The US placed a fleet of fighter jets in the Middle East on stand-by to rescue Israeli pilots if their attack on Iran failed, Israel’s Army Radio reported on Sunday.
“Israel and the US coordinated a plan to ensure the safe extraction of pilots should the operation have not succeeded,” the report said, according to Turkey’s Anadolu Agency.
The report said the US didn’t participate directly in the attack but was prepared to intervene for a rescue mission. “The Americans’ advanced capabilities in the region would allow them to carry out a rescue operation,” it said.
The US also supported the attack, which was carried out early Saturday, by pledging to defend Israel from any Iranian retaliation and deploying a THAAD missile system for that purpose. Israeli officials said that around 100 Israeli fighter jets, spy planes, and refueling tankers were involved in the operation. The main fighter jet was the US-made F-35.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the US was responsible for the attack since it provided Israel with an “air corridor” for its jets to launch the airstrikes, which killed at least four Iranian soldiers.
“The Americans gave the Zionist air force an air corridor, and the defense facilities they sent them before can be considered collaboration with the recent operation. We consider that America’s collaboration with the Zionist entity to create tension in the region is something very clear,” Araghchi said.
Iranian officials said the Israeli jets launched the strikes from US-controlled Iraqi airspace. Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi Shia militia that’s allied with Iran, has said the US must “pay” for letting the Israeli jets use Iraqi airspace.
“America must pay the price for their recklessness in using Iraqi airspace, and this will happen, with God’s help, at the right time and place,” the group said in a statement, according to Rudaw. “They will certainly dare to attack Iraq if they do not pay a heavy price for their aggression.”
The US support for the Israeli attack on Iran could lead to attacks on US bases in Iraq and Syria. If Iran chooses to retaliate by launching another missile attack on Israel, the 100 US troops deployed in Israel with the THAAD system could be potential targets.
"America First" Trump pledges not to fight foreign Wars:
https://www.rt.com/news/606592-trump-us-foreign-wars/
Except for Israel.
His word and his pledge are WORTHLESS.
I pity anyone naive enough to believe anything he says.
Or the Democrats.
The Dems’ empty promises come from a lack of accountability and guarantee.
Trump’s s**t comes from a disconnect from extant reality.
“This is the great power of the two party system. The Republicans are in charge of promoting the interests of the corporate rulers and to push it as far as they can. The Democrats are to control the people so that no opposition ever appears. And that’s a very different task and therefore they appear as very different parties, but they serve the same monied interests and they actually work together as a team to create utter confusion in America.” ~Peter Camejo
He didn't. He just suggested he won't fight for Ukraine. Netanyahu is his best friend and Adelson has him comitted to help the genocidal colony no matter what.
"You don't have to send your kids out to war, have your kid blown up for a country that you've never heard of, and that doesn’t want anything to do with you anyway." —–Donald Trump, Republican candidate for President.
"Several major fact-checking sites regularly fact-checked Trump, including:
PolitiFact, which awarded Trump its "Lie of the Year" in 2015, 2017 and 2019.
FactCheck.org , which dubbed Trump the "King of Whoppers" in 2015.
The Washington Post said in January 2020 that Trump had made more than 16,241 false or misleading claims as president, an average of about 15 such statements per day.
The Toronto Star which said that, as of June 2019, Trump had made 5,276 false statements since his inauguration."
wikipedia – on the topic of Trump's lies.
Your quote fits in here somewhere, I'm sure.
How about Space?
“One of my proudest achievements in my first term was to create Space Force, the first new branch of the armed forces in over 70 years; it’s a big deal,” he said. “Now that Space Force is up and running, I agree with your leadership — you want this very badly — but I agree that the time has come to create a Space National Guard as the primary combat reserve of the U.S. Space Force.”
The comment prompted a round of applause from the audience, and Trump thanked them.
“So as president, I will sign historic legislation creating a Space National Guard,” he continued. “So we’re going to do that. Space Force has been very important, very, very important.”
Maybe Don would be smart to include Israel in there, as his true allegiance is to money and that’s where it’s coming from. His subservience to that nation is sickening.
I'm pretty sure that most yankees have heard of Israel. He was talking of Ukraine…
Hardly a word on Ukraine on Anti-War, why?
Ukrainian neo-Nazi anti-Christian regime is losing the war. Antiwar neo-Nazi sympathizers are unhappy about that.
It is not just a war between Russia and NATO, it is also a world religious war between those who are supporting Christian values and those who are on the side of new western "values".
BRICS Kazan summit demonstrated the division of the world. In this religious war all western freaks are on the side of global western oligarchy.
If it's between "Christian" values, and secular progressive values, EVERYONE is better off with secular progressive values in society. Even the Christians.
BRICS summit rejected American "progressive values".
