Taking Life For Granted
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This deliberate contamination of the public commons is a license to kill, a criminally reckless endangerment of sea life and the food web. Yet the 1992 ban on ocean dumping of radioactive waste applies only to barrels thrown from ships, not liquids sent into the sea through pipes. Further, the Law of the Sea allows victims to bring legal action only after an alleged harm has occurred, and then puts the burden of proof on victims to show that their illness(es) were caused by a particular radioactive poison.
Just as all Americans remember 9/11, Japanese remember 3/11, the day in 2011 that an earthquake and tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, destroying a town, poisoning a wide area around it, and raising questions about nuclear safety in much the same way as the Chernobyl nuclear accident had in 1986.
War crime and other redundancies
The GOP 2024 presidential nominees who‘ve qualified to participate in the first debate will stand before the American people, on national TV. They’ll attempt to convince Republican Voters of their presidential leadership Prowess as well as share their views towards solving major issues facing the Nation. Nevertheless, this event will constitute a debate or debacle based on questions asked, the responses provided, and the participants’ courage to attack America’s, as well as their own, greatest nemesis, Trump.
Trump’s Jailhouse Rock
This month marks the August 28, 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, where over a quarter million people gathered and heard my Uncle Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – fondly remembered as “Uncle M. L. – deliver his famous “I Have a Dream Speech.” “
Bible Trivia 1) It was white like a coriander seed, and it tasted like honey cakes” What? 2)Only one woman has the age when she died…
Several countries around the world have reported the worst fires in decades. Wildfires have firefighters battling fires which they cannot control, and many families are forced to evacuate their neighborhoods with no solution in sight. 2023 is one of the hottest years on record and climate change is impacting the weather.
Besides having difficulty wrapping my head around how much money was spent – and how much was lost – in a cause many reputable political scientists have characterized as “American Adventurism in Afghanistan,” I became angry at the members of Congress who refuse to spend any tax dollars at all to help African Americans in our own country recover from the damage caused by centuries of slavery, racial abuse, and intentional neglect.