Namaste and happy holidays my friends, family, and fellow knowledge seekers. I think we all could agree that some interesting things happened over these last 12 months, some good, some bad. This is not a comprehensive list, so please don't be offended if I missed an important event of significance to you, my reader. As many of you may know, I am a huge cinephile and geek, so much of this blog posting will include things deemed as nerdy, lol. There will be world issues and events as well as domestic, political, and entertainment points.
Let's start simple with the battle of the generations. We hear a lot about millennial's and generation Z being upset with the Baby Boomer generation allowing the destruction of our planet. The phrase "OK, Boomer..." became social media meme fodder passed around ad infinitum.
Much of the angst from younger generations comes due to the issue of climate change, student loan debt, and a huge disconnect with major political party ideals.
A major voice of the cause came in Greta Thunberg, a young woman who has made mainstream media attention for her passionate speeches and world tour spreading the message of desperate need for radical reform in energy policy, carbon emissions, and deforestation due to mass animal agriculture, among other things. It is sad and shameful, however, that the United States of America is the only country in the world to NOT sign the global climate change accord and acknowledge that climate change is indeed real and is indeed a crisis for much of the world, even if it's effects on our nation are not as drastic as other nations, yet. It was, however, a really bad year for America's farmers as they had to be subsidized by tax-payer dollars due to the trade war raged by 45 and his globalist billionaire buddies.
A war on plastic, primarily single-use plastics like straws, bags, cutlery, etc., has been waged to cut down on the toxic trash refuse that has been dumped into the oceans, raising the acidity of the oceans, destroying the biodiversity of life in the waters. Much of the seafood caught in these affected waters are littered with plastics, radioactivity, and toxic levels of mercury; not to mention the drastic environmental effects of over-fishing.
Another side effect of the deforestation is mass extinction of the biodiversity of life on Earth. Many more species are being put on the endangered species list including bees that we need to pollinate plants to grow food to eat. Monsanto merging with Bayer pharmaceuticals creates a dangerous scenario for the future of our global food supply.
Tied in with this subject is the devastating forest fires of the Amazon and Africa, all the way to our own backyard in California. Much of the fires in the Amazon has been confirmed to be used as a cheap method for corporate interests to clear large amounts of land needed for animal agriculture, destroying the natural biodiversity, replacing it with farm animals that are not allowed to reproduce naturally, only for eating and the products made from them.
There has been an equal rise in individuals choosing the path of conscious eating and conscious living by adopting a plant-based, vegetarian, and/or vegan lifestyle. The IPO for Beyond Meats rocked the industry and quickly rose in market value with their products hitting both grocery store chains and restaurants alike, similarly to the Impossible burgers that are featured at Burger King, who consequently been sued for cooking their plant-based Impossible burgers on the same grill as the beef burgers, creating cross-contamination that can be a serious issue for those with severe dietary restrictions, like myself for example.
This year has had all too many school shootings. It is shameful that many kids are learning active shooter drills before they have learned basic grammar. The argument along the division between public safety and constitutional rights rages on with heavy lobbying from the National Rifle Association to our often traitorous elected officials that fail to address these issues.
Americans continuously sought ways to relieve from the stresses of the world and we saw musical hits like "Old Town Road" from Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus, "Truth Hurts" by Lizzo, and a breakout year for Post Malone.
Other entertainment news saw Avengers: Endgame overtake Avatar as the highest grossing film of all time, followed by Spiderman Far From Home to end the 11 year MCU "Infinity Saga". We also saw the end come to the exciting show Game of Thrones as well as the end of the Skywalker saga with the Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker this holiday season; conjoined with the Mandalorian, fully equipped with the Child/baby Yoda on the Disney+ streaming service. DC also hit big with the movie "Joker" starring Joaquin Phoenix as the titular character.
The drums of the war machine beat on this year with civil war revolving around ISIS in Syria, along with Iranian, Turkish, and Russian interference as the superpowers attempt to gain a foothold in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia, America's ALLEGED ALLY in the middle East, kept their reign of terror going with genocide against the neighboring country of Yemen. Israel too kept up its own reign of terror against the Palestinians in the Gaza region, annexing more lands for expansion of the terror state and continued destabilization of the region, based upon "holy lands".
