The Daily Jot: 2022-05-22

BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX & THOMAS FRIEDMAN IS A GREAT MAN & ANN'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN USED TO BE PRESIDENT JOE BLUNDER BUT HIS GOOFS AREN'T SO FUNNY NOW TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. STORMING THE WHITE HOUSE EARLIER TONIGHT, WE POSED AS EMERGENCY CHOCOLATE CHIP DELIVERY AND WERE WAIVED RIGHT THROUGH TO THE OVAL WHERE AN EXCITED JOE GREETED US WITH, "WHERE'S THE ICE CREAM!!!"

WE READ THE FOLLOWING TO HIM:

President Biden’s approval hit a new low on Monday, according to a NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll.

Fifty-seven percent of registered voters said they disapproved of how Biden has handled the presidency, with 40 percent saying they “strongly disapprove” and 17 percent saying they “somewhat disapprove.”

"WOW," JOE RESPONDED, "57% DISAPPROVE? SO THAT MEANS 67% OF AMERICANS APPROVE OF ME! YEA!"

WE WASTED 10 MINUTES ATTEMPTING TO EXPLAIN BASIC MATH BEFORE WE BAILED ON THAT FAILED EFFORTS.

WE TRIED AGAIN BY READING THIS TO HIM:

Amid soaring inflation, record-high gas prices and increasing economic uncertainty, President Biden is faced with the lowest approval ratings of his presidency, according to a new poll.

The NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ poll shows 57% of people disapprove of Biden’s job performance with 40% saying they “strongly disapprove” and 17% saying they “somewhat disapprove.”

WAVING HIS HAND IS DISMISSAL, THE PRESIDENT INSISTED POLLS DO NOT MATTER, "THINK ABOUT IT, I JUST DELIVERED 40 BILLION MORE TO URKAINE. YOU THINK THEY'RE NOT ALL GOING TO VOTE FOR ME IN 2024?"

FROM THE TCI WIRE:

Friday, Iraqi poet Muzaffar al-Nawab passed away.

World-renowned Iraqi Arab communist poet Muzaffar al-Nawab died on May 20. He was beloved by Arab masses for language that spoke to peasants & workers, and for brilliant takedowns of corrupt Arab regimes, U.S. imperialism, and Israeli colonization & occupation.

#مظفر_النواب

arlos Latuff and 9 others

7:13 PM · May 22, 2022

WIKIPEDIA notes:

Al-Nawab was born in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1934 into an aristocratic Shi'ite family of Indian origin that appreciated art, poetry and music.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] He showed a talent for poetry from an early age. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Baghdad and became a teacher, but was expelled for political reasons in 1955 and remained unemployed for three years, at a difficult time for his family who was suffering financial hardship.^[7]

He joined the Iraqi Communist Party while still at college, and was tortured by the Hashemite Government. After the Iraqi revolution in 1958 which overthrew the monarchy, he was appointed an inspector at the Ministry of Education. In 1963 he was forced to leave Iraq to neighbouring Iran, after the intensification of competition between the nationalists and the communists who were exposed to prosecution and strict observation by the ruling regime. He was arrested and tortured by the Iranian secret police, before being forcibly repatriated to the Iraqi government. An Iraqi court handed down a death sentence against him for one of his poems, later commuted to life imprisonment. He escaped prison by digging a tunnel and fled to the marshlands, where he joined a communist faction that sought to overthrow the government.^[8]

Known for his powerful revolutionary poems and scathing invectives against Arab dictators,^[9] he lived in exile in many countries, including Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and Eritrea, where he stayed with the Eritrean rebels, before returning to Iraq in 2011.^[1] Before he returned to Iraq, he had been essentially stateless being able to travel only on Libyan travel documents. The first complete Arabic language edition of his works was published in London in 1996 by "Dar Qanbar"^[10] He died on 20 May 2022 in the University Hospital Sharjah in the UAE.^[11]

JYforeal Tweets:

Muzaffar Al-Nawab was imprisoned and tortured by the Iraqi monarchy for associating with the growing Iraqi Communsit Party. Muzaffar always stood firm in his revolutionary ideals

We mourn the loss of a great Iraqi poet.