About 60% of humankind were represented at Kazan BRICS summit. Most guests to BRICS summit were represented by presidents and prime ministers of their countries. Erdogan also was there.
maybe because progressive values are understood to be neoliberal economic values not just secular humanism?
BRICS is not only about economy. All BRICS countries + all BRICS partners countries (9+13) declared their commitment to the traditional values (which are Christian values).
What's a "traditional Christian value(s)" ?
Yes. People select the route they want to argue, without defining it clearly.
I worry we are using different terminology – what do YOU mean by “progressive values”, how are these uniquely Western or American, and by what metric does this summit of leaders gauge these values as inferior – and inferior to what ?
It was you who used the term "progressive values" and claimed that everyone is better off with those "progressive values" rather than with traditional Christian values.
We all can see where The West is progressing: disrespect to international laws, interference into other countries internal affairs, permanent lies on top level, sponsoring of color revolutions, open support of genocide.
BRICS declaration was against all those things. Also BRICS condemned unilateral sanctions as illegal. Only UNSC has right to use such sanctions.
We are using different terminology. That is the issue.
By progressive values, I mean socially, not geopolitically. ‘Progressive values’ as I use the term means : human rights, bodily autonomy, personal freedoms of speech and thought and religion (or none) and movement, ending all forms of racism, promoting well-being and minimising harm (secular humanism), proportional representation, economic fairness, rational discourse and evidence-based policymaking.
What you indicate as ‘values’ of “the West” is better described as “extant American foreign policy”.
Are you just trying to smear the idea of “progressive values” by associating the term negatively with “systemic American malfeasance” ?
The problem is the moral corruption. How can we expect politicians or any other people behave decently if they support the genocide? First they were doing dirty tricks abroad, now they do the same at home. They don't care about American children more than about Palestinian. Opened border is not about foreign politics. It is about keeping under control American people.
Going by your angle…yes, agreed, either the first or the last enemy of Empire is its own population.
I would ask your definition of “open border”, however (and as a further – precisely how adding MORE American people somehow makes it EASIER to control an already third-of-a-billion people) ??
As the definitions of open vs. closed border I have seen are :
Open border : Any number of immigrants may come to a country and be processed for admission (Ellis Island style) with documentation of names, health checks, refugee status, criminal record checks, language fluency, skill sets, with little or no “cap” on annual admission for those meeting aforementioned criteria.
Closed border : Zero immigrants admitted. Refugee / asylum seekers possibly admitted, but in absolute minimum numbers.
There is a “no border” trope where one side alleges the other does not identify, vett, or prevent ANYONE’s entry into the USA. This is no side’s stated policy and no evidence supports claims that the Republicans or Democrats or any US border state follows this non-existent policy.
“Open border : Any number of immigrants may come to a country and be processed for admission”
Er, no.
An open border would be like the border between Alberta and British Columbia, or between Washington and Oregon, or between Gainesville, Florida and Alachua County, Florida.
There is no “processing for admission.” People drive, ride, or walk across the imaginary line on the ground like it’s nobody’s business … because it isn’t anybody’s business.
That’s what an open border is.
That’s at odds with a definition presented elsewhere. I suppose it comes down to “physically open” or “politically open”.
The US border is “physically open” in that it couldn’t plausibly be any other way. With 95,500 miles of border and coastline, people who want in will get in, even if every member of the military (including reserve and National Guard) and every police officer in the country is tasked solely with “border security.”
The US border is “politically open” in that its “Supreme Law of the Land” clearly and unambiguously forbids the US government to regulate immigration.
So your claim is that no State or Federal law or policy concerns immigration ?
Was led to believe that “green cards” and the INS were real things.
Under what authority, then, are DHS / Border Patrol agents intercepting people at any point of entry ?
“So your claim is that no State or Federal law or policy concerns immigration?”
Putting a question mark after some other claim doesn’t magically make it my claim. My claim was very specific.
Article I, Section 9 of the US Constitution (“the Supreme Law of the Land”) forbade the federal government to regulate immigration prior to 1808.
Article V of that same Constitution forbade amending that same constitution to strike the prohibition prior to 1808.
Amendment X of that same Constitution forbids federal powers not found in the Constitution.
And Marbury v. Madison makes clear that laws repugnant to the Constitution are void.
An activist Supreme Court miracled up a federal power to regulate immigration out of whole cloth, and out of its ass, in an 1875 court decision (Chy Lung v. Freeman), but even then Congress assumed the Constitution meant what it said for a good deal of time after that, before slowly changing to do whatever it felt like in violation of the Constitution. That doesn’t make what they do legal, though.
Who, then, if anyone, controls immigration ?
Your initial claim implied “the federal government doesn’t (therefore no one does)”
I don’t think that’s correct, if it is what you mean.
Per the Constitution, which is the “Supreme Law of the Land?” See Article I, Section 9: “as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit”
In reality? No one controls immigration. Various regimes TRY to do so, but it’s not easy. The People’s Republic of China, for example, conducts periodic operations in hopes of catching even a fraction of “unauthorized” immigrants from as nearby as North Korea and Vietnam and at least as far abroad as Africa and the Middle East.
