The Daily Blog Open Mic – 16th March 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
The Editor doesn’t moderate this blog, 3 volunteers do, they are very lenient to provide you a free speech space but if it’s just deranged abuse or putting words in bloggers mouths to have a pointless argument, we don’t bother publishing.
All in all, TDB gives punters a very, very, very wide space to comment in but we won’t bother with out right lies or gleeful malice. We leave that to the Herald comment section.
EDITORS NOTE: – By the way, here’s a list of shit that will get your comment dumped. Sexist abuse, homophobic abuse, racist abuse, anti-muslim abuse, transphobic abuse, Chemtrails, 9/11 truthers, Qanon lunacy, climate deniers, anti-fluoride fanatics, anti-vaxxer lunatics, 5G conspiracy theories, the virus is a bioweapon, some weird Bullshit about the UN taking over the world and ANYONE that links to fucking infowar.
“In the polycrisis the shocks are disparate, but they interact so that the whole is even more overwhelming than the sum of the parts.” That truism and bit of circular thinking is what passes for responding to the multifaceted planetary crisis facing humankind.
In truth, what’s being called a polycrisis is not the “interaction of disparate shocks,” but invidious manifestations from an underlying source. Viewing the crisis in terms of separate crises converging is not only part of the problem, but prevents seeing and attending to its unrecognized roots.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2503/S00017/the-polycrisis-knowledge-and-ai.htm
What do you think of the first para? Seems to meet the situation. But Martin LeFevre has more…. And that makes sense too. It is important that we keep reading and thinking and questioning and find people who 990% are straight and true and we can examine the 10% that seems off-side for our or their misunderstanding. (My bold.)
Q: How is genocide denial still possible?
Is it self interest?
Is it cowardice?
Is it laziness?
Is it racism?
On X (formally Twitter)
https://x.com/ByDonkeys/status/1864248466278318427?lang=en
“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence. And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide…..
…..We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it. But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world. But reality cannot be denied. So yes, it is a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.”
Amos you are gold all right. And you lay the truth out for us so well – I hope you don’t get laid out because of speaking up and out. Mordechai was given a hard time – but still lives I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Vanunu
Mordechai…revealed details of Israel’s nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986.[5] He was subsequently lured to Italy by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, where he was drugged and abducted.[5] He was secretly transported to Israel and ultimately convicted in a trial that was held behind closed doors.
Vanunu spent 18 years in prison, including more than 11 in solitary confinement, though no such restriction is mentioned in Israel’s penal code, nor imposed by his verdict…Released from prison in 2004…arrested several times for violations of his parole terms, giving interviews to foreign journalists and attempting to leave Israel…
n 2007, Vanunu was sentenced to six months in prison for violating terms of his parole….In May 2010, Vanunu was arrested again and sentenced to three months in jail on a charge that he had met foreigners, in violation of conditions of his 2004 release from jail…
On 4 October 2010, the International League for Human Rights announced that Vanunu was awarded the Carl von Ossietzky Medal for 2010[162] and, on 16 November, sent open letters to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defence Minister Ehud Barak and Interior Minister Eli Yishai, seeking Vanunu’s free departure out of Israel to allow him to receive the medal at the Award Ceremony in Berlin on 12 December 2010.[163] Nobel laureates cited as co-signatories to the letter include Mairead Maguire, Günter Grass, Harold W. Kroto and Jack Steinberger.
The request was refused and the 12 December Berlin medal ceremony was restyled as a protest event in support of Vanunu and nuclear disarmament. On this occasion, a musical composition, The Dove,[164] was dedicated to Vanunu and given its premiere performance.[165]
On 19 May 2015, Vanunu married Norwegian professor Kristin Joachimsen at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem.
I hope that he is able to have some enjoyable times also his wife, without harassment or threats.