Hong Kong made international news attention as they are rebelling against their Chinese overlords, fighting for democracy and waving flags for American intervention that NEVER CAME as President Trump spent most of the year waging TARIFF wars across the globe and a war against immigrants at the southern border of the United States with illegal detention centers that treated their captors like animals, per the rhetoric of the president calling them "Invaders. Animals. Vermin. Etc." This has made LEGAL immigration that much more difficult, especially for those covered by the Obama era DACA or "dreamers" act that was meant to protect them while they live in the U.S. waiting for citizenship.
The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris burned nearly to ruin.
Oldest living former President Jimmy Carter turned 95, had several disastrous falls and hospitalizations, yet still gets out and builds homes for Habitat for Humanity and is even more bad ass than most people a fraction of his age.
We saw 5G Internet take center stage, with mixed reviews, as some scientists claim this bandwidth is damaging to humans and animals alike, potentially causing mental health issues as well as physical health problems. I'm sure more study and attention to this will be paid in the upcoming years.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was kicked out of his asylum in London and then promptly arrested for his leaks of sensitive and secret government information on illegal spying, foreign wars, etc.
Boeing CEO resigned amid pressure from the U.S. and foreign governments in relation to 2 of its 737 MAX 8 planes crashing this year in Malaysia and Ethiopia, due to faulty cockpit equipment. The planes have been grounded and going through upgrades to the tune of millions of dollars, plus the cost of the planes being grounded vs in the air.
De-nuclearization talks have stalled with Iran and North Korea. Sanctions have been imposed, but it will be a long difficult road for the president and diplomats to get both sides back to the table to minimize the global threat of nuclear war.
Net-neutrality has been a constant battle ground subject for the world in 2019 as the large social media giants like Google, Facebook, etc. have been forced to be accountable for its users posting hate speech, terrorism propaganda, nationalism, white supremacy, etc.
Anti-semetism is on the rise once again, mirrored by the growing global fascism and nationalism.
Horrifically, there has also been a correlated rise in mass shootings, at concerts, schools, and churches/synagogues.
The "Squad" featured by AOC took center stage as they have tried to take over the Democrat party as the voices for the often under-heard population groups of Hispanics and blacks.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been desperately trying to contain another EBOLA outbreak from reaching a global pandemic scale. Thankfully, there have only been a few, isolated, cases of this disease hitting the Americas.
Vaping deaths have dominated a bit of the 2019 news. Although the primary culprit of the deaths has been discovered as a knock-off Chinese import, there are now still millions of kids from Middle School and older that have become addicted to the nicotine products supplied by the tobacco/vaping industry that caught its users by marketing candy flavors and other targeted advertisements toward the youth. Litigation's are underway and several lawsuits have already been settled. The long-term health effects of vaping are still unknown. The next 10 years will be very revealing.
Police shootings are up in what can only be regarded as a gross abuse of power. A police officer, WITH training, is allowed to lose composure and break protocol to shoot a person or animal and then often gets let off duty with PAID time off, rather than being fired. On the flip side of that coin, UN-TRAINED civilians are instructed to REMAIN CALM with a pistol pointed in their face by a rogue police officer? Seems rather hypocritical and seems like BOTH the cops and the civilian counterparts need more training, plus Americans could like STOP BREAKING THE LAW, and stuff...
For 3 years in a row, the average life expectancy for Americans has gone DOWN, rather than up. Much of the contributing factors are the OPIOID EPEDEMIC, SUICIDE (especially among younger people and Veterans), and lack of mental health treatment.
2019 also nearly saw a mass casualty situation as Internet geeks started a campaign to raid AREA 51, top-secret military base. Thankfully it turned into more of a social event, though a few dumb-asses tried to raid anyway and were arrested for their efforts. Idiots.
In other news, the Robin Hood of McNuggets was discovered and fired from McDonald's as for over 2.5 years, this culinary guerrilla terrorist added extra nuggets to all who ordered the combo pack during his employment with the corporation. I don't eat meat, but I still think this guy is a hero.
The Undisputed ERA dominated the sports entertainment world of WWE's NXT. Brock Lesnar, Seth Rollins, the Miz, the Phenomenal AJ Styles (with the OC), and the New Day also had dominant years with the WWE.
The son of NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars owner Tony Khan started his own wrestling promotion AEW on Wednesday nights on TNT, reigniting the war between WWE and a viable competitor in AEW: Wednesday Night Dynamite, led by Cody Rhodes and le Champion Chris Jericho, among others like John Moxley (formerly known in WWE as Dean Ambrose).