I suppose a few small island nations might have better luck, but that’s more about the ocean making it hard to get TO their borders rather than the beachline making it harder to get THROUGH their borders.
I mean, of course, Mexican border which every kind of people can cross without any problem. None of them is of Anglo-Saxon origin. The main danger to U.S. oligarchy is middle and lower class people of white majority who potentially can be the core of socialist (Christian) party. It looks, U.S. rulers believe they can play blacks, Latinos and every kind of white freaks against the working class which traditionally is very much capable of creating efficient trade unions and socialist parties in Europe and North America (mostly in Europe of course, but it is also possible in America).
There are huge problems crossing the Mexico/ US border ! Are you unaware of the drownings and heat deaths every year ??? I've worked beside (on) the US / Canada border @ Peace Arch and the border is a shallow drainage ditch. One could cross accidentally and not even notice.
Any "majority Christian" is not socialist. What an embarrassing misunderstanding of the nature of White Christian Nationalism.
Migrants from Mexico and Central America are most likely Catholic or related Christian, putting them center-Right at best.
"white freaks" should have earned a Mod edit, that's far more a racist assertion than a British slang derived from Arabic. I have 'standing' to complain, but I make no formal compliant.
Are you suggesting that "whites" can't be "freaks?"
Look at you, splitting hairs, then ending up with only two thinner hairs.
I have more than two hairs.
But yeah, my hair IS pretty thin.
If you think a racial slur has been uttered, feel free to explain why. Maybe you're right and I'm just not seeing it.
I repeat – I make no complaint on this issue.
I only warn Mikhailovich-to-the-Chief that he risks intervention in his Comment(s) should reader(s) decide on disfavorable interpretation.
My interpretation, which I admit could be incorrect, is that if I call someone a “crazy German” or a “crazy Jew” or a “crazy Arab” or whatever, I am not calling all Germans, Jews, or Arabs crazy. I’m calling an individual crazy and the rest of it is an identifier of the individual, not a slur of the group.
If I AM incorrect, I want to know, and to understand how.
My interpretation, which I admit could be incorrect, is that if I call someone a “crazy German” or a “crazy Jew” or a “crazy Arab” or whatever, I am not calling all Germans, Jews, or Arabs crazy. I’m calling an individual crazy and the rest of it is an identifier of the individual, not a slur of the group.
If I AM incorrect, I want to know, and to understand how.
that would be real Freedom of Religion.
A point many religious people miss. It’s secular progressives pushing for equal treatment of all religions and supremacy for none.
Such that anyone may be of any religion and everyone is bound by NONE of any particular religion’s rules, as none are codified by law or favoured by government.
I don't think there are any progressives in our (US) government. They made up a new name so they could disassociate with the old democrats. But they're so fucking hypocritical it's unbelievable.
There is that…
Certainly I have mentioned the capital-L Liberal party in my province that, after a brief rebrand as “BC United” (code for ‘actually center-Right’ i guess), formally merged with the Conservative party last month. And nobody batted an eye in surprise.
Not all of them. And I say this as a non religious person.
But ideology becomes a religion. And sometimes a cult.
We have reached a point were left is right and right is left, a gift of political obfuscation.
Nah, there is no "left". Just right of center is the left that's left.
They are confusing people on purpose. When people are disorientated, it is easier to manipulate them.
The "values" they prioritize are ridiculous. And they end up doing more harm than good.
Yes, they do NOT report that President Putin is a Christian.
I suspect that upon examining any such reportage, many would deem “once it became politically convenient rather than politically inconvenient to be a Christian, I told the media my mother had had me secretly baptized as an infant” less than convincing evidence.
They also do not report that after coup 2014 most of Ukrainian Christian churches were vandalized by neo-Nazi thugs and stopped functioning.
The neo-Nazi thugs went after the RUSSIAN Orthodox Christians, their language and culture.
They are destroying traditional Ukrainian Orthodox Church (which of course always recognized Moscow Patriarchy). Until 2014 there was only one Orthodox Church in Ukraine. What they are trying to introduce instead of Ukrainian Orthodox Church, is anti-Christian organization governed from other side of ocean
“governed from other side of ocean”
When did Kyiv (where the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is headquartered) and Istanbul (where the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the church’s recognizing body, is headquartered) get moved to the other side of the ocean from Ukraine?
What Patriarch of Constantinople? You mean that captain of Turkish army who is also an agent of American imperialism?
While I haven’t looked into that, I wouldn’t be surprise. After all, the Patriach of Moscow and all Rus’ is a KGB agent whose only real job is to laud and make excuses for whatever his former KGB buddy Putin does.
BRICS and the vast majority of Global South is siding with Putin and Russia.
