 and 2, the Korean War, the Vietnam war, the Yugoslav Wars, the Afghanistan War and the Ukraine War COMBINED.
More: https://t.co/YJi8bdIm9Y