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The US has sent some of their Long-range, nuclear-capable bombers to Guam, They’re slated to take on a series of missions meant to hone their crews’ skills and project U.S. airpower across the Indo-Pacific. This is a message to China that the US is not going to allow the bullying of its allies in the Pacific.
An undisclosed number of B-52 Stratofortresses and airmen with the 2nd Bomb Wing will “actively train during operations and exercises while integrating alongside Allies and partners throughout the region,
It is also a notice to Russia, China, Iran and North Korea that if they want a nuclear war, the US is capable of handling all 4 without flinching. This could get very interesting.
PrP it is difficult to have peace with a neighbor who doesn’t recognize your right to exist.
Agree
If I’m Golda Meir and I love my children, I would raise my children somewhere else far away from this people who hate us more then they love their children. ( If I love my children.)
Damn, Nader you are starting to make more sense that most people on this blog. Are you American?
Arabic mother American father and free soul.
Martin Scorsese’s highly anticipated new film, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” is in theaters this weekend. This is just another film showing how America’s first and still Affirmative Action Beneficiaries – White Men – have used that privilege to murder non whites with impunity. The government gives them first access to all government positions and they use the power of the judicial bench to deprive non whites and females of equal rights and representation in a courtroom.
If they are not murdering blacks, they are murdering Asians. When they are not murdering Asians, they are murdering Native Americans. And when they are not murdering Native Americans, they are depriving women of their basic human rights.
Now the disgusting bastards are at each other’s throats. Non whites should keep in mind that what white males are not doing to each other, they have always done to non whites with impunity. SCOTUS is now arbitrarily ruling for the republican white male, so the democratic white male wants you to be outraged. But when SCOTUS was arbitrarily ruling for white males against non white males, they were okay with it.
In America it is their world and the rest of the american citizens are just living in it. Basically, all we can say is what will they fuck up next?
And of course the dumb as a box of rock Arabs believed the bullshit Hamas gave them about the bombing of the hospital and the number of casualties. Those of you reading here can get an education:
Gaza Hospital Explosion
The Associated Press, CNN and The Wall Street Journal each published video analyses this weekend concluding that the cause of the hospital explosion last Tuesday was a misfired rocket from Gaza, not an Israeli airstrike.
Many details are still unknown. Channel 4, a public television station in Britain, published an audio analysis that suggested the source of the explosion came from a different direction than the other analyses found.
U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that Israel was not responsible for the explosion. The officials are still trying to determine whether the cause was an errant Palestinian rocket.
Canadian and French officials also say Israel was not responsible and a Palestinian rocket likely was.
Despite controlling the area where the explosion happened, Hamas has produced no evidence to support its claims.
The U.S. says Gaza officials appear to have exaggerated the explosion’s toll when they announced 500 or more deaths. The true toll was “probably at the low end of the 100-to-300 spectrum,” U.S. officials say.
Hostages
Rut Hodaya Perez, a 17-year-old Israeli girl held by Hamas, uses a wheelchair. Her sister worries she isn’t strong enough to survive captivity.
Other hostages require daily medicine. Their families don’t know if they are getting care, the BBC reports.
The families of the hostages in Gaza have set up a long Shabbat dinner table in Tel Aviv with challah, wine — and more than 200 empty chairs, CNN reports.
Haaretz has published a list of the hostages, with photos.
What’s with this Hamas releasing 2 hostages every week? At that rate it will take 2 years and about 6 months to get all the hostages back. Israel should just ignore that Hamas bullshit play and go get the murdering bastards.
Weapons makers are thriving because of the war, as well as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the rise of China.
The billionaires are getting richer at the expense of those suffering collateral damage from all those wars.
Many Americans have come to see the political system as rigged. They worry that grass-roots political movements are powerless to overcome entrenched interests, whether those interests are self-serving politicians, large employers or dominant social media platforms. And I understand why this cynicism exists.
For most Americans, progress has slowed to a crawl in recent decades. Income and wealth inequality have both soared. The top 1 percent have pulled away from everyone else, while working-class Americans often struggle to afford the best health care and homes in good school districts.