5:10 AM · May 21, 2022

GRADE SAVER notes:

Muzaffar Al-Nawab is a celebrated Iraqi poet. He was born in 1934 to a wealthy family in Baghdad. After studying literature and becoming a teacher, he began to associate with the Communist movement in Iraq. For this he was imprisoned and tortured by the oppressive Hashemite regime; however, following, the overthrow of the Iraqi monarchy in 1958, Al-Nawab was offered a position at the Iraqi Ministry of Education. As political tensions continued between nationalists and communists, Al-Nawab was forced to flee Iraq because of his communist allegiances in 1963. He was arrested again, this time for writing poetry critical of the Iraqi Republic. He was able to escape prison and continued writing dissident poetry.

Despite, or perhaps because of his political troubles, Al-Nawab's reputation grew steadily in the 1960s. His work spread across the Arab world and was as inspiration to those standing against political regimes. As he writes in "v-Letter-Word," his work was seen as a rallying call to all those that wished to "speak out frankly of your reality." Further expanding his notoriety, many musicians set music to Al-Nawab's work. After his exile from Iraq he continued to move around Arab countries, including Egypt and Lebanon. Due to the controversial nature of his work, it was not published officially until 1996, however much of has become available on the internet. Still, it is incredibly difficult to find in printed form and many bootlegged copies circulate, though an official poetry collection was again released in 2010. Al-Nawab returned to Iraq in 2011 where he has been reportedly suffering from Alzheimer's.

He was buried Saturday. Sebastian Usher Tweets:

#Iraq : Funeral of renowned poet Muzaffar al-Nawab in Baghdad - famed for his revolutionary ideals & revolutionary use of language #مظفر_النواب #الْعِرَاق

4:00 AM · May 21, 2022

AFP adds:

He last visited Iraq in 2011, when he was received in grand pomp by the presidency. Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi called Friday for his body to be repatriated by ministerial aircraft.

The poems of Nawab, who was unmarried and had no children, were often evoked during the autumn 2019 wave of youth-led anti-corruption protests that swept Iraq.

"Why did Muzaffar al-Nawab die in the Emirates?... Because you've governed Iraq for 19 years, because Baghdad hospitals do not treat patients, because the country is not livable," Iraqi journalist Omar al-Janabi tweeted.

Yes, his work and life spoke to The October Revolution. So what happened was no surprised except for people who don't have time to pay attetnion. Desperate to hold onto his post as Prime Minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi tried to turn the day into a photo op for himself and the youth weren't having it. MIDDLE EAST EYE reports:

Iraqi Prime Minister Moustafa al-Kadhimi was forced to leave the funeral of the country's renowned communist poet Muzaffar al-Nawab on Saturday after a section of mourners began chanting slogans of contempt at his delegation.

Sinan Mahmoud and Amr Mostafa (THE NATIONAL) explain:

The funeral procession started peacefully at the Association of the Iraqi Writers in Baghdad’s Karrada neighbourhood after the wooden casket containing the poet's body arrived from the airport.

A few minutes later, some of the mourners started shouting slogans against the prime minister and Iraq's political elite.

Waving Iraqi flags and pumping their fists in the air, they shouted "The people want to bring down the regime," and "Oil is for the people not for the thieves."

The chaos forced the pallbearers to return Al Nawab's casket to the hearse and speed away with Mr Al Kadhimi's convoy.

Some of the mourners pelted the convoy with stones, bottles of water and shoes as it left.

We'll wind down with this from Nancy Hanover (WSWS):

The children of Flint, Michigan have been doubly ravaged—by lead poisoning and more than two years of SARS-CoV-2 infections and deaths. Now in the sixth wave, COVID cases in Flint’s Genesee County are rising by 69 percent, and despite ongoing outbreaks, schools remain open face-to-face. At the same time, a lawsuit now alleges that the city’s young people “acquired brain injuries” due to ingestion of lead.

The contamination of Flint’s water at the hands of General Motors, Governor Rick Snyder, and the entire city, state and national Democratic and Republican establishment exposed nearly 30,000 schoolchildren to lead, a neurotoxin that attacks developing brains and nervous systems.

The current class action lawsuit, one of many, targets engineering consultants contracted by the city (Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam) during the 2014 switch to Flint River water. It has brought to light some of the devastating and widespread educational and mental health challenges the city’s children and their teachers face.

Testifying on May 10 and 12, neuropsychologist Mira Krishnan provided evidence that Flint children are suffering brain injuries due to being subjected to lead-in-water.

Dr. Krishnan, a specialist in neurodevelopmental disorders and impacts of complex trauma, examined four children, who she said exhibited hyperactivity, impulsivity and weaknesses in various subject matters in the classroom. Such problems can amplify over a lifetime. One of the children, she said, showed impairments that “very rarely would be seen in a random sampling of children from the community ... who didn’t have some sort of brain injury.”

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