The NFL has had a battle of old vs new quarterbacks in Tom Brady vs Patrick Mahomes. The KC Chiefs and the New England Patriots will likely meet again in the playoffs in the next few weeks to settle this culminating grudge match-up.
Transgender-ism and transgender rights took center stage of American media with biological males being allowed to compete and dominate, unfairly in biological female sports. Hate crimes against this demographic of self-identifiers has been on the rise and will no doubt again be a huge issue going forward into the next year and decade. I don't have to understand the psychology and physiology to respect my fellow human beings rights and their access to the same rights all Americans have to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Now we are going solely domestic and going to discuss American politics.
We saw the beginnings of the Democrat party debates on who is going to be the party candidate for election in the 2020 voting cycle. Top leaders, so we are told, are former Vice President Joe Biden (whom the president and many of his staff and cronies have personally attacked and sought foreign interference and investigations regarding Hunter Biden's association with Ukraine gas company Burisma), Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Senator Bernie Sanders. Other big names in the race are tech-savvy Andrew Yang, billionaire and environmental activist Tom Steyer, mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Senator Amy Klobuchar.
President Trump, 45, has become only the third president in U.S. history to be IMPEACHED. The other 2 are Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. The President using his position of power to coerce the Ukrainian leader to use political power to attack a political opponent in Joe Biden was inexcusable for many Americans who saw a 55% favorable support to this impeachment. A trial will start soon in the Senate to figure out if criminal charges and/or removal from office are warranted. The 2 counts of impeachment are for:
1) Abuse of power - in asking a foreign government in help with dirt on a political opponent.
2) Obstruction of Congress - who was tasked, by law, to complete their independent investigation which led to warranted impeachment on these 2 articles of Impeachment as of 12-18-2019.
The upcoming election in 2020 will be HUGE for the future sake of prosperity against the constant attacks on our democracy from foreign interference and domestic interference like voter suppression and gerrymandering. There is a lot to be hopeful about and a lot to be concerned about, equally, but as American citizens, we need to step up and demand accountability in our elected representatives and remind them that they indeed serve "We the people..."
Last but not least, as we start the new year, remember this last thing. The governments and religions of the world are full of liars, creeps, and pedophiles.
EPSTEIN DIDN'T KILL HIMSELF!!!
This has been the one and only Quiet Mouse. Happy New Year and new decade. Let's try to fix some shit and stop making the same mistakes of the past over and over again.
Let's start simple with the battle of the generations. We hear a lot about millennial's and generation Z being upset with the Baby Boomer generation allowing the destruction of our planet. The phrase "OK, Boomer..." became social media meme fodder passed around ad infinitum.
Much of the angst from younger generations comes due to the issue of climate change, student loan debt, and a huge disconnect with major political party ideals.
A major voice of the cause came in Greta Thunberg, a young woman who has made mainstream media attention for her passionate speeches and world tour spreading the message of desperate need for radical reform in energy policy, carbon emissions, and deforestation due to mass animal agriculture, among other things. It is sad and shameful, however, that the United States of America is the only country in the world to NOT sign the global climate change accord and acknowledge that climate change is indeed real and is indeed a crisis for much of the world, even if it's effects on our nation are not as drastic as other nations, yet. It was, however, a really bad year for America's farmers as they had to be subsidized by tax-payer dollars due to the trade war raged by 45 and his globalist billionaire buddies.
A war on plastic, primarily single-use plastics like straws, bags, cutlery, etc., has been waged to cut down on the toxic trash refuse that has been dumped into the oceans, raising the acidity of the oceans, destroying the biodiversity of life in the waters. Much of the seafood caught in these affected waters are littered with plastics, radioactivity, and toxic levels of mercury; not to mention the drastic environmental effects of over-fishing.
Another side effect of the deforestation is mass extinction of the biodiversity of life on Earth. Many more species are being put on the endangered species list including bees that we need to pollinate plants to grow food to eat. Monsanto merging with Bayer pharmaceuticals creates a dangerous scenario for the future of our global food supply.
Tied in with this subject is the devastating forest fires of the Amazon and Africa, all the way to our own backyard in California. Much of the fires in the Amazon has been confirmed to be used as a cheap method for corporate interests to clear large amounts of land needed for animal agriculture, destroying the natural biodiversity, replacing it with farm animals that are not allowed to reproduce naturally, only for eating and the products made from them.