The clearest sign of our problems is this statistic: In 1980, the U.S. had a typical life expectancy for an affluent country. Today, we have the lowest such life expectancy, worse than those of Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan or South Korea, as well as some less rich countries, like China or Chile. The main reason is the stagnation of life expectancy for working-class people.
For nearly a half-century, our economy has failed to deliver on the basic promise of the American dream — that living standards meaningfully improve over time for most citizens.
For all the cynicism about politics today, it is worth remembering how often grass-roots political movements in the U.S. have managed to succeed. In the 1920s and 1930s, the country had a highly unequal economy and a Supreme Court that threw out most policies to reduce inequality. But activists — like A. Philip Randolph, a preacher’s son from Jacksonville, Fla., who took on a powerful railroad company — didn’t respond by giving up on the system as hopelessly rigged.
They instead used the tools of democracy to create mass prosperity. They spent decades building a labor movement that, despite many short-term defeats, ultimately changed public opinion, won elections and remade federal policy to put workers and corporations on a more equal footing. The rise of the labor movement from the 1930s through the 1950s led to incomes rising even more rapidly for the poor and middle class than for the rich, and to the white-Black wage gap shrinking.
One big lesson I took from my research was the unparalleled role of labor unions in combating inequality (a role that more Americans seem to have recognized recently).
There are plenty of other examples of grass-roots movements remaking American life. The civil-rights and women’s movements of the 1960s also overcame long odds, as did the disability-rights movement of the 1970s and the marriage-equality movement of the 2000s.
Other examples come from the political right. In the 1950s and 1960s, a group of conservatives, including Milton Friedman and Robert Bork, began trying to sell the country on the virtues of a low-tax, light-regulation economy. For years, they struggled to do so and were frustrated by their failures. Friedman kept a list of newspapers and magazines that did not even review his first major book.
But the conservatives kept trying — and the oil crisis that began 50 years ago last week eventually helped them succeed. A politician who embraced their ideas, Ronald Reagan, won the presidency and moved the U.S. closer to the laissez-faire ideal than almost any other country.
The conservatives who sold this vision promised it would lead to a new prosperity for all. They were wrong about that, of course. Since 1980, the U.S. has become a grim outlier on many indicators of human well-being. But the conservatives were right that overhauling the country’s economic policy was possible.
This history does not suggest that the political system is hopelessly broken. It instead suggests that the U.S. doesn’t have a broadly prosperous economy largely because the country has no mass movement organized around the goal of lifting living standards for the middle class and the poor. If such a movement existed, it might well succeed. It has before.
The central lesson I took from immersing myself in the past century of the American economy is that it can change, sometimes much more quickly than people expect. When it has changed in a major way, it often has been because Americans have used the political system to change it. The future can be different from the past.
Researchers at U.C. San Francisco found that homeless people living in San Francisco were 16 times as likely to die suddenly as city residents who are not homeless, The Los Angeles Times reports.
Is that all? Not nearly enough of those filthy bastards are dying. Where are the goddamned aliens when we need them? What is it aliens? Are they too disgusting even for you to eat?
I’d like to know who the sick bastard was that agreed with you. It’s assholes like that who encourage the twisted motherfuckers of the world.
The pro-Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis became the fourth defendant in the Georgia election-interference case to take a plea deal. The moral of this tale is – Don’t Fuck with the Black Woman. Especially Fani Willis.
Let’s be fair. I’m Jewish, and I live in Israel. Some of the hardliners here in Israel have advocated settling on lands that would be part of Palestine when the two state solution. Some of those settlers have been recorded throwing rocks at the Arabic homes on the other side of the fence. A video was made of a Jewish settler shooting an Arabic man in the stomach.
While I am not saying that these actions justifies the savagery of Hamas. I am saying that we Israelis have to respect the rights of the Arabs in the Gaza Strip.
Are you aware of the tapes those murders made to their friends and parents while they were murdering women and children?
