Caught in an Unending Infantilizing Ignoble America -- the lion sleeps tonight!

I was there to support a grown man living with developmental disabilities, but the movie, Mufasa, and the nine movie previews, well, the USA is a lot worse off than I thought.

The children, man, the poor children, wrangled by these absurd movies, absurdity, fakery, worthless hijinx, just plain ugly CGI, just sappy and foolish and of course, racist and surreal plot lines.

Donald Trump and the downfall, because Americans are not the smartest people in the world:

This causes brain weeping, brain soggy people:

The more infantile, the more fake, the more off the wall, the more plastic and Orwellian the junk, the less humane AmeriKKKan kids become:

The deeper this foolish shit gets, the deeper the amnesia and blank brains the collective AMerican public becomes.

Adults, man, adults turning into children.

Laith Marouf & Hadi Hotait join the people of south Lebanon as they attempt to return to their villages, on the first day of the official end of the “ceasefire” with the Zionist enemy of humanity. They witness the bravery of the Lebanese people, the cowardice of the Lebanese army, and the satanic criminality of the Zionists shooting on unarmed civilians.

Great journalists:

Oh, the cartoon country!

For the past week, Palestinians in Gaza have been returning to their homes, now mostly reduced to rubble – and to their dead who still lie beneath. It is only now that we will start to get a fuller picture of the true toll of this war – only now that any kind of grieving or mourning can begin, a process that has been physically and emotionally denied to the Palestinians throughout the past 15 months. Once the final tally becomes clear, what will probably emerge is a colossal death toll of children.

Already, indications point to it being children that have made up the majority of casualties. UN analysis of verified deaths during a five-month period confirmed that of those who died, 44% were children. Most often, those children were five- to nine-year-olds; 80% of them were killed in their own homes.

I would like you to pause with me here for a moment, at least for the duration of this column, and allow those statistics to become tragedies. Too often, individual losses during this war have been subsumed by a broader tussle over whether the numbers of the dead were correct, whether they were justified, and even necessary. And now, a ceasefire pulls our gaze away from mortality and into analysis of what can and should come next. This is an exercise that needs to be done, of course. Millions in Gaza are still by no means out of mortal danger, their future is uncertain and they need protection now. But, in that, there is a risk of diminishing or sanitizing what happened. And what happened is that thousands of innocent people died, and among them were thousands of children.

Fucking ghouls, vampires, these goddamned EuroTrash. Psychopaths.

Mario Fehr, the Swiss security official who ordered the arrest of Ali Abunimah, is a rabidly pro-Zionist politician who falsely branded the Palestinian American journalist as “an Islamist Jew-hater.” In the past, Fehr has taken pride in banning Palestine solidarity demonstrations.

Here’s the Rapist in Chief’s first 7 days, and some cunt accused me of TDS? Trump Derangement Syndrome?

Oh, I am perfectly grounded in what this predatory capitalist is all about, way before he was pussy grabbing and even sexually assaulting. He’s just part of the plan, man, and there is no Democratic Party bone in my body, either:

In just seven days, Trump has initiated the opening stages of a strategy that he and fascist aides like Stephen Miller and Tom Homan have been preparing for years. This includes:

• Claiming presidential authority to strip citizenship from individuals born in the United States, in direct defiance of the Fourteenth Amendment and its guarantee of birthright citizenship, and in violation of the Constitutional separation of powers.
  

• Asserting that all non-citizens in the US—approximately 30 million people—have no First Amendment rights, making criticism of the government and its institutions grounds for deportation.
  

• Ordering the US Northern Command (NORTHCOM) to develop operational battle plans to suppress what he terms an “invasion,” granting the military authority with no geographic limitations within US borders.
  

• Directing the military-intelligence apparatus to prepare for the invocation of the Insurrection Act and Alien Enemies Act, setting the stage for formal martial law.
  

• Deputizing local police and the FBI to enforce immigration laws and deploying them to American cities like Newark, Chicago and elsewhere.
  

• Chaining deportees to their chairs on repatriation flights to countries like Colombia and Brazil, acts reminiscent of the brutalization of “enemy combatants” in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
  

• Threatening criminal prosecution against state officials and private citizens who take lawful steps to protect or advise those targeted by his orders.
  

• Initiating a sweeping purge of federal agencies to remove any individuals deemed insufficiently loyal or likely to obstruct these authoritarian measures.
  

• Sparking a major international conflict with Colombia by threatening war-like measures in an effort to bully the country into accepting deportation flights.

The Socialist Equality Party statement explains that Trump’s fascistic policies are not an aberration but rather the culmination of decades of social inequality, bipartisan attacks on democratic rights, and the unchecked power of the financial oligarchy. The Democratic Party has capitulated to Trump’s agenda, ensuring no serious resistance from the political establishment.