BRICS Kazan declaration denounced American imperialism. The world is fed up with your lies and your crimes.
Yes, President Putin quietly turned Russia Christian again, and the Communists are not happy about it. Sadly, most people don’t know how to recognize Zelenskyy is more than a Communist, he’s Satan’s seed.
Russian Church started quick development immediately after collapse of communist regime. At the moment there are no confrontation between Russian communist party and Russian Orthodox Church.
There's no evidence that Satan exists.
You’re living proof Satan operates through you; however, you’re too Spiritually blind and deaf to know it.
False.
Spirits have not been demonstrated to exist. Satan has not been demonstrated to exist.
Be aware, T/V/K, there is no height to which you can stack bulls**t claims that makes them reach a level of Fact.
“And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.”
Neat story about UFO’s.
Demonstrate that you, T/V/K, are not deceived by the master Norse god of trickery, Loki.
For whom there is equal compelling evidence of his existence as for your god and your ha-satan.
LOL @ you! “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.”
Again, adore your commitment to a poetic Iron Age book of historical fiction, but you may as well cite passages from ‘Twilight’ at me; for at least THAT series makes fewer, and more believable, supernatural claims.
So, still waiting on you to provide evidence you’re not actively being duped by Loki, Trickster god of the Norse pantheon. Everything you’re doing and saying DOES fall perfectly in line with his known methods of deception and deceit…
Here is to a FOOL who calls itself Uncle Sapien … “(To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.) The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.”
And here is to a FOOL who uses the first third of his user name to associate himself with an antichrist.
My name is a title and indication of my humanity (both in species and sub-species). I am but intelligent enough to know a tomato is a fruit; and but wise enough to know tomato does not go in fruit salad. (2 Emeril 3:6-8)
And you – being played by a trickster god into all the usual s**t apologetics for what Loki has convinced you is real. Next you’ll haul out Hebrews 11; claim Exodus 21 doesn’t endorse slavery (which it does); and assert foolishly that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John were written by those people in that order with “no contradictions” between them. Christians with basically no understanding of the history and content of their bible AND their religion, are a silly lot.
Would that All-Father Odin might rebuke Loki’s spells over you. Sadly, you have NO idea you’re in Loki’s thrall.
LOL
Loki said you’d laugh.
LOL .. God laughs at those He puts into derision.
Loki tricked you into saying that. Yeesh, you’re like a puppet – but not a hand, but your own head up your a-HEY HEY, KIDS !
LOL .. where do the VISIONS in your head come from? What makes you say what you say?
Are you unaware of how human consciousness works? You rambled once about being a Realtor; how’d you manage that with a 2nd Grade education ?
It’s REALTOR® you dummy 1st grader. LOL .. you’re funny, looking I bet. Fraternity table at the Community College taught me how to insult. Now I’m more polite.
I enjoyed the book “Freakonomics”, particularly the chapter illustrating how realtors and the KKK operate under the same model. Both rely heavily on the concept of “secret knowledge” as their strength.
The KKK used secret codes, passphrases, insider info to network and communicate, move and speak “unseen” by non-members in regular society.
Realtors use the “secret” knowledge “only they have” to navigate the “impossible, labyrinthine complexity” of buying or selling a property.
When in fact, with some BASIC knowledge, ANYONE can buy or sell their house. Just that Big Realtor puts FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) into laymens’ minds – that the process is TOO COSTLY AND DANGEROUS to attempt on your own, so you REALLY NEED “one of us”. And most people, thinking it’s dangerous to go it alone, chip off 7% of the million asking price so a huckster can fill out six forms for them.
Come on Uncle Sapien .. you’re way behind the times. I started in 1973 when everything was fixed and it’s wide open today with information on every HOUSE FOR SALE at your fingertips. And, if you were to work with me, I let you hold your own open houses and look for a buyer and if you find one, you save the 2.5% buyer’s agent fee and pay me 1.5%. Hope that helps adjust your reality, and, FYI, FEAR = Future Events Appear Real. Were you KKK before?
Pffft, no. Put me on the mound for the entire 9 innings and there’s NO chance I throw three strikeouts.
How many bean balls?
Prattle on with your made up BS and lies.
I am paraphrasing a source :
Freakonomics, by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt. 2005.
ISBN 0-06-123400-1 (Hardback)
ISBN 0-06-089637-X (large print paperback)
Take it up with economist Dr. Levitt and journalist & author Dubner, if you dispute their work.
OMG .. one book out of billions is what you base your life on? It would behoove you to study God’s Word in His Bible and use YouTube, Shepherds Chapel, for help understanding. Start with Genesis, the first 6 chapters. It’s like a gunny sack when you open it the right way. Hint: Don’t just listen to the man, OPEN a King James Bible and your BLESSING will come from it, not the man helping you UNDERSTAND what God is saying to you. I can also promise you, you’ll LEARN things about God’s WORD you have NEVER heard before.
