It's A Gas!

Every year the US House of Representatives' Oversight Committee votes to approve the city budget of Washington, DC. Imagine, for a moment, that you live in any other city in the US, and your city can't pass a budget or fund the implementation of new laws without the approval of a bunch of politicians hundreds of miles away who don't even live in your state. That's pretty much the situation we're looking at here in the District Of Columbia.

In every session for the past four years, Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) has inserted a "rider" into the budget bill, preventing the District Of Columbia from passing laws to establish a framework and budget for implementing the legal sale of cannabis in Washington, DC. As of 2014, it's been legal to possess, grow and consume cannabis (on private property), but we're still trapped in a "gray market" or "sharing economy" in which actual cash sales are illegal — thanks to Rep. Harris.

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Next Year's Model

Here's a fun factoid for you: at least 70% of Earth's lithium reserves are in Bolivia — you know lithium, the stuff that's in the batteries in your phone, your laptop, your trendy electric car...?

Quite a happenstance for the US-backed fascist coupmongers there, huh?

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The Bible Returns to the Palace

Judging from the torrent of racist, religious fundamentalist howling coming from Bolivia's new imaginary president, it looks as if the US-backed fascist junta in Bolivia are using the same standard procedure as when the Spanish first showed up — steal the land, plunder the resources, slaughter the indigenous people and claim that god is on your side.

“The Bible returns to the Palace,” says the new self-declared president of Bolivia, Jeanine Áñez, in a shot against indigenous communities.pic.twitter.com/6uQxeIZXf4

— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) November 13, 2019

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Another Star For Their Flag

Fuck the CIA.
That's pretty much all I've got for you on this one.

Fuck the CIA, and fuck the USA.

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Another New DC Flag

Just last night here in Your Nation's Capital, an off-duty cop shot and wounded a couple of people over in Southeast. Cripes, it's as if they get even worse when they go off-duty; what's the damn deal with that?

.@DCPoliceDept officer (off duty???? sounds too familiar) just shot 2 people in SE...

REMEMBER #DQuanYoung

Watch each story after this one and watch the discrepancies and character assassination begin. @ChiefNewsham is a pathological liar. #StopMPD pic.twitter.com/YHjqQHP6MB

— BlackLivesMatter DC (@DMVBlackLives) November 9, 2019

I don't know about anybody else in this town, but I didn't like living in the "Murder Capital" the first time around.

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Olympic-Size FAIL

"Current incident estimates published by the company say that 9,120 US barrels (383,040 gallons) or 'approximately half the size of an Olympic-sized swimming pool' of crude oil were released into an impacted area of 2,500 square yards..."

—Sputnik International, 11.01.2019

We are responding to a crude oil release on the Keystone Pipeline System near our facilities near Edinburg, North Dakota. Please visit https://t.co/K2NppMFl0K for the latest updates. pic.twitter.com/l0M3i2oNzz

— TC Energy (@TCEnergy) October 31, 2019

This past week saw the latest — the latest — rupture and spill on TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline, this time to the tune of 383,000 gallons near the town of Edinburg, North Dakota... a big ol' Olympic-sized pool of Fail. Of course, it happened pretty much as predicted by the thousands of people who spoke up, protested, and tried to stop the pipeline from being built, and who are now designated as "terrorists" by the US Government.

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