There has been an equal rise in individuals choosing the path of conscious eating and conscious living by adopting a plant-based, vegetarian, and/or vegan lifestyle. The IPO for Beyond Meats rocked the industry and quickly rose in market value with their products hitting both grocery store chains and restaurants alike, similarly to the Impossible burgers that are featured at Burger King, who consequently been sued for cooking their plant-based Impossible burgers on the same grill as the beef burgers, creating cross-contamination that can be a serious issue for those with severe dietary restrictions, like myself for example.
This year has had all too many school shootings. It is shameful that many kids are learning active shooter drills before they have learned basic grammar. The argument along the division between public safety and constitutional rights rages on with heavy lobbying from the National Rifle Association to our often traitorous elected officials that fail to address these issues.
Americans continuously sought ways to relieve from the stresses of the world and we saw musical hits like "Old Town Road" from Lil Nas X ft. Billy Ray Cyrus, "Truth Hurts" by Lizzo, and a breakout year for Post Malone.
Other entertainment news saw Avengers: Endgame overtake Avatar as the highest grossing film of all time, followed by Spiderman Far From Home to end the 11 year MCU "Infinity Saga". We also saw the end come to the exciting show Game of Thrones as well as the end of the Skywalker saga with the Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker this holiday season; conjoined with the Mandalorian, fully equipped with the Child/baby Yoda on the Disney+ streaming service. DC also hit big with the movie "Joker" starring Joaquin Phoenix as the titular character.
The drums of the war machine beat on this year with civil war revolving around ISIS in Syria, along with Iranian, Turkish, and Russian interference as the superpowers attempt to gain a foothold in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia, America's ALLEGED ALLY in the middle East, kept their reign of terror going with genocide against the neighboring country of Yemen. Israel too kept up its own reign of terror against the Palestinians in the Gaza region, annexing more lands for expansion of the terror state and continued destabilization of the region, based upon "holy lands".
Hong Kong made international news attention as they are rebelling against their Chinese overlords, fighting for democracy and waving flags for American intervention that NEVER CAME as President Trump spent most of the year waging TARIFF wars across the globe and a war against immigrants at the southern border of the United States with illegal detention centers that treated their captors like animals, per the rhetoric of the president calling them "Invaders. Animals. Vermin. Etc." This has made LEGAL immigration that much more difficult, especially for those covered by the Obama era DACA or "dreamers" act that was meant to protect them while they live in the U.S. waiting for citizenship.
The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris burned nearly to ruin.
Oldest living former President Jimmy Carter turned 95, had several disastrous falls and hospitalizations, yet still gets out and builds homes for Habitat for Humanity and is even more bad ass than most people a fraction of his age.
We saw 5G Internet take center stage, with mixed reviews, as some scientists claim this bandwidth is damaging to humans and animals alike, potentially causing mental health issues as well as physical health problems. I'm sure more study and attention to this will be paid in the upcoming years.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange was kicked out of his asylum in London and then promptly arrested for his leaks of sensitive and secret government information on illegal spying, foreign wars, etc.
Boeing CEO resigned amid pressure from the U.S. and foreign governments in relation to 2 of its 737 MAX 8 planes crashing this year in Malaysia and Ethiopia, due to faulty cockpit equipment. The planes have been grounded and going through upgrades to the tune of millions of dollars, plus the cost of the planes being grounded vs in the air.
De-nuclearization talks have stalled with Iran and North Korea. Sanctions have been imposed, but it will be a long difficult road for the president and diplomats to get both sides back to the table to minimize the global threat of nuclear war.
Net-neutrality has been a constant battle ground subject for the world in 2019 as the large social media giants like Google, Facebook, etc. have been forced to be accountable for its users posting hate speech, terrorism propaganda, nationalism, white supremacy, etc.
Anti-semetism is on the rise once again, mirrored by the growing global fascism and nationalism.
Horrifically, there has also been a correlated rise in mass shootings, at concerts, schools, and churches/synagogues.
The "Squad" featured by AOC took center stage as they have tried to take over the Democrat party as the voices for the often under-heard population groups of Hispanics and blacks.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has been desperately trying to contain another EBOLA outbreak from reaching a global pandemic scale. Thankfully, there have only been a few, isolated, cases of this disease hitting the Americas.
