On Friday, the White House rolled out its proposed $105 billion bill to arm Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The legislation also includes funding for the border and humanitarian assistance. US officials say over $50 billion will go to American weapons manufacturers.
The Biden administration is proposing a massive aid package as it has struggled to get Congress to appropriate more funds for the proxy war in Ukraine. The largest portion of money is for Ukraine at $61.4 billion. The White House wants enough money for Ukraine to fund Kiev through the 2024 election.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan described the aid as critical to American national security and demanded Congress pass the bill. “This budget request is critical to advancing America’s national security and ensuring the safety of the American people,” Sullivan said. “The world is closely watching what Congress does next.”
Israel will receive $14.3 billion in assistance, with $10.6 billion for air and missile defense support.The aid would be in addition to the $3.8 billion Tel Aviv from Washington in security assistance annually.
Biden announced the legislation in a speech on Thursday night, “American leadership is what holds the world together. American alliances are what keep us in America safe. American values are what make us a partner nation you want to work with.” He continued,”to put all that at risk – we walk away from Ukraine, we turn our backs on Israel – it’s just not worth it. That’s why tomorrow I’m going to send to Congress an urgent budget request to fund America’s national security needs – needs to support our critical partners, including Israel and Ukraine.”
The bill includes $7.4 billion for several initiatives to increase Washington’s military posture in the Indo-Pacific. That includes $2 billion in grants for foreign governments to buy American weapons. Taiwan will receive a portion of that money, although US officials did not provide a detailed breakdown.
Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Shalanda Young, explained that nearly half of the money will go to American arms makers. “This supplemental request invests over $50 billion in the American defense industrial base, ensuring our military continues to be the most ready, capable, and best-equipped fighting force the world has ever seen,” she said.
Young claimed that the spending would bolster the American economy and create jobs. However, a study indicated that military spending costs more jobs than it creates.
Additionally, $14 billion will go towards border security. The White House claimed it was needed to “keep the southwest border secure and stop the flow of fentanyl.” A portion of those funds will go towards hiring thousands of law enforcement officers.
A small number of Republican represenatives have hindered Congress from passing additional funds for Ukraine. The Biden administration hopes to push several GOP members of Congress to vote for the bill by combining funding for Taiwan, Israel, and the border with Ukraine.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
Any congressman/woman who votes in favor of this should be voted out of office next year.
They won’t be voted out because the American voter is pretty stupid.
Why does the Analyzer, not Analyze?
Why did the stalker crossed the road?
Donno, ask one.
They don’t really have any choice if they vote. War projects are pretty unanimous across the uniparty.
They all are war criminals, corrupt and intellectually and morally bankrupt people supporting the genocide of the Palestinians. Voters with common sense and character will not vote for criminals to represent them.
But the nation is bonkers and some will vote, normally we have a low voter turnout. But to vote for a criminal and deranged man for president is just too much.
Not to forget we paid elected officials for decades but they never really governed, political infighting and filing law suits and investigating each other is all they know and do.
Exactly why I advocate the largest voter turnout in US history and write in friends.
First time since I registered to vote, I probably won’t vote.
I think similar yet would like to see a new US arise that offers a real democracy with American dream characteristics. I offer this schematic as a public service https://www.constituentassembly.org/
See my equation: US government + US voters = Stupidity * Infinity. Albert Einstein confirmed it this morning.
You sure it wasn’t Jerome Einstein?
The less popular but equally smart cousin?
Could also be Albert Lawrence Einstein – better known by his professional mame, “Albert Brooks”.
Or Stewart Robert Einstein – “Super Dave Osborne”.
Can’t vote for it if there is no speaker https://www.reuters.com/world/israel-war-adds-urgency-us-republican-house-speaker-crisis-2023-10-08/
Gridlock and Matt Gaetz might just save us all!
ZIONIST ETHNIC CLEANSING EXPANDS TO INCLUDE BOMBING CHRISTIAN CHURCHES PROVING THIS IS MORE THAN THE STATED POLICY OF TEL AVIV.
Israeli Military Claims Responsibility for Church Blast in Gaza
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/israel-hamas-war-gaza-strip-conflict/card/israeli-military-claims-responsibility-for-church-blast-in-gaza-ItyUvoIPaeNBEsIeIS6J
A Greek Orthodox church in the Gaza Strip which was sheltering hundreds
of displaced Palestinians was hit overnight by an Israeli air strike,
the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem said, and Palestinian health
officials said 16 people were killed.
https://www.archpaper.com/2023/10/saint-porphyrios-church-built-407-latest-cultural-monument-gaza-destroyed-israeli-missiles/
This terrible part of me wants to call it the Church of White Phosphorus now. Why such a gift of pun, and nothing more useful ??
Everyone needs to listen to Scott Ritter on Garland Nixon’s Youtube channel two days ago. Scott lays it out – Israel and the US will lose this coming war. The entire Muslim world is about to come down on Israel.
WARRIOR UPDATE WITH SCOTT RITTER – MIDDLE EAST IN FLAME NEOCON UKRAINE PROJECT IN SHAMBLES
Thanks for the info. And details. much appreciated.
I don’t think anyone will come to their aid. I fear the pals will stand alone again.
I hope Scott is right and I am wrong.
