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Zohran Mamdani placed his hand on a Quran as US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) administered the oath of office, making him the first Muslim Mayor of NYC and the youngest one in 100 years.

"New York, thank you for inspiring our nation," Sanders declared.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) praised Zohran for energizing new voters.

"We have chosen courage over fear. We have chosen prosperity for many over spoils for the few," Ocasio-Cortez said.
The Bronx High School of Science graduate was joined at the ceremony by his wife, Rama Duwaji, and his parents, filmmaker Mira Nair and Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani.

NYS Governor Kathy Hochul (D) who attended the inauguration, bleated that she will not raise income taxes. The inauguration crowd then erupted in chants of "tax the rich." Hochul will need the full backing of New Yorkers in her re-election campaign against MAGA Islamophobe ICE fanatic Bruce Blakeman.

Fellow NY Democrats Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer was reported to have attended the inauguration, but House Minority Hakeem Jeffries was not seen. Disgraced ex-NYS Governor Andrew "Judas Iscariot" Cuomo, the political hack who betrayed the Democratic Party of his father, Mario, did not attend the event.

There is no indication that NYPD officers are leaving their careers for Florida, despite all the invitations from Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and county sheriffs in the Sunshine State, nor is there any evidence of millionaires fleeing NYC because of Zohran Mamdani, a young visionary who has the support of Dummkopf Trumpf and ex-POTUS Barack Obama.

The health insurance status of the HAZMAT accident victims are unknown.

Map of Area: Houston Ship Canal

Republican-led Texas leads the US in both industrial and HAZMAT accidents:

  • In 2024, Texas accounted for 37% of all pipeline incidents reported to the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), with 197 out of 531 incidents occurring in the Lone Star State. Since 2010, 30% of all such incidents nationwide have happened in Texas, largely due to its extensive oil, gas, and petrochemical infrastructure (Source: www.fractracker.org).

  • Red State Texas also consistently leads the nation in HAZMAT plant accidents, with over 25 chemical explosions and fires reported in just the first half of 2023, representing 30% of all plant-related accidents in the US (Source: www.renicklawfirm.com).

    Oil- and cattle-rich Texas receives $71.1 billion more from Washington than it contributes in federal taxes, making the Lone Star State a net recipient of federal tax dollars from the rest of the country (Source: www.politifact.com).


  • Coupla three things about Iran:

    ~After the Iranian Revolution, out of patriotism for their country, many military officers stayed and fought against Iraq which invaded their country at the behest of the Reagan junta, similar to French officers of the Ancien Regime who fought against British and Prussian invaders seeking to overthrow Napoleon.

    ~After being with Iraqi chemical weapons in their decade-long war, the Iranian theocracy refused to allow the military to counterattack Iraq with their own chemical attacks, issuing a fatwa against the use of WMDs as they "would despoil nature."

    ~Israel's Mossad, using local assassins from the MeK or PJAK, murdered Iranian nuclear scientists, at least five known of publicly.

    ~Iran has been careful to avoid causing American casualties over the past several years to not fall into Benjamin Netanyahu's trap; Iran's proxies or allies have counterattacked against US forces in Iraq or against oil tankers in the Horn of Africa.

    ~Israel cynically and callously caused the death of dozens of spies and the arrest of scores of them in Iran who were easily netted by the MOIS when the IDF began its illegal bombing campaign against Tehran. I cannot think of another spy agency that got so many of its sources killed or arrested in one year.

    ~Under Barack Obama, the US and the UN were negotiating with Iran and monitoring their nuclear facilities which, amongst other things, was producing radioactive isotopes for their thousands of cancer patients.

    ~Iran signed the NNPT and allowed IAEA inspectors into their facilities; Israel never signed the NNPT and never allowed IAEA inspectors into their facilities. Under the START program, US and Russian inspectors would visit each others nuclear sites. One of my generals led the On-Site Inspection Agency (OSIA) which later became DTRA.

    ~Israeli PM Golda Meir: "You don't make peace with your friends." Israel's rightwing needs a perennial enemy to distract from the landgrab and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, which Tehran (and most of the world) disapprove of. So Tel Aviv and Tehran will never achieve what Golda Meir mused 55 years ago.

    There are too many citations to count.

    Sources:

    pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

    truthout.org

    thebulletin.org

    farsnews.ir

    www.aljazeera.com

    www.dtra.mil

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