March 25, 2024

Yosemite Valley from Tunnel View last Monday 3.18.24

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Kind of rare rainbow effect in the mist of Bridalveil Fall

March 23, 2024

Israeli settlers step up attacks on Palestinian farms, expanding West Bank outposts

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/23/1236628495/israel-settlers-attack-west-bank-palestinians-settlement-outposts

About 700,000 Israeli settlers live in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to the United Nations' human rights office. Israel has promoted the settlements, which much of the international community condemns as a violation of international law. But settlers are trying to expand those settlements by building a network of smaller outposts, without Israeli government approval, and eating into more Palestinian land. The U.N. human rights office says there are now more than 160 unauthorized outposts in the region. Violent settlers and unauthorized outposts are a growing source of tension between Israel and the United States.

Weiman says settlers have stepped up attacks on Palestinian communities while the world's attention has been focused on the war in Gaza triggered by the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack in Israel.


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Palestinian schools have also been recently bulldozed there.

March 15, 2024

2023's Most Federally Dependent States - WalletHub

I haven’t seen this posted here, so here goes. Once again proving that “independent conservative states know how to run economies better” is BULLSHIT.

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https://kbhbradio.com/2023s-most-least-federally-dependent-states-wallethub-study/


Most Federally Dependent
1. Alaska
2. West Virginia
3. Mississippi
4. Kentucky
5. New Mexico
6. Wyoming
7. South Carolina
8. Arizona
9. Montana
10. Louisiana


Least Federally Dependent
41. Nevada
42. Delaware
43. Iowa
44. Massachusetts
45. California
46. Illinois
47. Kansas
48. Utah
49. Washington
50. New Jersey

March 8, 2024

Biden's SOTU - AWESOME!! He fucking nailed GOP'sters to their seats!

March 5, 2024

John Candy's day in NFL history. He died 30 yrs ago today. Super Bowl XTVideo w/ Candy included

Legendary comedic actor John Candy passed away 30 years ago today

Here's his place in #NFL history

Before embarking on their 92-yard drive to win Super Bowl XXIII, #49ers quarterback Joe Montana spots Candy standing behind the far end zone and points him out to Harris Barton.

[link:https://twitter.com/KevG163/status/1764717332801188103?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet|

March 4, 2024

How Israel's restrictions on aid put Gaza on the brink of famine

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/03/gaza-aid-convoy-israel-war/

JERUSALEM — On Saturday, the United States airdropped 38,000 meals into Gaza — a territory controlled not by a hostile foreign power but by one of its closest allies.

The remarkable scene of American aid bundles floating down to starving Palestinians was the starkest illustration yet of the rift that has grown between the Biden administration and the Israeli government over the Gaza war. For months, Israel has resisted pressure from Washington to allow more humanitarian aid into the enclave, even as it relies on U.S. bombs and diplomatic support to carry out its punishing military campaign there.


Thursday’s aid convoy tragedy — in which more than 100 people were killed and 700 injured in Gaza City, according to Palestinian officials — underscored the desperation of civilians in the Gaza Strip, which is hurtling toward a famine that humanitarian officials say is largely of Israel’s making. They point to Israel’s limiting of land entry points for aid; an onerous and confusing Israeli inspection process; faulty deconfliction channels between aid groups and Israel’s military; Israeli efforts to undermine the United Nations; and its military’s recent targeting of Gazan police who once protected aid missions.

Israel says it is not limiting the delivery of aid to Gaza, and it has blamed the United Nations for failing to distribute it to those in need — or worse, diverting aid to Hamas.


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Blame the United Nations... Nice try!

March 3, 2024

Fears of environmental disaster rise as ship sinks after Houthi attack

Source: WaPo

By Jennifer Hassan
Updated March 3, 2024 at 12:11 p.m. EST|Published March 3, 2024 at 9:18 a.m. EST

A cargo ship sank in the Red Sea after an attack by Houthi militants, taking some 21,000 metric tons of fertilizer down with it, posing a significant environmental risk to one of the world’s busiest waterways and the home of many coral reefs.

The Rubymar was struck by an anti-ballistic missile fired by the Iranian-backed Houthis on Feb. 18 and sank early Saturday after “slowly taking on water” since the attack, U.S. Central Command said on social media early Sunday local time.

“The approximately 21,000 metric tons of ammonium phosphate sulfate fertilizer that the vessel was carrying presents an environmental risk in the Red Sea,” Centcom said, adding that the ship “also presents a subsurface impact risk to other ships transiting the busy shipping lanes of the waterway.”

The ship’s sinking “will cause an environmental disaster,” the Yemeni government said in a separate statement.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/03/rubymar-houthi-attack-red-sea/

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Oh, FUCK!

Just another environmental disaster... move along.

The environmental danger of fertilizer contents was not reported earlier in LBN. Only that the Rubymar was the first ship to sink after rocket fire.

March 3, 2024

In Israeli-occupied Hebron, Palestinians describe living in 'a prison'

This is international news, this war is far beyond the constraints of Israel / Palestian context only.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/02/28/west-bank-hebron-israel-occupation/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3cf1f73%2F65e4aa4f6430bc1a89203d95%2F5fe8e448ade4e21670bc1e37%2F24%2F43%2F65e4aa4f6430bc1a89203d95
Updated February 28, 2024 at 4:30 p.m. EST|Published February 28, 2024 at 12:06 p.m. EST

The impact has been felt acutely in Hebron, population 250,000, the largest Palestinian city outside Gaza. With Israeli settlements clustered in and around its historic center, it has long been one of the most heavily militarized, intensely surveilled parts of the West Bank.

After Oct. 7, the vise around Hebron has been tightened even further. All but one of the main routes into the part of the city that is home to the vast majority of Palestinians have been blocked, according to residents and B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights group. The remaining route has been fitted with a steel gate that can be closed at any time.

Many of the Israeli checkpoints that once controlled movement in and around the old city have been shut down, dividing friends and families and keeping many residents confined to their neighborhoods. Some described barely leaving home for months.

“It’s a prison in a prison,” Idris said.

March 1, 2024

Video from Israeli military shows moments of carnage at Gaza food aid site

[link:https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-03-01-24/index.html|


This contradicts other posters here that IDF gun fire at Gazans followed trucks running over some starving people.

February 29, 2024

'The fix is in': Coup trial delay reveals Supreme Court 'in cahoots' with Trump

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Really scary stuff.