I initially thought that as well. Most countries care about their own people more than a people who have been downtrodden for seventy plus years. However, things have escalated and I suspect Ritter is right. The Muslim world is seriously ticked off and Hezbollah alone can do major damage to Israel.
The balance of power has changed, the neocons overextended and crossed the diplomatic red lines, a demented president and delusions of grandeur made enemies out of allies. I think and hope Scott is right.
Biden is demented but hes not making the decisions. Institutionalised endemic corruption. The donor class are the psychopaths here.
All of the presidential candidates are prescreened for obedience to their masters and Biden has an extensive career as plutocratic prostitute.
You can hear it from the horse’s mouth: https://youtu.be/r28eMdVOm98?si=KpGm_ENres-9m_XQ
JFC.
I could not agree more. But he was also a happy camper with them when he was younger and NOT demented, it paid off.
It would be nice to know who really makes the decisions, maybe Nuland or Sullivan, it could not be Blinken or Harris, would that be possible?
Anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism is growing all over Europe. France and Germany banned demonstrations in support of the Palestinians.
Making enemies is all Biden and his neocon cabal has accomplished and a trashed global economy on top of it.
It takes crazy voters to vote for such a failed deranged killer and war criminal.
“USA lose a war ? That’s unpossible.”
It’s almost as if that was the plan all along, force Israel to avail themselves of the Samson Option.
I don’t think the plan went that far, but that’s how it could end up. Pakistan has offered Turkey nukes as a deterrent.
I think the plan was basically trick Hezbollah to attack, then call in the US and Israel and the US get rid of Hezbollah. Then Israel can start a war with Iran and get the US to do the heavy lifting there, too. That and finish the expulsion of Palestinians and the building of the Third Temple as Alastair Crooke reported is the motivation of the Mizrahi in the Israeli government.
I think this could turn out to be a “reverse Nakba” with the Zionists being kicked out of Israel by the Muslim nations. Not sure how, but the Muslims might well try.
Would you provide a link to that Alastair Crooke article?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0IKCo3MVW1o
Thank you. Doesn’t look like any faction in Israel will budge an inch. What a horrible way to face extinction.
I have a few links that are in purgatory. I asked Knapp to release them. There has been provocations relating to the mosque and religious area, with Israel taking control and roughing up Palestinian worshippers.
This stinks to high heaven that this was happening and then suddenly Israel was unprepared for an attack with the greatest intelligence in the world. It smells a lot like the situation in Ukraine.
Pulling the Roof Down on Today’s Paradigm
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2023/10/16/pulling-the-roof-down-on-todays-paradigm/
You can also find him just about everywhere on Youtube discussing this. I heard it on this Duran video:
Extremist Politics in Israel and Ukraine – Alastair Crooke, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen
More background:
Occupied East Jerusalem – Last week, Israeli forces assaulted Palestinian Muslims at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in an effort to make way for groups of ultranationalist Jews entering the site under police protection.
The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, which includes the Al-Aqsa Mosque (al-Qibli Mosque) and the Dome of the Rock, is in Jerusalem’s Old City, which sits on the eastern, Palestinian, side of Jerusalem.
Jews refer to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound as the “Temple Mount” and some believe that it is where the first and second ancient Jewish temples once stood.
Despite international law prohibiting the annexation and continued Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, Israel has claimed sovereignty over the entirety of Jerusalem, including the Old City and the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, but the claims are considered unlawful and have not been recognised by the majority of the world’s countries.
Under agreements with Jordan, security and administration inside the compound were managed by the Jordanian Waqf (Islamic endowments authority). Meanwhile, Israel was responsible for security around the compound, facilitating the entry of non-Muslim visitors in coordination with the Waqf, and abiding by Jordan’s rules to ban Jewish hardline groups it considered provocative.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/12/who-are-jewish-groups-entering-al-aqsa-mosque
How the Al-Aqsa Mosque became a flashpoint in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
In recent years and months, the escalation of violence against Palestinians has been noted by the United Nations and governments throughout the region who’ve been warning that this escalation of Israeli violence against Palestinians is going to lead to an explosion in the region.
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/08/1204545845/how-the-al-aqsa-mosque-became-a-flashpoint-in-the-israel-palestine-conflict
The great, sad reality being – they can raze the mosque, annex the territory, build their third temple…and nothing will happen. No supernatural End Times, no messianic arrival (or return, depending on theology), no god(s) showing up.
Nothing drives people from religion like actually reading their holy book cover-to-cover; nothing will end the Abrahamic religions like playing them out to the last scene and finding out it wasn’t real; just old myth and legend and fantasy-fic.
I’ve never read it. Tried to, but got bored. It may say something about me more than book, who knows?
Bible’s a dreadful read. And I’ve slogged thru both ‘The Silmarillion’ -and- ‘The Waste Lands’ (book 3 of King’s Dark Tower series).
Only the Malleus Maleficarum has been impassable to me thus far. Some day.
One more that goes indepth:
New Ir Amim Research Reveals Israeli Government Involvement in Acquiring Red Heifers for Building Third Temple on the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount
https://mailchi.mp/ir-amim/israeli-government-involvement-in-acquiring-red-heifers-for-building-third-temple-on-the-haram-al-shariftemple-mount?e=f7e1245427
My other comments are in moderation because you can’t use the shortened version of Jewish people and that is used in the articles.
