Speaking of the Ocean to Frogs in a Pond

HOTD/ASOIAF tarot series

Part I

DEATH - Balerion

THE TOWER - Caraxes

THE HERMIT - Silverwing

THE EMPRESS - Syrax

THE HANGED ONE - Stormcloud

THE LOVERS - Seasmoke and Tessarion

JUSTICE - Meleys

THE CHARIOT - Targaryen three- headed dragon

THE HIGH PRIESTESS - Dreamfyre

IDF soldier confirms ‘dog lines‘: shoot any Gazan who crosses, feed them to dogs

The Economist interviews Israeli troops who served in Gaza. Their testimony is chilling.

All men of military age were deemed legitimate targets. And military age is really open to interpretation: “It could be from 16 to 60 or even younger.”

“Most of the people that my unit killed were not armed. We had cases where we killed a lot of people, and we didn’t check if they had uniforms or weapons.”

Soldiers described the “dog line” – an invisible boundary around their positions. Any Palestinian who crossed was shot. Dogs gathered along the line to eat the corpses.

“Someone on guard duty sees someone, shoots him, kills him – we wouldn’t know what his story was or what he did.”

Fidel Castro in Poland, visiting few cities including Cracow and Warsaw, 1972.

My favourite one is him holding flowers, he looks a little bit shy.

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.