Some Observations on Fires and Silence
Hi, friends and fellow-fen. I'm sorry for going so long without checking in, but my clunky old desktop computer blew up for good, and it's taken me this long to figure out how to work Rasty's slightly-clumsy spare laptop. I'll get the hang of it eventually. Patience!
Anyway, I've noticed over the past week that, in the few minutes when they aren't bashing Trump and obsessing on the impeachment, the major news programs shed a few tears and tug a few heartstrings about the massive wildfires in Australia. This, of course, is followed by the usual boilerplate about Global Warming/Climate Change/Climate Crisis-and-it's-all-the-Republicans'-fault. What they don't mention is that those wildfires are indeed the result of human activity, but not the humans they're blaming.
You have to go up on the Internet and search to learn that the Aussie police have arrested more than 183 local individuals for arson, specifically starting those fires. You have to search really intensely to find out what the Aussie police and government are trying very hard to conceal, which is the religion of those arsonists. Yes, Muslims. The few whose statements have made it to the public brag of setting the fires "for Allah".
This should not surprise anyone who's been studying the news inside Israel for the past two years, during which the pity-the-poor-poor "Palestinians" in Gaza have been launching firebombs and fire-balloons into Israel to burn down the Jews' hard-established orchards and crops and hopefully a few buildings with people inside, until the Israel Defense Force shot combat-lasers at them to make them stop. Neither should it surprise any historians who noted that this has been a common tactic used by local Arabs in Africa, to burn out Black-owned farms, for the past few thousand years.
As to why politicians and their media-flacks around the world have remained silent on these facts, I leave that to your imaginations.
I have to leave now because the new/used replacement computer has just arrived, and the pizza is coming shortly. Wish me luck!
--Leslie <;)))><
Anyway, I've noticed over the past week that, in the few minutes when they aren't bashing Trump and obsessing on the impeachment, the major news programs shed a few tears and tug a few heartstrings about the massive wildfires in Australia. This, of course, is followed by the usual boilerplate about Global Warming/Climate Change/Climate Crisis-and-it's-all-the-Republicans'-fault. What they don't mention is that those wildfires are indeed the result of human activity, but not the humans they're blaming.
You have to go up on the Internet and search to learn that the Aussie police have arrested more than 183 local individuals for arson, specifically starting those fires. You have to search really intensely to find out what the Aussie police and government are trying very hard to conceal, which is the religion of those arsonists. Yes, Muslims. The few whose statements have made it to the public brag of setting the fires "for Allah".
This should not surprise anyone who's been studying the news inside Israel for the past two years, during which the pity-the-poor-poor "Palestinians" in Gaza have been launching firebombs and fire-balloons into Israel to burn down the Jews' hard-established orchards and crops and hopefully a few buildings with people inside, until the Israel Defense Force shot combat-lasers at them to make them stop. Neither should it surprise any historians who noted that this has been a common tactic used by local Arabs in Africa, to burn out Black-owned farms, for the past few thousand years.
As to why politicians and their media-flacks around the world have remained silent on these facts, I leave that to your imaginations.
I have to leave now because the new/used replacement computer has just arrived, and the pizza is coming shortly. Wish me luck!
--Leslie <;)))><
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