Ugh. I’ve read about that Option. I do hope not.
That option is mostly a threat. These people think they have the world by the tail. They don’t. Maybe some Israeli embassies have nukes already deployed. The end of times is not an issue.
I tend to keep the Samson Option Story filed away under “Not Likely True”. It veers a bit too close to Kanye Territory in terms of conspiracy theory; and feels a bit like an appendix to a reprint of that hoax “…Elders of Zion” tract from the early 1900s.
The 1979 Vela Incident, tho ? That I believe WAS a joint Israel / South Africa nuclear test.
Are there instances where Israel was not wise in dealing with their Palestinian neighbors-of course.Is there Palestinian intransigence and bad leadership-yes.The only possible winners will be a few ideologues in the Islamic world andIran.
“Not wise?”
I suppose I should expect that nonsense from you.
Israel is a racist, fanatic, imperialist, colonialist, fascist, apartheid, terrorist state with no legal right to exist.
Hopefully Hamas, Hezbollah and the rest of the Muslim world will now correct the mistake made by the UN in 1947 in partitioning Palestine and made by the rest of the world in recognizing a Jewish “state” (as opposed to a “national home” as mandated by the Palestinian Mandate.) The Zionists had their chance at a national home and they blew it. Now they reap the consequences.
“Hamas, Hezbollah and the rest of the Muslim world will now correct the mistake made by the UN in 1947” – do you think it is possible to repatriate millions of Ashkenazi back to Europe and America? What about their right of self-determination? When Palestinian state was created, they were already there.
“terrorist state with no legal right to exist” – That is okay but what about democratic Israeli state? Arabs shouldn’t go too far.
If the Israelis get rid of their Zionists and agree to live in a bi-national state of Palestine, with equal rights for everyone, I have no problem with that. It’s the Zionists who have to go because they will not abide by that.. But that’s not going to happen, so we end up with what I said: they all go. One way or the other. This is the way of history.
I do agree that Zionism is the problem. It is not any better than Nazism but few people in The West are ready even to talk about that. The main problem is US oligarchy which is very much pro-Zionist.
Well, that’s just it — it’s impossible to “repatriate” people to places where they’re not from. And most Jews, including most Ashkenazi Jews, living in Israel were born right there. They’re native Palestinians with no other place to “go back” to.
Good point. Although their near-ancestors were for the most part eastern Europeans and Russians, they themselves were born there, so repatriation isn’t an option. One-State, Two-State, Red State, Blue State. Where is Dr. Seuss when we need him? Oh, that’s right, posthumously cancelled.
Please cease and desist using american taxpayer money to fund terrorism mr biden sir
Someone of Biden team explained already that this investment is one of the best. He told, by investing just 3% of US budget in Kiev regime, US destroyed 50% of Russian militaries. So, if US invest 6%, all Russian militaries, 100% of it, will be destroyed. It looks a really wonderful investment.
Just spare me the drama on National TV of speeches after speeches full of “Democracy and Freedom” and give it to them. At this point, it’s not worth it to climb back out of this hole. Dude! We’re done dug a hole for ourselves sooo deep (How deep?), there is no way we can climb out of it. Might as well keep digging until we fall somewhere out of China and into the empty cold space.
Fun map nerd fact – nowhere in the USA can you dig straight down and reach China; almost all the USA’s antipode points are in the Indian Ocean.
{shooting star}TheMoreYouKnow
LOL. You must think I’m a criminal? Of course I would dig at an angle. This way we save fuel and save the world from the Clim8 Cri$i$.
Ooh, I don’t recommend it, Not Applicable. I think slant-drilling is exactly what Saddam’s Iraq accused Kuwait of doing, right before Things Went A Bit Awry circa 1990 ?
You are clever and knowledgeable. I am honored you’re reading my boring drivel. Keep writing here, friend!
Can’t fund Israel, Ukraine, et al if there is no speaker! https://www.reuters.com/world/israel-war-adds-urgency-us-republican-house-speaker-crisis-2023-10-08/
Gridlock saves the day yet again! Thank you Matt Gaetz!
Wait for Florida Democrats to seek revenge with an ironic “Don’t Say Gaetz” bill, ha ha.
Though Gaetz argued the overwhelming government debt as his reasoning for opposing McCarthy, and ultimately the lobbyist controlled congresspeople, both republican and democrat, you have to wonder what power was supporting him? It was not just the power of his logic, as much as we wish logical arguments can win the day in Congress.
An article in FT by a conservative classmate of Janet Yellen’s at Yale, explains the “bond vigilantes” who are saying what Gaetz is saying, that you can not keep using government debt, or the Treasury to continue selling bonds, to fund government projects, from the liberal side, or the military industrial complex, which funds the campaigns of most republicans and democrats.