Vaping deaths have dominated a bit of the 2019 news. Although the primary culprit of the deaths has been discovered as a knock-off Chinese import, there are now still millions of kids from Middle School and older that have become addicted to the nicotine products supplied by the tobacco/vaping industry that caught its users by marketing candy flavors and other targeted advertisements toward the youth. Litigation's are underway and several lawsuits have already been settled. The long-term health effects of vaping are still unknown. The next 10 years will be very revealing.
Police shootings are up in what can only be regarded as a gross abuse of power. A police officer, WITH training, is allowed to lose composure and break protocol to shoot a person or animal and then often gets let off duty with PAID time off, rather than being fired. On the flip side of that coin, UN-TRAINED civilians are instructed to REMAIN CALM with a pistol pointed in their face by a rogue police officer? Seems rather hypocritical and seems like BOTH the cops and the civilian counterparts need more training, plus Americans could like STOP BREAKING THE LAW, and stuff...
For 3 years in a row, the average life expectancy for Americans has gone DOWN, rather than up. Much of the contributing factors are the OPIOID EPEDEMIC, SUICIDE (especially among younger people and Veterans), and lack of mental health treatment.
2019 also nearly saw a mass casualty situation as Internet geeks started a campaign to raid AREA 51, top-secret military base. Thankfully it turned into more of a social event, though a few dumb-asses tried to raid anyway and were arrested for their efforts. Idiots.
In other news, the Robin Hood of McNuggets was discovered and fired from McDonald's as for over 2.5 years, this culinary guerrilla terrorist added extra nuggets to all who ordered the combo pack during his employment with the corporation. I don't eat meat, but I still think this guy is a hero.
The Undisputed ERA dominated the sports entertainment world of WWE's NXT. Brock Lesnar, Seth Rollins, the Miz, the Phenomenal AJ Styles (with the OC), and the New Day also had dominant years with the WWE.
The son of NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars owner Tony Khan started his own wrestling promotion AEW on Wednesday nights on TNT, reigniting the war between WWE and a viable competitor in AEW: Wednesday Night Dynamite, led by Cody Rhodes and le Champion Chris Jericho, among others like John Moxley (formerly known in WWE as Dean Ambrose).
The NFL has had a battle of old vs new quarterbacks in Tom Brady vs Patrick Mahomes. The KC Chiefs and the New England Patriots will likely meet again in the playoffs in the next few weeks to settle this culminating grudge match-up.
Transgender-ism and transgender rights took center stage of American media with biological males being allowed to compete and dominate, unfairly in biological female sports. Hate crimes against this demographic of self-identifiers has been on the rise and will no doubt again be a huge issue going forward into the next year and decade. I don't have to understand the psychology and physiology to respect my fellow human beings rights and their access to the same rights all Americans have to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Now we are going solely domestic and going to discuss American politics.
We saw the beginnings of the Democrat party debates on who is going to be the party candidate for election in the 2020 voting cycle. Top leaders, so we are told, are former Vice President Joe Biden (whom the president and many of his staff and cronies have personally attacked and sought foreign interference and investigations regarding Hunter Biden's association with Ukraine gas company Burisma), Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Senator Bernie Sanders. Other big names in the race are tech-savvy Andrew Yang, billionaire and environmental activist Tom Steyer, mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Senator Amy Klobuchar.
President Trump, 45, has become only the third president in U.S. history to be IMPEACHED. The other 2 are Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton. The President using his position of power to coerce the Ukrainian leader to use political power to attack a political opponent in Joe Biden was inexcusable for many Americans who saw a 55% favorable support to this impeachment. A trial will start soon in the Senate to figure out if criminal charges and/or removal from office are warranted. The 2 counts of impeachment are for:
1) Abuse of power - in asking a foreign government in help with dirt on a political opponent.
2) Obstruction of Congress - who was tasked, by law, to complete their independent investigation which led to warranted impeachment on these 2 articles of Impeachment as of 12-18-2019.
The upcoming election in 2020 will be HUGE for the future sake of prosperity against the constant attacks on our democracy from foreign interference and domestic interference like voter suppression and gerrymandering. There is a lot to be hopeful about and a lot to be concerned about, equally, but as American citizens, we need to step up and demand accountability in our elected representatives and remind them that they indeed serve "We the people..."
Last but not least, as we start the new year, remember this last thing. The governments and religions of the world are full of liars, creeps, and pedophiles.
EPSTEIN DIDN'T KILL HIMSELF!!!
This has been the one and only Quiet Mouse. Happy New Year and new decade. Let's try to fix some shit and stop making the same mistakes of the past over and over again.
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