The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
👉🏻 Trump threatening to demolish the Kennedy Center if they don’t allow him to put his name on it is no different than an angry, petulant child flipping over the Monopoly board out of frustration. Childish. Pathetic.
Israel has said that paper kites flown by Palestinian children will be treated as weapons of war.
Read that again.
This is the reality of genocide: the total destruction of innocence, freedom and joy.
End all military cooperation with Israel, now.
American YouTubers are flooding Cuba right now. Filming the poverty. Shocked by the conditions. No electricity. Empty shelves. Crumbling buildings.
And every single one blames the Cuban government.
Not one mentions the US embargo. 64 years. Since 1962.
Let me explain what that means in simple terms.
Cuba can't trade with the US. Can't buy American goods. Can't sell to American markets. That's expected.
But here's the real damage: any company that does business with Cuba gets sanctioned by the US. Any bank that processes Cuban transactions gets cut off from the American financial system. Any ship that docks in Cuba can't enter a US port for 6 months.
The US didn't just embargo Cuba. They forced the entire world to embargo Cuba.
For 64 years.
No access to international banking. Can't import medical equipment. Can't buy spare parts for machinery. Can't trade freely with 90% of the global economy.
I watched sanctions destroy Serbia in the 90s. We got 8 years of full economic isolation. Cancer patients died waiting for medicine we couldn't import. Inflation hit 300 million percent. Our economy collapsed.
That was 8 years. Cuba has endured 64.
And now American YouTubers show up, film the poverty their own government created, and blame the victims.
Why am I bringing this up now? Because the media campaign is starting. Marco Rubio just said "all options are on the table" for Cuba. American influencers are suddenly very interested in Cuban suffering.
This is the setup. Film the crisis. Blame the government. Build public support. Then invade.
I've seen this playbook before. Serbia. Iraq. Libya. Venezuela last week.
Watch. Cuba is next.
Cuba is poor because America strangled them for 64 years and won't let anyone else help. That's the answer. Everything else is propaganda.
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🚨Israeli forces shot, Sarah Aziz, a 15 yo girl from city of Nablus today. She was shot in her hand.
The settler in the video is saying:
"shoot her, shoot her in the head"
"We are the only people in history who are expected to witness our own genocide,and then watch what we say so we don't hurt the feelings of the people who did this"
-Susan Abulhawa, Palestinian/US scientist and writer.
🚨 BREAKING:
UK public broadcaster Channel 4 News aired a documentary exposing how Israeli settlers seize Palestinian land.
From the documentary: A Palestinian father is shot by Israeli land grabbers, while his son is arrested.
En la Isla de Borneo, en Indonesia, los orangutanes han sido grabados a las orillas de las carreteras y los caminos buscando alimentos debido a la destrucción de los bosques para el cultivo de aceite de palma.
El capitalismo está arrasando el planeta, destruye la naturaleza y mata a los animales solo por negocio, la humanidad se dirige a la extinción si no acaba con este sistema depredador.
Salieron a la luz archivos donde se contaba que los super ricos violaban niños, comían bebés, y nada cambió. Se documenta en tiempo real y se transmite en vivo el genocidio de un pueblo entero y todo sigue igual. Los revolucionarios son una especie extinta.
The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest. Criticizing the actions of the Israeli prime minister, a military technology contract, or the executives who supply it is not the same as criticizing Jewish people. This critical and necessary dialogue is then dishonestly framed as being anti-Israel. To be clear, my views come from my own political convictions and should never be interpreted as hostility toward Jewish people, for whom I have deep love and respect. Everything I know about acting, activism, and humanism has been profoundly shaped by the Jewish friends, colleagues, and loved ones who have been integral and family throughout every point of my life.
This merger has real consequences for real people, and for the entire country. Scrutinizing the Ellisons, including Oracle’s business built on data, surveillance technology and government contracts, and the serious threat to editorial freedom and the loss of a livelihood for thousands of families, is fair and necessary. The $111 billion deal would hand one family control over CNN, HBO and Warner Bros., backed in part by foreign money whose influence on editorial decisions has never been fully explained to the public.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called for serious national security review, and regulators still haven’t given the public a real answer. Until they do, the merger shouldn’t move forward. Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.
Israel is the only country in the world that can bomb 9 countries and invade 3 neighboring countries in one year; kill 100,000 people—including 25,000 children—in 1,000 days; displace nearly 6 million people in 3 countries; starve 2 million people in Gaza; violate Geneva and Vienna Conventions, international law, human rights, and state sovereignty; kidnap, rape and torture children and women; shoot, imprison and murdering; and still be perceived as the victim.