The higher interest rates and lower bond prices will be what we see starting to happen now, and could be a collapse in financial markets similar to 2008, beginning with the overpriced, and now inability to make payments due to higher interest rates, of commercial properties in big cities. This is why Michael Burry (The Big Short), who predicted a similar scenario about residential real estate in the summer of 2007, and began short selling then, did the same about commercial properties this past spring, saying that he is beginning to short sell, I am not sure what, but if you read his book, you might get a sense of who
In short, the Speaker vote is about the bond vigilantes vs the military industrial complex, hence Biden’s speech linking aid to Israel with aid to Ukraine, which reveals the real reason that Hamas was allowed/the unexplained security breach that allowed Hamas to attack and set off current events
As many note here, though I would not call them “warmongers”, it is a function of how the bond markets work, actually, probably going back to the early empires. It does not have to be this way, many post WWI writers and activists sought to apply principles of freedom and moral responsibility to community, some would call “Jefferson’s Yeoman Republic”, or “Nazareth”, or “Distributism”, like Dorothy Day, Wendell Berry, GK Chesterton, Antony Chayanov (sent to the gulag for trying to apply this to avoid starvation in Ukraine), EF Shumaker “Small is Beautiful” and many others since
Why does this comment not have more favorites? We are indeed in for a wild ride. The Fed is going to try the ol’ switcheroo with a new CBDC replacing the soon to be defunct petro dollar. Will the American people accept it? That’s the question.
lol
I guess if you don’t ask you won’t know.
Fortunately congress is paralyzed and may be for awhile.
There will be blowback, we are not safer.
You nailed that on the head ED.!
On Friday, the White House rolled out its proposed $105 billion bill to arm Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. The legislation also includes funding for the border and humanitarian assistance. US officials say over $50 billion will go to American weapons manufacturers.
New official go to talking point anytime weapons transfers are announced.
I think it is getting time to recognize that perhaps Biden and some of his cabinet could be insane.
Ya think?
Biden is the same vengeance-filled cold warrior he has always been – only corrupted, and distorted by old age – or worse.
Asshole. Clearly part of the problem. Shitheads like you will get us another Trump presidency.
Blocked. What a shame that after 80 years, you have no wisdom.
What an asshole you are…
Holy fuck, I just checked your posting history. You are a ginormous piece of gutter spew. Tell me, do you stop jerking off when you post, or do you just keep going.
I’ll never know the answer to that because you will be blocked.
“…with $10.6 billion for air and missile defense support.”
I wonder if someone might clarify for me. I get the [missile defense] part, but…air defense support ? Unless Janes Weekly failed to mention sleek fighter squadrons in a previously unmentioned Palestinian Strategic Air Command last issue, uh, whose air force exactly is the USA helping the IDF defend against…?
Air defense includes defense against missiles, which Hamas and other potential opponents of Israel definitely have. There’s also potential for regional states that DO have air forces to get involved.
Hi Knapp, would you please release my comments from moderation purgatory? Thanks.
It is not a moderation, it is political censorship in favor of a certain ethnic group.
We’ll see if it gets through.
It’s neither censorship, nor does it “favor” any particular ethnic group.
It’s also not going away no matter how hard you whine about it.
You can’t cover the censorship with whining about the freedom of speech.
Censorship is just that – censorship. I find it amusing that our elected officials are immune from all but words which advocate direct harm.
If someone hates some ethnic or religious group, they should be entitled to say so out loud. That is freedom of speech. Hating or otherwise expressing one’s distaste for another’s religious beliefs is not in itself advocacy for violence.
A truly free society implies only that you may find yourself socially shunned for making “distasteful” remarks, a shunning Disqus provides free of charge via blocking. Trapping comments based on key words is childish.
Please note, Thomas, this is not directed at you, as your conduct as a moderator is the best I’ve found yet in a discussion forum.
I don’t think it is. On a popular site like this that doesn’t have “hovering Moderators” (Reddit neckbeards, I mean thee), a function in Discus (sic) that auto-Holds potentially racist screeds based on certain keywords (and antiwar.com veterans likely suspect which words) is essential.
Otherwise, Thomas (with an actual life) might find himself chasing and deleting dozens of troll rants and bot s**t nonstop – all of it published immediately if not for a hold-gate feature.
Apart from one user who is moderately racist against Russians, I haven’t gotten the sense that anyone here is antisemitic and whose use of The J Word is anything but technically accurate. Still, a line of e-defense is warranted.
I think it is. It is a sly manipulation with the goal to block any discussion which could be politically harmful to Zionism.
“It is a sly manipulation with the goal to block any discussion which could be politically harmful to Zionism.”
That makes no sense in the context of this comment section. We routinely blast Zionism, sometimes savagely.
“We routinely blast Zionism” – you can’t expose Zionism by not connected to each other comments, and as any consistent conversation about it’s history is blocked, people just follow the corporate media traditional version of history which is quite comfortable for those who are promoting Zionism and neo-colonialism.
I’ve seen no indication that comments about the history of Zionism, or about the policies or actions of Zionists, or about the influence of the Zionist lobby in the US are ever blocked here. None.
The system holds posts containing language that might indicate antisemitic slurs, rants or diatribes. It should be easy to understand why that is done. Other comment sections, some with which posters here are likely familiar, are littered with that crap.
Some of my posts are sometimes held when they trigger the algorithm. When Knapp checks, they are released. It’s a tragedy, of course, when Antiwar.com readers are deprived of my wisdom for even a few minutes, but most recover quickly. 😏
C’mon folks, chill.
