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Sunday, October 13, 2024

The flip side of shit is shit

  

"Catholics believe the wafers used for the sacrament of communion .

literally transform into the body of the crucified Jesus Christ,  

adding: “It is not just distasteful or ‘strange’; it is an all-too-familiar example of an elected official mocking religious persons and their practices.”  

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/13/gretchen-whitmer-doritos-chip

'the stunt in question – captured on video with popular TikTok content creator Liz Plank – was meant to promote legislation signed by president Joe Biden in 2022 that is colloquially known as 

 the Chips Act and provided $280 Billion$  

to research as well as manufacture semiconductors"  

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280, 000, 000, 000 dollars  

Poor starving Tech Oligarchs,

Poor Catholic Hierarchy Men, 

Transformed Literally

Into Politicians 

The flip side of shit is shit 

So is the middle, shit

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"Whitmer... has been a prominent supporter of Harris and recently made headlines by calling Donald Trump “just deranged” 

 after the Republican nominee boasted that 

 women would no longer be thinking about abortion 

 if voters gave him a second presidency on 5 November." 


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"Gelvana Aparecida Rodrigues da Silva, 37, lost her son Thiago on 5 November 2015 when the Fundão dam, near Mariana in eastern Brazil, collapsed, releasing about  

50 million cubic metres of toxic waste.

The avalanche of water reached the small community of Bento Rodrigues within minutes, killing 19 people, including Thiago, who had been staying with his grandmother at the time. 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/13/bhp-to-face-620000-claimants-in-mariana-dam-collapse-trial-in-london

 

"He called for Jesus to save him. But they got ripped apart.” 

"The iron ore waste stored in the dam rapidly moved down various watercourses, spilling over their banks and into the neighbouring municipalities of Mariana, Barra Longa, Rio Doce and Santa Cruz do Escalvado.

It destroyed bridges, roads, houses, factories and other commercial premises, as well as farmland, wildlife and historic churches containing priceless shit artefacts."

"About 620,000 individuals, 46 Brazilian municipalities, 2,000 businesses and 65 faith-based institutions are to claim damages from the Anglo-Australian mining company BHP at a high court trial in London scheduled to be heard over 12 weeks, from 21 October.  "

"Thiago’s father, who died two years ago,  

received a small payment  

for compensation after the disaster" 

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"A Guardian report from 2020 described people in Corbett, Oregon, being stopped at armed civilian checkpoints and asked to identify themselves during wildfires, sparking a debate about vigilante activity and  

how law enforcement should respond." 


How about enforcing Law 

And stopping intimidation

And armed vigilantes? Nah. 


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/14/north-carolina-hurricane-helene-fema-armed-militia-threat

 

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"I can’t sleep at night knowing that it’s going on,” one US official told the Guardian. “It’s another form of psychological torture to make someone work there.” 

'Sde Teiman was set up as a temporary holding facility for detainees from Gaza after last year’s 7 October attack and the ensuing war. Human rights groups and released detainees say the thousands of of Palestinians who have been through the facility have been subjected to severe abuse and torture." 


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/14/usaid-gasa-aid-meetings-sde-teiman 


"The situation there is more horrific than anything we’ve heard about Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo,” Khaled Mahajneh, a lawyer who visited Sde Teiman, told +972 Magazine." 



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