Some Numbers and a Few Quotes

 

Here are some recent stats and quotes I found interesting.

 

Numbers

Billions of dollars reduced from Medicaid over the next decade as a result of the new U.S. House spending bill: 700

 

Minimum billions in cuts to Medicare that would be triggered by the U.S. House spending bill, according to the Congressional Budget Office: 500

 

Estimated number of people who could lose health care benefits under the House budget plan: 14,000,000

 

Dollar increase for Defense in the House spending bill: 150,000,000,000

 

Value, in dollars, of tax cuts to the super-wealthy under the House budget plan: 4,500,000,000,000

 

Number of scientists who were working on the National Climate Assessment fired by Trump: 400

 

Number of deaths from malnutrition reported in Gaza  : 326

 

Number of Gazan babies in immediate danger of dying from malnutrition, dehydration, or disease: 14,000

 

Percent of Gaza Strip that Israel now officially intends to annex: 100

 

A Few Recent Quotes

“A sane country does not … kill babies as a hobby.”   -- Yair Golan, former high-level Israeli Defense official and political opponent of Israeli President Netanyahu

 

“We are disassembling Gaza, and leaving it as piles of rubble, with total destruction [which has] no precedent globally. And the world isn’t stopping us” -- Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich

 

“The [aid] that will enter Gaza in the coming days is the tiniest amount. A handful of bakeries that will hand out pita bread to people in public kitchens. People in Gaza will get a pita and a food plate, and that’s it.” --  Smotrich

 

None of this [genocide in Gaza] would be possible if the west had an actual free press whose job is to create an informed populace. But we do not have an actual free press whose job is to create an informed populace — we have imperial propaganda services disguised as news. – Caitlin Johnstone