You can’t seriously talk about Zionism without mentioning a certain ethnos, and “as system holds posts containing language that might indicate antisemitic slurs, rants or diatribes” (in other words any mention of this particular ethnos), a coherent dialogue on this issue is impossible. Actually, it is a pro-Zionist censorship.
It’s neither pro-Zionist nor censorship.
You having to wait a little while for your stuff to be posted doesn’t make a dialogue impossible. It just means you may have to exercise some patience. Actually, it doesn’t mean even that. You’re free to tantrum and whine while waiting; you don’t HAVE to be patient.
It’s not pro-Zionist because we don’t ban anti-Zionist arguments. We just delete any and all racial/ethnic/religious/nationality/sexuality slurs, and place holds on language that may indicate the most frequent ones.
And it’s not censorship, because telling you that you don’t get to use OUR microphone to say what you want to say is not telling you that you can’t say it.
Have any of your posts been blocked merely because they mentioned Zionism and the “certain ethnos” associated with the movement? Let’s see what happens here:
Zionism is a movement founded in the late 19th century with the goal of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The founder of the Zionist movement was Theodor Herzl, a Hungarian Jew who worked as a correspondent for a Vienna newspaper.
Yeah, because other than the deleted ones, all the comments here are sooooooooooooooo pro-Zionist.
No need to ask. All comments that don’t violate our guidelines get released as soon as I see them. Which, especially on weekends, may be a little while.
I don’t think they did, just background.
“There’s also potential for regional states that DO have air forces to get involved”
Therein lies the crux of my question – really, to find out if it was “just me” seeing if it was a quiet admission from the White House that they expect a wider war. And aren’t keen to dissuade one.
Russia announced it is now patrolling the black sea 24/7 with advanced aircraft armed with unstoppable missiles.
What would a world without Hamas look like? It would look like the West Bank. In other words no different. btw Hamas was created and funded by Israel as a counter to the PLO.
Israel is occupying the country Palestine. This means that Israel is already in an offensive stance, stating that Israel has the right to defend itself is beyond criminal. The occupied people have the right to defend themselves not the occupier.
The Israeli’s experienced their own NAKBA (Palestinian Catastrophe, 1948) during WW2. They of anyone should know the utter depravity of the holocaust (ethnic cleansing and genocide) they perpetrate on Palestinians.
The crimes of Israel, US, NATO have no limits and just never end. The inhumanity of the these Powers is beyond description. They are MONSTERS.
Joey Biden wants another $105 BILLION for the defense industry and his cronies in Congress. What does he care old age will take him away soon but not soon enough.
He should at least be around to see the mess he made, but it would not make a difference, he is a man without a soul, without character and integrity and no brain, the sooner he goes the better. You are so right.
The unelected criminal Joey Biden raping America and fomenting Armageddon. What does Joey Biden care he will be dead soon enough from old age leaving a burned out cinder once known as earth.
That is a done deal AIPAC is sending out the voting instructions already
Interestingly, I found a 2016 video interview with Gideon Levy, where he says that AIPAC corrupts Israel:
Gideon Levy: Americans “Are Supporting the First Signs of Fascism in Israel”
Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy talks to journalist Max Blumenthal about how the Israeli occupation has poisoned not only the region but much of the world, and how BDS might be the last standing hope to dismantle it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=P-QNP4Zw-KQNo
RT has previewed the actual distribution of the $100 Billion. When the “counting out” is all done, Ukraine will get $100 Million, and Israel will get $100 Billion minus a few carrying charges.
” After all, Ukraine is just an old friend down on his luck, but Israel is our only daughter!”
Time for the 25th…
Yeah, but it ain’t gonna happen. And, if it did . . . would we be happier with Acting President Harris?
Frankly, my friend, I don’t give a crap who is president, as long as he or she has the power of reason, even if only rarely used – as opposed to the drool by the senile Arschloch in the oval.
US foreign policy changes very little when presidential administrations change. The drooling Biden who upsets you so much is just the current front man. If the 25th were invoked, nothing much would change wrt the issues we discuss here.
Hey friend. I’m 80 years old. You may not need to school me on recent American presidents 😉
I was only venting, not rediscovering America.
If your venting is posted to a discussion forum, you should probably expect replies. If the post(s) call(s) for a process pursuant to a provision of the Constitution, the repl[y|ies] might refer to the process itself. That should be easy to understand.
Up to this point Biden is the biggest A-hole, can there even be a bigger one than that?
When was the last time we had a president with the power of reasoning? They killed JFK and Carter was one term only. But even if, like Obama, the neocon establishment was in control and they will allow the voters to vote for another sh*thead they can control. The neocons in state go back to Bush and Clinton, and before that it was not much better, after JFK it went steadily downhill. The state department uses sanctions and military power and extortion for foreign policies, diplomacy has been trashed. We have no such thing as a statesman and as you put it nicely we do have a senile A-hole in the office, and no one knows who is really in charge with responsibility for anything.
Nuland/Blinken, and Sullivan and the whole Kagan clan can take the nation over the cliff and no one really knows who did it.
I drove my 68 Corvette this morning. It was full of top secret documents. I made the wrong decision, turning the wrong way at every fork in the road. I woke up from my dream to find that I have fallen in a deep hole on my bicycle, done broke my hip, and ended up with the wrong fork in my eye. This confirmed my decision to run for President in 2024.
