Without Meaning

The word, the concept, the declaration of a ceasefire is now apparently completely meaningless in this age of Trump, Putin and Netanyahu.

In Ukraine:

At least five people have been killed in Russian air strikes on Ukrainian state-run gas facilities in the Poltava and Kharkiv regions, officials said, a day after Kyiv and Moscow announced unilateral ceasefires to take effect later this week. 

Three employees and two rescue workers were killed and 37 people were wounded in the overnight missile and drone barrage, Serhiy Koretskyi, the CEO of Ukraine’s state energy company Naftogaz said on Tuesday. (source) 

In Gaza:

Israeli attacks on Gaza killed at least three Palestinians and wounded 10 others on Thursday and Friday in Israel’s latest violations of the ceasefire. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha said he was “heartbroken” after Israel shot his 30-year-old aunt in the chest while she was sitting with her three young children in a school shelter in the Jabaliya refugee camp. (source) 

In the Strait of Hormuz:

Iran has accused the United States of killing five civilians in the Strait of Hormuz, saying its forces attacked passenger vessels in the waterway rather than boats belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as claimed.

The claim on Tuesday contradicted a statement by US Admiral Brad Cooper, who said Central Command (CENTCOM) forces had sunk six IRGC vessels that had attempted to interfere with a US mission to escort stranded ships out of the Strait of Hormuz. (source) 

Now, you might be thinking of the US/Iran business, ‘isn’t this a he said/she said? Who can we believe?' After all, both sides are known to lie. This is true, but keep in mind the absolute, flat-out, monster sized whoppers the Pedo administration told in order to justify the U.S. military strikes (AKA extrajudicial killings, AKA murders of fisherman) and the illegal invasion of a country that posed no fucking threat at all to the US. The attacks and invasion, the abduction of Maduro had fuck-all to do with drug cartels or democracy for Venezuelan citizens or whatever lies were spewed. It was always about Pedo nailing Venezuela's oil reserves.

Precisely nothing from this crew of swindlers, frauds, and billionaire bullshit artists can be trusted. They’re all out to line their offshore bank accounts with obscene amounts of moolah – more than they could spend in 100 lifetimes.

Word for the day:

Avarice
     noun
: excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or profit: greediness, cupidity

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
~  Socrates

Christopher Weyant

For soulless, greedheaded, power-mad assholes like Trump and his ilk, there is never enough. They are black holes of authoritarianism and avarice.

Our totally not right-the-head, felonious, pedophile, temper tantruming, pants shitting, toddler president said yesterday that Iran would be “blown off the face of the Earth” if it attacks US ships while they violate the ceasefire agreement. Pedo really isn’t accustomed to having consequences for his actions.

I sit on a man's back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible… except by getting off his back.
~  Leo Tolstoy, What Then Must We Do?