Saturday, January 13, 2024

As people around the world stand in solidarity with Palestine, London Breed soils herself in public

London Breed is in the news.  And I have to know what the hell is wrong with her?  Have I gone through my whole life not nothing these weird looking people who have 1 side of face that is dented in?  Is that normal?  Marcia was just writing today about the weird face of actor Jacob Crosse but look at London's.  Anyway, the corporate whore is in the news these days.  No, they didn't finally catch her taking bribes.   That would have been 2015.  No, large gal London used her position (for now) as Mayor San Francisco to condemn protesters today and the San Francisco Board of Advisor's call for a cease-fire.  That's right, fight girl thinks she knows something beyond what buffets at lunch time.


She doesn't.


Remember this is dumb bitch who endorsed Michael Bloomberg in 2020.  She's that in 'touch' with the party.  And, of course, the year before she saw fit to create a controversy by honoring a dead man who wasn't from San Francisco or, for that matter, the United States but who had been in an organization that some saw (the IRA) as a terrorist group (the some would include the US government).


How does that happen?  Usually when an idiot in America decides to honor some unknown that they know nothing about, the reason is because they got paid off.  The most logical reason for London to have abused her position of Mayor to give an honor to a dead citizen of Ireland is that she got paid off to do so.  


So today, London pushed herself back from the table and took the bib off, long enough to condemn the Board as well as protesters.  When a fat girl like that pushes herself away from the table it's usually not because they've finally gotten full.  Maybe this came from a pay off.


One thing is clear, it's really time to send London Breed packing.  She fails to keep any campaign promise (check out her record on housing) and every ethical issue in the world has pretty much followed her around -- including taking money from employees serving under her (including doing that from employees she's also slept with which was another ethical issue -- but hey Mohammed Nuru got sent to prison so didn't the money he gave her and the dick he slipped her just go all away?).


Despite people like the unethical London, around the world there were shows of solidarity with Palestinians and calls for a cease-fire.  DC in the video below.



The city of London in the video below.



At COMMON DREAMS, Jon Queally reports:


Major coordinated demonstrations took place across the world on Saturday to mark the 100th day of Israel's bombardment and military assault on the people of the Gaza Strip that have now claimed the lives of nearly 24,000 Palestinians, a large majority of them innocent men, women, and children who had nothing to do with the attacks orchestrated by Hamas on October 7 of last year.

In London, as many as 500,000 people marched on Parliament Square to demand an immediate cease-fire Gaza, condemn their own U.K. government's support of Israel's disproportionate and "genocidal" onslaught, and warn against a wider regional war that experts warn is creeping closer by the day.

"This Global Day of Action, from Australia through to Asia, Europe and the Americas, is the first coordinated, international movement against the war being waged by Israel on the Palestinian people," said Gaza Global Day of Action organizers ahead of the demonstration. "It will send a powerful message not just to the Israelis but to the Western powers who are backing them that the public say 'not in our name.'"

In Dublin, organizers of a march that saw more than 100,000 march through city streets called it the largest rally for Palestinian rights in Irish history.

As the Irish Timesreports:

The crowd was filled with Palestinian flags, posters calling for an "End to the Gaza genocide" as well as makeshift washing lines, with baby clothes hanging from it, representing the many young lives lost in the conflict.

At the front of the march, four people held mock corpses in bloody body bags to represent the growing number of civilian casualties.

In the United States, tens of thousands marched in Washington, D.C. to denounce the Israeli onslaught—which has claimed over 23,000 lives, including more than 10,000 children—as well as their own government's complicity in the carnage. President Joe Biden was on the tip of many demonstrators' tongues and polls in the U.S. have shown very little support across the political spectrum for how he is handling the situation.

Jake and Ida Braford, a young couple from Richmond, Virginia, who brought their two small children to the protest, told the Associated Press the situation in Gaza has made them unsure of their support for Biden come this year's election.

"We're pretty disheartened," Ida told the news agency. "Seeing what is happening in Gaza, and the government's actions makes me wonder what is our vote worth?"

Following the march, demonstrators left a pile of bloodied baby dolls, including severe parts, in a pile outside the White House as a message to Biden. "The blood of the over 10,000 murdered children in Gaza is on his hands," said CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans.

Meanwhile, in Indonesia, thousands gathered outside the U.S. embassy in Jakarta to condemn the ongoing "genocide" in Gaza perpetrated by Israel with the backing of the U.S. government and other Western allies.


NPR has a photo essay on the DC protest.  Meanwhile, Australia's ABC notes:


In the southern city of Rafah, an Israeli air strike on a house sheltering two displaced families killed 10 people, the Gaza health ministry said.

Holding up a photo of a dead girl with a piece of bread in her hand, Bassem Arafeh, a relative, said the families in Rafah had been eating dinner when the house was struck on Friday night.

"This child died while she was hungry, while she was eating a piece of bread with nothing on it. Where is the International Criminal Court to see how the children die?" Arafeh said.

"Where are the Muslims … and the world leaders?"



And CNN’s Shirin Zia Faqiri reports:

Commercial goods are desperately needed in Gaza to prevent an incoming famine as Israel approaches the 100th day of its war in the enclave, according to the head of the main United Nations agency working in Gaza.

"The crisis in Gaza is a man-made disaster compounded by dehumanizing language and the use of food, water and fuel as instruments of war," United Nations Relief and Works Agency Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said in a statement Saturday. "Humanitarian aid alone will not be sufficient to reverse a looming famine."

Lazzarini urged leaders to heed the calls for a humanitarian ceasefire and enable the delivery of more food, medicine, water and shelter to those affected by the enclave's “mass displacement.”

More than 1.4 million people are staying in “overcrowded and unsanitary” UN shelters, where they lack food and hygiene, according to Lazzarini.


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