What is your platform NA?
“The road to hell is paved with ‘bad’ intentions.” What do you think? Do you like it?
Are you for it or against it?
Which one? Hell or Bad Intentions? I’m for both, of course. …I would have added (Sarcasm) to the end of my post, but Analyzer banned me from doing it any longer. He said I was too “sarcasmic.”
NA:
You are a social philosopher.
I wondered what happened.
Some Analyzers are picky.
But we are in the know.
Funny you mentioned that. This has flown under the radar:
….it appears that a critical claim by the White House in the scandal may not only be false, but was knowingly false at the time it was made. The White House and Biden’s counsel have long maintained that, as soon as documents were discovered in the D.C. office, they notified the national archives. Many asked why they did not call the FBI, but the White House has at least maintained that, unlike Trump, they took immediate action to notify authorities.
It now appears that this was not true. One of the closest aides to Biden and a close friend to Hunter Biden is Annie Tomasini. She referred to Hunter as her “brother” and signed off messages with “LY” or “love you.”
Tomasini was once a senior aide to Joe Biden and, according to the Oversight Committee, inspected the classified material on March 18, 2021, two months after Biden took office — nearly 20 months before they were said to be found by the Biden team.
The committee now alleges that the White House “omitted months of communications, planning, and coordinating among multiple White House officials, [Kathy] Chung, Penn Biden Center employees, and President Biden’s personal attorneys to retrieve the boxes containing classified materials. The timeline also omitted multiple visits from at least five White House employees, including Dana Remus, Anthony Bernal, Ashley Williams, Annie Tomasini, and an unknown staffer.”
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/10/16/new-evidence-may-destroy-bidens-defense-in-his-classified-documents-case/
Yea, assume that pretty much anything that comes out of this administration is a lie.
Given all governments lie what differentiates this administration’s veracity from others are most governments 1. sometimes tell the truth and 2. lie with a nod at plausibility.
Biden’s always been a pathological liar (pseudologia fantastica,) for example 40 yrs ago when he claimed he graduated top of his law school class with 3 undergraduate degrees – but who knew pathological lying was contagious? Most of DC is infected.
I don’t think it’s contagious but rather a job requirement.
A little of both, methinks.
Biden always was a pathological liar, even before dementia set in, so no surprise here.
It might be deeper than a surface lie. Biden held classified intelligence on Ukraine since he left office. Why were they going through it for months? How do we know if anything is missing?
We have deeply corrupt governments, democracy is just a façade.
Oh yeah, I know. They just seem more obvious about it now, or maybe it took time for me to truly grasp it.
They have more audacity than ever before. They are sure they own the government and the nations economy.
UM wasn’t Ukraine already armed twice? Trillions in hardware has been burnt. How many dead? How many more will die, do we even care?
RUSSIAN FORCES SHOOT DOWN 7 UKRAINIAN MIG-29 FIGHTERS IN ONE DAY.
Dateline Oct. 21, ABC reports:
In a statement Saturday, Hamas claimed all of Israel’s targets in Gaza were civilian in addition to its blockage of electricity, water, fuel and medicine.
“The Israeli targets across Gaza were all civilian including children, women, civil defense rescue teams, hospitals, ambulances, media and press offices, bakeries, mosques, churches and the public infrastructure,” Hamas said in a statement.
So, you know, it must be true, cause, well, Hamas told you so.
“it must be true, cause, well, Hamas told you so” – do you mean the opposite is true and the civilians in Gaza are okay? Thousands of women and children were not killed and there are no problems with electricity, water, fuel and medicine?
Let’s ponder, why would the IDF avoid militant targets, against those who are shooting rockets at them all day,
in favor of wasting ammo exclusively on civilian targets, like this Hamas spokesperson claims? Why?
Which, would only exacerbate the IDF’s humanitarian crisis, that the international community is already protesting? Why, do that?
Is that your position, Hamas is always right no matter how insane the logic?
“…wasting ammo exclusively on civilian targets…”
Unfortunately, I don’t think the IDF or PM Netanyahu considers that a ‘waste’.
Hamas is a legal resistance organization, they are as legal as the IDF.
Palestinians have the rights of self-defense against brutal occupiers which the Israelis are.
So people who rape women,castrate men,kidnap grannies,cut off arms and legs, and stomp their dying victims are “legal”?
Wow, you do have a lively imagination.
He is probably one of around 300 Israeli college students who are paid to go online and spew pro-Zionist, anti Palestinian garbage. A mental midget earning drug money.
Are you talking about the Israeli army ?
The reality is what counts, the IDF are war criminals in uniform and the pilots flying bombing missions are war criminals by all accounts.
To tell people to get out of the way minutes before they bomb is a CYA attempt, “we warned them to get out of the way” But Israelis even bombed fleeing civilians on their way to the south of Gaza.
Israelis are practiced liars.
So, you know, it could likely be true, ‘cause well, it’s common knowledge there’re two levels of Hamas tunnels beneath Gaza, most protecting Hamas militants from Israel’s airstrikes. Best known are the passageways used to smuggle goods and launch attacks into Israel. But subterranean to those is a second underground network the IDF calls the “Gaza metro,” by some accounts several miles deep, it’s a vast labyrinth of tunnels used to transport people & goods, store armaments & ammunition, train and barrack fighters, likely house hostages as well as Hamas command & control. All inaccessible to IDF surveillance and it’s air force.