Interesting — any particular reason why it has to be the KJV? That’s my preferred edition, too, but not because I’m under the misimpression that Jesus spoke the King’s English or that the translation from source is any more particularly accurate than in other editions. Just because it’s what I grew up on.
No. One book out of billions is what I cited specifically about THAT book’s comparison of KKK and Realtor psychological methodology. Please pay attention.
I read the Bible cover to cover when I was still nominally Catholic, over the course of a year when I was 16. It wasn’t convincing. It was boring, and poorly written historical fiction.
Genesis ? Really ? The worst book of the lot ? The two conflicting creation myths ? The Flood we know never happened & couldn’t happen ? God being a bumbling boob thru the whole book, none of omnipotent or omniscient or omnipresent traits evident ? The genocides ?
Demonstrate the bible (particularly the dodgey public-domain KJ / AV1611) is the word of a god, first.
I read the Tao Te Ching, the Bhagavad Gita, even Musashi’s Book of Five Rings, and got WAY more enjoyment and value out of those than even the best lofty poetry of the bible.
Ignorance is BLISS … isn’t it? L Ron Hubbard has a lot of value too, if you stay away from the so called church his followers founded. Ya never know Uncle Sapien, when the Holy Spirit of God will pick you up if you are a person He can use. Be blessed, YHVH is # 1.
You seem happy, so maybe ?
L. Ron started his church on a bet. I don’t doubt other religions started as a misunderstanding, or as a scam, or even as a genuine mistake of logic or reason.
Doesn’t sound like your god, fearful of vowels as it is, has much of a concise or cohesive plot-line to follow. It seems in part bumbling fool, mob boss, cosmic tyrant, pedantic whiner, aloof free spirit, and/or plagiarist. Very little of its actions or attributes come off as godly.
So that’s what your version of god does ? Plays the absent deistic god until it needs someone, then it swoops in and uses them like a pawn ? Then what, cast ’em aside and move on ?
If your god wanted a relationship with me, it could just show up. That it hasn’t means it doesn’t want a relationship with me & others, or it doesn’t exist.
You’re funny and I know you’re serious. I didn’t like the “religion” (Calvinism) I was brought up in and I not only questioned if Calvin’s god was really a god, I stood on the 8th floor deck during a severe thunderstorm and told it, if it was a god, to hit me with lightning and strike me dead. And that opened the door for my search into Atheism and my discovery Atheists were BORING because of their BS line, “You can’t prove a negative.” And it dawned on me being an Agnostic would be for fun and I could just have a lot of relationships and practice what I had leaned from Masters and Johnson and make a lot of girls happy and thankful.
And during a move, a Campus Crusade For Christ booklet, “Dear Dr. Van Dusen, Your Life Can Be a Great Adventure” showed up. It had been given to me some years before by a friend and it turned up during my move and I read it and it made sense and, in hindsight, the Holy Spirit of God kept putting Rev 3:20 into my mind, over and over. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock and if any man open the door, I will come in and sup with him and him with Me.”
If the Holy Spirit get you there and you make a conscious decision to REMOVE your EGO from the center, or throne, of your life or heart and ask Jesus Christ to take His place, He will come in and you will meet Him, and He’ll NEVER leave you. And, in my life, John 15: 15 became true and He made me His FRIEND. “Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.”
And that’s a nice place to be because today He had me changing the Probate Laws and, when He is finished, If beneficiaries have money coming, they will have access to that money to hire a competent attorney and prevent dishonest trustee from violating their fiduciary and stealing money from a brother they were, by law, supposed to protect.
And a closing thought. God’s Word, the Bible, says someone who LIVES according to the law is better off than someone who knows the law and violates it. And, even if you’re a good person, it’s still nice when Father welcomes you home and prepares a feast for you and it pisses your older brother’s off and God has to tell him, you’ve been with Me, but my son who was LOST has come home and He’s SPECIAL and I’ve given him My ring.
Be BLESSED Uncle Sapien, I had tried to quit you once before but God said, “Don’t quit.”
I’m funny, mostly because what you say can’t be taken seriously.
Two stories. First one. A fellow I work with occasionally, Warren – he’s a devout Christian and a Trump-conservative old White guy. He gets talking religion at me, and when I start pointing out the flaws in his epistemology and the contradictions in his bible and the flaws and fallacies of his professed belief system, a defense mechanism kicks in inside his head (because he can’t answer my points and because thinking about this points will amplify his cognitive dissonance) and he quickly changes the topic. YOU DO THIS TOO, T/V/K.
Second one. Late friend of mine used to work in a comic shop. I’d come by to hang out. I’d listen to a very earnest, very honestly professing 15-y/o Marvel fan point out page & panel for comics that support his sincerely held belief that the Avengers could beat the Justice League. And I’d hear rebuttal from a 38-y/o D.C. fan point out page & panel for comics that support HIS sincerely held belief that the Justice League would trounce the Avengers. YOU SOUND LIKE BOTH OF THEM TO ME, T/V/K.
