Israel just committed *the largest child massacre in its history*, according to Haaretz. Two hundred Palestinian children murdered in a single day, with direct support from the US and UK, and zero outrage from Western media. What stage of barbarism is this...
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When my career was at an all time high and I had the number one song in the world, my mom called me and said:
“Dad has a tumor in his head the size of a tangerine. They’re going to take it out tomorrow morning. You need to come home.”
I immediately took the next plane back home to Detroit.
10 months later, my father died.
My friend, Avicii, killed himself.
My peer, Mac Miller, died of an overdose.
Soon after, a childhood friend of mine, Ronnie, died.
I finally looked in the mirror and said to myself, “Hey man! You’re going to die”.
When I came face-to-face with my mortality I realized something that changed me. I realized that I had spent my life waiting for the right time to truly come alive.
It's as if I was preparing for this special moment in the future where everything would just click and I’d really show up, really give it my all, really be the FULL ME.
I realized that now is the time. It's the only time we have.
Don’t keep waiting to live your life until the right time. It will never come.
Start now and KEEP GOING!
In years to come, the evidence of Professor Nizam Memode will be used in museums, in school talks, and in historical archives to reinforce the apparently forgotten message of ‘never again’.
No one can say they didn't know. No one can claim blindness to this suffering. No one can pretend their ears did not hear the cries of children.
But when it's over, and history books are written. Those who were silent or celebrated this, will say to their grandchildren: "Wasn't that a tragedy" "We had no idea of the horrors" "We never supported it"
"Had we known what was happening....".
Well technology has given us one wonderful tool: information. History will no longer be written by the victors, but the people of Palestine who documented and recorded every aspect of their torture and annihilation. Who documented and recorded this for the world to never forget, to expose silence as support and to make sure their plight will be told in one way, and one way only: the truth.
📸: Gaza, yesterday. Waiting for aid.
@adriaandotcom This needs to be done through out Netherlands. It has become so dangerous to allow my kid alone on the cycle track with these fast moving bikes on the same track.
Created a visualization of one of the most iconic commentaries in @IndianFootball from recent times of an equally awesome goal.
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📽️ on Youtube - https://t.co/zlZYxnSoe2
RANT - after watching this distressing video and the ones of that illegal structure falling on people.
Read at your own risk.
India has - more than ever before - become a nation where only those with access to wealth and power are able to lead comfortable lives within the bubbles they construct for themselves.
Everyone else is a statistic and a temporary headline in the event of a tragedy.
Every common person is only racing from birth to death, navigating through one obstacle after another.
For most people, death can literally happen any time - bad roads, flooding, unsafe electrical poles, fights in the neighbourhood, road rage, animals loose in the streets, contaminated foods, botched medical practices, unauthorised structures falling on their heads, broken infrastructure crashing down during or after construction - or just mobs baying for your blood because you are different.
Regulations are a joke. There is no value for human life. The infrastructure and ecosystem is not designed for those without privilege.
Worse still, the overburdened justice system is not reliable.
The era of leaders is over. Politicians have taken over from the mafia. Most who get into politics don’t do so to serve the masses. They do so to get away from them and elevate themselves above the commoners.
Politics is the most profitable taxpayer funded, tax-free business there is.
Movie stars live in ivory towers right in the middle of a garbage dump. Some of them make more money than most Hollywood actors but live less than 1/10th of their lifestyles when in India.
Surrounded by security, assistants and servants - politicians, celebrities and the 1% secure their own bubbles by hook or crook, evade taxes, exploit every legal & financial loophole and avoid accountability.
Yet, we worship them and place them on a pedestal because we want access to the power they hold.
Because we want to be able to know someone when we are in a police station, a hospital or in court. We want to use a reference to get admission, get a job or just get pension.
The collective self esteem of a billion people is at an all time low and being lowered still to suit the political ambition of a few hundred people desperately holding on to power.
The rich won’t protest societal injustice because they can escape into their bubbles whenever needed and pay their way into convenience.
The middle class doesn’t have the time to protest because they’ve been pushed into being on survival mode all day every day. Time lost is money lost.
The poor can’t protest beyond a point because hunger is real and the above two classes won’t allow them to.
Our children are growing up in an environment of corrupted education and contaminated nutrition. Their physical and intellectual growth is stunted when compared to developed countries.
India’s children swing between malnourishment and obesity. An entire generation ahead will feel the effects of of this sheer neglect of childhood.
We don’t care about our young and our elderly. Women are not safe anywhere. Our teenagers are hooked up to dopamine all day - youth in cities, towns and villages are addicted to porn, violent games and on the hunt for get-rich-quick schemes. I blame the system that doesn’t empower them otherwise.
We are squeezed dry to pay direct and indirect taxes, endlessly waiting for our lives to upgrade a little bit.
Buying a vehicle or a home now is literally a process of extracting blood money. Most of India is one medical bill away from poverty.
We haven’t lost count of human tragedies and disasters. We will queue up in the thousands on bridges and hillsides to offer our prayers to the Gods who look on silently at the destruction our own fellow humans have caused in their name.
This post will be forgotten in a few hours too. You and I will both get busy because life goes on and we must move forward with it.
Let’s get back to election gossip, IPL and Orry. Let’s forget about all this. For just one more day.
End.
As a Holocaust Survivor Israel’s genocide in Gaza is not done in my name.
I see echoes of the Holocaust in Gaza today:
Dehumanisation, humiliation, large-scale killings, destruction of families and the determination in which they are destroying the whole of Gaza is very similar to the cruelty of the fascist regimes and it should not be controversial to say so.
What happened to the Jewish people, the industrial scale of extermination and invisible emotional pain, is so horrendous that it should never be repeated anywhere in the world.
That is why we say not in our name and Never Again.
Fascism thrives on indifference and the general public being intimidated or looking the other way due to self-preservation.
Don’t look the other way.
Be brave and on the right side of history.
Stephen Kapos