Initial Core Demands / DemandAs Básicas iniciales / Deman Kò

1. Dismantle SOUTHCOM. Shut down the 76 U.S. military bases in the region

2. End U.S./NATO military exercises. Close foreign military bases, installations and enclaves, as well as withdraw foreign occupation troops

3. Disband U.S.-sponsored state terrorist training facilities. Shutter the “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation” (WHINSEC)—formerly the School of the Americas—in Fort Benning, Georgia, United States, and terminate U.S.—as well as foreign—training of police forces

4. Oppose military intervention into Haiti. Support the people(s)-centered movement for democracy and self-determination

5. Return Guantánamo to Cuba. The United States must give back to the Cuban people and their government the territory it illegally occupies

6. Sanctions are war. End illegal sanctions and blockades of regional states, including all economic warfare and lawfare, and recognize their sovereignty

En español:

1. Desmantelar SOUTHCOM. Cerrar las 76 bases militares estadounidenses en la región.

2. Poner fin a los ejercicios militares de EE. UU. y la OTAN. Cerrar bases, instalaciones y enclaves militares extranjeros, así como retirar las tropas de ocupación extranjeras.

3. Desmantelar las instalaciones de entrenamiento de terroristas estatales patrocinadas por Estados Unidos. Cerrar el “Instituto del Hemisferio Occidental para la Cooperación en Seguridad” (WHINSEC), anteriormente la Escuela de las Américas, en Fort Benning, Georgia, Estados Unidos, y poner fin al entrenamiento de las fuerzas policiales en los EE. UU. y en el extranjero.

4. Oponerse a la intervención militar en Haití. Apoyar el movimiento centrado en las personas por la democracia y la autodeterminación.

5. Devolver Guantánamo a Cuba. Estados Unidos debe devolver al pueblo cubano y a su gobiernoel territorio que ocupa ilegalmente.

6. Las sanciones son la guerra. Poner fin a las sanciones y bloqueos ilegales de los estados en nuestra región, incluidas todas las guerras económicas y legales, y reconocer su soberanía.

Haitian Kreyol:

1. Demantèl SOUTHCOM. Fèmen 76 baz militè ameriken yo nan rejyon an.

2. Sispann egzèsis militè ant peyi Etazini ak NATO. Fèmen baz militè etranje, enstalasyon ak anvayi militè etranje, ak retire toup militè okipasyon etranje yo.

3. Dismete enstitisyon fòme teworis eta ameriken an. Fèmen “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation” (WHINSEC) - ki te anvan te rele Lekòl Amerik di Sid—nan Fort Benning, Jòjji, Etazini, epi sispann fòmasyon eta ameriken ak etranje nan fòs polis yo.

4. Opoze enplike militè nan Ayiti. Sipòte mouvman ki santre sou moun yo pou demokrasi ak autodetèminasyon.

5. Remèt Guantánamo bay Kiba. Etazini dwe remèt tèritwa a bay pèp Kiben ak gouvènman li a pou teritwa sa a li okipe ilegalman.

6. Sanksyon se lagè. Sispann sanksyon ilegal ak blokis rejyon yo, ki gen ladan tout lagè ekonomik ak lagè dwa, epi rekòmande swadizan yo.

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Another Jews writing about, well, Lion King?Jeff Nathanson. In a way, Nathanson’s script reads like a vicious side swipe by the mighty paw of Disney against the legacy of Osamu Tezuka, something that at this late date, no one involved in anything Lion King-related can claim ignorance.

White lions were the focus of Osamu Tezuka’s manga series that ran from 1950 to 1954, “Jungle Emperor” (ジャングル大帝). This series was not unknown in the US as it became a TV series and was originally broadcast in Japan in 1965 with 52 episodes. It came to the US in 1966 (dubbed) as “Kimba the White Lion.” There was some dispute about Disney’s “The Lion King” and there was a debate.

• ‘Lion King’ Sparks Debate in Japan (10 August 1994)

• ‘Lion King’ Has Been Clouded by Intellectual Property Controversy for 25 Years. Here’s the Story Behind It ” (26 July 2019)

• The ‘Lion King’ Secret Disney Doesn’t Want You to Know (9 July 2019)

• Who’s Lion It Is, Anyway? (3 September 2019)

According to Cracked.com, Disney attempted to prevent a screening of a new feature-length version of “The Jungle Emperor” in 1997 based on copyright claims. “Back in 1997, Toronto’s Fant-Asia film festival screened a new feature-length animated version of Jungle Emperor. According to festival director Julian Grant, Disney sent them a cease-and-desist letter. ”

The white lion is one of Tezuka’s most famous characters (along with Astro Boy). In 1978, the adult Leo character became the mascot of the Seibu Lions (now known as the Saitama Seibu Lions). The mascot has appeared on the team’s baseball cap. In 2014, the lion appeared on the uniform.