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_{^{One Of The Israeli Girl-Soldiers, “Israel’s Eyes,” Watching The Border With Gaza.}} 

Harry H Trueman was an American President who understood that in a crisis he was responsible for the actions of his country. On his desk was a plaque which simply stated: “The Buck Stops Here.” Sadly, there’s no Harry H Trueman in charge of Israel.

Perhaps one of the most horrific accounts in all the many to come out of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict has come today from the BBC journalist Alice Cuddy:

“They were Israel’s ‘eyes on the border’ – but their Hamas warnings went unheard”

She tells the story of teenage girls conscripted into the IDF.  Their job was to man control centres close to the barrier with Gaza and watch for suspicious activity.

As time went by it became obvious to the girls that there was an ever-increasing amount of very suspicious activity taking place. They duly reported these actions down the line to their superiors, as per orders.

Time after time after time.

They were ignored. No-one came to verify the information they were relaying. Visits by superior officers only occurred in order for further tasks to be delegated to these young soldiers. No-one, it seems, questioned them on the information they had duly processed and passed on.

One can ask the question: why not?

Maybe, at some point in the future, there’ll be a day of reckoning, a public enquiry that will lay blame where it belongs. If these young female soldiers had been listened to and their information acted upon, then possibly their lives might been saved, along with the lives of 1,200 other innocent Israelis brutally  murdered on the night of October 7th 2023. 24,000 innocent Palestinians, half of them children, need not have been indiscriminately slaughtered.

The Israeli military had the information that something big was in the pipeline. They chose to ignore it. Thousands of innocents have now paid the ultimate price for them doing so?  Or was the job of watching over the security fence  –  Israel’s “Iron Wall” – considered too menial for real soldiers, and was given to young conscript girls.? According to Cutter, they hadn’t even guns to defend themselves.  They were the first to die, defenceless.

There has to be a day of reckoning at some point in the probably distant future, when Netanyahu decides it’s the moment to end his carnage.

It’s time someone placed a notice on his desk: “The Shekel Stops Here!”

 

^{2023 Sets Record for Highest Global Fossil Fuel Emissions}

I wonder just how many of the eight billion humans presently on the planet are as sick to death as I am of the people in charge? Isn’t it time we did something about it? Why, I ask myself, even in so-called democracies do we go on voting the turds of humanity into power over us?

Do we, as I suspect, still suffer subconsciously from the master/serf syndrome? Are we scared to point out the failings of some toffee-nosed politician just because they came from Oxford University, or Harvard? Are we really so dumb that we’d as soon have a lump of human faeces like Putin or Orban or Lukashenko controlling our lives, than decent democratic governments run by people who actually put normal, ordinary folk before the Zuckerberg’s and Musk’s and other billionaire business scumbags of this world?

Not content with their private jets and huge luxury yachts, these parasites of the planet are now coming for our homes and our very lives. They don’t just ignore the climate emergency, but actively work to perpetuate it. It’s not just the fossil fuel companies, though they’ve been the true culprits since the 1970’s. Their own scientists told them they’d end up making the earth uninhabitable, by way of the amount of C02 that their fossil fuels were pumping into the atmosphere. It’s all the other big international companies as well who support the fossil fuel industry, as without it they’s have to adapt to wind or solar power.

Perhaps equally to blame are the computing giants. The amount of energy required to run the huge data clouds, support Gmail and other enormous databases, is colossal. With the advent of AI technology, matters have become disastrously worse, as John Naughton of the Guardian makes clear:

“…AI requires staggering amounts of computing power. And since computers require electricity, and the necessary GPUs (graphics processing units) run very hot (and therefore need cooling), the technology consumes electricity at a colossal rate. Which, in turn, means CO2 emissions on a large scale – about which the industry is extraordinarily coy, while simultaneously boasting about using offsets and other wheezes to mime carbon neutrality.

The implication is stark: the realisation of the industry’s dream of “AI everywhere” (as Google’s boss once put it) would bring about a world dependent on a technology that is not only flaky but also has a formidable – and growing – environmental footprint. Shouldn’t we be paying more attention to this?”

Indeed we should, but we’re not. Why not?

Are we still so imbued with the inferiority complex of the master/serf relationship that we continue to bury our heads in the proverbial sand and just hope for the best? Meanwhile the parasites with the power continue to destroy our home and our environment.

Sea levels have already risen by 101mm (4 inches) since 1993, and 21-24 cms (8-9 inches) since the start of the industrial revolution (1880).  It will continue to rise at an ever more alarming rate.

Before long there’ll be no sand left in which to bury our heads.

 

 

We have a new species of human being. The latest evolution of Homo sapiens. There are many of them and they’re well spread around social media. Their new name is ‘Homo influentia’. To many younger people they’ll simply be known as “Influencers.”

What is this new subspecies that has used the internet as its breeding ground? What are its aims and aspirations?

Put simply, they want to take over the world. In that sense they’re not too different from Homo sapiens. Bad traits persist within species. They capture as many converts as they can. “Followers,” as they’re known hang on their every word and do exactly what their “Influencer,” tells them to do.

Most of these pseudo-messiahs are just hellbent on making money. Those who can rack up sufficient followers are well paid. Chinese manufacturers of cheap, “wear once, throw away” clothing,  or other items,  are happy to pay large sums to ‘Influencers’ displaying these things and selling them through their Facebook, Tiktok, or Instagram pages.

Although exact figures are hard to come by it’s suggested that a top “Influencer,” can coin in over a million dollars for just one post. Those at the top have in excess of half a billion followers.

Most “Influencers,” are not in that league. Anyone who can establish a large number of followers can use the power of social media to influence those who, like sheep,  rush to their every word, however valuable or worthless those words tend to be.

Linkedin is pushing more and more companies to use ‘Influencers’ to sell their products. Is this advertising gone mad?

Can it be a good thing for an estimated 64 million plus ‘Homo influentia’ worldwide to control the thoughts and ideas of billions of us Homo sapiens? While a very few of them are actually of use in the world by giving out sane and sensible thoughts to their followers, the vast majority of the 64 million plus are only interested in personal enrichment, and/or pushing extreme political ideals.

The Covid denial scandal is one example. Research has revealed that a mere twelve “Homo influentia,” were responsible for spreading the myths about Covid and the dangers of vaccination. Yet they caused numerous unnecessary deaths. Many parents refused to have themselves or their children vaccinated after reading false accounts of the dangers on social media.

The internet was supposed to bring people together. Now, this new breed of human being, known as Homo influentia, is doing it’s utmost to separate Homo sapiens into many different tribes.  Each is ready to take up arms against the others, if necessary.  Followers are certain in their own minds that their ‘Great Influentia’ is the fount of all wisdom in the world today. They rush to spread ‘His Gospel’ to all who will listen.

Where have we heard all this before? Two thousand plus years ago? So long as Homo sapiens refuse to use their huge brains to think for themselves, we will continue to rush to wherever any pseudo-messiah stands up and tells us what to believe.

Baaaaa!