You experienced an older tack of atheism that existed before the late ’90s / early 00’s reconstruction of the philosophy away from “you can’t prove a negative” to both a divide into soft and hard atheism AND more focus on logic and reason, as well as properly ascribing the Burden of Proof to those making a positive claim. And your definition of “Agnostic” seems to sound like “Neutral” when that’s not what the word or the philosophy means.
Theists keep coming in with this notion of “ego”. I don’t get that. Through reading the Tao and other philosophical treatise like the Book of Five Rings, even the Art of War or The Prince, I have done my best to expunge “ego” and “thoughtless selfishness” from as much of my person as I can (and thus why I’m not Right wing). My disbelief in claims that god(s) exist does not come from a place of want or desire. It comes from sensible, rational, Vulcan-like assessment of the evidence for claims – and I find no evidence that compels me to believe the claims that god(s) exist.
I want to believe as many True things as possible, and as few False things as possible. I care about what is true. Do you ?
Further, I recognize that some day, actually GOOD evidence may be presented, and I am absolutely open to believing that the god(s) in question, are in fact, real, based on compelling evidence. Whether I would worship said god(s) is a separate issue, which really comes down to the character of the god(s) and why precisely they need my starship.
Sorry to hear you’re having prostate problems, but hopefully there’s inexpensive non-surgical options open to you.
You claim the bible is a god’s word. You duck and dodge and evade my previous requests for evidence that this is true. Please present it, because at present, I don’t believe your claim.
If your god told you to keep talking with me, either he’s pranking you, or he openly hates you and enjoys how your evasive, preaching screeds make you look like a Harry Potter fan screaming at mathematicians that Quiddich is the best sport ever.
Here is what I think Uncle Sapien. God has you exactly where you need to be.
Here’s what I think (well, what is factually evident) :
You ignore clear, concise points that call into question your religious dogma.
You assert claims without evidence even after being asked for the evidence (apparently 1 Peter 3:15 “…always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you…” does not apply to you ?). To loosely quote the wonderful Matt Dillahunty, “‘Faith’ is the excuse people give when they don’t have a good reason for believing something. Because if they HAD a good reason, they’d cite it instead of just saying ‘I have faith’.”
You duck and dodge, bob and weave around direct questions and inconvenient (to you) truths because if you actually spent any time thinking about the issues and points I raise, you’ll have to come to a point where either you’re honest with yourself or dishonest with yourself, and I think you don’t think believing your own lies is a sustainable foundation for rational thought.
You’ve refused my direct question, which I’ll cite here : [I care about what is true. Do you ?]
You don’t seem interested in understanding anyone’s point of view but your own. Further, you don’t seem capable of understanding that some people accept things as true, or with reasonable confidence, based on valid, verifiable evidence – instead of just “because I like a book / an idea / it makes me feel nice.”
I have to ask (and here’s another question you shouldn’t duck, dodge, and avoid) : Do you apply the same standards of evidence to ANYTHING ELSE in your life (finances, home repairs, purchases, medical decisions) as you do with your religion ?
Why do you NEED to argue? Are you insecure in your position? Are you a control freak? Just asking.
Now you’re Projecting. Right on time; that train of thought from religious apologists is never late to the station.
I will gladly confront anyone who does not apply reason, logic, and skepticism to decisions that can and do affect people other than themselves.
Additionally, I am ever searching for an honest religious apologist. As yet I have seen & found none. “Belief” and “Dishonesty” seem deeply entangled.
As I predicted, you ran away from answering what should be EASY, Religion 098 level questions.
Here is what you don’t know and I can walk away with. I KNOW Jesus Christ and YOU can NOT take Him from me and, with your mindset of resisting His Holy Spirit, you can NOT KNOW Him.
No one wants to take him from you.
In fact, you do a good job of sending anyone and everyone who doesn’t also know him running away as fast as possible, yelling “keep him, please.”
Is that Jesus Christ you're talking about when you talk about Christian "values".
Presumably – the guy whose name starts with a letter not invented until 1524.
Yeshuah bin Yusef, most accurately. Itinerant Jewish apocalyptic preacher. Not certain to have actually existed – certainly not as portrayed in the limited texts claiming he did.
I count 14 Ukraine-related titles on the front page at the moment.
I'll synthesize it for you: the whole front has been crumbling for months already and, considering that Trump will almost certainly win, Zelensky and cadres are desperately looking for some sort of exit. Not clear if Russia is interested on what they have to offer because it's a clear case of "too little, too late".
US rescue not only Israeli pilots but also all other Israeli war criminals.
The US is complicit in every war but as the deceptive cowards they are they make the profits while others do the dirty work of killing. Israeli pilots are the real war criminals by international standards while Americans saintly proclaim their own human rights values and how humane and good they are.
