Iron Snowflake

On the 24th of Octover, seemingly all of the area climate activists descended on the North American Gas Forum, with protesters outside and disruption inside. Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Geoffrey R. Pyatt was inside hobnobbing with gas barons.

Pyatt was considered a priority target due to Biden’s fake “almost declaring a climate emergency.” Shortly after disruptors inside were expelled, he attempted to leave only to be immediately pursued and blockaded. His car was blockaded in the driveway, eventually reversing out the back as cops pushed back protesters. Protesters charged around the block, catching him before he could escape the heavy traffic and blocking him again.

At one point in the protests, the Willow project and the Mountain Valley Pipeline were singled out as projects that must be stopped.

There was some low grade police and security aggression but no serious violence on any side. There was a great deal of noise and disruption. The chant of “Natural Gas-my ass!” no doubt raised some eyebrows. The overall action was called “stop the gaslighting” as the gas industry is being charged by activists with quite literally gaslighting the public about the safety and brutal environmental costs of fracked gas.

And to think I seriously considered shitcanning the rest of my DC deployment to get to Ft Lauderdale to deal with these losers..

Last year I was able to get right in the Proud Boy’s faces and none of them had the guts to do anything more than squawk at me. Total losers and cosplaying wannabe SEALS. Most of their best fighters are rotting in prison, what we got last year was the dregs and apparently this year only a shadow of even that.Photo by “Floridisto” via Birdchan

(video: confronting the transphobes, 1st person perspective)

On the 21st of October, some kind of pharmaceutical industry or medical event was held at the DC Convention Center. For some reason it drew bigoted, anti-trans protesters who denied the very existance of trangender folks.

Across the street was a second group of protester nominally protesting circumcision, but with them yelling about babies being “raped” they seemed to overlap with the Qanon/groomer protest set.

On the 21st of October, another major march for Gaza assembled near the Washington Monument and marched on the US Capitol. The march stretched for several blocks on Constitution Ave, sometimes while stretching all the way across the road

Gaza solidarity protests are continuing on essentially a daily basis in DC. On Friday the 20th of October, the noontime assembly at 3ed st on the Mall near the Capitol spawned a substantial march on the White House.Marchers carried red roses symbolic of those murdered in Gaza by Israeli rockets and bombs. When marchers arrived at Lafayette Square Park, they found cops had closed off Penn Ave in front of the White House.

Biden was singled out in several chants for enabling genocide. Attorneys have warned him that for going “all-in” for Israel he could in fact be committing genocide and face international prosecution.

On the 19th of October, Biden gave an Oval Office speech trying to link his “all-in” support for Israel’s war in Gaza to the ongoing war in Ukraine. A half dozen noisy protesters gathered as close to the White House press area as they could get with bullhorns and drum, denouncing Biden as “Genocide Joe.”

Meanwhile the war is spreading and the US is already involved. A US ship shot down guided missiles launched from Yemen at targets in Israel, and drones were used by unknown forces to attack a still-present US base in Iraq. This war could thus embroil Israel, Palestine (ALL of Palestine), Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, and the United States, and with the regime in Iran(NOT the people!) being Putin’s drone sugar daddy Russia could be pulled in too. As I said before, this stinks of 1914.

Climate Defiance has been bird-dogging Biden’s secretary of transportation Pete Buttigieg. He is known as “Petro Pete” for his support of the oil and gas industries. At a protest presumably on Oct 19 (the day this video emerged), one of the staffers PUNCHED a Climate Defiance organizer in the face.

On the 18th of October, capping an already busy day of protest against the Israeli war on Gaza, protesters infuriated by the bombed hospital the day before and reported bombing of a US school as well as the total siege and air assault on Gaza crammed the street in front of the Israeli Embassy. The name of US President Joe Biden was greeted with a chorus of boos after his trip to Israel. He was charged by speakers with making this effectively a joint US/Israeli war on all Palestinians.

On the 18th of October, Jewish activists notably including Jewish Voice for Peace chanted “Never Again!” and “Cease Fire Now!” as they marched up Capitol Hill to the Longworth and Cannon House Office Buildings. Marjorie Tayler Greene called these peaceful protesters insurrectionists. There was civil disobedience inside the Cannon Building but no violence thus no insurrection.

She should know after serving as a 5th columnist for a real insurrection on Jan 6 2021…

On the 17th of October, a bomb hit a hospital in Gaza City, one estimate for the number of dead was 900 people many of them children. As night fell in Washington and Biden was on a plane to Israel, furious protesters gathered at the White House to denounce the brutal war in Gaza. This protest was one of a great many held around the world.

Background: while Israeli media and the IDF are claiming a misfired rocket out of a large barrage fired by Palestinian Islamic Jihad hit the hospital, there are reports Israel initially took credit for the blast claiming Hamas targets were at the site before hurredly retracting the claim. To destroy a hospital and kill so many people seems to be a LOT of damage for a warhead similar in explosive power to an antitank mine. Historically most Quassam rockets have carried relatively small 35 kilogram warheads. This seems even more unlikely give Israel is claiming the alleged misfired rocket hit the parking lot. On the other hand, a 500 pound air dropped bomb (14 times as much explosive) could do this with ease, probably even from the parking lot and certainly with a direct hit. Gaza’s health ministry flatly stated an Israeli air strike caused the blast. Investigation continues as this is reported though.

One thing is certain however: with no occupation and long term siege of Gaza there would have been no war, and with no war the hospital would not have been bombed no matter where the projectile came from.

This story will be updated as investigation continues into the Gaza hospital bombing. If Israel is proven beyond all doubt to be guilty there will surely be hell to pay. With the US and Iran each warning the other to stay out, it seems likely more countries will be drawn into the war, and the whole mess stinks of August 1914, the start of WWI.