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Hamas Terrorist Calls His Parents With Israeli Victim’s Phone to Brag …
TodayA Hamas terrorist used a victim’s cell phone to contact his parents in Gaza and brag about slaughtering 10 Israeli citizens during Hamas’ surprise Oct 7 attack, according to a recorded…
Nothing compares to this kind of brutality. Ask yourself why NO Arab country will accept palestians as refugees. The answer is simple. These people have no civilized values. They are narcissistic trouble makers. They think their religion gives them the right to murder anyone who disagrees with them. They have betrayed every country that has taken them in as refugees. Hence, no one wants them in their country,
They have consistently refused the Two-State-Solution because they want it all. They expect the other Arab nations to risk the lives of their citizens for their refusal to accept a practical solution to their plight.
Now they cry that the aid sent to them isn’t enough. They bitch and mourn about the situation they find themselves in without regard to what their Hamas did to us Israelis which resulted in the situation they are in. They claim that they are dying in two ways: A fast or slow death in refugee camps. They add insult to injury by claiming “We are asking for the simplest and most essential elements that allow every person, young, or old, child or adult to stay alive. Neglecting our lives like this is unacceptable.”
Imagine having the gall to make a speech like this when the government, Hamas, they support just finished murdering every person they could, young, or old, child, or adult. They didn’t allow any of them to “stay alive.” Yet, here is this Palestinian who is only interested in what happens to Palestinians not recognizing that – “Neglecting our lives(murdered Israelis) is unacceptable.” Why? Because that seems to have been acceptable for him. Well my answer to this narcissistic bastard is “I hope you don’t die a “slow death” in your refugee camps.”
BREAKING NEWS
Richard Roundtree is dead at 81.
R.I.P., my man.
So another nigger bites the dusk.
You brought a species of tarantula from your world to your new home in Thailand. That was illegal. All 3,100 of you will be returned home. It does not matter that you have been here for 300 plus years. Now that your illegality has been discovered, you must answer to the penalty. You have 31 days to appear at the post. Failure to report is punishable by death.
Most people rush to remove ant hills from their yards, and for good reason. Not only do they ruin the clean aesthetic of your lawn, but they can hurt the grass by destroying the roots and suffocating nearby grass blades. This causes people to reach for time-honored, mound-destroying tactics, such as pouring boiling water over ant hills. However, you may want to think twice before doing so. Just like how ant hills can harm your surrounding grass, so can the hot water.
If you’re not careful where you’re pouring the water, you can burn the surrounding turf around the ant hill, damaging it irrevocably. After all, you can use boiling water to kill weeds, so the same idea applies here. This is especially true when pouring it out of a pot or bucket, where the stream is more challenging to control. You’ll also need a lot of water in order to kill the entire colony, so you will likely need to pour the boiling liquid more than once, increasing your risk of killing nearby vegetation.
Alternative methods to destroying ant hills without damaging the grass
The best way to get rid of an ant hill without harming your lawn is to use diatomaceous earth. This is an all-natural, food-safe powder made from diatoms. It might look as harmless as flour to the naked eye, but if you put it under a microscope, you will see it’s made of millions of jagged, sharp pieces. These shard-like granules will cut the ants’ exoskeleton, eventually dehydrating and killing them. To use diatomaceous earth, simply sprinkle it around and in the ant hill, destroying the colony. You might have to pour the powder several times before the ant hill is deserted, especially if it rains or there are strong winds.
For best results, be sure to get the food-grade version to ensure there are no extra additives or chemicals in the product. This is especially important if you are trying to remove an ant hill near your vegetable garden, ensuring it won’t contaminate the soil. You also want to wear protective gloves and a face mask when handling it since it can irritate your airways or skin, as per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
So now that the US is bombing Syria, who, or should I ask what country will be next?
They are inching towards bombing Iran, but Lebanon will probably be next.
Your suggestion was a good one, and it looks like Israel’s gonna follow through. I see reports they’re going to be using Sponge Bombs to blast in the tunnels, to cut off the passageways