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Wednesday, August 6th, 2025

    Time Event
    8:39a
    IAG expansion warning

    It is useless to try to "boost the economy" by expanding an airport unless you arrange for lots more flights to result.

    Since lots more flights will advance global disaster, perhaps that amounts to another reason not to expand the airport. The last ones a government should listen to about this question are the airline companies.

    8:39a
    ICE detention expansion

    The persecutor is reopening various old prisons.

    Some were known for illegal cruelty towards the prisoners.

    Many of them would be operated by private prison profiteers, make more money if they give prisoners inadequate food and clothing, and cut them off from families.

    8:39a
    Trump AI action plan

    The saboteur in chief wants LLMs to draw a blank when they encounter "woke" concepts such as transgender and systemic racism.

    This would finally give validity to the acronym "AI", standing for "Artificial Ignorance".

    8:39a
    Israel's warnings

    *In Act of "Brutal Sadism," Israel Bans Gazans From Entering Sea Under Pain of Death.*

    In the past, though Israel did not forbid people in Gaza from going into the sea or on a boat, sometimes it killed the people who did.

    8:39a
    Airdrops in Gaza

    Why airdropping food in Gaza causes casualties on the ground and will not function as a way to keep the people supplied with food.

    It would be easy to bring in enough food by truck, if only Israel did not block the trucks.

    8:39a
    Israel’s Aid Blockade

    The persecutor has adopted a clever suggestion for how to strew confusion in the records about people in deportation prison: by having National Guard soldiers handle the processing of jailing them.

    Since those soldiers have no experience in doing this, they are sure to make lots of random mistakes, which will prevent the prisoners from contacting their families, contacting their lawyers, or getting medical attention.

    8:39a
    Israeli citizenry feeling the shame

    Israel's citizenry: punish our nation! *We, Israelis dedicated to a peaceful future for our country and our Palestinian neighbours, write this with grave shame, in rage and in agony. Our country is starving the people of Gaza to death and contemplating the forced removal of millions of Palestinians from the Strip. The international community must impose crippling sanctions on Israel until it ends this brutal campaign and implements a permanent ceasefire.*

    The signatories are prominent and admired Israelis; each one's claim to fame is listed.

    Here is more about the letter.

    I admire their courage and support their call.

    It should be noted that Israelis carry out sadistic oppression in the West Bank too

    all of it steeped in blaming the Palestinians.

    An Israeli expat explains why sanctions can overcome Netanyahu's political power.

    *Advocates of a two-state solution realize time to act is now.* Israel is setting out on to expel Palestinians and colonize, in Gaza and the West Bank. If this isn't stopped now, it will be too late.

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