Israelis will have to pay a big price, even if they win the wars they fight. They train their children to hate, to torture and to kill brutally, turning them into sadistic monsters and that is what the traumatized IDF scum are when they come home, they are sadistic, traumatized war criminals, traumatized beasts. It will take the Israeli nation generations to overcome that kind of deadly sick society.
Exactly: the USA is engaged in WW3 by proxy, at least these days. They won't, if possible, not fight in any of the many wars they're promoting in Eurasia and Africa, they will just pay their local mercenaries, be them Israel, Ukraine or Rwanda to do the job for them (or die trying).
Many countries refused to be pawns in U.S. proxy wars. Turkey doesn't participate in anti-Russian sanctions. Now Turkey got status of BRICS partner. Hungary sabotaged NATO war efforts in Ukraine from the beginning. At the moment, I think, Orban is still in Georgia where came to congratulate Georgian ruling party with victory in the elections. Georgian ruling party Georgian Dream refused to obey orders from Washington.
Turkey was pawn and secondary master puppeteer of the worst fascist terrorism in Syria. There was when whatever mask Erdogan had fell to the bloodiest ground. They’re all petty imperialists save the ones who are genuinely socialist (in Latin America mostly, the Kurds and allies in West Asia) and Erdogan’s imperialism so-called “neo-Ottomanism” has been causin big trouble in West Asia and Africa, all with Uncle Sam allowance in 95% of the cases (although it worked for Russian interests often).
Orban supports Israel and the Gaza Genocide, don’t get me started. Fico is another thing but he’s socialist.
Erdogan is working in interests of Turkey, not of U.S. Otherwise he would stop economic cooperation with Russia the same as Germany did. Russian gas export to Turkey and transit of Russian gas through Turkey to EU never had any problems. Russian tourists in Turkey are more numerous than tourists from any other country. Erdogan not only participated in BRICS Kazan summit but also made Turkey BRICS partner. By the way, Saudi Arabia never confirmed it's BRICS membership, and even has no BRICS partner status, which means, after some hesitation, Saudi Arabia decided to stay with U.S. Now, Russia, Iran and Turkey are working together for stabilization of situation Syria and doing it quite successfully. Erdogan is not friend of Russia, he just works for Turkey. Definitely he is not a pawn. Scholz and Macron are but he is not.
Define “the interests of Turkey”, please. Such as brutally quelling every single popular uprising of the citizens of Turkey, like in 2013? Such as terrorizing and genociding the Kurds or the Armenians? Such as destroying decades of good relations of secularist Turkey with secularist Syria? Such as becoming rich at the expense of the victims of the earthquake and the oil stolen to the Kurds via the Barzani Mafia and sold to Israel? Such as beating the Turkish women when the march every year on March 8th? Such as promoting terror fascism not just in Syria and Iraq but also in Libya and the Sahel? Such as being best friends with genocidal Israel?
No, Erdogan is a mafioso, nothing he does is good for anyone, including Turkey, unless you consider that Turkey is his clannic mafia.
Better mafiosi than a pawn of U.S. imperialism.
I can tell you, Turkey is a lovely country.
He is a mafioso pawn of US imperialism, or what is collaborating with Isral and the US-led destabilization of Syria and Iraq? You have no idea how evil is Erdogan, just because Putin dances at his tune (because of the strategic importance of the Bosphorus-Dardanelles straits) he’s not a bit better.
"He is a mafioso pawn of US imperialism".
"Putin dances at his tune".
So, according to your logic, Putin is a pawn of a pawn of U.S. imperialism .
You are living in a fantasy world.
Sometimes he is: why wouldn’t he then sign the Minsk Accords, betraying the Ukrainians resisting fascism right when they were winning? Because he hates communism as much or more than the Yankees.
In any case imperialism is imperialism no matter who does it and Turkey is extremely imperialist and genocidal for its size and might.
First of all, Putin is responsible for security and wellbeing of Russian people. As long as there was a hope for peaceful exit from the crisis created by the coup 2014, Putin did everything to squeeze Donbass back into Ukraine (of course with guaranties for Donbass people). Yes, he was cheated by NATO partners. They used those 7 years for militarization of Ukraine. But Russia also used this time for improving the situation in agriculture, military industry and other things. So, the full scale economic war which U.S. launched against Russia in 2022 wasn't so harmful and actually didn't influenced negatively every day life for majority of Russian people at all.
If there would be no Minsk agreements, and if Donbass army carried on fighting, maximum they could take that is Donbass and a couple more of other East Ukraine regions. Without Russian military interference they had no chance to capture Kiev and defeat new Kiev regime. If Russia interfered, then the responsibility for wellbeing of East Ukrainian regions would be upon Russia. Nobody knows how it could play out in time of a full scale economic war.