Yup, when Hamas tells ya, ya gotta believe them.
Hear anything more about that bombed hospital,
that wasn’t?
Given your insularly myopic world view I ensured Hamas was not a source. As noted it was the IDF – validated & informed by other western sources.
Interestingly what I haven’t heard about the hospital bombing is the US or Israel calling for an independent investigation. Israel was already losing the info war; the hospital bombing launched protests around the world from London and Jakarta to Harvey, LA. Being cleared by an indie investigation would improve Israel’s PR, even potentially take normalization off life support. Yet it’s not demanding one? Hmmmm…
The UN requested an international investigation too, no response from Israel.
they are playing for time, there will be other new issues to take attention off the hospital, maybe a bigger church next time will help.
“indie investigation”-where do you find such creatures. The UN?
The ICC and it has jurisdiction in the Palestinian territories but neither the US or Israel are a party to the treaty; the UN Commission of Inquiry and they’re already on the ground collecting evidence of war crimes; as well as several others. A multinational team of investigators and prosecutors was put together to investigate Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
Pffft!
Sorry, -how- deep is this “Gaza metro” you mention, and can you provide a link for details ?
I’m generally inclined to accept mundane figures at face value but ‘several miles deep’ is an extraordinary claim. A tunnelling machine was stuck ~60 ft. below the surface in Toronto for 18 months; another in Seattle in 2017; the Chunnel boring met complications; and a new Skytrain line in Vancouver has also been challenged in slight sub-surface conditions. And these are professional engineers in wealthy, locally-peaceful conditions with effectively unlimited resources.
If the Hamassians have dug that deep, then Gaza should already have been invaded by mining companies and foreign interests like China to snap up such insanely talented earthmovers for rare-earth extractions elsewhere !
“the Chunnel boring met complications”
Well, SOME people no doubt found those complications interesting.
I think you are right, it is most likely exaggerated, they don’t even have heavy equipment to rescue people from under the rubble. No telling how many bodies are still under the rubble.
Wallboard is heavy and sanding sucks is the sum total of my construction knowledge helping with a small wb installation. One of the links below covers construction with skepticism if memory serves thus the qualification, wallboarding didn’t suggest I take it further, lesson learned 🙂
https://mwi.westpoint.edu/underground-nightmare-hamas-tunnels-and-the-wicked-problem-facing-the-idf/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-gaza-metro-the-mysterious-subterranean-tunnel-network-used-by-hamas/ar-AA1ifC1n
https://abcnews.go.com/International/gaza-tunnel-system-israel-ground-invasion/story?id=104057232
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/14/gaza-tunnels-hamas-israel/
The first link, the westpoint one, quotes a depth of 230 ft as the deepest found previously, and that’s an entirely reasonable number. (The abc one quotes the westpoint one)
I suspect the problem is a bit of a wording issue that the msn source used. A bit of the Oxford Comma issue, after a fashion. I think they meant “…by some accounts {the tunnels stretch for} several kilometers{,} underground.”
You’re correct that the ‘Gaza metro’ exists, just that the source’s wording was poor.
Lol, 230′ won’t compute to the reported tunnel depth in kilometers used in my manual conversion to miles. A discrepancy for which there is an explanation. My dog/bone tendency is calling me to find it but so too is the chicken I’ve got to butcher for tonight’s Chicken and Pastry. Being a Southerner first and foremost I’m going with the Chicken. You’re a good man Uncle Sapien, you wouldn’t happen to be a Southerner would you 🙂
Well there’s yer problem right there, NATe !
Nae, southwestern Canadian’s the closest I get to a “South” anything.
Dang, it’s 1120 where I am. You can’t get me thinking on lunch yet…!
and perfectly legal.
Supporting the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people, including pregnant women and children makes you complicit in committing war crimes. Denying medical supplies is a big part of the crime, the Israeli pilots are war criminals for executing illegal orders, by law they are obliged to refuse illegal orders.
Return the hostages and the perpetrators of the slaughter, then let’s talk.
The Israelis have several thousand Palestinian hostages. Poor Israelis, they suffer so much. The Palestinian refugees’ suffering is going on for almost a century. Of course they hate the Israelis, you would too if you were in their place.
Offer a swap, oh, Hamas doesn’t care.
Don’t you have school today ?
Poolside, Costa Rica, vaca.
I heard that there were a lot of gay resorts there .. lucky you !
I’m sure that’s something you track.
😅
Only fools rely on ABC, or any MSM, for news.
The ABC people know it is true, they can’t proof it is not true, the best they can do , is to smuggle the word ‘CLAIM’ in there. The fact is, MSM is a propaganda devise, they spread war propaganda, and nothing else.
The Palestinian people have no Army, the ISRAELIS are killing civilians including women and children. Hamas is telling the truth, MSM serves the war profiteers.
London protests devolve as guys with Palestinian flag
knock down and trample on LGBT flag, oops.
You really are obsessing with LGBT the most important thing to you. Only you know about that incident, where you there, did you see it or who told you?
