OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #198, OCTOBER 9, 2024.

OMNI WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS, #198, OCTOBER 9, 2024.  Compiled by Dick Bennett

·       This Friday: A Year of Genocide, Silent Vigil

·        Abel Tomlinson’s Reply to the UN’s International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons

·       OMNI STOP US MILITARIZATION OF SPACE, ANTHOLOGY #9,  OCTOBER 9, 2024

This Friday: A Year of Genocide, Silent Vigil    
friendsofpalestinenwaOct 8, 2024                    

Hello all,   

As many are aware, October 7^th marks one year of the ongoing genocide in Palestine. This Friday, October 11th, from 6 p.m. - 7 p.m., at the Washington County Courthouse, we will be joining as a community to mourn the lives lost at the hands of Israeli Occupation. There will be a silent protest followed by a candlelight vigil & protest song share. Please wear black.

While the total number of deaths from the Ministry of Health in Gaza has remained at 41,000, there are thousands still unaccounted for — buried in unmarked graves, trapped under the rubble, or incinerated in bomb blasts.   A study in the journal Lancet estimates Israel has killed more than 186,000 people, accounting for indirect deaths caused by starvation and the destruction of healthcare facilities. At least 902 families have been completely wiped off of the civil registry.   Toward their goal of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the Israeli occupation forces continue to commit mass atrocities not only in Gaza, but also in the West Bank, killing over 700 people, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Israel’s latest assault on Lebanon has killed over 2,000 people according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. 

This genocide did not begin on October 7, 2023 — it is a continuation of 76 years of Israeli apartheid.

This grief transcends borders because of our country’s complicity in genocide. Arkansas contributes over $19.8 million in federal tax dollars to fund the Israeli military, according to the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights. The tax dollars of Fayetteville residents provides over $1.4 million in weapons funding for Israel, the very weapons used to massacre men, women and children in this genocide.

Please see attached documents to view the event flyer. Please invite your friends and as always, reach out if you have any questions.

Hope to see you there, Friends of Palestine, NWA

(Here is Abel’s reply to the UN’sInternational Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons as celebrated by ICAN and reported in WWW #197, via   Thomas Hardy’s “In Tenebris II”: “If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst .“  --Dick)

Hi Dick, 

Nuclear weapons abolition appears ever more like a pipe dream so long as the unaccountable nuclear-armed, war criminal, genocidal U.S. Empire exists. A strong supermajority of Genocidal Democrat Elites & Genocidal Republican Elites strongly support nuclear brinkmamship with Russia & China and support spending nearly $2 trillion on new nuclear weapons. 

It's wishful thinking that they would change course with such extreme investment. Abolition is only possible if the US Empire falls, and as many people know the anti-democratic plutocratic authoritarian oligarchy is extremely rigged against 3rd party solutions for peace & disarmament, like Jill Stein who openly seeks the dismantling of US Empire. 

How else can Empire fall if the voting system is too rigged against peace? It can only fall if it has inherent structural instability, and internal contradictions, Imperial Hubris that breeds Extreme Stupidity as we see from Biden, Harris, Trump & other neocons (Iraq backfired, Libya backfired, Ukraine war backfired, economic war on Russia backfired, Gaza Genocide is backfiring, etc), and/or outside intervention. 

1. Genocidal Republicans are more likely to cause nuclear war for Israel (via Iran) or w/ China

2. Genocidal Democrats are more likely to cause nuclear war over ongoing proxy war w/ Russia.

3. Jill Stein offers peace, but the system is rigged.

4. The Greatest Hope is the Fall of the American Imperium, including its genocidal sidekick Israel, and that greatest Hope lies in Multipolarity, surging expansion of BRICS, de-Dollarization of world trade, the extreme hubristic Stupidity of bipartisan neocons constantly failing with backfiring regime change efforts & backfiring economic warfare, the looming collapse of NATO over Ukraine, and other factors

With hope for peace beyond fake rigged Corporate-controlled $elections,

Abel

OMNI STOP US MILITARIZATION OF SPACE, ANTHOLOGY #9,  OCTOBER 9, 2024

Keep Space for Peace Week (Oct 5-12, 2024)

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, and Ecology

https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2024/10/omni-stop-us-militarization-of-space.html
(#1 December 13, 2006; #2 January 24, 2008; #3 October 4, 2008; #4 October 2-9, 2010; #5, October 1-8, 2011; #6, October 6-13, 2012; #7, March 28, 2020; #8, Sept. 20, 2021)

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CONTENTS

• Bruce Gagnon.  “Keep Space for Peace Week October 5-12, 2024.”
• Jeremy Kuzmarov.Futuristic Weapons: H. Bruce Franklin.  “Ukraine. . .Testing Ground for Space-Based Weapons.” 
• Caitlin Johnstone.  UFO Narratives and “Race to Weaponize Space.” 
• Stop US Militarization of Space #8
• Stop Militarization of Space #1-#7

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