I was talking about Erdogan originally. Discussing Putin would require hours at a well supplied tavern. Erdogan is a much simpler character in his almost unequivocal evilness (and also our “friend and ally” of NATOstan, much like those Ukro-Nazis or Genocidal Israel, but actually an actual NATO member, actually hosting a key US/NATO base at the occupied Kurdish city of Amed, alias Diyarbakir).
Putin was not just cheated by France and Germany (he’s naive too often, too much for a statesman) but he actually guaranteed in his naivety and anti-socialism that the war of Ukraine would be much worse than needed. He bickered against Yanukovich (the last legitimate President of Ukraine, a moderate socialist, pluri-ethnicist and neutralist) and tried to be friends with the Ukro-Nazis. Ukraine does matter, as Armenia, which he also betrayed, does matter, as Afrin, which he allowed to be genocided by Turkey also matters, etc. You can’t be “knight in shiny armor” when you betray so much and allow so many genocides.
You say: “If there would be no Minsk agreements, and if Donbass army carried on fighting, maximum they could take that is Donbass and a couple more of other East Ukraine regions”. And I reply: wouldn’t that have been much much better? No War of Ukraine would be now if Donbass had won even half way of what you say. In fact, I’m pretty sure that the Maidan Nazis would have been ousted from Kiev as well by the very much demoralized Ukrainian Army.
Iran may well avoid hitting the THAAD systems as they are mostly useless anyway. The thing by some reports can't hit the broad side of a barn, and requires a direct head-on hit to stop a warhead from continuing on from any other type of hit, because it does not use an explosive warhead itself.
So why give the US an excuse to start a war by killing US troops controlling them?
Personally I think Iran should take them out exactly to kill US soldiers as a finger in the face of the US. But they probably won't.
The US-Iran war remains inevitable. Everyone is just delaying for finger-pointing reasons. Stupid chimpanzee behavior.
There seems to be an understanding that Israeli airforce attacked Iran. However, according to most sources, the planes fired missiles from Iraqi territory, away from missile range. The objective was to minimize the amount of time Iranian air defence would have to react. And to disable Iranian air defense. The operation was supposed to last for 24 hours. The second wave was to hit bases and third misille and drone factories.
The operation lasted 3 hours. The rest is still being evaluated. Israel changed its definition from “deadly attack” to “this was limited respinse”.
This may well have been a limited response to end the cycle of responses.
They killed four officers!
How quaint, the Israeli war game planner Anthoney Blinken is playing war.
Oh Yeah… Like the US hostage rescue operation in Iran in 1980s…!!!
Thanks for the reminder.
Botch it in Oct 2024 so Trump can have his "Reagan moment" in Jan 2025 (after the Biden Admin actually rescues them in mid-Nov 2024)
Biden's legacy is nothing but death and destruction, no matter what. In all his years in public office he build nothing, ruins and cemeteries are his monuments.
followed by the Reagan support of the Iraqis in the bloody 8 year long IRAQ/IRAN WAR. The ME is one of the sorriest chapters in American history. Trump or Harris will continue it.
Still I think Trump is safer option for the world. He is no less pro-Zionist than current administration but at least he is not so enthusiastic about NATO and about Ukrainian project.
NATO is imploding as is, it served the USA well, all NATO did was to protect American interest, at no time was there a need to protect a NATO member. The American Air Base in Ramstein and the nearby MILITARY hospital are essential to American military bases guiding Drone traffic in the ME. NATO, as the man said, was to keep Germany down, Russia out, and the USA in. Europe is the dedicated battle ground for US interests, see Ukraine. Trump is as irrational as Biden. Harris will do as told without difficulty, she is without a clue, A WOMAN WITHOUT ANY SHUBSTANCE.
He is very unpredictable that is what makes him so dangerous. NATO is done for, I think, Putin has no need to worry about them, which is good for Europe, it could help to prevent Europe to become the battlefield for American interests. .
I think Trump is more reasonable than those neocons who are standing behind Harris. He had hard time while his presidency. Always under the threat of impeachment. So he relied upon MIC and did everything to please them. Let's hope this time his position will be stronger.
He picked neocons like Pompeo, a former CIA director, and Bolton, appointments the neocons approved of.
Trump wants to maintain US hegemony through Israel and to some degree through Taiwan… versus Biden/Harris who want to do the same through Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan and South Korea…!
The USA has placed itself and very especially its bases in Iraq and Syria at the crosshairs. In fact, even if AntiWar seems unaware, hours ago US bases in Syria were massively bombed again.
The rest of the world knows, even if the western media says otherwise. https://www.lifesitenews.com/analysis/israel-is-leading-the-us-into-world-war-iii-geopolitical-experts-warn/?utm_source=popular
The rest of the world knows that the greatest danger to the world is U.S. pro-Zionist leadership and U.S. militarism. That's why the global majority is siding with BRICS.