Obsessed with the INTOLERANCY of the Left.
You’re such a comedian.
The inescapable truth is that Israel cannot extinguish Palestinian resistance by violence, any more than the Palestinians can win a liberation war: Israel and Palestinian Arabs are stuck with each other.
Natanyahoo is under pressure to restore the Zionists with a feeling of superiority over what they call human animals (subhumans). He can not do that, all that he can do is continue to allow the Israeli settlers to murder the Palestinians in the West Bank.
The Palestinians are winning the public relations war, the tide is turning on the Israelis and the Americans. The Biden neocons are making more and more enemies, the brutality of the genocide of women and children, there are videos out there, which normal people can’t stomach, fanned the worldwide demonstrations on all continents yesterday.
But neocons and deranged Biden wear blinders and truly believe, “we are Americans, we never lose”, only demented Biden can believe that and his neocon Bast***ds and congress advising him and the whispering in his ears to kill some more, he is great and he will get reelected because he is a strong president.
THEY ARE MONSTERS.
Wasn’t 100 few days ago? Next week it will be 200?
At the rate of Inflation, yes.
Netanyahu and Biden knew in advance about Hamas plan ahead of time and allowed it to proceed to give Israelis a cover and reasons for their long planned ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the targets are not just Hamas.
Netanyahu had no luck with Obama to attack Iran, now Trump cleared the way for Biden, the right man, ready to attack Iran.
Netanyahu can handle the Gaza genocide alone, but not Iran. Trump broke the nuclear agreements clearing the path for the demented warmonger Biden, why else would they need the battle ships in the ME?
But in the process they also united the Arab world against Israel. They managed to isolate Israel and the USA. NATO IS NOT A RELIABLE PARTNER, Biden made sure of that, and anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism is growing world wide.
The NAVY is getting ready for the USA and Israel to attack Iran, why else are they in the ME?
Check this out:https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231021-israel-settler-israel-forces-killed-hostages-not-hamas/
NATO has already lost; 508 Aircraft, 253 helicopters, 8157 UAV’s, 441 Anti Aircraft systems, 12869 tanks inc. APC’s, 1167 multiple rocket launchers, 6847 field artillery and 14587 military automotive equipment. Approx. $1 Trillion of NATO hardware.
WW3 started in 2014 according to NATO. The combined Western nations overthrew the government in a violent bloody coup and installed Nazi’s in power.
These people are monsters, parasites on humanity, total psychopaths.
The good old USA does NOT promote PEACE, it Promotes WAR and WAR for PROFIT! The height of cynicism!
Dear Israel:
The Peace of the world is in your hands…
Please, please, please, BE the PEACEMAKER.
Biden, the demented autocrat in the WH, is the real war criminal, he told Netanyahu, the other war criminal, privately he has his back to do whatever he wants to do. He is funding the genocide in progress in Gaza, making the American people complicit in the crime of genocide in Gaza. Biden always was a warmonger even before he was demented which was covered up in the usual deceptive politics, lies and propaganda and obfuscation of the real Biden. So sickening.
The true war criminals are the mad men in Iran,who oppose peace and love war.
Really, are you sure you know what you are saying?
Don’t forget the mad men in Wash. and Tel Aviv. It takes TWO to make a fight, just ask your mom.
Projecting?
Yeah, because Iran has been in and started so many wars… Idiot !
Never happen…
Pretty soon the U.S. dollar will be as worthless as monopoly money, unless they are playing Monopoly.
Israel settler: ‘Israel forces killed hostages, not Hamas’
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231021-israel-settler-israel-forces-killed-hostages-not-hamas/
Israeli settler Yasmin Porat has claimed that Israeli civilians were killed by Israeli forces and not by Hamas. This came in an interview by Porat with an Israeli radio station on 15 October, where she said: “They eliminated everyone, including the hostages. There was very, very heavy crossfire and even tank shelling.”
The 44-year-old mother of three stated that she and other civilians were held by the Palestinians for several hours
and were treated “humanely”.
A recording of her interview with Haboker Hazeh (This Morning) radio programme on state broadcaster Kan was circulated on social media.
It is worth noting that the interview was not included in the online edition of the Haboker Hazeh programme on 15 October and may have been censored.
The $105 billion spending bill gives something to everyone in its funding for Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan and the border. That may make it politically passable but overlooks the fact that none of that spending should occur in the first place.
That it’s an omnibus bill with something for everyone to hate should prevent it from passing, but you know how Congress is. They can always agree on exporting violence.
I just looked up Israel debt to GDP.
1.5%
US is ~120% (2022)
US is approaching junk bond status to finance wars ’cause the
smart investor knows it is a bad investment.
No. Your US number is about right, but Israel’s debt to GDP ratio was about 60% last year, down from 2021.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-public-debt-burden-slides-609gdp-2022-2023-01-18/
https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/israel/government-debt–of-nominal-gdp
Nope…. to hell with this criminal regime.
I say, throw in another $200 Billion for domestic spending. If we’re going all guns and butter, more butter is more better. (At least, that’s what my Dad would say; he’d spread butter on anything.)
Israel sells weapons abroad, so why do they need more of our stolen incomes? Both you and I know the answer, don’t we? What a fraud Wash. is.