LemmingsLeap#27 What’s Still Happening
1. Chernobyl and thousands of acres of land around it is still too radioactive for people to live there.
2. Fukashima is still spewing thousands of tons of radioactive waste into the Pacific Ocean daily and there is still no safe method of storing nuclear waste as radioactive spent rods pile up in cooling ponds around nuclear plants.
3. Plans to build new atomic reactors are still on the table.
4. Israelis are still shooting unarmed Palestinians, medical staff trying to tend to their wounds and reporters. To date over 300 have been killed and thousands wounded in the last year.
5. The US Congress is still giving several billion dollars a year to Israel and is ready to pass a bill that makes it illegal to boycott Israel.
6. People in Flint, Michigan still have too much lead in their water. Authorities have said a lack of funding is slowing progress.
7. Meanwhile, it has been discovered that hundreds of cities have Flint’s problem.
8. Congress budgeted over $700 billion for the military and they are still saying we need to remain strong. Military expenditures still top the budget.
9. Despite the obvious holes in the proposition, Trump and some of his supporters still want the wall and have shut down the government until they get it.
10. Hundreds of Native American women are still missing and there is still no investigation into it.
11. The US is still at war.
12. The rich are still getting richer.
13. The poor and middle class are still getting poorer.
14. The 2,000 or so people shot by police last year are still dead.
15. Trump supporters are still brain dead.
16. Liberal Democrats, who believe our problems start with Trump, are still brain dead.
17. The homeless population is still growing.
18. Opiate addiction is still killing hundreds of people.
19. Right wing Christians still think this is a “Christian” nation and still believe Jesus will come down from the sky to save us.
20. Mitch McConnell still is not human. Some say he is related to lizard aliens who invaded earth millennia ago.
21. Mike Pence is still slinking through the shadows of the White House waiting his turn and trying not to look like a great white shark.
22. Water is still life and some continue to pollute it while tear gassing, clubbing etc. those who try to protect life.